Ok but what if she went to waddle Dee town in the forgotten land and all the waddle Dee’s just accepted her because they are really nice and not rude and they accept her and she has fun and a good time please I really need this for her
i considered drawing something out to this, and making it a happy ending sort of thing, because i think this is extremely sweet as a concept and i understand the desire for it!
that said, i decided that it would be a disservice to the lore i'm building for her, my biology/magic headcanons, and also the waddle dees as a whole. i might still draw it some day, because i could absolutely perceive a way it would work (ie: all waddle dee signatures messed up by Elfilis's portals, or their magic sensitivity nuked by it.) and i think it would be lovely
but for now, i have too many other things on the backburner to get to this promptly, and i wanted to answer this one sooner rather than leaving it for months
i will say, they're not being rude to her! there might be the odd one or two who is a bit snide, but there are some of those in every society. as a general rule the waddle dees not only understand that she is struggling, they want to accept and help her. many of them even know she's lonely, and feel pretty bad about it. but it's hard, and not just because she makes people uneasy!
i draw parallels with starstruck's gummed up magical signature to autism, as i'm autistic and so by merit (as a sona), so is she. but there are some parts that do not line up with the way autism functions in our world, and one of them is that touching or being around her can be genuinely, literally painful for some of the very sensitive waddle dees.
despite that, her waddle dee doctors actually pushed through it while she was in the castle dedede infirmary. because they were determined to treat her (mostly-surface-seeming) injuries and help her feel better. and they apologised for the reactions that they couldn't control anymore than she could control her signature; the various "sorry"s she parrots in this comic are implied to be from waddle dee doctors.
it's a fine line in alien-storytelling, especially with a real world disability parallel, and i'm trying to tread it as carefully as i can. but i don't intend to villainise the waddle dees at all for their reaction to her; they truly can't help it. many of them even do their best to push through it if she comes into their vicinity, especially because she often arrives with Beloved Celebrity, Captain Bandana Waddle Dee. but like a lot of us, she can tell when she's being tolerated, and so as a rule she just sort of tries to avoid it, one way or another
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Queerness in Indian Media
↳Film: GEELI PUCCHI from AJEEB DAASTAANS (2021, Hindi), dir. NEERAJ GHAYWAN
The short film Geeli Pucchi follows Bharti (Konkona Sen Sharma), a Dalit gender non-conforming lesbian who works in a factory and aspires to a desk job in the upstairs office. She befriends Priya (Aditi Rao Hydari), a Brahmin lesbian who is trapped in a heterosexual marriage and who gets the desk job that Bharti is denied because of her caste. The bond between the two women grows quickly, but everything takes a turn when Bharti confesses the truth of her caste to Priya.
Neeraj Ghaywan discusses caste, gender, sexuality, and his approach to making this short film here.
Konkona Sen Sharma's statement on having a "completely neutral" gender identity, not "woman or a man", here.
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About... All that.
//Putting it out there on record, literally everything I've ever made or written for BTD/BTD2/TPOF has been for me, and the community. Gatobob has been such a miniscule figure in her own community that half the time I forgot who even made the thing.
//The fans keep this place afloat. We built this. We added our own character adaptions, we wrote our own stories, we made our own little nests, and we slept in them like babies.
//I'm choosing to stay, not because I don't care about what she's done or who she's hurt, but because I'm not letting a bad exhibit ruin the entire museum. I don't care if you feel you need to distance yourself, do whatever's right for you, and do it unapologetically. Take good care of yourselves. But the people I've met here, the characters I've found comfort in, and the outstanding sense of mutual understanding for the macabre is just too important for me to back away from right now. This is the only space I haven't felt ashamed of myself in for my disturbing interests, and I'm sure it's the same way for so many people.
//I'm so sorry this had to happen at all. (Please read tags, it just doesn't feel right including them in the main post for some reason?)
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