#so send me some questions

[sm64mario]

Okay, every'abody. Mario'a gonna keep it completely honest with you! Mun'a was off his adderall for a few days and started taking it again so he'a gonna try to use it as an opportunity to burst through as many'a asks as possible! I'a gonna queue them, but you'a might want to expect more Mario in the future!

#not so subtle way of saying 'if you're gonna send me asks do it now because i have 98 in my inbox and im tempted to click delete all' #i've decided we are entering a new era of sm64mario where i admit i'm not actually mario in real life #maybe i'll shill my main at some point so people can ask behind the scenes questions if they'd like

[thecolorblockcurator]

✨Art Ask Game✨

What painting would you want to live in?

Have you ever seen an art piece or installation in person- that moved you so much you cried?

What artist do you wish people knew more about?

What art work or artist got you interested in art history?

Share a photo of your favorite renaissance artwork

Share a photo of your favorite rococo artwork

Share a photo of your favorite impressionist artwork

Share a photo of your favorite pre-raphaelite artwork

Share a photo of your favorite art nouveau artwork

Share a photo of your favorite post impressionist artwork

Share a photo of your favorite art deco artwork

Share a photo of your favorite surrealist artwork

Share a photo of your favorite abstract expressionist artwork

Share a photo of your favorite Modernist artwork

Share a photo of your favorite contemporary artwork

What museum or gallery do you want to visit?

Have you ever been to a museum’s archives?

What is the coolest or most memorable art exhibition you’ve ever been to?

What is your favorite book - non fiction or fiction about art?

You suddenly have all of the money, space, inspiration, & time to start learning a new medium - what would you choose?

Would you rather make & sell your art for others to connect with, or keep your art private & just for yourself to enjoy

What is your advice for creative block?

What do you find more visually interesting, color or texture?

You can only use one color in your artwork for the rest of your life- what color (and its shades) would you use?

Share the hex code your precise favorite color or color combination.

What art medium is the most challenging for you?

Share a piece currently working on- in any medium. If you’re not working on anything share an idea for your next project

When decorating your home- Would you rather find a bunch of eclectic art from an antique store, or paint a mural on your wall?

What is your favorite thing you own that was made by an artist? (Could include prints, stickers, painting, sculpture, handmade ceramics, portraits) share a photo of it!

Share an art piece that you’re really proud of.

#art #ask game #ask me #questions #art history #museums #painting #drawing #artists #ask #(I’ll answer these questions too so feel free to send me some numbers!!)

[chanyoungies]

the complete eri guidebook (2023) full version under the cut ♡ pdf ver. happy birthday @xiaojuun !! <3

credits. with the help of: meg (@hozierbyrne) // brina (@aquablues) // aléks (@possession1981) // vianey (@souladies) // lili (@ninqz) // aweks (@awek-s) // miha (@jaebeomtual) // rachel (@gnanii) // mare (@dongkwan) // ro (@sunghanbin) // rosie (@kimjiwoong) // lulu (@fushigojos) // sofi (@yukuz) graphics: gift boxes // broccoli // orange fruit watercolor // lip print textures // notion-style scribbles // healthcare vector icons // human anatomy icons // film cutouts pack // 3d travel icons // drinks vector icon set // coffee outline illustration pack // baby vector icon pack

#*mine #oorieri #genuinely thank you SO MUCH for participating @ everyone who did . and if i didn't contact u ... im so sorry i probably didnt fully realize #that u were friends with eri um . sowwie #thank you for finding the time to think about this and . for those who did . for sending in your answers i lob u this is only possible beca #because so many people agreed to help... #a note to meg!! specifically!! because you did so much (from being my first interviewee and my lab rat to responding to the few questions i #had . to suggesting people to include and offering your help with contacting some people (although it did not work out in the end as i said #i really appreciated the thought!!) #note for meg (2): i ended up not being able to use indesign at all... it was too big for my poor little tablet skjsk i got rlly excited abt #n downloaded it strategically for the free trial to expire today or tomorrow but. had to uninstall right away... sighs) #special thanks to lili for being so sweet . i think we became a bit closer through the messages we exchanged in between this project <3 #special thanks to rachel and mare who i know are both really good friends with eri but who aren't exactly familiar with me... i was really #nervous messaging you both so thank you for being so sweet and for participating despite life not exactly helping!! #note for rachel: im sorry i ended up casually calling you rachie in my head the past month or so .. forgive me #special thanks to lulu for being willing to participate #a big thank you to everyone for opening up #and thank you to gabi and sarah who did try their best to find the means to participate #big thank you to gimp for crashing so many times while i was making this & to myself for overriding one of the most important files acciden #accidentally. good job #and finally. the BIGGEST thank you to OUR BELOVED ERI who. clearly. is just the biggest sweetest sunshine & the bestest friend to all of us #thank you for everything always ... i hope you're sleeping well by now #and of course: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! i truly wish you all the best today. and this month. and the next year and the next one and the next one an #i love you. <3 i really do #and so does everyone! clearly!!

[acesandocs]

Thanks for the question @rudnitskaia! Ill answer this in parts if thats ok, starting with:

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

Ace doesn't have any set in stone love interests currently but there are a few people i can see him with.

He and Rocky get along well for one. They're definitely the most similar and Ace is genuinely taken in by his eccentricities instead of pushed away.

She would also probably fall head over heels for Serafine. He loves the kind of woman who can kick his ass. He also really admires her strength how she's very un-apologetically herself.

Since finding out about Under The Devil's Moon, someone I think she would be cute with is Jack. Jack seems to have gone through a lot of similar trauma as her, and the dynamic of a short extrovert and a tall introvert is very fun to me. She's used to being an outcast, being ignored and best neither seen or heard, so she deals with it by making as much noise as possible to intentionally provoke a reaction out of people. Which seems to be very much the opposite of the way Jack deals. I think when she realizes Jack is just generally anxious and struggles with people being up in his face she tries to reign in those parts of her personality. She doesn't intentionally want to hurt someone who doesn't deserve it. So she makes an effort to show Jack that he can feel safe and relax around her. In my own little personal headcanon I like to think Ace helps him get closer to accepting himself whether he's an outcast or not.

That last one ended up being really rambly haha

Had the sketch for this lying around so i managed to finish it pretty quickly (and a little hastily) after i got the ask. So ye have This doodle of Ace and Jack probably stealing from some party and dancing with the fireflies.

Jack and Under The Devils Moon are made by @libras-interactives

#my memory is so garbage omggggg #i kept asking people to send me questions and completely forgot to even turn asks on #the theme for this drawing is def 'shut up and dance' #the height are probably a bit fudged #just imagine its the perspective and the fact that jack is hunched over #i can also very vividly see Marius in some bushes behind Ace giving jack the thumbs up #lackadaisy #lackadaisy oc #lackaoc #my oc #under the devils moon #utdm #utdm fanart #fanart #art #my art #interactive fiction #Jack utdm #oc shipping #Åse Olaug Årud #questions answered #other people's characters #Other people's ocs

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

I was rewatching The Stone Forest and I really like to think that Hilda had to pass by the Bell Keeper’s outpost on her way out of the city limits. I like to think that idiot looked at what was happening, shrugged, and said ‘eh, she’s the scariest thing out there’

#“‘the scariest thing out there’?”the girl sends him a look that isn't quite a glare for once; it still conveys her opinion just as clearly #Edmund shrugs. Hilda is still within sight of his binoculars. he watches her run and can’t be sure whether she’s running *towards* or *from #*.He doesn’t think she knows either. #'I mean. it’s not like trolls can harm her at this time of the day. #Don’t tell me you believe in fairies kid.' #And there it is at last: the glare. Meiri looks up from her art project - her new therapist had reccomended it as a way to express herself #and since he'd been helping so much so far she'd decided to grudgingly give it a shot - #“*No*” she states pointedly; to anyone who knew her it was an affirmation. And Edmund knew her better than she cared for #'What I believe in is wolves and recluse spiders and ticks and nettle. And I believe that someone with the spine #to sabotage the Patrol wouldn't have the self control to not lick a pretty mushroom' #“Hey!” Edmund protested putting down his binoculars. “I sabotaged the Patrol! For *you* I might add!” #Meiri's smile turned mean; it was a regular expression for her yet it never conveyed any malice. Just the thrill of a game that never tired #her. “And would you?” she lifted one thick eyebrow; signaling to her dad that it was his move now #The dad in question was unfortunately thinking back to a time in his young teenage years when he figured he could eat anything animals bit #and gave himself a poisoning that had him taken to the ER. But she didn't need to know that. *ever* in fact. #“Obviously I would. Like I'd let a mushroom ruin my perfect sandwich diet” #Meiri groaned loudly. Some games were worth playing. But some wars she'd already accepted she'd never win #“Anyway” he turned back to staring at the outside of the wall as if it was of any interest to him (it wasn't) #“kid'll be fine is my point. And even if she isn't ya know what's the best think about this situation?” #They looked at each other with matching smirks. “none of our flipping business” he said at the same time as she echoed #“None of our fucking business” #He gasped immediatelly. “*Meiri!*” #The chastening was useless. She just shrugged innocently. #He'd really have to limit her library visits #the bell keeper hilda #meirdom #hilda the series #hilda netflix

[ask-lu-wild]

Be gone sky

#pic #story #checking courage #The Royal Pibling’s Plight #That One Boy that Left Heaven for some Chick #handsome knights #hi I just added pronouns and genders to the links' tags in the taglist #as well as their current ages #remember this is still november 21 in the story #so 2 birthday pepo #if you have any questions about the taglist please send me an ask on author-main

[leviiackrman]

Okay yall, pls enjoy Chika’s full story now up on her page: read here

tag list (ask to be added or removed): @risingsh0t @bbrocklesnar @carrionsflower @statichvm @roofgeese @unholymilf @florbelles @arklay @captmactavish @shellibisshe @simonxriley @queennymeria @marivenah @nokstella @vvardenfae @thedeadthree @jacobseed @jackiesarch @heroofpenamstan @dameayliins @carlosoliveiraa @shadowglens @fenharel @alexxmason @malefiicarum @nightbloodbix

#personal* #jess talks #oc: chika hoki #expect one of these to be done every 6 months lmao #I told yall writing isn’t my forte #but still proud of it #if anyone has questions about specific parts pls send me an ask!! #I’ll happily answer any questions in more detail #it’s hard to write small scenes you’ve dreamt about lmao #ANYWAY #pls enjoy #next will deffo be asamis #I’ve also written the notes for Shen and ziri too #so they’ll be done at some point too! #and then I’m craving mineyo haha #STOP MAKING PLANS JESS #YOU HAVE TOO MANY PROJECTS ALREADY #okay bye

[jakowskis]

30 Torchwood Questions!

Can be used as an ask game, or as a 30 Days of Torchwood challenge! I’m doing the latter (more on that later) and created this for that purpose, but then I realized it would work as an ask game as well, so here you go!  Gwen bashers DNI!!! Everybody else, enjoy! 

1. How did you first get into Torchwood?

2. Who’s your favorite Torchwood member? (And if it’s not one of them, who’s your favorite character?) Why are they your favorite? Do you have any secondary favorites (maybe a one-off or minor character that really stuck with you)?

3. What’s your favorite episode(s)?

4. What’s your least favorite episode(s)?

5. What do you think, objectively, is the best episode of the show?

6. Favorite season/series? 

7. Do you have any all-time favorite scenes? You can bring up multiple - a well-written scene, a silly scene that makes you smile, a sad scene that makes you cry, maybe a scene that just sort of stuck with you… your choice!

8. Are there any scenes (or even full episodes) that you can’t stand? If yes, and you could go back in time and rewrite them, how would you fix them?

9. Are there any characters you dislike? Do you legitimately hate them, or do they just kind of irritate you? What would it take to make you like them?

10. Do you have a favorite cast member? If you’ve gotten into the behind the scenes end of the show at all, do you have a favorite cast moment or story (from bloopers, TW Declassified, convention panels, etc)?

11. Do you have a favorite track from the score? Maybe the soundtrack?

12. Favorite location in the Hub? 

13. Favorite ship(s)? Any Torchwood OTPs? Go ahead, gush about them!

14. Favorite friendship(s)?

15. Are there any ships you dislike?

16. Have you read Torchwood fic? If so, any all-time favorites?

17. Favorite kiss in the show? What was so special about it? If kisses don’t do it for you, were there any other scenes that stood out as particularly sexy and/or romantic?

18. Who would you say had the best character development? Who do you wish got more? 

19. Would you recommend the show to people? If you would, would you feel the need to include disclaimers in your pitch? Any particular scenes you’d want to warn them about first? 

20. Discuss Jack. Opinions? Favorite moment? Least favorite moment? Any unpopular opinions? Any fun headcanons?

21. Discuss Gwen. Opinions? Favorite moment? Least favorite moment? Any unpopular opinions? Any fun headcanons? 

22. Discuss Owen. Opinions? Favorite moment? Least favorite moment? Any unpopular opinions? Any fun headcanons?

23. Discuss Tosh. Opinions? Favorite moment? Least favorite moment? Any unpopular opinions? Any fun headcanons?

24. Discuss Ianto. Opinions? Favorite moment? Least favorite moment? Any unpopular opinions? Any fun headcanons?

25. Now that we know how you feel; shag, marry, cliff / fuck, marry, kill the team! (If you feel comfortable doing so, of course.)

26. Do you have a favorite antagonist? 

27. This is a sci-fi show, after all… any favorite aliens? Favorite gadgets, maybe? 

28. Do you like how tragic Torchwood is, or do you wish it was more light-hearted? Do you think the ‘dark and adult themes’ were explored sufficiently? 

29. Do you have a favorite quote? Serious or silly, or both! Maybe a favorite quip / exchange?

30. Why, overall, do you love Torchwood?

#torchwood #mine #txt #don't send me any please! like i said im gonna do a 30 days of tw thing so im filling em all out anyway fsdkfj #btw some notes on this #1) sorry it's written by an american. writing favorite without the u next to something torchwood related felt wrong fhdsjfkdsh #but i wasnt about to fake it thatd be cringe FKSJDF so. shrug #2) i didn't do bullet points so it would be more spaced out bc i have adhd and closely spaced shit is annoying to read #so sorry it's a like. lengthier post bc of that but. hopefully some of yall might appreciate that too. i hate clumped text fhsdkjfd #3) i can't take full credit for this! i saw one of these on LJ from 2010 and saved it ages ago #but i didn't like all the questions so i heavilyyy remade it #ok thts all. like i said ill post more info on what im doin in a second #torchwood posting #tdot

[smoshidiot]

Smosh Ask Game!

Ian or Anthony?

When did you start watching Smosh?

What's your favorite channel between main/pit/games?

Who is your favorite castmember?

Do you have a favorite Smosh video? What is it?

Fave classic Smosh character?

What is your favorite series on Smosh (main channel)?

What is your favorite series on Smosh Pit?

What is your favorite series on Smosh Games?

Fave Smosh song?

What's something you want to see come back?

Do you own any Smosh merch?

Do you ship anything/love any friendship pairs?

What is your favorite 'era' of Smosh?

What castmember do you think you are most like?

Have you met any friends through Smosh?

What do you want to see now that Anthony's back?

What is your fave Smosh meme/inside joke?

Is there a video/series you really loved when you were younger?

Do you have a crush on anyone at Smosh?

Did you ever watch Smosh the movie?

Simply post a screenshot/moment/reaction that you love.

Tell me an unpopular Smosh opinion.

Tell me about a Smosh memory you hold dear.

It's food battle time. You picking a pink frosted sprinkled donut, or some stick-shaped food?

#i love making ask games :] #so here's some questions!! #smosh #pls feel free to rb and share around! #but also pls send me some i'd love to answer some of these #ian hecox #anthony padilla #shut up.txt

[rongzhi]

Announcement!!

I think I’ll be taking a short hiatus from posting. Work and searching for videos/translating/queuing posts has me stretched thin lately.

Not sure how long this break will be—maybe a few days, maybe a week, maybe more. Maybe it’ll just be me slowing my roll for a while and posting less per day! Idk! Maybe it won’t even be noticeable but I just thought I’d give notice anyway~

:)

#text #the main thing is i COULD keep going like this but i shouldnt so im making this post to force myself to take a chill pill #I like translating in my free time but wawa needs some wawa time 😵‍💫 #plus it's been a year since i started posting translations so i need to start spending some free time staring at walls instead of like. #chasing the feeling of productivity. #esp bc my supervisor keeps sending me emails that for real questions my ability to read and do basic problem solving #and a bunch of stuff got spilled on the carpet today #and YouTube handed my ass like a billion copyright strikes 💀 so it might just be tumblr from now on idk #so that’s how my week is going #🤣

[pzyii]

She’s a hippie

#ONCE AGAIN SCARS AND DESIGN CHOICES PLS ASK ME ABOUT THEM #This is older than the explosion piece so here I hadn’t decided to draw her w pink eyes yet #The outfit is taken from some comic panel #But yes pls send asks about willow or just btvs in general #Especially questions about aus or design choices #Or just character stuff. Hcs #willow rosenberg #willow Rosenberg fanart #Btvs #btvs fanart #buffy the vampire slayer #buffy the vampire slayer fanart #buffy fanart #Pzyii arts #btvs comics

[dust-n-roses]

Album Asks 🎶

For an album of the asker’s choosing:

1. Favourite and least favourite track?

2. Side A or B? (for later releases: first half or second half; for doubles: A, B, C or D?)

3. Thoughts on the cover art/packaging?

4. Are any of the tracks important/meaningful to you? Why?

5. When did you first hear the album?

6. Have your thoughts on the album changed since you first heard it?

7. Are you a fan of other works by the artist/in the genre?

8. A lyric you like from the album

9. How did you discover the album?

10. Do you own/would you like to own a physical copy of the album?

#a couple of these occurred to me so i thought i’d make a question set as these are always fun :) #pls send me some and reblog if you’d like some :) #dustnroses.txt #music #music asks #album asks #ask game #classic rock #prog rock

[arsenicflame]

hey does anyone wanna bounce bellhands/they all went to pirate school together ideas with me? im trying to figure out the missing pieces of my personal set up and it might be easier with someone else!

#if youve never spoken to me before please be aware i will type a whole paragraph in response to one (1) sentence #but if ur down for that! please. #ive got like. the start and the end and a couple bits in the middle fleshed out but it doesn't f l o w #this is the problem with trying to condense more than a years of ideas into one cohesive narrative. i usually swap and change things as #and when it suits so im like. i don't know what i need in this #its just for my silly little tumblr post but #i would appreciate it <3 #i can send you what ive wrote and we can go from there or we can start from scratch bouncing ideas or u can just ask me questions #or something to help fill in gaps idk whatever works for u! what ive got is like. a fuckin mess honestly its ramblings and half finished #thoughts and just. its. a complete state and thats not even touching on whats missing (like. anything that matters in the middle basically) #nyxtalks #ofmd #bellhands #sam bellamy #izzy hands #israel hands #if you're unfamiliar with the concept: its Hornigold era stuff; jack + ed + izzy + sam all sailing under him and learning the ropes togethe #im not trying to go into too many details; just the underlying structure that is what I think of when i think of them #its probably not something anyone else cares about but i think i need it for some of the more fun 'what if Izzy went with sam' posts #i realised if i wanted to say what the divergence point was i Needed to establish all this lol #'oh yeah its when izzy chooses sam after the mutiny despite their argument' NYX WHAT ARGUMENT. you need to tell us what u mean

[brucespringsteendotcom]

Wasted my afternoon at the clinic again all the doctors and nurses scratching their heads like hmmm well you don't have covid or strep or mono or a cold so it could be pneumonia. Why don't you sit in this room for two hours while we find out nothing at all and then rework your extremely packed schedule around getting a lung x-ray

#ok 👍 thanks #not their fault for being short -staffed im not even angry just annoyed that my medical problems are ruining my quarter so badly #i would hope that going to the doctor would get me some answers to questions such as why did i never recover from strep #and why does my chest hurt at night and why have i been coughing for two months #and instead they said ummm we are going to hold you in this room indefinitely. take your blood. and send you home with zero answers #and i still have this paper to finish 👍

[sallytwo]

wanted to showcase some of the major differences between parousia characters first appearance vs. designs later in the story. these are reflective of their season 3 or post canon appearances !

i’ve put a lot of thought into all of these, down to the littlest details, so please take a closer look :)

#myart #homely ghost #these also indicate what happen to all of them post canon. some are very apparent some are implied #basically if they aren’t in uniform. they’re not in the solar skipper fleet. #i have sooo many little details in here down to rank down to if they keep their uniform zipped or not. character arc relavant hair changes #and injuries etc etc etc….. please ask i had so much fun #shoutout to austin who had to put up with me sending every one of these to her. i love you asutin love 💕 #SORRY THAT THEYRE LIKE ALL GRAYING. I HEART MIDDLE AGED FREAKS #the only question i can’t answer is what’s going on with chyell’s hair color. i think they dyed it white in the early #and then let it start to grow out and stop dying it. and it’s naturally more salt and pepper but that doesn’t look andorian so they changeit

[kyouka-supremacy]

Hello there 👋

Can you talk about why you feel the way you do about the female bsd characters? (including the female characters you like) and while I don't think the author doesn't know how to write female characters I think the biggest problem with the female characters is that they're underutilized and barely have much screentime ( the most one we saw recently having screentime currently in the manga is teruko)

Hi!! I love you all SO much but seriously I don't have the mental stability to talk about why the bsd female characters are badly written ahah. Here's my best attempt at it:

I hope it's enough for me to say there's a female / male characters proportion of like 1:10, and no female character has any real repercussion on the plot– literally. Besides from Kyouka and Lucy and maybe Yosano? you could hypothetically erease every other female character and... Realistically, nothing would change. That's just how much irrelevant all but three female characters are, and there's already very few compared to the rest of the male cast. The four main / most popular characters are all males. Dazai is openly sexist and it's just kind of there never to be addressed. Akutagawa is repetedly violent with his female coworker and it's treated as a gag (like you DO realize how repulsive it is to write a character who is obsessed with her abuser and never be intentioned to elaborate on that because I guess that's what women are supposed to do according to author? Like. okay). But honestly the main issue for me is how each of them literally gravitates around another male character. God, it's SO annoying. And I mean every single of them!!! Every. single. Every single!!!! I struggle to come up with even one exception to the pattern. Kyouka has Atsushi as her savior, Lucy has Atsushi as her savior, Higuchi is obsessed with Akutagawa, Naomi is obsessed with Jun'ichirou, Gin literally exists because of Akutagawa, Alcott is just there to aid Fitzgerald, Margaret's only role in the story is to save Hawthorne, Elise is just expression of Mori. Teruko is a person in the body of a child who literally drools over her 50-something superior, like we hadn't as a society come to the common agreement that the “not as old as she looks” trope was disgusting pedophilia apologism like ten years ago (but it's okay though, because pedophilia was established to be okay in this manga at like, chapter 15 or something) (is this the good time to bring up that time Aya asked Kunikida out? No? Okay let's just collectively pretend that never happened). Do I need to go on? I haven't read Gaiden, but do I really need to read it to know Tsujimura gravitates around Ayatsuji? Oh wait, I was just remembered about Gaiden's full title: Bungou Stray Dogs Gaiden: Ayatsuji Yukito VS. Kyougoku Natsuhiko, and if that doesn't speak of the consideration author gives their female characters, I don't know what does. It's just– no female character is ever going to have their own novel. No female character is ever going to be protagonist. They'll just keep being treated as they've always been so far, like flat and personality-less disposable plot devices.

Now. I love Yosano's backstory, I really do- I think it was the best executed arc of the manga, reading those two chapter still gives me chills. But you do have to acknowledge, Yosano herself has no agency in the entire arc development. It's okay, she was eleven, it's natural; but she is just tossed one way to the other by other characters. That, and I can't stretch it enough, is not a bad thing on its own; not all stories have to scream #womanpower to be good stories. It's a good story. But you need to acknowledge it does nothing to empower female characters' role in this manga; it just speaks once again of it being a systematic problem, how author can't write female characters like they were masters of their fate if their life depended on it. And it's not that just because there's one (1) mini arc that happens to have a female character as its protagonist, author knows how to write female characters with depth, or agenda, or an objective, or personality, because... They clearly don't.

Like. I probably became annoying by now but like. When was the last time you found any bsd fan whose favorite character was a woman? When was the last time you found people describing themselves as a Lucy kinnie? If you ask me, it's not a matter of fans' fault for overlooking female characters; the female characters in this franchise are meant to be overlooked, because they're abysmally less stretched out and complex compared to their male counterparts– because male characters are distinctive and unique, while author can't go outside the range of one-dimensional femme fatale, letal woman (Yosano, Kouyou, Teruko, Christie, Gin / Lucy / Elise too to an extent) and woman who's just there to obsess over a male character (Alcott, Higuchi). But do not fret, because author will sometimes go outside that scheme by making a letal femme fatale who also obsesses over a male character! (Naomi). Also this

(Have you ever wondered why I never talk about Beast Gin? Yeah.)

Okay but you see the problem here? You see how it's impossible to make the same kind of argument for the male characters, because they're all diverse and various and multilayered as much as their little screentime allows? Higuchi doesn't exist outside Akutagawa, Lucy doesn't exist outside Atsushi; but it's not like you can say the same goes the other way round. That is, crossing out the various parallels drawn between male characters, but that only speaks more of how precisely curated male characters are, while all female characters... I'll be honest, aren't written as people. Author really sounds like your average Washington Post best selling psychological thriller author of the week that writes women like an alien species from another planet. It would have spared me having been writing this whole post for an hour (two hours? Which is definitely not the time I wanted to spend on this, man) if only author would have formed the thought, at the start of the serialization: “perhaps! Perhaps I should write women as people instead of writing them as female characters (whatever that means)”. Alas, we ended up with the infamous Naomi description from Untold Origins (what the fuck. who in their right mind would ever think of writing something like that. what the fuck.)

Now, I know if you're here reading this you most definitely like bsd. It's okay, really. Unpopular opinion, but people are perfectly allowed to like things that are flawed (and this is a big flaw). What's extremely important, seriously, I'm on my knees begging you, is to be critical of the media you consume. All kinds of media. Even if you end up disagreeing with me on this matter, really!! Just be able to tell apart the things that make appealing a series for you from whatever kind of agenda / worldview the author is pushing through, and peacefully acknowledge you can like something despite it having issues (because bsd has issues). I don't know who needs to hear this, but someone definitely does: “I love s/kk!!” “the bsd storytelling has many compelling aspects!!” and “I recognize the bsd writing has flaws some of which actively harm an already disadvantaged part of society” are statements that can and should coexist, and if anything - and I know you hate to hear this, I'm sorry, I'm sorry - it should be kept in mind when deciding to support the franchise by buying its products.

One final note is that like... I'm sorry if this comes off as pretentious but I seriously feel like people have NO idea what media with well written female characters look like, because for people to even question bsd being sexist is just insane to me (in the way: do we really need to to talk about it, isn't it obvious like ten seconds in the show??). And this is probably the least good place to advertise things, but please do yourself a favor and read The Promised Neverland and learn what well written female characters read like.

#bsd #bungou stray dogs #Me writing this: I guess this is why everyone hates political sciences students uh #Following up: Why Romanticizing Mafia Is Actually Very Bad (no click bait ‼️‼️ ) #Also since I brought up tpn: do you really think that it's a coincidence that the manga with incredibly well written female characters– #and a socialist agenda who was in the top ten Japan's yearly best selling franchises for the entirety of its four years serialization– #got an insulting two seasons anime adaptation that completely narrated another story from the manga‚ a live action movie and THAT'S IT #While series like bsd which didn't even enter the top 20 selling franchises like? Ever? are at their tenth year of serialization– #an excellent four seasons (and counting) anime adaptation five spin-off manga one of which has its own anime– #nine novels as many stage plays and two movies? Do you REALLY think it's a coincidence? #anti bsd #For blacklisting purposes ಥ_ಥ #I know there's some people who won't like reading this but let's be honest... That's probably the people that need to read this the most ;; #bsd analysis #Of sorts... #mine #people asks me stuff #This post contains the several reasons why Tumblr can't become like Twitter namely 1) author in question has Twitter #2) Tumblr is anonymous so people can't send me personally death threats #3) It's Tumblr so people won't send me death threats at all (... Hopefully) #Also I'M SO SORRY I know I have dms pending I'm just the worst at answering them 😭😭😭 #I swear I'll do my best to get to them eventually ;;;;;;