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kalolasfantasyworld · 2 months

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The Silva Royal siblings 🦅

This will be a part of a mini comic, but I really wanted to make them my background. 💕

(I'm slowly drafting some parts of their redemption arcs for Paper Hearts and it's very exciting!)

#I literally finished working on this 5 minutes ago...#speaking of problematic characters #I love them so much <3 #black clover #fanart #black clover fanart #nozel silva #noelle silva #solid silva #nebra silva #silva family #silva siblings

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skygirlstars · 9 months

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currently thinking about Barriss as a foil for Ahsoka in TCW is such a good example of the nature vs. nurture argument. they had basically the exact same upbringing until they were 14 or so, whenever each of them became a Padawan.

and then in TCW we see Ahsoka with this whole support system or people who love and care about her!! Anakin and Rex and Padmé and Plo and Obi-Wan and more!! and they tell her and/or show her that they care about her!!

and then Barriss has no one, aside from her friendship with Ahsoka. Luminara cares about Barriss to an extent, and she’s certainly not malicious, but she acts at best apathetic toward Barriss. (of course Luminara is just following the Jedi Code as she sees it, but still.) it’s most evident in the Geonosis arc when Luminara is basically ready to just leave Barriss for dead, while Anakin never gives up on Ahsoka. but it goes beyond just Luminara — in TCW, we never see Barriss close to anyone else.

so Barriss is the one who becomes a “villain.” I’m absolutely a Barriss defender, so I don’t want to call her that, but that’s obviously what the writers intended. she turns on the Jedi (understandably) and she turns on Ahsoka. she’s not inherently a bad person, she just didn’t get the love and support she needed, whereas Ahsoka did :(

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infriga · 8 months

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Some people have been saying that live action Sanji feels a little bit more soft and endearing than manga Sanji, but they can't pinpoint why because he does still feel like Sanji. Some people think it's just Taz's acting, and he does do a great job, but I don't think that's the main reason. Others think his flirting has been turned down a bit, but honestly it hasn't really? He still openly flirts with Nami when they first meet, and he still says things like "women are a mystery to be unraveled" and other goofy simp stuff. And his kindness like being willing to feed the hungry no matter what is obviously something that was always there (it's why Luffy chose him in the first place. Hell, in the manga he chooses Sanji as his cook before he ever actually tastes Sanji's cooking, simply because he sees Sanji feed Gin and realizes what kind of person Sanji is).

But there is a difference! And I've figured out what it is, because there IS one manga/anime Sanji trait that wasn't present in live action Sanji: his hatred of men.

Live action Sanji isn't a misandrist anymore 😳

#One piece #OPLA #OPLA spoilers #Obviously it was played for jokes he wasn't like actively cruel towards men and was kind to them too #Like feeding them if they were starving #And he obviously cared about his friends #He was misandrist is a silly cartoonish way #But it did highlight the way he treated women differently from men and made his flirting and simping come across as way more over the top #In comparison to how he behaved towards women #And I think it was a smart choice because English speaking audiences are especially sensitive to that sort of thing these days #I think the only other thing that gives him a slightly different vibe #is live action can't give him heart eyes or have him do the wiggling stuff lol #So his simping feels toned down even though technically he simps a similar amount as in canon #I do think it's funny how some fans like him better in live action because of this on tumblr dot com aka the OG man hating website #Like fans who are caught up understand WHY he's hostile towards men compared to women in canon (see: WCI)#but I don't mind them leaving it out in the live action #And it isn't like an integral key to who he is as a person/character #People who were already Sanji fans knew he was their problematic little meow meow #But it's nice that live action can showcase his kind and soft side a bit more #Like that stuff is already there in canon but he's a little more tsundere about it y'know? Lol

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fanfic-gremlin-ft-trauma · 4 months

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the fact that people are judged for their ships on the SHIPPING WEBSITE is the most hilarious and sad irony

#sofia speaks about herself #text post #fandom rant #fandom #sighhhh this is about all rare pairs all popular ships all problematic ships #look. I get it if the shipper is annoying and trying to missionary style everyone into shipping their ship #but if they just…. like the characters together?#don’t see how it’s a bother #at all #anyway if u want to put in the notes what ship you’ve been attacked for #feel free #I’ll start: zukka and samfrodo

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ofmythsandmists · 1 year

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Ok, why is there no fandom for "Nuestra Parte de Noche/Our Share of Night"???

It's a book about extremely grey queer characters and three children with ptsd dealing with Lovecraftian horrors and a very human cult made by rich pieces of shit that like body horror.

There is also a really complex (read: toxic) father/son relationship.

Come on, people.

#our share of night #nuestra parte de noche #mariana enriquez #i just finished and i need to speak about it #it's very good #very very very DARK but good #one of the protagonists is a very problematic bi man and and horrible father #but i mean all the characters are traumatized by a cult #books #horror literature

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brittlebutch · 9 days

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finally found a place to read With the Light online and i'm thrilled; if you haven't read this manga i do Legitimately recommend it

#N posts stuff #like don't get it wrong it Is Not a series about being autistic it Is a series about raising an autistic kid #but also don't be put off by that because it's legitimately a series that I feel Loves autistic people with its whole being #it's kind of a teaching manga so it showcases a lot of different opinions/characters/conflicts/etc. but the Framing is very consistent #in that the manga is Extremely of the opinion that autistic people are People who deserve to be Valued and Accepted As They Are #the onus for change is never put on autistic individuals the framing is basically Universal in the 'the World needs to change #to be more accepting' -- it's a very Social Model depiction of autism that ALSO never veers too far into the #'autism isn't even Really a disability' fallacy; it's very much a 'A lot of autistic people will need constant support in a variety of ways #throughout their lives but that isn't the roadblock preventing them from having their own lives; ableism in society is the roadblock'#the first two chapters are the hardest to get through bc they take place before Sachiko has any real understanding of autism and #so she's isolated and stressed out and the ignorance makes it difficult for her to care for Hikaru properly (there's also a lot of #other characters Blaming her for what's going on which goes unchallenged at this point though that changes later); but after she #understands what autism is she's Firmly in Hikaru's corner for the rest of the series - you can skip right to ch 3 without a problem #if you're not interested in reading about that initial conflict #there's still a Lot of conflict ofc but by then the chapters have some of my favorite moments so i don't want to advocate skipping #them; like Hikaru's daycare teacher explaining how Hikaru's difficulty speaking is the same as other kids' troubles with #things like jump-roping/etc.; and then a mother who has An Issue with Hikaru's presence in her daughter's class realizing the #depth of the problematic opinion bc Her mother (who had a stroke) faces similar ableism from her peers #i'm cutting this post off b4 the tags get Too long but if you're curious but still hesitant man. send me an ask and i will Happily #write an insanely long essay about how much i love this series; i have all the books i'm not excited about the online availability #for Me i'm excited bc i've been wanting to rec this manga for like almost a full decade and i can finally give you a link instead of #saying 'well. you can find used copies sometimes' lol

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lord-squiggletits · 3 months

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Idk if my previous posts were unclear but I don't remotely hate any Optimus version that isn't IDW or think they suck. Every Optimus is good and there's a fan (or multiple fans!) of every version of OP no matter how obscure or underrated (as well as all the other characters).

What's more questionable (or at least annoying) is when fandom ignores canon character personalities in favor of writing specific archetypes that are either out of character or repetitive/stereotyped to the point of annoyance. As an example of this, it would be a female character being called the Team Mom just because she's a woman existing in a group of (primarily male) characters even if she's not remotely motherly or nurturing. Or, as a more topical example, how often I've seen Transformers ships where even though both characters are canonically masculine (or gender neutral), fanartists love to turn one of the characters small and weak (or even outright feminine) to turn the ship into Strong Dominant Seme and Sweet Cute Uke to fit a specific kink or romantic fantasy, even if it's a disservice/OOC to portray those characters like that.

In other words, a fandom's popularity of certain characters, ships, headcanons, etc is often more informed by tropes and forcing canon to adhere to one's personal tastes, as opposed to approaching canon and trying to understand it on its own terms. I'm not talking about the quality of the source material, but rather the way that the fandom interprets the source materials in ways that don't make any sense, approach it in bad faith, or just generally don't care about canon at all. So I'm not saying one OP is better than another, my problem is when fandom consistently focuses on certain stereotypes or flanderizations of a character, and then any character that doesn't fit the popular (often stereotyped) mold is ignored or virulently rejected. In other words, I think popular fandom often does a DISSERVICE to characters whether they love them or hate them, it just takes different forms.

So, just as an example, I think one fandom caricature of Optimus that I see a lot (and heavily dislike) is making Optimus some sort of shrinking wallflower type who's innocent, sweet, and virginal, in contrast to an opposite caricature of Megatron that's big, strong, dominant, and rugged, and making ship art that forces the characters into some kind of seme/uke or borderline heteronormative romance. Despite the fact that canon Optimus (in, say, TFP for example) is tall, broadly built, deep voiced, dignified, assertive, and strong (physically and morally), completely incorrect interpretations of him as a shy feminized uke type are still pretty common to find. And it makes you ask yourself why it is so many people make MOP ship art of them of The Small One and The Large One or The Small, Cute One and The Big, Violent One when it's completely different from canon. It feels as if such fanart is made by people who just want to see seme/uke style slash ships, and if canon doesn't give them what they want, they'll simply trash it and replace it with their own version, even if it's completely OOC.

So when I said in my other post that people don't like IDW Optimus because he can't be fit into caricatures like happy dad or shy twink, I'm not saying it to say "other OPs who resemble that suck," I'm saying it to express "Fandom tends to simplify characters into easily palatable and comfortable tropes, and when they encounter a character they can't do that with, they respond by ignoring or even hating on that character."

Other versions of Optimus have the problem where fandom turns them into a stereotype instead of the actual character they are, e.g. portraying TFA OP as some poor abused damsel with no self confidence and crippling anxiety being abused by his superiors, and then they talk more about this fake uwu smoll bean cinnamon roll version of TFA OP than they do about actual canon TFA OP. And honestly I can't think of any prominent content/meta about G1 OP that isn't just "he plays basketball and does funny one liners and is Team Dad/Grandpa." (Hell, you even get that with non-Optimus characters that get simplified to just sexy twink, old grandpa, comedy relief, evil ex, Diversity Win-- She's A Lesbian, third wheel to the favored ship, etc even though there's way more depth to them than just their surface level stereotype.)

IDW OP's problem is that he can't be stereotyped like that so instead the fandom ignores him. He's not small, so they can't stereotype him as a skinny twink getting topped by a burly uke. He's not jovial or happy go lucky or extroverted, so they can't stereotype him as Team Dad or Comedy Relief. He's assertive, blunt, and has a temper, so they can't stereotype him as a shy wallflower in need of protecting. He makes catastrophic mistakes and is responsible for bad things happening, so they can't stereotype him into a sweet cinnamon roll who has never done anything wrong in his whole life or The Infinitely Wise and Kind Paragon. There's no Big Bad Authority Figure who was mean to IDW OP and traumatized him, so they can't excuse the bad things he did as "he's traumatized so he couldn't help it" and wave away his flaws as "it's his abuser's fault, they made him this way." IDW OP has the kind of depression where he's grumpy, shut off, and angry-- as opposed to the shy, sad kind of depression that just stares forlornly out of the window in a beautifully tragic way-- so they can't make him into a sad woobie kicked around unfairly by life.

Or I guess they just stereotype IDW OP as "evil bastard with no redeeming qualities that's mean to everyone for no reason, plus the writers forced everyone to like him just because he's Optimus Prime" even though that isn't accurate either.

Put bluntly, IDW OP forces fandom to contend with the idea that someone can be a good person with good intentions but still fuck up on a massive scale and maybe end up hurting more than they helped. IDW OP is messy, ugly, flawed, mean, stoic, closed off. When IDW OP has mental breakdowns or has his feelings hurt, he's loud and angry and harsh, and the consequences of what he did while he was unwell continue to haunt him long after. In other words, he actually experiences negative emotions the way a real person would, and sometimes when he's under the influence of negative emotions, he lashes out or does stupid things (like a real person might) instead of inoffensively crying in a corner somewhere. He isn't sanitized enough for a fandom that only wants Perfect Pure Good Optimus Who Never Hurts Anyone Even By Accident, so instead of IDW OP's mistakes and dark moments being treated as the logical end point of a person put in constant no-win situations until he breaks, he gets treated as if his mistakes and flaws make him an irredeemable bastard with no good qualities who should've fucked up less often to make fans actually like him.

And this is all in a fandom where 90% of the characters are war criminals and a good half of them have massacred organic planets. But god forbid IDW Optimus ever make a bad decision in a stressful situation. Or be mean to someone. Or have a character arc about how blindly idolizing people as paragons ends badly for everyone involved because no one can be that perfect. He is simply The Worst Optimus Ever and there's absolutely nothing about him worth discussing.

And just to be clear, the problem isn't the fact that some people don't like IDW OP, or he's just not their thing and they don't care.

The problem is the fact that he's consistently and actively hated by the fanbase who makes a concentrated effort to say he sucks and make sure none of their fan works ever include him. It's literally at a level where I stopped looking in the Optimus tag on this website because I was tired of people randomly going "and btw IDW OP sucks and I want to drown him in a ditch" in posts that weren't even about IDW, and I stopped looking for MegOP fic on AO3 because most of it is IDW Megatron/clearly TFP or G1 inspired continuity soup Optimus. Places that are Optimus friendly for Optimus fans, where I could reasonably expect to find positive conversations, but instead get sucker punched by hate about the character The Space Is About. And I can't even have conversations asking about why they do, bc the way 90% of them talk, I can tell they literally just didn't read the comics or deliberately misinterpreted the story.

I find it bizarre and frankly, tragic, that the hate train for IDW OP is so pervasive that people actively erase and replace him from fan works IN THE IDW UNIVERSE in a way that no other character is targeted in. I have tried so hard to understand why IDW OP gets this sort of hate and erasure when other characters who were as bad or worse than him have perfectly normal takes about them that go "yeah he kinda sucks but he's cool and I like him" or "who cares if he's problematic IRL, it's a story." The only conclusion I can come to is that because Optimus Prime (TM) has a specific brand image and is locked into being a cultural icon, he's held to a standard of The Ideal Perfect Hero instead of the way better standard of "Is he an interesting, well written character?"

#squiggposting #discourse #i tried my best to phrase this in a way that didnt invalidate different tastes #but like honestly. some ppls tastes suck. or are actually problematic and not in a fake way #like as an example from the main text avoe #i hate it so much when gay ships are made seme/uke - dominant/submissive - fem/masc #when that not only isnt in character or accurate to canon. but is also really boring at best or homophobic at worst #i cant control ppl's opinions but i can still think theyre boring stupid or even downright offensive #i have SEEN pretty much every popular TF character or pairing get flanderized somehow #so it's not just my attachment to OP in larticular #and i find it very frustrating when it seems as if ppl arent fans of the very media they consume #and they turn an interesting story into cookie cutter stereotypes #and then when the story isnt a cookie cutter stereotype easily divisible into black and white #they hate the characters and story and call it trash #might delete later bc i feel cring #but this is oretty much the culmination of all the thoughts and discussions ive had #with multiple people #anyways ive seen enough fandom discourse posts about The State of Fandom #and The Same 5 Tropes Recycled just copy pasted into different fandoms #what i speak of isnt just about my fave. rather my fave is a victim of this fandom tencency #and it is a FACT that fandom will force characters into offensive stereotypes that dont even make sense #tldr sometimes fanon.....is way worse than canon #also i revised and edited this like a billion times to make sure i wasnt hasty or vague or mean #so if i still made a mistake. whatever i guess this post took hours #it's not about wanting absolutely everyone to love my favorite #it's about the fact that ppl actively hate him even in spaces that are about him/ships he's in #to the point i have to not interact with strangers bc i never know if my fsve will randomly get shit on #and on top that the hate is mostly based on surface level assumptions and misinformation #so not only is my fav hated in a way no other character is. they dont even hate him for canon facts #sucks to see the fandom so thoroughly full of hate by ppl who arent informed bc they never gave canon a chance

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vitruvianmanbara · 2 months

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I like Jolyne a lot and I think she’s one of the better protags but I’ve always felt kind of bad for completely understanding why some people don’t like p6 (not talking about people complaining in bad faith who partook in the hate train it had a few years ago).

I think there’s a certain subset of fans who’re very overly-defensive as a result of said hate train who accuse any criticism or dislike of the part of coming from misogyny though and it really gets on my nerves because.. people can just not click with certain parts, it’s not uncommon for a Jojo fan to not particularly like at least one part and that’s not any different with p6. Idk it’s just not 2018 anymore, most people moved past that ‘Ugh Jolyne is a Mary Sue Jotaro with boobs, skip part 6 it’s boring as hell.’ mentality a good while ago.

yeah, as someone whose love for jojo is more rooted in the way we can see araki continue to grow and improve as an artist/writer with each part, I definitely find the defensive way some fans react to simple disinterest exhausting. I've said it a lot on here but this is pretty much how I feel about part 4 - story structure issues aside, there's just something about the setting/genre/tone that doesn't appeal to me. meanwhile it's possibly the most beloved jojo part, which is fine lol!

jumping off what you said though, I find the way some fans selectively mishear legit criticisms of araki's writing exhausting....like one of my biggest gripes with stone ocean is the way hermes is completely sidelined for a large chunk of the part. she has such an interesting setup, araki totally fumbles her story and she ends up being one of the most underwhelming jobros because of it. this is a criticism of the way araki's sexist writing makes stone ocean a weaker (and to me, a slightly less enjoyable) part, it's not about thinking hermes isn't a good deuteragonist because she's a woman lol, but that's what some people choose to hear

and of course I do think that even if a lot of the fanbase is past that overt sexism about stone ocean/jolyne, misogyny absolutely tints the way many people read and talk about the part (or neglect to talk about it), so I completely get the frustration and why some fans might have their hackles raised about certain statements....the people who you're talking about are unfortunately a loud minority 😕 which sucks because all the stocean enthusiasts I follow are actual scholars and philosophers

#also this feels unpopular to say on here. but I get very little enjoyment out of things like making headcanons & the act of fleshing out #characters who have very little going on in-text. it plays pretty much no role in how much I enjoy a story #on the other hand I think a lot of people find that this is where they get a LOT of their enjoyment from and on some level they think that #if you're uninterested in that it speaks to something suspicious lol. when it's really that if the meat isn't there for me to #chew on I'm not forcing it as a rule. like do your thing but it's not problematic for me to be uninterested in factoring that stuff into my #assessment of a story. you know #jjba

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iwonderwh0 · 7 months

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I don't like bitchy mean men or women or in general people regardless of their gender

I don't want more mean female characters, I just want female characters to be allowed to be characters on their own, without it being accentuated that they're feminine and woman™ and empowering whatever this word is supposed to mean

What I mean is

Everybody knows about the bechdel test, but what I prefer to do instead in my head is flipping character's gender to see, how much of their personality is dependant on their gender identity. And with male characters it's more often than not that nothing really changes, but with female characters it often reveals that half of their identity if not more is really damn gendered, and without those gendered properties/roles there's not much left to be a distinguished traits of their character, and THIS in my opinion is the problem that needs to be addressed, not that there's not enough compelling villains or difficult women in a way men are allowed to be difficult on screen. Because what media that is trying to be progressive often does is it creates, yes, female character with significant role, whose character trait is...just "better than men" or "empowering female figure", whose whole character is AGAIN heavily gendered and can't really be gender-reversed with preserving the essence of their being.

Fuck that, I don't want more mean bitches that remind me of some highschool bullies with too much spite, I want more compelling people who happened to be also women whose character isn't revolving around their gender identity.

#speaking it as someone who perceives both concepts of manhood AND womanhood equally alien #I don't think I'm the problematic piece that doesn't fit #I think the idea of “universal men/women experience” is just flawed #because nothing is universal #the only universal experience we all share is being born and then having to die eventually #sure there are experiences that are simply more common in one specific gender group #but in no way they're all-defining or “universal”#I just want to be allowed to be a person #not a heavily gendered character #to sum it all up #male characters are allowed to be *just* characters #but female characters nearly always have the word *female* written before *character* in bold font #and I hate that

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deevotee · 1 year

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falling in love with ships that are popular with mostly antis is the worst thing in the world yall like half the time me and the other shippers have each other blocked and the rest of the time it feels like i only see the most milquetoast posts about my otps

like cielinny's the biggest one, cuz yeah theyre teenagers and its fun to see them acting like it BUT ALSO they are two morally grey characters who have both murdered and been traumatized as children and one of whom views the other as his savior and both of whom work to protect the other physically and/or mentally and so many people ignore or forget that smh

like,,, yes yes i also love them making sebastians life a living hell with dumb teen antics more of that sure, but i would love to talk about finny ripping someones arm off for daring to hurt ciel while theyre undercover and ciel being the only one to calm him down by taking his hand and kissing his bloody fingers which he does without hesitation because seeing someone who does not (by demon contract terms) have to kill for him just do so with no hesitation or remorse makes ciels little gay heart swoon, can we talk about that guys i would love to talk about that-

#im high (happy 420) and going insane over them rn #and its so disappointing seeing how non-insane other ppl who ship it get #idk maybe im just tew neurodivergent or something #but it really sometimes feels like people only ship cielinny or cielizzy etc etc #cuz theyre 'non toxic/problematic' ships #which is SO crazy to consider #cuz like??? there is no unproblematic ships in this manga?#everything you ship is apart of a dark manga with canonically 'problematic' characters #theres no escaping it babes #so lets talk about cielinny being a bit yandere for each other-#kuroshitsuji #black butler #cielinny #ciel phantomhive #finnian #finny #headcanons #?? kinda #devo speaks

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moonandris · 11 months

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It’s not my fault I like to write and read dark and spicy fiction... 🥺

Me reviewing the list of trigger warnings for my scifantasy/dark romance WIP: Bahahaha, I am literally ✨ n e v e r ✨ getting this published. This is the kind of story where you finish writing it and yeet it out in the ether of the Original Work tag on AO3 before lighting up a cigarette and contemplating your life choices. 🤣😭

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evansbby · 5 months

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I have a question

What happens if Chris evans openly supports Isnotreal?

Considering you are muslim and you support Palestine?

And Ari is a zionist.

You probably won’t answer this because you definitely don’t care.

Okay?

#I don’t need to prove anything to you 😂😂😂#not me writing paragraphs and paragraphs explaining to the Zionist anons who kept trying me #not me speaking straight from the heart about all the atrocities I see daily online of the genocide #not me fighting Zionists in both my inbox and especially my dms #just for you to say ‘you don’t care’#lmfaoooo okay ??#bestie we’re on the same side here why must you be awful and insinuate things like a fucking weirdo?#anyways I already don’t like Chris Evan and everyone knows that #I’ve expressed on here my fear of him supporting isr*el #I even said why can’t he be more like mark ruffalo #you’re insinuating I’ve never spoken about this which is so confusing to me #bc I have….#more than others anyways and that’s the truth #anyways to answer your question if Chris supported isr*el I would not be his fan anymore #ari is a character and we all recognise RSDR as a problematic movie #good thing Ari isn’t real right!#everyone likes him for his looks anyways #anon

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angeltism · 5 days

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"spar.kle is fictional who cares" I have seen people praising her for her racist anti-romani comments what the fuck kind of world do you live in

#➳ the fool speaks #fuuuck man i don't think fiction and reality will influence each other 1=1 but characters being weirdos or bigots and it not being #criticized for it makes those kinds of people who Very Much Already Exist IRL think they're in the fucking right. they aren't.#i don't think someone getting spar.kle in hsr is going to turn them into a fucking racist but her being Like That and looking cute #and being playable and not getting called the fuck out in game makes people who ARE racists have a cutesy girl to idolize and support and #use as a way to say shit without getting in trouble because ''ermmm I'm not the one who wrote her!! i just think she's really funny!! she's #not real anyways why are you mad!!''#like my god shut UP #again like. pulling for her or thinking she's cute doesn't mean you want all roma dead. that. that isn't how that works #but if you think of hoyo's writing of her is good and funny and not problematic at all I'd LOVE to know what you think about #how real life roma r treated to this day. like genuinely let's have a little chat. I'm sure you have normal not-racist opinions #and do not use the g slur and do not defend it and tootally don't view roma just as all the bad stereotypes right !!!!#*ok actually pulling for her kinda. shows support to hoyo for whatever weird ass decision someone on their team made #to go ''ah yes let's add racism but make it a cute girl and make it 'funny' this'll get us so much money''#and if you spent on her banner. look idk what to say. shame? yeah shame. hoyo in general is not a company that deserves your money there #are better things to spend your cash on. like literally look at how they treated sum.eru and they made the guy inspired by roma WHITE ???#generally. not something I would advise spending on. but like ok especially on the racist character y'know #anyways.

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wyvernne · 2 years

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it kills me that so many people portray diluc as indiscriminately cruel. he may be cold, and even curt at times, but he’s genuinely a gentleman and it’s so obvious in his voicelines that he cares about others.

#the amount of people that headcanon him as being a terrible spouse because they write him as getting ‘annoyed’ at y/n is worrying lol #i guess you could weed out all the bad traits of genshin characters lol #diluc can absolutely be dismissive at times #but literally just to people that are bothering him 💀#and his interactions w kaeya don’t count they’re just being petty siblings 😭#diluc wouldn’t bother being the darknight hero if he didn’t care about others lol #speaking of…#y’all #i’m just gonna say this as a general statement #it’s not bad for characters to be villains or have villainous traits #diluc has unlikable/undesirable traits but it doesn’t make him a bad character #or make people problematic for talking about those traits #i only have an issue when people grossly mischaracterize him lol #i don’t want to get into it but #yeah #villains can be cool besties you don’t have to condone their actions lmfao #and ur fave can be problematic and that’s okay #diluc murdered a bunch of people let’s be real 💀

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engelsschwert · 1 month

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Kind of conflicted on liking Laios tbh... I usually don't like characters who are younger than me...

#and he shaves!#serious character flaw ugh!#downright problematic!#(yes this is satire please don't cancel me)#but still why is he so young uugghh #he would be so much cooler in his 30s #the creature speaks

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earl-grey-love · 2 months

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Hm to say Barbs lies wouldn't actually be accurate. It's more that he avoids giving information at all through evasion or indirect answers, or gives some information up with the intent to mislead.

One example would be in that referenced vid call with Luci+Dia where Dia asks if Barbs has a faerie counterpart. Barbs then is like "well, who knows?" and "Hmm, i wonder?" and so on. This continues until Luci is like "You're avoiding the question to entertain Dia, aren't you?" and Barbs still doesn't actually confirm this because he's like "Maybe I am."

So while he doesn't actually perform the act of lying itself, he does so by redirection or concealment. Both of which Dia's lie detecting abilities would not catch. He also does the same thing whenever the topic of him loving mc or not comes up.

#btw saying all this stuff about Barbs I gotta say #he's not a bad guy #he's just as problematic as every other character is #thats what makes them complex and interesting #as would be expected in a game primarily about romancing demons #sunny speaks #ship: anything for you dear

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