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gralunaisland · 3 months
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Target on My Back? (Again lol?)
Goodness, it seems like I’m sort of being targeted right now, all in the span of a couple of hours. Getting an influx of pretty pointed asks all at once for some reason.
One is very rude, one is tagging me in to deal with someone else’s drama, and one is asking (the age-old question) why I dedicate a blog to hating on juvia and gr///via.
The latter two askers seem pretty reasonable, while the first one is quite pathetic in it’s harsh judgement of a stranger on the internet (me) doing something as harmless as posting hate posts about a fictional character for fun and for the benefit of others who like to see their experiences validated (rightly so).
I’ll get to them soon. I just got back to college for classes starting up on Tuesday and need to get my stuff in order, but my followers and regular blog readers, be prepared for some heavy stuff coming up.
Oh well.
Nothing new to this blog, and nothing I can’t handle. :)
Have a great evening all.
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gralunaisland · 4 months
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The jealous j*v*a gag was never funny but girl really got jealous over a CAT and Gray dancing for fun with his child teammate. Do people really find this endearing? funny? She makes every interaction Gray has into something gross. Don't get me wrong it isn't funny when she does it with Lucy either (this is an extremely toxic relationship and I don't like to see it portrayed as cute or funny), but her acting like he's into Frosch or Wendy disgusts me (idk if it makes sense haha)
juvia Believes in the Worst of Gray, and she Couldn't Care Less
Oh, you make perfect sense to me, Anon, and you make such a good, damning point against juvia.
I love how you phrase it because it's just so accurate:
"she makes every interaction Gray has into something gross".
The fact that in juvia's mind, Gray could be a p*dophile or someone who practices b*stiality, is just beyond disturbing, for multiple reasons.
A, if she really thinks Gray is capable of those things, and still "loves" him, then what does that make her? Someone who supports those things too. Jail. Jail right now.
B, despite thinking those things about Gray, there's no acknowledgement from juvia that that's so very wrong, there's just, as you say, jealousy. Instead of putrid disgust, juvia feels jealous over a child and a cat. That's revolting, immoral, and just downright pathetic.
C, it just shows how juvia does not know Gray at all, what his values are, whom he loves, what kind of a person he is. And nor does she care. And yet this is the woman we're supposed to want to be with him. Right. That checks out.
D, what's more, Gray can do no wrong in her eyes (clearly), so if Gray likes Wendy or Frosch, guess what, it's not Gray who's the problem here- it's the child and the animal. They're her love rivals, they're whom she must conquer in a battle of love. The two who would be victims to Gray if this deluded insanity juvia believed about him was true are the very ones juvia points her gnarled finger at and declares war on. (Hypothetical) Victim-blaming/abuse at its finest.
You're right, Anon, that this jealous gag isn't funny even when inflicted on women of Gray's age and species. It's just uncomfortable, cringe, toxic, malicious, and sad. But it's infinitely more despicable when juvia's delusions and fantasies paint such a horrid picture of Gray and those around him, where his morals are misrepresented, his reputation tarnished, where such evil, perverse things are presented as if we're supposed to laugh at it.
This point doesn't get talked about enough (by myself included), but it truly is one of the most damning pieces of evidence of why juvia is a loathsome, detestable human being, and why she should never be with Gray.
Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with me, Anon! This is truly a very important point to be made, and I am very grateful to you that this could be addressed very carefully on my blog.
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gralunaisland · 4 months
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Happy New Year, Antis!
Wow.
A whole nother year has passed already?
Thank you all so much for your support this whole year again!
I cherish all your insights and questions and patience (y’all have so much patience T-T I’ve been so busy with family festivities that my energy has been caput).
Despite my absence, this blog is still such a treasure to me, and I hope it’s still a haven of sorts for my fellow Antis.
Anyway, I hope you all have (or had) an amazing new year day!
Here’s to another glorious year of hating on juvia and her abominable ship! Always such a pleasure!🥂
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gralunaisland · 5 months
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Am I the only one that wants Gray and Lucy to kill juvia and finally end her existence?
I definitely wish juvia had stayed dead.
Oh, how I wish it!
But Gray and Lucy are too kind-hearted to ever kill a fellow Fairy Tail member, even if she deserves everlasting punishment for what she's done to Gray and any female within Gray's vicinity. They'd never do such a thing.
However, if a villain (who would really be doing us all a favor) happened to end juvia's existence (again), I would be eternally grateful!
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gralunaisland · 5 months
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I just rewrite the characters in Fairy Tail for the sake of my mental health
Honestly same and mood.
Your fanfic ideas always sound 100x times better than whatever junk (cough gr///via for once cough) Mashima is churning out now anyway!
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gralunaisland · 5 months
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Really good analysis and comparison! Thank you so much for the tag! You really parsed things out very well, such an in depth post.
I'm personally not a Lisanna fan. I used to dislike her, but now it's more of a neutral meh feeling. She's not very interesting as a character to me.
But she definitely doesn't act like juvia, not what I've seen anyway, so she doesn’t deserve to be treated as such!
The way fanon!Lisanna is actually Canon!Juvia
— and why one character is treated like a villain where the other is beloved
Often traits given to Lisanna in these certain fics is that shes…
jealous
sexual predator
obsessive
we never see this once from the canon Lisanna but we do see this from an actual canon character— in fact in these fics this character is presented as a wholesome good character and that character is no other than JUVIA.
tag: @gralunaisland
Lisanna is often featured as a “love rival” to lucy in naIu fics. where she will bully/harass  and even kick lucy out of fairy tail.— which lisanna has done nothing in canon to receive this type of treatment and character association
For this example i will be using a ‘The Teacher And The Student(To Be Edited)’ By HoshiOtome— originally published in 2016
ok now that i got that out the way im gonna compare these three things between fanom lisanna and canon juvia
Sexual Harassment
— cw: sexual content
To start here are the lisanna moments featured in the fic where she does sexual acts in classroom to natsu, this is sexual harassment—definition:
‘behavior characterized by the making of unwelcome and inappropriate sexual remarks or physical advances in a workplace or other professional or social situation.’
“I thrust three fingers into me wishing it was his fingers inside of me instead of my own. I'm taken off my high when I hear "My name is Natsu Dragneel you are to address me as Mr. Dragneel or Sensei." I look up from his picture and sure enough, there he was MY NATSU Before, he can say more I tackled him into a hug and snuggle up against his chest.”
—First example is lisanna sexually pleasing herself in the middle of a classroom with shirtless photo of natsu
"Okay, I'll go back to my seat for you Natsu kun" she purred. "Lisanna!" I warned. She just winks at me and struts back to her seat. She sits down, but instead of crossing her legs like a lady is suppose to do especially when wearing a skirt. She decides to sit in her seat with her legs wide open, giving me access to see her purple lacy panties. I roll my eyes at her actions I mean I've already told her I don't like her like that plus she's too young for me. When will she get that through her thick head?”
—Second example is lisanna exposing her self to natsu in public.
Now let me compare them to juvias canon moments—
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—she uses gray’s likeness to wash her naked body?!? and gets sexually aroused in the process  
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—juvia again is trying to get gray to do sexual acts to her and hes very uncomfortable; yet again she is sexually aroused from this situation
Jealousy 
“This blonde bitch! I hate her guts! I feel like she's after MY NATSU especially when I saw that she sent him a friend request. She better back the fuck off!”
—their both jealous of lucy being close to ‘THEIR’ man
“After Natsu kun told that blonde bitch to stay after class I can't help but feel suspicious especially when I caught her smiling with a slight blush on her skanky face. I wait for all the other students to leave so it's just me and blondie left. "Time to make my move" I walk towards Natsu kun not before giving that blonde skank a look that could kill her ten times over.”
—constantly insulting and putting down lucy for a man
Now let me compare them to juvias canon moments—
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—juvia needs to constly put down lucy when ever lucy has normal interactions with gray to validate her obsession with gray; shes jealous that gray and lucy can bond together naturally… later in this arc she tries to kill lucy
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—again juvia is extremely hostile to lucy even after juvia becomes allies with fairy tail
Obsession 
“Lisanna started talking about how she wanted to be married to me and have my kids.”
—Lisanna has this delusional idea that she’s gonna end up being with natsu
“I then hear Natsu deny me I can't help but feel the urge to cry. I've loved him the moment he saved me from those bullies that were picking on me when I was in elementary school. I I shake the memory away and focus back on the conversation.”
—Lisanna has been in love with him since the moment they met. hmm sounds familiar?
Now let me compare them to juvias canon moments—
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—juvia is obsessed with gray that he has likeness throughout her room; most likely with gray having no idea
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—juvia is also so completely delusional that gray in her head is nothing like the actual gray, she’s obsessed with the idea of him while ignoring his actual feelings
extra— cw: rape
this applies to both the obsession and jealous section
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Later lisanna DRUGS and RAPES natsu in chapter 26; so familiar to juvia buying a “love potion” and attempting to drug gray and force him to lover her via the potion 
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gralunaisland · 5 months
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Genuine question - do you dislike the gruvia ship to the point where say hypothetically if she were to get major development in the future you’d still hate it ? Would you be neutral to it ? Or do you think her character is irredeemable to the point of no return ?
Is gr///via Truly Irredeemable?
First of all, sorry for the extended hiatus!
Second of all, that's a fantastic question!
I actually have a similar post where I talk about something like this, where the question essentially was "how would you write juvia's character in a way that you would actually like?"
It's a pretty short post so I recommend checking that out too, but as for your question:
Hypothetically, and I mean very hypothetically, juvia could redeem herself as a character (but that require loads and loads of true apologies and repentance and trying to make things right by people, which we all know juvia is too selfish to do), but even still, it would not be good enough to the point where gr///via would be healthy.
You can think about it this way.
Let's say a guy sexually harasses this girl, stalks her, creates merch of this girl to get himself off to, inflicts damaging emotional manipulation on her mind, ignores her consent and discomfort, makes something as deep as her father's death all about himself instead of her grief, and cusses out any guy who gets close to her, essentially trying to isolate her from any of her close guy friends.
Now switch out guy with juvia and girl with Gray. (Switching genders tends to help put the immense toxicity of this ship into perspective for people, which is unfortunate, but it's how our society operates right now.)
Even if this "guy" would be able to apologize and mend his ways, the damage has been done. The trust has been broken. Trauma has been inflicted.
That bell cannot be unrung.
So, while I'm all for forgiveness, I do not believe that forgiveness means a second chance at having a relationship with someone who has literally abused you. They had their chance, and they blew it and you up.
Just think of a different scenario of a toxic relationship. What if the guy had cheated on this girl before? Even if he genuinely feels bad and apologizes, how can you trust him to not cheat again? Why did he ever think it was okay to cheat in the first place?
You could ask those same questions of juvia.
So, to answer your question, I would still hate it even if juvia repented. she doesn't get to abuse and hurt and manipulate and come out on top with Gray remaining in her clutches. Any good their relationship could have been is merely fruit from a poisonous tree- poisoned by juvia's past abuse.
See, even if Gray were to stay with her after she admitted to her wrongdoings, who's to say that he isn't too far gone, too deceived, too Stockholm Syndromed, to know what's best for him, aka running from that "relationship" as fast as he possible could? He might not even believe her that she'd done anything wrong.
So, if juvia really and truly regretted what she did to Gray, then she would let Gray go and not try to keep her claws in his heart. Therefore, there would be no gr///via in the world where juvia is redeemed as a character.
Anyway, thank you so much for your ask and your patience! It was a really fun question to answer!
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gralunaisland · 5 months
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FREEDOM
Well, my "Short Hiatus" turned into, uh, 3 months of leave.
My bad. x_x
So much for getting a better handle on things, but I feel like I've learned a lot this semester, so I have hopes (not high hopes, just hopes) that next semester I'll be able to balance my workload and this blog! So sorry that I had to take such a long break!
Christmas break is here, and I finally have breathing room, so I hope to be very active now. Hope you all have had a great fall season!
And not to worry, my hatred for juvia burns eternally as always. :)
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gralunaisland · 8 months
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Short Hiatus
I'd told myself I wouldn't make another hiatus post even if I was going to be off tumblr for a while because I feel like it's not that big of a deal, but every time a lot of time passes, I feel bad for dipping without saying anything.
Sooo hiatus. Sorry T-T.
Transferred majors into something much more intense, and I don't have a lot of free time right now. But I hope to get a better handle on things once I get a bit more into the school year. It's only the second week right now.
But anyway, hope to post again soon, and thanks for y'all's understanding!
Keep living, laughing, and loathing juvia!
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gralunaisland · 8 months
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Last Update on the Sad Troll
I kept updating the post I'm reblogging because the situation kept changing, but I just wanted to update y'all and put this to a sort of rest!
The person who sent the asks as depicted in the post above?
They have been sending hateful, troll asks for 6 days now, totaling 50+ asks.
Really pathetic, isn't it? At least their no-life-ing of my blog is very amusing ^^.
I was going to make a post responding to most of the pertinent asks, but as they continued to send me asks for hours, I realized they just want to make me mad and get attention.
Out of curiosity, I turned off the anonymous option for my asks to see if they'd say anything. Unsurprisingly, the coward troll refrained from sending any more asks, when they'd been doing it daily.
Then after 2 days went by, they finally sent two laughable asks, one where they pretended to not be the troll, and the other where they sent gross pictures of gr///via and screenshots of a post saying that Japanese people have different political correctness than other places, trying to excuse gr///via's toxicity. They also essentially said "don't like, don't watch".
[One, I don't oppose gr///via because of "political correctness", I do it because it's objectively a toxic relationship.
Two, I love FT, and I don't love gr///via, but guess what? I'm allowed to watch it, enjoy it, and criticize it. If you don't have any criticisms, then you're not watching it closely enough because everything has flaws, and nothing is perfect.]
After so bravely sending these asks, they seemed to have immediately blocked me and changed their username, so that even my friend couldn't find them despite being logged out of their tumblr account.
Then I turned my anonymous back on for my followers, and I just knew that when I did, they would unblock me and crawl back into my inbox, and lo and behold, the troll is back, sending anonymous troll asks daily once more.
Here's a few fun facts about this troll:
She calls keeps calling herself "the queen of trolls".
She has admitted that her friend told her about me, so my suspicions seem to have been confirmed on the reason why this asker is attacking me.
She keeps insisting that she's not a Pro gr///vian fan.
She keeps saying haha you thought I was a bunch of Pros, or haha you thought I was a Pro myself, basically trying to insist that she "got me".
She keeps calling me a racist because I’m criticizing Hiro Mashima, who is of course Japanese.
She has called me the n-word.
All this, instead of making me upset, makes me feel sorry for this person.
You really don't have anything else to do with your life, Queen of Trolls? That is honestly sad, so you have my condolences. I hope this trolling gives you some sort of happiness.
You're actually so proud of this that you call yourself the queen of trolls? It's really unfortunate that you have nothing else in your life that gives you pride beyond harassing a real person on tumblr over a fictional character and/or because your friend told you to. I really hope you accomplish something someday that is a bit loftier than this. (I know you can do it! Do your best, buddy!)
You really think you fooled me? That's very funny, because even before I posted that first post, I could tell at the very least some of the asks were by the same person, because of you repeating yourself constantly, (for example, asking about my friend who runs a Graylu and Anti gr///via blog and thinking that you bullied her into deleting tumblr when she literally just blocked you lol) and also because of the terrible grammar. Those two things have been very consistent, so thanks for making it very obvious for me!
Also, the racist comment is quite frankly the most hysterical comment you’ve made, since I’m in fact Asian, but believe I’m racist if that makes you feel better!
All in all, I believe this is all the attention I'll give to them. I just wanted to update my followers on this situation and put the troll debacle to pasture.
To the troll, who undoubtedly stalks my page, salivating at the thought of me having a breakdown on tumblr or blowing my top at them, please continue to send your asks! Honestly, to be perfectly transparent with you, I share your asks with my friends, and we all have an amazing laugh thanks to you, so you're really doing me a favor. I look forward to them, and I look forward to the next ask you send me!
I hope this little bit of attention from little ol’ me gives you a thrill!
Also sorry to my followers who have to witness so much of the wrong kind of negativity on my blog. I do realize ignoring trolls is probably the right way to go about this because they want the attention and because they probably don’t mean the things they say, but I still wanted to address it.
Anyway, have an amazing day, everyone!
Life's way too short to be upset at trolls or to be a troll! :D
A Hilariously Low IQ Pro gr///vian Raid On My Blog
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Oh my gosh guys 😂. I don’t look at tumblr for one second, and now I have a ton of hate asks!
This is legitimately hilarious!
Nothing like the toxic side of the Pro fandom shooting themselves in the foot by acting like actual toddlers over me disliking a fictional ship! ^^
But before I get to these funny asks, I have a post I’ve been working on that’ll set the stage for this—the prologue, if you will.
There’s a (very silly) reason I’ve been targeted, and it’s again so amusing.
I can’t wait to post it for y’all’s entertainment! Tumblr drama is always so interesting, isn’t it?
Have a wonderful day, everyone! Even the (specifically, not all) toxic Pros! I sure hope especially y’all can find some happiness outside of being big bad meanies on tumblr. (*´∀`*)
Edit: there’s a bunch of asks I’m getting as I type this that seem to be from the same disgruntled person lol. I think I’ll try to group those asks into one post because I feel like this person is trying to fill my blog with hate.
Edit 2: and if I just get duplicate hate asks (which I have been), I’ll probably just delete those. Not good content for me to keep responding to the same brain-dead message ^^!
Edit 3: change of plans: I’ll be screenshotting all the asks and making one mega post about it since it’s one person. Hope to post it soon!
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gralunaisland · 9 months
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A Hilariously Low IQ Pro gr///vian Raid On My Blog
(The pictures make this post really long so I'll put them and my words below the "keep reading")
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Oh my gosh guys 😂. I don’t look at tumblr for one second, and now I have a ton of hate asks!
This is legitimately hilarious!
Nothing like the toxic side of the Pro fandom shooting themselves in the foot by acting like actual toddlers over me disliking a fictional ship! ^^
But before I get to these funny asks, I have a post I’ve been working on that’ll set the stage for this—the prologue, if you will.
There’s a (very silly) reason I’ve been targeted, and it’s again so amusing.
I can’t wait to post it for y’all’s entertainment! Tumblr drama is always so interesting, isn’t it?
Have a wonderful day, everyone! Even the (specifically, not all) toxic Pros! I sure hope especially y’all can find some happiness outside of being big bad meanies on tumblr. (*´∀`*)
Edit: there’s a bunch of asks I’m getting as I type this that seem to be from the same disgruntled person lol. I think I’ll try to group those asks into one post because I feel like this person is trying to fill my blog with hate.
Edit 2: and if I just get duplicate hate asks (which I have been), I’ll probably just delete those. Not good content for me to keep responding to the same brain-dead message ^^!
Edit 3: change of plans: I’ll be screenshotting all the asks and making one mega post about it since it’s one person. Hope to post it soon!
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gralunaisland · 9 months
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Thoughts on Eden’s Zero ?
That’s a great question! Unfortunately, I haven’t seen it yet.
Maybe it’s because I’ve given up all hope on Mashima’s writing skills thanks to how he’s sinking FT100q into the ground and because of *cough* gr///via existing, but I’m not really interested in checking out his other stories.
However, if y’all like it and recommend it, feel free to comment or send an ask why I should watch it! (Or why I shouldn’t!) I’d love to hear what y’all think about it since I’m not totally sure what it’s about.
Thank you for your ask and have an awesome day!
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gralunaisland · 9 months
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Completely agree.
juvia sucks in every way.
Gr///via is the most toxic of the main ships in FT.
Nuff said.
Blatantly disregarded his feelings and kept making advances on him despite the fact that he repeatedly told her to leave him alone.
Tried to separate Gray from his friends because she regarded them as rivals for Gray's affection.
Stalked him to the point that Gray felt paranoid.
Emotionally manipulated him when she told him that she was the reason his father died saying all that shit about her not being able to love him anymore WTF.
She somehow knows where he is most of the time???
She is not only a danger to him but her fellow guildmates whenever she has one of her emotional outbursts.
Willing to kill someone if they hurt Gray,not thinking about how it would affect him. Because let's face it Gray would blame himself.
Keeps invading his personal space,even when he asked her to stop.
The many many times she has her weird little fantasies. This doesn't affect Gray directly but still.
Look Gru//via is not a healthy relationship at all.
These are just some of the things that Juvia has done that's really toxic.
I didn't like how she treated Lucy, I didn't like her obsession with Gray, and I thought she was annoying and not as strong as the others.
I honestly really hate Juvia. I hate how clingy she is. I don’t ship her and Gray at all. I really don’t like her and I don’t care what the rest of the fandom thinks about me.
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gralunaisland · 9 months
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One thing that grosses me out abt Gruviugh shippers besides like a bunch of other things is that they call a child a "lovechild" like even if it's fictional that's a child, not some object to "prove" their ship. It reeks of "I only care about myself and my enjoyment of this ship and not what it could say about me and my worldview"
The Dark Side of a Gr///vian "Love Child"
Oh man, I dont think I’ve heard about them using that term, but just hearing the term "love child" gives me a cringey feeling. I actually wasn't sure what it meant so I looked it up, and apparently it means "a child conceived through lust (usually a one-night thing). The parents never marry and sometimes never see each other again". In other words, it means "the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents".
What we must note here is "illegitimate" and "unmarried".
Let me preface this by saying that I don't think people have been thinking that deeply about this, and I'm sure most people who make fanon ship children don't mean any harm.
However, there are some criticisms to be made.
Moving on, now, I have no clue if this is an unpopular opinion, and feel free to disagree with me, but I think kids should be born within wedlock because it statistically tends to be a more stable home (though of course it doesn't guarantee anything). It at least shows that the parents can be in a committed relationship recognized by law, which hopefully means they'll both stick around more since they're legally obligated to.
That's where the illegitimate comes in. A legitimate kid in the eyes of the law means that the child comes from a married couple, and that allows the child to be entitled to child support in case of a divorce and to receive an inheritance. If the couple is not married, that makes the kid illegitimate, and that means the father is not obligated at all to take care of the kid.
All that to say, it's super gross if people call the made-up kids of gr///via "love children" because, if they know what the term means, they're basically saying they just want Gray and juvia to have kids and don't care if the kid's life has the added stability that would come with having married parents. They clearly just want it to be canon that Gray and juvia have had sex.
That would just show that they don't really care if Gray and juvia have a solid foundation for a relationship (though, let's face it, even if they were married, they already lack a solid foundation because of juvia's abuse), which is essential for bringing children into this world and raising them. Whether they mean this or not, this is just another instance of certain Pros promoting unhealthy dynamics for these two, only this time it's almost worse since it includes another human being, a child, as well.
They would rather focus on the "lust" aspect of what a love child entails, which totally throws the kid by the wayside.
That means they only conjured up the kid just because it helps to "validate" gr///via. You put it perfectly, saying that the child's sole reason for existing is to prove the "love" between Gray and juvia, which literally reduces the character to being an object, a plot device, a ship device. The kid becomes a mere product of "doing the nasty" that's "evidence" for a ship and nothing more.
And yes, before anyone goes thinking I'm just saying all this to be a stick in the mud (though I admit I am one x_x) I understand people not caring that much about fanon children of ships, because they're made up and just for fun mostly. I'd say most of it is harmless probably.
However, still, I agree with Anon, that it's icky to throw insensitive terms around, and doing so exposes these fans' intentions of just trying to find even more (uncanonical) avenues to bind Gray and juvia together, as if they didn't already have years of abuse and shoehorning and character assassination doing that job for these two. It's less malicious and more thoughtless of these fans.
All in all, I'm not saying, "don't ever create fanart or fanfics of children from your favorite ships!", I'm just saying let's not reduce them to being ship devices. It would be great if thoughtfulness could be given to them, because I don't think treating children, even fictional ones, flippantly is a great thing to promote.
And y'all all know my stance on fiction affecting reality.
Anyway, thank you so much for your ask and your patience, Anon! Sorry for taking forever and a day to get to it! I hope this post made some semblance of sense, because even I was getting confused. I hadn't thought about the ramifications of a "love child" before.
And sorry to the rest of my readers for being AWOL, having to deal with lots of stressors nowadays, but hopefully it'll get better soon!
Have an amazing day, everyone!
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gralunaisland · 10 months
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I wish Juvia never existed, she's so creepy , ever since I saw her as a child I couldn't help but hate her especially in the scenes with Gray though with the continuation of the series I started to become indifferent towards her except during the scenes where she harassed Gray and even cried a little bit at her death but I have been away from the fandom for 5 years because I couldn't like ft anymore, I was really nostalgic though and heavily missing ft so I wanted to start it from the beginning but I don't know if I can anymore . I came to know that Gray has lost all personality in 100 years quest and becomes mushy for Juvia just at the mention of her name. I can't watch or read a series only to know that a character I loved has gone through "utter character assassination" . What's more insufferable is that during the ending of ft when I read it 5 years ago I myself couldn't see Gray with anyone but Juvia no matter how much I hated this pairing , Mashima forced this pairing so much that now I feel like I have no choice but to ship them, but this much of annihilation of Gray , I just can't take it anymore.
When Mashima already killed Juvia , there was no need to revive her , her death was heartwrenching for the kid me during that time even though I never liked her but his revival of all the dead characters ruined the series for me. Natsu and Gray's fight was also utterly ridiculous. And there were a whole lot of reasons.
Atleast Gray would have been single and hadn't gotten his brain been made into a mush or would have ended up with another character and honestly Gray can be shipped with so many characters whether male or female in the series, his dynamics were so interesting with so many characters but ,no, Mashima had to force him with Juvia out of all the characters.
If Juvia was an ugly character or a male character nobody would have shipped her with Gray , just because she's attractive she is shipped with him even though she is literally a stalker who sexually harasses him physically and mentally all the time. She treats him as an object of her perverted desires rather than a human being. She's obsessed with him and not in love with him. If she loved him even a little or even cared she wouldn't have crossed his boundaries all the time and neither would she have been so jealous of other characters having healthy interactions with him. I honestly think that if she never existed atleast Gray's life would have been a lot happier. Atleast after suffering so much , Gray deserved to be happy instead of being with his creepy stalker.
Ft is only successful because of fanservice now atleast in the beginning the series was actually good, the series has given me so many great memories only for them to get muddied because of the direction this series took.
Your blog is a breath of fresh air , really good work!!
Miscellaneous Thoughts on gr///via
First of all, thank you so much for your patience! I'm sorry it's taken so long to get to your ask!
And secondly, I love how much effort you put into your ask! Honestly, my thoughts aren't even needed here; you really hit so many good points about gr///via. And thank you for sharing your experiences with FT with me. I agree with practically everything you said!
Despite this, as always, I'll run my mouth down below.
I was the same as you, Anon, where I hated her immediately when she met Gray when I was a kid first watching FT. I'm glad you could also tell how awful her character so soon as well. I personally never became indifferent to her and dreaded seeing her whenever she was onscreen, since even the super rare parts of the anime where she supposedly isn't thinking about Gray are still tainted by her mean-spiritedness and disingenuousness.
I also never fully read or watched juvia's death because I dropped the very end of the series thanks to gr///via and it just not being very good or intriguing, so I can't say I've cried at her death, but I think that shows how compassionate you are if you felt sad for such a disgusting individual! I've seen panels and I've heard what happened, and it is absolutely awful. The whole fight is shoehorned in just to ship gr///via and guilt-trip Gray into taking juvia's completely insane and gross advances seriously for once, when literally any of his other guildmates would have killed themselves for him too and have tried to before, and he'd never fall in love with them, but nooo gr///via must be forced down our throats to appease the fans and fulfill Mashima's weird fantasy.
As for nostalgia, I totally get you, because after a while I always find myself drifting back to rewatch it eventually. I used to watch every scene with her in it, but on my last watch-through, I basically skipped most of her scenes. That's how I survived it, Anon, so maybe you could try the same! Though, I feel like for my next watch-through, I'll sort of have to watch her scenes and make something like a mega masterlist of how she sucks every time she's on screen lol. That sounds so painful but perhaps that's a necessary project for my blog.
I so agree with you, Anon, that I can't bear to see Gray's character assassination in 100yq, which is why a very kind Anon created a masterlist of every gr///via moment so I could read it and avoid gr///via entirely. I'll link it right here for you if you ever desire to take a gander at the admittedly apparently terrible 100yq except for Lucy's new empowerment.
I agree that juvia should've stayed dead as well. Besides me just hating her and wanting her to be gone from Gray forever, her death (and the other characters who died for that matter) really should've never been revived because it just cheapens the sacrifice they made from a story standpoint. For juvia at least, it's like "oh well i didn't lose anything in the end but now i seem like a good person! Woopdidoo". Plus, it just makes none of their deaths have any real impact. It was just for shock factor, and we all know that Mashima really doesn't like to make lasting changes. He did the same thing all the way back in the Edolas arc when he made it so that Lisanna never died, which was a terrible decision. @perfectlyimperfectcharacterfan actually gave a much better suggestion, where Lisanna actually died and the Lisanna in Edolas was in fact Edolas Lisanna, and then Natsu would get to talk with her and learn to let her go and heal. Honestly gives me goosebumps just to think about it; it's so much more mature and moving than pulling a psych on everyone.
Gray being single would've been so much better than this gr///via garbage, Anon, you're so right! Even as an avid GraLu shipper myself, I would be perfectly fine with shipping them without it being canon (as I am now), but nooo, now I have to do my best to blot such an ugly, toxic ship out of my mind.
I really have nothing to say about your 4th paragraph because I hold those opinions completely. I call out the double standard of how people treat juvia's behavior all the time, and she definitely has "pretty privilege", though personally I do not find her pretty. Gray is an object for her to obtain indeed, and I concur, he would've been infinitely happier without juvia.
And yeah, I agree that unfortunately Fairy Tail has fallen off in terms of quality hard, with the criminal pushing of gr///via going off the rails in 100yq and the lack of good story telling in general. Even the end of the main story was unravelling. Sometimes, Mashima, it's better to end and preserve your legacy. Right now, you're beating a dead horse.
Thank you so much for your kind words! So sorry I took so long to get to your ask: it was a delight to read and so very insightful!
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gralunaisland · 10 months
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An Insult to juvia's (Lack of) Intelligence
*Lucy and Gray happily eating lunch together* juvia, across the guild hall: ohhh Gray-samaaaaaaa Gray: quick hide me juvia: *flounces over* Lucy, deadpan: sorry, Gray's not here at the moment juvia: *watches Gray unsuccessfully struggle to fit under the tiny table* you blonde bimbo, he's right there! Gray: *muffled* no i'm not Lucy, still deadpan: no he's not
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gralunaisland · 11 months
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The Toxic Merging of Fiction and Reality
An Anti gr///via Post
Warning: Picture Depicts Triggering Language
Hidden beneath the "keep reading" button is a screenshot of a conversation my good tumblr friend @graylu-heartbuster sent me. She gave me permission to post this and @ her. She frequently has discussions with Fairy Tail fans online, and as such, she often meets more than unsavory individuals.
This particular one is a Pro gr///vian who was so angered by my friend shipping differently than them that they dared to tell her to harm herself. (In very graphic language too, so please be safe and don't continue to read if that triggers you).
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This is an example of an actually despicable human being. Some people have fragile mental states. For those people, seeing someone tell you to do this to yourself and call you all of these slurs could very well be the tipping point, all over defending an anime ship??????
And of course the person receiving this hate doesn’t need to be in a bad place mentally in order for this act to be absolutely despicable. It’s disgusting no matter whom this is said to.
Honestly, I'm appalled by this person.
The purpose of this post isn't to shame all Pros because most of them are not like this, and there are these types in every part of every fandom.
But this does show that some people cannot distinguish fiction from reality, which is what I've been warning against almost since the beginning of my blog.
The line is so blurred for this person that they reacted to my friend's aversion to gr///via with the same venom as if they were juvia, and as if my friend had besmirched her honor in the most horrific way.
It only helps prove my theory that some of the Pros are just as delusional as juvia which is why they worship her, using her as a self-insert.
Because who in their right mind would tell someone to end themselves because they don't ship what you do and ship something else?
This is why I hate it when people (in particular, I've heard it a lot from Pros in defense of gr///via) say "oh, fiction isn't reality, and fiction doesn't affect reality at all, so you can do whatever you want in fiction with no consequences!", because guess what, fiction does affect reality.
Fiction is a major driving force in culture. It is often used as a vehicle for pushing agendas and belief systems, and the way fictional characters react to things being preached to them and how the story unfolds because of it are very telling. Fiction also clearly entrances people so much they're willing to go to such extremes in its defense. Some people can parse out that they like juvia and gr///via because they're separating fiction from reality, but clearly some people are wholly unable to do so.
It would be very easy to see how juvia's insanity and detachment from reality (i.e. how she is deluded into believing that Gray loves her and that her ignoring Gray's consent and wishes is okay) could have bled into this awful individual's life, reinforcing their idea that what they're doing is praiseworthy, that they can attack others like juvia does and still be the hero and still be rewarded in the end just as juvia is when she finally sinks her claws into Gray's manipulated heart.
These are not the lessons this sick person needs. What they need is a wake-up call, the cold hard truth, that the way they're acting is unacceptable and that they are not the hero. The fiction of gr///via and juvia's selfish and downright nasty behavior within Fairy Tail is just fortifying their belief that they're in the right.
I wouldn't go as far as to say that juvia's actions are the only reason this person is being so disgusting, but it certainly doesn't help. When you praise and promote delusion in fiction like Fairy Tail does with juvia, you can't be surprised when people adopt that delusion in real life.
My heart goes out to my friend, as well as any person out there who has to deal with this type of cyber bullying. I just hope this serves as a reminder that gr///via can definitely negatively impact others in real ways in real life, and that juvia's behavior isn't excused just because it's fantasy.
I pray the person who sent this dm gets a rude awakening that they cannot treat people this way in reality and be rewarded for it.
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