Becoming a mother is a choice, not a duty

Virginity is a myth, not a reality.

Abortion is a choice, not a crime.

My body is my own, not the property of others.

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Something I was curious about is that you say Hazbin and Helluva don’t follow religious or biblical accuracy, but you seem to forget that it’s not supposed too. It’s Viv’s own spin on biblical things so of course it won’t be biblically accurate.

I’m not trying to be mean or degrade you in anyway I just don’t get why you think it needs to be accurate to religion.)

Because Viv's spin on the religion and its figures is like this

I really, truly think that all of fandom needs to have a yearly re-watch of the source material so that people don't start agreeing with stupid fandom takes as gospel:

like... are you KIDDING ME with that??? she's so clearly smitten with him you'd have to be blind or literally closing your eyes to not see it

Hot take: 90% of the people who are complaining about the live action ATLA either went into it wanting to complain about it or expected a perfect adaptation which they knew would never happen

The FE fandom is unfairly criticized for their treatment of main women leads because not enough people factor in how sexist the writing is. Edelgard would get less hate if she was held more accountable. Micaiah would get less hate if she didn't get written out of the final part and awful blood-pact device. Celica and Erika would get less hate if the writers didn't hand them the idiot ball. Female leads are often awful units compared to male counterparts. The male leads always upstage the female ones or are written overall better bc they were unconcerned with making them a sellable waifu. There's definitely sexist people in the fandom, and male characters everywhere get cut more slack, and I'm not denying an element of sexism in all of this, but holding the writers accountable something that needs to get brought up more.

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Im gonna discuss my opinions on this take now.

Edelgard is held accountable and punished for her actions by literally dying in 3 out of the 4 routes. Like the Agarthans are not blamed for what Edelgard did. She takes complete responsibility and suffers the consequences for starting a war.

Erika giving the Sacred Stone to Formortis because she believes Lyon, an extremely skilled healer and magic user who has been studying the stones will get rid of him through using it is a smarter decision than Ephraim attempting to kill THE DEMON KING ALL BY HIMSELF. Like at least Erika's plan made sense and could have worked if Lyon was able to resist Formortis. People who call Erika stupid for her scene while not doing the same for Ephraim's are hypocritical in this regard.

While SOV is quite sexist in how so many of the women are damseled, Celica sacrificing herself for Mila makes complete sense and is not rooted in sexism because at that point in the game most people believe that they still need the gods to survive and a single human life is worth less than the life of a god. Celica trusted Jedah because to her that was her only choice. What is sexist is her having to be repeatedly saved by men while nothing similar happens to Alm.

I admit I'm being extremely nitpicky with this point, but Erika and Celica both act completely in character when they make their mistakes and therefore are not Idiot Balled. Idiot Balling is when a character acts uncharacteristically stupid and out of character to serve the plot.

Idk about the specifics with Micaiah in Radiant Dawn but yeah it sucks how Ike takes most of the spotlight from both her and Elincia :/

The only female lead that is a substantially worse unit than her male counterpart is Erika. She is an outlier that should not be counted. Celica, Micaiah and Elincia all have utility that Alm and Ike Lack while Edelgard is literally just as good of a frontliner as Dimitri. And Lyn is just as weak as Eliwood.

Character writing is subjective.

You are severely overestimating the importance of waifus and underestimating the importance of husbandos to the franchise. Straight and Bi women play Fire Emblem too.

Also characters who have depth tend to be more popular regardless of their gender. It is profitable to have waifus with layers.

I am not denying that sexism was and somewhat still is a thing in the writing and gameplay of this series; However, the fandom is just as guilty in how female characters are treated - perhaps more guilty in the newest two games where these issues rarely rear their ugly head in the story and the gameplay. The fandom should be held accountable too instead shifting most of the blame on the writers.

Anyway if you read all of this, have a heavenly creature i found recently <3

Could you explain your position on Shallura? Since Allura was established as a teenager when she started dating Lance and Shiro was very clearly an adult. I can understand the bi shiro headcannon but the shallura thing worries me

i am going to remind yall that i have been in this fandom since 2016. and in the early seasons, allura was not established as a teenager. in fact she was coded as older, as closer to shiro's age -- there was a specific divide between her and the younger paladins that she did not have with shiro. they made her younger (both explicitly and in mannerisms) as the show went on. and i do not give a fuck about voltron like...post s4 and i didn't even watch s7-8. so like. especially with older fics, im going to enjoy shallura.

I will never understand why most of the men in Buffy who hate “not being able to support her” because she’s stronger and way more physically capable don’t embrace the ways that they can support Buffy. Like Xander hating being donut boy? Riley being bitter that he was left to help around the house, being handed the perfect malewife opportunity?? Couldn’t be me. I’d pack Buffy little bags of snacks for patrol. I’d become a pro at getting blood stains out of clothing. She’d come back from patrol, rugs already vacuumed, soup on the stove, and I’d be like “hi honey how was the violence the death and violence looked fun was it fun?”. I’m gay btw.

I really do just gotta ask why Chima fans always be saying some shit about "Ninjago is so weirdly pro-war it should rot already!!!" like no I think an action show for kids, which wants to tell you these people are bad and we should fight against them, is NOT super pro-war like you say it is. I think we SHOULD maybe wanna fight bad people who wanna kill everyone and cause mass destruction. Maybe.

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“Baela shrieks with her father’s anger.”

“Jace the closest to Aemond in age —”

“Aemond puts his hands around Luke’s throat, throttling him.”

“You will die screaming in flames just as your father did.”

“…comes at Aemond, who readies the big rock.”

“He counters, smashing Jace’s face in with the rock.”

I’m gonna knock some teeth out ‘closest to Aemond in age’ and he was canonically 6 to Aemond’s 10. Jace and Luke were the only ones really involved with the fight in the book, and it’s stated multiple times that Aemond had the clear advantage over them and was beating them ruthlessly. It was a clear power play on his part that quickly turned sour because the younger brother feared for both his and his older brothers life (as he should, the kid was 5 fucking years old).

I know why they added the Dragon Twins to the fight, and it was solely to infantilize Aemond even further than they already had (and demonize the girls and the Velaryon boys in turn). Sure, I’m supposed to feel sorry for him because he was bullied for not having a dragon (boo fucking hoo); but I’m not supposed to feel sorry for the twins after they just lost their mother, considering how quickly that storyline was left in the dust to further Aemond’s. I’m not supposed to feel sorry for the woman and kids who were targeted purely due to their blood/gender (but that doesn’t matter ofc just that they’re bastards and harming poor helpless trueborn baby Aemond how dare they).

The agenda being pushed in the show is obviously full of microagressions against these kids — the Velaryons were made into POC just to make certain the audience knew that Rhaenyra’s first three children were bastards, and Baela and Rhaena were added to the fight to show them as the ‘true’ aggressors to the entire situation. It didn’t matter that they had lost their mom recently, it didn’t matter that they didn’t even know who Aemond was. They had one of the last living relics of their mother stolen out from under them by this random kid who immediately insults them to their faces for having the audacity to be upset, but HE is the victim here. Jace had just found out about Harwin being his bio dad and then lost him within a short amount of time. He was being openly mocked and told he and his baby brother were going to die in the exact same way at Aemond’s hand. But no, no! Don’t jump to the obvious conclusion; AEMOND is the victim here.

Four grieving children reacted on their extremely volatile emotions, with one acting on fear alone, and it ended poorly for all parties involved— who would’ve thought?

idk how much stock i put into those "gen z is more conservative than past generations" think-pieces from a few years back. but it's very possible for a person: to believe that climate change is a problem, to support (or be part of) the LGBT community, to believe in universal healthcare and social services, to support religious tolerance, to fight for expanded housing and labor rights, etc etc etc, and still, like, unabashedly hate women on a level you wouldn't believe existed

It will always annoy me that Dany and Jon's greyest, darkest acts are SO similar, and yet neither tend to be viewed as GREY.

How exactly is THIS irrefutable proof that Dany is fated to be a mad colonizer, rather than a harsh lesson where Dany makes the decision to execute the woman who did her personal harm, but still learns you can't hide behind small mercies?

And yet THIS is simply Jon Snow giving this annoying kid the justice he DESERVES?

When they are VERY similar moments. Both Jon and Dany recognize that these two had reasons and genuine trauma behind their decisions, both still execute them because, well, that's what you do when someone proves to be that dangerous to you and yours, and both go on, after one of their darker acts, to fight for the greater good.

In fact, Jon (in the show) comes off WORSE. Dany acknowledges that Mirri had reasons to do what she did, and recognizes that it's not enough to help a chosen few within a violent, harmful, system. She needs to END those violent, harmful, systems. With the very dragons she acquires from this, yes, darker grey moment.

Keep in mind this argument doesn't really apply to the books, where Jon's arc goes down differently (also tbh the betrayers had a lot better reasons than in the show). But what exactly does Show!Jon learn? Does he acknowledge that there are MANY Northerners, the people he hopes to rally behind him, who have lost a lot to raidings? Does he make any effort to mend these enmities?

No. Jon learns nothing. Because Olly is annoying because he's against Good Jon who is good.

the problem for me with them removing sokkas (admittedly rather small) arc of him unlearning the sexist principles he believed in is that, in the 2020s, there has been an increase of sexism in teenage boys (for many reasons, but mostly due to them idealizing men who spew misogyny every chance they get) so I think them watching a character who believes in the same principles learning that they are ultimately wrong and begin to understand that women can do things that men can do too is a good thing.

sure, to me and you who already knows that women can do more than cook and clean and take care of the home, it may seem unimportant, but to those who have been taught that women belong in the kitchen by men that they idealize, it might make all the difference.

ultimately, I'm just rather upset with a lot of the changes they have made to the original story (and the character design and characters), especially since there is this (rather stupid) bias there is against animation, considering it too 'childish' to watch, meaning that this live action version of avatar the last airbender will be a lot of peoples only exposure to the incredible story of atla and I just think that's rather sad.

The fact that some people brand team black as the feminist/pro women side on the basis of wanting Rhaenyra on the throne when they all let baela and rhaena’s birthright go to boys that aren’t even related to house Valeryon on the basis that lucerys and jace were the “male heirs” and when rhaenys tries to fight for her granddaughters birthright (just like Rhaenyra has to fight for her own birthright btw) Rhaenyra, the rightful heir to the throne that could lose it over the existence of her younger half brother, response is legit “baela and rhaena can marry my illegitimate sons, and then their SONS can one day inherit driftwood too :)”

Enjoy whatever characters or “team” that you like but at least recognise there is no feminist side, good side or winning side

I am frustated that people refer to Carmy as Sydney's mentor while discussing the show. This notion makes me question if they are actually paying attention to the story. To be honest, I never saw Carmy as Sydney's mentor even in the beginning. It seems that people assume this because Carmy retained a star and he was her boss at one time?

It's always dismissed that Carmy is her business partner even though we hear this said in 2x03 AND Storer says it himself.

The thing is, is that they're peers with two valuable experiences in the culinary world.

And let's be honest some viewers view Carmy as if he has experience running a restaurant, but in reality, he lacks the exact experience that Sydney needs to run The Bear. On the other hand, Sydney has already run a successful (at one time) business on her own, while Carmy was kicked out of his family's business. Therefore, Sydney brings a valuable level of experience to the table that Carmy cannot match. Even though she has experienced failures, she can turn them into wins when it comes to running The Bear with Carmy.

From episode 3, it was clear that they intended to have a partnership rather than a boss-employee dynamic. Carmy had initially asserted his power, but Sydney's suggestion to run things differently quickly changed that.

So Why is this scene dismissed?!! It drives me crazy.

All in all I just see the mentor excuse as another way to dismiss what Sydney brings to the table in terms of their relationship and it even dismisses all that Carmy gets in this partnership with Sydney. Mentor-mentee is often one sided where as Carmy and Sydney receive inspiration from each other ( AKA you make me better at this).

Sydney sees the good in Carmy is what the first episode tells us, it's not about that she admires this man with way more experience than her, it's that she sees his journey, she sees him is what that moment established in their relationship. Sydney seeing Carmy is something that he carries with him and he also receives things from Sydney.

They're equals because they both benefit from the relationship equally, which sets their dynamic apart from the typical mentor-mentee thing.

If you disagree watch the show again and prove to me what else storers quote could mean, give me another interpretation of 1x03...or how about Sydney literally saying she has a partner? Really, argue with the writers at this point.

This is a partnership.

For the Lorenz anon comparing him to Sylvain, this is so true. It's definitely bc Sylvain is more conventionally pretty than him... We have the same with misogyny, where for example rude character like Felix are well liked, or where rude moment are outpassed ( like Sylvain/Byleth, Felix/Ingrid, Claude at Byleth mourning, Claude/Ingrid, pre time-skip Hubert and Linhardt, ECT ) when it's not the case for women. There's so much hate for Leonie, and there's actually surprisingly quite some backlash against Lysithea too! And Rhea/Edelgard despite having a lot of reason behind their dialogue, get the side-eye for every single comment that isn't perfectly nice.

Male character are though to have interiority, i.e "Felix lash out because he actually care a lot about his friends" or "Sylvain is an asshole to women because his trauma skewed his view of them". On the other hand, women are took on a surface level : when Leonie lash out its because she's just a bad mean person, when Edelgard is cold its because she doesn't care about other, etc. It's not even just on negative aspect, even women viewed positively are reduced to how their appears. Mercedes is put in the "nice person" case and I struggle to find much of analysis beyond that outside of my little sapphic corner of the fe3h fandom.

TLDR: Please analysis more in depth fire emblem women, they're worth it I swear

Not saying anyone is a bad character too, they're all incredible and the moment are mentioned are *all* nuanced. There's no bad fe3h character 🫡

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it's been like three days and I'm still thinking about the person who tried to defend Batcest by saying that in the 50s and 60s Robin was considered an adult man, Batman and Robin were "the most widely acknowledged gay icons in that time by gay men," and that DC "retconned Robin back into being a child" to demonize gay men who identified with them