why does my mom look at me like she's disappointed every time i tell her i'm going out w a guy

BOSS FIGHT!

I don’t speak Japanese so I’d LOVE to hear more about the differences between the English and Japanese Re:Zero fandoms

yeah sure its very interesting to me now that ive noticed it more lately :o !! though ok disclaimer - i dont speak japanese either hah so if anyone is seeing this and does speak japanese + is familiar with the japanese speaking side of this fandom please add info if youd like!! and of course ill be mainly speaking from the english side of things bc im more familiar with that yes (sorry anon again im not a japanese speaker T^TT so sorry if i tread on info you already know!!). but yeah im speaking from my own experiences given the Topic at hand. ive been in this fandom since... 2019?? which is so wild to me aljsdfljsd.

anyway so - i think the big difference is mainly that the english fandom and many english speaking people that engage with rezero are. to put it bluntly, misconception runs Rampant to a very Interesting degree. to the point where it seems like the english speaking side of the fandom is More. Aggressive. than the japanese fandom. not that the japanese speaking side of the fandom is perfect - also bc what fandom is ever perfect 100% of the time, tbh - but that the louder people in the english rezero fandom are. well its a Very low bar. Very low. and from what little ive seen and heard so far, the japanese fandom tends to understand rezero and its characters better than the english fandom. which ig makes sense bc you know, rezero is japanese media, and also im sure cultural differences come into play here as well (im not familiar enough on this to speak about it in depth but the cultural differences feel Pretty Clear even though i cant 100% put my finger on what they specifically are).

but also bc yeah. its not That hard to beat some of the english fandom when it comes to media comprehension. misreading rezero is unfortunately Extremely common, both in and out of the rezero community. its Everywhere - youtube, myanimelist, ao3, ff.net, reddit, twitter, various rezero discords - and from what ive experienced, rezero tumblr basically kind of feels like finding an oasis after crawling through the desert for days on end lajdslfjs. which is probs bc rezero tumblr is Smaller and also a lot of us seem to be lgbtq+ in some way or be allies, so you dodge a lot of the misogyny and homophobia that happens in other rezero english circles. its why you see a lot of openly queer rezero-related posts on here while its a bit more. barren. in other rezero english places yes. bc its more safe to post queer rezero things on rezero tumblr rather than rezero reddit for Sure.

im not sure how the japanese fandom is with that exactly but theres some interesting differences between whats popular in the english fandom vs the japanese fandom. i mean as an otto fan ive been noticing how hes more popular with the japanese fandom—and on top of that, ottosuba is Way More popular in the japanese fandom too. reinsuba and julisuba seem to usually be the most popular mlm subaru ships in both fandoms but ottosuba is like A Little Up There in the japanese fandom. not sure if its on the same level as a ship like reinsuba but ottosubas Definitely loved as a ship. from what little ive seen it also seems like ships like vichisha are more acknowledged by the japanese fandom? im not entirely sure on like—Complete differences regarding what the japanese fandom finds interesting that may differ from english fandom, so ill really have to look more into the japanese fandoms fanart and fanfic when i can bc im pretty curious too. in general though, it seems like the japanese fandom has a bit more variety…. you can find fanart on So Many characters in rezero (which already has a very Massive cast full of very fleshed out characters) there. not that you cant in the english fandom bc theres a Bit of variety too, but id more so contribute that a little more to the Big Cast and less to having actual variety in fancontent. and of course im not saying that the japanese fandom may be a bit barren in some areas of fancontent—bc inevitably when u have a big cast of characters, side character content is gonna be more sparse compared to the main characters, but to me it does feel like the english fandom lacks variety in comparison. (and also yeah. seems like the japanese fandom acknowledges gay ships more in general tbh.)

whats focused in fancontent makes it easy to tell what may be popular in a fandom in terms of how fans perceive the source material and what fandoms want to do with the source material, if that makes sense. and its very easy to tell that with the english fandom if you just hop on rezero ao3–or even better, rezero reddit given theres a fanfic ideas thread thats usually pinned right at the top of the site. again i havent looked at japanese fanfic for rezero yet (bc i dont know where to look oops ajdndn) but when it comes to the english fandom you can tell that theyre generally more focused on the female cast both in fanart and in fanfic bc. theyre women and many fans on say, reddit or various rezero discords, are cis straight men, so inevitably… well lets just say you can tell when a man makes content for this fandom o.o theres also the. very weird reaction fic trends and trends following popular fics in the fandom, the two biggest being the watching him die again and again react fic and re:forgotten, the former of which includes a harem plot with subaru and the main girls of rezero while the latter is one of those subaru gets tortured by his ooc friends and then he gets revenge on them fics. which i suppose says something about the english fandom too.

of course on ao3 its dominated mainly by english fics (of course not all fics on there for rezero are in english— big shoutout to all the non english fics on rezero ao3 ur doing great <3 — but the majority are in english). and while yeah ur occasionally gonna find stuff like queer content or side character content or rarepair content, its definitely not that big in amount and also comes with the risk of. Hate. if anyones reading this and remembers the lone star stuff. (if u dont know—lone star was a julius x emilia fic where they NTR subaru or some shit and then it got bombed with hate bc of the ship? yeah.) so yeah english fandom is very cis straight oriented, ironically with the nastiest people being the very people that rezero criticizes. though this is also my personal experience, i do know several people personally whove been in this fandom for a while or were here for a while and yeah english fandom isnt very welcoming at times???? and it seems like at the very least the japanese fandom is A Little Less Aggressive than the english fandom is.

otherwise. yeah im very very curious about more of the differences in popular content between the japanese vs english fandom. i mean the english fandom’s main focus on the female cast for. Interesting Reasons other than their actual character depth is… interesting. and the astreas being popular in general vs otto + ottosubas popularity fluctuating is also very interesting to me (but i have several guesses as to Why that is), among other things. yeah id love to know what else the japanese fandom likes about rezero and see more of their content. i also have to wonder if characters like emilia and subaru are hated less by the japanese fandom…. T^T well that and the english fandom and many english speaking people engaging in rezero have this interesting pattern of either hating subaru No Matter What, wanting subaru to Not Be Subaru (ie using him as a self insert almost or attempting to change him into virtually another character), or putting subaru on a pedestal and ignoring his flaws and mistakes and that he Can do wrong. like theres Really not a lot of nuance there. so i wonder if the japanese fandom is. A Little more chill when it comes to character opinions like this too.

what if we were fucked up creatures but we were in love?

Bit of an introspection but I started studying when I was younger than most of my peers and thus most of my friend group is in their twenties and thirties and I'm not even twenty yet, and I kind of developed an insecurity over my age. We had a bit of a conversation about it today and the general consensus in the group was that I shouldn't feel insecure about my age because I'm on their skill level at an age where they didn't even think about stuff like that, but idk. The thing that bugs me is that I just kind of feel like the knowledge about my age just kind of weighs that down. Like my level of emotional maturity and/or my skills is kind of overshadowed by the fact that I'm younger than most people I surround myself with, and it's kind of like me as a person becomes an afterthought in the face of "but holy shit she's ten years younger than me". Maybe it's because I got rejected because of my age a while ago and the idea still kind of lingers that I'm never going to be at the level of emotional maturity that my peers have reached, because I always feel like they're a step ahead of me. And I'm mature for my age, but that's exactly the point. Mature for my age. Which means I struggle to make conversation with people around like 18-19 (I'm aware this sounds like a complete I'm not like other girls take, I'm so sorry) but I'm still not like a 27-year-old in some abstract way I can't comprehend yet. I'll probably understand it better when I'm older, but for now it feels like. I introduce myself. I become a person in someone's eyes. They hear my age. I am instantly a different person than I was five seconds ago. That's probably a very insecure view I have of my interactions with other people but yeah that's kind of what is going on.

My 3 little cousins were baptized today. "Triggered" is kind of a strong word but being in a catholic church again... I'm a little fragile rn ngl.

one of the (admittedly many) reasons i love love love LOVE my uf and ht self inserts i think is because all the shit i hate about myself is amplified with them and i LOVE them for it. theyre weird gross perverted overbearing annoying creeps who nobody really feels comfortable around. and its the BEST!!!!!!!!! like yeah they suck shit. they dont know anything and theyre genuinely disturbing and disgusting people. arent they just the BEST

i rarely see any memes in this tag, y'all only know how to be analytical or anxious

being interested in studying william afton has made me a worse person

Ok but Dana being like ‘you don’t get it you don’t get it you don’t get it’ and Jason can’t respond bc he DOES get it! And he reacted worse! Dana, if a bit irresponsible, is doing smth purely productive for her community. Despite her issues with her sister she’s not targeting her or being fueled purely by anger (eh..complicated but yknow) etc. Jason DOES get it and he doesn’t know how to approach Dana besides telling her to just relax bc for him he went 10000% and then hit rock bottom and THATS when he had to pause and step back. If he and dick had that convo when he was at HIS worse it would’ve ended in a fist fight at best. He gets what Dana’s going through but he doesn’t know how to approach her because she’s coping! She has her supportive loving community around her, there’s never a question of whether she’ll go to bat for her sister; unlike early RH Jason! He doesn’t know how to deal with her because she has that safety net and the worst part is that he knows she’s disregarding it to an extent bc she’s never been in that same position he’s been in; she can’t ever be because she’s good and he’s not and he needs her to keep that and if he has to hound her and be backup and the voice of reason; by god if he has to be the Batman to her red hood he will!

if i play a game with romance options you can bet on me immediately going for one of the most basic ass options, like yeah I'll fuck the same guy everyone else's fucking and I'm proud of that✌️👍

Look. I think you need to get outside more and talk to actual gays and theys. No one cares about your little war going on with mspec lesbians. If I were to go down the street and ask a guy if it’s valid to be romantic with men as a lesbian they would agree that it is. People can do what they want. You need to go to a gay bar, get drunk, and you’ll see sexuality is pretty fluid after a few shots. You’ll probably end up sleeping with a few femboys and femme gay men. You keep talking about transwoman rights, and there’s not much difference between their body and a femboy, and your body won’t know the difference when it comes down to it. All this hate is just in your head. Stop being gender essentialist and learn to love. You probably won’t read this, but seriously. Take my advice and you’ll be happier for it. I myself learned that everyone is a little mspec and not in solitary boxes all the time.

Let’s see how many boxes we tick on the “How Homophobic Are You” meter

Lesbophobia (you insist i need to be fixed by fucking men, along with your bi lesbian garbage rhetoric)

Advocation for corrective rape (drunk people cannot consent to sex)

Transphobia (you literally said trans-women are men)

Homophobia (gay men can be fixed by sleeping with women)

And the list could go on, but honestly reading your dumpster fire has me a little nauseous from smell

Literally no one thinks that lesbians can and want to have sex or be in romantic relationships with men. This is a tumblr phenomenon that comes from being chronically online. I genuinely think you should put a bullet through your brain before speaking again to spare us all the misery of hearing your gross thoughts.

there's a professor at my school who has been mispronouncing my last name (not his fault) for like almost a year at this point and i'm like dreading the day i have to say it or like someone who knows says it because i feel so bad that i've let this happen for so long but also i never have the chance to correct him and it's far too gone at this point

"Prince of Egypt" is one of those movies the internet has decided that you're not allowed to hate.

Too bad I do!

every time i see astarion in the wavemother’s robes i remember the post i saw before i figured out who to block to avoid discourse that was acting like it is somehow a moral statement if u let him wear the robes because it’s slutty and we shouldn’t be sexualizing him or whatever and i go through like 4 emotions in a row