Fandom Gripe #23: I know that fandom is in some deep denial about its treatment of female characters that are canonically involved with fan favorite m/m ships, but do y’all realize that when you disappear female characters from the narrative wholesale to push the idea that your canonically straight fav was “secretly gay all along!” you’re making several bad implications? That 1) bi men don’t exist, 2) bi men do exist, but those who have genuinely loved a woman before cannot genuinely love a man after that (therefore bi men don’t exist in practice), 3) women cannot inspire genuine love and devotion in men, therefore any relationship with a woman is “lesser” than the one they later have a man (see previous parenthesis), or 4) to acknowledge the existence of a lovable woman who isn’t a terrible person, where if a relationship previously existed, it did not end because of “incompatibility,” is enough to destabilize the present relationship between two queer men?

Because why is the tgcf fandom allergic to acknowledging that He Xuan had a whole ass fiancée that he loved? Why does no one ever seem to remember that the kidnappings and murders of He Xuan’s sister and fiancée were the final straws that sent him on his rampage, and he still keeps a shrine to them in the present-day of the story? Why is her entire existence and significance to He Xuan as a man, character, and to his character arc disappeared in favor of pushing Shi Qingxuan—the brother of the man responsible for his fiancée’s death—into that same role, as if to say that her impact on He Xuan is significant... just not when it's from her? Why does He Xuan’s life in fandom essentially begin not just after her death but because of it?

are trans men really just "angrier because of the testosterone" or are you just saying and doing things to upset and anger trans men

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the thing is I do quite like individual stephen moffat episodes, I think they're good episodes. they get less good when you start to see patterns of writing and how he has a tendency of beating a dead horse + ongoing sexism which may be missed in one episode, but becomes very clear through repetition, but if one considers them as one-offs they're Neat bits of writing. it's when he tries to make it longform that it all falls to pieces for me and reverberates back. his lore is a mess and consequently so are his characters if one spends more than an episode or two with them.

this was pretty funny

im CRAAAAZZZYYYY im FUCKING INSANE!!!!!! i’m a cycle path….. HHHHHHHFDRRRRRRRHHHHHGHHHH

THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💗💗💗💔

sorry for the long ass post but this has always my favorite scene in the entire film - for obvious reasons - and im so glad greta talked about it and the way she worded it made me laugh so hard i had tears in my eyes. haha... god. my boyfriend sobbing his eyes out over the metaphorical crusts on his patriarchy sandwich......

if your hunter is an air mage i love you dearly but also the air mage specialization is going to be the one that kills me

Me looking at the leaks despite not having read much of the manga:

Look. I don't know this dude. But LEAVE HIM ALONE, KENJAKU, HE'S JUST A GUY!!!

I hate when I try to be whimsical and sweet and get infantilized and treated like a dumb ass as a result

i often think about bakhya and adele to be honest i think there's so much potential here... esp since kuobakhaya is the type of girl that loves fantasy romances like that, or like not fantasy as much as she loves a trope along those lines. she knows adele isnt a vampire but shes like "if she was i wouldnt complain". then at the same time shes too embarrassed to admit it to herself bc shes working through a lot of self-worth issues and self-image problems and confused about her sexuality

meanwhile adele is like kuobakhaya is very cute. -> ends up counting pennies because she wants to buy ice cream for her. im sure there's more elaborate thoughts but Adele very plainly due to her nature in soul as a bird-like creature sees two birds 'kissing' and grooming each other with their beaks and shes like Ohh... :-) while thinking about Kuobakhaya

alex wasnt wrong calling fai "teacher´s pet" oh my goshhh, girlie clings to authority figures like her life depends on it ToT

sorry i just really love that panel, also -> (webtoon link :3 )

The ONE thing I can say I DON'T relate to from horror protagonists is having to run from and fight various creatures. And for this I am greatful. If I had to also bash a weird tentacle dogs skull in or worry about Long Guy that Grabs You on top of everything else I think I would lose my fucking marbles.

i think im just gonna delete their reply and maybe block them dhdkdl it is entirely possible (and likely) they just have no idea this guy's incredibly racist because UNFORTUNATELY white ppl have taken this spirit from Algonquian culture and twisted it and now everyone only knows of it as a """cryptid""" unless they're like... active in indigenous spaces or spaces where ppl actively care about racism fhdkdl, but I just don't really feel like trying to carefully word things to educate a random 19 yr old this morning bc i have a headache and now my nervous system is all fucked up fjfkldl

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