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plan-3-tmars · 6 months

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My Theory on Kazui's Parent's.

Q: Is there a meaning behind your name?

A: It's cause I'm the eldest son. It seems like my father was also wishing I'd be "a strong man."

The wording of Kazui's answer here really makes me think. We know that Kazui is strong. He defended Fuuta against Kotoko and even talks about having "never gone up against a woman [like her]" in his VD, implying that he has gotten into fights before (most likely at work - either in the field or in training.)

It seems like, to me, Kazui has parents with very traditional views. Kazui's father wishing that he would turn out to be "a strong man" could imply that he places value on the old-style gender roles in family or society in general. Yes he most likely thinks that being strong physically is important, but also being strong mentally. A 'normal' man who doesn't cry, doesn't show emotain. A man who provides for his family and sticks to tradition, simple as. A son who does what's expected of him - that kind of strong.

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I also think the way Kazui talks is linked to his family's old-school beliefs. Despite only being 39, Kazui always refers to himself as an "old man" and says things like "when your mature/older like me," etc. It's a bit odd, though it might be a cultural thing. Kazui does call himself immature though, so for a man who believes he has only grown up in terms of his age and not his mind, he puts an awful lot of weight on what it means to be an adult. Can you see where I'm going with this? Yup it's back to his strong man comment baby!!!

In that previous qoute Kazui says how his father was also wishing he'd be a strong man. I think the other person Kazui is referencing might very well be himself. I think if Kazui has been taught these old school gender-roles since he was a child, then he might hold alot of weight to them. He wouldn't know any different if that was all he heard about what it meant to be a man as a kid, and therefore wants to live up to that expectation his parents hold of him. He, however, quickly learns that he is not this way and internalises it as something being wrong with him, something that isn't normal that he must fix. Which brings me to my next point...

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I think that Kazui's family are more important to understanding his crime then we may think based on what's been shown to us so far, and I'd even go so far as to say that their beliefs might've been a very big reason/the reason on why Kazui felt the need to lie and marry Hinako.

If we take a situation where Kazui has very traditional parents who want him to grow up quickly, get a nice job and settle down young, it might make sense on why he felt obligated to marry Hinako. In Half he talks about how he's confused on why he doesn't feel happiness in their relationship, as "isn't this what happiness is?" I believe these ideas came from Kazui's parent's. That perhaps they unknowingly (or full knowingly) drilled the idea into his head that a perfect looking couple such as he and Hinako is the ultimate true love, the true happiness, and that he should follow in those steps if he wants to be happy and successful as it in turn will also make them happy and proud of him.

#i left out how this could tie so fucking well to the gay theory because thats theory ON theory speculation aka. a seperate post #(that i will probably rant about once we learn more about kazui's family)#but just know that i see that comment about him being an embarrassment to his family.#i see how growing up around old-school expectations of marriage and gender roles may lead to internalised homophobia.#i see the connections. in these two theories.#any ee way sorry this is late its still technically posted 'tomorrow' though so!! ♡ (its 11pm)#i have a maths test tmr pray for me. also if u have any other thoughts on this topic pls lmk i am so curious about his god damn family #i wanna learn more so badly #GOODNIGHT!!#milgram #kazui mukuhara #milgram theory

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bugisawesomeasf · 1 month

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you fuckers are really hating on travis when hes literally a he/him lesbian, also the wilderness is literally a metaphor for girlhood do you really think it wouldve let him survive if he wasnt at least a little girl coded ?

#a bunch of ppl have said this in more smarter ways but i feel like the yj fandom needs to be reminded of this every once in a while #also hes just genuinely a fascinating character?? like he saved his girlfriend only to have to eat his brother #he ate his brothers heart RAW #literally that scene is so insane and underrated #like yall went crazy about shauna eating jackies ear (which fair because it is gen insane) but not over travis eating his brothers heart ra #(which equally as insane)#any ways sorry for the rant my tags are always so long 💀#i am gonna make a more analysis type post on this once i rewatch the show #yellowjackets #travis martinez #travnat #(its not my fav ship but its still toxic yuri so i have no choice but to stan)#javi martinez #🐝#also i get not wanting to see any men in this show about women but guys please he’s literally just a girl as well #hate on jeff or waltor or kevyn or the weird cop dude just leave travis alone 🙏🙏😭#also not girl coded in the way some men are. hes girl coded in the more literal sense #gender fluid travnat my beloved they are so t4t <33

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meggie-moo · 10 months

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one of my biggest fic pet peeves is when they make a canon bi character gay, like?? there’s no need, they are already attracted to the same gender? literally what is the point of erasing their bisexuality, when it literally does not change the possibility of your ship happening? 😭 idk, it just does not sit well with me, lol

#tw biphobia #meg’s incoherent thoughts #bisexuality #like i just find it odd because there’s no reason to do it #unless it’s to erasure a character being bisexual #most times i think it’s used to like insinuate that the ship won’t break up because they won’t “miss the other gender”#which is a horrible biphobic stereotype #fandom be normal about bisexuality challenge #also i’m not talking about like a popular hc and then someone going against that i’m talking about characters who have stated they are bi #in the media they are in and it being completely erased in fics #sorry this was a rant lol

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a-wondering-thought · 2 months

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HOW ARE YOU JUST SUPPOSE TO KNOW YOUR GENDER!?!?!?! I DONT FUCKING KNOW MAN!! HE/HIM PRONOUNS ARE GOOD THEY MAKE ME FEEL GIDDY AND I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE USE THEM BUT ALSO THEY/THEM ARE GOOD THEY FEEL NATURAL AND I LIKE WHEN PEOPLE USE THEM, SHE/HER??? I DONT KNOW I DONT KNOWWWW I DONT HATE THEM BUT I DONT LOVE THEM EITHER??? IDK HOW I FEEL ABOUT THEM AND I FEEL LIKE I COULD USE THEM I JUST DONNO AND I ALSO DONT KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I FEEL IN TERMS OF GENDER??? LIKE DO I FEEL LIKE I HAVE A GENDER??? OR NO GENDER AT ALL??? OR IS IT FLUID???? DOES IT FLUCTUATE??? IS IT BINERY??? DUDE I DONT KNOWWWWW

#sorry about the gender rant #im just so confused #gender confusion #gender questioning #questioning #trans #transgender #agender #genderqueer #genderfluid #genderflux #demigender #sam screams into the void

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hedwig221b · 4 months

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I am this 🤏🏻 close to blocking someone on ao3 rn

#do I really have to regurgitate the entire setting of the world for it to make sense #or is the courtship of men BY men only makes sense in omegaverse?#don't know about you but I dont want my AUs to be built on the same homophobia or have ye olden gender roles like irl #yes I'm talking about Treasure #yes someone said ONCE AGAIN that “uhh this is not abo why is stiles like this”#this is a FAIRYTALE it's NOT REAL #i can make men soft if i want to #idk is that like THAT unrealistic and hard to imagine #my god #starting to think this user's imagination is as stiff as a concrete wall #I'm repeating myself but I really really really don't want to make my fantasy universes fucking homophobic #men ARE going to be courted by men #women ARE going to be courted by women #everybody is allowed to court EVERYBODY becasue fuck homophobia #no one would blink a fucking eye #sorry for the rant

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kriscommitscrimes · 11 months

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seeing more ppl referring to kris with he/him pronouns instead of they/them ones this pride month and i dont liek it. i will play through the whole game and ger everything screenshot of their CLOSEST FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS using EXCLUSIVELY they/them pronouns for them if necessary

#IT'S PRIDE MONTH COME ON #none of the excuses work either.#“they're a blank slate so i can project myself onto them!” no. honey have u played deltarune. the whole point is that #youre not them they're their own person #“they're only referred to with they/them pronouns once or twice!” no they're not. u probably only played ch 1 bc its a consistent thing #“none of the monsters know about human anatomy so they dont know their 'actual gender'!” nice try but if they wanted to be referred to #by he/him pronouns they would be. there are other characters in hometown who identify with only they/them pronouns #like monsterkid and napstablook #if they wanted to be referred to by he/him pronouns the town would accept that. but no they want to be referred to by they/them pronouns #otherwise those wouldn't be the fucking pronouns that they're referred to by EXCLUSIVELY in game #there's no argument here its just fucking canon #its not that hard. they/them #again i will get the screenshots #sorry to tag a rant properly #any other time of year i wouldn't but. its fucking pride month and as a nonbinary person this fucking sucks #kris dreemurr #kris deltarune #kris #deltarune #utdr #safeutdr #nonbinary #robinrambles #THIS APPLIES TO ALL NONBINARY UTDR CHARACTERS BTW. it was just kris i saw getting it so i talked about them specifically

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givemewallywestorgivemedeath · 1 year

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Feeling very violent rn so here's a very controversial opinion:

Everything after season one of Young Justice sucked.

Look, I know I'm obsessed with the show but that doesn't mean it's good, it means that I'm too deep into it at this point to get out. There are good moments within the other seasons but in general? They were not good.

I'm sorry. I understand that they wanted to be creative and have a neat narrative and deep lore and all that. And they do! The narrative and lore is extremely deep.

But the plot? The characters??

Season one was an actual functional show that balanced character development, plot and dialogue with world building, lore and messaging.

The other seasons do not do that.

Season two bounced back and forth between like 16 characters. We got some development for some characters but even that was minimal compared to the character development in S1. And this isn't me complaining that the og group wasn't in S2 enough. That's not my issue. I would've loved to focus on a new group and I think that Jaime, Bart, Ed and Gar would've been super cool to focus on. I loved what character development they did have and I craved more.

But the problem? The problem is when you have 16 fucking characters that you are trying to develop and shove into a coherent plot and have actual meaningful scenes. There just wasn't enough focus on S2. Imo, S2 was meh because the characters got left by the wayside. The plot, dialogue, world building, lore and messaging was fine, there just seemed to be a lack of heart/warmth in the show because of the characters. It's hard to get invested.

Then holy shit. S3 introduced more characters. And the plot got more contrived and 'big picture' to the point that it started to abstract. It felt like nothing mattered. There were no stakes, you were just watching things happen. There was 50 fucking things happening an episode and 80% of it was lore/world building. It felt like I was studying for a fictional history exam.

I'm pretty sure the main character in S3 was earth 16. Just the entire universe. Because goddamn. We checked in on almost every living being and EVERYTHING was a plot point. Most of it wasn't even relevant to anything happening in the season. Man it was.... it was bad.

And at that point it just wasn't enjoyable at all to watch. I probably should've stopped watching but at that point the sunk cost fallacy had already kicked in. I knew it could be good. Maybe it could be good again. And people were constantly praising it as cinematic genius so I was like 'okay well maybe I'm missing the point? Maybe you aren't supposed to enjoy shows? Maybe this is fine?'

But season four broke me.

The creators heard that people were frustrated by the lack of character focus and the episodes following 72 characters and the episodes switching between 50 different subplots every episode and their solution? Their solution was to take allllllll the different unconnected plots and, instead of evenly spreading them throughout the season, jam them all into 'arcs'. So you had a bunch of mini seasons consisting of 3-5 episodes dedicated to a cast of ~5-8 characters (some of them new). And each of these episodes had unconnected a plots, b plots and c plots.

THAT IS NOT A SOLUTION

Holy shit that is not a solution.

Not to mention the overarching plot of the season, in which we had no fucking clue what was happening until the final episodes where everything became a speedrun to wrap everything up. We literally had no idea what the main plot was until it was ending.

Good god it was bad. It's bad writing!

I know people liked it and good for them. You should like what you like and you don't have to justify it. But for me it was insanity. I'm sorry I actually don't want a season long subplot where Beast Boy is depressed and sleeps all day. I would be cool with it if it had anything to do with the larger story but, surprisingly, spending five minutes watching Beast Boy sleep every episode didn't make for compelling storytelling.

I'm still not over how we didn't even know who the main villain was until the end of the season. And then all of a sudden he does a villain monologue to tell everyone his evil plan and his motives. Super cool actually. I love it when I have no idea what the stakes are for the majority of a show. It's incredibly good storytelling when you leave the audience in the dark about a major player in the plot for all of the plot. And then doing an info dump evil monologue in the final episodes to rush through the explanation??? Fucking fantastic and not a sign of terrible pacing at all.

I'm just so frustrated. The show isn't about being a show anymore. The show is an entire cinematic universe shoved into 20 something episodes. It's desperate to tell every single story at once, audience, pacing and good writing be damned.

I'm so tired of the constant praising of Greg. His whole 'i don't write endings because life doesn't have endings' and 'i don't write cliffhangers, I just leave things open ended' thing is pretentious bullshit. I'm tired of pretending it's not. A good story has an ending. Stories are not life! Some of the best shows I've ever watched had planned endings. And oh my god. The cliffhanger thing... that's just semantics my guy. Greg you write cliffhangers. You can insist they aren't but I'm going to call a spade a spade.

It's also.... I'm fine with explaining things, in fact I love it because it's an excuse to talk about the stuff I love, and I have a fairly decent knowledge of comic book lore. So, I could not only understand what was happening in the show but I was also super enthusiastic about explaining it to people. But hey Greg? Hey buddy? If 90% of your audience doesn't know what the fuck is going on and needs to be familiar with super specific obscure comic characters from the 70's then you might have a problem.

I think I realized halfway through s4 that the most enjoyment I got from an episode was when an obscure comic character would cameo in it. But then I realized that a) they generally weren't explained at all and b) 50% of the time they weren't just hanging out in the background and they were vital to the plot. So to understand who the fuck they were and what the fuck was happening you had to be familiar with... well all of DC comics actually.

Anyway this rant is getting long and unhinged and I don't think there's a point so I'm going to cut myself off even though I have so much more to say on the topic. I think my general point is just that I didn't enjoy watching the later seasons and it's chill if you did and we should all respect each other's opinions ✌️

#rant #oh also the messaging sucked #the messages itself were fine. like 'you should go to therapy if you are depressed' and 'respect people's religions' and #'figuring out your gender/sexual identity is chill af'#those are great messages. the content is great and i don't disagree #BUT HOLY FUCK #yo Zatara ranting about his religion to Fate for 15 minutes is not how you get a message across #messages are supposed to be like themes and subtle points of the narrative #it's not supposed to be a fucking psa where the characters just talk for half the episode and say the message verbatim to the audience #itd be like if in season one M'gann stood up and spent ten minutes talking about the damaging psychological effects of body image issues #and everyone else just sat there and nothing happened and M'gann just kinda spoke about it #or if Artemis was just like 'im going to do a presentation on why child abuse is bad'#its just. thats not. thats not how messages in a plot work #but they didn't develop the characters enough. so instead of s1 where the messages were blatantly obvious #we just had side character zatara who we know nothing about talk about religion like he was doing a PSA for kindergartners #because we don't know his character and he had zero focus so that was literally the only way to get the message across #and im sorry but that's bad writing. if you are sacrificing character plot and narrative for a message then maybe scrap the message #or you know actually have a developed character do the message. like write the message through a developed character so it doesn't #need to be spoonfed to the audience like we're five year olds learning different shapes from a teacher

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bisexualseraphim · 23 days

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Alright fine I’m gonna speak my mind.

My cis followers, listen up:

Being attracted to trans people is not inherently a fetish. The way you speak about trans people CAN be fetishistic, but 99% of the time when I see cis people calling out trans fetishism it’s literally just. Someone being really horny for a trans person. That’s not inherently fetishistic.

Sorry but it actually hurts me a little when I see cis people claim that a content creator is being fetishistic for drawing a trans guy with tits and a pussy, or for writing smut where a trans guy really enjoys using his pussy for sex, or God forbid said trans guy is fem. Trans people like that exist, you know. I myself have a pussy and fuck yes do I want people I’m in a relationship with to be attracted to it. And the same goes for many transfemmes who keep their natal parts, especially butch transfemmes.

Trans people are not a monolith. We don’t all hate our bodies or experience dysphoria or express our genders the same way. I swear to God cis people are all “allies” until a trans man is fem or a trans woman is butch or an enby isn’t androgynous or we actually enjoy our bodies or we have a kink or sexual fetish you don’t like.

Cis people: I know your hearts are in the right place and I appreciate that, but spouting “oh this content is fetishistic and Bad because trans men NEVER like their vaginas and are NEVER feminine” (or something equal to other trans people) is seriously not the allyship you think it is.

There is absolutely a conversation to be had about fetishising trans people — chasers in particular — but it’s quite a bit less black and white than hating certain FICTIONAL portrayals of trans people because these types of trans people exist in real life and we can see what you say about us.

I love my dick and my pussy (because I have both — are you aware we can have both?) but I saw a post today by someone I really like that actually made me feel kind of shit about myself because it was a cis person essentially saying that smut that describes my genitals in any particularly horny light is fetishistic and that really kind of hurt me. It made me feel like people think I’m undesirable due to my body only it was said in some backwards attempt to be an ally which is almost worse than deliberate transphobia lol.

I guess my point is: not all trans people’s feelings and experiences are universal. Call out obvious transphobia when you see it, yes, but please stop speaking for us about complex situations you just can’t fully understand unless you’re trans. Trans identities and experiences can be so much more complicated than what mainstream celebrities and articles will tell you and I just really need cis people to stop behaving as though the issues we face are a quick and easy fix. It never is. Sometimes the best allyship is to listen to how WE feel and take it into consideration instead of saying whatever you think we want you to say — because a lot of the time, we don’t.

#Sorry for popping off but that really upset me and I had to say something #I don’t usually speak up about things like this because so many cis people just can’t take a criticism to save their lives #Also I know some trans people WOULD find the things I mentioned fetishistic but that’s part of my point #Is that we all experience and feel different things and don’t all have the same beliefs #And implying it’s inherently fetishistic to be attracted to us harms way more trans people than not #Also transmeds and truscum please stay away from me you’re part of the problem 💜#Hope at least one cis person sees this and does some reflection #long post #text post #trans #transgender #transphobia #trans nsft #trans ally #trans discourse #trans men are men #trans women are women #enby #nonbinary #intersex #gender essentialism #bioessentialism #gender roles #gnc #gender nonconforming #rant #vent #nsft

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gcldfanged · 4 days

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It's so telling that dudes think feminism= Women having power over men/hating men/that women 'should get punched because then they're equal', when it's literally just about being treated like a human being and getting the same wages/rights any normal person would want to have. Like, how threatened are you by common decency.

#◈ ooc #I'm sorry but I ran into someone who was clearly not having a good day and he was ranting about how #women have 'equal rights' now but they 'want preferential treatment' and how 'you can't have it both ways'#and I was like “good thing I'm a dude” and he shut up LMAO #I love being gender nonconforming it's like using CONFUSION in Pokemon

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harcheongai · 6 months

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theres a trend on tiktok of women with the beard filter and captioning it stuff like “me when i pay for dinner” and its truly a reminder that we as a society are actively going back to our wierd fucked up gender stereotype ways like. since when did we go back to agreeing that a man has to pay for dinner, open car doors. since when did we go back to this old traditional view point of what “being a gentleman” is. feminism has now been somehow degraded into being bimbo feminisim/ actively hating on every single man and veering dangerously into TERF territory AND also forgetting that at the end of the day feminism is meant to benefit both women AND men. not to mention that trend thats like “oh when he looks a little bit gay” like what does a gay man look like to u. since when did we as a collective go back to agreeing that effeminate men = gay??

#also what the fuck is the sassy men epidemic PLEASE get over urself #so many ppl on tiktok dont seem to understand/have forgotten that feminism isnt some #cushy get together where the girlies sit and do pink glitter arts and crafts and talk abt how horrible evey single male passing person is #its about confronting AND DESTROYING very deep seated views on gender stereotypes #and gender stereotypes not just for fem presenting people but also masc people #its not comfortable because so many of these stereotypes are literally ingrained into us at such a young age #that it feels comfortable and normal #sorry for the rant i am just tired of tiktok trends being wierd #gendered talks #hot take alert 🚨

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biscuits-spooky-corner · 6 months

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i just think that MALE CHARACTER would be hotter as a woman, okay?

#warning men 😾#the colors weren’t meant to be gendered btw they were supposed to represent good (women) and evil (men)#and that too was a haha silly (like the warning for men)#biscuit being too sapphic for her own good lmao #me making natsuo trans btw (she was always a girl btw i just wanted to add depth to her character so she isn’t a mindless slut/dumb blonde)#also yes this is about fyodor #sorry for the rant btw

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eightfifteen · 10 months

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i do love that El has such a fucked up view of society. Like more than anyone she's stuck with the most radical view of societal rules and conformity because that's the only experience she has with society - the rules taught to her.

El has never been taught how girls are weaker than boys. That's never been the issue. Not at the lab, and not since escaping.

She knows women are strong and capable because she's seen Nancy and Joyce and Max exist right in front of her. She herself is powerful beyond anything society thinks she's capable of and not just as a woman.

But she has been taught gender norms, more than anything or anyone else, i think. Because she was raised in an environment where boys and girls were literally the same - there was no gender divide, no color coding, nothing to tell one from the other.

So she comes into society and one of the first things she's taught is to blend in by wearing a pink dress and have long hair.

Other people are born into this society, and though they're also definitely taught conformity and raised on gendernorms, because they've actually lived it, they've also pushed up against the boundaries of those rules, they've experienced the flaws first-hand, realized that just because they're girls doesn't mean they don't want to play with 'boy' toys, or don't prefer wearing pants over dresses. Like they had to fight against this idea from a very young age to varying degrees of success.

But not only did El never bump against the constraints herself (like never was told she couldn't have anything she wanted because she's a girl), she actively wants to fit in as much as possible because she wants to be normal. And the idea that there is a normal, a perfect guide and set of rules to follow so she can make sure she's always doing the right thing, brings her a sense of security.

Her powers - that strength she has - is part of her trauma. She only has that because of the hands of men, and though she wants and needs that power to exist and feel secure after all she's been through, she'd much rather never have had them at all. Her ultimate dream is to have been raised a normal little girl in a pink bedroom who only has to worry about make up and boys and shopping because that's what she sees 'normal' girls got to experience, that's what she feels has been taken from her. To her, that's nothing to feel shamed about, that's nothing to resent, or to feel weak for. Especially as she sees how much power girls like Angela have by doing everything right. To her, all that gender-conforming, hetero-normative bullshit is what makes teenagers powerful.

She's seen the party struggle and be belittled because they're different and therefore powerless. And even Nancy, who is her closest experience with a physically powerful woman (other than Joyce), likes pink and wears dresses and dates boys. Like even Max, who is a little more tomboyish, takes her out to do typically girlish things. And even on the other side of that spectrum, she's seen Joyce struggle because she doesn't look like what a supposedly 'powerful' woman at the time looks like - aka someone like Karen who can afford to curate her look.

Part of the reason she's getting burned in LA, is because she doesn't have anyone to teach her or guide her gender-conformity. So she's struggling and trying to find her own way to perfect femininity. Like she's trying to replicate the girls around her - wear dresses, and curate outfits that are colorful and garner attention, and wear her hair long, and decorate her room like Nancy's and have a boyfriend and go to the roller rink on dates.

But she's not doing it correctly and she can't figure out what it is that she's doing wrong. Because though Max taught her to like typical girly things, and separate herself from boys, she never taught her the part of what a typical girl is supposed to look like because Max doesn't restrict herself to typical feminine fashion, and both Hopper and Joyce wear flannel so which is it??? She doesn't understand that dressing "the right way" is part of femininity or what "the right way" is.

She doesn't get the nuance of it all. So she's wearing whatever clothes she wants to wear, because that's what Max taught her, but likes the girly things Max likes and not the stupid boy things, because that's also the message she got from Max (even if it wasn't intended as such). Like Max never took her to the Arcade or took her skateboarding, because she was following along with what El thought she liked. Hell, even the comic book she shows El is a "girly" comic book in the sense that it's still catered towards girls. And El inherently just seems to like girly things and doesn't care for science or DnD or video games like the party does, so that's yet another reason for her not to think anything wrong with gender-norms because she's a girl and likes these things so that's correct.

And so El desperately wants to understand femininity but she can't put the pieces together and can't do it right.

She never sees femininity as anything less, but she still very much thinks femininity is something else entirely from masculinity. And that those things are inherently separate and tied to someone's assigned gender, because that's what society is teaching her and she has no reason or desire to question that, even if she doesn't understand it. She does have questions, obviously, cause she doesn't know the rules, but she has no reason to think the whole thing is flawed, or that there are varying shades of purple in between pink and blue.

Like gender-nonconformity in a way is literally part of her trauma - hello rainbow room (sorry bad joke) - and we all cried when she woke up and realised her hair was gone. And you can tell at the end of season 4 she realises that will always be a part of her, and she seems to give up on trying to fit the norm a little bit (mostly because there's worse things going on). I hope that she can realize that gender-nonconformity wasn't the problem, but the lack of identity is, and that she has to find her identity herself other than rely on society to tell her who she is.

#sorry long rant about El and her struggle with femininity #from a girl who is very privileged when it comes to gender #el hopper #st analysis #character analysis

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phantastragoria · 9 months

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do you have a favourite portrayal of a character in the gotg game!! who is it and why <3

Oh I think they're all great honestly!!! Part of why I love the game so much is that genuinely, the whole team + supporting characters are written with such obvious love of the source material and equal attention between them all. When I see comments of people saying who their favorite character was from the game and the answer always being different from each person I'm like!! That's how it SHOULD be!!! They're the Guardians of the Galaxy (plural) the focus shouldn't all fall on a singular character like most other GotG media usually ends up as 😭

The two (sorry I can't pick just one) whom I think benefit the most from the game though are Drax and Gamora because they're almost always sidelined both in-and-out of universe by most of the various writers (especially as of late) and in turn the viewers/readers. I've been told plenty of times that they're the most boring members of the "main" team, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY! The amount of love the game versions get (by the few who've played it at least) proves that 🥺

I've never really liked 616 Drax shifting to being a complete clown during the 90s and such (and even less so when the MCU followed along 💀) So I appreciate the game taking a bit of his seriousness from the DnA run and just making him struggle with nuance and context clues in a less exaggerated way (autistic Drax I still believe in u) and I feel the focus put on him and how losing his original family + the aftermath deeply affected him hits pretty hard here because it's treated very seriously and shown in depth, especially with how his family (wife) gets actual focus. I cannot tell you anything about Yvette in comparison to Hovat, who actually seemed to have had a personality lol (AND she was on their village's council like omg imagine having more to you than just being The Housewife) Though I will say I flip and flop on my thoughts about Heather being disconnected from Drax's life in this universe... The TLDR is that I think his arc here specifically works stronger when he has to come to terms with losing his entire family and accepting the life he currently has with the Guardians. BUT!!! I very much appreciate that Heather is still confirmed to exist within this universe, even if that means her dad issues would have to be dealt with in a different context if we ever get to see her.

Also? Shoutout to the writers actually bringing up the intense paranoia that always kneecapped 616 Drax but having that be a turning point in his backstory here, with that conversation he has with Peter where he talks about how he was becoming so paranoid of everyone being a chitauri/Thanos conspirator to the point of literally turning into an obsessed maniac like Thanos, and realizing that he desperately needed to turn his life around, it's so ough.

Out of the already many great conversations throughout the game, I think the ones with him are the most poignant. My favorite scene in the whole game is Drax and Pete's little moment on Knowhere... makes me go wahhh

(l also love that out of everyone on the team, it's his headspace that we quite literally get to go into. You KNOW that if this was any other media it'd be going into Rocket or Groot's head and likely treated as a joke.)

And oh my god, Gamora...

I find it so extremely refreshing that her role in the plot doesn't revolve purely around the men in her life, and instead, it's nearly exclusively her connection with other women. Or in the most direct obstacle she has to deal with, being how she starts projecting to the millionth degree on Nikki's situation for reminding her of what happened to her and Nebula. I find that infinitely more fascinating as a reading of her character rather than just dating drama or her arc getting completely overtaken by a man's instead.

And especially in her friendship with Mantis, who, despite having all these futures she's constantly seeing and having to navigate, still makes time to do her best to help her 🥺 From saving her life and being the one who put her on the path to healing on Lamentis, to getting her to join the Guardians and still checking in on her when she's able 😭 Friendship between women can be so powerful... u love to see it (🏳️‍🌈)

I also find it nice that there's this emphasis on her recovering mentally, and the comparison between Thanos essentially teaching her to just Deal with the shit in her life through very simplistic meditation versus the priests of Pama actually teaching her something to help soothe the mind :^( and that she still has moments of relapsing essentially. I find that to be a realistic take on recovery because that's just part of the journey since healing is not linear... and I think it's very sweet that she finds comfort in collecting something ---girly--- like dolls. Love to see a person reclaim a part of their childhood that they weren't allowed to experience. And how she's allowed to make BAD JOKES?? Imagine a woman being written to have multiple dimensions, crazy and absolutely unthinkable, I know.

There's this extremely specific theme in relation to Gamora across media that's been rattling around in my brain since first playing the game. When near the end during the revisit to Knowhere, she's about to completely lose it when Peter tries talking -for- her on what she's so upset about before immediately shooting him down, and she explains what happened between her and Nebula and she starts crying. It really struck me right then that she's never given a moment to cry elsewhere (or in the 616's case, the quite literal inability to.) aside from her shedding a Single Manly Tear (Original Sin) or a single moment out of legit fear (MCU 💀) because she's a hashtag Strong Independant Woman who can't be vulnerable etc etc. But for her to cry in front of the people she's come to care about, It gives her a moment of true vulnerability that I don't think she's allowed ever in most other media.

That and all of the above hits hard and is what makes me genuinely believe that the writers cared about her in the narrative and tried to do right by her when every other bit of media really hasn't nor cared to the majority of the time since the 90s :'^/ Brings a tear to my eye that she's allowed to just... exist in the narrative on her own merits and not on what she can provide to someone else's story.

#lex thoughts #gotg thoughts #universe: eidos game #gotg2008 #sorry for asking for a question then immediately disappearing for a month 💔 I'm on the most stressful roadtrip ever #i 🫶 you for asking about them though the Eidos gotg are my everything and i won't shut up about them if given the chance #very funny to me that all these important moments happen on Knowhere. Strange things can happen at the end of the universe.#The end page of W&tIW 09 is the only other Gamora moment of vulnerability across media that i can specifically pinpoint #But it's more self reflection in a way of a heavily traumatic experience that I don't feel ever truly got resolved within the 616 IMO #And I find it a specific point to be made when Gamora is/isn't allowed to feel or literally denied things that are stereotypically-#-categorized as -feminine- (which is dumb to assign gender roles to a simple human emotion such as CRYING.-#-But you get what I mean I hope) We play fast and loose with gender around here pardner I think all of the gotg should cry more #but in Gamora's case specifically it Hits Different knowing her past and treatment throughout media #i could also heavily go into the way the game adapts Peter's character in relation to his element guns but that's an essay for another time #just because -i- find that extremely fascinating doesn't mean i think he should particularly be the main focus (and he isnt)#bc pete rocket and groot are the ones that already get all the attention (even if i dont agree with how they're written elsewhere)#i just find it more engaging for the other two main characters of the team that always get sidelined by the writers actually being put in-#-the spotlight with equal attention given to them for once to be sooo -shakes fist #sorry for the intense word salad i hope i make sense lol ESSAY/RANT OVER .🤐

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