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mimi-0007 · 1 year

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The Kings🖤🖤🖤🖤

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ourdreamsareneon · 1 month

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you know at mikoshi when you take your body back and v says "you're not even gonna fight?" to johnny? yeah that's my roman empire. whenever v's voice breaks ESPECIALLY MALE V I'm sobbing I'm in tears

#dont even talk to me about the tower ending #from the train to the credits i black out #'detecting strong emotions' yeah doc shut the fuck up my boyfriend and father figure is talking #cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #cp77 #johnny silverhand

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cookiesandlynx · 1 year

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A list of characters who would be better parents for Butters Stotch than his actual parents

PC Principal and Strong Woman

Father Maxi

Randy (Before Tegrity) Sharon Marsh

Gerald and Sheila Broflovski

Steve and Linda Black

Chef

Jimbo and Ned

#south park #leopold butters stotch #butters stotch #linda stotch #stephen stotch #pc principal #Vice Principal strong Woman #strong woman #Father Maxi #randy marsh #sharon marsh #gerald broflovski #sheila broflovski #Steve Black #linda black #chef south park #jimbo kern #ned gerblansky

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kyros-tha-soldier · 6 months

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Oda: *presents another DILF character with a gut wrenching backstory, fatherly warmth, burdened with emotional trauma and mentally conflicted with the fattest male tits you can ever imagine*

Oda: do you like him?

OP fans: y-yes, we do!

Oda: Well too bad... I AM ABOUT TO MAKE HIM SUFFER

#Oda: *creates Kinemon Kyros Kuma King and Corazon*#Also Oda: *gives them the most fucked up stories*#Well #Some of those cited may not have 100% criterias but hey... At least King may have helped raise Yamato #And kinemon was acting really fatherly towards momo in punk Hazard #Oda might be self inserting as hot buff awkward but strong DILF characters #So far he's made three dudes with curly black hair; tan skin; unique looking jaw/goatee; two of them are stronk af and all three-#Are fathers to three btfl girls #It's not much that he did this for three characters but it's too odd that he did it three times 🤔#Bartholomew Kuma #kinemon #Kyros one piece #King one piece #Alber one piece #Corazon #donquixote rocinante

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derangedthots · 8 months

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rewatching hotd clips for inspo and it still drives me insane how whole conversations were happening in the glances btwn jace and daemon on dragonstone. like!! definitely across the painted table when nyra was in labor but the dragonmont especially!!

daemon asking ser lorent+steffon abt whether they acknowledge the true line of succession(him feeling out where their loyalties lie), jace sending him a look when they answer in the affirmative(as if to say "see, they're loyal, this isn't necessary"), but daemon still holds his frown like "hm, maybe, but let us leave no doubt" before leading the conversation to his true goal(steffon+lorent verbally recognizing rhaenyra as queen) and summoning caraxes to quell any remaining doubts the kind of violence daemon has in store for ppl who hurt his family.

also honorable mention for jace shuffling and visibly swallowing but maintaining face, never looking away, when daemon makes them reaffirm their oaths upon pain of caraxes - a moment which i read less of him being afraid of daemon's dragon(even tho this is the blood wyrm™ we're talking abt) but more of as his own acknowledgement of the lesson his stepfather is trying to teach him: viserys, daemon's own brother and jace's grandsire, should've had his vassals recommitting their oaths to his named heir(rhaenyra) in the long years of his reign, but he didn't. with him dead and succession 'unclear', daemon will not suffer that mistake and neither should jace. there can be no room for doubt, for division, with war looming on the horizon.

daemon reestablishes the hierarchy here and teaches jace the kinds of measures he'll have to take as rhaenyra's heir. daemon might be putting on a show of intimidation - i.e. threatening - steffon and lorent but he's not threatening jace.

he's guiding him.

and jace accepts it.

babes!! i'm insane! i'm insane abt this!! the intimacy and experience it takes to be able to communicate with someone else over a distance and IN SILENCE the way daemon and jace do here!! the blacks are a family period end of fucking sentence.

#hotd #the blacks #daemon targaryen #jacaerys velaryon #are they a perfect family unit? no bc they have their own strong opinions. will their trust eventually fracture? yes but still!!#the brainrot is strong abt how loyalties run in the blacks #daemon being an imperfect father and husband but still doing what he can to protect and defend his family!!#jace learning from his examples even if he doesn't reenact them in entirety bc he still has his own disagreements!!#the familial interplay!!#hotd meta #this is me throwing flowers at matt and harry bc god the microexpression were microexpressioning this whole episode

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ride-thedragon · 2 days

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Nettles and Race.

George is great at both analysing and subverting genre tropes. We see this with his portrayal of the Targaryens as bad white blonde powerful elf like people. Or his understanding consistently in his works that beauty doesn't equal morality. This is surface level, and he does have his shortcomings (how he portrays the Dothraki in a lot of aspects, etc) but I find it really interesting the amount of tropes and conventions he addresses and subverts with Nettles specifically in such a short span of the book. George uses specific racial imagery with Nettles that we don't see often from him, in short. Here's a list:

Implementation and Subversion

1. The most unlikely is, the most unlikely:

Oftentimes, in fantasy stories, the least likely is a white disenfranchised person. The majority of the time, it's because they are poor or treated poorly. Nettles is a black girl who is poor, orphaned, and marked for thieving, and none of that hinders her own feat of claiming a dragon or the accepting initially that she does. She's unlikely, extremely unlikely, the most unlikely choice.

2. Black girls are allowed to feel:

Nettles cries and grieves. Of all the dragonseeds, she's the only one positioned to feel remorse and loss after the Battle of Driftmark. She is foul-mouthed (though not written into the narrative) and fearless. Often times their is a need for black women to be strong (not have access to their emotions) or angry (the only emotion they're allowed because they're "loud"). Nettles is crass and sensitive. She's multifaceted.

3. White people don't center black narratives:

Typically, black characters in fantasy are centred around white protagonists. Nettles distinctly isn't when you focus on her. This is different from being impacted. To be impacted means you're a part of the plot. To have someone be centred in your narrative would be for your existence in the narrative to entirely depend on your relationship with them. You don't exist outside of them. Nettles does. She has an entire life up until she claims Sheepstealer without any intervention from the Targs, and after she leaves the main narrative of Fire and Blood, she has a life. This is even in a Targaryen history book.

4. Black girls deserve to be protected and loved:

Nettles is protected by the men around her in the narrative. Oftentimes, this is something not afforded to black characters, far less for black women in fantasy narratives, but she is protected. Not just by Daemon, who is someone who has extreme emotional stakes with her but by the men of Maidenpool and Lord Corlys. All of whom are white in the books. Nettles is protected by men unquestioningly. They may decide how to do it or have a bigger motive, but protecting her is never a question.

5. Promiscuity questioned:

Nettles is never shown to be a promiscuous character through an unbiased lens. Every time a person brings up Nettles' sex, it's through the lens of necessity or heavily implied to be a dramatic assumption. The two biggest cases, "her raising her skirts for sheep" by Septon Eustace is counteracted by the fact that she's marked as a thief and claims a dragon called Sheepstealer who she's likened to in the narrative and by Rhaenyra who is disproven from her "she seduced the prince with spells" theory by both the men of Maidenpool who don't believe her and Daemon who let's Nettles go. Anytime her promiscuity is presented, it's immediately questioned by who we are told she is.

6. White women tears:

Historically and in fiction, the tears of a white woman are enough to derail any existence of a black character permanently or are at least meant to. Black people, fictional or real, are consistently tormented with the notion of white woman tears or emotional outbursts. Their actions cause a major consequence with white women. With Rhaenyra, this would be Nettle slowing her head for her suspicions. Nettles does not and gets away from. The narrative. This is unheard of. In fantasy doesn't occur because most times, the black woman would be punished, but in fandom, this idea is also reflected in the call for Nettles to be replaced.

7. Relationship with the lead man:

Daemon, for better or worse, is the lead man of the dance. Nettles finds herself attached to him in a relationship that seems, for lack of a better word loving. They seem comfortable, happy, and he's doting towards her. They spend all their time together, and it's paralleled with his other 'living' relationships as well. She's portrayed as his last great love and in the universe, the singers say as much. Issues aside, this is rare. (Martha Jones, I'm sorry I wasn't your writer)

8. Power and Worship:

Nettles is worshipped and seems to become a Goddess in her own right at the end of her narrative departure. Nettles is viewed as a deity because of the power she claimed by herself. Revolutionary. Also it isn't some blink and you can avoid it thing. It ties into the main story of Game of Thrones and her clan, the Burned men helping Tyrion Lannister.

9. Mammy, Sapphire Jezabel ext:

Mammy: Maternal black woman. Lives to serve white people and nothing else.

Sapphire: Rude, loud, stubborn, malicious, 'dumb' black women, nothing else.

Jezabel: raw, sexual, can barely restrain their sexuality and live to tempt (white) men. Nothing else.

Not once does Nettles tie into any of these tropes without it being questioned in the narrative or simply ignored in her story. So many representations of black women, especially in fantasy, fall into the first two or friend not lover trope, help mate trope, etc. anything that justifies their existence by tying them to white characters with no other outlook. Nettles subverts this.

10. Season of the Witch:

Black witches and their history save me. Black witches and their history save. This aligns itself with African spiritually and the otherness assigned to enslaved women who practised both 'witchcraft' and medicinal herbology for lack of a better word.

Witchcraft is also often tied to the imagery of the irresistible black woman as it's almost inhuman to be that attracted to black women when white women are available.

So when it's said that Nettles is a witch, imagery similar to the justifications of white women during slavery are being invoked but not followed through because no one believes her.

11. Disposable Black Love interest

This is also a big issue across genres with black chapters. It happens with Laena in the show as well. When the plot calls for it (or in a lot of cases fans) you dispose of the black love interest in place of a white one. Nettles removal from the narrative immediately calls for both Daemon's and Aemond's removal from the narrative. She isn't disposable. She's a linchpin. Also, Daemon does not go back to Rhaenyra after Nettles leaves. He just dies.

12. Nothing Special:

Magical black negros that helps the protagonist, welcome to your tape.

The magical black negros trope is this convention within fantasy where a black character will appear only to be an aid to a white character by their use of magic. They don't exist or have a life outside this purpose. Nettles could've fallen into this trap.

The idea that she isn't Valyrian could have easily been tied with the spells angle outside Rhaenyra’s bias. Instead of that, however, we get the idea that Nettles is just smart and interesting. She's allowed to be smart and interesting. The narrative defends her being smart and interesting.

She might not be Valyrian. She might not be a witch or seductress. She might be just a really clever girl who defies the odds and conventions.

Conclusion

I think Nettles was both an active effort on George's part to defy conventions and subevert stereotypes and tropes as well as a way to question his reader's bias. Nettles is often reduced to trivial, replaceable, and minor when she's not. You just have to want to pay attention to her.

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hauntingblue · 1 month

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Try not to make fights between two women look homoerotic challenge level impossible

#if franky isnt good with swords why does he have a sword on his mecha 💀 just for the shogun bit #inu inu fruit??? he is just like inuyasha... omg.... crossover of my favourite things.... yamato i love you.....#yamato eating the protector deity of wano fruit.... calling himself oden.... his father must be fuming he is the antithesis of his person #obv its very much on purposes but lmao rip bozo (kaido) you didnt think much about that one.... maybe the deity of wano wants its people to #be free and not slaves of a weapons industry idk....#not olvia omg... and saul.... and clover... they changed little robin's name.... and her mom's voice is the same as hers lmao it's too much #robin said this is way too nice.... can't be real #once again thinking about robin holding her mothers hand..... and becoming an archeologist to make her proud.... the hands....#but now it's not about her mom now its about her friends.... also her childish heart omg.... truly #talking tag #watching one piece #episode 1042 #robin defending sanji's honor akdjsks #robin that was so slay... take care tho.... ily.... until next time #luffy on the floor passed out having a tantrum about food. incredible #fucking caribou again.... DIEEE!!!!#MOMO FLY AGAIN!!!! GET OVER YOUR FEAR OF HEIGHTS #also yesterday i was showering and thinking about like dying like this cant be right... i am on thay level....#episode 1043 #'i am not soft on women' oh yeah i bet...#see how good armor haki would have been here..... i have been saying this #robin's face..... strongest element in all of one piece.....#robin wanting to become strong for someone else.... just like nami.....#OHHHH SHIT!!!!!!! she said i wanna be with my friends 😁 -> 😈#that was so cool. also black maria is DEAD. that was a CLUTCH WWE STYLE. DAMN. robin getting there by thinking about his friends :)))#what love and human connection do to a mf (positively)#OH SHINOBU'S ABILITY.... MOMO..... OMG #episode 1044 #robin ily that was so cool. call me any time btw.

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vertigoartgore · 7 months

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Return of the Jedi BTS still with Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker.

#Star Wars #luke skywalker #mark Hamill #back in black #glove #jedi master #legend #the return of the Jedi #emperor #son vs. father #darth vader #1983 #Skywalker saga #original trilogy #George Lucas #the force is strong with this one

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question-mark-umbrella · 7 months

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So just shut the fuck up then?? Stop ranting on Twitter and going on GMB for arguments and just write scripts you sad cunt, it's not that difficult to just. get over it

#father ted #the it crowd #black books #big train #the day today #brass eye #the fast show #count arthur strong

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guhhhhhhhhhhh · 4 days

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I have to put fresh sheets on my bed and make it but I've just been sitting on my bare mattress for the last 20 mins ranting to myself about this damn show

#again rewatching this with a developed adult brain is CRAZY #and I'm catching so many things I didn't notice before #and it's making everything feel even more !!! than the first time I watched the show #like!!!!like!!! somehow I never caught onto how such a strong part of flint's grief comes from the fact that he didn't try and rescue Thomas #and how his actions led to all of this happening in the first place #he could have sided against Thomas with his father. and they never would've had any of the mess that came with angering Dad #but that just wasn't possible to him anymore #because of what he felt for Thomas he had to defend his ideals. the ones they shared #and after all that. KNOWING that HE was partly responsible for what happened to Thomas!! just how painful it is that he walked away.#and fled to Nassau. and didn't do anything to try and help Thomas #like!!! the GUILT that must cause!!! the ANGUISH!!! no WONDER he's Like That Jesus Christ #and like!!! oh my GOD Toby Stephen's acting is outstanding in this #the way you could feel the palpable shift right after flint hugs Miranda. while Ashe is telling them how he can wisk them away to someplace #else in Europe. and james steps back!! you could see it in his EYES that that is the moment when Captain Flint starts to form #and you can hear it in his voice. the barely perceptible shift. that he reached his breaking point #also I completely forgot about the surprise Vane attack at the end of that episode and I nearly screamed #black sails #ALSO!!!!!! going through all of this with the knowledge that Miranda dies T^T and that Thomas is actually alive and they get reunited #is tearing my soul apart I think #these sheets may not be going on my bed tonight.....

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wikagirl · 10 months

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I finished the less important side characters. Just wanted to draw them so I had a visual ref for when I write them.

From left to right we have:

Nicolle, Gabriellas aunt and thus her fathers younger sister. She's the middle child and as you might be able to tell from her outfit, a professional ice skater. The glitter on her dress is supposed to represent a rising phoenix, a metaphor for being "reborn" after having to drop out of skating for a while due to overexhaustion and burn out and coming back better than ever. Her career is her life, she will not talk about anything else ever. Her sister does her hair for her.

In the middle we have Alexandra, the youngest sister to Nicolle and Gabriellas father. She does heavy wheight lifting, owns a sports clothing brand and organizes sports programms to teach people that sport can be fun without needing to be competitive or for wheightloss purposes. Also graphic eyeliner is a must and her outfit is inspired by 4-time olympic gold winner Serena Williams' adorable poofy tennis outfits. Sports wear can be cute and practical. For her physique I references Emily Campbell, britains first ever medal winning womens olympic wheightlifting candidate

And last we have Waylen. Waylen is an adrenaline junkie and a member of the Hale pharma private military. He has a whole arsenal of prosthetics for different pruposes and yes those are mantis blades from cyberpunk and the prosthetic legs are inspired by that one lady from the first kingsman. He went through so many body modificatiosn that the constant switching out of parts, medications post surgeries and his overall very low self preservation instincts took a bit of a toll on his body so now he has to permanently wear the bottom part of his airfilter mask or else he will literally suffocate. All the foods he consumes must be liquid and snorkeled in through a straw and a little hatch at the front of his mask. Thanks to the previously mentioned issues he has a almost non existant feeling of hunger, meaning that he often only realizes he should eat when it's allready to late and he tips over sideways. Depending on how much coffee he has in his system he can be a representaion of every song in the misery/cpr/reeses puffs mix. The only reason for why he hasn't been kicked out of the military and sent to early retirement yet is because he's good for the morale and knows what he's doing as long as he's in a team, on his own he suddenly looses all those braincells and turns into a "stealth is optional? nice *explosions*" type bingus.

#myart #ocs #I used to hate sports growing up because in school everything was competitive #and outside of school everything seemed to be with the sole purpose of loosing wheight #in fact you can be quite active in sports and still not loose a pound simply because muscle is heavier than fat #and also because diet plays more into wheightloss than training #so to everyone who keeps calling people who don't look “normal” (notice the “”) lazy and unhealthy: plz shut the fuck up and die <3 #you know absolutely nothing about the people you're looking at. their body their choice and now do me the favour and fall off a cliff #I'm really sick and tired of people trying to police other peoples bodies AND FEELINGS ABOUT THEIR BODIES under the guise of care #as you might be able to tell I didn't put as much work into these as the others since they are only side characters #that will only pop up once or twice #also since gigi is as ashy and pasty as the rind of a parmesan cheese and her aunties are significantly darker you can probably guess #she is mixed with her mom being what would be asian on planet earth and her dad is mixed black and something secret #and with something secret I mean this is still a work in progress #he'll be the bestest of best dads none of that toxic father figure bs in my house #he is inspired by christopher judge who was literally one of my childhood heroes in his role as teal'c in stargate btw #visually and personality wise I mean #a strong but still kind and caring for those he holds dear. maybe a bit odd to outsiders :3 #tw eating issues #tw ed #kinda #bc of waylens digestive situation?#side characters

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mimi-0007 · 2 years

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , mom Cora Lillian and Dad Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr.

#kareem abdul jabbar #black tumblr #black literature #civil rights #black excellence #muslim #black community #black archives #nba player #black culture #strong black fathers #black family

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medusas-daughter · 2 years

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Tfw you know you shouldn't do something but it's just so damn satisfying. When I tell you I hollared at my screen, yes Breakbones yesss

#house of the dragon #Sir Crispin #sir harwin strong #harwin breakbones strong #queen rhaenyra #team black #a song of ice and fire #if anyone mentions the end of the episode to me I will kill myself let me enjoy the little time I had with the father of my children

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realjaysumlin · 5 months

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I live my life the way I see it and for my own benefit regardless of what other people think. I never follow the narrative of others especially those who don't consider themselves as a Black person.

I didn't invent race based on skin colors, this was done by men who didn't know anything about modern science. I have been an atheist for over 40 years and I am never going to change.

I focus on Black solidarity and I don't give a hoot if you don't like it because my beliefs are mine alone and no one speaks for me.

Black on Black Love is what I promote and will continue to advocate because it's time for Black People to define themselves and no one else has this right but Black Indigenous People, who are capable of telling the world who we all are as humans and if you don't like it, I advise you to take your issues with the sun.

#black love #black positivity #black africans #black history #science #evolution #science side of tumblr #atheism #african atheism #jay Sumlin #black indigenous people #strong straight black men #black fathers #black solidarity

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winepresswrath · 1 year

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Neither Team Green or Team Black but a secret third thing Team Aemond. You would think that makes me Team Green but no I just want my boy to have everything and RISE. The amazing family dinner speech! Physically dragging his loser brother to be crowned! The sick ass sapphire eye! The supervillain cackling during the chase! The horror and regret when his nephew does in fact die about it and he realizes he didn't actually want this too late, but no one will ever believe him. Aemond4King

I support you but 100% but I'm currently preoccupied with hoping his mom takes his sister captive at some point and then they have sex about it and he's complicated that scenario for me in ways I'm not yet sure I think are hot.

#there are simply too many charismatic maniacs on this show and also I'm in love with #princess rhaenys #and her husband #not entirely sure if they count as maniacs but probably #my dance card is very full and he arrived late to the ball #I DO like him though way to bully your fourteen year old nephew to death and then be like oh no. i made a mistake 🥺#and I liked Luke! I've seen people complain that he's simply mini-jace but I don't think that's fair #he's got a desperate streak to him #he doesn't want to be here but if you pick up a rock he'll pick up a knife #and he gets his wish he doesn't inherit because his loved ones outlive him! yay?#honestly despite not being maniacs the baby blacks are very charming to me especially in the context of their family #very normal boys being like this is my stepfather he's also my uncle and father in law. sometimes he beheads people for insulting mommy #like the irony of daemon and Rhaenyra raising their little cousinsib squad of bizzarly normal children who are delighted to all #marry each other is so potent #how the fuck did this happen #excited for their bio children to get lines so we can find out if it's somehow nurture #or valerians and strongs just have very strong normal genes #maybe valerians just raise normal children I think sir show feet proves strong genes are not necessarily normal

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athicfmoving · 1 year

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every time I think about what K.evin S.mith did with Felicia in TETMD and how he retconned her entire backstory I feel my blood boil

#s*xual assault tw #[ooc]#felicia was a character completely motivated by her own drive and goals #she wanted to be strong enough to bring her father home and after his death shifted her focus to living up to his legacy #but kevin smith completely erased that and made it to where she did everything because she got assaulted #he wrote it specifically from the perspective of she became the black cat out of anger and her inability to get past what happened to her #so he took this woman whose entire drive was based on her own agency and made it to where #everything she did was because of some horrible thing a man did to her years ago #where do I even begin to explain how fucked that was #especially the way they kept re-victimizing her in that comic????#like she needed to be assaulted to have a reason to do what she does and be a strong character???? lol WHAT???#like I feel nauseous just thinking about how much they kept lingering on that fucking plot point #a solid third of that comic was just them objectifying / s*xually victimizing felicia and it makes me fucking sick #no words can properly describe how much I hate it with every fiber of my being

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