well since today is apparently a RANT POST kind of day, im gonna type up some thoughts ive had on vanitas ive wanted to get out of my system (i dont like him)
i realize expending energy on smth negative doesnt help anyone, but its the sort of thing ive had eating at my brain, and im hoping writing it down will allow me to stop thinking about it so much lol (luv having ocd alongside being autistic)
i do not understand the love for vanitas. i really dont.
and im not talking about fans who like him bc hes edgy sora. theyre villain fuckers. i get that.
i mean i dont understand how many people legitimately think hes a sympathetic character with more depth than just, like, being an asshole.
and before anyone says anything, yes, i know the bbs novel goes into his backstory, and makes it really tragic.
but kh3 did absolutely no job whatsover of incorporating any of that into his scenes in the game. he just comes off as the same big asshole that caused nothing but pain and suffering for the wayfinder trio in bbs
like all of the members of the real organization had some sort of redeeming moment before they died again, except for him. to me it felt like he just flipped off ven and sora and went, ‘haha fuck you guys i LOVE being darkness and i LOVE being evil see yall fucking later’, even as sora was trying to reach out to him
(yes i realize theres smth involving the translation of this scene, but im just gonna go off the english dub rn)
and. it sounds really petty. and a sign i might take shipping too seriously.
but i keep thinking about this shit because tumblr keeps recommending an artist on here that draws so/vani + vani/ku + so/ri/vani
and i cannot wrap my mind around those ships at ALL
even besides vanitas having soras face, why in gods name would a pure, sweet, innocent boy like him want to date just. the biggest douchebag??
and riku??? the one desperately in love with sora???? THAT riku??? dating a boy who looks like sora but is the exact opposite of him in terms of personality???????
its like. doing a disservice to both of their characters to have them involved with him IMO. like why would they ever. theyre so much better than him. they DESERVE better.
again. i know its just shipping and i know ppl are having fun. i recognize theyre not hurting anyone. and they often make up aus specifically to fit their ships. but i just.
i do not get it, man. vanitas sucks.
(its worth mentioning i am bitter also bc i always see ppl call xion [my fav female character and like second or third fav character overall] the most pointless/shoehorned character in kh. and i just wanna be like. excuse me, have you SEEN vanitas???)
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I see the way some users brush aside Stranger Things' depictions of autism/openly decry it as less important/impactful than other forms of representation (or just miss the representation entirely because it doesn't fit their narrow definition of what autism is "supposed" to look like), and frankly it's...Egh.
Watching people say there's zero substance in a show that has So Much Substance for autists like me, who are represented quite thoughtfully and meaningfully...but in ways that people love to brush off or straight up ignore is, well, less than fun and painfully reminiscent of how we're treated in real life. We can acknowledge that a show is majorly lacking in its nuance in multiple areas while not discrediting the substance that means so much to other groups. We can multitask.
And I'm not going to express the full extent of my grievances here and now because a) it's not the time, and b) I know I'll get called sensitive (just like Will is sensitive, and Henry is sensitive, and--oh) if I talk too much about it anyway.
So really this post here is all I want to say about it right now.
But just know that I see it, and that like a video game narrator might say: James will remember this.
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PSA: If you post bsd x reader content that explicitly describes the reader as female (esp. smut) and you DON’T mark it as:
fem reader / fem!reader
f!reader
female reader
or anything like that
I AM STEALING YOUR FUCKING KNEECAPS
Pls god I’ve put every warning I can think of in the tag and content filters but some people just straight up don’t mention it and suddenly “breast” “princess” “girl” etc and I recoil into myself like a snail who just got its eyes poked.
(This goes for any x reader content tbh, I just mention bsd in particular because that’s where I’ve had the most issue.)
Remember: female is not the default!!
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The fastest way to make me bristle is by a non-USA person saying something like “I just learned that America is in it’s 7th stage of genocide from an optional course in my Canadian high school. And our education system is sooooo much better than America’s, don’t know if you learned about that. So let me explain it to you!”
Like… hon. Could you be any more condescending and out of touch with day to day American life? Your overwhelming vision of the USA might be a bunch of entitled, white, ignorant fucks, but that doesn’t make it so. BIPOC have known this shit. Queer people have known this shit. Working class people have known this shit. Disabled people have known this shit!
America is heavily manipulated by propaganda and political theater. Yes, our public systems like education and transit are severely controlled and underfunded. (Most importantly, they’re inequitably underfunded and controlled by region. Either because of regional poverty or regional political dominance.) Yes that has consequences. But it doesn’t mean everyone (or even a majority) is universally uneducated, salivating for individualism, and unaware of our predicament. And I’m not even gonna go into the impact of the internet on our ability to access knowledge and community (for better or for worse).
I saw a post on here awhile ago that said most foreign hot takes about the US boil down to an ignorance about how classism, racism, and corporate greed impact the very core of our existence. Y’all need to stop falling for American propaganda too.
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