I start to feel like "how you treat characters doesn't reflect your beliefs" is not as absolute as I thought. Yes, sure, if you like a villain it doesn't mean you'd condone war crimes they did in real life. But you know what kind of treatment of fictional characters DOES reflect the person's beliefs?

When they use the logic of "ugh you only seek nuance and analyze this male character because you want to simp, you don't have to woobify an awful person you know" @ "how can you seek nuance and analyze this objectively flawed female character, she is irredeemable??".

Basically, they are admitting that the only reason they'd give a thought to someone is if they have an interior and frankly shallow motive. They admit that they only treat someone as a human being if they either find them sexy or if they personally like them platonically and by result wish to perceive them as perfect. From my experience these people DO project this mentality on real people too, not just characters. They will forgive the one they personally like for every objectively horrible thing, like, absolutely awful shit just gets glossed over. And worse yet, they forgive them uncritically. They simplify them into one dimensional being that can do no wrong even if they did EVERYTHING wrong, even if they hurt innocent people, same as they do with the nuanced, flawed (usually female) character they reduced to flat portrayal just because they liked this character.

As usual, the best way to deal with is to ask it back at them. When they accuse you of having shallow interior motive for analyzing a fictional character like a human being, simply ask them, "Is this the only reason why YOU would analyze a character fairly?". There is always hope that the doubt will be triggered.. you may not see the results just yet, but one day it could come back at them.

But yes, please pay attention to how they treat characters, because when we are discussing the issue of analyzing those written BASED ON human beings, there is no way to really avoid giving out how they REALLY treat the human beings. If you found a person screeching at you for digging into nuance of """irredeemable""" character and accusing you of simping, you've found a love-blinded enabler of people they like and overly judgemental bully of people they don't like. This is the person that is most likely to cover up their bully stalker friend or their abuser groomer partner or what else. AND this is the person that at the same time will try to ruin your life over the most dumb mistake if you failed to meet their attraction standards, romantically or platonically.

My friend has one of these sitting on top of there fridge and for some reason thinks we have the kind of friendship where i wouldn't tase them?

babygirl help the narrative got me and it's keeping me as a chew toy

do you ever say words. and wish you had never learned to speak

he's just like me fr

i think i actually would like some pity today. lay some sympathetic disdain on my small and fickle feelings, my brothers

Replied to the wrong post on a mutual’s blog about them being shadow banned brb gonna go kill myself

@staff: "this transfem posted a transition timeline! this is clearly sick, disgusting, adult content!!! we must BAN her!!!"

also @staff:

"yeah this seems fine. post it!"

Checked Youtube to watch some cursed YTPs but it recommended me this video and I could not pass, and tbh.. It actually made me think of some things. Like, this is true, for some reason, recently too many stories are denying the drama and emotional maturity of accepting a "loss" of a fictional character. I assume it is to be blamed on corporative mindset of being 'consumer-friendly', and, well, making audience cry like bitches probably doesn't feel friendly enough for them.

But what it also made me think about is Melina's plotline (from Elden Ring)? I've been questioning why her sacrifice felt SO frustrating (accent on frustrating, not just dramatic) for me. It made perfect sense in the story, there was no way around it, she herself was willing to do it and made sure to undo Shabriri's gaslighting about it being on your hands somehow. And although 'death' is a very strong word for Soulsborne games, with her specifically it was indisputable death, without any timeline or astral projection weirdness, because she annihilated her soul. Like, I've been questioning why I just could not accept that this character dies (and if she doesn't it is the worst case scenario possible), and it felt not normal, but now looking at the state of Hollywood I wonder if I myself got slightly "spoiled", for lack of better word?

Character sacrificing themselves and staying dead became sorta anti-climatic? I already talked that the tastes and concepts corporations spread can effect people even if they do not actively observe their products, it is 'in the air' by just being online and socialising, of JUST being, the only way to truly be clean is to go hermit mode lol. And Miyazaki already took a piss at people that can't accept that something is over with the whole DS3 plot, so....

Yeah, in the end, the meaning of Melina dying for good goes over just its own well-written story, because currently those that provide the most popular media gone completely tootless to offer something of this emotional gravity in their stories. Though in my opinion, Hollywood and alike shot themselves in the leg with this, because by no longer doing anything as impactful as self-sacrifice, they've preemptively cancelled their stories and characters to be remembered for a longer time due to strong emotional impact alone 🤔

The amount of times I saw makeover shows growing up where they chopped off long hair and straightened curly hair with a mind-numbingly dull blow-out truly instilled in me a fervent hatred a huge part of the beauty industry. It's getting better, but getting complimented on my hair only when it is straightened is annoying.

everyone always talking about mpreg but what about jpreg. what about it

I am a middle school ELA/Study Skills teacher and on the last day of school I like to run an activity where each student gets a note card and writes down one topic that a) they are very interested in, b) thinks NO ONE would be interested in, or c) is just plain weird. I then shuffle them and assign them at random. The students then have 30 minutes to create a short slide show on their assigned topic. When 30 minutes are up, the slideshow is randomly assigned to a third student, who has 10 minutes to familiarize themselves with the material. Lastly, everyone has 2 minutes to present their gifted slideshows to the class. This year, we were blessed with lectures such as

Military Aviation Global Warming The History of Cannibalism in the US Ea-nassir: The First Karen Potato. Long Furbies and my personal favorite: Anime or Anigay?

Now, I really don't know much about anime, but I am confirmed anigay, so I felt pretty confident in my ability to follow along. I think I may have been overconfident. Here is the slideshow in its entirety for your edification.

just a funny pair of ears on a silly skinny little lad