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Y'all's obsession with "shipping rotting people's brains" has actually rotten y'all's brains to the point that you pretend not to or fail to recognize the most basic romantic tropes and hints in the fiction you consume
Antis be like "WE JUST WANT TO REMOVE P3DOPHILIC CONTENT FROM AO3!!!!" then proceed to call a ship composed of an 18 and a 20 year old played by 25+ year olds 'p3dophilia'
"colonizer romance" "abuse apologia" "normalization of toxicity" "why don't you ship this Wholesome Healthy pairing instead" "glorification of villainy" "fetishization of-" how about you shut the fuck up
No but seriously the contradiction between gen z's alleged progressivism and their prudish stances on sex needs to be studied I am not exaggerating or kidding
//self-harm
The fact that there are teenagers on here who think engaging in self-harm, cutting, eating disorders & physically abusing yourself are healthier than engaging with or escaping through taboo fictional art and literature shows the current state of things pretty clearly
Shippers will write metas upon metas detailing every aspect of a ship from mythical allusions to storytelling/screenwriting/production techniques to psychoanalytical dissertations & y'all keep babbling about us Not Engaging Meaningfully With Media 😭 Like please sit the heck down
Y'know, that "You shouldn't make enemies-to-lovers a template for your irl relationships!" tweet strengthened my view that many people, especially on stan twt, have a very literalistic 1:1 view of fiction, missing the point that's it's supposed to exaggerate & enhance & up stakes
Y'all bitches be like "enemies-to-lovers only works when they're on equal footing & he is pathetically in love with her but she's feral & kicks his ass & defeats him multiple times" then we refer you to Reylo or Zutara or something & y'all flip your shit like "NO NOT LIKE THAT"
Twitter be like "I'm so tired of living atonement redemption arcs with enemies-to-lovers romance 🙄" and I'm like BITCH WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THAT MANY I'M FUCKING STARVING OVER HERE
There is something astounding with men saying no male character in Rings Of Power is likable. Like, Arondir is romantic & caring. Elrond is friendly & politically savvy. Celebrimbor is bright-eyed ambitious entrepreneurship. Durin holds grudge but cares deeply. I liked them all?!
My problem with "I like enemies-to-lovers just not when it's oppressor-oppressed" is that y'all slap that label into the most vanilla, evenly powered pairings (often because it competes with your preferred ship) and I am TIRED
"But there is bigotry in fandom!" there is bigotry in fandom against which you'd be fighting much more efficiently if you didn't waste time telling people to off themselves for shipping a pairing you find icky
Avatar The Last Airbender writers sharing Zutara fanart without mocking them and saying its shippers will never have a healthy relationship????? They're actually appreciating us?????? This is more healing than it should be 😭
[THE RINGS OF POWER SPOILERS]
Sauron: My foolest brother, you said she was "nothing"?!?!
Kylo Ren: "But not to me"!!! I said "But not to me"!!!
Sauron: Well, I told her she was a being of greatness & light ☺️
Kylo: Did she join you?
Sauron: Now listen here you little shit
I want to be transported to this alternate reality of y'all's in which sex scenes are everywhere in fiction and almost every villain gets a redemption arc
Every person in fandom and nerd spaces should stand with WGA. First, because that's the right & humane thing to do. But also because so many problems that plague our fav shows & their quality (like early cancelations) intertwine with the exploitation of writers' labour.
"I've suffered years of Reylo fanfiction-"
You didn't suffer shit. No one ever pointed a gun to you & forced you to read Reylo fic
"But they became novels-"
You still didn't suffer shit. Still ain't nobody forcing you to read them.
"But film-"
Still not forced to watch it
"Content creators should stay in their own niche" First of all I'm an artist not a "content creator" and have you absolutely never talked to an artist before 'cause if you had you'd know it's a terrible idea to try and dictate to us what art we can or cannot make
WOMEN OF COLOUR IN METAL MUSIC: A VERY NECESSARY THREAD
Greetings, metalheads! Despite rock's distinctive black roots, metal is sadly mostly remembered for white guys. But they ain't the only ones in the scene so I shall show you some WOC kicking ass! Hop on this ride with me 🤘
Even if you stripped out the transphobia from r’adfemism (you can’t; it’s inherently hostile to trans people) y’all still be saying I deserve abuse for feeling attracted to men & that I’m in the same category as literal rapists for reading erotica, so no, I don’t fuck with y’all
With PRIDE month a lot of radfems are coming out of the woodwork to say "No, only the trans exclusionary part of radfeminism is bad" but it goes way beyond that. Not to mention trans exclusionary radfems pretend to be trans inclusive all the time
Examples below🧵👇🏽
"So you don't care about Rey?!"
Well, if she's gonna be a virgin white clothed, wearing 3 buns supposed to make her recognizable to her deadbeat parents, "saber earning" groveling WalkerSky ass-kisser telling another generation that family & romance are bad, no I fucking don't
Wasn't there also a moment when Amber was leaving the stand, he got nearer her, she flinched, and he straight up giggled. Where were all the ~body language experts then
I don’t know which teenager unfamiliar with basic fandom etiquette needs to hear it but fanfiction isn’t “open to criticism”. Didn’t like it? Stop reading. Scroll past. Close the tab. Move on. At most subtweet a rant. You do NOT put authors on blast to mock & humiliate them.
Broke not only my love for this franchise but also my general trust in storytelling in an almost completely irreversible way. Still haven't healed, unsure I ever will. Truly dreadful in a truly astonishing way.
ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMANCE IS ACTUALLY GOOD ROMAN
Something that kids get but adult directors & fans don't:
Kylo is NOT the same archetype as Vader. Anakin is a dragon to be slain (Luke not killing him was a subversion) & (archetypically) an old man sacrificing for his son. Ben is beast-prince & prodigal son that must go home.
No but "I don't like being represented as-" lemme stop you right there buddy rep isn't about YOU specifically YOURSELF as an individual it's about different people, even marginalized ones, getting to tell their stories & us having a wide variety of characters with which to relate
"Star Wars is a worse version of Dune"
"Wheel Of Time references Lord Of The Rings and borrows from Dune"
"George R. R. Martin borrowed the Game of Houses in Wheel Of Time for Game Of Thrones"
"Oh my gods I can't believe there's dark romance books that fantasize/fetishize/romantacise X or Y" my sibling in Santa what do you think the 'dark' is about?! That the characters are goth and wear black?!
Fuck Disney Lucasfilm, fuck Pablo Hidalgo, but fuck also the Star Wars fandom for laughing along with DLF employees shitting on marginalised fans for years & only now getting worked up because a cishet white guy received shit too (& very mild shit compared to what other fans get)
Seeing people getting clout for saying "Ben Solo should've had a living atonement arc", "The Holdo maneuver was cool", "Rey should've remained a Nobody", etc:
Antis in 2016: You wouldn't be shipping Reylo if one or both weren't white 😡
Antis in 2022: Unbelievable and outrageous that y'all are shipping Shunamori 😡
Going viral is funny because you say something as bland as "shipping fictional characters is normal" & suddenly you're heteronormative & heterosexist & anti-asexual & anti-aromantic & get replies like "But my parents kept shipping me with any classmate of another gender" & ???
With takes like this being so popular you’d think we were in an era of romance oversaturation but literally what thing EVER ends up as a love story these days
I still can't believe "They sold you to protect you" was a real line in a real movie. It feels like a false memory that was imprinted, like a phrase created specifically to mock it, like a fever dream, but no, it's a real, unironic line written by professional screenwriters 🥴😫
Hey @ Heartstopper fans
Here's a message from one of your own:
However much Alice Oseman babbles about "fetishistic boys love", there would be no Heartstopper without the ground covered & paved beforehand by the filthy fetishistic asian BL y'all hate so much.
Peace out.
I also find it so funny when people go like "reading romance novels gives women unrealistic ideas about dating!!!!!" because it always seems to be like the unrealistic desire in question is "men actually like us"
Will never understand how "the deed split your spirit to the bone" and Ben not killing Leia when he could've and Ben on his knees with teary puppy eyes holding his father's dice made so many people think "Kylo Ren is irredeemable, no light left in him, totes the Big Bad"
The posts "enemies-to-lovers only works when gay" and "ETL only works when it's a misunderstanding at a grocery store not attempted murder" have caused irreparable damage to society and those who made and shared them must pay for their crimes
Y'know, it's not even like I don't have criticisms of romance as a literary genre, but the moment I see it dismissed as inferior, or pointed as the one to blame for women getting in abusive relationships, or its fans as silly girls, I go feral
I legit cannot believe there are Haladriels who are Reylo antis. Like, anti-ism killed so many of geekdom brain cells that they literally think Kylo Ren is worse than freaking Sauron. Ben Solo, who's a freaking puppy next to the shit Sauron did. Y'all are hilarious.
I think a thing people defending Dave Filoni's request (that we don't get so "caught up" in Ahsoka Tano's "I am no Jedi") aren't getting is... It's not only that phrase. It's DLF's current tendency of deifying the Jedi Order despite *everything* Star Wars has told about them. 🧵
Also here's a little heads-up to middle aged men:
Willow was never EVER targeted at you. George Lucas made the original film for this child daughters, so no, the series was never supposed to give your alleged nostalgia a handie ✌🏼
There's a big difference between "I hated 'Rey Skywalker' because it heals no wound neither for Skywalkers nor for Rey, it's cheap nostalgia, & makes no sense with the previous movie" & "I hated Rey Skywalker because she's a woman" & I wish people stopped acting like there isn't
Amazing how Zuko is a king, a baby boy, the gr9est redemption arc of all time, the One And Only Good Redemption Arc for stan twt, until the moment he's shipped with Katara – then suddenly he's a villainous colonizer genocidal maniac
Ben Solo is Space Zuko and the difference between them is that Zuko got to live to atone - WHICH IS WHAT MADE HIS REDEMPTION SO COMPELLING IN THE FIRST PLACE
Hot take:
Had TFM et al not grown up on the original trilogy and those films been released today, they'd hate Leia as much as they hate Rey, and they'd hate Carrie Fisher almost as much as they hate Brie Larson