Chernubs

sorry you are now required to write about fictional women in romantic relationships with other fictional women if you don't i'm taking one of your #problematic kings out back and putting him down like a dog. two of them if you complain i'm "making fandom a chore".

Samus getting banned on dating app after dating app for "being a fake account" because she's too awkward and nervous to ever message another woman and definitely couldn't be a real account for THE Samus Aran

I love how we as a fandom have collectively decided that Samus is basically space tony hawk

I love that as a fandom we've decided that Samus is absolutely fearless and ruthless in all thinks except plucking up the courage to talk to other women.

It's so important to me that Samus is a failgirl in the normal parts of her life. She has SO MUCH trauma and her alien family only taught her how to shoot guns and then she was an insubordinate soldier and then has her job as a mercenary keep turning into surprise superhero gigs and now is parts of multiple different other alien species. She CANNOT just walk into a bar and chat up a hottie. Zero percent chance. No charisma detected.

Samus absolutely does not know how to people. All she knows is shoot gun, eat parasite, and ball.

there are 4 entire alien languages whose word for "autism" is bastardized from Samus' name

was thinking about official playstation magazine raiden again (y'know. dig these child-bearing hips raiden) and how those ppl were simultaneously so disgusted by raiden and so horny for him and it led me to thinking about modern fandom (specifically the tumblr/AO3 portion cause that's a lot of what I interact with) and I was thinking about characters like raiden and cloud ff7 and shinji neongenesisevangelion (to name a few prominent examples but these aren't the only ones of course) and how fucked up it is that so many people in online fandom look at these characters who are vaguely effeminate and generally feel deeply alienated from masculinity, the main thing they do that's like. traditionally masculine is either a persona they put on or something they've been forced into or both, and it makes them miserable - for this kind of character it also often leaves them vulnerable to grooming - and this alienation and failure to properly perform the masculinity that's expected of them is frequently noted both by other characters within the text and by audiences outside of it reacting to them homophobically/transmisogynistically, and these online fandom people will look at these characters and be like "omg trans man spotted!" it's like. a degree or two separated from how fucked up it is when people headcanon characters like chihiro danganronpa or gwyndolin dark souls, who are obviously trans women but written in canon as fetishized disposable femboys, as transmasc, but like. only a degree or two

*person who hates and ignores trans women noticing unmistakable trans woman coding on a character* getting some real tboy vibes from this