Gone! Gone! O form of man

i tend to avoid discourse because most of it is trite and pointless but just this once i feel like i need to state my opinion: i think everyone should bend to my dark and evil will

i don't care to psychologize creators let alone robert kirkman of all things but it is really funny to me that he was like “lol the main antagonists of my comic book are all muscular white men who have mustaches because my dad had a mustache and they all brutally violate mark for failing to live up to his image of masculinity and he shivers at the thought of their touch except actually nevermind they're nice now he forgives them in fact he leads them and they never hurt him again and they all live happily ever after” like okay buddy 😭

Feminists and misogynists both want to stop arguing about whether men or women have it worse, but the crucial different is feminists want to stop because they already know the objectively correct answer, and misogynists want it to stop because being reminded of the truth makes them uncomfortable.

unfortunately i dont think its queerbaiting if the creator is just so terminally heterosexual that they never remotely considered the same gender relationship their show is centered around could be read as romantic. it is deeply painful however.

Maybe accidental queer baiting? The way someone may not mean to say something rude, but it may come off rude, so it's rude. Frustrating either way.

and the thing about thragg that makes him funny is he doesn't even have the hecking epic bisexual indigenous man who played with dolls excuse like joão caio does he's literally like openly possessive and predatory adn violent the fandom is just like "awwww well surely he went and asked every single one of his indigenized female subjects permission before he made them carry his child whom he would raise in his genetic superarmy in a totally above board manner <3" meanwhile if thragg met john he'd fall to his knees crying out of adulation and jealousy and be like "you... raped a planet?" and john would be like "ah jeez nah yeah mate reckon it was a bit more complicated than that eh i wasn't totally myself yknow reckon i woulda stopped but there was a lot going on at the time eh it's not something i plan on doing again i'm really quite sorry eh"

why are nolan and mark written Like That. and i don't just mean 'the father attempting to inculcate the son normative masculinity and mark's rejection thereof.' that's standard dad shit. i don't even mean 'the way he turns mark's limp body over in his hand and straddles him and rolls off his broken body gasping to lie beside him limbs tangled.' nor do i mean 'the way that this violence and entanglement are visually compared to the violence he meted unto debbie.' nor 'mark is made to replace nolan as the man of the house both with respect to his mother's life and his younger brother's life.' nor the way mark hates his father when he's asked to love him but can't help but love him when he has to help him. nor how this internal conflict causes him to flinch when people try to call him victim and simultaneously hide the parts of him that still care. nor even that nolan at once renders him as social peer and as something to protect. i'm SPECIFICALLY talking about, ON TOP of all of that, how nearly every male viltrumite, in particular the two most prominent and dangerous, gesture to mark's connection to his father, not treating him as inevitable heir to his legacy as anissa did, but as trophy, something precious to take from nolan, something they want to violate in front of him, something whose face they caress, something in whose ear they whisper, something to whom they speak with breathy tenderness. why. like why. like why is mark lowkey nolan's. i can't say it. not here. not on tumblr. why is he. why are they giving. lakedaimonian. why are they giving. aeschylus. someone call fredric wertham!!

anissaposting analogue horror

[looking in the mirror] lmao they KNEW what they were doing with this character design