Fandoms Have Ruined My Life

I WILL FOREVER LOVE THE EMPHASIS ON LEGOSHI’S CHARACTERIZATION BEING “GENTLE TIMID GIANT” BUT EVERY TIME HE GETS INTO A FIGHT ITS ALMOST ALWAYS BECAUSE HE INSTIGATED IT

Monster fucker this, monster fucker that. What if I want a monster RELATIONSHIP huh?! Monster HAND HOLDING, monster INTIMATE CONVERSATIONS, monster COMFORTABLE SILENCE??

One thing I really appreciate about Rinshi as a canon shounen romance is that it feels like a perfect subversion of usual shounen romance arcs where the protagonist is involved. Instead of having the girl fall for the protagonist, Rin starts crushing on Shiemi long before she begins reciprocating his feelings (and when she rejects him, he respects that and they continue to be friends!). And this romantic subplot also factors into Shiemi’s character arc in a different way than usual: instead of her having an arc about self-confidence because she likes Rin, her feelings towards him are just one way of showing the development of her self-confidence! Shiemi believes she cannot like Rin because she’s so far behind everyone else. Her realising she likes him back shows that she’s accepting and understanding her own emotions, instead of brushing them off because she doesn’t have confidence in herself. And most importantly, as I said, this isn’t the center of her arc, just a facet of it. She also grows her self-confidence throughout the whole story in ways unrelated to Rin (or in non-romantic ways related to Rin, like her guilt about not being able to help the twins after the camping arc), such as when she rescues Izumo in the Kyoto arc or when she fights Amaimon. Overall, the way Rinshi and especially Shiemi is written feels like Kato is intentionally trying to write a shounen romance not reliant on misogynistic character writing by using romance as one aspect or way of expressing a female character’s growth rather than the reason for her growth.

As an aroace person, it's so hard being a Hazbin hotel fan who loves most of the Alastor ships, because on the one hand, people are constantly complaining about how you can't ship him with anyone because he's aroace, which is just untrue, especially since Viv herself said to we can ship whatever we want, let me enjoy my representation how I want, but on the other hand most of the people who make content for Alastor ships aren't aroace and just completely ignore that part of his identity when making ship content, and it is so icky. It's such a struggle, like I just want accurate aroace ship content without being belittled, is that too much to ask 😭😭