#angry rant

It’s just repackaged misognoir. Black women are seen as more masculine, and that they can’t be dainty or elegant or feminine. Please name me a rich girl character that is black. Mhm, I thought so.

and the fact people are talking about how she looks “recolored” disgusts me. First off, it’s a design aspect. Her skin contrasts her lighter colors. And second off, you clearly just have one image of what black women are.

while there is absolutely something around how many of Pokémon’s black characters look racially ambiguous, you also should fucking think about the fact that Pokemon is a franchise dominated by pale white characters, anything is EVERYTHING.

and again, black feminine girls exist.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk💜

EDIT: I’ve been made aware tumblr has marked this as mature content. While I’m disappointed, I am not surprised. Take this as evidence of tumblr’s racism.

• Avoiding eye contact does NOT always mean someone is lying.

• Having a hard time focusing does NOT always mean someone is lazy.

• Carrying around a stuffed animal or blanket does NOT make someone childish.

• Poor motor skills is NOT a direct indication of intelligence.

Forcing aro and ace people into amatonormative relationships is NOT the woke take you think it is you aphobic pieces of shit. And yes, I know what y’all in fandom are doing with your favorite aro/ace characters. I know damn well that when you ship an aro character with an allo character you’re not putting them in QPRs, you’re not writing that relationship within the lens of the aro character’s identity. You’re just reassuring yourself because “oh thank god, aro/ace people can still date, they can still have sex, they’re normal!!”

WELL GUESS WHAT YOU PIECE OF SHIT. NO WE’RE NOT FUCKING NORMAL. WE GET SHAMED BY OUR PEERS, BY OUR FAMILIES, BY OUR CLOSEST CIRCLES BECAUSE “OH YOU JUST HAVEN’T FOUND THE RIGHT ONE YET”. WE GET DRUGGED AND TORTURED BY PSYCHOLOGISTS BECAUSE ACE AND ARO PEOPLE STILL GET SENT TO CONVERSION THERAPY EVERY-FUCKING-WHERE. WE GET RAPED EVERY FUCKING YEAR BECAUSE OF OUR IDENTITIES.

I just mentionned in an alterhuman serv that I was questionning a songkin/fictionkin identity and people reacted like "Is that possible ?" That one is okay, it’s okay not to know, just annoying people in alterhuman communities for months or years don’t know anything except therian.

Other people were like "Oh that’s too complicated… in my time we only had therians and mythical creatures" or even "It doesn’t feel right to me that people identify as something that’s not real". Thanks ya pals now I don’t even feel safe in my own goddamn communities. Sure y’all liked us better when the host was just a fox therian. I won’t miraculously stop identifying as something because it’s not is the teeny tiny window of what you consider palatable.

Hey therians. Unfriendly reminder that your communities were built by otherkins. Werewolves and fairies and elves and aliens. Seems like some of you forgot that. Now these people feel as alienated with you as they are with humans.

Non-therians have it hard. I’ve been fakeclaimed by folks because "You can’t be something that doesn’t exist". I can’t find safe spaces, have to explain what I am half the time (honestly that one is not a problem since I’m a yapper), feeling constantly left on the side. People use animal-centric language because sure if you’re not human you’re an animal. A living animal- a mammal - a carnivore - let’s say it, a dog. Just I’m not a homo sapiens doesn’t mean I have paws and a snout. We can’t find euphoria tips, gears, we’re constantly forgotten. These are the same for therians with rare theriotypes, monkeys, herbivores, invertebrates, birds.

Otherkins and fictionkins and therians with rare theriotypes have it hard, but don’t get me started on factkin, conceptkin, otherhearted, songkin, plantkin, objectkin. CONSTANTLY FUCKING EXCLUDED. It’s therian this and therian that and sometimes otherkin and the rest is forgotten.

Ok don’t get me wrong. I love my therian brothers and sisters and sibling and friends and elders.

But if y’all therians really care for your non-therian pals you’d better show it right now.

And you have the audacity to be pleased with yourselves about that?

When did we start to think we had the right to have ANY say in what other people make?

By all means, be a hater if you must, but for god’s sake, hate at a distance. Hate from the privacy of your own head.

I hate when people dumb down laito’s character to just a sex-obsessed pervert. Hes literally so much more than that and i see so many people jsut completely missing the point of his character and *why* he acts the way he is for reasons other than the way the anime made him to be another otome trope. 

First of all, laito was groomed throughout his entire childhood by his mother, cordelia. She would rape him (not sleep with. Rape. Stop saying stuff like “had sex with” and “slept with” because he was a CHILD it was rape) consistently and told him that sex and lust was love- this caused laito to have an extremely twisted vision of what love is and how he expresses his love to the player/yui. 

I think that Laito is very misrepresented in the anime, probably because they didnt have time to get all the characters lore in or else the show would be as long as one piece, but still. He’s not even given a little snippet of a backstory like Shu with Edgar, all we see of his past is him as a little kid where he barely even interacts with his mom which we see in Yui’s nightmare. 

Im so tired of people tearing his character down to just a pervert. Because he’s not- he’s a traumatized kid (idk about kid- wiki says 17 in human but hes like 200+ im pretty sure so idk) whos a victim of manipulation, incest, and rape. It’s not his fault that he’s like that when he was literally convinced by the person you trust the most growing up- his mother, that love is sex. 

Everyone loves Lumax. There's nothing not to love about Lumax. So they're the couple that gets to need eachother. That gets to have a deep connection and a good ending, because no one will complain.

Jopper got off easy too. They're another couple that mostly everyone likes, so it's easy to give them a happy ending. It's what everyone is expecting and it's not like they would have a reason to complain.

Jancy. A little more difficult. There are still stancy shippers out there after all, and we sort of baited them with season 4 because for some reason we couldn't give Steve anything to do but stare at Nancy's lips. So we were never gonna do Stancy, but we don't want our little feelings hurt 🥺 so we won't make Jancy technically endgame either, just so that no one can really complain about one winning over the other.

Duzie. I never liked the way that Dustins romance was the only off-screen one we'll talk about Will later. At least we got to actually see Suzie. She was a part of the plot. But then season 5 hit and it just irked me too much. I thought it would be so easy to just have Dustin say that they broke up because of his issues, and he could cry to someone and tell them how much the relationship meant to him even though we never got to see it. But that never happened. I love Dustin and Steve, but to my point, the way their relationship was handled in this season just proves my point on fan service. Because EVERYONE loves Steve and Dustin. Literally everyone. So instead of letting Dustin reconnect with the party, his and Steve's relationship gets to be the most comprehensive one of the season because that will make everyone happy. Forget Suzie. Forget Mike and Will and Max and Jane. Steve is the easy option. Because idk, if we left Dustin in a room with his best friends for more than five minutes they might just start bringing up things that are actually meaningful to so many people. None of his friends found out he got beat up at the graveyard. None if them got to talk about what Eddie meant to them. They never got to talk about what Dustin said in the school hallway: blend in. Follow the rules. That's not what we've ever done! If we keep Dustin with Steve like we've always done, no one will complain.

Rovickie. We got no content of them actually getting together. No commentary on how difficult that would've been at the time. It seemed fine after volume one because well they're just paving the way for byler. That went well. They turned Robin into a gay mentor that basically told Will that if your best friend of ten years doesn't respond to a little shove, he was really just a random girl you've never spoken a word to. Disregarding everything we've ever learnt about Mike and Will's relationship. It's like they used Robin because they thought that would make it more acceptable. When that's just not something Robin would do at all. It's narrativelly inconsistent for her. Given that she doubted the crush she had on Vickie, saying all the little signs meant nothing and then they actually got together. Out of everyone, Robin should know better. She should understand how difficult and dangerous it is to show your feelings to someone of the same gender. She even said so last season that it would make her a pariah so why tf does she see Mike walk away all flustered and think straightest man I've ever seen.

Such a side tangent I'm sorry.

We got Robin to guide Will to a happy future. Guide him to his epilogue boyfriend that was never real so that no one could complain he never got a happy ending. We got to see Robin kiss a girl, and then we excluded Vickie from the epilogue so that you can assume that they either broke up or stayed together and everyone is happy not. No one complains they do.

okay, mileven and byler. The fans that kick up the most noise. It's the battle between which one is going to happen.

If mileven happened, all the bylers would be mad, rightfully so given we were queerbaited.

If we make byler canon all the homophobes/milevens/both will be angry. They'll say byler was fanservice ironic.

All i want

ALL

I want

Is for the fandom to start taking Berdly seriously as a character!!!!!!!

Like seriously, do people really think that this DELTARUNE SPECIFIC CHARACTER whose WHOLE THING is like "I don't want to be forgotten, I want to be important" and is demonstrated TIME AND TIME AGAIN to want to be a part of a group (SPECIFICALLY the group of the MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERS OF THE ENTIRE GAME) and hang out with his friends (HIS FRIENDS WHO ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT CHARACTERS OF THE ENTIRE GAME), but his weird self-esteem issues prevent him from doing so????????????????

that

is

an

INCOMPLETE CHARACTER ARC THAT HAS BEEN SIMMERING IN THE BACKGROUND FOR HALF THE GAME AND Y'ALL THINK THAT'S IT??????????????????????????????

Not to mention that he is THE turning point of the game from the normal route to the weird route.

But nooooooOOOOOOOO let's not think about the intricasies and complexities and also the myriads of symbolism in this character that have HEAVY lore implications that I OBVIOUSLY won't get into because he's SO unimportant

Despite the fucking fandom picking every OTHER last pixel and line of codes in this godforsaken game to shreds, Berdly just seems to go unnoticed for SOME reason.

oh right because he's ANNOYING i got itttt

that means he cant POSSIBLY be relevant or have anything left to do!

yeah yeah lets forget about him!

if he's such a "forgettable bluebird"

bet THAT line isn't a piece of heavy foreshadowing that won't come up again