#little rant

the most popular leftist influencer right now (hasan piker) has been horrendously misogynistic for his entire fucking career, and people only started talking about how much of a shitty human he was when he hurt his dog on a livestream and not when he was visiting fucking brothels. obv animal abuse isn’t fucking okay either but hey why not mention all the nick fuentes level awful things he’s said about the demographic of people that makes up 50% of the population 😐

"Mimimimi this is only an opinion not a demand, stop calling me elitist, I just want art that respects the canon instead of watering down its themes!"

"Go cry somewhere else, don't tell me what to do even if I have options mimimimii I'm too angry others have either talent, time, patience to do what they want while I don't get to see what I personally want!"

This is actually a minor complaint. For the love of all that is good and sacred in this world, DO NOT MAKE YOUR READERS DEPENDENT ON MATERIAL OUTSIDE THE WORK ITSELF IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND IT. KEEP YOUR IMPORTANT COMMENTS ABOUT THE LORE TO YOURSELF SO THAT THE PRODUCT ITSELF CAN EXPLAIN IT.

I've seen this too much with many authors today, it's always because of outside comments or a blog where all the basic and relevant material I need to know about the work is hidden under a blog aside of the main media, and that sucks. Let me discover it myself, let me theorize about it, for Lord's sake.

I understand that you often have this great desire to explain your whole world. There are times when I just want to throw in the whole explanation of the history of my projects, even if no one will read it, just because I want to talk about it, but no. Don't do that. Let your projects develop slowly on their own, let the viewer discover what you want to say and tell by reviewing each page, each chapter, and each dialogue itself. It's actually much more rewarding to get it right little by little rather than all at once.

Remember the main rule: show, don't tell.

Yes!! Momo is often times short-tempered and quick to start a fight, but she is also feminine! She is gyaru! She likes girly things and does girly stuff! She wants to be treated like a woman instead of just an object!

This doesn't make her manly, or the boss of her and Okaruns relationship, or some type of overpowering female lead. She is strong in a way that still compliments her femininity. Just because she has a temper and doesn't take shit from others about her or her family doesn't automatically mean she's masculine or mean hearted. Women actually have emotions and personalities too! I don't know why I have to spell it out for some people!

Same with Okarun. I understand him being bullied has put a 'timid and weak' image into a lot of the fanbases heads, but is that really all we see in him? A little kid who can't stand up for himself? Does anyone remember when Hase literally got fucked up because Okarun got so mad he was calling Momo easy that he couldn't hold back his temper??? Okarun has so much more to him than what most people want to admit. It shows so painfully.

Yes, Okarun is still in a lot of cases submissive. Not in a way that makes him something less than a man, but because he is still in some ways unconfident. Especially early in the series when he is still getting used to being taken care of by a friend and adjusting to his newfound powers caused by a fucking SPIRIT!!!!!! Does that make him forever a femboy omega sub that can't do anything for himself? NO FUCKING WAY. HAVE YOU ALL FORGOTTEN ABOUT TURBOKARUN? HAVE ANY OF YOU GOT ANY CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS TO COMPREHEND WHY HE ACTS SO DIFFERENTLY IN HIS TURBO FORM???

Momo should be allowed to be a girl in fan media. She's a teenage girl with a crush that gives her butterflies and makes her kick her feet in excitement. She has interests and a distinct, girly style and gets shy when people she like tease her! Why boil her down to nothing but her anger? I find it so disheartening.

also i don't think they know that we're being logical at all, and i don't think they want to know - because that logic scares them. maybe they truly believe this, but them saying stuff like "finn said that milevens going to be a couple going into s5! bylers you lost!" is very interesting because its like....yeah? i know they are? i think the majority of bylers dont believe that byler will suddenly be together at the beginning of s5 - we don't want that.

they think that we believe mike hates el, thanks to them only focusing on the bylers they have a good excuse for hating (the toxic ones). when really, as soon as you gain some good critical thinking and realise that mike does care about el, and that it's actually possible for a gay man to love a woman without it being romantic, you start gaining even more confidence in byler than less. them thinking that we think that mike hates el is a safe place for them to be - because that's just wrong, mike doesn't hate her. but we know that (at least over here.)

another thing i think they believe is that we only focus on the tiny details, which i get, because we do often find meanings in small, seemingly meaningless things (which do have meaning but whatever) - but there are so many people on tumblr lately that finally started talking about big picture narrative stuff. our main byler proof isn't blue and yellow, it's not the one way sign, those are mainly small details for proof, but the proof is in the way shows are written period.

But, one scene that made me appreciate their relationship in this version of the campaign was when Gricko was bad-mouthing on Kremy's attempt at killing Evrima, and Gideon immediately started defending his honor when he wasn't there.

I think that scene really solidifies how much Gideon cares for Kremy and how he would protect him from anything.

But every time I see those tier list videos they genuinely insult her with every misogynistic names in the book and it really breaks my heart, because they would never insult an annoying male player to this extent

Like when Fudou is being pestering he’s just a cool smart rage baiting delinquent but when Rica speaks a little too much she’s called a dumb useless bitch who needs to stfu and go back to the kitchen