OH while I’m at it lmao sry I’m just venting but
it makes me super uncomfortable/irks me QUITE a bit to see AUs of shows/films/books/whatever that replace the heroine/female POV/female main character with a male character for slash purposes, especially when the show/film/book isn’t a romance
off the top of my head: Princess Mononoke AU, Spirited Away AU, hell, every single freaking ghibli AU, hunger games AU, etc
there are so very few female lead/POV characters in non-romance media, I don’t like seeing them erased :/ especially with ghibli etc I like that oftentimes there IS no romance, or just super lowkey/barely there, and the female leads are fulfilled characters, I just really don’t like losing them (even if it’s just a fan AU lmao)
fun aside, I didn’t read Princess Mononoke as romantic until ppl told me it apparently was?? I still don’t rly get it, like, yeah they liked each other and he told her she’s beautiful but why does that have to be romantic .........
obvs fandom can and will do what fandom wants but I’m just like ... /protectively gathers female lead characters in action-adventure-fantasy setting to her chest


















