Book-ish blog

Dawn Summers:

Fandom punishes her for the crime of being a 14 year old girl

often thought of as annoying and a bad addition to the show for just being a teen girl going through it

love you dawnie <33 i did hate you on my first watch as a teen girl i was too close to the subject but now i love you

People hate her because she is “annoying” read: Teenage Girl

Hilarious and smart. She handles learning she is a Key to open a magic portal remarkably well and loves so deeply. <3

Abby Clark:

People legitimately think this woman is a predator for dating a 26 year old man. She also did lowkey move to another continent and proceed to ghost that man, but A) she did tell him she was leaving and he could do whatever, it's not on her that he couldn't take a hint B) while she was ghosting him she let him live in her very nice LA apartment (possibly rent free???) C) he needed to be ghosted for character development. She did him a favor.

She's trying her best okay! Her mom has Alzheimer's and then dies. Her ex was really shitty to her and also gay and not attracted to her (I don't think she knew about that part though) and also 8 years from now he's going to date her younger man boytoy which is probably going to be super weird for her if she ever finds out. And on top of all that, her job involves listening to people die over the phone. God forbid she have a midlife crisis and have a fling with a hot younger man about it.

Fandom hates her for her treatment of her male love interest.

Rose Tico:

They harassed the actress off of social media and made burning action figures of her a spectator sport, an incredibly popular YouTuber turned calling fat and ugly into a running gag.

She’s a nice girl who just wants to help and has a lot of anger in her heart because poor people like her are treated like crap!

I mean… we were all there, right? People threw such a big fit about her mere existence that it actually genuinely changed the American political landscape for the worse (and got her basically written out of the next movie)

She literally didn't do anything wrong. Not in an "my favorite character can do no wrong" kind of way, I just mean it's been almost ten years and I still don't know what those dudes were actually mad about. And she's cute and nice and I liked her!

The shit that happened with rose pisses me off beyond belief to this day actually and I don't even gaf about star wars anymore. The fact that not only did she get such a misogynistic and racist backlash to the point of people harassing her actress but that the films themselves capitulated to this and she was completely absent in the next film. Makes me see red fr

Seen as a threat to the finnpoe slash shippers so ofc they lashed out

Kira Yukimura:

Some fans hated her for replacing Allison (white) as Scott's love interest when she is Asian. Other fans reduce her to a cheerleader for their m/m fics.

Propaganda:

Eleanor & Tahani

Eleanor is a Bi Icon and should have had a girlfriend at some point. She constantly tells Tahani how pretty and tall she is. The two are opposites but have fantastic chemistry. Eleanor is a dumpster fire from Arizona with too much self-confidence, Tahani is a perfect princess from Europe with zero self-esteem. Both had abusive parents. They were made neighbors to torment each other but ended up as best friends. They could've made such a great power couple.

Markus & Simon

i will never be over “our hearts are compatible” being an actual canon line and somehow simon still wasn’t romanceable.

quick explanation for non-dbh people: markus is an android who becomes the face of the android rebellion. simon is one of the main jericho androids who helps him after he joins the movement. he’s quieter than north and josh, but he’s consistently loyal to markus, and depending on your choices he can survive, reunite with markus Complete With Loaded Embrace, help him, defend him, and even sacrifice himself for him.

and when i say sacrifice himself, i mean he gives markus his heart. literally. markus is dying, simon says their hearts are compatible, tells him he has to take his, and dies so markus can live and lead their people. sorry but that is peak romance route material. you cannot give me that and then tell me the only romance option is the woman whose lovers status can happen because i picked the polite dialogue on a roof.

the north romance felt so forced. you can have a playthrough where markus disagrees with her a ton, doesn’t really seek her out or is actively hostile with her, and then suddenly their relationship status can insta-rocket several stages from "hostile" or "neutral" to "lovers" if you pick the friendly-sounding dialogue option rather than being a dick and shooing her away before she can talk to you. because of one conversation? without a proper player choice? in detroit: become human, the game that wants every tiny decision to matter? be serious.

meanwhile the game keeps putting simon and north in oddly similar positions around markus. who supports him, who he chooses in group moments, who can be there when he’s hurt - even in moments that don't seem to matter unless it was to set up a relationship choice, like during an escape sequence markus can choose whether to run with simon or north even though everyone gets away the same regardless. apparently the devs considered other love interests for markus and dropped them because the branching got too time-consuming, which would explain a lot, because simon feels like the route that got left in the walls.