real life has over 3.5 billion female characters, which is pretty fucking feminist in my opinion. incredible representation
Its still less than Touhou
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CREATURES OF THE NIGHT: DESCEND UPON “KROGER’S”
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i get the sentiment of going “tumblr needs financial support if its going to continue to exist” but from a practical standpoint specifically nobody is going to pay money to get rid of tumblr ads when 1. the stupid ads are half the experience 2. the people who care about them already use adblockers and are already extremely, extremely resistant to paying to not have ads because it comes across as restoring a negative part of the experience back to the expected default, not a positive addition you’re getting anything out of. like paying for an ad-free experience feels less like a service and more like getting extorted. tumblr would get better mileage out of selling funny hats for your icon or whatever
my favorite thing about fire emblem is that if you say “leon/kamui” you could potentially be referring to one of two completely different ships for two completely unrelated fe games featuring two pairs of completely different characters
there’s a character named leo who’s named leon in japanese. there’s another character in another game named leon who’s named leo in japanese. theres a third character named lyon, just to fuck with you. there’s a character named leonie
leon neé leo was probably renamed leon because they didn’t want there to be two characters in english named leo, but there are also two separate characters named selena in english. also leo neé leon is clearly named after leon trotsky. his brother’s japanese name is marx
my favorite thing about fire emblem is that if you say “leon/kamui” you could potentially be referring to one of two completely different ships for two completely unrelated fe games featuring two pairs of completely different characters
there’s a character named leo who’s named leon in japanese. there’s another character in another game named leon who’s named leo in japanese. theres a third character named lyon, just to fuck with you. there’s a character named leonie
my favorite thing about fire emblem is that if you say “leon/kamui” you could potentially be referring to one of two completely different ships for two completely unrelated fe games featuring two pairs of completely different characters
Chefs fuck better cause they put the pusssy in the oven
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feeling conflicted bc i made a banger meme the other day but i’d feel bad about posting it because it has uncredited fanart but the humor is also contingent on the uncredited fanart so please just imagine this image hwich i also made on the same day but with touhou lesbians
composition studies of angel’s egg, 3-6 minutes each
the shorter “skirt” on edelgard’s new design initially struck me as more genki than i’d think of her personality as but taken with the overall silhouette + flourishes (esp the laurel-esque headpiece) they’re very clearly going for “classical hero” vs her red emperor thing
[looking at three hopes] why did they give literally every character a bomb ass new outfit except byleth who arguably needs it the most
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i’ve observed a certain pushback recently against fandom and shipping culture and, to be fair, i absolutely understand why. some people who engross themselves in certain circles have fandom and shipping becomes the only lens through which they understand narratives, or it’s touted as the superior one – at best i think this is a shameful loss of like, robustness of experience in a lack of willingness to engage with certain things, and in the worst cases i find this to be extremely tasteless and disrespectful to an original work and intentions which doesn’t lend itself to fan appropriation (and i say appropriation neutrally, because i think appropriation is also what gives rise to the best aspects of fandom culture).
it’s like, i enjoy shipping. i also hate talking about my favorite things with people who are concerned with nothing other than shipping because it’s exhausting, because there are other things i also find interesting about stories. there are stories for which i’m disappointed that most of the people i see approach through like a, transformative fandom mindset because the significance of it to me is entirely in how the work itself is put together. this isn’t even getting into the whole laundry list of other frustrations and criticisms i have with fandom that have, at least to some degree, contributed to me not really participating in it anymore. like, i get it?
what i find. idk, bizarre. offputting. missing the point??? is how a lot of people who have these criticisms, which are at least in my opinion legitimate and worth getting people to consider, make it an issue of, idk how to explain this, habit and not hierarchy. the base issue is not that people engage in doing fandom things like shipping or writing fanfiction – and i get that people have criticisms with the way people make these things or the quality of them or the way they are valued but can you really make an argument against the bare concept itself lmao? – but that in some spaces this arguably narrow lens is perceived as the only path to engage with art. so by this logic we should be encouraging people to like, expand their horizons, right?
except the vast majority of posts i’ve seen about this are much more about talking about the inferiority of doing fandom stuff, which is characterized as inherently juvenile and unintellectual (i question both the truth of this and the valuation of it), than getting people to, like, approach media analysis in a certain way – the rejection of fandom rather than the embracing of evaluating art non-transformatively. the throughline is not that fandom is flawed, but that fandom is cringe. it’s very transparent that it’s primarily about asserting the superiority of the poster’s taste, intellect, and morals. this is frustrating to me because i care about the issue being used as a cover for this, idk, weird culture war. and like, i don’t think it’s a fault at all to advocate for your tastes or to have pretentious tastes, i just wish people would be honest.
musing from the place of a person who is like actively having this experience: i think a lot of these posts are made by people who spent their formative years totally engrossed in fandom and have since drifted from fandom and really found an identity in engaging with media in other ways, probably having to do with reading and analysis. it feels, in part, like this behavior is an overperformance of maturity, an assertion of adulthood through rejecting childhood. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that “30 year olds in fandom” (yes i know some people are shitty but is that really what you’re concerned with when you say this in this context?) are brought up pejoratively so often; the antithesis of who you want to be in the future when you’re a early 20-something unsure of your place in life and not feeling like an adult despite your age is somebody who has not changed from a lost child, who has failed to grow up – if fandom represents your juvenile self then somebody older than you who has not “developed” from what you perceive as the juvenile is to be rejected at all costs. the zeitgeist of tumblr, or at least the side of it i have a view into, seems to be about here, as ppl who were here as teens during the heyday of fandom age. also i think the YA/adults who read YA (another thing there are numerous legit criticisms of but i think people stupid about how and why they criticize it) pushback is a product of the same thing
idk there isn’t a conclusion to this i was just thinking about things.
it speaks volumes that many people who make a big deal out of their supposed goal of criticizing fandom in order to improve upon the culture of a given space refuse to acknowledge possible positive aspects of fandom or to look at the entire thing through a non-hierarchical angle. the preoccupation some people have with asserting that fanwork, usually fanfiction, is an inferior art form, or that fans do not or cannot ever engage in meaningful analysis or engagement with art through fandom, or even to imply that engaging in fandom activity and idk being able to read are mutually exclusive, does not do anything to encourage critical discourse about art, media, and social spaces or display an actual willingness to understand these things. it strikes me as hypocritical to posture as an intellectual or thinker while refusing to engage with and accept the complexities of the actual thing you claim to be talking about. to ignore and not discuss these complex dynamics is to make it about one “side” winning or losing, which is the opposite of encouraging people to think critically, which is ostensibly the goal
i’ve observed a certain pushback recently against fandom and shipping culture and, to be fair, i absolutely understand why. some people who engross themselves in certain circles have fandom and shipping becomes the only lens through which they understand narratives, or it’s touted as the superior one – at best i think this is a shameful loss of like, robustness of experience in a lack of willingness to engage with certain things, and in the worst cases i find this to be extremely tasteless and disrespectful to an original work and intentions which doesn’t lend itself to fan appropriation (and i say appropriation neutrally, because i think appropriation is also what gives rise to the best aspects of fandom culture).
it’s like, i enjoy shipping. i also hate talking about my favorite things with people who are concerned with nothing other than shipping because it’s exhausting, because there are other things i also find interesting about stories. there are stories for which i’m disappointed that most of the people i see approach through like a, transformative fandom mindset because the significance of it to me is entirely in how the work itself is put together. this isn’t even getting into the whole laundry list of other frustrations and criticisms i have with fandom that have, at least to some degree, contributed to me not really participating in it anymore. like, i get it?
what i find. idk, bizarre. offputting. missing the point??? is how a lot of people who have these criticisms, which are at least in my opinion legitimate and worth getting people to consider, make it an issue of, idk how to explain this, habit and not hierarchy. the base issue is not that people engage in doing fandom things like shipping or writing fanfiction – and i get that people have criticisms with the way people make these things or the quality of them or the way they are valued but can you really make an argument against the bare concept itself lmao? – but that in some spaces this arguably narrow lens is perceived as the only path to engage with art. so by this logic we should be encouraging people to like, expand their horizons, right?
except the vast majority of posts i’ve seen about this are much more about talking about the inferiority of doing fandom stuff, which is characterized as inherently juvenile and unintellectual (i question both the truth of this and the valuation of it), than getting people to, like, approach media analysis in a certain way – the rejection of fandom rather than the embracing of evaluating art non-transformatively. the throughline is not that fandom is flawed, but that fandom is cringe. it’s very transparent that it’s primarily about asserting the superiority of the poster’s taste, intellect, and morals. this is frustrating to me because i care about the issue being used as a cover for this, idk, weird culture war. and like, i don’t think it’s a fault at all to advocate for your tastes or to have pretentious tastes, i just wish people would be honest.
musing from the place of a person who is like actively having this experience: i think a lot of these posts are made by people who spent their formative years totally engrossed in fandom and have since drifted from fandom and really found an identity in engaging with media in other ways, probably having to do with reading and analysis. it feels, in part, like this behavior is an overperformance of maturity, an assertion of adulthood through rejecting childhood. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that “30 year olds in fandom” (yes i know some people are shitty but is that really what you’re concerned with when you say this in this context?) are brought up pejoratively so often; the antithesis of who you want to be in the future when you’re a early 20-something unsure of your place in life and not feeling like an adult despite your age is somebody who has not changed from a lost child, who has failed to grow up – if fandom represents your juvenile self then somebody older than you who has not “developed” from what you perceive as the juvenile is to be rejected at all costs. the zeitgeist of tumblr, or at least the side of it i have a view into, seems to be about here, as ppl who were here as teens during the heyday of fandom age. also i think the YA/adults who read YA (another thing there are numerous legit criticisms of but i think people stupid about how and why they criticize it) pushback is a product of the same thing
idk there isn’t a conclusion to this i was just thinking about things.
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