I have!I had mixed feelings about the book because I felt like the author worked too hard to avoid cliches/subvert tropes, taking what was an A++ premise and making it harder to like than a Gentleman Thief plot in fantasy Venice had any right to be.I was so frustrated by the excessive effort put into …
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Tiger is a transgender man and a hero, doesn’t that even out Magne‘s portrayal?
Gonna quickly answer a few asks tonight in between trying to get some actual words of writing down on paper. The struggle is real.So…*Scrunchy face* I’m not really the kind of person who thinks that one example of “positive” representation can even out a negative portrayal, and Tiger still faces the exact same problem as …
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Why Do Certain Ships Become So Popular? (And Why Should Writers Rethink When They Do?) – Part 1
(Damn, look who’s showing up ten years late to this discussion with Starbucks…)Hey guys, just want to start with a preface here: I’ve recently been in several separate conversations about why certain ships become so popular, what leads people (and woman in particular) to ship so much, why certain fandoms become over-zealous in their shipping, …
Why Do Certain Ships Become So Popular? (And Why Should Writers Rethink When They Do?) – Part 3
<- Start at Part 1 for best understanding<- And here’s Part 2 if you need it!I’m going to end this discussion with a case-in-point comparing the mega-popularity of non-canon ships against semi-canon ships, and then discuss what this all means for writers, and how examining the popularity of ships in media can actually improve the …
I’m the Another Anon. Thanks for your answer. I thought I wasnt trying to perpetuate the ideas of purity culture (bc I hate it too) so your answer opened my eyes. The reason I brought up the shipping with the dark skinned boy around the same age thing was bc I saw it as a reason ppl were ok with the ship (as ive seen ships that have characters tht r 17 & 19 seen as pedo so them not having 1 made it look acceptable in their eyes) & the skin color came from the Latin Lover trope I see used a lot.
Hey, thanks for coming back to talk to me more about this! Sorry if I came across as aggressive by the way; usually when someone starts to bring up stuff like this it is because they’re really into the purity culture or have some other chip on their shoulder, so I usually respond like that.But …
I’m just a random anon, but I don’t think it’s wrong to watch shows for exclusively ships- It’s just that if you do, you have to be prepared for the fact it might never become canon. Some people get super over-invested (carried away?) with how much they let it affect their own life and now a lot of the fandom’s in meltdown because of it which is horrible…
ashacrone:echodrops: It’s my solemn belief that in well-written and well-managed media this kind of thing does not happen. Ships, ship wars, and fans themselves get out of control because of poorly written canonical character interactions and poorly managed expectations on the part of producers. Although there are certainly extremists of questionable mental health levels who …
Well looks like it’s time to get rid of your voltron tag since you don’t really care about the show. It seems you stopped caring about the show a long time ago.
Hey so honest question to the room, are other fandoms filled with people like this or is there just something special about the Voltron fandom that attracts people who aren’t brave enough to be rude off anon? Not the first message like this I’ve received in the last few days, and I simply do not …
Unpopular opinion:
Vanitas firebombing Monster’s Inc. with the most iconic enemy from the critically-acclaimed video game series Pikmin physical manifestations of bottled screams is poetic justice for the generation of children literally terrorized by a walking, talking metaphor for capitalism–children who inevitably grew up with the crushing realization that they were going to continue being emotionally exploited …
Rawr! Bird! 