having your fictional fantasy society show its “grim dark” nature by stuffing your story with rape and sexual assault of women is weak story telling and shows zero understanding of nuance and world building.
the fantasy genre is too dependent on sexual violence for shock value
[ hsr 2.2 spoilers ]
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how dan heng deals with a conflict now i guess: i don't think my LOVER, the general of the xianzhou luofu, jing yuan, would be pleased to hear about this
jing yuan: i will let my feelings of devotion and love be known but i will allow dan heng to decide the direction of our relationship
dan heng, horribly down bad: [stubs his toe] i should use the jade abacus
the part that so deeply annoys me about the sunday discourse is that while yes, he does have immense compassion and love for humanity— it’s a deeply condescending compassion, like the majority of humanity are kind of dumb, simple animals. the exception is his sister.
delusion that blade will be acting all manic and deranged and going on his mara induced rants until huaiyan, tiny old man, shows up and says, "shut your mouth, boy" and blade immediately goes, "yes sir." completely normal.
i think boothill and dan heng should go on a roadtrip to xianzhou so boothill can fawn and babble over jing yuan and deeply annoy dan heng in the process
if she were a male character, not only would we not be having this conversation, she would be getting the kazuka's friend/tomo treatment and the most popular pairing would be Quite different
"there no explicit yaoi in hsr" dan heng, after catching jing yuan in his arms, princess style, and ditching penacony to go on a date with him for the lunar new year: am i a joke to you????
ariana is not getting my sympathy for pulling this manipulative, self-pitying crap when she has millions of fans, and very vocal ones, who are going to leap to her defense and hound this poor girl for bringing up a very valid point about cultural appropriation
his attitude is deeply familiar to me as someone who was raised catholic because the more extreme fringes of catholicism do, indeed, follow that train of thought: condescending compassion is Quite common place amongst religious zealots, of which sunday is one.
vindictive as a person and, i personally think, has a lot more hatred towards the world than he is willing to be let known. "do you hate and wish to destroy this world?" sounds like projection, buddy.
i think it's worth noting how he described those who (accidentally, keyword) shot robin as 'savages' and his questions as he interrogated aventurine went far and beyond past necessary for his purposes: they were questions to humiliate and needle at him because sunday is quite
his whole spiel during the quest is like some priest trying to proselytize to you to sway you over to his side, and one of his cutscenes is him lITERALLY leading confessional like???? this is not hard.
i can't help but find it hysterical that while the penacony plot is so high stakes, dramatic and traumatizing........ dan heng is living out his new adult romance life with jing yuan and being so happy and content on the luofu and away from all of the drama
do you dislike the xianzhou arc bc of the pacing issues and mismatched placement of character quests or because the pairing you like didn't get much screentime
@halfasfair
exactly!! the point about Sunday is that his entire ethos is contradictory and hypocritical— like most religious zealotry. they co-exist within him and that’s what makes him interesting. to water him down and simplify him goes against the point of the story.
all i will speak on with regards to certain fans bashing on nicholas leung for his (correct) take on a character that HE VOICES is this: who are you to treat this guy like he is your friend? what do you hope to gain from this other than him not engaging with fans anymore?
2.2 hsr spoilers
galladay hits for me not only bc of the devil/angel imagery but also because gallagher is all but a manifestation of penacony itself and cannot be controlled despite sunday's efforts and that is JUICY
temporarily coming off of private to announce me leaving my temporary fanfic retirement with some
#jingheng
#hengjing
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it's dan heng's turn to be a bit pathetic and pining. enjoy!
i love this turnaround in canon about the dynamic between jing yuan and dan heng being a "lmao bet" at the common fanon depiction of jing yuan yearning to his own detriment and being seen as pathetic;
dan heng and his 'we need to use the jade abacus' ass begs to differ
at this point if you haven't picked up on the genuine subtext between jing yuan and dan heng you are doing one of three things, maybe all three:
1. not paying attention to the gameplay
2. in denial
3. only reading fanfic and engaging with fan content
@JustineLavaworm
what's worse: someone mildly criticizing someone's work, or a rich writer siccing, however indirectly, all of her famous and other rich friends on a normal person to the point of her getting in trouble at her university.
my problem with the xianzhou arc is that jingliu's quest probably should've been an interlude quest and i don't like that her story got so filled up by men when it should be about her and give us an opportunity to learn about her and tingyun is just kinda ??? forgotten
@halfasfair
the issue with Sunday is that, despite his genuine and sincere care, he doesn’t care enough about the agency of people and humanity: in fact, he finds it foolish if not stupid. he might love humanity, but he doesn’t respect them nor their free will.
things that DON’T make you ugly
- acne
- being over/under weight
- scars
- stretch marks
- crooked/yellow teeth
- body hair
- thinning hair/loss
- psoriasis/eczema/rashes
- fat rolls
- amputations
things that DO make you ugly
- thinking Nakajima Atsushi is a boring protag
me:
a fictional couple, either implicitly or explicitly: this isn't about reciprocity, you don't have to love me back, you don't have to give me anything in return, just please let me stay by your side, let me protect you, help carry your burdens
me:
y'all: fYODOR, CHUUYA, DAZAI ECT ECT
me: SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE SSKK COAT SCENE
"nakajima atsushi is the main character of BSD," i say into the mic.
the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks and commands silence from the room.
"she's right," they say. i look for the owner of the voice. there in the 5th row stands: kafka asagiri
atsushi is sweet and kind but he's not a pure perfect soft cinnamon roll that needs to be protected from all things; he can hold his own, he has a temper and says the wrong/cruel thing when he's frustrated, he cares about his loved ones deeply and will fight tooth and nail for em
@tsukeyi
huaiyan might be old and tiny (maybe) but blade knows better!! yes he's a scary stellaron hunter but he's still getting bossed around by his old mentor and for good reason
my boss cancelled a meeting and the cancellation note was ‘my wife unfortunately needs to be fed and if she’s not fed then life is not worth living’. nice.
toxic parenting is traumatizing your children by forcing them to see your dysfunctional relationship and take the backlash of your constant fighting and coldness with each other, making them come home to that harsh environment
@FrivolityAC
poor dan heng is simply steaming while jing yuan is gushing about how he wanted to be a galaxy ranger when he was a boy, but jing yuan will make sure they get some alone time later 😌 he'd never neglect his beloved
dazai, when you get down to it, is such a complicated and tragic character, and when faced with such amorality and moral ambiguity and crushing sadness that his character embodies, it doesn't surprise me that fans fall to such stripped down extremes on his personality
@fiendishpal
bokuto koutarou, a chiseled olympian athlete who thinks the world of you, and an equally stacked chef in miya osamu are right THERE you oblivious FRUIT!!! open your eyes!! you have two hands!!!
@fiendishpal
akaashi has Elevated tastes in his saucy material and smut
when he reads these smutty romance novels he's like ":(( wish that could be me" @ the whirlwind romance for the MC
as if he doesn't have several hot men wrapped around his fingers
i think another part of it is that we all might have duped ourselves into believing that the main quest was going to be about the high cloud quintet when.... it's really not. they're done and over with, it's just set dressing and provides explanation for character motivations
i like it more than belobog but i will not deny that it has problems and it's bc of the wonky pacing and somewhat rocky delivery. keep in mind that this game isn't even a full year old btw.
@halfasfair
yep!! exactly. while we can blame gopher wood for indoctrinating him in part, sunday is still doing this of his own volition because that mindset gives him a sense of control, and he projects that onto everyone else without a care for what They feel
big difference between acknowledging that teenagers are coming into their sexuality, experiment with other teens, and do have sexual feelings versus treating the teenagers in question as an object of graphic sexual desire to an adult audience
i'm refraining from making a call on what yunli and jiaoqiu's personalities like until they're introduced because hoyo fans are incapable of waiting and keep making up hcs/fanon, treating it as canon, and getting angry when their wild expectations aren't met
Shigaraki looks at everyone and memories begin to flood his mind. He doesn't understand why they are trying so hard to save someone who is already broken, when, as a child, he was alive and no one reached out a hand to him +
#MHA365
my pet theory: books that are so damn popular in that one sub-group almost always being in first-person and that being preferred over 3rd person (which is the default for the wide majority of books) is that these authors just use 1st person as short-hand for a self-insert.
@clownhotline
all it tells me is that they chose to settle rather than pursue ambitions that they were actually passionate about that that's what they want to do to us. god knows how many times ppl tried to "warn" me about how i aimed too high with trying to get into grad school