[cindersnows]

hi !!!! i'm theo !!!

i go by theo, nikki, spade, cinder, and a bunch of other names

i use any pronouns!

i'm 18, indian, aroace and genderqueer ^^

prince of blood, derse dreamer!

my main interests (and consequently art) revolve around animation vs. minecraft/animation, forsaken, omori, and homestuck

TERFS, racists, queerphobes (including anti contradictory labels), hindutvas, zionists, and transphobes dni

my art tag is #cindersnows art

my side blog is @animator-vs-animation (for reblogging, liveblogging, wips, personal thoughts and more)

my hamster/rodent blog is @tacopad

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CURRENT FIC/COMIC LIST:

maybe it's time to let time pass through (AVM - COMPLETE)

last words of a shooting star (AVA/M - COMPLETE)

i'm gonna win (AVA/M - ONGOING)

antihero au (AVA/M - ONGOING)

a prince's limerence - royal fantasy au (AVA/M - BEING REWRITTEN)

nisemono (AVA/M + OMORI - TBA)

ad lumen (AVA/M + JSAB - DISCONTINUED)

[ava-anniversary-zine]

Stay tuned!

Complete 20th Anniversary Multi-Animator Project and Fanzine drop on 6 pm EST!

[cindersnows]

christ almighty

[disk-whorse]

the survivorship bias for trans men is so horrific to me when i actually sit down to think about it. its actually Not Surprising that the majority of the voice for trans mascs come from white educated people with supportive families and/or communities. because the trans mascs who dont have that tend to detransition to finally access resources or just fucking kill themselves. the poverty rates for trans men and the homelessness and the medical abuse and the vilification of masculinity in queer communities and the violent transphobia from transphobes and the Everything all compound together to make sure the only men that survive to talk about their experiences are the men who had it easy. and then queer people have the GALL to say “trans men have it easy because theyre men” like there isnt a pile of underprivileged dead bodies laying behind the most privileged trans men in the community who get to speak for all of us and loudly agree “of course trans men have it easy, havent you seen how easy I had it?”

[immortalsarcasm]

I also want to add; for those of us that *have* survived in spite of having the odds against us - we make folks uncomfortable because we don’t fit their narrative and get shut down and are expected to shut up.

I’m in my 40s. Trans, gay, disabled, and biracial. I am a statistic; been homeless, experienced DV and SA multiple times, have experienced exploitation, have had zero family support and been on my own for 25 years, etc.

But I’m expected to just… be happy I survived? And be quiet? Or I have even heard ‘don’t talk about the bad stuff that’s so negative and will scare younger trans people’. Usually from other trans folks, and even other trans men, which is fucking *wild* to me. I was expecting cis folks to be off put but my own community? Goddamn.

I guess we need to bubble wrap the trans experience so no one knows about the sharp edges until they’re already sliced open. 🙄 That certainly isn’t making things harder for trans men at all either. /s

[therapatical]

it reminds me of that one article that came out last year (?) that said the trans men who show up to gender clinics to start HRT are younger (on average) than the trans women who show up, and the headline/conclusion reached by this data (which... for data like that especially, you should NOT be jumping to conclusions without further examining the causes for the correlation going on, and the journalist covering this article in particular basically just decided that their take was the correct interpretation of what this data meant. which is simply bad science) was essentially that this evidence supported the claim that trans men are privileged, as it showed that trans women take longer to come out, due to feeling less safe to come out and having fewer access to resources. and my initial reaction to that was "idk, typically when a population seems to consist predominantly of younger individuals, that usually means they're not living long enough to reach old age and they're mostly dying young".

data is only one piece of the puzzle. the way that data gets interpreted can tell dramatically different stories. and the way people choose to interpret the same data can tell you a lot about that person's individual biases.

there is a reason why science doesn't jump to conclusions when we find a new protein or some correlation between two variables; we need more testing to confirm the hypotheses we have. it could be that trans men have more access to resources at younger ages, but then why is this only a recent phenomenon? even as little as 2 decades ago, the relative rate of trans men showing up at gender clinics was close to zero (or literally zero, for some years)

is it the case that trans men feel "more accepted"? then how come this is only recently the case? and how come there aren't tons of older trans men as well, shouldn't they be coming forth given that they hadn't shown up in previous years? where're the guys from the 90s and 00s who didn't show up to clinics? is it the case that trans men feel their dysphoria is more unbearable at an earlier age? then what about all of those who don't transition at a younger age? how come they exist? if trans men were less hated by society at large, then why wouldn't we see trans men of all ages represented in the data? and why wouldn't we see younger trans women in that case, actually? since the lowered acceptance would probably mean they're less likely to make it to old age than trans men?

my point being: there are ways of bending the data to all sorts of conclusions to fit whatever narrative you want, honestly. and because people are stuck on the oppression olympics, they pick their favorite side to root for, except this form of rooting is vehemently claiming they're the victimiest victim that ever victimed, and that everybody hates them, and that nobody has ever suffered as badly as they have, it's the worst suffering, the worst i tell ya, the world has never seen a suffering like that--

[faygeleh-franciszek]

Honestly, it really feels like so many people are memoryholeing how extremely recently trans gender demographics started to reach parity*. It was so recently that Trans men and transmasculine people were considered to be just naturally a smaller demographic. So many conflicts in the trans community seem to stem from the way we haven't quite adjusted or settled to to way demographics shifted. Not on a gender basis but also sexuality, gender presentation, types of dysphoria and inclusion of nonbinary identities.

Some people are starting from an assumption of "transmasculine privilege" and building all these things out from there and it's a ridiculous farce.

* and that gender parity is only seen and reached in some countries and some regions. Globally, FTM+FTX people are very much a minority demographic of the trans community.

[disk-whorse]

The statistics for the age disparity between transgender populations reads to me, personally, that trans men are less likely to live as long. There should be, roughly, a similar amount of transgender people from any age demographic. That we only see older, late-transitioning trans women makes me wonder if all the trans mascs who had been born in the same years as those girls even got to live to the same age. Maybe they did! Maybe they already transitioned! Maybe they’re doing ok! But those are some very hopeful and speculative Maybes because its just as plausible that they were murdered, or killed themselves, or simply went so deep into the closet that they have no intent of ever coming out again.

I have been violently suicidal and depressed since I was 13. I (miraculously) survived through 16 years of constant unending suicidal ideation that has been primarily driven by financial stability (and the lack thereof). My family never provided me any financial support after I turned 18 and I was kicked out of the house at 19. I slept in my car for a week before driving 9 hours to a different state to sleep in my partners bed. I struggled to financially support two people on one persons income. I’ve been so suicidal from the effort of keeping a job that I’ve been admitted to inpatient psych and intensive outpatient psych. I have accrued crippling amounts of debt to keep myself & my partner housed. I have considered, on multiple occasions, detransitioning so that I could apply for financial aid that was only afforded to women, and have never followed through because I would rather puke my own guts than call myself a woman. There was no help for me anywhere I looked. No mutual aid. No non-profit organizations. No shelters. I, very literally, had to choose between being a man and receiving any form of assistance, because those options were mutually exclusive to each other. I struggled to get jobs, I struggled to keep my jobs, I struggled to not mutilate myself in some desperate and vain hope that at least if I was bleeding someone would care how much pain I was in. Life has always felt like a tooth and nail struggle to survive. I say all of this as a preface, because I want to be clear when I say this; Despite how much poverty and financial stress I survived through, I am counting myself in the list of trans men who had it easy.

My immediate family (parents, siblings) are accepting of my transition, my extended family doesnt really Get It but I have been largely shielded from their transphobia because my mother is the one who broke the topic to them. With the exception of one grandparent who I no longer talk to, all of my relatives use the appropriate name and pronouns when speaking to me in person. Every good thing I have going for me currently was obtained through the luck of being related to my family; I have a 700+ credit score because my mom established my first line of credit when I was 16 so she could send me on errands and pay the balance off every month; After 8 years of scraping money together every month to make rent, I finally have stable housing because my grandmother left me an inheritance when she passed; That inheritance allowed me to pay off 10k of credit card debt accumulated paying my rent while unemployed and use the rest on a down payment for a mortgage.

I have still been suicidal my entire post-puberty life despite all the privileges afforded to me because it is simply Not Fucking Easy to be queer, disabled, and poor. I had it easy, not because my life was easy, but because there are a hundred other ways it could have gone worse. It’s so infinitely frustrating to hear people even more privileged than myself boast and brag about how ~easy~ it is to be a trans man, when what they are really bragging about is being a housed financially stable able-bodied (often college educated) white person in the imperial core with a community support system. Imo it’s Really obvious when someone has never stopped to consider experiences outside their own; That’s where you get shitass takes like “putting a pride flag in your storefront is so performative and cringe” from people who have never left the comfort of their queer-affirming community. The memory-holeing is Bad. I remember 10 years ago when the only HRT available to anyone in my city was a 3 hour drive to a rural clinic in a college town. Now the community clinic is trans-informed, provides informed-consent HRT, and has a clinical focus on providing healthcare to transgender populations. Thats massive improvement on a really fucking rapid scale, and I think a lot of [privileged] trans people come to the conclusion that this boom in transgender healthcare and visibility has translated into a boon for ALL trans people rather than the reality, which is that its mostly concentrated to predominantly blue cities. Trans people are more accepted today than they have potentially ever been, but that doesn’t change the material reality of trans people who do not have access to these communities.

From a material and political standpoint, trans men start their lives in the social position of Woman. So materially, every form of misogyny that has held down pericis women has also held down every non-woman w/ TMDP. This means rape statistics, this means child marriage statistics, this means the horror stories that come from ex-fundamentalists leaving their cults, this means gynecological abuse and medical assault, this means impregnation as a means to prevent the end of an abusive relationship, this means literally any form of horrific misogyny you have ever heard a cis woman talk about. All of it. That is the material positionallity someone with TMDP before they come out as trans. Coming out as trans increases our chances of being subjected to discrimination and violence.

And, yeah, sure, some people will see and have seen a significant decrease in the amount of interpersonal misogyny they deal with after coming out and publicly identifying as A Man, but that is inherently predicated on how progressive their community is. A trans person surrounded in other trans people with access to established local populations of other trans people is in a vastly different material positionality from a trans person in a conservative rural community, and a trans person from the global south is within their own category of material positionality. These things Matter, they make a huge difference in how much support an individual can receive, and the people most in need of help are the ones least able to ask for it. Which is why it’s fundamentally necessary for privileged trans people, trans people with access to healthcare and housing, trans people with support systems, non-racialized trans people, ect ect, to uphold the voices and opinions of those less privileged, rather than mocking them for using the wrong words to describe the bigotry they face.

That so many white trans people actively engage with this oppression olympics bullshit between Trans Men and Trans Women, while totally ignoring trans neutrals & nonbinary people, makes me want to rip my fucking hair out because it is fundamentally unhelpful. It is unhelpful to argue about who has it worse. It is unhelpful to silence a queer persons voice when they are asking for recognition of the harm they’ve faced just because it is not in line with what the dominant narrative has established. It is unhelpful to suggest that there is any underprivileged demographic in less need of resources, in less need of a voice.

I cannot abide by anyone whos transfeminism begins and ends with the same conclusions of cis feminism because cis feminism very literally leaves non-women w TMDP and intersex people who need gynecological care so out of the conversation they are stuck on the street and left to be run over. Writing “women are allowed to have abortions” into the law because no one listened to the non-women asking to be included in the language means that those same people, the ones ignored and stepped over in the pursuit of “progress”, will continue to be harmed by a lack of legal access to resources.

We cannot achieve liberation without opening the conversation to anyone and everyone who will co-operate with us. I want to HELP trans people. I want trans people to LIVE. Even if their politics aren’t aligned to mine, I still want every single trans person fed, housed, medicated, and safe. Anyone who will help me do this is welcome, because anything less is inexcusable.

[therapatical]

From a material and political standpoint, trans men start their lives in the social position of Woman. So materially, every form of misogyny that has held down pericis women has also held down every non-woman w/ TMDP. This means rape statistics, this means child marriage statistics, this means the horror stories that come from ex-fundamentalists leaving their cults, this means gynecological abuse and medical assault, this means impregnation as a means to prevent the end of an abusive relationship, this means literally any form of horrific misogyny you have ever heard a cis woman talk about. All of it. That is the material positionallity someone with TMDP before they come out as trans. Coming out as trans increases our chances of being subjected to discrimination and violence.

and what is so unbelievably frustrating is that the people arguing on this website very very very often disagree with all of the above on its basic premise that "but if you were treated as a woman your whole life then what does that say about me", totally ignoring that these things do not need to be direct mirror opposites of eachother in order for one to be true. it's why I'm like 99% certain these people don't understand what "materialism" actually means, considering how often it is used to direct deny the material conditions of the trans people they don't like.

[sammy8d257]

Ready! Set! LET'S GO!

The AvA 20th Anniversary MAP - "How Far We've Come" is releasing on June 3rd 2026!

I'm so excited to share this project with everyone and I hope you're all excited to see it too!

[artbyramen]

[cindersnows]

low quality voburgs

[cindersnows]

Im so sorry if I disregard any of your points in your mitsi rant, but i dont believe Mitsi's character is misogynistic... more just bad writing and an unfinished story thats still going. TCO didn't have many flaws back when they were introduced, and it took them a couple of episodes for an actual character reveal. Maybe she'll get more character depth when she gets revived. I can see your points, and I agree she seems to be just a serving character, but I just think we shouldn't judge until Victim's character arc is over. Love your art, by the way, sorry that this is was the first impression you got of me.

i mean- frankly theres no guarantee that shell ever be revived, considerin the plan to revive her comes from tdl (a notorious villain) theres a high chance that hes just lying or that whatever gets revived isnt actually mitsi. but im not willing to give her as much leeway as id give tco's first couple episodes, cuz alan was 17-19 when writing that and now hes nearly 40 with much more experience storytelling and a whole team of animators, editors, n a dedicated writer. i pointed out in the original essay itself that he had no issue showing little character flaws in rgyb within the first 5 minutes of their introduction

also mitsis character being well rounded shouldnt depend on victims arc, but i get with a shorter series like this you cant expect every character to have their own specialised episode and instead you see them develop in the background.. or maybe she'll get her own solo episode

but honestly im not expecting a lot.. since that essay we havent seen any proof of alan even trying to treat the women in his series better (like the mitsi n victim corndog guy short where she falls for an easy scam despite literally being a very successful and clever ceo) and has honestly shown a little immaturity with treating his characters as women (when people got happy about purple being titled "the valkrye queen", he responded with "Purple's a boy" to shut down the celebration instead of saying like- "you can see purple as whatever gender you want, its not confirmed")

[graftthatisbio]

How it feels knowing you've started an argument you can't win

[cindersnows]

i dont know how to respond to this-? im not tryin to argue, if you wanna have a discussion im more than happy to! im not gonna change my opinion on mitsis writing but im always happy to hear other perspectives even if i dont agree

[cindersnows]

Im so sorry if I disregard any of your points in your mitsi rant, but i dont believe Mitsi's character is misogynistic... more just bad writing and an unfinished story thats still going. TCO didn't have many flaws back when they were introduced, and it took them a couple of episodes for an actual character reveal. Maybe she'll get more character depth when she gets revived. I can see your points, and I agree she seems to be just a serving character, but I just think we shouldn't judge until Victim's character arc is over. Love your art, by the way, sorry that this is was the first impression you got of me.

i mean- frankly theres no guarantee that shell ever be revived, considerin the plan to revive her comes from tdl (a notorious villain) theres a high chance that hes just lying or that whatever gets revived isnt actually mitsi. but im not willing to give her as much leeway as id give tco's first couple episodes, cuz alan was 17-19 when writing that and now hes nearly 40 with much more experience storytelling and a whole team of animators, editors, n a dedicated writer. i pointed out in the original essay itself that he had no issue showing little character flaws in rgyb within the first 5 minutes of their introduction

also mitsis character being well rounded shouldnt depend on victims arc, but i get with a shorter series like this you cant expect every character to have their own specialised episode and instead you see them develop in the background.. or maybe she'll get her own solo episode

but honestly im not expecting a lot.. since that essay we havent seen any proof of alan even trying to treat the women in his series better (like the mitsi n victim corndog guy short where she falls for an easy scam despite literally being a very successful and clever ceo) and has honestly shown a little immaturity with treating his characters as women (when people got happy about purple being titled "the valkrye queen", he responded with "Purple's a boy" to shut down the celebration instead of saying like- "you can see purple as whatever gender you want, its not confirmed")

[cindersnows]

this point too! the valkyries in the original mod are much more self sufficient and combat ready, whereas in the video they dont do anything to fight back against the player who kills their queen, and rely entirely on purple and king to do the fighting for them

[cindersnows]

Im so sorry if I disregard any of your points in your mitsi rant, but i dont believe Mitsi's character is misogynistic... more just bad writing and an unfinished story thats still going. TCO didn't have many flaws back when they were introduced, and it took them a couple of episodes for an actual character reveal. Maybe she'll get more character depth when she gets revived. I can see your points, and I agree she seems to be just a serving character, but I just think we shouldn't judge until Victim's character arc is over. Love your art, by the way, sorry that this is was the first impression you got of me.

i mean- frankly theres no guarantee that shell ever be revived, considerin the plan to revive her comes from tdl (a notorious villain) theres a high chance that hes just lying or that whatever gets revived isnt actually mitsi. but im not willing to give her as much leeway as id give tco's first couple episodes, cuz alan was 17-19 when writing that and now hes nearly 40 with much more experience storytelling and a whole team of animators, editors, n a dedicated writer. i pointed out in the original essay itself that he had no issue showing little character flaws in rgyb within the first 5 minutes of their introduction

also mitsis character being well rounded shouldnt depend on victims arc, but i get with a shorter series like this you cant expect every character to have their own specialised episode and instead you see them develop in the background.. or maybe she'll get her own solo episode

but honestly im not expecting a lot.. since that essay we havent seen any proof of alan even trying to treat the women in his series better (like the mitsi n victim corndog guy short where she falls for an easy scam despite literally being a very successful and clever ceo) and has honestly shown a little immaturity with treating his characters as women (when people got happy about purple being titled "the valkrye queen", he responded with "Purple's a boy" to shut down the celebration instead of saying like- "you can see purple as whatever gender you want, its not confirmed")

[catalystnyx]

hi purple i love you purple

[vanivanvanilla]

[unaloid]

[storgicbytes]

@cindersnows

[cindersnows]

wjat does this mean ..

[cindersnows]

(it makes me kind of sick to have to hear all this for the second time.)

[purprants]

AvA’s female character writing, & Purple (Animator vs Animation / Animation vs Minecraft | A Deep Dive

Slightly inspired by @cindersnows, @i-like-grapeduo & @rocketco’s posts.

I think it’s time we talked about AvA & AvM (animator vs animation / animation vs minecraft) / Alan becker’s series & how he handles female characters- or atleast the severe lack of them. I feel like it’s been brushed under the rug for so long that now due to the newest episode, it just can’t be ignored anymore.

For the color gang (TSC, yellow, red, blue & green), TCO, TDL & Victim, their genders have never been directly stated onscreen besides very short quick blink & you’ll miss moments where the pronouns him/his/they get mentioned. However, Alan calls all of them guys & he/they pronouns, but says that he accepts fans changing whatever they want for their headcanons. However, i’ll be discussing mostly the CANON STORY, not the whole “accepting headcanon“ argument.

As we all know, all these characters have their own distinct personalities, flaws, likes / dislikes, mini arcs, talents / skills & even their own fighting styles. All of which have been mostly consistent across 12 episodes (AvA), 40 episodes (AvM), 5 episodes (AvE) & 3 more episodes (Influencer Arc) that are still ongoing for the past decade, with Alan now being able to hire &/or get a team through other means to help animate & storyboard scenes.

When asked (I believe to be-) almost 8 years ago (& he still confirmed he still stands on this opinion) why he hasn’t added any female characters, at first he responded that he didn’t want to include the idea of romance (if he was referring to the fandom here, then this makes 0 sense since the most popular ships are TDC x Red & Yellow X Blue which the fandom tends to view as gay ships), & then responded again saying that he “doesn’t know how to write women” so he avoids doing so. Now we have a grand total of… 2 female characters. Pink / Magenta (purple’s mom) & Mitsi (Victim’s spouse).

Pink / Magenta / Orchid (Purple’s mom)’s character:

For context, let’s look into the first female character- purple’s mom aka pink (who‘s clearly female because she’s pink of course!) & purple’s dad was confirmed to be the navy stickfigure. We know she was kind & compassionate to Purple, specifically during the times when Navy went too far during training sessions with him. However, Navy seemed to weak them both as weak & thus left them. Pink died at some point due to a unknown illness (Pink‘s body at one point thins out slightly, & Alan responded when asked that “she got sick. lol sorry I didn’t come up with anymore ideas than that”), leaving Purple alone where he tries to gain Navy’s approval (wherever he is), & then his father figure’s (King Orange’s) approval. During this time, Purple gets 1 lengthy arc & 2 - 3 short ones which made him one of the top best-written characters in the series.

We get a scene of King Orange making amends (for almost killing him) & adopting Purple where cherry blossoms fall with Purple then taking these same blossoms to Pink’s grave. But besides that, nothing is done with Pink’s character. Her personality of being compassionate never conflicts with his motivations to make Navy proud (to the point where he’s willing to betray his only friends to do so), we never see Purple really grieving over Pink‘s death during his arc (especially since it’s heavily implied that he was a orphan for a long time before meeting King Orange) prior to the reveal, & her introduction where she defends him while arguing with Navy over his harsh training (& this is the only scene of her) seems extremely forced right at the end.

Mitsti (Victim’s spouse)’s character:

Oh boy where do I even begin? She’s first introduced when she meets Victim & calms him down from a panic attack & shows very similar traits to Pink- being kind, compassionate, but also really smart & a little funny. She pretty much helps Victim through his PTSD & starts up the company with him (with the implication that she started it solely to share just HIS talents), but never shows any flaws of her own. Her traits just boil down to her dedicating her life to help people without actually exploring why she does so.

Alan could’ve easily gave her any flaws too. Since the bio her creator (lore-wise) gave her is just “dance animation test, lmk what u guys think”, maybe she internally sees herself as needing to stick to what she was made to do (“just be a perfect & kind dancer, nothing more, that’s what my creator expected me to be” kind of thoughts) which causes some sort of self doubt about her own skills (not solely leaning towards her desire to help others) with the company she & Victim founded, & she learns to build herself back up (mostly) on her own. At least give us ANY form of growth for her. But instead, she just dies & once again becomes a plot device for Victim & his motivations to get revenge.

It seems almost like Alan purely associates female characters with just being romance partners & being a stereotypical perfect woman. Combining this with the additional fact that Alan didn’t even think of a name for her (or even just naming her light gray) & just put Victim’s name backwards (Mitciv) in order to figure out the name Mitsi, & the fact that she was very coincidentally the first character to ever have permanent accessories really paints a picture that barely any effort was put into her character.

The writing choices behind the newest episode (AvM Ep39 - The Aether) with the valkyrie sword, & arguments against the title claim:

For the final nail of the coffin, I think the newest episode of AvM really proves the lack of care for the writing of female characters. Prior to this episode, purple’s gender was also never specified (however, a large chunk of the fandom viewed Purple as feminine or genderfluid due to the possibility of good representation… & because of a bit of the fandom shipping green x purple with some interpreting both green & purple as feminine) but in this newest episode, Purple while in the aether dimension picks up the valkyrie sword & becomes the “valkyrie queen”. People were commenting about how good it is to get representation, & in response Alan made a pinned comment “Purple is a boy btw” which was then changed to “btw Valkyrie Queen is just a title”.

This seems to imply that if, say, a 100% established male character like Victim or King Orange where to pick up the valkyrie sword, it will put their boss name as “Victim / King Orange the Valkyrie Queen” regardless of gender due to the possible coding of the sword. However, even this explanation seems like a stretch this the aether mod itself doesn’t do this when a player or mob picks up the weapon, & even if it did the stickfigures have been shown to only partially abide by game rules & code, not being entirely restricted to it.

You can argue it’s “his story, his rules” like glazers in the fandom are saying, but then why is the creator so adamant that Purple mustn’t be feminine in canon? If it was due to fear of the fandom’s headcanons causing drama, then why couldn’t he just say “Purple’s a girl in canon but you can all still make headcanons to change their gender in your fan content”? If he truly intended Purple to fully confirmed male from the start, why constantly switch opinions, & why even add the Valkyrie queen boss meter’s text at all when in all other scenarios where a stickfigure picks up a boss’s weapon, no meter ever shows up?

He could’ve even just add the title valkyrie- & then the word “queen” just be the code glitching due to Minecraft not recognizing the stickfigures as actual traditional game files (since this is a canon lore detail) or even just have it be explained via Minecraft currently becoming corrupted by something as established in the previous episode.

“Purple being feminine in canon would’ve ruined their backstory & character which could’ve been why it’s likely not canon”:

Furthermore, there’s the debate that Purple ever becoming canonically female would ‘ruin’ her character since Navy was clearly training them & “dads / father figures / mentors don’t train their daughters to fight”. But this isn’t true since female characters do infact get trained in media, we have female stickfigure characters since 2013 (not apart of Alan’s series & made by entirely different creators) who are able to fight, & we aren’t even given a canon explanation as to why Navy decided to train Purple. It could’ve been due to events of the newgrounds attack, but it’s unknown if this happened before Navy’s training or after. If we assumed it happened after, then any parent would’ve want to train their kids to defend themselves regardless of gender.

If anything, making Purple feminine would’ve made her development even more better since she would’ve been likely viewed as “always weak” even more by her own father to then becoming one of the top fighters in the series (besides the ones with their own coded destructive abilities like TCO or TDL)

Conclusion:

I think it’s about time people respectfully speak up & discuss topics like this. Just because the series has been really long going & has amazing animation doesn’t mean that it’s immune to it’s glaring & concerning flaws combined with the author’s statements over the years. He has a whole team of animators & even the kickstarter raised 1M dollars for the AvA game. If writing a female character is this difficult for him even 8 - 10 years later, then he could very easily hire a co-writer to help him.

[rocketco]

the misogyny in AVA/AVM

[biscotch]

AMERICANS.

they're the only ones who get cool tadc events, THEY'RE SPOILED.

they won't go to a theater screening, they won't watch it two weeks early

I WON'T LET THEM!

I'M BETTER.

IM MORE MEDIA LITERATE

I'M AN ORIGINAL FAN!

IM

NOT

AMERICAAANNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!