Somehowalive101

There’s no excuse for bad show writing! I’m just a girl , nah seriously I’m literally just a random girl on the internet, no need to take things seriously , don’t like my opinions , scroll away.

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This Is About Arcane

[constantlytired101]

It’s terrible , the worst thing to happen to a fan.

[eurydycee]

I can’t sleep no matter what I do so I am just thought dumping…

My biggest issue with Elia’s characterization is that it starts from an interesting premise before collapsing under its own contradictions. I genuinely liked the idea of her supporting Rhaegar in removing Aerys from power. That aligns with House Martell’s interests and gives Elia real political agency. But then the story pushes the “girlboss” angle so far that it becomes self-defeating.

Having Elia actively support Rhaegar and Lyanna’s relationship undermines her own stated goals. If her priority is strengthening House Martell, why would she support a situation that threatens her children’s future? Aegon may be the eldest son, but Rhaegar has already proven himself willing to disregard his marriage for the sake of prophecy and obsession. He believes his third child is the Prince That Was Promised, so what is stopping him from legitimizing that child, naming Lyanna his queen, and setting Elia aside? A half-rotten onion is still a rotten onion. Once Rhaegar has shown he is willing to abandon one duty, there is little reason for Elia to trust him with the rest.

The story seems aware of this problem, so instead of addressing it, it sidesteps it. Elia is rewritten as someone who never cared for Rhaegar romantically and is instead in love with Ashara. But Ashara herself exists largely as “the love interest,” making the relationship feel less like a meaningful romance and more like a convenient excuse to remove any emotional conflict. Rather than developing Elia and Ashara’s relationship for its own sake, it mainly serves to make readers more accepting of Rhaegar and Lyanna.

There’s also a broader pattern that weakens many of the female characters. The women are written as so relentlessly calculating, ruthless, and “strong” that they lose much of their humanity, while the men are softened by comparison. Rhaella’s desperate desire for a child that is destructive, while Aerys is reframed as simply wanting a child who will bring peace. Rhaegar is the one cautioning Lyanna against becoming consumed by prophecy. Elia becomes an untouchable political mastermind, and Ashara is reduced to an endlessly liberated “girlboss” who wants countless lovers.

The problem isn’t that these women are ambitious, politically savvy, or morally gray. Those traits can make for fantastic characters. The problem is that the story seems to equate strength with emotional detachment, constant competence, and a rejection of vulnerability. In trying so hard to make its women appear powerful and independent, it strips away much of the softness, insecurity, and emotional complexity that make characters feel like real people. Ironically, that ends up making the male characters seem more grounded and sympathetic than the women, despite the story’s apparent intentions.

CONCLUSION: Misogyny (and orientalism) will always finds it way. I need strong sleeping pills for when TWOW is released, and perhaps a proper hobby….

[constantlytired101]

Looking at the mad kings play

If it’s canon

Then sorry George , you low key deserved HOTD

Cause they’re both on the same level

[constantlytired101]

Does anyone know good GOT fics that fix things from S7 ? Cause I can’t stand that season to be canon

[constantlytired101]

I wanted to grab Chris’s Jacket from the RPD soo BAD

It’s the Matching one with Claire !

And Jill’s Beret , it’s so cute

[constantlytired101]

Please Capcom

Chris and Jill duo

It’s been so long

[constantlytired101]

Hot take :

Chris isn’t too much used in RE

His last game was RE6

He only has a cameo in RE7/RE8 , they don’t count as his games , especially RE7 he literally appeared for a second and the DLC was short

Revelations 1 also doesn’t count for him , we played as Jill for 95% of the game

So Chris’s games are : RE1 , RE5 , RE6 for mainline

I understand why fans think we see him too much as he’s got a role in almost every RE game but they aren’t really him focused , he’s just there for a few minutes and that’s it

I don’t mind a new Chris game as long as we get Claire or Jill as a playable character ( like RE 1 / RE2 , two campaigns )

[vestal1]

Was this a unpopular opinion? Brother had 2 seconds in re7 and popped in re8 just to be the himbo who moves the plot what do you mean fans though he's overused-

[constantlytired101]

According to Tik tok RE fans , he’s overused T-T

[constantlytired101]

Hot take :

Chris isn’t too much used in RE

His last game was RE6

He only has a cameo in RE7/RE8 , they don’t count as his games , especially RE7 he literally appeared for a second and the DLC was short

Revelations 1 also doesn’t count for him , we played as Jill for 95% of the game

So Chris’s games are : RE1 , RE5 , RE6 for mainline

I understand why fans think we see him too much as he’s got a role in almost every RE game but they aren’t really him focused , he’s just there for a few minutes and that’s it

I don’t mind a new Chris game as long as we get Claire or Jill as a playable character ( like RE 1 / RE2 , two campaigns )

[constantlytired101]

I do think Capcom doesn’t want to bring back the female cast in a new game as they’re afraid if they age them up , the fandom won’t find them attractive anymore

But here’s the thing, They don’t have to go with the Mainline , we got a lot of time skips , we could have a new game starring Jill/Claire anywhere between the mainline from RE3/Code Veronica to the revelations games there is a good few years , or post RE 6 / revelations 2 to RE7/RE8

I’m very happy with CV remake and wishing for an RE5 but I’d love a new instalment for the ladies

[constantlytired101]

Hot take : I hate GOT/ASOIAF AUs that gives Jon dragon eggs and he hatches them , I think it’s silly and kind of Misogynistic that you’ll take Daenerys special trait and give it to Jon

[constantlytired101]

Seeing the S3 trailer for HOTD made me glad I dropped it in S2

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Hello! Would you like the "Where's my wife?", or, "Where's everyone going, bingo?"

[constantlytired101]

Hot take : if you’re not part of the Culture that Sabrina Carpenter absolutely disrespected , then you have no right to sit there and say “it’s not that deep”

You don’t have the right to decide that.

[constantlytired101]

Not Sabrina Carpenter disrespecting an entire Culture

[noiredeoro]

▋Claire’s bond with Sherry did not become less central just because Capcom kept handing the follow-through to Leon.

▋What always gets me about a “Claire fans should chill, Leon was there too” type of post is the condescension of it. Of course you get to say that from a position of comfort when your favorite is already the most protected, centered, and popular character in the series.

And that is exactly why these posts are so annoying: they keep shrinking the discussion down to the safest, smallest possible point. “Leon was there too.” Okay. Nobody is confused that Leon was physically present in RE2. That is not the issue.

The issue is bigger than that, and Claire fans have been talking about it for years. It is about franchise priority, character allocation, and Capcom’s long-running habit of letting Leon absorb more and more of the emotional and narrative space around other characters while Claire gets less follow-through, less payoff, and less continuation of the arcs that were naturally hers.

Yes, in the original RE2 Leon was there too. Fine. But Sherry mattered to RE2 above all as part of Claire’s story. Claire is the one whose scenario is emotionally structured around protecting her, caring for her, and getting her out. That is the heart of Claire’s arc there. So when later material keeps circling back to Leon & Sherry while Claire & Sherry is neglected, of course Claire fans are going to be annoyed. That annoyance did not come from nowhere.

And that is why the fake-neutral “well Leon was there too” line is so irritating. No one is saying Leon was nowhere in that story. The point is that Claire had a specific, meaningful role that people are constantly trying to flatten, minimize, blur, or reassign, and then acting like Claire fans are unreasonable for noticing it.

What makes it even more obnoxious is that people like this act as though Claire fans defending Claire’s place and Leon fans defending Leon are the exact same thing. They are not. One is defending a character whose importance is constantly being absorbed into Leon’s orbit, and the other is defending the franchise’s golden boy, who already gets handed everybody’s traits, dynamics, and narrative weight by fandom and often by Capcom itself. Those are not equal positions. One is defending against erasure; the other is protecting the most comfortable, dominant reading in the fandom.

And that is the part that never gets acknowledged: Leon only gets to have all of this sustained connection, follow-up, and emotional continuity with Sherry because Capcom chose to keep building it around him. That is the whole point of the criticism. Claire fans are not stupid. We know Leon was “there.” We know RE6 and later material exist. What we are angry about is why the franchise kept choosing to build on Leon’s connection while neglecting the character who was the emotional anchor of Sherry’s story to begin with.

So when people say “but Leon was there too,” it feels beside the point at best and condescending at worst, because they are treating the later franchise output like neutral proof instead of part of the very pattern Claire fans are criticizing. Leon gets more games, more visibility, more narrative continuation, and then people turn around and use the results of that favoritism as proof that his bond matters more in the first place. That is exactly the problem.

And yes, the tag situation is part of why this gets so exhausting. You go into the Claire tag looking for Claire and so much of it is Claire in relation to Leon, posts defending Leon in Claire discussions, or just Leon-centric framing parked on top of her. So then when Claire fans push back, suddenly we are the ones who need to “chill”? Please.

So no, the frustration is not “pretending Leon and Sherry don’t matter.” It is asking why Capcom kept rerouting long-term emotional payoff away from the natural Claire-centered continuation and toward Leon instead, and then expecting Claire fans to accept that as organic. At a certain point it stops looking organic and starts looking like erasure dressed up as continuity.

That is what makes these posts so maddening. They act like Claire fans are just confused about plot details or mad that Leon existed in RE2, when the real complaint is that the franchise keeps taking material that had a natural Claire-centered future and redistributing it elsewhere. Easy to say “everyone calm down” when your favorite never has to fight for oxygen.

[constantlytired101]

The resident evil franchise is ignoring its main female cast more and more

[odetomymind]

Resident Evil used to be a brilliant series for female characters in a time where, for the most part, representation was quite bad. And it somehow managed to go backwards as time went on by shoving iconic characters in the basement while endlessly bringing back Chris and Leon, never doing anything with Ada that can't be boiled down to her being the seductress in Leon's life, robbing Jill of her own content in RE3 remake in order to build up Carlos and giving Grace less than half of RE9 to herself. Capcom, we're tired 🫩

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