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[apollos-boyfriend]

one of these days i’m gonna snap

[apollos-boyfriend]

this is about all it/its characters now actually. respect it/its pronouns or die by my hand

[apollos-boyfriend]

look, i'm gonna try to be as polite as possible, but i can't make too many promises because this is a topic i'm very passionate about. personally, i think it's really weird to be weirded out by people who want a character's pronouns to be respected, but to each their own.

we do not know if those who refer to the hollow knight with it/its are dehumanizing it, of it those are just its pronouns. it is assumed that its being dehumanized (and i'm not arguing it wasn't dehumanized as a whole - it totally was, that's the whole point) but i think that narratively, we're given more proof that those are its pronouns rather than the assumption that they're not, which is largely based upon our own world's associations of it/its. (lots of bugs in hk use it/its. while it's most seen with lower-level enemies, characters such as the crystal guardian, soul warrior, nosk, etc also use it/its. it seems to be pretty common in their world.)

when the knight meets the white lady, she refers to thk with it/its. i bring her up specifically because while we can't know her thought process during thk's life, we know that in the time since she's grown to regret her actions and has realized the true cost of its sacrifice. as she says: "there is some shame i feel from my own part in the deed and this method guarantees it cease." the white lady is no longer trying to pretend that the "no mind to think, no will to break" was truly what the vessels were. she realizes they are their own people, and yet, refers to thk with its proper pronouns: "i implore you, usurp the vessel. its supposed strength was ill-judged."

this is more personal, but i think the city of tears memorial holds up a little less if thk is dehumanized by everyone. "through its sacrifice" has weight. if it/its would imply that it was not a person, and every bug saw thk as nothing more than an empty shell, what would there be for it to sacrifice? why not "through its duty" or "through its vow"? why would the bugs of hallownest uphold its actions as a sacrifice if they saw it as below them?

additionally, while we don't have many other examples, both other vessels we encounter use it/its (the knight and the broken vessel).

with the knight's case, there is no possibility of it being "dehumanized". the bugs who the knight interact with (for the most part) have no clue of the vessels' existence, much less that it is one. all of them, with only one exception, refer to it with it/its. the broken vessel's pronouns come from the hunter's journal, which reads: "the shape of this creature… i have seen something like it before. more than once, perhaps. it looks a little like the bugs of hallownest, but not quite the same. where did these empty little wanderers come from?" which tells us that the hunter does not know what the vessels are, but refers to one with it/its anyways. to me, having both vessels be referred to it/its by bugs without knowledge of their true origin is pretty solid proof that that's just the pronouns vessels use.

the only time the knight is they/them'd is in bretta's diary, in which she writes: "she knew the presence at her bed, knew the calm only they could bring." that's the only time anyone ever refers to the knight with anything other than it/its. personally, i think it's a very purposeful writing decision, and what really cements the knight's pronouns as it/its, as opposed to anything else. the whole point of bretta's journal is to be a joke. she doesn't the know the knight and is imposing her own ideas/fantasies upon it. she doesn't care about who it is or what it wants, and that extends to her not even bothering to use its right pronouns.

and if you want to they/them the knight still, i suppose it's fine. but if any other character had dozens of examples of being referred to with they/them pronouns, and one case of she/her, and everyone in the fandom decided to only use she/her pronouns, that'd be insane, wouldn't it?

[busket]

important that you never forgive ice agents, ever. even years after all this is over (and I do believe we will make it out on the other side, alive and for the better,) they live in shame and disgrace forever. no excuses, no forgiveness. they ruined their own lives when they decided that human freedom and liberty was an acceptable sacrifice for a paycheck

[brightlotusmoon]

[cassie-darlin]

“nobody likes abortion” i do. i think its awesome actually.

[capacity]

I wish you can hug me and say everything’s going to be okay

Girl we are fucked

[calware]

i really love this genre of image

[lunarthesugarglider]

[villaqueen]

The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up

[i-am-a-lonely-nerd]

I love the death grip after the toy was fixed up. Lessons were learned. Try to steal it this time you fucking bird. I dare you.

[the-quasar-hero]

You can make a movie with where the only white character is a man named Ray Cism whose one line of his 16 seconds of screen time is “I seriously hate women and minorities.” and you’ll find fifty bajillion reader x Ray Cism fanfics and renaissance style drawings of him with a halo of golden light

[ypsilon42]

This is probably going to be an unpopular opinion, but here it goes anyways. A lot of you are making up people to be mad at.

Let's take sinners for example. There is a white guy with like 2 lines exclusively about hating minorities in this movie. His name is not Ray, it's Bert (I had to look that up on imdb), he is the kkk-vampire and not a single person on earth is writing self-insert fic about this guy. They are writing self-insert fic about the central antagonist, who is also a vampire. Girls like villains, what else is new.

And sure, maybe I am being to literal here, but yelling at people that they are liking a thing in the wrong way is just the fastest way to kill a fandom. The underlying things this post is pointing at are real and they do exist. Societal beauty standards center white people, a lot of (white) people have are harder time sympathising with people of color. But those things are not fandom problems. They are just general problems of living in white supremacist society and they show up in all facets of or society including fandom. But you are not gonna fix them by telling people they are somehow bad for liking the sexy vampire.

I really liked Sinners. But if I look at the top text posts for example 4 out of 10 are wank about how people are problematic or racist for the way they like the movie. And to be completely honest, I think that this atmosphere is also a huge factor in why Sinners fandom is not a big as it could be. Which is really fucking sad.

[the-quasar-hero]

Where am I yelling about “ppl liking things the wrong way”?

Am I “making up a guy to be mad at” if by your own admission you are a fan of a character that fits the hypothetical scenario that I described in the original post? That you brought up, because I didn’t bring up Sinners (2025).

You admit that societal beauty standards favor white people (an odd thing to bring up), and in turn white people have a harder time sympathizing with people of color (a poor excuse for racism), and yet you think this doesn’t factor into fandom? You think white ppl, from the society that you acknowledge has racist biases, will somehow leave those same prejudices when engaging in fandom? You think that the “real world” is a completely separate vacuum from the art that leads to fandom?

“Girls like villains” a very strange, pointedly projective, and dismissive of the main point of the post: racism. You think women of color like racist villains? Or is it just white women? Because that’s what we’re talking about here: racist characters, specifically. With this line of thinking, you put forth that either the women in a fandom, Sinners (2025) by your example, a predominantly Black led piece of media which centers Black women as they’re integral to the story, should categorically like the “sexy vampire” despite the fact that he’s terrorizing Black people throughout the movie just because he’s the villain. Or you put forth that there are no women of color in the Sinners fandom, which would be an odd thing to think given the previous points.

You think that pointing out racism is “killing a fandom” as it brings up things you don’t want to think about, as is described by the original post, that hyperfixating on a racist white character in a piece of media is a reoccurring thing, and that when a Black person (me) or any other person of color points that out; you feel attacked which is clear from your long block of text you’ve added. You need to think about why you feel the need to go on the defensive for a fictional character that represents assimilation and entitlement to Black bodies (a fairly obvious reading of Remmick) and why it’s okay to like him above the rest of the Black cast.

[creatingblackcharacters]

In summary:

[ferocioustrout]

“mom coded” “sister coded” “wine aunt coded” what if she’s his friend instead. you’re actually allowed to be friends with women

[valtsv]

sorry i'm basic but i love the act of killing someone for the first time as a metaphor for sexual violence

[valtsv]

loss of virginity as a social construct representing the loss of innocence, phallic weapons penetrating flesh and being withdrawn stained with blood, guilt manifesting as a feeling of uncleanliness that can't be washed away, the cultural associations of both your first kill and first sexual encounter with achieving manhood/maturity, hesitation or refusal to participate being met with coercion and mockery. you know what it is.

[grimeclown]

I got a job at a gas station across from a casino and a guy keeps coming in to buy whole cartons of cigarettes and talks in the third person calling himself "snake eyes pete" and every time I tell him his total hes like "tell ya what if old Pete rolls a snake eyes why dont you give it to him for free?" and he rolls the same set of loaded dice on the counter and it does not matter how many times he rolls snake eyes I will not give him the cartons for free he gets so mad

[grimeclown]

Snakeyes Pete is from Toronto he gave me a button once that said "Canadians have the best luck" and i said i thought that was the Irish and he said "I fucking hate the irish" and i said okay

[im-mender]

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

[im-mender]

also very true

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[vintxgemiseries]

count me outs

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[diarunas]

it matters a LOT that christopher nolan is a british man filming with british actors in britian in a story not only just greek story but literally an embodiment of (ancient) greek culture. the british have been trying to convince the world that ancient greece is their legacy for centuries, and we will not let them succeed

[i-say-spooky-you-say-scary]

real talk why do so many fantasy universes think giant spiders are necessary

[downtroddendeity]

The sad part is there’s a decent chance a large proportion of them can be blamed on one spider.

The tarantula that bit JRR Tolkien as a child.

He swore he didn’t have a spider phobia and the experience had nothing to do with the man-eating giant spiders in The Hobbit, the even more giant and even more man-eating spider in Lord of the Rings, or the unholy eldritch spider from outside creation that plunged the world into darkness and made literal Satan scream like a little kid in the Silmarillion. Very few people believe him.

Given LotR’s influence in the fantasy genre, there is a high probability that tarantula is the progenitor of even more fictional spiders than Ungoliant was.

[i-say-spooky-you-say-scary]

wow fuck that one tarantula

[jimintomystery]

“fantasy universes have too many spiders” factoid actually just statistical error. Georgs Spider, who bit JRR Tolkein & is to blame for menacing over 10,000 fantasy universes, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[felixcloud6288]

Listening to a podcast

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[felixcloud6288]

Oh we're all feeling this one aren't we?

[kitsuleif]

[earhartsease]

and that much ado? it's about nothing

[creativitycache]

putting the ad in ado

[keptoabysmal]

imagine fail-rping your disabled lovers niche lobster petplay fantasy because he doesn't regenerate limbs

[valtsv]

the fujoshi shit is old

you should be grateful for my restraint. if you saw the fujoshi shit i do in private you'd hurl.