mei fanpage

Basically I'm sleepy and lonely and need attention all of the time

[longxiaojiao]

bruh I miss them so bad

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I would genuinely give up the lives of every single one of my https://store.steampowered.com friends to gain the opportunity to bestow a kiss upon Mei's forehead and give her a Capri Sun

[kasspergh]

learn to love yourself

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Is it normal to feel guilt about every single thing I have ever done google search

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Is it normal to be so subsumed by my fear of culpability that I forget how to enjoy myself in the moment and become entrapped in a purgatory of perpetual inertia

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Is it normal to feel guilt about every single thing I have ever done google search

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Also, an unappreciated aspect of LMK being a kids' show is that the early episodes illustrate such a viscerally upsetting story about Mk's self loathing and monumental abandonment issues, while simultaneously having the most ridiculous plot imaginable. The average s1-s2 LMK episode is like "Spider Queen gets her hands on dastardly shrink ray and uses it to shrink every member of the main cast except for Mk", and then you open the episode and half of it is Mk rapidly entering a depressive episode about how he believes all his loved ones are predestined to leave him once they realize he is nothing more than a parasite exploiting them for his own personal gain, before he hallucinates Goku telling him that if he can just muster a morsel of faith in his own abilities, then he's sure Mk will be able to figure this out on his own, which causes him to lock in and get his ass in gear

[longxiaojiao]

It is kind of beautiful how Mei is the last hope the world has left, and Mk is the precipitator of imminent demise and destruction. Tfw you're thematic foils with the homie. Nobody is doing it like them. Everyone's favorite life/death faith/impiety good/evil action/stasis hope/misery &c themed duo

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Monkie Kid Mei Gifs

Praise Mei

[longxiaojiao]

The concept of romance is socially constructed and does not congruously describe much of anything. The most common societal indications of redamancy have nothing significantly 'romantic' in nature about them because they cannot on a fundamental level-- there is nothing innate in kissing, or hand-holding, or anything of the like that explicitly symbolizes that you want to marry someone, or make love to them, or go on a date with them, &c... But all of this is so materialized in the public cultural consciousness that you can't say anything acknowledging this without sounding insane. But all of this stuff is literally made up. None of this is real in any measurable or tangible capacity.

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I feel like when a specific fanon reading garners a reputation for being shallow or deleterious in nature, it bizarrely drives a lot of people to preformatively recontextualize what concepts they enjoyed in fanon in more textually respectable ways because those readings are socially rewarded, without genuinely having an appreciation for the canon relationships.

[longxiaojiao]

Like, I'm not trying to condemn any specific fanon concept, because idrc and ultimately I don't think the average coffee shop au writer (or w/e) is actually trying to come away with a relevant or good faith reading of any given narrative-- and that's perfectly fine!-- but it frustrates me when people reframe ideas that are intrinsically a product of fanon as though they are a legitimate reading of the text because engaging with these same ideas otherwise would be seen as socially unattractive. eg Most dad!Wukong and older brother!Wukong headcanons are functionally indistinct: They both seek to fulfill the same fantasy of a previously disenfranchised character gaining a stable and unconditionally supportive caregiver (regardless of how applicable this reading is to the canon characters or their relationship), but the principal difference shows in how one of these headcanons is frequently on the receiving end of criticism for being 'out-of-character' and one isn't!

[longxiaojiao]

I think this also shows in how people regard female characters. They are unusually punitive towards those whom are psychologically difficult to reconcile with, but are also able to recognize that this impulse would be received poorly so instead intentionally opt to overlook crucial parts of their character in order to have a more socially-acceptable way of unconsciously expressing their distaste. This inevitably happens with pretty much every female character who assumes an antagonistic or morally ambiguous role, but some specific examples I can think of would be LBD and Mayor Holiday-- they're essentially often subject to "this character is a cold, unfeeling bitch and that's AWESOME!!" even when this is a fundamentally insincere and unproductive takeaway of their characters, and no one who says this harbors any kind of meaningful or salient appraisal of them.

[longxiaojiao]

I feel like when a specific fanon reading garners a reputation for being shallow or deleterious in nature, it bizarrely drives a lot of people to preformatively recontextualize what concepts they enjoyed in fanon in more textually respectable ways because those readings are socially rewarded, without genuinely having an appreciation for the canon relationships.

[longxiaojiao]

Like, I'm not trying to condemn any specific fanon concept, because idrc and ultimately I don't think the average coffee shop au writer (or w/e) is actually trying to come away with a relevant or good faith reading of any given narrative-- and that's perfectly fine!-- but it frustrates me when people reframe ideas that are intrinsically a product of fanon as though they are a legitimate reading of the text because engaging with these same ideas otherwise would be seen as socially unattractive. eg Most dad!Wukong and older brother!Wukong headcanons are functionally indistinct: They both seek to fulfill the same fantasy of a previously disenfranchised character gaining a stable and unconditionally supportive caregiver (regardless of how applicable this reading is to the canon characters or their relationship), but the principal difference shows in how one of these headcanons is frequently on the receiving end of criticism for being 'out-of-character' and one isn't!

[longxiaojiao]

I feel like when a specific fanon reading garners a reputation for being shallow or deleterious in nature, it bizarrely drives a lot of people to preformatively recontextualize what concepts they enjoyed in fanon in more textually respectable ways because those readings are socially rewarded, without genuinely having an appreciation for the canon relationships.

[longxiaojiao]

Also, I don't understand the hc that Red Son ages slowly (and so is essentially a young adult maturity wise). You actually just made that up. There is nothing that even remotely suggests this in the show. If you assume LMK takes place in the 22nd century (extremely conservative estimate) then he is 1400 at minimum.

[longxiaojiao]

I don't need therapy I need Mei and Mk to do morally ambiguous things because of their love for one another

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If I am completely honest I do not think people meaningfully view Mei as lesbian/underage/sister to anyone in the show, I think it is just an excuse that people use to justify why she is entirely absent in shipping content. You can dissolve any relevancy she has in her relationships with other characters and shove her out of the way of any popular ship if you assert that there's something wrong with shipping her with others

[longxiaojiao]

Tfw you like a ship only to find out everyone else in the fandom has inexplicitly decided that they're siblings or related in some general capacity

[longxiaojiao]

At the risk of sounding like an asshole, the people who loudly insist that Mei and Red Son are siblings every time they are on screen together might be the most genuinely insufferable people alive

[longxiaojiao]

Like, the thing is that you objectively would not feel the need to do this UNLESS you understand that Red Son explicitly harbors romantic feelings for Mei and are attempting to conceal that by pretending everything on screen is familial, because that way there are social consequences for continuing to engage in shipping them and a justifiable reason for your dislike (other than making Mei undesirable to ship). There's literally no other way for you to come away with the take that they are siblings (or sibling coded, etc), because they are objectively not