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things on my radar; the community movie, hbh final season, the six idiot's next project, & sunrise on the reaping
current account theme: thg ballad of songbirds and snakes + brad bakshi from mythic quest
previous account themes: good omens, guilty gear, space force, kirby, nbc community, dghda, red vs blue, danny pudi, puppet history, staged, ben schwartz, doctor who, bryan dechart, yonderland, bbc ghosts, cast of the ducktales reboot, neil newbon
posts written by me are tagged; #oubliette was here
I love Rocktiz, but I can't draw him with human Grace because I'm just too attached to the interspecie bond between Grace and Rocky. It's the soul of the movie and its so beautiful.
The human Rocky AU and eridian Grace AU down there, since i really liked the linearts its a shame they're so hidden
Britta Perry (Community) vs. Kim Wexler (Better Call Saul)
Britta Perry
Kim Wexler
Voting ended onJun 20
Propaganda below the cut:
Kim Wexler:
Fandom spent years insisting she had to die because they could not imagine that she existed for a reason other than to motivate Jimmy. Fandom also acted like she was a sociopath for playing an admittedly cruel prank on Howard.
Kim is such an interesting character whose capacity for self-justification makes her all the more compelling. She basically invented Saul Goodman. Also Howard put her in doc review, so.
Britta Perry:
not only does the fandom loathe her for things the other male characters have done, but the original writers of the show continued to dumb down and flanderise her character to appease misogynist audiences, ruining what could have been a really well made and nuanced character. it pisses me off to no end.
she is literally a pathetic little goober. shes passionate about everything in a way thats sometimes irritating and i love it. she is so stubborn and wants to do the right thing which makes her overbearing in a rly charming way. she's strong but also sensitive and cares so much about other people that she sacrifices everything she has for them OVER and OVER, and yet shes still scared that shes not a good person. she is such an interesting character, and i KNOW its a comedy but if the audience (AND showrunners) stopped treating her like only a joke character we would have room for so much amazing discussion about her depth. the main guy characters get their tender moments in so many episodes! why couldnt she have hers! ok that is all
Chloe Price (Life Is Strange) vs. Amy Pond (Doctor Who)
Chloe Price
Amy Pond
Voting ended onJun 23
Propaganda below the cut:
Amy Pond:
She's said to be a shallow male fantasy character because she likes being sexy and has an unhealthy relationship to sex. Her personality is completely ignored because of her femininity. Her mental health problems are also said to be part of the 'male fantasy' and not valid choices made by the writers
She's mentally ill, she can be rude and abrasive, she's kind, clever, brave, she doesn't believe in herself but she makes a religion out of her friend, she's complex and difficult <3
Chloe Price:
a lot of people had a REAL distaste for her because the relationship between her and the main character is a central point in the game. lots of people questioning why she's even there / she just makes everything worse / she's so annoying / friendship doesn't make any sense cause she sucks and is stupid. etc
on a fundamental level her life experience and how stuck she is makes her top-tier for me. she's early college age and in the past few years has lost almost every one of the people closest to her. hopeless about her future. she's immature and traumatized and she was game-designed to be THE Oregon Tumblr Girl
This fandom blorbo-fied a rich guy who drugged and assaulted (and in one instance killed) women 'cause he's a poor little meow meow who had an ass of a dad, meanwhile Chloe, who lost her dad, and her best friend, and her first love, and gets abused by her stepdad, and got a mom who won't stand up for her and blames her for everything, that Chloe, who despite it stays kind at heart, gets villanized, called a bitch and manipulative, and the worst character ever in long YouTube essays. Because she's a hurt teenager who's a bit mean about it sometimes and wants her best friend to pay attention to her after ditching her for five years. Horrible and unforgivable, of course. Unlike the first sentence of this text, of course. Between these two people only one of them deserves compassion, and it's not the girl.
First of all: smoking punks who are a bit mean about their damage are literally cool and also a girl version of the "bad misunderstood boy with a heart of gold" archetype, so misogyny is literally the only thing stopping Chloe from being lovable as hell. But even if that's not your cup of tea, have you considered she's literally amazing. Regardless of how hurt she is and how much right she has to tell Max (the aforementioned best friend) to beat it she sticks with her. She helps her. After being hurt and angry for five years literally the first thing she does is give Max a ride in her truck and invite her back into her home. She has her back literally no matter what crap happens in the story. She is and always was the one to stand up for an underdog because she's been one herself. She knows and apologizes when she screws up. And most importantly, despite how much she suffered, all she lost, despite all the times she wished to be free of the town, in the end she's fully ready and offering to sacrifice her life for them. All love Chloe Price.
Claudia (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Angelique (The Island Of Doctor Morose)
Claudia
Angelique
Voting ended onJun 25
Propaganda below the cut:
Angelique:
She's not outright hated by the fandom, but she does get sidelined and reduced to the cheerleader of yaoi "girl boss" character type. The fact that she's a Black woman and the other main characters are white men doesn't really help.
She's a very interesting character being a brilliant scientist who starts out working with Drs. Thomas and Samantha Morose to genuinely help people. She really admired Samantha and the two of them had a mother daughter relationship. Unfortunately, Thomas didn't feel the same way about her. And then after Samantha falls ill and dies, he blames it on her and her project not working. She then has to watch as Thomas goes completely mad and starts experimenting on and killing her fellow scientists. He even purposely traps her to be eaten by spiders and she loses an arm due to this. Thankfully the protagonist of the game, Howard, helps free her and she's able to create a prosthetic arm for herself with slime from the project she was working on. And in pretty much all the endings of the game, she escapes and starts her own research lab.
Another detaiI I find interesting about her is how she implies she wasn't comfortable with some of the morally dubious things Samantha guided her to do despite their close relationship, and after she escapes, she makes sure that her work in her own lab won't be that unethical. Just the concept of disagreeing with somebody you're close to and wanting to do things better than how they did. I've probably yapped too much by now, so I'll just end with saying that I think her character and her past have great potential for deeper exploration, but sadly the fandom doesn't seem to think the same.
Claudia:
She's a young black woman who is constantly ignored over the men in the show and reduced to nothing more than tragic pieces of the mens' life story by many of the fans and sometimes even the showrunners.
Not only is she just the best girl around but she's so incredibly complex---we as the audience still don't know the real and true her. I would die to get to know her but it's shocking a large part of the IWTV fandom isn't the same!
I can't speak to her treatment from book/movie fans but TV fans literally only talk about her in relation to being Louis and lestats "daughter". By the end of her life she's in her 40s and yet the fandom only treats her as their young daughter and she is defined by that instead of her actual character
due to claudia being a black woman who is directly opposed to everyone’s white male pookie (lestat) there has been a lot of misogyny thrown at her in the form of calling her a liar because the events of her personal diary (that was never supposed to be read by anyone) don’t align with lestat’s own account of events. she is seen as manipulative and selfish and someone who was trying to drive a wedge between louis and lestat, and her own classification as a victim of abuse in this family dynamic is undermined by her efforts to remove herself and find her own community. the abuse she faces by other male leads like louis and armand is minimized even if fans are able to see lestat’s abuse for what it is, even though armand staged a lynching for her, louis, and her companion madeleine and lied about it, alongside louis minimizing lestat and armand’s actions against her. the fandom is happy to take all the male characters at face value but as far as claudia is concerned everything she did was duplicitous and self-serving.
claudia deserved better from her “family” and it breaks my heart that her life in the grand scheme of things was cut so short just as she was finding her happiness. she is incredibly funny and the love she finds with madeleine is so beautiful. the struggle of being a woman in a body that is at odds with you and who you really are and what you want to be able to do in the world is very compelling and easy to empathize with from so many different avenues whether it’s by race, disability, and/or gender/sexuality. she is such an incredible character that should be seen as more than just an obstacle and loustat’s dead daughter. her and madeleine are the best lesbian vampires and everyone should be tuning into the yuri.
She's either a horrible and manipulative girl who lies in her own personal diaries for some reason about the abuse she faced from her white father or she's an idiot who got what was coming to her when she was lynched or just a tool to be used to further the relationship between two men. Her story is quite literally never her own, her diaries shared again and again without her consent and picked apart by both the characters in universe and fans.
She's literally so interesting and so well acted by both of the actresses who play her. She has such depth and her life was cut short due to racism, misogyny, and ableism. She deserves more than to be reduced to nothing but a liar or a tragic figure to be used to further the relationship between two men.
Catra (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Luz Noceda (The Owl House)
Catra
Luz Noceda
Voting ended onJun 29
Propaganda below the cut:
Luz Noceda:
Certain parts of fandom are way more obsessed with secondary character Hunter than main character Luz, and the same with Hunter's canon ship (Huntlow) compared to Luz's canon ship (Lumity). Worth noting that Hunter is white and Huntlow is m/f, whereas Luz is Afro-Latina and Lumity is f/f, so there's some intersecting fandom racism and homophobia too.
Luz is such an incredible character. She's THAT weird girl! And she's genuinely so brave and strong to go through everything she did.
Catra:
God, where do I even begin? The double standards people in this fandom have towards Catra versus a character like Zuko for example is insane. People constantly are saying that Catra had less of a redemption arc than Zuko when 1.) Catra was with the Princess Alliance/on the Rebellion's side actively for more episodes than Zuko was with the Gaang and 2.) Catra risked more than Zuko did by turning coat imho. Catra thought she was fully going to die when she got Glimmer off of Horde Prime's ship, and she had good reason to believe that. Instead, she was tortured, had a chip implanted in her nervous system that caused Horde Prime to be essentially in her head and put her into his massive hive mind network of clones, and electrocuted her nervous system over and over to manipulate Adora. People treat Catra like she's this irredeemable monster who can never do enough to make up for the things she's done, but are totally forgiving of male characters in similar situations who have done MUCH worse things (even in this same fandom; people are way quicker to forgive Hordak than Catra). There's also a lot of lesbophobia involved in the Catra hate as well and racism, considering Catra is a visibly brown-coded lesbian. The ableism too is all over the place. Catra is obviously mentally unwell for most of the show until she begins the journey towards healing and is the victim of abuse so severe that most people in the audience of this show will never experience the likes of it (being kidnapped as a baby, raised as a child soldier, brainwashed, having your oxygen/movement restricted as punishment, verbal abuse, constant degradation, bullying from the other kids in your situation, being told over and over that you're only worth being kept around because your best friend likes you, being physically tortured as a form of punishment and manipulation, and that's only scratching the surface).
Catra has the most beautiful arc in all of Western television animation imho. She's gone through hell and she chooses to be better. She chooses to let herself and the people she loves be happy together. She chooses love and realizes that it's not a weakness, it's a strength. She's ride or die (literally) and refuses to leave Adora's side, even when she's not sure that she'll make it and there's a strong likelihood that Catra will be taken down with her. She has so much love in her and she's just learning how to express it in better ways. Letting herself love and be loved after being so hurt for her entire life. It just makes me feel insane. I love Catra Applesauce Meow Meow forever.
“I asked ChatGPT—” Ok, well I asked The Narrator, and he told me that no, there’s never been a mirror there, that’s a wall. Stop wasting time asking questions, go to the basement and slay the princess already.
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