#echoiiing rambles

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why does it seem as though every time a character in a piece of media is struggling with money, the fandom makes it into a joke? just treats it as though it’s absolutely hilarious. doesn’t matter the circumstances behind their financial issues, or how much its made their lives worse, so much of the fandom treats it as indiscriminately funny.

often, headcanons will be about them stealing or not being able to afford basic things or scrambling for small amounts of money on the ground or being gold diggers, and their character is reduced entirely to their financial situation.

this has been so consistent across multiple fandoms i’ve been in over the course of my life and i really just do not understand it. is someone struggling to afford to live really THAT funny?

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genuinely no gray fullbuster mischaracterization on the internet will ever be worse than the time i saw someone, with their whole chest, say he’d threaten to “use iced shell” if his girl wanted to break up with him

i don’t even have the words

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making lore for your fandom ocs with a friend is better than crack

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me, maybe 50 episodes into my first watch of fairy tail: gray and natsu are brothers.

me, after finishing my first watch of fairy tail: gray and natsu’s relationship is undefinable. putting labels like “platonic” or “romantic” on it does a disservice to their complexities. also they’re soulmates

me, now, after lots of thinking about them (and reading the entire manga in like eight days): gray and natsu are in love.

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100 years quest makes me mad in a lot of ways, and one of those ways is how edolas was written. there was absolutely no reason for it to be included other than to exist as pure ship-bait. (spoilers ahead, obviously)

edolas nalu are together? nalu bait. it didn’t even do anything for the development of earthland nalu, it only existed to further bait the shippers into thinking mashima would actually canonize his main moneymaker.

edolas gruvia are together? okay, that’s… great… but it doesn’t make sense. and why is edojuvia, who was an absolute badass back in the original series, edogray’s housewife now?? edolucy at least retained some aspects of her original personality despite settling down, and yet, edojuvia didn’t. and i hate it. justice for edojuvia 😭

and by FAR the worst offender is edolas jerza, which… is genuinely terrible in every way. if you told me knightwalker and mystogan were canon before i’d read 100yq, i would’ve assumed (a little too hopefully) that they’d have the prince x knight dynamic, since… in a better story, they would’ve. but no. knightwalker became mystogan’s obsessive maid and it’s horrible. girl, stand up, you used to be a war general.

it feels like mashima forgot the ultimate point of edolas was to be the opposite of earthland. i can excuse edo-nalu being canon, since they had chemistry in the original series and them getting together early would be the opposite of earthland nalu, but edo-gruvia and edo-jerza being canon don’t make sense. earthland juvia is still as hopelessly in love with gray as ever (and i’m sure that’s never changing), so why would edo-juvia also be?

and while yes, i guess edo-jerza’s dynamic is different from their dynamic in earthland, it makes no sense as a dynamic that they would have in the first place after the setup in the original series. i know a lot can change in nine years, but the idea of knightwalker changing in that way just doesn’t make sense to me.

team natsu visiting edolas literally did nothing other than offer ship-tease content. they didn’t even do anything of note in edolas before going to elentear. reading this spinoff is so frustrating 😭😭😭

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Every time im upset or anxious or stressed i look at yusuke’s stupid new years’ scarf and i feel better. it’s genuinely helping me. it’s 5:30 in the morning im supposed to get up in 4 hours i just had an anxiety attack and the only thing calming me down is a screenshot i took of the scarf

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rewatching star vs the forces of evil for nostalgia purposes (i was obsessed with it when i was 12) and oh my god it’s so bad. like it genuinely sucks so much ass. i don’t know how i ever enjoyed it. i still kind of enjoy it

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finished persona 5 yesterday and absolutely loved it. also became minorly (majorly) obsessed with yusuke so expect some posts about him in the future… echo obsesses over a weird autistic beauty seeking loser who enjoys people-watching and is voiced by matthew mercer i said oh im sure