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LIA!!!!!I LOVE YOU GIRL!!!!!

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She gets one word out and then explodes!?????

#I’d like to think she can’t flirt for shit Infront of Hailey.#Hailia brainrot is so bad dude #Also fuck procreate for only allowing me to use 60 layers?????#freakblr #the music freaks #tmf lia #tmf hailey #tmf hailia

leng ting

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rough aftermath of breakup with Zoey, but maybe brighter things are ahead for Lia

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Redrew some zia fanart I made in 2021

(bro back then there was like. ZEROO zia fan content it was literally a rare pair)(ik they're toxic but let me do this for my past self ok she deserves it)

#I still suck st drawing but on well #at* oh* UGBH #tmf zia #zia tmf #tmf #freakblr #tmf lia #tmf zoey #the Music freaks #my art #ige

This scene has always made me raise an eyebrow because, in Jake’s nightmare, Zoey and Lia are framed as whispering in his ear and influencing him into believing the club is bad. However, in the actual group discussion, everyone contributes to that pressure in different ways. Despite this, both the narrative framing and parts of the fandom tend to disproportionately blame Zoey and Lia. Lia does contribute more directly to the discussion, but Zoey, compared to the rest of the group (especially Drew), doesn’t really say much of substance beyond reinforcing what others are already saying.

I don’t fully know how to say it properly, It feels like this ends up shifting too much responsibility onto them, which also makes Jake seem less responsible for his own choices, even though he himself understands he’s at fault.

This happens to Hailey too!

Drew defaults to blaming her because it’s easier to believe a girl is “in Jake’s ear” than to accept that Jake is making his own choices. He strips Jake of agency just to avoid admitting he’s being left behind.

Hailey becomes the convenient villain, controlling and manipulative, because that narrative protects Drew’s ego. He doesn’t have to confront Jake, and he definitely doesn’t have to confront himself. And the fandom takes it as fact! He’s an unreliable narrator he’s UNRELIABLE!!!!!!!!

(This might sound a little mean I just came here to rant after seeing a few too many egregious takes on TikTok…)

#this connects to a broader pattern in media where female characters are often framed as manipulative influences over male protagonists #Even when multiple characters contribute to the situation #women are more likely to be singled out as the source of influence or blame #while male characters are treated as either just ‘reactive’ or less responsible.#the music freaks #tmf #tmf lia #lia tmf #tmf hailey #Hailey tmf #tmf jake #jake tmf #Drew tmf #tmf drew #tmf zoey #zoey tmf #fandom mysoginy

I honestly love the level of complexity that TMF has when tackling the typical “Bullies Vs. Weird Kids” trope.

In the way that our bullies are not one dimensional. There’s complexity there that’s always lacking in this trope, from kids media to adult media.

Jake already is a subversion of this trope. Typically, we see an already “weird kid” sort of join or—in the case of mean girls—infiltrate the bullies. They change over the course of the story, trying to desperately fit in, until eventually they realize they’ve betrayed their friends and their morals, and they go back to being a “weird kid.”

Jake’s story is that, but the narrative is cut off at the knees. We start years after Jake has already joined the bullies and changed himself. Where normally the story reaches a sort of riding action/climax at this point, this is our exposition.

Jake is a weird, sort of reverse Cady archetype. In a way.

Lia is also another complex antagonist. She, like Jake, also joined the bullies to fit in and protect herself. And like Jake, we start years after she does this. She gets more traditional writing for this trope, with her past friendship with Hailey and all.

I’d argue Drew is the biggest example of the trope “subversion.” That may be my bias, because he is one of my favorite characters. But I’d argue he’s one of the most complex, up there with Lia.

Drew is a bully. As of now we have no backstory to explain his behavior, or attempt to “justify it.” That’s nothing new.

What is new, however, is his storyline with Jake. His intense jealousy about hanging out with the “Weird Kids” instead of him. This jealousy that fuels his behavior over the course of the season.

The motives for a lot of his actions in season one are interesting, and he has enough parallels with the rest of the cast to make him more so.

His genuine care for his friends—and the care his friends have for him and each other—is new, too. While not entirely left out of the trope, it is rare.

I don’t know how well I got my point across, but it’s just something that was on my mind and I treating to me.

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draw zoey and lia plsysssssssyyyssssssssssaaa

im @fishhhhhhhhhy i just cant ask on my alt it makes me ask on main so im asking anon

i rendered this a bit too much now it looks ridiculous @fishhhhhhhhhy

ive seen the other two asks so theyre coming too! (next is jander. oh god i missed them)

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