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I've noticed a bit of a trend that runs through the above characters: they attract the ire of fans and critics of their canon works who determine that they're "badly written" as the brilliantly manipulative decievers they're meant to come off as becasue nearly all of their lies, ruses, gambits and emotional manipulation ploys are too stupid or convoluted or just so transparent in their fakeness and easy to poke holes in that anyone should be able to see through them and not fall for them, so the other characters just have to be made too stupid to do so in order for the lies and trickery to succeed. (Dahlia gets this less than the others because her frequent incompetence and failings are a very clear narrative point, but there are some detractors all the same.)

And if one wishes to critique the quality of the writing that they believe is not up to par and lets down the concept of these characters as great liars and manipulators, that's perfectly okay (lord knows there's a lot to criticize in the writing of where those bottom two characters come from!). But it gets bothersome to me when I notice that these sticking points are being used not merely to critique the writing but to hate on and fully dismiss the character. Like to claim that the character is just a really stupid, unimpressive, unlikable and unwanted one who has never said or done anything truly smart in their entire fictional existence and should never have been able to outsmart anyone else and should be held up as examples of how not to write a manipulative deciever.

And I really do not wish to jump to a conclusion, but it’s impossible to ignore that there's another trend that runs through all of these characters that just might be a factor driving this for some haters....

It just tends to reek of "hating to see a girlboss winning" energy, or accusing the female villain of being an author's pet or a Mary Sue protected only by the writer's favorable treatment that dumbs down other characters in order to make the blatant lies told by these blatantly shady characters work (and in Celeste, Dahlia, and Cozy Glow's case it's also "hating to see a girlfailure losing" since they do inevitably prove not very capable or successful!), like a female character cannot possibly have a truly high level of intellect, savvy and competency to be skillfully manipulative and successfully deceitful without their wrtiers "cheating" for them and making their prey into total dumb-dumbs to make it easy for them to get ahead. That the very concept of them being so smart as to make them formidable threats to be reckoned with is a dumb one that ought to have been discarded, with the lying bitches getting easily seen through and exposed and failing at every turn being the "correct" way to write them and their stories. It's sort of sussy to me since I don't think I've seen nearly as much of the same flak given to male characters who lie and manipulate and decieve others regularly, but I'm not going to make any judgment definitive and am always up for discussion on what these characters are convincingly good at and less convincingly good at, if not outright bad at, and what could've been done to improve the writing for them so that they do feel worthy of their own hype.

At the end of the day, can we at least all agree that whatever the faults in their writing, none of these girl liars are craptastic writing disasters like this character?

#female characters #problematic faves #villains #Celestia Ludenberg #Taeko Yasuhiro #Kanade Otonokoji #Dahlia Hawthorne #Nana Hiiragi #Lila Rossi #Cozy Glow #analysis #opinion #criticism #bad writing #or not #unfortunate implications #sexism #anti malty melromarc

so like

are there any Native people outside the Cession in the M:FS universe?

there's really no good answer here. if not- oh, they've been forced off their ancestral land and into a tiny single strip of the continent allowed them by the US government? wow that sounds uh. Not Great, although at least it's a sovereign nation

if so- does that mean Native witches have to serve in the US Army whether they want to or not? because of a treaty a British woman made with British colonial authorities on behalf of other British people? just so they can stay on their own land? y i k e s

someone didn't think this through in the writers' room

(also how does Cession citizenship work? if the Collars have been there since before it was officially formed, how were Raelle and Willa conscripted at all? the US is a foreign power; they shouldn't be under its jurisdiction. does the Cession not have birthright citizenship? or only for Native people?)

#motherland fort salem #unfortunate implications

I'm not going to watch the show, but it does feel indicative of the whole project that Joanne's supposedly "more book-accurate" Harry Potter reboot has cast a Black man as Snape - seemingly without any thought whatsoever about how that will impact both her claim on why she is trying to reboot it in the first place; and on the story - now that Harry, the canonical slave-owner, will be repulsed on sight by having one (1) Black teacher in a position of power over him; who doesn't immediately fawn over him verbally.

He's going to spend 7 years being suspicious of the Black teacher & automatically thinking he's to blame for anything that goes wrong in the school - before growing up to become a cop! Yikes...

#harry potter hbo #unfortunate implications #anti jkr #jkr trying to be woke #racism in harry potter #house elves

I don’t like disposal so I tend not to really imagine my Preds using the Bathroom. And I think this is a completely fair thing to ignore cause fetish fantasies are whatever you want them to be. But also if I were to think about the potential ramifications of this further. That would mean the Predator is selfishly stealing matter from the universe permanently every time they eat.

#vore talk #Unfortunate implications #Alternatively the fact the Pred is a lil black hole could be fortunate if you’re into that egregious level of matter hoarding.#They’re unfortunate from a recycling perspective though.

More Incorrect KISS Quotes (Revenge and Reunion years + Bonus: The Invasion)

Oops very gay except Robert

(Update: Mark is now in pretty blue uwu)

The Elven Gods Weren't Good At Magic

ok so i have seen some chuckleheads try to defend this Epler, but holy shit...

Im very much NOT the guy who tends to jump on Bioware's take on the dalish/elvhenan(and to a lesser extent the Qunari) as Racist or unfortunate... but MAN this is just flat out... no not unfortunate implications, this is basically the argument the people who have been complaining that the elves were portrayed as a "Weak" people who's defeat to the tevinter imperium was innevitable due to inherint weakness on the part of their culture, and rather than showcasing the reality was a bit more nuanced and complicated than that, they instead said:

"Yeah that's about right. The Elven Gods, the cream of the crop of Elven kind, their god-kings who knew more than anyone about magic, the very nature their society ran on, the thing they used to reach such heights, knew absolutely nothing impressive about magic at all."

Like... this is so bad. because it says that no, the elves WEREN'T good at magic they DIDNT have any more innate understanding of magic than Tevinter. They were actually shit, and the only reason they were able to make anything impressive at all, is because they lived in the age before the veil, and they were able to mooch of the power of the titans.

The Elves who led their people to victory over the titans were not good magic users, or at least they didn't actually understand magic at all.

Now im not saying the titan's powers werent THE driving force of the Elven Empire greatest heights, but what Epler says here is that the elven rulers, after using magic for millennia, had no greater understanding of it whatsoever, which would put them beneath the most lowly circle apprentice who beat his harrowing.

It is, in fact, saying that the Archons who conquered the Arlathan remnants WERE superior mages to the greatest heights the elves could ever hope to reach, and yet another showcase of bioware shitting on the Dalish for daring to try to believe that their ancestors actually was great.

No Merill, the Elves were never great, they just had an inexaustible battery, Epler said so.

#dragon age #veilguard #john epler #ama #meta #dalish #elvhenan #evanuris #magic #unfortunate implications

There's a lot about My Hero Academia that would be so good if it was good. But the biggest gap between how good something is and how good it could be is probably Himiko Toga.

In theory, Toga's existence is a criticism of hero society wrapped in a neurodivergence allegory. Toga's Quirk is creepy and gives her "deviant" urges. So she's just told to suppress it, mask, act normal. For the love of god, just be a good girl.

But she can't. She's not "normal". When Toga reaches her breaking point, begging for her parents to accept who he actually is and not what they want her to be...and they reject her. In the end, she runs away from home. Eventually, she gets picked up by a supervillain preying on similar rejects, creating a sense of community among them so he can direct them to his own ends. None of which would have been possible if they hadn't been rejected in the first place.

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But I left out the times Toga attacked people to drink their blood. We know for certain that she stabbed one of her classmates (that she had a crush on) and slurped his blood with a straw, and we're told that she's the primary suspect in several bloody murders. Also she attacks our heroes not just because her new friends are hostile to them, but because she wants to drink their blood too. Toga's not just weird, she's dangerous.

Toga's "deviant" urges aren't just things she wants to do that polite society thinks are weird or gross. She's not a cute vampire who sucks your blood and leaves a vampire hickey; she drank her first crush's blood by cutting him with a box cutter and sucking blood out with a straw. Her deviancy has a body count.

Toga's parents aren't being insensitive when they call her a monster; they are stating the truth.

On its own, this turns Himiko Toga from a sympathetic neurodivergence allegory—one where Toga is isolated because she doesn't fit in the restrictive box her parents and teachers want all kids to fit in—into a horror story where allegorical neurodivergence is the monster. And that's just gross.

And it's not just neurodivergent people who get shafted. Toga is bixexual, but her attraction to women fits just about every predatory lesbian trope out there, with the bonus that her Quirk makes her a literal predator.

I don't want to say everything about Toga is bad. But a lot about her is, and she could have been so good if she was written better. Or if she was written mostly the same and the later arcs acknowledged the flaws in MHA's society enough to make her seem sympathetic even when she murders people to drink their blood.

#my hero academia #himiko toga #essay #rant #allegory #unfortunate implications

(Someone needs to call the cops on whoever in that brothel taught Zevran those "skills" and also on any recipients of those skills prior to Zevran turning 18).

#unfortunate implications #dragon age #dragon age origins #zevran arainai #zevran x warden #implied child abuse