I was always so confused as to why Lucifer was thrown off by Alastor's design. You'd think as the King of Hell he'd be more receptive to grotesque imagery, but a video essay summed it up perfectly.
"He's the King of Hell with a mind of an angel."
You can take Lucifer out of Heaven, but you can't take the Heaven out of Lucifer. He's still an angel, albeit a fallen angel. He probably adheres, to some extent, to Heaven's aesthetics.
His outfit is primarily white with red trimming, a sharp contrast to Charlie's primarily red outfit with some white.
I could be reaching too deeply, but it could be symbolic about how they perceive Hell at this point in the story. The dude sees Hell as a mistake, as the sum of his failures and a punishment.
Charlie sees Hell as her responsibility. She serves Hell because Hell is her kingdom. She exists to help her people. Even by the end of the first season, Lucifer drops his coat. He doesn't wear it in the finale.
I wonder if this is a symbolic gesture that Lucifer is finally embracing himself as the King of Hell and all of its responsibilities. He's begun the process of shedding his identity as an angel of Heaven.
I’ll say it’s easier to do construction work without the jacket. Charlie took off hers too but wears hers later in the finale number. He never wears his again.
His coat is similar (not identical but pretty close) to the robes he wore in Charlie's introduction.
I wonder if he'll update his wardrobe as the story continues. It's impressive how loud yet subtle the animation designs are. They can tell their own stories sometimes.
you should be inclusive to us too like wwjdjds it’s not fair when i have to read your work and see it’s x male reader... you guys flooded tumblr with that stuff
no hate i just hate it when I see mlm content and i have to change the pronouns in my head cuz i’m a cis girl
we write for you guys too and it’s kinda insensitive when i ask for a female reader and you say that this isn’t the right blog for that. it was wayy better when it was girl reader x character.
look, i'm really sorry you feel that way. i really am but that's how i felt for the longest time before male reader content became more prominent.
i never meant for it to be insensitive but i don't write female readers for the fact that, since i put myself into my writing and work, it makes me dysphoric.
and whether you think it's better a different way, others enjoyed it just how it is. i genuinely apologize if i have offended or hurt you in any way but this is a male/ftm reader blog for my comfort and the comfort of others in my same situation.
No Mr. Mizunetzu purple theme right now, I just wanna talk about this.
More under the cut because I don’t want to flood.
Now, here’s a little context: a few days ago, i realized just how much females read my content. Mainly accounts that have she/her in their bio, or have “girl” as part of their username. I was a bit taken back, but I brushed it off again until I got a anon who told me, and I quote:
“ahh omg i love your work so much. i’m a girl (who hates it lmao) but i love reading your male reader stuff cuz i feel like there’s not as much of it in existence?? and it makes me so happy and i get to pretend im a boy for a bit :) also sry if i’m not sending this in the right place i don’t do much with tumblr other than read hahah” —for those who are seeing this and the image isn’t loading
No hate to the person who sent this. But this rubbed me the wrong way. It made me extremely uncomfortable, because my content is for males and occasionally genderneutral people. But I brushed it off again, because I couldn’t really do anything about it.
But when I saw this, I just couldn’t take it anymore. I’m sick of females trying to intrude into the one little part of tumblr us males have.
So let’s dissect this. Piece by piece.
“why don’t you write for female readers...?”
There are a multitude of reasons why male content writers do not write for female readers. For one, they are MALE content writers. Two, like me, we are creating content for ourselves, because there is already a plethera of female reader inserts, and we got sick of reading content that describes us as a petite, cute girl. Also, for ftm writers, writing female content may trigger dysphoria.
“you should be inclusive to us too like wwjdjds it’s not fair when i have to read your work and see it’s x male reader... you guys flooded tumblr with that stuff”
One, I want you to tell me exactly where you found this “flood of male content”. I’d love to see it. When I type in “Kuroo x male reader”, I’m pretty sure I’ve scrolled to the absolute bottom of that tag. Kuroo’s a popular character, so by your logic, I shouldn’t have been able to bottom out that tag in less than a night. But I did. But as opposed to scrolling the general “Kuroo x reader” tag, it’s “flooded” with female reader and even I couldn’t find the end to that tag. Full of female reader.
So say it with me: male readers don’t have as much content as you think.
So saying “you should be inclusive to us too” is frankly bullshit. You have the rest of tumblr. There is no reason to be intruding in the small haven us male content writers have in our blogs, asking for female content when all you have to do is search “___ x reader”. And hell, if you’re that determined not to have male reader on your dash, go crazy with the “___ x fem reader” tag.
Also saying “it’s not fair when I have to read your work and see it’s x male reader.” You are on Kozumedenki’s blog, miss. No one is forcing you to read the 10% of male content on tumblr as opposed to the other 90% of fem reader on tumblr. Kozumedenki is a blog that does not cater to you, just as my blog and many other male blogs. We are not forcing you to read the small amount of male reader on this app.
“no hate i just hate it when I see mlm content and i have to change the pronouns in my head cuz i’m a cis girl”
Miss, how do you think we feel when we have had to read female reader content and change the pronouns in our head for years? Just because you’re getting this small lick of oppression that you can easily avoid by going to the general x reader tag flooded with fem reader, doesn’t mean tumblr has been “overrun” by male reader. And if it has, just go to ao3 or Wattpad.
When you say you hate it that you have to change pronouns in your head with male content, that’s exactly how we feel with the normalized fem reader in fanfics as a man. You just had a taste of it.
“we write for you guys too and it’s kinda insensitive when i ask for a female reader and you say that this isn’t the right blog for that. it was wayy better when it was girl reader x character.”
Just because female’s write for male reader, does not mean we owe you female reader. Female reader is normalized in fanfiction, and I do appreciate females who write for males. But think about it for a second: it’s to be inclusive. Males do not have much on this app, and I’m grateful for females who do try and be inclusive on their blogs.
But saying it’s insensitive for males to not write for females is bullshit. We do not owe you anything. It’s like saying “I did something for you, so it’s rude for you not to do it back for me.”
And this quote, “it was wayy better when it was girl reader x character.” pushed me over the edge. You say you want inclusivity when it comes to having Kozumedenki write female reader, but in reality you just want to get rid of male reader, or have more female reader when you already have a plethora of it. This content was not made for you, so stop trying to erase it.
Tl;dr, male insert content are already pretty scarce when it comes to fanfiction. Unless this person was intentionally seeking it out, she would have no way of coming across it minus the one or two fics that would’ve popped up on the “___ x reader” tag. And I frankly think that vague tag automatically translating to female reader is bullshit.
Chuuya is so fucking funny bc it's like damn if ur gonna glue fake fangs to my teeth and give me red contacts might as well toss in a new fit too i'm committed to this shit i'm about to deliver
