Sometimes I Pretend To Be Normal

F/Finland 🏳️‍🌈

[quaintpanic]

"oh i really love xyz character-" really? outside the context of shipping?

[quaintpanic]

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[carys-the-ninth]

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

[sophia-helix]

man, I could really go for some blorbos in a situation right now

[liesmyth]

tfw "popular" fanon becomes so embedded in a fandom & discussions within fandom spaces that people just start treating it as the default and all interactions with others are coloured by this interpretation. have you considered that I actually don't subscribe to this take, which is nowhere in the source material? wait nvm, clearly not.

[liesmyth]

I'm never muting this post I love learning about fandom beef I'd never ever considered before

[qlfilmnews]

KOREA | The Prosecutor’s Proposal [Eng Sub]

Airing June 26 on Waave [Official YouTube Trailer]

From the director of ‘Secret Relationships’, it follows the romance between an investigator, son of a murderer, and a prosecutor.

[qqchurch]

[qqchurch]

[jeaniefranklins]

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

[susiephone]

obsessed with characters who snapped because their circumstances were so fucked that losing it was literally the sanest response

[theconcealedweapon]

[sawed-on-shotgun]

people say twink like they wanna say faggot a lot im noticing

[guiltfactory-moved]

most of the best yaoi is written by sadistic lesbians

[guiltfactory-moved]

or straight men who don't know they're writing yaoi

[sighinastorm]

Fascinating. Who writes the best yuri?

[guiltfactory-moved]

also sadistic lesbians

[guiltfactory-moved]

most of the best yaoi is written by sadistic lesbians

[guiltfactory-moved]

or straight men who don't know they're writing yaoi

[sighinastorm]

Fascinating. Who writes the best yuri?

[guiltfactory-moved]

also sadistic lesbians

[happilyhadesbound]

underrated ship dynamic is 'they deserve each other /derogatory'

[thewatersofmarch]

don’t care didn’t ask + you’ve projected onto this character to the point that your characterisation is unrecognisable to the source material

[fluencca]

and it shuts down any further conversation. Your projection is so powerful that any criticism of the character at that point becomes "so you think that about me????" and any differing analysis becomes "so you think I shouldn't exist as a person?????" and man. I'm too tired to hold your hand through that crisis. Go away.

[kuttenberg-gauntlets]

true love for The Character shows itself when you imagine them suicidal with grief