really bugs me when people talk about johnny having a "southern accent" or "southern drawl". that boy is from danville kentucky, hes closer to west virginia than texas. if he has an accent its more of an appalachian twang
@joestarcrossed people are desperate enough for spw content to pretend diowagon is a viable thing but somehow not desperate enough to acknowledge any of the chemistry he *actually* has with zeppeli. idgi
jonathan and zeppeli were out in the wilderness doing ripple training fucking and sucking each other balls deep getting sweaty and sticky and stinky while speedwagon sat alone and untouched in the cuck chair and watched.
jonawagons pitching a fit over the new jojo world illust & dismissing/minimizing the relevance of zeppeli (and his descendants) in defense of their ship is so funny to me. speedwagon fans are truly the weakest link of pb fandom
@elisnyan tbh theres colorism at play too imo. in the anime mista is depicted as being slightly darker than giorno (& fanart frequently exaggerates this) and the adultification of dark skin causes people to read him as being much older than he is
i love when fanartists exaggerate the unnatural/uncanny qualies of dios parasitized body. mismatched skin tones, festering neck wounds, when the head is grossly out of proportion with the rest of him etc. he needs to look supernaturally beautiful and ontologically wrong
this is not incompatible with queer readings or like, shipping. dio is a singular narcissist and an emotional black hole but that doesnt mean he cant become fond of people lol. in fact he clearly finds certain individuals more compelling than others. gravity innit
the 2007 eureka interview is floating around my feed again today. too often this excerpt (emphasis mine) gets passed around as a refutation of the concessions to queer readings araki makes elsewhere in this conversation (in this screenshot!) when thats not at all what hes saying
dio is a creature who "runs purely on desire". hes not compassionate like jonathan or devoted like pucci; his affections are shallow and selfish and usually destructive, but he does have them. he doesnt "love" in a way that is healthy and reciprocal because thats not his nature
@joestarcrossed a few months ago somebody on tumblr did this on a redraw of bouguereau's dante and virgil lol. wdym "not ship art" you drew them naked and biting each other!!!
ok it is a very funny phenomenon when somebody draws two characters doing gay shit and captions it "not ship". you know you wouldnt have to preempt that if you hadnt drawn them doing gay shit