i have a confession to make. i know “she breasted boobily down the stairs” is a joke about male authors writing female characters but sometimes i really do focus on how much my titties bounce when i walk down the stairs.
i think out of anyone from pidw/svsss that i want to see transmigrated to one piece universe is shen jiu bcs i just want to see him being taken care of by the immovable god of freedom and sunshine that is monkey d luffy and his equally as stubborn crew lol
Fucks me how the Emperor finally saw his son showing interest in a girl and immediately went aight time to play pro max shipping and getting them married A.S.A.P.
I think if authors are too poor to survive piracy and readers are too poor not to pirate then we need to have a really serious conversation about where all that money is and why it isn't circulating properly.
La culpa siempre es del aire acondicionado, de las duchas de más de 5’, del coche a gasolina del pobre… pero curiosamente nunca lo es de los jets privados, los campos de golf, la industria fast fashion, los centros de datos, de las toneladas de residuos y gases de las fabricas..
never sat right with me how "the power of friendship" is generally seen as this infantile deus ex machina trope i feel ppl are under underappreciating the strength of genuine human connection
I remember reading the novels in like late elementary school to late highschool and thinking Voldemort lacked sauce because his thing is he goes around casting the death spell at people. The books made the biggest deal about how evil he is, even having a gag about a book in the forbidden section of the library about "evil artifacts" puss out and say, "Horcruxes are too evil for even this evil book of evil things" when it's literally just phylacteries. His whole arsenal of awful is limited to, "lmao he uses the death spell...and phylacteries...and and...and he mind controls people? Can you believe that?"
Meanwhile, Umbridge gets two books to be that two-faced prim and propper old biddy from your neighborhood church group and PTA who nobody really likes, not even the priest or the principal, but everybody suffers because she's agonizingly involved in every bodies business, and than it turns out that it's all just a facade. You find out all the grotesque skeletons in her particular closet, all of them stuffed there in pursuit of clout and that there's really no sin or cruelty she wouldn't descend to if she could get away with it and it furthers her image publicly.
I guess you could summarize it this way.
Voldemort is a Saturday morning cartoon villain, written through the eyes of a school teacher who tacks nonsense on without realizing it just adds to the ridiculousness. Like, he's evil because he's a rape baby and therefore can't know love.
Meanwhile, Umbridge was in the Epstein files.
Poin sindiran di berbagai artikel sana ada di "stealing civilization, privatizing aesthetics" brand Barat sering:
1. Ambil elemen budaya non-Barat (yang gak pernah "dipatenkan" karena emang budaya kolektif),
2. Bikin versi "modern/simplified"-nya jadi logo,
3. Lalu justru menuntut orang lain yang notabene lebih dekat ke akar budaya aslinya.
Jadi ini semacam kritik ke arah cultural ownership dan double standard, dan ngangkat isu soal luxury brand Barat vs warisan budaya Asia.
Publik China bilang: mereka bisa lihat bedanya, mana yg elemen budaya kolektif, mana yg cuma logo menang punya "power trademark".
I lost it when the grandma from Encanto was forgiven like nothing happened after having created generational trauma for every single one of his children and grandchildren and DISOWNING HER SON for being different just to then hug him like he hadn't been living ISOLATED AND LIKE A RAT HIS WHOLE LIFE because of her.
No, everything is not magically okay with a hug. BAD thing to teach kids.
real ao3 losers know the best way to search is to just stalk the bookmarks of users who write great comments on fics you love or the bookmarks of authors you love themselves
i get scared to write fanfic because i get self conscious that i complelty misunderstand my favorite characters and everyone is gonna jump me for mischaracterization 😔
I am consistently confused by people treating Archive of Our Own as a regular algorithmic social media site, to the point that they delete fics when they decide to move fandoms. Its your work to do what you want with, but why publish on an ARCHIVE with no intent of archival.