Hi there – I really hope this isn’t overstepping but I noticed your posted recently about how putting ‘not bait :)’ at the end of obvious baits isn’t convincing. I submitted an ask about Latula recently because I was kind of curious and I haven’t seen all that much discussion of her character – particularly negatively – and I honestly would love some more character critiques for the ancestors. I really hope you didn’t think that was meant to be some kind of trap – I struggle with tone sometimes and I’m autistic so I might’ve just phrased it badly but I hope it didn’t upset you!! I’d come off anon but I Am. Anxious. Sorry. Either way, I just wanted to make it clear that that particular ask was in good faith, I’m really sorry if it wasn’t written right. I like your blog but I rarely interact with strangers, and I don’t think I’m great at it. Anyway, sorry, have a good day :)
dw, that wasn’t about you! it was about a different ask i got (i think your original ask actually got eaten by tumblr bc i can’t find it in my inbox…very functional website we have here :/)
anyways, to answer your question…i guess it’s not really so much about latula as a character as it is about the insane mischaracterization of mituna that tends to crop up in latula-centric fan content
a lot of times people (not everyone obviously) will have her basically act as mituna’s mom and treat him as if he’s completely incapable of doing anything himself which is yknow. pretty fucking ableist
again, not everyone does this but it happens frequently enough that i’ve just sort of developed an instinctual negative response to her and especially to the mituna x latula ship
hope this explanation makes sense and sorry for not responding sooner, i’m pretty tired atm
elaborating on this a little more:
a lot of it is also how that treatment of mituna is framed in the narrative.
in more latula-centric works, it tends to be framed as the morally correct choice and as latula taking care of mituna and looking after him (again, she’s not his fucking mom!)
in, say, a fic centered around the cronus x mituna ship or w/e, that sort of treatment of mituna is more likely to be acknowledged as being a bad thing
i would say overall darkfic writers are more aware of the fact that the things they’re writing wouldn’t be ok irl, whereas people who pride themselves on their ships being “"pure”“ refuse to acknowledge that their fanworks also contain things that wouldn’t be ok irl because they’ve based their entire identity around being ~wholesome~ and ~unproblematic~
i would say overall darkfic writers are more aware of the fact that the things they’re writing wouldn’t be ok irl, whereas people who pride themselves on their ships being ”“pure”“ refuse to acknowledge that their fanworks also contain things that wouldn’t be ok irl because they’ve based their entire identity around being ~wholesome~ and ~unproblematic~
I just need to highlight this, thank you.
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