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smolsarcasticraspberry: hey asking for a friend but uh. what’s it gonna take for fandom to relearn the difference between “canon” and “word of god”? ★ canon = the text itself; the show/movie/book/comic; the actual up-on-Netflix content; anything a casual fan would reasonably[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cemeterything: my desire to see more characters try to self-destruct by vomiting up a deluge of the most damning lies about themselves in a fit of despair and loathing and desire to be punished in some way vs. my knowledge[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ach-sss-no: larkandcarry: How I judge so-called problematic characters is not on a matrix of approval to disapproval. It’s walking a museum corridor, noticing little details and intricacies, and saying “ah, interesting” while swirling a wine glass and thinking for me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kragehund-again: thekobrakiddo: marisatomay: marisatomay: “maybe the curtains are blue because the author just liked the color blue” set human critical thinking skills decades back you get it i would rather die than think critically about some bullshit “metaphor” just say[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
candidateofloyalty: the-bar-sinister: candidateofloyalty: I genuinely do not think Investigations 2 meant to imply that Blaise was physically abusive but when you give me a guy saying “let’s go home” and taking a single step towards his son only for that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey anon, this is absolutely a fair question, and thanks for asking! <3 I considered discussing Kisegawa Uendo’s treatment in the post you’re referring to, however, for a couple of reasons, I decided against it. talking about Uendo involves spoiling[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: dragonsaffron: prokopetz: “Why does this 19th Century novel have such a boring protagonist” well, for a lot of reasons, really, but one of the big ones is that you’re possibly getting the protagonist and the narrator mixed up. A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No, the actual series is incredibly homophobic, and uses queer stereotypes and queer coding for humor and villains. At one point the main character calls a flamboyant man a “fruitcake”. *Technically speaking* the game heavily implies that Lana Skye, a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
saints-who-never-existed: “In the war film, a soldier can hold his buddy—as long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kid’s naked flesh—as long as it is wounded. In the boxing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They’re literally described as identical twins in the show and people gave them different genitals just because Knives is all muscle and dominance. Yeah that is definitely uncomfortable if that’s a trendy headcanon. I’m sorry to hear the fandom is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
luimnigh: The problem I’m having with Recipe for Turnabout is that I have no idea what what to make of Jean Armstrong. Like, clearly this is supposed to be a typical mid-00s style casually homophobic joke. An effeminate, camp gay[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Okay. I did it. I figured out the pattern between what trans headcanons bother me and what trans headcanons don’t. For the most part, I like trans headcanons that disgaree with the character’s canonical gender, and avoid trans headcanons that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, the AA series has a LOT of regressive portrayals of gender roles, a lot of sexism and jokes that have aged poorly as “haha, they’re GNC” has become less of a socially acceptable punchline. Unfortunately at the time– and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite a ton of queer subtext, the actual canonical text of Ace Attorney is deeply homophobic and heteronormative. Homosexuality and queerness are never directly referenced or mentioned at all in the series. There is never a moment in the series[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey let’s talk about why the ace attorney series constantly links male femininity in general and the specifically use of cosmetics with villainy and weakness. (spoiler it’s homophobia)
gayshitanddadjokes: OP turned off reblogs
A few days ago an anon shared with me their excitement that Phoenix Wright “canonically” has a damsel in distress fantasy. My take was that that was great stuff, but I wasn’t going to take it as canon until I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: free my girl she did all that shit but the fandom is mischaracterizing her for it free my girl she has the same character traits as a male character but is getting deemed a bitch for them[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My take is that there is enough difference in context and narrative between “Gyakuten Saiban” and “Ace Attorney” that I consider them separate games, and feel that the direct translation of “Gyakuten Saiban” is only relevant to the interpretation of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
just-antithings: effervescent People are really comfortable ignoring non-american queer gender expressions, aren’t they? for those who don’t know: Otokonoko (男の娘, “male daughter” or “male girl”, also pronounced as otoko no musume) is a Japanese term for men who have a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
carricfisher: Carey Mulligan in The Great Gatsby (2013) | Promising Young Woman (2020)
What I love about brudick (the ship of Bruce Wayne/Dick Grayson, aka the original Batman and Robin) is that it is the original father of all toxic yaoi problematic parings in a way. There was literally a book written about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
rnorningstars: “shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story’s deep themes” and “some people can’t grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
butchdonne: what studying literature feels like
dodobro: shadowy-dumbo-octopus: unclothed-i-shall-return: ardatli: sunhatred: Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Extremely compelling in a twisted, psychological horror/thriller sort of way. Klavier clearly is psychologically and emotionally damaged by his relationship with his brother, whatever that relationship was or entailed. Kristoph is a controlling, emotionally manipulative person who demands attention, and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thinking about how context changes our perception of an ambiguous relationship and action. If I post a prompt about character A silently laying their head on character B’s lap, and character B playing with and tugging their hair, it tells[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gayshitanddadjokes: OP turned off reblogs
cemeterything: “what if i’m misinterpreting this character whose only discernable character traits and motives are being impossible to interpret” and other rational fears
headcanon: “i have decided that this is true about the character, and it doesn’t matter to me if the canon text supports my idea or not.” interpretation: “after considering elements present in the canon text, I have decided that this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Reading more and different interpretations of a thing you want to better understand is always good. When you think about other people’s opinions of a thing you like, it introduces you to new information. Even when you’re reading opinions and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
catmask: maybe a crazy take idk but i dont actually think many scenes in stories are ‘unneccesary’ i think they just make people uncomfortable and rather than try to understand the significance of that discomfort and why the author mightve[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
brady-like-the-bunch: brady-like-the-bunch: centrally-unplanned: Lmao how is this real, “the ambient sounds of the world were wrong, sir” Imagine paying Columbia-amounts of money to be taught by someone with kindergarten-level art literacy. Like, motherfucker, the wholeass point of 4’33” is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
bloodraven55: bloodraven55: it never fails to surprise me how some people will simply take every single thing in a story at face value and assume that what the characters are saying or doing or thinking must always be true even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not a bad thing, and you shouldn’t have to engage with the canonical text of a piece of fiction if you don’t want to. It’d just be nice if there was like, a better way to separate the people[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: butchdykekondraki: also i think some of you have REAL bad cases of fandom brain sometimes sorry to say but sometimes not everything is about shipping. sometimes the story is about The Story and not if two people get[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday I talked a lot about the gay subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Today, I’m going to talk about the het subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Honestly, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ghosts-junk-pile: Hey so does anybody have context for this official art? I’m guessing it has something to do w/ Iris but I’m not sure It’s not cropped. It’s the full artwork. It’s by major series art contributor Suekane Kumiko. Given[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No inconvenience at all, anon! My opinion is that “popular media”– that is, commercial, heavily distributed media, already experiences heavy restrictions. Films in a movie theater are given a rating based on their content. Movie theaters won’t allow a film[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s lots of gay subtext in Ace Attorney. But when looking specifically at subtext that might be intentionally put in the narrative by the creators with the intention that the character in question is actually gay, I think the main[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It drives me nuts that nobody acknowledges that James Sunderland’s jacket is a specific military jacket– the M-65 field jacket– and not the now-standard horror protagonist “LL. Bean” jacket. (like Ethan Winters wears) it is important because it is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
copepods: duckapus: copepods: leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
when listening to an old musical and you suddenly hit the uuuuh, period-typical cutesy racism/xenophobia humor song. 😩😂 It truly was a different time. XD
unknownundergrounds: Romance in a fictional story is no more “unnecessary” than car chases and sword fights are unnecessary. Some things are just put there because they’re interesting to watch There shouldn’t be any deep and hard reasoning why romance is featured[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kinsey3furry300: Disney’s Robbin Hood marries Maid Marian at the end of the film. Since marriage between commoners and aristocracy were illegal in the time period, we can infer then that Disney’s Robbin Hood uses the cannon from Richard Grafton’s 16th[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
highball66: A Queer Reading of Wesker This is a sorta-teaser for my the queering RE post I might make, but I wanted to do a bit of a deep-dive on Wesker and the apparent queer coding of his character. Wesker[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Good & Evil in Ace Attorney So one of the things I like to pick apart in a fictional narrative where good versus evil is a relevant theme, is how does the narrative depict the nature of evil, and what[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s really, really annoying when non-gangster focused but crime adjacent media, or media invoking organized crime tropes, decides to put in a second string mook who’s a big, kinda of slow, cheerful thug with a wide chest and a nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the text of the Ace Attorney games and how they present (and largely don’t present) queer issues and drawing conclusions about the society from that. This has impacted my writing of In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
toaster-trash: Being into gothic horror is wild, because you’ll look up the reviews/public opinion on a book and all the posts will be like “ugh, this was insufferable. The main character was the most melodramatic whiny narcissist cunt who’s perspective[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Flippant answer: because they’d rather spend time pissing on the poor. Genuine answer: because for the last couple of decades christofascists have been eroding the american public education system.
Continuing on the topic of this post about queer coding and if other types of relationship coding exist– Here’s the hell of it. I know this is hard to accept, but– Prior to the modern era, heterosexual incestuous and pedophilic[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Queer coding exists because queer relationships and characters were (and to some degree in some places still are) considered too taboo and too illegal by society to portray directly in fiction. If there are other types of coding that legitimately[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
No, there isn’t. Queer coding is *literally about* stereotypes. Its when you use stereotypes to make your audience assume the character is queer without saying it directly or having them do anything queer. The word you are looking for is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hey friend. I have some news that you probably won’t actually like. “Queer coding” is when a writer gives a character culturally stereotypical gay traits, but the character isn’t actually said out loud to be queer, or allowed to do[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Speaking of the difference between a queer reading, queer subtext, and queer coding, as relevant to the Ace Attorney series… There is a moment in Dual Destinies that carries obvious queer subtext relevant to one of our main characters (Apollo[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Queer coded” is when a writer deliberately uses subtle but obvious cultural tells to inform the audience that their character is meant to be queer, without openly stating that they are queer. This is done to present a queer character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wish more people in fandom understood (or would make the distinction between) a character who is queer coded, and a character they have a queer reading for. I think that many fans do understand the difference, but insisting that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Stop using the word “criticism” as a shield to excuse yourself when you attack and harass writers on a personal level. Saying “you, the author are a monster, and your fiction is destroying society” is an attack, not a literary[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve never said that they’re not, and it’s fascinating and telling on yourself that you would suggest that I have. I am a constant advocate for real, deep media analysis and media literacy. What I am not an advocate for[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
blackheartbiohazards: Happy World Book Day to you and everyone! Today we’re reading The Godfather! XD I actually have sooooo much to say about the Godfather later.
the fandom pro-censorship crowd LOVES to lean into infantilizing themselves and denying their own agency and culpability.
Our own high school english class did Romeo & Juliet one semester, and our immediate friend group ended up taking characters and role-playing as them in between classes and at lunch/after school for months the same way we did with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Queer coding” exists because for a long time it was unacceptable or outright banned to depict characters who were states to be, or implicitly queer. Therefore authors had to sneak depictions of queer characters in through coding with plausible deniability.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
tokofagkawa: Toko is a mentally ill abuse victim with symptoms and trauma responses that are not palatable to people. She’s mean, aggressive, unhygienic, hypersexual, paranoid, and accusatory. People have trouble facing the fact that trauma and mental illness can make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
yggidee: derinthescarletpescatarian: weswardstars: shehungthemoon: blackmare-9: alfredprufrockings: the fact that house and wilson rode off into the sunset together is one of my greatest sources of happiness the fact that house and wilson rode off into the sunset together to face[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cipheramnesia: quasi-normalcy: quasi-normalcy: The important thing to remember is that, when Shrek came out in 2001, its subversive, ironical tone was groundbreaking because it was up against a Disney machine that played everything completely straight (notwithstanding “Emperor’s New Groove”, which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
petrowriting: me and the mutuals talking about motifs and symbolism
Yes, exactly. They have the cause and effect backwards. There are not sexist people in real life because they saw sexist themes in fiction. There are sexist themes in fiction because there are sexist people in real life creating fiction.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I agree with you in spirit. The problem is that you actually absolutely *can* make disgust the basis of your morality system– and doing so will powerfully fuck up your mental health, your perception of reality, and your relationship with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
fiannalover: What’s that bro? You began interacting with a media from a different country than yours and/or was made in time period different than the recent present day? Haha that’s sick bro! Keep expanding your horizons bro! You’re remembering to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
thorfics: Brodinsons Discourse: Loki as Odin in TDW ~ I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS SCENE ~ MCU fans all know the importance of this scene in the storyline, but there is so much more going on here than Thor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ace-and-ranty: My one contribution to the Goncharov Phenomena is, I’ve seen people comment on how Tumblr only managed to have a nuanced conversation about a piece of media when the piece of media doesn’t exist, but… I can’t help but[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Right? I can’t imagine looking at that picture and not thinking it looked like a sexual act or sexual metaphor. Honestly, maybe all this is so on my mind because recently we were thinking about, and looking for the imagery[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
doubleca5t: eruvadhril: jenniferrpovey: fisharescary802: inquiries-of-an-intj: genquerdeer: rhymingteelookatme: sugirdaddy: v for vendetta is a film with a female protagonist that criticises capitalism, condemns pedophilia, encourages the viewers to question their governments, has a central plot about how LGBT people are condemned[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not every idea an author has ever had is related to their bad opinions, so? 🤷 It’s important to acknowledge that good art isn’t only made by the ideologically pure. But as for where you draw the line– I can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
i’m interrogating this text from a watsonian perspective, but feel free to enjoy yourself in doylist hell
exilley: exilley: I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
samglyph: Very important to have friends who enjoy media you don’t personally enjoy, both because having friends with varying interests can help you understand why someone might enjoy something even if it’s not your cup of tea which can help[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
proshipwatermelonwriter: “Fictional children cannot consent” Nothing fictional can consent to shit, because that would require them to be.. Let me say this in the nicest way possible. Be real, living, breathing human beings with thoughts of their own.
echofromtheabyss: fierceawakening: sugarbeta: boltstuck: derinthescarletpescatarian: derinthescarletpescatarian: Some people are like “The classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create the Torment Nexus is Problematic because it features the Torment Nexus” “No but see the only reason to write about the Torment Nexus is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
renthony: rain-droplet: renthony: The thing about media analysis is that yes, things really can be that deep even if the artist didn’t put the thought into it intentionally. Little cultural references, personal artist quirks, broad societal influences, unacknowledged biases…there are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
renthony: “This villain did nothing wrong” not in a “I do not see my meow-meow’s crimes <3” way, but in a, “villains are still frequently coded as marginalized people fighting the system that marginalized them, and I identify more strongly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
revui: genfagloser: im making this its own post actually found family is “i have endured the fucking horrors with these guys. i would both kill and die for them. i would rip my own bones out to make splints to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
vaspider: elfgirlcraftworks: vaspider: ktempestbradford: whencartoonsruletheworld: whencartoonsruletheworld: whencartoonsruletheworld: don’t get me wrong i am VERY excited for the color purple musical film it’s gonna rock so hard but also. im gonna need the trailers to stop being like “look at this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sapphywatchesyousleep: crazyintheeast: counterpunches: lafgl: padmedala: i’d be really curious to know what percent of queerbaiting is a) an intentional marketing scheme to stir interest in the project and attract certain fanbases (lgbtq people and young women) vs. b) members of the creative[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
🔹 It’s okay to create or engage with fiction about whatever topic, theme, or idea that you want to. 🔹It’s okay to create or engage with any fiction you want to for any reason. 🔹It’s okay to enjoy any fiction[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
‼️ Fiction cannot cause physical harm to someone. ‼️ The only person who should have the power to decide if a piece of fiction is harming you emotionally or psychologically is you. ‼️ Any fiction you feel like you are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
philippesaner: prokopetz: Like, I’m not gonna tell anyone where their personal boundaries ought to lie, but if you can’t deal with sibling incest, gothic horror is maybe not the right genre for you. Incest and cannibalism as signifiers of moral[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The hypocritical and tangled web of deciding “what’s appropriate for children” is one of the many reasons it’s ideologically abhorrent to me to restrict what children are allowed to read. context link
I think it would be wonderful if all parents were like that. That’s very much the right approach. Well, aside from dropping the book on your head. 😉 context link
See the thing is that children reading literal porn is already illegal. (in the US.) You don’t need to normalize giving parents the control to restrict their children’s access to reading material to keep kids safe from porn if that’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because when someone believes that a parent should be able to control their child’s reading material, that means: 👉 they can restrict them from ever seeing material that shows queer or trans characters or depicts being queer or trans in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kawaii-pigeon: Sometimes i think id come across as condescending prick if anything i made got traction. Like, yeah, im not spoon feeding you morals. If you can read this online i expect you to have some level of reading comprehension?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sniznuff: i hate how doc scratch and lord english are slept on by every homestuck fan. those fuckers changed the scope of everything to do with sburb using two different species from two different universes. they ARE the sburb. there[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
realspacejunk: derinthescarletpescatarian: lunaescribe: westenra: themself: kendallroy: kendallroy: people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as horror, another audience interprets as romance. 👉 Sometimes, what one audience interprets as romance, another audience interprets as horror. 👉 As an writer, you have to accept that every audience brings their own[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
👉 Any kind of evil you can make a character commit or go through is no worse than torturing your NPCs in a game. 👉 Don’t assume that acts in fiction indicate the real life desires of the author or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…