#give me uwu soft boi that I can blorbo

[fluidnet]

I was half asleep and thinking about all the stories like She’s The Man and Mulan (1999) where a woman dresses up like a man in order to do something ManlyTM and how they all inevitably fall in love with the masculinity of it all while still being women (or not, I guess, fiction is flexible and gender is more so)

and I went “give me a man who chooses to dress as a woman instead of resorting to violence. Give me a man who, in finding femininity and softness, can find himself. Give me a man who chooses kindness and love over war and aggression, but the only way he can do so is finding solace in the feminine. Not because femininity is inherently softer, but because society has told him as such. Give me a man who, through trial and error, finds himself learning to love the traditional women’s tasks he’s been clumsily attempting. Give me a man who could never truly fit in with other men, and the women around him protect him and love him unconditionally. Give me a man who cannot stand for himself at first, and then rises stronger together with the people who took him in”

And I realized that “give me a man who dresses as a woman in order to avoid going to war” is just. Achilles. And I want that classically animated movie now. I don’t even care if it’s sanitized like the Disney Renaissance Mulan or Hercules, in fact I’d enjoy that. I want Achilles to choose kindness and love and beauty over the war he never wanted to fight. I want a lighthearted, playful version of Achilles where there’s a happy ending. I know it’s a tragedy, but so were a lot of things that got animated at the time (not even Disney, Anastasia and Quest for Camelot come to mind as well) and I think he and Patroclus can have a happily ever after, too

I also want it to be gay, but I think that goes without saying

#patroclus #achilles #greek myth #greek mythology #animation #disney renaissance #late 1990s animation #happy stories #feminine men #she’s the man #mulan #feminine #femininity #masculine #masculinity #give me uwu soft boi that I can blorbo

[llawlieta]

What’s your most unpopular DN opinion? (It can be about canon, fanon the fandom)

This is a hard to answer question for me because I don't know that I have many unpopular opinions, or any at all?! So I'm just going to ramble a little bit at you. I hope this is the quality content you were looking for.

I am FAR from confident that my own characterization of Light and L is right, but I sometimes feel like my view of them is an unpopular one because I see different sides of fandom taking certain traits and pulling in totally different directions - Light is either dramatic with a hair-trigger temperament and ready for Violence OR he is very soft and fluffy. (Or, he is either constantly openly and shamelessly putting women down or actually a #feminist.) Same thing with L. L is very soft and gentle and full of angsty feelings, or (and I think the following is a view that some people have adopted as a rejection to the Uwu L ™ characterization that was king in the early days of the fandom, sjsksjd) he is a confident asshole with almost no consideration towards other people beyond what is useful to him to be able to solve a case.

But then of course I know this is a bit like saying nothing because all fandoms will do this to their blorbos, and all characters are more complex than you'd think from a cursory search through their Tumblr tag. I was discussing this with a beloved friend and she illuminated me by mentioning that fandom... just loves Drama and Heightened Feelings... People consume the source material and want more Feels out of it (especially media like Death Note, I'd imagine, which really doesn't spend more time than necessary dwelling on anyone's feelings) and so they take... Light having a yelling fit and make it a very prominent trait of his personality. Or L having a soft moment and fill him with soft feelings that are coming out all the time. Which is a reasonable instinct to have! even though I think the interesting part of those moments in canon is precisely the fact that they are extraordinary in some way.

So I AM saying nothing and this does happen in every fandom, and contrary to what that cursory search through any fandom tag would tell you, a lot of people certainly treat the characters with subtlety and pay careful attention to all of their dimensions. I mean, evidently, most people do it much better than I could ever hope to do!! (In my defense I have to say that if I stress myself out with writing Light and L properly in-character I will drive myself insane, so not doing it is Self Care for me). But, ah! hopefully this is still some sort of answer, anon!

The L thing bothers me more, because he is my beloved boy and because I think people insist a bit too much on the view of him as confident asshole who doesn't give a fuck. Cleverer people than me have discussed this, particularly in the Lawlight server in which I am, but L does in fact Give Some Fucks. I'm noticing it more now that I'm rereading the manga! A lot of soft little L moments are making me sort of understand why people back in the early fandom days really ran with that Soft Uwu L interpretation haha. It's not remotely accurate to reduce him to those traits! but it's not accurate either to reduce him to the opposite ones?

And I feel like the same phenomenon happens with Lawlight, My Beloved Ship. Sometimes it feels like, if people don't portray them as a very soft and fluffy couple, they can portray them as a couple that would be so toxic and unhealthy that they couldn't have a normal, loving relationship without mind games and manipulation always running through the undercurrent of it. Idk we all know these boys are crazy insane but I don't think they'd be quite THAT toxic!!

Rereading the manga has made me have the realization once again that (I think) L and Light honestly just fit together very well, and don't hate each other with nearly as much venom and intensity as one might think, and there's a lot of common interests and genuine mutual appreciation and fun in their relationship. Particularly in a no notebook AU where there'd be no need for 70% of their mind games of course lol, but it's also there just, like, canonically.

↑ they discuss the news and buy groceries together and read different books silently on the couch actually.

#if you read all this: [anime L voice] I'll give you a strawberry. #choosing a Yotsuba arc mangacap wasn't intentional in the sense that I am saying that #any of what I just said is only appliable to an L who is paired with a Yotsuba Light - not at all!! #I just had this edit of this mangacap in my folder and I wanted to put a picture at the end of these blocks of text kjsksjsks #Death Note #L #Lawlight #ask #anon #lau.txt #would anyone even think of it that way... I don't know. but I love worrying about things no one has ever had a single thought about ever.

[toruvi]

Hi, how are you doing? How’s school?

I was curious, what made you love Levi?

And btw it’s so nice to come on here and see someone who understands the obsession over baby, I don’t know anyone in real life who I can bond over this with lol like I used to be normal and then found a small sad man and my life changed

Anyways, I just need someone to bond over him with 🫠

Also, who is your favorite from jjk?? I like nanami

Haha it's 😬 it's going that's for sure!!! How are u bb I hope ur doin alright!

This is hard fhdhdhd so tbh I liked him all the way back in 2013 but wasn't craaaaazy involved in the fandom so he was sorta just a dude I thought was hot but didn't get to see enough of (especially cause it was only s1 out 🥲) OKAY WAIT NOW THAT IM THINKING I was super deep into Eruri specifically BUT this was when another ship was super prominent and it wasny my thing but MAN it was everywhere gjdhdhdhd

aaaaabd then right before s2p1 started airing I caught up on the anime (I hadn't watched any of s3, stopped after s2 finished bc I was mad that it was so short oop) AND GOOD GOD season 3 made me fall REALLY hard for him like he was always uwu baby boy but like this was BLORBO status of love man

Which is funny bc I was deep in my kuroo simp era but Levi just took over my whole life. And this was when i was starting to use ao3 more religiously so ofc I went straight to the Levi x reader tag, found all of Captain degenerates (I think that's the u/n?) Fics and binged the FUCK out of them. I think the first one was Carnivore and then Of Tea and High Buildings which ddjdjdjdjc AND YEAH OOPS I didn't mean to give a whole backstory I'm sorry

OKAY ANYWAYS BASICALLY what made me love him is just how fiercely he protects the people he cares about and and his grumpy sarcastic exterior when deep down he holds so much love and passion I'm I'm AHHHH it makes me so soft to think about :( also he's just so pretty and he's not super loud and and yeah hopefully this long winded post answered your question oops LOL

Jjk...god I love so many of the characters for different reasons, like I went through a gojo phase and then a nanami phase bc he reminded me of Levi and then on my second watch through yuuji low-key stole my heart for a bit 🥺🥺🥺🥺

ANYWAYS IM SORRY IF U READ ALL THIS 🧍🏻‍♀️

[fictionkinfessions]

every time someone in the fandom calls me a "poor baby" I take 3d6 psychic damage. first of all I am an adult, second of all, why.

if it were just the fandom in general I wouldn't care. people can think and talk about me however they like I do not care. it's incredibly odd to me, but whatever. but when even people who I know have been following me for weeks on an explicitly labeled not roleplay blog are commenting on my personal posts talking about how they "want to give [me] cuddles" it's very... please stop. I am a person. It's one thing not to see me as a weapon the way I see myself. that is fine, even somewhat nice sometimes, though I think it is naive. but I am not an 'uwu soft boy' who just needs love to be fixed or whatever. I am a whole entire person, not your blorbo. treat me as such when you speak to me. - xiao

#fictionkinfessions #fictionkin #xiaokin #genshinimpactkin #infantilization cw #fandom issue #mod party cat!