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ghostfriendly5 · 10 days
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021918 Because everybody asked about them, I have this little something for you :3
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Not forgetting the larger problems of her support for Reinhard's self-serving autocracy, and delusion of dictatorship as a viable option for human government...but these are the story's problems, not Hilde's. In a society where women can only 'hold power' by marrying an important man, she works hard and intelligently to fulfil his dream of conquering the universe because of sister issues. She does her best within a corrupt system, that she could have left at any time by defecting to the Alliance, but no big whoop, and certainly, as you say, no big whoop for execution of character development.
Hilde is certainly a better 'strong woman's than Frederica Greenhill, supposedly from an egalitarian society, who managed nothing but serving coffee and cowering in fear before marrying an important man. Which follows the anti-feminist lies that women don't really want careers and independence; that influence over important men is a valid substitute for human rights, and patriarchal subjugation a natural, healthy state of affairs. The only non-fascist female leader in the story, Cornelia Windsor, is an absolute charicature. The problem isn't only that the writer doesn't care enough to unpack Hilde or Frederica's sacrifices, but his not believing that they would be unhappy, or have any right to be.
Of course, Frederica isn't a tea lady by choice, and Hilde's lack of choice is not due to the year she lives in; all of it stems from the assumptions and aspirations of the writers. Hilde is only an image of a woman, literally a drawing, and certainly shouldn't be blamed for a male writer's failings.
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See I do disagree that Hilda “goes downhill.” She got pregnant. Pregnancy is work. You could say that that continued to make her the most important person in the empire after Reinhard. To avoid trouble she stepped back from having an active role in politics but we see behind closed doors that Reinhard continues to consult w her and he leaves governance to her on his death, too. Comments like the above feel ppl projecting their own modern ideas about gender on to a work, more than actual feminist criticism. The way Hilda is written is very in line w the powerful women of history. I thought it worked. Her story is still within a patriarchal context, and the fact that that is never unpacked is more of the issue.
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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パーティーに参加するも警戒を怠らないドレスミヤコ by eko
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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Comments appear when anyone with something to say about the story reads it, whether that's ten years later or never. There's nothing unnatural going on if everyone with something to say has said it, or if tastes change, which they do. I'm not breaking out a violin over a story with 900 kudos, which presumably came from writing on such a subject as a large number of people wanted to read about.
I noticed that an amazing fic I read with over 60k words and over 900 kudos...didn't receive a single comment in 2022.
There were some comments in 2021, then a gap, then a few comments from this year. That is insane.
Ao3 is not built like Wattpad, it is not meant to be treated like the 'latest hits' page where you only read the new works, or where you only click on sort by number of kudos. It doesn't matter if the fic you like is not wip anymore - if you really like the story, comment. A simple heart will do. The author won't think you're annoying, in fact they'll probably be incredibly happy.
Fic authors don't deserve to have their work just disappear with no engament after few weeks pass. The fics don't deserve it either
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Chun-Li by @kmc_nt
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Chun-Li by To-ru
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Chun-Li by @poderdohokuto
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Chun-Li by Cy_Art
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Chun-Li by @JuaagAcgy
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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Digicember 2016: Beers and ramen. Wanted to draw a cozy scene, inspired by my Shadowrun: Hong Kong run.
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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Alternatively, the figleaf-shaped false modesty that writers too frequently use to make the wish fulfilment hero at the centre of their world a little less absurd. It isn't wrong if the hero of the story is the hero of their own story. However, toxic male fantasies like Goblin Slayer and Naofumi, who moan when they breath about being so tragic, lonely, and burdened with obscene harems, ought to actually suffer for once, or more than once.
i really love when a character, calmly and completely earnestly, is like i’m not important, i’m no one really, just a blade that people use and throw away. no one remembers me for long after i leave their life. and then you look at the evidence and it turns out that every person who meets them becomes permanently obsessed with them, for better and for worse, and the character has somehow completely missed this fact
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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genuinely, honestly, I wish fandom could move past "depiction isn't endorsement".
because it's really meant to be sort of the baby beginner step to media literacy but in fandom spaces it usually acts like a trump card to shut down critical discussions. it's one of the thought terminating cliches of fandom that discourages learning how to interrogate the text beyond "fiction isn't reality, dummy".
yes, the popular whump fic in your fandom isn't endorsing torture, but also, can you tell when the canon for your fandom is endorsing a message? how do you then choose to interact with that canon, and do you get defensive when people are critical of the source material?
depiction isn't endorsement, but can you tell when fandom trends are misogynistic or racist? can you see how killing off a black female character to "punish" her in fanfiction with the framing that she deserves it, and the popular narrative in a certain fandom that a heroic black man is a possessive liar and a white villain is a good man deserving redemption, is endorsing a message in fanfic? do you argue that it's "just fiction" when people get very understandably upset at misogyny and racism in fandom spaces?
yeah, depiction isn't endorsement, but do you think this is where it starts and stops as the only thing you really need to know? do you think people who are critical of things aren't engaging with it properly, or being mean, because they've forgotten the golden fandom rule of "fiction isn't reality"?
nbc hannibal isn't endorsing cannibalism as a dietary choice, but top gun maverick and call of duty: modern warfare were quite literally sponsored by the us military as propaganda for recruitment.
I'm not saying don't enjoy the ip that's making you happy or calling for moral purity in your media habits or whatever. just saying that there's a lot to media literacy beyond the feel good affirmations that periodically circulate fandom, and those affirmation posts both lack necessary nuance and discourage people from engaging with said nuance.
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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There are few books that should be legally banned, but many more books and shows that any humane and reasonable person should be absolutely unwilling to consume or support.
‼️ 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 being harmed by you can stop reading/watching/creating it at any time.
‼️ You are always in control when you are consuming or creating fiction.
‼️ Do not surrender the power to decide what fictional ideas might cause you emotional or psychological harm to other people.
‼️ No one will ever know better than you what ideas are harmful to you personally.
‼️ You cannot decide what is psychologically or emotionally harmful to another person.
‼️ Attempting to restrict the kind of fiction that people create or consume because you think it might cause them emotional or psychological harm is authoritarian.
‼️ It is safe to explore any ideas and themes in fiction. Fiction does not and cannot cause physical harm to any person. You are always in control of the fiction you are creating or consuming.
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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Alternatively, it didn't matter if R&G knew they were being used to murder Hamlet. As with Polonius, they will thoughtlessly do anything to please King Claudius, with self-regard for their own advancement, but no self-will, in contrast to Hamlet himself. Going some way to justify both their supporting character status and honourless deaths.
Some characters are consigned to a Shakespearean fate in the sense that their deaths will be tragic and poignant and illustrate fundamental truths about the human condition, and some characters are consigned to a Shakespearean fate in the sense that they're likely to suddenly and randomly be eaten by a heretofore-unmentioned bear.
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ghostfriendly5 · 2 months
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Log Horizon. The only JRPG rules Isekai well worth a watch, thanks to its ensemble cast, devotion to worldbuilding, and genuine sidelining of wish fulfilment. Hapless, harried and unsure, Shirou is a protagonist who generates narrative tension rather than toxic fantasies of male competence. Krusty and Soujirou, the self-assured toe-rags who would headline any lesser Isekai, are very much side characters. Probably the only good Isekai with a male hero apart from Now and Then, Here and There.
Series where I can do whatever to my heart's contents in it's setting will always stick by me because of the sheer potential of what you can do
Log Horizon's plot is probably locked in at this point, even if the publishers will likely never release another volume, but the things you can write about what's happening anywhere else is practically endless.
Theldesia has the entirety of Elder Tales' online population at the moment of the May Incident/Catastrophe/World Fraction, we're talking maybe millions of players now stranded in another world in bodies not their own and reality itself trying to find a middle ground between the rules of the game and that of Earth.
You could have stories about homesickness or settling in a new life. Dysphoria or euphoria over becoming their player characters. Shifting moralities when the concept of permanent death is trivialized. Collective trauma and the community that forms to alleviate that.
Take, for instance, that one small blurb about someone in the American server discovering the Real World Preparation Method for food and the ensuing chaos in the city that leads to the formation of mafia-like organizations duking it out in Not!New York. The focus could be on the toxic relationship between two hitwomen that just can't help killing each other and finding the way their swords lock with another electrifying.
Or maybe, looking elsewhere, how a literal farming bot that gained sapience could develop a close relationship with her programmer, the examination between her intended programming and emerging behavior leaving mixed but uplifting feelings that could bloom into more.
A closeted trans woman, early into her transition but not coming out yet, suddenly finding herself at her end goal by pure happenstance and rekindling a relationship with her roommate who was patiently waiting for her to feel like herself to be together again.
A heavy roleplayer that's a little bit too into a certain NPC, suddenly finding out that she's alive and could return her affections, only to realize the yawning gap between their perception of reality.
An avid solo player doing her best bloodknight impression and slaughtering her way through a mob village to vent, only to stop short once she sees the fear in a survivor's eyes. Does she go further? Does she take the survivor in to repent?
A knight finding herself between the political machinations of the NPC royalty and her ties to Earth and the Adventurers, only that she's being seduced really hard by the princess that caught a fancy to her.
... I'm just making up most of these on the spot because Theldesia seems to be a fun place to explore, Apocalypse notwithstanding, and a lot of it is intentionally left unsaid because the main plot understandably focuses on Shiroe and Co.
That said, I guess one huge downside is that most of your possible acquaintances are going to be fellow gamers so common stereotypes might be present, even if you take into account that Elder Tale was likely as popular as FFXIV and would be more diverse in personality as a result.
(also all the prompts were yuri plots on purpose (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠))
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