Mapleshade hate is often just misogyny. The baby trap argument, comparing her to Ashfur, and saying she didn't really care about her kits is just absurd.
it really does depend on the argument, because i don't blame a lot people for not liking the character for how she's treated as undeniably in the right for killing and what not....but it's when people start making up shit that i raise a brow. that she's emotionally manipulative, that she baby trapped appledusk, and so on and so on. it's like....is the murder not bad enough. is murder not good enough to point out she might not be a good person. is the actual child she manipulated not good enough proof that maybe she's not a good person, we have to pretend appledusk is her poor hapless victim. come on now, let's not be sillay about it
i also dont understand the "doesn't love her kits thing". like i think there's a bad trend of equating love = moral goodness, that to love something means that it erases the bad, and i think it's just a bad way to view these dynamics. i say this as someone who likes idea that mapleshade loved her kits as extensions of what they could do for her lol
eye twitch i hate (love) how much astarions tone changes after he's free from cazador and he's thanking you. how genuine and sincere he sounds it makes me sick. i feel like im hearing an entirely different person talk but in a good way yknow.
unpopular opinion but I like frostpaw getting spayed. obv I hope it’s done right and obv I know it won’t but once I did that to my wc oc because it could be interesting!! like being kidnapped and experimented on by aliens. if it’s done through a horror lense it could be something so cool. not “I’ll never be whole again because I can’t bear children :(“ but “I’ve been taken by mysterious creatures and only barely escaped with my life- I’ve had things done to me healers can’t explain or treat. my very nature is corrupting further before my eyes and I’m scared I’ll lose myself forever” is this about cat’s personalities being changed post visit to the cutters or is it about baldur’s gate 3? /hj
i've been staring longingly at baldur's gate 3 on steam waiting for it to go on sale because the 90 dollar price tag gives me psychic damage if i so much as glance at it
but man...i don't know i can't really see this team handling this with any sort of respect, especially when they wrote frostpaw's fantasy of her "happier life" being a mother to splashtail's kits. it feels like set up and, with their handling of sparkpelt's post-partum depression, dotc, dotc super editions, and so on....i am just not feeling confident about the handling of this. i'm kind of bracing myself for them to put out some vile misogynistic shit and i'm hoping the fandom will also be ready to tear that shit apart. just not feeling confident about it.
i get like. idk the horror of it might appeal to some people and if it was any other series, i guess maybe i could see it? but this is wc and i do not have faith in these authors.
MMMMMMMM NEVER GOING TO SHUT UP ABOUT THIS RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JAEJUN’S REACTION AFTER JOOAN READ OUT MY SILLY LITTLE COMMENT 😵💫😳😩🥺💖 also “tori-nim” WHY IS THAT SO CUTE HHHHHHH
couldn’t listen all the way through | not my thing | it’s okay | kinda catchy | ok i really like this | downloading immediately | already in my library
this is an optimal song to listen while laying your head on the bus window and pretending ur the main character in a coming of age film