#a misunderstood woman

[laylawatermelon]

Ehem...

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

PUT ZENDAYA IN A HORROR MOVIE 🗣️🗣️🗣️

I got ideas ...

A mistress of mischief maybe ..

Something Adams family adjacent?

Give her something with whimsy!

A mad hatter role perhaps?

Ugh Zendaya please we need you. Gothic sexy scary ZENDAYA we need you!!

#zendaya #i live this transformation #as always coming with the looks #but i admire this so much #just her diversity in looks is something that got my writing hands itching #bring in the mad queen roles based in a fantasy land #or a mad hatter in modern times #a lady whistledown who lives in a grotto who's known to not be messed with #a WITCH! #a misunderstood woman #all the roles #but seriously it's refreshing to see her glamour in another form #sis i mention im a fan? #met gala

[bastardlybonkers]

i feel like not enough ppl are factoring in the cultural clash between laios and shuro and the many micro agressions shuro faced while being in their group. literally the name 'shuro' in itself is one

his name is toshiro 😭 lets also not forget that he has his own communication issues, in the opposite way that laios does- thats literally a factor in their argument, that his envy for laios's ability to express himself sincerely manifested as part of his distaste for him.

ig all this to say like, was their fight heart wrenching, especially when reading laios as autistic? absolutely. anybody whos ever been in laios's position knows how much it hurts to realize someone you thought was your friend doesnt actually like having you around, especially when they didnt tell you and you had no way of knowing due to not understanding their cues. but im begging yall to step back and see the nuance of this situation cause im gonna be real a lot of you are kinda just brushing over it acting like everything is toshiros fault and that hes a terrible person when in reality hes an average guy who really, really clashed with laios and it led to a very long misunderstanding due to their supremely opposite methods of communication. even laios and toshiro, after letting everything out in their fight, were able to come to an understanding and start a foundation for an actual friendship built on better communication

ok yknow what Edit: i shouldve made it even more explicit at the end of this post, i hadnt thought i would need to since i started the post with this, but i think a few too many people are missing my point so i just wanna clarify. i shouldnt have said 'really clashed' and left it at that because yeah they did, but it wasnt just their opposite methods of communication, it is also very much that toshiro was experiencing microaggressions via laios. it may have been unintentional on laios's part, but it still happened and wore him down, made it harder for him to communicate on top of both the more subtle social cues that he was raised with and his own communication difficulties. i also want to say that the fandom reaction to toshiro and the complete ignorance of this point is also racist tbh or at the very least ignorant. i understand that the anime did not cover this panel, and neither did the manga, as this was an omake, but im gonna be real with you guys. there are enough context clues within the story to clue you into this. if you didnt pick up on it thats ok, but i think this is a good lesson in picking up subtext in the stories that youre watching and/or reading. kui shouldnt have to explicitly say 'by the way laios was racist to toshiro' for this point to be understood, and at the very least, when the author portrays a character in a sympathetic light (as kui clearly does) it should make you question Why they are doing so and what makes them sympathetic, rather than youre immediate and only reaction to be 'well i hated what this guy did/said so i hate them and they suck'. idk exactly how to finish this, just. idk. question your biases and gut reactions to things you see in media and stories, and think about whether or not theres subtext that youre missing.

#dunmeshi #dungeon meshi #shuro dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #toshiro nakamoto #dont get me wrong i understand relating to a character and hating whoever wrongs them cause youre protective or you relate really hard #but i think toshiros been getting the short end of the stick for a long time now 😭 #even his love for falin is misunderstood #he literally states all the reasons he likes her #and none of them are superficial #but hes so closed off and has such difficulty expressing himself that instead of asking her out or smth he just #proposed to her out of the blue 😭 #leading a lot of ppl to just assume that he went 'white woman spotted' and proposed #do Not misunderstand me i am #a HUGE farcille stan #obviously #but i dont think toshiros feelings are surface level and i think theyre absolutely crucial to understanding him and his motivations #as a character in this story

[fumifooms]

Kaka compilation

Because everyone is sleeping on him. Witness his greatness!! First two Kaka colored icons were colored by me, lineart by Ryoko Kui though!

Kaka & Kiki are kinda like Laios & Falin… Kaka being stoic and giving repressed energy like early Laios, Kiki being cryptic and always smiling and kinda soft-looking. Autism siblings 2, ostracized and othered as kids and have a deep bond due to sticking together through it all, though unlike with Laios their parents are very loving so Kaka developed family as a big value more than Laios (bc asides for Falin Laios doesn’t care much about it).

In the gnome festival comic you can see Kaka is more emotive than he seems! Full with a :3 face, and he’s the one crying at the end. He’s insecure about his legs and being tall… It really got to him. Conceal don’t feel. In the gnome festival comic you also see him sensing others’ gaze on him and that something is off unlike Kiki, again Laios-like in the way that judgement from others gets to him more than her.

#The twins are so autistic swag #A falin just as chilled out and smiling and a laios who never stopped repressing #They’re so neurodivergent and they’re allowed to just exist I love you Kui. Kaka is just literally me #I looove characters that are hard to know and hard to read/easily misunderstood. They’re my favorite thing #LOOK AT THE WAY HE SMILES THE WAY HE BLUSHESSS HE’S PERFECT and I would take a harpoon to the chest for him thank u #I do love Kiki too btw but I’ve been seeing her in fancontent and posts way more than Kaka so I had to give him some spotlight #But also Laios is my fave of the Toudens so this very much checks out #Their pre-Flokes story would be interesting to analyze too #Dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #kaka floke #Kaka #Kiki and kaka #floke twins #As you may guess from my new-ish icon I am in my kaka era #ALSO I SWEAR TO GOD STOP BEING MEAN ABOUT HIS NAME #KA IS A SYLLABLE IN MY IRL NAME. YES I WAS BULLIED AND CALLED KAKA AS A KID. MY NAME ALSO MEANS UGLY STUFF IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE #KAKA’S A PRETTY NAME I’LL DIE ON THIS HILL. IT’S NOT WEIRD IF YOU DON’T MAKE IT WEIRD #Oh also another laios falin parallel: they both sort-of-date the same woman

[poisonousquinzel]

Harley Quinn would beat up terfs with her mallet and if you disgreee then you have fundamentally misunderstood her character <3

#she and i stand with trans people im sorry some of yall are just bigots :) being a woman or lgb-q doesnt mean that #you get some free pass to be a bigot #if you're transphobic you're a bigot #fuck off #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #dc comics #'oh but what about-' yes we have all moved on past the fact that Amanda & Jimmy dont understand shit about her they are included #in the 'you fundamentally misunderstood her character' lbr #every lgbt character in their ongoing for her that wasnt like priorly created #is Sus #sinquinn or whatever????? jfc

[dayurno]

what do u like about allison? not attacking u or anything she's just always fell flat to me and im open to enlightenment

shes funny to me :) i like that she's catty and entitled and insufferable, but that there are moments where it slips (namely grieving seth, but also offering herself up to be a confidante to neil, crumpling into renee after andrew hurts her) and we get to see that she's terrified of herself And others and that money could not buy her a sense of self nor a reasonable emotional framework. there are also small things about her that i just find endearing, like the few times where her and matt act like siblings (when the foxes get rained on and matt takes a picture of her looking soaked, much to her horror, and when jeremy shows the foxes his game plan for the semi finals and allison tugs incessantly at matts sleeve to let her see it) and her horrible betting problem, the way she knew neil caused seth's death but also knew she couldn't live her whole life with that grudge, her gossip habits, the way she desperately wants to fix everything with money (taking the foxes out to the cabins after neil got kidnapped always seemed like such an obvious attempt to soothe the team to me, but allison was not raised on affection and the only way she can conceive it is through what she can offer them in monetary terms + i'm reminded of the bit in the ec that allison keeps a trustfund for the foxes' children and that she pays for renee's child's medical bills) etc!

i do mean it when i say that allison and kevin are not all that different, and they have a very similar understanding (or lack thereof) of the way relationships work, but allison can be such a steorotype sometimes it's hard to allow ourselves to see her as anything but a tall hot glass of skank, whereas we naturally give kevin more nuance and space for humanity because we are taught to believe men are more capable of complexity than women. one of my favorite allison is kevin in a wig moments is the fact that allison's goal with seth ('to make a real man out of him', to give him something to live for, to make him want to achieve it) is exactly the same as kevin's goal with andrew

#asks #allison #i think this is all? #but yeah i feel like allison can be very misunderstood because at face value she's playing the role of heiress perfectly #and its well its not unlike kevin's exy robot bit is it #i think they are both people who have developed a very specific shield to protect them from the world outside #and just because allison's is easier to be around doesn't mean that she's not just as lonely as kevin at the end of the day #thank you for letting me ramble about her! made me remember how fond i am of this horrible woman

[mermaidsirennikita]

no offense to people who love the BBC P&P but imagine being more into the one where he proposes in a room where he's dominated by wallpaper, versus the one where he proposes in POURING RAIN, beginning with this desperate little "ILOVEYOUMOSTARDENTLYPLEASEDOMETHEHONOROFACCEPTINGMYHAND" and escalating to the point where he's almost YELLING because his FEELINGS are coming out SO HARD and he's been quiet the whole movie but NOW HE CAN'T STAND IT (and before people come at him Lizzie is almost yelling also) and the man who's been so repressed this whole movie is like, rolling his eyes at her comebacks, absolutely spitting the "Mr.wickham" while stepping forward in the most irritated manner possible

it's just such a dynamic scene and while I think Keira is great in this movie, I'm glad that over the years Matty Mac has gotten the flowers he deserves because the choice to have it begin as this pleading gentlemanly proposal characterized by the same anxiety Darcy has shown throughout the movie to this very angry and annoyed and even EXASPERATED argumentative state we've never seen him in before (aside from hints like the dance and him fucking off on that horse after seeing Wickham lmao) because he's PISSED at getting rejected by her especially for doing shit he thinks was totally valid lol, then moving into absolute horniness in the end because he's not on his A-Game Honor Code at all anymore.......

[SUBLIME!]

#this is not a post where i wanna hear anyone's opinions about how the bbc one is better i do not care #this is a poster about how everything about this scene is perfect #but ESPECIALLY the anger and annoyance part that matty mac puts in it #because i think that the contrast to literally everything else he does in the movie #is excellent #i feel like the intensity to which he reacts to her in this scene is what really proves the depth of his feeling #more than all of the anxiety does #not to trash the anxiety it's such good characterization but to me it's like... #him being so mad at being rejected and misunderstood by her is like oh he WANTS this woman #he's INVESTED

[rythyme]

ok the director of Thame - Po: Heart That Skips A Beat is Mui Aticha Tanthanawigrai, who was one of three screenwriters for Girl From Nowhere, a screenwriter / director on F4 Thailand, AND the lead screenwriter and director for The Shipper. a super interesting track record!!

honestly if anyone was going to try to make a more serious boy band bl romance show, i'm glad it's her

#thame po #gmmtv 2024 #heart that skips a beat #i've said it before but i think the shipper is a chronically misunderstood show #i REALLY loved the style and the screenwriting in girl from nowhere #and like it or not f4 thailand was one of the most popular thai shows ever #this woman knows what she's doing #and she's uniquely qualified to (potentially) handle a queer idol industry romance in a nuanced and interesting way #will she? that remains to be seen. but honestly i'm a lot more interested than i was initially now that i know she's directing it

[crawley-fell]

I work for a TV broadcaster and when I started my current job I had to put together an 'about me' PowerPoint to present to my team. I had only seen one other new starter show one and it was super low-key and informal, bit of background info and a slide with your favourite shows and films presented over an online call. I thought, okay, I can do that. So, someone tell me why when it was my turn that management decided I could do it at our annual round-up meeting with the entire department in a cinema with only AN HOURS NOTICE. That's how I found myself standing on stage in front of over 100 industry professionals, microphone in my hand, stating that my top 3 favourite films are Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, and Bridget Jones's Baby.

#it was so embarrassing but also objectively hilarious #a woman went after me and she'd written a PUBLISHED BOOK about film noir #i was like oh god i have gravely misunderstood this assignment we are not the same

[peachesgarden]

that one mario all-stars ad where peach wears this glamorous dress

#honestly mario is so misunderstood because i would be too travelling through GALAXIES to save this woman #bc holy shit #i was giggling while drawing this #i love her #smbb #super mario bros #smb #mario bros #princess peach #fan art

[itsdappleagain]

IM LATE AGAIN sorry! for day 7: original series day I chose to draw treasures of knowledge julia argent!!! it is a canon event for every rendition of julia argent to be deeply in love with carmen sandiego

anyways i highly reccomend watching a playthrough of tok because julia does basically nothing except talk about how she used to be carmen's partner the entire game and get roses from her and shit its homo behavior i tell you

#carmenweek #carmen sandiego #treasures of knowledge #where in the world is carmen sandiego #where in the world is carmen sandiego? #witwics #where in the world is carmen sandiego? treasures of knowledge #julia argent #i have this game on my laptop and i havent played it yet i want to maybe on stream some time in discord #who knows #this woman is so gay #oh carmen and i climbed that mountain once before she left me #and shes misunderstood but i dont know why she left me :( #we were so happy together i mean as partners at acme #yes work partners

[ardentpoop]

they literally had no clue what a special and one-of-a-kind character they had on their hands

leagues above the rest of this show’s characters in terms of emotional depth

#not to sound like a broken record but the fact that the writers treated him like shit adds a layer to his narrative #like if he wasn’t saddled with his particular role within the restrictions of his particular universe I wonder whether he would’ve spoken #to as many sad freaks like me as he did #if he wasn’t written thru a misogynistic lens for a misogynistic audience his story may have been significantly less tragic #if he wasn’t in a story that viewed mental illness and addiction as moral failures. #if he wasn’t in a story that ultimately believed in Us vs Them and in the inherent Rightness of the nuclear family #if he wasn’t in a story that handwaved and made excuses for the abuse he suffered at the hands of his loved ones bc it was #merely a consequence of him straying from the Mission #thee singular male character that I’ll tell you is a woman and mean it in the sense that you CANNOT engage meaningfully with him without #acknowledging that his central conflicts and his defining traits and the way the fandom at large treats him are all tied up in #traditional expectations for female characters #he’s relatable if you’re a misunderstood woman and if you’re queer and if you’re a 2nd gen american #if you’ve felt lonely your whole life and if you feel like you never fit anywhere #an actually perfect character to me few others can compare #tag vomit

[blackswaneuroparedux]

It was inevitable, when there are two sisters and one is the Queen, who must be the source of honour and all that is good, while the other must be the focus of the most creative malice, the evil sister.

Princess Margaret

Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon, was Queen Elizabeth II's younger sister. Admired for her beauty and glamour, she nevertheless drew the attention of the media for the struggles and controversies of her personal life. Nevertheless, it could be said that for all her misgivings, the princess had lived life the way she wanted it.

Portrait of Princess Margaret by Lord Snowdon, 1967.

#princess margaret #quote #windsor #queen elizabeth II #femme #woman #beauty #evil sister #sister #british royal family #royalty #monarchy #reputation undeserved #misunderstood

[cloudcountry]

there is no way the ikevamp guys are being such assholes in jean's route i must be dreaming

#auburn talks ikevamp <3 #like idk dont take it from me but first sebastian lies to her about there being vampires #then they lie to her AGAIN saying the mansion is on fire just so they can get her out of her room #jean fucking BIT HER and comte did NOTHING to ensure her safety #MOZART gives her sass and then shoves her so hard into jean's room that she lands on her hands and knees #and then pulls out the “i wont let my friend be so misunderstood.” LIKE HE DIDNT FUCKING BITE HER #let me tell you if i played jean first i would have hated EVERY SINGLE PERSON in this FUCKING MANSION aside from isaac #comte. get me a new residence immediately please. i do not want to live with you and your ASSHOLE SONS #why are they treating the absolute WORST in jean's route is what i want to understand. like you are quite literally pushing her- #-around as you lie to her. she is nothing but a punching bag for you. #AND MAY I REMIND YOU she is a WOMAN in a mansion full of MEN. #and there is not even a SHRED of sympathy for her situation from these fucking idiots. #jean's route is just. ugh. it's not vibing with me. i hate it so far. stop treating this poor girl like she's nothing but garbage- #-under your shoe. have some human compassion you absolute barbarians. im disappointed in all of you.

[needlesandnilbogs]

for the fic title game: "Jackrabbit"

I do not have many thoughts about this for murderbot but:

city spies book 2 spoilers ahead (related to magpie’s gender and the end of the book)

city spies fic. The spies are on operation jackrabbit, a fast-moving op in at least two countries, not that important what it is. The point is, the kids are busy and mother’s running things. Monty is at home, bustling around and worrying and baking.

Then Magpie shows up again and seems to have kidnapped Monty right off the FARM. (Monty’s not there when the kids get back and something identifies magpie’s last known identity as the kidnapper)

the rest of the fic is about the kids putting together a plan to get her back, interspersed with Monty and Magpie hanging out and baking and going on dates and generally being cute romantic lesbians together.

when all is revealed, Monty is like. Okay, look, it wasn’t supposed to look like she kidnapped me. Double agents exist, I’ve been dating magpie since I was in agent training with her and knew she was an agent (and she told me when she kidnapped me what was really going on with her and that she was a double agent and now we’re back to dating) but I didn’t tell you for Reasons, this is the first time we’ve been able to go on a date since then and I didn’t think you’d get back from the op early

#city spies #fanfic #i am a diehard Monty/magpie shipper even tho magpie is evil in canon #let me alone #I get one evil woman who I go she actually isn’t evil just misunderstood #but Clementine is evil and not a double agent. book five and end of 4 what book five and end of 4. She did everything she was accused of #And more

[anne-bsd-bibliophile]

From now on, I'm not posting any quotes that mention the word "women" on my main blog. Especially quotes from Dazai. Too often, people will use those quotes to accuse Dazai of being misogynistic and it is stressing me out. I don't want to worry about it anymore, so I will no longer be posting these quotes.

#if the words “woman” or “women” are in the title (like Little Women) then I will still post thoses #but I don't want to try to guess which of the quotes might be misunderstood to be misogynistic #so all quotes that have “woman” or “women” in them will no longer be posted

[roseworth]

pissed off bc im writing a paper about iasip for my lgbt rep in pop culture class and we had to do a critique for our paper proposal n in my proposal i mentioned how they refer to the trans character a slur instead of her name and someone in their critique said that i shouldnt use a slur in my academic paper (quoting the source material) because "it can tear down the paper if the slur doesnt apply to you"

#honestly this annoyed me more than it shouldve #mostly because it came right after them saying that i shouldnt say its gay for mac to date a trans woman #even though in the paper i specifically made a point of saying that its not gay for a straight man to date a trans woman #but the way the show framed it (coupled with the fact that he IS gay) changes the context #in conclusion: girl help my points are being misunderstood by freshman on a discussion board