actually you know what while im on the subject the concept of fatherhood and what it means TO be a father as shown between kratos and odin is even better demonstrated by their own respective dealings with THEIR fathers.
kratos kills zeus in revenge, a cycle of violence and patricide that even centuries later he considers his greatest shame. he HATES himself for what he’s done and he fears above all else driving atreus down the same path. odin, by contrast, killed his father ymir, creator of all life, for ymir’s power and throne - and rather than live in shame, odin calls himself the all-father, implying HE is the supreme creator. he begets his reign in violence and bloodshed, and kicks down any person who he thinks has even a chance of rising against him. while supposedly praising his son thor, odin warps the prayers of midgard so thor receives no power from them; he shoves thor and his family down at EVERY opportunity, to benefit solely himself. he’s kratos’ foil in every way - proud of his stolen titles, dismissive of his children as pawns only, jealous of their glory and quick to kick them down if they so much as life their head from the dirt, and it’s juxtaposed so perfectly against kratos holding his hand to his heart and telling his son that he will ALWAYS be with him.
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hmm yeah that sounds dry enough to count! makes me wonder how truthful it is when you say you can't hold it anymore though.. you seem to be doing alright.
maybe let's get you a drink and enjoy that until you really can't wait
hhhhh yeah anon can I tell you a secret?? I get really embarrassed if I have accidents so sometimes I underestimate myself because I'm scared I'll not make it >_<
I have a lil drink, a wet patch isn't a good sign tho 😖
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Vent ig
Fandoms will always be more willing to humanize and excuse the male antagonists but will take any chance to further demonize female antagonists (or just female characters in general lets be honest) and turn them into cartoonishly evil ppl.
I hate making everything about RQ but Elara is what sparked this from me, or at least something I remembered pushed me to want to vent about this. It kills me that ppl in this fandom will sit and make excuses day in and day out about how Maven actually isn't to blame for any of it and how it actually isn't that bad that Maven killed thousands of ppl and physically and mentally abused Mare and Iris (and hell maybe even Evangeline who knows at this point) but will then turn around and exaggerate what Elara did to the absolute extreme. I am NOT saying that Elara didn't do anything wrong or should be excused cause I don't think that! What I am saying is, I loathe when ppl will talk about her and erase parts of her character in order to turn her into a cartoonishly evil stepmother. You don't have to like her, you don't have to think she had anything but bad intent, but don't talk about her if ur just gonna ignore or change part of her character because for some reason u can't fathom her not being 100% rubbing her hands together maniacally laughing evil. (Especially considering Elara barely has any character so like how r u just missing shit that easily?) And it doesn't just stop with her. It happens with characters in every media! Alicent Hightower gets half her character IGNORED because god forbid she not be 100% evil and u feel anything but hatred for her! Sansa gets demonized for shit she did at like 11 like come on. I mean hell, even characters from children's media get demonized for existing (like I'll never forget hearing that ppl HATED Mable Pines for being what? an annoying 12 year old?)
Ppl also love to claim they stan or love female characters but in reality they only love that character in relation to their male love interest. If she ever goes against her male love interest then it turns into "she's such a bitch" or "she's so selfish" like I mean thats literally what happened to Mikasa the moment she "turned" on Eren.
Idk im so tired of ppl stanning and loving evil male characters and finding every which way to justify their actions but then going out of their way to make female characters WORSE than they actually are.
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