I hate lit purists so much. They go on and on about “non-genre” lit but all their work winds up in the same not!genre: boring maudlin fucks who mope about how their lives suck.
I’m half convinced that these lit purists only cling to their fart-huffing because they know if they actually had to compete in the industry they’d get curbstomped.
best writing prof I ever had was this Indian lady who was a published and successful novelist who was teaching as a form of early retirement.
She was very aggressive in her goal of wiping away all the bullshit other professors taught us for years, and i’ll always remember when she said
“You have two options, you can be a great writer who knows how the appeal to an audience and writes for a living, or you could be a burnt-out literature professor that always claims to be working on something but never does because all you do is regurgitate the same 4 short stories from other losers.”
List of Canon Ships that Should be “Problematic” but Antis Don’t Give a Peep About
Note: I am a Sheith shipper who’s tired of people saying that Shiro and Keith can’t be romantically involved because they had a sibling like relationship/an age gap. I love all of these ships and do not intend to hate on them.
I’m using these examples to illustrate how Antis (of which I’m the farthest thing from) can be irrational and I don’t actually think of any of these ships as problematic – in fact I ship all of them. This post is just meant to illustrate my point: OF COURSE people who have a close, family-like dynamic can develop romantic feelings for each other. Heck, I’ve been (and currently am) in that situation. Also, none of the big age gap ships are implied to be romantic until the younger is AT LEAST of age.
Feel free to rb with your own!
Hayate/Nagi from Hayate the Combat Butler
Hayate is 16 and Nagi is 13 at the series’ start – plus Hayate calls her a little sister early on (they get married at the end)
Usagi and Mamoru from Sailor Moon
Usagi is 14 and Mamoru is 18 at the start of the series (they get married at the end)
Ed and Winry from Fullmetal Alchemist
Winry states that Ed used to be like a brother to her (married with kids at end of series)
Marie and Sanson from Nadia: Secret of Blue Water
Marie is around 8 years old when they meet, while Sanson is probably around 19 or so, and they have a big brother/little sister relationship throughout the entire series(they are married and expecting their first child in a “10-years-later-epilogue)
Tamaki and Haruhi from Ouran High School Host Club
Tamaki consistently refers to himself as Haruhi’s father figure (albeit to hide his true romantic feelings for her – they’re married at end of series)
Hak and Yona from Yona of the Dawn
Hak and Yona both say they were like siblings as little children, and Hak is 18 while Yona is 16 (confirmed romantic feelings for each other in chapter 110)
Harry and Ginny from Harry Potter
Harry says that he’s always seen Ginny as a sister up until Half-Blood Prince (married with kids in an epilogue)
Leia and Han from Star Wars
How many times has Han called her “sister” anyway? Also he is 29 and she’s 19 in Episode IV (Confirmed romantic feelings, have a son in sequel series)
Katara and Aang from Avatar the Last Airbender
Katara says several times that Aang is just a friend, or like a brother, plus she had a brief thing with Jet, making Aang a “rebound”… (Married with children in sequel series)
Kim and Ron from Kim Possible
Kim calls Ron just a friend and Ron (possibly)refers to her as like a sister when they are younger (confirmed romantic feelings for each other)
That’s all I got rn
Berry and Tasuku from A La Mode (the manga sequel to Tokyo Mew Mew)
Friends since they were children, claim to be like brother and sister, until they realize they are in love.
Sothe and Micaiah from Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
Sothe says he sees her as a sister. They have a preset A-support in the game, and if you keep it, they get married.
Jake Peralta and Amy Santiago from Brooklyn 99:
Jake claims he only sees Amy as a sister. Yet, he has feelings for her.
Alex and Jo from Grey’s Anatomy:
They describe each other like brother and sister for a long period until they realize they like each other.
Jim and Pam from The Office (US)
Pam was engaged when they met. Pam described Jim as like a brother at one point. Later they get married, with kids.
Rapunzel and Flynn Rider
Age gap of 9 years – Flynn’s 26 and Rapunzel’s 18.
Daenaerys and Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones
Age gap of 15-or-so years, Drogo is initially an abusive rapist until their relationship develops, and they are honestly in love. She is devastated when he dies. (Tho what can you expect with Game of Thrones?)
Tonks and Lupin from Harry Potter
Age gap of about 13 years
Technically only situationally canon; Muffy and the Protagonist from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life
About a 10 year age gap, with her age (30) being a specific issue in her relationships.
Just Anti Things: we’re still biphobic as hell! also really, you couldn’t find anyone besides ethereal/klance to use as a source for your supposedly canon claim? it’s almost like it’s bullshit or something
quick protip: if someone is crying or freaking out over something minor, eg wifi not connecting, can’t find their hat, people talking too loud, do NOT tell them how small or petty the problem is to make it better. they know. they would probably love to calm down. you are doing the furthest possible thing from helping. people don’t have to earn expressions of feelings.
I’m just gonna put it out there that if someone’s freaking about something small, they’re really freaking out about something big that they’re trying to deal with, or something long term that’s been building up, and that little thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I don’t know, try and give people the benefit of the doubt. Don’t be the next straw on their broken back.
Needed this today.
People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.
People don’t actually go from 0 to 60. If you think they did, you have failed to notice how long they’ve been at 59.
The internet went from showing food recipe videos to alchemy in less than a decade. There’s going to be a quick video on how to make the philosopher’s stone from tomato sauce next week.
Lusamine is adorable when she’s not suffering from psychosis. 💗 I’ve always defended her even back when Sun/Moon the games were released. She screwed up. But I knew she wasn’t evil. She snapped and had a bout with insanity. I knew she could be redeemed. So I was very happy when Ultra Sun/Moon did show that. And I love how the anime as handled her character. I’m interested to know though if the anime is going to focus on the subject of Mohn, her missing husband that triggered her descent into insanity in the first place. Or are we just not gonna know who Lillie and Gladion’s father is in the anime? 😅
“But I knew she wasn’t evil. She snapped and had a bout with insanity.”
Oh no, anyone who does the stuff Lusamine did even without having been driven totally mad by Nihilego’s toxin (which USUM confirmed was the case with abusing her kids, creating and experimenting on Type Null, freezing all those Pokemon, giving financing to Team Skull, and almost killing Nebby in order to open a wormhole – none of that had anything to do with Nihilego and all to do with Lusamine) is evil to some degree. Lusamine probably outdoes the likes of Guzma, Archie, Maxie, Colress, most people in Team Rocket, and even Cyrus in terms of evilness, and she was certainly not a good person by any stretch in the games. At most, she used to be decent, but not really truly good. Seeing her realize she needs to get better and doing just that in USUM is powerful because of how bad she’d been. It shows it’s never too late to start on self-improvement and making the right life choices, even for someone like her.
Anime Lusamine, though? Nah, not really evil at all.
Seriously the only villain worse than Lusamine is Ghetsis.
Eh… I would correct you on that, there are a few more pokemon villains
that are worse than her (Even the S/M where she was at her worse.) and some of them will make you forget all about her.
Lysandre’s big goal was freaking genocide and in every take on his character, he never changed that course.
Giovanni
as of Rainbow Rocket and how he took his goals to a grand scale. Is as
straight forward as they come, a mob boss that exploits others for power
and money, with not even a hint of altruism he makes up for with his
goals.
In regards to spin offs.
Darkrai from the Mystery
Dungeon explorer games has done the following: He tried to sabotage the
flow of time and bring the world into a nightmarish hell scape JUST so
he can rule over it. (Driving a god of time BONKERS as a result.)
He
tried to kill the heroes who tried to stop this bad future… when that
failed he brought a freaking kid into a nightmare JUST so he can guilt
you and your partner into committing suicide.
When that
failed he tricked Palkia into trying to bleeping murder you and when
THAT failed he tried once more to convince you to let him kill you… the
list with this guy goes on.
Purple Eyes from the Ranger games:
Among the things he has done, wanting Arceus to kill everyone and spare
him was enough to make God himself consider him a problem to the world.
As a result Arceus had to take the monster with him JUST so he can
figure out what the hell is wrong with him.
Now while this is last
one is to a whole group… rather than an individual: Cipher… if you
really think Type:Null or Cosmog was bad, wait until you take a look at
Shadow Pokemon and what it means to create these things. (These guys have been in the bottom of the morality
ladder for this particular reason.) Unlike with Type:Null and the crap he went through, there was no altruism to creating Shadow Pokemon.
Unlike Lusamine however Lysandre was very poorly written and one dimensional, even more so than pre-ORAS Maxie and Archie. That’s why I didn’t include him as a villain.
women who perform sexual acts on underage boys deserve to be thrown under the prison never to see the light of day again right next to the men who perform sexual acts on underage girls
and if you disagree you don’t deserve to be around kids. i wouldn’t trust you with my toenail much less a child
And women who perform sexual acts on underage girls deserve to be put in prison and never see the light of day again right next to the men who perform sexual acts on underage boys
It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.
Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.
I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.
The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:
A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.
B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.
tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.
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