Buffy The Vampire Slayer – 4.01: The Freshman

Izzy × Fern "I love you"

single handedly the FUNNIEST reaction to sneasler ive ever seen (x) 

Text: decoupling pregnancy from femininity means accurate and more inclusive language and treatment, but it also allows cis women to refuse motherhood without refusing womanhood, which is great for feminism and terrifying for misogyny.

–THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. As a sterile cis woman who doesn’t want to have children anyway I feel this is every ounce of my being. “Define woman” types tend to do so in a way that excludes me too, so I got to stand with my trans sisters.

absolutely yearning for Sanji after he looked me up and down like this 🥰😭🫠

After months of studying and experimentation I’ve come up with a comprehensive list of Reds who are not allowed to be shipped with women

- Casey

- Jayden

- Jason

- Andros (no do I do not give a single shit about Andros/Ashley)

- Cole

- Shane

- Conner

- Nick (don’t gaf about Nick/Maddie)

- Troy

- Brody

- Zayto (tbh any Zayto ship is weird as fuck to me)

After months of studying and experimentation I’ve come up with a comprehensive list of Reds who are not allowed to be shipped with women

- Casey

- Jayden

- Jason

- Andros (no do I do not give a single shit about Andros/Ashley)

- Cole

- Shane

- Conner

- Nick (don’t gaf about Nick/Maddie)

- Troy

- Brody

- Zayto (tbh any Zayto ship is weird as fuck to me)

Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

happy sanji day 💙💛

I feel like Shonen Manga should have the rival character double as a love interest.

A lot of this discourse made me realize that the problem has been that the rival character should be female more. Like Shonen Jump editorial will encourage male leads to be promoted as the face of the series but why not let the rival/lancer be a girl?

I mean, that's how a lot of shows and movies I saw growing up did it.

Like it often does come down to either blindspot on the part of the author (male or female, sexism rots all of our brains) or editorial too concerned with demographics like a girl becoming less appealing when they take the battle damage the boys will often get.

Even so, the Love Interest in and of itself often shows the hand of the author when they’re not allowed to be too much outside of that. But when they’re packaged with another archetype like rival or nemesis or best friend, they’re more of a likelihood that the audience will be able to see how our protagonist would fall for them.

Especially with rival characters where there’s a clash of ideologies along with the protagonist learning that there will always be somebody to surpass and the rival learning that their dogmatic stance doesn’t got to be the end-all-be-all.

If the hero guy needs a clean heterosexual romance to appease editorial, making the rival the girl they’re gonna be set up with or the best friend would make it all the more smoother.

Basically, what I’m saying is that if Sasuke was a girl, then NaruSasu would be guarunteed an endgame.

Buuuuuuut this often clashes with certain unconscious or not biases that male authors and readers have about female character in action based storytelling. MistereFusion did an excellent breakdown on Videl’s tournament battle, how it was written and how it’s been received.

Namely how there’s an unfortunate mentality that’s the girls are either to be ejected quickly with a knockout lest their “physical qualities” are compromised or they are brutalized to show that they’re outta their depth and to create an air of seriousness all of a sudden.