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.
i met a young girl with eyes so bright she was already getting sick of life her arms were laden with his merchandise she asked me why i no longer and waste my time and i said, "spite" cause every time you are succeeding, there is an old man somewhere, seething and spite's as good a reason to take his power paris paloma - as good a reason
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SANJI LIGHT OF MY LIFE, MY FAVOURITE LOSER, MY HUSBAND AND MY WIFE, THE GUY THAT HAS INFESTED MY BRAIN FOR THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF, MY KIND AND SWEET BOY YOU ARE SO LOVED AND DESERVE EVERYTHING💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
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this was in my drafts from march?? I don’t think I posted it before??
Scooby doo when he finds gross bugs in his food: ruh roh... raggots!
Shaggy: like, zoinks scoob! I don't think you can reclaim that man!
Or my ocs and au lore
I genuinely cannot fathom getting into any piece of media and not immediately forming an unhealthy emotional connection with the female leads- like those are the new besties- that’s ohana, that’s famiglia.
Like every time I start a new show or manga or smth with a main male character i’m like “okay sure great but where’s my new fictional best friend and hero?”
Not sure if this a controversial take or not but: Stop bashing the female character to make your gay ship work, or better yet…stop making it so the female character gets hurt, or demonized just to have the two dudes get propped up.
You can like your pairing all you want but some of you who try to torture the girl out of the equation need help, I’ve seen it many times over(Steddie, Jayvik, Lokius, and many others). For the record, this is not towards all the people who ship these cause there are plenty of respectful people who have fun and just enjoy the pairings normally, I’m talking about the ones who participate in this behavior, it’s really disgusting.
What if I made a short RJ/Casey comic just for funsies
While fandom racism is an issue that all people of color go through, it is a unique experience being black and experiencing racism/anti-blackness. I feel we don’t discuss how black fans often get the brunt of racism not just from white folks, but from people of color in general.
Not to demean or downplay with other people of color experience in terms of racism in the fandom, but imo, the ultimate form of racism and the most glaring form of racism is and will always be anti-blackness, often spurred from both white and non-black fans.
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