part 348 candles in the lighthouse window

[aphanon_meme]

Hey meme! How are you doing? What is up? Do you also have a candle lit in your window for the return of Himaruya? like anon who is a light house wife! I hope he returns from the sea soon, with stories of adventure and sea monsters and the life outside the island. Ah, Himaruya. Safe journeys. Safe... journeys.

Enjoy part 348!

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Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, tumblr likes to use female villainy as a proof of badassery and feminism.


Or when girls display any form of physical violence. e.g. There's this girl in the Disney's Atlantis movie who says "I used to take lunch money from guys like this" and her saying that she used to bully weaker boys has has become an empowering phrase of feminist awesomeness! If it was said by a guy, these same people would be calling "him" a bully.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

/dif

I can kind of understand where the differning standards come from, though. Female characters are typically the victim and when a character is given a trait that is normally reserved for the male characters (being tough enough to take someone's lunch money, being tough enough to bring down the good guys, etc) it's refreshing. It doesn't mean that they're good people or not villains or not assholes, but, it's nice to see more variance in female characters than "goody two shoes"

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

True, but when a girl being a bully is shown in a positive light instead of "yes it's a refreshing female portrayal but it's still not an admirable trait" then I'm kind of seeing this more of a praise to violence (the young audience), regardless the sex, than anything else.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

*to the young audience

da

[(Anonymous)]

most of the people who reblog this kind of stuff on my dash are assholes themselves, so I always feel like they're trying to justify their own behavior with "WELL I'M BEING A BADASS FEMINIST" when they're just being assholes.

Re: da

[(Anonymous)]

It's kind of a fad to be e-thug rude, and justify it as I am so sassy don't fuck with me I'm a tough gurrl! And then get loads of asspats the more you cuss out and threaten anyone who disagrees with you.

Re: +1

[(Anonymous)]

yeah... it's a little creepy to me sometimes. this is the one type of reason for liking a villain that actually does make me side-eye a bit, because it's blurring that line, where suddenly it's unclear whether it's simply enjoying fictional immorality in entertainment vs your real life sense of morality. especially because there's a lot of misandry-posing-as-feminism on tumblr already.

and let me just note, for the record, i typically love villains. most of my kinks revolve around "bad end" type situations. so i'm definitely not judging on liking to see a girl beat up guys - i get off to that stuff, i love it.

but it's kind of like... when you read a bdsm/non-con kink fic and it's really hot and stuff when it's understood that both you and the author are into this kink and/or these characters, but then the author says something that implies they're not doing it just because it's a hot sexual fantasy, they're doing it because they legit hate one of these characters and believes they should suffer. at that point i'm like... alrighty, time to back away now.