Name's Su - 22 - Bi or Pan w/e
You'll see a lot of different stuff from various fandoms here, like Bioshock, TF2, Transformers, My Hero Academia, Daft Punk, Red vs Blue, RWBY, Dragon Age, Mass Effect,...
If it wasn’t for that piano music Kingdom Hearts would be a comedy.
Yoko Shimomura is literally braver than any marine
When Nomura hands her the script for KH4 and she’s gotta figure out how to make Mickey dying in Noctis’ arms look anything but ridiculous with only her piano
So whenever i would watch movies and see The Badass Female Character fighting in various ways, something about it always bugged me. I just assumed it was internalized misogyny that made me dislike characters like black widow and Tauriel and tried to make myself like them.
Then I was rewatching Mad Max Fury Road the other day and I noticed that nothing bothered me about watching Furiosa fight and I realized the problem wasn’t watching women fight in movies that got on my nerves.
Watching the stereotypical Badass Female Character she always has these effortless moves and a cocky, sexy smirk on her face as everything is easy. Watching Furiosa, she grunted and bared her teeth. Her fighting was hard and it took effort and it hurt like fighting is supposed to. For once her fighting style wasn’t supposed to seduce the audience it was to be effective.
I wasn’t disliking these characters because they were women I was disliking that their fighting was meant to remind me they were women. High heels and shapely outfits and not showing effort or discomfort because it’s more attractive to effortlessly lift a long leather clad leg over your head rather than rugby tackle someone.
It’s the same with the Wonder Woman movie too. Fighting is hard and it takes effort, blocking bombs and bullets with a shield makes her grimace and bare her teeth with the effort it takes. She’s not flip kicking bombs she’s yelling and straining, not because she’s weak or bad at fighting but because that’s what it would be like.
I really hope we’re moving into an era of women having fighting styles designed for realism and not how hot it looks for the men in the audience.
i think that many bnha fans often underestimate the amount of narrative control he has. horikoshi is not controlled by his story, he is the one who controls his story. there is nothing that forces him to write bnha the way that it is written. the belief that horikoshi is victim to the machinations of his own story is one i often see in discussions about the sexualization of the girls in bnha. namely, critiques of redesigns, especially momo’s and tooru’s.
something you need to understand before you criticize a redesign of their costumes with, “well, that isn’t how their quirk actually works” (in the case of a redesign that literally restructures their quirks) or “they need their costume the way it is in canon to use their quirk to their fullest” is that…their quirks really don’t have to be that way. no one forced horikoshi to sit down and make these girls’ quirks what they are.
i mean, sure, momo’s quirk requires her skin to be exposed, but does it have to be that way? why couldn’t she just do something like edward elric in the fullmetal alchemist series does, and clap to create? that’s a joke, but the point is that there is no logical reason for her to have her skin exposed. “she needs limitations”, you might say? well, sure, but she is already limited by the amount of fat she has to create with. when you think about it, momo is never actually limited by the amount of skin she has exposed. in the sports festival, her skin is mostly covered, but she just gets the clothes out of the way to make a giant fucking cannon. this, of course, leads to the utter disgustingness that is a teenage girl having her bra exposed on national television by her creep of a classmate. it is less a limitation of her quirk, and more a caveat to her quirk that horikoshi created with the purpose of making opportunities to sexualize her.
in the same way, tooru’s quirk is made to sexualize her as well. actually, since she is largely considered a “joke character”, and lacks a lot of depth in comparison to momo, her quirk is primarily made to sexualize her! it was not really made because horikoshi believed her invisibility quirk would help with heroism, because if that was the case, he would properly equip her with a costume that would actually keep her alive on the battlefield. but hey, i guess somewhere along the way, he thought, “you know what would be hilarious? joking about a teenage girl going out onto the field with absolutely zero clothes, protection, or weapons”. horikoshi is completely capable of thinking of a costume that retains the perks of her quirk while still properly preparing for hero work. hell, her prototype design shows her with some sort of costume. he can easily change the rules of his own universe to make it happen. he just chooses not to because he sees her as a joke.
this is the reason i am actually in support of redesigns for momo and tooru that not only rework their costume, but rework their quirk as well. a lot of redesigns go pretty surface-level. they redesign the costume to work with the rules of the universe that we have been given. this is completely fine, but i’m honestly pretty intrigued by redesigns that choose to tackle their quirks as well. it really gets to the root of the problem, the fact that the narrative is built in a way that is made to sexualize these girls.
it’s easy to dismiss certain issues within the story as an unavoidable consequence, and to critique the ways people choose to address those issues because of that. the more you start seeing horikoshi as an autonomous writer who is capable of using various story elements in order to get accomplish certain goals, though, the more you realize that these “unavoidable” consequences are actually completely avoidable. many writers are a lot more aware of what they write than the audience realizes, and horikoshi is amongst those writers. before trying to shift blame off of a writer and onto their story, really think about what purpose a writer might have for including a certain thing in the story. at the end of the day, the writer controls the story. it doesn’t go the other way around.
Why do y’all hate women so much that you continue to support men who inflict violence on women. R.kelly’s music has be streamed so much that his numbers skyrocketed since his nasty little documentary… y’all just hate women so much wow.
r kelly prayed on black women and girls, say it like it is. they hate black women and black girls.
wish yall would stop calling rejection of mainstream beauty expectations as “embracing ugliness” :(
just bcs i dont wear makeup doesnt mean im “raw” and “embracing my ugliness” im literally just existing… sorry 2 hear about ur messed up self esteem but dont project your issues onto me…
hint: calling deviation from mainstream beauty standards “ugliness” is not actually positive and is literally still reinforcing those standards even if youre ~embracing~ it lmfao. use those brains babes
