• Hey so your girlfriend got put into a fandom and um, they kinda. Yeah they made her the Mean Lesbian Friend. Yeah it's entirely because she's the only girl who's not overtly caring or kind. Sorry. Also they-- yeah she's characterized entirely as a wingman for the popular gay ship. Sorry again

  • "This is so me lol" "I do this" this is a complaint post. This is a post complaining about when this happens. This post is about the constant 1-dimensional characterization that happens to women characters in fandom when they are not cute or nice. The last part especially is complaining about how once these women are made Mean Lesbians they are characterized entirely though their "endearingly rude" support of a relationship between two men.

  • Gosh I just love book Legolas. He's immortal. He's a teenager. Elrond picks him instead of Glorfindel because he's average and won't draw attention to the Fellowship. He's the comic relief guy and resident Little Shit, but he can also shoot a Nazgul out of the sky in the pitch black like a one-man elf anti-aircraft defense system. He wants everyone to know that he's, like, really old. He forgets the task at hand because he wants to look at trees. His greatest qualities are that he can become friends with anyone and his loyalty is unending. He shows up to Valinor a century late with Starbucks in hand and his dwarf bestie at his side. Iconic.

  • One of the things I find really fascinating about what I'll call for shorthand Silm fandom (that is: people with a high level of critical engagement with specifically the text(s) of Arda significantly including the First and Second Ages) is the persistence, even as there is an underlying claim to complicating or deconstructing a simple Good/Evil narrative, of still needing to find someone in each catastrophe who is wholly in the wrong, and one who is, if not wholly in the right, at least absolved by the fact that the other side was So Wrong.

    It's present in the discourses around how to apply narratives of colonialism to the Noldorin Exilic return to Endorë, for example*, but I think my favourite remains the tangle of dealing with the Nauglamir, Silmaril, Elu Thingol and the Tumunzaharîm. There is a need for one side or the other to be, if not right, at least exonerated and a lot of words gone into, in particular, justifying the actions of the smiths in Menegroth.

    I don't think you have to do that, obviously.

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