Yeah we put your girl in the fandom and they villainized her beyond comprehension.

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Creator: royalrebelpropaganda
Date(s): 2023-01-14
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yeah we put your girl in the fandom and they villainized her beyond comprehension. yeah sorry they took out all the nuance and made the argument completely black and white. yeah my bad. we can’t reverse it. sorry.

#sockspeaks #this post is about apple btw #Apple haters do NOT interact[1]

Responses

this is so nesta archeron, rielle dardenne, sansa stark, and amy march coded[2]

This post is about Nancy Wheeler, I feel it[3]

Hello Caroline Bingley and Mary Crawford...[4]

We put your girl in the fandom and now she's just the "one who has the braincell". Sorry, they made her a "queen" so she can't be funny or vulnerable or do anything except sigh and wrangle the boy characters. Like a mother, yeah. Yeah, it's still better than it would have been fifteen years ago. Sorry.[5]

The problem with Cassandra Cain in fanfiction is that she's daddy's little girl who can do no wrong and her treatment is part of what's being said here where women are stripped of their complexity.[6]

yeah, sorry, we looked at your girl in the fandom and decided her plotline would just be so much more interesting if C-rank Male Character was doing it instead. you know how it is. yeah, she's not in the story any more. sorry.[7]

Yeah, sorry, we put your girl in fandom and they did both of these things simultaneously. Yeah the same fandom just does either of these to the same exact female character. No, I'm sorry the people pointing out the misogyny in these portrayals were just shouted down and ridiculed by the rest of fandom for overreacting. Sorry. Yeah, fandom misogyny just takes slightly different flavors to seem progressive while repeating the same patterns of issues, I know. Sorry.
#looking at you animorphs fandom lmao[8]

We put your girl in the fandom and now she’s one part of a completely one-dimensional lesbian relationship between the only two female leads. Yeah, the one that no one bothers to make fan art or fic or hc’s of independent from the main mlm ship. Sorry.
#back to my Merlin days #hell even pjo now that I think of it #bonus points if she’s a woc portrayed as aggressive[9]

We put your girl in fandom and they completely stripped her of any and all character development and personality, yeah, yeah no. She's solely there just to act as the main character's love interest and nothing else. She's just "MC's girlfriend" now. They've completely ignored everything in her backstory and made her entire existence revolve around the MC's relationship with her. Yeah and despite the fandom being the one who did it, some of them hate her for this and think she was just shoehorned in. Sorry[10]

BOTH OF THESE ARE ASHLEY CAMPBELL AND THE FANDOM KNOWS IT.

#ashley campbell #sally face #blorbo from my indie games #reblog[11]

This is how I feel about Nynaeve in the Wheel of Time TV show. Nynaeve has become sweet, likable, strong, and kinda generic.
Book Nynaeve is angry all the time, a control freak, and deeply insecure about her place in the world. And for all that, the most generous character in the series as she immediately and without thought gives away money, respect, and control to people who don't have it, even at great cost to herself. She is a character who has performed multiple miracles at being *mad* at them. And her arc of becoming kinder and fully accepting of her place in the world is a joy to read.
But, she is mean and that might make her unlikeable so they've made her Strong instead.[12]

we put your girl in the fandom and they’re performatively praising her as a “FEMINIST BADASS QUEEN OMG STEP ON ME” because they don’t want to seem like they only care about shipping the main two white boys. yeah she still doesn’t have a personality or anything. sorry[13]

We put your girl in the fandom and they just tore her apart for getting in the way of a non-canon mlm ship. Sorry, it was like putting fresh meat in a tank of piranhas. Yeah some of them call her a lesbian and ship her with a random side character she doesn't have any scenes with. sorry.[14]

We put your girl in the fandom and paired her with the other girl in the fandom in under the guise of shipping them. yeah sorry it’s just so she’s not ‘in the way’ of the popular mlm ship. like is better than out and out character assassination and misogyny, I guess. I mean there is two girl characters at least? sorry[15]

yea sorry, we put your girl in the fandom and they demonized her for dating a guy they shipped with another guy and now they all call her annoying and disregard her completely fleshed out character and made fun of her for...*checks notes* being a teenage girl like all the other characters. nothing we can do abt it now. our bad.

#sakura haruno #haruno sakura #ochaco uraraka #uraraka ochaco #momo yaoyorozu #yaoyorozu momo #mha #bnha #naruto #feel free to add more[16]

grace blackthorn[17]

no bc i hate this. the boys get to be funny and silly and do whatever they want AND figure out things because they’re actually smart, but it’s something they earn so you feel happy for them. and then the girl (there’s usually one) rolls her eyes and either figures stuff out right away or overpowers everyone so much and still doesnt get to save the day. among other things.[18]

Because woman are seen (sTILL) as a plot accessory, or a plot advance tool to further or conceptualize the narrative. And writers SHOULD be called out on their bullshit more when they do that.

#shout out to Mary Jane Watson #Aunt May #GWEN🗣️🔊 FUCKING 🗣️🔊 STACYYYY 🔊#Wonder Woman #MCU Black Widow #BARBARA GORDON #Batgirl #Cassandra Cain #Stephanie Brown #Talia Al Ghul[19]

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References

  1. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/royalrebelpropaganda/706397470816698368/yeah-we-put-your-girl-in-the-fandom-and-they
  2. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/zoyaofthegardvn/706814205465182208
  3. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/onefaintrobin/707073971886161921
  4. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/bethanydelleman/707185872388390912
  5. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/sophiamcdougall/709863184027287553
  6. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/whimsyjade/709935930809729024
  7. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/thelaithlyworm/709944678089424897
  8. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/walks-the-ages/709967209452257280
  9. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/he-butch/709968788695728128
  10. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/goodieghosty/709969812112228352
  11. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/shadow-in-your-head/709970443758616576
  12. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/necarion/709974485786312704/this-is-how-i-feel-about-nynaeve-in-the-wheel-of
  13. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/mallgothed/709975476432666624
  14. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/susanstranglehands/709977925781454848
  15. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/rogha/709979113999450112
  16. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/naiad-princess/709985831300071424
  17. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/pansexual-lilychen/710006885201412096
  18. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/carol-in-au/710234445539639296/no-bc-i-hate-this-the-boys-get-to-be-funny-and
  19. ^ https://www.tumblr.com/qcomicsy/710235524086054912
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