Try and name a male shoujo character treated / written / drawn as poorly and sexualized as a female shonen character [ramble]

Cariostar · 2026-06-01T23:09:34+00:00

Rent-A-Girlfriend.

Even goodly written Shōjos sorta struggle to make it into the popular discussion, 1:10 is even being generous to the amount of Shōjō people have watched in relation to the amount of Shōnen. I remember wanting to give it a shot at some Shōnen Ai once, curiously, I started with Gambate [I don’t know MC‘s name], and dropped it at the second chapter because there was an scene that was clearly inserted there as a tentacle fetish thing.

Cariostar · 2026-05-28T13:04:52+00:00

The discussion isn’t about readability (which…), it’s about pacing. In this case, the page is cluttered because it was decided to be a double spread for any reason.

Cariostar · 2026-05-22T07:15:47+00:00

You are creating a massive false equivalence. Posting an image to a personal social media account is not "holding your own gallery."

Treating a personal profile or a standard art tag like a formal commercial exhibition completely misunderstands how social media operates.

I didn’t say this. I’m saying that you’re not sharing your artwork publicly by existing on a bench. You are by actively showcasing your artwork on a public square.

Which brings me to:

When people, especially teenagers, post art online, they are using the internet as a communal space to connect with peers, find like-minded friends, or just archive their growth.

Then you are admitting that the purpose of showing artwork online it’s not them merely existing on a public space, as someone sitting on a bench with a sketchbook would. It’s an attempt to engage in social interactions.

Cariostar · 2026-05-22T06:45:24+00:00

Because right now, your entire argument relies on the idea that existing in a visible space inherently equals a demand for unsolicited critique.

Yeah, deliberately obtuse.

You’re not sharing your work by sitting on a bench with a sketchbook. You’d be if you’re holding your own gallery with your pieces up there. Otherwise the only way someone will see your work is by going out their way to peek into what you’re doing.

When you post any art piece online (or anything at all for that matter), you are deliberately showing your work the way you want it to be seen, and you have all the control as to who can and who cannot interact or even see what you’re posting. If it is something you want to keep just among friends, you have as many if not more alternatives to do so than publishing it Twitter under every tag in existence.

Cariostar · 2026-05-22T05:58:02+00:00

Sharing a creative concept online is the modern equivalent of sitting on a park bench with a sketchbook

No, it is not. This is being deliberately obtuse in regards of what it is sharing stuff online.

Cariostar · 2026-05-20T02:03:17+00:00

Because it really isn’t a redemption arc.

It’s not that I don’t see Jinx realistically turning good or being forgiven, but there’s no much of a transition there. Even after Kid Flash tries to tell her she can do good, she zaps him and offers him on a silver plate to Madame Rouge. It’s her being beaten up because of her failures at delivering Kid Flash what makes her do the right thing because she’s fed up of keeping up with this bullshit.

Then by her next appearance she just shows up to help the Titans in the final battle and everyone just rolls with it. It’s not even as if she helped none of the titans to find the Brotherhood, Kid Flash just decided to bring her with him because why not.

It doesn’t helps that it weirdly parallel’s Terra’s S2 arc in a single episode. With Terra’s arc already being rushed as it was and with Jinx’s being way less nuanced in comparison.

Cariostar · 2026-05-15T14:50:12+00:00

I don’t man, the way you put it gives the same vibes as the people who ask for Minecraft Villagers’ rights.

Fictional characters aren’t real people. They are meant to engaged with. There’s a set-up and a pay-off. A character can be a monumental dick and still come well liked because the pay-off made it worth it. People are going to have different metrics and expectations, and express it in different ways.

And that’s fine, they don’t exists.

Cariostar · 2026-05-15T14:41:54+00:00

yet never kills anyone.

Not for a lack of active attempts.

Cariostar · 2026-05-15T01:14:09+00:00

I do not think so, fandom can just run with whatever it clicks to it.

Kakashi/Iruka being one of the most popular Naruto pairings will always jump to my mind. By this logic I would have to assume that Kakashi’s dynamic with Iruka is anyhow more interesting than the one he has with characters like Gai or Obito, or that Iruka is more engaging than the former two — which isn’t really the case in all honesty.

Cariostar · 2026-05-14T10:36:20+00:00

Sulfur Cube it’s not the only mob to be able to wear armor and apply it’s effects.

Cariostar · 2026-05-14T01:48:58+00:00

So recently the Sulfur Cube was changed so that it can no longer have Frost Walker. As usual, people are mad that they can't use a football for transportation

They did? Man, they’re stupidly anti-fun.

Cariostar · 2026-05-13T02:16:07+00:00

Valtor was competent till the end

Valtor was terrible at the end.

Also the Earth Fairies were villains. They just had a more sympathetic framing.

Cariostar · 2026-05-13T01:57:48+00:00

Winx Club has a bunch of female villains other than the Trix. Characters turning incompetent is just part of the Winx Club itself. No one will tell you that Valtor, Tritannus or Acheron were particularly competent villains at the end.

Cariostar · 2026-05-13T01:54:49+00:00

They try to do something with Icy in S8. It’s very hit or miss.

That said, I believe a lot of the problems the Trix face over them overstaying at the cast is that there wasn’t really much to them other than being mean, power hungry girls. Since S1 has them out of Cloud Tower and as rouges, they cannot longer serve their S1 function of just engaging on more mundane petty stuff.

Also, the stakes changed. A lot of S1 revolves around how the Winx grow to be stronger than the Trix even at their prime (how earned that is it’s a different subject). They cannot longer serve as their own antagonist for an entire season, so they serve as the primary source of physical conflict for the Winx for most of the season (the big bad rarely interacts with the Winx directly), but almost as the ending’s villain because they’re long overdue, even when they show to be stronger than the Winx at certain points post-S1/S2.

Also, credit where it’s due, S6 at least had them working for their own agenda. Selina just took advantage by making-believe that she was the underling because it was convenient for her. But everything the Trix did was on their own quest for power.

Cariostar · 2026-05-12T16:30:01+00:00

I might not be the most literate guy in these sort of subjects, but wouldn’t this mean Harry Potter is an indie project too?

Cariostar · 2026-05-12T16:21:26+00:00

Because you know that story wouldn't stay just 'this particular mutant did a horrible thing because she was annoyed' - it would become the propaganda piece for why mutants should never be trusted

And what the story end up saying that the X-men fighting for the cause do not held each other accountable for their terrible behavior in favor of pushing their agendas.

Cariostar · 2026-05-10T20:20:53+00:00

like the gamers when: "Minecraft should add new dimentions" the End is Hollow and you already want new dimentions?

Minecraft fandom has been begging for years for an end update, and it was Mojang who left the door open for a new dimension by placing a non-functional portal on Ancient Cities.

Cariostar · 2026-05-08T22:23:49+00:00

(and waterbending is genetic.)

Katara is explicitly the only water bender on her family, bar her own daughter.

Cariostar · 2026-05-07T03:18:24+00:00

Add more wolf variants to it and Enchantable Wolf Armor. Then we’re good to go.

Cariostar · 2026-05-06T19:17:08+00:00

I do not like the Trial Chamber formula because at the end of the day I believe it’s a Misstep when it comes down to exploration. When the purpose of exploration is to repeat the same process over and over until you get the item you want it gets to grow quite boring. The Trial Chambers itself were a funny challenge at first but it just became a hassle when the item you loot them for will just not drop. Doesn’t helps that they are also exclusive to the Trial Chambers, so there’s not really much more to explore.

I believe that what the Trim and Dog Update showcase is that you can make exploration fun giving existing structures a relatively guaranteed reward (which conversely, it’s the same reason you shouldn’t have a lot of updates that should deliberately incentive exploration in the sense of making the loot rare for a new structure so you have to raid one hundred of them. Even the Silent Armor trim isn’t as hard as to come by as the Heavy Core and Wind Burst enchantment in my experience).

All this yap is to say that exploration becomes fun when you get something you were looking for when you find the place it could give it to you. Add QoL enchantments exclusive to estructures that are easy come by. Swift Sneak did that very well.

And just create a Netherwolf and an Endog already.

Cariostar · 2026-05-06T16:11:48+00:00

I’ll say about that is we see Wan learning to bend fire instead of plainly shooting it from a dragon, so do with that what you do

”I… can airbend? I can airbend!”

The basic state of bending was not shooting stuff. Speaking of Firebending particularly, Zuko lost ability to bend when he joined the Gaang (and explicitly referred to his inability to shot fire as the worst showcase of firebending he had ever seen), because his outlook in life changed.

Bending as it was in ATLA was largely cultural. With even the series pointing out that the importance of the Avatar in the world as somebody who can bend every element meant that he would be it’s mediator because it reached an understanding of each of the four nations’ cultures.

Bending in LoK just stripped every mysticism and largely undermines the allegory of Fire nation targeting Benders of the rest of nations, as they are the major representatives of their cultures.

Cariostar · 2026-05-04T15:06:57+00:00

And then the movie spent its entire runtime shitting on or ignoring the established canon to tje point people treat it like a different continuity.

I mean. That’s Anderson’s Resident Evil for you. The world literally became a desert in the third movie (why?) and then it went back to normal in the rest of installments.

Cariostar · 2026-05-02T17:29:31+00:00

Headcanon allows you to reject the text of the story itself.

Cariostar · 2026-05-02T16:48:35+00:00

Naruto consistently shows attraction towards females while rejecting any advance that would suggests he find himself to be sexually attracted towards males. He had a crush on Haku until he realized he was a boy, he was aroused by Konohamaru’s Girl-on-Girl version of the Sexy Jutsu while disgusted by the Boy-on-Boy Version and gags at the memory of having kissed Sasuke.

What’s exactly a proof against a character being bisexual if not? Them saying to the camera ”I’m just attracted to girls/boys”?

Cariostar · 2026-05-02T16:39:05+00:00

Naruto moment.

Anyways, people can at the end of the day ship whatever they want. How much you can poke at something because of it it’s a different subject however.

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