new genshin event's storyline was basically abt this huge evil scary dragon but it was actually just a lonely kid who wanted to be accepted with everyone else. so how they wrapped it up was with some magic turning him into a tiny cute baby dragon and going to be with everyone else.
That's bullshit. I hate that.
I'm trans and I can tell you that's the most disgusting bullshit ever. I can eventually look like a woman, but I won't ever be a 5'2 small anime girl. And that shouldn't be a problem.
(trans perspective stuff) When I say "love yourself" I'm not saying love yourself as the gender you were given at birth. What I mean is that maybe you're tall like I am. You need to work to at least tolerate your height, at best love yourself for it. Appreciate other people of that gender who are that height. For less trans related stuff body type is *huge.* Your body type is genetic. Weight can absolutely vary and stuff but your body type *is* genetic. Developing an ED won't help that, it won't fix your body type. It'll just break you instead. Hating your height won't make it change either.
That's why I hate this shit so much. Instead of having society just accept him as he was and helping him to accept himself to they just- changed him into something unrecognizably different. That's bullshit. That's unhelpful. I thought I could relate to the story or like it somewhat up till that point. Maybe I'm overreacting but that seriously pisses me off when they do stuff like that.
Which honestly goes into why I love shrek so goddamn much. I mean seriously the setup they had was perfectly able to turn both shrek and fiona into a beautiful prince and princess. But they didn't. Of course they didn't The problem was NEVER the fact that he was an ogre. The problem was how society rejected him and hated him and forced him into a role based on what he was. Fiona's problem was never her turning into an ogre at night it was the expectation that she needed to be this small thin beautiful princess. So the conclusion they did (and reinforced in shrek 2) was that NO. They do NOT need to change. The problem is NOT what they are. The problem is the expectations they have on themself and that society has on them.
I'm never going to be a short and thin overly cute girl. I can be a woman, I can look like a woman, I can transition. But I need to be able to tolerate myself for the things I was born with(height, body type, etc) and society will have to tolerate me for that as well. So seeing something where the conclusion is just changing them to be unrecognizably different is infuriating. It's not representative of reality, it's not helpful or nice to look up to for real and *common* struggles.
Because these struggles aren't niche. I mentioned trans stuff bc that's what I have first hand experience in but these struggles in one form or another affect more people than they don't. That's why I hate it when they put it down so much. I hate it when they conclude it by just saying "oh magically you're different and beautiful bc you were ugly before" instead of focusing on the *real problem.* Fiona said in the end of shrek why she wasn't beautiful as she was supposed to be. But she *was* beautiful, she just couldn't see it.
anyway rant over i prob thought abt this shit a lil too much it just pissed me off enough i had to yell abt it somewhere
I've been playing this game for years and I'm pretty sure the story won't go much better than "problem" and "let thrown magic at it so it solves itself without any further development because we hate coming back to use these old ideas or just continuing a story even if it's actually good"
Oh also important to note i'm not talking abt issues I don't have from an outside perspective lol. I'm not talking abt this like i'm fine and trying to be preachy. I'm literally actively fucking relapsing on my ED and can't look at myself(or think about myself really) without feeling anything but disgust I know these struggles bc I'm still over my head deep in them.
I feel this so hard. It’s hard af to accept myself and I constantly wish I could become like an anime girl. the ed stuff too sucks ass. I’m sorry you gotta go through all this and I think people should start being more realistic about stuff like this. It’s completely valid to be pissed abt this and I am too
As someone who also plays genshin... yeah that shit sucks. Their storytelling absolutely sucks. Like seriously. Hoyo seriously needs to fire a majority of their story writers and hire people who actually know how to implement good morals, themes, and 3 dimensional characters.
appealing to the lowest common denominator is a serious issue with this game. Almost every female character is extremely flat and only has a few character traits and are portrayed as a waifu archetype. It has gotten better with fontaine's female characters like furina and navia but that's not saying much and I can already see hoyo not making many in-depth female characters in natlan
You also have to remember that Hoyo doesn’t make a lot of male characters compared to the women, especially in ZZZ, where we only have one male S-rank. Oh, and for another issue, you can’t forget the near-blatant racism in Natlan.
i wrote a rant on how early fontaine patches were peak and gave me hope for the game and how the recent slop pisses me off but it keeps getting auto deleted for being too long so ig ill just go fuck myself and why would you make a character limit on a subreddit for ranting it wasnt even that long like one paragraph
Ummmm but how can they visually show the innocence and loveability of a character without making them small and cute, instead of a Giant Big Humongous monster????
That's always such a superficial way to tell a story. People ought never to be defined by their appearance. One that always comes to mind is SCP-5031, Just Another Murder Monster. Love that story.
You're doin' great by realizing this and being able to pinpoint exactly how this type of narrative is bullshit hun.
tl;dr: it pisses me off when something decides to conclude a story about self-hatred or society hating them for how they look by completely changing how they look in unrealistic ways. it's not a moral of the story and it's complete nonsense. i like things like shrek because it told you that the problem isn't how you look it's how people and yourself treat you for how you look. when the problem is "i look so ugly everyone hates me and i hate myself" the solution should be finding a way to love yourself and get respect from society instead of changing yourself.
Valid Opinion to be honest, I understand your feeling here, not to sound shitty but dont you think that sometimes it could be a sound conclusion to certain story’s, instead of it being definitely a one way conclusion most times?
But everytime I try and explain my parents that I am a girl and that I require love and understandment, they find some problem in my life and then blame its existence on the fact that I am trans
It’s gatcha. You’ll never find a meaningful exploration of a character because everyone has to fit into a niche sellable caricature that even if they do get screen time to be explored only becomes Flanderized (oni boy). Any potential for stakes, conflict or interesting development went out the window once they realized the lowest common denominator was willing to fork over tens of thousands a year for light pastel slop.
It’s a game that sells you the new hotness every month, it’s literal garbage.
Peak Company mentioned, not to mention the story is always written with a core theme in mind for the Canto and characters visibly develop, instead of half baked slop theming and one note personalities like 90% of gacha
the one thing that always stops me from continuing limbus is the gameplay, its not that interesting imo, which sucks bc i keep hearing high praise for its later chapters which i cant push myself to reach and experience.
The difficulty in Limbus comes from the weekly grinds and putting decent teams together. I've done the math once and I think I got out that you get to pity one character (ID) or ego per month if you bought the battle pass which only costs ~11€ ONCE and runs for almost half a year.
new genshin event's storyline was basically abt this huge evil scary dragon but it was actually just a lonely kid who wanted to be accepted with everyone else. so how they wrapped it up was with some magic turning him into a tiny cute baby dragon and going to be with everyone else.
That's bullshit. I hate that.
I'm trans and I can tell you that's the most disgusting bullshit ever. I can eventually look like a woman, but I won't ever be a 5'2 small anime girl. And that shouldn't be a problem.
(trans perspective stuff) When I say "love yourself" I'm not saying love yourself as the gender you were given at birth. What I mean is that maybe you're tall like I am. You need to work to at least tolerate your height, at best love yourself for it. Appreciate other people of that gender who are that height. For less trans related stuff body type is *huge.* Your body type is genetic. Weight can absolutely vary and stuff but your body type *is* genetic. Developing an ED won't help that, it won't fix your body type. It'll just break you instead. Hating your height won't make it change either.
That's why I hate this shit so much. Instead of having society just accept him as he was and helping him to accept himself to they just- changed him into something unrecognizably different. That's bullshit. That's unhelpful. I thought I could relate to the story or like it somewhat up till that point. Maybe I'm overreacting but that seriously pisses me off when they do stuff like that.
Which honestly goes into why I love shrek so goddamn much. I mean seriously the setup they had was perfectly able to turn both shrek and fiona into a beautiful prince and princess. But they didn't. Of course they didn't The problem was NEVER the fact that he was an ogre. The problem was how society rejected him and hated him and forced him into a role based on what he was. Fiona's problem was never her turning into an ogre at night it was the expectation that she needed to be this small thin beautiful princess. So the conclusion they did (and reinforced in shrek 2) was that NO. They do NOT need to change. The problem is NOT what they are. The problem is the expectations they have on themself and that society has on them.
I'm never going to be a short and thin overly cute girl. I can be a woman, I can look like a woman, I can transition. But I need to be able to tolerate myself for the things I was born with(height, body type, etc) and society will have to tolerate me for that as well. So seeing something where the conclusion is just changing them to be unrecognizably different is infuriating. It's not representative of reality, it's not helpful or nice to look up to for real and *common* struggles.
Because these struggles aren't niche. I mentioned trans stuff bc that's what I have first hand experience in but these struggles in one form or another affect more people than they don't. That's why I hate it when they put it down so much. I hate it when they conclude it by just saying "oh magically you're different and beautiful bc you were ugly before" instead of focusing on the *real problem.* Fiona said in the end of shrek why she wasn't beautiful as she was supposed to be. But she *was* beautiful, she just couldn't see it.
anyway rant over i prob thought abt this shit a lil too much it just pissed me off enough i had to yell abt it somewhere
I've been playing this game for years and I'm pretty sure the story won't go much better than "problem" and "let thrown magic at it so it solves itself without any further development because we hate coming back to use these old ideas or just continuing a story even if it's actually good"
Oh also important to note i'm not talking abt issues I don't have from an outside perspective lol. I'm not talking abt this like i'm fine and trying to be preachy. I'm literally actively fucking relapsing on my ED and can't look at myself(or think about myself really) without feeling anything but disgust I know these struggles bc I'm still over my head deep in them.
I feel this so hard. It’s hard af to accept myself and I constantly wish I could become like an anime girl. the ed stuff too sucks ass. I’m sorry you gotta go through all this and I think people should start being more realistic about stuff like this. It’s completely valid to be pissed abt this and I am too
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As someone who also plays genshin... yeah that shit sucks. Their storytelling absolutely sucks. Like seriously. Hoyo seriously needs to fire a majority of their story writers and hire people who actually know how to implement good morals, themes, and 3 dimensional characters.
a lot of how the girls in the game act irks me thinking abt how it'd be if you play as aether bc as lumine i kinda just yuri gush but like come on
you know they made the traveller sleep on nilou's lap with aether in mind(they literally misgender you if you play as lumine during that cg)
appealing to the lowest common denominator is a serious issue with this game. Almost every female character is extremely flat and only has a few character traits and are portrayed as a waifu archetype. It has gotten better with fontaine's female characters like furina and navia but that's not saying much and I can already see hoyo not making many in-depth female characters in natlan
You also have to remember that Hoyo doesn’t make a lot of male characters compared to the women, especially in ZZZ, where we only have one male S-rank. Oh, and for another issue, you can’t forget the near-blatant racism in Natlan.
i wrote a rant on how early fontaine patches were peak and gave me hope for the game and how the recent slop pisses me off but it keeps getting auto deleted for being too long so ig ill just go fuck myself and why would you make a character limit on a subreddit for ranting it wasnt even that long like one paragraph
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Ummmm but how can they visually show the innocence and loveability of a character without making them small and cute, instead of a Giant Big Humongous monster????
The Shrek example is actually so good and probobly explains why I like Shrek so much cause I never been able to figure out why before now
Loving yourself?
Oh god no sounds terrible
This was beautiful, i teared up :)
That's always such a superficial way to tell a story. People ought never to be defined by their appearance. One that always comes to mind is SCP-5031, Just Another Murder Monster. Love that story.
You're doin' great by realizing this and being able to pinpoint exactly how this type of narrative is bullshit hun.
This was a good rant for the forces of justice! Storylines like that irk me too, I think you articulated it really well
Can i get a quick TL;DR
tl;dr: it pisses me off when something decides to conclude a story about self-hatred or society hating them for how they look by completely changing how they look in unrealistic ways. it's not a moral of the story and it's complete nonsense. i like things like shrek because it told you that the problem isn't how you look it's how people and yourself treat you for how you look. when the problem is "i look so ugly everyone hates me and i hate myself" the solution should be finding a way to love yourself and get respect from society instead of changing yourself.
Valid Opinion to be honest, I understand your feeling here, not to sound shitty but dont you think that sometimes it could be a sound conclusion to certain story’s, instead of it being definitely a one way conclusion most times?
just read it you have eyes
Im busy though
reddit is for when you're *not* busy
Well screw you i want my free will i like scrolling reddit when im busy
You'll probably need a TL;DR for the TL;DR
no
This is incredibly ironic.
In what sense?
really true, ive tried loving myself more and its hard but it really helps, especially with dysphoria
Yes
But everytime I try and explain my parents that I am a girl and that I require love and understandment, they find some problem in my life and then blame its existence on the fact that I am trans
Life is pain
Yes. Doesnt work, my life went to shit in a matter of days.
yeahhh it's usually way more complicated than just loving yourself, try to take care of yourself anyway for when you do make it through this shit
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rule 3 no weird shit
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Every time I missed Genshin I just go play FFXIV lol.
It’s gatcha. You’ll never find a meaningful exploration of a character because everyone has to fit into a niche sellable caricature that even if they do get screen time to be explored only becomes Flanderized (oni boy). Any potential for stakes, conflict or interesting development went out the window once they realized the lowest common denominator was willing to fork over tens of thousands a year for light pastel slop.
It’s a game that sells you the new hotness every month, it’s literal garbage.
btw i approved the comment now
You should try Limbus Company. It has an actual plot with a meaningful cast.
Peak Company mentioned, not to mention the story is always written with a core theme in mind for the Canto and characters visibly develop, instead of half baked slop theming and one note personalities like 90% of gacha
the one thing that always stops me from continuing limbus is the gameplay, its not that interesting imo, which sucks bc i keep hearing high praise for its later chapters which i cant push myself to reach and experience.
The difficulty in Limbus comes from the weekly grinds and putting decent teams together. I've done the math once and I think I got out that you get to pity one character (ID) or ego per month if you bought the battle pass which only costs ~11€ ONCE and runs for almost half a year.
the gameplay gets interesting later on(and also REALLY brutal), but yeah in the beginning it's kinda slow.
There's nothing to love
ew, no
NO NO NO
No :3
No
i'll edit you to say yes
I would but there's nothing about me worth loving
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Having a distorted self image that gives you a god complex is as silly as hating yourself tho :3
no it's not
no because hating yourself isn't the only problem people can have and even if you do love yourself that doesnt solve all of your issues?
Yes