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I couldn't find a shipping focused Vinland Saga discord server so I made one! We've got some gen channels too, of course. If you're 18+, feel free to DM me for an invite! ♡

the long foretold hannigram yuri

consider: eitoru, but yuri, and thorfinn is a mermaid creature thing for some reason

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sailor moon parody pretty moon warrior thorfinn karlsefni 🐺🌙

The Wrong Turn

Guess who's back here? I had a bumpy ride but I made it eventually.

Then speak a third time. Stand UP. Interrupting is a bothersome but extremely normal thing people do when excited.

Nightmare

Are Fujos Male Centered?

Posting this to share my thoughts on some discourse I saw on Twitter.

The practice of only shipping men is male-centered in a way, obviously, but I want to clarify some things about my position beyond this obvious statement. I don't think being a fujoshi is any kind of moral or feminist failing.

It makes sense that we, in a sexist world, are more interested in male characters on average. This is one factor in why someone would prefer MLM media. But equally impactful and inseparable is the fact that a sexist world leads writers to write women worse than they write men, on average. Someone with truly no bias favoring men would still like male characters more often than female characters because the male characters are most often written better. For a person to have a roughly equal amount of male and female favorite characters, they have to purposefully seek out media with good female leads or lower their standards for what makes a good female character.

There's a million reasons why fujoshis or people in general prefer male characters, and none of them are moral failings. Fujos aren't very secretive about centering men in media preferences. It would be silly to say shipping mostly or only men isn't a male-centered practice in at least one sense. Like no shit. But does that mean fujos center men in every aspect of life? Noooooo. It does not, at all! Does it make them "bad feminists"? No. Most of the world is taught to favor men. Decentering men is a purposeful effort, not a state most people grow into naturally.

Now, to talk about myself. Most of my ships are MLM. These are the main reasons:

I live in a sexist world and absorbed subconscious preferences from that.

There are more good male relationships in stories than there are good female+male or female+female relationships.

I'm a little bit damaged by sexism in a way where I feel more comfortable enjoying romances with no women involved. When I see a woman on screen, there's this dread that lingers in the back of my mind because I'm waiting for her to be treated shittily by the narrative or for her to prove to be just another two-dimensional female character.

If the story subverts my expectations, the dread goes away, but the dread exists for a reason: often women characters are treated or written in the ways I dread to see. Thank god for all media that subverts my expectation for shallow female characters. Media with well-written female characters did so much to heal my relationship with myself; being born with the body of a woman, having this body my whole life, and experiencing the gendered upbringing that comes with it.

I've made a huge effort to decenter men over the years, and I think I've done a damn good job. I don't think I can completely erase all the effects of sexist conditioning from my brain, but I deal with internalized misogyny when it crops up, and that's enough. I deeply love women now, and things associated with women. It took a long, long time to get to this point.

Everyone, let's stop faulting people for shit like being male-centered. No shit people are male-centered, we live in male-centric masculinity land. So if someone actually cares about women's issues and treating women fairly, good enough. I don't call myself a fujo—I like yuri and sometimes straight ships—but I don't think it would be a moral failing on my part if I only liked MLM ships.

Most of my OTPs are MLM. That is a symptom of living in a sexist world. It's a wonderful mix of internalized misogyny (maybe. I've rooted a lot of that out) and the fact that there are fewer cool relationship dynamics written involving women than those written involving male friends. This does not at all indicate a failure on my part.

Moral of the story:

Getting through this world as a woman or as a person perceived as a woman is confusing as fuck and hard to navigate. Let's accept this reality and not be shitty to each other because of it.

Has anyone else noticed that the outgroup is weird as fuck while the ingroup is normal and chill