what's the name of this blog again?
My name is Franzi.
I identify as non-binary. she/her, he/him and they/them are all fine by me.
I only ever reblog stuff so yeah..
why are there all these posts n articles n stuff that are like “girls can have short hair!” “girls can wear suits!” but all the women shown are still always only feminine, and whats actually being said is “girls can have short hair and still be feminine!” and “girls can wear suits and still be attractive to men!” like whenever women want to do something men (and sometimes other women too, but men are awful at this) have to find a way to make it Still Okay, Still Acceptable to them, instead of just letting women be! women dont need to fit any standards of femininity or beauty to do something, and they certainly don’t need mens approval
and its really gross considering these articles are usually about styles/behaviors associated with wlw, like they’re basically saying “doing this is okay, as long as youre straight!”
yeah. if we’re going to say this is great (and it is)
then we also need to honestly promote this as well
One of them has a pocket watch! Yo if I was a fancy office worker where you had to be formal, it’d be suits and pocket watches always.
Honestly the weirdest thing about the similarities between Steven Universe and Houseki no Kuni (Land of the Lustrous) isn’t even that they share oddly similar settings and premises, including:
genderless but feminine presenting humanoid aliens made of gems
who have superhuman strength and immortality
and are good at fighting except they use swords instead of guns or other advanced weaponry for whatever reason
and use these skills to fight off other aliens who periodically invade for mysterious reasons.
also the protagonist starts off as really useless and clumsy but grows stronger and more competent as the series progresses
oh and they both live in big fancy houses on a beach
Yet the weirdest thing about these two series is that judging by when they were released, they developed entirely independent of each other. Rebecca Sugar was already working on Steven Universe in 2011, and Houseki no Kuni was first released in 2012, which means Haruko Ichikawa was likely working on it at the same time. Both authors in two different countries had basically the same idea at around the same time, both entirely independent of the other’s influence. what the fuck
This is kind of like the Juniper Lee/American Dragon coincidence