Beatrice is just the character of all time. I love her. She’s terrible. She’s a loud, abrasive asshole and I would die for her. She has a massive foot fetish and sadist streak. And that’s not even getting into the gender subtext. I however am a dumbass and didn’t figure it out until 110% through it

you want a dark souls titanite lizard in minecraft that can sit on your shoulder, don’t you :)

I'm aware of what your authorial intent is, and your authorial intent is wrong

This theory also works nicely for interpreting """questionable trans rep""". so like, in a story where theres a character who's obviously a trans woman but the text refers to her as a "femboy" or a slur, my interpretation would be that she *is* a trans woman, but the author was just biased and wrong

Thank you! the paper this if from is just "Encoding-Decoding" by Stuart Hall. I learned about this from the "Game Studies Study Buddies" episode on Stuart Hall.

So I think what you're talking about is a form of Oppositional Decoding, where in the text a character is written shallowly, but I can read against the author's bias and interpret a character as being fully realized, and interpret the pov as being simply unobservant

And based upon that idea, Stuart Hall distinguishes between Hegemonic Decoding, where a message is decoded according to the rules of those who are socially dominant, and Oppositional Decoding, where the reader consciously and intentionally decodes a message against the values of the powerful.

so this isn't exactly what you are asking for, but Stuart Hall coined the theory of "Encoding-Decoding" of understanding texts. Very roughly, the interpretive framework used to create a message, Encoding, is separate from the interpretive framework used to understand that message, Decoding.

its the best ❤️
the devotion, the sweetness, the determination
it is perfection

that’s so true! we need more neopussy and neonothing

something i think about is that in order to be a really good soldier, there has to be something deeply wrong with you. And even if it was fighting against imperialism, a super soldier program would still be, even under the best of circumstances, deeply fucked up

it's the universal ffxiv experience of suffering through fucking ugly low level outfits

forlorn radiodoll sitting on a rooftop (ionosphere conditions are unfavorable tonight),

I will be holding on to this art for, uh, reasons
(please disregard the “turns you into a robot” machine under construction behind me)