My Monster Boyfriend

WHAT ABOUT BEE MOVIE LINDSAY

I especially love that the waifish, disabled, slightly shy woman is actually in charge of her sexuality from the start. She doesn't need the man/monster to teach her the sex. She already has the sex and decides to share with him, actively, without being pursued.

"what bombed-out wine mom wrote this?" [game of thrones theme starts playing] dude this catched me so off-guard I laughed out loud

George RR Martin writing that super sincere, wholesome-sounding beauty and the beast TV show just blows my mind.

George R R Martin: Secret Bombed-Out Wine Mom

Funny how all things considered the boyfriend in the shape of water is less of a monster than the boyfriend in fifty shades

I really wish there were female equivalents to monsters or just the "ugly guy who still gets the girl because of his personality" trope, but no. Women always have to be beautiful to be loved in media.

I also like how the background for this video includes your own beastly love. 'Oh Starscream. If only societal conventions allowed us to be together but alas, I am but a young woman in this crazy modern world and you're a tyrannical, backstabbing 50 foot transforming F15 Tomcat from space. Society will never allow us to be together.'

I'm a big fan of "girl gets with scary looking monster dude whos beautiful ON THE INSIDE" stories, but I also kind of want the male equivalent? like I swear dating female aliens in mass effect were just like dating women but with blue/purple skin. Or anime monster girls being mostly human looking. lemme get some human guy falling for a legit beastly monster girl and focuses on the emotional aspect of it, damn???

What about the trend in fiction where a woman changes a man who's evil, immature, or dysfunctional into a good, mature, and functional man? How many women in real life are in unhealthy relationships thinking that if they love him enough and put up with his abuse that he'll see the error of his ways? He needs a therapist, not a girlfriend.

Interestingly enough the fish-man from the Shape of water is pretty anatomically handsome. He does look like someone you'd probably romance in mass effect. As some people say id like this dynamic to get a gender swap. Like a message that women dont have to look like a marketing add to be attractive taken to its extreme.

"Taken by a Pterodactyl" Don't mean to kink shame, but while i didn't literally die, a small part of me likely suffered oxygen deprivation from laughter after seeing that.

"Ah yes, my fantasy: a beast that negs." I must have re-watched that 20 times

the shape of water is just grinding nemo

what del torro did with shape of water is what mass effect fans have always wanted

I think the fundamental flaw with a lot of the arguments against The Shape of Water is the idea that the amphibian man is an animal. You see the word "bestiality" come up a lot in the comment sections - that he's somehow "less than human", even though the whole point of the film is that he isn't. That different doesn't mean lesser, the same way being black, or being gay, or being mute doesn't mean "lesser".

Megamind is criminally underrated

The mute character in the shape of water isn't just a heroine. She's isolated by lack of speech and the assumed scars on her neck appear to have been dormant gills all along. She's totally a mermaid. I thought it was implied that unbeknownst to her she's part fish-person and not what she appeared. After all the was found by the canal as an infant.

"Anything that you've heard about novel-length Starscream fanfic is a LIE!" hits different after reading Axiom's End. WE SEE YOU, LINDSAY!

Maybe the reason I have always been attracted to the villain/monster/outcast is because I'm autistic. We are so misrepresented and misunderstood, though some improvement has occurred, I've always felt like an alien forced to act as human. I always feel so connected to the characters that are misunderstood, demonised, mocked, even the "evil" ones. Because a villain doesn't feel like a villain, he does what he believes is best, even if others disagree. I often do the "wrong thing", because I don't understand why it's wrong, it doesn't feel wrong to me, I always wished someone could understand that. I like this new trend of empathy.