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Thank you so much for answering my Geto hate question. I didn't expect such a deep and detailed answer. I think a lot of people still fall for the "the curtains were blue" approach when it comes to engaging with characters in media. I don't believe it is a problem with people rooting for the bad/evil character, but more of the issue where that character has more complexities than that. Gege doesn't puts Geto in the same category of evil as Sukuna (cannibal) or Kenjaku (a person who has SA people) and that confuses people who want to present themselves as having very strict moral values. That's why we keep getting "Geto groomed the twins" posts or people saying he was going around killing a bunch a people for a decade (which only makes Gojo look bad in hindsight). This is also why there is so much shipping discourse in the jjk fandom. Instead of just saying you don't like a ship or t/b dynamic, people have to use trigger words like "misogyny" or "racists" to make themselves feel like they are right.
Of course!!! I love when I am sent a question that lets me yap my mouth off 🥹🥹♥️
And yes you get it exactly! Because the crimes he committed dont carry a grave value (killing in fiction is whatever lmao) they try to pile on other crimes which is sooo annoying like damn not every villain will do every heinous crimes and as you said instead of just disliking a dynamic or a ship let’s make this ship seem like a morally reprehensible crime in order to feel extra valid. It’s nonsense
What is your opinion on Hana? I think some shippers were being to hard on her yesterday, but I understand their frustration. A lot of shounen manga in the past have had this habit of making a male character get with a female character he hardly acknowledged or shown to care about. I understand the panic when Gege was giving so many itafushi moments these last few chapters. The fact that so many people love YutaMaki and YukiChoso shows that it's not just about shippers wanting to ship male characters together, we just want ships with chemistry. If Geto or Gojo was a girl, I would still be a stsg shipper.
I don't understand the western jjk fandom hatred for Geto. He's not even my favorite character, but I always feel I have to defend him so much. I was just on reddit and there was a post comparing Geto and Gojo fates. Almost half of the comments were people being mad that op was comparing Gojo to a cult leader or H1lter. Not even Sukuna and Kenjaku gets this amount of hate and they have done worse. When people say they only hate Geto fans, not Geto himself, they are lying.
This is obviously based on my personal observations and analysis but aside from just very valid taste differences that make someone like or dislike a character I think it has to do with a much broader issue in how media is consumed nowadays. There are two streams of thinking that I believe intersect a lot and have resulted in this odd treatment of “moral complexity” in media. One is anti-intellectualism (I’m using this very loosely in its recent twitter meaning) where everything is not that deep and is bare bones and the other is sanitization and censorship (I know they yap a lot and it seems contradictory but a lot of the extensive explanations can be reduced to this is morally wrong irl or this repulses me thus it shouldn’t be portrayed in media). If you consider both either separately or together it becomes easier to see why people can’t seem to deal with moral complexity in media; if thing bad then how can thing be good and how can it be enjoyed? Sukuna and Kenjaku are written to be very directly “bad” so there is no shame in enjoying them because at the end of the day everyone knows this is “bad” (because we are all in kindergarten). Another thing which is pure speculation on my part is perhaps a general lack of strong moral character irl or let’s put another way, a helplessness to achieve results based on your moral values (which can be very easily explained by the state of politics and economy idk idk bla bla) but then that helplessness can be elevated on the internet by creating a false claim to moral superiority regarding what is and isn’t right in a piece of media and by admonishing that which you think is wrong now suddenly you are achieving a sense of fulfillment and results. “Yes!! I told people that Geto sucks definitively because he is like Hitler, feels good to be right man!” With no regard to the nature of fiction, the audacity of that comparison, and the complete fucking futility of it in the grand scheme of actually interacting with a work. Well that’s what I think at least holy yap.
that whole thread was very silly overall but that person and their group has a tendency to speak nonsense and use fanon to back up their headcanons and pass it off as genuine literary analysis because they tweet in a very pretentious tone. and the funny thing is is many of the accounts who make very interesting and thoughtful threads about jjk lore often make so many typos because they don’t need to feel superior about dumb takes that boil down to shipping preferences.
Lmfao this is killing me. Yeah just the verbiage easily impresses twitter because uhh points around vaguely. There is nothing wrong per se with using language you feel comfortable in regardless of how haughty or pretentious it might come off but when you can see the escalation in the usage of “complex diction” the more someone is trying to set themselves apart then it’s kind of funny.
https://x.com/cadejos_/status/1837260485563138467?s=46 sorry i need to laugh about this with someone because imagine claiming that people are clinging to fanon when op was deliberately trying to dismiss gojo’s canon characterization lol
“The well established fanon” okay so debunk it using something other than “my opinion”. I do think some people go overboard with their responses but lol if you put your opinion out there it is very possible for it to get a reaction and just like they decided to group opposite opinions as a group of rabid shippers who only have agenda they get treated the same way unfortunately 🤷
Would you rather fall asleep on a train and wake up in a Miyazakiesque button factory or inside of a Monet painting of a country fair?
How have you been feeling about the latest chapters
Learning to sit and observe not every thing needs a reaction. I find 268 fine I don’t hate it at all and some moments in it I really like. Last chapter is genuinely not something I can comment on standalone I have no opinion. A denouement is bound to feel odd especially after high octane action back to back for so long. So I will wait until the finale, reread, then decide.
While I admit that some shippers take it to the extreme and are weird, I honestly don't know why so many people are against female and bottom Geto? Like Mira pointed out in her post, one of the most iconic panels of Gojo people like to use is from a doujinshi where he raws a female Geto. I have also seen that 1st year Geto panel used as well where he is once again, the bottom. The eastern fandom doesn't care but on our side, we are constantly fighting.
I have no clue tbh. Some people claim femguru is misogynistic which is bullshit some claim bottom suguru is heteronormative which is also bullshit lol If you dislike something just say you dislike it no need to moralize and preach about it most goges will just tell they hate bottom gojo because it’s shit from butt and that’s it there isn’t much preaching about one should dislike it because it’s a personal opinion. It’s a plague of twitter fandoms to try to rationalize and moralize every single thing one likes instead of just admitting that a lot of it goes back to taste rather than some grand statement about who you are as a person.
Youre fishing in the woods. Dont ask why, its a complicated series of events that got you there that somehow involved tax fraud. Anyways, youre in the woods, fishing, and bam you get a tug on the line. Its quite a battle to reel it in, it takes all your might, but finally you bring it to shore. Before you is a merman. Youre excited, because you know mermeat is a delicacy in Colorado and you'll make a killing. But he pleads with you he has merchildren and their mother abandoned them for a bigger sexier merman, named Herb. He promises to trade you high value pearls to set him free...but he seems a little shady and desperate. What do you do?
First of all, you’re absolutely correct in assuming I would be involved in tax fraud (especially by accident). As for your question, I would first ask him to meet Herb because I am suspicious about that name given he lives underneath water and the closest thing to a herb is algae and because I want to see the sexier merman. If he can’t show me I will call his bluff and shame him but I will return him to the water because I am nice (it’s because his top part is human and I can’t shake of the dread of killing him actually). If he does call Herb to meet me and he is in fact the shit I will trade bottoms with the merman promising to check in on the kids and go with Herb to live a sexy merperson life while the original merman struggles under capitalism instead.
When do you think we are going to see season three of jjk?
I'm so tired of that same jjk top ships post from pixiv. It seems like somebody always post it on twitter every 3 months just for easy engagement. Also, the numbers reflect how many posts that ship has in general, not just for this year. Of course #1 and #2 has more since Geto didn't get introduce in the anime until the movie and season 2. If the stsg ship wasn't divided by t/b, we would technically be #2. I also hate the homophobic people who keep saying that #6 is the only "normal" ship
errrrr idk if it is js me but I find it so weird how one can be a stsger yet is moot with that cayush weirdo who is homophobic and all sorts of mean girl
Who 😭? Hmm I mean generally I don’t really do much judgement by association and being mutuals can be because of all sorts of things and reasonings it doesn’t automatically mean they agree or co-sign each other's opinions. Who someone follows is one of the most non indicative things in my opinion I just see how the person acts and that’s about it.
weird question but do u think geto likes bugs maybe specifically teen geto
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