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Hi! Do you have any favourite tropes when it comes to Gego fanfics? Writers in this community are just so talented, I keep adding more and more to the list.
hii!! so i love enemies to lovers because i just can’t get enough of the tension and the banter and i also really like spy au’s, especially when they’re mixed with enemies to lovers dkshsh. another one would be gojo being spoiled, it’s funny and somehow really cute and he deserves it if we’re being honest. i like it when fics are a bit angsty in the middle but they need to have a happy ending because canon is already tragic enough lmao. but honestly, that’s just a few of them. i’ll usually read anything if i’m in the mood for it!
Don’t know if you have seen My Liberation Notes, a kdrama. But imagine a GeGo au kind of inspired off that. Obviously Gojo isn’t a wall flower type like Mijeong, but the image of Gojo being so fed up with his day to day life, perhaps feeling invisible because no one sees past his status or superficial qualities, so he goes up to his extremely depressed neighbour(Geto in this case) and demands in that bratty Gojo way, that he worships him so that he has something to live for besides his depressive sorrows as well while Gojo finally gets to feel truly seen. And Geto, who feels a bit miffed at such a weird demand, decides to give it a try. And then their story just goes from there 🤧❤️
thank GOD ur back
now pls try not to get shadow banned for the hundredth time😭😭😭
https://x.com/____xtal/status/1853985019380773342?s=46 gojo as the last photo🫣
need people to stop editing pregnant omega gojo. it looks absolutely horrific. a man’s body might be at its ugliest with such a belly. they are already ugly but a “pregnant belly” just makes them look like alcoholics with failing livers. Maybe it’s the lack of curves, maybe it’s the shoulders though i’m not sure bc even curveless wide shouldered women look great pregnant, or maybe it’s just that men are so inherently ugly, but drawing them pregnant is an abomination to anyone’s eyes and even pretty asf gojo ruins it.
This is just about shipping in general within the anime/manga community, not really any particular ship, though it can’t be applied to many fandoms, but I’ll never understand when certain dynamic shippers of ships in general are proud that their dynamic is the preferred within Japan. Almost all, like it’s super rare for the opposite to be the case, dynamics that are preferred in Japan tend to be extremely stereotypical. As in Tall top x Shorter bottom. Or The more masculine between the two automatically become top x the more feminine between the two become the bottom, that can apply in both behavior or looks(or both). They are extremely traditional most of the time with their shipping preferences over there. This isn’t to shame them, it’s totally fine to like it that way! But I’ll never understand the pride in shipping what’s liked the most in specific countries, because a lot of the time there’s just stereotypes and tradition behind it. Not to say there’s no ships within japan where the shorter tops or the more “feminine” tops, that happens too, but it is even less common there than it is in western shipping fandoms and it’s not like us in the west are rid of such traditional and stereotypical views on sexual dynamics either, so we aren’t super subversive most of the time as a collective either.
I get being happy about your preferred dynamic being popular though, because that tends to mean much more material, duh, but pride in it as if more japanese shippers liking it makes it more valid? Cringe 😭
At the end of the day, sexual dynamics are completely unrelated to looks in real life. Sure someone CAN dress a certain way to signal something or the other, but a certain style or behavior outside of the bedroom isn’t an automatic indicator of anything really. I wish shippers could just realize this and just be honest that they just prefer one or the other dynamic for whatever reason. No shame! Just don’t make it sound like this or that character has bottom or top wired into their DNA, lmao.
i think it might have to do with the idea that japanese fandoms are seen as having "more valid" takes because they don’t have a language barrier or risk of mistranslation when interpreting the material. but honestly, that doesn’t make their preferences inherently better or more correct. at the end of the day, the way someone acts, looks or dresses has nothing to do with whether they’re a top or bottom, so deep serious analyses like that feel incredibly ridiculous to me.
i think it also ties into some people’s need to prove that their ship (and their preferred dynamic) is canon or superior. it’s like being "right" about it gives them a sense of superiority, which is… unnecessary honestly. it’s fine to prefer a certain dynamic but it doesn’t need to come with this weird validation complex. just like what you like idk
the most unserious of things can take me completely out of my submersion in a GeGo fic. Gojo being given chapped lips by the author? One of the fastest ways to make me lose interest in the fic. Like GOJO?! CHAPPED LIPS?! ARE WE BEING SERIOUS?!!!
bestie whats your ao3 acc??
SUPER random but if Gojo was female I imagine he would look, in terms of body, like Jang Wonyoung. Super tall, long limbed, very slender and surprisingly delicate looking for their height.
People always either draw him super muscular or super curvy as a woman, but this is my HC. A tall gorgeous modelesque like figure, perfect for runways. I think Geto would be slightly more sporty looking, more like Ahn Yujin, who’s a group member. Sorry my DIVE(the group’s fandom)tendencies comes out in this ask. 😭
https://x.com/yuriyaoicide/status/1850805231711322385?s=46 someone draw this as gojo
Idk wtf is going on over on that side but why did this godforsaken app recently recommend me at least 2 posts comparing Geto to Asian women with long black hair - one a movie character and another just a faceless sexy woman (it might be in reference to nurse!kenjaku but they still say it’s Suguru?) - just bc they’re both Asian and have the same hairstyle in order to sexualise him?? It’s not the sexualising that’s the problem bc he’s fictional but the fact that they compare him to women in order to do so. As an Asian woman, this gives off racist and fetishy undertones. I feel sick. Is this what ppl mean when they say a certain portion of that subfandom’s HCs are rooted in misogyny, homophobia and racism? I genuinely hope it’s not a common thing. If it is, free my man Geto. He deserves better than this 😟
anon i’m really sorry to say it but this kind of thing is pretty common in that specific group of the fandom. i’ve seen so many takes where they say things like asian features are “softer” or “more feminine,” or even stereotype asians as being more submissive or more likely to bottom. it’s honestly so offensive. the worst part is that they don’t seem to care about how these stereotypes impact actual asian women, as long as they get to project onto their fictional character. it’s so exhausting to see and i completely understand why it would make you feel sick
Honestly? I don’t even mind geto having a big ass. Because you can’t be a brick shithouse without having thick thighs and a big muscular ass, so hell yes to thicc ass absolute unit Geto. I mean g0ges be claiming Gojo has a flat ass so wouldn’t that make him gasp A TWINK?? 😱😱 They don’t realize they’re feeding into the exact fantasy they claim to hate lol
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