there’s this term i coined in my friendgroup i call “the charizard effect” and it can apply to anything and everything, but it was born from me explaining my feelings about the pokemon charizard. the term is basically about how overexposure to something be it by corporate shilling or fandom prominence drives me away from really enjoying something bc i’m exposed to it so much against my will i become tired of it. it came to me bc i was ranting about how tpci does not, and cannot stop reinventing charizard, and how it is popular and obtusely included in almost every region, merch, etc in every way possible and it’s highly commodified.
i dont dislike the pokemon charizard, in fact i really like its X form, but i am exposed to so much charizard in my pokemon consumption that i cant be bothered to care for it in any more than in passing. this applies to a bunch of other stuff i’d otherwise be ok with, but i always just call this aversion phenomena “the charizard effect”
I love women who choose wrong and live with it. I love women who choose right and get punished anyway. I love women who choose something at all in worlds designed to take choice away from them. I love female characters who are selfish because they were never allowed to be. who miscalculate because the margin for error is zero. who act with incomplete information and still have to carry the consequences. I love women who think they’re saving their children and end up burning the house down. I love women who are correct too early and evil by consensus. I love women whose choices make sense only if you take their fear seriously. I love that they’re not symbols or lessons. they’re people. and the story doesn’t bend to make them safe or likable. let them fail. let them be angry. let them be unbearable. let them be right for reasons no one will ever thank them for. that’s not bad writing. that’s the point.
