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Posts about art, life, jokes, the occasional story, and robots.
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tunakitchen

rewatching the ironmouse qsmp vod where cellbit gives her the room in his castle while shaking my head with disapproval to show i dont condone the subsequent fandom infantilization that this nice gesture caused

for real why did people decide the most interesting dynamic was "shes cellbits daughter" (boring, not even accurate to canon dynamics, infantilization of a grown ass woman that im pretty sure is older than cellbit) when shes litterally a demon. how is that not extremely funny. cellbit meets a demon and immediately offers a room in his evil haunted demonic castle so it can be even more evil and haunted. thats awesome.

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pixiecaps

oh i joined mousey’s stream right as she was talking about qsmp. someone in chat asked if she’d be at the qsmp event and she said she was asked if she’d be there and said that she’d try her best!! she mentioned that all she was told is that its the “final event” and that she feels very honored to have been invited to the qsmp.

and that shes happy to have met and gotten to know so many cool people from the qsmp. specifically mentioning cellbit. and said she’d love to collab more with the qsmp people but everyones very busy. she said she misses bagi and wants to play something with etoiles!

also that a couple of the qsmp people will be on “the rust server” (im a bit outta the loop so idk if thats specifically mousey hosting a rust server or someone else but! now we know some of the qsmp people will be on it)

she just checked the time of the event and said “i dont know if i’ll be awake oof” now shes asking the team if its okay if she doesnt stream it😭 and again saying shes gonna try her best to be there.

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alexvals

mousey is referring to this rust server, which starts on 25th! (from what i can tell, there's at least going to be quackity and foolish)

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regarding the fandom attempting to push ironmouse into cellbit’s (+ roier’s) kid, a thing i’ve noticed is the infantilizing of ironmouse/her character isn’t just in the insistence of the nuclear family. it’s definitely a part of it, yes, but the part that really just shows how little self-awareness there is to it is how mousey is being portrayed. in 90% of the fanart i’ve seen of her being cellbit’s “kid”, she’s drawn as a child. she is literally being infantilized.

this is bad enough on its own, obviously. worse considering mousey is older than cellbit irl, and her vtuber character (by extension, arguably her qsmp character) is over six thousand years old. what REALLY drives the nail into the coffin, though, is when you compare how people have been portraying her vs how they’ve been portraying roier. roier, who has had other characters canonically adopt his, whose dads also have another child, much like how spiderbit has richarlyson. i have never seen art of roier alongside the fooligetta family where he’s drawn as a child. he’s been adopted for months now, and i have yet to come across it once. does that mean there’s no art of that sort out there? no, of course not. but it’s clearly a more niche idea, not a fandom wide consensus of how their dynamic works and likely more tied to aus than anything else. mousey has been on the server for 3 days. i have not seen a single piece of fanart depicting her and cellbit as a family where she is not drawn as a literal child. and she’s not even canonically his child.

it isn’t a coincidence that, out of two people in nearly-identical scenarios, the woman is the only one being infantilized.

good morning everyone this was 100% meant to go in the drafts due to me having written it at like 4 am while half-asleep just trying to get my thoughts down so i wouldn’t forget for later. hence the lack of tags and overall lack of cohesion and abrupt ending. now that i’m actually awake, here’s what i meant to add on before i passed tf out.

it is no coincidence that ironmouse is the one being infantilized because she’s a woman, but also because she’s disabled. i should not have to explain how gross it is to portray a disabled woman as a literal child, while every other character (either canonically or not) in her same situation is allowed to stay an adult. i mentioned roier, who’s a canonical example, but i have also seen an attempt to make niki either phil or etoiles’ daughter. and while she’s grossly misrepresented and has her agency taken from her in those scenarios, she’s also allowed to stay an adult. as is wilbur when portrayed with philza.

you know who else is the one person i’ve seen commonly portrayed as a child? tubbo. and while he suffers from a secondary issue of being the youngest of the server, tubbo is also disabled. his dyslexia is something the fandom constantly babies and woobifies. it is, again, no coincidence that out of all the streamers who either have a canonical or fandom-created parental dynamic, the only ones to be commonly portrayed as children are disabled.

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