2025-09-08 3:57:00 ¶ ● ⬈

anartistwhodraws:

> If I post my TMA hot takes would you guys be nice to me or will I immediately be dogpiled

> (Most if not all of them have to do with fanon btw. I love this fandom but I also have sooooo many gripes with it)

Alright. Here we go.

# My TMA hot takes

## (Mostly my gripes with the TMA fandom)

- Breekon and Hope are not brothers OR dating, but a secret third thing (literally two halves of the same whole). I am kind of a sucker for both interpretations tho
- Not every character needs to be in a romantic relationship. I get shipping is fun but it gets out of character sometimes. Also sometimes it ruins the dynamic of the characters idk
- Basira doesn’t strike me as religious, and frankly I think it’s weird that the fandom collectively decided she’s Muslim because of her name. There’s nothing wrong with having a religious headcanon, but the fandom treats hijabs like an accessory rather than a sacred head covering. I have not seen a SINGLE piece of art or writing that depicts Basira actually practicing Islam (celebrating holidays, praying five time a day, etc). Idk I just think it’s weird to sacrifice her character for the sake of “representation”
- (CW: SA MENTION) I am SO tired of the fandom writing Elias/Jonah (and Peter to some extent) as a sexual predator/r*pist. He would not do that. Just because he’s a bad person doesn’t mean he would SA someone. He is an avatar with literal fear powers. He can get his way without physically harming someone. I could literally write an essay on this it makes me so mad. It’s such a huge character assassination to take this villain who is evil in interesting ways and make him a predator as a general hand wave to be like “look this guy is bad.” WE KNOW THAT. Let him be horrible in other, more fictional ways
- On the topic of Elias and Peter, while I do think the common fandom interpretation of serial divorcees lonelyeyes is pretty funny, being stuck in a loveless marriage is much more lonely, and therefore something Peter would want more. I’m sorry but I cannot imagine he would have any reason to marry Elias (other than money ig but he has plenty of that). It doesn’t really benefit either of them to be married and divorced 20 times and tbh it doesn’t rlly fit the characters either. The only reason they would be in any sort of relationship would be to feed their respective patrons (and for money) and they certainly wouldn’t love each other (I am kind of a hypocrite on this last point tho bc I do enjoy a good fluffy lonelyeyes fic)

I might edit or rb this post later if I think of any more idk