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(Imagine that in an oldy time barker kind of voice)

was Relena as awful as I remember or was that a bit of weird early fandom days misogyny?

I'm leaning toward situational misogyny -- her major sin was being a femme character who 'got in the way' of the brooding hero. This aired during peek 'not like other girls' toxicity and I remember vividly how most fandom spaces had shippers leaning toward m/m pairings.

Because I definitely remember finding her annoying when I was watching when it aired on Cartoon Network in the 90s but I've seen clips of it recently and I don't have that well of dislike pooling up anymore (and granted it could be with age comes wisdom but I think its not just that).

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 00:56 (UTC) - Expand

She could be a character archetype that you don’t like, which happens, but as someone who wasn’t anywhere near the fandom because I hand’t found them yet I liked her just fine. I found about the hate years later and was baffled, so while I do think an individual tastes thing could be part of it I also think 90’s fan of misogyny played a big part as well.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 00:50 (UTC) - Expand

About 50/50? Now that I'm not a teenager, she's got a lot of interesting character points to her and I enjoy her a lot more but, when I was a teenager, I think I lot of it was that I just didn't have the life experience to really grasp her character. She does absolutely crazy things for peace and I was busy rooting for more robot fights piloted by cute boys who had tons of drama. She didn't gel with me then. I like her a lot more now that I look at her and better understand her and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people would find the same if they rewatched the series. It's a bit like Shinji from Eva. When I was a teen he was irritating af and I hated him. Grown up me sees all the ways the adults around him fail and get angry on his behalf, instead of being angry at him.

In Relena's case, though, a lot of it was very definitely her being the leading lady in a show where most fans were busy oogling and shipping all the dudes together in various equations. ( 1x2 and 3x4 shipper here lmao)

Honestly, if you were thinking of rewatching the series, I'd say go for it. I found she hits different these days.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 00:54 (UTC) - Expand

I mean, to be fair, I haven't rewatched to whole show, but I've watched some clips and she's still pretty annoying. But everyone on the show's a complete psycho and the dub's awful, so it's a bit of a non starter.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 00:54 (UTC) - Expand

I have been rewatching it lately and I think her main issue is that she starts off annoying and takes a long time to start maturing and becoming interesting. But by Endless Waltz she is great and I thought that even at the time when Toonami was airing GW.

She was obnoxious in the first few episodes but she mellowed out later if I remember correctly. I thought she was fine in Endless Waltz.

That doesn't mean there wasn't some fandom misogyny though. But that was true for multiple female characters who had the gall to stick around for longer than five minutes and have a purpose, instead of rolling over and fading into the background.

General misogyny, plus she got in the way of a popular ship.

It wasn't misogyny. I liked her when the fandom was big because I wanted to show that I wasn't a misogynist like all the other girls who hated her. I rewatched it many years after the fandom was a thing of the past, and I'm embarrassed at my past self for choosing to like her as my pseudo feminist act. She sucks. The whole show sucks, but some things about it are more defendable than others and Relena isn't one of them.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 12:30 (UTC) - Expand

generally speaking.

I get up around 7am and try to have lights out by 10pm but usually lately it's more like midnight.

go to bed around 1:30, wake up around 8:30 or 8:45

this is, frankly, not ideal

Usually try to be going to sleep by 9, 10 at the latest. I get up around 7. I usually wake up several times at night so I need to allow for that.

I wake up whenever my elderly dog deems it time to get up, which can be anywhere between 6 to 7:30am. I am honestly usually in bed by 9 in the summer and 7 in the winter because as soon as it's dark my brain thinks it's time for bed. Not exactly the healthiest in winter.

Go to bed at 4-5 AM, WAKE UP AT 1-2 PM
I've been trying to adjust my routine for a very long time, but I guess this is my biological clock IDK
It was better when I lived in a different time zone. Then I was 10PM 7AM.

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 00:29 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 17:19 (UTC) - Expand

Depends on the time of year. In the summer, the light wakes me up around 5:30-6:00am so I end up going to bed around 9-9:30pm. In the winter, I'll get up around 7:00am so I end up going to bed around 10:30-11:00pm.

I wake up at 530 am and go to bed anywhere between 10 and 1130 pm. I feel I'm pretty normal?

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(Anonymous) - 2023-07-05 00:56 (UTC) - Expand

On weekdays, bed by 10 and up by 6:20am.

I go to bed around 10pm, falling asleep around 11pm-midnight.

And I usually get up anywhere from 3am-7am. What time I wake up is different pretty much everyday. I haven’t been able to sleep past 8am in years. Ever since the change in my circadian rhythm.

I stay up until 4am and then I have to be up at 9am. sometimes I stay up later. I don't know why I do this to myself.

I have the worst schedule, seriously. So,in the summer, during the work week, I get up between 5:30 and 6AM, and the goal is to be in bed before 11. I have limited success at this. On the weekends/holidays, wake-up time is between 6 and 7, bedtime is basically the same.

I have a really hard time getting up when it's dark outside, so late autumn through early spring is kind of a bitch. Work weeks I still need to be up before 7, but 6:30-7 is usually the best I can manage. It's dark for so long in the late afternoon/evening that I basically have got my second wind before it's a normal time to go to bed, and if I get to bed before midnight it's a marvel. Weekends I sleep in until at least 8AM.

This is not a good way to live if you have to have a job. Do not recommend. 3/10.

Depends.
Winter usually 12/12-20 at night and around 8 in the morning. Lighter months just before midnight to around 7. I do not use alarms.
Right now it's a bit hot and I need to sleep with an open window so my schedule is absolutely wacky. It's unbearably noisy starting around 4 or 5. But I can't get myself to sleep at least before 1 in the night (sorry using a.m. /p.m system just weirds me out) so my nights always fluctuate to hell and back through summer. Should probably try using A/C since now I have one (yay!) but it's noisy too and I don't like stillnes of processed air. Argh

I aim to go to bed around 1:00 AM, and I wake up at 9:00 AM at the latest, though lately I've been waking up a bit earlier fairly often.

I have Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder, and I spent most of my adult life not being able to sleep before at least 5:00 AM, and getting up in the afternoon whenever possible. Then around two years ago I got onto a medication that helped me to significantly advance my sleep schedule, and I'm still so grateful for the change. 1—9 may seem like a night-owl to a lot of people, but holy shit I feel like such an early-bird, and I am very proud of myself about it!

Lights out: 930-11

Lights on: 0600 on work days, 7-noon on days off.

But also it's 10:35 right now so I should really make good on that deadline.

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What is your job?