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ur addiction has affected us in the following ways u are annooooyinggg

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More yoomawmiw because they're very dear to me

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and i'm going to.

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The day I started posting about #han sooyoung was the best day of my life.

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U may be fooled by my constant melancholia and generally pathetic state of being but take heart in knowing that i am trying unfathomably hard to live

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U may be fooled by my constant melancholia and generally pathetic state of being but take heart in knowing that i am trying unfathomably hard to live

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U may be fooled by my constant melancholia and generally pathetic state of being but take heart in knowing that i am trying unfathomably hard to live

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the thing is some fictional relationships simply do not work without that third guy there. it doesn’t even have to be romantic but they have to be there

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So Let's Discuss "Emasculation"

A few people have expressed the sentiment that "transemasculation" validates certain forms of male grievance politics that are usually expressed through the word "emasculation", so I'd like to expand on this a bit!

Firstly: Take a look at this argument, and my commentary on it.

Keep that one in the back of your mind.

Secondly: Have you ever seen an anti-sexual harassment campaign that uses "real man" language? "Real Men Don't <XYZ>" as a slogan or a pithy shibboleth?

This is because even in liberal-feminist discourses that purport to be about sexed equality, many cannot let go of the sanctitity of manhood. Manhood is something sacred, sacrosanct, an ideal, an aspiration, synonymous with power and agency and humanity itself.

In other words: The heirarchy of manhood as distinct from, non-overlapping with, and superior to womanhood infects even well-intentioned attempts to address misogyny.

All of which obscures the central truth that we are all aware of, but never name: Manhood can be revoked.

It is revoked often, in fact, and--this part is crucial--most often by other men.

For what is the ideology that manhood ultimately protects? What is the implication that no man can abide, that reduced even the "feminist ally" from the screenshot earlier to homophobic, misogynistic mudslinging to rival the deranged reactionary? It is, and always has been, male supremacy.

Because when you are designated as a proud Citizen of a Regime, someone who is expected to be its pride and uphold its edicts, you buy into the ideology that enshrines your own superiority, and violently lash out against anything that challenges that.

Cissexual men do, in fact, fear being unmanned, fear being seen as or like women in any way, and fear most of all the punitive censure of their peers if they do not enact (trans)misogynistic and homophobic rituals of brutalization that reify their sacred hierarchy.

Something I can attest to as someone who was frequently subject to that brutalization, assaulted, and harassed, degraded without end so that The Boys could feel like The Boys and not like whatever wretched creature I was or would end up being.

Misogyny amongst men manifests as protectionism, as loyalty, as "Bros Before <misogynistic term>", as the knowledge that if you do not participate in manhood, you will be its target.

Emasculation is, sadly, very real, and among the cissexual it's a very real threat.

I call it transemasculation because that same pressure to participate in manhood exists, the pressure to "prove" it through participation in what manhood means. The threat is the same for the in-group and for those "without", who are "seeking entry": If you do not Embody Manhood Correctly, you will be cast out into the wretched wastes of the degendered.

Does that make sense?

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“When we say Marxism is correct, it is certainly not because Marx was a “prophet” but because his theory has been proved correct in our practice and in our struggle. We need Marxism in our struggle. In our acceptance of his theory no such formalization of mystical notion as that of “prophecy” ever enters our minds. Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well. Of course we should study Marxist books, but this study must be integrated with our country’s actual conditions. We need books, but we must overcome book worship, which is divorced from the actual situation.”

— Mao Zedong, Oppose Book Worship, 1930

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*genderbends a cis male character by making him a he/him butch* (nothing about his appearance changes)

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pfffft that's rich I mean upper middle class

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Han Sooyoung potentially the most doomed by the narrative character of all time. She wrote the entire narrative that doomed her. She was a lonely and neglected but otherwise normal child and then at some point in her young teen years she gets possesed by a god that uses her body every night to write the story that will destroy the world. Her mind and body are no longer fully her own, they've been hijacked by someone who is leaving her exhausted and with confusing dreams, someone who is sealing her fate and pushing her along towards her destiny without HSY having a single clue. She will follow the pre determined path this God laid out for her, will go through all the suffering and pain that this God has planned, until it is too late for her to turn back. When she finally realises the truth she will be in too deep, and her only choice will be to continue along this chosen path. She loves too fiercely to choose any other way. She will doom the world over and over again, selfishly sacrificing millions and selflessly sacrificing every part of herself because her monstrous heart is too full of love. This one boy she cares for must stay alive. There is no price she will not pay in order to make that happen.

After all this you'd think she'd be furious at this God but how can she? The god is her, just a version of her further along the narrative who cannot change her nature anymore than young Han Sooyoung or old Han Sooyoung can. The god will write and write to keep this boy alive without ever getting to see him or talk to him, and in the end she will flicker out to be nothing but a part of HSY's memories. Every version of Han Sooyoung is tied to this narrative, there is no one point where you can stop and blame a version of her. They are all guilty and they will all do it over and over again. They are too full of fierce, selfish love for any other alternative.

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The Trolley problem.

「Even then, Han Sooyoung wanted to tell him.

To tell him that he was definitely not at fault for this story being born. And to tell him that the things he was about to experience were not his sins.」 

ORV ch535

More animation on tiktok

How is everyone? Me? I will never be ready for the next chapters in the webtoon. Thanks.

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yhk jenga

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when the unresolved psychosexuality of the relationship is way better than whatever resolution it might hypothetically have and actually its own being unresolved is the crux and the paradigm of what the characters have going on between them: