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the usa is leaving me to die slowly and painfully because i am poor please god rb this dont just like and scroll

i'm on a medication that is barely helping and i'm still having seizures almost every other day. finally had a grand mal the other day and i'm still hurting from it.

i don't have health insurance but i have to see a neurologist otherwise my condition is going to continue to deteriorate until it kills me if nothing is done

please. please it's alot but if 500 people send 10 bucks that meets our goal. anything at all helps. im begging for my life here it has to happen. i'm scared of going to sleep & i can barely do anything anymore even if i want to this is a fucking shitty way to go im only 24

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“I am coming for you, Lady Sansa, she thought as she rode into the darkness. Be not afraid. I shall not rest until I’ve found you.”

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The fact that israel revels in the destruction of a hospital and gleefully attacks civilian centers while Iran responds to an attack on it by striking military targets, yet the former is called "restrained" and "democratically humanistic" while the latter is villified as "aggressive" and "dangerous" should tell you everything you need to know about both western liberal democratic imperialism and western media's class nature.

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Willy wonkas racist grandparents

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insp

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makima songs pls i started reading csm from ur post and i Adore her :3 also i love ur blog so much u seem so genuinely cool and interesting

WHATHGH THATS SO COOL I HOPE U ENJOY CSM !!!! and WHAT thank u so much,, ur so kind to me :<<

a basic pick ?? perhaps. but it fits her vibe sooo well. i love this whole album, this song especially is so creepy and kind of eerie in a way that fits with makima's vibe so hard.

this song reminds me soooo hard of a very specific scene of her and denji near the end of part one that i don't necessarily want to spoil. but it has to do with denji's confronting his trauma with the door and makima sort of forcing him to. the don't remember it, don't return to it, and general darkness of this song rly reminds me of makima and denji's relationship

sensing a theme of associating makima with songs asking general questions abt women implying her to be freakish in some way . regardless. theres something abt how she just looks kinda like a regular normal unthreatening woman and then u stare just a little too long and maybe she moves weirdly out of the corner of your eye . when you look back shes just smiling pleasantly. but its like she knows exactly what you're thinking anyway .

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i would like a song for satan obey me . curious what you think his vibe is

SATAN?? thats a guy i havent thought abt in a while. what a dude . originally my least favourite brother ( until nightbringer...... )

hmmm .hmmhmhm . i think this is a great song for all of the brothers' family dynamic but theres some very satan-esque lyrics here. I can't break the cycle, am I just a fool?, and typical of me to put us all to shame. What a guy.

angsty guy NEEDS a song from tcfsw. i love how angry this song sounds and i think there's some lines that remind me of satan and his determination , but also his dedication to his family and MC.

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hiiii ... gimme character and i give u song . many such cases. any fandom i know is cool :3

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can’t criticize plastic surgery as an institution because it’s none of your business if a woman wants to “fix” her insecurities. can’t criticize the makeup industry or beauty standards because some women feel good when they shave and wear makeup. can’t bring up the challenges women face in the workplace because some women want to be stay at home wives instead of working. everything a woman does is automatically feminist and we shouldn’t stop to think about the context surrounding her actions because that would be misogynistic. here’s what i had for girl dinner. according to my girl math the barbie movie was a revolutionary piece of feminist media. i may not show it but i feel the life slowly draining from me day by day.

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CA$H PIGGOTT.

I need to talk about Cash Piggott and how important his character is to the asexual community.

I absolutely adore the fact that Cash calls people out on their acephobia and never, ever apologises for who he is. He doesn't think he's broken.

In season one, we see Darren say "you know what, I think there's something really fucking wrong with you, Cash," and Cash immediately, with no hesitation, screams "well fuck you then".

In season two, we see Dusty say that he's being selfish asking Darren to give up sex and he immediately stands up and says "fuck this" because he knows he doesn't have to listen to people making him feel bad about his sexuality.

And when he's talking to his nan about it, Cash says "it's not fair, I would do anything, why does it have to be the one thing I can't change about myself?"

In every single one of these scenes, we never see Heartbreak High blame Cash for his sexuality. We never see him apologise to anyone for not feeling sexual attraction, and we never see him feel guilty about it, or try to change who he is.

CA$H recognises that his sexuality might be difficult for people to accept and understand, but he never lets other people make him feel like he's broken, or flawed. And that's so powerful to see.

Because asexual people are not broken. And we can't be fixed. And we are not being selfish for putting in boundaries.

I absolutely adore Douglas Piggott. He means the world to me, and this representation is so, so important.

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btw! I was made aware that many people don't know that we're boycotting Eurovision this year, so.

we are boycotting Eurovision, as per BDS guidelines.

don't watch the stream, don't engage with the videos, don't post it about it on social media using hashtags that are going to trend.

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ur makima post made me want to read chainsaw man omfg i cant tlel if its really that good or you just make it sound that good. is it misogynistic like shounens tend to be ☹️

misogyny in chainsaw man is interesting. as i mentioned, you see a lot of the series through denji's point of view, and he is sort of a passively sexist sixteen-year-old boy. however i find that chainsaw man has some of the most complex and interesting female characters in most new-gen shounen.

a big part of denji's character arc is learning to view women as more than one thing, basically, which coincides with him slowly learning that what he craves in women is intimacy and genuine connection. by the end of part one, denji's closest female bond is with a young girl who he becomes the adoptive brother of, taking care of her like aki once did for him.

so, like, there's the running joke that denji is horny, and yeah, sure, he is. his big motivation for a bit of the first part is that he wants to touch boobs. but then this ends up happening with power, and he feels nothing, which is super telling of what he actually wanted out of the experience (and what makima later uses to manipulate him with, by explaining the concepts of intimacy and passion).

i find the female character design to be really cool, too. i feel like in any other manga, makima who plays into the seductress role would be wearing really tight clothes with insane body proportions, but she just kinda looks like this:

as you can see, she also wears a lot of heavy, bulky trench coats that make her look bigger and more intimidating. i really adore how makima is designed—she's not over-the-top sexy ( attractive, obviously ), but it puts more emphasis on the mental work she has to do to enamour denji to her, rather than relying purely on her physical appearance.

i think fujimoto has good female character design down in general, really. i find that the one-off devils they encounter are a fairly even-split mix of male-coded and female-coded, and he seems to have more fun designing female characters in general, lol. i mean, the protag of part two is a schoolgirl, and she wears like... an accurate japanese school uniform which... count on one hanf the amount of times you see girls wearing accurate uniforms in a shounen:

so like, long answer short. because the message of the series is that denji needs to earn self-respect, and stop seeking it in women, he (and we) slowly become disillusioned to the objectification of women. i find that the couple of side-eye moments i might have, like asa stripping down to her underwear for one fight, are overshadowed by how complex and dimensional the female characters are, and how much care fujimoto puts into creating them.

thank you for reading!! i would recommend looking up a trigger list before starting chainsaw man, but other than that, i can't recommend it enough :D

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good analysis tho!! i see what u meant by needing more specific words

i'm glad!! was sorta nervous to post bc i didn't want anyone misunderstanding and calling me an apologist hence why it's so long and i maybe over-explain a few things haha

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hi, same anon. i have REMOVED CHAINSAW MAN FROM MY TO-WATCH, WHAT THE *FUCK* I AM DEFINITELY TOO MUCH OF A PUSSY FOR THAT OH GOD-

PHAHAHA it's probably a good thing you happened to ask honestly there's a lot of rly disturbing psychological shit that happens. amazing story and characters but i hesitate to recommend it to people for that reason ^.^

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nvm doing this now . discussions of csm-typical grooming, sexualisation, pedophilia and whatnot below .

The base of my problem with calling Makima a pedophile has its roots in her characterisation. the simple fact of the matter is that she is not in any way attracted—romantically, sexually, or in any form—to Denji. Obviously this doesn't excuse her actions, because you're right, she does make sexual advances on him. But you mention you haven't engaged with CSM, so let me break it down for you.

For those who are unaware, the Chainsaw Devil, which Denji wields the power of, is pretty easily the strongest Devil in the verse, because devils grow stronger the more they are feared—however, the Chainsaw Devil is the only devil to be feared by other devils, making it way stronger than anything else.

The Chainsaw Devil also has the ability to 'eat' slash consume other Devils, thereby erasing the concept they represent. It's sort of difficult to explain, but for an example—if the Chainsaw Devil ate the Tomato Devil and erased it, tomatoes would cease to exist. At some point, Makima reveals to Kishibe that Chainsaw has eaten several devils pertaining to real-life historical events; she asks Kishibe, 'do you remember what the Nazis did to the Jews?' and he is visibly confused—it soon becomes apparent that Kishibe doesn't know what Nazis, or the Holocaust is, because Chainsaw 'ate' the WWII devil. It did something similar with the devils of AIDS, nuclear weapons, and several other fictional devils/events.

This is the primary reason Makima covets the Chainsaw Devil and seeks to control him; she wants to use this eating power in order to erase concepts she finds unnecessary or detrimental to mankind. The power of the Chainsaw Devil is in the hands of Denij—so she has to get control of Denji. How does she do that?

By ruining his entire life.

Makima sets Denji up with Aki and anther fiend, Power. They eventually form a tight familial bond, with Aki becoming the older brother figure, and power the bratty little sister to Denji. He's shown to care very deeply for them. And then, near the end of the manga, Makima sets them both up to be brutally murdered in the worst way possible. She has Aki fused with the devil that murdered his parents, the Gun Devil, which turns him into a mindless beast who tries to kill Denji and Power, forcing Denji to kill him in self-defence. After this, his spirit is broken. He goes to Makima and confesses he wants to be one of her dogs, so that she can tell him what to do, so that he doesn't have to think. After that, Makima murders Power right in front of him, leaving Denji overcome with emotion and releasing the full power of the Chainsaw Devil for her to control.

So now that the context is out of the way—you understand, hopefully, Makima's motivations for controlling Denji. Now let's look at the how.

Makima knows Denji. From the beginning, she knows he's the Chainsaw Devil, because she saw him use the power of it the first time she saw him. Denji's very first words to Makima are hold me, as he slumps into her arms. This tells her the two most important things about the boy she's stumbled across: he wields an insane power, and he craves comfort. This is more than enough for someone as cunning and manipulative as Makima to make some leaps in logic and determine how best to integrate herself into Denji's life.

Denji is a teenage boy. He doesn't know—and neither do we, at first—that what he craves above all else is romantic intimacy. Not necessarily sex. But because he is a teenage boy, this is what he perceives a relationship to be like. Denji's father was abusive, and so he has an inherent built-in distrust of men and places women on pedestals. This comes across both in serious and comedic moments:

But it all boils down to the idea of Denji seeking validation from women rather than men, and Makima uses this to her advantage. She knows that what Denji creaves is genuine intimate connection, and she plays on this. She sort of creepily becomes all the defining women in his life—playing into the seductress role, but also the maternal. One of my favourite ED sequences from the anime has this shot:

Makima is this angelic being, with Denji staring up in awe. Fujimoto stated that "Denji always yearned for maternal love,", that Makima and Denji's relationship was based on documentaries about child abuse, and that Makima's names comes from mama. So she is very very motherly-coded to Denji. But like I mentioned, she also plays the part he thinks he wants, hence the aforementioned sexual advances.

One of the most infamous scenes is after Denji is disappointed after touching Power's breasts, Makima tells him that sexual acts without intimacy feel empty. This is when she does things like bite his finger, caress his skin gently, and place his hand on her breast. Her dialogue is chilling in this particular scene. When she bites his finger, she asks, "Remember it so well that even if you go blind, you'll know it's me from the bite." Similarly, after Himeno kisses Denji and vomits in his mouth, Makima gives him a cola-flavoured lollipop to wash away the taste, literally overwriting the claim Himeno put on Denji's body with her own marker. Makima subtly works to make herself the only option in Denji's mind who can give him what he wants—both what he thinks/knows he wants (sexual gratification) and what he doesn't know he wants, but she does (maternal love and genuine connection).

Makima is not attracted to Denji. Makima, I think, is not attracted to anyone in particular. She's a weapon, a machine, raised by the government. She has a general want to be loved, but not by anyone in particular, and it's implied this is more the Control Devil inside of her than Makima herself, as Nayuta expresses this same desire when the Control Devil reincarnates into her. If Denji was eight years old, she'd play harder into the maternal figure, because it would make him easier to manipulate. Denji is sixteen in the canon timeline, so she plays a bit of both. If Denji were thirty-five, she'd find some way of making herself the most important person in his life, specifically by using his insecurities and internal biases of women in order to manipulate him and isolate him from the others. Even when Denji does get to care about other people, it's all orchestrated.

Makima's manipulation and cunning is right at the heart of her character. It's why I think referring to her as a pedophile is reductive in terms of her character, because she is not attracted to Denji. She sees what will manipulate him into coveting her and she does it. Pedophiles are what they are because they're attracted to children. Makima is not this. She's a child predator. She's a groomer. And these two terms feel far more fitting because they acknowledge the agency she had in her role in this relationship. She deliberately did this to Denji. She studied him, dissected his personality, isolated him from the world and broke him down emotionally and mentally. She did that. Not because he was a child, but because he was Denji.

I really hope this made sense. It's half past four in the morning but this has been sitting with me for ages. And if you have any clarifying questions please shoot and I'd be happy to answer them.

i havent seen csm is makina not the one who literally makes sexual advances on a teenager?? have i been misled??

tell u what i will break this down in the morning bc whilst i would never deny that makima is a child predator (!!!!!!!) i believe that simply referring to her as a pedophile is reductive bc of her character and denji’s . but it’s like 4 in the morning so i’ll explain it better after i’ve slept . definitely don’t take this as me defending her actions she sucks as a person so bad .

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i havent seen csm is makina not the one who literally makes sexual advances on a teenager?? have i been misled??

tell u what i will break this down in the morning bc whilst i would never deny that makima is a child predator (!!!!!!!) i believe that simply referring to her as a pedophile is reductive bc of her character and denji’s . but it’s like 4 in the morning so i’ll explain it better after i’ve slept . definitely don’t take this as me defending her actions she sucks as a person so bad .

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i love my little brother so much he’s my best friend