“It’s okay to ship m/f!” “Shipping m/f is better than shipping m/m or f/f sometimes!” “Don’t let anybody get you down for shipping a man and a woman together!” Don’t listen any of that. I’m here. I’m going to mandate yaoi and yuri and if you do anything else I will vaporize you out of this world
The thing that really gets to my heart about how Laios’s autism is portrayed in his conflict with Toshiro is that his pain is centered and sympathized with.
How many dozens, hundreds of stories have we gotten about that obnoxious side character who just won’t take the hint and get lost, plaguing the main character who is never up front about their actual feelings but we’re supposed to relate to? How it’s played for humor half the time, a lighthearted burden on the main to make them roll their eyes before the Big Challenges of their story, with no thought to the pain and loss of the side character investing so much emotion into caring for someone who finds them a nuisance?
I think it’s even more poignant that Ryoko Kui is writing from a Japanese perspective that puts Toshido’s approach even more in the default, culturally enforced norm, but still asks “what about the feelings of the person who doesn’t have that all-important knack for ‘reading the room’ and picking up on all those invisible messages never said aloud?” and encourages us to care
Has anyone else been having trouble downloading the new clangen update? It keeps reaching ~56% at "verifying update", and then it gets stuck there for like 10 minutes. I'm not sure how to fix it.