sorry for speaking my truth it will happen again. i think my main issue with valax’s redemption arc is literally just that there’s never a moment where the mc gets to actually talk to her about what she did—there’s not really a cathartic conversation, so valax and mc moving past what she did to them feels less like forgiveness and redemption and more like an agreement to ignore the elephant in the room
like sure we got to talk about our trauma (in chapter 17 of 20. lol. lmao, even) to the party, but valax wasn’t present for that?? and like, sure, she says once that she is sorry “for the pain she caused [them]”, but there’s a difference Tew Me between “sorry for hurting you ig ✌️😗” and actually being like “yeah, i abducted you and forced you into a magically induced coma and stole your blood and robbed you of a full year of your life and repeatedly tried to murder you, to say nothing of the grief i caused your loved ones. i did all that shit and i’m sorry for it and deeply regret it, and i acknowledge that you don’t owe me forgiveness, but i will spend the rest of my life working to build a better world for my people instead of being my mother’s pawn”, and a difference between “my mother is unhappy with me for saving you :(” and actually like, giving the mc space to talk about the impact of her actions towards them. like girl you are not getting out of this shit with one sentence’s worth of apology and a sex scene lmfao!!!
during the first half or so of the book the focus for mc is not falling the fuck apart bc they have a friend group to tentatively piece together and they’re averse to showing fear in front of valax, so they’re repressing all their trauma—and by the time valax joins the party, the narrative has gone full Valax Cool And Good mode, and fully allows you to flirt with her and tease her and generally stops taking her seriously as an antagonist. which would be all fine and good if we had actually at any point gotten to be like, “hey, you abducting me and keeping me in a magically induced coma and stealing my blood and trying to kill me has actually caused me a lot of lasting fear and pain,” followed by some set of choices wrt forgiving or not forgiving her for all that in light of the revelation that she did all that shit bc her mom tortured and brainwashed her
like why are my friends more pissed off about the time this bitch abducted me and did evil little experiments on me than i am. free valax she did all that shit bc of her mommy issues but i should’ve gotten to call her a cunt just once. pb stop making all your mcs generals in the idgaf war challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
dear callie i’m not sure i agree with the oxley-bom podcast’s verdict that pecco was more to blame on the alex/pecco incident (tho they ultimately called it a racing incident) and the english, french and turkish commentaries all put most of the blame on alex during the broadcasts (they’re the only three i could understand). what are your views, if you’d like to share? if not no worries tho
(ps. love the scholarship)
i’m gonna be real i think the oxley bom guys lowkey hate pecco in a way that confuses even them and it makes me laughhhhhh
Noone talks enough about gojo as a cycle breaker. He was canonically neglected by the gojo clan, who would spend a lot of money on him to make up for ignoring him. He was treated simply as a weapon by the adults in his life. We are purposefully told practically nothing about his family so that we can’t imagine him as a son, brother, cousin, uncle.
And yet, when he was put in the same situation as the adults, when he was given a “weapon” to train and prune, he chose a different way. He chose to save yuta and yuji and megumi and many others, and to train them to use their morals & empathy rather than abandon them.
Like. Gojo was fucked over by everyone SO MANY TIMES and instead of immediately killing everyone he chose to become a teacher. Like are you seeing this. This is fr.
❤️🩹: Talk about a moment when your (F/O) managed to stop you from crying.
💌: Talk about your (F/O)’s favorite compliment to give you, and a few times that they’ve used it to compliment you.
fun/random fact: blue is the only character i actually like.. know bc I've only ever played his game. so when I saw you shipping with him it was like "OMG I ACTUALLY KNOW HIMBJAJ?!!!"
@i-put-the-s4p-in-s4pphic
@i-put-the-s4p-in-s4pphic You know my husband omg!!!
❤️🩹: Talk about a moment when your (F/O) managed to stop you from crying.
Okay so Blue isn’t always the best at dealing with other people’s emotions. He always has a lot going on in his mind. But over the years, he’s grown to be really able to read me and more able to deal with my emotions and calm me down. He’s kinda learned what is more likely to help me. The times when I’m most likely to cry are when I have a meltdown, and the signs of one have become like second instinct to him to recognize. Probably the most impactful time he’s stopped me from crying was when I was upset and I was loud so everyone’s eyes were on me so I felt even more embarrassed over how upset I was and he just started a fight with some random person to get attention off of me. Like Professor Oak’s grandson trying to throw hands with some random is easily more interesting to people than a Champion sobbing.
💌: Talk about your (F/O)’s favorite compliment to give you, and a few times that they’ve used it to compliment you.
He thinks he’s a smooth talker, and I love him so much for it. He’ll give me random compliments and then blush and look so nervous but pretend he’s super confident about it AHAHA. His favorites are probably “gorgeous,” “smart,” and “stunning,” although he also calls me amazing and other things pretty frequently. He calls me gorgeous when I’m just hanging around the house in casual stuff, because he thinks I’m gorgeous all of the time. He makes sure to remind me of how smart I am when I’m putting myself down or even just when I’m telling him things. He calls me stunning and a knockout when I’m just looking at him affectionately because he’s always looking back with an equal amount of love. He just always thinks that I look that nice, and he’s awed by how much I love him. He’s so nice to me!!!!! I love him so much.
every time i worry about my characters looking like they don't belong on tv, i have to follow it up with "well, spongebob made it, so why can't they?" and all of a sudden my worries are gone