fma just suffers so much from the fact that its two political mouthpieces are a war criminal with a god complex and a white liberal pacifist like if you look at it as a series made up by its emotional beats and character development alone it’s phenomenal but the politics of it are just so bad and it frustrates me that ed is painted as this person who cares too much about the suffering others undergo but somehow finds it difficult to sympathize with a man whose people were ruthlessly murdered nearly to extinction. it’s not just a disservice to his character arc but to readers of color who relate to scar’s plight and suffering and have to see their struggle so decentralized bc the militant perpetrators are ultimately more important and portrayed as more sympathetic characters
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I agree with what you say about Taichi and that’s why i am trying to communicate with you, it would not be a switch up, 14 year old Chihaya “loved” Arata but 17 year old Chihaya loves Taichi. It is a mark of growing up. Chihaya said that she loves Arata but gave a boy her number, does her “love” for Arata seem serious? Ask yourself that
When has Chihaya’s love ever paralleled her age, though? Many readers fall under the impression that Chihaya is immature and naive to her own “real” feelings and has to “grow” into them, but she knows herself very well and expresses her desires candidly at near all times. It’s why her responses to both confessions from Arata and Taichi are so different—one leaves her flustered, because here is a confession from Arata, who she’s looked up to and aspired to for years now and who she dreams of reaching the lofty peak of Mount Fuji with; the other leaves her devastated, because despite the closeness of her friendship with Taichi, she never realized the nature of his feelings for her or how her own inability to recognize them inadvertently caused him pain. Chihaya has never been confused about who she has romantic feelings for. It’s very clear from the outset that Arata is who she’s reaching for, as he’s reaching for her, and the folk tale about the magpie bridge drawn between the ox herder and the weaving lady further drives home the romantic nature of their developing relationship. Her relationship with Taichi is incredibly important, too, but there’s a clear focus on them learning how not to lose their friendship with each other despite the fact that they view each other differently. Taichi has an entire conversation with Chihaya’s sister about whether loving her is worth it if no reciprocation is entailed; storytelling wise I don’t think that would be such an important conversation to have if she was going to reciprocate all of a sudden anyway. He has to come to terms with the fact that she’ll never love him like that and that it’s okay for them to still be friends in spite of that. That is what he’s come to terms with by this point, more or less. At the Qualifiers, he mentioned to Arata that his goal with winning wasn’t just to send Suou back to Nagasaki but also to see Chihaya become Queen on Oumi Jingu’s stage. There was internal narration from Harada-sensei that three would become two and one—but the latest chapters and Taichi’s decision to stay and watch and support Arata and Chihaya up close rather than from afar is in direct defiance of those notions. He doesn’t have to worry about meeting some standards to see Chihaya (or Arata) reach her dreams. He doesn’t have to be “worthy” of remaining in her presence. He loves her and he cares about her (whether as a romantic interest or now as a more comfortable friend), and if he wants to, he can watch her become Queen. The selflessness of those actions is very important, because he’s taking them with the knowledge that Chihaya won’t reciprocate his feelings or fill the void in his heart, and he’s finally okay with that.
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I wish I could tell Yoongi there’s no need to run harder, they’ve been working so hard. They work at least twenty times harder than most artists in the music industry.
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If you think that this fandom hates women and you admitted that you hate men before then that makes you being unfair to jon on purpose so you are asking why but I think you really know that you are unfair to jon character don't you think?🤷
This gave me a headache just reading it 😭 anon take your conspiracy theories out of my askbox ok I don’t have time to deal with this
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"Revolution" or "Back in The U.S.S.R" by the Beatles!
(Or "How Do You Sleep?", by John Lennon)
A careful person who wants to help and alert others and encourage everyone to help no matter the cause, in addition to having a strong opinion!
I WAS JUST LISTENING TO THE WHITE ALBUM WHAT SORT OF SORCERY IS THIS FUCKING HELL IS SOMEBODY TRACKING ME??? Asdjgjgjddalalaoa—
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