#that could've been harmful

[awakefor48hours]

In case this needs to be said: don't trauma dump in a stranger's tags. It's disrespectful and not something people really want to see.

[canisalbus]

What if I told you that RoobrickMarine went and wrote an entire novella starring my 16th century dog couple? It's very canon-adjacent, well researched and thoughtfully put together, has inspired me a ton during these past months and it's now publicly available at AO3. I highly recommend it.

✦ Separation ✦

[carlyraejepsans]

i unironically block and avoid anyone who interacts with callout posts btw. unless the post contains information about genuine real harm to real people in unequivocal terms, with solid proof and context that cannot be chalked up to misrepresented friendship drama, i go scorched earth on the notes. the amount of potential harassment and harm they can and HAVE caused in the past, especially to minority groups, trans women in particular, is beyond anything that can ever justify their existence. they're a petty, childish—frequently wrong!—thoughtless and cruel way to "spread awareness". grow up.

[codenamesazanka]

Shigaraki/Tenko wanting to destroy the false sense of peace All Might and Heroes created

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Shigaraki/Tenko wanting to destroy everything that lead to the existence of that house, which he conceptualizes as the embodiment of rejection and injustice in the world. Be a Hero for the Villains.

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AFO basically literally created that house

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Shigaraki/Tenko helps defeat AFO

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Deku telling him 'you already destroyed it' is... apparently Shigaraki/Tenko having finally gotten rid of the true cause of (his) rejection and injustice? main antagonist's big problem that represents an overarching major issue of the story/in-universe society... solved? (main antagonist's big problem that represents an overarching major issue of the story/in-universe society not actually being the problem he thought it was but now also solved?)

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No longer a need for there to be a Hero for the Villains, Shigaraki/Tenko dies.

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Heroes not to be blamed in the first place. also fuck everyone else and all other 'actual' outcasts I guess.

[beanghostprincess]

I can't believe I just had to explain my last Zolusan (more Lusan/Sanlu than anything but yeah) fic to somebody because they said it was normalizing unhealthy behavior when it comes to starting poly relationships. As if the monster trio would talk things out like normal people. Seriously.

Please NEVER leave a comment like this on a fanfic. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. I am not here to educate people!! I am not your parents!! This is a fanfic site!! Don't expect me to write a manual on how to have a poly relationship, especially when it would be out of character for the main couple.

I'm gonna leave the link to the fic here and what I told them about it because now I am extremely anxious other people won't get what I want to express with this fic and I feel the need to share my thoughts:

[canisonicscrewyou]

I'm not gonna lie I'm still thinking about my coworker loudly & wrongly declaring their assumption that in middle+high school I regularly bullied people. I want you to think of the queerest little closeted tboy that would get into feminist and atheist rows in the middle of class. I want you to put them in baby's first pixie cut and ill-fitting khakis and a fourth doctor scarf while they're on their way to drama club.

Now also drop them in the middle of a small catholic school in Massachusetts in the early 2010s. Now try to pretend that this kid had any sort of social clout to get away with shit like that.

[cozycabineer]

Not sleeping with men does not make lesbians, aka female homosexuals, misogynists. Not sleeping with men is not misogyny. Lesbians do not have to sleep with men. It is great to be relieved and overjoyed that misogynistic, homophobic, society that views females as nothing more than reproductive resources hasn't successfully coerced you into "letting" a man rape you. It is great to not be coerced or forced to "let" a man rape you. No one is "twisting your words;" you used them clearly, precisely, concisely, and directly.

Every lesbian who has "slept with" (aka: "'consented' to sex with") a man was coerced. Coercion cannot be consent. Force is not consent, either. Successful coercion is rape; failed coercion is sexual harassment and often sexual assault.

We do not have to be raped to not be misogynists. We do not owe you being raped to be not deemed all misogynists.

A lesbian who has been raped, by method of coercion or force, is a gold star, just as a lesbian who has not been. A woman who sleeps with men because she's attracted to them is not a lesbian.

[fate-defiant]

I can't believe they put my boy Mytho "does fucked up shit to himself because his entire identity and self image relies on being loved(in the right way by the right people)" and my girl Rue "does fucked up shit to everyone else because her entire identity and self image relies on being loved(in the right way by the right people)" togehter in the same show and never did anything to meaningfully juxtapose and explore All That

[kathles]

you ever see the most stupid take about indigenous American history that makes you go "ohhhh this person has no idea what the fuck they're talking about" and then you look up info of their bio and they're literally white

[ffsg0jo]

with the whole imallexx situation im actually really disappointed that everyone knew he was abusing his ex to some degree but no one (except clarkey apparently) checked up on her and made sure she was okay whilst it was happening. sure you might not be close to the girl or know her well, but you know she's in a somewhat abusive situation, and you know she's clinically depressed. feel like it would've been basic human decency, but idkk.

[crossdressingdeath]

When Ketheric first met Gortash and Kyvir somehow Kyvir ended up killing Ketheric and Ketheric did his big intimidating "drop the weapon at their feet and tell them to try again" routine like he does with those goblins. Except Kyvir instead of being intimidated was like "Okay <3!" and killed him like seven more times before Gortash managed to make him stop. Their relationship continued in this vein. This may explain why Ketheric didn't give him a sword on deployment.

[anticutes]

character rant: junko enoshima isn't a sociopath/psychopath/narcissist. (a symptomatic analysis of junko's dysfunctional personality + bpd junko analysis)

over my course in the fandom i've seen my fair share of psychoanalyses of the danganronpa characters, especially of junko enoshima. what i most commonly see is the immediate relegation of junko as someone with aspd/npd because they perceive junko as being pure, unfathomably and methodically evil. i commonly see people say that she's heartless and has no empathy for others- that her interest in others is feigned, her manipulation is a trait, and, most annoyingly, that she's "narcissistic" in the pop culture sense. which, if you take a look at how she behaves- almost bathing in the empathy elicited by the distress of both herself and others, the way she takes a legitimate interest in izuru kamukura, nagito komaeda, yasuke matsuda and naegi makoto, junko's consistent emphasis that she wants people to surprise her and prove her wrong and that she wants a fair challenge, which implies manipulation is not necessarily something that brings her pleasure/done for her own benefit, and her very evident suicidal, self-loathing tendencies, those interpretations, to me, just come off as very inaccurate.

putting this disclaimer in big red font: i don't believe that headcanoning junko to be aspd/npd is wrong fullstop. first of all, you can headcanon whatever you want! i don't actually mind the headcanons and i also do believe she presents a number of traits, but personally, i don't think she shares enough traits with either personality disorder in my opinion. my problem with this general consensus is how fandom often pathologizes a typical villain's motivation and behaviour as something innate- which more often than not perpetuates social stigma around those already stigmatized cluster b personality disorders.

under the cut is my own psychoanalysis of junko enoshima, and an alternate interpretation of junko's behaviour. i am not a professional, so please take all this with a grain of salt.

in cross-cultural psychology there are two types of behaviour to take note of: pathological behaviour displayed by a person, behaviour that is seen as dysfunctional across cultures, and culturally-sanctioned behaviour displayed by a person, which is behaviour that are cultivated by cultural background (socialisation, cultural beliefs, societal norms).

firstly, let's talk about boredom for a little bit, shall we? we love talking about boredom. it's enriching! also, a lot of people do not take her boredom into account when psychoanalyzing her, which pisses me off!

boredom on its own indicates a lack of engagement or interest in the world and oneself. chronic boredom requires a higher level of stimulation in order to become engaged. in a lot of psychological research about boredom- specifically, one's susceptibility to boredom, many call a chronic susceptibility to boredom a pathological trait, evidence of a disordered way of thinking (here and here for example). particularly, many who deal with an extended period of boredom are more willing to hurt themselves or others, engage in risky behaviour, and may even result in hallucinations and depression (here).

junko's boredom is a rather extreme manifestation of that susceptibility. what i find interesting, though, is that junko's susceptibility isn't really a pathological trait- in fact, junko's susceptibility, in context with the story and her talent... is actually understandable. it's not unusual to the world- she is essentially a human processor, able to take in large amounts of data and come up with a sizable number of predictions. to put it in an understandable comparison, she is reading a book in which she knows everything that is to happen in the plot. emotions such as surprise, anticipation, fear, she cannot feel at all because she knows what is coming. in conclusion: boredom is a behaviour that is influenced by the way she interacts with the world.

in a particular non-academic article (here) i was reading while researching on boredom as pathology, a social worker talks about how her client's apathy is a defense mechanism against emotional pain and discomfort. however, for junko- i believe that this i don't care defense, as hendel puts it, is not against emotional pain, but against boredom itself. because to junko, it's easier to not be affected by your lack of interest to anything; lack of emotional pain, by distancing yourself from it. this is why ryoko holds onto that mantra that "[the current situation] has nothing to do with her".

so, now that we have laid out boredom, i want to talk about junko's talent.

i think what intrigues me is that junko's talent as the ultimate analyst is not compared to other talents as much as it is compared to izuru's talent as the ultimate hope. not even yuto's talent as the ultimate spy is compared to ryoko's talent in the same way junko's is to izuru's, which gives me the impression that junko's talent is not like anyone else's. her talent is unnatural, to the point that the only comparable talent to hers is one that humans tried to make themselves. furthermore, the backstories of other danganronpa characters often talk about the character's hard work and meticulous cultivation of their inborn talents. junko stands out among the rest by having her state that she was born with this talent. she didn't need to cultivate it in the same way many people needed to, in an institution with teachers and instructors. most probably, this was something she had to learn how to yield herself. this gives us the narrative that there is no one else similar to her.

so, having defined a major cultural syndrome and pathological symptom, i want to display my table of both behaviours. the pathological column lists traits that remain consistent between junko and ryoko's characterisation, the culturally-sanctioned behaviour column lists traits that are only seen in junko enoshima. the uncertain column lists certain traits that could be either pathological or culturally-sanctioned, but have no clear origin.

having this table set-up, i want to talk a little more about her hyperintelligence- although this isn't an accurate, one-on-one real-life representation, i find that it shares some similarities to savant syndrome: a phenomenon where a socially/intellectually impaired person (as a result of a traumatic/congenital brain injury/defect, central nervous system injury, or a neurodevelopmental disorder) has incredible talent in specific domains, such as art, linguistics, knowledge/memory, maths, music, and visualisation, due to an extraordinary declarative memory. this phenomenon is commonly detectable in one's childhood. in junko's case, i think her ability to memorise and organise observable data such as speech patterns, body language, mannerisms, and be able to accurately predict what people will do next and future chain of events resembles incredible talent in the knowledge/memory domain.

in psychological research, savant syndrome is associated with a loss of function in the left anterior frontal lobe or the left temporal lobe that is compensated by activity in the right brain. and, interestingly enough, in this article (here), the negative emotions that one feels in state boredom is associated with activity in the right frontal brain area. although her boredom is environmentally-influenced, the level of her boredom could very much be influenced by overactivity in the right brain.

something that is also relevant in this meta is the fact that children with savant syndrome eventually began to 'live in a world of their own', spoke 'in the third person' [...] and had a lessened response to all endearments of friends (here), which brings danganronpa zero to mind and the constant reiteration of ryoko/junko 'living in [their] own world'. furthermore, despite the dubious canon state of danganronpa 3, junko's brief obsession with narration in both the anime adaptation and her referring to herself in the third person throughout the series also matches up with this observation. from this, we can infer that junko's brain dysfunction existed since childhood- and with junko stating she had felt this way from the moment of her birth, that it is very likely this dysfunction is congenital.

so, what are my own headcanons? personally, i believe that she has a frontotemporal brain defect (unspecified for the time being) which manifests as savant syndrome, and her response to that fits bpd more than aspd/npd. the rapid changes in not just personality, but self-esteem, the persistent pattern of unstable, intense relationships in her life, risky behaviour and impulsivity (especially suicidal behaviour), self-sabotaging behaviour (self-harm), chronic boredom and feelings of emptiness- all these specifics fit her to a t.

you could even argue that she has a fear of abandonment- although i feel that junko's reaction to abandonment and her attempts to isolate very unique due to her ideology of despair. i think she might fear it, and she might try to isolate by lashing out, but because of her belief in despair, that might make her feel good instead of scared.

i feel that most people perceive fear of abandonment as behaviour and beliefs in response to the tangible concept of being abandoned, either to prevent it from happening (excessively clinging onto others, the idea of 'leaving before they leave you') or protect one self from the idea of it happening (leading to preemptively avoid the concept by not creating connections altogether or pushing others away)- however, while researching on bpd, i found that this fear of abandonment can manifest as an obsessive preoccupation with (not) being alone- which can also result in paranoia. research also shows that being in familiar people's company limits the severity of paranoia (here, here)- and i think that junko is extremely obsessed with the idea of loneliness. in fact, i think she abhors the idea of being alone. i mean, she tried to connect with izuru kamukura, the person that the narrative constantly compares her to, through sharing her ideology and beliefs with him! one of her reasons for starting off the tragedy in the first place is because she wanted the world the feel the same way she always felt! which has always felt like an attempt at connecting with a world she had always felt distant from to me, a manifestation of her frustration with being so stuck in her mind all the time. i'd even argue that the killing game she put class 78 too was a twisted attempt to foster a genuine connection with them through despair! junko hates being alone. she has always been alone, and her vehemence for isolation and solitude is something that i believe also drives her character.

that's something i'll have to expand on in another meta, though! this is already 1.7k words lmao. in conclusion:

[gammija]

iiii dont think im gonna post much amagaday about this arc, because i don't enjoy the interpretation that jon was completely innocent in taking live statements, nor do i think basira or especially melanie were irrationally upset at him, and i know a significant amount of posts at least read as if people vehemently disagree

[anabetel35]

Okay but imagine that because Harumi was revived by the Overlord (technically the manifestation of evil itself) she gets stronger each time that discontent and malice gets stronger in the world and she grows weaker whenever the world is almost at peace. Which wouldn't be a problem for her before she was reanimated and before she found out about the origin od the Great devourer. But now that she realized just how wrong she was and now that she's making an effort to be good and kind the thought of helping the evil in Ninjago thrive is only an intrusive one. So she does her best to make the world a better place even if it actually harms her. Because she's trying to be good now. And thus the pattern of her attempts at being a good person/helping others physically hurting her continues.

[weareuniqueandimportant]

SCARY... THIS HAPPENED 2 TIMES...

[wispforever]

I really like your headcanon about Sasuke and Naruto finally getting together in the end, even after marrying women and having kids. Do you have any good fanfic recommendations that portray how it all plays out? I want something that's slow burn, close to canon, and not OOC.

So far, I've read "My Lost Himawari" and I think it does a pretty good job. Naruto and Sasuke are finally together! The author also nicely portrays resolution in Hinata and Sakura. Boruto, Himawari and Sarada are included too.

Side note, I've been listening to AI covers with Naruto's and Sasuke's Japanese voices singing Naruto openings and endings. They add another dimension to the SNS fandom. Amazing!

To be honest, I don't read a lot of fic, so I'm not the best person to ask. I enjoy a good read every once and a while, but college really exhausted that part of me. Hopefully someday, I can get it back.

At any rate, you're always welcome to read my fic I wrote about Sasuke and Naruto a while back. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I'll leave a link here for you, in case you're interested :)

The AI is impressive and sounds interesting, but just a reminder, that AI technology is currently harming a lot of content creators and artists, so we should all show our support by staying mindful of the bigger picture and keeping our endorsements at the minimum until all this shit is a little more regulated and there are laws in place to protect people's rights <3