White dungeon meshi fans sound like this to me:
It's extremely fascinating and frightening to me how hateful some of you people are towards shuro, a man who is clearly depicted as japanese, (a man who could look like me or literally any member of my family in real life) for being a normal, complex, and flawed human being.
Why do you single him out for getting frustrated with and mad at laios when chilchuck and marcille do the same literally all the time? What's the difference between them and shuro?
Why do you feel the unnecessary need to protect these white women from a japanese man?
Do you expect that this japanese man is inherently going to have some kind of ugly negative quality that has not been once hinted at canonically? Do you know what that's called? Because i do and it's fucking racism.
You people get scared the moment a character that is a person of color isnt a quiet little model minority or a sweet mammy archetype. You grasp at your pearls the moment they are revealed to have complex personalities and histories; when they feel negative, big emotions that are literally part of the human experience. Or god forbid, when they show romantic interest in a pure, helpless, little white woman.
And when a person of color stops behaving good and docile the way you want, when they decide that theyre not going to put up with a situation that makes them uncomfortable or miserable or RIGHTEOUSLY FURIOUS, they become the bad guy. As seen countless times in the medias demonizing depiction of the Black Lives Matter protests and even of black people who get punished for just living their lives. It happens so often i shouldnt have to reiterate it to you but it somehow keeps flying over your head.
And when that dirty, conniving, perverted, slant eyed, buck toothed, stumpy little japanese man understandably snaps at the white person you guys are projecting onto and all you see is this:
So dont be surprised when i say that id rather kill myself than entrust the safety of my oldest aunts and uncles or my youngest cousins with any of you who act like this. Im terrified of what could have happened if people like you worked at the facility that my great grandmother lived out her final years in. Would you have seen her as a wild animal that needed to be subdued too when she had one of her many dementia-induced violent episode?
I will not apologize for saying that i find it deeply disconcerting to see so many of you happily posting hateful vitriol or even about committing acts of violence against a man that looks like me, solely because he was experiencing his humanity
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I know there are so many dynamics with Camila that we won't get or if we do they'll be extremely brief, and I genuinely lament all of them, but one I think would be so fucking funny is her & Eberwolf
Like, come on! Look me in the eyes and tell me it wouldn't be hilarious!
Camila is a veterinarian who canonically loves & is fiercely defensive of animals, even the "unlikeable" ones. You're telling me she wouldn't take one look at Eber and go "Aw, what a cute cat friend :)" only for Luz to be like "Oh yeah, the Beastkeeping Coven Head, he's one of the cool ones that helped with the rebellion! He chewed through my handcuffs once!"
The following whiplash this poor woman goes through would be astounding.
"Wait a Coven Head?? You mean those managers of the covens Hunter worked with?? -- Wait CHEWED through METAL? -- WAIT HANDCUFFS??? MIJA WHY WERE YOU HANDCUFFED?!?"
Now imagine how much worse it'd all be if she saw Eber's teeth & claws look. Go from "Aw how cute :)" to "dear god wtf is that?!" real fast. Bonus is Eber's sense of humor is to be a bit of a bastard, so like, he would overhear Camila mutter something about him being cute, then he'd flash his fangs intentionally & laugh when she screamed.
Long story short, Camila is a veterinarian who loves animals & keeps a fossilized snake skin in a frame by her bed because Luz gave it to her, and Eberwolf is an exceptionally strange creacher of the Boiling Isles who looks like a cute bipedal hybrid between a kid & a fennec fox and doesn't speak with words. Where demons like Hooty would be horrific immediately & endlessly, Eber would initially appear cute & approachable only to steadily become more horrific with each revelation of his character.
I just think the veterinarian who loves animals & the beastkeeping beast demon would have some common ground yknow. After the initial hilarious introduction I mean
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Marty really just… loves Doc Brown, huh?
Like, they are best friends. Marty goes to his house a lot, and when Marty ends up in the past Doc is the first person he thinks about (which is really very reasonable) and is the person Marty spills his whole story to, because he trusts that Doc at any age will care about him, and he wants to prevent Doc’s death even if it does mean changing the future because Doc is more important to him than the timeline. And Doc loves him back! He even says at the end how much he’ll miss Marty for thirty years, and the hug! ;-; And fuck dude, I knew that the letter would end up taped together but seeing him pull out the taped up letter just made me so happy??
Back to the Future is just a movie about the power of platonic love, I think (especially since Marty’s mom kisses him and is like “Somehow, this feels wrong” which is definitely the mythical power of platonic love shining through)
But also, I really like when they’re on the phone and Marty’s primary concern is like “Where’s Einstein? Do you have Einstein? Is Einstein okay?” It’s super cute okay, he loves his best friend and his best friend’s dog and God dude the sheer amount of affection and trust he has where he lets a car going over 80mph drive right towards him in a parking lot, like I don’t know if I’d do that for my best friend!
Anyway, long story short, I think Marty and Doc Brown are just the best example of platonic soulmates in the world. I love how much they love and trust each other, you know?
I also love how fucking short Marty is like really, is he taller than anyone? How tiny is his girlfriend, to be shorter than him?? He is so tiny!! His dad is a giant, but he’s just itty bitty dude!!!
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today i discovered there's a pokemon called Klinklang and that is such a funny word it brought me immense joy so thought id share
it’s even better than that!! Klinklang is the final evolution of two other pokemon
the first one is called Klink (can you tell where this is going already? 😉)
then this guy(s??) evolves into… guess what 🥰 Klang!!
so their final evolution is just those two names mushed together, which is both incredibly stupid and a stroke of pure genius that will never be repeated
(also the japanese name is Gigigiaru, which is just a nice word to pronounce 🥰🥰)
also i love the bulbapedia entry
it “may be a combination of klink and klang” be so for real right now
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I truly can’t believe I have to say this but I am so so sick of some people my age (namely those who are tiktok users, and therefore are deeply influenced by “woke” stereotypes about queer people and queer identities that are often perpetrated on that site) telling me that it’s weird to talk about growing up as a female or about experiencing sexism because I’m not a girl? and that it either “makes it seem like I’m not really queer” when I talk about my connection to girlhood or that these things “shouldn’t concern me.” because they very much do and that’s such an ridiculous and inconsiderate thing to say.
I was afab and whether I wanted it or not I was treated like a girl and experienced childhood as a girl. I am not out to many people in my life and in their eyes I am a girl.
as a genderqueer person I still experience and feel very connected to my girlhood and the solidarity that I have among girls and women because of shared experiences despite not often identifying as a girl myself. this is because of many factors including socialization, oppression and personal identity. truly can’t believe most people I know (and quite a lot of people online as well) still don’t understand that the oppression I have experienced as a queer person who was afab and the oppression I have experienced being seen as a girl are interconnected and that we have to address multiple layers of discrimination simultaneously if we want anything to change. this is. not new information. I can’t believe people don’t get this.
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