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docholligay replied to your post “��Miracle romance”
(Also lbr I’m Usagi/Seiya trash)
SOMETHING I ALMOST SAID FOR THIS ONE IS I THINK THE IDEA MIRACLE ROMANCE TRIES TO GET AT IS “A LOVE THAT CAN DEFY ALL OBSTACLES” BUT LIKE YOU SAY, IT TRIPS ON ITS OWN CONCEPT OF DESTINY, AND USAGI/SEIYA ACTUALLY CAN HOLD THAT IDEA A LOT BETTER?
Love in spite of destiny instead of because of it is always more interesting to me.
Oooooo okay, let’s see.
I’m secretly very in the middle about it, and prefer other pairings, BUT I also sometimes feel a little defensive of it, because I think it’s the sort of thing that gets more shit than is warranted. I think it’s a lot like Twilight, where yeah, there’s tropes and things that it’s good to be critical of, and even have a moral objection to, but the reason it catches on is often not the material itself, but the fact that it’s a woman’s fantasy. And I don’t think that a lot of opinions that get put out there come from misogyny, but I think sometimes that the eagerness to jump on the bandwagon and agree with them is. It’s edgy and cool to be against it, to distance yourself from the girlish dream of heterosexual romance. Stuff like, “I wish this focused less on the love story and more on the girls supporting each other” gets echoed and twisted into “Wanting a boyfriend is dumb.” There’s a reason that happens.
MICHIRU EXISTS OUTSIDE OF HARUKA
MICHIRU DESERVES TO GET DEVELOPMENT AND FOCUS ON HER OWN AND NO VERSION HAS EVER DONE HER JUSTICE
I WOULD KILL A MAN FOR A MYU WHERE MICHIRU GETS HER OWN SONG
I WOULD ALSO KILL A MAN FOR MICHIRU TO HAVE HER OWN ANIME EPISODES.
MICHIRU IS THE STRONGEST CHARACTER IN SAILOR MOON, AND HER STRENGTH IS NOT DEPENDENT ON HER GIRLFRIEND. MICHIRU IS HER WHOLE OWN PERSON.
ALSO I LOVE HER
OH MAN THIS IS THE ONE I HAVE TO START WITH
My unpopular opinion is that Steven Universe… is a cartoon. It is a cartoon that sometimes pushes boundaries and does some good, but it’s just a cartoon, it’s not the holy grail of television/lgbt rights/whatever and it’s not some demonic hell show sinisterly promoting ~problematic~ ~toxic~ ideals.
it’s a cartoon. it’s important to people (including me!), but it is not and cannot be perfect, and taking it so seriously is just… off putting. (I don’t mean seriously as in theorizing or analyzing or even critiquing, I mean casting moral aspirations on people who respond/react to things certain ways, or expecting the show to align with the exact minutia of your beliefs and ideals. )
Bonus points if you include a topic. ( IE. shipping, roleplaying, ect. )
Me: the world is awful
CN: *has a line of Ruby/Sapphire merch with a small part of the profit going to the Trevor project*
Me: the world is still awful, but also a little bit wonderful
Sorry I’ve been so inactive, job whining below the cut
Lately I’ve felt like I’m just… treading water with job stuff. For a while I really believed I was moving up, but it was all false assumptions (that I would get a raise, that the company would have good policies, that my coworkers were able to live comfortably because of their jobs and not in spite of them).
I’m in a spot of a lot of privilege, for a handful of reasons, but ultimately none of them make up for income, and that’s besides how unhappy my job makes me. And I don’t know what to do, because nothing seems any better. More school would just mean debt, and my existing job prospects are just what I do now, or retail (I would love retail, honesty, if it were more humane. But as I discussed with my wife, my current job makes me very unhappy, but allows me to take care of myself, while retail made me happy but prevented care (sleep, planning more than a few days ahead, etc) so it made me more depressed.)
And it’s not a unique problem to me, but like. My wife and I are thinking about a kid, and it’s honestly almost impossible with where we’re at. And that’s so devastating? I just feel so trapped. I’m trying to pursue more things, in finally trying to learn to code, I’m applying to jobs still and I’m looking at stupid internet side gigs, and it all just makes me feel worse. And I know it’s hard on my wife, because they can’t work right now, and they feel guilty, and ugh.
I just want jobs to be fair, and nothing really is. And that’s life, but, you know. I’m a whiny millennial.
Management is all up in arms because a temp “unexpectedly” quit on a dime
But this was after they dodged questions about fully hiring her, hired every temp besides her and told them all to keep it secret, and then blew the whole thing by handing out new employee badges right in front of her
Of course she was gonna quit you dumb fucks and I’m damn glad she arranged it to cause as much trouble as possible
A little while back, my wife’s brother gave us their old family wii, so I’m finally playing Skyward Sword seven years late
And I’m having a blast while trying to learn the motion controls, but also I accidentally killed a butterfly and I can’t tell if I’m delighted or horrified that it’s a thing you can do
awashsquid replied to your post “The FINALE of HaruMichi BatB is here! I hope you enjoy, please comment…”
This is beautiful and I absolutely love it, also a special thank you for making sure Usagi is noted as being chubby bc I have STRONG love for that! Favorite line is how Michiru recognizes that she and Haruka have in common their self loathing and makes a wry comment about it. How she isn’t shutting her out any more. This was such a great AU Sam!
Thank you so much!!! (I, too, have a lot of feelings re: chubby Usagi, and it was really fun to write her physicality at the end.)
rhiorhino replied to your post “The FINALE of HaruMichi BatB is here! I hope you enjoy, please comment…”
I’M AT WORK BUT OH TRUST I HAVE FEELINGS ABOUT THIS
AHAHAHA I’VE BEEN THERE, RHIO. I’ve had to ban myself from sneak-reading fic at work. But thank you so much for reading this!!
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