The illusion of choice
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A lil comic about my tav Athy’s adventure with the tadpole gang 👊 let me know if you want too see more!
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Forbidden magic
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I love thinking about the fact that when you romance Astarion, like, actually start to romance him, you don’t have sex with him. At all. And it comes up in other interactions later on, like if you get propositioned by Halsin, Astarion checks if his lack of participation is a factor in your consideration? And if you mess with Mizora, similar thing. So it’s clear that since he confessed his true feelings, that part of your relationship pauses, as he requested. Because he’s got trauma and needs a gentle loving space to work through that to be intimate in a healthy way that doesn’t repulse him or taint your bond.
And I love that he gets that narrative because it’s such a rare option for a masculine character to experience sexual abuse and trauma and be allowed a chance to work through and heal from it. Especially if they’re young and gorgeous and virile like he is. He’s only 39 at his death/turning, he was so young, and Cazador treats him like a boy in so many ways while simultaneously using his adult sex appeal as a lure and a weapon to control him and destroy other lives through his body. It’s such an integral part of his abusive enslavement and I appreciate that choice for his story rather than a simple one of monstrous violence, murder, etc which is a more common trope for male characters.
So he’s coming from that place, and then he meets you and his default setting is to fuck you to secure his safety, his worth in your eyes. But if you show him true love and care, he starts to see a way to return that which is something he’s never been able to do before, but the sex complicates it suddenly. And you can just back off from it, give him the space he needs, make him feel safe to trust love and security isn’t bound to what he can offer you physically. It’s not bound to his body, his functions. It’s his personhood that you desire, his essence without strings attached, and he gets to learn that and trust it and grow it without pressure or judgement. Even the times after where you ask to kiss him feel so sweet, to check in with him on such a simple act of intimacy, where he gets his autonomy to consent.
And then, at the end of his storyline in the graveyard, when he’s reclaiming his life in symbolic and literal ways, that’s when he feels the most safe and in love with you, trusts you the most to care for him completely, and that’s when he initiates physicality again. And I just fucking love that for him. So much.
As a person who’s struggled with physical intimacy and learning I could have boundaries and need to take my time with stuff and my partner wouldn’t abandon me over it? Would stay even if I couldn’t promise to ever fulfill that part of our relationship again? The safety of that reassurance is everything, and it helps you find a way back to your body again, to loving it and wanting to share it with another. Because you get to choose when and how and anything offered is received with pure gratitude and admiration. And I love that Astarion gets that chance because he deserves to heal and feel whole again, to live fully without barriers. And you get to help him find that. It’s beautiful.
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there’s three types of people...
(Casca would fit just as well as the badass imo)
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Eyeshield 21 deserves a remake because I want to see...
That fucking badass threesome :
Shin and Sena as teamates :
The defeat of Seibu against Hakushu :
Mamori criyng for Hiruma :
All the best players in the same time for a game :
Sena and Monta’s conflit :
The awakeness of Kurita vs Gao :
Hiruma’s childhood :
Hiruma’s horrible injury during the final :
Mamori taking care of him :
Sena who defeats the real ES 21:
Hiruma’s despair :
Agon cuting his hair :
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C’mon !
Eyeshield 21 is and will always be one of the best manga about sport no matter what ! This is very injust that an incredible manga like this didn’t have the chance to get a nice animation …
ES21 is my favorite manga before naruto, the story is just super ! I hope they will continue the annimation until the real end of the manga one day…’cause this manga deserves it a lot..
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