the fact that hikaru often gets reduced in the fandom to nothing more than 'horse' jokes is something that's always stuck with me. it's a bit ironic, in a sad kind of way.
hikaru being 'the horse' isn't just some joke thrown in for laughs -- it's her coping mechanism; the way that she dehumanizes herself and creates a mental disconnect to separate herself from the things she does, and to place herself in the role of being a tool for yuna's use. hikaru may not necessarily want to kill people for promised blood's goals, but if yuna wants it, then the horse certainly does, can, and will.
it's not as great of a coping mechanism as she believes it to be -- it certainly does get her through the harder parts of life as a futatsugi magical girl, and it's become something of a personal playful nickname among the ranks of promised blood -- but it's textbook dehumanization. she's not thinking of herself as a human being, but instead as an animal, as a tool, a weapon. she cheerfully agrees when ao calls her an empty shell, grinning and chirping back that with yuna-san, she's full.
everything hikaru -- the horse -- does is for yuna. she's not her own person; she's not a person at all. yuna-san is promised blood's general, and a general needs her loyal horse. the horse won't need to feel guilty for the blood on her hands and at the tip of her saber at the end of the day. she was made to do this. she is not her own person; she's not a person at all.
all of this to say -- hikaru's character being turned into 'horse' jokes by a lot of the fandom is something i think about a normal amount.
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crying FOREVER i just had an egg sandwich that was so fire and i want another but i’m too lazy to make another egg
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as a rlly picky eater i feel like a lot of the "oh, you learn to like foods as you get older" is a lot more "you are now capable and willing to try foods that you hated in a different way bc it's more accessible to you now and bc you can personalize it" than "your body changed"
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pc players talking about missing the combat of dao and how good it is as if they don’t have twenty million quality of life improvements and still constantly use skip combat mods. you do not want dao combat again. you hate it. take it from a console player who is forced to endure dao as it actually is: you do not want this again. you are not playing dao and you can’t even begin to understand how little you know it nor how good you have it
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🖊Xavier usually doesn’t eat breakfast, and Storm would have breakfast for every meal if they could
Oh yeah. Xavier is a breakfast skipper, much to Storm's chagrin. The most he eats is like a granola bar, and that's an uncommon occurrence. And yeah, Storm is a breakfast food enjoyer! But specifically like, steamed buns. Chinese breakfast foods and the like. They definitely would eat those for every meal if they could. Sometimes they do!
From this ask game <2
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Sorry for being so inactive lately. I have a new job. I think it’s going pretty well but it’s just a lot of information and a totally new sleep schedule that I haven’t gotten used to yet. I’m feeling pretty zombie ish after work. Hopefully I’ll get into a flow with things, but it’s probably going to be taking a lot of my mental energy especially since it’s retail and it’s Christmastime.
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i know it's 1am rn but I am thinking about my favorite breakfast recipe, which is a really soft french-style scrambled egg poured over rice that's been seasoned with furikake, sesame oil, and soy sauce, and then u put more soy sauce and furikake on top of the egg and go absolutely fucking wild on it
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next time you make scrambled eggs make them with thyme, nutmeg, lots of black pepper, and salt.
I don’t care about HOW you scramble them because that’s far more personal and I’m not your dad, but personally I like big curds that’re mostly cooked. the flavor combo is what matters. feels so fancy + is so good.
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