something I’ve been thinking abt is how many people think Makoto is immune to despair. I don’t think he is. I think becoming the ultimate Hope was BECAUSE he felt despair. He wouldn’t have fully reached that point without Junko. Makoto becoming such a beacon was his last attempt to avoid completely falling and it wasn’t because he didn’t feel despair, it was because he was too damn stubborn to allow everything to go to waste and he refused to sacrifice his beliefs for someone else’s. His inner monologue tells me he DID experience the same new low the other suvivors did in the final trial, but at the point where he had the choice to give up and die, he looked at the others and he looked at Junko and he couldn’t allow it to happen, not out of self preservation, but because the idea that Junko would have control over their lives made him FURIOUS. and that utter refusal to die kicked in, wether luck or otherwise, and he made the concious effort for one last push while something in him was breaking. He had to be broken in order for the Ultimate Hope to come through so aggressively, bc it could only exist in the face of the Ultimate Despair. He snapped the same way she did, but in the other direction. In what could have been his final moments he chose to embody everything Junko wasn’t, and every single optimistic and luck fueled ideal in him suddenly charged forward and pushed him. It was a combination of the final straw and a choice. Makoto isn’t immune to feeling despair, he’s just too stubborn to fall into it of his own volition. I think that’s why I like that scene in DR3 so much. People were SO SHOCKED Makoto actually fell for the tape, that he actually became despair for a moment. I saw people getting mad or disappointed, saying it was pathetic and Makoto seemed to fall from some sort of pedestal for them. Honestly part of me wonders if that sort of mentality, which clearly people had in universe, affected Makoto a bit. Like he started to see himself as less of a person, subconsciously. Prompting him to take more risks, less self preservation, act way more bold. It seems he has to be reminded a lot not to put himself in danger by his friends, to not do something too reckless. All over the place I would see in regards to that scene either this frivolous ‘oh this was just angst drama with no meaning behind it’ or ‘he can do better than that. he’s so weak’ or ‘come on, there’s no way he’d fall into despair, he’s the Ultimate Hope!’ This kind of mentality, which was kind of ironic considering Ryota was there the entire time saying the same thing and treating Makoto the same way. Like Makoto was superhuman. Like Makoto didn’t feel despair the same way ‘normal people’ did. In a way that was also how Munakata saw Makoto. Makoto stopped being a PERSON to the world when he became Ultimate Hope, he became a concept, a belief system, much the same way Junko ascended beyond herself. But the difference is that treating Makoto that way is the opposite of the reason Makoto became such a representative for hope. He wasn’t doing something no one else could. He was doing something everyone had the chance to, he just… was a little more optimistic, a little more stubborn, a little more ‘gung-ho’ about things. He just took the lead where no one else did, where no one else knew they even COULD in the face of Junko’s unstoppable force. She had overcome the biggest threats and obstacles in the world, what could one person do? And the answer Makoto found was, anything. Everything. It doesn’t all rest on Makoto, he’s just the one that was inspired to try to do what seemed like the impossible. But as evidenced by the change in his friends after that trial, it’s clearly not something only Makoto is capable of. The others pulled out of despair thanks to Makoto, but it was their choice to do so.
“But… this world is so huge, and we’re so small. What can we do…? No, we can probably do anything. Yeah! We can do anything!”
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the notes on the queer sam poll are so interesting (derogatory) because the straight sam truthers mostly say some variation of “sam has never fucked or wanted to fuck a man in his life” whilst queer sam truthers are mostly mentioning asexuality/aspec identities, trans/nonbinary headcanons, and trauma and identity struggles. which is to say that of course the people in the poll who actually give a shit about sam winchester are (in general) the people who have internalized the idea that “queer” is a much broader, nuanced thing than just saying “he doesn’t to want to fuck dudes.” of COURSE. and i will never understand how Loud people love to be about hating sam so much.
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Kinda hate that post that was going around like “let women in punk sound like shit again” and then lists trans women as women who allegedly sound like shit. Like I get it’s supposed to be in a positive sense, but something rubs me the wrong way about it. You’re really gonna describe the voices of plenty of incredibly talented artists as sounding like “shit”? You think trans women’s voices sound like shit? Do you listen to yourself when you talk? You could have said rough, could have said passioned and strained, lots of other words but we’re all spreading the post that calls it shit?
I love women in punk. There’s no “letting women sound like shit again” about it. Women in punk TODAY are as passionate as they’ve ever been. Women are still screaming into their mics dripping with raw emotion. They’re still there, they haven’t gone anywhere. Stop listening to pop punk maybe.
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i feel like some english people genuinely don’t even know that there are scottish people who can only speak scots and not english. like you do realise that a lot of people grew up only speaking scots and have never spoken anything else and they can’t just switch it off when someone doesn’t understand them
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