. ݁₊ ⊹ short teruko okura analysis
— chapter 115 spoilers ahead !!
it now makes so much sense why teruko always preferred to stay in a child’s body. she never got to be a child, and now she’s trying to make up for it. but while she can revert her appearance to that of a child, she can never undo the mental scars of war that has aged her mind from a too early age. her childlike psyche and soul has been broken down since long ago. by acting in the overzealous manner that she so often get criticised for by the fandom, she gets a small taste of not only what she has lost—but the universal experience of youth and childhood she never even got the chance to share.
this is the fault fyodor sees in the existence of special abilities—they rob people of their humanity and lives. asagiri never misses an opportunity to show us how brutally and apathetically special abilities are weaponised, because i need people to throughly process the fact that teruko was only a few months old when she was thrown out to fight in war. mere children are robbed of their families and lives in order to be tools to be used at the whims of the government. yosano too suffered in a very similar manner.
and then at the very end teruko does not only die with relieved smile, unexpecting of what’s to come—but also staring up at what’s left of her captain who she respected and adored like no other. the same man who betrayed her loyalty and love and the world along with her for his own aspirations. the same man she had to drive his own sword through because no one else had the guts to do what was necessary. but ultimately—and most importantly—he was the man who saved her life.
fukuchi gave her a sense of belonging and provided a virtuous purpose to her mindless violence.
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my pseudoHTTE/imperial AU— thrawn adopts a young, orphaned ezra and enlists him as his personal skywalker boy. he gives ezra his orders and lessons, teaching him true patriotism, and the lothal son of man is groomed to sit at the right hand of power.
as an adult, ezra obediently serves thrawn, now emperor, commanding his army and establishing a Pax Romana of glory & culture in the galaxy. although thrawn is icy and manipulative, he is kind and beautiful (to everyone except ezra, look, listen, but don’t touch sexuality)
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Someone said “ I don’t walk away to teach people a lesson I walk away when I’ve learned mine” and I felt that.
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I’m actually serious about this, if at all possible, right now is a very good time to request queer books from your local library. Whether they get them or not is not in your control, but it is so important to show that there is a desire for queer books. I will also say getting more queer books in libraries and supporting queer authors are pretty fantastic byproducts of any action.
This isn’t something everyone can do, but please do see if you are one of the people who has the privilege to engage in this form of activism, and if you are, leverage that privilege for all you’re worth.
For anyone who can’t think of a queer book to request, here is a little list of some queer books that I think are underrated and might not be in circulation even at larger libraries:
Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright
The Perks of Loving a Wallflower by Erica Ridley
God Themselves by Jae Nichelle
IRL by Tommy Pico
The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers by Mark Gevisser
Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir by Kai Cheng Thom
Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser
Queer Magic: Lgbt+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World by Tomás Prower
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam
Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon
Hi Honey, I'm Homo! by Matt Baume
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Homie: Poems by Danez Smith
The Secret Life of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
The Companion by E.E. Ottoman
Kapaemahu by Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu
Sacrament of Bodies by Romeo Oriogun
Witching Moon by Poppy Woods
Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
Disintegrate/Dissociate by Arielle Twist
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir by Akwaeke Emezi
Peaches and Honey by Imogen Markwell-Tweed
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by Christopher Soto
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noticed a really fun detail. when hobie says "i'm not a role model", we get two photos of him and one of them is him flipping the bird at the camera and it's censored by a bird stamp. but what's funnier is that the stamp is upside down, cause y'know, he's flipping the bird. this movie just gets better and better ngl
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I’m sure we all want to fuck at least one of our mutuals…..
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