#learn for its own sake

[chopins-funnybone]

In Dark Academia’s overall Eurocentric obsession with the classics I think it’s an ironic shame that most people dabbling in classics via this subculture glaze right past the academic movements of the rest of the world, in particular the majesty of the Islamic Golden Age.

If your interest in literature is earnest and the bud was birthed from an internet aesthetic I cannot recommend strongly enough that you nurture it properly and venture outside of Europe for a little bit, the wisdom to be found from all cultures is overwhelming.

#dark academia #eurocentrism #dark academia criticism #internet aesthetic #intellectualism #it’s not enough to say you’re an intellectual #nurture your brain #learn for its own sake #set the aesthetics aside #you deserve it #aesthetics

[bonetrousledbones]

so when are we gonna start appreciating undertale AUs for fueling a metric fuck ton of the creativity and longevity of the fandom because if i see one more person calling them the cringiest part of the last 8 years i might lose it

#trousled rants #been feeling a bit salty about this for a while but im letting it out now because i Can #but its insane seein ppl say “oh the fandom's mellowed out a lot its way more peaceful now” and agreeing bc it IS #and then “yeah now that AUs aren't so popular anymore its way more bearable” and its like :) okay #and if i told you that fan game you've been talking about for the past month is an au. what then #sighsghs its just like man i GET that a lot of aus are just edgy for the sake of it but shit dude!!! people were just having fun!!!!! #a lot of them were an avenue for ppl learning how to make their own stories!! even if they're not perfect or in character #making a shit ton of papyrus aus is one of the main things that helped me realize how much i love character design #and i KNOWWWW i'm not the only one and youre trying to tell me that's not awesome as hell!!!!! #yeah i probably i have nostalgia glasses but maybe i do kinda miss when everybody was a bit more insane actually . maybe i do #undertale

[dropthedemiurge]

Love for Love's Sake | Things You Didn't Notice #4 | Fight with Homophobes

Honestly, I wanted to dissect these scenes right away but then we got the rest of the show uploaded and the emotions overshadowed me. But now we're diving into informal Korean speech, swearing and slurs! It's going to be a fun post, let's go :D

Disclaimer: I'll be writing down both English and Korean slurs strictly in educational manner, obviously.

"Fuck. You two are always so fucking close together. (to Myungha) Are you also a faggot (homosekki)? Wow, Kyunghyun's skills are so good." "Why are you so vulgar? What's wrong with being homo?" "You're really crazy. Are you criticizing me?" ... (Myungha kisses Tak Junho) " Ah fu— You damn faggot!" "We both kissed. I'm not the only one who's homo. You're homo too~" "You did it yourself, you faggot!" "Ah, our Junho keeps saying 'homo'. Tss, slurs are forbidden." "Shut up, you faggot." "If you call me homo one more time, I can steal your lips for real. (Junho is silent) Ha, afraid you'll be robbed?"

Honestly, I like the translation in subs this time, I just wanted to give you a more technical version (and to show you the difference, because in Gaga subs the f slur is also used by Myungha but it's not exactly that)

So, as far as I noticed, the slur in Korean is a derivative from the term "homosexual" - thanks to the similar sounding, it became "homosekki" (from sekki - asshole, bastard, bitch etc). This is the word Junho keeps using in almost every sentence. And the socially accepted common term is now "gay" (at least, the cast and couple from Korean reality dating show "His Man 2" refers to themselves as 'gay' and not 'homo').

Myungha uses the original term, just "homo", which also gained a negative connotation but doesn't include a 'sekki' swearword. So he keeps saying "homo" to talk back in the language Junho used, only less derogatory. We'll see later but it's amazing, because both Myungha and Sangwon confidently used this word about themselves (Sangwon even went further and proudly reclaimed the slur itself).

Still, Myungha did threaten gangster Junho not to even call him "homo" or any similar terms. And here's the moment which made me laugh: in the next scene with Sangwon, Junho was angry ranting about Myungha, but he caught himself using the slur "homosekki" and quickly changed to the modern and neutral term "gay". LOL

Which is what Gaga subs failed to show it to us. Again, let's see more technical translation:

"I'll go after Tae Myungha and Ahn Kyunghoon soon, just so you know. Those fa– Those gay bastards must die. That fucker Tae Myungha kissed me in the lips, shit. Isn't it fucked up? It was disgusting." (Sangwon, pouting) "Wow, really? It must've been nice." "Jeez, you asshole. You're not a victim so you dare talking shit." "I'm being serious, though?" (Junho, appalled) "What the hell are you talking about? You're not a faggot." "I am a faggot, though?"

One, why is it so funny that the first reaction Sangwon had, hearing about Myungha kissing someone in a fight, was: awww :( i wish it was me :((( you so lucky :((

Second, it's hilarious how the gangster ends up the ONLY person who ever uses nice and modern term "gay" once in this show because our protagonists both hit him back with the derogatory terms (Sangwon even attached the slur to himself, when he only liked girls before falling in love with Myungha at first sight, what a legend).

Let's wrap it up with slurs and check out another small detail: informal speech in Korean.

(Sangwon to Myungha)"Why would we fight here?" (Yeowoon to Sangwon)"Hey, watch your tone (don't use informal speech)" "Was I talking like that with you?" "Talk curt (informally) only with me." "I'm already being curt (talking informally) with you."

This one is definitely a cultural thing that always gets lost in translation (but "being curt" is a nice way of putting it). There are two general styles of speech in Korean: Formal (존댓말, jondemal) and Informal (반말, banmal). Of course, it's a lot more complicated in the language, but I'll paint briefly the differences that are pointed out in the scene.

I talked in previous posts about properly addressing your senior in korean (usually by title/position). To convey respect to your senior, you also use 요 (yo) at the end of the sentences – and both Sangwon and Yeowoon talk politely to Myungha. UNTIL Sangwon uses the rude version of a question, without polite ending ("Why would we fight here?"), to which Yeowoon protests and tells Sangwon that it's banmal, informal speech, and he should only use it with him.

Because with your friends, same age people (Yeowoon and Sangwon in this case) or people younger than you, it's normal to use their names with different intonations (Think Myungha's "Yeowoon-ah, Yeowoon-ie") and talk informally.

(Yeowoon to Myungha) "I asked who it was." "You're being curt (that's an informal speech)".

Fast forward – Yeowoon loses patience and demands Myungha "I asked who it was", question without polite ending as well. To which Myungha cheekily says "that was an informal speech", reminding Yeowoon of his own remark to Sangwon.

Fast forward again – and now I have to take back my previous statement from another post that Yeowoon never called Myungha by his name because I found the rare case of him doing it xD

"Tae Myungha is so frustrating." "You're speaking informally more often these days."

Again, a youngster! calling his senior! by his own name! Not using the polite ending! The horrors of informal speech. He's not being too rude but he's sulking therefore he's rebelling. Though I can swear, again, Yeowoon hears Myungha's scolding and resorts back to speaking politely, and from now on, he'll keep using 'senior'.

If you survived until the end of this post, congratulations! The second half probably wasn't needed but in case you're learning Korean or you want to know why these seemingly normal phrases are being considered "curt" out of nowhere, I hope you understand it now a little bit better :)

// Previous messages translation + other language moments here //

#love for love's sake comments #watch me writing my own course Learning Korean with Kdramas on tumblr #but that fight dialogue scene was just perfect i couldn't resist #the exchange and usage of different terms was funny and the scene was hilarious on its own #sangwon and myungha are my heroes #love for love's sake #love for love's sake meta #bl meta #korean bl #korean drama #love supremacy zone #dropthemeta #korean language #linguistics #language

[starry-bi-sky]

i made a rough timeline for the clone^2 au, just for my own convenience sake when dating things. some things might be out of order from the episode date, and thats also for my convenience.

September 3rd: Danny, age 14, has the accident in the lab that turns him liminal

September 10th: Danny is discharged from the hospital and given two weeks leave from school

September 24th: his sick leave ends, and Danny returns to school

October 14th: Danny sneaks into his parents' basement and releases the ghosts they have trapped in cages. Official birth of the vigilante, Phantom

November 27th: Danny fights Pariah Dark, and wins

December 24th: the Ghost Writer torments Danny

February 12th: Danny's 15th birthday

March 3rd: its been six months since Danny's accident

March 7th: Danny fights his evil future self

May 8th: Danny meets Ellie [age 15] and they become twins

December 14th: Danny finds out from his parents that he's a clone

February 12th: Danny's 16th birthday

Early-Mid April: Danny meets Damian [age 6] :)

Mid-Late April: Damian runs off for the first time, damages Danny's hands the first time

May: Damian runs off two more times in the span of three weeks, he damages Danny's hands both times.

Early June: Damian runs off one more time, damages Danny's hands again, resulting in permanent nerve damage.

Mid-Late June: Damian finally gives up on the League coming to get him and joins the Fenton Family.

July: Damian finally coaxes Danny into letting him come along with him on patrol: Wraith is born.

#danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc #dpxdc crossover #clone^2 #danny fenton is a clone #this only focuses on the earlier parts of the au because those are most important imo. figuring out when danny's accident was. when he #became phantom. when he met damian. etc. is all pretty important stuff and helps me figure out ages beyond '10 year gap' #not super important stuff to much anyone else i think but its nice to have it written down as reference #i usually put danny's accident as happening at the beginning of the school year. tis convenient that way #me: hmmm when do i make danny find out he's a clone. beginning of the school year makes the most sense right??? #me:....or.... i could ruin his christmas again :) #thought about increasing the amount of times damian runs off but... thats a LOT of time he's run off and i didnt want to go overboard #same thing with danny's hands. thought about hurting him more frequently but honestly taking a blade to the hand is already damaging enough #on its own. catch a blade with his hands four times would be enough to cause permanent nerve damage and also he would have learned his #lesson if it happened more frequently. #so damian runs off 4 times in the span of essentially 2 months #and four times danny catches his blade. three times he got cut. one time he needed stitches #anyways thats the timeline for now. made totally for convenience sake and no other reason #totally dont look at my google docs there’s nothing there but half forgotten wips and cfau master doc

[storytellering]

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#Can't believe I even have to say this but unfriendly reminder! #if you reblog my shit just to be rude in the tags expect to be blocked! #like literally i dont give a shit about trolls antis whatever. online people will be online ppl whatever #but people being needlessly rude about strangers' art boils my blood #whether its my own or anyone else's #you do know that artists see your tags when you reblog our posts right? #you're not yelling in an echo chamber with your buddies. #if you wanna make fun of my art in private with your friends i literally don't care nor can i stop you #but for god's sake learn some basic fucking decency #signed: an artist very tired of seeing how needlessly rude and cruel younger people are about art in this day and age #it's not fucking cool to clown on someone's art/style to their faces and if you think it is you need to be taught a harsh lesson #also social media is way more public than you think it is #learn to use fucking gc's and dm's people #don't you have friends you can yap to

[bingobongobonko]

ngl i forgot from who blog i yoinked this from, but was a veryyy good read.

#fool's monologue #its true honestly #i feel like the way ive been taught to read its been in terms of academics and getting the best grade #rather than like. Yk #Reading for the sake of learning whats being told to you + deciding what to take from smthing based on YOUR own thoughts and knowledge

[metanarrates]

mulling over my reading today some more. it's such an interesting angle to take for jhw's paradise arc to culminate in her choosing her own life over thousands. it would have been a very easy angle to have jhw object to becoming fertilizer on moral grounds - I mean, she JUST saw the evil at the heart of paradise. while it's true that her sacrifice would have saved people, it would make a lot of sense for her to say "no, I don't want to uphold an unjust system. I will find a way to save them anyway."

and while that is definitely part of her objection...

the strongest choice, as always for orv characters, is to value one's own survival. live with the consequences, even if they are terrible. it is not cowardice.

she believes fully in kim dokja's resolve to find a way out.

#nic's great orv reread #orv is not a blindly optimistic story! it recognizes that there are real costs to this kind of choice #and yet it believes there's something worth struggling for anyway. even when bearing the horrible moral costs of other people's deaths #its interesting how this is like the exact inverse of yjh's arc right now too... he is learning to sometimes put his own gain aside #for the sake of other people

[fishnchip3011]

everytime i actually open up sdv to play i get flashbanged with sebastian's white ass sprites because i always forget not everyone sees him as wasian💔 my current hc for him is half chinese (liable to change... but ik for sure he's half asian) but he is Not bilingual he can't rly speak or write the other language he can only understand it when listening but even then he's not very fluent LOL this is just turning into a sebastian hc post might as well go full out. to me sebastian Does have relationship experience but has been thru shitty ones in the past which is part of the reason why he's so pessimistic & brooding </3 and he'd hook up with ppl in zuzu city for a night for a while but it just made him feel shittier so he's stopped since ☝️ also people make him out to be way cooler than he actually is like yea sure he's kinda cool but he's also a Massive Loser especially when he tells you how he hates "seasonal fads" like pumpkin spice and that one line about the potluck soup where he's like "Why ruin the potluck? Hmm... I guess some people feel liberated when the rigid structures of society break down a little. Maybe I'm weird.” WHO ASKED😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 his ass also can NOT cook he can make spaghetti but it's mid. he probably has low ass stamina and yeah he's tall and lanky (rn i see him as around 5'9-5'10) but you could snap him in half over your knee. when he's in an actually healthy relationship he gets really flustered over certain romantic gestures cuz he's not used to feeling valued or being considered someone's #1. he picks up on little things and does acts of service but i also think he can be really callous and insensitive at times because while he can be pretty perceptive he is also Very Emotionally Stunted. he unlearns lots of unhealthy behaviors & mindsets with the help of his partner & family & friends ^__^

#i almost popped a vein trying not to mention rowan in all of this so this post is more. consumable i guess #but rowan to me is soooooo perfect for him to me because rowan's whole thing is empathy and warmth #where it's a strength but also a weakness for him because he's also a chronic people pleaser and a doormat #out of the need he feels to make people feel valued which is a good thing but not when its to the point of self negligence #rowan gives rly good advice but overburdens himself cuz he feels responsible for ppl&doesnt give himself the same treatment he gives others #when he's with sebastian he helps him feel valued and sebastian learns to trust people more and not to immediately assume the worst of ppl #and seb is sooooooo perfect for rowan bc seb is vocal about what he dislikes and when hes not happy w something/one #and is good at setting boundaries whereas rowan is Not. he helps rowan learn how to say no to ppl and be more assertive #& think abt his own feelings more! they both help e/o vocalize their feelings #for rowan its vocalizing his opinions more and valuing himself more & for seb its vocalizing more for the sake of better communication #w other ppl so he can establish better trust & relations w ppl. and stop being so closed off/unapproachable LOL #their differences match up well but it also leads to arguments/tension cuz seb doesnt communicate and resorts to avoidance #and rowan is too pliant sometimes to the point where it hurts not just himself but the ppl around him including seb #also fun fact rowan is the type to cry when he gets really angry/upset & when seb resorts to avoidance instead of reassurance #(which is what rowan wants) rowan sometimes ends up catastrophizing & also bottles up his emotions similarly to seb #they always reconcile in the end tho even if it takes a while </3 they r both learning ok!!!!!!!! #not perfect to the point where they dont argue bc thats Impossible but they suit each other well. they r good for each other qwq #eon babbles #stardew valley #farmer rowan #<- i talk about him in tags. hehehe

[liquidstar]

I'm glad the "Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize" meme is getting critiqued in its usage because... While the sentiment itself is absolutely true... I feel like sometimes, perhaps, it's not a work of fiction's fault that you're personally bad at picking up on satire

#im thinking about how i saw a person say futurama is bad because bad things still exist in the future #and its like. thats the point though? #the joke is literally the idea that if we never learn and grow from these problems as a society these are the hyperbolic extremes #that they would come to etc etc #do i think it was all well handled? probably not. it had a 14 year run im sure it fumbled lots of stuff and has shit that doesnt hold up #but i feel like dismissing it entirely based on just- #''but bad stuff happens. and i want the future to be better so this bums me out'' is just dumb LOL like thats literally the point #theyre taking the problems of today and making them into crazy hyperbolic extremes to mock them THATS WHAT SATIRE IS #there is a clarity of purpose youre just bad at picking up on it. NIXON WAS THE FUCKING PRESIDENT IN THAT SHOW FOR CHRIST SAKE #WHAT ELSE DO YOU THINK ''AMERICA'S FAVORITE SUICIDE BOOTH SINCE ****2008****'' COULD MEAN? #idk. this site is bad media literacy r us why take it seriously. but i am. bc its frustrating #bc that quote on its own is sooooo good at explaining why some ''satire'' is bad and doesnt work #but ppl who dont know how to engage w media beyond a surface level have taken it and turned it into like #''this is bad bc i didnt get it'' ok. sounds like a you problem. #but posting this is scary bc im afraid itll be used for the other extreme .-.

[peachdoxie]

Honestly I probably wouldn't find Taylor Swift nearly so annoying if it weren't for a large contingent of her fans thinking she's hotter shit than what Satan last shat.

#anecdotes by peachdoxie #like sorry! but i don't buy the 'authenticity' that so many of her fans claim she embodies #she's an artist with a good marketing team who found a certain kind of song to sing as her brand #then there's the other issues of 1) the amatonormativity of her music #and 2) the whole private jet thing #also no taylor swift is not a queer icon fuck off with that bullshit #actually that's probably the most annoying part #is people reading their own ideas onto taylor swift's brand and content #when that reading is pulled out of their ass based on asinine wishful thinking #its the same issue i have with people who do it to movies and tv shows and books as well #learn some basic media literacy for fucks sake

[babyloniastreasure]

one of my biggest pet peeves is how most digital art tutorial videos aren’t actually tutorials at all. its just the artist drawing and MAYBE talking about the fact that they’re Drawing Something

You click on a video called “HOW TO PAINT HAIR.” The thumbnail has beautifully rendered hair. You are inexperienced when it comes to rendering, and think this video may be useful. The video the artist says, ‘this is the brush i use :) for shadows i put a dark color on it :) then i add highlights sometimes :) thats how you paint hair!’

like bro you have not taught anybody anything. WHY are the shadows where they are. WHY are your highlights dispersed the way they are. WHY did you choose the colors you did. which way are you blending and why? how do you determine which edges you’re going to leave hard and which ones you’re going to leave soft, especially when there’s lack of contrast? talk about visible vs blended brush strokes! about back-painting! about things you learned as you went! about what NOT to do when you’re starting!!

It’s literally “How to draw an Owl. Step one: draw some circles. Step two: draw the rest of the fucking owl.”

#jask is rambling #its this kinda shit that makes me consider doing tutorials of my own #i LOVE learning other artists' methods. you can never stop learning and developing your craft so i watch art tutorials a lot #but for fuck's sakes. if i had a dollar for every time an art tutorial was actually a speed paint. i'd be able to pay rent #these people should never be teachers #aint teachin shit

[food-lover9000]

I think this is the time where I go back and try to research the fics of past and see what I liked about them and how they did things so I can try to know how to write yummy yummy fics slightly more then I currently do

#i feel like one of those people who grew up not having learnt to cook at all and suddenly needing the ability to cook #like for the sake of basic life skills and having to learn from scratch how to make things taste the way the yummy homecooked meals #that they are used to eating and like struggling immensely #writing fics for myself feels so different from what I have been used to all throughout my education and I am currently drowning #I am drowning and hopefully I’ll figure out how to float soon #anyways I’m tired and actually have no idea what I’m doing rn and probably won’t have the time anyway so oh well ig #i’ll just suffer with my thoughts #(also this is all bc I want to write abt being pet by Clarence so umm I- I’ll just leave and rest until my ailment cures on its own 😭) #anyways I have no clue what I am doing or talking abt and I wonder how I will react tmr morning when I may or may not read this #DJSNDBSBHENDANXHSBDHJEFHSBDJW

[worldblight]

who is your favorite one piece character. *staring intently no pressure no pressure no pres (⁠´⁠灬⊙⁠ω⁠⊙⁠灬⁠`)⁠♡

Idk some fucking guy that showed up on screen for a bit he was kinda cool

#luffy is a character that i feel everybody including the viewer is meant to kind of underestimate at first #to chalk him up to a naive fucking idiot that's gonna get himself killed by something more powerful because he overestimated himself #you keep waiting until he bites off more than he can chew #yknow you wait until he finally meets that match that makes him hesitate and think ''i'm not strong enough‚ i need to improve'' #like so many shonen do nowadays where the main character gets humbled by someone more powerful than the level they're at #but with luffy that just.... doesnt happen #no matter how fucking awful and horrifying the series gets sometimes and how high the stakes rise with more genocidal villains #luffy acts as the humanized force of unshakable freedom that cant be silenced for good #luffy is a protagonist but he is also an all-encompassing metaphor that seeps from every pore of the series #and i feel extremely strongly about what he represents and the way he can change YOU and make u feel the hope u thought u lost #he is a character but he is most importantly a vessel for a story that‚ at heart‚ wants you to laugh and dream and love unabashedly #he is not a mascot lil shonen protag created for the sake of telling the viewer ''killing bad! friendship important!'' #that motherfucker is built to inspire you to be shamelessly happy to fucking live and laugh and dream big idiot dreams #its hard to describe what he fucking Does to your brain to people used to consuming trash anime with basic niceguy protags #but luffy isnt just a protag. he is a feeling that you learn to adopt. but the depth of that cant be described until you feel it #its a shame people get so scared of the episode count because theyll never experience one of the most soul-changing series ever made #luffy is just one guy in a series full of characters so nuanced and fleshed out they could have their own damn shows

[batemanofficial]

hello upper middle class northern usamerican tumblr user. i want to play a game. you will notice that you are in a super america convenience store in rural kentucky - you have three minutes to purchase a snack and drink of your choice and make normal small talk with the cashier. however, if you use the word "cryptid" or generally make reference to appalachia and its inhabitants as "wild", uncivilized, or lacking restraint around alcoholic beverages during your time here, i will personally tie you to the chassis of a four wheeler and tip it into the river. live or die. make your choice

#speak friend and enter #i can appreciate mothman as much as the next guy but can we stop treating appalachia like it's the subject of a richard attenborough doc #i come from a long line of hillbillies and i like to think i've got a good sense of humor about it but sometimes i am tested #like. this is not a lawless land with a moonshine still in every holler and nameless voices in the woods!! this is a normal town!! #idk maybe i'm reading too much into it but i'm just tired of the cultural fetishization of appalachia by people who aren't from here #and who don't know anything about it. like yeah you know mothman and what hooch is and that's all well and good #but do you know what the opioid epidemic really is. do you know about the structural injustices that keep people like mcconnell in power #i'm not saying you have to apply dialectical political analysis to every issue that occurs in the region to be able to have an opinion #but also like. i'm tired of people looking at places like where i grew up and making them into things they aren't #like. on the one hand we have ''ooh spooky hills!! run if you hear the trees whisper your name'' #and on the other we've got ''isn't appalachia so depressing...so hashtag ethel cain core...shame it's got no value beyond aesthetics'' #and on yet another hand we have ''i - a person with no ties to the region - am going to take up the cause of every social issue #occurring across the entire appalachian region so the world will see just how bad these poor hill people have it. i am very smart'' #and like. it's frustrating #i'm not saying you should never speak about appalachia if something we have is interesting to you #nor am i implying that i want to gatekeep discussion of the region's issues to the community bc that won't accomplish anything #i'm just saying that like any place it's complex. it's got its good things and it's got its bad things. #and you shouldn't isolate the good from the bad or vice versa - especially if you don't know the context in which those things happen. #and for the love of god dont let your own ignorance cause you to boil down those issues into a reductive and inaccurate set of stereotypes #learn about us from us. not from tiktok not from movies and for christ's sake not from hillbilly elegy. i hate that fucking book #anyway that got weirdly serious but i mean it. putting appalachia as a talking point up on the shelf until y'all can speak intelligently #ok to rb

[thepetitemuse]

Maybe people don't have the lexicon and philosophical prowess to communicate their intentions and needs perfectly and maybe they stumble or use outdated/"problematic" vocabulary or whatever and maybe that still does not exclude them from aligning with whatever identity sits right for them. Maybe the expectation of ideological purity is like... really unhealthy.

#Im people #I mean I draw the line at exploitation and stuff #Racists should lose their jobs kind of thing #You can't not harm if you're preying on a group you hate #But like I saw someone get yelled at on reddit for using amab/afab and maybe they just don't know?! I didn't once upon a time? #Then someone nudged me and said hey have you read this? And I was like No friend ty for welcoming me in and that was that #Like how else do you learn and in your own community idgi? #But it always makes me self-reflect like damn I've also been the callout person & it's not a nice feeling either. The fight for fight sake #Idk I'm anxious rambling n here's my 2 cents @ myself call me a snowflake its OK #Back to the scheduled existential brightmare

[lesbiansanemi]

Every time someone uses last sunrise to talk about how much they hate shinobu I want to get out a spray bottle and repeatedly use it on them. Like no actually this fic is just as much a love letter to shinobu as it was to renkaza this is not a place for ppl who hate her this is a place where we come to discuss and understand her better

#I didn’t write shinobu the way I did in the fic because I hate her #(which anyone who knows me knows I obviously don’t hate her anyways) #I also didn’t write her that way for the sake of making her a ‘villain’ #the point was to push her character to the extreme and eventually break her and her intensively created mask in a highly specific way #it was to highlight her particular traumas and coping mechanisms #it was to better EXPLORE her #what she did to kyojuro was just as much about her own character development as his #I didn’t have her suicide attempt be thwarted in the last chapter specifically to torture her by making her live #(though it is true that part of her ‘punishment’ was being forced to live with the guilt and consequences of her actions) #Kyojuro stopped her suicide in that chapter because she needed to find peace and a happy ending whilst still being alive #just as much as kyojuro did #like that was the point. the point was that they both practically drove each other towards suicide #and they both needed to pick up the pieces and learn to live with everything they did/everything they went to #shinobu tortured kyojuro to the point of him wanting to die #and kyojuro tortured shinobu to the point of wanting to die #they BOTH had to live after that #IT WAS NEVER ABOUT HATING SHINOBU #not for kyojuro and not for the reader!!!!!!!! #I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again #ITS NOT A FIC FOR PPL WHO HATE SHINOBU #kaz rambles