#so like to an extent this isn't technically productive towards my ends. but it is maybe productive elsewhere

[hua-fei-hua]

“there is no consensual definition of what emotions are, either in philosophy or in affective science.”

*passes out on the concrete*

#OH SO YOU'RE TELLING ME I HAVE TO COME UP WITH MY OWN THEORY OF EMOTIONS HUH FOR WHAT A FIC ABOUT PEOPLE WHO FALL FROM THE STARS #AND FALL IN LOVE WITH HUMANS AND THEN SAVE THE WORLD THROUGH THE POWER OF LOVE?? I GUESS SO HUH TIME TO GET OUT THE PENCIL N THE BRAIN CELL #花話 #i don't think this will actually even be addressed in-text i'm literally just making up a bad faith reader in my head #who keeps asking me to explain why certain parts of the story are the way they are #'why did you combine these emotions and not these ones? [questions related to spoilers]?' #and i feel the compulsive need to come up with answers for these things bc well. i wanna know too #so like to an extent this isn't technically productive towards my ends. but it is maybe productive elsewhere? #idk i have a bad habit of arguing with bad faith readers in my head when writing #it's paid off a few times! but it probably means i'm insecure in how people perceive me hahaha