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Emilia is completely justified as seeing Subaru as being an entitled jerk who is making a spectacle of her while breaking her trust multiple times over.

Julius is also justified in being moved because Subaru's desperation to be a worthy knight reminds him of himself, in a way he can't express because he's bound to title.

But I really do think it would be interesting if they ever talked about it. Can you image?

The overwhelming majority of them never seem to listen to Ukrainian voices. Or, if they do, it's always: "We understand you're at war and going through a lot, but that's not what this is about".

I've noticed that these trends always become especially active whenever Ukraine is not only defending itself but also fighting back. Russia suddenly needs to restore cultural empathy towards "uwu poor ordinary Russians" — who, in most cases, were perfectly fine with what their fellow citizens were doing or simply didn't care. Now they're crying over the packages they lost from Wildberries while we've been burying our people for years.

But every single time I still can't get used to this level of indifference and hypocrisy. These same people would defend their favorite artist even if they walked out wearing an "I love Russia" t-shirt, insisting that it somehow wasn't support for Russia and that Ukrainians were just overreacting. Or they'll passionately defend a fictional Russian character while bullying real Ukrainians.

Since 2022, I've only become more disappointed in much of the Western left. We simply don't fit into their understanding of war, genocide, discrimination, or the victims of centuries of imperialism and colonialism. So, to them, we're just annoying people from an uninteresting country.

Their feminists don't care about Ukrainian women.

Their LGBT activists don't care about Ukrainian LGBT people.

And I don't even want to start talking about the Crimean Tatars. They're an Indigenous Muslim people who were forcibly deported from their homeland by the Soviet Union and have now, once again, almost completely lost their home in Crimea, where Russians are being settled instead. Many of those who remain are abducted or sentenced to impossibly long prison terms under horrific conditions. You would think this is exactly the kind of story this political camp always claims to stand for — but you almost never hear them mention the Crimean Tatars at all.

I used to believe that Ukraine's history and struggle naturally aligned with the values many on the Western left claim to defend. But with every passing year, I believe that less and less. At this point, I'm starting to doubt that even with enough time, our story will ever become something they genuinely care about.

I'm trying to see the good in people. I really am.

But I don't know.

I cannot express to you how FAST it has gone. I grew up in a world that does not exist now. We're starting on the path to reverse it, globally. You might not know how much solar has EXPLODED in the last decade or two. It's gone from a side thing, a weirdo novelty that was just Not Viable... to whole countries investing in infrastructure. but we have to keep fighting big oil and fascism everywhere we can in order to keep on this road to a new better less scorching burning earth.

Everybody wants to hear about my ocs

I know my oc's lore and can put it coherently into words

My ocs are amazing

I can always give them more Issues and Tribulations

Everybody loves my oc's Issues and Tribulations

My ocs are the most beautiful blorbos on earth

What if there were two people who loved each other so much that they would literally always die for each other and one of them knew that. The two of you literally care about each other so much that in every possible future, you never get to be happy. Love so powerful that one of you will have to die, sooner or later.

And one of you does.