homeowner's guide to mildemount

i know that those miki/anthy/utena study sessions were annoying as fuck.. it warms my heart to imagine them. miki starts off trying to actually help utena and anthy learn prealgebra or geometry or whatever and utena is imagining edits of her playing basketball and anthy cheering her on (dead wife style) and anthy learned all of this like decades ago so is folding all of her homework into animal origami. but also miki is being like at least a little bit condescending about it && anthy already knows it and utena like generally understands it and doesnt need it broken down that much she just needs to practice it a little bit more. an endless supply of snails are slowly crawling out of anthys pencil case like a clown car and then utena leans wayy back in her chair and almost breaks her neck and then miki says well utena you aren't as graceful as miss himemiya but at least you aren't a whore like my sister and then utena says ok. eventually it devolves into miki having finished his homework already and he's doing like trig and precalculus and maybe calc 1 or 2 idk and then he just sits there and imagines anthy in place of kozue meanwhile anthy and utena are having a meaningless conversation and anthy drops an i only go to classes because that's what my spouse wants me to do and i am the rose bride. and utena responds you would skip school if i said it was fine (this is appealing to her(she is imagining hanging out with anthy all day instead of being in class)) and then she reconsiders and thinks well going to school is actually important so i shouldn't tell her to skip school. fortunately this moral dilemma is broken by anthy saying ill do your homework for you miss utena which is very appealing to utena because even though she's pretty good at math she is 13 and still doesn't really want to do it

actually I think you should be normal about ordinary citizens of authoritarian countries and yes that applies even to that country you're thinking of right now

it bothers me when someone brings up misogyny in shounen anime and people shrug it off with "its designed for teenage boys, what can you expect." like well. idk i think its actually pretty important that shows for teenage boys are normal about women. i mean i think all media should be normal about women but teenagers are impressionable i think we could put a little bit of feminism in the teenage boy shows. it might do some good. you never know.

i like when a piece of media says that an all-powerful character "sees humans as insects" because that really could mean a lot of things. maybe they view us as insignifigant and will squish us under their boot. maybe theyre actually studying and cataloguing us for their thesis paper. maybe theyre campaigning for human protection because we're an important part of their ecosystem. maybe they see a human and go "ew ew ewwwwww someone get the cup and get that FREAK out of my house." .

my futile wish is for people to understand that "sex scenes in movies/TV don't have to serve the plot and can genuinely just be for pleasure" and "sex-repulsed people are allowed to complain about how rare it is for media made for adults like them to be something they can enjoy completely" are both true statements. unfortunately society hates both sex and people who don't like sex, so everyone gets far too defensive about any sex or lack thereof in fiction to actually have this conversation

the whole "insulting someone based on their appearance is bad because it could indirectly hurt people you like who share that feature" is a good start for unlearning body shaming but i do think we need to go further and remind people that even if there was some physical trait that was magically 10000% exclusive to conservatives and creeps and nobody else ever had it, we still shouldnt be insulting them based on that. because the problem with them is not their appearance its their ideology and actions. by insulting their appearance you arent just indirectly insulting others who look like that, youre literally not making the correct point. stay on topic ya know.