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The most basic, intractable fact about mental illnesses is that you simply cannot willpower your way out of them. The only exceptions to this rule are the ones I have, which continue to disable me due to lack of determination and other grave personal flaws

MY NAME, IS FRICKIN MOON MOON. I’D BE THE MOST IDIOTIC WOLF. ‘OH SHIT WHO BROUGHT FUCKING MOON MOON ALONG?’

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lowkey i just killed all innocents

notice how no one died

Like if Mizuki was the size of Rui or Akito she would not be allowed to wear these outfits in a gacha game, it's only becasue she has a perfectly feminine and skinny body that she's allowed to wear dresses

Obviously if Mizuki was not a beanpole she would not be able to pass as a cis girl for years but you look at the proportional size difference between her and Rui and it's just silly

I wrote a longer post about this that I had trouble putting into words, but the short of it is: I don't really agree with the typical fandom reading that femininity is stifling for Mafuyu and freeing for Mizuki. Mafuyu's struggles are built around her mother's insistence in her pursuing a historically masculine career (doctor), while she personally wants to pursue a historically feminine one (nurse). When we talk about Mafuyu's mother using "good girl" as a coercive statement to control Mafuyu, it's much more about her being a good child who listens to her mother, rather than being a good girl who acts as a girl should. Her story is much more about the stifling nature of her childhood being taken away from her by the control of her mother and her expectations, while also not having the agency to take control of her life as an adult because she is still considered a child. If you want to look at a character who's femininity is stifling her, the subplot surrounding Ena's selfie account and her appeal for shallow attention by using her body is much more direct and imo supported by the text in the ways misogynist expectations of femininity hurt young girls.

Which, when I say that Mafuyu doesn't really show any signs of being stifled by femininity or desiring masculinity, it of course all lies under the inherent underlying nature that a mass appeal gacha game like Project Sekai has profit incentive to not show characters being truly gender non-conforming (Shiho being the most masc character but still secretely liking cute things, for example). You can't talk about coercive femininity in the game without acknowledging that all the girls aren't allowed to dress boyish because it would be controversial, and all the boys aren't allowed to dress girly because it would be controversial* *if i try and get into the way Mizuki is affected by this I will have an aneurysm, but she gets to be in a special little hell where she can wear dresses but can't wear anything toooo associated with women (her new wedding event outfit being a white dress which is distinctly not a bridal dress, almost all her outfits having shorts)

i hold no contempt even for scoundrels

something something, women you're allowed to abuse. women you're allowed to abuse