comet (but different)

Yeah, he's odd and morally grey, but I really don’t like how everyone keeps demonizing or othering him. It leaves a bad taste to call him “inhuman” when you literally have serial killers like Hisoka running around. There are way more characters who are actually inhuman compared to Gon (Hisoka, Illumi, Pariston, the Phantom Troupe, Sandwich, etc).

It’s not like Gon enjoys killing people or treating others like shit. He’s polite, kind, and genuinely loves his friends. Tbh he’s more human than three quarters of the cast.

His mental breakdown in CA is completely understandable. He’s grieving, he’s overwhelmed, and he has no idea how to handle it. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that. In the end, he only kills Pitou. He doesn’t even harm Komugi, even though he wanted to kill her out of pure rage (and only stopped because Killua snapped him out of it).

I sometimes wonder if this whole "Gon is inhuman" thing was meant to make him seem more complex, but to me, it still feels off. Even if the story eventually revealed he wasn’t 100% human genetically, it wouldn’t justify those kinds of descriptions (especially when tons of chimera ants are portrayed as more human than actual humans).

i will say i think it is an interesting point that he lost his nen and i think that it would be a really interesting idea to explore further how he copes/gets it back.

i do like that he lost it but i also feel he wouldn’t just snap into normalcy and be fine with it. he would have a lot of hang ups and a lot of things to work through, trauma from CA being the least of it. it would be a story of him maturing and changing and finding joy in other things as well as his journey to become stronger. i do think he should get his nen back but spending time without would accelerate his development.

i like to think he becomes ridiculously good at tracking, hunting, cooking, survival just using his own skills and upbringing. makes him slow down a bit and mature.

Part 2

Back before this site banned porn, it was all tagged with whatever clear label matched it. If you wanted to search for, say, bdsm, you could type that in and find exactly that. And, crucially, it meant you could filter it out, too. Meaning that people who wanted to find that content could do so with ease, and people who wanted to not find that content on their dash by surprise could also ensure that with ease.

But then tumblr banned porn thanks to pressure from the Apple App store, and ----- did porn go away? Nope. It just stopped being labelled as porn. There's still all the same raunchy content on here as there was before -- its just not tagged, or its tagged with euphemisms, or tagged with creative tags that circumvent the bans, or tagged with completely unrelated should-be-innocuous tags like "oceans" or "photography" or "flowers" or etc.

Which not only makes it harder to find, but also, more importantly, makes it harder to avoid.

Nowadays I can be scrolling my dash and get slapped suddenly in the face by a post that is decidedly not G-rated, and its because neither the OP or the person who reblogged it has tagged with anything, meaning my blocklist (which I have in place so that I'm not surprised by a raunchy gifset while I'm scrolling my dash in the work lunchroom, surrounded by colleagues) hasn't caught it and filtered it out.

And the same thing is going to happen on other platforms. If you ban porn, the outcome is never "there is no more porn" -- the outcome is just "porn is harder to find now and simultaneously harder to avoid."

This post was prompted by a random post i saw earlier today which ive since lost, but which was an advert for some """fishing gear""" that looked pretty much like a dildo. And who knows, maybe that item WAS some kind of obscure fishing gear. But it made me think of how, with the censorship and purity culture infecting every corner of the internet, it means we ARE going to wind up with sites that are selling sex toys that are labelled as innocuous everyday items.

So imagine youre a kid and you get suddenly super into fishing, and you're looking into building a christmas wish list, so you research a bunch of fishing tackle. And there, nestled amongst the lures and weights and lines and tackle boxes, is a bunch of sex toys. None of them are labelled as sex toys. Theyre labelled as miscellaneous fishing tackle. Because, unbeknownst to you, the sex toys companies -- no longer able to advertise their wares honestly -- have started labelling their dildos as fishing lures and their whips as fishing poles and their butt plugs as fishing weights. And those In The Know are aware that to purchase sex toys, you need to look up these Regular Non-sexy Products, and you'll find the raunchy products youre after.

But meanwhile, anyone who wants to find ACTUAL fishing lures and poles and weights suddenly has to contend with mislabelled sex toys showing up in their search results.