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hey um. so sorry to tell you this, but op of that post plays toys kinda weird. yeah you should just block them, that's not how normal people play with toys

this is what shipping discourse sounds like to me

I agree that much shipping content in aggregate isn't very good, but that's not because it's shipping content, it's because it's not massively well considered work made by hobbyists for the lulz, and non-shipping focused fan works are often much the same. first thing I do in any new fan space is go digging for analysis posts and most of those are also vaguely to Extremely bad because their primary function is to be enjoyable for the person who made them, not to be academically sound and worthy of scrutinous peer review. which I'm sure also applies to everything I've ever posted but well that's not any of my business really. but basically my point is that if you want more fan works that are Good then you should push for More Good as opposed to Less Shipping as the shipping-shipless axis is different from the good-bad axis. it's 4:39 a.m.

Kind of funny how the Feddies in Hathaway are so obsessed with making Odyssey references when what's really going on around them is some blatant House of Atreus shit.

That irony has to be intentional, right? They want to pretend they're living in a world where you go off to fight for a while and then return to a home that, however changed, can be restored to its proper state. Kenneth, a married man, calls the woman he wants to make his mistress Circe. But the only Penelope, the only constant, is the Gundam itself. Wake up and smell the modern warfare.

More about this + Gigi. Kenneth calls her Circe, the nymph who kept Odysseus away from his wife against his will, when he's the one who took off his wedding ring to actively pursue her. The count tries to make her into his emotional anchor, his steadfast reward for surviving the trials of patriarchy, his Penelope (though unlike Kenneth he's either not nerdy enough or not gauche enough to outright nickname her as such), ignoring how impossible that is when he's paying for her "love". So many Federation men projecting so so so much onto women to try to comfort or absolve themselves in the midst of a Hell of their own making, just like Hathaway himself, just like Char before him, but as the Federation, which represents Westernization/globalization/Japan as an ally of America/American hegemony in Japan, they keep drawing from this one particular ancient narrative that the West has reified.

Kind of funny how the Feddies in Hathaway are so obsessed with making Odyssey references when what's really going on around them is some blatant House of Atreus shit.

That irony has to be intentional, right? They want to pretend they're living in a world where you go off to fight for a while and then return to a home that, however changed, can be restored to its proper state. Kenneth, a married man, calls the woman he wants to make his mistress Circe. But the only Penelope, the only constant, is the Gundam itself. Wake up and smell the modern warfare.

dislike how many mental health posts on here are just "you've never done anything wrong in your life ever and they were evil for that"

maybe you did do something wrong. maybe you hurt someone. maybe you have said awful things. maybe you were just as bad as them. maybe. but what matters is that you move on. you have to try. you have to wake up and be kinder. you have to learn and listen and grow. maybe you did do something wrong but that doesn't mean you have to keep doing that. as long as you are alive, you can change

btw it is sexy and cool to uplift and admire people who have skills you wish you had without using their ability as a stick to beat yourself with. even and especially if you are jealous of them.

We gotta start calling it a sex change again to remind everybody you can change your sex

Obviously the old narrative/misconception about "having The Surgery" was uh. Stupid lol. The common refrain was "which one?" to emphasize transition doesn't work like that. But now we're living in "sex is an immutable Natural Fact" world and it's like well no actually. You're somehow wronger about how trans people's bodies work than you were before. There is no singular The Surgery because "sex" is made up of several different traits, nearly all of which are changeable, through surgery or hormones or even just exercising different muscle groups to change their appearance. "Buh chromosomes" you don't know what a chromosome is