grow up & blow away

Sunbeams burst through the canopy like stained glass, radiating enlightenment in a kelp cathedral. A sunny Saturday is as good a day as any to give thanks for the miracles of oceanic photosynthesizers, from the microscopic to the Macrocystis.

kishinami hakuno spelled differently (岸浪ハクノ instead of 岸波白野, notice even the surname kanji is different)

the drake and robin teasers with the text/dialogue almost seeming to imply that they’ve already lost? and the fact that we haven’t seen shinji or dan (the bg scenery kinda seems to symbolize them though)

that weird shit in the teaser with f!hakuno seemingly dying and reforming from a skeleton (?) despite m!hakuno being the protag

the whole bleak and dead look of everything

Yeah, and you can also get tired of criticizing something you love. You can get completely fed up with it and decide, “You know what? Flaws aside, I love this thing, and I don’t have to waste hours of my life admitting its flaws to strangers on the Internet in order to somehow justify my love of it.” You can get sick of watching others gleefully tear it apart, for no reason other than that it’s popular and they hate that you love it. You can get sick of watching others tearing it apart with good intentions, too.

much of the ableism towards Autistic people doesn’t happen “because we’re Autistic,” it happens because we’re weird.

now consider that… and now consider what some of the most common insults are here on tumblr.

weird, gross, embarrassing, cringeworthy… all insults based on that same idea of “you are different and we don’t like you.” 

and now consider the constant mocking of “just trying to be special” and “Not Like Other Girls™” that is constantly seen on tumblr.

from early childhood, we are taught and conditioned to know that any deviation from the norm will be punished. for Autistic people, who make up a big portion of what is usually thought of as tumblr’s userbase, this conditioning is often increased tenfold by coercive “therapies” such as ABA and Social Thinking. 

the fact that so much of tumblr’s culture is based on strict deviation from the norm– often citing “weird, embarrassing, cringeworthy, just trying to be special” as offenses– is regressive. and as an Autistic person, I would go so far as to say that it is at least somewhat rooted in ableism. 

if you’re Autistic and you do this, especially if you’re a survivor of coercive behavioral and social treatments designed to make you “normal,” please think about why you take part in this treatment of others. I know you’ve been hurt, and overcoming internalized ableism is hard. I’m here to help.

if you’re allistic and you do this, please stop. just stop. we’ve already been through enough.

i feel like the biggest flaw is that since it’s meant to be a canon prequel to fsn, sanda makoto is clearly walking on eggshells around The Lore all the time and trying not to contradict anything and to clarify everything. so theres a part where someone tells waver “if you summon your servant again HE WON’T REMEMBER YOU!!!!!! *unless it’s in [the moon cell] or [a FGO singularity]” which kinda ruins the drama of that moment… or when zepia in vol 6 shows up and starts expositing about alternate timelines and how the DAAs dont exist in this one and it’s clearly for the benefit of the reader but waver and reines are like ??????????? and nothing he’s saying feels really relevant to their situation… i feel like having the character exposit past the other characters directly to the reader is a thing that happens maybe too much now in fate and it throws me out of the story every time (BB going “ok im gonna call you senpai but just so you know my real senpai is in another universe but that universe doesnt exist and i never met them” right off the bat in the CCC fgo collab so people wouldn’t complain lol)

i loved how at first "hephaestion" seemed like the dumbest concept (like so dumb i actually went ahead and spoiled myself even though i was otherwise avoiding spoilers, cause i was like COME ON) but then it turned out that not only was that a fakeout that we immediately fell for because we're so used to genderswaps by now, she ALSO came with an explanation for why iskander's design was historically inaccurate in the first place lol. Also She Is Hot