I Am Who I Am

the part of my brain that goes yeah the first meeting between odysseus and nausicaa (odysseus deciding against clasping her knees) IS hilarious vs the part of my brain that goes you don't understand. supplication is a practice of war, for those with no other recourse. for twenty years he's been in survival mode, and now he has to adapt. she has all the power, even though she's a teenage girl and that's not how this story is supposed to go. he has nothing. she could do anything. he still has to find a way to function not at war.

an underrated kink is corruption. i want to make you worse. i love to coax it all out of you and make you admit how hot you really think it is. don’t worry, no one’s going to find out. no one’s going to judge you. it’s okay, you don’t have to fight it anymore. just let it get to you. you need this.

eating disorders and abortions are two things that are like, spoken about in most mainstream discourse as though they are pretty rare and aberrant, but then when you’re actually friends with a lot of women you come to find out that they are extremely extremely common and kind of banal & mundane

even the fucked up ultra-traditional isolationist supernatural apocalypse cult gets their kids vaccinated

So are we supposed to think that Hama was wrong for inventing (discovering?) bloodbending to escape a concentration camp? Cause that's cool as fuck ngl. The kidnapping people and torturing them in a cave thing was uncalled for but I digress.

[Image ID: Headline reading: Man With Perfect Hair And Terrible Coping Mechanisms Continues Ruining His Own Life While Also Being Very Handsome /End ID]

i think most people accept the idea of "you don't control who you're attracted to" in terms of being gay but imo it can go further. like if you're not attracted to men, but you happen to find a transmasc person attractive, i dont think thats inherently transphobic if you acknoweldge that your attraction is incongruent with their identity. you dont need to run yourself in circles creating qualifiers for your sexuality when we live in a world of infinite gender identites. it's not like you have an inbuilt radar that tells you whether that hot stranger at the bar is a woman or not. man who kissed a twink that turned out to be a butch lesbian that thought he was a butch lesbian. etc.

[Image ID: Tweet from cohost. org/shel (@/ workingDog_) reading: I see someone at a party... I retrieve my pocket-edition of Eliza Smith's Gender & Sexuality Taxonomy 4th Edition... I run my finger down the chart... ah... this person is an A. C. M. P. H. aro homo cis n.b. demi-form sapphogender... i determine they are not attractive to me. /End ID]

YNT has a lot of under-discussed topics in general but "what Tsugai would be a good match for Dera" is one of my favourites. Him remarking he's open to a new one if he finds a suitable pair could just be a way to give us a flashback showing how, perhaps, Tsugai are utilized in modern war zones, and simply show that he was very close to his pair and this remark was just a way of shrugging it off because it's a painful subject for him and he puts it off because he doesn't want to go through this again, but at the same time I am not immune to the hype and aura moments part of my brain screaming "GUN TSUGAI TO COUNTERBALANCE IVAN GUN TSUGAI TO COUNTERBALANCE IVAN"