Kanade Is Back And More Powerful Than Ever Before

Just so everyone is aware, the comments on the original video are all from ppl in Korea warning everyone about this guy. He harasses female fans and filters his comments to hide it. He’s counting on foreigners not knowing who he is to get his revenue.

the ABSOLUTE nonsense

it’s so good that touhou lost word has a player character but the game outright tells you “the player character is female. (this cannot be changed.)” absolutely brilliant move 

you tryna get a kiss bro? a little kissy kiss bro? bro? a smooch on the lips bro? a smooch bro?

Not gonna lie, given that we live in a culture that valorises the willingness to labour without expectation of reward and the stoic acceptance of one’s own death as a necessary sacrifice for the greater good as two of its chief heroic virtues, this whole business of rhapsodising folks who’ve been economically coerced into working dangerous jobs during a pandemic as “heroes” is feeling pretty damn sinister.

Like, it’s not just the emptiness of the gesture – it’s that the situation is very specifically being framed in such a way that any “essential worker” who displays reluctance to put themselves in danger or interest in actually getting paid for the hazardous duties they’re being made to undertake is committing treason against the heroic ideal – and, of course, those who betray the ideals of heroism are the worst sort of villain. It’s basically a rhetorical framework that allows us to hail essential workers as a group as brave heroes, while simultaneously treating essential works as individuals as cowardly scoundrels who deserve to suffer.

Mm. The contemporary resurgence of Fascism definitely has a lot to do with how widespread this sort of thinking is, but let’s not go pretending it’s unique to Fascism. The basic catch-22 of “you’re a hero if you willingly face this peril, but if you don’t you’re a traitor, and the just punishment for treason is being forcibly subjected to the exact same peril whose refusal branded you a villain” is something that crops up in a lot of ideologies, including many ostensibly progressive ones. We don’t get to pre-emptively absolve ourselves just because our politics are anywhere to the left of Hitler’s.