What’s Left Of Me Now Belongs To My Child Self

Starting from pople tending to turn every story about siblings who are not besties into this huge tragedy instead of awknowledging that maybe, sometimes, people are not close with their siblings. Or that people are so weird about mothers.

But what irks me even more is the tendency to decide that two people who are close in canon have a "sibling coded relationship" which suddenly also means that shipping them together is wrong. Or if a character has an older person in their life whom they look up to - well that is their parent now!!!! They can't fuck their parent!!!!

There is this underlying idea that elevating characters into a familial bond is above such concepts as romantic love or sex. Which sucks because that is not what the concept found family means - it was meant to describe the queer experience of finding your people and community from outside of your blood relatives, and it was never meant to say that there can't also be romantic relationships within that community.

And it is not even always about the fact that I want to ship my blorbo with everyone who comes near him (although I absolutely do), but I think that sometimes there can be meaningful dynamics that are not about family. I want my blorbo to have friends, lovers, partners, mentors, neighbours, a trusted older person who they can call to but is not their parent.

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"sibling coded" comes from "queer coded." Queercoding was a (often intentional) way for writers to craft a queer character under censorship. It was also often something that came about from unconscious biases (ie the insane amount of queercoded villains) Either way, queer coding refers to the act of writing a queer character when you cannot OPENLY write a queer character.

The fuck does sibling coding mean. In what universe do you need to subtly imply that two characters are siblings because you are beholden to censorship. Where are siblings oppressed for being siblings. Where are you not allowed to show siblings on TV.

The only situation I can think of is if you want to lovers to secretly be incestual, but given how many of the "lol sibling coded!!1!1!1!!!!" Bitches use that defense to shit on people who ship those characters I somehow don't think that's it.

"sibling coded" comes from "queer coded." Queercoding was a (often intentional) way for writers to craft a queer character under censorship. It was also often something that came about from unconscious biases (ie the insane amount of queercoded villains) Either way, queer coding refers to the act of writing a queer character when you cannot OPENLY write a queer character.

The fuck does sibling coding mean. In what universe do you need to subtly imply that two characters are siblings because you are beholden to censorship. Where are siblings oppressed for being siblings. Where are you not allowed to show siblings on TV.

The only situation I can think of is if you want to lovers to secretly be incestual, but given how many of the "lol sibling coded!!1!1!1!!!!" Bitches use that defense to shit on people who ship those characters I somehow don't think that's it.

part 1 doesn’t really have anything new it’s a very basic synopsis though i will say idk why lorraine had to catch a stray like that

part 2 however what i think is cool is that marty’s the one explaining the story for a bit! its only the last part where it goes back to third person. the rest is written with masculine personal pronouns; the same ones marty uses in jp dubs! i thought that was cute

We often see people's true views through their art.

Anno is jaded and has been since his early 20s criticizing how young men in his generation viewed and treated women through some of the most intensely thematic storytelling. And he didn't even really know he was doing it according to him.

Miyazaki, despite being outwardly jaded and angry constantly, consistently makes films full of hopeful messages.

It's often said that if you like Evangelion, Anno hates you.