LeonidCharm

Helloo!! I've grown to really like shiho recently, and I want to talk about her LMAO

Shiho is mischaracterised or misunderstood a lot as a 'mean' character, liking to her sadly being one of the least liked characters in the game. This is because many people rely on how she's seen through the main story and don't look at her as a whole through her focus events. (Quite funny how 'mean' main story male characters face this issue less and people acknowledge their development...i might discuss this issue with misogyny another day...). Anyways, here is a quick analysis of her!!

Before Shiho even picked up the bass, she was a child very dedicated to perfection and doing well. Nobody told her to, but she was extremely dedicated nonetheless. This is shown in Shiho4, where she is doing calligraphy for a school assignment (something she is good at already because she does it outside of school). Despite it getting praise from her peers and her teacher, she still believes she can do better and wants to reach a level to her personal satisfaction. Because of this, she skipped on a classmates birthday party to practice and perfect her assignment after school

This line alone shows that she wants something SHE is content with. And if you know shiho, she sets the bar very high for herself (hence why she was in the 'Dreamers' world link 3 unit. Just like An, Tsukasa, and Minori, they all work extremely hard for a goal they've had since a young age)

When she gets introduced to bass, she is determined to learn well within the first time she picks it up. Love at first sight. But she's aware of how her brain ticks and is very aware that when she's focused on doing something, she has to do it well. But because of this, she declines to learn the bass as she fears hurting people around her because she knows she'll prioritise her passion over free time. Perfection, just like her sister, is an important thing to Shiho but she's worried about what it can bring. (Shizuku and Shiho have a lot more in common than you think...)

Because of this, flashforward to middle school, Shiho distances herself from Honami and Ichika. This is because her passion for bass is so strong that people think she's 'too serious', which leads to rumours about her being a mean person (cough cough...autistic Shiho is real in my eyes...). People misunderstand her completely. She isn't mean. She just wants to do things as well as she could. Because of these rumours about her, she distances herself from Ichika and Honami because spite her being able to 'handle it', she cares heavily about her friends and doesnt want them to be impacted from rumours. Your honour, she cares a lot about her friends :( she just struggled with communicating these worries and feelings.

Another flashforward to Shiho1. She loves her friends dearly, and she wants to pursue her dream of going pro TOGETHER. But she fears that they don't take that as seriously as her, which brings her a lot of conflict because she doesn't want to hurt her friends, but she wants to do her dream no matter what.

People have boundaries sometimes, and also people have dreams and the expectation of Shiho having to give up her dream just so she can protect her friends from being 'hurt' is straight up wrong and it's her dream :( god forbid she's passionate and direct with what she wants to do (I am always a shiho defender). Very happy she was direct about her feelings, because it led to them taking music seriously and yayy they went pro!! Woohoo!! Ignore the ominous Saki. Saki please communicate your feeling Saki pleas

WHY HAVE I SEEN NO ONE TALK ABOUT HOW THE GRACE SCULPTURE LOOKS LIKE THE LITTLE DUDE FROM THIS MEME

3/6, hope you like them :>

Media literacy is defined as a communicative ability to use critical thinking, reasoning, evaluation and analysis for a piece of media to understand what possible themes, stories, and ideas its attempting to tell, how it’s done and how that affects the overall narrative/audience.

Media literacy has nothing to do with whether you love or hate the finale. Media literacy has nothing to do with whether you love or hate the direction a character took. It’s about why you may feel that way and being open to different perspectives, analyses, literary criticisms, and understanding the differences between intention vs execution.

I am in elementary school. I have discovered something in myself that is different from my peers. I have no words to express this feeling, so I instead live in discomfort for years and years and believe it to be normal.

I am in seventh grade. I have lost my entire friend group because a rumor was spread that because I am queer, I must be a creep. My last sleepover with those friends was spent sitting in the same room as them while they texted each other talking shit about me.

I am in seventh grade. I have endured homophobic bullying from snarky comments to food being thrown at me in the cafeteria, and today finally swing back. I get one of the bullies on the floor and the teacher breaks us up. I get in trouble for fighting while she continues to bully me. Nothing is done about the bullying when I speak up about it.

I am in seventh grade. I am being outed to my entire classroom by the people I share a table with. They are walking to every single desk and telling each classmate I am queer. I watch as every head turns to look at me in disgust. I am completely alienated from that class and spend my days working alone.

I am fourteen or fifteen. The discomfort I have lived with my entire life finally has a name: dysphoria. I have come out to my family as trans. I am in my room alone on my birthday, crying because every card has "girl" on it.

I am fourteen or fifteen. I get a tone with a family member because I am tired of her excuses for continuously misgendering me. Her husband corners me outside and threatens to hit me if I ever talk back to her again, and tells me my identity is made up. My family sides with him.

I am fifteen and sixteen. I wish I could die instead of living in stagnancy.

I am seventeen. My country is passing law after law to restrict my community. Trans people are going missing and being murdered, and their lights are snuffed without so much as a whimper. I am disgusted and afraid and grieving alongside my trans brothers, sisters, and siblings.

I am twenty. I do not speak to much of my family anymore, my mother has only ever called me my birth name, and I have lost every single friend I ever had except one, and had to rebuild myself and my circle from the ground up. Family holidays are hollow. I have self harm scars permanently etched on my skin, purple half-moons under my eyes that are like stains at this point, and I will never forget how I have been treated and what I have endured. My heart breaks knowing millions out there experience the same things and worse.

I am twenty. I am crying in my boyfriend's arms about not feeling like a real man. I am hearing him reassure me that he sees me for me and he loves me as the man I am. My small friend group strictly calls me by my chosen name and pronouns. I am in love, I have more support than ever, and for once, I'm starting to feel glad I'm alive, glad that I held on. For once, I have hope.

sure , to my knowledge we're not directly focused on by homophobic groups ( thanks for the clarification @/plum-petunia !! ) . but society is still extremely against the mere existence of those who don't feel certain types of love .

i was venting to a friend about being aroace and she asked me " why don't you just not be aroace ? "

people say " aromantic / asexual / aroace people can still date !! " and then refuse to engage with the nuances of an ace/arospec relationship

so many people i've told about being aroace all say " well , you're not gonna be aroace forever , right ? "

hell being asexual didn't stop being considered a mental illness until 2013

the only representation of aro/aspec people in media are cold villains or are "innocent" and "pure" , and even THAT rep is taken away

romance is viewed as better than all else . every conversation is about romance . nothing sells without romance

people can't conceptualise a relationship with romance without sex . people can't conceptualise a relationship without romance with sex . people can't conceptualise having no desire for a relationship with romance or sex .

society doesn't treat us as people worthy of respect . people dont care enough to represent us properly .

Raspberry＊Monster No one in this world can stop me!

“But Rue, where will these kids stay? Do you want them on the streets?”

of course not. In an ideal world, a kids would have multiple adults other than their parents they could look to for care, but I recognize that that will never be a reality for every single child. So: youth shelters, if they have nowhere else to go. There should be clean, warm shelters where anyone under 18 can stay for as long as they need, no questions asked. (And of course shelters that aren’t just for kids, but we’re talking about youth rights right now)

“But Rue,” I hear you say, “what if some moody teenager runs away after an argument?”

First of all, I’d rather a thousand moody teenagers run away than one abused child be trapped. Second, so what if one does? A kid needs time away from their parents, so they leave. The vast majority of them will get some time to cool down and then go back home, and if they don’t want to go back, period? Then nine times out of ten, they have a good reason. (Because yes, as hard as it is for you to believe, kids are humans who have common sense.)

“Okay, but what about the one time out of ten the kid doesn’t have a good reason?”

“But Rue, where will these kids stay? Do you want them on the streets?”

of course not. In an ideal world, a kids would have multiple adults other than their parents they could look to for care, but I recognize that that will never be a reality for every single child. So: youth shelters, if they have nowhere else to go. There should be clean, warm shelters where anyone under 18 can stay for as long as they need, no questions asked. (And of course shelters that aren’t just for kids, but we’re talking about youth rights right now)

“But Rue,” I hear you say, “what if some moody teenager runs away after an argument?”

First of all, I’d rather a thousand moody teenagers run away than one abused child be trapped. Second, so what if one does? A kid needs time away from their parents, so they leave. The vast majority of them will get some time to cool down and then go back home, and if they don’t want to go back, period? Then nine times out of ten, they have a good reason. (Because yes, as hard as it is for you to believe, kids are humans who have common sense.)

“Okay, but what about the one time out of ten the kid doesn’t have a good reason?”