”Lizzie doesn’t love o!ciel she only loves r!ciel!” “Lizzie fell in love with o!ciel just look!” Is it a hot take to say that she loves neither Ciel actually. She was conditioned into loving idea of being a cute gentle wife for the queens guard dog because that’s what society wanted from women. She definitely CARES about Ciel, both of them(one more than the other), but she doesn’t love either. In this essay I will

You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?

You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?

the bad thing about having unhealthy habits due to mental illness, is when you DO do something healthy style you can't brag about about it because then people will then know you've been doing it yucky style all along. Like you can't brag you changed your sheets or brushed your teeth because then ppl will be like oh did you not brush your teeth regularly before? Thats yucky disgusting! So you just gotta keep it to yourself. And be proud alone, I suppose.

o!ciel definitely thought to himself as a child, "if i disappeared, no one would even care." and then, when he technically did disappear, no one actually cared.

I still think that keeping everyone from talking abt him was an understandable narrative choice by yana to keep the twin thing a secret but it really bit us in the ass bc now it seems like no one actually cared abt him which in my personal opinion is not true

post-post clarity when you're looking at your post on the dash like who gives a fuck. delete