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it's always so funny how insistent people are that war "isn't inherently political" like you would be hard pressed to find something more inherently political

people from different countries actually just kill each other with guns for several years at a time for no reason

need everyone to understand that this is not some kind of obscure online discourse iceberg. this is the median american voter

Some dialogue choices in Persona 4 give you some points towards your social stats. One of the earliest of these is insisting that the TV World is too dangerous for Chie (a girl who has taught herself kung-fu), which makes you slightly more Understanding.

The sexism inherent in "it just wouldn't make sense for a girl moving from the city to the countryside to drive the plot" is baked into every facet of Persona 4's writing.

This shadow world is just too dangerous for a girl who can perform a standing backflip, it has to be up to us: Two guys with a golf club and a pair of monkey wrenches.

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay

I was impressed with how NOT tropey they managed to make MJ’s relationship with Peter after having forgotten him. We don’t dwell on any sort of disbelief where she’s convicted it can’t possibly be true. She knows it’s true, and that’s part of why it hurts her and confuses her. We also don’t have any type of “she doesn’t care about him anymore” sentiment meant to punch us in the gut. Yes it’s very sad for Peter that she doesn’t love him, but ofc she doesn’t since you can’t love someone you can’t remember—but she does care about him. Because you don’t actually have to know someone intimately to care about them, so even though MJ has none of the memories of her intimate relationship with Peter, she still has intelligent and curious conversations with him, then finds out their history and feels for him and is honest with him and sees his bravery and deservingness and invites him to come meet Ned because she knows that will mean a lot to him. Because MJ is a caring person, not just to her best friend and boyfriend, and so as painful as it is that she doesn’t remember Peter being the love of her life, it was so much more bearable than it could have been, because they didn’t murder her character to contribute to Sad. There’s a reason MJ made Peter so happy to begin with, and she’s still that same MJ, memories or not. She still has all the same qualities that made her fall in love with him and him fall in love with her, even if she doesn’t have the memories and feel that same love. And I kind of love that actually.