#is trash

Sefikura isn't trash because it's yaoi (toxic or otherwise) or because it's a hero x villain pairing (most of which are merely cheesy and ridiculous). It's trash because it attempts to discard the entire meaning of the story in favour of a facile, meaningless non-interpretation cobbled together from clichéd, moth-eaten seme/uke dynamics lifted from a million generic yaoi mangas. It's pure regression of storytelling.

It's trash because it's founded on outright lies about the two characters and their dynamic (Cloud = weak dork, Sephy = strong and cool, etc.) It pretends that Sephiroth is some ridiculous, unstoppable gigachad, and not the weak, egotistical, utterly deluded loser that the story very clearly demonstrates he is.

Cloud Strife is an incredible badass, made even more so by his very human struggles, his flaws, and yes, his more sensitive side that he tries to hide from others. All of that only adds up to make him and his martial achievements even more incredible and worthy of acclaim. Sfk fans, on the other hand, would have you believe that he is little more than a feckless loser because he is socially awkward sometimes. What a wretched fandom.

And what of Sephiroth, Shinra's golden boy war criminal? His most famous scenes involve stabbing an unarmed woman in the back and burning some sleeping civilians (presumably including children) to death. What is that, if not cowardice? He blames others for all of his problems, flexes about killing defenseless women (Aerith, Claudia), and fixates on petty revenge, which he continually fails to achieve. What is that, if not loser behaviour?

It's trash because its acolytes believe that a man with near god-like powers who keeps getting his ass repeatedly handed to him by a normie human is "dominant". I don't know what level of brain damage you'd have to suffer in order to fall for that kind of nonsense.

It's trash because it buys wholesale into the villain's obviously false worldview as if it had any validity, when in truth it's nothing more than Sephy's copium over being humiliated by Cloud Strife time and again, which in turn makes him look even more pathetic than he already is.

It's trash because it exalts a character who deserves nothing but derision while scorning a character who should be revered.

In short, it's trash because it takes a great narrative and hollows out everything good about it, turning it into cliché-ridden slop.

I thought the idea was really...silly? I mean, in what future do books not exist? In what future is writing books forbidden?

....OpenAi is literally destroying books that came out before 2022 while they reload data centers with information; millions of physical books are being destroyed because the internet is already full of AI content. MILLIONS

I'm so upset rightnow. Cause If people with money can do whatever they want, then what the hell is left for me? What's left for the rest of us? They're destroying books, they don't even reuse them and leave them as they are, THEY DESTROY THEM.

So all the people who continue to use AI, whether it's for addiction, work, whatever, be aware that they are contributing a little more and more to that dystopian future I imagined becomes true, that everyone can imagine becoming true. And it will be your fault. It will be entirely your fault.

NGL Gulf of America just looks nasty. 🤮