I was struggling with the Tome timeloop fic for a while bc I was like okay I know the plot but I don't know what it's *about* and then I realized that actually it's about being a regular teenage girl getting thrown into a shonen-anime situation and. you're smart you're stubborn you're determined but this world wasn't made for you. your guy classmates can run and fly and fight in their school uniforms but you're stuck worrying about your skirt. your enemies threaten you casually because you're not a person. sometimes the people trying to protect you, even the ones who love you, don't make you feel like a person either. your friend's emotions leveled a city and your feelings are just as intense as his but yours do nothing. they're so easy for everyone to ignore. and the person doing this to you says she used to be like you, that you're going to give up or fall apart or become so bitter you only want to burn everything down, that you're stupid for trying—
and you keep trying anyway.
