#patchy vents

lowkey what was up with therapy game ep 8, like i get that they might’ve wanted to make full use of the actors for the side charas but why is itsuki narrating minato’s trauma for him and minato is just left sitting in the attic crying while shizuma goes off on a monologue,,,,,,,,,,,

ep 5 was one thing cause they could’ve still spun it into a sort of “minato and shizuma get into a situationship without rly addressing anything” esp in regards to minato’s trust issues and insecurities, but we didn’t even get minato openly confiding in shizuma about the fear of turning out like his mother bc she would constantly say how alike they are??? the past events (the affair and the suicide) are one thing, but we never get minato talking about it to shizuma and at least addressing how it affected their relationship like how he did in the og manga

it kinda felt like they leaned a lil too heavily into minato’s softer personality without completely addressing the tough front he puts up. yes, we do see the solo shots of minato suffering alone on the rooftop trying to convince himself he’s fine with feeling lonely so that he doesn’t disturb shizuma, but my issue with how he’s written in the live adaptation is that we haven’t rly been able to see him address things on his own terms in a proper conversation. the closest we got was him talking to shizuma’s friends over the phone while he was trying to find shizuma in his hometown, but the moment in the attic feels one sided bc everything we hear about minato’s past is addressed by itsuki when in the og manga he understood that it wasn’t his place to tell. the attic scene ends up being reliant on shizuma to carry the emotional weight of it all cause he’s the one with all the knowledge even though minato’s the one who’s shown with the baggage.

obv there is sth powerful in itself for shizuma to be giving minato that choice, bc it says a lot about how shizuma’s laid himself bare time and time again and willing to be vulnerable for minato’s trust and comfort, and minato taking the lead in return like he finally has the opportunity to do something for shizuma on his own terms and not out of circumstance (like how he stays quiet about being lonely so that he doesn’t put pressure on shizuma). but then minato’s character becomes almost too passive for how he was, like they sort of lost that tough or even coy side to him that honestly, was still in the og manga anyway despite all his insecurities, like itsuki provokes him still in the adaptation but minato doesn’t rise to the bait.

is it? it only said ‘illegal’ content as far as i’m aware

and *gasp* basically anything queer from rights to content are illegal in some places!!! [inserts repealing trans rights in usa, no legal gay marriage in east asia as a whole, queerness being punishable by death offence in some places, etc.]

like yeah i don’t like cp either, i have absolutely no interest in it and if i see it i’d run, but the second i start advocating for censorship, i’m basically signalling that my rights to freedom of speech are up for grabs too, bc my morals ultimately aren’t the deciding factor, the world doesn’t revolve around my opinions as an individual. why make myself an easier target? 

and what do we define as cp? where are we drawing the line? anyone under 18?? when a lot of 13, 14, 15, 16 year olds online see themselves as “mature” enough to say their pieces in convos like these?? when they shouldn’t even be involved in the first place bc it’s about nsfw content that they wouldn’t be able to view if it was sold irl?? how would they know how problematic it is if they didn’t read it themselves?? and if so, isn’t the problem being that these kids have no supervision and became exposed to nsfw content bc they ended up in places they shouldn’t be in??

also like, what is with you people that think that gross disgusting fuckers will genuinely and honestly tag their shit as what it is?? for all we know, they might move their shit to the gen tag and make it seem all nice and wholesome and fluffy??? idk what kind of delusion you’re living in, but y’all make it so easy for actual predators to run rampant bc all they have to do is go along with what you say and be yes men and portray themselves as understanding “good adults”. GROSS PEOPLE WILL NOT SAY THEY’RE GROSS UNLESS THEY’RE DUMB AS FUCK. THERE’S SOMETHING CALLED BEING MANIPULATIVE AND THAT’S THEIR GAME. and yk what? with how y’all act they don’t even have to hide much beyond surface level bc if anything goes wrong there’s a convenient list of your triggers on a nice lil carrd right there for reference