#thinky things

This latest episode especially really brought it to the forefront, especially regarding Gira (whose politics seem to mostly consist, at this point, of "Step 1: Kill my brother; Step 2, ????; Step 3: Rainbow jurira for everyone").

Yanma, who is probably the closest to regarding Gira as an actual friend/actual human being, regards Gira as a way to overthrow Racles and his regime that exploits N'kosopa's technological skills.

Himeno wants Gira as pretty much a literal posession, due to his ability to communicate with the Shugods, whose power she knows all too well.

Rita regards Gira as just another weight to be added to one side or the other of the scales of justice.

Kaguragi is playing 5-D chess with everyone, doing whatever it takes to ensure the safety and survival of his country and if he has to kill a few koi along the way so be it

And then there's Racles and his stated ambitions of using the chaos caused by the Bugnarok invasion to take control of all 5 kingdoms.

Social media is addictive. The feedback of likes (and reblogs, shares, retweets, follows, etc) is a drug. The sporadic response to posts is manipulative and conditioning - inane nonsense gets more likes because it’s funny, or trauma because people are performative (sometimes they care too), but personal interests or niche topics stagnate and the learned response to this discouragement is to suppress pieces of yourself.

People make fun of fidget spinners when they have one in their pocket or directly in their hand on average 8 hours a day (screen time average of millennials right?). That constant access to social media (because that IS the culprit) is toxic and potentially dangerous but it’s so accepted now in our society that NOT taking part is considered strange.

When I tell people I refuse to have Facebook they 1) look at me strange, then 2) admit it’s a time waster and they should use it less.

Speaking as someone who has been overweight and mentally ill for pretty much their entire life I have never been treated and accepted the way the fandom has been treating Thor. Since Endgame came out I’ve been in an extra bad depression, more than usual. I think I’m finally turning the corner of that now, but for a few days, I was a mess (this is also partly due to me in mourning over Tony). I was really wondering what it was because it was a lot more than just Thor gaining weight and suffering from depression and PTSD. Then it hit me, it was because I’ve never been given the chance to be known and accepted as a person by society on the level that Thor has been. We were first introduced to him physically and of the mentality of a literal god, then when he’s mentally and physically not at his best that love and support are still there and even increased. 

When I say this I am not saying it’s bad or wrong for people to be doing this for Thor. Like I said it makes me very happy and touched to see. He deserves it.

What I’m saying is that I hope this opens people up to actually see overweight people and people who are suffering from mental illness as actual people. Not just the physical wrappings that we carry. The amount of times I’ve been dismissed purely because of my weight is countless. To see that love and support extended to a fictional character is great but also a mixed blessing for those of us who do not have a good support system and who are deemed by toxic western society/media not worthy to be put in this perfect little box. 

If you love and support Thor and his weight gain and through his battle with mental illness and PTSD then that’s great. I am 10000% there with you. However, if you’re not doing that for people in real life you need to have a serious conversation about your fatphobia and/or stigma against mental illness with yourself.

I mean we've seen in The Day That Wasn't that with Five absent, things look up for all the siblings. Luther and Allison start working toward a resolution, Grace is about to tell Diego about Reginald's suicide and hence probably everything about Vanya having powers, it's implied Klaus finally gets to see Dave, and then Vanya finds the figure and book Harold took, realises something is up, and fucks right off. That means that if things continued from that point, there's a chance that there wouldn't have been any Apocalypse at all.