not always a synchronous rotation

at first i wasn't sure what he was gonna do with that hand but it turns out our resident demon hunter is a pretty soft and sentimental guy after all huh

i love the fact that while he's drawing comfort from his past + memories she's slowly but surely getting emotionally compromised xD

for Wu Wangyan this isn't different from the 1231443 other different roles she's had to "adopt" in her lifetime, either alone or incognito with her sister(s), this is prolly the first time she's actually been "undercover" with someone else who isn't there just to act their heart out with her, but experience the present as it happens

that must feel so jarring

because receiving care and help and selfless attention is considered desirable, and often the rightful due of the fandom/personal fave (because of whatever past trauma or horrors or lack of self-worth they're struggling with)

but apparently the characters that do the caretaking do not deserve interiority or agency, they're not interesting in their own right, their only function is to be there to dispense support and adoration for the fave

I don't want to totally flatten this to a gender issue, because there are other facets to it, but sometimes I want to ask: is there a particular reason fandom is uninterested in the perspectives of characters that do the helping/supporting/caretaking, and instead almost exclusively prefers the point of view of the recipient? and might it have something to do with the largely female coding of caretaking work (which is often devalued and difficult and poorly compensated in real life)?

"Don't talk to me or my husbands ever again."

"too many authors in the current market are focusing on selling 'spice' instead of telling interesting stories"

"oh yeah, i agree. i started reading one that i heard a lot about and it just wasn't-"

"and it's all of these women reading their fucking mommy porn out in public like FREAKS"