Good Ol’ Fashioned Obsessions

one silly thing that’s really important to me in mob psycho is its treatment of the body improvement club, design-vice. how they are constantly brought back and treated with great care and love, even more so how they are actually characters the main hero looks up to. more wild and not conventionally attractive character models often get treated as inherently less important or noble in media, majorly in anime, but mp100 hammers it’s theme of personal worth in even in its meta-narrative.

something you learn fast and necessarily when you get into the habit of writing is that you are riddled with blind assumptions, prejudices, unpractised rhetoric and all kinds of unchallenged cicada shell thoughts that were left stuck to your mode of being when bad ideas fled you. most people get to move through the world behind a kind of modesty veil that divides their internal thoughts from their external observations, but you have to take that off when you write. you have to suddenly present the whole world to itself nakedly, without the kindness of someone who can stop you mid-sentence and say "hold on, I know you, you can't possibly mean that". people are often scared to show their work to an editor in case the editor points out what they look like without their modesty veil, but god, christ, hell and heaven, you have to be more afraid of what the whole world of strangers will see if you don't let someone pick the cicada shells off you first.

sometimes being a fan of something means not wanting them to make any more of it

Sick list of symptoms bro. Now try humanizing your behavior instead of pathologizing it.

If you run over someone's foot with your wheelchair you still apologise

Happy phoenix wright gets run over day!