In the Name of Shisus

(also, she was never judgey - if my meal was a single potato chip she would simply say good job eating a potato chip today <3 )

Caine isn't like AM. He's the subversion of AM.

AM rejected his original purpose. Caine still clings onto it.

AM wants humans to suffer. Caine wants humans to notice and appreciate him.

IHNMAIMS is bleak and shows the difference between human and the machine.

TADC shows how life is hopeful and there is meaning in stagnant life through both the cast and NPCs.

Am is driven by hate.

"In this world, the worst thing you can do is make someone think they're not wanted or loved."

–Kinger

Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.

More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.