22 yrs old, white, autistic, gay, demisexual, nonbinary
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Every time I rewatch No. 6, I learn something new about the different ways that Nezushi subverts trope expectations, especially expectations established by poorly written same-gender romance stories in anime.
For example, I realized today that despite Nezumi being so closed-off and emotionally distant with Shion (at least in the beginning), Nezumi is actually way touchier than Shion is.
In episode 1, after he tackles Shion, he keeps ahold of Shion’s wrist even after he’s gotten off of him.
In episode 3, he keeps touching Shion’s face.
In ep 4, he puts his arm around Shion while they’re leaving Rikiga’s place.
And later in the same episode, he puts Shion’s hand on his heart.
In ep 6, Nezumi is the one who pulls Shion to dance with him.
Nezumi can barely go five minutes without touching Shion in episode 9.
Nezumi initiates their kiss in the last episode.
And then, of course, there’s all the times he grabs Shion’s shirt when he’s trying to get Shion to listen to him (seriously, it happens like once an episode).
While Shion does endorse physical contact with Nezumi and never shies away from it, he’s rarely ever the initiator. There’s only a couple of times where Shion is the one initiating physical contact between them, and even those few times are vastly outweighed by the number of times Nezumi is the one to initiate physical touch.
TL;DR: Nezumi’s love language is physical touch and I think we should talk about that more.
Really genuinely feel like we need to bring back internet safety classes.
like this isn’t about “no one on the internet is your friend” it’s about “everyone on the internet can be entirely anonymous and disappear at a moment’s notice and you need to be aware of that and be sure of people’s intentions” it’s about “that person might be really nice and giving or they might be scamming you and you need to be able to tell the difference” it’s about “you need to be sure that the link you’re clicking on is going to take you to the right place”
it’s basic stuff i’m not trying to scare people but you need! to practice healthy skepticism online!!
when I was a kid it was “everyone on the internet is an axe murderer” which was not helpful but “everyone on the internet can be trusted with your full name, city, workplace, health conditions, traumas, and any triggers you may have” is also not helpful
let’s get somewhere in the middle with “if you wouldn’t walk up to a stranger at the grocery store and tell them this, don’t share it with the entire internet either”
You know that post about how angels and telephone towers are biologically compatible? That’s how I feel about overgrown plants and industrial machines.
These two things can and SHOULD make offspring.
[ID: An image of a tunnel with every surface covered in cords and a series of trees with ivy covering all of them.]
here’s an idea: notice toxic trends in your behavior and, idk, change them
the fact that people are complaining on this post that they can’t change their behaviors that hurt others because they have x mental illness and We Can’t All Be Neurotypical Karen is absolutely fucking wild. do you realize your arguments have come full circle to being indistinguishable from the most crude, generic “mentally ill people are inherently dangerous and/or abusive” ableist rhetoric? you always have the agency to address the ways in which you are hurting others (or yourself). maybe not instantly. maybe not effortlessly. but it IS within your abilities and it is something you owe to your community and yourself
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