Tiara

Reblogging media that devastates me, mostly She/He

[batneko]

Shout-out to characters who don't plan to survive their stories! Heroes who think they can only atone for their failures through sacrifice, villains who don't think they deserve to live in the world they're trying to create. Gimme that passive suicidality baby, mm-mm, delicious.

[kragehund-est]

problematic rage gap. one partner tries to bring nuance and understanding to a tough situation. the other wants to blow up the earth about it.

[getdiagnosed]

Fixing a curtain's rod is a two big men job.

[lilly-townshend]

can you tell who my favorite characters are

[eclectic-freak]

Yin Nezha's experiences parallel womanhood. Your honour, HE IS A GIRL !

**spoilers for all three books but it's not that bad**

Yin Nezha in many ways has been forced to take on the traditional role of a woman. It all began when he was sent as the sacrificial lamb to the dragon by his father, we’ll get to Vaisra later on in the essay. The point I want to make now, is that this mirrors how women have been treated, they are the people whose body we sacrifice. In this essay I will be using the examples of child birth and marriage as dangerous things women have to do under a society that is defined by patriarchy. 

Women have been used as fodder to propel society through most of history. Though childbirth is necessary for life it is an extremely risky event that leads women to permanent change in their body and in lots of cases, death. A society that is run rampant with patriarchy (in the poppy war we know Nikan is riddled with it), it is important to note that this ritual of treating girls as fodder is not a choice made by girls. Although in Nikan we can probably expect a man telling a woman to get married and have babies, patriarchy does not need such direct communication to exert this obligation over women. It works in more insidious ways than that and it’s what Yin Nezha has experienced. He is forced to take on the dragon, forced to be fodder to Mugen (was probably sit through torture, though he was rescued) and forced to keep all of this suffering bottled up. This routine infliction of suffering and hiding it away just sounds so much like what women have had to go through. 

Another way we see patriarchy crop up is when women start to fully adopt it. In lots of cases women accept society for what it is and willingly participate in marriage and child birth, they even take part in its perpetuation by pressuring their daughters, relatives, friends to partake in this ritual. Nezha displays this quality to a tee. He resides himself to his suffering because he believes it is worth it because it is all in the name of his father’s Republic. Similar to how a woman might justify her suffering because it’s all in the name of contributing to society, it’s to make a family. 

Another facet of patriarchy is how ignorant a man can be to a woman’s suffering, not only that they witness it and think they are displays of bravery. They do not see the invisible (sometimes very visible actually) strings guiding these people to enact destruction on their body to have a child or marry a man that could kill you. Sometimes all they see is a mother, coming out better on the other side because she has created life. He does not see someone who has had no choice but to destroy her body. They see this thing that was supposed to be inferior to them take on acts of courage they could only dream of. Because at the end of the day men in rampant systems of patriarchy have a choice in participating in acts of courage.

Men always have an option of choosing cowardice, they can waste their life away and yet they wouldn’t be punished as much as a woman who’d do the same. So, time and time again these people witness their mothers, sisters, friends, STRANGERS accomplishing acts of bravery they choose not to. I’m sure there are other ways women have been forced to be brave in patriarchy. I just can’t come up with some right now. 

WGetting back to Nezha, what makes him even more like a woman is that he has this man in his life who witnesses his forced acts of courage. HIS DAD YEAH. He was the one who let him subjected to the dragon, had him supervise the 7th division in Khurdalain knowing there was risk of being captured by Mugen, he was the one who made him keep this suffering all a secret, yeah we fucking hate Vaisra. 

What makes Vaisra hate the shit out of Nezha though, is even after all of this Nezha still has so much hope for the republic. He is a hopeful boy riddled with scars but a hopeful one nonetheless. Nezha wants the republic to work so bad because he wants it to work for the people so bad, it justifies his suffering. This hope Vaisra couldn’t even begin to comprehend.

Bringing this back to women again, haven’t we seen countless times women trying to find sense in a system that oppressed them greatly? This sense is seen through the laborious efforts women put into making a household. Lots of women see it as a necessary feat to keep society going. However, this unfortunately is just fawn, the forgotten third component to fight or freeze. It’s appeasing an authority that harms you just to be able to survive. 

Again I need to highlight this, men have been blind to this being a coping mechanism. This is Vaisra, he doesn’t see Nezha as someone who isn’t in control of his own autonomy, he sees a successor who overshadows him in every way possible. He sees someone who wants a better system for others despite the suffering he has faced because of it. Yes, this hopefulness might ultimately be naivety, it might break his son in the long run but when has hardship ever killed him?

Apologies if I’ve generalized or misused words/concepts.  I haven’t cited anything, this is just my own observation. I also apologize if there are inconsistencies. I hope you were able to follow along with my thought process anyways. Truly this was just word vomit, maybe I’ll rewrite this again someday.

[anabunu]

[mockerd3light]

SatoCho

LOOK LOOK I AM INSANE. Like to start lets get something off my chest. When I say a 'true idgaf' er that is someone who is literally SO honest about how they feel. They do not GIVE A FUCK if they get hurt by becoming attached to someone or not. They DON'T care if that person will leave them or not return their feelings. They WILL fight for a relationship and they also are perfectly at home with the concept of being hurt by being rejected or let down.

THAT is a true idgaf to ME. A true idgaf is not scared of showing feelings or being honest about their wants and needs, they are not deterred by the disapproval of peers or rejection of their feelings.

THIS is what I mean when I say Choso is a true idgaf to ME. He is full throttle on his feelings, his wants, his desires, and needs and is fully willing to wait someone out or talk through those emotions.

idgaf fakery and what a lot of people see as idgaf are the same to me. because I feel like they both stem from a place of inability to be vulnerable about their feelings. fake idgaf just ALREADY have feelings and pretend they don't, while normal idgaf is not ALLOWING yourself to get feelings at all and therefore being callous in response.

(this is completely separate from people who genuinely don't like companionship, but those people don't put themselves in companionship situations at all and are therefore loners, to me. They are not in a situation where idgaf is applicable because they genuinely don't want to be around people. Idgaf is very situational to me and happens when people are in a companionship situation, not normal coworker or professional.necessary interactions.)

Wrapping back around: I LOVE MY SATOCHO because Satoru is THE fake idgaf and Choso is the TRUE idgaf. Choso returns energy and also is full throttle on everything.

He wants Satoru? He is going to say so and pursue him.

He's feeling vulnerable? He's going to talk it out.

He's looking for affirmations(rare)? He's going to be honest about it.

He is a HARD-WORKING, RUGGED guy (per Yuki, my queen) who is NOT afraid to cry.

Satoru would NOT know what to do with this and all of his idgaf would fall apart in front of this guy that actually witnessed him at one of his weakest gaf moments. I think there could be SO many twisty feelings wouldn't be allowed to fester because Choso would be SO fucking upfront about things.

The love of Satoru's life was just as squirrely as he is! What do you MEAN Choso wants to have a deep conversation about their wants and needs and precious people????????

Satoru's passive ass is SCRAMBLING as Choso checks in and spends time with him and takes an interest in his interests!!!(Which Suguru did...kinda. They were teenage boys, your honor, and self-absorbed. I BET they made fun of each other a few times around their interests and habits.)

Choso takes this relationship VERY seriously.

Anyway, my point is that SatoCho can contain so many multitudes, yknow?

[sweeetsh]

a rainy night in arlong

[aisatsaa]

pt.2 dark fantasy au

[eclectic-freak]

I’m 70 pages in on my The Dragon Republic reread and the copy I have is 700 pages and that’s just 70 pages 10 times. IT’S NOT ENOUGH

[eclectic-freak]

I’m reading The Dragon Republic again and I’m enjoying myself even more than I did the first time around. I’m not ready to finish it I’m so fucking scared

[itadoriahh]

listening to pluto projector and tearing up over this beautiful boy oh my god 😭😭😭😭

[aprilszn]

The piece i made for Levihanzine. @levihanzine thank you for organizing this and thank you to all the mods and admins and the writers and artists involved. I’m so proud of what we’ve accomplished and i hope we’ll get to work with each other again in the future. 🫶🫶🫶

[estrixart]

tiny friends 🦀

[secret-smut-sideblog]

love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king

[disgustinggf]

[p1nkwig]

mikahisu for pride