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My name is Roxxi. 28. Queer. I am a giant nerd who is a bit like watching paint dry - if the paint could curse. https://beacons.ai/roxxivalen

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Love as a Beautiful Trap in Ai Yazawa’s Work Ai Yazawa’s romances are unforgettable because the love is real — but real love does not always mean safe love. In Paradise Kiss and NANA, love transforms people, but it also turns them into muses, wives, anchors, dream girls, and emotional lifelines.... https://roxxivalentine.com/2026/06/18/love-as-a-beautiful-trap-ai-yazawa-nana-paradise-kiss/

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Ai Yazawa and the Aesthetic of Wanting More Ai Yazawa’s stories are glamorous because everyone inside them is hungry. Her characters want love, fame, beauty, art, freedom, security, and escape — but in NANA and Paradise Kiss, wanting more can be both liberation and a wound.... https://roxxivalentine.com/2026/06/16/ai-yazawa-aesthetic-of-wanting-more-nana-paradise-kiss/

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Propaganda in Gundam SEED: Durandal, Meer Campbell, and Manufactured Peace In Gundam SEED, propaganda turns grief into revenge, purity into genocide, science into submission, and peace into obedience. From Blue Cosmos to Durandal, Meer Campbell, and Foundation, the Cosmic Era is built on manufactured consent....

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The Fascism of Peace in Gundam SEED: Blue Cosmos, Durandal, and Genetic Destiny Across Gundam SEED, SEED Destiny, and SEED Freedom, fascism mutates from Blue Cosmos’s purity politics to Patrick Zala’s wounded nationalism, Durandal’s technocratic Destiny Plan, and Foundation’s aristocratic authoritarianism....

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Understanding Queer Erasure in Media Queer erasure is not always absence. Sometimes it is a changed line, a censored relationship, a sanitized character, or a love story rewritten as friendship. This post explores how queer erasure evolved from criminalization and moral panic into modern media censorship, localization changes, and corporate-controlled visibility....

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The Hidden History of Queer Representation in Media The history of queer representation in media reveals its longstanding presence, often masked due to censorship and societal norms. Queer audiences have learned to interpret coded messages and subtext, thus fighting for visibility and acknowledgment. Representation today reflects decades of struggle for authenticity, complexity, and power in storytelling....

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Vincent Valentine Was Not the Monster: Consent, Hojo, and Body Horror in Final Fantasy VII

Hojo, Lucrecia, and the Body as a Crime Scene Vincent Valentine’s story is often framed as a tragedy of guilt. He loved Lucrecia. He failed to stop Hojo. He could not prevent Sephiroth’s creation. He was shot, experimented on, transformed, buried, and left to wake decades later inside a body that was no longer fully his own. By the time Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII places him at the…

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The Militarization of Science in Final Fantasy VII

Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII is often remembered as the gothic Vincent Valentine game: guns, monsters, Chaos, secret laboratories, and the aftermath of Shinra’s sins. But beneath the melodrama and crimson aesthetic is one of the darkest political ideas in the entire Final Fantasy VII Compilation: science does not become monstrous only because one “mad scientist” loses control. Science…

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The Dangers of Comfort: Maruki in Persona 5 Royal

In the previous posts, I moved from language to truth. In Code Geass, the Holy Britannian Empire shows how authoritarian power begins by controlling language. Japan becomes Area 11. Japanese people become “Elevens.” “Honorary Britannian” appears to offer inclusion while preserving exclusion. Language narrows thought, and once thought is narrowed, oppression becomes easier to normalize. Timothy…

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Exploring _On Tyranny_ and Lessons from Code Geass & Persona 5

In my previous analysis of Code Geass, I argued that authoritarian power does not begin with violence. It begins with language. Before domination becomes physical, it becomes linguistic. Japan becomes Area 11. Japanese people become “Elevens.” “Honorary Britannian” appears to offer inclusion, but beneath that surface it preserves hierarchy: you may serve the empire, but you will never truly…

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Foundations of Power: Understanding Domination and Control

How power becomes system, perception, and lived reality Power is often discussed as if it is something an individual possesses—something held like a tool or weapon. In reality, power is not a possession but a relationship. It exists between actors, within institutions, and through shared systems of meaning that determine what people perceive as possible, acceptable, or inevitable. Domination, in…

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Understanding the Military-Industrial Complex Through Gundam SEED

Eisenhower’s Warning In 1961, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a warning that continues to resonate in modern political discourse: Society must guard against the “unwarranted influence” of the military-industrial complex. This was not an abstract philosophical concern. Eisenhower was describing a structural relationship in which war, capitalism, industry, and politics become…

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The Role of Perspective in Understanding Persona 4 Golden

In Persona 4 Golden, the pursuit of truth appears straightforward: investigate the murders in Inaba, identify the culprit, and uncover what “really” happened. From the moment Yu Narukami arrives and Mayumi Yamano and Saki Konishi die, the game frames itself as a mystery. However, as the narrative unfolds, that expectation begins to break down. Rather than leading to a stable answer, the…

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PCOS Symptoms and Treatment: A Personal Journey

Back in February, I was officially diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome—commonly known as PCOS. According to the World Health Organization, PCOS affects roughly 10–13% of women of reproductive age, and up to 70% of those affected may not even know they have it. That gap between prevalence and diagnosis is part of what makes this condition so frustrating—and, at times, isolating. For those…

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Linguistic Control: From Language to Oppression

Be kind to our language.Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up yourown way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you thinkeveryone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from theinternet. Read books. Why Critical Thinking Begins With Language Critical thinking is not optional in a climate shaped by authoritarian tendencies—it is essential. Language shapes…

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Understanding Hyperreality in Persona 4 Golden

Media Does Not Report Reality, It Produces It: The Midnight Channel as Hyperreal System in Persona 4 Golden In Persona 4 Golden, the question of truth is never simply about uncovering what happened. Instead, the game constructs a system in which “truth” is actively produced through media circulation, collective interpretation, and attention. The Midnight Channel, the game’s central supernatural…

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Kanji, Rise, and Naoto: Identity as Disciplinary Power in Persona 4

In Persona 4 Golden, identity is not presented as a stable internal truth but as something continuously produced through systems of interpretation, surveillance, and social normativity. What initially appears as small-town rumor culture in Inaba gradually reveals itself as a structured regime of visibility—one that determines which identities are legible, which are acceptable, and which are…