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hiii welcome!! you've stumbled upon this blog ^^

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hi mom I rlly like tragic doomed abusive toxic old man robot yaoi!

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discipline 🐘🐘

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Hello edit uhm I don’t really know what is wrong with me and I feel

so

terrible and

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blitzwing and iron maiden crossover aaaaa~

it looks better irl I swear :p

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i really admire how writers manage to convey to mood and scenes just by a few carefully-selected adjectives and a well-constructed sentence... my writing is reealllly boring and flat ;-; I've read the classics, some modern books and a ton of fanfics and my illiterate ass is blown away by how great their writing are (some fanfics are just peak literature in plain sight...)

anyways a lot of my teachers left the classroom in anger and slammed the poor door cuz our exams are absolute dogshit and no one listens to them in class :l i feel kinda sorry, nowadays teachers are treated with little to no respect , eheh

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watching the dark knight until 12 am is cool …

I made a divider !!!

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something in the milk section

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becoming a tf otaku????

im a bit obsessed with the Decepticon high command ^^

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it’s a bit blurry, taken at 1 am

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rant

yea sometimes I wonder why people are just so rude and socially dense enough to be disrespectful towards others and outwardly display racism. You are just humiliating yourself and shitting on your own image. Being mean to someone based on their appearance is a conscious decision. You have to process it through your frontal cortex lobe and the nerve impulse will transmit to your larynx or muscles. Why would you waste all these physical energy to shit on someone’s life? If everyone is raised with an understanding of respect and compassion maybe this wouldn’t happen. I think our society is broken from the start, of course everything ain’t perfect unless you want a perfect utopian (dystopian) type of society where everyone has to repress their emotions and be nice to each other and pain doesn’t exist-WELP I think we should have a balance. both pain and pleasure are like the two sides of the same coin. anyways just be respectful to each other, you can have inner racism or whatever just don’t be outward about it, don’t ruin someone’s day It’s literally 12 am and im kinda half asleep so I’ll edit this in the morning

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I have a type …

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wow I just post smth and a shit ton of bots swarm my page pls get out already

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All right, what did we do in the morning

We will talk about it until we remember

We won’t remember

And at night we will sleep in the church

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*･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･'(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)'･*:.｡. .｡.:*･゜ﾟ･*

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im really tired, please stop buying me ice cream

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a woman and her dog

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Angel's power and backstory is a clear allegory for HIV/AIDs. He siphons people's life away through touch, which is a clear metaphor that involves real life, historic stigma against people with HIV/AIDs. The only time Ronald Reagan commented on HIV/AIDs in an official capacity, he would not confirm or deny that HIV/AIDs was spread through touch. It's not. One of the landmark events of the HIV/AIDs pandemic occured when Princess Diana and Barbara Bush (seperately) were photographed holding the hands of patients with HIV/AIDs. This is all very direct stuff!!

Angel's backstory is a different kind of tragedy than most fiends or devils as he believes the people in his homeland fell victim to his proximity-- 'they died because he loved them', sort of tragedy, a curse, so to speak. The truth that Makima manipulated Angel into destroying his village is something I personally interpret as the state apparatus allowing pandemic to wipe out undesirables. (Notably, HIV/AIDs was largely ignored or mocked until heterosexual children became afflicted largely due to blood transfusions. There were and still exists conspiracy theories that address government responses to AIDs when it primarily affected gay men, drug users, and people of color). I do not like this part, but Angel coming from an exotic and tropical place is also something representative of the disease itself in the mainstream consciousnes (Although I find this symbolism pretty offensive, I thought it was worth mentioning. Calling out, so to speak. Critiquing). Finally, Angel's powers only work when he makes direct contact with others (skin on skin), his powers do not work when he touches others through clothing. Essentially, you can touch him if you wear protection. Still, the fear persists.

Do you see where I am going with all of this? I would not be surprised if Fujimoto was making commentary about HIV/AIDs while writing Angel. I actually consider it blatant and obvious.

HIV/AIDs is no longer a terminal disease. Unlike Aki, who awaits an anticipatory death, Angel resigns to passive existence. He's not going to die, but he's not living either. He's chosen to be a pariah. He's disallowed himself from connecting with others. At first I thought Aki's mortality and his hand reaching out to grab Angel's very dangerous, very deadly hand, was naratively cheap. Aki was going to die anyway. But, I think it's more like life is the most precious to Aki because he has so little of it left to live anyway. Connection, companionship, and even love are all worth that risk.

Speaking of Aki... I don't want to make this post about shipping. It's not really that, but I did want to mention that both of the characters who were closest to Aki before Angel were groomers. Aki was a minor when he met Himeno. Although their relationship has a more innocent vibe than his relationship with Makima, Himeno offering him a cigarette before retracting it to wait until he is an adult is representative of grooming. She's introducing him to the adult world, retracting access, and then priming him for the right time. I think it makes his friendship with Angel more meaningful when I think about how it's maybe their first organic bond since becoming Devil Hunters. Denji and Power were intentionally placed and manipulated into becoming Aki's family. Even Makima is surprised Angel and Aki become close. I really believe that this connection gives Aki the growth he needs to complete his character arc as he accepts love and light into his life despite the risk of loss.