I can almost guarantee that Makoto has never been told that he’s good at anything. I think he’s always tacitly understood that he’s a good brother, a good son, a good friend. But simply understanding something doesn’t make a person believe that they have value and I can tell you that Makoto doesn’t value himself. It’s a Steve Rogers Complex. He may be a good amazing man, but he knows all of his flaws acutely and that’s all he can focus on. He’s a scardey-cat. He doesn’t have any special skills. He’s too nice. He’s too boring. He does average in school. He certainly has no idea what he wants to do in life, and he’s a crowd-pleaser. This is how Makoto sees himself. He doesn’t see the wonderful, kind, sweet, selfless, loyal, gentle giant that he is. He assumes that he has no value and this is how he’s seen himself from childhood.
This is a child who does everything for other people because he doesn’t believe that he himself is worth anything. Now imagine being best friends with a prodigy.
We’ve all had that one friend who is better than us at something. Better at drawing, singing, school, whatever. Remember how shitty you felt when you realized no matter how hard you work that you’ll never reach their level? That’s Mako. Now mix it with an immense guilt-complex and selfless love for Haru. Not only is he feeling like shit about himself, he’s confused, upset, and guilty about his feelings of jealousy because friends aren’t supposed to feel that way about friends.
Makoto never processed those emotions, he just locked them away until they became unbearable (2 episodes ago). Makoto sees himself as a tool for other’s self-realization, so it’s inconceivable to him that he has talents; that he’s good, really goodat swimming.
Now imagine how he must feel when Rinsits down with him and tells him that he should be getting calls from scouts with his skill level.
Makoto was so focused his entire life on how amazing Haru and Rin were at swimming that he never realized his own talent. Now someone’s telling him that he may have a future, a professional future, that mind you, not everyone can achieve, in something he’s always seen himself as mediocre in.
Makoto Tachibana is valuable. He is worth something. He is irreplaceable and must be loved within an inch of his life. This has been a PSA and I hope you’re all drowning in your tears like I am.
So like tumblr did that reset ur password thing and i didnt know microsoft doesnt let me log into my old email anymore so :) I might need to just make a new tumblr
Every single one. Like maybe there are some nts but only like one percent.
Evidence:
- it is a social norm to not make eye contact unless you are going to battle
- most trainers specialize in one type aka special interests
- no small talk. It is acceptable to introduce yourself by talking about whatever the fuck is in your mind and then going straight into a battle
- speaking of which, that youngster that says shorts are “comfy and easy to wear” totally has sensory issues that make him hate jeans
- random ass npcs will infodump you on miscellaneous aspects of the game. That o-pin guy in x/y totally has o-pins as a special interest
- all the player characters are partially nonverbal, they can usually only say “yes” and “no”, and they use scripts to order their pokemon in battle (names of moves and stuff like “the foe is weak! Get ‘em (pokemon name)!” No one finds anything notable about this or anything wrong with it
- the reason battling is turn-based is because many/most people have slow processing time and it’s considered honorable to respect this and allow your opponent to time to think
- the emphasis on collecting/trading and how it’s such a common hobby in that world.
- Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of pokemon, is autistic
- I’m sure there’s other evidence I’m forgetting
But basically this is canon and no one can convince me otherwise
i’m putting this under a readmore so it’s a little less abrasive eheh ;;
Name: Andrea
Nickname(s): Rea, Reina... Princess ( r__r) i never escape those last two, it seems.
Gender: ???
Star Sign: Cancer
Height: 5′7″ - 5′8″ ?? somewhere around there
Sexual Orientation: ???
Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff !
Favorite Color: I can’t decide ;; it’s a tie between orange and yellow rn BUT it was pink for a very long time
Time Right Now: 2:22pm
Average Hours of Sleep: 12
Lucky Number: 9, 13, 4.
Last Thing I Googled: Mayoiga.
Fav Fictional Character: hermione g., karamatsu, kiyoko shimizu, maki honoka ... volpina. i have a lot !! > u<)9 some are super obvious (like makoto?? haha)
Blankets I Sleep With: i sleep with like ... 4. sometimes i even put my sleeping bag over them if the blankets aren’t enough. (i’m that type of person that gets cold easily, lmao).
Favorite Artists/Bands: selena quintanilla, snsd, l’autentika, etc etc. i don’t really know.
Dream Trip: visiting europe with my closest friends... going to their home countries, too!
Dream Job: secretary, i think.
When Did You Make This Blog: i have no idea. it was yeeeeears ago!!
Posts: 28k
Follower Count: 400 something
When Did Your Blog Reach Its Peak?: Idk??
Why did you get Tumblr?: a friend of mine had one and pressured me to make one. in the beginning i was too shy to use it, so i just kind of liked and followed people’s posts but kept my blog empty eheh. ;; Eventually i started to do stuff though.
Do You Get Asks On A Daily Basis?: when i was in high school i used to. but normally no (unless i’m having a convo with someone).
Why Did You Choose Your URL?: my internet mom-friend gave me that nickname so i chose it as a url. > uo)v
T A G G I N G: @charkbites , @tadanoris , @rydiaasuka , @azureberry-punch , @whoawhatwhoa .
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Okay but this is true?? Shut up with your bullshit, the medical industry for a very very long time has used the able bodied white cis male as their standard and that has very real healthcare consequences for a lot of people.
Do you know why most women don’t know when they’re having heart attacks? Why heart attacks kill more women than men? Because symptoms of a heart attack are different for women and the ones that doctors usually recognize and publicize are the symptoms experienced by men. Do you know why it’s so difficult for Black and Brown people to get diagnosed if they have skin cancer? Because doctors have been taught to recognize it on white people. People of size are constantly told that their problems are entirely because of their weight and doctors don’t even bother to look beyond that to be sure that’s the case. So those people have medical conditions go undiagnosed properly for years, and die in the process. Fuck, even just the fact that people think it’s okay to charge women more for healthcare because “they have extra parts” (?????) is indicative of the way the male body has been considered the standard for fucking ever. And the healthcare needs of disabled people or trans people? Forget about it.
OP is 1000% right. The medical industry has used the able cis white male body as their standard of care for CENTURIES and that has real consequences for the rest of us today. It’s getting better but it’s not where it should be. So fuck off with your snarky commentary, you’re wrong. The healthcare industry is not equipped to handle the needs of people with disabilities, women, PoC, trans people, people of size, etc. and that’s in large part due to the fact that the established body of medical knowledge was created by studying able, cis, white male bodies almost exclusively.
Hey there folks, speaking as a trained EMT and a pre-med student, I can confirm that the above person is approximately 7000% accurate. In my EMT training, I would repeatedly ask ‘’but what if my patent is a woman” or “what is my patient is a person of color” and at first all I got was shock. Then I got confused bumbling. I got some answers–basic symptoms of a heart attack in women, how to recognize cyanosis in someone of color, the basics of how to work with an autistic patient or someone who for whatever reason can’t communicate well with you. In fact, EMTs and other EMS workers are getting a lot better at learning the differences between the health care for a person of color or someone disabled. We were even told that we would need to ask our patients for their biological sex (I know, I’m really sorry, I know that there are people who find this intensely uncomfortable or even harmful, but there are real medical reasons for this and most decent EMTs will use whatever pronouns you ask them to). But most if not all of the answers we were given about women were directly related to gynecological issues. The guys teaching me? They were good guys. Nice. Funny. Smart. Devoted to caring for patients. Impassioned about protecting people, especially women and teenaged girls, from assault. Largely not sexist toward me or their coworkers. Hell, they were even smart enough to say “listen, boys, the women in this class have a higher pain tolerance than you, they just do, and as a rule if a women says their pain is a 5 on a scale of 1-10, assume it’s somewhere around an 8” when a kid laughed during the gyno unit. But they just didn’t know what to say when I asked “so if you’re supposed to palpate the patient’s chest, what do you do if your patient’s a triple-D” or when I asked “so if your patient gets menstrual migraines, how do you know if this headache is a stroke or not.” They had never been taught. This is a real problem, one that many medical professionals work hard to remedy once they start practicing. But this is not bullshit. At all. The standard patient is a cis white guy with no disabilities or chronic illnesses. It’s a huge fucking problem and I’m going to need you to step down with your bullshit, there, friend.
This is an issue with mental health too, where people of color (black and Hispanic people especially) are less likely to be taken seriously with mental issues, and where community outreach for these groups is very very different from the kinds of programs that might be effective for white people.
Autism is rarely diagnosed in women because the symptoms doctors look for are all specific to men. Doctors used to blame depression and other mental illnesses in women on a misbehaving uterus, and it’s still a struggle for women to get their symptoms taken seriously enough to merit proper treatment.
Mental health for LGBT people has a long history of being an oppressive shitshow, given how long it took the medical community to stop pathologizing sexuality and gender identity. (Conversion therapy is still legal!)
When we talk about Latinx Representation we should ask ourselves, which Latinx? It’s interesting that, despite Jane the Virgin being about a Venezuelan family (played entirely by Puerto Rican actresses) and the Salazars on Fear the Walking Dead being Salvadorian (played by a Panamanian actor and a Swedish actress!), both stories are similar in that they are generically about “immigration.” But there’s nothing to make them specifically Venezuelan or specifically Salvadorian. Because to Hollywood, and to the average viewer, there’s no difference. Latinx are simply generic, interchangeable brownish people from that ever-nebulous part of the world that’s “South of the Border.” And don’t they all pretty much have the same story? Don’t they?
Teresa Jusino on recognizing the often-erased diversity of Latinx experiences on & off the screen (x)
What is within me?
Something swelling and cruel.
A monster’s heaving chest,
an empty space where a heart should rest.
In me sits a wide abyss, something hollow
and hungry.
My ribcage is lined with teeth.
do people not realise that girls… have different body shapes. were not all carbon copies of the ‘perfect’ kim k hourglass body. people carry weight in different ways smh. some people have slimmer legs, some people have wider waists, some people have bigger boobs like… thats okay
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