You cannot tell me, a gay man, that I’m not allowed to be uncomfortable by your obsession with gay men
It’s okay if you like and enjoy yaoi! Please do! But if you aren’t a gay man and you are obsessing over it, turning it into your entire personality, shipping your IRL friends, fetishizing it.. yeah I’m gonna be uncomfortable with that. That’s weird and gross.
Gay men are not some sorta fascinating alien species
Something I’ve noticed is that people love to constantly headcanon male characters who are submissive and fem as transmen and that kinda pisses me off -a trans man
- if the character is trans coded I get it
- but if you’re only saying they’re trans because the person playing them has fem features that’s a dick move
- very weird of you
- cis men can be fem too
- plus I hate this stereotype that all trans men are super feminine and anxious and subs
Sometimes, you just gotta crawl up to your bed, curl up with your blankets, scream into a pillow then don't get back up until you're ready for shit to go down. Doesn't matter if it takes a long time, so just don't worry on how much time passes, just breath in and know that you're human, you're you, you get tired and will inevitably need breaks. You aren't running late or being too early, you're just in time of what you're doing. Live.
Los argentinos y uruguayos viven debatiendo sobre quién inventó el tango, el dulce de leche, el mate, Gardel pero hay algo que es solo de nosotros los uruguayos: las galletitas Bridge 😊
trust me, i know all of my flaws and what i have to work on. it’s not your job to point them out, you dipshit. do you just enjoy making me feel like shit about myself? because if you do, you’re winning. i guess that’s what you want though.. the satisfaction of getting to someone and hurting them.
So, as I ended up playing Conquest before Birthright, I went in with the mentality that Conquest was the “grey area” playthrough--you had to commit several evils for the greater good, going against your morals and your family to bring about peace. It worked in the end, but at a great cost. And the whole time there was a tiny voice in the back of my head that kept telling me it wasn’t right.
But as I played more and more of Birthright, I noticed I felt much more...righteous. My moral qualms were limited to the battles I had with my siblings (which hurt like HELL since I played Conquest first) and I still held sentimentality for Nohr, but for the most part I didn’t feel nearly as guilty. You spend the first half of the game virtuously searching for your lost brothers, and the other half taking down a corrupt king who’s tried to kill you and has brought pain to both Nohr and Hoshido. Plus, there was scarcely a voice raised against Hoshido’s cause while there were outright rebellions against King Garon. Birthright paints Nohr as evil, and Hoshido as a righteous peaceful kingdom.
In Conquest, on the other hand, it never quite felt like I was doing the right thing. It feels like you stay only for your family and the sliver of loyalty you have for your “father.” Then, the game is comprised of you suppressing people who have been wronged by King Garon and generally carrying out violent orders for a man who’s just trying to have you killed. You put down people who were being oppressed Garon. You had to attack innocent dancers to find one! Yes, you were “merciful” most of the time but it didn’t change that you were fighting for an evil person. Even without knowing his true identity, you were able to see that Garon was ruthless. So much was at play here, and there was a lot of good going on in the shadow of the bad. But it certainly wasn’t objectively grey. Like I said above, you committed countless evils for a greater good. Conquest only confirms the darker, violent side of Nohr that Hoshido resents so greatly.
I initially thought that Birthright was the simpler, black-and-white path while Conquest was the harsh grey area. But after playing through both, Conquest and Birthright are the black-and-white respectively. Both are the traditional light and dark, the good and evil, right and wrong. Leo even blatantly said in Birthright (Chapter 18) that Nohr is “the darkness” and Hoshido is a ray of light, and comments that you’ve become soft for being in the light for so long.
Nohr is meant to be presented as a dark, “evil” kingdom and Hoshido as noble and virtuous. Black and white.
Never think of self-harming people as “weak”. They are not weak. I can’t imagine how much it must take to bring a blade to cut own skin on purpose. I get scared merely thinking about doing it. They’ve had to fight a lot and they don’t see any other way now, they probably feel cornered. It’s your job to show them that it’s doesn’t have to be that way and that they are not alone.
