marichat marichat marichat i know this has been harped on endlessly but it's imo the best dynamic of the love square!! they're both at their loosest, their free-est, because there's no expectations on either end. they appreciate each other as friends, and then there's the complication of that and also BEING IN LOVE LOVE WITH THE OTHERS. SECRET. IDENTITY. it's so good and it's so fun because they're both able to act without fear of upholding a certain expectation/character. Ladybug always has to be put together, has to be the most responsible in the room and able to come up with a solution. Adrien is a super model, upholder of who knows how many titles in who knows how many things. marichat boils the two of these characters into their most, in my eyes, free selves. oh bless marichat i love you mwah mwah mwah
having the funnest time ever watching the gay hockey people through gifs and little feral clips happy times from the violently homoreotic / homoerotically violent skaters or something like that
recently received some little pocket notebooks for being born, and I decided to make a little commonplace book out of one. except, beneath the quotes i put little commentary on *why* that specific quote was so significant to me.
it's made me pretty much realize 2 things: 1) art is everywhere, 2) writing down stuff really does help it stick. and those two things are obviously like, *obvious*. i see meaning in so many small words and those small words are EVERYWHERE. the realization of which brought me to a third epiphany: i can hear all the stories and life lessons i want, but experiencing them firsthand and having that personal realization-- that feeling of "oh that's what everyone was talking about all this time" is very necessary and a very humanizing experience.
so I've seen a lot of people who missed Ambrosius's long hair-- which, yeah no that would have been fabulous-- but i think i understand the choice hair choice (finally!!).
at first I thought, you know, he's young so he'll keep it short for the sake of convenience and such. BUT THEN!!! I realized:
Ambrosius is modeled after his voice actor, Eugene Lee Yang, who is Korean, so Ambrosius is obviously also is of some Korean descent as well. His hair is naturally black. But in order to keep up appearances, he dyes/bleaches it blonde. And I think that fits so perfectly with the model minority aspect of Nimona, because it's just another subtle reminder of how people are forced to change themselves to be accepted.
Keeping his hair short, while a bit less fabulous than his Rapunzel look, more clearly conveys the contrast. And maybe they could've just made his roots black (would have done the job well I think?), but the bluntness of the long wavy locks Gloreth once had against the close shave of black has a certain effect to it.
I like to think that, after all is well and they've had an enough months years to heal, Ambrosius would stop dyeing his hair, and grow it out. Let those long locks shine, baby.
(this is not to say that hair dyeing is bad, which i'm not sure this is implying but just in case. Ambrosius not dyeing his hair is for more Symbolic TM purposes than a stylistic choice, which I'm not sure he's gotten to make given gems been bleach blonde since he was young)
Thanks for the tag @perseverantdt!!! This is really just a bit late so apologies for that. I've never shared much about myself before, but let me give it a go!
Last song: No idea, but probably Ikaw Lang by NOBITA, the Cabin Fever album by Purple Kiss, or Chandelier by Sia
Last show: Vanitas No Carte (The Case Study of Vanitas)
Currently reading: Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan!! and Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong
(I'm reading Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina American Writers by Nick Carbó as well, but a bit less frequently since the content is a bit heavy)
Currently watching: Jujutsu Kaisen and Kimi ni Todoke
side note: I WANT TO WRAP SAWAKO IN A BLANKET AND GIVE HER A HUG
Current obsession: Diluven. Diluven brainrot. Also how to integrate magic and sci-fi together for my wip (but mostly diluven brainrot). Like it's the themes. THE THEMES. eternal lover and fiery mortal?? blue and red??? guardian and their god?????? HELLO?????????
Anyway, I feel like this is a bit short compared to others, but that's it from me!! I'll just tag some of my fellow writing peeps :D
This doesn't apply to everyone, but when I say I'm genderfluid I'm referring to my experience with gender. Yes, I am technically nonbinary, but that doesn't mean referring to me as a man or a woman is incorrect.
When I say I'm genderfluid, it means my gender is fluid, which should be self-explanatory. But many of the people in my life don't refer to me as a man or a woman, but rather always as a person or "something unidentified" (as a joke but come on). Sometimes, they refuse to refer to me as a woman/man, even when I've asked them to. Other times, specific people will go out of their way to correct me when I refer to myself as a man or a woman, and instead tell me that "I am a non-binary person."
This technically is true. Being genderfluid means I fall under the umbrella of non-binary people. But that shouldn't stop me from identifying as a woman or a man and calling myself such. Because that's beauty of genderfluidity: being able to change your gender based on what feels most comfortable.
In my mind, the term genderfluid means that my gender is fluid. It will change. Meaning that when I feel like a woman but you insist on calling me a non-binary person because "that's what I really am", you're really just overlaying your own experiences/knowledge of genderfluidity/other gender identities onto mine and pretending that you know better when it's not your body and mind.
When I feel like a man, I am a man. When I feel like a woman, I am a woman. When I feel like a non-binary person, I am a non-binary person.
Please don't trap me in the box of your understanding. Please respect both the non-binary AND the fluid parts of my identity. Thanks.
Note: I want to reiterate that this is my personal experience with genderfluidity, and thus doesn't apply to every single genderfluid person. I just wanted to voice my frustrations on what (I hope) is simply a misunderstanding about my genderfluidity and not the persisting stigma that genderfluid people don't actually exist. This is not meant to be educational or defining about the genderfluid experience in any way, since it greatly varies from person to person.
