#it made me cry..

[aluraveil]

HUGE SPOILERS FOR HUNTER X HUNTER CHIMERA ARC ENDING

Wow. I just can't believe it.

I finally finished the Chimera Ant Arc and I just feel.. so empty.

That ending was just so sad.. I can't believe it.

It makes me so upset because Meruem really loved Komugi. It's so sad because in the beginning Meruem hated humans but as he spent more time with Komugi he started to change.

The whole character development with Meruem was just so amazing.

It's just so fucking sad because in the ending, Meruem wanted to spend his last moments with Komugi, and she said something among the lines of "if i die then at least ill be with you."

Even though Meruem had told Komugi that the poison inside of him was contagious and that Komugi could possibly die, she didn't care and she still stood by his side in his final moments.

That made me feel so fucking upset and it really hit me. The fact that in the end Meruem had changed his mind about how he felt about humans and how Komugi had cared about him a lot too.

In the last few scenes, the part where Komugi held Meruem's hand and then the episode ending in which heavily implied that the both of them had died... the whole thing just really hit me. I can't help but feel so upset.

I've never cried from watching a show before. But Hunter x Hunter was the first show that has ever made me cry. Congrats.

[llycaons]

under the cut for discussion of csa

also one of the little girls in the bluest eye just went through the same thing dolores went through in lolita and had a stillborn, and actually so did celie from the color purple from HER stepfather, and she had two children she didn't see again for decades. I feel like there's something to be said about how race plays into perception of csa survivors and how misogynoir doubles up the victim-blaming and adultification of black survivors. and how like, obviously it was a tragedy that dolores lost so much, but she had so much TO lose, her comfortable home and future as a star and her social support system and her education and all that was afforded to her by her relative social privilege of whiteness in 1945. and the society that celie lived in was so racist and misogynistic and unwelcoming to her that the csa she experienced isn't even what trapped her into abuse and poverty and exploitation. there were other economic and social forces at work - namely, her stepfather taking her out of school and forcing her to marry someone of his choosing. which IS an expression of his control over her life and his abuse, but it's compounded on top of his sexual abuse of her, and may have happened regardless. although celie as an adult gained that social support system and a thriving business and a home and love, and dolores never did.

[saya-will-smile]

I really wish more people get to see the show Usagi Drop.. It's a beautiful story and the manga is really good..