There’s a difference between inclusivity and domination. At no point should anyone dominate by means of excluding others. But at the same time, inclusivity shouldn’t aim towards domination.
There’s a sweet middle-ground that creates a balance where everyone can be content and stories can be told wonderfully while maintaining the source material and character essences.
In short, everyone should stop trying to be dominant and be humble instead. That will give rise to true and fair representation for everyone. And by everyone, I mean everyone.
So I've been seeing a lot of NaLu posts as of recently, and I thought I'd put in my two bits.
So Lucy is out getting something at the market and leaves her celestial keys behind, and Natsu wants to plan out something romantic for her while she's out. But this is Natsu, romance isn't exactly his strong suit. So he's thinking and thinking and then he notices her keys. Who better knows her than her Celestial spirits?
At first he's unsure if he can call them, but Leo comes out anyway because he knows Natsu. Leo also convinces Cancer to come out and the two start sprucing up Natsu's look and giving him advice on what to say and do. While Leo's advising him, Taurus comes out and he's trying to give Natsu advice, albeit if it's a bit...naughty. Of course Leo and Taurus are arguing over what to tell him. Natsu gets everything sorted out on what to say and thanks the spirits for their help.
Later, when she's recovered her keys and they're hanging out, he's putting what he was told to use and it's sweeping Lucy off her feet and she is just astounded where he learned some of these things. Out of the corner of his eye, he can see one of her keys glint, almost like it was winking at him.
I know, I am like a month and a half late to the party, and I’m not sure if someone already said this...but, remember a few weeks ago when we were all flipping out about Hera telling Kanan “I love you” and thinking it was for the first time because she started the sentence off by saying, “I know what to say now.” followed by Kanan’s pained laugh afterwards.
Well... I have watched that episode multiple times since then and after seeing the finale, I have come to the conclusion that Hera only said “I know what to say now” in regards to her previous comments with Kanan as soon as he finished scaling the Lothal Imperial Complex.
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Once they were done scaling the walls, Hera rolled over and said to Kanan, “You’ve always been there for me, whenever I needed you.”
And Kanan, still trying to catch his breath replied, “Well, that’s the job, isn’t it?”
And Hera, sternly, replied, “No. That is not what I’m saying.” ---Before almost falling off the roof.
Kanan catches her and asks, “What are you saying?”
But by then a very drugged Hera gets distracted by the gliders and the subject is dropped.
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Cut to the fuel supply scene and Hera, coming more to her senses now that the truth serum has worn off, she rushes up to him and says, “I know what to say now. I love you.”
The biggest spot of deception is when Kanan laughs it off as the truth serum talking, and we all assumed it was because Hera had never said those words to him before---BUT, now I’m thinking that he only laughed it off BECAUSE she was high on truth serum, and it was making her say that to him right then and there.
He laughed because it was a random thing to say when they were fleeing in mortal danger, and Hera normally wouldn’t randomly confess her love to him in such a stressful situation.
And the second line of deception was when Hera said “I know what to say now”.
She only said that because she was trying to find the words “I love you” back on the Imperial Complex, and due to the truth serum, she was unable to think of the words. As soon as she could, she said them, and only now am I realizing that it was definitely not the first time she confessed her love, but it was surely the strangest way she’d ever done so.
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That’s my two bits about it. I keep seeing people say things about how it was the first time she “finally” told him she loved him, and I don’t think that’s really what we were supposed to see.
It was super easy for us to assume based on the wording of the two deceptive factors in that conversation, but looking back, it’s easier to see between the lines of it and figure out what was actually being said/felt by the characters.
Asking Taylor who the song is. about or which random guy she’s dating (currently it’s her darling Joe btw in case you missed that) is like asking J K Rowling how she knows what’s it like to use a forbidden curse or make horcruxes. Or idk why Barbie was given a Ken. Or why there are like three love triangles in Stranger Things. You really want to know? It’s called having empathy and understanding how other people feel. Taylor hasn’t lost a son named Ronan but she was able to empathize and woke with his mother to make a beautiful love song (ya know cause it’s not just romant love). Or how the forbidden curses do the worst thing of taking away someone’s free will in one way or another. How killing someone will make you you live longer, in the lives of those who love the dead, but tears a part of your humanity away. Or how Barbie was a doll to inspire young girls and that includes introducing not just motherhood but relations outside of family. Or how romantic love is tangled and complicated and sometimes people are just awesome and others notice at the same time. Taylor Swift is a storyteller and she doesn’t just tell her own story but ones she thinks should be told and heard nonetheless. Please respect that the point isn’t the origin of the story but who it is able to console.
The jungle book remake is by no means.... a good movie persay, and some characters maybe kind of... out of character but... it all depends on what the viewer's relationship was with the original, if you didnt watch the original growing up or just prior to watching the movie... i can see alot of people not getting into it baloo and bahkeira were always my fav gay dads growing up tho
So I’ve played otome games before (still am actually) and it follows a pretty predictable theme.
For whatever the case or reason, MC and Guy meet in some way, they’re usually stuck together for some odd reason or two or they go to the same school, (Shall we date: Wizardess Heart takes place in a “prominent academy”) and so in turn they spend time together.
Depending on the fella you picked, it might take some time to actually get your feelings out there. (Like Rennoshin on Shall we date: Ninja Love) We get a confession from both Guy and MC towards the climax of the story where there’s huge drama and shit. After drama has passed we get that happily ever after.
ChiNoMiko made My Candy Love because she didn’t like other otome games, we can guess that there’s going to be something very different from the traditional otome game.
So I still think we’ll get that confession and Candy will get to put her feelings out there.
