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@wajjs can confirm Train to Busan made me cry

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@wajjs you are absolutely correct Batman Ninja was so pretty

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@thelionshoarde I’m playing Pokémon Blue! On my GameBoy! I’m definitely having fun and I do love my Pokémon (I accidentally named my Nidoran “L” but I think that it might be too funny even if I could change it)

I have Squishy (squirtle), Cute (Spearow), Nedzu (Rattata), and Blinky (Pidgey) as well

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 @wajjsreplied to your post: OMG YOU MADE IT TO LOTUS PIER ARC

JC IS CRYING AND I’M CRYING

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 @thelionshoarde replied to your post: Okay, I’m curious so I gotta ask - what all do you mean by lack of character agency?

Character agency is asking the question “does this character’s actions impact the plot in any way” and if the answer is no then also ask “does removing this character entirely affect the plot in any way” and if that answer is no then there’s no character agency

Character agency is when the character’s actions affect the plot, and either them making a different choice or them not being there at all means that the plot isn’t happening whatsoever. It’s why character agency and macguffin (the Object that the plot hinges around, like how the Avengers movie had the tesseract and without it there wouldn’t be an Avengers movie)

Tsuna is like... existing in that uncanny valley of “his personal actions have no bearing on the plot” but also “removing Tsuna means that the plot doesn’t happen” which. makes him a macguffin (like... without Tsuna there literally wouldn’t be a plot)

It’s not that Tsuna lacks character agency because without him there would be no plot, it’s that his actions and desires and choices don’t really affect the plot at all. You could replace him with, say, Xanxus and have it be that Xanxus got sent to Japan and the plot (he’s the next Vongola boss and has to go up against Mukuro/Byakuran/the Shimon) would still be the same

plus, Tsuna isn’t taking control and making his own decisions and overall learning to be a boss. Reborn is the one in control and the one making decisions and shoving Tsuna into the battles with the expectation that Tsuna will win

It’s why Tsuna in the future arc declaring during the ring trial that he will destroy Vongola is character agency! He’s making a decision that will (or should) impact how he and his friends move forward! It’s a belief for him to hold that will put him in conflict with other mafia families and drive the plot forward!

But then he doesn’t do any of that and goes back to his usual “I will not be a mafia boss” self and the plot still goes on unchanged because his mere existence is what the plot centers around and not his actions or decisions

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 @wajjs replied to your post: or you could just write ANOTHER IDEA! words are words, right? it counts, right?

it does, yes! I really could do that!

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 @ave-aria replied to your post: I love how this implies that you think you're going to manage going an entire year without impulse buying a book

I mean, it really depends on whether I can get to go anywhere. And if there’s gonna be a half-price books warehouse sale. And if...

okay fine. I’m gonna impulse buy at least one book before the end of the year.

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ave-aria replied to your post: Possession au: When danny finds out phantom is...

Worse: it makes Danny ‘Next In Line For the Throne’. Danny threatens to break up with Phantom just to dodge the responsibility.

pffff the perfect blend of comedy and angst and also maybe their first fight