thealmightyniburu replied to your post “joji in a hoodie vs joji in a suit”
Hoodie for sure. I'd feel bad about ripping off the suit hehe
i want to immediately Stop Being Nasty at you but let me hit you with this.
u give him the goshujin-sama let me get your suit coat for u he does a fat blush and lets u take it and as u pull it off that husky musky joji snell fills ur nose and U do a fat blush and then u kiss kiss fall in love and then u Wake Up and Stop Being Nasty
thealmightyniburu replied to your post “my most underrated throwaway line in a fic this year was in the...”
u dont??
you don’t! It’s actually supposedly more dangerous to use a cork screw bc you’re adding another (heavier, metallic) projectile if the cork goes flying off, as champagne is wont to do if you don’t do it right.
thealmightyniburu replied to your post “kind of annoyed by all of the forced heterosexual romantic subplots...”
is that not around the age they start doing shit like that?
Well. I’m suspicious that that’s accurate. At the very least, I don’t think that’s accurate for everyone, and I think it’s important to be suspicious about what’s presented in television as “fact”, who is writing it that way, and why.
Personally, I never dated until late into highschool. I wasn’t even INTERESTED in dating until highschool. I didn’t even understand why I couldn’t hang out with boys anymore when I started growing up. I didn’t get this titillation with the opposite sex that all these television shows are telling me that children at that age just know, intuitively....somehow. Because the truth is it’s not intuitive. All behavior is learned. Who starts treating boys and girls differently when they pop out of the womb? Adult heterosexuals. Who starts separating children when they reach a “certain age” because you know kids? Adult heterosexuals. Who starts writing television shows where little kids of the opposite sex “fall in love” (like you even know what that is at that age)? Adult heterosexuals.
I can’t watch a show like this and not see, very clearly, plain as day, that adult heterosexuals are writing their sexuality into everything. Even onto little kids. And it makes me very unconformable for two reasons. 1) Heterosexuality is considered the norm until “proven otherwise” and any conversation with a queer teen or adult reveals how hurtful and painful that is (and when adults and kids watch this show and others with the same problems they will, of course, reenact what they are seeing, its like an echo chamber for enforced heterosexuality) 2) it enforces this idea that girls and boys can’t just be friends. That of COURSE things were BOUND TO HAPPEN BECAUSE.....A BOY...ANDAND....A GIRL!!!
And sure, it all works okay for everyone on the show. Everyone gets paired off. Everything is great! But....what if Mad Max’s character didn’t like the boys in her group? What if is she wasn’t interested in any of them, and not just because maybe she wasn’t straight (and I was really hoping she was) but because she was flat out not interested. Would she have really ever been accepted if one of the boys didn’t “want” something from her? Mike made it very clear he wanted nothing to do with Max because he already liked Eleven. I mean....he’s basically saying there’s no point in girls unless you want something from them. And??!?!?
And, finally. For all this rampant sexuality. There are no gay kids. Or adults. Not even a whiff. Not even a hint of someone who might like something other than what’s “expected” of them. And yet, for two seasons straight, they’ve been comfortable with the slur “faggot”.
So....needless to say. While I’m a fan of the mythos. I was kind of disappointed by the second season. For the same reason I usually watch Netflix stuff in first place, to get AWAY from rampant heterosexuality.