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i’m very biased but people acting like atsushi is somehow a bland or unimpressive mc will always be crazy to me because he’s just??? so fucking excellent. i will never get over the way he subverts the classic good guy protagonist trope. his morals being guided not by what society deems right and wrong but by what makes him feel like a good person, and even that can be overridden by his natural inclination to prioritize himself. and we see this from the first chapter. like. hi, my name is atsushi. i love chazuke. i’m going to attack and rob the next person i see, because i’m so hungry. i saved a man from drowning in the river, why isn’t he thanking me? i’ll join his heroic organization even though i don’t want to, because it’s the only way to keep a roof over my head. my two favorite people are ex-mafia members who’ve taken countless lives. my least favorite person is also a mafia member who’s taken countless lives, but it’s different because he’s an asshole to me and my friends. i need kyouka to stay safe, because i care about her, but also because she’s proof that i can help people and that i’m good. today i found out that i killed someone when i was younger, but what did he expect? he hurt me. he deserved it. the man who abused me in childhood died too. he was hit by a truck. it doesn’t matter what his intentions were, because he hurt me. he deserved it. why can’t i stop crying?
popular culture used to be very much about eroticism. rockstars used to be on stage in sequins and thongs and thigh high boots playing guitars like they were masturbating. girls used to wear velvet mini dresses and no bras and red-brick-brown lipstick and mascara on their bottom lashes. people used to have body hair on television and in the movies. people used to be sweaty. people used to touch each other over denim and under cotton. foreplay used to be staring at someone over the rim of a glass across a bar across a park across a dinner table. people used to want. i think we’ve lost something
tbh "let people enjoy things" is just the uwu leftist online discourse version of right wingers' obsession with freedom of speech. it's not about actual censorship because that is literally just not happening on any level, it's about freedom from any and all consequence or criticism of your public behavior.
it's not about infringement of your actual ability to enjoy something that is Problematic or whatever because you can literally enjoy anything you want in your own head, there is no such thing as a fucking thought crime, it's about your ability to publicly enjoy things that actively perpetuate real world harm onto others and specifically to do so without guilt.
and yes sure this can sometimes veer into direct harassment which i am by no means advocating for, but at least when this is leveled at me personally, it is always about me simply saying things on my own blog because never once have i put it in the tags or engaged directly with other people with whom i disagree. and given the fact that i truly am just in my own corner talking to my friends and minding my own business, getting anonymous messages in my inbox about "why can't you just let people enjoy things" is about people wanting the security to know that they will never even run the risk of coming across the suggestion that someone might think the thing you like is Bad. take away the text posts that challenge my worldview i can't let my fragile brain know there's ANYTHING WRONG!!!
like. no one who is discoursing on the internet or whatever is actually stopping you from enjoying whatever you want, but what happens is other people talking about the reasons they do not like the thing ends up making you feel bad that you do like the thing, and because you don't want to feel bad, you claim that other people are carrying out active censorship of your enjoyment or whatever so instead THEY should self-censor their negative opinions which. like. that's a you problem and also not a solution to the problem. your personal comfort in your enjoyment is not paramount here, it does not take precedence over other people's ability to express their discomfort with the way you are doing so.
literally just go hogwild in your own house or in your private discord server with your friends who are also into the thing if you are that sensitive to public criticism OR literally just stop caring about that public criticism and keep doing whatever you're doing like why do you even care.
"let people enjoy things" WHO is stopping you? me talking on my own blog about why i personally think the thing sucks? i'm not reaching through the computer screen and taking your shitty ship or poor fascist little meow meow or woobified gay slaveowner or whatever away from you. baby you are the one who chose to be here and keep reading what i have to say. honestly, either grow a conscience and a brain cell or grow a spine. at this point i don't care which one.
