The more I listen to political discourse, the more it seems like the disagreements start with what problems people are willing to believe exist.
Like. The 'human trafficking isn't real' folks and the 'racism isn't prevalent in any significant aspect of our society' folks and the 'diseases can't kill you in a way that matters' folks and the 'abortion isn't eugenics' folks and just.
It seems like if you walk up to someone and say, 'hey I have a paper cut, can I get a bandaid' and their response is 'paper can't cut you, paper has never cut anyone ever, here is a statistical analysis about the safety of paper as compared to knives' then that's just not very helpful, is it.
We won't get anywhere until we start believing each other.
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care to share more on how you understand narancia and mista now? i鈥檝e been here throughout you trying to understand them and i love to hear your thoughts
Not them necessarily but the dynamic that I created in my brain that intrigued me so
So my initial dynamic was; they're close in a diff way than just bros. Narancia is aro-ace and Mista is anything but. Somehow their relationship makes sense even though they're like opposites. But how??.
Me now? Shit dude labels do not fuckin matter. Romantic? Platonic? Family and found family and friends?? None a that shit matters any more than exactly what you want it to.
What I've been into lately is, if you love someone, thassit. No explanation needed because some things aren't for words. I am a believer in Mista and Narancia having a sort of bond that doesnt have a title because its unique; Narancia puts the most emphasis on friendship so Mista is a Best Friend, Mista puts an emphasis on romance and family so Narancia is a Beloved Found Family Member (non-familial, found family ain't the same as biological family). Its wildly different understandings of each other but the thing is they love each other just as much so it doesn't matter. Who give a shit? The Popo? Society? Neither of them adhere to any rules but Brummo's and their own so they just do whatever and get an understanding. And no one needs to know what's up, not even them, because how could you summarise human emotion anyway? Live and vibe and love each other the best you can.
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I do not like to make posts like these too often, but it really feels that so often, me liking hated villain characters is used as a cudgel against me when I criticize other characters I find unlikable. You guys, there is a difference between a villain character that is written to be evil and hated that justifies them being the enemy of the good guys and a protagonist/ally character that you are supposed to like but does things that are annoying or unlikable and doesn't have enough redeeming qualities to make up for it.
The first is acknowledged and intentionally written to be a bad guy that does bad things- the other is not supposed to be, but turns out to be so anyway, usually due to bad writing. It is not inherently contradictory or hypocritical to be annoyed by and dislike one, but not the other.
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