the point im trying to make here is arakawa doesnt demean her women characters or treat them as eyecandy/fanservice because shes a women who knows better and she knows she doesnt need to do that if she writes them well.
Feminist side of brain: agreement w/ everything above
Lesbian side of brain: ghhhh catRiza hot
for a minute there I forgot riza was the lady and thought the fire-finger guy got dressed up as a sexy cat
If you ever even think about making me visualize sexy cat Roy Mustang again I’m gonna lose it, I’m just gonna fucking snap istg
Why can I actually see that as something Roy would do? Like? Come on?
sexy cat roy is 20x more in-character than sexy cat riza and i hate it
Being a procrastinator with a violent fear of failure is almost hilarious because like 80% of the time I’m like “I’m not even going to think about this” and then there’s like a distinct moment when everything switches and it turns to “I can’t fail oh my god I need to turn this into an A in like a day why am I like this”
You know, it’s almost like that was the fucking problem in the first place you stupid bastards
the absolute need for every online video platform to become just like cable tv despite the fact their success comes from not being like cable tv is just overwhelming
Really, REALLY wish they’d make technology keep track of how much a thing got watched, bill the relevant streaming service accordingly, and let/make services offer everything. I don’t care if it’s via some kind of reciprocity arrangement or a standardized central database or what, I want to pick one (1) streaming service, pay their subscription fee, and have access to every film, TV episode, cartoon, or sports game ever made.
I believe in you!!! Go be the swamp witch and bog monster of your dreams!
Become a forest hermit! Build infrastructure out of baked goods! Lure small orphans into your gingerbread home! You don’t need an excuse to be your true self!
I can finally become the cannibalistic forest cryptid I always knew I was inside!!!!
Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew
Some male friends of mine were once talking about how useful they’d be in an apocalypse, and I pointed out that as a weaver and sewer and maker of stuff, I’d be pretty damn useful and they tried to tell me they could just loot clothes from WalMart and they’d be fine. As if WalMart has endless supplies without weekly deliveries.
So just last night a friend of mine was talking about who he’d round up in the event of a zombie apocalypse and how I’m his go-to farmer on account of I know how to keep an entire homestead up and running and we’re talking about what kind of resources I’d need to keep a colony of about 50-ish people alive and i bring up what all goes into processing wool for clothing and such and he just kind of stops me like ‘wait, wait, we don’t need to do all of that because we can scavenge for clothes we don’t need to be able to make them’ and i’m just like, ‘dude, that works in the short-term maybe but if this community is going to be sustainable you’ve gotta have people whose job it is to make clothes and blankets and shit’
also cloth rots pretty quickly when left exposed to the elements and after the first few years or so anything we manage to scavenge isn’t going to be wearable anymore and anywho we’ve got to teach the kids everything or they’re not gonna know what to do some decades down the line when everything’s too rusted or rotted out to be of any practical use anymore, etc etc, and he’s reckoning that things like woodworking and smithing and ranching are more important than say, cleaning or cooking or dairying and meanwhile i’m just smh may all the gods have mercy on this poor fool
He also balked when i brought up how to run a laundry and what all was needed to make everyday shit like soap and toothpaste – like dude, you think this is going to be all about hunting and scavenging and being neato manly-man drifters like in the walking dead let me teach you a thing about keeping a village alive and healthy for more than a week man most of it is shit you keep thinking is non-essential on account of it being “women’s work” or “simple chores” that’re actually pretty labor-intensive and take time, training, knowledge, and practice to do successfully, let alone well, and are 100% absolutely necessary work in order for you to have any reasonably good quality of life after the world ends
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