Faith, Purple haired feminist 🧋   Jul 30, 2023

I love watching other people find themselves in ways I find entirely unrelatable. Trans dudes loving their masculinity. Non-binary people confusing the crap out of me. Altersex folks and their body mods. Gay dudes being into other dudes. I don't get any of it, it's not for me, but it's beautiful. 🥰

I also find it profoundly healing. I thought my own needs were weird and therefore disallowed for so many years. Seeing other people fill their needs in ways I don't understand makes me feel like it's okay to fill my needs, even if other people like my family don't understand. Others understanding isn't the point. Living as whole, free people is. 💜

Show threadRob Landley

@faithisleaping I saw an explanation the other day that the reason Japan has so many high school anime is they culturally love stories about _development_.

Here in the states our plot arcs are all about winning and defeating and achieving goals and so on... but in Japan they want to see people mature and grow and learn and so on.

Hence every isekai arc where somebody gains a new skill and gets really good at that skill and everybody else goes "wow, you're really good at that now".

Jul 31, 2023 at 12:40pmWeb