i’ve definitely talked about loran but i guess i somehow never mentioned guin! guin’s treatment of loran is so important to my read of her as trans, because he’s such a chaser it makes loran read as more trans because of how hard he’s chasing

i gotta hop on dear brother, i was already planning on it but this video convinced me i’ll like it WAY more than rose of versailles (which i already liked!)

also turn a gundam fucking rules and i’m glad they agree that guin is 100% a chaser

i gotta hop on dear brother, i was already planning on it but this video convinced me i’ll like it WAY more than rose of versailles (which i already liked!)

also turn a gundam fucking rules and i’m glad they agree that guin is 100% a chaser

i saw the tv glow live rn

whoops, i had it on there the first couple times i tried posting. must have left it out on accident the try that actually worked

watch uc gundam

or read the explanation i wrote in my other post

in zeta gundam char and amuro are drinking together and amuro makes a joke about how char needs to become a human sacrifice like his father to achieve their goals of freeing humanity from earth’s gravity (which is, to oversimplify, a metaphor for bringing about mass class consciousness and breaking the imperialist grip the earth has on its colonies in space)

in the bottom three panels, char looks at his drink, then looks determined, then the last panel is char in the film char’s counterattack, where he has decided to fully become a human sacrifice to achieve this, and amuro is now fighting against him. implicitly char is reminiscing about the previous conversation as he drinks alone this time

i have to ask again, you think the problem people have with it is that it says sexual violence is bad? you think that’s why people dislike it?

the sexual violence in sao is also supposed to be bad! they kill the guy who does it! that doesn’t excuse the framing, it’s still a bad show that handles its sexual assault poorly, but framing sexual violence for titillation is so often combined with setting up a villain and showing just how evil he is. it shows up all the fuckign time, including in series i otherwise love. goblin slayer is worse than most in that it spends more time on it and it’s way more explicit than it usually is, and it’s the first impression the show gives you

wait you think people dislike goblin slayer BECAUSE it shows sexual violence as bad? you think the people who dislike goblin slayer are sitting around going “oh if only there were more wacky sexual harassment i might like this show”?

the problem with goblin slayer is that it shows the sexual violence in a way where it clearly expects the audience to be jacking off and there is no amount of arcs where characters process trauma that will undo that. your standard anime shittiness simply does not compare

it’s fantastic, it’s so nice seeing adult women spending pleasant time together in a grounded way