selfish reasoning as to why i want others to succeed (only half-serious) rewatching atla right now, this show holds up so well even though i'm like, at least ten years older then i was when i first watched it

i'm watching atla for the first time rn on behest of my friends! it's great!

main site reveal :O shocking, i know all i ask is please don't mention this site over there, i don't want to lose my whimsy on here

omg i've been avoiding tshd cause i know it'll hit me like a truck, but anyway i lowkey agree... i was thinking abt that with jjk, i can't deny the fact that i love it but it really just follows the default premise of: normal person -> somehow gets powers -> fights big bad guy -> peace yay. some do it better than others but idk. i'll still eat it up, i'm easily entertained LMFAOO

to be fair, i got into anime during lockdown (well, i technically got into it when i was like 3 but that's another story), so part of it is just that while then i watched like 6 episodes a day, now dedicating my time to the same storyline just feels tedious tshd is amazing, but i regret watching it because now i have to wait like two years for the next season haha

having said that, most of my favourite anime/manga are still shounen (hxh, jjk, mha), so it might just be general genre fatigue.

ahh i get it, that's fair. i was introducted to animanga during lockdown n binge watched the fuuuck out of everything. i'm probs in the same boat w/ the genre fatigue. i started w/ aot and i feel like i've been chasing the same feeling i got when watching the finale + that's part of the reason why i don't wanna start watching tshd haha, i might read it but idk! we'll see ^^

Aww omg! I love lurking your blog, didn’t make the connection it was you :’)

@demonic-pedigree haha, i guess my clark kent disguise worked then. tysm for reading though :))

update log: some of my feelings toward the term 'PoC' (spoiler alert: they aren't exactly positive) This is something I've been thinking basically my whole life, although I was reminded of it by a recent SubwayTakes episode

i’m filipino and have had similar thoughts abt it growing up. connotations r important, “coloured” is obvs seen much more negatively because of its use historically. personally i’ve never really minded being referred to as a “poc”, but in the back of my mind i’ll always dislike how it can imply that being white is the norm…

ran out of characters — at least it’s a more sensitive approach to the matter?? but i still see it as form of othering. idk it’s an iffy topic, there’s so many things to consider outside of its use linguistically… referring to myself, i usually just say my ethnicity/nationality now

yeah, that's just my core issue towards it - even when i look up alternative terms to it they all just have a similar issue. Although I understand that it's important to highlight the struggles and oppression that uhh... people of colour face, there's just something that feels... off? At the same time, by the fact that I used it up there, you can kind of tell its necessary...

yuuup, i get u. it's quite upsetting how they exist for a reason :( i wish there was a perfect umbrella term, but it'd be hard to find one that 'feels right' with how society operates