#society has rejected them so now theyre rejecting society

[kaleidoscopic-quiddity]

best thing about shigaraki being back in control is that deku (or nana and the vestiges) is probably gonna pull some talk no jutsu ‘youre free from AFO’s influence, you can be better person now!’ shit and hes gonna look him dead in the eye as he says ‘actually, i’m going to be worse’ and tries to decay the entire planet or smthn

[danggirlronpa]

Okay so you said we can send transfem headcanons SO here's two wlw Kazuichi ships. A messed up one and a cute one for flavor.

Kazujunko in this context is so interesting to me because I think Junko would realize Kaz is trans before she's even fully realized it herself, and absolutely use that to manipulate her into despair. She'd play the part of supportive girlfriend who teaches her about make-up and clothes but then fill her head with how the rest of society will mistreat and disrespect her, and how that will never change. How she has no option but to join her, and destroy society before it destroys her.

On the cute side: Soudabuki! I think Ibuki would do great at pulling Kaz out of her shell, help her find a style that fits her and makes her feel comfortable in herself for once. Plus, Kaz has a lot of issues with her appearance and self esteem so I think someone like Ibuki, who would 100% tell her she's hot to her face without shame, would do wonders for her. Also Ibuki directly rejects her in canon, so I think I'd be funny if Ibuki wasn't into guy Kaz but the second Kaz is now a girl Ibuki goes full AWOOGA for her like she does for Peko.

YEAAAH these are both so good!! Tbh I have a big brOTP soft spot for. Well, all the SDR2 kids, because I think SDR2 does by far the best in this aspect, but in particular Kazuichi and Ibuki. The whole scene in the second chapter of everybody meeting up at the restaurant is just so fundamentally Queer Teen Friend Group Meeting Up Outside School Hours. A lesbian and someone who thinks they're the token straight (they are not) talking about how hot girls are. Guy everyone in the friend group has a crush on was dragged along because he has nothing better to do. Everyone here should be tested for autism. It's all there babey

And Kaz and Ibuki in particular have a soft spot for me because they satisfy a big narrative hole in SDR2, with Kazuichi as the only survivor without someone who sacrificed themself on his behalf, and the third trial being the only one that doesn't have this sort of self sacrificial theme. I privately like to pretend that Ibuki somehow kept Kazuichi from getting the Despair Disease as her Best Bro She Talks Abt Girls With.

I love them as a M/F friendship, because I just love M/F friendships so much. But I'm DELIGHTED by the concept of transfem Kazuichi/Ibuki. The pipeline of "bro I talk about hot girls with" to "hot girl I talk about with friends" is so real. Kazuichi like "We'll still be cool right? We'll still talk girls?" and Ibuki going "Yeah of course! (HAJIME GET OVER HERE KAZ HAS BOOBS AND THEYRE SO HOT)"

[averys-happy-space]

red velvet ramblings & headcanons

i started doodling rv and then i started thinking abt him and now i have brain worms

i think rv is kind of like, i dnt know how else to describe this but half were wolf. bc i think his cake arm is like a werewolf arm. this is bc theres a lot of cake hounds and cake brutes which are wolf inspired, so my brain just went like yea, wolf arm. and then i started thinking rv’s skin is entirely red right? and sure it might be bc hes made from red velvet, but most other cookies dont have this, except squink whos a monster and yam who. idk hes yam. anyway ignoring that, i hc that rv’s actually a burn victim and thats why he has red skin. so his body is kind of like, half burnt cake that fades into burn scars and hes a bit disfigured but not like a lot, just tons of scarring. think like third degree burns. also, he was baked with dough that was too thin, hence he ended up being half cake as the mixture was weird and not made properly. and i think he would have chronic pain from being half cake half cookie, because his body is in a constant unbalanced state as one half is thicker (heavier) than the other. so rv is like a fusion between a werewolf and a burnt human. his left half would also have lots of fur just like a wolf, like brute would have.

de is basically rvs mom. and she has lots of big expectations for him. and he feels like hes not able to meet those expectations bc of his physical form being a weird amalgamation between cake/cookie which limits him. and he has a lot of insecurities. bc when ppl see him, they react with disgust/fear, never giving him any chance to really show who he is bc they only see him as “monster” and run away. hence ppl stay a way from him and hes really lonely and insecure about not being good enough, being abnormal. de abuses his insecurity and manipulates him into believing that the only way he will be accepted by society is if they destroy it and rebuild it anew, thats why rv is part of the dark gang. and de KNOWS he loves the cake hounds and other cake creatures bc they are non judgmental, they are like him (cake), they love him as he loves them. so de abuses that, tricking rv into believing ppl also hate cake creatures as they hate him, and tells him he must train the creatures to become weapons for destruction. this only causes ppl to start believing they are aggressive and bad, since they are trained to be that way, which reinforces rv’s hatred for ppl, and it creates a cycle. 

i think rv is rlly similar to werewolf cookie. werewolf isnt necessarily cake, but hes a type of wolf just like rv, except ww is full wolf while rv is only half. but they have similar insecurities, theyre both seen as “monsters” by society and thus rejected and forced into isolation. but in their hearts theyre both good people who only want to be accepted and loved, yet they cant be. their only difference is that ww simply falls into a depression, embracing his sadness whereas rv embraces his anger at the world and projects it onto everyone else. ww is melancholic; rv is angry and frustrated. but they are both in pain, lonely, and longing for something more. i think, if they found each other, they would be surprised at first: another wolf cookie, like them? and this curiosity would pull them towards each other, despite ww being afraid of hurting rv and rv being afraid of doing wrong in de’s eyes - de, the only person whos been with him since the start. i think rv loves de, is dependent on her, believes she is the only person who cares for him when that is very much not true at all. and i think ww would help rv realise how abusive, manipulative, toxic de is as a mother. 

fuck i rlly wanna write a fic now ..... i will be Working on that

[letmeoutofthebasementt]

I wondered if you ever found out or wanted to find out who your fs is? personally im fine being single more so used to it than anything else. But its quite interesting to say the least... im torn between wanting to know this person but not caring bc like it not the end of the world and well the world might end one day anyway by societies own doing. I found out theyre an athlete... sadly not for the sport I prefer so I have to be a mf wag, a WAG. No, I reject this not because secretly I wouldnt like them idk them but I dont wanna be a WAG. Im not ever going to want to be a beckham. I swear im the most mf average being there is so I hope we dont end up in the same environment one day. Why did jesus have to do me dirty like this?

First school was literal hell and now adult life feels like hell continued itself then my fs is someone famous and idk how anyone normal supposed to fit into wealthy lifestyles like ehhh but idk if its worth it in the long run? relatinships and all that? my uncle cheated on his first wife three times and that deeply affected my views of romance and well it not something I genuinely longed for same with material items I rather just exist peacefully. if your fs was an actual idol or some other famous person would you sacrifice or risk it all to not have privacy and peace for them?

I’ve asked some things about my FS. They definitely seem like my type for better or for worse, and my FS is a celebrity who likes to spoil me. So all of a sudden if I’m posting all day because I have no responsibilities anymore…You know why.

Though I also agree with you on a lot of things. It’s like, something I want to know but also can’t be bothered to care 100% about. My FS is most definitely out of my league from my readings and the readings people have done for me.

Famous, attractive, intelligent, loves spoiling me, and extremely talented? Sounds like a scam, I dunno. Even if my FS clearly has many flaws. All of those flaws are in fact things I find the idea of to be questionably attractive.

But hey, in the future we can be the mildly questionable spouses of celebs together

I think if I loved them enough I’d be able to deal with it all, though. And if the fans are crazy just more of a reason to stay inside and be the recluse I already am because frankly people are insane nowadays and I’ll be damned if I get got on the street.

But yeah, I relate to you on a spiritual level. Though for me, love is more…Its interesting in other people’s lives, but in mine it’s more so…Something I can hyperfixate on and a springboard for like fantasies for me to think up of the perfect relationship n shit and not something I can see myself ever in. Not like I haven’t had multiple relationships, but those were…Interesting. Though I loved a few of my partners.

But I still get why you don’t believe in love.

We can be under qualified celeb spouses together though so at least that’s smth

[islanddboyy]

its the late hours of the night where i begin to dissect my entire personality. ive begun the whole self sabotaging spiel again and already pushed away one close friend and am in the process of doing it to another. but im just so tired of her relentless negativity and honestly shes made me a worse person when im trying to be a better person. thats what this last year has been about. trying to be better and i feel like im back at square one because of our friendship. except ive done the asshole thing and wont tell her why i havent been talking to her and keep avoiding any serious conversation about it. and on top of that im realising that my escape to canada isnt happening and im gonna have to spend 3 more years hiding who i am from my community and not living my life how i want to. i wanted to go to canada so i could be trans and start transitioning. but now that im stuck here i cant do that. i mean maybe medical tourism could work if i want top surgery but hrt is completely out the window in this backwards society. im just sick of having to hide who i am from people or being scared of what theyll say and how ill be treated differently if i do come out. like in my sport there are no rules about trans athletes because the thought hasnt even occurred to anyone. so if i want to compete no one would even understand what im trying to explain to them and in the miscommunication theyll just see some girl competing in the wrong category and send me back to the womens team. but i want to be on the mens team and maybe my club would be okay with it theyre pretty open minded. but outside of my club with the different race committees theyd just shut it all down no matter what i try and say. and im not ready for that kind of rejection. especially when i know for a fact that at least half of the club would have something mean to say about a trans person racing with them. holy shit that was a lot sorry to anyone unfortunate enough to come across this. i just needed to get this out into the void because i have no one to talk to honestly. the friends who know im queer and trans we dont talk about this shit because well im pretty emotionally closed off. so thats come back to bite me in the ass again lol

[wygolvillage]

TBHHHH in relation to my theory that riverclan will become a leaderless society.... what if all of the clans develop their own new, distinct leadership hierarchies? it would do a lot to make the worldbuilding feel more tangible and have the different clans feel more distinct. as it is right now i think the divisions drawn between them are pretty arbitrary considering their cultures are all mostly identical. having them all operate in different ways would be neat i think

but yeah uhhh

riverclan- totally leaderless. the population of the clan makes important decisions together. they are the starless clan!

thunderclan- super early on nightheart considers the idea of having a representative democracy (i.e. voting in a new leader periodically) so i think thats pretty likely, if anything

windclan- NOW HERE’S A HOT TAKE, remember that lore that windclan considers themselves the closest to starclan due to their territory being open to the sky and their proximity to sacred places? what if they give their ultimate authority to the medicine cats, and become the most spiritual clan? also pls bring back the tunnelers and moor-runners

shadowclan and skyclan- not sure on them but at least one of them should stick with the old system just because. skyclan sticking with the tradition would be kinda funny since theyre the most “non-traditional” clan with their population having a lot of former kittypets and their former isolation from the culture of the other clans.

i also think a kitty monarchy would be interesting, with leadership chosen by birthright, but i dont think it fits with any of the existing clans. it would work best narratively in thunderclan though since our thunderclan pov character already has a lot of thoughts about their bloodline and the implications of “honorable blood” and there’s already been mentions of firestar bloodline nepotism being A Thing. ive seen theories that bramblestar will step down due to there being mentions in river of him feeling super out of it and distant after the whole possession thing. so im imagining it like: bramble steps down and squirrelflight is retired by this point maybe? -> sparkpelt or some other firestar relative takes up the leadership mantle and establishes The Kitty Monarchy -> nightheart is the one to overthrow it and reject their role as the heir

[that-vigilante-piedpiper]

2 and 6 for the ask game even though i’m about 10 chapters behind :’)

2. What’s your favorite relationship in your story? Could be the main one, one your characters shares with a friend, etc. 

[There’s really no answer to this besides Reo and Midoriya ghsgsjgsjd They’ve got a really good relationship with one another that goes beyond something like friendship, loving and supporting each other unconditionally (the only exception being when theyre(*cough* midoriya) being self destructive). My second favorite would probably be Naomasa and Sansa, but I think that’s also because I catch myself writing them to mirror Midoriya and Reo’s dynamic a lot hkgjehsksgsk]

6. How do you feel the environment your character(s) grew up in shaped them as a human? How does the environment they’re in now shape them currently?

[Well, we’ve already seen how Midoriya’s environment shaped him as a kid. He’s always been a pretty realistic when it came to heroism, even when he was young, which is why he started Muy Thai in the first place. But, after UA’s rejection letter I think he really saw a clearer picture of the world. He’s always known that it was an unfair one, but after the letter I think he finally saw just how unfair it could get. He lost sight of his dreams of legal heroism because of it and turned to vigilantism instead. More recently though, Reo has helped him regain the dreams he originally had, though it was more a combination of the events of the USJ and the effects that its aftermath had on his loved ones than Reo specifically, though he certainly had a large part to play in it being Midoriya’s sole confidant and voice of reason.

Reo on the other hand, we haven’t gotten to see much of his past. He was still pretty young when his parents got divorced and his father moved out. Naomasa came to visit and spend the night frequently and as a result he grew attached to Naomasa in a way that we don’t really get to see much anymore. Reo was a kid that cant forget anything he reads, and there’s always a lot of stuff to find on how dangerous stuff like police work was in a superhuman society. Because of that he’s always lived with a lot anxiety, especially about whether his uncle would come home safe or not. He distanced himself from people a lot because that anxiety. He didn’t want to get overly attached to anyone like he had his uncle. He spent a lot of time on his own and that’s how he came to work with support gear, both because he had the time and because it could help protect both the people he cared for and the people that other people cared for. Midoriya is the first person Reo’s let into his life since working past the anxiety he’s felt as a kid. They became each other’s first friends by pure coincidence, in any situation Reo wouldve distanced himself from Izuku, but as it was this Izuku needed his help. In a way Reo’s forced to relive the same anxiety with Midoriya being a vigilante as he did with Naomasa being a police officer.]

[I don’t know if that whole Reo section even answered the question, but I like talking about him so 😭😭]

[m-feys]

OK NEURODIVERGENT GAANG TIME BC I WANNA

these hcs are kinda halfway set in a modern au bc thats my context for this ! (gonna split it up so its not as long bc i drafted the original and it was LONG) water tribe siblings first !!!

Sokka

adhd/autism king 😌

[ID: a screenshot of Sokka standing on a raised stone platform with a map of the Fire nation hanging behind him. He’s holding his arms stiffly by his side with a wide-eyed look on his face, brows raised as he has his mouth open, saying something. End ID.]

- schedules to survive, he likes to know what hes getting into and if you try to change plans on him without warning he’ll be very resistant

- smart kid who doesnt study, oh he tries, oh boy does he try, he ends up reading the same sentence over and over until he gets distracted by drawing something, working on the blueprint for his latest invention, or with researching something completely unrelated to what he’s mean to be studying. then he tosses and turns all night because he’s stressed by not having studied, but when he actually takes the test he makes a 105, despite there not even being a bonus question, he just answered the essay question so well the teacher gave him an extra 5 points

- special interests?? we got em!!! classic weaponry (think swords, boomerangs, but also, like canons and catapults and shit) engineering/physics, art/drawing, strategy games. he tends to hyperfocus within his special interests, so like for a week he was hellbent on building his own full sized trebuchet, much to the dismay of Gran Gran who just wanted to grow her tomatoes without them being crushed by said full size trebuchet

- (also he plays all types of games probably, but he def plays those ones where you take over the world, like the ones online and azula also plays them too and they end up being rivals, while not actually knowing who the other is outside of their usernames)

- he also talks a lot in his classes/is like the ‘class clown’ and ppl think this is him not focusing but engaging this way actually helps him focus way more than sitting silently, a lot of teachers dont understand it but the ones who do are actually paying attention and realize that he’s generally talking/joking about their current topic

- some observations (this shit is all canon babey!!!) - sokka is great at being a leader and communicating in groups he’s in but he really really struggles in front of crowds, one-on-one and sokka can talk well, joke and stuff but as soon as he’s separate from other people and everyone is just listening he clams up (solar eclipse pt 1). he also loves to joke and make people laugh, and a lot of the time he misinterprets stuff because he’s autistic but he also will realize this and do it anyway because he thinks it’s funny and he likes laughing with his friends (idk if this happens in canon but i do this and sokka does too bc i said so :^). He also takes up the protector/comforting role but despite his best intentions he can sometimes say insensitive stuff and not even realize what he’s done to upset people (when he happily told aang ‘the whole world thinks your dead!’) works best when he feels needed, if he feels unnecessary or like something doesnt matter he struggles to complete it (i feel like the beginning of sokka’s master rlly demonstrates what i mean here), and this goes both ways, he will put too much value into certain things that he cares about and can get his priorities mixed if he’s focused too much on what he believes matters more than what might be most pressing (zuko destroyed his suki sculpture, oh right bc he was attacking aang)

Katara

she also has adhd/autism, (so do both Hakoda and Kya 💙)

[ID: a screenshot of Katara, Hakoda, Sokka, and Bato. Hakoda has his hand on Katara’s shoulder as they both look at Bato who is saying something, she has curious look on her face with her brows raised, while Hakoda looks exasperated. Sokka beside him his also looking curiously up at Bato, with one brow raised and the other furrowed. Bato has a neutral expression on his face as he speaks. End ID.]

- palms sweaty thoughts spaghetti, she tries to be practical bc she thinks someone needs to be but really her brain is like a runaway train, she sees something that needs doing and is like, guess ill do that now! and drops whatever she was doing first. she can get very anxious because of this because all the thing that need doing start to pile up because theyre all in her brain at once. that and as much as she tries to be practical she’s very impulsive, getting help from other people really helps alleviate this stuff

- interacting w ppl, when she was only part of her own smaller community she had a lot less toll on her, bc she knew everyone and was used to them, as she meets more people she gets really frustrated with how many people seem to refuse to say what they really mean. Katara is very straightforward herself and she says what she means, so even tho she gets more and more perceptive when interacting with new people, she resents how much she has to work just to decipher what people really mean half the time.

- caring for ppl, with people she cares about communicating is much easier bc she knows them, so she’s very open about her feelings around these people, and she can be hyper empathetic at times, but then sometimes she will say SUPER insensitive stuff off the cuff because she’s just very impulsive and she might regret it after the fact but she really struggles with apologizing because being wrong makes her feel like ppl are going to reject her

- perceptions, she knows what’s expected of her by the world, but she really rejects the idea that she has to stay in her role. still, she has internalized a lot of these expectations and tries to perform them, even when she sometimes struggles. beyond herself, she’s very certain about what she knows is wrong and has a strong moral code, she sees something wrong and she wants to fix it.

- she’s awful in school, not because she’s not smart, but she’s smart in ways that society does not appreciate. she doesnt care at all about all the worksheets and math she’s never gonna use, and all the history that got distorted, she’s much better at learning stuff on her own and she will go on deep dives of subjects she cares about and is super knowledgeable abt them.

also:

[ID: A cropped screenshot of Sokka with his arms extended outwards, palms flat as he gestures. He has a slight grin on his face with his mouth open to speak, eyebrows raised and looking at the viewer calmly. He’s wearing his usual blue tunic with the Earth Rumble XI belt along with his earth kingdom bag hanging across his chest. The text on the image says, “This post made by ADHD Sokka gang. End ID.]

[ID: a cropped screenshot of Hakoda, he has a serious expression on his face as he looks ahead. The text on the post reads, “This post made by ADHD Hakoda gang.” End ID.]

from this post (part of what inspired me to write these out) @meteor-sword​ now just katara needs one 😄

adhd aang next, i will finally live up to my url (will edit with a link when i post)

[antiloreolympus]

4 Anti LO Asks

1. Does anyone honestly think Minthe is going to come back? She’s a star witness against them and Persephone just physically disfigured her. I doubt she’s ever going to change her out of her plant form, tbh. Rachel seems cruel enough to have Persephone either destroy the plant all together, or plant her in a tiny garden to be stuck in forever than actually let Minthe be free of the torture Persephone is putting her through. Rachel clearly hated the Minthe centric episodes too (which going off her editor was probably their idea anyway), so the more they just torture and/or ignore Minthe the happier Rachel will be. The only case of Minthe coming back is for some more petty drama, but it’s more likely they’ll just forget about it after all of an hour of being concerned.

2. you know what sucks? apollo was having upward momentum in the past few years of people discovering his queer romances and people begging for apollo/hyacinth retellings and then rachel came in and killed all of it by her nasty, lied about r*pe plot to make persephone's actual r*pist look better and her fans infesting any greek myth tag/group so no one can talk about apollo positively without LO fans ruining it. Thanks for killing growing hope around LGBT+ greek myth content, rachel! thanks a lot!

3. What I don’t get is Rachel claims LO is all about “reclaiming” female sexuality and it’s like ok, where though? Because she shamed women for choosing not to have sex and had them ousted as liars anyway who were totally having sex the whole time and they’re stupid for even thinking they could lie without it (Athena and Hestia, maybe Artemis too), she shamed women for having consensual sex but (gasp) they weren’t married to the man in question! (Aphrodite, Minthe, etc), and though she maybe could have had a point about how cheating is bad, she only condemns Minthe, Thetis, and Leto, but Hera can happy cheat on Zeus all she wants with his brother (who also shows no qualms about it and cheating on Minthe as well) and still frame her as good in it, but everyone else is bad? What?!

And especially with Persephone. She shows some exceedingly conservative, christian views that Persephone can’t even look at any other man other the man she will marry, and any sex she had outside of him must be made into SA because again, why would a story about “reclaiming” female sexuality actually let women actually control their sexuality? Such as having consensual sex outside of the designated love interest? Don’t be silly. She cannot be a young woman who has had experience and a life outside of hades, it just can’t be! More so, as she is now in therapy, Persephone’a main concern is not trying to work through her genuine trauma, it’s only making sure she’s sexually available at all times for him as a wife (a requirement hades quite literally told her! And Persephone felt shame and doubt about!) and that’s it, you know, like a tradwife is concerned about. Persephone doesn’t care about her body as her own nor even considering that she as a woman with autonomy has the right to say NO, she only cares if hades can get off sexually with her and that she doesn’t disappoint HIM. Rachel doesn’t even let her think “hey, maybe Hades, my perfect grandpa of a boyfriend, will understand my boundaries and respect my choices to not have sex when I’m not comfortable”. No, Rachel drills home that Persephone MUST ALWAYS be open to sex with him, and she better get over her very real sexual trauma now or else Persephone will be replaced! Being sexually available is her main purpose as a wife, doesn’t she know? Hades said so! She can’t work out her issues for herself, she has to do it so Hades can have sex with her and Persephone doesn’t fight back or reject it! It’s all incredibly nasty, and frankly a right wing reactionary’s dream of a comic. It’s basically an unintentional psych-op of claiming to be this progressive, feminist piece being given to millions of impressionable young girls to shape their views of relationships and sex when really it’s more conservative and regressive than any conservative school or church gathering they could ever go to.

4. What I find very frustrating about LO is Rachel wrote it that everyone looks down on Persephone for being a “stupid village girl” (which doesn’t make sense given she’s a daughter of a big six traitor and literally an olympus champion in a bunch of competitions as well as the face of her mothers company) but? Rachel made that their society? She’s the one who purposely made ALL of olympus and the underworld (and likely Poseidon’s kingdom too) into modern metropolises with huge emphasis how much better and advanced they are over mortals and Demeter who still rely on the land and are thus “behind”. Even in Persephone “growing up” is not her doing anything she’s comfortable with or bringing nature back to their lives, it’s becoming as minimalist and “modern” as Hades and everyone else. Minus the one tree she grew, she has to entirely forgo who she is and her nature (quite literally) to be “accepted” by everyone else. She cannot be herself, she has to be what she’s expected to be. You can’t frame it theyre bad for judging her for being more nature based, then make a point that she should leave it all behind and she’s better off forgetting it to be modern and devoid of nature entirely? Why even make it a this or that battle anyway? Why can’t they live in harmony? It’s clear she has a positive bias towards modern everything and a negative one towards nature, but this is just ridiculous. Rachel, you’re going to seriously shame farmers and nature itself? Really?? Even hades is myth was a lowkey farmer! He has chickens! Cmon!

[grouper]

i have a very specific theory about gender as a branch of whatever phenomenon causes religion . maybe this is crazy but hear me out... theyre so similar . religion as a whole is a neutral social construct that occurs as a set of beliefs . these beliefs encompass the way people experience the world , through the lens of whatever religion or spirituality they subscribe to ... but if one was brought up completely isolated , that would have no idea of what religion was , even if they developed their own lens to look at the world through.

in addition to this , some people lose their belief in one religion and feel drawn to another that works better for them. some people do not have any religious beliefs at all , and reject the idea altogether.

for a long time, religion was a concept that was entirely entrenched in our society. people would structure their entire lives around their beliefs. not to say people don't still do this now, but it used to be much more common to go to church multiple times a week and say grace at every meal, and pray before bed.

in the same vein, gender is another lens that we use to view the world. gender is also a neutral social construct that occurs as a set of beliefs. we know that it is a set of beliefs and not strictly a matter of biology for many reasons because (among other reasons) different cultures and different time frames experience gender in different ways. therefore it is not intrinsic, it is learned from our environment!

gender is also a lens through which we see the world , which encompasses our daily life. some people see the world through one lens, and some see it through another. like the way we experience religion, each individual's experience with their gender varies. in the same way some people may convert from one religion to another because they feel that it's their truth to persue it, some may transition from one gender to another for the same reasons. or, they may not see the world through any lens of gender at all, like an atheist's experience with religion.

both religion and gender involve intricate rituals. for example, clothing unites both concepts in some circles. where religion may restrict the food you eat , gender may restrict the pronouns you feel comfortable using.

this is not meant to devalue religion or gender, i practice both. it is just an observation i've made that these two human inventions are very similar in the way they function . it is possible that as gender consciousness grows in the same way that consciousness about religion grew , we may see less and less people practicing either due to lack of obligation. or, more people converting / transitioning to one gender from another . i believe it has already begun!

[littlebabycrybtch]

anyways, autistic adult here going out to all the autism parents out there;;; stop fucking bragging about abusing your autistic kids. i lived through my autistic childhood, you havent, you need to hear me out. stop posting your horrible ‘inspirational stories’ about how happy you are that you ‘pushed through’ and did something awful and distressing to your child in an effort to make them normal. it is so harmful and so disgusting for autistic people to have to hear about. those stories make me wanna gag. they give me physical discomfort, the way these people are so... Proud of themselves, for thinking they are ‘eradicating’ these evil autism symptoms, like the symptoms arent just an inherent fucking PART of their child they destroyed out of blind ignorant ‘care’. fucking listen to yourself. you did not help them. i dont care that they learned some new (usually unnecessary and performative) neurotypical skill you had been pushing on them for years. i dont care how fuzzy inside that makes you feel. i dont care about whatever you come up with that proves their ‘progress’. no. you were projecting your frustrations. you were pressuring them into smth they didnt need. you didnt Fucking help them. you made them Conform. you Hurt them to make them act like everyone else, bc you let yourself become that convinced that their autism is whats damaging them, and not the outside world that tries to dismantle what they are on the daily, for no fucking REASON besides irrationally projecting your own standards and ideals onto them. the ‘cure’ for autism is not ‘acting normal’, for gods sake. you Punished them for being autistic instead of accepting it and accommodating them. frankly, no matter your real intention, its selfish.

like. im sorry but im livid, i am TIRED of seeing this kind of shit encouraged everywhere. forcing your kid into meltdowns unless it is a 110% safety concern, is abuse and disability discrimination, especially when you are trying to force them to be ‘normal’ by punishing them in these awful prejudiced ways until they meet YOUR idealized standards of functioning and ‘quality of life’, which is self centered for gods sake! like! nah man actually im totally fine with some of my symptoms if you people would just leave me the fuck alone about it??? i like stimming, i like special interests, my ‘sensory issues’ can become blissful when i find the right sensory experience, my struggle to communicate has given me so many beautiful Alternatives and connected me with so many people. im fucking fine, i dont always need to bend to you, you can bend to me sometimes, okay? like. smh, neurotypicals/abled people, society revolves around you, sure, but that doesnt mean someone being Different from you makes them the wrong or unhealthy one... they can be Perfectly happy even though they dont live the way you do, and to think otherwise is again, just really self centered. why are you the default? why is YOUR HAPPINESS with YOUR LIFE the default standard??? someone being different from you doesnt always mean their existence automatically Pains them, or that its Lesser or Worse. accommodation and understanding does a hell of a lot better for somebody than trying to just force them to act how you do under the ignorant assumption that it Must be inherently better for them and their existence. “but- things would be easier for them if they were normal right! thats just how the world is!” cool. but they arent. listen to me. They Arent. just fucking accept that, and focus on fixing the obviously bigger issue, the whole ‘WORLD’ part that rejects everything abnormal, jesus christ. like honestly, thats the worst part about being ‘abnormal’, how the outside world fucking treats you. its how they wont fucking let you exist and wont get off their ass to try and understand or support you, without conditions that include ‘copy me as best as you can so its easier for me’. the worst part is that the people who ‘support’ you view that support as wittling you into something less difficult for them to ‘help’ at the expense of your fucking basic comforts or happiness, and they still think theyre doing you a noble favor by making you like themselves. ffs. guys. stop abusing your kids. stop.

“well guys, my autistic kid wouldnt stop pissing themselves so i just stopped buying diapers and made them sit on the toilet for 6 hours, and guess what, they use the toilet the Right way now! :)” “my kid wouldnt hug me or say i love you, so i held them down on the bed till they stopped fighting my affection! now we hug all the time!” “i took away my childs favorite item until they were able to verbally ask for it back. now they know how to say “please”. they must be SO much happier!” i need for you to listen to me right now. you are not fixing them. you are not HELPING THEM. you are breaking them into your neurotypical life like a pair of fucking tennis shoes. its for you. you are conditioning them, with trauma. the fact that you dont see that is a Disturbing display of how little you actually are trying to understand about your child’s life, or frankly anybody elses experiences besides yours. Leave them the fuck alone. you really wanna help your autistic kid fit into the world? dont punish them for stimming, tell ppl in public to stop fucking staring, bc it is their fucking problem. dont force your type of affection or communication, pay some fuckin attention and you’ll start noticing the ways in which THEY communicate with you, which is just as fine. and for the love of god my dude! buy diapers! they exist for a reason! just buy your fucking child their fucking diapers. ill kick your ass oh my God, 

[creacherkeeper]

Welcome to the tOH fandom!! What do you think of ADHD! Luz (and maybe Eda too!) and autistic!Amity (and maybe Lilith as well)?

thank you!! okay listen this show is so so good for ND headcanons WEIRDOS GOTTA STICK TOGETHER and im like *cries* yea 

adhd luz is great. i love it. she’s eager and never runs out of energy, strong emotions & very expressive, can definitely act immature for her age (i saw something saying she’s 14 but idk if thats canon?), has a hyperfixation on learning magic & her azura books. her inability to choose a magic track i would argue could be read as indecisiveness or decision paralysis. and sometimes her own feelings cause her to miss cues from others (like with eda, amity, & king at the carnival). even the way she has to learn magic works as a metaphor - the way other people learn doesnt work for her so she has to adapt and have accommodations (something to draw on). we also see a few instances that suggest she’s not good at reading how trustworthy people are 

im totally down for adhd eda but i think i like autistic eda better. she has unusual style (the ripped dress, big earrings, gold tooth - not to mention the times she puts on ‘human fashion’). her speaking voice is unusual too, but is often at a flat effect (absolutely not a dig at the actress i’ve had a crush on her since i was like 9). special interest in owls & weird human objects. learns differently & thinks outside the box, but is still extremely gifted as a witch, she just has to do things her own way. uneven motor skills - very powerful witch & good at sports but also like, just fumbles her staff all the time. seems to get along better with demons (king, hooty, and i’ll count owlbert here too) over other humanoids. did NOT fit in at school. has trouble connecting to and empathizing with people, often says rude things whether she means to or not. tends to show affection through gestures (training, making the cloak) over words or physical affection. does NOT understand why she should have to follow the rules (school, witchcraft, society at large) because they seem arbitrary to her 

also - not an nd headcanon and FAR from a perfect metaphor - but my chronically ill ass was just sitting there like 8O SHE HAS TO TAKE HER MEDS OR SHE’LL GO INTO A FLARE and i was just pretty excited about that 

jury is still out on lilith for me. i can see autistic lilith though. she’s got flat effect, dulled emotional expression, gifted in her craft, trouble seeing eda’s pov, seems to be low empathy, and from what we see may be fairly gullible. i need to see more screen time from her before i make it an Official Headcanon though. 100% up to hearing other peoples arguments about this 

amity is a little harder for me but here’s my headcanon (cw child abuse) 

she very well could be autistic. i didnt get a strong Vibe from her one way or the other. but her behavior, to me at least, seems to line up a lot more strongly with childhood trauma. specifically parental abuse. granted we haven’t seen much of her parents yet, but that’s the vibe i got and i’ll explain why 

amity is extremely driven and perfectionistic, but it does not seem like she’s self-motivated. it seems like she’s trying to live up to her parents high and strict expectations of her. she wants to be friends with willow, and then later luz, but she can only keep the friends her parents deem are worthy - theyre controlling of her social interactions far more than is normal. she has very low tolerance for her own mistakes, and gets extremely upset when she’s embarrassed or gets into trouble. to me that’s a thing a kid learns at home - mistakes are a big deal (and could be punished in some manner). she’s very awkward at trying to make real friends, which makes me think she doesnt have good role models & her emotional development was not prioritized. in the beginning we see her bully people and gee wonder where she learned that. when she’s training, it’s not her parents or even lilith who are training her - its her older siblings who she doesnt get along with and dont even seem to be on the same track as her? so even though expectations for her as a witch are extremely high, the actual adults are neglecting to help her 

when both lilith and eda cheat at the covention duel - amity doesn’t get upset at lilith. she gets upset at luz who is not an adult and is an easy target. lilith and eda are really the ones that embarrassed her, but she doesn’t feel she can get angry at either of them and takes out her emotions lower in the pecking order. we also see that she quit grudgby forever because she accidentally hurt her teammates - which makes me think her anxiety & guilt in general is pretty high. when she does decide luz is cool, she gets Very Attached Very Fast which can definitely be a trauma thing - here is a Safe Person i am now incredibly invested in. when they go into willow’s memories, she’ll do anything to keep luz from seeing how she hurt willow, probably because she’s afraid luz will be disappointed in her (and what? abandon her for not being perfect?) and even her parents in the memory are just shadowy figures and not real people. her biggest fear (which, yes cute gay stuff was happening) is being rejected, which makes me think besides the grom there is an actual threat of that in her life

so ALL IN ALL yes some of these things overlap with autism & i definitely wouldnt argue against an autism headcanon, but to me this just is so strongly childhood trauma stuff that i personally wouldnt hc autism until i know more 

also LITERALLY ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE ND thank you for coming to my ted talk good day 

[skullvins]

random fuckin gender ramble scroll if ur not interested in my gender bs

aaarrrggg i hate that radfem bs has caused me to still associate butch and femme with being lesbian only terms (even though i KNOW they’re not) and thus making me associate both of them with being women, even though i KNOW theyre historically not. its so hard to unlearn???

like, the overlapping lesbian/butch/transmasc history is so hard to navigate as a funky lil enby/genderqueer because a lot of terms are either too masc or too fem for me to be comfortable with, and now that im TRYING to explore exactly how my masculinity and femininity work its so weird!!!

I’m in solidarity with queer men and queer women, both trans and cis or gnc or whatever and figuring out my personal relationships with those communities is hard!!! I relate to my cis female peers as someone who’s only started socially transitioning in recent years, I relate to their issues as someone who doesn’t pass well, I relate to transmascs in terms of wanting to be seen as more masculine, in wanting to physically transition, i relate to trans mlm in terms of sexuality, i relate to lesbians/wlw in terms of sexuality too! some of the best comfort and solidarity ive found is in amab enbies and even some transfems when it comes to comfort and gender expression. the two amab demiguys i know make me feel comfortable exploring masculinity because i feel safe around them BECAUSE they’re not cis, and like, i can be ‘one of the guys’ with them without having to be A GUY, and i relate so so so hard to gnc guys or amab enbies when it comes to presentation. i almost want to transition JUST so i can reembrace femininity in a masculine way.

i dunno, i feel this insane pressure outside of the queer community to either be as masc as possible to pass and be taken seriously, and that’s gotta be at least partially due to the way radfem bs has spread, especially here in the uk.

i wanna be read as masc, i wanna be read as fem, i wanna be incomprehensible! I wanna wear men’s shirts and t shirts and polo shirts with a skirt because i can!! because skirts are fun and cute and i enjoy wearing them. i really do wish i was amab because it would be so much easier to present the way i want to, I think, but then again, i don’t have bottom dysphoria, not really.

all this changes though, really i might just be genderfluid, but i hate the binary connotations of that too. so many enby words are stolen or defined in terms of binary gender: being bigender to most means being male or female, being genderfluid means being fluid between them, being nonbinary is being not male or female, when people equate being nonbinary to being genderless it kills me because I am not binary! but i am not genderless! my gender is here and present and part of me and part of my relation with the world around me and with other people and part of my sexuality and orientation

i dunno, this is turning into a big queer rant. this isn’t me trying to shove labels onto myself, I’m fine with rejecting them if that’s what’s needed - i don’t define my sexuality any further than queer even though hypothetically i could probably id as bi or pan or any mspec label, but I choose not to because being QUEER is my orientation. perhaps my gender as well (i do id as genderqueer as well as enby) but i want to really truly understand my gender AS queer, rather than just brush it off as queer because I cannot define it to myself or understand it. i want to understand my relation to the world around me and to other queer people.

so am I butch? am I femme? maybe it changes? is that allowed to change from day to day? my gender doesn’t FEEL like it changes but that presentation does, maybe! maybe I need to try new pronouns, but using she/her like i want to is hard when i associate it with misgendering and failing to prove myself as trans enough to cis people.

i wanna be masc with women and fem with men, but the latter is hard due to fears that come from experiences with misogyny. a lot of cis men ARE scary to me - I’m an 18 year old afab for fucks sake. i wish i could have that re-embraced femininity, but I’m not flat when i bind or build masc or tall or fuckin. anything! and hormones aren’t an option yet because a lot of my mental health is too unstable, the nhs is in shambles, and I don’t have money. i can’t embrace that yet unless im in the right circles, with the right people, and i can’t be that in society, I don’t trust it. I don’t know if I wanna dress fem and have people see me as masc or fem, i don’t know what pronouns i want them to use, i dunno man!!!

i wanna reach out to older queer people but again its hard, we’re in lockdown, i don’t live somewhere with a big queer community, i’m not a fan of bars and such and there’s not any in my town so i’d have to travel a bit, i wish i could just feel at home!!! i wanna be feminine without being female but also without being male, at least not fully male! I’m not male, i have this connection to femininity and it doesn’t feel male to me, I don’t want to be included in explicitly male or explicitly female spaces, I wanna be with everyone or no one, i dunno

again, i wish butch and femme didnt feel so gendered to me personally, and that’s not just this site but also what ive grown up with, my mum used to always say i was a wannabe ‘butch lezza’ whenever i was trying to get her to take my NONBINARY identity seriously and I’m not that! not because it’s bad to be, but because that’s just not me. I’m not a wlw, I’m not even sure on my attraction to women, or to men, or to anyone, I’m just attracted to queerness, and i dunno it’s hard. being ‘butch’ to me, somewhat, still means wlw, even though it’s not true, and i hate how radfem bs has ruined the word for me. i wish i could understand my identity in terms of being butch or femme, or whatever i am, and i wish those words weren’t tainted for me in the first place. i guess all of us are just ‘failed women’ in the eyes of society, huh.

characters who are feminine, but still explicitly male, or have some relation with masculinity, or are fluid between it, or who return to masculinity as a default give me so much euphoria just to witness. I’m in desperate need of a haircut and i don’t know whether to grow it out properly again or cut it short

either way, I’m gonna dye it purple

[dirt-grub]

When i was little and watching pnf i didnt really care about candace’s crush on Jeremy but actually its really kind of cute and accurate to what teenage crushes are like which a lot of people waaaay overshoot trying to write like theyre BOTH just dorky kids! and pnf does a good job staying true to that

Like ive never liked the trope where the girl has a crush on a boy thats inexplicably perfect despite also just being a teenager, or is worshipped like he’s perfect until the character learns he’s not and “gets over” the crush just like that.

Jeremy is dorky too, he has quirks and traits separate him just from cute teenager made for lead girl to like, and that wasn’t as apparent early on bc he didnt appear as much, but he got some development and so did their relationship with each other both before and after they started dating. Its a character written to be a love interest, but isnt just confined to that as his only defining attribute. He’s a part of the friend group too, he’s friends with her friends, he shows up in episodes for reasons other than Candace to have to impress him or hide something embarrassing from him or fawn over him. I really like it, same with Isabella. 

She’s a part of the crew, she has a lot of personality, and it just so happens that she has a crush on Phineas. It’s clear she was first thought of as a love interest, but from the very beginning they put more thought into her than that. It’s also a little different than Candace and Jeremy, and is staged differently as such,  which is essential. It’s a cute kid crush, and he doesn’t notice because of the different levels of emotional intelligence, and that’s a big part of their dynamic, but its not all there is. They’re friends first and foremost, and the crush isn’t debilitating and affects every interaction they have because they’re still kids, its a smaller thing at that age. Phineas just isn’t at the age to like anyone yet, and it’s well done, I’m glad they stuck to that. He’s not oblivious entirely, he just isn’t old enough to really know what those things mean. He does that kid thing of being like of COURSE I love Isabella! I love all my friends! :) and thats awesome. 

So many shows just want that teenager-level romantic awareness for kids that aren’t always at the teen age yet, and its kind of weird how normal that is not only in entertainment but in society. Adults confuse kids so much more than need be by either casting off their childhood crushes completely or over legitimizing them. I remember as a kid who was afab everyone told me if you have friendly feelings towards a boy, its a crush. even if it feels like the same way you feel towards your girl friends, once its on a boy its different somehow. I was always confused and it felt bad. I know I like boys now, but I felt I had to reject boys entirely then. I had to refute that claim or I could never have boy friends that are just friends. It strained friendships because my best friend was almost always a boy.

Its important to remember what kids are really like at that age, and not pressure them to feel any which way. Same with younger kids that DO get crushes. It’s okay that Isabella is already thinking of people that way, and its okay that Phineas isn’t, kids develop at different speeds and that happens a lot irl. They’re both what, like, ten? It makes sense for BOTH of them to be where they’re at romantic-awareness wise. Also, it’s not really presented as a gender thing, that Phineas is clueless because he’s a boy, which I appreciate. Girls are often seen as maturing faster because they’re expected to start earlier with the performative heterosexuality. They mimic crushes bc its what they’re supposed to do. They’re taught to be thinking about their weddings before they’re even a decade old. Boys aren’t, and they’re allowed to be like ew yucky romance for longer (which tbh is also a taught behavior) or to just not be interested in it. Phineas isn’t clueless because he’s a boy, he’s clueless because he’s 10. Isabella isn’t starting to get crushes because she’s a girl, it’s because she’s 10. Both of these things can be factual without contradicting each other. 

ALSO important to note that Ferb has a crush on Vanessa. He’s a boy the same age as Phineas. It’s just on a personal basis, people develop different. Candace and Jeremy are older, not adults, but older, and the way they act is perfect for their ages, same with the kids. Idk i think they did a really good job. I usually have a lot of complaints about how canon relationships go down but there’s not much to criticize. The relationship stuff is also never the be all end all of any plot, which is very nice, because a lot of people don’t care at all who likes who, they just want to see the giant rollercoaster lmao, which was me when i was 10 so yeah! everyone is different and rollercoasters r cool idk 

[normal-thoughts-official]

okay so alec is completely excited to have kids and casually talks about them here and there and thinks even magnus also wants them but magnus isn't very into having kids he doesn't say anything when Alec talks about having them cause insecurity *sprinkle angst *

udhdhdhdjsnsksm this has me torn because on the one hand i really dont stan "having kids" plots (i really hate the idea of having any and they usually just feel very like.... "following standart procedure" anyway and boy id love to have more happy couples who dont fucking want kids) but on the other i do think Magnus would want them? i mean he already has 73737383 children and he loves kids and he was all longingly looking at children after the s3 breakup and shit. so i tend to think he'd want to? idk

with that being said tho, definitely not now. i mean Alec and him are definitely still easing into their relationship and this is not the kind of step you can speedrun into even if they got married in like two months lmao. also he went through some fucking trauma that he needs to process, he was tortured, he lost his best friend, he lost his magic and his home and that's on top of a lot of other unresolved issues. i mean i think Magnus has been healing from Camille and asmodeus and everything else for a long time and that's why he was even ready to start a relationship, but like. it's still far from resolved

and he needs time to process that, and honestly Alec needs it too, needs time to process his own abuse and trauma and unhealthy coping mechanisms, isolating tendencies, taking-responsibility-for-everybody tendencies. but i dont think he sees that quite yet, especially because like, now that he has Magnus, he's living the dream and he's on a high and he wants to go for everything he didn't dare to dream of

so Magnus has to be like hold your horses cowboy i dont think either of us are ready for that. and he's scared af that Alec will take that as a rejection or give up on him because Magnus cant give him what he wants- and Alec feels a little hurt too, a little wounded, because he kind if- well, assumed. like this is what couples do, right? and also what was expected of him. "start a family". educate new generations. whatever

so it's a painful conversation for them both but for once Magnus is the one to push it forward and not let it go until they understand each other. and slowly Alec realizes that Magnus is right, that he wouldnt even know where to start with a kid anyway, that there's still so much in his life thats unstable and precariously balanced without adding a kid into the mix

besides, they have infinite time. they're immortal. they can wait, and this is not set on stone

and id like to think that they both finally, finally start therapy after that. i like to think that warlock therapists are a thing - i mean vampire and werewolf therapists certainly are anyway because of course some therapists would have been realistically turned at some point. but i like warlock therapists specifically because they can get their education in a completely different way, plus they can dedicate themselves to understanding the traumas specific to shadow people from the start - like being Turned, like immortality angst, like fantastical racism, like whatever the fuck's even going on with shadowhunter society - and also mix in magic with their techniques

obviously you cant just magically solve trauma but you can use magic to assess memories and experiences or provide small, temporary treatments, although of course you have to be really careful not to force the patient into something they're not yet ready for. but just like. idk there are possibilities, using magic for hypnosis, using magic to create scenarios that the patient can play out and imagine, using magic to assess feelings that the patient doesnt know how to put into words so they can better help them find a way to describe it, using magic as a form of art therapy. there are a lot of possibilities and i really dig the idea of warlock academies dedicated to studying, discussing and creating methods that mix the usual mundane knowledge with shadow world knowledge and magic. plus specifically studying the issues that affect shadow people, since even a mundane therapist who was Turned would be very out of their depth to explore the trauma of someone like, say, Maia, who was Turned on top of her abuse and whose wolf issues probably mix in with other body issues/dysphoria (trans maia ftw baby!), not to mention the fantastical racism on top of regular racism, pack issues, etc etc

anyway i need to stop being so obsessed with warlock society when nobody asked lmao but anyway i think Magnus and Alec would both find themselves therapists and work out their personal issues, as well as of course supporting each other as they always do, and go through the painful process of revisiting traumas and healing together

and maybe eventually they do decide to have kids, or they realize one day that they already have a family, with alec's siblings and magnus' downworlder kids and their friends and their friends' kids, and theyre happy with that. but either way theyre glad they didnt take that decision lightly, and that they took time for themselves instead of immediately jumping into finding someone else to take care of instead, like theyre both so used to doing

[muzzleroars]

I have an idea while chatting with Marie. The shadow selves in P4 are half distorted. Theyre not full truths but covered by the fog, exaggerated by the media against their will. Ones who appeared in media are the most distorted, more away from the truth than those who are not. One has to fight the distortion off it before you accept the now pure truth. If a shadow appear post-P4 without the fog, it will only say pure truth & the person might accept it easily. It kinda connects with P5 in a way.

ohh that is an interesting point and it’s probably true that those shadows are still distorted in some way, as most shadows are. the shadows in p5 are...weird, in the sense that the shadows of the thieves are inherently different from those of the palace rulers - the villains are more “traditional” shadows, ones that speak the truths of their respective owners, while the shadows of the thieves are the expectations of society they’ve been forced to conform to. their shadows are their masks, the ones they are suffocated with and forced to wear, while the villains are merely the desires and thought process of the rulers laid bare without that social mask to protect them. it’s a weird element of the game i’ve been trying to reconcile and there’s SOMETHING there but it’s hard to describe...mostly i think it’s the idea that the social masks benefit the antagonists while social masks damage the protagonists. in other words, people in power will gain more of what they want by hiding their true intentions while all the other people of society are losing out by conforming to uphold a system that only benefits these already powerful people at the top of the pyramid. while the palace rulers get ahead in society by pretending to be something they’re not, the thieves are effectively silenced by society/those in power by wearing their masks, essentially done away with and gotten rid of for the benefit of authority. it makes sense though, as the rulers represent that authority - of course it’s to their benefit to keep their masks on, they live and die by the society they help to perpetuate and constantly take advantage of, with shadows too ugly to allow the world to see lest they be ostracized and left out in the cold. the thieves, on the other hand, overtly reject society and do not care to advance in a system that destroys both themselves and the people they care for (along with countless other innocent victims), that constantly demands their submission in order to simply survive, so they destroy their masks and instead embrace what society does NOT want of them. THIS IS LONG AND POORLY WORDED AND I’VE REALIZED HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE ASK YOU SENT but i guess i was just thinking on how the shadows of p4 still do exist in p5, just not in the protagonists of the story. the ugly, distorted truth (as the rulers are said to have distorted desires) that must return to their real world counterpart in order for that person to grow as an individual is all still there in p5, but it plays a different part - social masks help one advance in a corrupt society while accepting your own truth helps one advance as an individual (and therefor make the world a better place instead of selfishly pursuing their own benefit) SO YEA that was probably kind of confusing but i’ve been thinking about this and your ask reminded me of it, so i’m sorry it was a bit of a tangent ;;;;