She Was Not Fragile Like A Flower; She Was Fragile Like A Bomb.

SessKag - TO READ - fanfiction MASTER POST pt 2

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God….GOD…Viktor Nikiforov is such a sugar daddy and Yuuri Katsuki is the crabbiest sugar baby on the face of the planet.

“Yuuri let me p–” NO VIKTOR I WILL PAY FOR MY OWN 

He puts a catalog in Yuuri’s lap and says, “Anything catch your eye?” and Yuuri says, “That model needs to straighten his back” and then closes it.

He sees Yuuri looking at chocolates while they’re shopping one day and comes home a few days later with a dozen truffles from the MOST EXPENSIVE CONFECTIONER IN TOWN. 

“I’m on a diet,” says Yuuri, something dead behind his eyes. “It’s the diet you put me on.

It takes Viktor almost a year of marriage to figure out how to say “I physically need to spend money on you” without making it sound like a sex thing even tho it’s a sex thing it’s definitely a sex thing.

Twenty seconds of this gorgeous piece just wasn’t enough, so I made an extended version! It’s around 2 minutes, 40 seconds and it sounds best with headphones. Hope you enjoy!! 

Good movies for my fellow feminists (interesting female leads and stories)

Gravity

An astronaut tries to survive and find her way back to earth after an incident left her stranded in space.

Gett, the trial of Viviane Amsalem

A woman tries to divorce her husband but faces the misogyny of a rabbinical court.

Gerald’s Game

After being coerced into BDSM by her creepy husband, a woman finds herself abandonned, handcuffed to the bed and starts remembering the sexual abuse she endured as a child. She tries to free herself (both figuratively and litterally).

Doubt

Two nuns start suspecting that the priest of their parish is a pedophile and decide to confront him despite his authority as a male leader in a patriarchal institution.

M.F.A

After the man she had a crush on rapes her at a party on campus an art student realizes that most rapists get away with it. She decides to take matters into her own hands and becomes a serial killer of rapists.

Midsommar

After a tragic loss, a woman is struggling with grief and panic attacks. Her boyfriend is an absolute douchebag but the only person she has left. Him and his friends invite her to a trip to Sweden where they join a bizarre cult which turns out to be deadly. Keep in mind this is a horror movie.

Trust

A young girl is groomed by a pedophile and a culture that sexualizes girls more and more. After she is raped, both she and her father struggle to recover and communicate as she denies that it was rape claiming the pedophile loved her and he feels powerless to help her.

Camp X Ray

A young woman joins the army and is sent to Guantanamo Bay to help protect her country from terrorism only to discover that she is in fact helping her country commit human rights violations against muslim men emprisonned without trial, one of whom she becomes friend with. She also has to face sexist discrimination and sexual harassment from her peers.

Beatriz at dinner

Beatriz is a gentle and thoughtful vegetarian woman from Mexico who is invited to a dinner with rich white people. Throughout the dinner she can’t help confronting them about capitalism, racism and animal cruelty. As the evening gets more and more heated she starts considering murdering the rich white man who embodies the destruction of her values.

Another Earth

A young woman responsible for a car crash that killed a family is working as a cleaner and ends up working for the man who’s family she killed. She tries to help him recover from depression and grief. A relationship begins but he doesn’t know who she really is.

Hard Candy

Pretending to be a clueless teenager online, a girl is invited to a man’s house where she drugs him and holds him hostage accusing him of being a pedophile.

Ingrid Goes West

Ingrid wants to be popular like all the bourgeois instagram influencers who’s lives always seem so perfect. She becomes obsessed with one of them and starts stalking her and creating a fake identity to try and become part of her life. 

Monster

Monster tells the real story of a prostituted woman who was executed for killing her rapist and other “clients” after him. The movie also focuses on her relationship with her girlfriend.

Notes on a scandal

A narcissistic and deeply manipulative teacher becomes obsessed with the new teacher at her school. She sees a love story… where there is none.

Precious

With the help of a sympathetic teacher, Precious, who comes from a poor family and is abused by her mother, tries to find a way out and build the confidence she never had after years of humiliation.

The Others

An isolated and very strict mother of two is frustrated with her daughter saying there are ghosts in the house that she calls “the others”. Turns out… there’s definitely something creepy going on. If you like intelligent scary movies without the gore this one is great.

The Stoning of Soraya M

In a remote muslim village, a man tries to get rid of his wife by accusing her of adultery and getting her stoned to death. The movie takes us through the surreal process of patriarchal “justice” with its inescapable and gruesome ending. Based on a true story.

Wild

After the death of her mother, a woman decides to go on a hiking trip alone for the first time, with all its difficulties, especially as a woman.

Speak

An introverted teenager who doesn’t fit in stops talking after she is raped at a party. No one understands what is wrong with her. Slowly she tries to find the strength to trust and speak again.

i completely understand what you’re saying but as a person with a low self-esteem issue and imposter syndrome, as someone who always feels she’s lacking, i cannot express to you how incredibly satisfying it is to watch or read a well-written “chosen one” trope , specially if it’s a female protagonist 

there are so many movies and books which use the chosen one trope and i can’t get enough of it.

Moana? Hit me with that puro. Princess diaries? Slap me one of those. Harry freaking Potter? not a female protag but damn what a series. Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett? Yes please! Kung Fu Panda? uh? HELL YEAH

Like, as a writer, I get why writers think it may not be the best way to tell a story, but as an audience member and a reader, I straight up love that shit. I love seeing someone who is seemingly extremely bad for the job be the only one who can actually do the job, I LOVE to see them struggle with their self-doubt, fumble through all the things they have to go through despite being massively underprepared, question their abilities and be all like “But you’ve got the wrong person” and all the while their destiny is telling them “You stuck up bitch, you ARE THE ONE.” 

It is simply gratifying to feel that no matter how unequipped and incapable i think i am, there’s something bigger than the material world, who thinks i am fucking meant to get this job done

When your the lead heroine in a classic literature novel and someone proposes to you:

some thoughts on ONE and his themes

i’ve been sitting on this for a little bit bc it’s a more personal thing and super tough to articulate besides, but here goes.

Most shounen mangaka center their stories around superpowered teenagers and children, which is just fine! I like wish fulfillment just as much as the next person. But I have to give a shoutout to ONE for doing what I haven’t yet seen another mangaka do, and capturing the particular mid-to-late-20′s sort of mini crisis a lot of people get after college, where they’ve been working justt long enough that they’re starting to stare down the barrel of “is this what i’m going to do forever and ever until i die oh god” and “I have a job and checked off all my ‘accomplishment’ boxes but now am floundering without the structure of childhood and academia”. As someone who went through a complete 180 career change in my early 20s, it means so much to me to see a young-20s character like Reigen, or Saitama, be disillusioned with their careers and switch tracks, or be depressed and unable to find fulfillment in their “same-old” routines, and have that be an important, central point of the story. I relate painfully to Reigen sitting at his desk and thinking about how he was bored and unfulfilled at his old job, and i feel like I can really appreciate the fact that he left it and made a change for himself. I relate to Saitama, if not to his godlike powers then to his feeling of “is there all there is to life? what is there to live for besides just my accomplishments?” It sounds dramatic, but it’s easy as a young adult, especially a financially struggling young adult, to ‘work to live’, and neglect everything else to the point where when you finally stop to take a look around you, you realize you’re not sure what you’re actually living for. What did you dream of doing as a child? What do you want, on your deathbed, your life story to be? your memories to be? 

What does fulfillment even mean? 

With Saitama, ONE answers this question first by pointing out that challenges and obstacles give life meaning. When we watch OPM, we’re not rooting necessarily for Saitama. We root for Mumen Rider, or Genos, or any of the myriad other heroes that we know don’t stand a chance. Saitama’s punch might give catharsis, but the pathos is all in the side characters. And Saitama knows this! the manga is all about Saitama struggling to find meaning in a world without those obstacles. And this leads to ONE’s second answer, through King: life is not just about maxing out your level- it’s also about exploring the game. it’s about collecting every outfit, or talking to every NPC, or befriending all the companions, or completing every side quest. ONE shows us that once you look up from your single minded drive to climb the ladder, there’s a ton more to see! friends to make! hot pot to cook! cool new stuff to investigate and explore with those friends! And this is so comforting to me, as a young adult, to have a piece of media show me that not only is struggling okay and good, but that it doesn’t and shouldn’t consume everything and that there’s more to explore.

With Mob Psycho- god, where to start with Mob Psycho. First of all, I was expecting a typical ‘everyone’s 12-14 years old and OP as fuck’ shounen. I was not expecting one of the central characters to be Reigen “I’m almost 30 and I’ve switched careers and am not succeeding in the traditional sense” Arataka, or that another central character would be Serizawa “I AM 30 and I  d e f i n i t e l y  switched careers and have doubly not been successful in the traditional sense” Katsuya. Both these characters struggle with the same question in different ways. Serizawa has a more straightforward narrative: he shows us that it’s never too late to turn your life around. At 30, socially anxious and with nothing on his resume besides “dropped out of middle school to become a terrorist”, Serizawa gets a haircut, gets his act together, goes back to get his degree, and by the end of the manga is not only well on his way to academic success but is really becoming his own person, with a supportive friend group, self confidence, and his own hobbies and interests. Reigen struggles to find meaning in his life beyond just being a boring salaryman - to “become someone” - and eventually through lifting his head up from the daily hustle and opening himself to others, realizes that he HAS become someone, though perhaps in a different way than he expected: he has become a very important person to all of the esper kids and to Serizawa, and through influencing them he becomes the backbone of the manga itself. Reigen shows us that personal growth can be nontraditional, and responsibility can be scary, but both lead to fulfillment. 

I never truly thought about these kinds of things when I was younger, because I wasn’t living them. and the beauty of it is that both OPM and MP100 can be read by an audience without them; they can be enjoyed just for their comedy and their crazy nuts action scenes. But ONE put in characters struggling with these young-but-not-SUPER-young-adult issues, and it makes me, at least, feel seen. It makes me feel like I’m not alone in worrying about these things, in fearing the mundanity of routine, in struggling to find meaning in life while I’ve got the strength to grasp it. And it makes me feel like becoming an adult doesn’t have to be such a bad thing, after all. 

Inuvember Day #21: Kikyo Ships, What Should Have Happened edition.