a look into a darker, more fudged up timeline
today on things I ponder while playing rhythm games: I think that when fellow queer people say that so-and-so m/f pairing is "for the gays" what people actually mean is that so-and-so m/f pairing is "competently written and makes you invested in their relationship as human beings, rather than shoehorning in a romance because of the belief that if a man and a woman are in close proximity they are required by law to kiss and/or bang"
so like. perhaps we should stop denigrating m/f relationships as inherently inferior, and instead acknowledge that the problems often seen in m/f relationships in fiction (especially when the romance isn't the main subject of the work) are caused by authorial laziness in favor of the heterosexual hegemonic rule of "boy + girl = sex"
an often overlooked detail of the izuru kamukura plot
my absolute favourite scene in UDG is when komaru and syo/toko have a deep moment about friendship and betrayal and forgiveness and being in love and nagito fucking komaeda is sitting in the background with slashed thighs and crayon on his face.
farewell, my turnabout