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absolutely beautiful art 😍 tsubaki deserves nothing less

I love Tsubaki so much and they deserve nothing but happiness and joy forever

YES

okay but when the class learns when sakura’s birthday is they ask what he did for his bday before school started

and when he gets all confused cause like? he’s literally never celebrated his birthday?

and everyone is just basically heartbroken to learn that sakura has never 1. had his birthday celebrated or 2. been invited when others have celebrated their birthdays

even though it’s LATE and other birthdays are near they agree that they’re gonna throw a sakura birthday party on the rooftop

hiragi is in charge of making sure umemiya doesn’t get so excited he foils the surprise

tsubaki is in charge of decorations

kotaha is in charge of food

suo makes sure they remember that this is sakura and he wouldn’t want a “balloons, streamers, party poppers, big blow out” party

nirei is in charge of spreading the word without spreading the word to sakura— it isn’t hard but he doesn’t want to admit that

kiryuu is making a playlist that fits sakura and fits the party

just—

everyone buying him these meaningful gifts and they’re a bunch of teenage boys so their wrapping skills are subpar (except tsubaki and suo)

i just *clenches fist*

and imagine sakura’s lil face when he shows up and learns what everyone did and jUST DO YOU SEE MY VISION???

please someone add to the thoughts

I'm so glad someone else brought attention to this! Firstly, I think you're referencing the Still Face Experiment by Tronick. As far as psychological experiments have gone, I will say this one isn't as bad as others are, especially because there was a point afterwards to ensure the babies in the experiment were comforted by their parents to work on reversing the affects there. (as far as I remember, at least, I'm working on my master's in counseling so my brain's sometimes fried)

Anyways! So to me, this experiment did a lot to help show that neglect is, in fact, a form of abuse that ends with psychological and emotional issues in the person/child.

A big thing I think they do well (intentional or not) is showing how Maomao is in her relationships. She loves and cares for the people in her life, but she shows it in what we end up seeing as a "Maomao way". I think, however, she has an avoidant attachment style. Many adults who have this style tend to come from neglect, emotional or mental abuse. There's also two subtypes of this; dismissive and fearful. I don't see Maomao falling into the fearful category, so let's look at dismissive.

Signs in adults tend to be higher levels of self-sufficiency, and independence. They also tend to be far more mature faster because they have had to rely on themselves. Vulnerability isn't easy to come by, in any type of relationship. There's a lot of need for space and alone time.

Now I think a lot of that can be seen in Maomao, but not overly so. Why? Because people can have more than one type of attachment style, and because she also had Loumen, I believe she also has some level of secure attachment style in her.

That looks like: feeling comfortable trusting those one's close with (we see several strong friendships she has and maintains, even if she appears semi-closed off in them, with her internal monologue she trusts these people, cares for them, and enjoys being around them), strong emotional regulation (she slips a few times throughout the show (I'm guilty of s1ep4 when she slaps the one lady in waiting in the crystal pavilion) but overall she has a great level of control over her emotions), feeling comfortable with their independence as well as in their relationships.

Overall Maomao is a very well written character, and I could go in further detail psychologically picking her apart (I've done it with other characters lol) and the way she is as we see her is a mixture of her struggling with her biological parents, with her sisters from the verdigris house, and her adopted father, Loumen.

Not sure if any of my word vomit made sense, but if it did and you've never looked into the things I mentioned before, I say do so! It's also rather interesting, and considering I've dedicated my entire college career to psychology, I'm not biased at all!

Still Face Experiment Video

Interesting Reddit thread for SFE

Attachment Style Test

Man, sometimes i wish i hadn't taken Psychology in high-school-

TW//mentions of unethical psychological experiment involving babies-

So, we learn something new about MaoMao's childhood.

And that is, by the time she was a toddler, she was left alone till the cortizans where done with work. And that could take, a while...

Because of this our MaoMao learned from a young age crying wouldn't do her any good. Thus causing her to have trouble telling if people are interested in her, in almost any context.

And there is like, a psychological reason for this outside of 'character with a sad backstory'

So there was this 'Forbidden Experiment' performed on young children, babies to be exact, a long time ago, where the caretakers where only allowed to tend to their physical needs, and not the emotional.

It was a psychological study of sorts for emotional deprivation

I won't get into the heavy details, it's honestly a disturbing case all things considered.

But the reason why I bring it up is that those babies shut down. They stopped crying to have any of their needs met. And nearly half passed away simply from emotional neglect. Those who survived were left with lasting truama that still impacted them for as long as they lived.

And honestly?

I can't help but feel MaoMao is feeling those same effects the kids that survived did.

Obviously, her situation wasn't as bad,

But it left lasting scars on her psychologically.

And we see it in the way she handles affection from those who do care about her.

She responds to it, gives affection herself when prompted, or has a reason(like getting rare medicine ingredients), but when it comes to getting it herself, MaoMao is apathetic.

She is not ungrateful but keeps a respectful distance.

This is also probably what caused MaoMao to be as independent as she is now. Or at least contribute to it.

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All in all, I love the show and its commentary. It doesn't truly sugarcoat things and doesn't blatantly spell stuff out for the viewer or reader. It's trusting us to be smart, make connections and figure the mysteries out ourselves, and determine how these bits of information influence the characters and their choices.

God, why did I take psychology-

"haley actually changed unlike..." SHUT THE FUCK UP

SHANE HAS AN ACTUAL REASON BEHIND HIM BEING AN ASSHOLE UNLIKE MS I WAS A MEAN GIRL IN HIGHSCHOOL

HES LITERALLY DEPRESSED, SUICIDAL AN ALCOHOLIC AND WORKS A DEAD END JOB!!!! YEAH ID BE AN ASS TOO!!! THE REASON HE DOESNT STOP DRINKING AFTER MARRIAGE IS BECAUSE NUMBER 1

ADDICTION IS HARD TO BEAT

AND NUMBER 2

IT CAN FUCKING KILL HIM!!!!!!!1!1!1!1!1

HE GOES FROM BEING A RAGING AND RUDE ALCOHOLIC TO BEING NICER AND DRINKING LESS UNLIKE MS HALEY WHO WENT FROM HIGHSCHOOL BULLY TO A NORMAL FUCKING PERSON WITH DECENCY

I HATE EVERYONE WHO IGNORES SHANES VERY OBVIOUS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE HE STILL DRINKS??? ARE YOU FR JUST GONNA IGNORE ALL THE PROGRESS HE MADE??? BECAUSE HE CANT FULL ON BREAK HIS ALCOHOL ADDICTION THAT HAS BEEN THERE FOR (PROBABLY) YEARS?? yeah okay YOU FUCKING IDIOT

okay I was here for johnny yong bosch and that was it… I don’t like the way they wrote Lady, and also apparently the creator is an avid Tr*mp supporter

nothing lost I suppose— I’ll just rewatch Trigun and Trigum Stampede to get my JYB fill

so I gotta say uhhhhh I’m lowkey on the rabbit’s side

This is the worst timeline. (x)

⌕ wind breaker - tsubakino.

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they're so dad & mom coded

the way they're sitting right beside each other

side eyeings

family dinner with a sprinkle of chaos

the way Hiragi's concerned while Ume's just nonchalant

and lastly

what kind of "bros" even tell each other that their kouhais reminds them of each other

they look like they're dropping off their children at the first day of school

look how proud they are

I'm sorry but this is such bullshit. Y'know how many times service workers have had the most deplorable fucking shit said to them over the phone? Never did jack shit about their threats but ofc they'll hold this woman for bullshit amounts of bail money because of shit she said after having her fucking Healthcare denied. fuck off dumbfucks

reading through the manga and wanna drop some of my fav lil expressions

that’s all :)