I'm an absolutely crazy history fan so this is all cool!
And yeah, that fish sauce the romans had is reaaaaaaaally weird, but the Romans were really cool so it cancels out!
Well, I can't say it's having any effect on me, but I like using emoticons often. Guess it can't hurt to try either lmao.
Yeah, I read it from someone's reccomendation.
Those are also very cool reccomendations. Thanks!
Proceeds to describe the craziest JRPG series!
Nah, it's not so crazy, I see. There's a lot of JRPG franchises that I don't think I'm going to try out anytime soon, but they look very cool!
I went in thinking it'd be one hour and thirty, but holy hell it was so worth it, unironically!
Agreed with everything stated.
I think on the 1st point, a lot of time it can be a way of addressing trauma, which is fine! Everyone has a different solution to trauma, it seems. What I don't like is when, sure, making light of it in anime tropes and having it as funny gags may be helpful to some people, but it's not something the anime industry as a whole has to decide for victims in how to handle their trauma.
And even then, we know most anime doesn't do those gags for this, it's meant to be a fetish appeal so that it attracts as many people as possible, and other anime fans are so desensitized to it that they don't care.
I guess if there's anything I'd correct about my previous posts is saying it makes you think more positively of the subject, instead it desensitizes one to it. Not because they can't distinguish reality from fiction but because every instance and story registers in the brain, and then weights itself with all the other knowledge to alter your view in a varied way (which can also mean, by a degree so insignificant that you successfully "distinguish reality from fiction", which most people do in whichever spectrum of this argument, but after 100s of instances of it, it will make a change, that's how the anime community sees it as something to be expected, and that it is hopefully ignored).
I agree with the 2nd point.
3rd point too, I don't think lolicons should be arrested, but the law =/= morality, and no I'm not saying that I think people should be jailed for it either if the law was more moral, I simply think it's morally bad to consume pedophilic media, or create it, for that matter.
Also I am sorry you don't feel heard. It sucks πGetting attention as a writer is hard... I've talked about my friend before, despite his treasure trove of stories many people mocked, ridiculed, and ignored them. I am buried under a bunch of reading stuff I want to do, once I'm done with those I'll hit you up on your stuff.