everyone simply must stop saying Grooming when they mean Indoctrination
grooming is a specific cluster of behaviors exclusively meant to sow the seeds for a romantic/sexual relationship with a child/teen over time. (some people also use it to refer to adults with severely uneven power dynamics, but the strictest definition is the previous one). the perpetrator is usually someone already close to the victim, most often a relative or trusted family friend.
indoctrination means intentionally instilling a partisan/dogmatic ideology into someone–often at a young age since children tend to be more impressionable, but there isn’t really an age limit on it.
and the two can go hand-in-hand, like, you could be indoctrinated into an ideology that provides more potential for grooming to happen (whether by discouraging speaking out about the issue, or creating a strict hierarchy where certain people can’t be questioned), but they’re different things okay
“Male author writes male character who is widely lusted after by the female fans” isn’t impressive or noteworthy when it’s a character who follows the formulaic Cool-Guy, Boyfriend-Material, Thirst-Trap archetype because like. You can study up on that for 10 minutes and understand the script. You can copy-paste a guy like that.
“Male author writes male character who is widely lusted after by the female fans” is extremely impressive when it’s Arataka Reigen. That is absolutely organic and almost certainly unintentional to the highest degree. No playbook on that one. That is undeniable authenticity in the irresistible failman market and I think ONE deserves an award even if he doesn’t want it.
To be clear. BONES the studio absolutely knew what they were doing. But this is after they recognized the exact rare-metal value of the weird ugly sweaty failman with no friends and the only common sense in the series. You can’t not fuck him.
it’s kind of a shame that mob psycho 100 was released before these talks of ‘main character energy’ and 'npc behavior’ really started to take hold in an annoying way. 'i am the protagonist of the world’ no you’re not you’re the protagonist of your own life just like everybody else is. bitch.
I like how you can tell my anxiety SPIKED April through June because Picross games were my most-played games those months. If Nintendo can figure out how to use the data they’ve got collected on me they could probably play me like a fiddle.
There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.
1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not. Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”
2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.”
Sometimes shipping something does mean that. Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.” Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B. Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.” And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes.
Listen to your parents, kids.
This really should be one of a handful of Public Service Announcements randomly and chronically inserted into one’s dash.
Hell man sometimes it means “these two are TERRIBLE and I want to watch them burn like a catastrophic forest fire as a proxy for all the shit I don’t actually want in real life (like to light my own apartment on fire and scream) and then laugh at the destruction at the end.”
All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”
All “I ship it” really means – really – is “I think there’s a story in those two, and I want to hear it.”
Who even knows what this blog is for any more. There's definitely some Pokemon, Legend of Zelda, Fullmetal Alchemist, and various western cartoons, though.
