The Awesome Thing About Reading The Comments On Whn Is That We're The Target Audience And Therefore Our

the awesome thing about reading the comments on whn is that we're the target audience and therefore our discussions are a part of the play. this shit is immersive theater

it actually is really insane that naked bodies are so legislated in our country that in most places you could be charged or at least fined for swimming naked. It’s weird to think how many people have never been naked outside of their own home, or outside of their own bedrooms or bathrooms. When I think about the fact that I can’t walk to a nearby river, that formed natural in this earth, take my clothes and swim in the water with my animal body that came from the same thing as the river, no more inherently indecent or threatening than a deer or a stone, it makes me feel claustrophobic. 

What I like about episode 5 is that even though Bouche supposedly had noble intentions for making Michiru and Shouma miserable for years, he still hurt them and Shouma's feelings aren't rendered invalid because "Bouche did it out of love". An explanation isn't going to erase the years Shouma spent seeing his mother cry for countless nights - or resolve his trauma and helplessness when his half siblings murdered his mother, even though she didn't qualify as good Dark Snack spice (therefore rendering Bouche's efforts moot; it just delayed the inevitable, sadistic actions of his other children)

I also like how Shouma, by deciding he wants to keep making people happy despite the risks, is breaking away from perpetuating a cycle created by his father? Bouche thought letting Michiru and Shouma be happy would put them in danger, but rather than gathering his resolve to protect them with everything he had - or send them far away - or at the very least shut down the very company profiting off the deaths of humans - he isolated them and treated them horribly. In a similar vein, Shouma tried to isolate himself from humans; initially because he saw himself as a monster (which ties into his poor self-image), then because his presence made humans prime Dark Snack ingredients. However, how effective is that strategy when Shouma's left lonely and with no way of really moving forward from the past, while the people he made new connections with are left wondering if they did something wrong, and possibly develop misconceptions about him? It's ultimately a useless course of action, and if anything continues to pin the blame on Shouma and other targeted humans when the fault truly lies with a family relying on the happiness of the 'weak' to assert their superiority

gavv continues to be my favorite rider despite having only 5 episodes out.

i love that shouma's uncle is supportive but from a perspective that doesn't take his feelings into account, let alone his mom. he can only see it from the angle that the rest of the family will fucking kill him for existing.

it nags at shouma because. what if his uncle is right? what if all their suffering was justified, and meant to protect them? that he's wrong to feel this way?

it's not until helping a child get their toy out of the drain that he realizes.

it's not his fault, it's the rest of his family's fault.

and it's after realizing this that he takes a bite of hot chip, and gains another good memory (the physical metaphor being his hirihiri gozicho that he uses to kill one of the agents)

"lola bunny space jam this, lola bunny feminist icon that" everyone shut up lola bunny space jam will never amount to whatever the hell was going on with her in the looney tunes show

I wanted to revisit sock princess