The Tastiest Poptard

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
kedreeva
offonaherosjourney

A man and a woman platonically raising a child together and not falling in love has to be the biggest plotwist in the Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie AND my favorite part

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(@leupagus tags) And they’re both sexy people! And are shown to be sexually attracted to the opposite sex! Just not each other. They have a whole child together and live in the same home, and the movie makes it very clear that Edgin values her opinion above all others, and you never see that in media without the assumption of sex/romance.

onyxbird

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#I can’t quite put it into words but there’s so much about Holga and Edgin’s love that is a beautiful fantasy #which ties into this idea of a man loving a woman without wanting her sexually #loving her to the point where he will sacrifice LITERALLY EVERYTHING for her #to the point where they are soulmates #but without the expectation of sexual obligation #and that happens between men and women! but it is not valued in media

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#I think that it’s also important to recognize it was everything yes#but it was specifically his romantic love#and you do NOT see that#you NEVER see someone sacrifice their romantic love for their platonic love#the whole deeply pushed idea that romantic love is bigger/better/worth more than platonic love#that absolutely pervasive ‘Just’ friends mentality#What ‘Just’ when he holds the key to bringing back the person he romantically loves#the person he’s held onto for years after losing her#the person he risked everything to acquire the object to bring her back#survived by her name through the worst#has only to whisper it once more to have her back#and chooses not to#chooses his family and his friend#I don’t think I’ve ever seen that#I desire to see it again (tags via @kedreeva)

authoratmidnight
authoratmidnight

Gonna another language ramble ft: Iruma and Japanese.

So, I don’t think ppl quite understand that the ‘deities’ (formerly referred in the translation as ‘genies’) aren’t like. “Gods” in the traditional sense like Apollo and Artemis, or Thor, or Ra or the Christian God or Amaterasu. They’re more like, like Kami, from Shintoism, like nature spirits. At least that’s the impression I get. The narration even said they were ‘one with the natural forces of the Netherworld’ and the ‘guardians of [it’s] balance and existence’.

The problem is this is *really* hard to explain. The way the word is written in in the raws is as 魔神. Which can be broken down into 魔 (read as ‘ma’, meaning demon/devil/evil) and 神. Normally, on it’s own, this reads ‘kami’, but the hiragana reading when coupled with 魔 is ‘jin’ (じん). So they’re ‘majin’. Which is a word that doesn’t *have* a direct 1 to 1 translation or meaning in english, which is where all the issues arise.

From my research, ‘majin’ seems to mean like, ‘demonic person’ or ‘magical person’ or ‘a person with magical abilities’. Except, usually, it seems to be written as 魔人, with 人 being the kanji for ‘person’, not with 神. With THIS spelling I’m getting ‘evil spirit’ and ‘genie’ (and ‘majin’ does seem to be ‘genie’ in japanese) as translations. Which makes sense since a what is a genie but a powerful being/person with supernatural abilities?

It’s. confusing (also the only other place im finding 神 reading ‘jin’ is in 神社, which means Shinto Shrine. Which honestly just, makes me more certain that they’re meant to be more like a kami than a God (if that makes sense).

So like, they’re powerful magical demonic beings, viewed as ‘deities’ (as we see w/ the family backstories for Gaap and Eito, they can bestow power and such onto demons, seemingly easily). But they’re not like, gods with a capital G. They seem to preside over like, one set of aspects- Thoth seems to be a being of knowledge, Harpus seems to be wind aligned, Ifrit is a fire being-as opposed to like, everything.

They’re powerful but not all powerful and it doesn’t seem like they rely on the prayer and worship of the demons, esp since they’re stated to predate them.

But trying to explain this to ppl is, hard. “They’re Gods” “Well, yes but also no not really.” And I don’t think this really shakes things up story wise, we’ve known since the Harvest Festival that these genies existed and were powerful. We just didn’t know that much about them really aside from that.

Ppl just. Gotta stop thinking of them in terms of gods like the Greek Pantheon and more like, nature spirits?

mairimashita! iruma-kun welcome to demon school! iruma-kun
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