after despair and hope

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Spontaneously wrote an essay on why Chuuya is cherished by and valuable beyond rational measure to the Port Mafia so that I could finally focus on the contract review and research tasks I haven't been able to process all evening. Wildly, I think it worked.

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vivigoesinsane-deactivated20240

hi. I request it

Oh, I'm so late to replying to this because work became very hectic, but thank you for permission to make public what I called an essay but which could more accurately be considered a string of consciousness series of observations wrapped like wisteria around the overarching theme that the Port Mafia, even from where it lurks in the shadows, nurtures Chuuya's humanity because it needs him to persist sustainably as one of the pillars of Yokohama's stability.

(I've tried to include some loose semblance of structure and signposting, but the below is largely unedited, so please forgive my inartful articulation and lengthy lead-in. It builds into itself, I hope.)

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

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charlottan

the problem with driving is its realtime when it should be turn-based

It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.

If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.

There's people in the notes saying they're going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.

But. If you can't bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.

FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.

I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today.

If you're thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It's time to grow up. It's time to move on.

Don't even hate watch it. Make it fail.

It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.

They always do, it's the same rhetoric used by the same people. The only thing that changes is the order in which the groups are targeted. Bisexual people will be next.

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