Aaah it's so hard to resist reading this until I can get the seventh book. But I will resist! It comes out this month, right?
(And thank you so much for your fic comment + rec! I'll respond this evening when I have the time to write a proper reply, but it made me really happy.)
Annnnnd I've now finished the book, so I can finally look at this!
In the aftermath of the bullying incident he's like, I wasn't able to protect her D: and the text is all, you don't have to protect her, dumbass! Life is not a shounen manga! What you have to do is A.) take a genuine interest in her well-being, B.) listen, and C.) when appropriate, supply food.
Yes yes yes, this is what I loved about that development. I know I've talked before about how much I dread that trope in coming-of-age stories where the guy achieves maturity by "becoming a man" and protecting the girl and basically outgrowing all personal vulnerability and weakness in favor of becoming an emotionally stoic bedrock for other people to depend on, but count on Umino to avoid that dreadful fate completely. <3 I really liked how she pointed out that Rei did help Hina, but that he didn't save her, and shouldn't have to save her because she can help herself too and it's not a bad thing for "supporting each other" to be a two-way street. Not even touching how
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Meanwhile, I have no idea how to "ask" anything on tumblr otherwise I would post it there, but I wanted to alert you to this picture (sfw) that just popped up on my dash. ::if you haven't already seen it::
No I hadn't seen it! You were very right to alert me ahaha A+ for truth in tags. And it's a good thing you didn't post it on tumblr as I haven't checked tumblr in days. Yesterday was the first proper day off I've had in idk ages, and instead of catching up on the social internets I spent it reading the latest Temeraire and watching Russell Crowe perform principled masculinity. No regrets.
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(And thank you so much for your fic comment + rec! I'll respond this evening when I have the time to write a proper reply, but it made me really happy.)
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In the aftermath of the bullying incident he's like, I wasn't able to protect her D: and the text is all, you don't have to protect her, dumbass! Life is not a shounen manga! What you have to do is A.) take a genuine interest in her well-being, B.) listen, and C.) when appropriate, supply food.
Yes yes yes, this is what I loved about that development. I know I've talked before about how much I dread that trope in coming-of-age stories where the guy achieves maturity by "becoming a man" and protecting the girl and basically outgrowing all personal vulnerability and weakness in favor of becoming an emotionally stoic bedrock for other people to depend on, but count on Umino to avoid that dreadful fate completely. <3 I really liked how she pointed out that Rei did help Hina, but that he didn't save her, and shouldn't have to save her because she can help herself too and it's not a bad thing for "supporting each other" to be a two-way street. Not even touching how ( ... )
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