there are several different sides of kankuro and each side has had some great moments to shine. I’d say some og my faves are:
for sweet kankuro – that time he started crying because gaara told a mildly emotional story about friendship is a classic, but personally I also really like the characterization in the later fillers when we see him as a kid being openly friendly with gaara and lately openly appalled by the stuff gaara did after he turned
for fun kankuro: basically the entire wedding gift episode but especially him bonding with rock lee cause they both have that extra energy.
for terrible kankuro: not gonna lie watching him be awful trying to sass everyone at the chunin exams is entertaining
My thoughts are that Dadzawa is a legit thing, he would probably adopt the entire 1-A class if they’d want him to. And it’s definitely canon that him and Mic have adopted Shinsou. They’re doing an amazing job as parents, aren’t they?
There are a fair number of older antifujos who are usually one of the following:
1. Homophobic misogynistic men. This is the most common type you’ll see in animanga fandom as a whole, and where the term ‘fujoshi’ originally came from. Basically they hate women and they hate reading about mxm pairings, so they deride any woman (or man) into slash, and slash in general.
2. TERFs, SWERFs, transphobes and transmisogynists. They claim that ‘fujoshi’ means “straight females who fetishize gay male relationships” – by which they mean trans mlm, and wield it as an insult towards them. The current discourse here on tumblr was started by this type, hence the reason I call this the ‘TERF definition’ of fujoshi.
3. Trans men who are unaware that the current anti-fujo discourse was started by TERFs specifically as an anti-trans dogwhistle. They assume that the whole “straight females fetishizing gay male relationships” is referring to straight women harassing gay men, and mistakenly believe that’s what fujoshi means.
4. Fujoshi who don’t realise that they’re fujoshi. Women who read / write slash, and have mxm pairings, but are going through a “not like other girls” phase and insisting they’re not fujoshi because they only ship “pure” ships.
Only the first type is common in Japanese fandom – the others are US-centric and related to the antifujo discourse here on tumblr.
Seriously, the sexual works in fandom have helped with my own sexual troubles. They showed me that kinks are okay, sex is okay, loving sex is okay, being tender is okay, expressing your desire to your partner is okay, taking the initiative in sex and sexual encounters is okay, telling your likes and dislikes in sex and in bed is okay. Basically sex is normal and exploring that is freaking okay.
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I really….. worry, about the way that these teens are viewing sex, attraction, and sexuality. And also just like, any interest or desire that is vaguely transgressive.
having violent thoughts, violent fantasies, watching violent movies, none of these things make you a violent person. similarly, having deviant sexual thoughts, being aroused at unusual and even illegal and harmful sexual concepts, is a normal part of human sexuality.
I’m nervous that some of these teens are going to stumble across something – maybe in fanfic, maybe elsewhere – that turns them on even though it’s also something that frightens or disgusts them to think of doing in reality, and they are going to be ashamed and disgusted with themselves for something that’s normal.
I think antis are looping right back around to the mid-century idea that a fantasy indicates something you wish you were doing, and that if your life was perfect, you wouldn’t fantasize. And if you fantasize about something bad, clearly that’s as worrisome as saying that you actually want and intend to do that thing – even though that’s not at all what fantasizing is.
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