High af. As a touch deprived child it took me so long to realize my dog just wants me to pet him for no reason sometimes. I’m like you are fed, housed, and appear to be fully functioning. Why r u in my face. I had not accounted for the rest of love. Love to me was only surviving.
As someone who works in a DV Shelter, I've always viewed abstraction in TADC less as death and more as psychological collapse.
When people experience prolonged stress, trauma, isolation, or hopelessness, they can lose their sense of self. Abstraction feels like a metaphor for reaching a point where the mind can no longer sustain the pain it's carrying.
What stands out to me is Pomni's empathy. In trauma-informed practice, connection is often a protective factor. Pomni doesn't necessarily solve anyone's problems, but she consistently tries to understand others and see the person beneath their behavior.
Sometimes empathy isn't about fixing someone. It's about helping them feel seen before they reach their breaking point, and continue to even afterwards.
feel nothing but pity for people who think theyre too cool for ash because they will die without ever experiencing the clarity of realizing that using the power of bullshit and friendship to beat the opponent while the jp opening plays is in fact the apex of all media
one time i was on a crowded bus where i had nowhere to sit so i awkwardly hovered over this older woman... where i normally dont stare at ppls phone screens but hers was the AO3 colors. i thought to myself, no way is she reading fic but alas my friends SHE WAS. and as i craned
Gonna' argue the reason Goat didn't hit the furry community like Zootopia did was because it was largely black in culture and had no canines the white majority fandom want to fuck or be fucked by.