Can This Dude Get A Break

I'm seeing a lot more posts of people getting excited about Jinshi manhandling MaoMao, from the blatant sexual position in the frog scene to the way the touches her face and shoves honey into her mouth and that one kiss on the neck.

Some are happy and delving into how this or that part of the interaction is indicating their true feelings and how Jinshi is wearing down Maomao to understanding she likes him too.

Some are unhappy and saying it's noncon and uncomfortable and Jinshi is being a bad guy overstepping and wielding his authority to take advantage.

Personally, I think both are true in their own way and false in their own way, but more importantly: Jinshi's actions are interesting as a look into his psyche.

I definitely don't think Jinshi has any ill-intent toward Maomao. He likes her and is pulling pigtails essentially, but he ISN'T actually pulling pigtails. He's shoving his honey covered fingers in her mouth and making overly sexual bedroom eyes to distract her from him sneaking a snack off her plate. He's also very much backing off whenever Maomao signals a no and doesn't repeat things that have clearly made her uncomfortable and their relationship is slowly improving as a result.

Jinshi is a guy who, from quite a young age, has been tasked to pretend to be a eunuch and dangle himself in front of the royal harem to test their loyalty to the emperor they serve and weed out those who are willing to stray.

Jinshi is a guy who, during his formative years was suppressed and denied all his wants, then exactly when he's going into puberty was given sex-suppressing drugs to pretend to be a eunuch and told to be flamboyantly appealing to women.

Jinshi is a guy who's been encouraged and given success and praised for being overly sexual in a way he may or may not actually be comfortable with at all, while also being forced to have all proper appearance of being not sexual at all.

Jinshi is a guy who has been placed in charge of the royal harem, and in doing so has been basically given the duties of his brother-father's WIFE in managing his sexual affairs behind closed doors until he actually marries.

Jinshi has ISSUES.

He doesn't, actually, know how to act with a person he likes. Not as a friend who isn't a caretaker and definitely not as a lover. He's working his way through that with his relationship with Maomao (friendship first) - and she's actually the perfect person to go through this with because she was also raised in a ridiculously sexual environment she embraced from necessity but never actually wanted to join and is able to shake off his missteps. She's constantly aware of the power dynamic and of how he's permissive and listens to her and threads the needle of scolding/correcting him the right way and at the right times and with the right audience so he can understand without him losing face. And he tolerates and respects her in a way he does no one else.

I think this awkward period for them is actually vital for any future romance to work.

They're each personally, individually coming out of a shell made of their neglectful and simultaneously over and under sexual upbringing and present with each other's help, and when they finally get there they'll understand each other better than anyone else can.

This will probably never be true but hear me out, what if Monkeystar is the new leader of Riverclan? The kittypets in Ivypool's heart mention Warriorclan so maybe Warriorclan will appear in the next book and Monkeystar will be leader? This is not going to happen but if by some miracle it did, i'd be kicking my feet in happiness.

Is it normal for your hair color to turn lighter because my hair has been turning a lighter, almost ginger shade of brown. And it's not sun-bleached or anything because i dont go outside enough, it just has been turning lighter for the past couple of months.

I'm going to vent here and everyone's going to say I'm wrong or something but I don't care. I HATE THE AUTISM CEATURE!!! I'm saying this as someone who is autistic so no it's not because I hate autistic people or something dumb like that but I hate it because it looks like he's distrust. It looks like he's overstimulated and I hate it. I'M NOT A CEATURE JUST BECAUSE I'M AUTISTIC. I DO NOT LOOK LIKE I'M OVERSTIMULATED ALL THE TIME. I just think it makes autistic people look more infantile and dumb because he looks like he has no thoughts in his head when sometimes I wish I had no thoughts in my head. This is just my opinion I can understand why some people would relate to him because everyone's autism is different but I personally hate it.

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To this day i still think it's crazy that in warrior cats, a book series that I started reading when I was in like 5th or 4th grade, they let a cat get stabbed in the throat and they let another cat get gutted. I'm so glad my parents couldn't read in English because if they could they would've taken the books away immediately

A vision of shadows is the only warrior cats arc that matters, only read that one

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAIN WORLD RAAAAAAH!!!!!!!

THANK YOU VIDEOCULT!!!!!!!!

Jeepers guys! Sorry, I wasn't being serious! I was just off my meds when I saw the Iskall video and got really disappointed and angry. Sorry 😬

No, please, hermitcraft can't have drama, if they do I'll kill myself

Can’t believe I haven’t seen a single mention yet of that scene where Ivypool steals that guys cheeseburger (edit:) (turns out I misinterpreted a sandwich for a cheeseburger but a burger is just so much funnier)