No, he was trying to cut off his pinkie finger as an apology.
The running joke of the manga is that he used to be a high-ranking yakuza enforcer who’s having trouble adapting to civilian life. Hence her shocked face when she saw the decorations and the creepy way he sang “Happy Birthday”; it’s a traditional birthday celebration for your oyabun, not your wife.
oh my god, i just realized, this means he sees her
AS THE BOSS IN THE RELATIONSHIP
He see’s her as his direct boss, but the group’s head is the Women’s Association Chairwoman:
Although I love you all very much and greatly appreciate all that you do to encourage and support me, I am also unfathomably afraid of every single one of you
this might seem like a cute jokey “haha i have anxiety” post but i’ve truly never been more serious about anything in my entire life. And I can’t even think of how to properly explain why
Each and every one of you has the ability to singlehandedly destroy my entire career and take away my entire income overnight. And after all that i’ve been through and worked for to make my goals happen for myself, that’s scarier to me than absolutely anything.
It’s gotten to a point where i’m afraid to publicly express even the most benign approval of any artist or individual for fear that they may have done something problematic that I never knew about, and that a post will be made about how i support someone who is evil, and my income will suffer because of it.
I am afraid even to allow myself to form any sort of emotional connection to any artist’s work.
I’m afraid to form any sort of close friendships with other artists and even most of my own fans for fear that someday they’ll do something bad and then i’ll get called out by association for being friends with them, and my income will suffer because of it.
An unreasonable amount of pressure is laid upon queer people (particularly those with an audience) by other queer people to be in-the-know about who’s dangerous and who isn’t, and so, I am on eggshells 200% of the time, for fear that everything i’ve worked so hard for over the past 3 years will disappear overnight.
I’ve watched several friends’ careers fizzle and die over rumors, misinterpretations, quotations taken out of context, troll callouts,
Someone even put me on a TERF list last year (yup. for real. ME. 4lung. a trans lesbian. on a TERF list.) and a few people actually believed it.
I thought it was hilarious at the time, but now that my income is bound so closely to my web presence, this kind of thing would have had me devastated had it happened more recently.
I understand that everyone is just trying to keep everyone else safe. And I think that is very admirable and encouragable. But i’ll be damned if i’m not terrified of anyone who would take advantage of that fact for their own gain or amusement.
None of you are in the wrong. You are all just trying to do the right thing. Thank you for protecting me and for protecting one another. But i’ll be damned if every single day of my life I don’t drive myself into paranoia over the fact that each and every person on this platform possesses that power over one another.
I thought this was a comical shitpost and then it turned into Big Mood
Social Justice Purity Culture is a cannibalistic beast that cares not for the good in people’s hearts. It was never about doing good, it was about destroying whatever some entirely random and anonymous person says is evil.
And virtue-signalling, of course.
Though I don’t see how someone can say all of that and then sincerely go “none of you are in the wrong”. To me, that sounds like something she would say so the very people she’s criticizing don’t target her.
And this is the reason why I don’t give out personal information, why I’m slow to trust, and why I don’t attach my picture or name to anything I’m working on right now.
While I love my followers, fans and friends, my given real life situation is very easily exploitable by people who I offend. Just two days ago I had somebody who apparently followed me at one point calling me a racist for being upset that a black stunt woman died on the set of a movie.
Imagine if I put my name and face out on my blog and they decided that me being a perceived racist was enough to ruin my life over. Sure, they once followed me, but I disagreed with them at one point and then they didn’t and they became entirely willing to shit on me as a result.
So, yeah. I love all my followers, but I take steps to protect myself. And I’ll continue doing so in the future.
Humanity all too often becomes the evil they seek to defeat. Hindsight is always the one to break the sad old news.
Steven Universe spoilers!
I’m honestly glad that tons of ppl seem to be finally joining me on the “Rose Quartz is awful” train
Like, I’ve disliked her for a long long time, ever since We Need to Talk, when it became apparent (to me) that she viewed Greg as an object, or a pet. Calling him “entertaining”, consistently referring to him as just a “human”. Despite all her efforts to try and connect with humanity, they were always below her, and even if she talked endlessly about how beautiful and amazing humanity is, it was always kinda obvious that she thought of them as lesser.
She was always kinda condescending when it came to talking about humanity, despite constantly singing it’s praises.
And more and more, with all the new information we get about her, she sounds worse.
Rose, to me, seems entirely selfish on the inside. And now that we know that Pink Diamond DEMANDED a colony, DEMANDED an army, and then decided suddenly that she didn’t actually want to kill or hurt humans; now we know that EVERYTHING is her fault.
Her rebellion was rebelling against a problem SHE created, and thousands (millions? idk) of gems died because of it.
Pink Diamond was a brat. And Rose never lost that selfishness.
Becoming Steven seemed like an entirely selfish act, to me. She didnt seem to actually care about how it would affect the people around her when she disappeared. And NOT ONLY would she disappear, they’d have the responsibility of a human child’s life, which is a huge, huuuuge responsibility to take on when you’ve suddenly lost the person who would always lead you.
Pearl, Garnet and Amethyst were almost entirely dependent on her. They weren’t independent. Pearl gave up her entire life (her entire “purpose”) for Rose. Garnet was cast out, alone, only able to fend for herself when Rose took her in. Amethyst was abandoned and literally was a little jungle child before Rose found her.
None of them knew jack shit about humanity. None of them really knew the proper way to interact with humans. Their best guide for how to do that was Rose, and she disappeared for her own satisfaction.
I don’t think Rose ever viewed anybody as actual people. I dont think she ever viewed Pearl as more than “her” Pearl, even if she tried. Pearl certainly never left the head space of Rose being her Diamond. She still worshiped the ground Rose walked on. Garnet was another “entertaining” or “interesting” or “fascinating” object. Sure, Rose gave her the freedom to be Garnet instead of Sapphire and Ruby, but there was still that “look at this shiny new toy” feeling to it. We don’t know a lot about her relationship with Amethyst but I can’t imagine it’s much different.
And now we know that she was LYING to pretty much all of them! She was feeding them these stories about Pink Diamond and how terrible all of the Diamonds were and pretending she was fighting some big bad villain when everything was because of her demands in the first place.
Rose has always seemed shady to me. She seemed like a bad person trying desperately to, at best, be a good person, or at worst, trying to make everyone around her think she was a good person.
Joey: I feel like I’m gonna puke.
Me: But you won’t, so it’s okay!
Joey: Aly…you’re…such a fucking sweetheart. And you need to tone it down.
Me: WHAT! I’m trying to make you feel better!
Joey: Yeah but I want pity. I want, like, “aww sweetie it’s gonna be okay” and you’re giving me “you’re not gonna puke so shut the fuck up”.
Me: I’m not!! I’m telling you the reasons why it’s gonna be okay!
Joey: Without saying “it’s gonna be okay”.
Me: I SAID THOSE EXACT WORDS!
Joey: …Did you?
Me: YES!
Joey: …All I heard is “you’re not gonna puke.”
Me: FUCK YOU!
Mégane à trois 