yeah eva definitely pulls people in with the allure of a monster of the week show but it kind of forgets about that like halfway through and changes to ...therapy session of the week...

holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck holy fuck

i am so so so fucking normal im so normal i am a Normal Girl grabs the bars of my enclosure

want to be women, etc.

Oh and "I identify as..." feels like something poisonous the right slipped into queer culture at a critical point. It sounded good at a glance but subversively erases everyone who uses it. No one leads with "identify as" if they mean they "are." "Identity/identify" denies

antiplug fucked me up so bad!!! 10/10 would cry again

a second warhound reference has hit the towers,,,

that being said when KallidoraRho put a direct eva reference in rescue hound I was literally screaming. god I love evangelion and the way it slowly strips apart plot elements until you're left with just the psyche of your main characters

right??? i was an eva fan before i even discovered mechsplo and so many mechsploitation tropes are so similar to eva elements that i wish, yknow, that people actually paid attention to how eva does it. the way eva portrays mental unraveling and manipulation is just so fucking good

Or maybe, they're just meant to look really cool. Who's to say?

in Darling in the Franxx; piloting the Mecha is a pretty blatant metaphor for having sex. Metal Gears are symbols of war. EVA units mean different things to the different pilots, but often represent the pilot's life themselves (Shinji's fear of connection manifesting as a fear to pilot the eva)

not that I would ever not be trans. every version of myself would transition. but being a woman is an external hell and wanting to be a woman is an internal hell.