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Imagine. It’s 2am. Your girl is sleeping soundly next to you, and you get it in your head to mess with your missus’ phone.
I can’t relate but I find it a little bit funny. Harmless jokes are the little desserts of any relationship.
But, like alot of Lily’s posts, it falls apart the second you think about it. Lily… your doormat doesn’t go anywhere publicly alone. She’s in a foreign country. She’ll have airplane mode on to avoid texts. She’ll be anchored to your wifi and public free ones. It’s not like she’s going to get a push notification at full volume at the supermarket.
She also see’s your blog you exceptional individual.
It’s all just a waste of time that shows that you can and will use your partner’s phone. With only 5 days of marriage under your belt, it’s a bad look, Lily.
Or it’s made up for a cheap laugh for her teen audience online. I’m going with the latter.
ETA: more of mating bond fuckery. With children.
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https://pokemadhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Corazon
Read it for yourself.
archived 27 Oct 2021 08:32:18 UTC
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The obvious reasons this is messed up are... obvious. But there are a lot of layers to this.
Lily seems to think that people will stop thinking of this as a rape metaphor if she just proves that it's not physically rape. I believe that Lily legitimately does not understand that there's a bit more overlap between 'violation of trust' and 'physical assault'. She thinks of everything in very specific, compartmentalized, neatly labeled boxes and can't figure out how the contents of those boxes spill into each other.
The mating bond isn't a physical violation, therefore it can't be analogous to rape. But it's still illegal, because that produces artificial drama. She can't grok that there has to be a reason it's illegal, even if it's an unfair or misunderstood one, and that's a really important question here. Why is the mating bond illegal? something something Pokemon abuse?
Why is it considered abuse if it's just an innocent life-binding exercise? Because bad people wanted to deny true love? But if that's the case then Lily as the protagonist should be fighting against the injustice instead of just accepting it. Unless it's not an injustice and there's a legitimate reason, and what possible legitimate reason could there be for outlawing a connection that permanently changes the mental landscape of the two individuals involved?
It's obvious that Lily didn't think about any of this shit and doesn't care to. She just says 'it's illegal', but when G does it it's okay, and I'm sure that the only reason Lily looks on in 'abject horror' because it's illegal you guuuuuys we're gonna get in trouuuuble~
But let's look at the morality of this. Even disregarding the part where a grieving child is involved-- even if she were to make this bond with the Princess Cadence expy, a consenting adult.
Corazon has a genetic disease. She's been sickly her whole life. She hates G. She looks constantly miserable. This aggravation of the condition isn't something unexpected, and Corazon may have made peace with her mortality long ago. She may not be willing to form a mating bond for her own reasons, and is willing to let herself go peacefully instead of tying herself to a human.
Even if the little girl is sad, what about Corazon's opinion? What if she's lived her whole life in agony and wants to die with what dignity she has? What if, again, there's a moral line she isn't willing to cross and has accepted her death as a result?
Fuck you, that's what. You're going to be permanently bound to this little girl, who is too young to fully understand or consent to the consequences of this lifelong decision, and you're both going to DEAL WITH IT.
So G just waltzes in, sees the situation, and somehow SHE is also able to forcibly form a mating bond between other Gardevoir and their new hosts? Since when was that possible? Isn't the mating bond supposed to be based on a deep sense of trust between the psychic fairy and their 'mate'? How can you just FORCE that bond on somebody else?
And how does it somehow bypass a genetic disease? Corazon isn't dying of old age, it's an illness. Wouldn't she still die, except now the little girl whose life is bonded to her will die with her? Or does the mating bond mean that you're forced to live as long as the human you're bond to, no matter the quality of that life? Or does this magically heal a GENETIC DISORDER?
It's like she's trying to set up an emergency transformation or some other kind of life-binding trope so blur the lines of 'doing the right thing', under the guise that saving a life has enough moral clout to ignore all the other issues with this, and then also prove that 'see guys it's not PHYSICAL so it's not RAPE god you're all so stupid'.
No, Lily. Rape isn't about sex. It's about control. It's about dominating somebody else on the most intimate, visceral level. About forcing yourself and your desires on others while they are helpless to stop you.
This is still rape.