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This man is a single father, and he's the most wholesome and adorable single father I ever saw.

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Every time I see someone posting about how Bluesky is an echo chamber and people need to open themselves up to dissenting views, I feel like the Simpsons racecar bed joke.

"I'm debating in the digital town square! Do you debate in the digital town square?" "I have fun with people I like."

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I am once again shilling for Ryako's score for Metropolis. It's an ecclectic mix of hip-hop, drum and bass, electronica, metal, and orchestra. If you want a taste, this is my favorite track of the album, which is meant to play during the scene where the Robot Maria is being burned at the stake:

It's great when people do experimental modern scores for silent films and the king of it is Nosferatu. There are like a thousand scores for it, and all of them are weird in a completely different way. We have industrial Nosferatus. We have operatic Nosferatus. Somewhere out there, do we have a dubsteb Nosferatu? We can only hope

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OH MY FUCKING GOD GIRL PLEASE JUST KISS HIM ALREADY YOU TWO ARE GONNA BE THE END OF ME

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It's funny, I listen to more of these now than I did back in the day. Making up for lost time, I guess!

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We all know Suyin is the worst date of all your OCs, but who's the best date? Who's the one who'll wine and dine us and sweep us off our feet?

Sylvain. Sylvain will show you the world and still kiss your hand and make sure you get home safe when you say the chemistry just wasn't there. But you wanted it to be there so badly

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i dont think everyone appreciated my life-size furret as much as they should have

he is approximately 7 feet, so he’s a little bigger than most furrets, but we love him anyways.

this took me over 3 months of ~5 to 14 hour daily crochet sessions, so please appreciate him

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Chapter 182 I think is one of my favorite chapters in all of P2 because it does such a fantastic job with each of the three characters.

First, Yoru. I've said it before, but I love how this last arc has been for Yoru, giving her an emotional depths that she never had before, and showcasing just how unprepared and ill-equipped to deal with said emotions she really is. I've seen people saying that she's only trying to manipulate Denji and Asa, but I don't think that's the case: Makima spent the better part of a year manipulating varying governments around the world to turn Denji into Pochita, but Yoru can't go a single date without trying to turn him into a weapon. She is impulsive, spontaneous, immature, she acts purely on instinct, and we see just how wild she can be. In only a few chapters she goes from trying to blow his head off, to trying to beat shit out of him, to kissing him because she thinks he's cute and genuinely trying to motivate him to keep on moving. She's flying by the seat of her pants with no clue what she's doing, a complete loss of control on her part. A few chapters ago she was the embodiment of the fear of war who just killed possibly hundreds of people, and now she she can't look at the guy she just kissed like the tsundere she is. And to loop it back to her "I got over it line" and how unture that has to be. Her powers are fueled by guilt, the more guilt she feels in something's destruction the more powerful it is, and considering the sheer scale of destruction her Gun Devil Arm brought, the guilt she had in killing the Gun Devil, her self-proclaimed child, must be immense, but she says she "got over it", and I don't believe her.

Next, Asa. She is someone who has a lot of negative traits, and a lot of time they tend to overshadow her good trait. She is selfish, she is more concerned with looking like a good and moral person instead of actually being one, and her entire role in the Church was her ignoring any and all red flags, no matter how obvious they were, because she was obsessed with being a micro-celebrity, because she wanted to play out the fantasy of being Chainsaw Man's hero, to give her life meaning and to justify her own existence. At the core of all of that however, Asa does genuinely want to do good, she does want to help the people she feels that are important to her, and her trying to relate and comfort Denji was one of the few times that people had one something like that for him, one of the few she's gone out of her way to comfort someone, She was at her lowest, but he saved her, so she wanted to return the favor inn a way she thought would help, she just got caught up her own head along the way. Her speech at the end then made me realize something, that while it's been alluded to a few times, such as her death and the Falling Devil attack Asa has never actually vocalized what it is she actually wants, and it leaves me wondering what she was going to tell Denji before he threw up the Snow Devil.

And finally Denji. When to comes to trauma Denji shuts down and he distances himself from his problems; KIll his dad in self-defense? Hide those memories. Reze tells him that the life he lived wasn't good? Change the subject. Sad that Reze never showed up? Hey look it's Miss Makima! Killed Aki? Time to be a dog and not think again. Power's dead? Time to die. Can't date Asa? Time to fight a super big devil for the fans! I half-expected Denji to just lie there and take whatever Yoru was about to do to him, but instead he pushed her off of him, he resisted someone who was using sex against him, something he and never done, and it's clear that he is reaching his limit with Asa/Yoru and how he has gotten nothing but mixed signals from them. I really do feel like we're getting so much closer to him learning the truth about them. And then there is the end! Denji does not think about his trauma, he pushes it to the side so he does not have to think about it, we saw this with the Falling Devil attack where to not think about Aki and Power's death, he slices his brain up. I do not think that he has given either of them too much thought since the end of P1 because all he can think about is their deaths and the "role" he was forced into regarding them. But the snow made him think of them and that trip to Aki's family grave, it was a trip they had fun on, the last time they were all together before things turned out the way they did. Those were good and pleasant memories he had of Aki and Power, of the family they had with one another, and him reflecting on them is good. Aki said it himself on that trip, that he didn't think about the bad stuff because he had Denji and Power around, and while I feel like we're only just getting started with how messy this process will be for Denji, I do think this might be a good first step for healing for Denji.

Denji, Asa and Yoru each displayed amazing characterization in 182, and I can't wait to see where this will lead the three of them.

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Tatsuki Fujimoto, best known for his (sic) one shot Woke Up As a Girl Syndrome