#.. but also theres again that weird Speaking In Not-Third-Person thing and its like. yknow. The Difficulties.

[trainingdummyrabbit]

i do miss using my funy lil replycons tho, as self conscious as i get sometimes i really do just gotta

[cheswirls]

okay okay okay thoughts!!

i like the opening but i dont really like the song.. that much. p typical tho, you like one half and the other is only eh.

but i really liked the ed wowww!! the song is so amazing and its by LiSA aaaahh!!!! i recognized her right away mann. and the theme is so cute aww! the medieval one from one of the popularity polls, and they took off running with it wow, it was animated and everything!!!!!

so yeah the ending is realllly great. Datte Atashi no Hero is the name of that song, so go check it out by itself um yeah!

beside that, the op apparently hinted at the exams arc which is cool ! which means ig the zombie-forest-thing is probably the second ova, if theyre gonna have the stain and end of term arcs in this half. which im!!!! all for hell yeah thatll be cool.

im wondering if this is foreshadowing a third season already tho? i could see them ending it w the stain arc like as a closer kinda like how they did w magi, i mean a1 is different from bones but like this is obviously gonna be one of those longer running stories if horikoshi really is under kishimoto and oda and all the gigantic-story-authors, yknow? and bones usually takes those longer running ones and bunches them up (aka fma) sooo another season like this is weird yet still sorta plausible. 

especially since end of term goes directly into the summer training arc so well, i could see a s3 happening. 

i watched it in english since simuldub is still going on -so bless both jap and eng casts for ALL their hard work rly !! that one week break was worth it, they need rest- and im not sure abt stains voice it kinda..bothers me. m gonna check and see if its up who plays him yet soon.

i still love gran torino -not how they say it tho i personally say or tori-no, like the name tori, then, no, nor tore-E-no, but eh w/e- and i really really wish his va was up somewhereeee like even funimation has this nice little spot on the mha page for cast and uh, no cast is there period. nothing. like wow great job guys.

he sounds kinda familiar but the voice matches a++ to me like !!!!!!! YES I love it.

i also like how they showed everyone else training! like i didnt know jirou was depicted but that was cute, ill have to go back to the manga and see if its an add on or something. omg guys they had!!!!!!!! animated!!!! kendou and yaomomo aaaaaAAAHh!!!!! i can never remember her name but snake charmer lady had a different color scheme than i had pictured. maybe her hair threw me off. but yea kendou speaks!!! and her hero outfit is still a++++++++++++!!!!!!!!!!! i love kendou guys

and they made a huge long piece abt best jeanist bc in the manga it was like a couple panels im p sure, but it was cool to see his quirk in action! like rly cool i dont ever remember it being like that like torn apart and stuff, unraveled? yeah. that was neat.

everyone else’s little snapshot scenes were cute too. shouto’s was unexpected tho. nice but unexpected, a little offputting.

they actually got p far for the first ep of this arc like its already into the second day theyre already abt to test out the uh.. what would you call it i forget, the fullbody quirk form? the released quirk form lets say that. 

gOSH i lovelovelove the brash remarks torino has like. no kid. thats a taiyaki are you okay. and izuKU JUS IS LIKE no i know im not a taiyaki and he does it in such a natural way like address the problem, get back to the conversation, all in one fell slide.

and they showed the ‘im not dead’ scene again aaaa that was great. that jus. sry im abt to tear up im thinking abt the ed again SO BEAUTIFUL

i totally expected manual to (we SAW MANUAL lmao that post still haunts me) out iida in this ep but next one..maybee. i think. maybe not, theres a little left to cover. but soon. i like him better than when i read the manga ithink bc in that same scene he was like ‘okay no you rly dont care for me youre here bc hosu’ and iidas like yea sry bout that. but he seems.. less suspicious, maybe thats why. like hes jus there, patrolling, admiring, stuff. nice.

i lost track a bit but um i think thats it! good ep overall, excited for the next one. i would, like, its my tradition to watch it twice back to back, but i have to repair the ttdk drawing real quick and post that, maybe ill watch it later tho. 

[marsupial-tapir]

unnecessarily long list of decision-making factors

the problems boil down to these 2 main things:

1. should i take the insect physiology course, which would make 5 courses

and

2. should i change my language diploma from spanish to german

so for 1, positives are: 

-  insect physiology looks Rad as Hell, and i want to take it at some point anyway

- if i’m going to take it eventually, next semester is the best time to do it because i’ll have a friend doing it (who is really sweet and i really want to get to know better but she’s graduating next year, so now’s really my last chance)

- also now’s a good time because i’ll be taking the course right after 2 other entomology courses, so the content will be fresh in my mind and easier to take in than it will be in later semesters

- to fit in all the electives i want to do and still graduate on time, i need to take 5 courses in some semesters anyway

- this is an ok subject to do as a 5th course because it’s non-contact, so i won’t need to squeeze any classes into my timetable

- i have a weird amount of space free on my timetable rn, which leaves lots of time to study. i might not get that in later semesters

- basically if im going to do this subject, now’s a really really good time

- i took 5 subjects last year and survived

negatives:

- i say “i survived” but a large contributor to that was that i spent 5 of the critical academic months on an enormous unrealistic energy high, which im well and truly off now, and i dont know if it’ll be back at the right time to get me through 5 subjects again

- as well as the 4 other subjects, i need to work 16 hours a week and also eat, sleep,, communicate iwth other people,, be a person,,

- also when i say “i survived” yeah i did but the aftermath wasn’t fun and towards the end (and afterwards, and recently ongoing) i had some pretty nasty lows and its really unfair to make people around me deal with that just so i can get a kick out of learning, even if it pays off for me

- if i take this course, i’ll be doing 3 third-year courses, as well as a language and at least one other second year course, and the 2nd year is marine science so there’s a good chance i’ll be hyperfocussing on that and studying it to the exclusion of the other subjects (although the same case can be made for insect physiology so)

- can i do it?? yes probably but at what cost

- also when i try to enrol in it i get an error message saying Please Do Not Enrol in This Many Courses, You Must Contact the Dean For Permission If You Want to Die and maybe i should take that as a sign from wiser powers

- yeah i’d need to enrol late by the time i get permission so maybe my chance is gone?? idk

aand problem no.2: spanish or german

arguments for spanish:

- i already took 2 courses in it last year

- if i continue this diploma, i know i’ll be able to graduate on time, whereas starting this german diploma later might make it a struggle to fit (i still MIGHT be able to do it but it’ll be a little harder)

- it’s useful??

- i dont know anyone in the course but maybe that means potential to make new friends?? didnt really work this year but there’s always more chances i guess

arguments for german:

- so when i started the language diploma last year i was tossing up between spanish and german, and chose spanish purely because i had a friend doing it and, in the absence of other deciding factors, that won the day

- BUT the friend dropped out after a semester so now im all on my lonesome.... a tragic victim of social awkwardness in a class that requires a Lot of interaction.... yikes

- now im leaning towards changing to german because i have 3 friends doing it, and i know at least two of them are majoring in it so won’t abandon me (i know its probably not a great idea to pick classes based on friends but from experience it makes a Lot of difference especially in a language course)

- there’s a vague possibility i might be doing a postgrad in germany, so it’ll be useful, whereas im unlikely to do a postgrad in a spanish-speaking country (the reason for this is that uni’s free in germany, otherwise i wouldnt even consider leaving home but yknow. ive got 3 more years to potentially develop an adventurous spirit)

- i studied italian in high school and spanish is quite similar, and i feel like i kind of want to try a different language family? i have a good foundational knowledge of latin languages now, i want to get a broader knowledge of other stuff

- german looks really cool and ive always wanted to learn it

- if i do german i’ll be taking a first year course, which will be much easier than taking a 2nd year course like i will be for spanish (and might be a big help if i end up doing 5 subjects)

- i still want to continue spanish but now that i know a bit, it’ll be easier to continue it on a more casual basis (e.g. at the iml at uni), whereas starting german from scratch will be easier if im doing it as an organised part of a degree

- even if i don’t end up finishing the diploma by graduation, i won’t have lost anything by learning another language. the content will be valuable even without a certificate to prove it

- overall german will be easier (at least this semester), its more enticing rn and seems to have a lot more positives going for it

- ??? theres probably more to say but i forgot

current enrolment sits at 4 subjects, plus one because atm im enrolled in both spanish and german but will drop one when i finally decide. if i drop one now i can pick up insect physiology, otherwise i’ll have to email and grovel for late enrolment later if i decide i want to do it. but at this stage, if nothing changes: i’ll be doing 4 subjects, but no verdict on the language as yet

[isaacathom]

ok this is actually a fun bit of writing here, even if the preceding shit was kinda garbage

tl;dr this bitch has to rant about this stupid book because i naively want to learn something about my family’s history and this is the only fucken way to do it

‘When he discovered he had to work to help provide for this instant family of a large flock of children, ‘Mick’ showed his true self and devotion to the family.

Within a year of the marriage, he left the fold, leaving his wife to fend for herself in the daunting task of raising her children.’

like.aside from just being kinda awkwardly worded (he bangs On and On about how his mum was the 11th of 11 children like fuck i get it its a big family, holy shit) i think thats just. a good concept there. the space really sells the punch. wouldve been better if we hadnt been told beforehand that Mick was a cunt, yknow. but thats nice

also lets keep going. ‘6 step brothers and 4 step sisters’ theyre actually her Half Siblings. they all share the same mother. theyre related. she’d be step if she was adopted, which she was not, because if she were, surely we wouldve been told about those circumstances.

‘[his mother] easily met that high standard as she was a very pretty young lady’ please dont perv out over your fucking mother you pig of a man. also you would hope ‘jock’ (his name is fucking robert but ok, Jock) was interested in more than how pretty Nellie was when they got together, right......... like there had to be more to it. am i naive? perhaps

‘scottish clan gordon’ the what. but we arent gordons???? are you. are you hundred percent sure. are you positive about this. are you sure thats why your name is gordon. alright buddy

‘according to buzzy’s story’ please never refer to yourself in the third person

‘hotels rarely burn down’ ?? i dont buy that at all. my guess is this famous hotel (which.... you didnt name so ok)

ok so theres a picture in here of my dad standing at some random gate, and he says its the same gate as a picture of his dad..... where is THAT picture??? this picture means nothing without that historic context, and it feels hollow if the actual picture isnt there.

granddad you dont. you dont need to wikipedia article dump me information about glasgow??? i mean sure, cool, id rather just be reading the wikipedia article.

jesus christ. so hes talking about his dad, right. who he’d technically set up earlier by saying he came to melbourne at 19. before he launched into a whole thng about his mother and shit. and suddenly hes come back to his dad to explain that his dad (so gordons grandfather) used to beat him! and its like, wOAH, where the fuck did that come from??? shit dude. thats rough. but he just mentions it suddenly out of nowhere. oH JESUS actually. sorry. i misread (yknow, because its written like shit). he means.... his brother??? right, he means his Brother Robert, was beaten by his dad, also named Robert, who was the one who came to melbourne aged 19. ok. ok that makes slightly more structural sense but ooof. ouch. poor robert (the younger). in my uh, defence, this book is written awful and i've never met robert? (my.... understanding is that he probably died before i was born? like with mary, who i dont recall having met either)

ok uhhh ‘most of the gorbal’s tenemenets were eventually demolished by the wise founding fathers many decades later, in the 1980s’ the WHOM. this isnt fucking america, this is scotland, what in the actual fuck are you TALKING about????????????????????????????? ‘modern day replacement improvements and architecture designed to achieve, what?’ fucker they were trying to fix the mistake they made in crowding 90k people into the fucking gorbals. maybe they didnt succeed (they didnt) but they were trying, it was naivete rather than fucking malice, you bitter old fuck. like, you visited in the 1980s.... and published this book in 2007......... without thinking to check back......... like hey maybe theyve gotten better? (newsflash - they fucking have) sooo... fuck

‘could the [my family] be related? [to the mcdonalds]’ yes??? we literally are. theres no question of that. being a sept of clanranald, we are Literally related to the fucking macdonalds. you absolute buffoon. yea its distant, and maybe thats your point, but when combined with you launching into this giant diatribe about rhw Campbells for shit that happened long ago, it seems youre picking and choosing how close ‘related’ is. we are. literally. related to the macdonalds. also it wasnt thought up in glasgow, they were from fucking new hampshire. but sure. 

‘his sheila wife of his’ excuse me?

‘so the name was related to a buzzing bee i suppose’ ? i still dont get it. like, he then explains that apparently his twin sister had difficulty saying Brother, so she called him Buzzy. that makes sense to me. i can understand that. but the buzzing bee thing? not sure i follow, given the prior context he provided. i dont get it. this is written like garbage. theres no structure. we went from jumping forward in time to the birth of my uncle Dale (my dads older brother) and suddenly we’re talking about Mick’s running career and gordon’s childhood! what the fuck happened.

‘coupled with the bigoted attitudes that were rife during those periods’ says the man who got angry at a black (i THINK, mightve been a separate story)  frenchman who couldnt speak english in France because ‘we saved them’. fuck off. youre just like them, you old codger.

also hes decrying his grandfather mick for being ‘no true irishman’ even though micks dad was full irish? by that exact same metric i can call my grandfather no true scotsman, because his dad is full scottish and thats it!!! you fucking fool. no true irishman, holy shit, how little self awareness could this man have.

‘then excessive drinking liquor isnt for me’ but is Is for your wife, is it gordon??? drinking wine when shes on antibiotics??? fucking incredible. god theyre. theyre so stupid.

‘not proceeding as a scholar as i could have’ you literally admitted like 5 pages ago that your twin sister was Far smarter than you, but sure! ~scholar~. if you were meant to be a scholar surely you wouldve bounded back from missing days with a vengeance. youre talking complete tosh.

im confused why theyd be doing bombing drills in South Yarra.... in preparation from a japanese air raid.... like im sorry, if the people north are doing their jobs, theres no physical way they couldve gotten to south yarra....... but ok. thats not his fault i just think thats strange.

im 110 pages in and he hasnt actually gotten to the point where he meets eleanor??? aside from a few time jumps forward and a brief mention of ‘meeting her in a milk bar in south yarra’ so like. hoi vey? the fuck.

oh jesus thats. thats a heavy thing to just chuck in the middle of a sentence??? like ‘oh yea after Skete the next scout leader was a paedophile who abused me and the others’ wwwOooahhh there buddy back up. what???? holy shit. ouch. thats. thats rough.

‘absolutely belted this poofta bastard’ yknow what? fair. id also beat the fuck out of a pedo with my boot. thats Relatable. good going on that, i suppose.

ooh thats full third person, weird.

one thing that is definitely kinda interesting, and very telling about his relationship with his family, is that he only ever refers to Nellie as ‘mum’, but refers to Mick as, well, Mick! rather than ‘granddad’ or anything of the sort. like its just sorta interesting when you get this big family photo and Nellie is the only one not called by her first name.

‘returning to those earlier days’ NO! FUCKING MOVE FORWARD IN TIME YOU GIT!!!! holy shit i just want to read about new fucking shit.

......... so like, at some point while playing footy, an opposing player kicked him in the leg and caused a fractured tibia. so a few weeks later... one of gordons friends took a mark on that player and kneed him straight in the head, with that player never playing again. and he’s PROUD of that!!! he’s proud of his friend for ruining a guys footy career. like yea, the guy was a dick, he broke your leg and it was at least partially malicious, but like........... you fucked him up????? hardcore?????? a straight up ruination. but go off i guess.

its interesting that he doesnt go even remotely into eleanors history beyond the fact (so far) that her father Leo didnt say much but was a good dude. then again the books all about him soooo fuck it i suppose.

‘recognition of our scottish heritage’ eleanor isnt scottish tho. shes irish. shes an o'donoghue. what the fuck. like yea naming them dale and glen is a ‘clever’ nod back to scotland (i actually do think thats cute and clever, joking aside. its the exact sort of ‘clever’ shit i love pulling) but............. shes not scottish. unless we’re waiting for volume 2 all about eleanor.

hE USED TO LIVE OUT HERE??????? IN SPRINGVALE????? fuck me. no fucking wonder we live here, huh, jesus. that. certainly explains something, i suppose. like ‘if you were raised in holbrook and YOU were raised in thomastown, why do we live in knox?’

OHHHHH HERES THE FRENCH THING!!!! OHHHH HERES ONE OF THE FRENCH THINGS. OH BITCH behold

so granddads being a dick, as usual, and he’s on some tour in paris. and the tour guide launches into a long thing about the glory of france, like french history and the fighting record, etc. and granddad calls out and tells him to knock it off, because ‘our australians died by the thousands for your country’

i. eh... uhh............... is he. is he aware? of how many french people died???? for france?????? how many????? il tell you how many - apparently 1.44% of the total population of france. thats 600000 people. how many did we lose? around 35k. thats, uh, a smaller fucking number. than the amount of french people. who died. for fucking france. you fucking idiot.

it kills me. is he gonna include the french speaking one too???

oh hell that sure is a picture of my father. good heavens. holy shit my brother really does look like him. thats uncanny, man.

‘one son Scotty’ his name is Scott, actually. not scotty. but cool, i got a really small shout out, weirdly BEFORE my older cousins did???? oh dear is he gonna talk about my uncles divorce actually. oh god. thats. thats terrifying to consider. oh, cool, he didnt in that small section, hopefully it doesnt come up haha (i can only IMAGINE what sort of vile shit he’d say about cathy)

also, ooh, more nuggets on grandma’s family. her dad was a freemason! thats cool.

ooh! he was the president of holbrook shire council! thats kinda neat actually.

ooh! the glenndale motel actually still exists! thats cool as hell. not that granddad told me that i just googled it

OHHH ITS THE FUCKING FRENCH SPEAKING STORY OH MY GOD

Ok first off ‘i slammed my fist into the counter and said very calmly’ yea no fuck that, youre fucking lying. theres no way you slammed the counter and spoke calmly. you almost definitely abused this poor french metro worker who, being a French Man living in France, is not required to know english. you fucking babboonnnnnnnnnn

apparently he nearly fell off a mountain innnnnn geeermany? austria, austria. and as he mentions my dad pulling him back up, he words it as ‘stopping me from falling to my final destiny’ what fucking wording IS that. my god.

uh well ok thats. about it i suppose. there was a big hullabuloo about like, hotels and shit, and there was probably some racism about Islanders in there (like i find it hard to believe there wasnt but im not gonna go back and double check, because this book reads like absolute garbage). but eh. yea?

uuhhh so that was an Adventure, for sure