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feekins · 2 years ago

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thoughts and things that stuck out to me while re-reading ch 5-6 of Trigun vol 1

(NOTE: from this point forward, I'm reading the [physical] Dark Horse and [online] Overhaul translations side-by-side)

oh, Millie =u= I adore how she's both absent-minded and very perceptive/insightful!

speaking of which...

🤔

ahhhhh yes, my top fav minor baddie in Trigun, Brilliant Dynamites Neon - so over-the-top, so COOL

and I LOVE that I'm reading his first appearance on my birthday =u=

btw, the hell is this? I always assumed it was some sort of bomb, but what do y'all think?

Southern-coded Southern-coded

SouthERN-CODED SOUTHERN-CODED *vibrates in most of life spent in the American south*

and here's an interesting translation discrepancy (Dark Horse on the left, Overhaul on the right) - bc of it, I was always like "oh yeah, bc BDN's gonna shoot him in the teeth!"

"bite the dust" makes a hell of a lot more sense;;;;;;;;

AND FINALLY...

pinky out ✨️

#trigunbookclub #text postan 2k23 #doop doop I've been late posting these past few days - jsyk I'm reading 2 chapters a day #BDN my fellow Southerner~#I must know how he pronounces “cornbread” and also whether or not he calls all soft drinks “Coke” no matter what they actually are #(yes I know it's more likely American Western but shhhhh just. let me have this.)

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skateofministry · 3 years ago

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Skateboarding was the best addition to the Tokyo Olympics

The BDN Opinion area runs individually and does not set newsroom policies or add to reporting or modifying short articles in other places in the paper or on bangordailynews.com.

Caroline Petrow-Cohen is an Opinion intern at the Los Angeles Times.

Skateboarding made its Olympic launching at the Tokyo Games this year, bringing a revitalizing modification of speed to the world’s most significant competitors. Unlike most other Olympic occasions, the culture of skateboarding is based not in winning however in delight and uniqueness.

Since its beginning, skateboarding has actually defied conformity. Born in California in the 1950s, skateboarding ended up being associated with the counterculture of the ’60s and worked as a safe house for society’s castaways. Considered more of a way of life than a sport, skateboarding used an escape from the mainstream and a platform for individuals to be themselves.

Skateboarding’s international appeal released it onto the Olympic phase, however its counterculture roots live and well. Other Olympic occasions exist within a plainly developed structure, however skateboarding has actually been anti-establishment from the start.

“Skateboarding presents so many more options than you typically have in sports,” stated Neftalie Williams, a going to fellow at Yale University and postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California, who studies the interaction of variety, identity and skate culture. “You have an entire sporting culture that’s marginalized, that has placed less emphasis on competition and focused more on expression, and has learned that that’s the vocabulary.”

In in this manner, skateboarding is almost difficult to specify. But ask a skater at any level what skating indicates to them, and you’ll get a comparable response: What attracted them to the sport was flexibility, neighborhood and imagination, not competitors or being the very best.

“There’s no other sport in the world, no other art in the world, no other culture in the world that transcends boundaries in the way that skateboarding does,” stated sponsored Los Angeles skater Ethan Singleton, who’s dealt with research study with Williams at the University of Southern California.

Skateboarding doesn’t rather suit any standard sports box, much less the ultra competitive and extremely refined spirit of the Olympic Games. But its existence in Tokyo brought a playfulness and uniqueness to the sport world’s most significant phase.

“I was having an absolute blast,” American bronze medalist Jagger Eaton stated about completing in the street occasion, where he nodded his head to music and chuckled with his fellow rivals at the top of the course. All 20 skateboarders completing there got along with one another, he stated.

“Growing up, skateboarding was my freedom and my creative outlet,” Eaton stated. “Skateboarding is an art form, and every one of us does it differently. Name another sport like that in the Olympic Games.”

Every skateboarder has their own distinct design, exposed in the method they approach barriers, pop techniques or get their board midair. There are no guidelines in skateboarding, no requirements, no stiff structure — even at the Olympics. According to Mimi Knoop, expert skateboarder and head coach for the U.S. Olympic skateboard group, judges score the professional athletes based upon technique development, trouble level and creativity.

“We don’t have points for certain tricks because we wanted to stay away from that to keep it a little more creative,” Knoop stated. “It comes down to little subtleties that aren’t really written down or necessarily defined in our sport. It makes things a little subjective, but that’s just how we do it.”

In the middle of tense competitors and psychological health battles, skateboarding resembled a beacon of light as I viewed the Olympic Games.

“Skateboarding is where I feel I can express myself and let my own creativity play out,” American Olympian Alana Smith stated. “At the Olympics, I definitely feel like it freshens up the environment and shows that it doesn’t have to be such a stressful time.”

While skateboarding enables a professional athlete’s uniqueness to shine through, the neighborhood is cohesive also. “I feel like we’ve always been looked at as the outcasts,” Smith stated, describing the social preconception pinned on skateboarders, “and we’ve all become a really big family.”

If you viewed the Olympics, the method the skateboarders connected with each other was frequently in plain contrast to other professional athletes. Competitors at some occasions, like gymnastics or swimming, generally didn’t roaming far from their colleagues. But skateboarders were delighting in each other’s business and lifting each other up despite nation association.

“From my point of view, we’re having a lot more fun than everyone else,” Knoop stated. “There’s an unspoken understanding between skaters and a bond that’s there.”

Not everybody concurs that skateboarding belongs in the Olympics. Some state the Games represent a commercialization that wanders off too far from skateboarding’s counterculture roots. But skateboarding never ever actually required the platform of the Olympics in the very first location.

Sports representative Yulin Olliver, who represents Olympians like Mariah Duran and Bryce Wettstein, stated that skateboarding as a sport and way of life is naturally self-dependent. There’s no requirement for coaches, groups or arranged competitors. Those things exist in skateboarding, obviously, however not out of need. As long as there are people who skateboard and discover delight in doing so, the culture of skateboarding will stay strong.

“It’s almost like the Olympics needed skateboarding,” Olliver stated, “not the other way around.”