#Elim Rabbit

[terroristis3638]

Herr Schutz

@malin5520 @cabasasa 😨

Bonus:

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[girddlepatchilles]

I know this is very unlikely to happen, but I really would love for someone from the Cerritos to run into Garak or Bashir.

It would make the most sense with Tendi, since she's now with the Orions and away from Star Fleet, but you could also have Garak run into Tendi while Bashir meets Rutherford, Boimler and Mariner. It could be a fun away to get Tendi back with the gang?

[maluron]

no, wait, forget the hypothetical Playmobil or real Playmate figures, what I need is custom Ken dolls! of Garak and Bashir--so Garak can flaunt ALL The Barbie outfits at other dolls and I can put Julian on a cute pink Dr Barbie playset and of course mash them together and make kissy noises

[lovelyyandereaddictionpoint]

Oo can we get a part 3 to the yandere male Alice story?? This is getting so good! Or just some headcanons about him. Hes just so interesting.

Yandere Genderbent Alice x White Rabbit Reader Head Cannons

Alice is a part of Wonderland in the same way Wonderland is a part of Alice

So the story goes that a long time ago when life was hard a very young Alice found himself retreating to Wonderland

Following a young clumsy bunny-you into the hole that leads to Wonderland

Back then Wonderland was a simple adventure everyone a simple character to have fun with or runaway with 

Back when Alice was innocent Wonderland was innocent

But shortly after something changes for Alice 

Something begins to turn 

And while Alice is attempting to wrangle his everyday life

The citizens of Wonderland must deal with their own changes

Many things are corrupted with a twisted kind of darkness that makes life much more violent

In the forests you and cheshire kitten used to frolick 

Now you both skillfully dodge and weave through the wood with your overpowered strength 

You both still frolick it’s just different

Everyone in Wonderland has changed

While not everyone’s personality takes a turn for the worse their interests do 

But no one is worse than Alice Lidell 

The innocent and curious boy you once led into hole is no more

Now a man that embraces the familiarity of the wacky world

He doesn’t ask questions about the world this time

Just listens to your guiding statements as a fond routine 

But while he’s sweet with you and is finally acting on the feelings he’s kept to himself for so long

Those aren’t the only feelings he’s acting on now

In Alice’s opinion: his world sucks 

His world is filled with growing technology, more surveillance, appearances that must be kept, unpredictable people

But not Wonderland, he knows Wonderland, he knows all the characters so well nothing they should do should surprise him

He should be able to hunt them without obstacles

But as he’s realized just how much there is of you to fall for 

He realizes how the subjects of Wonderland are not as stagnant as he thought

They move they live and they don’t seem to mind attacking him back

Which originally got on his nerves

This was supposed to be his paradise 

But that’s okay 

He’ll just do what he does in his old world

Elimate confusion and maintain control 

specifically over other’s lives 

He’s made protecting you his reasons for some more excessive hunting

But seeing how many others are getting so up and arms about it he might have to do something drastic

Like overthrowing the weaker royal

Afterall wouldn’t his bunny love to rule beside him 

Because he’s certain you hate how much that wicked queen bosses you around you don’t

But even if he fails in the end it won’t be bad

He can always go back to his world

Of course with you in tow

Being a world traveling bunny means you’ll probably do just fine if he does have to relocate you

But he loves seeing you twitch your nose in excitement when your at tea parties

Or jumping for joy at some Wonderlandian phenomena

So he’ll try and reign the urge to flee

If only for you

[ao3feed-ds9]

of cats and rabbits

https://ift.tt/3XsIxFw by Anonymous Propelled by unspeakable grief and insurmountable rage, Garak dusts off his Obsidian Order training to hunt Bashir’s assassin across the stars. This is not good news for Bashir, who has gone undercover as his own killer to root out a Gamma Quadrant drug trafficking ring. — heavily inspired by that one star wars clones wars ep were obi-wan pretends to die to go undercover (but featuring far more violence, foul language, and nude Cardassians) Words: 1678, Chapters: 1/5, Language: English Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Crew of Deep Space Nine Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak Additional Tags: Undercover Missions, Fake Character Death, Revenge, Hurt/Comfort, Canon-Typical Violence, Julian Bashir’s spy kink, Identity Reveal, Miscommunication, First Time, Rough Sex, Restraints

[pigspeetsandhooflikefeets]

Remaining placement RR team thoughts. I finished the show yesterday but didn’t get to thoughts so I could let them settle

The Reality TV Pros are a good concept on paper but faiiiled. Noah was really mean this season and especially to Owen. Owen was also pretty helpless which didn’t help because I didn’t go in already wanting the best for Owen (he’s fine, I just don’t find him funny). I’m kinda bummed out we never got flashbacks to the boys on other shows, even if just stills when someone asked about an episode they were on. I could imagine Dwayne saying “say aren’t you those nice boys who were on [x]” and Junior wants to walk away sooo badly. his ship with Emma was cringey, I hate hypocrites in love, and I hate that Father and Son lost to Owen literally carrying Noah through a sadness coma. any other situation and I’d pity Noah. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE DATERS THAT EP. Sorry. For being out at the time they did, they got insane screentime.

Fuck the writers. Someone hold me back. WHY did they only get 7th. God I mean come ON. They were so funny, their relationship feels so REAL without relying on constant kissing or pda, and I kinda get their emotional issue with each other ungoth. I’ve seen people credit them as being “shallow”, but you have no idea what kind of dysphoria you can get from being in a subculture so long. The two also have insane transgender swag. Their normal attire and max goth outfits are literally so iconic I love them. BOTH of them btw. Only critique is Ennui should have known better than to attempt to jump into water holding Loki. Rabbits can’t be submerged in water! Regardless, they should have lasted longer and only lost because they were too good for a romance plotline.

I knew The Surfer Bros elim was a fakeout so I wasn’t too invested in Vietnam ep. More on them later

The Daters started off okayish but I hated them by Hawaii. I really don’t know if the show wanted us to hate them, or if we were supposed to go “I’ve been there!” because I have NOT. Two elimination fakeouts is WAY too many. I’m willing to say there were plenty of times they finished early I would have axed them for. Perhaps Little Bull on the P- I’ll stop. Lord of the Ring Toss was a really fun episode until The Daters took over. God. Even their real elim was silly

I haaaate most “childhood friends to lovers” things because I have zero touch with my childhood friends and I feel a lot of it involves comphet and “love makes you dumb” type shit. Anyways I had no grand opinions on The Best Friends, both at the beginning of the show and the late parts. Of all the unisex duos (Goths, Daters, Ice Dancers, Fashion Bloggers, LARPers) they’re the most cishet with very rigid gender norms. Since Carrie was so excited to do magic I was certain she’d be the magician and Devin would be the assistant, but no. Same with Hawaii, even if all the unisex couples did it. Jacques also wore a skirt in Hawaii! Get Devin in a skirt! Also Carrie manipulating Devin to make him go through the stages faster was a bit... um.

The Sisters did not grow on me. Quite the opposite! While I don’t think they outstayed their welcome, they are good competitors, I just think their interactions with others SUCK. I already mentioned I do not ship Nem/ma, but god. Makes you think of good Rajbow was establishing relationship boundaries where they’d pause while on the island so it didn’t get in the way of competition. Emma could have done that but didn’t. Can’t even argue emotional maturity since Bowie was younger in the show too. Kitty REALLY felt like a sidekick to Emma once Noah left. I loved her at first, but she felt so stagnant. No character arcs that weren’t dependent on Emma’s mood for the episode. Kitty rising to the occasion was always based off Emma... not rising to the occasion. Never because Kitty had a secret talent or skill she could show off. Fucking over the Adversity Twins was genuinely shitty and extra vile that like?? They already FINISHED and made rug, so they literally wandered back to mentally injure a contestant. If the Ice Dancers did that they’d be crucified.

The Ice Dancers rule honestly. I think all their plot beats (luck vs bad luck, issues with contestants no one else views as threats, pride vs success) were genuinely interesting to watch them explore. Obvious villains you should hate, but they’re interesting. Usually TD villains are laughable evil (Max, Justin) or vanity evil (Heather, Alejandro), but they manage to survive even with chipped nails and blemished faces. Because skaters get back up. And their weaknesses are so iconic. Josee is one of the million claustrophobic characters, but it’s way better here than with Gwen. Jacques hates fish. Based.

ACAB. I hate The Cadets. I assumed people hated them simply because cops suck, but WOW. MacArthur is THE WORST!? If I accidentally broke someone’s arm like that I’d be so forceful that we should just drop. No million is worth that. Plus they’re Canadian and healthcare so it’s not like they’d need it to pay for the cast lol. Very glad I didn’t watch the Netflix version that says they won. Ewwww. Imagine if the season came out today. People would probably hate them even more since no nostalgia glasses.

The Surfer Bros rule. They’re so nice, they’re so funny, they’re great. I’ve seen people say they made Geoff extra dumb thinking Komodo dragons are real dragons and breathe fire, but that’s a fair thought. You know how many people I know think turkens are turkey and chicken hybrids? They aren’t! They’re pure chicken but look like turkeys. Does that make anyone reading this who thought that stupid? Nope. There’s a lot of animals in the world. God. Brody’s crush on MacArthur felt like a comic sketch. You REALLY think a chillax man could date a crooked cop? Yeah no. Poly Surfers 4ever

[brookston]

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Premieres

Alice on the Farm (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1873)

Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1607)

The Astroduck (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Barry Lyndon (Film; 1975)

Bay Psalm Book (Book; 1640) [1st book printed in North America]

Beau Geste, by P.C. Wren (Novel; 1924)

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Novel; 1963)

Big Man from the North (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)

Blue Suede Shoes, by Carl Perkins (Song; 1956)

The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (Book; c. 1645)

Brain Games (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1932)

Calling Fearless Leader or Whistle for the Missile (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 191; 1963)

Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1945)

The Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1963)

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Novel; 1980)

The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (Novel; 1924)

Daffy Duck & Egghead (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Das Kapital, by Karl Marx (Book; 1867)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), by Harry Belafonte (Song; 1956)

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Novel; 1842)

Der Fuehrer’s Face (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series; 1993)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser (Poem; 1590)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne (Novel; 1863)

Flatland, by Edwin Abbot (Book; 1884)

The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (Violin Concertos; 1725)

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (Novel; 1818)

Gigi, by Colette (Novella; 1944)

GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, by Ween (Album; 1990)

The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1962)

Gumby (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Heaven and Earth Magic (Animated Film; 1962)

The Hotel New Hampshire, by John IrvingJohn Irving, from "The Coder House Rules," (Novel; 1981)

I and Thou, by Martin Buber (Book; 1923)

If A Man Answers (Film; 1962)

Journey to the East, by Herman Hesse (Novella; 1932)

The King James Bible (Book; 1604)

King Solomon’s Mines, by. H. Rider Haggard (Novel; 1885)

The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Novel; 1959)

Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1925)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle (Novel; 1883)

The Mick (TV Series; 2017)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #10]

Mrs. Brown’s Boys (BBC TV Series; 2011)

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Novel; 1862)

Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (Novel; 1887)

The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Novel; 1918)

The NeverEnding Story, by Michael Ende (English Translation of the Novel; 1983)

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1915)

Paradise Lost, by John Milton (Poetry; 1667)

Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (Book; 1670)

Pizzicato Pussycat (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (The Bridge over the River Kwai), by Pierre Boulle (Novel; 1952) 

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (Book; 1532)

Rocky Takes the High Road or Missile in the Thistle (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 192; 1963)

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)

A Room with a View, by E.M. Foster (Novel; 1908)

Samuel Pepys’ Diary began (Diary; 1660)

The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (Comic Series; 1989)

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1811) [#1]

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (Novel; 1861)

Songs of Innocence, by William Blake (Poems; 1789)

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1913)

The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 86; 1961)

The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 85; 1961)

The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss (Novel; 1812)

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (Novel; 1938)

The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber (Fairy Tale; 1950)

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Novel; 1889)

Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Book; 1883)

Top of the Pops (BBC Musical Variety TV Series; 1966)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1984)

Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1905)

Whose Body?, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Mystery Novel; 1923) [1st Lord Peter Wimsey]

The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Novel; 1962)

Zip Zip Hooray! (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)

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Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 1 of 2024; 366 days remaining in the year

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Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 20 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 19 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 1 White; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 19 December 2023

Moon: 71%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Moses (1st Month) [Prometheus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 7 of 15]

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[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 1.1

Holidays

Baby-Boomer Day

Betsy Ross Day

Black Nazarene Fiesta (Philippines) [thru 9th]

Bonza Bottler Day

Buckle-Up Day

Bulbasaur Day (Pokemon)

Celebration of Life Week [1st 7 Days]

Clay Day (French Republic)

Commitment Day

Copyright Law Day

Daddy Frost Day

Daisy Day

Daydreamers' Day

Day of Universal Brotherhood (Brazil)

Diffendoofer Day (Dr. Seuss)

Emancipation Day

Ethics Day

Euro Day

Flag Day (Lithuania)

Founding Day (China)

Get a Life Day

Global Family Day

International Nepali Dhoti and Nepali Topi Day

Jump-Up Day (Montserrat)

Kalpataru Day (Ramakrishna)

Kamakura Ebisu (Japan) [thru 1.3]

Kissing Day (Chippewa Tribe, Minnesota)

National Davis Day

National Day of Resolutions

National Ellis Island Day

National Ivanhoe Day (Sweden)

National Shepherd Day

National Tree Planting Day (Tanzania)

New Life Festival (Elder Scrolls)

New Year's Day (a.k.a. ...

Amanor (Armenia)

Amateur Hangover Day

Ano Nova (Cape Verde)

Año Nuevo (Spain)

Anul Nou (Moldova, România)

Apple Gifting Day

Día de Año Nuevo (Puerto Rico)

Draw ng Bagong Taon (Philippines)

Bad Hangover Day

Dita e Vitit të Ri (Albania)

First Day

First-Foot Day

Grandfather Frost Day (Russia, Ukraine)

Jaungads (Latvia)

Maskarada (Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba)

Mummers Parade (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Navy God Day (Russia)

Nieuwjaarsdag (Suriname, Sweden)

Nova Godina (Croatia, Macedonia)

Nyårsdagen (Sweden)

Sjoogwachi (Okinawa)

Solar New Year’s Day (North Korea)

Tahun Baru (Indonesia)

Viti i Ri (Kosovo)

Yangi Yil Bayrami (Uzbekistan)

New Year’s Dishonor List Day

New Year's Banished Words List Day [ 2024 list ]

Party Party Day

Paul Revere Day

Penguin Plunge (Rhode Island)

Polar Bear Swim Day

Public Domain Day

Punch Your Tallest Friend Day

Scout’s Day (Burma)

Shogatsu (Japan)

Snake Eyes Day

Thoroughbred Day (Northern Hemisphere)

TMC Foundation Day (Trinamool Congress; India)

Tournament of Roses Parade (Pasadena, California)

Triumph of the Revolution Day (a.k.a. Liberation Day; Cuba)

Universal Fraternity Day (Macau)

White Rabbit Day

World Day of Peace

Z Day

Zygmunt Gorazdowski

Food & Drink Celebrations

Apple Gifting Day

Hangover Handicap Run (Cover d’Alene, Idaho)

National Black Eyed Peas Day

National Bloody Mary Day

National Brandy Alexander Day

National Hangover Day (UK)

National Pizza Day (Sweden)

1st Monday in January

Divorce Monday [1st Monday]

Handsel Day (Scotland) [1st Monday]

The Most Depressing Day of the Year (UK) [1st Monday]

National Rondling Day [1st Monday]

National Thank God It’s Monday Day [1st Monday; also 1st Monday in June]

National Weigh-In Day [1st Monday]

Independence & Related Days

A1 (a.k.a. Federated Republics of A1; Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Cameroon (from France & UK, 1960)

Conewiw and New HanChih (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Elim (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Free State of Sabini (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Gardenia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Haiti (from France, 1804)

Justin Republic (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Falcar (Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Loveland (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Lovely (Declared; 2005) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Pöllömaa (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Lazonesia (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Anglia (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Principality of the Northern Forests (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Restoration of the Czech Independence Day (Czechia)

Sudan (from UK, 1956)

Wattania (Declared; 2009) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Adalard of Corbie (Christian; Saint)

Alfred Stieglitz (Artology)

Another Friggin’ Year Day (Pastafarian)

Basil the Great (Eastern Orthodox Church)

Dabucuri assaby, (Initiation Rites of the Young Men; to Jurupari, South American Guarani/Tupi God)

Day of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Slovakia)

Day of Volos (god of pets and farm animals; Slavic Pagan)

Day Sacred to Janus (Ancient Rome)

Eighth Day of Christmas

Feast of Fools (Medieval Europe)

Feast of the Circumcision of Christ (Christian)

Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus (Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church)

Feast of the Human Sacrifice (Church of the SubGenius)

Fulgentius of Ruspe (Christian; Saint)

Giuseppe Maria Tomasi (Christian)

Goddess Fortuna's Day (Ancient Rome)

Jesus Christ Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Jupiter & Juno's Day (Old Roman)

Kalends: Day of the Moerae (Pagan)

Kalends of January (Ancient Rome)

Kwanzaa, Day 7: Imani (Faith)

The Kamu (Celebrating Nature Spirits; Shogatsu/Shinto New Yea’s Festival)

M’Moreal Day (The Season of Bob’s Nativity, which is Everyday; Church of the SubGenius)

Moonhopper Day (Shamanism)

Octave Day of Christmas

Prometheus (Positivist; Saint)

Qi Baishi (Artology)

Radish Dude (Muppetism)

Sacrifices to the Wind Gods (Ancient Greece)

Season of Chaos begins (Discordian)

Shichi Fukujin (Seven Deities of Luck Celebration)

Shusho-e Matsuri (Japanese Buddhists)

Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, the Octave Day of Christmas (Catholic Church)

Taos Pueblo Turtle Dance (Native American)

Telemachus (Christian; Saint)

Tewa Turtle Dance (Tewa Native Americans)

Twelve Holy Days #7 (Libra, the adrenal glands; Esoteric Christianity)

Twelvetide, Day #8; Feast of the Circumcision [Anglican, Lutheran] (a.k.a. the Twelve Days of Christmas or Christmastide) [until 1.5]

World Day of Peace (Catholic Church)

Zygmunt Gorazdowski (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Binary Day [11] (1 of 9)

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 1 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [1 of 24]

Evil Day [1 of 32]

Fatal Day (Pagan) [1 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [1 of 53]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [1 of 71]

Perilous Day (13th Century England) [1 of 32]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Tycho Brahe Unlucky Day (Scandinavia) [1 of 37]

Uncyclopedia Bad to Be Born Day (because born with a hangover, and you will probably end up breaking your new years resolutions before anyone else.)

Unglückstage (Unlucky Day; Pennsylvania Dutch) [1 of 30]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [1 of 60]

Premieres

Alice on the Farm (Disney Cartoon; 1926)

Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (Novel; 1873)

Antony and Cleopatra, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1607)

The Astroduck (WB LT Cartoon; 1966)

Barry Lyndon (Film; 1975)

Bay Psalm Book (Book; 1640) [1st book printed in North America]

Beau Geste, by P.C. Wren (Novel; 1924)

The Bell Jar, by Sylvia Plath (Novel; 1963)

Big Man from the North (WB LT Cartoon; 1938)

The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler (Novel; 1940)

Blue Suede Shoes, by Carl Perkins (Song; 1956)

The Book of the Five Rings, by Miyamoto Musashi (Book; c. 1645)

Brain Games (Atari 2600 Video Game; 1978)

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (Novel; 1932)

Calling Fearless Leader or Whistle for the Missile (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 191; 1963)

Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck (Novel; 1945)

The Cat’s Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut (Novel; 1963)

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker (Novel; 1980)

The Constant Nymph, by Margaret Kennedy (Novel; 1924)

Daffy Duck & Egghead (WB MM Cartoon; 1938)

Das Kapital, by Karl Marx (Book; 1867)

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song), by Harry Belafonte (Song; 1956)

Dead Souls, by Nikolai Gogol (Novel; 1842)

Der Fuehrer’s Face (Disney Cartoon; 1943)

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (TV Series; 1993)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

The Faerie Queen, by Edmund Spenser (Poem; 1590)

Fantasia 2000 (Animated Disney Film; 2000)

Five Weeks in a Balloon, by Jules Verne (Novel; 1863)

Flatland, by Edwin Abbot (Book; 1884)

The Four Seasons, by Antonio Vivaldi (Violin Concertos; 1725)

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley (Novel; 1818)

Gigi, by Colette (Novella; 1944)

GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, by Ween (Album; 1990)

The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing (Novel; 1962)

Gumby (Animated TV Series; 1960)

Heaven and Earth Magic (Animated Film; 1962)

The Hotel New Hampshire, by John IrvingJohn Irving, from "The Coder House Rules," (Novel; 1981)

I and Thou, by Martin Buber (Book; 1923)

If A Man Answers (Film; 1962)

Journey to the East, by Herman Hesse (Novella; 1932)

The King James Bible (Book; 1604)

King Solomon’s Mines, by. H. Rider Haggard (Novel; 1885)

The Magic Christian, by Terry Southern (Novel; 1959)

Manhattan Transfer, by John Dos Passos (Novel; 1925)

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, by Howard Pyle (Novel; 1883)

The Mick (TV Series; 2017)

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1605)

Moving Pictures, by Terry Pratchet (Novel; 1990) [Discworld #10]

Mrs. Brown’s Boys (BBC TV Series; 2011)

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (Novel; 1948)

Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo (Novel; 1862)

Looking Backward, by Edward Bellamy (Novel; 1887)

The Magnificent Ambersons, by Booth Tarkington (Novel; 1918)

The NeverEnding Story, by Michael Ende (English Translation of the Novel; 1983)

Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Novel; 1915)

Paradise Lost, by John Milton (Poetry; 1667)

Pensées, by Blaise Pascal (Book; 1670)

Pizzicato Pussycat (WB MM Cartoon; 1955)

Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï (The Bridge over the River Kwai), by Pierre Boulle (Novel; 1952) 

The Prince, by Niccolò Machiavelli (Book; 1532)

Rocky Takes the High Road or Missile in the Thistle (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 192; 1963)

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1597)

A Room with a View, by E.M. Foster (Novel; 1908)

Samuel Pepys’ Diary began (Diary; 1660)

The Sandman, by Neil Gaiman (Comic Series; 1989)

Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen (Novel; 1811) [#1]

Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, by George Eliot (Novel; 1861)

Songs of Innocence, by William Blake (Poems; 1789)

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1913)

The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 86; 1961)

The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 85; 1961)

The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss (Novel; 1812)

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (Novel; 1938)

The 13 Clocks, by James Thurber (Fairy Tale; 1950)

Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome (Novel; 1889)

Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche (Book; 1883)

Top of the Pops (BBC Musical Variety TV Series; 1966)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera (Novel; 1984)

Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster (Novel; 1905)

Whose Body?, by Dorothy L. Sayers (Mystery Novel; 1923) [1st Lord Peter Wimsey]

The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1611)

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle (Novel; 1962)

Zip Zip Hooray! (WB LT Cartoon; 1965)

Today’s Name Days

Maria, Wilhelm (Austria)

Vasil, Vasilena, Vesela, Veselin, Veselina (Bulgaria)

Fulgencije, Marija, Raimund (Croatia)

Nový rok (Czech Republic)

Sylvester (Denmark)

Algo, Alo, Esmo, Uno, Uuno (Estonia)

Maria, Neujahr (Germany)

Telemahos, Vasiliki, Vasilis (Greece)

Fruzsina (Hungary)

Maria (Italy)

Laimnesis, Solvita (Latvia)

Masław, Mieczysław, Mieczysława, Mieszko (Poland)

Vasile (Romania)

Courtney (Slovakia)

Emmanuel, Jesús, Manuel, María (Spain)

Basil, Bohdan, David, Vasylyna (Ukraine)

Arleen, Arlen, Arlene, Arlette, Pablo, Paul, Saul (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 1 of 2024; 366 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 1 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Beth (Birch) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 20 (Jia-Zi)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 20 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 19 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 1 White; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 19 December 2023

Moon: 71%: Warning Gibbous

Positivist: 1 Moses (1st Month) [Prometheus]

Runic Half Month: Eihwaz or Eoh (Yew Tree) [Day 7 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 12 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 11 of 31)

Calendar Changes

White (Month 1 of 12; J Calendar)

Gantan-sai (Shinto New Years)

January (Gregorian Calendar) [Month 1 of 12]

Moses (a.k.a. The Initial Theocracy) [Month 1 of 13; Positivist]

[feyarcher]

Oh as a person who works with data, there are a few things I think it could be.

First, if someone only chose A on a multiple choice test, I would not assume that test actually reflects their knowledge and instead that they just wanted to be done with it and picked the first option. So a starter question like "how is your health today?" could help elimate a person's responses from being useful data if there are other anomalies with their answers. For example: if they always picked the first answer in a list and also entered "1" in the health today question, I'm going to decide that person was not giving honest answers and will exclude them from my data set.

Similarly, if someone gives a significantly below average answer to the health today question and also has a toooon of negative feedback in other questions, I'm probably going to want to think about that person differently. Would they give different answers if they didn't have a migraine or if they hadn't just gone through a breakup? Or is this really reflective of people with poorer health having worse experiences with blood donation and if so, then I could dive down a rabbit hole to study more of that and make changes.

And third, they might just want a feel for how their donors generally are in terms of health and wellness on an average day. On a donation day, donors will be healthy by definition (at least, you don't donate in Canada if you are sick). So maybe they have other data so they can compare donors to the general population and say "on an average day, are donors healthier (or do donors feel healthier) than non-donors?"

Those are just the ones that immediately come to mind: data cleaning, examining outliers, and comparison to another data set. Could be something else entirely, as I, a random Canadian, have no internal knowledge of the process behind surveying Welsh blood donors.

I have been asked to take part in a questionnaire by the Welsh Blood Service to give feedback about the blood donation questions, which is fun. Except the very first question they've asked is this:

How good is your health today? Please choose the number you feel today, between 1 and 100, where 1 is very poor health and 100 is very good health.

... is it just me or is that a batshit way to ask how someone is feeling

[remholder]

this was supposed to be a singular piece but it didnt come out how i wanted so i just made a small random ass collage of stupidity

GARAKS SHIRT IS A LEAGUE OF LEGENDS REFERENCE IM ENDING THIS DISCUSSION BEFORE IT EVEN STARTS

[rabbittush]

Hey ppl who r insane about garak. Just finished The Wire. I get it, I fucking understand now, there’s so much to be insane about.

[wisteria-lodge]

SHC Character Sorting

3% @justbecauseyoubelievesomething

9-1-1 @cactusspatz

AKATSUKI NO YONA @writingonesdreams

ANASTASIA @alix-in-july

ARCANE @sporadiclyanenthusiast

BARBIE FRANCHISE @missbrunettebarbie, @the-phoenix-heart, @starry-sky-stuff, @laufire

BARE: A POP OPERA @repetitionsings

BLACK SAILS  @laufire

BOKU NO HIRO AKADEMIA @the-phoenix-heart

Hawk & Dabi

More on Deku & Bakugou’s sorting

BOKURANO @swearingintengwar

THE BOLD TYPE @writingonesdreams

BROADCHURCH @connecting-the-mothership

Alec Hardy

BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER @wisteria-lodge

BUNGOU STRAY DOGS @writingonesdreams

CASTLEVANIA @the-phoenix-heart

THE CATCHER IN THE RYE @wisteria-lodge

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN @wisteria-lodge

CENTAURWORLD @niche-pastiche

CHUUBO’S MARVELOUS WISH-GRANTING ENGINE: GLASS-MAKER’S DRAGON @thecottageinthedark

DC COMICS

Catwoman / Selina Kyle @nectargrapes

A DEADLY EDUCATION @parpatarts

DISCWORLD @paint-the-ravenclaw

Death @paint-the-ravenclaw

The Witches @thecottageinthedark

DISNEY ANIMATION

Snow White, Cinderella, Alice, Wendy, Tinkerbell, Aurora, Maid Marian, Eilonwy @wisteria-lodge

Jessica Rabbit, Ariel, Belle, Beast, Jasmine, Aladdin, Sally @wisteria-lodge

BIG HERO 6 @dragonsaredorks

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG @the-phoenix-heart

SOFIA THE FIRST @alix-in-july

DOLLHOUSE @missbrunettebarbie & @laufire

DOWNTON ABBEY @montmarayroyal

EMMA (AUSTEN) @alix-in-july

THE EXPANSE @wyrdnis

FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF @wisteria-lodge

FINAL FANTASY X @thecottageinthedark

FIRE EMBLEM: THREE HOUSES @lachless

The Lords

The Black Eagles

FUTURAMA @the-phoenix-heart

GOOD OMENS @wisteria-lodge

More on Crowley’s sorting

More on Aziraphale’s sorting

GOSSIP GIRL @persefoneshalott

THE GREAT @missbrunettebarbie

GRISHA TRILOGY @starry-sky-stuff

Six of Crows Duology

H2O: JUST ADD WATER @nectargrapes & @missbrunettebarbie

HAIBANE RENMEI @swearingintengwar

HAMLET @wisteria-lodge

Ophelia

Gertrude

Hamlet & Horatio

Laertes & Fortinbras

HANAKO-KUN @writingonesdreams

HANNIBAL

Abigail Hobbs @dealltheknives  

Will Graham @awritersrejections & @reds-burrow

HARRY POTTER

Harry Potter @awinterrain & @wisteria-lodge

Ron Weasley @wisteria-lodge

Ginny Weasley @awinterrain & @the-phoenix-heart

Peter Pettigrew @wisteria-lodge

Draco Malfoy @awinterrain & @the-phoenix-heart

Vernon, Petunia & Dudley Dursley @awinterrain et al.

Rubeus Hagrid @paint-the-ravenclaw

Sibyl Trelawney @paint-the-ravenclaw

Tom Riddle & Cornelius Fudge @paint-the-ravenclaw

The Weasleys @the-phoenix-heart

Gilderoy Lockheart @paint-the-ravenclaw & @wisteria-lodge

HIS DARK MATERIALS @missbrunettebarbie

HOUSE OF CARDS @sevilemar

KILLING EVE

Eve Polastri & Villanelle @idrewbedraggledbreaths

More thoughts on Eve & Villanelle @ornamental-coral

KILLJOYS @missbrunettebarbie & @starry-sky-stuff

LABYRINTH @the-phoenix-heart

More on Jareth’s sorting

THE LAST FIVE YEARS @dealltheknives

THE LAST UNICORN  @the-phoenix-heart

LES MISERABLES @everyonewasabird

THE LOCKED TOMB TRILOGY @thecottageinthedark

Ianthe & Coronabeth Tridentarius

Ortus Nigenad

LUCIFER @yoursummerfrost

MAFIA III @rottingmanifesto

More on John Donovan & Lincoln Clay

THE MENTALIST @missbrunettebarbie with @laufire

MERLIN @sarahmillie

MIRACULOUS  LADYBUG @the-phoenix-heart

Redux

MONSTERS INC. @dragonsaredorks

MR. AND MRS. SMITH @starry-sky-stuff

NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND @the-phoenix-heart

THE OLD GUARD @wisteria-lodge

ONCE UPON A TIME @starry-sky-stuff

PERSONA 4 @thecottageinthedark

PITCH PERFECT @starry-sky-stuff & @missbrunettebarbie

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA @air-in-words

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN @wisteria-lodge

RED NOTICE @starry-sky-stuff

RIVERS OF LONDON @wisteria-lodge

SANDERS SIDES @magpie-of-a-birb

SCOOBY DOO @air-in-words

SET IT UP @starry-sky-stuff

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS @reds-burrow

SHERLOCK HOLMES (CONAN DOYLE) @wisteria-lodge

THE SOUND OF MUSIC @starry-sky-stuff

SPIRITED AWAY @the-phoenix-heart

STAR TREK (TOS / AOS) @wisteria-lodge

STAR TREK (DS9) @wisteria-lodge

Elim Garak

Julian Bashir

STAR TREK (LOWER DECKS) @reds-burrow

STAR WARS (PARENT SERIES) 

Emperor Palpatine @wisteria-lodge

Anakin Skywalker & Obi-wan Kenobi @wisteria-lodge

Luke Skywaker @sortinghatchats

STAR WARS (CLONE WARS) @reds-burrow

More on Rex’s sorting

STAR WARS (THE MANDALORIAN) @reds-burrow

More on Greef Karga’s sorting

STEVEN UNIVERSE @applesaps et al.

STRANGER THINGS @magratmakethetea

SUPERNATURAL

Castiel @wisteria-lodge

John, Dean & Sam Winchester @wisteria-lodge

Lucifer & Michael @wisteria-lodge

Jimmy & Claire Novak @wisteria-lodge

Ruby & Bela Talbot @laufire

Balthazar @wisteria-lodge

Meg Masters @laufire

TANZ DER VAMPIRE @herlaqueen & @niche-pastiche

TWILIGHT  @misku-nimfa & @livrelady

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY @wisteria-lodge

THE VAMPIRE DIARIES @sevilemar

V FOR VENDETTA @the-phoenix-heart & @wisteria-lodge

WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS @sevilemar & @wisteria-lodge

OC SORTING - Essence of the Equinox @nectargrapes

[roomtemperaturesuperconductor]

I get why Spock and Kirk are too marketable to make gay but any fan who knows who Elim Garak is is way too far down the rabbit hole to care. It’s not like Garak merch is flying off the shelves in conservative small towns. Why not just make it canon canon

Wait it’s an alt universe?? Fuck off

[demonslayedher]

Love Breathing Not Fully Bloomed: A Kanroji Mitsuri Meta

Some thoughts that have been brewing since we got a deeper look at the birth of the Breath of Love in the Rengoku Gaiden, boiling down to that Mitsuri had not yet reached her full potential.

SPOILERS AHEAD~!

While we don't have any reliable timeline for this series, we know that Mitsuri has been practicing swordsmanship for only about two years, likely less. The "two years ago" stated in her flashback to her failed engagement was back when she was 17, so let's be generous and say that was 2.5 years ago. But, we must also keep in mind that she's been a Pillar for at least several months by the time Swordsmith Village arc takes place. The Pillar meeting Tanjiro met her at was possibly her first of the twice-a-year meetings, but I wouldn't put it anywhere beyond her second. After the failed marriage discussion she would have spent some unknown period of time dying her hair and starving herself, before deciding to join the Demon Slayers. She accomplished her Flame Breathing training under Rengoku in six months, roughly half the time most Breath users train under their cultivators. Tokito is noted for becoming a Pillar in two months after taking up the sword, but Mitsuri probably stumbled her way into Pillarhood within months of passing the Final Selection; making the Kamaboko squad's quick ascension up the ranks look like nothing as she blows away the usual five years it takes someone to become a Pillar (or if they are especially skilled, more like two years, as stated by Gotouge in Taisho Secrets). While the way of swordsmanship and battle became Mitsuri’s everyday way of life, thereby leading to huge improvements, that's a really short time to develop actual battlefield experience. Among the Pillars, she is the least seasoned or naturally inclined for battle, it really is by accident of her bizarre strength that she’s gotten so far. That's hardly surprising, given her background and motives. For context, her interests are very domestic what with all the pet-keeping (four cats, a rabbit, and a whole hive of bees, by my count) and sweets and recipes, and her stated hometown would have been in the heart of developing city culture, with shopping and restaurants and movie theaters. There would have been no exposure to swords and the culture that goes with them, making her justifiably embarrassed of how monstrously her strength makes her stick out. Her inability to fit into a normal family life makes her feel worthless, even if she does have a base of love and support. (*Put a pin in these things, I'll be drawing a comparison to another character later.*) However it was that she was introduced to the Corp, it must have taken a huge leap of hope and/or desperation to leave the otherwise comfortable lifestyle for a life of battle. While Rengoku's home is not terribly far from hers, it still would have been a total break from the life she knew before, so she must had been betting everything on both her ultimate wishes; living in accordance with who she is, and finding a husband. Let's refer to these respectively as Wish A and Wish B. Note that "becoming a strong swordsman" and "elimating demons" are not among these goals; they are merely means to her goals. Now if we try to to follow her path as a swordsman chronologically, six months since taking up the sword under Rengoku, she's passed the Final Selection. On a mission with Rengoku, who now treats her as a peer, she's nonetheless filled with shame that she hasn't really picked up much skill and just waves her sword around with brute strength. 

I love this bit of characterization because that is so, so easy a trap to fall into with martial arts. Even if you understand things in theory and do your best on proper form when taking things slowly, all of that very easily goes out the window when you're using them in the heat of the moment. The less experience you have, the far more likely one is to do this. Falling back on just throwing a punch as hard as you can instead of throwing a good punch makes Mitsuri so, so, so relatable. She is a normal girl with abnormal strength, not a battle genius. Like us normal people, and even like Tanjiro, she can only improve her battle sense with experience. This puts her in a very different situation than the other Pillars, who she meets either when they are very experienced, or when they are outright geniuses. This gives her a different sense of shame, which we'll come back to. While feeling ashamed that she can't live up to Rengoku's teaching, her fighting suffers with this lack of self-confidence (which, again, makes her very relatable because this is applicable to just about all of us normal people), and she only realizes the Breath technique when applying it through her own unique emotion-driven fighting style. While she goes on to name this Breath after Wish B (given that this is a romantic version of "Love"), it's powered more by a philanthropic love, realized only when she is protecting other people. This becomes a newly discovered third wish, as well as a source of confidence.

In the side story novels, Mitsuri later on suffers another blow to her confidence which compromises her fighting and makes her fall back into wanting to hide herself, for she is ashamed of how her motives compare to Shinobu's. Besides Shinobu's encouragement and giving Mitsuri a venue in which to openly express her love and appreciation for other people, another child whom Mitsuri has rescued looks up to her and says a few things to restore her confidence. Getting that feedback and being able to express herself openly (Wish A) is the cycle that powers Mitsuri's confidence and keeps her ultimate weakness, shame, at bay. This, combined with words of encouragement from Ubuyashiki and Rengoku, is what really empowers her to embrace her unusual constitution and develop the Breath of Love. While it's said that this is an offshoot of the Flame Breathing she's formally trained in, it's more of a stretch than the relationship between something like Snake Breathing stemming from Water Breathing, and more like she's hit at the basis of Breathing itself to create a technique suited to her, like Inosuke did with his entirely self-taught Beast Breathing. (*Put a pin in this self-created Breath style thing, we're going to come back to this too.*) So, Mitsuri went on to become the Love Pillar. With the rate at which Pillars cycle in and out (based on how many the Upper Moons claim to have killed), I have to wonder how fast the Lower Moons getting cycled in and out too.  Even though these are her peers and we never see any other Pillars looking down on her, she sees herself in a lower position than the rest of them. Case in point, one thing I love that the anime did is that when Tokito chips the rock at Tanjiro and tells him off, Mitsuri is silently fangirling, and then when Tokito orders the Kakushi to draw back/leave, Mitsuri silently and automatically obeys and shrinks back. That wasn’t directed at you, silly!

Though her Breath requires confidence, she still has a ways to go. When we see her again later, she's in a position of being a protector to everyone around her; the swordsmiths and her juniors, and she's treated with the awe and respect and acceptance of a Pillar; in this kind of setting she is fully in accord with Wish A (reinforced by her less formal third wish) and, thanks to Shinobu's encouragement, not ashamed of Wish B, thereby eliminating a big part of her shame-based weakness. She's added all this power and just as importantly, experience to her preexisting raw strength and flexibility.

The experience is key here; she's gained a lot of battle sense since her first mission. She's not as taken off guard by demon abilities, and with her risen confidence, she's also gained more flexible thinking and can make quick adjustments in battle as needed. 

Not entirely, though. At her core, she still relies on that brute strength.

Ultimately, though toward the end she thinks she might be overpowered after all, it's that boost of confidence and cycle of philanthropic love from her juniors and desire to protect them than she recovers and makes use of her mark. (I'm glad no one's told her that this means she's doomed to a short marriage, should she ever even get one.)

Following this historic feat; acting in a way that is natural to her and to her Breath to unlock a mark she didn't even know existed, she still feels a little shamed among the other Pillars for being so shamefully inarticulate about battle technique; despite this being what she's dedicated her life to. Again, it was never her natural desire to be a fighter, so it’s unsurprising that this part doesn’t come as naturally to her as it does to all those geniuses in the room.

Moving on to the battle with Nakime, this is mostly played for laughs because Mitsuri's lack of battle sense compared to other characters is put on full display. She's emotional from the get-go and easily overwhelmed and this affects her concentration drastically, leading to stupid mistakes and ultimately having to fall back on her brute strength to break through pieces of the fortress instead of survive and fight through observation. Getting called out on this is meant to help her, and she absolutely does her best to summon back her battle sense, but it's all downhill for Mitsuri and her Love Breathing technique from here.

As the battle with Muzan starts, that third wish is thrown back in her face as so many of her juniors die protecting her. Since he's powered by philanthropic love and confidence, she cannot recover any battle sense, and quickly falters so much that she must be removed from the battle rather than weigh everyone down. The difference between her and the other Pillars here is stark; her inexperience and lack of natural fighting inclination is, again, painfully obvious and relatable to a lot of readers. She has natural strength, but not natural talent. When she does return to battle, she only has that core strength to rely on again--no room for peace of mind, only brute emotional strength resulting in a panel that made me throw my fist in the air and cheer out loud because damn, that is hardcore, girl.

But, in the end, Mitsuri succumbs to her injuries, and only right before death does she get closer to Wish B. Even with Iguro's promise, it's too late.

This is super frustrating for a number of reasons, but if we're focused solely on the actualization of Love Breathing, it's because Iguro could have said something much, much, much sooner if he wasn't so ashamed of his own blood tainting her in this lifetime (not that she would have cared). Words from other people have such a huge influence on Mitsuri that if she had actualized Wish B, for which her Breath is named, she could have made humongous gains in confidence before being romantically loved, and having someone to openly shower in love. Imagine what she could have unlocked, if that shame she still carried for being too monstrous to be married could have been eliminated. But that's not all. What if the timeline had been different? What if she had not two, but five years’ experience? Or even more than that? What if, for a long duration of her experience as a swordsman, she was also experiencing a happy marriage? I invite you to consider the implications of a Mrs. Iguro Mitsuri who has the comfort and confidence of being herself with a husband, in addition to being in a leadership role in the Corp? A Mrs. Iguro who, with a little honesty from her husband who feels bothered that she’s embarrassed, stands up to Maeda-san and says that as a married woman she needs a more modest uniform?* A Mrs. Iguro who gained a level-headed battle sense that can only be refined through experience, not based in brute strength alone? She'd be such a happy badass. *(Not looking for a modern-era Western culture based debate on this; this is defined based on Mitsuri's desire for a proper Taisho Era marriage.) Now, remember those pins I put in place? Consider someone else who realized a natural Breath technique all on their own, who attained a mark without any intention to, who felt like a monster due to super human abilities that made them shamefully unable to fit into the ideal family life, despite only wanting a peaceful, happy wedded life? Someone who valued bonds with other people, a kind person who lived to protect others? Now, I'm not saying that Love Breathing is as powerful as the Breath of the Sun, or that Mitsuri is as innately powerful as Yoriichi (their natural skills were of different types entirely). But, as all Breath techniques stem from the same natural Sun Breathing source, Love Breathing might have found its way back a little closer to that source, in some way or another. Which is all to say, never look down on Love Breathing or on Mitsuri just because she didn't play as big of a role as the others in the final showdown. After all, that Breath was not yet all it could have been, and as a swordsman, she was not yet in full bloom.

[biologyweeps]

so my godmother is on this diet that began with "group hypnosis" and then a diet that cuts out sugar and also anything that tastes sweet (fruits included) and carbs and minimal fat, and you must eat a meal w/physically equal proportions of meat and veggies. and THEN after 6 months you introduce one form of carbs (like potatoes) until you start gaining weight (usually 2 weeks) at which point you cut out that carb & all others for 6 months and try another form of carbs and so on. she's lost like 130+ lb from it but like...... it seems really really bad for you? have you heard of this?

Yeah, yeah that’s bad for you. Like, the body needs carbs and fat to function, that’s a basic metabolic fact of life. You cannot live of protein alone, that’s how rabbit starvation happens.

Also i don’t...what is the point of this weird reintroduce carbs/cut them again thing?

Like, I know diet regimens like this, short term, for finding out if you’re allergic to something. You cut all the possible options, and after a while reintroduce one, see what it does, proceed from there. But that’s not supposed to be a long term thing, it’s supposed to be limited and also medically supervised, ideally.

Hell even the more stringent versions of that, like a FODMAP, (which i suspect this one is based on) isn’t supposed to be longterm. You’re supposed to elimate stuff, and then reintroduce it bit by bit to work out what/in which amounts you can have. Also: that’s a diet that’s supposed to help a specific issue, namely allergies or IBS or similar digestive issues.

Again, NOT for weight loss, and certainly NOT longterm or without proper supervision.