#I hope my response has been helpful

[onewomancitadel]

Oh I never thought about any of that. That was a really great point about Cinders world view. Holy crap that would basically make Jaune the same as her so there no way it can happen. Thats genius! Thank you! I think I understand this theme stuff a little better. but I dont understand what you mean about Jaunes sword though. Is that supposed to have some deeper meaning or somethign?

Original anon ask and my response about Jaune, Cinder and Penny.

I'm glad to have been of some help, that makes me happy more than anything. <3

Holy crap that would basically make Jaune the same as her so there no way it can happen.

Exactly. That's the farce of that type of analysis in the first place. He can't validate what she believes because then he's just like her (well they are like each other in a fundamental way but bear with me here), he's got to challenge it, and I'm not sure why their characters would be connected unless that's supposed to be a big deal. As I mentioned in the reblog:

tl;dr As if the ultimate resolution of him failing to heal Penny wouldn't be him going to any ends to help someone if he can, even further than he conceived of before.

I think I understand this theme stuff a little better.

You probably understand themes intuitively. Themes are the thesis statements of a story. Characters are expressing and exploring those ideas and are tools of the story. This is a rather linear, mechanical view, but it will get you there. When you see people say the themes of a story are abstract ideas like 'innocence' or 'climate change' that's really not the best way to describe it, because it's a statement about innocence, it's a statement about climate change. A full thesis statement is something like 'It's not about fighting what you hate, but saving what you love'. In mythic stories you will often see the statement said in full by characters, or you will see it made fun of (or realised in an ironic way) by villains.

but I dont understand what you mean about Jaunes sword though. Is that supposed to have some deeper meaning or somethign?

Oh I put that in partly because I wanted an image to go with it and partly to demonstrate what is being visually conveyed to us about the Penny conflict; the blood on Jaune's sword was Penny's, and when it broke fighting with Cinder, only a small part covered in blood remained in his hand. By it breaking fighting Cinder, it visually, partly, absolves him of the act, but also breaks the sword of family lineage - a fissure in his identity. The sword is symbolic.

Take note that Cinder's swords also break frequently and just as easily, so it's even weirder that one of his breaks just like hers.

I was just demonstrating that if they intended to make killing Penny 'right' we wouldn't have him partly absolved, because why would you absolve someone of something he's supposed to do and evolve darkly through? It doesn't really hold. What I do think it's doing is that the act has connected him and Cinder again for a reason, and yes, he may struggle, but he's not going to be permanently disillusioned.

It's not like Jaune needs much disillusionment. He's a cynic for a reason. This isn't really about him realising his ideals are broken (of always being able to help and save) alike to Ruby and Cinder - this is about who he is as a person and what he's capable of.

I wouldn't expect Penny to be signalling what he must eventually do at this point in the story either; it's a challenge to him of how far he can possibly go and trying to identify what the real pain is. The healer does have the bloodiest hands; they are intimately connected and acquainted with violence; they do have to find where it hurts and fix it, and Cinder's right there!

When I talk about Jaune's role in Cinder's redemption on my blog, I need to stipulate that Volume 6 or even Volume 8 Jaune is not in the position where he can see what his destiny is yet. He's not perfect right out of the box, just made for her. His character arc is happening in tandem with hers. Volume 5!Jaune did not want to help Cinder; he wanted to die giving time for his friends to do what they needed to do. How do you get him to a point where he starts to sympathise with her? Or ask further questions at all? The mercy kill is something meant to fundamentally disturb him to disrupt the comfort he had settled into, because the story isn't just about helping the Good People until all the Bad People are dead and then nothing bad happens ever again. He's got more work to do than that and so does Cinder.

The wound is where the light enters. 🥰

[omentranslates]

Trigun Maximum Chugai Grace Cafe Collaboration - I Translated the Website :3

Hi I saw someone on twt wanting this to be translated and that's literally all it takes to get me moving anymore so!

Anyways I translated all the food and drinks, I found the references they chose really cute except for the evil one lmao and I also included the unbelievably small print drink ingredients if you wanna try mixing them yourself!! 🫶

Also also, if you know how to use a proxy, there is actually some stuff here that overseas fans can get our hands on!! Under the cut to keep the dash clean!! Hope it helps!!!!!

Edit my dumbass forgot the original announcement link sjshsk IT’S HERE!!!

So, the menu

Going from left to right we've got

"Battle Sausage Spaghetti"

"As Many Salmon Sandwiches You Want"

"Love&Peace Donuts"

"Banana Sundae"

and on the bottom row

"The Perfect Meal Plate: Vash's Handmade Fried Rice and Salad" ((´༎ຶོω༎ຶོ`) o k )

"Particularly Wonderful Udon"

"Mille-feuille with Ceylon Tea" (i believe the first part specifies gateau mille-feuille but I went to episode one and checked the subs for what they had her say officially and they left the gateau off so I did too)

"Latte with a random character art"

Character Drinks!!!

The Bride Soda, which comes with a double-sided postcard of the sworn friends (very common nickname for Vash and Wolfwood in JP fandom and ig official uses it too)

So the soda is their proprietary thing, it doesn't say what flavor it is or if it has one, but the shotglasses come with a little bit of smoked oak syrup and black ceylon tea and you're meant to fill the rest of the glass with soda and drink it that way. And then the rest of the text is just information and disclaimers for customers that plan on taking the bottle home (I guess it breaks really easily that’s So. lmao).

Vash's Drink <3

strawberry syrup

carbonated water and lemon juice

yellow candied cherries (drained cherries) and ice

Wolfwood's Drink

crushed coffee jelly and cafe ice (ice made and flavored with concentrated coffee and fruit juice)

brewed iced coffee and gum syrup

blue curaçao syrup and carbonated water

experimental ampules filled with blue soda

the cigarette is full of light brown sugar you're meant to mix in before drinking

Knives's Drink

apple juice and round sliced apples

mint and ice (it looks like mint leaves but full disclosure they have blurred that kanji to all hell I have no idea)

Legato's Drink

blue curaçao syrup

grapefruit juice

carbonated water and a mint cherry

a lemon and ice

Collab Merch

(Overseas pay attention here!!!!!! ChugaiOnline is opening these to online orders so we can get them with a proxy, I'll leave their link at the end of this section!!!!!!)

I've also listed all the prices in yen here so you can convert them to your currency, and all of these are the prices including the listed Japanese sales tax. If you want to see the price without it, it’s just the other number on the image!

So they've got

Two way acrylic figure stands (the main stand comes with a ball chain, you can reference these on Amiami for what this kind of product looks like I'm prettyyyyy sure like they're called different but it looks like they go together the same way). Anyways this is a set of 6 and 1650 yen each, it looks like you get to choose which one you want but they don't have a deal listed for getting all of them.

Next to it are the buttons (also called can badges idk which one is more common over here), set of 12 (6 are regular and 6 are glittery variety). They are 550 yen per button AT RANDOM, THEY WILL GIVE YOU A RANDOM ONE, or a box with one of each all 12 for 6600 yen.

Below that is the polaroid collection, it's also a 12 piece set and you can get A RANDOM ONE, THEY DO NOT LET YOU PICK for 330 yen each or a box with all of them for 3960 yen.

The same exact deal with the plastic (like a vinyl material) postcards underneath, they're double-sided and come one for 660 yen each at random or the whole set for 7920 yen.

The calendar is for 2025 and is 1980 yen probably obvious but y'know

I would be so shocked if a proxy actually let you ship the Kuroneko sama cookie discs lmao but hey wtf they're 1080 yen.

The Bride soda is listed here because this is the same merch that will be sold in the shop but they specify elsewhere that it's not available for online order even in Japan you have to go to the cafe ;-;

Also this is just personal experience but a lot of proxies will not let you get like blind or random stuff like the buttons they don't let you pick which one, some of them will only let you get it if you're getting the whole box.

Annnnnnd online order special gifts!!

For every 3000 yen spent in merch (including tax) you will get a random postcard from this set!! There are 15 to collect, they are NOT divided into halves of the event, you can get any of them at any time or all at once!! However, you can't combine orders made at different times/by different people to get more and if they run out that's it. Altho fwiw I have never seen an event run out of these lol

The online order period will be from Friday, May 24th at 11 am to Sunday, June 16th at 11:59 pm (both JST) and items will begin to arrive (within Japan, proxies will have to handle our own shipping ofc) from August 2024 on a first ordered first shipped basis.

CHUGAIONLINE STORE (JAPAN)

Ok, this last bit is relevant to the in-person cafe experience so it's just for if you're curious about other cool things going on or you have a hobby of watching JP mercari like a hawk and wanna know what to expect!

Guests who reserve places at the cafe online will get copies of some of Nightow sensei's most prized sketch pages, they'll get 3 random ones! Like with the special gift postcards, there are a limited amount and this event will end when they're all gone.

And these are the coasters, guests will get one with every item they order off the food or drink menu at random (while supplies last)! The variety you can get is split between the former and latter halves of the event so there's something new to come back for even if you've already been once! (The first 12 days is on top and the last 12 days is on bottom)

They're also doing a wallscroll campaign!

They'll have these decorating the venue, and when the event is over a raffle will be held where the winners get to pick out a scroll of their choice!

OK I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING RELEVANT HAPPY TRIGUN MANGA CAFE EVENT!!!!!

[puhpandas]

ideal ggy reveal for me right now is some sort of game whatever format theyd use (for example sb vs hw is very different storytelling) about vanny killing dr rabbit and it leads up to the beginning of sb at the end

[dreamlogic]

[thebirdandhersong]

I remember talking to a friend last week and saying that if I'm reading obsessively it either means I'm extremely happy or extremely in need of help. alas goodreads my good pal you have GOT to be kidding me

[hella1975]

Hiiii hellstie literrally never answer this ask if youre not really comfortable with it but god your vent tags resonated with me, like i'm sorry it fucking sucks so much and it's like literrally what can one do now and you're just tired and it's a terrible self feeding cycle but like. It's whatever. We're not dead yet. I have a really pretty rose in the vase in my desk. You got red hair. Time cares not for the little blunders. You can rise to not give up (try again) another day. I'm holding your hand really tight and pressing my forehead agaisnt yours. We too, will make it. Stained and rotten and and a tiny bit broken but alive nonetheless. I think we can.

anon sent me poetry about my dumb vent post and expected me to be normal about it. 'we're not dead yet. i have a really pretty rose in the vase on my desk. you got red hair. time cares not for the little blunders' HELLO???

[superfluouskeys]

godddddd wasting time and energy on things that don't fucking matter has got to be THE worst feeling

[hooved]

i know everyone's told me to rest because i'm sick but i just can't. it doesn't feel right. i need to do everything i can rn because i'm scared that any second we'll be told to get out NOW

[trans-xianxian]

hmmmm I drafted an email to my boss abt how her text regarding my time off request after my mother's death made me feel very uncomfortable and how I felt like it was unprofessional should I send it

[strayskinny]

today was actually so awful i hate everything,,,,,,

[calamitydaze]

okay i’m gonna go to sleep cause it’s late iiiiii hope i don’t wake up to nuclear bombs dropped on us

[wanderedaway]

The feminine urge to run away and never look back.

[lina-gaza]

‼️Please don’t skip taking a look 🍉🇵🇸

I am Lina from Gaza, 25 years old. I have been married for 4 years. I have a son named Saif, who is 2 years old, and a daughter named Sidra, who was born in the October War, who is 3 months old. They were born by caesarean section. Help me and my children evacuate Gaza. I need your help to evacuate my family from Gaza. I hope you and your loved ones find you safe and sound. I am coming to you with a very urgent and time-sensitive appeal. We face a constant and imminent threat of death, injury and disease, even during the so-called “truce”. My home has been bombed and destroyed beyond repair. My family’s home. We have been under occupation all our lives, and none of us have experienced anything like what is happening now. There is now an opportunity to get the entire family out of Gaza to Egypt via the Rafah crossing. We do not know how long this opportunity will last, which makes it imperative that we raise the necessary funds as soon as possible. The longer it takes, the more vulnerable they will be. No one knows how long the bombing of Gaza will continue. It will continue, regardless of the cost in human lives. For my family’s future, your help is essential. I am deeply concerned about my children.

The money you contribute will: Cover the enormous costs of safe passage to Egypt. The vast majority of the money will be used for this purpose.

Provide temporary housing for the family in Egypt while the best way forward is determined for them.

Cover some of their initial living expenses while they are in Egypt. We hope to provide them with at least two months’ worth of money. They need time and space to breathe after being gassed during this genocide.

Once all of this is done, additional funds will be used to help me move past my current situation so that I can provide more support to my family. I have taken on the responsibility of caring for them during this critical and uncertain time and into the future.

[skruffie]

small team at work means even when one person is gone it kind of cascades into chaos very quickly and I'm unfortunately probably the most functional + flexible one here

[bilal-salah0]

While children around the world enjoy the summer holidays within the safety and comfort of their homes and plan fun beach trips with their families, our kids' childhood has been reduced to securing the bare minimum of food and water, fending off swarms of disease-carrying insects, and enduring the stifling heat inside the hellish tent. Seeing them fill water containers and struggle to carry them with their tiny hands breaks my heart into a million pieces. Our babies fall asleep drenched in sweat and keep waking up crying and gasping for breath. What makes it even more unbearable are the plagues of flies and mosquitoes that keep torturing their little fragile, malnourished bodies, increasing the risk of contracting infectious diseases, with no medical care available. They also face a very real and imminent threat of dehydration due to water and formula scarcity.Their older siblings are encumbered by burdens way beyond their years. They think it is their responsibility to fill heavy water containers and protect the newborns, but the truth is they are as vulnerable to the same threats that keep growing every day. No child should live in such a hostile environment. Rubble, garbage, and the smell of death are all around.

Our kids used to have a beautiful spacious home built after years of toil and sacrifice, just to be turned into ruins in the blink of an eye. Now, they are given no other choice but to be confined to the tight airless space of a makeshift tent swarming with all sorts of insects. Even if they go outside the only things that await them are the scorching sun, the hot summer air, and foul smells all day long. The summer nights are often equally suffocating depriving them of desperately needed sleep.

Using a wood-fired self-made stove to cook is beyond torture in such heat. It is also very dangerous to the children who keep going close to it. My heart sinks each time I see pictures of them next to the fire. Even preparing a baby bottle,if ever available, is an ordeal in such conditions but my family have no other options. They have been enduring unfathomable, relentless suffering for nine months straight, and they have been more than resilient but they are now way beyond exhausted. They have been daily fighting for their very survival but there's no guarantee of safety anywhere in Gaza as not only what is left of the buildings but also the tents are being indiscriminately bombed every single day. Even going to the beach to escape the sweltering heat has become a perilous journey for my family, and countless others, since civilians keep being targeted with airstrikes there too.

My family were not allowed to have even the slightest respite since the beginning of this waking nightmare. They have been striving to survive bombing, malnutrition, disease, the cold winter, and now the deadly heatwaves.

When I left Gaza shortly before the war, my dream was to build a brighter future for my loved ones. I have never imagined, once in my life, that I would be raising funds to literally save their lives. Now, my only wish is to keep them alive and as safe as possible, given the circumstances.

Your support is their only hope and solace amidst all the pain and loss. Please do whatever you can to help me save them from this brutal literal decimation of our people. Every contribution counts! Keep our babies in your thoughts and prayers 🙏 And Please donate any amount you can spare and reblog as often as you can. It is beyond words to say how grateful I am to everyone standing with us 🙏

[bunnygetsthepancakes]

TW KINK TRAUMA VENT

I realized recently that I never truly had a “time of innocence”. (For some reason thinking about this literally made me feel sick to my stomach and I’m hoping I don’t have repressed memories or something.) I’m sure that to actually have that time is uncommon in this world. But like Jesus Christ some of the earliest memories I have are related to my fucking kinks. I never had the time to not think about that stuff.

I was in Kindergarten when I started to develop a fucking foot fetish. I got caught looking at goddamn Princess Peach feet on DeviantArt by my sister, and the way she ridiculed me made me think that this I did a horrible, horrible thing. Then later she showed my whole family on the fucking TV and my entire family of course laughed at me. So I believed I was a creep for liking that so that really fucked with my development.

I’d also fucking learned to hump by this point, so by 7 I was grabbing my iPod touch and going to deviantart and hiding while I humped to fucking cartoon feet. I just don’t think it was healthy at all to have been like this so young.

Then some of my other earliest memories have to do with being deathly afraid of anything Willy Wonka or inflation. I can’t even remember the initial time I saw the blueberry scene so I have a feeling it wasn’t good. All I remember is nightmares about that scene happening to me or ppl I knew and feeling horrified. But, of course, my family didn’t understand why I was scared of it and proceeded to use the Oompa Loompa song when I was being bad, especially in public. So I was so terrified the Oompa Loompas were gonna come and blow me up every time that happened sooooo something in my brain broke and now... I want to be forcefully inflated... in public... until I pop... :P

So yeah it’s just kinda weird how I just got right into dealing with this stuff as soon as I gained sentience and uhhhh makes me sick to think about. So uhh yeah... fuck the internet. Also sorry about the amount of “fucks” and cursing. I just do it when anxiety,