#True-king-of-monsters

[thepromiscuousfinger]

2016: Harambe changed the energy.

2024: Fred, Peanut, and Moo Deng did the same.

Any harm comes to that lil blubber nugget, I swear you're gonna see the Thai zookeepers be that guy in Ong Bak.

....fuck, I wanna watch Ong Bak now

[just-absolutely-super]

I dunno how far you are on Hades, but it's so funny how he has never been outdoors ever till he started trying to see his mom and even after the main plot is wrapped up, the game finds ways to send him inner tubing down the River Styx back to the palace.

Some are shocking, some are sudden, and some just have him slip on a banana peel.

Oh, Zagreus....

At the moment I can't get past his dad

Like I beat his phase 1 and then he went surprise phase 2 on me and I had no more death defiance left so he sent Zag-dude back home

I don't know what will happen once I do beat actual god Hades

[anoptimisticsnarker]

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[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

"Anybody. And I mean, if anybody who hurt, disrespects, courting her, and broke my daughter's heart, they will have to challenge me first!"

- Godzilla, the No. 1 Daddy's Girl 🤫

[gofancyninjaworld]

No one is born knowing how to communicate

A: And that's okay...

Dr Kuseno made it look so easy. He just swanned into Saitama's apartment, proferred him a gift of beef and the hero's hostility melted away.

Fubuki felt positively foolish, and yet encouraged.

Since then, however, she's found that the only thing meat bribes pull in are dogs. Literal dogs:

And even dogs need more than meat to be loyal.

What gives? Well, it's obvious that Fubuki mistook Dr Kuseno's gift for a bribe: more on that later. Probably. And yeah, it's funny, but it's more interesting than that.

Learning how to communicate is complex. There are a ludicrous number of unspoken conventions and rules in every human society, so much so that we don't fully learn how to smile socially until we're in our forties. Dr Kuseno carefully judged his gift: he had a legitimate reason to offer Saitama a gift in the first place, out of gratitude for Saitama going out of his way to mentor Genos. Then he chose a gift Saitama would be sure to appreciate and presented it at a time when Saitama would be thinking about dinner. The worst that could have happened is that Saitama took the gift but insisted on the doctor going home (and taking Genos with him) -- it would still have left the desired positive impression. And things went really well. Kuseno made it look effortless.

Fubuki is only in her early twenties and her experience to date has been far from typical. She's learned that either she can intimidate people or she can flatter them into doing what she wants. With Saitama (and later Bang, Bomb, and Kuseno), she has to learn how to talk to more powerful people whom she cannot overpower, over whom she has no leverage, and who are unimpressed by her looks, simpering, or flattery.

Fortunately, Fubuki is nothing if not astute. She's worked out that she needs to develop complementary skills if she's to make herself useful to the S-Class heroes she wants to hang with. How to talk to them to get the help and cooperation she desires? Ah, that's a work in progress.

B: ...Unless it's not

Let's move onto another miscommunication.

Something that I hadn't before was that, unlike the webcomic version where Saitama only thinks to himself that Genos seems depressed, in the manga, Saitama out and out asks him if this is the case. He wants to know.

It mirrors King asking Saitama that very same question and getting Saitama to open up and be vulnerable for the first time (ever, in any version of the story). So it is very appropriate to see Saitama trying to do the same for Genos, particularly as he is openly fond of the guy.

However, it goes wrong. Saitama feels himself under pressure to say something wise to make it better. So he puts on his best 'confident' face and inadvertently makes everything much worse. Oh dear. What makes this particularly painful in the manga is that Saitama is much more invested in trying to reach Genos, and it's made Genos think that Saitama saying that he doesn't see what he's doing must mean that earlier times when he's praised him must have been just Saitama being nice. For sure, Genos could have pushed back and made Saitama clarify what he meant, but he's even worse at communicating: and Saitama's glib remark about being bright struck him square in the insecurities.

I'm going to come to something that I only realised once I started typing this up. Even though I've pointed out their abilities to communicate, neither King nor Kuseno have the perfect words to say. Kuseno started out by first committing a faux pas in bringing his great big outside boots into Saitama's flat, then nearly boring Saitama to death with a long-winded explanation. King started out by trying to guess what was bothering Saitama. Both, however, did the most important thing about effective communication: they picked up on their going wrong and changed tack.

It's not about saying the right thing: it's about responding to the person you're talking to.

The thing that King did that Saitama was trying to do for Genos was to ask Saitama open questions, and shut up in the interim, letting Saitama talk to fill in the silence. He'd only speak to ask more open questions when Saitama ran out of things to say, and through that, gently started to challenge Saitama's thinking.

But doing so means being comfortable with several seconds of silence. And that is excruciating. It is almost irresistible to jump in and say something, anything. And it would have been a longish wait, for Genos to slowly sit down and decide to start speaking, which might well have started being about something only tangentially related to his worry. King did that for Saitama: Saitama started out talking about what was bothering him on the surface -- being too strong -- before eventually coming to what was really bothering him, feeling lonely and profoundly isolated from everyone around him. Saitama does not yet know how to wait a person out.

It's a problem in this case because it's introduced a big barrier between those two, not an insurmountable one for sure, but one that could easily compound later.

Ah well, no one is born a communicator. We just have to wait and see if they work out a way to open up and be honest with each other. So it goes! There's more ways to introduce conflicts than to have a monster trample Tokyo, after all!

And so help me, the struggle to learn how to communicate is 1000% worthwhile.

[pilot-boi]

Armored Apis: It doesn't matter which one it is, each of the 4 have 3 people who would fight for them.

The snag is that they are all so damn clueless.

Yang is oblivious to Pyrrha, Blake, and Jaune cozying up to her on cold nights.

Blake is oblivious as to why they all blep back at her.

Pyrrha can't understand why they cheer her on in the gym.

Poor Jaune gets it the worst. He's unaware why those 3 capable ladies would wanna be around a loser like him.

Ultimate pining idiots OT4. Not a functional romantic braincell between them

[hrodvitnon]

I can see for post GXK the Italian government having to have constantly pressure over Monarch regarding Godzilla using the colosseum as his residence. They have to design a special pathway that doesn’t create collateral and need tourist income.

The new pathway is literally all they can do about the whole thing, because what else are they going to do? Ask him to leave? After he's catnapped in the Colosseum? Are they going to poke him with a stick? Poke him with a stick like the baseball? Oh! Oh! Jail for Italian government! Jail for Italian government for one thousand years!!!!

[dainpo]

[tschulijulesjulie]

after all this time this still makes me sick to my stomach

[laevanders]

So the Lords in Black eldritch forms anyone?

I was just sketching, and boom a drawing

It's very messy but I like it, specially when they're in _the black_

[gold-snek-hoe]

I think it's notable to mention I'm a huge Strange Magic fan (seriously watching this movie is like eating cookie dough to me) and I like referring to Marak as my "Gobby Wobby Kingy Wingy"

Gobby for short

[thepromiscuousfinger]

HAPP BORFF

THANK

[just-absolutely-super]

Terraqua, but they do those little side-glances at each other. Terra having this smile at the edge of his lips. Aqua's eyes lighting up. Of course, you got Ventus making gagging noises while this not-so-subtle flirting is happening in front of his salad.

Awww

[tumblezwei]

Jaune's Therapist after this volume finna pull up with this to the next therapy session.

Honestly Jaune needed that argument as much as Ruby did

the team leaders are not ok

[adm-starblitzsteel-4305]

Okay, another leak shot for Mothra. This time, she looks perfectly cool in this pic!

Unlike this one...

[astrid-beck]

I can't take this you guys