#although i hate that term

[yukiwhitetm]

I'm not surprised that my leg is on fire from chronic pain but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it.

[lyculuscaelus]

Day 6941 of pondering over Odysseus’s hair color again. Dark will forever live rent free in my head but red is gorgeous and brown is so commonly accepted and auburn as a mixture is beloved but then dark is still living rent free in my head…

Basically, depending on how you interpret the color of ξανθός (xanthos, for his hair) and κυάνεος (kyaneos, for his beard) to be

[satorugojoswiife]

girl gojos literally racist🤨

Genuinely curious, did you actually read the chapter or are you someone that only keeps up with the series through leaks and/or twitter/tiktok summaries?

Gojo mistakenly believes that Miguel's build is how it is solely because he isn't Japanese (and is black) and Miguel goes on to correct him saying that is an untrue stereotype.

I'm not sure where you live, but I've definitely heard people claim that some athletes have an advantage due to their race, which isn't actually true, but it is a common misconception.

So yes, what Gojo says is based on a racist stereotype, but there is a big difference between saying something racist due to ignorance and saying something racist out of malice.

Gojo didn't realize what he was saying was incorrect and a racist stereotype and once Miguel educates him he immediately apologizes (something gojo is known for not often doing)

Also please don't hate on gege for including this. He is using this as an example to educate his audience. It may seem super obvious to more western audiences, but to japan that is a monoethic country its more understandable that people wouldnt know.

This is how I interpreted the scene in this chapter. If you think I got it wrong or missed something, please let me know :) I like to stay as informed and educated as possible and continuing to be open minded to different perspectives is important to me.

[mwagneto]

sorry i can't hang out rn the two men from that 4 year old show kissed and i literally cannot think about anything else. yeah gonna be all month

[breadedsinner]

In theory I'm down with the concept of characters romancing each other if not pursued by the player character. Less so in practice because I have historically never liked the combinations bioware makes on their own.

So I am just imagining my second playthrough seeing Neve flirt with someone she has no chemistry with

[maeamian]

Anyhow happy birthday to my long departed grandfather, gramps you woulda loved the results coming out of Hyabusa 2 and OSIRIS-REx.

[echthr0s]

every day I ask myself, what even is religion? what even is being religious? because unfortunately the default way people tend to use this term is to say "are you Christian or something very similar to Christian in my limited understanding (aka Abrahamic in some way)" OR "are you specifically this kind of pagan" (the kind that, to me, has "this is clearly a backlash against monotheistic hegemony" vibes). I guess Buddhism may get a nod here too, as an afterthought, since it's been incorporated into Western collective consciousness for better or worse

am I religious? not by those connotations, certainly, but "I'm not religious" doesn't feel right. not when the possibilities of religiosity reach so far beyond those limitations. can being a divine entity make one religious by nature, since the nature of being divine often stands in direct concert with being treated with religiosity? does my self-gnosis denote religiosity by default? what about divinity as a kink framework (related to the aforementioned, obviously)? if I'm inclined to do that, does that not suggest a tendency towards religiosity? frankly, it's unclear what practices do denote religiosity -- a desire to do ritual, I'd imagine, but then what rituals are considered sacred as opposed to profane? is it intention that changes the vibe? are witches religious? if there is no deity involved, is religiosity entirely off the table? of course not (see: mention of Buddhism, above), so then where does the line get drawn? do metaphysics of some sort need to be involved? is a cosmological framework required? or a holy text? yeah, what about holy texts, can anything be a holy text? the Snapewives could be considered religious, so clearly religion can be derived from a multitude of sources. is it the element of consensus? is it when UPG becomes SPG? is fervour a required attribute? to do something "religiously" can just mean you do it a lot. are "Chreaster" Christians religious? how often does one have to participate in the rites that define their chosen religion to be considered religious? what about belief? does what one choose to believe denote religiosity? does credibility or lack thereof play a part? if a sense of morality is sufficiently strong and rigid, does that strong belief still tilt one towards religiosity even if this sense wasn't developed in a typically religious context?

with all these inconclusive questions (and I didn't even get to all of them, I just got tired of typing), I'm going to assume being religious is a matter of such subjectivity that if I say "I'm religious, I have a Saint David Bowie candle and I burn it every January" no one can definitively say otherwise

[sunscall]

i know it was just a haha funnies but mac saying "we don't want safe, charlie, we want toxic" about the glue really mirrors his relationships. he doesn't want safe (ignoring his uncle who represents the father figure he always wished for, also dismissing charlie who was there for him since childhood), he wants toxic (a mother who couldn't care less abt him, a dad who hates him except for his use, his codependent relationship with dennis which is mutually toxic but even more on dennis' side in the latter seasons). it's like he's programmed to reject love when it's just warmth.

[mybrainproblems]

it really strikes me as odd how adversarial fans are about the spn writers and talk about hating them or thinking they're bad at writing. because 1) they're the ones creating/continuing this piece of media that you clearly do love or at least care about and 2) if they were genuinely bad at writing, you wouldn't be here. the show would've fallen off the viewership and ratings cliff and would have been cancelled years ago and not run for fifteen seasons.

and these folks will have the one or two writers that they stan but will claim they're the only ones who knew what they were doing and honestly? 4 episodes in a 20-23 episode season does not carry a season/show. no single writer is carrying an entire season on their episodes alone and it's not like they weren't conferring with each other at all during the writing process.

idk. it just feels really really weird to see folks be so negative about the ppl who are creating the thing that they supposedly love, and it seems like a really miserable way to engage with a piece of media. not to mention that tbh it's pretty disrespectful to the writers to assume that they have no knowledge of their own craft. the majority of writers on spn have been at worst competent (i am setting aside the content of their writing bc that's a separate issue. sera gamble die by my sword.)

and tbh so much of what ppl talk about in terms of writerly incompetence just comes across as personal gripes about the plot not going in the direction they wanted or an inability to grasp that spn is a goddamn genre show and not a family drama. genres have their own language and trope toolboxes and you need to meet it where it is, not criticize it for being something that it isn't and never was intended to be.

[comradecowplant]

Holy cow Gen V is like The Boys if The Boys was a show that had main characters whose motivations/stakes/development are actually interesting??!?

[littlemut]

[danielnelsen]

i wouldnt go so far as to call the calling a good book necessarily, but it's so much better than the stolen throne and it's actually got an interesting plot & lore, it's very refreshing when im reading them in order

[57sfinest]

what do you think the best case scenario is for jean and harry's relationship post-martinaise?

okay so not to be Like That but i do have one fic up about this with another one currently in the works

but anyway. obviously their relationship is never going to go back to the way it was. there was just SO MUCH between them that they have no hope of restoring with harry's amnesia, and also jean knows rationally that things shouldn't ever be the way they were again. it's not like they were ever supposed to be that way anyway.

in the best-case, i think it takes MONTHS for them to even start to bridge the gap, and harry has to initiate it. jean is done being the one reaching out, being the fixer, overlooking things. IF harry wants him back, as a friend or anything else- and secretly jean wants him to want him back, but he'll never admit that- he has to take the first steps and do the work. so first harry has to put in the work to recover (if harry kept using drugs, i don't think jean would care, but he'd have to kick the alcohol) and then harry has to put in the personal work and learn how to communicate properly and respect boundaries. even when he starts trying i think jean pushes back for a while and harry has to take his turn being the bigger person and let jean complain or shut him down or whatever and not bitch about it or start a fight, because that will just push jean away more.

best-case is that harry passes these little trials of jean's, and they finally sit down and have an actual conversation about everything and clear the air. i don't think it's a pretty conversation, but they (jean mostly) says a lot of things that have needed to be said for a long time. assuming this goes to jean's satisfaction i think they agree- harry gets ONE more chance to stay on jean's good side.

buffered by the few months of jean REALLY hating harry and resenting him and being jealous of his second chance and all that, i think a friendship between them has a better chance to be healthy at this point. harry is ostensibly working on his shitty habits and behaviors, and now harry probably has kim (and possibly others) to talk to, which takes a lot of the burden off jean, because imo one of the biggest issues harry and jean had was a lack of distance. they just couldn't get away from each other, and ended up not wanting to. so now they have an opportunity to keep a healthy buffer and *choose* to engage, which also allows them to step away from one another if things get heated. yes, they'll definitely still clash sometimes, but it's a lot easier to deal with when they can just agree to leave the argument there and not speak until they've gotten over themselves.

the best-case requires harry to do a lot of personal work but assuming he does do it, i do think he and jean could go back to being friends. their new relationship would definitely start off very rocky and tentative- mostly harry is afraid to ruin it again- but given enough time i think harry proves it's for real this time and they can come to actually trust each other and be comfortable around one another.

[oidheadh-con-culainn]

side effect of ordering many things yesterday is that i'm due to get many packages today which means i am now terrified to go to the loo in case they arrive while i'm in there and i miss the front door

[forcedhesitation]

the nere fight without a sorcerer is hell on earth. that fight is always unpleasant, but without corydalis? it was so so so much worse. he can immediately kill the sergeant & nere in the very first turn. unfortunately with the way that battlefield is structured & how the enemies are dispersed, it is impossible to achieve that with a paladin. or any other class, I think.

sorcerers are just. better.

[pu-butt]

Child-me may have not gotten all of her songs, but upon further review and with the power of voortschrijdend inzicht, i must conclude that Anouk's For Bitter or Worse album consists of nothing but banger after banger after banger