#and i cant tell if they care or not so i just give them a half-hearted explanation to judge their interest

[transgenderer]

i've recently become a disciple of the road spirit. do you have any wisdom to offer me as embark on this new chapter of my spiritual journey

oh kat, what a gift youve given me!

okay so. here's some precepts, off the top of my head

move with speed, but not *haste*. its not about getting to your destination faster, its about the joy of speed itself. as a corollary: speed up for no reason! who cares if it wont get you there faster?

also, while speed is important, grace is just as important! always thinking about fish, birds, dolphins, etc. things that movie in fluids, fluidly. gradual stops, smooths shifts in and out of lanes, softening turns, etc. obv sometimes practicality gets in the way here, but that's fine

obviously you shouldnt speed like, *in front* of a cop or anything. but cops are basically violating your freedom of religion. you cant bend to that! speed freely

music is not necessary, but it's good if it helps you get in the zone. something that rocks, or something very smooth. a bassline. its a bassline type activity. experiment! i like to leave it on shuffle and skip songs a lot: i think its consonant with the proper amor fati (i think of it as like an aztec thing. throwing yourself to the gods control) to driving: you can never really control what other drivers do. theyre like...fellow dancer, who are also obstacles. play with them but also around them. give them a lot of space, so your paintbrush isnt squished up against a wall

relatedly: road rage, even in its mild form, is not conducive to the right meshing with the road spirit. it centers ego! you merge with the road. you ride the road, the road rides you ("tell my car"?)

while obviously the road spirit is most *easily* accessible on the highway, it's present everywhere! especially backroads! speeding on a windy backroad is so fun.

this isnt necessary but i think its better to drive a real shitbox. the boundary between you and the road is thinner. also, they have spongier brakes (smoother stops!) and more haptic feedback

even if youre not moving, you can be close to the road spirit! notice the sky (or if youre in a tunnel, the curving wall above you!), the smooth curves of the road, your fellow drivers

when it's warm enough, i recommend having the windows down. windows up driving can feel like a distant video game; windows down driving is all-there, you can feel the speed on your body

[clownzaf]

What if I tell you the only time Eurylochus was on the wrong was in Keep your friends close?

In full speed ahead he was the first to realise they needed to stop to get food because they had SIX HUNDRED MEN TO FEED, it wasn’t the amount of food you can simply go and ask some island people for, so they had to raid the island (they just got out of a war where they killed thousands of people, it wasn’t a really crazy idea)

In luck runs out when Eurylochus approached Odysseus he was ready to go to that island and he stop him on the spot like any other person would, and he had really good arguments about WHY GOING TO SOME GOD ISLAND (island you threw harpoons at btw. If it were any other god you would’ve been smited just for that) was a really bad idea. Odysseus just gave a SHIT argument and ignored him, so he had to keep talking. Maybe he didn’t thought about how the crew listening would affect their trust in the captain, but at that point who really cares? If you go to that island maybe there will be no captain to not trust or even no crew. Or maybe he didn’t thought the crew would be eavesdropping.

HE NEVER PLANNED ON THE CREW LISTENING TO THEIR CONVERSATION. IT WASNT HIS INTENTION FOR THE CREW TO REALISE THAT THE CAPTAIN WAS BATSHIT CRAZY AND HAD POOR SURVIVAL INSTINCTS.

Also, when Odysseus took him away to talk HE NEVER EASED EURYLOCHUS WORRIES. He told him to just listen to his orders and shut the fuck up, thing that came to bite him in the ass when years after years of shutting his mouth up Eurylochus couldn’t just hide how much the Captain’s choices were affecting the crew.

I ALSO HATE when people gives the argument of “just listen to the captain” or him going against the captain in every move.

ODYSSEUS WASNT RIGHT IN MOST OF HIS MOVES. He always left the fight just because he was resourceful (by straight up divine intervention) but that doesn’t mean the plans were good. Also what would you do in his position? Your captain is telling you the most batshit crazy idea you’ve ever heard that will possibly get your whole crew or himself killed and he doesn’t even want to listen to your opinion (His SECOND IN COMAND i remind you)

“Oh but he wanted to leave the crew with Circe” Circe was a goddess who did not care about the crew when she turned them into pigs. The idea of trying to talk her out of that was crazy and Odysseus only won that fight because of Hermes’ help. He accepted the fate that was given and tried to escape with the remaining crew before Circe did something to them too. It was the only logical choice.

Mutiny is the song that made me realise that Eurylochus wasn’t really the bad guy y’all paint him to be.

Odysseus (as usual) didn’t communicate his plan to Eurylochus and then he found out that the sacrifice of 6 of the men he tried so hard to protect was alway on the plan. If something like that happened in modern day all of you would go crazy just like he did. In his mind Odysseus was nothing more than a monster who cared more about going home to his wife than the lives of 6 men who also had wives and children to go to.

He even gave him the chance to explain himself, for god’s sake, and Odysseus only said I CANT ????? He even got out of his way to bandage him and KEEP HIM ALIVE after what was a horrible betrayal.

The cow incident is controversial but just look into it from his perspective.

They’re not going home either way. If they don’t kill those cows they are going to die slowly and painfully from starvation on their way home

Ody has done crazier things and he always came out victorious, why would this go wrong?

Also, i fully think the people that heard the lines “How much longer must I suffer now? How much longer must I push through doubt? How much longer must I go about like this when people die like this?” and still think Eurylochus is the villain, hasn’t listened to Epic the musical at all.

Opening the wind bag was stupid? Yes. Just as stupid as not killing the cyclops and giving your name and address to him, going against the orders of the literal GODDESS OF WISDOM, trusting some little drugged things to tell you were to find food, throwing harpoons at a god’s home, playing along into said gods name, NEVER REALLY TELLING YOUR SECOND IN COMMAND (WHO YOU KNOW IS STARTING TO DOUBT YOUR ACTIONS) THE WHOLE STORY, trying to talk a goddess into set free your men immediately after that instead of trying to keep alive the men you have left, trusting that goddess to send you and the crew she just turned into pigs to the LITERAL UNDERWORLD, sacrificing 6 men without telling your second in command or ANY OF THE MEN YOU WERE SACRIFICING beforehand and telling your men to suck it up and stay hungry until they reach home in who knows how much long.

Odysseus kept his plans close to his chest and expected Eurylochus and the crew to follow him blindly and without a word of protest.

Odysseus talked more about the crew that died that he didn’t focused enough on the crew he STILL HAD.

The only difference is that we had an explanation of why Odysseus does what he does, Eurylochus doesn’t.

[cent-scratchnsniff]

hoptal

[starry-bi-sky]

pouring one out for luo binghe in my disciple SQQ fic, poor guy has taken a backseat here. we're nearly 30k words deep and he hasn't even shown his face once. it'll be much longer before he even actually talks to Shen Qingqiu.

(i say im pouring one out but in reality im sitting in my director's chair chewing on a cigar and wearing a beret as he tearily and unsuccessfully pleads with me for more scenes with Shen Qingqiu)

[queenerdloser]

i just finished dark heir

[oceanwithouthermoon]

https://x.com/d3kutism/status/1741579841764475157?s=46

it should be illegal to be this fucking stupid so loudly and confidently omg..

mfs on the internet preach about "media literacy" yet they completely gloss over the fact that the only damn things that kusuo "canonically" is are a tsundere, an unreliable narrator, and a fucking liar LMFAOOO.. babe thats like basic reading comprehension, im sorry..

EDIT: it should go without saying not to send a person hate just because of a silly post like this one(+i dont have any reach anyway so im sure it wouldnt happen, but i wanna say this nonetheless lol) but i would just like to say that i just checked and realized that this person is 15 years old, so like... yeah, too young to be arguing with grown people on the internet. dont take this too serious or send this person hate pls lol..

[koko2unite]

so many expenses this month and most of it isnt even for me :(

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

how many times have you watched this scene or are you normal

[cheemken]

Oh that mental image of him breaking down and his Dragonite gently holding him until he's ready to hug back--crying in the club fr I wanna write this scene so much

Another personal hc that I have is definitely one that has a lot of self-projecting onto it. Mostly from the throw away line of 'my knees are creaking' and how the other E4s run to the end of the arena while he takes his sweet time. Couple that with lines on how he fell asleep and is always just resting at the club, a part of me likes to think that he's got some health issues. Maybe joint pain or something that causes chronic exhaustion.

Drayton isn't all too bad with his classes schoolwork wise but he fails primarily on his lack of attendance. Maybe it's partially from days where getting out of bed is hard, or when he can't pretend that everything's all fine and dandy. Sitting down often because standing or walking too long causes his knees to act up. Napping when he can cause he's just low-key tired all the time.

Perhaps he wouldn't have gotten the reputation of being lazy and a slacker if he just spoke up about it but no. He gives me the vibes of someone who dislikes pity, having a level of pride where he prefers to handle stuff on his own. He's got a system with his Pokemon where they help him on bad days. Shame that's how people saw him but it's not like he's making an effort to dispel it anyway. He'd hate it if those displeased looks turned to pity instead

But I'm also a sucker for days where he just can't summon up the energy to pretend around people, and while most just chalk it up to him being lazy again, maybe his friends can tell and help make things a little easier.

(Again, that's just my personal hc with a healthy dose of self projection. I just love putting him through situations haha)

Omf cndmcndm yeah yeah I get that I understand that that hit me right at home lmfaooo

No but, imagine if the reason behind that too is bc how grueling the training of Drayden was. Cause I also have this small hc that Iris really tried to keep up w Drayden's 10k push ups, sit ups, and squats during their training too (so she's a bit built thanks to that lmfao), but Drayton couldn't keep up w that, he tries but he couldn't, his body wasn't frail to say the least, but he wasn't built like Drayden or Iris, his body was a bit weaker compared to theirs, so when he tries, even when he did warm ups beforehand, it'd still leave his body quite sore

That plus the lil hc I have that he always waits for Iris to come back home most nights, so he stays up late most of the time too, making him tired the next day

But yeah, with his pride, he always refuse to get help, to the point he conditioned himself that there really is nothing wrong w him, but there is y'know, and sometimes he can't handle it anymore. There was once his body just needed rest that he didn't go to school at all, it resulted in his fam telling him if he's that lazy then he should just stop going to school and just help around the house, after all, he isn't trusted enough for the gym, wasn't motivated enough to do any kind of work, not even w school, so what's he gonna do

Anyways yeah, this I canon in my heart anon, just let the boy sleep in he deserves it

[mihai-florescu]

This really was our yumenosaki academy♡

[tony-andonuts]

God I wish I didnt get ostrasised by all but like 4 of my peers because holyfucking shit am I overworked and need a hug

[nururu]

I'm sorry I can't watch the new trigun and I never will. it looks so ugly. the vibe is no where near the same and it takes away 90% of the charm of the original and makes it into something totally different. I feel like theyre giving it the sports anime treatment where they're banking on twinkification selling lots. like a yaoi head trap.

[dandyshucks]

trying to tell other ppl about OCs is so hard and embarrassing, like yeah here's my automaton guy that I've been calling Empty Mask, yeah I nearly cried over the thought of him collecting broken porcelain dolls the other day, yeah he sounds kind of stupid but he's actually kind of a tragic character if u get to know his story,,,,,,

[readymades2002]

trying to do some financial math for if i move out and getting sick to my stomach