#boros bully

[thejanktank]

An Epic Confrontation - Pauper: Boros Bullies Vs Mono Green Stompy - Paper Gameplay

[theomnicode]

Reasons to love OPM & little tidbits #8

Small characterizations details that are easy to miss ep8:

Saitama is more sensitive than people realize

Saitama is an interesting character in the sense that he actually shies away from aggression and violence, but will also not hesitate to take action in the case that he thinks he is actually needed. But even then, Saitama did not have the heart to finish off Boros, despite him wrecking the entirety of city A.

Saitama hasn't had a nice childhood, as many people were hostile towards him for different reasons not his fault, so this sensitivity to hostility and aggression followed him towards adulthood, where he even points out to he small kid riding on his shoulders that "there's no such thing as living well in this world." (Chapter 8.5: 200 Yen, Vol 1 extra)

He's suspicious of authority figures accosting him, he does not like when people criticize him, he's self-conscious about his bald head and does not like bullies, especially those who bully children.

Despite all this, Saitama tries his best to stay on top of things, like keeping tab of weather & disaster channels and news in case a powerful monster appears that other heroes cannot handle, such as Vaccineman.

But in doing so, he's also been doomscrolling when there's nothing but mayhem and havoc on television for him and it has gotten to the point where he experienced compassion fatigue, a diminished capacity to emphatize. The dark circles around his webcomic self speak volumes but has thankfully been averted in the manga, as he seems far less bothered by them now, probably because he's a lot closer to Genos and other people like King. (Chapter 174: Beauty)

Saitama is now seemingly also showing this sensitive side of his more and more often when his emotions are rising to the surface far easier after the Garou fiasco. He timidly peeks behind Blast when human turned monsters are being electrocuted because his body language and the little we see of his face screams that he's actually upset and sympathizes with Hamukichi. (Chapter 196: Threat)

Saitama is also sensitive to outside influence and opinions, such as when he accidentally came down with Child Emperor into the cave and helped them out, but then Child emperor tells Sekingar that Saitama was rescued, not that Saitama helped rescue them. Even after Saitama complimented him for being a great hero, one can see from Saitama's expression that he was hurt and emotionally betrayed when from his point of view, Isamu just takes all the credit. (Chapter 106: Terrible multiplying bastard)

Sekingar even starts to yell at him because he thinks Saitama is just loitering around and not doing anything but could just become another hostage. Poor Saitama, that negative perception bias does not leave him alone and he doesn't deserve to be yelled at.

It's a little wonder he hasn't exploded already- oh wait, he has and he almost destroyed the entire planet. Oops. That was a lot of pent up aggression right there. Peeps rly need to be more kinder to Saitama, one can only take so much of emotional abuse. They're really effectively alienating Saitama because who would want to hang with people if they're being constantly belittled by them, or worse.

As the series progresses, we will no doubt see more of Saitama's sensitivity and reactions and we might even see him lash out more or become sad at criticism thrown at him.

[faberown]

HOW STRONG IS ADAM IN HAZBIN HOTEL?

Let's try to answer this question using science.

Adam's body not only can produce much more energy that could ever release inside a fusion reactor, a nuclear bomb or even the core of a star; it also has enough resistance to remain intact without effort despite it contains that energy constantly. Regardless of how such energy is produced inside Adam's body, it must be contained otherwise Adam would just explode. And Adam apparently is able to contain it without even shedding a drop of sweat. This means that Adam could literally walk on the surface of the Sun without the slightest damage. And this without even counting his power to create interdimensional portals (basically wormholes), since if we insert it in the equation Adam should release more energy than the pressure in the core of a neutron star and resist the gravitational squeezing of a black hole, making him unkillable even by the strongest force in the universe.

With all this power, if he was able to control it and release it, Adam could push himself to the limit of the laws of physics. Since he has such resistance and he can release so much energy, he could accelerate until he would come very close to the speed of light (even if he wouldn't be able to reach or surpass it), making him able to travel interstellar distances in an "acceptable time". If that energy was instead concentrate in a part of his body, for example a punch, it would be so intense that even the movement of the air in front of him would cause more damage that the entire US nuclear arsenal. Basically, he would obtain a very similar result to Saitama when he hit Boros (One Punch Man).

With so much power, Adam would surpass the majority of fictional characters, leaving room to fight him only to people like Superman (DC comics) or Omni-Man (Invincible). This two characters would be some of the few that would be able to fight him and win since they are able to travel faster than light. Any other character would be defeated almost immediately thanks to Adam's immense speed and power without even being actually able to fight. Even people like Thanos, Ego, Thor or Hela (MCU) would be defeated in a matter of seconds. This would place Adam as one of the most powerful characters ever to appear in fiction.

The difference between Adam in the various fanfictions and Adam in the canon is precisely that in fanfictions usually he is able to use such power properly, due to good backstories that forced him to accept that he is not invincible. Adam in canon instead never had the reason to train to control his power because once became an angel he was already much stronger than any opponents he faced and he never really had to fight.

This is basically the key difference between the two Adams: the fanfictions' one is warrior, the canon's one is just a big bully. Which is truly sad considering how much potential Adam had according to science itself.

[princess-of-the-corner]

Uh, uncertain Quirkswap suggestion? Oboro & Present Mic are Soulmates, Aizawa is too, but unintentionally suppressing it. If it works through Quirk Factor, sometimes your Quirk can effect the bond weirdly, Aizawa's been unintentionally "erasing" his soulmate bond most of his life. Ironically, it happened because he internalized a lot of bullying from kids who said he didn’t have a soulmate, that he'd "erase" that bond. It isn’t permanent, at some point he'll swap with Mic or Boro, & lose it.

OHOHOHOHOHO

OKAY SO

It doesn't even have to be him 'erasing' the bond it can just happen like. Because none of them activate it?

Like like like

Okay so imagine that Mic and Oboro meet first so they swap. They run into Aizawa a little after this. This would activate the connection, but not initiate the swap just yet.

So day 1 is Oboro/Mic, but day 2 and 3 are them taking turns swapping with Aizawa.

But say like. Day 1 is the Entrance Exam. Day 2 and 3 are days off where none of them would really be using their Quirks. /Maybe/ Oboro would since he's the only one who can use his casually, but he might shrug it off.

So they go on for a while and yeah probably become friends like usual but with Aizawa feeling very third wheel for a while (Oboro and Mic don't see it like that for some reason they can't imagine not being a trio)

Then like a while in one of them manages to trigger a swapped Quirk and go 'hey wait hold on a fuck?!'

[heartfullofleeches]

Out of the majority of your OCs, V isn't even that big of a red flag.

mmm there are definitely more ruthless ones, but V is one of few that's actively a dick to their darling.

Host - eldtrich horror gameshow man who gets a kick out of bullying the weak minded - still treats his darling like royalty and the star of his program tho all they do most of the time is sit around and look pretty. Sucrose - literal nightmare wrapped up in sweet taffy that wants to be cannibalize by their love - still bakes them normal cakes and cookies and sorta fine with not being eaten. Lambchop - mascot that butchers folks and turns them into burgers - makes sure their favorite crewmate is drinking enough water and gives them roses.

The only two I can think of who treat their darlings worse than V are Thane the evil bitch God to deas sweetness and Boros the body snatcher. Orion does treat them like more of a trophy than partner, but he still spoils them rotten and at least attempts to comfort them when they're down

[olath124]

I see an ask game, I come to raid the ask box! 🌹🐞🪓 (particularly curious about the apocalypse scenario in the last one KEK)

🌹 (rose) - What does your oc find attractive in other people? Are these traits found in their friends and/or romantic partners? Are they found in themselves?

Confidence and dominance. She tends to gravitate toward dominant people, both challenging them and letting them take care of her.

That's especially true for Kurt and Mama Welles. She finds comfort in having someone in her life who can take charge instead of her, even if she is scared to leave everything in their hands and become too dependent. She also can't have too many people in her life with those traits. It would be too stressful.

🐞 (ladybug) - What does a perfect day look like for your oc? What do they do? Who do they see?

You and Boro always have one braincell xD ALWAYS!!!

Going out to buy the stuff to prepare the dinner with Mama Welles, helping her prepare the dinner without making any disaster. Eating with her, Kurt, everyone of their friends and acquired family. Joking all together, bullying Kurt a little (he bullies himself while drunk).

Ending the evening with him, talking end then :smug_kurt:

🪓 (axe) - Does your oc have survival skills? Have they ever had to use them? What would they do in an apocalypse? Could they survive?

In the city or in nature?

In an urban environment she could survive and defend herself. She does it anyway, and NC is not so far from a post-apocalyptic hellhole...

In nature she could never find food or potable water...

Unless she could join a small group of people she likes and with enough skills to help her survive... She'd be their guard dog.

Let's say she'd probably die in a few days of dehydration or food poisoning.

[sam-daughterofposeidon]

No, I’m not naming my child after magic the gathering. I want to know what people think would be the best name if they had to pick one of the Ravnica Guilds.

Let me know your reasoning

[justavulcan]

Backgrounds With Class: Selesnya Initiate

I'll be honest: Ravnica has always fascinated me. I was a high schooler when the first set came out, and I was immediately consumed creating characters for the setting. Now that we've actually received my long-awaited crossover, I thought it would be nice to write a love letter to the setting in the form of another Backgrounds with Class series. After all: some guilds have natural class choices tied in, from a conceptual standpoint. Boros and Fighter, Izzet and Wizard, Selesnya and Druid. But guilds aren’t class-restricted, and so I wonder what it would look like if you paired every class with every guild background, even the ones that seem at odds, like Izzet and Barbarian, or Gruul and Artificer.  So I thought about it, and this is what I came up with.  Some character concepts for each class, and each Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica background for each class.

The Selesnya Initiate Artificer has kept an ear to the Selesnya’s Worldsong since she was young.  As a mason and sometime healer for the Conclave, she’s not as attuned to the song as some, but her ear is still beyond reproach in some ways; one day, as she was putting the final touches on a life-sized wolf carving, it begun to sing the song of all living things, and came to life under her hand.  Now convinced this can’t be the only time this has happened, she roams eagerly, listening for more stone that sings with life.

The Selesnya Initiate Barbarian has always been...excitable.  Not well-suited for guard duty, meditation, or tending gardens, this centaur has instead put his overflowing font of energy into training to become a ledev guardian.  His dream is to run the roads on his own, spreading the joy and passion of the Conclave's Worldsong to all who will listen and take that righteous ecstasy as a weapon to those who wish harm to his fellow travelers.

The Selesnya Initiate Bard has always been fascinated by dryads and their ways- after all, sharing a soul with a tree is such a foreign thing to one only of the flesh.  Ever since he was young, he has sought after them and their ways, and eventually met forbearance in a charitable soul who took the time to explain to him not just the way she and her tree were connected, but how all life was in the Worldsong of the Conclave.  Ever since, he's taken it on himself to sing it aloud- such that those who do not know it by heart may hear the call and, perhaps, become one with the Conclave he loves.

The Selesnya Initiate Cleric is a pacifist by nature, and the blessings he finds pursuing the worship of Ravnica’s own natural life have not changed that.  Far from opposed to combat in defense of the helpless or the Conclave, he instead prefers to incapacitate his foes by nonlethal means, or by placing them in positions that they must hurt themselves to harm others.  Every time he sheds blood aggrieves him, but the lesson is slowly coming to him that sometimes nature is as red in tooth as it is green as leaves.

The Selesnya Initiate Druid wasn’t born, they were awakened.  Pulled from a place of rest for defense against a Gruul raid on Selesnyan holdings, they did not lie back down and return to being inanimate dirt.  Instead, they’ve remained awake and surprisingly self-directed, volunteering in the vernadi gardens and fields to commune with the plants.  As a living patch of grassland, they’ve proved to have an intuitive grasp of the land’s needs and will, and have become a personage of importance for the other initiates.

The Selesnya Initiate Fighter was a cadet in the Boros Legion whose sergeant was a bully.  Sickened by his exposure to the abuse of authority in so crude a figure, he left for the Conclave.  There, his training was more evenly supplemented by a sense of community and fairness that left little room for the kind of deliberate fear-mongering he saw.  Now he trains in maneuvers as part of a unit, enabling his allies and striking with precision and teamwork unlike that the Legion showed him.

The Selesnya Initiate Monk was trained by a ghost.  Her mentor, one of the ancient Quietmen of the Conclave, was once an extension of the Worldsong’s will, a weapon in body alone and a witness for the Conclave’s parun.  They were supposed to be destroyed, after their treachery during the Decamillenial almost led to Mat’Selesnya’s destruction.  Forced to keep her master’s secret while balancing the needs of the Conclave, she finds a growing tension within her, a tension that only violence has helped resolve- hardly the attitude of one nominally seeking peace of mind.

The Selesnya Initiate Paladin was brought up in the Conclave, but over the last few weeks, starting with a friend leaving the guild in favor of the Boros Legion, he’s started to doubt.  Is this really the life for him?  What other paths might he pursue?  Surrounded by the comraderie of other squires and soldiers, the only time he really feels the Worldsong is in battle, fighting along like-minded souls.  With the day for his oath drawing near and his meditations bringing him no feeling of welcoming, doubt and curiosity might form the wedge that splits him off from the Conclave too.

The Selesnya Initiate Ranger is, like many of the Conclave’s dryads, not actually bound to the tree that she calls her heartwood and home.  Free-roaming and imbued with a greater-than-average share of her people’s magic, she wanders the roads as a ledev trainee, a gifted traveler and guardian of those who travel Ravnica’s highways.  Trostani herself oversees the promotion of ledev guardians from among the Selesnyan cadets, and she yearns for the recognition of this most elder of her kind.

The Selesnya Initiate Rogue serves as one of the Conclave’s covert investigators.  An odd pursuit for a vedalken, but one they take to with relish.  Part of their community as much as or more than any other, they don’t take their training as an investigator as a way to stay separate, but a way to stick together to their friends.  Picking up on the subtle clues of when someone is not at their best or may be hiding a danger to the conclave and licensed to pursue the investigation where they wish, they serve covertly as an in-house problem solver at worst and a counselor and therapist at best.

The Selesnya Initiate Sorcerer’s family has always been rumored to have some connection with the boros legion’s angels.  Certainly her statuesque beauty supports this notion, but the true testament is her sorcerous powers.  A gift of the celestial blood running through her veins, they’ve proved valuable on more occasions than not, as she lays hands on soldiers protecting Selesnya interests and blesses them before battle.  She is proud of her power, and those elder around her murmur that she has real potential as an evangel or hierarch someday…if she can reign in her ego.

The Selesnya Initiate Warlock is fortunate enough to have a direct connection with Trostani herselves.  Having sworn herself to their personal service, she benefots from a taste of their fey magic- a taste she hopes one day to grow into a glut.  Her aspiration is nothing less than to become Trostani’s rightmost hand.  She has a long way to go, but the tiny wooden drake that clings to her is proof she has the talent to bring life to the lifeless, demonstrating her aptitude with Trostani’s gifts.

The Selesnya Initiate Wizard was, like so many others, not born a part of the Conclave.  She was born and raised until quite recently among the stacks and papers of the Azorius archives, trained in defensive magics as an on-call riot squad member.  Unfortunately, first contact with the enemy- a golgari tenement filled with more desperation than criminality- tainted her impression of the cold, sterile law in favor of something warmer and more communal.  The Selesnya welcomed her compassion with open arms, and as yet have only ever asked to help or protect others- even those outside the Combine.

[kubotafinearts]

The idea of boroboro is that it’s your junk-est clothes. It’s da clothes you weed in not go to temple or obon in.

But arts like sashiko and boro pro are now being lauded by white people who are buying up and increasing value of these pieces.

Which is great to a point.

The point being are we going to adknowlge that this is a Buddhist Japanese American Diaspora and Japanese Diaspora art of plantation workers, and slaves who made their clothes last?

These stitches are practical because they reinforce the fabric. And the indigo repells insects. The stitches on the outside are so they don’t bother skin. Because when we’re working shouldn’t we be comfortable?

What is the answer to fashion based slavery is the huge question my exhibit asks.

And for me the answer signs in ASL: its complicated/it depends.

In fashion I think if we all learned how to repair something in our traditoways and were encouraged to repair one thing we care about, or hire someone to and pay them well, that we could reduce waste, pollution, while also adknowlging that fast casjio fills a need for affordable attractive clothes that fit well.

2. Introducing the Ladies: Each Outfit and what they mean

BoroBoro Britney

She’s lined with a brides Maid robe of rayon blend that is made to emulate satin. It’s peak fast fashion, made to be tossed once the wedding is done. It found it’s way to a Goodwill, the largest one in Seattle off Jackson and that found its way to me.

The color, champagne is peak wedding. For most Japanese women who worked in the fields, they came as picture brides, mostly unwillingly, or coerced.

For my family, and my great grandmother it was unwilling.

But the US’s racist policies refused to let families immigrate. Like how the policies are now, they separated families if you had one. It was illegal to marry other ethnicities. And your children would be considered not legitimate by both cultures.

I’m saying this as a bi-racial Japanese person. Even today, I was heavily bullied as a child and ostracized, while being fetishized.

The main fabric is themed off a fabric I designed. It’s too expensive to make the entire Kimono out of that. Which is the concept of BoroBoro itself. You don’t have enough money to have good fabric so you reinforced the fabric while you repair it. It’s a supplemental kind of sewing that uses what you have.

If you think it looks a lot like quilting, you’re right! Quilting and boroboro both use scrap fabric and stitches to bind and sandwich fabrics together.

The main fabric is a dark royal blue that I designed in PicsArt and Instagram Layout on my Google Pixel 5 Android Phone. I designed the fabric to mimic the nights sky in Haiku Maui and from Halēakala. The lei are wound with lilikoi flowers and lion fish and Kamehameha butterflies and sparkles to symbolize fire and metal. It's meant to show the 5 elements wound together in harmony and balance.

The edges of the fabric are hand dyed in indigo but it’s splotchy.

[kalakata-kalacerita]

kita yang tak temu

berawal dari masa SMA yang penuh bullying, aku mengembara di kota santri. Dengan mempunyai kepribadian yang terlalu takut untuk mengungkapkan, takut untuk tak di anggap dan di hargai, dan selalu sendiri. Beberapa hal ini membuatku menjadi bahan bully an teman-teman di kelas atau di organisasi.

Sebenarnya bukan seorang introvert, tapi keadaan yang membuatku introvert. Hampir setiap hari konsultasi semenjak sekolah mempunyai guru BK baru yaitu pak Ahmad. Beliau mengungkapkan bahwa aku bukan seorang introvert juga bukan ekstrovert hingga ia bingung.

Dalam satu kelas, aku mempunyai seseorang yang amat dekat dan hanya dia yang mampu memahamiku. "Aisyah Nurhasanah". Kita mempunyai beberapa kesamaan sebelum kita saling memahami, yaitu :

Sama sama belajar tazwid untuk pelajaran inti pesantren

Sama sama punya keluarga di gunung Tanjung

Dan sama sama punya hobi ke perpus untuk baca buku atau sekedar menenangkan pikiran.

Berawal dari bertemu di perpustakaan, lalu berlanjut jadi teman sebangku, dan akhirnya kita saling memahami satu sama lain. Kita tak mempunyai tanggal untuk persabahatan, apalagi nama! Kita sekedar bersama kala itu dengan takdir-Nya, dan mungkin Allah kasih aku dia untuk menemani segala kerisauan selama aku di kota orang.

Persabahatan kita cukup mendalam, tak segan untuk aku menginap di pesantren dia, meski hanya sekedar untuk curhat atau aku sedang tidak betah di pesantren, ya aku larinya ke dia.

Hp ku jadul, ga bisa untuk foto-foto bagus, apalagi untuk mempunyai WhatsApp. Sampe suatu saat aku pernah di beritahu olehnya, bahwa foto ku sedang tidur di kelas di share di grup. Aku tak terima, dan akhirnya pergi ke perpustakaan untuk menyendiri. Sejak itu aku merasa orang yang paling tersiksa di masa SMA. Boro boro disebut masa yang selalu dikenang, menurutku masa sekolah selama 12 tahun selalu tak menyenangkan.

Kerap banyak sekali agenda sekolah yang aku lewatkan dengan begitu aja, tetapi sejak bersama Aisyah, aku bisa mengabadikan moment itu dengan sedikit mengambil gambar di hp nya.

Beberapa orang kerap memanggil kita kembar, padahal menurutku kita beda jauh. Jelas dia lebih baik dariku, putih, hidung mancung, cantik, berbudi baik, ramah. Sedangkan aku kusam, tukang tidur di kelas, gampang terpancing emosi, tak berani mengungkapkan, dan si paling menyendiri.

Di sekolah aku ikut organisasi Pramuka, alasannya 1. Aku suka Pramuka, dan 2. Untuk melanjutkan organisasi SMP lalu. Kala itu aku mengajak Aisyah untuk gabung karena tak ada teman dekat lagi di Pramuka. Tapi, katanya dia sudah cukup di SMP mengenai organisasi Pramuka, dia mengajari aku untuk mandiri dan tak bergantung pada orang lain. Dia percaya aku bisa.

Hal apapun selalu dia support, termasuk bagaimana aku di pramuka. Banyak cerita yang tak bisa terhitung yang pernah aku lupakan di saat saat jam istirahat sekolah ataupun saat aku menginap di pesantrennya.

.........

Itu kenanganku 6-7 tahun yang lalu. Kini 2024 adalah ceritaku dengan dia mengapa judul cerita ini adalah "kita yang tak temu". Saat ini aku sadar, saat itu Allah titipkan kamu untuk menghibur dan menemani kesepianku selama di kota orang. Tapi aku bertanya tanya hingga hari ini, mengapa Allah tak takdirkan untuk kita saling bercerita tentang masa tua?. Aku masih berharap kamu ada Aisyah.

Di 36 hari sebelum kamu pergi, aku melihat postingan mu di Facebook mengenai anakmu yang tak lagi melihat dunia. Aku turut berduka dan sedih, aku harus menghubungimu untuk memberikan sedikit pesan semangat dan mendoakan anakmu. Ternyata WhatsApp mu sudah berganti no, lalu aku meminta no baru mu Aisyah. Kala itu kita membuat percakapan singkat yang intinya kita akan bertemu sebelum ramadhan karena aku ada agenda keluarga ke Tasik.

Namun satu hari sebelum aku pergi ke Tasik (Senin, 07 Maret 2024) beberapa orang mengabariku tentangmu. "Aisyah kelas MIA 2 telah berpulang".

Astaghfirullah... saat itu aku melamun beberapa saat. "Aisyah, besok aku ke Tasik untuk menunaikan apa yang kita katakan di percakapan WhatsApp. Aisyah, aku adalah teman yang buruk, aku tak bisa menunaikannya!". Kala itu yang tertinggal hanya perasaan sesak dan terpukul.

Beberapa jam berlalu aku tak bisa lagi memikirkan yang lain selain mu Aisyah, aku berharap kita masih bisa bertemu meski hanya di dalam mimpi. Tapi ternyata malam itu, kamu mampir di mimpiku untuk menyemangatiku, menghibur, dan mengajak untuk kembali menghafal. Luarbiasa singkat tapi banyak pelajaran dari mimpi itu. "Aisyah, kamu benar-benar menemuiku di mimpi. Kenapa kamu selalu menunaikan nya?kau temen yang baik Aisyah".

Esok adalah perjalanan ke Tasik yang penuh Ina-inu. Aku berharap bisa melaluinya.

Maafkan aku Aisyah!!

[petitelepus]

I know, I know, I already asked for a matchup, but I love your writing too much not to ask for another. This time for an OC (TWST pls) (it's ok if you don't want to do this also) :

Full name: Saima Chowdhury

Race: Human

Pronouns: She/her (experimenting with they/them) (they're a demigirl)

Ethnicity: Bangladeshi

Birthday: June 11th

Height: 159 cm

Likes: Anime, drawing comics, video games, spending time with her older sister, sweets, fairy tales

Dislikes: Cruelty, confrontation, people threatening her friends and family, bullies, poorly written… well, anything, when her sister’s arrogance gets the better of her

Personality and interests: Saima is a cheerful, upbeat young girl. She has a way of speaking that makes a lot of people feel drawn to her, which is something her older sister, Parvana (who she calls Boro Apu) had always secretly admired. Growing up, she looked up to her older sister a lot, as she took really good care of her, helped her with her homework, and got along with her friends. She says that “looking back, she wasn’t conventionally cool, but did younger me care? Heck. No.” While she did look up to Parvana, she couldn’t help but feel jealous of her, as she had a lot going for her. She also thought of Parvana’s best friend Joanne as a second older sister, as she firmly believed in the power of kindness also. Her relationship with Parvana had grown a little bit rocky due to the two of them becoming isolated from each other. She and her older sister, however, are working to smooth out the relationship. While she is perfectionistic, she is also a little bit scatterbrained much to the dismay of her parents and her sister, who, as she says “are much more organized than [she is].” She almost burned the eggs she was making for the first time to a crisp. She is still working on her organizational skills and has come a long way, especially during her time in Twisted Wonderland, as apparently, someone has to hold the brain cells.

I hope this is enough infrmation. Thanks

I match her with Deuce Spade!

When Saima got transported to Night Raven College, Deuce was amongst the first ones who welcomed and took her in. He feels symphony towards Saima's situation and wishes to help her get back to her world and make things right with her sister.

Deuce feels drawn toward Saima's cheerful and kind personality. He used to be a quite troublemaker when younger, but he grew out of it and wants to do good and right and become an honor student. He is sure that with Saima he could do better. Deuce is extremely compassionate and he has a strong moral understanding.

Much like Saima, Deuce hates confrontation, bullies, and such. He tries to keep his temper in check but loses his cool when witnessing injustice. If anyone gives Saimi a hard time or tries to use her kindness for their own benefit, Deuce is there to protect her.

The young man enjoys watching Anime with you and happily lets you pick the shows you watch since they are different from the ones in your reality. Comics and video games are cool also and if Saima wants, Deuce knows a couple of fairy tales that his mother used to tell to him when small.

Deuce admires Saima's dedication to things that interest her and if she starts showing signs of her mind wandering, he is quick to guide her back on track.

It's symbiotic, the relationship between Deuce and Saima. Deuce protects her and she tries to keep him and his trouble-finding friends, Ace and Grim, out of trouble, which ain't as easy as it sounds, but that makes Deuce just admire her more.

[whatihavedone]

Takut Menghadapi

Dari dulu penyakit saya selalu sama, takut menghadapi. Saya selalu melihat kebelakang, seolah tak pernah siap dengan perubahan atau kenyataan yang ada di depan mata. Kalau bisa memutar waktu, saya ingin balik ke tahun 2000an aja, tempat seluruh fantasi saya bermula. Pinginnya nostalgia mulu, sampai lupa perubahan dan keadaan saat ini sudah jauh berbeda. Seolah jiwa saya masih tertinggal di tahun 2000. Entah ini gejala depresi atau apa, tapi sepertinya saya sedang mengalami krisis eksistensi.

"Penyakit" ini bermula ketika saya masuk SMP. Saya merasa telah belajar giat hingga lolos masuk SMPN 8 Malang, sekolah yang termasuk favorit sebelum diterapkan sistem zonasi. Saat itu mindset saya, "akhirnya bebas juga". Saya merasa terlepas dari segala tuntutan belajar dari ibu saya. Setalah 6 tahun "dikekang" rutinitas belajar , akhirnya hari merdeka itu tiba. Ibu tidak lagi memantau nilai-nilai saya. Tanggung jawab telah sepenuhnya diserahkan pada saya, itu artinya ibu hanya menerima hasil belajar via raport tanpa mengontrol nilai-nilai harian saya. Merasa terlena dengan segala kebebasan itu, saya pun keblinger. Lupa diri. Lupa bahwa materi SMP semakin berat, pelajaran dan tugasnyapun semakin membludak. Saya jarang sekali belajar bahkan mengerjakan PR pun tidak pernah. PR individu 80% saya kerjakan di sekolah mencontek teman. Ulangan pun saya tidak belajar. Parahnya, saya pun tidak tahu materi yang sedang dibahas itu apa. Entah kemana saja pikiran saya ketika pelajaran di kelas. Tugas di kelas pun sering nyontek teman. Kalau guru bertanya, saya gelagapan mencari jawaban dari teman. Hebatnya lagi, saya tidak berusaha memahami pelajaran dengan bertanya dan minta diajari oleh guru atau teman.

Saya merasa tidak punya alasan untuk belajar, boro-boro motivasi. Saya tidak merasa perlu untuk terlihat menonjol atau lebih baik baik dari teman-teman saya. Toh nilai jelek pun masih punya banyak teman. Yang penting bisa membawa diri hingga terhindar dari bully, itu saja yang ada di benak saya. Tapi kebiasaan buruk itu perlahan berubah ketika saya naik kelas 9, saya mulai sadar diri dan mengejar ketertinggalan saya. Alhamdulillah bisa lulus UN, meski dengan nilai yang mepet.

Di SMA pun kondisinya setali tiga uang. Kebiasaan jaman SMP masih sulit saya ubah. Nilai saya parah, tapi Alhamdulillah lulus juga. Nilai UN? Lebih jelek dari SMP.

Sekian dulu. Selasa, 7 - 2 - 23.

[theomnicode]

WC Saitama vs Manga Saitama; Not the powerscaling you think it is

Sometimes you just gotta worry over WC Saitama's mental health state when comparing to manga Saitama.

Manga Saitama is emotionally more stable, has actual emotional attachments so the reason he gets emotional like pissed and saddened is because important things to him are threathened (important material goods, genos, his house) and does not get super annoyed at the mere thought of dealing with emotionally vexing things like Black S. Manga Saitama can handle stress far better it seems.

Meanwhile, WC Saitama remains apathetic. But worse is that he is unempathetic too and only seems to display sympathy/empathy on a cognitive level. Because he still suffers from secondary traumatic stress from having burnout. He literally cannot emotionally empathize anymore. Putting himself into other's shoes.

Which is dangerous, because he's really fucking convinced he's doing the right thing when it comes to hero work.

But what is hero work when you cannot empathize with the people you are trying to be a hero for? That's just a morality play.

Garou rightfully calls him out on it and deals a blow to his ego and Saitama just kind of…snaps defensively.

What WC Saitama does against Garou is just bullying. He's being a hypocrite and pretending to be a serious hero and goody-two shoes and morally righteous when he's actually not. He even watches as someone else was attempting to deal a finishing blow on Garou and the only one who stopped him and brought will to live back to WC Garou's eyes was Tareo.

All Genos does is quietly watch this unfold while Saitama strips down Garou to the point of him wanting to die. Yikes. That's Saitama using his people reading skills to destroy someone's spirit entirely. That's red flags. Manga Saitama handled the Garou situation by showing him compassion instead, which had the same effect as Tareo's intervention.

Even if Genos wanted to say something, he does not. If anything, he seems cowed. It's no wonder I keep hearing that WC Genos is a whole lot more messed up emotionally, because he was probably drawn to Saitama because he wanted to help him. Because he's a defender and caregiver at heart.

Manga Genos lacks no confidence to do what is right because he can draw emotional strenght from Saitama's convictions to be righteous, because they are actually emotionally close. Maybe in the literal sense because divine power exists in manga verse but not in wc... food for thought.

(haha accidentally soulbonding haha *snerk*)

Saitama's WC version just seems to be taking in worse and worse social interactions and it greatly affects how he interacts with other people. Or specifically, the interactions he had with Garou broke the facade that he's actually doing well, it's hard to pinpoint.

Then he buckles down on the holier-than-thou attitude and Black S comments that he's a holy man and unwilling to kill, because he doesn't want to see himself as a bad guy. Yet he killed Boros didn't he and felt bad about it no? Crablante too.

Manga Saitama on the other hand, realizes that yeap he is actually willing to kill people if he really must, while taking the moral injury to his convictions and gets humbled. He has killed Boros, he just abhors needless violence.

A definite difference in how manga Saitama's emotions seem to triumph over his logical side and makes him far more self-conscious about himself, because he's able to care more. That the Extroverted feeling and Introverted Thinking, his cognitive functions, are more in balance with each other.

So manga Saitama ends up happier, when he becomes more aware of himself, who he is and his boundaries. He smiles more too and has larger emotional capacity.

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Makes you wonder though...

How would WC Saitama react if all he literally had...was his Serious Hero hobby.

Because in WC, I feel like Saitama is quickly becoming the antithesis of a Hero. Someone with convictions and high moral standards and far too much power at his fingertips but no care or empathy because he even keeps avoiding emotionally difficult issues and his other issues added on top, can only go so far until something goes horribly wrong.

Sounds like corrupted authority figure in the making tbh.

He just wasn't dealt a good enough card, because he wanted to protect himself from being othered by society, but it ended up costing him.

Maybe permanently, because I don't see an intervention coming up.

[unitedbydevils]

Match Review: Middlesborough U18s 0-4 Manchester United U18s

Another season, another storming campaign from United's youth.

Middlesbrough's training complex at Rockliffe Park was host to yet another United beating for teams in the U18 Premier League.

Welsh wonder Gabi Biancheri was back at it again, scoring a lovely bottom corner finish in the 7th minute after a great ball upfield from Kamason to James Scanlon, who brought it down beautifully and played a clever bouncing pass to Biancheri for the smash home.

Tactical academy highlights being what they are, we do lack insight into much of the game until Biancheri's 2nd - a penalty in the 53rd minute, calmly nestled into the mid-left of the net.

Goal number three came in the 79th minute from sub Victor Musa; a short pass dashed forward sharply from Amir Ibragimov - also a sub - allowed Musa to bully his way past and hit Boro on the break. Good strength to hold off the defenders, and a tidy drilled finish under the keeper.

A beautifully executed third-man run would give United their fourth and final goal; give-and-go between Musa and Ibragimov, and a lovely lob over the top for Bendito Mantato to run through with, rounding the rushing keeper and slotting home comfortably.

[naufal-portofolio]

Dengarkan 5 Lagu Ini dan Kamu Akan Menyadari Bahwa It’s Okay to be Single

2016

Menjadi jomblo sepertinya masih jadi momok bagi anak muda di Indonesia. Banyak public figure dan media terlanjur mengkonstruksi bahwa status sendiri-tanpa-pacar itu enggak banget dan dosa besar. Sehingga patut dicengin dan di-bully oleh semua umat.

Well, jadi single, apa pun alasannya tetaplah pilihan hidup. Lebih baik jomblo daripada maksa pacaran tapi nggak bahagia. Jadi, kata siapa sendirian itu menderita? Salah banget! Lima lagu di bawah ini patut kamu dengarkan biar kamu sadar bahwa it’s okay to be single!

IT’S MY LIFE – BON JOVI

My heart is like an open highway

Like Frankie said

I did it my way

I just want to live while I’m alive

‘Cause it’s my life!

SINGLE – NATASHA BEDINGFIELD

This is my current single status

My declaration of independence

There’s no way I’m tradin’ places

I DON’T WANNA BE IN LOVE – GOOD CHARLOTTE

Feelin’ good now

Don’t be afraid to get down

Say I don’t wanna be in love

I don’t wanna be in love

STRONGER – BRITNEY SPEARS

Stronger than yesterday

Now it’s nothing but my way

My lonliness ain’t killing me no more

I’m stronger

YOUNG, WILD, & FREE – SNOOP DOGG FT. WIZ KHALIFA

So what we get drunk

So what we don’t sleep

We’re just having fun

We don’t care who sees

Gimana? Serukan lagu-lagunya? Jadi, nggak ada lagi deh minder karena jomblo. Justru pas lagi sendiri-nggak-punya-pacar gini, para insan single bisa mengeksplorasi lagi segala hal yang dulu pas pacaran mungkin nggak bisa dilakukan karena keseringan berduaan sama si doi.

Atau, kumpul lagi sama keluarga, sahabat, teman, dan orang lain yang dulu boro-boro bisa ngumpul, ditelepon mulu sama si pacar. Intinya sih, it’s not a big sin if you are single. So, it’s okay and proud to be single! (naufal)

[kelanapikiran]

Spin-off : About Bullying (Part 2)

- Lepas sebulan itu, belum berakhir sepenuhnya bullying yang kualami. Ada 'jarak' yang terbangun antara aku sama teman-teman. Bentuknya lebih ke menghindari konflik, sulit percaya orang lain, plus generalisasi.

Kalau kakak kelas, dulu ada yang bully dalam bentuk sindiran. Ada yang nggak suka selimutnya dipakai aku waktu aku sakit, padahal aku nggak tahu itu selimutnya dia. Ternyata pengurus kamar asal ngambil aja satu selimut dari tumpukan kasur tanpa izin.

Walhasil dia mencak-mencak even aku udah cuci dan kembalikan ke yang bersangkutan. Dianggepnya anak kelas 1 SMP pasti jorok semua, jadi ekspresinya kayak jijik begitu kukembalikan.

Bentuk lainnya adalah suka malak atau make tanpa izin. Perkara piring buat sarapan ada aja yang malak, padahal mereka mampu beli. Atau mereka make dengan ambil random di lemari piring.

Ada juga yang suka ngerubungin buat ngata-ngatain bawa beberapa teman sekelasnya cuma gegara aku pengin dekat sama salah satu temannya. Padahal sesimpel karena aku mo belajar, eh malah dilarang.

Disini aku perlahan kehilangan ketertarikan untuk interaksi sama siapapun. Ternyata belum selesai sampai disitu. Aku ternyata juga ngerasain tekanan dari ustadzah.

Entah awalnya gimana, tapi setiap marah itu bukannya fokus ke kesalahan yang perlu diperbaiki tapi ngomong nyerocos di luar topik bahkan kadang kata kasar ikut keluar.

Apalagi kalau ujian lisan dan orang itu yang nguji, wah seketika aku yang dikasih soal cukup sulit, mbulet, digertak lagi. Begitu bisa jawab aku dibilang nantangin. Kan bingung.

Hidup di masa itu rasanya kayak di neraka. Bawaannya was-was, berharap hari itu nggak ada cobaan apapun (meskipun nggak mungkin).

Nginjak kelas 2 SMP, suasana sedikit membaik. Mulai ada satu dua pelaku bully yang minta maaf, itupun karena mereka ternyata dituduh suatu kasus dan akhirnya tahu rasanya dibully.

Masih kuterima usahanya untuk minta maaf, setidaknya dia sudah ngaku salah. Tapi makin kesitu aku mulai ngerasa 'emotional numb'. Bingung nentuin emosi. Sedih itu gimana, nangis susah. Senang juga nggak tahu rasanya. Datar aja.

Nangis pun bisa dihitung jari di momen tertentu. Aku mulai bersikap impulsif berupa boros. Boros yang sampe orang lain juga heran pasti. Tapi belum ada yang notice kalau itu alarm mental yang lagi sakit, termasuk diriku.

To be continued ...