#but now I understand that in terms of class I literally have more in common with the wealthiest client than I do with bezos

[nthspecialll]

Sorry if I'm a bit dumb but I did not understand what you meant by this in your last post:

"He (Dutch) is also the only person in the gang to have middle names, or in fact just more than a first and middle name. Even in something as simple as names, he has to have more than others."

Do you mean "Van" and "Der"? Because they are not middle names but part of the surname, which in Dutch means "from the lime/linden trees" and it is apparently quite a common surname among Dutch people. If Dutch's parents gave him the name "Dutch van der Linde", I don't really see how it can be used as an example of Dutch elevating himself over others. There are certainly other examples.

Sorry if I didn't read you correctly or misunderstood

Absolutely, let me explain myself a bit better and sorry for the bad well explaination.

Firstly, pardon the wrong uh... classification (?) of his name. What I merely meant with 'van der linde' is that it is more than two word, I suppose? Like none of the other characters have more than Mary-Beth's and hers is connected with the - whatever that line is called in english.

and secondly, lets talk about names and their meanings. Dutch having a very unique names compared to everyone else in practially the entire game is naturally something that the developers were highly aware of when naming their characters, and they were likely also aware of how important names are in terms of fitting in or excluding yourself from different groups.

Rains Fall has a lakota name, however does not use it when speaking to any english speakers because it often troubles them and it would further exclude him in their minds. Javier's name is pronounced wrong, which production wise was due to a mistake of Robs, but still in game Javier accepts that his name is mispronounced over and over and doesn't even make an attempt at correcting them.

Those might seem like very weak examples of trying to show how names can bind you to a group, but lets look at Colm. Colm is Irish or at least Irish American, he is running a gang of irish folk yet he deliberately mispronounces his own name over and over to fit the Americans. Now it sounds like such a small thing, but Irish folk during this time were discriminated against violently, like when job listings were made they literally said irish folk shouldn't apply.

Colm is Irish, his name is irish, he is running a gang of irish folk yet he goes out of his way to not sound irish. He does not want to be part of his gang consisting of a discriminated minority, he wants to lead them but not be part of them. He doesn't care about being an outlaw, he admits that he is, but he does not want to be irish, thus he changes the way his name is pronounced.

Now to relate that to Van Der Linde. Firstly, we don't know if his birth name is Dutch so there is that but, Van Der Linde by default has a very special name, one that catches attention, but it is also one that makes him stand out in contrast to his gang members.

Remember how I said Colm doesn't care about being an outlaw, he just doesn't want to be irish? Dutch doesn't want to be a criminal and a low life, despite the fact he is, it is the reason why he has a better tent, the reason he has better clothing, the reason he has all of these things that seem of higher class and seem more expensive. You can also see when he does want to try to fit in he will use names that don't stand out as much, like Archibald Smith, Hoagy Macintosh, Aiden O'Malley.

Embracing a name that makes him stand out, is absolutely not the most obvious way that Dutch deattches himself from the rest of the gang, however it is just a small detail that I found interesting. It is nothing major and might just be me reading too far into things, but it was a random thought I had and threw out there.

[awakefor48hours]

Hard of Hearing Mimosa

Part 2ish of another post I made. I really like this headcanon and wanted to go over it a bit more detail because I got too attached.

Disclaimer: I'm not a CODA, Deaf, or Hard of Hearing (HoH) so if I get anything wrong, I'm sorry. It's not my intention to misrepresent/hurt anyone with this. If I get something wrong, please let me know and I'd gladly fix/change this.

+addition by @saorichan42 that I really appreciate

Mimosa Vermillion is HoH (headcanon) and starting off this post, let's look at her life.

We never get to see the Flower Vermillions' parents so we don't know their personalities, there's room for assumptions to be made about them that don't break the world-building.

The royals/upper-class members of BC are shown to have ableist beliefs and looking at Kirsch, it seems to be as if the environment they grew up and it didn't leave room for any other thoughts. Working off of that assumption, if Mimosa did have any hearing issues, that information would probably be heavily redacted.

If Mimosa (or another royal for that matter) was HoH, her parents would do everything in their power to stop that information from getting out. Meaning, she probably wasn't taught sign language and was forced to learn how to read lips and talk at a young age so that way she could pass as hearing.

There's also the matter of how Mimosa talks. She's quiet and soft-spoken. When it comes to people in the Deaf community, the opposite is typically true. Due to the hearing loss, folks in the Deaf community don't always know how loud they're being but if Mimosa were to pass as hearing, I could see the opposite for her.

When it comes to learning how to pronounce words, it's harder to learn the sounds words/letters make which can cause mispronunciations of common words. If Mimosa were to ever mispronounce a word, speaking softly could potentially avoid this situation. If she were to mispronounce a word, it would be harder to hear.

This could also explain why she's bad at reading the room. The thing about reading lips is that it's hard. Even if she was taught early, reading lips isn't easy. There's so many things like accents, speech impediments, yelling, facial hair, body language, and more that can make it hard to read lips. It's also recommended to make guesses when you don't understand what someone says (ex. "Hi, how ___ you?" and guess that it's "Hi, how are you?").

There's also a matter of tone. Tones and emphasis can change the meaning of a sentence (ex. the sentence "I'm so happy you" and "I'm so happy for you." are the same sentence but they have two different meanings).

So if she was hard of hearing, forced to pass as hearing, and constantly trying to read everyone's lips while also trying to understand their tone, it would be very hard to read the room.

Looking at Mimosa's character and how she presents herself in the series/thinks of herself is also important.

In Mimosa's introduction, Noelle says something passive aggressive to her but her aggressive nature flies completely over Mimosa's head. She just smiles and brushes past it. (Chapter 12)

Judging by Noelle's thought bubble and what we know about Mimosa, Mimosa didn't say this maliciously. From her POV, Noelle asked an actual question and now she's sending similar energy back to her. Using the heacanon that she's hard of hearing, this could be an instance of Mimosa not understanding tones in conversation.

There's also this moment that stuck with me (Chapter 17)

Mimosa calls herself "slow," a term that can be used in two different ways. The first way is literal, in the sense that Mimosa lags behind everyone else but that's not the case here. The moment they landed, Mimosa was attacked, even Klaus was surprised so I don't think she'd beat herself up for this.

Leaving the other way being a stand-in for a intellect slur. People with disabilities like Deaf/Hard of Hearing, are typically at risk of having their intellect commented on like this.

It's also very clear that others have said this to her seeing as how in Noelle says the same thing in a flashback (Chapter 19) and her character page calls her "an airhead."

Looking at this, this means Mimosa feels this way about herself because she was told this from others and has internalized it.

There's also her relationship with Asta. Pretty much every character in BC who has talked to Asta has commented on the fact that he screams nonstop but Mimosa doesn't. In fact, she even thinks his shouting is charming (chapter 22)

Asta's constant yelling is an unlikable quality that no one likes, except Mimosa. If she had a hard time understanding people, his loud nature could be helpful for her to understand what he's saying without needing to guess.

Next, looking at Mimosa's magic. At the beginning of the series, Mimosa doesn't know any offensive spells. She's part of the Vermillion family and all Vermillions are supposed to join the Crimson Lions when they get their grimoire. Meaning that she was supposed to be a magic knight from birth and expected that she would be on the battlefield but she doesn't know a single offensive spell. Not to say a lack of offense is bad for combat, take a look at Finral, but the fact that she doesn't know any is strange.

While plant magic is typically used for healing and support, it's not impossible to learn/teach offense. In fact, take a look at Kirsch. He uses plant magic, grew up with the same parents/in the same household, and he almost purely uses it offense, so why not Mimosa? Why is Mimosa the only one in the Clover Silvamillion family who just learned support spells? Here comes the headcanon.

Going back to the ableist beliefs held by the royals, if Mimosa was disabled, her parents may have wanted to train her to enhance her abilities so she could one day she could "fix" her disability.

Looking at Mimosa's history with her own magic, it's important to note her affinity for healing and the praise she received for it. (Chapter 19)

Her healing magic, even for a royal, has been shown to be on another level. I also want to look at the quote "a healer who can heal ANY injury." It seems as if this idea that she could heal anything was spread around her house a lot and who knows, maybe it was her parents who started this.

Even though the royals scoff at hard work, Mimosa was able to pick up offensive spells somewhat quickly. After meeting Asta, Mimosa finally wants to learn how to fight herself and is able to learn her first offensive spell (Chapter 114)

When they do meet again, Mimosa does say she hasn't seen Asta for a long time, she still learned a powerful offensive spell in under a year. She probably could've done this sooner if she learned at a younger age but she didn't.

There's also the matter of Mimosa's tracking spells.

Along with having a strong affinity for healing magic, she's also really good at using tracking spells. As we all know, royals have high mana levels but that doesn't explain why her tracking magic is so well-tuned. (Chapter 12)

While I don't think it's incredibly strange to know tracking spells if her specialty is support magic, it is a little random. But if she was HoH, using spells like this might be helpful for filling in the gaps that she can't hear.

Also, because I use my time wisely, I went through all the manga chapters and here's all the instances where Mimosa's hearing could play a role in the story and here we go.

During the Royal Knight arc, while Mimosa is introducing herself to Zora, she has her back turned to her crystal while they talk. She has her back turned to it until their crystal is shot. (Chapter 113)

Speaking from firsthand experience, when someone shoots at you, it's easy to tell where the bullets are coming from using sound (yes, I'm from the USA, how could you tell) but when their crystal was shot, Mimosa didn't know where the shot came from and needed to use a tracking spell in order to find out where the sniper was. Part of it was definitely because pinpointing where their enemies were hiding but she still didn't know where they were even coming from in the beginning.

Also, all the moments someone has their backs turned to Mimosa, she doesn't typically say anything to them

Chapter 14 || Chapter 116 || Chapter 136 || Chapter 155 || Chapter 210

When Klaus tells her to just focus on herself, she doesn't acknowledge it. Typically people in this position would say something like "yes" or "thank you" or "okay" but Mimosa doesn't.

When Kirsch starts talking to Mimosa, she immediately closes her eyes. If she were hard of hearing, this is almost the equivalent of covering her ears. But he's also very loud and close to her face as he talks meaning she could probably hear part of what he's saying.

Klaus asks a good question but Mimosa, who's looking in a different direction, doesn't even acknowledge Klaus's question.

In this scene, Asta and Yuno have their backs turned to Mimosa while they argue with Bell. While Mimosa watches, she does think to herself "what is going on" while this happens. At this point, Mimosa should know Bell well enough that she gets jealous but here, when everyone has their back turned to her, she doesn't know what's going on.

In this moment, Mimosa is looking away from Rhya as he talks about What Rhya has to say is acknowledged but it's by Nozel saying "prince?" but not by Mimosa even though she said something first.

This is another moment where I want to bring Asta back into this topic.

The first time Mimosa ever responds to someone who has their back turned to her is Asta. (Chapter 193)

In this moment, Asta is yelling and for once Mimosa says something back. It's a simple "huh" and "what" but she's still responding to what he's saying.

There's also this scene later (Chapter 195)

Mimosa is looking at David's body as Asta asks his question but this time, he's not yelling and she doesn't even acknowledge he said anything.

She doesn't say "I don't know" or "let's look around" or anything of the sort. Her attention is immediately diverted elsewhere entirely, almost as if she didn't hear him...

The other time when she has to say something even though her back is turned is yet again when someone is yelling. Noelle makes her speech loudly and when Noelle yells "everyone?!" Mimosa also pipes in (Chapter 265)

The next scene I want to draw attention is her fight against Robero (the tongue dark disciple), there's a moment when they interact (Chapter 253)

Robero says something and Mimosa responds to it but it's kinda clunky.

Not to say "we trained so that we wouldn't lose to people like you" isn't fitting in this situation but it's not, per say, the best response to this. It's almost generic, just saying that she trained intensely.

Saying something like "we will never give up" is a lot more fitting response to what Robero has to say. "Never giving up" is a term often used in the series and it ties back to Robero saying that she should "just give up."

If she was hard of hearing, then in this case, she probably heard him say something (and since she's wrapped his tongue, she probably felt the vibrations) but because reading lips in this situation is impossible, she's probably making another guess. In this case, assuming that he said a taunt, she tried to give out an appropriate response to avoid looking small.

If you like this headcanon and you've integrated it into your own headcanons, I have then the one thing I ask of you, please learn a little bit of sign language. I'm not asking you to learn a new language but I am asking that you pick up the basics. As someone who knows basic ASL and has interacted with people who are Deaf or mute, knowing sign language has been really helpful in these situations. Some of them get really happy/excited when they realize someone will understand them. Even if all you go to do is learn the alphabet and say "hi" that's enough.

Also, if you're interested, I do recommend the YouTuber Jessica Kellgren-Fozard. She's a Deaf lesbian with a chronic disability and makes videos about her experiences with her disabilities and her sexuality. I really like her videos and if you're interested in supporting a Deaf creator, she's a good one.

[spanishskulduggery]

Hi! Native Spanish speaker here

Could u explain the difference between Chilean/ Uruguayan-Argentinian Spanish?

I have amigos gringos y estaria bueno explicarles.

Me di cuenta que sabes español así que puedo pedírtelo asi jajaja

Muchas gracias! 🫶🏻

Saludos desde Uruguay 🇺🇾

I'm not even sure where to start, the accent itself is so different even though Chile is very close to everything else

I'm going to list some differences in no particular order as they come to me

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I think it's because Chilean is a bit of an outlier compared to what they call rioplatense Spanish... like there are similar trends, but it's pronounced differently

The main grammatical difference I've found is that Argentina uses vos for everything - more than tú, more than usted... it's a lot of vos

[Historically a singular vos was quite fancy and the way you addressed nobility and people very politely; the common term of address Vuestra Merced turned into Usted over time. In Spain, vosotros is now plural and informal. But depending on the time period, vos still shows up in historical dramas and fairy tales or things set in medieval times like fantasy. It's my understanding that multiple languages have something similar....... in English, our informal "you" was "thou" tú and "you" was formal, but then "thou" became obsolete]

The voseo in most of South America is usually understood as more intimate and friendly than tú

The big exceptions to this are Argentina and Chile

In Argentina, again, vos is the de facto 2nd person singular pronoun [I believe plural is still ustedes "you all"]

In Chile, vos has a different meaning from what I've been told. It's not vulgar but it's kind of impolite. If you're addressing someone as vos in Chile it can read as "dude" or "bro" almost, it's very familiar and not how you'd want to address someone from the older generations

While Argentina uses vos for everything, Chile uses vos for close friendships or where informality won't cause offense

The other main issue is the conjugation of vos

The majority of South America (including Argentina) conjugate vos like the vosotros form just without the I

...Like vosotros sois "you all are" in Spain then turns to vos sos "you are" in South America; they keep the S, but omit the I

Chilean voseo usually takes that vosotros form but omits the S sound and leaves the I

And so you get something like vosotros habláis "you all speak" turning to vos hablái in Chile [while it would be hablás in Argentina or the rest of Río de la Plata]

The verb that always trips you up with Chile is going to be ser because there are two forms; vos soi but I've more commonly heard vos eri(s)... like I've heard Chilean eri puro blabla which is "you're all talk" but literally "you're all blah blah"

The other one that's a little weird is ir just because of how vosotros normally works

In Spain vosotros id "go" as a command, ve for tú, but then vas for regular rioplatense commands, and then Chile says vai which is like if you tried to say ve but had your mouth way open

Chile (specifically those from lower income backgrounds) tend to omit the S more than most, while the higher income backgrounds or those trying to sound more posh tend to pronounce things more fully

The very informal aspects of Chilean Spanish are associated with the working class, which is probably why it's considered impolite (or maybe uneducated is the better word? it's a class distinction) to use those kinds of pronunciations and vos but it does depend on the area

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The other weird thing about Chilean Spanish, which is sometimes common in rioplatense Spanish outside of Argentina, is that sometimes people use vos forms with tú as a pronoun

You might see tú eres or tú eri... or tú vas or tú vai

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And I don't know if it's a thing in Argentina but I see Chilean Spanish sometimes using double reflexive pronouns. I think the common example is that Chilean Spanish might say me voy a irme, where you would typically say/read me voy a ir or voy a irme

Sometimes translations write it a bit differently to imply it's a different and more informal or regional way of saying it; so I've seen me voy a irme get translated as "I'mma head out" or "I'm gonna go" - it's not a 1:1 translation but it does portray that it isn't technically considered "correct" but is understandable

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The common expression that I had to learn to sort of make sense of it was Chile's ¿Cachai? which is "Got it?" or "Understand?" which is from cachar (in Latin America it's like "to catch" like, "Did you catch that?" both in physical grabbing and understanding, but it's less common outside of Latin America) - it can be used as a filler word, but it is literally like "right?" or "got it?" or "you know what I mean?"

The only other expression I know for Chilean Spanish is qué fome which is "how boring" - I think they still use that

There's more of a generational and class divide in Chile as far as Spanish expressions

In general though, Argentina's accent (and rioplatense in general?) sort of sounds Italian. The Chilean accent is... very hard to understand, there's a lot of unique grammar and the accent is like Italian but more rural to my ears, not in a bad way but to me it sounds like if you were speaking Spanish with a southern drawl almost

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As far as general vocab, I think Argentina and Chile agree on a lot of the regional words like the word for "car" is el auto which is probably from many German immigrants, they use extrañar for "to miss someone" like most of Latin America

But I do know the one that trips me up constantly is "computer". Spain says el ordenador. Most of Latin America says la computadora. Chile says el computador

Some typical words you should maybe know for Chile:

fome = boring

guagua = baby [from Quechua, I think it's the sound of a baby crying; Caribbean countries sometimes use la guagua for "bus"]

pololo/a = boyfriend, girlfriend

el computador = computer

¿Cachai? = Got it? / Right? / Understand?

el cahuín = gossip [I think it originally meant "party/assembly" for the indigenous people, sort of like in American English you might hear "pow-wow"; but cahuín is when you get together and gossip, so it can also mean "shady business" or "intrigue" or "something sketchy"]

po = (generally means something affirmative; it comes from pues but po is used so often it's like "yup" or "uh huh" or "of course" but can show up at the end of practically any sentence)

hacer perro muerto = "to dine and dash", to eat at a restaurant without paying [lit. "to do a dead dog", the rest of Spanish tends to use hacer un simpá which is from sin pagar "without paying"]

weón / weona = dumbass / dude [informal way to address someone - sometimes an insult sometimes not, kind of impolite, comes from huevón "dumbass", again means "big balls" I think since it's "big egg" and los huevos are slang for testicles]

la wea = thing [it's really comparable to how some countries say la vaina for "thing" - it's informal, it's everywhere, and for some reason it sounds almost rude if you didn't know better]

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And I know I said it already, but po. No, but seriously po is so Chilean I cannot stress this enough it's just an all around affirmative - I don't know if you can use po wrong, it just shows up at the end of sentences

Also I don't know if Argentina says it but I'm pretty sure Chile uses bacán as "cool" - if I remember right Argentina uses chévere

I think it's common in most of Spanish now, but particularly Argentina/Chile and rioplatense Spanish are known for using chao/chau as "goodbye" since it comes from Italian ciao; this is as opposed to something more formal like adiós or more Anglicized "bye"

Every so often you will hear tschuss or something equivalent in Argentina which is from German as well

Chile tends to share a lot of regionalisms with Peru and Colombia and generally it's like countries that are in the Andes or were connected to the Inca Empire or some of the indigenous tribes

Argentinian Spanish you should maybe know:

che = hey / bro (a go-to word like "hey"... it's a bit like the Chilean po but it usually calls attention to something or it's affirmative; can also be "bro/dude")

el pibe = boy la piba = girl

la mina = chick (usually a girl/woman you don't know the name of; it's not polite but it's not mean)

boludo/a = bro / dumbass, idiot [it can be an insult "has big balls", but it can also just be like... "bro" or "dude"]

And if I remember right the slang term for money here is la plata which is literally "silver"

The main thing about Argentina people talk about is the accent particularly with how they pronounce LL

Spain tends to pronounce LL as if it were LY with a bit of an L sound in there still... Latin America sometimes pronounces it like a full Y/I sound... parts of Central America give it a hard J sound

Argentina gives it a SH sound; so llamar or lluvia can sound like "shamar" or "shuvia" in Argentina

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Also I think in Argentina you hear la remera for "t-shirt" [lit. "rowing shirt", from el remo "oar" or remar "to row" but sometimes remo "oar" can be "limb" on your body], and Chile says la polera which I think is from "polo shirt"

General Spanish will say la camiseta which is the diminutive of la camisa "shirt/chemise"; in textbooks they typically say la camisa is a "shirt with long sleeves" or a "dress shirt", and la camiseta is "a t-shirt" or informal shirt

And I'm not sure if they both say this, but it's my understanding that they use la frutilla for "strawberry" in rioplatense Spanish; usually it's la fresa

Mexico does this too if I remember right, although for them la fresa means "posh" or "snobby" like it's slang for a rich person or someone who acts fancy. I'm not sure if it also means that in Argentina and Chile

There are also different linguistic quirks of Argentina like lunfardo [regional Italian-inspired words, specifically from Lombardy], or vesre which is... I don't know I'd call it closer to Cockney where words are played with or backwards [revés "backwards/reverse" -> vesre]; like la mujer "woman" is sometimes jermu which is the same word just the syllables are backwards

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And Chilean Spanish has been called the Quebecois of Spanish; similar enough but also very different and more irreverent in other ways... though to me I find it's probably closer to how English-speakers see Australian English, a little hard to follow sometimes and the accents are very much class-based, where there's a way to sound posh and a way to sound distinctively not posh

Argentina is more like if you had an Italian person speaking Spanish then sprinkled in a bit of German, lots of rising and falling tones, almost lyrical, sometimes like someone is speaking in very fast accent marks (both Spanish and Italian accent marks á then à, just so many rising and falling tones)

[chainoftalent]

Yandere Kokichi or Shuichi with a prince like reader

Merry Christmas I totally didn't forget I meant to actually work on things until it was 1 am nope. Im not sure if you meant in attitude or like, status, so I'm just doing a literal prince.

Yandere Kokichi and Yandere Shuichi with a Prince Reader

Kokichi

Oh he's going straight to the kidnap, he's not even giving you a chance. He's waiting for some ball or fancy event, he's throwing on his DICE gear, and he's crashing it and stealing you away. You can't just cling to a prince easily after all! Better to escalate quickly and make a scene! At which point he's now holding you for ransom because that's funny and gives an excuse, and also trying to convert you to his cause, also because it's funny but also because he's a bit less confident in his ability to long term hold a prince.

Ideally he's going to try and break you into willing loving loyalty, then release you, and then bam! Taking over the country! Puppet king hell yeah! Beyond that though he also enjoys making mr rich over here do peasant things like try instant noodles and make you more grounded in reality and the common folk, he has no time for snootiness sir! You will have your horse divorces and you will like them!

Shuichi

Shuichi first is going to mope about how a prince is so so out of his league, how come the prettiest sweetest guy he's ever met is royalty? So unfair... After that though he's diving head first into research about your royal family and such. He's learning everything about the history, the country, the culture, he's learning the language, he's going full detective hyperfixate mode on understanding EVERYTHING about it.

Once he does that, he's going to shyly start to approach you with this knowledge, asking questions, getting opinions, telling you things he likes about the country, how much he'd love to visit. He's super super very much going all in on this. Hoping you'll be flattered or at least be up for conversation.

After that he's super kinda paranoid about threats, he can't really white picket fence a PRINCE so he's instead going full detective on any potential usurpers, or assassins, or anything like that! He's going to personally track down every possible rebel or enemy and report them, or do worse if that's not enough. Aka Shuichi is a class traitor and will be treated accordingly upon the revolution. His absolute ideal would be a threat he can use as leverage though, something he can use to go "oh the palace, or whatever isn't safe! we need to get you into a safe house or hide out or something!" and then use that to get control over his darling prince, like to get him to a more isolated location under Shuichi's control to stay in until it's dealt with where Shuichi can pamper and try to get them to fall in love with him. Due to the prince status Shuichi's worst impulses are kept at bay for the most part because he can't just, do that to a prince! It's a prince! Also he'd be killed! Which makes him really easy to boss around.

[dr-spectre]

What’s the different between hypnosis and brainwashed? Sorry, I just love your Callie obsessed and I don’t understand the different between the two

You don't understand the difference between the two? Don't worry, i got you.

Let's start off with brainwashing. In most definitions of it, it is described as pressuring someone systematically to adopt radically different morals, ideologies and behaviors via forcible means against a person's will, knowledge and consent.

Now let's get into hypnosis, it is described as a state of deep relaxation and focused concentration, where the subconscious is more open to suggestions and it's sometimes used as a form of therapy to treat addictions. It is not some stage act where you can get someone to get naked on stage, that's not how it works. It is not some thing where you swing a clock around and go "you are getting veryyyyy sleepy" and now you control someone's mind, nope, that is a common false assumption about hypnosis.

One of these terms is something used in therapy, the other is used in cults and political/military circles. The two are very different and have different connotations.

The main thing with brainwashing is that there is a forcible/ non consensual aspect to it where the individual doesn't want their mind to get changed. However in hypnosis, suggestions that are given to a person in a hypnotised state must not go against a person's will or morals otherwise the person will not listen to the suggestion, IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE TWO!!!!!!!!! VERY VERY IMPORTANT!!!!

Brainwashing is against someone's consent while hypnosis REQUIRES consent and is not some form of mind control. That's the major difference between the two. Hypnosis is an altered state of conscious while brainwashing is someone's mind literally getting systematically reconditioned until the person's old morals no longer exist.

You can see now why i have problem with Callie being called "brainwashed" during Splatoon 2 because she canonically said to Octavio, "okay fine, I'll hear you out." You don't hear people who are getting brainwashed "yeah sure I'll hear out your points!!!"

You cannot use the word brainwashing for Callie's circumstance because her dialogue in the relationship chart literally goes against the definition of the word itself and using that word treats Callie more as a damsel or object rather than a character who just needs help. I'm tired of Splatoon fans and casuals pushing that word around towards my comfort character when there's a ton of evidence to say otherwise. I am getting REALLLLLLLLLL FUCKING TIRED....

"But Marie sai-" I know, she said "brainwashing sunglasses" in the English version I KNOW!!! From her perspective she would obviously think Callie was brainwashed by the shades, she has no other information to go off of, doesn't mean she is right and WE SHOULD BLINDLY TRUST HER PERSPECTIVE!!!!!!!!! YOU'VE EVER SEEN AN OVERREACTING FAMILY MEMBER BEFORE?!?!

Callie was hypnotised, full stop. Nothing more. Nothing less.

The whole "i remember" thing is not because the shades brainwashed her and removed her memories, it's just that Callie is in a mentally ill state PLUS in a hypnotic state where she's very concentrated and focused. The shades being shot off of her is like you writing an essay in class and someone smacks your eye. Callie looks like she has a headache and it takes a while for Callie to ""come back to her senses"" where she starts thinking a little bit more rationally. Her hearing the Calamari Inkantation floods her brain with good memories and positivity as the song has mysterious and mystical elements to it, Callie gets pumped up and all of that darkness in her head clears away and she goes "i remember! YEAH!!!"

The ONLY character you can argue was brainwashed in the Splatoon universe, is Agent 3. That's the ONLY ONE i may allow.

But even then they say "they have been hijacked." As in Tartar has taken direct control over Agent 3's body and it's not reallyyyyy brainwashing because Agent 3 was unconscious and probably had zero idea on what was going on until they woke up on the helicopter at the end of Octo Expansion.

What about Marina Agitando? Possessed by an ai after getting knocked unconscious. Not brainwashed or hypnotised!!! Marina was asleep during her time as Marina Agitando.

CAN WE STOP THROWING WORDS AROUND LIKE THEY MEAN NOTHING!?!? Stop using that word to describe "Splatoon character but evil." No. Enough. ENOUGH!!!!!!!! STOP!!!!!!!!! I AM GETTING SICK OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I'm not yelling at you anon btw lmao. I'm yelling at everyone else, thank you for the ask!)

[agirlwithglam]

hey

I just found out that I'm going to be moving countries and school during my final year of highschool. i really don't know what to do, how to think or feel about this whole situation.

could you please give me some reassurance that everything will be okay and also give me some advice for entering into that new chapter of my life in terms of the actual academics and also making friends and adapting to everything. I would really appreciate it

love,

-a girl who is stressing rn <3

hiiiii!! of course i'd be more than happy to help you out. moving to a new school can be really scary & tricky, esp if you had some old friends. but don't worry because remember things happen FOR you and not TO you. you never know, maybe by moving to this new country you may get wonderful opportunities, meet amazing people, and discover a life you didn't know even existed!

i totally understand if you're stressing right now and you definitely shouldn't try to suppress or scold yourself for feeling that way. instead learn to comfort yourself, learn to be there for yourself. remember that no matter what life throws your way, you will be able handle it. you've literally handled so many things so well in the past, this is no different.

instead of asking life "why me?" ask "try me". lol i read this a while ago and i'm just gonna leave this here instead it helps.

🎀💌 moving to a new school:

❥ making friends

remember that no matter what, no matter how the dynamics are in the new school, never lose yourself trying to "fit in" or be accepted.

join clubs, after school activities, societies, sports, etc. (it can do wonders with making friends + you've already got something in common with them!)

be the person you wanna be friends with. kind, waits for others, makes them laughs, listens to them, shares, respectful, etc. but never NEVER hurt yourself/ make yourself disrespected while doing that.

also if there are any other new kids as well, try to make friends with them! bc i know it can be hard joining friendship groups so finding another newbie to bond with may be easier as they are also new to this!

how to magnetic & alluring

how to be a good conversationalist

don't be desperate. just a reminder that you should be perfectly fine being on your own so that you're not doing things you'll regret just to be accepted with low quality people.

lend & share pencils, pens, gum, etc.

looking (somewhat) fabulous + being confident. fortunately, the first things people see about you is your looks, but with that also your body language & confidence (fortunately cus ur so pretty). you could accessories with jewellery if you're allowed, have neatly done nails. but also just basics like taking care of your hair, ironed clothes, looking polished & not too sleepy. however, in the end, as long as you stand up straight, take up space, comfortable and confident in yourself, ur physical appearance is x 100!!! (i am NOT tryna make you feel better, it is a fact that i have actually seen.) -> more info how to look pretty without makeup

❥ academics

time management strategies

how to be the it girl in school

how to be a whole new student this school year

get ready to get back to school

it girl's guide to academic

channel your inner rory gilmore lol. this may literally get you through the whole year, esp if you're struggling to make friends + act like her when you're in class & studying!

in the end honey, just remember everything will be okay. everything will be okay. everything will work out. why? because you're god's fav <3. also, one day you'll be an oldie grandma feeling nostalgic about these younger days, cherish them because you have no idea how much you'll miss them when you're older!!

always lots of love, xx Vanilla

BMAC - if you'd like to support me!

[eolewyn1010]

Downton Abbey Fashion 60 - indoors fashion in 1924

I’ll very quickly go over Miss Bunting’s blouses so I can put her in a drawer and never again think about how poorly written her character was. And then it’s thankfully over to Rose who has some interesting fashion developments this season.

This dark blue wrap dress is actually quite nice. One of the upsides of middle-class characters, for how lousy Fellowes writes them, is that I occasionally see things that I can imagine wearing myself. Diagonal pin tucks over the sides give this a little more shape than is common in the 1920s; overall a pretty look.

Shaping goes right out the window with this one, but I suppose it’s a respectable look for a teacher. Point collar, very pale blue, very simple jewelry – it does hold a bit of my interest with the double row of buttons.

Look, the gathering seam in the shoulder is back! As are pointed collars and keyhole necklines, but I think that the checker weave of this fabric is nice. I don’t think Miss Bunting should wear such a showy shade of lipstick to a pale peach blouse though.

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Rose, my darling. This is a pretty crochet shirt that seems to emulate a blue sky with white clouds, and I love the flaring sleeves. So why on earth did someone tack this stupid strip of white fuzz to it? I know you have better taste than this. Just take that bit off, and you’re good.

Speaking of nice crocheted clothes, this one has pretty much the same shape, but it fortunately goes without dissonant cotton fuzz. The peach color is a Rose staple by now, and the crochet is a bit simpler in terms of pattern and structure, so this doesn’t look cluttered when Rose pairs it with that nice light brown Tartan skirt.

Developing a taste for non-woven textiles, isn’t she? I like this sweater in all its simplicity; the square neckline is elegant, the blue stripes on the shoulders add a little interest, and the silverish yarn is a pretty color and a good backdrop for playful necklaces.

Marching up in the palest blue silk satin, Rose gives us this look. And I’m in love with the print on this dress. Good job of the designer to not add anything more to this than the tiniest dark blue piping around the neckline because this print deserves to stand on its own.

This may be one of the dresses of the show that reads the most stereotypically 1920s to the modern eye. Not only is it absolutely covered in bronze-golden sequins that give it a sort of scaly look; it’s got fringe. It’s still got the right length and cut, which is a relief. Can you imagine how out of place one of those tight mini “flapper” dresses that you can buy for cheap on amazon would have looked? Not all clichés are bad though: I love the fringe. And I love the little spiral flower motif in this wild sequin pattern.

Rose dips her toes into some dark blue silk satin this season, and this is my favorite result of them, even though the neckline construction leaves me hopelessly confounded. What does even connect where? Is that a symmetrical keyhole neckline and then over that an asymmetrical tie, shutting a looser layer over a fitted top? I don’t understand this dress, but I like to look at it. The tiny white star flowers on dark ground are so charming!

Time for some pale pink because Rose has a rosy reputation to maintain. This sweater, another knit piece, has your usual loose shape and drop waist, but the tie collar is quite nice. It’s framing a literal rose pendant because subtlety, you guys, and Rose rounds off the outfit with a repeat of her light brown Tartan skirt.

The tie collar stays, the pink has to go so we can wave dark blue silk satin back in. If I interpret this print right, it’s referencing cherry blossoms and elements of Japanese architecture. The design is far less intricate than the last blue satin Rose welcomed into her wardrobe, but it dresses her quite nicely.

Heh, even when it’s not roses, Rose is a girl for flower prints. I do quite like her poppy flower chiffon dress, but it looks a tad lightweight for working in drafty basement rooms during an English autumn, as Rose seems to do during her charity project for Russian refugees; at least the neckline and sleeves don’t seem to betray a warmer layer underneath.

Yet more flowers! Tulips this time, and while I do love tulips with a passion, I’m not sure I love this dress. It’s admittedly adorable. I think it’s a touch too adorable. I would not have batted an eye to see this on season 3 Rose with her frilly skirts, but by now she’s a good end more mature – and engaged to be married. I don’t know; this lace collar with the little light blue bow reads a little too girly for her now.

Did Rose steal a dress from Edith’s wardrobe? Indigo chiffon with a notable orange print? Even the pattern stripe on her collar looks a lot like the sort of prints Edith prefers this season. But nah, she stole this from 1997’s Rebecca. Oh well, it’s not like Rose hasn’t proven already that she can carry off dark blue shades, and the autumn leaves motif is pretty sweet.

The lace layer makes this one look a lot browner than it is; the basic fabric is one of her usual peachy pinks… oh, for heaven’s sake, is that another rose motif? They really can’t come up with anything new, can they? As usual, the drop waistband just being there for the heck of it instead of making a sack of the top is a grace for the dress. Looks quite pretty overall.

Here we have a dress that we first see Rose wear a day or two before her wedding, but that I find more interesting in the context of her wearing it as a newlywed while her parents-in-law are hosting. Because Lady Sinderby, her mother-in-law, is almost constantly running around in light chiffon dresses with very rich flower prints. Not that flower prints are a new thing for Rose, but specifically the way these pastel colors wash up into each other looks much like the dress Lady Sinderby is wearing for the same occasion, so I find that concordance interesting. Granted, Lady Sinderby doesn’t have this adorable flower-embroidered headband.

Ending on another dress Rose wears in her new life as Mrs Aldridge, this one is a favorite. Off-white and very lacey again, but it’s using the lace so much more elegantly than the girlish dress further up does; strips of it being inserted into the length of the dress and the drop waist, framing the square neckline, and giving the dress a wonderfully weightless, frothy look. And a bit of well-placed flower embroidery? Sign me up!

[vamptastic]

As one of those AFAB nonbinary people who has been called a theyfab and accused of clinging to my AGAB (sending this anonymously to avoid getting more of that type of harassment) so many people just like. Look at me and make incorrect assumptions about my gender and roll with those assumptions without bothering to confirm them.

So many people assume that I am transgender lite because the way I look doesn't read as trans. Despite the fact that I've been on hormones for over a decade, use They/Them pronouns, and have been open and vocal about being nonbinary for over 8 years at this point, people still regularly treat me like I'm new to being trans or haven't/have just barely started transitioning.

Regardless of how many times I corrected people about my pronouns, so many people (including trans people!) would revert to using She/Her that I had to switch to telling people I go by It/It's pronouns just to get people to "misgender" me by using They/Them because It/It's is uncomfortable for them.

So like. Yes and-ing your original point because I don't think enough people take the time to slow down and ask whether the people getting accused of clinging to their AGAB actually are. Because I think at least part of the time it's not that AFAB nonbinary people are clinging to their womanhood or have a genuine connection to womanhood, but that people refuse to put in the work and effort to actually listen to and understand AFAB nonbinary people as being nonbinary and not regularly misgender them

Part of why I feel such a strong loathing towards those who use that term as an insult is that I am a binary trans man and very much have received the same kind of rhetoric towards my gender, including from IRL friends. In general I find acceptance of nonbinary people to be an integral part of trans activism because trans people will literally never meet the standards of the gender binary, because the gender binary is fake and stupid and men and women are not fundamentally different in a meaningful way.

People have been assuming I just recently came out for the full 9 years of my life I've been out of the closet. I'm 20 in a few weeks and I came out at 11, I'm approaching the point of having been out longer than I haven't been, and people still fucking do it. People thought it freshman year of high school, then when I came out more publicly as a senior, and now in college they all think it started when I moved out.

In some ways I get the assumption, those are common ages to come out as trans and not many trans people realized so young, but still. I'm not new to this, I'm not a baby. And with my PCOS, since I hit puberty at the tender age of 7 people have not seen or accepted me as a girl. I did not have the female adolescence or teenagedom that many assume I had, I don't really have any womanhood or female socialization to cling to even if I wanted to!

Similarly people just assume I'm nonbinary all the time without consulting me. Sucks to introduce myself with a masculine name in masculine clothing and have everyone addressing me as a man and then have a random person throw everyone off by using they/them for me without consulting me whatsoever. Like if I've been in a class for a month letting everyone use he/him without saying anything, why would you think I must actually use they/them? I honestly felt more charitably towards people simply she/hering me before I went on T because at least I could assume they just didn't realize I might not like it.

Getting they/themmed is like, oh, so you're familiar with the concept of being transgender and you still assumed I am not a man despite introducing myself with a masculine name. Like, you are aware of such concepts as a man with breasts, and still assumed I must not be one because what, I'm wearing earrings and I sound like a faggot? It feels more invalidating of my gender than someone going boobs=woman, to be honest.

Just... yeah really appreciate the ask and you make a great point. I didn't want to get too in the weeds on that post but yeah I do think it also comes down to just not respecting transmasculinity itself as authentic in nature, or genderlessness. I try to be charitable but frankly a lot of people making 'theyfab' jokes just essentially say boobs/vagina/skirt/etc=woman=bad + annoying.

[antiquitiesandlabyrinths]

Kemeticism Under the Advice of Ptah-Hotep: Maxim 1

In my first post I discussed the importance of listening, and the value of Ptah-Hotep's lessons. While this is a paramount lesson, it is also just a precursor to understanding and comprehending the actual maxims of Ptah-Hotep, which we will now read.

Translation of Maxim 1

Don’t be conceited about your own knowledge. Take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence. The perfect word is as rare as an emerald yet it may be found among the maidservants working at the millstone.

Breakdown:

Lesson

Jacq’s translation

Direct translation

Do not be prideful over your knowledge and it’s sources.

“Don’t be conceited about your own knowledge… take advice from the ignorant as well as from the wise.”

“May your heart not be filled with vanity* because of what you know… take counsel with both the ignorant and the sage.”

There is not one person who can be perfect

“… there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence.”

“No one attains perfection in the art**…”

Good advice (the perfect word) and wisdom is rare yet can be found among the common workers and strange places

“The perfect word is as rare as an emerald yet it may be found among the maidservants working at the millstone.”

“A perfect word is more hidden than the green stone*** yet one can find it with the serving women who work the millstone****.”

* - Vanity here means large, or great of heart. Ptah-Hotep has two variants of this expression which both translate literally as large or great of heart; one in a negative sense, i.e a self-inflated ego or sense of importance, and the other in a positive sense meaning generous and magnanimous. Here he is using the negative term, âa-ib.

** - Art is something which goes beyond the reaches of simply craftsmanship in Egyptian culture. It indicates the ability to make matter beautiful and harmonious in its’ symbology. It allows celestial energy to manifest itself in physical matter; to incarnate itself through a craftsman’s work.

*** - Green stone could refer to either emeralds, turquoises, or amazonites. Either way, the word used here, oudjat, had a root meaning of growth and blossoming.

**** - Millstone here is referred to as a benout in the original Egyptian. The root of the word, ben, can also be translated as the primordial stone on which creation was first manifested. On this first stone the benou bird first took flight.

This maxim, while uncomplicated, does deal with a couple subjects, the most pertinent of which is pride. Pride is the centerpiece of discussion for this lesson, and just the same, pride is a centerpiece of suffering and failure within one’s life. Pride about our knowledge — both individually and as a species — is something very ingrained in our society, but it has not benefited us in any way. In fact, it has closed our minds to the possibility of gaining knowledge from sources we deem inappropriate.

Our minds are shaped by our society and our surrounding culture, and that culture decides where it is appropriate to learn and where it is not. For example, in many cultures, school is an appropriate place to learn; spending time with homeless people or drug addicts is not. However, as Ptah-Hotep says, the perfect word — and thus the perfect wisdom — can be found in very strange places, even among common workers, servants, and slaves. And in fact there are many people who are homeless or are/were drug users who have a great deal of wisdom to give to the world; they are part of the undesirables class, but this does not make them different from other humans as a whole. Even the pride or joy you may have that you are different or more fortunate than these people is misplaced; what one thinks of as guaranteed can be taken away in an instant. The goal of realizing this is not to be constantly vigilant in making sure nothing is taken from you, but to instead accept the natural order, and not to judge others based on preconceived notions about whether or not they are valuable as a person.

In the end, it is not so hard for someone who is very rich and assured of their position in the world to suddenly lose everything and become part of the undesirables class that they once discriminated against. All of us are prone to change, not just in our souls but in our position in life. As Ptah-Hotep says, no one attains perfection in the art, and one person’s ignorance is another person’s realization, as everyone’s experiences in life are different.

There is a sort of equality that Ptah-Hotep preaches here; in the first note, concerning pride about knowledge, there is another translation that instead states this as, “Do not be proud on account of your knowledge, but discuss with the ignorant as with the wise”. Sometimes there is nothing to gain from conversing with the ignorant, but it is good to do it nonetheless. In this way, you can share your own knowledge, as simply keeping company with the wise can help one grow and learn.

Overall, the main lesson to take away from this maxim is to not be prideful about your knowledge and do not be overly selective over where you attain this knowledge. The second lesson is more simple, which is that no one person is perfect, and the ignorance or failing that a wise person has may be knowledge and wisdom that an ignorant person has. Wisdom and knowledge can come from all places, even from nature and from within the soul. It is good to accept wisdom from all people, as someone’s social standing does not indicate the openness of their heart, nor their closeness to divinity and the perfect word and art.

[coldbrewghoul]

From Top to Bottom - Richtofen University AU

Chapter 3: Confounding Variables

Who needs communication when you can play mind games? There's more than one kind of friction between these two.

Notes: POV swap: Reader (X) and Edward Richtofen (Primis) | both characters are switches | hurt/comfort, angst w/ a happy ending, mutual pining, smut heavy plot | This started as a one shot, but I couldn't walk away from it so it's been expanded into a full work.

TW: age gap, situationally inappropriate relationship

-X-

You never made it to your tutoring job. Instead, you slunk back to your dorm to lick your emotional wounds and plan your next steps. Your roommate Lea raised an eyebrow at your red eyes, but you shook your head, and she nodded, respecting your boundaries.

“Do you think you could do me a favor and go let Professor Peck know I won’t be able to tutor my students today? I feel sick,” you lied, tossing your messenger bag onto your desk and grabbing your bath kit.

Lea, the saint that she was, nodded and reached out to pat your back, but pulled her hand back before making contact. She was a pro-human contact person. You were not and she tried hard to remember that. You gave her a weak smile, appreciating how understanding she was.

“I won’t ask questions. Just…” she slipped her shoes on to find the professor you tutored math for. “…I’m here if you need to talk.”

Well, Lea, you see I just got the life tongue fucked out of me by my professor and then I gave him the most whorish blowjob in his classroom. Afterwards it got complicated and now I’m trying to decide how I can get him to fuck me again… and I think I might love him. Yeah, that’s all. I’m fine.

“Thank you. Lea, you are literally the best dorm mate ever. I do not deserve you,” you said instead.

You grabbed what you needed and headed to the dorm bathroom for a hot shower. You’ve always had some of your best ideas while sitting under the pounding water, like your end of term project (calculating how particles would theoretically need to shift to accommodate teleportation) and how to build a discrete vibration device to use for very serious scientific reasons (orgasms). This time you hoped the steam would help get your brain motors revving on how to get Professor Richtofen to either fall helplessly in love with you or be punished for tossing you aside with the most painful case of blue balls ever.

He couldn’t avoid you unless he was going to kick you out of class which, as evil as he was, didn’t seem in character for him since he was the one who ended up initiating everything. That meant you’d have access to him every weekday and so long as you toed the line with dress code and regulations for in-class behavior there was a lot you could do to torment him.

You hissed in pain as you reached your washcloth between your legs, momentarily forgetting how tender you were amid your scheming. Next time I get my hands on him I’m going to wring that pretty little neck of his.

-X, next day-

While usually you preferred slacks for comfort and utility, tiny pleated skirts were the superior article of clothing when it came to seducing the common male. Paired with knee high socks and an almost too sheer blouse that had only the absolute minimum buttons done up, no hot-blooded male would be able to resist the wearer. At least, that was your hope as you strolled into class that morning.

You peeked into the classroom to assess the situation. Professor Richtofen was scribbling something into a notebook, but you knew he checked what time each person entered (so he could hold it against them later) and you were confident he’d look up. Especially since you waited to go in until the last minute. On the second to last of nine tolls, you stepped in.

-Richtofen-

Edward glanced at the watch on his wrist. It was barely more than a handful of seconds before class started! The insolence of some students was really something else. He snapped his book shut and looked up just in time to see a gorgeous pair of legs pass by his desk. Legs he had gotten to see up close and personal quite recently. There was about six inches of bare skin visible between her criminally short skirt and black socks. His mouth suddenly went dry. He’d been about to open it to deliver a cutting scolding about punctuality, but decided it would be best to keep it closed in case his cotton mouth was a warning sign that his saliva count was about to skyrocket.

He tracked her movement across the classroom, focusing on the freckle on the inner thigh of the left leg that had so fascinated him yesterday. He’d give anything to kneel in front of her in such a scandalous outfit and accept any trial she deemed appropriate for the right to plant a kiss on that freckle. Scheiße. He’d purposefully thrown himself into his work since his heavenly experience with her to keep his mind from going feral for her, but all that practice was out the window with a simple glance at her legs.

He’d resolved to give her space.  If all he’d been to her was a sexcapade then he needed to accept that. Certainly, her youth excused such behavior. His age did not allow such luxuries.  If he’d been a fellow student, he’d be able to court her ardently, but since that was not the case, he needed to be mindful of his position of power over her. A position that was so delicious to fantasize about, but in reality? It required him to treat the matter with some delicacy. He swallowed and ripped his eyes from the shadowy area between her legs and skirt that was visible when she sat down.

After a quick check that his manhood was behaving, he stood to begin his lecture. As a precaution, he’d masturbated (with her panties) once last night and again this morning to hopefully tire his cock out and prevent any acts of rebellion it could attempt during class. Steady goes it, Edward. Don’t think about her panties.

He spent a majority of the class with his back to the students, chalking up as many pertinent equations and graphs as he could muster for the topic. Only when he ran out of blackboard did he chance turning around. Oh gut gott, his knees were so weak. She was absentmindedly caressing a pen along the skin of her legs, making goosebumps rise as she teased the sensitive skin with the cold plastic. The motion shifted her already too short skirt up and from his angle of observation he had a clear view up her skirt where her legs were parted just enough... Where were her damn panties?

He knew the location of one pair specifically, a secret stolen pair that he guiltily coveted and was currently lying safe in the bottom of a drawer in his room on campus, but she had to have more than one pair of underwear, right? He grasped his chair and quickly sat down before the whole class saw the tent forming in his slacks (traitorously greedy cock!) He cleared his throat and continued teaching, keeping his eye trained on the clock above the students’ heads to avoid leering at her.

When, in the peripheral range of his vision he saw her finally stop teasing her thighs, he breathed a sigh of relief. His muscles ached from how stiffly he was sitting, and he was just starting to loosen up when… oh no, please no… He watched in horror as the pen raised up and tapped against her bottom lip. That simple act had an almost Pavlovian effect on him. The world faded away and for a moment all he saw was that picture perfect image of her face under his cock. He forgot how to breathe as her lips parted to reveal the tips of her teeth so she could bite down on the blue plastic pen. His fucking pen!

-X-

Sorrow and anger swirled in the pit of your stomach when Professor Richtofen spent the first half of the class with his back to the room, chalking up equations. How were you supposed to seduce him if he wasn’t even going to look at you? Unfortunately, you’d been too busy pretending your outfit had nothing to do with him as you walked past his desk to see if he had ogled your skirt. There were just so many unknown variables and without the ability to observe some of his reactions your theories that he might still want you had no substance. Just when you were starting to give up hope that you would be able to make any headway on your plan today, he ran out of blackboard space and turned around. 

It wasn’t hard at all to repeat the previous behavior that had garnered Professor’s Richtofen’s attention in the first place, but this time you put intention behind each action. This time you kept your eyes innocently locked on the floor in front of his desk instead of on him while you pretended to daydream, stimming with a pen - his pen. You purposefully, sensually, teased your thighs and mouth, drawing attention to the exposed skin on your legs and reminding him of how much he had enjoyed your lips. The lack of underwear was a particularly sweet detail you’d thought of when you went to dump your clothes in the laundry basket post-shower and realized your black lace panties were missing. He was too meticulous not to have cleaned up after your adventure together, so you were sure he’d found them (and a quick scan under his desk when you sat down did not reveal any damning evidence of the black lace garment). A sick thrill went through you as you fantasized that maybe he’d hidden them from you on purpose to keep for himself.

The thought of him so desperate for you that he would steal your panties had you smirking as you nibbled the pen in your mouth, wishing it was his skin your teeth grazed. Just imagining him in the darkness of his room, clutching your juice drenched lingerie to his lips while jacking himself off in a frenzy was making you wet all over again - which happened to be a necessary factor for stage three of your plan. You’d sat down in your chair just right, so the skirt shifted away, meaning that the bottom of your ass was bare against the wood and if you turned yourself on enough, you’d leave a damp spot for him to hopefully find.

The subject of your naughty little experiment was definitely affected. He was stiff in the chair behind his desk, his breath hitching occasionally and sometimes he would stop mid-lecture for an awkwardly long moment before blinking and starting up again. Normally he was a much more engaging teacher, walking around the classroom and slapping his ruler against inattentive student’s tables to get their attention (although despite your daydreaming he’d never done that to you). The problem was, even though he was acting off that didn’t mean you could narrow down the cause. Was his odd behavior because he was drowning in lust for you or the guilt of what the two of you had done?

Guilt seized your stomach. Were your advances unwanted, making him uncomfortable? You had been mostly innocent before, content to eye him from a distance and he had made the first move, but now you were the one pushing the boundary between you - a firm boundary established by the university to protect the two of you. If he felt guilty and wanted to move forward with professionalism, then shouldn’t you let him? Wasn’t that the right path to take after your indiscretion?

But what if this chemistry between you was more than just physical attraction and to let this divide between the two of you grow would be to deny both of you the chance to explore a future where both of you were happy together, caring for each other, working on theories together, challenging and understanding each other…

The bell signaling the end of class rang, interrupting your train of thought and making you jump. You needed solid proof that Professor Richtofen still felt something for you or this whole game of cat and mouse needed to come to an end. A feeble addition to your plan was forming as you got up, confirming there was indeed a tiny glistening present left behind for your dear Professor to find, and sauntered out of the classroom.

-Richtofen-

He’d thought (y/n) was a distraction before he’d planted her on his desk and tasted her glorious cunt, but now that he’d seen that delicious mouth work its miracles on his cock his ability to focus had shattered into a million tiny pieces. He was sure he’d never been this bad of an instructor ever in his entire life. When the bell rang, he was more grateful than the students to be released from the class time that had transformed into his own personal hell of temptation.

Had she been teasing him on purpose, or was this behavior just the aftereffects of a good fucking? He was so ficken confused! Had her eyes ever moved from the spot in front of his desk where he’d taken her? It wasn’t as if he could properly examine her to determine her motives when her lewd appearance drove his cock commit vile mutiny in the middle of his class. No woman or man had ever inspired this much loss of bodily control or emotional misery from him before now, before her.

He’d had to scoot his chair forward, hiding his lap fully under his desk as the students filtered out. He lost the inward battle he was fighting to keep his eyes straight forward when she passed by his desk and when he glanced, he was blessed (or cursed?) with a flash of ass as her skirt swished with her movement. And then she was gone, and he was locking the door behind the last student so he could bemoan his situation in peace.

He had always been a man with purpose, able to enact meticulous plans and driven by well-placed self-confidence to execute them. His resolve would have previously been defined as unwavering and now here he was… wavering. Caught between what he wanted and what was right, with too many unknowns muddling the experiment. He’d never wanted something he wasn’t supposed to have before, never wanted to have a person he wasn’t supposed to have. And while he could lie to himself that it was just physical attraction that drew him to her, he also knew that walking away from her wouldn’t be this hard if there wasn’t something more between them that he was trying to deny. He just needed to know she wanted to explore whatever they had together as badly as he did.

He was staring at her usual spot as the gears in his brain whirred, stuck in overdrive, when he saw something shine as it caught the light on the seat of her chair. The chair her sweet pink pussy had been directly on just moments before. He walked towards it slowly, not daring to believe he could be this lucky, and confirmed his eyes had not deceived him. On the plain plastic was a small streak of wetness shining in the light. Gulping, he pulled the chair away from the table and dropped to his knees in front of it. With his arm as a pillow, he rested his head down on the chair, inhaling deeply. Her warmth still lingered there. He groaned as her scent filled his senses. He’d murder for the chance to rest his head on (y/n)’s hips after sex, smelling her, caressing her, falling asleep while she played with his hair… Even he thought he was deranged as, on instinct, he licked the droplets up.

-X-

“What are you doing?”

Your heart leapt from your chest as you heard a voice behind you, but you bit back the yelp. With one last longing look through the vent grate at your professor bent over your chair you turned to see who had caught you. A broad-shouldered guy, in his mid-twenties if you had to guess, was frowning at you as you stood on the lab counter in the room next to Richtofen’s classroom. He wasn’t bad looking, but he was way too meathead for your taste. You narrowed your eyes. “Who’s asking?”

 “Roger. I’m a lab aid.” He leaned to look past you at the vent you had been pressed up to.

“Huh.” You bent down to get off the counter and he held out a hand to help you. Ignoring it, you jumped to the floor. You gave him a tight smile and a curt nod. “Well, I’ll get out of your way so you can do your lab aid things.” You stepped towards the door.

“Wait.” His hand whipped out, grabbing your wrist as you tried to walk past him.

“Let go!” You hissed, pulling your arm away.

“Sorry. What’s your name?” His eyes trailed from the wrist he’d grabbed to the edge of your short skirt before meeting your eyes.

“(y/n).” You basically stomped to the door, eager to get away from him. You hated being touched, especially by strangers, and the ghost of his grasp lingered on your skin. The way he’d drank in your outfit made you feel dirty. This isn’t for your benefit, buddy!

“What were you doing up there?” He raised his voice to call to you as you reached the exit.

Worried he’d get louder if you didn’t answer, you whipped your head around to look at him. “I was trying to catch an interesting insect.” And with that you practically ran down the hallway back to your dorm.

Roger was already forgotten by the time you got there. There was a more important person taking up the space in your brain. Tossing yourself on your bed, you pulled Professor Richtofen’s pen out of your bag and held it to your chest. The way he’d knelt in front of your chair… You just wished you could have had a better view of him than what was visible from the vent. Regardless, you had your evidence. Some part of him was desperate for you. Some part of him was yours.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

New Atheism was a political movement in the aughts and tens. It formed in response to the religious (mostly evangelical Christian) backlash against a handful of scientists and activists who were prominent figures in the Skeptic movement (a whole other thing, if you want to get into that I hope you like reading about magicians) and their fans, who were, like most skeptics, either atheists or at the very least strong proponents of keeping religion out of government. Many people in the movement were oppressed or at least regularly ridiculed and bullied for their lack of religion and they found a common goal in a) supporting people trying to endure or escape from religious environments, b) fighting to keep religion out of government policy decisions and to ensure freedoms that the evangelicals were trying to keep from people, such as same sex marriage and access to abortion, and c) fighting to keep science in schools. (The evangelicals, particularly in the USA but in many countries in general, were trying to ban teaching evolution or paleontology or anything that said the Earth was more than 6,000 years old. You know all the anti-trans stuff they're trying to push through now, all the silly laws about not using childrens' nicknames and not letting trans kids play on their sporting teams and not teaching kids that gender is a thing in health class? They were doing that with evolution.)

It fell apart in a very predictable way after a decade or two. Well, 'fell apart' is the wrong term; it more evolved into or merged with other forms of activism as the threats changed. There were New Atheists from everywhere and from every demographic, but the largest demographic (at least of the ones hanging out and talking with each other) were young men who lived in the US bible belt. The second largest was probably scientists facing discrimination or pressure from religious groups. And when hanging out online, we'd constantly get bombarded by creationists showing up to tell us that "the eye couldn't have evolved!" and "evolution is fake because Darwin married his cousin! Do you want to follow a gross person who committed incest?"

For those who haven't seen these arguments before, this is the level of "the earth is flat because if it wasn't, people would fall off the bottom!" Eight year olds can, and regularly do, debunk these "arguments".

Do you know what happens to groups of angry young men who are forced into religious rites of another religion at home to avoid getting thrown out onto the street, who spend a lot of time hanging out online with professional scientists so they naturally start to talk in big words and get seen as smarter than all their meatspace friends, when fed a steady diet of religious bigots with arguments so easy to destroy that literal random children could do it?

The vast majority of the New Atheists are still fighting the same fight in different groups. A lot of the same political goals transfer to feminist groups or communist groups or international aid groups. But a small handful of them fell into that old trap of assuming that they were smarter than everyone else, and that if something they saw seemed stupid and vapid to them at first glance then it clearly was stupid and vapid and that their duty was to disprove it and mock the perpetrator of this nonsense off the forum. After your fourth or fifth "the eye couldn't have evolved!" yelled at you by somebody who doesn't know evolution, doesn't care, and isn't going to listen to you no matter what you say, you quickly learn that taking them seriously is a waste of time. A small handful of these boys had youtube channels, and they were used to feeling smart by dunking on these arguments and explaining to their audience why evolution does indeed work. And then they found other groups, like feminists -- specifically, they found them through anti-feminists, who made their arguments seem stupid and vapid and like they didn't understand anything and wouldn't be interested in a real logical discussion.

And that's why a handful of ex-New Atheists got involved in Gamergate.

There's similar stories for the ones who became transphobes and islamophobes and soforth (often the same dudes). Islamophobia was pretty prominent even during the days of the movement because of the Iraq War and soforth and the prevailing idea that Islam is evil because Islamic theocracies oppress women (theocracies in general tend to be very oppressive), so it slotted nicely in with the fight for women's rights that was always at the front of New Atheist politics. ("Now you don't have to feel bad that you were nervous when sitting next to a brown guy on the bus, because that just means you're a good person who supports women!") And I'm sure I don't have to explain how somebody conditioned to prove their own intelligence (and worth) by dunking on things they think are silly and fake can be pulled into transphobia. But most people just moved their New Atheist activism into their other activist circles, as feminists or queer rights activists or education proponents or whatever political points that the movement fought for were most important to them. or simply folded back into the Skeptic movement. If there are any New Atheist groups out there who still call themselves that (there might be), I don't know anything about them or what they're doing now.

There's something about atheism that I've repeatedly tried and failed to put into words on several posts on this blog but I think I finally got it.

Atheists are the only religious minority who, even (or sometimes even *especially*) in ostensibly progressive spaces are not allowed to ever act like they're sure of their beliefs.

[thousandyearphantombunker]

(cw dehumanization, ableism, religious ableism)

we need to stop associating all disabilities with any mythological/religious/alien creatures. Especially demons.

Yes that includes 'positive' dehumanization (angels, enlightened psychics etc)- that shit is also bad- it leads to insane expectations of people with mental disorders. It leads to people not seeking treatment for serious symptoms. It leads to infantalization and being treated as too pure. It's bad.

The demonization of people with cluster b disorders is horrifying. While many people say that those with personality disorders don't seek treatment because something something blame the disability (insane ableist bullshit- like there's some truth to the idea that the nature of personality disorders make it harder/less likely that they'll seek a diagnosis I think we need to stop acting like this is the main reason people don't seek help) or say shit like treatment isn't effective (it doesn't cure the disorder but it can provide resources and treatments that improve quality of life)- a huge reason people don't seek help is this shit. Personality disorders in general are demonized but cluster be disorders are seen an especially negative light

Honestly the more sevre the disability (or if the disability is perceived as more severe) the more likely the disorder is demonized/people with the disability (whether it's a cognitive/intellectual or emotional disorder or an anxiety disorder etc) are to be seen as dangerous. To the point many people use the terms psychotic and psychopathic to mean dangerous

Like as an autistic person it always baffles me how many people in my community are awful to those with intellectual deficiencies and cluster b personality disorders- I've dealt with this sort of treatment (more focused on how mindless/robotic/incapable of true thought or emotion stuff than demons- though the weird religious beliefs surrounding my disorder did pop up) and similar shit and dealt with the frankly rotten useless special education system (glorified daycare/learning to internalize that ableism classes) at like 6 years old up until I was old enough to not only identify ableism but also stop justifying it to myself and actually make a stand against it (so like at 17).

It's genuinely disgusting how my community forgets that a lot of us dealt with this sort of treatment and continue to dish it out toward people with disorders that were as stigmatized as autism once was (there's still plenty of autism stigma I'm tired of people saying autism stigma isn't a thing- autism speaks is literally a eugenicist organization and too many people are okay with it's existence but it's baffling to me that I can say I'm autistic to people now and not either get told 'stop making excuses' or 'if your autism causes these problems maybe it makes you too stupid to be treated like a human'- but instead get people asking questions- like obviously what I described still happens but it's less common and we are a lot more visible)

Can we not be like this? Can we not be like the people who've historically abused us? Can we be inclusive? Toward people with disorders like schizophrenia or down syndrome and cluster b disorders (which includes people with aspd and npd)

We've dealt with this shit. We have to be better. We have to stand against dehumanizing other disabled people. I grew up hearing all sorts of shit about the intellectually disabled and developmental disabilities including my own- how many criminals would compared to us how we ended up being seen as anti intellectual enemies (despite the fact that we are arguably the most negatively impacted by the anti intellectual movement) and how we were seen as too hollow/r37@rd3d to understand the difference between good and evil- but it feels like my community as soon as we started getting some degree of acceptance we started throwing people with other developmental disabilities/delays under the bus (despite the fact that many people with autism also have other developmental/learning disorders- outside of adhd). We started attacking people with personality disorders (despite the fact many autistic people also have personality disorders and insults/abuse toward autistic people is often justified by comparing us to those with npd) it's disgusting. We need to stop acting like people with disorders like this arent human and like they don't have human thought processes/are infiltrators trying to sneak into humanity

This shit reminded me of the weird and sometimes horrifying treatment and disgusting attitudes I faced as a kid. Dehumanization is wrong no matter who it's happening to and people with stigmatized disorders aren't our enemy. People who are more severely disabled by their disorders (autism or learning disabilities included) aren't our enemies. Our enemies are people like the person I showed above

[wyrms-in-formaldehyde]

Actually, ranger might be a decent fit for you, depending on how you spin it. As I understand it, rangers are largely defined by their close affiliation to nature. Plants, animals, the wilderness, that sort of thing. Pretty similar to irl "forest rangers," actually, they just usually do it pro-bono because they like chilling in the wilderness and want to protect it/understand it/keep it in balance. And since you seem to be a planthead (that post about the trees budding too early and the birds arriving back home too soon and the consequences was an EXTREMELY ranger-ey thing to care about), I think this could work? Or maybe plants are more druid-ey? Is druid even a class? I don't think it is. So like if you were a ranger you'd be a super outdoorsy type who knows nature, especially your local ecosystems, like the back of your hand, and your love of it all would come to define you and your goals. While "bow-wielding wood elf hunter" is a common archetype, anyone can be a ranger. I think you even get sick wilderness magic at later levels, like talking to animals and summoning weather events and stuff. Don't quote me on any of this tho, I'm not super experienced with D&D. My first-ever character, who I only played for one session with two family members, was actually a wood elf archer, lol. I think I picked a premade character from a selection, tho, since it was my first time, and I think you can really fuck up the balance out the gates if you don't know what you're doing during character creation. I don't think there's any way to respec your stat points and stuff once the game starts, so I get why I was handed a choice between a few very stereotypical "basic" characters lol. ...this is all to say, pre-weird bug kinda gives ranger vibes to me maybe. A little. Post-weird bug is def more of a wizard or artificier though. Actually wait, Conky would make a great ranger.

going off of world of warcraft logic here and not dnd logic(because i literally never played it. unlike world of warcraft) but druids, at least in wow, are very much connected to nature in a "magic casting feller who's one with nature" way, which sounds like a step above rangers in terms of commitment to the nature loving bit. interesting stuff, must learn moar,.,,, and oughh i hope you had fun playing D&D when you did play 🔥🔥 .i will be quoting you on everything dnd related ever. /j

i just personally thought that ranger wouldn't really work well for me, being a nearsighted agoraphobic who doesn't go outside often or knows how to interact with animals that aren't bugs, birds or fish (i am not joking when i say i do not really know how to pet a cat) and all that lmao,.,,, i care about premature budding and bird migration because like wdym not everyone cares about Clear Signs You Will Have A Shitty Summer? don't you like Fruit? wouldn't you at least care about not having much good fruit this summer??? were you not taught how to build basic shelters or what to do in case of a natural disaster or how to do basic care for plants or what local plants/mushrooms you can and cannot eat? all of this is Clearly very much Perfectly Normal to know or care about. ...actually maybe i'm just surrounded by rangers and absorbed some of their traits by osmosis. ranger-adjacent. 😔🤘 it'd be sooooo awesome to be able to talk to critters and summon weather though... and it'd be nice to be able to summon rain during dry season so life doesn't shrivel in heat and die </3

but☝️ i suppose now considering that ranger is a Perfectly Normal amount of cares about plant and/or aminal (as opposed to druid who is Deranged about plant and/or animal) then i suppose yeah, pre-geen Bug would probably be ranger? 🔥 post-geen would definitely be whatever class allows to use experimental fucked up unstable concoctions and/or machines. which i assume that's exactly what artificer is

☝️ Conky would make a great ranger. to me. feller is really niceys doesn't have a bad bone in that odd body of his to go hurt critters and plants. and looks like someone who'd know how to navigate in familiar environments. silly goober allegations aside that fits him. unless vro is a warlock or something and that freaky appearance and abilities are a result of some #unnatural influence. that also made him forget things. no ideae tbh but i think ranger is neat :3

[olivia0823yxa]

I don't have strong opinions on the term "culturally christian" either way and honestly I try not to participate in discourse™ much but I will say I do appreciate that it's prompted me to think more in depth about my orientation towards Christianity in our culture.

Like, I am not and never was christian so when I decided I was an athiest at a young age it wasn't really anything I had to grapple with belief or identity-wise, it was more just like learning a new word. Athiest: someone who does not believe in any god*. Okay that describes me. But I only had that ease because my parents both converted from Christianity to Unitarian Universalism shortly before I was born. So my entire extended family is christian, and the religion that I was brought up in historically originated in Christianity.

My early religious education that wasn't about UU beliefs focused mostly on the Bible, even if they weren't telling us to believe in it they wanted us to know the basic stories for some reason. As I grew up they started teaching about other religions and sex-ed, and then I left the church before I learned more.

In my extended family, we celebrated Christmas and Easter, and at every family gathering someone led a traditional christian grace before eating. Now in my nuclear family we celebrate Winter Solstice which also is more major at the church my parents attend, but we celebrate in pretty much the same way most non-religious Christmas celebrators do**. At my school we also had off for those two holidays, even though we had a very significant number of jewish and muslim students they never got off for those holidays. Some of my classes had so many jewish students that we didn't even do any school work on the jewish High Holidays because there would be too many students who needed to do make up work, but of course the administration didn't really care.

In terms of morality, I was never taught the concept of "original sin" but since I didn't have an alternative framework I guess I somewhat absorbed the "default" sin->punishment->forgiveness christian model that pervades our society's idea of justice. As I grew up it became pretty clear that this is dumb though. Like I don't really understand how people rationalize punishment as necessary outside of a religious framework so it's actually really surprising to me that so many non-religious people believe that. UUism promotes some values, including that "the goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all" but I left the church before I learned what they mean by that.

But despite all this being enmeshed in christian culture, I'm still frequently shocked when I consciously realize some common belief or practice from so many people. The first wedding I ever went to was some distant relatives who were catholic, and I remember being horrified when it came to the vows and it was all about God and what wasn't about God was about the husband literally owning the wife. It wasn't until I was 21 that I went to another christian wedding, and I was so tense before the pastor started speaking because I didn't know if they were all like that or not***. I don't get how some people justify continuing to be a part of the Catholic Church with all its blatant evils, but are still able to reason normally in other contexts. In 2020 when the government allowed large gatherings for Christmas despite the pandemic, but didn't give a shit about the major holidays for any other religions and the news didn't even comment on that hypocrisy, I didn't understand how they could be that blind. Despite extremely accepting parents and community, it was still really difficult to be confident as a young queer, when the religous "debates" about gay marriage were still raging in mainstream media, and all I wanted to do was hold my boyfriend's hand but some asshole on TV says we can't because we'll go to a hell that I thought most people didn't actually believe in. And then as I became politically aware and it became clear that so many people care about politicians' exact standing in the micro-taxonomies of christian sects that I still can't tell apart. As far as I can tell the, the german president's only job is to give the Christmas speech once a year??? The more I learn how seriously everyone was taking it the whole time the weirder and scarier it is to me.

For a long time I also equated all religions with Christianity and came dangerously close to becoming a militant athiest. Luckily for me, when the "new atheism" thing turned rabidly anti-feminist I was put off enough that I stopped watching those youtube videos. Unlucky for society they succeeded in radicalizing so many people. Still today I'm suspicious of faith as a way of knowing, but all beliefs do require at least some faith so I'm still grappling with that.

I don't have a coherent thesis or anything I just hadn't really thoroughly and consciously thought through how much living in a christian-dominant culture affected me apart from the obvious things.

*: at this time I was so surrounded by a christian-derived notion of religion that nobody even told me any other conceptions of divine entities / faith. I did have some thoughts about deism later in high school but that's not really the point of this post

**: except sometimes we go to the church for their Solstice ceremony which is very pagan, but we do gifts and have a tree and such

***: happy to say it was great. The speech was about having fun and about how jesus was apparently a huge party animal. Later in the night I ended up sitting on the floor with the pastor drunk as fuck and talking about random shit I don't remember.

[maneaterwithtail]

I'm always torn on this because I've heard multiple conflicting information on the star of David being a literal jewish symbol aa opposed to 1 that's been assigned to them or a cultural catch on sort of like wearing headscarves

I mean obviously this fanart is just for fun and it's not necessarily bad and being other or a form of someone who is slightly out of line is a part of what characterizes these folks. so it's understandable anything that catches on or resonates with that could be assigned

At the exact same time, there's something to be said about being aware that there's something more to a culture than it's just not being mainstream and having its own unique needs experiences struggles and what have you

Having the insanely tall, light eyed, blonde haired guy with a full body Characterized as jewish just because he's disliked for his unusual behavior, which is deliberately unusual and born out of inconsideration/nd not so much cultural or religious matters feels a bit off

Even more so when you tap into more specific issues he's having with family. mainly not being able to fit with the culture and traditions of his people and how they've been hurtful to him and his sister. at least by his assessment (why would hewish mother assume daughter cursed and treat her like that?)

But finally perhaps the worst is that I'm thinking of an old old old anime movie known as project A-ko 3...or 4

We have a full on ancient alien conspiracy going on and then it's pointed out that the star of David is actually 2 isoscles triangles intersecting with each other i.e. a common geometric shape that's going to have a certain level of appeal and multiple uses and meanings. so even across the stars it could literally be a coincidence.

now admittedly this was a deliberate comedy gag in a parody anime movie series

But it's for this reason alone that I've learned not to go 'okay if I see this sign I might not actually know what it's about. it could be a hexagram. it could be related. simple coincidence. Spiritual symbol. or not. and if it is I probably want to hold off"

Just my personal thoughts and responses to this whole idea

But

because someone did go through the trouble of actually drawing and sharing something that they imagined yes this is funny charming and witty.

I like that I can notice the characters. I'm glad that scene inspired you to have some ideas and wonder what the characters would be like if this was the interpretation or meaning that might apply to them in their setting.

Actually I want to ask you further questions. given the relative time period that may be alluded to in the series, what if any traditions or implements will be used in terms of the coming of age ceremony of jewish men and women at the time?

Everything is of course subject to change and of course I understand that there are regional aspects as well as time period ones.

so I'm curious genuinely if they would have bar mitzvah and if so what would they look like? could they run them? it's my understanding that lios isn't just some random guy he's actually the son of someone with authority in the village if not the village chief

Even if this isn't the case they at the very least had the opportunity to ship their daughter to a foreign high boarding school. that might have been as much a cultural matter as opposed to a class opportunity

But adapting what would be the equivalent of Judaism or the jewish people into the world of dungeon meshi would be kind of interesting to consider without focus on representational value

Certainly wouldn't want to offend the jewish heritage and history and ideas and concepts but at the same time much as toshiro isn't exactly the most faithful or charming display of Japanese culture I hope that the primary idea of engaging with hey what if the toden's are in fact jewish or their people have greater influence from people's or groups. Maybe human faith/religion isn't presumed to draw. From universalized to the point of sludge Christian tradition or iconography but whatever cultural enclave can use as touden base

Is it possible for instance that Judaism is accepted on a level of cultural appreciation not necessarily actual honor authority that in order to be thought of as having class or Religious legitimacy a lot of its aesthetics iconography and rituals have been plucked alongside and throughout the peppered human villages and cities that are around the world of delicious in dungeon?

For instance there are lots of aspects that just read to us as Japanese cultural of Wa that would naturally have to tie into India and thus Buddhism and Hindi culture trying to sort of exist

Yet at the exact same time could not. along with say Korea and various dynasties of China.

And finally as has been pointed out there are a lot of new world vegetables cuisine and ecology in a show that very much emphasizes the point of ecology and social development in how things are made and get to where they are

I am not going to knock the ethnic diversity in DinD

Just amongst the humans, dwarves, and elves themseleves division race/ethnic, generational, class and other winnowing

But I mean where are the native Americans? we got their crops.

Where are the Americas? and how have they been affected by having a presumably even longer lasting more capable empires that even as they are dissolving and falling into themselves would be incredibly powerful and influential as noted with a boomtown on the island being subject to just one random ship showing up and basically believed to have their way?

watching new dunmeshi ep

[maguro13-2]

*Stomach Gurgling*

Ringo : Oh boy! I'm really hungry. All this walking is really making me getting us some eats.

Maguro : I know something to have for lunch. Good thing we're on lunch break!

Ringo : Good eye! Let's go check into that restaurant!

(scene flips)

Ringo : You know I'm glad that this date is becoming surreal this time. It's a funny solution you might ask.

Maguro : Well, that's the reason that I known about you back in 15th anniversary in Japan or in America. Don't tell Sonic Team about this, or we'll end up making ourselves a quite appetite. So what you're thinking on tonight, babe?

Ringo : Just the usual. It's not like that I'm having any male personality, while you have a female personality. Remember the time that I opened your shirt by accident and we got caught, yeah. We should do this more often then having human sex in the you know what I mean. Although despite this at a young age, we are definitely too young to have sex, but we did learn anything about it in Sex class.

Maguro : I'm not sure if we agree on anything to do with ourselves, but it's good that we are on a tight busy schedule. So...There's no one around, just the two of us. alone. all together.

Ringo : So...Shall we begin this like always? It'll be just as a sweet of pie.

Maguro : I absolutely agree on all the terms that I have this moment to be perfected, so I guaranteed that you know that I have been maxing out on our company's allowance. So...If we agree that we don't have our problems then we'll have something in common for all of us. Well...

Ringo : Kiss me on the mouth, why don't ya? I wanna see how good that you are very taste and sweet.

Maguro : Oh, you think so!? You really want to kiss me, girl!? Let me get this opportunity done for ya! I am going to be the one that will make the heck out of you!

Ringo : Oh, Maguro! Give me some love, honey!

Amitie : Bingo!

Ringo : Hey, what the--!?

*CAMERA FLASH!*

Amitie : Hahaha! I gotcha ya! I caught you two making out while you two were alone to do some of that sweet sweet Puyo Puyo whats it call it in the world of Puyo Puyo!

Ringo : I know what is it, Amitie. And I felt embarassed in front of Maguro. It's called "Sex", Amitie.

Amitie : Yeah, I know right! That's-What? What is that?

Ringo : Well, at least you know nothing about it! I don't feel embarrassed how I feel and you do know that it's complicated settlement the actions and discussions about our problems to you know. Let's face it, we Sega characters don't know what Sex is and I heard Yakuzas even barely knows what sex is about, it's like making motions to sweet sweet love that is, and SEGA gotta get some romance or something. You know like pink and blue.

Amitie : That's Sonic and Amy. I know, right?

Ringo : Yeah, you're right. I feel too embarassed.

*scenario ends*

Ringo : And that's why I was having a more Boyfriend complex, while Maguro has a Girlfriend complex. Totally understanding the mix up between the female hero and the boy sidekick wonder. I always come up with a plan if it's like Maka and Soul, yeah, that would totally work! It's Soma thing! Or probably a Souma thing right now. What do you say about girls having a boyfriend complex while some boys a have a girlfriend complex?

Arle : Umm, I think that's literally out of context. You see is, what does sex is and what does boyfriend and girlfriends that goes mix up in different places, I don't think that you should be getting this from Sex education through all of this week. (sighs) I couldn't agreee with you more. So much for all of us, in the amazing world of Puyo.

Amitie : Talk about a misunderstanding.

*Phone vibrating*

Amitie : Hey, not to mention to spoil the talk. I suggested that's someone on the phone.

Arle : It's your boyfriend or girlfriend, whatever it is?

Ringo : (blushes red) W-WHAT!? He's not my boyfriend! It's my lover! I have someone on the phone to talk privately! I have no suggestion on you judging me on the phone!

Amitie : Nobody's judging you, Ringo. Just talk to anyone, it'll make you confess.

Arle : You have a deep feeling for anybody.

Ringo : Well, if you insist, I agree that I can do this bravely. (phone beeps) Hey, babe. How are you doing?

Maguro : (on the phone) Oh, Ringo?

Ringo : Yeah, I'm on the phone, talking you. So any problems with people barging on our relationship, sweetie?

Maguro : (on the phone) No, not at all. I see that you're in top shape. No need to get all cranky on that one.

Ringo : Yeah, yeah, me and the girls are having a great time together, so it's best that I'm on way meeting you at the right time. I hope you'll stay safe from all of that danger. Okay, my dear?

Maguro : (on the phone) Okay then. Gottta go, I'll get there to see you. Love ya

Ringo : Love ya too, sweet cheeks. (phone beeps, sighs) That was amazing. You see what I did there, yeah, I have a Boyfriend complex while Maguro has a girlfriend complex. Yeah, I'm a weird person, but it's all right. Cause I'm the coolest.

Arle : Well, definitely. That's the Ringo that is all in her world, cooler, smarter, and talks like someone is a girlfriend material. Guess that Maguro person was making her the crush of her dreams.

Amitie : I agree that this would be all a misunderstatement, but it's okay. That's Ringo for ya. I think that we're getting along together.

Arle : True that.

Amitie : I wonder what's next for her character to be.

"later..."

[Freek N You by Jodeci]

Ringo : So, where we're we? (pulls down shirt)

Maguro : (with his shirt opened) Are you sure this is going to work out for us?

Ringo : Trust me, baby. I know it will. You truly are an amazing person, aren't you? Why don't you make me mine, forever? I will make you the glory to your trust.

*DOOR OPENING*

Amitie : Hey, guys! One republic came to Japan today and they're releasing a new song called "Nobody" that is used for the Kaiju anime song! Holy Mean Beans! Ringo, Maguro! I didn't mean to opened the door.

Ringo : Knock first, Amitie! Can't anyone teach you some manners!?

Amitie : Right. Enjoy your free time. *closes door*

[Freek N You resumes]

Ringo : Okay. [To Maguro] Back to our nightly hours, I'm gonna spend my night eternal night blessed by your own kind.

Maguro : Absolutely.

Ringo & Maguro : (kissing and moaning)

Ringo : Oh, you're such a naughty boy, Maguro.

(pans to Amitie hearing from the door)

Amitie : Ohhh? So that's how they wanna play, eh? I'm getting all of this kind of entertainment to prove something useful.

Arle : Please, end me.

"later..."

Arle : Where were you last night?

Ringo : Sorry, I was in a bit of a pickle with Maguro last night. We had a great time and it was our first run. So yeah! I felt lucky of being a puyo puyo sensation on the contrary. I'm all ears with Maguro, now.

Amitie : Quite. Not sure if that I heard some kind of entertainment, I hear that you literally knocked up Maguro like that, in some kind of way.

Ringo : Yep. (stretches) I never been felt better than to make one mistake or not, it's only a fare share that I'm on a busy schedule going head to head on puzzle battles that makes puzzles, boring and fun at the same time, but don't forget I always get what I wanted, cause I'm a certain type of what I get started!

"Mean Bean Machine SFX : Yee-haw!"

Arle : Wow! Congratulations, Ringo! Looks like you're becoming a women of your own world! Now that you've got yourself tied in a knot, how did you knocked Maguro like that all night and how did he made you felt better to be this?

Amitie : Yeah, what's the orientation of you between Maguro and you?

Ringo :That's easy, guys! I got myself pregnant with Maguro's child.

Arle : Eh...?

Amitie : Eh...?

*DBZ SFX : SURPRISE!*

All : SAY WHAAAAAAAT!?!

(Everyone except for Sig is shocked)

Klug : [dumbstruck] Abra. *SHATTER!*

Sig : Tch. Whatevs'.

Amitie : D...D-D-Did you say you're pregnant...

Arle : With someone's child?....[outbursts] We're you not even wearing protection while we told you about this at Sex class!? What were you thinking about getting knocked up like that!? Did anyone taught you that in Sex Class as well!? We're supposed to even think about doing that and you forget that you needed protection!?

Amitie : Did you even think about making out before even do that!? Now we understand what sex is? It's about making love!?!

Arle : Unbelievable!

Ringo : Yep! Cause that's why I, Ringo of the world of Puyo Puyo, is now a mother to the world's greatest Puyo Puyo champion of all! And I am certainly "Boyfriend complex"! (laughs triumphantly) So what did you think, guys?...Guys?

*DBZ SFX : Collapse+Boing*

Ringo : Guess I spoke too soon about that, isn't it?

Maguro : So. Now that we got on the wrong foot. So can we just get along.

Ringo : Allow me to do this for you. (carries Maguro behind) Hang on tight, big boy. Cause I'm gonna take you for a ride. (walks off)

Arle & Amitie : ARE YOU FRIGGIN' SERIOUS!?!

Sig : Don't judge a book by it's cover. Guess that's what love feels when it comes to the world of Puyo Puyo doesn't know anything about the life and bonds between the human sexes. Despite the world of Puyo Puyo a weird place, this is quite an opportunity to think Sega would get away with Mature stuff going on and believe it or not, we all needed to learn some how.

Amitie : Sig, you're right. I guess it is what love feels.

Arle : Also, I'm still single and I even had dump Satan for his kind, can I at least get back to whatever I am doing, right now?

Carbuncle : [with a male voice] You know that you should really consider getting yourself some therapy. But I still dig it that two of them has found love on the battlefield.

Arle : Ice storm!

*Smash Melee SFX : Ice*

Satan : You know seriously! I'm getting a little frigging teed off, right now!