#but on the other hand. it feels so niceys and validating

[fruityumbrella]

obsessed w the feeling of reading back your own work like "wait yeah no im great at this, this shit is funny and compelling and awesome yay"

[piduai]

I totally agree with you , I tend to remember the bad more than the good . I guess for self care it's better to just watch the arcs you loved . I watched the episode 153 or 157 something ( I don't remember the exact number but it's about Kagura not wanting to sleep ) more than ten times because I liked it. I think it's the best way to view an anime like this.

After all not much is to be  expected from an author like this.

The aliens versus us is just a way to portray the pre opening era . CLEARLY . No reach. If he could write "THOSE FOREIGNERS " he would. Very weird it's giving Isayama with Snk , the world population vs us the people of ( I don't remember honestly 🥴). It's like a nostalgic / xenophobic stand but not outspoken.

I just wish we got more contents of characters like Asaemon and nobume + mutsu these three really could introduce  interesting drama with their profession and personalities. I will never NEVER get over it 😩👹. You know what ? I wish gunatama was a female only cast ( I DARE TO SAY IT👹👹👹)

Also I don't like Emosugi , Kamui is so  cringe , he's what to expect from a teenage boy. He's so predictable, a violent  emotional red hair emo .

But  Takasugi Dramasuke ?!  I just can't . His rage is valid but he never gave anything . A plate of pasta without salt . The hype about him is what all his character is . I never understood it. He doesn't look cool and I think his feet smell NGL.

He's the example of a delayed frontal lobe growth. Soratchi just used limited appearance to tune the citizens on. I don't know how they fell for it . When the whole truth was finally exposed i was disappointed 🧍🏻‍♀️.

I don't know how to explain it and why . He's just so cliché i thought ginballma would be more original but it's not when you look back when it's about serious topic.

i don't have arcs i particularly hate, tbh i watched it in 2013 for the first time and a lot of the cultural & linguistic jokes flew over my head, as well as a lot of references. so now i rediscover a lot of stuff on my rewatch, which is fun. but ig if you have stuff you really hate it's just better to skip altogether, i mean who cares. i only started rewatching it bc i need something to play in the bg while i eat/do my nails/clean around the house etc and short series end too fast while i don't feel like committing to a long series i haven't watched yet

yeah i do wonder, i didn't notice it the first time at all but now it feels very sus. it's also funny that earth = japan it seems, the word japan is never uttered actually but the existence of other nations is never brought up either. and amanto = foreigners, with kagura and the rest of the yato being alien chinese while catherine being alien something vaguely southeast asian. with the rest being animals. i don't think it's that deep just something that made me raise an eyebrow

asaemon is a one arc character and mutsu was shown for a bit towards the end, but nobume was snubbed lol. but again everyone else who isn't g*ntoki was also snubbed. with nobume it's a shame that her shoyo disciple side was never explored while some whomstie (oboro) got an entire thing around it. zura was also sidelined when it comes to this. nobume didn't really do much after sabuchan died from what i recall which is a shame. but also the cast is HUGE so with sorachi's limited formulaic writing abilities it's understandable lol

people always praise the character writing in gintama and i always disagreed with that because 98% of the cast is the same thing from different angles, or rather it seems that he can't write anything else. default character in this series is kind of a rude jerk who is actually super duper kind and niceys deep down and when it matters, and if push comes to shove they'll give you a helping hand no questions asked. most of them have their own quirks (kagura is an abrasive glutton, tae is arrogant, mean and backstabbing, nobume is aloof and apathetic, kyuubei and tsukuyo are overly-serious and awkward and so on and so forth) but the mold is the same. which is like, fine for shounen standards, and a lot of them are very likeable, but let's be real no giocondas are being painted here

i liked kamui until it was revealed that he actually fr fr is obsessed with his mom and sister and this whole time he was just lonely and misunderstood and lashing out. boring. he was fun as a power-hungry #psycho little shit but obviously we can't have any divergences from the mold in this house. as for takasugi he's always been one of my favorites so i can't say much here lol to each their own

[alisheaburgess]

Having a Grand Cross and Finding Balance - My Cardinal Grand Cross

So for a reference, I have a Cardinal Grand Cross with my Mercury in Libra (at my Asc), Neptune and Uranus in Capricorn (at my IC), Mars in Cancer (at my MC), and my Moon in Aries (on my Desc) and this is JUST MY EXPERIENCE with these placements!

Warning...this gets complicated...that's kinda the whole point I think... I am going to give examples because there really isn't much on Grand Crosses (at least that I could find).

If your have any of these placements/aspects keep in mind that these are just very basic ways these planets interact. There is so much more to learn about each planet and how it interacts with the others.

Having a Grand Cross means that you have two sets of planets that are opposing that are squared to each other (it will look like a big X inside a square on your birth chart). It means that the planets are in signs that behave so differently that it causes conflicting pulls...in 4 different directions.

Example: My Aries Moon would decide to be independent and stick up for myself but then my Libra Mercury goes "oh no, that's ok. Let's just do what you want to do." My Aries Moon would then push people away when I needed independence, no nicey nice. Grrrrrr

It's taken a long time and quite a bit of work to find even a little balance with it. I had to work on each planet individually and then their relationships with each other. I started with the Oppositions.

Example:

Working on my Libra Mercury by learning that my opinion and desires are valid and needed! And then with my Aries Moon learning that I need lighthearted competition to let out some of that energy cause...oh my, am I a handful (having an Aries Moon is said to be like having 2 Mars'...but my actual Mars is in Cancer...which is like not having a Mars at all so it's a bit backward). But also with Aries Moon learning that my feelings aren't the only feelings to consider. So then when I brought them together, I was able to communicate that I needed to be able to have freedom to make my own decisions and be my own person without going cranky little brat on people.

With Mars in Cancer I had to learn to go for what I wanted! Instead of being a scaredy cat. Not going after my dreams went hand in hand with putting myself into the not having freedom and and pushing people away spiral. With the two Outer Planet Uranus and Neptune I had to learn that not everything was as it seemed...and sometimes change is inevitable and needed. When bringing them together, it meant that I had to move forward even when I didn't fully feel comfortable (because that never really happened anyway) and that would help me understand the changes and make me more comfortable in the end.

Then I would try to work on Mars in with my Mercury and Moon (as these are my Inner Planets and the other two are Outer Planets)... it meant doing the things I wanted to do without being "babied" or needing anyone else's approval. While also allowing the right kind of help instead of trying to do it all myself. Follow where my heart was leading me. I had a tendency to need to know EVERYTHING about a situation before moving forward (made worse by several placements in my chart).

With Neptune...this one didn't so much have it's own thing but have really bad effects on the other planets in the Cross. I'll just share how it effected my Moon. I had to learn that it was far too easy for me to forget that someone had hurt me...to the point that they could keep doing the same thing over and over and I wouldn't remember. I also had to learn that my perception of people was based on what they could be, not what they are right now. This got a lot better when I started journaling. I would wright about things that happened and when I went back I would see how many times they did the same thing and how often it was and how malicious they really were being. I started writing down how they acted afterwards how they would purposely change their behavior so that it was easier to forget what had happened.

With Uranus I had to learn that I NEEDED change in these areas. And if I didn't allow change to happen...well it would anyway. So I try to not keep myself cooped up in any way (if possible). Because as soon as I have a restriction I immediately try to fight it.

And it is a spiral from here on out because each of the planets in the Cross effect all the others in what feels like the most chaotic story ever unwinding. I don't' think it actually ends but the more I work on balancing each planet's energy and then incorporating it into the mix the better it gets. I no longer have the same issues I struggled with for so many years but I am finding others that I should I work on. It's a constant balancing game. If I stop working on it...I find that I slip back into a pattern. It always gets easier to come out of it and get back on track each time though. None of this happened over night...it has been over a year of studying and working on it now and I can for sure see a difference where I had just about lost hope before I found Astrology.

If you have a Grand Cross PLEASE SHARE your experience!!! :)

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Johnny Weir And Tara Lipinski Aren't Mean, They're Just Good At Their Jobs

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Johnny Weir And Tara Lipinski Aren't Mean, They're Just Good At Their Jobs

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The Olympic Opening Ceremonies haven’t even happened yet, and we’re already being bombarded with articles about Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski supposedly being too blunt and too mean toward the figure skaters in the team competition. Well, that’s absolutely, positively ridiculous. Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski are really good analysts (also, shoutout to key support Terry Gannon). If they keep improving, they could eventually be considered among the strongest niche sport commentators on television, and there are very valid reasons for why they were so aggressive last night: the skating was awful.

It’s the job of a commentator to contextualize what’s going on. Most of us don’t watch international figure skating outside of the Olympics. As such, we need people to explain to us what’s happening and why it’s important. Yesterday, the majority of competitors, with a handful of exceptions, were terrible. There’s no other way to put it. They consistently under-rotated. Multiple competitors slipped or stumbled when they weren’t even attempting jumps. There were more than a dozen falls. It was a mess, and Nathan Chen was a big part of that.

Widely considered to be the United States’ best hope to win one of the team competitions, he fell, failed to complete one of his rotations and scored an 80.61 in his short program. To put that in perspective, at the 2017 US Championships, his short program scored 106.39. He also broke 100 at the 2017 Four Continents, broke 90 and won at the US International Figure Skating Classic, broke 100 at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, broke 100 at Skate America and broke 100 at the US Figure Skating Championships earlier this year. When he skates well, he breaks 100. Last night, he barely broke 80. So, they called him out. They made it clear it was the worst short program they’d seen him skate in years. They did their jobs, and instead of appreciating the honesty, we’re now getting headlines about how they were ticking off viewers because they were mean to him.

It’s not the job of professional commentators to be nice. It’s also not their job to be mean. It’s their job to explain what’s happening and offer context to those of us watching at home. So, when everyone is performing better than expected, we should expect to hear lots of positive statements. When everyone is screwing up, we should hear lots of negative statements. Last night was (mostly) a bloodbath. As a viewer, I would prefer to hear the truth, not some nicey-nice, overly optimistic slant on the truth.

Many consider TNT’s Inside The NBA to be the premiere sports analysis show on television. Featuring Ernie Johnson and Charles Barkley, as well as Shaq and Kenny Smith, episodes take on a dramatically different tone, depending almost entirely on the type of game that was played immediately prior to the broadcast. The reason why it works is because it feels honest. The segments that are very critical in nature are counterbalanced by the segments that are remarkably complimentary of the players. The episodes weave through a full range of emotions. It all feels natural, to the point where they sometimes call out commercials. For those of us who listened to the entire broadcast last night, there was a similar feeling. Tara and Johnny offered a lot of nice comments when they were deserved (see the men from Israel and Japan, the pairs from Russia, Canada and even though they fell, Germany, as well). And when nice comments weren’t deserved, they didn’t fake ’em.

Johnny Weir has a ton of broadcasting talent. He describes figure skating using wonderful and unexpected phrases like “bumper car action.” He’s self-deprecating to lighten the mood. He’s not afraid to call out skaters who don’t perform, and he does it all in a way that feels very natural and conversational. He’s less weird but has the same natural honesty as someone like Bill Walton. If he were in a sport with a little more traction inside the United States, there would be even more talk about the heights he could achieve in broadcasting. And Lipinski is his perfect foil. She’s a little less wordy, but she’s able to indulge his silly moments while still keeping the broadcast on track. She’s very good with technical analysis and explaining different types of jumps in a way viewers can understand. She’s also able to be direct without seeming forced or grandiose. They’re both really good, and they need to keep progressing exactly as they are, not neuter themselves because a few people got mad on Twitter.

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