#i am not an expert by any means

[where-our-stories-start]

this might be a weird question, but i just saw your queer eye post and something you said stood out to me: "Furthermore, telling someone to shower more isn't actually helpful, it just makes them feel shamed." - i was wondering if you had advice for me? my boyfriend is autistic and doesn't shower very often. like, maybe every 3-4 days. i also have autism and when his hair is oily it really is a sensory nightmare for me, and i'm also kind of sensitive to smell. i've never said "hey, please shower more" because i don't want to hurt his feelings, but i want him to just maybe shower every two days. is there a helpful way to do this? he isn't depressed, i think he just doesn't like bathing

So I am 100% not an expert on autism or sensory issues, but I have some experience with neurodiversity and mental health/processing in general, so here's my non-expert advice:

Tell your boyfriend basically exactly what you've just told me. Make it clear that this isn't about him doing something wrong, just about differing habits and needs. Frame it as an issue for the two of you to find a solution to together ("I'm struggling with something; can we chat about it?"). Explain your issue with oily hair, and ask him why his shower routine is the way it is. Based on his answer, see if you two can find a solution. Maybe it's as simple as him not remembering to shower more, in which case you can help by reminding him. If he does dislike showering to the point where doing it more often isn't a practical solution, try looking into things like dry shampoo, head wraps, etc.

The issue isn't in telling someone to shower more per se, the issue is in making someone feel shamed or gross or wrong for their habits. You're not telling your boyfriend he's dirty, you're just talking about what happens to his hair after a few days and your response to it. Just like Tan gives Joey ways to stay clean and fresh that fit within his lifestyle, your job is to find ways for you to interact with your boyfriend's hair that work for both your needs.

Good luck!

[faunandfloraas]

The Nobleman or 양반 (yangban): The smiling face represents the bluff and composure that an aristocrat is often known to have. The chin is a separate piece from the top of the mask, and the actors can lean forward and back to make the mask smile or frown as needed.

This monk who abandons his doctrines, or 취발이 (chwibari): Chwibari was originally a monk, but he had no intention of joining the monastic order, so he came down to the world and wanders. Represented with a forehead full of wrinkles and spots.

The widow or, 부네 (Punae/bune): represented to be a widow, or a kisaeng ( a woman who sang, danced, or played an instrument to provide entertainment for company at a drinking party), or a mistress of the Yangban. She has a very small mouth, round cheeks and forehead- giving a general look of happiness good-humor.

[slashify]

We all love tattoo artist Eddie, but consider tattoo artist Steve.

He has an American Robin perched on a trumpet on his bicep for Robin. He gave her a brightly colored ice cream cone on her shoulder in different shades of pink. She rambled about cultural tattoos and the history of tattoos in America when she wasn’t bitching at him (‘Ow! For the love of all that is holy, Dingus!’ ‘Do you need a break?’) the whole time he was doing it.

He finds one of the kids (Max) attempting a stick n poke and gathers them all around for a lecture on safety and cleanliness. He promises the kids he’ll tattoo them for free when they’re old enough.

He and Will have art sessions where they’ll pick a subject and draw it traditionally and then Steve gives him pointers on how he would make the design better for tattooing. Will ends up apprenticing with Steve when he turns 18.

Steve still wears blue jeans and polos. His work is good enough that his customers don’t give a shit how he dresses.

He’s compassionate about coverups. He knows what it’s like to have changed so much that who you once were doesn’t fit anymore.

He’s very versatile, switching between outlines, black and grey shading, subtle highlights, and bold coloring with ease. He can do cartoon work as well as he can do realistic plants, or big cats, or lettering (he checks the spelling five or more times. He’s never messed up, but it’s one of his biggest fears). He has a whole list of referrals from people who like how he does scales. He’s lost count of how many fish, dragons, and snakes he’s done. He’s comfortable with a lot of styles, but he doesn’t do portraits. When Will starts at the shop he excels at portraits. Steve’s happy he’s found his niche.

Steve’s at a tattoo expo to network and check out new techniques when he finds himself stopping to watch an artist doing a tattoo of a demon. The artist has long, dark hair pulled back in a ponytail, and a grin like sunshine, and manages to make something grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Steve checks out the guy’s portfolio and sees a lot of fantasy stuff, dragons and wizards and a familiar looking set of dice, and he knows he has to go grab Will from the food court.

[coral-canary]

Idk I feel like if An got a pet. It would be a pigeon. I don’t have any reason to believe this it just feels right.

I feel like she got it from a cafe regular. Sort of a “friend of a friend of a friend” situation where someone was trying to find a pigeon a home and they asked if she’d be interested.

Anyways there’s so much potential guys. She’d be so obsessed with it almost immediately. She’d name it something stupid and show up to practice the next day and talk ALL about it and Kohane would be soooo excited. Toya would fondly watch. Akito is convinced that it isn’t even real and that An is making it all up until he meets it and he’s too overcome by shock to pretend to be annoyed about it.

And then just. THE SCENARIOS.oh my god.

An: Guys….. they…. They made a nest!!!! Sniff…. they grow up so fast….. I’m so proud… sniff… they did such a good job…

and then it cuts to this

And then An is just looking at them and their two stick nest with genuine pride and affection and tears and Akito is in the background head in hands asking why she’s like this.

[carlottastudios]

Every day I get closer to making an unhinged behemoth of a post listing all of the things about Kaeya and his possible connections to mythology & stuff that I notice but NOBODY ELSE SEEMS TO BRING UP IN THEIR THEORIES

(edit: OMG I reached the tag limit I'm so sorry)

[forestanomaly]

East slavic naming guide

From a ukrainian artist who grew up in russia-influenced culture and has russian friends. Probably can also be applied to other east slavic nationalities, but I can't talk for them, so I strongly advice to do additional research.

So, you desided to make a character that is russian, ukrainian, belorussian or perhaps rusyn. It is very nice, we'd love some representation! But how to name your new east slavic creature in a way that would sound right for their real counterparts? Let's go over some frequent mistakes I notice in names of slavic characters.

Structure of the name

Our names consist of name, patronymic (usually) and surname. There can be exeptions from the established rule, but usually name and surname is a must.

Name

Gender is stupid, but if you want to be aware of it, then please mind which gender the chosen name represents. There are names that can be considered unisex in their nickname form, like Alexander (m) and Alexandra (f) is commonly redused to Sasha (f/m/whatever), or Evgeniy (m) and Evgeniya (f) can be nicknamed Zhenya (f/m/whatever). Mind that nicknames are usually used by friends and family, and it is considered polite and respectful to refer to a person you don't really know/who is much older than you or is of a higher rank or position by their full name and patronymic/matronymic (ex. "...so my teacher, Alla Ivanovna..." "Andrey Romanovich, can I ask you something about the task you gave us earlier?") (more on that later) Full, unshortened version of the name is rarely used in friendly and family settings, especially if the name is long and common. No friend or family would call you Vladislav if they don't mean it in comedic way or using your Full Name (tm) when they're angry (you know what I mean, your parents do that too), on a day-by-day basis people who know you would usually just call you Vlad. I encourage you to look up common nicknames for names when you choose them and to think about how other characters would refer to your east slavic depending on their manneurisms and relationships. Some nicknames are more often used in sertain settings than others, for example, here's name Sergey. Common nickname is Serezha/Serega, but on the streets (tm) it can be shortened to Seryi, which literraly means Gray, so have fun with that.

Surname

Please please PUHLEASE WATCH THE ENDINGS OF THE SURNAMES Most of the words in east slavic languages are gendered, especially surnames and patronymic/matronymics, that change their endings depending on who they belong to! Ex: If a character is male, then his SurnameNamePatronymic would be Sobolev Alexander Vasilyevich. If a character is female, her SNP would be Soboleva Alexandra Vasilyevna. You see where I'm going, right? There are some surnames that don't change, like Onyshenko, or Yakovenko, for example, that stay the same, no matter who they belong to. Be aware of that when you choose a surname and check how it changes and if it does at all, please. We would appreciate it greatly.

Patronymic/matronymic

Most of the time you meet people with patronymics, aka derivative word from the name of their father. It is uncommon, but not unheard of, for people to have matronymics (same but with their mother's name) or have neither. They pretty much always change depending on the gender of a person, ex.: There is a dude named Bogdan. His son would have patronymic Bogdanovich, his daughter - Bogdanovna, and his nonbinary child would probably choose a plural form of the word - Bogdanovni, but there are no rules for that in languages I know, so I'd ask actual east slavic nonbinary people how they go about that. People usually actually use patronymics/matronymics combined with full names in official settings. NP/NM is usually used by students when they reffer to teachers, by subodrinates when they talk to their boss, by kids when they talk to their friend's parents and etc. It's basically ms./mrs./mr. of the east slavic languages. It is also common for older people to call each other only by patronymic/matronymic if they know each other well, like if they are neighbours, colleagues or friends. They also usually shorten the patronymics/matronymics when they do that, so Ivanovich becomes Ivanich and so on. People younger than, like, fourty, usually don't do that and just use names if they know each other well. It's always good to double-check the spelling and pronounciation of specific everything (name, surname, patronymic/matronymic), because boy do they hold linguistic surprises. Thank you for reading, have fun, do your research, don't be afraid to try new things and ask questions!

[collieii]

i'm sure it's been said but i do love how trimax handles wolfwoods death. i've seen so many stories that have characters die and they just go away after. i'm really used to stories where the other characters aren't allowed to grieve, the story keeps going and it feels like the other characters aren't really affected or get over it really easily. but in trimax wolfwoods death is so important. we see other characters grieving him. vash protecting the orphanage, expanding his power when he really shouldn't, because it was wolfwood's home, even though wolfwood is already gone. he gets an actual burial. vash and livio eating their way through the grief, which is more comedic but still shows us how important he was to the two of them, sets up how in many ways they're fighting in his memory.

even after he's gone he's still present in the story in such a strong way. we can see how he's affected the other characters, even when they don't explicitly mention him it's obvious that they're thinking about him. what he did when he was alive, and his death itself, are so important to the story even after he's not there. not just in a really abstract "this is someone we lost" way (though there are a lot of times his death and sacrifice motivate vash and livio to fight harder!) he's present in the finale in a material way to livio, who uses his serums to help fight against elendira, which ofc also ties into the way wolfwoods choice to ally with vash and fight against knives gave livio strength to do the same. wolfwood showed him that there are things worth fighting for, things worth protecting. that your body is a weapon, but you can choose what to do with it, use it for something meaningful.

and the way vash kills legato in order to save livio? vash outright says that he did it to protect what wolfwood fought for, sacrificed his life for. it's tied to the ongoing arc between vash and wolfwood, their conflict over the necessity of killing others. wolfwood pushed vash into having an understanding of his views when he was alive, demonstrating the necessity of that violence. simultaneously, vash inspired wolfwood to follow his path, a kinder one. vash remembers what wolfwood said to him, and his death gives those words added poignancy. wolfwood well and truly sacrificed everything to protect what he loved and fight for what he believed in. how can vash let that go to waste? he sacrifices something just as meaningful to himself, and he pulls the trigger. it brings him closer to wolfwood in a way he never was before. he understands now, fundamentally, what motivates people, motivated wolfwood, to act as he did when he took lives. there are so many other ways wolfwood is present in the story after his death i can't talk about all of them but it makes me so crazy

[freckliedan]

i'm going to straight up start filtering urls of people who use ableist language because it's popular on tiktok. delulu isn't a funny or cute way of talking it's misuse of a word with a specific use. there's already so much stigma and oppression faced by people who experience delusions/psychosis/etc and the way people use the word delulu makes things worse.

have you guys not been seeing people who are directly harmed by this talk about it since the moment it started happening? do you not care at all about solidarity with disabled/mentally ill/mad people?

not using words is the easiest thing in the world. why is this still happening on my dash.

[petit-papillion]

I'm legitimately confused about the Carlos tires post. I don't have a dog the fight, I'm just trying to understand it from a technical protective. People in the tags are saying that the graph makes it so obvious that Carlos not gradually wearing in his tires at the beginning of the stint cost him at the end of the stint. All I see though is that the lap times for both Charles and Carlos get slightly higher as the stint progresses at a pretty similar rate. What am I missing? Does Carlos' line end because he pitted (I don't remember how that played out)? Even if that's the case, his lap times didn't seem much slower than Charles' at that time, so it seems like there's something I don't understand. Am I having a moment and missing something obvious? Thanks in advance for any insight you or any or your followers can provide!

Hi Dancing-on-inters!

Here is the graph in question (by umakshually) for reference:

You can see in Lap 2 that LEC is lapping slower (red line above the 1:21:250 mark), while SAI is pushing (white line just below 1:20 mark). Zach Brown was pointing out that the tyres need to be gently brought up to temperature or they will not last long, and that SAI was pushing hard in the last turn (T14) on Lap 2 to set up his overtake on LEC on Lap 3.

Brandon (@brakeboosted) posted a graph of Lap 3 Turn 14 and it shows LEC (red) using less throttle and racing at a slower speed than SAI (white):

Back to the first graph: Compare the white straight line (SAI) to the red line (LEC). The steeper white line shows how SAI dropped off a lot quicker than LEC. SAI: 0:01:00 over 13 laps, vs. LEC: 0:00:45 over 22 laps.

The hard push SAI did in those initial stages led to his tyres degrading faster, and him having to pit a lot sooner (after 15 laps, versus LEC after 24).

Note: only Alex Albon did a longer stint on Soft tyres (26 vs. Charles's 24), but with a lower fuel load as it was his middle stint.

📷umakshually / brakeboosted / pirellisport

[marmot-bee-person]

How exactly does Della control her robot leg? Cause she definitely has some control but like… the calf is hollow, even though she clearly has control of the foot to some extent.

Idk i have no knowledge of this subject, it just struck me while i was rewatching nothing can

[rgrfederer]

fedole >:)

shout out to the other two anons that asked me about fedole because. you've caught me in doing fedole research so i'm feeling it rn JSJSJSKSJ

i need to start by saying roger was so agressive towards novak it wasn't even funny, whenever they asked him about novak he was always like "yeah this guy sucks he needs to retire" and i'm not even joking like. what was his deal

and honestly novak is a very feeling person. he loves and it ends up hurting him in the end because of the cruelty of the game. but, it's all there

so you have roger who once again hates novak and novak who wants to be roger's friend and take it easy between them both. novak catches onto this hate quickly and decides to. kill all leniency he could've had towards roger

years and years of facing eachother, it's almost painful to see that these matches besides the rivarly, it has a deeper more profound feeling towards it. it's not only hate but what could have been. if only.

novak also knows how to strike roger where it hurts, where it bleeds. the australian open and wimbledon to be precise. it hurts him a lot, but it's what he deserves for rejecting all of what he could have given to him, right?

anyways, unlike rafole, i think roger and novak's dislike for eachother didn't cool down until recently (after wimbledon 2019 to be precise oops), and roger himself admitted his fault by saying he didn't give novak's enough respect when he could have, when it mattered

but now you have novak saying that he would love to face roger once again and roger giggling at his comment so we can be assured they are in good terms nowadays which is good for the economy

[iwanttobepersephone]

Tell me about persephone accidentally getting the title of spring-bringer (if you want, ofc) now I'm curious

OOOOOO YES YES YES

So, it's a fairly simple concept, all things considered. Buut, I'll still explain it! I assume you know the story, but I'm summarizing anyways

So, Persephone is hanging out in a flower field, and Hades springs up from the ground and takes her to be his wife. We later find out that Zeus, Persephone's father (I think? That's actually a part I'm not sure one) had told Hades to kidnap her. Demeter gets reeeaaaallyyy sad about this and stops letting anything grow. So, the world falls into ruin as crop after crop fails. Eventually, Hermes goes down into the underworld and says "Hey Hades idk if you noticed this but there's a lotta people dying. Like a lot. You think Perse can come up for a quick visit?" And he agrees and Persephone promises to come back. Hades gets anxious however and has her eat 6 pomegranate seeds, which binds her to the underworld. She comes back and Demeter gets so happy to have her daughter back that she starts letting things grow again

This myth, as you may have guessed, handles the passing of the seasons. Fall and winter are when Persephone is in the underworld, spring and summer are when she's in the mortal realm. But, if you noticed, Persephone isn't actually the one bringing spring. It's Demeter. Demeter is the one who let's things grow again, Persephone is just the reason. Actually, throughout all the myths, Persephone is never really given a deification.

BUT!

We know that Persephone existed before ancient Greece, in Mycenaean Greece, because we have found her name in linear b writings. I can't recall exactly why at the moment, but it is commonly believed that Persephone actually used to be a fertility goddess! And this is shown in her central myth in a really fun way, because pomegranates very often symbolize, you guessed it, fertility!! I just think it's really neat how, even when Persephone lost her domain, it still followed her a little bit

[collateral-joy]

What is Dick Rave?

An Introduction

Figure 1: a

I suppose that, if I'm going to be throwing this term around, then I should clarify what it means, and what it means to me.

Dick Rave refers to the duo of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. See, it very cleverly swaps the first letters of their first names to make a kind of nonsense phrase.

I enjoy the work of these two guys separately well enough, but it's their collaboration that really holds my attention.

Figure 2: Dual Hosting Action

Dick Rave is the two guys, their relationship, their work together, their combined comedic sensibility.

Dick Rave is a sliding scale of a thing - it is possible to evaluate something as being more or less Dick Rave depending on a number of factors, and what the Dick Rave dynamic actually looks like can shift in different contexts.

Figure 3: Who points at who?

Dick Rave dominates the conversation on SCTV Series 3. These guys just cannot stop working together.

Of course you got Bob & Doug in every episode, but you also got Woody & Bob, Karlov & Crock, Cronkite & Brinkley, Cronkite & Caller (Various), Cronkite & Karlov... you get the idea. Hell, they even play extras together.

Figure 4: They even play extras together

Believe it or not, I find it hard to talk about Dick Rave. Partially because I'm reticent to discuss the affairs of strangers, partially because I've been so marinated in it that it's difficult to move my thoughts into the wordspace.

Some things are better communicated in image anyways.

Figure 5: Do you remember the moment you fell in love?

Let's not beat around the bush any longer; let's talk about type. I'll keep this short, I promise.

Which traits do you find attractive in a person? Do those traits tend to clump together? Do those clumps begin to form strange shapes with fuzzy yet identifiable outlines? Some of those shapes look pretty far apart, don't they?

Well smash two of 'em together. And now you understand.

I won't bore you with the laundry list here, and if you've found yourself at this post, you can probably fill it out on your own. Point is, Dick Rave, to me, represents the meeting of two well-defined aspects of my type that I would normally consider incompatible.

But no, it turns out! They can be great friends! And a delightful comedy duo, to boot!

How can I deny that?

[pianokantzart]

Consider the facts:

Luigi, in the Mario Movie, has expressed that he has “bad knees,” which explains why he’s not as physically adept as his brother and has trouble keeping up with him.

But in the Mario games Luigi often has a higher jump, and is even able to run in mid air for a short period of time. Odd that they would give the Mario Brother who has those sorts of abilities knee problems, right?

Yoshis also have a higher jump than Mario, and are able to run in mid air for a short period of time using an ability called “flutter jump” (though this ability goes by many names depending on the game.)

Yoshi is practically confirmed to be in the sequel, and it can be assumed from the post-credits sequence that he is going to be a lost, newly hatched child rather than an old friend that rescued Mario and Luigi as babies.

This version of Yoshi’s origin story bears a lot of similarity to the old Super Mario Brothers cartoon, in which Luigi becomes a mother figure to Yoshi after finding him abandoned at the bottom of a pit. 

What if in the next movie, Luigi is struggling to keep up with his brother due to his ongoing physical issues. Meanwhile, he adopts this strange little dino creature that he found lost in Brooklyn, taking him in and raising him until he can be safely released into the wild. As a result, The Yoshis consider Luigi part of the pack, and bestow upon him their jumping/hovering abilities through some form of mystical blessing or permanent powerup.

 Thoughts?

[telesodalite]

This is a bit random, but I've been thinking about Misfire a lot lately, and it struck me, that with his adhd, the whole implied/hc'd substance use is only sometimes considered as a form of self-medicating? And, idk, I find the concept interesting.

Like, yeah sure, within the canon implications it's just stereotypical stuff, so it can be interpreted as wholly recreational, and whatever one might call accidentally catching a high from blood you've taken from a corpse.

But like, his adhd is emphasized as an important aspect of his character, so surely it's impacted his millions of years worth of life with its symptoms? Both good and bad?

The Decepticons in idw1 are weird, in many ways lol, but in the sense that they're the faction defined by their oddballs and rejects. They're the unwanted, the belittled, the different, the oppressed, the strange, the mad. But at the same time, any deviance from their impossible and ever-changing standards is punishable and looked down upon.

It's a classic, almost frustratingly stereotypical case of a system built against oppression becoming the oppressors. But that's not the point here.

The point is that they opened their arms and offered the idea of freedom to those who felt different from the pre-war standards, who felt belittled by it, or betrayed by it, and promptly went and turned around on these people to make them feel belittled and betrayed and made different from their own new standards.

Abuse, in many forms, runs rampant within Decepticon ranks. From the very top, to the very bottom. Any deviation or perceived weakness is an open invitation for such actions. Throw in the DJD, and there's no escape from it. No way to get out, only fit in and keep your head low, or become the very thing you originally wanted to fight against and be free from.

Substance abuse is mentioned in canon enough to assume that certain amounts of it were almost expected across both Decepticon and Autobot ranks and contingents. But considering the condition of Decepticon standards and communities, it can be assumed to be a bit more rampant in their case.

So, Misfire. We don't have much context for his background and what all he's seen and done.

It's implied he did some spywork, or at least made some cross faction connections during the war with Brainstorm, which might've been a big enough deal that it caught the attention of Skids, because he's aware of Misfire of all people, knows he changed his name right at the end of the war, and considers Misfire somewhat as a nemesis, which, might I remind thee that Skids was part of a secret special operations unit, a secret special operations unit under fucking Prowl!? So uh, possible big interesting stuff that never got explained there.

(The possible spy bit keeps me up at night I swear to god, bcs wtf were all those tiny implications supposed to mean?!? I need to know all the details of that possible spy drama so bad, omg)

Then, we know he "accidentally" killed "a dozen" other cons towards the end of the war, and that he was going to be jailed for it.

So Misfire's life obviously went down the drain before the murdering a dozen fellow soldiers bit, but considering every awful and challenging factor of being a sub-par soldier in the Decepticon army/air force, what kept him from doing something like that earlier on?

More important, what got someone like him through the war? What kept him going? What kept him alive? Well uh... the same thing that kept a lot of Decepticons going I guess. Substance abuse.

Ok so where does the self-medication angle of this whole thing come in Teles?? My answer to that would be, uh, inherently ig.

Because think about it, you're just some kinda weird guy, caught in the middle of one long ass war. You're never good enough, can't achieve the one thing you've been gunning(lol) for, and are just sorta flying by the seat of your metaphorical pants through life. You're a solider, and a victim of systematic abuse because of that, and at some point, you're possibly a perpetrator of that abuse*. On top of all that, you've also got raging adhd during all this stress and trauma, and man, quieting those racing thoughts and numbing that constant buzzing itch in your body probably feels really good when you're escaping your extremely stressful situation for just a bit.

It feels better to be more detached, to be "calmer", less caught up in a hundred thoughts at once, more focused, more in control. Eventually this becomes the subconscious focus of his using to ease the stress. It "fixes" something. Makes things "right". So casual escapist substance use tumbles into substance abuse and addiction.

How this factors into his post-war life, idk, you decide ig.

I figure the scavs being broke and cut-off from others could play a part in Misfire having to wean himself off of whatever substances were most common among his ranks, but he's also probably creative enough to make stuff from whatever they pick up. Anything considered to be "hard stuff" would likely be frowned upon or policed by Krok tho, because of the whole traumatic experience with Roadbuster and his extreme brutality due to perceived Syk abuse.

But then again, the scavs are all still very much cons with vices, and 100% constant sobriety is apprently a challenge or punishment for cons and bots alike post war.

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*(Expanding on that bit via another ramble I had lying around that i thought i'd include)

When considering Misfire's adhd, most things emphasize the hyperactivity and impulsiveness in general without also emphasizing the negative sides.

That moment where he almost punches Grimlock comes to mind a lot.

It could be viewed as just a side-effect of perpetuated Decepticon abuse, a knee-jerk reaction that may have been turned on him during the war for his mistakes, that he in turn expresses towards others "mistakes".

Something to also consider here though, is how the impulsivity of adhd can make violent reactions worse, anger and/or frustration harder to control, and harder to hold back from expressing outwardly or physically, especially if left unchecked or untreated for a long time.

But Misfire stops and takes a second to collect himself before becoming somber as he considers Grimlock's perspective.

This instinctually violent reaction is not something he wants, or likes, and judging by how much time has passed by that point in the comic, this has been something he's been working on and is still working on.

But what about while he was still an active solider? When holding back was seen as a weak or foolish response? How did the impulsivity play into it? After being treated like that himself, struck or beaten for mistakes, at what point did it snap and he found himself standing over another solider as they stared up at him with that same fear and shock and hurt he had felt. How did that affect him to know he was capable of doing that without thought?

Because, ya know, he's done bad things too...

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I assumed bugs aren't kosher? Since shellfish aren't kosher, and shellfish are like.. ocean bugs. In my logic I see insects as land shellfish.

Totally! Though there are some kosher locusts, that doesn't mean all bugs are kosher. That's exactly why people who observe kashrut laws check their produce for bugs because none are kosher!