#i don't think he's ever claimed that his theories were law or anything

[dragon-tamer-1]

Man, watching MatPat's latest video had me in tears, gonna miss him telling the newest theories.

[cosmicjoke]

I completely get not taking what VAs say about the work they are participating in as law but I think it's really weird for us to disregard what Isayama himself says about his work, especially concerning the guidebook. I'm not even going to dive into the Levi and Erwin discourse because it's boring at this point.

However, I think you're the only one who I have come across who says we should disregard the author when they talk about the extension of their work.

Everything an Author wants to discuss about their work cannot always be shown inside the work itself because of publishing limits. I know this from experience.

I think it's a bit disrespectful to keep saying we should not care about anything the author says because we didn't explicitly see it in the manga. It's entitled. It isn't our work.

Honestly, I think whatever the author says is canon because they literally created the work and we're simply consuming it.

Saying we shouldn't regard an authors words about their OWN story as canon is wild. Unless they themselves say a certain information they give shouldn't be taken seriously. Otherwise, what authority do we have us readers to decide what is canon. Like, literally. What audacity do we have to decide how authentic what an Author says about his own work is or isn't.

It's my personal opinion and I'm allowed to state it. If you want to take what Isayama says in interviews and guide books as somehow vital or important to understanding canon, go right ahead. Nobody ever said you can't. But any great work of art, which I think AoT is, should be able to stand on its own merit and be able to be understood without needing supplemental material to bolster it. The vast majority of readers/viewers aren't ever going to see any of that stuff. So if your work requires supplemental material to understand it, then it's failed on some level as a work of art. Who's being disrespectful to the author now?

I promise you, I have the utmost respect for Isayama, unlike some bozos on this site who accuse him of giving in to editorial demands or fan pressure just because they don't like the way the story ended, or they don't like the direction of certain characters, or because they need something outside of the actual story to support whatever inane fan theory they have.

You don't seem to understand WHY I say what Isayama says in interviews shouldn't be taken as canon. You think it's because I'm being "disrespectful" and "entitled" and disregarding Isayama's words because I think I know better, but no, it's because in a large majority of these interviews that people constantly site as "proof" of their dumb-ass theories, the story was still ongoing, and it's logical and reasonable to assume that Isayama either couldn't reveal certain things because it would spoil what he had planned, or because he didn't have it quite figured out yet and so what he was talking about was subject to change. If what happens later on in the story contradicts what Isayama himself said in some interview from weeks, or months or even years before, then I'm going to take what happens in the story over what he said in the interview. Furthermore, half of these interview statements that people like yourself rely so much on were given at fan events, where Isayama was put on the spot to answer some random question from some random fan. Half the time there aren't even any, actual transcripts for these interviews. Just claims by people who were supposedly there. Most of the time, these aren't thought out, really thorough answers. So, again, I don't take any of it over what we actually see on the finished page. Of course Isayama's words are what's important, but it's what he puts down on the final page that counts, nothing else. Those are his final thoughts on the matter, his final expression, and it's ultimately the only thing that counts, end of. I'm sorry if you don't want to accept that.

You say that what an author wants to say "can't always be shown inside the work itself" because of "limitations". What limitations are you referring to? Your statement is based on nothing but speculation and conspiracy theory, assuming that Isayama meant something that he wasn't able to explicitly show because of some nebulous outside influence or pressure. And we're supposed to assume he meant something completely opposite or different from what we see on the finished page because he couldn't say what he really wanted to say? Then how are we meant to know what he really meant? If that's the case, why should we take anything that happens in the story at face value? Shouldn't it all be called into question then as Isayama not being able to express his true intentions because of outside influence? Are we meant to fill in what we THINK he really meant because he wasn't allowed to say it? We're supposed to connect the dots using some random interview answer that most readers will have never seen or heard of? Ridiculous. A ridiculous statement.

You accuse me of being disrespectful of Isayama because I dare to only to consider his actual, FINISHED work when analyzing his story, rather than dwell on supplemental material which itself has no, ultimate bearing on the finished product.

Whatever. You say you don't want to talk about Levi and Erwin, but my post about their actual, CANON relationship is what drove you to send me an anon message, and I'm guessing you're one of these same shippers that's been harassing me nonstop lately and that this little "ask" was spurred on by your frankly pathetic inability to let go of the fact that I won't acknowledge eruri or whatever other ship as canon. Try harder next time. You people are such worn out parrots of each other at this point.

[alphabetsoup-blogposts]

I don't know...

about just being a mouthpiece but I do know that Mr GC Banks was told something that made him very hostile, without any input from me.

I knew him well in his former life when he worked with J (coincidentally) at another institution. He was friendly and approachable. Then, one day he became more closely associated with the old lady. Within six weeks he was emanating extraordinary hostility. The switch was very, very marked indeed and worrying at the time, of course.

IMHO there are two people who may have been of influence in this situation. The Valet and a lady I am going to call Ms Well-done. The former you must have come to know by now. The second was GC's predecessor. I knew her very little but I did (back then) have an internal line reporting manager, a man I liked a lot but who didn't have (as I may have mentioned) the law on maternity leave ever at the forefront of his mind. Anyway, he once told me that Ms Well-done had developed the view that it was a scandal that I had a kind of entrée into his room and a claim on his attention. This is a VERY long time ago, so details are hazy but it came as a wild shot out of the blue to me. I am not hiding anything here.

So, yes, I had a kind of manager. We spoke regularly. I said what I was learning and sought advice. I once asked him, for example, whether I should accept an offer to be part of a team advising the government of Ukraine on European financial standards.

One day I heard that Ms Well-done objected strongly to this on the grounds—which were not express but seemed to be implied—that I was a suspected manipulator of some kind. I cannot explain this any better other than to say that it was 2009-ish and may have simply been due to a kind of post-GFC scrupulousness about a chain of access, since the markets had, to some extent, my ear. I might add that it was all the more extraordinary because, for employment law purposes, Ms Well-done also had managerial responsibility for me—I don't think the public record is quite representative on this point—and might, quite apart from anything else, have implemented changes as a matter of HR in the usual way.

Anyway, I was wildly surprised and disturbed by this turn of events—it played no small part in my decision to hedge my career bets... and was a significant part of the picture when I resorted (regrettably) to self-employment. A little later, my manager left and I was not given another, other than a token, changing name in a file which matched a face I had never seen and could not have talked about finance to, if I had. None of this was ever explained or, as best I recollect, notified to me. I just kinda found out one day that I no longer had meetings scheduled with any insiders. When I encountered HR and other problems I needed to ring the department and speak to whomever would answer the telephone. Mostly I avoided doing this... mea culpa.

My working theory (in so far as I gave it any thought) was that Ms Well-done had said something which convinced Mr GC Banks to switch suddenly into hostility but exactly what that might have been, I cannot imagine. Even if the view emerged that the structures involved (which I had not designed or shaped) were not appropriate, why would that entail disliking me so strongly and manifesting so much hostility? The first question, then, is what might have been said. The second is whether Ms Well-done was herself influenced in her view and/or whether something formative was said to her. I would say, having met her, that she developed the theory on her own. Anyway, what I can say, categorically, is that—unless there is a written record—we will never know how she arrived at the view she held.

One other thing, related but not exactly on point. Mr GC Banks later secured his place in plenary—despite the hostility—by telling me that the Man of Talent, whom I admired, liked and perceived to be flawed in human ways, had asked me to facilitate the appointment. I have always strongly doubted that that was true.

[scentedchildnacho]

I asked him if he had a spouse and children so he asked about me and I explained what I think I know though I suspect a law group does know the facts of my case.......

I told him I didn't want a job because the slow be sedentary of indigenous policy drives me crazy to fight or flight responses and fight responses are too unpleasant for me to try

I get attacked a lot by other chicks mostly and having to be a bad girl at another chick is just too karmically awful for me

I do want to work that's why I don't job

I already did a lot of be better business punishments then resistence and also......protest then more theory learning about disease phobia so I pretend I may be a part of reality not the fake world of sex image

There is like an economy and gnp and lifi not just wifi and digitization so on a management level there are financials going around all over the place yet they claim they can justify a formality of tangible exchange and touch between people who are really phobic of disease so if it's going to be bully intransigent then I don't or

Truth is I don't want to be a bitch bully so I don't get a job because it's not sexy and they think their sexy doing it and will have to go through reality checks

Consciousness can get like submerged.....or partially catatonic asleep and eventually good people come for everybody with look those were loans and actually your moral was elsewhere....

The Crow why won't the bitch go home and cook eggs only for her care in life

Why would a woman be told she has to be objective to be an economic though....

He asked me if I would do missions so I told him I suspect i have a christian with health strength and affluence who was suppose to do a mission for me and stalks me to serve their obligation....I'm really not strong enough for creationism or flannery o Connor...i probably do have a christian though that steals a lot from me....

Otherwise I think my case is like black men eventually a law group will mass mediatize my innocence and people will stop being allowed to slander me and random miracle the whole idea of hood will just not allow any of this activity any more

The intelligentsia keeps reminding people that people are human and so an actual real activity will start at some point.....

You think their can't be a miracle like all bullshit over and common wealth re established but eventually this is just corrupt is constantly confessed

Ultimate reality of chicks in jobs is they wish someone like me ripped up with knives and left on the side of the road so eventually some homeless will terrorize and leave them knifed up on the side of the road so I run away all the time from people who won't commit to resolutions surrounding rawanda

That's been my experience of karma things wished on me happen to people who wish them so I always wish everybody correct conditions

He asked me if I beg for money so I said I San Diego I really don't have any friends and the cult here scares me so bad I recommend to others to never ever ask that people for money....

The situation appears to really really harm and terrorize the people here so if it's not just quickly and freely given then they don't ever want that business owner given anything or he attacks them

Its been my experience that if their promotion was going well they would just give things without being asked to....

Otherwise people who riot to finally force car tels to realize that things were not just given to them they have to share not just theirs is for people much stronger then me....be careful of everyone even nice mother's it's a very very corrupt condition

He warned me that he does want a strong woman and thats his apology about candice the bartender those drugs didnt want one.....

He said if spousal he is very analytical and takes resumes so i said i think my story is esoteric czech emigration....this is all i do till i marry then thats all i do.....

I think that there was a divination that i will be saved from the animal barbarous kingdom to go to marriage.......but if you ask me im like my mother and they will send me to a religious type of man.....

Ive thought about how strictly dogmatic I'm kept and eventually i will be sent away....

[jgnico]

Not to be that person but i think you're exaggerating hard on Gojo's powers, his abilities have already been broken down by physic level graduates and literally explained in the most simple way possible which isn't even surprising as they were not that hard to get a grasp on what they actually are either, only it was Gege's horrible way of trying to explain things via mathematics instead of simply saying it like so but i suppose he wanted people to work their brains a lil. The way you are explaining though is something i would hear from a die hard fanboy that likes to wank Gojo because his technique has pretty colors. If you're going to argue that he can erase/create matter and literally erase everything in existence then please for the love of JJK stop there. Gojo is not a fuckin God, he is a human that's blessed with power, notice though that there's still word human in there. The fact that he himself is aware of his shortcomings proves that he knows he's not nigh invincible. Yet you wanna throw him towards a sun for science lol, nowadays all you're doing is attributing any kind of property you want into his abilities even when literal manga proves otherwise. The fact that Gojo cannot control space/gravity directly but does so via matter proves also that he cannot do it with just a forethought and has to use rct to constantly keep his brain from frying while doing so. What next, are you going to drop your self proclaimed claims that he moves at infinitely faster speeds in the jjk than anyone else? Are you going to say he's light speed maybe? The fact that Gege never intended something for something like this in the manga yet you'd argue it's true for whatever hypocritical reason. I mean seriously, at this point just say that Gojo can erase an entire universe and be done with it, you'd probably also just straight out say he can live in space without oxygen because so. If that was all the case, the whole point of JJK would be pointless. People like you are why Gojo gets hated left and right, throwing whatever attributes you want into his powers and turning him into a fucking alien instead of a human he so fights to be perceived as.

Wow what a really long ask with a lot of assumptions.

Never said that Gojo could get rid of everything in existence, so amazing job on reading there, I see that comprehension is still as prevalent as it ever was. I also never said that he could erase matter. I said that he could create matter, which is true; that's literally what Red Glow is.

Gojo's technique as a default is the manipulation of matter. Matter makes up everything around us and always has and always will. You're matter, I'm matter, my car is matter, the sun? Also matter. Regardless of whatever form that matter takes it cannot be made or destroyed, only changed or moved. This is called the Law of Conservation of Mass and it's a concept that has been around well before germ theory or the discovery of the atom. If the Ancient Greeks could wrap their heads around it, I think you could too with the help of google. Or a book.

Regardless, the fact that Gojo, through his technique, can break the laws of physics at will, annoys me. That was the point of my post, expressing my annoyance at Gojo's abilities because from a physics standpoint, they're a nightmare.

I also never said anything about Gojo being a god. In fact, I've made a point on this blog to point out how Gojo very much isn't one. He's just as human as any other character in JJK and the label of godship, the burden of being the Strongest, is a tragic aspect of his character since the people around him stop seeing his humanity as it truly is. They see his strength, they see his technique, they see his status, but they don't see his weaknesses, which is partially due to him intentionally hiding those weaknesses to safeguard against emotional harm and because Juju society cannot keep him on the pedestal that they've placed him on if they acknowledge that he's just a person with too much responsibility. He doesn't even have a God Complex like so many people in this fandom like to claim, he's just a dude that was born with abilities that, yes, break the general laws of physics as we know them.

But how do his Techniques break those principles and why does that annoy me so? Blue creates negative distance that pulls mass toward a specific point. Red creates matter, resulting in an irregularity in space that creates a vacuum. Neither of these things are possible or probable, as distance cannot be completely negated and something (matter) cannot be made from nothing. And yet, they're a thing that Gojo can do. If it had simply been that Blue condensed matter to a point and Red moved existing matter to where it previously wasn't, then I wouldn't be annoyed because while Gojo would still be playing with the building blocks of the universe, it would at least be using defined and "attainable" methods.

But whatever, I'm a nerd and it's possible that my anger toward the concept of Limitless (and Gojo, by extension) is because I personally enjoy breaking down things by science and logic as a hobby and I can't comfortably do that with Limitless because it defies science and logic. That's my own hang up, much like that post was me airing my personal grievances with the Technique.

I just find it interesting that I can talk (rant, really) about how much Gojo's technique annoys and frustrates me (I believe I capped the post off with "Fuck off, I'm eating bricks over here") and that be taken as me "fan-boying" over the Technique and Gojo because "pretty colors." I actually don't even like Gojo and I never have. Do I outright bash him on my blog? No, not unless you count me joking about him not getting hoes. Do I analyze his character and enjoy picking apart his relationships with others? Yes, but I enjoy doing that for all of the characters in JJK, because meta analysis is fun and Gege has given us a lot of detail to work with. Unlike you, dear anon, it's very possible for me to dislike and critique things that I read without being an asshole about it, so despite you starting with "I don't mean to be that person," I think you did, in fact, mean to be that person.

You just happened to send your disorganized, overly emotional and uninformed opinion into the ask box of an adult with an engineering degree and zero patience for someone putting words into my mouth.

PS: Gege using math to explain Gojo's abilities isn't "horrible," they actually did a decent job of simplifying their explanation of Limitless in a way that teenagers could understand. Which is the point, Jump is for a teenage audience. Regardless, Physics is a branch of Science that uses mathematics throughout it's entire framework. Those "physics graduates" used multiple pages worth of math to break down Gojo's techniques, there was no "said like so" about it.

PPS: Tagging my post as "day no 586 of wanting to launch gojo into the sun for science" was obviously a joke, but I'd love to know what properties I'm attributing to Gojo's abilites that haven't been disclosed by Gege in Q&As or stated in the manga itself. Send me something I've actually said and I'll explain it for you, but until then, never assume to know how I think or feel about something, especially when it's clear that you haven't read a single other post that I've made on this blog.

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Eddie's interview from Style Magazine

By Valentina Ravizza

Photo: Boo George

Styling by Fabio Immediato.

Translate by me from Italian to English

HE WOULD HAVE had to spend the holiday in Italy,” I have a real obsession for your country “,Eddie Redmayne responds from a gray London,” more suited to my pale complexion”, and tells for the first time (and I try to collect my own thoughts) of his next character, the American activist Tom Hayden, protagonist of the protests against the Vietnam war in 1968 and 77e trial of the Chicago 7, the new film by Aaron Sorkin, arriving on Netflix from October 16. "Democracy is something extraordinarily beautiful and complex, nothing comes easily, we must defend our freedoms if we don't want them to be taken away from us."

 It can be risky for an actor to take a public position, Aren't you afraid to undermine your popularity?

“The truth is, I'm not afraid to take sides, we all should. I feel a social responsibility as a human being: today more than ever we should ask politicians certain questions. I'm not one who particularly likes to take risks unless it's for something I deeply believe in.”

For exemple?

To play Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything I met several people affected  by ALS and doctors who helped me to learn more about the disease, and now I am among the supporters of the Motor Neurone Disease Association. During the lockdown in Britain was made a list of  vulnerable people  and I found it shocking that patients with  motor neuron disease were not part of it, so I spoke to several politicians and went to help them.  As an actor my voice has more chances to be heard and I can bring  more light on this topics, I have to do it.

Also politicians as in the case of The Trial of Chicago 7?

This film tells how we got rights by changing wrong laws and remember  that progress could have gone in one direction rather than another.

Is there any similarity between the protests of the 1960s and those of movements such as Black Lives Matter ?

There are moments in history when people ask for society to really represent them and that's exactly what happened then and what many people are doing in these months. The demonstrations mentioned in the movie were against the  Vietnam  war, but also supported the claims  of the civil rights and feminist movements, the one against which they are protesting today has it’s roots in systemic racism, so the similarities are many.And there are also several other parallels between the two political situations: at the 1968 Democratic convention there was a former vice president, Hubert H. Humphrey, right-hand man of Lyndon Johnson, who ran for the White House, as today  former Vice President Joe Biden is in running, and  there was a Republican candidate for president who was betting  for “law and order” , then it was Richard Nixon, now the same campaign is being carried out by Donald Trump.

 Today there is social media, what would have happened if Tom Hayden and the others from Chicago had it?

Hard to say, myself I don't use them . While they represent a great tool of democracy that gives everyone a voice from the shore to  power, they also contribute to exacerbate and amplify the falsehoods and prejudices of those who listen only to what they want to hear, in a sort of echo chamber, and they can be used to manipulate things in a very pervasive way.

Is it more difficult to play a figure you esteem like Hayden or one you despise?

I try not to judge, to dissociate my sense of reality to recreate hers. I do as much research as possible, accumulating a lot of information and then throwing everything away and play  only  what's in the script, hoping that all the prep work has been absorbed somehow into my body, And knowing that that movie will never be. a documentary: I am creating a painting, not a photograph. For this I must accept that I will never be able to be exactly that person, that in something I will necessarily fail.

And when the character is a pure author’s Fantasy product?

It’s like when you were told at school to make  a free written essay: I hated it, I said “please, give me a lead!”, In these cases I try first of all to understand what the boundaries are, to find some elements of truth: for example, in the saga of the Fantastic Beasts to become the "Magizoologist" Newt Scamander I started by observing the work of zoologists.

How is it divided between entertainment and committed movies?

In my choices I have always let myself be guided by instinct: I read a script that my body reacts, I get excited, I laugh, I am touched to the point of  seeing myself in the role of that and than understand that I really have to do it.

Did the same happen with Tom Hayden?

They first  told me about it three years ago while  I was on vacation in Morocco, when told me it was Sorkin who wanted me it was like a dream come true. I read the script and  it not only ran , but it had a kind of syncopated rhythm I immediately loved it. Then when I got better informed about the project, I found out that it had been written years ago and I couldn't believe  he hadn't seen the light yet.

In fact, the first draft is from 2007.

We wondered if this movie had an audience, if it was current enough.Instead with what’s going it has become more and more pressing 

So much so that in order to release it this year, given the health emergency Paramount Pictures has decided to sell the film to Netflix (56 millions of dollars) to be distributed directly via streaming.

There could be no better way than Netflix to reach as many people as possible. And I say this as a passionate cinemas’  lover . Unfortunately in the last 20 years I have witnessed a general loss of attention span: there is always a new story to know, we are constantly being pulled in different directions, and instead find ourselves in a cinema hall being forced to sit there for two  hours and  half even when our attention tries to escape, it’s a kind of pleasant claustrophobia.

And theater, is  it still part of your life?

I know that  more years go by without me returning to the stage  more what I’ll say l’ll sound insincere, but yes, my career started from there, I spent 5 o 6 years working in London theaters. I knew almost nothing about cinema until that world began to open its doors to me, I had to learn a lot on the set.  I’ve been looking for a theatrical project, but so far  what has been proposed to me are works by the greatest authors, and instead I’d like do something new, fresh. Maybe I found it, but  I still can't say anything.

Have you ever thought of letting yourself be taken one day by another passion besides acting?

My other great love is art,  but if I ever have to work on it, I imagine myself more as a curator than as a co-worker. But I honestly think that being an actor is extraordinary: whatever part you encounter on your path continues to grow:although sure it’s a wild life and it's a drug.

 Are you a workaholic?

In the beginning I was because I had no alternative: I was constantly auditioning and once I got a part  immediately got to work, Until in this unfair world of acting there came a moment when I was suddenly successful and overnight I finally had the opportunity to choose. Many people are looking forward to retirement, I hope I’m offered roles even when I’m 80 years old.

At that age maybe you will also be behind the camera?

I'm a bit of a control freak,so yes, I could potentially one day  go directing, even just out of curiosity  But only if I had to find the right project, something in which I feel safe,