#melon's meta

[melancholykatt]

JJK 236 Meta

~Like many of you, I have seen the leaks and have a lot of feelings about Gojo. So many feelings in fact, it has inspired me to write for the first time in months. (See bottom for TDLR, pots that inspired this, chapter translation I used) 

Now I want to preface by saying that I don't mind Gojo dying in a narrative sense. I love his goofy ass but he is too op and plot needs to plot. I suppose I just feel a bit unsatisfied with his character arc. I feel like there were more places he could have gone as a character. After reading the whole chapter and some other posts here, I realized there is a way to satisfy plot and character. In short, I thought of 3 ways Gege could kill Gojo while also not killing him, to explore the potential I see in his character. Perhaps this is just me being delusional about a character I love but I think it's at least interesting. I hope you enjoy it.

Gojo Cope Options

1."Throughout Heaven and Earth, I Alone Am The Honored One"

There is already a ton of meta about this quote but for my purposes, we just need the basics. This is supposedly a quote the Buddha used to describe himself. Similarly, Gojo uses this quote to describe himself. It is also used by Nanami to describe Sukuna. Skuna never refers to himself as the honored one. Now I have heard others say that Sukuna refers to Gojo as the honored one at the end of their fight. The translation I read does not and I was too impatient to wait for the official translation. Still this is very interesting. Perhaps being the honored one isn't the only thing Gojo will have in common with the Buddha. Maybe Gojo will reach perfect enlightenment and live on as a higher being(kind of like Tengen) or exist on a higher plain. This way Gojo gets to live in a sense and in a way where he can’t interfere with plot.

2. Going North

During his trip to purgatory, Gojo talks to his lost friends. During this conversation, Nanami mentions some advice Mei Mei gave him in regards to picking a retirement destination. “If you want to become a new version of yourself, go north. If you want to return to yourself, go south.” Nanami states he chose south without hesitation. You think he's just referring to the physical place he was going to retire to, but Nanami contiues. He says it was not a bad ending and that it was easier because of Haibara. During Nanami’s death scene, he remembered Haibara. Clearly this north or south choice is deeper than retirement destinations .So how does this relate to Gojo cope? There are 2 options in my opinion

1.a. We know that a sorcerer who dies with regrets can become a cursed spirit. If going north means being a new person, maybe that's a metaphor for being reborn as a cursed spirit. Nanami was content with his choice, implying he had no regrets, and memories of Haibara helped him accept his death with no regrets. He chose south and stays as himself in the afterlife. I highly doubt Gojo’s is coming back as a cursed spirit, so maybe he also chooses to go south and that's it.

2.b. 

Buddhism is referenced a lot in jjk and a part of buddhism is reincarnation. Maybe choosing north is literally becoming a new person and going south means staying yourself. Since Nanami chooses south, he is in the afterlife as himself. Perhaps Gojo will also get to choose, and if he chooses north he will get reincarnated as a new person. This could be a bittersweet ending to his character arc. He gets to be reborn, maybe as a regular person so he can experience life without the burden of being the strongest, but he loses the connections he's made as a Gojo Sataru. IThis is my least favorite option. I’m not a huge fan of reincarnation. Is there really a difference between dying and being reborn as a new person? The person you were and your connections are still gone. I don't like it.

 3-Are you the strongest because you're Gojou Satoru? Or are you Gojou Satoru because you're the strongest?

This seems like the least likely option, however it would be the most interesting to me. Somehow Gojo gets sewed back together but loses his CE. This would be the death of Gojo the strongest sorcerer and he would be reborn as a normal person. He would have to discover who Gojo Saturo is without his strength and he’d be able to answer Geto’s question. Yuta had said he would kill Kenjaku so that Gojo wouldn’t have to kill his best(boy) friend again. Gojo wants to lay Geto’s body to rest. This option allows both of these things to happen.~

TDLR (Gojo reaches enlightenment, Gojo is reincarnated, gojo lives with no CE)

translation:https://imgur.com/gallery/TVBdEXl

point thats inspired this, show them some love:

[biboomerangboi]

Sometimes I think about Zuko being the Firelord and I just giggle like yeah it is an angsty situation, yes it’s got great fanfic material but guys your just going to give a 17 year old a whole country. Like not even a normal trained from birth Prince you’ve got a guy that was officially the Crown Prince for like 3 years and then he was out at sea causing problems. His special skills include hunting the avatar, B&E, being buddies with mythical beasts, prison breaks and customer service and you gave him the ultimate power to do whatever he wants. Not to mention he’s got friends who are just as insane and feral and he’s got all the money. Toph and Sokka are going to talk him into the most insane purchases in seconds. Guys c’mon.

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

I just realize something about Ron having a secondhand wand. He got it from… Older brother, right? And that older brother presumably got a new wand? So if they could afford to buy the older brother a new wand, why did he give up a wand that was presumably semi-suited for him (and poorly suited for his younger brother), Instead of them using the money to buy Ron a wand suited for him instead? Is there some sort of licensing scheme where baby’s first wand costs more than buying a “replacement” ? I am so confused. Can you help?

Ron is not the favorite son.

[red-mage28]

A thought

Protagonist

Rival turned ally

Hater/ arch enemy. Foil to protagonist (if I’m using that word correctly)

Thought end.

[whenthegoldrays]

Eun Gyeol and Yichan both going to their crushes’ houses to check on them and make sure they were okay after the festival only to be brushed off because “we live in different worlds” 😭😭😭😭

[mimiruku]

Tumblr is so strange, i think I lost an ask but I don't know which one it was . . .

[that-rackin-frackin-varmint]

#57 — 08/03/2022 12:03 AM

Space Jam movies are movies that toons can watch in this world.

Space Jam 1 follows the looney tunes who, in meta, are acting in the movie. Lola was added in as a one time character.

Space Jam 2 is another movie the looney tunes do. But the story’s weirdly inconsistent. Lola’s personality had a jump to what’s commercially sound at the time of early 2020s. But it’s possible it doesn’t speak to her character out of set.

Back in Action is slightly more true to the character portrayals of the looney tunes and their state out of set. But some level is fictitious due to it being technically Bugs’ movie…

Present day thoughts:

Properly addressing this, I stand by my interpretation that Space Jam is regarded as an acting gig to the tunes, mostly corroborated by an obscure "live commentary track" where Bugs and Daffy live react to the movie alongside their vas Billy West and Dee Bradley Baker, as well as the director, Joe Pytka.

Their commentary mainly operates like any regular commentary track where actors/director(s) react to the movie they made, with Bugs and Daffy watching it as actors. So I treat it as proof that the looney tunes regard Space Jam as an acting gig, rather than some "canonical" event where they competed against aliens in a basketball match.

For more accessible proof that Space Jam was an acting gig to them, check out the Looney Tunes' Elvis tribute album:

At 10:06, Bugs remarks on Pepe's melodramatic ballad of heartbreak, saying: "Oh brother, I never seen this many tears since he lost a lead in Space Jam"

And in 37:25, where Bugs goes: "One more for the king! And uhh Lola Bunny, if she's listening..."

As for Space Jam 2, there's enough promotional material treating the tunes as actors, to the point of not actually putting the vas' names in promotional art, aside from Lola Bunny's va, Zendaya -- which was pretty infamous back then. So I don't feel like I need to make a deep case for why SJ2 shouldn't be considered as non-performance, than any other film featuring the looney tunes.

And I stand by my stance on Back in Action.

[ahhscheisse]

this months patreon perks 🫡

[earthsoulbarbie]

So what do we think the melon motif in Harrow the ninth means

[bastetsbard]

Yanno, I’ve long said my daemon would be a manul. But I’m starting to wonder if a fruit bat might not work better (specifically a flying fox).

the curse of summer is buying and eating an inadvisable amount of fruit in single sittings.

[melancholykatt]

~So I saw the jjk 237 leaks and had a lot of toughs. But my brain is not cooperating so im just gonna talk about one

-So Sukuna was an unwanted child. I see a lot of people saying they don't care about Sukuna's sob story but that's not the vibe I got from their conversation. I think Sukuna was just bluntly answering Kashimo's question, not looking for sympathy. Kashimo asks if Sukuna was born strong or became strong. And apparently, if we assume Sukuna is telling the full truth, Sukuna doesn't know. Humans don't remember being that young and, as an unwanted child, he would have no one to ask. It seemed like a simple answer with an undetailed explanation. I don't really think its out of character for Sukuna to answer. He isn't usually overly rude to opponents he respects(unless you count killing Gojo and Jogo as rude). And clearly he respects Kashmo, as he compares him to Gojo in a complementary way and invites him to fight. But hey maybe the official translation will change the tone of the convo so we'll see~

[whenthegoldrays]

okay I did it!!! I’ve organized my original twinkling watermelon posts into two main tags

meta, edits, and other general reflections/me being obsessed are under the tag #day 230925 of twinkling watermelon obsession

and #elly watches 🍉✨ still houses my live-blogging and other little quick fleeting “let me just write this down real quick” thoughts

[queersatanic]

[This post is a series of images from an infographic by the Slow Factory Foundation originally posted May 2021. The first image is a photo with text over it. The photo shows a massive fireball in the middle of a group of buildings, with a massive black cloud rising from the flames that is bigger than the buildings themselves. The building just behind the fireball is low, rectangular, and lit up bright orange. Behind that building, there is a city lit up at night. Hundreds of buildings stretching into the distance, a thousand glimmering lights.]

What is happening in Palestine is not complicated; it's settler colonialism & ethnic cleansing.

Debunking Misinformation around Palestine.

Myth ❌ Palestine and Israel are in "conflict."

Fact ✅ What is happening in Palestine is settler colonialism, military occupation, land theft and ethnic cleansing. A conflict means there is equal footing, which is not the case. There is an active oppressor (Israel) and an oppressed (Palestine). A colonizer (Israel) and a colonized (Palestine). This is not a conflict.

[Three images of headlines with the word 'conflict' crossed out in red ink.]

Note: According to the Congressional Research Service,

Israeli military occupation has been supported by US aid with $3.8bn a year paid for by U.S. tax dollars since 2016 for the next 10 years.

It's also supported by other colonial countries including Canada, Australia, France and Belgium.

Myth ❌ Before Israel came to Palestine, it was "just a desert" and Israel made the desert green.

Fact ✅ Before the occupation of Israel, Palestine had green, rich and lush land. In fact, Palestine respected the biodiversity of their Indigenous land: Palestinians were producing 92% of Palestine's grain, 99% of its olives and 95% of its melons to name a few.

Since Israel's occupation, biodiversity has decreased. Israel removed Indigenous plants from the land to plant European Invasive species. This phenomenon is called green colonialism, which has been discussed in depth by many, including Naomi Klein in "Let Them Drown."

Myth ❌ Sheikh Jarrah is the only neighborhood in Palestine that is in danger.

Fact ✅ Israel has been gradually stealing Palestinian land, destroying and ethnically cleansing entire Palestinian villages, violently displacing families and building illegal settlements on top them since the first Nakba ('catastrophe' in Arabic) in 1948, where almost 600 Palestinian villages were destroyed, Palestinian history erased and half the Palestinian population were expelled from their homes.

Myth (cont'd.) ❌ Sheikh Jarrah is the only neighborhood in Palestine that is in danger.

Fact ✅ Over the past few decades, the state of Israel has continued the settler colonial project, and Sheikh Jarrah is the latest and not the last neighborhood being violently threatened with dispossession, which Israel has no legal right to do.

[Images of a map showing the drastic decrease in Palestinian landmass from 1946 to 2019. In 1946, Palestine was 99% Palestinian land. In 1947, it decreased to 40%. In 1967, to 30%. And in 2019, less than 20% of Palestine is Palestinian land. The remaining areas are being encroached on by occupied Palestinian land, meaning occupied by Israelis. The rest is Israeli land.]

The mainstream media has been supporting these myths by spreading misinformation that conceal Israel's ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine by saying it's a two-sided conflict, framing Palestinian resistance as terrorism and normalizing the state of Israel.

To learn more about Palestine and the ongoing fight for liberation, follow Palestinian-led organizations, media and frontline activists. [@Instagram / Facebook]

@theimeu / Institute for Middle East Understanding ( IMEU )

@eye.on.palestine

@palestinianyouthmovement / Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM)- حركة الشباب الفلسطيني

@jewishvoiceforpeace / Jewish Voice for Peace

@visualizing_palestine / Visualizing Palestine

@wolpalestine [Censored by Meta]

@mohammedelkurd / Mohammed El-Kurd

@muna.elkurd15 / Muna Nabeel Elkurd

@nouraerakat / Noura Erakat

Sources & Suggested Reading

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis

Let Them Drown by Naomi Klein

Black Power and Palestine by Michael Fischbach

Orientalism by Edward Said

The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

Palestine by Joe Sacco

"Zionist Logic — Malcolm X on Zionism" in The Egyptian Gazette, Sept. 17, 1964

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé

[End of images]

[kaiasky]

Some drama from a small corner of the internet, thx to my partner:

Plants Vs Zombies Heroes is a shockingly-good hearthstonelike released in 2016 and last updated in 2017. It has seen continued modest popularity, you can usually find a couple of people online at any time, 100+ when streamers are playing or in discord organized events. Vods from popular streamers usually get 10k views so this is a small but pretty healthy community.

Community consensus is also that this is pretty well balanced. Aggro, midrange, & control are all ~viable for both plants and zombies, t2 or offmeta strategies regularly take games off t1 strategies, etc. Most ppl have been playing long enough to have all the cards or there's a way to set up an AHK script to watch ads for you while you sleep to earn packs

Then, this:

HUH!?!!

This gets rolled out really weirdly. Somebody leaks balance changes and broadly everyone is like "???". Weird fake or hypothetical wishlist of balance changed ig? but no. a few days later it goes live. On ios only--as of now android hasn't updated and I'm not sure when/if it will

I'm not good at game but broadly the balance update is 1. nerfs to plants, particularly aggro 2. buffs to zombies, particularly lategame 3. A lot of card draw is now "summon a random card from the card pool" instead of deck 4. One zombie had creature type "clock pet zombie" and now it's just "pet zombie" rip

Also it's buggy as hell. Winter melon, which freezes a random zombie, instead freezes a random plant. There's a zombie who depletes the enemy super meter just by existing in ur hand.

There's a lot of rumors idk the truth of

- this balance patch was planned in 2019-20 and they forgot about it so the meta it's intended to patch is 5 yrs stale

- you can just not update and choose to play the old meta forever(?)

- popcap is making an intentionally bad update to drive players away so they have an excuse to shut down servers

Beyond a pretty universal sentiment that this patch fucked the balance bigtime, i think there's a broader question of like. popcap has been ignoring the game for 7 yrs. A lot of people have issues with the meta but i think they like the stability that no updates brings. Some people are really excited that this could indicate the possibility of new updates and maybe even new booster sets, while for others, adding new cards (even if they were fun well designed etc) would be change to something that was seemingly stable

anyways. thats ur random subculture drama update. If i got anything wrong I'll edit it so if this is a reblog mayb check the original post and/or replies

[triocat]

Alright, here's the last bit of addendums for now, and to start off, I'm going to tell you about that dream 0!Tiff had between her breakdown and her stay at the hospital:

CW: This part includes thoughts about longing death and gallons of blood

(BTW, I just remembered that @desultory-novice, the one responsible for the "Zero is the worst father ever" headcanon, also thought up the idea for dark matter using "eye" instead of "I" so "EYE'LL" have him use eye when referring to himself apart from the tiff half from now on)

Falling

The first thing that he processed was the feeling of falling

It felt like he was falling for hours, and yet, he was too tired to really think of doing anything about it, and just when he started to think of getting out of this current situation...

SPLAT

...he made contact with the wooden floor, which, at the velocity he was falling at, felt like hitting a concrete street from the 72nd floor of a building

He felt his inside turn to mush and his eye dislocate from it's socket

He, however, barely cared... after all, he lost, so maybe, this is for the best...

...maybe tiff could care for the clan in his stead... probably would do a better job than him, honestly...

He felt his eye roll over as the rest of his body go numb...

It felt cold... so, so, very, cold...

...but something felt off...

Did death usually last this long?

His eye was still rolling over, past the point where he should've logically cease to even think

It felt like forever and a day until the eye stopped and only because it hit the other side of 02's skin

Suddenly, he heard what sounded like his clan, calling for 02 like children crying for their mother

He felt ashamed of himself, for once, he was the one who they were referring to, the angel of the dark who would've taken over those pathetic fleshlings' little "Cappy Town" by now, but now... NOW... he was little more than a laughing stock who'd moreso feel horrible for swating away a firefly, much less conquer an entire planet.

Even thinking about it made him feel bad...

He didn't want to face his army and tell them that their continued existence and attempts to get sweet revenge on the pink ball that wronged them all lead up to him just... GIVING UP.

.....

...but it was much worse than that...

Tiff's family... nay... The ENTIRETY OF CAPPY TOWN would probably flip out and rightfully so... what else would their reaction be to learning that she would no longer even see them anymore thanks to him

Tuff would never let him forget about it, like the petty little brother he is, her parents would call him a monster and will grieve the loss of their eldest daughter, Meta Knight would attempt a "mercy kill" on Tiff and, by proxy, him, (what else could he do when they're like this), the townsfolk would chase them out of town, King Dedede and Escargoon would see it as a "well-deserved" victory over Kirby, and Kirby, dear, sweet, innocent Kirby, he would...

...he would...

.....

He would've already tried to end him

But instead of rightfully expunging him from the girl, Kirby decided to give him some melon, alongside the 3 members of the dark matter clan that he gave the reins over all the others, no less????

It didn't make sense...

Why would he willingly spare someone as worthless as he over what might as well been his own mom?

Did he just... not know?

...no, it can't be that...

Kirby already knew that he wasn't Tiff from the moment they met.

Did he, then, know about the whole rooting thing and figured it wouldn't have worked?

...also unlikely...

Kirby's sweet but he isn't really all that... smart... even if he knew about their conjoinment, he probably wouldn't have thrown that chance away to at least try to save his dear friend

Alright so what was it then? What could've possibly been his reasoning for not exacting punishment towards him?

Could've been that he... pitied him?

But then how could that have been?

He was a useless parasite who affected the livelihood's of everyone around him negatively with the goal of actively making things even worse

And all for what, because he was afraid of death and didn't know honor yet

What could Kirby have possibly saw in him worth letting go?

Did he just... Not think of Tiff that way?

...NO, no, that's stupid!

Tiff was the one of the only real friends Kirby had, to the point that Kirby always did what she said, even to their own detriment

Did he not see him as an actual threat?

But then why did he avoid him like the plague earlier? Hell, if anything, the whole "locking-up-the-castle" stunt he pulled would've just confirmed Kirby's suspensions, so what gives?

And why would he team up with Dark Matter, despite the only reason that they avoided possession being their fear of him and the order not to possess him?? And what was with the watermelon???

Why would the savior of the planet... nay... THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE treat something like him as if they were equals?!?!?!?

.....

Did... did he not see him as something that deserved to die?

Did he think that, despite everything he has done to ruin his life, that he was still deserving of life and even... happiness?

.....

Just as he was about to dismiss it, memories of Kirby doing so with multiple demon beasts started to flood his senses and, once they came and went, he had a whole new understanding on, not just this world's Kirby, but his initial Kirby as well...

He wasn't just some slayer of demons with a cute face, he was someone who would work his hardest to make sure that everyone he could save would be saved and wouldn't give up, even if it seems impossible, even if it's more In line with a wake-up call...

... even if it's someone as hopelessly lost as him...

He sighed to himself and decided to honor Kirby's wishes

He was going to be brave and tell his clan to help him get to Tiff

(ANNOTATION: Remember, this is just about the same one who's gathering from Zero's spectacular failure was nothing more than treat your employees with respect and don't go for Kirby straight away, like, he is pretty dense when it comes to this kind of stuff and it's gonna take more than that for him to realize that "waking up Tiff" is not quite the lesson he should learn)

...as soon as he gets out of this dark, wet prison that was his body

He realized pretty quickly that he was at the top of it and he was probably looking at his bandage

He also remembered, though, that he could only feel his eye, therefore, making it likely be the only thing he can move

He focused his thoughts on moving forward and, essentially, pushing his eye out and rip through the bandage

He used all the might he had left in his eye to tear through barrier and, eventually...

rrRIP

GOOSH

...blood poured out of the newly made hole in the bandage, letting him fall out and properly address his seroundings

Though, at first, he was too busy sputtering out the blood he was in to really focus on anything else

"Ppbt, ppbt, blech... Alright, note to self, don't try to get out of your own body without a snorkel..."

He tries to blink the excess blood out of their eyes to get some beirings on where he was and-

...wait... Eyes?

Wasn't he just a eyeball...?

If fact, come to think of it, why was he coughing if he shouldn't have lungs... or a mouth?

He started to hold his head out of pure confusion when he then started to realize what he was doing and brought the hand in front of his face

He felt a chill run his spine when recognized where the hand was from

It was the same as the one from the form Tiff's body just finished mutating into just a few minutes(?) ago

He started to panic as he got a proper look at the form he was in and realized that he was, in fact, in that exact body, which likely meant that...

...oh

Oh

OH NO NO NO NO NO

Was he already too late?

Did the mind merge already complete itself?

...no

Now not the time to worry.

Kirby would move on regardless

All he knows for sure is just one thing:

"Eye must find Tiff, and fast."

...AND THAT'S WHERE I'M GONNA LEAVE IT UNTIL TOMORROW.

Yeah, I realized that this was getting pretty long so I'm going to save the rest for tomorrow as to not blow your hard drive

As some consultation, I must say that when I first saw your "multi-purpose head" idea, I was all like "why didn't I think of that" because that's genuinely one of the best ideas I ever saw, especially considering that her tounge is already dark matter (albeit looking more like a plant)

Though there are a few that I like to say:

1. I still like to think that she can also use "normal" parasols to fight as well (maybe to avoid any problems that would come with having your own head be used as a sword "Uh... did eye-I mention I practiced street magic...?")

2. I'm afraid that you might have slightly misconstrued what I said when I said that her base-line parasol is a mix between kirby's style and fencing (that was probably on me, all I did to remedy it was to say "when it's open" in Referring to kirbys style and not clarify whether I was talking about tiff's or kirby's, just know that what I meant to say was "When it's open, she plays like Kirby, but when it closed, she uses it like a fencing sword")

Also one more thing

Do you, by any chance, have time to do a model sheet for 0!Tiff, considering you tend to change designs a lot and I'm not good at staying on model either

[potterandpromises]

@darkerstark said: Or them discussing Mabel's feelings about how she's portrayed in the script and having a slightly meta heart to heart about who they really are and how they're perceived by others?

Mabel eats takeout with Theo in the four-poster Eva gifted her. What, she wonders, would Bev Melon and Marshall and the Brothers sisters think of this?

Theo puts his fork down. Her thoughts must show on her face. "What are you thinking about?"

"How the people who are making a movie about us think I'm a homeless, jobless, mumbling millennial."

He scrunches his eyebrows together. Oh God.

"They say I mumble," she signs, and points to her lips because she doesn't know the sign for 'mumble.'

He nods like, yes, of course, we all know this.

"It bothers me that they aren't entirely wrong."

He shakes his head emphatically, which surprises her, because, well. "You are so much more then what the world thinks of you."

"You too."

He smiles sweetly. She looks away, turns back. "Did I sell myself?"

Did she sell his image, too? When her and the guys started the podcast, she didn't know who he really was.

"Yes," he signs without missing a beat. "Or, you sold the idea of you."

"Yeah."

"But that'll never be you," he signs. "They'll never know you."

There's something behind his last statement, behind his eyes, but that investigation can wait.