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[starryluminary]

It’s your birthday today! It’s your birthday today!

There’s a cat licking your birthday cake, it’s your birthday today!

[nyii0mon]

One and only og red ribbon army fan out here. 💔💔💔 it’s tough but heh… this is all I got.. heh.

[viktorharmonia]

havent been online much but i wanted to talk about a specific character that has been extremely mischaracterized and in my opinion deserves better

This guy

I think Volo is an unique character, pretty much misunderstood, but his personality/character is what makes him one of the best characters, i wouldnt count him as a villain even if he summoned Giratina, his pokemon team says otherwise as they require friendship and specific items in order to evolve them, i think this guy loves his pokemon, hell he would die for them.

What upsets me is how the fandom views him, he's portrayed as an evil creep who still wants to take over the world by defeating Arceus WHICH BY THE WAY is not true, he wanted a world with no pain and suffering, you cannot tell me he is just like Cyrus, those two have different goals and ideals, One wants to create a world with no pain, and the other wants to make a world in their own liking and vision, giving an example of the Distortion World as this is what Cyrus wanted exactly.

The other view of the fandom is portraying Volo as a p#dophile, shipping him with literal kids (Akari/Rei, Akari mostly) and treating it as if its nothing bad, we may not know the protagonists canonical age but can only accept/speculate that they are 15 from the PLA dialogues, but if the protagonists actually were adults then their models wouldnt look like they were still teenagers/kids, this is literal pedophilia right there and i dont think Volo would be interested in romance with kids (i headcanoned him as aroace/asexual cuz theres no way this guy would want to be with anybody)

Aside from Volo being the main antagonist/villain in PLA, i think it was stupid to make HIM of all people a villain, Hisui takes place hundreds years past where it was very difficult to survive, i dont knoe much about Japanese history so correct me on that one thank you. with these kinds of conditions i wouldnt even THINK about making this guy a villain, i bet he had a very rough past, how the hell can you make this guy a literal enemy, i may not be a professional writer but i do think it would be better to make Volo rather a good guy and actually want to help people not suffer, afterall the Ginkgo guild is all about selling things/helping people in need with resources they found (may be wrong on that but shut). Also i would portray Volo as an isolated guy, since he (POSSIBLY) had a traumatic past and he was all alone (we have no idea where his parents are/what happend to them), he might have been more distant with people but thanks to the Ginkgo Guild he was able to connect with other people bit by bit and socialize with them and stay positive to not make them feel bad.

(sometimes im wondering what kinda bullsh#t im writing but hey thats just my vision of this guy who i think deserves a lot better than just "haha im evil fear me and my gigantic worm")

[rodreyes]

Bettie Page. Cartoon

[ranbuescalation]

Resumo do final de Saber aí. (Sim, é o meme do Dudu :v) [eng translation: facts - the world is going to end anyways - so f*ck everything.] 

[yappacadaver]

Oweeeee the post was a flop but I can’t stop staringgggg

[kyukiss]

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[tobiasdrake]

What is Goku's morality?

Goku has a good head on his shoulders usually. He has an innocent and "childlike" approach to morality in the sense that Goku doesn't have a complex or nuanced approach to right and wrong. He's just a compassionate person who likes it when people are happy and safe.

I do specify "usually", however. While Goku's moral compass is wound pretty well, he also has what Toriyama called the "poison" in his character: A deep-seated personal flaw that conflicts with his moral center, making for an interesting and nuanced protagonist rather than a one-dimensional paragon.

Pretty much from the get-go, as early as chapter 3, Goku and Bulma were being set up as moral foils to one another. Goku's purehearted innocence contrasted against Bulma's self-centered callousness.

This is made explicit when Goku receives his Kintoun/Flying Nimbus, a metaphysical test of virtue that only someone who's pure of heart can ride. This serves as a litmus test for how we're meant to read various characters, in terms of their morality.

FAILURE

PASS

FAILURE

PASS

FAILURE

PASS. Uh, this alter, at least.

And so on. In terms of morality, Goku takes a pretty simple position: He doesn't like it when people are being hurt or oppressed. That's it. That's all there is to it. Goku has a strong sense of compassion for others and while he doesn't go actively looking for wrongs to right, he can't look the other way when they land in front of him.

Oh, you're being enslaved by a militant warlord? That's not nice. Goku's gonna go file a complaint. Stapled to the general's face.

He was just here to find a Dragon Ball but, as long as he's in the area, he might as well liberate an oppressed population. Goku loves to help others.

In fact, the RRA arc is a great demonstration of Goku's moral center, because he didn't have to go to war with the Red Ribbon Army. Goku finds what he's looking for about 2/3 of the way through.

That's it. That's all he wanted. He's done. Goku's mission is complete; He can go home now. He has zero investment in any further conflict with Red Ribbon.

...until this happens.

Bora's death sets in motion the events that will carry Goku through the rest of the arc: His rematch with Taopaipai, the siege of Red Ribbon HQ, and the Uranai Baba Tournament are all for the sake of this man, a man Goku's known for like ten minutes, who lost his life because he tried to protect Goku from Taopaipai.

Everything after this point is revenge for Bora and the utility of getting what Goku needs to make Dragon Ball's very first resurrection wish.

Hiring Taopaipai was a mistake that turned Goku from a meddlesome interference into a vengeful nemesis gunning straight for their door.

This more or less remains Goku's relationship with the various ne'er-do-wells of Dragon Ball. He doesn't like when people get hurt, and he relishes opportunities to fuck up their oppressors.

If you hurt people in front of Goku, he's gonna fuck you up.

If you hurt people he likes, may Enma-Daio have mercy on your soul.

But.

This is where Goku's "poison" comes into play. Goku is a moral person but it isn't morality that drives him. If he sees a mugging taking place (and understands what he's seeing) he'll go punch the mugger, to be sure. But he's not looking for muggers to punch.

Goku has heroic inclinations, but he is not a superhero. He's an athlete looking for good sport. A martial artist driven by a desire for self-improvement, always on the lookout for his next rival. This complicates the way he approaches the villains of the story.

What Goku wants, more than anything, is a rival who can keep pace with him. A chance to push his limits and test himself. It's at the end of the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai where we first see Goku's poison begin to push him into... questionable decision-making.

The reincarnated Piccolo uses the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai as a chance to get revenge against Goku. This stops being a martial arts tournament once the poorly-aliased "Demon Junior" reveals his true identity.

Or, at least, it probably should have. But Goku is hellbent on taking the title of Strongest Under the Heavens even if the whole goddamn island is about to get leveled. To the bitter end, Goku refuses to let this stop being a sports competition.

There is nothing on Earth more important than this.

The thing about Goku is that he's really good at mixing his morality with his poison.

He gives Piccolo a Senzu to restore him to full strength after the match, then sends him on his way hoping Piccolo will come after him for revenge some day. He wants to use Piccolo as a motivator to keep pushing himself - An incredibly dangerous decision to make given that this man wants to kill him and conquer the world.

Goku makes the moral argument that they can't kill Piccolo without killing God, but as Krillin points out, this isn't a binary choice. They could have sealed Piccolo away with the Mafuba/Evil Containment Wave while he was lying helpless on the ground.

You know. Instead of giving him a Senzu and wishing him tremendous gains. This is Goku's poison in action. We see it again with Vegeta, where Goku even admits that he's being unbelievably self-serving by insisting on sparing Vegeta's life.

We see his poison strike when he agrees with Vegeta to do nothing and allow the Androids to be created. Once again coming up with a moral angle to it, but only after his kneejerk reaction of wanting to fight.

But it's easy to overlook because Goku's questionable decisions tend to work out for the best anyway. This poor man's been searching for years for a sinister archrival that will come after him like a Saturday Morning Cartoon villain, but they keep reforming.

Well, at least he got to have this.

Good times.

Goku is a generally good man compromised by a desire for sportsmanship that sometimes inhibits his perspective of things. When he can, he tries to satisfy both his moral center and his poison.

But sometimes his poison gets the better of him.

Goku makes questionable choices when he gets his blood boiling with the rush of competition, even at times when he probably should be thinking about harm mitigation. Because that is a thing he cares about; He doesn't like it when people get hurt, and he'll go out of his way to help others in crisis.

But he can't help himself. He was born for the stage.

Which makes it fitting that Goku's journey ends with one final compromise between his moral center and his poison. Right at the very end of his journey, Goku finally manages to satisfy both.

By relying on the karmic cycle itself, Goku destroys the monster that Majin Buu is while making a promise to fight each other again one day in a better life. The ultimate evolution of "No, let the bad guy go so I can fight him again."

And a promise well-kept.

[fabuloustrash05]

I like how for most of DBZ Vegeta is basically “the new guy” of the Z Fighters group. Everyone else just has natural reactions to things that are common knowledge to them but for Vegeta it is all new stuff he’s learning and has to roll with it like:

Goku, Gohan & Krillin: Frieza doesn’t know that there’s a password to use on the dragon balls, he probably thought he’d just automatically get his wish granted when he collects all 7 lol what an idiot.

Vegeta:

Or how for the androids saga everyone was surprised that they are connected to the Red Ribbon Army, an organization the Z Fighters are very familiar with, meanwhile there’s Vegeta with no history or knowledge of the RRA and does not care. He just wants to beat up some robots. Or even the world martial arts tournaments, the Buu saga was his introduction to this tradition while for pretty much everyone else it was nostalgia to their younger days.

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[dbzebra]

We may have discussed this before lol but what's the backstory for the main villain in STS?

My villain is Dr. Green! He is a Gero fanatic, and worked with him heavily during the RRA era. He works with the next leader of the revived RRA (Red’s grandson) for revenge not only against Goku and his family for destroying the RRA and Gero’s greatest creation (Cell) but also on 17 and 18 for betraying him, killing Gero AND becoming allies with Goku. So dude has a huge grudge and wants to hurt them in the worst way possible. His plan for his “ultimate weapon” is wild and he knows that when the Z Fighters face it they “won’t be able to fight back” 👀😏

(THIS IS PURE COINCiDENCE WITH DBS I HAD THE IDEA FIRST, MY STORY IGNORES DBS ENTIRELY)

Here’s some amazing art of him by my wonderfully talented close friend @cozymochi 💚💚

[daihime-sama]

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[nyii0mon]

Do y’all fw Red Ribbon Army yaoi 😅 or is it just me … sorry guys I became a Red Ribbon Army enjoyer,, specifically the original ones in OG Dragon Ball 😅😅 THEY WERE SILLY!! THEY’RE MY FAVORITESSS!! THEY DON’T GET ENOUGH APPRECIATION!!!

Murasaki and General White my beloveds

[blue-genes]

So I just completed 'The Dark Heart of Skyrim' questline in the ESO - Greymoor DLC and I have a new NPCrush... Fennorian is such a cutie.

Credit: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/B1vJml

Credit: https://www.deviantart.com/mandrago-rra/art/Fennorian-871166146

Credit: https://twitter.com/Foxyj131/status/1458099049316429830?s=20

[rodreyes]

AI Pinup.

[oneeyecatnamedkay]

Thanks to the Stuff Lost in Time for the quotes!

The true art of memory is the art of attention. - Johnson

Thought that this would be a good quote to begin with.

Naa do no kena akeso nk'isek(h)atsi no akeso nadao.

Came out pretty simple, but i'm still going to explain it all. Also wanted to play a little bit with the colours to ease the understanding (for people and for me) : verb, noun, adjective, particle, determiner.

Naa do no kena akeso nk'isek(h)atsi no akeso nadao.

[ present tense-equative particle definite article-manner particle-art-memory definite article-art-attention ]

Fun fucts:

Particle do more likely plays here as a verb.

Particle kena indicates the absence of any other factors and can be translated as "pure" which, as i thought, was good synonym to "true".

The word akeso means not only "art" but the "knowledge that was given to the tk'e by the ancestors and spirits".

The word nk'isek(h)atsi literally translates as "firm memory" (and if we go deeper it would be "firm abundance of knowledge") and used here because of the akeso.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. - Alfred Mercier

Gonna simplify it a bit so it could be translated to rra more or less properly: We will never forget what we learned with pleasure.

(H)ii tet(h)a moa norrenorre sein(h)aa o (h)ida maa tsiseto sein(h)aa.

Haha, there gonna be lots of pink now!

(H)ii tet(h)a moa norrenorre sein(h)aa o (h)ida maa tsiseto sein(h)aa.

[ negative-manner particle-future tense-to forget 1pl inclusive particle-positive connotation particle-past tense-learn 1pl inclusive ]

Fun fucts:

Pronoun sein(h)aa means "we" but more specifically "you, me, all the others".