#so I was watching a video essay today ...

[ouroblorbos]

drew her again… ms paint this time

(ver w/ the UI under the cut, i just thought it looked neat)

[youkaigakkou-tl]

What differentiates a God from a Youkai?

The Oogata twins went from Gods to Youkais, right? Yet, Sano is in a Youkai school but without being defined as one. Besides the reveal of his nature and a glimpse of his past, is there a reason for that?

i think, my interpretation of what yohaji is about, and also sort of the stance haruaki takes, is that there's not a huge difference between gods and youkai (and humans, for that matter).

gods can become youkai, humans can become youkai, humans and youkai can have children. all three have lives and experiences that the other two can relate to and empathise with, and all three can communicate with each other if they so desire.

the biggest thing driving the difference between the three is outside perspectives of the individual, and the individual's perspective of the others. gods' disdain and disregard for those they perceive as inferior to themselves, humans' dehumanizing reverence for certain types of "otherness" and fear of other types of "otherness", and youkai's rejection of and defensiveness against the "otherness" that have done them ill in the past

(for that matter, "the difference between gods and youkai is outside perspective" extends beyond the fourth wall too. to a western perspective, perhaps some of the gods that cause storms, disasters, droughts, pestilence, volcano eruptions and so on should be considered "monsters" too. and even just from a japanese perspective, raijin and fuujin are depicted as oni despite also being considered gods, and theres historical (human) figures that have shrines and are worshipped as gods, with aggrandized stories to match)

on the surface level, meiji arc does posit that there are differences between the three, by haruaki saying that he "didnt realise there was that big of a difference between humans and youkai" in regards to the lifespan thing, but you have to consider that kai was bringing that up deliberately in an attempt to hurt hatanaka, so that he could perhaps feel the same pain kai felt. kai brings up the lifespan thing, something he considers an immutable, unchangeable fact of the universe, just as he considered the societal and familial circumstances he lived in to be impossible to change.

but hatanaka marries ibara, and kai lives to be in a world where he's dating a man. the superficial details dont matter in the end. what matters is that there is love in the world and you are surrounded by people who interact with you and who influence you and who you influence.

so yeah basically what im getting at is yohaji is about autism and queerness and depression and trauma and disability. more than its about youkai or gods or folklore, yohaji is about the Human Experience™ thank you for coming to my ted talk

[qrichas]

thinking abt the happy pills arc again but mostly importantly at how many references of brazilian history was there during forevers lives specially the music... like the clothes ccforever was using the video of rio in the 50s the references to vargas era and bossa nova. i saw an artist making an animatic of him using "construção" by chico buarque which is one of my fav songs from the anti ditactorship era along with "panis et circenses" and my brain got rewired as well. gosh it was soooooo so good and so well done you can even make a video essay about it ccforever rlly poped off with that i never felt so hyped with an arc bc im an history nerd AND seeing brazilian history implemented on a multilingual server was just *chefs kiss*

[scatterpatter]

HEY YOU SHOULD WATCH THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER

Oh nooooo if only there were an easy way to find it tho... if only... oh man... if only- oh oops sorry I tripped-

Oh man if only it were easy to watch... oh man...................

[phin-tastic]

i cannot describe the rage i feel when i click on a fight club deep dive youtube essay, and it’s just… some dude, talking about how this film is the purest portrayal of masculinity and how “men love it because it’s so relatable”.

i mean, i love it because it’s relatable. but not in the way those sigma film bros do.

i love it because i’m gay, hate capitalism and would like to recreationally get beat up.

[camzverse]

made my ocs in the sims lalalalaaa

[heir-of-the-chair]

Rewatching Nightmare Time 2. So given that they all take place in the same timeline:

Ted dies during the honey festival after Shiela decides she’s going to get back with Frank and kills him because she no longer has use for him

Pete is away the whole summer at Abstinence Camp under the iron rule (and blade) of Grace Chastity. They’re not even allowed to have their phones.

NMT 2 Ted dies while Pete is away at camp and there’s a very real possibility he doesn’t even learn until he’s back…

[whenmemoriesfrost]

100 days of productivity // day 66

👩🏻‍💻 very tiring and annoying day at work

🇱🇹 did some language studying to unwind but had my life ruined by noun cases

🚶🏻‍♀️ 5km walk

🎁 bought bday gifts for a coworker

finish your draft challenge // day 12 of 15

don't wanna talk about it lol

[a-commas-a-pause]

Happy birthday to Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet, which I just learned from a Jacob Geller video essay was painted in one sitting on November 13th, 1872, and whose title inspired the name for the Impressionist movement. It's 152 years old today!

[koszmarnybudyn]

I just finished the evil norm comic, it took two months, a week and three hours and like 20 hours of work but i did it. Im gonna post it tomorrow tho cause if it flops im gonna go digging six feel deep. Hope your happy cause i also finished a whole embrodiered moth patch and my fingies were aching

[bulletbilltime]

Thinking about how Schaffrillas Productions' videos are in essence a guy choosing to make videos rambling about whatever game or movie he loves, and people are here for it.

He reviewed the Pikmin games. He ranked all the Mario Kart tracks from each of the main entries in the series. He did a 6 part super-retrospective of Bojack Horseman. He does rankings of animation studios' outputs. He does analyses of Wario as a character, and uncovered a conspiracy about why Toad Factory from Mario Kart Wii never returned in later games. And unless the topic is something I wanna watch later, I'm always ready to pull up a new video of his to watch. You can just feel the passion he has for those properties, how he can acknowledge their flaws but also sing the praises of their quality. It's so clear that these are videos he wants to make, because they inspire him.

(Also I just love how his style of humor involves him splicing quotes from random shows into his scripts, like some sort of video echolalia. It's shocking how close his style of humor is to mine, it makes me feel seen)

Whenever I think of his channel it makes me want to make my own video essays, to talk about all the things that *I* love, even if they're the most niche things ever. I want to talk about my favorite game franchise that 20 people in the world are aware of. I want to make videos ranking songs that *I* listened to in like 2016. I want to make a video about how level editors in games are one of the most important features in games to me. I want to ramble endlessly about things that matter to me, try (mayhaps in vain) to communicate why I love the things I do, and have even just a handful of people love it and be here for it all.

tl;dr: I love how Schaf can just talk about things he loves in his videos, and it inspires me to want to make my own videos about things I love

[box-o]

"Abandon all hope all yee who enter"

[sexiestpodcastcharacter]

Okay I think that's enough for tonight. Tomorrow I have a TTRPG game that I haven't finished getting my character ready for, so I don't think I'll get another 24 posts up and finish posting Round 1 this weekend. I might be able to finish it up Monday before work, but we shall see. Thank you for your patience so far.

[alucardsinep]

>disorganized as hell >get a calendar on my fridge and reminders on my phone and a planner to write everything down in >still disorganized as hell because now i have to write everything down in THREE places and i keep forgetting

[pulsedmaggot]

me when i smoke: slipknot are such an emotional travesty that no matter which two band members you put side by side to each other you could come away with such an intense backstory between the two of them from multiple points in their lives. this band loves each other like a wellness checker whose emails you forget to write back. this band cant stand each other. this band is beautiful

me when im sober: does anyone else think ross robinson and joey jordison explored each others bodies. just me? ok. what about ross robinson and corey taylor. just me again? ok

[simcardiac-arrested]

waves novocaine by creep-p and ghost. passes out

belos ass song