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[spiralingguitarist]

quick drawing of our vriska because yeah

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I released the Olde Ghost LP in December 2010, after lengthy recording delays due to dog bites, hospital rotations, and an eventual lineup change. This record still slaps though, and the album title cracks me up to this day, so I figured I’d release the OG discography (including the final unreleased 7”) on all digital platforms in 2022. Get hyped! . . . #oldeghost #useyourillusion #whitevinyl #colorvinyl #punkrock #hardcorepunk #brooklyn #jerseycity #bookslie #saetia #offminor #thefiction #excitebike #tbt (at New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYHMADOrVxR/?utm_medium=tumblr

[gofancyninjaworld]

Garou: it’s not quite over yet

So I've been thinking about heroes and Garou's redemption arc.

When

do you need a hero?

Since I live in the UK, there’s been an insurance company running an ad campaign in which superheroes come bursting onto the scene (complete with gratituous property damage) to save the day… only to find that the people they wish to save from mundane disasters like having a car break down, a pipe leak in the middle of the night, someone breaking the glass of one’s shopfront windown, have sensibly sorted it out already. It’s intentionally hilarious, but it has a point: there’s a time and a place for heroics and that’s not when there’s effective contingency plans.

Seriously, when do we need a hero? Is it not when things have gone so badly wrong that what structures are normally in place just can’t help? You don’t need to be a hero and try saving people from a burning building if there’s a competent fire service close at hand.

The heroes in One-Punch Man, especially the pro-heroes, aren’t being paid to deal with everyday problems. This is a modern society with competent emergency services and people there call for heroes to help against dread monsters that appear out of nowhere, and against villains so dangerous it’s folly for regular people, even if they’re the police, to try tackling. If many heroes **will **help kids cross the streets, that’s because they’re decent people, not because it’s a formal expectation.

The things that Garou is angry about, the bullying, discrimination, structural inequality, war, the kids being picked on for being different... NOT ONE OF THEM IS APPROPRIATE FOR A HERO. They’re real problems and yeah, they’re problems that regular people perpetuate. They’re problems that can be usefully attacked within a community, socially, legally, or politically – they’re really not amenable to a superhero crashing through the walls. You have to be rather dumb to believe that these are hero problems. It may be fictional, but the society of OPM does not require or expect that of heroes. And Garou’s a lot of things, but he’s not exactly stupid.

What gives?

I thought about it from an acculturation perspective: since Garou is in too deep into cartoons as representations of bigger truths, he might have internalized the fictional presentations of heroes. In their world, just as we market superheroes on everything and on every message, Garou will have grown up with Justice Man telling him to look both ways before crossing the street, or tell an adult if he's being picked on, or not to do drugs. Must be a shock to internalise all those messages, grow up and there comes to be a group of people who do nothing other than be heroes...and they’re nothing like thefictional ones. That probably would have potentiated his deep dissatisfaction with the world.

So, anyway, onto the present day. Garou's gotten beaten, but he still thinks he has a point. This is a real problem because he still thinks it’s right to try controlling what other people do, but I get ahead of myself.

While he’s still wrong-headed, he has been thinking.  He did go sit in seclusion to meditate, renew, and recommit at least until Bang interrupted him.

Here's the thing, as someone who's a long way from stupid, given some time, I wonder if Garou wouldn't come to the conclusion that the problems he wants to address aren't best solved through heroism? Something like being an anti-bullying campaigner could be amazing for him. He might decided too that maybe it's good to be some sort of hero (paid or otherwise) to keep monsters off peoples' backs, because when people are fighting for survival, they don't have the mental space to be fair to one another? [1] Or something…

It’s not like it’s an all-or-nothing thing where you either have nothing to do with heroes or are a pro-hero. We’ve seen that the Hero Association keeps a record of strong people who have no intention of being heroes but are happy to lend their strength in times of need.

Before I go further, let me summarise what I’m saying so far.

1. The problems that so excite Garou are worthy problems to tackle.

2. The problems that so excite Garou are not good problems for heroes to solve.

**3. Garou does not have to be a hero to be helpful to heroes. **

A potentially deadly interruption

If there’s a character I have to take issue with at the end of the arc, it’s Bang. Bang isn't giving Garou a chance to think things through in his own time. He’s made Garou come back with him rather than let Garou know to come find him when he’s done thinking.

I don’t think it comes from an evil place, just the same self-centered place that’s gotten Bang in so much trouble throughout his life. I think that Bang is just too desperate to leave a good legacy behind. We saw it first in the first season's OAV 4, where he decided to try recruiting Saitama because he was anxious about having no one to inherit his fist. Certainly, he's chased after Saitama (and Genos) mightily since.

If it were Waganma who'd skipped out on a meal and Narinki had just paid any fines without even docking the kid's allowance, folk would be rightly up in arms. Even though Waganma's a kid who's a long way from working age. Bang's paid off Garou's fines, which are Garou's wrongs to set right, even though it's something Garou could easily take responsibility for. A strong, competent, hard-working young man in a city that’s desperately rebuilding? Even with restitution and fines, it’s a week’s wages, max, and it’d be very satisfying for Garou to clear his own debts.

Bang's going round with Garou to apologise to heroes, even though that's on Garou to decide to do. That is a horrible thing: a sincere apology is very healing, but an insincere one said just to get it out of the way is an insult. Bang is in too much of a hurry to allow Garou to think things through properly and make decisions on his own. :/

The worst thing Bang is doing? He has promised Garou to the Hero Association as his replacement. Without telling Garou. If Garou were to take the Hero Test normally, he’d probably be culled on the basis of the written test, which would make it clear that his heart really isn’t in it, but he’s probably going to be parachuted in. With disastrous consequences for all. They’re not ones to welcome.

Sicchi understands that it’ll cause trouble, but I don’t think he understands that it’ll quickly stop being about the Hero Hunter and become about how the Hero Hunter is a symbol of the disdain with which the Hero Association treats its heroes, how utterly unwilling it is to listen to their concerns and respond to their actual needs. Or how quickly things can fall apart when you lose the goodwill and trust of people who do work damn hard in unreasonable circumstances.

We’ve seen in the bonus story ‘Big Promotion’ that yes, the HA has a lot of resources and hires trainers and the like for heroes, but few are actually listening to what the heroes want and need and those who are listening don’t get listened to.

Yes, I do feel for Bang as he’s worked so hard for so long and has very little to show for it. It is not right though that he’s trying to make Garou fit into a mould of his making rather than support the young man to make the best choices for him.

I think that's what's really making this new problem so interesting to me is how it's another manifestation of Bang not really able to be there for others.

So once he was a very selfish and cruel young man who cared only about self-gratification. Bomb put a stop to that and he decided to do better.

Then he was a talented martial artist who opened a dojo but somehow never had any students stay loyal to him... because he wasn't really there for them.

Now, he's decided to focus on his relationship with Garou, but he's trying to decide what path Garou should take and it's one that suits Bang.

I know he thinks he’s doing the right thing, but what works for Bang isn’t necessarily what’s right for Garou. They’re not the same people, no matter how strongly Bang sees himself in Garou.

Normally, Garou could be expected to push back strongly and set real boundaries on what he’ll allow Bang to ‘help’ him with, but with his parents having functionally abandoned him, he’s not in a good position to do that. Yet. He can't risk alienating the only support he has in the world. When he does eventually kick off, he’d better not hurt anybody in rebellion. Other than the meddling old man.

I have a feeling though that it’s going to take Saitama sitting Garou down and really talking to him. With all the attendant misery that Garou getting Saitama’s attention again will imply.

Aside

[1] Yup, that Absolute Terror thing? It is entirely counterproductive in every possible way. I do have some thoughts on how Garou could come to such a bizarre idea, but this meta is long enough!

[birdieofloxley]

Happy Birthday to me! And cuteness for my joker lovers 😍 @vemazing @underratedcharactersimagines @lovermrjokerr @thefiction-bride

[androgynousblackbox]

I just found out there are antis in the Borderlands fandom and I cannot understand how. Its a series where cannibalism jokes, black humor, and violence are common place. Like an age gap bothers them, but the violence and killing is A okay? I'm honestly confused as to how antis could even play the games with what's in them

The thing to remember is that antis can invent whatever problem they want with a ship, as long it isn’t THEIR ship, and then ignore all of them in favour of their own ship. They are NEVER about the thing they claim to be about, becuase as soon a ship they like also includes that thing suddenly it doesn’t matter or doesn’t say anything about themselves because, well, THEY are “critical” about it, which makes it okay. They are always the unproblematic exception. With violence specifically they also usually turn a blind eye because to their “fiction affect reality” shit, violence never feel real in fiction. It’s a common posture for yanki antis and it’s very representative of that demographic present an overly performative concern for the sex (especially if it invoke some kind of “think of the kiddies!”), but thefictional violence is intuitively recognized as something distinctively different from real life violence.

[druckers]

girlhelp im daydreaming about thefictional man ihave delusions ofbeing

[zemekiss]

As always I spent a bunch of 2019 shooting the #improv/#storytelling shows that got me into photography in the first place. Between @thefictionals Improv Against Humanity, @storystorylie, @offkeyimprov and a few episodes of @geeksvsnerdsvan and @thedirtybettyshow I always had great funny shows to make it out to. There may not be quite as much of that in the new year, what with GvN winding down and IAH/GvN cutting back their monthly shows, but I should still make it out to more than a few #livecomedy shows. https://www.instagram.com/p/B6t7cupAhla/?igshid=1kzluj08bbkq2

[anirevcanada]

We're happy to announce the first of our guests for AniRevo: Winter as a returning group: @thefictionals! The award-winning Fictionals have been entertaining sold-out audiences throughout Vancouver since 2010. Be sure to catch one of their improv shows at #AniRevoWinter! 😆

[n0wak]

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends”

The Repressive, Authoritarian Soul of “Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends” When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, thefictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas theTank Engine and all… saved to Instapaper http://ift.tt/2wYzG2x

[danieljsingh08-blog]

'Great Gatsby' Mansion on Long Island Gets $1M Price Cut

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The owners of one of the Long Island mansions that inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby have chopped$1 million off the home's price.

The homeowners, who bought the 91-year-old mansion in 2012 for $6.6 million, are selling it for $16.8 million. The home sits on 5.3 waterfront acres in Sands Point, NY,a wealthy village that served as the inspiration for thefictional town of East Egg.

In the book, the wealthy and mysterious Jay Gatsby lives in a mansion in West Egg, across the bay from the socialite Daisy Buchanan, whose dock is illuminated by a green light.

Exterior

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Loggia

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In the 1920s, Fitzgerald lived in Great Neck, NY,a wealthy village across the Manhasset Bay that became West Egg in the book. Fitzgerald made a number of friends on both sides of the bay, notably Mary Harriman Rumsey, a socialite who was the eldest daughter of a railroad baron.

Scholars of Fitzgerald's work believe she was the pretty woman in a brown riding habit briefly mentioned in chapter six of The Great Gatsby.

Harriman Rumsey built the 13-bedroom, 8.5-bath mansion in 1926, and it stayed in the family until 2012, when it was purchased by hedge fund investor Jamie Mai and his wife,Chiara. (Maiis one of the traders who made hundreds of millions of dollars betting against the subprime mortgage market, and was featured in the 2010 book The Big Short.)

Living room

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Breakfast room

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The French Normandystyle estate was designed by architects at McKim, Mead & White, the firm behind Columbia University's main campus, the Boston Public Library, and New York City's original Pennsylvania Station.

The 29-room limestone house features arched windows on the ground floor, a sharply peaked roof, and a circular tower. Inside, the home's stunning living room features an arched barrel ceiling, with carved woodwork and french doors leading to the loggia and views of Hempstead Bay.

The kitchen is bright and modern, with two islands, a gas range stove, and double-sizerefrigerator. There's a light-filled breakfast room, surrounded by windows witha large skylight overhead. The home's formal dining room has a herringbone-pattern wooden floor, fireplace, and french doors.

Master bedroom

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Walk-in closet

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The home's semicircular office is surrounded by floor-to-ceiling windows and built-in bookcases. Upstairs, the master bedroom has afireplace and french doors that leadtoa semicircular terrace. There's a walk-in closet with a generous island, and the master bathroom has a soaking tub and walk-in shower.

Elsewhere, there's a tennis court, beach cottage, caretaker's house, and boathouse. The property includes 391 feet of sandy beachfront.

Harriman Rumsey was famous in her own day as the founder of the Junior League, a New York nonprofit that still exists and today has 291 local chapters. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked her to chair the Consumer Advisory Board, the nation's first federal consumer rights group.

The post 'Great Gatsby' Mansion on Long Island Gets $1M Price Cut appeared first on Real Estate News & Insights | realtor.com.

[midwestcoastcomics-blog]

Comic pull Wednesday (on Thursday)! Captain America White no. 1, The Fiction no. 4, The Infinity Gauntlet no. 4, Invader Zim no. 3, Island no. 3, Space Riders no. 2, Star Wars no. 9, Star Wars: Lando no. 4, and Virgil.

[eeveepie]

This weeks comic were so good! You have no fucking idea how excited I am that Rat Queens finally came out! #thepull #thefiction #ratqueens #giantdays #powerup #secretwars #secretlove #boomstudios #imagecomics #boombox #marvel #newcomicday #newcomics

[medicated]

read:

The Fiction no.1 & .2 (2015)

That was a positive surprise. The story revolves about a group of kids who discover a book that lets them dive into a story like a parallel universe. As shown above one of them goes missing, the group disbands afterwards but comes together as adults because another one of them disappears. I like the idea about reality that gets implied and the artwork is great! But four issues seem less than enough to tell the story given the epilogue in no.2.

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[anirevcanada]

Our schedule for the Red & White Stage is here! Come on down and check out the great shows we'll be bringing everyone to enjoy! We'll be having performances by our very own Tokimeki Maid Cafe as well the ever-popular Idol Dance Cover groups, along with @thefictionals bringing out their comedy and improv, AniRevo Jeopardy, and of course, the AniRevo Cosplay Show! Don't miss out and see you there! #AniRevCan150 😁🇨🇦