#we were not smart lmao

[grumpyghostdoodles]

Beach day, Part Two!! (Part one Here<3)

[turrondeluxe]

[my-name-is-apollo]

Broke: solar eclipse is Artemis yelling at Apollo in front of the whole world for doing something stupid

Woke: solar eclipse is Artemis T-posing in front of Apollo to assert dominance

[acebytaemin]

i was having a discussion with a senior at the company and he paused and said ‘wow. you’re exceptionally intelligent’ as if surprised.

[sentientsky]

i think being on tumblr is slowly degrading my ability to argue effectively. i studied philosophy and argumentation/logic in higher ed for a long time and i used to be half-decent at putting forth well-reasoned, thorough, clear, articulate arguments. but now??

now, my response to everything is “hm okaye but what if I bit u?? >:)”

[ratgingi]

woe characters inspired by some of my cats be upon ye. info on them in my tags lol

[tenshindon]

Also I would like to say I think are perception of Chi has been swayed by the anime especially English dub where she was pretty much Goku’s smart foil. In the original Japanese manga… she is dumb. Her and ox are written with a dumb hick quality. Why does she sign up for the tournament because she wants a hunk, she has a son fuck fighting I’m going to be a mother who cares about education… idk anything about it but now it’s what I need to do because I’m a mother now! Again it’s the original Japanese manga I’m talking about. I got all of this from Mr. Fusion from part 3 of his Sayian arc video.

so she's stupid because she understands that having an education can generally get you far in a typical society ???? and she wants her son to have a normal, successful upbringing ??

[snuffalufagus]

me when i am faced with the reality that other ppl esl my 'old' peers are smart. or rich or at least very financially well off. don't have anxiety. are achieving things. or sometimes all 4 simultaneously

[mars-ipan]

i am such a one drink girlie. tipsy is plenty and i do not want to experience a hangover ever in my life

[bearsace]

not the way motonari route has me by the THROAT rn... and i thought ieyasu was the one who bias-wrecked me for my ikesen replay...

[sea-buns]

why am i always stumbling upon more frustrating ways in which the US does things? when will i be free?

why can't we just make one thing make sense? the state borders vs the time zone borders are so fucking awkward.

so much of mountain time consists of just the tiniest slivers of states. look at texas. y'all were almost there. you had 99.9% on lock. i lived in florida for 17 years and am only just now discovering that we had two time zones? i went through the entirety of public school in florida and NO ONE thought this info was relevant??

i just,,, i know we have states the size of countries and it's a lot to manage but c'mon man. the state borders were arbitrary enough we couldn't have at least lined them up with the hands on the fuckin clock?

[martyrbat]

world's finest (1990) #3

[ID: Batman in front of a light blue background. He's shown from the chest up and in a slightly angled profile view to be facing the viewer instead. He's looking up at something off panel and has his lips parted. One side of his exposed lower face is normally white while the other side is stylized to have vintage Ben Day dots. END ID]

[lenmonberry]

Countless hours and applications on indeed that went nowhere and I finally get a job almost a year later through a hookup. Ain't that just the way

[barbreypilled]

remember when that one asoiaf race discourse was happening recently and that one silly sausage in the notes was like ‘obviously because it’s a feudal society they have to be white because feudalism is Bad so it is a White People Thing’. lol. lmao even. ijbol mayhaps

[todayisafridaynight]

Throwing in fun (not fun) facts to contribute esp bc I was tagged in the essay: (Sorry in advance this is literally my career and special interest AND I just got back from a training conference about this SO obv I am going to talk too much. Disclosure: These statistics are from peer-reviewed sources AND the National Children's Alliance. The NCA IS an American association, though, so take this all with a grain of salt bc we're applying it to someone whose bg is not American lmao. This is an essay for funsies. CW: discussion of and stats about CSA, Child Abuse) Relevant to the Jo stuff is also that victims of one/any kind of abuse are statistically much more likely to subsequently face overlapping abuse, so knowing he comes from a home where abuse and potential neglect was actively occurring sets Jo-boy up for some sad statistics. I am looking for my notes on the stats for that but it's something stupid high, I wanna say over 30 or 40%.

Additionally, 47%~ of CSA victims are revictimized. Abysmal statistic but mostly just an interesting note if this IS the case/if we choose to interpret Jo this way bc of the other things mentioned in Masu's ask, specifically if we're viewing his unhealthy and ultimately traumatic relationship with Ikumi as a potential example of that revictimization (similarly, coming from a like background, it may have been revictimizing for Ikumi if she had ever experienced something like CSA, as well. It's one of those cases where they both got hurt even if neither of them were at fault for "playing house" as Jo calls it).

Seconding/Adding on to Masu's thoughts about Jo's behavior being as self-destructive as it is because of the compounded trauma of his life, victims of adolescent abuse "engage in health-risk behaviors such as substance use, physical fighting, and risky sexual activity," in far higher numbers than non-victims. We know for facts that adolescent Jo checks at least 2 of those 3 boxes, and that he still puts himself in unnecessary danger as a full grown adult (the Heian Tower fight, and Hoshino's Office fight): An interesting and well-written cycle of trauma and abuse on RGGs part, tbh, but also so narratively telling about how he saw/sees/continues to see himself as more an object than a person. (Love your notes on that btw, it rings very true. I could write an essay on that alone tbh.)

Another weird little thing I notice from both a Doyalist AND Watsonian perspective: Jo's disclosure of his father's abuse would classify as what we call an "accidental disclosure" in the field even though it's clearly intentional that he shares it with Ichi - it's offhanded and markedly unimportant in the story he's telling. He says it passively in a literary sense, as well: "The only thing waiting for me at home was my father's fists." Like homie, that's the most roundabout way you could have said "My dad beat me." Interestingly, up to 50% of [specifically CSA] victims do not state outright that abuse occurs, but disclose it accidentally/offhandedly; and in general, accidental disclosure is more common among people who have also delayed disclosure. Up to 66% of admissions from victims of child abuse come delayed if they come at all.

I think it's a very in-character remark of him to make, but statistically, it lines up with other victims of abuse as a whole. I think it's also just cool that from the Doyalist perspective, writing his lines in this way was intentional. It's part of the whole "Everything Jo says sounds like it could mean more than one thing" thing. He speaks poetically - it's intentional not just for the character but for the writer.

Okay, I'm done for now I'm sorry I just wanted to throw some added stuff into the convo bc I love applying my everyday usage of adolescent-focused trauma care and pysch shit to blorbos and seeing what sticks. Anyway, I also have a shit ton of thoughts on Masumi Arakawa as an abuse survivor but THATS another essay I won't dig into now. If I am still in your good graces after this long ass spiel I will consider it not only amazing but perhaps even cool as hell.

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[thewritingpossum]

Why is this Catherine in litterally all of her scenes with Potemkin? 😭