#years of training

[falseandrealultravival]

The education that a sushi chef should have: Sushi - 2) (Essay)

A famous Japanese dropout: Takafumi Horie (Horiemon) once boasted that "sushi chefs don't need years of training." This statement caused a debate at the time, but it is outrageous. I think that if you only train to hold sushi, you can become a conveyor belt sushi chef, but you can't become a real sushi chef. You have to train mentally.

One day, a black man became a customer at a Japanese sushi restaurant. A racist white man who arrived later ordered the black man, "Negro, this is not a place for you to come. Get out." At that time, the owner of the sushi restaurant said, "You're the one who should get out," and kicked the white man out of the restaurant. A sushi restaurant is a place where all customers can enjoy eating together, and he resolutely excluded anyone who disrupts that. Great insight! A true sushi chef is someone who can take a resolute attitude like this owner, and this is true education. This is why years of training are necessary. That is why Horiemon's remarks are foolish.

Rei Morishita

2024.11.25

寿司職人の持つべき教養：寿司―２）（エッセイ）

日本の有名な落ちこぼれ：堀江貴文（ホリエモン）は、「寿司職人には修行年限はいらない」とうそぶいたことがある。この発言は当時相当議論を呼んだが、暴論である。私は思う、ただ寿司を握るだけの訓練であれば、回転寿司の調理人にはなれても、本物の寿司職人にはなれない。精神の修行をしなくては。

ある時、黒人が日本の寿司屋の客になった。後からやってきた人種差別主義者の白人が、黒人に「ニグロ、ここはお前の来るような店ではない、出ていけ」と命令した。そのとき、寿司屋の主人は「出ていくのは、あなただ」と白人を店から追い出した。寿司屋は、客みんなで楽しく食べる場、それを乱す者を断乎として排除したのだ。素晴らしい見識！この主人のような毅然とした態度を取れる者が本当の寿司職人であり、これこそほんとうの教養だ。修行年限が必要な理由である。だから、ホリエモンの発言は、愚かなのである。

[bumbleboa]

a year ago I drew this fanart for @cal-writes train AU (fic found HERE) and it has been my favorite piece of fanart of last year. So today I wanted to do a redraw, but instead of drawing the same piece again, I drew a prequel to the events in the last piece!

[nighttimenarcotics]

🥺😔😔😔 oh no what am I to-

[cozylittleartblog]

"content creator" is a corporate word.

we are artists.

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

Woah! Is that @kaylasartwork , @bubbleverseart , AND @nyxisart ? What is this, a New Years crossover episode? (Seriously, though. Thank you all for participating, your art is wonderful and getting to know y’all this winter has been delightful.)

It’s going to be a good year, 2025. And it’s going to be good because the queer community, all of us, are there for each other. Every single one of us is badass alone, and together we can weather anything.

[hinamie]

new official illust of them with puppies healed something in me

[akstzs]

modern au where this is how Hiccup lost all of Berk's gold

[magpiedraws]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

Hot take

Night furies are actually perfectly evolved for hunting and killing other dragons and the only reason they aren't a dragon-hunting species like the death song or deathgrippers are is because DreamWorks couldn't have their adorable main character dragon be a "cannibal"

(below I'm gonna try to summarize what we've figured out in a convo with friends on discord)

(also tw animal death via predator)

First of all yes I'm aware that pretty much every decision made about their design was with consideration of the effect it would make on human audiences but hear me out

Night furies are most iconically known as dive-bombers. They are built for speed, high maneuverability, night-time camouflage and for striking targets from above. If we remove human settlements out of the equation (which would not have existed long enough to actually influence night fury evolution, come on), what does that leave us with?

They aren't built for catching fish for sure, they aren't very hydrodynamic and their head is round, wide, and their teeth are dull. Honestly, the monstrous nightmare is much better suited for catching fish, with its long neck, almost pelican-like jaw and rhamphorhynchus teeth

Compare to

Yeah the jaws look kinda like a porpoise of some sort but for that the whole body would have to be a lot more aquatic imo. The light fury looks a lot closer to an aquatic diver, it has a sleeker body, rounded fins instead of spikes, and a long neck.

I don't really see them hunting land animals either, they just don't look like they're adapted for that minus the resemblance with large felines and even then, they're too large to effectively hunt in forests.

The one thing I can kinda imagine them hunting is large mainland megafauna, but we're working with a setting that takes place pretty much exclusively on islands. And overall, dragons are the only abundant species there with the exception of fish and human-bred sheep and chickens.

In general, night furies have duller teeth, smaller claws and are smaller than most dragons. Disregarding the movies making Toothless weirdly OP, a night fury would be disadvantaged against most dragons in a 1v1 fight and besides, it has four huge weak spots that would highly discourage it from a direct physical fight - the primary and secondary tail fins. One unlucky rip in the membrane and the night fury is fucked.

The night fury however noticeably resembles falcons, given their dive-bombing ability and high maneuverability.

Falcons too have smaller beaks and weaker claws compared to most birds of prey, and for that they compensate by simply picking up speed, balling up their talons and Punching. Really. Hard.

And they use that ability to kill other birds, even much larger ones, by knocking them right from the sky.

Here, the night fury's plasma blast works the same way as a falcon's punch. Dragons are fire-resistant, so what the plasma blast does is really just a densely packed bolt of energy that has the effect of either stunning or outright killing prey by damaging its spine. And what the plasma bolt doesn't do, rapid contact with the ground would finish. And if even that doesn't do it, the night fury's wide jaws and dull teeth are just fine for simply clamping around the unlucky dragon's neck and strangling it, like a lion or a pitbull.

The night-time camouflage allows the night fury to soar for extended periods of time perfectly unnoticed in the night sky, and by the time it strikes, the dragon wouldn't even know what's coming.

Unless

Say the hunting night fury is aware of other dragons sleeping under the trees, as most dragons probably would at night (village raids aside, most dragons seem to be diurnal), so how does the night fury get them in position where it can use its signature attack? Well, there's That Iconic Screech Of Death. Since in the movies it tends to appear not just during dive-bombings but also when charging up a blast, I imagine it's something the night fury is able to control to some degree. So by simply fake-diving in close proximity to sleeping dragons, it can effectively terrify them into leaving their hideout and fly out into the open where it can easily take them out.

I dunno, the possibility of night furies as predators to other dragons just makes so much sense to me, I really don't know what other reasons there would be for them to evolve these particular adaptations.

And one more little headcanon to add to this whole rant - since night furies are significantly smaller and less equipped for dragon vs dragon fights and are primarily speed-based predators, I imagine there is this very likely scenario:

There is one dragon who resembles a hyena, a lil bit

Ok, rant over

[seafoamdew]

A bit late but Happy New Year all! 🥳 Year of the Dragon let’s gooooo 🐲🐲

[amevdw]

[somewhereincairparavel]

i will never understand how people have the heart to hate Jason even after they found out that his Ambrosia tastes like fucking sawdust. Ambrosia being tasty is like one single happy thing a demigod can have despite their tragic lives, because it reminds them of the home they once had, but lost. And Jason doesn't even have that, he doesn't even have a home to lose in the first place.

[pommegrantaire]

stay close to me

[uncharted-constellations]

~What i couldve been~

I was just gonna do the adult timeline zelda but im so enchanted by the idea of these two versions of the same character. People always talk about how link would be changed but never zelda.

[mahoganyrust]

Happy Birthday Jack!

Did I draw this on unhealthy levels of caffeine? Yes. Do I regret it? It’s 3am so maybe but it doesn’t matter BECAUSE IT’S JACK FROST’S BIRTHDAYYYYYYYYY

[hinamie]

unconditionally