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calp0sa 4 months ago
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boinin 11 months ago
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Batten down the hatches: Rin's ego is about to land
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The latest chapters show Rin playing with an unfamiliar aura: what looks like swirling rivulets of water.
This represents the refinement of his ego and playstyle since the under-20 match. But what exactly are they going for with the swirling water? Here's my two cents.
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Rin is strongly associated with water, specifically the sea. He grew up by the coast; he and Sae shared a love of watching the sunset over the water after training together. Those childhood memories are turbulent now, like dark clouds on the ocean's horizon.
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It's here he realises that he can no longer play the puppetmaster football that helped him thrive in Blue Lock. As good as he is, it wasn't authentic... and it's nowhere near where he needs to be to compete with his brother, or even Isagi.
Rin's flow state is the most unique out of any others we've seen. Let's dig into it. All panels are from the official translation, which is important as the translation choices are 1) consistent and 2) likely chosen carefully.
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In the dying moments of the match, Rin complains about feeling restrained. Being Itoshi Rin is eating him alive.
Cool, calm and aloof.
A genius. Prodigy. Puppetmaster.
Team player. Team captain.
Isagi Yoichi's partner. Shidou Ryuusei's rival.
Itoshi Sae's little brother.
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The prospect of defeat rudely wakes him up. His pretence comes crashing down hard, triggered by his ineffectiveness in spite of the teammates around him. It's one of the best rugpulls in sports manga.
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When the power of friendship comes knocking, Itoshi Rin tells it to fuck off and die.
What a glorious moment... and not just because it posits Rin as a Uchiha Sasuke kinnie. I prompt you to examine his eyes in this panel.
They're a swirling vortex of hate and destruction, befitting Blue Lock's angstiest character. The shape reminds me of this:
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Satellite images of Hurricane Franklin and Hurricane Idalia, August 2023. Image credit: NOAA Satellites.
Rin's true ego, which he unleashes against Sae, is a storm.
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Optional soundtrack for the rest of this post (because Rin 100% listens to this once it comes out in Blue Lock's universe).
Although it isn't portrayed visually as such in the under-20 arc, the metaphor fits Rin's evolving playstyle. What is more destructive, more uncontrollable, more senseless than a hurricane? A violent force of nature that we can predict but never avert?
When a storm approaches, all we can do is rank it, track it, then attempt to mitigate the inevitable damage.
In football terms? Sounds a lot like playing Rin.
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It's even alluded to in chapter 250: the graphics for Rin's formation are similar to the satellite images of large storms.
Within the U20 match, there are exchanges that support this theory. Darai calls Rin's evolving playstyle arrogant and avaricious. The latter (meaning extreme greed) is evocative of a force that pursues what it wants without regard for anything in its surroundings. What it can't have, it destroys.
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Niou is confident enough in his physicality to try withstand his opponent's attrack. Rin literally flips him into the air. Niou's hubris brings to mind all man-made constructs which are supposedly storm-proof... until a cyclone comes along and proves otherwise.
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The contrast between Rin and Sae's egos are interesting. If we accept Rin's is a storm, i.e. a destructive force of nature that cannot be controlled, Sae's is the opposite despite being as impossible to defy. Sae's motif is defined in the manga as "beautiful destruction", plays and passes depicted in graceful data strings. Rather than natural, his playstyle is sleek and controlled, and dominant to the point of appearing pre-ordained by his opponents.
Their attitudes are equally different. While Rin drools and loses composure in the final minutes, Sae does little more than raise his eyebrows throughout the entire game. He's completely emotionless.
It's the extremes of human nature: animalistic rage versus robotic detachment. This time, the latter wins. Will Rin have an opportunity to face his brother again, with a better grasp on his ego? Here's hoping.
My final thoughts on Rin are speculative. How does one beat a storm? Not just endure鈥攂ut subdue and calm one?
It's beyond human capability. The ability to control the weather exists only in myth and fantasy, and even then it's usually in the hands of powerful entities, not mere heroes or wizards.
Subduing something as powerful as a hurricane would require a god.
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Is this Isagi and Rin's endgame?
Time will tell.
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mylifeinfiction 1 year ago
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Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
"Bad apple spoils the bunch. That's the saying. Ben Franklin said it a little different: The rotten apple spoils his companion."
Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard is a creatively creepy and oh-so-wonderfully weird horror book about apples. Yeah, sure, it's also about the cult-like nature of small town living, dreams like cement shoes and the American divide, but mostly it's just an incredibly well told, effectively eerie, and super f*ckin' weird horror story about the outlets of evil... in the form of evil apples.
This is a long and detailed book. In addition to spending time with very well-defined characters and a story that thankfully gets every bit as weird as I'd hoped it would (and then some), you're going to learn a shit ton about apples. Hell, you'll learn so much about apples that you're going to want to go right out and visit your local orchard. But then you'll continue reading, shit's going to get even weirder, and you're likely going to find yourself never wanting to bite into another apple again. The idea of the crunch of a ripe apple - the tart crispness of its skin, the sweet juiciness of its flesh - will creep you the f*ck out.
Thankfully, Wendig's prose is once again so insanely readable. The way he brings us into this small town and the lives of this impressively large cast of characters is seamless and superbly paced. The way he brings to life both the world of apples, in general, but especially the mythology behind the (Harrowsblack) Ruby Red Slipper, is extremely detailed, richly informative, and (somehow) never once anything near dull. He tells a story of a man trying to bring to fruition his father's dream to the point that it becomes his own obsession. And how that man's own innate evil tendencies are stoked by a deep seeded external evil growing in his own backyard.
But, while the entirety of this book is an atmospheric, enjoyable ride, it's the final act that unleashes the next-level weird that makes this (easily) one of My Favorite Books of 2023. It's expertly paced and satisfyingly plotted and cinematic to the point where the awesomely grotesque body horror in its downright fantastic climax will be sure make your stomach churn. Thanks for sharing your weirdness with us, Chuck! Now I dare you to get weirder...
9/10
-Timothy Patrick Boyer.
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ramrodd 7 months ago
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EnergyX - RVA - Video 02 - copy 01 - WS - 18 sec - 10/03/2023
COMMENTARY:
Here's the thing about any Elon Musk investment opportunity is that it requires Trump's fiscal policies to work. Trump's fiscal policies are based on the white supremacist economics described in George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty, the so-called Supply Side economics of William F. Buckley's Sharon Statement, which is a marketing strategy for the Ivy League socialism of the John Birch Society Here's the thing: we are a cunt hair away from the Star Wars economics of 2001: A Space Odyssey and have been since 19 January 1981, If Carter had been re-elected, or Reagan have been able to fully implement his New Federalism, and kept his promise to Gorbachev, if you replace the Pan Am logo with SpaceX, that is where would have been at or before 2001, The cunt hair standing in the way of Starship America projected by Eisenhower's 1956 Presidential Platform and Starship Troopers of any lunar base is the economics, business model and politics of Elon Musk and all the anti-DEI CEOs who are doubling down on Trump with billion dollar bailouts, just like his daddy taught him Reagan's New Federalism was the final piece to the completion of Stage 2 of Eisenhower's process for the transformation of the Manhattan Project of the global Military Industrial Complex to the Aerospace Entrepreneurial Matrix of Eisenhower's Star Wars economics, we be using the Moon in our campaing to colonize Mars the way Britain was the launching pad for D-Day across the Channel. Stage 1 produced Apollo 11 and Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan created the legislation that authorized the reconfiguration of the New Frontier and Great Society into the core of the social fusion engine of DEI economics, going back to the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence is 4 Square with the universe like Jesus's version of the Shema: Heart, Soul, Mind, Strength and the City on the Hill in Revelation, The Edmund Burke social contract of the syndication is a DEI culture. The secular rule of law of Socrates is the ethical foundation, the Thomas Paine Rights of Man the foundation of the I, a Person democracy and the Benjamin Franklin's Pursuit of Happiness is the structure that unleashes entrepreneurial impulse 聽of the Elan Vitale of the Self-Actualizing person's will to win in a Free Society Nixon and Daniel Patrick 聽Moynihan launched Stage 2 with Affirmative Acition, a complex DEI performance technology that will provide the economic basis for Stage 3, the final paradigm shift from the dialectical wilderness of the Boomer Food Fight to the organic performance structures of Eisenhower's Starship Capitalism of 2001: A Space Odyssey, In 1981, we were a cunt hair away from launching the final paradigm 聽shift but the reactionary nature of the Hollywood John Birch Society around Reagan stopped it cold, where we have been stalled for the last 43 years. And as I say we remain a cunt hair away from the Starship Capitalism of 2001: A Spce Odyssey by the economics, business model, social philosophy and MAGA Conservative politics of Elon Musk and the January 6 insurgency legacy of William F. Buckley, Elon Cusk's performance model was state of the art when women began to blay half court basketball, The anti-DEI MAGA Conservatives like Musk want to restore that social milieu,
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