I now disagree with that post that went something like "to make high schoolers laugh post pandemic you have to kill someone" because when I was clocking out of work today I overheard my coworkers, two high school boys, joking around. One said "hey bro...literally me when im making pizza..." He was in fact making a pizza, that's our job. They both laughed like beavis and butthead and repeated it a few times.
May his memory be a blessing.
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
"Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak."
From Wikipedia
He was also a pretty great artist
New type of writing discovered somewhere in between poetry and proze, its called "posts"
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Nobody understands Kingdom Hearts that well cause everybody compares it to shonen anime when it's actually a magical girl anime because it has:
-A protagonist who is an ordinary lad who got given a special power that could save the universe
Teammates that the protagonist can lean on and who help the protagonist with said special power
A love interest heavily involved in the plot that both motivates the protagonist and is motivated by the protagonist
A monster of the week format that has its own standalone conflict that eventually leads to the next major plot point in the story
Overarching themes about love and friendships and connections and identity
So, in my experience, a shonen anime can have these things and in many cases does. I think what mainly differentiates a shonen from a magical girl anime is that shonen places emphasis on physical strength and magical girl anime places emphasis on emotional strength.
Kingdom Hearts is unique in that it’s pretty much a shonen protagonist running around in a universe that operates on magical girl values. Sora begins as a 14 year old boy who wants to get stronger, to physically best his rival Riku. Sora spends much of KH1 relying on the Keyblade’s might, eager to put his battle skills to the test and become a hero.
But Sora doesn’t really become a hero until he declares that his power doesn’t come from his weapon but his friends. He doesn’t need a sword. He has his heart.
From here on, the series consistently demonstrates that the heart is always mightier than the fist. But Sora himself struggles to see the value in compassion and understanding over physical prowess and capability, thereby failing to recognize his own inherent strength.
They are without a doubt his greatest strengths, but he still perceives these traditionally feminine values as inferior to the masculine values someone like Hercules, at first glance, represents in the face of a fight. The height. The muscles. The godly strength. Sora wants to be just like Hercules.
(Which is ironic since Herc’s whole thing is how a hero isn’t measured by the size of their strength but the strength of their heart. But it’s not like Sora has watched the movie.)
This is why the aftermath of failing the Mark of Mastery Exam is such a blow to Sora’s self esteem. Why the taunting by villains about how puny and weak Sora is gets to him. Sora thinks he’s useless if he can’t fight. He thinks learning the Power of Waking is all about getting his physical strength back.
And while physically grinding like he does in KH3 doesn’t hurt; war is upon them, after all… it doesn’t really bring him closer to the Power of Waking, right? Because the PoW has nothing to do with how well you can throw a punch, swing a sword, cast a spell.
It’s strength of heart. Strength of feelings and connections. Again, the things Sora is gifted at. Mastering the PoW in KH3 would’ve been a breeze if Sora wasn’t thinking like a shonen protagonist and instead recognized and accepted his inherent, “feminine” strengths.
All this is to say, I think it’s hard to define Kingdom Hearts as shonen or magical girl because it really is like, hey let’s throw this shonen protagonist into a magical girl story and see what happens! And what happens is Sora lmao
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I got 10 :)
I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you're training your neural pathways and it's gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone's mind after achieving a goal is "how/which people can we help next, what's the next step for improving things" and not "who do we need to attack next."
I'm not saying don't be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don't define yourself by it or it's gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.
just found out about the Cinnamon-headed green pigeon... holy shit how gorgeous
