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Goblin academia. Purveyor of thoughts and dreams. Held together by spit and string.
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class1akids

BNHA 389 thoughts

Another good chapter with the temperature and tension rising in the Todoroki plot...

- After the hope that Rei, Natsuo and Fuyumi presented, the police confirms that their ice is not enough. I think that makes sense considering all 3 of them are untrained civilians who never did any quirk output training and Touya's flames are Endeavor ++

- Touya's thoughts as he cycles between "this is how it feels like" and "if it was this easy, why only now" as he watches Endeavor's burning face is haunting. It feels like maybe there is a little regret in there, a bit of too little too late. But maybe the first tiny crack to show that he doesn't want to end things like this.

- Cut to a reminder what's at stake. The civilians still trying to escape the blast range, and the heroes like Uraraka are still fighting a few meters away. A lot that's dear is at stake for Shouto, not just the immediate Todoroki family.

- Love the contrast between Shouto's little fans from the Remedial class and Can't-You-See-kun who is wearing an Endeavor merch outfit - but they both believe in their heroes and don't look away even as things seem hopeless.

- The woman in the Philippines shows us that not only in Japan but also people around the world are watching. I'm also wondering if it's a set up to change the weather there once we get the pressure from Touya's and Shouto's combined Phosphor released in one way or another

- I think it will look really cool in the anime how the ice jet comes in. You can see the building and then the same building with the vibration and rain drops changing shape from the speed.

- The melting panel edges become straight when the kids notice the Shouto - Iida jet - maybe the cool air has hit them.

- It's a cool quirk combo between the two of them (and wouldn't be surprised if Hatsume had a hand in it too when he upgraded Iida's armor)

- I love the last double spread. It's a really good contrast between the serious panel and the goofy nickname. It's just like Shouto - he looks deceptively cool but he's also a big dork and the gap is what makes his character funny in an endearing way.

- I always loved the Remedial arc, I think it had a lot of the core themes of the manga well represented - the essence of saving being about hearts / quirk and emotional development / quirk singularity doomsday theory / the meaning of the Symbol of Peace, plus it was a really important development for Shouto so I'm happy to see the references back to it

#mha spoilers
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reallyreallyreallytrying

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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doubleca5t

An actual World Heritage Post

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protectcosette

how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it

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definitelynotlazav

one week until ten years of Spiders Georg

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yd12k
#the man the myth the legend#hellsite (affectionate)#spiders georg
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animate-mush

AITA for trying to eat my landlord's fancy takeout?

So my [523 F] sisters [498 F/492 F]and I are fully stay-at-home, and our landlord [530 M] brings us most of our groceries. Now things have been tight recently and so we only have grocery runs about once a month, and last night was one of these. Our house has a pretty clearly delineated men's half and women's half, so when we saw the food [21M] in our rooms we assumed it had been left there for us. But then our landlord burst in with our groceries and started screaming and shouting and getting really violent about the idea that we would touch his special treat after he'd forbidden it and just carrying on and told us to get out (this was our room, keep in mind). And I guess I had known that he had ordered fancy takeout, but it wasn't like it was labeled or anything, and it's not like there wasn't plenty to go around. His reaction just seemed really uncalled for. AITA?

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see-arcane

You are the assholes and you know it.

Hi, Landlord here [590 M] who thinks the story could use a little extra context. Like the fact that all three of the abovementioned tenants were fully aware that the food was not just a special treat, but THE Special Treat.

Which they knew. Because I told them about it repeatedly. I told them explicitly not to even look at this Special Treat until I was done with him.

If that seems hyperbolic, understand that he was an imported good I’d been waiting on for just the right occasion. We’re talking Wagyu beef levels of quality. I am currently following a time-honored preparation method of seasoning his psyche with assorted traumas for maximum flavor at the time of consumption.

And, shocker for the audience, I was always planning to share the Special Treat with these three bottomless pits who, I’ll note, do get fresh groceries from me--I bring in goddamn veal every couple weeks!--including the inciting date above. How would you react if you came home from the market with an armful of dinner only to find the people you told. Explicitly. Not to Touch the Special Treat Yet (emphasis on YET). About to jump and drink him dry before you even got a taste after all your hard work of priming and preparation?

It should also be mentioned that I have been fasting for ages while making sure my tenants are fed. I have to make the grocery trips because, as you can probably guess, they have the self control of mosquitoes at a blood drive and would inhale the whole countryside if I didn’t play caterer. 

Needless to say, yes, I blew up at them. 

And also yes, they still got their goddamn groceries while I went hungry again, because I was/am not finished with menacing the Special Treat to peak flavorful misery. 

All I wanted was to enjoy the art of perfecting the Special Treat’s torment for the rest of the prep time, get first taste, and then share it with my tenants. Though part of me is feeling almost petty enough to just box the Special Treat up with me and head out on holiday out of spite at this point. 

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animate-mush

"Wagyu Beef" ugh you're SO pretentious. "All my food has to come from England now, boo hoo it all has to be properly ~~seasoned~~" meanwhile just tossing us the barest scraps

Don't let this guy fool you playing "oh poor me" just because he's on another of his stupid fad diets. He is the biggest teaboo I swear. AND he tries to make us help him practice his sentences for his big vacation WHICH I may add we are NOT invited on!

Oh yeah, he told us not to look at the Special Treat. That part's true. It's so true that we haven't been allowed out of our part of the house for two weeks! Well guess what genius - we didn't know what the Special Treat looked like! Wow, another one of your brilliant plans perfectly effected.

"I was always going to share" oh really? Were you? Because it sounded to me like backtracking once we caught you. "Oh don't worry babe you can have my leftovers after I leave the country." HOW EXTREMELY GENEROUS OF YOU.

But you know what? You're right, you're right. ITA for assuming you would do something nice for us for a change.

ETA: you know he hasn't even changed the draperies in here, like, ever? Everything's moth eaten and we don't even have curtains. But when he's got visitors suddenly it's the best of everything. He's been feeding that guy every day and we don't even get a nibble? And it's like this for everything. I hope he gets hit by one of those fancy English trains he's obsessed with

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see-arcane

First, excuse the hell out of me for hitting on a hobby other than ‘ooh hoo hoo, I do nothing but eat and complain through the centuries!’ 

Second, you’re not idiots. Do you really expect me to believe that you couldn’t connect the dots between ‘Hey, stay away from the Special Treat’ and ‘Oh hey, look at this Special Treat-looking morsel! That was very clearly not hand-delivered to us like all our other groceries! Guess it’s completely unrelated and we shouldn’t wait to find out more before pouncing on it!’?

Third, WE HAVE BEEN SHARING THIS BUILDING FOR HALF A MILLENNIUM. I HAVE BEEN TAKING CARE OF THE PARTS USED BY MYSELF AND/OR MY GUESTS/FUTURE MEALS THE ENTIRE TIME. ME. BY MYSELF. ONE GUY. Oh no, your rooms are looking dowdy and moth-eaten? Oh dear. Whyever could that be? It’s almost like the people who use them, exclusively, haven’t been doing shit to join in on the upkeep. You would think four (4) supernaturally endowed people un-living in the same castle could keep the whole thing looking nice through basic effort. You’d think! But no, apparently! It’s all down to one guy because the rest can’t be bothered!

Fourth, oh, I haven’t done anything nice for you for a change? Nothing?? Let me get out my little glass harmonica so I can play a sad song as grating as you sound. What part of You Get to Share the Special Treat (who could have been all just for me whether you saw him or not!) did you not hear? All I want--after starving myself, after preparing him to be something Special for Us--is the courtesy of getting the first draught from the finished product. That’s it. That is literally it. 

You three are the type of people who’d complain about a winemaker getting the first glass from his barrel. ffs

Fifth, and I can’t believe this needs repeating: You are complaining about ‘getting scraps’ (read: fresh local goods, like clockwork) when I have had. Literally. Nothing. For so long I can’t even say if it’s been months or years. Maybe act your age and grow some patience when it comes to appreciating (someone else’s) cuisine for once. 

But hey, it’ll all be moot in a month, won’t it? The whole greedy gaggle of you will get him once I’m done--IF I’m feeling forgiving, which is very much up in the air now--and I’ll be heading out to England, and then you’ll be free to let the rest of the castle fall to shambles and glut yourself on the neighbors to your hearts’ content. 

Try not to pick the Carpathians dry. 

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Hi. Um. Special Treat [21 M] speaking. 

Can someone please send the authorities and a locksmith to Castle Dra

CONNECTION LOST

#dracula daily#ramshackle nonsense
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catilinas

dashboard simulator

mutual 1: [one million posts about a fandom im not in. in the span of five minutes]

mutual 2: M. Caelius too must not pass unnoticed, notwithstanding the unhappy change, either of his fortune or disposition, which marked the latter part of his life. As long as he was directed by my influence, he behaved himself so well as a tribune of the people, that no man supported the interests of the senate, and of all the good and virtuous, in opposition to the

mutual 3: patricide would fix me

mutual 4: [5000 word theoretically informed breakdown of a book i have not read]

mutual 5: #omg this reminds me of the roman legal system

mutual 6: cannibalism is so mainstream now we need to start posting about necrophilia

mutual 7: so a detailed prosopographical analysis of this roman family reveals that actually they all died due to being haunted by an ancestral curse

mutuals 8-10: this tv show is actually just sophocles’ oedipus. to me

mutual 11: [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags] [this post contains filtered tags]

mutual 12: here’s why these two words actually have NO etymological connection!!!

mutual 13: i’m just like this 18th century lawyer but a girl

mutual 14: cicero big naturals

mutual 15: scurvy is inherently both transgender and sexy…… put the rot in eroticism or whatever

mutual 16: she moby on my dick until i doomed by the narrative

#ramshackle nonsense#so many of these
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hooved

“since when was riker confirmed as bi?” 1. he was literally in a relationship with someone of a genderless species prior to her confessing that she wanted to be a woman (and jonathan frakes originally wanted the character to be played by a man, but that idea was rejected) 2. we learn in an episode of lower decks that him and deanna have threesomes together on risa, and given the “anything goes” attitude of that planet, it’s pretty safe to assume that other men are involved sometimes at the very least 3. have you seen him

All the posts floating around about how young protagonists in adventure stories are really abused child-soldiers are starting to get on my nerves.

Look, it's not that I don't see the point of them. In the real world, the things that kids in fantasy books go through would be horrific and traumatizing. It's a fun deconstruction of a common trope to point that out, and to point out that the adults around these kids are massively failing in their responsibilities if they're letting children end up in these situations.

And yet.

Fantasy and science fiction, when at their best, serve as mirrors in which people can observe their own fears and struggles in a safe way. This is, in my opinion, an especially helpful form of literature for children, because it can break down the overwhelming concepts of the adult world into things that are objective and make sense. Complex, internal struggles can be externalized as monsters and evils that can be overcome. The massive darkness of the world is congealed into a Dark Lord or Evil Empire. And this can all be done without coming across as a preachy metaphor.

Some of the hardest things about being a kid are existing in a world that gives you very little autonomy, being surrounded by seemingly all-powerful adults who don't always listen to you or support you or care about your well-being. Adults may ignore you when you're in trouble. They might even be malicious. And their world is alien to you. You're supposed to be learning how to exist in it, and yet there is a gulf between you and them.

Kids also understand a lot more of adults than we give them credit for, even if they don't have the experience or context to fully understand our reasons for why we behave certain ways.

So there you are, small (literally and figuratively) in a world that is bigger and stronger (literally and figuratively) than you. What do you want out of that world? You want autonomy. You want to be taken seriously. You want the things that matter to you to matter to other people.

Stories about kids who get to be heroes and do things that, in reality, no kid should ever be doing, resonate on a deep level. They give you a vision of a world where you can deal with problems. They give you a world where adults may not be taking you seriously, but in the end it doesn't matter because you end up seizing control yourself and winning the day. They give you a world where the things you're trying to learn about society are broken down into ways that make some goddamn sense, and the protagonists learn to deal with those things.

As adults, we can look at the trope of the child hero and see a situation where we, as adults, would want to step in and protect a child from a terrible situation. And as adults, that's a fine lesson to learn. But also we should be looking at these stories and remembering that, in addition to care and protection, kids need the autonomy and independence that lets them overcome obstacles and grow.

When we read a story where a kid goes through harrowing situations and ends up saving the world (or at least the part of the world that matters to them), we should remember that, for a kid, that's important. Being a kid can be a harrowing experience all by itself. Maybe in the world of the story, the kid's life would be a lot easier and safer and better if the adults around them were to solve the problems, but what would be the point of that story? What's the point of a story that says, "You're just a kid. Let the grown ups handle everything and go play"?

One thing that kids learn at a very young age is that grown ups don't have everything under control. And yet they are constantly told to shut up and not do anything. Telling them that they can have power, and they can have autonomy, and here are the ways of wielding those that are moral and just seems like a pretty damn important thing to me.

#ramshackle philosophy#writing#stories
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70sscifiart

1967 TV set ad

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ramshacklefey

It may be of some interest to people that the reason TOS uniforms were in bright primary colors and the lighting and sets were sometimes so garish (to our eyes) was that the people making it knew that a lot of their viewers were going to be watching in black and white. The uniforms had to be clearly distinguishable from each other, and the sets had to be easy to read.

Probably the bright colors also helped make things easy to see on a TV screen with low resolution that was about the size of most laptops these days.

#star trek

Not to be outdone by Florida for long, the Ohio State Senate just passed this monstrosity of a bill to assure "intellectual freedom and diversity" in state universities. Among other things, it suggests:

  • Forbidding any kind of required DEI training;
  • Forbidding any form of affirmative action or scholarships based on race, gender, sexuality, etc (the official wording is that no one is to be "advantaged or disadvantaged" based on these things, but I'm sure you can see that this is the logical fallout from that);
  • Forbidding "training" about any kind of systemic oppression or privilege;
  • Forbidding anything in the university that would group students by sex, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender presentation. This includes extracurricular activities. The intention is pretty obviously to get rid of clubs, fraternities, and sororities for queer students or students of color, or events like Queer Proms, or graduation ceremonies for students of color. (Somewhat hilariously, it would also require co-ed dorms, and I sincerely hope that if this passes someone has the balls to turn all restrooms on a campus gender-neutral);
  • Requiring that all course syllabi be made publicly available on the University website, including a description of every single lecture or discussion, to be made available by the first day of the term;
  • Requiring that all faculty allow students to draw their own conclusions about "controversial matters" and not attempt to inculcate any particular belief about them in students. Controversial matters, btw, explicitly includes climate change. But this also means that an instructor is not allowed to tell students that systemic racism or sexism is real or a problem, and could easily be stretched to include things like vaccines or conspiracy theories. Additionally, considering the fact that many people consider any discussion of LGBT topics to be "indoctrination"... I'm sure you can see where this might go;
  • Requiring that all student evals for courses include the question, "Does the faculty member create a classroom atmosphere free of political, racial, gender, and religious bias?" Honestly, this could go a number of ways, but given the rest of the bill, it's pretty clear why they included it;
  • Requiring all students to take a course in American history. Seems legit, but combine that with the fact that we're not allowed to talk about any kind of systemic oppression;
  • Forbidding any state university employees from striking;
  • Requiring post-tenure reviews for faculty every three years, submitted to the university chancellor. At least 50% of faculty members' teaching evaluation is to be based on student evals; and
  • Forbidding any relationships with the Chinese government or Chinese universities (including exchange or study abroad programs).

If you live, teach, or attend a university in Ohio, please contact your state house rep.

#us politics#ohio#higher education
cephalotodd-deactivated20190310

we should make fun of americans more. why dont their shops include tax in the price tag. like how much does this item cost? its a surprise :)

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madamebomb

Honestly, tea. I’ve lived here my whole life and I have never once known what my total is gonna be at the register. Total fucking mystery.

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2-face

im an ex-american living in new zealand for the past two years and it still never fails to blow my mind that i can take a $2 coin, walk up to a counter with two $1 items, and perform the expected transaction

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greekedtext

this callout is completely deserved

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ramshacklefey

Yeah same. Also we deserve being dunked on for every damn price ending in 9¢. Like, it's always $3.99. Or something that actually $1.29.

It's done deliberately to trick your brain into thinking things cost less than they do and it drives me bonkers.

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1-b-ultimate-showdown

Ultimate 1-B poll, round one match 4!

Neito Monoma vs Itsuka Kendo!

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ramshacklefey

Vote Kendo for this one. She is nonbinary icon.

In the light novels, she there's an entire chapter about her getting ready for the Beauty Pageant at the culture festival. She wasn't originally planning the martial arts demo and wasn't even happy about being in the pageant.

She spends a lot of time in the story trying to grapple with the fact that she doesn't really feel like she's a girl and wishing there were more than two options. Her interactions with Mei, Nejire, and Bibimi over the course of the story help her figure out that she doesn't really have to act like a girl, and she decides to do things her own way (the martial arts demo is, for her, a great way to express her not femme self).

Anyway I love her.

#mha
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zemathememequeen

Ok, so something I've noticed that is utterly baffling to me is that all the Americans I know primarily dry their clothes using a machine called a dryer. I don't even own a dryer. So, I need to know:

#clothesline but i picked up the havit while living in austria#because thats where i learned about indoor drying racks#stuck with it when i learned how bad dryers are for your clothes#especially for shitty fast fashion#but it also ruins the screen printing on t-shirts