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Geeking out in various ways over other people's cool things since 2000. FYI: I am an adult. This is an adult site. I assume, therefore, that if you're interacting with me you're ALSO an adult. Act like a jackass, and I will respond as I would to any other adult behaving like a jackass.
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A little side note (fyodor vs dazai)
AKA I do in fact pay attention to the commentary on my posts.
This one caught my attention, because it's interesting and almost right.
See, the thing is - Chuuya is not the one who taught Dazai that Fyodor's methodology is flawed. In fact, Chuuya spends a lot of time complaining that when Dazai offers a choice, it isn't really a choice at all and that he'll JUST end up doing what Dazai wants anyway, and how much he dislikes that. Which generally just makes Dazai smile and/or laugh.
(Dazai did learn a few things from Chuuya. But 'the art of manipulation and how you don't do it' is not one of them.)
No, the one that really seems to have taught Dazai that Fyodor's methodology is dangerously flawed is....Akutagawa.
Because no one, no one, can get Akutagawa to do something Akutagawa isn't already inclined to do. No. One.
And Dazai tried. We know he tried. He damn near killed Akutagawa trying. He got as far as instilling that sense of worship that Fyodor's subjects have...but that's it. Even though Akutagawa thinks of Dazai as some kind of god figure, it doesn't matter. Because to Akutagawa, Dazai is this inscrutable higher being who cannot be predicted or understood, and this...actually kinda made him immune to the kind of railroading manipulation that Fyodor is best known for.
Akutagawa didn't start 'getting things right' in terms of pleasing Dazai until Atsushi stepped in as an unwitting translator. But that was much later, after Dazai had already left the Mafia behind, and left Fyodor's railroading techniques behind.
It's after the utter failure to control Akutagawa that Dazai learns the 'better' - or at least kinder - form of manipulation that he currently uses. Which is not to railroad and force people by whittling down their choices, but to observe people and place them such that what they were already going to do anyway is to your advantage.
'Cos Akutagawa does as Akutagawa wills, and you can either put the raging chainsaw near the trees you want cut, you can get out of the way, or you can get your damn arms sawn off. It's all the same to the chainsaw.
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protip: Be less 'normal'.
I can't speak for ALL writers, because no one can, but I can tell you that there was a point in my writing life where people were absolutely cool with going gonzo over my OCs, and talking to me about what they hoped would happen, and how they worried about the fates of my characters...
I have to tell you that I have never felt as overtly creative, nor taken as much sheer joy in my work, as I did during that time. I wanted to tell those stories. It felt for a while like I'd really managed to create something.
Now, I'm not going to advise you to cut completely loose. That's kind of what led to that time ending.
Firstly, people asked me 'what happens next' a lot, and I was happy to tell them...with the net result that everyone knew what happened next so I never actually had to WRITE IT. Which felt great at the time, but means that there aren't as many (or in some cases, any ) stories I could share now. I kept the characters, and some got repurposed down the line, but the original stories, while known to the people around me at the time, are just...kind of a shared RP in our heads.
So if you want ACTUAL STORY, try to be patient enough to GET actual story, y'know?
And ...well. Try not to be weird. I'm usually a huge fan of weird, so this feels like going against my grain a bit, but you encourage a writer to write by hanging on to the release of the next book, the next chapter.
If you start telling your fave writer that you've put off your marriage plans because you just MUST know what happens next? - Weird.
If you start telling your fave writer that nothing better happen to your fave because you're naming your firstborn after them? - Weird.
I'm not saying you can't DO those things, just don't tell the writer you're doing those things. Because now you've taken everything out of the realm of 'being creative' and thrown in 'uh, do I need to call somebody?' which is, I have to tell you, not writing. And you want them to be writing, so you can know what happens next.
It's best to think of getting your fave writer to write, like you'd train a very affectionate and distractible puppy.
being a fan of a friend's ocs is actually so humiliating....... like yes my favourite character rn is tragically doomed and a pillar of humanity who i think is relevant to the current world. you can find information about them on discord dot com and sometimes in late-night conversations with this guy i know. what the fuck
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TBHK #113 - Thoughts.
I'm not going to go in depth on predictions. Right now I'm having way too much fun gleefully rubbing my hands and squeeing at each new chapter. So long we've waited for this!
We know that yeah, this timeline's going to get undone. We know that. But let's take a look at some of the fascinating tidbits a moment.
Tsukasa is still haunting the school. Why? Shouldn't he have been dead at 4, never to attend the school?
Tsukasa is playing the role of oracle - answering any question as long as you "play with him". And sometimes people don't come back from that. Wonder if they get lost in the Red House...
Amane seems to know about this - he does watch the girls do the summoning rite. He even smiles about it. Now, maybe he doesn't know supernaturals are real, in this timeline? But would it matter much to him if he DID know? He's always been mixed up about his twin.
This is the future that Tsuchigomori had in his book. But why? Why THIS future?
Didn't Tsuchi refer to Amane as a *past* colleague? So why is Amane in the school?
Is anyone else hearing alarm bells at the 'arranged marriage' between Teru and Aoi? The 'supernatural slaying clan' and the 'maiden sacrifice' clan arranging a marriage? There's some fuckeduppery going on there, right? Just about has to be?
Some thoughts/hopes/wishes for future events.
Please please please, AidaIro, let Amane and Yashiro meet in this timeline. There's three whole days. Pleeeeeeeeease. I want to see that interaction SO MUCH.
Tsuchigomori has got to be involved. Oh! What if they try to find out when things changed by looking up their pasts in their books? That's within the rules of the 4 o clock library.
On that note COULD WE SEE AMANE'S BOOK? Ooooh, please?
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Parallel World Pharmacy: Jesus was an Isekai
This is a cute little one-season "let's highlight the importance of a particular job/field" anime. And yes, it's technically a reincarnation isekai as well. The protagonist was, on Earth, a genius chemist/pharmacist/biochemist/surgeon - let's just say Doogie Howser and House have nothin' on this guy. He's world famous for figuring out how to treat previously untreatable conditions.
Unfortunately for the protagonist, he's SO smart and SO driven he works himself into a heart attack in his mid 30s, and dies. He wakes up in the body of a ten year old boy, in another world.
So far, standard isekai really. Except not quite. I don't know why they went all out on this aspect of the story, since it has nothing to do with why they created the anime (join the school of pharmacology! It's totally cool! We promise!) but this is where things went a little weird.
Firstly, he didn't just wake up in the body of a ten year old. This isn't the standard reincarnation isekai. He doesn't get overlapping memories of his childhood in this new world. No, our hero woke up in the BODY of the ten year old. Who hadn't been breathing FOR A SOLID HOUR. And the boy hadn't just bumped his head. He'd been HIT BY LIGHTNING.
He has glowing fern patterns on both his arms. Of course, protagonist is like "yeah, you get those when you get electrocuted" but no. Those fern patterns are the holy symbol of the Medicine God.
What follows, as a kind of consistent B-plot, is the people of this new world deciding very quickly that Our Hero is in fact the incarnation of the Medicine God, here in their world to save lives and upend medical science as they know it (which, since their medical science is roughly 14th century Europe, is good for everyone) and Our Hero trying and usually utterly failing to pretend that he's just a ten year old human boy.
This is, by far, the most hilariously fun part of this otherwise pretty quiet and serious anime. Because these people don't know what bacteria are, or germs, or viruses. Our Hero promptly invents the microscope to show them, but I have to admit I find it really funny that he's consistently saying things like "yes, this illness is caused by tiny invisible creatures" and everyone else is going "EVIL SPIRITS???"
Because y'know. "tiny invisible malevolent creture" and "evil spirit" do kinda sound like you're talking about the same thing. He's chased by the Inquisition for the standard isekai business of having basically infinite ultra magic and casting no shadow, but when he tries to heal the inquisitor that tried to kill him, they flip right around into OMG WE JUST TRIED TO EXORCISE A GOD.
(This one especially amused me, because the inquisitor he heals then goes on to get himself assigned to Our Hero's town...and present Our Hero with this really really cool staff. He doesn't tell OH until after he picks the staff up that oh, by the way, ONLY A GOD CAN TOUCH THAT STAFF - so, you know, you're a god, we proved it. OH then tries to sell the idea that okay maybe he's a god but an UNDERCOVER one, okay? Please?)
This little B-plot keeps up all through the story; the viewer knows the science (which is, btw, apparently really accurate; the series was written by doctors and chemists) but frankly, the common people of the isekai world's explanations with spirits and gods and demons actually work just as well to explain what's going on most of the time.
Oh and the Black Plague has an actual literal body. Walking around. So we're not just talking 'ignorant peasants' here. Sometimes they're right.
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I was formally Disinvited from watching zombie apocalypse shows with my family because I had a tendency to point and laugh at the signs that this was in no way an actual apocalypse.
"They've got perfect hair! Who's cutting it? Where are they getting that much hairspray and why do they think it's a great idea to keep using essentially spray-on glue ON THEIR HEADS when there's a limited supply?"
"Wow. Those clothes look new. Where'd they get the rivets for those jeans? Who's the village weaver?"
"THEY'RE USING STORE BOUGHT BULLETS LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW. Is there a mine nearby? Where are they getting the metal to make more slugs with? Gunpowder? WHY ARE THEY NOT USING ARROWS MORE? Kills zombies just as dead, they're surrounded by trees? WHY ARE THEY LAUGHING AT THE ONE WITH THE SWORD, YOU EVER HAVE TO RELOAD A SWORD?"
...so yeah. These days I just chalk Zombie Apocalypse anything up to "dude's got a real fetish for shooting his neighbor and being called a hero for it" and figure it's got nothing to do with actual Survival.
Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew
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Every time this crosses my dash I am filled again with affection for the late great Pterry who clearly loved the hell out of stuff like this.
Case in point, I now have playing on loop in my brain, a passage from Pyramids about a "plague of frog" that "got into the pipes and its croaking kept everyone awake for weeks".
As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.
In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.
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It was April 9, I'm late on the bandwagon, but given that so were a lot of rebel states I figure we can probably stretch the usefulness of the gif out a while too.
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I just cracked myself up by thinking "No wait, that could totally work. Have abortion clinics hang out signs that say "Exorcism Facility" instead. Exorcisms aren't illegal! And if they go "but you're terminating a life" well it was a DEMON I WANTED GONE, you gonna side with the devil on this?
I love this idea.
Tiktok has surpassed tumblr LMAO
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I didn't have "body hopping" on my bingo card but I DID CALL THIS.
....So help me if they ever do kill Fyodor off I will DANCE.
BSD note.
I mean it's so obvious it's fucking tiring at this point, but one does have to put it in writing for it to count.
Pretty sure Fyodor is (STILL) not dead. Also pretty sure Dazai knows this and is basically just saying Fyodor's dead because he can't be arsed to give any more fucks about the guy just then and knows it'll be a good long while before Fyodor pops up again.
I say this for these reasons:
He's escaped worse. So has Dazai.
It's his right arm that Dazai finds. You know. The one that'd get cut off by your seat belt if you were, for a totally random example, thrown out of a vehicle by an explosion.
We have zero evidence that Dazai saw the rest of Fyodor's body. Or that it is anywhere to be found in that wreckage.
I'm half convinced we'll find out it's the vampire's arm anyway.
All that said:
Poison status: uncertain.
State of health: uncertain.
I mean yeah, he could die even if he was thrown clear. He's poisoned, at least theoretically, and (again, theoretically) without an antidote. He got stabbed in the gut by a big bar wielded with vampire strength, so that's probably also hurting. He's also (possibly) the guy that just lost an arm, which would incur massive blood loss. So, if everything is as it seems, he'd need someone like Yosano on hand/nearby to survive.
However, things have 'been as they seemed to be' precisely zero times with this character, and I have hit "Fuck it, unless you show me his dismembered corpse and then burn said corpse to ashes, he's still alive and he'll be back to give us more headaches someday". And even then I want some kind of on screen search indicating they tested to be sure the corpse wasn't a body double or clone.
Somewhere in the Limbo Of Perpetual Incarnation, this anemic fuck is having drinks with the Joker. I'm putting my chips on it.
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They're trying to recreate my mom's apple pie, that's what they're trying to do.
Looked beautiful.
Smelled like heaven descended on the oven.
Bite INTO it, get a mouth full of extra hot cinnamon. Somewhere in there a dying apple might've been screaming for a merciful death, but we never could tell.
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I've done Chicago to Kennebunkport by rail. I'd want SOME tweaks to a transcontinental trip, high-speed or not. Somewhat better accomodation for sleep, even in coach, would be ideal. (Like, say, 'family' cars and 'adults only' cars - children can be noisy, but they can also benefit from having other kids around to talk to, and adults traveling without kids will sleep better with no kids in the car, thus reducing the overall number of cranky-child-brains on the trip.)
Somewhat better/more reasonably priced food/water, too. I do not want to pay five dollars for a packet of peanut butter crackers and a bottle of water, thank you.
But I mean, that'd be all, really. The fact that you can get up, stretch, go for a walk, hang out in the lounge and watch the world go by - all that's pretty amazing.
And frankly there are a lot of Americans with no true idea just how big our country really is. We fly over it, or we don't travel far from where we grew up, and...driving it and taking the train are really the only good ways to truly feel that, you know, the different states are actually DIFFERENT PLACES. We're NOT all the same.
“Nobody’s going to want to sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours to get from New York City to LA.”
Me. I will sit on high-speed rail for fifteen hours. I’ll sit on it for days. I’ll write and read and nap and eat and then do it all over again. I’ll stare out the windows and see America from ground level and not have to drive. I’ll see the Rockies and the deserts and cornfields and the Mississippi River and your house and yours and yours too. I’ll make up stories in my head about the small towns I see as we go along. I’ll see the states I’ve yet to see because driving or flying there is a fucking slog and expensive to boot. I’ll enjoy the ride as much as the destination. And then I’ll do it all over again to come the fuck home.
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Nothing like a trip to the uncanny valley to boost your mood
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for some of my mutuals this is the only type of direct interaction we've ever had in like. 8+ years of following each other
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For Boop-Badges Collectors
Rough estimate: It's possible to reach 1000 boops in less than 2 hours (took me 1:30h), if you got some people to spam it to.
If you are a blog where people can spam boop's to, reblog this.
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Reblog to let your followers know that they’re safe from jumpscares/screamers/etc from you on April 1st but they are NOT safe from getting boop’d like an idiot amen
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