I'm legally not allowed to talk about this anime/manga on Twitter anymore, so here I am. To be clear, I absolutely love this show, and sometimes I just need to rant about the good and the bad in it.
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In your view/experience. is the rate of "incompleteness" among webcomics more or less the nature of online personal projects as a whole? Or is there something specific to webcomics like laboriousness, audience expectations, relative medium infancy or whatnot?
well for one thing webcomics has changed significantly in the last ten years. it used to have a much lower barrier for entry, just get a smackjeeves account or set up a website with a wordpress plugin. starting a webcomic when i started my webcomic vs starting a webcomic now are totally different experiences.
so i can only speak to people who started their webcomics roughly ten years ago. and roughly ten years ago a lot of us were a whole lot younger with a lot more time and energy to spend on a comic for free. this part is probably still somewhat true for new artists.
but then you get older. your ideas change. your skill develops and the old stuff isn't as good. or you don't have as much time, you got a day job. unless you're one of like five people on earth your webcomic is not paying your rent. you need to make money. your shoulder hurts. you're 30 now. you're struggling to make updates on time between whatever else makes you happy and what else you need to do to live. you wrote this story when you were 21, you don't relate to it anymore, you have different ideas, you've grown up, your audience has noticeably dropped off from the peak, social media managing is hard, you have to go to work, you're so tired, all the time.
Had to unfollow someone today for reblogging that copy pasta about how "the fics you read don't dictate your moral character"
Yes they fucking do, and if you can say that shit proudly, you are either an idiot or one of the guys who uses that perfect little excuse to surf the "underage" tag A03 inexplicably has.
The media you consume will *always* say something about the person you are, especially if you are purposefully refusing to acknowledge why it could be a problem. You not abusing the system but still defending it is exactly how the people you claim you aren't like get away with the nasty shit they want to do.
All media says something about you, because all media says something, regardless if you want to hear its voice.
"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived.
My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed.
I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.
There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'.
There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.
I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then. It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century.
I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit! So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity.
You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.
And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."
I think Security Guard form Dimple would be so much more interesting if people cared about Yoshioka.
I bet a lot of people don't even know that that's the guard's name.
But like there are so many offhand reasons people make up for Yoshioka being fine with Dimple possessing him, but maybe we should explore the idea that he's really...not?
I mean, it's Dimple. If he needs a form he'll take one, if he has to talk someone into it and gets a halfhearted ok, that's great, because then he can clear other people's conscious' by saying he got permission, but Dimple himself definitely doesn't need it. That's probably the case with Yoshioka. Dimple sweet talked him, Yoshioka started to say "ok", and Dimple jumped into the pilots seat before any "but"s could follow, and since most people black out for the whole time theyre possessed, Yoshioka didn't know enough about what happened during the time he was possessed to object to it after the fact.
I think thats interesting, but personally, I like to explore the idea of Yoshioka having Depersonalization Disorder. As someone who suffers from it myself, the idea of being other is so appealing to me, but the more I disconnect from myself, the harder it is to accept who I am in the brief periods that I'm fully conscious of myself.
I think Yoshioka said yes reluctantly that first time, and (similar to reigen) is co-concious with Dimple during it; he can see what's happening, but doesn't have any control over what he says or does. Hes used to being in the background when it's just him, but now with Dimple he doesn't have to force himself to be more present to do tasks or talk to people. He doesnt have to be himself. It's nice really.
So every time Dimple asks to possess him for a bit, Yoshioka says yes. And slowly he becomes less and less himself, an abscence of being. Of course, Dimple doesnt really notice this, from the first time he possessed this guy it felt easier to take control, so he just assumes that's how it is, he just sees Yoshioka as a prime vessel.
Reigen would likely be the first to notice that this isn't quite the happy symbiotic relationship Dimple thinks it is, and would confront him about it. That would be such a great way to examine the lingering effects that Dimple's mindset regarding possession has had on those he's been involved with. He doesn't mean to take advantage of Yoshioka, but because he didnt recieve *informed* consent, that's what their relationship was built on; him getting something he wanted is feeding into Yoshioka's disorder. As a result, the two separate, leaving Dimple to rethink how he uses his abilities when others are involved (cue reigen's knife metaphor lol) and Yoshioka to confront the fact that he actually has to deal with and overcome his disorder instead of losing himself to it.
I don't know, I'm just saying that if you want to bring Yoshioka into the group, you gotta let him be Yoshioka, or else examine why he isnt.
And also Ekurei is better when Dimple is just a fart cloud, let's leave out the questionable consent on the end of whatever vessel he might use.
Because I am human, and they are human, and we are all alive, and we all aspire to stay that way, to be alive and at peace, making bread and sharing wine like the ancestors of all religions and all places did before us.
I don't think there is a god. There is no one I'm trying to please or suck up to if that's what you're asking. People just deserve not to be kicked from their homes and slaughtered. I don't want excuses. I don't want to hear "but Hamas". There are no reasons to do what has been done to the Palestinian people for decades.
Go read up on it. Don't ask me for answers. I support Palestine, but I am not a source for information, nor do I claim to be. I aim to uplift those that know the truth so their words can be heard. Here's some links, go do something useful with them.
I've always liked the idea of Reigen not having any inherit psychic powers, but being a good conduit?
As in, there's a reason he's able to be possessed for such extended periods of time without any signs of psychical or mental fatigue. I think maybe he would even be able to amplify the possessor's abilities if they were strong enough.
I wonder if any spirits he and dimple come across might be jealous of such a useful vessel...
yknow what i didnt think about that before! he is a GREAT conduit, isn't he?
He was able to handle Mob's powers without breaking a sweat
Dimple says officially in an interview that him possessing reigen is the ONLY TIME he's possessed someone and THEY'VE BOTH BEEN IN CONTROL...
I think some spirits, if they saw what Dimple and Reigen had going on, may try to find some people of their own they can sort of cohabitate with. But some will just think Dimple's weird or a sucker-- why not just take this guy over completely? what those guys dont get is that there's love in the equation hehe (also it takes a lot of work to fully copossess)
ONE didn't give reigen powers because if he did he'd be too powerful
Hey guys, just wanted to let you know Spirits and Such Agency is SASA as an acronym, which would make either a really cool NASA knockoff sticker or a fun reference to the SASA LELE meme, so do with that what you will. OK, bye now.
*Puts business card on the floor, slowly backs out of the room and shuts the door*