So I’m drawing my best friend’s dog because her birthday is coming up and I forgot that I am VERY UNSKILLED and ya girl is STRUGGLING

I’ve never drawn an animal like well so this is definitely a learning experience for me I gotta say

The Quest for Buddhism (60)

The story of the Elder Soreyya (Soreyyatthera-vatthu) - the subject matter of gender and sexuality clues in BCE

There is a famous incident related to Katyayana (Ref) with a double sex change motif, given in Verse 43 of the Dhammapada commentary.

A man named Soreyya was traveling with a friend and happened to see Katyayana adjusting his robes.

Upon seeing his golden complexion, Soreyya began to fantasize that Katyayana should become his wife or that his wife's complexion should be like that of Katyayana. Due to the nature of this thought, he transformed into a woman. He married a wealthy man from Taxila and bore him two sons.

Soreyya later approached Katyayana and explained the situation, apologising for his misconduct in thought. Katyayana accepted his apology, upon which Soreyya regained his male form. He then went forth as a Buddhist monk, and eventually become an arahant.

The truth about thousands of years ago is unknown, whether he really underwent a double sex change, was originally a hermaphrodite, or bisexual, or spoke of homosexuality as a variant.

In view of the negative representation of this anecdote, it is not hard to see it as propaganda.

仏教の探求 (60)

長老ソレイヤの物語 (ソレヤッテラバトゥー)〜紀元前のジェンダーとセクシュアリティの手掛かり

『ダンマパダ(法句経)』の注釈書の第43段に、カーティヤーヤナ（参照）に関連する、二重性転換をモチーフにした有名な話がある。

ソーリーヤという男が友人と旅をしていて、たまたまカーティヤーヤナが衣を整えているのを見かけた。

その金色の顔色を見て、ソーリーヤはカーティヤーヤナが自分の妻になるべきだとか、自分の妻の顔色がカーティヤーヤナのようであるべきだと空想するようになった。この思いのせいで、彼は女性に変身してしまった。彼はタキシラの富豪と結婚し、二人の息子を産んだ。

その後、ソーリーヤはカーティヤーヤナに近づき、事情を説明し、自分の考えの誤りを謝罪した。カーティヤーヤナは彼の謝罪を受け入れ、ソーリーヤは男の姿に戻りった。その後、彼は僧侶として出家し、やがて阿羅漢となった。

彼が本当に二重の性転換をしたのか、元から雌雄同体 (しゆうどうたい)だったのか、同性愛を変形させて語ったのか、数千年前の真実は定かではない。

この逸話をネガティヴに表現されていることから見ても、プロパガンダと思えなくはない。

About Wild Weasel

From "GI Joe vs Cobra: The Essential Guide"

File Name: CLASSIFIED

Specialty: Ground Support Pilot

Birthplace: CLASSIFIED

As a pilot for hire, Wild Weasel honed his talents in a variety of scattered bush wars in South America and Africa, flying close support aircrafts over the heads of friendly and enemy infantry. A mouth injury sustained during a strafing run resulted in a characteristic sibilance in his speech. In swooping down from the skies to tear apart armored vehicles and squads of soldiers, Wild Weasel developed an arrogant personality; he reviles anything that can't fly. He'll even buzz Cobra troops just for his own sick amusement. This has led many ground-pounders and fellow Cobras to hate Wild Weasel, but conversely, other pilots- even GI Joes- respect him for his amazing skill behind the stick. Wild Weasel has an unerring eye for judging distance and speed, making him a crack shot with airborne weaponry.

Notes

The guidebook is from GI Joe's perspective. Some Cobra names are 'Unknown' (Such as with Firefly), but others are Classified (And Serpentor has 'not applicable,' since Serpentor is his real name). The other classified members of Cobra are:

Cobra Commander

Tomax & Xamot

Copperhead

Scrap-Iron

Cobra Commander's name being classified could be because of Billy (IE, not every Joe needs to know Billy's connection to the Commander- though I'm guessing they do anyways). No idea on Tomax & Xamot- honestly, I thought those were their real names. Maybe it's their business connections?

But the other two- Copperhead and Scrap-Iron- were members of the Phoenix Guard, along with Wild Weasel. The other members (Zarana, FIrefly) have notoriously well-hidden identities.

I find it likely that GI Joe was able to ascertain the Phoenix Guard's identities (minus 2) upon their capture, but it is interesting that it is hidden. I've been assuming that "Kenneth Leggit," the 'real name' of Halo, was a pseudonym, but maybe it's closer than we think.

After all, if Wild Weasel really is former US military, chances are someone on the GI Joe might at least recognize him by name. MIlitary's a lot smaller than you'd think, especially in the special forces community.

On older file cards, it's stated that Wild Weasel was likely involved in South America OR Africa (This was back in the original ARAH days). If Wild Weasel was actually involved in both, he more than likely was involved with Cobra at the time- it's a bit odd to change continents when there's work available on either.

This suggests some early Cobra presence during:

Peru Conflict (1980-2000, 2002-present)

Colombia Conflict (1964-present)

Rhodesian Bush War (1964-1979)

South African Border War (1966-1990)

Ugandan Bush War (1981-1986)

There are a few other conflicts Cobra could have been involved in, but I'm trying to stick to the bigger ones. And it's not too far-fetched for Cobra to have been involved- in some of these conflicts, private 3rd parties would get involved. (I recall an anecdote about someone funding WWII-era planes that were too slow for modern planes to hit- dm me if you know which one I'm talking about, Google was no help).

Wild Weasel's first appearance was in 1984. He is never shown to be involved in any real-world conflicts after this. Additionally, we know he has already been established as Cobra's best pilot (Even better than the Baroness- which implies she is Cobra's #2 pilot). Let's also say that Wild Weasel was introduced shortly after he became the top pilot.

The youngest person to fly a fighter jet (Or any combat plane) is Katrina Mumaw at age 11. We should put Wild Weasel's 'first time in a dogfight' around 12-14. Wild Weasel sounds like he has some issues, so childhood trauma could be one of them. However, even a force willing to use child labor (Which we know Cobra is) isn't going to put an untested child in a piece of expensive machinery- this is pure pragmatism.

If we consider Wild Weasel to be Cobra's best pilot, he is more than likely an 'ace' (Having 5+ kills in a dogfight). In the Vietnam War, only two American and sixteen North Vietnamese pilots became 'aces.' There are even fewer in modern times, simply due to how technology has changed. However, we can use the time from end of training to attaining status as an 'ace' in these pilots to guestimate how long it should take Wild Weasel.

Randy "Duke" Cunningham (No, not that Duke) earned his commission and wings in 1967. He attained 'ace' status in 1972. That puts it at about 5 years. This is probably the max time for Wild Weasel, since he will be involved in more conflicts (US pilots were rotated home).

Nguyen Van Bay is most likely my minimum. He finished training in January, 1966 and became an ace by April, 1967. That's only 15 months.

Assuming there are other decent pilots in Cobra (Such as the Baroness, or Raven from the cartoon series) it should take Wild Weasel at 2-5 years to achieve the 'top' pilot status, likely reaching 'ace' in about 18-24 months.

As for training time- this will vary. Modern US pilots can take about 2 years to get fully trained (Including SERE training and other basic trained). However, Cobra might not have the same standards- the nameless pilots certainly seem outmatched when faced with someone with a speaking part.

The current standard for a private pilot's license is 40 hours. However, the majority of people are going to go above this time. Even if we throw Wild Weasel a bone and say that he's a natural, he's not going to be a fully trained pilot in 40 hours, nevermind a fully trained fighter pilot. Late-stage German requirements in WWII (When they were more desperate for pilots) are going to be more accurate. Let's say it takes about 150 hours of flight time to be a Cobra fighter pilot.

You might think "Oh, that's just 4 weeks!" No. This doesn't include time spent outside of the plane, and it assumes there is a 1:1 instructor to student ratio (Or even plane to student ratio). 1:4 is more accurate for private schools. Let's assume a 12-hour workday, with half the time spent on the regular training or training that cannot be done in the cockpit. That puts them at 1.5 hours of flight time each day. 150/1.5 is 100 days. If we say Cobra gives them the weekends off, then that means Cobra flight school is about 20 weeks (About 4 and a half months). I'm adding in 1.5 months of generic training simply because 6 months is easier to do math with.

Even if Wild Weasel learned to fly before joining Cobra, he still had to put in the time at some point. And there aren't many organizations that could be willing to teach a minor how to fight in a plane.

So, we are finally able to see that Wild Weasel joined Cobra about 2.5 - 5.5 years before his introduction. This places him at 1978 at the earliest and 1981 at the latest.

GI Joe first came into conflict with Cobra in 1982. However, it's been well-established that Cobra existed before Operation: Lady Doomsday. Cobra was established sometime between the end of the Vietnam War (1975) and 1982. So any of these times are reasonable, and I will not rule anything out.

This means that Wild Weasel's earliest birthday (Again, assuming he joined around 12-14) was in 1964 and his latest possible birthday was in 1969. This puts his age at his first appearance in 1984 at about 15-20.

Why do all this? Well, it's possible that Wild Weasel is so short compared to other characters simply because he hasn't gone through puberty yet.

061020

Spending my time tonight with my sister by recalling back our childhood memories together. I'd like to write an anecdote about my 'wild' chilhood. it's not that wild, i was just extra stupid back then 😂 I wanna write here because at least I can reread it again in the future and remember all of the memory for a long term :>

We lived in Kota Tinggi and I went to SK Laksamana Kota Tinggi. I was 7 and I was really afraid of my BM teacher. Her name is Pn Raahmah. garang nak mati, I always got beaten by her in many ways such as rotan lempang and cubit. I always got beaten sebab lambat pickup when it comes to penggunaan penanda bacaan and spelling. Pernah kena rotan 5 times untuk satu mispelling and another 5 times sebab lupa letak tanda noktah. rotan dia pulak nipis gila so yeaaa everytime kena tu fuhhh padass.

therefore, disebabkan takut sebab I always got beaten by her, I tried to lari dari sekolah agagagagag. my first attempt, I acah pi toilet (sedangkan idek where the hell our toilets were located) But i menyimpang pergi belakang sekolah, I tried to panjat tembok, but tembok tu ada besi tajam, so masa tu cuma mampu tergantung je, tak dapat nak lepas tembok. disebabkan tak lepas, i merayau satu sekolah, cari tembok yang selamat. all the teachers were pelik with me sebab I wandered around tanpa arah tuju hahahaha. disebabkan takda tembok best, i tried to sneak through the main gate. but heh, kena tahan dengan pak guard pulek >:( but bagusla, sebab I didn't bring my bag with me at that time, so takde guna pun if dapat lari masa tu. so I act natural, masuk kelas cam biasa balik.

my second attempt, after my parents dropped us off at the school's main gate. I waited for their presence to disappear. my siblings were already in dataran perhimpunan. I was at outside of the main gate, I ran away. Everything went well heheh I was already half my way home but then I saw 4 big dogs in front of me. I don't know where to go, but then I saw a car, I tried to run along with the car so the dogs won't able to see me. but then... aihhh the car was too fast, I cannot hide myself by running along with the fast car. so the dogs saw me, my adrenaline rushed. So I immediately run tapi uturn sebab anjing dah kejar kot agagaga but then terjatuh tepi longkang and I was injured. siku jatuh atas jalan tar... sakit wo. and then one of the anjings came to me, he smelled me. and then he just blah je sebab maybe I smelled like a pure child uwu. But then agaga tak sangka pulak I jatuh depan longkang rumah my english teacher ._. right after the dogs disappeared, my teacher baru nak keluar rumah ;.; she saw me and asked "eh kenapa mardziah kat sini?" and then dia suruh masuk kereta. sepanjang dalam kereta, I told her that I wanted to go home. she said something like "sOk4y! I w1LL dR1v3 u H0m3" but then dia bawak aku masuk sekolah balik. wtf, kecik kecik kena scam! >:[

but after my english teacher sent me back ti the school, i lupa how I able to run away lagi sekali on the same day hagdjahzhs. but this time I tried to guna jalan lain sebab takut jumpa 4 anjing tu lagi. but this time my journey lagi jauhla agahah. sampai tahap, I sesat. I felt like... where am I? so I cried because I thought that I was lost. but then ada 2 chinese aunties came and asked, "eh adik kenapa ni?" (smtg like that), so i told them I'm lost xD so they accompany me but they said they wanted to breakfast jap. so they took me to a chinese warung, and again, ADA ANJING. the dog barked at me, the aunties tried to calm me down but I was so afraid, I ran away from them agagagag. again, I was alone. I walked sampai area kubur kristian amd church. at that time I knew, I'm already too far from home and I'm lost. so I cried jela sambil jalan tanpa arah tuju, sorang sorang, wearing my baju sukan lagi hahdhahsha. but then ada uncle naik motor saw me, he asked "adik nak pergi mana ni?" i told him I'm lost. but then uncle tu cakap "Eh adik anak polis kan? cik musa kan?" haih nasibla bapak aku pemes masa tu agagaga so I angguk je. uncle suruh naik motor, without hesitant, I naik je motor tu (bodo betul nasibla pakcik tu baik, kalau dia jahat naya je aku). disebabkan my father was famous masa tu so pakcik tu tau where I lived. dia hantar smpai depan rumah do, my lil bro asked "eh maziah balik?" I only said "acik ni baik, dia hantar balik rumah". right after acik tu blah, my mom keluar, dia terkejut sebab i kat depan pagar rumah HSHSHSHSHA. WEH I WAS A DEAD MEAT DO KENA MARAH AND THEN MAK AMIK RANTING KAYU, MAK PAKSA AKU GERAK GI SEKOLAH. SO NAK TANAK AKU GERAK JELA SAMBIL MAK AKU BAWAK RANTING KAYU TU DIA HANTAR AKU PI SEKOLAH BALIK T-T

mak hantar samai kelas do. and then she wemt out from the classroom. I sat down but at the same time nangis and still rasa nak lari. then i lari keluar kelas but all my boy classmates halang. I siku one of them and sepak lagi sorang disebabkan desperate sangat nak lari hahsgahs. and tak sangka dapat lari dari kelas fuhh. I ran as fast as I can to the main gate, this time I brought my bag with me agagaga bodonya tak sangka masa tu ustaz mimi saw me and he chased me AGAGAGAGA. the best thing is that, ustaz wasn't able to catch me uwu. the bad thing is, my bro saw me running with my pink bag and followed by ustaz mimi ajsjajsjajs but my bro can't do anything because he was at the third floor, he can only witness my gempak moment sebab I was able to run from ustaz 😂 but the worse thing was, PAK GUARD! eih geram aku!!!! amd yang lebih teruk, my mom was at the guard house, huaaa masa tu I terus peluk my mom, suruh dia bawak I baik rumah ;.; but mak refused, dia kasi aku kat ustaz mimi ;.; and lepas tu taktau pe jadi agagagaga. but tak sangka, all my neighbours tau about me lari dari ustaz. so one day, I masuk lumba lari, 100m maybe. And I won agagaga. balik rumah all my neighbours asal nampak i je terus diorang cakap "uyo laju betul lari. patutla ustaz mimi pun tak boleh tangkap kau" 😂😂😂

because of that moment, start dari situ ler I joined all the lumba lari punya events sampaila form 2. lepas tu terus pencen agagaga sebab nak gain weight kononnya but until now sama je badan 🤦🏻‍♀️

actually, that was not my last attempt to run from cikgu raahmah. banyak lagi, I even buang my textbooks kat tempat wudhu' and my white nametag (for darjah 1) and I went to my sis's classroom. which is darjah 2. that was the most stupid move la, begok banget. tak memasal cikgu yang kenal aku nampak aku dalam kelas tu, she called me, dia bawak aku pi kelas aku balik ;.; and masa otw class tu cikgu raahmah already waited for me T-T agagagaga bodo betul la maziah

but then masa mid september, my family moved to KL. So tak sempat nak ha iskan darjah satu kat Johor pun agagaga. but idk why, masa kat sk laksamana, I always got beaten, sampai terpikir "bodo sangat ke aku ni sampai tahao selalu kena rotan ni?" but bila sekolah kat KL, my teacher bagi gelaran "budak baru yang pandai" to me and my classmate, Vaayu Putran. He's a new student too. we both able to ace each paper lol. my BM pun always 87%+ . thanks to rotan cikgu raahmah la heheh. I wonder, cikgu raahmah still alive or not eh? because masa belajar dengan dia, she already look like a mid age woman. it's been 14 years already. I hope everything's good for her and for my teachers that taught me everything :>

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I’m debating whether I wanna spend $70 on a set of high quality nail polish…

I meannnn I already spent $70 on a hoodie before this isn’t the craziest thing I spent my money on lol

I spent my money on a laptop and my bank was like “AYO ARAH ARE YOU SURE YOU BOUGHT A LAPTOP THAT WAS A LOT OF MONEY” lol

I thought you would all appreciate Mia being super eager about getting some wet food :)

They look way better in person I swear

Say goodbye to my nice nails before I wipe them off and cut them

Should I post a WIP potrait? It’s been… I think two years? since I’ve last done a portrait of someone

I forgot how hard this shit is though like what are proportions and why does everything look weird the more you look at it

EDIT: OH YEAH I CAN ADD POLLS

To give you an idea of what my past portraits look like, here are two of em.

Yes they are kpop boys but I left the fandom like three years ago so this is pretty old art

Why is my professor making me do a hop, skip, and a jump for homework help what the hell

“Send your word doc” I SENT SCREENSHOTS

“Show me your calculations” you literally have a section for calculations IN THE SCREENSHOTS I SENT

Like did you read my email at all?? WHAT DID YOU EVEN READ???

I finally got the part-time job I wanted this whole time I was job hunting woo

Why did I pick a major that requires me to dress business casual this is agony I just wanna do math ; ;

Homegirl quit her job woooo 🥳