Ride 727: The training camp's first battle!!
Pag 1
1: Oh, Touji-kun
Thank you so much for this year, too
2: Everyone else has already started running
Yeah, I was a little late with preparations
You have some lively first years
Thanks
3: It's the third time you stay here, so you can just park wherever
Thank you so much
4: It started already?
The “training camp”
5: It has already started
Pag 2
1: The first battle that will decide the Inter High's positions
3: The first “buddies battle”!!
Pag 3
1: E.... everyone has to pair up... choose their “buddy” and run, that's the rule of this training camp...
Huh.... Murakami.... your....
2: “Buddy”....
7: Is the second year Kaburagi-san!?
Pag 4
1: But... wait, our partner... shouldn't it be.... a fellow first year... huh!?
2: Can he do this!?
4: After all, before the start, Naruko-san only said.... “choose a partner among these people”!!
5: But the idea of choosing a second year senpai....
He played that card?
6: I didn't have good results in the first years' race
7: During the first years' race, at first, when Kinaka said we should accelerate
Pag 5
1: A small fry just fell, should we accelerate a little, Murakami-kun?
He's a nice guy. I think this pace is fine
I stopped Kinaka from accelerating and shaking off Rokudai
2: Now I regret being “nice”!!
5: After that Rokudai followed us on the mountain and the was at the top on the climb!! And even though he retired after that
6: He joined as a member in the qualifiers and his results were recognized!!
Seeing all that, I
Pag 6
1: I swore I would never show mercy to anyone!!
2: He opened them!!
Murakami's eyes!!
3: Let's go , Kaburagi-san
Let's quickly get rid of those who get in our way!!
But wait, why did Kaburagi-san pair up with Murakami
4: Uh... Murakami, you said “those who get in our way”....
No but Kaburagi-san is so fast!!
Pag 7
1: He got ahead of the line in a second!! And Murakami followed him!!
3: Please accelerate!!
4: Wait, Murakami! Oi, stop! That guy participated in the Inter High last year when he was a first year....
And he competed for the sprint line on the first and third day, too....
No, wait-
If you accelerate now, we....
Pag 8
1: Houru-
Pag 9
1: aaaaaaaagh
2: This is bad, waaaa
Follow them!! We have to follow them
Don't get left behind!!
Pag 10
1: Don't get lef.... ugh- waaaaa
So fast!! Dammit!!
3: Amazing!! So this is Kaburagi-san's acceleration!!
The legs that during the Inter High fought on par against Hakogaku!!
4: If I didn't know the timing and didn't bring myself as close to him as possible to cut the wind resistance, I would have been left behind too!!
5: But other than me, the other first years
Pag 11
2: Yes, we got rid of them!!
3: Haha.... hahaha!! I'll go to the Inter High!! That's why I joined Sohoku!!
4: Next, the second years... and then the third years!!
Pag 12
1: Straight road!!
2: Kinaka and Rokudai!!
They sticked close to us on the opposite side!!
Pag 13
1: You're keeping up, Rokudai!!
Somehow.... yeah, teh!!
2: You two again, dammit!!
They're entering the climb, teh!!
Pag 14
4: What a relief... they're not attacking on the climb for now....!!
Yeah
It's tough to keep up with that pace
5: But they'll attack at some point, so don't relax your attention, Rokudai
Yeah, teh
6: I'll keep an eye on Murakami's movement, if he starts moving I'll give you a signal!!
I'll leave it to you, teh!!
8: But Murakami's facial expression is difficult to read!!
Pag 15
1: First lap, clear!!
2: 1)Kaburagi; 2) Murakami; 3) Kinaka; 4) Rokudai
3: Kaburagi, Murakami, me, and Rokudai!!
We cleared it almost at the same time!!
4: Suddenly.... the first lap was so hard? Kinaka-kun
5: Ah... well!! It's probably gonna get harder from here on
Look, behind us, there are no
6: first years following!!
Pag 17
1: Dammit!!
Wa-
2: Kinaka-kun is a road racer, so of course he turns around to check behind at key points!!
And since Rokudai clings to him, he looked behind too!!
3: That was our sign to accelerate, Kinaka!!
I told you I would show no mercy!!
4: Let's keep going like this, Kaburagi-san!!
Pag 18
1: We left them behind!!
Murakamii!!
2: Hahaha.... like this, I'll be the top among the first years....!!
3: Hahaha the top!!
4: Danchiku....
6: This is bad!!
Pag 19
1: It's- it's okay, Kaburagi-san! Danchiku-san said he'd just be a little late and come with Kanzaki-san's car, didn't he?
2: Yeah.... you think he will really come, Murakami?
3: He will definitely come!!
Yes!! And he'll be as healthy as ever!!
4: I believe so!!
5: Yeah!! You're right
You're a nice guy, Murakami
6: Ah but we promised I'll be your temporary buddy until Danchiku-san comes
Honestly, I'll be sad when he comes!! I really want to run all 1000km with Kaburagi-san!!
Pag 20
1: Just until Danchiku-san comes, is that okay, please
Hm... well anyone will do, if it's not Danchiku..
2: Until then, thank you!!
What do we do next?
Let's keep going atthis pace, please!!
5: Ah?
6: Danchiku-san?
7: No.... he won't come, right?
Even I can see that his condition is bad
Pag 21
1: He has a serious innjury or some other problem, right!?
2: He won't come, that guy!!
3: You and me will keep running like this until the end, Kaburagi-san!!
Pag 22
1: Can you see it, Danchiku?
2: Those guys are struggling to understand the course
3: … yes!!
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if anyone is wondering why i care about taylor swift discourse it’s genuinely just because i think people lose their point in their hate for her. and they lose perspective.
like she’s actually not the most evil woman in the world. she gives her workers insurance (bare minimum) and good bonuses (she’s mega rich so also bare minimum) and she buys carbon credits (bare minimum but also opens an interesting convo - i.e. how much should we value carbon credits?). she doesn’t use her voice enough imo but she also doesn’t speak out of turn (i.e. she doesn’t pretend to be well-versed and authoritative on topics she has no knowledge in (arguably she should educate herself on certain topics but tbh i’m inclined to view it as a positive that she doesn’t introduce global political issues beyond “trump bad” to her crazy af fan base… like she could do more but i also don’t have much faith in her politics cause she’s so so so out of touch so i prefer the silence)).
an important note here is that i do think she’s absolutely fucked for not condemning the genocide of palestinian people (especially when she’s supposedly close friends with the hadids who are outspoken on the issue and would greatly benefit from her public support (obv she shouldn’t just speak out bc it affects her personal friends but the fact that she isn’t speaking out when she has personal friends is honestly bizarre to me)).
but she's not unique for any of this. she does more than most of her peers and also way less than she should. that's all i see.
and yet ultimately it’s like - people side with kanye when he put a naked wax figure of her in his music video without her consent when she was 25. that situation was obviously misogynistic but people hate her so they largely glossed over it and decided she deserved it for "lying"about a phone call she didn't lie about. people also seem to think it’s funny that football bros are making ai porn of her (arguing she “deserves” it) despite that line of thinking obviously being detrimental to all women and especially those who are so much more vulnerable than her. people got angry at her for donating $250,000 to help with kesha’s legal fees in her case against ‘Dr. Luke’ because they considered it a publicity stunt even though taylor swift wasn’t the one to make that donation public. people called her performative for taking a man to court for sexually assaulting her and only asking for $1. and obviously they would’ve criticised her for asking for more.
the thing that really aggravates me is that there is so so so so so much to criticise her for. but it’s so so so so so obvious that a lot of people just hate her and don’t actually have any legit problem with the things they say they have a problem with. their favs could do the exact same thing and they won’t find any issue with it. cause they just really hate taylor swift and won’t step back a bit in order to just critically think about what their principles are and how those principles apply to this situation with taylor swift and whether they’re actually consistent with those principles and will apply them to someone other than taylor swift.
there are such valid points and important discussions i see being completely missed because the complaint is about Taylor swift and people seem to be incapable of thinking beyond the fact that they just, first and foremost, hate her
and let it be said that this is not a taylor swift defence post. i could not give a single shit about her specifically. i do find her music fun and nostalgic but i also think it deserves more criticism than it gets (but that’s not what this post is about). it’s just that she’s one of the most talked about people in pop culture and i feel like legitimate and productive discourse is rlly hindered by people’s disproportionate focus on her
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