I love this panel because it's such a huge picture of how far Tails has come since he met Sonic.
The poor kid used to have bullies pull at his tails and hurt him, and he couldn't do anything to stop them. He was scared, he was little.
But since meeting Sonic, he's grown, he's become more confident, and he's much more independent. So when a creep like Starline literally grabs one of his tails -- which you know HAD to stir a lot of bad memories for him -- he doesn't flinch, stares directly at Starline, stands up straight, tells him "I don't think so," and easily snatches back control in the situation. (By pulling on Belle's tail and making her involuntarily kick Starline in the mouth. 🤣)
Our little king. 😌💛
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Ronance jealousy when the relationship is secret is exquisite. Boys flirting with Robin thinking she's single while Nancy seethes. Men suddenly trying to kiss Nancy out of nowhere, sometimes even succeeding, thinking she's up for grabs despite her girlfriend being right there - though she can't defend her as anything more than a friend. Maybe jealousy isn't the right word. It's an intrusion. It's men trying to come between them, even without knowing they're together, even thinking they get to want them and that they get to pursue them.
But I think it's even worse when the relationship is pretty much not secret. Maybe they're tired. Maybe they have their families to support them if something goes wrong, so they're not as scared. Maybe they still won't kiss or hold hands in public, but they don't go out of their way to quell any rumors because, why would they? They're normal teenage girls, they're not doing anything wrong. But they're such a novelty that everyone in school knows, and suddenly, when someone tries to flirt with one of them, it's inherently violent. Especially when the other one is right there. And she can say "excuse me?" and "she's with me. get lost" all she wants but she'll always get as an answer a "shut up. I'm not talking to you". This doesn't happen to boys. A young man wouldn't so openly try to get into a girl's pants with her boyfriend right there. He'd get his teeth punched in if he tried. It's a weird, hormonal mixture of fear, violence and respect, all things a teenage girl seems incapable of exerting. The thing with these people, which is worst of all, is that they're not even all that disgusted by them. If they were disgusted, at least it'd mean they aknowledge they're doing something. Their relationship may be detestable to them but at least they'd understand it's real. By pursuing them, it shows how, in reality, they don't think they're more than two friends playing family, or two frigid prudes so scared of relationships with men they come up with this little game to try to feel fulfilled. Confused girls at most who just need to be with a real man for once to see what they're missing. Or they don't even think that much about it - it's just a joke to them. They laugh at it. Girlfrends? Sure, whatever, now buckle up, Buckley!
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im seeing that poll about learning cursive in school a lot on my dash and as a vietnamese im kinda bewildered bc what do you mean you cant read cursive?? because to us cursive is for capital letters only! the rest are normal letters. so ig our normal written letters are the american cursive, and our "computer" letters are your normal letters?
↑ these are the fonts we learn in school. The left are our normal letters, the right are our cursive. Oh and the thing is, these are the only fonts we actually taught a school, the "typing" font is just what we imitate from printed books. In elementary school we have "good handwriting competitions" where the participants write in the above fonts and are graded on how close it is to the table above. its like boring calligraphy
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I was going through some of my stuff and found this from when I went to weekend Chinese school in kindergarten
A lot of time was spent on zhuyin/pinyin/pronunciation tbh, this was some of the only actual written characters that I could find. I did only attend for ~3 years though so
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people rly think being presented with a criticism of their behavior that threatens to make them feel a second of guilt is equivalent to evil and cruelty lmfao. sorry but in a lot of cases you need to feel guilty and bad and kinda ashamed for a bit in order to change your behavior. like maybe this comes from my experience with veganism but like. most people won’t change if they’re comfortable. they simply won’t. you usually have to be made uncomfortable for a while in order to catalyze the stage where you examine your priorities and assess how your actions contribute to harm and understand how that makes you feel, weighed against how the continuation of those actions makes the affected party feel. it’s called empathy. it happens usually as a response to natural guilt on the part of our actions. it’s not evil to feel it. it’s not cruel. you’re not the victim of an egregious attack if you feel it after you read a criticism of something you realize you participate in. it’s literally so normal and necessary and healthy. the more we promote the idea that no one is allowed to be shamed or made to feel guilty ever the further we get from any palpable social change ever oh my god
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Bread baking pro tip: ‼️🍞‼️
Is your kitchen drafty? Cold? Can't leave things on the counter bc of cats/kids/not enough space? Struggle to get your dough to rise or proof? This is the solution.
Put your dough in a cold oven to rise, with only the oven light on.
The bulb generates just enough heat for the dough to get warm, and the closed oven means no drafts can get in.
If you're like me and will forget it in there, put a sticky note or piece of scotch tape over the oven controls with an X on it as a reminder not to preheat the oven while your dough is inside.
I could never get a good rise out of my dough living in rentals with cheap drafty windows, now I pop my sourdough in the oven with the light on and get a great rise in a couple of hours.
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Is that "I want to make a new Judaism without Israel" person even Jewish at all? I looked through their blog; it's been around for over a year but if you search any Jewish-related tag they use there's not a single post before 7/10. I don't want to accuse, Jews come in all varieties (even shanden), but come on... better to be a goysiche antisemite than such an embarrassment, right? Anyway this is just to say thanks for always dealing with these people so the rest of us don't have to, it's a huge service to the community.
I don't think it's appropriate to speculate about people's Jewish identity when we don't have anything concrete saying if they are or aren't. I don't know anything about them and I'm not really interested in spending time to look, but their views are not unique. I'm aware of only one real-life Jewish community that has tried to completely remove Israel from all of their services and holidays but it's extremely small, like ten people. So I mean there are Jews out there who have made it their mission to do that, it's just small and most Jews are very against them.
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fic research is like [six tabs of information about chess] [two tabs of information about anemia] [search history: starbucks prices in japan, yen to usd converter, tamagawa aqueduct]
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