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Show & Tell
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ImmigrantJustice.org has tips about what to do if confronted by ICE btw
ImmigrantJustice.org tiene consejos sobre quĂŠ hacer si ICE se confronta contigo.
[someone gave me a more appropriate wording to the Spanish translation.]
Don't forget that even non-citizens have rights and protections. You don't need to be a citizen for this info to help you.
Kim Kiryeo discovers the female sex ft. his second biggest simp
Web comic recommendation
Illusion Hunter from Another World
Genre + Tags
⢠Sci-fi, Fantasy, Action, (and a bit of) Comedy
⢠Alien, (purposefully) Reincarnated ML, Hunter World Build, Post-Apocalyptic
My description
An alien tries to reincarnate in hopes of a new better life, only to wind up in the body of someone who starved to death! He's now forced to learn to survive in this strange post-apocolyptic world filled with hunters and dungeons.
The main character is weak. And will stay weak for at least the first couple of 40 or so chapters.
you are an optimistic soul, my friend
Sometimes strength is the friends (loyal subjects) we find along the way â˘Ěâ  â  â âżâ  â ,â â˘Ě
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Victory never tasted so sweet đŠâđłđŠâđł
Read Yes, Chef on AO3.
realllyyyyyy laaaaaate post i forgot my tumblr account exist (reposts from twt)
Kim KiRyeo and the seađ
Kim KiRyeo and the seađ
Togashi in Hunter x Hunter does a very neat worldbuilding trick over and over again. Most times, the concepts behind everything he makes up are actually very simple and sometimes even clichĂŠ, but the rules and systems behind them are complex to the point of being convoluted at times. And I think thatâs one of the core illusions that makes the Hunter x Hunter world feel so real despite being fundamentally absurd.
Because Togashi rarely invents concepts that are hard to grasp emotionally. What he invents are systems of administration around those concepts. And thatâs what reality actually feels like.
Real life is full of simple things buried under layers of arbitrary procedure, classifications, loopholes, etiquette, legalisms, ranks, and exceptions. Money is just fake paper, but banking systems are labyrinthine. Sports are fundamentally âput ball in goal,â but then there are hundreds of pages of regulations. Governments are just âpeople organize society,â but bureaucracy becomes incomprehensible. Religion, school systems, property law, immigration, stock markets, etc etc etc. Theyâre all based on relatively simple premises wrapped in massive procedural complexity.
Togashi replicates that feeling constantly.
Nen is probably the cleanest example because, as I said, the core idea is almost embarrassingly broad: âLife energy can manifest as powers.â
Thatâs it. Basically just an excuse to make any kind of superpower possible, and the foundation of it is already tied to the concept of aura, something that already exists in real life spirituality and pseudoscience. But then Togashi layers an insane amount of systems on top of it.
There are categories of Nen tied to personality. There are principles and techniques with their own terminology (Ten, Ren, Zetsu, In, En, Gyo, Ko, Shu, etc etc). There are clauses and negotiations regarding the kind and amount of power you can have. There are restrictions, vows, conditions, Nen-infused objects, genius exceptions, training methods, and weird anomalies like post-mortem Nen or Nen beasts. And all the manifestations of Nen can get incredibly bizarre, but they still fit naturally into the world because the original concept is so broad and flexible that you can justify almost anything through it.
And what makes Nen feel believable is that it never feels airtight. It feels like an actual field of study. There are rules, but also myths, anomalies, folklore, edge cases, and things people themselves donât fully understand. That messiness is what makes it feel real instead of just âa hard magic system.â
But Togashi does this with everything.
Greed Island is literally just a game about collecting cards, but it has this absurdly over-engineered system behind it. How can you obtain cards, how many times can you use them, what rarity they are, what hierarchy they belong to, what cards counter other cards, which cards canât leave the island, restricted slots, spell cards, loopholes, transport limitations. And the funniest thing about this is that all of it is technically still just functioning through Nen lol.
Heavens Arena is just a place where people fight, but then you learn the entire procedural logic behind it. You earn money until a certain floor. You can only lose a certain number of times. You can win by knockout, points, default, or death. Thereâs a limit on how long you can wait between fights. The rules and rewards completely change after the 200th floor. The place starts feeling real because it operates like an institution instead of just âthe tournament arc location.â
The Chimera Ants are another good example because their biology is basically built from two intertwined systems. The hierarchy of the ants themselves and how that hierarchy shifts depending on the existence of a Queen or King, and then the second system where the Queen absorbs traits from whatever creatures she consumes, which affects the antsâ personalities, strengths, instincts, and even designs. The concept itself is simple, âants that inherit traits from what they eat,â but the systemic consequences become incredibly complicated.
The Zoldyck butlers, Nanikaâs rules, the Hunter Association election system, the Hunter Bylaws, all of them work the same way and exist to make the world feel more real and complex. The base concepts are easy to grasp, but then Togashi adds layers of procedures, conditions, social structures, loopholes, and technicalities until they start feeling like real systems people have been dealing with long before the protagonists arrived.
And my favorite example is the Yorknew Bull Market because it's kinda unnecessary and thatâs why I love it and it makes me laugh because it just goes to show how often Togashi pulls this trick and how he applies this philosophy to everything, not just powers.
The street auction rules and antique forgery stuff are basically pure atmospheric systems. Theyâre not there because the plot desperately needed them. Theyâre there because Togashi understands that places feel real when they have procedures, insider knowledge, scams, jargon, etiquette, niche expertise, black markets, and social hierarchies.
Yorknew stops feeling like âanime mafia cityâ and starts feeling like an actual underworld ecosystem with its own logic and culture. Gon and Killua suddenly have to become streetwise. They need to understand how illegal auctions function, how people authenticate objects, how scams work, how the underworld talks and negotiates. The city feels like it existed before they arrived and will continue existing after they leave. It's alive.
And one thing Togashi is especially brilliant at is sneaking in just enough payoff to retroactively justify exposition. Gon using the appraisal and fake item knowledge to trick the Phantom Troupe is enough to make your brain go: âOh, okay, that mattered.â
Even though emotionally, the bigger purpose of all those scenes was slowing the protagonists down, delaying their reunion with Kurapika, immersing you in Yorknewâs underworld, teaching Gon and Killua street smarts, and making the arc feel wider than the protagonistsâ immediate concerns. It also helps a lot to build up Kurapikaâs badassery. Heâs not there for most of it, but through what we see him go through and what we see Gon and Killua go through separately, we understand that Yorknew is a complicated city and that you need to be prepared, adaptable, and smart to survive there.
Thatâs ultimately the trick Togashi keeps pulling. His worlds feel grounded not because the concepts themselves are realistic or complicated, but because the systems surrounding them feel administratively real. The protagonists donât enter empty settings built solely around their goals. They enter worlds already full of procedures, loopholes, institutions, etiquette, and weird technicalities that people have clearly been dealing with long before the story started.
Web comic recommendation
Illusion Hunter from Another World
Genre + Tags
⢠Sci-fi, Fantasy, Action, (and a bit of) Comedy
⢠Alien, (purposefully) Reincarnated ML, Hunter World Build, Post-Apocalyptic
My description
An alien tries to reincarnate in hopes of a new better life, only to wind up in the body of someone who starved to death! He's now forced to learn to survive in this strange post-apocolyptic world filled with hunters and dungeons.
The main character is weak. And will stay weak for at least the first couple of 40 or so chapters.
you are an optimistic soul, my friend
me core
learning how to play with Esther
we need to deplatform ariana grande.
"don't comment on people's bodies!" i wouldn't usually do so, no. however, do not act like what is happening is a usual situation. also, do not gaslight me. i grew up in the 90s-00s. i remember when y'all would comment about how "fat" extremely-thin celebrities were. the push to not comment on people's bodies was, at least in part, to prevent eating disorders. also, this rule only seems to be followed when it is someone hyper-thin - every time a woman on the red carpet is even a little bloated, comments fly.
most importantly: she's a public figure. she is quite literally a model for swarovski. she is currently on tour. she regularly posts pictures of herself in ways that highlight her exposed bones. this is not a private citizen. she is making millions of dollars and is not in any way hiding what we all see to be true. it could also be argued that she is going so far as to highlight and sexualize her current figure.
her PR team - and there is one - obviously knows there is an issue here. they would have most likely released a statement if it was a health issue. they can do so without violating her privacy. so far she is quoted as saying she's "the healthiest" she's ever been. meanwhile her instagram content would have been flagged 5 years ago for being "thinspo."
research shows that exposure to ultra-thin body types does encourage self-image issues in young girls and women. to quote NEDA: "Of American elementary school girls who read magazines, 69% say that the pictures influence their concept of the ideal body shape. 47% say the pictures make them want to lose weight." I cannot even imagine what social media is doing on a much larger scale.
due to social pressures, you can "catch" an eating disorder. eating disorders are also the most deadly mental illness to have.
anecdotally, before i recovered, figures like her would have been extremely triggering for me. most people who have any passing experience with this content will agree: it is becoming harder to fight the internalization of those thoughts.
this is not because i dislike her. i have no opinion on her actually. it literally has nothing to do with her as a performer or as a person. however, there is a reason people fought to deplatform eugenia cooney: it is not because we seek to abandon that person, but instead because their behavior is genuinely concerning and they should not be given massive amounts of access to the public.
if she was self-harming or doing drugs (or god forbid shaving her head), companies would be too "concerned" with their public image to support her as a model. but she is just... too skinny, and it's okay to be skinny, because we as a society hate fatness.
as more and more celebrities follow in her wake, we are beginning to see hyper-thinness as being "normal" or "toned" where it is not normal nor is it toned - it is often extreme thinness.
and no, there is nothing wrong with being skinny. every time i comment on something related to this, some skinny person regales me with times they've been attacked by some kind of pro-fat mafia - as if that makes my point untrue; as if private suffering negates the existence of public research. eating disorders are real, and they are dangerous, and if you feel attacked because i am concerned about the normalization of sick bodies as role models - you need to go outside and talk to any fat person. what i am talking about is more important than your personal validation that your life was hard. if you're thin, you can just be thin, i am not stopping you nor am i judging you. i beg you, please think rationally about what i am actually saying. it is not a reflection on you; nor on your body; nor on your experience. this is about a popular performer displaying signs of an extremely dangerous mental illness.
she has done great work for charities. she's a great singer and actress. i do not know what she went through. my heart hurts for her and the pain she's clearly in. my understanding is that it is not uncommon for victims of sexual assault to develop an eating disorder. whatever is happening to her, i really, really hope she gets the help she so clearly needs.
in the meantime, though. she should not be on billboards. she should not be posting thinspo disguised as normal pictures. she should not be touting her health and wellness. she should not be held up as a paragon of sex and wealth.
she is categorically, visibly unwell.
illusion hunter is great because gim giryeo is quicker to literally sell his lifespan and gamble his chances of getting his old powers back by having to play mind games with yooseung to earn cash than simply begging Seo Esther, woman who is So Down Bad For Him She Would Be His Sugar Mommy, for a pair of dragon lungs.
christmas movie where a city girl falls for a cowboy but they're both horny lesbians
I got a doctordle right. singular. I'm never living this down.
This is everyday life at HUNTR/X Tower.
You donât have to love yourself. But it helps to behave as though you do. Not in a nebulous, spiritual way⌠in a practical way.
We know someone can say âI love youâ all day and not mean it. What matters more is how they behave. The actions they take. Are you saying you love yourself but not taking the real world actions to express that love?
What does it look like when someone loves you? What kinds of things do they do, even when theyâre tired or stressed or bored or irritated?
