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Tumblr is the reason why I have something I call the cashier test which is, if i told this to a random cashier at the grocery store, would they think you're crazy at best or at worst would they be warranted in leaping over the counter and beating the shit out of you. Karl Marx mpreg is crazy, but not beating the shit out of you crazy. The cashier will probably talk about you to their coworkers and it might even make their day. Telling someone they're complicit in their own oppression by working a minimum wage job at a grocery store makes them warranted in leaping over the counter to beat the shit out of you.
i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed
Just read chapter 3 of the 2nd years novel for the first time and i remembered a post from like a year ago that i saw talking about the miso soup metaphore and the way tashiro makes intimacy for himself in his own home.
(I dont even think you made the post lol, i just came to you bc your the Hanzawa & Tashiro guy in my mind)
CONGRATULATIONS ON READING CHAPTER 3 OF SECOND YEARS NOVEL FOR THE FIRST TIME. also presumably the second years novel at large for the first time. it is sooooo good. I am actually so glad you came to me for this because it gives me the opportunity to highlight @sunnnfish’s miso soup document post from last year that it turns out I apparently never reblogged. I’m sorry sunnfish. my dear friend sunnfish. it is such a good document post. and there’s a weird love mention in there too and everything :)
I’ve been just awful about posts and asks lately but I remember halfway recently I said something about tashiro being a surprisingly, astonishingly stoic guy. and I think that truth is related to the weird bubble of practical homeliness he creates for wholly himself with those cheap packets of miso. It really just was the craziest thing harusono shou could’ve said about tashiro. his folks ask him to get the expensive stuff but he just keeps making that soup…
in thematically appropriate fashion I feel really inclined to get into the relation between the effort it takes to make food and looking after oneself and looking after others and suspiciously adhd tendencies. in tashiro’s case. but I just can’t get myself to do it. because of adhd tendencies in my case. so forget I said this but also don’t. great thank you. for the forgetful remembrance and also the ask on the whole
everybody remembers the hanzawa guy but what about the tashiro guy.... kicks rocks.... but i jest. my friends do a better job at advertising for me anyways. my miso soup linked above is Fine but ultimately inconclusive and lacking i think. i have come to rectify that. though i fear it may take the rest of my mortal life to properly convey miso soup scene. but every day i try. its 15 to 1am, i am typing one handed due to cat laying on me awkwardly, and we will check back in with this situation at the end.
so i think my main point in the above document is positing the question: Why Would Harusono Shou Add This Scene. and what that therefor is telling us. i feel like im using crazy vocabulary but its unfortunately coming entirely naturally to me right now. whatever. What Is Harusono Shou Trying To Tell Us. tashiro's perspective here clearly juxtaposes everything miyano and kuresawa have going on this chapter. they clearly Get something that he doesn't. what is so romantic about making miso soup for someone. and the way miyano explains it--a set expression in the romance genre referencing the way a family member makes miso soup for you every day, thus implying the desire to be family (aka marriage).cat just laid further on my arms making it evenharder to type Okay readjusted. still one handed and it's 1am now Nevermind he left okay two handed touch typing locking in.
so. tashiro takes miyanos explanation Extremely literally. which could say a lot about the state of his brain but this isnt about that right now. he takes it so literally, wondering Well my family doesnt even eat miso soup every day and my parents dont even make it i just make it myself with instant packets and sometimes make enough for them too. and narrator kuresawa is commenting the whoooole time about how tashiro just isnt getting it. something isn't clicking. and he also comments on how tashiro seems shockingly domestic Putting kureshiro aside . it's true. it'd be a long shot to guess that tashiro is the one making dinner at home. and that little glimpse into his home life makes me insane harusono shou let me in. but i digress.
it kind of all seems to imply that tashiro's family situation isn't exactly.... loving ? and dear tumblr user imadethisjusttolookatssmyposts i'm really latching onto the way you said that tashiro makes intimacy for himself in his own home. and it's not that his parents don't love him it's just - they don't get to cook for him and they maybe seem worried about money (his mom always says laziness is the root of wasting money) and i overall get the impression that they just aren't home a lot. and maybe home and family just aren't things that he's particularly attached to. he seems to spend a lot of time in other places. but he keeps making that soup. for himself. for his parents. making intimacy for himself.... and none of this is to say i think he's depressed or secretly very angsty or anything of the sort. i think it's like. he is fiercely defiant of a loveless environment. he keeps making that soup.
its just. such a specific family situation that harusono is laying out here. and that's kinda the literal interpretation right. the glimpse into his home. and then we get this second layer of Miso Soup Is A Metaphor For Love. and i think the thing that i want to make clear is like. tashiro is not conciously talking about it like its a metaphor. none of them really are. he really is just talking about soup. but in the context of a Book that one of it's main themes is Boys Life and #Romance it becomes insanely metaphorical.
so you lay out miyano and kuresawa who understand this metaphorical phrase perfectly and even relate to it and apply it to themselves on multiple levels. and you put tashiro next to them who doesn't connect with it at all. and for a guy who says he wants a girlfriend, he doesn't actually seem to want that kind of relationship out of it. the kind where someone you love makes miso soup for you every day. he doesn't even make it himself every day. wouldn't you get sick of it? the same thing every day. it is 1:30am.
and so ultimately, again, it is weird love.
perhaps.... i have said everything that i've already said. i hope i've conveyed something new here. at least i've worn out a little energy that's been keeping me up tonight. thanks for thinking of probably my post even though you didnt remember it was my post. peace and love. 🌅<-beautiful emoji sunset for you to look at
So, uh, I think we should also look at this as a reflection on Shirahama.
*pulls out the ShiraShiro whiteboard*
@kagiura-akira
*cough cough*
Why is Tashiro suddenly bringing up the miso soup conversation?
He's thinking about white day. He's thinking about love. He's thinking about his last conversation about it.
He's thinking about Shirahama.
Yes, he's thinking about talking about love with Shirahama, but, as @sunnnfish explains, this is a series about LOVE, so it's not that far of a leap to say the people you talk about love with are those you feel some kind of love for.
On the surface this is about a video game.
Underneath, it's about why Shirahama followed through on this path to wind up with miso soup girl.
Tashiro wants to know about love. He wants to know about why people care about certain things when they're in love.
He wants to know why Shirahama wanted this girl.
Tashiro and Shirahama undoubtedly had a similar conversation to what Tashiro is trying to have with Kuresawa and Miyano. What's with the miso soup thing?
Does Shirahama really get it? Did he choose the pathway of a romance that would give him someone who brought a sense of family? Or was he just trying out a new pathway? Is he also discovering what love means to him?
Shirahama may have actively chosen this love interest, based on dialogue choices that implied the character loved their family and appreciated a "domestic" life. He played this WITH Tashiro, where Tashiro could see it. Is that purposeful too?
I like miso soup, Shirahama might have said.
Has Tashiro made it for the both of them, when Shirahama has hung out and they're alone in the house because who knows where Tashiro's parents are? Maybe they work late hours. Maybe his dad gambles and is out late. Maybe his mother is in a loveless marriage. Maybe they just let Tashiro be independent as a teenager because he's nearly an adult and he has to fend for himself. (I'm inclined to say loveless because of Tashiro's constant love questioning and how he seems to like being out of the house, rather than in it)
Point is, Tashiro is alone, and if Shirahama is over, Tashiro might make soup.
Shirahama might like that soup.
It reminds him of being around his best friend and playing games and making jokes and taking about life.
And love. In some form.
Maybe it's the only way he knows how to say, but not say, to Tashiro that he appreciates him.
Soup.
Love.
But what if it isn't purposeful? What if they're just playing a game and they stumble upon this outcome?
Tashiro asks about the soup. Man, this girl is like ALL about soup, Kyo. Better stock up.
Do girls care about soup that much?
Tashiro's Mom seems to. Man, she's harping on him about this soup.
I don't want a girl who is on my case about soup, he tells Shirahama.
And they talk about love without talking about love.
This is something they just DO.
They're friends. They're close. They avoid homework together and inadvertently have deep conversations about partners they've never had.
Because they both don't understand what love is.
Because they're both searching.
It's marrying the girl of your dreams, right?
Love.
That's what the game says. That's what our parents did... didn't they? Find someone to settle down with.
Tashiro and Shirahama both talk about wanting girlfriends, but do they even know what they want?
They know they like this.
Hanging out and playing games and not-doing homework together.
yo!! I’m a disabled person (thankfully it’s pretty mild, I can still walk and even dance with some extra effort). Other disabled people, this is so important for us to start doing young if we can! It’s easier to maintain muscle than it is to build it.
Reasons not to have your dog offleash at a public park:
1) roads (this one is self-explanatory)
2) it makes the park inaccessible to like, entire swathes of the population. If you have experience with police dogs or guard dogs in your neighborhood, or you're a new immigrant from somewhere with a large population of feral dogs, it sucks ass going to the park and having someone's massive lab bound up to you!
3) If, for example, you are in a protected wetland area plastered with friendly signs asking you to please leash your dog to avoid causing an ecological impact, having your dog offleash might cause an ecological impact! "Oh no, my dog is well-behaved, they would never bother the wildlife" wrong! your dog is in the pond trying to eat the endangered Blandings' turtles!
4) Non-zero chance of a jokerified park guide (me) just clipping your dog to a leash and stealing them
5) "Oh but my dog is sooo well-trained, there won't be any problems." Every dog owner who unleashes their dog is convinced of the same thing but almost all of them are wrong. I do not care to find out if your dog is the exception to the rule.
6) It doesn't fucking matter if your dog is well-trained and friendly. If it goes near an impulsive, unfriendly dog on a leash, there will be issues. And if it happens to stumble upon a boar with piglets or a scared horse etc, and you aren't close by, that dog is fucked.
The KIDS act (which contains KOSA) passed the US house, so I would recommend calling your senators and telling them to vote in opposition. I don't think I need to stress the importance of being able to use the internet freely and without privacy barriers being breached.
There are many scripts online you can follow, many ways to tweak your message to fit your senator (ESPECIALLY if they are up for reelection this year). Whether it's a recording you reach or a real person, be straightforward, don't argue, just let your rep know that you are a constituent and you oppose the KIDS act, etc.
Here is where you can search for your senator... call, email, fax, bring them physical letters, show up in person to their offices if you are able.
wish everyone could perceive the Vague Concepts in my head because i just know you would looove my Vague Concepts. you would think im so smart if you saw the misty clouds of Vague Concepts floating around in my head. #MyVagueConcepts
