This lowers your capacity for emotional regulation.
Youāll cry more easily. Get dragged into low moods more easily. Simple little things where youāre like ādang, that shouldnāt hit so hard,ā will wallop you.
This will trick you into thinking youāre weak and canāt handle life. A loser.
Not so my friend.
Itās a signal that you need a nap, need to allow for more sleep at night, need to prioritize and scale back on what you can accomplish in a day, need to take a mental health day or even a leave.
Is someone gonna talk about the use of signage in yesterday's episode? Do I have to be the one to talk about the use of signage in yesterday's episode?
I know we all saw the billboard beside Choso displaying the abilities of his technique in tandem with the narrator, but there were so many more great uses of the signs in the background to convey information.
The first sign (and also one of the first shots) that we see in the episode is a Pedestrian Do Not Cross sign overlaid by the sound of Yuuji running, followed by Yuuji's shadow itself taking up the position of the pedestrian on the sign. You can read this as the sign telling Yuuji not to proceed to where he's going or as an indication of how the upcoming fight will end for the viewer.
The next sign that we get is one telling us to Go Left, which doesn't really seem important, but I promise you, it is. We'll see a lot of arrows pointing left throughout the episode and every single one of them is pointing away from danger. Go Left to avoid danger, essentially.
These two signs are arguably the most important in the episode, but they aren't the coolest use of visual symbolism that we got, so lets keep going.
The third sign that we see focused on in the episode is a No Running sign that Yuuji passes that says "Do Not Rush. It Is Dangerous." Yuuji, of course, runs past it on his way toward the escalators that lead (for him) to Gojo and (for the viewer) to Choso.
Once he does get to the bottom of the escalators, Yuuji is attacked by Choso immediately and Choso's opening move (Convergence), once Yuuji moves his arms up and away from his face, slices up through the subway cieling and the road above to cut the Pedestrian Do Not Cross sign that we saw at the beginning of the episode in half.
We also get out first big Left Arrow, placed immediately in the foreground of the shot and pointing toward the aforementioned sign that's been cut in half (this will be important later), but in a another view, it also points away from station itself. Again, go left to avoid danger.
Our next Left Arrow is on the ceiling between Yuuji, indicating that he should go away from Choso. Interestingly enough, it also points toward the bathrooms that Yuuji will go into later once his fight with Choso in the hallway becomes too dangerous.
That same arrow falls to the floor between them once Choso gets mad after Yuuji tells him about Eso and Kechizu crying, this time pointing directly away from Choso.
Another Left Arrow, this time in a more urgent red. We see this once Yuuji realizes that he's in serious danger, that he'll loose if he continues to fight Choso in the hallway. It's also pointing away from the bathrooms and toward the escalators from Yuuji's point of view beside the bathrooms, indicating that he needs to leave the area entirely.
The previous arrow pointing toward the bathrooms as a safe option has been destroyed and Yuuji has taken some serious damage by the time he moves toward them. The bathrooms are no longer safe. Yuuji needs to leave.
This is followed up by the only Right Arrows that we see focused on in the epsiode, but unlike the Left Arrows, they aren't used to convey how to get away from danger, but rather what is dangerous. Not only do these arrows all point toward Choso outside of the shot, they also have each of his techniques displayed below them.
Once the bathroom fight is over and Yuuji is on death's door, we get a zoomed out shot of his body framed by (two) people cut in half. This sign is shown right before Sukuna makes his only appearance in the episode, where we hear the sound of electricity flickering.
We heard this exact sound earlier from the Left Arrow telling Yuuji to get away from Choso at the beginning of the fight, but I like to interpret it as an audio indicator of Yuuji's life and/or control of Sukuna flickering in and out, becoming weaker.
Side Note: In the previous shot of Yuuji that we get before this one, we see a blade of light cutting Yuuji in half, the same way Convergence cut the Pedestrian Do Not Cross sign in half earlier in the episode. This will come into play later in the post, but keep it in mind.
The next time we see these bisected bathroom signs is when Mimiko and Nanako approach Yuuji to awaken Sukuna. Two people framing Yuuji/Sukuna that have been cut, while those same signs are whole in the hallway to the left. Go left to avoid danger applies to the girls here as well.
Our next important set of signs are actually the same sign, a large green arrow in the foreground that points away from where Yuuji's body is. While Choso stumbles away from it (away from Yuuji/Sukuna) the girls walk toward it.
This is also the first Left Arrow that we see point toward Choso, unlike the one pointing away from him at the beginning of his and Yuuji's fight. Choso, at this moment and onward, is no longer a source of danger to Yuuji or to us, the viewer.
And finally, the final shot of the entire episode, our old friend, the Pedestrian Do Not Cross sign. Yuuji has lost to Choso, the girls have found him to awaken Sukuna, and we get a focus shot of the Pedestrian that previously represented Yuuji cut in half and covered in blood.
I mentioned earlier that we get another shot of Yuuji cut in half by a ray of light in the bathroom.
Here is that shot, and the way that I interpret it is as a reminder that Yuuji shares his body. Yuuji's control of his body has been cut off in the same way that the Pedestrian representing Yuuji has had part of it cut away. What's left is the part that Yuuji can't control, the Pedestrian covered in blood.
Additionally, repeated use of a sign showing pedestrians cut in half and bloody can also represent the civilians in Shibuya, especially now that Yuuji no longer has control of his body.
things Iād wish I had known about job searching years ago:
optimize your resume for application tracking systems (also known as ATS). most hiring processes nowadays use some form of ATS, and having a resume with weird formatting or missing info means a resume-reading robot could reject you before a human even looks at it.Ā jobscan has a lot of good info on ATS optimization, how to format resumes (with specific info depending on your experience level, career path, or job/education history), and even some free templates. the templates are pretty generic but you can adjust the font/colors a little bit as long as the text can still be extracted and parsed by a machine. and if you really need a cool-looking resume (whether by industry or personal taste), you can always create one bland ATS resume for online submission and another fancy resume to hand to people in person.
it sucks, but linkedin is essential. you donāt have to be active or make a bunch of posts (unless thatās your style. itās definitely not mine lol), you donāt even have to include that many details, but if you fill out your name, any education and experience info (even just the name of schools or the job title you had, doesnāt have to be fancy. volunteer info absolutely counts hereāinclude it!), and upload a semi-decent profile photo, it goes a long way. set up your custom profile URL and put a link to it on your resume; a lot of people would rather shoot you a quick message than write out a whole email. you can also configure your profile so recruiters know youāre looking for work, which brings me to:
talk to recruiters! they want to help you find a job. they literally get paid to place peopleāand the companies pay them, it doesnāt cost you anything to use a recruiter. some recruiters get paid as a percentage of theĀ ācostā of the employee, which means they have an incentive to land you the highest pay and best benefits possible. even if a recruiter canāt find you a job outright, they can help you assess your career options and skill value based on the info provide them. and once youāve contacted a recruiter, they might come back to you later if another role opens up and they need someone. a lot of recruiters and staffing agencies have websites where you can submit your resume, a list of positions/industries youāre interested in, and contact info. they often have info about opportunities you wonāt find on regular job boards.
additionally: if you believe a woman should have to carry and birth a baby that was conceived through rape or incest or that is paining her/risking her life to carry. unfollow me if you believe that the life of a fetus is more important than the life of a child that has been molested, a teenager that has been molested, a woman that has been molested.
extra additionally: if you call yourself pro life for the āwell being of a āchildāā and yet do nothing about the childrenās in the foster care system, orphanage, adoption centers, etc, gtfo
and just to repeat: you are protecting rapists by doing this, you are protecting rapists by doing this, you are protecting rapists by doing this.
For those of you who don't know, this specific haka was written by a father to acknowledge his son's wrongdoing and basically tell him to get his shit together. It is also modernly used as a haka tautoko, or acknowledgement, in some contexts.
Y'all see how symbolic this is, right? It's both acknowledging current events as a show of solidarity, but also calling for world leaders to get their shit together and admit their wrongdoings and try to change things. This shit is powerful.
The user quobbo on tiktok did a little rundown analysis of it here:
#stitch with @tonifui š(credit) | Tika Tonu (a ngeri/haka) in a 60sec tt #blm #poc #sons #aotearoa #mÄori
for some reason this ^ reblog isnt showing up in the notes? maybe it's the link, but for those looking to explains the significance of this from a closer maori experience - what the dance means and why the video is so culturally epic (if interested in knowing more, pls click this reblog)
So was anyone gonna tell me that the cancellation of Invader Zim led to ATLA's creation or was I supposed to find that out from the tv tropes website at 2 in the morning
