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[airwar]

we used to turn the tv on and just watch whatever was on there

[correctopinionhaver]

[mintypineapple]

Yes, it was frequently The Simpsons.

[poikaboo]

{ID - Grandpa from the Simpsons, talking to a group of kids END ID}

[tainebot01]

foreshadowing is a literary device in which-

[trangoldin]

[queerofthedagger]

the fun thing about having a mental health crashout in your thirties is that sure yeah you're crashing out, but at the same time there's a part of you standing across the room smoking ben affleck style, going yeah yeah you're crashing out. you crashed out before you will crash out again can we wrap this up yet. and the most annoying part about it is that they're right, and that that does Not stop you from crashing out even a little. love and light on planet earth.

[humanpersonface]

[jawlipops]

do people just not find those AI pop-ups everywhere not incredibly patronizing: "help me write" "help me visualize" help me put my balls in your mouth

[d-f-phantom]

And when they're popping up on the search function, I get even more pissed off because it's like "not only do I not need you, but even if I did, it would only be because you fucked up the search results with related-not-related bullshit and AI bullshit in the first place!"

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[allykatsart]

[d-f-phantom]

I can't claim that star but that is only because I was FORCED to use it. For everything else, I get better results on my own.

[demilypyro]

anyway read Shunrai Table Tennis if you want a normie protagonist going absolutely balls to the wall to compensate for talent because she just fucking hates losing

and it's yuri

[littlehimedanshi]

the depths of mahiros repression is truly really really funny and so real. shes so eager to be a girl and so eager to love girls and will act on it constantly, but she cant ever think about it or she freaks out and tries to go back into the egg. she flips back and forth between joyfully engaging with her girlhood and trying sooo hard to assert her alleged Totally Impenetrable Masculine Identity that she waltzes into affirming her girlhood so often. yes you are a lesbian sweetheart. you were so scared of becoming gay you didnt realize you became gay.

[littlehimedanshi]

One thing I keep thinking about is how afraid Mahiro is of getting specifically “found out”. There’s zero way this could happen, but she still is terrified of being outed as being “really a guy” and experiencing transmisogyny specifically in the form of immediate accusations of being a disgusting pervert, etc.

Theres absolutely zero ambiguity. Mahiro is a trans girl, she’s just repressed.

[demilypyro]

I still can't really relate to this protagonist. The type of person who is uniquely talented, who has an easy time with everything and leaves others in the dust... I find it a strange choice for a character to focus on. The writer clearly wants me to be invested in Natsuo's desire to take down her rival, and sometimes when she expresses those feelings I almost am, but when it all comes so easily for her, how am I supposed to root for her? She's only an underdog by a lack of experience, and the narrative is clearly establishing that she's easily making up for that lack of experience with raw talent. I'm waiting for the moment where she actually starts struggling, but it's been 15 chapters... If there's no struggle, what's the point?...

[axolotlsauce]

This is such a huge problem that I have across so much manga, especially shonen. Even when they present characters as underdogs, they can't help but make them the specialest most talented people in the world. Sometimes they'll try to make them seem like an underdog for a bit before revealing, just kidding, their underdog-ness is actually secretly the reason they can wield a special power that's better than everyone else's! That or it's just, like, generic secret bloodline powers or something.

I think my favourite stupid example is Rock Lee, because he's described as "A genius at hard work", implying that Kishimoto couldnt even conceive of a character struggling through adversity through hard work without his ability to do that being itself the thing that he's more talented at than everyone else.

I always find myself connecting way more with characters who express immense frustration with the super-talents (like the "have you ever toiled until you bled", "have you ever despaired at the limits of your own talent" dialog in these panels), because THOSE characters are actually expressing something much more human that really speaks to me. Not to say that "relatability" is the be-all-end-all of fiction, I actually hate the idea that it is, but that frustration is just a way more compelling emotion to explore than "Ohh I'm sad that I don't know how to best use my super-amazing talent yet"

If you view these stories from the point of view of the characters who get surpassed and beaten by people who were Just Born Better Than Them, they become really, really depressing

[soggyskinflaps]

Mustelidae family in a nutshell

[chepeha]

I hate transphobes and I love my fucked up babygirl 💕

[demilypyro]

i'm starting to feel like i'm somewhat "good" at fighting games

but just being good isn't gonna be enough to beat Sophia's Potemkin.

[demilypyro]

revenge... revenge!.... revenge!!!

[demilypyro]

hahahaha.... my power grows!....

[demilypyro]

[mumidraws]

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[aurse77]

doodle

[prokopetz]

Every time I listen to the Blue Swede cover of "Hooked on a Feeling" I'm struck by how relatively little ooga chaka it contains for a song that's literally only known for ooga chaka.

[d-f-phantom]

Can you recommend a cover with more "ooga chaka"?

[desk-drawerr]

He eat a nemon