I don’t think like anyone reads my posts, but if you want rants, crack theories, analysis, or like opinions, just ask.
I’ve watched:
-jjk
-mha
-miraculous ladybug
-apothecary diaries
-Dr. Ramune (I feel like no one watched that. It’s only twelve episodes but it’s good)
-zombie land saga
-fairy tail
-saiki k
-tbhk
-psych
-white collar
-Grimm
-castle
-bungo stray dogs (not all of it though)
-Raven of the inner palace
-undead murder farce
-tomo-chan is a girl
-hell’s paradise
-Oresuki
-mashle
-I’m in love with the villainess
-monthly girls nozaki-kun
-horimiya
-master of killing time
-sasaki and miyano
-love is war
-mlp
-strawberry shortcake (2003-present)
-descendents
-ever after high
-monster high (first gen only)
-Voltron
-pretty much any Disney princess movie
While I haven’t seen one a full way through, I’ve seen multiple episodes of different harem animes and will be able to talk about tropes involved. I probably have watched other shows too, but those are like my high knowledge shows.
Also ask me to explain things more in any of my posts because it’s usually ramblings and I’m aware I can be confusing.
I would like to emphasize that I agree with all of these tags by the way. My post wasn't aiming to pin all of Europe's grotesque racism on the new elections.
A few weeks ago I was at a board game night with some of my old classmates from various mainland European countries. They started talking about how horrible Trump's treatment of immigrants is and how they're so glad to be in Europe where nothing like that is happening right now. I asked them what they thought about the fact that their own governments were complicit in turning the Mediterranean into a mass grave of asylum seekers, and some of them legitimately didn't even know and were surprised to hear that their own governments had enacted policies that caused the deaths of thousands of asylum seekers.
Even here in Iceland, almost nobody has been talking about the fact that some of the far right populist parties have legitimately been talking about wanting to establish detainment camps to keep asylum seekers in.
This post is a few months old now, and the bit about Iceland is now outdated, because Alþingi (the Icelandic parliament) passed the bill approving the detention center for asylum seekers. It will be legal to handcuff and detain children there.
Never let anyone from Europe feed you the lie that racism and fascism are unique to North America in the 21st century.
Something interesting is that in early to mid 2000s cop shows with a female lead, they manage to do what animes do a lot when they have a male lead. That being, give them more chemistry with characters of the same gender than the characters of the opposite.
I used to work with kids and I can understand some frustration with them. I try my absolute best to be respectful and explain my actions to them. But sometimes, despite all that, the kids I worked with would still do things that are dumb and/or dangerous. Like I once had a fourth grader pull out a chunk of a five grader’s hair. We (me and my coworkers) then tried separating them and they both threw fits. So I can understand that sometimes you’re frustrated.
BUT most of the time they’re not like that. They don’t fully understand the world. A preschooler once asked me how gravity worked and why their hair stuck up on the slide. I gave part of the puberty talk to a 12 year old because she asked. I’ve played Uno and trash until I wanted to die. I’ve had kids make me drawings and I’ve taught crafts. I’ve made a giant lava lamp once to teach them about oil and water. They are so curious and creative. They are some of the most interesting people to talk to. And treating them like they’re inconvenient to exist, like they’re scum of the earth, like they’re stupid, is just plain cruelty.
Are they smarter than you? Probably not, but they’ve been on this planet for a very short while and aren’t gonna know everything you know because you’ve been taught it and they haven’t. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t treat them like people. In fact, treating them like people is going to make them better people. Explain your actions to help them explain their’s. Communicate your feelings so they can too. Let them make small decisions so when the big decisions happen they can make them. Teach them. Make mistakes and acknowledge them so they can too.
I gave a girl a full on apology because I yelled at her when I thought she was hurting another kid. She wasn’t, it was friendly roughhousing. I made a mistake, took her aside, and told her I was sorry for yelling at her, I misunderstood, and it was wrong of me to yell at her and assume things without having all the facts. Why? Because it is what you do. You apologize when you make those mistakes. You show you know what you did wrong and say that you’re sorry. And you should especially do this with kids so they can know how to apologize, that treating people like that is wrong, and that people in charge can still make mistakes.
These are people. And at some point they’re going to be adult people and doing all the adult things. As an adult person, you are responsible for making sure they’re able to do the adult things.
And even if you never have kids, you should still understand that they have to learn and that they haven’t yet. That kid from the table over may be loud, but they haven’t been taught inside voice yet. It may be annoying, but you give grace. The same way you do a new employee or intern. The same way you do when you start dating someone and you’re both getting to know each other and what drives you both mad. It takes time, and you need to be patient.
Now, I do think some places should be child free. But not because they’re annoying, but because those places aren’t made for them. Think bars, night clubs, construction sites. You know, things that could put them in danger. Banning kids from restaurants or parks is stupid.
Just to add to this for fun: my dad’s been having me watch dead zone and in like the first episode they’re making references that he (the main character) doesn’t get. It threw me off a bit because I can’t imagine a world where Shania Twain and Tiger Woods are not well known.
so metropolitan museum of art has a register of books they’ve published that are out of print and that you can download for free! they’re mostly books on art, archeology, architecture, fashion and history and i just think that’s super useful and interesting so i wanted to share! you can find all of the books available here!
Do you have too many things to do and mental health issues that make it hard to do them? Let me introduce you to my new well working (so far, it’s day 9) way of doing things. I call it the roll for activity schedule.
How it works is: you create a schedule (I know, but as someone who’s tried creating schedules for themselves and failed, I did it without the key ingredients which I’ll go over in this post). In said schedule you have a time when you roll a die to see what activity you do for the scheduled time.
Now, I’m a college student on summer break, so I have more time than someone working does (which means more time for guilt over not doing things, hurray), but you can add in things like your work hours into the schedule.
My schedule is as follows:
Wake up 8-9:30
9:30-11:30 roll for activity A
11:30-12:30 lunch
12:30-2:30 break
2:30-4:30 roll for activity B
4:30-5:30 break
5:30-8:00 dinner
8:00-10:00 break
10:00 bedtime
If you notice, there are scheduled breaks. These are very important! Even if it’s doing something you like, you need to make sure they’re there cause otherwise you’ll burn out. Also, remember to include meals cause if you’re like me, you forget to eat when engrossed in activities.
You’ll also notice my dinner is a large time period. This is because I’m home for the summer and do not determine when I eat dinner since my dad cooks. You don’t need a huge chunk of time for that if you control what you eat, just enough time to cook, eat, and then maybe do dishes (depending on your circumstances and how you feel).
Now, the roll for activity spots are the special part to this. What you want to do is take all the things you want to do and assign a number to them. Make sure that number is even, because we’re using dice. Then, you’ll roll the dice at the beginning of the time and do the activity for that time period.
So this is where it gets a bit more complicated/personal. I split my options into two different groups, hence A vs B. I also created sub sections. So, for example, if I roll a 3 during activity B, I do traditional art. But I made it so there’s a second dice roll for that which has more specific things for me to do. You can also have fun and make charts, which I did and included some here.
Now, if you have an uneven amount of activities, don’t worry! You can add a reroll or a dealer’s choice. I included a do activity A in mine (meaning I either do whatever I rolled for A or I roll for activities from A). You can add whatever as long as it isn’t stuff like scrolling or stuff that keeps you in bed.
There was a trend in the 40s and 50s (not sure if it predates that or if there are places that still do it) where you could get your child’s baby shoes cast in bronze or dipped in bronze and use them as keepsakes or have them mounted as bookends. Better than the resin slop of the modern day in my opinion. My great grandma had my grandpa’s baby shoes made into bookends ends because she loved him very much and he was her only child and it is honestly really cute. My mom got her dad’s baby shoe bookends when she moved out and they were in my living room my entire childhood, she had explained how they were grandpa’s shoes covered in bronze and I thought that was cool.
Then I went to an art museum and saw bronze busts of people and my tiny child brain thought the person’s dismembered head and shoulders were in there…
This is a little off topic, but things like this (the bronze statues, not you thinking people’s heads were cast in bronze), are something I think are very human. I’m of the personal belief that people are people because of our urges to create and be remembered. And due to this, I also believe that we need to preserve these practices. Our want for creation, remembrance, exploration, are all want’s intrinsic to us and nothing would fit more than us pushing these skills (casting, book binding, tapestry, weaving, etc) to the future.
As technology advanced, we (first world countries for sure) have lost a lot of those skills or they’ve become very rare. Mostly because a lot of stuff is digital (for example, my sister is getting her school schedule online only unless she goes to the office on her first day and requests it printed. Which like, ew and what the hell since they banned phones?). But I think we would start changing for the better if those non digital skills were brought back widespread. I don’t think technology needs to disappear, as I think it also does good, but I think a balance is necessary. I think it will give us more appreciation for things, bring back our focus, give us more senses of accomplishment, and plenty of other things. I think having them in community centers and people traveling to the smaller towns to teach it would be good. Hell, I’d say to put them as required electives in schools (not every skill, but you have to pick at least one). I think combining technology and these real world skills would truly do us a lot of good.
In conversation with multiple posts going around discussing technical literacy and typing skills…
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 Words Per Minute
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is less than 35 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 36-45 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 46-55 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is 56-69 WPM
I HAD typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM
I did NOT have typing classes: my typing speed is faster than 70 WPM
I'm on mobile/ vanilla extract option
Voting ended onJul 20
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➡️ 'Typing classes' refers to computer skills classes you might have had in school; you can also count games or other related typing training your parents might have had you do.
➡️ Across 3 different typing test websites*, the (english language) world average typing speed is 40 WPM.
So apparently, over the summer, Quibi (the shortest-lasting streaming service ever lmao) did a quarantine project called “Home Movie: The Princess Bride” where a bunch of celebrities recreated The Princess Bride in tiny chunks at home.
And like there was no permanent cast, all these celebrities seem to have gotten a scene or part of a scene to do (i’m not sure exactly, I did not ever watch Quibi and thus haven’t seen this yet), and then they just… recreated it as best they could. At home. Under quarantine.
So like, you had Jennifer Garner in a blanket cape playing Princess Buttercup AND the Booing Old Woman with a crowd comprised entirely of stuffed animals:
Or Taika Waititi paying Westley off a badly-drawn Inigo on a piece of cardboard held in front of someone’s face:
And it’s all just delightful.
But my absolute favorite part of this thing that I’ve sadly never seen but assume is probably absolutely hilarious and a treasure and I want to find it some day and watch the whole thing… is that Carey Elwes is in it.
In case you need a comfort watch and because Youtube search nowadays sucks rancid farts, I remind you of the Princess Bride Home Movie from the lockdown, starring everybody
So I’m reading this book (kinda, it’s my plane book. I don’t fly a lot, but more so than your average person, hence, plane book), and I’m looking for spoilers on some stuff (which I didn’t find). I find a review page, with a lot of comments talking about how it makes white people the oppressed and black people the oppressors. Did we all read the same book? They were all Asian? Different Asian cultures as inspirations for the different races. But they’re still Asian. They literally use Kintsugi, which is Japanese. I mean they don’t call it that, but it’s the same idea (broken pottery filled with some type of metal).
I think Lassie fell in love with Shawn in scary sherry with the fortune cookie, but that does not explain the besotted look he gave Shawn during game set murder.
Headcanon on who I think the other core 4’s parents are:
Evie: I think that the evil queen would’ve gone for aesthetics. Like she absolutely cares about power, however, I think her need for beauty, especially in her children, takes precedence. So I think she’s another of Gaston’s kids, just the evil queen is of higher “rank” so she’s with her instead.
Carlos: Either Jasper or Horace. I don’t think anyone else would want to stay in her place long enough to actually make a baby. Like she’s a known crazy lady, I highly doubt like Hans or Facilier is coming over for a drink let alone sex.
Jay: Hardest one, simply because Jafar has a thing about status so I don’t think it’s a low rank villain or some random person who got shoved in with the rest of the villains. However, think of the high ranking women villains. It’s not Maleficent or Evil Queen. (Maleficent would absolutely keep Jay to be another lackey/ chance of getting the wand and she needs to be in control which wouldn’t happen completely if Jay grew up with Jafar, and the Evil Queen would not want her son looking unpresentable, even if she can’t mini-me him, him stealing things rather than looking of high class would be an embarrassment to her). Looking through the list, there’s really only one option, and that’s the Queen of Hearts. She’s high ranking, I don’t think she’d want the baby, and should’ve (fucking D4/D5, ruining everything. Don’t even get me started on the fucking time travel thing) been on the isle. So ignoring their wonderland didn’t get messed with thing from D4/D5, I think that’s the most likely candidate for Jay’s mom. The next option would be Drizella, cause while she’s not as high of rank, I believe she’d be the next highest on the isle.
I'm pulling this theory straight out of my bum, but could Tetia and Qifrey be related?
We know little to nothing about Tetia, and Qifrey was also mostly mysterious until recently. What if the author hasn't revealed Tetia's backstory because it is in some ways intertwined with Qifrey's? Perhaps Qifrey's story had to be told first for Tetia's to make sense.
This doesn't automatically mean that they have to be family. But it would be interesting.
They could be siblings. Or cousins. Or uncle and niece.
Maybe Qifrey did manage to find out more about his past, and that led him to Tetia. He decided to take her in as an apprentice as a form of protecting her from the brimhats and getting more information. Similarly to how he did with Coco.
Could Tetia also be a silverwood host? If yes, have her memories been erased to keep the tree at bay?
Was she the subject of forbidden magic 4 years ago when it was last publicly (?) used before Coco did it again?
I figured she was an experiment (not tree related necessarily), hence why memories are so important to her, as they’d be erased like Qifrey’s were. This is also why she became his apprentice since so far we have: Agott who joined because she failed her parents/cheated, Richeh whose last master sucked, and Coco who had the whole mom is a crystal now thing. It seems weird that Tetia would be the only normal situation apprentice, so her being related to the brimmed hats would make more sense as to why Qifrey took her. I think the best bet is her being related to the forbidden magic thing, though her being related to it is not as publicly known as Coco’s own incident is.
You’ll be reading fanfiction and realize that the writers really screwed Ben over. That man had so much potential in the first movie (and books) that they just threw away for no reason. Where was smart and slightly sarcastic Ben in D2 and 3, huh? I can’t even remember what he did in D3.
