ARE BOTS AND SCAMMERS, SOMETIMES USING HACKED ACCOUNTS FROM REAL TUMBLR USERS.
The first one will try to claim they falsely reported your account or something similar and will then try to redirect you to discord to talk to "staff members", sometimes using fake email screenshots for proof
The second one will likely try to pull some kind of chargeback scam on you!!! That, or they might threaten to report *you* for scamming *them* and attempt pull the previously mentioned tactic 🥱
Hello! I'm back with a quick post hehe, i did made this like a month or so ago perhaps?? Judt as a quick thing to give my brain some idea on how their dynamic could go hehe.
Again, i will make sure to post her ref and info once i'm done with my other oc hehe.
the use of AI lately has made me feel so hopeless, i translated pages of an unfinished fanzine of mine so i can remember why i love art...i hope it can resonate with anyone feeling the same way
Javed Khaksar Shares The Science Behind Punch Power and Speed
1. Power Starts from the Ground Up
Punching power isn’t about arm strength—it’s about how well your entire body works together. The concept of the kinetic chain explains this perfectly. Every powerful punch begins at your feet pressing into the ground, travels through your legs, rotates through your hips, stabilizes via your core, and finally releases through your arm. If even one part of this chain is off, the punch loses effectiveness. That’s why fighters who look effortless often hit the hardest—they’re using their whole body, not just their fists.
2. Hips: The Real Engine of a Punch
According to Javed Khaksar, the hips are the most underrated part of punching. He often highlights that strong hip rotation is what transforms an ordinary punch into a powerful strike. Your arms alone cannot generate maximum force—your hips must lead the movement. Javed Khaksar teaches that mastering footwork and hip engagement allows fighters to unlock a new level of impact without necessarily increasing muscle mass.
3. Speed Comes from Relaxation, Not Tension
One of the biggest misconceptions about punching speed is that you need to stay tense. In reality, tension slows you down. True speed comes from staying relaxed during the motion and only contracting your muscles at the moment of impact. This allows your punch to travel faster and more efficiently. It’s a subtle shift, but it makes a massive difference. The fastest strikers aren’t the most muscular—they’re the most fluid.
4. Train Your System, Not Just Muscles
Punching isn’t just physical—it’s neurological. Your brain controls how quickly and accurately your muscles respond. Through repetition and consistent drilling, you train your nervous system to fire faster and more precisely. This is why experienced fighters seem to react instantly—they’ve built those neural pathways over time. Combine this with training fast-twitch muscle fibers through explosive exercises like plyometrics and medicine ball work, and you develop both speed and power simultaneously.
5. Technique, Timing, and Breath Tie It All Together
Even with strength and speed, poor technique will hold you back. Efficient punches follow the shortest path with minimal wasted motion, increasing both accuracy and impact. Timing is just as critical—a well-timed punch can feel far more powerful than a poorly executed one. And don’t overlook breathing. A sharp exhale at the moment of impact stabilizes your core and enhances force output. These small details often separate average punches from truly devastating ones.
Final Thought
Punch power and speed aren’t natural gifts—they’re developed skills. By focusing on body mechanics, staying relaxed, training explosively, and refining technique, anyone can improve. When science meets disciplined practice, your punches won’t just be faster or stronger—they’ll be smarter.
Joe, fighting, and the way he connects with people
Just had a few thoughts about Joe, the meaning of combat in Joe's life, how it connects to his final match against Jose Mendoza, and how Yoko comes into it.
Something I noticed is that a lot of people online don't think Joe could have a friendly relationship with Yoko post-series because of how hostile, antagonistic, and vitriolic their relationship is during most of the series.
What gets brought up repeatedly are things like Joe grabbing Yoko's throat and telling her he doesn't care if she dies in a ditch somewhere, the time he throws water at her when she asks him to forfeit against Kim, the time in the manga when he teases her about her confession and tells her that women's magazines would love that scoop, Yoko forcing Joe to fight Harimau against his will, Yoko holding his world title match hostage, Yoko accidentally making his punch-drunk syndrome worse, Yoko actually telling him to die in the ring...
It goes on.
People who prefer Joe with someone like Noriko seem to want Joe to have easygoing and friendly relationships that don't have all these high-octane scenes.
And I definitely understand that discomfort. Joe thinks Yoko is actually his enemy for a majority of the manga and that informs his hostility towards her (in season 2, they are way friendlier so this doesn't really apply to their anime selves).
But does it mean that in light of all the insane things they do to each other, that after Joe is done with boxing, that they'd have an unhealthy relationship where Joe roughs her up or they'd still be antagonistic towards each other or something, like some people think?
Actually, I think it's narratively impossible for that to ever happen. If Joe and Yoko were to ever be in a relationship post-series, it would certainly be friendly and peaceful.
Why?
There's a very specific thread of frustration that runs through Joe and Yoko's relationship in the series.
Namely, fighting and exchanging physical blows is a very, very positive connection in Joe's worldview, and certainly the philosophy of Ashita no Joe.
Here, Joe says that communicating with Carlos by beating each other up has made them best friends, and that this was the case with Rikiishi as well.
Not only has fighting them given them a beautiful connection, Joe thinks it is superior to other connections. Closer than friends who've shared a million words together.
After fighting his rivals, Joe's feelings of antagonism towards them completely vanish and he behaves calmly and peacefully, trying (and failing 😭) to shake Rikiishi's hand, tearfully embracing Carlos after ages apart, and even refusing to let Goromaki Gondo say anything bad about Wolf.
Joe loves his rivals.
Now, what is the specific thread of frustration that runs through his and Yoko's relationship? Yoko certainly wishes to connect to the men in her life by understanding boxing. That's why she starves herself along with Rikiishi. She wants to understand the world of men.
Now, here is where people get off-kilter.
Joe wants to connect with Yoko too. He seriously desires a close connection with her, and when he says she's a woman in a man's world?
He resents this. He wants her in his world. His antagonism masks this, however...
He is frustrated that she doesn't seem to get it. He wants to understand her and for her to understand him.
He wants to have a close connection with her, a friendship, just as he does with Rikiishi and Carlos. That's why he visits Rikiishi's grave with her.
However, he does not think she reciprocates this desire for a close connection. He says Yoko doesn't care that he won the title (with the implication that he wishes she did?).
Just as he explains to Noriko his motivation for boxing, he does the same to Yoko here. Again, the antagonism does a great job of masking it. But he is genuinely trying to explain his heart to Yoko.
Why does he have to explain this to her, though? Because he is not allowed, narratively, nor by any legal standard, to actually exchange blows with her. Literally. He hits Danpei (and almost kills him twice). He hits Nishi.
Joe is a fictional character and not a real person, and his behavior is constrained by the narrative, which definitely forbids him from doing this. He cannot and will not exchange blows with Yoko, because she is a woman and not a boxer, and beating each other up is what he does with other boxers, in a world of men, not with her.
Because he cannot, and I do not think he has the heart to, despite what insane comments he makes, and some of the truly disturbing items on the list above (yeah, he's problematic...we know. I'm not his defense lawyer).
I think he was deeply frustrated at this, this inability of his to communicate with her in the language he knew. The best tool at his disposal, his fists, are totally useless to him here.
Do I seriously think he wants to commit horrible, misogynistic crimes of violence against a defenseless lady, however? No. I actually don't think that.
He never seeks mindless, sadistic violence. He does not desire this. He seeks understanding and true connection, and combat is legitimately the first time someone truly respected him as someone worth dying for, in the form of Rikiishi.
I think he honestly, truly wanted her to be his rival, an Atalanta to his Meleager, an equal to meet in combat, but he can't (that's why she keeps getting people to fight Joe by proxy; not just for Rikiishi, but for her too), for obvious reasons.
So what does Joe do?
Instead, he resorts to what he believes is an inferior method of communication. He tries to tell her about his feelings.
He says that exchanging blows is far superior to just talking, and yet he talks to her, and he talks to Noriko. Noriko doesn't understand, and she slowly fades from his life and marries Nishi instead.
Anyway, just as with Noriko, words fail with Joe and Yoko in that instance, though he tries. But unlike with Noriko, he does manage to have a soulful conversation with Yoko in the end, when she tells him to fight against Jose Mendoza with no regrets. When she does this, she understands him where Jose Mendoza, his actual opponent, fails.
I've said before that his discomfort with seeing Jose Mendoza's family in Hawaii did not come from being an orphan and seeing a happy family that he never had, but from the idea that he would lose everything he had gained. Joe does have a family he cares for deeply. But he must surely have been worried that his drive to become white ash was alienating them, just as it alienated Noriko.
On top of that, his final opponent, the world champion, was literally refusing the meaningful sparring and sense of friendship that Joe was trying to offer him in Hawaii, and was trying to offer him in the ring.
Yeah. Joe in the manga actually thought of Jose as a comrade and seeking him out in Hawaii was Joe's attempt to form a close relationship with him. This didn't happen, though, because Jose isn't that kind of guy.
That final match was such an ironic inversion.
Fist-fighting, his most meaningful way of communication, didn't help Jose Mendoza understand Joe as a person. It just terrified Jose and aged him prematurely.
Ironically, Yoko, a non-fighter, was the one who was finally understood him. And she did it with words of encouragement.
In the end, he gives her his gloves, inviting her into the world of men, without explaining a single thing, because he trusts her to understand. That was their version of the handshake he never got to have with Rikiishi.
In a way, the rival he made peace with was not Jose Mendoza. It was Yoko.
And, as I said, what happens when Joe makes peace with his rivals?
He drops all antagonism and all fighting. It's the end of combat and the beginning of peace. The cycle of combat was broken with the world title match, and Joe would stop fighting, because he reached the undestanding he was hoping for.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
tldr - Joe and Yoko would definitely have a friendly relationship with peace and calm if he somehow lived.
Joe is a Problematic Protagonist, but not as problematic as you think.
Finally back to working on the tarot cards now that I've had some time to relax. I went way overboard with the details with the chariot lmao, but man was it fun to do. Kimura is underrated, his fight with Mashiba is def one of my favorite fights in the series. Morikawa give this guy a win already pleassseeeeee I beg you. I adore how his relationship with his dad improved over the course of the series. I def want more flashbacks of him and Aoki being childhood friends too.
Any way, things to try and do to make some noise about this.
Call Discord at 888-594-0085. All I had to do was stay on the line and leave a voice mail.
File a support ticket with discord. This will require you to create an account separate from your discord account.
If you have Nitro, CANCEL IT.
File a complaint with the California Privacy Protection Agency. You do not need to live in California to do this. I personally checked off "Right to Opt-out of Sale/Sharing" "Right to Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information" "A business’s collection, use, storing or sharing of my personal information" and "Children's privacy" because like FUCK would they not be getting that in their efforts to protect them. When they asked for evidence of privacy violations, I shared the Discord press release.
It's also worth mentioning that Discord is headquartered in California.
If you live in a European country, this webpage has a list of all the countries so you can find yours and file a privacy complaint.
Canadians can file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner.
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