machine yearning engineering

ricky, she/her, 20+ purchased from the meryl stryfe store

[hotvampireadjacent]

I really cannot fucking stand you

[lychee444]

[dekmael]

[mary328]

Joe X Yoko🩷

[soupwasteland]

I've started Ashita no joe recently, I'm up to episode 30 and i've got some late night thoughts.

Joe is the perfect portrayal of neglect and poverty. He's not a delinquent with a golden heart, he's a young man that's illiterate and severely socially maladjusted byproduct. Every single institution has failed him, so does the juvenile detention center he finds himself in. On the surface this story arc serves as a catalyst to push Joe into the world of boxing after meeting his fated rival, Rikishi.

But I can't help but think the author is trying to prove to us the failed system within the carcelary industry. Joe was supposed to be given the tools to navigate through society and adulthood, yet instead he is thrown into an environment that's inherently hierarchical and violent. These young men learn to be afraid of other men, to be accepted into social groups they go through rites of approval with other inmates that involve humiliation and abuse. If anything Joe is learning that he's been right about everything all along, his trust issues, his abandonment fears, his detachment and his overall apathy are all justified given the world is the same as for within as for outside those gates.

It is of no surprise after he is released the only thing that stops him from commiting crimes as some of his ex inmates do is his new found life with his coach and Nishi. Yet the consequences of his lived experience still prevail and that's what i find both terribly tragic and amusing. Joe is virtually incapable of bonding with most boys his age because he still has a survivor's mindset. I can't stop thinking about his first test to get an official boxing license..He literally punches a boy out of the ring and even when he is begging for him to stop Joe follows him out and punches him till he faints. To joe boxing is not a sport or a discipline, it's a way of living, and any suggestion to abide by the rules is a direct attack to him and his ways.

The whole story setup till now is a perfect recipe for disaster. The coach is not an adult Joe can confide in and trust, he's a man that's willing to put up with him, but who'll never and has never loved him unconditionally and will raise his hand at him at any given point if he's given reasons to (which farther validates Joe's violence as retroactive behavior).

Im pretty much loving the writing till now and I can't wait to see where it'll lead Joe towards.

[refractionfish]

i think need to reread trimax because can someone tell me why ep 6 of stargaze so universally despised? i didn't think it was v good but also didn't think anyone was horribly out of character

[dancingontheblades]

Some artists suffer from impostor syndrome, other artists backflip themselves on the podium to a piece called "The Creation of Adam" while being named Adam and delusions of grandeur and I eat it up because it's Adam Slay Him Fa.

[mikayare]

this guy has mastered the art of moe

[refractionfish]

I enjoyed samodelkina so much I’m like YES KAZAKHSTAN FIGURE SKATING PODIUM SWEEP

[refractionfish]

yes i now know about the maga hat but she’s friends with torgie so. sad but not surprised

[refractionfish]

I enjoyed samodelkina so much I’m like YES KAZAKHSTAN FIGURE SKATING PODIUM SWEEP

[refractionfish]

can’t stop thinking about how tara and johnny talk about jin boyang like he’s an old dog they’re giving a special last day before he gets put down

[refractionfish]

responses to that men’s olympic free skate:

japanese media: wow 💕 our kawaii olympic champions

american media: poor ilia malinin cold and alone and dying on center ice 😢

french media: Adam Ciao Him Fa 😂😂😂

[y4baddon]

Ok I drew this out in boredom (btw I added the au)

[isotoma06]

joe stuff 🥹

[happyocelot]

I like how manga and season 2 Yoko didn't explain to ANYONE that she wanted Joe and Carlos to fight

She just dragged Carlos from Venezuela and hoped animal magnetism would do the trick

Played 4D chess

And it worked

Lol

[mikayare]

love this moment anj truly was ahead of its time

[happyocelot]

Jose getting admitted into the same hospital ward as Carlos and having to deal with Carlos and his vacant smile and the way he talks about Joe's greatest hits

Jose not understanding why Carlos looks so happy and content or why ANYONE would want to fight Joe again the way Carlos wants

And he'd already lost his mind during the match but somehow he loses it even more