Manjuu

Super Junior // Yesung // IU // Kajiura Yuki // Kalafina // Evgenia Medvedeva // Anime & Manga // K-drama // Yuri!!! on Ice // Yona

[swanslakes]

Evgenia Medvedeva Alegria - Russian Nationals 2021 EX

[seimeistsq4]

She's skating Alegria on the public rinks across Moscow region.

Looks like a movie shot, but that's Evgenia Medvedeva life

[zhenyalove]

Evgenia Medvedeva | Alegría

[belsmultifandommess]

“Disciple Cui Shiyi, bids farewell to her master.”

One and Only 周生如故 | episode 16

[remo-ny]

[belsmultifandommess]

“Nanchen Royal Army, from it’s chief commander to every soldier, are all loyal and devoted to serving the state and the people. God will uphold justice and punish the evil. The injustice the Nanchen Royal Army suffered will be cleared someday.”

One and Only | 周生如故 | episode 24

[yonaks]

Who do you think will lead the troops against Kai? The most logical choice, if not Suwon, will be Hak given his latest leadership qualities and military knowledge, victory against Tully and having a tie with every general ("uniting the 5 tribes") but well... he's in jail and I'm not sure if Keishuk will change his mind and actually start using Hak properly. He thought of Yona for a second but I don't see that at all.

You see i agree with you, but I understand why this “logical choice” isn’t taken by anyone right now.

First for keishuk, this is not really logical.

if ju doh thinks hak should never be allowed in the castle because he is an unmanageable risk

keishuk thinks it is okay because he is a manageable risk. 

but that is it. allowing him more, giving him a chance to be in spotlight is not good. he recognized the danger of that when he saw how the soldiers admired him after the tully tribe battle. he brought them to the castle because he wants the dragons and partly yona, for hak? he just wants him to lie low. 

Even his plan for yona did not involve giving her any political power. The only reason he accepted her interference and help is because he had very limited choices otherwise, and that yona without hak is much more manageable and useful. threatening the dragons works better on her, she still lacks a lot in terms of political knowledge so he can manipulate her, and while she may influence part of the populace, she is far less likely to cause a military coup. so, it is understandable why he hesitates to use hak, the risk of it is much higher than the benefits. and he can do without him for now.

soon things may simply go out of his hands though, with soo won’s worsening condition and probably kai suddenly attacking. then, using hak will be the lesser of the evils. 

for ju doh, he knows how angry and resentful hak is towards soo won from experience, and he recognizes that if he acted on these emotions, he would cause fatal damage. 

If he feared for his own safety, he may be more manageable, but ju doh knows.  if hak wanted to go at soo won and get the dragons and yona out, he could do it, because he is capable of self-sacrifice. 

he may soon realize that it is not the case anymore, however. hak started to fear for his own safety, for yona’s sake. Sacrifice is not an option for him anymore.

and finally, soo won. 

from the recent chapters we yet again get his “i do not need extraordinary power to be a king”. This got nothing to do with logic. This is selfishness. a king would not hesitate to get his hands on whatever grants him power, whatever best for his people. but soo won does not want anything to do with hiryuu. every time he remembers il’s words, that desire is reinforced. he is his own person, he is capable of achieving the dreams of his father, of helping this country, without anything from hiryuu. he did not consider the good the dragons could do under an alliance, did try to acquire them, because he does not want to rely on them.

the really good part is that he knows he is wrong. he knows they are a good options for protecting the kingdom right now. this is way he is not stopping kaishuk’s efforts. he is passively allowing this alliance. this way he can ignore his inner turmoil, can keep on clinging to his ideals. 

but he is not allowed to

just how soo won was the one catalyst forcing yona to see the faults in her father, to grow politically, she is now doing the same for him. soo won is already a great king, but he can be better. he can be a king who never hesitates to use anything for the sake of kouka. people dragons magic divine powers? never mind what it is, attain what is the very best for my people! 

yona, deliberate or not, is forcing him to look her in the eyes while using her, forcing him to face his inner conflicts, the things he has been trying to ignore for so long. 

and he does not like it. not a bit 

man, i would kiss kusa if i could. 

and when it comes to his feelings about hak, it is even better. hak got nothing to do with the whole hiryuu thing. hak was his friend, but considering him, asking for his help, will force soo won to face that what he did to him was wrong. it was not the best choice, not putting hak and yona’s boxes up was a betrayal. he has to really stare in the face the fact that he abandoned his closest friend, the person who trusted him and believed he is the best king to be even without the power of divinity. 

so he is ignoring all of it. the rational, level headed soo won is avoiding the  better choices because of his emotions. and that is GOOD writing. 

hak being involved in the coming war will require keishuk and ju doh to rethink things, but most importantly it will be either the result or the cause of both hak and soo won facing their complicated feelings for each other. so, some growth from the characters is needed first. 

I get why people who care about the plot are angry about this arc. but akayona is a character driven story, the plot moves to serve the characters, not otherwise. If you see it like this, if you look at the characters not as tools to fulfill their plot-appointed roles but as humans with emotions and the need for growth, things makes sense. and this arc is doing a very good job in that regard, imho.

[skyincloud]

My blog is at that phase where I rarely open this app but when I do, I don't even bother tagging that one reblog which would be my only activity in months.

Where am I now... Where do I go from here...

[breannastewart]

zhenya + joosep martinson photos from rostelecom cup 2019

[thetatamigalaxy]

1 0   Y E A R S   O F   K A L A F I N A

★ Some of their most relevants anime works

[the-real-xmonster]

Evgenia Medvedeva FS Anna Karenina || Olympic Winter Games 2018

[crimson-chains]

Roy Mustang! :D

[hikaru9]

Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2013 “Consolation” Special Final - Hanataba Consta idito adore Sonti oso Corte idito astore Canta deto Consta idito adore Sonti oso Corte idito astore Mitoldia Arito

Part 1 | Part 2

Requested by @auctumnitas

[breannastewart]

zhenya + joosep martinson photos from rostelecom cup 2019

[st-pam]

[north-peach]

Please.

[thefringeperson]

From the depths of my depressed, unemployed, little black heart.  PLEASE.

[rms-idiot]

Scheduled this for my 16th birthday, I don’t want a job but I’ll need one

[viostormcaller]

Gonna need a job to move out of here eventually

[magpieshearth]

Please and thank

[iceraspberry]

Evgenia Medvedeva|2018 Winter Olympics FS

[systlin]

Me being traumatized and not wanting that to happen to other kids makes me a bad person now :)) I’m disgusting :)) and horrible :)) and it’s my fault that happened :)) and everybody hates me more now :)) cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.

You are not horrible. And I do not hate you. It is not your fault that it happened. But things that are marked as adult very clearly are not for kids, and if you read it anyway it is on the people who should have been supervising you and did not intervene, or, assuming that you were old enough to know what ‘adult content’ means and chose to engage with stuff produced by adult fans for adult fans, on you for ignoring the warnings.

If a ten year old child goes to a library right now, and walks to the romance section and pulls down a book, that child’s guardians are responsible for saying “Hey now that is not for you.” If that same child comes back at thirteen and, knowing there is content in that book that adults do not want them to read, furtively hides away from guardian’s eyes and reads it anyway, that is not the fault of the library for having that book, or the author for writing it.

I am very sorry you’ve been hurt. But adults are going to produce content for adults, and if you ignore the guidelines set in place to keep kids out of that content, then that’s not the fault of the adults who wrote the stuff.

[catsandwitchcraft]

I do not understand this new generation of kids doing the internet equivalent of going into a clearly marked strip club, showing a fake ID to the bouncer and then being shocked and appalled by it being full of adults and strippers.

[ruffboi-mags]

Well I had this whole paragraphs-long response I added, and you got it in like. A sentence.

[kirjavaspan]

like i get this argument, i really do, and there really is only so much content creators can do to try and stop children consuming content not suitable for them

BUT we cannot trust a thirteen year old to have the maturity and foresight to know what is and isn’t good for them. Yeah, their gaurdians should be the ones looking out for them and trying to stop them from getting hurt, but in your library analogy, when the library chooses to have that content it’s also somewhat responsible for restricting access to it - whether that’s putting those books somewhere the librarian can monitor most of the time, or having a slightly restricted sentence you need to be registered and have a verified age to go into, but there needs to be something - if you knowingly let unmonitored kids into your buisness, but especially if you encourage them like libraries do, you are responsible for their safety- it takes a village to raise a child and we are all responsible for their safety

that said it’s deffo not the authors responsibility, but the host, tumblr, ao3, where ever. they gotta do something

[joyfulldreams]

They literally already are. Rating and tagging everything as mature and clearly marking content is the barrier. This isn’t a movie theater or a library. None of those websites are KNOWINGLY allowing children into their business, because EVERYONE IS INVISIBLE.

There is literally no way to effectively bar children from accessing content they shouldn’t have access to, that doesn’t involve gross invasions of privacy. You can ban all children from a website and that STILL won’t work because there is no actual way to accurately determine who is and isn’t a child. In a lot of cases the bare minimum you can do is just outright ASK if they are a child, but then they LIE and there is no way to STOP them from lying or even figuring out IF they are lying. Hell, not even outright banning all icky things will work, as Tumblr’s disastrous NSFW ban has shown us.

‘We all have a collective responsibility to protect children’ only goes so far. If all children are invisible and can be literally anywhere at any point, ‘collective responsibility’ ends up meaning ‘in your day to day life, you must always act under the assumption that there MIGHT HYPOTHETICALLY be a child in the room’. We can’t help raise a child if we literally cannot see them and don’t even have any way of confirming their existence. And it is going too damn far to tell adults they are not allowed to do adult things with other adults because a child MIGHT POTENTIALLY be able to see them do it, even if they’re not supposed to, especially if they’re not supposed to. It’s also going too far to tell all websites that they are responsible for keeping track of legions of invisible, hypothetical, lying children.

All methods of reliably confirming people’s age online are immediately gross and dangerous invasions of privacy. All measures to try and prevent children from seeing things they shouldn’t are flimsy, at best. The MOST EFFECTIVE thing is the thing we are doing already: meticulously tagging and archiving content with extensive filters and multiple warnings, so that every potential viewer can make an informed decision about what they choose to look at.

Which means that, at the end of the day, dumb 13-year-olds and the few people in their lives who can see them as Not Invisible are going to have to take responsibility for themselves, and potentially each other.

[truxi-twice]

Hey so also, just to address part of what lnalovegd said, that thing about libraries being somewhat responsible for restricting access to certain materials…

No, actually.

That is the opposite of what libraries are supposed to do.

Public libraries do not–and CANNOT–restrict materials. At all. You hear every now and again of some that do. It is not a good road to go down. I live in a city with a lot of conservatives (the attempt at a drag queen storytime nearly got the library defunded by a lot). Whose judgement do you use? How do you determine that?

You could say “ratings” but honestly, that’s still not great, since LGBTQ things get rated higher than hetero things. Books don’t really have ratings, and they shouldn’t.

When I worked at the desk of the public library, one thing we HAD to practice was impartiality. It meant handing people hateful books like Anne Coulter’s drek without a side eye. It also meant that if a kid showed up at the desk with a library card and, say… Saw or the Godfather… well. I was going to check it out to them. That’s how public libraries run. Anyone can check out anything, and parental approval is not needed (for us. Parents might have other ideas. I still get mad remembering this woman who wouldn’t let her son check out Calvin & Hobbes or certain other books. But again, I did not say a word. Neutrality).

It’s crucial to a public library that we operate like that.

Libraries do not restrict material. We can organize it. Kids sections, teen sections, adult sections. But no librarian or library tech is going to monitor what children are checking out.

Yeah, kids won’t always know what they’re picking up. The first romance I ever picked up had sex and graphic medieval torture in it. I sure wasn’t expecting it. I stopped reading it. Then when the internet happened…hoo boy, you kids should have seen that wild west.

Comparatively now, I see folks really make every effort to use tags and warnings. Maybe you know what it means, maybe you don’t. But they’re there. They’re the best method we have for keeping content away from people who would be emotionally harmed by it, or who just plain don’t want to see it.

At the end of the day, if you’re old enough to go looking for content on your own, you’re going to have to accept that you might see things you don’t want to see. Yes, even as kids.

There are kid-friendly websites and forums where you can go if you don’t want to deal with that.