#gaston26

[yomigaere]

Touga x Saionji

Ship It

What made you ship it? Their complex general dynamic, basically.

What are your favorite things about the ship? Saionji's ability to see through Touga's bullshit (I particularly liked when he doubted Touga really wanted to be like Akio like he claimed, and one of the cameras fell over as if to suggest he was right on the money); the fact that a messed-up relationship like their can be mended; the parallels I can draw between this ship and Juri/Shiori.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship? I guess the fact that, while I wouldn't say there's nothing mutual about the toxicity in this relationship, it's much more onesidedly toxic than some people seem to think. As much of a bastard as Saionji can be, he doesn't really do anything wrong to Touga and so doesn't deserve the treatment he gets from him.

[pdaliceliveblogs]

...on the one hand, every part of this is well thought out and makes sense... and on the other hand, part of the tragedy of Ohtori was always that things couldn’t progress, things couldn’t escalate and reach a tipping point, everything was... stuck. I guess we’re back to seeing it as an alternate universe, then? Huh. It does make sense with how things were going, but Ohtori is eternal, so....

Also, I still don’t see how Anthy “killed” Akio in the movie. Everyone was treating it like that’s what happened, but we saw him... stumble out a window? She didn’t do that. Maybe I missed something? Are we supposed to assume she poisoned him?

Yeah, I really liked that Kozue scene when it came by because it felt like “yeah, fucked up kids react in unpalatable ways sometimes” but to have it be her only scene doesn’t do her justice. It is really, really hard to try and compress such a complex and ensemble-cast story into an hour and a half, and I do think they stumbled in several places. It was still enjoyable, but nothing close to the series.

Yeah, I didn’t think they’d been swapped either, though I see what you mean about their narrative roles. And the idea of this being the show’s Anthy... I don’t like it. I can see where it’s coming from, but I don’t like it. Yes, she’s more forward with Utena, but not in the way that someone who had been through so much with her would-- it really came across to me as that trauma response of trying to take control. Her throwing herself at Utena wasn’t helpful, you know? It just freaked her out.

...also, on a personal and somewhat silly note, I just found the ending of the show to be so hopeful and lovely, looking forward to her own quest, and because I didn’t like the movie as much I don’t want that to be the quest :p

[ecchifortheplot]

Can't wait to see how american reviwers are going to react when Ilulu will show up in Kobayashi season 2. XD

everyone being hyped for ilulu meanwhile i just want to see them all again and have a good time

[allthecanadianpolitics]

That just me or so far all conservatives and liberals argument to vote for them is 'the other party is worst than me!' while that the NDP who have all the ideas and suggestions?

That’s about it.

[ladyloveandjustice]

gaston26 replied to your post “My Hero Academia Episode 62- When Tintin Attacks”

' No seriously i am definitely expecting the girl member of this squad to be treated exactly the way DC treats Wonder Woman.' So she is the only character who will star in a good movie?

she is the only one of three who gets exactly one theatrical movie in the course of 70 years while the guys each get 5+. She is the only one who doesn’t get her own animated series. She’s the only one who doesn’t get multiple comic titles running at once until like, very recently. She only gets one direct-to-dvd animated movie during the time those are popular, while the guys get a ton. I could go on for hours.

[elle-lavender]

George Lucas did mistakes but the hates agaisnt him ended up disproportionate and he didn't ruin people life forever just by making not good prequels.

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

George Lucas is not a good director, but people have blown things way out of proportion. He never deliberately intended to “ruin childhoods.” He’s really good at the big picture, but not so good at the finer points of characterisation and dialogue. 

[fycanadianpolitics]

Wasn't Jagmeet Singh the candidate who get the most new NDP members? That something that makes me very worry because I remember that how André Boisclair won PQ leadership and he soon exploded during the provincial election.

yeah that’s one of the big reasons he won was signing up so many new members. incidentally, he signed up 47,000 members, though he only got 35,000 votes and overall votes were only 65,000 (turnout was 51% of members). there was nothing resembling a mass movement or sign-up like with corbyn’s campaign in the uk, he won because he managed to get even a small amount of people excited, something none of the other candidates were able to muster.

i don’t know how well that corresponds with boisclair, but singh’s ability to recruit people to the ndp is a strength not likely a weakness. and the ndp all things equal are probably likely to hold or pick up some seats with singh. it would be against normal trends for trudeau to increase his majority, my guess would be he holds on with some seats going to the ndp and conservatives.

so is singh likely to be a good choice for the ndp electorally? probably, compared to any other milquetoast social democrat. but his election shows that there is no significant left-opposition in the ndp, no mass grouping within the party capable of moving it left. singh will likely offer a platform slightly left of mulcair, that’s the political climate we’re in now, but there will be no transformation of the ndp into a party that challenges the status quo in a meaningful way, and no offering of policies that significantly break with neoliberalism. the ndp will continue to be a slightly more idealistic version of the liberals, and fail to gain back their height of seats from 2012.

the left needs to give up on the idea that the ndp can be pushed to meaningfully break with neoliberalism, it’s just not going to happen.

[jeneelestrange]

Since you are a former teacher I have an anecdote for you: I read the autobiography of the late great french actress Claude Gensac. She said she never was able to learn english because the school system thought that was a good to learn english to little kids by making them read FUCKING SHAKESPEARE.

WHATBUTTHAT’S

THE LITERAL WORST IDEAAlthough by seeing “’late,” I bet it was quite a while ago. We used to really have no idea what we were doing in regards to education, as a society.