#good point!!

[traumatizinghooty]

Do you think Belos is supposed to be an emblem of the human world’s indifferent cruelty towards neurodivergent kids like Luz and marginalised people in general?

Oh yeah you are definitely onto something! As a show about the power of loving connections to create community(especially within groups of people who have been ostracized), I see him as that opposing force trying to tear people apart and teach them to fear and mistrust one another through isolation and misinformation as they compete for acceptance and religious favour.

[mcnuggyy]

i think one of the best questions we can ask ourselves if we're not ace and writing an ace character (our own or from a show): what does them being ace change? are we just portraying them without any thought to how that self identity can affect how a person interacts with personal relationships and the world? are we giving thought to what their journey has been to either be sex repulsed or comfortable with sexual intimacy?

^^^

[minstrivia]

the fact that bh has a whole team dedicated to fact-checking lyrics and stuff like that, i find it hard to believe that they would've let it go through if it had any other goal than criticizing him? what do you think is supposed to be a song that's talking back against all of the people that discredit their success... and the sample is used in a way almost like "what do you think of my koreanness (?)" my english sucks im sorry but idk as a korean person that's just how i thought of it.

yeah i really think there are so many layers of fact-checking they had to go through before releasing the song but it’s whatever

[milkshake-fairy]

it always kinda seemed to me that naruto was willing to go along w the "appreciate itachi" thing as long as it wooed sasuke back. like yeah he's a ball of sunshine but there's also literally nothing he cares about more than sasuke and he HAS made questionable moral decisions bc of him in the past (a la using his position of newfound power to try to pressure forgiveness from ppl towards sasuke). never really seemed to me that he actually believed in itachi's views but idk. thoughts?

No, I agree, Sasuke being his main reason makes more sense.

[glacialtimeframe]

I suspect that part of the reason migration has not been regarded as a development issue is that many of its benefits mostly elude the control of the sending-country government. Once workers have earnings abroad, it is difficult to bring them back into official channels. Taxing workers on their earnings abroad is nigh impossible. Hence, one reason that migration might not have been strongly on the international agenda is that the developing-country governments themselves perceive little benefit in migration. 

Of course, there are good reasons to be nervous about getting sending-country governments involved in migration. Many migrants are leaving precisely because of poor governance in their home countries. Getting those very governments whose citizens are anxious to depart involved in internationally negotiated agreements to control migration, collect taxes, and hold forced savings is not an obvious winner of an idea.

Lant Pritchett, Let Their People Come (2006)

[nihowdy]

@greekgosh 我去过上海，对我来说南方比较适合旅行，而北方更适合留学

你说的实话。

大家，如果你要在中国学习，别去南部城市吧。即使我爱极了上海，我也应该去其他的城市!

[illusionlockarchive]

Yeah but you got to experience FNaF at a younger age than me. ;-p

... ah. :3c

[an-actual-real-live-eevee]

sorry if this is like beating a dead horse or w/e but i'm a pretty negative person in general like if someone asks me what i think tomorrow'll be like i'll probably say "terrible" or s/t. BUT for other people i'll muster out some positivity even if i don't believe it myself. idk i don't really WANT to "recover" from my negativity because i get attention (especially from my fp) for it but ANYWAY my point being that pessimistic people can at LEAST be optimistic for others idk just saying......

yeah, that’s a fair point.I’m mostly talking about negative people who are determined to drag everyone else down and are like “I hate the world and I hate everyone and I hate you and you and you.” I can understand saying things are terrible if you feel terrible, or that things will be terrible, if it gets you attention and you want attention. and I can also understand mustering up positivity for others even when you don’t feel it--I do that myself sometimes. it’s mostly constantly-negative people who I prefer not to associate with.