#okay!!!

[housecow]

some OF discounts to celebrate reaching my heaviest ever recorded weight… it’s only up from here <333

[adziedoodlesphan]

dan saying he wanted to look cute with the sweater paws at the end of the festive video vs that one time he said he does things in order “to be cuter in the eyes of somebody so I can get what I want” …………

[kidzbopdeathgrips]

[aritealeaf]

Wha manga spoilers to chapter 96!!! Do not read if you have not reached it!!! Or the tags!!!!! Save pleasure for yourself!!!!

So when I joked that Olruggio would understand Hozier and vice versa, the next chapter is literally First Time's 'To share the space with simple living things / Infinitely suffering, but fighting off like all creation /The absence of itself, anyway' and Abstract's 'The creature still moving, that slowed in your arms / The fear in its eyes, gone out in an instant / Your tear caught the light, the earth from a distance'. What's next? In The Woods Somewhere's 'How many years? I know I'll bear / I found something in the woods somewhere'?

I am scared and excited. Gosh, this chapter was tragic. Girls accepting the death of another being? Why do they learn it now?.. What is this supposed to mean?.. Who's going to die?..

But what a beautiful way to tackle Olruggio's trauma and the way it made him who he is.

Can't wait for another Hozier song to be adapted through his words / half joking

[eesetini]

not to be dramatic but if netflix pull that cute little trick where they cancel an interesting and diverse show with a cult following on its second season for heartbreak high i will be sending bomb threats to netflix hq

[shiongenkai]

A Note on 'Eldest Son' in TKDB

One last note on the wiki. I don't know if this is interesting to nearly anyone else other than me, but this little idea of 'Eldest son implies other siblings' has come up multiple times recently, so I researched a little into the nuances of what Eldest Son (長男) actually means in Japanese. It got a little bit long though, so under the cut it goes.

So... What this is referring to is the breaking news broadcast in reference to Jin, where they refer to him as 長男, AKA Eldest Son.

In English this carries an implication that there are Other Sons, or even Other Daughters, or so on so forth. When you hear someone referred to as Oldest (Something) you automatically assume that there are Younger Ones to compare it to, which is also what route the wiki takes.

However, this isn't the case for Japanese. While 長男 can imply Other Children, and often does in conversational Japanese, this term does not always mean younger brothers exist. What this refers to is a sense of succession, for one, and exists as a general term in order to refer to someone in paperwork, regardless of whether they're an only child or not. If some dude has an older sister and no younger siblings? He's the 長男. If someone doesn't have any siblings? Yep! 長男！It works for both. So can it be that Jin does have younger brothers? Yes, technically, but it's not explicitly implied with this line specifically.

How can I be sure of that, though? Wouldn't it help to have another example, you say? I fully agree! Which is why I have one! Here it is!

Here is Ritsu calling himself the 長男 of the Shinjo family! By this logic, we could technically assume that there are other Shinjo kids too, right? But then in Episode 16 he states Directly that he's an only child.

So in his case, he's both an only child and the eldest son. It sounds weird in English, but it still works naturally in Japanese. Another thing to note is that this line in Japanese has him refer to himself as 'The only Son', which Once Again could open the door for 'But wait!! What if he has siblings!!', but there's also nuance in That Word (一人息子) has less of an emphasis on the 'son' part and more of an emphasis on the 'only' part.

'Only son' in English has an unspoken emphasis on Son. If you hear someone say they're the Only Son of their family, and your first language is English, you'll probably think to yourself 'Oh, they have sisters then,' because that's what that phrase implies. The Japanese phrase, however, seems to emphasize the 'only' part. If you were to hear this phrase, you might think 'Oh, he has sisters,' but you could just as easily think, 'Oh, he's the only child'.

You can think of it as like.... Adding context into the noun. They are an only child, who happens to be a son. The only son. It's the same with 長男. They are the oldest son even if they are the Only Son.

So while it's not explicitly stated in canon that Jin does not have younger siblings (whether thats brothers or sisters), it's also not really truly implied he does. At least in Japanese. And there's really no good equivalent to the whole 'eldest son' thing in English anyway. Successor, I guess, is the closest, nuance wise? I guess? Shrugs.

Anyway, family words in general carry a lot of specifics in them in Japanese. You can't just call someone your Brother unless you're Zenji and using 'Brother' in English. Even Lucas refers to his twin as 'my younger twin brother'. Subaru's sister is his Older Sister, etc, etc. This is another one of those 'baked in specifics' type words that has different implications in JP vs ENG, and which makes it very, very easy to assume things that aren't necessarily true. Context is also important, because if it HAD been a casual conversation then it'd be different, but the broadcasts use very formal Informational Type Language, which renders 長男 neutral in terms of 'Is there more siblings or not'.

[momhowell]

thinking about how the phouse is a phome... they literally spent YEARS meticulously designing every little detail of a house to spend the rest of their lives in together because they KNEW they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together and it was worth the effort