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Verso ending: The bittersweet conclusion to a tragic story about coping with loss and grief, and the sacrifices we must make to be a human existing in the world.

Maelle ending: The opening to an existential horror show about the warping of reality, the loss of autonomy, and burying yourself in denial so hard you literally become someone else until it kills you.

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Woman in front of me in line at the caffe nero changed my life yesterday when she ordered a prosciutto sandwich but pronounced "prosciutto" like it rhymed with mosquito. "Pruh-squee-toe."

I heard this person say "uhhhh yeah can I get a prosquito sandwich please?" and I knew I'd never be the same. Prosquito. Prosquito. Its everything to me. I haven't been able to stop saying that lmfao. This is my spinch. This is my bagel and creem cheems. This is my ranibow sprimkle.

friends and family are already tired of me going crazy over prosquito but its so special to me

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Threading the needle between sexualising problematic power gaps and avoiding the spectre of incest kink by calling my partner "cap'n".

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That’s still a problematic power gap, please only date people who are the same military rank as you

In my opinion, there are three main types of anime in reference to Western audiences:

- Gateway animes that allow people who don’t know anything about anime to get accustomed to the genre. This is stuff like Cowboy Bebop, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, the cyberpunk movies like Ghost in the Shell and Akira, maybe PsychoPass, and I would even say some Gundam arcs. This is stuff that can and should be recommended for people who have never seen an anime. I think the prevalence of the cyberpunk and futuristic genres is explained by the fact that Western audiences are already somewhat accustomed to them in relations to Japan.

- General audience animes, those that everyone thinks of when saying "anime", but are often too big in scope or too mired in their own rules and style for anyone who isn’t use to it. I would say this encompasses stuff like most shonens Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, but also any Magic Girl and all isekais.

- Meta-commentating animes, which assume that the viewer is well-versed in the anime culture, and therefore are comfortable with bending or breaking the rules. I would put here stuff like Neon Genesis Evangelion (which has a massive bait-and-switch around it being in part a slice-of-life), Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure (the first part of which ends with the main character dying, which at the time was shocking, and has since basically created its own weird genre standing more or less alone), One Punch Man (although this one is the easiest of meta animes, but it doesn’t make sense without understanding what is being made fun of) and even HxH which is also subverting expectations for a shonen again and again. Oh and I would also put Frieren here because its basically a post-shonen.

I guess it could be possible to identify two different types of meta-commentating animes, those are directly referential to their categories (One Punch Man, Frieren) and those who aim to break it (NGE, JJBA). In any case, these should not be recommended to first time anime watchers imo, they will just not understand the subtext.

#anime #manga also applies of course #what are your opinions on this ?

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thinking about the bed, 1892 by henri de toulouse-lautrec featured on the wikipedia page for “blanket”

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I dreamt that there was a new meme that went, “If I dids it, I dids it. If I didsn’t, I didsn’t.” There was a third line, but I forgot what it was.

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happy to report i’m back on my bullshit

and a rare variant

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HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE CAT MEMES IN MY DREAM

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>:3€

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THAT’S IT, THAT’S THE MEME FROM MY DREAM

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a collection of gifs i made of me petting my bunny

It’s high times and misdemeanours

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The country to give the right to crocodiles to vote was France

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The first one to vote was called René Lacoste

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This is the best one

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(in case anyone needs context, since i know there's a bunch of younguns who didn't even know the "It's gonna be May" meme... The song playing is NSync's song "It's Gonna Be Me", the guy in the mint green t-shirt is NSync member Lance Bass, and the guy in the pink hoodie is his husband Michael.)