general rule of thumb is that if youre still annoyed about it the next day then it was actually annoying behavior
one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off
guys i just had a friend tell me that she had started watching the original Avatar The Last Airbender, found it extremely boring, and then switched to the LIVE ACTION SERIES, FOUND IT "WAY BETTER," AND WATCHED THE ENTIRE THING.
Hey guys, I'm Mr. Beast, and welcome to the Mogamiland challenge! I invited two teenagers to stay in a nightmare dimension for six months, and if they can make it through without losing faith in humanity, they walk away with 300 yen and a burger!
[I.D. An animated gif of Tome Kurata from Mob Psycho 100. She, along with her alien friend, are piloting a UFO. Their hands are linked together. Tome's left arm is raised above her head in glee. The gif ends with a static close up shot of Tome and the alien. Tome has slung her hand over the alien's shoulders. They are both smiling contently. End I.D.]
Teru is real I saw him at the grocery store the other night and he told me that I should really think about buying organic because no matter how much I wash my produce spinach is still one of the most heavily sprayed crops and it’s bad for ur body to consume all those chemicals. But then he looked conflicted, as if he were wondering if I could AFFORD organic (he looked, then, at my sweatpants and sweatshirt attire), and then he looked as if he felt deeply bad about himself for assuming, then felt very good about himself bc feeling remorse was a sign of his strong moral compass, which filled him with pride, and I silently watched all of these changes on his face and then walked off with my nonorganic fruits and veg and he didn’t even notice me leave. It was 10pm on a Thursday night. He was standing stock-still beneath the fluorescent glow of the overhead lights, shadows dimming his sallow skin and tired eyes, a bushel of bananas dangling from one hand, his face shifting as he cycled through all of these emotions at once, and somehow I felt deeply sad to see him there in the produce aisle, alone.
I really like that scene in mob psycho 100 where those random guys try to bully mob, but then, before mob can even do anything, dimple makes the guy disrobe and ritsu tries to kill him and the body improvement club just kinda circles up and squishes him between their pecs until the guys beg for mercy and leave. because it's a very stupid scene. kinda the epitome of the show's goofy weird slapstick humor. and so when you're watching it the first time you assume that's the purpose of the scene--to be dumb slapstick humor. because it succeeds at that, so it would be perfectly functional if that's all it was.
but THEN it turns out that it's actually setup for two episodes later when mogami traps him in a mind dimension to try and turn him evil and he's standing in the SAME PLACE and he sees ritsu on the bridge but ritsu doesn't acknowledge him. and he gets bullied. and not only is he powerless to defend himself, he has no one who cares. the scene plays out an evil mirrored version of itself where it's straightforward. it's harsh. it's empty. mob gets beaten up, and he is alone.
and that would've been a good scene on its own, too. but to me the fact that you see the silly ridiculous version of it FIRST (the one that culminates in the body improvement club suffocating a guy with their man boobs) is really important to me. because then, later, you feel how much more it hurts for mob to be alone when you've already seen what it could be, what it is. and then on a rewatch when you see the goofy version of the scene you can't help but feel an undercurrent of dread and a sense of how dangerously close the absurd is to tipping over into something way too real and visceral. which is a feeling that runs throughout the entire show.