#《 but i never connected those dots 》

[buttercupshands]

Apologising in chapter 235

First of all I don't really know how 'in norm' that is, and how much of it is just Kotaro's way of being father

But that one thing about 'don't let him in until he apologises' finally connected in my head with a moment from chapter 236

And yeah I don't know if anyone already said it so I don't know if I repeat something known to everyone!

And before we get there it's a sad thing that official English translation decided to translate it differently for some reason both first and second one

And with how it's not so uncommon for chapters to not make sense because of it it's probably that again

In official version Kotaro says that Nao and Tenko's grandparents shouldn't apologise to Tenko for Kotaro, that doesn't make sense especially with how other fan translations didn't choose it

And if you take easiest way and just translate this from original Japanese vers he actually said that Tenko should apologise and only then come home

That makes Nao's worry seem less weird because if it was Tenko's will to go home when he pleases he wouldn't stay outside without any reason

But if it's forbidden until he apologises that makes a little bit more sense

So if we're done explaining why that scene is different actually

It's important that it is, because that directly connects to Tenko trying to speak even if his voice doesn't work

He had to apologise to his Father, otherwise he's not allowed to come home

And with how he stayed outside until dark he probably didn't do it before his Quirk activated

So yeah if that scene didn't feel as bad, with how Kotaro reacted to Tenko's words... he understood why Tenko said it

So the fact that Tenko tried to get help from Kotaro only after apologising makes sense

And fact that Tomura apologised for Kotaro's hand falling is probably not so different from that, so that little rule never really left

And with how hands of his family and his Father allowed him to do everything he wanted with them close

Because he allowed himself to use his Quirk only if they allowed it

AFO said that he controlled himself not even knowing it and that's why

So that moment of Tomura destroying his Father's hand is kinda more powerful knowing this

He didn't need his Father allow him to do anything anymore

#bnha #tenko shimura: origins #shigaraki #shigaraki tomura #mva arc #character analysis #long post #god I love this arc #Tenko's arc in it is... beautiful #horrible for heroes and Re-Destro #but this... this is beautiful #I didn't think about ending this post that way #but it seems only right to do so #that actually explains myself why I love this arc so much #like I knew those chapters are great #and seeing Tomura feel free finally was great #but I never connected those dots #I'm shaking rn actually #this is scary #but yeah I expected as much #those chapters mess with my own head #but that's why I love LoV

[patrice-bergerons]

Do you remember that insane Bergy and Marchy interview from last year, which among many other things, featured this exchange?

Anyway I was going thru my bergy tag last night when I came across this other article snippet from 2019

THIS IS THE BASEMENT MARCHY WANTS TO MOVE INTO

#boston bruins #brad marchand #patrice bergeron #marcheron #I HAVE CONNECTED THE DOTS #but god i do go so insane over rpf lore when im in the trenches #good luck to us all #but also its one thing to say ill move into your normal craopy basement haha (clearly a joke) #and another when the basement is in fact designed to accommodate a lodger #which is to say also a joke but i doubt the first time this thought occurred to marchy was during that interview #like when you know your hockey soulmate is retiring in a few months #and then you will never get to have those road trips that liminal time when the only two ppl who exist in the world is you and him #bc you both have families and it is just not done #and you look at your friends basement and one part of you #who is maybe already missing him as he sits next to you thinks-

[landfilloftrash]

afternoon ponderings

#my art #Ace Attorney #Gregory Edgeworth #Manfred von Karma #blueberrypancakes #for my brain to be able to see any sort of romance I have to just. Draw them in situations. Put those lawyers in a situation. #Plantonic and/or silly situations but situations nonetheless ! Anyways— #ok small ramblings time w/ headcanons #von karma paces to help him think- despite his leg- and tends to talk himself through things that happened (based on evidence and testimony #edgeworth switches between bouncing his leg and flipping through books unseeing trying to connect dots without 100% thinking about it-- #letting it sit in his head as he turns it about subconsciously. most times it works- sometimes he just Has to talk through it with someone #and that someone is the one pacing due to his own case at the moment; and so! they talk. case talk small talk. talk! #they aren’t on the same case 4 this art— they’ve have been pinging ideas off each other and complaining about various things for hours now #bc if they were on the Same case they would NOT be this close in proximity except on the crime scene. #absolutely FIENDISHLY protective of their respective evidence. it's a game it's a dance it's a fight and gregory won't stop until he wins #and even then he would never stop; however they aren't on the same case so! they hang out and chat like civilized people. and argue (aff) #rea rambles in the tags #rea’s trash

[mariemariemaria]

Does anybody else feel like mental health awareness has done very little to help them in material reality

#i was gonna say done nothing to help but that seemed too harsh #like there definitely is more knowledge about it now. maybe more people feel comfortable speaking about it which is good #but personally i don't feel that. like idk. workplaces will post about mental health awareness and then do nothing to help employees #the same w universities. my uni cut back the already meager mental health support #and then the government is doing absolutely fuck all as well #like idk im just back in a place i thought id gotten out of long ago and i still don't feel comfortable talking about it with people #maybe that's a me problem or maybe it's cultural or something idk. but in the 10 years ive been depressed (🫠) i don't think it's gotten a #whole lot better. teenagers are still dealing with the same shit i did and they're still not being taken seriously #women's mental health is not even spoken about.....anxiety depression sh eds etc are still ignored or seen as hysterical behaviour in women #or just normal esp with disordered eating. society hasn't changed people still want women to be stick thin and weak #like i know 10 years is a short time and there has been massive improvements in mh awareness if we look back over the past 50+ years #but idk i just think that it hasn't gotten better for a lot of people #i think specifically of belfast and like god. the amount of trauma there is the amount of homelessness the amount of substance abuse #drug abuse in particular that has gotten visibly worse over the past decade or so* #and i connect the dots n see the 2008 recession + a tory gov defunding the nhs + dehumanisation of homeless people & addicts + the troubles #+ ptsd + generational trauma + a negative peace + classism + paramilitary drug dealers + parties linked to those paramilitaries #and its like hmmmm i think we live in a society. and a mental health approach based on individual actions like journaling and meditation #isn't the way to go. or at least is not the be all and end all which is what a lot of mental health awareness raising seems to promote #*visibly worse on the streets. it was always a problem ofc but even a decade ago my parents never imagined it would be as bad as it is now #and it's become so normalised. i do think there's less individualism here than there seems to be elsewhere which can be good and can be bad #but i think we are becoming more and more individualistic. slowly. there's still a sense of community here but i do think it's changing #and callousness towards homeless people is one of the most obvious examples of this. #love when i put a wee asterisk in the tags of a post. like i have A Lot To Say lol

[amphibianaday]

day 1199

#amphibian #frog #grodan boll #kalle stropp och grodan boll #he is from a swedish movie i saw as a child. it started as a radio play i think? #turns out the movie is WAY older than me that's so weird i though it was from lukr 2005 #Nope. 1987 #what the hell #also turns out this is the frog from all those swedish memes i never connected the dots. He is quite more famous than i expected #amphibiuary2023

[tortoisesshells]

89/274

#[cutler beckett voice] every man has a price he will willingly accept; even for what he hoped never to sell. #i've connected the dots - you didn't connect SHIT. #i do love very much that vicki's so sure her loyalty can't be bought (it is. she's employed by the collinses and she'll not betray them.); #it's neat; too; that Burke isn't generally wrong but he's wrong in the specific: he hasn't apprehended that genre and loyalty work; #differently in collinsport than they do elsewhere. it wasn't just that the collinses that had the money to buy the manslaughter trial; #it's that the collinses ARE collinsport. there's no town without them. you can't buy a sturdy enough backhoe to tear those roots out. #idk. there's probably something there in that conversation about joe spying for burke; too. #dark shadows #burke devlin #barnabas collins #willie loomis #jason mcguire #victoria winters

[froggyrights]

Today i learned my grandpa has aspergers and my grandma has adhd and it really explains a lot like wow.... the family curse..

#i knew my dad has adhd but i never realised he had to have gotten it from someone too somehow lmao #it made me laugh like damn. i couldn'tve connected those dots a decade earlier

[notbecauseofvictories]

did you know that with a mixer and a quart of heavy cream, you too can make butter like you’re a prairie home companion working a churn in the 1820s

#there are so many things in this life that make sense if you think about them for five seconds. #but you never spend the five seconds so you never quite get there. #for example: I was googling ''ways to use up heavy cream'' and stumbled onto why butter churns are the way they are #this makes so much sense but I never connected those dots before #tw food #no love sincerer than the love of food

[saucy-mesothelioma]

#can't believe I never connected the dots between those two #I mean I can see it clearly now because of hindsight but damn how did I not know #just gonna tag the shows and characters because why not #gravity falls #wendy corduroy #scooby doo mystery incorporated #marcie fleach #hot dog water #regular show #cloudy jay #meso's musings

[theyarebothgunshot]

casually changing channels (hey!) and i stumbled upon samantha smith in friends. truly we will never be free (cause friends will be in syndication till the end of time)

#i literally never connected those dots before ghfdg #last time i rewatched friends was years before watching spn

[tvrningout-a]

vee helped me realize chiyo does stuff quite often for the sake of other people's happiness and i :' )) am a mess :' )) she doesn't want to join the newspaper club after her supernatural club disbands, but she joins bc her parents want her to. she initially chooses to be a teacher bc it's the safer option, but also bc it'll make her mom happy since she's a teacher. she joins some clubs in college bc it'll make her parents worry less if she's getting out of her dorm; she tries to reach out to her classmates bc if she does, her parents won't worry so much if she's got friends.

now, some of these things are good for her, but her motivation is still the same: her parents' peace of mind.

even in daily life, chiyo will often go with the flow of her friends' choices. they wanna go drinking even though it's 10 o'clock and she wants to go home and watch a movie till she passes out? she'll still join them, even if it's for a little while, even if she puts up a fuss at first. the truth of the matter is that chiyo prioritizes the happiness and comfort of those around her.

i mean!! even her own personality changes depending on the person she's talking to!! bc if you're shy, she wants you to feel comfortable. if you're loud and outgoing, she doesn't want you to feel uncomfortable that she's quiet. it's fine if she's uncomfortable and overthinking her actions so long as others feel fine.

why does she do this?? bc for so long, she caused her parents trouble. she caused her classmates trouble. her parents' love is unconditional, but it's undeniable the effect that being bullied and requiring so much?? extra care took upon her self worth. in her mind, she wasn't worth the trouble to her classmates if it meant being bullied by association. now she's worried she'll cause trouble again, and she won't be worth it. she'll simultaneously be too much and too little and lose the people she cares about. and i'm absolutely sobbing HELP

#GOES ABSOLUTELY STUPID AND CRAZY AS I SOB AND YELL #i was actually so tired after those asks and one liners AND NOW I'M ENERGIZED BY THIS SADNESS INSTEAD ;;;;;;;;;;;;; #this really helped me connect some dots lemme tell you #bc i've associated being ' too much and too little ' but i've never been able to properly explain it until now i think #like the reasoning and everything #and i'm a mess a big ol' mess #and really chiyo is just! a pushover for the ones she loves #she doesn't come off that way i think but if you know her then you know you can get your way to an extent #you just gotta be really nice about asking #not to say she'll let people walk over her? but she won't give out hard no's for harmless things like going out when she doesn't want to #y'all i got a lot of feelings a lot #headcanons | chiyoko

[angryisokay]

I could be harsh and cruel. I know the tender spots, the right things to say, the things that will hurt. I could lash out and twist the knife because in the moment causing pain seems right and justified. For a moment it will feel satisfying, for just a moment.

But once I do it, I cannot take it back. The wound will have been made by my hand. No amount of soothing and care will change that fact. That feeling of satisfaction will wither into despair and regret.

Harshness and cruelty serves momentary selfish desires and leaves miserable consequences in it's wake like a raging house fire. With work and patience you can rebuild afterward. But like a house fire, there will be things you cannot replace once they're lost.

If there is anything you do not wish to lose, set aside the desire to be harsh and cruel, and find a different way to deal with the situation.

#it's the holiday season which means ~emotional posting~ #'angry' is a default state for me but i make an effort not to take it out on other people #anger is also regularly disregarded symptom of depression #'you're always angry-listless-never want to do anything-never make plans-all you do is work and sleep' HUH i wonder what it might be #everyone i know can list the symptoms of depression but do they connect the dots when they talk to me??? no of course not #other people have mental health issues - not anyone i know of course just those Other People somewhere else [sarcasm]

[dumbassacademia]

Thoughout my youth I got a lot of shit from adults (esp my Former English Teacher Mom) (those are a different breed than regular moms) about how often I said “like”.

Most of them comforted themselves by saying I’d stop doing it as much as I got older and eventually I’d laugh at myself for it just like they did

Instead now when I catch myself doing it whether verbally or in writing I can stop myself and go “Wait, is that necessary? No? Well, it conveys the tone/meaning/vibe I’m trying to get across better than I can say without it. It stays”

Which I think is pretty cool and sexy of me and also reminds me of the time in high school we had to read an article about proper comma usage and then write a response about what we learned from it and I said this

(Comment was my teacher’s response)

#dumbass academia #commas #‘like’ #my beloveds #I will never stop overusing you #high school stuff #childhood stuff #it started when I was young #the like thing I mean #like third grade I think #and commas ig probably would’ve been around the same time #since that’s when I started really writing stories and essays and stuff #huh #never connected those two dots but they sure do make a line

[hzdtrees]

Streams and bridges

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw photomode #the oseram may have built a million bridges #but i'm still taking aloy for a swim each time #all those oseram bridges are a little curious anyway #because like. #the carja used to hold the daunt #barren light was their border fortress #and the ruins of the watchtowers dot the entire valley #we know from zero dawn how carja bridges look like #and that they do not shy away from building them even in remote/sparsely populated areas #if it means their traders and soldiers can get around more quickly #(pretty sure there's a bridge close by sunstone rock) #(but also just that big one on the way to meridian) #(it's been too long i forgot what the area was called shame on me) #but. there are mostly oseram bridges connecting the two sides of the river in the daunt #all of which must have been recently built considering chainscrape as it is hasn't been around for too long #and there's little to no rubble indicating destroyed carja bridges #so i guess they just never built any? #and enjoyed all the wet feet?

[goldensunset]

I've seen people theorizing that Sora could be the next reincarnation of the player and while I don't know if I believe that or not, I still want it to be true for the sole purpose that the first person he sees in Quadratum is Strelitzia who died while looking for the player please I don't care for any other reasoning just let her be able to be their friend even if it took both of them dying at least once to get it-

OHHHH THAT IS NOT LEGAL. THAT IS ILLEGAL. THEY CANNOT DO THAT TO ME (lying; deeply intrigued)

#conflicted over the idea of sora being a reincarnation of anyone bc some people feel that undermines the ‘average joe’ appeal of sora #i guess i’m becoming increasingly more ok with it but i still probably would prefer not to have that happen #mostly cuz idk how much sense it would actually make. BUT IT DEF MAKES FOR CRAZY WILD AU THEORY IDEAS. LIKE THIS #asks #thanks anon #kingdom hearts #khdr spoilers #ooooough i should’ve thought of that yeah… #i mean i thought of sora potentially being the player #and i expressed how i still really want strelitzia to meet the player #but i never connected those two dots…