Wait is that actually your ex-boyfriend's hand? What happened to him?
He works with real live dinosaurs so....
Nah, he and are are super good friends--we were before we dated, and remained so after, because the breakup was extremely amicable, and he's one of those people who's a terribly good gift-giver. Most years we still exchange gifts sometime between our respective birthdays and christmas, and he sent me that hand (it's a replica) as a gift one year. I made him the archaeopteryx fossil bowl this year.
Just because this is the OG bone-stealing witch website, I will clearly state that the only real human bones I possess are my own. My animal bones are all either scavenged myself or gifted to me by the people that scavenged them. (I have a sort of energy that consistently makes people go "I saw this dead thing and thought of you!")
I don't have a problem with owning human remains that are ethically sourced, but the reality is that unless you can very precisely trace the origin of human remains to the specific person who clearly and unequivocally stated in life that they're cool with someone keeping and displaying their now-unused crunchy bits, it's...probably not ethical. So if someone has some of their own bones that they're done using that they want to send my way: cool, let's talk, ideally before it's necessary to have the conversation by seance. Otherwise, I will continue to be perfectly happy with my replica remains.
I'd like to will my crunchy bits to someone who will make dramatic monologues to my noggin, but hopefully that's not an issue I'll need to deal with for a while yet.
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I had yesterday again a long discussion with a "Toya should die because that's what he wants" person, and I've been thinking again about what exactly happened in "Shoto:Rising" (haha, Hori is driving me insane with that chapter, leaving it hanging like that)
Anyways, you know the page... - Something clearly happens here and Touya's POV of Shouto changes from seeing Shouto as a monster to seeing him as a crying child.
The quote coming from Ch 350, where Touya talks about surpassing his limits - and everything is flipping around. But right before that scene, he talks about wanting to go home, wanting to see what changed, wanting to be still seen and walking away feeling that his existence is pointless and that the family left him behind.
Touya chose to become Dabi, chose to surpass his limits and destroy his body because that's how he can leave a mark on the world. If he cannot be his father's legacy, he can be the one to destroy that legacy.
But then when Touya goes to Gunga, he gets the things he wanted to see:
Being seen by his father
The family changing and welcoming him
And sees that it would have taken so little to not end up like this.
The grief and unfairness of it all makes him crack, unable to turn off the fire:
Or in the volume version, where the sequence is different:
Everyone arrives
Endeavor watches him
3. Dabi fades into a shadow - a shadow with pupils - and it's revealed to be Touya, who just for one moment gets his "happy ending".
4. Then Dabi starts to crack apart because "if it was so simple, why not sooner"
The next time we see Touya is when Shouto enters the fire ball that's breaking apart:
If the first (Ch 350) "flip" or "black and white inversion" (as the Japanese says) is Touya turning into Dabi and instead of wanting to go home and find meaning there, he wants to find meaning by burning down the home
Then I think the second (Ch 390) black and white inversion is Dabi turning back into Touya - realizing that he wants to go home, he wants to live. And Shouto is the one who can give it to him.
As usual with Touya, we get an unreadable word - so we don't know what he's saying, but Touya's desperate eyes and Shouto's crying face does remind me of the "you looked like you needed saving" moment.
I hesitate to take too literally Touya's ranting afterwards - especially because of the way Natsuo reacts (someone who is very familiar with Touya's rants doesn't seem to take it literally like Touya wants to die.)
And I think especially because the apology let Touya express finally the rage that he's been trying to express through his Dabi persona's destruction:
He is really really ANGRY.
So I do feel like the "flip" / "black and white inversion" inside Touya is this realization that he does want to go home after all, mixed with the anger / grief of "why not sooner".
I don't have the feeling that he want to die anymore, even if his words are angry and desperate. And even if he wants to die, I don't necessarily agree that villains should get everything they want even if they are victims themselves.
I think it's fitting that Shouto stops the Endeavor-Touya murder suicide and I think just like Endeavor doesn't get the hero way out, Touya also shouldn't live and die only on his own terms.
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Do I literally even want to watch this season if i have to see dustin become a mini eddie where his entire storyline revolves around a dead character? this is just justice for barb 2.0 bullshit which was the worst part of season 2 like genuinely this is gonna have game of thrones levels of shitty stamped all over it at this point
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I just don't understand at this point how anyone can keep justifying what is happening in Gaza.
I don't understand how anyone can look at the suffering irael is putting these innocent people through and not see that this is unjustifiable, disproportionate, cruel and monstrous.
Israel doesn't even try to hide it's intent. So many public figures, government officials, generals, soldiers have made their intent clear. This isn't about Hamas, it never was. They want to exterminate every Palestinian.
They have openly called the civilians killed 'Terrorists'. They have expressed their confusion at people feeling compassion for these 'animals'. They have cut off their basic human needs, food water electricity, fuel. They have entrapped them. They have bombed hospitals, mosques, churches, refugee camps, UN buildings, schools, routes that they called "safe".
They have shown their genocidal intent again, and again, and again, and again.
And yet.
Yet there are still people trying to justify this. There are still people who will eat up any propaganda the IOF throws their way. They listen to everything israel tells them. If you belive everything they tell you, why won't you believe them when they tell you they are doing a genocide?
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