Senshi is probably the most fandomized character in Dungeon Meshi, and while I don't exactly mind it, I do think he has more depth than that. I find all his little quirks and idiosyncrasies to be fascinating; he's very stubborn and set in his ways about things that seemingly don't matter, he thinks about things that other people don't, he has a deeply set value system that informs everything he does. He cares A Lot, like, this man cares So Much. That's the kind of person you have to be to drop everything to help a random group of adventurers save one woman. But because he feels so strongly about things, he can also be surprisingly immature at times (although he's also the character most likely to admit he was wrong about something). I think part of that is because he's lived in the dungeon on his own so long that he's not used to working with other people. He will extend empathy and friendship to almost anyone, but he does things his own way, and he doesn’t always feel the need to explain his way of thinking because again, he's usually on his own. He's both incredibly wise and kind of childish in ways that seem contradictory at first, but make more and more sense the more we learn about him. Major kudos to Ryoko Kui's writing and pacing to make that transition so seamless and have all those details from his backstory click into place perfectly. And on a wider thematic level, Senshi is kind of a perfect counterpart to characters like Thistle (or any other dungeon lord). Senshi understands the dungeon in ways that even its creator doesn't. Although everyone is scrambling to take control of the dungeon, Senshi is the one who actually takes care of it. He's the one who thinks about things like nutrition and proper sleep and the ecosystem, all those things that it's easy to ignore when you get swept up by the grandeur of it all. He's the most important character to have present in a story that explores life and death and hunger. His constant, invisible presence holds everything together.
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You know how white people use being scared as a weapon?
All those videos of white women saying, "I called the cops because I felt like I was in danger" and how white guys have tiktoks about, "You need at least one semi automatic weapon close at hand at all times to defend your family" kinda shit?
That's what bothers me so much about watching fellow jews acting like just seeing a Palestinian flag or keffiyeh somehow automatically makes a place unsafe.
I mostly see it in US American jews posting about how they feel threatened by a Palestinian flag, or saying that anything referencing not wanting thousands and thousands of Palestinians to die is 'a call for jewish genocide'
Y'all. No. This tells me you have never interacted with a Palestinian or even the Muslim community at large. We diaspora Jews are not the victims here.
Your assimilation has ended on the path of weaponisation of your fears, which is not a great place to be.
If you honestly believe "The only safe place in the world for Jews is Israel" you've bought into someone fearmongering. I'm begging you to investigate why you bought that lie and who is benefiting from you buying it
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One thing I can't stop thinking about is how Wille canonically has not consumed alcohol or any substances since when Simon had to come and rescue him from the football field scene. He didn't consumed anything in the Hillerska parties and even denied booze offered by Vincent. Like, either he swore them off after he realised that how much trouble he caused to Simon and then all the Alexander debacle, or he didn't like it anyways and he took them only because he is "supposed" to and that incident was the last straw for Wille. Either way, it's just so fascinating to me because Wille isn't even aware about Simon's trauma associated with substances because of Micke, and yet he subconsciously did the exact thing Simon was expecting Micke to do since years. Like, we all know that this boy is ready to give up his position to be with Simon, but he is also unknowingly making choices for Simon's well-being. They are just so perfect for each other.
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currently brainrotting over: how She-Ra does such a good job conveying a true break from the abusive (and self-abusive) behaviors and patterns you were taught to perpetuate growing up, and it's because of how directly it interacts with and seeks to address the cause of those patterns
(hell yeah we're talking about Catra's arc again babeyyy)
this is what I think the dichotomous "explanation not an excuse" language often misses out on, even among those of us who like Catra and use that language favorably -- it's not just that Catra's bad behavior has an explanation, it's that it has a cause that can be treated, and that does get treated, that Catra comes to treat herself
it's not just identifiable, it's actionable, and the show is about her learning to take that action
we have it spelled out for us in Promise that she has grown up with a deeply-rooted core belief that she is worthless on her own, that her value hinges on Adora, and that she can never count on that value to be stable (because Adora is, in fact, her own person who can do as she pleases and who may one day decide that she doesn't like Catra anymore)
and the action she's taking until Season 5 is to lean into this core belief as hard as she can -- scramble for power and security because Adora being gone means she's vulnerable (which gets reinforced over and over again by both Shadow Weaver and Hordak), keep everyone else at a distance, lash out at Adora for leaving, and double down on the turmoil that comes from all this even after she figures out she doesn't actually want any of it
and it leaves her despondent on the ground, completely without friends or even allies, telling Sparkles to just fucking end it for her already
but then, the first few episodes of Season 5 happen... then, Corridors in particular happens... and Catra gets presented with the opportunity to take the action that is actually going to treat the cause of her bad behavior
she sits and talks (and laughs!) with Glimmer, trades stories with her of Adora thrashing around during sleepovers, listens to her express her regret for how she left things; she aligns this experience with her memory of Adora trying to get her to come back out and play nice with Lonnie too; she has it laid out for her in these parallel experiences that Adora truly didn't stop caring about her just because she made other friends
she looks her lack of trust in Adora in the face, and she decides to defy it -- she decides to be good to Adora in the spirit of the trust she is deciding to have, against her upbringing, against her patterns, in Adora's care for her
(and she decides to do it by saving Glimmer, this person who is so symbolic of so many of those insecurities to begin with by virtue of being the one Catra perceives Adora as having left her for)
and it brings Adora back to her.
it gets her what she wants the most.
and faced with the question of what to do with that trust going forward, Catra tries to rescind it at first, because trusting is unfamiliar and potentially unsafe in all the ways she's afraid of... but ultimately, she doesn't. she can't. she knows now, really knows, what everything will come to when she withholds that trust, and she can't live like that again
so she keeps trusting ("Adora, wait. Please. Stay.")
and it opens her up to healthily mitigating her anger, taking others' distrust of her on the chin without running from the guilt that causes, extending olive branches of her own accord, making genuinely friendly connections within the Rebellion, and finally, finally, breaking free of Shadow Weaver's hold on her
Catra at the end of the show has comprehensively rewritten the core belief she started with -- and that's different from consistently acting on the new belief, as any of us who are in therapy for that kind of thing will know (and as the show itself demonstrates by having her leave at the end of Failsafe), but the steps she has taken to rewrite the old belief are steps she can't go back on without serious effort
and I don't know if I'll ever really be able to express how powerful it is for people to have this narrative in their lives when they're like her, when they need to take the same steps, when they need to do that same work
whether or not everyone puts these words to that power (and who knows if these words are even the right words, they're just the words that feel right to me at the moment), they can feel it and understand it and use it to take action for themselves
and a whole lot of people are going to live a whole lot healthier lives because of it, which I think is pretty beautiful
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why do you draw the same dude over and over again. I love your art but I’m getting sick of seeing the same thing.
The reason why I draw Miguel over and over again is because I really want to, lmao. No one pays me to draw any of the stuff I post, it's all just for my own entertainment and for practice. I'm sorry, but if you're getting sick of seeing the same thing, then you're gonna have a tough time
If you'd like me to draw something else though, you're more than welcome to commission me! But otherwise, it's kinda Karen behavior to think you can be both a beggar and a chooser in this scenario 🤷♀️
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(re: sssniperwolf and jacksfilms)
It's laughable that she escalated it that hard. Don't get me wrong, I'm pretty sure stalking him like that is illegal and it's terrifying regardless, but Jack said in a stream (can't remember which one) that he wasn't about bringing up past controversies of hers or cancelling. And now she shows up outside his house (wtf!!!). Like he was willing to only call her out for stealing and freebooting but she's gone and stalked him and Jack doesn't seem like the type of guy to take that shit. Actual WTF moment from her part. wild
omg long post below bc apparently I have opinions:
YES!! THAT'S WHAT'S SO INCREDIBLE ABOUT THIS... Jack has been genuinely diligent about keeping things on-topic in his streams, and hasn't brought up any of her other Stuff, or anything Personal. Despite the fact that she kickstarted the whole thing by making it INCREDIBLY personal and attacking his physical appearance...
His goal has been to call out and bring attention to content theft, and he's stuck with it. Dude's also cared about this for years, and she's not the first content thief he's criticized. He just hates the way that freebooting has become so accepted-- to the point where youtube praised her for "coming up with such creative video ideas"? Hey! Ew!
Dude wasn't trying to get her cancelled though, there was no smear campaign of her character. He's been rallying to get her to CREDIT the creators that she relies on for all of her content. It would set a precedent for all other "react" channels on the platform for one of the biggest channels on youtube to actually give credit where credit is due. Or, god forbid, get permission first? It's not hard.
It's already done the job of making some other people who do "react content" self-analyze whether or not their content is transformative, and to maybe care about crediting the creators they rely on for their genre to work. There is a way to make this kind of video that isn't so slimy. And making fun of her lackluster-at-best reactions is so far from even being a big deal. Bc she literally does just sit there and say nothing.
Plus, his goal has a clear End built into it: if she started shouting out the creators she takes content from, and put links directly to their pages in her video descriptions, the job would be done! That's what he's asking her to do. Real bare minimum stuff.
It legit would have been easy to steer away from the content theft and to also talk about her history of lying to her audience! her ghosting a dying kid with cancer who was a big fan of hers! the fact that she's been arrested for armed robbery! her history of transphobia! He would also get more clicks that way, which is what she claims is his sole goal- to get more clicks.
I'll bring it up though!
She's been a terrible person the whole time, and has kept a steady course of manipulating her audience of young children and/or, let's be completely honest, simps- into thinking that she's a Wholesome creator. (And now, into thinking she's an innocent victim.) All of the actual effort put in by her has gone toward optics, not the content she puts out. A carefully constructed online persona, for one, but also literal appearances. Jack totally can't say this, bc she already went off the handle and said the only reason he doesn't like her is bc he Hates To See A Woman Be Successful. But I can! That was a cheap shot for her to use that argument when, for once, it's not applicable! Much the opposite, even! Dudes online wouldn't go to bat for her if she didn't look the way she does. And it weakens any case she'd have against him by making baseless claims like that.
She banks hugely on being an attractive woman to get her clicks/following. A massive amount of effort is put into her appearance. The makeup, the lip fillers, putting her hair in little pigtails, the chokers and tube tops, the big non-prescription Nerd Glasses, the thumbnails where she has her mouth open in That Expression?
I don't even have to say anything. But making a weird facial expression and putting your hair in pigtails aren't moral failings.
Showing up at someone's real life home (whose address you shouldn't even have access to), filming the front of their house at night, doxxing them to your audience of millions of people? Because you were mad at them online? That is fully scary! Yeah girl I'm pretty sure that Jack can press charges! There is absolutely no way to take the moral highground now that she's literally stalked him, and doxxed his home.
She tried to goad him and Erin (Jack's wife) out of the house, also, which creeps me out even more-- because what was she planning to do? The fact that she's been arrested for violent crime before does pop into my mind! lmao!
Jack was streaming a game at the time that she was outside his home, and these clips of him, his friends, and Erin reacting in real time to what is genuinely a scary situation have been taken down in case he needs to use them in legal action. Shit is legitimately serious!
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This image right here is the perfect illustration of the difference between Yuuji and Yuuta, it almost feels like a 4th wall break.
Yuuji has been working real hard ever since he became a sorcerer, he's survived hellish situation after hellish situation, lost so many people he cared about. And he made tremendous progress.
Yuuta was born with a hereditary ridculously overpowered technique and immense amounts of cursed energy. His playground girlfriend died and that was traumatic especially that she stayed with him and hurt people on his behalf even though he didn't want her to. But once he became a sorcerer that got very quickly resolved. Yuuta miraculously learned every technique he needed in the moment to save his friends, or cure them and himself, or to win against his enemies by just overpowering them. And then he killed Kenjaku without putting any work of his own into that.
So yeah, Yuuji has worked hard and persevered and has been disrespected and ignored for it both in the story and by the fandom. Yuuta's been given everything, even techniques and page time of other characters and congratulated for it.
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