#don’t take this post too seriously

[mommysbluntlittleinstrument]

I’m taking a queer classic literature course and I can’t stop thinking about how one day the myth of Destiel might be included in textbooks just like Achilles and those other gay greek hoes

#i argue that destielgate was just as influential for our time as the story of achilles was in Alexander the great’s time #don’t take this post too seriously #supernatural #castiel #spn #destiel #cas and dean #supernatural thoughts #dean winchester #classic literature #patrochilles #alexander the great #hephaestion #patroclus #achilles #greek mythology #spn headcanon

[shadow-von-vamp]

earlier i was thinking about a scenario where rouge tried to become shadow’s legal guardian but she couldn’t for some reason so they had to get someone else (big the cat) to do it instead

#shadow the hedgehog #big the cat #don’t take this post too seriously #it’s just a silly idea #according to the sega wiki big and rouge are the same age which doesn’t feel right

[punkpresentmic]

fascinated by the concept of aizawa only ever getting blackout drunk so that he never remembers he’s been drunk at all. where’s the fic where shouta wants to kiss hizashi whenever they get drinks, but sober shouta is completely oblivious to the fact that he has already confessed his love for hizashi & made out with him in the bathroom of a bar. & not ONLY that, but he ALSO does this every second saturday of the month when they get drinks.

#hizashi has no clue that he straight up doesn’t remember #isaythings #erasermic #shouta getting blackout drunk & not remembering that he’s been drunk is from the light novels but it’s been a while since I’ve reread them #so that might also have headcanon smushed in that interpretation somewhere alsksk #cw alcohol #just in case #don’t take this post too seriously

[upirs]

the cheerleader trope for eddie munson fics has been done to DEATH already please please please give it a rest

#don’t take this post too seriously #i talk shit but at the end of the day i’ll read it anyways #but PLEASE give us non preppy people a lil shine #eddie munson imagine #eddie munson #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson stranger things #stranger things imagine

[byersdefender]

ok y’all hear me out, in my country there isn’t the goldfinch on netflix but if i search it the first results are heartstopper, i am not okay with this, call me by your name, young royals and fear street (edit: OH and also bohemian rhapsody, i just noticed and thought it was cool to add). they all have canon queer characters or couples. however stranger things also comes up with them.. byler canon confirmed. even netflix knows. prove me wrong. you can’t

#byler #/j but also not #don’t take this post too seriously #or do #i’m just saying #stranger things

[snaketailthecat]

Parents be like “my child is completely fine!”

Sir your child kins a fucking robotic hedgehog literally named “Metal Sonic”

#it’s me I kin Metal Sonic #metal sonic #my child is completely fine #yeah sure my guy #don’t take this post too seriously #it’s supposed to be lighthearted

[dutchfish]

So in BBC Merlin there is the old religion, which takes a lot of stuff from paganism. Logically this would mean that most people in the show are Christian (especially with magic outlawed). However, you never see anything Christian in the show. They even changed the Holy Grail into the cup of life. Purposefully removing a reference to Christianity. So, I propose that instead of Christian they’re all atheists

#bbc merlin #don’t take this post too seriously

[niubie-draws]

I’m just going to put this out here

I actually don’t like artoria and all her saber face varieties

Now let me be clear I don’t HATE her I just don’t like her this is be just explaining why

My one of my reasons being I hate how much they force her into each and every narrative and I guess that’s why I really like Fate Strange/Fake cause she isn’t in it and they actually focus on other characters

Like I get it she is the face of fate so of course she going to be heavily engaged in the plot and the series kinda like pikachu from Pokémon and like pikachu artoria has her variance like lancer Artoria, Heroine X, and Alter to name a few

So I get that but I hate the whole “Saber face” like I get excited when we get introduce to new characters. I love fate and I love history/myths but my excitement quickly turns into major disappointment when they take a interesting historical/mythical character and slap her face on it and say “here is a brand new character enjoy!!”

To me I see that as lazy character design and lazy marketing and I guess when it happens repeatedly it loses what makes it special like is feels not genuine and their just looking for the next cash cow

Another reasoning is how they handle her character like in the actual myths King Arthur wasn’t all that good and dare I say a tyrant (this is also depends of which telling u read but most of them do not paint Arthur in a good light) and I hate how they made “King Arthur” into some good king that just didn’t understand other people and some white knight who is the pinnacle of justice

Like fate glorified the Arthur’s telling but then completely villainized Gilgamesh (I am aware I might be slightly bias on this one cause Gilgamesh is my favorite character so I’ll try to be fair here)

Im a Gil fan girl ok I don’t bother hiding it and I’ve read the epic I know the shit he does is completely bad like he forced women to sleep with on their wedding night (fun fact that’s called Prima nocta and it’s been used a lot in history) and forced men into harsh labor (some say into labor slaves)

But u know what king Arthur in the legend did that epic Gilgamesh never did.

He killed children

I hate that the whole

May Day f#cking massacre

Got glossed over cause it didn’t fit the whole “white knight” that for some reason got stuck onto the King Arthur legend (to be fair Merlin is kinda at fault slightly due to Merlin prophesied that one of the children *cough*cough* mordred would kill him and Arthur panicked but Arthur ordered it so Arthur is still at fault)

Like fate if ur going to use everything bad and hardly any good for one character that very iconic then do it with the other one

I will admit that with lancer artoria they did try to show off her evil side a bit with the Camelot singularity but then tried to play it off that it wasn’t her when it’s cannon to the actual legend she based off and that fact makes me so mad that they finally addressed her tyrant side but took all the blame off of her…. but I digress

I guess what I’m trying to say (if u actually read to this point) it more how they used artoria that I hate then the actual character

It’s just been bugging me that people in the fandom romanized the knight of the round table as “chivalrous“ white knights…… tell me have u ever researched where the saying “ladies first” came from…..

#my ranting #artoria fgo #artoria fate #fate #fate/go #don’t take this post too seriously #i’m just ranting

[several-weasels-in-a-trenchcoat]

me after refreshing my archiveofourown little nightmares page ten times in a row and nothing new pops up:

#Little nightmares #don’t take this post too seriously #I’m just very impatient and consume content in seconds #My posts

[queerbauten]

“Croatia” is such a pretty word. Very feminine.

#The Biophone gets personal #don’t take this post too seriously #but don’t discount it either!

[angrylesbianstereotype]

Everyone in BrBa when they first meet Walt and Jesse: Man that Walt guy seems smart but he is in way over his head. We definitely can’t trust that annoying junkie partner of his

Everyone in BrBa within two seconds of actually getting to know Walt and Jesse: Jesse I packed you some gogurt and a note with your lunch :) Walter White is the worst thing that has ever happened to me

#it’s funny and pretty cathartic #don’t take this post too seriously or i’ll throw an unsliced pizza onto your roof #breaking bad #brba #anti walter white

[clamsjams]

FUCK YOU, QUESADILLA ISLAND!!!

If you're dumb enough to join a minecraft server this weekend you're a big enough schmuck to come to QSMP PURGATORY!!! Bad design!Confusing scoring! NEUROTOXIN! If you think you're going to have a good time at Purgatory you can KISS MY ASS!!! It's our belief that you're such a STUPID MOTHERFUCKER You'll still try to win - GUARANTEED! If you find a better event SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS!!You heard us right! SHOVE IT UP YOUR UGLY ASS!!! Bring your team! Bring your gas mask! Bring your “roommate”! We’ll FUCK THEM!That’s right! We’ll FUCK your “roommate”!Because at QSMP purgatory you're FUCKED six ways from Sunday! Take a hike - to Purgatory's Home of Challenge Dying! That's right, Challenge Dying! How does it work? If you can make it back to your dead body and not get spawnkilled, you get NO NAUSEA EFFECTS! Don't wait! Don't delay! Don’t FUCK WITH US! Or we'll nuke the island! Only at QSMP PURGATORY!! The only minecraft event that tells you to FUCK OFF!! Hurry up, asshole!! This event ends the minute after you see the eggs and they better not escape or you're a DEAD MOTHERFUCKER! Go to hell - QSMP PURGATORY! Quesadilla’s filthiest and EXCLUSIVE home of the meanest sons of bitches in minecraft roleplay - GUARANTEED!!!!!

#bc of the recent news #don’t take this too seriously it’s literally the big bill hell copypasta #inspired by the waterloo world one i reblogged again recently #qsmp #qsmp purgatory #qsmp event #qsmp meme #posts from the ocean

[khytal]

apollo makes a devastating typo in the wrong chat

#apollo justice #ace attorney #khyt.art #if the person who wrote ‘javier’ ‘klavier* shit’ in the tags of one of my other posts sees this #thank you but also I’m very sorry it made me laugh REALLY hard #anyway please don’t take this too seriously hdjfhsjdh #the implications get funnier the longer you look

[exilepurify]

“You know a lot of big words.” — Determining Shigeo’s Kanji Literacy

An analysis in four parts:

Jouyou kanji and Japan’s compulsory education system, explained.

An introduction to the analysis—what I did and why I did it.

A presentation of data, evidence, and counterarguments.

The truth revealed: can Shigeo write a reasonable amount of kanji for his age group?

Jouyou kanji and Japan’s compulsory education system, explained

Let us begin this analysis by establishing a basic understanding of how Japan’s education system is structured.

As you may already know, only elementary school and middle school are compulsory in Japan, meaning that high school and college are completely optional. Therefore, compulsory education in Japan consists of grades 1-9, with grades 1-6 being 小学校 (primary school) and grades 7-9 being 中学校 (middle school).

The term 「常用漢字」(jouyou kanji, “Daily-Use Kanji”) refers to a list of 2136 kanji that the Japanese Ministry of Education requires be taught throughout education grades in Japan due to their importance and frequency of use in Japanese daily life. Knowing all 2136 is defined by the Japanese government as the baseline for basic, functional literacy in Japanese. The jouyou kanji list is further divided into two sub-categories: 「教育漢字」(kyouiku kanji, “Education Kanji”) and 「中学・高校漢字」(chuugaku • koukou kanji, “Secondary School Kanji”).

教育漢字 (kyouiku kanji, “Education Kanji”) (A.K.A. 学年別漢字配当表 [gakunenbetsu kanji haitouhyou, “list of kanji by school year”]) is the Japanese term for the 1006 kanji that are taught over the 6 years of primary school in Japan, grouped into different grade levels by difficulty and complexity.

「中学・高校漢字」(chuugaku • koukou kanji, “Secondary School Kanji”) is the term for the 1130 kanji that students are expected to learn throughout middle school and high school. This list of kanji is not strictly divided by grade level, though a general grade level is often provided, because students in secondary school—whether it be middle or high—are expected to learn kanji more independently. Though the responsibility of learning these kanji is shifted from the classroom to the individual, the importance of knowing these kanji by the end of one’s education, if that be middle school or high school, cannot be overstated. Once again, these 2136 kanji are considered the basics of Japanese kanji fluency.

According to the “Kanji Frequency Number Survey/漢字���度数調査” conducted by the National Cultural Affairs Division in 2000, in 385 books published by a major publishing company, 8474 different kanji were used (not including duplicates). However, speakers are able to understand 99% of them if they know the top 2457 kanji, and 99.9% of them if they know the top 4208 kanji. And as is true for speakers of every other language, people can generally read more words than they can write.

I determined the “grade level” of each kanji in this analysis according to the grade level provided in my Japanese-English dictionaries, but consideration will be made for Secondary School Kanji due to the lack of official grade divisions and the less organized circumstances involved with learning them.

An introduction to the analysis—what I did and why I did it

In this analysis, I focused specifically on Shigeo’s ability to write kanji, not to read them. This is most obviously because it’s much harder to determine whether or not someone can actually read something, especially in anime, without it being explicitly mentioned. However, it is also because the meaning of kanji can be inferred from knowing the meaning of radicals, and as mentioned above, it is common for people to be able to read more words than they can write. The true mark of knowing a kanji is being able to write it.

To determine Shigeo’s kanji-writing ability, I studied screenshots from a few scenes from the anime, specifically a couple of scenes from the Reigen OVA where Shigeo is writing a LOT, and a couple scenes from the regular anime where Shigeo is explicitly seen writing stuff down and the audience is shown the writing.

The data has been organized into two different excel charts—one for kanji he uses correctly, and one for kanji he doesn’t know or messes up. The kanji in each of these charts have been color-coded and organized by grade level, with readings, translations, and explanations provided. There is only one kanji in the entire analysis that is not considered a part of the jouyou kanji, and this kanji has been marked by “N/A” in the grade level section.

I will provide each chart alongside a percentage likelihood that Mob will know any given kanji from each grade level based on the information gathered from the anime. Please note that the sample size is obviously limited, but I’m working with what I have. If there is a kanji with some sort of detail worth consideration, I’ve marked it with a (**) in the chart and will explain below.

Lastly, I included kanji used in names in the chart here after some deliberation. Name kanji are tricky in general, because multiple kanji share the same pronunciation and people usually don’t know what kanji are used in someone’s name unless they are shown by that person (unless it’s some crazy common name like 高田 or 森 or 田中).

A presentation of data, evidence, and counterarguments.

Shigeo’s known kanji:

Shigeo’s unknown kanji:

IMPORTANT NOTE: There are one or two instances of Shigeo NOT using a kanji at all that I’ve decided not to include on the chart. This is because it is common for Japanese speakers to omit kanji for super common verbs and write them in kana instead, either for personal style reasons or for convenience. Since the verbs are so fundamental and commonly-used, it’s unlikely that they will be misunderstood or mistaken for another word if written in kana. So, if Shigeo wrote the verb for “to read” or “to eat” without using kanji, I didn’t include it, as I highly highly highly doubt he doesn’t know those kanji and I felt like it would unfairly skew the results against him.

米** = I don’t blame Shigeo for not knowing this kanji. It’s fair to assume that Mob might not have seen Mezato’s name written out and therefore wouldn’t know which kanji to use. On TOP of that, “me” for 米 is a special nanori (used for names only) reading and is super obscure and uncommon. I couldn’t even find it in my name dictionary by searching “Mezato”, I had to find her name written in kanji in S1E3 and go from there. I wouldn’t expect this kanji to be in anyone’s top ten possible kanji guesses for the “me” in “mezato”. I included it because rules are rules, but wanted to mention this to make it fairer on the boy.

世** = I want to make it known that Shigeo does successfully write this kanji in the image shown here, when he writes 「世紀」(century):

HOWEVER. However. He messed it up SO BAD before that I think it actually overpowers him using it correctly and brings it back around to a “not properly known” kanji, especially because it’s a kanji taught in second grade that he shouldn’t be messing up at all:

The subtitles intersect it but I’ve rewritten what Shigeo wrote there at the bottom. He tried to write 「世の中には」”In the world…”, but tried to write the kanji, messed up, crossed it out, and then rewrote it in kana. Didn’t even try to write it a second time. This is egregious and, in my juror’s power, cancels out his later usage. This would be like misspelling “world” in English. I’m willing to entertain arguments that he just wanted to write it in kana for some reason, but as it is now, I don’t think that excuse is compelling enough against such damning evidence, so in “missed kanji” it goes. (It’s partly cut off but what gets me is that it doesn’t even look wrong in the first place lol but if he crossed it out, it means he didn’t know it well enough, which allowed him to doubt, which is still damning enough.)

造** = Just like above, Shigeo actually does successfully use this kanji once in the show when he’s filling out his paperwork for the Body Improvement Club in S1E2 (forgive my awful kanji, it’s hard to draw on the phone lol): 

However, that was not only on an official school document, it was also in the presence of a student council member and Saruta (#2 in the grade lol) so I have to assume he either asked someone for help or got corrected. Either way, the instance where he doesn’t use the kanji is when he’s in his bedroom alone, writing in his personal notebook—a much more casual environment, and one that takes place AFTER s1e2 (can’t argue he learned it):

This leads me to believe that Shigeo does not naturally know the kanji, as he can’t reproduce it in casual day-to-day or when alone.

焉** = This kanji is not only not included in the jouyou kanji, but it is also used in an obscure word. In fact, it took me a minute to locate it in my Japanese-English dictionary app. It is absolutely not reasonable to expect Shigeo to know this kanji off the top of his head, and he probably wouldn’t know it even if he were a kanji ace. It is included and working against him, however, because the kanji he initially tried to write in its place was 「円」, a.k.a. the kanji for YEN/¥:

Sure, 「えん」is a reading for「円」, that part makes sense. But 「終焉」means “the finals years in one’s life”, so I’m really struggling to understand why Mob would think the yen money kanji would be a part of that word and why he would try to write it with that kanji instead of just writing it in kana first, like the majority of the kanji he didn’t know. It’s truly an enigma to me. I’m bewildered he even tried that, and for that, I’m holding it against him.

BASIC STATS:

GRADE 1 KANJI:

- Total known: 17

- Total unknown: 0

- Grand total: 17

- Shigeo knows: 17 out of 17

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 1 kanji: 100%

GRADE 2 KANJI:

- Total known: 16

- Total unknown: 3

- Grand total: 19

- Shigeo knows: 16 out of 19

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 2 kanji: 84.2%

GRADE 3 KANJI:

- Total known: 13

- Total unknown: 6

- Grand total: 19

- Shigeo knows: 13 out of 19

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 3 kanji: 68.4%

GRADE 4 KANJI:

- Total known: 11

- Total unknown: 0

- Grand total: 11

- Shigeo knows: 11 out of 11

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 4 kanji: 100%

(Baby apparently had a great year in fourth grade.)

GRADE 5 KANJI:

- Total known: 3

- Total unknown: 4

- Grand total: 7

- Shigeo knows: 3 out of 7

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 5 kanji: 43.9%

GRADE 6 KANJI:

- Total known: 0

- Total unknown: 2

- Grand total: 2

- Shigeo knows: 0 out of 2

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 6 kanji: 0%

😭

GRADE 7 KANJI:

(No known or unknown 7th grade kanji found)

GRADE 8 KANJI

- Total known: 5

- Total unknown: 6

- Grand total: 11

- Shigeo knows: 5 out of 11

- Percentage likelihood of Shigeo knowing a grade 8 kanji: 45.5%

^ To Shigeo’s credit, this isn’t bad at all considering he’s only halfway through his eight grade year at this point in the story.

% OF JOUYOU KANJI SHIGEO KNOWS:

% known from observed data:

65/86

75.6%

# of jouyou kanji: 2136

75.6% of 2136 = 1615 jouyou kanji

Here’s a graph for your visualizing pleasure:

Finally:

(All values are rounded up)

There are 1006 kyouiku kanji. There are 1130 secondary school kanji. Because high school in Japan is not compulsory, we’ll assume that the secondary kanji are to be learned over the three years of middle school. That means about 377 words per middle school grade. If Shigeo is halfway through eighth grade, let’s say he should generally know 1006 + 377 + (377/2) kanji, which comes out to 1,572.

There are 80 kyouiku kanji assigned to first grade, which Shigeo should know 100% of—80 total.

There are 160 kyouiku kanji assigned to second grade, which Shigeo should know 84.2% of—135 total.

There are 200 kanji assigned to third grade, which Shigeo should know 68.4% of—137 total.

There are 200 kanji assigned to fourth grade, which Shigeo should know 100% of—200 total.

There are 185 kanji assigned to fifth grade, which Shigeo should know 43.9% of—81 total.

There are 181 kanji assigned to sixth grade, which Shigeo should know… 0% of…. 0 total.

This all totals out to:

80 + 135 + 137 + 200 + 81 + 0 = 633/1006 elementary school-level kanji. That’s 63% of the kanji required for elementary school.

(Didn’t include a calculation for middle school kanji due to having 0 data on seventh-grade kanji and also him being halfway through eighth.)

The truth revealed: can Shigeo write a reasonable amount of kanji for his age group?

Uh… no. Maybe? Well… probably not, no.

I mean, of course there are flaws with my methods. I had a super small sample group and applied the stats there to all of the jouyou kanji, which is almost guaranteed to be lower than reality. I just didn’t really have another choice. Also, I’m very certain that Shigeo MUST know some 6th grade kanji, even if in the results here I considered the probability to be 0%. That’s assuredly not accurate. There were just, by chance, only two instances of sixth-grade kanji in all of the sample writing and he happened not to know either of them. This is just for fun, anyway. I can say with confidence, though, that he certainly isn’t a writer, and he definitely knows less kanji than the average eighth grader, but I wouldn’t take my numbers for anything more than entertainment.

But yeah. Shigeo is…. a little kanji-impaired. Which explains why he struggled with Emi’s writing and is only ever seen reading Shounen Jump volumes lmao. I believe in him though. He makes it work. My illiterate king. Who needs the other half of your elementary sight-words anyway?

All jokes aside though, he really started to scare me with the 世 and 円 things 😭😭😭😭😭

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #FINALLY IT IS DONE. This took me forever bc i’ve been SOOOO busy this past week #i’ve missed posting on here #so here’s a super long post as apology lol #i actually had a lot of fun with this #im so tired rn tho so i’m desperately hoping it makes any damn sense at all #our illiterate boy #i love him #like i said don’t take it too seriously. it’s all in good fun #kageyama shigeo #shigeo kageyama #mp100 analysis #mp100 meta #described in alt text

[sctumsempra]

help i’m fixated on the tragic dungeon bat again

#severus snape #pro snape #autistic snape #snape fanart #don’t take this too seriously #i’ve never posted on tumblr before .. scary #i will call him autistic and make his gender an abstract concept i’m sorry #procreate #sketches

[pitske]

I‘m back on my bullshit. 9 year old me would be so happy about this

#ninjago pythor #lego ninjago #ninjago #ninjago skales #skales ninjago #i hate these two so much slash j #also don’t take This Post too seriously please #lloyd garmadon #ninjago lloyd #ninjago fanart #digital art #kai ninjago #doodle page #hypnobrai #anacondrai #pitske’s art #pitskederdoenerhaendler