#i know im not reinventing the wheel

[baldurspeen69420]

I recently read some Wyll/Astarion content that focused in on the angle of Astarion starting out as very hostile to Wyll and some of that shit opened my third eye and now I can't stop thinking about this pairing I'm obsessed I'm crazy I'm CRAZY

I still like Gale/Astarion but the dramatic potential of Wyllstarion is unfuckingreal are you KIDDING me

Astarion being contemptuous of Wyll because he thinks he must be full of shit (dude can literally not imagine anyone being good for goodness sake), Astarion disliking Wyll because he went through a ton of shit and came out the other side as kind and outwardly stable instead of selfish and scared like him, Astarion HATING Wyll because he's the kind of man he would have dreamed about marrying when he was thirteen but now that childhood innocence and that version of himself is gone, are you guys hearing meeee

Eventually he comes around to thinking, fine, Wyll does actually believe all the heroic sanctimonious drivel he spouts, but he must be very naive and ridiculous then and that reality will surely come crashing down around him at any time! Any day now . . .

All I'm saying is imagine a canon where Astarion is stupidly in love with Wyll but also hates his guts for half the game until they come to really understand each other and Astarion realizes he was wrong about him

BECAUSE if he's wrong about Wyll, his whole worldview is wrong, people aren't inherently bad and the world isn't inherently hostile. And then he has to reckon with that and change as a person. Do you see what I'm sayinggggg

Ideal dynamic:

Wyll, moping after the tiefling party: "What? Come to see the fiend of frontiers finally put down a peg? I guess your wish has been granted."

Astarion: "I was actually going to say the horns really aren't a bad look on you, but now because you presumed I was going to be mean I'm going to be a HUGE bitch about this actually, yes"

#bg3 #baldur's gate #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #astarion #baldur's gate 3 #astarion bg3 #wyll ravengard #wyllstarion #i know im not reinventing the wheel #but still #biting the bars of my cage rn

[cerubean]

test screen shots for a preset ive been tweaking for a whole year ;-; i think im finally happy w/ it!

#copperdale + sunblind is so sexy #umm idk if ill release this i feel like its so generic since theres so many reshades out there itd be like reinventing the wheel ya know? #but also i love it and i wanna make a reshade overview yt video for it and then maybe an in depth 'how to make a preset' tutorial #ill add it to my list of things i wanna do but never hv time for #ts4 scenery #sims 4 #s #simblr #also im finally in a building mood again so gameplay is on a short pause sorry yall idk how to multitask lol

[atinylittlepain]

every time a mommy blogger makes lasagna soup a gayngel (gay angel) LOSES their wings

#it is an abomination #im sorry but wtf #stahp it with this nonsense #you know what's good? lasagna #let's not reinvent the wheel here #jesus christ #sorry this is niche #i was just offered a bowl of lasagna soup #clearly #i said no #also clearly #smh

[lordofthesillystraws]

everyone has an angsty ososan au right?? like, a lot of my ososan aus are just them being idiots as usual but in a different context, but i have this one,,, this one au where everything is horrible. i dunno, maybe ill post about these sometime, meanwhile i still gotta finish the creator curator-matsus.

#woah ! the bunny talks ! #osomatsu san #ik im definitely not the only one with an angsty au #but sometimes its funny to give them insane powers and let them continue being stupid yknow?? #yes most of my aus are based off hesowars sets i can do what i want #its not like i know much about hesowars anyway. i missed out on it and have only seen the sprites #maybe im reinventing the wheel with these. idk i like to let them unleash the whimsy within #i realize a lot of my aus are based around osomatsu and todomatsu. uhhh i have very clear faves #NOT saying that as a ship. i just really like those two theyre my faves.

[sleepygaymerdisease]

would it be considered lazy to use the same regular months for a fantasy story 🤔 like is it expected for people to make up their own months n shit because of an alternate history or would that be going the extra mile

#i guess it doesnt matter because im not like. Making a Project with my ocs at the moment. but still #i know the calendar system would be different for sure because of the years but like man i dont wanna come up with 12 months... #id rather focus on like making up holidays and traditions and stuff. do i need to reinvent the wheel here #also yes i know that july and august in particular would be odd to have in a fantasy story because of their name origins BUT CONSIDER THIS: #what if i just came up with a similar fantasy reason instead or something. like who gives a shit. #anis gaymer moments #oc tag

[softpadawan]

YOU MADE JABBA THE HUTT A WALRUS IN THE MER AU 😂 I feel an elephant seal would be more fitting, they're basically big bully mobsters who use their size and weight to intimidate rivals and hoard a harem of ladies, sounds more along Jabba's lines...

I came to this exact same conclusion shortly after I’d posted the story and was responding to a comment, so I think I’m going to retcon Jabba into an elephant seal after all, just because it’s so fitting

There’s only one problem: how do I describe Jabba’s species if merpeople have no idea what an elephant is? 🤔

#softpad answers #jabba the hutt #merfolk au #merpeople #star wars #worldbuilding #fanfiction #fic: bait and switch #i also want the readers to know what animal im talking about bc that’s important #flab-nosed seal? #this is the agony of doing mer AUs #basically reinventing the wheel #see i couldn’t even use that idiom bc do merfolk know what a wheel is? #*pulling my hair out*

[harrykim]

like i do think that sometimes when it comes to the media we like that like. not everything has to reinvent the genre, redefine what it means to read watch play listen... sometimes it's enough to know your thing and just make something good within that.

not every movie needs to pull a genre flip, not every game has to challenge your relationship and expectations of gaming... when done well those things are still good, don't get me wrong but when everyone starts pursuing the 'changed the medium forever' type of praise you just have a lot of things that fall short when they could've been far more enjoyable if they'd embraced what they are

#lke it reminds me of like the whole 'elevated horror' thing that just. takes itself so seriously and acts like theres no value in others or #like... just personally but i dont care for games that try to like. trick your expectations on how to play games personally #the i know you're actually playing a video game type of stuff like its just not my thing #on the flipside you get ppl defending the worst shit bc 'not everything has to be Intellectual' bullshit like. im not saying that lmao #im more talking abt like. the way some games/books/movies/etc will try to praise themselves for reinventing the wheel

[hematiterings]

My new thing is a cold brew tea as a mid-day beverage

#yeah i know i know ive reinvented the wheel #but consider #im doing all this with A Robe on and that adds lethal levels of self confidence #michi rambles

[theskyexists]

Managed to get something done that the documentation and most topics seemed to say was not possible. It is possible.

#my stuff #personal #i Know that i should have just used the behaviour trees plugin because yeah it does look amazing and YEAH IT DOES SIMOLY HAVE AN ABORT #but. #i didnt want to learn the system and also im invested in my own #which is i think probably just reinventing the wheel way more badly #i mean absolutely i think it probavly is that #BUT #uhm. well because a behaviour tree system also does the reset to an earlier point in the script but whatever whatever #might have to do this anwyay because coroutines are not truly parallel so maybe if theres a thousand npcs things will start to go very bad #2000 coroutines dude....

[sealz888]

fuck it Sealz's sloppy steak sandwich recipe

- Small steak (Can be any lamb or chicken also)

- French bread, Vienna, Ciabatta or Turkish. (Any bread will do but I mostly use these)

- oil or butter (I usually use both)

- Mozzarella, Tasty or Cheddar

- Garlic

- aioli

- Iceberg lettuce

- cucumber

- tomato

- button mushroom

Optional: Rosemary

Prep: Let your steak come to room temp and pat it with paper towel to remove extra mosisture. Score the steak if preferred. Wash and dry vegetables.

1) Heat up small pan, finely slice mushrooms. Place mushrooms in pan and wait until golden brown and mosisture from mushroom is cooked out. Sautee with butter. Place aside.

2) Salt, pepper and season your steak with garlic and rosemary. Cook until medium rare. Let steak rest.

3) In a seperate pan, butter and place garlic onto bread, toast in pan until golden brown. Place cheese onto bread to melt.

4) Select a leaf of lettuce, slice tomato and cucumber finely. Salt tomato.

5) spread some aioli on both pieces of slightly cooled bread, then place lettuce on top, followed by tomato, cucumber and mushrooms. You may be able to fold the lettuce over.

6) slice steak, place onto sandwich and then the other piece of bread. Enjoy!

This sandwich can be really really sloppy so I advise you eat it over a plate and have napkins and utensils on stand by. I usually enjoy this with a chilled Pepsi or water at lunchtime.

#sealzstuff #recipes #food #i know that im not fucking reinventing the wheel. but this is mt sandwihc. scrumptious

[mysterycitrus]

i know you've been talking about jason lately so i'll ask about smth different... robin jason (sorry)

idk idk lately i've been wanting to take a peek at his robin comics for the sake of writing fic (ofc...) but i'd like to hear what u think before that, a summary of sorts if u may (i also wanna contrast what u say with what i get out of it so yeah)

i feel like his robin days are so muddled by his identity as red hood later on, and even before that it was his death. u had people constantly blaming jason for dying in text (or else they'd have to admit bruce can make mistakes and everyone in dc is allergic to doing that) and painting him like someone reckless and violent (classist editorial u need to DIE), and then people in fanon painting him like a sweet fella who would do nothing wrong and as well as being bruce's Only Actual Son etc etc for the sake of making the situation around him all the more sadder (yeah yeah pathetic meow meow we've all seen it)

and i'm just curious bc i rlly wonder what the actual comics say about him, most likely something in the middle of this? exams are killing me but my god i'll come back to life after im done just to read jason robin's days... have a good day !!!

the difficulty with reading about jason as robin is that there are three primary periods that all differ fairly dramatically from each other — pre-crisis jason todd is a strawberry blond acrobat who’s almost adopted by dick grayson before becoming robin; post-crisis jason todd is a kid from crime alley who steals the wheels off the batmobile before becoming robin; and post-crisis, post-utrh jason todd is a very angry, very violent kid who becomes a cautionary tale after he gets himself killed (something he is often blamed for).

we can walk the line here. pre-crisis jason isn’t particularly relevant because so much of robin!jason’s stories depend on his reinvention after the reboot. all the crucial factors leading up to death in the family — growing up in the alley, both his mothers, his relationship with the robin mantle, his developing relationship with dick grayson, his slow schism from bruce, his relative isolation from other superheroes — are all crucial to who he is, especially after his death.

fanon about jason is annoying because there are valid criticisms that can be made about how he’s written with regressive, classist stereotypes, but as always it pivots way too far in one direction. jason wasn’t the “happy” or “angry” robin in the same way that dick wasn’t the happy or angry robin — they’re both characters that possess more than a single emotion. it’s true that jason was later written to be more explicitly violent (to contrast him with dick) but also like… they’re both pretty similar characters that differ in interesting ways. dick created robin to be a symbol of hope and joy. jason carried that on when he took up the mantle. they can both be angry at stuff without the world falling apart. it’s not that serious.

the dialogue about dick being a child soldier but jason being the true son makes me want to tear my hair out. jason became robin because bruce missed dick and was afraid of being alone. they’re both his gd kids. acting as though bruce wayne doesn’t love dick grayson so much that extra-dimensional beings can clock it is so fucking stupid. it once again ties into fanon’s obsession with each character only getting to be “one” thing. tim is smart, which means he’s the smartest. jason said robin made him magic, which means he’s happy all the time. dick chased after zucco in a grief spiral, which means he’s the violently angry one, with no other character traits. dick can’t have been nice to jason because he’s nice to tim, etc. seems a little silly, no?

i think i’ve only read jason’s brief run as robin once, though ive gone through a death in the family + a lonely place of dying a bunch of times, so ig my advice for reading him is to keep in mind the context in which he was created. dc comics was reeling from losing dick grayson as robin, and were really throwing anything at the wall to get something to stick. many, many negative tropes are baked into his introduction, and thanks to writers like jeph loeb and scott lobdell they have compounded over time. jason’s updated backstory is, with actual critical intent by the writer, a really good examination of how poverty and class will affect how someone views the world. his death was not his fault — and removing sheila haywood from that warehouse purposely makes his story less tragic. he was a good kid! and he was angry for a good reason. if jason had lived, i believe he would’ve carried on the robin tradition and left bruce behind once their differences became insurmountable.

#jason as robin: baby. jason as red hood: really really annoying #jason todd #red hood #batman #bruce wayne #dc comics #the ask and the answer

[watcherthrowaway]

also one real post about this and like, plenty of ink has been spilt on how disconnected watcher entertainment seems to be from its fans but i think the missing piece here is how disconnected watcher is from the rest of youtube. when the catastrophe hit i went to all my terminally online friends, the same way i did after the hbomberguy james somerton video, or after the ned fulmer fiasco, or the creepshowart scandal etc, or every time jenny nicholson dropped a new evermore video, including the ones behind the $2 patreon paywall we all gladly pay for, and for the first time...

no one knew who i was talking about.

these are not insulated people. these are people i can trust to have at least name recognition of almost any youtuber i mention. they know downtherabbithole and strangeaeons and cjthex and kappakaiju and miniminuteman773 and kazrowe and somemorenews etc etc etc

so when i put in the group chat, with no context, 'he wasnt even on cribs' or 'we have no cats kathleen' or 'only humble pagan commune schemes' or whatever, i usually do so with great trust that at least half the group will know what im on about.

this time, crickets.

i backpedaled a little and pulled up the 'ive connected them' meme and the fuzzy blue professor, and i got nothing at all. the only recognition i got was when someone belatedly realized that he had seen the goatman video when it dropped (although he had no idea that they had their own company now), and another person remembered that they had offered to collab with danny gonzalez, a youtuber with twice the subscribers

because she had checked back to see if danny went ghost hunting again, and lost interest because he hadnt.

i also brought it up in my dedicated buzzfeed unsolved group chat but ummmmm i am the only one in that group still watching ever since the shift to watcher oops

the only splash they had made in my again, TERMINALLY ONLINE friend group that watches hours and hours of youtube a day was a buzzfeed video seven years ago, and when they had failed to collab with someone more famous than them. i found myself in the unusual position of having to explain the situation to a bunch of dirty internet gremlins, all of whom heard the whole story and said 'why would they do that'

not 'why would they do that to their fans' but 'why would they do that as youtubers'

even aside from the moneygrubbing, we watcher stans were confused about why they tried to offer us a service we didn't need or want, and i think it obscured the confusion on why they thought it was a good idea at all, when so many other models were available to them. why werent they using their patreon like other youtubers? why weren't they collaborating with other youtubers? why weren't they putting out regular, lower quality content like other youtubers? if they wanted higher quality content, why weren't they partnering with nebula, like lindsay ellis, or netflix, like bo burnham. why didn't they run their ideas past someone like the green brothers, who have jumpstarted scishow and many other similar projects successfully, and are famously good to work with/consult with? why would they try to pull a roosterteeth? don't they know what happened?

and i think the answer is no. i think they just don't know those things. and they didnt bother to check, because they think all those things are beneath them. because they think corporate content is the only worthwhile kind there is.

why else would they think they have to have an office building, keep dozens of people on staff, buy expensive cameras, and build a streaming platform? why do they only collaborate with actors and singers who have corporate entertainment approval? why are they reinventing the wheel on buzzfeed when thousands of youtubers build perfectly stable careers with a mic and a camera, and sometimes hire an editor?

i guess my takeaway from this is that, at least they didnt break my heart as a fan entirely because they fundamentally misunderstood me. they did it, at least in part, because they do not understand how youtube works, or what part they play in it.

they dont understand how people use youtube. it is not a cinematic event worthy of the big tv, it is line goes up playing in the background for the 400th time as i wash my face and put my laundry away.

that is why they spent months and months planning this without ever noticing it was a bad idea, while millions of youtube viewers knew instantly. thats why they didn't start with a more moderate solution, why they never used their patreon properly, why they cared so much about the production value, why they thought a youtube audience, any audience at all, would jump at the chance to leave youtube.

bc youtube as a creator sucks, and we all know that, but youtube as a viewer is extremely comfortable. all i ask of youtube is to be mildly interesting in the background while i do other stuff. it is filler. some of the filler is extremely good, yes, but there is no room or reason in my life to give more of my money and attention to my filler, let alone to get a bigger screen for it.

and honestly, this is why i and others stayed on with the ghoul boys even though their quality dropped. because it's filler. im not even looking at the screen you apparently spent 100k on. im flipping my eggs. im washing my hair. im waiting for the bus with my headphones in and my phone in my pocket. thank you for being my background music. in return i will sit through your ads and push your view counter up by one. i may even hit the like button by accident bc my phone is in my pocket.

this is not to say i dont enjoy my filler. i would absolutely die without it. but it is not and never will be exchanged for the instances when i make popcorn in The Big Bowl and turn on a Real Movie on the Big Screen (my old laptop that is 15 whole inches) with my phone turned over so nothing can distract me.

my filler can't be my movie, and vice versa. nor should it be. but watcher doesnt understand that, apparently. they think youtube is cruelly preventing them from being netflix, and they think we want netflix, and they don't understand that, even with that half-assed apology that they didn't explain their dream correctly and they are jsut so destitute they had to take extreme measures after they went to europe 6 too many times...

there is a fundamental misunderstanding about how people use youtube , both as creators and as consumers. they didn't just misunderstand their fanbase. they continue to misunderstand the entire ecosystem. idk guys. maybe you should have learned something from those youtubers that you apparently think you are too good for.

and as for me, welp. i've booted people from my filler line-up for less. and there are soooooooooooooo many other fish in the sea, and they are not asking me to pay them 27 corporation salaries from my own pocket. they are asking for me to bump their view counter up by one.

goodbye boys. i really hope you find a way to fulfill yourselves artistically or whatever. but you have burned this particular bridge, like. forever. and i don't think i'm the only one who feels that way.

and not because i dont support people getting a living wage, you guilt-tripping vultures, or because i dont believe in following dreams and wishing on stars and whatnot.

but because i prefer to consume content from people who know what they're doing, and i simply no longer trust that includes you.

#watcher entertainment #steven lim #shane madej #ryan bergara #this is truly all i will say #just amazing how the average youtube viewer immediately identified all the problems with the new plan #and none of the executive big boys involved did

[uuuuuugh0-0]

Hey, do you have any info or tips on diy medicine? I've always been interested but haven't found much success

Medicine is just problem solving. IME it's important to take nothing for granted and get as granular as possible with what you're trying to achieve, because that opens more doors.

Re: that point, diy med is being a medical researcher. Very rarely is work done for you, so there's a lot of fucking around and finding out--how much risk you chose to take is up to you in experimenting; but I'm pretty gung ho and I can still count on one hand the number of times I've tried something that carried more risk than over-the-counter acetaminophen.

Read voraciously--coming from someone who can only get thru about three books a year. It's fucking hard but it is so beyond worth it to work at it, however much you can. Read until you know enough to have questions and then read to find the answer to those questions and/or figure out how to determine an answer for yourself.

Bad sources can be just as educational as good ones--western medicine has a bunch of fuckshit in it and having strong, grounded analysis of why you think an approach, treatment, whatever is bullshit will help you in finding something better.

Anecdotal evidence is useful as FUCK. Western medical practice is regulated formally and informally by legal anxiety and profit motives (ergo an unwillingness to produce anything under a certain statistical bar of effectiveness) but for a LOT of anecdotal home remedies and experimental treatments, risk factors are p minimal and if you feel comfortable trying it based on a realistic risk assessment...you can just try it, lol.

I really want to stress that diy med doesn't just have to be about trying to get a sub-par approximation of western med. Sometimes what we can do for ourselves is limited or less effective, sure--but we are also capable of doing better. There's pros and cons, right, but autonomous medicine gives the opportunity to try something that a doctor never would--sometimes because of risk, but more usually it's about legal anxiety and state restrictions. I remember hearing someone I knew who worked in drug development talk about how stupid it was that their team was having to reinvent the wheel instead of using THC in a drug; even though there exists documentation that THC has the property they were after, their program got federal funding so no marijuana.

Personally my entry point was herbalism and it's not a bad route to go. It can do a LOT, it's very accessible, and unlike a lot of medicine it's less gatekept & there's a significant population of writers creating resources specifically for laypeople with a focus on autonomy and self practice; plus rad community spaces exist and ofc like any scene they're full of bullshit (transmisogyny and gender essentialism in lefty alt health is a huge current, unfortunately), but they can be a good place to like. Network until you actually find the other ppl on the fringes of the scene who you might actually click with. An herbal background also gives you a LOT of directional freedom--lots of sources will combine western medical information on top of traditional and anecdotal practices, which cumulates in a lot of lenses you can apply to try to solve a problem; plus a lot of drugs are or can be plant-derived and having a skillset to identify/grow, harvest and process plants is really useful even if western medicine is the primary lens you want to use (tbh ur basic herbal preparations are often the first step in more exact drug isolation procedures). It's also just essential imo to have more than a western medical perspective--take time to read less immediately practical texts about medical history, other medical systems, and other conceptualizations of illness and the human body. One of my hotter takes? Miasma theory is still relevant and useful. There's a lot of fuckshit everywhere, both within and outside of western medicine--treat no source as authoritative and every claim as a thought experiment! But seriously, take the time to see what's out there. Accumulate as much raw information as possible to build your toolkit.

Some herbal resources I like for beginners (all books on LibGen.is)

Rjwhelan.co.nz -- aoteroa based medical herbalist who presents a really wide range of info from historical/traditional to western scientific. He's got some interesting (read: bad) takes but is a solid writer and information aggregator.

The herbal medicine makers handbook by James green -- good intro to herbal preparation with a range of procedures from simple folk methods to more measurement and chemistry heavy. Also got some weird opinions. That's just kinda how it be.

Wild remedies by rosalee de foret and Emily han -- cute basic introduction to herbalism

The psychopharmacology of herbal medicines by Marcello spinella -- says it right on the tin. useful reference.

The Earthwise herbal (vol 1 and vol 2) by Matthew wood -- listen. I fucking hate this man. I kind of hate these books (organized alphabetically by latin name...come the fuck on) BUT. It is still a pretty ok reference book with a similar approach to Richard Whelan's work and it has herbs that I've had trouble finding in other texts.

On working with others and sharing information: it's important to not play doctor. I strongly encourage folks to help out other people, but in an assistive capscity--not a prescriptive one. Share your sources, explain your opinions! The goal is to offer as much information as possible for someone else to make their own decisions. If you're in the US, this is a pretty good rundown of the legal positionality of herbalists (/health consultants generally) but I strongly advocate for going further than the law in this case on ideological autonomy-focused grounds.

Finally: medicine is not a solitary undertaking. Having a group of friends or even just acquaintances with different needs, priorities and viewpoints will get you much further in a few months than you could on your own in years. And it's slow going at first. It really is. You'll fuck up, you'll go around believing something for years to suddenly realize it's bullshit, you will grow and change. But you'll get there.

[stinkrascal]

its so annoying hearing mras describe the loneliness epidemic and symptoms of their depression bc its always so fucking hyperindividualist, they literally just cannot comprehend that they are not the only person experiencing that feeling. thats like genuinely a problem btw, i do think ppl are more lonely now (not just men lmfao just in general) and i think that if your depression is genuinely so bad that it blinds you from the suffering of others, that is a sign that you need help!! and im not saying that to be rude or condescending, i want ppl who feel this way to get help!! but then they always gotta cap it off with how FEMOIDS can never understand what the loneliness epidemic has done for MEN... they cant possibly know what its like to... be socially inept, isolate yourself, and play video games for 16 hours straight. like i need men to stop pretending they have reinvented the wheel every time they experience a profound human emotion for the first time. ok like i dont consider myself a man hater or anything but also fuckkkk my guy, how would you feel if some dipshit kept telling you "you just dont understand what its like jaiden" while he describes an in-depth play by play of what i spent yesterday doing in explicit detail like you would be a little bit of a hater too after a while wouldnt you. ive been a weirdo little freak who lives in squalor and games for 16 hours every day while isolating myself from the outside world since i was 8 yrs old and you know what ive never contemplated killing people over it so theres that 🤷‍♂️

#LIKE IDKKKKKKKKK IT MAKES ME SO MAD #like you aren't lonely because you're a man you're lonely because late stage capitalism/the internet/the pandemic have ruined you

[youkaigakkou-tl]

Chapter 97 Extended Translation Notes

first off here's the spread without the text at the top. the stuff at the bottom, well..... see if i feel like it

this is mostly just unorganized thoughts nothing like my analysis posts

(future op after writing the whole post: this got kinda long lol)

ok now that im hidden in the readmore i can act insane. RAHHHHH AMAAKI ON THE COLOR PAGE RAHHHH WAHOOOOOO WOOHOOOOO BIG WIN FOR AME NATION ok got that out of my system im normal now

Rain or shine

In case you forgot, ame = rain, haru = sunny. I lose my mind every time this is relevant, like the ending of renren arc.

Whose mom is this

the other 3 are pretty obvious, but the 2nd one isn't immediately recognizable.

(also, 2 checks for "the couple's parents are meeting" for fujiogo and momo and gida)

just for fun, i process-of-eliminationed this

(cover page of chapter 57 my old friend)

everyone greyed out's parents statuses are confirmed, (other than akibe and koizumi, but given the physical features...)

though, i say i did this "just for fun", because i already kinda knew who's mom it was

(from this tweet)

it's mujina's mom. she's beside tamao's mom, the appearance matches, it makes sense.

Haha Sano what the fuck does this mean

the japanese says he "分からん" (wakaran), meaning "i dunno", and the chinese translation outright says "i don't have parents" which SEEMS to be what the jp is implying anyway

sano get back here you're not dunnoing your way out of this one

Also renren realised they don't share a surname. ebisu explain that you're not :>ing your way out of this one either

Shrines, huh

the plate over the torii just says "abe shrine" back in chapter 9, but given my google street view sleuthing and like, story details, even if its not the big fancy one in kyoto it is still an abe no seimei shrine. so on some level, haruaki, you're the god! what a coincidence, the "gods" are exactly as shocked as you are!

Tale of the bamboo cutter

This page was a damn nightmare to translate. (Mame's mistakes, not the actual story in grey. it's a well known classic that's been translated, no need to reinvent the wheel)

I tried to get the "hamuhane" part exactly like the jp, but mame's mistake on the 3 "sun" big child in the first 2 panels is a little different

He interprets "なる人" (naruhito) as "成人" (also naruhito); "hito" means person, the first "naru" means grow (like a plant) or contain (i think), the second one means "adult person".

I suppose I could have also went for "grown" person vs "grown person", but in any case, haruaki's explanation for what a "sun" is on the bottom 2 panels is almost exact, and i thought the "soon" comparison was a good way to get across that's how "sun" is pronounced

(also here's my "hamuhane" tl note)

anyway. nightmare page. looking forward to how the official tl does it when it comes out in (checks watch) like 2 years?

Ame and Ebisu interaction real

dunno if it gets across, but I think he has a height complex...

pretty weird thing to say, huh, Ebisu? to someone you just met? how do you know that anyway?

the only times Ame appeared has been ch8 when the gang went to Haru's house, ch23 when he pretended to be Haru (the rest of the class should be none the wiser) ch39 in the hospital (none of the class was there to see)

and then Ebisu gets introduced in ch 53, after that he hears firsthand that Haru has a twin in ch58, and then Ame is there in renren arc and outright says he's scared of youkai in ch76

Notice how Ebisu wasn't present for any of Ame's appearances prior. he wasn't involved in renren arc, and the person i think is his spy was turned to stone on the ground floor while the reveal on the roof happened.

of course, this could just be a combination of him projecting on Ame, and seeing him visibly scared of youkai a few pages prior. but "hate" is a fairly specific and strong word to use, and i also think he's too smart to not know Ame hates youkai, just a matter of where he got the info from.

The person I think is his spy

after doing some thinking (furigana reads: seeing this post), I think there's someone who's fairly likely to be the spy.

observe, the chart for "people who we've seen the parents of" and "people ranmaru might have seen in ch62"

we've narrowed it down to one man. (ok well there's a few in common here, but satsuki doesnt get screentime ever and ogata twins are too obvious for how much emphasis the ranmaru scene was given)

the kudan, Kurahashi.

but wait, you say, we know he's a youkai. he's got horns. we've seen him use his abilities.

but consider everything else. how often he interacts with Ebisu. how often he sticks his neck out for Ebisu

(i also have a lot of Thoughts abt the part timing incident, specifically his prediction

in his first appearance, he mentioned he couldn't see Haru's future well (because of his exorcism power, which, mind you, still don't know how that works exactly)

wouldn't be a stretch to think that his prediction wouldn't/can't take a god's interference into account. the thug was going to say "the customer is god" either way, but there's also the possibility that the moment kurahashi stepped in, his prediction of "toubyou get punched" couldn't play out exactly so the totally different thing of Ebisu stepping in happened. anyway)

it's not like any individual event incriminates him, rather how frequently it happens. in fact, kurahashi has been involved almost every time Ebisu appears. (put it another way, Ebisu's only major appearances where Kurahashi wasn't involved in some way was this chapter, and the youkai train)

adding on to that, we don't have any info on what his personal life is like, odd considering the amount of screentime he gets. (all of this is relevant to this chapter bc this would have been the perfect opportunity to show his parents, IF HE HAS ANY) the only things we know about his personal life is he's in the basketball club??? and that he was "raised to help people in trouble" whatever "raised" or "help" or "trouble" means

and now, the final nail in the coffin: this alternate cover that came with the 2021 december gfantasy issue

(oh yeah its also my blog header)

none of the official images of it included the flap with ranmaru, and previously i was willing to believe it's just a coincidence for 4 characters related to gods and kurahashi to be on the back cover together, but now that i've seen the whole thing, i feel like ranmaru being there seals the deal that it's intentional

count em, 5 whole characters, basically every major character that is/was a god, and one kurahashi yuuta, who we know nothing about despite his frequent appearances? kinda sus

and now, to return to the first question, isn't he a youkai? horns and youkai powers and all?

and to that i say: he could be another creature. we've just seen an example of this, suzaku, divine fire bird, becoming a tengu, which is also a bird

looking up kudan, it has been theorized that it's based off another mythical creature: the Bai Ze (or Hakutaku), a divine cow-like beast from china, who shares many characteristics with the kudan, only difference being it's associated with good luck instead of misfortune

ok this is kind of a nonsense theory but can you imagine. at the very least, theres a lot of very sus things about kurahashi specifically regarding ebisu. on the off chance he is a bai ze, it would make this image very funny

beniko the zashiki warashi, an auspicious youkai; sano the god of pestilence, but as a person brings haruaki good luck; and then kurahashi, whats his deal man?

thats all i have to say! lemme paste this into google docs for a word count-

oh. oh no. what the fuck how did this happen wasnt this a tl note

anyway hope u enjoyed this tl-note-turned-ebisu-kurahashi-analysis post! there's still way more i could analyse of ebisu and i'll probably do that someday. i could pick apart every word he says and still not know what his deal is

#rambles #youkai gakkou no sensei hajimemashita #a terrified teacher at ghoul school #yohaji #mysteries of the universe: how did i get this much tl note out of this one lighthearted chapter

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@auntiefragile yeas *breathes so deeply*

this is gonna sound so gay but i actually like a lot of the current setlist and couldnt imagine improving those parts.... sculptures as an opener, brianstorm second, fireside and four out of five being acknowledged, pretty visitors key change in the final chorus, fuck ass arabella with the war pigs outro, cornerstone/mirrorball for the slowed down flashlight-waving moments, extending body paint as long as possible to finish the main set, I WANNA BE YOURS/STAR TREATMENT (previously discussed), doing a fake out extra verse of r u mine at the end of the encore, like its fucking nice.... they also slowed down another song but i cant remember, maybe the knee socks outro?? bring back the knee socks-my propeller transition while we're at it. TELL EM BRING OUT THE WHOLE OCEAN

crucially i would bring back the slowed down don't sit down from when i saw them in 2018, and while im over in that part of my life i would also bring out one point perspective and the is this it cover. and together i think that does make a coherent setlist. if they have the energy for some personal freebies then i would also add if you were there beware, fright lined dining room, one for the road, all my own stunts, and the bakery to make 21 songs, but idk if they make that much sense with this setlist so i begrudgingly accept their material absence

i would love to hear hello you live debut but i know they will never fucking do that so i gotta hope they get canceled so they have to resort to playing the car in its entirety to their leftover pretentious fans...

but yeah i do not have many quibbles with these setlists even though theyre not reinventing the wheel AND alex forgot all of tbhc during my night 1. i hate multiple songs that they keep dragging the carcasses of onto the stage night after night, but they make sense dramaturgically and im at peace with that. basically ive really learned the difference between "my favorite songs to listen to while having a main character moment in my room" and "the objectively best songs to sing along to while having a main character moment in a crowd of teenage girls"