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crancisfrozier · 5 months

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Rewatching RTD era Doctor Who and thinking about how Journey’s End is more of a celebration of the history and spirit of Doctor Who than the 50th anniversary ever was

#anti moffat #it’s the way the emphasis is on the journey of the doctor and the people he meets and the family he surrounds himself with #the ordinary people who become extraordinary because of him #while everything about Moffat DW is meant to highlight how super duper Uber special the doctor is #all the heart and gentleness lobotomized to make it c o o l and s e x y

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universallovebot · 2 years

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one thing i really love about humans is that we laugh when we are alone. there is no one to show our delight to, no one who we must perform for, no social cue to politely pick up on, and yet, when reading a book, watching a movie, seeing something funny happen outside the window, we laugh. we laugh not because we have to or because we have learned to, but because it is our natural reaction to joy. we laugh because we want to

#and idk that feels really special to me #peoplehood #love #humanity #humans #people #on being human #the extraordinary ordinary #i live so i love #mine.

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stellaluna33 · 7 months

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I can never, ever forget that when I was 13, the school paper ran a "little-known facts about your teachers" column, and one of the teachers (science, I think?) said that she and her husband eloped just one week after meeting, while she was engaged to someone else! And they were still married like thirty years later! And I need, I NEED to hear the rest of that story! I want to watch a MOVIE about that story!

#Twue Wuve!#I love that you never really know what kind of extraordinary lives the 'ordinary' people around you might be living #Like. She was just your average middle-aged woman!#But apparently she was also the romantic lead in some kind of sweeping drama that's not supposed to happen in 'real life!'

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 1 year

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"All of God's people are ordinary people who have been made extraordinary by the purpose he has given them." - Oswald Chambers

#God's people #ordinary #extraordinary purpose #Oswald Chambers #Christian Quotes

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dhoopkikiran · 1 year

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We are just normal people doing ✨(extra)ORDINARY THINGS✨

Wash every bowl, every dish as if you are bathing a baby- breathing in, feeling joy; breathing out, smiling. Every minute can be a holy, sacred minute.

Where do you seek the spiritual? You seek the spiritual in every ORDINARY THING that you do every day. Sweeping the floor, watering the vegetables, and washing the dishes become holy and sacred if mindfulness is there. With mindfulness and concentration, everything becomes spiritual.

#normal people #ordinary things #extraordinary #aesthetic #quotes #positivity

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theimpossiblescheme · 1 year

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this phenomenal cat

#Happy Halloween 'Cats' fandom--have a magic boy! :D #cats the musical #mistoffelees #if music be the food of love play on #As ever thank you to Jemi for some brilliant song recommendations. <3 #I definitely wanted to lean into Spooky!Misto and the idea of him being some kind of otherworldly creature among the Jellicles #and I also wanted him to seem... timeless in a way like even if he was just an ordinary cat he's still an old extraordinary soul.#There's also some water imagery since I headcanon both of his parents being ship's cats.#I'm actually pretty damn proud of this--I hope people enjoy it!

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afieldinengland · 10 months

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one of the most real things about the thick of it is that across two different parties and genuinely seven years the policies do not change at all

#1. coalface politics 2. 'ordinary people being extraordinary' 3. fourth sector 4. 'here to hear' <- literally it

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rivalkieran · 7 months

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ethan and barry are kind of similar. actually

#solis.txt #Im having thoughts.#ordinary guys surrounded by extraordinary people... both of them get kinda insecure bcz of it...#granted barry does not. go to the extent ethan does to escape his situation but. yknow

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greatwyrmgold · 9 months

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How did the Shibuya Incident and the onset of the Culling Game affect the civilians of Tokyo?

Most of the textual evidence that I've been able to find comes from the first half of chapter 137.

Two pages are spent showing the lights going out over a decent chunk of the Kanto area, which is appropriately creepy but not informative.

Three pages of disembodied speech bubbles over damaged skyscrapers, which is a great way to get across the vibes of distant jujutsu (and possibly mundane) authorities arguing about how to handle a crisis and actually provides some information.

Four pages of a lonely kid scrounging for supplies in an abandoned store, which transitions into a brief action sequence. The latter is useless for me; the former shows us the Culling Game status quo, which is helpful, even if it doesn't explain how we got there.

Also, Chapter 160 shows that residents of Sendai City were moved out of the Culling Game barrier when the game properly started. But that seems incompatible with what we see in Tokyo, and there obviously wasn't a Shibuya Incident in Sendai.

That's not a lot of data. I'm going to focus my analysis on the speech bubbles, because that's where almost all the relevant information is. And where better to start than some of the first speech bubbles on the first page? Those explicitly state:

At least ten million cursed spirits were released into Tokyo during/after the Shibuya Incident

The status of high-ranking government officials, specifically "the acting prime minister's office," is unknown to whoever's talking.

"The 23 wards are almost completely destroyed."

For people who don't watch as much anime as me, I should clarify: Those wards aren't magic barriers or anything. The urban core of Tokyo (corresponding to its 1936 borders) is divided into 23 tokubetsu-ku, usually translated as "city" or "ward". Without getting into the administrative weeds, "the 23 wards" informally refers to Tokyo the city, as opposed to Tokyo the prefecture (which is full of ordinary towns, villages, and cities).

Look, it means Tokyo was almost completely destroyed.

It's not clear what this means. "Destroyed" is a vague adjective! The buildings are mostly intact, as we see in both chapter 137 and the rest of the Culling Game arc. And there are a lot of survivors, as I'm about to discuss. I guess the infrastructure got wrecked?

Anyways, survivors. The speech bubbles discuss evacuation plans for "roughly five million residents at minimum". For comparison, in 2020, Tokyo's 23 wards had a population of 9.73 million; it would have been slightly lower in November 2018, when the Culling Game arc takes place.

So on one hand, they're expecting millions of deaths; on the other hand, they're expecting most people to get out of the city alive. Despite the 23 wards being "almost completely destroyed."

It's not clear how those evacuation orders would work. But apparently, the speech bubble people just accept that they will get most people out of Tokyo if they try. Despite the normal problems with evacuation orders, how those problems escalate if you try to evacuate over 5 million people at once, and the fact that cursed spirits outnumber humans in Tokyo.

The second and third pages focus more on stuff like the Japan Business Federation getting pissed at them, whether the public should be informed about cursed spirits, the possibility of foreign intervention, and how all of this affects the value of the yen. That does a pretty good job of characterizing the speech bubbles, but it also obfuscates what the civilians are dealing with.

This might be a good time to mention that Gege Akatami seems to have some pretty optimistic assumptions about where these five million refugees will be living. The speech bubbles discuss extreme measures of where they could house the five million refugees—anywhere with basic infrastructure, like campsites, ghost towns, and love hotels. I'm kinda curious how many ghost towns have functional infrastructure, but I'd rather clown a little on Akatami for thinking that recreational campsites and f*king hotels are last-ditch evacuation locations and not the best-case scenario.

(I'm starting to get the sense that Gege Akatami wants us to worry about the consequences of his villain's plots and not their setups. Well, I'm not outlining any fanfics set during the plot's consequences!)

So the sense I'm getting is that a bunch of stuff got busted, and a bunch of people were killed by cursed spirits and curse users, but most of them got out there alive and were housed in love hotels and ghost towns. Which is...not much.

#jujutsu kaisen #manga #culling games #speculation #jjk spoilers #seriously though #why are so few authors even remotely interested in showing what things are like for ordinary people in their extraordinary worlds #or how the extraordinary events happening in them affect those people?

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waitineedaname · 1 year

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If you made a just some guy tournament I have a couple ideas of guys who'd be good candidates but the problem is they're way too niche and would get eliminated immediately. I'm talking guys like Kevin J. James from Guaranteed* Video or fuckin uh. Ando Masahashi from Heroes

I mean, don't let nicheness hold you back! you never know what kind of results you'll get. though I will say, I haven't figured out exactly how I'd be running it yet, but I'm probably gonna not allow real people, so Kevin J. James wouldn't work. but fictional characters are fair game!

#asks #anonymous #I'll probably set up a google forms for submissions if I end up doing it #so people can submit characters + reasoning #and I encourage you to go as niche as you want bc I'll probably include the reasonings people give in the polls themselves #but I don't think I'll allow real people #even though it would be very funny to put jerma in there #but I think the way I'm defining Just Some Guy #is like a very ordinary person in a very extraordinary situation #so for example I'll definitely be including reigen (a non-psychic surrounded by psychics and spirits)#and ethan winters (just some wifeguy forced to fight zombies)#so if your guy fits those parameters I say go for it #NOT until I get it set up of course #and I haven't even decided if I'm actually gonna do it yet #I'm still waiting on the poll results #I hate that I can't see results unless I vote myself #I don't want to skew things

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blorbosexterminator · 2 years

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Thinking of berlermo this fine morning

#I miss them a lot all of a sudden #and just-what an extraordinary thing they are. This love borne out from two extraordinary people looking in the same direction. that spot #that no one else but them saw #realizing that the abyss they were staring at was Seen and recogonized by one other person in the world #this insant intimacy of sharing one abyss #This self-recoignition in two people who knew they didn't fit in this world in anyway. desperate to reach the beyond #and finding the one person in the world they would ever want or could share this unsharable journey with #the one person who is incidently already what the other wants to be #the perfect symmetry between them beyond any ordinary affection or desire or tenderness #going Insane over them once again #No one can do it like them.#also yes this shitshow is because of Pedro's weird-ass poem azsjakaka literally anything this man ever says about them Sends me #A God looking in the mirror #what a fucking quote #no offense to any berlermo fic writer but literally no one including Alex Pina and Co would ever understand the essence of Berlermo more #than Pedro #the Things he says #the god and mirror thing genuinely lives in my head rent free #it already is the core of everything berlermo I write but I still have the Urge to write smth again that is fully revolving around this #the love in the eyes of two madmen!!!!!!!!!!!#MAN

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evanthefunky · 2 years

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Me: *works as a front desk receptionist*

Me: damn I could make an oc about this

#lil sprinkle of 'ordinary people get thrown into extraordinary circumstances'#the gray man #top gun maverick

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ashitakaxsan · 2 days

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Into the Timeless Romance Of "Maison Ikkoku"

"Dive into the Timeless Romance of Maison Ikkoku: A Tale of Love, Laughter, and Second Chances 💕✨ Takahashi Rumiko once described Maison Ikkoku as 'a story about ordinary people living in a shared house, filled with laughter and tears.'

She says:"Maison Ikkoku was relatively easy to create. That’s because my own personality is in some ways like you added Kyoko and Godai together and divided by two. Sometimes I’m indecisive and sometimes I’m selfish (laughs)." And indeed, this beloved manga transcends the bounds of time with its heartwarming narrative and relatable characters.

In Maison Ikkoku, we follow the journey of Yusaku Godai, a young student residing in the chaotic boarding house Maison Ikkoku, and Kyoko Otonashi, the beautiful and enigmatic manager of the establishment. As their paths intertwine amidst the backdrop of daily life, misunderstandings, and comedic mishaps, a tender romance blossoms, fraught with obstacles and second chances.

Takahashi's masterful storytelling brings to life a cast of characters so vivid and endearing that they feel like old friends."

Below:Not only Yusaku and Kyoko,there are the other two tenants of Ikkoku:Akemi and Mr Yotsuya.

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modernwitnesses · 4 days

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Nancy B.

Today, Nancy speaks to us about how God called her into her ministry, her podcast Ordinary People Extraordinary Things, and why you need to tell your story. Tell us a bit about how you grew up and your childhood: I grew up on an acreage in rural Iowa with my mom, dad, sister, and brother. My dad owned his own business (and still does) doing carpentry work. By watching him build spec houses and…

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#Christianity #faith #hearing God&039;s voice #inspiration #journalism #life #lifestyle #ministry #Ordinary People Extraordinary Things #personal #podcast #relationships #testimony #truth #writing

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halflingkima · 1 month

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the point of doctor who to me – at least rtd era – is that the normal people, everyday people, are important. they're the ones who save the day every episode.

and mft smashes that with a hammer practically every episode he gets his hands on.

#like rtd feels very much like ordinary people doing extraordinary things (by choice)#mft feels like the companions are anomalies he happens to stumblr across #he latches onto amy bc of the crack in her wall; river because she's living backwards; clara because she dies twice; etc etc #currently watching tag

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loveindeeair · 1 month

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Effortlessly.

#Ordinary #ExtraOrdinary #BeautifulPeople #Writing

#ordinary #extraordinary #beautiful people #writing #journal #journaling

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