Would you mind if I ask of all characters only Amy still use her game clothes.
Is there any reason? It's interesting to look at
I based the characters and their outfits off sonic adventure 1, and so her outfit design already fits what i want to go with (with only minor changes).
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Okay I'm riled up about this rn so time for a history of economics lesson (rant) from me, a stranger on the internet
I'm a communist, I hate capitlism, so lemme just put that out there. But capitlism had its moments. Even marx had some praise for parts of capitlism.
And by far the most successful form of capitlism was Keynesian economics, as evident by the enormous increase in living standards in those countries which adopted it between the 1930s and 1970s.
What's Keynesian economics? The idea that capitlism can't survive on its own, and must be supported by government spending at the poorest ends of society and taxes at the richest ends of society (essentially the opposite of trickle down economics) as well as strong regulations on certain industries like banking.
It basically started in 1936 with President Roosevelt who was a personal friend of John Keynes (who the theory is named after).
Roosevelt implemented Keynesian economics to great effect; he raised the top tax rate to 94% (he actually wanted a 100% tax rate on the highest incomes, essentially creating a maximum wage, but the senate negotiated down to 94%) and similarly high corporate tax rates, he created the first ever minimum wage, created the first ever unemployment benefit, created social security in America, pension funds, and increased public spending on things like public utilities and infrastructure, national parks, etc. Which created about 15 million public sector jobs.
This ended the great depression and eventually lead to America winning world War 2, after which many countries followed suit in implementing similar policies, including UK, Australia, and NZ (apologies for the anglosphere-centric list here but they're the countries I'm personally most familiar with so bare with me)
Over the next 40 years these countries had unprecedented growth in living standards and incomes, and either decreasing or stable wealth inequality, and housing prices increasing in line with inflation. Virtually every household bought a car and a TV, rates of higher education increased dramatically, america put a man on the moon, and so on.
Then it all abruptly ended in the 80s and the answer is plain and obvious. 1979 thatcher became UK prime minister. 1981 reagan became US president. 1983 the wage accords were signed in aus. 1984 was the start of rogernomics in NZ (Someone link that Twitter thread of the guy who posts graphs of economic trends and points out where reagan became president)
(Also worth noting those last two in NZ and Aus were both implemented by 'left' leaning governments, but they are both heavily associated with right wing policies.)
This marked the beginning of trickle down economics: tax cuts, privatization of publicly owned assets, reduction in public spending, and deregulation of the finance sector. The top tax rates are down to the low 30s in most of these countries, down from the 80s/90s it was prior. Now THATS a tax cut.
And what happened next?
Wages stagnated. Housing prices skyrocketed. Bankers got away with gambling on the economy. Public infrastruce and utilies degraded. And wealth inequality now exceeds France in 1791.
I don't know how anyone can deny the evidence if they see it, but there's so much propaganda and false information that a lot of people just don't see the evidence.
Literally all the evidence supports going back to Keynesian economics but now that the rich have accumulated so much wealth it's virtually impossible to democratically dethrone them when they have most of the politicians on both the right and the left in their pocket.
Unfortunately it was the great depression and ww2 that gave politicians the political power to implement these policies the first time around. Some thought the 2008 crash would spur movement back towards Keynesianism (which it actually did in Iceland, congrats to them), I hoped covid would force governments to now, but nope.
All these recent crises' seem to have just pushed politics further and further right, with more austerity and tax cuts.
I don't really have a message or statement to end on other than shits fucked yo.
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Bodies and Souls- part 2/2
(Part1)
A little explaination below
This is based of the theory that Yuuji's cursed technique is the ability to swap souls (therefore swapping bodies, hinted in chapter 222(?) when Yuuji and Kusakabe seemed to have done so while training).
Yuuji uses this to swap souls with Megumi to get him out of there, and takes control of Sukuna's body because his soul is stronger than Sukuna's body (shown in the story previously with Suguru taking over Kenjaku momentarily, and Toji taking over that Grandson dude's body when brought back, both in S2).
Just incase it didn't make sense the person in page 3 is Megumi in Yuuji's body after the swap and the second last one is yuuji's soul.
Oof I've had this theory literally since jjk222 but wasn't sure how it'd play out but now it clicked so I'm glad I was able to make this heh
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Tears of Kingdom actually makes Zelda and Ganondorf's dynamic hilarious cause it really gets summed up to "oh God it's this bitch again" but like at very different points in time
Like with Ganon in BoTW he took over the Sheikah technology, killed the Champions and the Hero, and he's so close to conquering Hyrule after 10,000+ years. But the one standing in his way ... is that fucking girl that kept glaring at him when he showed up to Hyrule Castle all those years ago and Zelda has no idea what so ever that Ganon's bitterness is on a personal level during their 100 year battle at the castle.
And meanwhile Zelda in ToTK is launched way back into the past and is trying to piece together what led to the events of the Imprisoning War... only for origin of evil to stroll right into the castle. And now she's gotta figure out how to stop Ganon from fucking over Hyrule of the past and the future. But Ganon honestly has no clue how this seemingly random girl is already suspecting him before he could even get in a word.
It's unbridled anger at both ends while the other has no clue whatsoever
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I will cry when I see Patroclus and Achilles again in Hades 2
I KNOW YOU'RE THERE SOMEWHERE 😭 I'll never forget seeing Patroclus in the background in the Hades 2 teaser trailer
I miss him, I miss THEM Achilles and Patroclus have been rotting my brain since winter of 2022 when I had covid :') 👍 They have not gone away dude
Followers should know I reblog a patrochilles piece every now and then
They're also on my Toyhouse casually LMAO so I see them often 💪
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My Demon Slayer OC, he’s my silly lil’ guy. His name is Hikaru and he’s an orphan, of course. This lil’ guy is 19 years old and the light of my life
And he’s a water breather, he was one of the students who attempted to train under Kyojuro rengoku but couldn’t. He knows exactly one flame breathing move TT he’s trying He’s all about trying to be as kind and giving as possible and the haori he wears is his mother’s <3
Some traditional sketches of this fella -> he likes tying back his haori sleeves when he fights
They travels with two other people who I’m gonna draw soon.
Hikaru looks pretty feminine and is sometimes mistaken for a women. Often times people can’t really tell and often refer to the them as ‘they.’ He doesn’t really mind, he doesn’t feel like either
(He’s agender he just doesn’t know it)(He’s me as a kid when I simply had 0 concept of gender)
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This is Leo from my seperated au.
He was found by Big Mama and after using DNA testing to conclude that he was some way related to Lou Jitsu, he was instantly trained to preform in the battle nexus as Leo Jitsu and later changed it to Neon Leon. He's not happy with Big Mana and desprately wants to find Lou Jitsu to get some answers of what happened and hopefully become a family again, but he thinks that Big Mama is the only one who knows the location. She says that she'll tell him when he's old enough to understand, but she doesn't know where Lou Jitsu is and intends to keep pulling Leo along as long as she can.
Here's the Masterpost!!!
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