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somanyants · 1 year
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I had previously gotten the impression that covalent chlorine and fluorine (as opposed to ionic) were generally very bad for biology, tending to be very toxic. (From various indirect sources. The only one I can name for sure was the novel Zodiac (1988), which is fiction but from an author who usually does his research very thoroughly.)
But you said in your recent Teflon post that carbon-fluorine bonds are very nonreactive and safe. So was that impression completely wrong, or is it just other forms of covalent halogens that are dangerous, or what?
Starting with a little FYI, I received a couple of asks as a result of the Teflon post. I definitely won’t answer all of them 1.) because I want to limit myself to confident answers about things that are either my specific field of expertise (which is mostly metals) or things I 100% learned in my coursework and 2.) I’m mostly here to shitpost about anime and I’d rather talk less about my day job. With that out of the way…
Halogens! Everyone’s favorite column on the periodic table including Flourine, Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine. Your assumptions here are mostly correct, halogen containing organic molecules are often very bad for your body. This is because of the fact that halogen salts are very stable and so C–Cl, C–Br, and C–I have a tendency to break, react with things and generally muck around in the very wet insides of our cells. In particular they often react with DNA which is why they’re carcinogenic. This is also why the corresponding salts won’t hurt us, they’ve already hit their most stable point. This reactivity is also part of the reason they’re very useful industrially. It’s extremely important that manufacturers dispose of such waste appropriately because on top of its biological danger they also tend to be potent greenhouse gasses for unrelated reasons.
Fluorine, however is a little different. C–F bonds very rarely break, especially aliphatic C–F bonds like you find in teflon. The reason SOME Florine compounds are toxic is actually the exact opposite of the other halogens. The enzymes that make our bodies function are extremely specialized, and often their job looks like this: grab a molecule, rip off a C–H bond, replace that bond with something else, let go of molecule, repeat. What can happen is that your body will grab a molecule without being able to distinguish between hydrogen and fluorine, try to break that bond, then get stuck when it can’t. The enzyme then has a hard time letting go of the fluorinated molecule and is essentially disabled. Because enzymes are so specific in what they grab onto you often see this mechanism used in pharmaceuticals because the fluorinated medicine will disable for example, specific enzymes in bacteria, without getting picked up by any of the enzymes in your body. This is why Teflon is safe, literally no where for an enzyme to grab hold and get messed up. PFAS’s are a little more complicated because they also have an acid group at the end but for the most part they aren’t something your cells are looking to grab onto and try to digest.
Also, bucking the trend again, you don’t want to fuck with fluorine ions that much. We’ve all seen Breaking Bad (I actually haven’t, lmao), HF, hydrofluoric acid, will literally eat your bones. If you get HF on your skin there’s a special cream you have to apply as soon as possible and repeatedly for weeks after, because that HF will just keep trying to get to your bones even after you’ve washed it off the surface. Fortunately, no one in their right mind works with it and you are very unlikely to encounter it unless Mr. White tells you it’s time to cook.
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nothorses · 2 years
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Are there transmasc horses?
This sounds like a shitpost ask, and I guess it sorta is, but I keep think about that Lioness who actually acts like a Lion and appears like a Lion, and I thought, oh I wonder if there's horses like that and if it would be noticeable to us humans!
I did some poking around, and this is the closest thing I could find to a decent source on the question:
Horses haven’t been studied to the extent that, say, chimpanzees have, and we complicate matters by gelding most of the males. But there’s anecdotal evidence of stallions and geldings who seemed to prefer each other to members of the opposite gender, and mares likewise. Some mares seem very stallion-y in their manners and priorities; some stallions seem to be less aggressive than usual. Observation points toward a spectrum of personalities and apparent gender characteristics in horses. Could a horse be transgender? Gender dysphoria in humans isn’t well understood, and we can’t ask a horse if she feels more like a stallion than a mare. But I actually have a mare here whose hormones and plumbing are normal, who actively resisted being bred even when in heat (when mares as a rule just Want That Boy Now), and whom in general I handle as if she were an intact male. Slacking off on that gets me physically hurt. I have no way of telling if she’s gender-dysphoric, but she certainly isn’t in the normal mare spectrum when it comes to her responses. She gets along well with other mares, shows no sexual interest in them. When turned out with the stallion, she got along with him, too—but she wouldn’t let him breed her. She goes into and out of estrus on a regular schedule. Maybe she’s asexual or aromantic? Again I can’t ask, but also again, she’s definitely on a different spectrum. I’ve met male horses, too, who seemed not to function well with hormones. When they matured from babies into adolescents, they seemed anxious and confused. Once gelded, they settled down with what looked remarkably like relief.
I think if we understand gender as being a combination of biological (physical), biological (mental), social, and cultural, it tracks that any animal could feasibly be a gender other than the one assigned to them based on their genitalia.
They may not have culture around their gender, or any real awareness of or relationship to one if they do, but they may still just Be a different gender; and we have no way of understanding whether they experience dysphoria, but perhaps some of them would be happier with a different body than the one they have.
That's all speculation, but I can personally attest to seeing a lot of the same personalities described in the quote above. What it means is up for debate, though, and whether it could be interpreted the way we interpret human gender is even more uncertain.
Sexual dimorphism in horses is pretty minor, generally speaking; the only real physical difference, generally speaking, is strictly genital configuration. There are behavioral patterns across genders, but no one singular rule. Personalities will differ in a herd environment vs. alone or with humans, and we don't always know what to ascribe personality traits to anyway (Pain/sickness? Training? Upbringing? There are a lot of external factors to consider before we take biological factors into consideration).
So idk! I think there are probably horses we'd interpret as trans out there, but I don't think we could determine that any singular horse is Definitely Trans in one specific way.
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roseydeloom · 4 years
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Gremlin Izuku
Ok so this is a continuation of this post that @lovelyflowerlov and I are working on. It started as a shitpost and now we’re here and living our best lives. I’m making this separate just because the other is getting too long to scroll through. Click the link for context on the AU
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Before some more Battle Trial stuff (which I will get to later) I thought about what exactly Izuku’s quirk and appearance is.
Quirk
Possible Quirk names: Gremlin, Unhinged, Energize
Because we’re having Izuku be a Gremlin Boi™ and thus have, in the words of flower, “Teeth that are even more sharp than a shark, Amazing Bouncy Skills™, never ending enthusiasm, a night owl, and Bastard™ Energy” I say that his quirk is the ability to inhibit the body’s inborn limiters. You know, the things that make it so you don’t tear your muscles from bones everytime you use them. A common example being how your jaw is strong enough to bite off your finger, but your brain prevents you. Mainly basing this off hysterical strength and this video. Izuku can consciously turn this limiter off, both on himself and others. He could chomp his fingers like carrots if he wanted to. But it’s not just muscle limiters
You know that little voice in your head that tells you not to do or say stuff? The social conventions you know to follow, and thus what to do or say? The things that limit your actions? Ya, Izuku’s quirk prevented him from getting that. Though he does kinda have the opposite of it, explained later. He has to actively think about what he can and can’t do in a situation, and sometimes he just forgets or doesn’t understand that there are unspoken “rules” he needs to follow or behaviors he shouldn’t express. When activated on another person, they no longer feel pressured to act a specific way. His quirk also encourages reckless behavior; acting without care for possible harm to self. Izuku has grown up with this urge so he has learned how to fight it off, and actually has remarkable self control to not do 90% of the stuff his quirk tells him to. Not so much the case for people who have this pushed onto them for the first time. Kinda like Trigger and making people act differentenly :)
Example: during the Entrance Exam when he saw Uraraka trapped under gravel and the 0 pointer coming closer, his first instinct was to destroy the robot. To him, the rubble wasn’t the immediate threat and instead the robot that was walking towards her was. Shinsou was the one to convince him to try getting the debris off her first, and go from there. Only after that failed did Shinsou let Izuku enact his insane plan of eating the 0 pointer’s wires (which Izuku then teased Shinsou with the fact it worked and we should have just done that first, Hitoshi)
Because he can use all his muscles whenever he desires, his body naturally has a higher glucose stockpile than normal people to make up for the fact he will use more ATP working a higher volume of muscles (since muscle contractions use energy and glucose is the first energy storage the body burns through). However, he also needs to burn through that energy or else he risks damaging his nerves because of too much glucose in the blood (reason for nerve damage in diabetic people). Thus, he naturally has a higher energy level than other people so he jumps jumps jumps, has never ending enthusiasm, and always likes to be doing stuff. Tapping his foot, twirling his pencil, humming, analysising and writing in his notebook. This does infact burn his energy; mental fatigue is a thing my dudes. This also makes it so he loves to cause chaos, mischief, create pranks, and generally be a little nuisance, since it requires careful planning and energy running around to set it up, but that’s mainly just him being a little Bastard™
Appearance
So I definitely like the idea of him having sharp teeth and being shorter than cannon. I also think this boy would have BIG BONES to make up for the extra stress his quirk puts on them when his muscles are used. This translates into Izuku being a bit more on the chunky side, along with the natural ability to grow big muscles as, once again, a defense mechanism against his quirk. Sum up: he’s that dude that has always been on the bigger side and won’t get stick thin no matter how hard he tries, but when he flexes his arms turn into pure muscle and he can jump over your head from a standing jump. So basically chubby bulky
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[Sources: 1 and 2, 3. These images are close to what I’m thinking]
Also I thing he would be darker skinned since he runs around outside in the sun constantly to burn off energy, so he got at least a tan from all that
Quirk Apprehension Test
So once Flower mentioned that we totally just forgot about this part of the plot, I proceeded to laugh for like 5 minutes over the fact we did. I totally forgot this existed until you mentioned it. My idea is as follows
Aizawa: This test is to gauge your abilities, quirks, and potential to be a hero. You are to use your quirks during the test to increase your scores
Some idiot: This sounds fun! We get to use quirks!
Aizawa: Fun? How about this: whoever comes last gets expelled
Class: *shouting*
Shinsou: *worried because his quirk doesn’t help him physically*
Izuku, manic grin spreading across face and turns to Shinsou: *whispers* I have an idea. I’ll use my quirk to help both our scores
They then proceed to complete the test with Shinsou getting better scores than he should be able to get. Aizawa knows this since, while he doesn’t read the entire file on students so he can form his own opinions, he does look over the basic info of name, photo, and quirk name/description. Shinsou shouldn’t be doing this well, and he also acts differently once it’s his turn to preform. Aizawa sees Shinsou and Izuku being more comfortable with one another than they would be if they just met, and in addition to the fact they were together during the Entrance Exam, he guesses that they’re friends and Izuku is using his quirk to bost Shinsou. During Shinsou’s turn for the ball toss, Aizawa cancels Izuku’s quirk so Shinsou no longer receive its effects and throws the ball a lot shorter than everyone expected
Aizawa, glaring at Izuku: I knew it. You’re using your quirk to help your friend
Izuku, turning and smirking: And? What about it?
Aizawa: I could expel you both right now for cheating and interfering with results of a test
Shinsou: *face deadpan but shitting his pants, hoping Izuku will weasel their way out of this*
Izuku, gremlin smirk forming: No you won’t, Eraserhead. If you were doing this test you would have used your quirk to cancel your clasmates’ quirks to put you on a even playing field. I’m doing the exact opposite and helping. Plus, you only said “use your quirks during the test to increase your scores.” You didn’t forbid using our quirks to affect other people’s scores, nor saying we could only increase our own score.
Aizawa, cheshire grin: So you are related to your brother. Alright. Shinsou, throw the ball again and Midoriya, you can use your quirk
Shinsou, thinking: how is always able to pull us out of repercussions for our actions?
Battel Trial
Finally back to what this whole things should have been about! Jeez that took forever and I’m starting to get sleepy typing
Based on the pros and cons you gave and also what amusing me the most because I’ve writing this for 5 hours is that the Villains (Shinsou and Uraraka) should win.
Once Izuku gets over the fact he’s having to battle his basically second brother, Shinsou calms him down and tells him it’s fine, just pretend we’re sparing with Tenko again, he gets pumped af to brawl. Maybe a little too hyped up, since it makes his energy levels twice the ridiculous amount they were before and makes him even more jumpy and animated. Iida interprets this as him not taking things seriously and chastises him for it, which pisses Izuku off because he is taking it seriously. It’s just not being expressed in the way Iida expects it to be expressed. So, he’s definitely not as helpful to him as he could be while in the planning phase, and might have made things a bit harder than they needed to be when explaining the blueprint, just to annoy him.
Shinsou and Uraraka don’t have this problem and quickly come up with the idea to put the bomb on the roof. This is so Uraraka can use her quirk to send things high into the sky with only her nausea as the limit instead of the ceiling, and they’ll bring some more ruble and boxes up there too so she has ammo. She’ll try to stay as quiet as she can to guard and hide the bomb while Shinsou is a few levels below to make the heros think the bomb is there.
A trick they have up their sleeves is that Uraraka noticed that the blueprints had really weird airducts (something only she would notice because it’s so minor) and when they went to check it out, the airducts were actually tunnels disguised as airducts. So now the villains have a way of getting around that the heros don’t, and won’t be seen. With Uraraka directing him from the blueprints, Shinsou has his own private hallways! He can definitely use this in combination with his voice changer :)
I’m not too sure how the fight would go down, but some parts I think would happen is Shinsou trolling them from inside the tunnel with his voice changer. I don’t think he would spring the mind control on him just yet, Izuku taught him to have Fun™ afterall, and would switch between Inko’s and Tenko’a voices while messing with him. I just want my baby to create some psychological torture ok Another thing would be them finding the bomb on the roof and when Izuku’s about to grab it, that’s when Shinsou uses his mind control with AFO’s voice. I’m guessing they had some family videos with him in it so that’s how we knew what his voice sounded like.
Like you said when Izuku got controlled he was in a jump so when he fell he breaks out, but at that point Uraraka had moved the bomb and Shinsou is dealing with Iida. They’re running out of time so Iida and Izuku are starting to become a little desperate, so Iida yells at Izuku to use his quirk on him to make him extra fast so he can grab the bomb. He does, but Iida doesn’t expect it to be so powerful since the other times in the exercise Izuku used it on him he was holding back. Iida becomes a knockoff Sonic and shoot towards the bomb way faster than he expected. He didn’t expect to go the speed of Retro Burst without trying, so he overshoots it and ends up falling off the ledge near Izuku. He’s able to catch himself on the roof, but he’s not able to pull himself up without help and he’s starting to slip. Izuku has to pick between the bomb and Iida, and he decides to save Iida. While pulling him back up the timer goes off and the villains win.
Iida thanks him for saving him while Izuku just kinda goes “Duh, I wasn’t gonna let you get badly hurt if I could stop it. Annoy and inconvenience maybe, but not hurt. Of course I picked you. Anyways gotta go bug Hitoshi”
Just because Izuku is a dramatic bitch, while they’re walking back Izuku jumps unto Shinsou’s back and starts rambling to Uraraka and Shinsou about how cool their plan was, asking about the voices in the hallway and Shinsou’s new mask, clarifying some parts of their plan he didn’t get, and just generally being very animated and his talkative, analyzing self. Iida starts to think that maybe he was too quick to judge the green bean
#bnha#midoriya izuku#gremlin izuku#my writing#gremlin izuku au#look i just finished a 8 hour shift that was HELLA slow#so i probably had like 6 hours of doing nothing but messing around in my head#and i decided to play with this au for 6 fucking hours#so I got Ideas™#also I think for the mental part of the quirk I might have just made him autistic#i realized that while writing that ‘wait this is basically the situation for neurodivergent people in respect to social expectations’#so his quirk might just be ‘Socially Accepted Neurodivergent but with benefits’#if anyone has a problem with this tell me and I’ll gladly change the specifics#don’t wanna hurt anyone or spread false info#also I know that this has the tone of speaker to the reader instead of talking to you Flower#i blame the fact that this is the first part of the new log and the content made me go into Academic Essay mode#I’ll go back to talking to you in the post in the next part#also the entire 8 hours I was at work I kept going back and forth on who should win becauss they both have nice consquences#eventually I just went ‘fuck it’ and picked Shinsou since that adds some nice Angst of him winning as a villain#and the heros infighting biting them in the butt#also I do want them to be better friends down the line (Iida and Izuku)#but right now their body languages clash and they don’t understand eachother so they do as teens do#and fight amongst themselves because of miscommunication and lashing out against things they don’t understand#the more i write about this Izuku I realize I *definitely* made him have something like quirk induced high functioning autisum or similar#neurodivergent characters!!!!!#am i including the things I want to see in media in this Izuku?#why yes i am#once again add anything you can think of! This was the result of me having nothing else to think about for hours on end#also what exactly is the relationship between shinsou and izuku?#is shinsou another adopted brother? friend that hangs out with them more than his own family?
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joanofarchetype · 5 years
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A Connecticut Yankee...a kid...that's all well and good but we really don't talk enough about the werewolf in King Arthur's court
This is not a shitpost — in Le Morte D'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory makes mention of "Sir Marrok, the good knight that was betrayed with his wyf, for she made hym seven yere a wer-wolf". Of course, Malory lifted the tale of the werewolf knight straight outta "Bisclavret," which is one of the Twelve Lais of Marie de France. And it is...wild. There's also "Melion," an anonymous Breton lai which along with "Biclarel" is believed to have evolved from the same source as "Bisclavret". In this post we're gonna refer to the protagonist as the "knight" or the "wolf-knight" and tell a somewhat composite tale.
(A note: this takes place well before commonly established werewolf lore, which crystallized thanks to Universal's The Wolf Man. Curt Siodmak wrote all that stuff about the full moon and silver bullets in 1941 so well that our common imagination accepted it as ancient fact.)
So anyway our guy is a knight who disappears for a couple nights a week and his wife is like ?????? dude ??????? where ??? do you ???? go ??????
And my dude is like "babe I love you but I can't tell you because you won't look at me the same" and she's like "I am your wIFE you better tell me right quick or otherwise have a good nose for almonds in your oatmeal" (jk she doesn't say that because if she did he might've gotten a little foreshadowing of her treachery, but alas, our man was a sucker)
So the knight tells her he's a werewolf, and on the nights he disappears he's wolfing around the countryside and his wife is like !!!!!!!!!! on the inside but makes sure her face is only 🤔 on the outside
(Mind you, Marie de France goes into how the wife is grossed out because she shared her marriage bed with a beast, which has some interesting implications but we'll get to those later)
She starts digging about his transformation until he explains how in order to return to his human shape, he *needs* to put his human clothes back on or else he'll be stuck as a wolf, at which point wifey is 👀👀👀👀
Wifey's like, "but if ur in wolf form, how do u remember where u put ur clothes lol" and the knight's like, "no no, I retain my human mind even in wolf form and besides, I always put them under this one rock outside this cave"
now bear in mind he's never been able to talk about this to anyone so he's pouring his heart out about his deepest secret which he kept even from his wife & I know we're all pretty used to medieval repression but imagine how it must have felt to share this secret at long last 😥
So to recap:
knight: 🤵🏻🛡🐾🌕🐺🤫😅😍♥️💐 wifey: 👰🏼💭🤢🤔👀🧐💡💡👔💍🔪🔪🔪
Our knight is like "yeah so I was born this way and it's just a part of who I am and whew it's kind of a relief to finally be talking about it with someone"
Wifey nods along 🤔🤔🤔 because she's had a💡moment and is 🍳 up a plan...
so the knight has unleashed (pun intended) his secret for the first time in this life and is feeling just dandy, but what he doesn't know is his wife is already plotting his downfall with her...LOVER (dun dun dunnn)
wifey & her secret lover steal the knight's clothes when he's transformed, essentially trapping him in wolf form, get him declared dead in absentia, marry each other & take over his lands
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and the royal court goes for this because at this point the whole kingdom knows about the knight's habit of disappearing for days at a time (because medieval nobles are messy gossipy bitches who live for that drama) so they just assume he abandoned her
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*~*ONE YEAR LATER*~* (or if you're Malory, *~*SEVEN YEARS LATER*~*)
the king & hunting party corner the wolf-knight in the woods. knight is overwhelmed at the sight of his monarch & runs up to what for all he knows might be his oblivion to kiss king's feet at which point king's like, "THAT'S NO ORDINARY WOLF. HE SHALL JOIN MY COURT IMMEDIATELY."
the wolf-knight goes to live at court where he's basically regarded as a knight (so the takeaway from this part of the lai is that a literal wild animal had a better chance of becoming a knight in ye olden days than a peasant or a woman but I digress)
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anyway so there's a celebration at court and who comes to the party but the ex-wifey's new husband, now a baron. understandably, the wolf-knight does NOT react well and attacks him, and the reaction of everyone at court at this near-mauling isn't to say "whoa whoa maybe bringing a wolf to court was a bad idea" but rather "huh, this wolf has never been hostile towards a human before so obviously this guy must've personally wronged him." which is...progressive.
so the new husband/baron/co-conspirator is all "wtf keep it away from me" and the king is like "idk man, what were you wearing? maybe you smelled like royal beef jerky at the time. seems like you were asking for it"
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king & the other barons take wolf-knight to the new baron's property. they just need to figure out what's going on because they're not ready to take sir wolf to his final veterinary visit, u feel? they're attached. now get ready for this next part because it's a doozy.
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ex-wifey hears about the king's visit so she's waiting with gifts & cakes & shit. the wolf-knight sees her & immediately BITES OFF HER NOSE & he bites it so good her progeny can feel it & henceforth all her descendants are — I SHIT YOU NOT — born noseless. talk about losing face.
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under questioning (*cough cough* torture *cough*) the wife admits to her crimes & yields the stolen clothing, which they put in front of the wolf & he just stares at them until they realize "wow yeah sorry dude our bad" and leave the room to give him privacy
when they see the wolf-knight again he's in his human form and in Marie de France's "Bisclavret" it's expressly written that the king embraces him in the bedchamber and gives him "many kisses" (hashtag heterosexual friends doing heterosexual things)
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the king restores the wolf-knight's lands and ex-wifey has to live with her ex-baron in exile, forever marked for her betrayal. some real Mark of Cain shit. (obviously this lai has a lot to say about spousal dissatisfaction but that’s another day’s dissertation)
the wolf-knight (Bisclavret, or Melion, or Marrok, or Sir Wolf or whatever you fancy calling him) not only regains his good name, but also the support of a court which now knows his secret dual nature.
something to be hated or feared, only understood and accepted. no one at court shuns him once the secret's out & no one tries to change or "heal" him of his lycanthropy.
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remember when I said we'd come back to the wife's reaction? in "Bisclavret" Marie de France specifically states that upon finding out his secret, the wife no longer wishes to "lie beside him." let's unpack that a bit by exploring similar themes across folklore.
the marriage bed serves as a common motif in tales of animal transformation. ex: in "Beauty and the Beast," the protagonist has to overcome her revulsion towards her suitor's ostensible monstrosity before she can accept his marriage proposal. traditionally these stories with mysterious, beastly husbands who are secretly a true catch serve as an allegory for arranged marriage, designed to help young women process their anxieties about being passed from their father's house to that of a strange new husband.
(we should differentiate these tales from those of an ostensibly appropriate groom who turns out to be a monster in disguise such as "Bluebeard," "Mr. Fox," and "The Robber-Bridegroom," as those deserve a detailed thread of their own but also provide good thematic contrast here)
more often the Beast is kind, patient & gives Beauty the time she needs to the detriment of his own freedom from the curse. once the protagonist gets over her anxiety, she ceases to perceive her groom as just a hulking hairy beast and he can take the shape of a prince at last.
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circling back to wolves! in most lore both ancient and modern, werewolves represent something uncontrollable; an animalistic second nature which threatens to literally tear through our well-mannered social façade. "Bisclavret" and its various incarnations don't do that.
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if you read "Bisclavret" under a queer critical lens, you can interpret the knight as bisexual; a husband has a secret duality to his nature which he is unable to express in their current social order. significantly, he is born with his lycanthropy rather than being afflicted by the sudden, violent means through which most fictional werewolves are afflicted. it's a part of who he is, and it requires no further explanation or cure.
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the wolf-knight finds freedom rather than shame in his lycanthropy, and as a result maintains both honor and control while in wolf form. unlike other famous werewolves, he doesn't function as an expression of tension between the id and the superego.
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considering how often wolves are used to imply sexual violence (see also: "Little Red Riding Hood" or its medieval predecessor, "The Grandmother's Tale") this would be a fairly positive portrayal of a bisexual man.
however, his wife doesn't see it that way and is repulsed at the thought of sleeping with him again, so she commits adultery and conspires against him. so really, the crimes in "Bisclavret" have a lot to do with sex, just not sexual violence.
the king's attachment to the wolf & the way he embraces the knight can easily be read as homoerotic. there's absolutely an argument to be made about the normalization of homosocial behavior & male kinship across eras but...two things can be true. either interpretation is valid.
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so what we have is a werewolf protagonist — not a villain or tortured anti-hero but an honorable man who isn't made to shed his lycanthropy at the end of the tale (tail). rather, he is accepted by his contemporaries and given a place in society to live as he truly is/ROLL CREDITS
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wormbook22 · 4 years
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Hello world... again
Hellooo,
Thank you for finding me! \(^o^)/
This blog is mostly to promote my favorite arts & music, plus some stuffs about audio production (technical or not).
I used to have another blog on the same topics under the same name. However, due to some issues with Tumblr support (nothing illegal I swear o.O), I now need to create another one.
What you’ll find here:
Reviews of mostly non-mainstream musicians and their works (albums, singles, soundtracks, lives, operas etc.)
My journey of sound exploration, including discussion of music genres, recording techniques, instrument design etc.
(Sometimes) Other stuffs: books, art films, anime, paintings, comics, manga, sculptors, 3D rendering etc.
MINIMAL shitposting. I may post #random things and #announcement from time to time. The truly irrelevant stuffs are marked with #please ignore. Just block them.
I aim to churn out contents once every week for short posts (starting Aug this year), but more in-depth stuffs may take months, as I’m rather busy irl.
Now, here are some house rules before I start with the juicy posts:
1. Non-mainstream music?
That’s over-generalizing a bit, but I like weird stuffs from different genres all over the world. If it’s done right to me, it doesn’t matter if it’s jazz, pop, house, avant-garde, classical, hip-hop, soundtrack stuffs or whatever in-between. A few examples (not in any order): Kajiura Yuki, Ennio Morricone, Billie Eilish, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Björk, Agust D, Ulrich Drechsler, Hanoi Duo.
With that said, I’m quite biased with a mix of powerful female vocals, stuffs in minor keys & lots of evolving counter melodies. Sure, each of those do typically appear in mainstream music, but I tend to prefer more eclectic combinations of them. I’m sure I’ll unconsciously cover more people like that.
You’ll likely discover lots of weird people here. Do follow official channels of those who interest you! :D
2. Sound exploration...?
Well, after having too much time for introspection during Covid-19, I’m thinking of switching career to something along the line of foley artist or sound engineer. No idea what I want yet, so I’m exploring possible professions. Since this is a music-related blog, I just want to share my journey, haha.
Posts about this will have a separate hashtag so those not interested can ignore them. Topics will range from modding instruments, sound-making & recording paraphernalia, music theory, music history etc.
3. Weeb? NO. Maybe nerd at most.
In case someone spotted me mentioning “anime” and “manga” and thought “what if...”, no, I’m not into waifus, bishounen cults, or the other stuffs (you know what I mean)... Do not expect such contents here, though you can freely fangirl/fanboy about your favorite stuffs in the comment section (but keep it toxic-free plz) (^o^)/
I love many anime & manga series just as much as I enjoy Pan’s Labyrinth or NatGeo documentaries. I casually join fandoms, but I’m not hardcore and by no means an expert in anything. So do correct me if I get some facts wrong!
4. NO political stuffs, conspiracy theories, fan wars etc.
More like, I’ll keep potentially toxic stuffs to the minimum. I’ll still discuss them objectively if they’re relevant to the topic at hand. E.g. how a group’s disbandment may affect a musician’s solo career etc.
With all the crap happening in the world, we could do with a bit more positivity. And cooler heads. So I will NOT rant extensively about such things. And I WILL report such posts if I ever see them here.
I don’t care if you shitpost elsewhere. I do too. But please just spare this place...
Also, yes, it’s important to be aware of certain social issues.
However, I believe such things should be discussed with well-sourced information, clear illustrations and non-malicious intents. Not angry people throwing their opinions on the table, and sometimes throwing the table themselves. And more importantly, MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, social issues must be solved by consistently educating oneself and taking actions OFFLINE.
If you still wanna do that here, please please please switch to DM. I do want to have discussions with you.
Finally, I naturally stand at a respectful distance to my fav musicians.
I do get hyped and have expectations ahead of releases. But I’m not the type to directly message my favorite musicians, or queue up for hours to get their autographs. I also don’t collect merchandise or limited-edition items. I don’t go on “pilgrimages”. Just listening to their music, promoting them and supporting them financially (through streaming, buying releases, attending lives) is good enough for me. I don’t encourage this kind of behavior actually. Without avid fans, lots of musicians would starve... But this is just how I am. Plus, there’re just too many musicians I like. If I were too hardcore, I wouldn’t have time & resources to support them all xD
I’m interested in what they can share about their personal lives, but I don’t want to dig deeply into things that may disturb them. Unless they did something unlawful (not just morally questionable) that went unnoticed or unresolved (like smoking weed where it’s banned and not getting caught).
I love to discuss what make them spark as well as their flaws, casually but objectively. But I’m only human so biases is unavoidable. I always want to anticipate their next works or breakthroughs, if any, as long as their interest in making decent music is still there.
Liking their music doesn’t mean I need to like them as people. And certainly not love them romantically.
I sometimes need to compare some aspects of them (e.g. musical inspiration, background, how they’ve changed following financial success or failure etc.) But I’ll avoid that as much as possible, especially when it comes to music groups. A group is more than just its members.
All questions & gossip regarding opinions of fanbases should go to my inbox, and not anonymously (cuz I can’t reply you otherwise). I wanna keep this space clean, so I want to avoid fan wars & jumping to conclusions. Pretty sure it will happen eventually anyway, one way or another...
Wew, that sure is a lot of text *sweats*. Hope I’ve made it clear to you and myself what this blog will be like.
Please anticipate my next post around 2 months from now.
Thanks for reading. m(_ _)m
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Why The Alien Queen Is The Best Space Villain Ever
While James Cameron’s Aliens is a classic of the sci-fi/horror genre, I do feel a small plot summary is warranted in order to make my case of why the Alien Queen far outshines any sci-fi villain before or since. 
So we begin the story with the discovery of Ellen Ripley, former flight officer of the Nostromo, a space ship that she blew up in her first movie to prevent a dangerous extraterrestrial carnivore/parasite called a xenomorph from getting anywhere close to Earth. Discovered 57 years after the fact (she put herself in stasis on an escape pod), Ripley is almost immediately thrust into corporate and emotional hell by double-whammy of both discovering her daughter had died while she was in stasis and having her flight officer license revoked by the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, who she used to work for. This is, of course, in addition to the trauma that she sustained at the maw of the xenomorph from the first film, and now besides being thrust into a situation where she has to scramble for a job she’s massively overqualified for and that pays dust, she has constant nightmares. So basically, Ripley has had her entire life ripped apart and ruined by the actions of the Weyland-Utani corporation and the xenomorphs, and all this in addition to her learning that the planet where her deceased crew first discovered the xenomorph is now home to a terraforming colony of 158 people. Yet soon after Ripley’s rough reintroduction to the living world, the colony goes completely quiet, with xenomorph-related activity being indicated as a possible cause. And guess who’s called in to help with that mess? But even with her xenomorph-related trauma and absolute distrust of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, Ripley agrees to go with a bunch of space marines to investigate with the understanding that they’re going to destroy the beasties and not even attempt to study them. 
Anyway, Ripley and a gaggle of space marines head down to the terraforming colony, and discover sure signs that there has been a xenomorph attack. Besides that, all the colonists have disappeared. They also discover a single survivor, a traumatized little girl nicknamed Newt. And THEN they discover that all the colonists were brought into a nuclear-powered atmosphere processing station by the xenomorphs, where they were subsequently forced to play tonsil-hokey with the first step of a xenomorph’s life process, a  facehugger, which infects its host with a parasite called a chestburster (the name is quite literal), which then turns into an all-grown-up xenomorph. Terrifying process, and just as painful as it sounds! and And just when you’ve discovered THAT bit of info, the xenomorphs go on full attack, making quick work of quite a few of the marines. And THEN it’s discovered that this all came about because one of Weyland-Yutani’s sleazy money-makers, a prick named Carter Burke, directed a couple of colonists to the spot Ripley said the xenomorph eggs encountered in the first movie were, and all because he wanted to profit from the xenomorphs’ potential use as biological weapons. Why did he do this? Because the desire for obscene amounts of possible cash makes you both evil and stupid.  
So the space marines and Ripley and Newt fight and struggle on, losing more and more members. The xenomorphs are RELENTLESS, neither taking nor giving quarter, completely determined, like a pack of overgrown ants, to end their foes/prey no matter what. Eventually, Newt herself gets snatched by one of the xenomorphs, and after arming herself with a flame thrower/machine gun combo literally held together with duct tape, Ripley goes to the rescue! And then, once Ripley has FINALLY found Newt, managing to save her just in time from a facehugger, you have The Reveal of our main nemesis:
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And there she is. The source of all the horror (well, her and the Weyland-Yutani corporation), the one whose monstrous progeny have been hunting our heroes and threatening them with an extremely painful demise, and who, at this point in the film, have successfully merked almost everyone.
And how could you not love her/be terrified of her? I mean, just look at her! It’s rare to see a lady monster in fiction that actually looks like a monster (instead of a human woman with a tail and blue skin or smthn), but it’s even rarer, even now, to find one that is this vicious on every level. The movie has spent its runtime building up to this, and boy does it deliver. So here she finally is, living her best life, laying all those eggs, getting all those humans (the men, the women, the children...) infected with her chestbursters--and the movie does NOT censor how painful a death that is--and best of all, besides looking cool as all get-out, she’s not making a SINGLE excuse for all the death and destruction that she’s caused. As the android Ash said in Alien (the film before the one that features our queen), the xenomorph species of which our queen is a member are “unclouded....by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.” But having none herself, the Alien Queen expects none from her foes. The Alien Queen is presented as nothing but what she is, i.e. a voracious monster who wiped out an entire colony of human beings and condemned them all to a horrifying death. Not only does she not feel sorry for this in the least, not only does she make a grand effort to catch and destroy a human child in the climax, not only does she rip one of the characters in half in an incredibly graphic scene, not only does she try her damndest to kill Ripley in what can only be considered one of the most iconic sci-fi fights out there, but she does this all without a shred of remorse or a smidgen of painfully hollow pleading for her foes to understand where she’s coming from. 
None of this “wah we wah I feel slightly conflicted about being incredibly evil so now you should feel sorry for me even though I’m literally complicit in multi-planetary genocide”! 
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None of that “A bloo bloo bloo Lisa I’m being torn apart by the fact that I destroyed half of all life in the universe (plants and animals included!) because I refuse to acknowledge that the reasons for environmental destruction might be more complicated than “population too big!’”   
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Time after time after time, we see villains like the two twerps above act like somehow they’re soooooo complex and tragic for committing all the atrocities that they do, and in between murdering way more people than the Alien Queen ever did, they spend way too much of their time blaming everyone and everything around them for the pain and suffering that is a direct result of their own actions. So these dweebs do have higher body counts than our Queen. But does that make them better villains? NO. I’m fully aware that I can’t speak for everyone, but personally I’d have a LOT more respect for them if they could just pull their heads out of their asses, acknowledge all the harm they’ve done, and either stop doing it and make reparations (don’t think that’s very possible after that level of destruction, tho!) or continue with their villainous ways in full understanding and acknowledgement of what they’re doing, no excuses, no attempts to justify the unjustifiable, just like the Alien Queen. Some might say that this is only because the Alien Queen, being a space parasite, doesn’t have the cognitive capacity to argue that she’s some sort of twagic figure for all of her murdering. 
But you know what? GOOD. I’d rather have a space parasite that knows what it’s about then some jerk flipping through mental hoops like a pro gymnast in an attempt to find some shallow reason for why he’s not completely reprehensible. 
And THAT, in my opinion, is why the Alien Queen is the best sci-fi villain ever. So to wrap it all up, the moral of this shitpost is: If you’re going to be a violently destructive space monster driven by nothing but your sense of superiority and selfish desires, at least have the decency to not pretend otherwise.  
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Long Vento Aureo shitpost incoming
This is a result of me trying to think too hard on the background of the characters I cosplay, and coming up with too many headcanons as a result.
Plus, I have annoyed @auralime with this theory for too long and it’s time for someone else to suffer through this now I guess.
Anyway, the culprit for this little essay/study is, in this instance, no other than Giorno Giovanna from Vento Aureo. I will also mention some events and characters not shown in the anime yet, so this is the warning. Anime-onlys, avert your eyes now.
Actually, the previous paragraph may be somewhat incorrect, since in the course of this post I will try to make the following statement: Giorno’s legal name is still Haruno Shiobana; he never changed it.
It felt strange for me when, in Episode 1, it came as a surprise to Koichi (and by extent, Jotaro) that Haruno now went by Giorno, even though Jotaro had gotten plenty of information on him beforehand. If you look at a HQ image of the reverse of the photo Koichi has at the airport:
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it reads  汐華 初流乃 (Shiobana Haruno), (then some kanji I can’t really make out but probably 住所/address), Via Bosco di Capodimante, 75/b 80131, Neapolis NA, ITALIA, Dormitorio della scuola media Neapolis, 304. The address is one of an actual middle school in Naples, too. I’m guessing 304 is a dorm room number. The scene in the anime shows that Jotaro also has plenty of recent-looking pictures of Giorno, still with black hair but already rocking the pink suit, as well as of his mother, step-father and school. This is a lot of information you have on a guy. Therefore, why would the fact that Haruno is now Giorno somehow slip past Jotaro&Co?
If Jotaro had gotten his information from some national register, it would have the documents on the name change. If he somehow got his hands on school records, there is no way Koichi would have been sent to search for Haruno, because the school wouldn’t have a student with that name. This seems to indicate that whatever was the source of information Jotaro found, it still listed the youth that had moved to Italy 11 years ago as Haruno Shiobana.
We are never told when Haruno apparently changed to Giorno. In the anime scenes, his stepfather initially calls him by his Japanese name, but by the time he appears to be in elementary school, both him and school bullies are calling him Giorno. However, ‘Giorno’ could just as well be a (not necessarily positive) childhood nickname, that ended up being used all the time, up to the point that Giorno himself is only introducing himself exclusively with that name. 
Haruno’s last name would probably not change simply because his mother is now married and has a different last name herself. Experts in 1990s Italian law are free to correct me, but usually a child’s last name will only change if they are officially adopted.There is no information on whether Mr. Giovanna actually adopted Haruno/Giorno. He did not seem like a particularly pleasant man, so it’s not unfeasible that official adoption papers were never filed. The anime makes no secret that school bullies gave Haruno a hard time for being half-Japanese, so he could have started using his step-father’s last name as a protective measure, even if it didn’t really work. It doesn’t look like he is particularly proud of his Japanese heritage. The airport security mention how Giorno doesn’t look Japanese at all, so apparently Padre’s genes proved to be dominant after all.
If ‘Giorno’ really is a nickname Haruno got as a child, there is no information where it came from. His family is not particularly affectionate towards him, so unless it initially was meant to be mocking, but Haruno failed to pick up on it. We are talking about the guy who thinks “Gang-Star” is a cool title, after all (GioGio I love you but please don’t pun).
There is another interesting little bit of information. Let’s say that Jotaro had an extraordinary moment of incompetence, so after somehow finding out that DIO had surviving girlfriends, making mental connections and deciding these relationships were probably rated NC-17, finding information on at least one of these lovers that had given birth... he then did not bother to check what the child’s name was? Okay, we can imagine that. Except, there was actually one more time when someone else failed to get correct information on Giorno.
In Man in the Mirror arc, Illuso pulls Fugo into the Mirror World and proceeds to read him a short summary of his wiki page
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and then he gets to Giorno and goes “Nope, I’ve got nothing.” Apparently he’s even unsure of his last name. Now, Illuso is hinted to be the intel guy of La Squadra. Gathering information and ambushing the targets based on that is, quite literally, his job. We don’t know how long he had tracked the Bucci Gang, but it would still make sense if he at least knew some basic things about Giorno: age, the fact that he’s from Naples, is a middle schooler, anything? I know it’s 2001 and Google is still young, but there must have been other databases Illuso could check. (Alternate theory: Mirror World has no Internet. A truly horrible Stand power...) 
Unless he was searching for the wrong guy all along. It makes sense he found nothing about Giorno Giovanna if he should have been looking for Haruno Shiobana all along.
Long story short, the new Don of Naples has a really embarrassing school ID somewhere in his wallet.
Did anyone even bother reading all the way down? I’m surprised. If anyone feels like adding something, please do.
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Interview: The Two Dekus
Here’s the whole interview with both the Japanese and English voice for Izuku Midoriya (Deku).
This Anime News Network interview features the two voice actors behind Deku: Daiki Yamashita (Japanese dub) and Justin Briner (English Funimation Dub).
I just wanted to bring out this interview. But before we begin, I’m just going to say that since I watch Boku no Hero Academia subbed, I hold a bit of bias. Since I did crop a few parts out, you will find that Justin Briner might have said a few additional things in the interview, so if you want to get a few more comments from him, check out the original article! I tried to keep it even for the most part though.
I will also be including some additional posts, sources, videos, etc. of things that relate to this interview regarding the Japanese cast of My Hero Academia. I tried to limit myself to put under ten links and failed... sorry about that! Hopefully, you’ll find something you might like though!
[...] = additional words in their answer that I felt wasn’t crucial
ANN: First, thank you both for your time, I really appreciate it. When you auditioned for this, did you know what you were auditioning for, and did you know what a big deal it was?
DAIKI YAMASHITA: Yes, I was reading the manga before and I knew that this was going to be popular if it was made into an anime.
JUSTIN BRINER: Yeah, we got our hands on it a little later [...]  You can tell, spending a little bit of time with the source material, that it's something special. [...] And after I checked out that first episode I got hooked, so I figured a lot of other people did too.
Did you immediately see yourself as him?
BRINER: No, not necessarily. [...] I didn't want to get my hopes up for anything for this.
YAMASHITA: You auditioned for pretty much all the male characters?
BRINER: Yeah, Deku, Kacchan, Todoroki, Minari, Tokoyami. I wouldn't have been good as many of them.
YAMASHITA: You tried out for so many characters.
BRINER: Yes, uh uh. I just really wanted to be a part of it, it seemed like something special to me.
Now that you're in season 3 and you did the movie, how has your relationship with Deku changed since the beginning? Do you feel like you play him differently now as his character has changed?
YAMASHITA: I think the mental part of it has helped me. At the beginning of the show, Deku seemed to be very weak. Very soft. You feel like “oh, is he okay? Is he gonna make it?” as a viewer, you see that. But once he inherits the power from All Might, the mental part of his character, he's become so strong. As I play him more and more as the seasons went on, I try to gain that strength as well for myself. So when I play against the strong villains, in my acting I try not to back down – I try to convey that mental strength in my acting as well.
BRINER: It's essentially the same answer here. [...]He started out very weak and insecure. [...]you can tell that he's gaining confidence. [...] Just being able to incorporate a little more confidence, a little more heroism every time, that's part of Deku's growing up.
Do you read ahead in the manga? And if so, does it help you prepare emotionally for what's coming?
YAMASHITA: Yes I do, I do. I read ahead and then I regret reading ahead. I was like “All Might—ohhhh, no.” So when I read that All Might and All For One battle in the manga, I was like “oh my gosh, I saw it, I didn't want to see it… I regret it.” It was shocking to me, before I even received the script.
BRINER: Same. I do read the manga, and I feel like I'm pleasantly surprised by every new development. It's so smartly written that I can't find myself not reading it every week.
Do you have a personal favorite scene, or a scene that meant the most to you personally from this show? Or the film?
YAMASHITA: There's so many. It's very hard to choose one scene, but in particular the second episode, where All Might tells him “you can be a hero.” That scene, along with the most recent scene when All Might points to Deku on TV and says “you're the next.” Those two scenes are very, very memorable. For me, myself, as well as for Deku as a character, those two scenes are very pivotal moments for the character, and very important to both myself and Deku as a character. And I think that those two lines and those two scenes are going to stay with Deku forever, and that's going to become a core of his becoming a hero in the future.
BRINER: I love that. [...] there's a moment in the sports festival when Deku and Todoroki are fighting against each other, and in the middle of the fighting he says something to the effect, to Todoroki, of “it's yours, it's your quirk, not his.” That's such a wonderful moment of—because Deku isn't the most confident person of all time. His quirk isn't even necessarily his own, but he's learning to live with it and make it his own in his own way. So to be able to instil what little confidence that he's gained to a friend in need is really beautiful to me, I think.
Deku gets into some guttural screaming, just world-class screaming. How do you prepare for that? Do you have to recover from it?
YAMASHITA: I eat a lot to prepare. I don't do anything particularly to protect my voice, but I feel like if I don't do anything then my throat is gonna get stronger. Like, if you do more—so essentially for me, it's eat whatever I want when I want and sleep when I want.
BRINER: Yes!
So you're playing the main character in a giant, hit show that could potentially run years and years and years and years and years. Do you feel like you're prepared for that, and do you see yourself still relishing the role, if, say, a decade from now you're still playing Deku?
YAMASHITA: Yes. In a narration, where Deku says “this is the story of me becoming the best hero.” So I would like to see him become the best hero. I would like to see that, and I would like to continue playing him as he becomes a hero. So I'll try not to die in the middle, in the process. I might be a grandpa by the end, but I would like to perform this character until he becomes the best hero that he can be.
BRINER: I mean yes, I love Deku, I love the source material so much and so dearly that I'd love to be a part of it for as long as I can. It really means a lot to me that way.
As a brief follow-up, when you were starting your career, did you ever have the aspiration to be like “well, I basically want to be Goku in a series that's as big as Dragon Ball.” You're the Goku of this show. Did you ever see yourself in this position? And was that ever your aspiration?
YAMASHITA: Yes. When I started out, yes that was my hope that I would be able to encounter roles like this. I think that it honestly takes a miracle for this type of encounter to happen, to get a role that can be in a long-running show, and something like My Hero Academia is very, very rare. So I'm very grateful for the opportunity, and I feel like, as I said before, I'd like to stay with it until Deku becomes the best hero that he can be. When he becomes that hero, maybe that's the time that my life ends. That's how I feel, almost. So I would like to continue playing and breathe life into this character until he does, so…
BRINER: All I've ever known that I wanted to do was act or perform in some capacity. I never knew exactly what avenue that would be. But the world of anime has always been something that's been very important to me growing up. I watched Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon before I knew what anime was. It was just another cartoon that I would rush home after school to watch. To be part of something so pivotal and so prescient, especially nowadays, is really special in that way. [...]to be a part of it now is really incredible. Because it feels like I'm working my hardest to be a part of something that's much bigger than me. And I get a lot of satisfaction out of doing my part in that.
All right, I've got two short ones left. One, if you were playing any character in the show that was not Deku, who would you want to play?
YAMASHITA: I can't think of anybody else but Deku to play.
Fair enough.
BRINER: True, I love Deku too. If you make me answer, Froppy.
Perfect!
YAMASHITA: Kero Kero.
BRINER: Kero!
YAMASHITA: Maybe like a villain. One of the villains.
Last question. In your heart, who do you think Deku should wind up with in the show? As a romantic partner.
YAMASHITA: As far as I can tell for now, just by reading the manga and doing three seasons, it looks like Uraraka is very high on his list. But in the movie… I feel (original character from the My Hero Academia film) Melissa Shield has gained… she climbed up the ladder towards the top, the top of the list. So when you think about the future development of the story, there might be a chance that Melissa-chan comes back. In that case, there might be a battle between Uraraka Ochako and Melissa!
BRINER: [...] I feel like Uraraka is… they're just meant to be, somehow. Let me just introduce Tsuyu into the mix, Froppy. I don't know, I don't know.
It's a good pick. It's a good pick.
YAMASHITA: Isn't it that you like that character? Do you just like her—
BRINER: Uhhhh, maybe?
Everyone likes that character!
YAMASHITA: I think it's your taste!
Tsuyu Is Popular With Everyone [video below]
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“Who is Best Girl?” [Cast Answer]
BNHA Cast Interview (Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Masuda Toshiki) - Relationship between the characters
Cast Imitating Their Characters
Seiyuu Comic (Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yuuki Kaji, and Kouki Uchiyama) with additional details
Ayane Sakura’s Nickname Origins
Yuuki Kaji Interview on Shouto Todoroki Nobuhiko Okamoto Interview on Katsuki Bakugou Junichi Suwabe Interview on Shouta Aizawa
BNHA Movie Special Event Additional Cast Images
Recording Bakugou - Nobuhiko Okamoto
If you like content like this, I recommend checking out my spam blog! It’s where I post my voice actor, shitpost, fanart, and just about everything else!
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16 Strange, Obscure, and Fictional Sports in Anime
You know the sports anime formula. Plucky kid tries a new thing for the first time and immediately falls in love with it. He joins his school’s club, only to discover that it’s nowhere near the powerhouse it used to be. In a grueling training arc, he develops camaraderie with his teammates, and together they work to beat their rival school and realize their dream of going to Koushien.
But say you’re not a fan of baseball, basketball, or soccer. What sports anime do you watch then? Besides, what even is a sports anime? Figuring out what is and isn’t a sports anime might be like trying to decide what is and isn’t a sandwich, but if you’re willing to stretch your definitions a little, there’s a something for everyone. Swimming, tennis, kendo, you name it, it’s there. Heck, even a few made-up sports for good measure.
Table tennis
Put the director of a beloved anime in charge of an anime about table tennis, and what do you get? That’s right, we’re talking Scorching Ping Pong Girls. Yes, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood director Yasuhiro Irie went on to make an extremely thirsty ping pong anime. Oh, and I guess Masaaki Yuasa’s Ping Pong: The Animation is a pretty good coming-of-age story too.
Anime: Scorching Ping Pong Girls, Ping Pong: The Animation
Horse racing
I don’t think there’s much debate on the status of horse racing considering equestrian’s presence in the Olympics. Still, it’s not often you see anime about it. A while back, the Japan Racing Association sponsored a special episode of Mr. Osomatsu that was exactly what you’d expect from a JRA episode of Mr. Osomatsu: completely cursed. Maybe we’d better bank on the horse girl anime slated for next year.
Anime: Mr. Osomatsu, Uma Musume Pretty Derby (2018)
Sidecar racing
Frankly, I had no idea motorcycle sidecar racing was a thing until TWOCAR came along. Turns out the sport is pretty ridiculous. Take single-rider motorcycle racing, add a squirming passenger, and you get this bonkers sport where rider and passenger work together to make sharp turns as efficiently as possible. It’s about as risky as it sounds; people have legit died attempting this stuff. May the anime girls keep their pigtails far away from the wheels, I say.
Anime: TWOCAR
Pro wrestling
If the contents of my Twitter feed are any indication, pro wrestling is silly, badass, and most of all, extremely anime. As far as I’m concerned, anime and wrestling are about on par with each other as sources of reaction gifs. And really, why else does anyone watch anime? For 100% serious no-fun-allowed “good” storytelling? Nah, sounds fake.
Anime: Tiger Mask W, Kick-Heart, we do not speak of Wanna be the Strongest in the World
Figure skating
You want an outrageously popular anime about cute boys on knife shoes facing off against each other? Boy, do I have the anime for you! King of Prism is hardly an accurate depiction of figure skating, but it does the “plucky protagonist joins a school club” sports anime formula more faithfully than any other skating anime out there, so what the hey, we’ll call it a sports anime. Besides, if Prince of Tennis could cause the dinosaur extinction, why can’t a figure skating anime include dragons and tornadoes?
Anime: King of Prism, Ginban Kaleidoscope
Ballroom Dancing
Who’s to say ballroom isn’t a real sport? It’s sweaty and draining, and on top of that, you have to pretend you’re not dying even when you most definitely are. Although on the surface it looks like a world of frilly gowns and glitter, ballroom requires an absurd degree of athleticism and team trust. It’s a sport.
Anime: Welcome to the Ballroom
Cheer
Put aside the image of girls in short skirts and think about the acrobatics involved in cheerleading. It’s a sport that requires everyone to trust that nobody will drop them on their heads. Cheer teams have to be tight, just the same as in any other team sport. This is where real friendship is born.
Anime: Cheer Boys!!
Karuta
The Japanese card game karuta probably isn’t the first thing you’d describe as a sport. The game’s objective is simple: a speaker reads one half of a well-known poem, and the players look for the card with its second half. Just memorizing poems like you do in lit class, right? Not when you get good at it. At the upper levels of karuta, the game becomes a contest of reflexes and agility as players take any split-second advantage they can find.
Anime: Chihayafuru
Parkour
While it’s not technically called such in-show, the extreme sport depicted in Prince of Stride is about as close as you’ll get to parkour in anime. Competitors participate in a relay race through an urban obstacle course, leaping over walls and traversing complicated routes. Next thing you know, they’ll be Naruto running through shopping malls. It’s pretty great.
Anime: Prince of Stride: Alternative
Butt wrestling
This far down the list, we’re getting into some pretty questionable fictional sports. Keijo!!!!!!!! is a sports anime about what’s basically wrestling with butts and boobs. At one point, a character summons the powers of a thousand derrieres with the Gate of Bootylon, which is about all you need to know if you’ll like the show or not. There’s some real rip-roarin’ fun to be had here, I’m tellin’ ya.
Anime: Keijo!!!!!!!!
Tank battles
Do you like cute anime girls? Do you like military hardware? Do you like the sports anime formula? If you answered yes to any of those questions, GaruPan is for you. There’s nothing quite so fun as watching armored tanks shoot the crap out of each other, it turns out. Have I mentioned I love anime?
Anime: GIRLS und PANZER
Plamo battles
Not a fan of tanks? Why not plastic models! Live your childhood fantasies of your toy robots punching each other out with Gundam Build Fighters. That’s right, Gundam is so heavily merchandised there’s now merchandise for its merchandise. How great is that? If you want some cute anime girls go with your toy battles, try Frame Arms Girl as well.
Anime: Gundam Build Fighters, Frame Arms Girl
Robotics
Maybe you were that kid in high school who didn’t play sports, but dedicated all their time to the robotics club. Worry not, anime’s got you covered. While Gunpla and tanks as sport might require a stretch of the imagination, Robomasters is an actual event that’s been popular in China lately. If equipping drones with random features sounds fun to you, you might like RoboMasters the Animation - provided you can speak either Japanese or Mandarin, since it hasn’t been licensed anywhere.
Anime: RoboMasters the Animation
Quiz bowl
Okay, maybe you were even nerdier than the robotics kids and spent your time in quiz bowl. There’s one for you, too! In Fastest Finger First, high school kids train to be the first to smash that buzzer. Every millisecond counts in a battle of wits where the fighters are equally matched, and that in itself can make quiz bowl as intense as a sport.
Anime: Fastest Finger First
Extreme cheating
I trust that none of you specialized in this sport in high school, but let’s say you did dabble in less-than-ethical test-taking behavior. How far did you go? Ever release wasps from your headphones to distract other test-takers and set the grading curve? Sneak in cybernetic contact lenses? Take out the competition by firing pencil lead at them? No? Well, that’s disappointing. Just think how fun exams could be if you turned test-taking into an extreme sport.
Anime: Cheating Craft
The Ultimate Sport
Teekyu has thus far blessed us with nine seasons of it hyper-compressed glory. Ostensibly about a tennis club, the actual sport in Teekyu is everything you can possibly think of except tennis. It’s a sports anime where you are the protagonist, the show itself is the rival, and the sport in question is extremely high-level shitposting. Now that’s my kind of sport. Let’s get to that training arc, shall we?
Anime: Teekyu
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Micchy is an enormous dweeb who tries and fails to hide her anime obsession behind a skating otaku facade. Follow her on Twitter @Liuwdere for more vaguely anime-related content. 
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When this blog began it was one of the many intelligent avant garde Traditionalist blogs that Catholics around the world looked to with hope regarding the future of Catholicism. The idea that this new traditionalist movement would bring about change in the Church - nothing was further from the truth. It all boiled down to shitposting historical memes and talking trash about other bloggers on the opposing sides of our little flame wars. As it became clearer that the Church wasn’t selling what we wanted to buy, most of us drifted away - because of course bloggers are powerless in the face of a 2,000 year-old institution that has survived every great scourge that has come upon it. I left the internet almost completely in the hopes of doing something with my life, a true Held. I wanted to be something instead of writing about how things were supposed to be. For a while it seemed that was happening, and on top of it all I was having quite the adventure. Four years, 12 states, 9 homes, and a lot in between. It was a great time. But I didn’t count on people. Well, that’s not entirely accurate: I counted on people too much. I trusted that modern man had the capacity for loyalty, honor, respect, or the ability to be trusted. I didn’t quite understand yet that not only had our socioeconomic system trashed traditional modes of living but that it had on an individual level absolutely ground out most of the virtues we grow up still believing people possess on some kind of base level. They don’t. Everyone - yes, you and me included, - is a capricious and fickle bastard who doesn’t live up to their obligations or responsibilities. We are all animals running around telling ourselves we’re not, failing to acknowledge the pull instinct still holds over us because it terrifies us; ergo, it is never controlled and disciplined as it should be. We spare ourselves the rod and spoil our souls in the process. I was betrayed, repeatedly, in horrifying and despicable ways. My best friends of 6+ years who I met back in High School over WoW took my rent payments and used them to buy up the lease while they barely paid rent so they could move out and leave me stranded, several hundred dollars in the hole with a good job but not one that would get me a place to live. My college friends aided and abetted rumors I was a pedophile that almost got the police involved - ironic when some of them were only 18 or 19 and still messing around with 15 year-old girls, but hey, I knew everyone involved and consent was clearly established so why should I have cared? Then I ended up back home and reunited with a friend I’d met at the start of college, and we hit it off spectacularly. Got a place together with two roommates who were also our friends, got a job I didn’t need to support her, and after three months I had every intention of keeping the relationship. I’m a terrible person to live with, don’t get me wrong, but I supported her every step of the way. I did everything I could in the middle of nowhere on a budget to be the best damned boyfriend I could be, and I honestly did love her. I felt, “Hey, this is going somewhere.” Then after a fight where a lot of our problems came out, I told her to pack her things and leave, because there was no salvaging it. I thought that was the end and we could be peaceable, but no. She spread vicious rumors and lies about me beating her and being abusive, a terrible sexual partner, et al that not only contradicted facts my roommates witnessed but flat-out didn’t make any sense. Suffice to say my partner was kinky, and she wanted to do a lot of out-there stuff I was also into. I just wonder if it ever occurred to the people she’s shown bruises to that every single one is on her ass or thighs. Because when I beat the shit out of someone, I do the most ineffective thing imaginable and literally kick their ass. After all this I find out from third party sources she’s pregnant - with my child. Now her and I had discussed kids and I said I wasn’t even going to think about it until we had our own place, we both had jobs, and reasonable amounts of income to where we could budget a child into the equation. But I should’ve realized what kind of woman this was when after we meticulously cleaned our messy house she had it trashed after I’d gone to work within a few days, and at a time when we barely had food as it was she made entire platters which, half-eaten, were buried under dirty laundry. Let the record show I supported this woman and was only ever happy to come home to her. In my state, I have no rights to this child. There is no legal relationship between us and if she doesn’t put my name on the birth certificate, I don’t exist. If I try and claim my child, I’ll probably lose the case, because our courts favor women in custody cases while denying them basic healthcare in the 21st century. This woman is so slovenly and lacking in moral fibre she prefers couch-surfing, with dope-heads and sleeping in cars with homeless people she fucks while pregnant and begging for food outside of coffee shops to moving back home, getting a job, and being an adult like the rest of us. Only a woman in the 21st century could honestly get away with such a disgusting existence and not be reviled by everyone with half an ounce of decency. The men who aid and abet her existence are just as much as disgusting - most of her clothes I’ve come to realize are men’s clothes, procured from Heaven knows where. She said she was going to get her stuff on the third from our roommates’ house. But she’s yet to call them, and most of her belongings still reside there. She can’t even be bothered to take care of her own things - and somehow the State things she’ll be a better caretaker for a child than me, because she has a vagina, and will name it something edgy and stupid and misspelled because it sounds pretty. Where are my friends in all of this, you ask? Well, the majority of the male ones have taken her side because they want to get in her pants. Now, she was an attractive woman, but in all frankness without a personality - which she does have - and an out-going outlook on sexuality - which she has - she’s probably a 5 normally. A 7 if she puts effort into her appearance and personal hygiene, and only a 10 on most men’s scales because she’ll put out. But yes, I was in love with her. But I was in love with a phantom: I fell in love with something that wasn’t there, after swearing I’d never do that again. My female friends - well, mixed bag. But the running theme is betrayal. I can’t even cross the parish line without my phone blowing up. I couldn’t walk through downtown at night without having to beat off some teenage fuckboy who thinks he can actually fight me and/or beating me up will get him brownie points with my ex so he can get in there. Newsflash, buddy, you’d be better off just trying to choke her instead of me if you wanted to get her to fuck you. I can’t even go to my usual haunts: people come in, harass me and anyone I’m with, and disrupt the evening until the manager makes them leave. In fact the great straw that broke the camel’s back on me for this town was when the manager told me to not come back because of the crowd that was following me. Because yes, Shannon, I invited these people in to ruin my night. Good luck finding another college-aged white guy in this town who fucking tips the bartenders what they’re owed on gratuity and drinks something besides your domestics. Those imports aren’t cheap man, and get more expensive the less they’re drank. I even quit my job over it. I had multiple people try and start things with me in my sales department, only for security to show them the door (as an electronics store we basically have to have police in the store or things get stolen). Now, granted, I probably didn’t help things - at one point I texted a guy who said he wanted to kick my teeth in my work schedule for the next two weeks and told him to stop by any time he wanted a new computer or a new place to spew shit from - but what kind of fucking society is this where someone who’s slandered can’t even defend themselves? What sort of men are you trying to create, America, when we can no longer accept the fact that some problems won’t be solved with anything but physical humiliation? Some people just need to be beaten, hard; I know that fluffs with your liberal sensibilities. But it’s a basic truth across all human civilization. You’re not better than success. The only good thing here is that my parents are selling the house I was raised in. A lovely estate, but not nearly as expensive to keep as one might think. So I’ve convinced them that I’m going to take it, fixings and all, and find some way to afford it. I suppose it’s moving back home in the best way one can; my parents aren’t here, there’s no family around to bother me, and I’ve got a private bar I keep stocked. I don’t have many friends around here, but the ones who are so far have no connection to any of the last 4 years of my life and are content to bask in how much I’ve changed - never mind I’m slowly putting back on my weight, because I can’t be tossed to give a fuck anymore. Female attention is 100% over-fucking-rated. They don’t bring anything to the table that I actually want, so I just settle for some “fun” and then we all move on and pretend to not be unsatisfied so we can give our parents and grandparents a silent middle finger with our existence. So here I am: back in the middle of nowhere with nothing going for me but an internet connection and alcohol. Fan-Fucking-Tastic. The worst part is I know this leads to an unfulfilling existence, and for once I don’t care. The quest for fulfillment in this age is absolute folly. It is a sick joke played on you from the time you’re small. There is no fulfillment. Beat yourself down with drugs of any kind and alcohol and cheap, banal stimulation until you accept the small bubble you’ve been born into. Find a job that doesn’t make you want to slit your wrists and pays the bills, do only as much schooling as you need for that job, then you can be old and happy even though you’re a complete fucking simpleton like the family you probably despise. But hey, as much as you hate them, they’re happy - and you’re a miserable cunt. So who really did life right here? Human beings are gross. They are disloyal and our modern, individualistic age only aids and abets some of our worst traits. I’m no better. I gallivanted across the playground we ungratefully enjoy that was built by our ancestors who had no idea the monster they were creating. In the face of everything humanity did and endured to get where we are now, perhaps it would have been better if we simply stopped a long time ago. Perhaps it would have been better if I simply stopped long ago, too. All I’ve done this entire time is thrill-seek and look for something to put meaning into my life, only to realize life has no meaning. From dissatisfaction with religion to utter disregard for live at 21 borne out of nothing but experience and analysis. It’s all an absolute toss, and there is no place for anyone with intelligence, because all we do is become miserable drunks and psychopaths because we keep on trying to make sense of things where there’s no sense to be made. So take my strong advice: stand up, and walk away from the keyboard. It’s not like any of you chuckle-fucks were actually going to read this or reply to it or give a shit anyway, so go ahead and take that tip for what it’s worth. There’s no point to this website or anything you will ever try to do with your life. Get a job, finish school, and find a way to be smile when you’re sad. Because if we don’t keep this lie going civilization - or what’s left of it - will crumble.
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