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2019/2023

Rzeczpospolita

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Yavanna, giver of fruits, queen of the earth 🌱

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Yes, as it was rightly pointed out to me, in 619 ch. becomes clear that Hashirama knew about the creation of Edo Tensei.

Every time I think about how Tobirama created some of his jutsu, it makes me… well, let's just say it FUCKS me.

Okay, okay, I know a lot of people have probably talked about this and written about it, but let's think about it again. The point here is not even that in the world of "Naruto" the existence of the soul and life after death is objectively known, and most likely before Tobirama created Edo Tensei (and this, of course, explains why the characters so easily treat them as their own, and to the death of others). It’s not even that Tobirama, knowing this, decided to not care about the will of dead people and once again return them to the “impure world”, where they must fight according to his will - and for this he needed their DNA. And not even that LIVING human bodies were used as vessels (yes, there were no White Zetsu then).

But. Jutsu have been created over the years. It took Minato four years to complete the rasengan, but it’s just a ball of chakra, it’s not even a ready-made jutsu, because Minato couldn’t and didn’t have time to add elemental release to it. How long did it take Tobirama to summon souls from the afterlife? Did he immediately realize that someone else's life would be required in exchange? He probably should have known that Shinigami wouldn't allow something like that to be done for free. But even taking this into account… how many prisoners of war, criminals and some other people whom the state does not feel too sorry for did Tobirama kill? He couldn't have developed Edo Tensei just as a theory, otherwise how would it have been known that the original Edo Tensei was much weaker than Orochimaru's more advanced form?

So yes, he probably experimented for a long time. Secret from Hashirama, MOST LIKELY. Thinking about this, I imagine something like Lovecraft's "Herbert West", where the dude spent years plundering the graves and corpses of recently deceased people, injecting them with various solutions until he succeeded (of course, in the process he created several indescribable monsters that became cause of his death).

And Tobirama dealt with all this, hell, he even came up with such an idea, NOT being a maniacal psychopathic nihilist like Orochimaru… Dude is really cold-blooded.

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I haven’t bothered to research this to make sure, but I do believe that this is Tarou Okamoto, the artist that Deidara’s works were based on. Here’s some info on Okamoto: X

And here’s the source: X

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Neji has to live with the caged bird seal, the knowledge of what happened to his father and pain and suffering he and the rest of the branch members deal with everyday of his life

And the one time he confronted hinata about it she just said it was only him that was upset about it.

I would have tried to kill her too.

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“Save Sasuke from the dark path he was going down” sounds so deep and romantic or whatever until you remember that the “dark path ” being referred to was the search for answers and closure made necessary by systematic oppression, a corrupt political system, surviving a massacre, and constantly being invalidated.

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Every time I think about how Tobirama created some of his jutsu, it makes me… well, let's just say it FUCKS me.

Okay, okay, I know a lot of people have probably talked about this and written about it, but let's think about it again. The point here is not even that in the world of "Naruto" the existence of the soul and life after death is objectively known, and most likely before Tobirama created Edo Tensei (and this, of course, explains why the characters so easily treat them as their own, and to the death of others). It’s not even that Tobirama, knowing this, decided to not care about the will of dead people and once again return them to the “impure world”, where they must fight according to his will - and for this he needed their DNA. And not even that LIVING human bodies were used as vessels (yes, there were no White Zetsu then).

But. Jutsu have been created over the years. It took Minato four years to complete the rasengan, but it’s just a ball of chakra, it’s not even a ready-made jutsu, because Minato couldn’t and didn’t have time to add elemental release to it. How long did it take Tobirama to summon souls from the afterlife? Did he immediately realize that someone else's life would be required in exchange? He probably should have known that Shinigami wouldn't allow something like that to be done for free. But even taking this into account… how many prisoners of war, criminals and some other people whom the state does not feel too sorry for did Tobirama kill? He couldn't have developed Edo Tensei just as a theory, otherwise how would it have been known that the original Edo Tensei was much weaker than Orochimaru's more advanced form?

So yes, he probably experimented for a long time. Secret from Hashirama, MOST LIKELY. Thinking about this, I imagine something like Lovecraft's "Herbert West", where the dude spent years plundering the graves and corpses of recently deceased people, injecting them with various solutions until he succeeded (of course, in the process he created several indescribable monsters that became cause of his death).

And Tobirama dealt with all this, hell, he even came up with such an idea, NOT being a maniacal psychopathic nihilist like Orochimaru… Dude is really cold-blooded.

#naruto #naruto meta #senju tobirama #edo tensei

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sakura and her axes ^_^

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It's actually funny that people think of Turkey as some kind of ancient nation, when in fact it is one of the youngest in the Middle East.

Let me explain. National concepts are very fluid, and when we talk about personifications, we can never say exactly when one begins and another ends. Language, culture, statehood, form of government, ethnic composition, racial composition, religion - there are many factors that determine a nation. And, if we are talking about personifications, then each case must be examined separately.

The Republic of Turkey is the direct heir of the Ottoman Empire (just as the USSR is the heir of the Russian Empire), and the Ottoman Empire is more or less the direct heir of the Seljuk Empire, in particular its fragment into Anatolia, known as the Iconian/Rum Sultanate. Further continuity of the Seljuk tribe is based on the turkic tribes of Central Asia in the early Middle Ages.

Taking the personifications of Turkey, can we identify it with the Ottoman Empire? Something like that, although this identity is not absolute - because the language, for example, has undergone a colossal change, just like national identity, starting at least from the era of Ataturk. In fact, there are as many reasons to separate them as there are to separate modern Greece and the Byzantine Empire.

But is it acceptable to equate the Ottoman Empire with the Seljuk Empire? Absolutely not. I will not start talking about the fact that the turkish culture was born in Anatolia from a mixture, and did not simply migrate from Central Asia, although this is true. I'll just say: other oguz peoples exist. Azerbaijan originates from the Seljuk Empire, although it also developed from a mixture of local (caucasian), iranian, arabic and turkic elements. Turkmenistan exists. They must be older than Turkey/Ottoman Empire. I would compare this situation with the eastern slavs - you can’t reduce ancient Rus' only to Russia or Ukraine, right?

As for the absolutely ridiculous attempt to extend the life of the personification of Turkey up to the Turkic Khaganate… Bros, other turkic peoples exist. And many of them are truly descendants of the ancient turkic tribes. You might as well call Romania a direct continuation of the Roman Empire.

If suddenly citizens of Turkey are reading me: I am not taking away your ancient history, be calm, but face the truth - the short, yellow-skinned siberian mongoloids who profess shamanism are clearly not your direct biological ancestors… for the most part. Absolutely bigger. By heaven, I saw with my own eyes what the turks look like.

As we found out, the personification of Turkey cannot appear before the 11th/12th centuries AD. And the rest… well, I don't even know. The age of the countries of the arabic world should be based on at least the islamic conquest, but in reality, in Syria and Iraq, arabic states appeared in antiquity. The immediate neighbors of Turkey, Georgia and Armenia, literally frozen in time mastodons of the Achaemenid era. Bulgaria is the oldest slavic country, dating back to the early Middle Ages. In fact, all the Balkan countries go back to the same time period - the time of the settlement of the slavs in these lands, with the exception of the albanians, romanians and greeks (who represent pre-slavic, i.e., even more ancient population).

I think you understand where I'm going with this, right? So… it's funny, yeah.

#hetalia meta #hetalia #hws #aph #aph turkey #hws turkey

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They're on a date 🧡💜

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Here’s that horse again

*in the tone of a estranged grandmother*

You love horse

Horse was always your favourite what happened?

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I love Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" because it is a well-made film that plays well without knowledge of the books - and because it got a lot of people interested in Tolkien's Legendarium.

But sometimes I HATE these movies.

Because thanks to Jackson, his vision and the vision of the artists who advised him during the creation process became mainstream in the community. It is literally a SHOCK for people that Aragorn was beardless, that Boromir and Faramir were beardless gray-eyed brunettes, that Frodo was the oldest and fairest of the hobbits, that Sauron was not the eye on the tower, that the Balrogs had neither horns nor tails. .. Seriously, just try to find something like this among the fanarts - it will be hard. VERY.

P. S. And what strikes me about the english-speaking community is the extremely poor knowledge of Tolkien's texts, despite the fact that english is the original language, and the community has had access to the texts from the moment of their publication. This was not the case in the russian-speaking community, but the knowledge of texts there is much greater. And finding sensible criticism of Jackson’s films from the point of view of the canon of Tolkien’s Legendarium in the english-speaking space is impossible, or at least very difficult.

#tolkien meta #tolkien legendarium #the silmarillion #the lord of the rings #peter jackson

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I feel something of a pity when I see how the fandom ignores Egypt's potential.

Just think: dude was the strongest muslim state for a century. Was a shia caliphate. He fought with the Byzantine E. and western european crusaders for the Holy Land - and won. Was a sunni caliphate and the Guardian of Mecca/Medina, third if you count the center in Syria and the center in Mesopotamia/Iraq. Even after the Ottoman conquest, he was always a “special” province, with his own wars, his own government. Almost conquered the Ottoman Empire itself in the 19th century. The Levant, Libya and Sudan have been his bitches for centuries. After all, only Britain, the strongest empire in history, could conquer him, and he was still on his own. During the Cold War, he headed his own bloc of Arab states against the same bloc of Saudi Arabia. And even despite the failure of socialism, Egypt is the most important state in the Arab world, literally the head of the family.

And the fandom sees this guy as a dreamy pyramid fan? They portray him as small, feminine, raised in Turkey lol what???

Dude was literally a beast of sword fighting, one of the centers of islamic mysticism, as well as orthodoxy and major political players. Yes, he himself taught a lot of people and things.

#hetalia #aph #hws #hetalia meta #hws egypt #aph egypt

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Morgoth: a cruel psychopath who uses literally everyone around him to realize his fantasies of “my rightful power over the universe,” easily sacrifices his most loyal servants, and values literally no one but himself. Also, he is sexually anxious and loves to dominate/humiliate, but exclusively over the most beautiful women in the world.

Sauron: a cruel psychopath who uses literally everyone around him for the sake of “true order,” repeatedly betrayed everyone who trusted him, including his immediate superiors, fled the battlefield to save his own skin, and easily sacrificed those around him. Also, completely asexual, ignored even the most beautiful mortal woman in the setting.

Fandom: wow, shipping them would be such a great idea! Surely they deeply love each other, which is why Sauron was deeply convinced that Morgoth would never help him after disincarnation and did not return to Angband after the loss of Lúthien, and therefore was completely disappointed in him (along with the other Valar)!

#the silmarillion #tolkien legendarium #tolkien meta #silmarillion meta #sauron #morgoth #angbang

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I really don't like how at the end of "Eyes of Heaven" it is Jotaro who defeats Dio, ensuring the perfect ending where everyone survives.

Don't get me wrong, Jotaro is the longest running and most popular protagonist in the series, but I feel like that's a bit unfair since he already won in the original story of Part 3. I would have liked to see Jonathan ensure the Joestars' victory in the end. There were so many times where the game's dialogue said "WOW, this dude is freaking strong, we're lucky he didn't have stand" so I would really like to see how powerful Jonathan would have been in his prime with stand. And it would be cool if he could protect his family by finally defeating Dio, something that didn't happen over a hundred years ago.

And also... Well, we have heavenly stands that have incredible power, yes. Pucci awakened Made in Heaven through an incredibly complex ritual, but... what if (since the afterlife exists in JoJo) Jonathan got a heavenly stand simply because, well, he went to heaven where there are no more restrictions?

Just imagine that Dio Over Heaven defeated all the Joestars, including Jotaro, Giorno with Requiem, Johnny, BUT, when he already felt the final victory, he would hear Jonathan's gentle voice behind him "I'm sorry, Dio, but I cannot allow you to do injustice in all worlds. Heaven Denies!*" And Dio would lose with one blow, falling into the depths of hell.

*And yes, I will call Jonathan's heavenly stand "Heaven Denies", after one of the songs from Demons & Wizards. It's based on Milton's "Paradise Lost" and is about the fall of Lucifer, so using it on Dio would be really neat.

#jjba #jjba eyes of heaven #eyes of heaven #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jonathan joestar #dio brando #jojo bizarre adventure