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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wouldn't worry about it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Captain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I see! Yes, going from a father daughter relationship to love interest is icky. As I’ve mentioned before, I kind of knew what would happen in the sequel while watching the original series, so I paid extra attention to the “ick factor” (also I don’t really see Yashahime as canon, so if there were an ick, I’d just have more reason to denounce the sequel lol).

  The thing is, their relationship doesn’t really have a father daughter dynamic. He is not educating or parenting her, he doesn’t explain how the world works to her. He doesn’t console her when she is crying, he doesn’t give her affirmation, affection, or approval. He doesn’t provide for her (directly telling her to fend for herself if she needs human food). He doesn’t tell her what to do but lets her choose whether she wants to follow (or not). Their dynamic is much closer to Kagome and Inuyasha, with Sesshomaru protecting Rin from danger and running to her rescue whenever she is in trouble, and at times even pushing her away in the belief that a different kind of life might be better for her, safer, more normal. He’s not a father, nor an uncle, nor a mentor to her. He just… has her around. I’ve tried to find at least one episode where there would be an ick, an obvious “oh God that’s so weird that they will end up together” but it just never came.

  As a side note, they only travelled together for some months before she started living in a human village again. So it is not like he raised her (long term) and watched her grow up from day to day.

  Still, I agree it is weird, and it is weird to see this progression of their relationship, but in all fairness, it’s not as icky, weird, incestuous, or out of the blue, as I had initially assumed. I think it is more of a memory thing, when I thought back of the story, I also imagined them being in a family like relationship. But I think I just assumed that because of the straightforward (assumption of) power structures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll join you in talking to the void about inuyasha since I am rewatching it for the first time since I was a teen (and it is the first time I actually have an order): I see what you mean with Kagura. But some poetic bittersweet death does the story good. Sess being there when she died and comforting her was a huge character development.

  I’ve seen some clips from Yashahime and I doubt I’ll be able to watch it. I think the idea of the main conflict is compelling, but it’s already the language (“dad” instead of “father” is already off putting) and the character design (the tomboy daughter looks like she is wearing a suit and I somehow dislike that they had to make a tomboy character to begin with instead of a boy) that makes me unlikely to watch it.

  I’ve spoiled myself the whole Rin thing though while I was in the middle of my rewatch and I have to admit I can see it. And I like it, and I prefer it. There is nothing romantic between Kagura and Sess, she only gives small indications, apart from the final declaration in the final act. (Not there yet in the manga, might scream into the void later.) He clearly only has compassion towards the end but no romantic or emotional attachment.

  Honestly I can see it. While he is thankfully not grooming Rin when she is a child or showing any kind of romantic feelings towards her, it’s obvious she has a very unique position for a reason. The whole thing where he jumped into the Meido to save her from the netherworld (?) was a crazy episode. She’s the only person who makes him feel emotions like fear, sadness, regret, despair, and yes, love. Love for her, Jaken, life, his brother, the quest, people and beings. Hell even Sess’s mom was like “tf” and somehow found it in herself to revive a “human being” that is beneath her like an ant.

  Afaik, even in Yashahime Sess is not being too present with Rin and never was, and their relationship isn’t all too lovey dovey. Their relationship, even when a romantic one, will be very… discrete. People point out that he is hundreds of years old anyway, so there will always be a difference in age/maturity when he finds a human partner. But I think this is almost making it too complicated. He is a demon. She is a human. The ick that we perceive stems from seeing it as a human-human coupling, when he is a demon and cannot be assessed this way. Apart from that, Japan in the feudal era and such. Him giving her choices en masse is already quite the luxury. Him not aging also. He is still a spoilt teenage/tween brat at the beginning of the series, despite being hundreds of years old.

  Also I think Rin has a crush on Sess all along. I still have 4 episodes to go from the final act and idk what happens to Kohaku, maybe that would have been a more satisfying match for the audience, but I think for the characters SessRin makes more sense than SessKag and KohRin. I can absolutely imagine Rin being the pushier one to get together with Sess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the manga is much better in that regard. Tuxedo mask is actually very useful and might have a better character arc than Usagi herself, being that he starts out as a guy who just dresses up to someone with some powers who still feels inferior to his super badass gf whom he feels he is only holding back, to actually having a crystal of his own and some deep shit crazy powers. I’m not so sure it was supposed to be about empowerment as much as we want to read onto it. Same with all the sapphic views on it, claiming everyone there is gay or at least bi. Have it your way and read into it what you want, but I don’t think it was the actual intention of the creators, neither Naoko nor the anime studio.

  I mean they literally give the girls manicures in their transformations, although they wear gloves - simply because the executives planned to market nail polish.

  Both the seshi and tuxedo mask have episodes where they are vital though. I hate when he is called a damsel in distress as much as when the senshi are reduced to bystanders. Within the format and with the target audience, with the ease of production goals, I honestly think it is ok to not have them all kick ass every episode.

  Sincerely, a huge Sailor Moon fan who is currently rewatching with their daughter. (The pegasus storyline is awful in the anime so far but it might be the best one in the manga.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slingshot is a nice detail 😁⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay, now I can open the first image and zoom in! The lil’ heart on Pluto 💜 thank you!

  I was using standard firefox btw. The two other pictures that are cut outs can’t be zoomed or opened, in case you want to know!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slingshot is a nice detail 😁⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s of any use to you, I cannot zoom in on the website (in mobile mode), neither on the pictures, nor on the text. My guess was that this was a feature to not copy your work? On my phone, this ends up being too small to be readable. But I’ll assume you did my boy Pluto justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨justgermanthigs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t argue that it is the most hygienic way to clean laundry, but I doubt it is necessary on a day to day basis. Most people don’t get their underwear or bedsheets that dirty. Hospitals, nursing homes, daycare centers - sure. But not your normal household unless someone is severely sick.

  We personally only wash dish towels, cleaning supplies and similar stuff at 90°, the reason being that the 60° program on our washing machine uses up just as much energy as 90°, and we don’t need to use extra hygiene detergent when we do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slingshot is a nice detail 😁⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so lovely! I can’t read everything the dwarf planets say unfortunately but it is cute nevertheless.

  I laughed at Neptune being so happy about having the strongest winds. Truly a gassy planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Being vegan is unnatural"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t tear a postpartum cow and its calf apart the milk just ain’t that tasty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always there, just waiting.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A friend of mine once said that pears are wannabe apples and this sticked with me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, somewhen like 7000bc at least

  Jokes aside, I do believe in a better future. As bleak as everything looks, I strongly want to believe that all the amazing people I’ve met who want change can achieve it. Even if chances aren’t great, I do believe it is possible. After all, what life is left inside you if you decide to not have hope?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨between medicine and this, we do not honour rats enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this statue! It’s in Novosibirsk. I’ve always wanted to go there and see it in real life. Once the war is finally over and Russia is free again I’ll pay a visit to that little rodent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick days⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re legally entitled to 10 days paid sick leave

  Sorry but still not good enough. I don’t plan out when I am going to be sick in the coming year or how many days it’ll take me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's still life left in them!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is quite a bunch of fabric missing but yes, this is an amazing project for someone who is into mending and not too complicated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk which would be worse tbh⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Rei in Evangelion is named after Rei Hino in Sailor Moon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for taking the time to write this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LETS GO GAMBLING!!!! 🤩🌟😋⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what? Really? I didn’t know they worked that way. I ended up biting tiny pieces off and chewing them (often together with a normal gum) because I couldn’t handle their strength.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe one day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So I grew up in a country where alcohol is legal from age 16 and parents often allow a drink to their kids even earlier (I’ve seen 12 year olds with their non-trash parents at a beer tent with a beer-lemonade-mix. Bavarian people man).

  So one evening my mom gave me a small glass of champagne and somehow put a small shot of vodka inside. I was probably 15.

  The next day I woke up at 9:30 am, as early as never on a weekend, feeling well rested, and my chronic headache was gone. I was flabbergasted. My mom was flabbergasted.

  Needless to say that memory of a perfect morning might have partly fueled my alcohol problem later on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are large chunks of it that are really repetitive and boring, just things like the number of goats and chickens owned by so and so.

  That honestly sounds like the exposition of every character in a Wes Anderson movie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heave-ho!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mandatory mention that cup size means nothing without the band size.

  A C cup with a 70 cm band is much smaller in volume than a C cup with a 90 cm band. 70G and 90C have equivalent breast volume (if you go with A, B C, D, E, F, G as nomenclature).

  Which is especially annoying because as a 70G you still get the industrial support model while you’d be fine with a turtle dove model. And if you have a band width below 70 you are absolutely fucked, although a lot of petite women would do better in 65.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love science⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a similar issue with the word research. Do your own research - wtf. Research is either standing in the lab and actually experimenting, or conducting (clinical) studies, or at the very least an extensive literature research that even for a paper takes days (more like weeks and months) and a lot of knowledge on the field as well as methods for literature research in this sphere to be conducted properly. I absolutely don’t want you to do your own research about my field of study. You probably have a job and don’t want to go to university for 6 years to understand my niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't do it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nooo :( I hope you’ll get back on track. Setbacks are ok. It took me about 5 years to get sober once I started trying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, storytime please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is laying on your stomach every once in a while good for you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How on earth are you reading while lying on your stomach??

  Anecdotally, I had a quenching desire to lie on my stomach after giving birth. Like, I was exhausted and sleep deprived and you could have told me that this would kill me and I’d still sleep on my stomach in the hospital. I later looked it up and apparently lying on your stomach helps with the back formation of the uterus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I often regret a lot of decisions and long for the paths I didn’t take. Then I remember that I was very likely to take a path that would have gotten me killed. Be it through rape, accident, suicide, or - most likely - by drinking myself to death. My life right now isn’t what I thought it would be, a lot of things didn’t turn out as I had yearned for, but it is a nice life and I am so grateful. So when I get sad about the missed opportunities, I try to humble myself and be grateful and impressed by what I have achieved. I didn’t die. And if I think about what deep pit I got out of, then my “life career” is so much steeper than a lot of people’s. Going from the mariana trench to the coast is quite a climb, even if you’re just at sea level at the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What life hack helped you this year?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I suggest putting some frozen kale or spinach in it as well? For extra veggies and taste. We basically cook that every week and I love it. Granted, I put a tad more effort into it (stir fry onion and garlic and tomato paste before I add rice, lentils, greens and broth) but it’s basically the same.

  Also try adding soy sauce, smoked paprika, and liquid smoke. Just a drop but it does wonders. Yeast flakes are also great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am so, so sorry about your loss. I’m glad to hear that you were able to feel a beacon of hope last year, and that this painting was a way for you to cling on to it and feel it a little longer. I hope you find a way to keep holding on to it, and through that hope find the courage to not give up and try to support change instead whenever you can and have the strength and energy to do so. But I can’t even imagine how hard that must be. And most of all, carry the love you had for your mom in your heart despite the grief, and the disgust and hate for the system that led to her demise quicker than it had to be.

  I hope you don’t mind if I save that picture of yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insulin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Making an AI meme of Luigi as a Saint is one thing.

  Making a painting and having it casually displayed in your room is a whole other level.

  Also, I can’t believe it’s already been a year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just want to say I love comments like yours. I love when people know their stuff about the bible (or other holy texts) and can put it into a reflected context. Thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MAGA, splitting hairs.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point about distraction from the matter, and I agree there. At the same time I am very bothered by the media coverage saying pedophile 99% of the time. Because, as you have mentioned in your first two paragraphs, pedophilia is a disorder, and not every pedophile/ephebophile/hebephile is an offender or consumes CSM. They should be calling them child rapists, sex offenders who raped minors, whatever. At least in Epstein’s case you can reasonably assume he did, indeed, have a sexual disorder, I’m not sure if it is true for all his clients. But they all are child sex offenders, there is no doubt about that.

  Language matters. The last decade was putting such an emphasis on this, but with this case a lot of people seem to agree that “language distracts”. Let it be vague, everyone knows what is meant. Don’t distract from the important matter by being specific about the words you use. Well, I disagree, and I disagree not because it is ephebophilia or hebephilia, I disagree because a) It’s not about the …philia, it is about the offenses committed, and thus b) there are more precise terms that should be used in this case, and these terms (child rapist, statutory rape, child sex trafficker, etc) sound much harsher anyway. Also c) you are working against the interest of non offending pedophiles here and dismantle any awareness there is about everything you had pointed out above. Language matters for them as well.

  I’m lucky enough to have a very bland, healthy sexual orientation and preference, but I do have a kid, and God knows I want to protect her from harm.

  For this, I need people who are attracted to minors to be open about it, and they won’t be if we run with torches after them for just their orientation, or if we keep calling every person who offended a minor a pedophile. They won’t be open or seek help, and the discourse right now is incredibly counterproductive.

  I also need people to be more aware that about half of sex offenses concerning minors are committed by people who have no attraction dysfunction. If it were so easy as to just “remove all the pedophiles” to stop child sex offenses.

  So, in my opinion, the response to “ackshually he’s not a pedophile” should be “you’re right, he sex trafficked and raped minors. Better now?”