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Went to Mad At You Island and it turns out everyone's probably visited at some point or another. But it's like a nature preserve with no permanent residents, okay?

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I do like how City has a cast of varying ages. We have our middle school group, some high schoolers, two college students and their same-age friend, and several older working adults, all with their own styles.

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Big fan of fictional portrayals of children that have them talking about pseudophilosophical nonsense. Loved watching these middle schoolers debating on if kindness can cause world peace. It's a good compromise in writing; having them discuss such topics at length avoids the common writing flaw of emphasizing a character's youth to the point of making them non-agentic, as if they were 3 rather than 13, but at the same time having these discussions and topics be so childish underlines that they are still young and immature, two sheltered 13 year olds.

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people debate whether or not aggressively fixating on meaningless internet arguments is employed behavior or unemployed behavior, but I think the answer is a little outside the paradigm: when you are employed at a job where you feel powerless, a job where every day bleeds into the next, ceaseless and unchanging, a job that (and this is the most critical part) does not allow you much of a life beyond scrolling your phone, creating a hill to die on can easily become a form of agency. human connection, a sense of purpose and identity, the opportunity for free expression, etc are all things that Arguing Online can facilitate. in tandem with this, the compulsion to enforce order and punish wrongness reproduced by wider society (especially in bad job environments) is something that the despondent Online Arguer now has access to as well. being unemployed and constantly Arguing Online is an extension of this, as many unemployed people tend to suffer from social isolation and desire environments where unpleasantness can be controlled instead of ceaselessly inflicted. both the employed and unemployed Online Arguer are equally tethered to reality via their disconnect to their environment. both of them are trying to forge their own path on their own terms, no matter how unseemly. the correct term for this cohort is e-ronin.

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Character who acts how “horror characters are so stupid, if they made good decisions this wouldn’t happen” people want characters to act, but it’s not a horror movie and it’s abundantly clear that this person is paranoid beyond the point of being able to function

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A dance that never ends

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Takopii themselves serve as an outlier point here. Where Shizuka, Marina, and Naoki are all normal 10 year old children, Takopii is an alien. In theory they should be the closest thing there is to a figure of adult supervision here, given that they seem to be at the age of maturity for their species, enough to leave their home and move out to a new planet. And in some sense they feel this responsibility, that the happiness of the kids is on their head, that they need to be the ones making things better for them. But on the other hand, while Takopii may bring on capabilities beyond what the children are capable of, in mindset they are much more childish than any of the fourth graders that make up the rest of the cast. Due to their nature as an alien their naivety and understanding of the world caps out at perhaps the level of a 5 year old, if even that. So despite not being a child who is dependent on adult guardians like the kids, the children end up having to be responsible for them at times. Their supposed age only ends up highlighting how there is no responsible adult figure in this main cast.

Finished Ep 3 of Takopii's Original Sin. It is interesting how this show is kind of formatted like a children's show, kid's media gone off the rails with a dose of tragedy and realism. In particular I think this is used to underline how every adult authority figure has failed these children so completely.

In media for children it is fairly common to have the adult figures fade into the background; most children don't want to have a story be resolved by parents and teachers stepping in. So they simply don't; it's genre convention, don't worry about it too much. In TOS, too, the main focus is on the child main characters, but they can't resolve things on their own, the reason the adults aren't involved is because they are all some flavor of abusive or neglectful; the source of the children's problems. The result is the same as that of a children's show - there is nobody for these kids to turn to - but the emotional emphasis is different.

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Finished Ep 3 of Takopii's Original Sin. It is interesting how this show is kind of formatted like a children's show, kid's media gone off the rails with a dose of tragedy and realism. In particular I think this is used to underline how every adult authority figure has failed these children so completely.

In media for children it is fairly common to have the adult figures fade into the background; most children don't want to have a story be resolved by parents and teachers stepping in. So they simply don't; it's genre convention, don't worry about it too much. In TOS, too, the main focus is on the child main characters, but they can't resolve things on their own, the reason the adults aren't involved is because they are all some flavor of abusive or neglectful; the source of the children's problems. The result is the same as that of a children's show - there is nobody for these kids to turn to - but the emotional emphasis is different.

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I was too young when the lucky star fandom was big back in 2008ish so I missed my chance to get really invested in scraping potential relationships between girls from gag comedy anime. But maybe now is my chance.

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I was going to just post this with a caption "yuri" but then the scene directly afterwards has Niikura turn to the camera and talk about how Nagumo was the one who gave her life meaning. So like, really hoping AO3 has at least something about them.

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dont piss me off. next time you go on a trip im filling your house with galapagos finches. by the time you return, they've evolved to fill your niche. they're a better spouse to your partner. they're a better parent for your child. and? they're a better friend to me than you ever were.

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The Drowned Halls

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personal finance influencer called Koshchei the Debtless who makes instructional videos about how to advantageously structure shell corporations and shield assets during bankruptcy

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Something I don’t see discussed is that Danny’s father was to some extent abusive with his anger to some extent physically a lot of why Danny dose not confront Taylor in a direct way is because he’s explicitly trying not to be his father until arc six were he for a single interaction dose fall back on the advice of someone a generation prior and it cause Taylor to leave home

It also reframes Taylor’s anger at the world and her later actions as warlord the genuine want to help people mixed with the brutality of her actions as well as the orphans in her hideout or her relationship with Dinah

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For the reverse unpopular opinions game: PMMM

I liked it when the characters suffered. There's this very strange notion that writing fixfic (slightly loaded term for slightly-more-positive canon divergence, but whatever) means you didn't want the characters to suffer. Of course I wanted the characters to suffer. I just also, to some extent, wanted them to not suffer.

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in love with this cat-sized subway system and city that a team in China has made