#Sign of Courage

[falseandrealultravival]

Sign of Courage ~ Regain's Theme (Saburota Ushiwakamaru) J-pop

It reminds me of Japan before and during the war (of WW2). A crushing defeat is coming.

Japan lost twice to the USA. WW2's disastrous defeat was the first. After that, Japan became an economic superpower and threatened the USA, but Japan fell into the USA's trap by allowing the yen to be boosted by the "Plaza Accord." We went on a rampage with a yen that became unusually strong. At that time, the Japanese people became big-hearted, bought up assets all over the world, and went on wild fantasies. However, that economy, the bubble economy, collapsed, and Japan saw hell. This is the second brutal defeat. This Regain commercial song vividly depicts the mental scenery of the Japanese people who are in the middle of the bubble economy.

勇気のしるし～リゲインのテーマ（牛若丸三郎太）J-pop

戦前・戦中の日本を彷彿させる。来るのは無残な敗戦。

日本は、USAに２度敗戦した。WW2の無残な敗戦���その１回目。その後経済大国になって、USAを脅かしたが、「プラザ合意」で円を吊り上げられるのを容認して、日本はUSAの罠にはまった。異常に強くなった円で暴れまくったが、そのころは気が大きくなった日本人は、世界中の資産を買いあさり、夜郎自大な妄想をめぐらした。ところがその経済―バブル経済が破綻し、日本は地獄を見た。これが第２の無残な敗戦。このリゲインのCMソングは、バブル経済真っただ中の、奢りきった日本人の心象風景を活写していた。

[ljubitelj-sonca]

My job here is done

(Thanks @hey--look-a-squirrel for filming!!! And thanks @lovvecherrymotion for posting all the photos on tumblr when we found them!)

[mikakuna]

tortured by the thoughts of what if bruce was just a slightly better person towards jason. he took in a homeless child and wasn't the adult for him he should've been. what if jason sometimes thinks about who he could've been if a different adult took him in? would he have been safer, happier? do you think, after he becomes red hood, he wonders why robin was too dangerous for 19 year old dick but fine for 12 year old jason?

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This is Trump's plans, he wants to sow confusion and chaos in order to assert control when people are disorganized and unable to mount resistance. Don't lose control and keep a calm head, don't get distracted by a dozen different issues a focus on a core 2 to 3 issues to you can organize with others. Stay strong everyone, we're going through dark times but we can't break not now or give up. Love you all, please don't lose hope.

[hythlodaes]

leo

[vedicinsights]

Astrology Observation PART 6

People who have Rahu (North node) in the 3rd house are more likely to work in media, marketing, writing, journalism, or communication-related fields, whether verbal or non-verbal. However, the 3rd house is known as the house of valor. Rahu positioned here will not make the native truly courageous; it will only create the appearance of courage. Since Rahu is a planet of illusions and deception, it creates a false sense of bravery that doesn't truly exist.

LET ASTROLOGY CHOOSE YOU!

[doylewesleywalls]

© Doyle Wesley Walls -- Yard Sign in the USA, 2025

[divine-mystic-princess]

New Video 🌞 SUN thru ALL 12 Houses ❤️‍🔥

[delicatefury]

So on Saturday my younger sister and my mom came over to help me deep clean my carpets (Major the Disaster Dog had lived up to his name and ate a deer carcass Thanksgiving weekend. Yes, he went to the vet. Yes, he’s fine. He was diagnosed with “Garbage Gut” and my carpets needed a lot of help).

Anyway, as usual conversation turned to how it’s a really big house for one person.Which lead to complaints about escrow increases and shitty less-than-cost-of-living raises, which lead to my conviction my senior attorney is going to quit come spring and how I don’t want to stay at the firm if she leaves.

So Mom brings up the clerkship position I had interviewed for before I got my current job. The judge had loved me, but I was barely beat out for the position by someone with more experience running an office. The judge said he’d recommend me for any position that seemed to suit me going forward.

I told Mom I was keeping an eye on the state’s website for similar positions, but I hadn’t decided if I was willing to move an hour or more away, especially with the dogs and cats. She and my sister both encouraged me, promising to help me make it work and that I should go for my dream job.

So I agreed. I decided to commit myself to finding the job I really want, especially seeing as I’m in a position to be picky. I started researching rental rates in the towns, I mentally blocked off time to update my resume and cover letter, and I seriously committed myself to a new job search.

Then today at work, I get an email at my personal address titled “Job opening for Justice ****** * *****.” I idly click it, vaguely curious, thinking it’s an auto-mailer from one of the job sites I never unsubscribed from.

It’s not.

That previous judge I interviewed with over a year ago? He remembered me. He and his staff recommended me. This email is a direct solicitation from this other judge’s senior clerk based on that recommendation. She wants me to send in my resume for a clerkship position! I was recommended for an appellate Clerkship!

I’m gonna fix up my resume tonight!

[nakiahsuniverse]

🔥 𝙰𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙰𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗: "𝙸 𝚊𝚖 𝚋𝚛𝚊𝚟𝚎, 𝚋𝚘𝚕𝚍, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚙𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚙𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚞𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚖𝚢 𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚖𝚜."

[thesuetyouforgot]

Oh I did a f-cking brave thing today. And although it's only the first small step on a path of many brave steps that I have to take, I'm so proud of myself because that was an important one!

[negrowhat]

Also while I'm here...spewing my random thoughts to you all...Yai said the last time he got wasted with his bro-bestie, Tharn jumped into a canal naked...so idk why I was so surprised that he was acting rather randy with Phaya in the bathroom it really tracks.

[kalosian-woods]

clemont post-crisis really needs to be studied. but like also, so does everyone in kalos. clemont specifically i can see being really paranoid, cause even after taking back his gym and getting his invention and gym team back, it was taken away from him, right under his nose, the result being him losing his gym and soon, the city of light will fall with it.

so i can totally get why clemont would be really paranoid and overly cautious and prepared. but like geez man, this kid's rivals are full grown adults who just wish they could be as smart as him so they don't have to work, like wow.

the episode in general is so messed up in so many different levels, he was kidnapped, almost got mind controlled and after xerosic was put to jail, he immediately brushed it off like "okay! lets get back home now guys! :D" but like... what if we don't clemont. what if we talk about it. time to face another one of your fears-- addressing your feelings. your emotions. your thoughts.

(also not too mention, what happened to his gym team when team flare was taking over the tower??? did they get captured?? were they with clembot?? even then were they okay when clembot got destroyed? WHAT HAPPENED???)

-⚡ (yeah! i might talk about the other characters, mostly the gym leaders, elite 4, professor and his team, etc! i really like the pokemon league... especially the electric type leaders, they're so silly. from surge to volkner, to elesa, to clemont, to iono, we have such a wild variety of them.)

It's definitely the thing where everyone was affected by the Crisis in some way, but some had more of a role to play and thus took a harder hit with the whole situation (or at least should've). Clemont could've been semi-okay bar the fact that, y'know, Clembot as we knew it died (and also losing the Gym again), but then that episode had to happen and I'm at a loss. What did he do to deserve getting kidnapped after the whole ordeal??? I love how it's not even Ash going through the reprecussions because of Greninja/just being that OP or even Bonnie for having a connection with Zygarde, no, Xerosic felt so horrible about getting beat by a child back at a building he stole from said child so he felt the need to just control him instead. His priorities lol... (But even so, the fact that his whole Gym got taken away was probably one of the worst nightmares to him. He had so much trouble taking it back from a rouge invention and now it's happening again but the world is falling to pieces as well. Because of the device that is in his own Gym. The accountability he must've felt for it, undeserved as it was, must be crazy. If he wasn't already oerly-prepared before, you can bet your socks he's got an invention for every possible bad thing under the sun after the Crisis lol.)

But even with Clemont, he really did just brush it off so casually and that makes me even more worried, if that's even possible. He's so blase about everything that was happening around that fact. Weird man I met once (1) before in my life literally stealing me alongside a part of a Legendary Pokemon?? I'll just ask what's his buisiness and use my highly-specific anti-measure against his device that will cause me unimaginable amounts of pain. Same weird man who tried to control me trying to jump off the plane (in which who is steering this thing??)? Nah, I'll catch him and tell him to repent. Like I'm with Xerosic with this one, what is actually giving you your strength ability to move on so easily?? They watch that guy go to jail so casually lmao. And I get that the whole Squishy + Greninja thing happened right after, but was no one going to talk about it?? No??

I think, in a way, being controlled like that really parallels what happened with Clembot in the Crisis. The body is still there, but the memories, the feelings and decisions that can arise from that, can't be drawn from anymore. You are not you anymore. Xerosic aims to puppeteer him fully, denying him of any autonomy, and it's also so similar suto how Clemont sort of carried himself around before at the start too. He thought that he couldn't do both Gym stuff and being an inventor at the same time. He made an invention that looks like him to carry out the Gym Leader role of him (and now Xerosic wants to make him a tireless inventor at his beck and call). Clemont initially was very closed off and wasn't as interactive, and throughout this journey he had learnt to live as boldly as he ever could. And now, after everything that has ever happened, he was faced with the terrifying ordeal of losing that all over again. I think, maybe, he doesn't want to confront that reality, that he could've lost all of his freedom and his own autonomy and having to go through that alone, at that. There is no physical proof, after all. He does not 'have' to face it fully. The problem is solved, and so, to him, there is no use thinking about it. Not when the rest of Lumiose is still under heavy construction and he needs to be the beacon of hope and standing tall (just like Prism Tower, just like a Gym Leader would, just like everyone would expect from the inventor lighting up the world).

About his Gym Team, we do see Heliolisk with Clembot in the crisis, so I presume they're just always?? With Clembot?? Tbh the anime absolutely ignores the heck out of them at all times and I don't think we even see the Mags after the Gym Takeback (okay I checked the only other time is 'Battling With A Clean Slate'... yeah). But nooo, you've got me thinking about the death arghhh I would hope that the Pokeballs are durable, and also I am of the firm belief that Clembot would've at least tried to protect them to his very last moments. In the anime proper they're probably just all with Clembot for infinity times forever, which I guess isn't a terrible fate but also yeah. Sad. At least they're alive though???

[gloryseized]

hc;; (for botw!li.nk) He doesn't really like his first name "L.ink". I think that the name is always tied to being the Hero of Legend. It doesn’t mean every child named L.ink will become the hero, but for some reason, every hero does bear the name of L.ink. So it’s always felt impersonal to him, like it’s someone else’s name. But he goes with it out of respect for his parents and people pleasing nature. Shion, which is his middle name, just feels like his own name and no one else, so he ends up using it more with people that are close to him like friends and family.

[hxntresses]

Hi I spoke to Yuri Lowenthal at Megacon yesterday and I'm still giddy about it. :)

[zodiacsigns-12]