#Precision Air

[afrotumble]

[prokopetz]

Limbo style atmospheric puzzle-platformer about a little red-haired girl where the obligatory surreal brainfuck powerup sequence that changes up the puzzle formula in the final act gives you an air dash.

[yohane23]

National hero in face of Tragedy

[pixlokita]

For the discord 😔

[terriblesolomons]

Can't quite articulate it intelligently yet - and it's not revelatory - but the absent-woman vision of the HBO war suite is so chilling to me...they're there, but they're always projections of the men around them. If women are present physically, it's for the sake of memory-making, not for relationship-building - men copulate with, kiss, flirt with, buy drinks for, and abandon women in these series in order to remember doing it later. In order to tell the story of doing it later, not for the pleasure of re-membering (literally) their flings, but for the stake of manhood amongst their peers.

If women are present emotionally, spiritually, they aren't /really/ present; that is, they're not present in reality. They're written into the dead wife trope without any proof of them having lived at all independently of the men who think of them, who turn them into icons, medals, omens, superstitions - they're there to fortify, edify, and intercede for the men who live in the real: in the war. They are all Madonnas, all saints. If they ever existed at all, it's in a different, untouchable, spiritual realm - one that has no bearing on the actual lives of the men whom they love beyond the comfort of a good-luck token.

(Even Lena Basilone, the widow of the Basilone marriage, haunts the memory of her dead husband!!! She trails after his legacy. She bends into its shadows. Since John is incapable of making a narrative out of her physical presence, she must deconstruct herself into an emotional definition of her own body: hands that offer his medal to his father - a body that comforts his mother - a shape that moves around the grief of his family, that gives it boundaries without ever affecting it...)

[kaythefloppa]

Just in case you aren’t feeling ancient yet

“Jake and the Never Land Pirates” ended 7 years ago today.

[longagoitwastuesday]

Kusakabe, dear, you're too beautiful to be saying that kind of stuff

[seagreenstardust]

I can’t believe I never saw this before.

Katsuki remembers his conversation with All Might about penance and atoning right in the middle of Deku’s solo fight against Shiguraki. And it would seem oddly placed if it weren’t for how that conversation ended, with All Might telling him that Izuku doesn’t blame him or think he needs to atone, but that they should talk it out themselves to clear the air.

And right as All Might says “You have plenty of time to talk” we transition back to Katsuki in real time, watching Deku risk everything, and starting to panic.

Yes, that episode is about Katsuki. Yes, we got insight into his head that wasn’t available before. This is the first time I think we understand that not only is he starting to change, he also sincerely regrets how he treated Izuku before. That’s all important and good.

But there’s something about All Might telling Katsuki he has time to fix things if he wants, transitioning directly to Katsuki realizing he might not have any time left at all to do anything right by Izuku, not if he dies fighting Shigaraki before Katsuki can work up the courage to talk to him.

It’s with those words from All Might echoing in his head that Katsuki jumps back into the action, ordering everyone around him, including the Number One hero, to help him execute a plan that would have worked if All For One hadn’t stepped in.

Katsuki is terrified that Izuku is going to die before he gets the chance to fix anything and that, my friends, is Good. Content.

[masterelrond]

Delvers of Mâkhda Khorbo!!! as the group's burglar i was sweating through the final phase but thanks to some higher power every fellowship maneuver went smoothly 🫡

[afrotumble]

[prokopetz]

Lesbians confirmed.

[yohane23]

Tanzanian Precision Air plane crashes into Lake Victoria

[fragmentedblade]

I called it, Ruan Mei is deranged and shady as hell

[dye-it-rouge-et-noir]

"Here begins our tale. The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide."

Oh man I love that dichotomy and how it weaves eras into a single sentence

[ashenxrogue]

No one asked me, but here's why Childe Ajax Tartaglia probably isn't 34

To preface this, no, I have not read the 4.2 story leaks, I have no plans to, and frankly, I don't care what they say as they do not change the following math. It could literally say point-blank that Childe is 34, and I would not agree with it.

I'm just here cause I found the 14+20 argument illogical. (14 being the age he fell into the abyss and 20 being the number of years ago that the disappearances started in Fontaine)

And a fair warning, I am bad at reading what my tone is unless it is blatant. If any of this sounds hostile, it was not my intent, and I am likely unaware that it reads as such. This is just how I write when I am trying to be as clear and understandable as possible.

So, why is it unlikely that Childe is 34? It's because of his mother and his number of siblings.

Childe has 3 named younger siblings and an unknown number of older siblings. 2 being the bare minimum and at least 3 being the more probable based on the original Chinese. And, because Chinese is not something I know how to translate correctly beyond a basic level, here's the copy/paste directly from the wiki explaining why Childe most likely has at least 3 older siblings.

As noted above, the Chinese version of "Tartaglia's Letters to Home" mentions 哥哥姐姐们 "older brother(s) and sister(s)," suggesting he has at least one of each. In "Character Story 5", he is called the 三子 "third son," which suggests that he has two older brothers and an unknown number of older sisters. Alternatively, the term 三子 "third son" could be ambiguous and indicate that he is the third child with two older siblings of unspecified gender. Combined with the clue from his letter to home, this would suggest he has one older brother and one older sister, but this possibility is less likely given the interpretation of the original Chinese. His phrasing of 哥哥姐姐们, with the plural marker 们, would be an unlikely way to refer to a single older brother and a single older sister; it instead suggests he has more than one of either older brothers or older sisters (or both). If he only had one of each, he most likely would have simply written 哥哥姐姐 without the plural marker. Therefore, the most likely possibility is still that he has two older brothers and at least one older sister.

Now, time for the math featuring hypothetical ages for Childe's siblings and mother. To be generous, I will be using ages at the extreme ends of the possible ranges, favoring the ends that make it more possible for Childe to be 34, saying that he has exactly 3 older siblings, that none of them were twins, and while also taking into consideration their mother's health and wellbeing.

First, we have to determine how old those 3 older siblings are. I will be giving each a 2.5ish-year age gap, as it is suggested that someone wait 18-24 months before becoming pregnant again. So for our hypothetical math, I'll say the oldest sibling is 40.

For their mother, I'll be going with 18 as the age she had her first child. (This is as low as I am willing to go; personally, I think this number should be at least 20, if not higher.)

So, for her to have a 40-year-old child, she currently would be 58.

But we're not done; we have the 3 younger siblings to add. To simplify things, I will only focus on Tuecer since he is the youngest, so his age is the only one that matters. The general consensus (that I also agree with) is that Tuecer is somewhere between the ages of 8-12; I will be using 12.

At 58, their mother then would have been 46 when she had Tuecer.

While this is not impossible, at this age, their mother is 6 years into the potential range of beginning menopause and has an extremely low rate of 3-4% at most of successfully becoming pregnant.

This is incredibly low and is the youngest their mother could be if we set Childe's age to 34 without endangering her health.

Their mother's age if Childe is 10 years younger? 48, setting her at 36 when she would have hypothetically had Tuecer and outside of the potential onset of menopause and that 3-4% rate of pregnancy occurring.

So, statistically speaking, it is incredibly unlikely that Childe is 34; thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[koks-kino]

Okay I finished it! Don't really have much to say at this moment, but the writing was very styilsh and even exquisite. It was enjoyable reading (I was afraid it would be too unclear and gloomy, but author can look at all these events detachedly). It's curious what non-fandom literature critics were saying about this, they couldn't reject it just because its lore is not that clear, could they?