#and might i add he continues to say contradiction after this

[bitesizedgummie]

ah yes, He

He is definitely rubbing off on you, miles

care to say His name?

[runabout-river]

Thoughts on JJK chapter 259 (Spoilers)

We start with a flashback to the blood junkies teaching Yuji how to use BM. As was already said in a previous flashback, Choso can't teach for shit but that's why Kamo is here. Yuji's one way of relating to the foundation of BM is a little infantile but when it works it works.

This 1-page flashback is there for only one thing: preparing us for Choso's upcoming death through sacrifice.

Sukuna collects BV like I did Yugioh cards. First a cooking pun, then a limit on furnace outside of his DE, then the inside of his DE was littered with explosive CE ambers, then a change of his barrier to keep his CT output high.

Uraume (not Sukuna! not the narrator!) declares this their victory while she hasn't even managed to defeat Hakari. The narrator does say though that this is Sukuna's ultimate move. Looking at its scale and immense destructive power, it's appropriate.

I made a post about other techniques that Sukuna probably has in his sleeve: CTR, the Maximum and the Hollow Technique. It could be that Sukuna's MT and HT could rival his Fire in destructiveness without contradicting the narrator: Sukuna is a villain who also grows while fighting just like the typical shonen protagonist. Sth like HT he might've just learned from Gojo making Yuji's continued fight against him hell.

The moment Yuji was in an enclosed and dark space with Choso above him I knew Choso was a goner. It's sad 😢 but we go back to that picnic table and those two have one last conversation with each other. They're at peace with the situation...

Important to note: Yuji normally infuses dream sequences into others unlike Sukuna who has a post-death talk with them. This is a post-death talk that Yuji now has with Choso, so I'm curious how that will get explained in the future. Is that part of the resonance that gets mentioned later?

Also important: with how everything with Choso and the picnic table is set up, I find it likely that Yuji will be here again right before dying (or when he dies). Other dead characters might greet him here.

The narrator tells us that after the dusts settles, Yuji's convictions get shaken. We get an appropriate 80% page close up of Sukuna from below, portraying him as the monstrous giant that he is.

What I don't really like here is that Yuji's feelings of despair don't get to sink in. Todo appears 1 panel after Yuji looks relatively all right. Maybe Gege didn't want to repeat Kugisaki's death aftermath as it wouldn't add much but a bit more emotions would've been better.

Anyway, Todo is here right when he was needed the most. A flashback tells us what the rational behind his late entrance and absence from Yuji's presence had been. Makes sense and now the Sukuna-Yuji(-Megumi?) resonance will be an important plot point later.

Does that resonance go both ways? Three ways? Was that how Yuji had entered the inner domain where Megumi is imprisoned right now?

Also, who else is going to show up now? This feels like the perfect setup for Nobara to make her comeback. The same points for keeping Todo's presence and assistance hidden apply to her and this scene directly calls back her death scene as well.

The "most likely fine" is also funny but it also sets up that Ino, Maki and Miwa(?) might've gotten injuries that cross them out of the fight. I think that only Maki will return.

Now the original Brothers™ are back to fighting together again (would've loved Choso and Todo to argue about that though). Sukuna of course knows everything about their fighting style and he looks like a menace again. (Maybe next chapter will open with another flashback of Choso and Todo fighting over Yuji)

Sukuna's arms are open and he smiles without any worries. While Uraume might be shocked that this isn't their victory and that Sukuna's most devastating attack only killed one person, Sukuna himself is all sunshine and rainbows.

[zeestarfishalien]

What Lies Between Us

[DPxDC Week 2023 Day 4: Danielle “Dani” Phantom // Halfa Jason Todd AU // Heartbeat]

• Daddy Issues Ship (Danielle “Dani” Phantom/Jason Todd) Established Relationship

“Why do you like cuddling me so much?” The question flows from his lips before he can think better of it. Instead of pulling away or changing the subject, she answered his question.

“Your heart is steadier than mine. It reminds me to breathe, to be alive.”

Jason craned his neck to get a good look at Ellie’s face. She studiously doesn’t meet his eyes, instead focusing on picking at a loose thread on his shirt.

He knew she had some sort of heart issue. Hard not to notice when they often cuddle close on the couch or fall asleep on one another. He hadn’t asked details and she hadn’t given them.

This…these words are striking all the wrong chords. Still he doesn’t push. She met Tim once and Jason didn’t see her for 3 weeks after that. She sent him pictures from Tibet, all scenery and places and people but never of her. Jason learned from that experience. He saw how worried she was about his reaction when she returned. She whispered to him in the wee hours of the morning before the sky lightened into dawn about a father-like figure who took and took and took, never gave. Someone who trapped her into a role and a place, then cast her aside as soon as the better option came around.

Jason makes sure to touch her lightly and fleetingly staying soft so she doesn’t feel trapped.

So yeah, Jason doesn’t ask what she means by those oddly ominous words.

Instead he gives.

“Sometimes I feel too heavy and hardened by some of my work, but you snuggle right in like I’m soft.”

She meets his eyes now, just briefly, but she does it.

“You are soft, Jay. You keep it wrapped up safe under that hard shell so that it doesn’t disappear. You keep living.” She pauses and Jason almost says something but stops and so she continues. “I don’t know how it works…living. I’ve been faking it in some vain attempt to pretend long enough that it becomes real, but I still don’t understand. I was made not born Jay.”

Jason takes a deep even breath.

“But you’re here now, with me. That’s living.”

“It’s so much easier, more simple, to be dead but I’m not that either. I’m stuck in this void and being with you makes me feel so much and see just how far from living I am. But your heartbeat? That makes me feel alive. It makes my heart match yours and I breathe in and feel the oxygen instead of just going through the motions.”

“That seems like a bit of a contradiction.”

“It is…but so am I.”

“I’m okay with that,” he says quietly, because he is okay with it and because she feels so safe and familiar, a feeling from a time he can’t quite remember (he thinks it might be when he was dead).

Her arms snake around him tightly and she buries her face in his chest.

He softly cards his fingers through her hair. It’s rarely loose like this. She usually keeps it in a ponytail or braid of some kind.

She hums and her body hums with her as she melts into him.

“Danny wants to meet you,” she murmurs almost sleepily when she finally unburies her face.

“Okay, I can adjust my schedule if we get a date and time.”

“Danny is my biological donor,” she adds on like she’s trying to wig him out.

“Not your father-like figure, right?” Jason clarifies.

“No.” She makes a face. “He’s the one who made me from Danny. Danny didn’t even know about me until I tried to kill him.”

Jason blinks. He was not expecting this, not today during sleepy cuddles on the couch but he’s not about to stop her or interrogate her about it.

“Danny didn’t have to care but he does. He was just a kid but he cared. He tried for me. He did what little he could within the restraints of his own circumstances. He gave me freedom.”

“Then I’d be honored to meet him.” And he means it.

“He’s like you,” she continues once again not looking him in the eyes. She’s found that loose thread again to pick at. Jason isn’t sure where she’s going with this but he has suspicions. “Where I’m neither dead nor alive, Danny and you are both dead and alive.”

“I don’t…what?”

“Death doesn’t let go even if she lets you come back. There’s a part of your soul that is forever changed by your time among the dead,” she explains. If it were anyone else Jason would already be on the defensive and anger would be bubbling to the surface. He’d have to fight to keep control of his emotions.

But it’s Ellie…

And that makes all the difference. Her earnest way of dropping bombshells has him reeling but not angry.

“I,” he pauses to search for the words, “it’s not that I didn’t know that I was different when I came back but this is a whole new level. You’re sure that I’m ‘dead and alive,’ right?”

“I’m sure Jay,” she pushes herself into a sitting position using his chest so she can look him in the eyes. “You’re a halfa. An earth born halfa but a halfa all the same.”

“How do you,” he gestures vaguely, “know?”

Ellie closes her eyes as she breathes in deep. When she opens them, her eyes glow a green not dissimilar to the Lazarus pits. She makes some sort of sound of water running over stones, but not with her mouth.

There’s an echoing pang in his chest right where those feelings of familiarity reside and his whole being vibrates with the sound of a plucked guitar string. The sound somehow escapes his body (maybe because it’s not a sound).

He lets out a soft, “oh.”

“You feel it too. The familiarity and comfort of death.”

He nods.

“I would know you no matter what form you take,” she whispers.

In lieu of an answer, Jason places his hands on hers. Slowly, ever so gently he tugs them up to his lips to place a soft kiss on them. He doesn’t know what to think or what to say. It’s kind of a lot that she suddenly dumped on him but he does know one thing for sure.

“I would like to stay with you no matter what form we take.”

It takes a moment for her to process the words but then the seriousness of the moment is broken and she’s rolling her eyes and shoving her hand in his face.

“You’re such a sap,” she complains but she softens. Jason didn’t realize she had been so tense until it’s gone. She lets him push her hand away from his face.

“Hey, you started it mx. ‘I would know you no matter what form you take.’ I just went with it.”

“Ugh…you’re right. I hate when you’re right.” With those words of admittance she huffs and drops her upper body once more to snuggle into him. He’s pretty sure she wiggles around extra just to annoy him. Today. Here and now, it could never be annoying.

Bc Ellie’s behavior might be confusing. She wanted to tell Jason about herself but was scared he would reject her so she decided to just info-dump everything on him and prepare for the worst. It’s not a great way to handle that situation but she isn’t perfect.

Also the time where she met Tim… so Tim just like started prying. The boi has no sense of boundaries and you cannot convince me that he does. She panicked and ran off bc instincts and only once she calmed down did she start taking pics and sending them to Jason to see how he was going to react.

It’s hard to get all that across when we are so limited by Jason’s pov. And that’s also the point. We are missing so much information and it’s kinda fun to write that. I’ve been needing to work on it more so here we are.

[chireikiden]

What are the things in lore you would say ZUN 100% retconned/later ignored in regards to his own material?

This was a pretty broad question to answer at the drop of a hat, so I let it sit in my inbox for a while and wrote down a couple things that came to mind in the meantime.

As we all know, yadda yadda, Touhou is very good at simply not bringing things up again, and thus you can very rarely argue that some individual thing has been outright retconned based simply on its absence in later works. Add unreliable narrators on top, and that only really leaves the very clear contradictions.

Early Windows stuff: You can surely find more if you crawl more carefully than I felt like doing, but here’s some that I remember. The EoSD prologue tells us that Gensokyo is just a seldom visited region in the mountains with a few random humans living amongst monsters, implicitly no Human Village, and no barrier around it. Reimu is worried that the red mist would basically flow out of Gensokyo and into what we'd now consider "the Outside World", which may or may not be aware of Gensokyo and just ignoring it. It's not hard at all to slot into the current setting by moving around a couple things, but read on its own without anachronistic assumptions it's clearly different. Basically, it's a good example of how the essentials of Gensokyo as a setting really weren't fully formed until at least a couple games later.

As an extension of that, I think a lot of things associated with EoSD - like the preceding Vampire Incident, the spell card rules, or even the SDM being newcomers to Gensokyo - weren’t even a twinkle in ZUN’s eye at the time he made EoSD, and were only retconned into existence starting roughly with PMiSS. (Them being newcomers is arguable based on stuff like Reimu not knowing the mansion was there, but that’s also easily explained by Reimu being Reimu.)

PCB starts fleshing things out a bit more and has fewer outright contradictions, but still for example claims/implies that humans sealed up Gensokyo in order to lock the youkai inside. Not irreconcilable, especially if you assume an unreliable narrator yadda yadda, but I think it’s fair to consider it retconned.

By the time of IN, the main pieces are more or less in place and there’s a lot less stuff that would need to be retconned later on, but you can still find some messiness especially related to the Moon if you want to read it that way.

Reimu’s luck: While it’s come up on rare occasion, typically in the form of her “intuition” but also in LE where she uses it for gambling, I don’t think it’s ever again been anywhere near as extreme as that time in EaLND where she walked over a river by happening to step on random fish. If anything, she usually seems pretty unlucky at everything that isn’t specifically gambling or solving incidents, but that might be its own hair to split.

Just for bonus points: Since it’s been on my mind. The literal meaning of retcon is “retroactive continuity”. I think the manga, games etc. typically work on a Schrödinger’s Timeline that simply doesn’t exist until it is directly referenced somehow, and even then it’s only loosely defined. For example, CDS and Lotus Eaters started around the same time (in real life), which was also when the first Gouyoku Ibun demo came out. Lotus Eaters could be making long time skips for all we know, but the events of CDS have probably spanned only a couple weeks at most.

And now we have Lotus Eaters' latest chapters taking place shortly after the events of Gouyoku. In that case, when Yukari summons Flan into the Underground to act as her ballistic missile in CDS, is she doing it before or after Okina did literally the same thing in Gouyoku? When does CDS take place in relation to Gouyoku, or any given LE chapter? Or does it, and every Touhou story, merely take place “now”, even if it started in 2019 and it’s now 2023?

Since Touhou stories tend to only reference each other when they feel like it and are otherwise perfectly comfortable just not bringing it up in any way, there’s a good chance we’ll never know. Or they could simply say something in the next chapter just because. But usually not.

[elleashling]

so i watched the fnaf movie and i have some thoughts. mostly not good but certainly some thoughts!

(FNAF MOVIE SPOILERS. DO NOT READ BELOW IF YOU DO NOT WANT THEM)

unpopular opinion but the fnaf movie was frustrating to me because i didn’t feel like it followed the lore at All. like i appreciated all the references (kicked my feet and scream whispered in the theater to my mom when i saw the racing game print on the shirt of the guy who dies in the kitchen) but like the overarching plot made no sense to me. here are some rambling points. long post incoming

Plot Fails IMO

why did afton kidnap garrett (who is nonexistent in the games afaik) from a Campground? this is completely unrelated to the typical afton kidnappings and seems like a major stretch

why is vanessa his (afton’s) daughter? this feels like they tried to smash steel wool lore and scott cawthon lore together and failed worse than steel wool failed at making security breach have a point

why do we care about the mike schmidt namedrop if it isn’t an alias for afton’s son like in the games? why does afton recognize the last name and specifically get mike to work the job, then say he didn’t want mike to even get involved. my brother in christ YOU INVOLVED HIM

yet another piece of media where afton randomly dies. except Different. i don’t understand what is going on here this isn’t how it happened it’s a literal rewriting of the canon lore

the drawings thing was also very odd. the whole point of the animatronics coming to kill you originally in 1 and 2 was BECAUSE they knew an adult had killed them and they thought mike was william. there was no special drawing mind control. felt once again like a steel wool lore transplant, extending control over vanny (vanessa) to the animatronics

Springtrap For Fanservice™️. god im so tired of this stop jamming him in places he wasn’t in to start with

when would this take place even? i estimated somewhere between 1 and 3, clearly fazbear’s shut down but it’s obviously not to the point of fnaf 3 yet? why do they need a guard then? idk

abby schmidt? who

Other Odd Stuff

there was a weird split between horrifying fates and drawn out gore and people being cut in half in impossible ways and….. cutting the tension in half by building a table fort and tickling a child to death. really? every single climatic buildup in this movie felt like it was followed by comedy

my mother pointed out watching this movie that it continues a trope “autistic child provides key help through special connection with main plot problem, and then is immediately cured”. i have to say i kind of agree because why else call her mentally ill at the beginning? go out of the way to show her being by herself drawing (which is FINE! it’s OKAY!!) and then socializing with other kids after the ghost deal is over?

mike schmidt dream plotline. why

what was the point of aunt jane???

vanessa throwing the pills away was probably illegal in multiple ways lmao

sigh… as a long term fnaf fan i really wanted to like this movie but it came off as a whole lot of fanservice and diluting the story for mainstream while blending the new owner’s lore in poorly. i liked fnaf when it ended at fnaf 6!!!!!!!!!! aaaaaaahhhaggagah!!!!!!

if you want to contradict anything i said here (or if ur another big fan and you know smth i said is wrong lol) absolutely feel free i love lore and talking about it and if you love lore like me come chat and talk abt this w me!!!

tldr don’t get me wrong i enjoyed it for the references and the little details, matpat and cory and the living tombstone made me giggle, but i really thought they messed up the plot a Lot..

might add more in reblogs as i think of it

yeah anyways ill probably make another post rambling about all the references and stuff lol

[proffbon]

The more I try to wrap my head around BG3 lore the more confused I get. I can't seem to understand what the deal is with Bhaal, Bhaalists and Durge, but I want to get it to write Fawn more accurately. Maybe I'm missing the whole picture or it's deliberately kinda vague so you can insert your character better but it seems that some info either doesn't add up, contradicts itself or is supposed to be describing different points in time and I'm just a dumbass.

1. Durge chastises Orin for basically playing too much with her victims (posing corpse-dollies) and being picky about them ('Bhaal doesn't care whether you give him the corpse of a pauper or a king'), sacrificing quantity for quality. In turn Orin calls Durge blunt and dull and says they spill their victims blood unworthy of their Father, they lack beauty in their atrocities. So, logically, it suggests that Durge killed more than Orin but in less creative/elegant ways.

2. Gortash says to Durge that "Bhaal allows you to pick your battles, as long as you do pick them. Orin thinks she needs to slash every throat in sight" which seems to suggest that it's Durge who's the picky one, or at least the one who has more restraint. It might be that Durge got pickier after they allied with Gortash but it's really hard for me to imagine Gortash considering the alliance to begin with if he didn't see that Durge could at least somewhat control themselves already. It's possible that Durge seems to have more restraint only from Gortash's POV because they are willing to sacrifice their kill streak in favor of their plot while Orin is vehemently against Gortash cramping her style, which reads to him as excessive bloodlust.

3. If Blood in Baldur's Gate is any indication, Durge does seem to enjoy a bit of cat-and-mouse chase they have with Tav. Sure, those might have been just ways to lure Tav closer enough to kill them, but the whole 'catch me if you can' angle reads more as part of the entertainment, at least to me. Also, while Durge's killings don't seem particularly refined (although you could argue that the butcher's death was kinda poetic) they seem to at least put some care into covering their tracks and using petty squabbles of the city to avoid suspicion and additionally faking their own death, even though they seem to judge Orin for planning and plotting. Maybe Durge meant something else and it was different from their plotting (as you could argue Durge's schemes were more essential to their survival/survival of the cult) but I can't come up with anything else which could be described as 'plotting'. Is it just a case of "Noooooo, my plotting and scheming is based and useful and your plotting and scheming is cringe and melodramatic, this is different :(((("?

4. Also, I guess the whole "you plan, you plot, you prevaricate and you waste [Bhaal's] time" is rich coming from someone who ended up pulling the biggest plot in the history of plots with Gortash. I would chalk it up to Durge being a massive hypocrite or this letter being written long before the whole deal with Gortash but it's weird that Orin never mentions this contradiction.

5. Something I don't understand about Bhaal's worship in general: why is there such a focus on torture, necrophilia, cannibalism and general messiness of the kills if the main goal is to just kill as many people as you can? Wouldn't it just be useless distraction to torture them prior? I think in other iterations of dnd lore Bhaalist practices were more about spreading fear of Bhaal in the hearts of people so gory, bloody murders made sense, but it doesn't seem to be the case here? Some of Sceleritas' dialogue suggests Durge might be 'inspired' by breaking taboos if they ever tire of killing, but this clearly goes beyond just Durge's quirks and seems to be prevalent to the whole belief system.

6. Kinda continuing the point from the previous one, If Durge is against 'playing with food' so much, what was the vivisection memory? Wouldn't it be the ultimate form of playing with your victims? I guess it's kinda like torture but the whole point of vivisection is that you keep the subject alive as long as needed (or through the whole thing depending on the purpose). Maybe that's what the whole thing with Sceleritas was about, him being drunk and ruining the experiment, maybe it was actually to keep Durge from messing around with their kills too much rather than simple incompetence? Also keeping the embalmed organs and taxidermied corpses is a bit weird, but the narrator did say it was Sceleritas who arranged the study and he does seem to have a habit of collecting bits from Durge's kills as a form of reverence. Although his line "You always told me not to stay too close to the art when it's on display" (in reference to Alfira's body) suggests that Durge did view their killing as art... Despite shitting on Orin for the same thing? Or maybe it was just a figure of speech from Sceleritas, idk. Maybe Durge meant it in reference to art in general, but then why are these two even having discussions about art and how you shouldn't be interfering with it?

7. The main reason for Sceletitas being around was to ensure that Durge keeps following Bhaal's path. However in certain dialogue Sceleritas suggests that Durge struggled to conduct themselves without him around. That makes sense if Durge had a tendency to disobey or kill in a way Bhaal didn't like, but then if we bring this all the way back to point 1, what's up with Durge shitting on Orin when they themselves apparently need to be constantly surveillance and guided? I guess Durge could be talking about knowing what Bhaal wants but not being able to follow through with it sometimes while Orin doesn't understand Bhaal at all and thinks herself somehow more worthy even though her killings are subpar by Father's standards.

8. In failed!Durge dialogue becoming the mindless murder machine seems to be the lowest of the low most undesirable thing that could happen, but... Isn't it the most efficient way of achieving Bhaal's goal?? What do you want, old man?? Do you want plotting and scheming or not, I don't get you. Orin seems to consider Durge's killing mindless and beastlike already, but I guess we're operating on a scale here? What seems barbaric and tasteless to Orin is perfectly fine with Bhaal, but even he doesn't have a need for a dumb meat puppet. But then again, if Bhaal, for some reason, is so against planning and scheming, what is there left to the act of murder if not just mindlessly going on a rampage? Getting some mixed signals here, old man. I guess realistically Bhaal would be against murderous rampage in a sense that Durge would most likely agro the whole city against them and get taken down almost immediately thus bringing in far less kills than if they were a bit smart about it, but this doesn't really seem to be the case in failed!Durge ending, it implies you're just going on a killing spree for the rest of your days, so what is the problem exactly? I guess it’s more like “Well, this little shithead is not listening to me, at least I can make them a bit useful”, but then again why wasn’t this murderous rampage the main goal from the start?

9. What exactly is wrong with Orin's murders? Not even bringing in the fact that both elegant and grisly murders are fine by Bhaal's dogma as far as I know, how are they fundamentally different from Durge's? Because of the fact she puts her victims on display like a cat? Didn't Durge do the same thing with the butcher in Blood in Baldur's Gate? Also isn't that the whole point for Bhaalists to put on great displays in his honor? Or is it the fact that Orin spends just TOO MUCH time on it? Is there a limit of some sort? Is it just her displaying her mother's corpse that bothers Bhaal and Sarevok so much or are the little bg1 and 2 reference kills with limericks over the top too? Do they just hate the fact that Orin messes around with the corpses post-mortem? Wouldn't Durge's necrophilia and cannibalism imply the same thing? Is this because she seems to have a habit of not finishing the job (infecting Durge, kidnapping a companion/Yenna)?

10. Orin seems to prohibit her Bhaalists from consuming flesh, but wouldn't that give her extra points with daddy Bhaal? What reason does Bhaal have for endorsing cannibalistic tendencies? Is this only okay because it allows his followers to sate their hunger while busy murdering? But dialogue implies that they at least sometimes cook the meat they consume, so it doesn't really save any time that you can dedicate to murder, it's just a regular ass meal, if a bit gruesome. I guess this is basically point 5 but it's still confusing to me. Maybe all the atrocities are just a way for Bhaal to say “You can have a little fun while you murder, just as a treat, but don’t indulge too much, you have work to do”, but these desires for excessive violence and barbarity seem to be coming from the Urge itself, which is basically an extension of Bhaal’s urges and desires. So he wants to do all these things and he wants his followers to do all these things, even though they are counter-productive to his plans? Is everyone a hypocrite in this family?

11. I guess at the end of the day I don't understand what the fuck Bhaal wants. His main goal as stated by Durge and the basis of Absolute plot is to kill everyone as fast as possible. But for some reason going on a murderous rampage just won't do. Successful murder streaks require excessive planning, but, again, Durge implies that planning just wastes Bhaal's time. Bhaal encourages all kinds of cruelty done to the victim which possibly won't even be seen by anyone to make them fear Bhaal but for some reason draws the line at Orin's displays, even though both of these types of activities slow down the progress of achieving his ultimate goal.

I don't know, man. Maybe after being resurrected and downgraded to quasi-deity Bhaal just went off the rails and abandoned his more assassin-like scheming ways for simple "Fuck it, just kill everyone". But even if his main focus and dogmas changed I still can't merry the concept of "Minimal plotting and playing with corpses, just get as many people as you can killed" with "Yeah, you can definitely eat, vivisect, fuck, mutilate and torture your victims while you're at it, this doesn't impede killing speed at all".

I guess I’m just bothered that there seems to be an excessive focus on Bhaal’s violent and savage side, while his cold and calculating side is virtually non-existent.

[lagomoz]

disjointed unorganized triage thoughts, haven’t read voice drama yet or anyone other fan thoughts on it

-like the little throat clear at the beginning, not sure why it's there though -the fruit and flower motifs continue! more pomegranates especially 

-the shots of him young with his family are shot so much brighter and clearer than a lot of other mvs are....

 -the people featured are almost certainly his wife and kids. the children have to be related to him because they look super similar down to the beauty marks but I'm betting the woman looks similar for anime logic and she's his wife, not a sister or aunt or something, it makes the most sense by far. one of the sons also has the same paisley pattern the wife does 

-I think the phone call is to the hospital? it's not subtitled but I can make out "hai, kirisaki desu? tadaima, owari? ?????. ?????? kudasai" it's too fast for me to tell anything else. rough translation guess would be "yes, it's kirisaki? I'm home, end? ?????. ?????? please" 

-the flowers in the mailbox(? maybe? they look like mailboxes) start out alive, but then become dead when shidou walks past. not a good sign 

-the stickers on the fruits resemble the medical stickers in throw down, so I think the stickers represent a patient, maybe? not sure yet 

-the fruits and the. one lobster????? 

-"killing, extracting, yet I still won't see them again" yeah that's pretty much confirmation on the organ harvesting theory

 -the lines about his punishment and how the world is cruel are sung while we get a long, clear shot of his family...hm 

-his family turns into ghosts of sort various times, but shidou also turns into a ghost-like transparent figure during a group shot

 -"if the voices crying out in pain can be saved by me, allow it to be my charge and mission" yeah that definitely adds sympathy points, but does kind of contradict the whole killing his patients thing. I understand why he did it but as a doctor you have a duty to help people, along with the obvious duty everyone has of don't murder people

-the fruits are stabbed with knives and splattered, so yeah they're probably representations of his victims. I think it's notable that his family is clear with distinct designs and full faces 

- though were flowers, amalgamations of his victims and their organs in throw down - while all his victims are just objects, with nothing distinct about each person 

-if the flowers/fruits represent not exactly the victims but their organs, as that's what the flower monster thing was made up of in throw down, does that mean shidou sees his victims as not people but only their organs? yikes 

-not sure what he means by cards of promises. translation weirdness, maybe? 

-shidou catches a sticker card, then hands it to one of his sons. I think that represents him giving the son an organ 

-his horrified expression and stretched out hand before the flatline shot...ouch 

-the idea of "retribution for incessant taking" makes me think he might see his family's death as punishment of some kind, so maybe he started taking organs before they died, or at least all three died 

-"give me the chance to make amends, to extract that fang now" considering the repeated imagery of fangs in harrow, he almost certainly means kotoko and is asking the viewers to let him continue to help the people she attacked (and might attack again) 

-the flatline shot shows him curled up on a blanket, with him...reaching towards himself? don't get this one yet 

-the heartline is all...squiggly? odd 

-after this shot, all the colors are duller and grittier, more similar to throw down's pallet 

-the fruits (and one lone bizarre lobster) are all sliced up now and the flowers dead -he speaks the lines "I want to be innocent, I want to live" in the mv itself, with lip sync, as his past self. so is he actually saying those lines now, or did he feel that way in the past? both? at that time, did he want to forgive himself and keep trying to save his family despite the suicidality already setting in?

-the animation on those lines is great too 

-not sure what the shot of him looking up at his family with his hand covering his eyes means, but it sure does look cool as hell. maybe to symbolize he's losing sight of them somehow? either in that they're dying and he's separated from that way, or that he's separated himself by committing atrocities 

 -I hope the very sympathetic aspects of shidou don't lead to people forgetting that he's killed a LOT of people. he's a serial killer. he almost certainly has milgram's highest kill count 

-also, um. children can only have organs donated from other children. his first voice drama was called molech, which is a deity of child sacrifice. he's 100% killed kids 

-the stickers switch back and forth to petals, further cementing that they represent the same or a similar concept to me

 -one of his sons waving...I wonder if he remembers that as his son saying goodbye 

-the final shot and his expression, one of apathy and grim determination...I don't think he's stopped being suicidal at all, he's just decided he has to live as punishment for what he's done as a way to repent by saving people

[theworldisquietheretooquiet]

E&E and Fin 👀

Which Fin is this? I'm so curious!

Thank you @welcomingdisaster for asking about this one as well!! :)

(from the WIP tag game)

It's Finduilas! This is the longest fic I'm working on atm, and it's one where Finduilas doesn't die and ends up saving and raising Eluréd & Elurín after the Second Kinslaying.

It has a lot of nice healing and bonding over surviving your home getting destroyed, hating Celegorm, and also them both having met Beren & Lúthien! And I hc Finduilas' mother was Sindar so they share that and Finduilas learnt Taliska and other traditions from Bëor, so they fit surprisingly well together.

But its also pretty dark, both because of the nature of life in Beleriand at this time, but also because Finduilas is not doing too well, and let's just say she isn't being entirely truthful with them.

They also have a lot of conversations as the twins get older about Feanorians, who should have the Silmaril, if Doriath should have took part in the war, and if Thingol was right to set Beren the quest. I thought it would be cool to play with the way that the views of a Noldorin princess from Nargothrond contradict and/or agree with those of two Sindarin princes (of Thingol's line) on these topics!

I haven't fully decided how the ending will interact with larger events, but their personal ending will be focused on the twins deciding whether to be counted among Men or Elves, I think!

Here's a short excerpt:

Elurín wakes up with a jerk, his breathing is harsh and fast in the silent night air. He tenses and his heart hammers in his chest as his eyes dart side to side. He is almost surprised to see the walls of their little house; for a moment he had been so sure he was back there, trapped between cave walls streaked with blood.

“Elurín? Have you woken up?” Faelivrin is a slight shadow in his doorway and her voice is soft so as not to wake Eluréd.

When he turns towards her and nods, she beckons him out and he follows her to the main room.

She settles him on some cushions and wraps a blanket around his shoulders. After seating herself opposite she studies him then sighs.

“Another nightmare?” He nods. “I thought they might get worse with winter but you’re barely sleeping through the night.”

He lifts his shoulders helplessly and says, “Eluréd is.”

Faelivrin raises her eyebrows. “He may be, but since the first frost, he has refused to leave the house. I had to cut the tree outside your window back because he panicked every time he woke up and saw leaves.”

Elurín glances down and pulls his knees tighter to his chest. “I’m sorry. I know you planned to be in East Brethil by this time. You could take us to Círdan –”

“No! No.” He jumps as Faelivrin’s voice rings out sharply.

She notices and adds in a much gentler tone. “I only mean you and your brother are very important to me and I do not wish to send you away. After all, I have told you what the tidings say. There is no safe harbour by the sea anymore.”

He tries to smile but it comes out a little wobbly. “Right.”

She continues, pulling him close to her side. “And Elurín, you needn’t ever apologise. I know better than most that memories are not easily conquered.”

He nods into her shoulder, and she squeezes him.

“Now, let’s see if we can return you to sleep. I know my lullabies cannot match up to your grandmother’s, but I think you might like this one.”

She begins to sing, low but fast, and Elurín realises with a start that it is in Taliska. And after a few verses he begins to recognise it.

“My father sung this!”

She smiles and nods. “Your grandfather probably sung it to him, and his father before that. Bëor himself sung it to me when I wasn’t much bigger than you.”

[tsarinatorment]

Hi! This is totally random & meant in good faith but i see a lot of people say "Riordan made Nico gay out of nowhere/for diversity attention points only!!1!1" I'm wondering if you have any theories on this- when in the writing process do you think riordan decided to make nico gay and why him? also why will solace be the love interest?

Quite frankly, anon, I don't have a clue when he added that detail to Nico's characterisation. Unfortunately I'm not inside Rick's head, so there's only so much I can guess from the outside anyway, and even from that - when I first read PJO, I was a sheltered good little Christian girl at a Catholic school who didn't even know people could be anything other than straight, and while I took a big gap in keeping up with Riordanverse (I stopped reading after MOA for about a decade), when I did pick it up again, I'd already been spoiled on Nico's sexuality and Solangelo, so I honestly never had a chance to spot where Rick might have started trying to sneak hints in.

That being said, as someone who does work on original stuff as well as fanfiction, and therefore has a whole cast of original characters lurking in the back of my brain, it would not overly surprise me if it just felt right to make Nico gay (heck knows some of my own ocs like to surprise me with little factoids about them I was not intending in the first place). That being said, given the massive push for diverse representation in HOO (regardless of how well or poorly executed parts of it are), especially compared to the far less diverse PJO, I would also not be overly surprised if Rick had thought "I should include a gay character", looked at the interactions he'd already written between Nico and Percy, and went "that works, I don't even need to bring in a new character" (especially given how a lot of Rick's worldbuilding is full of glossed-over holes that he can conveniently fill later without contradicting himself too much; it's certainly not a world-building tactic I could follow - I get way too bogged down in the minute details which is why my original novel has existed for seventeen years but has never got past chapter four - but it's one he's mostly managed to make work for him).

It also works to pulverise/ostracise Nico even more, as though he's not been bullied by the narrative enough already... Rick, bullying Nico is now a very, very dead horse, it's time to let him have his happy ending and not throw him back into Tartarus, just saying...

As for why Will; honestly, I suspect there's at least one of two factors coming into play here. Firstly, Will is an already-existing character of similar age who has no narratively important links to the main cast. (Malcolm could also have fit, except for the fact that he's Annabeth's half-brother and given the whole Nico vs Percabeth thing, a child of Athena was likely out of the question). Rick did not need to pluck a brand new character out of the air, but Will was minor enough that he had a lot of space to expand and explore (which he has still mostly not done, I would add, and the scenes in BOO are painfully obviously setting up the ship - a little too blatant and sudden, if you ask me). Secondly, people love the opposites attract trope, and a son of Apollo is pretty opposite to a son of Hades, especially if the life/sun aspects are emphasised compared to the death/shadows ones.

I don't think he picked Will because Will could be Nico's personal healer, however - for starters, as I keep saying and will continue to keep saying, that's an incredibly unhealthy/toxic relationship dynamic, and throwing your one canon gay character into a toxic relationship... that's a really, really bad move. Also, we clearly see that not being the case in TOA - they have a very good, well-balanced relationship where Nico supports Will at least as much as Will supports Nico (if not moreso), and Nico is going to Dionysus for help, not dumping everything on Will and expecting him to fix it.

[missnight0wl]

So Olivia knew Rakepick and was wary of her. But in the lakeshore talk with Jacob in y6 it sounded as if Rakepick only contacted Jacob after Duncan's death. But after his death, Jacob was expelled and he and Olivia didn't stay in touch. So how did she even know of Rakepick? Was Jacob lying? Or did Rakepick contact Jacob in the days after Duncan's death but before he was expelled and he had a chance to talk to Olivia about Rakepick's? Also, what about "Miss Green's fate"? Wasn't really explained.

Sadly, the situation with Olivia might be even worse than Peregrine’s bullshit story about “saving Jacob”. Because Jacob totally contradicts his story from the Lakeshore scene – which was already contradicting everything we knew earlier from the game. So, while Peregrine is clearly trying to manipulate MC, this feels more like: “Jam City is changing things as they go”. Alternatively, Jacob might be lying... Still, even if that’s the case, it’s beyond annoying that MC doesn’t question any of it.

Alright, so first things first. In Y6Ch26, Jacob was very clear that Rakepick approached him only after his expulsion.

In fact, he basically says here that he had nothing to do with the Cursed Vaults before that. Which, as we know, is total bullshit. Even his “lack of purpose” makes absolutely no sense because R actually told him to continue his search after Duncan’s death.

But either way, according to the Lakeshore scene, Olivia wouldn’t have a chance to meet Rakepick. After all, just like you said, Jacob claims to not stay in touch with her:

Also, Jacob’s new story doesn’t even really work with the letter from Y5 either. I always thought that “Miss Green’s fate” had to happen before Duncan’s death. I mean, Jacob was probably expelled rather shortly after Duncan died, so I just feel there wasn’t enough time for something to happen to Olivia in the meantime (or shortly after, if we want to assume that Jacob received this letter before his expulsion and then brought it to Hogwarts for whatever reason). And yeah, Jacob ignores “Miss Green’s fate” anyway, so… what gives?

Seriously, I don’t know what to think about it... I mean, as I said, Jacob might be lying. Of course, MC should realise that this story doesn’t add up. However, Jacob being so quick to talk shit about Rakepick in the Lakeshore scene totally fits Peregrine’s and Merula’s behaviour. Like, he should rather, y’know… sympathise with MC who just lost their best friend. But no, he started whining how Rakepick used him instead.

(By the way, I made a full analysis of the Lakeshore scene in this post, so I recommend checking it out). 

Admittedly, if Jacob still works for R, it wouldn’t really make sense for him to be so hostile towards Peregrine, but… perhaps it’s supposed to be reversed psychology or something?

God, it’s such a mess.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

North and South, 2022, Episode 2 thoughts

So... overall, a step down from last episode, and a significant one.

There's still the same problems with the runtime not allowing the story to breath, most noticeable on this episode during the proposal scene, in which the speeches of the characters are cut awkwardly, or the conversations between Margaret and Mrs Hale and Margaret and Frederick. They chose to keep "ask Mr Lennox for his opinion on the mutiny case", but in such a reduced way that it is a mere comment Frederick makes to Margaret on the train station. At that point... why not cut it all off completely?

In continuity with the characterization of the first episode, Mr Hale is still a wise man and has the opportunity to offer wise speeches twice. We get his conversation with Mr Higgins here, but I think it loses much of its emotional impact by having it happen about two months after Bessy's death and after the end of the strike. We also get his delusional talking to a dead Mrs Hale, but in this case it's not seen as pitiful because Margaret means to do the same and Dixon enables her, so what gives.

Speaking of the strike, its chapters are probably the best prose and mood setting of the whole book, and it's something very difficult to recreate, but I feel this adaptation doesn't even try. It even cuts the tension by transitioning from the rioters heading towards Marlborough Mills, with Margaret paying her visit and... exchanging childhood anecdotes with Mr Thornton. I kid you not. There's also Margaret Making a PointTM of saying "perhaps that's why they should allow the women to make the decisions, they might employ some common sense" which is... okay, I get what they are trying to do there, but as is, it's saying that there's class struggle only because women aren't in charge (?) It's not well thought out at all.

In general, the important scenes all get their impact reduced one way or another. The proposal does begin with Thornton's thankfulness, but it's ruined by both John and Margaret being worried about her reputation I kid you not we get: MR THORNTON: {her] losing her dignity in my defense" MRS THORNTON: "You have no obligation towards that girl"... what even) something that doesn't happen in the novel and which consequently GOES NOWHERE in this series so why add it at all. We get the riot scene but the tension was destroyed by the desperate attempt at making John and Margaret have a cute conversation; we get Thornton talking to an unconscious Margaret, but as there is no Fanny there's no Margaret hearing her comments and getting mad about them. The fruit scene is there! But they have Thornton acknowledge Margaret's presence. We get Dixon to mention her affection for Mrs Hale! But we hear her say that she doesn't love her as much as Margaret does. Boulcher's death is completely undermined by the fact that in this adaptation he's a very vocal, self assured man, nothing in his tone and speeches shows despair, and then when his body is brought home we don't even get the moment where no one wants to go tell the widow and Margaret has to do it herself, it's just... done by someone in the background without a fuss.

There are two things in this episode that made me think even more that this adaptation should have had a narrator: one, that Margaret tells Dixon everything (the riot, Thornton's proposal) and then Mr Thornton being with Henderson as he sees Margaret and Frederick at the train station. It's just so awkward and changes things JUST because we cannot possibly have any narration and I'm here asking WHY??? The Henderson thing is particularly grating because not only does he comment on what he's seeing but the conversation begins with his saying he's requiring of his workers the swearing that they won't pay union fees, and Thornton doesn't make any contradicting observation, he says something like "I have always known you to be a strong man" or somesuch nonsense.

Another thing that was... contradictory in a way was Margaret misconceiving Thornton's character twice (once she tells Higgins "Thornton thinks discussion is a sign of weakness" and then she says that not prosecuting the rioters "doesn't sound like him") which is wrong not only because those aren't things Margaret is mistaken about in the novel (she's intelligent enough to know, as is shown, that Thornton will engage people, her, her father, in discussion freely, and then is not at all surprised that he's not prosecuting the rioters) but because the adaptation itself went the lengths of adding two amicable, personal conversations between the two before that! This Margaret has MORE personal interactions with Thornton and yet knows him LESS. I'm also disappointed in the fact that the series is omitting aspects of Thornton's thought that the novel considers are at least somewhat legitimate (i.e. his claim that he has no right to meddle with his workers' life outside of work or how they spend their money) AND adding things like the compliment to Henderson and the child work line.

Another dumb bit of nonsense is that they don't send "Helen" (there's no Mary in this adaptation) away during Frederick's visit, she's even the one to answer the door and get him inside! So it's particularly stupid when 5 minutes later Margaret tells him "Frederick, close the door, we must be careful". Seriously. There's also his saying "if I could find a way to stay..." instead of asking Margaret and Mr Hale to join him on Cadiz (I suppose this is again about propping up Mr Hale --I swear I don't get why the script writer for this series is so dead set on this-- because his refusal to go in the novel, based on his "I brought my wife here and it killed her so now I have to stay here to punish myself and bury Margaret in that grave with me as well because my grief and self loathing is more important than her future" were obviously a bad look.

This is all the "bad stuff" in the episode. The rest is all right, competently done, the voice work is good (the doctor sounds awfully young, but I don't mind) but overall it doesn't compensate at all. Right now I'm not sure this is better than 1997. I think I will listen to that one once episode 3 of this one airs, and then I will be able to tell for certain.

Right now the one thing I'm looking forward to is how they manage the last part of the novel and the ending in particular, see if they will resist the train station ending, if they will change the book scene much, how much of post Milton Margaret we'll get, etc.

[lazyworksinprogress]

A very long post about No One Is Going to Save You (2023)

I have been proccupied after I watched it yesterday so I'm just going to braindump. The superficial conversation has been about the minimal dialogue in the movie but I have been thinking about the visual language.

The house and costuming expands on the main character, Brynn's abilities and motivations in very satisfying way.

***Spoilers for No One Is Going to Save You (2023) follow***

I saw this interview with the director where he speaks about the house as the co-lead of the movie.

"This is a girl that watches ‘Far From Heaven’ and is like ‘I wish I lived in that world,’” Duffield said. “And then was like ‘I’m gonna antique shop, I’m gonna build dresses, I’m gonna do all this stuff. I’m not gonna have relationships outside my world, so why can’t I live in a Douglas Sirk wannabe world?’ And then you see there’s a flat screen and a laptop and she drives out into the world and you see ‘Oh, this girl’s kooky.”

I watch a few doll house hobby channels and Brynn's character would fit in. The "final girl" qualities of resourcefulness, creativity, and persistence are all around her home making this kind of characterisation some neat foreshadowing for her attitude through the film. From the incredible bird houses to the macrame - quilts - embroidery - and then vintage dresses, Brynn clearly has time, energy and a wide range of skills. And anyone who knows, knows that making things requires a certain potential for violence.

The decor and costuming is a very smart piece of work because there are some vintage and antique pieces, but many of them are also retro recreations or updated vintage. This is consistent with the character of Brynn, who is building an idyllic, anachronistic life for herself. Her home is a reflection of the disparate time periods and influences informing her tastes. The extension of her fantastical nostalgic anxious inner world (the home) is invaded by an external futuristic existential threat (alien burglars). All the contradictions and then retrofuturistic juxtaposition adds to the unsettling experience of the movie

It fits into the It Follows (2015) ambient/nostalgic horror space. I think it has a connection to the post-modern idea of the decay of moral clarity and escapism.

It's also got things to say about money. The house and her shoes and her studio/palace are visibly expensive. When Brynn runs away from the aliens she is wearing the Tory Burch Hank court shoes that are an elevated basic take on "70s classic sneakers" or a take on the (celebrity favourite) Onitsuka Tiger Unisex Mexico 66s or the American version of the Adidas Samba ... In any case, they are luxurious vintage recreations which is true to the whole wealthy American look of the film.

Horror and scifi media can be used as didactic tools for understanding fear (don't believe me, believe Joanna Russ) and I think the movie is doing a fable on escapism in the face of disaster.

"Ours is indeed an age of extremity. For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. For one job that fantasy can do is to lift us out of the unbearably humdrum and to distract us from terrors, real or anticipated—by an escape into exotic dangerous situations which have last-minute happy endings. But another one of the things that fantasy can do is to normalize what is psychologically unbearable, thereby inuring us to it. In the one case, fantasy beautifies the world. In the other, it neutralizes it." - Susan Sontag

[waywardstanleys]

The End Is A Lie

Part Three: In which our protagonist wanders out of the Story (part one — > [x], part two —> [x])

“Stanley looked at the stars. They resembled glowing sparks, shining and swirling above his head. It was an unbearably beautiful sight! Stanley gazed at the starry sky and felt immensely happy. He decided to stay here forever and never le— what, did I miss something?” The soothing tones in the Narrator's voice quickly vanished. "Why did the room disappear? Stanley, could you explain to me what just happened? Stanley? Did you just- disappear? Why? I didn't include such a moment in my Story! Could it be that you managed to go beyond the map? No no no, that's impossible! Stanley, wherever you are, please stop and come back! I can't continue my Story without you! Stanley, can you hear me? Come on, respond! Say something, Stanley! Oh no, oh good lord... what am I supposed to do now?..."

Stanley couldn't hear the Narrator. He was no longer in that corridor with multiple doors. The room with the stars was also gone. It had been removed or relocated to another location due to the contradiction that arose in the game because of the Line™, which™ had become even more unpredictable. It™ appeared suddenly and disappeared just as unexpectedly, cracking a rift in the ceiling.

Where did Stanley disappear to? Even the Narrator didn't know, currently turning off the microphone and frantically rummaging through papers in search of a large envelope with a red label that read ‘In case of emergency’. He panicked, trying to salvage the remnants of his story by any means possible. The easiest way would be to simply restart the Game, but the Narrator hesitated to press the button labeled ‘RESTART’. Perhaps he didn't want to lose the room with the stars for good? Or maybe he simply couldn't bring himself to do it?

Certainly, the Narrator had the right to change the Game, adjust it as he pleased, restart it as necessary, even add new doors and rooms—but nothing more. He thought he could control the Game without realizing that it controlled him. Unlike Stanley, the Narrator didn't know that he was just one of the prisoners in the Game. Sometimes he might have a glimpse of this realization, but he promptly forgot. Fortunately for the Narrator, the Game simply erased any excess information from his mind, whether he wanted it or not. That's how it had been and would always be, with each restart, a story within a story.

Meanwhile, Stanley continued walking down the long corridor. It had only empty white walls and a blue tiled floor. There were no turns, buttons, or any doors. It simply led in one direction. Straight ahead. Forward. Without turning. Without stopping. The long corridor seemed endless. Perhaps it was indeed trapped in a loop, just like the entire Game? However, unlike the Game's locations, this corridor didn't seem to change. Its walls remained just as empty, and the square lamps were just as dim as they had been a minute or maybe even a day ago. Stanley found it dreadfully boring to walk in this corridor. Yet, he continued moving forward. Someday I'll reach the end, he thought, surveying the bare walls. There must be something there, right? A door or a button, anything at all! The corridor can't go on forever! Or can it? Most likely, the corridor was indeed infinite.

After a while, Stanley stopped and leaned against the wall. He grew tired of this monotonous journey. He was terribly bored standing here. But what else could he do if not move forward? Stanley didn't know. No one told him what to do, provided a choice of which door to enter, persuaded him to follow the Story, made snarky remarks about the Lounge, or... For the first time, no one tried to control him. Stanley was completely free and could do whatever came to his mind. Did it make him happier? Stanley sighed heavily. No. He was utterly alone in this desolate corridor. Even his Narrator had stopped talking to him. Stanley felt overwhelmed and profoundly unhappy. The worst part was that he couldn't go back. The moment Stanley entered this corridor, the door automatically closed behind him. It couldn't be reopened. Unless... the Narrator could open the door. But he wasn't here. Stanley could try calling out to him, but he doubted the Narrator would hear his voice. They were separated by a great distance. Had he gone beyond the bounds of the Story? How could that be? And what should he do now? Continue forward? Or wait for the Narrator to restart the game?

Stanley sat down on the floor and hugged his knees. Several minutes passed. The corridor was filled with silence. Nothing was happening at all. Stanley kept waiting. Something had to happen eventually. Not immediately, of course. He had to keep waiting. Stanley didn't know how much time had passed. Unfortunately, he didn't have a wristwatch nor a phone to check the time. Nothing would happen. No one would come to help him. No one would tell him what to do. Most likely, he would die here, all alone. Stanley closed his eyes. He dozed off and completely missed the sound of footsteps somewhere deep in the corridor.

[shinyhologramunknown]

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[briefbeardbasement]

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Vaccines reduce that two-week waiting period by letting your body immune system engage with a piece of that infection or bacteria. "We introduce it to your body immune system in a very controlled manner, such that it can not trigger infection," Dr. Tan says."When your body immune system has gone through this initial stimulation, it creates memory immune cells that have actually seen the enemy and are ready to go when they see the opponent again," he continues.

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Thanks to the presence of memory cells, it takes your immune system only a couple of days to produce the antibodies needed to prevent that virus from reproducing and making you ill, Tan says. In other words, COVID-19 vaccinations are safe and effective, and produce immune-protective responses in those who get immunized.

While vaccines are safe and effective for most people, Tan recommends some people to consult their health care groups prior to shot.

"In this manner, you can likewise hopefully decrease your exposure to pathogens that we don't have vaccines for."Wash or sanitize your hands after utilizing the restroom, before and after shaking hands with others, after coughing or sneezing, and after reaching high-touch surfaces like countertops and door deals with. "I bring a bottle of hand sanitizer with me all over, simply because I'm an infection control specialist and I know what the advantages are," Tan says.

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Classrooms that use hand sanitizers might reduce the frequency of absence by 20 percent. Soap and water are a much better option if your hands are greasy or noticeably unclean.

It's influenza season once again, so that suggests the majority of people get an influenza shot and aim to stay healthy. Can certain foods or supplements boost the immune system and help with that "staying healthy" goal?

Research shows that absence of sleep and increased tension add to health problem and total bad health, so: Adults need to get 7 to 9 hours of sleep each day, while kids need eight to 14 hours, depending upon their age. Healthy ways to cope with stress consist of meditating, listening to music or writing.

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If you wish to attempt either of these options, make sure to interact with your healthcare company and take them in small amounts or as your medical professional advises. If you feel sick, please do not hesitate to call your supplier. Lots of companies offer telemedicine choices and can recommend how you can treat your signs yourself or if you require advanced care.

And while there is some evidence that long or extreme exercise sessions might suppress the immune system, making you more vulnerable to illness and infection in the hours immediately after your workout, other proof contradicts this, according to the previously mentioned Frontiers in Immunology review. And there is a wealth of epidemiological evidence that is, research studies that followed human behavior and outcomes suggesting that people who are more active general tend to have lower incidences of both acute diseases (like infections) and chronic ones (like cancer and type 2 diabetes).

More research studies in human beings are needed. When it comes to a diet plan that supports excellent immune health, focus on incorporating more plants and plant-based foods.

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A few of these eats are so-called superfoods. Extra sources of protein and zinc include seafood, lean meat, and poultry, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Last, hydrate with healthy fluids such as water, and limit dehydrating, immune-suppressive beverages like sweet beverages and alcohol (more on the latter later).

NK cells belong to the exact same household as T and B cells; they play the crucial function of killing cells contaminated with infection, along with finding and controlling early indications of cancer, according to the British Society for Immunology. Low NK cell activity is connected to decreased illness resistance.

Vaccines shorten that two-week waiting period by letting your immune system engage with a piece of that virus or bacteria. "We present it to your body immune system in a really regulated way, such that it can not trigger infection," Dr. Tan says."Once your immune system has actually gone through this preliminary stimulation, it generates memory immune cells that have seen the opponent and are prepared to go when they see the opponent again," he continues.

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Thanks to the existence of memory cells, it takes your immune system just a couple of days to produce the antibodies required to avoid that infection from recreating and making you ill, Tan states. Simply put, COVID-19 vaccinations are safe and effective, and produce immune-protective responses in those who get immunized.

While vaccines are safe and efficient for many individuals, Tan recommends some individuals to consult their health care teams prior to inoculation.

"By doing this, you can also ideally decrease your direct exposure to pathogens that we don't have vaccines for."Wash or sanitize your hands after using the restroom, before and after shaking hands with others, after coughing or sneezing, and after reaching high-touch surface areas like counter tops and door deals with. "I carry a bottle of hand sanitizer with me everywhere, simply because I'm an infection control professional and I understand what the benefits are," Tan says.

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Class that utilize hand sanitizers might reduce the frequency of absenteeism by 20 percent. Soap and water are a better choice if your hands are oily or noticeably dirty.

It's influenza season again, so that means a lot of individuals get a flu shot and aim to remain healthy. Can particular foods or supplements boost the immune system and aid with that "remaining healthy" goal?

Research study demonstrates that absence of sleep and increased stress add to health problem and general bad health, so: Grownups need to get 7 to nine hours of sleep every day, while children require 8 to 14 hours, depending upon their age. Healthy methods to manage stress consist of practicing meditation, listening to music or writing.