#and what the average child know

[backpackingspace]

Okay but have we thought about how scary odysseus interacting with the gods /his knowledge about such things it must have been for his crew?

Its well known that odysseus is Athenas favorite, even before the Trojan war. But what does that look like from the outside? Are their conversations in some other plain? Does odysseus sometimes just glaze over and you just have to trust its a god speaking to him and not aome other fit? Out in the open? During the war odysseus was frequently doing really bizarre things on Athena's say so. Bit you also know your captain is a freak and lier so which is it this time? The gods will or odysseus just tucking with you? There's a little wariness there. But it's well known. And been like this forever.

But then you start encountering more monsters. More gods. They all talk to your captain. Your captain stops sleeping. Your go between for you and the captain starts committing crimes against the captain, starts bad mouthing him. More of your friends have died then in ten years of war. And every other day there's a new god talking to your captain. What mortal man has the interest of this many gods? What mortal man can get up in the gods faces to yell at them. What mortal man has the powers to overcome the witches they encounter the power to over turn gods spells? What mortal man's tongue is so gilded he convinces these powers to help them? And doubt comes creeping in.

[niidsch]

Angel Cop (エンゼルコップ) ♦ 1989-1994

[fromtheseventhhell]

Imagine being 9 years old and asking your dad about the things you're interested in doing when you grow up and he's like "No ❤️! But you can get married, have babies, and then maybe your sons can do those things ☺️🫶 "

[i3utterflyeffect]

cursor selkie sc (due to some unlikely plot contrivance) in god with a bag of groceries au would be so funny...bystanders watching god pass by with a bag of groceries, followed by tiny god with a packet of cookies. adorable.

ANON... YOUR MIND..........

[nightmarearian]

do you think the abyss healed Childe’s scars?

realistically I know it’s stupid graphics & model “limitations”

But do you think his skin looks as normal as it did before he fell.

Cause when they’re hit, an abyss monster.

They disintegrate.

Do you think Ajax’s scars healed like that? In the abyss? After it, too?

Do you think they burned? Or was it numb, as the darkened skin faded away with little, yellow, glowing particles?

That he has no evidence of his suffering for those three months in hell (and his only companion’s silence) but dull eyes no one wants to look at?

Callouses on his hands and feet that no one pays attention to? Takes care of?

That he shows his prowess and uncanniness and abyssal hunger because that’s the only way how? Yes. he is hungry and wants a fight. Look at him. He’s off. Broken now.

Look at him.

Please.

[caitlynmeow]

[Modern AU]

School:

Bela: She’s hard working and very self disciplined. After all, she doesn’t want to disappoint her mother by getting bad grades. Often craving praise, she does her best to excel at her studies and continue to make her mother proud.

When she doesn’t earn the usual top grades, she often wonders what went wrong and how she can fix it. She studies harder and try to makeup for it, hoping that it wouldn’t affect her final grade much.

Daniela: Similar to her sisters, she does get good grades most of the time. Part of it is due to pressure: her older sisters have raised the bar and she doesn’t want to be the one to fall behind with mediocre grades.

She knows that it really wouldn’t make a difference to her mother. In the case she brought home a bad grade (according to her sisters, at least) mother wasn’t very disappointed. She knows that Daniela did her best (even when she was in fact slacking) and she still praised her attempt.

She is smart, and while she doesn’t spend as much time on her studies as she’s supposed to, she manages to get good grades because she can retain information and can perform well in exams.

Cassandra: Unlike her sisters, Cassandra takes grades seriously. Unlike Bela’s “what went wrong, I’ll do better next time,” Cassandra is actually all about “How did this happen, gotta kill myself now,” like, she takes it too seriously it’s downright unhealthy.

To Cassandra, she knows that she is second best to Bela, and her older sister seems to do things so effortlessly while she struggles to get there (not true, but this is how she feels). Mother often praises her, but she always feels like she’s not as good as her sisters. The one thing she can do to make her mother proud of her is to get perfect scores in all subjects. Any less than that and she spirals quickly.

She is the sister who spends an unhealthy amount of time studying. Going over each assignment over and over, often pulling all nighters to study for exams and so on. She is often stressed, but she never allows herself any rest because she doesn’t want to fall behind. But this patterns always makes her get sick but she’s just too stubborn to rest.

She is the sister with the better grades. As Daniela isn’t as keen and Bela has accepted that some subjects aren’t really to her liking and a mistake here and there are acceptable. Not to Cassandra, though. She takes these little mistakes to heart and they can affect her for a long while.

tl;dr: Cassandra is the one who freaks out about grades the most and n turn she’s the one with the better grades (not that Alcina likes how her daughter is like about this but there isn’t much she can do) but the slightest mistakes freak her out and spirals from there.

[first-blight]

. . . i'm too aro for this

[bumblingbabooshka]

I know most people like Tuvok as a Vulcan Everyman but we have considered the alternatives??

[creaturefeaster]

I HAVE 3000 HOURS ON RIMWORLD??? what the fuck.

[aparticularbandit]

so.

i actually think, final thoughts, i really liked udg.

and this gets long (and talks about some, ah, sensitive topics), so it's under a cut.

there are two themes it was trying to tackle, and both of those themes are pretty big themes, and in trying to tackle both of them, they hit one harder and did a better job which left them lacking on the other.

udg did a fantastic job (for a video game, and especially for a danganronpa game, i think) of talking about how two sides of a conflict can be radicalized to hate each other, to see each other as less than human, to get to a point where they're no longer just wanting to protect themselves and those they love but where they want to destroy the other side entirely.

like. to an extent, udg is taking on genocide. it never uses that word, but that's what it's hitting.

the warriors of hope are trying to kill all adults because they believe that adults are hurting kids and all adults are bad and the only way to take care of kids is to kill all the adults and just have a safe place for kids to be kids. they are attempting genocide on the adults of towa city.

the adults who shirokuma save steadily grow more radicalized to the point where they want to kill all of the kids in towa city for the mass murder that the children have been doing on the adults (not realizing that the kids are being mind controlled - literally - by the warriors of hope). by the time they find out what's happening (and that the only way to stop the monokumas is to literally explode the heads of all the kids being mind controlled), they don't care. they want all the kids dead. they are literally chanting kill! kill! kill! to that end, they want genocide on the kids of towa city.

(and udg probably never uses that word because it is a very heavy word with a lot of weight and consequences to it. but that is very much what both sides want to do to the other.)

and it does a very, very good job of showing how people who are being attacked and who have these actions taken against them can become radicalized back to a point where it's no longer just stop the pain but also kill them all, they need to all die.

and the game calls them demons.

it has the warriors of hope call adults demons, and it has monaca call the adults who are fine with killing the kids demons, too. says that they've become that. (and part of the process of the adults getting to that point was when they said the kids were demons.)

udg does such a good job with this. and of course, it can't end with hope or despair but somewhere in between because there's not a pat answer there. but it ends with komaru wanting to save both - to save both sides - to find a way to reconcile and save and not fall into the radicalization and staying so that she can try to do that. and that's beautiful.

....

and then also it tries to tackle various forms of child abuse and does not do a very good job of that because it wasn't the main theme. it was backstory theme to support the main theme. it was, hey, the kids also have a good reason for hating adults, it's a lot more complicated than people want it to be, neither side starts with let's kill everyone, they get there from being radicalized through a lot of trauma.

so because it's not the main focus - it's just there to support the main focus - udg does a relatively poor job of addressing it. there's very shallow attempts to talk about each of the different forms in the different chapters, sometimes barely talked about at all before the boss fight (looking at you, chapter one), and some of its attempts are paired with a lot of discomfort, which i'm willing to hope was intentional because it should be uncomfortable and not glossed over, but also is uncomfortable.

worse still, a lot of that theme gets completely shoved under the rug when you get to monaca and yes, she also got abused, to the point that she faked a disability to get people to be nicer to her, and the people who abused her apparently hurt her so bad that they believed they hurt her THAT BAD, which is saying something. but that gets avoid in monaca's exposition because that's not the point; monaca being evil and starting a war is the point - which, again, is the main theme. so the other tough theme gets a not great treatment because it's not the point.

which is unfortunate because they did such a good job with what was the main point that i think maybe they could have actually done a good job with the rest of it if they'd treated it with the same care and consideration they did with the other.

i think this is easily the most coherent of the danganronpa games (so far). it hits its theme, and it does have...ending pacing issues, which seems to be a running issue with the series, but they aren't as bad, i think, as they are in the other games. the ending was basically how much worse can we make monaca, which. wasn't necessary. but it served its main theme well, so.

I didn't feel hit over the head with a lot of things i could not have figured out over the course of the game. i didn't feel like i couldn't have figured that stuff out. i had moments of ah, i was close, but this is the actual thing and oh, i see, that makes sense instead of i don't know how i was supposed to figure this out.

and it did such a good job with the relationship between toko and komaru. that is probably the best relationship that's been written in the series up to this point, and maybe it's because komaru isn't going around trying to make besties with everybody and they can just hone in on this is your friend, we can just develop this and have it mean something.

like.

this may not be a good danganronpa game (given how radically different it is from the main games), but it is a good game.

...albeit sometimes a bit danganronpa gross about its subject matter.

[the-cdc-if-it-was-evil]

fine. youngest child "syndrome" then. is that good enough for you to put it into google?

As a comedic representation of the cdc I feel like I should make it clear that pop psychology sucks ass

[tortoise-teapot]

ventpost lol

remembering how my mother used to give me rants about how i would never attract a partner with my posture so slouched and she would grab my shoulders and hold them back for an hour at a time and it hurt so so bad i would start crying

fastforward 20 years i'm getting a backrub from a cutie i later fumbled. they say, "Oh, huh. your spine leans forward at the top." then gave it a kiss and moved on

fastforward another 5 years. i finally get an xray. my spine is tilted forward. chiropractor said i need immediate adjustment, i politely called him a hack and said i was just looking for diagnosis.

Call my mom. show her the xray. explain it all. "WEIRD!"

that's it that's the comment.

you tortured me for hours over something built-in to my body that a horny medical layperson diagnosed in two seconds??? by just paying attention to me?

anyway my mom just asked "how's your back? does it still hurt because you slouch?"

😐

[brainrotdotorg]

i finally got a money order for my new passport, scheduled my appointment for tomorrow, got my auto insurance printed, and set out vinegar and dish soap gnat traps to finally kill those thangs. literally so adultcore of me. everyone clap

[theophagie-remade]

I don't have much to say about Magne other than there was an Attempt, but. That time when Twice and Toga got angry with Overhaul for misgendering her was already indicative of what I'm going to get at in a sec, and obviously it was especially relevant because it was a direct show of respect and support from people who very clearly cared about her (and who called her big sis already as it was!!) (×2 imo because Twice was intentionally written to be the readers' insight into the LOV, and the character with whom they were supposed sympathise with the most at/since the beginning, so it's especially important that the first one who spoke up was him), but the story's progression (especially in recent years) is what most assures me that despite a rather poor execution (definitely not the best, but also certainly not the worst) Horikoshi did mean well with her. "People bound together by the chains of society always laugh at those who aren't" :(

[fragglez]

highly gifted sister versus developmentally and multple learning disabilities disabled brother

[eeunwoo]

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