#still not sure if we needed the vampire invasion tho

[dazaaaai]

Me included!

[moistwithgender]

Anime I think I remember watching this year

I need to keep better track of this I guess.

Aggressive Retsuko: Great! Very likable characters (even the bastards), just the right amount of millennial cynicism. 9/10 Aggressive Retsuko Christmas Special: It's not about Christmas, it's about instagram. It's great and extremely real (watch the series first though). Digimon Adventure tri 1 & 2: This is actually very boring so far. I planned to jump back in with the english dub, which is honestly how I should have been watching it from the beginning. Unfortunately, I haven't gotten around to it. Kado The Right Answer: If this show had not been sabotaged from the inside out in the last 2-3 episodes, this would have probably been up there with classics like Bebop. WEST WING: THE ANIME, we would have called it, or something. I haven't watched West Wing, but it's all bureaucracy, right? 8/10 in this universe, 10/10 in the alternate universe where it didn't shit the bed. Angolmois: I got halfway through this before the low budget and my own exhaustion had me drop it. Unfortunate, since anime never adapts the mongol invasion. Planet With: In the running for series of the year, probably. A super robot show where the ultimate moral is that, actually, rehabilitating your enemies is better than killing them. Will rewatch in the future, I'm sure. 10/10. Asobi Asobase: Hina Kino (Hanako)'s is going to go down as a legendary voice actress if I have any say in anything. Which I do, because I'm in charge of the industry now. Which means we're taking out queerphobic jokes, wrap it up people. 8/10, would rank higher without the bad takes. Cells at Work!: Really fun concept, has *implications* of a deeper narrative to be had built into the worldbuilding, but ultimately the whole season is just "oh I bet this irl thing would translate like this in my setting" on repeat. Still, an easy watch. 7/10. Hanebado!: There's a lot that could be good about this. Themes of toxicity in competitive spaces, overwork, abandonment, and trauma. Ending had a lot of people upset because it either miscommunicated how the protagonist moved past her trauma (best case), or just completely dropped the entire arc because...I don't know why. I rated this 9/10 on myanimelist, but it probably deserves lower. I'm still over here wanting to believe I missed something in my interpretation. Hoping for either a second season or a faster manga translation. My Hero Academia S3: This season had some high points but I felt it was considerably less interesting overall than the second season. However, Deku vs Bakugou was genuinely one of the best moments of the series thus far. My Hero Academia The Movie: Pretty standard shonen series movie for the sake of having one. Nothing groundbreaking here. But hey, I got to listen to "You Say Run" in a theater, which was almost worth the price of admission on its own. 6/10. Ushio & Tora: Both seasons, thirty nine episodes. Waste of my time! Maybe this series was just meant to be consumed bit by bit, but I just found it really shallow in the end. 6/10. Chio's School Road: Another *brilliant* comedy that is ultimately brought down by the occasional queerphobic humor. Get it toGETHER, guys! In any case, I care about these stupid children now, and hope for a season two soon. 8/10. Angels of Death: It took about 14 out of the total 16 episodes before I suddenly stopped hate watching it and started laughing at its unwarranted self seriousness and paradoxical writing. Still, kind of frustrated I stuck with it anyway. 4/10. Night is Young, Walk On Girl: Gorgeous movie that has to be seen, but. I wonder if it's Yuasa or the original writer of these books that insists on the resolution to all conflict being "heterosexuality". 9/10. Haibane Renmei: I got four episodes in before the Funi/Crunchy split happened ;__; it's really good tho Dragon Pilot: Definitely gonna rewatch this one one day too. There is a density of theme and execution here that I cannot yet fully unpack and it's just so good. Also the english dub is good, and is how I preferred to watch it. It also has a lesbian and isn't afraid of her, even if her role is very small. It's something. 9/10, maybe 10/10. Mirai: I fucking love Mamoru Hosoda's films. 9/10. Zombieland Saga: I have the sneaking feeling that they wanted a few more HOT PROGRESSIVE TAKES to be fit in before the season ended, but restraints got in the way. We had a sex worker idol who never got her backstory episode, and actually Tae never got hers either. It's still a 9/10 for me, but I'm hoping for at least a followup OVA. And a movie. Granblue Fantasy: I finished the full season, save for the "omake" episode that I assume takes place in the alternate universe where Protagonist Is Girl. This was somewhat throwaway cozy saturday morning nostalgia for the old days of Final Fantasy before that game series became more grounded in contemporary and sci-fi settings. It was also something I watched as a primer for the incoming Platinum and ArcSys games, because I'm not gonna play two gacha games at the same time. Hilariously, the--like--twenty new characters from the gacha that showed up in the last episode were all more interesting than the cast of the full season. 7/10, 10/10 for having a race of hot girls with horns (there are also guys but who cares). Hi Score Girl: This show is a love letter to growing up with arcades in 90s Japan and also struggling with making friends and ohhh my god every time the idiot main boy stops paying attention to important interpersonal plot and just starts infodumping about a game, I tragically see myself. It's very good, the girls are GOOD GIRLS and deserve better and the writing seems fully aware of that.  The series unfortunately ends on a stock romantic plot beat cliffhanger that I have to wait until March to have ultimately resolved in THREE EPISODES. Despite that, it's easily a 9/10. I list a lot of 9/10s but it's been a good couple seasons and there's just...a lot of range there. Number scores are bullshit. Watch anime. Shin Getter Robo: Probably the last show I'll have finished before the year end. It's my second exposure to Getter Robo (my first was reading Getter Robo Go, which actually takes place after this), and it's still good, but oh god. These guys are dumb bastards but there's a note early in that has aged particularly badly in the MeToo era. Not sure if the show got better because I switched audio tracks to English with VAs I have nostalgia for, or because they broke through the bottom of a lake and wound up in alternate history Heian era Japan, stranded for multiple years. With a giant robot. I liked that part. 8/10. Shows I took a break from due to burnout and need to pick back up: Run with the Wind, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, Vento Aureo, SSSS.Gridman, Hinomaruzumou, Ms. Vampire who lives in my neighborhood, As Miss Beelzebub Likes It., Devilman Crybaby, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san. SO MANY!!

[kendrixtermina]

Living with an INTJ has made me (INTP) aware of just how much Si I actually have

Sure, it’s not very much in this world full of actual SJs, I’m not even an inert subtype nor particularly developed there, like, I am not good at this. 

The thing with the rolefunction is, tho, that it’s there and you even have conscious access to it, but since the tendency to default to your dominant function is so strong, it doesn’t switch itself on unless you think of it or something triggers it (which, to some degree, is true for all the unvalued/shadow functions)

So he can totally do the “okay this went wrong las time too we shouldn’t do it again” or “better be cautious in case of terrorism or robot invasion” better than me, but, the everyday Si usage comes a tad easier to me I guess. 

Examples:

I am a super scattered mess but I typically find my keys & wallet easier than he does, as I always leave it on my desk or on the shelf near the door. He usually leaves it in the bed or on the living room table but will go through the whole house looking for it & misplaces it again & again

Difference between tertiary & inferior sensing is, us tertiaries usually avoid reinventing the wheel. It doesn’t occur to him to perhaps google if the cool novel idea he just thought off has ever been done before, how it worked out or what the pitfalls were - im not even saying copy them or let them discourage you, but, sometimes there’s a reason that ppl didn’t think of it before

Would totally move to a different house/town on a whim or because he saw an advantage. Moving is tiring dude, such a big hassle! This can also be an advantage tho you don’t wanna stick with sucky things out of mere inertia

“Dude, are you sure this is going to work? The idea is good but it sounds a little bit far-fetched, how would you even do that?”

Thinks of an useful change to implement. Example: “Sleeping nekkid is supposed to be healthier.” “Kk bby” Me: * takes a while to change habit from wearing nightgowns, forgets to take them off at first but eventually adapts* Him: *doesn’t really have a habitual default, unintentionally sleeps in street clothes all the time*  

He has absolutely no internal sleepyness guage, or, you’d presume that the Si-polrs have even less of that, but... We are both nocturnal vampire creatures but I usually realize when it’s time to move from the desk chair into the bed; He, meanwhile, tends to nod off in front of his PC or reading material all the time. (I usually try to move his electronics to safety while climbing into bed) It’ll be totally obvious & predictable too. 

The upside of that is that he can totally work through uncomfortable or stressful circumstances, kinda noticing the stress or physical needs by its indirect effects “Oh, it’s not working, I should probably eat/sleep/chill first.” 

As the person with slightly more S I have also taken over the cooking, which some may find amusing given the usual INTP stereotypes (aand of course, I was totally a “deep freezer & ramen noodle” person until about 2 years ago XD I made it fun by trying out a new weird recipe every day unless the bae requests a personal favorite) though there is still the occasional comedic clumsy moment where I send a kitchen implement flying. (the only thing worse than ploR -Se is polR +Se. “Ahh I closed that jar so tightly I can’t get it open”, “Ooopsie Daisy, there flies the spoon.”, “Fite me asshole!” *adorably flapps arms, gets laughed down*) Younger me would be very amused by this. 

I presume that similar Fi fails are lowkey visible on my part, he’s usually the one to initiate the couples activities or relationship upgrades, but, such is life, all I can do is try my best~

That said, he is usually right about most things 80% of the time, Si or no Si. He’s one bright little bulb.