Thank you, I was going nuts not seeing Fleabag. At some point in life I just kept watching it in a loop for several weeks. At this point I am like that girl who could watch Shrek in her head.

I use windows because I have no desire, time, or reason to put effort into switching to linux. Whenever I need a computer I am mostly asked to work with ms office anyway. If I will ever need to use computers more I might make the change, but so far I use my broken ass windows computer.

To be fair, I did know a couple of CEOs who really had a vision and were working like mad. To be even more fair, they were still cutthroat bitches and were ready to dispose of any “human resource” as they saw fit.

I love Sailor Moon. I know that it is an important franchise for the LGBTQ community. But I disagree with the popular takes that claim that all the seshis are bisexual/pansexual. I won’t hate on anyone’s ship either, but seeing every hug of two characters as proof that there is romantic/sexual chemistry between them is not only tiring but puts it into a light where any kind of physical touch or emotional connection between two people has to be romantic or sexual and cannot be platonic, friendship based, or simple kindness. It has an “oh look Timmy is hugging Susie he must have a crush on her haha!” energy that tainted tons of friendships in my youth.

I think part of that annoyance comes with the fact that there are canonically very gay characters in the franchise already. Two senshis are literally lesbians. They include a third one (non sexually tho) in a rainbow family construct to raise a reborn senshi. You have gender switching senshis. It is quite versatile as it is. For what it’s worth, I am talking about characters who canonically have straight love interests in the main story or in some side story.

But that being said, if you find strength, support, or comfort in your headcanon and interpretation of any fictional character being a closeted gay, that’s obviously great and more power to you. If this is what you need in your life that’s absolutely fine.

The First Daughter has been doing “a lot of reflection on how I want to live, how I think people are increasingly wanting to live.”

Her conclusion: We all want to hide away on some abandoned Mediterranean island that we discovered after jumping off a friend’s boat and swimming to shore. And now, Ivanka is working to “build something that’s a tangible manifestation of that” by constructing a $1.4 billion luxury hotel complex on an Albanian island.

The First Daughter dreamily described how she and husband Jared Kushner initially found Sazan (“We swam to the island, we went for a hike, barefoot all the way up to the top,”) and have, over the course of several years, “developed the opportunity to help realize it’s potential and transform it.”

Good God.

Wait they planned on getting pregnant? Edit: ok I saw your other comment, this is bonkers

My daughter is 4 too. While I get the worries, and I absolutely don’t want to encourage or downplay teenage pregnancies, I’ve thought about it a lot, and if she ever became pregnant at a young age, I decided that my first reaction needs to be one of joy and congratulations. Because if she ends up keeping the kid, it’s gonna be loved, and I want them to know that people were happy about them existing and being chosen to exist, and not just looked at as a burden and accident. I can’t imagine how awful it must feel if the first reaction from everyone is shock, disgust, “fafo”, anger. That being said, the next thing is I would make sure I’d support her no matter what decision she takes. Abortion, adoption, raising the kid, I’m on board because it is her life, her body, her decision.

I hope your kid has books today.

My kid has books and we constantly read books so I am absolutely outread by the end of the day. To be fair, the hat trilogy by Jon Klassen and gymnastics for the tail Grigori Oster are a lot of fun to read and cut straight to the point, not like grown up books, so I find a lot of enjoyment in what we read in general. But whenever I try to pick up a book for adults I now automatically fall asleep. Best I can do is manga and graphic novels right now. Unfortunately my kid finds them and mistakes these for comics, I ended up having to read Persepolis to a four year old.

This has also impacted my ability to go back to work. I can’t read a scientific paper without falling asleep anymore.

Dear god, who would make such a video and why would people want to watch that? And where would they be able to watch that, do you happen to have a link in case I find someone дебил enough for wanting to see it?

Well, I am no expert in samuraiology, but I can very well imagine something like “I am Bankotsu, wrath of the Eastern lands, destroyer of flesh and reason, fear me and my banyru for its blade is sharper than the devil’s sword, I have killed many great fiends for see I carry the head of Jakostu the gazing snake warrior, and I will soon be carrying your head home to my great master”

Basically casually dropping C’s name. Like, that’s what I’d do if I were B. (Except I wouldn’t die of course as I would be the strongest and greatest warrior to ever live and I will definitely destroy my opponent.)

Edit: for the scenario of A and B dying I’d assume the villagers or accompanying vassals would be able to tell the tale and who’s who. If everyone gets annihilated by an ancient nuke like attack then, well, bad luck I guess.

I’ve learned on the Sailor Moon subreddit that these long transformations, introductions, and yelling out your attack name and your own name that you often see depicted in anime actually stems from samurai culture. Samurais would have people helping them change for a fight right before the fight (transformation) and it was considered manners to introduce yourself at length to your opponent, so that if they brought your head home, they could say who it was whom they defeated - and vice versa.

Considering the power rangers are somewhat american and japanese and produced by toei, it would align with that idea.

(yes I know, I must not mention reddit here, but it’s really such a wholesome community in that one sub, please keep the hate out of r/sailormoon 😭 )

Isn’t it the German town with the highest suicide rate?

They do, they have breast tissue, even if very little. Which also means that men can get breast cancer.

I was snoopy at a fair. The requirement was “be 160 cm or shorter”. I am 161. I’ve never felt that one centimeter more.

No need to try to win if you just annihilate humanity so that you will have been the last president ever

Absolutely yes.

I’ve dreamt of making movies and theater plays. I got into internships after finishing school and it was going good, I just started hating it. I hated movies, I couldn’t see them without thinking of all the misery behind the scenes. I hated TV. I hated theater.

I stopped after a year and went to university. It ruined something else for me, but at least, after a while, I was able to enjoy movies again.

Yeah, giving a prognosis on the duration of a war is usually not the best idea.

Sincerely, a Russian. We’ve been stuck in our oh so glorious three day war for over four years now.

Oh I see! Yes, going from a father daughter relationship to love interest is icky. As I’ve mentioned before, I kind of knew what would happen in the sequel while watching the original series, so I paid extra attention to the “ick factor” (also I don’t really see Yashahime as canon, so if there were an ick, I’d just have more reason to denounce the sequel lol).

The thing is, their relationship doesn’t really have a father daughter dynamic. He is not educating or parenting her, he doesn’t explain how the world works to her. He doesn’t console her when she is crying, he doesn’t give her affirmation, affection, or approval. He doesn’t provide for her (directly telling her to fend for herself if she needs human food). He doesn’t tell her what to do but lets her choose whether she wants to follow (or not). Their dynamic is much closer to Kagome and Inuyasha, with Sesshomaru protecting Rin from danger and running to her rescue whenever she is in trouble, and at times even pushing her away in the belief that a different kind of life might be better for her, safer, more normal. He’s not a father, nor an uncle, nor a mentor to her. He just… has her around. I’ve tried to find at least one episode where there would be an ick, an obvious “oh God that’s so weird that they will end up together” but it just never came.

As a side note, they only travelled together for some months before she started living in a human village again. So it is not like he raised her (long term) and watched her grow up from day to day.

Still, I agree it is weird, and it is weird to see this progression of their relationship, but in all fairness, it’s not as icky, weird, incestuous, or out of the blue, as I had initially assumed. I think it is more of a memory thing, when I thought back of the story, I also imagined them being in a family like relationship. But I think I just assumed that because of the straightforward (assumption of) power structures.

Maybe somewhat like a mandatory exam that you have to take at 18 (+/-) would help. It would, however, exclude a chunk of disabled people.

As a side note, I’d argue if you have lived in a country for 5 years and have no intentions of leaving (i.e. you have a job, your kids are in school) you should be able to vote for the country you are residing in.

And vice versa, if you move away, you keep your voting privileges for 5 years, no more. I still cannot believe that voting based on citizenship is a thing in the 21st century tbh.

I’ll join you in talking to the void about inuyasha since I am rewatching it for the first time since I was a teen (and it is the first time I actually have an order): I see what you mean with Kagura. But some poetic bittersweet death does the story good. Sess being there when she died and comforting her was a huge character development.

I’ve seen some clips from Yashahime and I doubt I’ll be able to watch it. I think the idea of the main conflict is compelling, but it’s already the language (“dad” instead of “father” is already off putting) and the character design (the tomboy daughter looks like she is wearing a suit and I somehow dislike that they had to make a tomboy character to begin with instead of a boy) that makes me unlikely to watch it.

I’ve spoiled myself the whole Rin thing though while I was in the middle of my rewatch and I have to admit I can see it. And I like it, and I prefer it. There is nothing romantic between Kagura and Sess, she only gives small indications, apart from the final declaration in the final act. (Not there yet in the manga, might scream into the void later.) He clearly only has compassion towards the end but no romantic or emotional attachment.

Honestly I can see it. While he is thankfully not grooming Rin when she is a child or showing any kind of romantic feelings towards her, it’s obvious she has a very unique position for a reason. The whole thing where he jumped into the Meido to save her from the netherworld (?) was a crazy episode. She’s the only person who makes him feel emotions like fear, sadness, regret, despair, and yes, love. Love for her, Jaken, life, his brother, the quest, people and beings. Hell even Sess’s mom was like “tf” and somehow found it in herself to revive a “human being” that is beneath her like an ant.

Afaik, even in Yashahime Sess is not being too present with Rin and never was, and their relationship isn’t all too lovey dovey. Their relationship, even when a romantic one, will be very… discrete. People point out that he is hundreds of years old anyway, so there will always be a difference in age/maturity when he finds a human partner. But I think this is almost making it too complicated. He is a demon. She is a human. The ick that we perceive stems from seeing it as a human-human coupling, when he is a demon and cannot be assessed this way. Apart from that, Japan in the feudal era and such. Him giving her choices en masse is already quite the luxury. Him not aging also. He is still a spoilt teenage/tween brat at the beginning of the series, despite being hundreds of years old.

Also I think Rin has a crush on Sess all along. I still have 4 episodes to go from the final act and idk what happens to Kohaku, maybe that would have been a more satisfying match for the audience, but I think for the characters SessRin makes more sense than SessKag and KohRin. I can absolutely imagine Rin being the pushier one to get together with Sess.