Aw, look at his little briefcase. He came prepared, he practiced in front of the mirror, rehearsed questions and challenges in his mind over and over, triple checked all the paperwork, put those little arrow stickers on to highlight key points… this was it, his big moment.
Getting older and then looking at all these teenagers who have to save the world…..why did I ever think that was acceptable……..they’re so young….let Katniss sleep…….let Harry Potter have a normal school year……..Aang is literally 12, I’m twice his age and incapable of 1 percent of his plot duties, these poor children, these poor acne encrusted puberty enduring babies
ok but did you forget what being a kid and reading/watching these stories was like? because actual real children do not live lives devoid of violence or responsibility or darkness.
kids have abusive families like Harry and live in poverty like Ron, they live in poverty as part of specific systems designed to keep them keep them there like Katniss, they live in situations that ask way too much of them like Aang and Harry and all of them.
My little sister’s graduating class had a lot of dead parents. There were all kinds of reasons, drug overdose and sudden illness and motorcycle accident and long battle with illness and ’….ehhh probably heart disease? they didn’t do a real autopsy…’. For the long battle with an illness category, Sarah’s mother got cancer not long after giving birth to her much younger sister. Not only did Sarah have to watch her mother slowly lose that battle over the last years of Sarah’s childhood but she had to basically raise that baby because her father was busy trying work and care for their mother. Sarah didn’t have to save the world but you don’t think it didn’t feel like it some times?
It’s like JKR has said, kids don’t hear these stories and suddenly realize monsters are real. They already know. These stories tell you monsters can be defeated. That you can survive. That it might get worse some times but you can win. And yeah it would be nice if in the real world kids never had to do it themselves but that’s just not true.
Harry Potter didn’t make me feel like it was fair or reasonable for teens to save the world, it made me feel less alone in my struggles. Reading about kids fighting the world made me feel like I could make it through too. One of the reasons these stories are so popular is that they give you hope, they give you characters to fight along side during the dark and hard moments in your own life–whether that’s imagining your math test as a Hungarian Horntail you have to get past, or struggling to leave your own abusive family like Harry having to go back to the Dursleys every year, or watching violence and drugs take your friends like the Battle of Hogwarts killed so many.
These stories don’t normalize kids saving the world, they tell kids who already have to that they can survive it.
This response is beautiful and I don’t think I have anything to add.
Not talking about any fandom this blog is about specifically but let’s be honest, it is relevant.
I kind of doubt the frequent propsosal that tomorrows episode might reveal Yugiri died from lesbophobia, but I’m not sure from what little I know about the era she came from.
There apparently was a growing hostility to homosexual acts at the time (she diead one year into the Meiji period) when they had been in the past previously accepted, but all references I can find only discuss male homosexuality. Lesbian acts might have slipped under society’s radar for all I know.
Hmmm well she has that nasty scar on her neck, so I doubt she was killed by some homophobic peasant… She probably did something to piss off a samurai, so I doubt it was for something as impersonal as sleeping with the wrong person. More likely she was suspected of espionage or something.
While the “testing sword on random people” would have ceased while she was active, the samurai’s power was definitely still lingering at that point.
the group that I’m part of has been doing some parts of it but it’s not very organized at the moment. until then, if you’d just like a list of some of the more notable things that were left out of the english localization:
-guest star pauses were mostly in first person (in general, not just regarding the wave 3 update)
-with morpho ex, it’s described that morpho had been absorbing galacta’s power and has finally made it its own
-minor, but zan’s motive for climbing the tower was specifically that she had “nothing to lose”, not just “out of desperation”
-In Void’s pause description, it’s described that there’s a possibility he was born originating from the chaos made of “Dream”, “Dark”, “Soul”, and “Heart”
(these are all written in an unorthodox way, where they use kanji but the given pronunciations are the english words that they often use in proper names. for example, in order: “Dream Friend”, “Dark Matter”, “Drawcia Soul”, and “Friend Heart”.)
The date is 12/5/18 and mod Typhon is trading out female presenting nipplesSHINY Miltank though Wonder Trade. If you get one of these, submit a picture to
this blog and you’ll win a custom Pokemon.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL
Typhon will be trading out shiny Diancia via link trade. Look for IGN
Typhon in festival plaza and send Typhon a link trade. You
can even add him to make finding him easier! Add FC 4313-6178-6336
and then send this blog an ask with your own FC so he can add you
back.
Typhon will be checking between every wonder trade for link
requests until all of the Wonder Trade Pokemon are gone. He has five
boxes to go through, so plenty of times to check!
You may have ONE Diancie.
Connection issues happen and you are welcome to continue sending
trade requests until you get your Diancie. However, I WILL
be making note of IGNs and I WILL block you if you try
and trade for more than one.
Check the blog for updates. I always post when I am online and
offline.
Happy trading, trainers! I hope to see you in festival plaza!
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