writers: how are we gonna top ourselves! we got tons of exciting stuff in store!! at least eleven big bads this season!!!! whos gonna survive who won’t????!! 3 love triangles and 2 quadrangles!!!!
me: I’ll Pay You 5$ To Let The Characters Just Simply Talk To Each Other For Once
I just really find the fact that the creator of dragonball has stated that Goku canonically cannot feel any kind of love, just ‘companionship’, to be a extremely interesting fact. Like, if his family died he’d be like ‘No!’ and then he’d get over it fairly quickly as if they were only just acquaintances. Same goes with the rest of his friends.
The series creator apparently doesn’t like the anime’s portrayal of Goku. They always cast Goku as a hero, when in the manga he’s really only ‘saving people’ as a side bonus that comes with fighting a stronger opponent. He doesn’t purposefully go in to save anyone unless there is a fight happening at the scene.
So, If Goku hadn’t hit his head, he would’ve just been another Raditz. And it also explains why he’s rather cruel towards Gohan and neglectful towards Chichi.
Apparently Vegeta is the actual exception to his own species. He actually genuinely loves his family, -a rare trait only Goku’s mother was proven to have- whereas Goku is apparently literally unable to have those feelings. It’s kind of ironic; Vegeta is probably the one that would be the most ashamed and resentful to admit he has those kinds of feelings.
“And also, I myself an extremely twisted person. So if, on a reader’s postcard, it was written “That’s this, and this’ll happen like this”, then I’d deliberately go with a development where that didn’t happen, and if a certain character got fairly popular, I’d deliberately kill him. (laughs)”
As if Dragonball isn’t already great enough.
is anyone really surprised?
No.
I mean, the realization about Vegeta’s a little surprising but Goku? Not. At. All. There’s a reason why everyone calls Piccolo Gohan’s real father.
no, but really: flytraps use up a LOT of energy closing their traps. You know a lot of other plants that move that much? Tricking them into closing when there isn’t food there is indeed mean.
B-but… they’re plants… they’re devoid of sentience, right? They don’t “feel,” they’re more like little wind-up machines. Right? They don’t act on instinct, they’re… well… traps. You can’t actually be mean to a plant. Right??
I’m of the opinion that meanness is about the nature of the action, not awareness on the part of the target of the action.
Tricking them into closing their traps is actually harmful to them, since the energy expended in closing and then re-opening the trap isn’t replenished by having a tasty insect to digest.
I’m of the opinion that meanness is about the nature of the action, not awareness on the part of the target of the action.
I was at an art museum and I saw this painting from 1625. It’s by Gerrit van Honthorst and is called “Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image,” and it basically is every person on this website.
Midorima: I would never say this to Takao’s face, but he is a wonderful and very talented person.
Kuroko:
Kuroko: Why
Kuroko: Why wouldn’t you say that to his face
Honestly I just want to live in a big pack of my friends, it’s important to me and I’m just gonna keep trying to figure out some circumstances where I can do it
I feel like that’s basically reasonable but honestly please tell me if this is a thing I’m allowed to think or say or if it’s creepy or weird or utterly socially unacceptable bc I genuinely can’t tell anymore
This is 100% legit and an ideal I personally share.
Sorta living this. Got a few friends that are far away, but I have a little pack that is my community and I love it. 10/10, highly recommended.
northfield nakama is the best tribe i love you all ❤ ❤ ❤
btw, as for being ‘allowed’ to think, more than that, it’s kind of the natural human instinct to live in groups of about 10-30 instead of nuclear family units or large collectives.
don’t try to all live in one building. you’ll drive each other crazy. try to be geographically nearby each other but not on top of each other. the northfield nakama have their own apartments but seebs and i have a big old house that’s everyone’s hangout space.
also don’t try to share everything. i know idealists like to talk about how property is theft, but knowing what stuff you can rely on to be available to you is important to psychological security. from big stuff like covering each other’s rent shortfalls, to little stuff like whether it’s ok to just walk into each other’s kitchens and make a cup of coffee, be up front about what you’re ok with sharing.
consent isn’t just for the bedroom. some people feel loved and cared for if you check up on them frequently, and some people need lots of solitude; don’t assume. make sure you have consent to be in someone’s space. remember that you don’t owe anyone any particular instance of emotional labor, even though being a family involves giving lots of it in general – you can always say “no, i’m not up for that,” and you need to be willing to accept no when other people say it.
found family is real family, and humans are tribal animals. i hope you achieve your friendclan goal. ❤
I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true
[From Max Landis’ amazing “American Alien” series about Superman.]
does anyone else ever unintentionally read a negative review of something you rly like and you have to consciously make an effort not to internalize it and trick yourself into hating the thing you loved 2 seconds ago
