you know what else would be interesting? since we were doing rockstar season?
to highlight the difference between Louis trying to connect with his culture, with black/creole people in the US, finding black music he likes, fashion etc etc
VS Armand feeling very disconnected from every aspect of his own, does he have anything in common with other south asian people, with muslims/Hindus? does he want to remember speaking his native tongue? would it help him connect with others from his country/religion or would it make him feel more isolated? what music does he even want to listen to? do old rhymes remind him of anything? does the prayel call mean anything to him? is he closer to french or italian culture?....
and have a sinners reference with Lestat saying some shit like music connects all races! assimilation is good! I see no colour! but... you know.
but that would require hiring people of colour to be part of the process and it would also mean character development for these two and... we can't have that :)
ooc: dude i LOVE funky don't get me wrong but they are so fucking strict about their EORG rules and it pisses me off so much.
i got a 3 day game ban today bc "EORG second offense" after i put a forcefield around someone on the shuttle but like didn't fucking do it after the round ended??? i did it before the shuttle docked with CC and the end of round officially started so like what the hell am i meant to do
i think the admin got confused or something because the ban message claims i did it at CC when i didn't
I was rewatched Ember Island Players and I’m curious if anyone else thinks this too. The reason that they make the drill attack so boring and pointless is because it’s a Fire Nation defeat. The whole play is propaganda and meant to show the power of the Fire Nation so why depict the fight as entertaining?
I actually can't imagine having psychologists at a school? All we've got are counselors and they're more concerned with protecting the school from any potential consequences they might face than helping the students, so nobody really talks to them about problems other than class scheduling.
I grew up with them and when I was teaching I could see the effects of the cuts they made to that program, so I can’t imagine what it must be like not to have them at all. Like, obviously some of them are very good and others are a bit so-so (in one school I know, the librarian basically took over, and she was amazing), but they do serve a purpose. In some cases there’s active counselling one-on-one, in others they step in to solve a problem with a group of students, and other times they just offer a quiet space to do homework or doodle when stuff gets too intense. Like, one of my students had mental health issues and he was allowed to walk out of the classroom and go to the psychologist’s office whenever he wanted/needed to.
(The previous arrangement included him getting more and more restless, so he’d start to mumble, then talk, then talk back to the teacher, followed by angry shouting, throwing things, and - in one memorable occasion - breaking a chair.)
As a teacher, you always had to have some worksheet ready for him in case he couldn’t cope with being in the classroom, and it actually worked pretty well.
(I still think about that kid. I only taught him for two months, but I had the chance to chat with him a bit. He was very sweet and incredibly self-aware for his age. I hope things worked out for him.)
Anyway, a bunch of things I remember being sorted out by the school psychologist both as a student and as a teacher:
people being mean to refugee kids (once they actually called an outside theatre group to roleplay the situation, it worked well)
the entire class striking against a teacher (who was an asshole, they were right)
a child with special needs hurting other students
a couple of cases involving nudes, ‘sex tapes’ and relationships gone wrong
a student ‘playfully’ stealing from others and playing over-heavy pranks
locker room bullying
a classroom rift between a kid on the autistic spectrum and his classmates
and various kids with difficult family backgrounds getting support and help with homework.
I don’t know. When I was a child, a bunch of things were just a given and a part of my school day - Italian lessons for foreign kids, weekly ‘pick your own book’ afternoons at the library with our teacher, free visits at the dentist twice a year, free textbooks and writing material until the age of 14, yearly check-ups with physiotherapists and speech therapists to catch development issues, vaccinations, that psychologist thing, and one hour of ‘self-organized time’ every two weeks where we would discuss classroom issues (problems with teachers or among ourselves) or plan future activities (school trips, volunteer work and so on). On top of that, my high school (a free public school) had a students’ council, career counseling, visits to universities and three days a year of students-organized activities (think everything from meditation to political debates to dancing classes). I regret to say, I took all of that for granted, and now those things are being rolled back you can see very clearly who’s losing out - those kids whose families can’t or won’t support them. It’s infuriating, and I hope the world will get sane again and right-wing voters will finally understand that helping kids is both the decent thing to do and the most sensible, self-serving option from a social standpoint (fewer issues = a better edcuation = a job = less crime, vandalism, and general unhappiness).
I get incredibly offended by people comparing the Gon-Killua bond to the Naruto-Sasuke one. I mean, what the hell do they have in common ? wtf people ?
It is very possible the person took the exemple without knowing in details about them - they are one of the most famous dynamic of Shounen history after all, and well… Killua is a subvertion of any of the expecations you can have on a “rival” type. As in, he’s “set up” as such, except the payoff isn’t “so because of my tragic backstory opposing to yours i will fight you” but it ended up being “my life was so fucked up you became my ray of light and i wanted to change it around”.
And like… Gon/Killua is the funniest exemple to me because I think you really need to get to the Killua VS Illumi fight to know it’s not going the typical Rival route. Before that, especially in the manga there’s a lot of more hints toward a possible Rival relationship (mainly Killua being angry Gon had “more potential than him” arriving into the last exam, which seems to be a set up for the rivalry- but instead end up being a set up of “my family fucked up the way i see my own value so much I was starting to antagonizing the only source of real happiness i’ve had so far”. this is also where hxh tackles the approach of a trauma survivor more “realistically”, as realistically that the manga’s rules can at least)
And tbh, I mean. There is a lot of hxh into Naruto, which is what is funniest at time. Because the very trope hxh subverts are often played straight (or as straight as they could be) in Naruto.
Like i mean, the Sun/Moon dicotomy Naruto and Sasuke have? Sasuke wants to kill Naruto because Naruto is the only ray of sunshine in his life. It’s litterally the reason: because he needs to go further into the darkness and cannot allow the light in. That’s as cliché as it gets.
While Killua’s reaction to realizing Gon is his light is “I want to stay longer by your side” and eventually to spread that light as well (see his friendship with Ikalgo and all)
Y’know what that again: Killua and Sasuke both were on the process on changing their lives when their big brother returned into their lives and threatened to kill their sunshine friend in attempt to torture their brothers back into the path the brother had picked for them, both for what they considered the best for their protection. It’s just that where Sasuke followed through with the advice until the very end even when Naruto came chasing after him, the moment Gon chased after Killua Killua knew it was the person he wanted to be by the side of.
Like I could still do that: Both Naruto/Sasuke and Killua/Gon grew up mostly feeling alone, even if Sasuke/Killua has the respectable name of their family behind them and the tragedy of their upbringing. They found similitudes between themselves and Naruto/Gon and set themselves away from the murderous path laid out in front of them because of that ray of sunshine, at least at first. And don’t get me startd on the fact both Sasuke and Killua end up controlling electricity while Sasuke was originally set up as a Fire type.
(I mean I swear i’ve even pulled it chapter by chapter, there’s so many things, like Sasuke developped his electricity techniques after we’ve seen Killua show his electricity resistance in the manga, Konan’s paper power litterally appeared a handfull of issues after Kalluto’s techniques were shown on paper ect…)
Tbh Sasuke’s concept himself is more a mix of both Killua (^what i said) and Kurapika - driven by revenge because his own were massacred for their eyes. Hell later in the manga it’s even revealed their eyes were stolen. It starts to change when Sasuke’s story is played straight instead of in the subversion both Killua and Kurapia go through tho but it was there
I mean don’t try me i’ve been in the Nar’ fandom for years xDD I know the storyline very, very well, specifically Sasuke and Naruto’s bound. So I see where the similitudes are but in most cases it’s specifically a “what would have happened would the Shounen trope used in hxh be played straight”. Once you watch it with this lense it’s kinda fascinating over how different hxh turns out to be.
So I mean on a surface level, if you don’t know the series i can see how you can fall into the trap.
But yeah Killua/Gon have… very little in common with the final bound of Naruto/Sasuke, just some very vagueness, and if anything it just is a perfect analogy on why hxh subverts expectations. Which remains hilarious to me since hxh came out first.
