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I really don't think there's anything wrong with protesting. But in a time like this, it just doesn't make sense to me. Not wearing face masks means endangering the public health of the state, for which has the rights you are so lamenting for. Why would you lament for the state's rights on the surface when you're not abiding by public health guidelines?
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Oh, and rioting doesn't make sense to me. I don't think I have to explain why lol.
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Personally I think that people in general are dumb to not wear the masks. I mean, it's their own health they're putting at risk. And others' too.
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I'm too lazy to consistently switch to the tab that has my song lyrics translation so I will copy and paste it here
"記得離開這地方 誰眼角有光
血腥滋味在徬徨 爬不出絕望
冠冕堂皇 誰趾高氣揚
志願者沒有權利失望
三遍口號 倖存的人不求回報"
"Remember leaving this place and whose eyes' shining
Blood lingers nearby--can't crawl out of the pit of despair
Pretending to be glorious, who walked as if with valiance?
Volunteers don't have the right to be disappointed
Three shouts, survivors cannot seek for results"
"我 操控麻木的四肢去尋找
我 靠著模糊的意識開了竅
拿捏剛好我的噩夢不老套
袖手旁觀的人邊記筆錄邊推敲"
"I control my numb arms and legs to search--
I realize with fuzzy senses
This new nightmare is not yet old
Bystanders merely scrutinize and write it down"
"有無數人倒下 搖搖欲墜的警笛 堅守著立場
說巧不巧 老婦人祈禱 嘴裡彷彿是有我姓名
誰在我床 刻下烈士二十三號"
"Countless people fall down, crumbling alarms stubbornly guard the situation
Is it a coincidence? An old woman prays, seemingly saying my name
Who carves the words '#23 martyr' on my bed?"
"看那二十三顆彈殼
鎖進二十三個檔案鐵盒
二十三聲鐵絲斷折 榮耀謝幕甚失色"
"Watch those twenty three bullets be locked into twenty three archive boxes
Twenty three sounds of the wire crumbling, the glorious horizon coming to lose its color"
"我已經懂了 誰趾高氣揚
志願者沒有權利失望
三遍口號 倖存的人不求回報"
"I understand now, whoever walked while pretending to be valiant?
Volunteers don't have the right to be disappointed
Three shouts, survivors can't search for results"
"我 操控麻木的四肢去尋找
我 靠著模糊的意識開了竅
拿捏剛好我的噩夢不老套
袖手旁觀的人邊記筆錄邊推敲
拿捏剛好我的噩夢不老套
苦盡甘來的我趁機笑出了瘋狂"
"I control my numb arms and legs to search--
I realize with fuzzy senses
This new nightmare is not yet old
Bystanders merely scrutinize and write it down
This new nightmare is not yet old
I use the instant that despair recedes and hope begins and laugh madly"
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The story I think the lyrics tell:
The speaker has fought at a battlefield, leaving behind prayers and the home they knew. Through a bout of bloody fighting, they are the only survivor out of both sides, with injuries, particularly a grievous one on their leg. They come to realize that the way they marched so proudly was all for nothing, because they have lost and they cannot escape the place, and no one will come help them even if they die, thus "[they] don't have the right to be disappointed" or even to look forward to the future.
But the speaker is not yet done. Even as the allies of their enemy arrive, they manage to move their body to a hiding place and wait it out. As they do so, bleeding out, they come to realize several things. They realize that war is the true nightmare, one they have failed to grasp until now, and in the grand scheme of history, the "bystanders", those not involved with the war, write down the events as they happen, even as people like themselves die and the same bloody cycle happens over and over again, as people like them have to crawl for survival and wait for hope that isn't coming, over and over and over again.
They recall again, the deaths of their comrades, and the strength they had thought they had when the fight hadn't happened yet. They think about the futile prayers of someone, an old woman, saying their name, and they also recall someone marking them off as just yet another soldier sacrificed, only a number, not even a name: "#23 martyr", but martyr means nothing in the grand scheme, just another human being cast aside like a tool while prayers are said to deaf ears.
Twenty three, a number they ponder. They realize that 23 bullets, made for killing and maybe have killed, will merely be tossed into and locked into twenty three archive iron boxes, as if artifacts, as if they were not bloodstained. As if they were never used at all. As if a time they needed to be used never was. As if they didn't matter at all.
Twenty three sounds of metal wire breaking and crumbling, the wire formerly used to bind and thought as strong, each of them as if people--the same people who thought the glorious cause they were defending dying, as the cause died along with them.
The soldier, still nestled in a hiding place waiting to die, understands that war is no glorious cause, but rather just a grand scheme where human beings are manipulated into thinking that there is one, and such gullible humans don't have the right to even be disappointed once that cause is found out to be a fraud all along. Rather, in only three shouts, their lives can be cast away, and all of their hopes are as if null.
They slip into a state between consciousness and unconsciousness. Almost as if insane, they try to get out of their hiding place, wanting to have an end put to them--after all, the war they fought was for nothing, so why should they keep living? They can't take it, the nightmare they have realized but are not yet accustomed to, the one that historians write down. As they crawl out of their hiding place, they see their enemies--and their former allies, coming to help their diminished army. As they watch the bloodshed and battle start over again, just like their realization decreed, the cycle they can do nothing about, the #23 martyr only laughs madly.
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Haha did I really just watch someone spam their own warning with lyrics to a taco song? Yes yes I did haha
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Also my mom stans my interpretations of the songs hahaha :D
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I never realized there was a censored version of AgK! loll
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AgK! isn't my favorite (mostly due to the cliques and lack of development) but like I obv love Run and I love the OPs and EDs so much lol
Also I don't recall Wave and Run walking into a sunset at the end but tbh if that happened 1) I'd be very :D, 2) Oh gosh the Wave x Run shippers out there,,,
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My school: "Check your final grades"
Me: Ah frick here we go again
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Ok so most of my classes took a drop of some sort comparing Semester 1 and 2, but it's not too bad because most of my grades are still in the "Safe A" range; also, the more work I have the more likely it is to be better. I think Chemistry wouldn't have been so weird, but like my teacher said, not enough quizzes, I guess.
Overall, not bad, but lol I don't study so like I probably should feel bad about that?
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Yeah so Chemistry was the most concerning class but it was still higher than AP Human Geo
I think AP Human Geo really had the issue of just not having any more work except quizzes and tests and stuff so I'm not going to beat myself up over that, at least at the moment.
Overall? Pretty happy, not gonna bother worrying about AP Chem next year but yeah! Pretty excited for some classes like Piano :D and hopefully the homework load isn't too bad. I'm kinda looking forward to Biology since I'm usually pretty good at terms and stuff but idk honestly @_@. I also love World History but someone did tell me to not take it on the first day of school in 2019 haha
I'm not very happy about the fact that P.E. credits and Health is taking up a margin of what would otherwise be my choice but I suck at art classes anyways lol
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Jokes revolving around the SS Bronze Saints (only the ones I can think of lol I can't remember how to describe apparently)
1) Ikki - Overhyped, basically looks OP (and honestly can't die) but still gets really beat up even when he comes to help looking all cool
2) Shiryu - Stronger when he's not wearing anything (I mean upper clothes wise), keeps blinding himself like why, self-sacrificing isn't always the solution y'know dude
3) Hyoga - Stupid, can't learn a lesson in one go, eyes heal slower than Shiryu's, other than consistently either talking about his mom or the people who died teaching him that one lesson he gets no development
4) Seiya - Keeps losing more clothes each boss he fights, keeps doing stupid things, power of friendship apparently sustains anything, what the frick is his heart made of, no idea why he likes Saori but ok, why do the others follow his leadership what even is it made of, how is his head still attached to his body
5) Shun - "bROTHER" even though he's the second strongest out of the Bronze Saints, also keeps getting beat up so many times it's less of a kindness development thing going on for him and more of a consistent stupidity + semi-smart realization, not his fault but got genderbent by Netflix, also gets made fun of for being so self-sacrificial when he could really do better without doing that
All of them: Literally no more further development from their tragic backstory but you'd think they'd have some sort of thing going on in their mind relating to how many deaths they witnessed or people they have killed but nope this is fine
Bonus:
5) Saori - You'd think after at least 10 generations of traitors you'd be smarter about testing Saints' loyalty, being the goddess of wisdom, literally bleeding out every episode, are you sure you're a goddess of war, etc.
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Ok but like I recall Seiya being smart in one episode and it went downhill from there lol
I started off hating Athena (Saori) even before I watched SS (listen I was like 4 lol) because of her cleavage and how my mom couldn't name anything noteworthy she did
Sasha is fine even though she should probably do something about the cleavage too iirc
It's still better lol
I love her other outfit tbh:
See? She doesn't need that kind of fkjiofjoesifjo to look attractive or whatever the heck Kuramada was trying to achieve with,,,
OKAY LISTEN UP SAORI IS 13 DID SHE LIKE HIT PUBERTY AT 8 OR SOMETHING
Literally no thirteen year old is built like she is not to mention her face,,,
And like ok how is she so nonchalant about bleeding out, not mentioning how useless and how she has communication problems with the main protagonists every time and failing to say "Let me bleed out" to them, but like how is she so nonchalant about bleeding out
One would think like "ok sure Shiryu and Seiya and the protagonists have mental self-worth issues considering their backstory"
And no that's not a result of her feeling bad for her Saints
Literally Saori is one of the worst characters I've ever encountered. I hate her and I want her to die in the series. She doesn't deserve the loyalty of any Saint, she's just a spoiled brat at the end, and just. No.
Don't even pull the fricking "o but she got development", the literal only time she's ever really fought (canonically) is because Seiya got stabbed through the heart with the Hades sword (lol he deserved it though you don't stand in sword range normally if you have a brain and Hades is a god)--
Oh wait did I mention how disgusting it is that a deity curse was negated for plot convenience (hi Tenkai-Hen) haha
Let him and Saori die lol I really do not have a huge grudge against the other BSs not looking at their attitudes towards the Gold Saints at times (A.K.A. they cried that one time, Shiryu's ok, Hyoga's ok, but like do Shun and Ikki even remember them, probably not since Kurumada just kinda killed them off for convenience) but Saori and Seiya are literally just, they can go die in a hole together
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Also can I just smh at Athena for using child soldiers
Not just smh I want to blast her into oblivion
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I was going to say something else weird but I just forgot.
I am going to go eat dinner :D.
Yes it's 21:30 here lol.
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I want to talk about my dreams for no reason haha.
You know how weird it is that I analyze so much? Wow I'm a controller-analyzer I wonder (tbh the fact that I'm a controller analyzer is the most useful thing I've learned in leadership this year. And also how to scoop popcorn lol--I'ma stop talking this is sad lol)
Anyways, my first dream was about my larger extended family, a reunion to be exact. Honestly no one was acting like they would IRL and everyone except my mom and I were OOC lol.
Apparently the dream means something like (if you believe in dreams interpretations) a yearning for protection or for stronger relationships. I think they fit, in all honesty. But most of all, just to put it simply, because such a reunion where everyone's so happy and together will never come true, I guess it's just a dream. Nothing so complicated. Just a dream.
The second one was where people were accusing me of being a thief and literally not listening to sound logic. Apparently (according to dream dictionaries, etc.) that means a feeling of being pressured by events in life and feeling like the world is against you. I really don't think the world is against me, but I would definitely say I've been anxious from recent world events and feeling like it might not get better at all.
Both dreams obviously do not really emanate happy emotions, so that's not very good lol. Then again, I've never been all that positive. Optimistic-pessimistic realist here, and as of current, there hasn't been much to be optimistic about.
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Ok but like it's extremely funny that one of the only things I learned from leadership is apparently that I'm bossy and pay too much attention to weird details
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I also learned leadership doesn't actually care for the student body they just care for the benefits lol
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Idk what it is with my mind but apparently no one's allowed to have strong arms
Maybe I just don't know how to draw arms idk
Anyways Hitan's a stick now ig
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The funny thing about this place here is it doesn't reload immediately/by its own
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Haha the height difference I can't--
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I honestly thought there'd be a dad joke here and the female protagonist would just be called "Sui Bian" from now on xD
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Honestly I've known Guan Xi Liao for 5 panels and I want to protect him lol
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Those eyes are gorgeous owo
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Right now I really want to laugh because the mustache really takes away his handsomeness and I'm like laughing at some sort of duality idk xDD
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That moment when the person you've been calling "Little brother" for awhile and nearly died for says she's a woman: