I know this is a long post – but omg it gave me feels. Can you imagine how intense their love had to be to survive how homophobic it was back then. 😭😭😭
Waterdeep: Dragon Heist introduces rules for rooftop chases! Which are “use the chase rules from the DMG (chapter 8) plus this complications table”. Flying creatures just fly, obviously.
Growing up, I was told from many sources (books, tv, parents, teachers, inspirational quotes) that you should never half ass anything. That in everything you do, you should give your all. Honestly, that’s a recipe for misery and burnout. You need to half ass most things so you have enough ass left to give your whole ass to the things you care about. Or at least I do.
Executive function is absolutely a thing. But there’s a lot of things that are Done Better if you do them carefully, and doing them badly ends up being a spoon drain. The trick is learning to figure out which ones…
also asking yourself occasionally, “does this deserve my whole ass?” because quite often the task deserves about 28% of the left cheek
At Tsukamoto Kindergarten, an ultraconservative school at the center of a swirling Japanese political scandal, children receive the sort of education their prewar great-grandparents might have recognized.
They march in crisp rows to military music. They recite instructions for patriotic behavior laid down by a 19th-century emperor. The intent, the school says, is to “nurture patriotism and pride” in the children of Japan, “the purest nation in the world.”
Now Tsukamoto and its traditionalist supporters — including the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — are under fire. The school has been accused of promoting bigotry against Chinese and Koreans and of receiving illicit financial favors from the government.
A growing outcry has put Mr. Abe’s conservative administration on the defensive and drawn attention to the darker side of an increasingly influential right-wing education movement in Japan.
you can’t help thinking that the last time Japan went down this path it didn’t end so well for them.
ok but the quote doesn’t have the best part
Parents said complaints about
mundane-seeming matters like parent-teacher association fees would be
met with chauvinistic diatribes, with school officials accusing “Koreans
and Chinese with evil ideas” of stirring up trouble. They said the
school’s principal, Yasunori Kagoike, accused parents who challenged the
school of having Korean or Chinese ancestors.
“The
problem,” Mr. Kagoike said in one notice sent to parents, was that
people who had “inherited the spirit” of foreigners “exist in our
country with the looks of Japanese people.”
it’s amazing because he’s not even specifically targeting people who have known foreign ancestry – these are parents who chose to send their kids to this school, obviously – he just accuses anyone who disagrees with him about anything of being a secret foreigner
people really, really need to stop putting the word ‘yuri’ on lists of “bad and socially harmful words you shouldn’t use” alongside yaoi. as if the emtymology or connotations of those words is in any way similar
I’ve seen people say that ‘yuri is problematic, you should say shoujo-ai instead’ and i’m begging you to please, please reconsider your position there
please
yaoi: coined by doujinshi circles populated by fujoshis and refers exclusively to pornographic content. literally means “no point, no meaning”
yuri: coined by the lgbt community in Japan. refers to any kind of romantic or sexual intimacy between women, explicit or not. literally means “lily”
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