I really like the character arc they're setting up for Kazuhiho where Marie's excitement about Japan is helping him engage with real life more and eventually have more hobbies than just sleeping.

Also, as someone who lives on a fault line, the two reactions to the earthquake seemed pretty true to life, lol. Marie's reaction was a bit over the top, but visitors definitely get pretty freaked out when we get an earthquake that makes locals go "oh, huh".

Since this season seems fairly light and pretty heavily weighted towards the weekends, I've decided to supplement with other shows from my backlog to watch in between:

• Sasaki & Miyano - This is based on one of my favorite manga of all time, but I skipped the anime when it came out because I was so disappointed by the BL budget and sort of weird pacing. But going back in knowing its flaws, I'm able to enjoy seeing my boys fall in love all over again. It's not the perfect adaptation I would have dreamed of, but it's still that same story I love so much.
• Revenger (not to be confused with Tokyo Revengers) - I was pretty busy during the season this came out and ended up not being able to continue basically any of the shows I'd wanted to, but this was one I was pretty excited for. It's about feudal Japanese catholic assassins who only take on clients who are looking for revenge, and all of the characters have silly anime weapons that they use in pretty brutal ways, like the kid who uses a kite where the string is covered in bits of broken glass. I think so far it's balancing well its edgy tone and its goofy elements, where it's fun and not meant to be taken too seriously. I've seen a lot of bad reviews, though, so maybe it is supposed to be taken seriously and I'm the only one laughing at seeing a man pray to the virgin Mary for the souls of the people who he just killed with a sheet of gold leaf.

I'm glad Shin got a chance to shine this episode. Last time I was worried the kids would get sidelined too much, but it seems I was wrong, lol.

The resolution this episode felt sort of unearned. It seemed like we were being lead to believe that this A Tale of Perishing was deeper and more complex than the simple movie that existed in the real world, but then the solution to a philosophical disagreement was just a handsome anime boy and a musical number. And normally I'd be all for that, but that fixing Memmeln's nihilism felt like a cop-out. Though I did still appreciate the handsome anime boy and musical number.

Ada's comment can be found here

And ya, if it's true that Ada was the one dealing with the the reports, I'm not really sure what the mod team was even doing (other than making unpopular decisions without community input)

I've seen a lot of talk about how this move changes the admins the community will be under, but very little about how this will change the randos that pass through. The mods keep saying this won't change anything, that the moderation will stay the same, etc, but the reason this community is the way it is is that there are a lot of locals that find it. When the new community shows up on l.w's local page, it will bring in a far different crowd. Their posts, comments, and up/down votes will change the community, and there's no amount of moderation that will fix that.

Mods, this is why people are mad you made this change without asking anyone. Many of us do not want an influx of .world users into this space because we know what kind of politics and biases they'll bring with them and that, even if you moderate the bigots, the normies will still likely overpower the queer voices this community is known for.

Even if you disbelieve drag's identity, they are NOT the reason transphobia exists. TRANSPHOBES are the reason transphobia exists.

Every marginalized group has some faction that is willing the throw another smaller or more marginalized group under the bus. There are gays trying to claim legitimacy by fighting trans rights, and binary trans folks are saying we'd be a lot farther if nbs didn't exist. This is just pandering to people who already hate us in the hopes that we can distract them from ourselves for a little while. It doesn't work and it hurts people who should be our allies.

You mention the kitty litter thing, but you know that was fully a lie, right? It was there in case of an active shooter situation, and the people upset about it weren't gesturing to people like drag, but to furries, most of whom (in reality) are just enjoying playing pretend. They will make up lies and people to get mad about with or without those people, so how could drag possibly be making this worse?

To be clear, the 3 seasons of the animated series "avatar: the last airbender".

There are unrelated blue people movies, live action remakes, and a sequel series ("legend of korra"), but when people recommend avatar (as they should - it's fantastic) they mean the original cartoon version.

It's not explicitly trans (like atkion said), but it is hosted on blahaj.zone, an explicitly trans instance.

OP is implying gender transition. Do you know where you are right now?

The problem with calling these tools AI is not really an argument from definitions. The argument at its core is saying that the general public brings a lot of assumptions to something that's being called "AI", which aren't true but benefit investors.

Like, all those stories of chatgpt citing fake studies and fake case law blew people's minds. If you know what chatgpt is (a fancy predictive text algorithm) these are pretty unsurprising events, but a lot of people had heard "AI" and applied their own associations onto its perceived capabilities, which was exactly the point of calling it "AI" instead of "LLM"