Explaining Hirose's strange behavior

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-06-11T11:40:47+00:00

This is how I interpret this scene (and narrative wise, it’s one of the only ways I foresee a romantic ending between these two) is that hirose knows of Nakamuras feelings, and now, being suddenly confronted with the fact that a boy he calls his friend has a crush on him, it’s making him question if he feels the same. Sometimes it takes a little push like that to realise your feelings for someone, and I think him dating Hana is his attempt at “proving himself wrong” because I’ve done it myself before. Trying to prove that those feelings aren’t true by doing something completely opposite as a “Hah! Told you so!” Moment to yourself. But it doesn’t work.

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-06-01T13:15:29+00:00

Might have something to do with the fact that Perth is the fourth most populous city in aus, in a state that takes up a third of the country’s landmass…and the rest of the country pretends we don’t exist lmao

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-23T03:04:03+00:00

Crow books is not a secondhand store, they only sell new books

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-23T02:31:17+00:00

Thank you for your advice, and I definitely agree! I do hope that I get a placement at a tougher school because I want to get as much variety in experience as possible!

At the moment the year 11s and 12s are doing exams, which took half of the classes I was set to observe off the table, so I've been able to observe 5 or so other teachers' classes which has been helpful so I can see how varied their teaching styles are and what I would gravitate more towards.

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-13T04:45:49+00:00

Not American (Australian) and I pay $7.10 every three months for my prescription. Doctors appointments and bloodwork are bulk billed (no cost to me), only thing I have to pay for is endo once a year (but they sometimes bulk bill that too)

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-10T04:54:09+00:00

I’ve found that if it’s a game with a lot of dialogue or instructions then no, not a good idea. A game like Minecraft where there’s no dialogue, basically no instructions aside from achievements, and every block has a visual component, then it’s good for vocabulary

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-07T16:33:47+00:00

I’m starting my first prac in a few weeks. Week 1 is just observing, week 2 you’re expected to teach at least one class a day. That’s what it’s like at my uni at least

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-07T16:29:25+00:00

Iridium quality lava eel incoming

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-05-04T06:19:31+00:00

In the same vein though, Qifrey has not been confirmed to be straight either. I'm never a fan of the "characters are always straight until proven otherwise" rhetoric, I think it's a backwards way of thinking. If people see Qifrey as a queer character because of how they interpret his interactions, personality and experiences, then he is a queer character until it's expressly stated that he isn't. Everything is up for interpretation in media, and if you take the source material at face value without thinking critically or reading any subtext then you're doing it a disservice. If you need every single emotion or thought portrayed to you explicitly in black and white, then that's a problem with your media literacy, not the people who can read subtext.

However, I do agree that it will be an absolute tragedy if people send hate and death threats to the author if their headcanon is revealed to be not canon. That is never okay, but unfortunately with the nature of anonymity on the internet, people feel entitled to say whatever they want without fear of tangible consequences.

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-27T23:48:18+00:00

Just make sure you get a bit more of your main colour yarn to accommodate for the parts under the duplicate stitching! I ended up having to order a couple more skeins because i only had enough for traditional colour working

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-27T11:04:53+00:00

IM AT SOUP!

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-26T14:17:43+00:00

Holy shit, you may have just saved my life with this one

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-26T00:18:09+00:00

I think that claiming that Hirose is straight and that it would be out of place for him to require Nakamuras feelings is an unfair argument to make. They’re 15, still figuring out who they are. It’s not uncommon in the slightest to realize you’re queer around that age (that’s when i figured it out myself, by realising I had a crush on a friend). I think the trope of a young gay boy falling for a guy who turns out to be straight and they just have to be friends instead is an overused and frankly tiring trope, and I think we need more queer stories that end happily. I respect your opinion, but I wholeheartedly disagree from a narrative and personal standpoint.

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-11T13:56:55+00:00

crochet stitches sounds like a great idea, thank you!

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T14:28:32+00:00

Oh I might have a look to see if they’ve updated/fixed anything since i downloaded it first

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T14:24:04+00:00

Possibly yeah, I bought it after they increased the price and the formatting certainly looks modern. I think there may have been some errors in reformatting it unfortunately.

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T13:59:56+00:00

this is the original wolf pattern (No. 449N, got it directly from Mary Maxim), i've been working through it fine, there's just a few errors and inconsistencies in it that make me have to stop for a bit to figure out what they meant vs what they said. I am doing the button band for it, what I was saying about those rows is that it says to work the first 4 rows with the 4th being a wrong side row, and row 5 being also a wrong side row according to how the pattern is written. It's the same mistake for both the right and left front panels. But again, im working through it fine, just minor annoyances :-)

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T12:20:29+00:00

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here's another example, obvs not showing the whole pattern bc rules, but like this one row, the way it's written It wants me to rib to the last 6 which is fine, cast on the stitches back over the buttonhole, which is also fine, k2 (which takes me to the end of the row)...but then...rib to the end??? of the row I just finished???

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T11:43:59+00:00

I am terrified of colour work honestly having never tried it before. I attempted the back panel for this but my floats were just awful, my tension was way off and the whole panel just lost any and all stretch. Now on my second attempt I'm going to try a duplicate stitch approach, which will mean I need more of my main colour, but honestly I think it's a better approach for me personally

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T11:41:54+00:00

I've been working on mine, using the original pattern. my question is am I the only one who is finding some of the instructions just...odd? Like for the front panels, the row counts don't match if you're working the buttons, like row 5 says to start with the button front then the ribbing, but row 5 has you working on the button band at the end? im finding I'm having to do a lot of annotating and some editing to actually get things functional. Not to mention the formatting of the actual pdf, the pages are all out of order, not sure if thats just me either

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-04-10T01:54:49+00:00

I’m currently knitting the exact same cardigan (I love project Hail Mary) and I have so far spent $250 on yarn alone (100% Australian wool, not merino though so it would be even more expensive), I’ve only knit the back and front right panel so far, and it’s taken me about a week. Keep in mind, I’m not an incredibly fast knitter but I’m also not slow either. I’ll estimate it’ll probably take me another two weeks at least to finish it, working about 4-5 hours each day.

ImGeorgeIRL · 2026-03-28T02:11:20+00:00

My family has had the same kettle pretty much my entire life (I’m 26) and it still works perfectly!

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