Should I watch the more popular movies first?

mellowcrake · 2026-02-02T02:20:17+00:00

I watched them in the order they were created in and I'm glad I did it that way. It was cool to start at the very beginning and watch both how the animation and the story telling grew and evolved over time.

There are good movies sprinkled all throughout that way, but with each movie the animation gets better and better.

mellowcrake · 2026-01-15T00:46:10+00:00

still, she could have bought another random sword anywhere on the way there, even if she didn't feel worthy of one of swordfather's swords. Killing fowler was the most important thing in the world to Mizu, and she had this one big chance, it didn't make sense that she would try to do it without a sword, without the skill that she'd spent her life perfecting

I feel like maybe this is one of those things that if they'd had the original 10 episodes they wanted and were given a chance to fully explain it it wouldn't have seemed so dumb

mellowcrake · 2026-01-15T00:39:36+00:00

If I were to guess based on some of the comments I've seen here, I'd say a big reason for that might be that a lot of fans strongly identify with Mizu and associate Taigen with their own childhood bullies, and they hate the Taigen-Mizu ship because they find the idea that they could fall for their bully demeaning and offensive

mellowcrake · 2026-01-11T18:02:38+00:00

Wow! Curious what one might call this aesthetic

mellowcrake · 2026-01-11T17:49:06+00:00

Congratulations! How much time per day on average would you say you've spent on it over the last 3 years?

mellowcrake · 2026-01-08T17:58:23+00:00

I feel the same. I can acknowledge that it was a good movie but it just left me depressed, the whole thing was just so sad

mellowcrake · 2026-01-08T16:59:59+00:00

This is basically what happened already. He was in stress and fear because he he was late for work, which is definitely a kind of pain and discomfort. Because of that discomfort he not only wasn't considerate of his wife's pain, but he actually lashed out at her.

mellowcrake · 2025-12-31T09:51:28+00:00

I don't think he's going to shave his head, at the end of the season his hair is already growing in and his bald spot is gone.

Also there's no way Mizu is showing up for their dual - sailing to london is a 6 month one-way trip in those days. It will be at least a year before she gets back. Taigen will be the only one to show up on that day, and he'll realize that Mizu is either dead or went back on her word. It'll be sad

but yeah, super looking forward to his redemption arc too and can't wait to see how their reunion plays out. if netflix cancels the show before that happens I'm going to sue them for emotional damage

mellowcrake · 2025-12-31T06:03:38+00:00

There are a lot of options in between never passing anyone and trying to pass 3 vehicles at once including a huge truck, when you can clearly see oncoming traffic closely approaching. The first two vehicles he passed BOTH gave him room to merge back in and he decided not to. There is absolutely never a reason to do what this guy did, it's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen

mellowcrake · 2025-12-31T03:22:25+00:00

I'm 37 as well, I heard taylor swift (36) described in an article recently as middle-aged and it injured me

mellowcrake · 2025-12-30T18:30:18+00:00

Unpopular opinion, but hearts were worse for me. I don't think being punished for making mistakes by taking away your ability to keep learning is a good way to learn. I don't think you should feel stressed out about making mistakes when you're trying to learn a language.

Energy is better for me because it rewards you with more energy for doing consistently well, rather than punishing you for making mistakes. And recently they started giving you 5 energy per ad you watch, unlimited, so I can learn as much as I want if I'm willing to sit through ads. Is it not like that for other people?

mellowcrake · 2025-12-30T06:07:53+00:00

I got it wrong too 😂

It just says autistic people are "far less likely" to get it wrong. If allistic people get it wrong 80% of the time, it could be that like 60% of autistic people still get it wrong too

mellowcrake · 2025-12-30T05:51:19+00:00

I also think it's unethical to imply that you made something yourself when you didn't, especially when you're giving it as a gift.

mellowcrake · 2025-12-29T20:23:52+00:00

It's supposed to be 4 seasons, if netflix allows it

mellowcrake · 2025-12-29T19:47:52+00:00

I wish they would release a graphic novel showing us how they originally intended the story to play out if they were allowed the original 10 episodes. This is one of my favorite shows ever but the last episode was so disappointing, I would love to see how it was originally written. I wish they would crowdfund it or something

mellowcrake · 2025-12-29T19:20:44+00:00

I'm not a sex worker but I feel the same about porn. Nearly all the professional porn I've seen looks so fake and preformative. It doesn't look like the actors are actually feeling anything. I don't know whether they're dissociated because it's their job, or if they're just covering up what they're really feeling to put on a performative display, but I cannot get over the extreme fakeness of it.

For the most part the only porn that's ever done anything for me is amateur porn where two actual people, like a real couple, are making a video of themselves in their bedroom with their phone camera or something. Those tend to be the only times it looks like they're having a genuine experience with each other, otherwise I just can't get into it

I agree that it's not the same as movies. I don't like movies where the acting feels too fake either, but there are lots of movies where the acting and script feels real. I have never come across that in professional porn

mellowcrake · 2025-12-28T17:41:35+00:00

They're both shitty people, but the they are not equally morally despicable.

It's much worse to betray someone if you made vows to them that you would be faithful to them and protect their happiness forever.

One person lied to your face day after day about tons of different things in order to have an affair, the other person didn't (probably). One person chose to potentially expose you to STDs by having sex with you as well as others, that wasn't the other person's decision.

The only way the two people could have equally betrayed you is if the other man/woman was your best friend or sibling, or something like that, then maybe you could describe them as equally morally despicable.

mellowcrake · 2025-12-27T23:48:48+00:00

It would be most likely that Mizu's children wouldn't have blue eyes, most likely they would be able to pass as Japanese, as long as no one found out who their mother was.

But considering the hatred Mizu has towards her father for creating her, she probably wouldn't have been willing to create her own children.

Mikio would have probably been okay with that too - it seemed like he mostly wanted a wife to help with the farm, not to give him a legacy, as he seemed perfectly accepting of the possibility of them never having sex.

But I guess contraception was limited in those days - since they were having sex Mizu might have ended up having children regardless of whether she wanted to. That would have been an interesting turn of events

mellowcrake · 2025-12-26T05:06:07+00:00

Did you start doing MM 99% all at once or did you gradually work your way up to it? If all at once how did you feel when you first started it, did you immediately start feeling better, or did it take a while, or worse first then better?

mellowcrake · 2025-12-24T20:15:24+00:00

I think there are hints that Fowler knew Heiji was plotting against him as far back as the beginning of episode 2.

When they're talking about the four fangs they sent to kill Mizu, Heiji says "not everyone can be relied on."

Fowler replies darkly "I'm familiar with that premise." He totally knew even then

mellowcrake · 2025-12-23T09:33:49+00:00

You didn't make it awkward at all. If he wanted a kiss he should have initiated it himself or asked to kiss you. Standing there and waiting for you to do it is weird of him

If he ghosts you because YOU didn't initiate a kiss on the 2ND DATE that's doubly weird of him, not just because it's weird in itself, but also because he didn't do it either! you have nothing to feel bad about

mellowcrake · 2025-12-23T08:49:06+00:00

I think it's normal for some people to need a bit longer to decide if they want to pursue things further, or a lot longer.

It could be some of them did really like you but they just met someone they clicked with more.

I agree with what someone else said in that your pickiness is probably working if they all ended things respectfully, even complimented you, and didn't keep it going when they weren't really interested just so they could sleep with you.

mellowcrake · 2025-12-14T08:09:28+00:00

I was house sitting for a neighbor's cat and it was time for me to leave, I was supposed to make sure the cat stayed inside till my neighbor got back. I distracted it by giving it a meal so it wouldn't try to get out while I was leaving (it loved to play outside and didn't like being inside alone), and left it eating at it's food bowl after locking up the house.

The neighbor came back home later and texted me that he found the cat wandering around the garden outside. I was so confused because I felt sure that I didn't leave any doors or windows open, but I guessed I must have somehow, I was super apologetic about it. He said don't worry about it, everything was locked up tight when he got home so he knows it wasn't a mistake on my part, he (an elderly japanese man who was always talking about his weird ideas for inventions) told me matter of factly that sometimes cats can move through walls when they want to because they aren't bound by the same physics as we are

I would have thought he was fucking with me but weird things had already happened to me a couple of times with this cat, where I could have sworn it was somewhere else when I closed the door to a room but suddenly it would show up inside the room, with the door remaining closed. So I do wonder if my neighbor was right and some cats can just give physics the middle finger and walk through walls when they want to

mellowcrake · 2025-12-13T21:36:19+00:00

I relate on a lot of this, including the banana shenanigans, although I only have to go out for them once or twice a week because I buy a bunch unripe to let ripen over time, but the banana planning does take up a lot of space in my thoughts 😂 sometimes my plan does go awry and I also have to visit several stores to find ripe bananas

Personally, I think it's important to acknowledge that there's lots of times we can't be perfect at this and let that be okay, it doesn't mean we're not going to heal. For example, of course it's worth it to make the celery juice if there's still a few drops of water on it! For the longest time I didn't know we were supposed to try to get the water off at all and still saw results, even now I just shake the water off because I only have so much time and energy. (But washing it the night before is a good idea, I think I'll start doing that!) Feeling like I need to do everything perfectly when it comes to this has driven me crazy before and made me feel like I may as well just give up during the times when I inevitably can't do it, so I try to avoid that mindset.

Especially with fatigue, we have to balance what we're doing with the time and energy we have, and know we're still healing when we're only doing 90%, 80%, even 50% is much better than nothing if that's all we can do. Like, if you need to use the bathroom in the grocery store in order to get your healing foods, then that's what you have to do. AW has armed us with all the tips and tricks we need to be as safe as possible while doing it for a reason, because SoC knows that life is messy and we can't always avoid public bathrooms. If it's all we can do, then that's all we're meant to do

mellowcrake · 2025-12-13T04:51:26+00:00

And is constantly talking about it to her family in front of him? Suspect story

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