i didn’t and i don’t care. leave that man alone. his tweets made it very clear he enjoys fandom, that he supports and engages with shipping and fan fiction, but that he’s also a man in his fifties who isn’t up to date with current fandom lingo and that he had no idea that ideas like ‘fiction isn’t real life’ and ‘we are in fandom to have fun not to beat down others’ , ideas that were common knowledge til a few years back are now enough to trigger a violent mob more interested in cancelling and censorship than it is interested in art and culture and fandom or… even just in treating people with some basic respect and kindness. the fact that it’s been HOURS and he’s still replying to tweets trying to explain himself should tell you enough that people’s reactions to this are vile and far from okay. why would you care what tweets he likes, why are you monitoring that. enjoy in peace that your favorite poet said he likes your favorite ship and if you cannot do that: leave him alone. leave him be. leave other fans be. he’s right. this isn’t a contest. we’re all different people with different interests and that should be celebrated. it’s what makes fandom transformative. you don’t have to be friends with everyone. just focus on what you do like. people who cannot peacefully co-exist with those who have different ships and likes without beating them down have no place in fandom spaces bc they are actively destroying them. quit the constant drama. especially drama at the cost of others. especially poets who have no beef in this and were only trying to connect with their fans by answering some questions. stop it.
Madara left Konoha 66 years ago. Hashirama was made Hokage 67 years ago.
Mito was brought to Konoha to become a jinchuriki. Chapter 500, p5.
Why is Konoha making a jinchuriki? Hashirama only has suppression jutsus for the Kyubi that Madara had started using in his battles. He needed a permanent solution for dealing with the Kyuubi.
We can claim this is a timeline error, or… Hashirama had children before marrying Mito. He was already 25+ years old when Izuna died, since Izuna was 24 and age-wise: Izuna < Madara = Hashirama. It’s not impossible for a guy in the warring states era to have children by age 25.
The diamond seal is used to connect the two, but it’s important to note that Uzu contributed fuinjutsu to Konoha’s arsenal. Ashina is considered the forefather of fuinjutsu in Konoha. Even Kushina teaches what she knows to Minato. Iruka knows fuinjutsu, and so do the students of the third. Mito’s diamond seal could very well have been her contribution to Konoha’s arsenal of fuinjutsu.
Male; Age at Death: 67 // Head of the Uzumaki Clan; JC 53 Page 99 Ruined country: The head of Uzushiogakure (Whirlpool Country). He was unrivaled in the handling of fuinjutsu, He was even said to be the forefather of Konoha’s fuinjutsu.
It’s also important to note that Tsunade is always noted as Hashirama’s grandchild, never Mito’s. She is not the grandchild of Konoha’s first jinchuriki or an Uzumaki.
Here’s the video link, for anyone curious to learn more. It’s both a fascinating and infuriating look into a pivotal part of recent medical history, and I highly recommend it.
Before watching, I thought it boiled down to “the original paper was based on bad science,” but that’s only a small fraction of the story.
quick trigger warning: there’s a section of this video that covers some very serious medical abuse of young autistic children, so while I highly recommend it, please watch with caution if that might be an issue for you! there’s a warning in the video itself but I wanted to make sure people know up front
Behind the Bastards also did a fantastic 3-part miniseries on the history of the anti-vax movement that delves into the allegations about vaccines causing autism (mostly in parts 2 and 3, but I strongly recommend listening to all 3)
there comes a point in some dudes ceramics careers where they start fucking with glazes so hard they spend their weekends hand digging rare minerals out of a desert deposit or a friend’s multi-acre lot so they can grind them up and put them in a glaze. I know at least three guys that do this.
I also knew this guy derrick who was an absolute beast on the wheel (threw an entire 40pc porcelain serving set w/ cups bowls plates serving dishes and casserole dish in ONE HOUR) who also rented out a backhoe so he could dig clay out of his yard and refine it. Unfortunately it had too many inclusions in it so he had to dilute it with industrially made stuff. when he did that though he found that the clay in his yard, when fired, produced it’s own glossy green glasslike ooze that vitrified during firing. he called it “self glazing clay”, and went back that day to go dig up more. hope hes doing well. I imagine he’s excavated his entire property by now
I absolutely love that the Pokémon universe is literally tearing itself apart at the seams. Fantastic worldbuilding, A+++
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A non-exhaustive list:
Mega Evolution comes from a meteor. The impact of that meteor literally split the dimensions apart and made it canonical that different versions of the same game are parallel dimensions (Alpha Ruby is a different world from Ruby, for instance). This is later confirmed by the presence of Anabel in Sun and Moon, who fell through dimensions from a world without Mega Evolution.
Speaking of Sun and Moon, wormholes are opening up all over Alola, letting in extradimensional beings that Pokéballs don’t catch properly. There are silver-skinned humans from one of these portals that live in a giant prismatic city.
Also in Sun/Moon, you can pass through to a mirror world where day is night and night is day. When this happens, you can catch the mirror world version of your box legendary friend.
There’s a giant space alien in Sword and Shield who’s leaking particles that cause Pokémon to briefly turn massive, which sometimes rearranges their genetic makeup.
In Scarlet and Violet, reality is splintering. There’s a hole to the future/past that generates paradox Pokémon which are heavily implied to have been materialized out of a researcher’s desire to see them rather than actually from their future/past. The same energy that supposedly made them enables Pokémon to become any type they want and caused a robot to gain human sentience.
In the hole you find the paradox Pokémon in, you find buried monoliths that nobody knows where they came from. The very material they’re made of is canonically unidentifiable.
Time and space were briefly unraveled in Pokémon Diamond/Pearl/Platinum as a maniac tried to overwrite the current world and make a new universe out of it, and in the Platinum universe, this opened a hole to another dimension where a banished god lives. The banished god was pissed off about this and abducted the guy that messed with time and space.
People sometimes slip through the cracks and become Pokémon in Pokémon-only worlds (the Mystery Dungeon series) or drop through time to different eras (Legends Arceus’s protagonist and Ingo).
In Mystery Dungeon, time is eroding (Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky), and the world is warping and distorting into areas that scramble themselves every time you enter them and make the inhabitants of those areas agitated and hostile (entire series).
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