LupineTroubles [he/him, they/them]

Do not, my friends, become addicted to bad news. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.

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Cake day: December 16th, 2024

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  • I am not a media snob, opposite really I don’t really watch many movies or series except things that seem to specifically appeal to me or if someone asks to watch something with me so indeed shifting through that much of a genre to wade through its various subgenres for the love of the game is not something I imagine myself doing. However I did watch both Frieren and Dungeon Meshi as both of those appealed to me, as I do like fantasy with focus on the human element. So I’ll keep these recommendations in mind if I end up watching something similar in future. Genre deconstruction comedy is also something I like, so that may be something I watch with someone if that happens. Thank you for recommendations.




  • Are there even any good isekai anime? They all seem tasteless and disgraceful wish fulfilment with zero actual examination of its own premise. I suppose anime like Spirited Away and Inayusha are technically isekai, but obviously when anyone says Isekai it is more a modern Japanese young person being transported into a RPG setting, so the genre is more about nondescript young adult deep in alienation exercising power and agency over others in the most generic euro-fantasy with absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever.

    It’s not even that you can’t make a story out of power bringing worst out of someone or circumstances driving people into exercising their agency to harm of others or even the simple idea of how people can do bad with good intentions, no. It’s just they have slaves and a harem of girls while they had nothing back in their “old” life, that’s all. Even character development as much as it exists seems to just come down to them moving past insecurity and inaction to become a go-getter in a way that reminds of hustle culture except fantasy.










  • I like seeing Americans and Chinese interact and to actually get along. It is also cute seeing the Americans tell each other to behave and not make thirsty comments under every hot guy or girls kissing post.

    None of this was planned, it is a massive backfire in any case to attempt to ban tiktok to prevent “Chinese propaganda” and end up having Americans start to like Chinese more when the state department has been trying to dehumanize and demonize China and Chinese as their primary propaganda goal for a long while now.


  • It’s another symptom of alienation. People try to reclaim agency by acting out against what seems to fall out of control of industry and media. America is an urban, developed society so things like raw milk and meat only diets seem both authentic and transgressive. There is a certain level of glamour to these things because they are out of sight for most almost all their life, even if they buy their raw milk in a carton and their meat prepackaged in a grocery store.


  • It’s impressive what the collective human effort can accomplish when enough people put their minds and will to it.

    I have stopped eating basically anything packaged, cutting few things out first and over time practically all of it. It wasn’t an especially conscious effort even, I feel like I might have fallen out of test groups because I don’t even particularly enjoy those foods now even as massive sweet tooth. Maybe it was because I became more aware of the contents and ingredients of food and stopped making the associations I once made.