Kia Purity's Random Thoughts

Disclaimer: the opinions herein are my own. If they sound overly serious, they’re probably not. At the end of the day I’m enjoying YSST. That said, I have every intent of projecting a bit of friendly psychic damage your way.I do my best to present correct information. Any mistakes within are my own.

The following contains mild spoilers through Episode 14.

Hello again. You thought I was done for the day? Not while there is work to be done.

Many of us carrying over from YST have the same question: where are Kayura and the Three Stooges? Masho, Warlords, whatever you'd like to call them. At the end of the TV series we see them float away on beams of sunlight, with Kayura stating they'll turn the demon realm into a nicer place.

Cue Episode 14 and we have the surviving Braves talking about the demon realm being a "garbage dump."

Yeah, this place is a garbage dump, but nobody gets to call it that but us!

After their absence for the duration of Cour 1 plus this reflection on the demon realm being a not-so-nice place to live, one has to think that Kayura-tachi didn't accomplish their goal. And if they did, something pretty significant happened between then and now.

Now, for kicks and giggles I'd like to point out that YSST has already shown the Masho on screen. Via a flashback. Using stock footage from YST.

You know what this does? It acknowledges that these guys exist in the frame of YSST.

Now, perhaps their story is over and there's no more to tell. I'm telling you guys, they'll show up at the very end to put their hands on the Moon Wand together with everyone else and help Gai vanquish Queen--oh, pardon me.

Ahem. I truly am hedging my bets on some sort of acknowledgement later in Cour 2. All commentary about the pacing and exposition aside, to this point we've had visual acknowledgements of both Kaosu / The Ancient and also these chuckleheads. We haven't acknowledged Kayura on screen yet but there's no way we get to the end without that happening. We also need to figure out where Jun's shakujo / staff came from.

Anyhow, I'm pleased to announce that I've gained insight to where Kayura and company have been all this time. Say it with me everyone...

Hear me out. HEAR ME OUT. In Episode 14, Sagume drops the very unfortunate possibility of aliens existing in universe. I personally hope that isn't the case, I'm just pointing it out.

Now, think back to the end of YST Episode 39.

We thought that Kayura and her compadres ascended on a beam of sunlight, having returned to their human hearts.

Behold! 38 years later with the help of digital restoration, an unsanctioned ritual and a can of cola, I've solved the mystery of their disappearance.

But Is Jabba A Dragon Though?

he has the body plan of a lindworm. I suppose you could argue that he is too thick to be considered “serpentine”, but he is longer than he is wide, and not entirely unlike an especially chunky gaboon viper. his upright posture distracts from the fact that he’s built like an abbreviated mole lizard, which are lindworms.

and then of course he acts like a dragon. I don’t know if Star Wars uses gold or something else but whatever it is I’m sure he hordes it. eats people sometimes. disturbing taste for princesses. knights come to kick his ass.

And not all creatures under the broad category of “dragon” fly. Lindworms don’t fly, neither do wyrms, drakes, sea serpents, or hydras. Lungs/Chinese dragons can fly but they don’t use wings to do it. Jabba should not be disqualified as a dragon simply because he uses repulsor technology to achieve airborne locomotion.

Jabba is unlike a slug in so many ways. He has jointed limbs, a hard internal skeleton, a skull with fixed spherical eyeballs, and no sensory tentacles or pneumostome. He is capable of facultative parthenogenesis--like komodo dragons and other squamates--continuously growing larger and living for hundreds of years hoarding wealth and power and preying on princesses. His resemblance to a slug is superficial, though we may describe him as such in an insulting fashion... like how a dragon may be called a “worm”.

Also he can and does eat people.

Dragons are the same way. It’s an umbrella term, and while some irritating pedants insist that only a four-legged creature with words god can be considered a dragon, they only say that to make sure everyone in the room knows that they know what a wyvern is. Wyverns and lindworms and amphitheres are obviously all under the dragon umbrella.

If these things are dragons, then “dragon” is as fluid a category as “worm”:

Take, for example, the dragons from The Last Airbender. They’re clearly dragons, as they breathe fire and have wings, but they’re also more like elemental spirits that visually and behaviorally resemble lungs more than they resemble, say, Smaug. Do their similarities to lungs disqualify them from dragonhood?

Also, it’s not like the medieval Welsh concept of a “dragon” evolved in a vacuum. There are mythical creatures from around the world that bear strong resemblances to That Specific Creature Which We Are Apparently Now Inisisting Is The Only True Dragon. Welsh and British folklore was surely being influenced by mythology from disparate cultures. 

That thing does not have innate dragony-ness to me. It looks like a turtle with tentacles. 

But, while I think the answer to “can we consider Jabba the Hutt to be a dragon” is yes, no one has asked whether or not Jabba would consider himself to be a dragon.

i’m reading Maul: Lockdown by Joe Schreiber and

you make some good points and also I ABSOLUTELY HATE YOU FOR THIS

fine.

DRAGON LOCATED

To suggest he is a dragon is an insult to actual dragons, so I refuse to change my stance on that point.

And goddamn that book adding "draconic" is so misleading because the reader would think of an actual dragon but if they know what a Jabba is, the two simply conflict.

This game said out loud, as mentioned above, that Mass Traumatic Events Do Have an Effect on the Public Mental Health, and that the inability to process those events is a failure to the citizens and the overall functionality of the community. If people aren't given access to rituals, community support, or other space to come to terms with their emotions, no matter how indirectly affected they might have been by the events, they run the risk of carrying that unprocessed trauma into the future and having it manifest in other unhealthy and destructive ways.

The poor man.

Many magazines have closed their submission portals because people thought they could send in AI-written stories.

For years I would tell people who wanted to be writers that the only way to be a writer was to write your own stories because elves would not come in the night and do it for you.

I could feel myself working toward a crying meltdown and was getting preemptively ashamed of what was about to happen when he said, “Hey, are you someone who benefits from breaks?”

It broke me.

Did I benefit from breaks? I didn’t know. I’d never taken them.

When a problem frustrated or upset me I just gritted my teeth and plowed through the emotional distress because eventually if you batter and flail at something long enough you figure it out. So what if you get bruised on the way.

I viscerally remembered in that moment being forced to sit at the table late into the night with my dad screaming at me, trying to understand math. I remembered taking that with me into adulthood and having breakdowns every week trying to understand coding. I could have taken a break? Would it help? I didn’t know! I’d never taken one!

“Yes,” I told him. We paused our call. I ate lunch. I focused on other stuff for half an hour. I came back in a significantly better state of mind, and the thing he’d been trying to explain had been gently cooking in the back of my head and seemed easier to understand.

Now when I find myself gritting my teeth at problems I can hear his gentle voice asking if I benefit from breaks. Yes, dear god, yes why did I never get taught breaks? Why was the only way I knew to keep suffering until something worked?

I was relating to this same friend recently my roadtrip to the redwoods with my wife. “We stopped every hour or so to get out and stretch our legs and switch drivers. It was really nice. When I was a kid we’d just drive twelve hours straight and not stop for anything, just gas. We’d eat in the car and power through.”

He gave a wry smile, immediately connecting the mindset of my parents on a road trip to what they’d instilled in me about brute forcing through discomfort. “Do you benefit from breaks?” he echoed, drawing my attention to it, making me smile with the same sad acknowledgement.

"Después de tanto tiempo... Lo volví a ver..."

Siento que si ellos se volvieran a ver su reencuentro sería problemático (esto es meramente suposiciones, por que lo más probable es que Lir esté muerta o algo por el estilo ..")

He estado pensando en posibles soluciones para poder dibujarlos a ambos en un ambiente mas DMC5, el Vergil del DMC4 se me es complicado😓

ADEMÁAAS

El diseño es prácticamente de Kiapurity en DeviantArt, solo le agregué algunas canas por la edad :3

"No podía hacerse cargo de Nero cuando ella era joven, le rompió el corazón tener que huir a Italia lejos de todos, pero la esperanza de algún día volver a Fortuna por su hijo la motivó todos estos años.

Llega a RedGrave gracias a las noticias transmitidas y buscará cualquier manera de recuperar y a su vez explicarle todo a Nero."

El traducido en ingles está con Google Translate en su mayoría, perdón😓

Pit Babe is a Thai show about Omegaverse racecar drivers.

"This can be very harmful for neurodivergent people, as many neurodivergent people struggle to feel internal cues and bodily sensations, including hunger and fullness. An emphasis on “only eating when hungry” can result in neurodivergent people delaying eating until they are so hungry that they are shaky, highly irritable, or even on the verge of passing out. A focus on “stopping when full” may cause neurodivergent people to overthink every bite they take and scrutinize whether they are truly hungry or truly full.  To modify Intuitive Eating for neurodivergent people, it may be important to focus on eating enough and eating consistently throughout the day, rather than eating according to one’s hunger and fullness cues. Neurodivergent people may need more of a structured meal and snack schedule than neurotypical folks in recovery, as well as some guidelines around a minimum amount of food. This does not make their eating less intuitive or their recovery less real - it is an important way of honouring their body’s needs and unique ways of functioning."

Hunger is a gradient and not an organ response? I sit here in amazement.