When did we lose sight of the light?

meet adult Chirin from “chirin no suzu / the ringing bell of chirin” on the other side of the mountain.

Would be interesting No?

Then, Chirin heard the howl sound from further up the mountain. It shocked him out of his daily routine of sleeping, grazing, and hunting without killing that he went through to keep his wits sharp. At first his heart had leapt as he had, for a moment, forgot that a strange wolf would never view him as kin. Still, he found some comfort knowing there was at least another nearby.

Just a few days after that, Chirin saw a goat down in the field below his den and nowhere near the farm in which he was born. A wild goat, then. He didn’t approach, as goats were close enough to sheep to know that he was no longer truly either. Chirin may have been a ram once, but his lifestyle had warped his shape too much.

When he saw a wolf outnin daylight hunting the goat, and the goat for some unfathomable reason run toward, instead of away, Chirin feared that maybe his solitude had finally driven him mad. Wolves and sheep were both social creatures. Clearly living alone wasn’t being kind to his mind so he left the cliff he watched from to clear his head and lay down for a while.

Chirin happened upon the goat quite by accident. He had been chasing down a squirrel that had strayed too far from the trees. He had no intention to kill, only to catch, but was quickly distrupted when the small goat began to run right next to him, struggling to keep up.

“Hello there!” The goat bleated, and the friendly tone stopped Chirin in his tracks, his sharp hooves digging trenches in the grass from the force of his halt.

“Hello?” He brayed back, his voice almost hurting him to use since he hadn’t spoken in seasons.

“I didn’t know there were other goats out here. I’m Mei!”

“Uh…Chirin.” Chirin answered.

Chirin may have been too warped to look like much of a sheep anymore, but he supposed he could pass for a large goat if one ignored the curl of his wool and how his horns curved a strange way.

“I saw you caught by a wolf a while ago.” Chirin pointed out, perhaps a bit awkwardly. “You must be very strong to have escaped.”

Mei shuffled his hooves awkwardly, and Chirin could see in his face that the goat was trying to come to a decision with himself. He wondered if his own face had ever been so easy to read. Finally, Mei thought it alright to admit what he had been thinking of.

“That was Gabu. I didn’t need to escape. He’s my best friend.”

“Oh.” Chirin deflated slightly, not even sure why.

Mei didn’t really know where to take the conversation with an answer like that, so he just smiled. “Well, it was nice meeting you! Gabu’s and my den is just down that way,” Mei pointed toward the east, “Under a little hill. Gabu won’t bother the farm so don’t worry about him.”

“Why would I worry about the farm?” Chirin scoffed, still holding onto bitterness at the ewes who feared him.

Mei took a step back, intimidated by the harsh tone. “I’m sorry. The bell… I just assumed.”

Chirin took a breath. “I apologize, I… I haven’t been welcomed to the farm since the Wolf King took me in.” Normally Chirin wouldn’t have admitted to such a thing, but if this little goat was friends with a wolf he supposed there was no harm in sharing common ground.

Mei’s eyes widened in awe, then he looked around warily. Chirin could easily guess what he was looking for.

“The King is dead.”

“Oh, gosh. I’m so sorry.” Mei said softly, surprising Chirin yet again. “If… If you ever need company you can come visit us! I’ll let Gabu know too.”

I reread this journal entry while watching a friend stream shf and it rly shows how utterly tragic Kanta and Hinako's relationship became...

Kanta was the one who originally took Hinako to watch The Great Space Invasion together. The foundation for Hinako and Shu's friendship, Space Wars, was thanks to her dad.

I find it especially heartbreaking because this also serves as additional proof that Kanta didn't restrict Hinako from engaging with more "boyish" interests. He's the one who dragged her to watch the movie assuming she would have fun, only for her to end up having nightmares about it later.

In a way, wouldn't that already hint at the ambiguity regarding how Kanta and Kimie viewed Hinako ?

If they named her baby bird, that would mean that in reality they didn't necessarily had a specific direction for Hinako's life in mind unlike Sachie with Kotoyuki, but Hinako clearly has the impression that they want her to more of a girl, leaning on the idea of her name meaning "doll".

All of Kanta's scene with Hinako is him being upset he doesn't listen to her, which to Hinako's mind would mean "not being enough of a girl" since she associate femininity with subservience (Kimie's siding with Kanta despite how he treats her + how Fox Hinako's speech is less masculine and her ultimate decision to let Kotoyuki handle everything + values that were transmitted to japanese women in the 60's etc), but Kanta himself doesn't explicetely say anything like that and considering how much of subtle individual Kanta is, if he felt that way, you'd assume he would be screaming it at Hinako's face at any given opportunity, yet the only time this happens is with Monster Kanta which is a reflection of how Hinako views her parents. The one piece of dialogue by regular Kanta that sorta come close to this is when he compares Hinako to Junko who was more feminine and ultimately embraced what's deemed a woman's happiness, which would only reinforce the idea in Hinako's mind that womanhood = subservience and vice versa

Imo Hinako's defiance towards Kanta mainly annoys him because it makes him feel even more of a failure of a father since father are supposed to be feared and revered as he confessed in his apology, which would mean that Hinako being "girly" wouldn't have been the issue he had with her, it would have been more about asserting his role as a man

Is it a screen shot?

Is there a link?

Did you click/read the link?

Was it a real source (AP wire, local news, the original online post - not Fox, not the Sun, not NY Post, etc)?

Did you find any confirmation?

Did it strongly confirm a bias or suspicion?

Did it make you feel angry, smug, disgusted, superior, and/or helpless?

Is it important enough to you that you think it needs to be shared?

Do you have the energy, time, ability to research, confirm, and provide sources, links, and some additional clarifying details?

YOUR BODY DOES THIS ON PURPOSE

im not saying that these creators are above criticism or anything so callous but you all have to know on some level that getting really personal about these people isn't healthy, right? and that multiple people work on these properties, not just one person? you just Cannot analyze character arcs anymore without people butting into the conversation to explain their weird freaky headcanons about "actually the only thing here worth analyzing is the fact the writer is bitter and lonely and jaded and—" what the FUCK are you talking about???? HOW did you think this contributes to the conversation???? how did an attempt at media analysis for fun turn into some shitty bitter elementary school gossip???

and i know people will assume the fandom this post is about based on my blog (and it IS about that) but this goes for SO MUCH media nowadays. this is everywhere. i'll take a peek into a fandom for a new cartoon that came out and be met with hellfire beyond my wildest comprehension because some fan-favorite character didn't get enough attention or something equally vapid. "is [x cartoon] the worst fandom of all time?", everyone asks, as if it's not Most of Them. its inescapable. i cannot express enough how hostile the mere idea of being a professional creator is nowadays because of this culture. meanwhile everyone just perpetuates it like it's acceptable to speak violent fantasies of, or just generally constantly whine about, someone who worked on an episode of a cartoon you didn't like.

no, you don't actually know any of the things you are saying about these people's personal lives or beliefs. you don't know any of what you're saying. "but i heard—" i don't care. this is gossip. and i don't care if there's some tweet that vaguely supports your theory, either. these are real people and not characters. you cannot just form 'headcanons' about them based on implication. have you never had your words misunderstood? have you never worded a thought poorly? this is not interesting gossip. it's not thoughtful. it just makes you look bitter and vaguely creepy, and it's ruining fandom spaces. media analysis isn't fun when all the replies and comments are more interested in childish gossip than actually engaging in art. writing stories or comics isn't fun when the comments use your work as a vessel to complain about all the writers they have parasocial thoughts on, either.

The bedroom that was once a prison for him, with all the trappings of games and fun things to do with friends, but no actual friends allowed in the space, has become an actual safe haven for friends to hang out and relationships to build.

This can ONLY happen because Gabriel is gone. He has his freedom, he has his rings, and he has the ability to have friends in his space in the way he always dreamed of. Ladybug gave that to him when she battled his father. It was her actions that made Gabriel change his wish.

She's travelled the world looking for the answers on how to protect everyone. She's the one who lies and suffers in silence to protect him. Just like with what he thinks of Gabriel, yes it hurt him, but it's the only thing letting him learn who he is.

Both Marinette and Gabriel have had possession of Adrien's amoks, yet only One chose to return them freely to him and allow him to make his own choices. At any time Marinette could order Adrien to see his father as she wishes, or when he broke up with her she could order him to forget, and yet she doesn't.

Marinette backed off of Adrien when he was in a relationship with Kagami and tried her hardest to be happy for them. Gabriel would do anything to force him into the relationship he wants for him, and even that is more him selling his son off for his goals than any genuine desire for something good for his son.

Marinette has made one, massive mistake in choosing to lie to Adrien (I don't think her lying to the world was a mistake). And yet even then she had so many other competing priorities. It wasn't just her involvement in Gabriel's death she was trying to hide. It was an effort to prevent blowback from coming for her friends. It was a decision born of a desire to not have Adrien blaming himself for his mother's death. It was a decision born of a desire to allow him the normal life she so desperately wants.

“Let me just-

There we go~

Cuddles?”

She’s technically a monster too. She might not look it at first glance and seems mostly human, but it isn’t deniable even despite her looks compared to the other monsters. 

But she realizes that she is still not like the rest of the monsters either and may not have entirely the same experiences as them, which is why she feels that she might not belong to or deserve to go to the support group. By sometimes passing as human, she feels she isn’t worthy of the space. 

The sad reality though is even though she’s mostly human in appearance, that tail she has undeniably would still cause her some struggle. Humans are still gonna look at that tail and think she’s a freak. There are probably still accommodations she needs because of the tail that she may still struggle to have access to. Even if it is just the tail, that tail is still enough to other her from humans and cause her problems and discrimination. 

She should get to belong in that support group even if she gets told she’s not monster “enough”. She still shares some of the same struggles as them that are caused by being a monster, and needs support. 

Not sometimes. Not until the next update. Always. They proved it with math.

Even with perfect training data and unlimited computing power, AI models will still confidently tell you things that are completely false. This isn't a bug they're working on. It's baked into how these systems work at a fundamental level.

And their own numbers are brutal. OpenAI's o1 reasoning model hallucinates 16% of the time. Their newer o3 model? 33%. Their newest o4-mini? 48%. Nearly half of what their most recent model tells you could be fabricated. The "smarter" models are actually getting worse at telling the truth.

Here's why it can't be fixed. Language models work by predicting the next word based on probability. When they hit something uncertain, they don't pause. They don't flag it. They guess. And they guess with complete confidence, because that's exactly what they were trained to do.

The researchers looked at the 10 biggest AI benchmarks used to measure how good these models are. 9 out of 10 give the same score for saying "I don't know" as for giving a completely wrong answer: zero points. The entire testing system literally punishes honesty and rewards guessing.

So the AI learned the optimal strategy: always guess. Never admit uncertainty. Sound confident even when you're making it up.

OpenAI's proposed fix? Have ChatGPT say "I don't know" when it's unsure. Their own math shows this would mean roughly 30% of your questions get no answer. Imagine asking ChatGPT something three times out of ten and getting "I'm not confident enough to respond." Users would leave overnight. So the fix exists, but it would kill the product.

This isn't just OpenAI's problem. DeepMind and Tsinghua University independently reached the same conclusion. Three of the world's top AI labs, working separately, all agree: this is permanent.