mae’s nonsense

im breaking my silence. this line is so so funny to me because if there was ever a candidate for stress induced ibs its byakuya goddamn fucking togami

hey r/waterbottles! i've been wondering how everyone likes to clean their bottles. i personally use a bottle brush, but i've heard good things about cleaning tablets too. anybody have other methods they swear by?

hey r/waterbottles! i've been wondering how everyone likes to clean their bottles. i personally use a bottle brush, but i've heard good things about cleaning tablets too. anybody have other methods they swear by?

AUTOMOD: your post has been deleted because you're so fuckinggg stupid. in the future, please refer to our faq before posting your incoherent ramblings, and make sure to check out our style guide regarding the proper terms for jugs/canteens. cunt.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

there's something about the phrasing here that just strikes me as a little.... something. not ODD per se but just a little. desperate? so, this is before makoto accuses him of having everything handed to him, but we KNOW how he reacts to that. it's something he's genuinely really sensitive about

so like. the usage of "now you understand, right?" and that he's not "merely" the child of modern day nobility. its like. hes kind of setting makoto up to agree with him. because all this bragging in his ftes.... for one, his accomplishments are kind of all he knows how to talk about, because no one previously in his life cared AT ALL about anything else about him. and for two, while he is confident in himself, that confidence is selective and fragile. he has to CONSTANTLY reinforce its existence because it's barely there, like a mirage; true confidence wouldnt need someone to rely on others agreeing that he is confident/smart/accomplished etc. and true confidence wouldnt hinge on largely, things byakuya DOES rather than who he IS as a person

which is i think why its a lot more obvious here than normal. this is about him as a person, not his accomplishments which can be measured by a metric of Good versus Bad. he's also saying "look at my accomplishments. now agree with me that i'm good, ok? i'm not merely the child of modern day nobility. i'm more than that."

it's just a little bit desperate. like he's aching for an answer. like the only way he can concieve of being friends with someone is to show himself off as a Good Product and a Hard Worker and a Smart Ultimate and a Confident Heir. like he needs makoto to agree with him that he's good and worthy and more than just a nepo baby. because if makoto doesn't agree with byakuya then byakuya won't believe it either. he has no sense of internal self worth because all his life his worth was in fact measured by those accomplishments he keeps boasting about

like i do think he is legitimatley trying to get makoto to like him here, especially as the ftes go on and byakuya stops talling about himself and starts tentatively asking about "the 99%." he just doesn't know how to connect with people because he was never taught to, and maybe even actively discouraged from doing so. he wants people to like him he needs people to like him, or at the VERY least agree that he's confident and secure in himself. but if someone (makoto) is repeatedly nice to him.... he starts to get a little desperate. as shown by the fact that he tries to pay makoto to be around him, both in thh and in the ending of school mode (where it is NOT a test, so he was BSing in his fte lmfaaoo)

like. it just feels desperate. because it is, in a kind of subtle way, but it is. he is.