#this was... long

I was so focused on clearing out my to-do list on Saturday that I blanked on posting a study update and a new KotW. 🙈 My bad. I did update my study log, though! And I learned relatively few new kanji last week, so I will save my next KotW for later. Anyway!  

These are some pics of recent notes that I took. I remember when I first started I loathed to write in kana because I thought it would look too horrendous, so I stuck with romaji at first. Thankfully I’m more comfortable now, and actually prefer, writing examples in Japanese (minus kanji I haven’t yet learned). I reached a point, too, where I am finally referencing the katakana chart less and less since I use and see it more in my studies---which I made a nice dent in last week; albeit, a small one. Which is fine by me, since I am happy to make any progress at all when it comes to grammar.

I touched on all the main points in review of how my week went per my study log, but there are a couple things I’ll note here: 

Last year, during my Scandinavian literature class in the Danish section, we had to read this book called "Dobbeltgænger eller Den korte, inderlige men fuldstændig sande beretning om Klaus Rifbjergs liv" ["Doppelganger or The short, heartfelt but completely true account of Klaus Rifbjerg's life] by Klaus Rifbjerg.

I had no clue what I was getting into when starting this book.

I don't know much about the author himself — and despite the title, I promise you, I don't think you will learn much from it either. I think I can recommend reading this book only because it's short, but if you're sensitive... Just be careful.

It made me really really sick. I understand that it was supposed to be grotesque and have shock value, etc. So, maybe I just can't... appreciate it — and someone else will, I don't know.

I don't really want to spoil why exactly it was so bad, in case someone wants to read it and shock themselves too, but I also don't really want to leave this title without any further explanation. So I'll spoil it a little under the cut.

My (slowly more annoyed) response to this is looong so I’ll put it under a read more 

I respectfully disagree? Sure if you’re not enjoying the Joe/Robron story right now that’s fine, you’re entitled to not enjoy something, but we’ve had months of ‘good guy’ Robert and I think they needed to do something to show he can still be snarky and awful, but in a fun way? Like how every now and again they do a story to show Cain’s bad side, and they’re definitely evolving Robert into a Cain kind of bad boy, someone the audience roots for even when they’re doing terrible and illegal things, rather than a straight up villain. Joe is finally a worthy adversary for Robert; his scheming against the Whites got tedious because it was so one sided, they were too gullible and naive, whereas Joe and Graham are the opposite. They used Robert as a villain at times last year, but they’ve redeemed him and vastly changed his role in the show since then, so I don’t think we can say he’s a ‘cartoon villain’ in this plot, especially since we’ve only seen 1 episode of Robert VS Joe, and even from this one episode I think it’s clear that if anyone’s the panto-villain here it’s Joe, using lines like “I’ll make him pay” and targeting Robert for almost nothing. 

How exactly does Aaron look like the village idiot? Seriously I’m so confused how you got to this conclusion? They’re having Robron put up a united front, and when Aaron told Robert to stop winding Joe up, he stopped. Aaron’s pulling the strings with this whole thing really, because if Aaron said “destroy him” Robert would, and if Aaron tells him to stop we’ve already seen that he will. They’re a team, and Aaron being by Robert’s side in this is to show that Joe is going up against both of them. Aaron lets Robert do the snarking for one episode and somehow he’s a village idiot and adding nothing? You’re saying it’s dull, but we’ve seen only 1 episode. You think it’s far fetched, but we’ve seen only 1 episode. You’ve decided the characters look bad in this plot, but we’ve only seen 1 episode.

Personally I’ve seen more than enough conflict about Seb to last a life time, and Robert’s had months of character development with Seb already. Do I want to see more of Robron and Seb? Absolutely, loads more. But you only have to read spoilers to see that we’re getting more Robron+Seb, and I love that they’re going to contrast Robron as loving husbands and dads alongside this feud with Joe, it seems like it’ll show the complexity of their characters really well. Also Liv’s storyline is unfolding and we know it’ll involve her family, what you’re asking for is literally about to happen.