human-in-training

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I thought you might… slimes lurk around these depths looking for people to poison! I heard they split in two after they die… if you’re poisoned, you won’t be able to block or riposte. But if you’re in a pinch, a chili pepper will fix you right up! I think I have some chili pepper (x6) around here somewhere…

Take one! I wasn’t using them anyway.

Number of psychologists per 100,000 people

assassins of assassins of assassins

harley davidson

first kiss

sorry for the wait

critical point

you’re a father now

believe in yourself

pantsu daburu feinto

come back kintama

vegeta found dead in gintama

yeah. seita’s fine

surreal world anime

it’s not zura-chi

HOT and COOL party

humanboarding

dad is dangling from dad

the surgery was a success

the bushes next door

whoa! sm*gma has died

matsuko

free him

we’ve come to cheer you up

the tip is a little moist

doesn’t it stink?

that thing hanging from your ear

fashion

big mood

goodbye, leader

shadow juice squirt

a hundred times stronger

queen of kabukichou

secondhand embarrassment

a riddle wrapped inside a mystery

watch your back out there

his suction is unbelievable

unstoppable force meets immovable object

the power of the Force

happy new year

piece of curry

forest specters

fenis monja

same brain cell

fury road

elizabeth is still eating

love really is deep

hell on earth

pusuke’s funeral

sandaime ikazo

magical banana

world’s biggest idiot

lady boomerang

Let’s say you need an outdated queer theory textbook that uses biphobic and cissexist rhetoric for your gender studies thesis, but you don’t particularly want to own that book.

Let’s say you need a primary source to strengthen your argument to your college as to why a certain political figure does not deserve to be a speaker at your graduation because they perpetuate hate speech.

Let’s say you and your friends want to hateread a book by your least favorite author but you don’t want to give him your money.

And I found one in the college library.  An original slave-owner’s apologia from eighteen hundred or so.

Nasty stuff.  But studying the mechanics of evil is a useful pursuit.  One that has relevance in today’s world, certainly.

(My African-American Studies professor thought so too; he gave me an A.)

The point being, no matter how bad a book is, there is value in preserving it—if only to demonstrate, “This, this right here, this is a bad thing.“  Mein Kampf?  Worth picking through to note the psychology of a depraved leader.  (Did you know that Hitler framed every damn thing as a war, including farming, which he characterized as wrestling food from an unwilling land, or some such bullshit?  Might be a characteristic worth paying attention to.  Be cautious about leaders who use “war” rhetoric for things that aren’t actually wars, such as … oh, to pull an example out of a hat, how about “drugs.”)  Slavery apologia?  Leans heavily into Biblical justification, from the one I read, so maybe, just maybe, we should examine Biblical justifications very carefully.  Even the worst stuff teaches us things.