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sonicfanj · 4 years

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Welcome to Sonic Ring Bond

Current Status: Done Draft No.: -- Story Idea: SonicFanJ – Based on the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise Main Author: SonicFanJ Secondary Author(s): Cutegirlmayra Story Expanding Author(s): -- Editors: --

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Chapter Synopsis: The purpose of this document is to concisely provide an outline of the Sonic Ring Bond AU detailing the idea behind it, the setting, and changes from game canon.

WHAT IS SONIC RING BOND

The purpose to Sonic Ring Bond at its most basic was to create an AU to explain why my Amy Rose redesign/reimagining, Rosy the Rascal

would be possessed of Sonic's abilities. While providing a reason for that, it expanded to explain why other characters like Tails and Mighty would also have them in addition to why Sonic's world always seems to be changing.

WHAT IS THE TITULAR RING BOND

The Ring Bond is a use of Rings that Sonic has discovered that allows him to share his abilities with others that he forges a Ring Bond with. His discovery of the ability was more so accidental and instinctual due to his constant interacting with Rings on his adventures. In addition to sharing his abilities with others, Sonic can also use the Ring Bond to perform the Light Speed Dash and temporarily bond with the Chaos Emeralds to transform into Super Sonic. Using enough Rings also allows Sonic to link two distant locations together and perform a one-way warp. This last ability is not unique to Sonic, but Sonic is able unlike most others who use Rings to warp can choose his own destination without aid rather than be left at the mercy of the Rings.

All abilities using the Ring Bond consume the Rings used to activate it, and most are temporary. The Ring Bonds that Sonic forged with Tails, Rosy, and Mighty however left them permanently with Sonic's abilities. No one truly understands how Ring Bonds work either, though Dr. Eggman has attempted studying it and by perseverance managed to imitate it with Metal Sonic. It is unlikely he could repeat the results though.

HOW DOES THE WORLD FUNCTION IF IT IS ALWAYS CHANGING

Due to the nature of the world always changing to where whole land masses could be in one place one day and gone the next, technology has suffered and most of the world barely holds onto early industrialism and air ship technology. Despite this, one technology that is not properly understood is still in use which allows governments and other organizations to keep the world somewhat together. That technology is Ring Gates.

Like the Ring Bond ability that Sonic possesses, the technology behind Ring Gates uses a massive number of Rings to join two locations together temporarily. Unlike the warps Sonic can initiate however, coordinates must be provided for a Ring Gate based on a receiving device. Making an impromptu Ring Gate by simply using enough Rings without Sonic’s knack for it will leave the user at the whim of the Rings on where they will end up. However, how Ring Gate Beacons, the devices that allow coordinates to be set and link most of the known world, work is beyond modern understanding. Despite that, the assembly of Ring Beacons can be carried out with existing technology and is done so to keep the known world connected as best as possible.

HOW ARE THE LOCATIONS OF RING GATE BEACONS DECIDED

The locations of Ring Gate Beacons are determined by agreed upon utility. Cities and towns typically possess Beacons as do places rich with natural or historical resources. New Beacons will not be established however unless a location has been deemed to be connected to a friendly community or possessed of natural or historical value. As new landmasses can appear overnight, the work of adventurers, like Sonic, and the adventurer organizations that back them are invaluable in determining the contents of new landmasses. The most famous of these and the one that Sonic is affiliated with is known as Checkpoint. Due to possessing the technology to make personal Ring Gate Beacons for their members to bring them back to their headquarters at any time, they hold massive sway over governments and other organizations making them both valuable and targeted.

IF THE WORLD IS BARELY HOLDING ONTO INDUSTRIALISM AND AIRSHIPS, HOW DOES DR. EGGMAN FIT IN

As Eggman is proud of saying, he is a super genius scientist, the likes the world has never seen. His genius and intellect has made him the sole possessor of robotics in the world, and as a result he poses a tremendous threat to the world. His time on Little Planet and ability to understand and incorporate the technology of its futures has only made him a greater threat. If not for Sonic's heroics and the ever-changing nature of the world, Eggman would surely have conquered it already. Also, Eggman's pettiness and need to crush Sonic in his pursuit of world domination has also prevented the good doctor from conquering the world.

IF EGGMAN AND SONIC HAVE FACED OFF BEFORE AND LITTLE PLANET HAS BEEN VISITED, ARE ANY OF THE GAMES CANON TO SONIC RING BOND

For the background of the AU, several games are canon, but in a fashion reflective of the AU. The games that are canon to Sonic Ring Bond's background are in universe chronological order

· SegaSonic the Hedgehog

· Sonic the Hedgehog CD

· Tails Adventure

· Sonic the Hedgehog (1991 - 16bit)

· Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (16bit)

· Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles - Sonic's campaign

· Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles - Knuckles Campaign

· (Knuckles) Chaotix

· Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode I

· Sonic the Hedgehog 4 - Episode Metal

The story synopsis for these events will be posted in the document “A History of the Games Herein”.

INTRODUCTION CLEARED Welcome to Sonic Ring Bond, End

#sonic the hedgehog #classic amy #amy rose #rosy the rascal #my redesign #my art #my writing #my au #sonic au #sonic ring bond #ring bond literature

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avanneman · 6 years

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The Code of the Woosters

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The 23 episodes of “Jeeves and Wooster”, a British TV series starring Stephen Fry as Jeeves and a young Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster that ran from 1990 to 1993, are now available via YouTube. If you don’t know who Jeeves and Bertie are, you probably won’t enjoy the series. If you do know, you’re almost sure to have quibbles.

Jeeves, indispensable personal manservant, and his employer, mentally negligible man about town Bertie Wooster, were the supreme creations of P. G. Wodehouse (pronounced “Woodhouse”), the most gifted (to my mind) author of light fiction who ever lived. George Orwell, who wrote an intelligent though ultimately too generous discussion of Wodehouse, explained to ignorant Americans that Bertie was a pre-World War I Edwardian “knut”, a languid, yet somehow charming fellow whose general incompetence somehow makes it appropriate that he should have more money than he can spend.

The fact that a lot of Bertie Woosters got slaughtered in the trenches of World War I somehow did not decrease the market for Wodehouse’s fiction. Wodehouse, who always looked rather determinedly on the bright side of life, at least in public, shrewdly guessed that a lot of people would prefer to pretend that the Great War never happened, and so made the world of the knut even more extravagantly self-indulgent and unreal than it had been in the balmy days when King Edward was still alive,1 creating a world of young men in spats, white flannels and cucumber sandwiches, smart flats and country homes, heiresses and French maids, all of them pure as the driven snow—for Wodehouse’s world is as innocent as the real one is wicked.

What makes Wodehouse worth reading is the wonderful dexterity of both his language and his plots—“musical comedy without the music,” he liked to call it, although few musicals could match the twists and turns of his absurdist plots where everything is first turned upside down—very often due to Bertie’s blundering—and then flipped rightside up again thanks to Jeeves’ brilliance.2 Wodehouse drew heavily on the tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan for both his plots and language, translating them onto the written page. He had a wonderful ability to mix the clichés of formal and colloquial English—ponderous “Establishment English” and English “public school”3 slang, in particular—turning them inside out or leaving them rightside in while placing them in incongruous surroundings, shifting constantly from outrageous overstatement to similarly outrageous understatement within a single sentence.4

When I first saw the Jeeves and Wooster episodes I was disappointed that every line of Wodehouse’s superb verbal stunting wasn’t faithfully replicated on the screen—absurd, no doubt, but, as Bertie would say, there it is. After almost thirty years to collect my thoughts, I find that, so far, my original judgment was a bit harsh. Stephen Fry makes an excellent Jeeves, though there’s often an ironic tone to his supposedly respectful responses to Bertie’s inanities—as though Fry feels the need to let us know that Jeeves knows how stupid Bertie is—which strikes me as lazy and self-indulgent. The real Jeeves, one feels, would be above the need to signal his superiority.

Laurie’s Bertie Wooster is more of a mixed bag. In the first scenes of the first episode, Laurie engages in some horrible mugging, intended to let us know that Bertie’s suffering from a hangover, but if the plot didn’t make that clear, we’d never have guessed. Eventually. Laurie improves, and physically he makes an excellent Wooster, his tall, spindly, eccentric frame making even the most elegant outfit look somewhat ridiculous, and thus serving to ridicule rather than distinguish its wearer.

The trappings of twenties and thirties elegance are very well done, but the Brits, of course, never tire of this. British studios must have roundhouses of puffing locomotives, garages bursting with antique sports cars, taxis, and limos, not to mention immaculately maintained country homes and smart flats. The theme music, a sort of palm court jazz, if that isn’t too rude a term, is quite catchy as well.

The attempts to “open up” Wodehouse’s world are another matter, and an area where devotees are likely to quibble. The series takes us inside Bertie’s “Drones Club,” but the members are depicted as emotionally stunted six-year-olds, while I always envisioned them as emotionally stunted thirteen-year-olds. I ended up bailing on the series back in the nineties for its lack of “respect” for Wodehouse, but if I persevere through the whole thing this time around I may be more forgiving.

Afterwords In the “real” twenties, knuts were better known as upper-class twits or “Bright Young Things.” The current British series The Windsors does a better job taking down the modern-day upper-class twit, because The Windsors deals with shagging and snorting as well as cigarettes and liquor, which are the only sins permitted in Jeeves and Wooster, though The Windsors still keeps it light. For a grimmer touch, you can find a TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, in which all the Bright Young Things are damned to Hell—or at least would be if Evelyn had his way. Variations on these themes can also be found on the once legendary Upstairs Downstairs series, which you can get on Amazon, if not elsewhere, as well as the execrable Downton Abbey—execrable if not indeed damnable—which I ridiculed both here and here.

Back in his heyday, between the two big wars, Wodehouse was the beloved pet of virtually every English writer, from Orwell on the left to T. S. Eliot (officially an American, of course,5) on the right, first because he was so funny and second because he offered no competition to them, despite writing of a world that they all knew never existed.6 The Wodehouse cult endured a great crisis in the early days of World War II when Wodehouse and his wife, enjoying an extended vacation in France, managed to get themselves captured by the German army. They were interned as enemy civilians, and Wodehouse agreed to make a few radio broadcasts for the Germans, in which he explained that his hosts, once you got to know them, proved to be rather jolly chaps in the whole. This naturally enraged the British population, who regarded Wodehouse as nothing less than a traitor.

The intelligentsia can always love an outcast—some more than others, of course—and Wodehouse admirers like Orwell rallied round in an excessive manner, rushing to “explain” that Wodehouse was a political naïf who knew not what he did. I think one can wonder about that. Wodehouse was quite a wealthy man—rarely the mark of a naïf in the first place—and many wealthy people on the eve of World War II feared that a “long war” would inevitably lead to crushing taxation and endless governmental regulation of every aspect of society no matter who “won”. Better to have the whole thing settled and done with, so that, hopefully, we could somehow find our way back to “normality”. Far more illustrious men than Wodehouse—Picasso, Matisse, and Andrè Gide, for example—were willing to make their peace with the Nazis. One must learn to accept that which one cannot change, after all.

Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 until 1911, was the figurehead monarch of a society that was moving rapidly towards civil war (over the question of “Home Rule” for Ireland) when an even greater external crisis intervened. Great Britain, as it then was generally called, was spared a civil war at the expense of about 600,000 dead and an equal number of wounded. On the one hand, there was almost nothing that Edward could do to prevent the smashup. On the other, there was almost nothing he did do to prevent the smashup. ↩︎

Eighteenth century literature featured many plots where, as Orwell (again) put it, the elements fit together like the teeth of a zipper, but the real classic that prefigures Wodehouse is Beaumarchais’ Marriage of Figaro, far better known in the U.S. via Mozart’s opera. Wodehouse no doubt got the idea from Gilbert and Sullivan rather than the “original”. ↩︎

English “public schools” are what we would call private schools. Wodehouse was immensely happy at his school—confusingly known as “Dulwich College”. It isn’t hard to guess from his work that he found the idea of an all-male society revolving largely around sports and adolescent hijinks immensely appealing. ↩︎

Wodehouse came from a seriously “colonial” family, and according to Wikipedia was raised for the first two years of his life by a Chinese nurse. I’ve read (somewhere) that the historian Edward Gibbon was cared for in his first years by a French nurse, and William F. Buckley was initially raised by a Spanish one. Not being exposed to your “native language” from birth can perhaps lead certain spirits to experience language as “naturally” artificial. ↩︎

Wherever he went, Eliot liked thinking of himself as a “metic” (Greek for “resident alien”)—St. Augustine’s notion of the proper role of a Christian while here on earth. I once read an interesting biography of Eliot that collected the opening remarks of addresses he gave, largely in the U.S. and the U.K., in which he would politely but firmly explain to his audience that he was not one of them. ↩︎

Not every writer adored Wodehouse. It’s typical of writers, regardless of background, to think of themselves as aristocrats and identify with the aristocracy, but some British writers, raised in the “Dissenting” tradition, hate everything about the whole country house fantasy. The fact that Wodehouse created a sort of “Disney version” made it no more palatable. ↩︎

#pg wodehouse #Jeeves and Wooster #Jeeves #tv

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rachello344 · 7 years

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RULES: You must answer these 85 statements and tag 20 people

TAGGED BY: @shizuna610

TAGGING: Uh..... @nonbinarylonk @piyo-13 @sukekou @sybilius @dont-touch-my-sons and @ascella-star

Under a read more because 85 questions isn’t that much, but it is quite a bit to scroll past.

THE LAST:

 1. drink: Diet Coke 2. phone call: Mom  3. text message: "pliroy is still the better AU tho haha” 4. song you listened to: "America’s Suitehearts” Fall Out Boy 5. time you cried: Uh... I can’t remember. I’ve teared up a lot lately, but nothing’s really kicked me over the edge  6. dated someone: Nah mate, never  7. kissed someone and regretted it: Can’t regret a kiss you’ve never had *finger guns* 8. been cheated on: That would require a relationship lol 9. lost someone special: Um, lost how? I’ve had several important friendships end, but otherwise... 10. been depressed: Uh today, I think. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if I’m lonely, melancholy, or depressed, but I think there’s some pretty strong overlap. *shrugs* It’s not a big deal. I just miss my roommie a bit, I think. Nothing new.  11. gotten drunk and thrown up: Never. I don’t drink.

 3 FAVOURITE COLOURS: 

12. Blue Violet 13. Yellow  14. Most shades of Blue

 IN THE LAST YEAR HAVE YOU :

15. made new friends: Yeah! Mostly online. I’ve joined three chat rooms for ships I like! (Shoutout to my bros in the Pliroy chat! Y’all rock!) (I’m still too new in the KaiShin and BakuDeku chats, but I appreciate you guys as well!) 16. fallen out of love: Kind of? I love a few people less than I once did, but I’ve never been In Love, technically.  17. laughed until you cried: Lol yeah. SHE’S A WOLF. IN MOUSE CLOTHING.  18. found out someone was talking about you: Uh, not maliciously? But people do talk about me, and I learned that some people even talk about my fic! ^^ 19. met someone who changed you: Not within the last year. Within the last four, yes...  20. found out who your friends are: I haven’t gone through anything especially harrowing, but I do know who I can trust and who my closest friends are. 21. kissed someone on your Facebook list: What’s a Facebook list? (I don’t have a Facebook)

GENERAL:

22. how many of your Facebook friends do you know in real life: I don’t have a Facebook, lol, but if I did they would all be IRL people, not online people.  23. do you have any pets: Yep! A dog and two cats. Plus my roommate has a cat that stays with us haha  24. do you want to change your name: No, Rachel is my name. It’s who I am. 25. what did you do for your last birthday: Dinner with my family and my roommate.  26. what time did you wake up: Uh like 1 and then I took a nap, so I wasn’t really awake until 3 p.m.  27. what were you doing at midnight last night: Driving a friend home!  28. name something you can’t wait for: Uh, next episode of BNHA  29. when was the last time you saw your mom: Looking at her right now.  31. what are you listening to right now: My mom telling a story.  32. have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Yeah, that’s my dad’s name. 33. something that is getting on your nerves: Anti blogs, usually.  34. most visited website: Tumblr and Twitter. 35. hair colour: Dishwater Blonde 36. long or short hair: Short for a girl, and loosely curly.  37. do you have a crush on someone: Nah. I mean Kento Yamazaki is a beautiful man, but no I don’t really crush. 38. what do you like about yourself: I have a lot of perseverance. Even when it’s really hard, I will keep trying. Sometimes it just... takes a while.  39. piercings: None. 40. blood type: I honestly have no idea. Probably some kinda A?  41. nickname: I use “Ra Ra” when I play games online. 42. relationship status: Happily Single  43. zodiac: Aquarius 44. pronouns: She/Her  45. favourite tv show: Uh, right now, probably BNHA  46. tattoos: None 47. right or left handed: Right-handed  48. surgery: None 50. sport: I’m not active now, but I used to fence and ice skate (neither competitively). I mean, I’ve played most sports, but those were my faves.  51. last vacation: My family and I all went to Huntington Beach!  52. pair of trainers:  Uh, like how many sneakers do I own? Like 3 pairs, because I need them for work. Unless you count Converse, in which case there are significantly more.

MORE GENERAL:

 53. eating: I just ate pasta  54. drinking: I just had a Diet Coke  55. I’m about to: Work on fanfiction ^^  56. waiting for: KS chapter and BNHA episode!! 57. want: to finish SOMETHING  58. get married: Unlikely, but not impossible. I’d be down to marry one of my best friends, but mostly for tax benefits and household expense convenience.  59. career:  Student, and I work at the school’s library.

WHICH IS BETTER:

 60. hugs or kisses: Hugs 61. lips or eyes: Eyes 62. shorter or taller: Taller  63. older or younger: For boys, older (though no more than 5-8 years older); for girls, a little younger or older (like a year younger or the same upper limit above) 64. nice arms or nice stomach: Arms  65. hook up or relationship: Relationship  66. troublemaker or hesitant: It depends. I like confidence and kindness and comfort. Probably troublemaker, but not necessarily.

HAVE YOU EVER: 

67. kissed a stranger: No  68. drank hard liquor: No 69. lost glasses/contact lenses: I would not survive if that happened. I would be unable to function without my glasses, so no. I’ve never lost them. 70. turned someone down: Yep. Twice. Once in high school and once in college. Both of them were extremely uncomfortable situations, lol I can explain more if anyone wants to know, but it’s a bit too long a story to fit into this (both are, tbh) 71. sex on the first date: No. 72. broken someone’s heart: Uh, yeah, I guess at least once? 73. had your heart broken: Yes, but not romantically. 74. been arrested: No, but I’ve gotten a parking ticket before. 75. cried when someone died: Yeah. 76. fallen for a friend: *shrugs* Kinda? The line between “I love you so much, you’re my best friend” and “I’ve fallen in love with you” is difficult for me to navigate. I just roll with it.

DO YOU BELIEVE IN: 

77. yourself: Yeah, most of the time.  78. miracles: I don’t disbelieve in them?  79. love at first sight: More in fiction than reality. 80. Santa Claus: Of course! People who don’t believe in Santa don’t get presents from him! ;D  81. kiss on the first date: I would have to trust them a lot first, especially for more than a kiss on the cheek or the forehead. Also, that would require me dating. 82. angels: I don’t disbelieve.

OTHER: 

84. eye colour: Hazel  85. favourite movie: The Princess Bride or Love Actually

#rachel answers #shizuna610

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breezyfeather · 7 years

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I Am My Mom Predictions

What if in I Am My Mom, Steven and the Crystal Gems realize that there's nothing they can do to save the citizens of Beach City from Homeworld? I mean, they barely escaped the Zoo with Greg, and that was when they had a ship to use. What if Steven, being Steven, is so messed up about it that he does the only thing he thinks he can in order to save them? What if he goes up to the Diamonds and tries to bargain with them, and when they don't listen, thinking him to be just a normal human, he throws his shield at them, and then they realize that Steven is Rose Quartz, and this time he doesn't deny it, like he has with Jasper, Bismuth, and Eyeball? He sees that he can play the part of Rose Quartz as a means to an end, so he says, "I am my mom," instead of "I'm not my mom!" like he's said over and over to each of them.

The stress of being Rose's son, who now must shoulder both her mistakes and his own, is really weighing on him. It started in An Indirect Kiss, then continued in Joy Ride, Steven Floats, Bismuth, Back to The Moon, Bubbled, Mindful Education, Steven's Dream, Storm in The Room and Lion 4: Alternate Ending. He's struggling; he even asked Room-Rose, "Did you make me just so that you wouldn't have to deal with all your mistakes? Is that all I'm here for?"

In Bismuth, he got the closest he’d ever gotten to reassurance from another gem--and a Crystal Gem at that! Bismuth told him that he could be someone different, that he could be even better than Rose, but as soon as she said that, she rescinded it (”It is you, isn’t it, Rose?”), and all of her advice left a bad taste in his mouth.

In Lion 4, he freaked out when he realized that there didn't seem to be a purpose for his existence, just like he did in Storm In The Room (and these two episodes were really close together, unlike Steven Floats and Mindful Education, which shows the issues are becoming more prominent). He keeps being reassured that he's enough, he's enough, but while in the moment he lets himself be moved by the words of others, the fact that the issues keep coming back shows that he hasn't internalized that yet. He doesn't feel like he's enough, and part of that is the fault of the Crystal Gems and the various enemies he's had to face.

The Crystal Gems have all expressed varying levels of comprehension that he is not Rose, and that they can’t expect from him what they freely expected from her. They all have moments when they realize that he’s a kid, but they also have moments when they view him as something more--like when Garnet and Pearl refused to listen to Steven when he said that there was something outside the Warp Stream, and when they refused to listen to him when he said Peridot had something important to tell them. At the same time, though, they expected him to behave like an adult and make responsible decisions all the time, and never have the time to be a kid. That’s part of the reason he and Amethyst get along so well; they’re both treated similarly by Garnet and Pearl, who have high expectations and little tolerance for failure to meet them.

Amethyst, on the other hand, expects him to be better than her, which is her way of expecting him to be something greater than he is (ironic, considering how she feels about Garnet and Pearl’s ideas about her). Interestingly, she progresses and comes to terms with her self-worth throughout the series. She starts out very self-deprecating, but gradually comes to see what the others do: that she is strong, powerful, mature and able to come through in the clutch. This is helped along by Pearl’s reassurance when she is transparent with her in On The Run, the Crystal Gems’s understanding in Reformed, Bismuth’s treatment of her as an equal, her match with Steven when preparing to fight Jasper, and her eventual identification with Steven about her self-worth.

What I think is perhaps the most important, though, is her time at the Zoo in the Out of This World arc. She finally gets to spend time with Homeworld gems--gems that are DEFECTIVE like she is, no less, who are from Earth and who have been waiting for her. The fact that she has grown in her sense of confidence and then got to meet others who have faced the same odds and won, led her to become so confident in herself that she felt she could give up wrestling, which had been the boost she needed to maintain her confidence.

Amethyst has grown and overcome the issues that Steven still has to address, which is extremely important to my predictions for I Am My Mom. He’s been shown over and over that Rose is better than he is, told over and over how amazing she was, and he has experienced so much doubt that he can even come close to measuring up to what she’s done. And, to top it all off, he’s begun to find out about some of the bad things she’s done, and he’s had to try to process that gems were not as benevolent as he thought they were, that humans and gems died in the war, that so many gems blame his mother for the deaths of their friends and leaders, that she had to make decisions that caused great harm to those with good intentions, and that she’s killed people. Not to mention, he has to deal with survivor’s guilt; he feels that, if he hadn’t been born, the gems and his dad would be happier because they’d have Rose, who they loved, and that he’s just a pale imitation in the face of everything she was.

And on top of that, he’s had to make some questionable decisions out of self preservation. He’s poofed and bubbled Bismuth, sent Eyeball flying out into space, and gotten his father abducted by aliens. He almost crashed a ship flying faster than the speed of light into a space station, and he feels that it was his fault that they almost died. He offered Jasper help and she refused it--instead indicating that she’d rather suffer a fate worse than death than accept his kindness. And, to top it all off, his kindness has been spurned and he’s been betrayed, meaning that whatever happens in the future as a consequence of Navy’s escape, he’s going to be responsible.

This kid has the weight of two worlds on his shoulders and no one even notices. Greater men (and women) have tried to persevere in the face of adversity like this, but in the end, it takes an exceedingly strong person to stand firm in their convictions. This show won’t take the route of the shounen character who always stands up in resolve; it isn’t afraid of delving into the deeper psychological conflicts that come with trauma and real life issues. Steven is going to try to make things right, try to “atone for his mistakes”, and if he thinks he can do that by sacrificing himself, he will.

#i am my mom #steven universe #amethyst #pearl su #garnet su #greg universe #jasper su #predictions #theories #new episode #essay

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kenrik · 7 years

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Shingeki no Kyojin Rave Post...

You know, shipping aside. (Won’t say wars because we know the characters have had enough for that already T_T And I believe we ship and let ship in this fandom! Woohoo!)

I just wanted to say, Attack on Titan has got to be the best manga/anime ever. Give me something better if you think there is one. (I'd gladly read/watch it!)

1. There is no universe more perfect. 2. No characters more incredible - talking about both their human flaws and perseverance. Plus, they are relatable and real!! Not super humans who the fuck you don't know what the hell happened to be so generically heroic. And not to mention, the characters are uber complex! Even the bad guys have their own battles and reasons (which makes total sense! - not some crap childhood quickie backstory). 3. No plot more engaging. It's a perfect balance of logic and imagination. 4. Also, the production team of the anime is unparalleled. Even my parents who have always frowned at me for watching Naruto (to which they based all animes I've watched there after lol) instead of studying, were hooked from the first episode. I love the character designs. I love that they use black outlines for the characters and to add depth to the art. I love that they're proportional lol. And they don't skimp out on the movements during the action sequences - which is just out of this world totally awesome.

You have Levi - what you think would be a typical I'm too cool to care character but damn he is just so human! And it's funny how he's more compassionate than mostly everyone else. Then, you have Erwin who's just incredible. He is a true leader. Although the show always uses the same phrase "throw away your humanity" or sth - it's pretty true. Everyone who's held a position of power has cast aside part of their humanity to get that position. After all, the fact you get into power means there is something you see, something you want changed. It's the most legal way to be a radical. So basically, throwing away the 'humanity' based on the previous status quo. (i.e. today it was horrific to imagine sacrificing 100 lives. Tomorrow, Erwin decides its necessary.) Then you have Eren, who people who don't understand the show call useless. Which he is not!! He's everyone of us who are weak - yet have that ache inside us that calls out to battle; that wants to fight. I guess I just really like him because as a Filipino (or maybe any ordinary critical-thinking civilian) , a citizen who is crushed under the toes of the corrupt government, of the imperialists, and my own brethren - there are just so many inhumane things happening that I have no power to influence. So, I'm forced to the streets to rally with those who see the same. So basically - an attack titan. LOL. Hahaha Throughout the series, just by speaking out - Eren has already influenced so many of his peers. Even Levi respects him. Also Erwin. (I’d talk about my appreciation for all the characters but they’re just so many of them. Give me a character you hate - not the one dimensional background ones like the merchants though... - and I’ll make an appreciation post! LOL)

5. Also - damn if this anime isn't the most forward-looking one. You got same-sex couples. You got a dynamic workplace (LOL) - I mean, the interaction with the elite forces, the mentorship, etc. It's every millennial's dream! (Pretty sure they have avocado toasts too...). You guys should make a meme “Join the Survey Corps, we have avocado toasts.” And they fuck gender stereotypes! (Remember the god awful fight of Sakura and Ino in the genin exams, was it? WTF RIGHT? Imagine living life as a 12 year old girl watching Naruto and Sasuke kick incredible ass. Then - you see the bullshit Sakura-Ino battle. Like - WTF WTF WTF. Way to feed on the gender stereotypes...) (By now, you realize how much I’ve come to resent Naruto. Regardless of what it has become - to which I say it became nothing much more than a petty shounen that had some cool tricks up its sleeve. - maybe I’ve become too mature to appreciate shounen? - I can’t make a shit post on Naruto because of the fans, they’re crazy. Or maybe, I’m unfair for comparing the two? IDK.)

Sorry, but I just really love this show so damn much. It aches that Season 2 is no longer than 12 episodes. I need my Ackerman action!! *insert incredible fangirl pain here* Although I do understand how difficult it must be to produce these episodes. Thanks a ton for the effort. It’s difficult making this universe a reality. And it being done half-assedly (like the live action..... whose existence I refuse to acknowledge), would just ruin it entirely. So really, thanks a ton to the makers.

I hope I hibernate from this fandom soon. I did so after the first season ended airing. And, opening the manga in 2017 left me with a buttload to read. So that was fun.

END.

So, that was my messy rave post. Just had to rave even though nothing much happened in today’s episode.

#shingeki no kyojin #attack on titan #levi #erwin #eren #appreciation post #fanboy #fangirl #rave #post #isayama #hajime #anime #manga #snk #aot #thank you isayama

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a reading of Philippians 2:5-11

This exposition of the famous “Carmen Christi” (hymn to Christ) in Philippians 2 was originally written as part of my rebuttal in my forthcoming debate book with Chris Date entitled Jesus is Human and Not Divine. But my rebuttal had to be cut for length. Even on Date’s own preferring reading, I don’t see that this passage assumes, states, or implies that Jesus is divine in the way the one God is divine. So I had to cut this discussion and focus on more relevant points. But these are my latest thoughts on the passage. I think the majority mistakenly impose Logos-theory-derived ideas onto this early text. Here’s my discussion:

I will now explain how I now understand the much-contested Philippians 2.[1] Many see Philippians 2 as portraying the descent of a heavenly, divine Person to become also human. I side with those scholars who think this passage is about Jesus, the man – not a godman or a god or a divine Person – and his obedience to God during his earthly life.[2]

We should keep in mind some relevant and undeniable facts. First, the event which so many interpreters claim to find here (a divine Person becoming also human) is not a clear theme in Paul’s writings. The closest parallel in Paul’s surviving letters is 2 Corinthians 8:1-15, where he is encouraging his readers to be generous with their money.[3] Nothing in this passage’s context suggests that the sacrifice in question was before his human life. This should make us wonder whether Paul’s point in Philippians 2 might be understood without appealing to a hypothesized pre-human stage of Jesus’s life; the man “Christ Jesus” is mentioned, but there is no clear reference here to any eternal divine Person. Second, just as in 2 Corinthians 8, Paul’s point in Philippians 2 is practical, and does not obviously involve the metaphysics of Christ’s “natures.”[4] Jesus’s humble, self-sacrificing obedience is introduced as illustrating the “mind” (v. 5) that Paul wants his audience to obtain. Third, for nearly all of us, there is nothing in our experience much like the hypothesized decision of the pre-human Jesus to empty himself of something[5] so as to become human. On the other hand, Jesus’s earthly career, as portrayed in the gospels, provides many points of contact with our experiences.[6] In sum, we should wonder whether instead of being a remarkable one-off in Paul’s writings, which, oddly, briefly mentions what should be astounding news if true, and which is altogether not very apt as an example for us to imitate (this alleged descent of a heavenly divine Person) Paul is instead talking about the sorts of faithful obedience we see the man Jesus accomplish in the gospels.

I have defended one such reading elsewhere.[7] But after more study, I now think there is a more compelling reading. Here is the NET rendering, with footnotes added to express my disagreement with a few phrases and to show connections with what I and many commenters believe is a subtext, the famous suffering servant text of Isaiah 52:13-53:12.[8]

5 You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had,

6 who though he existed[9] in the form of God[10]

did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped,[11]

7 but emptied himself[12]

by taking on the form of a slave,

by looking like other men

and by sharing in human nature.[13]

8 He humbled himself,

by becoming obedient to the point of death[14]

– even death on a cross

9 As a result God highly exalted him[15]

and gave him the name

that is above every name,

10 so that at the name of Jesus

every knee will bow

– in heaven and on earth and under the earth –

11 and every tongue confess

that Jesus Christ is Lord

to the glory of God the Father.[16]

“Form of God” (morphe theou) is a unique phrase in the New Testament; it is plausible that it was composed to make a pair with “form of a slave/servant.”[17] In a philosophical context morphe can mean essential nature, but generally it has to do with observable features.[18] More broadly, it can refer to a condition which isn’t directly observed. And we know that Paul uses related terms to refer to moral character.[19] Here the “form of God” is plausibly understood as Jesus’s God-like “manner, demeanor, and behaviour,”[20] or I would suggest, his godly character from which these flowed. Another unseen condition was that Jesus was God’s unique Son, and God chosen Messiah, a king-in-waiting. Jesus enjoyed a unique standing with God his Father who begat him, called him to be the Messiah, and was well pleased with him.[21] This “form of God” couldn’t be the essence divinity, because this one died (v.8), whereas divinity was understood to imply essential immortality, as I showed above.[22]

I agree with Date[23] that “form of God” and “equality with God” are meant here as two descriptions of the same state. My opponent offers no reason, though, why “equality with God” must be taken in a metaphysical sense (i.e. equal in respect of essence/nature).[24] I also agree with many recent scholars that harpagmon in v. 6 is best understood as meaning “something to be exploited.” This has been much contested,[25] and the major translations are divided, but for me the most weighty consideration is not lexical but rather making sense of Paul’s thinking in this passage and in the whole letter. In this book Paul discusses a series of people who chose to lay aside their privileges in favor of self-sacrificial service to others:[26] Paul himself, who lays aside his accomplishments as a Pharisee in order to imitate Jesus’s suffering and death,[27] the believers at Philippi who should lay aside their privileges as Roman citizens in order to embrace their “citizenship in… heaven,”[28] and perhaps also Paul’s colleague Epaphroditus, who presumably left behind a normal life in order to serve Paul and others, nearly at the cost of his own life.[29] In the passage at hand Paul praises Jesus, the greatest of these self-sacrificing servant-leaders, who lays aside the privilege he has because of his special standing with God.

On the reading I’m arguing for here, Paul has in mind Jesus’s earthly obedience to God, his self-sacrificing decision to take on the form/condition of a slave/servant, and he cites this as an example for us to imitate. We already know that the culmination of Jesus’s humiliation is his terrible death on the cross (v. 8), so we would naturally look prior to this in Jesus’s earthly life for something Paul could have in mind in v. 7 – not to an unmentioned “pre-existence” as a “divine Person” who is not a man.

Two incidents immediately come to mind.[30] First, Jesus prays to God in the garden, asking – but not demanding – to be spared from this terrible death.[31] Did Jesus, as God’s beloved Son, have the right to demand a pass? (Perhaps this is why he clarifies that his is a humble and submissive request, not a demand?) The text, of course, doesn’t say that Jesus had that right. But for that idea consider this episode, where Jesus scolds the disciple who tried to use his sword to prevent Jesus’s arrest.

Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, which say it must happen in this way?[32]

Here Jesus seems to imply that he has the right to ask God for an angelic rescue, and that if he did ask, it would be sent. But he is willingly foregoing that privilege in order to fulfill the scriptures, following what he knows to be God’s will.[33]

In sum, Paul picks an example that is relevant to his readers’ lives: the sacrificial, humble, other-preferring obedience of the man Jesus. In response to this obedience God raised and exalted him,[34] and the reader is to remember that we too will be raised and exalted,[35] if we persevere in the faithful, self-sacrificing obedience.

[1] I do this to demonstrate my commitment to New Testament teaching, as it was originally meant (not necessarily how it’s been interpreted by later traditions), even though it is not relevant to this debate, since even on my opponent’s reading, it falls far short of his desired conclusion.

[2] While many English-speaking evangelicals associate this sort of reading with James Dunn (Christology in the Making, 114–21; The Theology of Paul the Apostle, 281–88.), such readings have been held by many recent scholars, both Catholic and Protestant. (Kuschel, Born Before All Time, 243–66.) These have independently arrived at readings broadly similar to those which many early modern unitarian Christians held. (e.g. Farley, Unitarianism Defined, 107–8; Crellius et al., The Racovian Catechism, 119–21.) Date gives the impression that this sort of Jesus’s-earthly-life reading has been decisively ruled out, but this is not so.

[3] “…though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” (2 Corinthians 8:9.) Jesus’s literal wealth and poverty are not the issue here, but rather his example in graciously giving up something, presumably his life, when he willingly went to the cross.

[4] His overarching point is the exhortation to “Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.” (Philippians 2:3)

[5] Heavenly glory? Divine prerogatives? Typical but not essential divine attributes? The exercise of divine attributes? Commenters who take the passage to be about Incarnation are divided here.

[6] Like him, many of us are tested by the death of a friend, family troubles, various temptations, persecution, or clashes between what we desire and what we believe to be God’s will for us. Some of us even face a choice between disobedience and death.

[7] “Trinities Podcast 49.”

[8] As Date points out, some scholars reject any reference to Adam in this passage (e.g. Fee, Pauline Christology, 376, 390–93.) I agree with many other commenters who see some allusions to Adam here, despite the lack of common words with the known Greek versions of Genesis. But nothing in the reading I present here depends on any allusion or reference to Adam in the passage.

[9] As Perry points out, “being” is a better translation here. (“Philippians 2:5-11,” 5.)

[10] “My servant” (Isaiah 52:13); “The righteous one” (Isaiah 53:11).

[11] I think “something to be exploited” makes more sense, for the reason given below.

[12] “he poured out himself to death” (Isaiah 53:12).

[13] The NET translators observe that literally this line is “and by being found in form as a man.” I think “by sharing human nature” is a translation mistake; Paul is not making the point that Jesus (the man!) somehow gained human nature when he emptied himself. Rather, the point is that in this humble state he shared the typical human condition, or at any rate, that Jesus was like other humans. Also, like Perry (3.) and some other translators, I would take “and by sharing in human nature” to be the start of a new sentence which continues in v. 8.

[14] “By a perversion of justice he was taken away. Who could have imagined his future? For he was cut off from the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people.” (Isaiah 53:8)

[15] “he shall be exalted and lifted up, and shall be very high.” (Isaiah 52:13)

[16] Philippians 2:5-11, NET. This compressed and repetitive passage is plausibly seen as pre-composed, perhaps even a hymn which pre-dates Paul’s ministry. In the end an interpreter has no choice but to treat these as Paul’s words. In any case, its vocabulary is plausibly Pauline; nothing in it, despite its rare words and phrases, rules out Paul as the author. (Keown, Philippians 1:1-2:18, 353, 367.)

[17] Perry, “Philippians 2:5-11,” 3–4.

[18] Keown, Philippians 1:1-2:18, 387; Hellerman, “Morphe Theou,” 784–86.

[19] E.g. Romans 12:2 “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed [metamorphousthe] by the renewing of your minds…”; 2 Corinthians 3:18 “And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed [metamorphoumetha] into the same image from one degree of glory to another…”; Galatians 4:19 “My little children, for whom I am again in the pain of childbirth until Christ is formed [morphothe] in you…”

[20] Perry, “Philippians 2:5-11,” 7. Perry points out that according to John Jesus said that “He who has seen me has seen the Father.” (John 14:9) (Ibid.) The “seeing” here is obviously not normal sight (revealing that, e.g. like God Jesus is 5’8” tall) but rather perception of their inward resemblances such as character, wisdom, and intention. As Jesus says elsewhere in this book, his teaching comes from God and he and God are cooperating together in action. (John 14:10, 24)

[21] Matthew 3:17.

[22] Perry also observes, “Commentators who accept that morphe is about what is manifest for seeing maystill consider that the outward appearance is indicative of an inner reality and see an affirmation of Christ’s pre-existent deity. The problem with this interpretative strategy is that it is the man Christ Jesus who is the ‘form of God’, and so the deity which Jesus showed was that of the Father. The ‘form of God’ is what is shown if a human being perfectly fulfils being an ‘image of God’ (Gen 1:26). Thus, ‘form of God’ cannot be indicative of Christ’s own pre-existent deity. What could be seen in Christ was the Father, but this is not just a matter of accident; Paul’s two participles are set in contrast, ‘being…taking’ and ‘being in’ indicates that Christ had in his human nature, and the outworking of that nature, what could be seen about God. The origin of his human nature is explained by the Gospel birth stories, which Paul doesn’t recount. Instead, he has an emphasis on God making his son (Gal 4:4) and it is this making that explains how the Son is in the form of God; necessarily, there isn’t any idea of pre-existence.” (“Philippians 2:5-11,” 9.)

[23] And many interpreters, e.g. Hellerman, “Morphe Theou,” 788.

[24] And to the contrary, Hellerman plausibly argues that “A variety of sources specifically associates the idea of equality with God with the position of a king or emperor, using language similar to Paul’s. And given the centrality of the imperial cult in the social and religious life of the colony at Philippi, it is quite likely that Paul has emperor veneration directly in view in einai isa theo [“to be equal with God”] in Phil 2:6. …the ruler-to-god comparison relates to status, honor, and/or the exercise of authority – not to substance or essential nature. (788–89.) He goes on to cite examples from three second-century sources. He also points out the contrary term in the context “form of a servant/slave,” arguably should be understood in the same ontological or non-ontological sense as “form of God.” Finally, he offers a garment-based argument, which in my view is unconvincing. (“Philippians 2:5-11,” sec. 5.)

[25] See the discussion in Perry, “Philippians 2:5-11,” sec. 3.

[26] I own this insight to Dustin Smith. (Smith, “Biblical Unitarian Podcast 13”; Tuggy and Smith, “Trinities Podcast 268.”)

[27] Philippians 3:4-11.

[28] Philippians 3:15-21.

[29] Philippians 2:25-30. Paul’s colleague Timothy too is held up as a model servant, although no loss or peril is mentioned in connection with him. (Philippians 2:19-23) (Keown, Philippians 1:1-2:18, 375–76.)

[30] In the gospels, self-sacrificing service and humility instead of self-aggrandizement are Jesus’s normal way. We could cite his successful resistance of Satan’s temptations, his foot-washing, and his refusals to defend himself against his accusers, all of which would involve his not taking advantage of his high position as God’s Messiah and beloved Son.

[31] “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want.” (Matthew 25:39; also: Mark 14:36, Luke 22:42.)

[32] Matthew 26:52-54.

[33] Which scriptures? Plausibly these would include the passage Paul has in mind here: Isaiah 52-53. Perry also reads the unusual phrase in v. 7, which he would translate as “being found in appearance as (a) man,” as “Paul’s euphemism for the stripping naked of Christ,” citing Matthew 27:28. (“Philippians 2:5-11,” 20–21.).

[34] Notice that Paul doesn’t in any way hint that Jesus is returning to an exalted state, or that he is worshiped because he is divine. Rather, he is exalted because of his faithful obedience, and he is worshiped because of the position he’s been given, to the glory of God.

[35] Compare: 1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 3:18-22.

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Appearing before The Dramacourt: 20th Century Boy and Girl Eps 5 to 8

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Issues:

Whether it’s reasonable for Young Shim to be such a noob lawyer

Whether the Subway ad was reasonable

Whether Ahreum still has a the romantic mindset of a teenager

Whether it’s reasonable for Jiwon to be distant with his current family

The Rule(s):

No!!

Yes, we’ll let that product placement slip in for this time . . .

Yes!

Of course.

Analysis:

Jubiemon J: These episodes didn’t disappoint me at all and left me wanting for more! Give me more of this drama please! I honestly haven’t been this excited about a drama in ages. (Redrosette knows . . . just how quickly I drop dramas. Ha! I really admire her perseverance!) Seriously though, this drama has continued on with its good writing, music, directing, and acting, etc. I barely have any complaints. My biggest gripe would probably be the work scenes with Yong Shim and her boss…I’ll get to why later.

Fans!!

Relatable fan girling Lol!

Adventurous Ahreum!

Dead! LOL.

Smart Yong Shim

What I really like about this drama is the flashbacks with the present. When a character’s memory is being cued, I see why it is so. I think it’s because the flashbacks only happen when a character sees something or hears something that reminds him/her of something. I vividly remember that scene where Jiwon and his subordinate are talking and his subordinate was complaining about how his father wanted him to marry soon before his dad died. Then we were back to the past, seeing what Jiwon’s dad’s wish was before he passed away. (That scene was extremely touching . . .)

Remembering first love like…

Reliving memories of your first love like…

Hopefully this isn’t as sad as the actual movie

Such a sad scene!

When you end up having to stay in your crush’s childhood bedroom and see a life-size poster of your stepbrother…

Sure, there are a few plot devices that were kind of obvious like the part where Ahreum’s crush didn’t like her back or how Jin Jin would star in We Got Married with Anthony. However, I don’t mind them so much as the actors carried on their parts well and the scenes were still relevant. It’s reasonable that Jin Jin would meet Anthony that way. She’s an actress and he was a popular idol. It was also normal for Ahreum, who has never dated before, to start believing that her crush liked her back.

Trying to make things happen like…

Overall, this drama really is living up to my expectations and . . . I can’t wait till next week!

Analysis:

Issue 1: Whether it’s reasonable for Young Shim to be such a noob lawyer

Jubiemon J: No! I’m super surprised at how Young Shim seems to have never worked in her life, yet she’s 35? I highly doubt she got into law school later because she was depicted as a very smart girl in high school. If she was not rich enough to attend law school immediately, she must have had SOME work experience before landing this job, albeit in any other field, to earn her tuition. She seemed totally lost like she wasn’t even taking notes when he was talking to her about her assignments. She didn’t even ask extra questions to clarify those broad questions like research some case decisions related to this. Okay, well how many years do you want me to go back? When do you need this by? What format do you want the work in? Man . . . so many questions she could have tried to ask . . . except she stood there and just said yes.

I don’t mind her being late a bit if she were an efficient worker. However, it seemed like when the boss wanted to ask her about an assignment, she was scrambling to find it. Okay, don’t you type up your assignments, which is what people do these days? She could have just summarized some findings while looking for her assignment too. Nope, she was just panicking. Sigh..

Is this your first job ever? like ever, ever?

Issue 2: Whether the Subway ad was reasonable

Jubiemon J: Usually I’d be all annoyed at seeing an obvious product placement, but this time, it’s acceptable. The Subway part was incorporated well into the plot. Jin Jin, as a teenage fan girl, was always hanging out at Subway to try to meet Anthony. Jin Jin then confessed that she never did and ended up hating eating Subway because she ate too much of those subways. Then her first We Got Married meeting would be held at Subway, which made sense. It would be a romantic way for them to meet as Jin Jin had always wanted to meet her idol there when she was a young girl.

Issue 3: Whether Ahreum still has a the romantic mindset of a teenager

Jubiemon J: Totally! Ahreum thinks that one little thing like the guy sending her a game invite would mean that he liked her. Anything he did or didn’t do would be a sign that he had a crush on her. Sure, the guy approached her first and asked for her number, but it wasn’t like he led her on later and started flirting with her or what not. He didn’t ask her out as well. Ahreum was just imagining all these things in her mind to paint the picture that he liked her back like how a teenage girl who has never fallen in love with someone would do.

I actually don’t mind it so much that she’d act that way because she has never been in a relationship before. It’s nice that we’ll later see her probably change and get together with the doctor. Haha.

Hot stuff girl LOOOL

Issue 4: Whether it’s reasonable for Jiwon to be distant with his current family

Jubiemon J: Totally! In fact, I think it’s clear that he is sort of the outlier in the current family. His mom remarried because she got pregnant. She had his younger sister and Jiwon also has an older brother. We’ve also seen how close Jiwon was with his biological father and I think in a way, it was hard for him to just accept that his mother would move on with another man. Sure, her mother didn’t remarry as soon as Jiwon’s biological father passed away, but I think she married at a time when he was still kind of vulnerable. He was in his early teenage years, arguably the most rebellious time, so that must have been tough on him. Finally, his mother seemed to really favour Anthony more than Jiwon. Jiwon came all the way back to Korea and then his mother made . . . Anthony’s favourite dish and gave Anthony some of it. She totally ignored Jiwon at that time…..It was later that the step dad gave him some pork cutlets that things became slightly less awkward.

When you realize that your soon-to-be-stepbrother is the idol your crush is crushing on

Awkward family dinners…

Conclusion: Appeal Dismissed.

Rating: 4 = I’ll Give You A Cookie! (Had to deduct 1 point mostly bc Young Shim was too noob of a lawyer…sorry.)

File No: 20th-Century-Boy-and-Girl-EPS-5-to-8 Appearing before The Dramacourt: 20th Century Boy and Girl Eps 5 to 8 ***If this is your first time browsing The Drama Files, please read

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