Sorta close. That’s the Tenrou island arc, and you seem to be mixing up Gray’s and Natsu’s separate fights with the time mage. Natsu never beat Ultear though. (Ultear also wasn’t able to negate Natsu’s magic but she certainly kept him from being able to hit her). Gray is the one who beat her. Ultear was also initially able to negate Gray’s ice make magic by turning his ice into water. However Gray figured out Ultear couldn’t rewind or fast forward organic organisms so he used his blood to create bloody ice and was able to beat her.
There are several times in the series that Natsu does win by saying he’ll breath more fire. Most notably (in my opinion) when he uses dragon force for the first time. It’s fair to remember that Fairy Tail is 100% the power of friendship wins the day style story so some solutions don’t exactly make sense. I always found Gray vs. Ultear to be pretty neat and help explain magic better.
Guys I think I have a false memory and I need someone who's seen fairy tail to tell me if it's a hallucination or not.
I vaguely remember natsu had to fight some girl who had a magic ball that was constantly rewinding time or something and negating his fire breathing bullshit...
And I remember that the solution didn't make sense because it was basically just natsu saying I'll just breathe even more fire...or punch it even harder??????
And I remember at the time I thought it was really fucking stupid.
Because it was brute forcing a boring solution to an interesting battle dynamic, and a classic example of an author coming up with an idea so good that he wrote himself into a corner with it???
Did something like that happen in fairy tail or did I implant a false memory in my head???
Don’t cry wolf when there isn’t a wolf. Even if you don’t care about your credibility, chances are you crying wolf will lower others credibility.
I think it’s interesting that our idea of opposite is two things that are only related because of how contrary they are to one another. A lot of opposites are actually absences or abundance’s of something (light is an abundance of photons; dark an absence). Then most others are either spatial (left; right) or arbitrary (dog; cat). Which brings me to life and death. Of the things we experience, they fall into the spectrum of abundance and absence which leads to a couple interesting questions...
What is the spectrum life and death reside on?
And is life the abundance or absence?
Is it better to report the pornbots as spam or sexual content? As far as I’ve seen they haven’t posted anything yet, but everyone knows they are pornbots.
Sometimes all you can do is breath
This world has a lot of awful stuff and if someone holding a stuffed animal helps them cope, let them hold a stuffed animal. It doesn’t matter how old they are or what gender they are.
Things are hard right now. If something you know will make you feel better (AKA cleaning my room) but the idea of doing it exhausts you and/or makes you anxious and depressed, break it down (AKA get all the trash out of my room). Be kind to yourselves.
Had a wonderful interaction with a Jimmy John’s deliver guy. Was sitting in my car in a parking lot when a Jimmy John’s delivery guy walked in front of my car. He pointed to the front of my car, looked up, and gave me a thumbs up. It took me a second to realize, but my front plate has a picture of the triforce.
If peaceful protests were banned then we would be heading to a point were revolution is necessary quickly. I might be too pedantic about what I mean by rioting. I really mean rioting as more breaking into stores and homes, lighting stuff on fire without concern for safety, involving people who don’t want the be involved (not police or lawmakers or people in those positions of power. Like the random person who was walking down the street at the time). I’ve always been a bit specific about words (like ramifications and consequences don’t mean the same thing). So that’s why I said the Jan 6 RIOT and the George Floyd RIOT. To me the riots are different than the protests and perpetrated by a different group of ideas and often members or nonmembers with more extremist views. Most people won’t riot.
I can see what you mean though about my language suggesting that rioting and anything associated with rioting is bad so maybe the logical step is to ban protests. It’s not something I would have picked up myself so thank you for pointing it out.
I wonder how the prevalence of revolution stories in our (United States) literature and media (hunger games, divergent, etc.) has introduced the idea that revolution is the first thing to do when a system is broken. How has that idea convinced people that rioting may be the correct thing to do (Capitol riot, George Floyd riots, etc.)?
Does anyone else ever feel this pervasive feeling of wrongness? Like not depressed (at the moment) but just that you are wrong in some weird mental sense.