One More Doodle Of Nomura/Gaia (and Sikorsky) Before I Eep

No doodles today bc I lost my pen for my tablet AGAIN 😵

我笔呢？！怎么又不见了？！

Eh so some music...not before sleep, unless you are me who get anxious if the good-night song is too gentle.

Vocalo-Colosseum. This song for Gaia v.s Sikorsky, Prisoners arc. The fateful encounter LOL.

虽然可能已经说过了，但是请代死囚篇二人初见。

PV here↓

Lyrics:

! ! Urgently ! !

‏today I took my wife to the hospital and the doctor said she needs healthy food, please help me my wife is pregnant I don't want to lose her baby ‏

https://gofund.me/cd14d440

! !

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I've seen a few posts of people from varying us states saying "why is no one talking about x new anti LGBTQ+ bill/law in my state?" and I need you guys to know that unfortunately part of the reason you're not hearing much about your specific state is that it's not just your state. there are currently 321 anti LGBTQ+ bills in the us

you'll notice that several of these states have more than 10. Missouri and Oklahoma have 31 and 34 respectively. and some of these have already passed or are well on their way. living here has become exponentially more terrifying. and even people in states with 0 bills should be worried because they are absolutely not going to stop at state level legislation, the next step is federal law. it's really time for everyone in the us to be vigilant right now. connect with people in your community and start or get involved in movements for change, starting on a very small local level. I know it gets really discouraging looking at maps like this. you're probably not going to be able to help everyone in every state, but you might be able to make a big difference with your local community

Inspector Yuuya on the scene!

A sort of clothes swap with Inspector Cabanela from Ghost Trick!

A good thread on whether “queer” is a slur and if it should be used or not.

PEDAL requests dump(THANK U FOR BRINGING ME BACK) and some old pedal, why not

Some of you have never shipped a rare pair and it shows.

After refusing a ceasefire 3 times and killing hundreds of innocent civilians (including children) and bombing everything from homes, schools, refugee camps, factories, hospitals, ministries and international media offices to the ground, Israel has finally agreed to a ceasefire.

But not because they agreed to one that doesn’t mean the damaged has been undone, various war crimes has been committed without consequences and excluding all the dead and injured, there are currently 90,000 Palestinians that are displaced as a results of the 11 days bombing campaign. 

Don’t stop protesting and spreading awareness/informations, Israel’s brutal blockade on Gaza is still on-going and Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah are still under the threat of being kicked out of their own homes (the thing that outset all of this) to be replaced with Israeli settlers, Israeli lynching mobs are still roaming and are still attacking, beating and killing any Palestinian they see, the Israeli police/army are still allowing these mobs to do what they want without stopping them, in fact the Israeli police/army is still joining in the fun and taking parts of these mobs that target unarmed Palestinians civilians even if it was in public, but most importantly the US still refuses to condemn all that Israel has done and they still blindly support them.

While this ceasefire may be good news for all the families in Gaza, it still doesn’t change the fact that the violence and the state-sponsored terrorism against the Palestinians is still going on, so keep on protesting, keep on contacting your representatives/government, keep on learning, keep on spreading awareness and keep on boycotting, because as far as we know this ceasefire might have only happened because of all of our efforts.

BABE WAKE UP NEW SINCERELY ME VERSE JUST DROPPED

There seems to be a consensus that Gon wasted his life/potential for meaningless revenge, but was it? I keep wondering if CA was HxH equivalent of the Kobayshi Maru (Aka the Trolley Problem). Pitou was, of all the RG, probably the most capable in terms of balanced nen users. What would’ve happened if Gon had listened to reason? And let adults handle it? Or let Killua accompany him? Not used a nen contract? How many additional casualties would there have been? Was it really meaningless sacrifice?

Hi anon! Thanks for the ask! I don't know if you're the same anon from before, but this is another great question!

I think Gon's choices in the CA arc are tragic, which is different from saying they are meaningless.

*It's a tragedy that a thirteen-year-old kid felt so guilty for "causing" an adult mentor's death that he could come to the conclusion "I'm OK if it all ends after this" (the wording on his nen contract) because he wanted revenge on Pitou / to punish himself so badly.

*It's a tragedy that his best friend (Killua) could sense that he would probably do something gonzo and, in the worst case scenario, it would be a "double suicide" (indicating he did know Gon might throw his life away) AND YET even knowing this, he didn't feel it was his place to step in and stop it.

*It's a tragedy that Netero, Morel and Knov all knew that Gon was revenge-crazed and emotional, but they were so desperate for manpower (in the moment) that they didn't look too hard at his motives, or try too hard to stop him from coming along

*And it's a tragedy that Gon (and Killua) had the most potential for nen of anyone Wing had ever taught, but Gon used all of that potential up at once - although as Ging says, he should have died, so he should actually be happy about the outcome.

So I think when people say "meaningless" what they're really talking about is that sense of tragedy - both the tragedy that Gon almost lost his life, and the tragedy that he was willing to go that far in the first place. It's more the sense of how much was lost than that it was lost for no reason, probably along with the fact that Kite like... was alive... the whole time....

But meaningless is something different, because just as you said, what Gon did really was necessary to stop the ants. You know? The way the story is written, the RG and Meruem are so powerful that it's kind of implied that stopping them will need a miracle - all the pieces need to fall into place just so. What Gon did is a part of the puzzle so, therefore, what Gon did was necessary, and without him there they wouldn't have succeeded.

(Or maybe they would have, but that would have needed another, different kind of miracle - or maybe for Netero to be less selfish and set off that bomb sooner!)

There are two kinds of tragedy, by the way: in classic tragedy, like for instance in Greek tragedies, the tragedy is that the outcome couldn't have been any different from what it was. Because of Gon's reckless nature, because of how the story has been progressing so far where he's done increasingly more reckless things and never had to really deal with the consequences, therefore this final reckless decision was inevitable and that's tragic.

Or, in the more modern version of a tragedy, the tragedy is that things could have gone differently. Gon didn't have to give up his life to stop Pitou, he could have been stopped much earlier. And I've written about this before, but the point where this could have happened wasn't once the palace invasion team was already in East Gorteau, split up to sneak in.

Instead it would have been about a month earlier, when Gon and Killua first escape from Pitou.... Because on the one hand, Netero, Morel and Knov decided that Gon and Killua were old enough for the mission; and on the other hand, they didn't take Killua's account of the RG's power level seriously enough to call in more serious backup, when they still had the chance.

So I think the tragedy, the "meaninglessness," really happens there.

But, on the other hand - I mean, who really would have had the power to stop Pitou anyway? Gon after the nen contract is as powerful as any Hunter in the association. Who can even say if, after calling in the supposed "serious" backup, things would have gone any differently?

Actually it's even darker if you think about it - Knov and Morel essentially agree to let Gon and Killua come along because they underestimate the enemy, the same reason Kite let them come along.

But Netero knows Killua a lot better, and I don't think he disbelieves Killua at all. I think he knows the other reason the invasion team is small - to keep extra people from being caught in the blast if he has to use the rose bomb, in case the plan to use Zeno's power to separate the king and the RGs doesn't come off correctly.

I think he's swayed by Gon's determination - and Killua's, by extension - and he takes the Hunter approach of letting Hunters decide for themselves what they're Hunting, without stepping in to coddle or regulate. (HxH is a bit libertarian like that, in its outlook). And he does that knowing full well they could be blasted to smithereens. That's why in election arc, there's so much talk about reforming the Hunter Association to be less in Netero's (crazy) image.

But anyway, getting back to your question... no, I don't think what Gon did was meaningless at all. "Revenge has meaning, but you won't feel better after you get it" is a slightly different meaning from "revenge is meaningless" and "revenge is meaningless" is a cliche anyway, which isn't really how the writing in HxH works.