Thetinytimeturtle - Cassiopeia The Time Turtle

I love Isabella so much for this.

She knew she couldn’t save every child in the farms until her rascals came back to free them. But she made sure to save as much as possible. Not only dropped the number of shipments (from around 36 in two years to god knows what), but the children also got to live longer, since their scores got up, too. It’s such a big brain energy to undermine the higherups guidelines and helping her children in her own way, while acting inconspicuous and gaining a better status as Grandma.

Conclusion: Isabella really is an Iron Lady. After all, she’s hardcore.

If you have achieved something, please remember to observe a mandatory period of basking in the warm glow of your achievement like a lizard on a stone, lest you teach your brain that effort is futile, actually, because it didn't get to enjoy its happy chemicals, so, naturally, nothing good ever comes of trying. (And no, avoiding punishment is not a reward!)

I recommend, like, 5% of basking time in relation to whatever time you invested into achieving the thing minimum. And if you can't make your own bask, friend-brought is fine (= tell your friends!).

Thinking about old men and women. Specifically the ones who frequently wake up at 3 am soaked in sweat and/or blood.

Apparently a part of the reason why farmed bees stay in the beehives that humans build for them is because the farm hives are safer and sturdier. I don't know how a busy Discord server's worth of bugs that only have one brain cell each would logically conclude that the humans protect them from outside threats, illness and parasites, but if I understood right, the bees would be free to move away and build a new nest somewhere else any time they'd want, and they simply choose not to.

You know how in almost every culture, people have some concept of "if I sacrifice something that I made/grew/produced to the Gods, they will ward me and my harvest from evil"?

So, in a way, don't the bees willingly sacrifice a part of their harvest to an entity not only far greater than them, but nearly beyond their comprehension, in exchange for protection against natural forces wildly outside of their own control?

So tell me, beekeepers, what are you to your bees, if not a mildly eldritch God?

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(based on a scene in chapter 70!)

Rewatching the Dark Tournament saga, and feeling so much appreciation for Genkai and her arc. I just got to the part where she gives Yusuke her orb. In the discussion they have before it, she tells him she never thought of herself or her power as heroic and never needed that excuse to grow or become more powerful. It just was and it was hers and that was enough.

And add to that her whole juxtaposition with Toguro. She doesn't regret aging, she has embraced it - she has embraced her life's natural progression. And how hard it must have been for her to see the man she loved go down such a different path. Plus she deserves way more credit for not stomping everyone into the dirt for how they kept calling her ugly / whore / hag etc but I digress

Maybe it's just from getting older, but my appreciation and love for her just grows each time!

Sorry the quality sucks I’m on mobile

I love this manga so much ~~

"Little flowers, fleeting ancient wishes..."

Sometimes you've gotta take received wisdom in tabletop RPG design and do the exact opposite on purpose, just to see what happens. I've got a vaguely superhero-adjacent RPG I'm working on right now that flips the whole "the player characters' actions should never result in an NPC's death unless that was their explicit intention" thing turnways and makes it literally impossible to engage in physical coercion of any kind toward another person without some non-zero likelihood of accidentally killing the target in the process, and let me tell you, it's resulted in some fun "okay, how are we going to do this" conversations.