I Feel Like It Would Be Really Funny If Yuu Was From Australia And Recounted The Large-ass Terrors That

I feel like it would be really funny if Yuu was from Australia and recounted the large-ass terrors that are over there because not only!! would it make Yuu impressive for having to deal with them regularly, it'd also explain why they're so nonchalant about all the phantoms and ghosts and stuff.

Like... have you SEEN the spider rain??? One singular phantom is NOTHING

Luo Bingge, if he ever came to the modern world, would become weirdly fascinated and disgusted by Rasputin

welcome everybody

I am Muhammad Imad Abdel Latif Sharab

First, after an aggressive war on Gaza City and its revival, we were displaced from our 3-storey house in which I and my family of 3 members live.

My father's family consists of 8 members

My grandfather, may God have mercy on him, was martyred by occupation aircraft on 12/14/2023.

The one who was martyred while he was leaving the house to check on our house next to him, which could not be reached due to a brutal enemy who does not differentiate between anyone in death, went out to check on our house, which we were not in because of my displacement to Rafah, me, my father, and our families due to the intensity of the fighting in Khan Yunis, and after that A few days ago, our store in which my father and brothers work was bombed by occupation aircraft. He was working to gather his strength from it and meet the needs of our house, which no longer exists due to the bombing. We ask you to help and contribute, even if just a little, by donating to us so that we can compensate for a little of what we lost.

Many thanks to you 😢

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If you do not understand the words well, because I am not very good at English, but I ask you to help me with money so that I can compensate for even a little of what I lost, and I am very grateful to you, my dears😢🥺😢🥺😢🥺🥺😢

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Headcanon that Luo Bingge's birthday would be the day he left the Abyss, hear me out

Realistically, we have no idea when LBG's birthday is - and I'm pretty sure even he doesn't know exactly because he was, you know, sent down the Luo River for who-knows-exactly how long. The point is that birthdays are a touchy subject for him, because that implies that someone wanted to bring him into this world. His parents? Did they even want him? Why did they abandon him? Why did he have to grow up like this?

The only positive point is the washerwoman, but even then, that was the best part of his life. When she dies, a part of him dies too, and birthdays become an even more distant part because the only one who truly cared for him isn't even in this realm. Besides, when he comes along to QJP, he's probably thinking along the lines of "I've got no time for birthdays when I could be CULTIVATING"

And of course he gets bullied and everything, and the abyss is the last straw holding him sane. When he gets pushed into it, he gets the confirmation that indeed no one wants him. Even though there was NYY, she was still pampered by SQQ. And if anything, she might not want to see him like... this unless he gets powerful enough to EARN her love. (Aka Luo Bingge has self-esteem issues).

After all that hell in the abyss, when he comes out, he's no longer that white lotus, the one who believes in the good in everyone and that hard work will always pays off. No, he is now fully blackened and renewed with a new goal in mind: to make everyone pay and go down in history as a someone. He feels as if he found his true purpose in life, and god he is going to fulfill it. For once, he celebrates his birthday - not as the day of his physical birth, but of the person who he believes he must be and the person that was something he could never dream of. When Luo Bingge fell in the Abyss, Luo Binghe the sheep died and Luo Bingge, demon cultivator and tyrant, was born.

Also, it makes for a great tragic story when trying to wife up someone, and LBG fully intends on manipulating it to serve his purpose.

But sometimes, just sometimes, he dreams and thinks about the life before it. What would it be like if... if...? However, he promptly soon dismisses it because the past is the past. He cannot change it even if he wanted to. All he can do now is seek vengeance upon it.

'No Longer You' is such a good song and in this essay, I will Ok, but jokes aside, there's so many things I could pick apart about it. Like, the whole self-fulfilling prophecy?? Ody, dude, the 'man who is haunting' is you, we just can't tell you that for the plot. Literally. However, I also find it really interesting due to the chorus at the end. Cus like yes, we now know it's "Siren song, scylla throat, mutiny, lightning bolt, and poseidon! kill all the suitors for love", but when we were first listening to the song, we had no f-ing clue what they were saying. For all we knew at the time, it was random gibberish or just some nifty vocalizations. But now looking in hindsight, it seems a lot more obvious. And I think it's rather poetic, because isn't that the exact same thing that happens in all self-fulfilling prophecies? They were spelling out what the future was going to be like for Ody. Ody clearly is that man who is haunting. We just can't see it now.

I think it's really interesting how pride is shown throughout Epic. Like with the conflict between ruthlessness and mercy, the idea of pride itself is also fought over within the musical. While it allows for the men to fight through the war (as seen in The Horse and the Infant) by showcasing how they aren't going to die laying down. Pride, in a sense, gives people the will to fight and in some cases, the self-dignity to stand up for what they believe in, it also provides the question of when is pride too much? For example, I feel like I can argue that the reason for Odysseus basically DOXING himself was due to his pride being wounded. Even though the cyclops would've had to think about that day regardless or not he knew Odysseus's real name, Ody still yelled out their name. Why? Because his pride was wounded for losing his men. This was an act of vengeance, the "aha, I have bested you" kind of moment. And Ody wanted the cyclops to know that. It could also be seen as an act of rebellion against Athena, because while Ody is still believing in mercy whenever possible, I kinda don't think Polites meant to spill out all your personal information like that. In either case, Ody is letting his pride take over his rational functions. Again, pride is mentioned in Thunderbringer, pretty obviously too. I mean, "Pride is a damsel in distress" is a pretty banger opener. As useful or hurtful pride can be, it's an impermanent thing. After all, pride can be stripped down once you "apply all the pressure". Additionally, when Zeus asks Ody to choose, it's pretty obvious that Zeus, Ody, and even us the listeners know who Ody is going to choose. Why? Because Ody has said it time and time again: the reason for his fighting, the reason he continues to draw on his well of pride, the reason he is still standing is solely from the desire to see his son and wife again. Yet that pride that keeps him going is also being stripped away as Zeus talks to him like a misbehaving child. Unlike in the Trojan War, in front of Zeus, pride is nothing. I might just be rambling, but I find it fascinating how many nuances there are in Epic. Can pride be a good thing? When can it be a good thing? And how much pride does it take to cause your downfall? If you're still reading this, thanks so much lol. 11 more days until the Wisdom Saga!!