*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade*
hey….
nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.
it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.
*leaves the way i came*
This is possibly the healthiest post I’ve seen on this site
Trains are expensive. Given that RNJR was doing odd-job-Hunstman/tress work they were probably paying their way across the continent. We did have two homeless people, a runaway, and a kid with seven sisters on this adventure, none of them are rich. Farmboi only had to pay for the train, not a way across the ocean.
This was an issue going into the volume. Minivans exist in this world. The only reason for them to walk is because they’re a bunch of broke kids with half a plan.
“Farmboi made the same trip in an hour!”
It’s entirely possible that Farmboi lived an hour away from Mistral. A single farm that far from society, not attacked by Grimm, makes sense they’re within running range. It would explain why a train would work, and why the tracks wouldn’t be destroyed by monsters. RNJR had half a continent to cross.
“Why didn’t the boat go to Mistral?!”
The Kingdoms were placed in landmarks with defensible geography. They’d need creeks and such to go inland and supply the Kingdom, and they have that massive pond to sustain fish, but a running body of water big enough to fit an ocean faring ship would be a considerable weakness in that defense. We literally saw a sea creature that fires lasers and could take sustained cannon fire. Smaller flows of water, with no chance of larger Grimm, makes way more sense.
Remember this the next time you want to complain about GMO’s, we may not have done it in a lab but they still are that.
Bananas looked like lemons wtf
Isn’t this more of a combination of selective breeding and GMOs? Not just GMOs?
Yes. But people talk about how GMO’s are “unnatural”, yet for centuries humanity has been exploiting mutations in animals and plants to produce food for themselves.
GMO’s are simply the process of inducing these mutations reliably.
People hear “Lettuce being modified with scorpion DNA” and think that we’re now eating scorpions. But, in reality, they’re taking a tiny bit of scorpion DNA and splicing it into the plant. Why? So the plant will produce poison that is not harmful to humans but will deter insects, reducing the use of pesticide, which CAN be harmful to humans and the environment.
GMOs are producing rice that can survive flooding, which makes rice more reliable yields and will prevent food shortages in poor nations that rely on said crops for staple food.
GMOs are also creating spider-goat hybrids. Why? So we can splice web production into the goat’s udders. We’ll be able to spin huge quantities of spider silk, enough to reliably create spider silk cables and ropes, which have more tensile strength than steel.
I for one am glad I live in a time where watermelons aren’t giant tomato abominations
I think it’s really insulting that westerners talk about communism. y'all had it too good and now y'all are being spoiled little brats. let me talk to you about the women and men executed and how their bodies were thrown out of trains and the basic food being rationed so harshly that we actually started black markets for fucking sugar and oil and let me talk to you about how they used to spy on everyone, we had mikes in our homes, how they made kids rat on each other and how controlled the education was. lights went out at 7. my parents used to study by a candle. everything. was. controlled. everyone. was. oppressed.
It happens every night I watch my world ignite But there’s no waking from this nightmare The stage is always set The place I can’t forget The hidden eyes that I can feel there
My eyes are opened wide I’m racing to her side there’s nothing that I won’t do for her
but this is not a dream my mind repeats the scene I can’t forget it and it’s torture
That was before but not anymore I’ve left it behind
As much as I’ve lost Once I’m across I’ll find(?)
I’ve found the strength to grow so much more A whisper to a roar No more crying It’s time for me to soar
I feel like I’m finally unbroken I feel like I’m back from the dead
My strength back, recovered it’s glowing
Out of my way cause I’m armed and ready! (Armed and Ready) Ready! (Armed and Ready!) I’m Ready! (Armed and Ready!) Ready! Ready! (Armed and Ready!)
Did not belong too well My time a living hell The night my enemy would conquer
But now I’ve been set free Lived through the tragedy You’ll wish you killed me now I’m stronger
I am the Golden one Who burns just like the sun Next time we meet is your disaster
I’ll bring the punishment This time won’t be lament Revenge my happily ever after
My misery My agony Shot me too far
The pain I went through Left me with a new born grasp
I live my life like every day’s the last No living in the past
Best Day’s ever!
I’m never looking back!
I feel like I’m finally unbroken I feel like I’m back from the dead
My strength back, recovered it’s glowing
Out of my way cause I’m armed and ready! (Armed and Ready) Ready! (Armed and Ready!) I’m Ready! (Armed and Ready!) Ready! Ready! (Armed and Ready!)
Call me sweetheart and I’ll tear you apart Just call me sir
Try to resist What’d you mean by your fist I burn
Just look at the fire in my eyes And bring my strawberry sunrise
It was you who began it now you’re saying goddammit
Next time there’s no compromise
I feel like I’m finally unbroken And now I’m back from the dead
My strength back, recovered it’s glowing
Out of my way cause I’m armed and ready! (Armed and Ready) Ready! (Armed and Ready!) I’m Ready! (Armed and Ready!) Ready! Ready! Ready!!! (Armed and Ready!)
