𝘈𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦, 𝘸𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘠𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘺𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘣𝘺 𝘛𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘬𝘶 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘩𝘢. 𝘛𝘰 𝘱𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺, 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘠𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴.

Space Battleship Yamato is one of the most influential anime of all time, preceding not only Evangelion but other landmark science fiction anime series such as #Macross, #Gundam, and Galaxy Express 999.

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Anno himself broke the news on Sunday at a special screening in Tokyo of the first episode of the original Space Battleship Yamato on the exact date and time of the 50th anniversary of its original airing at 7:30 p.m. on October 6, 1974.

𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢 [𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘰’𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘰] 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘦 𝘢 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 𝘠𝘢𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘺 𝘝𝘰𝘺𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘏𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘫𝘪 𝘕𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘬𝘪.

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There aren’t many #anime directors more famous than #Evangelion creator #HideakiAnno, but it’s been a while now since Anno made any anime.

After a three-year absence from animation, Hideaki Anno is coming back to help a new project for one of Japan’s most beloved science fiction series, Space Battleship Yamato.

🎉

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The Federal Parliament passed legislation in December that outlawed nationwide performing the Nazi salute in public or to publicly display, or trade in, Nazi hate symbols.

A Melbourne magistrate found Hersant guilty, dismissing defense lawyers’ arguments that the gesture wasn’t a salute and that the ban unconstitutionally infringed upon Hersant’s implied freedom of political communication.

Hersant is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday and could face 12 months in prison and a fine.

A self-described Nazi on Tuesday became the first person convicted in the Australian state of Victoria of performing an outlawed Nazi salute.

Jacob Hersant, 25, gave the salute and praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in front of news media cameras outside the Victoria County Court on Oct 27, 2023, after he had appeared on a unrelated charge. It was six days after the Victoria state government had made the salute illegal.

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As usual #PennyArcade nails it 🤣

#CoSoGaming

And this 😂 🤣

Rendering the use of my mouse impossible 😆

And then he does this 🤣 😂 😆

The origin of the Tauri Keyboard Protection Device (TKPD) is a modified plastic baseboard air deflector. It works perfectly.

#CatsofCoSo

My problems were, and remain, primarily caused by other people and their unknown, unresolved, unmanaged psychological, emotional, and spiritual issues.

Learning about and adopting #stoicism in middle school and high school helped me navigate a world filled with unhinged and unwell people who lack self awareness and the capacity to care about what that does to everyone around them.

The world won't change because people don't care to.

Protect your peace by any means necessary. ❤️

My mother gave me my first journal so I could "write down all my problems", but I spent the next 30 years writing about, analyzing, and understanding everyone else's.

And before you ask ... no, my mother had absolutely no idea what I meant by what I had said. She thought I was being flippant and rude and she had no idea why I'd say such a thing when she was asking me for help. Of course she had no idea. She would never have any idea and that was the whole point.

Bullies always forget. Abusers always forget - or they remember and gaslight you so you don't remember.

The best gift my parents ever gave me was a toy typewriter and a journal.

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𝘐'𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭. - Maya Angelou

Is that petty? Of course.

Especially since I was in college by this point and I had long since done the work I needed to evolve past all the abuse and trauma I suffered growing up.

But it was BECAUSE of all that work I had to do and all of what I had to survive growing up and even through my years at college that I wasn't going to give her anything of the knowledge and wisdom that she tried to belittle me for.

She didn't deserve anything from me and she never earned my respect.

When my brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia I was in college. He was really not well. He was very unstable. He had to be institutionalized for a while.

My mom was really lost and confused at the time and when I was home on one break she came into my room crying and wanted to talk to me about schizophrenia to get a better understanding of what it was because she knew I "had an interest in psychology"

And yes, I told her to go find a white person to ask about it.

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In the first part of this thread I quoted my mom saying she also thought about things but that those things were "important" as opposed to me reading things that were "not important". The suggestion being that me simply wanting to learn about something outside of what I needed simply to survive was "nonsense". But it was also "white nonsense" because it attracted the interest and conversation of white people.

This bothered me for so many years growing up. Bothered me too much.

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When I went to "Black Summer Camp" I experienced brutal bullying both physical and mental from other Black campers simply because I read thick books (Piers Anthony was hardly Tolkien) or because I preferred reading to other activities. My trunk was full of clothes and BOOKS and I got beat up for it. I got beat up for using big words. I got beat up for not liking Black movies. I got beat up for being too close to whiteness and liking "white things" like violin and Hitchcock movies.

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It was weird but I got the impression that the more "educated" I became, the more my mother seemed to associate this with "whiteness".

My mother was valedictorian of her college class but to her education was a means of escaping the south, of escaping oppression, of having freedom and opportunity as a woman. Being educated was just a means to obtain a piece of privilege white people had.

Me educating myself on my own, for fun, for joy, was - to her - "white energy"

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All of my friends were white. All of them. Black people didn't like me, they still don't. I spent time at white people's homes ... went camping, fishing, to concerts, to the opera with white people. First Broadway play? White friend's family. First fishing trip? White friend's family. First opera? White friend's family. First D&D? White friends etc. My parents were not interested in "white things" so I didn't get exposed to them and it was especially rough because those were things I liked.

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But it became really obvious to me that she was really threatened by the amount of time I spent talking with this white woman at this pool party. This woman spoke to me like an adult, she wasn't mean or condescending. She was actually the first ADULT to speak to me the way she did and we had a great conversation the ENTIRE 5 or 6 hours I was there. No adult had ever spoken to me for that long or even cared about what I had to say and what a shock, it was a white woman.

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