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  • tetris11@lemmy.mltoComic Strips@lemmy.worldCleaning
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    3 days ago

    I used to cycle 40km a day to get to work, do solid work hours with no distractions, get praised by my boss for my efforts, come home and spend quality time with my ex, and we’d clean the whole damn apartment every Saturday morning, basking in the afterglow of the shining surfaces for the rest of the weekend where we’d go for nice hikes or watch movies.

    I work from home now, where I work longer hours because I’m watching cartoons at the same time which splits my focus, developing health problems because of my lack of exercise, and my lonely apartment is in dire need of TLC because of this one simple fact about myself:

    I need structure, and an audience. I crave it. I will happily clean, but never for myself. Those people who join cults for a sense of purpose and belonging? I’m their #1 customer.





  • This is a world that has seen 4+ world wars in a short period of time, mostly fought by teenagers and children. Pair that with the events of what fox demon did to konohona, and you can understand the sheer loss and battle fatigue that surrounds the generation immediately preceding Naruto’s.

    Peace between clans is an entirely new concept, and Naruto is growing up in a world that sees him as a monster of the past, an explosion waiting to happen to once again destroy them and their loved ones.

    Naruto therefore grew up quite lonely, friendless, parentless, seemingly unloved by his own people, on the fringes of soceity, pushed away for the mere crime of his existence, for reasons that are initially completely unknown to him…

    … and yet despite all this, he never gives in to bitterness or despair. He gets pushed over, ridiculed, bullied, shunned, and yet each and every time, he picks himself up and fights to be acknowledged as an equal. Not better, not worse. Equal.

    He comes across as stupid and superficial, but this is a kid who understands very well the deep numbing depths of loneliness that can shape one’s actions, and seeks to remove it from everyone he meets, friend or foe.

    That’s why I always root for Naruto. He’s an idiot, but he’s everyone’s idiot.




  • See, I feel that the slow burns show us the general resentment of the galaxy towards the empire. They show us the cultures that have been suppressed (I recently found at that the striking metal church thing is a quirk of Romania), and they show us some of the more bleak yet sensitive moments of how the characters spend their “down” time. I really like it for its humanistic approach to its characters. No real heroes or villains, just a bunch of people caught up in the tension of the time