So my grandmother passed recently, and I got her will
My birth father was always a piece of shit, always stealing from his mother and ditching his kids whenever he could, I got to his part of the will and
Grammy had the last laugh
This is actually done for legal reasons. If Chad was excluded from the will entirely, he could make the case that he was supposed to be included but was forgotten, and get a big chunk of the estate. By explicitly giving him $1, it shows he wasn’t forgotten so he doesnt have a case.
Anderson was accused of raping a 19-year-old woman at a 2016 off-campus party his fraternity, Phi Delta Theta, threw under his leadership as frat president. During the party,
Anderson took the woman, who was intoxicated after receiving a drugged drink from him, outside to a “secluded part of the grounds” where he then sexually assaulted as while she was gagged and choked. The victim lost consciousness during the attack, at which point Anderson left the scene, leaving her nearly choking to death on her own vomit.
Anderson was initially brought up on for these alleged crimes, and charged him with “unlawful restraint” instead, for which the office recommended three years of probation, a $400 fine, and counseling.
I understand why kids shows keep using the formula of “main guy, comic relief guy, and girl” for their main trio. It’s tried and tested and it’s flexical enough to allow unique characterization while still letting the writers fall back on the cliche dynamics if they want to.
But I’m really really really tired of seeing it.
Then there’s the reverse of it for “teen girl comedies” where the dynamic is main girl, her best friend and non-threatening male friend.
Freudian trio. The main character is the ego the same gender character is the id and the different gender character is the super ego
don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Brian David Gilbert’s Unraveled content on its own merits, but as a serious sexuality researcher™ a good portion of the fun of getting into his videos has been seeing how the overwhelming reaction to this impeccably dressed geek working himself into a frenzy over video games is people getting wretchedly, breathtakingly horny for it
the funniest thing on the mbmbam tv show that never got acknowledged was how in the teen episode griffin only got one teen who clearly only chose him because they had the same name.
Of all the many wonderful, complex characters in Fullmetal Alchemist, I find that Izumi Curtis is one of the most nuanced and original, both within the series and in the shounen manga field. In a genre full of dead mothers and overbearing harpies, Izumi stands apart as a physically and magically talented fighter who is also an “ordinary housewife”; she has, most unusually for a shounen manga female character, survived not only childbirth but also an horrific, failed attempt to resurrect her dead baby.
She is chastened but not broken by the experience. Izumi is the only female alchemist within the series to have seen “the Truth.” Her payment is highly gendered - I take “my organs” (or “some of my insides,” as another scanslation group renders it) to mean her womb and ovaries. And she is the only character whose payment is neither returned nor compensated for with automail or a surrogate body*.
I think it is so gutsy (no pun intended) of Arakawa to have Izumi remain in this state. It feels so radical to see a woman whose worth extends far beyond her ability to give birth. Who lost a child but still finds meaning in her family, work, and community. Who has a fulfilling life but still mourns for and thinks about her lost baby, even after her guilt is assuaged. In another author’s hands, Izumi would be long dead, a woman with no value beyond her womb, existing only to provide fodder for another character’s development. Or she would be a villain, a broken woman madly hungering for what she cannot have. Or she would have her organs restored, and be shown pregnant or holding a newborn at the series end. Instead, Arakawa gives us a female character who is both happy and wanting, powerful and poignant, and presents those dualities as valid, inseparable aspects of a whole.
*Within the context of the FMA universe, adoption is shown as an option, but one which the Curtises appear not to have pursued. Surrogate pregnancy, I believe, is not discussed within the series.
