The invasion of Jason’s kitchen take II:
Dick and Barbara brought Gin with them. They maintain that it wasn’t a bribe, but Jason knows better, not that he’s complaining. Tim claimed the counter early on in the night and Jason gave up on trying to move him. With Tim comfortable on the counter, the whole party just sort of stayed in the kitchen until Dick sat down on the floor with a whole bottle of Gin and a sharing size pack of skittles. He all but passed out on Jason’s shoulder not a hour later. Jason, the little fool, tried to keep up with Babs. But even though she keeps worse hours than Batman, Barbara can and will drink the boys under the table. She thinks it’s funny that Alfred thinks she’s a good influence.
Barbara is a night owl. Tim is too done to stand but too introverted for cuddles. Dick is “just resting my eyes.” And Jason has a collection of Shakespeare shirts.
Hello welcome my ADHD themed gameshow, “So you were holding it literally moments ago but now it’s gone” the where YOU look for whatever you were just holding while going increasingly mad
I struggle SO much with feeling behind. Behind on work, on chores, on goals in my personal life. But in reality, I’m comparing myself to unrealistic standards, and I should feel good about the progress I’m making, not constantly worrying about what I haven’t done yet! The idea that life is a race with a finish line just isn’t true. Life is a constant journey, and we’ll all find the right pace and place that works for us.
My favorite part about 1931 Dracula is that there are armadillos running around Dracula’s castle.
Look at this it’s like they couldn’t find any rats so they just were like “eh close enough no one will notice”. But I noticed. I noticed.
“WE NAILED IT BOYS”
Apparently in the 20s and 30s, armadillos weren’t very commonly known, so moviemakers would use them wherever they needed some creepy, ‘demonic’ animal running around. So there were a lot of armadillos in early filmmaking, and it was often people’s only source of reference for armadillos.
Fast forward twenty years to when the father of the biology professor who told me this is driving out from the east coast to see his son in California. Crossing the southwest at night.
An armadillo runs across the road.
He comes to a screeching halt and the Thing Of Evil, which he never knew was actually a real animal, trots the rest of the way across the road and vanishes into the desert.
I have a lot of feelings about Miyuki and fandom misunderstanding and misinterpreting him, even when people say they love him so here’s my attempt at explaining what I think fandom/popular fanon has wrong. Thank you @lemontongues for editing and helping me with my messy thoughts! Minor manga spoilers
Let’s talk about his “nasty, terrible personality”. He has a different sense of humor than the rest of the team, I’ll give you that, but that’s about it. He pretends insults are compliments (as a defense mechanism I’m sure), enjoys watching others make fools of themselves, and he enjoys occasional mischief.
That trick he pulled on Sawamura on his first day wasn’t nice, but I would argue that he tried his best to make it up to him. After “the incident” every interaction he has with Sawamura is gentler and more encouraging, until he loses his temper at Sawamura’s disrespect of Chris. His teasing doesn’t start back again until Sawamura makes it onto the first string. He didn’t have to speak more kindly to Sawamura, seek him out at meals, or ask him when he was pitching and then spend his time helping Sawamura warm up during the inter-game. He didn’t have to be encouraging, but he did all of those things. The rest of the first string was practicing during that game, but Miyuki stayed to help Sawamura. It doesn’t excuse his actions but I really think he was trying to apologize to Sawamura in his own way, as we’ve seen Miyuki isn’t good at apologies. But he’s not an asshole.
Most of the “mean” things he says to people are to teammates who are motivated by those comments because he understands people very well. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t make mistakes and misjudgments, but he understands what motivates people and tailors his approach to each person. With Sawamura and Furuya he’s challenging because that’s what fires them up, they both rise to challenges. With Nori he’s more gentle and encouraging because that’s what Nori needs.In Act II we see it with his interactions with Okumura. With Tanba he’s respectful because Tanba resents him replacing Chris on the first string, and would probably have been hostile to anyone taking Chris’ spot, which is especially notable because Miyuki doesn’t defer to hierarchical structure when it comes to baseball: “On the field everyone is equal. Grade doesn’t matter.” (Season 1, ep 47). He’s never mean or cruel for cruelty’s sake, there’s a purpose to everything he does.
Miyuki is not cold, emotionless, emotionally constipated, or unfeeling. He has a complex emotional range and shows it in thoughts and actions. He’s not as expressive as Sawamura but that’s one of Sawamura’s Things; people react strongly to him because he’s too straightforward and passionate. Miyuki and the rest of the characters are more reserved (and Miyuki’s not even the most reserved), which is normal in a cultural context. He’s shown anger, happiness, excitement, disappointment, determination, regret, etc. because he’s a normal person with normal feelings. Just because he seems to internalize his feelings more than Sawamura does, and doesn’t open up about what he’s feeling easily doesn’t mean he doesn’t feel deeply.
Here we see Miyuki being insecure and Rei encouraging him to be more open from 401.1
He’s had his emotions cloud his judgment before, like when he didn’t notice Sawamura’s breakdown during the Inashiro game, or called for a changeup too soon. I can’t find the episode where he has to ‘clear his mind’ during a game, but that was a thing that happened. EDIT: it was season 2 episode 24 around 15 minutes in, thank you @wamuura Sometimes he thinks of and speaks very warmly to his teammates. I’m not sure how this fanon got started but it’s extremely incorrect. Sakurai-san’s voice acting is amazing, don’t ignore it.
He’s not a control freak. On the field he leads, off the field he seems really relaxed. Shirasu says “You’re so stubborn when it comes to baseball.” (Season 2, ep46) but outside of baseball: “in the room he’s not fussy at all.” – Kimura, Miyuki’s roommate (Daiya Act II, chapter 12). And let’s not forget that he was late the first day of practice two years in a row, the second because he was watching videos. He’s also one of the characters who encourages the pitchers on the team to learn to relax and take it easy because he knows the value of resting.
He can be cocky sometimes because he’s confident in his baseball abilities and his ability to lead his pitchers but he’s not arrogant by any means. He has respect for all the other catchers on the team and welcomes competition. He doesn’t have a sense of superiority over anyone, he’s never boasted about doing something beyond his powers; he knows what he’s good at and isn’t afraid to tell others about it. As seen above though, he gets insecure too.
He’s definitely not perfect. He has flaws and problems, but fandom seems to get those right for the most part like his problem building relationships with people and the potential loneliness that goes with that.
I’m going to put Miyuki + romantic relationships/shipping under a read more, which is entirely my opinion and not based on canon facts like the rest of this post, but still has to do with Miyuki’s characterization:
How did I go from an innocent child reading fantasy books and blushing if the main characters kissed to a teen reading smutty fanfics in public with a straight face
