The thing about Those White People Baby Names is the way they so poetically express the tension between individuality and rigid conformity. These parents all want to name their child something unique, because they value the concept of uniqueness, yet simultaneously they abhor it in practice… ergo, 30 different spelling variations on the most normative possible names. This homogeneity-masquerading-as-diversity is inseparable from capitalist consumer culture and in fact is directly analogous to the experience of walking into a grocery store and being asked to “choose” between 50 varieties of toothpaste with the same exact ingredients, 12 brands of laundry detergent, etc.
Level 1: Prophecy proclaims that no man can kill villain; killed by woman.
Level 2: Prophecy proclaims that no weapon can harm villain; pushed down stairs and dies.
Level 3: Prophecy proclaims that villain will be brought low by no mortal hand; kicked to death by angry mob.
Level 4: Prophecy proclaims that no power on Earth shall be villain’s undoing; fatally distracted by sun in eyes.
Level 5: Prophecy proclaims that only power of laughter can defeat villain; beat up by clown.
Level **: Prophecy claims that villain cannot be killed by man nor beast, at day or night, or inside or outside. He is killed in a doorway at sunset by a half-man, half-lion
(this is actual Hindu myth)
Level ???: Prophecy claims that hero cannot be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. He is killed at dusk, wrapped in a net with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat and with a spear forged for a year during the hours when everyone is at mass.
(actual Welsh myth!)
what i’m getting from this is that rules-lawyering is an ancient and honorable tradition
me: did you know almost all the homunculi in fmab are all killed by either their virtue or their actual sin? did you know that truth takes the form of anyone in his realm and therefore acts like them? did you know that xerxes and amestris are named after real life happenings in history? did you know that the elric brothers have gone through unbelievable amounts of shit and they keep running into fucking obstacles and it’s so unfair? did you know that the “no, it’s raining” quote isnt only talking about the tears on roy’s face, but also the fact that he feels useless? did you know that when ed brought al back at the end of the series, he was using a whole new form of alchemy? he was actually transmuting the circle itself, since we all know ed doesn’t really need circles. did you know that that ‘al’ in the gate was not actually al, and it was just truth disguised as him? did you know ed and hohenheim say the same quotes sometimes? did you kn
