Channelknight Fadran

I apologize in advance and on behalf of all other Sharders for the sheer quantity of notifications you are about to receive

Re: Server

I will join posthaste; that is to say, "as soon as I figure out how to use mods through this launcher"

I could probably count on my hands

all of the things I did today

Instead of being one to understand

I'm the kind of guy who takes away

the world from other people

because they think I need it more

It doesn't matter than I'm less than null

they think I have great things in store

But I don't

that should be obvious

I'm tired of growing up and fighting on

And I won't

make any promises

just so I can keep on breaking them upon

the hearts of people I've betrayed

If I was good at piano, I would fuse Jiyuu no Tsubasa with Shinzou wo Sasageyo and create the Paradis National Anthem.

too bad I suck

okay so now I'm ranking all my favorite Anime OPs

Disclaimers:

• I am biased. This is a biased review. That is what "opinion" means
• I will only be ranking OPs I am familiar with
• I will attempt to score them in accordance to what they're trying to convey, rather than just "like" or "no like," but... again. Bias.
• Spoilers...?

So Anyway - onto the Rankings!

First of all: Stuff I won't rank in great detail

Second of all: Ranking Animes based on their OP selection. This is where you'll find spoilers and such. My main criteria are the following:

• Do I like it
• Does it fit the theme
• Can it be enjoyed outside of being an OP

So without further ado...

So... what're the top OPs of All Time In Fadran's Humble and Completely Objective Opinion?

why is your pfp a weird mix between Emma Watson and every dead wife in a drama movie

...okay, so are we gonna talk about how every anime's OP4 is the weakest?

Except Fullmetal Alchemist (Full m e t a l    a LcHemiST), which is perfect and can do no wrong

but like:

• Attack on Titan - Red Swan. This one's pretty polarizing among the fandom but like... why? It's garbage compared to the absolute   B A N G E R S  that this show has put out. The only one that can be somewhat comparable-ish to this level of underwhelming-ness would be My War; I can see why some people like it, but Deathcore Black Metal just isn't my jam.
  • Side note: We all know Sasageyo is The Best and Guren no Yumiya is the most iconic, but like... why do people sleep on Jiyuu no Tsubasa that song goes SO hard
• Jujutsu Kaisen - SPECIALZ. I don't think it's controversial to say while the anime has been balling in the music department overall, its OPs have all slowly regressed from The Epic that was Kaikai Kitan. Vivid Vice had a kind of weird semi-emotional thing going on, and Ao no Sumika was pretty decent with its main guitar stuff; but SPECIALZ seemed way too Modern US Pop-y for my taste.
  • Side note: LOST IN PARADISE IS THE BEST ENDING PIECE TO EVER EXIST IN ANYTHING
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - End of The World. Granted, I haven't even come close to finishing this series yet, and only just heard this OP for the first time; however, upon realizing that it was OP 4, I was like... wait. Why is it always OP 4? Why? But anyway, it was just kinda lame compared to the absolute bangers we've had coming into this.
  • Side note: If you want to watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and know nothing about it - keep it that way. Watch the show blind. Know nothing. Learn everything organically. It is insane and I love it.
• Demon Slayer - Okay, so... there are a few ways you can look at this. There are technically four OPs so far, but not everyone watched the Mugen Train arc episodically, because they (like myself) went for the movie release instead. It has much less personal value to me, and thus I went in expecting to have to disclaim this one but... I dunno, maybe it's pretty good actually?? Still definitely a competition between Akeboshi and Kizuna no Kiseki for... okay, I'll be the first to admit this show's a little overrated, but the music is SO GOOD, so saying "worst" is like trying to pick a least favorite Hans Zimmer soundtrack; but as for which one ultimately falls shortest of Gurenge and ESPECIALLY Zankyou Sanka is kind of up to preference.

Animes that don't count:

• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - did you know that every goddamn song in this entire show is a slappin' masterpiece? And I mean all of them. Heck, FMAB's OP4 might be my favorite of the lineup.
• Hunter x Hunter - this one technically has (I think) six OPs, but they're literally all the exact same song with slightly different lyrics so WHO CARES
  • Side note: the song in question is also a banger
• Dunno - Do let me know where else this assessment falls short.

Nothing quite like receiving an email from Facebook notifying you of the one (1) Notification you have received since...

[a confused scouring later]

...2017, apparently

apparently I made a Facebook account in 2017

I was - notably - born in 1961, making me older than my dad. And my last name is Smith, it would seem.

(The notification in question had something to do with local dads and barbecues in my area of something... I only glanced at it, but the way it was worded definitely made it seem like I had once consciously followed some selection of activity hashtags, and the algorithm had finally found - after over six years - a single post or group or something that actually fit it).

(I mean... it's not that I don't like outdoorsy stuff. Get me some homies and I could hike the heck outta those mountains; but how did they get "looking for local dads and dudebros from Dick's Sporting Goods and REI to go kayaking with" from "presumably hasn't been on the internet for six yea-

...oh

What ignoring social media for a few hours can do for you:

1635 words written :D

What I have learned about today is not the worst thing to ever happen

But I will say this: it is definitely up there.

To all my queer friends, you probably know all about Conversion "Therapy." To all my other friends who are otherwise out of the loop, you might have conceived the idea on your own time as Something that Probably Happens. It is the "practice" of "fixing" a person's sexual orientation, gender preference, or pretty much anything else that isn't just Straight. I've always assumed that were some bad-apple religious zealots and who actually did it, but I kind of figured that it was a rare occurrence.

No.

First of all: disclaimer. The best numbers I could find were for a research paper taken in Ohio. The article citing it discloses several times that their "national" statistics are extrapolated from these, and that no conclusive Everywhere Study has crunched the numbers on the whole thing.

Second of all: trigger warning? Maybe I should've put this earlier, but if you're uncomfortable with the idea of suicide, self-harm, identity assassination, and other forms of enforced self-hatred; be warned. 

Because exposure to "Conversion "Therapy"" doubles the suicide rate for queer teens; in the best of cases.

I am not queer, to my knowledge. I am a very straight, cishet, white, default American male; and as a professional Autistic guy, I've always had trouble with empathy. Sympathy I can manage just fine, but to actually put myself in someone else's shoes and try to feel what they're feeling is really hard; so when I first learned about this horrendous practice, and felt genuine rage and terror at just the mere idea... I couldn't begin to imagine what it would actually be like for a real person.

The "process" varies from practitioner to practitioner, because it is not a science in any respect - dozens (if not hundreds) of studies have completely berated the practice, citing it as anything and everything from baseless to actively harmful to literally deadly. The practice is banned in 20 states, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico; but even then, the law cannot extend past medical 'professionals.' 4/5 "therapists" for the process are religious leaders.

Like... let me make it clear just how unprofessional that is. A large number of modern-day religions are structurally opposed to queer individuals (I'll be referring to Christian denominations because I'm not particularly qualified to discuss anything else), but many have several individuals who either don't actively depose their identities. The literal Pope has made several remarks that - while still rather homophobic in nature - don't claim that homosexuality or transgenderism is a sin against God. Even if his words are to say "I'm sure God can help you gay folks," there's still a heavy theme of "we must accept everyone, regardless of who they are, so long as they are good."

So... homophobia is homophobia. But d'you want to know what's worse than homophobia?

CONVERSION THERAPY

THIS IS THE WORST THING THAT IS LITERALLY LEGAL ACROSS MORE THAN HALF THE UNITED STATES

Here's some numbers: roughly 2% of all LGBTQ+ minors will be exposed to Conversion Therapy. There are roughly 2 million LGBTQ+ minors in the USA. Badabing badaboom: 40,000 minors exposed to Conversion Therapy every year.

LGBTQ+ minors are four times as likely to attempt suicide than their peers; Queer individuals exposed to Conversion Therapy are twice as likely on top of that, making their chances eight times more likely than the "average" person.

How many Queer kids to undergo this process will attempt suicide a year? Thirteen thousand. How many will succeed? Three thousand.

Conversion Therapy has a 13% mortality rate.

You are more likely to survive a Cancer Diagnosis

I'm not having a good time

want to know what

would make my time

a bit better?

Youtube: [Recommends a video chronicling all the lightsaber duels in Star Wars]

Me: I guess it's time for a TIER LIST

:realization:

hol' up

I have eight letters in my Iconar alphabet

There are eight keys in an octave

I can spell any character's name with the piano

I don't advocate for Communism, but I'd just like to point out that the current Deepest Hole Ever Drilled was made for the express purpose of Finding Oil; while the previous record-holder was made by Soviet Russia, who did it Because Why Not

I was compelled to redo this

GUYS HAVE YOU SEEN INTERSTELLAR GO WATCH INTERSTELLAR RIGHT NOW IT'S THE BEST THING I'VE SEEN IT'S SO GOOD WHAT THE HELL WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS

made a discord writing group server because I felt like it

https://discord.gg/mNV2HV8Vm

join if you want

Names update:

So apparently the Speaker of the House was voted out of their position?

So apparently you can do that??

Ahsoka update:

(spoilers?)

I'm almost as fascinated by how much of Science is an art as I am by how much of Art is a science

who wants to do a Creative Minecraft server

if you ever have to stop yourself from swearing but have already gotten to Oh sh-

don't say shoot

that's lame

say OSHA

saddest death in fiction: answer key