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There is linearity in the path we follow at the end of the day, but we don't have to foresight as to where that route takes us because nothing is predetermined as we know it. I would use writing a book as an analogy. The entire book isn't done when you first pick up the pen or start planning. You might have an outline or a predetermined resolution, but how you get from page 1 to page 200 might not be as it was written in the outline. The book might not even be finished to its fullest. You could say the book is finished to completion as soon as the writer stops, but there are outcomes where the writer is able to reach a different finish line. There isn't enough foresight to foretell what someone's fate is, and once they reach the point where they know everything that has happened in their life, it won't mean anything to them other than as a historical record for their loved ones to carry on or remember. There are too many routes of doing anything throughout ones life to disregard seeing life as more of a grid than a line. There's still one eventual path, but it only emerges from the zig zags and L shapes that our lives take as we make one decision over another. I had my phone stolen and gave chase to the thief a while back. I was safe, but what if I took a different path to get to my car to avoid getting stopped by the would-be thief? What if the thief pulled out a gun, and in my foolishness, I charged into a bullet? Wouldn't my life up to this point be completely different or gone without the experience I had within this timeframe? Would it disqualify the experiences I've had up to this point as something of an alternate reality that never happened? Would I have met the people I've met?

I wish I had a moon stone so that I could change my life into something cooler.

It's something that fascinates me because in my mind, I can only imagine the thousands of scenarios that would happen if I made one choice over another. I hold the idea that even though fate doesn't change, the future can't be visibly destined in the present. We can't see what's in front of us, or what path we take because there are always shortcuts and paths along the way that we decide to take either as a detour or for convenience that may change the future. You might say the bricks are set for a path as a professor, but obstacles, mishaps, and experiences along the way might steer you towards journalism. You might've been fated to be a journalist, but it wasn't your initial motivation or destiny to be a journalist when you had different ideas in mind as far as what your fate would be. In a crasser example, if fate aligned with what we thought was our path, then we would've had Hitler the Painter instead of Hitler the Dictator. People will only know what's fated after-the-fact, but repeating the mantra in your mind "this is fate" or "this is destiny" is trying to solidify a self-fulfilling prophecy when nothings 100% certain until you've lived through it.

A believing heart is your magic!

Now I finally have a use for that 1977 almanac I have lying around.

I'll be sad if they don't capitalize on their older audience by having someone call her "Sabrina the Teenage Bitch"

Just watched the first episode and got a kick out of it. It took the wealthy uppercrust vapidness of Clueless and mashed it up with some pre-teen anime fan's Newgrounds creation. It has as much to do with anime as Totally Spies, but much like that show, it revels in how absurd its creative decisions are such as its love affair with the bourgeois NY high fashion scene and classical music. Hiring Jaden was icing on the cake with his love of self-important monologues about the emotional state of humanity, but spoken through the indifferent, spotty delivery of an amateur VA with a Voice Acting Alliance account. It revels in its pretentious cast and dialogue, but with the script, animation, story, and acting of a Deviantart creator's passion project. This is not a good show by all accounts. There are a few people who are really eating up their roles like Jason Schwartzman. The other characters are, for the most part, voicing as if they're playing themselves. The only times it stood out in a good way were those random Richard Ayoade appearances where he plays along with the terrible script by cheerfully delivering every line as a salesclerk. Whoever voices Helena stands out particularly as just as bad if not worse than Jaden. However, I got many laughs from the "so bad it's good" vibe the show gave me, like where Kaz is interrupted from sleeping in his own custom made grave to lecture an old man about spraying his late wife with her favorite perfume because it is out-of-fashion, Kaz trying to calm down the possessed Helena by taking in her designer jacket, the field hockey game, or the catty rivalry between Kaz and Archangelo. Jaden's monologues about his crumbling emotional state were great too, especially undercut with the dry responses from "one of our finest actors," Jude Law. I'd be convinced that this could've been made as a cheap live-action show or with more Westernized art, and nothing would've changed. The anime aesthetics are present to look as hip and trendy as the show's personality, but because Totally Spies went out of fashion more than a decade ago, the whole show feels like it was made as a joke. Where it was made less for entertainment and more as something to air muted on an LCD screen in a high fashion designer store as if it's artwork by Takashi Murakami or Sebastian Masuda to act as visual candy while they spent their fortune on the newest couture. For further reference on what I'm talking about, see FFXIII's Lightning modeling for Louis Vuitton, the Gucci campaign with Jolyne Kujou of JJBA, Kanye West and Gwen Stefani's 2006-2009 love affair with Japanese artists, and other things. Its anime/manga/JRPG influence have no bearing on anything other than the colorful, stylized aesthetic fitting well with the vision of lively high fashion. However, the TS similarities make it less like Harajuku Girls and more like Derelicte from Zoolander. In the process, I feel like I ended up sounded pretentious writing this, but it's what first came to mind once I finished the first episode. The TL;DR version is that this is a terrible show that I had alot of fun laughing at/with. I'm looking forward to seeing if it gets any better or worse, but in comparison to other really terrible shit that's shown up on Netflix lately, I had the most fun with this shit.

The whole solar system orbits around her, and she still feels like she isn't the center of attention?

Deku? DEKU!?

So how long did you spend trying to find Zeni?

I'm not religious unless it's to win an argument on social media.

I refuse to make you a wedding cake

Comet Ping Pong has some great pizza

But did she ever get a Razzie?

PSP: It's like a nut you can play with outside

It looks like the white dog is into the roleplaying, but the brown dog is having a hard time committing to the role. Something along the lines of: "Oh baby, you like this thiccness!?" "Yeah, sure. I guess."

I'm a big fan of tea and coffee.

I guess he got happier once he put some clothes on

I still don't have wifi because AT&T, but it's good I have something to look forward to once they stop milking people hit by Irma of our data. I guess there's also YOLOing it by watching the show in public with Starbucks wifi. That might be more fun.

What a twist!