my evil plan is to look so fuckable and then never have sex

They weren’t lying when they said that as an adult you have to fight for your life to practice your hobbies

They also weren’t lying when they said that when you fail to do so your soul shrivels up inside your body and dies

people have this tendency to believe that fandom discourse exists because people in fandoms are Stupid Nerdy Losers, but in fact fandom discourse exists because anytime you get a group of more than 100 people together, they will start creating interpersonal bullshit. fandom is not special in this regard

There is sports discourse. There is yarn discourse. There is food discourse. There is academic discourse (dear sweet god is there academic discourse). If there are people out there collecting brass buttons specifically from 1921, they are going to have discourse about which buttons are trash and whether Person A cheated person B. To be human is to engage in pointless wankery sometimes.

Might fuck around and paper my town with these. Feel free to join me.

Would you be willing to post the files for these so we can have the best quality copy for printing purposes?

Here's a folder with the files! I couldn't get the last one to PDF correctly with the image, so it's still text.

Just a reminder from me (a military brat) and my parents (both military from military families): The most definitive way to know a recruiter is lying to you is to listen closely to what they're saying. If you hear sounds, they're lying.

First of all: YOU.

Second: Hoo boy. I wasn’t gonna avoid this topic forever, I guess. Since going into depth on all the facets of Goku (especially considering the discourse surrounding his various characterizations) would take a whole lot more time than I have right now, we’ll focus on the one hot button:

Is Goku A Good Father?

Short answer: there is no short answer. Not a cut-and-dry yes/no, at any rate.

Long answer: I cannot overstate the importance of context when you’re trying to answer questions like this. In a vacuum (or at least, in a world that is exactly and precisely like ours), yeah, maybe Goku is a bad father. A neglectful one by some peoples’ measure, at the very least; arguments can be also made for abusive.

Fact is, though, Goku does not exist in a world exactly and precisely like ours, and so judging him by the exact and precise moral metrics of our world… how to word this. It’s not that doing so has no applicability, because Goku is a character in a story, and a story is inevitably written by a human being who presumably has the moral core that most of humanity does—but it’s limited, in a way. I don’t know if it’s pretentious of me to invoke the sociological principle of ethnocentricism and how in general that’s something you want to avoid in anthropological disciplines, but the thing I’m trying to get at here is something adjacent to that.

Consider the following:

1. What is the role of a parent? Obviously you get different answers depending on who you ask, but since you asked me, my answer is that the role of a parent is to raise a child in such a way that they can face the challenges they may run into in adulthood with a reasonable chance of success. I realize that’s a broad and unfaceted answer, but articulating every nuance of it right here right now would be going on a tangent, and we’re kind of already on one. Ideally, the child both does well, and does good.

2. Saiyan children clearly do not one-for-one follow the developmental path that a human child does. Goku lived in the woods alone and unaided from the ages of 5 to 12. Vegeta was going on (successful) missions to exterminate worlds when he was no more than 4. Broly was able to run around and kill creatures many times his size (or a whole galaxy, depending on which Broly you’re looking at) at… what, a month old at most? Point is, there’s a built-in disconnect between what Goku would consider normal for a child and what Chi-chi would consider normal—which is what they clash over the most. The problem with both of their viewpoints is that Gohan is, unavoidably, both human and Saiyan. This is the root of the central conflict surrounding Gohan throughout his arc.

3. Goku has never been a parent before Gohan and when your child is the literal first of his kind, there’s not exactly anybody that can teach you the particular dos and don’ts. Combined with the aforementioned fundamental disconnect… I mean, even without that, the adult figures in his life are of little use so far as role-modeling for parenthood goes. The closest one to normal would be I guess Ox King and we don’t know how much of Goku’s life between OGDB and Z is spent in his company.

All this in mind, I’d say Goku is trying the best he knows how to do, under these sorts of circumstances. The biggest problem is that Goku’s process of learning to be a ‘normal parent’ was irreversibly fucked up by, yknow, dying, and having the world (and by extension his son) come under threat by forces outside his control. Vegeta (Raditz too I guess) turned a lot of things on their ear for Goku, foremost among them being the knowledge that Goku isn’t—or wasn’t—alone in being what he is. He may love Earth, he may love the people that he loves on Earth, but he’s not wholly from Earth, and there’s immutable proof of that standing right in front of him. And he begs Krillin for Vegeta’s life. To fight him again. Why? If it was just about fighting progressively stronger opponents, Namek and the Freeza Force are still next on the list. It has to be something about Vegeta specifically. Something they have in common.

This post ain’t about Vegeta though so to get back to what that last paragraph was driving at before I derailed it—these are now the circumstances that Goku, to his mind, has to prepare Gohan for. Especially because Gohan insists on putting himself in a perilous situation of his own volition. Should he have let Gohan go to Namek? Ultimately irrelevant, because Goku literally could not have stopped him anyway, he was essentially paralyzed in the hospital still by the time they left Earth. Gohan was determined to go to Namek one way or another, and I think Goku knew that. Additionally, Goku knows—as every parent knows—that he’s not going to be there for Gohan forever; he’s already died and left Gohan alone once. Death, as temporary as it was in the moment, is a sobering eventuality for Goku. Someday, Gohan will have to fend for himself.

Ideally, it would be in a peaceful and normal world the way Chi-chi wants, and he wouldn’t have to fight at all. But Goku has, by the time Cell rolls around, been given very little reason to believe that that’s the kind of life that Gohan will be facing. So of course he tries to prepare Gohan for a violent future. He believes it’s necessary. He might have been mistaken about this, but what he puts Gohan through wasn’t done completely devoid of love or empathy, or sheerly for the sake of getting stronger. To me, it was a genuine effort to be a good parent. He doesn’t want his child to die. He’s trying to give him the tools to prevent that.

As far as Goten goes, I feel like the situation isn’t altogether comparable to Gohan’s? I’d need to reread a bunch to organize my thoughts more clearly on it, so let me instead conclude this post by addressing the points that @genuinenoprize brought up: the first Super Saiyan transformation, and the bit in Cell arc.

For the Super Saiyan transformation: first, he never directly threatens to hit Gohan. Second, it’s ‘totally fine every other time he and anyone else goes Super after that’ because every other time he and anyone else goes Super after that, it’s after Goku has elected to spend a year on Yardrat to get Super Saiyan under control specifically so he won’t hurt anybody while he’s in that state. As I’ve mentioned previously.

(chapter 124)

Third, this is as sharp as he ever gets with Gohan. So far as the original line goes, the uncut Japanese version of the scene (episode 96) has it as ゴチャゴチャ言うな! オレを困らせたいか?! Loosely that comes out something like ‘Don’t argue! Do you want to inconvenience me?!’ which admittedly, if you really wanted to, you could interpret a threat of violence in that. Consider, however, once again, the context. Consider that Freeza’s standing like, fifteen feet away and insinuated he was going to kill Gohan about a minute ago, after killing Krillin roughly thirty seconds prior to that. I think it’s pretty clear that ‘inconvenience’ here (especially considering it’s in causative form, so literally ‘cause me to be troubled/inconvenienced’) is referring to Gohan being in the way physically and in the sense that he’s a weak spot Freeza can exploit. There’s a point to it being worded so harshly. Is it a very nice thing to say to your son? No, not really. Is it an understandable thing to say in an actual life-and-death situation at previously unexperienced levels of emotional stress to someone who you really don’t want to have die? Yeah, absolutely. Is it also a very clever way for Toriyama to allude to how close Goku is to losing himself in this power-up? Fuck yes it is.

For the bit in Cell arc, I assume you’re talking about the bit around the end of episode 150 where Gohan tries to leave the Lookout after Cell blows a hole in Piccolo? If so that’s weird because Goku doesn’t hit him, he just holds him back. The reason he holds him back is because, again, he doesn’t want his child to fucking die. They both know that if Gohan goes to confront Cell and try to get revenge now, he’s just going to get himself killed. As to why Goku doesn’t intervene while his friends are getting hurt? Well… my guess is that he doesn’t want to tip Cell off to the existence of the Lookout. The Lookout’s still more or less safe ground, unlike the entirety of the world below. I don’t think Cell can sense them up there if they keep their energies dampened because they’re far enough away, but if Goku suddenly Instant Transmissions seemingly into and out of existence then hey, that means he’s stowing away somewhere that Cell hasn’t been looking. So he’ll go looking. And eventually he’ll find it. If the timing’s off—if Vegeta and Trunks don’t get out of the Time Chamber quick enough to engage Cell and distract him—then they’re all fucked. Ultimately Goku is forced to risk that, and I guess he’s just lucky that it paid off.

TLDR I don’t think Goku is a bad parent; I’ve known worse.

How the hell did this get to be 1600 words.

Thanks for the ask(s)!

academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches

"you're just scared your diploma is going to devalue" i'm afraid you dumb bitches are going to become my colleagues and drag social services to hell

I'm afraid they'll become scientists and data that lives depend on will turn out to be wrong - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become engineers and sign off on bridge designs that collapse - and people will die.

I'm afraid they'll become medical professionals who don't know what they're doing - and people will die.

The assumption that academic dishonesty is okay is rooted in the idea that what you're learning to do doesn't matter.

I'm glad we're all on the same page here

you'd think that "inhuman thing that isn't a person but speaks like a person and talking to it will slowly drive you mad" would only be found in folktales and fables and so on. but no. chatgpt

chatgpt actually makes me feel better to talk to it than almost any human I've ever known but yeah sure

you are a frog in a pot and you are boiling yourself

in 2026 i will evolve into a more advanced kind of pervert. this i promise

So this thread has a lot of what my mom and her colleagues have been seeing over the past few years. But as my mom says, the solution here isn’t to keep dumbing everything down and keep destroying standards, if for no other reason, because it doesn’t work. Like this person said, it’s really not about accessibility. These students aren’t unable to do the work, they’re unwilling, and I think it’s due to what I’ve been saying for years: students have a “the customer is always right” mindset and sense of entitlement towards higher education. As someone who actually finished her degrees during the pandemic, I’m sick to death of people acting like all of this is because of trauma. Be so fucking real right now. Every generation goes through hardships. But we’re seeing an entitlement epidemic where students show up, demand college classes be as easy as possible, refuse to do anything remotely challenging, and demand to get good grades despite poor attendance, cheating with AI, and missing deadlines. I do not believe goalposts should be moved and standards should be lowered for people who refuse to even try, because that’s just rewarding bad behavior. When two students showed up to my mom’s office and said they need more time on quizzes because they don’t do the readings, her response wasn’t to give them more time, but “no, you need to do the readings.” I’ve said it a million times but keeping deadlines and actually showing up somewhere when you’re supposed to is one of the cores of functioning as an adult, that’s part of what college is supposed to prepare you for, and students shouldn’t be able to do no work and miss a good chunk of class and receive a good grade—like wtf are we doing here, then, if you don’t have to demonstrate you actually learned anything to get an A? But these students think they’re entitled to an A just by virtue of registering for the course

And again, making the assignments easier doesn’t reduce AI cheating because that’s not why the students are cheating. Contrary to what people on tumblr say, cheating students aren’t poor little meow-meows. They’re cheating because they’re lazy and entitled. I know from experience that this site screams and cries when you say that, because all of the discourse on here revolves around justifying people’s bad behavior and absolving them of any responsibility, but like I said before, students cheat with AI on ungraded drafts in my mom’s classes—drafts intended to be a low-stakes way for students to practice writing. Their AI usage has nothing to do with being fearful of bad grades, but instead a complete and utter unwillingness to do the work assigned to them in a class they signed up for. (I do think universities that encourage AI usage, as bsky OP mentioned, are absolutely a problem here though! Stop lowering standards ffs!)

If social media contributes to this problem, I think it’s because these entitled students have a bunch of enabling rhetoric online reassuring them that their bullshit is okay and they weaponize therapy speak they learned on tiktok to their professors who, god forbid, treat them like adults and try to hold them accountable. And I feel like that’s what’s missing in this thread, like, oh my god, these people are adults. These are not middle schoolers. Adults are responsible for their actions and should face consequences for them. Babying and coddling these adults and acting like it’s completely reasonable for them not to read a book in college is part of why they’re getting away with it! They don’t do the reading? Guess what: they fail. That’s how life works—or it should, as opposed to “oh darn I guess I can’t include any books in the syllabus for my reading/writing class anymore.” Like come on. I know this will set off this anti-intellectual website in particular but no one is a victim because they refuse to read a book! (And no, I’m not talking about people with disabilities who can’t read, so don’t even try.) Like, students refuse to read anything that isn’t tech-based? Then they fucking fail and waste their tuition money. Yes, this addictive tech is a huge problem, but it doesn’t resolve you of all responsibility. Put down the phone and fucking read.

Maybe these adults throwing temper tantrums over basic schoolwork need to face consequences, and maybe these adults are like this because they’re used to a lifetime of teachers bending over backwards to meet their demands after their mommies got on the phone and yelled at the teachers for giving them a bad grade; you don’t know how often my mom comes home from work and says “I can’t believe I’m the first person who ever told these students ‘no.’ Where do these childhoods come from???”

But students are not victims because they refuse to do any assignment that doesn’t personally entertain them, and it’s an incredibly childish mindset. As my mom tells students when they complain a text was boring: “I don’t care. I’m not here to entertain you.” Adult life is full of having to do shit you don’t want to!

And there’s this addition

Which, yes! Again, this is the core of the problem: they don’t care enough to look at assignment instructions. And I don’t think their laziness and apathy should be accommodated

tl;dr I think this thread brings up real problems, but universities coddling this bad behavior from entitled adults only makes the problem worse, adult students should face adults consequences, and standards exist for a fucking reason and shouldn’t be lowered for people who refuse to try. And btw, my mom still has plenty of hardworking students who do well in her classes with all the same access to social media, so, #notallstudents. It’s a choice, and professors are still willing to help the students who try (and to reiterate: this isn’t about students who truly need accommodations, this about neurotypical students who genuinely refuse to do anything)