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requiemsBody: we ate a banned substance
Me: this is soya. There are no banned substances.
Body: yeah there is
Natural flavourings: 🙂
me: are you KIDDING ME (it is unfortunately not kidding me)
This is. Really annoying. To say the least. Fortunately it is not as bad as it could be pain wise, likely as it's been so long since I last had an attack, but it's still pretty bad: as it's liquid I'm hoping it lifts sooner. Regardless. What the hell is tomato, onion, or potato doing in SOY MILK. get out of my face
The downside of having been mostly vegetarian (I was somewhat vegan, aside from cheese, and somewhat pescatarian, because I would have fish one to two times every couple of weeks mostly to keep that option available to fall back on just in case. Since I am now eating fish five times a week, this is very fortunate I did so, lol) is that a lot of alternative products have a lot of random ingredients in and most of them have tomato/onion. The ones that do not have "natural flavourings". It is always a gamble, and they are always different, and I'm begging brands to tell me what these natural flavourings are. The soy I have is from Alpro and none of the rest of their products set me off but this one sole drink has natural flavourings in whilst the others do not so :') culprit found, though it is still technically a mystery...
I started reading Korra's Ruins of the Empire comic a few days ago when the cramps kicked in and read the rest of it whilst my body screamed at me. I don't think I've ever seen anyone talking about Ruins and having now read it... I can see why. I liked Turf Wars a lot, incidentally: I liked it when I re-read it. It wraps up some immediate loose ends from the Book 4 finale with the spirit portal in the middle of Republic City, resolves the presidency and destruction the city experienced from said finale, and most importantly is very Korrasami focused. It does everything they were unable to show on Nick at the time.
Ruins is... too ambitious, I think. It tries to do a bunch of things at once and results in a very contrived plot that is resolved very quickly and has no lasting value - it would work fine on screen, but it is not on screen. It is in a comic. Wu returns to prompt the Earth Kingdom's transition into a democratic nation... but realises he is being too hasty and it cannot be done as quickly as he intended, so, Nothing Happens. That whole plot point which the comic is hinged upon being resolved with a Nothing Happens is never a good way to go. It feels like walking backwards.
I did like Kuvira. I did not like the hard Beifong focus (yet again). But, I did like Kuvira. It felt simplistic at first because they were trying to cram so much in, but I did enjoy that she went from citing she was not guilty of her crimes because she felt they were making an example of her when again she stepped up to fill a void, and took responsibility. She never sways from being responsible. She believes she did the right thing. She did not aim to destroy everything, she says. But through the course of the comic she realises she is quick to anger and easily provoked and her response to any perceived judgement is to lash out, and to always be wary of others and their intentions, and at the end she changes her plea to guilty. She accepts the added responsibility of what she did was not the right thing for everyone else as she wanted it to be, whilst always accepting the responsibility as it is.
It's also interesting because most of the Korra villains, whilst nuanced, believe what they did was correct. Zaheer is a very complex villain and I enjoy him a lot for his perspective. Kuvira is the first to go, actually, maybe what I did wasn't right. Tries to make amends for the mess she left behind and actively resolves it and puts herself at risk to do so - because before she was the Great Uniter she was a decent person who wanted to help others. The extreme made her terrible and she accepts that. And she is not forgiven, not allowed to roam free, but she is given the opportunity for a second chance. So it continues the foil for Korra herself in that way.
Me: this is soya. There are no banned substances.
Body: yeah there is
Natural flavourings: 🙂
me: are you KIDDING ME (it is unfortunately not kidding me)
This is. Really annoying. To say the least. Fortunately it is not as bad as it could be pain wise, likely as it's been so long since I last had an attack, but it's still pretty bad: as it's liquid I'm hoping it lifts sooner. Regardless. What the hell is tomato, onion, or potato doing in SOY MILK. get out of my face
The downside of having been mostly vegetarian (I was somewhat vegan, aside from cheese, and somewhat pescatarian, because I would have fish one to two times every couple of weeks mostly to keep that option available to fall back on just in case. Since I am now eating fish five times a week, this is very fortunate I did so, lol) is that a lot of alternative products have a lot of random ingredients in and most of them have tomato/onion. The ones that do not have "natural flavourings". It is always a gamble, and they are always different, and I'm begging brands to tell me what these natural flavourings are. The soy I have is from Alpro and none of the rest of their products set me off but this one sole drink has natural flavourings in whilst the others do not so :') culprit found, though it is still technically a mystery...
I started reading Korra's Ruins of the Empire comic a few days ago when the cramps kicked in and read the rest of it whilst my body screamed at me. I don't think I've ever seen anyone talking about Ruins and having now read it... I can see why. I liked Turf Wars a lot, incidentally: I liked it when I re-read it. It wraps up some immediate loose ends from the Book 4 finale with the spirit portal in the middle of Republic City, resolves the presidency and destruction the city experienced from said finale, and most importantly is very Korrasami focused. It does everything they were unable to show on Nick at the time.
Ruins is... too ambitious, I think. It tries to do a bunch of things at once and results in a very contrived plot that is resolved very quickly and has no lasting value - it would work fine on screen, but it is not on screen. It is in a comic. Wu returns to prompt the Earth Kingdom's transition into a democratic nation... but realises he is being too hasty and it cannot be done as quickly as he intended, so, Nothing Happens. That whole plot point which the comic is hinged upon being resolved with a Nothing Happens is never a good way to go. It feels like walking backwards.
I did like Kuvira. I did not like the hard Beifong focus (yet again). But, I did like Kuvira. It felt simplistic at first because they were trying to cram so much in, but I did enjoy that she went from citing she was not guilty of her crimes because she felt they were making an example of her when again she stepped up to fill a void, and took responsibility. She never sways from being responsible. She believes she did the right thing. She did not aim to destroy everything, she says. But through the course of the comic she realises she is quick to anger and easily provoked and her response to any perceived judgement is to lash out, and to always be wary of others and their intentions, and at the end she changes her plea to guilty. She accepts the added responsibility of what she did was not the right thing for everyone else as she wanted it to be, whilst always accepting the responsibility as it is.
It's also interesting because most of the Korra villains, whilst nuanced, believe what they did was correct. Zaheer is a very complex villain and I enjoy him a lot for his perspective. Kuvira is the first to go, actually, maybe what I did wasn't right. Tries to make amends for the mess she left behind and actively resolves it and puts herself at risk to do so - because before she was the Great Uniter she was a decent person who wanted to help others. The extreme made her terrible and she accepts that. And she is not forgiven, not allowed to roam free, but she is given the opportunity for a second chance. So it continues the foil for Korra herself in that way.
