kaivubiscuit//While we're on the topic of characters' ages -- can you explain your reasoning behind why Maka is 12 at the beginning of NOT? From the information I've been given, NOT takes place a year before SE, and Black Star is supposedly 13 back then (going off what he said to Tsubaki when they went to face Masamune), and he was supposed to have been brought to the DWMA a year before Maka was born (which places her at 12 during SE and 11 during NOT). So tell me if I missed something along the way. XD
All this timeline talk is making me cross-eyed, ilikescythes. ;)
Black Star tells Tsubaki that the Star Clan was eliminated 13 years ago, so it depends on how technical we are about how old he was when his family was killed (was he less than a year old, hence would be 13 years by Chapter 7, or was he slightly older than a year, hence would be closer to 14 years old?).
Also, we have to figure out specific birthdays: it is rare for a student in the same grade to be exactly 365 days older than someone else—when we say something is a year older, we usually mean that they are older by six or more months.
For example, if Maka was born in, say, January 1996 and Black Star was born in June 1996, then from January to May 2009 Maka will be 13 years old, but from June 2009 to December 2009 Black Star is now “a year” older.
(Plus there is still the problem of how anyone knows Black Star’s exact date of birth: unless one of his parents left behind a birth certificate for Sid to find upon killing Black Star’s parents, the ninja’s “birthday” is possibly a day that Sid just picked on his own, perhaps the day he, Spirit, and Stein discovered the infant.)
This problem necessitates a canonical timeline from Okubo. I’m going to try something for the heck of it (Year 0 is the fight between Maka and Blair). Feel free to ignore my off-the-mark timeline nonsense.
“Isn’t it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal” I mean, there’s a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn’t have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We’re not fast and don’t have a lot of natural weaponry but we’re bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
this is so nostalgic. tumblr rolls out something terrible. everyone complains. it breaks several people’s dashboards. for some reason it only rolls out to a few people at a time with seemingly no warning. the community collectively and immediately searches for a browser extension that undoes the change. i know we’ve all gotten burnt out on all social media sucking but this is genuinely The tumblr experience. everyone who hasn’t gotten it already gets an achievement. welcome to the club
actually, im glad this post got notes
everybody in the notes going “but THIS TIME it’s an objectively terrible choice/a bigger deal/a cash grab!!”: first time in the clown car huh
