No, we took her to the vets as soon as they opened this morning as he had a fit late last night. My mum stayed up all night with her but you could tell this morning that there was something wrong. It was like a switch has been flipped and turned her brain off and we agreed that the humane thing was to have her put to sleep.
No, we took her to the vets as soon as they opened this morning as he had a fit late last night. My mum stayed up all night with her but you could tell this morning that there was something wrong. It was like a switch has been flipped and turned her brain off and we agreed that the humane thing was to have her put to sleep.
That's a shame: was asking more out of hope as had similarly traumatic ends with all 3 of my dogs, so you're not alone. Our last we had the vet come out to us, to put him to sleep, after taking him to the vets the day before and not able put him down there and then. Time before that far worse. Death never easy to deal with but always hope when it happens, it happens at home without vets/hospitals. Dogs no like vets.
Don't want to make you more miserable, so I'll shut up for real: if as you say she had suffered brain damage, or wasn't able function, for the best to not her suffer. You and your mom did the right thing. Worst thing you can do is draw it out once decision needs making. Or not know something is seriously wrong and not act. That seizure/fit was likely just signaling it was time.
Anyway, try to remember her as she was for now, not as she ended. It'll get easier.
Some really good games are coming this year but the cost storage is frustrating my ps5 needs more storage but it's over £500 for 4tb the switch 2 1tb ex sd cards has gone up in price it's the same situation with my pc.
Some really good games are coming this year but the cost storage is frustrating my ps5 needs more storage but it's over £500 for 4tb the switch 2 1tb ex sd cards has gone up in price it's the same situation with my pc.
So sorry for your loss @Gemsy-chan and hope time eases the pain of your loss. I am reminded of a jet black puppy we had in my childhood.
Ima put this in one big spoiler tag, save boring news-seeking peoples that are neither hedgehogs nor radical feminists.
@Geriatric hedgehog. I'd apologise for being late... that is, if not for ignoring the direct messages of others for months/years (as Rad chose to in reverse; bribing meeee with likes, for women are cruel~) years at this point. 'Tis deeply saddening...
Evangelion certainly explains your choice of username (as well as why you'd grasp for the optimism despite all the spines). For my part, me only seeing the irony of the too-late-to-count bartender thoughts about Yozo explains (a)ironicallyhuman: that he could or did not want to see or comprehend others' perception of himself and turned out to the most human of fools; damning himself with his own very human failings. That or damned by his ways with women. One of the two.
This, I fear, is a glass half full/empty difference between us that would prevent us from increasing our social link to rank 10/getting a futon scene. One could watch EoE's end, seeing Shinji and Asuka together, and come to think: maybe this is a good/happy ending. Personally though, I only registered Shinji trying to strangle the one person left alive with him, after all she'd put him through.
Butt I digress: I find it interesting that I'd hyper-focus on the emptiness of "everything passes", whilst your focus is on the hope the bartender held, along with her differing perspective. Meant to clarify btw: in the Junji Ito manga end, I cannae recall the bartender. My saying it was faithful to the novel was in reference to "everything passes". Furuya's ending will be right up thine alleyway, though: the bartender scene is right before a not-so-bleak addition by the manga's author.
I noted re-reading NLH that Yozo read 'I Am a Cat' by Soseki. And re-reading your message, I noticed you recommended 'And Then'. I shall order and read it. Can tell it'll by my cup of tea by this short yet insightful Amazon review by... Hogster:
"It is a japanese classic apparently but I found myself wanting nothing more than to give the hero a good kick. Probably my sensitivities are insufficiently refined but I suspect I won't be the only one."
And I too share(d) your 'excitement' for discovering new NLH/Dazai tingymajigs. As well as stories that remind me of it. I remember reading Aku Hana and - in spite of its author suggesting only a book of French poetry by a Bald-something fella was his inspiration - I couldn't help but note how its protagonist ended up in his own personal hell, aided by women, as his ideal pure dream girl became tainted. It u-turned in the second half - ironically enough disappointing me with an end you'd likely approve of - but I was quite taken with it, at one time.
Which brings me to my point, or rather one more 'method' that isn't directly related to Dazai or NLH: Downfall by Inio Asano. It's a one volume, semi-autobiographical manga volume, Asano's self-insert character post-Punpun. His brand of clowning is similar to Yozo Oba's cartoon drawings; trying to appeal to the masses. His true self is/was closer to Dazai, seemingly: seeking comfort through prostitutes for sex without trappings and being wary of women; cat-eyed ones that see through him especially. Always been a more a dog person, myself~
Mil Actress: The joy of the chase; the journey is more important than the destination. 'Tis a beautiful sentiment--one which gave the heroine her own agency not tied to a man so much as the pursuit of him. What I as a viewer enjoyed was folllowing her visually chase after something she could never attain through time/fiction, so although I didn't recall that line, it fits well with the movie overall.
Colour meeee shocked a movie I'd describe as costume porn - in a positive sense - is adored by a woman that posts outfits she buys on 'ere. I think it's one of few films both genders can appreciate equally, possibly because it's sentimental but not at all in a cheesy way. Kon telling the story through the movies the heroine made also helped in that regard. Meant to rewatch Only Yesterday (and Whisper of Heart) for ages. Isao Takahata's films held more sway with me than Miyazaki's, for the most part, and films following older women reliving past memories are few. Can see both being hits with moms.
Sidonia I've never been able to enjoy the artist's manga given the limited expressions/sketchy style his earlier stuff, so the CG TV anime all I got to go on bar... Biomega. Do recall some awkward lines by the bad guy/rival character S1... K-sumat, think I called him Kunti... Kunato! All I recall now rly is S1 being more survival, S2 more... tentacle-waifu bonding.
Oh, and you read me like a book (though I have my doubts ceefax would be here for meeee). I was half srsbiz, at most. Rest assured: if I ever do, I won't post about it, for only attention seekers would so such a thing. Me? Perish the thought! I would say you'd know if I stopped posting... but I've gone like 3-6 years without doing so in the past. Meh, 'tis only the internets at the end of the day. People come and go freely. Whooooo knows the fate of old members long gone~
You have reminded me of my tendency to blabber on in unrelated threads, hence the move to this one. I have proven (unintentionally I promise!) that no one ever need apologise to me for a late response. Unsurprisingly, I fully understand when people are not able to respond at times, or ever, nor is there ever any expectation to respond to any of my drivel, but interesting and amicable conversations are always appreciated nonetheless!
First thing to get out of the way: why man, why would you be so cruel as to deny me the futon scene I was so looking forward tooooo!!??!! But that joke aside, you may regret opening the EoE can of worms with me, so apologies for the inevitable ramblings in advance. I watched EoE in a formative and particularly lonely period of my life. I felt that it destroyed me initially, but yet constantly drew me back to multiple re-watches. Through these the pieces were put back together, with the context of why and how that movie came to be, and in particular seeing the ultimate hopefulness which I feel that Anno had embedded in it under all that darkness and horror. Said post-traumatic processing, heh, imparted significant resilience to, or perhaps evolved emotional masochism as a coping mechanism/adaptive response to, such depressing subject matter. But it may be a chicken and egg question as to which was first: is it just in my nature to enjoy melancholic works and hence love EoE, or did it induce that aspect in me. Think it's the former as I do remember loving Hardy's novels before I watched EoE (if I remember correctly that it is).
Forgive the self indulgence as I ramble on. I didn't mean the final strangling scene in EoE as being hopeful, that will forever be enigmatically confusing (or misdirecting?). I meant the scenes just prior to the beach when Shinji rejected instrumentality's mind-meld being the answer to humanity's lack of mutual understanding, the hope from his mother, and ultimately accepting our hedgehog(!) natures that we can't live with, nor without each other. Maybe Anno felt that was all too hopeful and needed to bring the mood back down before ending it, hence wanting to strangle his own traitorous optimism. But now that I think about it, maybe it was to show the human nature to not learn and just repeat the same behaviours over and over? I don't know, I have a different interpretation of that scene every time I think about it, ha. But the ultimate message of Eva, for me at least, in all its guises has always been of self-reflection and finding hope within the despair.
I've always had great admiration for Anno for his honest portrayal of his inner mind/hell-scape, though I must say that Naoko Yamada has overtaken him as my favourite director because of her ability to take an unbiased and balanced view of different perspectives of human nature, from individuals' stories, as in Silent Voice and Liz & the Bluebird, to group mentalities borne of individuals, as in The Heike Story and now Jaadugar (which I've only watched a couple of episodes of but absolutely loved what I've seen thus far of). I guess ultimately I like to be in the middle-ish, appreciate the the light of humanity without the folly of denying the darkness within. So even if I've just moved further away from said futon event, I'm happy to play ying to your Yang?, though I like to think (delude?) that I strive to balance both within.. Besides, you have (consciously or sub-consciously) "love" in your username so perhaps you like balance too! My couch/futon always has space for a chat, though at appropriate social distancing of course, our spikes are painful, ha...ha...
Once again apologies for the self indulgence, and back to NLH, yes I really liked that ray of light/sliver of hope from the hostess lady, which as you more succinctly implied, showed up Yozo's fixation of a negative opinion of himself blinding himself to an objective assessment, reflected by the hostess' counter viewpoint. We have a tendency to extremes, delusionally thinking either too highly (cue a big chunk of current social media), or too lowly, of ourselves. For me moderation and the middle path, hopefully through adequate attempts at insight, is important. I am even more intrigued by the manga, though any more hope than is in the hostess' final words I worry may take away their gravity and skew the "balance" for me, so I am simultaneously apprehensive heh. Punpun is my favourite manga (I do like uplifting and heart warming stuff too I'm sure...) and Downfall is currently collecting dust on my shelf so that needs to be bumped up the to-read order. On Yozo (and Punpun actually) being wary of women, I think NLH is the ultimate demonstration of society anxiety, and whilst it's difficult enough to understand oneself, trying then to understand another a human of the same gender, and further then of another gender, it's all just adding more steps/challenges to further make it impossible to understand another.
Sorry for my lack eloquence and brevity, and so I won't keep going on further otherwise apart from fully agreeing with your summary of that central theme of Millennium Actress, and very much also on enjoying Takahata's works more than Miyazaki (as no doubt everyone is fed up of hearing me always harping on about heheh).
Peter Cullen was the voice actor of Optimus Prime in the “Transformers" franchise and voiced the characters Eeyore in "Winnie the Pooh" and Mario in the "Donkey Kong" animated series.
My last pet rabbit died about 11 years ago, he was a breed called Himalayan (the rabbit equivalent of a Siamese cat) and very affectionate. I was so distressed after he died that I never got another rabbit. I think I've had 8 or 9 rabbits over the last 30 years-I wonder if I have a special affinity for them because I was born in the year of the rabbit according to the Chinese zodiac?
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. I'd apologise for being late... that is, if not for ignoring the direct messages of others for months/years (as Rad chose to in reverse; bribing meeee with likes, for women are cruel~) years at this point. 'Tis deeply saddening...
I think it's one of few films both genders can appreciate equally, possibly because it's sentimental but not at all in a cheesy way. Kon telling the story through the movies the heroine made also helped in that regard. Meant to rewatch Only Yesterday (and Whisper of Heart) for ages. Isao Takahata's films held more sway with me than Miyazaki's, for the most part, and films following older women reliving past memories are few. Can see both being hits with moms.
. Unsurprisingly, I fully understand when people are not able to respond at times, or ever, nor is there ever any expectation to respond to any of my drivel, but interesting and amicable conversations are always appreciated nonetheless!
. But now that I think about it, maybe it was to show the human nature to not learn and just repeat the same behaviours over and over
? I don't know, I have a different interpretation of that scene every time I think about it, ha. But the ultimate message of Eva, for me at least, in all its guises has always been of self-reflection and finding hope within the despair. 
), or too lowly, of ourselves. For me moderation and the middle path, hopefully through adequate attempts at insight, is important. I am even more intrigued by the manga, though any more hope than is in the hostess' final words I worry may take away their gravity and skew the "balance" for me, so I am simultaneously apprehensive heh. Punpun is my favourite manga (I do like uplifting and heart warming stuff too I'm sure...) and Downfall is currently collecting dust on my shelf so that needs to be bumped up the to-read order. On Yozo (and Punpun actually) being wary of women, I think NLH is the ultimate demonstration of society anxiety, and whilst it's difficult enough to understand oneself, trying then to understand another a human of the same gender, and further then of another gender, it's all just adding more steps/challenges to further make it impossible to understand another. 
