u/supermurlo64

Hey, on the last few months, I've trying to fix my productivity problems (procrastination, avoiding doing things I would find really hard, overall lazyness), and I have done some progress! Last month I delivered some important tasks for a college project, without the quality being the usual trashy, last minute garbage I usually deliver. This month, I started a two-people-paper, and my partner is *extremelly* competent and one of the best students in my class.

The pressure to not let them down (they invited me to do the work! both of our usual pairings were taken), and do a job on pair with theirs made me power through angst and procrastination, despite the paper being a really hard one to write. It's not like it wasnt challenging, but I actually locked in for once, and I am pretty proud of the first part of the paper.

My problem is, now that I proved to myself that the paper "is not that hard" and that I could, in fact, do a good work just like my colleague, I just... stopped. I once again started to get lazy, or frozen in front of my phone watching YT shorts, or just sitting in front of the computer opening and closing google tabs, watching the hours pass by. I think I might only find will to do this kinds of hard tasks if I feel like Im up against a huge monster, if im the underdog trying to prove myself, in a epic battle fighting for my life or something, but when Im confortable with the situation, my work comes out... extremely wonky, if it even comes out.

One time, with a solo project (no one counting on me) and with an easy topic, I procrastinated so much that I wrote the first line of text with 45 minutes until I had to send the document to my professor. That project from last month, I also was under enormous pressure, because it was a hard and *extremely* important project I was sharing with our whole class. From this and other cases, I think its clearly a pattern

Do you have any tips I can use to lock in even if the sky isnt falling down on my head? It would really help! I don't think it would be healthy to lead a worklife based uppon stress and high stakes scenarios lol

I was thinking, how Araki could shuffle the group's stands around to make cool fight dynamics, and I think it would be cool if, facing against a tanky but short hanged enemy, or even a swordsman stand (like Silver Chariot or Anubis), Usagi turned The Mattekudasai into a sword and gave it to Paco.

That would lead to a very unique battle choreography, that could use to the best both the Mattekudasai and The Hustle. Imagine Paco using the muscles as a way to extend his range, like "the enemy is right behind him, and he just slides the sword through his body and clashes blades holding his own sword with the neck muscles or something"

I just think paco fights are cool tbh I want him wielding a weapon of sorts

One of the main things you see in Jojo is how Araki gets better and better, both as an artist and writter. In part 3, he couldn't write supporting characters that weren't polnareff if it was to save his own life. In Part 9, every arc or so adds a little new detail that recontextualize a previous plot point or character, what I think is really neat. Jojo is a action manga first, and the story was always mostly context for the characters to use their creative powers, but the way he is handling the universe he built here is adding a lot of flavour to P9.

First, Lulu's desire for a father figure recontextualizing her relationship with Bobby Jean and making him go from a plot device at most to something like a backstory element for Lulu, that will most likely keep being relevant later.

Second, the Wild Cat Size pack being revealed to be the ones that led Rohan to find the lava rocks is really fun, like, Araki really reused the filler animal stand users from chapter 4 or something as an explanation for why the *whole story is happening*. Does not change much, but it makes the whole part feel tied together, you know?

And last, Jodio being a victim of gun violence makes the whole Glory Days fight feel like a gut punch. Granted, it would be way better to have seen this BEFORE Glory Days, probably in the place of the Dragona sexual assault scene from the beginning of the part, but I still think it does wonders in favor of Jodio's characterization and in tying the story's themes and plot beats together.

Edit: Usagi feeling rejected by his mother and underserving of love makes most of his moments trying to win the affection of Jodio and Dragona and his despair when Maryl Mei Q was under attack make sense in retrospect, but this is way more like a regular progression of his story than a "minor thing deepened by a detail later added", but I guess it fits my most anyway.