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Postliminary Conversations

always thought that Silco became a council member in the ep 7 AU... I would've loved to see him interact w/ Mel or Cassandra 🥹🥹🥹

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Stylized eucalyptus bark by Jose河西西

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Man I hate holiday traffic

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Nicole Cliffe has a whole twitter thread about funny/horrifying anaesthesia stories that you should read all of, but this is definitely my favourite  

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Meteorologist at NWS Omaha are tired of your comments on Facebook. After posting this forecast early this morning:

Which shows the impending snowstorm for the region they followed up with this delightful bit of snark later.

When people ask me where I’m from I’m just gonna say the Zone of Disappointment from now on.

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Eldritch Pomegranate

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you have to give it a pastrami sub every day or else it makes noise all night long!

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Cloud and Tifa celebrating Hanukkah for @jochai! Yuffie was curious so they invited her.

[Image Description: Digital fanart of Cloud, Tifa, and Yuffie depicted from the waist up. Cloud is lighting the last candle on a hanukkiah which rests on the table in front of them. Tifa stands on his left watching with a soft smile, while Yuffie is on his right, leaning forward with her arms resting atop the table. The three of them are wearing sweaters, Yuffie in purple, Cloud in navy blue, and Tifa in white. /end ID]

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Did you see that Magic: the Gathering now has a game state in which you need to prove that there are an infinite number of twin primes to win? I can explain it more if you are interested.

(With reference to this post here.)

By all means, please tell us about the Magic: the Gathering combo which requires proving the twin prime conjecture in order to win.

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Thinking about Mouthwashing again. This has probably been said more eloquently by other people before now, but I need to put it in my own words and release it from my brain like a frantic canary in a cage.

There's a lot that's been said about how Curly wasn't really there for Anya when she needed him and how his enabling of Jimmy due to their past and his need to see the best in others (or frankly any basis you want to apply here) despite the damage to others damned both of them. And it's all things that need to be said; whether or not he's a Good Person, Curly's actions permitted a panicked narcissist at the end of his rope to destroy five people's lives in a vain attempt at self-preservation.

But then you have Swansea. Swansea spends the entire game gruffly tolerating Daisuke when their job is moving smoothly and their biggest crisis is "Daisuke got stuck in the emergency foam." And yet, when the chips are down, he's got Daisuke's back.

Swansea goes out of his way to try to establish some engineering lessons for Daisuke, even though he likely was never trained in that capacity as the Tulpar's mechanic. Swansea establishes to Anya away from Jimmy that the one functioning pod would go to Daisuke. ("No. I understand completely. If that’s how it has to be-") Swansea gives Daisuke the mercy of a swift death when Jimmy is fully committing to drawing out Daisuke's misery despite his grievous injuries, just as he's commanded Curly be kept alive.

It's extremely cathartic to see Swansea attack Jimmy with the axe, as someone who empathizes with Anya and her circumstances. But he's not doing it for Anya. He's never been doing it for her. It's always been for Daisuke. He knows prior to her locking herself in Medical that she's been assaulted. ("Hah! I sure did talk to Anya. But it was her telling me all sorts of things instead, wasn’t it?") And yet. And yet he does nothing, not until Jimmy finally goads and manipulates Daisuke into suffering fatal wounds to re-open Medical so he can regain access to Curly. Anya overdoses on painkillers and dies, but only Daisuke's death actually spurs him to take action against Jimmy.

Anya told Curly, who did nothing. Anya also told Swansea, who also did nothing.

Say nothing, and you're fucked. Say something, and no one does anything meaningful about it, anyway.

This wasn't Anya's worst moment, far from it. But it was probably one of Swansea's.

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City of Mint. Made with Canvas of Kings.

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Ding Bao and the Unicorn by Lin Chang