#(now i'm doing them on my own for the first time and they're not going. well. to say the least)

[urban-homesteading]

I had to go to a new town, and since one of my favorite things to do is explore little shops in tiny towns, after I've completed my town task, I start walking around and going in and out of shops.

I go into a used furniture store, but they're remodeling so all the furniture is stacked on top of each other all the way to the ceiling, so I look a little and talk about prices with the two women there, but ultimately thank them and leave without buying anything.

Then I wander further down the street and find a cute little antique store so I wander in. I'm having a good time browsing, but the store is completely empty. No clerk. Which is actually ideal, because it means no small talk or salesman's expectations.

But, when I've been in there for two minutes, one of the women from the first furniture store comes in. And upon seeing my confused face, says, "Oh, I just work at the other place on Thursdays. I own this one. I have a little beeper that alerts me when someone comes in."

Okay then. But now I feel bad, because I'm just browsing and not planning on buying anything, yet I made this woman leave her other job and hustle down here for nothing. Regardless, I look for a little bit longer and then leave.

I wander some more before going into a craft shop, which is also empty, but only for a moment, before the same woman comes out of the back, but in a different shirt.

And she sees my mingled look of disappointment (how many times am I going to bother this woman?) and confusion (how did she get to this one so fast? When did she have time to change her shirt?), she laughs and says, "You must have just come from my sister's antique store."

Anyways, I am now outlawing identical twins in practice and they are also now forbidden from owning multiple stores on the same block.

[rhube]

So, this gets into different types of consciousness and what you mean by a 'channel'. For example, in philosophy of mind, we distinguish between 'Awareness' and 'Attention'. The dominant theory (and this matches my experience, but it might not for you) is that you can only *attend* to one thing at a time, but you can be aware of a BUNCH of shit you're not focusing on.

Like, if someone is drilling in the street outside, a lot of people would be able to sort of tune that out (which I guess is a kind of channel analogy, like the way you tune out a channel of radio), so they're not paying attention to it, but it would still be a sound they are hearing and therefore part of their awareness, and if you said, 'Hey, is someone drilling outside?' They'd be like, 'God, yes, it's been going on for hours! It's so annoying.' Which shows that it was a part of their conscious experience, it just wasn't in the forefront of their minds.

So, on one understanding, you might be aware of a bunch of different concerns about going to the park, only attending to one at a time, but flitting back forth between them.

Now, this comes into collision with the problem that a lot of philosophers of mind spend far too much time thinking about their own experience of their own minds, and not asking other people. Or reinterpreting other people's reported experience to fit their model.

I read a lot about introspection for what my supervisor thought was the best chapter of my thesis, and no one I read mentioned aphasia at all.

Eric Schwitzgebel, who has made introspection his Thing, had a giant footnote about a conference he went to where a bunch of experts got together to discuss what exactly you can introspect, and they couldn't even agree something basic, such as whether there is a quality/qualia/what-it's-likeness of thought beyond what is contained in imagery (visual, audio, picturing words etc).

On learning about aphasia and aphantasia, my first thought was: did no one at this conference have these conditions/why didn't you ask THEM?

Of course, it is the habit of philosophers of mind to both rationalise the reports of others to support their own point of view and to question if we have a common understanding of what qualia are (yes, if you're not into these sorts of questions, we're quite annoying to be around). So it might not resolve the question, but it feels like it should be addressed. If I were well enough, I'd be tempted to look up whether there's been scholarship on this, seeing as people are talking about it more, but anyway...

Point is: I see you say you think in different channels at once, and I try to understand it through my own experience, which is as of a whole muddy collection of stuff going on in my head (some conscious, some self-conscious, some subconscious, some unconscious, some moving between those different related states) but there's only ever one thing I'm ATTENDING to.

And this is how I understand it when Occupational Health Therapists tell me I can only ever think about one thing or task at once (which at face value is just false if you have studied minds at all), and when I think I'm multitasking I am in fact context-switching (be proud of me, I have never said to any of their faces, 'Actually, as a philosopher of mind...'). What take them to really mean is that I can only attend to one thing at a time.

This makes sense to me, as although I can listen to music and write and scratch my nose at the same time, I cannot do more than one linguistic task at a time. I cannot SING ALONG to a song and write at the same time, although I am still aware of the song in the background. I have a really strong memory of reading an Anne McCaffrey book where some of the telepaths could hold simultaneous conversations in their heads and just not being able to picture how it would work. And this was when I was in my teenage I Want To Believe phase, so I really did try. It's not possible for me, and I account for it through the attention thing. Linguistic thinking requires attention to formalise the thought in words, and you can only attend to one thing at once.

Based on this, I interpret your description of having 'channels' as really just hopping your attention about between the various miasma of stuff going on in your head (what Kant would call the manifold of intuition), but only ever attending to one thing at a time. It makes sense of the fact that the brain has different subdivisions which, although flexible, are generally devoted to doing different things.

BUT I COULD BE WRONG ABOUT THAT.

The pesky thing about thought and experience is that we aren't telepaths and it isn't communally available. This means our language can't 'triangulate' effectively on the meanings of our words for what is revealed my introspection. If you point at a rabbit and say 'gavagai', I have somewhere to start when it comes to investigating what you mean. You, me, and the rabbit form a triangle that helps me 'locate' your meaning. But you can't point to stuff inside your mind. Despite what science fiction tells us, we can only get rudimentary information about what you're thinking from fMRI scans and the like (at least, so far). So when we're using mental terms to describe what's going on inside, our reference points for potentially shared experiences will always be vaguer. Things like sharp pains are easier than questions about the what-it's-like-ness of thoughts, as it's usually pretty clearly associated with an external object that caused the pain.

To me, it feels like my mind is a swamp of gestating thought and experience, which I can understand as different modules of my meat-based neural net surfacing stuff that requires high-level thought for my conscious attention so I can sort out the stuff that cannot be sorted out by reflex. That makes sense of my experience. I don't believe that anyone thinks in complete and discrete linguistic internal monologues with good sentence structures - aphasia, aphantasia, or otherwise.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you really do have distinct, separate channels. Maybe Anne McCaffrey could think about two different linguistic lines of thought at once, and that's why she thought some of her characters could.

Who knows! We haven't really been able to finalise an agreed-upon definition for 'thought' or 'idea' so I dunno how we can hope to start with stuff like this.

Here endeth the ramble.

Thanks for coming to another session of, 'gee, I wish a philosopher of mind didn't follow me'. I will shut up now.

Okay so some people can’t see objects in their imagination and some people don’t think in words and some people hear their thoughts like a voice and others don’t. I get that

But how many distinct channels do most folks have playing at once? cause my normal range is 2-4 and I though that was just what thinking was LIKE but CBD brings that down to just 1

[centaurianthropology]

What a season finale!

This was such a good final episode for season 1. It sets up MB's future adventures, but also subtly sets up what I'm guessing will be PresAux's own adventures. I have to believe that they'll be bringing the full cast back for next season, because they've spent so much time making us love them, and they have so much room to grow.

I love the additions. Wiping its memory really drove home more than anything how objectified SecUnits are in the CR, and how terribly they're treated. It also set us up to let Pin-Lee start to go full attack-lawyer on everyone, let Mensah start really acting like a planetary leader, and let Gurathin go full corporate spy one last time for a good cause. I love how they all pulled together, even the ones who couldn't do much. I love that SecUnit has a home, whenever it wants to come to it on its own terms.

God I loved the final scene between it and Gurathin, where he 100% understood what was about to happen. He offered it the same experience he had, only to realize it wanted something different, and because he now completely understands it's a person with its own wants and desires--he carried those wants and desires in his head for a good chunk of the episode, after all--he knows he has to let it go.

It was such a well-earned scene, played so well. All the scenes were well-earned. Mensah's tears at the end as she also realizes it has to come to Preservation when it wants and under its own terms, is perfect. Its little smile at the end, its last connection with her, are perfect.

And honestly? I am so glad we ended exactly where ASR ended. I am glad we didn't go any further, because to go further would be to step on what is a beautiful moment between MB and its humans. I know a lot of folks wanted an ART stinger at the end, but that would have killed the moment. ART will have its time next season. MB will face new challenges, as, I hope, will PresAux. I hope we get a lot more of everyone's growth, coming back together in the end.

I feel like this show, having centered PresAux far more than the books, has their relationship with MB at its heart, and just like the first four books, it will return to them.

I am so looking forward to next season, because I want to see more of all these characters. I love all of them so much, and I hope all of them return. I hope we see some combination of the next two books, with SecUnit going on its journey of self-discovery. I hope it also gives us PresAux's story of struggling with GrayCris and the CR in more detail, as we've spent so much time with them and I want to keep going with their story too.

And I'm interested in bringing in the new characters, whoever they may be. I am almost certain ART will be there, and I am excited for that in perhaps a different way than most book readers. My great 'Murderbot Diaries' sin, I suppose, is that I am fairly ART-neutral as far as my tastes go. I know for many people that's their favorite character, and I'm thrilled for them! For me, it's not my favorite character, but I'm never sad when it pops up. I feel about ART in the books about like I feel about Arada or Bharadwaj in the books. I'm happy they're there, but their presence in a book isn't going to make me hungry to read the book. But I have come to adore both Arada and Bharadwaj over the course of this season, so I am excited to see ART next season, specifically because I hope to have that same experience. I may never love it quite like I love the PresAux crew, but I am excited to see what the showrunners do with it, and with the story in the next season.

Here's to season 2! Hope to see all the cast and crew back and doing exciting new things!

[ladyloveandjustice]

So I guess the anti-Alfredisms extend to his relationship with Steph for some now, and as someone who carefully catalogued any tiny history Steph had with anyone for my little wiki, it's an excuse to talk about a relationship that doesn't get much screentime or attention, so here I go...

And I'm here to say... they got along fine preboot and liked each other fine.

Steph and Alfred were hilariously pissy to each other when she first met him, there was shittiness on both sides (Alfred was pissy about the betrayal of Tim despite the fact it was not Steph's fault (not being able to yell at Bruce personally was clearly a factor here, poor Steph gets caught in the crossfire again), and Steph did make a pretty dismissive comment that set him off) but they're shown to be definitively caring about each other and getting along by the time she comes back from the dead.

I remembered this because I thought it was cute and eagerly added it to his little character relationship profile on my Steph wiki, It's even by the same person who wrote their first meeting, Chuck Dixon:

They held hands, that's practically a bear hug if you're Alfred. (Robin 174)

I'm guessing the main basis to the idea they don't get along is how he objected to Steph becoming Robin immediately after she applied. Aside from me trying not to judge any character who has the misfortune of being written by Willingham too harshly, the objections basically centered around 1. why are you replacing Tim so quickly? and with his own girlfriend? 2. You said she wasn't suitable for the field why are you changing your mind 3. PLEASE tell me you're not doing this to manipulate Tim into coming back. Which Bruce notably did not respond to. Implying he was indeed doing it to manipulate Tim. Because he was currently also in the throes of the misfortune of being written by Willingham.

It seemed more out of concern for Bruce's sudden attitude shift, concern for Tim, and even concern for the possibility of her being used, than anything against Steph personally, and considering how down on Steph everyone else was all the time too, it doesn't really stick out as unusual.

There were solid signs he cared about Steph before this too that Willingham likely didn't know about, he was pretty kind to her when Bruce fired her the first time. Though his internal reaction with Bruce told him was "ooookaaay one less child to worry about after curfew, I guess probably it'll work out for the best?" he did immediately call Tim and tell him Steph needed comforting, which was nice:

(Gotham Knighs #37)

Then an issue later (38), he talked to Bruce about it further and actually challenged him on his reasoning for firing her, pointing out he was being a huge hypocrite:

Bruce's reasoning here is incredible. "Look Alfred I just decided I can't keep up with everyone's names so one of them had to go, Stephanie's who i chose, get off my ass"

He was also crying post War Games when Dick woke up, and the implication was it was due to Steph's death. He further lamented it in another issue.

So like. idk. It honestly doesn't add much to either of their characters for them to have beef with each other, and there's not much evidence or basis for it in the comics exactly like with Jason, and much more definitive evidence that their relationship evolved into one of mutual respect and care (she also confided in him about her worries about Tim in Nicieza's Robin run, etc) by the time she was back from the dead. Notably, he stuck up for her in Bruce Wayne The Road Home: Batgirl too.

He's obviously always going to be closer to the other Robins and Cass than her, since she isn't a part of the Wayne family, and he spends more time with them. I think there's evidence he might show some favoritism towards Tim in conflicts involving them both for this reason as well, as both times he's not been great about her, concern for Tim's feelings seem to be a motivator. He's VERY attached to Tim.

(Notably this does not mean he doesn't generally support their relationship. See the above where he gave Tim a heads up, I also recall him teasing Tim about her in the early days, he was the first one who called that Tim liked her, actually, before even Tim himself admitted it)

I could see these biases feeding Steph's insecurities in an interesting way, but that's about the extent of it.

In general "this character made exactly one or two mean comments about a character I like so they hate them and I hate this character..." it's not a new attitude, but it's one that has stuck out to me as more prevalent in comics fandom these days my brief return. It seems weird to have that take for comics where there's multiple writers, so you really have to go with patterns of behavior that stick. Alfred being caring towards or sticking up for Steph in some way is significantly more of a pattern than being rude about her. They've had a sweet moment or two!

It's also the difference between "this character can have flaws"--Alfred might show favoritism towards Tim sometimes or have a bad moment--and like. he's bad and cruel and he and Steph have a bad relationship. One is interesting to me and the other isn't.

[lollytea]

I watched Lilo and Stitch AGAIN today and I'm always impressed by the amount of thought put into the storytelling and the convoluted details that evade plot holes and just makes everything fall perfectly into place.

Like WHY are Jumba and Pleakley, of all people, tasked with capturing Stitch despite Jumba's untrustworthiness and general unstable personality and the Galatic Federation literally having a highly trained and competent fleet of space cops who managed to capture Stitch in the first place? Well, it's quite simple, actually. They are under the belief that Earth is a protected wildlife reserve, and its lifeforms are extremely delicate and easily panicked by disturbances, so sending the SWAT team to raid the place isn't allowed. Aliens, as established in this universe, are all about rules. In order to retrieve Stitch discreetly, they must deploy somebody with a deep understanding of his nature, making Jumba their ONLY option. Pleakley is also a clever character to add to the story, as his presence means that Jumba's trigger happy personality can remain intact. Like Jumba doesn't give a shit about disrupting the peace. The only reason he's restraining himself in any way is because Pleakley is managing (though struggling) to keep him on a leash. Pleakley's insistence on not revealing themselves to humans is the one thing keeping them, as antagonists, at bay for most of the film so Lilo and Stitch's relationship has time to breathe.

Like you certainly don't NEED all this explanation for the setup. I probably wouldn't have questioned it. But I appreciate that it's there. It's like an extra layer of attention they dedicated to the plot.

And then there's the concept of Stitch being specifically designed to seek out large cities and cause mass mayhem and the beautiful irony of him landing on the island of Kauai. So what is he supposed to do now? He's not exactly harmless but he's significantly more declawed than he WOULD BE if there was a city around. He's mostly uninterested in destroying tiny towns, so he's just kinda set adrift in terms of motivation. Meaning he is literally FORCED to start questioning the meaning of his own life because all distraction/indulgences have been taken away from him.

And of course there's the question of why he doesn't just LEAVE Kauai and seek out cities elsewhere. Well he's terrified of water. Obviously! His molecular density is too great! He is essentially stranded here.

AND there is the case of Lilo and Nani. I really really love how barely anything about their situation is explained except that their parents are gone, but that information alone makes everything perfectly clear. The way Nani struggles to keep the house clean, to keep a job, to even step up and suddenly become a warm, comforting mother figure to a six year old child who, until this point, had just been her weird annoying baby sister. It's clear that Nani had never been parentified before this. The girls' parents were obviously very present in their lives, definitely enough to take care of Lilo and let Nani go through her teen years carefree and unfettered. So understandably, everything fell apart when they died.

The way Lilo is bullied relentlessly for her strange coping mechanisms, the way her grief manifests into unchecked rage and rebellion, which in turn DOUBLES Nani's problems. The Show Don't Tell is so brilliant I clench my fist so hard just thinking about it.

Lilo's weirdness alone is enough of a foundation for her to gravitate towards Stitch, but there is also that underlying sense of understanding between the two of them. A pair of (basically) children, from two entirely different worlds, who haven't even been alive that long but people have already decided that they're strange and unnatural and violent and dangerous, but in actuality they just feel quite hollow inside, because the lives they're supposed to have are destroyed, so now they have to rebuild from the ground up.

ALSO I just talked a lot about how much sense everything makes but they include a few things that are so odd that they have to cash in a few "suspend your disbelief" favours to the audience. And honestly. Do it. It makes the movie so much funnier.

Why does nobody see through Jumba and Pleakley's dogshit human disguises? Don't worry about it.

Why did they throw what they BELIEVED to be a dead dog into a kennel?? I don't know and you can keep asking about that but just so you know, there's a red dot aimed at your forehead.

Anyway, Lilo and Stitch has such a beautiful balance between logic and nonsense. I adore it.

[atlas7seo]

Spoilers for new Genshin interlude teaser ig

My general thoughts

Ok bruh? What???

Firstly, those little cubes seem like they are their own little ecosystems, so hypothetically since we don't quite know, they could be other worlds?? Or prototype Arks. If we go with the theory that Teyvat is a mismatch of multiple different locations then it is possible each of those cubes are the "source code" for Teyvat. They also belong to Asmoday, so its very interesting about what's going on with these cubes. It seems like the life and history of the people though were made by Rhinedottir and Istaroth. So maybe they're incapable of sustaining life.

Second, other people can see Celestia! This is good to know since I'm pretty sure besides seeing it in game as a player, no npc ever mentions it. Unless its a Khaenri'ah thing. Pierro what are your eyes doing lol? 👁👁

Third, Shade reveals! This is great, crazy but great. They want to intervene but only allowed somewhat? I wonder if Gold can intervene more given her situation. Also the fact that Celestia being asleep is noted also by the shades is interesting. I wonder why they didn't do anything in Fontaine. But given Pierro's monologue, I guess they were just totally shocked at the concept of a god dying. This also implies that the Fatui want to kill a God, probably the Primordial One

Fourth, its great that we finally got 100% confirmation that the Sustainer is Asmoday/Shade of Space since thats mostly been speculation. Also switching sides??? "Loving her new master more than herself"?? Okay so Paimon then??? Its still a theory but Paimon is looking awfully sus rn. Also Asmoday just has little cubes sitting around of random locations and people. Like bruh why? Girl is a collector ig

Fifth, so Rhinedottir is in an interesting position now. She technically controls Naberius and her powers, but Naberius still has some agency over what Rhinedottir can do. So she can't rebel against the Heavenly Principles like the Shades assume Asmoday has. Though it seems Rhinedottir mostly only cares about her research and Naberius so I don't think she minds too much. But Ronova makes it clear that both of them can create life? Since apparently there's a difference and its very silly that the Shades are just chill with it, but it seems Naberius is fond of Gold so maybe thats why. The fact that Gold is doing experiments in Asmoday's cubes are interesting though. I don't really have a theory as to why yet, but something to chew on. And that thye can't sustain life. Hypothetically these cubes could be a prototype for the Atlas of the New World maybe?

Sixth, Istaroth sharing the same voice actor as Venti in every language is crazy. Really asks what the true connection between the two is. That one video that went viral with time powers Venti might not be that far off in reality. Also Istaroth is able to give "history". I assume the "them" could either refer to the people in the cube or the Abyss Twin. If its in the cube, Istaroth can basically create backstory out of thin air which is terrifying. Thats like rewriting memories which could be interesting on the matters of our twin. Or the Abyss Twin by making them be recorded by Teyvat. And because she was "bored"???

Seventh, Shades were in Khaenri'ah. So its likely our Sibling might have seen one. That raises an interesting question since Asmoday "switched sides" from speculation of the other shades. This is likely when that would have happened because the video states that this is the first time not all of them were present. What if us getting captured was part of a big plan? Khaenri'ah got punished for "gazing at the gods" if Pierro's monologue is anything to go by. This is fascinating.

Eighth, ok what is up with Istaroth man? Whose side is she on, because for a while she seemed to defy the HP due to Enkenomiya and The Sakura. But no? Ig? She still loyal or she's playing the long game which is also very likely

Ninth, so the Shades are very much aware of the Twins because of that beginning story. They don't actually speak about them. Its just in the history said earlier by the cube people.

Ok tenth because Im running out of time. The story at the beginning is interesting because it seems that Asmoday is not doing her job? Also the people started to die when they got to her portion. And I know Ronova is killing them, but maybe its also cursed to not tell certain information? Like secret contracts of silence.

Lastly, Columbina is either hiding, ran away, or kidnapped to Nod Krai. Given the fact they mentioned the Frost Moon Scions, it could means she is one of them which I believe is a pending theory. So I'm guessing she'll be our main Harbinger in Nod Krai. Palestar Edict is interesting though, because it was to send the Harbingers to Nod Krai but Columbina is assumably there already??? So what does this mean.

Also the glitching. Why the glitching!?? Teyvat simulation failure lol?

[cheschesterpossum]

(In reference to that Yandere Transformers post about turning humans into Cybertronians, bc it's kinda scaaary. And I like thinking about the angst.)

(It could be something regular Rung and Primes do as well, but it fits SG! Rung and Primes slightly better.)

Hear me out.

SG! Rung, and the Primes figuring out how to transform humans into Cybertronians so they could preserve their (Favorite) creator, and not lose them in, like, 50 Earth Years. Once they're transformed, Y/N has to learn how to adapt to their new life as one of the creatures they helped to create. Unable to go back to their old life even if they wanted to.

I imagine that they'd probably be, like, a regular Cybertronian? They aren't gonna start out godlike, or anything. lmao. The only thing they do have going for them is the knowledge of how to control/kill switch other Cybertronians. Which is strong, sure, but not something that can't be countered with careful planning. Also, Primus, and the Primes themselves answer to them. So yeah.

Them starting out normal won't stop their clingy immortal son, and grand children from making them immortal as well, though. Maybe even giving them Prime/God status of their own volition to allow them enough strength to keep up with them.

-Perchance Anon

Oh my goodness how are you so big brained Perchance???

(I know you meant for this to be wholly platonic with Rung, but I feel like this could be both romantic or platonic)

(Also SG Primes are all asshole, they're the one putting the cogless bots in the mine, not Sentinel. Just my way of interpreting sg universe for tfone)

The SG!Primes and SG!Rung, as much as they're a bunch of evil little shits they're absolutely terrified of losing their y/n (again). The abandon arc left them all with abandonment issue whether they're aware or not.

The first time you're gone maybe temporary (for a long gosh darn time by the pocket universe's standard) but you being gone of old age is permanent, and that terrify them to the core.

I like to think y/n start off as a cogless bot at first bcs the Primes and Rung were pretty hasty when turning them into a cybertronian. I'm making y/n small af compared to their brats (like how small cogless bot are compared to the Primes. They're massive wtf). Adapting to your new form is going to be pretty tricky but worry not as your beloved creations are here to guide you! (Also for some reason you still have your human organs but they're made of metal now, but your heart is replaced with spark, just bcs I like weird body horror)

Can you imagine how scandalous that would be? The Primes? Having a cogless bot around? And catering towards their needs? Did the Primes just call the bot 'SIRE'? Letting that COGLESS bot boss the PRIMES around? Wait wtf do you mean Primus and the Matrix flog towards the bot as well? WHO IS THIS???????

Even SG!Sentinel is baffled as well, he have no idea where y/n come from, their origin and who they are (whenever he try to ask the Primes get strangely hostile and on guard towards him). But other than that he's really concerned for you, because like he's been around the Primes for a long time (not as much as you but shhhh) so... were you kidnapped? (Tbh yeah) Are they keeping you as a pet? Are they keeping you hostage?

I do think they'll make you a lot more durable than the average bot, like INSANELY durable, so you could keep up with them and wouldn't get crushed by just a hug. You're a walking indestructible cogless deity or demi-god now.

Aside from that I'd like to add a side effect: considering y/n have a bond that runs deep with with Primes and Primus (Rung), their spark is connected to them. The Primes and Rung can feel your emotions and can sense when you're in danger or distress- this caused you to have less personal space- bcs whenever they remotely sense that you're upset at something they're getting there at light speed.

One of the High Guard: *makes a not so funny pun*

SG!y/n: erm... haha-

*The wall besides you two explode as your brats(Primes) burst through it, and they're ready to give the high guard a demotion (death)*

Either that or Rung strike the "offending" bot down with a lightning strike out of nowhere. Doesn't matter if it's sunny or you two are inside a building.

Due to that everyone is walking on eggshells whenever they're in y/n's presence, they value their lives.

When you recharge (if you're not being cuddled by SG!Rung in a bone breaking grip already) you can hear whispers of Rung's voice, not in your audials but in your processor. He whispers many things and many reassurance, sprinkle in some manipulation to keep you here.

Did I forget to mention you don't have much freedom either? They keep you in the palace 24/24 because they're paranoid of y/n escaping or being stolen by someone or getting hurt or worse killed. Even if you go outside there will always be company, whether it'd be the Primes, (usually) Rung or the few high guards they trust to be with you.

The Primes would constantly try to show off and one up eachother now that their sire is back in their life, just like good old time. But more often than not Rung would whisk y/n away when they're not looking.

On the upside you're treated very well! The way they act to others and towards you is like black and white. You could call the Primes by their name (not title) or nickname anytime you want ("Hey Megatronny"), but if other bot calls them that? That bot is dead.

You can still scold them and boss them around ("Onyx! Stop trying to peck your siblings processor!), and they'd listen (hopefully). They're more like clingy spoiled brats to you than anything. The power you held is... terrifying to everyone else ngl.

You may never be able to get back to your world or be human anymore. But hey you have free healthcare, food, no need to pay rent, no need to pull an all-nighter for work now! Not like you can escape Rung's watchful optic anyway👁👁 (from having a job to being unemployed, best glow up yet).

And ykw? Feel free to activate and use the Matrix of Leadership anytime you want. You still can't believe the toy you bought from ebay turned divine.

[somegrumpynerd]

Thinking about how Nightmare has 4 mortals and 3 of them are so so bad at taking care of themselves

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[krismatic]

wow i've never had a hyperfixation die this fast

[hirazuki]

Re: Naruto characters I dislike -- under the cut! :)

The thing with Danzo and Tobirama is that, I get it. I might not agree with it, at all, but I get where they're coming from and, honestly, I am very much self-aware enough that, if I had lived through their same experiences, I can't say for sure that I would have done any different. Did they do terrible things? Absolutely. But, again, I can't proclaim with surety that I'd be any better. Like, I can sit here from my current seat and judge them, but experiences color perception and I'm just as susceptible to bias as everyone else is. Who knows what my outlook would be had I lived through the First and/or Second War.

The thing with Rasa and Chiyo is that, there is some resolution. It's definitely too little, too late, especially in Rasa's case, but there is growth and admittance of fault there so that, even if I don't actually like either character, the character development present in the storyline (particularly for Chiyo!) is such that it somewhat cancels my dislike out, leaving me with largely neutral feelings. I did used to have stronger feelings against them, but I suppose it's true that you mellow out with age lmao

The thing with Hiruzen and Hagoromo and Fugaku is that I neither get it, nor is there any character development or admittance/recognition of fault on their part XD

[goldentigerfestival]

I've updated the GotC manga links on my blog on their dedicated page, so that the GotC translations page now gives the option to view the chapters on Tumblr via my blog, or via the imgur album versions.

Previously I only had the blog version linked on my blog outside of the posts for their release. Since the GotC manga will be concluded with the short chapter that will be up soon, I've reorganized the links a little bit for easier accessibility to them (you can't zoom in on the pages on my blog, which can also make it basically impossible to read some of the notes pages, but if people aren't worried about zooming in then you can still read it via the blog).

As usual, be on the lookout for the next manga I'm working on (plus the single remaining chapter of another manga), as well as drama CDs! Since the stageplay bonus segments are a collaboration project, I'm not doing those on my own and won't be releasing them until Kana and I have both confirmed we're all set on our respective ends of the segments. We haven't determined yet whose blog those will be posted on, but Kana usually handles stageplays on the whole (these are bonus segments and not the main play, so that's why I'm not sure whose blog we're plopping those posts on), so I'll be sure to reblog the posts when they come out if they're on Kana's blog.

Aside from that stuff, I still have the snippet I'm planning to do for TalesFes 2016, though no release window on that yet. I'll probably be getting back to some Rays stuff soon (I have several skits translated, but I'd like to go over them and touch them up a bit first since those were first drafts, and then I've gotta input the English text in my game and record it, then I have to crop the ends of the video and export it, then upload it to YT and make a post for it on Tumblr, so it's a bit of a process and why I've delayed it recently), and Claw's Asteria stuff is still on the backburner. I'm genuinely unsure if people care about the Vesperia tenth anni party stuff being translated, but I've had it in mind. It's very long though so it's also on the backburner for now.

That's where things are at atm, and thanks for all the support from folks and the kind tags! I really appreciate them very much! 🙏

[gu6chan]

oh yeah!!!! forgot to mention this is my last day at work :') honestly the pay wasn't the greatest (not complaing though, this is a public position and it was certainly enough to get by) but ngl this was probably one of the most enjoyable jobs ive had 😭❤️ for a ridiculously conservative population like this im glad they seemed to enjoy the numerous marxist solutions to all their problems getting slid in under the reasoning of "community/small town values" and "neighbours having each other's back" and 5 minute small talk about how taxes work at the line in the grocery store lmao

[britneyshakespeare]

i am at the looking-at-dolls-as-self-soothing part of the night. i definitely wanna beef up my bratz collection since unboxing my alwayz bratz yasmin was just like... oh... oh man... and... and i didn't think it'd be like that for me man i didn't think i had as much nostalgia for bratz as i actually do not just buy owning some but by touching them and playing w their clothes and their hair.

and one of my issues of course is that i'm a redhead and as a redhead my Default Lookalike Doll is meygan (not that having a doll that looks like you is the most important part of bratz, but it is so much of the fun right? the fact that there's a character out there for just about everyone?). and i like meygan as a character well enough, that's not the issue. but of the meygan dolls that have been reproduced, there's none of them that are like, hardcore needs for me except for sweetheart meygan. and i did not buy sweetheart meygan in time. i was not really collecting at that point. that was like 2022. i had a few... na na na surprise dolls at that time. which is funny bc i have four of those that i got all either on clearance or w giftcards and i do really like them even though a lot of doll collectors thought they were kinda dumb, and they were. i just liked the gimmick of the fabric bodies and there were just enough dolls i thought were really cute that i kinda caved at one point. i also knew it was a brand i wouldn't go overboard with. anyway. we were talking about meygan...

sorry meygan back to you girl. i know original 2000s bratz that have not yet been reproduced at crazy expensive on the secondhand market and it's genuinely out of control. but sweet heart meygan, both the repro and the original, are selling for triple digits on mercari, ebay, what have you. that's just ridiculous. frankly. i'm not buying her at that. i don't even like her enough to hunt for her regularly, if that's how it's gonna be. there are plenty of more readily-available bratz dolls that are either regular retail price or clearancing online andin stores. did you guys know alwayz bratz jade is going for 15 bucks on amazon right now? that's crazy. the other always bratz dolls aren't going for that low if they're even marked down yet. that release wasn't even that long ago. anyway i'm thinking of getting jade from that line bc i know some ppl thought that alwayz jade was a let-down, but i thought she was cute. yasmin was my favorite from that line and that's why i got her but jade was my second fave there easily.

i also wanna get the kumi they reproduced sometime and maybe girls nite out cloe since i see she's still available. it's funny there aren't that many core girls i've wanted from the repros but if i go for any of the cloes, new or old, it's gotta be girls nite out. cloe isn't even usually my favorite character no offense blondes she's just kinda. she's just kinda cloe to me. idk i love her but i'm not gagged over her most of the time. these are still bratz standardz we're talking about here so obviously i love her.

there's nothing going on in the world right now other than my bratz dolls. and if someone we won't mention wins the election, i'm definitely going doll crazy. i'm gonna be buying dolls after this anyway, but i'm gonna justify spending an unusual, nearly-irresponsible amount of money. you know. bc i'm an adult and i can.

hey also and of all the lines they could've reproduced why is their most recent slumber party? why? why? when the poll posted by mga had tokyo a go go WINNING? bc tokyo a go go is the correct option? i mean the slumber party line is cute and i like the base dolls and the accessories especially the stuffed animals are cute. but. everyone knows the bratz audience these days is adult collectors. which adult collectors are losing their minds over dolls in pajamas and bathrobes? again they're CUTE. but why. also why did they reproduce bratz babyz when those things were nightmare fuel

[adore-gregor]

ugh there it goes