#(tbf a lot of them are relatively minor but that’s not the issue the issue is keeping track of them all)

[boneless-mika]

I fucking hate the like autistic thing where I can’t be productive if I have a specific time I need to do something because whenever I have an afternoon lecture it just ruins my day. I’d love to get ahead on the fucking mountain of assignments in my sociolinguistics course alas I have a lecture 12-14 in sociolinguistics (funny sociolinguistics is keeping me from studying sociolinguistics)

This means even if I do nothing else in the city I won’t be home until 15:30 at the earliest and then I’ll have dinner because with a lecture starting at 12 I don’t have time for lunch so I’ll want to eat as soon as possible and after dinner I don’t have any energy left (I generally don’t have any energy in the afternoon)

[cherubchoirs]

Can i confess something, sooo i may or may not have seen spoilers of P5S (i spent the last hour just watching spoiler boss battles,location,character,etc i feel numb and lost ).Which is weird since i been avoid P5 ROYAL spoilers, like the plague but with P5S i just embrace that plague

MAJOR P5S SPOILERS UNDER THE READ MORE!

i’m the kind of person that ALWAYS intentionally spoils myself bc i know i can’t avoid things for that long and also i can’t stand not knowing lmao i watched a lot of the stream...and...i’m glad you left this ask so i can get some venting out sjdfshdf p5s and all of the indicators we got for things i really wanted are all the reasons why i don’t hype myself for things and get my expectations up. case in point: joker’s “shadow”. joker’s “shadow” turned out to be...nothing. just akane’s cognition that was a minor (but relatively neat) boss battle. i did make mention in another ask that i was worried that could be the case - show “shadow” joker in the pv, a shot atlus KNOWS will cause major intrigue and hype when out of context because what could it be??? joker turned evil??? joker facing his shadow??? not knowing but offering up a very provocative shot like that lets fan imagination run WILD. this is done all the time though - offer up something that looks super interesting out of context, but in context is actually minor and really nothing like what the fans thought it would be. marketing knows those shots will cause excitement and speculation, but the downside is that if it doesn’t deliver in the actual story, it inevitably disappoints. and i’ll admit....i was disappointed despite suspecting it was going to end up being a whole lot of nothing. people had speculated it had to do with akane’s cognition, so i wasn’t totally surprised, but it felt like a letdown all the same because it had so much potential based on the little we saw in the pv.

and now to my personal grievance: the demiurge was not yaldabaoth. like??? are they fucking kidding?????? the demiurge and yaldabaoth are just two names for the same figure, a figure that is already established in p5, and they just...gave that name....to a completely separate character???? that has very little to do with yaldabaoth??? tbf it was a deity creature spawned in the “abyss” (the depths of mementos ok ok) and was there to grant people’s wishes...so honestly effectively the EXACT same character, just...weaker. i would have vastly preferred a weakened and embittered yaldabaoth - basically what i envisioned was a sort of zombie god, half-dead or semi-resurrected but still with a giant bullet hole through his head and just leaching off of the desires of the public to maintain himself. he gains this through connecting himself to emma, hearing all the wishes of the public and basically hijacking the app to use as a new metanav (since he’s now too weak to create his own). it would have been better to me that way bc then the rehashing of p5′s plot makes sense, because it’s just yaldabaoth pulling his old shit because he’s too damaged to formulate a new plan - he’s basically a big broken supercomputer running the same program because it’s all he can do. but with an entirely “new” villain just basically being...the exact same thing...feels sort of pointless? they even!!!! just gave it another name for yaldabaoth!!!! it just feels silly to me.

BUT...i think this was more a marketing problem (or possibly an issue in translation, as articles in english may have misrepresented atlus’s statements). p5s was elevated from spin-off to sequel (which seems to have been retracted DAYS before the release lmao), and that made people expect so much more. a good comparison here is honestly pq2 - i was disappointed with scramble, but very happy playing pq2 because i went in with no expectations and just wanted to have fun. if p5s had been the same, i would have probably liked it a lot for just expanding on the thieves and giving us new adventures with them. but instead i was set up to believe this was the sequel, and it falls short of something that important. honestly it feels very pq2 to me - it’s nothing to take serious and it’s just another romp with the thieves. if i had gone in with that mindset, i would have had very little complaints, but that’s not how they marketed the game. now like. i don’t really agree with people saying it was AWFUL or a dumpster fire, it was just the expectations were set way too high (although tbh it feels like a lot of people went in wanting to hate scramble and see it fail so like. grain of salt all around to opinions). i think the game itself does look really fun and i’ll totally be playing it, as i think these sour feelings will be gone by the time it gets a western release because as a spin-off, it’s totally fine. but as a sequel, it fails, and that’s the issue. 

[faejilly]

@beatperfume replied to your post “<p>In regards to the whole Magnus not apologizing and therefore Alec...”

Waiting Game is by bbk! I only wish I had written it. <3

I literally frowned at this reply because obviously bbk wrote it, I even linked to it in the post, why were you saying this? Somehow I both mentioned and tagged you instead of bbk and didn’t even notice? 😳

Brains are the worst, thanks for yelling at mine 😅

(and this got rather absurdly long... )

@vellesian replied to your post “<p>tbf magnus did apologize in 3x15 :D</p>”

3x15? That he said he was wrong and that Alec can talk to friends? That's so minor I forgot about it :/

oh, is that what nonny meant? I really thought there was a dashed off sorry somewhere in the Lilith mess. I guess now I have to rewatch to figure it out! (Oh no, the hardship.)

@quilleth mentioned you on a post “7kpp Prompt Fill: Breathe”

@faejilly it really is such a good moment!

ikr? Ah, such a good game. 

@vellesian replied to your post “<p>That’s actually hilarious how Magnus specifically considers...”

I'm cry

Thank you! Sorry? (BothIsGood.gif)

@ladymatt replied to your post “<p>tbf magnus did apologize in 3x15 :D</p>”

I did! It's why I said Magnus doesn't apologise 'enough' in my tags and not 'at all'! But I knew what you were trying to say!

thank you! Glad I’m at least marginally comprehensible... *laughs*

@lynne-monstr mentioned you on a post “oh crap my family is figuring out there are apps to do video chat...”

yeah I think blaming the wifi is the best way to do this without hurt feelings. (lol I don't do well with video without makeup,even for family)

blame the wifi! always an option

(tho I cannot relate, I’m fine with being a goblin in the semi-public of a video chat. It’s amazing how often the whoops forgot to shower today used to line up with my online RPG night, and I still turned on that webcam every week 🤣)

@angelrtsy95 replied to your post “<p>Ok but what are your Smallville opinions?!?!?! Inquiring minds wish...”

Thanks for answering! I really loved some of the plot arcs, but some that I liked just seemed to get dropped? Like, Zatanna could have been such a fun character to bring in more of, but she only had a handful of appearances?

I HAD FORGOTTEN ZATANNA ENTIRELY

so clearly, yeah, there should have been more of her!

(The show didn’t seem to ever have a plan, tbqh, and for long-form storytelling, even the relatively stand-alone kind you get in an episodic TV show, is a really glaring flaw.)

@firstaudrina replied to your post “Fic Writer Game”

YAAAAS I accept the blame!!! I was hoping you'd do this! And WOW you've written so much, I'm so impressed!!

awww, thank you. 

I have a lot of issues watching other writers continue to post things, and finish things, and get a little hung up on it, so it’s nice to be reminded that I do actually write quite a bit, even if I can’t maintain anything like a schedule 😅

@silver-latin-and-salt mentioned you on a post “.”

<3 thank u! I'm getting there

AND YOU DID IN FACT GET THERE AND IT’S LOVELY <3

@leahazel reblogged your post and added:

For your consideration: edgy florist is a hardcore variation on the person who hangs out with animals because they can’t seem to manage to get along with people. What’s even less socially demanding than a dog or cat? A vase full of flowers, is what.

Conversely, a tattoo artist can’t make their tattoos in the back of the shop and then present them completed to the customer. They have to spend hours with each customer, working together and making sure it all comes out right. Tattooists have social skills up the wazoo.

EXACTLY.

You get me, Hazel, you really do 😅🥰

[canaryatlaw]

okay, so today was overall pretty good. I woke up at 8:55, got ready, and then ubered to that thing I said I’d tell you about. So I’m in this online program that’s a child defender fellowship ran by the children’s defense fund, and it’s all about educating and equipping people to make a difference in children’s issues in their community, and as part of it they wanted us to reach out to a local child focused group and kind of chat with them about some stuff, so I contacted the local children’s advocacy center because I was familiar with them based on my work at the public guardians office. They’re basically the place families go when there’s been an outcry of sexual abuse and in some cases physical abuse in very young children. It’s largely focused on what’s called victim sensitive interviews, which is a specific interviewing method that works to get an accurate account of what happened out of the child without retraumatizing them, and to have a solid statement in order to avoid having the child have to repeat the story over and over again, which is not only traumatizing, but can lead to inconsistencies that a defense team could use against the child in any sort of court proceeding that results from the incident. So the work they do is very, very important. I’ve viewed some video tapes of VSI’s while at OPG and they’re very good at getting info out of children in a calm and organized fashion. I know when the child death case I worked on came in to the system, they interviewed the siblings there, and there account were crucial in securing the arrests of the two responsible parental figures, because the kids told them everything, not sparing any details as to exactly what was going on in that home, and it was really what built the case against the parents. That case has been on my mind a lot lately, as yesterday (the 28th) was the one year anniversary of me arguing the motion in court. Feels both like it was yesterday and that it was forever ago. I know I’m never going to get the resolution I want on that case, and that’s something I’m going to have to deal with. I didn’t expect this case to change me, but it did, in so many ways. I know it has made me a stronger advocate for children and given me even more of a passion to keep children safe. I can’t look at the picture of the sweet little boy who was taken from us that’s hanging on my wall without feeling a fire inside me that will only be satisfied with a lifetime spent fighting to save all the other sweet little boys and girls who are in danger. Rest in peace, Manny. I may not have ever met you, but you’ve changed me so much. Sigh. Anyway. I was kind of anxious going into the meeting because I really didn’t know what to expect, but it actually went really well. I met with someone on their prevention team, which is a relatively new division, and they work on training people to spot the type of behavior that can be indicative of sexual abuse starting and to stop it before it happens, which is of course incredibly important work. So we talked about what they did and I asked about how they felt the foster care system was failing children who were sexually abused, and what she would like to see done about it. Then we went on a tour of the facility, which is really a very well built center, lots of different departments and a focus on children, with brightly painted walls, toys, and even a full scale playground. So I left quite happy with my experience there. I did a shared Lyft home because it was cheapest, but it ended up being a bit of a pain because it took so long to get home. I had debated just going over to school since I was already downtown and just hanging out there, but I didn't actually have that much schoolwork I could do and didn’t feel like sitting around in an empty office while I could be doing other things. So I got home and made some lunch, then tried to get to work on editing my legal drafting assignment that was due tonight. I looked it over and changed a handful of minor things, but for the most part left it as it was. At this point I’m just going to believe that I can’t tell whether my work is good or not because I’ve clearly been mistaken on the subject before, so while I think what I wrote was largely crap, who knows, it might be just what they’re looking for. Guess we’ll see. I then spent quite a while fighting with Word about formatting issues, because it all has to be very particular for legal drafting, and I had used one of the forms off the cook county website because that’s what we were supposed to have, but then I had to convert it to a Word file and figure out how to add the academic integrity page, which turned out to be much more difficult than it had any right to be, and I had to scrap it and start over like 3 or 4 times. Eventually I got it to a point where I was satisfied enough with it, so I left it there. After finishing that I spent about an hour doing some of the dishes because our sink is once again overflowing with dirty dishes, which tbf is mostly my fault because I do so much cooking but don’t always feel like cleaning. I got through approximately half of the stuff, and I was gonna keep going by my back was hurting me and I was tired, so I decided to stop there and instead did the online forms for the child defender fellowship regarding meeting up with the children’s advocacy center. Then I printed my legal drafting assignments and made sure they were properly submitted online before heading over to school. I stopped at the library on the way up to use their stapler, because I don’t have my own damn stapler, then went up to class and turned it in. Class was short, it was about interviewing children which is of course something I already knew about because I’d already gone through the interview children and have in fact interviewed many children in these situations. So I took notes and paid attention, but it wasn’t really anything I didn’t already know. We got out at around 6:40 (class is supposed to go to 7:20), so I headed home and got back in time to watch Arrow. I think it was probably one of the better episodes of the season so far, though that’s not really saying much because I haven’t been terribly fond of this season. My girls though, they really stole the spotlight in this episode and their stuff was so great. I hardcore need this redemption plot for Black Siren, and I’m gonna be so ticked off if they screw it up. And Dinah, man, she is one intense lady and she’s pretty damn fierce. So I guess I enjoyed the episode for the most part. After that was over I went to watch the last episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, lots going on there. I have been informed that Ned Stark does indeed stay dead, so that’s unfortunate. I hate Joffrey so freaking much, stupid little brat that he is, and someone needs to save poor Sansa from where she’s practically being held captive in that castle. Arya, my sweet murder child, who is now so freaking traumatized from witnessing her father’s death, and then has to take up the life of a street urchin to keep herself off the radar of the crazy royal people who would very much like to capture her. I absolutely adored the moment where the two boys are ragging on her and she pulls the sword on them and is like “I’ve already killed one fat boy. I’m good at killing fat boys. I like killing fat boys” and I was just like YES ARYA BBY YOU’VE COME SO FAR and I’m just so proud of her and her little murderous soul. I’m still not entirely sure what’s going on with the other Lannisters and such, other than they seem to be plotting to take Joffrey off the throne, which I’m clearly all for. And Jon Snow is out somewhere with some sort of army doing something. Then there’s my girl Daenerys, who’s just like it’s chill guys I’m just gonna walk into this funeral pyre for my dead husband while it’s one fire and emerge unscathed with three baby dragons because she’s the MOTHER OF DRAGONS, DAMMIT and I can’t wait to see what she does with them next season (I mean, I read her character breakdown on the GoT wiki, so I know some of it, but I’m looking forward to seeing it happen on my screen). After that I watched an episode of The Royals just for the heck of it, which I suppose is a fairly entertaining show, I’m just not very invested at this point and haven’t really found a reason to be. Oh well. After that I started getting ready for bed and now I’m here. Tomorrow I have PT in the morning, then I’ll probably do some grocery shopping and try to work on my civil rights midterm essay, and then at night I have small group, and I think we’re going to a Thai restaurant, so that should be good. Pretty tired now being that it’s 1 am, so I will bid you goodnight here. Goodnight my loves. Happy Friday.