#(that is very necessary information)

[whetstonefires]

You know, I've been thinking about it, and it is absolutely essential to the narrative that Jiang Cheng is a dick and a trash fire. (Affectionate.)

Like, first of all, if he was a sainted little angel of a shidi the way Jiang Yanli is a shijie, Wei Wuxian's choices would become obvious, sort of impersonal, and boring.

Sure, lots of people wouldn't tear themselves apart for such a person in such a scenario, but they're not the protagonists of novels, are they; in a book you have to justify not doing that. So white lotus Jiang Cheng is off the table.

Jiang Cheng who isn't fragile-and-insecure but also stubborn-as-hell and violently reactive also won't wash.

If he wasn't the kind of person who sincerely tries to die under these circumstances, Wei Wuxian would have had the option of loyally supporting him in a less self-destructive way; if he was someone who could be trusted to handle the revelation without suffering a ruinous fracture of identity, Wei Wuxian wouldn't have been forced to distance himself after the war, because he could have come clean.

If Jiang Cheng wasn't the kind of person who centers on his own pride and hurt feelings and lashes out about it, it would be very hard to set up the lategame scenario where they're 'enemies' in a real, meaningful way, despite still loving each other and Wei Wuxian never wishing Jiang Cheng any ill. Even with Jiang Yanli's death.

And I mean, you could get most of the plot without doing this interesting thematic examination of the classic 'bond between martial brothers severed by one going to the dark side' trope, but I'd argue you'd lose an enormous chunk of the story.

And without Jiang Cheng's weaknesses, Wei Wuxian's motives don't cohere. His weaknesses form the foundation of at least two of the backstory's major turning points.

There's the tantalizing possibility that Wei Wuxian wouldn't have done it, if Jiang Cheng hadn't strangled him while blaming him for everything.

Probably he would have, all else being equal! But neither we nor Jiang Cheng can be sure.

Jiang Cheng sucking a lot, and knowing his own flaws perfectly well without that granting him the ability to do much about them, is heavily load-bearing. Which gives him such a fantastic implied point of view!

[3-aem]

MY BRAINS NOT WORKING AND THE CUTE BOY I WORK WITH KEEPS CORRECTING MY GRAMMAR THIS IS SO AHAIWIAKSDHDGRRRRHRNE

[divorcedtom]

Greg desperately wanting Tom to laugh at one of his jokes while Tom ignores him + Roman being forced to witness it

BONUS: Tom 2 seconds later

[royalarchivist]

I never know what to expect when Rubius streams, but him bi-truthing Quackity definitely wasn't on my bingo card.

(He clarified that he was just kidding about this, btw).

[sevenhundred721]

I can't wait to learn more about Vegapunk Lilith. What is Stella's idea of the evil within himself? Does it have to do with his "sins" of creating the Mother Flame and studying the Void Century? Is evil his ambition and desire for peace that is ultimately too rash and short-sighted and leads to catastrophe? Because we know Lilith cares about her comrades. We know that she is helpful and pragmatic. We know she ISN'T defined by greed or violence. So how is she evil? Because I don't believe for a second that she doesn't somehow fit Stella's idea of evil in a way we haven't been shown yet. But I'm so eager to find out what that actually means.

[mantisgodiveblog]

Against all odds, we have survived. We're taking a university course now, because the government will pay us for it and we do need the money, but it has unfortunately been eroding at our sanity somewhat, and we are learning nothing that we don't already know. We are, however, getting money.

We have somewhat of a backlog on Discord at the moment, as it doesn't have a daily upload limit and also it's easier to stick things on while we are being told things that we already know by people who are phrasing in in ways we find significantly misleading or incorrect (note: we don't use apps for things the vast majority of the time and if we access Tumblr via browser it immediately fucks up our formatting on PC, which can last several months). We will, hopefully, be posting these soon, but all is dependant on if we can actually scare up the time between courses to conglomerate that and fix any formatting errors in thoughts and such.

If that will happen any time soon... good question! Every time that our work practicum teacher opens her mouth, we take points of physical damage, and we don't think she understands the fact that getting back after we walk to a place also involves walking. We've had a lot going on for a while now and very little of it has been good. We're on new meds, and if the gods prove merciful, we won't have to tolerate this particular clown show past March. If there is no mercy to be found, however, we might have to keep doing this until June, in which case you can probably expect the quality of this to take a sharp downturn as the short time we have already spent in this program is already having immediate and catastrophic effects on our mental health.

We do not recommend going to university in any circumstances, but we are unfortunately aware that it may be necessary to get such things as a fancy piece of paper saying you are employable. Additionally, we would tell you to calibrate your expectations for anyone with a degree lower, but apparently what we consider the basic level of knowledge you should know before saying anything on any topic is everyone else's "bachelor degree and a bit", so our estimations on what people think is a high degree of knowledge to have are probably also off.

Any donations go to the Fund To Compensate Us For Having To Correct A Teacher Multiple Times In A Lecture And Then Looking Up Her Sources Later And Discovering They Are Blatant Misinformation. We are very tired. Please do research on things before talking about them. Thank you.

[mystersydster]

Syd posting because.. Yeah :3

He’s literally my comfort person<3

[crispyliza]

You've heard of mansplaining, now get ready for: dadsplaining!

Example: you're filling out paperwork and your dad sits next to you and tells you the answers to questions like: what is your name and last name (he also helps you spell it), when is your birthday, when did you graduate high scool etc.

[copia]

my dog has also benefited from the ghovie because she'll get an extra long walk whilst i listen to the future is a foreign land for maybe two hours straight

[anotheroceanid]

Fic author: I’ll write this fic to cope with this one thing and have fun

*ends up studying the topography of a foreign country*

[nulltune]

^ from tsukinoura's wordpress and iwakura production's english patch! i don't speak a lick of japanese so i have no idea which one's more accurate but it's pretty neat seeing the different translations ✨️✨️ methinks i'll write my hakuno more like the speech patterns from tsukinoura's translations tho ! :>

[eledsart]

would you mind if I used your inej artwork as my phone wallpaper? I think it's really beautiful but I'm not sure how to credit you. how can I credit you?

go for it, no need to credit me if u use it as wallpaper! :)

[hezuart]

Hi there can we get any knowledge for five power or raincoat girl pls?

I've already discussed my headcanon over potential powers for Five here As for other knowledge, it's difficult to get a read on her personality because she was meant as an identity ruse for Six, and we don't have enough cutscenes to figure her out.

What we do know about her:

-Her nightmare was Six banging on a door, demanding entrance to a shed Five locked her out of. -She arrived at the Nest in a hot air balloon. There is a photo of a strange bug-looking man with a top hat with the balloon in the background. Five could either be related to him, or she stole his balloon. -She collects Jack-in-the-Boxes (seemingly with random, disjointed lore, canon and scrapped) -She's very good at climbing. She can climb cliffs and ladders often without struggle or fatigue. -She encounters a child with a blue scarf and red hat. She frees them from their cage and assists them with the door. At the end of the game, the Pretender is seen yelling at this child's doll remains. One would think Five would have a connection to this kid, but when Five encounters their clothed doll sitting at the dinner table, Five grabs their scarf and shoves the doll aside, jumping up onto the table and running away without much thought. So with that scene, it feels as though she doesn't have a true connection with them after all. -It could go without saying, but she is very clever. Easily evading enemies and solving puzzles to escape. -She finds a matchbox and uses the fire to light lanterns. Because of the game design, she does not keep this matchbox unlike Six who has a seemingly infinite cigar lighter. -The only time she's seen directly interacting with a Nome is when she offers a red balloon to one to allow it to safely get down from a dresser. She's constantly surrounded by nomes and she often finds their hiding spaces, but she never approaches or hugs them. -She receives help from Six, having a few brief encounters in the Nest. But when Six has somehow mysteriously collapsed on the ground, Five rushes past her to the shed, looking back. Six wakes up and rushes forward, but Five deliberately locks her out, shutting the door and leaving her to presumably die or be captured at the hands of the Butler. We lack a lot of context here, but on the surface, it appears she left Six as bait to die or be captured by the Butler. -Even when Six miraculously survives and is seen at the very end, the two I guess(??) set aside their differences and help each other in the event of their survival. Five knocks over a tree to prevent Six from falling to her death, and Six pushes a boulder over to try and kill the Pretender before she can kill Five. Whether Six forgave her or it was a temporary truce, we will never know. -Five dies (either via impact, drowning, or turning to dust via Pretender) and loses her raincoat -Because of the inclusion of Little Nightmares 2, despite the game hinting at the raincoat, Six actually did not fish out Five's raincoat from the ocean and instead actually found her own in the Pale City in LN2.

Again, game design limitations could factor into her lack of personality or interactions with the world around her, so again, very difficult to tell who she is as a person. I wish I had more to say or theorize but we have nothing to go on.

[anemicjellyfish]

Prologue and Chapter 1 are finally complete! After, what, more than a week of messing with it? (My brain says I can't post until it's "good enough" but also that nothing is ever good enough. So...)

It will gain a proper title later. I'm just not ready to title it until maybe Chapter 3 is done.

Thanks to everyone for the encouragement and the advice on tagging it as AU. If anything changes, or if it doesn't fit the tags correctly, feel free to let me know so that I can apologize and change them accordingly! ❤️

[coquelicoq]

I just saw the post on the alt codes you memorized and got so excited bc you are the first other person I heard of who also memorized alt codes! For me, it’s bc I started learning Old Babylonian and there is no keyboard with all the diacritics I needed to transcribe them, so I decided it would be the easiest to make myself an additional vocabulary deck to learn the alt codes (that I needed to create my Babylonian vocabulary deck). How have you memorized your alt codes?

omg that is awesome. i have so many questions for you. what are the babylonian alt codes??? or did you add them yourself? (can you add new alt codes? seems like you should be able to, since it's possible to add keyboard shortcuts, and alt codes are really just a type of keyboard shortcut.) i can see that cuneiform signs are in unicode but i can't find any alt code lists that include them. or are you transliterating babylonian into the latin alphabet with diacritics?

another question did you memorize codes for every single one because holy shit there's like hundreds of cuneiform signs according to wikipedia???? that's wild. i can see why you would need flash cards! me i only know probably fewer than 20 total and i just learned them over the course of several years as they became necessary. it's very hard to write a french sentence without é è à and ç, so i'm sure i learned those first, plus ù which is in one very common word that means something totally different if you leave off the accent (où/ou), then probably i had to learn ê â ô and î. but actually you can get pretty far avoiding the other accented letters in french, so i might have been in college before i learned the rest of them lol. somewhere in there i learned the spanish accented letters, but those are mostly right next to each other and there aren't very many of them, so that was easy. i never learned the capitalized accented letters because it's acceptable in french to leave accents off in uppercase (except the cédille, which i know is somewhere in the 120s so i can get there eventually if necessary). initially i look up the number but then over time it gets encoded into muscle memory as i keep using the letter organically in sentences.

most importantly though: how is the old babylonian is it fun it sounds fun

[radjerda]

The Premiere of Tron the Game at Flynn's Arcade - The First Guests Arrive

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