#4 to be precise

[a-goth-a-go-go]

i can proudly say i am now cosmically aligned with nanami kiryuu because i dreamt i laid an egg

[sunlvr]

i’m ovulating n i want kids

[thatwavephenomenon]

No but the 'team meeting' after the fall of Weisshaupt was so. unorganic or unnatural. 'What a crushing defeat, maybe we should focus on our mental health now to do better next time.' Like hello??? This is not your job of which you had to take a step back from because your boss is an asshole?? You are all at war against two gods who keep Resident Eviling the world?????? I mean it's not such an awful idea but it's executed rather poorly. Like the game was this close to display a message saying 'You have just finished one of the main quest. You should focus on the companion's quests next.'

[shisasan]

August 4, 1924 Journals of Anais Nin 1923-1927 [volume 3]

[caffstrink]

(Looks at my watch) yeah its oberon hour

[lines-in-limbo]

Harry and Snape’s Clashing Communication Styles

It's interesting to think that Harry and Snape don’t have longer conversations in the series, but when they do, their communication styles are so different that they often clash.

Harry’s way of communicating is practical and straightforward. He tends to break down complex ideas into simpler terms that he can easily understand. This makes sense, given his upbringing in a non-magical world and his tendency to rely more on gut instinct than deep theoretical knowledge. For Harry, things are usually black and white, and his directness shows his desire to cut through the confusion and get straight to the point.

Snape, on the other hand, has a more complex and layered way of speaking. His language is precise and often sarcastic, which reflects not just his intelligence but also his disdain for what he sees as Harry’s lack of subtlety. Snape’s use of imagery and metaphor, especially when he describes consepts, gives his speech a poetic, almost philosophical quality. He takes pleasure in showing off his superior knowledge and uses this as a way to belittle Harry.

We see this clash clearly in OOTP during Harry’s first Occlumency lesson:

Snape looked back at him for a moment and then said contemptuously, “Surely even you could have worked that out by now, Potter? The Dark Lord is highly skilled at Legilimency —” “What’s that? Sir?” “It is the ability to extract feelings and memories from another person’s mind —” “He can read minds?” said Harry quickly, his worst fears confirmed. “You have no subtlety, Potter,” said Snape, his dark eyes glittering. “You do not understand fine distinctions. It is one of the shortcomings that makes you such a lamentable potion-maker.” Snape paused for a moment, apparently to savor the pleasure of insulting Harry, before continuing, “Only Muggles talk of ‘mind reading.’ The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by any invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter . . . or at least, most minds are. . . .” He smirked. Whatever Snape said, Legilimency sounded like mind reading to Harry and he did not like the sound of it at all.

For Harry, when Snape mentions Legilimency, it immediately sounds like “mind reading,” which is a reasonable but overly simple way to understand such a complex concept. His quick jump to this conclusion shows his need to make sense of something that feels threatening, but it also reveals his limited grasp of the deeper nuances.

Snape, however, can’t resist mocking Harry’s lack of subtlety. His response is laced with condescension as he insists on the complexity of the mind and dismisses the idea of “mind reading” as something only muggles would think of. Snape’s explanation is detailed and philosophical, contrasting sharply with Harry’s desire for a straightforward answer.

Another great example of their different communication styles comes in HBP when Snape puts Harry on the spot, asking him to explain the difference between an inferius and a ghost:

“Let us ask Potter how we would tell the difference between an Inferius and a ghost.” The whole class looked around at Harry, who hastily tried to recall what Dumbledore had told him the night that they had gone to visit Slughorn. “Er — well — ghosts are transparent —” he said. “Oh, very good,” interrupted Snape, his lip curling. “Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. ‘Ghosts are transparent.’ ” Harry took a deep breath and continued calmly, though his insides were boiling, “Yeah, ghosts are transparent, but Inferi are dead bodies, aren’t they? So they’d be solid —” “A five-year-old could have told us as much,” sneered Snape. “The Inferius is a corpse that has been reanimated by a Dark wizard’s spells. It is not alive, it is merely used like a puppet to do the wizard’s bidding. A ghost, as I trust that you are all aware by now, is the imprint of a departed soul left upon the earth . . . and of course, as Potter so wisely tells us, transparent.” “Well, what Harry said is the most useful if we’re trying to tell them apart!” said Ron. “When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we’re going to be having a shufti to see if it’s solid, aren’t we, we’re not going to be asking, ‘Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?’

Once again, Harry demonstrates his practical and straightforward approach. He gives a simple, clear distinction based on what would be most useful in a real-life situation—whether the entity is solid or transparent. This shows how Harry tends to focus on what’s immediately relevant and actionable, and Ron’s defense of Harry’s answer highlights this practicality. Ron even points out that in a real-world scenario, Harry’s answer is actually the most helpful, contrasting it with Snape’s more academic approach.

Snape, though, dismisses Harry’s answer as too simplistic and mocks him for stating what he sees as the obvious. Snape’s communication is more about the theoretical and precise understanding of magical concepts. He emphasizes the deeper, more complex nature of an Inferius, which, while academically accurate, is less practical in the context that Harry is thinking of. Snape’s disdain shows that he values this deeper, nuanced understanding more than the direct, practical knowledge that Harry offers.

These moments really bring out the deeper divide between Harry and Snape. Harry approaches things with instinct and a straightforward mindset, while Snape is all about nuance, precision, and seeing the layers in everything. Because they see the world so differently, they struggle to communicate, which only adds to the distrust and misunderstanding between them—a tension that echoes throughout the entire series.

[pebblethief]

got my first 2 rows of quilt done! (of 11)

[spicyvampire]

Tyme's to do list for the day

Force a patient to live

Stalk Great

Go on a date with Great

Stab and beat up Great's brother

[firelise]

See the reason Black Sails fucks so very hard is bc the writers know the end to which they are writing towards and they know how to write in beautiful circles within circles and close a motherfucking loop. I could stare at this renaissance painting of a show forever.

[nyanfish]

yosuke hanamura and his pathétique little gay crush.

[nitsaart]

Watching grian's eight hour long world tour, currently on joel's section

Grian looked at joel's mail and there was shulker box of gravel and I kid you not. I rewind to make sure it was that, and i remembered little clip I saw with scar and etho, when scar was trying to sell etho more gravel? Just sell etho gravel? I'm not sure, but etho was REALLY hard to sell gravel to him, and scar was going through hermits who etho might gift that gravel until he got to joel, and etho fumbled like instantly? 😭 he was bought so fast with buying joel some gravel as a gift, god did it actually happen

I'm gonna cry. I'm about to cry, literally. I'm so normal about them

And like. The footage was taken month or two ago, so? 😭😭😭 no I cannot. It's killing my brain trying to think about it, help me

[lord-squiggletits]

The time scale of IDW1's Cybertronian civilization is fucking bizarre (positive) because they're long-lived, virtually immortal giant alien robots. Yet there are a significant number of them who have been alive since Cybertron's pre-civilization era (pre Golden Age) and even a significant number who were alive at the start of/during the Golden Age. A shitload who were born 1-0 million years before the war and a good amount during the war.

But basically what I mean is imagine that your grandparent (who's in the same state of fitness as you are btw) was alive in fucking Mesopotamia and got to hear Gilgamesh recited live, and your parent was present during the crucifixion of Jesus, and you were an adult during the European Dark ages. That's basically what generational differences among Cybertronians are like.

Like jfc I literally cannot emphasize enough that there are multiple living Cybertronians in great health who were alive for the fucking dawn of civilization and they're doing perfectly fine living alongside people who weren't born/built until like 6 million years later during Nominus/Sentinel's era. IMAGINE IF THE DAWN OF HUMANITY WAS WITHIN LIVING MEMORY AND YOU COULD ASK YOUR FUCKING GRANDPARENTS ABOUT IT JSXJANNCD

[mjesechii]

Shadow, the true self

[lbhslefttiddie]

for the stupid icebreaker segment of one of my classes (cultural anth) we split into smaller groups and played a round of two truths one lie and apparently im really good at this game?? bc no one guessed my lie??? i remember we played the game once in high school drama class and no one guessed that time either though ill admit i cannot recall what i offered as my options that time but the high from winning that game was INSANE because drama kids in my mind means A) highly competitive and B) better at catching out what acting looks like. its just kinda weird bc im both clumsily honest by default, love oversharing, and am generally quite gullible (ex: when guessing OTHER people's lies in class yesterday, i was batting a perfect ✨0✨ and i was trying very, very hard) so i always sort of expect it will be immediately obvious which one is not true

however, playing that game yesterday did give me a small hypothesis for a sort of unspoken bias that might afflict how people choose their option which i kind of want to test more....

[hey-heigo]

if not a polycule why are we stationed nearly equidistant away from each other around the trial ring

[creaturetap]

read a review for arctic eggs (video game) that was like "at first, launching eggs into the stratosphere is funny, but it gets old after a while" which, first of all, is a hysterical thing to read about a game you haven't played and know almost nothing about yet. like what do you mean. you can do that.

anyway now that i have played the game a bit, yes that does happen, and no it has not got old yet.