#And I'm sure there's more examples of this

[seimsisk]

#me whose first programming language was Rust: huh I wonder what they're talking about my computer just tells me calmly to correct it#remembers I've been told Rust's compiler is exceptionally intuitive and clever and not the norm at all oh right yeah. f.#programming#coding

prev. lemme tell you a story.

my university made everyone start learning to code with C, right. which is an interesting choice because C will punish the smallest slip ups and make you get into the nitty gritty of memory allocation and stuff like that, but the flip side is it often fails in mysterious ways. I've seen professors give a passing grade to programs that failed catastrophically to pass any tests, as long as it compiled correctly and the code was neat and seemed to be more or less correct. This is because often the professors and TAs can't figure out what's wrong with the code, because debugging in C is always an adventure.

for example, one classic one classic debugging technique is adding a line of code with a printf instruction which makes the program print out some message like "I just got to line 35" or something like that. basically, the idea is, if the error is before that line, you get the error with no other message. If the error is after that line, you get the message, and then the error. You do this a few times and you should be able to pinpoint which line is causing the error right. Except if you are really unlucky, as I was a couple of times, you add this line, and then you get the message, and no error. The program just finishes running smoothly. You stand there with a dumb look on your face. You run the program again, just to be sure. Maybe a few more times. For a moment you let yourself hope you don't have to worry about this bug anymore.

But of course, you can't turn in a program that prints out a bunch of random messages. You have to remove those printf instructions. And when you do, the error reappears. You check your code again, you make sure you didn't add any lines that actually change anything in the code. Nada. You literally just wrote some dumb message in the console. Maybe you wrote "Hi" or "LOL" or "I'm so tired of this shit". And it somehow prevents the program from failing.

Years later, you will learn to use a debugger to inspect the contents of all your variables and make sure everything is as it should be. Maybe you will even use lint. Most likely, you will stop using C altogether in favor of less finicky languages. But right now, you gotta lock in and find this fucking bug that fucking disappears whenever you look at it like some quantum state bullshit. You basically rewrite your code line by line until you find out you forgot to set one of your variables or something like that, and that caused your program to try and access some random piece of memory that it should not have access to. except, somehow, if you added an extra instruction to the code, it changed the state of the memory heap just enough that the code got to a piece of memory it did have access to (because it turns out that the memory that stores the code itself is the same as the memory that stores variables). it was still reading garbage, but not explosive garbage.

now, this is probably the most infuriating memory I have of my C coding classes, but not the most ridiculous. No, that honor goes to the story of how my friend got the nickname Jesus. Basically he was trying to help a friend with their code, and nothing they did helped in the least. So Jesus has this bright idea: let's copy and paste the code piece by piece into a new document to figure out when the error appears. So they start doing that, right, copy, paste, save, compile, run, repeat, piece by peace, until they get to the end... and the error never appears. They check and the two documents are now exactly identical. But one causes an error and the other doesn't. My friend get's a nickname as a miracle worker, and the rest of us adds to a repertoire this surprisingly useful new technique: copying and pasting your entire code into a new document. I can attest this technique saved me a couple of times. I'm still not 100% sure why though.

i think everyone should program at least once just so you realise just how fucking stupid computers are. because theyre so fucking stupid. a computer wants to be told what to do and exactly that and if you make one typo or forget one detail it starts crying uncontrollably

[aventurineswife]

Aventurine with a reader who's usually not the type of person to express themselves as much (introvert lwk but not the shy and easily embarrassed kinda introvert more of the "I can't and don't wanna get out of bed and I'm hungry 24/7"). Except when reader is finally comfortable and stuff they're like. Idk how to explain it-

Like, for example, Aventurine would try and convince reader to do something like karaoke and reader is all shy and shit at first but how could they say no to him?

But once they do said thing, reader is KILLING IT. And Aventurine's just staring in awe.

Anyway make of that what you will (did I use that right?), this is just a thought that's been in my mind for a while.

(make sure to stay hydrated and take good care of yourself! ^^)

-🦇🌀 anon

“Hit Me With Your Best Shot”

Summary: Aventurine, ever the gambler, coaxes you into a karaoke night, expecting awkward charm at best. But when you finally take the mic, you deliver a jaw-dropping performance that leaves even him speechless. Beneath his teasing bravado, he’s caught off guard—and captivated—by a side of you he never saw coming.

Tags: Aventurine x Reader, Karaoke Night, Fluff with a Dash of Chaos, Hidden Talents, Reader Surprises Aventurine, Casual Domestic Vibes, Banter & Wit, Slow Burn Vibes (lightly implied), Found Comfort, Slight Role Reversal.

Warnings: Mild language, Brief mention of food (for those sensitive to food-related content), Teasing/banter-heavy dynamic, One slightly unhinged extrovert trying to seduce an introvert into having fun.

Aventurine's fingers tapped a lazy rhythm against the back of the velvet couch, eyes glittering under the moody lights. The karaoke screen blinked temptingly. His glasses were tilted just enough to let you see the gleam beneath them.

“C’mon, [Name],” he cooed, voice dripping with playful challenge. “What’s the point of life if you don’t risk the occasional vocal catastrophe?”

You were curled up in the corner of the couch, hoodie half-on, half-hugged around yourself like armor. Your stomach grumbled audibly—you were still contemplating ordering a fourth round of snack platters—but your eyes flicked up at him with mild disdain.

“No,” you muttered, mouth full of fries. “I’m not moving. I’m a lounge lizard. This is my final form.”

Aventurine snorted, standing smoothly and offering a hand like a game show host unveiling a prize. “Tell you what. You sing one song… I’ll personally make sure you don’t have to get out of bed for the rest of the week. I’ll arrange the snacks, the silence, the solitude—every hermit’s dream. All in.”

That got your attention. You eyed his hand suspiciously.

“…And if I refuse?”

His grin widened. “Then you’ll miss the chance to surprise me. And darling, that’s the greatest gamble of all.”

You groaned like the world’s most dramatic corpse. “I hate you.”

“And I cherish you,” he quipped, still holding out his hand. “So? Shall we tempt fate?”

You sighed, dragging yourself up like a reluctant ghost. As the intro to the song started—some classic anthem of rebellion he probably picked on purpose—you stood stiffly, microphone clutched like a bomb.

First verse: hesitant. Voice shaky. Eyes fixed on the screen.

Aventurine leaned back, fully expecting to be charmed by your awkwardness, maybe give you a smug little clap afterward and tease you with something vaguely flirty.

Second verse?

You unlocked.

It wasn’t shy. It wasn’t awkward. It was electrifying. Your voice hit every note with the ease of someone who had secretly sung this a hundred times alone in their room. You didn’t just sing—you performed. Head tilted back. Shoulders loose. One hand tossed in the air like you were on stage before a stadium of fans instead of in a cozy room with only him watching.

Aventurine’s smirk faltered.

Then vanished entirely.

He watched in stunned silence, jaw slack, as the person he’d half-dragged onto the stage absolutely devoured the chorus. You were alive in a way he hadn’t seen before—eyes gleaming, lips curved in a confident grin that didn’t hide, didn’t hedge. For once, you weren’t thinking about whether you wanted to move. You were in it.

When the final note hit, breathless and perfect, you turned back to him with a shrug and deadpanned:

“I told you I’m always hungry.”

He blinked.

Then burst into laughter—real, unguarded laughter that cracked through his usual silk-smooth tone like lightning across glass.

“You absolute liar,” he breathed, eyes wide with awe. “You hustled me.”

You plopped back onto the couch with all the regality of a worn-out cat, reaching for another handful of fries.

“Yeah,” you said, muffled through a mouthful. “But you liked it.”

Aventurine sat beside you, still visibly shaken. He stared at you like you were a trick deck he hadn’t accounted for—like you were his favorite kind of gamble. The kind that rewrote the odds halfway through the game.

He chuckled, softer this time. “You know… I think you might be more dangerous than me.”

You didn’t look at him.

But you smiled.

[thattimdrakeguy]

More Examples Of Just How SMART Jason Todd Is

In the same way that I get annoyed at Damian having taken some of Tim's traits in the past 10 or more years--

I get just as annoyed that I can't help but feel like they gave some of Jason's traits to Tim for--Gosh, even longer I think? 'Cause they at least started during that during Tim's Red Robin series.

Which didn't even come out that long after Under the Hood.

Feels nearly criminal in fact.

I'm not saying writers are intentionally borrowing from these other characters. Odds are they haven't even thought about it this much.

But the super smart, master planner, incredible tactician, that's always 10 steps ahead of you?

THAT'S NOT TIM DRAKE.

THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE JASON TODD.

And don't get too far ahead of me, they're all Bat-Family, they're all great planners and tacticians, that's how this bunch survive the stuff that they do.

Come a little closer, and I'll show you what I mean. It's about the extent of it.

Tim was always a very clever boy with a knack of getting out of tight spots. Very smart in his own right.

But he was nothing compared to Jason Todd.

Back in the days when Jason was still normally called 'The Red Hood' and not just 'Red Hood', he knew just the right thing to say, to get just the right reaction out of people. He can read people like nobody's business.

He hardly does a thing, but he has Black Mask right in his trap and Black Mask has no idea.

Jason Todd plays the role of someone so arrogant, he has to be in over his head right? Surely he is.

That's what Black Mask is thinking at least.

Arrogant--but not crazy.

Jason wants to piss off Black Mask, he wants him to be annoyed. He's doing this not purely for the money (though that'd be great), he's doing this because he's going to set Black Mask's men up.

See this confidence in Jason?

I don't see the hot head all these people make Jason out to be on display anywhere. This is a cool-headed genius, that knows the moves he's making. He may not know everything, he's not omnipresent, but he damn well knows what he's doing.

Jason Todd is able to play chess with human beings.

And given these guys are still under the impression that Jason is another arrogant thug, who probably got lucky or something, they don't realize Jason already has his next 5 moves planned out.

Even better is, when there's an element he had no way of predicting coming into play, he's smooth as silk, it's an instant and he's using his next idea to see how it goes. No sign of insecurity or hot headedness on display. He's not going into a rage, or frustration.

He's fully aware of how intelligent he is.

Guy didn't even want the money.

HE'S NO MERCENARY.

He's a fallen angel scrubbing the waste of Gotham City with as many bullets as he can, bit by bit.

There's a reason why this story kept Jason Todd popular all these years despite the countless (probably actually countable but shush) bad comics that have mischaracterized him as something he's not.

'Cause Jason Todd at his best is so great...it topples over all of that.

[multicolour-ink]

When Link does the "I'm going to tear you apart" face

[nohhhdrr]

I love this so much more then the other thread to be honest. I mean i did cry but Tim never knew Danny was his soulmate. I'm not sure he ever knew he even had one. Tim was young at the time. No one explained anything to him. Maybe after finding some case of rejected soulmate going crazy and doing "if i can't have you no one can" he finds out bout the whole soulmate writing on your skin. Danny truly did fuck up. He was very affected emotionally and was hurting. So he lashed out. And considering he was 16 in this thread? (I'm not sure for how long he stayed antagonizing tim in the other one) Yep. I can see that. So both of them now grown up. Both supposedly having moved on from each other, right? But now adult tim (which i'm pretty sure means 21-25. Danny was affected by Tim's rejection for a very long time but these types of things can make you burn out. And after a second rejection? Yeah. Danny VERY hurt but ultimately he burned out. His brain just decided he can't spare any more energy on this emotional wreck of a ride) has to feel the rejection Danny felt all time when they were teens. I wanna see if it would drive him up the wall like it did to Danny back in the day or would Tim keep himself in his tight grip of self-control. Considering how unhinged (usually in a good way) Tim is on a normal day? Yeahhh... I think he would not handle it well. Especially if we remember how obsessive he was in his cloning days. (Actually, now that I think about it, what if because of the Tim's cloning thing the whole batfam (and probably Tim's team minus Tim and maybe Kon) think Kon was Tim's soulmate and that's why they never thought the possibility of this being why Danny was so obsessed with Tim in his teens?) I want the whole batfam clicking the pieces together while Tim is bluescreen-ing and obsessing in the back ground. Just Danny being "yeah my bad. yeah... sorry... yeah." and scratching the back of his head. Like HE moved on and for him it's just awkward and embarrassing now. Like how some boys had experience of being in the mind set of "nice guy" while having a crush a selebrity (and probably sending dm-s to that selebrity). THAT would be the level of embarrassment, awkward-ness and guilt he would feel. For danny? It's low stakes now. He got through it and now can finally look at the situation objectively, without the overwhelming amount of emotions clouding his judgement. Yeah it was his bad for lashing out and not communicating at all. There are a few hiccups and some pretty rash actions on batfam's side of things but overall? Yeah.. Sorry I was such a mess back then. It's okay if you don't forgive me. I did cause a lot of greif for all of you. I can give you all a few favors as compensation.

He doesn't even look at Tim anymore. He saw that he wasn't listening and decided to not waste time, just explain everything to his ex-soulmate's family and then go back to his lair.

He has his duties to fulfill (And if we want to hurt timmy more, we can have him taking care of his children (which magic community would supposedly know about. They didn't know HE was the king but they DID know about the new king and his children, for example) that just were cores of all the dead, terminated and or still cryo-sleeping clones that Vlad made back in the day. We can have him save each clone with the help of clockwork or only save those that were in cryo-pods to minimise the sheer amount of children he has to raise.)

Just Danny felling awkward and a bit guilty on his end while Tim is having to grapple with the overwhelming feelings of quiet rejection on his end. Danny did make Tim feel something while he was antagonizing him back then. But Tim? he would have no chance of doing the same now. Danny seen everything. Danny moved on

@gilbirda Ok, so you made a snippet of on of your AUs a while back (braindead rejected! soulmate i think) and I haven't been able to think of much else since. So my brain made a little thingy for you!

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1. Tim takes a risk one day by writing back to whoever was doodling on his body, with a glittery purple gel pen, asking them to stop trying to contacting him.

All the person asked was, "Why?"

Tim never answers.

2. Danny faces constant rejection from his peers, authority figures, his parents and sister neglect him and now his own soulmate doesn't want him. They hadn't even met before he was rejected. Jazz finds out about Dannys powers and tries to reach out but Danny rejects her pretty violently due to his own pain. Then the episode where Sam and Tucker ditch him for Gregor happens and he gives up.

The two people in his life that has had pretty much complete control over his life and trajectory just abandoned him and he does not take it well. He ripped the symbol off his chest, disappeared and never came back.

3. Danny zooms into a new dimension/universe/whatever to avoid his former friends and family from being able to track him only to land in a place called Central City and immediately getting roped into helping Captain Cold who gives him a normal domino mask and they end up working together for a while.

4. Danny somehow overhears one of the speedster talking on the phone about his friends brothers soulmate issue at some point and they perfectly describe the interaction that happened between Danny and his soulmate all those years ago, down to the glittery purple gel pen and the types of doodles Danny had made as a kid and the things he said.

Danny learned one of his soulmates belonged to a group of detective vigilantes in a place called Gotham. Unfortunately he was spotted by the speedster and Danny had to bounce.

5. The Flash made reports to the Justice League about a meta teen who hes been having trouble with for a while and can't seem to pin down. He only asked for tips though as he "could handle it himself."

6. Danny leaves for Gotham and learned about Catwoman and Batmans weird Master Thief and Greatest Detective dynamic and decided that's what he wants to do. He was going to make his soulmate chase after him one way or another. Someone was going to want him even if they were wanting him behind bars.

He begins robbing bank vaults and museums, leaving no trace or clue as to what happened until he starts leaving a calling card of sorts.

7. Jason, who's been on the outs with his family lately meets this spunky white haired meta kid running around with a sci-fi mask/visor thing and giving supplies to homeless encampments and keeping the less fortunate alive and befriends him. He learns that this is the guy everyone has been searching for and just...tells no one. Jason is all for a Robin Hood vigilante, and really, its kinda funny to see his family squirm.

8. Phantom and Catwoman rob the same museum at the same time but for different things. They stare at eachother from where they're both still crouched from thier respective landings until Danny breaks the tension with "I didn't see you if you didn't see me?"

Catwoman laughs, amused. "Sure."

9. Danny finally narrowed down which of the batfam is his soulmate and introduced himself to them as Phantom.

The first thing Danny did was hit on Tim. Tim is flustered but otherwise doesn't really respond to it and tries to fight Phantom into submission, so of course Danny ghosts him by disappearing through a roof mid fight. Danny made a big show of his intangibility in that fight and made it seem like it was the only power he had but he was very skilled with it and he wanted to impress him.

10. Phantom becomes well known to the underbelly of Gotham. Mostly the homeless and nightworkers. But Danny was open and friendly. Never judging and always ready to lend a helping hand. Even better. He never came to collect on favors.

Over time, they became loyal to him.

11. Danny gets framed for a series of murders and the whole gang (minus Hood) are trying to capture him, thus, motorcycle chase scene. They use the white of his tires to tell when he's gone intangible due to all the dirt falling off the wheels. Nightwing jumps onto the bike and shocks Danny with his encrizma sticks right before Danny grits out "bye bye birdy~" and makes a big show of taking in a deep breath and holding it.

Nightwing is forced to jump off the bike as Danny runs through the concrete abutment of the overpass and coming out the other side

12. Danny meets Tim and Duke in his civilian form while he was at a Wayne tech conference. Danny had been asked about one of his inventions and was trying to show off the blueprints and explain things and thats why he was there in the first place. Duke of course, was internally screaming because that's the guy thats the guy they've been hunting for nearly a year but can find nothing on.

Red Robin confronts Phantom that night on a rooftop and Phantom laughs at him, "Thats why I was avoiding Signal for so long. He'd see my magical girl form and know instantly."

RR holds out a pair of handcuffs and says "Its over Danny." Phantom smirks and says, "I don't think it is, Tim" before jumping off onto a different roof and disappearing into the night. Tim is shook.

13. Danny over hears Robin berating RR at an old clocktower and intervenes, "Little Wayne, you do realize you were the first person I figured out, right?"

Damian proceeds to lose his mind.

14. Tim accidentally finds a material that Phantom can't phase through and quickly gets to work making things he can use against Danny. What he doesn't know is that Danny can phase through it he just pretended he couldn't because he wanted to see what would happen/what Tim would do.

Danny can sense the material and it feels really wierd to him, but doesn't harm him at all.

15. RR manages to knock Phantoms visor off his face and realizing it was made of tech he swipes it and brings it back to the cave for study.

He wasn't ready for all the information on the computer. Not only was his nemesis(?) from another plain of reality (he thinks Danny is from the ghost zone) but he was once a superhero with his own Rogues Gallery and human city to protect. Which begs the question, why did he become a Phantom thief?

16. The Joker hears about Phantom giving the bats the run around and comes to a misunderstanding about which bat he's been messing with which ultimately ends with Joker saying that he is Batmans ultimate nemesis and Phantom asking what that had to do with him? The misunderstanding is cleared up when Phantom complained about Joker even thinking that he was flirting with Batman because "Ew! He's an old man!"

Joker still got a few shots in for the heck of it but so did our ghost boy but they were no longer enemies.

17. The whole batfam had been freaking out about finally capturing Phantom and celebrating and plotting on how they were gonna get him to keep his mouth shut about thier identities until Jason came in,

Jason: Need help?

Phantom: Please?

Jason: *escapes with Danny*

Batfam: What?! No!!! Why?!

18. The batfam have only a vague idea of the Robin Hood thing going on. They know he's doing it just not to the extent its gone to. They find out later on that Phantom had been working with RH and his gang to sell off the items and most of the profits go to helping people. Other times he strait up gives jewelry and whatnot to children and working girls because "Everyone deserves something pretty, and even if its not your style you can keep it for a rainy day"

Phantom quickly gains a following and Danny doesn't even know about it. Clueless indeed.

19. Dannys main motivation in this is essentially just playing Cops and Robbers with Red Robin. Nothing else really matters to him. Not the robberies, not the fact he's working with a crime lord, not even his own safety matters much to him anymore. Hes readily zooming down the path of self destruction and Hood starts telling his family stuff, but only because he was genuinely worried about "Casper" crashing and burning.

20. No one knows why Phantom is fixated on Red Robin. He refuses to tell them. Red thinks its just because he's the smartest of the bats and he's not entirely wrong.

21. Danny legit started scheduling his heists with Tim to ensure they're both free after one couldn't make it too many times which blew the birds mind. Phantom must have been just that confident that he would always win. The bats eventually think Danny will stop stealing if RR isn't in the city for a long period of time. Danny more or less followed him and stole stuff from whatever city Tim was in. If there wasn't any museums or banks then Danny would steal a local landmark. Tim still wasn't sure how Phantom stole an entire building that one time but it had never been seen since.

22. Hood grows to be very protective of our favorite ghost boy. They bond and are actually really close. Danny admits he always wanted an older brother.

23. Tim goes off world for a while to see how Danny would react and Danny just...drops off the radar. No one knows where he is and after a week or two they start getting worried.

Tim returns after three months and Danny reappears two weeks after him with a tan and keepsakes from the places he visited on his vacation. Tim later screams into his pillow.

24. Tim has made it his personal mission to figure out who Danny really is, why he's fixated on him, where he came from, ect. Hes trying so hard but can't find anything. Its almost like he didn't exist before. Tim suddenly got an idea after Phantom accidentally got hit in the face and got a nosebleed. Tim saw green blood and immediately realized Danny might not even be human. Fortunately for our little ghost, he thinks he's an alien. A Martian specifically. Tim manages to snag a good sample from treating Phantoms wounds. Ghostboy was so focus on his core thrumming and mentally comparing it to his heart racing that he didn't even notice.

25. Tim later freaks out because the meta is freaking made out of Lazarus water.

The entire batfam was not happy to discover this and decided to work together to pressure Phantom into telling them what he was and what exactly he wanted.

[cleolinda]

Weekend links, July 6, 2025

My posts

Guess what? I'm going to be having a chat with my spinal clinic about some side effects from that epidural pain block a couple weeks ago. Thus, we didn't have a linkspam last Sunday, and I'm working from a larger pool of posts this week. Also, I am behind on everything. Enjoy. 

Side note, Ian's Silent Hill 2 stream of Toluca Prison (and an hour's discussion of storytelling with Vic Frederick) went up two Wednesdays ago. (He's now taking a month off while I pick up the [my] slack.) I made it to chat, despite shaking off anesthesia. And I'm glad I did because the first major fight was... something I've never seen before, I'll put it that way. I now have a new goal for when my videos get there. 

Meanwhile, remember how I posted about horror as comfort media? These people get it.

Reblogs of interest

Pride parade, Budapest, 100k+ people marching: "the perfect example of 'they can’t arrest all of us'" 

Niagara Falls lit up in rainbow; a lovely bisexual moon.

Important food recalls and news sources for the United States

How to Disable and Remove All AI Features in Mozilla Firefox. Et tu, Mozilla?

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad. No, I actually expected that from y'all. With links/recs for Libre Office. 

By the way, Shel Silverstein foresaw gen AI

"i think all quiet on the western front and the lord of the rings are in direct conversation with each other," with bonus Narnia shell craters. That sounds flippant, but I really think everybody here is onto something. 

Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the Indiana Jones Franchise, and Bluesky has some ideas

"To be TRULY fluent in English you must know your SHITS"

"i am not immune to the bit. i’m gonna have to go full mingo aren’t i."

I remember these MTV Video Music Awards Posters from 1999. Yes, the late '90s were exactly Like That.

Putting the CERN back in "concerned," Molly Bair wearing Iris van Herpen inside the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Listen, you know shit ain't been the same since that weasel. You get out of there right now.

"a redditor has mushrooms growing out of his home's electrical sockets" and it's not good. It's Not Good!

"True Gym Bros while flexing their jaws: Come Bro, join us in the Gainshalla"

Prosper, feather beast

"Call me Cismale"

Go in the wet. The wet will love you. The wet doesn't have capitalism. Just go in the wet.

"IT WAS NOT THE FUCKING COLONIALISM THAT INVENTED THE FUCKING POTATO."

"Dude’s out here trying to solve House of Leaves. I give it to page 120 before the actual minotaur gets him." No one has read this book so purely in its own spirit as this one beleaguered guy reading it in French with graph paper and a middle finger.

I am pretty sure I will grab Date Everything if there's a good discount on Steam

"spn Fandom perfec t fun for put new fan in to e\njoy show! inside very Nice and Comfort new fan enjoy fun put new fan in Spn Fandom." (I never get my "mouth perfect size for meme" tag right on the first try)

Tag yourself, I'm the Taylor Swift lyric "some guy said my aura's moonstone, just 'cause he was high"

Art: "The important questions of what if bird were fruit"

"Girl help the pessimists are mistaking an inherently meaningless universe for an inhumane and joyless one rather than recognizing the opportunity to make one’s own meaning and joy and to spread those things to others"

"girl help they’re decoding my cat"

He's all in

A brooch of a fabulous creature

HONSE

Video

"Someday Amaury Guichon is going to release a video where creates a life sized statue of a human being, but as he adds detail, it becomes increasingly clear that the chocolate model is becoming more and more akin to a perfect replica of the viewer"

The painstaking restoration of a wedding dress from 1950

This is not how I expected you'd make magnolia blossom ice cream

"they removed capybara walking (1887) from letterboxd so i’m letting it live on my blog forever"

Knitted sheep, animated

One of the deans at Beijing Dance Academy shows you how it's done

Pre-Colonial Filipino clothing revivalists out on the town

The sacred texts

Children’s Hospital Colour Theory

Dogs in Elk

Personal tags of the week

I'm going to say food, but it was actually a good bit of #chocolate. Also, Pride Month, since it wrapped up while I was still recovering. 

[forsaken-headcanons]

A little hc based on an animation I made of 1337 using sky's sword:

The survivors sometimes use their dead teammates weapons as a way to defend themselves from the killers. There is a mixed opinion between which one is best. Here are some examples on how things went.

Shedletsky's sword

It was easy for most of the survivors to use as a detergent for the killers. Think of it like an offbrand version of SFOTH swords. Dusekkar and 1337 are surprisingly skilled at using it, but refuse to use it outside of LMS, with excuses like "Oh! I'm not that good at it!"

Chance's gun

Elliot is actually really good at using it and has great luck too, which often surprises the killer. Everyone else refuses to touch it (reasons usually being ptsd, going against beliefs or simply not knowing how a gun works. Mainly because of how gimmicky the gun is though). Elliot has exploded himself multiple times too :D

Double T's daggger

Only Noob had used it once and never again, not realise the respawn was full charged. And yes, the ritual can still affect the other non-spawn believing survivors. They all agreed not to touch it after Noob's spine turned into wings. That was a nightmare to both watch and fix once the match ended.

Dusekkar's staff

No one knows how it works and often use it like a batton. Taph is the only one who knows how the staff works as he often reads spells with Dusek. This surprised literally everyone that match when he whipped out a fire spell and obliterated Azure. Dusek couldn't have been more proud of his little pigeon/crow.

Taph's tripmines

Taph keeps a lot of his tripmines in his satchel (Mores specifically, the crystal bit). They are weaker compared to the actual mines, but only Builderman knows how to assemble the explosives, so they make do. They make small distractions and are relatively fun to use. By far the group favourite. 007n7 had found a way to make the explosives stronger using hacks, but he doesn't use them all that much.

I'm not sure if BM's machines count, so I'm not including it. Hope the mod that answers is having a good day too!

- ❄️🍎

and this, folks, is how the yourself survivor skins were made /silly

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Cdramas (historical and fantasy set in the "past") are interesting from a writing perspective to me because they seem to want to gloss over the history of polygamy, or at least make the male lead a one woman guy, but they have to justify that in some way. They also have to answer the question of why he isn't married already if he's in his 20s (he usually is, or older). For me, this can be handled well or poorly.

On the handled well, Lost You Forever convinced me with Tushan Jing (amazing he wants to marry anyone, the fact that close family betrayed him is key too), 4th male lead (so forgettable, but clearly gay and marrying a princess would fulfill all the political ambitions so the deal of only her is valid), and Vampiric Snake Boy (pushes everyone away, on a suicide mission, also not human). Cang Xuan, despite loving one woman, was married to many because of politics, which also felt real (their all being older works since they're very long-lived). Love Like the Galaxy worked because Ling Biyu was openly defiant of social conventions and single-minded in everything. Perfect Match worked particularly well because 1. they were (mostly) dealing with a class lower than nobility that wouldn't have as many political marriages and 2. especially the 4th husband had a very legitimate and active reason for not marrying at all but also not wanting additional women (his sister's murder because of him being a just judge, more women is just more kidnapping targets). The Demon Hunter's Romance worked on the same level, active threat and previous loss of family members.

On the other hand, you've got the male lead in The Prisoner of Beauty, for example, who is very devoted/dutiful to his family, the only direct heir, and yet... why is he not already married? Like sure, he doesn't want to marry that cousin, but you'd think grandma would have arranged something by now, especially since he is often at war. Blossom and The Double don't even try to explain as far as I remember, despite those men also being the only legitimate heir and very high social class. They'd probably be picking up random political marriages and married before the drama started.

And the, "But he loves her too much!" works if he's an abused shelter pet like the male leads in Love of the Divine Tree or Till the End of the Moon who imprinted on the only person who was nice to them, but for other dramas I'm not always sold.

I don't know the actual statistics on marriage age or percentage of the male population in the nobility/royalty who had extra wives in historic China (I've heard that only one emperor didn't have concubines), but the fact that you can feel the writers trying to justify it gives the impression that monogamous couples and late marriages were the outliers, not unheard of but not common either. It's interesting to watch the writers try to make men who fit both modern and historical ideals in this way, and where it's more or less convincing. Some of the time it really does just feel like modern values pasted on someone with long hair and robes.

[lenaboskow]

lord okay i wasn't in the mood to debate today but here goes:

first you've only been on tumblr for *checks notes* two hours and in that time you've been answering anons that all sound like they've been written by the same person so i'm not entirely convinced you've watched the entire show start to finish so--

required reading before we start (this wasn't updated for s8 because i've been busy, but the point stands because nothing changed)

more required reading

and even more required reading

starting from the top, most of the "complexities and nuances" of his character you talk about are deliberatly shown to compare to eddie. whenever they did manage to give tommy a sprinkling of personality, it was so that they could say how much he and eddie had in common. muay thai, basketball, classic cars, army vet, etc.

everything else?

him being a terrible human being (please see first required reading, as well as remember he broke up with buck because he was scared of getting his feelings hurt by a grown man and only went back to him because he thought his "competition" was out of the way, knowing that buck probably only slept with him because he was upset about said competition leaving. he also got buck lakers tickets for their six month anniversary despite buck canonically hating basketball and made sexist comments about abby hooking up with a "himbo half her age" despite him doing the exact same thing (with the same person!! see required reading three for math on tommy's age))

onto the next point, "internalized homophobia" isn't actually all that insane despite eddie telling a priest he's straight when you consider that they would not have had eddie call himself straight without doing a hard shutdown in multiple interviews (instead of vague responses about how "if it goes there it goes there", even the existence of one of those interviews proves it's a possibility) if they weren't going to circle back to it.

you say there's been no mention of him lying about his sexuality, but there is in fact interviews where ryan talks about how eddie doesn't know who he is (when talking about confessions!!). see the below quote for reference

"[ryan guzman] said that his character has never quite known who he is without the labels he's attached to himself. He talked about the beginning of Eddie's journey into self-determination and awareness--" (x)

keeping that in mind, i suggest you listen to the song good luck, babe! and do some research on comphet. it's also worth noting that TOMMY doesn't think eddie's straight (his reaction to buck calling eddie straight during the post hookup scene, i would get the timestamps but honestly i couldn't be bothered)-- you know, the same person you said supposedly had the same ptsd and internalized homophobia i was talking about?

that brings me to my next point, tommy has never been stated to have ptsd. not saying he doesn't, but if you're going to use it as an example at least make sure it has basis.

for my final point, i figured i would give you a bullet point list of (almost) all the times eddie diaz has been hinted at to be gay, so buckle up:

only married shannon because she got pregnant, and saying he loved being married to her but not saying he loved her (7x05)

saying he "thinks" shannon is the love of his life (7x09)

when having an emotional affair with the doppleganger of his dead ex-wife, not once did he initiate any sexual contact, even going as far as saying he didn't want that (also 7x09, deleted stills don't count because they're not canon)

was perfectly fine not dating again and playing house with buck (santa visits, building a special skateboard, going to buck with his problems with christopher and writing him into his will, while seeing flashbacks of him with chris when almost dying)

only started dating again in season 4 because he was talked into it by bobby (4x06)

got shot by a sniper but instead of his girlfriend taking care of his son, his boy best friend did it instead, and then called said boy best friend the second he woke up and kicked said girlfriend out of the room, and THEN revealed he left his son to boy best friend in his will in the most love confession coded scene on earth (4x14)

had panic attacks at the thought of ana being his wife (5x01)

was content not dating again until forced to, calling dating a "performance" (6x14)

only called marisol at the insistence of his son (6x18)

i'll leave it at that, because while i could go on all day, i really don't feel like it. i suggest you rewatch the show from the beginning before you start talking about how eddie diaz isn't queer coded again.

i’m just saying if you could choose between the first queer interracial slow burn best friends to lovers storyline on network television that deals with religious guilt, ptsd, internalized homophobia, and coming out later in life while working a stereotypical macho man job or two white men kissing for the millionth time why would you not choose the first one

[foxgirlmoth]

I think one of the most damning things I see about people in general when it comes to art is that people love equating the time it took to make a piece of art, to the worthiness of the art's existence.

So, for example, a common thing that happens in art classes in college (at least mine, and I think this method is extremely helpful) is that we would do warm ups. These lasted from about a minute on the shorter side up to ten minutes, which was rare. Most of the time it'd be 1-5 minutes, scaling the time up with each new warm up. My figure drawing classes always started off with plenty of these, and after doing the warm ups we'd prepare for the rest of the 2+ hours working on a single piece. Obviously, the 2+ hour long pieces would have a lot more to them. The warm ups would sometimes consist of me choosing one portion to draw quickly, but usually it was getting a feel for the entire piece.

Now, typically you would consider the main work of art to be the best out of all of them. For an overall "score" you're probably right! Even though I personally have a bad knack for focusing on little details too early and try to define a single part of my art first, my longer paintings or sketches were always more detailed.

But they weren't always the most correct.

See, when you do these minute sketches, you're trying to catch the full image with very little details, and you want to capture the form, the feeling, or the weight of whatever model you're using. You catch things like the arch of the back, the angle of the face, the position of the limbs, or if its a still life, the outline of objects, the placement of them, and anything else your eye catches in that minute or two. Your hands move fast, but you can take in a lot of info with just a glance and a few strokes. Its really fun and I miss my classes partly because of this.

And now back to my original statement, these quick sketches are some of the best things I've ever drawn. Are they a bit funny to look at? Sure, but often we'd do our main art piece using the same setup or pose, and I genuinely think some of my larger pieces don't convey the scene as sussinctly as the scribbles I took such a short amount of time to draw. I would never show them off to too many people because I know its not my best work, but I genuinely love some of these pieces to death and don't want to lose them over others. I can look at them and remember the scene or person in that pose and I love that.

You need to kill the idea that time equals worthiness for art. I'd say a lot of things in general should be looked at this way, but there are things that keeping in mind the time and effort is good as well. Art doesn't need to be a grueling 5 hour to 100 hour burden, it CAN be that if you feel it gives you purpose or satisfaction or whatever if you want. When you make art about the time and effort, you will quickly find yourself looking at art from disabled people or anyone that can't get themselves to create for a long amount of time, as unworthy wastes of time. It is a poison, stop making art you either create or give time to stupid commercialized pieces that wear down the artist.

I'm bad at this. A lot of people are bad at this. There is a stupid connection that time = good art. There are reasons people have made tools to help out with how long it takes to make art. People can be photographers and use a tool to capture a scene, a lot of digital art programs have different brushes, different tools, all to help you out. There's plenty more than just these too! Physical art has so many tools to help with the creation of art, including some I don't know that help with disabled artists. Its amazing there are so many things that help people make art, and it should be seen as a good thing.

And then many of you will get mad as soon as AI helps with the ease and time it takes to create. You will never see that tools are tools, and that they can be used in positive and needed ways for many people. Your discomfort is not a reason for a helpful way to create to be snuffed out.

And before you scream about power usage and water, you need to talk about your own power and water usage if you do anything online or with a phone or console.

[thelawfulchaotic]

As an aspiring lawyer, yet to go to college, I'm always very confused about what kind of law I want to take up. Not just because i'm divided between corporate and criminal law, but also because corporate criminal and divorce law are the only three laws I am AWARE of.

In my country, corporate is difficult to study and better to practice, criminal is easy to study and difficult and also for a lot of reasons, terrible to practice. I'm more drawn to criminal law but i was also drawn to astrochemistry about 4 years ago so i don't trust myself right now.

What i want to ask you is of course

a. Should I do criminal or corporate? b. What other types of laws are there that I can practice(I didn't even know constitutional law and juvenile protection law existed until a few months ago, ik how do I not know what these are, I'm about to go to college in less than a year, but that's what i wanna know(the internet is weird and i'd rather know from some whose practicing, than some rando website))

You have SO MUCH TIME to make this decision. Don’t pressure yourself at all.

It’s a really good thing to leave yourself open to changing and growing as a person, which might mean that in a year you change your mind about what you want.

You also have plenty of time to learn about what options there are! More than that, you’ll get to take classes about them in whatever law school your country does.

In America, you do a four-year undergraduate degree then three years of law school, but I know that you can go straight to studying law in, for example, the UK. If you’re in America, my biggest recommendation is that in college you don’t even study law at all — you’ll learn it all in law school. Study something totally different. Something that just Interests you. The “typical” major is usually political science; mine was a film degree, but I’ve met lawyers who did theatre, science, literature, art history.

You can always tell people who majored in pre-law once you’re in law school, because they don’t know anything. Where I’m always telling stories, they would argue in a circle: the law is the law because it’s the law.

All that said: law school tends to divide itself into private and public interest, not necessarily by subject. (Criminal law can be with a private firm or with the government, so it could be either). When you’re talking about types of law you can specialize in, the field is so so wide.

The lawyers who sue people for accidents, who sue companies for bad products, who sue for negligence? That’s tort law. Around that there’s things like medical malpractice law. Personal injury. Products liability.

You talk about corporate law like it’s one thing, but it isn’t. Partnerships and LLCs have their own issues; lawyers specialize in tax law, secured transactions, employment law, the law of corporations specifically, property and real estate law.

Intellectual property law is about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

Lawyers help people write wills — estate law. Family law involves child custody, visitation, and support, marriages, divorces.

Environmental law preserves our natural spaces and fights pollution! International law deals with treaties! Constitutional law is about the very structure of the country! Immigration law helps people find and stay in their new home!

Criminal law in itself can look very different depending on if you’re in a fancy expensive law firm vs a public defender vs a prosecutor vs the Innocence Project.

And you don’t have to pick one; you’d have to pass a bar exam anyway with a lot of these topics on it. You can practice any of these once you become a lawyer.

I’m sure I’m missing tons. The point is: there are tons of options and you don’t have to even start deciding for years.

[yuikomorii]

I have a question regarding the vampires, we know that the Mukamis are Romanian bcs they were humans before being turned into vampires and there are references abt Romania in their flashbacks, but where are the Sakamakis supposed to be from? If I'm not mistaken they were born in the demon world right? But for example the flashbacks of Shu and Reiji's childhood take place in the human world so that means they lived there when they were children right? And are the Sakamakis supposed to be/look asian or white bcs we know Ayato was made based on the Japanese beauty standard so do you think his brothers look asian too? What do you think? Do you know if they say or imply smth abt this in any route, cd, fanbook or somewhere?

I'm sorry that I made a lot of questions that may not even have an answer lol it's just that i'm really curious, I hope that you can answer them and thank you, have a good day 😌

// As far as I recall, the Sakamakis used to reside in Transylvania too, since Karlheinz sent them there, although I’m not sure all of them knew they were in the Human World, given that most of them didn’t even leave the mansion. They also have an underground passage that serves as a portal to the Demon World.

Based on what I’ve seen, Japanese fans generally don’t care much about the race of anime-style characters, since most of them aren’t drawn with explicitly “Japanese” features and tend to have highly stylized designs. Of course, they do pay attention to a character’s race or ethnicity when it’s clearly tied to a specific cultural context, like if the character is made after a certain country’s beauty standards (as with Ayato), or if the story is rooted in a particular culture, but other than that, it’s not something they dwell on. If a character has design elements that evoke a Western aesthetic, viewers/players tend to interpret that character as Western. If a character’s features give off a more Asian vibe, then it’s assumed that the character appears Asian. Besides, some of them don’t even think about race at all because they just see them as fictional characters, whose designs are supposed to be eye-catching.

[pinkmarbella2050]

Oh, Tale as Old as Time, for sure. It’s a crossover of Escape The Night and Beauty and The Beast inspired by Lydia The Bard’s villain song for Belle.

2. Does it count if you have planning for it? Because if so, my novelisation for The Traitors UK Series 2. I'd love to finish scripting those episodes ASAP so I can outline the fucking thing.

3. I like how I can take some pretty wild shit and make it tangible and I have a bit of a knack for taking innocuous things and making them really creepy. In Tale as Old as Time, I've taken one of the things and rewrote the lyrics to make it really fucked up - and if you sing it over the top of the original song (or the 2017 one, it works for both!), it works, so I guess that's my claim to fame. 4. That's a tough one. Maybe unrequited love? I wanna try it, but I'm worried that, if I do write it, I will unintentionally villify the person whose feelings are unrequited, so I always get scared to. XD 5. A lot of my fics are really satisfying to finish, to be fair, but it's because quite a few of them are pretty emotionally taxing. I've cried writing a good couple of my fics - some notable examples being My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close and Its You I Welcome Death With - so getting to the end of those was pretty nice. 6. A lot of my fics have sequels, but if I had to write a standalone I had to write for, probably I Am The Star of The Stage (but not of your heart). I could do a sequel poem set at Laurex's wedding or something. 7. Quite a few of them since my fics don't have that many comments on them. If I had to pick one, definitely Rejoining Their Ranks; it did take off a bit, but I was surprised there wasn't much feedback on it. Obviously, I'm not entitled to comments, but I can't say I wasn't surprised since I thought the AU would be more popular. 8. I'm gonna go for Tale as Old as Time here; it's a series of shorter stories that tell one big story (each story corresponds to a canon episode). My favourite bit of it so far is probably in Plumage of Madness (the equivalent of Episode 4) because Chapter 3's ending has one of my favourite things I've ever written in it. I'll use it as my answer to Question 19. 9. I've talked about it briefly, but my Traitors UK Series 2 novelisation, which I'm probably gonna reveal a bit more about soon because I keep running my mouth about it and providing no additional info. It basically tells the story in novel form from the POV of the eventual winner (who I won't say for spoiler reasons). Along the way, we have more psychological explanation, real life and the game crossing over, a few slight changes for drama and a lot more gothic happenings. 10. I've been a horror/thriller/drama writer since I was, like, 11. If it's dramatic/emotional, I can write it quite easily. I really struggle with romance because I've never written it as a single genre and I doubt I ever could. 11. This is actually something I'm gonna do something for Tale as Old as Time! Once the main story's out, I'm gonna tell it from the perspective of two other people. It'll definitely change things, such as how certain characters are viewed (including the characters whose heads are in), there's new descriptions and opinions and more development on all fronts. It'll be interesting, for sure. 12. Well, there's a couple things I have named after songs, so those sort themselves out (i.e: Its You I Welcome Death With has As The World Caves In by Matt Maltese associated with it and And The Funny Thing I Would've Married You has doomsday by Lizzy McAlpine associated with it. In terms of other fics... My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close has Kurt Hugo Schneider's cover of I Will Follow You Into The Dark associated with it. I listened to it on repeat when I wrote Chapter 4 and I think that's part of why I cried writing it. XD 13. Other than The Traitors novelisation and Tale as Old as Time, I have some other fics kicking about that I wanna write. I have an AU for Escape The Night Season 2 where I take a plotline that was dropped pretty quickly and just fucking run with it and shit just gets wild from there. It's called Taking Them All Out and its Alex-centric. Last time I left off, I was on Chapter 6, so I wanna pick that back up when I get a minute and have nothing else to do.

14. I have a lot of OCs I wanna write for! I wanna start an OC Universe, which is a mix of my OCs in different fanfiction (these OCs are actually the cast of Tale as Old as Time) and in some original works of mine as well. Since I usually write fanfiction (and have done so for the past several years), it'll be interesting to basically blend the two. 15. I actually have a fic planned called I Don't Say A Word (but still, you take my breath) and it is for Jesse/DeStorm from Escape The Night Season 2. The premise is that, in the Victorian Era, DeStorm, a railroad tycoon's son who struggles with internalised homophobia, falls in love with Jesse, an outlaw and security detail for his father's railroads, but he's straight and its all an absolute fucking shitshow. I've been meaning to write it for absolutely fucking ages. 16. I have a fic called I'll Be Yours Forever ('til forever falls apart) and its for Janiel (Joey x Daniel), also from Escape The Night. It's a spin-off to The Twisted Victorian Requiem. 17. There's two at the minute, those two being Judas by Lady Gaga and Good For You by Selena Gomez. 18. It really depends; sometimes I'm hoping you laugh, sometimes I'm hoping you cry, sometimes I'm hoping you'll just be like 'what the fuck is going on in here on this day?' like Alyssa Edwards herself. It really depends on the vibes we have going on. 19. Time for the extract I mentioned in Question 8!

He wandered alone in this stone nightmare, his footsteps echoing off the walls as he turned corners and looked around aimlessly, trying to make sense of it all. How Belle, smart and kind and a practically perfect role model, had become so twisted in this world, unlike the story they knew. How everyone seemed to change so quickly. 

How she, the one who fell in love with the Beast’s heart despite his hideous appearance, now damned love to hell and left those who felt it to suffer.

A large stone balcony peeked out through one of the windows, and Eric flung open the nearby door to reach it, to be anywhere other than this prison of death. A spill of periwinkle stars emerged, shivering in the distance, the night wind stinging his numb, indifferent face.

He walked out further and slumped against the railing, ignoring the cold seeping into his skin as he rested his arms. He could easily just roll his sleeves all the way down, but the thought of doing anything brought with it a wave of worthlessness and heaviness.

With a sluggish, deliberate movement, he reached into his pocket, pulled out the ring box and pried it open. An opal embedded in a silver ring awaited his eyes, its colors shifting under the moon like a desperate chameleon camouflaging itself. It was just like her, in a way; hopeful and honest and so much more than how she first appeared.

She may never get it, the cynical part of him said, anybody could die here.

Hoping to shut his brain up, he pocketed the ring again.

He didn't want to hear that his love was gone. He didn't want to know how it would feel to have lost her, to lose that gentle face and those scarlet lips, to no longer see life in those great, still eyes as eternal as diamonds.  

He had seen it once through Zach. He didn't want to see it in himself.

He didn't want to think that she wasn't strong enough to pull through, but it did cross his mind, weighing down the light wings of his love.  

The thoughts continued. Another's. If she was gone, she would be another's.

She would be Death's. 

And he would love her too (who couldn't love that woman?). But the thought of that froze him stiff on the balcony, tightened his fists around the cold stone of the railing until his knuckles were white.  

Dear God, Leila, he prayed, please don't die. 20. I think that's all of them! Thanks for reading, guys!

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✶ . ၄၃ . FIC WRITER ASK GAME !

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1 ⧽. if you could sit down and finish any one of your wips without anything stopping you (time, tiredness, etc), which fic would you choose? tell us about it if you want!

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3 ⧽. what's something you like about your writing?

4 ⧽. is there an au or trope that you haven't written before, but would want to try?

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13 ⧽. do you have any writing projects/goals/plans you're working on/want to work on?

14 ⧽. is there anything outside of your normal content that you want to write?

15 ⧽. if you wrote a fic called [insert title] with [insert character/ship] what do you think it might be about?

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20 ⧽. answer any one of the other questions that you want to!

[certifiedsexed]

Does aftercare have to be emotionally intimate?

I'm interested in partaking in kink some time in the future and probably domming and I know that aftercare is important but I'm aromantic (and aplatonic) which doesn't really matter since many aspecs can like emotional intimacy but I really don't. I've seen a lot of people say that aftercare includes cuddling or spending time together and whatever (after making sure parties involved are alright of course) I just really don't want that for a few reasons. Examples being I don't want to have sex with a non-sexually intimate partner or friend because I don't want to be non-sexually intimate, I would find it a bit awkward honestly, you get the picture.... Is it fine to just make sure the other person(s) involved is fine, get them water or food or something, and leave or whatever??? Thanks.

It depends on the type of kink you do and who you play with!

Aftercare really differs depending on what you're doing and who's involved.

For example, cuddling might be good aftercare for some people after having some types of sex/doing certain types of kink scenes but for others, it might be triggering or just completely useless. Its not an automatic requirement for aftercare to be something physical and/or emotionally intimate.

Sometimes aftercare is just tending to any wounds, making sure y'all are both fine, maybe getting something to drink but it depends on what type of play you're doing and who you're doing it with.

You have to talk with your partner(s) about what aftercare they might need, as well as what aftercare you might need. Especially if you have specific types of aftercare you can't do and/or feel very uncomfortable doing, you should talk to your partner(s) about it beforehand.

And you will have to be prepared for the possibility that you'll do a scene and your partner might need more aftercare than you/they anticipated. You might too!

And in those situations, you can't just drop out. If you want to do kink scenes with people, you have to stay responsible for you and your partner(s) health. You might need to call someone, you might need to stay with them until whichever of you needs it feels better.

I'm not saying you have to do emotionally intimate aftercare whenever you do kink scenes, that's not true. It's perfectly fair if you're uncomfortable with that.

But you do need to make sure your partner(s) are aware that's not something you do and try to play with people who don't need emotionally intimate aftercare. And stay aware, sometimes shit hits the fan and you might have to do something more than you planned for.

[anistarrose]

volunteer for progressive ballot initiatives, make republicans scream and cry

The worst bill yet of this Trump administration just passed, so we're all rightly fucking pissed. We all want to fucking Do Something, and there are a lot of options, which are generally not mutually exclusive. I am here to passionately suggest just one of the many Things You Can Do, available in over half the U.S. states, which is the ballot initiative — circumventing our shitass politicians to make progress directly, with laws that citizens design.

Now, how do you get involved with a ballot initiative, you may ask? Well, to get started from square one:

Check this list to see if your state allows citizen-initiated ballot measures (to create state laws, or to amend the state constitution). It's only about half the states, but there's more red states and swing states than you'd think.

If your state's on the list, look up "[state name] ballot initiatives 2025," and the same for 2026, and peruse the results. See if there are any ballot initiatives you strongly agree with, perhaps aiming to do what your state's politicians would never do.

Look up the organizers' websites, and see if they need volunteers to collect signatures for the initiative to get on the ballot. A well-organized initiative will have an online sign-up page, and a simple, accessible, virtual training process. If they already have the signatures, and they're on the ballot in 2025, they may instead need canvassers to get out the vote. This is where you come in.

For example, if you're in Michigan, you might search for ballot measures, and see a news result about getting utility corporations' dark money out of politics. From there, you can easily find Michiganders for Money Out of Politics: the coalition currently recruiting volunteers to help collect over 300,000 signatures, so that the initiative can be approved for the 2026 ballot. If you're in Ohio, you might see news about Ohio Equal Rights, aiming to protect transgender Ohioans and other marginalized people with their ballot initiative. If you're in Oklahoma, you might come across Raise the Wage Oklahoma, which has gathered enough signatures to appear on the ballot, but will certainly need canvassers for the special election in June 2026. Most states with a citizen-initiated process see initiatives almost every year (including the swing and red states listed above!), and you'll never know for sure unless you look.

Of course, you'll statistically also find ballot initiatives that suck ass, because conservatives with too much time on their hands can initiate ballot measures, too. These are... technically still good to be informed about, so you can get a head start warning people not to sign the petitions or to vote for them! Evidently, Colorado voters will want to warn people not to fall for deceptive arguments about right-to-work laws, for example — to hopefully prevent said issue from being placed on the ballot, and if not, then to simply defeat it at the ballot box.

All in all, a lot of statewide bright spots in 2022 and 2023's elections came from ballot measures. Massachusetts taxed millionaires, Ohio and Michigan protected abortion rights, Nevada passed the state's Equal Rights Amendment, and more. All this progress rested on the backs of volunteers, who first collected signatures to qualify these initiatives for the ballot, followed by get-out-the-vote canvassing to ensure they would actually pass.

Collecting signatures is easy to learn, and it can be simple to do your small or medium-sized part — hell, I'm personally too disabled to stand outside soliciting signatures for hours in hot weather, but I absolutely can and will get the signatures of every single like-minded person I already know in my state. That's allowed! That's a thing ballot committees actively find helpful! And people doing their small part to collect signatures, frankly, is the only reason that any good policy has been made in my state in over a decade. That's not hyperbole. So join me — and tell your representatives to go fuck themselves, while we create better fucking laws on our own. Republicans already screamed and cried so much when states did that for abortion and millionaire taxes and civil rights. We can keep making them scream and cry. With this method, and many, many other ones.

[antianakin]

I'm not sure I know quite how to word this yet, but I feel like part of the issue with people's perceptions of the Jedi and the Order is that there are some aspects of it that are intended to be applicable to real life because they're part of the overall themes and messages of the story, and there are other parts that are straight up fantasy tropes that are just there to give it a fantastical feel, and not everyone's sure which is which, so you get certain things being criticized that are just basic fantasy trope and other things being tossed aside as just fantasy bullshit that is meant to be viewed as part of the running theme of the entire story.

For example, the Jedi taking in children very young is often something that gets criticized and while there have been people trying to explain this in-universe as a necessary thing to help these kids grow up with certain values and make their lives as Jedi easier in the long run, it's going to be something that's far easier to swallow if you just realize it's a straight up fantasy trope. The kids are magical, there's a force in the universe calling them to take up a specific path so they can fulfill a destiny. That's it. These kids know, at extremely young ages, that they're destined for something greater and can follow that path and call older magical beings to help guide them down that path. It's just fantasy, y'all, it's not meant to be any deeper than that.

Whereas on the other hand, the attachment rule sometimes gets explained away as something that's necessary for the Jedi because they're space wizards with special powers that are connected to their emotions and so the Jedi NEED to manage attachments in a way no one else does specifically due to their abilities. But in reality, attachments and their consequences are part of the overall theme of the entire franchise, specifically of Anakin's storyline. You as the audience are meant to look at Anakin's story and realize that attachments are in fact actually bad and while you may not end up murdering a bunch of children as a result of your own attachments, it's probably still worth figuring out how to control your fear and let some shit go and accept that sometimes people die and it's sad but it's just how life goes sometimes. The attachment rule isn't important to the Jedi because they have space wizard powers, it's important to them because it's just genuinely important for EVERYONE. This isn't a fantasy trope, this is a storytelling trope that is often at the core of a LOT of different stories you know because it's a really really basic message to send about how to live your life in a healthy way.

But, yeah, I think it would help some people to have a better understanding of where in Star Wars, especially with regards to the Jedi, it is helpful to apply rules of the fantasy genre and where to apply more realistic analysis because it's something that's meant to be applicable to the audience as the lesson they take away from the story.