#Answered: Chirp Chirp About It

[a-cageless-canary]

What's Aiko going to do for Mother's Day?

That was tomorrow, wasn't it?

".....Nothing special. Just going to somewhere she'd like."

The beach...Her Mama had once said she liked the ocean before. Before she had to drop out of college, before her grandparents died...Mama did mention a lot how she liked going to the beach. How if she was lucky and found a quiet spot she could stroll along the shore, the waters washing over her feet. Maybe she could find a seashell?

Bring it back with her and if she had time to visit her Mama's grave set it there....

Maybe if she went, Aiko would feel her Mama beside her. Just looking at the waves and thinking about all the memories she still kept close to her heart...

[turrondeluxe]

How old do you think the turtle tots are in the comics/art you've shown? (like, roughly, how it's their development)

will probably be a bit long because of pics so!

^ a few weeks after being mutated (basically still newborns, very small)

^ Around 6-7 months! Can be seen crawling around the house

^ Roughly around 8 months old (already starting to string together syllables)

^ Around 3 years old! (Yi is VERY smart for her age)

^ Around 4 years old!

^ extra silly fun fact! they started purring being only a few days old!

[themarkofoxin]

i am not watching the stream but someone asked what mic phil is holding here

and the answer is it’s a shotgun mic without the windscreen. fascinating that they even have one honestly. shotgun mics are usually used as booms, so generally higher production-value stuff than they do. maybe they bought some for the dapg return church shoot? why not just rent them though.

also this is nitpicky but holding a shotgun mic like that and having it that close to your mouth is CRAZY guys oh my god. first of all shotguns aren’t great for shooting indoors because the pickup pattern allows it to pick up reflections of sound off walls because it looks like this

so that cross section in the middle is what picks up reflections. most professional audio people swap shotgun mics for cardioid condenser mics if they’re booming inside, because as you can see in this pickup pattern catches a lot fewer reflections from the back and picks up moreof what’s broadly in front of it.

which is another reason why it’s super weird to use a shotgun mic as a handheld announcer mic, because the narrow pickup pattern of the shotgun mic means you have to keep it aimed very directly at your mouth for the best sound quality. shotgun mic audio pickup falls off CRAZY fast when it’s even slightly off-cue.

anyway that’s all to say weird choice there. not sure why they did that. their regular mics are probably cardioid so idk why they didn’t use one of those!

[manglechan1204]

I’m choosing to believe that Phil used to sleep in that king size bed in the shitty shack before being kidnnaped.

Now he sleeps in his abuelo chair in a bird like position, with his clipped wings warped around himself. Waiting to be waken up by the squeaks of a ducky floaty or the sounds of shaking maracas.

[butchsophiewalten]

going to bed now but im like halfway through writing the recap post 👍 some other people on this website and on twitter have already made their own space recaps though if you're especially hungry for one

[transpanda-1]

Is there any way to parse the difference between DID and something like maladaptive/immersive day dreaming?

I guess I'm kinda...questioning ish? I feel like I have a coherent sense of self but like its...blank or like clay.

I learned about Internal Family Systems Therapy a while back and reading into it really resonated with me and how I tend to talk to myself and see myself in parts. Ordinarily there is like enough of a difference between my sense of self and parts that like I can maintain myself but lately it's just kinda breaking down a bit and eroding, like sometimes "me" is just a set of behaviors I've learned to mask.

But if I lean into it far the other way and treat the parts as alters it feels so...hollow? Like they aren't that much diffrent than me. Neither outcome feels right and I worry it's just me getting immersed in my own imagination.

Whats the difference between a daydreamer that talks to themselves and somone with internal alters?

🧵Hello anon! Apologies for the delay on our response.

This is unfortunately a tough answer. To be honest, the only one who can fully determine if you're plural or not is you. There are certainly some people who are singlets who daydream a lot, and the same for systems as well.

We can do the "Thank you for existing test" if you manage to identify any names that pop out to you?

We relate to the "alters so much like you" sentiment. We're an OSDD median system, so it just feels like we "transform" into alters that aren't that different from the rest of us personality wise. A part of our journey with plurality has been learning to accept that we're all a bit alike, considering we have so much shared experience and memory.

One thing we will say that helps is giving yourself (or selves) an environment where you can test this out! Try out being plural around a friend or simply someone you can trust with this info, it may help you more than you'd think!

And regardless if you turn out plural or singlet, thank you for existing!!!

[parkeryangs]

thinking about college-era mattkey when nobody can tell if they're actually dating, and asking feels too direct but matt almost never goes anywhere without mike and mike starts every story with matt's name and sometimes jam breaks into their apartment in the afternoons so they can crash before theater rehersals and finds them napping under a shared blanket on the couch or in matt's bed, so tangled together as to be almost indistinguishable and their fridge is a myriad of the life they've spent together with polaroids and blurry printed-out phone screenshots and movie tickets and handwritten notes in matt's messy scrawl and when matt's hair gets long, he lets mike braid it even if mike still isn't very good.

and when anne makes a joke about them acting like a married couple they share a look and mike says something about tax benefits and matt doesn't play guitar for anyone except mike and mike never goes to their favorite coffee shop without buying matt a drink too, and once they live off-campus they adopt a cat and say they're her dads, and matt's her favorite even if mike is usually the one to feed her in the evenings and they take family pictures for the holidays to send to all their friends and professors, from the walters family, and they visit each other at work when their schedules are different because they live in one another's pockets and eight hours apart feels like a lifetime and they're not even sure if this is what dating is, if they're boyfriends or something else, but they're both so flighty they'd rather keep their domesticity without having the conversation they both think about far too often.

[fleshadept]

whats the boy/variety drama…..

i apologize in advance for all this but. you asked

so after boy's release in january 2010 at sundance, variety released a review by a guy called peter debruge calling boy a "let-down" follow-up to two cars one night, which is like. fine i guess. That's Your Opinion. i suppose. buuuuuut

debruge's primary criticism of the movie, which he only deigned to write six short paragraphs about, was that the characters were "long-since severed from their tribal past," ostensibly because they weren't presented as the highly stereotypical indigenous archetypes he was expecting. and it was IMMEDIATELY criticized by pretty much anyone who knows more about indigenous existence than what you get from popular american media.

("Persistent Primitivisms: Popular and Academic Discourses about Pacific & Māori Cinema and Television")

he also spells māori as maori the whole article, which is just incorrect and he should do better if his job was to be an educated film critic.

he interprets the pop culture references as tacky and unrealistic for his presupposed vision of what māori should be interested in, even going as far as to call the michael jackson fantasy sequences "random" which if you think about the film for more than two seconds, they are anything but.

taika also poked back at him:

("Persistent Primitivisms: Popular and Academic Discourses about Pacific & Māori Cinema and Television")

debruge's claim that boy was devoid of māori culture was just, well, super wrong. wrong enough that pretty much every academic paper written on boy takes a chance to make a dig at debruge. it's almost a running joke. when the media studies journal of aotearoa new zealand devoted a whole edition to analyzing boy in 2012, one article was a direct response to debruge's claim that the movie lacked "that arthouse-ready anthropological edge" that indigenous films apparently are required to have. it's called "Shaking the Frame: Taika Waititi's Anti-Anthropological Edge," and it's very well written.

basically debruge's critique was and continues to be thoroughly destroyed, but guess what?

he's still variety's chief film critic.

[five-star-stay]

jisung probably doesnt WANT solo activitues. we know he struggles with social issues

I hate this ask actually. If you follow me, i hope you unfollow. I won't block because I want you to read this.

Han has said he'd work on an ost if given the chance.(in his live stream about 13)

Han has expressed interest in fashion while chan has explicitly stated in an interview that ALL members even ones that haven't gotten the chance to attend fashion shows yet are very into the idea of it and would love a chance like that. (In their vogue(?)interview for met gala)

Han shot his portion of WKorea magazine solo as did the other members from what we can tell by the behind the scenes videos so he is fully capable of doing it.

Han was a guest on lmj two years ago (his last solo schedule) and he was very happy about the opportunity. Proving he can do it. And you know something? Skz official twt account never said anything about han's appearance on that show. He was requested to be on show by stays when lmj asked which idol they wanted to see.

Han JUST performed in front of like 60k people at I-Days Milan.

Even when he went on hiatus, he never stopped performing and doing shows or schedules that you think he's not interested in or capable of doing. The only thing he took a break from afaik were fansigns. Which since then he's continued regularly. So I really hope you reconsider and see the blatant mismanagement for what it is.

Han literally makes his skz records with producers he has to approach himself because they get no company help for skz records at all, and he's always doing it with someone new. So do not tell me he will turn down doing an ost.

It's quite obvious that he's not being given the same opportunities and exposure by the management that others get to varying degrees.

Instead of thinking "Maybe he doesn't want to do it." And assuming "He can't do it because of xyz." Why don't we look at the facts I laid out: Han is talented, interested and waiting for opportunities in different areas and yet he hasn't gotten any solo ones since 2022.

Once again, find me 1 instance where han explicitly said he doesn't want to do the things others are doing before you say that he doesn't want it. Stop running defense for jype, a lot of ex jype idols have complained about it's mismanagement.

Of course I'm upset that skz are at their peak and han still gets paid dust in terms of exposure. I hate that you guys call yourself stays, but don't actually believe in han at all and are fine with no opportunities being given to him because of your preconceived notions about the capabilities of people with anxiety or mental health issues. Why does he need to prove himself every time before people support him? For the longest time people said han won't be able to manage a solo magazine shoot that's why he's not getting it. But he shot alone in WKorea for balmain and his cover version sold out multiple times from multiple stores even after multiple restocks. He performed his solo "don't say" performance in their Japanese dome tour night after night in front of thousands and he did it with ease. So just stop. If you don't care that he doesn't get anything say that and don't say that he's the reason why he isn't getting anything because han is always trying his best, and he rarely gets rewarded for it.

The following hanpop lyrics come to mind tbh.

Wanna fly high the older I get

It all keeps slipping away.

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No lie thought my life would be full of starlight

For now, no more dreams, everything gets shut down

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Even if it'll all burn up in the end I want to see it with my own eyes

[strawberrystepmom]

active listening, love in all its forms, the sensation of pure sweetness!

[t1erradelfuego]

web weaving or whatever

[tkachunk]

What made you say brady was charismatic?

so what inspired that specific post was sens call out video on the tsn youtube channel, where brady comes across as very comfortable talking on camera and almost like he's inviting you on an inside joke about his teammates. however, that definitely isn't the only time he comes across that way:

Brady being friendly with literally every other single person in this 2022 nhl media day video

A little part of it is how charmed by brady mark stone is. I don't have the link handy, but I think that when he was asked this season who he's excited to watch this season he said brady and matthew, because he's brady's brother. There are a lot of ways that hosting a 19 year old rookie in your house can be super annoying, but it seems like brady left a great impression on mark, who always goes out for supper with brady whenever they play each other.

I don't know if it necessarily fits into the definition of charismatic, but I've found that brady always kind of goes the extra step to connect with sens fans at games, to thank them for their support.

[urbanbirdbud]

wait wdym gwitch before ep 12 D: im still on 11 did they fuck it up? (dont worry abt spoilers)

oh not at all! I thought episode 12 was masterfully done by the writers, and a fitting end for the first half of the show, it just left me shocked and emotionally affected, but I’m glad the writing is good enough to elicit such a response. it definitely left me wanting more

to not spoil too much, I would just say that episode 12 is incredibly similar in tone to the prologue episode, and doesn’t pull any punches for various characters

the actions of two particular characters will very much have consequences for the latter half, especially the person involved in the post credits scene (yes there is one for this ep so make sure you watch it). It is a very shocking scene to end the first half on, but it’s setup for the next.

we are back to square one with one relationship in particular (or perhaps even worse off) but I don’t think this is out of nowhere on the writers’ part, rather it’s one of the lowest points in a characters as-yet-unfinished arc. they’re reaching rock bottom, but now they’ll have to wake up and untangle themselves from the manipulative forces around them. I am v interested to see how they will navigate repairing their relationships and earning back trust, and then breaking free of their bonds to start on their path to self actualization

[skenpiel]

waaaaaaaahh....... had a super nice impromptu hangout w my buddy ^__^ we got high in a graveyard and just laid in the grass for awhile it was so nice

[patchdotexe]

We traded DLLS, for garden variety hellspiders(Bloomed Inspectors)

SLAMMING THE "WAIT NO GO BACK" BUTTON

...hehehe. garden variety.