#From A Practical Standpoint
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donāt let the superhero costumes fool you theyāre just here to shoot peopleĀ
#my art#hermitcraft#grian#goodtimeswithscar#hotguy#cuteguy#mcyt#desert duo#why is it every time i decide iām going to Just Draw A Sketch i end up doing multiple full color illustrations#local artist actually draws background 1 dead 6000 injured#itās kinda fun figuring out the balance between āpractical archery knowledgeā and āsuperhero theatricsā when designing these guys#grianās costume prioritizes aesthetics over practicality/realism whereas scarās is fairly reasonable from an archery standpoint#and i have no idea what grianās costume looks like from the back#itās what he would want#actually the thing iām most proud of is cuteguyās bow design#closely followed by that ādonāt walkā sign#you gotta admit thatās a really good sign#anyway todayās tiny detail that no one would ever notice in a million years#hotguy is using go-away-green arrows#which is funny for two reasonsā#also this isnāt even possible to see i dont think but the arrowheads are that triple-edged spiral blade banned by the geneva convention#itās how he got all the scars#but the real question is did i make him hot enough
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actually now that i think about it hen becoming captain of the 118 would make a lot more sense than reinstating the asshole that had to leave because of several HR violations of the same team. it would also be such a satisfying way to introduce new viewers to several of her storylines and to tie together a number of things this season:
- her learning to believe in the trust the team has in her and their willingness to follow her lead (-> the death of ortizās son and the cruise ship)
- giving her more power and leverage in her fight to get mara back (-> the department would not make her captain if the things that councilwoman brought up to the judge were of any real concern)
- really doubling down again on the firehouse being the place where she belongs and that her decision not to become a doctor was the right one because this is where she can protect her family the best and where her leadership personality gets to shine (-> karen and denny almost dying in that explosion showing her where she wants and needs to be)
- a big fuck you to gerrard who tried to get rid of her at the beginning of her career only to be passed over by the department for the captainās position in favour of her
- bobby calling her mother hen and insinuating that sheās raising the new generation of LA firefighters in the same episode where he tries to say goodbye to this being his role in feels very intentional
- not to forget that she was actually acting captain during the rescue mission at the start of the season where she literally saved bobby by filling his shoes (!!!) and got a medal for it
- with her spot on the team opening up it would also open up the possibility for buck to reevaluate his own position and what he wants his future of his career to look like (-> now that his romantic relationships arenāt the main source of conflict anymore maybe weāll get to see more of his character development in his professional life)
in conclusion: everything burning to the ground could be the perfect opportunity for growth and bigger and better things to come
#(i say so i donāt start crying)#idk maybe iām totally wrong here but i canāt stop thinking about it#it would also make more sense from a practical standpoint to have the captain be one of the mains to not take away from their screen time#if this turns out to be a more than a temporary thing#especially with tommy rejoining and maybe playing a bigger role next season#selina talks#911#911 spoilers#hen wilson#bobby nash#911 speculation#evan buckley#long post
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A memory prodded at Theon. In one of his rare curtĀ letters, Lord Balon had written of his youngest brother going down in a storm, and turning holy when he washed up safe on shore. -Theon I, aCoK
this little glimpse of balon/theon's strained long-distance relationship kinda fascinates me now. can't believe i'm going to defend balon as a father to theon in any way, however small, but i feel like hindsight has kinda blinded fandom into thinking balon gave up theon for dead and gone the moment he gave him away as hostage. this also carries the underlying assumption that balon was always going to rebel again making theon's life already forfeit to him.
thing is, while balon undoubtedly called his banners before theon came home, that also coincided with robert and ned both being recently dead, making that 2nd war seem really opportunistic. as if the only thing balon learned from his first rebellion was that king robert was strong enough to defeat him, the only man capable of defeating the great balon. so when that enemy dies, balon's crown is all but won in his mind, and with the death of ned too he could use his next war to take revenge on the (dead) man who took his son from him. maybe with robert's lifestyle he could have hoped to outlive him despite being older than robert, but robert and ned together? that must have seemed like a miraculous chance straight from the drowned god himself, a chance to rise up and take revenge that it was his duty to take for his people, even if it meant risking the life of his youngest child who'd been gone for 10 years anyway.
but before all that, even if robert being still alive was the real deterrant keeping him from warring again, he was, in effect, not only keeping theon safe by paying the hostage-ransom of keeping the peace, he was also keeping up a bare minimum connection with theon through rare and curt correspondence updating him on family events like aeron getting born again (and i'm assuming that's also how theon knew what asha's ship was named). idt we should so easily ignore that this is a society which views kinslaying as a grave offense regardless of circumstances or personal feelings, and one which greatly values male heirs over female heirs. i doubt balon was so much a feminist girldad that he just switched 12yo asha into the son slot right away as soon as all her brothers were lost. imo it was more likely a gradual process done not so consciously as asha proved herself worthy growing up and theon's time in the north stretched on and on. all until such point as asha had achieved son status and only son status at that, (maybe also coinciding with alannys leaving him so he had even less reason to keep up with her baby boy?), and then theon could be written off as belonging to the enemy, no longer ironborn or a son of balon, so sanctity of greyjoy life no longer applied to him. (real ironborn greyjoy son already killed by darth greenlander theon, from a certain point of view.) only then could balon be a not-father to theon, not welcoming him back home or even giving him a chance to prove his loyalty by providing intelligence on the northerners and the lands they were about to invade. (which could have made balon's war plans a touch less stupid. see, it all comes back to criticizing him in the end.)
in fact, come to think of it, i wonder if one thing ned and balon had in common is just not thinking of the danger of theon being executed as a hostage, not taking ownership of that possibility bc it hadn't happened yet. and hey, if it ever did come to that they could each tell themselves it would be the other guy's fault really, i was just doing my duty to my king/as a king to all my proud people. and that meant their actions didn't have to be obviously at odds with ned's view of himself as a good man opposed to killing children or balon's view of himself as great greyjoy patriarch and victim of the greenlanders (who could ofc prevail against them all if given the right chance).
#valyrianscrolls#asoiaf meta#asoiaf#theon greyjoy#balon greyjoy#unclear to me if balon would rebel if ned had survived robert's death#like hed obvsly still be stewing in resentment hankering for that great victory in his head#but ned and robert both dead w the north seemingly undefended was the impetus in canon and not a chance anyone could anticipate#and balon didnt even fight in that 2nd rebellion#so maybe not actually so bold anymore or eager to put his fantasies into practice if it meant fighting ned again actually in the north#taking kids hostage is fucked up and inherently abusive imo#but from a self-preservation standpoint why keep taking hostages if enough distance obvsly made them worthless?#ie the majority of people would still value heirs for the sake of inheritance and family honor if not love#thats a reasonable thing for people to assume including theon#(c)lsb
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look. idk how the LAFD works. and i'm not an HR professional. but like. when a captain gets so many complaints filed against him that he's eventually fired, why would you.......rehire the same man......to the same house.......to preside over mostly the same subordinates........
#*t#911 spoilers#don't get me wrong: the drama will be DELICIOUS#but from a practical standpoint i just......i need them to walk me thru this hiring decision lmao
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magic, again, as a word not for a metaphysical supernatural energy field or something but instead as a word for the human behavior of making meaning. religious action is magic, ritual is magic, anthropomorphization is magic, placebo is magic. magic as the word for the phenomenon of connections being created where there materially are none, of placing proximate actions in an ultimate context, of the ways in which that actively affects human life and behavior and subjective experience
#birdenest#scraps book#on magic#if we wanna talk about my personal magical practice things take on slightly different meanings#but from the anthropological standpoint i want to use to talk about human behavior this is the word and its definition
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Dont know how old Ingo is when he evolves but I can't help imagining Emmet and Ingo's reunion after Emmet leaves his parents just being like:
Emmet: Ingo! I missed you! I can't belie- wait, what the fuck *grabs Ingos face, stares very hard*
Ingo: !! Emmet?
Emmet: Ingo... did you... fucking file your teeth??
Ingo: uhhhhhhhhhh
Yeah, he would leave before he evolves in this version! So... yep! The razor sharp teeth would be a huge surprise for Emmet! He definitely didn't have those before! Ingo wasn't included in any family photos or anything, but he would think he'd remember his brother having chompers like that!
But also:
Emmet, noticing Ingo's black nails: Oh, did you start painting your nails?
Ingo, sweating: yes. I'm goth now.
#asks#zoroark possession au#from a practical standpoint Ingo might still file his nails in this version#especially if he spent any time working on the trains from a maintenance standpoint#long sharp nails seem like they would get in the way!
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what do u even do in a termination meeting ive never been fired before
#my friends keep encouraging me to fight back but tbh i dont think that's a great idea#if only from a practicality standpoint
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ok but like all jokes aside im genuinely kind of fascinated by the incorporation of bdsm. like it's interesting from an objective viewpoint! im actually curious to see how/if consensual bdsm is fully depicted and how the characters involved approach it. if that makes sense. bc specific acts like that haven't really been represented much in thai qls or at least gmmtv as far as im aware. im willing to bet it's at least rare. and i havent seen much of it in western media either really? like people seem to relegate bdsm + kink community stuff to pornos, which like, obviously it's not gonna be talked about in a pg-13 show, but i think it's very rarely brought up in mainstream media at all despite being a significant part of the queer community. im not expecting anything super deep from thk bc it's ultimately a 'fantasy', and i doubt this is the (full?) reason they chose to go this route, but maybe (if it's not a shitshow) people will learn good things from it, gain a new perspective or wtv. at the very least i think itll make a few waves.
so im. academically intrigued by the bdsm
#genuinely intrigued from a media culture standpoint#im still gonna cringe at the fake gasps but ill be taking notes š (for analysis not practice)#ive already said this to two mutuals who are uninvolved in thaiql stuff lol so im just posting it here for now. archive of my thoughts#nof's nonsense#thaiql#thk#wish i had someone to discuss things with but im extremely hesitant to become involved#bc a lot of the rpf culture makes me incredibly uncomfortable#and the infantilization.......but thats a topic for another time#<- if anyone agrees hmu ig lol
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sigghh. new psg you could have been so awesome to me if you just fucking did right by garterbelt.
#CAN THEY NOTT BE RACIST. FOR FIVEE MINUTES. YOU'VE HAD 14 YEARS TO REMEDY THAT SHIT.#and i'll bet they aren't gonna fix the racist charicatures that leak into his characterisation either. guhhh.#like there is literally no fucking pro to keeping the old design people don't like it it's HARDER TO ANIMATE. CAUSE OF THE EXTRA FUCKASS#COLOURS YOU ADDING TO HIS FACE. JUST FIX HIS NOSE/MOUTH AND TEXTURE HIS HAIR A BIT IT'S NOT THAT HAAARDD#just annoying 2 me. probably not gonna watch it then as one of my conditions was they have 2 do garterbelt better. whatever.#i dont GET IT. i dont underSTAND. horrid decision from a marketability artistic moral and practicality standpoint man fml.
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in terms of like. personal love in my heart. It's jak series -> -> -> sly series -> spyro the thing -> that awful beast crash bandicoot -> ratchet and flank. Flank. Flank. Flank. Clank.
#its all love and nostalgia but thats the way id ordered them#like if i had to pick one for the rest of my life it would be jak and i would miss sly#which is really funny from a practical standpoint like ratchet has the most games by far
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ms sena...........
#thiswas pose / figure drawing practice and then i decided it oculd also be izumi#ensemble stars#enstars#izumi sena#femstars#KINDA i actually just hc izumi as transfem but i think this is femstars from a legal standpoint#my art
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I've started listening to an Anthony Bourdain audiobook at work and it's making me yearn for the kitchen
#Don't get me wrong I like my new job and from a practical standpoint it's definitely better than restaurant work#Like the pay and hours and more stable and it comes with benefits like medical/dental insurance and free college tuition#But I miss finishing a night shift and then getting high and going to Waffle House with the other closers at 4am#My new job is fine but there's nobody to talk to because the other janitors are off cleaning other buildings#and the people working in the building I clean are polite enough to say hello and make small talk but I harbor no illusions#that these college professors want to talk to a janitor and even if they did I'm only in their offices for like 30 seconds tops#Meanwhile working completely in sync in such close proximity with half a dozen other 20-something townies forges lifelong friendships
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watching outer range and it's making me want to work on a ranch in wyoming or montana sooooo bad even though i know i hate sweating and getting up at 5 am and those states are full of republicans and many cowboys are sort of intolerable
#idk maybe i've just met obnoxious cowboys but they always seem to be kind of aggressive and arrogant and racist#i think it would be such an interesting and educational experience as an equestrian to be in situations where you have to depend on your#horse like in most other contexts riding is approached from a very different and much less practical standpoint#also i love trail riding in the middle of nowhere sooooo much#but i think a finished ranch horse is so impressive i would love to ride a bridle horse someday#also a cutting horse but i think i might fall off lmao#anyway. the show is fine. i miss riding horses#me
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Ugh, I'm two seconds away from writing a DW Character Analysisā¢ post re: River in the Christmas special, and I need somebody to stop me.
#I understand some of the complaints about 'why did she all of a sudden think she was never loved at all' but that made PERFECT sense#to me in context. (and I think there was a little bit of like...practicality from a narrative goal standpoint too)#but idk if I want to like. do something that might potentially Invite Discourseā¢ because talking about this era in a positive light#ALWAYS carries that risk lmao#granted this is...a pretty tame thing to defend. as opposed to like. the OTHER analytical thing I want to write so idk maybe I WILL do this#mel screams about The Weird Little Space Show again#ALSO. I don't think I've done a Significant Analysis Thing for River on here and that is a CRIME#/I/ should be in stormcage#UGH once I finish THIS fic & can go back to the 'here's the list of reasons why this character suffers from ocd' fic it is OVER for EVERYON
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i mean from an objective standpoint lawrence lost his game he didn't do the thing the tape told him to do but he still gets to live bc he problem solved and escaped the room alive so i see no reason why adam couldn't have done the same if he had just also cut his foot off
#apparently you don't need to actually follow your tape in the bathroom trap as long as you survive.#so like. idk. they were in the exact same boat i really don't get the idea that Adam was at a disadvantage#he didn't have a key but neither did anyone else. and Lawrence didn't end up killing him so his tape instructions were moot#from a practical standpoint they were in the same situation its just that one of them left the room alive while the other waited for help#which i KNOW john hates so fucking much and that's why he was like no im locking you in now byeee#avpost#jigsaw was like will you die or will you do something about it and adam said ill sit here thanks.#so obviously john kramer would be like no?? you don't get to wait for help im an old man angry that im dying. fuck you.
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me trying not to KMS because its thunderstorming
#emergency broadcast system#i hate hate hate it ! lightning and thunder DIE#theyre cool like. in pictures or gifs or suchlike. and from an objective standpoint theyre really badass#very fun. interesting stuff.#however in practice if i hear thunder thats it.
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