#I'm particularly looking for

[realgoogleslides]

Me: Wants to read fanfiction.

Me: Doesn't want to read romance, just bestie boos being bestie boos.

Me: Is currently asking tumblr if there is anything.

...

Is there?

(Please I need to write a presentation on this-)

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

genuinely is my brain erasing itself or is google/tumblr censoring that post about notre dame and old growth forests.

[sunderwight]

What if the plant body hadn't worked out, and the Holy Mausoleum solution had actually taken a long time to sort of "fix" Shen Qingqiu's body and fully call his soul back to it, so that hundreds of years passed and civilization in PIDW/SV world progressed to the point of something like the "modern era"?

Imagine Luo Binghe trying to delicately introduce his shizun to such strange concepts as smart phones and credit cards, while Shen Qingqiu is just desperately trying to figure out how dumb he should play this. Would it be believable for him to get everything on the first try? There have to be some differences between what he knows and this world's versions, right, because of the demons and cultivators and things? Right?? But it's not like any of this actually IS difficult for him to grasp!

Luo Binghe: Shizun already discerned how to type using a keyboard...?

Shen Qingqiu, sweating bullets: what, like it's hard?

[inkskinned]

one of the things about being an educator is that you hear what parents want their kids to be able to do a lot. they want their kid to be an astronaut or a ballerina or a politician. they want them to get off that damn phone. be better about socializing. stop spending so much time indoors. learn to control their own temper. to just "fucking listen", which means to be obedient.

one of the things i learned in my pedagogy classes is that it's almost always easier to roleplay how you want someone to act. it's almost always easier to explain why a rule exists, rather than simply setting the rule and demanding adherence.

i want my kids to be kind. i want them to ask me what book they should read next, and i want to read that book with them so we can discuss it. i want my kid to be able to tell me hey that hurt my feelings without worrying i'll punish them. i want my kid to be proud of small things and come running up to me to tell me about them. i want them to say "nah, i get why this rule exists, but i get to hate it" and know that i don't need them to be grateful-for-the-roof-overhead while washing the dishes. i want them to teach me things. i want them to say - this isn't safe. i'm calling my mom and getting out of this. i want them to hear me apologize when i do fuck up; and i want them to want to come home.

the other day a parent was telling me she didn't understand why her kid "just got so angry." this woman had flown off the handle at me.

my dad - traditional catholic that he is - resents my sentiment of "gentle parenting". he says they'll grow up spoiled, horrible, pretentious. granola, he spits.

i am going to be kind to them. i am going to set the example, i think. and whatever they choose become in the meantime - i'm going to love them for it.

[souenkun]

I need the pokemas anniversary to come soon so we can hopefully see volo go batshit crazy again for the second time!!!

[mintjeru]

olympics 2024 men's volleyball japan vs. argentina match you will always be famous

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[salamispots]

some downtime doodling

[rainbun]

They did it guys!!

[mazken]

brush test slash rendering practice with ayem

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[sleepsucks]

[marc--chilton]

ruhgh the pilot. the pilotttt.......... the patient getting wilson to reflect on house's actions and he barely has to examine before determining with a little smile that "yeah, he cares about me :) " like it's such a little thing. utterly precious. but also very smoothly gets the audience to think similarly: people will say anything, it's what they do that really shows what they mean and how they feel. love is a verb love is a doing word

[thii-nii]

운사람 by Hwang Da Seul ('The one who cried' perhaps as a wordplay of 눈사람 'snowman') Lyrics for the ending song of 'Let Free the Curse of Taekwondo' episode 7 (sung by Kim Nu Rim) and episode 8 (sung by Lee Seon) (Both) 내가 빛이 나면 네가 살아질까 Will you disappear if I shine too brightly? 애써 꼭꼭 나를 감춰 봐 So I try to hide myself with all my might. 내가 울어버리면 네가 녹을까 Will you melt if I cry? 애써 꾹꾹 나는 참아 봐 So I'm doing my best to hold back my tears. 봄이 안 오면 안 갈래 If spring doesn't come, I don't want to go. 평생 안 울면 너 안 갈래 If I/you never cry again, you don't want to go. 어떡해야 널 다시 안을지 What should I do to be able to hold you again? 아니, 내가 안으면 또 사라질까 No, will you disappear once more, if I hug you? (Lee Do Hoe (ending of ep 7)) 안 울께 난 그칠께 난 I won't cry. I will stop (crying). 제발 녹지마 Please don't melt. 차갑게 나 영원히 나 있을께 Coldly, endlessly, I'll be here. 제발 녹지마 Please, don't melt. (Shin Ju Yeong (ending of ep 8)) 봄이 안 오면 너 안 갈래 If spring doesn't come, you don't want to go. 평생 안 울면 너 안 갈래 If I/you never cry again, you don't want to go. 어떡해야 널 다시 안을지 What should I do to be able to hold you again? 아니 ,내가 안으면 또 사라질까 No, will you disappear once more, if I hug you? 안 울께 나 그칠께 난 I won't cry. I will stop (crying). 제발 녹지마 Please, don't melt.

[kradogsrats]

@raayllum has been so right about s4 all along, if you can't see that it's incredibly relevant and necessary when s7 comes back and kisses it right on the mouth with tongue, idk what to tell you

[taruruchi]

Bundling up for the winter 🫶

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