#Ody has a fanboy

[sarnai4]

Athena: Odysseus is just a really good guy. He's so smart and brave and funny and--

Ares (sighing loudly): I get it!

Athena: If you got to know him, you'd like him too.

Ares: You've been talking about him for FIVE HOURS! At this point, I do know him!

Athena (crossing her arms): You'll see what I mean one day.

(After "one day")

Ares (beside Athena's infirmary bed): Oh my gosh, Athena! You should have been there! He started stabbing Poseidon like (acts it out) and Poseidon was all like "Stop! Ah!" and Odysseus was all like "You never stopped!"

Athena (smirking): Told you that you'd like him.

Ares (gently smooshing her with a pillow): You didn't say he was violent. You should've led with that.

[dootznbootz]

Diomedes appreciation ask :3

Ohoho >:3

Let me preface by saying that Diomedes to me is not like how most of the fandom view him

The Boy King who is basically like the TV Trope of "Small child with Propeller hat, lollipop, and tricycle" but instead of that, he's "Young babyfaced man" and replace all those items with a helmet, a spear, and the tricycle with a chariot :D AND THEN COVER HIM WITH BLOOD!

That's Diomedes to me. :3

As idk I kind of imagine him being around 20-21 while most of the other Achaean Kings are late 20s to mid/late-30s

He's young and incredibly experienced in war and that's basically where he feels the most comfortable. He is one of the youngest kings there, who VERY much looks up to his elders and respects them while also wanting to "be a proud king" as well. He's just a child soldier among these actual warlords. As, let's be real, Diomedes would probably suck at Diplomacy. Because he never really got to DO it. Even when he told off that messenger from Troy about how Paris was willing to give back the treasure he stole, that wasn't...very tactful. lol) I love that he has this almost "Notice me, Senpai" energy around the older guys lol

I love that he's basically the embodiment of Athena's "war" side. He follows orders very well (basically too well (Yes he mouths off and that time Zeus had to yell at him. I know. but he was in a battle frenzy)) He's very respectful of Athena despite already being favored by her. There's a lot to unpack for this poor guy with being a child soldier ;~;

AND I FUCKING ADORE HIM AND STHENELUS. THEY ARE SUCH FUCKING BROS. STHENELUS IS BASICALLY HIS LIL CHEERLEADER AND I LOVE IT. They're like a Traumatized bonded pair. Epigoni guys!!!

To me I always imagine him being short af because I really love the "Oh, he's so young and small! What's he gonna do?" only to get annihilated stuff. Smol rabid dog energy >:3

Also, bit of a headcanon but you know he thinks that Achilles was fucking pampered and spoiled xD "You think you're hot shit? Try being in wars since you could walk, Centaur boy >:( "

[smokey07]

Some Iliad character designs of the old Greek Myth children comic book series published a long time ago in my home country, which had low key inspired my art years later.

I used to own the whole series, now I don’t even know where some of the volumes are.

P.S the whole series is a combination of many famous myths and is arranged in a somewhat chronological order, so from the formation of the world towards the rise of the 12 Olympians and in the end the Age of Heroes and Aeneid.

Hector with his magnificent mustache

Aeneas

Andromache, she is so pretty

Paris and Polyxena

Big Ajax ( ft Achilles and Odysseus chilling in the background)

Helen my girl

Clytemnestra. She’s magnificent.

Menelaus(left) and Agamemnon(right). Looking back, the little crown on Agamemnon’s head is killing me fr. This is also why long hair Menelaus is supreme.

Diomedes, he has very generic design compared to the others, which ironically fits his fate of being underrated.

Odysseus. I swear the artist is a Ody fanboy, he was given the silkiest and floatiest hair, though the red color made him look like Achilles’ cooler cousin, even more than Ajax.

The inspo for this long post, Achilles himself. It seems they followed the “Pyrrha” route, so he is a redhead here. Funny that he was drawn to be quite huge and bulky, in some scene even more than Ajax.

Neoptolemus. He had red-brown hair instead and had very minor appearance in the whole series, so they just drawn him like a smaller and younger Achilles

[fluffypotatey]

possible places for dialogue beats in Epic the Musical

what the title says: here’s a list of my thoughts on where to place some dialogue beats in between songs!

Troy Saga

Polites and Ody dialogue b/t Full Speed Ahead & Open Arms

after Warrior of the Mind

Cyclops Saga

before Polyphemus (so like the ship is docked on the new island and Odysseus is giving orders to his chosen men before they enter the cave <- a good foreshadowing to his orders in the Underworld)

the other songs transition so well with each other that i cannot bare to place dialogue b/t Remember Them and My Last Goodbye (but it is still here an an honorable mention!)

Storm Saga

Eurylochus and Ody dialogue before Storm (discussing/mourning Polites and possibly Ody hiding from his second in command that Athena left them)

small dialogue b/t Eurylochus and Ody again before Luck Runs Out

Circe Saga

more dialogue b/t Eurylochus and Ody after Puppeteer where Eury might try to confess again bc there’s no certainty that Ody will return, but Ody interrupts him again

maybe not dialogue but just Odysseus walking into the palace after Wouldn’t You Like (maybe even the doors open before he can knock). just some score or soundtrack playing before he enters the room where Circe resides

Dialogue b/t Eurylochus, Odysseus, and Circe after Other Ways (Circe providing Ody with instructions on where to go, Eury wanting to fight the witch and Ody holding him back, again adding to more tension in their dynamic)

Underworld Saga

before No Longer You: Eury and Ody dialogue again with Ody instructing his men to stay put (possibly some dialogue between Eury and the crew to show how far their faith has fallen in their captain)

quick dialogue between Eury and Ody after Monster with Ody ordering the crew to leave the Underworld (Eury asking about what the prophet said and Ody skirting around it <- Eury presses X to doubt again)

Thunder Saga

dialogue before Scylla between the crew and Ody on where they need to go. again, Ody skirts around Eury’s questions with the crew watching them very closely

no further dialogue necessary c the transitions are so good

Wisdom Saga

maybe some dialogue between Penelope and Telemachus before Legendary

OR keep Penelope haunting the narrative and have Telemachus talking to Argos before transitioning into Legendary (like the Disney Princess he is <3)

ANITMACHUS/SHARPWOLF DIALOGUE BEFORE LITTLE WOLF 👀👀👀👀👀 IT WOULD SAVE ME 🫠

maybe some dialogue b/t Athena and Telemachus before We’ll Be Fine 👀 just him being a nerd and geeking out about it (mirroring/paralleling Ody’s own fanboying from WotM)

some quick dialogue but mostly score following Athena while she walks through Mount Olympus and it ends with her being like “I need to speak with Zeus” before transitioning immediately into God Games

Vengeance Saga

this is mostly just to flesh out Calypso more, but maybe some dialogue between her and Ody before Not Sorry

maybe some silence with Ody on his raft that transitions into a flashback of a younger time where before even the Trojan War and it was just his friends against the world. AND THEN, we come back for Dangerous

and yeah those be my thoughts. like, can’t think of any other dialogue beats that would work in a way that doesn’t hinder the transitions Jorge made between the songs, but these ones are just ones i think about that would be fun to explore

[ashipiko]

TENYUKI PATF AU J LIVE EM SO MUCH MY SONS 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

<33 some tenyuki art kinda like a redraw from the SS below the cut?? I LIKE HOW IT TURNED OUT THO I THINK IM MOTIVATED AGAIN!!!!!

🙏🙏 also decided to drop the cast list down below!!! MORE RAMBLES ARE BELOW THE CUT

TIANA: Yuki

NAVEEN: Tenma

CHARLOTTE/LOTTIE: Muku

LOUIS: Taichi

RAY: Yuzo

MAMA ODIE: Misumi

JUJU: Kazunari

TIANA’S MOM/EUDORA: Omi

DR. FACILIER: Reni

LAWRENCE: Haruto

AND THE SUPER LONG ASHI RAMBLE ABOUT THE PLOT N STUFFS feel free to read!!!

OK SO BASICALLY LIKE

Yukki’s the son of a seamster (Omimi) and so yukki works hard everyday in dreams of opening his own salon place thingy CLOTHING LINE? I DUNNO

Tenma’s the prince coming from his kingdom to visit New Orleans broke and w no idea how to navigate places and life <3 his lackey named haruto secretly hates him and they stumble upon a voodoo stop after tenma ends up getting lost

voodoo shop is owned by a guy named Reni and he convinces tenma that he’ll help him out around town (this is a lie) and convinces haruto that he’ll get him money and power

TADA tenten gets jebaited and turned into a frog <3 in the meantime MKYK is getting ready for a party (Mukkun heard news of tenten the prince and is ECSTATIC dunno if it should be romantic or if he just wants to fanboy or whatev) tenma stumbles upon yukki while they’re getting ready, tenma thinks Yukki’s a girl and then he jebaits him to kiss him IG?? THEN BAM DOUBLE FROGS

yada yada they meet Taicchan the alligator who dreams of vibing and being super cool <3 dunno if we’ll still use the music element Louis has or not I think it’d be super cute Taiten if Taicchan recognized him like “T-TENMA???? THE PRINCE?????? WHERE ARE YOU GOING??? ILL COME TOO!!!”

Taicchan tells them of Mr. Misu and Sir Kazu and says “yeahhh I’m super good friends w them!! LEMME SHOW YOU THE WAY”

THENNN they meet Yuzo and he joins the gang after calling Taicchan an idiot for going the wrong way 😔 makin their way to mr misu and MSKZ sings a fun little banger does some gay dances and tries to teach tenyuki about love (parent and children bonding moment amirite)

THEN ITS LIKE THE END OF THE MOVIE YADA YADA yk how it goes tenyuki and yukki gets his store thing!!! <33 happy end (ignoring yuzo and reni’s deaths)

IF ANYONE HAS ANY ADDITIONS OR FEEDBACK OR COMMENTS OR WHATEV TO THE AU PLEASE LMK!!!! I THINK ITS A FUN NEATO AU <3

<3 also the SS I redrew

[faceglitchsworld]

TxT and Fluffy Hair: a wonderful relationship~ Part 3: The Pure Bunny 🐇

Author's note: Repetitia iuvant. This is a biased post where you'll not find an objective opinion. If you'll see other idols mentioned, I've mentioned them only as examples, not as comparisons. The analysis are inspired by Michaela Diana's works on Instagram. On this post you'll not find any fantaken photos, only pics taken from TxT's official accounts.

This series is dedicated to @onlyoneofyouu ❤️

Hello and welcome back on this amazing series where I try to convince you that curly hair/perm hair (aka The Floof) are the best haircut ever made.

We finally reached our third TxT member to analyse and this time we'll talk about someone who, uhm, seems to don't like The Floof. Don't get me wrong, for me he's perfect for The Floof, it's just him who prefers different haircuts than that.

Who am I talking about? Well I'm talking about...

* drums roll *

SOOBIN!

Ah, my dear Soobin. Our precious leader, Odi's father and Bebe Rexha fanboy. Now, you wonder why I made that intro about him right? Well, let's say he made my pics' research very and I mean, VERY, difficult.

Seriously, finding pics of him with The Floof it's more difficult than finding the Saint Graal. It looks like he hates this haircut (affectionately).

"Well, maybe you didn't find too much pics of him because maybe this haircut doesn't fit him at all." You might say. And maybe you're right BUT, in my opinion, Soobin has a perfect shape for The Floof. It's just the hairstylers who don't want to use it too much (maybe to preserve his hair condition but I'll talk about it when I'll talk about the hair colour).

Don't believe me? Well, let's find out, then.

Starting from the face shape, Soobin has what it is seems to be an oval shape, which is one of the best shapes for The Floof.

His jawline is a little sharp, especially if you notice his profile, where it seems he has a V shape jawline. BUT don't be fooled by this. He's still soft and his rounded chin is the best proof of it.

His eyes have an almond shape, which is a good shape for The Floof but the bangs should not be too long. Again, I need to see the eyes, don't cover them, please! 😭

The full cheeks? He has them! He has the cheeks, especially when he smiles and the dimples come out!

So yes, as you've noticed, Soobin has the perfect face shape for The Floof. Let's celebrate with him being this happy and precious.

Now, let's go to the haircut and the hair colour.

Soobin is not used to long hair, which is something that I completely understand. His face shape shines the most with short hair BUT there's only one thing that I ask: his forehead must be a little uncovered. Not completely, because The Floof might not work with him, just a little.

Having the forehead a little uncovered works perfectly especially with the long bangs. Believe me, I will not complain if he'll have long bangs and the forehead a little uncovered.

Imagine him with floofy hair and the forehead uncovered like this. My gosh, how beautiful he would look 🥴

And the colour?

Listen, I understand that Soobin prefers to stick into basic colours/dark colours because he's worried about his hair condition. It also explains why he doesn't stick with The Floof too much. Perming your hair might damage them terribly if they're not good for it. And I'm glad he knows this and he choosed to save his hair condition instead of becoming bald before hitting his forties.

But I can dream and if one day Soobin will decide to go crazy and choosing one bright colour for him, in my opinion, he should come back to what is His Colour ™.

Ahem. AHEM.

I think we can all agree that the Blue Hour MV and the Minisode was a cultural reset, right? It was too much iconic, MOAs will never forget it for sure.

Blue is Soobin's colour. Every shade, even the most dark one fits him perfectly. Imagine him with The Floof and this colour on him. Don't wake me up if it'll happen 🥹

That's the end of this post. Probably this post might be the shortest one, but again, Soobin doesn't always show many different haircuts. His relationship with The Floof is a little complicated as you've noticed.

He doesn't show it too much, but when he does, he surely leaves a mark on us and our memory.

Will the other members use it in the same way?

Who knows...👀

[fortressofserenity]

Who really is an everyman?

I remember somewhere in a Spider-Man board where somebody said that Spider-Man isn’t so much of an everyman but rather a stand-in for the superhero comics reader, when I think about this while there are certainly portrayals of Spider-Man that hew closer to his purported everyman reputation (the newspaper cartoons where Mary Jane worked as a computer saleswoman) there are aspects of him in the ‘616′ stories that don’t feel everymannish.

It’s not that normal men don’t cheat on their partners either, but that Spider-Man finds himself in situations where he gets the attention of femmes fatales like Black Cat and White Rabbit. The 616 version of Mary Jane works as a model, most men may have a crush on a female model but don’t date and marry these kinds of characters. I could also say that Kate Pryde herself isn’t much of an everywoman when one considers these.

Not only is she a skilled martial artist and hacker, she also has a pet dragon. You might say that it’s fiction, so she should have her pet dragon. But if you take a look at most other cartoon characters, they often have dogs. Obelix has a dog (or is it Asterix), both Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse have pet dogs (Bolivar and Pluto), Charlie Brown has a pet dog named Snoopy and Garfield’s Jon also owns a dog named Odie.

Both Batman and Superman have pet dogs, well so did Impulse at one point. Nightwing has a dog, so does Hawkeye. If you want a villainous example, we have Dick Dastardly and his pet Muttley. If you want a stretch, we have Pegleg Pete and his pet dog Chainsaw but he still qualifies and fits the shoe pretty well.

Most people in the real world have cats and dogs as pets, it’s very rare to encounter somebody who has a pet reptile. If dragons are reptiles, while reptile owners aren’t nonexistent they’re not that common either. There are even some people who point out that Kate Pryde panders a lot to those who really are deep into X-Men, if this is true then she resonates with just a few people. 

One would wonder why Wolverine became X-Men’s breakout character and not her, well the problem is that she may not be much of an everyperson to appeal to everybody else in some regards. Especially if she appeals too much to a certain demographic, then it goes a long way why her appeal in comics never translated well to media with a more mainstream audience like film.

Not everybody’s experience is going to be the same, so defining what makes an everyperson character’s going to be tricky. If there’s ever going to be a concrete consensus for what counts as one, they wouldn’t be part of a niche subculture of any sort. They’d have normie experiences and interests, mainstream and basic even. There’s a big difference between Charlie Brown and Tim Drake.

This is what separates the everymen from the fanboy favourites, they’re characters everybody can relate to. Whoever they are, they’re not part of some elite or niche. They’re going to be very plebian in a way Tim Drake never was.

[blogynews]

"Unlocking the Legend: When Lightning Speed Met BCCI Secretary Jay Shah - Virat Kohli's Epic Encounter"

Noted YouTuber Speed has made his presence known in India during the ongoing ODI World Cup. His arrival gained attention due to his humorous antics on the streets of Mumbai, followed by visits to rapper MC Stan and singer Daler Mehndi. On Saturday, Speed experienced a fanboy moment when he traveled to Ahmedabad to witness the highly anticipated World Cup 2023 match between rivals India and…

[blogynewz]

"Unlocking the Legend: When Lightning Speed Met BCCI Secretary Jay Shah - Virat Kohli's Epic Encounter"

Noted YouTuber Speed has made his presence known in India during the ongoing ODI World Cup. His arrival gained attention due to his humorous antics on the streets of Mumbai, followed by visits to rapper MC Stan and singer Daler Mehndi. On Saturday, Speed experienced a fanboy moment when he traveled to Ahmedabad to witness the highly anticipated World Cup 2023 match between rivals India and…

[blogynewsz]

"Unlocking the Legend: When Lightning Speed Met BCCI Secretary Jay Shah - Virat Kohli's Epic Encounter"

Noted YouTuber Speed has made his presence known in India during the ongoing ODI World Cup. His arrival gained attention due to his humorous antics on the streets of Mumbai, followed by visits to rapper MC Stan and singer Daler Mehndi. On Saturday, Speed experienced a fanboy moment when he traveled to Ahmedabad to witness the highly anticipated World Cup 2023 match between rivals India and…

[yawnjunn]

TXT unboxing your album on vlives (and pulls your pc!!)

hiii ok im currently making taehyun and beomgyu's fics lol and also, TXT IS MAKING A COMEBACK WOOHOO *twerks* 😎

╰┈➤ txt x gn! reader !!

╰┈➤ pronouns used: they/them

╰┈➤ warnings: none, just txt being your personal fanboys lol

yeonjun:

•is very very careful when unboxing your album

•"MOA, have you bought (your group name's) newest album? and if you havent why havent you HMM?"

•would immediately check for YOUR pcs

•once he pulled you, he would be like "YESS i pulled y/n wooohoo"

•i think he'd probably kiss your pc 😭

•compliments your pc "y/n looks so pretty here"

•takes photos of himself with your pc and sends it to you

•would show your pc to his MOAs, "y/n looks cute in here right?"

•if theres a hate comment on you or your relationship. BLOCKED. REPORT.

•couldnt stop looking at your pc for the 100th time during the vlive

•no hate to your group, but he secretly buys that album hoping to get your pc only or anything that includes you in it 😭

•i mean yeah, he couldve just buy an individual pc of you BUT he wanted to support you and your group too so yeah he bought that album in order to support yall :(

soobin:

•would observe the packaging first or the front cover

•"theyre getting better with their packaging these days, do you agree MOA?"

•when he pulls your pc, he'd show it to moas first

•"moa look! I got y/n!!"

•he'd bring your pc close to his chest and hugs it

•would make your pc stand on the table as he continues to unbox your album and be like "y/n's photocard can be today's special guest"

•fans would ask him "odi or y/n?"

•"odi or y/n? thats a tough question...hm no no no" (obvsly hes gonna choose you since soobin said odi is not fun anymore,(odi's teen era 😟)he mentioned it on his recent vlive lol)

•another fan would comment something like "soobin got y/n's photocard?? GIVE ME THAT ONE"

•and soobin would be like "moa, i love you but i have to protect this pc of y/n at all cost, theres no way im gonna share with you"

beomgyu:

•this man would never get embarass being your fanboy

•would buy ALL versions of your albums

•would dramatically open your album like he would probably be opera singing while opening your album

•would close his eyes hoping to pull your pc

•and when he did pulled you, he would act as if your pc is fragile like he'd be so careful with it 💀

•"this pc is gonna be the newest one in my 'y/n's pc collections'"

•fans would be like "beomgyu has a collection of y/n's photocards??"

•and he would reply something like, "yeah? I even have all versions of their albums AND even their lightstick, im like the biggest (fandom name) try to beat that"

•has a whole shelf for your albums 👍🏻

•would even show his collection of your pcs

•"i have this y/n" "i have that y/n too"

•would literally pay any amount for a rare pc of yours

taehyun:

•the calmest among all

•he'd be telling his fans to support your group too by buying atleast one album from you (supportive bf vibess)

•would set the pc aside, anxious wanting to get your RAREST photocard (save the best for the last ofc)

•would lowkey skip all your members as he flip through the photobook just so he can only see ur beautiful face 😭

•would NEVER get embarass to compliment you whether its in private or not

•"wahh y/n looks so cute in here"

•"aww look at them smiling in here"

•"what do you guys think about this concept?"

•If he sees a hate comment about you. HE'D DEFEND YOU AND YOUR GROUP WITH HIS SAVAGE ASS IDC

•ok NOW time for the pc reveal

•as soon as he found out he pulled you, he'd make those tiny noises that he usually makes 🥺 (iykyk)

•would put your pc in his clear phonecase

•AND WOULD STICK ALL YOUR INDIVIDUAL POSTERS IN HIS ROOM (well maybe like 1 or 2, just posters that would match his room's vibe)

hueningkai:

• the cutest reaction fr

• takes his time to open the album ofc

• fans would comment something like "JUST OPEN THE ALBUM ALREADY I WANNA SEE WHOS PC YOURE GONNA PULL"

•but NO kai would tease tf out of moas and be like "should i open it or not? eh maybe 5 more minutes"

•after what felt like DECADES, he finally opens the album

•he'd take out all the items inside carefully and set it on the table, arranging them

•like taehyun, he'd save the pc for the last

•would do a quick review on the photobook like flipping the pages really fast

•when he found out he pulled YOUR pc, yall know he'd scream 😟

•he'd get pretty excited tbh

•AUTOMATICALLY would put the pc inside a photocard toploader (i think thats what its called)

•AND he'd decorate it with stickers!!! yay kai !!!

•after finish decorating, HE WILL SHOW YOU HIS MASTERPIECE FR

•like he'll send you a pic of it and asks for your opinion

•if you dont like it, he's gonna have to re do it :(

•BUT if you like how he decorates, he'd be smiling till his cheeks hurt

•but ofc, youre gonna say u love it anyways cause who would want to hurt hyuka's feelings? exactly. no one.

•pretty sure hes gonna put it on his bedside table so that the first thing he sees when he wakes up...is a pic of you.

[brightly-painted-canvas]

hey!!! i loved the hogwarts!au and i couldn't help myself. do you have more headcanons? like subjects they like the most or excel at? the "blood status" (muggle-born, half-blood or pure-blood)?? or the things the school remember them for (like i picture babe never being able to remember the password of their common room... bc chaos child)? thnks! it was GREAT!!

Hey! I’m finally getting back to you.

I’m always thinking about this au in the back of my mind so here are some other headcanons and replies to your questions:

- yes of course Babe forgets the password to the Gryffindor’s common room. He usually argues with the Fat Lady about knowing the password and just not remembering it right now until someone comes to the rescue (usually Bill Guarnere going ‘What the… Babe? Seriously? AGAIN?’ all the time)- once it was Malarkey’s turn to get the Hufflepuff’s sequence of taps on the barrels wrong (he was high on a sugar rush after a trip to Hogsmeade) which resulted in him, Skip and Penkala running around the basement corridors drenched in vinegar- talking about sweets: you wanna buy Liebgott’s silence? Give him chocolate frogs (procedure tested and approved countless times by George Luz)- favourite subjects: it’s no secret that most Slytherins excel in Potions, but Toye, Snafu and Hoosier are also top DADA students (and professor Speirs would never admit it not even under torture - except he maybe mentioned it to Lip one or a thousand times already - but deep down he’s proud of his little snakes);Sledge and Christenson are History of Magic maniacs, so much that professor Haldane already suggested them to pursue a career as historians and won’t shut up about their brilliance ever (and there’s just so much ‘I wish I could just adopt them’ talk Hillbilly can take before he attempts to strangle him with some dangerous plant he keeps in the greenhouse);everybody loves studying Cares of Magical Creatures mostly because everybody likes professor Lipton so much. Top students of this course are Tab, Bull and Webster (the latter mostly interested in aquatic creatures);everybody, on the contrary, hates professor Sobel with a passion and professor Sobel seems to reciprocate the sentiment. When first year students have their first flying lessons and come back with a month long suspension per person, you can hear principal Sink’s enraged “SOOOOBEEEEEEEEEL!” resonate all around the castle;once the students managed to lure professor Sobel inside the Forbidden Forest with the help of Luz’s favourite voice modifier spell, convincing him it was an order from minister of magic Horton. Sobel got chased out of the forest by the centaurs. Legendary.Transfiguration is not an easy subject, but professor Winters manages to keep it interesting and everyone is glad for it. It’s also common knowledge he might look stiff and serious but deep down he’s a softie who dotes on all his students equally;(your theory about professor Dike never showing to classes and the students predicting his absence all the time without fail? Brilliant. Perfect. Outstanding.)more under the cut!

- blood status: I haven’t thought much about it, but I think I’d love if the students where all mixed up and didn’t care one bit about their friends and classmates being muggle-born or half-blooded or pure-blooded… the common sentiment is ‘eh guys we’re all in this together: I don’t care if magic has been running in your family for ages or if your father is a muggle train conductor, if you got Potion notes you’re not sharing with the rest of us you still a hoe’;yes, even in Slytherin there are mixed-blooded students and no one gives a shit (especially because you wouldn’t mess with, say, Snafu mentioning he’s the son of a witch and a muggle or him and Liebgott would immediately swing their clubs at you) (you would also be hit with Lieb’s club if you called Webster a mud-blood so just… don’t) (rule number one: don’t be an asshole about blood status)- tiny digression about ships: Burgie falls in love with the school’s librarian the day he finds out he forgot to do his Ancient Runes homeworks and sprints to the library looking for cheat sheets Leckie has mentioned existing… he ends up without the cheat sheets (’Bob why the hell would you suggest me to get things that are in the restricted section? And how do you know what’s in there in the first place?’) but with a date;speaking about Leckie, he and Vera have been neighbours and friends since the day they were born but he never showed to her the letters and poems he’s written all through his life about how much he’s in love with her. Until one day Webster accidentally publish one of them on the school’s newspaper. Vera eventually figures everything out and they get together (Webster may be scarred for life by their first reactions at his mistake but no one really cares anyway);speaking of Webster, he and Liebgott have got the most excruciating and annoying ‘odi et amo’ kind of relationship the school can (or can’t, depending on opinions) handle: they’re always arguing, but they’re always together;the only other couple that match their weird display of affection are Sledge and Snafu… sometimes they get along perfectly well, some other times Eugene has to hide in the Gryffindor’s common room to escape Snafu’s teasing or absurd requests (’Look at ma eyes, Sledge! I’m dying!’ ‘Shut up Shelton, you just ate a weird flavoured Bertie Botts’ bean!’);everyone is convinced miss Lemaire (a part-Veela from Belgium) and ‘Doc’ Roe are a couple until at a Christmas dinner Renée invites her girlfriend. After confirmation that the nurse apprentice is single, everyone (but especially Guarnere and Buck) try to play matchmaker between him and Babe. It’s soon obvious that they are extremely difficult subjects to match (cute, oblivious and awkward being the main issues);there’s not really a ship going on between Lena and John, it’s just that John ships himself with Lena so much. He’s the ultimate fanboy (hope he succeeds in asking her out!);on nights when Nixon wanders around the school completely shitfaced, he usually talk to the castle’s ghosts about his unrequited crush on Richard Winters. On nights when Dick finds Nix sleeping on the floor of the main hall and has to drag him back to his room, the ghosts just shake their heads and go ‘unrequited love my long dead ass’;as an unwritten rule, it’s not allowed to talk about how professor Speirs and professor Lipton have been (legally!) married for years.As always, there are more to come!Let me know if you have other questions or requests :)

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Intel’s Tiger Lake Is Spoiling for a Rematch Against AMD’s Zen 3

Intel unveiled its Tiger Lake platform yesterday, and the company is clearly spoiling for a fight against AMD. An actual tiger roaring somewhere offstage would not have seemed unusual. The company’s overall positioning suggests it’s got something impressive on its hands.

Intel has taken plenty of flak for marching in place as far as feature integrations are concerned, but Tiger Lake adds PCIe 4.0 support, fully integrated Thunderbolt 4 support, Intel’s new Xe graphics engine (debuting for the first time), additional display pipes, a 6th-generation new image processing unit (Icelake was v4), version 2.0 of its “Gaussian Network Accelerator” (Ice Lake had v1), and support for various low-level deep learning features like AVX-512. Toss on a whopping frequency spike courtesy of Intel’s new 10nm “Superfin” technology, and you’ve got Tiger Lake: leaner, meaner, and ready for a showdown with AMD’s Ryzen 3000 family.

Intel was eager to show benchmarks and discuss performance across the various aspects of Tiger Lake. Demos against AMD hardware were plentiful and rarely positive, though you’d scarcely expect anything else from a vendor event. Even so, the strength of Intel’s presentation, and the data it chose to emphasize, point to the underlying strength of the company’s product.

For Intel, Tiger Lake is all about performance.

Intel likes to talk about “real-world” benchmarking these days, and it’s switched its messaging over to focus on what it considers to be “real-world” applications. Note, however, that each of these tests focuses on a single application of a single feature (apart from Gigapixel, which really only has one feature). Also, be advised that Topaz products incorporate Intel-favoring libraries and, while this is of secondary importance when workloads run on the GPU, support for AMD GPUs is very early. The good news is, this support is coming. I’ve been alpha testing builds of Topaz, including one with support for the AMD Radeon 5700. It works quite well.

Chart exports being 1.3x faster in Excel may be true, but it doesn’t tell me anything about which CPU is faster at calculating a series of equations. This is one of the problems with “real-world” benchmarking — in an application with so many different capabilities, testing a range of them is the only way to give any kind of fair comparison between any two products.

Intel Xe

Xe arrives with up to 96 EUs, 1.35GHz of clock, and can output either 48 texels or 24 pixels per clock, which is quite good for an integrated solution. There’s a larger L3 cache to keep memory pressure off the main bus and a new, higher-efficiency software scoreboard. Nvidia and AMD both use software scoreboards, up until now Intel had relied on a hardware algorithm.

Intel’s Xe is a claiming some remarkable speed-ups:

The big question with integrated graphics is always bandwidth: How effectively will Xe be able to use its limited pool of resources? Based on the numbers, pretty good:

There are a few places where Xe seems poised to outperform AMD. We’ll see if Intel’s GPU driver team is ready for big things this generation, though AMD has had its own struggles in that department for a long time now.

Intel even argues that its integrated graphics can trade blows with discrete cards, though the card in question has the approximate performance of a GeForce GTX 960M. Then again, being able to compete against a budget discrete GPU from 4-5 years ago is actually pretty impressive — I remember the days when Intel’s integrated graphics could barely run games that were 10 years old.

The 11th CPU family, in all its glory, is below:

Intel has decided to move away from TDP as a singular metric of thermal dissipation and is now giving data on TDP ranges. This is probably a more fair way to capture the likely power draw of the system at any given moment, and it’s practically old hat by now for AMD or Intel to float some new method of attempting to communicate power efficiency to customers. TDP was an imperfect metric and this one likely won’t be perfect either, but it captures the range more effectively. TDP was never intended to be a metric for power consumption in the first place; it refers to Thermal Design Power — the amount of thermal energy the cooling solution needs to dissipate in order to maintain full performance.

Underneath the hoopla, Tiger Lake looks like a very solid part. This may catch some AMD fanboys off guard, but it shouldn’t. Historically, mobile has been Intel’s strongest market and the company got serious about reducing its overall power consumption footprint years before AMD did. More OEMs have optimized more heavily for Intel and are more experienced with how it controls power. OEMs are more willing to invest in creating top-notch Intel solutions.

We’ve already seen this situation begin to change in the past year with the debut of the Surface Laptop 3 as a major AMD win and other launches of the new 7nm mobile processors this year. AMD is ramping its own efforts and we expect Zen 3 imminently. In fact, mobile is shaping up as the battleground to watch between the companies in the imminent future. Expect Intel to try and build on Tiger Lake’s support for AVX-512 and other deep learning capabilities at every turn, while AMD is likely to eschew these comparisons in favor of other metrics.

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