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That⌠was an excellent book. Very fucked-up. I like fucked-up books.
#thirteen reasons why#I like how Jay Asher thanked thirteen people at the end of the book⌠nice touch. The PDF I have screwed up the formatting though#I wouldnât say it romanticizes suicide⌠it sensationalizes it; which is a topic worthy of its own discourse#Typically most people who kill themselves donât go out of their way to play games with those who survive them#But itâs a thriller; and it offers an interesting perspective that many donât get to hear#I feel like Asher was laying it on a little too thick with tragedy towards the end in a way that seemed slightly contrived⌠like Loss#Otherwise it was well-constructed#I feel like most high schools donât have that much drama and illegal activity going on in them; but! I was isolated all through school#so donât take my word on that#People also just⌠didnât mess with me? And if they did they backed off real fucking fast because I found ways to unsettle them#and â depending on how much I disliked any particular assailant â I would drag out the process for months#Anyway⌠enough about my middle school exploits (why am I frothing at the mouth over this? Get a grip⌠youâre an adult.)#Good book. I like it. I shouldnât read stuff about characters messing with people; because I like messing with people#and LORD ALMIGHTY it makes me want to mess with people#I should have been a secret agent (not really. Iâd rather kill myself that join the CIA. Fuck them)
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class swap design masterpost for convenience (from top to bottom: bard!riz, cleric!gorgug, sorcerer!kristen, barbarian!fig, artificer!adaine, and rogue!fabian)
#dimension 20#fantasy high#fhfy#fhsy#fhjy#riz gukgak#gorgug thistlespring#kristen applebees#figueroth faeth#adaine abernant#fabian seacaster#my class swap stuff! oh yeah I think I got a tag for that I'll call that#fh class quangle#gna slowly go back and get that tag on relevant posts too. for organization's sake#even tho I didnt really intend this blog to be that kinda blog lmao. we were all just gonna be out here dealin with that at our own pace#anyways uh! they! u know all the lore for the designs already I put em in tags. but otherwise this also collects like the#color keys kind of for these. mostly the things that change between designs#doing this did make me realise half of these are a Lot more consistent in color keys than the other half lol#like kristen's palette stays pretty much the same. and fabian's. the hit's mostly in the construction#a lot of this is overall like an exercise in remembering what high schoolers would actually wear and how to work in Costume pieces#on this point at least I straight up have No relevant recollection lmao all the basic education establishments I went to have uniforms#and outside of school I was. well kind of a shorts and tee guy. so#on that topic I feel like fabian's is the furthest stretch lmao. like if a guy in high school wears the same bright yellow raincoat#to school every day that's like. people would Not like that guy. fabian really is saved by being cute and a rogue#he will still have stans when he's deep in his fishing arc in junior year he's the manic pixie dream bf#anyways uh. things to do! stuff to get done. sleep first tho. have a good night lads#I have not caught new nsbu yet! seems I mostly catch them like two to three days late nowadays.#so please uhh. don't reply on my posts with nsbu spoilers? we are all excited and having fun but that's rude#ok thank u. signing off for the day have a good night#!!
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anyway i want to reiterate that i hope the rat grinders are tpk'd, revived and uncorrupted solely bc i want them to have to spend senior year together. 'redeemed' doesnt necessarily mean friendly with the bad kids and honestly? its so much funnier if they continue being bitchy to each other but without the trying to end the world stuff. they've built plenty of positive relationships w/ former villains now it's time for the next stage: uneasy alliance buzzing with the tension of both sides trying to hold back the urge to clown on each other
introducing, fantasy high senior year: the group project
#look me in my eyes. see my vision#kipperlilly and riz working on a case and kipperlilly watching the unhinged construction of one of his conspiracy boards#oisin and adaine casting a spell together trading barbs ab oracles and nepo babies between stacks of books#reuban and fig. well. thank god fig's dropping out bc that dynamic is unsalvageable now. i support her in everything she did but its Over#gorgug repairing maryann's quirky pet tamagochi for her w/ his artificer skills#fabian trying to curse his bardic inspiration to ivy after she makes a snide comment about mazey#buddy and kristen finally having that heart-to-heart kristen's been itching for all season. buddy doesnt convert but they understand better#the only ppl i want on genuinely good terms are buddy and kristen bc it makes sense for them and also bc its so funny#âwe hate their pussy. except buddy that's my boyâ#the dynamic of liking (1) guy in a friend group you otherwise hate is so primed for comedy. buddy invites her to trgs gc and gets yelled at#fantasy high#fantasy high junior year#dimension 20
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These are photos of the first dollhouse I ever made. My grandfather helped me put the building together, and it was a wonderful way to spend time together. It was built as a gift for my Evil Ex Roommate (some people have Evil Exes. I have Evil Ex Roommates) so I imagine she burned it after I moved out, but I still have the photos! I learned a lot from this project, and I hope to make something w a similar premise again one day to see how my style has evolved!
#dolls#unleash the beast#barbie#dandy#personal#faerie house#faerie#she never had dolls or a dollhouse growing up#i was tryna do some healing your inner child shit#but honestly#the construction of this project was probably more for me than it was for her#hope she's doing well!#and that i never see her again#if she was on fire i wouldnt piss on her to put it out#but i hope she's doing well otherwise!#good vibes only
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apart from mlevens trying to claim the van scene as elâs genuine feelings for mike, one thing that also gets on my nerves is the way they make it seem like all of mlevenâs relationship issues in s4 were resolved because mike and el had stellar âcommunicationâ....as if the second love interest didnât do 90% of the work for them đ PUT SOME RESPECT ON WILLâS NAME!
#and the âcommunicationâ in question is the monologue which wasnt even a MUTUAL conversation? be serious đ#when will they admit mleven wouldve keeled over in an instant without will in the picture#lets list out all the construction work he did for them shall we#he told el to stop lying to mike#mike would have been clueless about everything el was going through in lenora had will not told him the full truth#professed elâs âundying love and needâ for mike in her stead#pushed mike to say something to el while she was in the brink of dying bc otherwise he would have just stood there#played the role of mikeâs partner and gave him comfort and reassurance the entire season#gave el credit for the painting in hopes itâll save their failing relationship#basically most of the pivotal mleven moments heavily involved will in some way#and its impossible to just remove him from the equation completely#mlevensâ first mistake was downplaying just how important willâs role is to the current state of their relationship#and trying to pretend willâs little pep talk for mike before the monologue didnt happen#plus theyre convinced mleven is going to come out of the painting reveal unscathed...well. they better not say we didnt warn them!#byler
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I finally cancelled Spotify after a few years, and I'm rebuilding my own music collection. I didn't realize how much I missed just putting my entire music library on shuffle and rolling with it. I'm getting back into all my old favorites.
#it's weird too cuz it's like...spotify HAS most of these songs#so it's not even like they weren't accessible to me#it's just something about spotify's design just seems to trap you into listening to the same few songs for months#until you discover something else#i know we're all supposedly anticapitalist here on tungle.hell but i actually don't regret paying for spotify for the last five years#i know my own spending habits well enough to know i wouldn't have otherwise saved that money#so it doesn't feel like much of a loss financially#and i did discover a lot of great music i otherwise wouldn't have#and built some really nice playlists#my 'midnight hours' playlist in particular was partially constructed from songs the algorithm recommended to me#but all that being said...#i'm glad to be done with it now#and finally getting back to downloading music the old fashioned way#pirating it off youtube and manually entering all the properties for each individual song#as god intended
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"Truly GOOD works don't have thriving fandoms because people aren't interested in fixing them, so what do they have to write fics/make art about."
Idk about you, but I don't write fic for properties I don't genuinely enjoy and think are, on some level, actually good.
#like I'm here to EXPAND on shit I like is that not a common experience?#if I think a work is bad why would I care enough to create something in response to it?#you think I did all those episode reviews and wrote all that shit about cxgf because I thought it was BAD?????#I have ten (10) wips and ONE of them is a 'rewriting canon to be in line with what I wish happened' fic?#idk if I'd even call it a FIX fic. it's more of a 'slightly less personally depressing resolution' fic#I'm sorry. truly I don't understand this viewpoint#'if a story is well-constructed enough there won't BE any extra dimensions to explore' WRONG. I'LL /ALWAYS/ FIND THINGS. U UNDERESTIMATE ME#I WILL /CREATE/ BLANKS TO FILL IN /BECAUSE/ I LOVE THIS THING SO MUCH#like yes everyone is probably going to have at least one piece of media that they don't think is High Art⢠that they get unhinged over#(ctrlz squad sound off)#but I just...I'm sorry I cannot imagine spending all of my time going 'I will create things in honor of something that I believe is Badâ˘'#or 'this thing made me angry I'll exclusively spend my time fixing it' instead of just. watching/reading something else that I DO enjoy#also like...things that ARE widely-agreed to be genuinely good still have big fandoms sometimes?#tgp is pretty popular on here. csm is MASSIVE. both on and off tumblr.#and some things WOULD be otherwise easily fandomize-able: cxgf is one. dpat is another. but these don't HAVE huge fandoms because the shows#are not popular. like just. we live in a world where people are somehow both elitist and anti-intellectual at the same time#ANYWAY this is in response to that one post I saw about--*I am dragged offstage for my own safety*#In the Vents
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thank you ascension day being a day off for construction work and allowing me to sleep some more. really needed that.
#every day i naturally wake at 7 and then the construction work starts#but big fun activity tomorrow! so im giving myself the day off as well to gather energy#only taking a walk and making dinner today! and maybe an hour of thesis work if i feel like it we'll see. but otherwise no chores
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#i am pretty confident that the sole leather of my moccasins has another year in it#but they are otherwise a little bit falling apart đ
#so i'm just like. determinedly mending them to make them last because a new pair is like 300$ canadian#(they're not a common style of moccasin and also if i am buying moccasins i want to support indigenous artisans if i can)#(thus planning to spend $300 for well constructed hand made actually leather moccasins that i anticipate will last >5yrs like these have)#anyways#just now i sewed a chunk of the rabbit fur trim back on because it split and there was a long strip hanging off at the side#randomness
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Ngl I just couldn't thought of any title so I grabbed the most recent song I listened to đđ the naming pain is real
HSLDkfJOIUNOUN, that's actually p smart tho (also ur music taste >>>>>)
I honestly agree actually. I don't even title my fics at this point, I just paste it into tumblr titleless đđ. Legit just gave up on naming and titles. No cap, naming the fic is even worse than proofreading fics. And proofreading fics is already a pain.
#titles are just the worst part#like i could have an entire well thought out#constructed fic#but oh boy the title just says haha no <3#unless I have like. a good title. then I put it on#otherwise. no.#unironically what I used to do is just take a random word and make it the title but that got too complicated as I went on so I just gave up#dazaiyohane
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Rereading my own posts about JJK and the tags I left in those posts is making me want to chew wood. I knew virtually nothing but yeah yeah. The parallels between Gojo and Sukuna not only exist, but they are key. Yeah, Gojo indeed knows, trusts and relies on the people around his age he interacts with in that flippant, intimate and vulnerable way (Ijichi, Shoko, Nanami, Utahime); they were his classmates and childhood friends. Yes, Megumi and Gojo do go way back, I wasn't hallucinating it; in the last chapters, this will weight on the scenes in which Megumi laughs and smiles faintly. Yes, Gojo does sincerely care about things and the kids, and tries his best to do good and be good, even if he's also annoying and rude. Yes, indeed it is all very lonely. Yes, indeed there's ontological alienation. Yes, indeed love is like a curse, it is even stated that way. Yes, indeed last words doom, and keep people going; that too is a blessing and a curse, like love is. Yes, there's significance in Gojo using "boku". Yes, "when granted everything, you can't do anything... but just die peacefully" does apply to Gojo's life miserably. Yes, indeed there is a mix of longing for a normal life and being drunk on power, the feeling that one is hindering the future generations and a desire to make it better for them. Yes, indeed it is a mix of selfish and selfless motives. Yes, Gojo musing about Nobara's power being intriguing is indeed shady. Yes, Gojo's death will be done in a way that imply continuity kinda similarly to Cantor's hypothesis on the cardinality of the Continuum. And so on and on. Unfair how well constructed this manga is. Unfair how much wasted potential there is in it too. I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop being frustrated about it all. It's so good. It's so unsatisfactory. The last chapter made me smile because oh it made so much sense, of course; it also broke my heart, because of course. I wish I had never gotten into it. It's given me a lot of joy, despite everything. I've drowned in remembrance. I've had a lot of fun. And in short, I love it, quite honestly. I can't even wish I didn't. I resent it, but I can't even wish I didn't. I love it, it's both a blessing and a curse; but that's how it always goes when it comes to love.
#I can't believe how spot on I was at times and I say this not in the 'heh! I was right!'#but in the 'damn that was planned *and conveyed* from the start'#From time to time people like my posts from last August (how they find them is beyond me)#and it hits me every time just how well constructed some things are enough to foresee what was going to be of them#Still frustrated over many things but for a change I am feeling too lazy to ramble in tags even though I intended to do so initially#I should keep watching the anime#It's been well over a month since I last watched one episode. At this rate I'm going to have to start over#and I don't trust it won't keep me again weeks? a month? to get over the first time Gojo expands his domain#I should also read the manga from beginning to end instead of playing hopscotch because of fear of commitment lol#I do love this after all. I guess the harm's already done#And if faintly I still hope reading the entire thing in order from beginning to end will save Geto's writing for me#because what a waste otherwise#I talk too much#I should probably delete this later#Sorry I wish tumblr didn't put this in the general tag after so many tags#but I do want to find this post in the future and compare my past and present thoughts if I do not end up deleting it in a couple days#Jujutsu Kaisen
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One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.
It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.
And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.
#I think you're failing at good worldbuilding and also just like. Idk failing at being an understanding human being willing to learn about#people different from yourself when you approach writing religion from a 'uhhhh what's some random stupid shit people believed in#2000 years ago' angle#Like make an effort to understand the logic and worldviews and value systems that informed these practices before you synthesize your own
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MH3 limited format is kinda bad tbh. Most of the archetypes simply don't work if you don't get a specific card in the draft or multiple bomb rares. The eldrazi deck is way too strong and it's extremely unfun to play against. If OTJ was a prince set done right then MH3 is a prince set done wrong.
#idk I still want more time with the format but i am not really enjoying myself#and I'm finding it very difficult to place well or make decks that actually function using the commons and uncommons#its like compared the eldrazi the other archetypes are way too narrow to function correctly on a consistent basis#ive had both a good blue black and a good jeskai deck but otherwise its just a bunch of strikeouts#kinda just sucks#I'll play more next week because i really want to like the format#constructed is an absolute blast though#and I'm excited to get some new cards for my commander decks as well#i just wish the limited environment functioned a bit better
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Can you even IMAGINE Kaveh's nest. Architectural masterpiece
ABSOLUTELY!!! :D
#voidlesslove#//Prettiest most breathtaking nest you've ever seen; no matter the simplicity of the materials or otherwise fancier ones gifted by his mate#//Mans uses his skills and puts in the EFFORT to make it look DAMN good#//And WILL deflate like a dying balloon if it is not ACKNOWLEDGED#â â ( .ooc. );#//I like to think that he likes to interweave his friends'/mate's snatched articles of clothing into parts of it to help w constructing it#//Which is funny bc if they notice and point it out; I love LOVE the idea of Kaveh making the biggest wettest eyes at them in response#//As though silently asking if they are willing to make him disassemble his precious nest for it#//Maybe even asking outright in his signature Kaveh Whiny Voice jdhbfgfd#//Mans just having the saddest most irresistible puppy eyes mdngkjfg#//(He does not tell them he knows Exactly how to extricate said clothing items without compromising his nestâhe is an EXPERT after all)#//But will Only do so when the scent of their has well faded kjdffggf#//Then proceed to Steal again
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Miss Universe National Costume 2024, Part 2!
Splitting this off into a new post so I'm not clogging up everyone's dash quite as much.
Miss Malta is some sort of environmental protection Sailor Scout. I think the giant bow would look better on the back of the skirt but otherwise this is solid.
It has just come to my attention that I skipped over Miss Albania and several other A/B countries, back at the beginning. I sincerely apologize! She went to all this trouble putting together a Fifth Element cruise ship passenger costume, and I nearly missed it.
Miss Armenia, in what even I have to admit would be a legit Princess Leia fit.
Miss Bahrain, adding some green to her Gold And Vaguely Historical look, along with what is either a comically large prop chalice or an upside-down lamp.
Miss Bangladesh appears to believe that adding two plush tigers from the toy store around the corner from the pageant venue will conceal the fact that she is just wearing a tiger-print evening dress. Miss Bangladesh is incorrect.
Miss Belgium. Girl. No.
Miss Belize let the seventh-grade art class do her whole costume, which was a bold choice.
Okay, I think that's everyone I missed! Back to alphabetical order. And I should have to rely less on shitty screenshots, now. Some countries were benefiting from the low resolution, tbh.
Kind of feel like Miss Maldives had a luggage mishap and she's just wearing the outfit she packed for a slightly dressy dinner.
Miss Martinique's costume would honestly have looked better in the shitty screencap version. The construction is... bad. It's bad.
Feel like we're in a little bit of slump here. Miss Mauritius did not stick enough butterfly appliquĂŠs to her gown to conceal that it is, in fact, just a regular evening gown.
Slump officially over! We are so back. Everyone say thank you, Miss Mexico.
I would like this better if it had just committed to the giant skirt and not felt the need to make it a Sexy Miniskirt look. Sorry, Miss Moldova.
Miss Mongolia wanted to stand out from all the other gold armor on stage, so she decided to a) wear cooler armor and b) bring a bow and arrow instead of a sword. Great work, Miss Mongolia.
Starting to feel like I'm picking on the smaller countries that probably don't have a huge pageant culture or the budget for really elaborate costumes, but on the other hand Miss Montenegro's costume is super low-effort AND the fabrics look cheap, so what am I supposed to do?
Okay, this looks like a pretty standard Miss Universe Sexy Bird, yes? Well, THIS is how Miss Myanmar entered the stage:
She had to fight her way out of that thing! God only knows what the visibility was like in there.
I think the hat is doing most of the heavy lifting to keep Miss Namibia's costume from being Just An Evening Dress, sadly.
Oh, yikes. It's more obvious in motion but Miss Nepal's bodice looks like it's made of craft foam and it fits real weird. The rest of it looks a little like she got together with Miss Cyprus and a pile of tablecloths for a sewing bee last night, I'm sorry to say.
Miss Netherlands has chosen a Tribute to Delft. I think if I were in charge of this costume I would do a much fuller skirt that falls from the waist, instead of the weird trumpet-skirt-with-hoop we've got here. And, obviously, I would make the windmill on the bodice actually spin.
It looks like she's having some issues keeping the wings and peplum in place, but I really like Miss New Zealand's costume from a design perspective. It at least slightly resembles the bird it's supposed to be (New Zealand fantail) and I think the feather pattern is meant to be in a Maori art style.
Miss Nicaragua is a Sexy Cathedral, which I think might be a Miss Universe first and is definitely a big old step closer to drag.
Okay, pausing here to get the next batch ready.
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I'm not gonna claim that most Tumblr polls are anything like rigorously structured, but I've seen a lot of folks rather smugly asserting that having a "not applicable" option that ends up dominating all other responses is evidence that the person who created the poll is incompetent, and y'all: under the specific circumstances in which these polls are constructed and distributed, that outcome is evidence of good poll design, not bad poll design. Yes, even when the "not applicable" responses outnumber all other responses ten to one. There are several reasons for that:
At the time of this posting, Tumblr polls have no "see response" button. The only ways to see a poll's distribution of responses are to wait for the poll to conclude, or to respond yourself ��� and not only are people on social media typically curious and impatient, many of them also know that there's no way they'll remember to check back later once the poll has concluded, so in practice, their opportunity to see the results is now or never. Adding a little note to the poll insisting that people who aren't part of the targeted demographic should refrain from voting isn't necessarily going to restrain that impulse. Indeed, it may end up encouraging folks who otherwise wouldn't have picked a random result-revealing response to do so, because fuck you, don't tell me what to do.
Many respondents genuinely won't realise they're not part of the targeted demographic until after they've voted. It doesn't matter how much text you add to contextualise the poll, because they'll read the poll first, and if they read the accompanying text at all, it's only after they've responded. Heck, a lot of folks don't even bother to read the question before responding to a poll; they just start going down the options and reflexively click the first one that seems like it might apply to them, then go back and read what was actually being asked (and complain in the notes if it turns out that they misunderstood). Even a well-meaning person can only comply with instructions they've actually read; for those folks, clicking the "not applicable" option is what compliance looks like.
Even folks who do fit your poll's targeted demographic can fall prey to the imp of the perverse. Giving the most accurate response rather than the most entertaining one can be a real struggle for a lot of folks; in scientific analysis of polling data, this is known as the "mischievous responder bias". In an informal setting like Tumblr, it's reasonable to suppose that the mischievous responder effect might be exaggerated compared to polls conducted in more formal contexts, and a well-designed poll is going to take that into account. A humorous "not applicable" option provides an escape by affording folks the freedom to screw around with the knowledge that they're not polluting useful data by doing so; in practice, the "I am a toaster" option is a mischievous response filter.
What this adds up to is that a poll where 90% of the responses hit the "not applicable" button is more likely to have yielded useful data than a poll with a narrow target audience where some unknown percentage of the responses represent folks not reading the instructions, clicking random options to see the results, and/or taking the piss.
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