#Tergiversate

[twentysixtyfour]

Word of the Day

February 26/2019―March 1/2019

[lemondeabicyclette]

14 mai 2022 - Lors de la crise des accommodements raisonnables, les commissaires Gérard Bouchard et Charles Taylor avaient conclu que l’interdiction des signes religieux devrait s’appliquer uniquement aux personnes en position de coercition, soit les juges, policiers, procureurs et gardiens de prison. 21 mai 2019 - Gérard Bouchard a mis au défi le ministre Simon Jolin-Barrette de lui présenter au moins une preuve que le port de signes religieux par un enseignant a des effets négatifs sur les élèves de sa classe, auquel cas il pourrait appuyer le projet de loi 21.

[apiratecalledav]

 Reasons to be Hopeful for Gendrya season 8:

“I have a son. You have a daughter. We’ll join our houses.”

They have tried to marry a Stark girl with a Baratheon twice now. Robert and Lyanna. Joffrey and Sansa. Third time’s the charm!

Robert and Lyanna are a lot like Gendry and Arya, both in looks and some of their major personality traits.   And we see they have similar relationships to Ned and Jon respectively. See how much Robert and Ned’s first scene parallels Gendry and Jon’s meeting- these first serious and solemn-looking exchanges end in smiles and good natured ribbing. Jon and Arya are especially close, just like Ned and Lyanna were. Also, Lyanna’s introduction— showing off her horseback riding in front of her brothers— feels similar to Arya shooting an arrow into Bran’s target in the pilot episode.  But Robert and Lyanna didn’t know each other very well, unlike Arya and Gendry who were friends and companions for a long time. Not to mention that Gendry and Arya are much better people than Robert and Lyanna. Gendry is not a drunken philanderer and Arya isn’t as thoughtless (and selfish?) as Lyanna.

Compare Arya’s first meeting with Hot Pie in season 1 to their final goodbye in season 7. In season 1, they met just after Arya lost her family. She was already devastated when Hot Pie insulted her and tried to intimidate her. Arya threatened him and it was one of the first times we see the depths of her fierceness. In season 7, Arya finds Hot Pie just after she avenged her family. She’s already feeling pretty happy(ish) when Hot Pie tells her that Jon has Winterfell, that she’s pretty and calls her his friend. It is the first time in awhile we see her heart and emotions absolutely unguarded.  Hot Pie and Arya’s reunion highlights how he went from her bully to her friend, from kicking her while she was already down to giving her the best news she had heard in years when she was as happy as she ever expected to be again. So Arya and Gendry reuniting ought to show us how much their relationship has changed too; from friends to something more.

So far, very few reunion scenes have featured both characters being taken by surprise. Sansa went looking for Jon. Bran knew when he’d see his siblings. Arya probably hoped to see Hot Pie at that inn. Davos tracked down Gendry. The guards told Arya that Sansa was at Winterfell and they told Sansa that Arya was there. Arya learned from Sansa that Bran was home. Jon knows that Bran and Arya are at Winterfell. Sandor knows that Arya survived. So I think it’s very interesting that at this point, both Arya and Gendry are completely unaware that the other is still alive. I think it’s intentional so that it can be one of the few reunions where it’s a complete surprise to both of them.

Just generally speaking, they were as heavy-handed with shippiness as they could get away with in seasons 1- 3 considering the age difference.They had a hard line to walk between “planting the seeds” of a future relationship and not making Gendry look creepy and I think they handled well:

Their first meeting is a classic “meet cute,” especially among kids and/or in adventure stories, where A defends B from danger or harassment. 

Gendry realized Arya was a girl pretty quickly or maybe even immediately. In the books, it’s only after their little group is on their own for awhile that he notices she goes far away to pee. I know a factor might be simplifying things because of time constraints. But I think it’s worth noting that in these situations, the love interest will often see through the disguise. It also gets bonus points because even with long hair, Arya had been frequently mistaken for a boy.

“As my lady commands” can be seen as having a similar vibe as Robb and Theon laughing hysterically after Arya throws some food at Sansa. But it definitely can be seen a flirting-- if in a “kids in the school yard” kind of way.

She ogles him blatantly while he is shirtless. Growing up with lots of brothers and their friends and swimming with them and stuff.... it’s not like male anatomy is a mystery to her. It’s basically a big flashing sign telling the audience that Arya does not see Gendry as some kind of big brother replacement.

When they leave Harrenhal, it’s clear that Gendry doesn’t think it’s safe to do so. But Arya goes and he follows rather quickly. Either he really trusts her judgement or he’s willing to die with her. 

We often see them exchanging meaningful looks and/or practically reading each other’s minds. When they hear that lady talk about how they’re all slowly being tortured and killed in Harrenhal. When the Mountain picks Gendry to be rat food. How Gendry checks with her before he tells Thoros the blacksmith he used to train with. When they say goodbye to Hot Pie and he gives them that misshapen wolf bread. Or when Arya tries to stab the Hound, Gendry stops her when the rest of the Brotherhood is still dumbstruck. I almost always only see that kind of non-verbal communication in characters that are siblings (twins more specifically) or a couple. 

They get a pretty long one-on-one farewell. This show is not big on goodbye scenes. Most are off screen and if not, tend to be rather brief and the characters have to have a stiff upper lip because there are other people around or because they can’t/won’t open up. But the scene where Gendry tells Arya that he wants to stay with the Brotherhood is very emotional and both of them get a bit teary-eyed. It’s not their literal goodbye scene, but it figuratively is. The audience learns that they will soon be parting ways and it is the last time they really speak to each other on screen. Obviously, since their actual separation would be caused by Mel dragging him away, they wouldn’t get an actual, proper goodbye. I think the writers really wanted to show the audience that these two care about each other a lot and would miss each other terribly.   

The only other goodbyes I can think of that matches the intensity, music, and dialogue of this scene are Dany saying goodbye to Jorah and Bran saying goodbye to Rickon and Osha. Jorah declares his love and Dany cries tells him that he has to get better because she needs him. And those two were one of the longest running relationships on the show and a popular BroTP/OTP for six seasons. Bran and Rickon, of course, were the last Stark siblings to separate and Osha had been Bran’s last proper guardian figure. 

And of course there’s “You wouldn’t be my family. You’d be m’lady.” Yes, this is mainly Gendry highlighting the differences in their stations. But... I do think the use of “m’lady” was deliberate as hell. “M’lady” is loaded with romantic connotations and has long been associated with dashing knights in love with noble maidens fair. Even today, there’s a stereotype of cringe-y guys trying too hard to get girls to swoon by calling them “m’lady.” Heck, even Joffrey trying to woo Sansa made a big deal about calling her “my lady” every time he spoke to her or about her.  Not to mention, seeing as Arya was Robb’s sister, wouldn’t it have been more likely she’d have to be referred to as “Princess”?  So you can accuse me of shipper goggles, but I don’t think it was a coincidence that a sentence that’s supposed to mean “I won’t be part of your family because I’m a dirty peasant” could also easily be interpreted as “I won’t be like a brother to you, you’ll be my wife.” 

Also, we already know that Arya does not have sisterly feelings towards Gendry. So her offering to be his family is especially selfless and sweet. Hey, while I’m being trash, I’d like to point out that family can mean brother and sister and it can also refer to a married couple. Maybe this is foreshadowing that Arya is the one to propose. Heh. 

Finally, Arya is not going to be happy staying in Winterfell for the rest of her life. We learn in season 6 that Arya wants to travel the world and see what’s west of Westeros. In season 7, we see that Nymeria has formed her own pack and is forging her own, unconventional path. Clearly, Arya is heading to a similar lifestyle. She is not a lone wolf, however, and she’s going to want someone to go with her. Jon, Sansa, and Bran couldn’t accompany her even if they wanted to. Hot Pie is happy where he is. Sandor is probably going to be 100% done with road trips. If Brienne isn’t too busy with Jaime (let me have my delusions dreams), she’ll probably feel more obligated to stay with Sansa. That pretty much leaves Gendry. And if you recall how quickly he dropped everything to go off with Davos, he has no reason to hang around, either

Bonus shipper trash reason-- the story technically kinda starts with Lyanna dumping Robert and eloping with Ragdoll Tergiversation so it’s only fitting that it ends with Lyanna’s niece eloping with Robert’s son. :) 

[je-suis-une-fangirl]

Quand maman me demande quelle couleur je voudrais pour mes prochaines converse.

[stoweboyd]

Word of the Day: Tergiversation

tergiversation noun

1 : evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement : EQUIVOCATION

2 : desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith

[kinia24ara-art]

Tergiversation (prologue) 3/3

[utterbuffoonery]

The Shrewdest Thing of All

However well-meaning and strong the individual man may be (if he could only use his strength), he still has not the passion to be able to tear himself from the coils and seductive uncertainty of reflection. Nor do his surroundings supply the events or produce the general enthusiasm necessary to free him. Instead of coming to his help, his milieu forms around him a negative intellectual opposition, which juggles for a moment with a deceptive prospect, only to deceive him in the end by pointing to a brilliant way out of the difficulty--by showing him that the shrewdest thing of all is to do nothing. For at the bottom of the tergiversation of the present age is vis inertiae, and every one without passion congratulates himself upon being the first to discover it, and so becomes cleverer still. During the revolution arms were distributed freely, just as during the Crusades the insignia of the exploit were bestowed upon men, but nowadays people are supplied with rules of careful conduct and ready-reckoners to facilitate judgement. If a generation were given the diplomatic task of postponing any action in such a way as to make it seem as if something were just about to happen, then we should have to admit that our age had performed as remarkable a feat as the revolutionary age.

The Present Age p. 34

[badsithnocookie]

Receiving an abrupt summons was both unsurprising and a welcome interruption to the monotony of existence at the Emperor's pleasure; that it had not come directly from the Emperor himself was neither new nor a surprise. If there was any one thing Eirn had learned about him during her time at his heel, it was that the Emperor rarely lowered himself to such mundane things as issuing orders in person. This occasion was no exception, with Eirn being called not to the throne room itself but a smaller briefing room, and one she'd seen the inside of on many a previous occasion. There was little about it that was truly notable, other than its location; it had the same Imperial mood lighting as all in the Empire, the same severe decor, the same utilitarian furnishing.

The same perennial inhabitant; an older Red Sith man, wearing a nondescript black robe and a perpetual scowl.

'Servant One.' Eirn saw no particular reason to stand on ceremony, especially as the Emperor himself was absent. At least, as absent as he ever was in this place; he might not have been present in the flesh, but his was a spirit that always seemed to lurk in this place's corners and corridors.

The feeling was apparently mutual, too; the Hand had never stopped looking down on her, but Servant One personified it best. As ancient and ageless as the Emperor himself; that was to say, that both had lives longer than the Empire, even if they could still theoretically be measured in countable years. His bearing, though, was everything that Eirn had grown up loathing about high-born Sith - a sneering, preening self-satisfaction, that measured all others up to some impossible standard and faulted them for being found wanting.

'Wrath.' He still looked at her the way he had that day on Quesh - as though she'd squirmed out not from under half a ton of rock, but the sole of his boot.

'I understand,' Eirn added, not allowing him time for his usual pleasantries, 'That our Master has a task for me.'

[sklstrd]

tergiversation des mousseliers

[iletaitunefoislessims]

Alède!

(l’image n’a rien à voir avec ce que je vais dire mais je savais pas quoi mettre, du coup voici bae Henry et bb Arthi)

Finalement je suis pas super sûre de partir dans un Decade challenge, hier j’étais super hypée mais tout est retombé aujourd’hui et je viens d’avoir une super idée. Du coup je sais pas vraiment faire.

En fait en apprenant l’histoire d’un des sims créer par EA (Johnny Zest si vous voulez chercher) j’ai été super inspirée pour faire une histoire dans le même genre, c’est aussi un peu comme “La vie d’Alex” de Pixia. Mais comme c’est pas un challenge, je sais pas vraiment quoi faire.

J’ai aussi super envie de me relancer dans mon challenge Post Apocalypse (en recommençant tout vu que j’ai supprimé mon ancienne partie).

J’aimerais vraiment avoir votre avis, parce que perso je suis incapable de prendre une décision là.

Pour vous clarifier tout :

- le Decade est un challenge où l’on part du mode de vie des années 1890 pour arriver jusqu’en 2010 à peu près. Chaque génération à les contraintes de son époques. Par exemple pour les années 1910-1920 il y a la 1ère Guerre et on doit sacrifier ses enfants hommes avec la plante vache pour faire comme s’ils partaient à la guerre (la plante vache ne tue pas à que fois) ;

- mon autre idée de mixte entre Johnny Zest et La vie d’Alex : en faite on suivrait la vie d’un ado renier par son père adoptif, qui serait Victor Feng, un sims homme politique créer par EA, et on essayerait de mener notre petit sims jusqu’à la réussite (je pensais faire un sims auteur, musicien ou peintre, le genre de truc pas du tout admit par un sims comme Victor Feng, enfin dans mon esprit) ;

- sinon le Post Apocalypse vous connaissez.

A vos votes bandes de démocrate ! (svp)

[clochardscelestes]

Quand même les songes se mettent à divaguer dangereusement.

[smokingago]

Ditelo alle persone "mi manchi", "sei importante", "ti voglio bene", "ti penso”...

Ditelo subito. Ditelo oggi.

Fatelo quel gesto pazzesco che potrebbe regalare un sorriso: un regalo inaspettato, una corsa per raggiungere, un messaggio che racconta battiti.

Non abbiate pudore.

Non tergiversate.

Osate ora.

Ma non perché... Domani chissà...

Ma perché è bello.

Perché, se lo pensate, se lo desiderate, non è giusto tenerselo per sé. Ed è così bello sentirselo dire, essere sorpresi, stupirsi e stupire.

È così bello aprire il cuore.

Già... Fatelo subito.

Letizia Cherubino

[animeomegas]

OK, so thoughts about pups. Imagine the pup trying to use big words like their omega parent. I headcanon that itachi and neji use 'complicated' words like bourgeois, tergiversation, jackassery, arrogate and grandiloquence. They use those so often that nobody knows what they're saying. Imagine the pup trying to say cacophony to their oma and appa to sound smart but they keep mispronouncing it and stuttering so much that they just give up and start pouting🥺. 'Appa your caco-ca-capho-c-' *folds arms and starts pouting* and when asked what they were trying to say they mumble that they were trying to sound smart like their oma. (Btw, they were trying to say your cacophony is horrendous)

Imagine sai's pup trying to draw a picture for their parents because they want to be a good 'drawer' like their oma.

Imagine the pup trying to cook because they notice that their parents are tired.

Imagine the pup at school pulling out a ten page long essay on why their parents are the best people in the whole world.

Imagine baking with the pup, allowing them to frost cupcakes and helping them with the complicated parts.

Imagine clothes shopping with the pup and they point to random things for you to try on. The colors might be too bright and not go together at all, but it makes the pup happy. (And makes their oma laugh at you).

The first scenario reminded me of my childhood so much ahaha. My mother used to teach me phrases with 'complicated' words because she found it funny. A couple of them stuck and for about a month, every time my father spoke, I'd say "Daddy, stop being so facetious!"

But both Neji and Itachi really find it adorable, and they do lowkey bring it up a lot so everyone knows how clever their pup is! They're very proud!

Sai's pup being into art is so cute and definitely canon. And of course, Sai puts their drawings all over the house to show them off hehe.

All those other scenarios are also so cute!!! I imagine the cooking didn't go so well haha. I love if the pups' parents were at the event where they write about their parents that'd be so cute. Baking with pups is always cute. And a fashion show is adorable! I think I remember in my future family headcanons, that I said Neji's pup love doing things like that, and it would be so funny to watch Neji try on bizarre outfits, but he'll do it to make his pups smile hehe.

These were great!!! Thanks for sharing!!! <3

[kinia24ara-art]

Here is cover art for my new (future) story!The "Tergiversation" will be in 3 (or more) parts! the first one will be "Wretched World" what will be more focused on Joker.I will be start working on it (I will don't know if I will make it just as a story to READ or as a comic) when I will finish "Forces of Believer" comic. I hope you like it!

[weeklyafrica]

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Comment arrêter de tergiverser (un guide étape par étape pour stimuler la productivité)

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[queen-susans-revenge]

Finished the Harrow the Ninth re-read and feel like I'm acceptably caught up for Nona now.

One thing that changed was my estimation of Ianthe's actions at the end. First time around, I was so done with Jod that I definitely agreed with Gideon's framing:

Which was Tridentarius all over. She got one choice, and not only did she blow it, but she blew it in such a huge fucking spectacular way that you would’ve been impressed had you not hated her for it. Ianthe, throwing in her lot with the guy who had lied to everyone about everything. Ianthe, backstabbing her own cavalier all over again. Ianthe, with the world in the balance, reaching her hand out and pressing down on the weight marked BAD.

And like, Gideon is still probably, I'd say, objectively right. Even though Jod's death means turning the sun into a black hole and killing everyone in the Houses, it would also end this terrible genocidal planet-killing war machine he's created. But like... it's a real cost, a high one! Not everyone's homes seem as terrible as the Ninth; Palamedes and Camilla would probably prefer not to lose everyone they grew up with on the Sixth, just for starters. Abigail wants to go back to her family as a spirit, and that's not going to work out great if the Fifth gets sucked into a black hole.

None of that probably matters much to Ianthe, but what does matter is: she doesn't know Coronabeth isn't in the Dominicus system any more. So, of course she's not making that choice. She's probably not actually being completely awful for the sheer sake of it. She's saving everything she knows and everyone she loves. And it's hard to resent someone too much for making that choice, even when they are wrong.

John is such a good villain. So, so good. I hate him so much, and I'm so fascinated to learn his full story.

And of course it was Number Seven that they had to fight. Because that would be the ghost of Uranus, and what could be funnier?

Words I looked up:

whilom ("formerly; in the past." Fittingly enough the word itself is archaic.)

cinereous ("ash grey," it comes from the same root as cinders)

fluvial ("of or found in a river"; related to the word effluvient, which is generally used for sewage)

iliac ("relating to the ilium or the nearby regions of the lower body." The ilium is a pelvis bone. The context for this one was Your love for God was akin to your love of the beautiful riverbed edge of the iliac crest, which is such a gorgeous and creepy sentence.)

pellucid ("translucently clear")

tergiversation ("equivocation. Evasion of clear-cut action or statement")

osiers (small willows)

collocation (I figured this would be somehow related to the word collation, and it is, but it's more precise: "the habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words." Like Homeric epithets.)

My love for Abigail Pent remains boundless, and I cling to two things she said: to Matthias Nonius, "when I come into my homeland, my family will sacrifice in their halls for you." And to Harrow, "I believe that we will see each other again."