#and I have zero idea where this is going

[voice-o-fallacy]

A little snippet of the stuff I’m working on. It’s going to suck ^ ^

[starcurtain]

My favorite brand of Ratiorine is definitely:

"They both experienced immediate attraction upon seeing the other and are (silently) interested in the possibility of pursuing a relationship, regardless of their differences and the difficulties of their situations."

But also:

"Despite being two of the most hyper-competent people in the universe, they are absolutely idiot4idiot when it comes to romance or discussing their feelings, and they are about to make their complete inability to express themselves and court like normal people into everybody's problem."

[sweetchildofrocknroll]

[bixels]

What did/do you like about Pharah?

Uh, gameplay-wise, I really love characters in shooters who rely on three-dimensional movement techs. Chaining together hover and jump to stay in the air for as long as possible and keep momentum is so satisfying, and picking enemies off from the sky made me feel like a bird of prey. I was a good Pharah main.

Story-wise, there unfortunately isn't much to canonically go off because Pharah is so underutilized and neglected. Her personality's pretty boilerplate "heroic hero" (she's literally inspired by Captain America).

But it's the crumbs/bits and pieces that I really latched onto. Pharah's a confirmed lesbian; her short story with Baptiste implies she harbors a crush on Mercy (fucking thank you.). She's biracial Egyptian/First Nations. She has major mommy issues, having grown up both admiring and resenting Ana. She's the bridge between Old Overwatch, inspired by the idealized heroes who surrounded her childhood, and New Overwatch. She's one of the only inter-generational characters in the cast; someone whose experiences span the gap, which is why I seriously believe Pharah would make a great main character.

There isn't much to go off of, though; she's a very uncomplicated character (she's a soldier for a private military corporation, lol.). But that just means she's a blank slate character, so I've seen fanfic writers run wild and create some really interesting takes on her. My favorite interpretation of her's a dense, herbo gym-bro type (a lot of her liens are about work outs, exercising, and playing sports) who's easily excitable under her seemingly self-serious, armored visage. We see how she tends to gloat and hype herself up when she's on a streak too, so Pharah definitely has a competitive and boastful side under her more professional and militant performance.

Now Mercy? Mercy is a real complex character.

[firbolgfriend]

Im just yapping but there is this fic on fimficton called Discord of Tomorrow that’s about s2 evil discord traveling forward in time right before he can be turned to stone to switch places with the version of himself (reformed discord) that exists when the elements of harmony are gone, so reformed discord gets stuck in the past and has had to snap away and hide the elements of harmony from the mane 6 so he can focus on trying to get back to the future without getting turned to stone, all while dealing with the moral dilemma of him realizing how easy it was to take the elements and how easy it would be to seriously just take Equestria over again vs being worried about what evil discord is currently doing to his friends in present time. It’s only like three chapters but I think the plot is so funny and the author didn’t even get to the part where evil discord is in the future and the mane 6 is trying to figure out wtf his problem is, thinking he has amnesia or something. I want to make a comic expanding on it so bad I’m like seriously obsessed with it I can’t stop thinking about it

[bookwyrminspiration]

saw someone on ig complaining about how a fic with a beautiful, evocative title was actually kinky mpreg erotica as if that's not a keystone of ao3. anyway. unrelated I have opened a new tab

[ph7soy]

ok so we can all collectively agree that D9 took the biggest fattest shit on pricefield & completely butchered chloe’s entire character, but on a lighter note i haven’t seen anyone talking about this gross mischaracterization of max yet?

like please be sooo fr rn, of all things a COSMO is her go-to drink? and you’re telling me this born & bred PNW hipster right here HATES the taste of BEER?

idk about you but my max caulfield would NEVER. my max caulfield is the queen of analogue cameras and all things oh so subversive. she absolutely would’ve been riding the hell out of that early 2010s IPA craze and she’d 100% still be all pretentious about it even almost a decade later. she’d go on tangents about her favorite local brewery and how the Texan Dogfish has this layered, super complex flavor profile to anyone who’d listen. she wouldn’t be caught dead drinking some basic cocktail.

[ablatheringblatherskite]

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[transhetanybodys]

I just got hit with a flash of inspiration for another story involving Jay, an AU of my already existing AU where Russetpaw doesn't die and instead grows up to experience the same amount of hardship and adversity for her belief in bringing groups together and working against xenophobia but instead of that all eventually culminating in her snapping and becoming really mean and narcissistic and no longer believing in extending an olive branch to other cultures like what happened to Jay she simply becomes wiser about how she's going to accomplish her goals and what exact form they'll take, no longer having this truly out there and not even really good to accomplish goal of actually bringing Shadowclan and the cats of the Twolegplace into one united society with one blended culture instead of two but rather wanting them to be allies instead of being at war. She and Jay have some juicy mother daughter conflict a la the Baroness and Cruella. Jay thought that her daughter would either keep being someone she sees as a hopeless romantic idiot forever or eventually snap and become a second her and then rise to become a truly formidable leader of the Twolegplace cats' rival group Shadowclan. She didn't foresee this third option of Russetpaw maturing into a more intelligent revolutionary and she kind of resents her even more now. Now she's not just a mirror of her younger self who she sees as way too naive, she's a better path that she herself could have taken, but she can't face that because she thinks she's the best the way she is already.

[iamthepulta]

The Twelve Principles of Circular Hydrometallurgy, (Binneman & Jones, 2023) are:

The goal is, essentially, that if you have an "ore" of a laptop, you'd be able to 'extract' and separate the gold, cobalt, copper, thallium, zinc, etc by exploiting their physical and chemical properties, with minimal waste products and minimal harm. The process is continuous, and most of the reagents in the vats can be reused, or don't harm the system.

For copper, we separate sulfides from unwanted minerals by exploiting their hydrophobic surface. Then they're converted into a CuSO4 solution that is purified, and then we're able to add electricity to the system to get copper to drop out of solution in a usable form (native copper).

So I think for this essay/location, I'm going to pick Reduce Chemical Diversity, because according to the diagram here, they actually did a pretty good job of only using hydroxide additives? It looks very simple and interesting. I'll also do Use Benign Chemicals because the mill is right next to the Great Lakes and I'm curious if there are problems there. I'll also do Maximize Mass/Energy etc because that's easy fucking fruit. I don't know why that's in this circle. It bugs me.

Preventing Waste is also easy fruit, and combine circular hydrometallurgy with Zero Waste Mining which is an interesting topic, but I hate how the authors of this paper discussed it.

[supercantaloupe]

ngl it does actually kind of piss me off how this entire semester i've had barely any feedback from the professor in this (REQUIRED, CORE CURRICULUM) library science class. it's online asynchronous so i'm already kind of left on my own, and i've expressed multiple times to the professor both via direct email and through her mid term student feedback survey how lost i've been all semester due to complete and utter radio silence on how i'm doing. and still! nothing!!! not a single comment about my research paper progress report that was a required assignment to post last week. i'm so fucking mad actually. how on gd's green earth do you expect me to learn this way. i haven't the faintest clue if i'm doing anything correctly.

[noknowshame]

i've known special agent dale cooper for one episode and if anything bad happens to him I'm killing all fifty three different townspeople I've been introduced to and then myself

[ethan-elliott]

"The Romantic poets William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley saw Satan as the real hero of the poem and applauded his rebellion against the tyranny of Heaven." (source: the Britannica article on Paradise Lost)

thinking about how we've been having all the Lucifer imagery recently. thinking about how bvb 7 is a "collection of stories about...the futility of revenge". thinking about how the bvb spotify playlist is now called "Burned Wings" and Paradise Lost opens with Lucifer and his angels falling. thinking about "the saints are all sinners" and the message of Bleeders, which is going to be on the album. thinking about the Outcasts, and the Path of the Outcasts, and how it wasn't so much about what choice you made as it was about accepting yourself and the fact you made those choices.

thinking about how often bvb give us flawed and/or reluctant heroes, and the consequences of idolisation (re: Saviour II, for instance, or indeed the entirety of The Mourning, actually)

I could be very, very wrong. but I feel like bvb7 is going to be celebrating the rebellion but condemning the hero (Lucifer). that it's not about needing someone to save you, it's not about rallying around a cause (especially revenge) because you've been burned. it's about following your own mind and opening your eyes to the truth of the world (re: "the saints are all sinners" and "aren't you lucky you're a bleeder"). it's about gaining that perspective and choosing what aligns with your values and letting go of the past and moving forward, whatever that means for you.

and that's why the "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n. all is not lost..." quote makes so much sense. we may be the outcasts, the ones literally/metaphorically forced out of heaven, but we don't have to stay in hell either. we just have to choose not to.

[microwavetoaster-selfships]

Okay, I have 'returned' from my minor Tumblr absence. I say 'returned' because I never truly properly left, as you might've noticed from the few things that I reblogged onto my main and whatnot. Part of it was just a break, but the other major part of it was... I went to a concert!!! Of one of my favorite bands that means so, so much to me.

Big tangent below that isn't very selfshippy related.

Now, I don't know how much I mention NSP on here, perhap's I have once or twice when talking about songs that I've added to my F/Os playlists, but I don't think I ever really went on anything too lengthy. And I know I've mentioned Game Grumps a few times on here as well- definitely not as much as Jerma- but One of the co-hosts of Game Grumps is the lead singer in NSP, and both NSP and Game Grumps mean a lottt to me, even if I don't mention them often. They've gotten me through a lot for a very long amount of years, ever since I was around 11~ish. Made me laugh, helped me sleep, relax, entertained me, and have said a lot of motivational and heartwarming things that have helped kept me going. Getting tickets to go see the band was nearly entirely on impulse, which is something that I don't really ever do, but this was beyond worth it. It... it felt like it reset my brain, almost. If that makes any sense. Like my brain was a computer that had been running on sleep mode ever since it first booted up and finally got restarted for the first time ever. I'm upset that I can't have the entire thing burned into my memory second by second cause it was incredible. The lights and noises were overwhelming at first and I had moments questioning if I should regrettably step away but I managed to cool myself down. It was magical, there was some crying, there still IS some crying, and probably always will be, and they did some really cool "Hey, however you identify or who you love is completely okay with us." TWRP was also there, which is a slightly longer story, but they were also brilliant. I used up a lot of my energy and tears during their songs that I didn't have any left for the songs that I actually anticipated crying over! I could go on for ages about it, but I wouldn't have chosen anything else. I actually think I needed this. It feels like I can think like...better. More clearly. I feel more relaxed about my future and spending money and just...UGH. There are the watery eyes. Maybe because I anticipated crying during some of the NSP songs it didn't hit me, but the TWRP stuff really came at me from out of left field and the little intermission dialog and..man. maaann. It was really funny as well and. I wish I could remember it forever I really really do. I never thought I would ever get to see any artists that I enjoyed live, honestly. Most of them don't tour anymore or are all UK based, and I didn't know if or when NSP would tour again, nonetheless if they would be anywhere close to me. I HAD to. And I'm glad I did.

I know this perhaps sounds like every other description expereince of someone going to a concert but.It just felt so good. To be in a room where I practically felt like I could just.. be myself. I will say the worst thing to come from all of this is just potentially slowly forgetting details and that now I will get FOMO over any and all future concerts that they ever have. Concerts aren't really my thing but that.. was magic. And inspiration and awe and. I still can't get over TWRP's songs and the little intermissions about the lead singer hyping us up over our humanly hidden potentials.

It's almost hard to listen to any of their songs now after listening to them live! My phone camera desperately needs to be cleaned so the few pictures that I got during the moment we were allowed to have phones out are really fuzzy. I got a really good spot standing at the top of some small staircases so I could see over everyone(and it was also a good spot to sit/lean against the railings). It was worth it. it was worth it all. It was worth the sleepiness and hunger and thirst and frustrations. In fact it exceeded that.

I also got to stop by an IHOP and BurgerKing and ironically I love both of those places and yet neither of them are within like an hour drive of me.

[gremlinshatephilosophers]

God I fucking hate my past self when I write notes because it’s like I get portaled to an alien dimension where there are indescribable vibes and zero plot points like shut the fuck up about the black eyed peas jesus christ

[dullahandyke]

they’ve also got the breadwinner

ill b honest annie (<cuter nickname than nonnie for anons) i just watched the trailer and it dips its toes a little too much into the orientalist tropes for my tastes but ive added it to my watchlist bcos i think it could be analytical enrichment