#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.

[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

[mysticalbirdkoala]

So,

Long ass post about why I'm so insane over toddosuba. Disclaimer- I just stoped reading re zero at moment where subaru got turned into a childe, but also know that todd is a werewolf. So I'm going to be delusional about them.

so imagine you lost and scared and you nearly drowned, and now you treated by some asshole, and that asshole deciding kill you or not. But here other guy, and he's trying to help you, and generally very friendly and nice, isn't it cool? Yeah you still your situation is incredibly shitty, and That asshole still practically bulling you, but at least there's something good, right? That friendly guy, with so friendly and joyful smile. And you genuinely trying to help him, because it would be fair. And then you learn that he's actually kinda insane. And you kiiiiinda helped him in killing people. But, you got killed by one of survivors, and you have second try, you just need to not fuck this up right?

And there's is start for my brainrot, because. Well. Subaru. Kinda fucked this up, by doing very natural thing from HIS point of view. But not from Todd's point of view.

it was so natural for subaru to act this way in this situation but yeah. Interesting that, subaru have many. Moments like that, that makes his suspicious as fuck, and sometimes other just shrug it off, but sometimes that's what's get him in trouble (arc 2, a couple of moments in arc 3, and whole mess that was in one lope in arc 4. With garfiel).

But THAT'S were it's getting interesting, because subaru only half understand that he's given a role to play. and he's sure trying to play

He's trying role of some selfish coward, who doesn't care about anything but himself. Which is interesting, when you consider. The fucking entire plot of re zero. (But also how many times he called himself selfish too-)

and todd believes him. In that at least. But then subaru just lured him and other soldiers into giant fucking snake. Todd survived and we got one of the hellish couple of chapters where subaru got killed by him in various horrible ways.

Until subaru does something so incredibly sexy of him. Because he's actually smart, and a very good listener

Todd got him another role to play. Because todd sees himself in subaru and isn't that a delicious dynamic. Something dangerous, who would kill anybody if needed, a threat. Everything that subaru is not (...for the most part). That role is reason of whole this mess but ironically also his only chance of survival. So, again, he's playing this role

it's almost was a little funny (not so for todd, because logically subaru shouldn't know about him).

Their dynamic ideally described here:

To subaru it's a new enemy, who he made himself, to todd he's mirror of himself, and they adapting and learning in hope to overpower each other, and isn't it kinda beautiful? (In very very fucked up way)

Also. What was all that interactions in That chapter

What. What was All Of That.

And also:

They terrified to each other, and trying to fight just to survive from their point of view, and that messed up beautiful dance of death was fUCKED UP BY TEPPEI TURNING SUBARU INTO A CHILD-

Sorry. But yeah. Also I wanted to write how beautiful it is that they both just humans but. Todd is a fucking werewolf. Which is bringing another bit of spice to them because:

Todd you literally can shred him to pieces. You already was doing it with your axe

Please listen "howl" by florence and the machine. You'll see my point.

I'm not going to make a furry joke But- [gunshot]

So. Yeah.

[doctorweebmd]

oh i missed a milestone!

tptp has officially surpassed fool's gold in kudos meaning my most 'popular' sskk fic has now ascended past my least 'popular' bkdk fic!

yippee welcome to the CLUB my sweet tptp i love you thank you for being so amazing and fun to write. i hope its an interesting read for other fans as they get into the fandom and i'm happy you exist.

[risingsunresistance]

the sequel to this old doodle..?

[popotobun]

Blood singing in his veins (mlc post-canon) for the WIP Game please?

Li Lianhua had almost forgotten what it felt like to spar, the experience was two lifetimes ago, after all. It had taken a year past being cured to finally give in to his friend’s demands to fight and only six months of that had he spent getting used to the blade once again. It felt good, even if it no longer felt like the only thing keeping him tethered.

Once, it had been his sword against the injustices of the world. Then he’d been betrayed, poisoned, left for dead. That had been the first lifetime. The second was only ten years long. A life spent adrift with only the flimsiest of reasons keeping him going. He’d been living just to die the whole time. It had taken two people to remind him it was worth living. That he deserved the same good in his life that he wanted for them.

That second life ended with fire in his veins. It was a month before he could walk once more, but walk he did. 

Five months later, he finally picked up his sword again.

He’d never intended to use it in a fight, instead dancing through the trees around their home (It wasn’t just his anymore, it was theirs). Sometimes they even joined him, especially as he got back some of his old strength and skill, but usually they just watched.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

costume design, set mockup, and rehearsal photos from this guide to the show that's like really thorough in providing Context like, mini articles about the creators of the original movie, musical, and movie musical, about other versions of productions, the history, quotes of other commentary, interview quotes, context of other / preexisting genres like b movies, faustian stories, "what if a plant was weird" stories, glossary of terms (such as references that may generally be less obscure if you were in the '60s, e.g.), suggested further reading....haven't read it top to bottom but i think it's fantastic, link to the pdf as post source

[appalachianapologies]

[random drabble to get you through the day]

“I was able to hack her stuff pretty easily.”

“That didn’t take long.” 

Riley sends Mac a look. “I’m sorry, have we met? Riley Davis, hacker extraordinaire.”

Rolling his eyes, Mac replies, “You know what I mean. What’d you find?”

“The usual. For a double or triple or quadruple—or whatever type of agent she is—Nikki doesn’t encrypt her files as much as she should. I’ve already sent the juicy stuff to Patty.”

“Nice.” Giving a nod, Mac pulls a spare wheeled chair toward Riley’s desk and sits down. “What’re you doing now, then?”

“Oh, just having some fun.”

“Should I ask?”

“Probably not, but I’ll tell you anyway.”

With a poorly contained smile, Mac says, “Go for it.”

“After getting the goods out of her laptop, I hacked into her phone. Weakest wifi password in the history of ever, by the way.”

“Noted.”

“And she’s been listening to Spotify for the past three or so hours, so if I were to guess, she’s probably doing some other task while listening to music in the background.”

Mac gives another nod, still not exactly sure where this is going.

“So, like I said, I decided to have a little fun, and I wrote up some quick code this morning before you and Jack got here.”

“Code for what?”

“Basically,” Riley starts, “I made it so randomly in the middle of her songs, Spotify will pause itself.”

“Is that… it?”

“Yep.”

“Riley, what the fuck?”

Turning her head away from the monitor, she looks at Mac. “What, I can’t have some fun? When I wasn’t doing hacktivist stuff, this is basically all I’d do.”

A stuttered laugh escapes Mac before he can stop it. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen this side of you.”

“She’s been dormant for a while,” Riley confirms, “but I think it’s time I bring that part of me back.”