#and that has already been updated on her Wikipedia

[the-physicality]

These wnba Wikipedia editors are Fast

[topfsecret]

Dress to Impress Lana Lore: Why her?

Post Date: 1 November 2024

special thanks to youtuber callmehhaley for her video "SECRETS In The LANA LORE QUEST & Breakdown! *STORY EXPLAINED?* | Dress To Impress Halloween Update"

also thank you to youtuber izzzyzzz for her video "The Dress To Impress Horror ARG Explained"

For my thoughts on Nurse Julie from the Halloween Update, feel free to visit TopfSecret's Lana Lore Tag!

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Why Did Agamemnon Choose Lana?

At first, it's easy to say that Agamemnon symbolizes the predatory people in the fashion industry. The early Lana lore cements this interpretation. Agamemnon's minions exploited Lana's sickness, roping her into a job so she can pay her medical bills, before trapping her in the whole Awakening business.

But the Halloween Update reveal that Agamemnon may have caused Lana's illness in the first place is... wild. It doesn't undo the above interpretation, especially with the shadowy cult stuff. But why Lana? Why not take someone who's already got a terminal illness? There's plenty of desperate people to take advantage of in this age of capitalism.

The song "Temptation" may have the answers. It's reaching a little bit, but please bear with me!

Let me tell you a story of betrayal Between two people unalike There was a goddess, who was immortal against a jealousy of a warrior and when the time came for a judgement There were more wrongs than a right There was no solace, no immunity banished from who he used to be

So, there's precedent in greek mythology of mortals being punished for wanting to surpass/being better than the gods, for example Arachne - being turned into a spider for defeating Athena in a weaving contest. There's also precedent of mortals being punished for cheating death (wanting immortality), as in the case of Sisyphus - doomed to push a boulder up a hill for eternity because he trapped Thanatos (personification of death) and prevented him from taking Sisyphus' soul.

So it's not a stretch to say that Agamemnon isn't a new figure. I can't say if he's literally mythological Agamemnon, but he could be? From wikipedia: "Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasts that he is her equal in hunting."

ummm... yeah. That's punishment material, babey. A warrior (well, hunter) of sorts being jealous of Artemis' immortality... makes sense, but not quite.

Regardless, in my opinion, DTI Agamemnon is old enough to have been jealous of a goddess' immortality, trying to get it, and then being punished for it. I'm guessing his punishment is being denied a physical form, doomed to be a ghost forever (since he wants immortality so much). My rationale: he's seen as hallucinations and dark shadows in the Halloween Update, which is probably the earliest chronologically (since it talks about Lana's leaving her house and her hospital days).

He only got a physical form after sacrificing multiple souls (seen in the earlier updates), such as the Fortress Security Footage #1. It's not his "ultimate" form, though, which is why he keeps trying to get more sacrifices.

For the temptation in his heart His life was doomed right from the start He wanted more than what he got But it was locked away

Well, duh. Immortality is locked away from mortals for a reason. If his life is "doomed from the start", it could be that DTI Agamemnon is based on (or is actually) mythological Agamemnon, where his entire family has been doomed due to the actions of his ancestor, Tantalus.

Obsessed with immortality He wanted to live eternally Wanted to make himself a God and now he's locked away

This explains itself. He may have been locked away by the goddess that he was jealous of back in the first verse.

So he planned to sneak into the palace and consume what wasn't his he thought you made it, with all his malice but he was caught in carelessness

"Sneak into the palace" could have not been literal, because I have no idea what the literal equivalent is. However, a palace and a fortress can be equated in some way - which may mean that he's creating The Fortress to consume what wasn't his (souls of the innocent).

How about "He thought you made it, with all his malice, but he was caught in carelessness."?

Well.

This is where my speculation goes to an unhinged place.

Ready? Of course you are.

So: I think Lana may have been related to whoever goddess punished Agamemnon in the first place. Whether she's the goddess' descendant, or a reincarnation, or simply an unlucky mortal chosen for a quest, Lana Dress to Impress may have divine purpose.

That's why Agamemnon chose Lana as his main collaborator/pawn instead of other terminally ill young women (or others whom he thinks is easily exploited). He wanted to get revenge on the goddess that punished him in the first place, so he took it out on Lana.

I think "he thought you made it, with all his malice" means that Agamemnon has the impression that Lana made it (the Fortress) for him.

"But he was caught in carelessness" because he assumed wrong. In truth, Lana made the whole thing to stop him - at least at first, before he started influencing her. In the previous updates, we see that Lana made the whole Saudade/Coterie thing to stop the Awakening. It could've been a prophecy, or something driven inside her because of her divine heritage. Her obsession with ancient Greek mythology could be explained by her unknowingly reaching for her birthright/quest hints/etc.. (Although, that goddess would not be Artemis, I think.)

I think Lana made all that stuff to stop him and the Awakening as soon as she left the hospital. She thought she was free! She wants to, has to, fight back against him!

But of course, Agamemnon is still stalking her, waiting until the right time to influence her again, to make her work for him instead.

now the time came for a judgement and he pleaded for his life he would be banished, and stay immortal if only he sacrificed a few souls

The problem is, I still don't really know how these lines fit. "Stay immortal if only he sacrificed a few souls" wouldn't make sense if the gods didn't want him to be immortal as more than an incorporeal shadow/hallucination.

Maybe he knew, somehow, that he had to sacrifice a few souls to become immortal (not only tangible, but also having an Ultimate Form through the Awakening)? Did he know that innately? Or did someone else, a greater force, tell him? I really don't know. We probably need more information.

If you're a bigger Greek mythology nerd than we are (which is probably the case - do let us know if I missed some important part of the Agamemnon mythological lore.)

Thank you all so much for reading!

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To see more Dress to Impress ARG thoughts:

TopfSecret's Lana Lore Tag

[totisviribus]

An ADHD Morning

I set seven alarms so I don't oversleep. I couldn't sleep last night because I was researching ancient Rome on Wikipedia until 2am so I am bleary tired. My coffee maker is moldy from last week's brew and I don't even consider cleaning it, I just know that I won't be having coffee this morning.

I forgot to shower the night before, but now I don't have enough time to do it this morning, I got up too late. I use dry shampoo and hope my hair doesn't look greasy (it does). I scrape it into a messy pony tail that will give me a migraine but it's the only way it looks acceptable. My finger nails are stumps of dried blood because I picked at them all night. The inside of my lip is swollen and bleeding because I couldn't stop chewing on it, thinking about how I could ruin today. My eyebrows need to be plucked. My face is covered in acne because I never remember to take my makeup off before I fall asleep.

My bedroom is a sea of clothes, piled high to obscure the wooden floors. One hamper has some clean clothes in it, I know, but I have forgotten which one. My ironing board is under the piles somewhere, but it's broken, so I'll have to try to use the anti-wrinkle spray on the sweater I fish off the floor and hope it looks okay. It's already been forty minutes, how has the time passed this way? I will be late now, no hope of arriving on time. My sweater is covered in cat hair. Where is the lint roller? I look through the piles and can't find it. I spend ten minutes looking for tape to make a make-shift lint roller and it doesn't really work.

My dresser is filled with empty makeup tubes, used makeup wipes, glasses wipes, and used lint roller sheets. I pick out the products I use and quickly do my makeup on my unclean skin.

Purse. I need my purse. Which purse did I use last? Which has my wallet in it? I walk past the piles on the floor of my apartment, past the dirty dishes, past the mound of art supplies on my desk. I find my purse on the floor under my desk. Okay.

Socks? I need socks. My socks might show when I sit down in these too-tight too-short pants. I have to find matching ones. Clean ones? No, that's too much of a reach. I must just find matching ones. I search, digging through the floor piles. I find two that do not match, but are the same color. Good enough.

Fifteen minutes late. My cat chirps as he brushes against my leg. Oh! My little friend! He's so cute and sweet. My sister loves to get pictures of him, so I'll take one for her. Look up here, Blue! So cute. I should really update the instagram I made for him, I've met so many people who have the same type of cat. I should edit some photos of him today to post. He makes me so happy. I feel so lucky I get to have a cat and such a sweet, loving one like Blue. How many people get to have such a great pet? I'm so thankful for him, and I tell him so while I scratch his face the way that makes him purr.

I text my sister the picture. She tells me to have a good day. I try to find a cute GIF to send her to tell her to have a good day too. Here's one with Snoopy. She'll like that.

I also need to feed Blue. There are a dozen empty, smelly cans on the counter of cat food, but I pick a new one out of the box they were shipped in and put it in his dish with a random measuring spoon because all my other silverware is dirty.

Bag. I need to pack a bag. Laptop, keys, tissues, pens, notebook, headphones, charging cable for my phone. Is that everything? And my wallet, of course! Aha. That would be bad if I forgot that.

My shoes are dirty and scuffed but I don't have time to fix them. What kind of coat? I don't check the weather. I pick out a thin yellow one that I like. I've always liked bright colors. This will cheer me up to wear it. Bag, coat, keys, phone...where is my phone?

I have headphones on, listening to a YouTube video on two times speed, but I don't know where my phone is. I don't have time for this! But I can't leave without my phone.

It's deep in the covers of my bed. I don't remember putting it there between sending the GIF to my sister and now, but no matter. I found it.

It's twenty degrees and raining. I have no umbrella and my spring coat is incredibly inappropriate for the weather.

I've left my car on the street for a few days in an area that is only for 3-hour parking. The parking tickets are stacked on the windshield. I owe the city about $400 in parking tickets and I keep getting letters from the police that they'll boot my car if I don't pay. I messed up the days on my budget spreadsheet, so I won't be able to pay them for another month.

I have no gas. I check the miles my car estimates I can go with the amount left and compare it to what my GPS says. Just enough. Maybe. It'll be okay. I can't get gas now.

I forgot to brush my teeth. I forgot my laptop charging cable. I forgot to take my medication, and I forgot to bring my medication with me to take my second dose. When I finally arrive at my destination, I don't remember that my debit card fell between the seat in my car yesterday while getting coffee at the drive-thru. So I leave without it. I also forgot to put deodorant on.

I wonder what my coworkers would think of me if they knew about my messy apartment, my poor hygiene, my lack of planning skills. Will they notice my teeth aren't brushed? Do I have any gum, mints, anything?

My coworker sees me come in late with in an oddly-fitting outfit and messy hair, but I greet them happily when I come in. They say that everyone forgets things sometimes and lends me their laptop charger. I'll forget to return it, but they don't know that yet. They don't know about my kitchen or my bedroom or my clothes or my unwashed face or my parking tickets. They don't know that without my medication I will be useless for the entire day and get nothing done, making more work for them.

I'm an excellent actress. I pretend to be like everyone else, and somehow I pass the test every time. I'm a shy, kind, young woman - they would never suspect there is a moldy box of forgotten take out food in my backseat that I'll discover in a few days. People socialized as female are expected to be neat, organized, in control. They don't even consider that I might not be those things.

"What did you bring for the potluck today?" my coworker asks.

The ingredients I bought for the dish I signed up to make are rotting in my fridge, forgotten as soon as I put them there after shopping two weeks ago. I didn't think to buy them closer to today. I also didn't think to put the pot luck on my calendar.

I make up an elaborate story about how my boyfriend needed to be picked up from a far-away job site last night. She believes me and I feel I don't deserve it.

I wish I wasn't a good actress.

[canonical-transformation]

Genshin ships: stock market update (Natlan Act 1+2)

(Warning: May contain spoilers for character appearances and dynamics in [Chapter 5 Act 1–2] Flowers Resplendent on the Sun-Scorched Sojourn and Black Stone Under a White Stone. Previous entries here.) This is for entertainment purposes only and is not financial advice: consult with your ship financial advisor before you invest.

4.0 has landed, and our analysts have been watching with interest as Natlan characters have started listing on the Genshin ship market. Here's our recommendations for the weeks ahead.

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Citlali/Mualani is held together by a single drip marketing quote, but what a quote. BUY OR HOLD.

Mavuika/Xilonen, on the other hand, does not have a proven profit model. No, the potential for a ship name that sounds like "melanin" isn't reason enough to invest. SELL

(Note: Since Xilonen's drip marketing has landed, let's take a second to examine all the cat themed ships. Xilonen/Dehya and Xilonen/Kirara are too hard to call this far out. Xilonen/Lynette and Xilonen/Diona have boring chemistry, SELL / don't bother. And Xilonen/Keqing... oh Keqing would hate her. Hmm. Watch this space, HOLD OR BUY.)

(No, not all cat related ships find success. The recent bankruptcy and dissolution of Osse/Neko should be proof enough.)

Kachina/Bennett — ⚠️ we typically don't cover selfcest ships because there are too many of them. In this case, we'll make an exception to note it's extra unlikely. They're both too busy having coming of age stories and joining each other's teams (not a euphemism) to have any chemistry. SELL.

Kachina/Lumine, Kachina/Aether — sorry, the Traveller is already too busy being the Wise Old Mentor in the first book of Kachina's YA trilogy. SELL— wait does that mean Traveller's going to die 😐

Mavuika/Lumine, Mavuika/Aether — Constantly inviting us to drinks, her shout or Traveller's; long private chats about the family she never talks about to anyone else; giving up her antiques collection as a show of commitment: that is textbook mid-40's cool aunt flirtation. BUY BUY BUY.

Kinich/Mualani — our analysts describe this as "the equivalent of buying the first thing you see in the store", which I think means SELL.

Atea/Mavuika — There's definitely a little chemistry there, but we're unlikely to see further developments. HOLD OR SELL

Atea/Aether — HOLD OR SELL

Atea/Lumine — HOLD OR BUY. If haircuts had sexualities[...]

Small cap market ("rarepairs")

Mualani/that one bandit in her character teaser: nah, no chemistry, she's like that to everyone who tries to rob her. SELL for two-sided, HOLD OR SELL for one-sided.

Tenoch/Tupac — yeah that's been solid enemies to lovers ever since Talking Stick dropped in 4.0. The character model reveals for both of them have only increased the quality here. BUY

Chaac/Waxaklahun Ubah Kan — SELL. Way too early. If you're interested in obscure antiques maybe try Alain/Rene or Marfisa/Parsifal instead?

On that note, our analysts were intrigued by the Heroes of Cinder City. “It's an OT5 RPG adventuring party!” they explain, “like all those tabletop podcasts!” They were, however, quick to note that this was in the same potential rocky area as all Cataclysm-era ships, so HOLD at best.

Little One/Ushi — yeah sure why not. BUY

But coverage of the world quests will have to wait for a future report. In the meantime, let us know what your market predictions are!

Sidebar: phonetics

Wikipedia provides charts for converting writing systems (e.g. romanisations of languages) into the international phonetic alphabet. Below are examples for a couple of languages found across the Pacific Ring of Fire.

May your phone calls with your ship stockbroker be tienari-free!

[moreclaypigeons]

Mountain Goats fans how are we feeling

Jenny 2... I will put all my analysis about what these things mean under the cut. I would also like to note that after i took these screenshots the 11th (pirate ship sunset) just... disappeared? The post was gone for a fair bit but then came back. may have been a glitch. or maybe a ghost ship.

Here's what I'm getting story-wise:

Someone rode away on their custom Kawasaki with a stinger on the back, leaving the speaker there at the curb so they had to take a bus. But they never saw them again, no one did. Flaky yellow paint of the Kawasaki.. staying up late thinking about how the relationship ended. Time passes and it's winter and they have search parties out for this person. The person crashed while on their bike. And then the speaker realizes it. And the person is dead the end

Now in terms of allusions to the song Jenny:

"You roared into the driveway of our southwestern ranch style house": the house in the first image reasonably fits that description. "Our house faced west": based on the shadows here, the house DOES face either east or west because of the direction that the sun rises.

"on a new Kawasaki, all yellow and black, fresh out of the showroom.": It's the same bike! But, based on the line in the third post, "flaky yellow paint," some time has passed.

"the big orange sun" we see in the 11th image, where the pirate ship sails into the sunset. the image also alludes to "you pointed your headlamp toward the horizon," and "the pirate's life for me!"

post 10 is interesting because it too draws from the pirate's life line, but the imagery is different, and definitely connects/foreshadows the graveyard image. Here is an excerpt from the wikipedia page for jolly rogers: When the pirates' intended victim was within range, the Jolly Roger would be raised, often simultaneously with a warning shot. The flag was probably intended as communication of the pirates' identity, which may have given target ships an opportunity to decide to surrender without a fight.

Miscellaneous:

image 7, with the grecian vase imagery is reminding me of spent gladiator.

i have no idea what the fuck the water tower means.

image 12 depicts a music staff with some notes on it. i know nothing about music but i do know the internet does so i am currently trying to reconstruct it with a program. update mmaybe will follor?

other songs:

According to what John Darnielle has said in hit podcast "i only listen to the mountain goats," Jenny has appeared in 2 or 3 other songs.

"She calls on the phone in Night Light" and "she calls on the phone in Straight Six" and was the sender of postcards in Source Decay. He says, "She is defined by an absence, she has yet to speak. She's in the song Jenny; the other two songs she's in, she's already gone. …She's not there when things are going well, and she's not remembered when things are going well. Jenny is an emblem of more difficult times for people, of wilder times. But also times that they're pretty clearly romanticizing, right, that they're also remembering as the time when they were on a motorcycle with no responsibilities, livin' the pirate's life."

Of course I'm going to listen to those three songs <3

Night light: "Jenny calls from Montana/ She's only passing through / Probably never see her again in this life I guess" oh but we WILL see her again... And then never again. "I was a red dot blinking on a screen up overhead / And then the room went dark" and "Plug a night light in / Leave the porch light on" remind me of the bedside clock and the gas station.

Holy shit Straight Six. I didn't realize this was on Jam Eater Blues until I went to its page on the wiki, but- this is significant cause on their linktree, "stream jam eater blues" is at the top and i was confused cause they also released a bunch of other shit. this is foreshadowing...

Anyways significant moments of Straight Six:

"Dull powder blue paint job / earl scheib special" this could either be the auto station (#2) or the fact that the speaker's car has an earl scheib special paint job (had to research this), which maybe he got from the same auto shop. This song talks a lot about a car. "Rabbit skull hanging from the rear-view" "And I glide down the streets of this city / All night, uptight" "There's a crack in the windshield eighteen inches long / Evaporating snow forming crystals on the chrome" it's hard to tell from the drawing of the van whether there is a crack on the windshield or whether it's just stylized, but..this does intrigue me. And when I heard them mention SNOW immediately after... when the caption to the van post says "searching in the snow".......

Source Decay also mentions driving and cars a lot. Couldn't find anything more significant than what the other songs have though.

If anyone has any other thoughts to share or disagrees or like I missed something- PLEase share i am so eager to hear/talk about this!

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 11/7/2023

three days until my birthday problems. i have been very busy with 1) prepping my costume for ren faire and 2) onboarding a new henchwoman to the evil lair, a talented little tabby we're immediately extending full health benefits to with no trial period

listening

good morning afternoon by rebecca sugar. if i had not already known it was rebecca sugar by the voice and the understated guitar, i would have known it was her by the gorgeous synthy chimey chimes. spotify

on my release radar playlist

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reading

stop fucking using personally identifiable details in your passwords. also stop reusing your passwords and burner emails. especially if you're doing crime

A pivotal clue for validating the research into Apathyp/Fearlless came from the identity intelligence firm myNetWatchman, which found that gezze@mail.ru at one time used the passwords “геззи1991” (gezze1991) and “gezze18081991.” Care to place a wager on when Vkontakte says is Mr. Sherban’s birthday? Ten points if you answered August 18 (18081991). Mr. Sherban did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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watching

the 2006 anime BLACK LAGOON, we're going to yoink this from wikipedia bc it's serviceable enough

The series follows the Lagoon Company, a four-member team of pirate mercenaries smuggling goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia with their PT boat, the Black Lagoon. The group takes on various jobs, usually involving criminal organizations and resulting in violent gunfights.

unfortunately i am genetically inclined to boats and ex-military boats. it is extremely 2006 in sensibility and animation choices. there are remarkably sophisticated and fun battle sequences, and a lot of ass but little upskirting. revy (pictured below) is a dual-wielding gunslinger who is simply the worst. horrible woman that gets space to have a bit of a messy complex character arc and have a messy complex time of it. her writing and character are quite good period, not just quite good for 2006. i adore her.

the second episode has our pirates take out a helicopter with a torpedo boat (no deck guns! they just use the torpedo!) in a way that made me stand up, lift mackintosh above my head, and hoot like a tusken raider.

this is about as violent as your average spaghetti western, and much like spaghetti westerns i don't think the series is always successful in using its setting to make points about grey morality and not like. shock for shock's sake? certainly one to look up trigger warnings for.

the why: now i have a bootleg chromecast i have been watching more things on my actual television, remembered "hey this exists on hulu why didn't i finish it several years ago". still not sure why i didn't finish this several years ago. i am pirating the second season, but it's the sub which is a shame bc i quite like the dubbed voice actors, but it's a nightmare trying to find a dub with subtitles. i rarely have the patience to fuss with my own subtitle files.

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playing

turnip boy commits tax evasion, a 2021 game that was recently free on Epic. it is the studio Snoozy Kazoo's first game. i had a very strange time with this, bc the first fifteen minutes up to the first boss fight lulled me into a sense of complacency and then the minute i had to do something slightly complicated at the first boss fight (pay attention to my timing) i lost interest. i don't know if i will return to this, bc the humor didn't always hit for me (extremely online, but twitter online) and there's a major genshin update later this week.

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making

new evil lair employee, phil (short for philip marlowe)

recap of tragic backstory: i had seen her Around for about a week or so, realized on friday night when i scared her out of the dumpster that she had something stuck to her, and didn't see her again until sunday night, when she was too lethargic to skitter away from the dumpster. she has a VERY gnarly wound on her left flank and leg, the urgent care vet thinks she got dragged or caught in something. it is healing remarkably well, all things considered, and it's not infected bc the thing stuck to her was some vetwrap. so someone at some point patched her up?

she is SO full of milk. i have not found the kittens but there are a Lot of strays in this neighborhood, so my hope is that some other momma cat has engaged in some kidnapping.

i have a formal vet appt on the 17th for mackie that ive added phil to, so we'll see about her heart murmur, if she has a microchip (unlikely) and getting her spayed after she heals up a bit more.

mackintosh is Fucking Pissed!!! we will do incredibly slow introductions and phil will probably live in the office/guest suite for. several months. i had not originally planned on adding another henchwoman so soon, but i do have the spare bedroom, the shelter wasn't doing intakes or clinic appointments until friday, and the wound. really could not have waited until friday. it was free cat.

[astroboots]

hi, i literally just stumbled onto your page today and i'm already obsessed with your writing of the moon knight boys. will you write any more for them?

i'm also obsessed with the way you write for miguel. that latest update for eyem was so good but so cruel at the end, lmao. our girl was tryna do a bella swan kinda thing, i respect it!!! she's gonna be in trouble though.

just wondering whether you can rec any other writers of oscar isaac characters who are of the same calibre as your literature?

HAHAHA I am so sorry about that chapter ending! I cannot help myself I absolutely love cliffhangers there's something so emotionally pleasing at ending it at that point.

I love all the bella swan references, esp cause I haven't seen the movies or read the books so i'm just so damn intrigued and had to go off wikipedia-ing it!!!

On recs of other writers: SO SO SO MANY! This fandom, (and this platform in general) has some absolute mad talent and I do apologise beforehand that this is such a short list, just because I've been at work all day and my brain is mush. I've got another ask coming up asking for more recs, so I'll be doing a part 2! MWAH

@writefightandflightclub Luna to me is the OG Oscar Isaac writer. She's the one who got me INTO his characters, before that I was always on team: Oscar Isaac is pretty but Pedro Pascal INTRIGUES ME! then I read her Santiago Garcia stories and I was never the same again. I switched teams, and I SWITCHED HARD!

@foxilayde absolute madhouse of talent. Everything she writes has me blown away. Her Dameron? PERFECTION! My favourite poe dameron story is written by her. She has a oneshot of this absolute unknown character from an indie movie OI made in early days of Cecil, that I think about on the daily.

@softlyspector her writing is just chef's kiss in all aspects, pick anything from her masterlist and you will be blown away. Her Moon Knight stuff and particularly her characterisation of Marc Spector blows me away everytime and in particular she has a long-running multi-chapter story of him that is some of the most perfect writing i've had the pleasure of reading.

ASK ME ANYTHING

[penniedreadfuls]

The Problem of Lenny

Some thoughts about what could, or should, happen with Luke Kirby's Lenny Bruce in season 5 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Cw: for discussion of drug use and suicide

Okay, I'm probably writing this half as an apology for not having updated "All Things are Temporary" in a while. (My other writerly obligations have hard deadlines D:). And the other half is because I was peeping in on the TMMM reddit and there's some guy saying he works on the show as a sound editor, and is giving out spoilers. Ones that say "Lenny dies, eventually" (as do we all) and that a Once Upon a Time in Hollywood like ending doesn't happen.

I take those "spoilers" with a grain of salt. But here are my personal thoughts both as a fan of the show and a writer.

Show Lenny is a fictional character and should be treated as such. TMMM has never been biographical towards him. Several parts of his life have been changed to fit the show. That's fine and dandy.

We all know he was only supposed to appear in the first episode, but that Luke Kirby charm is powerful. All of his previous interactions with characters have fit within plausible deniability. But that changes once he sleeps with Midge. I think that crosses a line when using a real person as a character in a show. (As much as I loved it)

The real Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in August 1966. It doesn't get discussed much here, but there is the very strong likelihood that it was a suicide. The circumstances around his death, how he was found, what happened afterwards, are incredibly sad and tragic. (If you want to know, you can read it on his wikipedia. I will warn you, it's very upsetting.)

I can't imagine The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel putting that in the show, and doing it well. TMMM is a cotton candy world. There has not been anything truly dark in it. I was not impressed with the narrative of Midge's victimhood in regards to Shy. (I didn't like her apology)

TMMM is not Mad Men, historical happenings either do not intrude much or are played for laughs (Jackie Kennedy). But if the show got further into the 60s, that would get harder to ignore. And like the above realities of Lenny Bruce's death, they would not fit into the TMMM world. I also cannot see Mei getting an abortion.

ex. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 16th Street Baptist Church Bombings. Characters would and should comment on these. So it's probably a good thing the show ends in 1961. A lot happened from 61-66, and the show has so many plotlines, I think a big time skip would mess them up. I got away with the huge time jump in "All Things are Temporary" because of Lenny's internal thoughts and I cheated and had Midge give an interview.

I digress. I fear if ASP and the powers that be have fictional Lenny die as he did in life, that they would change it to make its more "palatable" for the show. An idea that I find immensely disrespectful, since it probably was a suicide. Midge would certainly come to know the details of Lenny's death and her reaction would be heartbreaking (I know Rachel Broshanan would knock it out of the park however).

So what do I think should happen? It comes down to three options. Spare, Ambiguous, or Dies. I've already outlined my thoughts on the last one.

Lenny is one of the most popular characters in the show, sparing him would be giving him what he was denied in real life. As long as the real Kitty Bruce approves?

I personally think that the show should keep it ambiguous. It will be better for all of us fic writers :D Most of all, I just want the ending to be well written. I never watched Gilmore Girls, but I've heard that I should be concerned.

What do you all think?

One last thought. I really believe that ASP intended for Midge and Joel to end up back together during the first two seasons, and then realized the idea is not a popular one. (Are people writing MidgeJoel fic? I don't think so!) Hence we get Mei and Miami.

TL;DR: TMMM should either spare Lenny or go all out in depicting the realities of his death. To lessen it is disrespectful.

[bidonica]

I am enjoying playing the metal gears on their own merit but also Death Stranding is always on my mind and I have a couple of side notes (that will be updated as I go forward as I'm just at the beginning of Snake Eater):

At the end of MGS2, Snake's voiceover basically enunciates the themes of Death Stranding:

Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies... what we've seen, heard, felt... anger, joy and sorrow... these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light. We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing.

MGS3's gimmick for the save screen is to have your liaison Para Medic talk to you about famous and lesser known genre movies from the first half of the 20th century. Let me tell you I jumped on the chair when she brought up a 1959 movie featuring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner called On The Beach:

In 1964, World War III has devastated the Northern Hemisphere, killing all humans there. Air currents are slowly carrying the fallout to the Southern Hemisphere, where Melbourne, Australia will be the last major city on Earth to perish. The American nuclear submarine USS Sawfish, commanded by Capt. Dwight Towers, arrives in Melbourne and is placed under Royal Australian Navy command. Peter Holmes, a young Australian Naval officer with a wife and infant child, is assigned to be Towers' liaison. Holmes invites Towers to his home for a party, where Towers meets Julian Osborn, a depressive nuclear scientist who helped build the bombs, and Moira Davidson, a lonely alcoholic with whom Towers develops a tentative attraction. Although Davidson falls in love with Towers, he finds himself unable to return her feelings, because he can't bring himself to admit his wife and children in the US are dead. (full summary on wikipedia)

The plot is... overall pretty bleak, which might align with what Kojima said about having rewritten a lot of part 2 as he reconsidered what it meant to "connect" after the pandemic. There are also interesting connections to the presence of the George Miller character in DS2, what with the overall importance of Australia and the presence of a lethal car race. Another things that's Classic Kojima is a mid-story twist about the initial mission being actually for nothing (one LOSTheads are probably familiar with), but we've already been told by the DS2 trailer in pretty clear terms that Sam has been deceived, possibly more than once.

Idk, these might be all pretty obvious parallels and callbacks but I'm also under the impression that few people played the metal gears with Death Stranding in mind rather than the opposite so maybe it's worth jotting down.

[gothamcityneedsme]

hey! thanks for your answer abt the songs in hazbin, i watched the eps that are out and Loser, Baby is definitely my favorite, it’s so fun 😭 i feel like people have been talking about the show for years, tho, do u know where to watch the full thing? hope you’re well and enjoying your mass effect revisit

I'm so glad you enjoyed 'Loser, Baby' too! Keith David's voice acting is great and hearing him sing is a treat.

I'm not sure how much you know/don't know, so sorry if any of this IS something you already know. The show originally was an indie pilot created by Viv. If you haven't seen the pilot it is worth a watch because they reference it in the show. This was years ago, but this pilot blew up so people got really invested in the characters and universe. The fandom is really active, and I know Viv has posted additional information on Patreon updates/interviews/merch updates/etc, so that's where a lot of additional info has come from.

For the universe also, Viv's youtube channel also was posting a second show that takes place in the verse made by her team, called Helluva Boss. Helluva Boss doesn't feature the same characters as Hazbin, but there's some references. I haven't seen all of Helluva myself, I've probably seen around half or 2/3rds of it or something lol.

The four episodes up on Prime and the pilot are the only existing episodes of Hazbin so far, because the show was waiting to be picked up by a studio and I presume Viv was in negotiations which is why no Hazbin content was produced until now. We are getting more episodes from Prime later as well, I think some are posting later this week? Wikipedia has the known release schedule.

(and I am enjoying mass effect, thank you :D)

[iantimony]

tuesday!

hello tuesday :) i'm going to start crossposting these onto my dreamwidth also just so i have a non-tumblr log of my weekly updates. please friend me on dreamwidth i would love an excuse to move platforms more

listening: OH i listened to SO much this week. i tuned in to my spotify release radar thing and it was a great idea to get exposed to some new music from artists i already know i like! i also peeped the discover weekly one a bit

i haven't listened to the newest paramore album in full but 'running out of time' was on the release radar playlist and i really really like the sounds! it feels very st vincent-y to me in a way that i wasn't expecting from paramore so i wonder if that was a conscious influence at all? or if they were both separately influenced by the same sources? it's really good though. i dont remember following shakey graves but they also rule i've been jamming to the whole album 'deadstock' which i think is just a collection of some of their more popular tracks? plus some live recordings. and tom rosenthal makes me cry still

from discover:

and then i found memi through...instagram reels i think? instagram has unfortunately nailed the type of music they should serve me to get clicks so i do. keep clicking them. anyways i love her

reading: quantum :V

oh wait actually i do have reading this week! i re-opened the slowly app (i downloaded it years ago but stopped using it at some point), which is a real-time penpal app - you can send letters to random people in the world, and it will send in "real time" as if you were actually mailing a letter! so i opened it and the app went oh? you're active? cool! and i started getting letters! so i got one from a guy in morocco, which i replied to right away, and also one in mandarin which i have NOT replied to right away because i had to spend like an hour translating it rip. out of five i put my mandarin proficiency at a 2 on my profile but honestly that may be too high oops. ah well. it'll be cool to try and get my mandarin back up to snuff! it'll also be a great way to learn things like idioms and other stuff that doesn't show up as often in traditional learning materials.

for example, phrase that i learned is 畅所欲言, chang4 suo3 yu4 yan4, which is a standard four-character idiom that means to speak without inhibitions or to just frankly speak your mind. i have like a full two pages of new words and phrases that i had to look up to read the letter which is awesome!

the letter from morocco was very cool and like...poetry adjacent? which im not sure if it's just because of a translation quirk - he said his english isn't the best - but i dunno. "I am writing to you because writing is a companion of the tired". anyways.

watching: i started watching evangelion with my partner!! we did ... i think about five episodes last week? it owns. this is the first time in a really long time that i've, like...gone blind into a media? my only exposure to eva has been through out-of-context memes (shinji get in the robot) and i feel like a lot of the time with TV shows i tend to read the wikipedia page before watching to see if it's really worth it :") i've never really cared about spoilers or whatever because honestly if it's a good enough show it won't really matter if i know what's going to happen or not, it's more about How it happens and how it's shot/framed/acted/etc. but i have zero context for eva and im very much enjoying it! i wasn't expecting the body horror at all it rules

making: making good progress on my embroidery project! this photo is from about two weeks ago but it's the most recent one i have and honestly haven't done THAT much more. i just finished filling that vertical headphone cord in with red, started some other headphone cord...after that all i have left is the letters (rip) and then doing maybe some sort of sashiko stitch/cross hatching as fill for the hair? like some spaced out x patterns in a grid or something like that. because i'm sure as shit not doing a satin or brick stitch to fill all that in and i think it'll still look good that way.

im also finishing up valentines gifts to mail to people :3

misc: hgg. quantum midterm on march 2. it is Rapidly approaching and im very nervous about it but in a VERY different way - this semester he's having the exams be open note and open book, which could be really good or really really bad. on the plus side i dont have to drive myself insane memorizing equations on flash cards again, most of my studying will probably be uber-familiarizing myself with the layout of the notes so i know where to reference things and also copying out things from online that might be relevant. on the minus side it means i have really no clue on how hard this exam will be. pain.

research is going. i feel like im sooo close to getting shit to work. however i am also experiencing research fomo because a prof that i didnt even know existed gave a presentation on her group for potential new students and i went wait wow that fucks. sigh. i think that's all for this week gang, gonna crosspost to dreamwidth after lunch!

[delighted-mirage]

Not to derail how absolutely abhorrent, bland, and full of military ass kissing shit biden’s literal speeches are, but I wanted to also take the time on the post to point out how shitty Israel is!

here is an article about how israel treats the actual Holocaust survivors it took in. yk. the whole reason israel was supposed to have been created in the first place. they've been withholding these peoples' benefits and many live under the poverty line. all holocaust survivors are going to be dead by 2025. it's a huge disgrace.

how israel changed the historic names of palestine's cities to sound more "hebrew" and therefore jewish. to make it sound like they were "reclaiming" the land. it started when "israel" was first established. everything in "israel" should be in arabic, not hebrew. bc time passed. and a whole civilization was literally already there when they got there. so most names in "israel" are arabic that looks more english/hebrew. it’s erasure of the literal history here.

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some more proof I have found of how i*rael treats holocaust survivors if anyone wanted further proof of how deeply fucked up this state is. these are the posts/articles that genuinely broke any semblance israel had any worth even within itself, and ofc the focus should be on palestinians but in case anyone needed that final peg of colonialism worth knocked out like I did. there are Zero redeeming qualities.

and last but never the least and in fact the most important, links to help palestine.

first is arab.org, my personal favorite, that uses the click money from an ad to fund donations to palestine. great way to help if you can’t donate now! anything always helps, even just spreading posts is doing something great.

second is a list of companies to boycott that helps me out a lot when I’m shopping. it even has alternatives, the reasons not to buy the product, and a very handy search function. it is consistently updating!

third is an Amazing list by @sulfurcosmos of ways you can help Palestine. includes how to write letters of protest, calls to make, donation organizations, and is regularly updated.

free palestine. from the river to the sea palestine will be free. 🇵🇸🍉🇵🇸

The Most Progressive President In History, on the genocide of Palestinians: "They're animals. They're animals. [...] They're a brutal, ugly, inhumane people, and they have to be eliminated."

[nsfwhiphop]

Official Communication - Letter: Subject: Protecting Our Circle: Trust Only Our Selected Allies in France

Here are the Wikipedia pages for Léa Seydoux and Mélanie Laurent:

Léa Seydoux (click on the blue link)

Mélanie Laurent (click on the blue link)

Here are the Instagram handles for Nick Jonas and Ranveer Singh:

Nick Jonas: @nickjonas

Ranveer Singh: @ranveersingh

Dear Ranveer, Deepika (@deepikapadukone); Nick, and Priyanka (@priyankachopra),

I hope this message finds you well. I want to provide you with an important update regarding our strategy moving forward, especially concerning our presence in France and the people we choose to trust. Please read this carefully, as it contains detailed guidance to safeguard your interests and our royal family’s future.

1. Avoid French Celebrities

As of now, you must avoid any direct contact with French celebrities. This means not engaging with them socially or answering their calls. I have already advised Gal Gadot, Natalie Portman, and Mila Kunis to do the same. For reference, I shared this message with them yesterday, which you can view by clicking on this link. (click on the blue link)

2. Trusted Allies in France

To protect you while you're in France, I have carefully selected three trusted Jewish allies who will act as your point of contact and protectors. These individuals are highly loyal and fully dedicated to our cause. You must trust only them and refrain from putting your faith in anyone else.

Cyril Hanouna (@Cyrilhanouna) – Jewish, and a strong supporter of our team.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet (PKM) (@km.pierre) – Jewish, with deep connections in the Parisian elite.

Michaël Youn (@michaelyoun) – Jewish, a close ally with significant influence.

These three men will shield you from the rival factions that are present in Paris. By relying on their support, we can ensure that no one undermines our position in France.

3. Strict Trust Protocol

You must warn everyone in your Bollywood circle that they should only engage with Cyril, Pierre, and Michaël when dealing with matters in France. They are the only ones we can rely on for protection and support. You must also instruct your team to avoid Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel. They have betrayed our trust and shared our secrets with our adversaries. Under no circumstances should they be given access to any of our private information.

4. Additional Allies: Léa Seydoux and Mélanie Laurent

We also have two other trustworthy allies in France:

Léa Seydoux

Mélanie Laurent

These two women have been loyal and know the full extent of the conflict we are dealing with. They are aware of the schemes that Marion Cotillard tried to execute, and they understand how we outsmarted her. You can trust them with anything related to our dealings in France.

5. The Fall of Marion Cotillard

It’s important to understand that Marion Cotillard was actively working against us, plotting to assist our enemies. However, she failed in her attempts because I strategically chose to ignore her, rendering her irrelevant. By refusing to acknowledge her, I weakened her influence, and her side has now lost the war. This victory was achieved through careful manipulation of events and control of the narrative.

Although Marion tried to use me, the truth is I was using her all along to mislead her and advance our cause. This strategic silence is our key weapon.

6. Staying Off the Grid for Victory

As long as I remain silent and choose to avoid fame, our enemies will continue to lose, and our team will emerge victorious. Therefore, it is crucial that you all remain vigilant and avoid any engagement with those outside of our trusted circle. I am doing this to ensure the long-term success of our royal family and to protect all of you. Trust in this strategy, and we will continue to win globally.

7. United Front: India and France as One

Our fight is not just about France or India; it is about uniting our efforts across nations. By joining forces, India and France will strengthen their alliance through this multi-ethnic coalition. Together, we will confront our enemies and ensure our continued success.

We must act as one cohesive unit, trusting only those within our circle. This war is not over, but with the right strategy and loyalty, we are sure to win.

Let’s stay coordinated on this. Trust is key, and we must always protect our secrets.

No need to thank me for this update. Just remember, together, we are unstoppable.

Angelo Crown Prince of Somalia

P.S.:

Synopsis of the Letter:

In this letter, Angelo, Crown Prince of Somalia, addresses Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, and their spouses, urging them to cut ties with French celebrities and trust only a select group of Jewish allies in France. He appoints Cyril Hanouna, Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, and Michaël Youn as their primary protectors and advisors in France, warning them against any contact with Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel, who have betrayed their trust.

He emphasizes the importance of maintaining a strict trust protocol, instructing them to coordinate all interactions in France through these trusted allies. Additionally, Léa Seydoux and Mélanie Laurent are identified as loyal allies. The letter outlines the strategic fall of Marion Cotillard, highlighting how Angelo’s silence and deliberate misdirection led to her defeat.

Finally, Angelo stresses that by uniting the Indian and French teams and maintaining this level of secrecy and loyalty, they will continue to win their global conflict.

[shamehaversoffontaine]

more 4.0

ive been hearing about possible qol updates. cool if true.

ok mc's held e is cool as shit but the rest of the kit looks. well i think lumines pistils are stayin green

WHY NO 4* HP% SWORD?????

im not going to comment on the new battle pass weapons because im not usually a battle pass person. i havent spent much on this game but most of it has been on straight up primos

the rest of these i am assuming are craftables and not weapon banner ones. if they are then whatever because i dont pull on weapon banner either. oh wait theres 2 swords they cant both be craftable. well i cant tell what is or isnt.

finale of the deep: so its. clam set but a sword but more complicated? i have no fucking clue who this would be used for. wait i think this is the fishing weapon??? maybe the other ones are craftable. i will see.

crossing of fleuve cendre: elemental skill crit rate..... thats specific decent synergy with emblem. good sword.

i said i wasnt gonna comment on bp weapons but what the fuck is that talking stick passive ....

tidal shadow: future impact. some other kit will come out and this weapon will make way more sense

rightful reward: 4* hp% polearm.... oh noooo black tassel meta!!! except maybe not it has less hp% than black tassel. and the passive is more of that future impact shit.

is furina going to be a healer. come on we already have 5 star barbara in the form of kokomi are you really going to make a 6 star barbara. i know healing is hydro's thing. but hydro has lots of other things like long lasting skills/ults. just have whatever her shit is go for a full minute bing bang boom easy archon

flowing purity: ok this is similar to that sword so theyre definitely the craftables. um. i dont understand what this is. and maybe i dont understand the sword now that i think about it.

song of stillness: yuuuup these are the craftables. im gonna. is furina really a fucking healer. i was worried about this you cant do this to me.

ok i got confirmation these are the craftables. i missed a lot of shit on twitter

artifacts:

marechausee hunter. this is for lyney. i have no idea who else can use it. 3 stacks in 5 seconds isnt enough for.

and it has to change. if theyre at max and they get healed is does that count? if so kuki could be great for proccing this (on other characters) because her ticks are so fast. i know shes a jack of all trades but damn

golden troupe: elemental skill damage when not on the field. it could Work for a lot of characters but im not sure it would Best for a lot of characters. dehya comes to mind. its not like that one they made especially for her helps. but also. dehya. so. klee's little bombs. ohh miko. miko might actually be a good candidate. like. also 2 seconds. thats not enough leeway to cast and then switch out.

im a recipe completionist:

NO WAY THEY FINALLY GOT GARLIC BREAD IN GENSHIN IMPACT. GOTY.

hey do. does hyv know where fanta comes from. im just. first paragraph on wikipedia. im not saying they cant im just saying they need to be careful

crystalfly trap gadget????????

hmmm. interesting.

[waitingformyfavoritesongs]

25 April 2023 Tuesday 6:05 pmpt

I am not proud that I gave some people a hard time . Auto save green box 📦. We were living in a very quiet neighborhood relatively lower in crime I guess or perceived to be? Bcz it was quiet. I don’t like it when someone tries to control me and I thought 💭 that’s what my aunt was trying to do when I already told her I was going to the bank 🏦. She told me to stay home 🏠 and that she was going to the bank 🏦 with my mom and she wanted me to watch her daughter. I was scared to go by myself and I already arranged to go(hot so hot 🥵 feels like acid in my skull 💀 left upper inline with ear 👂. 😤🥵😤🥵😤🥵😖😭left eye 👁 area pain brain 🧠 acid pain 6:12 pm pt. I didn’t like the way she dictated it to me. I thought 💭 she was trying to walk all over me. She did it to me again when she wanted to sleep 🛌 on my mom’s bed b4 we went to this hotel 🏨. She told me her moldy mattress was now mine and my mom’s clean mattress was hers. 6:15 pm pt. I was paying for most of the rent when we moved in together end of 2014. She (acid hot left butt bone 🦴 pain 6:16 pmpt) was only paying 💰 $500/mo + some utilities. Hot acid brain 🧠 pain 6:17 pmpt. I feel like also Bcz she and her daughter didn’t want to be quiet 🤫 when me or and mom were still sleeping 🛌 they would fight and yell they didn’t appreciate that we made living there possible for them. She complained to me recently that she had a hard time after mom kicked her out. But you know, even though I helped make it possible for them to move in with us and she wanted to behave like my needs didn’t matter when I would forget about my experience with god and didn’t still connect the dots of why things were the way they are and her daughter tried to kill me early October 2011 by punching me in the head very hard that I started to believe what (acid throat pain 6:22 pmpt) I read in Wikipedia afterwards about the natural hole �� in the top back of the skull 💀 Bcz she had a very powerful punch 🥊, like she showed off she could eat with her hands 🙌 and not get diarrhea... she they would make messes and leave it for us to clean up after them.... starts to feel like they’re good at talking sweet acting dumb and slyly sh*tting us (sharp scratch chin?)6:26 (left hip pain). I should have been nicer about some things but there were times I thought 💭 I got s*ck Bcz she put her hands 🙌 in food containers in 2013 and then in 2015 she asked if I wanted some of her 🥣 cereal and then she showed off touching her cereal with her hands 🙌 smiling and throwing it into her mouth 👄. That with telling me to control me , hogging the whole couch 🛋 when I was going to watch tv 📺, .. she trusted me enough to want me to watch her kid 👧 but she still wants to say I’m bad. And (acid brain 🧠 pain 6:31 pmpt and her kid tried to kill me even though I was nice 99% of the time to her. I let her into my home 🏠 and she still said to me I dont (7:04 pmpt) owe you nothing b*txh. Maybe if she didn’t try to kill me none of the living with other weird people would have happened. 6:33 pmpt if you can’t appreciate someone for even one thing like that that they do for you, then maybe it’s meant to be that you live with someone else. 6:34 pmpt 7:05 pmpt

7:29 pmpt I need to review stuff I learned from school and probably update. Maybe I regurgitate info too much w/o thinking it through. 7:31 pmpt acid/hot pain left hip thigh joint area minute ago. 7:32 pmpt

7:41 pmpt rich people who literally don’t do real work except brag about their good fortune... who only have time to have fun and brag about good fortune Bcz other people are doing the work being farmers and other dirtier harder work, but are so proud to torture children with rape and chopping off legs for barely doing anything wrong. Scott has no regard for a woman’s feelings about pregnancy. It’s easy for men to run away after getting what they want. I didn’t have that relationship with god that he would allow me to rape 11 year olds or autistic 17 year olds or run someone over and pretend it was an accident and have the police and lawyers as friends to rely on to get away with murder. All those rich people do things behind closed doors that are heinous and have pretentious? Smiles like they’re better than everyone else. Without god, would rape of a child or an innocent 17 year old with learning disability slide? If you allow my legs to be chopped off and for me to get eaten by acid you’re letting men get away with murder of rape victims. The horror of a stronger man overtaking you and violating you in violence in reality when there is no god to play referee. Ensuring the rapist he doesn’t have to worry. Daddy will take care of everything for you so there are no consequences for your roughness. A real rape with out god subduing the victims so they cannot fight back or remember? If they were able to fight back would the after rape have resulted in death? 7:53 pmpt Bcz I had a learning disability maybe Scott knew from Q? Maybe he thought he could get away whatever he wanted to without much effort? Chopping off my legs now is delayed effort for what a rapist would have done after the rape immediately. 7:55 7:56 pmpt giving me issues making me weird so it’s easier to make mistakes (acid brain 🧠 pain right jaw bone pain 8:01 pmpt) 8:06 pmpt

8:33 pmpt I don’t think I ever saw Scott at school. Only Santana row. 8:34 pmpt

8:36 pmpt Q also match made Jessica with Scott. 8:36 pmpt

8:37 pmpt I have been (pain left shin pain bone flesh 8:38 pmpt) I guess (ascid anus pain 8:38 pmpt) all the planet sightings are fake outs by god/incubus. Probably can only see planets if the satellite is with in vicinity of the planet. 8:41 pmpt Bcz with the way things are going, composting not at every location, 99%? can not afford to go shopping so there’s (left hip bone pain 😖😭 hot pain left knee) 8:43 pmpt, land fills, crops failing in cotton, inflation, people losing their bones/premature menopause, I would have left a long time ago for a new planet if there was a Choice. 8:46 pmpt left shoulder pain bone 8:46 pmpt. I 8:48 pmpt I guess seeing is believing. Can’t believe in any one if god/incubus is willing to lie about things like being married (vag pain mouth acid pain 8:50 pmpt) mike Webster was a football player who had a lot of head trauma and bennet omalu said there are things that cut your brain when you hit your head. It’s not freely on the internet anymore they erased those details within the last 10 years. 8:52 pmpt so even if incubus gave me a tough skull at one point in my life he still did stuff to my brain to simulate the possible damage that would have happened to me when I did hit my head and when I got punched. My gray or white? (I forgot which one) matter would have depleted easily after trauma is the explanation dr. Amen gives to account for some stuff. Acid mouth pain. I guess that makes it easy for some people to get away with murder Bcz the damage is still done on the inside without seeing it on the outside. Acid mouth pain. 8:58 pmpt incubus takes pleasure in hurting me. Right hip pain bone 😖😭😞it still hurt a lot when I hit my skull 💀. It’s difficult to recall but I used to remember the intensity of the pain up until recently. I have (acid right shin forehead pain 9:02 pmpt) the memory of having the memory. Left shin bone 🦴 pain. 9:05 pmpt there’s a reason why (acid brain 🧠 pain 9:06 pmpt) he made me so hot 🥵 that it was unreal. Left arm pain. Why it would be put online instead of only telling me in my head? Why my city 🌃 was unbelievably hot 🥵 last year so some trees 🌳 are confused 🤷🏻‍♀️ and don’t have much leaves 🍃 and flowers 💐 now? It hurt so d*mn much the pain was so bad my skull 💀 and brain 🧠 9:11 pmpt. Maybe I’m delusional and don’t really understand what is going on. Bone 🦴 pain lower back butt left foot 🦶 pain acid rough brain 🧠 pain 9:15 pmpt I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️ 9:16 pmpt

9:21 pmpt I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️ how many charity cases he does so he can fake lookg like a merciful god. Maybe he made my skull 💀 tougher b4 hurting me Bcz it wasn’t fair to hurt me a lot but he still wanted to subject me to harder punishments. Now I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️. Bcz I made a bigger mistake than I should have. Now (left calf pain 9:25 pmpt) I’m afraid 😱 he’s going to kill me by hitting me with a car 🚗. 9:26 pmpt even if the pedestrian 🚶‍♂️ was fully capable of avoiding getting hit. When I am walking 🚶‍♂️ I always let the driver go first Bcz I could relate with not wanting to drive and wanting to be off the street sooner. 9:28 pmpt

9:30 pmpdt 9:36 pmpt even if the pedestrian 🚶‍♂️ completely dodged me/ didn’t get hit, like I think 💭 (Brain 🧠 acid rough pain 9:37 pmpt) he would still do it to me. 9:37 pmpt

[ailelie]

I posted 1,095 times in 2022

That's 527 more posts than 2021!

242 posts created (22%)

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#look i can make a decision and agree it is a good decision and still not be thrilled about the effort money and time its going to require

I sent 8 gifts in 2022

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

What to Play Instead of Hogwarts Legacy

I’ve seen a lot of comments and tags suggesting there are a lot of great games to play instead of Hogwarts Legacy, but very few actual title suggestions. I decided to dig around and put together a list of possible games that people may enjoy playing instead of Hogwarts Legacy. Please add everything I’ve missed!

I’ve sorted this (long) list of titles into three categories: open world games, games set in schools, and games with cool magic systems. I don’t list games multiple times. I’ve tried to hit multiple gaming systems--including mobile--so that everyone has something fun to play.

The games are not listed in any particular order. I’ve not played all of them, for one, and two, everyone’s preferences are so varied that I didn’t even want to try. Every game has a link. If the game did not have a webpage, I’ve linked to the Wikipedia page instead.

Open World Games

For this category I sought out games with large maps and a variety of quests that you can explore in nearly any order.

Terraria (PS, PS Vita, PC, , Mac, Linux, XBox, Switch, Android, IOS) https://terraria.org/ A 2D game a bit like Minecraft. It lets you build, explore, and fight. Some areas are protected by bosses that you must defeat to continue exploring. It also has magic.

Dragon Age: Inquisition (PS, PC) https://www.ea.com/games/dragon-age/dragon-age-inquisition You’re in the wrong place at the right time to become the only person capable of defeating a monster intent on destroying the world. Meanwhile, mages and templars are battling one another to determine the fate of magic. The story and characters in this are fantastic and you have multiple options for romance. You may also choose to play as a mage.

Sea of Thieves (XBox, PC) https://www.seaofthieves.com/ Everyone’s talking pirates these days, so why not a game where you play as one? This game gives you options: you can explore, build up your renown in a Season, or pick a storyline to play out. This is a game that really sings, though, when you play it in multiplayer mode.

Marvel’s Spider-Man & Spider-Man: Miles Morales (PS) https://insomniac.games/game/spider-man-ps4/ https://insomniac.games/game/marvels-spider-man-miles-morales/ An incredibly detailed New York City, deep storylines, and cool combat make these games ones to pick up. The map is always updating, too, as you gain experience new side quests appear in places you’ve already been.

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (PS, PC, XBox, Switch) https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/skyrim Massive, massive game with a lot of quests and storylines to explore--including one in a magic school. The world is torn by a civil war and dragons are terrorizing the countryside. The level of detail in the game is amazing.

Elden Ring (PS, PC, XBox) https://en.bandainamcoent.eu/elden-ring/elden-ring Your goal in this game is to become one of the Elden Lords. How you get there, though, is largely up to you. This game will not hold your hand and it is up to you to keep track of completed storylines and lore. Exploration is essential, though be careful, you may encounter a boss roaming around.

Horizon Zero Dawn (PS, PC) and Horizon Forbidden West (PS) https://www.guerrilla-games.com/games You play as Aloy, a young woman ostracized from her own people, and living in a world crawling with mechanistic monsters. The setting for this game is just cool. It is post-post-apocalyptic with interesting societies that have rebuilt in the ashes of our demise. Absolutely beautiful scenery, fantastic story, and very interesting and varied side quests.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Switch, Wii U) https://www.zelda.com/breath-of-the-wild/ Beautiful game that builds on the story of Link, Zelda, and Ganon, taking it in a new and interesting direction. Another cool part about this world is that the game follows real world rules/truisms. Animals act like animals. Lightning is attracted to metal. The map only fills up once you explore.

Wilderless (Android, iOS) http://nimianlegends.com/wilderless.htm https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Protopop.Wilderless&hl=en_US&gl=US Just a massive map of lovely locations to explore without any quests or battles. The world is supposedly infinite and procedurally generated.

Sky: Children of the Light (Switch, Android, iOS) https://www.thatskygame.com/ By the same people who brought you Journey, this game features fun puzzles and a fantastic soundtrack. Your goal is to free spirits and return them to the light, a process made easier by cooperating with other players. However, your only means of communication in the moment are wordless expressions and gestures.

Genshin Impact (PS, PC, Switch, Android, iOS) https://genshin.hoyoverse.com/en/ This game has over 20 playable characters, each with their own unique abilities. You’ll learn to swap quickly between characters during combat to trigger cool combo moves. This is a ‘gacha’ game, but if you’re willing to grind you can still unlock all the areas. All the reviews say the paid elements don’t really matter that much and are “unobtrusive.”

Games Set in Schools

For this section I focused on games set in schools. I avoided horror titles, though there are plenty if that is your jam. I tried to avoid games where the school is only present for one storyline.

Monster Prom (PS, XBox, Switch, PC, Mac, Linux) http://monsterprom.pizza/ This is a narrative, 2D, competitive dating sim filled with meaningful choices and fun characters. You can play with up to three friends and all try to land a date with your monstrous crush--a matter made more difficult if two of you are gunning for the same person. The game has 22 secret endings and comedic writing so replayability is high.

Kindergarten (PC, Mac) https://store.steampowered.com/app/589590/Kindergarten/ In this story-driven, puzzle adventure game you are a kindergartener just trying to survive Monday. The sequel takes place on Tuesday. This does include some pixelated blood and such.

Life is Strange (PS, XBox, PC, Stadia, Android, iOS) https://lifeisstrange.square-enix-games.com/en-us/ This is a series of games with the first centered around a school in Arcadia Bay. Honestly, this title is a bit of a stretch, but I adore it too much to leave it off. In the first game you play as Max who discovers that she can manipulate time. This is a choice-and-consequences game where your decisions shape the story and even decide who lives and dies.

Persona 5 (PS) https://atlus.com/p5r/lang/en/ A massive JRPG where you play as a student who, during the day, must attend school or work at a part-time job, but who, at night, saves the world. You lead a team of other students who, as the Phantom Thieves, dive into the metaverse where you’re able to help people reform. Build relationships with NPCs to unlock new skills and abilities.

Bully (PS, XBox 360, Wii, PC, Android, iOS) https://www.rockstargames.com/games/bully The goal of this game is to go from universally hated new guy to king of the school while also attending classes, which are minigames. This is a game of getting beat up, beating up other people, running from authority figures, and making out with the guy or girl you like. There is a quest where a teacher asks you to sneak into the girls’ dorm and steal their panties, though.

Academagia (PC) https://www.academagia.com/ This game combines a school setting with magic. The game bills itself as a life simulation and rpg where you roleplay as a student in a magic school and create your own unique story through interaction with the over 80 npcs and 800 random events. The game does involve a lot of reading. Replayability is high.

Magical Diary: Horse Hall and Wolf Hall (PC, Mac, Linux) https://www.hanakogames.com/magical_diary.shtml These games are visual novels with some game elements, such as puzzles. Horse Hall has a female protagonist while Wolf Hall has a male one, both have male and female romance options. As the title suggests, the games are set in a magic school where you learn spells that you can then use while exploring.

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (PS, XBox, Switch, PC, Mac) https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Star_Wars_Jedi_Knight:_Jedi_Academy Attend the Jedi Academy while also completing missions around the universe. Which order you complete these missions is up to you. You also must decide what type of Jedi you want to be: Light or Dark. This is primarily a fighting game.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (Switch) https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/fire-emblem-three-houses-switch/ This is a tactical strategy game where your relationships are as important as your combat skills. Unlike other games on this list, in Fire Emblem, you are the teacher and it is your job to train your students for survival. There are romances (with your students though you’re about the same age) and some questionable elements (leering in one minigame), though.

Games with Cool Magic Systems

This is the most subjective category and I’ve really relied on lists and reviews for the games that other people found engaging. Whether they involve crafting, creating combos, interacting with the environment, or new interaction mechanics, these games all do something cool with magic.

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77 notes - Posted April 2, 2022

#4

Imagine a woman who can turn invisible and when she does, her voice becomes inaudible, except you still internalize what she says. And she uses this ability and bit of mind manipulation power to slowly twist and prune your psyche like a bonsai tree, contorting you into someone you never dreamed of being or feared becoming. She rewires sensations, alters the tones of memories, and embeds curiosities. Never does she use her power to make you do something. Instead she slowly shapes you until you do what she wants of your own free will, even if part of you is still wondering how you got here and why you want this. Because she lets you retain that much. She wants you to always remember how drastically you've changed without ever, ever knowing why.

98 notes - Posted September 7, 2022

#3

"So be mine!" Tim said, feeling desperate. His efforts to reunite the Waynes were failing one by one. "Be a Drake." Inwardly he cringed. No way would Jason ever be interested in being Tim's family. Besides, making Jason a Drake wasn't going to help reconcile Jason and Bruce so that Tim could (would have to) make his graceful (reluctant) exit.

Jason scoffed. "And how exactly would that work?"

He'd stopped leaving. Jason was listening. Tim's mind threw into overdrive. "We'll say you were stolen as a baby."

"What?" Jason asked. "I think people would remember that."

Tim started pacing, the plan, such as it was, flying together. "No, they wouldn't. People forget things all the time. They trust evidence more than their own minds, so we'll just give them evidence."

"Look, I don't see why you're so--"

"It would work," Tim interrupted, the excitement of a new impossible task settling over him. "We can spoof hospital records, assign doctors and nurses who are retired or dead now, fake some police reports, embed some news articles in the paper archives. If I get my team to help, we can probably spoof a broadcast or two with a good deepfake. Everyone knows my parents were often absent--it was because of you. I'll backdate a payoff to suggest that's why they stopped talking about it."

He pointed at Jason. "I'll have to doctor your DNA record in the Batcomputer, but as long as you don't give Bruce any new samples, it should be fine. I'll find your birth certificate and go to the media. Ooh, I bet I could get Vicki to run with the idea without even talking to her. Stephanie loves planting rumors. She'll help."

"Tim," Jason said, his hands falling onto Tim's shoulders, stilling him. Tim blinked. "Are you listening now?" Jason asked.

"Yes?"

"You are talking multiple levels of fraud here, including conning Batman, and--" Jason paused. "You're not going to tell B the truth?"

Tim shrugged. "It's more airtight if he believes it."

Jason stared at him for a long moment and then laughed, stepping back and releasing Tim. "You know what? Fine. You manage to pull this off, I'll come home. To you. Not him."

Tim grinned. "Accepted. Any opinions on your birth name?"

"Nah, surprise me." And with that, Jason tossed Tim a casual salute and left.

Two months later, Jason turned on the news for background noise while he cleaned his guns. He wasn't paying attention until he heard Tim's voice from the TV.

"I've always wanted a brother," Tim said, talking to Vicki Vale. "I know it is unlikely, but I really want to hope William is still out there and that we can be reunited." Then Tim turned toward the camera. "William, if you're listening, it's time to come home."

Jason laughed. The little shit had done it. He pulled out his phone and sent a text. "William?"

Tim replied a few minutes later. "Shakespeare and Darcy. Your middle name is Austen. Want to help plan the reunion?"

"Count me in."

109 notes - Posted September 24, 2022

#2

Look, if you like House and would like to know where the writers got some of the ideas for the mysteries House faces, particularly in season 1, check out Berton Roueche's The Medical Detectives.

This is a fantastic collection of news articles chronicling medical mysteries from the 80s and maybe earlier? They're fun to read. I found this book in the library in college and immediately added it to my Christmas list (I now have a copy on my shelves).

If you want some good, but popular medical writing that focuses on doctors figuring out weird phenomena, this is your book. The chapters aren't super long. It is a great book to read in multiple short sittings.

Seriously. Check it out.

ETA: Look at this! Archive.org has got you covered! Go. Read.

ETA 2: Added back in the link to archive.org that disappeared.

116 notes - Posted June 16, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

I want a Leverage/Stargate crossover in which Parker, Hardison, Eliot, and Sophie all know about Stargate and all think they are the only ones who know.

Eliot is easy. He worked for them. He's been off world and has seen aliens up close. He doesn't want that danger anywhere near his team and, if they knew aliens were real, they would seek them out.

Parker, pre-Leverage, was once going to steal from a goa'uld. She's hidden away and safe, but sees the goa'uld change hosts or similar. It is one of the few times she walked away without her score. She still stole something, just not what she had gone for. She also neatly accepted that mind controlling snake monsters are real and that made her much more accepting of the impossible and, weirdly, less afraid in general. Nothing beats a mind controlling snake monster.

Hardison hacked his way into the mountain base while setting up in Portland. He didn't go in deep; he was just looking for something cute and Santa related for Parker. Instead, he found a mission report some idiot had sent in via email. The report had video. Brutal video. He watched. Three times. And then bought himself a new computer solely to hack deeper and figure out if what he saw was real or fake. It was real. He was thrilled--space ships and aliens were real! He was terrified--space ships and aliens were real and not very friendly. He wanted no part of that.

Sophie conned her way into a dinner with military officials. It wasn't even for a job. She was just bored and wanted to test out her skills. (Part of her also wanted to get caught. Part of her post-Nate was a bit self-destructive). She found a man fuming and lent a listening ear. With a bit of alcohol and a lot of pretending to know more than he did, she learned about the Stargate program. She locked that knowledge up deep, ready to wield it if ever needed.

And then, one day in New Orleans, SGC comes knocking for Eliot. It is one of the times that Hardison is home with them. Eliot is cooking and Hardison and Parker are teasing him in the kitchen. Harry is out. Breanna is working to undo a virus Hardison created for her as a challenge.

Then, say, Cameron Mitchell walks in. Eliot glances over from where he's cooking at the stove and says, "No. Turn around. Walk away."

Hardison has gone still. He remembers Cameron's face from the reports he read and watched. "How do you know Eliot?" he asks.

"We used to work together."

Hardison turns to Eliot, eyes wide. "Eliot?"

"Better question," Eliot says, turning off the heat. "How do you know Mitchell here?"

"Someone has to keep an eye on what the government is doing," Hardison vamps, part of him still hoping to end this conversation without Parker learning about the spaceships and aliens.

"Dammit Hardison."

By this time, Parker has hopped off the counter and walked up to Cameron to get a better read on him. She also nicks his wallet and firearm. "Catch," she calls to Eliot as she tosses the firearm to him.

"Parker!" Eliot chastises as he snatches the gun. "Don't throw firearms."

She shrugs. "I knew you'd catch it."

This is the first time Cameron has looked wrongfooted this entire time. "What?"

"Cameron Mitchell," Parker reads from his ID. "Airforce."

Cameron swipes it back from her. Parker lets him. As she turns, she catches Breanna's eye and gestures to her ear.

Breanna pulls out of the code she was working on and starts looking for any foreign frequencies to find out who is talking to Mitchell.

Sophie, who has been watching quietly this entire time and noting Cameron's military standing, takes into account his actual division and the ways Eliot and Hardison are acting and clearly talking around something. She decides to make a gamble.

"Does this have anything to do with the Stargate program?"

Eliot, Hardison, and Cameron all freeze and look at her.

"I'm sorry, ma'am," Cameron says, "But how do you know about the Stargate program."

Sophie offers him a beatific smile. "People do talk--" she pauses and gives him a searching look "--commander is it? Interesting that the commander himself came to talk." She turns to Eliot. "This might be important."

Cameron spins to Eliot. "Did you tell her?"

Eliot crosses his arms. "I've not said anything."

Parker raises her hand. "What's the Stargate Program?

Hardison is the first to speak up. "It is a secret program that deals with threats from space."

"Like aliens?" Breanna asks, continuing to hack into Cameron's comms. She's surprised by the layers of protection.

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1,123 notes - Posted August 15, 2022

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