#because that's just going to get redundant

[siflooping]

part 2 siffrin edition lets go! this is just random thoughts about how normal theyd be about this :)

listen. in a situation where post-timeloops loopie comes along w the party. can you IMAGINE the sheer Siffrin Pear Wriggler it'd be for him (assuming they know loop is an ex-sif). the guilt of learning they caused the loops (and you know his ass would find a way to make it his fault that loop was stuck as well) that made one of their family members to suffer to the point of having a mental breakdown. probably Ruminate (extreme) about the fact that he was made by the universe to fulfill loop's wish. a placeholder for the real thing. are they even a real person? or even a human being, really? YKNOW. i just think it would prolly Actively Feed their tendency to dehumanize themselves.

and on top of that there's no way they wouldn't feel redundant bc well there's another siffrin right here who was there for their family member during the timeloop and helped them escape! who is stronger mentally and physically/craftwise! who doesn't forget everything all the time! who is helpful and funny and charming and actually really considerate and sweet under their Teehee I'm The Sassy Giggleerrrrrrr behavior!

wow! there's no point to the Clearly Worse Siffrin that is them staying around anymore! or existing for that matter! because surely it's only a matter of time before his family realize he's worthless! and start wishing he'd realize he's imposing, that he's unwanted, and just leave already!

tbh idk what they'd actually DO with those emotions (besides bottling them up and berating himself for feeling that way, because that's selfish and they have no right to Feel Some Kind Of Way when their family member is suffering). I DO think it'd make it extra funny when they end up getting super attached to and developing feelings for loop. add to the fact that loop and sif are both very clingy + loop's weird possessiveness towards sif + sif prolly feeling like his existence alone is something horrible that was inflicted upon loop + the envy/bitterness they both feel towards each other due to feeling like their family is being stolen from them by the other...

by the king's frozen asscheeks... imagine the sheer Destruction the inevitable explosion of that particular cocktail of emotions will cause. nuclear bomb levels of devastation 34 dead 788 wounded. FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! <3

ok wait you know what'd be interesting and more importantly hilarious. sifloop, but in an au where someone else from the party is looping. can you fucking imagine

[twopoppies]

Hi Gina. Hope you are doing good! I just wanted to put something out there that has been discussed before but I just saw something that brought it back. So I dabble a bit in F1 and one of the first things you get to know is about all the ships fans have between the drivers. And what was apparent to me was that the official team social media accounts sometimes sort of play into it. like for instance very recently a moment between Sainz and Leclerc at a photoshoot was literally shared and pointed out on the Ferrari IG. And this happens in other fandoms too like with Supernatural and so many other fictional and non-fictional people. What I am getting at is, if "Larry" was not a thing and just a crazy fan theory, why don't they just laugh it off like others seem to do? Logically there is no reason to go to the lengths they have gone to, to deny/hide that they are even friends. I know it's redundant at this point, but I keep coming back to this point every time I try to breakdown this shit show. Atleast now it seems (even if temporary) that Harry and Louis have found what works for them.

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We've been saying it for years. All it did was make Harry and Louis look homophobic and give people a reason to believe that Larry was/is real. The fact that even now, they don't interact and barely mention each other is so ridiculous. If they'd approached it normally way back when, Larry would never have become such a thing.

But it's clear they couldn't approach it normally because HL were so starry-eyed over each other that they could never have played off an actual platonic friendship.

[ripplestitchskein]

I think I’ve landed somewhere in the middle on how much Stolas was *consciously* increasing the Imp/Demon Royalty divide? On the one hand he could just be playing it up and getting real into character because he’s a dramatic bitch, on the other he seems to be speaking directly to the camera and choosing his words carefully for maximum potential and words are kind of his thing. And while his acceptance of people throwing stuff on him could be just how sad and in shock he is, but he says “It’s fine” with like an acceptance that just makes me think he knew what he was doing he just didn’t expect to live to face the consequences.

On the other hand his confession doesn’t actually make sense, which I believe is just another way to point out his privilege, he doesn’t even have to make sense and they believe him over the Imp and he escapes execution by nature of his birth. I can read it either as on the spot improv OR a plan that had to be put into action sooner than he realized.

Either way, he was doing as much as could for Blitz in what he thought would be his last moments. Which is lovely.

I still feel like they need to pay off the Prophecy aspect of his abilities though, they’ve dropped enough hints and this would be a perfect way to do that?? But I think there are just too many things that don’t line up for it to be a neat and tidy theory so I’m holding back on that until I get another indication that there is a longer game. The inclusion of the Circus and Stolas coming into his powers doesn’t make sense without Prophecy coming into play though? Otherwise it’s just redundant, which is still possible, sometimes shows are redundant.

The thing about analyzing a cartoon show is it’s impossible to know what is part of the animation, a fun throwaway, a joke/gag or something to take seriously that will actually be a part of the plot.

I definitely see us doing a role reversal in S2, and some potentially rocky conflicts between them as a result because they have some walking miles in each others shoes to do and that won’t be easy either way, but I’m holding out hope that Viv and team aren’t going full dark/sad/realistic with this long term. A story is best when the characters go through the wringer and up and down back and forth but end up where they need to be eventually.

I might just write it how it could play out. if I ever break free from my self imposed Christmas Craft Curse and have free time again.

[coolnonsenseworld]

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[melrosing]

anyway in an absolutely wild turn of events I think I’m free of my hideous job and like. substantially richer for it??? lmao 2023 you really owed me

[devilsskettle]

i hate that this website has location based ads now like it's one thing to promote the local grocery store chain to me but i am seeing ads for my workplace now :/

[falinscloaca]

one of the most important aspects to be learnt of being a political thinker online, a passive or active viewer of sociopolitical discourses and marginalization, is that just because you find someone to be “wrong” on a subject, have a bad take on a words definition or have shitty political/strategic takes, or just be fucking annoying to you personally, doesn’t make them stop being from the same marginalized group or group-of-groups as yourself. tragically sometimes a comrade-in-arms also just fucking sucks without it being a cishetero bourgeois psyop or a more-particularly-advantaged-yet-still-marginalized-group punching down. like there can be “self-hating” people from demographics actively trying to oppress said demographics but 9 times out of 10 Kaleb from My Discourses isn’t a Dennis Prager rubbing elbows with literal nazis he’s just that dipshit who thinks Judaism as a social category necessitates matrilineal affiliation (even though the people that actively hate Judaism as a social category don’t conceive of it as such). For example I mean.

this should really go without saying but good fucking god my own time in the ‘strangers with a word or two in common trying to kill each other online’ trenches neeeeded

[no1ryomafan]

I have said this before but me being self proclaimed number 1 Ryoma fan and that being possibly literal-bc even if this bro had fans before me I might’ve simply done the most for him by talking about him so much + being the first to write fics that are in depth studies on his trauma across canons-I gotta say if there’s one other character I rotate a lot that isn’t him it’s probably Kei. (Shocking it’s not Hayato even if I do think about him too- but it’s usually associated with Ryoma bc gays 🗿)

I’m not even exaggerating when I say Kei would be my favorite and only isn’t because she doesn’t exist in many other canons yet my brain rotates the endless possibilities of how to incorporate her. I’ve already written a fic where she’s in shin vs neo verse which worked surprisingly well but I’ve been thinking how universally she could appear in other things. (Whether it be fitting her into a idea of a possible Go team in New or just a new canon completely) I think what I’ve narrow it down to is that she could be like- in Michirus role? Like she’s the supporting female who isn’t a pilot but helps out the real occasionally which I think would align very well especially with the original manga role she has of being Hayato’s assistant. And even if Hayato isn’t grandpa mode yet he still very much is in Saotomes position at that point. Not sure if she’d Hayato’s biological kid to further parallel Saotome and Michiru given well Hayato already adopts the Go team and his wife is irrelevant LOL.

I have no idea if I’ll ever write this specific idea but I’m still- rotating it cause this is such a easy way to get around “picking between Sho or Kei as the 2nd pilot” since both of them can still exist even if one doesn’t get to pilot, idm my supporting females. (Granted there could always be like- plot line where Sho gets hurt so Kei is temporary pilot but I can’t remember if Getter ever really did this since “once your hurt your ass is basically replaced” lol)

[piningpercussionist]

Upped the queue rate from 10 to 15!

Two things while I'm here:

1) wallace and todd's ship name, for tagging? (I saw someone use vegan scollace once and I've been snickering ever since, but toddace is perhaps an obvious choice)

2) because i tag posts with the intention being that people can just. Come here and find stuff. Should I go back and tag screenshots and things in some fashion? Maybe separate ones for if a post will have a screenshot from the show or the movie? (Or game I guess! I haven't really seen many posts about the game specifically, though, I don't think)

[blujayonthewing]

[fstbmp-a]

Canon-divergence and making working icons impossible...

[slippery-minghus]

getting really tired of my new coworker's attitude. starting tomorrow, i'm taking a policy that if she wants me to teach her how to do something, she's gonna have to ask. no more politely checking if she knows how to do a task. no more watching as she does an uncommon thing. if she's gonna give me snark every time our communication styles mismatch, then i'm just going to remove one of the sources of that friction.

[viir-tanadhal]

thinking about neil recording demos a couple months before he met chris

[katvazamo]

i feel like im beating a dead horse so dont have to reblog just wanna get this off my chest i just realized that the watcher streaming service was the same price as a netflix account here . netflix has such a variety of content ranging from different languages and genres . the watcher streaming service was like if netflix only kept their originals (strange things,oitnb) and removed everything else. that comparison really puts things into perspective

[headspace-hotel]

im reading a lot of research about the mycorrhizal network because this is a HUGE emerging area of research and there is so much new stuff coming out its sooooo neat

So basically "the mycorrhizal network is how trees send each other nutrients and help each other" is wrong,

but the main reason people were mad at it—because they thought everything in the ecosystem is selfish and competitive acting for its own interests—is much wronger.

How come?

Well...fungi aren't just a postal service for trees. They have lives of their own! Plants aren't just controlling the mycorrhizal network to send nutrients where they want, they are communicating with the fungus and negotiating the terms of that relationship.

The genetic basis in plants for forming the mycorrhizal symbiosis is old. REALLY old. Like, "before plants even came onto land" OLD. Other forms of symbiosis, like what legumes have going on with the Rhizobia, are using the same genes to do their thing. There's a LOT of genes involved with creating the symbiosis, including some redundancies just to be safe, and we're only just now starting to understand them.

Why so many genes? What are all these genes for? Everything! Communication chemicals, hormones the other partner will respond to, flipping switches in the other partner's genes. There was a lot of arguing over which partner, the plant or the fungus, was "controlling" the partnership, but this question turned out to be total nonsense. Both symbionts have to recognize each other, respond to each other, prepare for symbiosis by adjusting how their genes are expressed, form the symbiosis, and continuously negotiate the relationship by exchanging chemical signals. Both can actively select the partner that offers the best benefits. There's even experiments where it's been shown that if the fungus turns parasitic, the plant will start secreting fungicidal chemicals. (But also the mutualist fungi in the experiment outcompeted the parasitic one when the pots were seeded with both.)

Mycorrhizal symbiosis is an incredibly intimate relationship. Like, the fungus produces special organs that literally grow inside the plant's cells, and the plant is actively participating in allowing this to happen. The plants and fungi have genes for hormones used by the other species, they have soooooo much stuff encoded in their DNA for interacting with their symbionts, it's like, blurring the lines for whether they're even separate organisms. There are SO many chemicals involved in communication between them and we only understand a few of those chemicals.

This is SO MUCH COOLER than if the plants were just using the fungus as a passive conduit to communicate with and support each other. The fungus is actively participating!

We were fools and assumed there had to be one partner that was "in control," but both plant AND fungus have to initiate and to some extent they're each engaging on their own terms! Or maybe it's better to think of them as one and the same organism?

We're also finding out that there's a lot more types of mycorrhizal symbiosis than we thought (at least five) and a lot more variety in how it works.

And that's not even getting into fungal endosymbionts—fungi that live inside plant cells completely instead of having part of them be outside and in the soil. They aren't considered mycorrhizae because they're fully inside the plant cells and not connected with any soil fungi network but they do a lot of complicated things we don't understand and interact with the plant's other symbionts.

Fungal endosymbionts produce a lot of chemicals that are useful to the plants in some way, and it turns out, that a lot of them kill cancer. Seriously, we've gotten a LOT of anti-cancer drugs from these guys. I think it's because they have to bypass the plant's immune system, but they also fight each other/other little guys that get inside plant cells, so they kind of...are part of the plant's immune system?

And what's MORE

Is that plants and fungus aren't the only things part of this system! There's also bacteria that are symbiotic with the plants and fungi! Even the endosymbiont fungi have bacteria that are endosymbionts inside THEM. Double endosymbiosis.

I think I read one paper saying the bacteria use the fungi to get around? Like that's how Rhizobia find their way to the legume roots in the first place? Have to double check that one

[leitmotif]

people who dump all of the group project work on the other three members of the group while claiming that you "made it easy for them" there is a special circle of hell waiting just for you