#boostrapping

[dispatchesfromtheclasswar]

[someobscurereference]

ive been rereading your ffxv fic "im trying hard to take it back" for literally four years now. please end my suffering and tell me how gladio feels. please. PLEASE. (but only if u want ofc)

(fic) Short answer: Gladio feels insane guilt and spends a lot of his life trying to make this up to Prompto. In the process, they deepen their connection as friends and do begin a relationship probably around the one-year mark of endless darkness. <3

Longer answer: (implications of abuse/violence tw but no worse than in the fic itself; just what others assume to be true even if it's not in the context of this specific fic)

Gladio is a secret romantic at heart who has always envisioned meeting his soulmate, but he's also duty-bound and duty comes first. So even though he reads romance books (amongst other types of books too) and indulges in his head a bit as many people do, he's often put his duty to the crown first and foremost in his mind. He also didn't imagine his soulmate was anyone on this trip and thought perhaps the person he may have been fated to meet died in the assault of Insomnia. Even if they were a refugee, they can't be a priority to him at this moment. His priority has to be Noctis.

Prompto has obviously grown on him over the course of their road trip, but there are aspects of them that don't 100% mesh (as is true with every realistic relationship). That said, Gladio never in a hundred years would want this moment of (understandable but out of line) frustration and anger in the wake of Luna and Altissa to be a permanent mark on Prompto's face. He's genuinely horrified and disgusted with himself for a long time after this and spends most of his life trying to make it up. He feels like a dirtbag about it.

That said, Prompto runs away from him in this moment and they need time to calm down, just as the fic shows. Noctis goes after Prompto, just like in canon. Prompto falls off the train and has his Despair Arc just like in the DLC, now with the added despair of "well, in addition to being a clone, my soulmate hates me. And in addition to the mark of inhumanity on my wrist (barcode), I have a giant hand print of him literally Shoving Me Away on my face. Forever."

Aranea: Well, do you want to die about it. Or do you want to live.

Prompto, eventually like in canon: Live, I guess. But it will be excruciating.

Aranea: That's what living is. We do it anyway. Your friends love you. Get off the floor.

He fights his way through his issues and gets rescued like in canon. Gladio probably tries to talk to him when they all catch up again, trying to apologize, and Prompto tells him to hold off on that for later.

Then, of course, Noctis is eaten by the crystal and "later" becomes much, much later as they evacuate and try to survive in eternal darkness. (Though they also can't Not think about it because it's a giant hand print. On Prompto's face. And every person they meet has Something To Say about it, for better or worse, whether they knew Prompto before or not. Prompto cannot escape it, and when Gladio is not doing Crown Duties he feels he must do in Noct's absence, he's with Prompto, so he also Cannot Escape It either. Even when the person speaking is unaware that Gladio left that mark. It's almost worse when they don't know, but when they see it's Gladio, who is such a big guy who seemingly hit Prompto and left that permanent mark there, some of them get nasty to him and some back off out of fear. Both are horrible. The guilt is eating him alive.)

Eventually, enough time passes as the dust settles that they do Talk About It. Gladio apologizes sincerely, for the 500th time. Prompto's like, "Well. It's not like you could have known that this would be The One Time it happened." And then cracks a joke about their soulmate mark being a Prompto's hand print on Gladio's ass from a butt slap in another life, which does help the tension somewhat. (The more Gladio tries to apologize, the more Prompto grows sick of hearing it, so they just have to move on and keep going, as he's learned to do.)

They grow closer over time, especially because there's not a lot of people who have survived to this point and even less later on. They do get together romantically, both because they do like the idea of soulmates (for different reasons) and also because they're living out of each others pockets for years, so there's an affection and dependency that develops there. Also, teenage Prompto always thought Gladio was really handsome and teen Gladio thought Prompto was cute and sincere for a pipsqueak.

When they are out together on dates in normal settings surrounded by strangers after the light returns, Gladio will receive dirty looks for the rest of his life from strangers who see the hand print on Prompto's face and immediately (correctly) assumes it was out of anger rather than a funny accident or something. (Edit: Some people will assume there is a funny story attached. Gladio will not know what to say to this. Prompto will play along.) He will learn to live with this. Prompto is really grateful Gladio is with him despite everything.

[pathologising]

life is so complicated my boyfriends dad is so funny but also such an asshole sometimes but also he's the funniest man alive can he PLEAASE send us money please ���

[mitsene]

✨🌙 Read my comic Glimmer! 🌙✨\

Glimmer now has its own website! Read the latest update and the whole thing through.

It's created super cheaply with rarebit on neocities, so please bear with me. Updates aren't gonna happen like, exactly at 9am every Tuesday (as I have a day job, actullally) but they will be regular and weekly. Posts will be up first on Patreon (both free and paid).

I've been eschewing wordpress and CMS editors in deference to basic HTML websites lately, as simpler things just seem to make more sense to me nowadays with how AI and social media is just in.. the world... in general... I can't schedule posts in advance and have to update each JS file/image manually, lol. But, I have control over basically everything and don't have to worry about backend security, SSL certificates or spam bots commenting on everything. anyhway. Enjoy!

[potcscripts]

Maccus curses -- he bid too high. They shake their dice again, play another round. Boostrap comes alongside Will.

[alas9]

46/100

Sábado.

El dia de ayer fuimos a una reunión con los amigos de mi novio, porque una apreja amiga dió la noticia que iban a ser padres. Estuvo entretenido, pero nos cansó bastante. Asi que el sábado me lo tomé super light solamente adelantando el curso de desarrollo web hasta llegar a CSS. Mi intención es pasarme esta parte lo mas rápido posible hasta Boostrap, que es una tecnología que conozco pero nunca realmente usé. Pienso que a partir de ahí se pondrá interesante.

Por otra parte tengo al japonés super abandonado. Apenas me mantengo al dia con duolingo, que llegue a la racha de 40 dias.

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Saturday.

Yesterday we went to a meeting with my boyfriend's friends, because a couple of friends announced that they were going to be parents. It was entertaining, but it made us pretty tired. So on Saturday I took it super light, just getting ahead on the web development course until I got to CSS. My intention is to get through this part as quickly as possible until Boostrap, which is a technology I know but never really used. I think that from there it will get interesting.

On the other hand, I have totally neglected Japanese. I'm barely keeping up with Duolingo, I'm going to get to the 40-day streak.

[worldwright]

once again wishing that The Greatest Showman was a movie about disabled and ostracized people in 1800s America forming a powerful community of pride and acceptance. instead of a movie about the attractive abled white man who employed them cheating on his wife

[wykart]

THAT EP WAS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!

But the biggest thing on my mind - the whole 'invoking a superstition at the edge of the universe', the way he specifically mentioned vampires, and after that they grew vamp-like teeth... is this, like the children in need special and the cold open with Isaac Newton, another boostrap paradox where the Doctor accidentally invented the visual/aesthetic concept of the vampires, as in the ancient enemies of Gallifrey that came from beyond the universe??

I'm freaking outtttt

[savourysaltysweet]

I would also speak more on RM but unfortunately my thoughts about him and the reasons for my fixation on him aren't very fun

I would reblog more RM art but a lot of it is a bit older and I don't want to disturb artists and the ones who Are still RMposting are few and I don't want to continually disturb artists

[about-faces]

Seeing those BatFam webtoons of Steph and her dad issues makes me annoyed about One Bad Day: Two-Face all over again. One of the big reasons that issue was popular was because of how Steph didn’t trust Harvey for one second, didn’t feel any sympathy towards him, and criticized Bruce’s own sympathy for Harvey as being stupid and dangerous.

And in the end, the plot vindicates her skepticism when Harvey destroys his noble father for absolutely no reason. Just evil for the sake of evil.

Which only worked because the author went out of her way to create a whole new backstory for Harvey, turning his abusive monster of a dad into a kind, loving, successful man. “All the best parts of me are my father,” Harvey says at one point. This Harvey is written expressly to be exactly the person Steph says he is, just to prove her right. He is just rotten to the core, playing up a “good” side that isn’t really there to manipulate Bruce and others. And there seems to be no reason for it in this story other than to make Steph look like the only sensible person who can see through it.

It wouldn’t have worked the same way if the author had actually incorporated Harvey’s canonical abuse. I still wonder how Steph would react to that Harvey. How much empathy would she have for what he went through? Would she condemn him for not pulling himself up by his boostraps the way she did, choosing to become a hero instead of a monster? Would she take his mental illness into account, or the extent to which he tried to be heroic and was torn down by forces without and within? Or would she be like Dick, and flatly condemn him as a psychopath, unworthy of any sympathy and unable to be salvaged, if not redeemed?

And for that matter, what would that Harvey make of her? Even if she didn’t empathize with Harvey, what if he empathized with her? What if Two-Face decided to pay Cluemaster a little visit, to mete out some justice of his own, and how would Steph react to that?

There’s a far more interesting and troubling story to be written about Harvey with Steph (and/or Cass, for that matter), but it would require a writer who was willing to dive into these complex questions about what makes a monster. Someone willing to acknowledge that Two-Face is both villain and victim, an abusive “survivor” who arguably didn’t actually survive. A walking scar, still seeking out some sense of justice and fairness in his own broken way.

[hellofromthehallowoods]

I picture most of the fish crew from the 2nd PotC movie when Buck was on the boat.

I'd like to grow up and be Boostrap Bill Turner

[firstofficerkittycat]

honestly kind of obsessed with a bootstrap moment that actually puts focus on the timeline before the boostrap took it over and on the question "who really composed beethoven's fifth" like yeah. not fucking ruby that's who

[alwaysbewoke]

Tighten up those boostraps!

[izicodes]

Friday 29th September 2023

Hello Hello! hope you are having a fine day! For today's 'day of code', I started working on an interactive webpage on my favourite Saint Jerome as tomorrow is his feast day!

The project is called "Saint Jerome Interactive Odyssey" and I want it to be like a mini computer-like UI where you browse the various files/folders about him! Better than reading long texts about him and get bored a bit! I haven't been able to celebrate his feast day properly so this year I want it to be different!

This project I get to use SCSS again (so excited and I'm getting the hang of things!) and I get to start using Boostrap Icons, which I knew about... but never used them before (relied on fontawesome for my icons before)

But yeah that's it! ✨👍🏾

[potcscripts]

BOOTSTRAP: The only thing any of us have – years of service.

[a-crack-in-the-universe]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest Thoughts

Memorable Moments:

·       The opening, with Elizabeth waiting for Will in the pouring rain. Also her and Will being arrested by Cutler Beckett.

·       Jack’s opening scene.

·       Jack meeting Boostrap Bill and getting the black spot.

·       “If it wasn’t for these bars I’d have you already.”

·       “Keep a weather eye on the horizon.”

·       Everything about the cannibal island sequence.

·       Elizabeth confronting Beckett. “Take into your calculations that you robbed me of my wedding night.”

·       Elizabeth tricking the crew of the merchant ship into believing that there is a ghost haunting the ship.

·       Everything about the Isla de Cruces fight sequence.

·       “I’ve got a jar of dirt! And guess what’s inside it!”

·       Will, Elizabeth and the crew fighting against the Kraken.

·       The iconic scene with Elizabeth kissing Jack and chaining him to the Pearl to stop him from leaving the ship.  

·       And of course, the iconic reveal of Barbossa! (one of my favourite moments in the film.)

 Foreshadowing: There is so much foreshadowing in this film, it’s really great.

·       Elizabeth: I’ll wait for you/Will: Keep a weather eye on the horizonàat the end of the next film Elizabeth waits for Will while he is acting as the Dutchman’s captain.

·       The cannibals who capture Jack and his crew believe that Jack is a god in human form and intend to release him from his body by eating him. In At World’s End it’s revealed that Tia Dalma is the Goddess Calypso bound in human form and the Pirate Brethren intend to release her.    

·       When Tia Dalma meets Will for the first time, she notes that he has a touch of destiny about him. This foreshadows him becoming the new Captain of the Dutchman after Davy Jones is killed.    

·       Jack tells Elizabeth that a captain can perform a marriage ceremony. In the next film Elizabeth gets Captain Barbossa to marry her and Will during the Maelstrom battle.

·       Jack tells Elizabeth that she truly wants freedom to do what she wants (ie. to act on selfish impulse), and that one day she won’t be able to resist it. This comes true when Elizabeth forces Jack to stay behind on the Black Pearl so that she, Will and the rest of the crew can survive.

·       Likewise, Elizabeth tells Jack that one day there will come a time when he has the chance to do the right thing and something courageous. This comes true during the battle against the Kraken at Isla de Cruces.      

·       Will tells Elizabeth to guard the dead man’s chest at the start of the Isla de Cruces fight sequence, and Elizabeth objects. At the end of the next film Will asks her to guard the chest (which now has his heart in it), and this time Elizabeth agrees.    

 Other thoughts:

·       Elizabeth’s wedding dress appears in the beginning of the movie and then later on when Elizabeth uses it to haunt the merchant sailors. Then it ends up sinking into the sea after the Kraken destroys the merchant ship. What is the significance behind this?

·       Tia Dalma is very taken by Will when she first meets him, and even starts flirting with him. Why? Did he remind her of who Davy Jones used to be before he lost it and became a sea monster?

·       “Jack Sparrow does not know what he wants. Or do you know but are loath to claim it as your own?” What does this mean?

·       During the scene when Davy Jones teleports onto the Black Pearl after Will tells him that Jack sent him to settle his debt, Jack does do his best to get Will off the Flying Dutchman. Jack never intended to abandon Will to the Flying Dutchman and Davy Jones. He actually told Davy Jones that Will is in love and engaged in an attempt to trick Jones into letting him go. Which makes sense since Will is Bootstrap Bill Turner’s son, and Bootstrap Bill was a very close friend of Jack’s.      

·       Willabeth is meant to parallel Calypso and Davy Jones. Both Davy Jones and Will fall in love with a woman who is as harsh and untameable as the sea (Calypso and Elizabeth), and they never stop loving her.  

·       When he sees that the merchant sailors have Elizabeth’s wedding dress and hears the story behind it, Will realises that Elizabeth somehow escaped from Port Royal and went to Tortuga to search for him.

·       Davy and Calypso’s theme plays during the moment(s) you see Elizabeth’s wedding dress floating in the sea.            

·       When Will, Elizabeth and the crew are almost at Tia Dalma’s shack, the people holding lit candles actually appear to be the ones Jack saved from slavery many years before (you know, the thing that caused him to be marked as a pirate). It’s really sweet to see that they remember Jack and what he did for them and honour him in this way.    

·       Even though Jack was very irritating and hard to trust, Gibbs and the crew are saddened by his death and are eager to bring Jack back when Tia Dalma gives them the option. It’s especially heartwarming because they’re pirates and have abandoned Jack before when it was of benefit to them. It really shows that they do care deeply about Jack in their own way.