#but that part is my personal speculation

[egophiliac]

Final manifestations for Book 7?

I'm trying REALLY hard not to build up any solid expectations, because I wanna go in ~fresh~! they're already so far away from anything I thought would happen (not in a bad way, I'm just accepting that I'm on Miss Yana's Wild Ride at this point and we're seeing this thing through 'til the end, by gum). so it's nothing too major, but:

they've been handing new crying expressions out like candy lately, I want to see some delicious Malleus tears.

honestly I want everyone to cry buckets. their tears sustain me. the more Silver angst specifically I get the happier I am.

SILVER!!!! 👏 VANROUGE!!!! 👏

just let him have this. the poor boy's been through so much. let him have his big "I'm proud of you, son" moment with Lilia.

I'm 100% expecting Grim's arc (and probably whatever's going on with Crowley) to be its own episode, but a nice hook to leave us hanging on would be good!

a nice hook though, please, I don't think I can take another "Grim is attacking us! now wait eight months to find out what happens :)" cliffhanger...

some Meleanor? as a treat? just a little bit, a tiny quick flashback or something, please Twst I just, I just want to see her again. let her have a little ghost cameo like Dawnathan Knight got. Lilia and his kids are all having their big group hug or whatever and she can gently fade in to be all like

(turning asks off until I'm done playing, SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE Y'ALL)

[cent-scratchnsniff]

something bad did indeed happen to that man. spent abt 25 minutes trying to find a better picture of that one (1) offical piece with his eyes open that wasnt compressed or tiny

[sheep-sorbet]

while that is a pretty funny idea, it doesn't make sense to me still, because what sunny wants is what omori wants: to relive the past, forget the bad things that happened, to stop hurting and have fun with his friends forever. not everything omori does aligns with things that are ultimately good for sunny, as we see later on, but they are rooted in what omori thinks is sunny's best interest. so there's no reason not to play make-believe about this specific thing. (this is also based on the idea that the two are truly separate people which is up to interpretation)

that one i could believe, although i also don't think it's necessarily more likely than him not having a crush on her to begin with. but if we are operating under the assumption that he does, then this would check out as a potential reason why it doesn't go anywhere since his relationships with everyone else are stagnant as well.

that one definitely doesn't hold water to me, but i explained why above so i won't really rehash that. i just think it goes directly against other things we see in the game.

thanks @seven-oh-four and sorry for not being able to reply directly. curse of sideblog lol

okay i keep seeing it so i gotta ask something

Why does everyone in the omori fandom act like sunny definitively had a crush on aubrey? im not against the ship, it's cute, but it's left pretty intentionally ambiguous imo?

like, okay, the evidence people have is....headspace aubrey seemingly having a crush omori, and that one flashback scene where basil asks sunny if he has a crush on aubrey and he blushes. but my takeaway from that was very much just that basil was teasing sunny. most kids would blush/be embarrassed after being asked a question like that, whether it was true or not. BUT more importantly...

omori never reciprocates headspace aubrey's crush. he never even responds or shows any interest at all. and i don't think one can soundly argue that it's omori/sunny not letting himself have nice things, because the entire point of headspace is so he can have everything he wants, at least that was the initial point.

he wants mari to be alive, so she is. when headspace basil tries to bring up mari's death, he vanishes. up until things start to go wrong in headspace, every bit of trouble is nothing more than childish make-believe, problems that exist so sunny can fix them with his friends. wish fulfillment.

so, if he definitely had a crush on aubrey....wouldn't they already be dating in headspace? wouldn't aubrey's affection and love for him come up more often?

if anything, i think it's more likely that aubrey had a crush on sunny, and he picked up on that, but never felt comfortable enough to engage with it or reciprocate. we already know that the parts of his friends' personalities that bother him are still present in headspace, even if they are minimized to create idealized versions of them in his head. so it seems likely to me that headspace aubrey having a crush on omori is being treated the same way that headspace kel being annoying is treated. it happens, but he moves on from it.

he might like the attention headspace aubrey having a crush on him gives him, the same way he might like headspace kel being annoying or dumb makes him look in comparison. but ultimately, if he wanted something to come of it, it probably would have happened, and maybe even broken down as the story progressed.

that's just my thought process, anyways. again, no hate to the ship, its super cute. but i don't think it was necessarily meant to be canon, just a possibility at best. maybe there's yet more of this game i haven't seen that fuels that fire? i made sure to get every ending, but man, this game is so jam-packed with stuff.

[cdroloisms]

Cdream be like: You can't put yourself in the Prison anymore bc of the woke >:(/lh

That man is a mess like it's facinating how messy his vision of reality is for others and himself

it is fascinating fr, and does remind me of how we'd talk a little bit about how his perspective may betray what kind of environment this guy might've been in pre-dsmp. the stick-up-his-ass about rules and rule-following, the neuroticism about conflict, and the ease with which he jumps to punishment as being the appropriate response to people who cause problems (a perspective that, quite evidently, to a certain extent, does apply to himself, doesn't it?) all seems quite indicative of someone who lived in an environment where punishment being the natural consequence of stepping outside the lines was generally something that went unquestioned. of course, this is speculative, and it's not that a #tragicbackstory is necessary to explain what the fuck is up with c!Dream, and it's hardly about justifying the choice to abuse a teenager into behaving, lmao. but while exile served his goals and exile was a lot of petty, spiteful cruelty for petty, spiteful reasons, i do think there's something to be said about how clearly c!Dream hadn't expected c!Tommy to respond quite so severely to exile and how he thought he would be "fine" with potatoes in the prison and the language he used both about exile and his own early prison stay about shit like "getting better" through punishment. of course, punitive justice as a norm is kind of ingrained in our own society (just look at the rhetoric around deserving in this fandom, lmao, which speaks more than well enough for itself) and of course that reflects onto the dream smp as well, considering how many of the characters talk quite freely about the idea of punishment/deserving/what have you, but few characters are quite as obviously a stickler for rule-following as c!dream and exile and then prison are uhhh definitely on the more extreme end of things. anyway. just some food for thought

[monprecieuxx]

finding out the aftg fandom does not envision andrew as a stocky short king is giving me actual mental damage

[bigmilkagenda]

Of the many, many plates of pancakes* that were offered to the listener in magp 1-07, this one may be my favourite

[ID: A screenshot of an unofficial transcript to The Magnus Protocol. CELIA is saying "Yeah. I mean, it's an old system, but it could have been worse. It's not like we're wrestling with tape recorders and manila folders." /end ID]

When we meet TMA-Celia for the second time, she's lost her name. She was Lynne Hammond, and now she's not. She doesn't seem to remember Martin, either, but it's not clear how much of herself and her life from before the change she does remember. She's freaked out by the tape recorders that start showing up, and there's no indication that she associates them with the Institute specifically.

If Celia Ripley is, as we are clearly intended to believe or consider, the same Celia as in TMA, why is she making knowing comments about manila folders and tape recorders? Tape recorders in particular are hardly standard equipment at what seems to be mostly a text data-entry and cataloguing job. She could have said typewriters, or carbon paper. Fax machines, if we're dunking on Freddy specifically.

She says "tape recorders and manila folders." Celia Ripley is referencing The Magnus Institute, particularly the outdated technologies in use in the Archives.

Maybe she learned more from Melanie about what the recorders were and did at the Institute, sometime after MAG 190. Maybe she has those specific memories of giving her statement in MAG 100, and little else. Maybe Martin grew an apocalypse beard and she remembers everything, but just didn't recognise him out of context and in a tunnel and during A Pretty Weird Time Overall.

Maybe she stuck around with Melanie-Georgie-Basira for a while after things returned, and that's how she learned about the particular significance of tape recorders.

Maybe she found some tapes and listened to a couple hundred of them.

Or maybe she's simply an AU Celia, with a knack for oddly specific and kind of clunky comparisons, drawn into this through the powers of metafiction and string theory.

Or maybe someone filled her with spiders and sent her to finish the job of spreading Fear to this particular world.

And the reason this particular plate of textual pancakes** (short stack, butter and nightmare syrup) is one of my favourites from "Give and Take" is because I genuinely have no idea! None of these are theories because there isn't enough evidence to point me in any particular direction. It's a mystery!, Jon voice, etcetera.

If you cornered me and paid me to have an opinion about it I could say which options I thought were more likely, I guess. But the odds are high that I'd be wrong, and I think the boat for me getting paid to interpret texts probably sailed fifteen years ago, besides. I'm in this for the love of the game.***

November is the true spooky season in the northern hemisphere.**** Yeah, October ends with Halloween, but you know what month starts with Halloween? Mmhmm. By November of 2019 TMA had been on my list for a few years, and someone I was getting to know and really liked recommended it to me specifically in the days after 159 aired. The conditions were correct for me to get into something new, is what I'm saying. I still remember listening to "Anglerfish" for the first time, walking home from my office job in the blustery November dark. I got home starry-eyed and red-cheeked and thrilled by the story I'd just heard.

It took a couple of months for me to catch up, and though I loved having so much to listen to there were times when I wished I'd started earlier, to have the experience of seeing things unfold.

And now we're back at a beginning, and get to experience the horrible joys of finding out.

[ID: A screenshot of an unofficial transcript to The Magnus Protocol. LENA is saying "Of a sort. I hope you're as ready for it as you think you are. Consider yourself "in." /end ID]

*Sabrina pancake meme

** the best kind, especially if it's a contest between textual and fluffy pancakes. Keep those spongy bastards away from me, I'll take the kind with a typeface instead

***Being a huge nerd

**** For more of my opinions on November, see https://www.tumblr.com/almostmolly/188799234276

[penn-dragon]

Hey, on the topic of my own fic writing, I’ve got a question for my followers/fic readers.

I have a tendency to never post any of my writing, because my various unmedicated (I’m working on it) neurodivergences and mental illnesses make it very hard for me to ever finish pieces, and I feel really bad about starting a fic that someone could be really into and then potentially never finishing it when my brain suddenly decides I’m not allowed to write any more of it. So a long time ago I made it a rule for myself that I never post anything until it’s 100% finished, even if I have like multiple chapter that are perfectly ready to be published. Which ultimately leads to me never posting anything and sitting on a hoard of writing that only myself and select friends ever see.

So my question is, it more upsetting to read part of a story that might never get finished? Or to know that there’s writing out there that you don’t get to read just because it’s not finished?

[anonygowose]

The kinda ick i feel that my acc is being stalked by someone in specific is a bit silly

I hope its not true because oh boy you must be desperate 💀 /neg

[wuntrum]

yknow, maybe i need to become the gnc butch in tech that i wanna see (date) in the world

[egophiliac]

:) hello! :D hope you have a nice day and absolutely do not think of the possibility of one of the last story cards being of silver! and that his groovy will very probably be crying!!! THERE'S SO MANY CRYING PEOPLE IN STORY CARDS LATELY!!! SPECIALLY LIGHT USERS!! I AM!!! SCARED!!!! bc so far we got Lilia and Sebek in the beginning book 7.... so at the end.... so we're missing story Silver... and Malleus is the one with less cards, so they might add one for him... but... the tears... ego.... THE TEARS!!!! EGOOOO!! (LOVE YOUR ART BTW EVERYTIME I GET A NOTIF FROM YOUR BLOG I RUN HERE TO SEE!)

(thank you! 💚💜💚)

YES I am ALSO like...90-95% convinced that we're going to be getting a story card for Silver once we wrap around back to diasomnia. 👀 especially because the way things are going, Silver will be the only character whose dream we haven't seen -- yet???? -- and that just. y'know. makes me wonder!

although I do think it would be VERY funny if he got a story card and the groovy was just "regular Silver except with one beautiful single crystal tear". this is actually a lot coming from him.

(he used up all his emotion yelling at a baby that one time, there's none left for a proper groovy-level cry.)

[wonder-worker]

Æthelflæd’s authority initially passed to her daughter, a situation presaged by Ælfwynn’s prominent position in the witness list of S225, issued only three years earlier. Shortly after, though, to borrow the words of Henry of Huntingdon, ‘Edward, acting with regard to expediency rather than justice, disinherited Ælfwynn’ (HA v.17). Henry likely borrows his tone of indignance from the Register, to which he had access in some form. In its entry for 919, reporting Edward’s setting aside of his niece’s claim to lordship over Mercia, the Register declares that she was benumen, or deprived, of authority. Undoubtedly, the Register’s statement in the previous year that Æthelflæd had held ‘lawful authority’ was intended to foreground the legitimacy of Ælfwynn both inheriting and exercising that authority and, ergo, the injustice of Edward setting her aside.

As remarkable an event as the successful passing of hereditary rulership between mother and daughter would have been in the history of early England, it is not entirely certain that this was Æthelflæd’s ultimate design. Ælfwynn was likely approaching 30 years of age when her mother died, and there is no evidence that she had married. This situation was not one that engendered itself to stability of succession. Had Æthelflæd intended her daughter to rule over Mercia, it seems probable that she would have arranged a suitable marriage both to ensure her daughter had a network of independent support, and also to secure the continuation of a Mercian ruling family lineage. There is no hint at such a union in the historical record, nor of any attempt to arrange one.

This, perhaps, is where a hint of West Saxon hegemony throughout Æthelflæd’s reign may be found. If Edward had always intended to absorb Mercia under his overlordship, he may have forbidden his niece to wed: a deliberate strategy to extinguish the Mercian ruling family line and its claim to rulership. And Æthelflæd may have been complicit in Edward’s decision to formally annex Mercia to the West Saxon crown following her death, or at the very least accepting of it. The partisan nature of the Register must always be born in mind and, simply because it presents Æthelflæd as a paragon of Mercian lordship, it does not necessarily follow that this is how she viewed herself. Æthelflæd may have had royal Mercian ancestry, she may have advocated for Mercia and won over Mercian loyalties, but she was still the daughter and sister of West Saxon kings. Æthelflæd’s marriage had been informed by West Saxon dynastic politics, her father’s regional overlordship loomed large over her early years in Mercia, and she proved to be an active partner of her brother through the early tenth century.

In truth, Ælfwynn may only ever have been intended as a placeholder ruler. In this case, her political prominence, as attested in S225, would have been a mere expedient, ensuring that any power vacuum that arose in the event of Æthelflæd’s death would be filled until Edward could make his way to Mercia to claim its throne. At this moment, however, Edward was on campaign nearby in the Danelaw, and he made the formal annexation of Mercia his priority. Upon Æthelflæd’s death in Tamworth, the Chronicle A-text states that:

⁊ þa gerad he þa burg æt Tameworþige, ⁊ him cierde to eall se þeodscype on Myrcna lande þe Æþelflæde ær underþeoded wæs; ⁊ þa cyningas on Norþwealum, Howel, ⁊ Cledauc, ⁊ Ieoþwel, ⁊ eall Norþweallcyn hine sohton him to hlaforde. (And then he occupied the burh of Tamworth, and all the nation in the land of the Mercians which had been subject to Æthelflæd submitted to him; and the kings in Wales, Hywel, Clydog, and Idwal, and all the race of the Welsh, sought to have him as lord.)

There are several matters of note in this passage. Firstly, the word gerad (occupied) is an interesting choice by the annal’s author. This implies that Edward was not certain of his welcome in the Mercian burh, and so took a military approach to the town. The tone this sets for the rest of the entry is one of might, insinuating that the subsequent submissions resulted from Edward’s own power rather than from any arrangement with his sister. The A-text of the Chronicle, though, is no less partisan than the Register, and this entry seems to be deliberately constructed to cast Edward’s new hegemony over Mercia and Wales as a personal conquest. This raises the second matter, that of the Mercian submission. It is worth reiterating that, when the 918 entries of the Register and the Chronicle A-text are read together, there is little doubt that Edward, Æthelflæd, and their armies were collaborating in that year’s Danelaw campaign. In which case, as Maggie Bailey suggests, choosing Edward as leader may not have been difficult for the Mercians: here was a proven and successful military leader already known to the Mercian elites and their armies.

For her part, there is no evidence that Ælfwynn had any involvement with Mercia’s military, nor even that she had truly been given any authority at court prior to her mother’s death. It seems probable that the truth of events lies somewhere between the Register and Chronicle account of events, that Edward attended Tamworth upon news of Æthelflæd’s death, whereupon the Mercian elites chose him as their lord.

— Matthew Firth, Early English Queenship, 850-1000: Potestas Reginae

[orcelito]

Working on my javascript for my web page. Turns out I have the perfect kind of setup to accomplish some of the project requirements, specifically with even handlers and user interactions

My website, conceptually, will load a different employee details page depending on what employee name is clicked on. But I need to load it dynamically (instead of hard-coding it) so that the user can add or delete employees & it'll be able to still load the relevant shit.

So! Only one employee details page, but depending on how it's loaded, it'll load a different employee's information. Still working on getting down Exactly how to do it (I'm thinking using URL parameters that'll read a different object depending on what ID is used)

It's entirely doable. In fact, it's probably extremely common to do in web pages. No one wants to hard-code information for every new object. Of course not. And thus the usefulness of dynamic javascript stuff.

I can do this. I can very much do this.

[marklikely]

can i share a secret with you guys the one and only reason why i don't want to see wicked is because i hate how ariana looks in the movie so much that it makes me angry every time i see her in character

[sagurus]

I'm excited we're getting more magic kaito but I also have this suspicion things are going to be introduced that I'm just going to. ignore. But also maybe not! Who knows!

[lurking-latinist]

🐈

[mbat]

just found this lol, in love with it actually