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caterpillarinacave · 1 month ago

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💚 (NATM!)

”💚: What does everyone else get wrong about your favorite character?”

Technically not my favorite character but soooo many people down play how deeply dramatic Octavius is and it’s the bane of my existence.

Frequently Jedediah is all silly Octavius is just isn’t. But in reality they are both like, equally silly. Equally sincere. Equally melodramatic. And we should let them be that

#He’s got a more subtle akward silliness that people kind of miss #We should not be glossing over all the “Even the glory of Rome came to an end 🥺😔✋” moments #Or the “It can sense fear 😳… apparently it can also hear me talking to myself 😬”#Me core for real #Moving onto my favorite character though a lot of people make ahk a little *to* silly I guess? Not quite the right word #It’s just like per the movies he is absolutely that silly but he’s also very put together? He was/is incredibly important and powerful #He’s as educated well spoken and regal as he is totally fucking unhinged lmaooooo #I could go on. I will not for everyone’s sake #Natm #thanks for the ask!

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westywallowing · 4 months ago

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it has always baffled me that ASL isn't taught as a second language in American schooling. or as a requirement for certain jobs that work with, well, people. the HLAA says that around 48 million Americans have hearing loss!! 1 in 5 teenagers!! 1 in 3 people over the age of 60!!! it's crazy to me that sign isn't more widely taught and used considering that you probably DO or WILL know someone who has hearing loss at some point in their life

#i know this is definitely not a new topic of conversation but i just think about it so often #obviously ableism and ageism is just rampant in america and thats why asl isnt more widely taught #because the thought in america is why would we help out the minority #or people think to themselves 'whats the chance ill ever need it'#and im like ???? probably higher than you think dude!!#i have friends with hearing loss and i have deteriorating hearing in my left ear as well (enough to notice in school but nothing crazy)#and thinking of that makes me think wow. i should really learn ASL #working in food service makes me think wow!!! i should really learn asl!!!#which i AM going to do mark my fucking words #anyway. i dont even know where this rant came from #motivation to learn!! and communicate with people different than me because i CAN #i guess i just wish it was more accessible to learn in schools or even mandatory!#westy's shit #rambling #i need to educate myself more on this topic and this is serving as my reminder

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puppyeared · 11 months ago

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i wrote this as a joke because I wanted to strangle a guy watching tiktoks without headphones on the bus, but im genuinely disturbed that we've gotten to a point where convenience comes first. and it depresses me even more that its used to justify and monetize greed

#like we have so many ways of doing things that could help us in the long run but because we're told it requires more work we just cant #its too resource intensive. or maybe its too much to maintain. we have to overlook benefits so money can go into more important things #we teach each other to do things a certain way so it works for everyone but who was it convenient for first? what abt who it might hurt?#i have to wonder if the rules our current system uses is worth listening to or following if it doesnt have our best interests in mind. u an #me and the ppl around us.. would we be better off if i ate my meals knowing the person who grew it wanted to feed others the way they could #feed themselves? and that isnt to say we're going to be happy doing it but i guess satisfied that its helping someone instead of quietly #accepting that itll eventually go in the dumpster behind a grocery store because it stopped looking appetizing or it wasnt on sale anymore #what about building homes so we can shelter each other? what if we were satisfied with what we did because we knew it would be paid back #with kindness? isnt that what we evolved to do?? heal each others bones and tell stories and help each other??#why dont houses come with solar panels or generators unless we find a way to make people pay to use the sun? why is our pooled money used #to fund genocides instead of education and hospitals? whose interests and convenience came first when we started this??#i wont pretend to know the answer because i dont. but we all know we're miserable and im sorry to say that i cant see myself fighting #for a world that wont fight for me too. why do we work if we cant live from it?? why did they stop us from plucking more teeth from our #bosses until they could build more walls around themselves and then go back to underpaying us??#im so tired. i cant even imagine making it to age 70 #yapping #vent

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sillyfudgemonkeys · 2 months ago

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First meetings

Setting: Modern day Korra, everyone pulled out of their timelines.

Korra: So I was wondering. What was everyone's first time contacting their past self like! Wan: Oh this is gonna be good. Kyoshi and Yangchen: *grimacing* Kuruk, looking at Kyoshi nervously: Uhhhh sure. Aang: Sure I'm down! Let's go in order! Korra first! Korra: What?! Oh ok! So like, I thought I lost almost all of my bending, and then at my lowest point you came in and helped get my bending back Aang! Aang: Oh sweet! Korra: Hell yeah, really came in clutch! Aang: Ok I'm next. Roku's animal guide told me where to go meet him, so we had to sneak into the Fire Nation to talk to him. Got a bit dicey, but he gave us some incredible advice that we needed! Roku: Awesome! Glad I could help-wait what do you mean "Sneak into the Fire Naiton?" Aang: Don't worry about it. It's your turn! Roku: Oh um, so like. Sozin and I were in the middle of a cave in, partially caused by me. I thought I was dead, and thought my role was to just be a placeholder Avatar. But Kyoshi gave me a pep talk that amounted to "It's not your fault. Quit bringing yourself down, and look within you to harness the power you need." And she was right. Kyoshi, trying to be positive but sounding dejected: Wow, I was right about one thing for once..... Roku: Ummm, what was your experience like Kyoshi? Kyoshi: ................... Kuruk: Haha c'mon, I wasn't that bad- Kyoshi: I can't really say the first time amounted to much, it was choppy. Subsequent attempts left me paralyzed with seizures. Kuruk: ....O_O Huh? Kyoshi: It's because I didn't want to touch you with a ten foot poll. I was able to reach you eventually- Kuruk: Oh that's good! How- Kyoshi: By drowning myself. Everyone: ...............................dude. Kuruk: Did you really have to do that- Kyoshi: I was desperate. It was either I attempt to contact you that way, or I was gonna die and beat your ass on the other side. Either way was a win in my book. Kuruk: ................................did.....did I do something wrong- Kyoshi, grimacing in physical pain: No.....just.....just leave it, ok? Wan: What was it like for you Kuruk? Kuruk: It....it was.... normal? Wan: Oh well.....that's....nice? Korra: Ok well....Yangchen? Your turn! Yangchen: Do I really have to? Korra: Yes. Yangchen: I don't really remember. Korra: What do you mean- Yangchen: Korra, it was probably one of my many dissociative episodes, usually happened when I slept. Spirits knows when I first contacted Szeto. Tbh I was probably 5 years old and unconscious living out one of his memories. Like I did with most of my past lives. Korra: Holy shit. Yangchen: It got so bad that me and the nuns had to develop techniques for when I wake up so I could feel.....grounded again. Wan: Ok, but like why are all the girls' like.....all traumatic. Raava, get us a girlie that's not suffering. TT0TT

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existentiol · 1 year ago

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something that pisses me off in RA is that Flanagan will occasionally hype up Pauline as this super important and prominent figure in Will’s life, even treat her as a proxy for the mother he never knew, and yet will just refuse to show it beyond the like. two or three (personal) conversations that they have in canon. I get that he was attempting to make her an important person in Will’s life but why not do that by actually making her an important person in Will’s life

#hey Flanagan I hate to tell u but just because she’s married to Will’s father figure does not automatically make her his mom figure #what REALLY annoys me is how easy it would have been for him to connect her & will #like hey. if only there were a pretty clear gap in Will’s education that halt couldn’t fulfill - say for example mmmm diplomacy?#(cause we all know how gifted halt is at conflict resolution)#then he’d have a valid reason to seek out a master of diplomacy for lessons in negotiating compromises & treaties #but no I guess not. Will’s just naturally good at diplomacy despite never really being exposed to it #yk what extra sucks?#if Pauline HAD taught will about treaties & stuff then him receiving the last name treaty wouldve been 1000x more meaningful #it would’ve spoken to her influence on him and solidified her as a sort of parental figure in her own right #AND as an extra extra bonus: if she came to the cabin to teach will about negotiation tactics and such #then we could’ve gotten more halt/Pauline interactions. as in: we could’ve actually seen them being in love ON SCREEN instead of just being #told that they loved each other #will could’ve had a chance to see how much the two of them mean to each other. and then he would’ve had some actual basis for a speech #at their wedding or whatever #but yeah no why do that when we can just imply that will & Pauline got super close off screen? same effect right?????#ranger’s apprentice #pauline dulacy #halt o’carrick #will treaty #I love these books so so much don’t get me wrong. but there are just some things……#anyway.#jackie rambles

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kingwaino · 25 days ago

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i have done...an absolute deep dive into blues and folk music tonight. it was 100% one of those blink and three hours have passed type of deals. worth it though.

#be warned if you go into the tags i will explain how this all came up. educational but long!#so it started with two questions. mostly because i live in the ozarks i wanted to know and secondly i like music if you haven't caught on #(btw i am so giving you guys the quick and easy version if you are reading this at all)#anyway. the first question was 'why does the ozarks have such a country influence but also bluegrass but also blues but also folk but al-'#because while i grew up in stl i am now like. living living in the ozarks right? right. and i for sure can see how we are the like...#the little sibling of the appalachian mountains. and i thought it was just cause aw cute mini mountains (highlands people)#but instead its cause there were settlers from appalachia! which makes a ton of sense now seeing influences and culture etc etc #so we cleared up that. we know why the ozarks is the way it is (or at least part of it)#btw anyone who says branson is a “true reflection” of the ozarks is out of their damn minds.#that shit is tourist central and just drives me up the wall. they are playing a parody of themselves is the best way to describe it #caricature maybe??? point is. “h'yuck h'yuck we're the country jubilee!” is not uhhhh ozarks and never was?#like it was but they took it a step further. so. anyway #can you tell i'm fixated on this right now? moving on! question 2 was quite literally 'what genre is this song'#it's 'fault line' by black rebel motorcycle club (which i highly suggest everyone listen to)#but i was like hmmm very bluesy harmonica but just fingerpicking guitar so that's more folksy #so! i went on a deep dive of what technically considers blues blues and what folk is. and guess what! the ozarks play into this too #because! the thing is that the ozarks is weird. st louis is technically not in the ozarks but on the outskirts. and stl is influenced by...#the mississippi delta! therefore blues music which led to rock and roll etc #(that's a whole other tangent for another day on stl and blues and rock and roll)#but anyway it makes sense that once you have folks from stl area coming down to the ozarks then you also have that combo of...#mississippi delta and appalachia music. so then we go back to “fault line” right?#i have declared it folk mostly because it definitely doesn't follow traditional blues progression or call and response.#so anyway. deep dive tonight was basically what is this song's genre and how does that wrap into where i live!#which also. brmc is like...usually listed as a “rock” band from san francisco which hey! awesome.#but like. from the songs i've heard and especially causing me to do this deep dive...they do not strike me as a californian band #music is cool! regions are cool! culture is cool! i just like to see how it's all spread out ya know?#if you've read this far gold star! i hope you've learned something tonight from reading the ramblings of a fixated person #i'm rambling again aren't i

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lilacerull0 · 2 months ago

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the thing about my fandom analysis is it will be contradictory. because having one definitive conclusion is boring to me, i love The Possibilities and i love revisiting something precisely because i want to find a new perspective i can view it in. makes things more fun. and i think it isn't really hypocritical, but rather reflective of the true nature of things which tends to be contradictory and chaotic. things are rarely ever chronological and never categorised naturally, these are tools humans invented in order to understand things through a form of translation. accepting category as god given is to prevent understanding and exploration.

#jo in the tardis*#i am an amateur in the truest sense of the word when it comes to this. many of you are much better at #analysis. which is why i love being here... i get to learn and absorb information and i am in turn made better for it #no opinion can stand independently because a true opinion is an integration of the best parts of different opinions #and everybody considers something else to be the best part of an opinion #it's a shame how the educational system teaches the opposite of everything i've listed here #i guess we are easier to sell information to if we're stuck in our little imaginary boxes #the limits aren't there. but we belive in them and belief is powerful enough to make things real.

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the-oracle-of-the-lost · 6 months ago

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i do like the general concept of dot and bubble but rtd please hire Black writers, i'm begging you.

#idk i think the episode would have worked better in a future season so we can first have a more serious episode abt racism #and the doctor's experience without bringing it up for basically the first time in this era as a twist ending #and i know that Gatwa was still busy on Sex Education and couldn't be a lead in every episode but it feels wrong to not center the dr here #and a continued problem i have with doctor who is whenever they bring up real world discrimination and not just Scifi Allegory #they seem to either a) have it be dismissed without a discussion (The Shakespeare Code) or #b) make it so over the top that it doesn't actually feel connected to the real world (which happened a few times with 13 and misogyny iirc)#idk maybe i'm just complaining abt nothing. other people seemed to like it more #dw negativity #i guess #my posts #dw spoilers

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carnivalcarriondiscarded · 1 year ago

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in tonight's endeavor to be distracted from Everything, i have painstakingly jotted down the base, beginning ideas for a modern human au. it includes a gap-year group road trip in Wally's RV, Home

#& i've only got... the Very base ideas and 1 neighbor done #worldbuilding continues to be my go-to coping method #plotting it out from Tiny Days to established Graduates In Their Late 20s!#a worthy distraction indeed!#the most traditionally successful of the bunch is frank - an entomology professor!#poppy has a tea house! howdy still has his store! barnaby is a bartender for a gay club! eddie does drag performances there! etc!#its fun to think about and even more fun to jot down in a document #im trying to estimate whats most likely for them based on What We Know #which is not must! but i can make educated guesses!#and this is all for personal fun anyway <3 #absolutely unprompted #i thought i would be scribbling tonight... no... au building....#also since this is a human au and they can all get injured #Im Putting Wally Darling In The Hospital #and im making it as emotionally/psychologically damaging to barnaby as possible #because thats the drama i live for babey! maiming and intense guilt!#nah dw im not gonna Maim him maim him. just gonna fuck em up a lil. broken bones and all that

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hazbincalifornia · 7 months ago

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People on twitter are talking about ‘proship’ to make their own definition for the 500th time, which I am not going to get involved in, but it’s always wild that I have seen multiple specific people (aka I’m not just hearing secondhand) who make a big part of their presence the fact that they’re Val fans have big PROSHIP DNI in bio.

Valentino fans.

#like buddy! pal! friend!#please look at your man! you are not immune!#if you think what people like in fiction equals reality then I am frankly Extremely Concerned!#funny enough it’s never ones who actually draw him interacting with Angel…#hmmmmmm can we maybe make some educated guesses on who is ‘romanticizing’ the character here #some wild swings #shut up shadow #I’d say this falls under discourse so

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arolesbianism · 10 months ago

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Sits in shambles I didn't read maybe Jorge's id correctly in the mysterious hermit logs the first god knows how many times I read them and only just now realized that it's the same id as the scientist that speaks in the agricultural notes log why must I be so bad at reading

#rat rambles #oni posting #on the bright side thats one mystery id kind of solved #by kind of I mean its most likely jorge but theres no way to comfirm it #this does make me feel like there might be some other b363 thing I missed but Im not sure if I doubt myself enough to go check rn #they are another character seen in story trait logs alongside an in game lifeform origin log just with critters this time #Ive made baseless speculation on who b363 could be based on what named characters we have without ids but its nowhere near confirmed #at least from what I remember but again Im starting to doubt myself a lil so I might double check at some point #the only idless characters we have fully marked off is nikola Im pretty sure #although based on the characters we do know anything abt itd most likely be either ada or liam but thats not saying much #ada is a fairly high probability tho since we basically 100% know that shes a part of the bioengineering department #liam possibly is too but thats more of a educated guess then smth particularly implied #Im glad I've finally realized who our lovely plant guy is tho #alas even if I find some hidden b363 content that still leaves I believe 3 ids unidentified #well we do know that at least one of them is steve but we don't know which one #and while we can take shots in the dark at who the scientist is theres also a second guard #and out of everyone we know bits and pieces abt theres no one who fits that bill or at least not anyone Im remembering #every other mentioned character is some flavor of scientist or is implied to be #not counting quinn but they are also off the table on account of not being a gravitas employee #so basically unless I missed smth the only previously established character that we know for sure is in that log is steve and the other two #could easily be any of the currently unused guys #and the other guard basically has to be unless theres scientists here that also double as guards

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sourkitsch · 6 months ago

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Idk what possessed me to check my work’s instagram at 12am but my first of 3 pride month posts I wrote got its first hate comment ! I literally told my coworker I was worried this would happen and he didn’t believe me. Cishet man, homophobia is alive and well. no matter how fond of you I am .you are an idiot

#2 more weeks of this let’s see if we can get 3 for 3 #one per post #each one is a queer woman who is either proven to be through like. real evidence. or in one case someone we can make an educated guess abou #literally the first post I made the woman was fucking married. she had a wife. everyone around her was like yeah they’re common law wives #and yet . UGH. she’s not even the cool hot dyke who I saved for last #anyway. literally at any given time this historical society has been like 50% queer women. like why would we not talk about this ?????????

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relto · 8 months ago

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there are currently some efforts in my work group to analyze experiment data using machine learning, and the expert wanted to present his first attempts today. some 10 minutes in the scientists started arguing so much about whether or not the first practice dataset (made by one of them) accurately represents the experiment data that the expert barely managed to finish the presentation.

#tütensuppe #i have zero stakes in this i thought it was slightly funny #youre all on the same team did you not. talk about this beforehand.#i think the main problem is that we dont actually know what exactly a successful detection looks like #you can make educated guesses but they were clearly going off a LOT of assumptions

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jennablackmorebooks · 1 year ago

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Sol's bedroom used to have red mahogany wood panels, and one of his more recent purchases includes a vintage velvet floral chair for his room in the duplex. Needless to say, the logical conclusion to his interior design inclinations is that he's going to be trying to put in a shag carpet next, except for that I don't think Kenneth would let him.

#either that or some bizarro wallpaper #Regards #Sol Ryding #dubiously canonical posts #aka it's so very true but the carpet's not actually in the text of the book #we can make an educated guess and say the 1970s threw up on this man's sense of what a good room looks like (affectionate)#those vintage floral chairs and couches are the best chairs and couches in the world btw I had to let Sol have one in Regards #writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing #book #author

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fieryphrazes · 11 months ago

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denmark/undated

#i mean we can make educated guesses based on the glasses & facial hair but.#robbie robertson

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bees-nest · 2 years ago

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Hey… I do not care what it’s about. If you reblog a post that says, “If you [like/think/do] x, I genuinely hope you die,” I am not going to follow you anymore.

#negative #discourse #i guess?? idk what else to tag for the blacklist #but i’m so tired of this dude #can we talk about things being harmful without wishing death on people. thanks.#tired of unfollowing people i thought were cool lol #i mean. even disregarding the ethics of it for a moment #do you want to change minds / educate or do you want to make people feel hurt and defensive?#bc you have chosen the latter and it is Not helpful

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