#copying the tags on the other post bc they're relevant and i want them to be seen

[mumbledramblings]

[Trigun OC]

Team "would rather die than admit something's bothering them"

So for the first good chunk of their relationship, Bad Luck and Vash were more "fucking" than "dating". Bad Luck was really apprehensive about romantic entanglements, and had been taken advantage of by a friend, in the past. (While not THE reason he was kicked out of his community, it was definitely related.)

However, Vash-- aware of Luck's hesitance but not of the reasons why-- already had a little bit of a crush on him. So when Luck stupidly offered a FWB situation, Vash accepted, thinking he could be chill about it. He quickly realized, no, he could NOT be chill about it, and spent the next few months relentlessly pining and feeling guilty and wanting to broach the subject, but never saying anything.

Eventually, Vash's crush gets revealed, and by that point Bad Luck has kinda fallen in love with him and they get together and Bad Luck insists that it's all fine, water under the bridge. Truthfully, though, he feels a little betrayed, and has this sense of "why the fuck would you think that's a good idea" towards Vash, hanging over his head. But he also thinks he has no place feeling this way because he never told Vash why he was so hesitant (and still hasn't), and also he does love Vash now anyway, so there's really no point bringing this up now and messing with the status quo, right?

And that's just the beginning of their relationship. There's a whole bunch of other plot-related problems they never talk about until after things boil over. Eventually, they'll get their acts together and talk through everything, I promise. Eventually. It just, might take until after the plot's fully resolved for them to get there.

[tanadrin]

#istg I thankfully live in a different world to all the people complaining about this#don’t get me wrong I am absolutely not doubting anyone’s experiences#I’m just so utterly baffled that I don’t share them given that I very rarely use the internet to order things#I use it for research - very often or particularly niche topics#and I have not noticed a decline in quality over the last however many years at all.#I was discussing this with a friend recently who also shared my confusion about these reports#we were wondering if there was some difference between America and other countries/continents#particularly (bc relevant to us) whether there were some EU regulations preventing it from being so bad here#I know I have also seen other posts about The Kids These Days not knowing how to do searches properly#bc they grew up not having to be so careful about picking key words and using AND OR and excluding certain terms etc.#and could just type in a question as a normal sentence#(which I rarely ever do)#I have no idea how much veracity there is to that#or even how plausible it is as an explanation tbh#suppose I could try and google it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#otoh I DID notice recently when someone sent me a link to a YouTube video for information purposes#(a crime in itself)#the tags on the video became increasingly irrelevant#like it’s for a B2 language exam#so the first bunch of tags are shit like ‘b2 writing exam’#’b2 speaking exam’#’b2 TELC exam’#but then there are a few in there that are ‘b2 Bomber cost per flight hour’#’b2 stealth price’#correction they’re not actual tags but just a long list of SEO terms dumped at the end of the video description

The context for this is that I live in Germany, but do the vast majority of my internet stuff in English; and in this particular case I had a very specific question I wanted to find an answer to, about how to approach a certain physics problem involving the force on a paramagnetic body in a magnetic field. There is plenty of information on Wikipedia on electrodynamics and magnetism and such, but the technical aspects are written for a much more technical audience than me. What I needed turned out to be simple--a rough approximation using Curie's Law and the equation for dipole attraction--but I had to rely on tumblr ppl (thanks again, guys!) to point me in the right direction, and even then I couldn't find any worked examples to show me how to solve a question I had involving units.

Search results other than Wikipedia were overwhelmingly SEO bait sites that copied text from Wikipedia while messing up the formatting, or which were designed to show up in any search involving terms like "magnetism," and had only trivially simple information in them. Beyond these search results, there were only pages in which one of the search terms showed up in a vaguely related way, usually as a branding term for an unrelated product or service.

Individual sites often remain useful for queries, if you know where to go, but the second you have to rely on general search for something, you're hosed. Maybe my question really was arcane, but it doesn't seem that way to me, and I feel like this is a pattern that has held for a lot of things I have tried to search for recently, even if they're not physics topics.

I really cannot begin to express how choked with SEO slop the internet is the second you are trying to find something that is not a mass produced consumer good you wish to buy from a major retailer. I hate it so much.

There used to be a couple of things--programming questions, for instance--that were still okayish to have to dig through Google for, but now even those are often very irritating to try to find answers for. We built this cunning device that could put all of our civilization's knowledge at our fingertips, and then we turned around and made it completely fucking useless.