#deeply stupid post

[karcatgirl-vantas]

lot of people have OPINED on this post that i got it INCORRECT and id just like to SET THA RECKORD STRAIGHT,,,

"touchy" is not the corresponding adjectives for the tactile sense to "smelly," "tasty," and "noisy"!!!

what is a "smell"? it is a sensation of the type that the sense of smell perceives. it is a "quale" (<- singular of qualia apparently) of the sense of smell. "smell" + "y" = "one of the type of sensation you get thru your nose" + "adjectival form of previous, describes what it is like"

the word "smelly" meaning "bad-smelling" implies that if something is a "smell" [and therefore "smell-y"] then it smells bad. by construction the word "smell-y" means "has the characteristics of a smell" but by convention it means "smells bad". therefore something that has the characteristics of a smell is something that smells bad. therefore the default kind of smell is bad. likewise if something is a "taste" and therefore "taste-y" it tastes good, "having a taste" = "tastes good." "noise-y" things sound unpleasant, "having a noise" = "sounds unpleasant".

but the prhase "a touch" does not serve this lexical role for the sense of touch. "a touch" is not a texture or a quale of the sense of touch. things with textures or things which feel like things to touch do not "have a touch" or "make a touch" or anything like that. you could maybe make the case for "feely"? but feely on its own does not mean anything. so there is no default kind of haptic quale the way there is self-evidently a default type of quale of hearing or tasting or smelling.

"sightly" has also been suggested as the corresponding adjective for the sense of sight. it is not as egregiously wrong as suggesting "touchy" for "touch" but i contend it is still illegitimate here. something that smells a certain way clearly "has a smell," something that tastes a certain way clearly "has a taste," something that sounds a certain way "makes a noise." does something that looks a certain way "have a sight"? "make a sight"? do anything "a sight"? no. and if that is not sufficient "-ly" is not the same suffix as "-y" at all! the "-y" suffix is widely attested as literally meaning "has" or "is" or "makes" or "is like" or similar, for whatever is prepended to it. the "-ly" suffix barely ever makes adjectives at all.

the word "smelly" is very straightforwardly constructed in such a way that it should mean "has a smell," but in fact it means "has a bad smell," which is why we can draw conclusions about the default way that things have smells from it. the words "touchy" and "sightly" are not straightforwardly constructed in this way. they merely gesture vaguely at the senses they are associated with

the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

[txttletale]

people online: hi! nice to see you online how's your day been :)

people in real life: its disgusting that theyre teaching woke and lgbt in the schools now. i don't want my kid to grow up ashamed of being white and a man and not an islamist transgender. i just dont see why all these immigrants cant just go back to their own countries

[torridturncoat]

deeply annoying time to be alive to be honest. when so many usamericans feel the need to express a personal opinion. no burger baby.....tas equivocado

[scarymonsters-andsupercreeps]

Haunted by screenshots from this game

[mooniewritess]

based on this lmao hi @angelscriptures

"Heeeey, baby?" You poke your head in the living room, where your husband, Nanami, is reading a book on the couch. "Yes, sweetheart?" He asks, not looking away from his book. "You know how Gojo loves us very much?"

He tenses at your words, now closing the book as he raises his head to look at you. "What?" "Yes, you know, he says that a lot. And you know, he would never do anything to embarrass you..." You continued, standing in the doorway.

"We both know that's very much a lie, darling. Where are you going with this?" He inquires, his eyes flashing with confusion and worry.

"Well... he gave me a photo album of when you were first years..." You reveal with a grin, showing the album and opening it at a specific page. "And I stumbled upon this picture of you..." You point at the picture in question, your lips twitching with barely contained laughter.

His eyes widen when he sees the photo, groaning and taking his head into his hands. "Good grief." He mumbles, a faint blush creeping up his neck. "I thought I got rid of it."

"Oh, you surely tried. But Gojo had made a copy. Multiple copies, actually." You give in to laughter, sitting on the couch next to him. "You were mewing before it was a trend! Do you think this is why your cheekbones are so defined?" You point out like it could be of any consolation — which only made him groan again and sink his head further into his shoulders.

"I wish I could have been there to witness you in all your bangs grandiosity." You twist the knife, making him exhale a desperate sigh.

"Honey, I can't stress enough how glad I am that you weren't there." He replies, finally taking his hands off his face to turn to you. "I'm begging you. Please never bring this up again."

You gasp offended, a hand clutching your chest. "How could you ever ask me something like that? I'm supposed to forget my dear husband's embarrassing pictures just like this? Absolutely not." You shake your head, determined. "I'm going to get every detail of your teen years, that's a promise."

"More like a threat." He sighs in defeat, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"I'm going to kill that white-haired idiot."

[mamawasatesttube]

halfway thru 2025 and there are still people who will have a meltdown if you suggest that a m/m relationship doesn't actually have to have a defined Man™ And Woman™ um whoops i mean Top™ and Bottom™

[lady-of-the-spirit]

annoying as fuck to see people acting like Madam Jin made excuses for Jin Zixuan and tried to pressure Jiang Yanli into marriage with him as if 99% of her scenes aren't her going "I'm sorry about my stupid loser son's behaviour Yanli dearest I'll make him apologize if it's the last fucking thing I do don't worry about a thing"

[orlopsexdungeon]

hickeycrozier james bond vibes. middle aged alcoholic leading man from the uk goes to exotic local on behalf of empire. shares one scene with a mysterious twentysomething smokeshow named something stupid like holly goodhead or xenia onatopp or cornelius hickey. said twentysomething smokeshow immediately restructures their entire life and ambitions around the pursuit of middle aged alcoholic leading man's cock. in the final act leading man watches twentysomething smokeshow die in a truly peculiar manner

[badnewswhatsleft]

Joe™️

I love to make music with the friends in my band Riffing on my guitar with my relentless right hand I get up on stage and rouse lots of noise Playing rock and roll with my fall out boys. My Birthday is September 1

[atopvisenyashill]

Worst thing dany did? I’m a little torn. My gut would have me jump to the execution of mmd but I’m not sold. I’m also tempted to consider her agreeing to take a cut of profits from slavery or agreeing to allow those people to be tortured. Other things she did wrong seem more like inexperience and things that were results of her imperfect but not wrong actions. Burning someone alive is pretty cruel, but dumping burning oil and tar is also something Jon and the other boys at the wall do, and I think Dany believed she might die in that fire as well—kind of like a moment of if I am wrong may I suffer the same fate moment. I guess her intent doesn’t really matter in the assessment but I think I’m a bit swayed by the fact that in that moment her world had fallen apart twice over and she also had suffered a miscarriage versus her comparative safety and stability when making seemingly cruel decisions in Meereen

Ya i go back and forth too.

The thing with Mirri is that Dany is well aware that what happens is not Mirri’s fault and that’s a bit of a pattern with Dany - she lets her anger run away with her & she does some heinous shit because of that. I don't think Mirri was purposefully trying to kill Drogo and Rhaego. They specifically don't listen to her advice-

His eyes were fixed on distant brown hills, the reins loose in his hands. Beneath his painted vest, a plaster of fig leaves and caked blue mud covered the wound on his breast. The herbwomen had made it for him. Mirri Maz Duur's poultice had itched and burned, and he had torn it off six days ago, cursing her for a maegi. The mud plaster was more soothing, and the herbwomen made him poppy wine as well. He'd been drinking it heavily these past three days; when it was not poppy wine, it was fermented mare's milk or pepper beer.

He takes her poultice off with his dirty hands and she puts a soothing - but likely not antibacterial - poultice on it instead.

Mirri Maz Duur studied Drogo, her face still and dead. "The wound has festered."

That's not a woman who is purposefully trying to get one over on Dany. That's a woman who is frustrated that her patient is not doing what she told him to do while her life hangs in the balance. Mirri warns Dany not to come in the tent, Jorah brings her in anyway, and Dany recognizes that this was Jorah's fault. The very first "if i look back I am lost" comes during this moment-

Ser Jorah had killed her son, Dany knew. He had done what he did for love and loyalty, yet he had carried her into a place no living man should go and fed her baby to the darkness. He knew it too; the grey face, the hollow eyes, the limp. "The shadows have touched you too, Ser Jorah," she told him. The knight made no reply. Dany turned to the godswife. "You warned me that only death could pay for life. I thought you meant the horse." "No," Mirri Maz Duur said. "That was a lie you told yourself. You knew the price." Had she? Had she? If I look back I am lost.

This is why I think it's kinda crazy when people make her "if i look back i am lost" into some sort of powerful rallying cry of justice or feminism or whatever. It's a rationalization. Instead of confronting the fact that Drogo got himself killed and that Dany understood very well the consequences of the magic she asked MMD to do, she buries it, and burns Mirri alive. I get she just had a miscarriage. I get she's young and upset. But Mirri is nothing but good to her and dies for it.

That's why I tend to come at this as being her worst moment, even if it doesn't have quite the level of destruction as sacking Astapor or torturing the wineseller and his daughters. Those are like, colossaly bad decisions but they're ones she's making on a political level. This one is all personal and all the more cruel for it to me.

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

nope, still annoyed at the fact that Andor gave itself the neatest, most poignant way out of both the question "why is Bix not around in Rogue One" and "at what point does Cassian start doing things that he actively resents doing" (because so far he doesn't seem to feel a large amount of guilt - yes, he says the faces haunt him, but he seems very convinced he can live with it), plus being able to make an actual point about sacrifice while doing it - and then they used it instead for a cheap "badass" moment to end the arc on, even though it once again makes Bix all about her trauma with very little agency and opportunity to show off her skills or qualities, opens a bunch of plot holes and is still just setting her up to die for Cassian's manpain soon.

Because bringing Gorst back into the narrative is actually brilliant. They clearly can't figure out anything else that Bix has going on (not gonna rant about that here. again.), so it only makes sense. But it also actually presents a perfect moral dilemma:

Lonni is running the expansion of Gorst's heinous torture programme

he has likely passed this information on to Luthen, who in turn knows what happened to Bix

Bix cannot move past what happened to her, and clearly has violent fantasies about killing him, suggesting she would jump at the opportunity to kill that guy

killing Gorst would also sabotage or possibly end the torture programme

BUT any attack on Gorst, whose existence and programme is very hush-hush, will also immediately tell the ISB they have a mole very high up

now, you hand Cassian all these cards, and then you give him some kind of mission where he runs across Gorst, and recognises him. You put them in some office alone together, the doctor's back is turned, Cassian has a hand on his blaster - and, understanding that revenge is not worth blowing up their eyes and ears at the top of the ISB because almost nothing would be... he drops his hand, and politely excuses himself, and lets Gorst live.

Then, you have him either confess this to Bix or let it slip on accident. She cannot forgive him, and he cannot agree with her - because it is the greatest possible betrayal of her, but that doesn't make it the wrong choice. Then you have them split over this, and have Bix cut ties with Luthen and all the other rebel contacts too. This could be a more peaceful endpoint for her (she is, at least, free from Cassian and this Rebellion she has no agency in), or, if that is too defeatist, make her last appearances ones where she starts stalking this guy on her own. This way, she actually gets her revenge without needing an assist from the Cool Rebel Guys. So she kills Gorst independently of the Rebels, and depending on how bleak you want this ending to be, she either gets away with it and finally gets to leave Coruscant, or she gets arrested. If she gets arrested, her getting framed as a rebel terrorist for it and it serving to whitewash Gorst's actions to the public, actually boosting the programme, could be very terrible and poignant. But maybe we end on her arriving in some prison camp where she is celebrated as a hero by the other inmates, and hey, we could end it at an ambiguous shot of a rebel ship overhead, suggesting that maybe they're going to be liberated. You know, bring that hope theme from Rogue One back just a little bit.

Anyway, this accomplishes several things that the ending of the Gorst storyline we got does not:

Gorst's return actually serving some narrative purpose over "needs to come back so his death can allow Bix her Moment"

allowing Bix some actual agency and competence that doesn't smack of plot contrivance (instead of a half-minute sequence of her swanning in and out of an ISB building with no explanation or consequences)

moral conflict instead of an oddly unambiguous "you go girl!!" moment that the show has so far always avoided

pushing Cassian further to where he needs to be if they plan on lining him up with his R1-personality even slightly, and putting him more on Luthen's side instead of pitting him against him

allowing them to keep their mole without this becoming a plot hole

give Cassian something to feel genuinely guilty about without that compromising his belief in the cause or needing to fridge yet another woman to do it

[ants-personal]

also thinking about benson who watches and wants to help randy but is unsure how to plus he secretly wishes randy would just snap one day but still but he does help a little behind the scenes he thinks randy doesnt know its him like stealing back items chris takes from randy and placing them in back in randys locker when randys given a list of all the cleaning that would be impossible to finish on his own benson sneaks glances at it and then quickly snd quietly cleans it before randy sees or so he thinks

cause randy knows its benson hes seen him thought about just thanking him but hes to well awkward and what if benson does it in secret so no one knows hes kind to randy of all people so he tries to just make things easier for benson like taking register when they work or accidently bringing too much lunch from home his mom thinks he need more weight on his bones and benson is always so reluctant at first but he takes the food always even if its to take home to ma

[mamawasatesttube]

still reading through green lantern stuff and yknow i have to admit. the harder johns and co try to tell me i have to like sodam yat, the less fucks i find myself giving about him. sorry sodam yat but there is nothing that turns me off a character more than the author shoving them down my throat!

[cinnabar-circus]

2023 | 99

[shinelikethunder]

society if anyone in supernatural season 4 had pointed out that reciting a few dozen words of latin may take half a minute longer than Sam's Hot Girl Shit demon power-extraction trick, but the exorcisms they already know how to do don't come with an escalating risk of walking away with black eyes and are, like, the exact same level of less-lethal

(...than the gun and knife also supplied by Ruby, btw. with instructions that are just "everybody get real cool with a bunch of human sacrifice really quickly." which could mean nothing!)

--FUCK, what if. what if being hopped up on demon meth just, like, completely nerfs your ability to do an exorcism. sorry, won't work, too unholy rn... Ruby would only need to get him to try it once and then convince him the hot girl shit is now his only nonviolent option

[verecunda]

AU we deserve: Caranthir saving Aegnor/Andreth by giving Aegnor the angriest pep-talk in history, going off at length about how the women of the Edain are valiant and honourable and deserve fucking better, fucking sons of Finarfin, most useless fuckers on this side of the Sea or the other, I don't give a damn what Finrod thinks, you are going back to that woman and you are going to do the right thing by her. It ends with him dragging Aegnor by the ear back to Ladros and dumping him at Andreth's feet like "This idiot has something he wants to say to you." >:[