#foundation investments

[manny-jacinto]

i’m actually grateful for apple tv+ who seems to be able to believe in their tv shows despite ‘low’ ratings.

based on wikipedia, they have 76 ongoing shows (drama + comedy):

- 27 of them were ended but 13 of them had at least 2 seasons which brings us to a 18% cancellation rate after their first season

- 18 of them (23%) were miniseries so their end is justified

- 21 of them are renewed but if if you add the 13 series that had at least 2 seasons, this brings us to a total of 35 shows that were renewed which is a 46% ratio renewal rate

apple tv+ renews half of their shows and i think we should be thankful for them in a time where netflix and amazon cancels 90% of their shows

[fictionadventurer]

I keep thinking about Lewis' review of The Hobbit, because he claimed that the main thing contemporary reviewers compared it to was Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Was fantasy in that poor of a state that Alice was the closest thing they could think of? Comparing that chaotic fever dream to Tolkien's intricately crafted world? Lewis does specify that the comparison is that both books are by an "Oxford professor at play", but they're otherwise so different that putting the two in the same category baffles me.

[bisthefairy]

The average Mario Kart character owns 35 shitty businesses

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[sistersorrow]

I generally try not to be elitist in whatever fandoms I'm in, but I have to make an exception for the SCP Foundation, cause 95% of the complaints I hear about it are just signs that whoever said needs to read more SCPs instead of getting all their information from content farms

Most SCPs aren't a bajillion words long like SCP-6500, most SCPs aren't generic uncontainable Things Which Kill You or doomsday monsters that are gonna scratch their nose which causes all of Europe to burst into flames, and there are still plenty of horror SCPs out there, the site has just over the years expanded from horror/copypasta to New Weird

The SCP Foundation has plenty of good content, you just have to actually read it

[xoxoemynn]

SNAKE KNIFE TIME LOOP SNAKE KNIFE TIME LOOP!!!

OKAY this is my most unhinged idea I will probably never write because it is just VIBES IN MY HEAD BASED ON NOTHING EXCEPT THINGS THAT WOULD BE AMUSING TO ME PERSONALLY BUT.

Poor Steak Knife is caught in a time loop where he just keeps dying of random, ridiculous things. Obviously what we see in 2x07. Getting bonked on the head with a flower pot. Eating fish that's gone bad. Tripping and falling into quicksand. Going to pet some animal that is super cute and cuddly but actually incredibly venomous. This gigantic man of pure muscle just keeps dying of THE most inane, ridiculous shit.

Until ONE DEATH he only loses consciousness and when he comes to, it's Roach caring for him. And as Roach nurses him back to health, they bond over their love of knives. They fall in love and together open the world's first hospital/restaurant. Because together, they understand more than anyone: knives are knives. Meat's meat.

Send me asks about my WIPs!

[adhdo5]

I do think that the "Foundation just throws away thousands of staff" thing is stupid. Have you seen how they treat their staff they just cannot have that many guys

[jabberwockprince]

head....full of math..... <- finished ch05 of r1999

[eldritchqueerture]

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[nvestiv]

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[musical-chick-13]

I DO, however, want to take the time to say that "Enjoying a dynamic as a horror story/as something incredibly fucked-up that should never in any way be replicated in real life" and going "Aw, look at them, they're in love, I hope they're together forever!!" are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

[nomairuins]

also its so dumb that one of the arguments ppl have against a sims 5 is that theyve already invested too much money into 4. like yes its fucking scummy that ea charges so much for dlc and its Ludicrous the amt sims 4 costs if you have all the dlc and its going to keep getting more and more expensive but . to be honest . why are you paying for sims packs. im sry

[t-s-n-s-s-a-g-turnip]

just finished reading foundation and earth and genuinely i am not sure if i have read a worse ending (chronologically at least i still have prelude and forward to read) to a series that i have ever read. maybe it would have been better if i had read the robot and empire series but its fucked up, it gives such a "magic was in play all along" feel that is awful, and like asimov always had these twists at the end of parts or of books but they all felt good and satisfying, like the plot being reveled in a mystery novel, but this feels like such bullshit.

[kate-apologist]

i dunno if i'll ever understand the the hate for series 8, like yeah some of the episodes don't quite hit (looking at you, kill the moon) but the character work is so phenomenal it's worth it for that alone. and culminating in that two parter?? uggggggh

[arielluva]

makeup didnt really do anything for me UNTIL i tried goth makeup for the first time and like. oh my god. that shit has me smiling like crazy and just. really liking what i see in the mirror... like earlier today i did my makeup and was stopping to smile at myself in the mirror, take pictures of myself, etc. i dont usually do that!