#functional categories

[for-a-longlongtime]

Pedro Pascal GIF Post For No Reason At All Whatsoever

No reason, really.

[wispurring-moss]

whatever might be wrong with me at any given moment—mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually—these two can fix me, i believe this to be true with my whole entire heart,, <'3 TwT9''

[lucifer-the-fetus-eater]

i fucking love the ubersaw it's one of the most "me when i fucking GET you" weapons ever

yk what i mean by that look at this thing

[scottpilgrim4everr]

When you’re being mean to me this is who you’re being mean to.

[soullessjack]

it genuinely kills me very slowly to think that some people can only ever think of jack as the destiel kid and not like an actual person with a myriad of maladjustments or silly funny personality quirks. like he has a whole special red and white fleece lined Christmas jacket and is canonically acknowledged as looking like a stupid hot white boy without any thoughts behind his eyes. He killed a whole fucking archangel and then decided that he really wanted to try making some friends like a week later. they wanna be normal and nice so bad and pretend to be some normal small town boy next door all the time but they were literally so angry once that it took three gunshots fired in the back to make him calm and reasonable.

he stress eats and stays in their room for weeks on end when they’re depressed or upset. they line their shoes up and fold their shirts and wear bright yellow vans and red hi-tops. he’s narratively paralleled to Anakin but his favorite character is Ahsoka. he pretended to be a coke addict and pretended to be a pretty new boy next door again to flirt with a hopelessly romantic girl. women want him and he’s absolutely clueless about it. women and men and probably fish fear him too. he dresses like a combination between an elderly man and a 70’s sitcom hippie. he was literally called Bieber and Suite Life. they like stripe patterns and Hawaiian pizza and movies and computers.

they’re literally an autistic person who just explodes shit when they get overstimulated. They watch riverdale and constantly sweep their hair back in a specific stylistic choice bc he likes looking like that. he fucking decapitated a whole Gorgon and then stole the guy’s snake as a trophy. he says shut up when he’s mad and calls things stupid and says they suck. he’s a teenage girl. he’s. A Teenage boy. He’s non-binary. He sat on the throne of god in grass stained jeans and clunky grandpa sneakers and left it all behind without even blinking as soon as his shitty bunker home called out to him. He sticks his tongue out when he’s focused on something and his left eye pulls up into a squint when he smiles reallt wide and his smile is crooked and he has sleepy eyelids . They decided to defy death herself just to rescue someone he mildly remembered caring about once and then blackmailed a reaper into helping with said rescue plan.

He got turned into the tiniest ugliest dog ever and got a thermometer shoved up his ass in the same episode where he’s narratively symbolized by the ouroboros symbol and makes the deliberate choice of destroying his soul just to selfishly keep his family bc he legitimately cannot handle thinking about losing them without going insane. his nicknames are sweetheart and darling boy and pal and buddy and Jackie Boy and slugger and he apologized to a girl for upsetting her like two episodes after ripping a man’s heart out and eating it raw. He literally actively wants to be a silly little guy that everyone likes but he’s so insane and unwell at the same time. he’s the best character ever and I need the entire world to understand this and to see him as more than just the destiel baby or I will also explode. .

[fluff-e-boy]

HiM(ilf)ERU

[balkanradfem]

Hey I was wondering if you can help me in remembering a book you read which was about tech companies ( i only vaguely remember it that's why I'm asking) that you've posted about here before? The only other detail I remember was that they were using people and the data they're gathered in unethical ways and that's it.

Yeah I know exactly what book you mean! It took me a day because I had to check my old hard drive to find the book. It's named 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism—The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power', and the author is Shoshana Zuboff. Here is the post I made about it!

And also you didn't hear it from me but if you wanted to listen to it, the 'audiobookbay' has it :)

[markantonys]

show!gawene might kill me dead guys, like the thought of show!egwene with her impostor syndrome, her desperation to measure up to others, her constant feeling like she isn't good enough, her deep-seated yearning for someone to tell her she's special - the thought of THAT egwene meeting a literal prince who worships the ground she walks on and thinks she is The Absolute Best Ever and will happily tell her every day how special she is 😭😭😭 i'm on the flooooor

and thinking of it in that sense, i am SO GLAD they haven't met just yet. because egwene has been brought to her lowest point and clawed her way back up again, she's figured out on her own that she's good enough and that she's special, she doesn't need a love interest or any other external source telling her that. but she figured it out in such a traumatic way that now she's going to swing too far in the opposite direction of becoming independent to an unhealthy extreme, always trying to do everything herself, refusing other people's offers of support, crossing over the line from independence into harmful self-isolation (hello rand foiling).

and then she's going to meet gawyn and he's going to chip away at her walls and tell her that she's special, and the young tower novice deep inside who's still been yearning to hear that from someone all this time despite trying to make herself hard enough not to need external validation is just going to MELT 😭😭 some version of their whole TOM resolution & bonding where egwene finally goes "yes, i am going to let myself be supported, yes, i am going to let myself be loved" would be SO cathartic in this context!

and yeah yeah egwene is a strong independent woman who doesn't need a cute boy's validation to be worth something - and she knows that too after s2, which is why it's so good she's found her self-worth before even meeting him - but goddamn if it wouldn't mean a lot to her to get that cute boy's validation nonetheless! hitting the "the love of her romantic partner enhances this specific female character's happiness and makes her feel stronger" note without falling into "all female characters need a romantic partner in order to be complete" is a tricky needle to thread, but i have 100% confidence that WOTshow will do it just right (not least because i'm sure platonic relationships will continue to be just as present and just as important and just as strengthening as romantic ones, for egwene and for rand and for everyone else too).

extra bonus points if they give gawyn some impostor syndrome/inferiority complex of his own as the younger brother of The Allegedly Most Perfect Man In The World (and heck, elayne and morgase are so externally perfect too that i could easily imagine gawyn feeling like a useless fuckup compared to the rest of his family, the one always getting overlooked because everyone else is fawning over the queen and the heir and the ~better~ prince). one of my very favorite gawene moments in the books is a small bit when egwene thinks about how galad had once seemed like the most beautiful man in the world, but now gawyn is more beautiful To Her because she loves him and because he's real and flawed and human and warm in a way galad isn't. so Getting That Sweet External Validation would go both ways! they've BOTH felt like they'll always be second best, and now they get to be first best in each other's eyes! they both get to be chosen as each other's first choice of partner! farewell, i have perished.

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all, I am blanking on a word so hard I am even blanking on the words to describe that word What's the term for like...groups of colors? color palettes but more specific? I'm looking for the generic term, but the specific words that are versions of that generic I can think of are things like earth tones, jewel tones, pastels, and maybe brights/neons I'm trying to figure out other categories like those but I cannot figure out what the word is to search

[wetslug]

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[problemswithbooks]

Is Cat a Kind of Inntinnsic?

The answer, the one I'm sure the author would give, would be no. The story in no way treats Cat's Gift as an Inntinnsic ability. Violet and particularly Xaden don't act as if what she does is at all similar to what an Inntinnsic does.

But I'd argue it has to be in order for it to work.

Because everything is first person from Violet's PoV or a rare chapter from Xaden, I sort of doubt the author really sat down and thought of how certain characters powers would work. If she did, i think she'd have realized Cat's Gift would function similarly to Xaden's second signet.

Cat can manipulate emotions. We're told she can't force someone to feel something they don't, but instead amplify what they do feel. On the surface that doesn't seem anything like an Inntinnsic ability. Where things become more complicated is how she uses that power.

If Cat can't implant an emotion, then she has to know what emotions the person is feeling. Sure, she could just be throwing her ability at people and seeing what sticks, or it could work in broad strokes; emotions overlap, so maybe any negative emotion can be made increasingly worse, while a good one amplified into pure elation.

I'd argue though that her power doesn't seem that broad, instead being pretty focused. Violet was easy to read so it wouldn't even have been hard to read that she hated Cat, and Cat threw out insults during their fight to make sure Violet is more susceptible to her Gift.

But the Venin she goes after at the end of the book wasn't as easy a read. She doesn't know this Venin. She's bragging and boastful, but whose to say that's greed and not pride? Or even done as a way to taunt Violet and make her more afraid?

Yet Cat manipulates the Venin without much difficulty, seeming to know exactly what emotions she's feeling without any trouble.

There's also the issue where people are generally feeling more then one emotion at a time. Violet is always in love with Xaden, but she can also be annoyed with him. Emotions aren't something that are felt one at a time--so how does Cat pick which one to manipulate without knowing instinctively what they're feeling?

I think it's very likely that Cat can either sense what people are feeling, or even see it (I'm thinking sort of like auras) and from there use her power to exaggerate which ever one she wants. It just makes the most sense.

But if that is the case, similar to how Xaden can read people's impulses and intentions, Cat could read their emotions. Now, that's not exactly mind reading, but Xaden's power isn't strictly reading minds either, yet he count's as an inntinnsic. To me what seems to make someone Inntinnsic is that they have no outward tell or rule for using their powers--they can just do it.

Dain isn't an inntinnsic because he requires touch to activate his memory seeing. As long as he does not touch you, you are safe from his ability.

Meanwhile, what makes inntinnsics such a security risk, is that they can activate their signet at anytime without anyone's knowledge. Xaden seems to be using his second signet constantly to read everyone, and no one has ever picked up on it at all.

In a way Cat's Gift seems to be similar in that she can use it without a hard and fast rule. She can just do it. If it works by letting her sense people's emotions, she could be constantly reading people Xaden does, but instead for intent, it's for their emotional state.

Does that not make her power Inntinnsic? Or at least Inntinnsic adjacent?

[bonefall]

Is it legal for us to submit Clanmew-related questions on days other than the thirtieth? I understand that in your recent ask etiquette post you stated that answers are PUBLISHED then, but is it okay for us to send in asks on other days of the month?

Yeah that's fine! Happens a lot actually.

[alltimefail-sims]

Is underwear still not its own category? I'm just surprised that it hasn't been moved to its own CAS category by now, especially with the release of a romance pack. Underwear and pajamas are not the same thing imo, but maybe I'm just weird?

[volivolition]

i was gonna make a post about "what the skills would say if you asked what their gender was" but honestly nothing is gonna top asking Encyclopedia and him just explaining the whole concept of gender to you without ever elaborating on his own. "What's a gender, you ask? Excellent question. Gender is a societal concept regarding-" and they take so long that you never get to ask the other skills.

[cant-think-of-a-good-one]