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[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Burning Rotten Bridges

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[askfordoodles]

That one Emmrich banter with Neve about how someone in Minrathous sold him fake talismans and he's just incredulous that someone would even think to do that :0 😅

He really was pulling full 'do you really think someone would just go on the internet and tell lies???!' meme energy, like oh my sweet summer child, who always assumes the best in people...

Neve be like, 'oh yeah that guy lol, I know him'

and Emmrich is in full 'why are there no regulations for this? I thought mages were respected in Tevinter???' >:0

Neve just countering with the ole "why do you think I'm always so busy" xD

[aprito]

sos month day 10: rivalry

let's be real, the pool of other people fighting for sakura's (romantic) attention is not that big. in fact, it's just those three. and they're very insistent on making their distaste for the latest member of the pool known!!

bonus

[fascinatedfinch]

Day 5! Leonide

Gaslight gatekeep girlboss! No one does it like her (manipulates her way around the horrors and hierarchies of capitalism hellscape)

[lovely-------lady]

It is finally done!

Is it perfect? No. Did I run out of black floss when I had about 1/4 of it left to do? Yes. When I went to Joann's to use my gift card while I still could, were they out of the one floss I needed? Yes.

I ended up using pearl cotton because it was near the floss because it looked like it could get the job done and it was black. You can't really tell the difference from a distance.

For this reason, I'm calling this bad boy Perseverance (Percy for short).

I has been unseasonably warm this week, so I was hoping to wear this outside this weekend. Unfortunately I woke up to more snow.

Regardless, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

[cosmichorrorlesbians]

what's your dissertation about? you mentioned it in the siltcord and i'm really interested

oh my god hey I'm so happy you're interested! broad strokes because I've only been working on it for a few weeks but: the current theme is 'resistant landscapes' (both man-made and natural) in the later writing of Shirley Jackson!

Essentially, my main thread is that Jackson had two parallel strands to her work, which as far as I can tell began kind of interrelated but then diverged quite significantly? She's probably best known now for The Haunting of Hill House and to a lesser extent We Have Always Lived In The Castle, which are these. weird surreal psychological horror novels, engaging explicitly or implicitly with the supernatural, and centred around introspective, strange and sometimes deeply misanthropic female characters from isolated social units with dysfunctional, possessive relationships to each other.

Aaaaand then on the other hand she was known for being a 'happy housewife' who wrote these whimsical, quasi-autobiographical stories about all her children and how hopeless her husband was. These were popular too. Betty Friedan called her out in landmark 1963 feminist manifesto The Feminine Mystique for essentially spreading patriarchal propaganda.

The interrelation between the two is really jarring, because in one family is a source of horror and tragedy and in the other it's a source of, like... laundry. And Jackson's home life wasn't everything those stories made it out to be-- her marriage was unfaithful, her mother could probably be fairly called emotionally abusive, and as I talked about on the siltcord, she developed severe agoraphobia which often left her housebound.

So, yeah. My plan is to explore the depiction of families as constructed social units in dialogue with the environments they are constructed in in that work. Obviously a lot of that is relation of house to family, in the context of which Hill House is especially rewarding to consider, but I also want to look at relationships with nature and urban environments (especially in the context of settler colonialism and how that has had an enduring legacy in Jackson's particular part of New England), xenophobia (largely in regard to class, though racism and anti-Semitism are presences in her writing), domesticity and the idea of the housewife, and how horror relates to All Of This. The ideal of making a home within a hostile environment and of that environment turning on you, essentially.

I don't yet have particular areas of focus within that broad umbrella, but I might update with bits and pieces about it as I work? I don't really talk about academic stuff on here but I am very much Critical Literary Analysis Guy and I do also post relentlessly about haunted houses as a concept so if people would be interested in it maybe I will

anyway if you've read this far I recommend Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition (2024) by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing which is a book about how horror movie tropes can be mirrored in built environments! I'm reading it right now and it's conceptually fascinating plus fairlyyy comprehensible by academic standards (if a little dense) if you, like me, are a Fool who knows nothing of architecture. very good also for getting to look at pictures of some of the most Fucked Up Buildings (affectionate) you've ever seen.

[separatist-apologist]

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[tohruies]

first day of the conference has come to a wrap……. i am like this *^*

[thesaintofnevergettingitright]

If you watched the last episode of 911 you could be fooled into thinking that Buck is the main freak in that relationship, but never forget that, before Buck derailed the conversation, Eddie was fully acting jealous of a DOG.

“You sure bonded fast…” yeah bud, people do that with dogs. “You’d move for a dog?” This is another perfectly regular behavior. You’re being weird about your friend getting a pet.

They are freak4freak all the way, Eddie is just better at hiding it.

[whatwooshkai]

18!!

"Maybe we should call it a night," Boulder says gently.

"No," Chase says. "Not until I am confident these two are able to pass exams tomorrow."

Boulder gestures helplessly at Blades and Heatwave. Heatwave is face down on the table and hasn't responded to anything anyone's said for the past half hour, and Blades is staring daggers at a datapad, rotors constantly flicking in the vague gesture for "fuck off".

"Maybe we should call it a night," they say. "Recharge will probably be more useful than more studying."

"No," Chase says, harsher this time. One of his optics flicker, and Boulder winces in sympathy. "We will not fail. As a team, we are all responsible for each other's success, and I am determined to not fail them-" his vocoder suddenly cuts out with a burst of static.

Boulder gives him a sympathetic smile. "You seem pretty tired too, Chase. What are your levels at?"

Chase's mouth pulls into a frown that on any other bot would look like a pout. "No," he says, voice coming out clear this time. His optic flickers a little more. "My levels are perfectly acceptable and I am in no danger of shutting down," he says firmly, but the sentiment is a little less than believable with the haziness of his field and the way his doorwings and finials droop.

"Are you sure?" Boulder produces a cube from their subspace. "You don't look so good."

Chase's optics narrow. "I assure you, I am fine-"

He slams face first into the table.

Heatwave doesn't react, but Blades looks up. A hum Boulder had long since attributed to the ambience of the library suddenly stops, and Blades looks to Boulder. "Did I miss something?" he asks. His field teems with exhaustion as well.

Boulder sighs heavily, sticking the cube back in their subspace. "Nothing. We're packing up." They scoop up the datapads and shuffle those into their subspace as well, before walking around to Chase.

They gently pull a tube from their subspace, and just like back in the mines, pries open Chase's auxiliary fuel port, attaches the tube, sets it in the cube, and lets it be while they finish cleaning up.

Blades watches them with half-shuttered optics. "What are you doing?" he asks, staring suspiciously at Chase.

"He passed out," Boulder says, prying a datapad out from under Heatwave. He still doesn't stir. "I'm getting some fuel in him so he won't go into stasis. Here, give me a hand with Heatwave?"

Blades lethargically gets up and helps Boulder shuffle the unconscious firetruck onto their shoulders, before leaning against them.

"Stay awake," Boulder says playfully, giving Blades' shoulder a quick tap. "Don't make me carry you too."

"Never," Blades mumbles, but doesn't take his weight off of them.

Chase's clearly taxed systems take in the energon quickly, and his biolights get a brighter, but he doesn't stir. Boulder disassembles the feeding system and scoops up Chase by the waist under one arm. They take one look at Blades, then scoop him up under the other arm.

"Hey!" Blades protests weakly, but relaxes almost immediately, rotors drooping. "Y'know what, nevermind. Take me home."

Boulder shifts their shoulders so Heatwave settles a little more comfortably across them.

Then, with three mechs in tow, Boulder does as requested and heads home.

[wittywallflower]

ngl I would love to see Robby quit just so Gloria would have to scramble about it. Who are you replacing him with? Abbot who prefers the night shift (probably specifically to avoid Gloria)? Lets fuck up his circadian rhythm sure why not. Shen, who just became an Attending and hasn’t even been to an Attending-level disaster-planning meeting yet? Whoever else that we don’t know yet, who was supposed to work Robby’s shift that day when he was still planning to go to Pittfest himself, whoever this person is who gave up that shift when Robby’s plans changed?

“Step up, or step aside” Gloria, who exactly is going to fill his shoes??

[ranticore]

in mind of the spire idea of shortwing supremacy: what do they think of "atypical" shortwings, like divers?

their dominant ideology isn't one of simply "shortwing = best". they're also very xenophobic and that plays almost as much into how they view other people. a spire phocid is, to them, more respectable than a shortwing from the western continent. see, the spire is the world's only place of higher education. what this means in practicality is that spire civilians, a high % of which are shortwings, sure, but it's far from 100%, will view the rest of the world as something to be studied. obviously they believe they are the smartest, because for the love of god they need something to justify why they work themselves to death for professor approval for practically no reward other than a name change, but viewing other cultures and people through a scholarly lens can lead to those people becoming dehumanised (... for lack of a better term).

so to the question - if an atypical shortwing lives at the spire, that's great! if not, they're just primitive foreigners to be studied as novelty. after all we're calling them atypical, right?

qedivar himself, when he came to the spire, had the pleasure of being approached by a scholar who had published a thesis on qedivar's own dry breaks culture, which was wrong, and somewhat insensitive, and that scholar had been elevated to professor over it. he did issue a challenge over the legitimacy of that scholar's work and had it formally redacted which was very fun, but also pissed off a lot of people in the anthropology department which he had just joined.

[andallthatmishigas]

You know what, Glen? I don’t think your regards are the best. I think you can go get bent. Sincerely, Ariel (she/her)

[simcardiac-arrested]

never volunteer for anything university related man. also go listen to this

[cherlawa-panna]

One of my thesis reviewers finally posted a review and gave me the highest grade. He complimented me so much that I stopped stressing about defending my thesis on Friday lmaoooooo

[ducktracy]

Ever met Bob Bergen?

i have not, but i would certainly love to!

the only voice actors i've met have been in my native turf of Sponge-land... and they are all INCREDIBLY NICE!! i accidentally got Doug Lawrence's autograph, Tom Kenny gushed over my Popeye shirt i was wearing last year and showed it off to Bill Fagerbakke who i also got to talk to for like 20 minutes straight. i got to have a beer with Tom Kenny. Tom and Doug recognized me from the previous year's party. when i introduced myself to Jill Talley, i said "i work on The Patrick Star Show, i hear your voice all the time!" and she said "i'm sorry" LMAO. they're all so incredibly funny and nice and i hope to meet many more animation voice legends in my time, Bob being one of them! he's maybe the only other person i feel comfortably relinquishing my Swinentologist status to, as i may call myself Porky's #1 fan, but i haven't been voicing him for 35 years either..