#i don't know jack about shit

[pearlescent--skies]

Dragonsdawn

Part 1, Original parasites Colonists There are 130-140ish people, (I’m using Sariel’s guide to Pern, which includes non-humans, and 6 families of unknown size), named in Dragonsdawn; 7 of them known to be children , and 24 are known to be born on Pern. This IS technically enough that you could have a colony, and given that they brought genebanks with them, the colony wouldn’t even have to be inbred to hell. Unfortunately, this DOES require every couple to have several children, and all of THEIR kids to have several kids, which is kind of unfair for these children who didn’t ask to be stranded on a alien planet with no hope of escape (THEY ARE LITERALLY MAKING SURE OF IT (God forbid you change your mind and want to leave the planet where DEATH RAINS FROM THE SKY)). It also expects all of the colonists to be competent, which they demonstrably ARE NOT. Thus, I’d up the colonist population to 500ish, in the hopes that we get some people who actually know jack about shit, and enough people who are willing to have kids, biological, adopted, or IVF/Banked. Secondly, There are only 18 dragons who survived the first hatching, one of which dies, and I REALLY don’t think that’s enough for a viable breeding program. The first hatching had 27 eggs, and Wind Blossom was making more, that hatched into 4 whers (justice for whers, justice for Wind Blossom! One of the only sane people here!) While they DID have to abandon Landing, I don’t see why they couldn’t have saved the INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT genetic engineering equipment, besides the fact that the people in charge were overconfident morons. Let’s say in this AU, we had sane people in charge, who understood the concepts of inbreeding, eugenics, and invasive species. This would be a MASSIVE change to the entire setting of Pern, Minor Notes: Names

Kitti Ping Yung should be renamed to Katharine Ping Yung. Give the poor woman some dignity. (a hard ask, since the asian women are named like strippers, although that’s true of all of the female background characters, tbh) Wind Blossom’s name should be Yung Xiaohua, since Wind Blossom is not a Chinese name, and this is a closeish literal translation that is used as a name. Chio-Chio Yoritomo is just Chio Yamamoto. I don’t know why she decided to double up her name like that, and Yoritomo is the FIRST name of a actual historical person. Desi Arthied: Worst last name known to man. Possibly a corruption of Arbied, which is his new last name. The Fusaiyuki family. Yuki is a perfectly acceptable last name, Fusaiyuki isn’t anything at all, and when I googled Fusai, it turns out it means a liability/dissapointment, which while accurate to how I feel about McCaffery’s choices, isn't going to be someone’s last name. Kenjo and Ito, however, are real names, albiet uncommon, so they pass. There are also SEVERAL people who are only identified with a single name, but this post is getting long as is, so I’m not going over them

Also looking over this list, almost all the people noted as “under suspicion”, who are major antagonists, or are otherwise problematic are implied to be of color. FFS McCaffery.

[aybeebz]

The drain plug got stuck...

No, he doesn’t wanna talk about it…

Lol, all jokes aside, I love the fact that Stanley's actually really mechanically inclined! I mean hell, how else has he kept that '65 Cadillac of his in such pristine condition??👀

Not to mention teaching himself basic rocket science and quantum physics to understand and rebuild the portal like WHAT

[littlefirefly42]

I feel like Sevika was the kind of mom to give Powder a little bit of whiskey every night because she had bad nightmares and the according to Sevika the screaming was annoying (but really it was because she cared about Powder and was trying to help her get through the night the best way she knew how)

Powder would be the kind of mom to wonder aloud if she should just shoot Isha with a tranquilizer to get her to sleep. And then Sevika would hit her lightly on the back of the head and tell her that's a shitty idea (but Sevika knows Jinx is also just trying to help her little girl the best way she knows how and gives Jinx parenting advice)

[t00thpasteface]

my grandma gave me an old fountain pen she used in college, a pastel pink esterbrook 1551 from the fifties, so i've been scribbling with it and trying to get the hang of it :p

[jarvislover]

is considering jacking off to be a sport one of the COVID symptoms

Art creds:

wp_38_mayonezx (on Twitter)

vv3spa (on Twitter)

karonnnnn02 (here on tumblr)

[sweaterkittensahoy]

Just cried laughing at a youtube thumbnail of someone who read Flowers in the Attic, and the text on the thumbnail was "PEOPLE LIKE THIS??"

Yes. I fucking LOVE IT.

But also, honey, I get that you hate it. I'm not going to watch the video because I don't trust you won't claim that my loving the best incest fuckery in the whole world makes me a dangerous degenerate, but I respect that you gave it a shot.

100% here for hating Flowers in the Attic, but in this house, we have that shit in hardback and are forever mad there isn't a single fucking accurate swan bed in ANY of the adaptations. INCLUDING THE ONE WHERE THEY CARVED THE WHOLE FUCKING BED.

IT'S A ROUND BED GODDAMNIT WITH WINGS AS FUCK COVER AND GAUZY CURTAINS LET ME SET DESIGN THIS SHIT WITH JOHN WATERS TO DIRECT

[leonidas1754]

Mishima and Akechi act as unexpected but interesting foils, for sure, and there's a number of things to talk about in that regard, but there's one little thing I come back to time and again, and that's their names.

Specifically, how both are called their family names instead of their given names. It's a detail I didn't pick up on at first, but once I did, I've never truly stopped thinking about it.

For Akechi, it's not really a surprise from any angle. At first, he's pretty much a public-facing stranger even after talking to him some, and by the time he joins the Thieves, he's blackmailing them and the Thieves are aware he's fully planning on betraying them. Any distance Akechi keeps, familiarity he refuses, makes perfect sense in the context of his character, and it doesn't need any real explanation because of that.

Mishima, on the other hand... There's definitely a strange sort of distance he puts between himself and Joker, deliberately keeping himself at an arm's length despite being so desperate for connection, and it's really interesting to think about. Early on it's probably at least partially idol-worship and such, sure, and not changing the name used to refer to a character likely helps avoid any confusion, but still... If Mishima had just been referred to as 'Yuuki', no one really would've batted an eye. There's seemingly no reason for it. We even know Shiho more by her given name, even if it's primarily because we know her through Ann, her best friend.

It just makes me think so much about how both of these characters are so isolated by their own choosing to varying degrees. And even at the end of the game, even if you max their confidants and such, that distance is still there.

Both view Joker as an ally, someone to be trusted, perhaps, but do either every truly think of him as a friend? Akechi's reasons and motivations are all too obvious, but Mishima's are hidden, kept apart, and it kinda drives home how little we know about Mishima in the end. He's one of the Thieves' greatest supporters and assets, but he's also almost meaningless.

Akechi is the famous person put on a pedestal, the broken and isolated child already too far down the path of self-destruction with no intent of turning back, the one you learn so much about but are ultimately helpless to truly save in the ways you might want to.

Mishima is... Nothing. He's no one. You don't know anything about him that anyone else doesn't already know. Even when facing his Shadow, you don't get to learn anything new, you don't see the true depths of his heart. And even that fact is so very easy to overlook.

[kingschclar]

now im not saying that id make out w billy from zenless zone zero until his knees give out but like..

[queenlua]

all of us who are snobs about Good Novels certainly have a lot to complain about, right? there are SO many widely-loved, widely-read novels that are bad bad bad, & us assholes gotta hear all about them

but

do you know who is really taking a nigh-lethal amount of psychic damage, on the regular, from Mainstream Opinion?

people who like good poems.

i'm so sorry, poetry enjoyers. you deserve so much better than whatever trite hogwash is going viral at any given moment. i hope there's enough good hipster shit getting published somewhere else to staunch your wounds

[an-honest-puck]

My god s1!Joel Maisel was a wet dish rag of a man

[cobra-creampuff]

i do love that everyone is visibly shocked and grieving when buffy dies, sobbing, crying, stumbling, etc, but spike fucking collapses

[the-acid-pear]

I wonder if the fact that Jack is always called out for smelling funny but Dave is never despite both being undead has to do with them rotting in different ways or if it's just because Jack has dogshit hygiene and Dave doesn't.

[piningpebbles]

the dream smp journey: attempting to make the lore of the dream smp more accessible.

so back when i first wanted to get into the dream smp i had absolutely no idea where to start. i asked some people and they told me pretty much “look up dream smp + [insert youtuber name] and start there” and so i did, but i quickly came to realize how much i was missing from the story by not seeing all the different points of view.

so i decided to make my own playlist.

it was just for myself at first, but as i got more obsessed with the story, i also gave the link to some friends of mine so they could have the full experience, and they loved it. so i kept updating it.

my goal was to try and make a capsule of the entirety of the lore on the dream smp across almost every single POV, because while i do appreciate those who make recap videos, they always miss something and it’s usually with peoples’ POV who aren’t considered to be “main characters” which sucks because one of my favorite things about the dream smp was how everyone was their own main character with their own individual storyline you could get invested in.

i’ve seen every single video in the playlist, and did my absolute best to discern what should be included and what didn’t need to be. 

for instance, while i personally enjoyed streams where they’d just goof off, this is a lore-centric playist so i didn’t include all of them unless one of the jokes or such gets mentioned/becomes important later on. or if there is a lore event happening but two people have almost identical streams to one another then i decided between the two of them which one to keep. or if the cc themself made an edited version of their experience, i would decide whether to go with that or keep the original vod

it’s far from perfect. i tried to keep up with it as long as i could I STILL HAVE VIDEOS IN MY WATCH LATER THAT I PLANNED TO ADD but simply put while the dream smp storyline got longer and longer it became harder to keep up with. i watched pretty much all the streams when they happened but failed to update the playlist accordingly so right now it has almost everything up until ”Hitting on 16.”

i always wanted to finish it before i posted it, but i’ve been seeing people talk about how they miss the experience of watching the dream smp and while i obviously can’t provide the full interactive experience that the dream smp offered as it came out, i knew i couldn’t just keep this in my back pocket and thought i could at least offer a good chunk of the experience for you guys to still be able to keep!

here’s the playlist, spanning over 300 videos.

there’s also a semi-canon playlist (not nearly as thorough) for events that get mentioned by the cc’s a lot or are just cool to have and i wanted to include them somewhere so here it is also!!

to go along with it i also made a masterpost (can you tell i love making lists) which is what every single video on the playlist is supposed to be (and was last i checked, but videos get taken down every so often so there might be a couple missing here and there).

i hope to update this one day and have it fully finished, but with my schedule (full-time college student babyyyy) and simply the hundreds of hours of content i’d need to sift through it just seems impossible (and frankly just really intimidating) to challenge alone right now. so i also wanted to give this to the community to maybe be able to do what i couldn’t!

my hope with this is that if someone in a year or two (or whenever really) is interested in the dream smp they won’t have to sit through recap videos and instead can watch the real thing in a single playlist connected to the doc. my dream is for the masterpost and the playlist to go hand-in-hand, being like a guide people can follow that would also link to other moments and lore that is saved but just not avaliable on youtube, so we don’t have all these moments just lost to time.

i want to make this collaborative, i’m hoping this will maybe spark others to share what videos/moments they have saved and stored with each other for the dream smp and maybe together we could complete this thing somehow!! make the playlist and masterpost i dreamed of (the one right now is scuffed, but at least it’s something). the dream smp is one of my absolute favorite pieces of media out there and i want to share this with people but (as you can probably tell) i have no idea what i’m doing!! any step to help make the story more readily accessible is a good one, though!

i know i’ve missed things but i’ve done my best. and while not the perfectly polished thing i hoped it would be when i sent it out to the world maybe it could be a good building block for the community to use. so please share this!! reblog it!! all that jazz!! i want this to be for everyone!!

anyways, this is a long post. but the whole reason i got into the dream smp in the first place was because of the awesome fan content i saw and this crazy and creative community and i want to be able to give back, if i can.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[crispy0nion]

my mom has been a huge star trek fan since forever so i wanted her thoughts on this whole canon spirk situation and just as i thought, she just said aromantic rights

[loquarocoeur]

had to do some weird ass short story writing assignment for school today and i was literally so tempted to use yours verse max and charles as my characters but then after considering who my teacher i decided i shouldn’t, but after reading your fics i gotta say i think my writing has advanced by picking up the way you word things (which is like majestically)

The way I word things is not english teacher friendly I fear. Trust me. I would know.