#i ramble about things

[jaywings]

Trying to look for new good fantasy books is so tiring

I'm gonna start a new book genre. It's called #Noromantasy. I think it'll catch on

[profoundlyconfusedbeing]

Having Crossover ship brainrot is the worst sometimes. Specifically if said ship just exist in your mind alone (and also in your friends minds who you talk to about them. But there is no content to consume except the one you make yourself.)

This is about Alex Rider/Justus Jonas (primarily at least. This is also about Alex Rider/Peter Shaw, Alex Rider/Bob Andrews and Alex Rider/Justus Jonas/Peter Shaw/Bob Andrews)

With Alex Rider/Artemis Fowl ||, I at least have content to consume, besides the one I make myself. Alexmis my beloved. (Literally the peak of crossover shipping. They are so ingrained in my mind that I can’t think of them not existing in the same universe.)

Listen the huge amount of crossover fics (AR x D3F [and by extension AF]) I have in the works are just not getting finished and instead my list of planned fics is getting longer and longer and longer.

On that note. I need to know if the are people, who would actually be interested in reading them. I mean I am planning on publising them anyway, once I actually finish the original one, but still.

[just-another-jumblr-queer]

Just finished Finding God by Sonsino & Syme

(Ignore the barcode I think this was an ex-library copy or something)

It was recommended to me after I mentioned having grown up Strongly Atheist (and culturally Christian) and therefore struggling with the idea of god (I can’t remember who by now I’m afraid but it was someone on here so in the small chance you see this, thank you for the rec!).

It was quite a short book (I think it’s only about 140 pages?) but it was very interesting and made me feel a bit calmer about the whole god thing. I don’t think I 100% identified with any of the approaches they mentioned but I was surprised that I found some that made a lot of sense to me. I was expecting to come out feeling even more alienated than before (as has happened when I’ve investigated other concepts of god in the past) and was pleasantly surprised to find that wasn’t the case.

It’s very much an introduction to these ideas I’d say. Each chapter is pretty short (I think they’re around 10 pages each roughly?) and kinda cover the basics of each approach. There’s defo some that piqued my interested and I need to spend some more time looking into them I think.

Overall, I really enjoyed the book. If nothing else, I’ve learnt more about myself and my own views. I find it almost… relieving I guess? to know that it’s okay for me to not be sure. My mum is a Christian and when I mentioned about looking into Judaism, her first response was “it’s all the same god” but her view of god is much more… person-shaped if that makes sense? than I think mine might be. And I was worried “what if I’m doing it wrong”. I feel a bit more reassured that I do actually have something worth giving.

I also just really liked the quote:

“A famous writer once remarked that friendship begins at that moment when one person says to another, “You too? I thought I was the only one!” If that is true, then some of you are about to make a new friend.”

Anyways. This wasn’t particularly ordered. Thank you for reading my random rambles.

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

[flame-shadow]

hey did you know??? that if you stop stretching and maintaining mobility in your body then it goes away?? things get tight and you can't move the way that you used to??? and when you decide to try getting a stretch routine going that the first week fucking sucks because you keep going 'damn i used to be able to do this no problem' and then you have to switch gears and be kind to yourself and just focus on getting better from here instead of berating yourself for dropping the good habits in the first place??? and your body never stops aging so you gotta keep taking care of it and sometimes you gotta take care of it extra in certain areas because of things that happened when you were younger and it's boring and sometimes hurts but it's so necessary???

i am yelling this at myself right now i am going through An Experience (trying to get into a routine of body maintenance again for my physical and mental health)

[lazylittledragon]

can't believe we're all adults being forced into the club penguin level of censorship in 2024

[adjit]

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.

I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that they’re not even good at [x] anyway. And that’s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.

I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they can’t be a bad person!

And you know. That’s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think it’d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.

[herhurthoneyheart]

I will forever be the person who says "it’s okay, I understand.." even when my heart is breaking into pieces..

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[jaywings]

“The mortifying ordeal of being known” how about the mortifying ordeal of learning that the horror movie that scarred you for life as a kid was not only critically panned but also starred Ryan Reynolds

[peofun1]

playing MTG with people who have been in the game for like 20 years is so insufferable sometimes

every turn they're like "I play Cock Goblin of Guzzleberg" and everyone else at the table nods and goes "ah yes of course, the Cock Goblin, classic" and doesn't explain.

so I'm like okay. what does that do. and they go "well it has a Guzzler effect" and I'm like okay great what the FUCK is a Guzzler Effect™

and then after like 10 minutes of trying to get them to explain, eventually I figure out that there was a card called Guzzler Greebling that was only printed ONCE in 1998, and its text was "when this creature ETBs, everyone at the table has to suck your dick" and this card got so popular in Standard at the time that now all effects that involve dick-sucking are called "Guzzlers" by the players

[cometchasr]

having hubris and insecurity at the same time, as well as hiding it from everyone, is very fun

[forgettable-au]

END OF CHAPTER ONE

FORGETTABLE-AU (Page 65-72)

* Time to put this puzzle together.

[BEGINNING] [PREVIOUS] [CONTINUE]

[starry-bi-sky]

on a completely separate note; shizun luo binghe with a disciple shen yuan who fell into the abyss??? *thinks about LBH canonically stealing SQQ's corpse for 5 years* he'd hallucinate i think. like, like visual and audial hallucinations.

Keeps thinking he's seeing SQQ in the corner of his eyes, or wandering between the trees, amongst a group of disciples. Thinks he hears him calling for him, but its just the wind or another disciple.

Gets Xiu Ya reforged but patently fucking refuses to make a sword mound. Because his disciple Is Not Dead :))) There was No Body. He's Not Dead. And If You keep Insisting That He Is, He's Gonna Skewer You :). He's holding onto Xiu Ya so he can return his most favored disciple's sword when he returns. It's on his hip right next to Zheng Yang where it's supposed to be.

Also this motherfucker?? does not sleep btw. He has the image of SQQ, wide eyed and hysterical and standing at the mouth of the abyss burned into his fucking eyelids. Can't use the dreamscape to escape it either because he keeps trying to save him and either he does and it's an incredibly cruel trick to wake up to, or he doesn't and he gets his heart broken in several different pieces again.

There is no convincing this man that Shen Qingqiu is dead. Absolutely nothing at all. He is buried so deep in denial that moles would be jealous of how deep he is. He keeps making tea for two in the bamboo house only to remember that it's just him. SQQ's fans are hiding everywhere, little reminders of his presence. He goes to wake up SQQ on the mornings he sleeps in-- only to find the room empty.

[lazylittledragon]

made a sticker for anyone to slap onto their work if they need to