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writerofadream · 1 year ago

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Fortune favors the Bold ⛓

Chapter Two: Meet the Stars

TDI! Duncan x Juvie Bestfriend! Reader

Duncan and you had been separated for around three hours now, you had both on seperate boats and you were aleady getting twitchy. You both had brought a total of four things from juvie, as well as two confiscated items of yours. Duncan had bought his switchblade, a handheld pistol, a bracelet, his meds, a picture of his mom, as well as a small heart locket that held a picture of you when you were around nine.

You had bought a handheld pistol, a dagger with your initials on it, a locket that had a picture of Duncan in it, a picture of seven year old Duncan and you, a deck of cards, and lastly a lighter.

The older boy had been furious when Chris informed you that neither of you would be on your meds for this little 'expedition.' and by furious I mean, had quickly shoved Chris into a wall holding a knife to his throat. "I can deal without my shit. But unless you want a fucking wild animal released she get's her shit at least once a week got that, asshat?" Duncan hissed. Chris's eyes flickered towards you, as you took a selfie of the two while doing a piece symbol with a large smile.

You were crazy.

He loved crazy.

Crazy made money.

Chris didn't want you on your meds. His exact words were that you were "So much more fun without them!" he didn't seem to mind the fact that Duncan had shortly thereafter had shoved him into a wall and put his forearm to his neck. "She's going to get her meds, at least once a week, every friday, got that?" he had whispered. "You know what that's a great idea. She'll have this strange contradicting personality, people will think she's crazy!"

Chris truly, loved an insane idea.

You had leveled the gun at his head in record time, your phone gone in a flash. "Don't, call me crazy." Your voice was shaky.

"If you say so scorpion. Let's get a move on!" Chris smiled patting your shoulder as he quickly got guards to seperate you and Duncan both. Now you were on a boat on your way to an island which sure looked nice from the picures.

The medicine you took kept you steady, kept you from losing your cool on everyone around you. It kept you sedated, calm, cool, and collected. Without you turned into an injured animal that had just been cornered.

Wild, rabid, and feral.

So that was the deal, you would get your meds every friday because then you'd have a confusing contradicting personality which would get viewers intrigued and therefore more money!

The weekend after Chris had picked you up, he had seven armed guards seperate you and Duncan and put you on two different boats. Duncan had yelled for a long time and eventually got three of his guards down. You had broken the finger of a guard that had grabbed your shoulder and had broken the shin of one of the others.

You were staring at your hands by the time you felt the boat hit the dock slowly. They were already shaky. Your eyes flickered upwards and your stomach was quickly full of dread. It was a dump, the island, was an actual god forsaken waste of space. You jumped off the boat not bothering to find the ladder.

"Here she is, Y/N our resident scorpion." The insane TV show host yelled from his post on the dock. Your eyes flickered quickly around the island, at least what you could see. A pit formed itself in your stomach. "This was not what we were told, Mclean. I don't like being lied too." You nearly screeched at him, you were seething with anger.

"Oh I know princess. Your parole officer told me about that. She also told me to tase you and bring you back if you started making a fuss." The psychotic man smiled at you. Duncan watched you wearily from his spot on the dock and noticed your stance.

Hands clenched, body tense, eyebrows furrowed, eyes slitted, jaw set. Yes, all the looks of a L/N, ready to pounce.

Suddenly before you could jump there was arms around your shoulders and hands around your waist. "Scorpion, you better put that tail of yours down. I'm too pretty to die!" Chris giggled as Duncan dragged you away.

He grabbed your waist right before you could jump at the TV host. "Hey, ain't worth it, Y/N. We both know it." He hissed in your ear and gently threw you into the group of people. You sighed your body untensing and your fingers found his.

You stared at the people around you. A pretty blonde with a surfboard, a goth-chick who was fine as hell, a girl who clearly looked like she got everything she wanted, a girl with brown hair that seemed nice enough, a buff girl in a blue outfit, a girl with a shit ton of additude, a set of girls you would've thought were twins, a dude everyone thought was fine (you didn't see it), a tall chubby blonde boy, a nerdy looking redhead, a kid who was clearly homeschooled, a short boy who was looking at the goth chick with a huge smile, a dude who clearly played the guitar, a sporty dude, a blonde muscle-boy with a hat, and lastly a goody-two-shoes who was cute.

Suddenly you heard a loud yell and saw a flash of redhair hit the dock. Courtney ran to grab the girl out of the water. "She could be seriously injured guys." She scolded your group.

"If she thinks a concussion is a serious injury you've never actually been hurt have you?" Duncan laughed and honestly you had to resist the urge to giggle as well.

A chance of 100,000 dollars, and the ability to fuck around with some assholes?

This is going to be the best couple weeks ever.

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ntls-24722 · 24 days ago

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half a sketch dump bc I've had these on the backburner for like... a week at this point 💀

The holy trinity. What I was trying to play with was Rinkalla having a weirder beard - the original concept for her hairstyle was that she's always wanting to do stuff with it. What I thought would be fun is if she had one of those giant, detailed, decorated beards you see in a lot of mesopotamian art. That and it'd make sense for the time period that homo mousike's in.

Solidifying Bugs + the lionflea redesign where I bit the bullet and went straight up dromaeosaur.

Bugs are 8 legged "mollusks" rather than being fully hardshelled, and due to not having a full carapace weighing them down, bugs got huuuuuuge, from being as small as our insects to being as big as elephants. They're pretty much nautiluses that got up on land and evolved to walk on their tentacles with concentric muscles rimming their muscle groups to add support, and they retained their shells as a beetle-like carapace on their backs. Wings are extremely common just like they are in our insects, coming from a derived antennae - The edges of wings are covered in the chemosensory hairs that allow them to smell and taste, and bug ear canals are at the wing-armpits, allowing them to create an external ear when their wings fold up around them.

The ancestors of lionfleas are these occasionally bipedal, beetle-mantis-ospreys that evolved their back limbs to become tails. Lionfleas began to lose more of their limbs as they became more and more bipedal, and during their "ground owl" period they doubled up on the chemosensing hairs both to smell better, but to muffle their flight, just like how owl feathers are fuzzy at the edges, too! Lionfleas can fly, but not for very long, but wings make them stupid scary jumpers.

Speaking of these osprey-beetle things, here's the development of another member of their clade...

Here's this post. I included this whole page because I find it so funny that you can literally SEE the progression happen. I even wrote out "holy shit" when it clicked bc i was losing my mind.

Anyways, the first half is the hypothetical birdguy-DJMM fanchild and the bottom of this page, along with this next picture, is the djmm alien I've been looking for.

Finally, I figured out a design that made a chin and nose necessary, and made the teeth-plates possible. It's only a bonus this guy turned out to be a cutie patootie.

It's a parrot! It's a squid parrot! It came from the same ancestral beetle that the beetle-osprey did, and it evolved wiggly teeth for dexterity and facial expressions. There's a GIANT socket where its teeth sit in, where it can be pulled up into the DJMM "teeth-plate" position, and down into an awful hooked beak position for tearing into prey. Originally it was a modest joint like it is in parrots to better hold things and pull in prey, but it got exaggerated to the point the two hooks can sit vertically just for the sake of seeming demure to other squid-parrots (and to exaggerate when they push their teeth out when they want to look scary).

Their skulls are actually super narrow and only comprise of their jaw, and can actually be pushed out of their face like a goblin shark! Deeply awful! Demonic little thing! however they're very cute. I dont think I'll make these ones sapient, I like them more as fun little animals (and an easter egg DJMM in the, yknow, DJMM alien setting)

Dirt skeleton!!! dirt skeleton yayyy dirt skeleton!!!!! I put these two seperately because I didn't want these two to be cropped. these are so nice doodles.

The dirt skeleton is completely devoid of romantic or sexual desire but he still enjoys being kissed by Comet because he sees it as her bonding with him and he is quite attached to her as well. He fundamentally doesn't understand romantic attraction and doesn't get it, but he does get that there's a bit of social weight to being kissed that he's fine with recieving.

Second doodle is him being stuck in the same position for 5 years to allow his bone to heal. The times the dirt skeleton has fractured bone above ground, his crying eventually becomes this constant, irritable frequency that pretty much gets everything to evacuate within its mile-wide earshot, which is quite convenient. People who get near his site of healing literally get annoyed by this unhearable, yet deeply uncomfortable frequency playing and leave. During this, he also stops percieving the world, blinding and deafening himself, as percieving the world as he experiences the worst pain he can feel becomes overstimulating.

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yourturntofnaf · 3 months ago

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Stitchline Adaptation

oh boy, a post I didn't think I'd be making.

going into fnaf week, I was pretty strongly opposed to both frightsgames and talesgames. hell, even VIP made me confident in tales not being canon. two things, however, made me step down on all of it.

1. the scott interview. obviously he didnt confirm anything about book canonicity, but him explaining how security breach didn't tell his story correctly and he's been working to correct that paints a good argument for tales being written for clarification purposes, maybe even beyond being hints to the games lore.

2. into the pit games. goddamit. let me just say, i love this game. aesthetically its awesome, the easter eggs are great, I love the story, everything is perfect. but following this, I have a hard time believing that the stitchline stories are completely seperate from the games.

the use of minigames to display frights stories was beyond what I was expecting this game to have. when I firsr saw them, my brain jumped to a few different solutions.

- these are just easter eggs as its an anniversary game looking to showcase the whole franchise

- these are in universe games of in universe books, aligning with frightsfiction

- this is meant to support stitchline games

now each of these have their issues for me.

these minigames are pretty damn complex to simply be an easter egg. it's not something simple like a poster appearing, they are full fledged mini games. too much for me to write off as just a reference.

I would be less open to this being frightsfiction if the way of accessing them weren't so strange. if it was just getting them in the arcade, that would feel pretty direct in stating they're simply games, but thats not the case. also, there's nothing else in the franchise suggesting these books exist as just that.

finally, these games are simply different than the actual books. theyre recognizable as being their respective stories, but have different details.

so if all of these don't work, what does it mean? I'm honestly not certain in it, but this is what I've come up with.

it relies on this: the minigames are different, but have the same major beats.

in to be beautiful the story, eleanor grants a girls wish of becoming "beautiful" piece by piece using a pendant. by the end, it's revealed eleanor was slowly killing the girl to take her appearance. to be beautiful mini game has eleanor, the girl, and the pendant; along with the concept of making her beautiful piece by piece. theres a difference in the ordering, however, as eleanor only gives the girl the pendant at the end. in the game, it even looks like the necklace is what kills her.

in count the ways story, a goth kid obsessed with death is trapped inside of funtine freddy, where she is listed off the ways she can die. the story ends with freddy killing her. in the minigame, bonbon is pictured (but never mentioned in the story). still, the major characters and story are there.

finally, in fetch the story a dog animatronic falsely reads instructions of the high school boy main character, ending in fetch harming other people. in the minigame, fetch is in a fazbear location and eventually mauls a boy. this minigame is clearly the most different from it's story predecessor. hell, the main character doesn't even look like greg from the book. but there's important context that I think explains this:

scott wants the next game to be based off of fetch. ITP ends with "CU", the text fetch sends at the end of his story.

so we have 3 stories turned into minigames. all 3 are stitchline related. all 3 have the same major characters, major message, but different details and methods. the one thats most different is due to get a full length game. the game this is in is also a story based full length game that has the same characters, same plot points, but majorly different methods.

going off the scott interview, he wrote a shorter story of each book, and then the writers over doubled it in length. this leaves a whole lot of room for difference in what scott was thinking and what was written. and following security breach, he seems to be far more clear in what the games are supposed to say.

I think, after months of denying it, that the events of stitchline take place in the games. but I dont think the story version is the exact recount. over time, I think we are going to get game versions of these stories that explain how it happens for the in-game universe. the important characters and concepts are all here, but details are updated to fit more cleanly into the games timeline. some changes are small (such as clarifying bonbons presence in CTW), and others are major. the ones that will see the most major changes are likely the book-title stories, hence why the fetch minigame is such a drastic change and why it'll likely get a full game.

I think secret of the mimic will create a similar situation for the tales stories, although I'm leaning towards all of those stories being canon rather than something like mimicline.

I also feel a similar intent was behind VIP. the constant mention of the pizzaplex entering a stage of renovation cant help but make me think it's meant to explain why the main pizzaplex in tales is structurally different than that of security breach.

to summarize my rant, my running take from here (until SOTM comes out and inevitably changes the lore again) is the concept that the stitchline stories are overall canon, but are in the process of being adapted into the games to accurately fit in. I believe fnaf is in a stage of clarification over what was previously believed or outright implied to fit the modern story.

#five nights at freddy's #fnaf #stitchline games #stitchline adaptation #into the pit #fazbear frights #fnaf theory #tales from the pizzaplex

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wolfsbanesparks · 2 years ago

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Bouncing in here like a madman again

Do you think Captain Marvel (seperate from Billy) considers the Wizard SHAZAM as their father as a sort of creator and creation relationship? Giving room for Billy and grandpa wizard relationship kinda?

I've had a lot of sugar today, so I'm not sure how that sounds, but I kept thinking about your fic, "Split", and how if things took a different turn and Captain Marvel revealed he existed because of the Wizard, would the JL come to the assumption that the wizard was his father/Billy's grandfather?

Or if things took an angstier turn, if Captain Marvel let slip accidentally that he didn't believe that the death of Billy's mother (and actual father) was a genuine accident/had suspicions about it, how would they react? Would they suspect the wizard bc of all the suspicions they're having? Also, I'm not sure if I remember, but did the JL get to have a conversation with the wizard?

Kinda factors into that one ask I sent before, where the gods killed the parents of the champions of magic to challenge and prepare them without them knowing, which might include the wizard, too. (Sorry, I re watched the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 recently and it's been doing numbers on my little mind)

In all seriousness you could write an AU for your fics and we'd eat it all up and ask for seconds because your writing creates a universe of wonder for us.

That was a lot, wow :0

Okay first of all you are so sweet! It's driving me crazy (in a good way) that I can discuss AUs of my fics!

I think that the Wizard already plays a sort of wise grandfather figure to Billy (in my preferred version of him) regardless of Captain Marvel's feelings towards the Wizard.

But I think it's totally logical for Captain Marvel to think of the Wizard as a creator figure, especially in his current incarnation since it was just Shazam who made him instead of a full Wizard's Council. There's respect between them, but Marvel also wants to make Shazam proud, wants to prove he's a good Champion. And I think that can translate to a father-son type dynamic even if it's a lot more complicated than that.

If we're talking Split in particular, the JL "met" the Wizard but Shazam didn't bother talking to any of them so their many confusions and suspicions didn't get brought up to him directly.

But if they had reason to believe Shazam was Marvel’s father, Flash in particular would have been having a freak out because the Wizard would have gone from possibly sketchy mentor to controlling and possibly abusive father/grandfather. He might have even had more people on his side if that was the case (especially if we add in the idea that the Batsons were killed as some kind of test of Billy’s pure heart).

There would still be those who insist that they shouldn't get in the middle of their complicated and potentially messy family situation. But there would also be those who wonder if Marvel had a choice in becoming a hero if his father was the one who imbued him with his powers because it was his "destiny". I can definitely picture Marvel bluescreening if someone asked him if he'd had a choice in being a hero (he didn't, and Billy didn't either) or if he'd ever wanted something else for himself (it had never occurred to him that he could be anything else because he was created to fight evil). His answer would definitely send up some red flags to whoever he's talking to.

There are so many cool ways having people think Shazam is Marvel’s father could play out and it would be so fun to explore that.

And since you mentioned it, while I don’t currently have plans to write an AU of my fics, I AM completely open to other people writing AUs of my fics if they are inspired enough to do it! So long as you credit me as the original author/check the Inspired By box when you post, I encourage you to go for it!

#ask me whatever you want y'all #shazam #billy batson #dc captain marvel #fanfic asks #this could have been a really cool extra layer to the mess that was the misunderstandings in that fic #the JL would have had a whole new set of rumors to sort through #and Zatanna would have completely freaked out at thinking there was some sort of strange family legacy thing going on with the Champion #this is so fun to think about

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murdrdocs · 5 months ago

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hi... this is awkward, i admire your work very much! i mean really! I'm an anon who has been reading fics on tumblr since like almost 2 years ago and right now i want to write my own fics! (it's my hobby to write and i have so many writing ideas that i want to write down) but I don't know how to really start writing on tumblr... so I'm asking you for help if you don't mind! like what apps do you use for writing before u upload it in tumblr? how do you edit your fics and how do you edit the, what is it called... the picture above your fics... as you can see I am not educated in this LOL.. how do you edit the fonts?.. to make the lines that seperates.. whatever, stuff like that!! if a writer saw this post too, maybe you can also help me!! thank uu 🧡

oh i got u anon (imagine me rubbing my hands together)

for my drabbles/blurbs, i write and edit in tumblr just bc its sm easier for me that way. i do everything on my mac now (sometimes i'll use my phone to write but i always edit on my mac) but sometimes i'll give everything a read on my phone bc i catch errors easier that way.

when i'm writing a full fic, i keep it simple and use google docs. the app doesn't matter i don't think, i just know when copy and pasting into tumblr on docs, if you copy and paste on a computer it'll keep all your formatting (italics and bolds etc) and make it sm easier for you.

when i edit my fics i just read and check for errors, plot inconsistencies, the flow of the story, and just things like that. nothing crazy revolutionary.

for the pictures above my fics i use art that i find on pinterest (im not well versed in art i just look for pics that i think r pretty) and the i crop them. when i crop i legit guess on how thin i like them to be but i never do any bigger than 16:9. however i also used to do the three square pics format, and also just use gifs. this part is totally up to u and it'll deff change over time.

i use one font on tumblr but before the keep reading line i use the cutesy tiny text. to get the tiny text u just highlight ur text and next to the 'B' and 'i' will be a '<s>'. and the for keep reading you place a space between your text blocks and there's a grey icon that has a line, a squiggly, and then another line. thats the keep reading button (very crucial plz add it!)

and tysm!! this is not awkward at all i get lots of questions like this

#/chats #celeste's advice

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humankk · 1 year ago

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An art! for the fanfic Heart on the Table! again!, this one is like specifically the first chapter

And hey! what a coincidence! according to our dear The Author @floofanflurr (say that like it's a title, I mean it is but like in a fantasy way or something) today! (20/09 I think, well it's 21 now in my timezone but like it's still 20 in America until like another 8 hours or so so-) is the anniversary of the fic! or well the fic is published at March today is first draft anniversary.

First draft! of the first chapter! I am drawing that this can be anniversary art that's cool!

So yea have this picture of Frisk suffering like an hour before the comfort part of the hurt/comfort in this story! well the first part of suffering I am sure they will get to suffer more, not like I want them to or anything but like there're plenty more chapter

that sounds kinda suspicious

ANYWAY yea happy anniversary! what do people say in this occasion again? is it like some character's birthday? well happy birthday a hypothecal character I don't know exist! or I do but don't know which one is it!

...oh yea I know how to end this, picture without the grasses and stuffs under the cut!

I don't really know what to put on the wall, I could put up some gems I guess but like, it isn't going to be seen anyway, also yea the grass, is like that tall, but like there're more closer to the camera so it looks bigger

as you can see I have no idea how waterfall wall works like is it a rock or dirt or... well at least in this case it's probably rock since there're creek, anyway what even is those wavey line? rock jutting out? and the above part of it is like flat anyway? and the thing, at the bottom, in not lining up with the lines, well it looks great so it works I guess

hmm, oh yea I put the black pencil thing for dirty particle or whatever on the wrong layer so I guess it's just with the lineart now and not like color... it's specifically the one on their cloths and hair too, huh

...well, I should make a seperate layer for that anyway but like, I didn't really want to at the moment so

anyyway welcome back to the end where I didn't know what to say next

I guess this is a long post now?

well, uh yea

oh hey another one, this one is the version I sent in voice chat as like a WIP because that's yesterday and I want to sent something before I sleep, it looks kinda nice actually, also tis one got the full grass lineart, and Frisk without the dust thing... well that sounds like they did murder it's, not monster dust, okay?

hell yea ending 3, electric... boogalee

I guess I'll just end here

beep

#Frisk #Undertale #undertale fanart #Heart on the Table #utdr #my art #not reblogs #notreblogs #for your information #that I don't know if you want to know or not #I was suffering from the silence of writing texts under the picture and don't know what to say next for like #a while

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oliviabutsmart · 1 year ago

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Physics Friday #10: The Philosophy and Ethics of Science

Preamble: Some Important Information/Disclaimers

Education Level: High School (Y8/9)

Topic: Scientific Philosophy and Ethics (Philosophy)

An important disclaimer to the Philosophers: This post is discussing philosophy and ethics from the perspective of a scientist, meaning that I'm purposefully going to brush over and ignore entire fields or subjects within philosophy.

You may read this post the same way a pure mathematician may read a physics or astronomy paper. It's generally okay but it's full of abuses of notation, physical numbers and values, and hand-wavy approximations. So don't worry too much if I brush over and oversimplify a lot.

This is a rather big post. Full of different foundational topics to the way we do science. But it's important, for all areas of science, to have this information in the background as it comes to the forefront. In our discussions, our conclusions, and when presenting information to the public we use these tools constantly and subconsciously.

It's obviously going to get a teeny bit political, but not in a way that you'd like hate me or something. As we will be talking more about science's interaction with the political and public worlds (but not completely).

What does it mean to know things?

It's important to seperate the idea of truth and knowledge.

A prehistoric Soyjack.

Of course, the main difference is that what is true is not necessarily what you know. But is what you know necessarily true?

If I knew that the sky was green and I lived underground ... would I really know that the sky is green. I'd be incorrect, how can I know something if that something is wrong?

Often, for simplicity we remove the colloquial definition of knowledge and say, generally, knowledge = belief + truth. You have to both believe it's true and be correct at the same time.

But that isn't the full picture. I could stay in my underground cave for a day and then believe that it's raining, and it just so happens to be that it is raining. But I wouldn't actually know it's raining. I just made a guess and got it right.

Okay so obviously in order to know something you've had to have seen it yourself. Knowledge = belief + truth + evidence.

But what if I was in my cave and could hear the sounds of thunder, or could hear the sound of rain falling? I never actually saw the rain itself, just it's effects. What I actually had to do was deduce that it was raining:

There is the sound of thunder

There's a storm nearby

There are sounds of water falling outside the cave

Water is falling outside the cave

There can be no other sources of the falling water.

Therefore it must be a rainstorm

Okay ... so Knowledge = belief + truth + evidence + reason. This is generally where most people stop. Because it's kinda hard to come up with more details afterwards. And sometimes we often wrap evidence and reason into just "justification" generally.

But what's clear is that we haven't really proportioned our sum correctly. We don't always need reason if we can see it in-front of us, for example.

Epistemology - the study of Knowledge

From the scientific perspective, there are three guiding "ways of knowing":

Empiricism "Knowledge comes from evidence"

Rationalism "Knowledge comes from reason"

Skepticism "Knowledge can go fuck itself"

All three aspects of these philosophies inform how we do science.

Generally, we found our scientific knowledge off observation, experimentation. In order to demonstrate it practically. This is a foundational component to the scientific method. Which is why science could be termed as "Methodical Empiricism"

Reason, while not the foundation of our work in science, is still important. Some things we cannot see. We cannot look at an electron, we cannot see evolution. But what we can see is it's effects, and we can connect previous bits of information together in order to deduce more complex outcomes.

Mathematics is an example of something that is much less Empiricist and much more Rationalist. Everything in mathematics stems from a set of 'truths' (axioms) from which we derive all of the subject using reason.

Skepticism is a bit broad but it is generally about questioning our ability to know things, sometimes stating that true knowledge is impossible.

While it doesn't sound immediately helpful, can be appreciated in the aspects of assuredness. Are we really sure X is true? Skepticism allows us to constantly question what truths are truths and allows us to re-examine our world around us.

It is thanks to skepticism that we often require the ability for experiments to be repeated, or that consensus is necessary to "knowledge". Because experimentation and measurement conducted by one human, can never be enough for everyone to know.

The power of logic

As I said before, reason forms an important sub-component to the scientific method, appearing in-between the foundational aspects of observational knowledge. It appears in the details, the statistics, the mathematics, and the deductions we make.

But there are different ways in which we use logic, some of which doesn't behave as rigorously as you may think.

We can generally split logic into two camps:

Deductive logic is absolute. If our premises are true then so are our conclusions. Deductive logic is best used with mathematical proofs, or generating a conclusion from the evidence.

Inductive logic acts as a means of generalising. If something is true in specific, then it might be true generally. We use inductive reasoning when generating a hypothesis from prior knowledge

Each of these types of logic are important. When we have already observed something we want sound and valid reason to produce a conclusion that is also always true.

But we also like induction. The scientific method is an ongoing process and often a conclusion will come with it's own package of questions that need answering.

Induction is not always correct, however. When you generalise something you may end up finding exceptions to the rule. Take this popular example:

All swans I see are white, therefore, all swans are white.

This in the would be true for your medieval peasant living in England, until we go to Australia and find a species of black swans.

You may look at this example of logic and see it's flaws. But it's important that a hypothesis is only an educated guess. When constructing a hypothesis we must have a method of making sure it can be proven wrong.

Induction guarantees this, because we know it can be disproven using a counter example. Other forms of reasoning and idea generation also must follow this same style of induction if it wants to survive the falsifiability test.

What actually is science?

I remember one time in the past one of my friends said the following:

Astrology is a science

Now, of course, this is not exactly the most correct. Her two arguments were "the ancient peoples (whoever they were) treated it the same way as we treated science" and "It follows from a tradition of science going back to ancient times".

The problem obviously, is that you cannot use a modern definition of something to the ancient world, "science" didn't really mean anything to ancient scholars (it was either logic or astronomy), and it's kinda disrespectful to group the thousands of years of "ancient peoples" all into one culture and category.

But this brings up an interesting question - what actually is our modern definition of science, and where did it come from?

Our modern understanding of science has evolved over time, from the Classical Greeks to the Islamic/Hindu Golden Ages, from the Enlightenment to the Information Age.

While Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were forming their ideas on logic and knowledge, our understanding of the "scientific method" comes from Ibn al-Haytham, and was developed over the years by European scholars who "borrowed" the credit for their method:

Research previous sources of knowledge

Generate a Hypothesis, based in justification from what we know

Develop a Method to investigate the validity of our hypothesis

Perform an Experiment to derive observations of our claims

Discuss the ability for our results to provide meaningful insight

Deduce a Conclusion from the observations and what we know

Well, that's great and all. But you've probably already seen this. What's important is how we jump from each component to the next.

We use induction to get from research to hypothesis by making a series of educated guesses

We develop a method to determine if our guess is correct

We use the method and setup to perform a repeatable experiment

We discuss the efficacy of our experiment i.e. assess our data and method. A backwards analysis of the methodology and the observational evidence

We use deductive logic to generate a sound conclusion based on what we got as a result, and what we can/can't say about it given our known limitations of the method

We publish our conclusions to build a portfolio of researchable knowledge on the topic

It's a cyclic process that repeats endlessly, like an uroboros!

Pictured: Science, to an accuracy of 1 significant figure Image Credit: The Spectator

This gives us a baseline of understanding for science: it's about the method. But there are different ways we can conduct our method and process in general.

Three extra ways in which we conduct Science

Pseudoscience vs. Science: Falsification

One of the most influential ideas to science is falsification. And Karl Popper's idea science is based on this idea fully.

A theory in science is just a hypothesis backed up by evidence, or in other terms, it's a collective series of conclusions and ideas given structure due to what we know.

Popper believes that for a theory or hypothesis to be scientific, it needs to be disprovable. i.e. I can set up some experiment that can demonstrate it wrong, given that it is wrong.

Pseudoscience is the opposite; it's when you try to seek to prove something true rather than prove it false. The reason why this is dangerous is that methods "attempting to prove something right" is going to be riddled in confirmation bias, and will never be held up to full scrutiny.

Science can only progress when we are constantly vigilant to disprove our conclusions and hypotheses.

We do rely heavily on this in the realm of science. Many scientists attempt constantly to disprove certain theorems that may be true, or to re-examine old bits of evidence with new equipment.

Where Popper Goes Wrong

There are several criticisms of Popper's ideas:

It may be difficult to prove a single hypothesis on it's own, as it could rely on several bits of logic pulling on other strings. Meaning that you cannot individually verify one theory with a simple test.

Falsifying can be done naively; you may falsify a true statement on accident because of an unknown correlation or due to errors in experimental data

Social and psychological sciences often cannot rely on the falsifiability of hypotheses, because experiments are much more complicated than simple deductions and hyper-precise measurements. Generally when you have a complex system, your methods are more focused on probing than predicting.

We may be a little too over-eager to disprove theories, especially for ones that are well-established. This can lead to genuine conspiracy theories being masked in science-like rhetoric. We need to direct our attention to theories which are still uncertain as to how "well-established" they are

His use of "Scientific Marxism" as an example of pseudoscience; as for some Marxists use a different definition of science to mean "the analysis of material information instead of pure ethical reason" - that and some Marxists rejected the ultimate predictions made by Marx, an example of more scientific thought

The idea that progress in science is purely defined by falsifying theorems, something we'll get into much more

Scientific Revolutions

Thomas Khun emphasised a different idea of how science progresses, instead of it being the falsification of already-established models, science comes from noticing contradictions that present themselves in well-established theories.

If a theory or model is incorrect or at least not the full picture, we will inevitably stumble on anomalies in our data. Anomalies that cannot be explained by other information.

This is where the idea of a "scientific revolution" comes along. We have an established paradigm - a paradigm that is regularly proven via experimental evidence - but slowly over time, more holes begin to appear in this paradigm.

As further research builds the holes outnumber the proofs of efficacy, resulting in a crisis. This crisis gets resolved when some new theory comes along, completely upending the old and begging in a series of steps to cement this as the new paradigm.

Miasma vs. Germ theory and Newtonian Mechanics vs. General Relativity are the best examples of these revolutions. Whereas the many acid and base theories work as more minor examples.

Scientific Anarchism

This is another response to Popper - it follows the idea that there is no specific way in which we progress science or focus on methods of experimentation.

While there still is an empirical process of Guess - Test - Present, there is no clear or necessary way to conduct this process. And that any further attempts at structure cause us to land into a series of exceptions.

Tools for getting rid of bad information - Razors

There are other parts of the scientific method that are important. These are often known as 'Razors'.

Razors act to shave the flack and crap off an argument, and also help shorten discussions by pointing out the limitations of certain arguments.

Occam's Razor

Occam's Razor is often very misused. It goes like this:

If there are two or more explanations to a phenomenon, the simpler explanation is likely more correct.

You can see, and probably already know why this is problematic. It's not always true that the simplest explanation is correct. And sometimes, multiple explanations can be more valid.

It's important to examine what we mean by "simpler". Because if we just mean "less words", well, then the "simpler" argument becomes a question of semantic specificity.

Is it really simple if we can describe something in a few words? If all of those words require individual definitions?

Often, physicists take simplicity to mean "less equations". Which makes sense. If I can describe all of the universe, in one equation, and it works fairly well. Then it's probably better than two. It's part of the reason why we so often try to compress our equations into as little as possible.

Hundreds of equations describing electromagnetic phenomena -> 4 Maxwell's Equations -> 1 Tensor Maxwell-Einstein Equation -> Standard Model Lagrangian.

This forms what is closer to Einstein's Razor:

The goal of any theory is to make the irreducible elements as simple and as few as possible without having to remove it's explanatory power.

Newton's Flaming Laser Sword

Yes, this is an actual name, also known as Alder's razor goes like this:

If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.

This is effectively a restatement of falsifiability. You cannot have a theory that cannot be proven true or false.

This razor is very powerful, as it basically can cut out any and all supernatural explanation to a theory.

It's also why our current paradigm in physics is so hard to break through. Primarily because we cannot find a theory that is falsifiable, or a theory that can make a testable prediction. It's also why so many people are slowly beginning to loose enthusiasm for string theory.

Of course, that doesn't mean "physics bad", it means that we can't find an explanation for anomalous or unexplainable phenomena. Many physical theories attempting to unify QFT and GR require extremely complex mathematics, and just may require a lot of theoretical development before coming up with a testable hypothesis.

Where does ethics come into this?

Now there's a lot of ways I can tackle ethics. Ethics around how we present science to the public, ethics about corruption and inclusion (i.e. human scientists doing bad things to other human scientists), or the legality of conducting science (less ethics and more politics). But to keep on track we'll focus on methodological ethics.

Methodological ethics concerns ourselves with the ethics of conducting our experiments specifically.

It's a pyramid scheme! ... or the next splatoon splatfest idea. Image Credit: technicalandcomputerissues.wordpress.com

Now, this triangle of ethics is generally useful, but I'll put it in terms that concern a scientist in specific:

Consequence (what effect/outcome will this experiment have?)

Intent (what intentions do I have going in?)

Natural Law/Principle (Am I playing god? Should I play god? Should I step beyond a certain taboo?)

When making decisions about how to hold and conduct experiments, it's important to consider all aspects of the triangle. Not just for the safety of any test subjects, but also the safety of the examiners.

Of course things change depending on the field of study. In Physics and Astronomy, our discoveries often are never in violation of any "natural law" or at least "natural law" that is taken seriously.

But I include natural law for several reasons. As the reader, you might be left-leaning - and that probably means when you hear "we have to care about principle or natural law" you may scoff.

Natural law and principle comes into effect when we think of several different cases:

In conservative and religious societies, natural law may be more than just a philosophy. To "violate" this societies' natural law could harbour very bad consequences to YOU and your colleagues but not really to the progress of science. Take Galileo or Copernicus

Societal taboos exist in general, and sometimes, researchers themselves might have personal objections to your methods. Some taboos are in place for a reason; like "don't use women's egg cells in cloning research, especially if it's not consensual"

Forgoing principle and procedure also means ignoring an ethics board. Even if what you're doing may be free of consequence and of good intent, the next researcher to ignore the Ethics board might not be

Note that in these three examples, we have mixtures of both intent and consequence. "Violating" natural law could result in consequences, or forgoing principle may be a sign of bad intent.

Of course, any person prioritises their own view of ethics, which is why I must add that I am generally more consequentialist-leaning. To state my biases clearly.

But from a general point of view, all three aspects need to be accounted for, as different people will weigh each aspect more.

Back to the subject of Physics, our application of experiments has a lot less ethical weight, and our methods can only be unethical if the methods are unsafe. Which is why we focus much more on risk and harm reduction in the physical sciences.

In the psychological, natural, and medical sciences, however, ethics is very important. Primarily because you are now bringing the subject of study to animals and humans.

Weirdly, when you get to social and economical sciences, the emphasis of ethics returns to a bit of a similar state to Physics, where the bulk of ethical decisions comes in the way you present your findings to the public, and how you interact with the political world.

Conclusion

Long post? Long post. Fortunately I had the time to do so because I did not have much else to do today. I wanted to do a more 'bigger picture' post as well, as you can see.

The importance of knowing the reason as to why we do things in science and the importance of knowledge, ethics, and logic, is something sorely missed in today's education system. It specifically becomes evident in how these methods of science often come accessory to a subject itself.

The problem obviously is that different subjects in science need to prioritise different parts of the ethical and reasoning process. And so the lack of cohesive information can result in the creation of pseudo-intellectualism i.e. "people pretending that they are being rational or scientific".

Anyways, you know the drill. Follow this account or my silly shitposting account for more of these posts. Feedback and criticism is also heavily appreciated.

See ya next week!

#physics friday #stem #academics #stemblr #science #ethics #philosophy

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dragoncxv360 · 9 months ago

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NOTICE: Hey, I would appreciate it if only 16+ people followed me because the stuff I post can be very suggestive, and just in general, my stories aren't meant for kids. I'm not gonna like rigorously go through my followers and check for ages, but like, if I spot a 13 year old following me, I'm gonna block 'cause it's just not comfortable

I’m Ellery, I mostly draw fanart and write fanfics atm, but I do occasionally make stuff for my ocs

I make both general dca art/fics and tsams art/fics so please don't get them mixed up, all tsams stuff will be tagged as such so please check the og tags on the post before assuming it's tsams. I mainly just mention this because outside of tsams I ship Sun x Moon (I shipped them well before ever getting into tsams) and I'd really prefer people keep them seperate. Also I ship a lotta stuff for tsams in aus so if tsams ships aren't your thing, you probably won't enjoy following me (which is ok, everybody likes what they like and not everybody has to like the same things).

Other fandoms you'll see me reblog stuff for and maybe make art for are Invader Zim, Shane Acker's movie 9 (the full film from 2009, not the short film from 2005). There's others but I don't feel like listing them all

I occasionally post art of pregnant characters but it’s tagged with #pregnancy and #cw pregnancy so you can avoid it

Nsfw stuff is on a side blog (with the exception being my ao3 which has both sfw and nsfw fics), suggestive stuff is on here but it’s tagged with either #nsfw and/or #suggestive #cw suggestive #tw suggestive

Commissions are closed atm

Drawing requests are closed unless otherwise specified

You can find my art on here under the tags #my art or #ellery's art, and you can find my writing under #my writing or #ellery’s writing

Asks are welcome, please keep some things in mind though. No nsfw, no gore, no venting or triggering topics such as self harm, suicide, or abuse. Also please no flashing images/gifs

Asks are currently off because of the spam bots, same with dms, these rules will apply if/when I turn them back on though

Currently looking for different options for making/selling stickers

You can support me on kofi

My fics are on ao3

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Things you can and can't do with my art and writing and stuff under the cut

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- use my art as a phone/tablet/computer wallpaper (you don’t need to ask first)

- ASK to use my art as a profile picture or header/banner (the only exception to having to ask first is if I made the art for you)

- make fanart of my ocs and aus/fics, it makes me very happy to see people enjoying my stuff :D (please no gore, light blood is fine though. Please do not draw anything related to self harm or suicide, even for my fics that include such topics. Drawing Eclipse from my organic/recovery au with his canon self harm scars is fine, drawing said scars as actual wounds is not)

Things you can not do with my art, aus, ocs, or writing:

- you can’t repost, trace, copy, or edit my art (regardless of whether or not credit is given)

- you can’t repost my writing

- you can’t dub/voiceover/narrate my art or writing

- you can’t use my art or writing in AI generators or use my characters or writing in AI chatbots

- you can’t claim my art, writing, aus, ocs, or anything else I create as yours

- you can’t sell any of my stuff or otherwise use it to make a profit

- you can’t use my art for your ocs or dnd characters

- you can’t roleplay my aus or ocs

Ask first beforehand:

- ask before making nsfw fanart, and obviously minors are not allowed to do this ever

- ask first before making gift fics as there may be some things I wouldn't find comfortable

- ask first before taking heavy inspiration from my ocs/aus/fics. Things like making a genderfluid Sun too or even having a fic where Sun dies and Moon deals with the grief of that loss like in my fic Blood and Oil don't count imo, I mean stuff where it's like copying lots of things or copying hyperspecific details

#pinned post #pinned intro #commision info #commissions #kofi #ao3

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radioheadyaoi · 2 years ago

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RELEASE THE AUGUST CUT!!!! (tbhc doc)

OKAY SO the document has some incredibly embarrassing notes and ideas + its linked to my email with my full name so i'm not gonna share a link to it BUT here are some screenshots from it + pictures and stuff

re-reading some of these, i have no idea what the fuck i was talking about

i have no idea when these photos are from but they are sooooo tbhc the frontman #To Me

i liked the idea of the frontman coming with his band to the moon and being the in-house lounge band, (hence part one being "lounge singer shimmer") and playing there for a while. the part in star treatment about being a little too wild in the 70s, i think, could be imagined as the frontman is now a little past his peak - or at least, this is how the public/audience sees him. which i say because i think that a lot what builds up the character is the perception of how they are viewed by the people who consume the product, in this case, the art and the singer. i was reading annotations of tbhc songs on genius.com and i found this one for the lyric "maybe i was a little too wild in the 70s" that i wanted to use a bit as a background for the character: Alex Turner himself could never have been too wild in the 1970s; he was born in 1986. As such, here he is most likely playing the role of an aging rock star whose career peaked in the 70s and is now forced to get by as the resident singer at the futuristic Tranquillity Base Hotel and Casino on the moon. This narrator crops up a number times across the record and is used to draw parallels between his form of isolation and that of Turner.

i didn't want to see it as "forced" to take the job as the lounge singer, but instead as a way to seperate from earth, and who the singer was in the 70s - too wild. to be able to become a more refined artist (for lack of a better word). it might've been a post from you, or from a mutual or something, that talked about how alex turner will sing about the melacholia of achiving your dreams and the sadness that can come with that. i can't find the post but i do think this idea is very interesting, and can lend into the characterization of the frontman, and what drives his emotions. genius says this about star treatment: Turner personifies a washed up lead of the fictional band The Martini Police, and crafts a rich metaphor for how idolized celebrities are never seen except from a distance, similar to the light of a star. i think that the frontman should feel very disconnected to the people around him, less so to his band, but especially the guests at the hotel. just like how the monkeys went from am to tbhc, i wanted to add that a bit to the plot. the frontman, now sliding away from the 70s persona he had, wants to branch out and try something new. but sex sells! even though he no longer wants to be that guy, or play that role, he still wants to make something people will love. so its a bit about deciding to just do your own thing and create the art that you want to create without the worry of what the consumers will think. art, not a product.

i hope this makes sense. please tell me to shut up if it doesn't.

i also wanted to play a bit into the idea of double lives, and personas and playing character, although i haven't quite worked that out yet fully. that's why i called part seven i think it was??? "i suppose a singer must die." i also considered using "what a death i died."

i think also themes from the car can also be pulled into this, because i think, more than any other two am albums, the car and tbhc are a little connected. with mr schwartz and how he, the actor mr schwartz, is connected very much to the people working on the set, who help him get into character. big ideas with coming up with something new and being excited about it. "your horrible new sound" lyric in sculptures of anything goes. the lyric about keeping on the costume to use as a writing tool in body paint. themes of being a performer rather than being a lover and being in love. but idk man, maybe this makes no sense at all. but the car and tbhc are sister albums To Me because they are my two favourite am albums and they will always be loved by me. ALSO pretty visitors and the look into fame at such a young age. also the dream synopsis and the bourne identity by tlsp.

i also thought a bit about how the hotel might look. the taquería - "the information action ratio", a lounge, obviously, where they will perform, a pool, a spa, all that stuff. so its most like a resort than a hotel. and i thought the line "everybody's on a barge /floating down the endless stream of great tv" and the idea of giving the hotel a little movie theater called "the barge" as a little nod to the lyric. visually, 2001: a space odyssey is, of course, a huge inspiration in terms of looks. i don't know if you've seen 2001 but there's this spot on a space station where its all very white and blank except for massive, bright red chairs. i like the idea of decor like that, maybe even a spot just like that, to pay homage to the film. i think also "retro realism" is a good jumping point. how people from 50 years ago imagined what the future would be like. blade runner, that sort of thing.

i think also "retro realism" is a good jumping point. how people from 50 years ago imagined what the future would be like. blade runner, that sort of thing. 1950s astropunk. taking inspiration from older science fiction movies rather than newer ones. also vintage interiors and hotels that look like the one in the shining.

i did also think about the idea of leaning more into a horror, like psychological, but i think it should be more of a study in character. a tbhc horror film would still be cool though.

so yeah. idk if any of this makes sense and maybe i'm off my rocker and don't understand the album at all. but it's a little fun to think about.

#do with it what you will #friend who got me into am is for sure regretting it because i have since become the most annoying person alive #did not mean to make this so long omg #my tbhc tag is essentially inspiration for it visually and all that stuff #i also wanted to play a bit with a romance since alex aludes a lot to a love he lost or someone he longs for still #but more on that another time!#i also made a playlist for it but its a little silly and all over the place #tbhc #gonna have to add all this stuff to the document actually since i kinda went off book #but anyways yeah hope you like it #asks

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microwavetoaster-selfships · 9 months ago

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hihi its me, the anon from ur other blog (yknow, the selfship questions one) and i'd like to kmow bout ur f/os,(u can gush nd stuff, idk)

and also, i'm curious as to how they look like cuz you said that theyre humanised! :>

Eeeekk!!! Screams!!! I love sharing how they look so this is...very good question for me. This is a bit of a...long list so I'm putting it under the cut, though I'm going to try and not type more than like three sentences or less for each of them so it's mostly just gonna be pictures. But I'm just showin my humanized ideas for how my primary F/Os look, but I do have humanized headcannons for...I kid you not everyone in the franchise.

!!!Not all the art here is mine!!! For the art that is not mine I will be writing their respective credentials and what social media platform it was originally posted on. I tried to stick to using my art as much as I could but I don't have a lot of digital drawings of them, nonetheless ones I'm ready to reveal to the world haha(though some I'll gladly share)

Some of them, to try and keep this to my main F/Os that I've been exploding over lately and to try and keep this from getting lengthy, I intentionally left out, ex. M.ater, L.eland, R.od, S.trip, C.hick, the- the rest of my F/O list, you get the point!😅

I also used this as an opportunity to mention what I headcannon their heights to be >:)

If anyone would like a version of just the images and without the descriptions 100% let me know, won't be a bother one bit!!!

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For L.ightning I imagine something like this:

By @/Laoian on Twitter. Except I picture him to have his hair closer to a shoulder-blade sort of length and him not quite as fit.

I'd imagine him around 5'6-5'7

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For F.ranceso(forgive me for the full-body one looking a little more messy/wonky, it's a lot older than the other one and is.. im quite nit picky about that drawing but its what I got. The other drawing is leaning towards a doodle/being really simplistic and quick) basically this:

Ignore the color picks and whatnot, that was before I was smart enough to put those on a seperate layer JDNSJSJSJS

I'd say he's like 6'ft.

I had also posted a drawing of F.rancesco quite recently as well, I just didn't put it here cause he's got his helmet on and it's a close-up shot so you can't really see how he looks too well(it's one of my proudest drawings though!)

Also, this and this

please. PLEASE I cannot stress this enough this is just. THATS HIM!!

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I'm pre-appologizing(/half joking) for not having any normal drawings of F.inn, I don't know how all my digital drawings(that are colored) of him ended up being incredibly self-indulgent, I didn't even realize I did that till now! So I'm just doing this one for now(though I recently posted the art of me and him snuggling a bit ago on my blog. I'm quite stinkin proud of that one too!! One of my proudest, i think)

F.inn :)

He's like 5'4, same height as me(Except I'm a liar and I'm really like 5'3 and a little bit).

I'm not good at drawing Grey in hair quite yet but. That. He's got salt and pepper hair(or whatverr you want to call it) except it's the Grey mixed in with. Whatever blue-ish haircolor that is that he's already got JSBDJAJDR.

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A.xlerod!!!

I actually don't have a lot of colored drawings of him, which surprised me a bit, but I do have a tonnn of doodles of him aufbsifnskffj

He has a big overcoat and stuff :) and his button up shirt thingy is supposed to have a plaid-like pattern but I have no clue how to draw plaid quite yet 😅

He's basically the same height as me though! His facial hair is just kinda whispy fuzz, if that makes any sense. Kind of like a kiwi.

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G.rem and A.cer together! Cause they're inseparable JFNDJSN

I adorrreeeEE this drawing of G.rem and A.cer, I take very much pride in this drawing I love sticking it in people's faces. G.rem on the left and A.cer on the right.

G.rem is like 5'6 and A.cer is 5'1.

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Annndd J.ackson!!

By Jeno0305 on Twitter (I don't know what the writing says in the first image. I'm assuming the drawing of the person he's with in the first image is the artists version of G.ale, his driver/hauler)

I headcannon him to be 6'ft and pale as hell cause he just sits in his room all day and plays videogames(which is also canonical)

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Anndddd that's all!! I'm trying not to hyper apologize for the length😅 when I spill the beans everything in the can comes out!! But really thank you for the ask, really was tons of fun to answer :) I appreciate it! Felt good to get to ramble and babble a bit!

If anyone somehow read through all of this then I'm sending you a life time supply of your favorite food

#appologies for the length anon if this wasnt what you were expecting!#i got a lot of tangents cooped up in the ol system and im also a massively talkative person so tangents and rambles are prominent from me #but really this meant maybe a little too much for me to talk about UAHDJAHDSJF #what can i say? i love showing off my loves #obligatory these are just my personal headcannons #if you show me any other designs i wont accept it i dont know who those people are /half joking #its my own blog why am i sorry for running my mouth #a made a big pile of quick profile shots of what my F/Os look like and clearly its coming in handy AUDBAJDNAJDJ thank goodness #i was hoping i could put it to use. hense the drawing of F.rancesco and F.inn and A.xlerod #Kaneart

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balladofthewhitehorse · 2 years ago

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I think England actually makes his office really tidy; It's neat, it's organised and it's...weirdly devoid of England's personal things. He's someone who tries to keep work and life seperate, and it's clear to see that in his office. While he does have a desk in his room, England is a lot different when it comes to his workplace office.

It consists of one large mahogany desk, probably from the Tudor times and a large, spinny chair that's rather well-padded for his back problems and no arm-rests; As well as a few book shelves on his wall and framed papers that are his qualifications (England has done several courses during his life: Zoology (Eels, yes, from the eel-rent post) and English Lit being the ones that it is clear that he was most passionate about).

Otherwise, there's no other personal effects. England likes to maintain and keep control in his office and it's here that he has a rather jarring change of character, being calm and almost aloof - a barely managed veneer of stoicism, where underneath roils a sense of anxiety, of tension that if something goes wrong, England will find it almost ruinous.

Anything that goes wrong here, England will take full brunt of and he sees his office as almost a castle, a bastion against the barrage, somewhere that England can try and fix things, even if they are crumbling all around him. He doesn't like his office much. Too little of him there, too impersonal, but England does not want anyone that walks in there (politicans, businessmen trying to bribe him, civil servants, journalists) to be able to pry so closely to him.

No pictures of family, of friends, of significant others. No books that he likes (strictly they are mostly dictionaries and files), no nothing of his hobbies. Sterile. The most outward-face of him that there possibly is, sterile and in-control, calm and not hurting. Quiet, furious and grave.

#hws england #aph england #ballad writes

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sassypotatoe1 · 2 years ago

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Yo America is fucked. Mandatory paid time off is a countrywide law in south africa. It's part of our labor law that for every 30 days worked you get a day and a half of leave that you can take or bank for later. This is paid leave for literally any reason. To my knowledge most companies have a 3 year cycle (don't quote me on this) and by the end of the 3 financial years you have to take all your banked paid leave days or they expire. That is not a way to cheat people out of leave, it's a way to force people to take leave regularly enough so that they can continue being healthy and productive members of society.

When you get a new job you have to wait 3 months before you can take leave, but after that you can take leave any time for as long as the amount of days you've accumulated. Sick leave is a separate type of paid leave where you get 30-36 days every 36 months, and all that qualifies you for it is a doctor's note booking you off. It's also paid leave, it doesn't take from your regular paid leave.

On top of that, you can also take additional unpaid leave for any reason. You don't need to give any reason why, you just won't get paid for it if you've used all your paid leave days.

This is a constitutional labor law, and classified as a worker's right. This is just south africa too. We have 5 day weeks, France has 4 day weeks as well as some other countries that I can't recall off the top of my head. Germany allegedly has a whoooole lot of paid sick leave, including sick leave if a member of your family is sick and needs caretaking. That's also on top of regular paid leave and not as a part of it.

I never fact checked this but I regard it as an ideal system so I'm mentioning it anyway. A country, I again can't recall which one off the top of my head, has mandatory paid leave, seperate sick leave, about the same amount of what we have in SA, but banked leave days don't expire. It is however mandatory to take a vacation every six months, because numerous studies have shown that continued work for longer than a 6 month period without adequate rest greatly impacts health, decreases productivity and leads to more frequent burnout.

There is also some mandatory aspect to sick leave and regular health checkups, which I don't remember much about but imo a good system for that would be to have a mandatory yearly paid sick day where you get a full health checkup, physical, blood tests and if needed imaging. A healthy population is a productive population.

At this point I want to make clear that I align myself sort of with socio-anarchism, wherein radical socialism maintained by the population, not a central government, is my ideal system of governance. When I speak about population productivity, I do not speak about it from a capitalist profit-driven perspective. I speak about it from a socialist community care perspective.

I could say a lot more about that specifically but this post is already too long. My point is congrats Illinois I guess but in the bigger picture America needs to get its shit together.

"Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year.

Starting Jan. 1, 2024, Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards.

Just Maine and Nevada mandate earned paid time time off and allot employees the freedom to decide how to use it, but Illinois’ law is further reaching, unencumbered by limits based on business size. Similarly structured regulations that require employers to offer paid sick leave exist in 14 states and Washington, D.C., but workers can only use that for health-related reasons.

Illinois employees will accrue one hour of paid leave for every 40 hours worked up to 40 hours total, although the employer may offer more. Employees can start using the time once they have worked for 90 days. Seasonal workers will be exempt, as will federal employees or college students who work non-full-time, temporary jobs for their university.

Pritzker signed the bill Monday in downtown Chicago, saying: “Too many people can't afford to miss even a day's pay ... together we continue to build a state that truly serves as a beacon for families, and businesses, and good paying jobs.”

Proponents say paid leave is key to making sure workers, especially low-income workers who are more vulnerable, are able to take time off when needed without fear of reprisal from an employer.

Bill sponsor Rep. Jehan Gordon-Booth, a Peoria Democrat, said the bill is the product of years of negotiations with businesses and labor groups.

“Everyone deserves the ability to take time off,” she said in a statement. “Whether it’s to deal with the illness of a family member, or take a step back for your mental health, enshrining paid leave rights is a step forward for our state."

“This is about bringing dignity to all workers," she said at the signing."

-via ABC News, 3/13/23

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