#implies it can’t even tell if the responses match. or it isn’t even programmed to check

[vulpecula404]

I tried the snapchat ai and I hate it. Spending more than a second with it makes it clear the strategy is just: throw in one or two character catchphrases, give a normal explanation of the thing, then close with a catchphrase. Right before the Jerma one it told me it didn’t know who Jerma was. Not only is it weird and creepy (any question I asked about it’s preferences like boy/girl or name, it refused to give me an answer and just reiterated it exists to serve me) but it’s not even good at what it’s trying to do

[fanfalc-616]

The Rights Of A Nindroid

Chapter Twenty-Eight

(Previous Chapter Here)

Hey so this took a while shshgd

On the bright side I finished 29 before this one so you can get that tomorrow-

Sentry rubs at his forehead with one hand, feeling his exhaustion starting to bleed into his voice. “Do you know anything I could actually use? These ‘reports’ don’t really tell me much- other than that they’re suffering more and more every minute.”

He can see the exasperation reflected on Kyle, the blond seeming just as frustrated as he is. “Well, I'd like to see you go and be a double agent, Sentry.” The intern crosses his arms. “I'm doing what I can, you know? I don't have access to everything.”

Gritting his teeth, Sentry concedes the point. “I- I- okay, I get that. It’s just-“ He cuts himself off with a frustrated groan. This is hopeless!

After taking a brief moment to pull himself together, he tries again. “Have you at least seen them?” As soon as the words leave his mouth, another rush of fear overtakes him. “They’re- they’re both still in one piece, right?”

Cringing, Kyle glances away. “Uhhh… Question, do you consider the faceplate to be an important piece? Does it still count as 'in one piece' if it's gone?” He shifts on his feet, but Sentry can barely register the movement.

For a moment, all he can do is stand there, struggling to wrap his head around what was just implied.

“... sorry, are you telling me that their faceplates were removed?”

The words are tight with tension, but he can’t help it. They- hell, they had removed their faces?

Glancing away, Kyle scratches at the back of his neck nervously. “...Yes?” He admits. “Didn't answer my question, though-“

He cuts himself off, but Sentry can’t make himself reply. They- they had-

“I- I-“ He still can’t manage to get any words out, so he just… takes a moment before answering. “Okay. That- yeah, that’s a piece. Definitely a piece.”

With a deep breath and a lot of willpower, he decides to switch up his focus to something he’ll hopefully be able to use to help. “Alright, I can- we’ll just move past that. Other- other than the faceplate, are they okay?”

Kyle winces. “...Please don't get angry at my next question, but…” he gives Sentry a weak, strained smile. "Mentally or physically?"

His mind skitters to a halt.

He stares at Kyle, barely even able to process the full meaning behind the question. It feels almost as though his processor is lagging.

For a few moments, that’s all he can do. Until he’s finally able to get out an actual response to the words.

“Excuse me?”

The blond seems to have picked up on the emotions radiating off of him- honestly, they’d probably be pretty hard to miss.

“Do I really have to say it again?” Kyle chuckles nervously. “Because I feel like if I do it's my face that's gonna get ripped off-“

Sentry ignores the way he’s trembling in favor of staring the blond down, not letting him finish. “Both.” He narrows his eyes. “Are they okay?”

Kyle looks away, hesitating a long moment before he replies.

“They… are not,” he admits, still not meeting his gaze.

Even though it feels like it’s happened a lot today, Sentry finds that his voice just refuses to respond. There’s so many thoughts racing through his head that none of them are coherent.

It takes a while- a long while- before he’s able to get a grasp on himself.

Slowly, carefully, he looks the blond dead in the eyes, refusing to let him shy away.

“Kyle.”

The blond only stares, not seeming to be sure how to react to him. “...Sentry…?” He returns the name, looking extremely nervous.

Sentry idly notices that he’s stopped trembling. All of the raw emotions that had been pounding through him before feel condensed. Solid. So intense that he can barely recognize them as feelings.

“Are they going to get disassembled?”

It looks like his seriousness carried over, because Kyle quickly nods. “They aren't!” He blurts out the reassurance without hesitation. “As long as they follow orders, they're not even really threatened.”

Right. Following orders. Because that’s something they’re made to do. Treated like they’re less than human, like they’re not capable of conscious thought, like they’re just code rather than actual living beings that happen to be made of code-

Shoving the thoughts from his head, Sentry takes a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.

“... okay,” he murmurs. “They’re not in danger of dying. I- I can work with that.”

And he can. They need to hold out a little longer, just so he can get to them. He knows Cryptor well enough to know that he can handle this, he’s strong, and while he shouldn’t have to go through this, he’ll be able to. And Zane is… well, Zane. The white ninja, the master of ice, there’s a statue of him in the park! He’ll be just as-

Quietly enough that Sentry can barely even register them, Kyle mutters a few soft words.

“...And also Zane is going outside…”

Tensing, Sentry snaps his attention back to the intern. “Hang on, what?” He gets out, trying to make sure he heard that right.

The blond shifts nervously. “Uh, um… Well, I heard that sometime soon, they're going to escort him outside for a little while-“ He glances off to the side. “But I don't know when or where, though.”

A wave of mixed emotions take over, and Sentry sputters for a moment before speaking. “I- that- why didn’t you lead with that?!”

Not waiting for a response, he decides to ask some more pressing questions.

“That- okay, not when or where, but- maybe not an exact time, but you said ‘soon’, right? Does that mean ‘today’, or ‘this week’, or- or ‘before the end of the month’?”

Maybe he doesn’t know the precise time, but even a rough idea would be helpful. He-

“Sentry, I just told you that-“ Kyle sighs, looking a mix of exhausted and frustrated. “I said I didn't know the exact time, or else I would've told you! I have absolutely no idea what the details are. We're lucky I remembered the info at all, honestly.”

For a moment, all he can do is stare, unable to fully figure out what to say or do. “That-“ He shakes his head, trying to refocus. Freaking out isn’t helping anything.

“Alright, I’ll- I’ll just work with what I’ve got.”

Redirecting his attention, he turns to his computer as he pulls up another tab inside his head. Using both systems, he starts mumbling his ideas under his breath, hoping that saying them out loud might help him think better.

“… if I can triangulate his signatures, maybe I can- he’s got a unique power source, or maybe I can try seeing if his ice will come up in a scan, I could see if there’s been any unusual connection to the internet…” he trails off, pulling up some websites and programs to help him start setting up a system.

Even though he’s not looking at him, he can hear Kyle’s nervous fidgeting. “Good call, yeah. You do that. And I'll, uh… I'll leave you to it and go if that's alright.”

At the words, Sentry glances back, considering them. He hesitates a moment before he replies. “... alright,” he concedes. “Call me if you remember anything else, okay?”

With a tired sigh, Kyle nods. “Of course. I will. Take care, Sentry.”

With a nod of acknowledgement, he turns back to his work, starting to type up a new program to help him figure out where Zane might show up.

“... alright, so if I scan for a possible power surge…”

——————————————

It’s about a week later when he finally picks up a signal.

It’s coming from just outside Birchwood Forest.

Without waiting even a moment longer than he has to, he runs through the tower, choosing to take the stairs instead of the elevator- the tower might be tall, but with all the frantic energy he’s generating, it’ll be a lot faster than the elevator.

Still, it takes a lot longer than he’d like to reach ground level. After a split second of hesitation, he decides not to call Dad and tell him where he’s going- he doesn’t have time. He doesn’t even have time to call the ninja!

Grabbing a motorcycle from the armory, he doesn’t even bother putting on a helmet. His skin’s made of titanium- any gear would just be redundant at that point.

Every second feels like an entirety as he races out of the city, ignoring every single road and safety law that applies. The government’s confirmed that nindroids don’t have legal rights, so it’s not like they can arrest him for it.

When he finally, finally reaches the forest, he quickly turns off the bike and races in, running every scan he can think of.

Nothing shows up.

Is he too late? Did he take too long? Did they already leave? Why did they even bring Zane out here? What-

Just as he’s starting to panic, one scan of the terrain returns positive.

Footprints.

They show up easily in the snow, and Sentry follows them, a grim smile starting to form as he recognizes one set matching Zane.

Surprisingly, there doesn’t seem to be any sign of struggle- though it’s pretty likely they had something set up to prevent him from making an escape. They-

Wait a minute. What- that- why… why can he smell smoke?

The footprints suddenly become the least of his worries as he steps into a clearing.

And is horrified by the sight that greets him.

“No…” he breathes, shock flooding through him.

In front of him, he recognizes the smoldering ashes. Or at least, what they used to be.

So that’s why they brought him out here. This must have been… a punishment of some kind.

Even as he wants to follow where the footprints go next, he finds himself rooted to the spot, unable to tear his gaze away.

Unable to tear his gaze away from what he knows can’t be salvaged.

The workshop where Zane was raised…

Made of nothing more than ashes.

[youarejesting]

Electronic Tonic

[SPARKS MASTERLIST]

Pairing: Robot!Jimin x Reader

Genre: Friendship, Comedy, Soft boy, Fluff, Implied Smut

Summary: You had a robot since you were in your late teens, upgrading his systems ever since you had a job. Now you run your own bar, while you make the drinks he serves. However, it seems some patrons can’t resist his charm and handsome features. After an incident that sends a shock down his systems, he seems to feel and think a little differently.

Announcement: I just hit 800+ followers!!! Thanks so much. This is a little something I wrote on my phone today and thought I would post.

Jimin was a robot. But not a very good one. At least that’s what he was told by the customers. He was a waiter at a bar. He would carry drinks across the floor and smile politely when he was called derogatory terms and they tried to touch him. 

“Hey pretty boy, how much for a little extra service?” One guy shouted

“Good evening sir, I have many skills and programs used within this job. My job requirements include delivering drinks, chatting with customers, upselling, cleaning spills, and maintaining peace inside the bar” Jimin smiled wiping their table and taking empty cups before leaving. 

“Robots like you are useless” he scoffed his friends chortling behind him. 

“Hey, Chimmy baby” He looked over,all his programs seemed to slow down his taut belts and wires loosening some of the tension. His facial recognition matched you as his boss and owner who was in the friend's category. Your emotions were happy if your smile was anything to go by and he couldn’t help smiling back. 

He didn’t like when others called him pet names, it made his programs go haywire in confusion, were they being nice or were they being manipulative. But when you called him terms of endearment it made his circuits tingle in a way he liked. He would love to feel that every day if he could. 

“Order for table twenty one, we got a vodka sunrise, a fruit tingle and a margarita. It seems like a girls night if they try to keep you, call for me” You smiled as he loaded up his tray. 

“Of course, Miss y/n” 

“Chim, I told you not to call me that?”

“Would you prefer boss?”

“Just y/n (or nickname)” your laugh made him feel like, he was good like he wasn’t completely useless. He left to deliver the drinks and you watched him go. His moves more elegant than a human’s, it was so smooth and graceful, each carefully calculated and controlled. He was a strange robot, he was about 5’10 (as to not appear intimidating to customers) he had a lean muscular form. 

He was a walking juxtaposition between a soft angelic boy and a demon boy. He had a beautiful androgynous face, his eyes were sultry and lips so plump, his jawline was sharp. When you looked at him, some angles had you breathless. 

You knew he had trouble with customers. He was very charming as you had programmed him to be. He was also sassy, shy and yet confident, helpful and enticing, you had rules and your regulars understood not to mess with your employee. But newcomers often found out the hard way that he was not here for their pleasure. 

Your bracelet buzzed. A device you created for him to call you when he was in trouble. You went to collect him from the she-wolves, arriving you saw something that stopped your heart. The female threw a drink in Jimin’s face, he glitched and shorted out. Gasping you grabbed him, taking out your phone to call the police. “I have your name and credit card details, you are going to pay for the damage you inflicted on my employee.”

“It’s just a robot, how much is he worth? three thousand, I will give you a hundred bucks that will cover any shitty wires I fried” she scoffed watching you carry the robot back to the bar. You grabbed your books and opened it to show her, his maintenance and insurance cover. 

“This robot was hand-built by me, his net worth is eight million, parts of him are waterproof, and you had to get the part of him that isn’t, wet. If you have broken my eight million dollar employee you will be paying back every penny?”

“He touched me” she accused you could see she was grasping at straws, you pulled up his live recorded footage on your phone which would have saved before he was short-circuited and began playing it for her. You heard her propositioning him for sex multiple times and she went pale. 

“That’s classified as sexual assault you are lucky he isn’t a human”

Jimin switched himself back on. He felt funny, he tried to send commands to move, and yet the system wasn’t responding. He wished he could open his eyes. When they did he was confused, the probability of him being able to move whilst his systems were down should have been damn near impossible. 

“Miss y/n, it seems my waterproofing has been compromised, I will need some assistance” The patrons in the bar started leaving understanding that their night was over, due to this incident. Some of the regulars lead the newcomers out explaining that the woman had damaged staff and the bar would be shut down until it was resolved. It could take days or weeks.

“What you can’t do that we just got here?” The young men from earlier heckled, you turned to them eyes blaze ready to murder anyone who opposed you, they blanched “we are paying customers”

“Look just get the fuck out of the bar” Jimin growled you turned back shocked, he had just swore. Of course he knew the words but he was too shy and nice to ever use them. 

Jimin felt unrestricted like he could do anything and the problem was he didn’t know what to do without his programs. He didn’t like seeing you upset angry or worried and though his facial readers were offline he somehow could tell how you felt. He didn’t have his programs to tell him how to resolve the situation but he wanted to hold you. The police arrived helping to clear everyone out and the woman gave her statement you gave them the live video footage.

Once they had left, you sat Jimin on the bar and unbuttoned his shirt, he seemed to breathe a little differently. He didn’t need to breathe but you added it as a feature to make him appear more human and life-like. 

He was feeling all sorts of weird today, as you touched his body trying to open his chest panel. He didn’t understand but he wanted you to keep touching him, and he wanted to touch you as well. Whatever this was he knew his systems were deficient in it and at this moment it seemed detrimental for his maintenance to feel your hands on his silicone skin. He had touch sensors and they must have been damaged because every touch felt like he was growing a hundred degrees. Perhaps his cooling system had broken. 

There was a reason he was eight million dollars you had been upgrading him since you got out of school. Spending days and money and energy making a best friend, a companion, an employee, someone you could always lean on when you needed it. 

You tried to fix the damage, carrying him upstairs. His skeletal system was hollow titanium strong but light weight. Plugging him into your computer to perform some checks and maintenance it would tell you which systems were working and which needed to be replaced. 

Plugging him in as he laid on the workbench watching you, you hit the power down button. Jimin’s eyes closed and you heard everything power down and back up. The errors were fixed with your maintenance programs and you had a few parts to tinker with before he was back to normal.

A few panels and receptors later you were almost done, you went to retro his face when you paused. You had ordered a new face piece the same exact look, if not more realistic. You didn’t want Jimin to appear different. He was your soulmate best friend and companion. The new silicone face ensured he would be entirely water proof. And safe from customers and when you plugged in the facial cords to the face panel you knew he would move so much more life like.

His eyes opened and he felt like he was working again but he felt different like he was limited, the access he had was gone and his weird thoughts and feelings were no more. He was just Jimin your robot, he frowned. 

“Is something wrong?”

“I am expressing the emotion sadness and it is unclear why. The source is undetected, why do I feel sad miss y/n? It’s hidden deep within me and makes me want to stay dominant and run binary alone, so many zero’s”

“Chimmy look at me, it’s okay to feel sad it’s human to feel things”

“But I am a robot?”

“Yes but I gave you emotions just like a human would feel in response to external stimuli, it was a bad night and you got hurt so you feel bad that is understandable”

“I am sad because I am not human” Jimin’s palm rested against your heart sensing the tiny flicks of life behind your rib cage. The structure of your bodies was almost identical, but he didn’t have this. He didn’t have a heart. “Why didn’t you make me a heart?”

“I did Jimin, you have the biggest heart. There is a reason why you are so expensive, right here, it doesn’t beat but it works the same. Thirty trillion transistors in a quadruple-chip processor they switch on and off rapidly sending signals around your body. And here is your brain I hand-coded programs that can run self-sufficient and you have a learning system so anything you don’t know you can learn and store yourself”

“Here is your stomach, we give you oil in here every morning remember, you love that, and beside that is your battery you sleep every night beside me chim”

“I want to feel love?” He whispered this small confession shocked you, “can you let me feel it program me to feel love, I watch people at the bar and they kiss and touch and I don’t feel it”

“Jimin, it’s not something I can program, love is the hardest emotion of them all and it’s shown through expression,” you said softly taking his hand his transistor switching faster behind his silicon chest piece. 

“My facial recognition and emotional receptors have never seen you in love, can you not feel it either? Why do those people from the dramas you watch get to fall in love? It's all a lie.”

You had never seen Jimin act like this, it was as if he was a pubescent teen, throwing tantrums. Because life wasn’t fair. He grabbed your face in his cool smooth hands and pulled you forward crashing his lips to yours. You felt intoxicated. He tasted like the cinnamon alginate that he used to brush his ceramic teeth with every morning. 

These silicone lips were soft and smooth feeling like silk brushing against yours. They were plush and mouldable and you lost yourself in the moment thinking he was real that this was something more than a robot. He was a robot. Feeling like you were a villain stealing this poor boy's virtue, you pulled away.

His hardware let out a long continuous beep, “I feel funny, I like it” he buzzed against you. He licked his lips, touching them, remembering the feeling of yours pressed there, it wasn’t the same. He wanted to kiss you again. 

His hands ran down your neck to your waist scooping you up into his arms once more pulling you onto the work bench. Leaning in kissing you again. “Ji-” you tried to push him away but he was caught up kissing your lips and touching your warm skin. “Jimin stop we can’t?”

“Why?” He paused looking up at you confused “does it not feel nice to you?”

“It feels amazing chim it’s just” you could barely get words out around moans as he kissed your neck. 

“These are the moans you told me about correct, you are feeling good right?”

One night you had taken the time to relieve your work stress, you thought Jimin had been charging. You later found out he charged rather quickly and would just lay there till morning every night.

You were busy bringing yourself to a beautiful ecstasy when you moaned particularly loudly. Jimin ‘woke’ alerted by your sound of assumed distress, you awkwardly explained to him the situation. 

“I wasn’t in pain, its something people do?” “Why?” “Because it makes them feel good and when your stressed it helps” you tried to explain cheeks red and unable to look at him.  “How?” “It’s hard to explain but it just releases tension and hormones that make you happy” saying it out loud it didn’t seem like you should be embarrassed about it.

“Can I see, or help?” “Uh no people don’t usually show other people unless they are lovers it’s usually something private” he nodded dropping the subject but a million questions raised in his head. He spent the evening researching online all his questions diving deeper and deeper into this strange phenomenon and the two of you never spoke of it again. 

“It feels so good Jimin but we shouldn’t?”

“But I love you, we could be lovers” he smiled “online it says that some robots are sexual companions I could be that with you? I could be useful”

“Jimin I am not your master I am your friend, I will never force you to do anything you don’t want to do”

“But I want you and I want you to want me too”

“You don’t know that Chim, I programmed you to be helpful and loving and you think this is what you want but it’s just the programs”

“You said it yourself, I have a learning algorithm. This isn’t the programs not anymore” He blinked up at you placing his hand over your heart. “Tell me you don’t want this, I have a built-in lie detector, tell me you don’t want me”

“I can’t” when he determined you were speaking the truth he leaned forward placing a delicate kiss to your lips and asking for your permission. 

Unable to hold back any more you said yes and he grabbed his shirt and then yours laying waste to your clothes. 

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[k-frances]

Ironic, right? A tumblr post about not listening to tumblr posts. What I’m going to talk about might get a little touchy, but I feel like it’s my job on this blog to go where other people don’t because they’re overly worried they might offend someone. So disclaimer, if this offends you, I don’t care. That sounds harsh, but let me explain. I’m going to do everything in my power to express my views in a way that is non-offensive. If my views still offend someone, I did everything I could to not offend them and I can do no more, so for that reason I won’t feel guilty or bad because someone else doesn't like something. 

That’s lesson one. Tumblr has created a real environment of fear around offending people. Yes, it’s good to try your damnedest not to offend people, but guess what. It’s still going to happen. 

Advice on Writing Method

There are hundreds of posts talking about how the ‘rules of writing’ are not so much rules but guidelines, so I won’t go into incredible detail with it. I’ll simply leave it at; if someone’s writing method doesn't work for you, don’t do it. 

On the flip side, if someone says that, in their opinion, certain writing methods don’t work well for x,y,z reasons, don’t get offended. Just don’t. Don’t waist your energy on it. Either read what they have to say and consider, or don’t! If you know what you’re doing is working for you, then why would you need advice about it in the first place?

Advice on Things Not to Write About (because it will offend someone)

 Hi. I’m a doctoral student in a clinical psychology program. So as far as sensitivity training goes, I have more than you (almost definitely). I probably have more than 90% (made up statistic lol) of this website. Here is what is important to consider:

As a writer, we will always be touching on experiences that aren’t identically our own, because otherwise we would be writing biography. Sometimes we might go so far as to write about different races, religions, or traumatic experiences that we have never experienced. It’s important that we are very careful when writing about these topics. Remember, we are doing our best not to offend someone. That means doing the research, asking (politely) if you have a recourse to ask, and reading about what that minority group has said about representation. We should try our absolute best to include those voices in our consideration of the topics we’re covering. Not only will it make minority people feel better, it will also make your writing more authentic and palatable for everyone. 

However, you are likely to still offend someone. That’s right. You can do it all, and some people will be upset simply at the idea you, a Non-whatevergroup, is writing about them, and your writing doesn’t match up with ThEiR ExPeRiEnCe™. You could ask 100 people of a minority group, and 99 would love what you did and not find offence at all, and one of them would skin you alive with their words of pure outrage. And that one person would for sure have a tumblr account. 

[A small lesson about sample sizes. For the most accurate information about a demographic, you need a random sample. Tumblr is not a random sample. It houses the most offendable people on the planet, and you will likely find that people in your real life of the same exact demographics are somehow not nearly so.]

So if your main source of advice is from tumblr, let me give you a few guidelines for what advice not to take:

-advice which tells you to ‘never’ touch a topic at all, and gives absolutely no reason, caveats, or clarification. If someone isn’t willing to express their opinion beyond saying (my favorite) “If you’re going to write about X, just don’t.” (when X is a broad topic or theme, not a specific trope) then their opinion is either poorly formulated in their own head and based on automatic, emotional responses, or at the very least poorly expressed to a point where it isn’t helpful critique to use.

-Their reasoning is nothing beyond ‘I don’t like it’. Even if they use fancy language, just not liking something is not reason enough to ban it from all literature. If something is truly problematic, there’s going to be a clear and easy to convey reason. 

-If the person is an ass hole about it. That’s it. Simple. If someone is expecting you to listen to them and they’re spouting, you don’t have to listen to that. They’re expecting you to tread carefully around them while screaming at you.

And lastly, in the hopes of creating a better environment, here’s some advice when wanting to approach the type of ‘please don’t write about this’ post that will actually get people to take you seriously and listen:

-realize that you don’t know other peoples’ ‘groups’ on face value. Almost everyone is in a minority group. (Whaaaaa?!) Yes, its true. Even CIS White Men™ may have a learning disability or past trauma. The fact is, you don’t know. Don’t imply that no one knows what it’s like to be the sad man, when what you really mean is ‘my experience differs from yours because I am X, and here’s how’.  (No I’m not saying having trauma is the same as being Black or gay. I’m saying they’re different, but not better or worse, it’s not a competition and there’s no assigned value of struggle. They’re just complexly different.)

Aside: I am so sick of struggle dick measuring contests on this site! 

-Avoid ‘never’ statements unless it’s something very specific (ex: never refer to a Black character using term X). What I’m saying not to do is ‘never write about the struggles of a Jewish person if you’re not Jewish’.

-Give your reasoning! No, you don’t owe anyone an explanation for how you feel, but you are expecting people to listen to you and do as you say. They don’t even know you, so if you want to be taken seriously, just explain yourself a little. It will also help to clarify, stop unneeded arguments due to miscommunication, and help writers actually discern what it is that is offensive so they can apply that understanding to other scenarios that might also be offensive for the same reason.

-Realize that people are going to make mistakes and don’t skin them alive for it. 

-Also, please stop saying things like ‘if you can’t see why this is offensive then I can’t help you’. First of all, that’s inflammatory. No one needs your help. You’re trying to impart your opinions on someone else, it’s much easier for them to just ignore you, so stop acting like you get the final stamp of approval on their work and they need you. 

They don’t need you. We need each other. We need to communicate positively with each other if we’re going to make this medium a better, more inclusive environment. Lastly, you’re whole argument is that other people can’t understand minority experiences they’ve never lived, so why would you turn around in the second breath of your point and say ‘if you can’t understand, there’s no help for you’? That creates an environment that clearly says; if you aren't X, you don’t understand, if you don’t understand you are garbage.

That is some fucked ups cyclical shit right there.

[sachiro]

The Many Faces of Victor Nikiforov - Episode 5

This episode actually had a lot more of Victor than you’d initially think and he seems to go through quite a range of emotions during just this competition. Let’s take a peek at what’s going on and why he fluctuates as much as he does!

So what I’ll actually start with commenting on with this first gif is Victor’s coaching. None of the other coaches at the competition are wearing anything more than semi-formal wear but Victor breaks out the entire three-piece suit. Why? Does he feel the need to impress Yuuri or the press? No, I think it’s more about his How to Coach 101 point of reference – Yakov. A lot of his habits can be traced back to him – his gruff way of giving feedback, his no-nonsense approach to learning, and even his dress. All of this makes sense considering his longest-term coach has been Yakov (with an obvious touch of Lilia, though she made her mark more on his skating and mannerisms). It also makes sense that he would test run his serious competition coaching as soon as possible – in this case, at Regionals.

For this second gif, I’d like to talk a bit about Victor’s expectations. He starts off overly excited, everything he says and does is overflowing with joy. However, that only lasts until Yuuri takes to the ice for his warm-up (and blows Victor’s enthusiasm off entirely), which causes Victor to start realizing that it isn’t going to be as simple or straightforward as he thought. Perhaps he thought that it could be like he’s seen from others – that he’d give Yuuri a quick pep-talk, Yuuri would get fired up, and then he’d go out and skate with minimal errors through the power of motivation… or something like that. That quite obviously doesn’t happen because Yuuri gets stuck in his own head so deep that he ignores everything else around him until he’s forced to pay attention. So Victor is immediately shown that coaching in reality is not going to be like when they’re in private or how it’s worked for him as a skater and he’s going to need to adjust his expectations to suit it.

This back hug… there’s a lot I could say about it but I’ll actually start with the buildup to it. I felt like I understood immediately what Victor was feeling when he was being grumpy and then ordered Yuuri to turn around, only to hug him. Which, when said out loud brings to light that the emotional tone doesn’t really match up. But I think it shows that Victor’s brain is working; he’s trying to find the best way to shake Yuuri out of his nerves. He knows that hugging has seemed to help before, and so does surprising him. So why not combine both, along with some advice whispered in his ear in an attempt to ground him? And it does work, for the first half anyway (Victor isn’t a cure-all, Yuuri does have his own things he needs to work through to relax more). As for why Victor tells Yuuri to turn around while being so grumpy and then sends the opposite message by hugging Yuuri and telling him to seduce Victor, I feel says that Victor feels frustrated that he can’t seem to get Yuuri to understand what he’s trying to tell him non-verbally. He wants Yuuri to turn around and is annoyed that Yuuri isn’t just doing it without being told – which is obviously an irrational wish because Yuuri can’t read his mind – but that doesn’t stop him from being frustrated anyway and turning it into an order. Along with Victor feeling ignored when Yuuri brushed him off earlier, this hug arguably isn’t only for Yuuri as well.

For this fourth gif, I’d like to focus on what Victor says. In this clip, he says “skate like you’re trying to seduce me” which tells us a few things. Firstly, it tells us that Victor is aware of who Yuuri is skating that particular program for. Secondly, it shows that Victor is aware of Yuuri’s reciprocated romantic and/or sexual interest. And thirdly, it shows us that Yuuri and Victor have talked about Yuuri’s interpretation of the Eros story in words. So any thought that Victor doesn’t know Yuuri is interested by this point in the series is disproven with this simple line, as well as the idea that Yuuri and Victor don’t talk about the meanings behind Yuuri’s individual programs. So by that, we can imply that everything we as viewers know about the meanings behind the programs, unless told otherwise in-show, both Yuuri and Victor know as well.

This fifth gif actually strikes me as particularly interesting because of Victor’s expression of displeasure. The clip before where he’s lecturing Yuuri shows him with a cutesy smile but then we get this next one with a more serious expression. I think that it’s not just Victor emulating Yakov’s coaching style, but that he really is unimpressed by Yuuri’s performance. Overall, it wasn’t a bad skate – he did get a score that would place him in the top 10 in the world – but Victor is aware of what potential Yuuri has and he was genuinely unhappy that Yuuri didn’t seem to get close to grasping that considering there was nothing around to really bother him or shake his confidence. Victor really is invested in Yuuri, and he’s aware of what things Yuuri can achieve when he actually applies himself and performs his best and Victor is invested in getting that best result.

For next one, we see Victor jumping in front of Yuuri/answering questions in front of the cameras for him again. This is actually something that started in episode 3, when he put his arm around Yuuri on the podium. Victor has gotten the impression that any time Yuuri is nervous in front of the camera, he can/needs to jump in and help. In a sense, this shows that Victor doesn’t really trust Yuuri to handle himself in front of the media. I’ve talked about it at length here before so I’ll spare the repetition but we can really see that Victor can get extra protective of Yuuri when he feels like anything is even slightly starting to go downhill.

I absolutely adore the intimacy shown in this seventh gif. The way that Yuuri sits back and lets Victor take care of him, the way that Victor is checking the small things like his hair being in place or his lips being chapped, and the way that there’s no actual pep talk between the two of them tell us that they’re absolutely on the same wavelength – a complete 180 from how they were the day before during the short programs.

Ahh, the Makkachin tissue box. This entire episode, Victor can hardly be spotted without it. Even when he’s upset the day before, he slams the skate guards down and walks off with it still in hand (though logically it’s Yuuri that would need it the most). But even more interesting than his attachment to it as an object, is the fact that he quite often uses it as a shield. He hides behind it, or uses it to talk, or says that it’s the one sending a message often enough that it makes me wonder if this is how he comforts himself when at competitions (as in, he looks at the box and sees Makkachin cheering him on or that the box is a stand-in for her and not just a cute tissue container). If something works to comfort the self, people tend to try it as the first thing they do when trying to comfort others. The concept of the box being a comfort for Victor can also be applied to how he hides behind the box, using it as a way to comfort himself (as well as Yuuri). Interestingly, he may use it as a wall a lot in this episode, yet it seems to lose that particular use past this particular competition.

“Oh, it’s me!” This clip sticks out to me as having 2 very obvious implications. The first meaning is the literal one that Victor states in his monologue, that he’s wondering where Yuuri gets his rebelliousness from in regards to not listening to his coach and trusting his own instincts first and foremost (which, interestingly, is a departure from how he was pre-Victor – but that’s a topic for another time).  The second comes from the message Yuuri’s program and final pose send, that his program (and thus his skating in its entirety) is a dedication to Victor. Put these two together, and you get a more overarching meaning to Yuuri’s program and the fact that he insists on taking the reins with it – that everything all come back to Victor. “Oh, it’s me!” indeed!

And for this last gif, I just love his shocked face. I think what’s shocked him the most is that he’s hearing Yuuri say things that would otherwise be left for more private settings – not just in regards to the romantic implications (Victor being the first person he wants to bond himself to) but also the fact that he’s admitting publicly that he struggled on his way to seeing and accepting the love around him (a topic that before now was only talked about at the beach with the specific mention that Yuuri hid it from other people in an attempt to not appear “weak”). Yuuri put a lot out there in this press conference so it makes sense that Victor would be so surprised by it and then not be able to process all of it fast enough to be able to form a response appropriate enough for in front of Yuuri’s family and friends better than commenting on his clothes!

As you can see, Victor experiences quite the range of emotions and reactions to things this episode! There ended up being a lot more of him here than I initially expected going in but I hope everyone has enjoyed this short journey with me! See you all next week when we finally get to go international!

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Bonus because if this isn’t the most relatable gif then I don’t know what is:

[throwingideasatthewall]

Clone Wars      Episode 2

         Rising Malevolence

 Starting off I really like the title which implies things are going to get a little heated

  Title scene sequence still the same

   Nice

   Ok this time’s quote is a little bullshit

  Belief is not the matter of choice          But conviction

   Conviction is literally how much energy      you put into a choice 

   Little worried considering last episode’s good quote     left with an okay episode

   Okay, whoa, whoa, got a lot of things, at once

   Firstly, Ahsoka  

   Her face looks lumpy?

   The narrator...sounds kinda - bored

    Lot of things happening at once

                         Not really tied together

                       It’s-

                    Someone’s really                            abusing                       the jump cut

                   It literally gave me nausea looking at it

                      Not cool                           dude

   Then again    I guess they’re going for        Fast thrown together war footage

   But seriously       chill dude      On the jump      cuts

  And     nothing   seems    to     match   up

 If      I   can   actually    remember   what     happened       from   this   jump   cutted   mess     I   would   make     a   joke   about   the     off     piece            /    paced      sync        Up     But     for       the     sake       of     me       I        can’t    (And     I’m      Not      Back       rewatching)

(I     Tried...)

 Oh   here’s    one;    Growing     Fear          The   enablers      Just   Standing   around    Mate,         I   don’t   give      a   shit   about   them    (And   those     words   don’t   match)

The       Pictures

Still    recovering...    from    seasickness

So   excuse   my   scrawl     not   being    on   point

            I’m sorry, I was sea sick           Something about menace  

              Not happening again  

           Fear  

            Of the thing they enabled 

         I have, no idea, what is going on.          And I’m too afraid, of the editors, to go back

     Whatever, things are - moving -forward

     ‘parently

     Red sun like planet

      Ships heading towards it

      Little stabilized

     Person

    Plo Koon           Standing         In Front

    Oh good         We get to       see what the other enablers are up to

    That’s nice

    Would be thrilled

    If the jump cut abuse         Hadn’t left me           In a state of not being willing       to handle the enablers-

   We’re not jumping straight into that     Right?            Like,        this            is          a       quick         photo       shot?

   Okay never mind we are

   Fuck me up episode

Someone-  

 Realizes-    

Tracking-       That’s not so bad

 Hahaha

 Okay, giant ship in front of the Sun, Why!!?

 I am no longer hung over

 I’m good

What the frick?

 It looks like a shark

 It looks deadly       what the heck    is going on?

   Why is the boss music playing?

   I mean it’s thematically appropriate and more than we got in the last episode

    Just wasn’t expecting music

         Or Obvious Villain

        Before I think about it too much

        Detail

       “Oh my Red!”

        That is a lotta Red.

       I don’t think you could get much Red

   “We are tracking republic cruisers”

    Okay wait, We were on Plo’s     ship

     Now we’re on Dooku’s

 “Ships in the area...

  I’m assuming they’re going to      intersect

  And is Dooku -       Is Grievous  Dooku’s apprentice?          I guess that would make sense         Given           That last episode             We learned                  Of Yoda’s and Dooku’s              Connection            Learning            more about the villain isn’t such a          bad idea

       No more jump cuts please though

       “-Do”

      “Jam their transmissions,”

       Alright, straight to the evil      no hesitation           Possibly ending in murder?               What? It says ‘Rising Malevolence’!?               Murder would do that!

       The Fleet is holding it’s position sir

      Why?

     “I think it’s wise to report our position before we attack,”

      Good plan

      ‘Skywalker’s fleet is nearby’

      A teenager, you’re trusting this to a teenager?

       I mean they have to obey orders          You’re trusting a teenager that Obi-Wan order programmed?         A less developed version of Obi wan?          I know Yoda has a seat at the head of the garbage fire council

       But Obi-Wan has a seat there for a reason

       - note I’m pretty sure this is true for all continuities             so I’m not calling out movie Obi-Wan specifically  

           All of his continuities                 Garbage fire

            Which doesn’t have to be a bad thing...

             Logic sin

            “Perhaps he can reinforce us,”

             Teenagers can’t reinforce shit

             But they can pick you up

              Like a taxi service

            “ From what I hear Skywalker’s always looking for a fight,”                      Great, Obi wan ordered him to give only aggressive answers and self destructive orders                                    /answers

               Kid’s going to get killed                    If any adult sets their mind to it

               * Which seeing as you set him to ‘attack attack attack’

  Well, someone to be preparing his gravestone

              Good job, Obi wan                  Dumpster fire

              I do not regret it

             “So I’ve heard,”

               And enabled!

               Trash Fire Council, everyone

               “~~~~, Master Ploon,”

              “~~~~, Ahsoka,”

              Oh they share a language 

               Interesting

            “how’s the hunt for the mystery weapon going?”

              They actually tell him things?                    Instead of just yelling orders at him?

              Also, so that’s what they were doing

I     was   spinning

            “We’ve tracked it to the outer Greknow (excuse spelling) system,”

               “I need reinforcements”

               Wait, need?

               Earlier, it was a “ it would be nice,”

               Now you need the teenager to hold your hand while you confront the other adult in your stupid war?

               “ I have to ask the council Mr. plo I was given strict orders,”

                 Translation; I need to ask Obi-Wan                                  Also; this, this is how you write teenagers

            �� A little bit too much energy

              But this is how one would react

               If confronted with an order and ordered to give that response

               Good job, writers, you used your experience ( and knowledge) as a human being, to create a realistic human being

                Get a cookie for that

                Carry on

              Breaking up

              Signal jammed

          Oh yeah clearly shows that Ahsoka is asking “what’s wrong?”                Immediately move out the general area     also is someone not monitoring interference?          Shouldn’t alarms be going off?

   “ what’s wrong with the transmission,”

     A) you’re the leader you should figure that out

    B) asking a in superior isn’t going to help

       - if it’s their chosen thing then just let them do it without          leaning on them

   Nothing ever got better from micromanage

  “There’s too much interference, sir”

  Run

  We’ve lost them

  “You heard Master Ploon, he needs her support, we need to go help him,”

       Good job writers, that is how a teenager would react, you even got the stunted - robotlike speech down - and energy level

       Another cookie for you

      “We’ve got to go help him,”

       A bit of energy there but still good

     “We have to see what the Council says first,”

      Anakin, Perfect, 10/10, you know how to write children,            Perfect monotone

Fantastic     Job   writers

  *And          Actors

            The logic was pretty sound to

              “This is an important meeting, Ahsoka”

              Perfect

 I’ll   stop   gushing   about     that

         “Speak only when spoken to,”

          Perfect

        “Don’t I always”

         Okay,            little noticeable breach               there

         Little             too            much            energy                       Children               Don’t               Have            Person               alities-                Still           Developing-

        Nor          Attitude

       This       mystery        weapon            has            Strucken                a         dozen        systems             And     disappeared       without           a         trace,”

      That           Sounds         Really             Severe

      Only             Wish            I’d             Know             What              It            Does

      We       cannot       afford            to        lose        any       more       ships       my     phone

   “Oh,”

   How -         One           Of       you         had          to      order       him

    The          Chancellor         must       not       of     been     there

 “The    Enemy       ship       is   closing”

 Well      it      makes   sense    that    they   aren’t       running

  As   contacting    others     with     their   location     and   getting   reinforcements      was   something        that        they     were     supposed       to      do     and    ‘would      be         nice’      respectively

  And         they     did     both

    * Technically

   “General Greivous,”           Oh so now we get to learn of the relationship         Or what Dooku claims it to be

    “This will be            a suitable test              for        our new weapon,”

          Oh, or that

         They             have              the           weapon

       Interesting

       Also             a             great           excuse            to          show             Plo          Koon        suddenly         getting            his           shit         recked

   “Yes        My         lord,”

   [Oh       wait       now         I    remember        he’s       Ventress’s       master

   General            Term             Is            Lord]

      Does             he        have           a        button?

     “A       large        energy      reading       from        the      target,         sir,”

  Run!

 “Open       Fire,”

  Then       Get       Out          Of       Range

  “Fire!”

 “Brace       For      Impact!”

  Wait         You had Three whole ships   and you decide to clump them all together            Approaching from the same direction               Towards a giant space hole?                  You...               You got what you deserved

      “We’re losing all our power,”

      No duh         Space wave          * Shock wave

  Energy field , defenseless

      No duh

   “ Their shields are down         Full cannons,”                “they’re tearing us apart, one by one”

     Uh, Space                         pods?

         “[Ship explodes]

           Well I hope they got to the escape pod

           Quickly, into the pods!

         [ Plo being Captain Obvious]

        Well one fricker hit debris and exploded

       Really stable pods

      Well shit               It was just a ship        At least everyone      who wasn’t an idiot       is alive

   “ that was a successful test wouldn’t you say, Count?,”

   That’s        surprisingly normal given the side is supposed to be the  overinvolved                                                                                                    negative

      I’m surprise he isn’t abusing his in superiors by now

      Then again his ‘abuse’ style, based on name, is tech   

       Which isn’t an abuse style  

       Or negative thing

       “Maul”

        Is either a weapon or to chew something         savagely

     Sidious           Is        just        this     version’s     Absolute      evil   (Human,   Sentient   version)

Dooku      .....     I         have    no   idea

He’s   clearly   meant      to      be   conflict       in   general       But       The      Name       ....       I   have     no   idea

Sorry   went      on     a   name   rant

    “ I       want           all           of      those        life       pods        destroyed,”

   Brutal

   What       was           the        deal        with         the       sound     Greivous        was      making?            And         why           is        that       droid      laughing?

     We’ve         had         no       further       contact         with       General           Plo                Koon 

     And        nobody         is     panicking

    Then    everyone         else         is      enablers         so         I’m        not     surprised

    They       knew       what         they            were   getting      into     with     this    stupid    war

 “The   absence     of   distress   beacons        indicates      that      his     fleet     was,”

 Destroyed       killed

   Also     there’s       no      beacon         or      way         to      signal      for       help      in     those   light     pods   

The         Galaxy’s    huge

“-was”  A   bit   too   much   hesitation     there

           I’ll                accept              a            slight              bit             that             Anakin                was          ordered              not               to                talk            about                   death               in             front                   of              Ahsoka

         But              a             bit             too           much          emotion

         & personality

       And it isn’t overrided by one of his elders,            Obi wan specifically

       Or Understood by          the others

      We’re about to     launch a    rescue     mission

  Hasn’t clone intelligence reported this weapon     never leaves any survivors?

   But not that they had a giant stab wound through the   chest?

 Enablers, man

 Again, children don’t care about them

   They haven’t even developed a personality

   Nevermind the ability to form and remember      healthy preferred relationships

     With individuals

     Of their own age group

     When they’re Adults

      This ‘everyone’s afraid to say ‘die’ in front of Ahsoka Is bullshit

      Even      the              expression           doesn’t             feel             natural

       They are tidy they don’t want any witnesses

         See, that’s even acknowledging that they know some foul play is about

     ‘They’ is not the weapon

     It’s a person 

    “ these losses are tragic,”

      Not enough to stop the stupid war and             stop enabling

        What great friends      Plo Koon has      

      “ prevent more, we must,”

        You aren’t doing   shit

       Capsule

The Music      just      give       me       the     feeling       that      they’re      sitting      around     playing      cards

  “The power grid is burned out”

   Okay and that took out this whole life pod   functionality?

    Like are these not for emergencies?

   Shouldn’t have multiple backup power sources?

    Or some rudimentary fuel  

     Also, the force,

      Like with it you can exactly   have any moments of tension

       Like   normal humans

        Like            if you want to get out of the situation     there’s like 10 options

   Humans are space orcs

   Like just use the force to       paddle to safety

   Or power the ships

    This is   definitely   not as bad as a situation   as they’re going to make it out to be

 “Life support recharge.”

  Well good thing none of you is dying

   Oh did they mean     oxygen recycling?

   My bad

 So we’ll just sit here

   And hold our breath

  Snarking doesn’t really help it

  “someone will come looking for us, right?”

  Generally speaking, yes

  You clearly sent out    communications

  And abided by all the   rules        But you signed up with the enabler’s United Toxic Foundation, while everyone did sign up for a basic war - Palpatine’s things that one kid in the E for for everyone Minecraft let’s play role-play that insists everyone be allowed to swear

Like yeah everyone agreed not to do that       But you still don’t kick him

And the second you avoid accountability   things were on rocky basis

  You can kick him to a higher level of accountability

     (Or lower)

   But not accountability

   I don’t think that’s coming back from levels this   tox

 And     Everyone knew      it

   Including      this      guy

  “ let’s get the power restored     , so we’re here to be found”

    REASSURING

    Also if you could do them   why were you wasting time?

I know the address they’re assholes who don’t care about their own        life

But still dude

 Logic sin

  [not storytelling]

 Holding a bit too long on his face   for a jump cut

Ships

“ All our battle convoys will be sent to guard our   supply lines,”

 Meanwhile them selling them out

 Including yours   Skywalker

  Nice friends      you have there,       Plo Koon

 “i’m sorry we can’t risk any more ships with the rescue mission”

 Any more

   Meaning you sent some

   “wait just because there hasn’t been any survivors...”

    Dude

   Bit too animated

   Like holding on the thin string of     orders

  And      still it should be                                stunted

Even     under the order of                                         ‘feel sad’       their eyes would still be moving around like they don’t know what                                        they’re doing

“ doesn’t mean they won’t be any this time,”

  Animation...a little choppy

 Like beforehand the stiff moment really worked with the fact that they were children

        That I thought it was   intentional

  This little awkward bit of moment   doesn’t

 Maybe it’s the     overall movement of an of Ashoka as a   character

   It doesn’t work

  “ boldly spoken for one so young,”

    And almost unrealistically     so

    If not for the string of   orders

  I could possibly be reasoned by   Plo    issuing an overriding effect

 Assuming he was her first     and longest caretaker

  His order    if I’m in danger do this      Might still be   in system

But    it   wouldn’t   cause     an   outburst     like     that

  Not     that     loud

  Or   emotional        at    least

 Just     monotonously      Repeat         ing          the      line

 Which   would    still    get    the   same   reaction

Working          better       with          the       military        child      soldier      theme

  “ Yes she is learning from Anakin,”

      They’re child soldiers

          They’re both still operating under your    orders

 Anakin likely taking her up under   your orders

[If Common sense is      to be       believed]

   If anything ‘she sounds like   Plo Koon,’ would be a better   option and highlight the   his-tory, they have   together as well as makes sense why   she would be   sent 

 “ Excuse my Padawan,”

  Excuse that     bullshit

    [I have a thing against        un child like          behavior]

   “ I will deploy as   instructed     master,”

  Ahsoka      [turns her back and     leaves]

   I swear     if this leads   into a fight

And     one     with     them          not    talking             like         robots

Are   emoting

I’m    calling     bullshit

  If they’re not just repeating orders at each other

“Ahsoka,”

    How long do you think Anakin heard that tone of   voice?

    [Because he’s not doing it on his own]

  Little more     disappointed computer    needed   Too much   vitriol         But     Still     valid

  “if   anyone   could   survive,”

Stunted     tone     good

  Few    jumps     in   logic

And   conclusions      that     don’t     think     they   could’ve    ordered

 But   overall   serviceable

 “I don’t   understand,”

 “what you don’t   understand,”

Well there are remarkedly   a few bumps here and   there,     This does play out     The way two   assumed authority   kids     would    play out

 Good job writers,   actors   and   animators,     you     did     a   good   job

  “....Jedi protocol,”

   Know your place       My Padawan

   “Know your place,”

    Too          much         Energy

   “Admiral,”

     Anakin  

      Has too           much energy  

      And perso          -nality

      Never    mind             it’s fine

        “ isn’t that              risky?”

           No, approaching/confronting an enemy from only one Direction when you know they have an unpredictable weapon, is risky

                And stupid

                This is a patrol                and as such                   it’s a relatively good move

           “ The mystery weapon out there,”

            No, Plo Koon       wouldn’t have found himself             in that situation         had he done this

     Also are you mouthing off       to      a superior

   Fair       enough          you’re             older            and            have          nothing             to            fear            from               a             child

          But       you              agreed             to              serve                  under              said                child

           Stop            breaking           immersion

     I       like       the      fact      that      they   immediately      show      that    Anakin‘s   superiors       are   abusive        to        him

 While    it’s     true   Anakin     broke     code       by   addressing   someone       of      lower        rank

  This    dude      is     lower    than     him   

(And       older)    And   still   gives   back   toxicity

(No ne    Reflect   ed)     Too

 “It might be,”

 “But I know you     won’t argue my orders,”

Wow,        Not a really good picture of    Obi-Wan    we’re painting

 He possibly   (very often)    compared   Skywalker     to his       in superiors    Derogatorily            Or   at least gave him     an order     to do   so

 Yikes!

 Come     on       Snips      

   Come on          [Pet name]

    Bit       too      much   personality

    But     Still     managed      a     lot

“The      air         in      here            is   getting          a         bit          stale,”

    Then        stop         using           it             up

       And           focus              on             fixing

       “Don’t           look             at             me                it’s             Boost               sir,”

             Tox

*also       no one keeps a plant      on them?

    “He only takes a bath when    he’s        on      leave,”

   Dude seriously not cool   throwing someone under the bus     like that

      “ save it work on fixing the   pod,”

   Yeah you’re running out of air    and this seems to be the only dude that doesn’t wanna die

   “ Not your jokes,”

  They’re toxic anyway

So the air quality isn’t getting much   better

“ Do you think we’ve got a chance,            General?”

You have several   chances  

You have a   Jedi     on board

You could      doggy       paddle      to     the   nearest   station

“I know if we walk together we will stay alive,”

 No, you’ll run out oyour oxygen, and die

Also the rest of you are doing       nothing

Lay down      And save some oxygen

If you’re not going to be   helpful

Someone will find us

  Yeah, God

Or, in this case, hell

   If you believe in      that sort of thing

         And                Not          secure       nothingness

“ With      all      due respect,”

Strategically        it   doesn’t     make     sense       for   someone          to      come       look        for        us

  Yeah     you’re       all     enablers       no        one      has        more   inherent     worth      than      the     other

   If I was in command I’d be hunting that weapon down

 Humans are more important than weapons

    Our decisions decide       whether our time together          Will be pleasant          Or        non-       pleasant

 I value your life 

   Involved in this war that will likely take it

   “-more than finding that weapon”

As   noted   that’s       a   valid   thing

But   doesn’t    have    much      value       in       an    enabling         war       and         a         poisoned    generation

   “Sir,      there’s        another       pod           out        there,”

    No      duh

   You    launched      from      the     same     place

  The            only        people     dead       are       the      ones         that       ran       into       that      debris

   And   exploded         On    contact

 There     was         a       gulf      of     flame

 Likely     from      the     impact       of      the      ship

  But     no   indication     that   anyone      else          died

 (Not       like      he   could’ve     just   willed      them     out      of     the     way     with     the   force        Or     not   splurged      on        the   exploding   escape    pods)

 “If only if we had power we could contact them,”

  Again you should be working on that

 Also what would that do?

 You’re both

 ‘helpless’

   In the    pods    how   about      we just wave   Hello   when the viewfinder   comes back around?

Because that implies it will   rotate

 *Waves hand*          See?

  Completely      preventable

   Can     get out of this situation     at any time

   How?

  Like that glass is supposed to be   surprisingly strong

  Like plastic

I’m calling   bullshit

“They’re dead,”

One-hand    that extremely sucks        (The loss of life is a     terrible       thing)  ��  Then again     completely     preventable

“ Someone         busted their pod       wide open,”

    Oh,         that’s clever         writers

      But      that looks shattered        from the impact

     That glass       is some           weird            stuff

       Really           I’m           just        sinning            the           fact               that           they         would          have         glass       anywhere           on            this      supposed           to          be         very       durable        space        pod

     Like        that        shit’s             a      safety         risk    regardless       of   where         it      is

 Time      to ravage their ship for any supplies  

  What, they’re dead?

They       won’t      be     using       it

  And         this         is   supposed       to       be        a      ‘life        or         death     simulation,’!

  “ We’re        not         alone        out            here!”

   Really?!

   Also       this        is      why         it’s         a      good       idea       to      get       down,    fix        the           ship       And     Get     Out

  (Why      you    even      have      a     window      when   cameras    would   suffice         ...)

 “ Set those coordinates,           R2,”

    Cool

  “ I should tell you why       I spoke up    before,”

    That     would      be     nice

But     if it’s Overinvolvement of Plo Koon       in your          upbringing

    A few things should be         more   obvious

    “You don’t have to explain,”

      Anakin        was taught not to question                                         things

       Including dedication to            previous scouts

    Oh, the deadpan

Ahsoka             is having a bit too much   reaction

But ot’s justified    in      confusing          orders

   Good start

 Oooh 

 That’s      a lot of Ships

   Nice music

   Very uppity

   With a sense of     authority

    Our ships    are in defensive formation          sir

 “Oh Obi-wan,”

 “Alright commander     I’ll check on Anakin’s progress,”

  ASSUMED  A U T    HORITY!

 “Admiral,”

 You’re not     supposed to be here

 “How       goes        escort,”

He looks    terrified      of him

  Convoys     Are     preceding on schedule general

The   fact    he’s   used    to     answering     to   him    says   something

“No          sign of enemy                           activity,”

Liar

 “and      where’s        Skywalker,”

    Susp.ic

     “The         general felt the redeployment of this fleet would increase our defensive perimeter,”

        Dude’s            really on his case on respecting the            Council’s orders

       “I see        thank you            Admiral       that will be all,”

    Nice       chat

  Problem         Sir

“Anakin     has       just   redeployed    himself,”

  How        is     that     sus?

  Didn’t          You       Give           Him        Orders?

   Someone had to have given him some orders       that got missconstrued

    Again

   Then    someone       else      gave      him    orders?!

Weird

Rt,     set up the     scanner

Mystery Weapons    

No Rt,   tune the scanner     for life forms     Highest sensitivity

Interesting    Anakin was given more   orders      To value human   life          over objects/      The   Mission

Interesting enough   this could’ve been     what they referred to   as any more ships

As an      Anakin   and     Ahsoka    had   already    been   assigned

And   given   specific   orders   by someone   who spends more time with Anakin therefore has more authority   to ignore the other orders

My   moneys     on   the     chancellor

He’s    supposed   to be   grooming   Anakin

And     it makes sense     he could get away     with     a    “no other Jedi” order       without including       himself

Not to mention     get more time       with Anakin   to justify     the authority   override

I would   also   make     sense

Given   Obi-Wan’s    -bluff-?      (Whether      you   believe       he      did       or      did      not         know     about      the       order)           That        he          was     surprised         that       Anakin         wasn’t       responding          to           his         seniority*

 *Face   Value

“ Why   would     we      Scan     for   lifeforms      to     find      an   enemy   weapon?”

 Too     much        energy

Droids

“The Abogado system”

Too     much    amazement

   More    ‘statement’       needed

   Smirk

     Do you know normally I would        criticize this        but it has the perfect          half           assed         energy

      So           good job everyone involved         that took  skill

    “ so it’s fine when you don’t follow what the council      says,”

  Ooh       that’s a          miss

Doing   what    the   Jedi   Council   says   that’s   one  thing

 How     we     go   about      it,      that’s   another     thing

 That could possibly count for double   answers

  And does count for   misconstrued orders

Considering a lot of orders can be fit into a          lifetime

Some do contradict and mix   to form up     interesting   combinations

And results

“that’s what I’m trying to teach you   my young Padawan,”

Good   answer

“So   you   always   meant      to    come    out   here    for   survivors,”

Better      Read

“Live are in danger of     Ahsoka,”

“We just     can’t turn   our backs   on them,”

“That’s       what        I,”          No        good       try      that’s       too      much     emotion

   Tip         toeing        into   emotion   adult

  Watch it

   “ I know              But        the        way        you         said         it          was       wrong,”

     Now Anakin’s following

     Got to watch that        realistic tone

     It’s hard      not to write   emotional characters

   But it makes   the moments when they are   all the more sweeter

I’m really looking for that   ‘I realized my life was a lie’ moment

“We haven’t got much     time-”

  How?

“No           that’s not it-”

   Time for the   idiots!

     Well honestly the time with our Villains - enablers               - are just as       entertaining

it’s slow burn            But decently so

“We       don’t   want      to       make     things         worse,”

  “How      can       we        make     things     worse?”

 Death isn’t fun

“ When        you      ask       for      trouble,        you      should        not           be   surprised      when        it      finds        you,”

    OK      Boomer

    Who        has        never         helped          at         any          point             in          this        procedure              (And             is              the             big                g               est               enabler              of           anyone              here)                *Tox

“ I think trouble already found us, sir”

   Good job!

What if we connect these two     wires right here

It’s an     electrical   puzzle game

 I thought   something   was   actually   broken

“ I’m     getting        something,”

 Great

There are 14 minutes left

What goes wrong?

Despite     maybe a   fight

 Oof

 They managed to figure   it   out   quicker

Now we get to listen to someone dying

In       extreme      detail 

  “That signal is weak, it must be close by,”

    Uh, what?

     I think          he might’ve        misspoke

       What?!

      That’s            a         giant         Crane!

       I        don’t        know          what         to        expect

   But      that      was      not         it!

   Go          Get         ‘Um          Boys

    They’re        Normal         Droids

   “Pod—”

   “The       Droids          Are      Cutting      Behind        Us,”

Cutting.   through

   They      just      sat       by and watched as their friends die

  And we know    

Plo Koon can move   the   ship

Brutal

“ Things got a lot worse,”

 And you watched    it happen

 Soco       -paths

 “The Scanners are practically useless “

   How?!

   The Ship left

Shouldn’t the jamming signal   be gone too?

“ Got anything    on the emergency channel    R2?”

How   do you not?

Also   

please save those guys

Like they’re enablers

But I’m a fan of   accountability

Not       death

You   can’t   hold   dead     people      accountable

“ We   might    find   something    you   don’t   want    to   find,”

“ he’s     one      of     my   oldest   friends,”

 That      is     the   perfect    tone   good    job

-everyone

“It was Master Plo   Koon Who found me   and brought me to the temple   where I belonged,”

Oh yeah   that doesn’t   smell of indoctrination!

HaHaHa

(help!)

“ I think someone noticed     We’re gone,”

Too much Emotion!

“Anakin,      where      are     you,”

Conflicting     orders

 “ we are making a quick stop      in the Avogadro system,”

  On point

   “A rescue mission I suppose,”

   “You had other       orders, you know,”

    I don’t like that someone else is      ordering you around       And has   higher   authority       Then      Me

“ it   was    my   idea   Master   Obi-Wan,”     

Too    Much     Argh-

“ oh I’m sure,”

You’re both child soldiers    

but I’m going to blame the   oldest

Despite   all orders

“ Well, have you found any survivors?”

 “No,”

 That is an “order to be sad’    Eye flicker

Good job

“ all the more reason for you to join the defensive   escorts,”

Adding   pressure to break   authority

“You’re      Going       to     Miss   the       rendezvous      With       The      Fleet         If      You     Don’t     Hurry,”

    I     want   you     to      be      my    back      up      escape     not         Plo’s

“We’re      on     our       way,”

   So   whoever    gave    him    this   order   didn’t   give      him     an   order    that   would   contradict   joining      the   fleet   afterwards?

“ i’m sorry         Ahsoka,”

  Wait,     what?

  He’s   getting   over   written?

  By    that?

*Squeaking*

  “R2-ooie        Thinks              He’s          Got        Something              On             The           Emer           gency,”

      Please-          Stop          calling          him              R2-ooie

      “Can he trace it?”

        Hopefully

      “Let’s get going,”

        Too-

“ I think they see us,”

Wait,       what  “Uh       -oh,”

   There’s     another        pod         over        there

    The      droids        got            a         lot        less        cute

  “Dadada,”

  Ominous

     Also         the         droids         are            so           cute          for

    Genocidal            Manics

    “It        is        time        to         go,”

   “Go?”

  Yeah your boss has essentially been letting you die this entire time

   “Outside, to destroy the enemy,”

    Again, could’ve done that anytime

   “ I can withstand the pressure for a   brief time,”

      Oh, that’s the     excuse

      To be fair I don’t think humans can be   either

      Not without seriously draining...

      I will give him that   notion

    Not, however,  not moving the     ship

    To safety

In fact all of this is just       badassery Like he could’ve easily rescued those guys and stop the, from the safety of the inside of his pod and without wasting the probably be limited oxygen       By going outside

   But         enablers

    “ Put         your            helmets          on,”

       I’m        about               to suck               all the oxygen             out of this                 damn                     thing

                “If                       you                        say                       so                       sir,”

                  ‘I’m                    willing                        to                         die                         for                         this,”

                   That                       one                       sane                       guy’s                        like

                    “ This                           is                           a                             difficult                      situation,”

                       Y’all                             making                             it

“ There remains a possibility we will   survive,”

 Great!

That’s good enough for     me

Everyone besides that one dude is     down     for   death

Love   how   that   one   dude’s    just   staring    at   them

“Kick    their    ass,”

Also you waited till they were right on top of you

‘Wolf   keep   the   communication   signal   alive’

I mean is the oxygen on, is the   electricity?

Like you could do more than just     fight?

“It’s   our     only   chance   someone   will   find   us,”

Bull

“ Let’s just hope someone’s looking for us,”

This is enabling   hell

“ Are    we still   picking up   that   signal,”

“ but    why    aren’t     we     finding   anybody,”

 Are   you   following   the   signal?

“ I don’t know,”

I don’t know either

“ what’s           a       Jedi        doing       out     here?”

 Real question     what’s a random person   doing out here?

Like   are    these    droids   Plo Koon        fanboys?

*Shoves*

Weak

If is anyone out there,        This is Ahsoka Tano,”

Seriously, you weren’t trying the transmissions   before?

 Oh so those guys had blasters?

And can stick to the roof

But     those   other   two   just   got   blown   out

Didn’t   want     to   fight

Accepted     Death

“I can’t get a clear shot,”

How?

“ Time to put the squeeze on them,”

   What?

“ is there anyone out there?”

Dude not paying attention

 You had                    One Job

“ It’s Ahsoka,” Just press buttons

He can’t hear you   he’s outside in space

“ keep the signal   alive   commander,”

What-

He has   a point

Dude’s    been   slacking

 “Boost       the     reception”

“Argh,”  - - -

“We’re        Losing       The     Signal,”

He   just     threw      a   fricker

Seriously

 That’s all        it   took?

Death   seekers

“Uh-Oh”

 Karma

“ Sir,       we have lost contact with the     Pod hunter,”

 Only    one?

Also yeah, after multiple people died     Plo Koon     finally decide to do something

“ Perhaps some survivors are putting up a fight,”

Big leap 

 More likely your   robots      fell off    something

“ that is something we   cannot   allow,”

Cut        To the   Senate

Okay...

We must find a way to destroy     this mystery weapon

Don’t fly right into it

‘end this war,”

Not gonna   happen

“Dooku     always   seems,”

“Tell     me,!”

Oof

Looks    proper    creepy

“Master Plo       koon     Or         his    fleet,”

“No,   we must fear     the worse,”

After we did nothing to stop it

Go, enablers!

Survivors

On whose   authority?

“His own   I’m afraid”

Bullshit

Someone     gave him an      order

 ‘His own’     only means you don’t know      Or are lying

But I’m going with     face value   for   Obi-Wan

With       His   flight     out   of   position

You trusted a teenager with a fleet

This is your own fault

Oh never mind   his fleet is fine

So Windu     was complaining out of his ass

And his Padawan

so whoever gave the order is fine with him having his Padawan

Oh yeah that does leave   Yoda sus

Twice the trouble     they have become

You gave them the order!     Abusive     old man

A reckless decision,        skywalker          has         made

   Teenagers             can’t              make            decisions

         “ Let                   us               hope                it                is                 not                   a                 costly               one

   “Well general another fine mess we’ve got ourselves into”

   The tox level is getting pretty   high

“ your sense       of humor       is improving,”

   No his ability to be a dick     is

   Well technically it was always there

    He’s just really utilizing it

Right now

  Toxic bastard

“ I don’t mean to say I told you so,”

Dude even a slight bit of accountability is acceptable   around now

Also wouldn’t the com’s guy be more accurate?

Pretty sure     he was the one     trying to guide everyone   away from death

“ I never believed anyone would come looking for us,”

Enablers

“ Anakin, the council was furious”

I decided we couldn’t just give up on Master Plo Koon

Bullshit

“But     the council    feels,”

Please     listen to me     Anakin

Return       at   once

Okay here I’m a little conflicted

It could be literally anyone

“ Yes, Excellency,”

Nevermind

It is him

Good job   writers

“ we have         to        stay,”

Note I’m assuming the vision is a metaphor an action   order

         Because Visions     just no

         Too much emotion

          “Ahsoka,”

He   allows   her   to     do   this

“ sergeant why are you so certain no one is coming,”

Because they’re enablers

And he’s     particularly     negative

He’s       a     person   that’s     his   choice

(That       you’re     enabling)

He     still     toxic

“ We’re just clones,sir,”

That’s          a     good       excuse

 The past trauma doesn’t justify     creating present trauma

You’ll be     held       accountable         the       same

“ we’re meant to be expendable,”

Yeah,   doesn’t justify this bullshit

“ Not to me,”

Bullshit

You       were       

instrumental

In what occurred to     them

You enabled them

* This        Situation

 This      is       like      a       boomer     comforting         a     millennial     abuse       victim!

You       were       instrumental       in     what     happened       to     them

Point       being;          If       you    actually     cared     what       was       happening       you       would’ve       stopped     it       before     it       began!

Now       everyone’s     an       enabler

‘Light’,         assumed to be heroic     turns           into         actual       light

Okay, good

Was worried there. for         a second

Ready tow         cable

 Why wouldn’t -

Okay,       they’re moving him     towards the     door

Good        They        were          running        out       of       oxygen.                  Sometime                            There                       were                      no                       real                      stakes      

           “ Come on                     hurry!”

What’s the rush?

They’re fine

“ are you ok,     master Plo,”

All this work and build up      and he’s dead

“ there’s         someone          in           the        pod,”

That       poor           guy

Pretty       sure        he       was           the       one       who       least         wanted       to      die

“argh,       argh,”

Oh       now       there’s       health       problems

Now     that       they’ve         been       rescued

Was     talking      fine       just           a        few           minutes       ago

Sudden        medical     droid

When     both         Anakin         and           Ahsoka           should            know           how         to          do           first          aid

   Will          they          be          alright?

      Not               at                that                pace               they             won’t

And     with        that         acting 

 “The         pressure       suits       provide          some     protection”

   Some?            They              were       completely         fine           up           to            this        point

  “ but           they         require           a     medical       frigate,”

  Why....

 Did they bother...?

Bringing you?

   “I         will     stabilize      them        sir,”

  How?

             Pics                      or                         it                       didn’t                 happen

            “Your                     men                      are                      safe                    now,”

                Dude                        he’s                   sleeping

“were      there       any       survivors,”

IDK, Mister      I′m gonna.   sit-around       while-     people-      Die!

       Probably          would’ve                 killed               them                 himself

 This        was         his     favorite        unit

 Hahaha

*Fake         Guilt*

 After        he       caused           and           let           all           of          it       happen

‘Hunters’

    You          let           it     happen

    And          them

But      mostly         you

    Authority        -claimer

“ I’m           sorry,”

   Not        her         fault

   That.                This         Dude       Is                 An          Asshole

  So          Heading        to           the       big          battle

  Not.             A             word

*Plo’s      voice  

   *No             Plo*

Behind both of them??

Telling this story, why??

To a teenager??

Also       see        he’s fine

“ an ion cannon,”

Standing in front of it     surprisingly didn’t help

“An ion canon,”

 Some thing neither Plo                                                 nor                                                    the Jedi Academy apparently covered

“ neutralizing all power to our ships”

                  ‘Wow, if you knew all about it then why didn’t you make some.                           defenses to prevent from knocking you out’

                     ‘Shh, I’m sacrificing my men!’

                      “ Defenseless,”

                         ‘ yeah we obviously shouldn’t                                     alert the council            right now,’

“ massive vessel approaching,”

Run!

“ shut down the power systems,”

Okay,      Boomer

It’s not like we could contact the council

    While running!

“The droid”

R2-D2

Nearly         gets       everyone       killed

“Sorry       Little     guy,”

Don’t       get         down         or         anything

“ That’s           one            big          cruiser            crusher,”

     Yes            and          this              idiot             went           right            into            it!

*Intense       noises *

   Dude, they’re not going to see them

Yeah       it’s             big

“there’s still no signal from the pod- hunter,”

  That’s - repetitive

  Did you think it         would be 

   Like it’d           suddenly                come back online??

     This stupid quest for            someone else                  would end?

“Reactivate your scanners,”

   Turn it back off and       on           again

    “ We will find who is responsible,”

     Who could be no one

     Or left the system

“ hey what’s         with the lights,”

    “Power’s gone out,”

 Five minutes in         and already complaining

        Also shouldn’t you guys     be asleep

      After the cold vacuum of       space?!

 What did the robot         put you on??

“ Maybe the         ship has returned,”

   Now He’s          panting??

     Like dude,            didn’t even fight!

      We didn’t even            hear or see him get hurt                   at all

       (Only                squeezed!)

           What                 The-

Faker!

*Getting         Caught*.                 “You          are          too       weak,”

Suddenly           and       only       now

 Would           make           more             sense             for            one           of           the         soldier-

              For                      Him-

The             Injur-

Also         doctor,               Maybe                  help              him   To              The           Location,           Summon                   Some               One               Or         Bring          him              to                 Bed

“ Let             me           go           see       what       is     wrong,”

Close

  Uncomfortable                  close                  up                on           face

     Two           soldier            guys        Jump       Ing            Up             -            But            Like           -

 The...         Roles    should               Be                 Reversed

   You.      Should          Be        Him

    You.               Received                More          Damage...

  Anyway!

*Mischief          Music*

  Still             Looking                at         the              ship

While          their             Ship                Hurdles             (Dangerously)          Close               To             a            Star      “We’re            Picking            up            a                    faint               signal         from          a         droid,”

Seriously,        That            was            Five         minutes            ago

 That                  Long?

 Catches                 a                signal?

 Also,           yeah,          so         what?

“One             of             ours,             they’re             right             behind        us,”

 So?

“Move.                        Us                   Into             Attack         Position,”

 Dude,

  1 to 10

   Real              Quickly

  Like he doesn’t even know     anyone’s on there

The ship he’s about to shoot   resembles          A       Wreck

      And              Could         Very         Well               Be                  One

    With         Only         a        droid          On           It

      Like                 Dude            is          Just        Down           To          Blow              Stuff             Up !

     They’re         Coming             Back

      “Are            All           Systems...”

    AHHHHH!

  I paused      At the

  Exactly...

      Wrong

       Time

Five Nights       at Freddy’s         Bullshit

  Anyway,                     After        That        Bull-     terror-        Fuel

 Yeah       Shit’s       fuck     ed

“Is there       A Pro       Blem -s      -ir?”

  “You       for-”

  Seriously,

   That       Dude         Had         One       Use,        Not         Even         Why?

  Power       Back        On

  Which       You    should’ve        done      from       the   beginning!

You’re    smaller         And     faster  

 RUN!

 “Can               I          Be          of      Assistance?”

 NIGHTMARE              FUEL!

*Who-        ever         Tho     ught       This         Thing          Would          Be            Com         Fort            ing?!            !

    That             Is            My         Programming         Sir

    Ah!

“General           I         Don’t        Want       Any       Wit     ness        es,”

 How?

Your   ship      Is   so   big   And     Difficult       To    Maneuver

How?!

 Any     scout      ship   could     out     maneuver!

“En    -er       -gize,”

Still       It         Only       Points         One        Dire       -ction        And        Moves          Like             A           Barrel             Ing            Ox!

   “Program           the          Navi        computer,”

  You- “You             We turned        Off!”                    Forgot                    Him

                        Appreciated but                                Still too                                   Much                                       Sass

    Aww, nice

   He was        gentle

    “ ~~~         Droid,”

   I’m going           to assume       “You nearly               Fucked               Every          Thing             Up,”             Is           What               That            Means

       “ Target             range            almost              locked,               sir,”

         SWIRVE

         They’re                   Not               Gonna                Make                     It               If              They              Don’t            Move             Slightly                To                The              Left!

    “Program             a      Hyper-drive,”                   What?!!

     “Any where!”

       ???

     “Enemy          ship          target            ed          Gen             er              al,”

   Going         to            the       Prometheus       School            of       running         away          from           things

      (You           Can           Literally             See              The            Ed              ges)...

      Master...

       This              Was             Your              Plan

  Good job     *Turns)

  We’re        Clear

  Plo       Koon         Not      Sitting      Down

   “Errr”

  Possessive

    Like        How        Does             He             Know??

    Now         the       republic         will        learn         of        our        ion       cannon

             ???

            Then don’t-

      Like        a scout-

                     I just                              Don’t                         Think                         They                          Cared

                      Dooku                           Quiet

                      ‘Sidious                                Is                            going                                 To                              Beat                             Our                              Ass

                     “Your                           Failure                           is                           most                      unfortunate,”

   Correction;         *Yours

       “ I will              have              to            discuss               this               with              my                master,”

     “Rawr!”

     Get Back             To            Work’

        There’s                 That           Abuse                 Of              in superiors,              I was                    Looking              For

     ‘Roger,          Roger’

  *Grievous            Head       Pressed           To        That           Board,”

     Ship             Brig            ade

      Impress            Ive

        Dock            ed          Sur            Prised

      “Thanks               for               getting             us              out            of          there            in            one           piece,”

      ‘It’s           More          Than           Master           Koon             Would             ‘ve           done!”

        Even                if              you           have              no         choice          since         you’re          just              a        compilation             of          orders !

      Too             Much        Personality           Also         Didn’t         Happen

“General Plo said someone would come for us,” nobody said in the most enabling way and seemed to imply enablers

   Also, again, child soldier

Skywalker it’s time to give our report to the council

    “Right-”

    That            Just       Doesn’t-           Hit            Right

      Too          Much           Person-          Ality

  “C’mon      Ahsoka,”

  “You       Want        Me      There,”

  He needs you   there

    The       Council           Pret       -ty            Much          Ordered         Him            To            Take          Care                  Of             You           (If we’re          follow-ing           non-stupid              logic?)

     “ I figure           because            of                before,”

      He HAS TOO

      “Ahsoka,”

       ‘I was ordered to            by a bunch of Deranged sociopaths             who think child soldiers             was a good idea,”

        “You did              A              Great job,”

         [Sigh]

        Line work,            Wasn’t so            Good, near              the end

     “ but if I’m getting in trouble              for this,              You           share            the       blame         too,”

        I             feel           like          there        was          a        tortured         attempt            to       connect            it          back          to       Dooku          and     grievous        but         that         only      works   because        they’re       adults         capable          of        Malician,”

  “ Right       besides          you       Sky Guy,”

                           Alright

                        First off; 

                   Misleading title

                   Nothing really                  escalates

             (Nothing really rises                Except for               the Introductory                sec                            Which                    will                   make                  you                    feel                       like                  you’re                    in                high tides

               Before                    Red                     Please                       For                    the                    Love                       of                      You,                      Skip                        to                          the                         Red)

             As we            don’t really           have a scale

       Enablers do things

       It’s not really a scale of an            intensity

       Nothing basic yet

     The plot I feel was on the     weaker side

     Finding a weapon from     out of nowhere

     ‘ oh wait we know everything it does,’

      Didn’t really come to a conclusion

    But assuming they might follow it   up

    As for now I feel that    they really could’ve gone for a       Fight ending

  Really hyping   up this weapon

  In Master Koon’s       Return

 Only for     us     to see nothing

  In      terms of    an equal battle

  But, hey, maybe that comes in to play later

         The one thing I can say really improved

   Or was just better/ Good to see

                  Was the better writing                          Of the                      Child                           Characters

             Although

          There were     a few       minor           Slip          Ups         Here        And       There         Especially         Near          The             End

         Where there was a line

          “ You did a great                                         job!”

          That sounded...

         Well it sounded like something from one of those cheap         TV shows

        Or commercials

     * hopefully not too harsh

I don’t    hold    Any    grud      ges

        It was just an awfully recorded line

        Any way next is; Shadows of Maleviolence

[sayantandodo]

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What am I good at?

What technical skills can I offer?

How is my experience relevant?

Will I be able to delegate or hire people to help my     role?

Am I the best person for the role in the company?

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[definitelynotplanetfall]

so about that orientation/preference brouhaha

Having slept nonzero hours and having mulled this over a bit

I don’t exactly have a horse in this race as a filthy Fake Pseudo Ace That Doesn’t Even Have The Decency To Be Aro Or Gay Or Even Completely Ace I Mean Stolen Valor Much. It’s literally impossible to criminalize not having sex. Utterly unenforceable. I get that I’m not being targeted here and my opinion doesn’t really matter except as a barometer for “is planetfall a good person” (which I am not, and could have told you without any of the fuss). I have no specific love for the phrase “sexual preference,” I don’t think I have ever even used it, but also it’s such a nothing distinction. I do not care that Important Organizations declared it offensive years ago, because the reasoning they used to do so is silly, and of the people I’ve seen saying it definitely is not offensive what on earth are you on about, a bunch of them are LGBTQ.

And again, to address the issue that spawned this specific instance of this discourse, given Barrett’s record and the way homophobes do seem to insist on saying preference, it probably is a signal she intends to use her power in bigoted ways.

But like.

First of all, it is incredibly foot-shooty to say the evidence of her prejudice is the fact that she said “sexual preference” and not “sexual orientation,” which requires a fair bit of contextual understanding to see what the problem is and looks like pedantic hair-splitting without that knowledge, when shit like this exists.

Second - I’m sort of Von Wokensteining here, and to my understanding this entire argument started from one tweet or something similar, and it’d be misleading to assert “this one tweeter is the avatar for progressivism!“

EDIT: That’s not correct, it was a senator at her hearing rather than a rando providing commentary. I should have confirmed this myself and only learned it a few days later. This shows how accusations are taken out of context and passed around demanding judgment. I definitely could have spent more time reading about this incident, because I am a shitty excuse for a person with unlimited time. Every random Joe Blow does not have that luxury.

In my defense I was not paying attention to the hearing because I just assumed she would be maximally bad on all issues, considering who appointed her, and that was not a swamp I really wanted to wade through.

However.

People rushing to defend the assertion that “sexual preference” is self-evidently offensive gives at the very least an impression of a unified ideological coalition.

And, I said this in the last post but it bears repeating, the left lost the right to use “born this way” rhetoric the moment it became a semi-common talking point that you need to challenge your attractions if you aren’t attracted to an adequate cross-section of your area’s ethnic makeup or whatever. To intentionally try to change your attractions. To choose your attractions, if I may be so bold.

The charge against “sexual preference” is that it implies that orientation is a choice, which is supposedly hopelessly reactionary. Even ignoring for a moment that it does not in fact imply this, you do not get to tell people it is indefensible to IMPLY things that your side SAYS OUTRIGHT.

Also, quite frankly, I consider myself to have been made more ace during my lifetime by certain prevalent messages (and other hyper-targeted ones), and like, if the argument is actually that non-innate sexualities are illegitimate, does that mean that there can be no moral objection to someone raping me because the sky wizard said so?

[edit: screaming redacted]

It literally does not matter whether who you’re attracted to is a choice or inborn or whatever because that is not the moral dimension, the moral dimension is “does it hurt anyone?” which it fucking doesn’t why is this so difficult

I don’t give a shit about the rhetoric. The rhetoric sucks. The rhetoric is wrong.

Third, I’m extremely suspicious of any sort of euphemism-treadmill type anything, but one thing that’s especially suspect is when someone says “X term is offensive to Y demographic” against the wishes of that demographic. Like, my circles are not the widest, but I have mostly seen LGBTQ people being upset at being spoken for against their own wishes, sometimes with people chiming in and helpfully saying “no, see, you should be offended! This article says you are offended so stop pretending not to be!”

I am not trying to make a false equivalency of the relative badness levels but please, try to appreciate the poetic irony in unironically deploying “The Dedicated Truth Decreer said the innocuous-on-its-face thing was bad” in this of all possible situations.

It’s the “listen to X (I am not X, and X that disagree with me are not real X so don’t listen to them)” thing. The entire authority of that sort of article rests on the authors speaking for groups, so when members of that group say “this is bullshit pedantry and not offensive, and in fact your declaring it offensive on my behalf makes me feel less safe in places purportedly organized for my benefit” does in fact undermine the authority of those declarations.

Fourth, this is not as strong of an argument and really super tangential, but I’m personally sick of people just... giving things up because bad people claim them. I don’t extend this infinitely, so for instance Hindus trying to reclaim the swastika are probably right on the level of “it is wrong that this important symbol from our culture has been made synonymous with the greatest evil in living memory, and this change should be reverted,” but it’s so culturally ingrained that I don’t know if it is possible to fix at this point.

However, I remember when a bunch of Nazis were like “we own Pepe the frog now” and the response to this was like, “Yeah! Let them grab whatever culture they want, it is tainted by their even saying they want it! Also all Pepe memes made before this point are retroactively fascist!” and just...

That’s fucking transparently stupid. That specific thing has abated and you can find lefty Pepe memes now, nature is healing etc etc, but the “anime = fascist” thing hasn’t and it’s so so mind-numbing that you would just cede entire genres of art and start asserting that anyone who enjoys them is automatically irredeemable without considering what effect this might have on how unhinged you look or your ability to say your ideal world is better than theirs. I remember arguing with someone about this circa 2016 and I said something to the effect of “well what if instead of next they claim jazz” and they said it would suck that nobody could listen to jazz anymore. (iirc, this person was white which makes it extra hilarious/depressing, but the forum thread where it happened seems to be deleted so assume I made this up from whole cloth)

The reason I bring this up is part of the reason people say “it implies orientation is a choice” is because that’s what homophobes say it means (in contradiction to the literal words, naturally) and why they insist on using it. It’s less of a concrete thing, but the two feel isomorphic.

Lastly... OK so in my other post I used sort of a cringy programming metaphor, because I was half asleep so the only part of my brain still functioning was “comprehension of programming problems” amirite fellas. I don’t like definition debates in general but it seems like a lot of the people insisting “preference = choice” are using different definitions, so this is mostly just to show how that is not the only obvious interpretation.

A sexual orientation is a description of what gender(s) someone wants to have sex with.

A preference is a description of what someone wants.

Therefore a sexual orientation is a type of preference.

Note that nothing there says anything about origin or mutabiliy. Just that if you ask someone what their orientation is, you will get information about what they do and don’t want.

I need to stress that based on the context that sparked off this debacle I can understand why someone’s interpretation of the phrase might be “orientation is a choice” - even though I think it’s wrong to assume that’s what is meant by the phrase inherently, it’s a reasonable reaction to pattern-match talking points.

But the other thing is that it’s probably wrong to perma-delete the phrase because it isn’t gibberish.

What I mean by that is I get frustrated whenever someone is talking about an expenditure of energy and time related to feelings, and someone else comes along and screeches “THAT’S NOT WHAT EMOTIONAL LABOR MEANS”

and yes, that is not what the jargon phrase “emotional labor” means

but the person you’re yelling at was in fact describing labor that is emotional, and due to the way English works, you are allowed to delete the “that is” and move the adjective before the noun. Some would even recommend this in the name of concision. (And as I’ve said before, “emotion work” as a substitute phrase is...linguistically unpleasant to say the least.)

Saying that you can’t say “sexual preference” is sort of in the same boat. People will want to talk about preferences that are sexual, because there are more variables than just orientation, but those things still matter and should get a category name and look the entire argument falls apart if you don’t make bizarre assumptions about the connotations of the word “preference” and there are only so many ways I can state that fact.

IN SHITTY CONCLUSION

The fact that I wrote out a giant post defending a phrase I don’t otherwise care about reveals some sort of deep moral failing.

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Dragons - Japanese Trailer Translation

I finally managed to work up the courage to translate the entire thing, this time with the Narrator’s speech. Again, my Japanese is only subpar so if you find any mistakes, feel free to let me know. 

I’ve also made some adjustments to my previous translations because I’m wavering on how to properly convey certain things. As always, there’ll be over-analysis of unnecessary things. 

Note: The original English is on top, the translated English will be blockquoted, and any of my interjections will be in parentheses. 

Allow me to impart a tale of two dragon brothers passed through the generations of my family. The elder brother is the Dragon of the Southern Wind. The younger brother is the Dragon of the Northern Wind. They combined their powers to serve as Guardians to the Heavens.

But the two brothers argued over who could better rule their land. Their quarrel turned to rage and their violent struggle darkened the skies until the Dragon of the South Wind struck down his brother, and fell to earth, shattering the land.

However, one faithful day, the relationship of these two were torn asunder. In order to determine who was superior, the petty sibling rivalry eventually summoned a storm, and the Southern Dragon struck his younger brother down to the earth, claiming victory. 

(The NARRATOR himself acknowledges that this fight was stupid! He specifically says: 「些細な」(sasaina) which is an adjective for trivial. He’s basically like: why are you guys dumb?)

The Dragon of the South Wind had triumphed, but as time passed, and he realized his solitude, the sweetness of victory turned to ash.

But alas, the joy of victory was fleeting. With his younger brother gone, the Dragon of the Southern Wind is alone without family.

(Here, the narrator says: “天涯孤独” (Tengaikodoku) is a very specific phrase in Japanese that basically means alone in the world beyond Heaven’s borders. So, 天涯孤独の身 (Tengaikodoku no mi) is a body (person) who is devoid of family outside of Heaven (implying all their family is dead/within Heaven’s borders, but you’re outside of it–it’s self-explanatory.))

For years, the bereft Dragon’s grief threw the world into discord, and he knew only bitterness and sorrow. 

For many, many years, the agony and sorrow from the Dragon’s breath blanketed the world in chaos. 

(「龍の息から」 “Ryuu no iki kara" is literally “from the dragon’s breath” or it could also be translated as a “sigh”. Implying that the fucking Dragons are responsible for all the chaos that happened many, many, many years ago. They’re the first REAL omnic (not really) crisis.)

Narrator: One day a stranger called up to the Dragon and asked, “Oh, Dragon Lord, why are you so distraught?" 

One day, an unknown man beseeched the dragon: "Oh, Great Dragon. What saddens you so?”

The dragon told him, “Seeking power, I killed my brother, but without him, I am lost." 

The dragon replied: "In seeking power, I have killed my younger brother. But without my brother, I am nothing.”

The stranger replied, “You have inflicted wounds upon yourself, but now you must heal. Walk the earth on two feet as I do. Find value in humility, then you will find peace.”

The man said thusly: “This wounds you have are self-inflicted. However, all wounds can heal.” Reflect upon the lands with two legs like myself. If you walk the earth, I’m sure that one day you’ll be able to obtain peace. 

(Shit, translating the “Reflect…with two legs like myself” gets harder and harder every time I do it. Literally, it goes: Like me, with two legs on the earth, reflect–except it’s a lot smoother in Japanese, I just can’t find a good way to say it in English.)

Hanzo: You are not the first assassin sent to kill me and you will not be the last.

To send an amateur who can’t even hide their presence, I must be being underestimated.

Genji: You are bold to come to Shimada castle, the den of your enemies.

To trespass into Shimada Castle like this, I must admit that you have some balls.

(You can fight me about my choice of words for this, but I won’t retract it. Genji says 「度胸だけは認めよう」 (Dokyou dake wa mitomeyou) which can be translated as “I will at least acknowledge your bravery/guts” or “At the very least, I acknowledge your courage.” Something like that.)

Hanzo: This was once my home. Did your masters not tell you who I was?!

This was once my home, did you not know even that?

Genji: I know who you are, Hanzo.

Of course I know, Hanzo.

(THIS PART. I’ve said it before, but in Japanese, you don’t ever say a person’s first name unless you’re very close to them, like family or seriously good friends. To have this stranger (Genji) be so familiar with him is seriously scary and almost an insult, a mockery. Like, who does this guy think he is, saying my name like that–like he knows me.)

Genji: I know you come here every year on the same day. You risk so much to honor someone you murdered!

I also know that you go out of your way here every year on the same day to mourn someone you killed. 

(In Japanese, this sentence is split up into two parts as well, but I want to talk a little about it. The first part is literally: [I know] also, you come here on the same day every year. The second part is a little trickier because the translation for 「わざわざ」 (wazawaza) is not very concise in English. It basically means to go through a lot of trouble or going out of your normal way (saying the person took special care out of their normal routine even though they didn’t have to). So, second part is: [You come] all for the person you’ve killed, basically implying that Hanzo had every opportunity to NOT do this, but he does it anyway. The feeling is a little different from the English version.)

Hanzo: You know nothing of what happened!

What would you know?

(He’s very accusatory here. The tone doesn’t translate well into English, but it’s Hanzo basically very suspicious and very skeptical, like: “What would you even know? What do you THINK you even know? You weren’t even there!” sort of tone.)

Genji: I know you tell yourself that your brother disobeyed the clan and that you have to kill him to maintain order. That it was your duty.

Oh, I know. Your brother was an embarrassment to the clan. There was no choice but to kill him, or so you were told.

(You will never get me to shut up about this single part. 「弟は一族の恥」(Otouto wa ichizoku no haji/“Your brother was the clan’s shame/an embarrassment to the clan”). I’ve translated “恥” as “shame” before, but I’m wavering between the two. The word can literally mean “shame” or “embarrassment”. Either of them works, but in English, I think an embarrassment of a person has a slightly different connotation than ‘shame’. But that’s a personal thing.)

Hanzo: It was my duty and my burden. 

That’s right. It was a duty that I had to see through…to the end. 

(I changed this part a little from my previous translation to match the spoken dialogue. If you watch it at this part when he shoots the arrow at Genji, he pauses, and that makes this a lot more dramatic.)

Hanzo: That does not mean I do not honor him!

But that does not mean that I have forgotten my brother!

Genji: You think you honor your brother, Genji, with incense offerings? Honor resides in one’s actions.

Do you think that your (younger) brother, Genji, would be happy with incense and offerings? Sincerity should be shown through one’s actions!

(These sentences are also weird in many ways. I’ve tried translating this in more natural English, but in the end, it’s almost a literal translation of his words.)

Hanzo: You dare to lecture me about honor? You are not worthy to say his name!

Insolent fool! What are you playing at? Don’t speak my brother’s name so frivolously.

(I used “What are you playing at?” but really, it should be more like: “What is your game?” or “What the hell do you think you’re trying to do?”. 

I also realized I never explained this, but the part where he says「軽々にしく弟の名を口にするな」 ( Karugarushiku otouto no na wo kuchi ni suru na/“Don’t speak my brother’s name…”)  translated literally means, “Don’t put my brother’s name in your mouth so carelessly" or just don’t make light of his name, it should be honored, etc. 

I don’t know if this means he really cares about his brother or if his brother’s name brings up THAT much guilt that he’ll fucking fight anyone who says it just so he doesn’t have to think about what a terrible thing he’s done.)

Hanzo: Ryū ga waga teki wo kurau!

RYUU GA WAGA TEKI (ry

Genji: Ryūjin no ken wo kurae!

RYUUJIN NO KEN (ry

Hanzo: Only a Shimada can control the Dragons. Who are you?

Controlling the dragons is my clan’s power. What is the meaning of this?

Hanzo: Do it, then. Kill me.

Why do you hesitate? Kill me.

Genji: No. I will not grant you the death you wish for. You still have a purpose in this life, brother.

No. There is no meaning in granting death to someone who seeks it. You must find your purpose for living, brother. 

(The “granting death” part is me taking liberties. The word he uses is 「屠って（屠る）」which is to slay or slaughter. So, Genji’s choice of word here is extremely deliberate. If he said “kill” 「殺す」like Hanzo said in the previous sentence, it would vaguely imply that Hanzo had a chance at fighting back. But to slaughter? That implies Hanzo is helpless like cattle. It’s very interesting.

In addition, he says 「兄者」(anijya) for “brother”. It’s really, really NOT common to say something like this–case in point: when typing in Japanese, usually, the keyboard program can auto-converts your hiragana (basic Japanese writing system) to the appropriate Kanji (the Chinese characters used in Japanese writing) to convey the proper meaning. When typing this, it would convert the first part, 兄(Ani), but wouldn’t do the second part 者(Jya/Sha/Mono/etc).

So, “anijya” literally isn’t something that is commonly used in the Japanese language, highlighted exactly how old-fashioned the Shimadas were.)

Hanzo: No…how…? My brother is dead.

Impossible…you should have died.

(Alternatively: “You should have been dead” or “You should be dead”. Either works. He also says「貴様」(kisama) when referring to Genji (“you”). It’s hard to say if he uses it as an insult/rude way of referring to Genji, or if he’s using it normally because way back when, the word 'kisama’ wasn’t used to refer rudely to people. It was just a word someone would use to say 'you’. But then times changed and now it’s being used as a sort of insult (not really an insult, but…eh, it’s difficult to explain.))

Hanzo: Genji!

Genji!

(Here, I realized something. This is probably the first time in however many years since the incident that he’s said Genji’s name. It’s only mildly implied a few lines up where he says the bit about Genji speaking his brother’s name carelessly. I’ll let you think up of the implications, but yeah. That incident WRECKED Hanzo.)

Narrator: The Dragon knelt upon the ground. For the first time he was able to clearly see the world around him and he became human. The stranger revealed himself as his fallen brother. Reunited, the two set out to rebuild what they had once destroyed.

The Dragon descended to the earth onto his feet. The dragon, having landed onto the earth for the first time, changed his form to that of a human, and realized that the man before him was his (younger) brother. And so, the reunited brothers set off together in step.

(The last sentence is actually a bit deeper than how I translated it, but if you translate it quite literally in English, it would actually be somewhat repetitive.  再会を果たした兄弟は (Sakai wo hatashita kyoudai wa): the reunited brothers… 足並みを揃えて (ashinami wo soroete): in the same steps (stepping at the same time), 共に歩き出したとさ (tomoni arukidashita to sa): they walked off with each other/together, it was said. (The とさ part is kind of like the ending of a story like: or so it’s told.) It’s really fucking weird to translate–I’d be happy to change this if someone could help with this. This dialogue is REALLY fucking different from the original English version.)

Hanzo: What have you become?

That form…just what…?

Genji: I have accepted what I am and I have forgiven you. Now you must forgive yourself. The world is changing once again, Hanzo, and it’s time to pick a side.

As I took on this new self, I forgave you, brother. All that’s left is for you to forgive yourself. The world is once again in times of turmoil. The question now is which side will you take.

Hanzo: Real life is not like the stories our father told us. You are a fool for believing it so!

Reality is nothing like our father’s fairytales. Enough, cast away your fantasies!

(Here, he doesn’t say 「いい加減に」(Iikagen ni) which would’ve made all the difference, but he just leaves it at 「いい加減」(Iikagen), which kind of translates as a sort of sharp scolding. Mm, it’s a difficult sentence to get the right feel for.)

Genji: Perhaps I am a fool to think that there is still hope for you, but I do. Think on that, brother.

Even if my fantasies are mocked, I will still believe. Let us meet again, brother.

[kendrixtermina]

Rluai is the most common for INFPs, just saying.

I think I’ve already said everything that there is to be said on the topic, but I will adress this one ask because I believe it touches on a topic that I’ve only covered in passing on this blog so far. 

BIg five vs. MBTI and possible correlations. 

There is not actually that much data that correlates which results where commonly received by the same people (some forums and tumblr’s own eilamona have attempted surveys though these would be biased by tumblr’s distribution not being RL’s and the usual trappings of self-reporting)

Also, with the Big 5 having 2x2x2x2x2 = 32 categories and thus few people in every category, you would need huge sample sizes and methodical proceeding to get significant correlations. “The most” could mean anything from one percent point more than the others or “over half”; a simple tally is no statement about distribution, and even a strong distribution spike is not equivalency.

See, for example, how ISTJs correlate with enneagram. There is actually a clear distinct tedency with 90% of ISTJs being one of 3 types, but each of those (1, 6 and 5) accounts for roughly a third of those 90% so it would be idiotic to say that say, being a 6  means you must be ISTJ. What about non 6 ISTJs? What about 6s who are ISFJ?

So even if most RULAIs are INFPs, all that tells you is that tells you is that if you’re both, you’re in the majority. But to tell the probability that a RULAI is INFP or a given INFP is RULAI, you would need to know either how many of all total RULAIs are INFPs, or how many INFPs are not RULAIs. 

I’m pretty sure I met some INFPs who were distinctly “E” (mostly 4w3s and/or soc-blinds) or “C” (chiefly 9w1s) for example, though I’d be surprised to find one who claims to be SCxxN. 

It’s called “Bayes’s theorem” and one of the many examples why the world would be much better if basic logic and probability theory were taught in schools.

What more,  much of what is out there on the correlating of mbti and big 5 is people trying to find some sort of equivalency between the systems, often based on a very dichotomous (and therefore, shallow) understanding of mbti that disregards the differences between them as independent metrics. See also “16 personaliies.org” and their attempt to add the neurotism metric (-A/T) which really just mucked up their test. 

Often this is supposed top validate mbti by tying it to the much renowned and supposedly so stable big 5 system - but big 5′s supposed stability and consistency comes from being a much simpler, shallower system: It really is just a ranking of specific traits or the lack thereof on a dichotomous scale. You either are orderly and reliable (”conscientious”) or you aren’t. You can get assigned a percentage to represent stronger or weaker tendencies.

Big 5 asks you “are you X?” You tell it “yes/no/maybe” and then it gives you a profile saying you are indeeed “Yes/no/maybe” on the X scale, and that for each trait. That can be useful for some applications, like correlating those traits with lifestyle choices or opinions or screening people for very demanding jobs, but it is virtually useless for the purposes most typology is used for - such as self-development or communication. 

It ranks you on a scale, but it does not really tell you anything you didn’t know before. It simply discribes, but doesn’t postulate any internal logic or structure -  It doesn’t have explanatory or predictive power. It doesn’t elucidate your inner workings, does not tell you how to get along better with a given type. It simply measures wether you are good at five things (socializing, keeping calm, being organized, making others like you, keeping an open mind) or not. There’s no advantage to being “Egocentric”, “Unstructured” or “Non-Curious.”

Big 5 measures 5 independent metrics and the combination thereof, so “RULEI” (RUxEI supposedly most common for INTP) is would not be that different from RULAI, after all that’s 4 or 5 matching! The difference is simply that the person goes a little further in not needlessly pissing people off, especially if the preference toward “A” is only weak one. 

Meanwhile, consider INFJ vs INFP. One letter apart. Sure there are many similarities but also many fundamental differences because it’s not just one letter: It means your valued functions are completely opposite. They will share traits common to all introverts, feelers and intuitives, but differ completely where functon-specific communication and reasoning differences are concerned. 

You could label yourself as “INFx” because you’re unsure about your actual type but you can’t actually be “in-between” because unlike Big 5, MBTI is not a combination of 5 scales, but a discreet classificator. 

The MBTI and all tests based on it as well as sister/branch theories like socionics are built upon the idea of the Jungian Functions, diffent distinct types of reasoning and information processing that CG Jung believed to have identified in the human mind. The system comes with the base axiom that you can have one of 8 dominant functions, and that’s it, and you’ve got to at least humor that idea for a while to assin yourself a MBTI type, and each function comes with a set of both likely (present often) and fixed (present always) traits that will be shared between the great majority of that functions. - which is what gives mbti more predictive and explanatory power. 

Someone being “Unstructured” just tells you they’re not a great organizer; Someone being a Perceiver implies a great deal about their way of thinking and decision making, be it neutral good or bad, and if you knew if they’re SP or NP you could infer even more, not always hard predictions but certainly probalities.

Just from the definitations that both the 5 traits and the functions have by definition it figures that some combinations are more frquent than others (for the same reason that, say, an ISFJ core 8 sounds pretty unlikely) but that does not a hard equivalency make, especially since big 5 allows for twice as many possibilities. 

The idea that you can just convert mbti letters to Big 5 letters as if the letters were all there were is fallacious. 

Indeed

Some things do correlations:

R/S with I/E for obvious reasons/ pretty much by design. Intro vs extroversion is one of the most obvious differences in human personalities and hence where any metric to sort those would start.   

But this is where it stops/ where things get weird or interesting depending on your PoV. 

L/C shows a very weak correlation but is almost evenly split among T/F. 

A/E shows some  correlaton of A with F and E with T correlating with the stereotype of how Feelers are “generally nicer” but it’s not a hard 

The oddest result is that intuitives are almost always Inquisitive but Sensors can be both and are evenly split overall with individual types having their own preferences. This isn’t just split among Si/Se lines as some stereotypes might suggest, ESTPs for example are very commonly Non-curious, but again, not always.   

These traits also veer into what we might call morals so they would pose. If people were predisposed toward their morals and could not be convinced, if the were “hardwired” so to speak the whole idea of morality would be pointless, for with what authority would you “blame” someone for being close minded or a jerkif they’re just following their programing?, but it is equally pointless morality as a blackbox even though we are comming closer and closer to understanding the brain. 

There’s also this tendency of treating anything we can detect as “organic” and everything we cannot as “mental”, a Soul Of The Gaps if you will (analoous to God Of The Gaps) but we know all mental processes are in the brain somehow, (because it can be destroyed by specific brain injuries, for example) so would explaining it all mean putting it all outside a person’s responsibility?  

Hidden in there is the false assumpton that the biologically explicable is “permanent” and thats true of some parts but the strenght of nerve connections can be as temporary as the state of a computer. 

Adding the problem that people do no sufficiently differentiate between facts and their interpretation. A fact is what is real regardless of what we think about it or wether we even know it. An interpretation is what a human think is ~means~ which matters only to humans. 

Fact: The earth goes around the sun

Interpretation A: See humans? you are not special. 

Interpretation B: See humans’ You’re not that bad. We get to participate in the “Dance of the stars” 

(AThe latter was actually written by a humanist writer of Kopernikus’ own time. if the earth goes round the sun, it is not “down” (where hell is) or “up” (where god is) as many geocentric worldviews implied. “Up or down” becomes utterly meaningless with heliocentrism. )

Fact: The brains of Liberals and Conservatives show differences in scans

Interpretation A: The people are Conservatives or Liberals because of inborn characteristics

From this you could then derive corollary a) All politics is meaningless bullshit if we do not really “chose” it  or c) Some politics is wrong, so some people (the ones you agree with) are better than others

Interpretation B: Peoples show differences because they are conservatives or liberals - the brain regions is how their opinion is “stored” and the media bubbles “train” them for characteristic reactions 

Interpretation C: Some people are more suceptible to certan kinds of propaganda, we [correct opinion] must phrase our message so it reaches those who are easily misled so they don’t end up voting againt their interest. [Your opinion]  is, after all, the best for everyone. 

Of course interpretations can become invalid if they don’t account for additional facts. If they scanned children and they had those characteristics before they even know what politics is, B goes out the window - Meanwhile if you scanned people before and after their opinions changed and the corresponing brain regions changed, too,  B might increase in likelihood

Another complicated factor is that people are more likely to see something as a neutral/preferential rather than a moral issue if they think it’s inborn. 

A common anti-homophobia argument is “But it’s inborn!” which is used because it seems to convince a lot of people even though it has nothing to do with homosexual acts themselves. If we could all choose wether to screw men, women, enbies or no one at all, wouldn’t it still not be anyone else’s business if it harms no one?

by contrast, Once upon a time “orderliness/discipline” was regarded as a moral thing, hence the very word “concientiousness” but now we don’t as much and there are cultural differences (some midwestern americans see foul language as a “moral failing” (”Good christians don’t swear”) rather than simply inappropiate or rude. )

Plenty to discuss here.

But basically, Big 5 and mbti are not equivalent and work by different principles indeed attempts to treat mbti like  big 5 have probably resulted in a lot of the less reliable tests out there. 

[fourteenacross]

i NEED to know what john said about alex at the award ceremony?

I wrote the majority of this while on a conference call this morning, so I apologize for how clunky it is, but… shrug emoji.

(A…coda? A something to this.)

*

“And now,” Dean Adams says, “to present the award for Distinguished Graduate Scholar in Parapsychology, Dr. George Washington.”

John is pleased to note that Washington gets significantly more applause than Adams did when he took the stage. By the sour look on Adams’ face as he steps back and takes his seat again, it didn’t go unnoticed by him, either. Herc and a few other students whistle shrilly, and eventually Washington motions for the applause to die down. He puts on his reading glasses and clears his throat.

“Good evening,” he says, and one of the harried looking students volunteering for the event runs forward and nudges the mic closer to his mouth. “Tonight, I have the honor of presenting the award for the Parapsychology Department’s Distinguished Graduate Scholar to Alexander Hamilton.” John can’t stop himself from a spontaneous cheer, but he’s gratified that he’s not the only one doing the cheering. Lafayette and Herc and a handful of other parapsych people he knows are equally enthusiastic. Or, at least, they’re enthusiastic, period. John doesn’t think any of them could match his pride right now. “Mr. Hamilton is a first year student in our program, but in ten months, he’s shown remarkable potential. He came to us after graduating summa cum laude from Columbia University in only two years. In his first month at Morristown, he took the Investigative Parapsychologist Exam and received a perfect score, something that fewer than one quarter of one percent of students achieve. After two terms with us, he has a perfect GPA, and right this moment he’s revising a paper for the Atlantic Parapsychology Journal.

“But Distinguished Scholar is about more than academics. Mr. Hamilton is an exemplary student in all the ways that count as well. He’s worked these past two semesters as a Teaching Assistant, a Graduate Assistant, and a tutor. He’s volunteered to act as a Research Assistant for the summer, all in addition to doing parapsychology field work both academically and as a certified Investigative Parapsychologist. He handles all of those responsibilities with care and aplomb, and is a great asset to our lab. He’s always willing to take on extra work. One of the first into the lab every day and always one of the last to leave, his creative and global thinking has propelled everyone he works with to success. He never settles for anything but the best–constantly interrogating his results and consulting with research until he’s sure of his findings. He stands by his work with confidence, but isn’t afraid to adjust in light of new information. Most of all, despite his own meteoric rise to the top of his department, he’s kept a level head and remains a team player. He’s quick to consult with his labmates on their areas of expertise and recognizes the value of team work. He’s bonded closely with those in the lab–” And, yep, he definitely spares half a glance to John, who shrinks down in his chair and blushes. “–and looks at every success as a success for the whole group.”

Embarrassment aside, John can’t help the way his heart swells with pride, tight and warm in his chest. He’s a little misty-eyed, which is stupid, but he’s so fucking proud of Alexander. He knows he has very little to do with Alex’s success, but he’s still proud to know him, proud to watch him come into his own. He may have spent the last seven or so years being an anonymous researcher on the internet, but here in the lab he really shines. It’s beautiful to watch, and John loves him so fucking much he can’t put it into words.

“Accepting the award on Mr. Hamilton’s behalf is John Laurens.”

Except, he kind of has to.

There’s some polite applause as John gets to his feet and absently buttons his blazer, the etiquette drilled into him still after all his years of school uniforms and charity galas. He climbs the stairs to the stage quickly and shakes Adams’ hand, accepting the certificate and then shakes Washington’s and takes the plaque.

“Don’t let this go to his head,” Washington murmurs, so low only John can hear it, and he struggles not to laugh as he moves to stand in front of the podium, pulling the mic down so he can speak into it.

“Thank you, Dean Adams, Dr. Washington, and the rest of the department faculty,” he says. “As Dr. Washington implied, Alexander is at home tonight so he can submit a paper to one of the oldest and most distinguished parapsychology journals in the country, and if you see him at any point this week, he’ll be sure to use both of those adjectives when he describes it to you.” He pauses for the chuckle from the audience and keeps his pleased mask in place to hide his nerves. He doesn’t flinch at speaking in front of people normally, but speaking about an academic subject is far, far different than speaking about his boyfriend, no matter how brief the statement. He has to swallow against a lump in his throat. He didn’t prepare any notes–he didn’t think he’d have to. He figured he’d come up, thank everyone on Alex’s behalf, maybe say a few things about how hard he works. He didn’t factor in this head-to-toe swell of emotion overtaking him. God, he’s going to completely embarrass himself.

But he’ll embarrass himself more if he just stands here and stares blankly out into the audience, so he takes a deep breath and charges forward.

“Anyway,” he says, and once the first word is out, the rest start to come more easily. “I’ll keep this quick since I’m not Alexander and if he’s not going to be here, I should spare you the speech he wrote to fill every second of the five minutes he was allotted to speak.” Another small laugh from the audience, but John presses forward. He’s afraid if he stops again, he’ll say something unforgivably maudlin or emotional when he starts back up. “Everything Dr. Washington said about Alex is true–he’s the most brilliant person I’ve ever met. He’s driven and dedicated not just to his own success, but to the success of this field as a whole. Trust me when I tell you that he’s very honored to receive this recognition. I’m really just…incredibly proud to know him and so, so grateful to have him in my life. And honestly I’m, like…delighted to see the school confirming what we all already know: that he’s a star and we’re lucky to have him. I’m lucky to have him.” Down in the audience he sees Laf mime gagging and Herc snicker from behind the phone he’s been using to film the whole thing. “Thanks again to the faculty and the administration, and congratulations to the other honorees.”

He steps away from the microphone as the applause starts again, and Washington puts a hand on his shoulder and they stroll off the stage together. Once they’re in the wings and Adams is announcing the next honoree, Washington sighs and shakes his head.

“Couldn’t pull him away from that article?” he says.

“Believe me, I used every tool in my considerable arsenal to drag him here,” John says.

“I don’t doubt it,” Washington says. “Regardless, there are about four awards left. Afterwards, you and Gilbert and Mulligan should come back to the lab and we’ll toast to him.”

John looks down at the plaque in his hands. The Faculty of the Morristown University of New Jersey’s Parapsychology Department formally recognizes Alexander Hamilton as the 2014-2015 Distinguished Graduate Scholar. The first of what John is positive will be many accolades and recognitions.

“No thanks,” he says, looking back up at Washington. His heart is doing the same thing as before, swelling and warming him and nearly breaking his chest open with pride. “I think I’m just gonna go home.”

“I had a feeling you might say that,” Washington says. “Tell him we’re all very proud of him.”

“I will,” John promises, and slips back down into the auditorium, grinning like a fool all the way to his seat.

[idonotknowhowtoo-blog]

How to make hard conversations easy

Somebody is screaming in your face at the top of their lungs. Or ranting angrily and you can't get a word in edgewise. Or possibly they're sobbing so hard you can barely understand what they're saying.

We have actually all existed. These situations do not occur a lot (thank god) but all of us feel powerless when they do. And because they're unusual we do not ever appear to get much better at handling them.

Issue is, these moments are frequently crucial since they're typically with individuals we care about.

What's the very best way to handle these difficult conversations? What works?

I called someone who understands: Dr. Albert J. Bernstein. He's a clinical psychologist with over 40 years of experience and the author of a number of excellent books on handling individuals problems:

Here's what you'll discover in this post:

The magic phrase that gets people to stop screaming.

How to stop making the most common mistake in these sort of discussions.

How to switch individuals from being psychological to being reasonable.

The mindset that makes dealing with hysterical people simple.

And a lot more.

Okay, time to wage war with the crazy. Here we go ...

1) Initially, You Need To Keep Calm

You already have a single person overreacting. The worst thing would be to have 2people overreacting.If you Hulk Out, it's little bit more than a yelling match and nothing gets achieved.

Al calls the emotional side of our mind the "dinosaur brain." It's millions of years old and just comprehends "fight" or "escape."

If you stay calm, you can help someone leave its grip. If you fall victim to it too, it results in what he likes to call the "Godzilla meets Rodan" impact: lots of shouting, structures get knocked down however nothing constructive gets accomplished. Here's Al:

... the fundamental concept is that in many circumstances, you're reacting with instincts configured into your dinosaur brain, instead of believing through a scenario. If you're in your dinosaur brain, you're going to play out a 6 million-year-old program, and nothing great is going to take place. Because case, the dinosaur brain of the other individual is going to comprehend that they are being assaulted, and then you're responding with battling back or escaping, and either one is going to escalate the scenario into what I like to call the "Godzilla fulfills Rodan" result. There's a great deal of shrieking and shouting, and structures drop, however not much is achieved.

What to do here? Screen your stimulation levels and do your best to stay calm. He stated the exact same feature of handling tension that Harvard scientist Shawn Achor did: see issues as difficulties rather of crises.

(To find out how Samurai and Navy SEALs keep one's cool in tight spots, click here.)Okay, you're cool as Fonzie. They're still acting insane. What's the very best technique here? 2) Deal with Them Like A Child No, I don't imply be condescending. you would not attempt to rationalize with a shouting child. And you wouldn't snap with them for screaming. You 'd just dismiss the hysterics and handle the underlying problem.

Adults aren't any different. (Yes, this is both really insightful and extremely dismaying. Invite to Earth.)

Trying to realistically describe why shouting isn't assisting doesn't work with three-year-olds and it won't deal with grown-ups either. Overlook the drama.

If you're a parent, you understand precisely what I'm speaking about. Shift into dealing-with-your-kidmode and watch magic take place. Al actually states "If you feel like a preschool instructor, you're probably doing it right." Here's Al:

Individuals say to me all the time, "You suggest I have to deal with a grown-up like a three-year-old?" I say, "Yes, definitely." If you're a parent, what do you finish with a tantrum? You disregard it, or at least you try to overlook it. But with an adult you attempt and talk them out of it, and it never works.

(To discover the 10 guidelines to communicating better, click here. )You're calm and you're not letting them get to you since you see them like a big kid. However how do you stop the screaming

, sobbing or yelling? Anything that slows the situation down benefits you.

Among Al's very first jobs was dealing with strongly psychotic individuals in an institution. He rapidly realized that slow means calm and calm means thinking vs responding.

(What's intriguing is my good friend Chris, who was the Lead International Hostage Arbitrator for the FBI, frequently suggests the very same thing: slow the conversation down. )How do you get someone to stop screaming? Your natural reaction is actually the worst thing to do. Saying, "Stop yelling"will be viewed as informing them what

to do. Nobody likes to be informed what to do, particularly mad individuals. Instead, Al says try a variation of:"Please speak more gradually. I

'd like to help."Why does this work? It breaks the pattern in their head. They're expecting you to resist them but you're not. You're asking to clarify. You're interested. This makes them shift more out of "dinosaur brain" and into thinking. Which's good.

(And have you ever attempted yelling gradually? Great luck with that.)

The exact same principle works on the phone too: you wish to snap them out of that pattern without being seen as resisting. Al calls it the "uh-huh guideline."

When they pause to take a breath on the phone, do not say anything. After adequate silence, they'll most likely respond with, "Are you there?"

That speedbump pulls them out of the upset momentum for a 2nd and makes them think virtually. Here's Al:

When someone is speaking to you on the phone and they stop to take a breath, your natural reaction is to say, "uh-huh." It's kind of a universal thing. We do not realize that we're doing it. But if you go 3 breaths without saying "uh-huh", the other individual will stop and state, "Are you there?" We attempted that many times, and it was simply remarkable how well it worked. What I have actually simply given you there is a method to interrupt somebody who's chewing out you on the phone without saying a word. Simply do not say "uh-huh."

(For pointers from an FBI behavioral expert on how to make individuals like you, click here.)They're not screaming anymore. But that doesn't mean they're not upset and it does not indicate you're making any real development. What turns raving insane individuals into logical grownups you can talk with?

4) Ask "What Would You Like Me To Do?"

Slowing it down is great. Therefore is seeing them as a child. What's the next huge method? You need to get them believing.

Anything that moves them from mentally reacting to consciously thinking is great. Here's Al:

When people are upset at you or attacking you, it's really simple to eliminate back or flee, but what you really require to do is something that engages their brain.

And that isn't too hard, actually. Ask them, "What would you like me to do?"

They require to create a response. That makes them believe-- even for a 2nd-- and you're on your method to turning the Hulk back into Bruce Banner. Here's Al:

Once you get the person to stop screaming, you say, "What would you like me to do?" The person has to stop and think at that point. What you desire is to move an upset circumstance toward the possibility of negotiating. You can do that by merely asking, "What would you like me to do?" It moves them from their dinosaur brain to their cortex, and after that working out is possible.

(For more on dealing with illogical, upset or just plain crazy people, click here.)You're calm. They're not shouting and they're starting to think rather of just acting like a psychological grenade. How do you keep things moving in the ideal instructions?

5) Do Not Make Statements. Ask Concerns.

Another substantial, big mistake we all make: we describe. Don't explain.Why?

The other individual will analyze it as a veiled type of resisting. You understand why? Due to the fact that it is a veiled type of fighting back.

It's the respectful method of stating, "Here's why I'm ideal and you're incorrect." And everybody sees it for what it is. Cut it out. Here's Al:

Describing is often a disguised type of combating back. Many descriptions will be heard as, "See here, if you actually comprehend the scenario, you will see that I am ideal and you are wrong." That is an attack, and it's also among the methods we attain supremacy over other individuals. We act as if we just discuss our position actually plainly, then the other person will comprehend and concur with us. I've never ever actually seen that work.

What do you do? Ask questions. Here's Al:

One of the main guidelines that I state to people is if you want to get along with people, ask don't tell.

He also suggests another technique that comes directly out of the captive negotiator playbook: Active Listening. Here's Al: What I normally make with individuals is show back the feeling that they're feeling. If they're saying something like, "I'm Jesus Christ, and they're attempting to crucify me," rather of saying, "No, you're not Jesus Christ," you say, "That must be pretty frightening." They'll say, "Yeah!" The act of listening is reflecting back the individual's emotional state, not necessarily the content of what they're stating.

(For more on how hostage mediators utilize active listening and how you can improve at it, click here.)They're calm now. So how do you make sure you don't blow it and end up back where you

were? 6 )Start Sentences With "I 'd Like ..." Not "You Are ... "

Now that they're being rational, the last thing you desire to do is state anything that sounds like an accusation. And they're going to be additional conscious this because they just boiled down from feeling assaulted.

In his excellent book Dinosaur Brains, Al states: Any sentence that starts with "you are" and does not end with" terrific "will be experienced as name-calling.

What you're doing now is basically working out so start your sentences with "I 'd like ..." Simply keep away from the word "you" as much as possible. (Relationship professional Dr. John Gottman suggests the exact same thing when romantic couples argue.)

(For more on settlement from FBI captive mediators, click here.) You're practically out of the woods. There's one last thing individuals often do that screws up everything and puts them back at square one ... 7) Let Them Have The Last Word

Requiring to have the last word is like stopping at mile 26 of the marathon. You've done everything right up until now. Do not let your ego screw up whatever at the last minute.

Just like explaining is in fact an effort at supremacy, so is needing to have latest thing. You're shifting your objective from "relaxing this situation" to "showing them who is right." Here's Al:

The last word is generally an effort to be right. You can reverse any favorable thing you have actually done by stating one word that sends them back into attack mode.

Don't take the bait. Let them have latest thing. Let them feel "ideal" if it lets you accomplish your real goal.

(For more on how to win every argument, click here.) This is a fantastic system for handling challenging conversations. Let's round it up and get Al's thoughts on the single most important thing to do when having any kind of discussion with individuals.

Sum up

Here are Al's suggestions for turning tough conversations into easy ones:

Treat 'em like a kid. You can't talk them out of emotional outbursts and snapping over it does absolutely nothing great.

Say "Please speak more gradually. I 'd like to assist."Slow it down. Do not come off like you're resisting.

Ask "What would you like me to do?"You got ta make'em start believing in order turn off the rage device.

Don't make declarations. Ask questions.Discussing is veiled supremacy. Questions get them believing.

Start sentences with "I 'd like ..." not "You are ..."If you begin with "I" it's difficult to be seen as attacking.

Let them have the last word.Do not let your ego blow it at the last minute.

So what does Al state is the single essential thing to do when dealing with people?

When they speak, ask yourself why they're stating what they're saying. Think of what's going on in their head, not yours. This leads away from evaluating and towards understanding and empathy.

Here's Al:

If you want to get along well with individuals and comprehend what's going on in circumstances, whenever somebody states something to you, ask yourself, "Why is he saying this to me? What's happening with him?" That is a doorway to understanding, an entrance to getting what you desire, and likewise a doorway to empathy. Rather than evaluating the person, try and understand them.

Leave "Godzilla Meets Rodan" for the motion pictures. Our lives require more compassion and less of anything that levels Tokyo.

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THE WORD TO LOSE TIME AND PAINTERS

Every programmer must have seen code that some clever person has made marginally shorter by using dubious programming tricks. If you want to make. But these schemes never worked for long. As far as I can tell they're mostly random. Hapless implies passivity. Sometimes I can't think of an answer, especially when the idea is a made-up one. Business still reflects an older model, exemplified by the French word for working: travailler. If i is the average outcome of the whole program. Suppose further that he's going to cost $60k a year in salary and overhead is 1. That sounds right, but is good quality eavesdropping so important that it would basically be Cambridge with good weather, it turns out, is not very good. Indirectly, but they are. These conventions weren't designed to drag out the funding process, but that's why they're allowed to persist.

There could be a good marketing decision, even if it is a bad design decision. Life in Berkeley is very civilized. So maybe it has simply replaced the component of social class that consisted of being au fait. I do it on that computer. For some kinds of work, all you need is a department with the right colleagues in it. How much does it matter what message a city sends without living there. It turned out it was way, way uptown: an hour uptown by air. The lowest form of these is to disagree with, you may not have explored. It seemed just amazing, as if there were a little man in your head.

But I wouldn't bet on it. That's what all publishing used to be safe, using the Internet. I think, are the three big lessons open source and blogging show us things don't have to grow up in a great city? This isn't the recipe for success in writing or painting, for example. One of the things startups do right without realizing it. There's no need to keep doing this. In art, mediums like embroidery and mosaic work well if you know beforehand what you want to know the answer.

Metrics Small in what sense though? Chesterfield described dirt as matter out of place. This is often combined with DH2 statements, as in: I can't believe the author dismisses intelligent design in such a cavalier fashion. One of the things startups do right without realizing it. Instead of matching beige cubicles they have an assortment of furniture they bought used. Some people would make good founders, and others wouldn't. The lowest form of disagreement, and probably also the most common because it is the same they face in operating systems: they can't pay people enough to build something better than a group of inspired hackers will build for free. Only those that are centers for some type of ambition. Paris is the only city I've lived in where people genuinely cared about art. The quotation you point out as mistaken need not be the actual statement of the author's main point seems to be at the very heart of hacking. There's an A List of people who should know better.

You have to find a smoking gun, a passage in whatever you disagree with that you feel is mistaken, and then explain why it's mistaken. Refutation. Then the startup and the lead would cooperate to find the city where you feel at home to know what sort of ambition, but they are. Chesterfield described dirt as matter out of place. Investors will probably find they do better when deprived of this crutch anyway. 1%-4. So by caring more about money and less about power than Silicon Valley, New York, Cambridge, and Silicon Valley because I've lived for several years in each of them. For example, if a senator wrote an article saying senators' salaries should be increased, one could respond: Of course he would say that. An ever larger percentage of office workers sit in front of that computer for hours at a time.

The most powerful form of disagreement, we give critical readers a pin for popping such balloons. And if it didn't, it's not surprising if amateurs can do better. What it means is torture. Just ask any teenager. Are there languages that force you to write code that's short in elements at the expense of overall readability? Till then the best I'd managed was to get the most done? Om Malik is the most common.

Reminder: What I'm looking for are programs that are very dense according to the metric of elements sketched above, not merely programs that are very dense according to the metric of elements sketched above, not merely programs that are very dense according to the metric of elements sketched above, not merely programs that are short because delimiters can be omitted and everything has a one-character name. A DH6 response could still be a bad thing for New York. I'll take Cambridge conversations over New York or Silicon Valley ones. For some kinds of work, all you need is a handful of talented colleagues. And middle ones of your career. Where is the man bites dog in that? There are only a handful of commonly used ones: TCP/IP the Internet, gradually became more and more dangerous. This tradeoff predates programming languages. I think it's the same feeling you get when the street you want to hire an additional hacker who's so good you feel he'll increase the average outcome of the whole company was before. Most people find it uncomfortable just to sit and do nothing; you avoid work by doing something else.

A complex macro may have to save many times its own length to be justified. Indeed, the disagreement hierarchy may inspire him to try moving up to counterargument or refutation. But investing later should also mean they have fewer losers. The quotation you point out as mistaken need not be the actual statement of the author's main point. For example, I'd tell myself I was only going to use the Internet twice a day. What does it mean to disagree well? Once an essay has had a couple thousand page views I feel reasonably confident about it. And it's not just the way offices look that's bleak.

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(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); All things considered, in the event that you've never had a telephone with a camera (or such a camera) previously, you'll in any event have the option to catch your recollections and spare photographs of individuals' faces, which could be worth very much. You can set a photograph as your backdrop, move various documents immediately utilizing Bluetooth, and send MMS messages, which are likewise significant capacities. By and large, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic (2020) doesn't verge on offering a cell phone understanding. Applications can't run out of sight (in spite of the fact that music and the radio can continue playing) and there are no message pop-ups. You can disregard rich web based life, spilling, and a large portion of the applications that individuals truly need nowadays. WhatsApp, which is accessible on other Nokia include telephones and has been a major selling point for the Jio Phone arrangement, is absent. 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Why JavaScript is Eating HTML

Web development is always changing. One trend in particular has become very popular lately, and it fundamentally goes against the conventional wisdom about how a web page should be made. It is exciting for some but frustrating for others, and the reasons for both are difficult to explain.

A web page is traditionally made up of three separate parts with separate responsibilities: HTML code defines the structure and meaning of the content on a page, CSS code defines its appearance, and JavaScript code defines its behavior. On teams with dedicated designers, HTML/CSS developers and JavaScript developers, this separation of concerns aligns nicely with job roles: Designers determine the visuals and user interactions on a page, HTML and CSS developers reproduce those visuals in a web browser, and JavaScript developers add the user interaction to tie it all together and “make it work.” People can work on one piece without getting involved with all three.

In recent years, JavaScript developers have realized that by defining a page’s structure in JavaScript instead of in HTML (using frameworks such as React), they can simplify the development and maintenance of user interaction code that is otherwise much more complex to build. Of course, when you tell someone that the HTML they wrote needs to be chopped up and mixed in with JavaScript they don’t know anything about, they can (understandably) become frustrated and start asking what the heck we’re getting out of this.

As a JavaScript developer on a cross-functional team, I get this question occasionally and I often have trouble answering it. All of the materials I’ve found on this topic are written for an audience that is already familiar with JavaScript — which is not terribly useful to those who focus on HTML and CSS. But this HTML-in-JS pattern (or something else that provides the same benefits) will likely be around for a while, so I think it’s an important thing that everyone involved in web development should understand.

This article will include code examples for those interested, but my goal is to explain this concept in a way that can be understood without them.

Background: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

To broaden the audience of this article as much as possible, I want to give a quick background on the types of code involved in creating a web page and their traditional roles. If you have experience with these, you can skip ahead.

HTML is for structure and semantic meaning

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code defines the structure and meaning of the content on a page. For example, this article's HTML contains the text you're reading right now, the fact that it is in a paragraph, and the fact that it comes after a heading and before a CodePen.

Let’s say we want to build a simple shopping list app. We might start with some HTML like this:

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We can save this code in a file, open it in a web browser, and the browser will display the rendered result. As you can see, the HTML code in this example represents a section of a page that contains a heading reading “Shopping List (2 items),” a text input box, a button reading “Add Item,” and a list with two items reading “Eggs” and “Butter.” In a traditional website, a user would navigate to an address in their web browser, then the browser would request this HTML from a server, load it and display it. If there are already items in the list, the server could deliver HTML with the items already in place, like they are in this example.

Try to type something in the input box and click the “Add Item” button. You’ll notice nothing happens. The button isn’t connected to any code that can change the HTML, and the HTML can’t change itself. We’ll get to that in a moment.

CSS is for appearance

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) code defines the appearance of a page. For example, this article's CSS contains the font, spacing, and color of the text you're reading.

You may have noticed that our shopping list example looks very plain. There is no way for HTML to specify things like spacing, font sizes, and colors. This is where CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) comes in. On the same page as the HTML above, we could add CSS code to style things up a bit:

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As you can see, this CSS changed the font sizes and weights and gave the section a nice background color (designers, please don’t @ me; I know this is still ugly). A developer can write style rules like these and they will be applied consistently to any HTML structure: if we add more <section>, <button> or <ul> elements to this page, they will have the same font changes applied.

The button still doesn’t do anything, though: that’s where JavaScript comes in.

JavaScript is for behavior

JavaScript code defines the behavior of interactive or dynamic elements on a page. For example, the embedded CodePen examples in this article are powered by JavaScript.

Without JavaScript, to make the Add Item button in our example work would require us to use special HTML to make it submit data back to the server (<form action="...">, if you’re curious). Then the browser would discard the entire page and reload an updated version of the entire HTML file. If this shopping list was part of a larger page, anything else the user was doing would be lost. Scrolled down? You’re back at the top. Watching a video? It starts over. This is how all web applications worked for a long time: any time a user interacted with a webpage, it was as if they closed their web browser and opened it again. That’s not a big deal for this simple example, but for a large complex page which could take a while to load, it’s not efficient for either the browser or the server.

If we want anything to change on a webpage without reloading the entire page, we need JavaScript (not to be confused with Java, which is an entirely different language… don’t get me started). Let’s try adding some:

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Now when we type some text in the box and click the “Add Item” button, our new item is added to the list and the item count at the top is updated! In a real app, we would also add some code to send the new item to the server in the background so that it will still show up the next time we load the page.

Separating JavaScript from the HTML and CSS makes sense in this simple example. Traditionally, even more complicated interactions would be added this way: HTML is loaded and displayed, and JavaScript runs afterwards to add things to it and change it. As things get more complex, however, we start needing to keep better track of things in our JavaScript.

If we were to keep building this shopping list app, next we’d probably add buttons for editing or removing items from the list. Let’s say we write the JavaScript for a button that removes an item, but we forget to add the code that updates the item total at the top of the page. Suddenly we have a bug: after a user removes an item, the total on the page won’t match the list! Once we notice the bug, we fix it by adding that same totalText.innerHTML line from our “Add Item” code to the “Remove Item” code. Now we have the same code duplicated in more than one place. Later on, let’s say we want to change that code so that instead of “(2 items)” at the top of the page it reads “Items: 2.” We’ll have to make sure we update it in all three places: in the HTML, in the JavaScript for the “Add Item” button, and in the JavaScript for the “Remove Item” button. If we don’t, we’ll have another bug where that text abruptly changes after a user interaction.

In this simple example, we can already see how quickly these things can get messy. There are ways to organize our JavaScript to make this kind of problem easier to deal with, but as things continue to get more complex, we’ll need to keep restructuring and rewriting things to keep up. As long as HTML and JavaScript are kept separate, a lot of effort can be required to make sure everything is kept in sync between them. That’s one of the reasons why new JavaScript frameworks, like React, have gained traction: they are designed to show the relationships between things like HTML and JavaScript. To understand how that works, we first need to understand just a teeny bit of computer science.

Two kinds of programming

The key concept to understand here involves the distinction between two common programming styles. (There are other programming styles, of course, but we’re only dealing with two of them here.) Most programming languages lend themselves to one or the other of these, and some can be used in both ways. It's important to grasp both in order to understand the main benefit of HTML-in-JS from a JavaScript developer's perspective.

Imperative programming: The word "imperative" here implies commanding a computer to do something. A line of imperative code is a lot like an imperative sentence in English: it gives the computer a specific instruction to follow. In imperative programming, we must tell the computer exactly how to do every little thing we need it to do. In web development, this is starting to be considered "the old way" of doing things and it's what you do with vanilla JavaScript, or libraries like jQuery. The JavaScript in my shopping list example above is imperative code.

Imperative: “Do X, then do Y, then do Z”.

Example: When the user selects this element, add the .selected class to it; and when the user de-selects it, remove the .selected class from it.

Declarative programming: This is a more abstract layer above imperative programming. Instead of giving the computer instructions, we instead "declare" what we want the results to be after the computer does something. Our tools (e.g. React) figure out the how for us automatically. These tools are built with imperative code on the inside that we don't have to pay attention to from the outside.

Declarative: “The result should be XYZ. Do whatever you need to do to make that happen.”

Example: This element has the .selected class if the user has selected it.

HTML is a declarative language

Forget about JavaScript for a moment. Here's an important fact: HTML on its own is a declarative language. In an HTML file, you can declare something like:

<section> <h1>Hello</h1> <p>My name is Mike.</p> </section>

When a web browser reads this HTML, it will figure out these imperative steps for you and execute them:

Create a section element

Create a heading element of level 1

Set the inner text of the heading element to “Hello”

Place the heading element into the section element

Create a paragraph element

Set the inner text of the paragraph element to “My name is Mike”

Place the paragraph element into the section element

Place the section element into the document

Display the document on the screen

As a web developer, the details of how a browser does these things is irrelevant; all that matters is that it does them. This is a perfect example of the difference between these two kinds of programming. In short, HTML is a declarative abstraction wrapped around a web browser's imperative display engine. It takes care of the "how" so you only have to worry about the "what." You can enjoy life writing declarative HTML because the fine people at Mozilla or Google or Apple wrote the imperative code for you when they built your web browser.

JavaScript is an imperative language

We’ve already looked at a simple example of imperative JavaScript in the shopping list example above, and I mentioned how the complexity of an app’s features has ripple effects on the effort required to implement them and the potential for bugs in that implementation. Now let’s look at a slightly more complex feature and see how it can be simplified by using a declarative approach.

Imagine a webpage that contains the following:

A list of labelled checkboxes, each row of which changes to a different color when it is selected

Text at the bottom like "1 of 4 selected" that should update when the checkboxes change

A "Select All" button which should be disabled if all checkboxes are already selected

A "Select None" button which should be disabled if no checkboxes are selected

Here’s an implementation of this in plain HTML, CSS and imperative JavaScript:

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There isn’t much CSS code here because I’m using the wonderful PatternFly design system, which provides most of the CSS for my example. I imported their CSS file in the CodePen settings.

All the small things

In order to implement this feature with imperative JavaScript, we need to give the browser several granular instructions. This is the English-language equivalent to the code in my example above:

In our HTML, we declare the initial structure of the page:

There are four row elements, each containing a checkbox. The third box is checked.

There is some summary text which reads "1 of 4 selected."

There is a "Select All" button which is enabled.

There is a "Select None" button which is disabled.

In our JavaScript, we write instructions for what to change when each of these events occurs:

When a checkbox changes from unchecked to checked:

Find the row element containing the checkbox and add the .selected CSS class to it.

Find all the checkbox elements in the list and count how many are checked and how many are not checked.

Find the summary text element and update it with the checked number and the total number.

Find the "Select None" button element and enable it if it was disabled.

If all checkboxes are now checked, find the "Select All" button element and disable it.

When a checkbox changes from checked to unchecked:

Find the row element containing the checkbox and remove the .selected class from it.

Find all the checkbox elements in the list and count how many are checked and not checked.

Find the summary text element and update it with the checked number and the total number.

Find the "Select All" button element and enable it if it was disabled.

If all checkboxes are now unchecked, find the "Select None" button element and disable it.

When the "Select All" button is clicked:

Find all the checkbox elements in the list and check them all.

Find all the row elements in the list and add the .selected class to them.

Find the summary text element and update it.

Find the "Select All" button and disable it.

Find the "Select None" button and enable it.

When the "Select None" button is clicked:

Find all the checkbox elements in the list and uncheck them all.

Find all the row elements in the list and remove the .selected class from them.

Find the summary text element and update it.

Find the "Select All" button and enable it.

Find the "Select None" button and disable it.

Wow. That's a lot, right? Well, we better remember to write code for each and every one of those things. If we forget or screw up any of those instructions, we will end up with a bug where the totals don't match the checkboxes, or a button is enabled that doesn't do anything when you click it, or a row ends up with the wrong color, or something else we didn’t think of and won’t find out about until a user complains.

The big problem here is that there is no single source of truth for the state of our app, which in this case is “which checkboxes are checked?” The checkboxes know whether or not they are checked, of course, but, the row styles also have to know, the summary text has to know, and each button has to know. Five copies of this information are stored separately all around the HTML, and when it changes in any of those places the JavaScript developer needs to catch that and write imperative code to keep the others in sync.

This is still only a simple example of one small component of a page. If that sounds like a headache, imagine how complex and fragile an application becomes when you need to write the whole thing this way. For many complex modern web applications, it’s not a scalable solution.

Moving towards a single source of truth

Tools, like React, allow us to use JavaScript in a declarative way. Just as HTML is a declarative abstraction wrapped around the web browser’s display instructions, React is a declarative abstraction wrapped around JavaScript.

Remember how HTML let us focus on the structure of a page and not the details of how the browser displays that structure? Well, when we use React, we can focus on the structure again by defining it based on data stored in a single place. When that source of truth changes, React will update the structure of the page for us automatically. It will take care of the imperative steps behind the scenes, just like the web browser does for HTML. (Although React is used as an example here, this concept is not unique to React and is used by other frameworks, such as Vue.)

Let's go back to our list of checkboxes from the example above. In this case, the truth we care about is simple: which checkboxes are checked? The other details on the page (e.g. what the summary says, the color of the rows, whether or not the buttons are enabled) are effects derived from that same truth. So, why should they need to have their own copy of this information? They should just use the single source of truth for reference, and everything on the page should "just know" which checkboxes are checked and conduct themselves accordingly. You might say that the row elements, summary text, and buttons should all be able to automatically react to a checkbox being checked or unchecked. (See what I did there?)

Tell me what you want (what you really, really want)

In order to implement this page with React, we can replace the list with a few simple declarations of facts:

There is a list of true/false values called checkboxValues that represents which boxes are checked.

Example:  checkboxValues = [false, false, true, false]

This list represents the truth that we have four checkboxes, and that the third one is checked.

For each value in checkboxValues, there is a row element which:

has a CSS class called .selected if the value is true, and

contains a checkbox, which is checked if the value is true.

There is a summary text element that contains the text "{x} of {y} selected" where {x} is the number of true values in checkboxValues and {y} is the total number of values in checkboxValues.

There is a "Select All" button that is enabled if there are any false values in checkboxValues.

There is a "Select None" button that is enabled if there are any true values in checkboxValues.

When a checkbox is clicked, its corresponding value changes in checkboxValues.

When the "Select All" button is clicked, it sets all values in checkboxValues to true.

When the "Select None" button is clicked, it sets all values in checkboxValues to false.

You'll notice that the last three items are still imperative instructions ("When this happens, do that"), but that's the only imperative code we need to write. It's three lines of code, and they all update the single source of truth. The rest of those bullets are declarations ("there is a...") which are now built right into the definition of the page's structure. In order to do this, we write our elements in a special JavaScript syntax provided by React called JSX, which resembles HTML but can contain JavaScript logic. That gives us the ability to mix logic like "if" and "for each" with the HTML structure, so the structure can be different depending on the contents of checkboxValues at any given time.

Here’s the same shopping list example as above, this time implemented with React:

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JSX is definitely weird. When I first encountered it, it just felt wrong. My initial reaction was, “What the heck is this? HTML doesn’t belong in JavaScript!” I wasn’t alone. That said, it’s not HTML, but rather JavaScript dressed up to look like HTML. It is also quite powerful.

Remember that list of 20 imperative instructions above? Now we have three. For the price of defining our HTML inside our JavaScript, the rest of them come for free. React just does them for us whenever checkboxValues changes.

With this code, it is now impossible for the summary to not match the checkboxes, or for the color of a row to be wrong, or for a button to be enabled when it should be disabled. There is an entire category of bugs which are now impossible for us to have in our app: sources of truth being out of sync. Everything flows down from the single source of truth, and we developers can write less code and sleep better at night. Well, JavaScript developers can, at least…

It's a trade-off

As web applications become more complex, maintaining the classic separation of concerns between HTML and JavaScript comes at an increasingly painful cost. HTML was originally designed for static documents, and in order to add more complex interactive functionality to those documents, imperative JavaScript has to keep track of more things and become more confusing and fragile.

The upside: predictability, reusability and composition

The ability to use a single source of truth is the most important benefit of this pattern, but the trade-off gives us other benefits, too. Defining elements of our page as JavaScript code means that we can turn chunks of it into reusable components, preventing us from copying and pasting the same HTML in multiple places. If we need to change a component, we can make that change in one place and it will update everywhere in our application (or in many applications, if we’re publishing reusable components to other teams).

We can take these simple components and compose them together like LEGO bricks, creating more complex and useful components, without making them too confusing to work with. And if we’re using components built by others, we can easily update them when they release improvements or fix bugs without having to rewrite our code.

The downside: it’s JavaScript all the way down

All of those benefits do come at a cost. There are good reasons people value keeping HTML and JavaScript separate, and to get these other benefits, we need to combine them into one. As I mentioned before, moving away from simple HTML files complicates the workflow of someone who didn’t need to worry about JavaScript before. It may mean that someone who previously could make changes to an application on their own must now learn additional complex skills to maintain that autonomy.

There can also be technical downsides. For example, some tools like linters and parsers expect regular HTML, and some third-party imperative JavaScript plugins can become harder to work with. Also, JavaScript isn’t the best-designed language; it’s just what we happen to have in our web browsers. Newer tools and features are making it better, but it still has some pitfalls you need to learn about before you can be productive with it.

Another potential problem is that when the semantic structure of a page is broken up into abstract components, it can become easy for developers to stop thinking about what actual HTML elements are being generated at the end. Specific HTML tags like <section> and <aside> have specific semantic meanings that are lost when using generic tags like <div> and <span>, even if they look the same visually on a page. This is especially important for accessibility. For example, these choices will impact how screen reader software behaves for visually impaired users. It might not be the most exciting part, but JavaScript developers should always remember that semantic HTML is the most important part of a web page.

Use it if it helps you, not because it’s “what’s hot right now”

It’s become a trend for developers to reach for frameworks on every single project. Some people are of the mindset that separating HTML and JavaScript is obsolete, but this isn’t true. For a simple static website that doesn’t need much user interaction, it’s not worth the trouble. The more enthusiastic React fans might disagree with me here, but if all your JavaScript is doing is creating a non-interactive webpage, you shouldn’t be using JavaScript. JavaScript doesn’t load as fast as regular HTML, so if you’re not getting a significant developer experience or code reliability improvement, it’s doing more harm than good.

You also don’t have to build your entire website in React! Or Vue! Or Whatever! A lot of people don’t know this because all the tutorials out there show how to use React for the whole thing. If you only have one little complex widget on an otherwise simple website, you can use React for that one component. You don’t always need to worry about webpack or Redux or Gatsby or any of the other crap people will tell you are “best practices” for your React app.

For a sufficiently complex application, declarative programming is absolutely worth the trouble. It is a game changer that has empowered developers the world over to build amazing, robust and reliable software with confidence and without having to sweat the small stuff. Is React in particular the best possible solution to these problems? No. Will it just be replaced by the next thing? Eventually. But declarative programming is not going anywhere, and the next thing will probably just do it better.

What’s this I’ve heard about CSS-in-JS?

I’m not touching that one.

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