#inaugural quote from the fav!

[sulemio-week-official]

Miorine: [Pointing at the broken coffee machine.] So. Who broke it? I’m not mad, I just wanna know.

Suletta: …I did. I broke it.

Miorine: No. No you didn’t. Chuchu?

Chuchu: Don’t look at me. Look at Nuno.

Nuno: What?! I didn’t break it.

Chuchu: Huh, that’s weird. How’d you even know it was broken?

Nuno: Because it’s sitting right in front of us and it’s broken!

Chuchu: Suspicious.

Nuno: No it’s not!

Lilique: If it matters, probably not, but Ojelo was the last one to use it.

Ojelo: Liar! I don’t even drink that crap!

Aliya: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Ojelo: I use wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everyone knows that Aliya!

Nika: Okay let’s not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Miorine.

Miorine: No. Who broke it?

Nuno: Miorine... Till’s been awfully quiet.

Till: ?

[Everyone starts arguing]

Miorine: [outside] I broke it. I burned my hand so I punched it. I predict 10 minutes from now they’ll be at each other’s throats with war paint on their faces and a pig on a stick. It was getting a bit too chummy here.

[ask-ciaphas-cain]

List ten favourite characters from ten different things and tag 10 people

I got tagged by @fuukonomiko and @catachan-jungle-fighter so here you go? I’m not doing Warhammer 40k bc... I have two 40k RP blogs and I keep talking about all the dudes and dudettes I like, so that really wouldn’t add anything new to the conversation!

1. Wedge Antilles -  Star Wars (Expanded Universe/Legends)

I’m going with the EU/Legends version bc that’s the one I like! He was my intro to the weird, wild, wacky Star Wars EU and he’s got like... one and a half book series about him. He was my first introduction to the “stern but fair, and willing to bend the rules” commander archetype. He left his command post to go fight a guerilla war against a tyrant the newly inaugurated New Republic wouldn’t. He founded a special ops pilot squad bc it was a niche official command wouldn’t fill. He willingly plays the straight man and fall guy so that his people can get shit done. At one point during a diplomatic mission he abandons it because he doesn’t want to be diplomatic with the horrible government he’s negotiating with, and leads the rival governments in a planetary civil war. He’s very very moral and I still stan even though all of his adventures are now non-canon.

2. Terezi Pyrope - Homestuck

LOV3 TH1S B1TCH >:] Narrow fav out of all my fav Homestuck characters. I love her character and the conflicts she’s been through. She’s also a very moral character, although sometimes her morals are questionable by human standards. She’s silly and funny and can also be very serious and she gets shit done.

3. Ticker - Warframe

Bet you didn’t know Warframe had NPCs lol. I love, love LOVE Ticker. She’s trans(!!) and she’s one of the few NPCs who treats the PC with empathy and respect. While the other NPCs basically treat the PC like a tool/partner for their own purposes, Ticker really seems to care about the PC as a person. I don’t know if she knows the truth about the Tenno, but I think she’d be willing to talk to them about their problems. She also calls the PC “Stardust”, unlike everyone else who calls them something kinda derogatory? Her quotes are also really kind and fun. I love her ugh

4. Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing - Hellsing

LOVE THIS STONE COLD BITCH. She bears the title of “Sir” and insists on it. She runs an anti-vampire organization AND is one of the 12 ranking members of England’s leading council. She stands equal to one of the most powerful members of the Vatican and goes out to battle herself when she needs to, and she has the respect and loyalty of the most powerful vampire on the planet. And she willingly marches into a trap to find and shoot her Nazi nemesis in the face. #1 badass who takes no shit.

5. Europe, Duchess of Naimes - Monster Blood Tattoo Trilogy

This is a much more obscure character, but I will stan and try to insist everyone reads this trilogy because it’s so good. Europe is one of the secondary protagonists who’s a COMPLETE badass. Monster hunter and researcher, scion of one of the most powerful noble families in the setting who decided not to go into politics but follow her own interests instead. She sort of adopts the protagonist and stands by him even as the plot thickens, partly because of her own interests and partly because she’s actually fond of him. She helps him out, ostensibly because it’s in her interests but really bc she cares about him c’: Love me Tsundere Aunt characters.

6. Blue Diamond - Steven Universe

Picking a best character from Steven Universe was hard but in the end I picked her. I love her and the fact that she’s a hyper-empathetic, depressed tyrant who eventually through her depression and hyper-empathy realizes she’s wrong and she’s been treating her younger sister abusively. I really appreciate that she eventually stands up to her own depression and the role her mom/supreme tyrant forces on her and she’s willing to fight her sister and her mom about it. Powering up from depression is good.

7. Nozomi Tojo - Love Live!!

Big titty lesbian c: Who is also really good at “leading from behind” and through suggestion. She’s supportive, kind and motivational, and nudges all of her friends into better choices through suggestions and hints. She uses her spirituality in a very kind, non-invasive way to help, and she’s a good singer! She’s also one of the common sense people in her friend group.

8. Rei Ayanami -  Neon Genesis Evangelion

Rei is weird bc she starts out as a personality-less, quiet person and then she grows into her own, and tbh that’s what I love about her. How she rejects what her “father figure” tells her and grows to become her own person (even though it’s attached to another person :/ well that’s not really her fault). I love that she goes from perceiving herself as worthless and sacrificial, to making the willing choice to sacrifice herself, dying, having her soul zooped into another copy of her, and then making that choice AGAIN while the world is literally ending. Very motivational for depressed teen me.

9. Gog-Agog -  Kill Six Billion Demons

Hyper powerful ruler of the universe, and wacky clown! She’s a completely insane god full of shenanigans and naughty. She does exactly what I’d probably do if I had godhood, and that’s entertain herself and do stupid bullshit. She’s ofc a horrible villain, but I love her. I’m super looking forward to seeing WHY her official title is “the Great Devourer, Scourge of Worlds.” (READ KILL SIX BILLION DEMONS ITS FREE)

10. Col. Samantha Carter -  Stargate SG-1

One of my first(!!!) actually strong female characters. 10 seasons of being the female lead on Stargate, being the SMART ONE who regularly tells the dudes what to do. Obvs sometimes, especially in the first few seasons she was still “the girl” but her character grew past that, with rank promotions as well. She’s been with me so long that words aren’t necessarily enough, so I’m gonna just put this video here of her outshooting a dude as an exclamation mark.

Tagging: @asklotarasarrin @thesilentinquisitor @jackass-biomancer @catterfly and whoever else wants to do this, sorry I’m just real bad at thinking up tags on the spot.

[theliberaltony]

via Politics – FiveThirtyEight

Three things can happen to a tweet once you send it into the world: It can get retweeted, it can get liked, and it can get replied to. Any of these can be nice, like a little food pellet from the digital universe, proof that someone out there is paying attention. But sometimes instead of giving you food pellets, the universe is flinging pebbles at you. If the replies stack up, outpacing the retweets and the likes, you may have a problem. Your tweet may be a bad tweet.

“The lengthier the conversation” sparked by a post, “the surer it is that someone royally messed up,” Luke O’Neil wrote recently in Esquire. “It’s a phenomenon known as The Ratio.” David Roth, writing for Deadspin, compared a bad ratio to a bad baseball stat line. A tweet with 198 replies, 34 retweets and 83 likes, for example, is the Adam Dunn of tweets: .198 batting average, 34 home runs and 83 RBIs. The Huffington Post’s Ashley Feinberg put it more bluntly: “I would say any time you have more replies than favs, you fucked up in some capacity.”

Twitter has become the de facto public podium for President Trump.1 So what blend of retweets, likes and replies characterizes the response to tweets from the most powerful public figure in the United States? And how does it compare to the way people react to the tweets of his powerful governing colleagues — friendly and rival both — in the U.S. Senate?2

We can illustrate the blend of the three actions for a given tweet using a ternary plot. These plots are used to measure, for example, the mixture of clay, sand and silt in soil, or the proportions of of gold, silver and copper alloy in jewelry. Here we’ll use them to measure the social media presences of some of the most powerful people in the United States. Tweets toward the top have a higher share of retweets, those toward the bottom right have a higher share of likes, and those toward the bottom left are in the Ratio danger zone — a higher share of replies.

Trump’s 3,232 tweets since last summer map out a shape like the silhouette of a B-2 bomber, sitting in the lower right corner and zooming straight toward “likes.” A like, also called a “favorite,” is often the most common response to a tweet. It’s easy to do, it’s not as public or expressive as a retweet, and it requires less thought than a reply.

Trump’s tweets spark firestorms, to be sure, but — at least according to the Feinberg metric — few are Ratio flops. In fact, only one of the Trump tweets in our data set has more replies than it does likes. (Another is very close.) Trump’s account is a magnet for likes: He averages over 60,000 of them per tweet, plus about 16,000 retweets and 14,000 replies.

But there are exceptions. The Trump tweet that got the highest share of replies was the second of a pair of tweets taking a shot at MSNBC’s “poorly rated” show “Morning Joe” and its co-host Mika Brzezinski. (The other outlier in the reply direction came after a plan to repeal Obamacare failed in the Senate. And a tweet posted Monday morning — in which Trump addresses a conversation he had with Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Army Sargeant La David Johnson, who was killed in Niger earlier this month — also generated an unusually high proportion of replies.)

…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017

The Trump tweet with the highest share of retweets — the “good” ratio — concerned foreign policy. It has about 87,000 retweets with only 14,000 replies, as of this writing.

During my recent trip to the Middle East I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar – look!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 6, 2017

And the tweet that got the highest share of likes was about the goodwill of a former Republican presidential candidate. (Six-figure likes and only 6,000 replies.)

Mitt Romney called to congratulate me on the win. Very nice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2016

Of these 3,232 Trump tweets, 916, or about 28 percent, have more replies than retweets.

But Trump isn’t the first president to tweet. @BarackObama has 96 million followers and has tweeted over 15,000 times.3 Here’s what it looks like when we compare the ratios of our current and former First Tweeters:

Obama’s Twitter oeuvre is shifted up and stretched out — generally in the direction of the retweet quadrant. According to one meta-analysis of 100 academic research papers about Twitter, retweeting tends to indicate “a level of endorsement of the message and/or the originator.” Obama’s average stat line: 4,500 retweets, about 14,000 likes and 522 replies. So while Trump has few tweets that run afoul of The Ratio and his tweets get far more engagement, on average, than Obama’s do, the balance of Trump’s stat line is worse. Obama gets about eight retweets and 26 likes for every reply; Trump gets about one retweet and five likes for every reply.

Trump is currently the most visible user of the microblogging service, the nation’s tweeter-in-chief, but every senator tweets, too. We mapped each senator’s tweets on the same type of chart as above.4

The tweets appear to form a shapeless mass in the “likes” corner, with two tentacles reaching out toward retweets and replies. Certain individual senators echo this broad pattern, while others buck the trend.

Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, and Kamala Harris, Democrat of California, for example, have distributions that resemble the average: heavy with likes, with a few tweets reaching toward replies. Some, such as Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, appear heavier in the retweet sector. But others demonstrate worse ratios. The tweet distribution of South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, for example, is nearly inverted — the blob is focused on the reply/retweet axis. And fellow Republican Bill Cassidy of Louisiana has a distribution that’s nearly uniform across the triangle, not necessarily favoring any specific action.

Here’s what the response ratio looks like on the average tweet for all 100 senators:

The three senators furthest out toward replies corner are Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania; Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky; and Cory Gardner, Republican of Colorado. Toomey and McConnell are tied for first in the race to take home the dubious prize of Most Replied To: 44 percent of the actions taken in response to their tweets are replies.5 (By way of comparison, about 12 percent of the reactions to Trump’s tweets are replies.) The two big retweet winners are Utah Republican Mike Lee and Oklahoma Republican James Inhofe. And while these outliers are all members of the GOP, they are still part of a larger trend: Twitter’s gravity generally appears to pull the Republicans toward the replies corner, while the Democrats are more firmly clustered along the retweet-like axis.

Not everyone on Twitter buys the concept of The Ratio as a gauge for very bad tweets.

Ratio is a lefty Twitter concept that I don't buy into. But feel free to do so!

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) September 22, 2017

But, as another Twitter user pointed out, “denying the ratio just makes the ratio angry.”

The takeaway of all of this, of course: Never tweet.