#jesus this came out long

[regentbison]

i have come up with three possible names for the foundation and i need help choosing! (I’ll reblog this with a poll) 

The SCP foundation is known as Special Containment Procedures or Secure, Contain, Protect. which is also their motto.

taking inspiration from that i came up with two names: 

1. ABL Foundation, also known as Apprehending Baleful Lifeforms or Apprehend, Bottle, Learn

the pro for this option is that abl is an abbreviation for the word ablative. the word ablative has multiple definitions:

grammar

adj. designating, of, or in a case expressing removal, deprivation, direction away from, source, cause, or agency

noun. the ablative case: this case is expressed by inflection in languages such as Latin, Sanskrit, and Hungarian

astronomy 

that ablates, as the protective coating material on the nose cone of a space missile

he word "ablative" derives from the Latin ablatus, the perfect, passive participle of auferre "to carry away".

2. BEL Foundation, also known as Barricade Extraterrestrial Life or Box, Examine, Limit

this word also has multiple definitions!

in physics, bel is a unit used for measuring sound intensity, equal to 10 decibels. so 1B = 10dB

 the other meaning might be the coolest one yet

in Babylonian Mythology Bel is the the god of heaven and earth

Babylonia, ancient cultural region occupying southeastern Mesopotamia between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (modern southern Iraq from around Baghdad to the Persian Gulf). the name “Babylon” is derived from the Akkadian word babilu meaning “gate of god,” it is an evident counterfeit of God's eternal city. The opposition to the rule of God by world powers or the exile of God's people from the land of blessing is conveyed properly through the metaphor of Babylon.  

the words origin is the Akkadian form of Baal

Akkadian is an extinct East Semitic language that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia from the third millennium BC. native to Assyria and Babylon.

ok so i just did some more research into this and apparently it’s way more complicated than what ive written. so im going to finish with the polls and then do some more Olympic diving into rabbit holes and update you guys because im a nerd and i want to share what i find for the maybe one person who will actually read it

3. LSB Foundation, known as Limiting Supernatural Beings or Locate, Seize, Bind.

stands for Least-significant bit. the LSB is the least weighted bit in the number, meaning, the LSB holds the least value in a multi-bit binary number

[bittersweet-mojo]

very much not a youtuber fanart person but the end of hermitcraft season 9 really got to me so here's ya boy grain.

[goozeghost]

To celebrate 10 years in this god forsaken fandom, I redrew the og art of my fave paranormal investigators !

Singles and small rant below cut :P

Cannot believe it’s been a damn decade. This fandom and these characters have done so much to shape me and help me turn into the person- and artist!!- I am today, and I am forever grateful for the friends I’ve made along the way. (You know who you are 😉)

I cannot believe young Gooze looked at Johnny Ghost and said Yeah, that’s my entire personality now, and then it WAS. Now I’m an inducted thespian with a love for dramatizing everything, and for doing stupid voices, and a buncha other stuff. I even took his name, Johnny/Ghost. Which I suppose a lot of us have, huh?

Anyway if you’re looking down here, hi, here’s the first ever piece of fanart young Gooze did (that I can find)

(Yes, that’s Ghost and Jimmy. And yeah it’s bad, but I was a very young child. Let’s appreciate how far I’ve come, yeah?)

[alexjcrowley]

I feel like yesterday I had a conversation worthy of a Tumblr shitpost and I can't get it out of my mind. But I really wish I could, get it out of my mind. It was harmless, it was amongst friends, but it was so fucking cursed that even if the words used were indeed in the bible they should edit them out because they don't belong there anymore. They have been tainted forever.

[satiricaily]

i talked alot about juwons guilt but i dont think i properly took the time to indulge in dongsiks guilt (mainly because. look at him. where do you even start) yuyeon going missing + her fingers appearing on their yard is such a pivotal moment for his entire character and his motivations towards the world. like yeah he's angry he's disheartened he's helpless but most of all he's guilty. in a way none of those police thought he was. he's guilty because he didnt look after her better. he's got survivor's guilt on top of that because none of his family members went through that ordeal without either dying or being bedridden, meanwhile he's still walking on two feet and he's still the one people point at and cast aside and still the one cleaning up the house and dusting the windows and visiting his mother and bringing her fruits and trying so, so hard to compensate for what he couldn't manage to do; protect his sister. he becomes caring. thoughtful. loving. he becomes the most sympathetic character among all of them. he cared about every single person in that town despite their wariness towards him. he cared about jihwa and jihoon and jeongje and literally everyone else in that circle in a way he thought he should've been when yuyeon was still around. and still that would never bring her back. which is why on top of all that care and love is the madness and the slight dip into insanity because what's the fucking point. but at the same time it's i cant handle another person ending up like yuyeon. which is why minjeong dying was so fucking heartbreaking because he tried so so goddamn hard to protect these people out of the guilt that he didnt protect his sister enough and STILL he failed at it. (in his own perspective of course) its why he takes the ENTIRE responsibility of handling the truth by himself because he thinks it's HIS fault that it's happening all over again and this endless cycle of beating himself up and trying to amend things by himself and ruining himself in the process starts begins once more until. until juwon arrives with a guilt as big as his, a guilt that mirrors his own and that endless cycle slowly starts to shatter and both of them began to unknowingly try to find redemption through each other and its why that last scene is so fucking important too because dongsik getting handcuffed is like closing the door on the abuse that the guilt has done to him and twisting the key and throwing it away and he needed juwon to do that for him, because no one would understand the guilt better than juwon. there was never gonna be another person to arrest him because even though he's resolving his own guilt he's also taking juwons guilt upon himself and telling juwon look, here, cuff it away, youre good now, you dont have to suffer anymore. even though his future seems so bleak with the arrest he still tries so hard to do what he failed to do with yuyeon. protect her. at least this time he could protect juwon before the man could live with the guilt forever. at least this time when he meets juwon again he knows he succeeded.

[butnotbubblegum]

using the tags to vent my current emotional state into the void bc ig story feels like a bad plan for this, read at your own risk.

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Saw the fucking hazbin episode 4 leak. Who's fucking idea was this.

Rant below. TW for discussion of S/A and its effects.

I never really had an issue with how Angel dust was portrayed. I thought it was apparently common knowledge that sexual trauma can lead to hypersexuality, which is kind of one of his main character flaws (being overly sexual to the point of being creepy and uncomfortable, not being sexual in and of itself). Hell, Addict showed it happening straight up, both in present and in flashback, and I think it did great in showing his distress and the actions themselves.

But I really don't think we need to have such an explicit scene of a character being assaulted to get the point. I think the "FLASHback" approach used in the post credits scene for addict really portrayed the feeling without being too explicit or extreme. It shows it happening, shows the extent of the characters suffering, shows the effects, but doesn't prolong or exploit it.

I fully support making that sort of art on your own and not sharing it with anyone. It's really important to remember that certain kinds of art can easily end up in the hands of people who enjoy it for the wrong reasons. I've drawn that shit. It's fine to cope. But if someone who wants to assault people gets their hands on it, then it's an issue.

I'm just gonna leave a couple ideas down here of how I think this can be done right. Please be aware that I'm not an expert in writing and this is simply my opinion.

The FLASHback I mentioned earlier. Show it flash on screen so you can tell what's going on and portray the emotion without prolonging it. Even repeated flashes can work just to show how badly it's affecting the character. However, this can make scenes inaccessible to photosensitive viewers.

Show the beginning of the event but cut out once it gets explicit, or skip to the aftermath at that moment. This way it can be longer and show what's going on, but, again, doesn't prolong it or exploit that sort of distress.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST DONT SHOW IT EXPLICITLY IN ITS ENTIRETY! All you have to do is not have uncensored rape and abuse available to see for everyone! There's no downside! I generally don't believe in censorship, but I do for this type of shit. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but I feel like they should probably be fired.

Anyway I literally just wrote this because I was panicking after seeing that. Somehow it worked and I'm all good now. Enjoy the results of my frantic typing.

[hekateinhell]

caught in between being desperate to have time to write fic and also doing my best to navigate adult responsibilities which this week alone look like: an assignment due, a lawyer meeting (everything is fine I just had some questions about stuff), an interview, and my bestie about to go into labor at quite literally any second and I have to be Available

[taylorftparamore]

i'd love to pick taylor's head about her metaphors all over ttpd but i especially would love to understand what specifically drew her to the metaphor "flesh and blood amongst war machines, you're the new god we're worshiping" in clara bow

[ratatatastic]

you can tell who actually came here to fish and knows the horrors of the sun and who is just here for fun silly pr and have no intentions to deep sea fish

[witchinatree]

happy 7th birthday to your turn to die!!! the only media that i enjoyed before the pandemic that is still with me today!!

which also means.. wtf do you mean it's been almost 5 years of me playing it. as of like november. hey man. what.

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

I appreciate that John Wick 1 was like, oh, an action film, hmm. Okay. Then for every film after that, they were like "Well, we just need a vague plot and we'll let the actors madlib some yeahs and some huhs and we don't really need a screenwriter for that, right? So all that extra money can go to hiring a human-sized swarm of moths to be the DP?" And they did.

[autism-swagger]

Someone went through and liked all of my Power Rangers 2017 posts

[animationismycomfort]

when your first canonical gay awakening was f-cking stevonnie from Steven universe

[vulturevanity]

Fundamentalist christians don't care if something is a lie as long as it isn't "unbiblical".

[nedlittle]

genuine question: what is wrong with the peyton beachdeath lma trans thread? I know…too much about peyton himself so we don’t need to revisit that, but i’d love to see you rip into some shoddy scholarship and ways to (mis)understand historical queerness

oh god...

i mean aside from people taking the word of a notorious clout-chasing liar and conspiracy theorist at face value...peyton just doesn't understand or even really care about history when it does not directly benefit him. full disclosure i have not read the thread since it was first posted but it is burned into my memory unfortunately, i also don't know a lot about lma as a historical figure

aside from cherry picking quotes from lma's diaries there were no actual sources. nothing from her biographers, no secondary scholarship at all. it was just peyton presenting quotes purposefully stripped of their context in order to further a point that he wanted to be right.

this should be like. queer history for pre-schoolers but people in the past who were or may have been queer understood themselves and their queerness differently than people do today. peyton is incapable of looking at queerness outside of his very specific 21st century lens. could louisa may alcott have been a trans man? possibly! could she have also been cis and/or gnc? sure! could she have simply been writing in both her private and personal lives about how suffocating the experience of being a woman in the 19th century was? yeah. we have no way of knowing which of this could be true, and whether they overlapped at all. queer history exists in shades of possibility. in some cases (and we're going to use trans men contemporary to lma), like those of albert cashier and charley pankhurst, we can pretty definitely say that they were both men; that being a man was essential to their continued survival, that they would have wanted to be remembered as men. in other cases, it's more slippery because the taxonomy we use nowadays to classify ourselves and especially our differentiation of gender identity vs sexual acts is SO recent that it does a disservice to classify all historical queerness with it.

it's insane that there are MULTIPLE notable 19th century trans men in american history at the time lma was living and he still was like no this is not good enough for me i can only emotionally relate to something if i can force my own image onto it. that's really the problem here, not the shoddy history and the deliberately misleading language, but the fact that peyton is seemingly incapable of enjoying or relating to a piece of media or a person if he cannot find a direct comparison to his own life. he did the same oh "(x) was 100% absolutely a trans man if you tell me wrong you're transphobic" thing with katharine hepburn (iirc??) a few years back and this is a personal gripe but having read a 600+ page bio of hepburn that was very generous to several queer readings of her life: lol. lmao even. his insistence of flatting the experience of anyone with a moderately fucky gender into "you're either Like Me or your not" is so purposefully stupid.

like, do all the trans readings of little women you want! i myself made a deranged little women trans post a few weeks ago. but lma isn't a fictional character who you can apply different literary lenses to! she was a real human person whose relationship with her gender we will never fully understand because we were not there. at some point you just have to accept that it is not your business. why are you so desperate for any shred of historical representation that you are willing to exhume the dead in order to out them?

peyton relates to jo march, so he insists that reading jo as a trans man is the only (morally) correct reading. he likes little women but has to make it fit the public view of transness that he is made his personal brand. i actually followed him for longer than i'd care to admit, and it's a trend with any piece of media that he is publicly into that he has to make a character a trans man in order to relate to them.

he also has this deranged idea that any author writing with emotional depth about the """opposite sex""" must have been trans. see the article he wrote for the niche about how must have been a trans man because he gave dido's emotions and the collapse of her marriage to aeneas the same "dignified treatment as any sprawling, epic battlefield scenes." [direct quote] the article is literally called " vergil had a pussy and i'll prove it." no further comment.

one of his "proofs" is that lma was called "lou" by her family, which he then proceeds to call her for the rest of the thread. lou is....a very normal nickname for louisa both now and then. you know what else was a 19th century nickname for louisa? wheezy. imagine that same thread but he calls her wheezy alcott. thank you, good day.