#milieux

[marypsue]

tfw the Media Property Obsession is waning for whatever reason and the more it wanes, the easier it is to lose track of the vibe of the setting and the memory of the characters’ voices when you’re writing, so you have to take occasional breaks to briefly return to the canon and pickle your brain in the Media Property Obsession to make sure what you’re writing doesn’t go sliding into the Fandom Uncanny Valley

[eurofootnews]

Les meilleurs milieux défensifs de tous les temps

Continue reading Les meilleurs milieux défensifs de tous les temps

[cangrellesteponme]

god please save me from the french i hate my brethren more every day

[lemondeabicyclette]

Maurice Legrault porc détruit tout ce qu'il touche.

[bibliomancienne]

Enquête Réconciliation-Équité-Diversité-Inclusion sur les métiers et professions documentaires au Québec : vers un portrait de la réalité québécoise au temps de la superdiversité 

Agora de la nouvelle bibliothèque Maisonneuve (Montréal, Québec) La société se caractérise désormais par une superdiversité (Vertovec 2007) et, de fait, les publics des milieux documentaires aussi. Les métiers et professions documentaires sont préoccupés par la question de la représentation des diverses communautés et celle de leurs membres dans leur rang. On s’interroge dès lors sur le profil en…

[prokopetz]

The thing about the idea that "rules don't matter" in tabletop RPGs is that, while it's obviously wrong, there's only one relatively narrow sense in which it's actually a problem.

There are basically three major strands of "rules don't matter":

Groups for whom the rules don't matter because they aren't playing a game as we'd conventionally think of it – they're having a freeform RP jam, and occasionally letting a coin-flip decide what happens next for spice. The particulars of rules-based procedures aren't relevant to these groups because they're not following any particular procedures. This is perfectly fine; sure, some players who favour this approach like to go online and write bloviating thinkpieces about how all tabletop roleplayers secretly want to be doing freeform RP, and anyone who claims otherwise is simply too stupid or brainwashed to understand that they're not truly having fun, but that's not doing any harm – it's merely annoying.

Groups who have a narrow idea of what it's possible to do with tabletop RPGs. They'll look at the fact that it's possible to run – for example – a sword and sorcery dungeon crawl and a cyberpunk heist caper using the exact same set of rules, and conclude from this that it must not really matter what rules you use; of course, the real reason this works is because in terms of their formal and narrative structures, a sword and sorcery dungeon crawl and a cyberpunk heist caper are nearly identical. Again, this isn't hurting anyone – if they want to run endless reskinned dungeon crawls in a variety of milieux, that's their business, and the worst that can be said for it is that some people are a little annoying about it.

Groups who do want to play a game with a formal structure, and who recognise that rules have opinions about how the game ought to be played, but think it doesn't matter because if there's ever a disagreement between the game the rules want to produce and the game the group wants to play, the GM can fix it on the fly. This is always going to happen to some extent, because the rules and the group will never perfectly agree about how the game ought to be played, but positioning the ability to repair that disagreement regardless of its magnitude as a basic expectation of any GM is one of the reasons we have so many folks who GM for a year or two, the burn out and never touch a tabletop RPG again.

Basically, "rules don't matter because we don't use them" and "rules don't matter because tabletop RPGs are only one thing" are largely harmless, but "rules don't matter because something something Rule Zero" is demonstrably harmful, and we need to cut that shit out.

[alicedusstuff]

Juste envie de faire genderbend MK et Mei au milieux de mes croquis Shadowpeach. Ouais…ça a juste pop comme ça.

[yuritypology]

On the Gnomic "Aspect"

I think i just am very adamant that people's perceptions of TAM in the clong community is just very exhausting. and having to hear gnomic as an aspect rather than a subdivision of evidentiality is of course a bit confusing. If you don't believe that evidenitality itself is a real thing, independent of TAM (rather than mood) it seems that gnomic 'aspect' feels like an extension of epistemicity.

Since there are divisions in language that can be influenced by cultural milieux of the language's speakers (general knowledge included), I think it's time to discuss about how the conlang community kind of misunderstands how it's not aspect-y the same way stuff like perfective and imperfective are. And I think calling it an 'aspect' is just very conlang-talky and I've never seen a ling paper talk (typological, semantic, or otherwise) call it like that.

What I've read is that the case in which a gnomic-like thing exists is where it's marked by statements that are supposed general knowledge/truths. For a real life case study, cf. Mamaindê (Nambiquaran) and it's transparently an extension of the evidentiality system. (see Aikhenvald 2018 & 2005).

Even then, most of the stuff there are described as what the culture already knows and whether the macrocosmic interpretation of that knowledge is known; (see this blogpost's postscript for more stuff that involve cultural knowledge). So it doesn't just extend for general truths like 'the sun sets in the west' but also stuff known to the community, e.g. 'my father works in the field (everyone knows this due to the fact that he's been doing this daily for a month)'.

Like, even then why is it a gnomic aspect in the conlanging zeitgeist? It does not feel like an aspectlike and idk where people got this impression from. I feel like this is just a usual case of the conlang community spreading misinformation through ill-informed wikipedia pages and I'm just being too blunt/harsh on the community as a whole.

Postscript about cultural discourse & grammar below and it's not really relevant to the conversation at hand:

p.s. One culture-specific knowledge things I'd also mention is "The X" in placenames In France "La Seine" is one of those proper names where familiarity within the cultural milieu affects the fact that it can take the article. In English, "The Thames", "The Amazon" for example.

[aisakalegacy]

Printemps 1936, Hylewood, Canada (1/2)

Chère Noé,

N’as-tu pas reçu le faire-part de naissance qui t’étais adressé au printemps dernier ? Irène m’avait pourtant bien dit dit qu’un seul pour toute la famille française serait trop peu et elle m’avait enjoint à en adresser un second à la Tante Jeanne, et pour faire des économies, je n’en ai envoyé qu’un seul… Ça m’apprendra à être pingre, j’aurais dû l’écouter.

Irène a perdu les eaux à sept heures du matin le mardi 18 mai dernier, alors que nous n’avions pas l’auto puisque c’est Agathon qui la prend avec lui à Kingston. Irène (et moi !!) voulait accoucher à l’hôpital, ce qui signifiait conduire un peu moins d’une heure… Ça a été la grosse panique pour trouver un véhicule. Outre nous, il n’y a que trois familles qui possèdent une automobile. Finalement, c’est le Sergent Simmon (un vieil ami de mon père) qui a proposé de nous conduire dans son auto, car j’étais tellement paniqué qu’il devait ne pas me trouver en état. Je crois qu’Irène était plus sereine que moi… L’accouchement a été rapide et sans complications.

Notre fille Roseline vient d’avoir un an. Je serai bien incapable de te dire à qui elle ressemble le plus, je trouve cela si difficile à dire pour des enfants aussi petits ! Personne ne possède d’appareil photo autour de moi, qu’Ange prenne son mal en patience s’il veut me recruter comme membre honoraire de son club de compétition paternelle.

Quelques nouvelles du port. La saison commence alors que je suis en train de t’écrire. Depuis l’été dernier, les affaires reprennent doucement. On est loin d’être au niveau d’avant la crise, mais les visiteurs reviennent. Je t’adresserai un paiement à la fin de l’été, si les choses continuer d’aller aussi bon train, j’espère être en mesure de rembourser ma dette d’ici la fin de la décennie !

La crise n’est toujours pas passée chez nous. Je me sens un peu coupable d’être heureux dans ma vie de jeune père et de jeune marié, lorsque tant de gens souffrent de la misère et du chômage. Chez nous aussi, il y a de plus en plus de communistes, surtout dans les milieux ouvriers. Agathon rapporte que les grèves qui éclatent à Kingston sont sévèrement réprimées. Je sais que le père d’Irène a voté pour Hepburn, notre Premier Ministre conservateur, et qu’il est très hostile aux syndicats. Il est certain qu’Antoine ne l’aimerait pas beaucoup. Duplessis de l’Union Nationale, qui fait beaucoup pour l’autonomie des francophones, est pressenti comme prochain premier ministre du Québec. C’est bon pour les Canadiens français, moins pour les ouvriers. 

[eurofootnews]

Les meilleurs milieux offensifs de tous les temps

Continue reading Les meilleurs milieux offensifs de tous les temps

[sherbertilluminated]

Over the break I've been watching Babylon Berlin and am about halfway through Season 2. In particular, I've been fixated on the portrayal of August Benda, the head of the "political" division of the Berlin police.

I suspect his character is going to die. And I really don't want him to, because I think he's responsible for the tone of the series, which is by no means cheerful but for now is allowing its characters small measures of contentment despite the harshening political climate. If the show loses him, that climate will get a lot harsher.

Babylon Berlin is a series about ideological violence: the violence of the police, the violence of poverty, the international ramifications of the rise of Stalin and the revanchism of the conservatives and soon-to-be-Nazis. And while Gereon and Lotte's conspicuous lack of political alignment allows them to navigate the various milieux of the titular city, Benda is not really a main character with an arc so much as the representation of the Weimar Republic. And the show endorses this!

From his first appearance in episode two, he tries to make Gereon feel welcome.

He's associated with the organ and the piano, majesty and domesticity. Compared to the other music on the show—Nikoros' avant-garde banger "Zu Asche, zu Staub," the swing songs on the radio and the lounge music at the Moka Efti—his aesthetic associations betray a Bildungsbürgerliche sensibility.

He's even allowed to dress in color, unlike most of the men in the series. While named police officers wear black/gray/brown and the conspirators are usually seen in their pea-green uniforms, Benda is consistently associated with a pleasant, subdued Prussian Blue.

This language is employed in Season 1, Episode 7, where he's put in a shot with other (nameless) cops and you realize

It's the color of the institution. He's embodying the institution.

It's the first time he is portrayed exercising his authority; the show was careful to distance him from the brutal suppression of the May 1 demonstration three episodes ago. Combined with the fact that he is often the only one in the room who does not at least tacitly endorse nationalism and rearmament,

And it seems like the show endorses the idea that his efforts are responsible preserving not only the Weimar Republic but the tone of the show. If he dies it goes from "Weimar Republic Noir" to "Fall of the Weimar Republic Noir." Which it ultimately will.

I wouldn't be surprised if he were conscious of his convictions' symbolic value. He's the one who took the "combat-right-wing-violence-and-prevent-assassination-attempts-on-the-chancellor" job, after all. And although his faith in the Republic makes him static to be an unambiguous protagonist of the series, his framing gives that constancy a purpose.

In short: the show has gotten me to think about Benda the same way Benda thinks about himself. Neat trick, that.

[leonlafricain]

On pense ce qu'on veut de ce type, le lynchage médiatique permanent qu'il subit, interpelle et pose vraiment question sur la menace qu'il représente pour certains milieux de pouvoir...

[christian-dubuis-santini]

Deux réflexions de Georges Canguilhem sur la santé

«Les normes de vie pathologiques sont celles qui obligent désormais l’organisme à vivre dans un milieu "rétréci”, différent qualitativement, dans sa structure, du milieu antérieur de vie, et dans ce milieu rétréci exclusivement, par l’impossibilité où l’organisme se trouve d’affronter les exigences de nouveaux milieux, sous forme de réactions ou d’entreprises dictées par des situations nouvelles. Or, vivre pour l’animal déjà, et à plus forte raison pour l’homme, ce n’est pas seulement végéter et se conserver, c’est affronter des risques et en triompher. La santé est précisément, et principalement chez l’homme, une certaine latitude, un certain jeu des normes de la vie et du comportement. Ce qui la caractérise c’est la capacité de tolérer des variations des normes

auxquelles seule la stabilité, apparemment garantie et en fait toujours nécessairement précaire, des situations et du milieu confère une valeur trompeuse de normal définitif. L’homme n’est vraiment sain que lorsqu’il est capable de plusieurs normes, lorsqu’il est plus que normal. La mesure de la santé c’est une certaine capacité de surmonter des crises organiques pour instaurer un nouvel ordre physiologique, différent de l’ancien. Sans intention de plaisanterie, la santé c’est le luxe de pouvoir tomber malade et de s’en relever. Toute maladie est au contraire la réduction du pouvoir d’en surmonter d’autres. […] Il ne peut rien manquer à un vivant, si l’on veut bien admettre qu’il y a mille et une façons de vivre.» (Georges Canguilhem, La Connaissance de la vie, 1952)

«À partir du moment où "santé" a été dit de l’homme en tant que participant d’une communauté sociale ou professionnelle, son sens existentiel a été occulté par les exigences d’une comptabilité […]

L’élargissement historique de l’espace où s’exerce le contrôle administratif de la santé des individus a abouti, dans le présent, à une Organisation mondiale de la santé qui ne pouvait pas délimiter son domaine d’intervention sans publier, elle-même, sa propre définition de la santé. La voici: “La santé est un état de complet bien-être physique, moral et social, ne consistant pas

seulement en l’absence d’infirmité ou de maladie.” […] Ce discours est celui de l’Hygiène, discipline médicale traditionnelle, désormais récupérée et travestie par une ambition socio-politico-médicale de règlement de la vie des individus […] L’hygiéniste s’applique à régir une population. Il n’a pas affaire à des individus. Santé publique est une appellation contestable.

Salubrité conviendrait mieux. Ce qui est public, publié, c’est très souvent la maladie. Le malade appelle à l’aide, attire l’attention ; il est dépendant. L’homme sain qui s’adapte silencieusement à ses tâches, qui vit sa vérité d’existence dans la liberté relative de ses choix, est présent dans la société qui l’ignore. La santé n’est pas seulement la vie dans le silence des organes, c’est aussi la vie dans la discrétion des rapports sociaux.» (Georges Canguilhem, La Santé. Concept vulgaire et question philosophique, conférence donnée à Strasbourg en 1988)

Il est clair qu’aucun des télétoubibs, membres du Conseil pseudo-scientifique, journalistes ou politiques covidiotistes n’a jamais lu une ligne du plus grand philosophe français de la médecine…

Les champs sémantiques recouverts par les termes de "santé" et de "numérique" sont originellement disjoints et n’ont radicalement rien à faire ensemble, sauf à vouloir induire un for��age idéologique voué à la catastrophe humaine et sociale.

Le corps, c’est la part de "nature" qui entre dans la constitution du sujet.

Plus la "nature" (même étymologie que naissance) tarde à se venger des offenses commises contre elle, plus sa vengeance est cruelle…

[chicago-geniza]

Wait a minute didn't John Berger start doing gallery shows in the late 40s/early 50s around London, in milieux that intersected with Stefania's. Didn't he publish Marxist art criticism in the New Statesman, which Stefania read and where she published most of her Anglophone op-eds. Oh there is a very high likelihood actually that John Berger (in his youth) and Stefania Zahorska (in her old age and emigre-exile) overlapped, even if they never met in person (Stef was increasingly housebound due to heart failure). Oh this is a thread I NEED to follow...

[prokopetz]

I think where a lot of attempts to do "Dungeons & Dragons-style" settings in alternative milieux go wrong is that they're imitating the explicit trappings of standard D&D settings without putting a whole lot of thought into why those trappings are the way they are. Your standard D&D setting is essentially gonzo sword and sorcery fantasy, and there's a very particular internal logic to it which isn't necessarily going to be obvious examining it in isolation.

For example, one of the more common sword and sorcery fantasy tropes which strongly informs D&D-style settings is the convention that "monsters" are usually something protagonists can talk to (and have stupid arguments with), even – and often especially – when it would be incongruous for them to be so chatty in a more conventional fantasy setting. If you want to carry that over, it's not enough to go "well, D&D settings have chatty dragons, so my setting should have chatty dragons, too"; you need to think carefully about what things qualify as "monsters" in your setting, and what role they play in it.

Basically, what I mean to say is that if you're transposing D&D-style worldbuilding into a steampunk milieu, player characters should definitely be able to talk to the trains.

[issela-santina]

Poor Things 🤝 Penny Dreadful

Bella Baxter and Lily Frankenstein

Bella from the Poor Things book asserts that her husband fantasized her life story based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, so here we see quite a few similarities between her and a version of the monster's bride

fast learners; everyone just thinks they're dumb because apparently there's a belief that when you're resurrected you're supposed to be a clean slate

gaslit and gatekept, but still girlbossed

everybody in their milieux hates when they take full agency of the fact that they can be fierce and sexy and unhinged

forging their path from dying of grief to living unbound to it

both of them lost a child: one to their mother's death before they were born and the other to their mother being barred from coming home when she wanted to keep them warm

both of them don't necessarily hate men for starters and consider recommitting to a traditional relationship with a man but men really are like that, so ehh here we are

women's rights means understanding women's wrongs

in essence both of them, being white women living in Victorian England with extra add-ons, may stand for a feminism that hasn't discovered intersectionality just yet — a feminism raw and pale and inapplicable to more than just their own

all this being said, I think they could be friends