#moving & sifting

[expectiations]

I've seen takes on the Doctor being a hyperactive five-year-old unable to keep their focus on anything for too long or being too absorbed in something that captured their attention.

But I believe I have yet to see a take on River being a hyperactive five-year-old unable to keep her focus on anything for too long or being too absorbed in something that captured her attention.

[upsidedownsmore]

fuck it epipen tripod

[crescentfool]

with the year coming to a close, i hope that anyone who's reflecting about how the year went remembers to be kind and fair to themselves with how you evaluate the year as a whole.

i think there are definitely times when life throws things that are... Not So Great at you. whether if it's some external circumstance that surprised you, or maybe your mentality wasn't at it's best. i wish for anyone who's encountered those kinds of challenges to be able to triumph over them and be able to say that they got through it.

heck, it might still be a work in progress even though you've kept chipping away at it, and that's ok! the results will show themselves eventually as you work through it! and i hope that we can all remember to be patient with ourselves as we go through these processes (learning, healing, etc.), because damn, it can be frustrating when you feel like you're "not there yet."

knowing that life can be rough at times, i think it's unfair to yourself (and others) to discount and downplay any progress you've made this year- whether if it's something that you did for the first time, or maybe you came to a new understanding and insight that you didn't have in the previous year.

it's not to say that you should undermine the validity of your experience with hardship, but to take the time to remind yourself what makes life worth living. to recall what moments were the most satisfying to you- and use it to strengthen your resolve for the next year and beyond. no amount of hardship will ever take away from the fact that you deserve to have hope that things will get better.

i hope that looking back on the year, you don't leave out the things you cherish. that you can remember the good that came this year. whether if the small victories are things like meeting someone new, trying something out for the first time, or making some strides in a long-term project/obligation...!

i wish everyone a happy new year! may it be prosperous, and that your life can move in a direction that's close to what you want out of life. you're all going to do great! remember to congratulate yourself for what you did well! despite everything, you're still here, and that's wonderful. never forget that!

[im-still-a-robot]

Sailor Merope!!!

[prince-liest]

some updates on my wet fish collection!

so I was out of town for four weeks and aquarium maintenance was reduced to “feed and fertilize twice a week, top off water as needed” courtesy of a friend of mine. the lights and CO2 were already on a timer, and I lowered the light intensity before I left. I came back to a ton of plant growth, and also a lot of algae!

the interesting thing to me is what kinds of algae grew. there is a decent amount of purple-ish dust algae covering the rocks and the crypt, some green fuzzy algae on the moneywort that managed to grow up near the surface, a small amount of cyanobacteria that was easily removed by plucking a few leaves, and, as you can see from the fluorescent green mass in this photo, a TON of hair algae that grew in a huge, homogenous mass. but no green water algae, no staghorn algae, the glass was mostly clear, and no blackbeard algae.

overall, it was a surprisingly easy cleaning job! the hair algae mostly came out en masse, and there are still strands of it throughout the aquarium, but I expect that it will die down soon enough now that I’ve done a water change and dumped in some flourish excel.

most amusing is that my neon tetras are no longer morbidly obese. between that and the lack of staghorn algae (which I had previously struggled with), this was a wakeup call to me about overfeeding my fish. I’ve since moved her highness the betta fish to a desktop tank, so I’m hoping that I can adjust my feeding tactics to be able to feed both the neons and all the loaches without relying on overfeeding to ensure that food gets to the bottom of the tank.

here’s the post-maintenance look:

I actually quite liked the jungle vibes before I cut all the plants back, but I think it made me realize that I actually really don’t enjoy the look of the rotala macranada (it’s the middle one of the taller plants remaining). the pink is inconsistent and ends up looking muddy, and it shoots out aerial roots like nothing else once it gets tall enough. I ripped out the ludwigia on the left side to replace it with ludwigia super red that I trimmed from my desktop tank, and I think I’m going to just rip out the rest of the rotala macranada later and fill the space in with more ludwigia super red and pogostemon erectus (which I ADORE).

once that’s done, I can let everything jungle out a bit more again. I enjoy the “so many plants you can’t see the back” look best!

[doedipus]

With the changes in season 3 of strive, giovanna’s core gameplan was altered fairly significantly. Pretty much anyone who has played against her can see that she’s definitely stronger, but depending on who your sparring groups are, you might not have a very clear idea of what she can and can’t do this time around. 

The biggest knowledge gap I can see so far is around chave trovao, which is her new central oki tool. On block it gives gio high frame advantage and guard crush. This removes the ability to game strike/throw mixups by doing a delayed option, since unlike regular blocking, it doesn’t receive extra frames of throw protection after the animation ends. It also removes the option to yrc, and removes protection while buffering motion inputs. Due to the momentum it grants her, it will often eat fd and deflect shield too. On regular or counter hit, the move causes stagger, which gives her the option to pick up with a shorter combo or throw. In short it basically works the same way as garuda impact, except she can’t string consecutive Big Arrows together repeatedly. 

Because it’s that strong, most of her flowchart this patch focuses on getting to fire off a meaty chave trovao at every opportunity. There’s a lot of consistent setups for this, but if she can tell the opponent is playing passively, she will try to sneak them in constantly. And likewise, the baseline of season 3 gio counterplay is disrupting it as much as possible. 

I have some more detailed notes below the break, but the TL;DR is

if you block chave trovao when you have a reversal or after she ended a combo with sepultura, whatever happens next is your fault ☆

First, if you have a reversal on hand and she does the Big Arrow, use it. Gio’s safejump pressure still exists this patch, but the nerf to sepultura’s knockdown means that it’s less consistent and tends to leave her with much less useful spacing than before. And of course, unlike after chave trovao, you can fuzzy through most of her options here pretty cleanly. So make sure to represent your reversals when you’ve got them.

Next, you have to develop an intuition for whether Big Arrows are meaty or not. Because of its long wind-up time, chave trovao requires specific setups in order for it to come out in time to hit meaty. That said, the lab monsters have been going crazy with these, and there’s quite a few potential ways to route into it. 

Universally, combos that end in sepultura cannot set up Big Arrow. That means that her easy confirms off stray hits like dash 5k 6p 214k, hits she’s not prepared for in canned pressure strings, and fast punishes like 5k/2k 214k will not give her the frame advantage she needs to let one rip. If she tries it, you can 6p her or use whatever other tools you’d usually go with to dodge or counter regular trovaos in neutral. Note that trovao is throw immune while active, so you won’t be able to reversal grab her out of the fake ones.

Aside from that, throw and combos that end in 6H(3) will typically set up for an autotimed meaty Big Arrow. There’s also a slew of reset points she can use to set it up, and some are more consistent than others at varying levels of juggle decay. Off the top of my head, 6p, 5h, 2d can work like this.

The timing on a few of these is pretty tight, though, especially after throw. If you feel like gambling, you might be able to challenge her with 6p anyway. 

After throw, there’s a few other new options gio can gamble on besides going straight for Big Arrow. Empty chave throw or cs can vary timing against opponents who are waiting for trovao. The cs option here also recovers fast enough to be safe against wakeup gold burst. Chave sol poente is another noteworthy one- it’ll cross up and lead to a full combo if it hits, and the disjoint makes it a good option against various abare options. All of these are pretty niche though, since they lack the stability of guard crush.

The chave specials have some theoretical use in pressure, but for now it seems rather underdeveloped. Cs chave or cs 2h chave can be used as an rps point- chave dp will beat 3-frame buttons, and can be used to condition a path to chave trovao or sol poente. Chave dp can also be rced for a high/low the way regular dp can. That said, she can be grabbed out of chave with all of these, and fd makes the whole thing less consistent. 

Chave sepultura can also see some niche use; its added property is that it pushes gio really far backwards. The theoretical usage of this is to disengage from pressure safely against characters she has unusually bad rps against after regular sepultura, like bridget, whose 2s beats both backdash and 2k. 

[invi-official]

The one thing they don't tell you about becoming a keyblade master is all the paperwork you need to do once you are one and are in charge.

[lovelaceisntdead]

i think the heat is making me flare.

[nozomijoestar]

The entire T8 story is on YT and I hyperventilated so hard you'd think it's not 30 something F right now but 55

[dracolizardlars]

Because the snabies are such good hide and seek players I've decided once a week I'm going to locate them all to make sure they're all okay, and might as well also take a picture so I can record their growth over time. Here's picture one

(...I didn't have any of my own country's change on hand so have a Croatian 5-kuna coin for scale. It's about the same size as a 10p anyway)

[detectivenyx]

Stay in the gym and [theorize about the game].

As two groups head out in different directions, you elect to stay with the select few who decided to remain in the gym.

... It really is a few. While most go further into the school, and a few go for the door, only four are left in the gym.

"... My apologies. I do not believe anyone has introduced themselves to you. My name is Celestia Ludenberg."

... Well, Hina had introduced herself. But Hina also left to go investigate the door instead of learn about game theory (and thankfully not the youtube show). And nobody else really introduced themselves.

"O-Oh, right. I'm Chihiro Fujisaki."

Chihiro anxiously sits on the floor with her legs crossed, as Celestia seats herself on the edge of the stage.

You sit down next to Chihiro and look expectantly at the blonde man in glasses, who remains standing.

"... Well? Are you not going to introduce yourself?"

"... My name is Byakuya Togami."

"I don't believe we've heard your name."

"I-I had asked, and they pulled out a gun..."

"It does make them a little bit suspicious to me, but if they will not reveal their name, not much more can be done."

"As for stopping the game..."

"... I don't believe that'll be possible."

"N-No, it has to be. We can figure out who was tasked to k-kill the rest of us, and-"

"Regrettably, I must agree with Byakuya. If those chosen to be the minority are genuinely compelled to hunt us, bloodshed is inevitable."

"Don't agree with me and then spout that nonsense."

"It's because the premise is too rooted in fantasy, that I think we can avoid the killing. If the 'vampires' just come out and refuse to play the game, we can ignore it and find another way out together."

"Unfortunately, that 'If' is doing too much lifting to bear."

"I take it you've dropped the nonsense and are seeing the bigger picture?"

"Always had been. The hunters would need to trust that a majority of us will value the lives of strangers over their own freedom. Given Monokuma's close-proximity explosion, it also stands that even if the vampirism isn't real, the threat of death certainly is."

"I... I want to trust the others."

"Are you confessing to being one of the killers?"

"No, I'm not one of the vampires. I'd have told you if I was, though."

"Although, your word is all we have to go on, correct? It is possible to lie."

"Beneficial, actually. Deny being a killer, then create sympathy for them."

Well, despite your inability to physically speak, you are able to convey your ideas to the others clearly (because otherwise this story would go nowhere) through other means. And you've been going through a few ideas of your own.

[robotsandramblings]

so if some of y'all want to make a new year's resolution to start tagging stuff that you reblog*, please,, that'd be great thanks!!! ✌️💖

( *not just original posts, but reblogs too; and not just trigger warnings, but the content itself -- fandom, subject, etc. )

[larcenywrites]

Come to think of it, Tony probably only ever uses fireworks that make little to no sound because fireworks that do make noise probably kinda resemble gunshots for him, which is something his PTSD from the attack in Afghanistan would not appreciate

Ngl I love the fireworks that make that little sizzle sound 😍🤏

But you do make a fair point! Though I’m also sure that any viewing of fireworks is at a distance anyway, and I assume it’s also an expected sound so maybe it wouldn’t be as bad? At least, that’s how my uncle was, but I know not everyone’s experiences are the same!

[dreamlogic]

...

[itsahotminuteinbetween]

to people who code stuff for a living: you guys are very underrated and I'm staring at you in awe of you sheer talent you amazing individuals how on EARTH do you manage you have the patients of literal deities

[coulsonlives]

Y'know, one thing that bothers about tiktok is how it incentivizes high viewcounts and engagement, it is literally made to hijack your reward system by giving you feedback like tumblr's likes and reblogs and other stuff. And you can farm this kind of feedback without actually having any education or credibility whatsoever, even for things like health and medicine. So a huge, huge part of the tiktok user base is just there for views, they spread rampant misinformation and don't care because heyyy, they get those views.

And now we have generations of people growing up with tiktok, where to them, tiktok is just another website! And that's the problem. They don't understand how tiktok works on a fundamental level, how manipulative it is, and how manipulative so many of the people on it are. They either don't understand, or constantly forget, how literally any of the content could only be there because the tiktok user wants views and reactions. Peoples' experiences on tiktok really should be coloured by skepticism because of that, by default, but it seldom seems to be, especially in young people.

I think that's part of the reason we have such a big problem with misinformation on there, and why so many young people are just totally losing the plot when it comes to serious things. They turn to tiktok and assume everyone on the platform is benevolent and there to help, because it just never occurs to em that the opposite could be true. And even if they do understand the 'don't trust everyone on the internet' thing, well, tiktok is familiar to em, so they are more inclined to trust it and its contents due to basic psychology. Familiarity breeds trust.

It scares me a bit..