#my issue is with the latter

[marzipanandminutiae]

me: okay I need to move out in September! let me find a suitable replacement for my room- it's my responsibility since it's my choice to leave, after all. and if I don't find someone I'm stuck paying two leases in September, because the realty company pressured us into signing a lease in April or they'd show the place and NONE of us could stay. so the pressure is on

candidate: hello! I'm nice, normal, and clean. I actually clean professionally. everyone gets along great with me on the call and we all like each other. I'm even willing to move forward with just a video call before visiting the place in person, despite living in the same city, but I'm clearly not a scammer!

my housemates in the debrief: she seemed really cool and nice! we are not bringing up any issues with her!

me: great! so shall we move forward with her? since we live in a city where housing moves Fast and she said she was talking to other people as well?

my housemates:

my housemates:

my housemates: we just want to talk to other people first :) :) :) we are not going to give any other reason and we will keep talking about how much we like that candidate but Not Reach Out to Confirm that We Want Her to Move In :) :) :)

[ironworked]

911 8.09

Hmm, either things really Change, or this is them once more extending big checks they have no intention of paying.

With Eddie, same as we've been saying, that they better lay Shannon's ghost to rest for real this time and we'll have to wait and see how it goes with Chris.

Buck... it really is about bringing up his abandonment issues but with a heavy dose of Buck seen/treated as a Giant Manchild Who Always Makes Things About Himself (how novel! how fun!), and to top it off now he doesn't even have a place of his own anymore. Which leaves them in an awkward place.

If Eddie comes back with Chris, Buck can't stay there without courting trouble with fandom; same if Eddie comes back alone. That would leave Buck doing Couch Surfing Redux until... who knows. Or maybe the loft will have conveniently remained free!

If Eddie doesn't come back, then Buck is back to status quo just minus a BFF and having changed a loft for a house.

And again the question is, where is this all leading Buck? the deeper they press on the bruise, the more... evident the healing that must occur afterwards.

After this episode it isn't any more or less likely that Bucktommy will reunite, but in my opinion it's even more necessary that they do.

Because with Buck what they're poking at is: abandonment issues, adulthood/responsibility, and family/home.

None of that is new.

But doing that after Buck's 'most transformative relationship' ended in such a premature and open way, then displacing him from his home of 6 years... that demands a resolution, an evolution.

And seriously, sincerely, how tf do you do that without reuniting him with Tommy? Tommy who not for nothing, has been the one character who consistently has indulged Buck's whimsy and also noticed and taken his concerns seriously (I don't need to list examples, do I).

[lemurballing]

does anyone else think about sonic and tangle’s friendship. anyone else

because like they’ve HARDLY spoken or interacted one on one, and certainly haven’t shared terribly much about themselves to each other. sonic just showed up one day with a magical princess and helped save tangle’s town, and she was like ‘i HAVE to be part of that’.

but then they also just Click together. like they Get each other because they’re so similar in some ways, they’re on the same page of two different retellings of the same story. in issue 24 sonic was down and hopeless and tangle almost IMMEDIATELY got him to smile and lighten up and have faith in his own efforts to do his best - she inspired sonic, in turn like he’d inspired her. it’s mutual!

he has the prior experience, but tangle has the ‘let’s just go for it!’ positive perspective that sonic shares and they feed into each other. they both give each other this breath of fresh air, and left unchecked turn into a wild gust <3

[serpentface]

Do you conlang? I was wondering if you had naming languages (or possibly even more developed ones) for pulling the words you use. I tried to search your blog but didn't find anything, wouldn't be surprised if the feature is just busted tho. Your worldbuilding is wonderful and I particularly enjoy the anthropological and linguistic elements.

Ok the thing is I had kind of decided I was not going to do any conlanging because I don't feel like I'm equipped to do a good job of it, like was fully like "I'm just going to do JUST enough that it doesn't fail an immediate sniff test and is more thoughtful than just keysmashing and putting in vowels". And then have kinda been conlanging anyway (though not to a very deep and serious extent. I maybe have like....an above average comprehension of how language construction works via willingness to research, but that's not saying much, also I can never remember the meanings of most linguistic terms like 'frictives' or etc off the top of my head. I'm just kinda raw dogging it with a vague conceptualization of what these things mean)

I do at least have a naming language for Wardi (and more basic rules for other established languages) but the rudimentary forms of it were devised with methods much shakier and less linguistically viable than even the most basic naming language schemes, and I only went back over it LONG after I had already made a bunch of words so there's some inconsistencies with consonant presence and usage. (This can at least be justified because it IS a language that would have a lot of loanwords and would be heavily influenced by other language groups- Burri being by far the most significant, Highland-Finnic and Yuroma-Lowlands also being large contributors)

The 'method' I used was:

-Skip basic construction elements and fully move into devising necessary name words, with at least a Vibe of what consonants are going to be common and how pronunciation works -Identify some roots out of the established words and their meanings. Establish an ongoing glossary of known roots/words. -Construct new words based in root words, or as obvious extensions/variants of established words. -Get really involved in how the literal meanings of some words might not translate properly to english, mostly use this to produce a glossary of in-universe slang. -Realize that I probably should have at least some very basic internal consistency at this point. -Google search tutorials on writing a naming language. -Reverse engineer a naming language out of established words, and ascribe all remaining inconsistencies to being loanwords or just the mysteries of life or whatever.

I do at least have some strongly established pronunciation rules and a sense of broad regional dialect/accents.

-'ai' words are almost always pronounced with a long 'aye' sound.

-There is no 'Z' or 'X' sound, a Wardi speaker pronouncing 'zebra' would go for 'tsee-brah', and would attempt 'xylophone' as 'ssye-lohp-hon'

-'V' sounds are nearly absent and occur only in loanwords, and tend to be pronounced with a 'W' sound. 'Virsum' is a Highland word (pronounced 'veer-soom') denoting ancestry, a Wardi speaker would go 'weer-sum'.

-'Ch' spellings almost always imply a soft 'chuh' sound when appearing after an E, I, or O (pelatoche= pel-ah-toh-chey), but a hard 'kh' sound after an A or U (odomache= oh-doh-mah-khe). When at the start of a word, it's usually a soft 'ch' unless followed by an 'i' sound (chin (dog) is pronounced with a hard K 'khiin', cholem (salt) is pronounced with a soft Ch 'cho-lehm')

-Western Wardin has strong Burri cultural and linguistic influence, and a distinct accent- one of the most pronounced differences is use of the ñ sound in 'nn' words. The western city of Ephennos is pronounced 'ey-fey-nyos' by most residents, the southeastern city of Erubinnos is pronounced 'eh-roo-been-nos' by most residents. Palo's surname 'Apolynnon' is pronounced 'A-puh-lee-nyon' in the Burri and western Wardi dialects (which is the 'proper' pronunciation, given that it's a Kos name), but will generally be spoken as 'Ah-poh-leen-non' in the south and east.

-R's are rolled in Highland-Finnic words. Rolling R's is common in far northern rural Wardi dialects but no others. Most urban Wardi speakers consider rolling R's sort of a hick thing, and often think it sounds stupid or at least uneducated. (Brakul's name should be pronounced with a brief rolled 'r', short 'ah' and long 'uul', but is generally being pronounced by his south-southeastern compatriots with a long unrolled 'Brah' sound).

Anyway not really a sturdy construction that will hold up to the scrutiny of someone well equipped for linguistics but not pure bullshit either.

[or-echo]

To be fair, the main difference is that the Winter Soldier arc was well written by someone who loved the characters being written, and the 90s comic book run Marc Spector: Moon Knight was Marc Spector: Moon Knight.

Also nobody knows who the hell Jeffrey Wilde is. I'd say I'm sorry for him but I hate Marc Spector: Moon Knight too much to. He is a casualty of my hatred. And my hatred is both strong and deserved.

[eirianerisdar]

19 year old competitive 5k runner guy, standing next to 29 year old me as I barf from heat stress while cliff climbing in 32 C full exposure weather: Hahaha why do you always barf when we hike

Me: I'm not 19 anymore and only one of us is going to have functional kidneys at this rate with the way you don't drink water while I'm carrying three litres of electrolytes that I will finish before the end of this hike

[dennisboobs]

i like it when new people show up, interact with my posts, and very quickly discover that ronald mcdonald is my mortal enemy

[dukeofthomas]

Not "Robin Jason was just an angry, violent, aggressive brat", not "Robin Jason was a perfect, innocent, complete sunshine child" but a secret third thing (Robin Jason was a child who'd suffered abuse and trauma his whole life and never got the proper tools to heal from it; he was happy and silly, and he got angry and could be difficult)

[sleep-deprived-luka]

While I was walking to the library the realization came to me how fucked the wolf au Hinomori family is financially. Before the bloodmoon, they had a fine enough standpoint and an alliance with the Tenmas (who is the least well off family tho (of the big four that is)) but there already was a need to renovate or replace old buildings (most notably the twin church and the old Hinomori estate)

Right before the bloodmoon tho they had to finance wolfhunts and the head of the family dies, so previous plans to improve infrastructure had to be delayed.

Then the bloodmoon hit, which severely impacted the Hinomori territory, which like... isn't good. Cuz not only were there countless casualties and even more damage to the already decaying buildings, but they still have a forest potentially overrun by wolves/werewolves. Therefore even more hunts need to be arranged, so that the Hinomoris are able to reclaim land from the others.

Which is already a huge moneysink, if there weren't the whole "Hey one of the werewolves is my sister, so maybe don't kill her?" thing, that lead to the Hinomoris having to give up substantial parts of their territory to the Asahinas

Yeah, idk how they can salvage that (<- guy who has to figure out how they can salvage that)

[aequarea]

i have a thought about sanji that has been wandering in my head for a while and i need to vocalize in order to take control of my brain for once this year so, here it is. (even if i never made a post about op personally and i have like, 3 followers. yeah)

some time ago i was eating/spending time with my best friend (who does not watch one piece and everything she knows about it is for my ranting) and we were talking about nothings and at some point i started explaining sanji's story with zeff and she just interrupted me and said- "hey, so thats what you mean when you say cannibalism is a metaphor of love?" when i was in the whole "zeff eated his leg" part

and girl. why. why do you do that to me. WHY

CAUSE I NEVER ACTUALLY THINK ABOUT IT LIKE THAT. of course i expended some time thinking and analizing zeff sacrifice and sanji way of thinking because of that but i never, not once, remember the cannibalism metaphor thing. because i always used it to explain romantic love but wait, love can be a lot of other things too. included platonic, father figure/traumatized adopted son love.

and its always "devouring the other one" "make the other one part of you/becoming one" or "being inside of each other forever changing our insides to be remaints of the other" and things like that that makes you think of a couple thing. of something that includes two people in the act. you understand the point right?

i personally never see people wondering about the other way you can use it; as a sacrifice. consume your own flesh to avoid eating others. use yourself as a piece of meat so the other person can eat the real thing. basically using yourself to death to make others survive well. (as a side point, i think banica conchita is an excelent example for this, if you want to read/listen/watch a story about it)

and isnt that what zeff did? he was trapped in a rock without exit with a kid and enough food for one of them to survive. and they are in the middle of the sea, and everyone else died but them, so he had nowhere to find help. no one to go to. he dont even know how long they are gonna be trapped there.

and he barely know the kid. the only think they know about each other is that they are trapped together. the only thing zeff know about him is that they share the same dream. but he knows the kid is hungry, he knows there is food for only one of them, and he knows he want the kid to live.

he loves the kid already, because you need to love someone to make that kind of sacrifice for them.

and he gives the kid the food. he told him that he distribute it for them, when in reality he gave him all of it. and he is going to starve himself, but its ok, cause the kid is fine. the little bratty boy has food to survive. he can do whatever to substain himself for a while, it doesnt matter cause hes a chef and he knows what he can and cant do.

and what he can do is cut his own leg and eat it. he can eat himself, the flavour is not that bad, he can stand it for whatever time is neccesary. he can stand the pain, the agonizing suffering, the puke inducing feeling of the injury and the raw meat. only for the kid.

and im not going to expand it more cause i think the point is understandable enough now. zeff loved sanji so much even without knowing him to eat himself for him to survive in that rock. he used his own flesh as the food, to give sanji the most chances to live fine. to not traumatize him more. to not make him suffer the same pain he had. to protect him. isnt that what love is about? isnt that what cannibalism as a metaphor of love can explain?

[quibbs126]

Also another thing about the X AU, so I’m aware in Mega Man X, X usually gets these more powerful armors in the games (I don’t really know the details of the armors, sorry)

So like, I’m considering giving Optimus and probably Megatron designs like that, where they’ve been upgraded into more powerful and different looking forms

I don’t know when I’ll get around to that, but it is a thought in my brain now

[elytrafemme]

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[biopanik]

Guys god forbid you ingest complex media and realise that a well written character can be morally grey without needing to be mentally unstable. God forbid a character actually favours a legitimately awful cause and maintains their human side. You need to remember that you can't push your own morals on fiction. When it comes to flawed characters, they're meant to put you off. They're meant to challenge you. But at the same time they should be read as people, so that all of their aspects are taken into account.

Also may I just add that this energy is almost always directed towards female characters? I don't see y'all hating on male mobsters, male cops or male politicians? Is the idea of a morally grey woman or a deeply flawed woman that much of a novelty? Or does it just not fit your point of view when it comes to "acceptable flaws"? I don't remember seeing anyone hating on Roy Mustang for his war crimes, his enabling of stratocracy or his position. I don't remember seeing anyone complain about Lelouch or even Miguel - even if a good chunk of the content I did see had more to do with his tits. But when women become the subject of politics or expressing authoritarian/extremist positions, they're immediately slut-shamed(?) and dragged through the mud? Is a flawed woman only allowed her cruelty when she's obviously mentally ill?

yeah, this reeks.

[macadam]

From here on out when making posts about transformers stuff I love I’m not gonna put in a footnote every time about how much other bad stuff there also is in the franchise/fandom. Cause trying to keep posts well rounded and faithful to the entire tf fandom as a whole every single time is so exhausting and also the tf fandom sucks? Additionally it’s too large. Lastly they are nothing to me. They are nothing. Why am I thinking abt the bad parts of fandom all the time when the original goal was to gush about something I really like.

Anyways I love optimus prime he has so much love in his heart

and also autism

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[hawkogurl]

I think a lot of the time the Spider-Man fandom tends to throw around calling things erasure but I’m not insane for thinking that the fact exactly one (1) adaptation has ever acknowledged that Harry Osborn has schizophrenia kind of is right

I mean it doesn’t surprise me. Both Spider-Man media and the fandom has a bit of a problem with ableism and essentially treating ableism as a lesser form of discrimination. But it doesn’t change the fact that it’s frustrating to watch both adaptations and the fandom often bend over backwards to avoid talking about it.

[unproduciblesmackdown]

come get your levitous sidekick / vicious bastard / funny little guys