#obviate

[shoot-me-baybee-one-more-time]

i <3 big wordz

as a verb hound i intend to list off, no hesitation or consequence, several word what I like. agglomerated, variegated, flagellated, obviated (encountered in systems theory intro book and it goes against its whole purpose fuck you obviated), gestated, chittered, castrated, subsected, striated, delineated, dismembered, oscillated, ingratiated.

nonverbs: fuselage, antidecathectification (my own invention fuck you freud decathexis is mine now), sulfate, trepidation, anhedonic, latency, ablution, perfunctory, synchronicity, potent/portent, condor/candor, therein, gerontocracy, kleptocracy, cherryontopcracy, pester, kestrel, sinew, tripartite, palpable, incipient, incidence, apotheosis/apoptosis, dysplasia/dysphasia, fluorescent, inviolable, mellifluous, suture, banal, pellucid, parietal, diaphanous, firmament, ineffable, mercurial, malleable, ascetic, pilfered, persiflage, quadrilateral, lathe, adroit, cloistered, sterile, careen, crab, pip, seismic. and many others in between.

[beingatoaster]

DnD one-shot idea I had this morning and am telling everyone about: you're a party of level 1 adventurers hired by a fairy godmother as third-party contractors to ensure that her favorite warlock's daughter, a girl named Ella, is able to attend a royal ball and there secure a royal spouse.

[loki-zen]

Why *are* you engaged to someone from the US, considering the incredibly low opinion you have of everyone and everything from there?

I think you're confusing me with someone who doesn't literally have a freeaboo tag. I wouldn't say my opinion of "the US" (whatever that is) is any lower than the average of my friends who are from there.

But like, furthermore, we really need to uncouple this whole idea that if you don't like what a country's government is doing that has to mean anything for what you feel about the folks who literally just live there. There's someone you could fall in love with in nearly every country on earth, I bet.

[velaraffricate]

writing a story where everybody is gender neutral is actually kinda annoying with regards to pronouns, like so far i've been using "it" for every character, i like it for its simplicity and inhumanness, but objects also use "it" and it can get kinda confusing at times. "they" isn't ideal cus then you can't easily differentiate between singular and plural. "he" or "she" won't work, they come with too much baggage. i'm thinking about switching to neopronouns, but which? (well, i'd probably go with ey/em/eir, it's a set i use myself and find aesthetically pleasing) do I use the same neopronoun for every character? then we can distinguish between people and objects, but not between multiple people. do i choose a set of 2-4 neopronouns and assign each character one based on vibes? that just feels like sorting them into categories, something i explicitly do not want to do. probably dozens if not hundreds of different pronoun sets have been created, does each character get a unique one? ultimately, i think the most elegant solution would be to use one set of neopronouns as a proximate and another as an obviate. these are just some thoughts that have been going thru my head as i work on this project

[armando-triplepapito]

Wait those mandatory informes Armando and Betty had to do was because Daniel was whining! Bruh… the favoritism! If roles were switched, Don Roberto wouldn’t have made Daniel follow those rules🙄

[somni-dianthus]

So finally it was revealed that the new story is a new Traveller's Note.

Am I surprised? No

Am I disappointed? Yes and no.

I mean yes because since the first announcement of this story (I won't call it a book), it screamed TN, and no because obviously they wouldn't just bring a new function to just use it once.

Another thing that doesn't surprise me but is still disappointing, is that they decided to do an interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. Anything related to Alice sounds stunning and it could have been, if well written, an amazing story like the Apothecary, so it makes sense that they went with something that is well known because they knew that a lot of people love it and will buy it regardless.

[jamestaylorswift]

I think I wanna push back on the notion that some people have developed that midnights is “unpolished,” because I think what they really mean to say is “I don’t like it, it’s bad (to me).” in reality those are two separate things. sure, Taylor’s song usually sound very polished, and that’s part of what makes them so her, but unpolished songs aren’t inherently worse. it’s just most of what we listen to (especially if you listen to popular music made by professionals) does have a certain perfection about it that many people strive for; thus, we value and are made to value “perfection” and equate it with “good.” (or maybe, imperfections are not something we’re used to looking past, so it’s harder to judge an “imperfect” song for its actual musical qualities.) however, there are certain artists who strive for imperfections, and that’s what makes their sound. and we might consider music from other cultures to be “imperfect” because we lack the cultural context to appreciate what we hear. it mostly comes down to a matter of preference, which is developed and ingrained. plus, who’s to say that Taylor won’t experiment with sounding relatively “unpolished” later?

[starlightswait]

fun fact i have dealt with harm ocd from a very young age (at least middle school; maybe younger, time is wild) and one of my therapy assignments was to just. sit and touch knives for 30 minutes. i would do this literally while watching dance moms with my mom and sister. dark? perhaps? also pretty fucking funny

[crookshanks23]

Season 1, Episode 35: The Jellicle Ball

Favorite moment: The moment with Grant and Yeet at the end. Yes, I know it's sad. I like sad things.

General thoughts:

Love the intro. Usual Suspects parody? Always down for that.

The dad fact section is super fun. Love the in-character bits, especially from Will.

I really like Berry the bare bugbear. She's fun.

This is a fun episode. Lots of cool world building with the football game. The characterization of Grant as a nervous teen with a crush is so real. Darryl with cringe dad energy is great. Matt does a fantastic job at making Grant feel embarrassed. I get secondhand embarrassment from some of these bits.

Sports center montage is great. Since Henry gets to just be a bird, there's no need to play it the whole thing. And Will and Freddie have great commentator voices.

The end of this episode is heartbreaking. Hats off to Anthony for doing a scene with himself and thank you Beth for eavesdropping. I can't imagine this show without that moment.

I think it's because the dramatic moments are so few and far between, but I go back and re-listen to these moments more than the goofs. I've listened to the last 20 minutes of this episode a lot. Like, a lot a lot. And it's always heartbreaking. And always well-acted drama. I love it.

Next time, more football. And an eldritch Charleston chew.

[mokeymokey]

I'm mad because I've just realized that my conlang with its elaborate case system is like exactly the same gimmick as Ithkuil. Reddit ass language. What have I done

[loving-n0t-heyting]

I am just going to message my technician every day until she says she has figured out this insurance shit. Medical providers do your job challenge 2023

[velaraffricate]

im honestly so close to making like a quizlet or something of yakaɬ and properly learning it............ i feel like this conlang would actually be feasible to learn if i could bring myself to memorize all the pronouns and case endings and verb conjugations. and itd take a while but theres not an insanely huge amount of those

[butchrupertgiles]

like. ok im no expert linguist im only just finishing my undergraduate linguistics major. but its deeply frustrating to see people overlook actually interesting diverse grammatical features of languages for things that simply Are Not True.

[welcometomyislandbitch]

'till your time... by Veronika Obviate (owner of GERMINAL) Via Flickr: Wait in line 'Till your time Ticking clock Everyone stop Everyone's saying different things to me Different things to me Everyone's saying different things to me Different things to me Woooohh Do you believe In what you see There doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me Do you believe In what you see Motionless wheel Nothing is real Wasting my time In the waiting line Do you believe in What you see Nine to five Living lies Everyday Stealing time Everyone's taking everything they can Everything they can Everyone's taking everything they can Everything they can Woooohh Do you believe In what you feel It doesn't seem to be anybody else who agrees with me Do you believe In what you see Motionless wheel Nothing is real Wasting my time In the waiting line Do you believe In what you see Ah and I'll shout and I'll scream But I'd rather not have seen And i'll hide away for another day Do you believe In what you see Motionless wheel Nothing is real Wasting my time In the waiting line Do you believe In what you see Everyone's saying different things to me Different things to me Different things to me Different things to me Different things to me Everyone's taking everything they can Everything they can ZERO 7 - "In the waiting line" ---- Model: me Place: Furillen

[tsukii0002]

Imagine that after fixing things, after a lot of effort, a lot, Belphie becomes very needy of contact with Mc, the skin to skin contact with Mc calms him, gives him security and gives him strength to move forward day by day, and for the human it became a sign of trust. So every time he needs it, Belphie looks for Mc and Mc stops what they are doing at that moment and extends their arms so that the demon can hug them at ease, changing the meaning of this act from a bad memory to a safe action. And this becomes a habit between the two of them.

Belphie: *looking for Mc*…

Mc: *loading up with materials for a project*

Belphie: *his face lights up* Mc…

Mc: Yes?

Belphie: Hug.

Mc: *opening their arms dropping the stuff on the floor while smiling* Come here.

Belphie: *clinging to the human*

At a party in the palace.

Mc: *talking to some noble demons*

Belphie: *without social battery* Mc…

Mc: Belphie?

Belphie: Hug…

Mc: *smiling as they open their arms obviating the demons*

Belphie: *hugging them tightly*

Mc: *hugging him back* You're going to have to excuse me.

Demon : *blushing* sure…

Belphie didn't let go of Mc the whole party.

Mc and Belphie sleeping in the attic.

Belphie: *having nightmares* Mmmm….

Mc: *waking up because of Belphie*

Belphie: *almost crying in his sleep* I'm sorry Mc…

Mc:… *wakes him gently* Belphie….

Belphie: *waking up* Hum?

Mc: *opening their arms* Hug.

Belphie: *opening his eyes and jumping in to hug them*

Belphie: Love you…

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I have the headcanon that Belphie and Mc went through a process of therapy, mourning and mutual understanding after what happened in lesson 16, but that finally they were able to fix things and establish a bond as strong as that of the other brothers, with a lot of effort and work, but they did it. I'm a bit sad that the game didn't touch that topic anymore :(, so there will always be the fanfics 💜

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[tanadrin]

I would love to hear the rant about social media doomerism and conspiracy

I’m on my phone right now but the summary version is something like:

Humans are bad at integrating information into their worldview accurately bc of various cognitive biases

Social media incentivizes us seeking out content that excites fear or anger or irritation

Social media thus causes us to form negative impressions of the world bc it mediates so much information consumption and discourse these days

This general negative affective impression is subject to high confirmation bias and ppl in general are really bad at divorcing an affective impression of a thing from their dispassionate reasoning abt a thing

(Bc one of the functions of an affective impression is to “cache” our conclusions about a topic to save time and effort later)

(In general if you are a cynic and pessimist you can fall prey to these biases w/o social media but I think social media makes more ppl susceptible to them)

People don’t want to be dupes so they seek refuge in cynicism. We treat cynicism as wise or worldly when in fact cynicism makes you a dupe and an easy mark for grifters. Cynicism and low trust foster conspiracism, paranoia, and antisocial politics

(This is why so many congenitally contrarian folks seem to flit effortlessly between the far left and far right; it’s not horseshoe theory, they’ve just cooked their brains on this stuff)

This is a world where populist anti-social politicians like Trump and the AfD thrive, bc they will lie about how everything is terrible and people will nod along, bc it explains why their social media is full of awful stories of, like, immigrants eating pets and shit

But it doesn’t just have to be insane lies only a moron could believe. It can be any impression about a fact in the world that it is difficult to personally check and which is vulnerable to being swayed by anecdote

This is how we get a word where people think crime rates are higher than they’ve ever been when in fact crime is falling

Or child predators lurk around every corner when in fact children are safer than ever

Or the American economy is in a recession when in fact it’s doing historically well by just about every available metric (now with full employment AND low inflation!)

Because in a big world even where things are in general good and getting better you can always produce infinite individual examples of shitty things and pipe those in a steady stream into people’s eyeballs, and then point to that and leverage people’s low trust attitudes and their cynicism which tells them they are smarter than the experts and go “statistics is just a fancy way to lie! The world is secretly terrible! Every bad thing is even worse than you thought and every good thing is a lie!”

(Nevermind the whole phenomenon where anything that is complicated or that someone does not themselves understand gets treated like it’s actually secret and a conspiracy.)

And here I know I have to include some disclaimer about how this is not to discount individual cases of suffering or struggle, which are real, or that there are indeed some really awful things happening in the world right now, which there are, but you know what?

I’m tired of doing that. People with reading comprehension operating in good faith ought to be able to deduce that general statements do not obviate particular exceptions, and people who cling to their doomerism as a kind of emotional life raft do not generally argue with me in good faith.

Sometimes doomerism is a load-bearing pillar of their politics, which I think is dumb—I think you can be a leftist or a progressive without being a doomer! In fact I think doomerism is antithetical to useful politics!

Sometimes they are just depressed and treatment-resistant. Sometimes they are just angry misanthropes who want to feel justified in their misanthropy. Some doomers are themselves in bad circumstances and feeling hopeless about that—to them I am enormously sympathetic. Though a lot of doomers will admit they personally are doing OK—this does not seem to be most doomers.

But I think in general cynicism and doomerism and a worldview dominated by a general nebulous air of Everything Is Awful and by abstract nouns with threatening auras is not conducive to wisdom or understanding or useful politics or leading a happy and fulfilling life.