#on mobile but wanted to get this out

[taledhq]

congratulations on your acceptance, please see below for the new characters in the kingdom! please sure you check the next steps on our checklist.

sean teale, bisexual, cis male + he / him → isn’t that phillip dönhoff? i hear that they're prince phillip from sleeping beauty. i hear they’re 32. they seem to be playful & heroic, but also reckless & stubborn. their aesthetics include a shining sword and shield, the wind in his hair while horseback riding, and the blur of a party.

hugh dancy, pansexual, cis male + he / they → isn’t that kozmotis pitchiner ? i hear that they're pitch black from rise of the guardians. i hear they’re thousands of years old ( looks 45 ). they seem to be elegant and sincere, but also cruel and cold. their aesthetics include the things that go bump in the night, rough black sand, and a broken and abandoned bed.

jay hernandez, bisexual, cismale + he/him → isn’t that martin “bagheera” moreno? i hear that they're bagheera from the jungle book. i hear they’re 46. they seem to be disciplined & sensible, but also impulsive & short-tempered. their aesthetics include gnawing at the leash and breaking off the chains, a set of bright golden eyes in the shadows & sitting atop of a tree branch and listening to the sound of rain.

Luke Eisner, gay, cis male + He/Him → isn’t that Alaric Blanc? i hear that they're The White King name from Alice in Wonderland. i hear they’re 28. they seem to be diplomatic & charismatic, but also deceptive & cowardly. their aesthetics include white marble, doves, and white rose gardens.

Ronen rubinstein, homosexual, cismale & he/him → isn’t that jackson frost? i hear that they're jack frost from rise of the guardians. i hear they’re over 300 but look mid-to-late twenties. they seem to be fun-loving & selfless, but also mischievous & indulgent. their aesthetics include a roll of the eyes when someone tries to tell him what to do, once-brown hair now white-blond and nearly frozen together, and whistling innocently as someone gets a snowball thrown at them.

Ben barnes, bisexual, cismale + he/him → isn’t that hades? i hear that they're hades from hercules. i hear they’re immortal. they seem to be eloquent & intelligent trait, but also critical & quick-tempered. their aesthetics include hair turning into blue flames when feeling a strong emotion, sitting on a throne of skulls with a three headed dog sitting at his feet, & the unmistakable stench of death.

richard madden, pansexual, cismale + he/him → isn’t that Robert Fitztooth? i hear that they're robin hood from robin hood. i hear they’re 36. they seem to be altruistic & adroit, but also brazen & recalcitrant. their aesthetics include a green bycocket with a red feather, one eye closed as an arm draws an arrow back, and warm conversation by the fire as he and his merry men celebrate another theft.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i'm begging you guys to start pirating shit from streaming platforms. there are so many websites where you can stream that shit for free, here's a quick HOW TO:

1) Search for: watch TITLE OF WORK free online

2) Scroll to the bottom of results. Click any of the "Complaint" links

3) You will be taken to a long list of links that were removed for copyright infringement. Use the 'find' function to search for the name of the show/movie you were originally searching for. You will get something like this (specifics removed because if you love an illegal streaming site you don't post its url on social media)

4) each of these links is to a website where you can stream shit for free. go to the individual websites and search for your show/movie. you might have to copy-paste a few before you find exactly what you're looking, but the whole process only takes a minute. the speed/quality is usually the same as on netflix/whatever, and they even have subtitles! (make sure to use an adblocker though, these sites are funded by annoying popups)

In conclusion, if you do this often enough you will start recognizing the most dependable websites, and you can just bookmark those instead. (note: this is completely separate from torrenting, which is also a beautiful thing but requires different software and a vpn)

you can also download the media in question (look for a "download" button built into the video window, or use a browser extension such as Video DownloadHelper.)

[meltedmush]

This is definitely the largest bulk post I’ve ever done,,,,

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Continuation of my other post here, the autobots have come close to figuring out that Optimus is the sire but Optimus is way too moral to spark up an subordinate so they don’t look into it more

Skywarp stole the evidence, Ratchet doesn’t notice cause he and Optimus are too busy with the baby for any fun private parties

[apostaterevolutionary]

I am so sorry, apparently it’s 2024 and I’m arguing about dragon age again lmao. How did I get here! Why is this happening!! Time is a flat circle!!!

Anyway. People can feel how they want about the past games not mattering in this game. If you’re cool with it, I’m happy for you. But there’s one particular argument in defence of this choice that is really, really bothering me and I have to rant

The thing I keep seeing is “well all this other stuff has nothing to do with the main plot or Rook, so it should be cut” and that’s. Not a good way to tell stories in my opinion. Because here’s the thing: it’s not about the Big Overall Plot. It’s about the characters that live in this world, big and small

I’m going to use the example of Varric and Hawke cause I think it’s the easiest to explain quickly. Varric is a storyteller. That’s the defining trait of his character. He tells stories, and sometimes they’re true and sometimes they’re not and sometimes it’s something in between. In DA2 he tells you about his brother. In inquisition, he talks about hawke and there’s banter about several of the companions. Most of these are just little one liners that don’t “serve the overall plot” but they serve Varric’s character

And that matters

So if we take this character known for telling stories about people that have been in his life, well, he largely can’t do that now. How can he talk about Hawke, someone who can be a very close friend of his, without even their gender being a choice you can select? Or whether Varric should be saying ‘is’ or ‘was’ about them? How can he talk about the companions in DA2 or inquisition when a lot of them don’t have to be recruited or can die? Will he limit himself to only characters that are guaranteed to be a part of it and alive? Or is it that he and Rook will have such a shallow relationship that Varric, of all characters, never talks about his life and past exploits?

Or has Varric as a character changed so much that he doesn’t even want to tell stories anymore? That Hawke living or dying means nothing to him? That the friendships he built with people in 2 games mean nothing to him? That he’s become literally unrecognizable?

This is where the problem is. Sure, Rook maybe doesn’t care about these people they’ve never met. But do they care about Varric? What about if a companion mentions an old friend of theirs, talks about an experience they had that made them who they are - is that only okay if that experience isn’t from a previous game? Or are all the characters so flat that we never learn anything about their connections to others outside of Rook? Is this story SO focused on this player character and this plot that NOTHING else matters, even within the world, and there’s no depth to be found in any of the characters that feature in it?

Writing characters so that they only ever talk about things that “directly serve the plot” is how you get flat, unremarkable, boring, forgettable characters. And that’s not something I would have accused bioware of doing even if some instalments are stronger in this area than others. But it sounds like that’s what they’re doing here, at least with the past characters. Cause sure, maybe Morrigan is so closed off she’ll never mention her son and partner. That’s believable, even if iffy given that they’ve said she’s going to be more involved than we think. But Varric? VARRIC??? Never mentioning ANY of the people he used to spend time with and care about except Solas and maybe some of the inquisition characters that can’t die or not be recruited but also carefully skirting around what happened to them in the game? That’s literally not the same character

And I would expand this to like. A letter mentioning this or a codex mentioning that, or ambient dialogue about so and so - that makes the world feel deep and those random, unimportant NPCs feel richer by connecting them to the larger world. It’s not about “serving the plot”, it’s about making your world and characters deep enough that they feel real, lived in, and like something we can actually care about

[acestims]

Non-wheelchair users, please do not take accessible taxis when don’t need them!!! Had wait in storm weather for 10 minutes because all accessible taxis at train station taken by people. Don’t care that suitcases take up space, fit perfectly fine in regular car. Wheelchair users need space way way more (even taxi got in now not accessible even though looked like from outside so very annoying). Probably preaching to choir but please think about this.

[bugeyedfreaks]

I still haven’t been able to pick up a copy of the new PPG comic but you know what? I saw this panel online from it and…

…if this is like a Super Zeroes-esque comic where the girls are envisioning alternate versions of themselves with different destinies and if Blossom wants to be a detective GOD! BLESS! whoever wrote this ‘cause it’s perfect.

Bubbles as a bunny and Buttercup as a wrestler are also both perfect but that goes without saying. 🙏

[official-linguistics-post]

Yessss Zotero user!!🖐️ Help me spread the world, persuade people that source managers are good (side-eye to my gf who insists it's fiiiiiine to write a thesis without one...)

CITATION MANAGER EVANGELISM UPON REQUEST

i picked up zotero right when i started graduate school (i can't remember why i chose that one specifically, but i do know i liked it better than mendeley). i have every single reference i used across coursework, exams, dissertation, and publications, which is literally hundreds of items.

not only does it let you keep the citations themselves, you can use libraries, folders, and tagging systems for organization, and zotero allows file attachment (either natively using zotero's cloud storage or linked to a local source), notetaking to a linked document, AND annotation within the program.

i got the most use out of its ms word plugin since that's where i wrote literally everything. every time i added a new citation, i could just zap it in with zotero and the manager would keep track of every reference. at the end, it let me drop the entire formatted reference section right into the document.

the only time it ever failed me was trying to reformat my dissertation references to school standards, and that was probably more the result of my own lack of csl editing knowledge than zotero itself.

please, if you are juggling many references or will be in the future, invest the time in a citation manager.

[cousingregs]

blue bucket of gold + p2 (the lost blue bucket mine wiki page + blue bucket of gold - sufjan stevens // last of the real ones - fall out boy // snow and dirty rain - richard siken // pete wentz’s livejournal // scheherazade - richard siken // golden - fall out boy // the nasa.gov astronomy picture of the day site)

bonus:

[hrokkall]

Praise no power higher than your own code

[uwemagain]

manhandle

/'manhandl/

verb

gerund or present participle: manhandling

handle (someone) roughly by dragging or pushing

Pluem & Kawin (Ghost Host Ghost House) | Nuer & Syn (Cutiepie 2 You)

For : @a-lovely-obsession

[hazelnootnut]

ED 13A - Hired Puppet It's all that you have ever wanted! Pray that you will never come to regret this decision.

(based on @youneedthisjob's current portrayal of protag that you should totally go interact/ send asks/ follow/ give love to because holy shit i've been going insane by fortune's characterisation of him. and protag's in a newly started arc akin to ED 13 so go send asks and get blasted with lore and pain)

((also also under the cut is a monochrome version without the pixel-esque overlay because he's too colourful. i want my grey tones.))

[shakytailstudios]

Un-Rigged Chloe & Juleka models for a Chloleka AU I keep tinkering with called the "Match my Freak AU".

Where Chloe sees Juleka's more aggressive & devoted side (In regard to Rose) & is enamored with Juleka as someone else who dedicates herself to someone unattainable. (As she does with her mother) so she sets out to try and woo her.

With this leading to Juleka gaining an early modelling career & major boost in confidence & Chloe actually being able to socialize with the class in a nondestructive way. Of course, they may also egg each other's wilder behavior on.

Just a little ;)

[syundae]

my v3 bluray came in and i’ve started watching it! this time around it’s being subbed by tokutime and i’ve noticed a pretty interesting deviation in one line compared to the subs i originally watched v3 with.

so, i originally watched v3 with the glamrick subs and during the scene where kazami visits his family’s grave in the second episode he says this:

this scene stuck out to me on my first watch for a handful of reasons, but specifically the line “I have given up the body you gave me”

now, with the tokutime subs (forgive me i don’t have an exact quote of this scene or a screencap of it 😭) they translated this line as “I have lost the body you gave me” which gives you a different impression compared to how it was translated previously

with the tokutime subs he’s lamenting to family about the loss of his humanity, apologizing for losing the life that was given to him now that he’s a cyborg.

whereas with the glamrick subs kazami apologizes for giving up his body, he asked to become a cyborg and apologizes for giving up what he had

it’s a pretty small difference but to me it leaves two very different ideas about how kazami feels about becoming a kamen rider

[raven]

[gerfball37]

(idw sonic #75 spoilers!!!!!!!!!!)🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

honestly while i 100% understand being kind of disappointed at how anticlimactic mimic's cover getting blown ended up being (hell it wasn't exactly my first choice as to how they could've done it either), i do think it's kind of funny how it all ended up boiling down to a single random slipup that wasn't even entirely his fault