#once you start seeing it it's EVERYWHERE

[makiswirl]

can i just say. and this is probably a niche hill to die on. that i am so gobsmacked every time someone vaguely hints at the idea that jotaro doesn't care meaningfully for the other crusaders, usually particularly kakyoin and joseph, when those two actually tend to be the ones he reacts to being hurt the hardest

like he cares for his loved ones!!!! that literally plays into his character motives in every single part he shows up in!!! stop lying to me!!!!!!!

[mumblesplash]

it fucks me up that you created the hermitcraft redstone exposure chart and the hope poem, both of which i think about regularly, but i never once connected them to your url until Tetris happened

sigh

[gmos]

being the real lefty sjw even in transgender spaces makes one even more insane than usual

[lipshits-continuous]

So I'm currently reading about tangent spaces and the differential of a smooth map and it's got me thinking, given a manifold M and a point p in M, is Tₚ a functor from the category of smooth manifolds and smooth maps to the category of vector space and linear maps? Or at least is there a functor related to this stuff?

Because smooth maps induce linear maps on tangent spaces and those maps respect the identity and the composition of smooth maps

[goosterbold]

my survivor has been living in the post apocalypse for four in-game months now.

(apparently what i had in mind are 'whoopie pies' in everywhere but a specific series of new hampshire gas stations i've been to that call them moon pies. please dont misunderstand, lotte chocopies fuck, but what i mean is one of those MOIST OILY GOOEY whoopie pies)

[wayfinderships]

Oh boy! :D I can't wait to look through my f/os tag!

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[shigayokagayama]

we need to go back in time to find the first person who had reigen call serizawa "big guy" in their serirei fic and stop them

[rewrite-canon]

me when sad media piece about romantic relationship: light work no reaction

me when sad media piece about sibling dynamic: oh. okay. its got a little kick.

me when sad media piece about child-parental figure dynamic: LET ME GET UP LET ME GET UP LET ME GET UP ELT MEGET UP ELT ME GET UP ELTMR FJETY UP LEGBR LE FEOT UP

[e-von-dahl]

Oh that’s ni- wait…

He did that thing again where people use Great Britain as a synonym for England. Great Britain is the entire island, not a country

You’d think since he knows so many languages he’d be better at geography but apparently not

[your-fav-rocks]

wait whats the fake malachite vs real malachite thing? Im curious now

Buckle up.

Let’s start out with some photos of genuine malachite!

Here are the easiest characteristics to look for in real malachite:

Lots of different greens, but NEVER black. You can get some pretty dark shades of green, but you don’t see pure black on real malachite.

Banding in organic shapes! Swirls, waves, rings and stripes are seen throughout the stone.

Now let’s look at some of the worst cases of fake malachite

Compare the characteristics here to the real malachite

There’s maybe three different greens at max, and a LOT of black.

The banding is very uniform. The photo on the far right has a few rings, but even then the rest of the stone looks like a goddamn zebra

Suuuper often you’ll see that ugly fake stuff being sold as genuine. Let’s take a look at a few more examples!

Real malachite :D

Fake malachite >:[

There’s a few other ways to tell if a malachite is real, but they aren’t something that you can determine by looks alone.

Real malachite:

Cold to the touch for a bit! I have trouble with the touch test because my hands are super cold all the time tho lmao

Dense/heavy, due to its copper content

Has a green streak when a streak test is performed on it!

Fake malachite:

Usually won’t be cold to the touch for very long, especially if it’s made of plastic or resin

Very lightweight compared to the real deal, again due to commonly being made of plastic or resin

Can you even do a scratch test on resin?? I’ve never tried

Now that you know how to tell the difference, go to Michael’s and tell me if their malachite beads are real I’ll give you a hint, they aren’t

If anyone has further questions let me know! I’d love to answer :>

[flowerakatsuka]

kept on thinking about some of the more emotional beats of the kurokara lore while i was trying to fall asleep last night and i just... i need to explode...

[passthroughtime]

btw, more on the sawa-sensei argument

because i can't let this shit go myself as well, as it seems

while kuwana calls yagami out for it as well (look, my game is self-aware!), after kusumoto's betrayal, yagami doesn't use sawa only as an example of collateral damage always existing in concealing the truth. we have two scenes between him and kusumoto showing us that it's not restricted to the only example yagami has (as is the talk usually). that's just the most tangible one, obviously because sawa is dead, and that's a fact that neither kuwana nor kusumoto can escape.

hey, guys, we forgot about akaike! but yagami didn't. (also, a funny side note while talking about the forgotten victims: akutsu is another example of public security getting rid of people who know too much. their brand of justice doesn't escape even the ones who are technically on their side/have been useful to them.)

the ending happens solely because yagami goes to save kuwana from RK/PS btw. he doesn't really know about his plan until he meets him at the warehouse, his only motivation is the knowledge that if he doesn't go and do something, PS will get rid of kuwana.

there's a reason, of course, why kuwana hasn't communicated that to yagami and his friends.

and they talk about it one more time after... idk, half an hour of gameplay? an hour?

idk the reason for the repetition here really. maybe, to make it more obvious that yagami doesn't really think about what kuwana is trying to do while on his way to the warehouse? that he and the gang just go there because kuwana is in a grave danger, and not one of them questions why kuwana suddenly reveals kawai's body location (and his own whereabouts as well) in a way he does? or it's just an awkward way the writers came up with for starting the conversation they have with soma? in any way, here we have it, i guess.

and here yagami talks explicitly that they came here to *save* kuwana. (just because my words may be easy to discredit because of my *coughs* pretty obvious biases.)

so, in short: sawa, akaike: remembering about the people who were sacrificied in pursue of the plans greater than a common person (=getting justice for the victims) kuwana, yagami, yagami's friends: denying that from happening again (=saving other people's lives before it's too late)

that is if you're tired of hearing only sawa being included in yagami's justice. but yeah, to summarise, it's about people, not ideology or "the big picture" for yagami. that's why his argument isn't so on par with the big questions kuwana brings to the table.

he's simplifying the discussion... or, makes it feel more real. whichever way you want to look at it.

[kn11ves]

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kyle and rex is an absurdist drama set in a stagnant afterlife where everyone lies, cheats, manipulates, and hurts each other in order to gain political power and admiration from the public.

with characters constantly haunted by ghosts of the past, trying to stay on top of the food chain despite constant betrayals and having their secrets held up above their heads, comes back kyle, from his long stay back as a guiding spirit on earth, to take back reigns of the throne in the inbetween. though much like everyone else, hes got a long list of dirty laundry that many are aching to reveal. there are no real friends here.

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[rearranging-deck-chairs]

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[twpsyn-who]

Today on "Another JeanMarco Soulmate AU absolutely no one asked for" I present to you -

Soulmate AU in which you stop seeing colors when your soulmate dies, the only exception being your soulmate. Now cue to Jean who just found Marco's, his best friend's, body. And you know, there's the shock of finding out Marco's dead. The pain and confusion and guilt. But there's also the revelation, because despite everything he can still see Marco like nothing took place at all- yes, half of his face is missing and his body is straight up lifeless, but Jean can still make out the color of his eye ; see that light shade of brown perfectly, remember all the times he has found himself looking at them while listening to Marco talk. He can still make out the colors of his uniform, see the same shade of black his hair has always had, practically see. Despite being dead, Marco was the only piece of color left in his life.

And there's denial for a moment because there's no way Marco was his soulmate. But that goes away fast, getting replaced by guilt. By the fact that he hasn't been there to save him, that Marco has to die all alone without anyone being there for him.

And that was worse than the simple fact that he could no longer see colors ; because Marco was there when Jean needed him, but he failed to do the same. And not only he lost his best friend that day, but his other half too.

[lilacerull0]

my mom: i feel like you don't even like pasquale, it's just that the spite and the complaining registers at the same frequency as your own

me: *speechless*