#questions no one asked

[mollywog]

I want to talk about the supposed contradiction of these two statements by Peeta

When Peeta learns of Snow’s threats:

During the Quarter Quell:

I don’t think these sentiments negate each other.

If you look at it purely in a pragmatic light:

Peeta’s family had a successful enough business before the games: his reaping gave them one less mouth to feed.

When he returns home, yes, their lives are likely enriched by his Victor’s winnings, but as long as they own the bakery, they do not need him for their survival.

With all that being said

As long as Peeta is alive, the people he cares about are at risk: Snow can always use their safety as leverage.

Arguably his loved ones might be safer if he were to die. They would no longer hold value to Snow as a way to keep Peeta in line (can’t punish a dead man.)

As Finnick so delicately verbalizes:

In contrast

If Katniss were to die: Her family would be kicked out of Victors Village and monthly Victor winnings would be discontinued. Sure, Katniss likely has savings to pass on to them ,but her family depends on her beyond that. Mrs. Everdeen and Prim need Katniss.

What do you think?

[electromancypodcast]

One thing that, if it wasn't clear before, certainly should be clear after episode 2 is that the Oswerian empire doesn't have the internet (hence all the old-fashioned analog research being done.) There is a mobile phone in the first episode, but I like to imagine its one of those super clunky early mobile phones they had in the early nineties.

The existence of magic definitely changed the trajectory of technological development in Electromancy's world as compared to ours. They have some rudimentary computers, but they haven't had the kind of computer revolution we had in the closing decades of the 20th century. For the most part, what technology does and doesn't exist in Electromancy is something I've been figuring out as it becomes relevant, but communication technology is something I considered a lot early on because it has such a huge influence on the empire's ability to control the narrative and shape public opinion, which is in turn a huge part of how people build and maintain power. So its certainly possible that personal computers/ the internet don't exist in Oswer because Oswer doesn't want them to - they might even exist on the Northern continent. If so, Leonard knows about them since he grew up outside the empire.

On another note, I'm a person in my mid-30s writing a high school story. The internet was kind of in its infancy when I was the age that these characters are, and it wasn't a huge part of my social life. The tech level of Electromancy is probably closer to the 90s/ early 2000s than to today because that's when I was a teenager and I'm using my own memories for a lot of my inspiration. But some things are less far along, and other things are maybe even a little farther.

[catmask]

i dont consider myself a 'fashion guru' by any means but one thing i will say is guys you dont need to know the specific brand an item you like is - you need to know what the item is called. very rarely does a brand matter, but knowing that pair of pants is called 'cargo' vs 'boot cut' or the names of dress styles is going to help you find clothes you like WAAAYYYY faster than brand shopping

[jjian1002]

Chilchuck the struggling girl dad🥳

[lunarwednesday]

Kindly Miquella... I see you've thrown away... Something you should not have... Under any circumstances.

[poppyberry]

Everybody NEEDS to listen to the new Wild Life retrospective on Imp and Skizz's podcast. They got Grian called in and they give so many cool insights into the series (and honestly say so many things I think people need to hear)

Highlights for me:

Grian designed each wild card to be weaponized and wanted everyone to take advantage of them. He goes over each individually and all the thought he put into them and all the work the backend team put into their execution. He's rightfully really proud of them. Him gushing about Trivia Bot and how excited he was to show his friends the "coolest snail ever" is particularly sweet.

Skizz says discovering each wild card was a LOT of fun. He says something like "I can't believe as an adult I get to have so much fun." Impulse is really impressed with the execution of each, citing stuff like making it rain when the time one activated and the passive mobs spawning in before being replaced, and how the little details like that built excitement and tension.

Grian says how he understands that some viewers maybe just want more seasons of the essentially the same series, ie six seasons of just Third Life, but it's more important to him that the Lifers get to experience something new and fresh. He also doesn't like comparing each series, preferring to consider each one as its own thing.

Impulse can't wait to do another Life series, Skizz is equally excited but tries to hold discussion about it back since he doesn't want anyone pressuring Grian, who is palpably burned out. Like, you can hear how tired this man is. Grian says there will probably be more series since everyone is still enjoying it, but he's not trying to outdo himself and not to expect him to keep escalating.

Skizz always tries to do something new each season yet feels like he always falls back into the same habits and dynamics, but not this time: he feels like he got to explore a new dynamic with the Spanners and had a blast doing it. He and Grian gush about how much fun they had with their "big brother trying to keep his little brothers alive" routine.

They have a grand time making fun of Impulse and his "Sweats". Impulse is unabashedly still hungry to win a series.

Impulse didn't want to kill zombie Skizz, because of the five minute cooldown, but Skizz makes clear that he was really happy with being a zombie, even if there was a lot of doing nothing in between summons. He says it means a lot to him that he got to help with the burden of facilitating the series, even just a little bit.

Grian gives good insight into his personal life strategy: he does some things to deliberately test his relationship with other players. Standing in the Danger Zone was a trust exercise, testing Jimmy and Scar. Jimmy and Scar failed.

Despite Scar failing the trust exercise, Grian heard the disappointment in Scar's voice about the Snail Bot thing and immediately caved, but he's really happy that it led them to in-canon reconciling and becoming strong allies again.

Grian's favorite moment was making Jimmy pay for the failed trust exercise by blowing up the bunker, particularly pleased with his one liner of "it was always gonna be like this". He says Wild Life as a whole has been the most enjoyable series for him, even though he didn't get to have as much fun as the other players due to knowing all the wild cards.

All three of them gush over the scene of everybody failing to kill Joel as he teleports around, laughing about how it was straight out of a movie or an anime. Impulse feels like Joel took his superpower to a new level, but Grian reminds him the he didn't have an army chasing him around trying to kill him. They're all super impressed with how the finale turned out.

Some of the powers were assigned (Cleo, BigB, BDubs, Scar, Lizzie), some were random (Impulse, Martyn). Some were based on players' names, others on their personal narratives, but coming up with ~16 different powers without including any that would just be exploited for cheap instakills was really difficult, which is why there were so many espionage ones. Hilariously, Grian was hoping Scar would accidentally kill Jimmy by punching him off a cliff because of their ritual of trying punching in the earlier episodes. He also gave Scar that power because he knew Scar wouldn't feel bad about killing people with it.

Grian chose to give himself the mimic so he could show people how their powers worked if he needed to, and so that it wasn't given to somebody else who'd have to spend the whole session figuring out the mechanics of 15 separate superpowers and potentially dying because of it. And because he thinks its the coolest one and he wanted it (lol)

All around there's tons of fun details and stuff in this episode of the podcast and absolutely everybody should listen to it all the way through.

[kimmkitsuragi]

oh my fucking god i don't have any clothesssss

[strangeweaver]

as per my roommates request i have crucified chars zaku in our apartment hallway

[chloesimaginationthings]

Gregory asks Michael an important FNAF lore question..

[arkangelo-7]

The dichotomy of Batman and Robin is so fucking funny because on one hand you have a brooding, dramatic millennial with a rigid moral compass and a sense of extensional dread, and on the other you have an emotional support child that is somehow the literal embodiment of both sunshine and straight-up murder.

[linkedin-offficial]

me when i get the opportunity to think about speculative biology and non-existent game mechanics in media i like

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[mollywog]

If favorite author was based on the volume of works you own, mine would be:

Sandra Boynton

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[rynli]

Harry works on his resume

[mongoosechasingpucks]

In my head nhl captains only exist in three forms: ball of sunshine and rainbows (e.g. sidney crosby, sasha barkov), absolute fucking menace (e.g. brad marchand, brady tkachuk) or eternally traumatised by the narrative (e.g. connor mcdavid, quinn hughes)

[cherryfennec]

Summer Times

Hi! I'm finally back from my two week abroad trip!