#representational modes

[in-sightjournal]

Ask A Genius 1020: Multimodality and Many Sensory

Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com Rick Rosner: I think Coursera and AI Trends mentioned modalities, and they were using a term we’ve been using for longer, multimodality. They were referencing text, image, YouTube, and other coherent forms of media, but I do not mean that. I am referring to dragging…

[rmtzcoconut]

Slight redesign

[a-little-revolution]

for rating dwarf characters: Edna Mode (the incredibles) vs O'Hare (the lorax)? I always found it odd that they had the same hairstyle but Edna is awesome whole O'Hare seems like awful representation

Hello! I've rated Edna Mode here, but I'm happy to discuss these two characters together!

I gave Edna Mode (The Incredibles, 2004 and 2018) a 10/10 and that still stands! I absolutely adore her and feel she slays the scene in these films - she's successful, complex, confident - and we see her to be very well rounded in the second film. She plays a vital role in not only the journey of the main characters but for all the super heroes of their world - she provides the very costumes and gadgets they need day to day. She may not be a very big character, but she's a very big deal.

Comparison has for sure been drawn between Edna Mode and O'Hare from The Lorax (2012) as they are both clearly little people and follow the same racially ambiguous/vaguely Asian archetype.

However, they couldn't be more different. I would give O'Hare a 0/10. Where Edna's success comes from innovation and creativity, O'Hare uses violence and coercion to get what he wants. He is most unlikable, and yet another example of "tiny man syndrome" in animation, wherein a little person in power rules with cruelty (not unlike Lord Farquaad of Shrek fame). When you make the only little person on the film the villain, you allow the audience to sit comfortably in the belief that only people who do not look like them are the problem. You alienate an entire group of people.

[dna-d2]

Okay one more thing about the new Nintendo stuff and I'm done, I promise

(i may not keep this promise)

But I'm calling out for a victory celebration of one thing in particular

WE GOT LEFT-HANDED LINK BACK, BAY-BEEEEEEEEEE

[savroseline]

The ACE king who was worth waiting years for 💜🖤🤍

[enbyfrogz]

hot take: i don’t ship f!jesse or m!jesse with anyone.

i ship enby!jesse with characters to make it 100000x more awesome!

[sillyslayer6]

genshin fandom are HEAVILY sleeping on audhd ajax childe tartaglia

(headcanons in the read more!)

i meaaaan;

stimming - he likes making stuff out of water and fidgeting with them, especially if he's bored; spinning water weapons (like he does in one of his idle animations), making little water creatures (he probably makes them fight), mimicking things around him/in his mind out of water - he messes with his cape as a stim (like in that other idle animation) - him just repeating something just because he likes saying it, like 'coco goat' or some word zhongli taught him impulsivity - THE most impulsive guy ever - impulsive to the point where he'll just throw himself into danger because he has free will - will see some big horrifying monster, think 'i wonder if i could take that' (in a fight), then will attack unless someone stops him - constantly gets himself into trouble because he reacts before he thinks - i headcanon that him using foul legacy against the traveler was him genuinely losing his shit and wasn't planned

(and he probably just laid on the roof of the golden house like 'owww ouagh owww' until the battle with osial was done... also zhongli was watching liyue defend itself on a nearby mountain, like how a worried mother might watch her kids cook for the first time, and just happened to see the orange cat on the roof) hyperactivity - has a brain that never stops - ultra instincts adhd, like rick riordan says - if he ever stops moving, he'll die - complains if he has to stay still - probably fidgets non-stop - the tsaritsa is an ally and has plenty of random crap to fiddle with on harbinger coats socializing - canonically the odd one out among his peers (granted, his peers are all scheming goth people) - i swear he (canonically) constantly misses social cues and takes things literally... - he misses social cues more than he misses crits - blunt and straightforward, and prefers that way of communicating - headcanon that zhongli lying to him actually hurt his feelings and his reaction was genuine... (and that reaction is a little too relatable, as someone who's neurodivergent... 😔🤨) - this is probably an english-only thing, but his little 'haha' in stressful circumstances is him masking/coping with the situation and doing a brain reset, or just his default 'how the fuck am i meant to react to that' response (citation: I DO THAT!!) - somehow masks and unmasks at the same time, like how he's wearing his literal mask on his head - will just come out with the most profound and deep truths, this jumpscares people (especially ones who think he's a total dumbass) - childe unmasking is just him with no expression, doing things in almost complete silence, even before the abyss he brought the vibe to the function that neurotypicals hate - ^ he'll never unmask around his fellow harbingers because he doesn't like them but also he likes annoying them hyperfixations/special interests - easy 'he's obsessed with battle' connection, c'mannn - and easy 'he's got an interest in weaponry', duhhhh - but imagine him just being able to identify any fish, too. - hyperfixated on liyue history, cuisine and culture during his stay there, probably kept getting zhongli to talk about whatever he was hyperfixating on that week (btw zhongli's autistic too, it's because he's hot, sorry i don't make the rules) - picks up 1 million hobbies and hyperfixates on them either for a week or until he's mastered them (the one week ones get shelved until he masters them) nerfed by celestia, AKA idk what to title this section - i just can't see childe being able to sit there and finish paperwork like a regular guy - northland bank managers fear him (he hands in paperwork one minute before the deadline) - pulcinella probably handles his important harbinger documents because childe lost too many of them - exchanged his quick moving and dodging in battle for a weekly sacrifice (he trips over something or breaks things through clumsiness; him and lynette are comrades in arms for breaking machines) - his sleep schedule is that he doesn't have one - he turns into some hunter-gatherer eater, unless someone with a normal routine is around, then he follows them and has regular meals at regular times (as opposed to him cooking borscht at 11AM

[skinnypig2]

[abbysthighs]

This bitch is so fucking gay.

[girl4music]

At the finale for Season 2 of ‘Person of Interest’. The Machine has a virus in it so it’s malfunctioning and possibly shutting itself down. Maybe I am wrong about The Machine transferring its intelligence to the dog. But you have to admit there’s correlations.

Finch can’t do a repair or restore because he cannot control it. He is completely locked out of being able to access it. This is why you always have a back door:

You can’t rely on technology all the time no matter how smart and sophisticated it may be. It’s not built to last. I mean neither are we - but at least we know it.

And now Root’s asking to team up and pitch in.

Also, I am hella impressed on the amount of preparation and research they do for this show. Have you seen props? All the information they create to back up their plot. It’s an extremely well-written show. I mean I’m not looking but I’m very certain I would find very few discrepancies in every episode’s plotline because it’s just that well thought out and organized.

[windwaver]

[clonewarsahsoka]

I WAS TAGGED BY @sapphicboyfriend I WAS SO FOCUSED ON POSTING THIS THAT ALMOST FORGOT TO SAY THAT 😭

rules: put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most! 🎶

I cheated a little and skipped a couple songs I don't actually listen to ever. Idk who tag so like if anyone wants to do it please feel free to do it and tag me 🥺🥺🥺

[mossflower]

loki season two has me screaming crying throwing up trying not to get dragged back into the mcu trenches

[sapphiccyranodebergerac]

kate whetherall is my soul sister in the adhd department

can’t stop moving?

over-prepared for everything?

likes to run places just for vibes?

talks very fast?

has to be doing something at all times?

owns a bucket?

slight rage issues?

extremely slay?

she’s just like me fr

[eternal-brainrot]

SHES HERE

[nthflower]

No one in marvel can write sooraya. They don't deserve her.