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[reviewexpert23]

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[bixels]

Very recent tag on my last post, but all credit goes to my partner again. They were sitting next to me while I cycled through Google image search "1920s flapper dress," going 'no. no. no. god no. no. absolutely not'.

[mindfulwrath]

just started dunmeshi (anime version) and while i'm only up to ep 8, the thing i'm finding the most remarkable about it is how it portrays expertise

like, everyone in the main party has something they're really really good at, to the point where it's obvious why a party would want this person in particular to come take on the challenges of a dungeon, and why this particular combination of skill sets has allowed the party to get as far as they have. that's great writing, but it's not what i find remarkable.

the remarkable parts are:

everyone in the party has something in their skillset that the others could benefit from learning

even the experts don't know everything about the field in which they have expertise

#1 is pretty common in stories where skill acquisition is how the main characters progress (i'm thinking of things like naruto and dbz, where learning new techniques is how one advances in the power scheme of the world). the way dunmeshi handles it strikes me as different and interesting, because instead of The Main Character assembling an armory of skills by mastering The One Skill each secondary character has to teach, everybody is learning from everybody, and they're picking and choosing skills that are relevant to their areas of expertise. the example that comes to mind is senshi learning how to spot and avoid traps from chilchuck - he's never going to become better at it than chil, but he's learning it because it's a useful thing for him to know how to do.

#2 is what i find the most remarkable, because i don't know if i've seen it done before. the example that comes to mind most readily is senshi - who seems to know everything there is to know about the monsters he's familiar with - not knowing that lighting a fire around the red dragon's body is a potentially deadly misstep. that's a piece of information laios has, despite being orders of magnitude less familiar with the dungeon than senshi is. but it also makes perfect sense that laios would know that and senshi wouldn't, because laios has encountered a lot of dragons and read a lot about dragons and senshi hasn't.

and in my experience, in a line of work where i'm surrounded by a bunch of experts in a similar field with markedly different skillsets, this is how experts interface and how expertise functions in real life.

and it's made me realize that experts written without those two aspects fall completely flat for me.

[literary-illuminati]

2024 Book Review #29 – The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky

My public library tragically lacks the Tchaikovsky books I actually want to read (one day I shall get my hands on City of Last Chances. One day...), but it helpfully does have a random assortment of his other stuff. Among that other stuff was this rather charming little novella – hardly anything to set the world on fire, but it was a fun easy read to break the streak of a couple of disappointments.

The story follows Handry, a boy growing up in a village guided and governed by ‘ghosts’, immortal systems that fuse with and warp a suitable host to allow them to interact with the rest of the village as lawgiver, doctor, architect, or whatever else the village might require. After a deeply unfortunate accident, he ends up partially ‘severed’ – cut off from village and the world around it in a very real way, incapable of digesting food, avoided by animals, and inspiring aa visceral fight-or-flight reaction in everyone who sees him. For a time, his sister helps him survive on the village’s periphery, but when she’s selected as it’s next Doctor, her ghost finally takes a look at him and decrees he is incompatible with the community – and so he is forced to flee and wander the earth, and ends up learning the real state and history of the world.

This came out in 2018, but everything about it feels very classic sci fi – generally in a good way, to be clear. The story that exists primarily to be able to tease and then exposit about worldbuilding, the setting of an alien world inhabited by colonists who have forgotten their history and the source of the technology they rely upon, the absolute plethora of random bits of weirdness that are only really revealed implictly because they are totally normal to the protagonist (the six-legged and four-eyed bodyplan of most wildlife, for example), even the overarching theme of the perfect virtue of curiosity and questioning both charismatic authority and received tradition. It was a fun time! Made me a bit nostalgic for all my dad’s old ratty paperbacks I read as a child.

It’s definitively a novella-sized story, and I’m immensely glad Tchaikovsky didn’t try to drag out longer than it is. There are some intriguing points that are never followed up on – the tool-using and home-building aliens which every casually treats as wildlife and casually exterminates or drives out when they need more land, to begin with – that I assume are what the sequel follows up on? But this ended in the right place, and even with his voice being so present in the narration I’m not really sure Handry is enough of a character to have sustained a full novel in his head. Certainly none of the other characters got any more characterization than they strictly needed.

So yeah, no real complaints, it was an enjoyable read – but on the other hand in three months you’ll probably need to remind me that I’d actually read this.

[palmtreepalmtree]

Neither of us loved the show (The Girl from the North Country). We both agreed the performances were great but the show itself was a bit of a jumble. The music didn't seem to connect well. My companion thinks she would have liked the show without the music. I think I would have liked the show without the play. Clearly, the things didn't go together.

In terms of Dylan, it made me want to watch I'm Not There again, which I really loved when I saw it in the theater. Might see if I can find it somewhere.

[samsayswhatever]

6 and a half minutes into the show Loki was already naked and in a collar

I should have known this was going to be my new favorite show 🤭

[hardcore-gaming-101]

Expert

This article is part of our Japanese Obscurities feature. We put out a whole book about them, which is available as both a full color hardcover and a Kindle ebook from Amazon! If you’d like to see more of these features, please check out the book and if you enjoyed it, leave a five star review so we can do a follow up with even more interesting, offbeat, or historically important Japanese games!

Although the 90s saw plenty of Japanese developed first-person shooters, only a few of them reached the PlayStation. Among these was Expert, a Wolfenstein 3D-like shooter where you play as a member of EXPERT, a SWAT team that must ascend and clear out a government building occupied by terrorists.

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[tulipe-rose]

I was going through a list of flowers, and their symbolism with the intent of finding some info for future reference when I came upon the Belledonna.

Atropa belladonna, commonly known as belladonna or deadly nightshade, is a toxic perennial herbaceous plant in the nightshade family Solanaceae.

An alternative name for the belladonna according to a review on one of the sites I looked through was 'The assassin's drug' in past history, because it tastes sweet, and causes death.

Another review came up to say that Belladonnas help with fevers, and a third one said that the op had a cystoscopy on their left kidney, and the surgical notes stated that once the stone, and equipment were removed, a "Belladonna & Opium suppository" was administrated (B&O for short); they are common after kidney stone removal procedures because they help control what is essentially a painful post-op cramping of the urethra.

The name originates from it's historic use by women, as bella donna is Italian for 'beautiful woman'. It was used to dilate woman's pupils since it was considered to be attractive, and seductive.

In light of my short research, I assume that Dazai used this as a pet name for the women he invites to double suicides knowing all of this. A beautiful woman that agrees to a double suicide would be a deathly one, but her presence would bring comfort alongside the death to come.

It would make a funny pun for florists/plant enthusiasts (me)/pharmacists, and maybe even doctors out there who are exposed to Dazai's flirtatious pick up lines.

'Just being in the presence of your beauty makes my heart race, my dear Belladonna!'

'You should go see a doctor then, my chemistry would start affecting your digestive system pretty soon if you don't hurry lol'

[zuble]

i’ve only seen my new doctor twice and he’s already so much better than my last one holy shit. and not just because he doesn’t sexually assault me

[mildmayfoxe]

my hair appointment is in a half hour & i DID remember to take before pictures but you guys are gonna have to wait a few hours to get pics bc i have to go to the grocery store afterward since i didn’t go yesterday

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

genuine question but is there any fandom where a character is well written by the majority. im thinking about fandom culture and the spread of frustration when people dont write characters well but. honestly in all the fandoms ive been in there's only like, a Select number of authors who i trust to write Well, let alone write Well AND In Character. character analysis and writing and getting inside characters' heads are all separate skills (all of which are trained by roleplaying fyi can CONFIRM playing pretend with your friends is good for you). there's been more than once where I've disagreed with an interpretation that others agreed with, and then I turned out wrong. or i turned out right. like it doesnt matter WHO is right it just matters that differences in character analysis exist, so even if you DO write well AND write in character, your in character is still going to be someone else's out of character

there's this sort of. vibe. that to play in the sandbox you Need to be able to make a castle, and if you can't make a castle then you shouldn't bother, and it completely dismisses the idea that youre in that sandbox to PLAY in the first place. there's this Weight of disappointing someone if you can't build something that they like, but that forgets that you aren't there to build them a castle. like, be KIND. if you disagree with someone then please make an effort to do so kindly. i dont give a shit about fandom discourse but there is a reason kids get removed from sandboxes if they keep throwing sand in people's eyes. but if they don't like your misshapen sand pile, then youre not obligated to change it. even if you yourself end up hating that same sand pile later- youre not building a legacy. youre playing. and sometimes the result of that play is out of character drivel. theres a reason there are so many authors and so few who i like to consistently read and thats because everyone is Fucking Around in their hobby space. hash tag brag or whatever but i can build castles. ive built several that im v proud of. ive also dug holes in the sand for fun and then tripped on them when trying to get up. I often dug a hole and then got up and fucking- whoops, its a castle now, and i didn't realize i'd made something to be proud of until after the fact. the whole time while creating shit i was Convinced it was bullshit that didn't make sense. and then other times i was Convinced it was bullshit and then i was Right and i can look back and go. huh. ew. but it doesn't matter what the end result was, because i had fun playing in the sandbox

this wasn't meant to turn into a ramble but i have Feelings about bad art and art that's badly perceived and how public perception can screw with your head and how making art youre proud of is fucking. it's so difficult!!! it's hard!! it's really fun, which is why i try to make it, but i promise you it is Okay to not tryhard creativity. even if you CAN, it's okay not to do it all the time. or ever, even. fuck around find out have fun etc

[reviewexpert23]

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[silentstaresfanficandfanart]

23,911 FREAKING WORDS WRITTEN IN ONE DAy

IM GOING TO BED i am AMAZING and im a FANFICTION MONSTER i had so much fun I love my silly little blorbos so much

Eichi suffered but its okay its for my art...*throws glitter in the air* my fanfiction. I intend to be...a little more reasonable about how much i write per day of this in the future- remind me in the morning to throw a slice of cheese directly at Eichi Tenshouin's fourhead thanks

[nerd-goes-blogging]

Just started with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and.. when people say it's bad writing, I do get the point well. Somehow palpatine returned. No idea how..

I believe 'Snook not killed at the first place and said to have possessed all the dead Sith lords' souls' would have made better sense.

Palpatine's return (the how part) is not explained much either.

The movie is quite hollow if we do not consider the fact that it's Star Wars.

Just my thoughts. Initial thoughts.

[morethanonepage]

Do you have any opinions on modern day John's music tastes? I'm usually annoyed when they don't update them from the original time period. Like, sex pistols? Rly?

lmfao I actually think it makes sense, at his core John is a white english boy, ofc he'd be into the 'classics' of a genre* (and the Sex Pistols/Ramones era really IS the start of the punk genre) before being willing to explore anything more modern/of his own time period. like i would also believe him as a music snob who prefers vinyl to CD/digital music (i'm more 🙄 on him using the ipod in the Constantine show, for instance, but I also think it's implied Chas maybe have both brought and put it together for him).

of course i think comics hellblazer canon is that he's into the pistols' bc he was at that classic 1976 show in Manchester (I may have just made this up, it may just be *my* headcanon), modern john's backstory would probably be that he was a pretentious little weirdo rebelling against what would've been the most in opposition to pop music in the early 90s, got into local punk music, and then went looking for whatever ~the classics were. like i think he'd likely be a fan of local music/more modern punk as well but being a baseline Pistols' fanboy makes sense to me.

*also have to point out the most obnoxious show!john thing which is when he complains about reggae music when it's so closely tied to the history of punk. like, specifically with Johnny Rotten even. Bizarre writing choice imo, either the writers of the show didn't know that or they did and were making a real statement about John's white englishman blindspots of not knowing/respecting POC history & influence on stuff he likes [which is also supported by him being such a snob about the folk magic in the infamous mexico city episodes of the show, and the "magpie of magic" comment from Papa Midnite.] given his background i don't think it's shocking that john constantine is terrible re: intersectionality but it's worth remembering as one of his flaws (though: i think he's actually better about it in the comics).

[crimeronan]

WAITLIST APPOINTMENT WENT THRU I SEE THE RHEUMATOLOGIST ON MONDAY. MAYBE WE ARE NOT IN HELL AFTER ALL.