#so i have a massive advantage
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me, studying korean for a year and a half now: can barely speak it
me, watching young royal 4 times in a row: can speak casual everyday swedish
#i know they’re absolutely different languages and the difficulty level is different#and swedish is super similar to german and norwegian#so i have a massive advantage#but it’s so fucking hilarious that i’ll be having an oral korean exam in two weeks and a lot of grammar structures i can think of are -#-swedish or norwegian#like if i try to say “or’’ i can only think of the swedish/norwegian words and structures#this will go super well#el rambles#uni life#swedish#korean#language learning#learning languages#young royals#young royals brainrot
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“They engineered a psychopath to kill you.” “Totally married her. I'd never have made it here alive without River Song.”
Sources: Let's Kill Hitler, Diary of River Song: My Dinner With Andrew, Closing Time, The Husbands of River Song, Diary of River Song: The Furies, Diary of River Song: Animal Instinct, The Ruby's Curse, Time of the Doctor
#I don't know if this makes sense but I'm having fun#this is not an attempt to assign meaning to 'psychopath' but to explore how river relates to the identifier in relation to her trauma#and obvs not trying to equate implications of what river does with kovarian- rather examine how the abuse shaped her#river song#doctor who#ive got so many ideas for these and im wasting my 'time off' making gifs instead of taking advantage of#the ability to ignore work emails to get done other massive work projects. oh well#you know what. since this is my second media set in a row ima start tagging them like so-#edits by seaweed#words by seaweed#madame kovarian#crispy!master#the master#I deliberately didnt include the psychopath lines from Picnic at Asgard bc im saving it for a set about River as a demiurge :D#oh and I'm saving 'my bespoke psychopath' for a possible yowzah post surrounding 'two psychopaths is too much for one tardis' line#is SO much easier to do this to express my thoughts than writing words. you don't even KNOW how many incoherent essays in my drafts#okay ima get back to work#and then sleep
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This is a snoot appreciation post
#Infinite the jackal#sonic forces#sonic the hedgehog#okay but in the Japanese version of the Infinite gets his ass kicked cutscene#You see so much more of his snout and I’m obsessed#He had such a big nose. An appropriately large nose for a canine of his size#He’s so cute#Who gave him the right.#Also his ears are massive and I’m kind of obsessed with these (not so) little details#Coming soon! Niko explains the silly biological advantages of having a large nose and ears and tail and other details that could be true#Because I cannot be normal about him when his big ass fucking ears are right there and no one talks about this stuff
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There are SO many cool interactions and lore things we can look forward to now that Rubius says he'll come back to QSMP (not only as an angel / demon, but potentially as a human too!), but that little detail reminded me of something:
Even though q!Vegetta and q!Rubius were mutually interested in each other wayyyy back in the beginning of the series, as an Angel / Demon, Rubius said he can't have relationships with humans because it's against the rules.
But a bit ago on stream, Rubius said that he's thinking about having a "human" side so he can build and do more things on the server as a regular player. I'm excited because this means he can have more casual interactions with people and we can see him interacting with his friends more (and he can experience The Horrors), but also...
I think we're in for some very interesting drama in the next few weeks.*
* ( Assuming Rubius doesn't get harassed off the server by toxic shippers and weird fans of the Eggs again. Please be nice to Rubius and welcome him back kindly, he's a very cool guy and his character is SO interesting )
#Full disclosure: shipping stuff always comes second (or dead last) to fun random interactions and dumb bits between friends#I'm more excited about Rubius coming back PERIOD#but u know. the potential for some Rubegetta crumbs or full-course meals is a fun little bonus for yours truly#i talk#qsmp talk#Anyways like I said#god forbid I see anyone being freaks about Rubius again because it'll be ON SIGHT#''But FooIi//getta is-'' I Simply Do Not Care#I don't care about fictional ships I want Rubius to interact with his friends on the server without fans being freaks about it#(I'd like to reiterate I have nothing against that ship I'm just very tired of seeing people being weird to Rubius because of it)#(because they think he ''gets in the way'' or whatever)#I will say that's one massive advantage Karmaland had over QSMP#characters could flirt or make out or bang or whatever and fans would just laugh it off because It Wasn't That Deep (usually)#I think a lot of the younger fans (...and many English fans...) need to adopt this mindset#I'm looking forward to seeing how Vegetta handles it though because knowing him... it'll be very interesting...#<-- I say this knowing full well they're just going to be their normal idiot selves and I'm so glad about it#I miss seeing Vegetta and Rubius interacting they're so funny together and they have a beautiful friendship#I do have my head in my hands listening to them talk sometimes though LMAO
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(click pictures for better quality - and please read the tags after if you can!)
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#dandy's doodles#bfdi#battle for dream island#bfdi teardrop#bfdi td#bfdi flower#kin#why do i keep making teardrop comics? who knows#but yeah sorry for the bad quality and general doodley-ness. this was all very gestural. just trying to get a feeling out y'know#teardrop has been mean for the sake of competition... but now...#well. she never would've thrown lolly or gelatin under the bus because she was already so close to them#flower wanted to be friends - but wasn't. so td was willing to use her friendliness to her advantage...#i'd imagine after the fact that teardrop would feel kinda bad?#like oh maybe i am doomed to be self-serving and hostile and antisocial forever?#there's something to be reconciled here. between teardrop's desire for friendship and her desire for competition/victory#td will always want to win. they always want what's best for themselves#but now that bfb is over the competition with those folks is gone. there's no winning over them anymore#so perhaps in that little timeframe between the end of bfb and the start of her time in tpot td has the choice to be friends?#also at this point teardrop would totally have massive respect for flower for winning. so that's another point for flower-td friendship#and y'know... somebody just learning to listen to people... somebody just learning to be listened to... oh it's beautiful is it not?#and i don't know. i just feel like these two really would want to be friends but they each have these barriers#for flower: oh! i've been so pushy! i've passed her boundaries! i've presumed we're friends when that might not be true!#and for teardrop: oh! i've been so mean! i've taken advantage of her! i've made her think i don't want to be friends at all!#sorry i don't really know how to put this relationship into words but yeah. yeah :)
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"[Alice Perrers] requested that she be buried in the parish church of Upminster, St Laurence, before the altar of the Virgin Mary. Alice seems to have had an affinity with Mary through her life; a seal of hers from c. 1374 shows an image of the Virgin Mary and child, her tabernacle seized in 1377 had an image of the Virgin Mary on it, and now she wished to be buried before Mary’s altar."
-Gemma Hollman, "The Queen and the Mistress: The Women of Edward III"
#historicwomendaily#alice perrers#my post#I didn't know about this but it's so very intriguing#I wonder if Alice associated herself with Mary to try and assert her own 'quasi-queenship'#(ie: the most powerful woman in the country at the side of a king)#as Mary was obviously important element of queenly iconography in late medieval England#though on the flip side I suspect it would have also raised hackles that Alice - a commoner and royal mistress - was attempting#to present herself in such a way#it's especially interesting to consider in the context of Tompkins' argument that Alice was perceived as 'inverting queenship' (slay)#also this book was ... complicated.#It's very understanding and sympathetic and raised some very good points#but also tried to...massively soften Alice's actions and downplay her role and power in the process#(ie: defending her by diminishing her)#also there's this gem:#'Edward had been markedly restrained with the gifts and favour he had bestowed upon Alice' girl that is a flat-out lie#no other royal mistress of medieval England was ever given so much or honored in such a way.#yes we should emphasize Alice's own proactive role and intelligence in building up her vast estates#but even if that hypothetically hadn't happened#Edward's grants and gifts would have still made her extremely wealthy and powerful regardless#and was also weirdly obsessed with romanticizing Edward III and it got kinda questionable#like yes obviously I think we should ascribe more nuanced motivations and emotions to *Alice* than 'ambitious gold-digger#taking advantage of an aging king'#but I'm not fond of it veering too far on the other side either#I think sometimes we should simply be comfortable admitting when we simply don't know something
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Euden: suddenly vanishes before their eyes, to who knows what kind of danger.
Everyone: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH
Midgardsormr: Thoughts and Prayers, guys, thoughts and prayers.
Really, that's what he does.
Mids, all I gotta say is that at least that one can really work in your world.
#dragalia lost#dragalia#honestly it's weird how dragons are almost more spiritual creatures than physical ones in dragalia already.#Zodiark is literally rotting away and in constant pain because most all who knew him fear and hate him.#I would've been interested to see how much impact humanity can have on dragons through their beliefs if they can do that to a Greatwyrm.#They're intermediaries of the 'higher powers' and the mortal world: they can be killed but otherwise seem fairly removed from natural cycle#Heck all the Greatwyrms. Who are even closer to the 'divine'. Are just flat out sterile and always pop into the world as adults.#So yeah. More dragon lore is always welcome because I have been obsessed with dragons since like age 5.#Still: humans in dragalia can singlehandedly turn a Greatwyrm chronically ill just because they think of him poorly without raising a sword#Imagine if the dragons knew this: they've got every advantage possible over humans: strength lifespan etc. But the humans can just go#'dragon you're really scary' collectively and inflict massive physical damage on you. What an ego killer that would be.
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revision to my send tweet post:
if shannon wants to fuck with us she'll introduce Mike McGee, the random elf who perfectly fits everything we were looking for. He's a Charger and is in the Neverseen (we've known him the whole time, guys), how perfectly convenient 🗣️🗣️🗣️
#real talk there is massive evidence contradicting all candidates#admittedly less massive for fintan#“your parents care very much” lmao fintan has a weird way of showing it then#fintan is a MANIPULATIVE BASTARD#if he was the father he could EASILY take advantage of that and sow so much discourse in the lost cities#just lie and say “they took advantage of me”#play it off like he didnt know#and then boom you have people who are feeling sympathetic towards the war criminal#and then boom you can take over from there#so i have no clue why he hasnt done that#main thing that has me at 90% certainty#instead of 100%#but theres massive contradictions in basically every single one#so forkle would be lying about at least one piece of evidence for any of these#including fintan who IS most plausible#kotlc#kotlc thoughts#sophie's biological father#sophie foster
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Sasuke is Out! Sasuke is Doing things! What will Sasuke do?! I have no idea!!! I've never gotten this far in the story before, so I have no idea how things are going from here!!!! But Sasuke is Loose!!!!!!
Quoting this post to myself as I see Sasuke walking around and doing things. I haven't seen this guy do anything in like a hundred episodes. It's so exciting
#speculation nation#fanny watches naruto#it's so sweet seeing Suigetsu and Jugo trying to find Sasuke again#meanwhile Karin is under lock and key. yet shes playing with their expectations to her advantage#her pretending to be just the stupid sasuke obsessed girl to make them not pay attention to her#to let her keep the picture that actually contains some fucking lockpicks. crafty af#and her GLASSES??? the arm of her glasses is hiding a little secret knife?!?!! thats so cool karin wtf#i love when shes shown to be capable like this. like her sasuke fangirling was real. before.#but idk about now after he tried to kill her. he does Not deserve to keep her affections after that for Sure.#but shes still using the act. making people underestimate her. so crafty. like fuck yeah you go you funky little outlaw#i do love that shes genuinely a bitch. i hated her when i was younger bc i hated sasuke#and the fangirling still does annoy me. but shes also more than the fangirling.#shes so COOL when shes not obsessing over sasuke. i wanna see more of her!!!!!#unfortunately now i have to go back to this shit ass kage fight. really boring to me. now that sasuke's out i dont caaaaaare#it's just a bunch of OP ninja throwing rocks and shit at each other. madara literally dropped Two giant fucking meteors on the battlefield#like it was just one and it was a huge deal but tsuchikage and gaara stopped it. yay!!#but then it was such a Gradeschooler One Upping You moment where madara was like. Heh. well actually. theres Two.#and the 2nd one falls on the first and kills a bunch of people etc etc like come onnnn this isnt even fun anymore#we're just committing massive ecological damage all around#also killer bee literally PURPOSEFULLY clearing a massive section of forest for the sake of visibility#NONE of these ninja care about the environment!!!!! those poor trees and creatures!!!!!!#anytime theres some kind of poison something and they show it off by having birds or whatever die like#STOP!!!! youre killing the environment!!!!! stop it!!!!!!!!!#anyways what a show. the more ridiculously massive the fight gets the less fun it is to watch.#why should i care about guys throwing boulders at each other. Boringggg show me some people punching the shit outta each other.#THE TAIJUTSU!!!! WHERES THE TAIJUTSU!!!!! STOP WITH UR OP NINJA MAGIC SHOW ME TAIJUTSU!!!!!!!!#i also really want to see itachi. where is he. sasuke's loose now i know he teams up with itachi Where Is He....#LETS GET SOME UCHIHA UP IN THIS BITCH!!!! madara get ur pasty ass out of here and tobi stick your head in a toilet#only the uchiha BROTHERS here get those old guys OUTTA HEREEEEEEE#anywyas i actually folded some laundry while watching. wild. having fun rn
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#there is a wide margin of interpretation you can take with Armand and I'd like ppl to understand that.#We just quite actually do not have all accurate or full information on him but what we have is enough to prove#he is capable and culpable of all the things he is shown and proven to have done#I think a lot of the writing this season also was intentionally meant to confuse and make you doubt what is happening there. like actually#where do the lies start?#Now are all of them equally valid? Absolutely not. But I'm not like going to judge heavily people who have a different one.#A lot of bad ones (poorly backed) I get where that conclusion gets drawn from and for me it's just kind of fun to theorize those things#People claiming it as the right interpretation are a little like... okay chill out. But I think there can be room for that.#That is unless your ideas somehow vindicate or paint him as somehow also a victim of Louis like wtf are you doing at that point don't defen#him the dude is a massive piece of shit let him be a piece of shit.#It also doesn't make much sense to make him some great mastermind or somehow winning over something he's clearly shown not wanting?#its easier for me to see him as someone who doesn't have very fixed intentions or judgements on anything#his moral compass is self serving even when those morals are aligned to good things or a desire to be good#like he can see something as bad even undesirable and still do it if it serves some larger or more stable benefit to him#with little regard for who gets hurt in the process and with low empathy to see they could be hurt by it#And thats the most consistent thing about him is he falls to whatever is most beneficial w/o regard to others even when regarding them#& those good things r performative even if he's not intending it to be when it aids in exploiting other peoples view of him to an advantage#Or like when he goes about hiding under that persona to meet bad ends intentionally. (These go back and forth)#and something something the purpose of a system is what is does#there's little point in getting into the intentions of Armand when he consistently fails to do what he's claiming be#Idk tho honestly might not post iwtv stuff for a while I'm tired#There's a an amount of interpretation you can take about any other character too just there is so much more speculation there than elsewher
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another AU concept came to me at work yesterday and it’s “Clan Wolverine misjumps into a whole other universe shortly after the Draconis raids, and long story short, Sarah McEvedy calls Winston Duarte a little baby butthead to his face, repeatedly, because she’s not about to let a Nicholas Kerensky happen here, too”
the tech advantage…isn’t, by the way, turns out jumping into a universe several centuries behind yours means, sure, you’ve got jump drives and fancy guns that they don’t, but a few years of warfare will equalize things in both directions (they’ll replicate your shit, you don’t have the logistics chains required to keep it up to original spec and have to retrofit everything to local tech)
#battletech#the expanse#it’s unlikely I’ll ever write this for many reasons but it’s a fun little concept#I do enjoy this kind of alternate history concept when it remembers the second part#your initial massive advantage will have diminishing returns for so many reasons#also like specifically: how long are the HPGs and KF drives gonna last?
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got a good amount of money to spend on fun things rn and theres the steam spring sale
feel free to recommend other games you think i'd like btw i'm always looking for new stuff, but i've had my eye on these for a good while so i'd go for them sooner 👍
#clai speaks#wont get around to playing em for a while on account of my massive backlog of games lmao but i like taking advantage of these sales--#--so i have the game whenever i finally get to it yknow
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While I do like the smaller ways in which the changing ecology of the world was shown i wish soooooo bad that Saint had some sort of exclusive species that wasn’t a lizard variant. I’ve fiddled with designs for one myself but it feels like a great time to introduce some sort of encroaching mammal species as a suggestion that things have begun to spread from ‘outside’ their ranges rather than just straightforward adaptation & extinction. Like the fact that everything is still pretty close to its original form makes things feel... smaller than I intentional I think. Like it accidentally gives a sort of ‘bubble’ feeling to RW’s area rather than making it feel like a slice of a larger changing world when things change so massively but everything there is still kinda what was always there
#especially with something like harsh weather changes you tend to see a lot of extinction but also a lot of massive range spread#so i kinda wish there was something that wasnt easy linked to any existing species and could only be assumed as an entirely new thing#moving territory#maybe i should finish those sketches... i was going for a shrew#i also have some post-saint lizards ive been playing with particular in forms of complete new ecological niches and also something to#take advantage of all those damn centipedes
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acheron so good she makes me want to complete gold and gears to unlock erudition blessings
#bobtalk#she fucks shit up SO hard with them it's crazy shit. she's actually crazy in SU. her ultimate is crazy#my world level (forget what they call it in hsr sorry) isn't maxed because i had a Massive hiatus after 1.0 LOL#so between that and well. my relics aren't great. i don't have any 5* sustains. i missed a lot of banners like in general.#my ability to clear higher content is kind of nottttt great <-couldn't pass stage 2 of pure fiction for the free lynx lmao#but at least in SU i can just get bonkers ass buffs#shoutout to the person on my friends list with the well built level 80 e2s1 acheron that i'm leaching off of for farming o7#relics are so miserable for real. well what can you do#<-guy who used self modelling resin for a crit rate body for her acheron and it rolled all worthless substats lmao#btw i did start a hsr doodle dump u_u thank you for your support in this endeavor. will post it after accumulating more doodles.#rolling for e2 btw we'll see how that goes. won't be mad if i don't get her as long as i don't lose the 50/50 to someone ugly#future banner wishlist is fu xuan and silver wolf (missed her first rerun so. you know. lmfao.) (also missed tutorial lightcone we suffer)#don't know how committed i am to that though because i am kind of. not. a seele main. anymore. lol. for 2 team content maybe#i do really need better sustains. i am very squishy indeed. if i was playing smart i'd take advantage of luocha/aventurine. but uhhhh. lol#i don't pull for men <-hubris but its funny to commit. leaks forecast robin OP but also i already have both e1 bronya and sparkle.#unless the story goes crazy with her which at this point maybe it will who fuckin knows. i don't particularly care for firefly#well. we will see. for now. acheron OPification lol
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I was doing some online window shopping on Crimbus Eve and noticed these cups I had been Yearning For from Rogue & Wolf had a really big discount on them so. I got myself a Crimbus Present and ordered two of them uwu
They're so pretty, I love them to death, but. Good god, I did not realize how fucking big these cups were. They're huge. Massive.
I mean I guess that's what I get for not checking the measurements before ordering them lmao but good god
#Moon posting#It's just funny because the last two cups I got from R&W were a smidge smaller than I thought lmao#Look R&W is based in the UK so I have to pay like +24% in taxes when they enter the EU#So the fact they had a massive discount going? Yeah I'm fucking taking advantage of that these things aren't cheap#Honestly worth it though. They're so fucking pretty man#And most importantly: THEY'RE DISHWASHER SAFE. AND MICROWAVE SAFE. THEY'RE ACTUALLY USABLE#Like sure Killstar makes a ton of cute alt dining ware BUT SHIT AIN'T DISHWASHER SAFE#WORTHLESS#((Actually their large Calgary-circus mugs are dishwasher safe and ngl I'm tempted to get two... They're pretty...))#Yeah it kinda took forever for these to arrive but to be fair I did order them on fucking Christmas Eve lmao#Like people were on vacation I'm sure and it's fine. What did annoy me was that these got stuck in customs for almost a week#But that's not R&W's fault lol#Anyway yay pretty cups
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me: okay we need to clean
stupid brain: i dont want to clean i only want to look at fish
me: if we clean we can get more fish
stupid brain: GO GO GO LETS CLEAN LETS GO
#petco has their tank sale rn...#got a 10 gal for a betta and a 20 long for an eventual river setup with hillstream loachies#i have a 10 gal in backup already but its got so much crust on it i think it's better off as a quarantine tank#i mean. at least if the replacement is 12$ thats like less than i bought that tank USED from a neighborhood store lol#ok wait no i think i got it for 10. but anyway. new tnak for almost the same price as an old crusty one#ive been scouring fb marketplace for used tanks and its hard finding one without some sort of drawback#anyway i listened to fish history while i cleaned im just going to use this hyperfixation to my advantage while its in the forefront#ive had aquarium hyperfixation come and go several times now so i think its safe to say itll be a recurring fixture#and therefore its safe to actually get tanks and not worry about dropping it later#this is all after a shrimp disaster...im just determined to do things better#also panicking bc i have 200000 scuds in my shrimp tank and i need something that eats them STAT#i dont mind the scuds and i dont rlly wanna just kill them but my shrimp just had a massive die off and i dont want them competing rn#my poor shrimpies ):#dont leave veggies in the tank for too long. even if they are tiny#also clean the tank BEFORE the shrimps have their babies and ur too scared to clean#also. have a backup air pump for the filter#you can see the series of events that went wrong ):#dullblogging
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