#spits vitriol

[anyataylorjoys]

SHADOW AND BONE S2E02 | Rusalye

[dykespence]

Love how carla went from 'hmm idk idkk I like her but this is so new haha uncharted waters I mean like' to 'DONT. GET. DRESSED' in a matter of minutes

[asha-mage]

I think nothing exemplifies this site's commitment to bad faith takes of Taylor Swift better then fact that everyone is circulating that '1830s without all the racists' line as proof that Swift is out of touch and vapid for glorifying the past uncritically/romanticizing it, and then when you actually go and listen to the song, this is the full verse-

My friends used to play a game where We would pick a decade We wished we could live in instead of this I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists And getting married off for the highest bid Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now Seems like it was never even fun back then Nostalgia is a mind's trick If I'd been there, I'd hate it It was freezing in the palace

And it turns out that Swift is lambasting the very thing people are claiming she's doing- and talking about the experience of making people deliberately uncomfortable by drawing attention to their rose-colored view of the past, while rejecting the idea that nostalgia is anything but a fantasy we use to comfort ourselves without engaging with the reality of what it was like.

Like you don't have to like her music or this album or even her as a person, but when your playing out the 'Coolsville sucks' meme unironically, it might be time to take a step back and think more critically about what is driving your anger at this person.

[axolotlworld]

The turn Lavos gets trolled in the 2019 Smogon classic tournament recreated with the text from the resulting forum post

[corrodedcoughin]

court awarded a terf piece of shit 100k because she was seemingly fired for having ‘gender critical’ views and now everyone is congratulating her. so just to say if you are a terf get the fuck off of here. And anyone who doesn’t fall into the demands of ‘gender critics’ I fucking love you and I am so glad you are here

[3gremlins]

me: so i've somehow become the de facto leader of my raid group and there's all this drama and i think i'm bad at dealing with it my therapist: it's interesting that you're the leader of things...that's good right? me: oh no this happens a lot and it's terrible. you know how in skyrim you show up at mage college like "hello yes, i'd like to learn magic" and they're like "that's great, we're having this problem, can you help us?" and you're like "okay sure i guess" and they're like "great, thank you, also you're the leader now b/c you did the stuff" and this happens with every single organization in that game?? This is my life. like i just wander into groups wanting to participate/do stuff and then since i'm the only one who is willing to organize anything i somehow become in charge. my therapist: fascinating! ngl i'm so proud of you for making communities! reaching out! nature is healing! me: i feel like you are not understanding the problem tho :3

[skyward-floored]

do you ever stumble onto a blog and then immediately skip away because the content may be good but the vibes... no good

[yunyuis-remade]

we have got to start killing misogynistic trans men outright bc this is getting exhausting

[neothebean]

Me @ every single one of my coworkers and several of my higher ups:

[impossible-rat-babies]

the doom posting that comes around whenever a cash shop outfit comes out is deeply obnoxious at this point ngl

[signoraviolettavalery]

every time I think I might be a little bit okay, finally, after everything, something or someone else comes along to remind me what a disgusting human being I am because of where I happened to be born.

[monotonous-minutia]

Spoken like a guy who missed the entire fucking point

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[orcelito]

ok i am actually so very angry and there's literally nothing i can do to fix it. life keeps going on. she might even be happy. and fuck dude, i'll make sure im happy too, i was a fully developed person before she was in my life and i'll continue to be one without her. but God Damn, the fact that she can just do something so blatantly awful and unfair to me and then run off without any actual repercussions is just so fucking rankling to me.

like perhaps she feels guilty. she said she did when it was all going down. but it was just something she "needed to do". so obviously she didn't feel guilty enough or she wouldnt have done it like that lmaoooo

i really did deserve to have a good solid yell at her. but unfortunately, by the time i did see her in person i just wanted her out of my fucking life. so. no yelling was done, unfortunately.

[arc-archernar]

ive found that, unlike what many people say, i actually find it harder to confront people / assert myself online than in person

[thegirlwhorideslikeasamurai]

As people insisted that Mai got robbed in her free skating and take it out on Loena, I consulted the rulebook to check whether their claims withstand scrutiny.

Please note that this analysis is based on the protocols and the live commentary and thus might be incomplete.

Mai had planned seven triples in the free skating, Loena had planned six. However, Mai only jumped six. As the top group of women is a very tight field in quality and programme base score (they rarely jump ultra-C elements), the scoring strongly depends on the mistakes made. It's also the reason, judging might seem harsh at times as this situation forces the judges to nitpick.*

Mai left quite some points on the table when she missed a jump combo. The first jump of that element (3Lz) was underrotated and as she had jumped it already, she got only 70% of its base value. Note that it’s not the BV of a fully rotated 3Lz but of a 3Lz that has between 90° and 180° less of three full rotations. When this happens, the skater gets -5 GOE. She added the missed two jumps of that combo to her final jumping pass (3Lo), but doubled the triple, dropping even more points. She also landed two other jumps on the quarter, which doesn’t affect the base value of that jump but is reflected in a negative GOE.

Note the -4 GOE judge #5 gave for the fourth element. The highest and lowest value are omitted in the calculation of the combined GOE for each element to avoid unjustified scoring by single judges. However, this judge wasn’t even consistent in giving bad GOEs, so it could be a mistake.

These are the base values of those last two jumping passes (jumped in the second half) if she had nailed them:

3Lz+2T+2Lo = (5.9+1.3+1.7)*1.1 = 9.79

3Lo = 4.9 * 1.1 =5.39

which is 15.18 in total.

Instead, Mai jumped:

3Lz< = 4.72*0.7*1.1 = 3.63 (4.72 is the BV of the underrotated 3Lz)

2Lo+2T+2Lo = (1.7+1.3+1.7)*1.1 =5.17

Which is 8.8 in total.

Hence, Mai lost 6.38 points of her planned base score, which would have been enough to outscore Loena. And this doesn’t even include the GOE.

Mai was sublime all season long. She won all three Grand Prix events with ease. Normally, she's a much more consistent jumper than Loena. She was a contender for the world title and if she had kept it up it would have been a fierce battle for the top podium spot between her and Kaori, but her skating felt flat compared to previous performances in this season. Of course, this is reflected in the PCS.

After the competition, I learned that Mai was injured, and I believe this contributed a lot to her performance in Saitama.

Now on to Loena:

Loena had one fall on the 3Lz, resulting in a -5 GOE for this element and a -1 deduction. She also landed this jump on the quarter, but as she already got maximum negative GOE for this element her score couldn’t get any lower for this one. (She was lucky it was this jump she quartered). All in all, the fall on the 3Lz might have cost her something between 3-4 points compared to if she had nailed it.

Overall, Loena skated cleaner, sharper, and with more conviction than I’ve seen her since she won the Grand Prix de France. She lost her composure not even once, whereas she didn’t deliver in the GPF and at Europeans. And once again, this is reflected in the PCS. Haein and Kaori got even higher PCS, and rightfully so as their performances were sublime.

If Mai had delivered, she would have comfortably outscored Loena. She even outscored Loena by a wide margin in the GPF where both women had six triples in the free programme (you can check the protocols here). She is just that good.

In the current rule system, mistakes require the judges to lower the PCS. The more mistakes and less well-executed elements are, the lower the PCS become as mistakes affect the composition of the programme and are also reflected in the skating skills.

This is what the ISU guidelines say about PCS and how mistakes should be treated in this regard. As Loena and Mai both have one serious error in their free skating, this looks fine to me:

The situation is somewhat similar to the Grand Prix Final, only that it was Kaori who bombed the free skating in Torino. Strangely, I heard no complaints back then, even though Kaori is even more popular than Mai.

In the end, it all boils down to the actual performance and maths.

I would have loved to see Mai and Loena sharing the podium. I would have loved to see either of them win gold, but at the same time, I’m happy Kaori defended her title and Haein won silver (I just like too many skaters). I also feel sorry for Mai because her free skating took such an unfortunate turn. And I feel sorry for Loena because she gets all the hate for scoring higher.

It's hard to believe that a skater from a small federation of little influence should be overscored when the skaters from the big federations are favoured by the judges by getting ridiculous GOEs and PCS (and even that isn't consistent as it's usually limited to certain skaters from these feds). It also should be noted that this is about politics with the skaters being the pawns in this game, which puts heavy pressure on their shoulders.

However, Belgium is by no means a big federation and it’s mostly known for Loena and her brother. The judging system has many problems, but in this case, I don’t see why the scores for both women should be questionable. If someone more well-versed in the technical aspects of this sport than me reads this and can explain it, please do enlighten me.

*this has been explained over and over throughout the season by different commentators, most prominently by Mark Hanretty in the ISU live stream of Worlds

[yuridovewing]

...... yknow, it just hit me.

why didnt the daylight warriors ebonyclaw and harveymoon show up in "darkest night" when violetpaw and hawkwing came back to the gorge? we already know their answer to leaving the twolegs, sure, but they aren't even mentioned outside of the bonus chapter (which im reading rn, that made me realize this). they just havent come around and visited nettlesplash and mintfur for................ reasons. shrugs.

(actually aren't they in ebonyclaw's back yard or something? did they leave? ... why?)