#surprisingly informative

[stonegardencorvin]

Came back after 12 years to ask Tumblr how to adult

If anyone needs a good "how-to-adult" resource, I just found this Independent Living Library from the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. It's aimed at people who may struggle to live on their own due to vision impairment, but the guides are written in such a way that it's just really simple and accessible for most people. There's a lot of basic maintenance information, and a ton of kitchen how-to's ranging from frozen meal instructions to basic cooking skills to actual recipes. It's good information written in the simplest form with absolutely zero judgement as to why you don't know these things already

[flame-of-a-candle]

okay I have to write this down before I forget

let's do some math here

ARCANE AGES

What we know at the beginning of the series:

Jinx: Approximately 11 or 12 years old

Vi: Around 14-16 years old

Ekko: Stated to be around 12-13 years old

Cait: When she's introduced she's about 15/16

Mel: 26 during Act I

Jayce: Stated on the Wiki that he is 24

Vik: The in-between (25 lol)

Act II of Season 1: 7 years has gone by

Jinx: 11/12 plus 7, this makes her around 18/19

Vi: 14-16 plus 7, about 21-23

Ekko: 12/13 plus 7, he would be 19/20

Cait: 15/16 plus 7, she's 22/23 (I like the idea of Cait being older than Vi)

Mel: Would be 33 if I can do basic math

Jayce: 31 (more basic math)

Vik: 32 (these three are the easiest to math)

Their ages remain the same throughout Act III and Act I of Season 2. The time skip between Act I and Act II of Season 2 is months. So, if we were to assume people had birthdays, we would simply age them by 1.

Jinx: 19/20

Vi: 22-24

Ekko: 20/21

Cait: 23/24

Mel: 34

Jayce: 32 (more like 55 💀)

Vik: 33

Additional character ages (as of Act II Season 2, or at time of death)

Isha: We don't have an exact age, but judging by her appearance, we can assume she is between 8 and 11.

Sevika: Between 39-41 as of Season 2

Vander: Between 41 and 46, however I'm not entirely sure if Warwick ages the same

Silco: 43-46 at time of death

Sky: ~31 at time of death

Singed: Over the age of 70 according to the Wiki

Ambessa: 60ish years of age

Heimerdinger: As of Act II Season 2, he's roughly 315

Let me know if you want me to add more characters or somethin, I'm a junkie who loves research 😼

Feel free to ask about other fandoms too, any that I've reposted about, probably 😽

[bennetsbonnet]

Just returned from a very long and tiring but absolutely amazing day out where I was lucky enough to see some costumes from Pride and Prejudice (1995) at Sudbury Hall. There was an impressive array on display with lots of historical context included. It was a seriously well done exhibition, with many more costumes than just those belonging to Elizabeth and Mr Darcy as above (I will share them eventually).

It was so surreal but wonderful to stand in front of the costumes that were used to bring my favourite characters to life onscreen. I noticed so many little details that you just can't pick up when you're watching it (even some amusing stains!) and gained a new appreciation for the care that went into crafting each outfit (some were only worn once).

Plus, to see them in the space where they were actually worn, in the house that was used for the interiors of Pemberley (especially the dress in the second picture which was worn by Elizabeth while she played the very same piano mere feet away) just made the entire thing even more special. What a day!

(Please credit me if you repost these pictures anywhere!)

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

A Brief Introduction to Planet Oa

Nestled in the very heart of the cosmos, at the center of Sector 0, the planet of Oa serves as both the homeworld of the Green Lantern Corps and a symbol of order for the universe at large.

Oa is one of the oldest planets in existence. Its parent star, Sto-Oa ("Light of Oa" in the Maltusian language) is a red hypergiant that formed shortly after the Big Bang. There are eleven planets in the star system (five terrestrial, three gas giants and four ice giants) most of which serve as farmland and resource mines.

Oa is the fourth closest to the star, and it takes approximately 574 Earth days to complete one revolution around its star. The planet is actually tidally locked in its orbit, meaning that it does not have a natural day-night cycle.

However, the Guardians of the Universe have constructed a massive ring of solar arrays that slowly revolves around the planet. The shadow cast by this megastructure simulates "night" by blocking out Oa's parent star from the hemisphere that it shines upon, while simultaneously refracting Sto-Oa's light to the far side to create an artificial "day."

(Would it have been more practical to simply force Oa to spin in its orbit? The Guardians are certainly powerful enough to induce planetary rotation. When asked why they chose this as a solution instead, they declined to comment.)

The Guardians chose to set the length of Oa's "day" equal to their ancestral home's, exactly twenty-and-a-half Earth hours. There are no seasons or months, as the planet does not have any natural moons and only has an axial tilt of about 3°, so the Oan year's subdivisions are almost entirely arbitrary and exist purely for the purpose of timekeeping.

It takes 672 Oan days for the planet to complete one orbit around Sto-Oa. The Oan year is based off the old Maltusian calendar and consists of eight months, each of which is twelve weeks long. Coincidentally, the Maltusians also had seven days in a week.

(That the Oan/Maltusian week has the same number of days as Earth's does is merely coincidence, not an indication of any shared cultural history.)

Oa was a barren rock before the Guardians came and terraformed it into a lush oasis with four oceans and nine continents that host a variety of biomes, ranging from polar to tropical to downright toxic for most life-forms. It has the most varied environments of any world, again thanks to the Guardians’ technology. They engineered Oa's biosphere in this way because the planet also serves as a safe haven for species from all across the universe.

(The Green Lanterns seek to preserve every inhabited world, or failing that, evacuate the populations to safety. But they do not always succeed.)

This myriad of environments on Oa is what allowed Appa Ali Apsa to create the Mosaic World. Even in the throes of his insanity, he was able to utilize the extant biomes to house the cities he kidnapped. In most cases however, those who are brought to Oa are refugees who only live on the planet temporarily until the Green Lanterns find a new home for them.

Consequently, the only permanent settlement on Oa is the Emerald Citadel, which is located directly at the center of the starside hemisphere. It's a grand city consisting of enormous skyscrapers that are built to varying scales to accommodate the many body shapes and sizes of the Green Lanterns- as well as any diplomats who come to seek an audience with the Corps or the Guardians. The Central Battery of the Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians' Council Chambers are located here.

Oa has been attacked and even destroyed on multiple occasions. The Green Lantern Corps and the Guardians of the Universe have had many powerful enemies over the centuries, such as the Empire of Tears, the Reach, and various other Lantern groups. Some have questioned the wisdom of maintaining a static headquarters in a known location, even with all the power that the Guardians can bring to bear.

But the value of Oa extends beyond the mere strategic. It is not the nature of the Green Lanterns to hide in the shadows. Their light is as symbolic as it is functional. For all that the Guardians have their skeletons in the closet, the Green Lanterns are the defenders of justice and peace for the universe at large. No evil shall escape their sight, and in turn they will not hide themselves from the sight of those they protect.

Of course their homeworld is the shining jewel at the center of the cosmos.

[anonymousdormhacks]

Whats the opposite of gothic? I'm in love with comp sci anti-gothic where it's just people being surprisingly polite and nice and funny through computers. A program's first lines are always "Hello world!". SMTP protocols apparently say "hello, pleased to meet you" to each other to establish a connection with a handshake. Python has a different version called Andaconda, which has a smaller version called miniconda. C++ is just C continuously improving on itself, because the ++ operator means to add one onto a previous value, and C# is two ++ stacked on top of each other. Lawmakers have to talk about the ethics of saving "cookies" to computers because one guy liked fortune cookies and decided to call them that. The internet itself wasn't created with security in mind because it was just meant to be a way for a group of people who trusted each other using it to send each other information, and so on, and so forth

[did-sm1-say-catfish]

ok turns out i know nothing about spitting distances dont check my search history BUT ive revised

House - as far as god can throw

Chase - probs 15ft or more that fucker can use his mouth

Foreman - either refuses or gives in and does terribly like 2ft

Cameron - like 7ft but only ever into cups

Cuddy - she could probs go a good 5 ft but if you rile her up with a challenge she could spit surprisingly far

Wilson spends the entire spitting competition trying to figure out how house learned to spit so far and avoiding actually contesting but then house like heimlich's him and woo! 13ft!!!

[babygirlificationn]

this 🫴 is a teasmade.

[nightsandreala]

between the

lack of concept art

multiple leftover beta elements/unused animations/unused or nonexistent voice lines

design inconsistency (this man’s cape pattern is different in EVERY PICTURE)

i wonder if jackle was difficult to create/finalize or was the last nightmaren they made

[tankosarus]

Was looking at the original image (in Read More) and had this revelation. (Angelica is the one taking the picture) They would have done this.

[youling-the-ghost]

omg congrats on graduating!! ib is HELL. out of curiosity may i ask what your ee was about? i love hearing people talk about them

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I think the IB may actually be hell on earth like what the actual fuck was the past two years of my life-

I did a computer science EE! the topic is kind of niche so it might take a little extra explaining but basically I analyse different implementations of the hash table (a.k.a. dictionary or hash map).

so hash tables have this thing called a "collision resolution method" which basically prevents the hash table from violently vomitting under specific circumstances. what I do in my EE is take two of these collision resolution methods and compare how they affect the computational time of the resulting program.

I do a theoretical analysis (called "big-o notation") and an experimental analysis with data and graphs, where I write two programs that utilise each collision resolution method and find their computational times. the rest is basically a typical science paper (interpretation of results, limitations + expansions on experiment, conclusion etc.)

there was a lot that I glossed over but that's the basic gist of it!

oh and for my non-IB mutuals, the EE is a 4,000 essay that every IB student is required to write. you get to choose the topic but it must be a research paper, which means reading academic journals and citing sources n all that jazz.

[benevolenterrancy]

alright folks, I'll probably finish SVSSS v4 by this weekend (pray for me) and then I'll be done all of MXTX's books and I have no idea which series to try next... So!! I'm going to pose the question to people that might have more experience in the genre! These are ones I've either incidentally acquired or been recommended

[fishareglorious]

ive been seeing around that it seems like bluepoch is trying to make global catch up to cn and honestly imo i don't want that. being a few patches behind means you could plan things around with saving and deciding who to pull, and i think its more fun anticipating the patches coming to global

[xitty]

Collection of cards which show you locations around Ensemble Square. Only 5* and 4* cards, no 3*s that use the same background art as the homescreen scenes. This is a long post, so putting most of it under cut, please check it out!

Ensemble Square Main Entrance

StarPro office on 20th floor

StarPro office conference area on 20th floor

Reception room on 20th floor

Break room on 19th floor

CosPro office on 18th floor

CosPro office conference area on 18th floor. (Ibara has three 4* cards with this damn white board and a couple of 3*s too lolol)

Soft drink bar on 15th floor

RhythLin office on 12th floor

RhythLin office conference area on 12th floor

Sky Garden on 12th floor outside

Sky Garden on 12th floor outside from another angle

Meeting room on 10th floor

Dance room on 9th floor

Recording room on 8th floor

Band rehearsal room on 8th floor

Vocal practice room on 8th floor (damn 8th floor is crowded, shower room (not pictured) is on there too... wouldn't that have made more sense on the same floor w training or dance room or dojo?)

NewDi office on 7th floor

NewDi office conference area on 7th floor

Infirmary on 7th floor

Dressing room on 6th floor

Prop room on 5th floor

Dojo on 5th floor

Café Cinnamon in the lobby (Niki has cards in the kitchen area too, like his FS2)

Lobby

Garden space on the western side of ES island

Café Cochi on western side of ES island (1st floor)

Staff dining hall (which floor? As seen on Niki's 4* FS1 card and Hinata's 2x2 card, it's somewhere on the higher floors)

Simple studio (which floor?)

Bonus: company car

Notes: there are cards for Heliport on the roof (Neverland Shu, starter Izumi) but you can't see much; Training Room on 15th floor (Mayoi FS2) but can see mostly just floor panels; Café Cochi 2nd floor (Bogie Time Hajime); Stage inside the building (leader Hiiro and Rinne) and corridors and staircase but I had to leave something out.

[blackjackkent]

Stopped for a long rest and got a chat with Gale:

He's humming to himself and examining his own "reflection" in a magically created replica. Rakha stands there for quite a while before he notices she's there.

"Be with you in a moment!"

"What are you doing?" Rakha asks, blunt and questioning as ever.

"Indulging in a spot of vanity," he answers cheerfully. "Handsome devil, aren't I?"

Rakha says nothing. She isn't sure if he's serious. She isn't sure she would notice if he was handsome. People are all a bit strange to her in general at present, and he is one of the stranger ones. And she is certainly not adept enough at conversation yet to offer an inane pleasantry in response.

So she waits in silence, and eventually he clears his throat awkwardly and dismisses the illusion. "Be that as it may..."

He turns to face her. "Ceremorphosis," he says, matching her usual matter-of-fact declarative tone. "What does it make you think of?"

That word again. By far the most elaborate of those she's managed to accumulate so far. It represents death. Failure. Consumption by the illithid hivemind.

"Until recently," she says, in a deadpan with the solidity of titanium, "nothing at all."

It is, astonishingly enough, a joke. Until recently, nothing meant anything at all; the world could have begun two days ago for all she knows. He squints at her for a moment before smiling ruefully.

"Ah yes. The good old days." He lounges back on his heels and begins to tick items off on his fingers. "Day one - fever and memory loss. Day two - hallucinations and greying skin. Day three - hair loss and blood leaking from all orifices. Need I go on?"

(A/N: This is honestly one of the things that I fucking love about liveblogging games like this, and specifically what I'm finding/remembering I love about doing so with the same game multiple times, which I haven't done since Dragon Age Inquisition. It can be really fun to listen even to lines like this, which are the same on any given playthrough, and interpret them through a completely different lens based on the particular OC in question.

With Hector, this line was comedic - fuck no, he did not want Gale to go on. He did not want to know the horrific and gruesome details of the transformation; he was having a hard enough time as it was!

But with Rakha this reads completely differently. This is how I've already established Rakha herself talks - short clipped sentences. Accumulation of facts. Bringing together of details into a picture. And Gale already knows that she wants as many of those details as she can possibly accumulate (and even, potentially, that the reason he is not dead is because he can provide them). This is him offering her exactly what she wants in the way she is best equipped to process it.

And she is all over it. She wants him to go on, absolutely.)

Nod.

"Day four - excruciating pain as the skeleton and organs reform and reposition. Day five - the host's personality has disappeared. Fingers toes and limbs elongate. I take it you get the picture?"

"I do. But you might as well finish the picture."

"Day six - the flesh around the mouth splits to make way for tentacles. Day seven - a mind flayer is born," he finishes with some dramatic relish. Spreading his hands as if to say, you see?, he watches, waiting for her interpretation.

Her eyebrows knit together thoughtfully. It's been two days, as of this evening's rest. She thinks back through what he has just told her. "We should be having a fever by now," she says curtly. "Greying skin even."

He smiles. It's an expression she can't quite interpret, but almost looks impressed, or proud, like a teacher with his student who has solved a difficult problem - and to her surprise, she feels oddly gratified to have answered correctly. "Exactly," he says, pointing a finger at her chest. "Our orifices remain blissfully unbloodied, our heads remain clear, and our blood temperature normal. Any expert will agree - this is abnormal."

She squints at him intently. "Can you explain why the symptoms aren't showing?" she demands.

His smile fades and he shakes his head. "That, alas, is where my knowledge fails me," he admits. "A rogue might call it luck, a priest might call it fate. As for myself, I'm a pragmatic; I see the silence before the storm."

She considers this in silence. Luck, fate... perhaps. Perhaps there is comfort at the idea that this is simply random, or the act of some unseen god.

But she doubts it. She sees neither luck nor fate nor storm. Her companions have all said that the worm is likely not the cause of her memory loss; therefore there was some other player involved, something that put her on that ship with no memory of herself. Something that has seen to it that the worm in her head is shackled, and that the beast has free reign.

That is not fate. That is orchestration. And there is yet someone out there who must pay.

Gale watches her thoughtfully, clearly trying to read what is going on behind her eyes. What conclusion he comes to is equally hidden, though; he just smiles again, unreadably this time. "Something to sleep on," he says. "We should get some rest."

She nods, turns away, trudges towards her bedroll. But she has little expectation of sleep. Not after last night. Not after the sea of nightmares and the litany in her head.

Blood... blood... blood... blood... blood.

[menasors]

How about the Aerialbots (as a collective, or a single character, is fine) and maybe the Constructicons? not sure what you know of the Protectobots and Combaticons, but if you want to do them as a collective, go ahead!

OOOO OKOK. Elaborating more on my reasoning with them because autism brain goes significantly less wild for them than the Stunticons LOL.

I picked Skydive because he's my fav and thus the one I have the most feelings about

Idk when or why but my brain saw him and went "that is a lesbian" and it's just stuck. Hence the transing their gender.

The popular ships is only referring to Aerialbots/each other. I don't know if he has any other popular ships, but shipping him with his brothers feels so wrong to me even when the author/artist doesn't mean it in that way...

Constructicon time

I finally got a bingo!!

I can't tell if autism beam is related to thinking they're all autistic or being autistic about them. Both applied to the Stunticons, but for this one it's more that I see a lot of the constructicons as being autistic more than me being autistic about them. They're a fun bunch, tho, and I do really like them.

I wish, as you said in your bingo about them, that people focused on them as themselves more than them with Prowl... It's so unfortunate how many characters are ignored as characters simply because they're in a popular ship.

I don't actually have much of an opinion on either the Protectobots or Combaticons, and the Protectobots I only really know much about First Aid and Blades, and even then it's very limited information... But Combaticons!! I shall. I used to be obsessed with Onslaught and Brawl because of the manga and video games.

The not getting the hype is for IDW Combaticons. I LOVE them in G1 so much. They're incredible in the manga and games and everything, but IDW them feel so overrated, which also brings me into their popular ships. I don't see them as siblings, so I don't care whether they're shipped together or not, but almost every popular one I've seen of them has felt so random?? Even On/Off (fantastic name but what is going on with them). And also Texaid (I think that's what it's called).

I love all of their designs so so much. They're all so visually appealing, and their colour palettes match as Bruticus SO WELL. They're so fun to draw...

[free-luigi-mangione]

i feel like i need to specify some things here.

y'all gotta stop slandering Luigi about his biology knowledge. he took AP biology courses. he'd mentioned on reddit that he already had prior knowledge of basic molecular biology, cell biology and genetics when he was trying to join a bioinformatics course. i was distinctly impressed by his knowledge of human anatomy while going through his replies on r/spondylolisthesis. i know he could have buffed up on his knowledge of spondylolisthesis specifically, but even if it is so, it was impressive. and honestly, it doesn't feel that way. reading up on a particular issue that you suffer from will most likely give you a kind of surface level knowledge on it but not more. he definitely put in effort to know a lot about his own issues and related issues. OR he just has quite an impressive level of knowledge about human anatomy, which shouldn't be surprising given what we know about him rubbing shoulders with biology courses and being interested in newer biological developments. he's not just a random tech dudebro, he does in fact know biology.