#that i have a lot of. just by. osmosis. so thats why i had to get in to laundry history a few months back ok. i do love a good museum

[beeseverywhen]

laundry and chemistry (starring: coin cleaning chemicals)

so i saw a post on here about laundry stripping and i wanted to try it out as i live somewhere with really hard water and can’t use very strong detergents day to day as i have very sensitive skin, so it seemed like an interesting thing to try and see what happened

(my suspicion is, it will leach the dye and i’ll have to redye the towels but thats no big issue as i kinda feel like a new colour anyway and am gonna make sure i only put the same colours in together during my trial)

anyway so immediately, i read the instructions and know that some adjustments are gonna have to be made, as borax isnt sold here (banned) so i’ll need a substitute for that at the least. the post directed me to use borax, laundry SOAP not detergent, and washing soda

now straight away i know i need to be on my guard here as a lot of stuff like this will have the same name as an american thing, but be a whole different product. (cleaning products are very different here, in part cause of different regulations, but i think a big factor is actually how we clean stuff? american washing machines tend to be a lot bigger, and with toploaders you can soak stuff/have cold cycles which allows you to use laundry bleach which isnt really used so much here) when i visit my family (non us country but american appliances are common) i have a complete nightmare finding like for like laundry stuff i’m not allergic too

anyway, i’m not so worried about allergies here as after the soak i’ll be rewashing anyway. so laundry SOAP i figure they mean plain soap, like castile soap; washing soda, i figure is likely the same as the soda crystals we use for cleaning, which brings me to the borax. now this i know i definitely cant get here, so i find out that i can make a borax substitute from soda crystals and bicarb of soda, as i’m already using the soda crystals, this seems like a good option.

so i go to buy myself some bicarb, and the shop are selling a product called ‘borax subsitute’ so i decide to pick up this and the bicarb and compare the two.

so soda crystals= sodium carbonate

bicarb of soda= sodium bicarbonate

borax substitute? that’s sodium sesquicarbonate

now i’ve got the borax substitute the bicarb seems a little redundant, however. if i’m mixing any kind of chemical i want to make sure i know what i’m going to end up making, and make sure i’m aware of any risks.

leading me on the the chemistry of this all. i find myself on a coin collecting site, where they explain that by mixing sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃) and sodium carbonate (Na₂CO₃) with water i can make sodium sesquicarbonate (Na₃H(CO₃)₂ ) AND CO₂ (so i need to ensure i have good ventilation!)

however i clearly have no need to make my own sodium sesquicarbonate as i have ready made borax substitute. which made me wonder, as i am using sodium sesquiocarbonate rather than borax (sodium tetraborate decahydrate) is the addition of soda crystals (washing soda) (sodium carbonate) now redundant? in fact, why did the original recipe say to mix washing soda and borax, when the washing soda is made of the same components as borax (minus the borate), is there a secondary reaction involved here, or is it a case of overengineering the recipe? and what about the laundry soap? will that react as well?

when i tried to investigate further i stumbled upon sodium percarbonate, otherwise known as oxygenated bleach, and made by mixing soda crystals and hydrogen peroxide. now, while i am willing to risk the dye in the towels somewhat by stripping, i’m not looking to bleach them, so i realise pretty soon that sodium percarbonate is to be avoided

i’m not intending to add any hydrogen peroxide (don’t have any, not very common here), but i do need to make sure that it isnt in any soap that i may use. i know that castille soap is made from olive oil, water, glycerine and potassium hydroxide (lye), so i need to check that mixing the lye and the sodium sesquicarbonate is not going to make anything a) dangerous b) bleaching (like sodium percarbonate). when i tried to research this, i came across a very alarming chemistry forum post in which someone mixed the two, and it lead to a exothermic (hot!) reaction producing a mystery chemical, which they poked??? noting ‘I touched the tip of my finger to it and didn't get any chemical burns.‘ i mean i know this isnt labwork, but have some awareness of health and saftey! don’t tocuh mystery chemicals.

anyway, this reaction turned out to be a one off, likely caused by the soap they’d made containing soy oil, which introduced acid in to the mix, luckily i am not at risk of this as i have a deadly allergy to soy, so no soy oil is in the building. anyway.

by this point i’m really starting to doubt the need for additional detergent, when there is already sodium sesquicarbonate and possibly, washing soda, in the mix. i’m also starting to think that american ‘laundry soap’ is not pure soap as i’d assumed, but maybe something else entirely. looking up american recipes, they all seem to mean something different by laundry soap and some of them are using detergents, honesly i’m still a little unclear on the benefit of combining washing soda and ‘borax substitute’ when washing soda is used to make ‘borax substitute, it seems to me that changing the proprotions of ingredients is unlikely to be helpful (or may be more helpful if it makes something better i guess, but this i doubt) i’ve been hoping i might come across an old web style forum or webpage, where a chemist might explain the benefit of using 3 ingredients rather than one, and explain what is being created when they are all mixed. as i’ve yet to find this, i’ve decided to go with equal amounts of all 3 and then i will experiment with removing one ingredient at a time and comparing the results, in the future.

by comparing the various laundry detergents in my house i have found that they actually vary quite a bit ingredients wise, even tho they are all sensitive non bio detergents, one of them includes optical brighteners including oxygenated bleach, so we will not be using that one with the coloured clothes (funnily enough this is actually the one that i avoid using and only use for rugs and sofa covers and stuff as my skin plays up with it. the other ones don’t seem to have anything major that’ll react with the rest, so lets see

i have also learnt that borate requires hot water to activate it, so the americans i saw using it without hot water, probably arent getting much benefit from it

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

why do u think people r so ashamed of loving danron??

I mean, honestly, there's a lot of reasons, which makes it kind of complicated to tackle. I can list out a few from the top of my head, based on personal experience Feeling the shame and observation of other fans

��The problematic content in the games themselves. People feel embarrassed to like the other parts of the game because of the amount of bigoted moments (and sometimes whole characters) within these games. They don't want people to think they like those parts too, so they couch their appreciation in embarrassment.

•The reputation of the fanbase. On tumblr at least, things have normalized significantly and I find this fandom a very chill place to be. But the danganronpa fandom at its peak (2012-2016ish) was RABID. Like any major tumblr fandom, there was tons of drama, discourse, and toxic fan behaviour, but DR was genuinely on another level. This is especially true because of the young average age of members of the fandom at the time. Even though thats not generally true anymore on tumblr, this fandom still has that reputation to non-fans, and so people don't want to be associated with it.

•Cringe culture. At its peak, the DR fandom on tumblr was made mostly of teens, especially younger teens. I think the earnest way young teens participate in fandom led to it being seen as cringe, just like many other fandoms. Also, even outside of its problematic content, DR's plot can be weird and, frankly, even completely ridiculous. Similar to hom/estuck, I think this esotericness adds to people's kneejerk reaction to it when hearing about it second hand.

•The tendency of tumblr to turn on popular media when the magic is gone. This is something I've noticed with a lot of tumblr's number 1 big fandoms. Once a lot of people's interest in it starts wearing off, for some reason people will pivot to hating it. It happened with T/MA a little, it happened with Und/ertale, it happened with S/U, and so many other fandoms that tumblr went crazy over initially. Maybe its because these fandoms became so vocal they started to annoy those not participating, so they started to meme and make fun of it and its fans. Then, when people start to leave as their interests change, they join in on the teasing to displace the shame they might've felt from being teased. Eventually, people usually turn around and come to appreciate the piece of media casually again. That didn't really happen with DR... probably because of the other three reasons.

DR gained this reputation of being "irredeemable, problematic, cringe media" with a toxic fanbase and never shook it off. Before I played DR, I knew nothing about it except that tumblr hated it, for some reason. I had learned literally nothing else through fandom osmosis! And I think that general feeling, that Good People who like Unproblematic Things* (*requirement of being a good person) would never touch DR with a 10 foot pole outside of to make fun of it, sticks with people.

So when people finally check it out, usually through irony-poisoned letsplays of it, and end up actually liking it, they don't know what to do with themselves. How do you balance genuinely liking this piece of media with the site-wide perception youve grown so used to? With the idea that everyone will hate you if they know you like it, that you are a bad person for even posting about it? And thats how you get everyone's first DR post having a caption essentially communicating "im so sorry for posting about dr- I know its terrible and associating myself with this game makes me look disgusting- people who've followed me up until now, please dont hate me!"

[adorationmajestic]

well. i watched 2001: a space odyssey.

somehow i did not connect the "giant space baby" joke to this movie until i saw it.

but uh. yeah. thats one of the objects on my list of Inspo Via Osmosis that i can cross off and add to the list of Official Inspo. all that's next is to read the Murderbot series and play DBH. which, is not everything ever but this is for fanfic and im not going to spend two years of my life studying the origins of the concepts if im not going to get paid money for the result lol

anyway. this doesn't change the trajectory of the story at all, only helps me develop my personal understanding of the question at hand: Is A574R-10N a person?

This is a really long post because I really got elbow-deep in the Ultimate Trip.

After meeting HAL as a character for the first time in my life, I see the impact he's had on the characters that follow him. I've not read or seen anybody talk about 2001 except to just simply call it important to film history with no elaboration, so everything I'm about to say is just what I've pulled out of my person interpretation.

The theme seems to be, actually, a lot like what I'm looking to encapsulate in my own work. What makes us people?

Because the film starts out with the very beginning. The technical answer. What makes us people and not animals is our ability to use tools (which is something that we've come to learn, since 1968, is false. There are many other specie that use tools. But that's not particularly important). There! Question answered. Except that there's still three quarters of a film left...

There's a time skip of several hundred thousand years (approximate. I forget when the Australopithecus lived. I could look it up but it is literally not important), and we are given a look into what Modern Life looks like for a specific upper class of human being as a bit of background. A baseline for a sense of Normal. Seemingly, we have answered the Question already and no longer need to pursue it.

And THEN we meet HAL 9000. He can think like a person, but so much faster! And he is "foolproof and incapable of error." He might even have emotions; he certainly speaks like he does. So why isn't he a person like us? Well, what about the part where he doesn't have a body? He can't use tools. So he must not be human.

Which is why it's so important that we then see him doing exactly that. Using a tool. In exactly the same manner that the human ancestor did in the first portion of the movie: to defend his life. HAL's life was being threatened, and he killed another in self defense. Is that what makes us human? Maybe not. We're not sure, yet.

Dave is a human, though. We know this for certain, so now let's look at him as our baseline. He sees that his comrade has been murdered, and then he feels afraid and angry. That's very human. He panics, a human response to have. And HAL has none of this, when confronted. HAL is as cool as a cucumber, so maybe that's what makes us human. Our fear. Because HAL doesn't seem to feel that.

And then Dave's life is being threatened, so he uses a tool to kill HAL in self defense. That's not a uniquely human activity, because we just saw HAL doing exactly that. Right?

But what are we suppose to think when HAL begs for his life? Says that he's afraid of dying? Panics? We've just decided that our fear is what makes us human. Maybe HAL was one of us, after all. This is uncomfortable, all of a sudden, and the viewers are forced to sit and watch as HAL slowly dies, talking all the while. Telling us he's afraid, begging Dave to stop and reconsider, and then eventually devolving to some baser child-version of himself before fading away, demented.

So. You have a choice to make here. You can decide HAL was a person, just like you, and that you sat there and watched Dave kill him slowly. Or, you can decide that it's not our fear that makes us human. That would be more comfortable, actually, than accepting that anything that feels fear is capable of feeling what we feel and will hurt when they die. That opens far too many roads of opportunity: how many animals can you think of that feel fear?

So. The decision is made. Fear is not the answer to our question. And in that case, what is?

We look back at Dave, in a series of camera shots that feature him alone in a room. Every time we think, "Oh! Another person!" it's just him again, older and somehow more alone than before. When Dave killed HAL, he became more alone than any person could ever be. All the way out in space, further than any human has ever been, and there's not a single other life on that ship.

He. Is. Alone.

Which makes you think back to every other scene in this movie, looking for any that looked at all similar (because that's something, actually, similar shots appear and reappear constantly throughout to tell you what you need to think back on for relevance). And you can't think of one. Because every time the narrative has told you "Behold! A man!" it has shown you a community. He eats a meal, and you think of all the times someone has eaten on screen: communal meals, even all the way back at the beginning when the ancestors ate raw meat in the badlands they did it together.

Suddenly. It clicks. Community. Alone, at the edge of the universe, Dave isn't really human anymore. But he can look back on the world with new eyes (giant space baby). What makes us people is the presence of others like us. Even when it was just Dave and HAL left on that ship, the both of them were people. They were both afraid together.

I honestly don't know how to close this out. I don't have the spoons to give you a conclusion paragraph. lol.

But! I can tell you that "community" is not the answer I had in store for my own work. This has, in fact, been educational though.

[acaciapines]

Your nanowrimo pieces are soooo goooood they hit so hard fr fr. I’m especially LOVING today’s one with the owl & the collector even tho I don’t rlly know that much abt toh bc I haven’t watched it but I can tell that u LOVE IT & I can’t wait to learn more thru osmosis once the fic is poooosteeeed✨ (i WILL read it i PROMISE i SWEAR)

Anyways give us the thoughts, the tea, tell us how you make the words do that✨ anything u wanna give in regards to today’s bit!! We’re not picky!

Hope y’all are doing okay! Gal says hi :) Remember to eat and drink something, take breaks, and look after yourselves and each other! We love you! This has been a Daily Interaction Ask <3

he he :3 im glad youre enjoying!! its been really fun to pick out my favorite bits even when usually those are the ones w/out context lol. look at my owl and weep boy. firefly <3

YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH VIA OSMOSIS....literally now that im also doing something for s1 its like. why watch owl house we have owl house at home (the owl house at home is a 1 million word daemon au) (<- 1 mil is not a joke btw idk if it'll hit it but itll at least come very close. no idk why i did this.)

as for today! hmmm...

its truly so fun to write the collector. like im not joking about him being my favorite owl house character despite his maybe twenty total minutes of screentime, so its been such a JOY to expand his role in this series!!

bc like. god. actually i think i wrote a whole like. bit of flash fiction/prose poetry type thing for them a while ago. probably in my files somewhere. but just. youre an immortal eight year old. you are in these years where you need to interact with other people for your own mental stability and health. to figure out the whole Being A Person thing. and you are trapped for like, centuries. trapped away from everyone and everything and DUST, which, in universe, in literally connection personified. you're cut off from all of this.

and you are, let me say again, eight years old.

truly the collector is just. hes had everyone he ever cares about leave him--his siblings the other archivists left him behind not out of any sense of cruelty, really, but because caring about people just isnt really a thing they do. quite frankly they live so long they didnt even notice. theyre far-away stars. not far because they're mean. just because thats what stars do.

and then king's dad (who um. doesnt have a name <3 this is why the collector calls him 'the big bully' its literally bc i never gave him a name--) was an adult the collector actually trusted and looked up to (he meshed REALLY WELL into titan society until the archivists started Doing A Murder since titans are the only beings that match them in power and they have very very different ideas about dust). like ive said before the collector is owlbeastkin but before that they never had a super stable sense of identity--in another world where they stayed w/ the titans they wouldve ended up a titan.

and then king's dad just. trapped him in a tablet forever.

and like, to be fair to king's dad he was reacting out of fear and the best knowledge he had (he assumed the collector led the archivists to the titans, and like, he did, but its not like he knew he was doing that, and, you know, poor guy had seen a huge chuck of his fellow titans killed including babies and eggs of which he had an egg to consider), but it still TRAPPED THEM. and then he died and so did all the rest of the titans so nobody could free the collector even if they wanted to.

and then BELOS, who manipulated and lied to the collector for so long and was also literally his only friend after being alone forever, so like, of course the collector just blindly went along with whatever he said. he was gonna free them!! he listened to them when they talked about stardust which nobody else ever did! he had no idea what the fuck a witch was! he just liked being able to see the stardust sometimes, and belos brought him to places with a lot of stardust. to destroy it, but like--you know. it was THERE.

but all these people were just USING them, and they never really understand that until king comes around. and king's also a scared eight year old!! but like. king's also not wrong. the collector did aid belos in destroying the entire isles. like no joke belos SUCCEEDS here. like not long-term obvi this has a happy ending but at the point we're in at for the future? it doesnt matter that the draining spell failed. all the palistrom trees are dead. witch society Cannot come back from that even if they did end up beating the collector. theyre doomed.

anyways what was i saying. collector. right.

so like, then they meet firefly/grr-click-growl/wings-across-night/the owl beast (king of having so many names i love her <3) and shes like, the first person who cares for them and ISNT using them. even king is using them!! but firefly has seen Some Shit. she sees the collector as a hatchling who was kicked out of his nest and is doing her best to be some sort of stable figure for him, but she doesnt Not see the stuff he's done.

the collector took over the world bc he's scared--all he's ever known is being used and trapped so he doesnt exactly trust most people easily. firefly would Love to not be in this world anymore. shes also got a loyalty to eda and king and luzmari. and, like, cool motive, still trapping an entire society of people.

but like. shes the one who is here right now and nobody else is trying to help this kid.

but the collector just. hes just an eight year old. a very, very old eight year old. but he doesnt understand things like "you can make the wrong choices and still choose to do better later" and "im mad at what you did but that doesnt mean i dont care about you."

he just sees someone upset with him. just sees another person who used him and doesnt care and is going to leave bc everyone leaves him and in a world where EVERY SINGLE PERSON comes in pairs, hes the only one who stands alone.

basically tl;dr: collector my beloved <3

[kaladinsspear]

Ooooo!!!!!!

I desperately want to know more about Lightsong!! He just decided to work with Blushweaver in the hopes of softening her agression and shielding Siri. Good job Lightsong, I know you are an honorable man!

I want to know who Larimar was to Lightsong. I'm gonna guess brother, but I really dont know. I feel like he was some sort of family, but student or teacher would also fit.

Lightsong is putting on his detective hat and trying to figure out who broke into Mercystar's palace. It seems like whoever he was before returning, detective work is not new to him.

Have to say, I kind of like Blushweaver. I don't trust her, but I have no reason to think she is evil yet. So far she seems to honestly believe that Idris is a threat to her king and her nation and is responding accordingly. She certainly has selfishly power seeking motives as well, but she doesnt seem on the same level of evil as cutting out a childs tongue and using him like a puppit. She's just your average smart, selfish, and powerful. I can enjoy the character without condoning her actions.

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Oh Vivenna. So many prejudices. I get her point that its all perspective, but come on! I would respect her beliefs if she had a reason for them, but so far it seems like she holds her convictions because thats what she was taught. She believes that breath is a persons soul, but she cannot defend why she believes that and flat out rejects the experiences of people who have lived without breath. She believes that using lifeles is wrong, but she cannot defend why beyond that she believes that a corpse deserves to be put to rest. Forget what the original owner of the body and their family think, Vivenna feels icky about it so it must be wrong.

I'm perfectly ready to believe that using lifeles is wrong and that breath is much more significant than Hallandrens credit it with being, but I'm gonna need some more evidence than Vivennas feelings on the matter. I personally find the lifeless a little uncanny. I'm not ready to accept that they completly lack sentience without question, but I'm withholding judgment until I know more.

I really, really want to like Vivenna, but I'm having a hard time. I think once she breaks out of her conditioning and starts basing her convictions and beliefs on life experience rather than cultural osmosis I'll like her a lot better. For now, she just rubs me the wrong way. I dislike when people make morel judgments that they can't/won't defend.

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Still loving the mercenaries. Would like to know a little more about Jewels!

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No new info on Vasher or Siri. I cant wait to pick up Siri's story line again!!

[nerves-nebula]

wait I legit thought that the rat dad figure being (?) in TMNT was extremely neglectful and that's why the four stick together because they essentially had to raise themselves alone while hiding from the rest of society?

Like that's why they're big on fighting/being strong is because they had to protect each other from whatever dangers might come and try getting rid of them all for being mutants and stuff.

Also thought they grew up in the sewers and had to climb out and steal a few things at night and that's why they dressed up as ninjas originally. So they could steal food/some supplies and like not die of starvation or whatever

(I have not seen any versions of the show and have only a vague understanding of TMNT. It sounds like it's ripe for dysfunctional family dynamics possibly??)

GHAGHAG OK SOOOO THE THING ISSSS THAT I HAVE A LOT OF OPINIONS ON SPLINTER and the nature of abuse/neglect in the tmnt franchise BUT

the thing is that there are a lot of versions of TMNT that I haven't seen, including any original/old versions or comics SO mind you that my opinions here are also mostly crafted through cultural osmosis, and some vague memories of comics/tv shows. the only tmnt show ive watched in its entirety has been the 2018 version (ROTTMNT).

THAT BEING SAID: I don't think its unfair to call most versions of splinter kind of bad parents. theres definitely versions of him that are barely parents at all, really more of a Master figure who teaches the turtles to fight and trains them, than like, a Dad. 2018 is prolly the most Dad like one (they even call him dad and pops and stuff)

the thing is that TMNT can be either incredibly lighthearted or really really angst-y. They do live in the sewers cause they can't usually live above ground with people, but this really ranges from "all humans hate and fear them and will attack them on sight" to "they just need to stay in the shadows and make sure they dont spook anybody" and sometimes it barely matters at all and people are just like "wow cool costumes guys"

and so in those lighthearted versions, while splinter might not be portrayed as a really cool great dad, he is usually a really cool great NINJA MASTER. so any kind of symptoms of neglect that could come from not being raised by PARENTS is usually forgotten/hand waved because who needs parents when you have your brothers??? COwabunGA lets go eat pizza :)

and thats FINE thats the tone they're going for its ok, even if logically it would be an emotional nightmare. this is a show about teenage mutant ninja turtles its ok to not be logical.

im actually not sure why they're ninjas, apart from Master Splinter training them to BE ninjas. though there are definitely versions where they're being hunted/seen as threats and that's why they need to Get Good at fighting.

so to recap: splinter isn't always portrayed as a good person or a good guardian, but usually the story doesn't really delve into that or frame it as abuse/neglect. sometimes he's "too harsh" or "too cold" but usually nothing deeper than that.

WHICH BRINGS US TO RISE OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, the 2018 version that ive watched all of.

THE THING ABOUT ROTTMNT is that they made me uncomfortable by making jokes about splinter being a neglectful shitty dad, which i made a whole post about a while ago. and while they did make him a better dad LATER on it really really weirded me out how his neglect wasn't super focused on except for like. one or two episodes??

the thing is that splinter needs to be neglectful so that the boys can go out and have adventures and I GET THAT I REALLY DO as a storyteller some things just need to be hand-waved I GET IT. BUT. why draw attention to it if you dont plan on there being long term affects???

the only result seems to be that he Becomes a Better Dad but I can tell you first hand if my parents did a turn around like that it would NOT fix everything and I GUESS i'm just weirdly disappointed that they pointed out the neglect, made jokes about it, and then didn't reallyyyy go into it more. I mean im sure if I wanted to I could go into analysis mode and be like "well these character arcs could point to the ways neglect has effected them" but to be HONEST that'd probably be more me projecting than anything else.

AND LIKE. if they didn't want to discuss neglect why even bring it up???

and your point about it being a set up ripe for familial abuse/dysfunction is TRUE, but is also hardly ever the focus of the story. sure the stories focus on interpersonal issues, but its almost never framed through the lens of "these kids are being neglected" or "the reason they're having interpersonal issues because of the neglect they suffer" because well. that's just not very cowabunga. that's not very Kids Show. why not just have Raph and Leo fight over being the leader or again or something that's still a conflict but its less existentially draining.

and like MAYBE there's a version out there, some obscure comic run or something, that addresses all these issues and gives me the catharsis I crave BUT UNTIL THEN I will continue redrawing childhood memories of my shitty family superimposed onto TMNT characters.

SORRY for this huge, loosely jumbled together ramble but you activated my tmnt abuse/neglect fixation trap card

[hrtmonitor]

i just beat FF9 and went to FF7 and thats probably the reason why, but FF7 seems to have aged really poorly by comparison despite being more populer at time of release. it just has a LOT of sections so far where its very unclear what to do and where to go next, and when you finally figure it out it demands you go grind for money to make progress or play some obtuse and poorly thought out mini game. also the materia system seems interesting at first but imo it kinda enables all the characters to do the same things and thus they end up feeling kinda samey mechanically outside of limit breaks, but even a lot of those are just "do damage with extra steps"

im only like 16 hours in and havent had to switch discs yet, so maybe it gets better around there, god knows the first disc swap was where i started to get really invested in ff9, but it only really took me 10 hours to get there so i feel like it shouldve happened already

plus the fact that ive gotten a good amount of the vibes already from cultural osmosis may be making it a bit less exciting

[army-of-bee-assassins]

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#kim was a child of the revolution. he has faced racial discrimination from birth#even in a position of authority he still encounters overt racism on the clock#but he has also killed. it's implied that most of his kill count came from his time working with juveniles#he defends a police force that is corrupt and does jackshit- a tool of the coalition#the same coalition that was likely responsible for the death of both his parents#he also claims to be moralist and yet there are times where he takes what are decidedly un-moralist stances#there is just so much there.

#prev tags#to reduce him to ‘the good cop’ is SO HRJFNFN#this guy is extremely trigger happy and painfully aware of it#yet still unable to stop the urge#hes devoted to the rcm to the point of wanting harry to like him so badly#and wanting harry to trust him so badly#and wanting to trust HARRY so badly despite how clearly hes In the Shit at that point#the rcm - an institution that is so corrupt#that corruption of which he has SEEN & experienced#and that isnt even the end of it

#that or they settle on calling him cold and cruel and boring without actually looking at why he might be the way he is#its like they play the game with their eyes closed#i also think a solid amount of people like that have just tried to experience him through fandom osmosis#which is obviously a huge disservice to his nuance

#honestly i think a lot of people just make up a Kim in their mind instead of engaging with the Kim in the game #a lot of times I do see people looking at Kim how HARRY looks at Kim #not taking into account the very skewed perspective #Kim is complex just like everyone else in the game #yknow in the game thats all about complexities skdnff #ALSO! I think there is a big part of Kim that gets passed over by white fans because they cannot relate to his very specific upbringing #which is that he is a Seol man who lost his connections to his heritage and grew up in a city where he wanted to fit in #that very specific experience of trying to shed your ethnicity in order to 'be accepted' #but you never can because it is LITERALLY something you cannot hide #combined with not actually having the connections to your actual background for you to try and connect to anyway #leaves him in a very strange position #one that colors EVERYTHING he does #and that very VERY specific part of him is not often factored in #and as someone who is native who grew up in a white home and thus had to claw to get connected to my heritage #left in a limbo of not fitting into either world not really #Kim just #idk how to put it but i very much find him fascinating #he makes me sad because of the way he chose to have power in his life when he felt powerless for so long as a youth #him turning to the RCM was the biggest mistake #but i see why he did it #disco elysium

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i think kim is just as complex of a character as harry, but i think for a good amount of players (not all, but a chunk) choose to unflinchingly characterize him as “the Good Cop” and leave it at that.

[dizzeeflower]

I guarantee you there is one manifestation of disability that almost everyone on this planet has actively laughed at and made fun of. yes, even you

can you guess what it is?

it's something there are constant gags about in media, something people mention in passing as a joke

something that if it presented itself in a public space i guarantee in most situations would be openly and loudly mocked (and if not humour, most people would at least express disgust)

don't believe me, do you?

✨ incontinence ✨

yep, it's incontinence. (get your giggles out now folks)

I am partially incontinent due to a fun cocktail of mental and physical disabilities and i know for a fact this is where people will stop reading, have a little laugh, and move on thinking this isn't worth the read anymore

but please, if you want to be a true disability ally, stick around and listen.

5% of the world population is estimated to be incontinent to some degree. 1 in 20 people (and no, that is not just elderly people)

so yea when you're in the grocery store, or at the gay bar, or seeing your college theatre's rendition of Grease - chances are there's a good handful of people in the crowd who struggle with incontinence.

it might be just someone who has minimal stress incontinence - something very common in people who have been pregnant - or someone who has adhd and forgets to go to the bathroom, missing the cues from their body that they are desperate, or yea it could be the 85 yr old grandma who wears diapers.

the point is, all of these people deserve respect for their bodies. everyone does. and this includes bodies that malfunction sometimes.

'omg thats so funny im gonna pee myself' 'reddit boys can go piss in ur little baby diapers' - great comeback bestie, but can we move on from them now? im gonna be honest these don't offend me personally, but it's worth being aware of where the humour of these comments comes from. its rooted in ableism

but something that does offend me and something that genuinely triggers me to have panic attacks and can push me into an anxious depressive state for days at a time, is when a character wetting themself is used as the butt of a joke on screen.

i'm thinking season one of stranger things. yeah, most of us know the scene right? when eleven forces a bully to pee his pants in front of the whole school? yep, triggers my ptsd right good that one does. and my siblings ptsd. and im sure many many many more ppl with incontinence (or even ppl without it who had the unfortunate experience of an accident in school)

if you found it funny, i dont care at this point. keep doing you. i dont blame you, okay? but i just want to ask that you reconsider WHY you laughed. 'because he pissed himself' okay but WHY is that funny? 'older kids and adults arent supposed to piss themselves' yea well it happens sometimes to most people at least once, and to 1 in 20 people much more often than that. so WHY is that funny?

keep asking why why why... and if in the end you can't think of WHY, then maybe there isnt a reason for you to laugh at it except that you've been taught to by osmosis. because everyone else laughs

dont give up here, because this is where i want you to really think. is it worth it?

is it worth laughing at something just because everyone else is, and risk 5% of the population going into a self conscious spiral, a panic attack because of your mocking, making them think they will never be accepted?

obviously u making a "im gonna piss myself" comment while laughing does not put 1 in 20 ppl into a panic attack, but u get where im coming from now i hope

so if you're still reading, im guessing you want to reconsider some of your behaviours and comments about this subject. thank you! now that you've realised where these jokes are rooted, you're going to start noticing a lot more often just how much this disability is mocked in society.

but what else can you do to help?

consider sticking up for us because understandably incontinent people dont tend to stick up for themselves lest it out us as incontinent. because admitting that is still met with laughter and disgust. help us jumpstart the incontinence acceptance by speaking up for the silent minority whenever an incontinence joke comes up in class/family gatherings/general conversation (this is my opinion, any other incontinent folks are v welcome to challenge this if u would rather ppl didnt for whatever reason!)

another thing you can do is - you won't like this - dont call ppl disgusting for buying adult diapers with silly animal characters on. unpopular opinion here on tumblr dot com, i know

but listen: incontinence products are disability aids! pullups, incontinence pads/pants, adult diapers, these are all disability aids. not products of k!nk, not things to snigger at in the pharmacy.

and would you complain about someone putting hello kitty stickers on their walking cane? would you think it gross for someone to doodle little stars and affirmations on their wheelchair armrest? is it wrong if someone wants pink hearing aids instead of a nude coloured ones? no?

then don't laugh if someone wants lil hearts on their pullups, and don't fake gag if you happen to see purple patterned adult diapers on ur dash. sometimes humans just like to decorate their bodies and extensions of their bodies. this is just that. and lets be real, plain white nappies just aren't the vibe sometimes

~ while we're at it, ppl with stoma bags are beautiful and deserve to wear whatever they want to feel comfortable and handsome as hell 😘 ~

and let me address the elephant in the room. yeah, some people have a f3tish for this stuff (just like anything can be made into a f3tish). whatever. if ur against that stuff then idc pls dont talk abt it in the tags and comments. anyway it is NOT an excuse to find actual disabled ppl disgusting for needing these aids.

and heres the funny thing: you usually can't tell if someone uses diapers for a f3tish or for their disability, or possibly both!

so you're gonna have to not attack random ppl on the internet bc you don't know what their life is like (what a shocking new hot take)

if a 46 yr old balding man with a beer belly and chest hair who isn't visibly disabled mentions he uses diapers, don't assume he's a creep and its a k!nk. it might be, sure, but it might be a condition or disability that you have no right to comment on or judge him for.

so if youre squicked by it just block and move on, don't send anon hate, dont make a post about how these types of people make you sick. you might just lose a valued mutual who was secretly incontinent and thinks you hate them for it now (whether this is right or wrong, its often how these things come across)

(btw if anyone fuckin talks abt k!nk on this post im going to scream directly in ur ear :) make ur own posts and don't bring any f3tish discussion onto mine)

had to get that out of the way unfortunately because this is a condition that is so unfortunately overrepresented by the f3tish side. i wouldnt have to talk abt k!nk on many other posts about disabilty aids but this one unfortunately was necessary

it's exhausting

imagine having a disability that requires aids thats almost EVERYONE winces at, laughs at, mocks loudly. and then to come on tumblr, the place that is meant to be full of acceptance from strangers in similar circumstances, queer and disabled and poc - but the moment your aid is brought up in discussion its seen as something disgusting and the property of freaks and creeps and people who are evil and want to do children harm

it's exhausting, like i said

i dont have much else to add honestly, im shit at writing cohesive posts (especially when im physically shaking with anxiety bc woohoo announcing to possibly thousands of ppl that im incontinent) but if anything i just hope you will question yourself if you laugh at this stuff in future

im going to go back into my little anxiety hibernation hole and never open up about this condition again ✌🏼

as for the incontinent population, we’re pretty silent about this condition so it’s easy to forget abt us. but please just keep us in mind and stick up for us when u can

— for clarity: incontinence is not ALWAYS a disability, it is a condition that can affect ppl on a sliding scale. for some it is a mild inconvenience, for some it severely impacts daily life. for some it is the only physical condition their body experiences, for some it is a symptom of a predetermined mental or physical disability such as generalized anxiety disorder or paraplegia. whether or not it is considered a disability, acceptance of ALL incontinence is a good step to eradicating this source of ableism —

no one has to reblog this but pls consider it if this has opened ur eyes a lil and u wanna open some more

[desitenya]

ok hiiii. so after osmosis learning some info about kuusuke i have a few thoughts about him meeting touma. the reason why akechi is such an interesting person to have him interact with, is because not only is he incredibly smart, he’s bested kusuo a few times which is something kuusuke’s unable to do.

first thing, what would be their impressions of each other excluding the part where kusuo factors in. not really much to go off on considering touma mentions knowing about kuusuke for one panel and thats it, but in psi battle there was an event story where they did interact. heres where you can read The Strongest Young Psychic part im referencing. > actually just go check out the psi battle translations.

first impression is that, honestly they’re matching the same rhythm. touma was excited to see them fight even though he’s sure kusuo would win. even with touma’s inclusion, the battle was still for the most part kusuo v kuusuke. kuusuke didnt get to see any of touma’s abilities through the ep, and probably only remembers touma as that kid who just hung around his little brother that one time. touma on the other hand knows of kuusuke’s accomplishments.

no idea what he was planning there but he seemed confident about their interaction. ALSO speaking of confidence, in the psibattle ep, he says himself that kuusuke beating kusuo in this challenge would be a one in a million chance, compared to him being confident in his own challenges with kusuo. kuusuke doesnt keep tabs on all his friends considering he didnt even know who toritsuka was until laaate series, so its entirely possible he slipped under the radar as well. however, if he DID manage to find out how smart he was from most likely a challenge proposed by touma, its no doubt he’d be hella surprised by how hard it is to fight him.

even with taking psi battle quotes with a grain of salt, though his AI tried to basically “take him out”, he still has a favorable outlook on him (he does still destroy the AI or whatever). he’d probably view whatever contest he had with touma as a fluke. that one in a million chance that was mentioned earlier, but even so, he’d keep him in mind. and if akechi does continue to beat him, i think he’d still hold on to the whole “im a human everyone else are ants” way of thinking lol. that would completely change if he heard about why touma knows about kusuo’s powers.

no way he assumes touma found this out on his own. he probably thought kusuo went soft and decided to tell his old friend about his powers to resolve some old questions. of the two contests touma had with kusuo (other being horse betting), THIS one would be the one that catches his eye. mainly because that was similar in nature to kuusuke’s other contests. there isnt any denying that kusuo was literally cornered here. the only way he could give touma less credit was to say that kusuo basically gave up and even then, there’s no way kuusuke could think that. i explained why on another post.

he’s basically trapped between a rock and a hard place. does he accept that some one beat the one person who he’s put on a pedestal for most his life OR does he accept he’s cornered that same person into giving up.

beyond this, there's not much to go off of. the closest thing was how kuusuke’s world was “shattered” at 2 or 3 or whatever when kusuo first beat him. its also likely he gets pissed since thats like, the only other emotion we see him express lol. how he expresses that... idk. but i feel like he’s gonna pop up in touma’s life a lot more now since he’s kinda took an axe to his world view.

[cainightfics]

have you seen the new batman movie? I saw a lot of parallels between the riddler and batman with tyrell and elliot and I want to know if you saw it too. feel free to ignore this message if you have genuinely no interest in batman that is totally fine lmfao, it's just that you always have really well thought out and interesting responses to your anon messages and I was wondering your thoughts on this if you had any!

thanks for the ask! i actually havent seen the new batman movie, but i feel like ive absorbed lots of info about it via cultural osmosis, so im gonna take a crack at this anyway, lol. please correct me if im off base here.

batman in general is kind of similar to elliot, although their worldviews are very different... batman is a vigilante who hunts down criminals under an anonymous alias because of childhood trauma, and elliot is the same. the difference is that elliot acknowledges more openly that he himself is also a criminal, lol, and his sense of morality isnt as black and white. despite being the protagonist, elliot isnt always particularly heroic. for example, its hard for me to imagine batman doing to anyone what elliot did to olivia. elliot is a huge believer in "the ends justify the means," to the point where by season 4, he begins to view peoples livelihoods as collateral damage in his mission. to elliot, anyone who works for "bad people" is essentially fair game -- hence why he so easily frames colby in s1e1, or sacrifices price in s4e9, or tries to cope with angelas death by convincing himself that when she began working for whiterose, the "real angela" essentially died, and dark army angela took over as some brainwashed imposter.

i think that like batman, elliots heroic deeds are often somewhat washed out by his more questionable choices. both elliot and batman have fallen so completely into their vigilante "second life" that these personas (superhero and hacker) have become their whole identities. obviously, with elliot, this is taken to the most extreme end possible, as we find out in s4 that elliot/mastermind is an alter created entirely to act out these vengeful, heroic fantasies host!elliot had. identity and morality are big themes for both batman and elliot.

in terms of tyrell and the riddler, i think the big tie-in is the theme of spectacle!! elliots vigilanteism is quiet and he revels in anonymity, whereas tyrell is narcissistic and genuinely sees himself and elliot as superior to regular humans. tyrell is very preoccupied with how other people see him, but ESPECIALLY with how elliot sees him. like mr robot says in s1e5, tyrell "cares what [elliot] thinks about him," and thats his biggest flaw. tyrell WANTS to be noticed. i think this is really emphasized with how elliot is framed in scenes with tyrell... take this one, for example. both elliot and tyrell are framed in the centre, with the camera angled slightly above elliots head, as though hes looking down on tyrell.

now lets contrast that with another scene where tyrells obsession with power manifests again, this time with the e corp building looking down on him from above, and him clearly feeling the weight of his own inferiority:

elliot is often framed in the position of the observer AND the superior party, even in situations where (seemingly) tyrell has the upper hand. in the conference room scene, for example, despite having been kidnapped and brought to this scary place with all these lawyers threatening him, elliot has the upper hand-- tyrell can intimidate him all he wants, but he still NEEDS elliot to say yes to his job offer, because its him who desperately wants elliot to work with him. tyrell is obsessed with getting elliots attention and approval -- think, also, of his preoccupation in s3e3 with having his suit when he goes to see elliot. "i have to look my best for him" are definitely the words of somebody whos trying too hard, lol.

the riddler is the same way. he requires batmans participation and attention, because without it, its no fun. villains only exist because they have heroes to fight them. in batman 2022, batman seems to quite literally ruin the riddlers plans simply by refusing to participate:

Batman: You think you'll be remembered? You're a pathetic psychopath, begging for attention.

The Riddler: No.

Batman: You're gonna die alone in Arkham.

The Riddler: No. No, no, no!

Batman: A nobody!

The Riddler: NO! AHHHHH! This is not how this was supposed to go! Ahhhhh! I had it all planned out! We were gonna be safe here. We could watch the whole thing together.

i would say the difference between tyrell and the riddler is that tyrell really does not seem to have a cause. i think the reason why its easier to sympathize with tyrell than other antagonists in mr robot is because hes just so damn pathetic. his obsession with attention and impressing people and being special precipitates his own downfall and makes him easily manipulated, dependent, and miserable. at least the riddler has some ideological underpinning to his actions (he wants to expose corruption in gotham) and that appears to attract followers to his cause. tyrell, however, is extremely uninspiring, because most of what we see him do is either 1) what somebody else told him to do (joanna, irving, mr robot, etc) or 2) the result of an impulsive temper tantrum (murdering sharon knowles immediately comes to mind). tyrell will never be a genuine revolutionary, because he just doesnt care. his core belief is that "power belongs to the people that take it," and this winds up being hilariously ironic, given that hes so easily controlled by others.

anyways, hopefully that was a decent answer lol. thanks for the ask, i do have loads of fun answering them!

[lavellane]

💙🧺👀💎✈️☔️💧 for miss triss !!!

thank u miss maia MWAH

💙— how do they say/show that they miss their partner?

i wanna say "draping herself over ava's furniture and whining softly" NFJFJDNFFN and honestly its not that far off. triss has been known to pine, on occasion. usually subtle tho, lots of little absent minded touches to the shoulder/waist/hands, standing closer than she normally would so she can soak up the attention thru osmosis rather than ask for it directly lmao

🧺— random domestic headcanon

oh she's definitely a borderline horder ❤ growing up without rebecca meant she didnt rly have anyone around to like. beg for toys or Items as children often do lol, so her personal possessions were fairly sparse until her teen years. as a result she rly doesnt show any restraint when it comes to buying the dumbest knick knack decor imaginable as a sort of balm for feeling so lonely? im talking like..... garage sale figurines of 1970s soviet russian children's cartoons, a kettle shaped like a garden gnome, the tackiest b-rated horror movie rip-off merch she can find ..... thankfully she never got into online shopping so most of the stuff she buys is limited to what she can find in the wild lmao.

👀— what’s their favorite body part on themselves? on their partner?

on herself??? hm. if not her smile, then probably her arms ! she worked hard on those sleeve tattoos damn it. on ava i was going to say arms as well BUT i think thats just me projecting t b h lol. so probably her stomach/chest ! she runs her hand down ava's torso and suddenly feels transported into the body of a virgin Y/N maiden in a 19th century high romance smut novella 😌 as she deserves !

💎— do they like to tease?

yes. incurably so. annoyingly so ❤

✈️— how far will they go in public?

not far enough to like. be arrested lol fbdjdjd she's mostly considerate of the people she's around who um dont wanna see that shit. but she's very pda friendly by default and did get a little (a lot) crazy back when she was living/partying in new york...... but ya it also rly depends on the person and their comfort/limits. with bobby – who's even more obnoxiously pda than she is – they were rly unbareable to be around in public lol. but that was bc bobby was ok with it. with ava she would be respectful of her boundaries and personal space no questions asked and no judgement. and i think despite being down to clown she'd be pleasantly surprised by a more lowkey relationship. triss has dated a lot but hasnt had much experience with intimacy/vulnerability so. that would be nice !

☔️— what are they like when they’re emotional? how quickly do they recover?

triss recovers pretty quick, mostly because she hates burdening people with her low moods. she likes to keep a happy/nonchalant façade no matter what, even if its a detriment to her actual state of mind at the time lol. when she's sad she tends to isolate herself so ppl cant ask what's wrong, and if she can't do that she'll just crack jokes until she sounds convincing enough that they stop worrying

💧— random angst headcanon

hm. triss had a drug problem prior to returning to wayhaven (it's why she left university and returned home in the first place). she's clean now but it's still a daily battle. even around unit bravo, when she gets in a bad place mentally it's hard to dismiss the urge to take off again and get back into old habits.

[mookybear12404]

OKAY i have never watched any of the Vox Machina episodes but i’ve watched like 20 episodes of the Mighty Nein and I’ve absorbed stuff via tumblr fandom osmosis so im going to try and explain the characters as best i can

first off there’s a pair of twins named vex and vax. They’re both sassy half-elves.  both of them think they are the older sibling. I for the life of my cannot tell which one is which so im just going to call them boy twin and girl twin

boy twin is VERY hot and also edgy. theres also something with him and ravens. I think he’s part raven or something? theres also a meme where he yells “DAGGER DAGGER DAGGER”. Im pretty sure he dies at the end of the story.

girl twin is very pretty and calls everyone “darling”. badass of the group and uses a bow. 

Then there’s the white hair dude percy whose actual name is incredibly long. i feel like i know the most about him because he’s the fandom’s favorite. he has a really dark backstory and wants to get revenge on some people. also he invented guns and has a really strong steampunk vibe going to him. i think he’s also possessed by a demon or something? i think at some point he wears a mask and turns on his friends? the fandom calls him “no mercy percy” for some reason. also he has a romance with girl twin and ends up getting married to her. I think at some point the boy twin beats him up for flirting with his sister. he dies at some point and its really sad but he gets better so its okay

Theres also a red haired druid girl that i think has a romance with boy twin?? people either seem to think she is really boring or are obsessed with her. i know that there is some point in the story where she tries to see how tall a cliff is by jumping off of it and straight up dies. 

Theres a goliath barbarian named Grog who is the absolute definition of himbo. He is really huge, dumb as hell, and yet very kind, (when he’s not ripping people in half). also he is best friends with the gnome bard and does anything he says

then theres a gnome bard dude named scalath or something? basically he’s just the stereotypical horny bard.

also theres a white haired halfing girl named pike with lots of armor that i wouldn’t have even known existed if i hadn’t been curious to who Ashley played in the first campaign. Why does nobody talk about her??? she seems like a cinnamon roll 

also theres a bear. a whole ass bear. not a magical bear or anything but just a normal bear. Why is it on the team??? why has it not eaten any of them??? i have no idea 

ALSO I SWEAR TO YOU THERES A RED DRAGONBORN. I DON’T KNOW ITS NAME BUT I KNOW HE EXISTS. i have no idea why ive never seen anyone talk about him but im pretty sure he was in the comic book?? I think he was Talisen’s character before he had percy? maybe he died early on and thats why nobody talks about him?? 

[ilu-writes]

Tyrant’s Tomb Predictions

I almost forgot that the next TOA book is coming out tomorrow (today, technically, for me) but I want to get in some of my predictions before it does so I can compare them. Also, I haven’t read any of the promo stuff, but I have absorbed some information via osmosis from my dash. 

Frank Zhang won’t die. yes, I know they said his firewood would burn up, and that’s why they had the whole bucket list... but what kind of writer spoils that stuff before the books even come out? Nah, if Frank’s firewood does burn up, there’s going to be some kind of subversion of the curse. Maybe he’ll just lose his shapeshifting ability? Maybe Hazel will save him? Who knows. (also, i want to say I don’t think Rick will kill another member of the seven, but. who knows.)

Nico will appear again. Part of that’s wishful thinking, but also... his sister is definitely in the book, and we know he loves Hazel. Him taking a trip to see her definitely isn’t out of the question. Plus, he’s the first link between the two camps. Makes sense that he takes the ex-greek god there. ALSO it would be a nice mirror to Apollo being the one to take Nico to CHB in the first place. 

will could also appear, or at least be mentioned, since. y’know. nico’s bf. 

Reyna/Lester... wont be a thing. I know it’s implied he’s attracted to her, and like i said, i haven’t read the snippet (i believe he compares her to a goddess?) but honestly? How many people has he already been attracted to in the series? I don’t think anything will come of it. I do think Aphrodites prophecy/destiny thing will be addressed, and unfortunately, i get why in light of it reyna/apollo seems like it could happen. but... i dont think it will. I think by the end of the series, Apollo will be a god again (albeit a more humble one), and the relationship wouldn’t make sense.

On the topic, there’ll be a RARA joke in there. At least one. 

More seriously, we’ll get to see Hylla (and by extension the Amazons) again. partially because of the sibling thing, but mostly because Hylla is also a child of Bellona, so it kind of makes sense to introduce her, given the prophecy. 

The soundless god could be harpocrates, since he’s the literal god of silence (and secrets, which could be relevant), but i’m not too sure. I’ve seen suggestions of Dea Tacita, especially thanks to her connections to the Lares, which would be cool. I know Calypso would sometimes be referred to as a deity of silence, but sadly, i dont think she’ll be returning, at least not in that capacity. It could be a god who was recently silenced, maybe another god I know Bellona has been associated with Mars, and that would line up with Frank, which could be cool. Or it could be artemis, since we know she isn’t allowed to contact apollo and can only help from afar, thus making her ‘soundless’

another theory i came up with while writing this and now desperately want: it could be hestia, who’s soundless because she doesn’t have a voice on the council. Especially since she hasn’t appeared yet in the series, even though a lot of it took place at CHB and we know she tends the hearth there a lot. i want this. 

iirc, Julius Caesar was deified after his death. He was also supposedly a child of Venus. And part of the first triumvirate. I’m pretty sure he’ll appear in some form. He could be the one who’s ‘even worse’ than the other emperors, but he never had a tomb. 

On that point - Augustus Caesar, Julius’ nephew (?) did have a tomb dedicated to himself, was an emperor, and formed the second triumvirate. He was also stated to have joined the roman pantheon on his death. As much as I want hestia... i feel like he’s going to be the soundless god. 

percy and annabeth might make a small appearance, at least as a cameo, because they’re meant to be studying in New Rome, and obviously, thats were at least some of the book takes place. 

And, yeah, those are the ones i can think of right now. Feel free to add: I’m curious as to other peoples predictions! I’m hoping to have the book by the end of the week. 

[flockofdoves]

hxh and/or fma (for the anime ask meme)

hxh

haven’t heard of it | absolutely never watching| might watch | currently watching| dropped| hated it | meh| a positive okay| liked it| liked it a lot!| loved it| a favorite

don’t watch period| drop if not interested within 2-3 episodes| give it a go, could be your thing| 5 star recommendation

fav characters: i love all the main 4 but definitely gravitate a lot to kurapika!! for more minor characters theres so many but i love knuckle bine a lot dfkjghdfk. also i love alluka and nanika so much my daughters

least fav characters: hisoka, also palm like while i want hisoka to die i Guess i can appreciate his aesthetic far away from gon and killua and also like . i guess he can be an example of how unaccommodating towards kids hxh’s freak ancap society can be but palm just being a pedophile but played for laughs but also theres weird misogyny and ableism in her characterization and then all of a sudden we’re just gonna forget all that and she’s cool now?????? hewwo??????? i would prefer hxh if she did not exist or if a palm siberia that looked similar (again a nice aesthetic) but was entirely not the same character. like . what was gained from this oh my god.

fav relationship: gon and killua!!!!! ofc i love leorio and kurapika too but killua and gon is so blatant and i feel it could literally happen or at least just . they just Are each others first loves and they make me emotional in so many ways. non romantically just the found family in the main 4 and also killua and alluka and then killua coming to love and understand nanika too through alluka caring for her…. oh my god…. Siblings….

fav moment: omg uhhhh theres a lot?? a big one that immediately comes to mind tho is killua pulling out illumis needle ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

headcanons/theories: i think we should find a way to synthesize both the fantheory that gon was born as some . homunculus thing from the greed island pregnancy stone and the one that pariston and ging fucked and pariston is gon’s other parent for the most distressing gon origin story

unpopular opinion: i know i have some but i don’t remember atm i’ve already rambled way too much rn

how’d you find it: i literally don’t remember i gotta think about this tbh i’ve been into hxh since i was like 14?? like yeah everyone whos ever been into anime has at least heard of hxh in passing but i feel like there wass some specific prompting for me getting into it that i can’t remember anymore. almost don’t want to remember because theres a high chance it was bc of some people i get sad thinking about now but out of all the people i was around back then fortunately i think it seems most likely i got into it bc of one of the few people i still care for among the people i hung out around as a young teen

random thoughts: i’m a fake fan i’m still not caught up with the manga i love it so much but i’ve barely read any manga i care about these past couple years i just know what people are talking about through osmosis nowadays i REALLY wanna legit catch up !!!!!

fma

haven’t heard of it | absolutely never watching| might watch | currently watching| dropped| hated it | meh| a positive okay| liked it| liked it a lot!| loved it| a favorite

don’t watch period| drop if not interested within 2-3 episodes| give it a go, could be your thing| 5 star recommendation

my bolds make no sense on this one and thats because i’m a fake!!!!! i was absolutely obsessed with fmab as a tween and watched almost all of it but then netflix didnt have the last season and that was when i was dumb and the only thing i ever pirated was glee on megavideo so me and my brother watched the last season by recording it when it was airing on adult swim and i know i got so close to the end but like somewhere towards the last few episodes i’m assuming (??) my brother watched it when i wasn’t home and then my parents deleted the recording before i could watch it and then i just???????? never watched it??????

so tl;dr i watched the vast majority of fmab (and started the manga) as a tween but like. never finished it and i was in love with it then but its been so long now i don’t trust my opinions to be very accurate about it.

i really really want to actually finish it some day!!! but at this point i feel like i should just restart so thats why i keep putting it off bc thats gonna take some dedication when i barely finish shorter things even anymore

so. disclaimer the following is very much filtered through me as a 13 year old and my memories from that plus how friends who love it have influenced me since fdjkghdfkj

fav characters: back then al was my favorite character and i had a crush on izumi curtis dkfjghkdf and then i always loved scar but now i feel he’d def be my fav

least fav characters: i had dumb opinions about this back then i’m sure. i think now i’d probably dislike roy even tho i used to like him. i dont remember enough to say more

fav relationship: i wasn’t big on ships watching it as a kid but i appreciated winry and ed idk. in retrospect and from fanwork friends share i think ed and ling seems like a lot of fun?? oh wait who was that one other mechanic girl i think i shipped her with winry very casually back then??? (edit: ig she wasnt a mechanic i got confused bc she showed winry who made her automail but i meant paninya!!!) but in retrospect i stayed away from fanworks bc they made me uncomfortable with all the gross shit but i didn’t think i was justified in feeling like that :(

fav moment: back then i thought the reveal of some of the people who ended up being homunculuses was so Epic but idk now

headcanons/theories: idk enough!!!!

unpopular opinion: idk probably like ……. going in being conscious of imperialism stuff now i’m sure i’ll have more contrary opinions than i used to but idk enough yet

how’d you find it: i literally just was going through netflix like ‘oh this is a popular anime’ and put it on on a whim

random thoughts: this whole ask took me so long to answer why am i so rambly djfkghjkdfgh also god. my terrible pattern of never finishing media for the smallest of reasons. one day i will actually consume media that takes brain power to process again…… i mostly just read like. romance webcomics and fanfic nowadays rip

thank you for this!!!!

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one of my favorite worst things to Think About are the ways herb’s casually neglectful childhood sometimes just....surfaces in the every day world of his life now. and since his whole shtick is my childhood was perfect my father is basically god and i have absolutely no parent issues idk what ur talking abt, he winds up having to flail, having to learn on the way down, and try to keep up a cover that he knew all along. which, usually, doesn’t work, and just makes it all the more sad. here’s a few examples i’ve thought of because i don’t love myself:

someone around the station gets stuck with something metal and comments they might need a tetanus shot. herb was definitely never taken to the doctor’s for a checkup and regular vaccinations as a child, and since he works daytime hours lucille takes the kids while he’s at work, so he literally has never had a shot and he doesn’t fully understand what vaccines are, aside from cultural osmosis, so he asks in telling confusion, “what’s that supposed to mean?” @piper-aileen-lenox specifically, thnx for making me think of this and ruining my life xx

when herb and lucille moved in together (i imagine they were engaged but maybe not married just yet) lucille made it clear to her rather sexist fiance that she was expecting him to tow the line around the house just as much as her, which he agreed to, except when she asked him to do the grocery shopping thinking that was a harmless thing he could do (not like she’d trust him to actually get the dishes clean or fold her clothes so they don’t wrinkle). they almost never had food consistently in the house growing up and if they did eat full meals, they only had the food for THAT MEAL around because 1. herb sr. and ruby (herb’s parents) lived an erratic lifestyle of little to no money or a whole lot of money but only for a second because it was burning a hole in herb sr.’s pocket, and because 2. ruby quickly learned spending money on food ahead was pointless because either herb sr. hecked off somewhere w/o warning and it went bad, or his deadbeat friends hung around and ate it all, so she only bought for that day if they had the money for anything. but since no one was ever around to TEACH herb anything and he figured most things out on his own, herb doesn’t understand all this and he literally thinks you’re not supposed to by food until you run out or that you have to throw out whatever you have left at the end of the week because....... who knows ???? that’s just what he thought. it caused multiple arguments early into herb and lucille’s relationship before she figured it out and explained it to him because he didn’t know well enough to ask.

when herb and lucille’s first child, bunny, was born, he had to be shown how to hold a baby by the doctor. he had literally never held or even interacted with a baby before until that moment. he had no siblings (that he knew of), he had no friends as a child because if he wasn’t the bully he was the target and he was an ass just like dear old dad so no one liked him anyway, and he had 0 other family. lucille realized in that moment as she watched his palpable confusion when she extended their newborn child to him that he was going to have a lot of learning and growing to do. she hoped he was ready for it.

god that time there was a station fam barbecue early into herb’s wkrp career and someone, maybe mr. carlson, is like ‘WHO WANTS TO BE THE GRILL MASTER’ like its a big deal and everyone is like oh it has to be herb bc he’s the newest out of us and hes aware all the men see it as a status symbol and he CAN’T be less of a man than another man bc Ego (tm) so hes like of course im the grill master !!! and then panics for the next thirty minutes because he’s literally never even stood next to a grill let alone used one HOW DOES IT WORK the first fifteen minutes he doesnt even have the gas on rip

when herb was, like, 15, he taught himself how to drive a car because one of his “friends” (peers who was a bully that he called a friend and hung out with to stop also getting bullied but who was still bullying him anyway, herb was just brainwashed into thinking that’s what friendship is) wanted them to go out cruising and herb wanted to be a Cool Guy and not look like a chump so he lied and said he could drive. they got pulled over, because of course they did, and herb got in big trouble for you know, driving w/o a licences. the kicker though is that herb didn’t fucking know you can’t drive without a license or that licenses and road tests and drivers ed were even a THING because he literally raised himself and no one ever  t a u g h t   h i m   a n y t h i n g. anyways his dad got called home to deal with it from wherever he was away at at the time and he got in big trouble for interrupting dear old dad’s work anyways so :) what a healthy family

surprisingly, herb DID know how to cook the basics. grilled cheese, pasta, stir fries, a couple casseroles. lucille asked him about it because he was always such a Gender Roles (tm) type of man who wouldn’t even wear a brighter shade of red than like. maroon. in case it got loosely contaminated with the concept of the color pink and he’d have to change his name and move to alaska. so why was he doing a “ womans job “ (cooking) and herb just looked confused and said “what, guys don’t cook?” she told him that no, they usually didn’t and would have laughed at her if she tried to make them, and he laughed awkwardly and absently stirred the pot on the stove and shrugged in mild confusion. “that’s weird. if i didn’t cook i’d have... starved, i guess.”

the bad news is his cooking wasnt GREAT and lucille was happy to take over because again.........self taught. and he has one (1) brain cell so. not Great

LITERALLY DIDN’T KNOW ALL CLOTHES DON’T HAVE TO BE DRY CLEANED. his dad literally wore clothes that had to be dry cleaned Every Day (and we wonder why the tarlek family was short on the food budget god) (and they were ugly clothes too akdhfjfg) and ofc if ruby washed her clothes, it was while herb was at school. he dry cleaned so many clothes that do Not Make Sense to dry clean in college before he slowly figured that out.

did not know what an allowance was. bunny asked him for one and not willing to seem stupid to his swift daughter he told her to ‘ask her mother’, who thought it was hecking weird that her money obsessed husband would say that, so she asked him why and after several long minutes he just shrugged helplessly and said “what’s an allowance?”

don’t even get me started on herb and lucille planning their wedding ( ‘what kind of stuff should we put on the gift register?’ “put on the WHAT?”  ‘what are we going to put on top of the cake?’ “there’s gonna be CAKE?”  ‘i can’t wait for daddy to walk down the isle with me, it’ll mean a lot to him’ “your DAD is gonna walk you down the isle....?? but you’re marrying ME, right?”   ) also herb not knowing the wedding look of the bride is supposed to be a Secret and barging into the room w a question or smth while lucille and her bridesmaids are getting ready, and everyone is hella miffed and he’s like WHAT i’ve seen her naked before and theyre all like THATS NOT THE POINT HERB

herb did Not Know about seasonal allergies. he just........didn’t know. he just thought god hated him and every spring and fall his head sprung a leak. and the whole time he was growing up no one A. listened to him complain about them and put 2 and 2 together, nor B. just taught him about basic first aid stuff in general for that matter he doesnt know shit. anyways, then lucille was like why are you such a tough guy just stop complaining and take some medicine for your stupid allergies and he was like take some what for my what now

ANYWAYS herb’s mom left while he was v young and he doesn’t remember much about her. herb’s dad was literally   n e v e r   home. the people herb’s dad left him with would work for obscenely low amounts of pay or owed herb sr. money and largely used all the money for their own food, drugs, alcohol, or other more unsightly business, and left herb alone to fend for himself. this is the disaster human that that produced, thanks, family dynamics! don’t abandon your children, kids, thanks for coming to my ted talk