#that's right I'm back with this nonsense

[fritzes]

tennis players + @screenshotsofdespair part 23

[fizpup]

some whiteboard poke friends

[halfbaked00q]

Im soooo weak to when Bond is like casually being used or exploited at his expense for some ostensible Greater Good except the situation doesn't HAVE to come to that, not really, and he's so inured and even numb to it that he barely pays it any mind; meanwhile, Q absolutely minds and is very indignant on his behalf and works overtime to like either try to avert or forestall the situation before it gets to the point where Bond has to dig his own claws into more of his soft underbelly to offer up on the sacrificial alter of politics of all tawdry things, or to manufacture a way in which he does the needless "needful" so as to spare Bond at least one unnecessary additional wound upon his psyche.

bonus if Bond finds out and maybe after being angry or indignant about it - I don't need you to do my job for me, Q, this is what I'm here to do - and either Q tells him/lets slip or he deduces that like, this isn't Q thinking he can't get the job done, this is Q finding him precious and worthy of protecting, and like. he's just very in awe of that and does in fact feel very safe and cherished within the cradle of his Quartermaster's regard

[flightyalrighty]

The Ask Box Opens Once More

[pl4yingcards]

"we've got our beacon box, useful box, ...That One!"

you coward say Horny Time With Joel in a video. say it. say it out loud. coward. the pg server is not in fact in the room with us right now and you, my good sir, named the box that

[meeple-inc]

A small question for the employees running the blog; what's it like to work at Meeple, or even the HQ specifically if you happen to be there? Any cool workplace stories?

We do in fact work at Meeple HQ, at the MeCloud! Unfortunately, Meeple policies prohibit me from discussing anything about what happens within the workplace in detail, but I get plenty of desk space and I enjoy the presence of my coworkers!

[novadreii]

new deadpool movie is just. hey, i'm deadpool, and i'm breaking the 4th wall! every 4 seconds! also: here's a vague critique of a Big Corporate Bad. oh and a meme. you like that, don't you? isn't that funny? are you laughing harder than you've ever laughed in your life, you fuck? are you pissing yourself laughing???

[chanrizard]

don't know if i should get a coffee considering the positively homicidal mood i'm in :}

[wiverly]

DC LOOK AT ME

[philcoulsonismyhero]

A thing I've been thinking about a lot as I've been obsessively re-listening to the Rivers of London books on a loop and putting colour coded bookmarks into my paperbacks (in short, being Extremely Autistic about the series) is just how interesting it would be to explore what it would be like to be an autistic wizard in that 'verse.

Like, take vestigia. It's a whole extra category of sensory impressions on top of everything else that you're picking up on, and you only get more sensitive to it the longer you train for. Peter wonders at one point if Nightingale isn't just straight up listening to the magic of the city in order to find out about cases, and even if he isn't doing that he's still got to be picking up on a Huge amount of sense impressions from the magic around him. Would an autistic practitioner be even more sensitive to vestigia? Just how much of a sensory overload trigger would it be, given that it's not a true smell/sound/whatever? Do really skilled practitioners like Nightingale ever get overloaded by just how much they can sense? Would an autistic wizard have to train themselves to shut out their sense of vestigia so they didn't get overwhelmed?

And then there's how you learn magic in the first place, which is a lot of repetition, doing the same thing over and over again until you produce an effect, and then continuing to repeat it until the effect becomes consistent. And you build spells by learning more and more formae, memorising them in the process. Which sounds to me like Such an autism-friendly way of learning to do anything, I fucking love repetition and memorising huge amounts of information.

Also, it's pointed out a bunch of times that Nightingale has almost scary levels of focus. In Broken Homes he spends ages watching CCTV footage, and then a full half hour just staring at the dog batteries at Skygarden. And it's pretty obvious that his level of obsessive focus is what's made him such a powerful wizard, since he's willing to put in the hours of practice, so autistic obsessiveness would be useful too.

(Sidenote, but I'm not sure if I actually think Nightingale is a character I'd read as autistic. He's definitely got a bunch of traits in the right direction, like the single-minded focus, the scary levels of concentration, the things he's very particular about and the way he can miss Peter's sarcasm sometimes, but in his case I think it's more just his personality and training and age, plus all the trauma. But I do think it would be a fun possibility/what-if to explore.)

And when it just comes down to it, I don't think I've ever encountered a magic system that appeals more to the specific way that my brain works than the RoL one, it seems like it would be So fun to learn. Even, tbh especially, the Latin and all the other studying that's also involved. So it does rather entertain me that I've gotten really autistic over a book series that has such an autism-friendly magic system, it feels Good and Correct.

Although. Ben Aaronovitch. My guy. Give me a list of all the formae and how they work, I am Begging you. I've never wanted an in-universe textbook tie-in book as much as I do for this series and Eventually I'm going to get my hands on the TTRPG book and obsess over every little detail of how they've interpreted the magic for that.

[thr4shit]

Mistakes were made.

There's black beads e v e r y w h e r e.

Mistakes ? No. Chaos? Yes. Hotel? Trivago.

I'm sorry there's beads everywhere though I hate that feeling it's like- where are you you bAstards???

[sporadicboinglerstealer2000]

I'm starting the think Emhyr's plans are just bs. Right I was thinking last night about it all and pretty sure we can all agree both Emhyr and Vilgefortz plans for Ciri are like the worse out of any of the factions that want her (the lodge and elves are both shitty too but I feel like are not as bad compared to these two twits, not by much still bad) But Emhyr says he'll '...beget her a son who will beget a son.' which would not work for his plans of making Nilfgaard a powerful empire since the elder blood can only remain active in the female line, so Vilgefortz must have omitted some details there. However his plans for marrying Ciri will only speed up this process by one generation. Like if he was normal about this and was like 'this is my long lost daughter' (easy to tell cos they look near identical and Ciri has the obvious looks of her mother and grandmother so anyone who met those two women (like Queen Meve of Lyria and Rivia, Calanthes relative) could verify that) then it would either be his foretold grandchild or great-grandchild who would be the actual prophecy child who would inherit his grand empire. However if he got his way then his son and grandson would have half of the gene because they aren't women and wouldn't be able to carry the full elder blood gene, so unless it was a family of controlled incest then the power he wants would just cease to exist. (I doubt getting the Nilfgaardians behind his whole Targaryen family would go down well).

Another thing, if the plan went accordingly and Ciri was on the ship with them then he'd would of sent away Pavetta anyway, which would make it all sooo much worse because Ciri would know he was then (even in the books she notes something familiar about him which would make sense since she was 5 when he 'died' so a part of her could have some recognition). Though admittedly that probably wouldn't happen since I think Vilgefortz would've gotten rid of him and then had both Pavetta and Ciri for his own sick plans. Essentially Emhyr has justified this incest by speeding up the process by a generation because he's impatient. If he hadn't attacked Cintra and instead sent some messengers to Calanthe being like 'hey it's me, your son-in-law I'm actually an emperor and Ciri will be my heir and as such Cintra will join Nilfgaard' then there's Cintra secured. Presumedly he had the whole incest plan the whole time looking for Ciri (I assume so anyway) and only changed his mind after Geralt tore into him, Yennefer didn't want her daughter to cry, said daughter cries so he lets her go. Like he only saw reason after having it pointed out to him? Also the fact it's obvious Ciri is practically identical minus the hair and probably eyes (are his eyes described?) If the incest plot didn't exist then he could just be like 'i've searched for you my long lost daughter you're an empress' then things could've gone a little better, only thing is now Ciri may actually want to go with him (I can see Geralt and Yennefer being able to accompany here or at least allowed to live), but no and I fail to see why at least a version of this couldn't happened.

[jtownraindancer]

things i never thought i'd be staring at for long periods of time: peter krause's eyelashes

things i have been staring at for a long period of time:

[articskele]

I love playing with gifs ouo

[mey-rin-is-fabulous]

"Why didn't you go too?"

Oh I don't know Nami maybe because he asked and Luffy said he didn't need help and Zoro is so incredibly whipped that if Luffy tells him not to fight he listens, if Luffy tells him to stay he stays

Like Nami where the hell have you been the past 100+ episodes, those two are about as in love as in love gets without them making out

[lloydfrontera]

rakiel coming back after nine years and finding new clinics scattered all over the capital. all over the empire. all over the continent actually. all following the system he'd developed for his own as best as they could.

theo apologizes because he knows they're not as good as hyung's or as he would've done, but there were a lot of people hurt after the battle, a lot of people they needed to assist and he didn't know any better way to help than the one hyung had showed him.

and. and then it had felt wrong to take away people's access to free medical treatment, to the help they could easily give. so he'd just. made the clinics permanent. and opened new ones. in farther and farther places. reached out to friendly nations to ask if they needed any help too. reached out to not-so-friendly ones to see if there was anything they could do there too.

and it was. it was hard to be honest. he'd learned a lot from hyung, more than he'd been aware of, he didn't think he would've managed to keep up with the responsibility becoming the crown prince of a devastated nation if he hadn't had experience with organizing big groups and delegating tasks as necessary to capable people from helping gardin to run the clinic when hyung was gone or from accommodating the huge delegation that had been summoned by the dragon king before. well. before. and even if those had been simple tasks compared to what he had to do now, little practice was better than no practice at all. he would've probably crumbled under the pressure if he hadn't had a taste of it beforehand.

but even so. it had been hard. he'd done his best to do as he'd learned from hyung but there was no guide to doing it in such a large scale and there were so many injured and so few supplies and there's only so much three absolute beings can do when they're busy fixing the whole world.

and he'd done it, he'd done his best but he knew it wasn't as good as it could be and he was sorry for that and if hyung wanted to change it or ignore it or get rid of it entirely theo would understand and-

and rakiel can just. stare. because he's so proud of his kid. he's so, so, so fucking proud of him.

because he'd always known theo could be a good emperor, he always knew it wasn't about him being untalented or inept or even mediocre, he knew he could be great in the right circumstances. but there had always been a part of him that couldn't help but worry about what would happen to him if things went wrong, if things didn't go according to plan, if he put theo in a position he wasn't prepared for and he crashed and burned and rakiel couldn't be there to help him.

but theo had been put in a terrible spot, had been put under a lot of pressure in the worst of circumstances and not only had he done well, he'd done amazing. he didn't just meet expectations he'd gone well beyond what was expected and asked of him. and rakiel couldn't be prouder of him.