#thats the exact quote btw

[wish-i-were-heather]

Trump: "She doesn’t have a plan. She copied Biden’s plan, and it’s like four sentences. Like, run spot run. Four sentences that’re just ‘oh, we’ll try and lower taxes.’ She doesn’t have a plan, take a look at her plan. She doesn’t have a plan." Also Trump: "I have the concepts of a plan."

[sheebadukiiiii]

okay LAST ONE bc ive been eternally changed by this.

[fiendishartist2]

sorry that i think leitners brutal pipe murder is funny. cant help it

[phoenix-corgi-abomination]

Apparently I didn't tell my sister about the time I got dumped with a doctor who quote

[give-grian-rights]

btw im still SO FUCKING PISSED about how the dream smp ended it. if you were a summer-fall of 2020 dream smp fan. fucking. watch the last tommyinnit vod because it is BULLSHIT

i am watching fan animatics and shit right now and just. i think if you fucking grabbed ten randos who have wrote atleast one thousand words of fanfiction in their entire life, they could've put together a better ending

you're telling me this entire time Dream was a fucking. PHILOSOPHER? who was doing alllll of this in the name of SCIENCE? because people he DECIDED were disruptive and useless and were gonna kill anyway, fucked off and said "lol leave us alone!! we sell drugs to eachother now", THAT SOME HOW CAME IN THE WAY OF YOUR DEATH EXPERIMENTS?

what about the fucking prison?? what about wanting to collect every beloved item everyone ever loved? you're telling me he went to war with tommyinnit like two or three times because he just found him ANNOYING and we're supposed to ACCEPT THAT?

the entire thing FELT like gaslighting but we KNOW. WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. when c!Dream does that. and we know how cc!Tommy ACTS and breathes and talks when he's being manipulated and pressured by Dream. AND THAT WASNT IT.

The scene before the Event seemed like Tommy GENUIENLY remorseful. shit like "i think in a different life we could've been friends" (i dont think thats an exact quote i was blinded and deafened by fury at that point) IS NOT WHAT YOU SAY TO YOUR ABUSER

Punz being a villain is COOL we KNEW ABOUT IT already for a while and it made for a good plot twist from the other's perspectives. HOWEVER what the fuck compelled his character to CALLING BEING SUICIDAL SELFISH? ? ? WHAT THE FUCK

and tommy JUST ACCEPTED THAT? WHAT THE FUCKKK

i think a ten year old could've characterized all the guys in the finale better. letting a suicidal character, fucking end in self sacrifice, SECONDS after forgiving their abuser. is bullshit. and i dont know WHO to blame. but i just started thinking and i NEEDED to say this.

[subwayfloorlicker1978]

tadc works better in the medium that it unintentionally conveyed itself as

okay. you’re probably reading this title thinking “but subwayfloorlicker1978… what IS the medium in question????” okay the medium in question is being a lore filled mysterious series with twists and turns and having an emphasis on twists and turns just as much as its characters.

now. this baffles me a little bit bc even though one could get that exact idea of tadc just by watching the first episode (and the fandom ITSELF literally got that impression. i mean its even evident in the fanmade aus.) gooseworx made a twitter post a few months ago that apparently tadc is made up of. and i quote. 95% character depth/stuff/etc and like 5% of lore. which is… hm.

which also baffled me! because my GOD was there a lot of lore foreshadowing and spooky (if you want to call it that.) stuff throughout episode 1. like WAY too much of it, especially if your main goal of tadc is to have it be a series centered heavily on the characters. not saying you can’t have background plot things going on, but like… 95%? seriously? i’m definitely praying she hadn’t entirely thought out that ratio before pressing the post button.

and that’s why tadc unintentionally comes across as a series with super deep lore, literally to the point where i’ve seen certain people unironically call it a horror series (which is wrong btw. even if you’re taking the c&a scenes + caine’s suspicious moments into account). it quite literally spends like 1/3 of its main scenes in episode 1 putting SO much emphasis on the c&a lore and the abstraction and everything else.

and the thing is. i dont entirely blame gooseworx for this. obviously it would be very important to flesh out the environment/world that the characters are in during the first episode (LITERALLY your first impression), which obviously includes locations like the lore office area pomni was in or the cellar where caine banishes all of the crazy people to go to. (oh and also even the topic of abstraction itself via kaufmo) but like..... there’s a reason why tadc has a game theory episode.

i’ve said this before and ill say it again. tadc and the entire “digital circus” thing and the implementation of vr headsets + lore into the story is ONLY an excuse for gooseworx to tell a compelling story about compelling characters in a cartoony wacky environment. its basically a guaranteed way for the viewers to actually see these goofy characters in a humanoid manner. however… you can’t just implement characters with these vr headset backstories and existential themes without it sounding entirely ominous. AND you can’t just drop a huge bombshell regarding the lore of the show and WHY the vr stuff happened and then go on twitter and say that its 95% about the characters.

and with the direction of the cellar and office scenes.. im not sure if it’s even possible for someone to make a clean cut resolution to the lore tidbits while still fulfilling the “5%” lore thing and not having it come off as giving off the wrong expectations. the direction of these scenes is SO intense like. some of these camera shots clearly put emphasis on small little details and the tone of these scenes pale so much in comparison to previous scenes that it catches you so off guard.

which is what makes them very well written! however they pack so much content and foreshadowing into themselves that its such a far fetched thing to say that only 5% of lore will make up tadc. that combined with the prospect of past lives. and also with the clear foreshadowing of jax being a morally corrupt person. what about the extremely heavy motifs of exit doors? there’s no way THATS going to just be gone after episode 1. goose, what do you MEAN there’s going to be corpse imagery? all of this ties into each other. lore and tone tie into each other too. come on.

but these aspects can definitely be used to craft a great story. WITH character arcs and character deep dives throughout episodes. gravity falls literally nailed this. and theoretically tadc could too. emphasis on theoretically.

also if the “memory loss” thing was actually canon and not something the fandom thought was canon (again reasonable misinterpretation because obviously if you hear pomni say “HOLY FLIP I FORGOT MY OWN NAME!!!” you’re going to assume she forgot everything else.) that would also work well along with the theoretical lore stuff if it was more emphasized. literally think of the vast opportunities for foreshadowing. maybe pomni finds out something about the other characters via revisiting the office that THEY can’t remember. maybe do something with like… reflexes and muscle memory or something related to “the mind forgets but the body remembers”. maybe use it as a plot point in relation to jax’s keys or his weirdly implied secret or something. IDK! i just think a lore and plot driven story in this environment combined with character things (50/50…) would be marginally more interesting than what we will be given.

okay one more pet peeve in relation to this before i go. deep breath……. i really hate the cartoonish body language of the main human cast. GO AHEAD BOO ME. THROW TOMATOES AT ME. LET ME EXPLAIN OKAY.

one piece of media that i think does a GREAT job when it comes to utilizing body language in storytelling is duck season. it clearly humanizes the guy in the suit by giving him certain habits that seem undoubtedly human and make him feel very… alive. like whenever he smokes a cigarette but then quickly puts it out when the player gets near him bc he’s startled and needs to keep up a facade. like THAT. that’s what strikes me as a human behavior.

so if goose’s goal would be to humanize these “cartoon” characters… realistic body language that clashes with their digital circus designs would be a perfect way to make them stick out in comparison to the npcs or caine and bring out the fact that they’re humans in an environment curated by nonhumans. it would also help a little more with tadc’s target demographic problem i think? the characters having little humanoid habits would make it seem a little more mature i think and would also go well with my idea of theoretical lore-focused tadc. not saying 20 year olds CANT be into pieces of media that have bright colors and are very cartoony. im just saying. there’s a reason why there’s so much content slop of tadc.

[intertexts]

oh god i just realized I forgot to send you this. behold: the worst trivia ask out of all of them:

EPISODE 22 TRIVIA:

- they spend the first. 9 whole minutes talking about the logistics of snapping someones neck irl only to learn that its not actually possible and thats just something that was make up for movies

- "this is the most guy talk we've ever had at the beginning of a rolled. i feel like we need a trigger warning for boys"

- bizly wanted them seeing tide again to feel awkward and weird! like you're going back to your parents house after not seeing them for a really long time

- talking about how dakota has so many parental figures now and grizzly goes "except for ms. g. she has my whole heart" and WITHOUT missing a beat charlie goes "no. *i* have your whole heart"

- there was apparently a group of people on twitter who made a VERY long VERY well researched document about how all the medical stuff esp involving william would work and kept tagging bizly in posts asking how things would work and hes like "man i dont know!! i write a silly superhero show im not a doctor! it all comes down to his parents built a very strange machine that was designed to view worlds unseen!" (<< quoting the dp theme song in the most EXASPERATED voice possible.)

- "WILLIAM WISP SHOULD HAVE FUCKIN WORMS IN HIM. if we were playing this realistically william would be fuckin LOCKED UP with rigor mortis and COVERED in worms and FULL OF GASSES. he should be FOUL. and FULL OF WORMS. and I DONT WANT THAT" << hes a coward for this. btw. i feel like william should be grosser

- they just keep saying more things about how william should be so grotesque. at one point charlie goes "please dont draw this. its so gross". me, looks at my 4/7 jrwi freak week canvases that are william wisp themed. um. well.

- WARM BODIES MENTION. i love that movie. charlies like "thats how i want william to work hes undead but hes like. pretty about it"

- bizly: "because we've already explored this plot thread of William Being Dead so much, i dont want him getting a heart to just automatically fix that. its not like hes just magically alive now. i havent thought of the exact consequences yet but i want there to be some drawbacks to this to keep things interesting"

charlie: "william is just thrilled right now to be feeling stuff. i dont think hes considering the possible drawbacks"

- "ive never been prouder of any of my characters than when william wisp dented drywall"

- "why didnt vyncent get a fun surgery too" "because I'm a coward"

- they were on some absolutely insane energy for this rolled they keep going on like 5-10 minute long tangents and BARELY talk about the episode other than to mention how william should be a rotting corpse. I REMEMBER NOW that this was a SIGNIFICANT factor in my being frustrated with the heart surgery thing LMAO

- THATS IT. THATS LITERALLY IT. THE ROLLED IS OVER NOW. THIS WAS NOTHING !!!!!

TERRIBLE rolled youre right!!!!! help!!! this is so funny. great rolled guys lets wrap it up. william should be wormy and u cant snap peoples necks. good job everybody. it is really funny to me that people were... expecting medical accuracy?? how do u really seriously research putting one guys heart and another guys blood inside a body that's been dead for several years. frankly i would love to see it i'm very curious.

LOWKEY I'M GLAD HE *ISN'T* A BLOATED LOCKED UP DECAYING CORPSE!!!!! PERSONALLY!!!! i fully respect ur rights and taste to think he should be rotting and worm filled and stinky but frankly i'm on charlies side w this one. hes undead and pretty about it <33

anyway. i still have many thoughts about wiwi's soul/body/wisp relationship that i will NOT start talking about now because it would get LONG. but. its always great hearing their thoughts on it. eyes emoji. but yeah i really don't want him to be just magically fixed and alive now.... we'll see!! we'll see how it goes!!!!

[swiftiefirefighters]

YOU ARE THE ONE who brought up the ship war in your initial post though so why are you getting mad at that other anon for picking up your thread.

and btw you said, and i quote, "but mildly annoying opinions about eddie are very different from the kids of things i see constantly coming from the buddie side of fandom". well guess what my friends in the buddie side of fandom have gotten anons from bucktommy fans (if you can assume who's doing what so can i) calling them all manner of nasty names, or saying they should kill themselves, or expressing doubts about their gender identity. that's a lot more than "mildly annoying opinions about eddie".

and, again, i say. in this particular case, i think it’s abundantly clear that it was a buddie fan doing it. i personally have not seen any of that from the other side but i am going to say the same exact thing - if anyone i follow ON EITHER SIDE THE SHIP WAR - thinks any of that is okay, i don’t want to be friends with them. i can say that as someone who likes both who doesn’t really have a stake in this because i am genuinely here for all of these guys and all of the ships, i have only personally received any kind of anonymous hate or nonsense or personal harm for liking bucktommy or for liking tommy or for defending my friends who are bucktommy shippers so thats all i can speak on.

but for good measure i’m going to explicitly state it: if you’re a bucktommy fan and would or have done anything this anon mentioned? please don’t befriend me. i can’t say because i haven’t seen it that it hasn’t happened and i would hope no one i follow would do that - just like i feel like my mutuals who are buddie shippers wouldn’t do this - i don’t want to know anyone who harasses people over fictional pairings.

i can only speak to what i’ve seen and experienced but i’m sorry you and your friends have been targeted and i feel the same way. i don’t want to know anyone who would do that or thinks it’s okay in the name of a ship war. as someone who speaks positively of both ships and loves both ships and has beloved mutuals on both sides (please ask anyone who actually knows me if you don’t believe me) who actually creates and consumes more content on the buddie side, i can say i’ve only been targeted for one opinion and that’s liking/enjoying tommy and bucktommy.

but i don’t want to be associated with anyone who thinks sending hate for opinions on fictional characters is okay. that is where i stand officially. i dont know how much more clear i can be.

[kingcunny]

In the book, alicent and rhaenyra competed for visery's attention?

oh absolutely.

i dont feel like finding the exact quotes from f&b at the moment, but theres a line about alicent and rhaenyra both wanting to be The Queen or first lady of the realm or something like that. and another about viserys having to juggle “both his women” to keep them happy. an INSANE way to refer to his daughter btw.

theres that bit where after maester mellos died, both alicent and rhaenyra push for their own personal choice of maester to replace him. (as an aside a funny moment to me. viserys is mourning the death of his “trusted friend” meanwhile alient and rhaenyra are trying to claw each others eyes out in the background) and he has to remind them thats not even his choice to make. the citadal picks the grand maester not the king. both of them trying so hard to curry (what theyd see) as favor that theyre overstepping the powers of the crown.

ive said before about how my take on the dance is about how women reach for power, but at the end of the day both alicents and rhaenyras power comes from a man. they would see viserys attention as “support” for their own claims. anytime hed show one a bit more attention than the other theyd use it as “proof” that hes picked them. so viserys would have to go and do something nice for the other and back and forth back and forth viserys trying so hard to keep everyone happy until no ones happy.

i think theres some weird emotional incest happening here too. where like, rhaenyra feeling insecure, feeling like alicent has more of a “hold” over viserys being his wife, tries to cozy up to him more as a wife than a daughter. and considering her husbands gay (like yes she does have her own side piece but), viserys is the only other *lawful* man in her life, there is probably a weird blurring of boundaries happening

[red-dyed-sarumane]

what are some cool games u have played? dont matter if u mentioned before. tell me again tell me again :D

uhh hmm.

well okami is my all time favorite the art & the music & the message/story are all just incredible theres not a single time ive finished it i havent cried. i absolutely adore ryoshima coast ive spent so many hours just running around there to listen to music. which fun fact for u i only know about this game bc in about 6th grade i picked up okamiden bc i thought the little doggy was cute & was like fine i'll play as this boy if i get a cool dog and u cannot imagine how excited i was to find out u DID play as the little dog. i was SOOOOO obsessed literally my exact thoughts were 'if issun is ammy's celestial envoy then i am going to be chibis' i have a metric fuck ton of fan art i did at the time bc i thought it was quote "the epic-est game for ds ever" also cried every time i finished it. i was 13 so i didnt know what "being down bad" was but do know i was as obsessed with kurow as i was with d-ne later and now tenshi not a single irl friend was unaware i was in love with him. also fun fact for u bc at the same time i was also getting super into vocaloid i was so convinced my vocap name would end up as chibiP to the point i named myself that in pkmn x chibiP after chibiterasu of course. please enjoy my banger old art which is not even a fraction of my output

yume nikki is my next favorite game specifically the og that changed my brain chemistry as a kid. i adore that game so much its hard to put it into words. its just so unlike anything else. there is absolutely nothing in the game that can directly harm u theres no real health meter theres no way to die during the main play the absolute worst that will ever happen is u get stuck or woken up. in a horror game. which is already just amazing. and the whole horror aspect just plays on something i dont think is often done as well in many other things. ur alone. u wander and wander thru worlds that loop and connect and seemingly have nothing to do with each other. theres no dialogue; talking to npcs just gets u a noise or animation at best. ur entirely alone with just urself. its all dreams so u know everything is of madotsuki's own creation, another layer to the all u have is urself feeling. the art is just unusual i cant even say any of it on its own is in anyway scary. the whole thing shouldnt be scary and yet every time i start wandering in a world i cant help but feel unease. amazing 10/10 no other game will ever have what this gave me.

everyone knows i play pkmn the best is still pmd sky that also rewired my brain i still cant play it without crying.

its been a long time since i was really just playing it as the chapters released & got translated but 1bitheart is so so so important to me too. i dont kin for multiple reasons but if i did nanashi would be my first choice. like- without saying that to her i got my one irl friend to play once & when she saw how nanashi was she turned to me and went "this is just you" hes very important to me even now. absolutely loved the whole friendship sim & the story & its twists & the endings & their implications left me in shambles at 1 am on a school night. my fave charas are nanashi enri & saaya btw. i should replay this.

i also love the etrian odyssey series i love the character portraits (esp with the more recent games' color customization) i LOVE the dungeon art & i think all the monster designs are so cool. adore the whole make ur own map aspect keeps me so entertained to take a step & look around & chart all the walls & path ways. unfortunately i fucking suck at every single one i am not very good at strategy games so i end up stuck at or before the 3rd stratum. but thats okay its still fun to me.

the other one i'll talk about at length is spirit of the north another game i loved the art of. u play as a fox & get a partner spirit fox & i just love it SOOOO much. its also a game with 0 dialogue but theres A Lot going on it if u care to follow along & explore & dig into details & the game play is also pretty fun to me. this is the one game i started learning the speedrun btw thats also a very fun way to play it but ABSOLUTELY play it as intended first it has so much to offer

aaaand special mentions to omori, oneshot, witch's house, mermaid swamp, corpse party, & limbus company

[depressed-teacup-inc]

Double double toil and trouble

Hi so Gloob decided that after leaking the entire season 5 finale of miraculous (which for the sake of those that don’t wish to be spoiled I will not discuss until is actually released) they needed to release some more episodes out of balance, so today we shall review episode 19 and 20 of Miraculous Ladybug season 5! Pretension and Revelation!

19: Pretension

So. Felix is still the only nice thing here, but we have to shove a live interest in the mix because it’s not like this show can have the concept of friendship!

So episode starts , marinette complains about not being public with Adrien (which ok whatever), and the show literally pokes fun at how Marinette used to stalk Adrien but then says it’s ok be it was “OuT Of LOvE” (I’m not even go comment at this point) and that they need to go confront Gabriel to clear up the misunderstanding that marinette is def not a crazy stalker (Yknow, after she broke into a private event of his an episode ago. Great.)

Gabriel disapproved and has a weird pancake monologue which is meant to be a metaphor of how Gabriel controls everything and everyone through fashion? And Marinette is like “no fashion is about giving people what their heart’s desire” or something, and then says Gabriel can’t cook for shit (which admittedly funny) as a way of saying his old-minded and stupid.

So I’m general I don’t know who to quote side with? Gabriel is not wrong that the main reason marinette loves Adrien is because he’s a famous star that she’s been stalking for years, but the show frames it in a way that’s less “yeah you stalked him” and more “yeah I just like controlling him and you’re annoying” to make marinette seem like a hero.

In general the entire conversation was really weird, and the metaphor of pancakes was weird, but I did actually like the moral debate of what fashion and style is? I’m a personal believer of fashion being a tool of self expression, and something from inside you, but then how much of what’s inside you is just originally you and what is as a result of your life and how you were raised?

My point is go watch Meryl Streep’s blue sweater monologue, it’s a lot more fun.

Anyways Felix and Kagami are healthier then the love square (shocker) the show should stop poking fun at how bad stalking is and then endorse it, the show is trying to make other parents look worse then Gabriel to redeem him and I’m mad, and thats all there really is to this episode. NEXT!

20: Revelation

Oh boy a Lila episode let’s go. SO FUCKING SOMEHOW LILA MANAGED TO LIE TO HER TWO MOMS ABOUT HAVING ANOTHER FUCKING PARENT?! I’ve already come across this information when all the leaks for season 5 were happening, but the fact absolutely fucking boggles me?! Like this show is so hellbent on making Lila a bad person (worse then an actual terrorist that has been abusing his song for years) that they just do the most unrealistic shit to ever exist just to make her “an evil liar OoOoOo”

Which speaking of before the show tries to tell you Lila was manipulative for lying about being fired in her art class, I would have done the exact fucking same in her shoes. If someone without telling you, fires you (which I believe is btw ILLEGAL) and you were in a public setting, what the hell are you supposed to do? Start crying and telling everyone how you got fired? No, you would quickly try to resolve the situation and then go demand answers! I understand Lila’s anger in Gabriel (tho the show tries to say it’s unreasonable because of Lila’s and Gabriel’s deal, but the show just thinks she’s evil so yknow)

Anyways, Marinette starts saying how awful Chloe is and being like “I’m standing for Justice” and whatnot, and Lila (because she has a deal with Chloe) is like “it’s ok marinette you’re busy with your love life, if you don’t believe in people getting second chances then maybe I should be class president” which tbh? I literally do not see as evil!

Like first of all what does the class representative even do in this show? At the time it was just an episode to show Marinette’s leadership skills, and the most they do is like pass some papers and go talk to students, so it’s not like Lila can do real damage by being a class representative for two weeks (tho I’m sure the show will pull something unrealistic as hell to claim otherwise)

Second of all, Marinette morally is awful? Like this entire episode’s message is legit fucking awful! Lila’s argument for being class rep is saying that she will promote more second chances and opportunities for students, meanwhile Marinette’s argument is “Chloe is awful bad people don’t deserve second chances, PERIOD.”

…I’m sorry bestie but I’m fucking voting for the one that wants to actually do something

And the show obvs tries to write it off like “no it’s a ploy to make Marinette’s life suck” which is something they already did season 3, but I just don’t know if I fully agree with this mindset

Of course, bad people exist and in real life they often don’t change and use the kindness extended towards them, so it’s important to stand your ground, but like the show is trying to tell us that two 14 year old girls are an irredeemable type of evil that will never change! I personally think that some people are incapable of redemption but more that some people don’t want to redeem themselves, so to speak, but it just feels like the show lacked nuance this episode.

I feel like if this episode was used to a more concrete example (say Gabriel, an abusive dad and a terrorist) to explain how sometimes people don’t change rather then use this as an opportunity to tell us how evil Lila and Chloe are, the message would have been more compelling

You can tell the show clearly used this episode as a means of commenting on “Chameleon” and episode that caused many people to hate Adrien for telling marinette to wait and not keep screaming at Lila and digging her own grave, saying he was endorsing abuse? So the show was like “yeah guys look Adrien was in the wrong and apologized, Marinette’s the best and forgives him, have love square”

Again, it’s just another Lila episode which makes marinette a martyr, Adrien a powerless princess that isn’t listened to, Lila way more evil then she actually is on paper to make marinette look good, and everyone stupid in comparison

(Also y’all stop the hate on Alya and Nino, Alya is fucking right, Marinette only ever been a dick to Lila because of Adrien and is digging her own grave with the girl)

(Also also half the time marinette is worse then them, lying and hurting others to get what she wants, she just got Adrien now so she doesn’t commit as many crimes, tho she did break into a private event for idiotic reasons, and also the show likes her so they keep justifying her)

Anyways, didn’t like the episode, Lila episodes are awful, Marinette’s morality is a bit skewed and hypocritical, Hoaxer is just red Volpina on the iPhone rings, but at least she was smart

[insufferable-talkstuck]

Redoing this here [sorry for doing it on the main blog] [basically copying and pasting the one I already did but this time im taking it more lightly and also adding stuff 🔥🔥🔥

I am a very stubborn person , one who basically just goes "fuck it we ball" , "do whatever the fuck you want" , is pretty much an hater , and i get really close to people. I also get angry easily , but still somehow manage to keep an "happy go lucky" persona online. Also , I always feel like the world sucks. More specifically, like there are too much bad things to hate , and hating them all and knowing they are happening makes me even more mad. I also have always want to know everything about everyone , and i am almost always seeking out knowladge , even right now. Im also mostly a lurker , due to having a thing about having to keep a "good reputation". I've always wanted to be famous , but just so i could not be forgotten after my death. And I've always thought myself as some sort of attention seeker , which is why [unless present with an anonimous identity] i basically never vent , becouse i know that people have problems worse than mine. Also , due to [as i mentioned earlier] getting really close to people , I've gotten in a lot of toxic friendships , and have only like 5 or 6 true friends. Lately , I've been going through a phase of self reflection. Especially about how I used to act or think in the past. And even about current me. Im very impulsive and uhhh yea i guess thats it 🔥🔥 [btw i am sorry for asking on the main blog but i am not sorry for basically spam liking your posts 🔥] [holy shit i just realized how much of an edgelord i sound]

Prince of Hope

you share a classpect with Eridan ampora.

im not sure how to excuse this assumption of you properly, but as soon as i read your submission the exact thoughts that went through my head were "mind.. rage! HOPE." * so you'll just have to believe me as much as you can muster

Hope revolves around belief, religion, courage, and a black and white view of the world. as a prince of hope you are more afflicted with rage, a powerful aspect that can bring down an entire session

* i thought you'd be a mind player because your wording makes it look like you're concerned with justice, or at least have a strong sense of what you believe is the right thing—but that can better be assigned as hope, the way your beliefs may not seem correct to those around you but you're stubborn in your way

you talk about getting angry easily, don't think i have to break down why that's rage pilled as fuck, but specifically rages description of ‘ a rage player may tear down an entire system if they deem it wrong, and rebuilt it themselves ’ ( highly referenced but not exact quote, cant look it up rn ) really reminded me of you.

If you'd like more closure i suggest looking at Eridan as our prince of hope, this is not my finest most detailed work but I do believe it suits you best, and when a classpect assigner gets a gut feeling you don't question it

[pasharuu]

i actually kept to consideration the fact that aranimba actually might never show up again, especially after 3.4 uncerimonious conclusion of finding locations from the paintings. and that sucks, but thats expected.

maybe i was this excited because my encounter with aranimba was really sudden. i, as many other players, got the shriveled seed long before release of sumeru and i did not spoil anything to myself beforehand, so when we rescued aranimba i was like "holy shit this lil rascal was laying in my pocket all the time?" and then he immidiately went away. all the time before that i believed we'll never get to see that aranara from the paintings and my expectation was fantastically ruined.

it seems like his only purpose was to lead us to the chests cave and then explain how these are filled (which is a big chronological mistake btw, because if you take the situation with the painting from the chasm and consider that aranimba is actually returning to vanarana to put these in the mailbox, then why oh why would he come back to chasm after that and get trapped. however, if he wasnt coming to vanarana, then who was delivering the paintings and how? its weird to think that this mailbox works like an ender chest but thats the most logical theory i can assume. ok maybe he actually used some wild animals for delivering but its only my thought that maybe has nothing to do with canon cuz, again, how. maybe i just misinterpreted the explaination. forever a mystery.) we actually were told that aranimba is a free bird so he'll just constantly travel around, but it still doesnt excuse that lame conclusion. even if you exclude the time gaps between versions and imagine someone going straight through it all when its already released, it still doesnt make sense at all. i would be happy even with paimon's little quote in the end at least, but nope.

i know i might be basically the only person on the planet who cares about such stuff, and if i am then, well, good to know im special. feels lonely to be this special tho. even though aratara was not supposed to be my sona or anything like that, he def interprets my excitement. and to make me upset in this situation means to get him to put up with it because he is an aranara, everyone here are just selfless lads. however due to him losing a friend once and probably losing another now in almost the exact same way, i, as a human, feel sorry for him.

aratara returned back to the forest almost right after he met aranimba in the desert and finally stayed where he belongs. and thats it.

so now shall i deal with it, never sacrifice my time for making aranimba pics on purpose again and get an hour of free time to take it to my lacking sleep. i grew up and should make responsible decisions.

[zeenbean]

yapping about school, again

a lot as happened since my last ranty post, like that i have gotten B on my final grade from english(as a secondary language) but nobody really follows this blog so much so they would actually know what am i talking about.

in multiple posts ive been whining about my secondary laungage english teacher bcs shes dumb af and doesnt even know english past average 9yo vocabulary(except the slang💀) so when i use my fancy fancy worlds on her(telling her that taking drgs is NOT silly) she ofc gets mad. and that is, how she made my final grade from exact 9 marks from the second semester. 2 of them were group activities(two A`s), 5 quick tests(one A, one B& three Ds) and the rest unit reviews(one A and one B, but the b was my falut bcs im not gonna remember in front of what words u put the, a or nothing. but that were the weird ones like i dunno i cant remember bcs the only ones i remember are the ones that are obvious ones help) im a person who to function needs to have EVERYTHING planned. also when the teachers are all extremely chaotic i cant focus when i have to sit in place where i dont normally sit(i sit there for four years there, last place on the left but idk how other classrooms are build so it differs) its even worse. like this btch will be like so okey i know i said were gonna write the test tomorrow but i dont feel like it so were gonna do it today and than theres me who had planned to study today afternoon bcs it works for this types of tests best for me, also i had to practice on my saxophone yesterday bcs i ALSO had some MORE IMPORTANT EXAMS so now the whole thing is messed up & i have the saxophone exam today but im gonna be stressed form this test and it will completely ruin my day and maybe even a week.

im gonna browse more on the school system in hour school bcs its really messed up. like i wanted to transfer for this year but some therapist-not-therapist who is payed by the school told my mum that that is a not good idea bcs "every school has its dark side" yes. i know. but i asked my friend a simple question. "do your teacher provide materials from the lessons ex. presentations" and she was like EVERY TEACHER DOES THAT. HEAVEN ON EARTH.

like yeah only three from 20+ teachers does that in our school. and were really small school, only one building, the friends school has SIX.

it kinda is related to this and its really me problem but i struggle to keep writing notes in class. like one time i couldnt even get myself to hold the pencil bcs i had a bit dirty notebook(my bottle cracked and everything got wet and as it dried i had stains. so i couldnt write notes in the name notebook but i didnt wanted to buy a new one so i just wrote it who knows where and i was always loosing it. but i feel that the whole idea of notes doest suit me and some other people. i can pay attention, can write it dow beautifully like when i want to i can have the best looking notes in class but WHAT FOR. like it genuinely doesnt help me a bit. i can rewrite it like with the blurting technique but i still forget everything the next hour. and that isnt even with notes, thats with textbooks, some like non fiction books(i love books about like space or sum but i remember shit. like i can remember that on the page five there was this "in some insignificant galaxy(milky way) in some insignificant arm of the galaxy(orion arm)(btw i had to search it up bcs i dont know the exact term in english and it hurts my soul that there in the recommended questions there was "are we in the milky way rn)were rotating around some insignificant star(the sun) and living on some insignificant planet(the earth)" but i dont remember ANYTHING ELSE. LIKE THIS RANDOM THING BUT NOT THE REST OF THE A LOT MORE SIGNIFICANT THINGS?(if anyone recognizes the quote pls don judge me im halp asleep)

okey im not gonna get mad by my inability to absorb information

than when the teacher doesnt even want to help me by giving me like the presentation or like the book where they take these exercises from than its har to be motivated to learn and like in some cases even not able to properly learn the things. i have a friend(that one who i asked about her school) who i literally wish i had her brain bcs were on about the same level of inteligence but she can absorb information like a average human being. like pls help me.

but back to the teacher, there is this one who is really weird, he doesnt really like me but when you email him about anything related to geography he will explain, give sources and you can always ask for like a graded presentation(kinda rare there for someone to give you request presentation). thank you for being the most insufferable person on the whole school but who somehow does his job.

i shouldn't even talk about our principal who is like the embodiment of satan and god of gaslighting in one if someone like that exists. bro will be like "were the BEST school in town!" and than hires a known person who hase fake degrees and has been accused of being predatory towards students. like bro pick i side.(fun fact i one time i got so mad that i went to his facebook under a fake name and started to like spit some real good arguments under his homophobic and transphobic posts and one time i got extra silly and made a bit personal joke and he blocked me💔)

like im so so so much sorry for his ELEVEN FREAKING KIDS and especially the girls bcs he said(in a very insignificant physics lesson) that theyre mistakes. bro how can you be so fucking disgusting towards your own children that you sometimes even bring to school. in front of the whole class.

hey so this is probably it bcs im getting more and more tired and tomorrow i have to wake up really early

also i know my spelling here is completely diabolical but who cares int the internet does anybody here seen th post about how bad english technically doesnt exist? think of that now

[rarepairnation]

for the ao3 wrapped!! 1, 6, 28! (also you are not alone in believing you can finish one more thing. i am also doing that :P)

happy (newly i guess, for u!) new year anna!!! waving at u NOT from the google doc! we did it! we finished the one more thing! [ao3 wrapped]

1. How many words have you written this year?

nearly 14k (13,924 to be exact) published and at least 6-7k more of wips! tragically my least prolific year since uhhhhhhhh a long time. 2017? but thats ok it was a hard year all that matters is that i survived<3 im proud of myself for what i did bc im in that kinda moment where im relearning how to write and reengaging the creative part of my brain. and next year will be better!! i have a lot of plans and a wip list as long as a cvs receipt<33

6. Favorite title you used

this one is actually your body drowning in gravity! i havent reread it in a long long while (aside: wow i was a totally different person when i wrote that (i published it jan 3)) bc my brain has temporarily been caught by other things. but it was an idea that i'd been turning over in my head for over a year at the time when i wrote it and i think i saw the richard siken poem that the title is from (it's "the dislocated room" btw) on my dash in the middle of the writing process and it was like. Perfect. like i choose all my titles very carefully but this one really knocks it out of the park. when the fic is literally about tanner thinking mallory is the one that's fallen from the top of the cns building at the end of spectre and not knowing until the body hits the ground.

28. Favorite work you wrote this year?

OUGHHH this is hard. Ough. ok i DO think it's just so long as this thing's loaded. im chronically an "i wrote this for me but you can read it if you want" guy bc i have rarepair disease. if i want to read it i have to be the one to write it. but this fic was really an exercise in like. getting weird with it. remembering that u cannot judge ur creation by any possible bad faith interpretation of it. letting myself write the kind of wildly unhinged horny possessive devotion that eats the inside of my brain but ive never been able to put on the page bc of the Fear of like ohhh that would be sooo bad in real life. dude theyre. not real. idk im not good at that sort of thing the panopticon inside my mind is sometimes kind of crazy. but like yeah actually they do think the power dynamic is hot. yeah nick made jasper fake betraying him obviously here is this situation where jasper comes back to nick after his faked death and both of them are pretending not to know the betrayal wasn't real. its just roleplay 2 them. sorry to quote a line in this already extremely long answer but like "The only thing he wants to keep is right here at his side and hasn’t that been the point of all of this, the knife to his throat and the blood in his kiss and the slow simmer of barely leashed desire. Jasper has come to him like this, the traitor slinking his guilty way home, to show Nick the lengths to which he would go for him. To which he has always gone for him, giving up everything to play Nick’s triple agent, just what the Director ordered." is literally the thesis statement of the whole thing. Anyway

also its the kind of fic where every line is trying to be The Line which...is a quirk of my writing style that comes out every now and then that im usually (for good reason tbh) always trying to cut back on. but this...Needed It. sometimes the prose DOES need to be purple. and i had fun. it was really fun dude lol i had a great time

[afactaday]

aFactADay2022

#730: WHOOOO!!!! i am now definitely the only person in the world whos kept up their new year's resolution for 2 × 365 days!!! what a year its been!

the themed week thing was really fun and definitely changed the way i research. however, i wont continue it into 2023, because i felt it was slightly restrictive, particularly towards the end, so it wont be continued into future fotds - stay tuned though for a whole new format in 2023!!

nonetheless, lets look back on the year in the nerdiest way i could think of: doing one more fact for each themed week!!

(between this and the pub quiz thing, ive been researching and writing facts for a solid four days.... the 51st one is very fun btw.)

#1: Fireworks! fireworks have always been dominated by the chinese: the first gunpowder fireworks were manufactured during the Song dynasty, and the first coloured fireworks were mentioned in 14th century chinese texts. the first rocket propulsion and rocket warfare was employed by the chinese, mentioned in texts from the 14th century. to date, china is the largest manufacturer and exporter of fireworks in the world.

#2: US Laws! in Little Rock, Arkansaw, under article II section 18-54, you cannot honk your horn at a place that serves cold drinks or sandwiches. the exact phrasing is “No person shall sound the horn on a vehicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 p.m.” and i wonder whether this means you can honk all you want before 9pm, or whether its only at shops that sell after nine that you cant honk your horn. i would also like to know whether 1am is after or before 9pm. badly written law if you ask me.

#3: Tornadoes! texas is the most tornado-ridden state in the US, at an average of 125 tornadoes per year, followed by oklahoma at 57/year. however, florida has more tornadoes per square mile because its much smaller, even though it only gets an average of 55/year.

#4: Yellow! yellow is the easiest colour to see, with a wavelength at around 555nm, which is why its used in warning signs and so on. thats also why yellow screens cause more eye strain, and why taxis and schoolbuses are yellow.

#5: Calories! there is a very popular myth that celery is a negative-calorie food because it takes more to crunch and digest the fibrous makeup than it contains. however, a study at the oxford brookes university busted this, showing that over 85% of the calories it contains are burned to eat it. but that 15% still makes up 2 calories per 100 grams. but all is not lost! another study has shown that celery can act as ballast, with nutritional content but less calories, as it fills you up and takes up space. moreover, it reduces your appetite, meaning that all in all a side-salad of celery could reduce the caloric intake of a meal by 12%, adjusted.

#6: Nothing! this is less of a fact, but nonetheless, i read an interesting opinion from 1995 called Nothing is Nothing. it argues that the universe must have sprung from something: cosmologists claim that the universe started from nothing, and this particular shade of nothing happened to consist of quanta fluctuating in a vacuum. and surely that makes it something? to quote Lev Landau, “Cosmologists are often wrong, but never in doubt.” i would imagine that the theory is more refined these days but i thought it was interesting.

#7: Squid! every year theres a competition held called the All England Squid Championships, where they try to catch the biggest squid. it is literally a squid game. but in 2012 the adverse conditions meant it was very difficult to catch squid. in fact, only one squid was caught that whole day, by Davide Thambithurai, and it was a third of an inch long. of course it won, but it doesnt feel like a win...

#8: Flowers! sunflowers, aka helianthus, can remove toxic substances from the soil, like arsenic, lead and uranium. after the chernobyl disaster, they were planted to remove caesium-137 and strontium-90 from a pond.

#9: Money! a pound of pounds is 52 pounds (nearly). thats right. If you want the most pounds in a pound, five pound coins (no longer minted) are your best bet: a pound of five pounds is 80 pounds. a more modern second place is a pound of two-pounds clocking in at 75.6 pounds, providing you chop of a fifth of that last one.

#10: Wet Wipes! they were invented by Arthur Julius, a cosmetics factory worker who took a soap portioning machine home in 1957. in 1958 he trademarked the name Wet-Nap which is still being used. his invention was unveiled at the National Restaurant Show in Chicago in 1960.

#11: Fwoggies! the Truadiobatrachus massinoti is an extinct species of “proto-frog” around 10cm long that is thought to be the common ancestor to all frogs.

#12: Chimpanzees! chimpanzees are really bad at rock paper scissors. it took them around 100 days to learn it and only 5 of the 7 subjects got it. and even then theyre awful because they just go for the same thing again and again. the tricky part was the circular nature of it: if scissors beats paper and rock beats scissors, why should paper beat rock? i expect most people have wondered this, actually. i spose you could wrap it up and hide it in a recycling bin... in japan, the traditional alternative is the tiger, the village chief, and the village chief’s mum. the mum kills the chief when he doesnt come home for tea, the chief kills the tiger when it threatens the village, and the tiger kills the mum because thats what tigers do. i think that makes much more sense.

#13: Ice Skating! the first ice skates were probably developed in scandinavia, c1000BC. this was probably more like sliding than skating, but when the dutch made sharp-edged blades in the 13th/14th century it became more refined. the first ice skating club in england was founded in edinburgh in the 1740s.

#14: Tetris! the game was developed partially in order to demonstrate how easy computers could be used, to show that a computer isnt just “a sophisticated thing to deal with numbers and spreadsheets, but also a fun toy to play a simple and engaging game.” the 10x20 grid that the game takes place on is called the matrix.

#15: Easter! 76% of people eat the ears of an easter bunny first.

#16: Trains! in the 50s, there was still a law that train operators had to run affordable 3rd class trains. but they didnt want people to pay less than lots, so they decided to remove the second class, and raise the price of the third class to that of the second, so they effectively had no third class but it was still around. they also gave chimney sweeps free travel because they could sit in third class in their skanky sooty clothes and scare away all the passengers, so people would rather pay the price for first class. sneaky!

#17: Sports Grounds! the oval in south london opened as Kennington Oval, because cricket grounds are shaped like an oval and its in Kennington. the word oval itself comes from latin “ovum” meaning egg. it gives its name to Oval Station, which was the first station in london to get electrified tracks.

#18: Stained Glass! one theory for the prevalence of stained glass was for the benefit of medieval churchgoers, who would have been illiterate, so the stories told through stained glass made the religion more accessible.

#19: Sounds Effects! one major progress moment for foley was the invention of the Vitaphone system by Warner Bros that allowed for sounds to be played in perfect synchronisation with film, allowing for complicated interlocking sounds.

#20: Hedges! formal hedges (the ones in topiaries) need to withstand regular shearing, but even the hardiest plants get tired of this, so they need to be allowed to grow a little longer every time theyre sheared. this means that eventually you need to cut it down and start again. this makes some types of tree very unsuitable for this sort of hedge, like many needle-leaved plants.

#21: Clown! the word Clown comes from cloyne in the 1560s meaning peasant or a man of rustic manners. theories include that it came from scandinavian or low german. one theory i like is that it came from the same stem as clod [of dirt] because clod and clot are used in many languages as synonyms for clown. another theory i find interesting is that it came from Latin “colonus” meaning colonist or farmer, but this seems less likely.

#22: Sedan Chairs! sedan chairs were named after the town of Sedan in France, where they were first used. when introduced to london, they were much cheaper than the hackney cabs, and were much quicker and more versatile, which was why they became so popular so quickly.

#23: Big Ships! Santa Maria, christopher columbus’s largest ship when he reached america, was only 19m long. the largest ship ever built is a tanker called the Seawise Giant, which is 457m long. it was bombed during the iraq-iran war, rebuilt, renamed, resold, rebuilt again, and scrapped after 34 years of life, 5 of which were spent doing nothing in a dock in japan.

#24: Count Dracula! he has appeared in nearly 300 films, making him the most portrayed film character! Christopher Lee has played 11 of these.

#25: Locusts! locust trees are a genus of north american trees used for decoration (and lumber). many of the plants’ flowers can also be eaten and are often had in pancakes and fritters. theyre allegedly called this because the flowers look like locusts... the word locust itself comes from Old French “languste” from Latin “locusta” which is also the origin of langoustine and lobster. people arent quite sure how the c in locust went to a p in loppestre - the prevailing theory is that it was an intentional corruption, influenced by the Old English for spider, “loppe”.

#26: the Charts! since the start of the charts, bands have been trying to cheat the system. rich artists in america would buy and resell thousands and thousands of their own songs to get into the charts. until quite recently, if you bought a t-shirt or went to a gig, it would come with a free record, just so they could say they sold one.

#27: Conspiracy Theories! heres a few more conspiracy theories:

the ice bucket challenge is a baptism ritual for indoctrinating people into satanism.

nigerias 75yo president, who was ill for a while, is a clone.

the hadron collider is a gateway for shiva.

finland doesnt exist - its a ploy by the swedish, russians and japanese to get more fishing rights. the top bit is allegedly just part of sweden and the bottom bit you see on the maps is all sea.

pokemon go is designed by the US government to track everyone. if they wanted to track you, im guessing there are easier ways to do it.

dinosaurs built the pyramids of egypt.

back to the future predicted the 9/11 attacks and the JFK assassination.

the earth is hollow and filled with civilisations.

#28: Bri’ish Monarchs! 88% of brits think queen elizabeth ii faced to the left on all the coins, but she actually faced to the right. this may be because she faced to the left on stamps, but in denmark, there is exactly the same false bias, and the queen of denmark faces outwards on the stamps. this negates the stamp theory, in favour of the fact that its a right-handed thing. apparently its just easier to draw profiles towards the left. the monarchy alternates the direction of facing, since charles ii: the first coin with charles iii on it was recently minted and he is facing to the left, just like george vi.

#29: Caviar! even though its fish eggs, the name derives from bird. it comes from Persian “khaviyar” from Middle Persian “Khayak” from Old Iranian root “qvyaka”, a diminutive of “avya-” from PIE “owyo-” meaning “egg” from root “_awi-” meaning “bird”. this root is also the source of ocarina (diminutive of italian “oca” meaning goose), as in the game.

#30: Microorganisms! sadly, the NCTC havent published their christmas quiz yet. but there was an experiment where tardigrades were shot out of a gun. they survived speeds of up to 2 kilometres per second and pressures of up to 1.4 gigapascals and apparently their gait simply goes dizzy.

#31: Magnetism! Hans Christian Ørsted was the lad who discovered that an electric current produces a magnetic field. he initially discovered this in april, 1820, but he ignored it for three months for some reason... there is a CGS unit named after him, the oersted, which is equivalent to one dyne per maxwell.

#XXXII: Roman Numerals! man, dem engineers getting everywhere! even the i’s in roman numerals are turning into j’s! thats right, during the middle ages when lowercase letters were favoured, the last i in a chain was changed to a j, possibly as a swash variant. this was actually continued into the 20th century in medical documents. the medieval scribes really wanted everything a lot shorter, though, so they started inventing new roman numerals willy nilly. like s for vii (“s”even), S for lxx (“S”EVENTY i guess), F for xl (“F”ORTY), O for xi (“O”NZE). for some reason an X with a little tick after it was 9.5 and a K was 151. maybe they were fans of gen 1?

#33: Potatoes! the Frietmuseum is a museum in Bruges dedicated to chips. it was founded in 2008 by eddy van belle in a building from 1399. exhibits include the history of potatoes, the history of potato peelers, artworks of chips, and how to make the perfect fries. i visited bruges not long ago and im sad i missed this.

#34: Lighthouses! the Sharps Island Lighthouse was blown off its pedestal in 1881, and was swept five miles down the bay with the keepers still inside. It was rebuilt, but this new lighthouse was subject to 40 feet of ice in 1976, pushing it over to an angle of about 15 degrees, rather leaning-tower-of-pisa-esque.

#35: the Channel Tunnel! one major concern of construction was that animals could carry rabies through the tunnel onto the otherwise rabies-free island. another major concern i already talked about was invasion. oh and by the way, the trains drive on the left for the whole duration of the tunnel.

#36: Dinosaurs! one of the earliest known dinosaurs was the Eoraptor, whose name means “dawn plunderer”, allegedly because it lived in the dawn of the dinosaurs. the eo prefix comes from greek “eos” meaning dawn, which comes from the same root as aurora, east, easter, austria and australia. so aurora australis means dawn dawn wind. or something.

#37: Spreadsheets! Tatsuo Horiuchi, aka the Michelangelo of Excel, uses Excel to create digital vector paintings of japanese landscapes.

#38: Cowboys! since they were exposed to a lot of cacti, cowboys wear chaps on their legs. no, not fellows, nor flakey lips, nor divisions of political parties. a piece of leather clothing thats like leggings with a belt. they were originally used in southern spain by vaqueros.

#39: Cats! cats spend 13-16 hours a day sleeping, which is quite typical of predatory animals. the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, was an orange tabby called Stubbs, for 20 years! this town also holds annual moose dropping festivals. it only has 900 residents so the cat doesnt hold much legislative power. according to the manager at a general store, “He doesn’t raise our taxes - we have no sales tax. He doesn’t interfere with business. He’s honest.”

#40: Coyotes! theres one story in the indigenous Chinookan folklore where a half-coyote, half-human goes up to a river and tries to fish but it cant so it does a big poo and the poo tells it that its really bad at fishing, so the coyote-thing asks the poo how to fish and the poo gives detailed instruction. the next day the coyote-thing comes back to the river and forgot how to fish, so it does another big poo, and the poo gives even more detailed instructions. and thats how the coyote learned how to fish.

#41: Car Safety! the WHO has a list of 7 utmost important regulations of safety standards, but only 40 countries comply with them and 80% of cars sold are not compliant. in the US, a pedestrian is hit by a car every 8 minutes. 90% of crashes are caused at least in part by human error according to Stanford Law School.

#42: Hibernation! even fish hibernate. for example, the antarctic cod (Notothenia coriiceps) burrows under the seabed for days at a time during the polar night.

#43: Carrageen Algae! most algae are photosynthetic, but some are mixotrophic, getting some energy from phagotrophy and myzocytosis. but some are parasitic! for example, the Oodinium algae is a genus of dinoflagellates that causes velvet disease in fish by living inside the gills and covering it in its yellowy spores.

#44: PEZ! each PEZ sweets is 15x8x5mm. The logo is made to appear like its constructed out of 44 sweets (a total coincidence that thats the week number, i swear!), making the P 41mm tall, the E 35mm tall and the Z somewhere between 24 and 32mm tall. even thought theyre all portrayed as the same size...

#45: Folding Chairs! the two major varieties of folding chairs are called Front-X and Side-X for obvious reasons. side-X chairs are actually defined by having the support for the backrest and front foot conjoined.

#46: Lightning Rods! lightning rods are often called finials because they act as a finial. sometimes a finial acts as a lightning rod. why cant one thing be two things, i spose. a finial is some sort of pointy thing that emphasises the apex of a building, for example a dome, spire or tower. some finials are pinnacles and some finials are called bouquets. it comes from latin “finis” meaning end, because the finial is the end of the building. but if you didnt have a lightning rod, then surely _that_s the end of your building? xD

#47: Avatar! in Avatar the last airbender, the people can manipulate one of the four elements. The moves for each element was inspired by a different martial art: waterbending by T’ai chi; earthbending by Hung Gar, firebending for Northern Shaolin and Ba Gua for airbending. the styles for each was carefully selected to reflect the element and characters. but interestingly, Toph Beifong who was born blind, was completely self-taught in the ways of earthbending, so her moves are like Southern Praying Mantis, a martial art stemming from a type of kung-fu, which focuses on the hands and speed. there are five main branches of this style, each refined by a different family.

#48: from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu! the first example of rhyming found is the Chinese Shi Jing from c.10th century BC. rhyming is occasionally used in the bible as well. The Quran also uses a form of rhymed prose called saj’. it is known that the ancient greeks knew of rhyming, but classical greek/latin poetry only used it occasionally.

#49: Darts! the line you throw from is called the oche, and must be 7’9” from the board, which is most often positioned at 5’8” off the ground. just from what little i can find around and about, the word used to be hockey (probably pronounced like the hokey pokey) and this word seemed to spring up from nowhere. there is a theory that it comes from the brewery “S. Hockey and Sons” and their crates were used as the toe-line. however, it is unlikely, because there arent any records of such a brewery.

#50: Disneyland! the park in california costed $17m to build, and took 2500 labourers. it is the only of many disney parks to be overseen by walt disney himself. the bench he sat on to dream up the idea of the park is for some reason on display in the park.

#51: Pub Quiz!! for the grand grand finale of the year, heres seven more pub quiz questions! theyre going to be impossibly difficult, as ever, but the theme for this set is #aFactADay! thats right - seven meta-facts!!

1) throughout the whole of #aFactADay2022 and #aFactADay2021, how many characters (not including newlines or the hashtags themselves) were used?

2) throughout the three hashtags, 1.6589% of letters were uppercase. in just #aFactADay2022, what percentage of letters were uppercase?

3) how many spaces are in #aFactADay2022?

4) in #aFactADay2022, how many prices in GBP or USD are mentioned?

5) of the 6447 capital letters used in the three hashtags, how many of them were Es?

6) in 2021, 100%, 85% and 6% were the most commonly used percentages at 3 occurrences each, followed closely by a tie between 2%, 3%, 5%, 8%, 16% and 80% at 2 occurrences each. in 2022, what were the most commonly used percentages?

7) on the first of january, 2022, what time was the first ever #aFactADay2022 posted? one point for on ph and one point for on discord.

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ANSWERS:

1) 503274. this is about three and a half times the length of hamlet, shakespeares longest play.

2) 1.43229936%. i find it interesting that the capital density went down this year.

3) 45622. i didnt count newlines in this, and emoji had a space either side so they were counted double. apart from this, its a close estimate for the wordcount. this is about two-thirds the length of frankenstein by mary shelley. which i struggle to believe because i read most of the fotd-2022s in about three days, but it took me about three months to read frankenstein.

4) 46. i just did a count for all the instances of $ and £ so it should be close enough. in 2021 it was just 24.

5) 145. this is just 1 in 44 capitals, whereas the lowercase e makes up about 1 in 8. i will now refer you to the lipogrammatic works of Georges Perec, and in particular, his univocalic novel, which i impulsively bought late at night a few months ago simply because its cool.

6) 4% and 60% were both used three times in 2022.

7) 11:11 on pokeheroes and 12 minutes later at 11:23 on discord. there is approximately a 30% chance that i posted at 11:12 on pokeheroes, which doesnt have the same ring to it (this uncertainty derives from the way it rounds the date). i didnt note it down, you see, i just stalked the feed until the time since posting changed. i say i stalked it, i mean i got some code to stalk it for me.

#52: Christmas! brits love sprouts. 25% of sprout sales in the UK happen in the 2 weeks before christmas - as mentioned previously, thats 750 million! if you lined these up, it would stretch from london to sydney! however, some estimates (there are disagreements on this) say that around 12 million sprouts go uneaten. some sources claim this figure is as high as 300 million. why are sprouts so divisive?? (i love em xD ) well apparently theres a gene carried by about two-thirds of people that makes you taste a sharp bitterness in sprouts that not everyone tastes.

and that concludes #aFactADay2022!!! happy new year, and see you tomorrow :D