#there's a lot that I would choose multiple for

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I think it's probably ACB (773).

From @kay-lock-key-lock:

The multiple choice answers seem to be chosen by a human after the actual numbers, since 798 is not possible, and the number of possibilities (with and without multiplicity) is close to the expected value for a uniform distribution from 759-802. For the total, a human would probably not pick it to be A or D, as that doesn't feel random. This makes 759 and 802 less likely. But BBD has too many Bs, especially considering the result is also B, and a human would probably not choose that many.

Also comparing each position's values (ABCD), the horses are always the most and the paws are always the least, and a human would likely only do this if this was also true in the original sample, so this rules out DBC and BBD.

Finally, we can look at the numbers themselves. Note that 299 is quite a special number, being 300-1. 235 is also the only number divisible by 5 in the entire sample. And all of ACB are odd, as is their sum. Also, there is only one even number in the crabs, horses, and paws, and two in the total. Now there's two possibilities here: either they selected the numbers beforehand, or they didn't (either counting after the fact or just stopping arbitrarily). If they selected the numbers beforehand, ACB is unlikely due to the 299 and 235. But if they didn't, it is more likely, because it kinda makes sense that they wouldn't choose any special numbers or numbers divisible by 5. We should be cautious that they are all odd though, since that has a 1/8 chance of happening if they're actually selected randomly. It's still possible that the numbers were chosen beforehand though, and maybe they had like exactly 300 or something but removed 1 to make it more "random". For BBD though, there are a lot of 7s and this would match up well with them picking the numbers beforehand.

If I'm wrong my second guess is BBD (also 773).

Another attempt is https://www.tumblr.com/consult-sherlockholmes/779664878531182592/when-you-take-my-calculated-answer-for-the-paws?source=share.

Both bread and @consult-sherlockholmes don't account for the empty space between the paws and stuff and are likely inaccurate. Also, sherlock has the added inaccuracy of there possibly being more paws at the top than the bottom, or vice versa, possible because of the order they were put in or the densities of the paws/horses/crabs. The two are also off by a factor of around 2 from each other on the paw volume. My calculations give a paw size of 1.83 * 2.94 * 1.07 with the smallest dimension having an error of ±0.08. This is much closer to bread's estimate but it's hard to say how accurate it is without running an actual simulation or something.

who doesn't love a ball toy pit?

ever wondered how many crabs might fit in a confined space? what number of horses might go into a padded pool? what quantity of paws might populate a pit typically filled with colorful plastic balls? well, you’re in luck.

for no reason at all, we have decided to make you do some math: we have filled a ball pit measuring exactly 32” x 8" with some true tumblr icons. more pics below (including, of course, a banana for scale). you have 24 hours to guess how many of each toy appears. good luck!

but that's not all—we have more polls for your guessing pleasure:

poll 1: how many crabs have infested the pool? poll 2: what number of mini horse friends? poll 3: how many tiny toe beans are contained within?

happy voting!

[sirfrogsworth]

Frogworth! I have a question about how photography circles might view this, and I hesitate to ask reddit because it can be so... Well, you know.

But, in online painting/drawing circles, it's typically viewed as unprofessional to allow any shadow to show in a picture of a traditional piece of artwork, like a painting, ink drawing, sketch, etc. Is it the same in photography circles?

I ask because I think it's fun to play with allowing light and shade of the natural world to intrude on the drawn picture, especially when it Emphasizes the tone and emotion of the piece.

I'm definitely still gonna do it no matter what because I like how those techniques emphasize my work, but I AM curious how you lot view it!

I'll be honest, I am not entirely sure what you are referring to. So if you could maybe give more context or examples, that might be helpful.

But I am happy to talk about the importance of shadows in photography. And hopefully by telling you everything I know about shadows, I will answer your question by accident.

Shadows are vital to most photography. One case I think of when shadows are a problem is if you are using lighting from multiple angles. This can cause some unattractive shadows forming in many directions.

(The following examples are not my photos except for the last one.)

It's kind of a trade off. If you want sculpting light, you just have to accept the cluster of shadows.

And another example might be in a photo with a lot of dynamic range. If you have a bright sky and dark shadows, the camera may not be able to expose for both. So you have to choose which to prioritize.

Or you can do an HDR composite and combine multiple photos.

I would say for natural light genres, black and white photographers specialize in using shadows for their benefit. In many cases, they make the shadows their main subject.

Studio photographers will talk about using hard or soft light. Hard light (small light source) reveals texture, soft light (large light source) hides it. Neither is better or worse, it just depends on the context. But another way to think of this is by the shadows created.

Soft light produces graduated shadows that slowly fall off and hard light produces sharp shadows.

In a product photography context, this showcases two very different styles.

Hard light photographers use very bright lights on giant light stands in order to get a very small light source as far away from the product as possible. They might even angle the donut-shaped flash tube sideways to make the light a tiny bit smaller. The goal is to get the sharpest, crispest shadows possible.

You can do this with the sun at high noon or on the moon, but those aren't very convenient circumstances. Otherwise you need a studio with a 20 foot ceiling and a giraffe boom light stand. The farther away the light is, the smaller it is, the crisper the shadows.

The other style is graduated lighting—where shadows get more and more transparent over a given distance. This is done by shining a hard light into diffusion so you make the light source very big, but it is brighter in the center and darker around the edges, enhancing the shadow fall off.

If you are really clever, you can combine the two styles.

The chrome caps have graduated shadows but the containers produce sharp shadows. This is done through the magical lighting technique of... taking two photos and combining them in Photoshop.

Sorry, can't violate physics.

In portrait light, playing with shadows is usually the best way to add dramatic effect. One of the most famous lighting setups is Rembrandt Lighting, modeled after the painter's oft-used technique. The goal is to get a triangle patch of light on the shadow side of the face.

But more advanced lighting setups will use shadows in all sorts of cool ways to add drama.

But one of my favorite tricks involving shadows is colored ambient fill light. Fill light is a technique where you raise or lower the intensity of the ambient light to make shadows lighter or darker. Typically this is done by shooting a light into the ceiling, making the entire room brighter. But you can also use soft boxes, reflectors, or gobos (a black, light absorbing material).

You still have the bright main light as the dominant source, but by raising the ambient intensity you can lighten any shadows.

To make this more fun, you can make the fill light a specific color. Either with an RGB source or a color gel. And then any shadow in your photo will tint that color.

I wish I could teach this technique to YouTubers because many of them just blast a colored light from off to the side and it can look pretty harsh.

Edge lighting should not encroach that far onto the face. And if it does, doing a fill light technique is going to look a lot smoother and more natural. Or just a giant softbox could work. (I don't mean to pick on Jessie, this was just the first example I could remember.)

You can even do a colored main light and a shadow fill and then the transition between the two will be a third color. In this case, magenta key, blue fill, and a purple transition.

And then finally there is the absence of shadows. This is what ring lights are *actually* intended for. They surround the face in all directions to eliminate as many shadow areas as possible. This is often seen as very flattering because it hides skin texture and pores, which is why it is popular for makeup tutorials.

Playing with shadows is a huge part of photography. A lot of beginner studio photographers will only think about adding light. When you start thinking about the shadows, that is when you graduate to the next level of light design.

Light reveals and shadows dramatize.

[halliescomut]

Am I back on my KimChay bullshit?

So like...the big sads have been real big, and so I truly haven't been doing anything in terms of writing, especially for my longform KimChay fic...but I'm still thinking about them, and I have a thought that I seriously doubt is original, and I'm very certain I've read at least a couple of fics with this included, and that is Virgin Kim.

^This Kim-100% a virgin for sure.

Leaving aside that virginity is a construct, it's not something I ever really thought a whole lot about when writing my fic. I honestly tend more towards an assumption that no one in KinnPorsche is a virgin except perhaps Tankhun...because of the whole Ace thing. (The Ace thing being some general fanon agreement that Tankhun is Ace, or at the very least somewhere within the asexual/aromantic spectrum.) So for myself, you could categorize that I present Chay as a virgin given that prior to his first time having sex with Kim he hadn't had penetrative sex with a partner of any gender. But even i don't have a hard line about that as a concept within the fic. I just felt like if you are going to be having sex with someone (especially penetrative sex) that's a conversation that needs to be had. So I had to basically decide Yes or No and I chose No. He hadn't done that particular act with another person, but he had engaged in other sexual acts and even fooled around on his own.

But to get to my actual point. There's a pretty clear idea of how the other TPK's whose sex lives that we have knowledge of, engage with the general idea of sex, and the act of sex. Both Kinn and Vegas engage in sex from a perspective of exerting control.

With Vegas this is pretty obvious in that he's very clearly portrayed as a Dominant. And even in (I'm gonna use the word relationship, but I mean that SOOO loosely) relationships beyond Pete where it's not an established and understood dynamic necessarily, he's always in control and he's often using sex as a way to manipulate or exert control over partners beyond the bedroom. We also know that he intentionally seeks out former sexual partners of Kinn specifically with the intent to fuck them as a way of kind of poking at Kinn. That's a not unrelated reason for his rather lackadaisical pursuit of Porsche.

Kinn is more subtle (just in general) than Vegas, but his relationship with sex does feel very directly related to control as well. Now I'm making some logical leaps, based on the information we're given in the series, my very poor memory of speed reading a moderately okay translation of the novel, and just a general understanding of the "standards" often seen in Thai BL especially around the time of KinnPorsche's release, but Kinn only tops. We see through the series some vague questioning of his ability to lead, and while his sexuality isn't brought up as a a reason why, there's kind of these things left unsaid. By being openly gay within the series, it doesn't seem to be something kept secret in any way, he's kind of starting out at a disadvantage, because realistically the people he's having to make deals with are gonna be homophobic. Social groups where the concept of masculinity is such an important part of a man's identity but also a framework that is pretty fucking narrow creates a space where homophobia will run pretty rampant. So it's 'okay' that Kinn has sex with men, but more specifically it's 'okay' because he's the one doing the fucking and not getting fucked. So in order to maintain this appearance of masculinity, he can't (and doesn't) bottom.

I don't think this is something that is set in stone, especially post series canon, and I've discussed oddly at length the position preferences of multiple BL characters (you can read that here I guess). But to summarize specifically Kinn and Vegas's preferences- Vegas always tops, even post series, and I'd hazard to say that prior to the story start would only choose to bottom in VERY specific circumstances. Kinn, as stated before has only topped within series canon and prior to it, but in post canon I believe that he would not solely top. I believe that as he becomes more comfortable and secure in his relationship with Porsche, they would eventually get to a point of not holding to that dynamic stringently. And this is both because of the level of trust they've built with each other, which you can see in the sort of playfulness that is present int heir sex lives after their kidnapping. But also (I think) because of the recognition that Kinn would have that he is the only man Porsche had ever been with and he should be able to have the full breadth of possible experiences when it comes to sex with men, they both should. From there, their more long-term preferences would develop once they have full understanding of all sides...you know?

Vegas, as a more 'traditional' Dom (realistically Kinn is Dominant in the way that many Tops in Thai BL are, in that it's almost more happenstance than intentional and it very rarely bleeds into the overall story) has a much deeper relationship between his desire for control and his preference for topping, because that control does bleed into all aspects of his relationship with Pete (and Tawan), not just their sex life.

And looking further you can pretty easily establish why they develop the preferences they have. They both want power because in the long run power means choices. And they both want control, not just over the TPK Family Business, but their own lives. By virtue of their birth and who their fathers are, neither Kinn nor Vegas have much control over their own lives. Outside of what they wear and who they sleep with, that's pretty much it a lot of the time. The expectations of how they should act, the acts they have to do in their roles as heir, filled with violence, blood, dishonesty. Every word from their fathers, the people they should be able to trust the most, full of hidden agendas, secret plans. This constant pressure of not even knowing if the choices you're making are your own, or are you being led into them like some obedient lamb? And perhaps if they truly trusted their fathers that idea of being led into certain 'choices' wouldn't be so bad, but they don't (and they shouldn't). So in one the few aspect of their lives in which every decision truly is theirs (who they sleep with and how)....they can't give up that control. Because this is almost the singular space in which they feel in control. They also can't be vulnerable in the way you would have to be, because they've been taught this ugly lesson that being vulnerable opens you up for people to use you, to hurt you, to plot against you.

And with that understanding of truly how little control any of this particular generations of TPK men has, where does that leave us for the rest. Tankhun, as discussed exerts his control by being out of control. Not a single person in the fandom truly believes that Tankhun is all the way cracked. Whether you think it comes and goes, or you think that he's kinda playing it up at this point in order to keep himself out of the Family Business, I don't know a single fan who thinks he's all the way gone.

But for Kim, who has removed himself both physically and emotionally from the family to try and take control, who has also been raised in these houses full of lies, where you can't really ever know who you can trust, where does that put him? For me, I think it's feasible that it puts Kim in a space where he doesn't ever open up to anyone in a way that becomes a physical sexual relationship. Even as a college student, moneyed, and living on his own, I don't think he's bringing "study dates" home. As a budding idol building a fanbase with an incredibly handsome face that could pull him a tail of myriad genders...I don't think he's going for it. His priorities as we've seen them are pretty limited, mostly based around his music career, and protecting his siblings, and little else. And I do think a lot of this is related to his age, we don't really have hard numbers in the book or the series, but general idea is he leaves the Main Family house around 16. Now he could have already have been having sex, but these control and trust issues would have already existed prior to the move out. Plus the general average age of loss of virginity is around 18-20 pretty much across the board, and it's potential that he wouldn't have had the desire or opportunity prior to the move out. (This whole discussion does hinge on him wanting to have sex, I'll touch on AroAceKim later.)

And post moveout, he's now got all of your standard adult responsibilities and expectations while still being a kid. Adultified-ness of all of the KinnPorsche characters of that generation aside, that's a lot to handle mentally. And we've seen other characters handle it through sex, Kinn and Porsche specifically, but is that truly an option for Kim? Kinn can take whoever he wants to the Main Family house and not truly be worried about what they might see or hear, because they're either pre-screened, or a part of that social circle. But Kim's option is his only private space and the first space he's occupied that's really his, and he doesn't have (can also be read as refuses to use) resources that would prescreen potential sex partners, and also doesn't want anything to do with people who exist in that social circle, because he's trying to distance himself from it. Porsche can bang chicks in the back alley behind Hum Bar whenever he wants, but if Kim does want to actively pursue his music career, that's not really an option for him, because of the expectation of a moral standard from musicians/idols in Thailand.

So it's entirely reasonable to think that prior to the series and his relationship with Chay that he wouldn't have been sexually experienced. I do think the novel operates under an assumption of previous sexual experience, but not in any truly thought out or character driven way in my opinion. And the novel very directly presents the Kim Chay love story as one of first love for BOTH sides. Yes, it's very much in a doomed romance Romeo and Juliet way, but it's very clearly meant to show that both of them are experiencing this for the first time. (See previous ramble about this here.) And without the sort of naive confidence that love gives you to do something 'stupid' would Kim have ever really have taken the chance by having a sexual relationship with anyone else. Signs point to No.

And the portrayal of Kim by Jeff within the series supports this to me. In interactions with practically every character except Chay he's very detached, very serious, even his small quips with Tankhun feel distant. And in the beginning, he's distant from Chay, but Chay's warmth kind of breaks though, specifically in a way that he finds both surprising and terrifying. The moment of recognition he has in episode 5 that Chay kinda just is who he is, there's no subterfuge, almost leaves him at a loss for words. I know we joke about how the series presents Kim to be this ridiculously inept detective, but I really do feel like that's more a result from him dealing with someone who has no plan or interest in lying to him...something he's basically never encountered before. And Chay's casual honesty and openness pretty quickly disarms Kim completely, and then we're seeing him have that "Oh...OH" moment where he first really knows that his feelings for Chay are both real and real serious. So realistically, within the narrative that we've been presented, Chay is the first person Kim has loved romantically, and we see him be there first person that Kim takes risks for, that he truly reenters the mafia world for, breaking promises he'd made to himself in order to keep Chay safe. And he's the first person we really see Kim be unselfish for. None of us as viewers really blame him for 'being selfish' in regards to leaving the Family Business to pursue music, though other members of the Family (*cough* Korn *cough*) do see his choices that way. And his choice to kind of let Chay hate him is an attempt to be unselfish, to put this person he values more than himself first with the hope that this will mean he'll be safe. {It's a stupid decision, but it does come from a good place, and also I think he thought Porsche would take Chay and run after the kidnapping.}

So all of this to say...I think narratively it would make sense for Kim to be a virgin at the time of the events of the series. Because while theoretically he would have had ample time and opportunity to have sex with whoever he pleased, he's a fucked up little guy. One who struggles to trust and be open with anyone, and while sex doesn't inherently require trust, I think especially as a teen when this freedom first came to him, it would have. Because he's been smacked by the hand that feeds him a lot.

My notes about Kim's slow recognition of his feelings for Chay and their depth also explains why many fans see Kim existing somewhere within the AroAce spectrum, as he does seem very caught off guard by the whole concept of love especially. Because it is easy to understand why he may not trust love as a concept, while still knowing that he does love his brothers and I think wants to love his father. But romantic love seems practically made up and you have to figure the only example of that he'd ever have seen in real life might have been Kinn's relationship with Tawan, which ended in betrayal.

I actually think it's more reasonable to assume Chay is sexually experienced. Because I think that sex would have been discussed pretty matter-of-factly in their home, making it something that wasn't necessarily precious, but also wasn't something to play around with willy-nilly. I don't think that Porsche would have ever really discouraged Chay from having sex, but would have rather bluntly instructed him on how to do it safely, because risks of pregnancy or an STI are simply not risks they can take. And so at 17 or 18, whether before he met Kim, or during their break-up era, I think it's not outside of the realm of possibility that Chay would have experimented sexually, especially considering that he did have fairly poor supervision for a teenager. (I don't blame Porsche, he was doing his best.) Really the only thing that makes me hesitant on being 100% sure on the sex thing before he meets Kim is that we do know that Kim is the first person he's ever confessed to. And while feelings aren't required for sex, Chay is a rather romantic soul and so I think would want to have feelings involved if he was having sex. This does go a bit out the window during break-up era because while I don't see him making a direct choice to have sex with someone as a sort of revenge against Kim, I can see him following the "the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else" mantra in an emotional way. Try to pursue something with someone new with this idea that if he can just push past all this and really put his feeling for Kim behind him in this sort of 'first heartbreak' memory bank he'll just never have to think about it or deal with it again.

Well that was 2.6k words that I probably could have summed up in under 100 but....it is what it is. I hope you enjoyed.

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Hi yes, discovered this literally 3 days ago and am Obsessed! Something I noticed in my read-through is how Fireheart contains qualities from ALL the clans (no doubt intentional) and how his opening dreams seem to contain landscapes of multiple clans (like he was "destined" to be a clan cat, but which clan was up in the air). So I guess the question is, while I think he could have thrived in any clan, which would suit him the most?

Thunderclan was the most convenient, yes, with them sharing a border with the Houses and Bluestar (at least in the books) being desperate. Fire does share a lot of traits with them like their loyalty, but it's evident in the Redux that there are moments where their opposing views scrape against each other.

Fire's friendliness matches well with RiverClan and his endless curiosity about the culture would have been answered time after time again with all their stories (maybe he'd have even learned to count!), their extra familiarity with humans on the path could have smoothed the way a bit too! Firepaw could have really benefitted from the more relaxed lifestyle of RiverClan too (though he'd have to get used to swimming real fast).

WindClan could also help sate his curiosity with their knowledge of the outside would alongside the clans, and I'm sure Firepaw would have taken to learning Fang like a fish to water (who knows how good he would actually be though). Their dry humor would mesh well with his general friendliness as we see with Wrenwhisker and the clan is also certainly no strangers to more outward friendliness, just look at Larkbelly!

Finally, ShadowClan seems like the least obvious choice, but if we choose to temporarily ignore BrokenStar (maybe in a hypothetical Fire joined or was born late), he also shares a lot of similarities with the marsh cats too! He is certainly hard working enough for the clan to take advantage of and the town wouldn't be that much of a shock for Fire to get used to, different, yes, but not exactly new. This is also yet another clan that would gladly tell Fire ALLL about StarClan and it's stories (maybe I'm just saying TC needs to share more), plus it seems like Fire was practically MADE to be a Warden, with his love for caring for others. Plus, look on the bright side! This may be the one clan where Fire would be bigger than the rest of the cats!

Sorry for the long ask but I'm kinda obsessed with this idea (obviously none of them are perfect, not even considering HOW he would join each clan) but I find it a very interesting mind teaser that I would love to hear your views on! <3

Hello and welcome to the party! Glad to have you on board, and with an interesting ask.

People have asked before what it would be like for him in other Clans, and I've held the answer that he really could make it in any of them, though each would come with their own difficulties. RiverClan's swimming, WindClan's speed and larger prey, ThunderClan's standoffish attitude and favoring of physical strength, and ShadowClan's consistent stretches of hunger all present a serious challenge for him, even with the positives that you've listed. Yellowfang was right that he could've ended up in any Clan and been fine. Those sparks Spottedleaf saw were not just visible in the forest, after all.

I think the question, then, could be altered from "which would he do best in" (since the answer is "any of them, pretty equally") to "which Clan would benefit from having him the most". The answer to that is ThunderClan. Fireheart would be a normal, friendly, well-liked warrior in all of the Clans, but that wouldn't make him remarkable. It's ThunderClan that desperately needs his guidance and steadfast refusal to look away when someone outside of his group is hurting. He is special in this story because he ended up in the Clan where he would stand out the most, and the changes made due to his personality and willpower are much more significant as a result. He struggles in a way unique to ThunderClan's culture that he wouldn't in the other territories.

This is one of those things where the Clans themselves need to be considered more than Fireheart does. Who would do best with him in it, not where he could do best himself, if that makes sense. And God knows ThunderClan has definitely been behooved by bringing him into their circle.

[caughtthedarkness93]

Ok, even from the perspective of someone who doesn't like sex scenes and never writes them, this take is also just flat wrong. I find the way sex is used in narratives is often pretty annoying, there are many times when sex scenes contribute meaningfully to themes and story.

I think of Park Chan Wook's film The Handmaiden, where there are multiple sex scenes, but they're some of the few scenes in the film where characters can be honest with one another, which in a multilayered puzzle box of con artistry, is important, especially given how deeply wounded a few of these characters are. I would shorten those scenes if I had the edit (I'm not the target for erotic thrillers being a largely sex-averse asexual), but I wouldn't cut them out entirely because they do serve a narrative purpose, and a really important one.

Or what about Mulholland Drive, where the whole film is arguably about living into a fantasy where you can reap the benefits of a world where you didn't do the awful thing you did in the real world? I think it'd be a lesser film if you cut all the sex out. Same with a lot of David Lynch's work, which frequently explores sexuality, particularly in terms of people's self-destructive relationships with it.

There's also Mandy, which has a strong subtext of being about how powerful men will destroy that which makes them feel weak and emasculated and that's very connected to the relationship between masculinity and sex.

I thought long enough, I could come up with numerous examples, and I'm someone who doesn't even like sex scenes and largely rolls my eyes at and ignores them.

Like I get wanting to do something different, but "Our media, and by extension our culture has an unhealthy relationship with sex and should reconsider how it views it" and "People should be allowed to engage with sex however they want without shame even if I wouldn't choose to engage with it that way myself" are opinions that can coexist.

Shout out if you also include erotica or smut in your works to turn meaningful narrative into an indulgent detour designed only to stimulate arousal

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I see there's posts floating around directly and blatantly arguing against mine (same wording) by completely misunderstanding what I said. I'm fucking BACK, babey. Should've bought some hay-scented fragrance while I was at Sephora today, because I am once again your strawman!

[manie-sans-delire-xx]

There is no logistics to figure out, because if you are imprisoning someone you are re-creating jail. Say you abolish all jails and prisons, its all gone. The next time someone commits a murder, you have only four options: 1- kill or torture them, 2- banish them into wilderness (where they will most likely die slowly), 3- let them continue to roam in civilization, 4- lock or tie them up, recreating jail/imprisonment. And it would be done instantly with no evidence, only an accusation, because collecting evidence and determining guilt beforehand requires time, and time requires holding the suspect somewhere secure. Therefore, jails and prisons will always exist, they have to.

Your whole proposal is vigilante justice and just trusting that "good people" will kill off all the "bad people", based off no evidence or structure. Every governmental break down shows that this is Not what happens when society breaks down. In chaos, crime and sexual assault rates rise, they do not fall.

Say a mans daughter is murdered. He kills the murderer. But whoops, wrong guy! Now what? Should the false-murderer's family murder him? But he didnt mean to, he was just trying to avenge his daughter. What about the mans family? Wont they want justice and revenge too? Even if he killed the right guy, would that guys family just believe him and accept it with no problems? Where does it end? There will just be chaos and lots of anger and fighting and wrongful death.

Murderers and rapists often choose victims who have no family or people who care about them, even now they do this- thats why the homeless, drug addicts, and prostitutes are the populations at greatest risk.

Also, most abuse and sexual assault happens at the hands of family and friends. They're not likely to punish themselves. And not every crime is witnessed, either. Many times the only witness- the victim- is dead. In these cases, governmental law enforcement are the victims only voice. Forensic professionals are needed to identity and find the perpetrator(s).

Many crimes arent committed by one perp, but a whole organized ring of powerful criminals. "The People" are too afraid and unable to fight against that. Even figuring out how its all operating enough to take it down requires multiple fields of professionals. And a lot of ammunition.

Many crimes are crimes that should be punished, but arent to the extreme of being murdered for it. So how should those be dealt with? Corporal punishment, a whipping? Community service, even if they are not safe for other people? People used to cut off thieves hands. Public whippings and stonings. Jail was created as a mercy, a more compassionate alternative to corporal punishment. (I dont even necessarily agree with that personally, but its what society decided.)

Many criminals are teenagers, even young children, yes even murderers and rapists, torturers. Many criminals are severe abuse victims.

Some people are deeply mentally ill and disturbed, and not safe in the public, yet are not able to be held criminally liable. What should we do with them, if not keeping them in a secure location? Not in jail of course, but any hold is still imprisonment.

Its a deeply imperfect system, no doubt! I agree with you on all that. Its full of injustice and theres SO much to work on and fix. But jails and prisons, imprisonment, in some form will always exist, they have to exist.

Prison abolitionists are like "only some rapists go to jail right now, so we might as well make it so none of them do :)"

[sugarsweetvirgo]

Eve's bio says she hates dollhouses because they make her feel like she's being compared to a toy. Valid! I don't like the idea of keeping tinies in dollhouses usually, either - unless they've been specifically made for the tiny and are essentially a normal house made smol. How does she feel about pockets? I assume the answer is obviously different depending on the owner of the pocket.

Yesssssss, someone gets it!! 😭

Eve HATES dollhouses with a passion, and this also extends to doll-esq items such as fake furniture or doll clothes. She thinks it's demeaning, it makes her feel infantilized and affects her sense of autonomy.

When it comes to pockets, you're right on the nose when it depends on who it is. She much prefers to be held on someone's palm or sit on their shoulder, but pockets feel like a more intimate space. It's a place that's usually pressed very close to someone and tends to be very confining, so she feels very uncomfortable if someone like Mokuba or even her own parents place her in one, let alone a stranger.

With Kaiba, however, she's more than comfortable. That's her partner, someone she wants to be close to, so she does tend to occasionally ride out in his pocket from time to time (Either the one that lines his inner coat jacket, or even occasionally his deck box).

[isdalinarhot]

My favorite sex headcanon that is not fueled by lust in any way but just exists because it’s funny to me. Is that Evi has like a super mega piss kink like Cannot Get Off If There’s No Piss Involved kind of shit and Dalinar Does Not Have A Piss Kink At All but he’s like you know what. Some of Sadeas’s wildest fantasies are shit like wound fucking and forced castration so in comparison to that peeing on you every time we have sex is no biggie and so even though for Dalinar his Evi sex is lackluster unenthusiastic pretend-she’s-Navani reproductive at best, Evi’s Dalinar sex is wildly wildly good. Because she gets to have Dalinar pee on her. Love wins

[multbasa]

I know this is a couple months old, but I kinda wanted to add my thoughts on the topic since coming across your post.

Personally I see Mipha creating the Zora armour before knowing whether Link would reciprocate her feelings as a desire to protect him regardless of whether he felt the same about her. The legend behind the Zora armour crafted by a Zora princess mentions that the White Scale saved her lover's life in battle and Mipha knows that Link must face Ganon head on as the Hero chosen by the Sword, so perhaps she began working on the armour in hopes that it could protect him. I think it would demonstrate her unconditional love for him and desire to protect him from harm rather than her expectations of marriage. It still fits him perfectly, so the implication that she had the opportunity to make it perfect is still there even if she started it so early.

Another thing about her diary is that Link clearly has a long history in the Zora's Domain considering his connections to multiple characters who describe him as part of their childhood, but Mipha's diary couldn't be significantly longer than the other Champions. We know there was a particular event involving Kodah who asked Link to choose between her and Mipha and that Link was part of the Big Bad Bazz Brigade, so Mipha's diary is missing a lot of time where Link stayed at the Domain. He was certainly part of the Brigade before he returned with the Master Sword as it was a childhood group playing soldier (fluffy white clouds, clear blue Zora), but it's not clear when the event with Kodah happened or whether Mipha was involved with that conversation—Kodah seems very remorseful about it, so it sounds like it was a pretty big deal at least to her.

There's also the fact that in the diaries Zelda comments about Mipha mastering the Divine Beast controls with surprising ease and Mipha comments that Link will make one of his rare visits to the domain without Princess Zelda, so there have been multiple times where Link has visited the domain either on duty with Zelda as she inspects the Champions' progress or he visits Mipha alone during his time off that Mipha doesn't comment on in her diary or that was lost to time. I thought it was sweet that Link was able to make time for Mipha when he wasn't fulfilling his duties as the Captain of Zelda's Royal Guard; there is no mention of him visiting Daruk after becoming Zelda's knight as far as I remember despite them being friends.

Anyway, I think Mipha's diary is missing a lot because of constraints and priorities, but I personally consider the canon explanation to be that she wrote in a paper journal and that it must have been damaged in the wet domain for 100 years—even the stone tablet about the Lynel on Ploymus Mountain is seriously worn afterall.

This isn't to argue against how you see the DLC though. I have my own feelings about aspects of BotW that I think they could have done better, so I don't want to tell you that you should have enjoyed the DLC; I obsessed over comparing Breath of the Wild and Age of Calamity simply because people were confusing AoC as the canon story for BotW pre Calamity up until the future BotW characters were brought in to save the Champions after all. I consider Mipha to be my favourite BotW character in regards to her design and her tragic story involving her surviving friends and family. There is so much dialogue in the Zora domain that made her story and Link's history there so intriguing to me. I am happy to see other people enjoy her character as well.

Ok, I haven't actually played the champion's ballad DLC because I refuse to spend extra money on a game that was already purchased but I don't know, guys. I can appreciate how it adds to the story of the champions, but it has some weird retconning with Mipha. Like I read somewhere that Nintendo scaled back the Miphlink relationship because they usually like to keep things really open and don't emphasize romance (and oh boy, can y'all imagine what it was like before they scaled it back, like it's so prevalent in the Domain storyline), and I think because of that they tried to scale it back even more with Mipha's diary.

Like. Ok. In the cut scene "Mipha's Touch," there are so many aspects of storytelling indicating so many things. First of all in the title itself - it's not Mipha's Healing, or even Mipha's Promise, it's Mipha's touch, that's an intimate word to use for someone who hardly ever touches or is touched by anybody. Second, she's talking about how they don't know what they're up against, blah blah but she promises to always heal him and then suggests that maybe they could hang out together after the calamity was over. This indicates that they're still, if you'll pardon the expression, testing the waters in their relationship. I believe Link is visiting her a fair amount by this point, reestablishing a friendship with her, and this is her nudging that she wants something more. It's like a subtle turning point in their relationship.

Now, with that in mind, Mipha has this armor for him that is clearly an engagement present. That's quite the leap from "can we maybe hang out some more?" to "let's get married." I will say that it's very common for people to marry in haste when war is brewing, but there usually has to be some kind of courting first. That implies that after Mipha's request, their relationship does deepen, they find time to actually try to court each other while they're still preparing. It isn't perfect, and they can't do it often, but they probably do realize they're in love and admit it to each other. That would eventually lead to the armor being crafted. Perhaps Mipha never had a chance to give it to him, or he had no opportunity to receive it and wear it because of his champion duties. But I feel like that would've been the progression.

Sometimes the DLC kind of enforces this. Mipha speaks to Link asking if he remembers all their time together. Given her feelings for him, it could go a number of ways, ranging from just asking if he remembers that they were friends or something more. But then, the DLC does some weird stuff, like indicating Mipha crafted an engagement gift for Link before they had even started dating.

Like... what?

I don't know. I haven't played it, maybe there's something I'm missing. But it's weird. It's like Nintendo was just trying to make their relationship super one-sided when they had instead made it so rich in its undertones and what wasn't explicitly shone or stated.

Anyway, I'm taking what I can for the other champions, but generally disregarding Mipha's part of the DLC lol. Or, really, her diary.

[waterbearable]

fuck bhaal all my homies hate bhaal

[david-watts]

now that I am on a computer with a keyboard and not trying to use my blunt malformed arthritic-swollen fingers which I'm certain have some form of nerve damage after consistent frostnip for literal years. I had a very strange dream last night and I think it may be one of those dreams. the ones I remember for years. the ones where... I don't think I can explain that in public without a lot of people suddenly having another reason to hate me and want me committed

[plantb0t]

-said I wouldn't get into the whole bottom surgery thing- -really wants to get into the whole bottom surgery thing-

[aliosne]

I stumbled into another facet of this due to a less-than-ideal ttrpg experience. Sometimes the fantasy is What If Everything Were Fucking Easy, Actually

I understand and respect that a lot of people want to be challenged by their games! I’ve watched lots of meta for fromsoft games and the like, I understand why working hard at things and mastering skills down to the frame is satisfying!

It is hard for me to go piss.

Recognising I have to piss, initiating Time To Go Piss protocol, standing up, walking to the bathroom, lowering myself safely to the toilet, and so on? It is physically and mentally hard—and painful!—for me.

When I sit down to play a videogame or gather around the table for a session, I want to live a fantasy where not only are mundane things like going to the grocery store or washing dishes not a gauntlet, but I can do AMAZING THINGS with minimal effort and feel cool doing it. I don’t want zero challenge from my games but please. Just for a few minutes or hours. I want to live in a world where things ARE fucking easy.

a reminder to my fellow disabled people it isn't wrong or make you less of a player for using accessibility options.

a reminder that playing on a low difficulty only or (like with games with minecraft) no difficulty

a reminder that using unlimited health options like in cult of the lamb is not bad or wrong and you are no less of a player for using it

turning brightness high on horror games like tattletale whether its because you are visually impaired or because you cannot handle the fear a low-light scene can cause.

disabled people are not any less a gamer for needing accessibility options. we are not any less a gamer for playing the game on easy. we are not any less a gamer because we are disabled and might not be able to get all the achievements or trophies or whatever a game has available.

we deserve to be able to enjoy the games we want to play