#they're an outlier adn should not be counted. MAYBE??? maybe not

[liesmyth]

could you help explain something? when alecto surfaces in nona and scolds pyrrha for "playing mother and father" and insists that she should have eaten them - "i would have respected you much more for it" - what did she mean? as in, she shouldn't have gotten caught up in the sixth's business, and instead abandoned them to boe and go to the half-flipped moon by herself? or am i missing something??

OH I LOVE THAT PART. I also have no clue! It's such a punchy passage, but I have no idea of what it could possibly mean. "Eating someone" in TLT is mostly associated with Lyctorhood, in the sense of consumption, but I doubt that's what Alecto is referring to, since she's talking specifically to Pyrrha.

Or, like you suggest, she could simply be using "eating" as a shorthand for 'take advantage of' — it fits with whatever little we get of Alecto's vocabulary and thought patterns — and saying that she should've just looked after herself and left, instead of dedicating herself to a lost cause.

I also have no clue if when she says "US" she means Nona + Cam and Pal, or she means herself (Alecto + Nona and all her disjointed memories) or she means Alecto and whatever soul fragment is inside her (personally, I believe that a bit of Gideon's soul is inside Harrow's body.) Or she could even be saying "US" to mean herself and Varun as Resurrection Beasts, though that's less likely.

I think you're probably right and she's just using a very carnal metaphor to say that Pyrrha should have left, but like... I'm not ruling out that there's a more literal explanation that will introduce a new worldbuilding / "magical system" related element in AtN, just because I never know what to expect from this series. I'm once again so fascinated by the glimpses that we get of Alecto's personality because she's such an enigma.

For context, this is the full passage

(It also comes right after Nona telling Pyrrha that she shouldn't make Nona remember who she is, because Pyrrha "wouldn't like" what happens)

[puppys-rhythm-heaven]

isn't tengoku remix 1 like. the longest remix if you exclude medley remixes. cuz i think it might be. one second i need to check-

not even the longest in tengoku. damn you tengoku remix 8.

[baddywronglegs]

Okay, I have to ask: how does it feel to have a post of yours unexpectedly blow up like it has over the past few days?

I'm new here so this has been pretty much most of my Tumblr experience, which adds to the surreality of it a bit as I have no idea what the normal Tumblr existence is

I went from "no notifications" to "all notifications, all the time" without ever finding out if there's a sweet spot where they're functional

(By the way, notifications on mobile seem to refresh at regular 30 second intervals, so that's another thing I've learned)

I've met people IRL who, when I've explained why my phone keeps flashing, have said "Oh that was you? I'm not on Tumblr but I heard about it on ___" which is maybe the oddest part as I try to tell myself it's only really spread in the bubble/biome of Tumblr I'm in (hello neurodivergent queers) and have no clue how it's doing outside that

But honestly, I'm just waiting for people to find that this post was just Walruses Georg, is an outlier adn should not be counted as a benchmark of popularity I'll live up to

tl:dr, it's been a weird couple of weeks.

[sergeifyodorov]

the thing for me with quinn and trevor is like the hughes bros are always going on about how since they're so close in age all their friends were each others friends blah blah and like that's kind of true as far as i can tell but in quinny's mind trevor is an outlier adn should not have been counted ya know? that or the big happy friend-family thing is mostly something jack cooked up in his extrovert middle child brain because he does seem to be the primary nucleus and the one that kind of brings it up the most but idk maybe that's an unfair j'accusation

valuable hughes scholarship to be had here... agree with all of this. jacks like we are MY big happy friend family and quinns like. were it not for my loyalty to you specifically I would have smothered zegras with a pillow eons ago

[andmaybegayer]

Last Monday of the Tuesday 2025-01-26

Got waylaid by situations, sorry. It will happen again.

Listening

The entirety of the BADBADNOTGOOD album BBNG2

Ya like jazz? Ya like big spooky electronic jazz? BBNG2 has it for you.

Reading

Working my way through Pale Fire by Nabokov. It's a very funny book, and also very odd. I can see why they call it perhaps the first hypertext!

The poem itself is 1000 lines in rhyming couplets with Vladimir "I Just Learned English And I'm Using The Whole Thing" Nabokov flair. It's very pleasing to read out loud.

Still working my way through the notes. The eBook I bought lacks the index so I had to pirate a copy for that. RIP Nabokov you would have loved Homestuck.

Watching

We had Megalopolis at Bad Movie Night. This movie is not good and a lot of it is straightforwardly shit but some of its failure modes are interesting.

This movie vacillates between looking pretty good and looking totally dogshit. I don't know if Coppola was trying to be like ooh what if I use an old fashioned looking rear projection technique for this elevator scene because Movies nah dog. It looks like garbage. A lot of this movie looks like it was a PS3 game cutscene, both in texture and in thoughtfulness of framing.

"Average man thinks about Rome every day" factoid actually a statistical error, References Coppola, who lives on a wine farm and thinks about Rome every twenty milliseconds, was an outlier adn should not have been counted. Seriously man so much of this movie is making a reference to a cool thing that Coppola has seen. Getting Adam Driver to deliver To Be Or Not To Be is so fucking tryhard.

Unfortunately when you write about utopias you put yourself in a very vulnerable position where you are saying not just that I think this way of living is good, but that everyone else should as well. This movie has some lines that would get you the Liberal award in Disco Elysium in two seconds flat. Adam Driver stands up at the end to give a huge speech about how we have to have a serious debate about the future. I pregamed this one with Metropolis (1927) and it also suffers from this. Yes Fritz I know you didn't know that the great war was gonna get a sequel but you can't just make a movie that's like "Communism is cool. But watch out!"

Look okay I hate big name actors in movies now. If you're going to sell your wine farm and spend one hundred million dollars making your thing, maybe don't spend so much money on candles Giancarlo Esposito. This is a thing that sucked about Cats as well. There's so many Guys in this movie and at no point did I ever want to call a guy by anything other than their real human name. I don't care if your name is Fundi that is Laurence Fucking Fishburne. Maybe get some normal actors, you have 100 million dollars, surely you can find some.

It's so funny to set a story about building fucking anything in New York City, The City That Hasn't Built Shit In 80 Years.

Playing

I've finished most of the major sidequests of Cyberpunk but I'm now doing Phantom Liberty and man the opening of Phantom Liberty is slick. I love it when a game makes you feel urgency even though there isn't any. It's one of my favourite video game tricks. Busy trying not to eat shit as I approach the crashed spaceship of the president of the New United States of America.

They finally put some good outfits in the game but they're all hidden inside Phantom Liberty! I walked up to the first clothing vendor in Dogtown and bought like half their stock. There's zany skintight leotards and cool helmets and bizzare transparent blazers oh my! Where is this shit in the main game.

Making

Spent a while debugging cursed filament on my printer, which was frustrating.

Ongoing design of small coffee table. Throwing away a lot of half-assed CAD models.

Tools and Equipment

If you have to use a mouse in a very confined space, you really should consider a trackball. Trackpads are all good and well but there's a reason why so many CAD platforms in workshops have a trackball superglued to an piece of sheet steel. One of my other projects is a lapboard for my HTPC setup and I have basically settled on "slotted in commodity trackball" as the ideal way to handle mouse input here.

[yu3s]

* doing a blue lions run right now and the enemy units are talking a lot of shit for people who are within sword striking distance of felix. like say what you want and all but maybe start saying your prayers first?

[shadeswift99]

One of the funniest things to me about the Wither Rose Alliance is that it's such a study in moral relativity. fWhip came in so obviously trying his level best to be the villain of the server - he had a great setup, he started off relatively innocent and had a clear path towards going too far, he justified himself at every step of the way but was so obviously in it for the chaos, the vibes were off the charts - and it would have worked! The empires would have quaked in the face of his morally questionable plot decisions! ....If he wasn't standing beside Mythical J Sausage, who hasn't seen a moral value in 15 years. fWhip's cartoon villainy just got so hilariously outweighed by War Crimes Georg of Mythland (who allies himself with 1.3 demons per year adn is a statistical outlier that should not be counted) that he ended up being a completely sympathetic antihero instead of an unhinged antagonist, purely by lightly suggesting that maybe his buddy shouldn't be quite that enthused about murder. I don't know what that dynamic is, but whatever those vibes are they're my favourite <3