#this one was a tricky case

[vaperarmand]

ideal ship dynamic: guy who’s the most mentally unstable person you’ve ever heard of in your entire life x guy who wants to bang them so bad it has them saying things like “nothing wrong with that guy. they’re completely normal and sane”

[rorah]

The mentally stable Dimitri Fire emblem 3 hopes.

It surprises me that there's still ppl claiming so, but then I remember we're talking about 3h interpretations and I have to make peace with it.

But that doesn't stop me from venting a little bit in this little space I have lol. Actually, it dries me and makes me feel bad to bring this up because I will have to talk bad about Dedue, and I don't want to talk Bad about Dedue. He's a genuinely good boy. But "Human" nonetheless, which means Flaws. I like Felix too but he's become some sort of a clown that doesn't make me feel too bad. I like Felix tho, In a different way.

Mostly talking about these two because the take that "Dimitri has better support system" baffles me because, technically, these two are his support system in HopesVerse. The persons who Dimitri relays on and seek solace/advice/support. The rest doesn't really tackle any of his personal struggles (aside from the Mage!Mitri frustrated dream, but that's out of the bad equation in our 'mentally unwell' set of pixels, and Shez only has a glimpse). Contrary, to Houses verse where the whole blue lions cast knew about his shit, didn't know what to do, but didn't leave either.

I tackled this topic with other person on Twitter who was (or still is) on board with this take and the phrase they used was They contained him better, which of course I agree and remarked that was exactly the problem. Contain him is gonna be contra productive. I used a water dam analogy, where the structure of such dam is damaged, and the pressure of water keeps accumulating. Causing a foreseeable damage for the dam itself and the surroundings. You don't need to be a genius to understand it, you need experience or knowledge for mental ill topics tho.

I really don't want to extend so much on here because it's mostly just, rant format more than a proper analysis so I just want to point out these two things in their support conversations.

First, Dedue. Encourage him to keep on the vengeful path. Which we know was the final goal of Azure Moon and if you payed attention to 3 houses message. The whole Vengeful argument was something Bad, to keep it simple. Despite Dimitri actively looking for answers/guidance for something that, in a rational state he can see clearly like vengeance will consume his life (also Shez and Felix called out this behavior). Dedue answer only encourage him to keep on that path, because he would do that 💔. Presenting 2 oposite views is a great formula for confusion and disorientation. Now, Dedue's role is primary SUPPORT, not guidance nor orientation. He will support his shit no matter what, and we are quite aware of that if played Houses.

Second, Felix. Felix is a special case. He is smart but also an idiot lacks A LOT of soft skills to actually be of help. He's the only one who knows in this verse about Dimitri having a mental issue. In their A support to say the least, so they don't close or solve anything. What makes it more worrisome is the fact that Felix conceals the issue as a secret.

"So try to keep that whole "removing their heads" thing in check, yeah? We can just call it our little secret."

this extract here makes me feel so unwell 😭help

The whole burden falls over him and his lack of skills and wisdom on the matter will be too much for him later on. He at least, will be able to recognize that the problem is beyond of his capabilities and will look for help. Felix himself has his own issues and journey where he needs to learn. He's forced to get pass beyond some of his angry teen behavior but hasn't completely get over it.

There is a lot more to tackle, but that requires more work and time. What are the topics some of you think is important to cover around understanding the Hopes verse resolution? Dimitri's route? something? Do you think the route without Byleth is better? With that being said, I would like to delve deeper into character analysis, and the role each played for the Lords too. That also requires to talk about the Byleth and needs a whole analysis on their own, which requires time (which i don't have much lol) To end this vent, I would like to encourage people to do a little research for the terminology they're using like "Support System". Who makes it up and how it operates successfully. The fact that ppl saying "he has better support system" only because he didn't go feral on the run alone is not entirely valid. A reminder that people can feel alone with or without people around them. And containing the issue within doesn't solve any problem. At best, it's presented later. At worse, it gets worse.

[soularsss]

point of view

[mo-ok]

colour distribution for teams without colours in their names

look at me. look me in my eye. this is only FULL TEAMS that dont have colours in their titles. Time Fire/KuwagaRaiger/Signalman/LupinX etc etc are all on teams where most/all of their teammates DO have colours in their names. thats why they are not here.

[mariocki]

Shadows of Fear: Did You Lock Up? (1.1, Thames, 1970)

"And they didn't make much mess?"

"No, not really. They forced that door. Smashed the cabinet, slashed a sofa. And kicked a hole in the bedroom door."

"Ah. Big mistake."

"What is?"

"Never lock inside doors. Anything you can to keep them out - but when they're in, let 'em get on with it."

"I'll remember."

[greatmuldini]

The original “substrate” - the bottom layer - provides the plane and the body of Rex Reason, which must be joined up with the head of Nelson Brenner as he would have looked “15 years ago” (i.e. in 1960). The picture chosen to represent the facial features of the younger Brenner (though not his hair) is a 1965 portrait of the actor Patrick McGoohan, as he appeared in an episode of Danger Man (Loyalty Always Pays). Aside from the incorrect age gap, the new head is too large for its adopted body and sits uncomfortably on Rex Reason’s shoulders at an anatomically impossible angle (with barely a neck to speak of).

The contortions do not end there, however, as the youthful image of Nelson Brenner must clearly display his receding hairline – the third layer to be added to the composition. For the “enlarged” close-up that Columbo presents as “evidence” in the final “gotcha” scene, the hairline was completely redrawn with a new left-sided parting, and the entire image inexplicably rasterized. No changes were made to the face itself, its size or its angle in relation to the rest of the body.

For the fifth and final transformation, Columbo’s “photo guys” went to work on the close-up and added features from the description that their witness gave them of the mysterious “operative” (code)named Steinmetz – and young Nelson Brenner, already follicly challenged, becomes an elderly gentleman, bearded and bespectacled, who is peering at the onlooker from underneath a set of bushy white eyebrows topped by the shiny expanse of his formidable forehead. (3/4)

[corrosive-equilibrium]

What type category is dan?

He's a rebirth deity/entity

[seaglassdinosaur]

Remembering that two long-running arcs of the Origami Yoda series regarding Dwight were his classmates becoming real friends with him as they stop seeing him as the ‘weird kid’ and connecting with him as a person, and Dwight starting and continuing to date Caroline, the girl he likes. These arcs present to the (presumably neurotypical) audience, an autistic-coded character as someone nuanced and human, who is capable and desirable as a partner and friend, encouraging the idea of looking past dismissive judgements of strangeness and to try to understand people, and even if you can’t, accept them and appreciate them for who they are.

[gorillaxyz]

she nixon on my richard till i crazy 😮‍💨

she tricky on my dicky til i hiss

[killjoy-prince]

Project Diva X's way of getting outfits via rhythm game gacha makes me wanna run it over with a truck

[orca-in-disguise]

Critter fact #69:

Anchovies are relatively difficult to identify. In order to get to species level, it is often necessary to count the vertebrae.

[steakout-05]

there's gonna be a lot of posts today and i'm sorry about that but i was looking at MrLlort's Monster Dash soundtrack playlist, and at the end of it is this very peculiar unknown 5 minute track that went unused. according to the description of the video, the file was literally just titled 'music.ogg' with no indication on where it comes from or anything. it's really odd because this was just uploaded today, meaning that this wasn't discovered until the new re-release of the 2010 version of the game. i think it might be an old demo or sample music of some sorts that was used for testing in earlier versions and left in by mistake, but who knows what it is...

here's the link if you're interested:

[allegedlyfranzferdinand]

Mockingbird Summer

Yesterday I killed a fish. This is the sort of thing that happens when you go fishing, but I find that I cannot stop thinking about it.

I am trying to imagine what it must be like to be pulled into a great bright world that is not your own, to be gasping and dying while a stranger tries to rip out of your throat the hook that they put there.

Why did I think writing about it would help?

The first time that day a fish swallowed a hook, I was able to save it, or at least that’s what I’m telling myself.

We had a good rhythm, for a while. One of us caught a fish, and usually I would free it. They had brought a little blue towel, but i did not know what it was for until I saw one of them putting it between their hand and the fish. This, and some other things, exposed some fundamental differences in the way that each of us was taught to fish. I was taught to comb down the spines with my hand, to split worms with my thumbnail. It was easier and harder than I remembered, and the sense of my father was overwhelming.

That is not to say that he was “there”, whatever that means. I do not believe in ghosts. Not in real life, anyway. The ghost of him in my head, though, goes on and on and on, and sometimes my shoulder feels a big heavy hand, which is a complete lie anyway because he never even touched us much like that anyway. I guess I imagine sometimes hugging him around the middle and squeezing, but everyone knows that memories come to nothing anyway. I do not want to forget but I am tired of remembering all the time.

The first fish that swallowed a hook was a largemouth bass. There are bluegills, largemouth bass, and catfish in the pond. I caught only bluegills that day. The fish I killed was a bluegill. The fish I maybe saved (maybe) was a largemouth bass, though, which did help. You know that they have taken the hook wrong when you pull them out of the water and they are bleeding. I assume that fish lips feel as much pain as the rest of them, but they must be made of cartilage because they do not bleed, and you can pretend.

This fish was bleeding. At the back of the mouth of a fish there is a little closed-up hole, like a sphincter or a socket, pink like a rose. When first the fish was presented to me for un-hooking, we feared that the whole of the hook had gone into its belly, and was only tearing it up further and further from the inside. But once we got the worm out of the way, pushed up the line like something much bigger on a spit, we saw that it had gone only partway, and though the blood was flowing still, the hook could be removed. I did it, though it took me too long and I am not so optimistic about his future.

That kind of thing seemed never to happen when it was my father and I. I kept trying to remember, especially after I killed the fish, but I could not remember a single time. Maybe I was better, or the fish were fewer (my mother used the word “overstocked” to talk about the pond when I told her about killing the fish) or there was something else unknowable about it that made it better. But I do not think that is true. I think maybe it happened as often then as it did now and my dad took care of it, and I did not know, or maybe I did not care because I was a child, and children have precious little empathy for living things.

Anyway, I thought that largemouth bass would be the worst of it, but there was still my fish to kill.

Along the way we discovered to my embarrassment that the part of the pond shore that we were fishing on was in fact private property, andthe people who owned the house did not recognize me. This was somewhat disquieting, because I think it is always strange to not be recognized in the place that you live. I do not blame him, though. I look different now, and I forgot the right words to say to him.

I caught the fish I killed quickly, and if I was happy it did not last very long because I saw quickly that it was bleeding and I have already said what the bleeding means. Largemouth bass have true names, and so do bluegills, but this means that the mouth of the fish I killed was small and difficult--impossible--to do anything in. I have no idea how that big golden hook even made its way in there. Possibly it slithered in like a snake, with my father’s blessing, just to make sure that I did not have a happy ending, because he hates those.

The worm would not come out of its mouth; it refused to slide obligingly up the thing that had killed it, even while it was helping me kill that fish. The fish twitched and twitched in my hands and the twitching made me feel better, even though in hindsight it is clear that it went on twitching for a while after it was dead. Eventually I ripped the worm up the line and could see the hook, horizontally skewering the soft fleshy back of the fish’s mouth. I could even see the barbed end poking out of the pink, taunting. But the mouths of bluegills are small and I knew in an instant that I could never get it out. I still tried, though I knew it was hurting it. I cut the line and cut it loose and all it did in the water was float there like a dead fish and I knew that the golden hook was still in its mouth because it’s still in mine too.

[caroloftheshells]

the levels of intertextuality this is on

[fideidefenswhore]

Do you think AB alienated her allies, sometimes?

I mean, for sure... I think the extent of that has been exaggerated by Alison W/eir, but you can definitely find examples of that. Like, Thomas Cheney, one of her relatives that she interceded for above Wolsey's protests, seemed pretty firmly in her camp. Then, by 1536 he's part of the faction that's supporting her stepdaughter.

Generally, though, imo, it's underestimated how difficult it is to maintain allies when one has power/influence, and how it's basically impossible to keep everyone happy all the time.

[supplimental]

gritting my teeth fingers clawed into my thighs in a death grip reciting I wont listen to the Penumbra Podcast again to see if it gets better I wont listen to the Penumbra Podcast again to see if it gets better I w