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kaithonks · 2 months ago

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So I’ve had some more Thoughts about Robin

I guess I didn't totally get my Robin Lives! complaints out of my systems, and what probably didn't help was me reading Dixion's Robin Year One recently. I probably should also say I haven't read every Robin comic out there but really ever since Robin Lives! I've been thinking more about how disregarded Robin is to Batman's lore. And well I think part of the larger problem is that well it's too big. Batman has been around since 1939, so his history is massive, and by extension so is the cast of friends and villains he's made along the way and it's just not humanly possible to get every one right at once. But Robin has been around since 1941 so if any character should be at the top of the list of considerations it should be Robin, in all his different integrations. Yes, Robin has different people behind the mask but they aren't all treated equally. And with that Robin still gets cast aside because of his place as the sidekick, and often gets more treated as a plot device for Bruce than a character of himself.

How Robin gets treated by Bruce varies GREATLY on what the writers want Bruce to be and one of my personal least favorite takes on this is when they have Bruce call the Robins soldiers or have them take an oath (Something I've seen mostly with Dick). It has always been something I find conflicting because these are children and while it appears as Bruce's way to protect, them it is still strange. More importantly, it breaks a certain level of suspension of disbelief that makes Robin work, because you're having Bruce acknowledge this isn't a good dynamic. This isn't a pair, not a father and a child but a general and soldier. It's an uncomfortable position as it puts the clear unequal power dynamic into the spotlight. It could work, but unfortunately, it would only work with a change in Bruce's character which can't happen because Batman is always right and always doing what is best. Bruce can and should have objections to Robin, but he should also acknowledge that's is a choice children make themselves and give their agency. What makes Robin work is giving the child the power, making Robin an active choice of theirs.

On a more meta level I've always related to Robin more than Batman, Robin is younger and more of an underdog than Batman is. I'm never gonna be a millionaire let alone a billionaire so there is a lot of inherent unrelatableity in Bruce. But I have been a child. And given the variety of circumstances the Robins come from there is also a chance that there will be a Robin for someone more closely relates to. Robin is a dream of gaining control over your world and still being protected. But this relationship does change between Robins and I feel it's hardly treated like that. Robin is there for Batman's sake not Robin's own sake. Now I could expand out into the gray areas of Robin, that being each character post-bring-Robin runs, but I don't think I've read enough to say too much beyond this pretty broad generalization and feeling I've gotten from the Robin runs I've read. And there are arguments of all of this boiling down to personal preference, but with that, there still needs to be more respect not on just a Robin level, but an individual character level.

While you can do different things with these characters, such is the freedom of comic stories, it should never come at the simplification of a character. Dick isn't just pretty, he's smart, charismatic, and a strong leader. Jason isn't angry, he's passionate and tries to do what he thinks is right and protect people. Tim isn't just smart he is determined and wily. Damian isn't a brat he's a kid torn between cultures. Steph isn't just the ditzy girl she's energetic and willing to go the lengths to do what she thinks is right and prove herself. Now I don't relate to all of the Robins, I have my preferences as everyone does, but I'm always going to put respect on each one's place because of what they make Robin as a whole. And none of them should be used as just a tragedy or prop for Batman.

#to be fair really generalizing here #and like yeah... batman is the main character but sometimes #the way Robin gets treated is exhausting to me #dc comics #dc robin

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front-facing-pokemon · 5 months ago

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#ninetales #i also like this one less than vulpix. i feel like this one looks a lot more like a Generic Fox Spirit type beat #whereas vulpix is cute and orange. but they really nerf the colors here and make it look too… mysterious #go back to being cute please. i like your curly hair #muncher #bonus #sniffer #under the cut because vulpix had one and it's only fair

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sonknuxadow · 3 months ago

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when i watched the one about silver i could hear all 11 sonilver shippers on the planet wailing in agony in the distance

#i have mixed feelings on what they said about sonic and silver's relationship personally ..#like to be clear ive never really shipped them anyway so i dont have that sort of bias going on here #and im not against the idea of them being like brothers either i think that has the potential to be really cute #it just feels kinda random for them to say that in an official thing? even in something thats not really canon like twitter takeovers #because i cant think of a time in the games or comics where their relationship has really come off that way.#feels like they just made that up on the spot #(which its fine if they wanna make up random little character traits on the spot but . maybe dont approach relationships that way)#and i say this as someone who does interpret a few sets of characters who are technically just friends as being like sibilngs #but whatever. its not that big a deal To Me but i imagine a lot of sonilver fans are upset rn. which is fair .#but im less unhappy with the fact that its sonic and silver specifically #and more just generally dont like the idea official media assigning random familial relationships that didnt exist before #and dont really have a real basis for them or feel like a natural development of the characters' existing dynamic #idk just doesnt feel like a good idea to me

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trevisos · 3 months ago

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i think some of the trouble i’m having with figuring magpie out is that i initially planned them to live in a world where elves are oppressed and the crows are an organization that trains children to kill so rigorously that many die before becoming proper assassins and until ~10 years ago the majority of mages lived locked in towers because the general population found them too frightening to live freely and bioware kind of smoothed out many of these edges in veilguard and now i don’t have like. any of those hooks i expected to have to anchor magpie as a Person In The World. i mean granted the mage thing was always going to be less of a big deal bc ik the culture around mages in antiva was different even when the circles Did exist but the other stuff i like… idk i guess i didn’t Expect the whole elven oppression thing to be so smoothed over and sanitized. but it’s barely mentioned?? bellara straight up was like “will people dislike elves after this?” as if they don’t already? the shadow dragons are fighting slavery in tevinter, a thing that has historically happened Mostly To Elves, and yet that’s never mentioned directly. as an elf rook i never get to have an opinion on being an elf in minrathous. i don’t Get to tell bellara that they already hate us. i recognize it was prob wishful thinking but i had hoped we could play a smidge more with the dynamic of being a city elf contending not only with the fact that the elven gods you’ve never worshipped are real but also that they’re Evil. instead every other character talks to magpie as if these are her gods too and they’re not!! they never were! but there’s never really an option to outright say that! the only chance i’ve had so far to say they’re not my gods was worded as if i rejected them for being tyrants with no option to acknowledge that i’ve NEVER worshipped them?? as if city elves no longer exist to bioware when like. to Me that was the most interesting part of elves!

and obvs i figured the crows would be humanized a little more but it really does feel like everyone there has Chosen to be an assassin and could leave if they wanted. the fledgling jacobus is treated with like. kid gloves by both heir And the two talons present which is not exactly consistent with Training So Grueling It Kills Children? this is a much less big deal for many reasons (including that there is definitely a certain Lens the crows are allowing you to see them through as an outsider (and/or because you have outsiders with you for a crow rook) that may easily conceal many of the realities of the org. and also bc it’s just not a big deal) but it is still kind of baffling to come up against when i came into the game as zevranlover69

#this is rambly i’m just like. trying to figure out where she sits. in this new world #i don’t really Mind that the crows are a little less sinister bc honestly it works fine for magpie #i really never had intentions of her leaving the crows or wanting to #and to be fair like i don’t think it’s Impossible that the crows are still kind of evil to children we r just not seeing it here.#the elf stuff tho??? insane.#bioware is so afraid of doing it ‘wrong’ that they won’t do Anything. the venatori are just generically evil guys #datv critical #da critical #not like extremely so but to be safe for ppl who filter those tags #i am overall rly enjoying the game! i just need time to like. headcanon it back into the thedas i know and love. crunchiness and all #漫言 #oc. magpie #kind of. mostly #z plays da #datv spoilers

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mkstrigidae · 10 months ago

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APWH preview snippet!

Since I'm actively trying to work on getting the next few chapters out, I thought I'd share a little future scene with some hints of Jonsa with all you lovely people! This bit is from like, a few chapters in the future bc it's the in-between that's giving me fits right now :) (Fair warning: this is unedited and subject to change! That being said, it's such a fun scene that I can't imagine ever nixing it :D)

“Does he even know that they have to avoid the press?”

“For the last time-“ Sam sighed, sounding completely exasperated, “Dickon knows what they can and can’t do- he’s got enough practice not being photographed from when our dad was the secretary. Not to mention spending time around you when that exposé on your crazy grandfather came out two years ago.”

“I just-“ Jon sighed, blowing a stray curl out of his face. “You didn’t see how freaked out she was when the press caught us at that performance in White Harbor. I thought she was going to have a full-blown panic attack.”

He was immediately derailed by Gilly plopping little Sam down in his lap and shoving a bottle into his hands.

“What’s this all about?” he raised a brow, adjusting the baby on his lap, allowing him to latch onto the cuff of his flannel shirt and start gnawing at the fabric. “You going somewhere?”

Gilly shot him a withering look, but he saw the amusement in her eyes.

“I-“ she gestured, imperiously, “Have not had time by myself to shower all week-“

“Sorry, love.” Sam winced, looking up from his pile of paperwork. “I can take a break from these-“

“Not your fault, Sam.” she waved him off. “You warned me about this conference at the beginning of the summer.” a grin played at the corners of her mouth. “Besides, it works out well- Jon needs a distraction right now from the fact that Sansa’s on a date with your extremely hot and conventionally attractive brother.”

“Hey!” Sam looked wounded, and Gilly rolled her eyes, pressing a kiss to his forehead.

“You know you’re my favorite Tarly.” she wrinkled her nose. “How long have you been working on this presentation? You smell like the baby spit up on you.”

“Guess I’m next in line for showers.” Sam said, mournfully. “Unless-“

“Nope- I need my own time right now, Samwell. Did you even hear what I said about why Jon’s bent out of shape?”

Jon had known Gilly since Sam and she had met up north while the two of them were in college. Sometimes, it was hard to reconcile the timid, scared girl she had been with the woman who was currently devoting all of her remaining energy to busting his balls.

“Don’t tell me you’re worried about Sansa with my brother.” Sam snorted, shotgunning another cup of coffee next to him the way Jon was used to seeing undergrads do with jaeger shots. “I mean, this is Dickon we’re talking about. Used to bring wounded animals home to take care of them Dickon? The same guy who cried when we had movie night and Gilly and Rhae wanted to go see ‘Love, Simon’?” He shook his head. “Look, as far as guys she could be out on a date with right now go, Dickon’s kind of the best case scenario. She’ll have a nice time, and he’ll be a perfect gentleman.”

Jon blinked at him, silently turning to look up at Gilly, who rolled her eyes and sighed.

“You’re hopeless, sweetie.” she kissed him on the forehead again, wrinkling her nose. “He’s not worried that things will go wrong- he’s worried they’ll go a little too well.”

“You’ve been spending way too much time around my sister.” Jon muttered, narrowly avoiding little Sam’s grasping reach for his glasses, managing to get the baby to latch onto the bottle before he destroyed any more of Jon’s eyewear. “You even sounded like her just then.”

Sam blinked for a second, his head whipping between Jon and Gilly.“You’re jealous?” He asked, incredulously. “Of Dickon? Wait- you like Sansa?”

“Got there in the end.” Gilly sighed, affectionately patting him on the shoulder before going to shower, leaving Jon and Sam behind with four cups of coffee, one baby, and approximately five brain cells total between the two of them.

“You like her.” Sam repeated, like it was a giant revelation.

“What are we- in middle school?” Jon hissed, immediately turning his head down to smile and make faces at little Sam while he fed him, before glaring up at big Sam again. “I don’t- I mean-“

Sam was just shaking his head.“Of course you do.” he laughed. “Should have guessed- red hair and a damsel in distress? You were doomed from the outset.”

“Shut up.” Jon muttered, flushing. “It’s not like that.”

“Then why are you worrying about Dickon for fu-“ Sam glanced nervously at the baby, “-god’s sake? When Gill was meeting my family for the first time, I remember you told her not to worry- that my brother was ‘one of the best guys you know’ and ‘practically a golden retriever’.”

Jon could tell that Sam, who could not raise one eyebrow without the other, was desperately trying to do just that.

“I don’t know.” He muttered, moving little Sam to his shoulder to start burping him. “Look- I’m attracted to her, alright? It’s a fu- er, a giant disaster that I’m gonna ignore for the rest of my life.”

“Seriously?”

“Stop trying to do that with your eyebrows.” Jon complained. “It’s giving me motion sickness. And yes, seriously. I’m not even going to consider that- it’s just a stupid crush. Besides,” he sighed, rubbing little Sam’s back comfortingly, “Robb’s already dealing with enough right now with this whole Sansa situation- can’t imagine telling him I think his sister’s attractive while he’s being forced to suddenly confront all of his guilt and self loathing every time he looks at her.”

“That whole bro code thing of never dating your friend’s sisters never really made sense to me.” Sam shook his head, gulping down more coffee. “I mean, I’d be thrilled if you decided to date Talla, because I know you’d be good to her.”

“Yeah, don't think she'd quite go for that, mate.” Jon snorted, standing to bounce little Sam around gently. He was just grateful Sam hadn’t said anything else about Robb.

“Eh, wouldn’t count you out completely.” Sam shrugged, smirking. “With that hair, you’re pretty enough to be a girl- maybe that’d be enough for her.”

“You are so lucky i’m holding the baby.” Jon muttered, still bouncing little Sam, who picked that moment to spit up spectacularly down Jon’s back.

“Well, that’s three of us who’re gonna need showers now.” Sam grinned, looking thrilled as all get out that it hadn’t been him. “Wow- his aim is getting better.”

“I’m going to remind him of this when he’s a sulky teenager.” Jon grumbled, wiping spit-up off his shoulder as best he could. “Look- no gossiping with Rhae about this, please. She thinks she’s such a good clandestine agent that she doesn’t always realize that Robb is better at sniffing out her plots than she thinks.”

“Alright-“ Sam sighed, looking back down at the massive stack of paperwork in front of him. “I make no promises for Gill, though.”

“Gilly could give some of my Uncle’s colleagues at the WIA a run for their money when it comes to withstanding interrogation.” Jon snorted.

“Probably true.”

“Where did your brother take Sansa?” Still holding onto a now much happier baby with one hand, he reached down the other to take a gulp of his own coffee.

“He said something about going out towards the Tyrell Estate.” Sam shrugged. “They probably drove out there to see the gardens- he’s said it’s a good road to take his bike out on.”

Jon promptly spat out his entire sip of coffee, staining the front of his shirt as well as the back, and frightening little Sam enough that he started to cry.

“He took her on his motorcycle?”

Gilly picked that moment to reappear, completely clean and with wet hair, blinking at the scene in front of her.

Sam, who couldn’t seem to stop laughing, was desperately trying to calm down the baby, who had started wailing, while Jon’s entire front was covered in coffee and his entire back was covered in baby vomit. Not that he seemed to notice, as his face was white and he was making a series of angry looking hand gestures at her husband.

“I really can’t leave you three alone for five minutes, can I?” she sighed. “Do I even want to know?”

#my writing #my wips #writing wips #just APWH things #jonsa #fanfiction wip #God bless Gilly like for real #YES Sansa is on a date with someone else here #muscleman golden retriever McAttractiveness #Aka dickon tarly #unsurprisingly jon is not having a great time about it!#in fairness to sansa the plotline directly preceding this and kicking off her doing some traveling was pretty rough on her #so our poor girl really deserves a giant muscley golden retriever with a motorcycle #and to just have a good time with someone who isn't wrapped up in all the stark drama/disaster/mess etc.#jon can deal with it rn bc it's really a 'you snooze you lose' kind of situation #sam's usually quicker on the draw but he's very sleep deprived here #and working on some stuff for a pathology conference #not at all going to be relevant nope no sir #writing sam and jon interacting vs jon and robb is so fascinating #they're both jon's besties but there's a very different dynamic to the two relationships #in fairness Robb has like SO much complex childhood trauma and is kind of seriously going through it right now #but his scenes with jon always have this sort of darker edge to them #like an 'i've known you my entire life and know everything about you for better or worse' type deal- deeper but darker #it's more akin to a sibling relationship? but also not? they are both going thru it #my headcanon is that anytime jon starts getting too gloomy and angsty gilly just straight up shoves the baby at him #and then waits like twenty minutes #Gilly: 'it's free babysitting!'#generally it works pretty well #jon's like '404 error does not compute' as soon as sam says the word 'motorcycle'#also when sam says 'the secretary' he means randyll tarly was the secretary of defense

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anghraine · 7 months ago

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My best friend and I moved in together with his closest friend from his MA program, and while I had met her before (the friend; my bff is a man), we hadn't spent much time together because I've never lived away from the West Coast (and only two years out of the PNW) and she's never lived outside of North Carolina and only briefly visited the PNW once, when she went to Portland last year.

It's been a delight to show her around the PNW and realize we need to explain things that are just sort of omnipresent in our lives. The bff and I were casually griping with each other about having to run an errand to Trader Joe's at an inconvenient hour, and were telling her, "it's okay, you can stay in the car and avoid the people if you want" and she was like "NO I MUST SEE IT, I'VE ONLY HEARD OF THEM" and nearly ascended to another plane when we showed her around the store.

The bff and I grew up in the same town in NW Washington (him for his first 18 years, me from 9 to 19) and he lived in Bellingham and Seattle for years before he went to NC for grad school (I went to the SF Bay Area for mine, a very different experience). Both of them are hardcore coffee aficionados, but he struggled with the different Coffee Ways of the South, so for the true PNW experience they want to tour various indie coffeeshops next.

Also, she adores Kaidan in Mass Effect and we were like, oh, is your passport up to date? We could take a trip sometime and show you your boyfriend's beloved English Bay. It's very beautiful :)

her: O_O

me: Actually, it's worth going to Vancouver BC for its own sake as well, it's truly spectacular. We used to go all the time as kids.

bff: And Victoria!

her: O_O

#as much as i very openly love my homeland (read: the pnw. sometimes the whole west coast) at all times #it is truly special to experience it through someone who's never lived anywhere remotely near here. she's never seen vegas or seattle or la #we were super hungry after moving stuff yesterday and the bff was like 'i'm not sure i have a real restaurant in me...#let's just pick up some stuff from jack in the box'#her: 'what's a jack in the box?'#even the department store chains we're used to are different #also she's queer and was concerned about having queer friendly dating options out here and we're like '...oh sweetie'#and since she's from eastern nc we were also explaining that the pacific ocean up here is not like the atlantic #her: 'what are your hurricanes like?' us: '... we um. don't really have them'#then we were like... i mean rainier's lahars are going to melt seattle someday but these are infrequent events #and there will be seismic warnings. even mt st helens gave some warning!#i think the only disappointment for her so far was our building codes (she's very into proper infrastructure)#the roads are nice but our buildings are not designed for combating nature by her standards #it's interesting because we're so unused to the idea of nature as generally something to combat #in fairness someone from say astoria might think about that differently or in very rural areas. but in the parts we're familiar with #usually 'natural' dangers are 'poorly timed human fuckery' and things like rain generally come as friends #like yeah don't go antagonizing a bear or cougar or moose or whatnot but you'd really have to go out of your way #anghraine babbles #cascadia blogging #the adventures of space redacted #anghraine's gaming #us american blogging #i should probably have a bff tag #long post

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longagoitwastuesday · 6 months ago

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Every day I am haunted by the fact JJK could be amazing but it will be just idk Bleach or something

#I've seen a lot of people complaining about the fact that it's impossible to fit the ending of every unfinished arc #in the five chapters that remain for the manga to end for good #And it all just... legitimises my fear and apprehension haha #And it's a pity! It's a pity! The dynamics were so good! And yet nothing! Sukuna was so good! And yet nothing!#It was so nice how he seemed to play with the idea of transcending human categories and values but even the values of curses so to speak #Well beyond everything. Well beyond positive/creative nihilism even! He was not like Mahito #I wonder if Mahito is more a negative nihilism with a funny edge or a positive nihilism. For now it seems positive #with how he seems to have said something like 'nothing matters so we can do whatever we want and create what matters'#But Sukuna transcends all that! It could have been interesting to see how that developed in a way that wasn't just childish edginess #But no. And then there's all the idea of curses and sorcerers not being all that different #and so not really entirely possible to say one side is good and the other bad #There was the idea of the very source of powers with fear and love playing a role here in such a juicy way #And then there's the entire thing happening with Gojo as a concept and the very concepts he plays with which I could eat like an apple #but also I would let those very concepts eat at my heart as a worm inside an apple #Full of holes and rotting inside out and yet delighting at the sweetness #It could all be so good! And yet! Most of the manga is a few sketched dynamics and concepts and a very long fight with Sukuna #promising half finished arcs #WHY it could have been so good. And I don't think criticism is a matter of 'fans being spoiled! Go write your story!' or something #It's not a matter of things not going as fans would want them to be. It's a matter of not writing well #or cohesively things established by the author themselves. And I think that's a fair criticism #If we are to take manga as an art‚ which I wholeheartedly support‚#then we can subject mangas to artistic or literary or whatever you want to call it analysis. There are works that are better constructed #than others‚ and there are works that have good ideas but poor execution. And it's always a pity #In the case of JJK it's truly breaking my heart and the comments I see around about these five last chapters are not helping xD #God it could be so good. So good. And I'm not talking about in specific to me‚ which yes that too given the topics‚#but just so good in general. It could be so good. It could have been so good #And yet it's starting to look more and more like any other shonen. It truly breaks my heart haha #I talk too much #Jujutsu Kaisen #I used Bleach because I think that's one of the mangas that has been the most a let down to the friends I have who like shonen

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random2908 · 3 months ago

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Frustrating when a VC-funded company gets credit for being the "first" and the "leader," when they had a sub-component demo the same week we had a full-system demo. Like, we are easily 5-10 years ahead of them, it's ridiculous; their approach isn't even yet proven to work. But they get science youtubers talking about them.

Because they're VC-funded, they have a marketing/press department.

And because we're an employee-owned company working off of government contracts, well, most government contracts get slapped with an ITAR label (an old Cold-War-era law saying basically sharing scientific information counts as illegally selling arms/munitions). So if you want to publicize your work, including your company's products, you have to appeal that label. (Universities have specifically negotiated a blanket exemption, so if you spend your whole life in academic science you might never even know about this.)

(My previous employer filed those appeals several times a year in order to do press releases and publish journal articles and apply for patents. I think every single information-release appeal they filed went through, because there's no reason any of this stuff should be labeled as arms--it's literally the same stuff universities are doing. My current employer is afraid to, which I think is wrong-headed; at worst they'll just say no, and anyway, our non-restricted competitors are giving fucking lab tours to youtubers.)

#these restrictions mean you also can't have employees on visas working on these projects #my previous employer tried to appeal that too and failed--they were only able to appeal the dissemination of information part #so we had locked labs that my international coworkers weren't allowed in #(one got a green card and was allowed in eventually)#ironically the VC-funded company is doing it the same way I did it in my PhD thesis #two other people at the company did this stuff in their post-docs #all of us are over 40 (one guy is over 50 I'm pretty sure) so this is not a new technique--I got two MINOR papers on it 16 years ago #the MAJOR papers are like 25 years old #and we're all convinced it's NOT the right approach #granted the technique we are using is about 30 years old #in my literal thesis defense one of my committee members asked why I was using the technique the VC companies are now using #and if I had done the math to prove it was superior to the older technique #and I was like--everyone knows the new technique is superior that's why it's trendy #and my advisor (who was a genius) said the same thing and that it wasn't a fair question #but the guy who asked it was an ancient theorist who REALLY knew what he was talking about #and in retrospect he was completely right--I should have done the math comparing the techniques and the older technique IS better #a few weeks into my job here I did the math and found that if you use the BEST version of the new technique--one that only one group #has demonstrated can even be done and they didn't get all the way to the point of demonstrating an application like this #and you assume some generous efficiency numbers #it breaks even with the old technique #that's not what this VC group is doing so... not a chance lol

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sorrelpaws · 1 year ago

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mr sorrelpaws what's ur thoughts on the new rick and jerry centaur in the latest episode

my most normie opinion ever is that i thought it was kind of funny. the design is so weird in like a humorous way, and i think their deadpan delivery was silly ("do you not hear the symphony of atoms dying in space?"). i mean its definitely a wackier approach but i didnt hate it

#asks #rick and morty #in general i really liked this episode it was super funny #but anyway yeah ive seen a lot of people mention that they thought jerricky was weird #which is fair but i dont know. it just doesnt really feel THAT crazy compared to other stuff r&m has done #maybe im desensitized #and while im here might i add that i didnt even hate the somewhat minimal morty in this episode #its done in a believable way and realistically shoving him in anywhere wouldnt have added anything #its still leagues above how s6 treated him #plus he still exists as a character and behaves the way he normally would #even if he isnt 100% present He still acts like he Should

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nellasbookplanet · 7 months ago

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I'm working on book rec lists for monster romances and monster friendships and I'm thinking wistfully that man, why can’t someone write, like, digimon or pokemon but for adults. Everyone gets a monster buddy who fights other monsters for you and you're best friends forever, also there's fun and weird worldbuilding. I want that please.

#i do prefer monster/creature friendship books over monster romance but those are hard to find because no ones writing rec lists for them #(here to amend that!)#so i generally end up reading my fair share of romances too #which is tricky bc while i enjoy a romance subplot i don't care for the romance genre and i really don't care for smut #(nothing wrong with it just Not My Thing)#i want monster romance the way shape of water is a monster romance #or better yet no romance at all just weird codependent relationships that can’t be put in a box #there's a reason why I'm abnormal about films like venom and alien vs predator and the most recent planet of the apes installment #also while I'm complaining WHY are there next to no monster romances where the woman is the monster???#i mean i know why but still. give me more monster ladies #nella talks books

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sskk-manifesto · 3 months ago

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