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Let's Talk Imposter Syndrome in Academia
Or really, about how it doesn't immediately disappear once that degree is in hand. Sometimes I have to remind myself that grad school is over and I'm the one in charge now.
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#phdblr#postdoc#postdoc life#postdoctoral researcher#PI#principal investigator#research#collaborative research#science#social science#sociology#public health#interdisciplinary research#imposter syndrome#wait who's in charge here#oh right it's me#Instagram
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honestly one of the most disgusting things ppl can do is weaponize the various atrocities occurring around the world to "gotcha" people online and win The Morality Game.
Especially if the ppl you're going after are part of those targeted.
#serious tria#grow up for real#no really what DO you want#if you want everything to be black and white all evil or all good how do YOU propose solving the chronic issues around the world?#no really give me your perfect plan with no grays involved#I'll wait#we all want things to go perfectly & have no moral issues involved#unfortunately that's not how life is now#and we have to fight for it bit by bit#cissplain my wife ONE more time#this is shitting on queer ppl for non-perfect rep over actual queerphobes all over again#tria rants#also if there is a shitty law in action who do we want in charge#the people who are likely to not abuse it & maybe see reason?#or the people who will weaponize it to harm millions#b/c that's the stakes here#sorry I'm sick & cranky#I need sleeep
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Going through a straight up comical amount of irritating situations to get the stupid 4* guaranteed ticket from the welcome to sekai campaign. It Will Be Mine.
#I’m resuming this tomorrow it’s been hours now I’m just mad#I’m home because my parents are moving to a different state and I needed to pack whatever was left#and for some reason we just keep old devices when we’re done with them#so I borrow an adapter to allow me to connect my ancient unworking iPad mini to my laptop#factory reset it. i have to reset an old email to access the old Apple id to fully reset it.#it won’t connect to the wifi so I have to reset the settings. i find out it’s too old to run pjsk.#i find an old phone that should work. i reset it as well. I’m able to download pjsk & it takes 20 minutes.#pjsk crashes everytime I try to open it. i attempt to run bluestacks on my computer. bluestacks doesn’t have 64 bit for mac yet.#i get a free trial of parallels and download windows onto my laptop. this takes 40 minutes.#i try to download and run bluestacks on that. m1 macs apparently can’t run bluestacks 64 bit through parallels.#i go find the final old phone that I had forgotten about. it takes forever to charge because the charging port is fucked up. i reset it as#well. it can’t connect to wifi. i try a hotspot on my current phone. service is too awful. i try to do wifi sharing from my laptop.#you have to be connected to the router via a cable for that to work.#at this point it has been like 3 hours. I’m giving up because I’ve been down this route before#when I attempted to run 32 bit steam games on m1 mac#(wine64 doesn’t exist for m1 macs yet -> attempt to run boot camp -> boot camp isn’t a thing anymore on Apple silicon -> attempt to run#several different programs that allow me to run windows on a mac. none of them work. ->#look into linux & give up. -> attempt to implement the unfinished/unbottled wine64 code thru terminal. ->#fuck up and delete some important file & have to fix that (misery inducing) -> keep trying. i think I downloaded a Mac coding program at#some point? i realize I have zero coding knowledge and this is a mistake. -> give up and purchase crossover. game doesn’t even work. ->#3 months later update to the latest OS so I can have enough storage to play psychonauts 2. find out the $60 crossover#purchase was a bad idea because ‘heehee crossover doesn’t work on that buy the new version’ (fuck crossover).#my toxic trait is my belief that I can figure out anything via google and sheer stubbornness. usually this is true. occasionally there are#exceptions to this rule. most of them are because owning Apple products is a mistake.#i think if I reset the router tomorrow I can solve this problem but I can also just go elsewhere with better service or wait until I’m home#now it’s a matter of pride. and also free 4*/I have nothing better to do because I’m stuck here until Tuesday.#<- this is all normal behavior by the way. who doesn’t spend 8 hours ramming their head against a problem every once and a while. enrichment#mine#oh I forgot. i also looked into cloning the app but that would cost money for something that might not even work.#‘just log out and make an alt’ and risk losing my account? I’m stupid enough to overwrite it on accident.
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one of these days i'm going to go to prison for committing crimes against my cities transit system and tbh they'll deserve it
#walking home in pitch black when it's#fucking freezing out#because the bus driver couldn't be assed to DO HIS JOB AND STOP AT THE STOP#THAT I WAS WAITING AT#this is a COMMON FUCKING OCCURENCE#and i'm actually going to commit crimes#this garbage fucking city has wasted DAYS of my life at this point#i have made countless complaints about this route in the last 4 years#it has gotten worse!!!!!!!#i'm going to kill someone#i'm going to raid the office of the people in charge and burn it#i'm going to start beating people into accepting and fixing public transportation#kill death die murder to oil and gas#i fucking hate it here#i hate alberta and the mentality here#i hate the way people suck the dicks of the people ruining our lives#fuck private transportation#fuck anyone who insists it needs to be the standard#i want to scream#i am filled with endless amounts of rage and no where to put it#fuck#fuck transit#personal rambles#not stargate
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Recently my friend and I played @rottenraccoons Obscura, the first chapter did so much damage to me that god posses me and start drawing mine and my friend ocs like a madman, please go check it out if you can guys(❤´艸`❤) is really good
Chorus: mine Mc! A monotone in nature but she covers her lack of expressions with being very blunt about thing's+ used to be in a chorus group yet due to being in the late stages of her illness she has no longer participanted.
Tenor: @crimson-riot Mc! A beautiful lady of the night, Charmin everyone with her smooth voice however she's very opinionated. Despite also having the illness,hopes she can find a cute for Chorus regardless of what happens to her.
More undercut☺️
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Tenor choose the colorful outfits, having many at her disposable+ while Chorus has as a hobby makes mask whenever she's not singing.
"hide in what you aren't" sort of mentality( especially effective for chorus since she isn't this colorful much less revealing in the surface no one would believe she wore this).
Since their both MC's that exists same word,two routes are always simultaneously playing (e.g: as soon as chorus left for some respite, Tenor was drag with keir.)
- Just small HCs i took the liberty to draw since i like the idea Fran has actually hear her around mayhaps? Definitely getting charmed by her voice but when they actually crashed with each other is the first time they met.
-i wonder if cirrus would let her sing occasionally at the church 🫣
And that's all,Thank you so much for reading 🥺💕💕
#obscura vn#obscura#obscura oc#my art#art box#chorus#tenor#def did not spy on their blog no no#especially for their hcs? little me?#not at all#why would#i#do that#and completely fall for fran??? me?? and my bestie for redacted#who would do such a thing#especially with their route not yet here?#naaaah who would do thaaaaaaat<- guilty as fucking charge i holy fuck fran so my type#i thank them for giving us HCs thanknu for ur hard work#the first chapter what such a blast can't wait for the rest💕💕💕🫣#priest man 🛐🛐🛐 praying to him any ti-/bonked#who said that#anyways
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ENIES LOBBY TIME!!!
Sanji's face here.... he Knows he is going to fuck him up
THAT IS SANJI??? 😨
Holding them in my hands again....
Sanji struck a nerve there akdjaoajkq
Increible trio btw.... look at the evidence
............ me next please 🙏🏻
That is love right there I can see it
What if we all killed ourselves (except usopp is telling her the opposite ajahkdhsakjd)
I need sanji to go insane like this more often.... after the timeskip it doesn't happen as much and I love to see him suffering
This is so funny.... there is no denying to her face card
"It's not like she actually wants to die" well yes she does, but no because you know she doesn't really. It is in a quantum state right now
Luffy is such a menace akdhaksjkaak
TELL EM!!!! THAT'S MY GIRL!!!!
Look at franky worrying about robin.... do not fret luffy is coming and he will NOT lose!!!!!
This is zoro remarking how usopps fear of being left behind makes no sense.... this is so good.....
This is so endearing but it also breaks my heart....
Who is that sultry binch... (I don't recall this attack AT ALL and i'm sure we never see it again)
They botched his bbl.... 😔😔😔
Luffy's face here... he was convinced she wanted to go with them but was compelled to do otherwise but no.... he thought wrong and he can't fight to her.... I've just been staring at this page for minutes like damn.
Nevermind.... this is something your mother would say "you want to die??? Just wash the dishes and you can do whatever you want later"
"If you wanna die, or whatever...." this is so good like he knows what he is doing.... he Knows.... look at her face. After knowing how luffy and ace were as kids this just makes more sense (oda didn't think about this i'm sure but damn does it fit) also the slight manipulation.... look at all of us we're already here and look how we all miss you already... you know that post about luffy being selfish but his selfishness is jusg kindness to others... yesh
Thinking about robin's cinderella lifestyle.... why did her mother leave her with that aunt and why didn't some archeologist take her in?? Because she doesn't complain about anything just like she doesn't respond when that mother accused her of hitting her child without reason... that's so fucked
Alright this is funny (and also true)... I'm sorry fellow women....
*Justin Bieber voice* I like your laugh... dereishi shishishi
SHE'S GONNA ASK HER MOM TO TAKE HER TO THE SEA WITH HER??? LIKE SHE DOES AFTER WITH LUFFY??? MY GOD!!! I just bursted into tears like I got punched in the nose I can't keep going ajdhakajk
I lied i can keep going... but head in my hands over this....
Find out how my emotional stability survives this arc in ennies lobby part 2. coming soon
#franky calling sanji brother eyebrows is too good akdbsksnsk also ily franky#captain t bone.... he got killed tecently.... i forgot who he was until now but he actually cared thats so fucked up.... cross guild come o#sanji going against cp9 by himself.... i shant say it... SLAY!!!! also the cook being mad about being pretty cause he has no individuality.#lucci talking about a little girl being born wrong and needing to die for it TO SANJI!!! OOF!!!#the frog stopped rocketman bc he thought they kidnapped kokoro just like they took tom 😭😭😭 this fucking frog always gets me#chapter 377 and franky is in the headline with the strawhats ❤️❤️ they recruit TWO thirty year olds in enies lobby ajdhaksjks#franky biting spandex head.... yeah... and he should do it more why did he stop biting heads... he got domesticated#luffy is such a menace here like damn.... he is charging thru EVERYTHING!! GET THEM BOY!!!!#also franky is so important in giving robin hope here... like she sees him fighting back no matter what and i KNOW that inspires her...#i am going to say it hina fullbody and jango have a challengers thing going on but without hina being involved physically iykwim#when in action panels the ink just becomes lines... OOF!!! CHEFS KISS!!! MWAH MWAH#completely forgot gear 2 used the shave technique.... thats so cool..... also iron body must be haki then... and finger pistol#i dont think i can do this... after this ends we got thriller bark and then marineford starts building up...#i can endure water 7 sad moments bc everything ends up well in the end but what am i gonna do with marineford.... my god#also dr clover and dr hyruluk and crocus all have smilar plant based hair designs is that bc they are doctors or just coincidence#also robins father is dead and for sure another archeologist or similar.... thats inch resting....#which also like damn olvia and dragon had to make the same choices with their children i am sure. thats so fucked. dragon backstory when#clover knew the name of the fallen kingdom (robonosuke lore??) and also olvia knew some important information the gov didnt know... ✍️✍️✍️#SAKAZUKI SHOT THE EVACUATION SHIP???? HELLO??? I DIDNT REMEMBER IT WAS HIM!! (also olvia knew where saul was)#kuzan is sick in the head... he can't bring himsef to kill child robin but he will kill her as an adult... also his beef with akainu is OLD#like no wonder she was terrified when she saw him again. he said live like a recluse or i will end you and she fucking did. THE bogeyman#there are comments saying they hate akainu and he has just appeared 😭😭 JUST FUCKING WAIT#you guys think when luffy realised robin's enemy was the world gov he also realised it was sabo's enemy too.... bc as a child he didn't kno#also pluton was made as a countermeasure for the weapon robin could reactivate... could that be the one that was used in lulusia??#bc i thought that weapon was pluton but if pluton is just blueprints.... this makes more sense... which could also mean the ancient weapons#are a countermeasure for weapons the government already has. and thats why they're hunting them down. to have no opposition#so there must be two sides of the ancient weapons bc they call pluton that but also the unnamed one that robin could activate#so is pluton a countermeasure to uranus (the one used in lulusia i think) but neptune? trios dont make sene but a trio and their opposite d#reading one piece#enies lobby
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Let’s talk life series spoiler etiquette on this blog. For me, specifically, you won’t really need to worry about this, it’s just a slight change of schedule.
So, same as I decided back in limited life. 12 hours off from the usual upload time on the day of/after a session. 9am aest (not aedt, that’s not a mistake) instead of the usual 9pm. That gives enough time for people to watch. Even then, tonight I’ll probably aim for a solo tango screenshot and I try not to get anything too exciting in a tango until later on.
If anyone has any suggestions about stuff I could do better, let me know! And if you have submissions, send those in too, asks and submissions are both open!
Other than that, vote in my poll, and enjoy this life game!!! I know i will :3 (I Am Going To Be Up So Late Tonight)
#not tango#i’m so excited. i’ve missed this#i love the life series#and i get more active on here when im excited about something#whats the point of having a platform if you’re not going to use it#anyway who was in charge of giving australia 3 timezones in winter and then 5 in summer make up your mind#wait… thatll make it 8am for the aedt people#then again that makes it 6am for the kiwis. i cant please everyone can i#i’ll stick with 9am if anyone complains i’ll push it out to 10
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okay so like two things about this particular line.
one: i like the irony in claude telling someone to trust more.
two: HOWEVER, dimitri has literally absolutely no reason whatsoever in the name of yeehaw fuckity to not trust claude. i hate the way the game tries to absolutely force the things gw/sb claude does into ag when it doesn't even exist at all in ag. he never made a single hint of planning to just betray/harm the kingdom and this is literally at their first war meeting. not just that, but claude chose to go to faerghus himself and didn't ask them to go to leicester (which he specifically states being the one to choose to go to faerghus), so there wasn't anything indicating he might be up to something at all.
then we've got this stupid nugget:
each side lacks trust and is expecting foul play? the church expects foul play from the kingdom? from the alliance which has done nothing to them in this route, and that's bad enough... but the fucking kingdom too?
the kingdom and alliance watching for foul play even though they're allies and never had a history of being aggressive toward each other?
i know i've talked about it before but... i just hate how they tried to force this "claude is always scheming something terrible" plotline, even where it doesn't belong. then they also added in the dumb bit here about even the church not trusting the other armies, even though they've... literally been helping them, gratefully, this whole war. they also didn't have to fight but chose to out of gratitude for being sheltered.
suddenly after the timeskip they just... don't trust each other?
like i totally get just being in it to reclaim gm and go home and not really in it for someone else or anyone else, but the distrust is just an asspull to make the church seem BaD as usual.
claude just walked in and wasn't trusted. they also keep hammering it in right through the whole second half of the route with lots of kingdom allies (including playable ones) not trusting him. even if they relatively trust the alliance and the soldiers helping them that were integrated into their army, they specifically do not trust claude at all and are apprehensive about him.
dimitri agrees here if they can't be trusted, but he doesn't mention just personally distrusting them a whole lot. he agrees that they should be cautious if what the others say is true, but he also just shrugs it off as "they'll be enough to deal with the alliance if so". he seems unsure at first and kinda goes back and forth, but by the end he's the only character who faithfully believes that claude isn't just fucking around and leading them on (which literally, right to the very very very end, every single character except him is still very vocally doubting claude).
but like... why? there's... just... nothing to distrust him because of in this route. man literally exists and the game wants us to believe he's untrustworthy.
yeehaw wtf??? why would anything happen between the kingdom and alliance after the war? why would anything need to happen? even if you try to argue that claude is gonna try to uwu depose of the top church officials, if the church is watching the kingdom like hawks like dimitri is apparently aware of, why would the kingdom get involved? why would they care? clearly the church doesn't trust them all that much after all, or at least anymore since the timeskip for some unknown reason, and the kingdom has now, after this war, paid back any debt it owed the church.
so like, why would they suddenly rush to the church's aid and help them if the church doesn't trust them? if they were friendly/allied it would make sense if they still wanted to help, but if the church is expecting foul play from the kingdom, why would the kingdom even care what happens to the church? they could turn a blind eye and pretend they don't have the resources to aid them anymore and that their own territory is still busy recovering.
even if you argue what they discussed at the very beginning of the war, the church either A: didn't ask for aid in this second conflict, or B: even if they did, the above stands. i don't think there would be any riots or anything like that in those cases if the kingdom didn't help the church. it's one thing to help, but it's another to just fight at the back and call of another territory, which dimitri clearly expresses he won't do in gw because he puts the safety of his people first. no matter what his feelings are on the matter, he knows he's a king and that he has a responsibility to his people first and foremost, as would be expected of a king (to protect his own people first and foremost).
while i could see claude wanting to talk after the war and get things straight, and while i could see dimitri there as a mediator, there's just... literally no reason for bad blood after all this. even if they don't trust each other, there's just no reason - and that's aside from the fact that it's total bs that they all just don't trust each other.
lorenz just asks if shez has confidence in them. doesn't mention claude. shez though just... randomly is like oh yeah btw just not claude. totally unprompted.
lorenz distrusting claude has been part of his character since houses so his part of it is reasonable. normally i'd say it's really pushing things with claude not being trustworthy for someone to say they feel bad for shez/the kingdom army for the implication of having to deal with claude even as an ally, but the only reason i give this a pass is because it's an understandable and reasonable character who says it.
still though, it's like the game throws it in at every single possible opportunity for no reason at all. they don't give us any indication that claude is this big bad evil guy. he doesn't trust the church. like... that's it. he made that clear even in ag (even without the zaharas chapter), and that's just... it. the rest of this makes it seem like claude is going to just up and invade the kingdom after this war and try to unify fodlan (i.e. just go what edelgard's been doing this whole time).
it's just like... here, nobody trusts claude at all in this game just for simply existing. you don't even have to bring him up, because someone else will do it for you and shit talk him to remind you he's the biggest piece of shit the game can offer! meanwhile, we've got marianne who is concerned about edelgard (implication is her well being no less!) because the empire's army ain't doing so hot. poor indading aggressor! sure hope she's doing okay! fuck our leader though, he's the biggest steaming pile of bullshit garbage to ever exist (marianne didn't say that, but that's what the narrative is going for: poor edelgard, it's so sad that the invader is having it rough right now. anyway fuck claude he's literally as evil as tws).
i love ag but i'd say this is one of if not the worst hiccup in the writing. when it comes to faerghus itself and its characters, it's mostly fine and even great, but when it starts going into other territories/characters it ends up taking a nosedive in quality.
siiigh
#DCB Three Hopes Run#it's actually super ironic how ppl were lauding this after the trailers as#''it's gonna be the golden route game!'' like to begin with there was zero actual evidence of that#so idk why ppl just jumped to that conclusion based on snippets of in game events#but also like??? this game tore that apart like it was ripping up sensitive documents to be thrown out#literally straight up in every route went ''not a single territory trusts the other and they all secretly hate each other''#which. again. totally fucking stupid. but also hilarious that they went so far out of the golden route zone#and yet it's the game everyone was SO SURE would be the golden route#(even after they'd said they'd never make a golden route lmao)#but yeah the writing is just trash every single time they involve like anything outside of in-territory fighting#like the empire turmoil was fine. the writing wasn't really bad with the whole ludwig versus edelgard thing#and the stuff that was like leicester against almyra was fine. nader was even written well for that!#but once it gets into mingling territories however they're mingling be it fighting or allies#it gets so muddy and stupid and it's like what was even the point of doing that in EVERY route#hell by logic caspar would've been a recruitable character bc he'd see the bullshit going on in the empire and be like#wait this is fucked up nah im outta here i ain't fighting for this shit#but he just... stays??? bc he wants to fight for... edelgard??? who he is CLEARLY AWARE is not in charge anymore???#like if you were fighting for edelgard you would've fought against the ppl using her so... tws#even if you argue he didn't directly know it was thales and not ludwig at the helm caspar as he's supposed to be would never have#condoned what the empire was doing and would've left. if he thought it was ludwig in charge and hated what was going on he would've left#he's an idiot if he still thinks he's actually fighting /for/ edelgard at that point. his father even basically told him to get out of ther#but evidently once territories mingle in any way the writing just SKYDIVES out the window from the top floor of a skyscraper
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coworker (derogatory)
#she just fucking. IRKS me#so we have the same job. same authority level. yet she acts like shes a lead#which would be fine im ok with others taking charge#IF THEY DO IT RIGHT#shes SO FUCKING BAD AT IT??#AND. we have senority!!#yes she is older than us physically but we have worked here for months longer!!!#if anyone is in charge (WHICH SHOULD BE THE LEAD) would it not be the guy who worked there longest???#uggghhhh#she came in late today then was like um youre doing potties wrong youre only supposed to fill half and leave the other stalls for ne#girl then be on time#im not waiting for u im not making the dogs wait for u#so she starts bringing my dogs back (against the rules) (we literally had a meeting last night)#im done arguing. just. fine. whatever. she better have charted or else thatll look bad on me since i brought the dogs out#confronts me later. make sure you fill the potty waters. i say i do. she says yeah but not enough#gestures to a bowl she has filled that is 1) smaller than the bowls in potties 2) TOO FULL#we're not supposed to fill them past halfway so they dont spill#and theyre in the potties for like. 15 minutes. even if they finish their water. im fairly sure its not that inhumane for them to#wait a few more minutes before they go back to their room#THEN. she goes to do feeding. someone is in a meeting where the ipads are (needed to track feeding)#only ipad out is for the front. the front also needs an ipad. so i am instructed to wait#few min later. she comes with an ipad. is the meeting over? no i took it from the front#GIRL.#and she always complains about being in group too much#bestie 90% of the job is group#if you get a day shift youre gonna spend it in group#chill#just. ugh#chaos chitters
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Y’all remember Ren’s random ass semblance evolution right? This bullshit?
Does this mean that Ren has always been colorblind and only now is he able to see colors (and somehow know exactly what they mean)? Why isn’t the idea of a colorblind character in a world heavily based on colors explored?
#rwde#ngl i havent stopped thinking abt rwby since the finale and i keep getting pissed off which randomizes my memories#dont ask me how my brain works i just live here#so i randomly remembered this scene and had a full on tire-brake screech to go 'wait hold up a moment'#granted the semblance evolution is nothing more than plot convenience bullshit that the writers made up on the fly#but i like this purely because of the fact that it lets us know ren is colorblind except for the people his semblance is affecting#yet another concept that the writers failed to understand or take advantage of#honestly who would let these clowns be in charge of a plastic plant much less a whole ass mature series
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we need to go to bed but. what if we drew like, a family photo style portrait of our most common fronters. as like a desktop background or something
#that’s like 20 people#i know i’m mostly the one who talks but like. we have like 20 people in front at all times#how would we even arrange ourselves…. Michael and Siims in the front probably. Marius next to Michael. Jack on the side in case i need to#change it for him changing bodies. Mim and Uze in the back i’d assume since they’re big and probably Kevin too. maybe Benjamin and Ben in#the back. put Jonathan and myself next to each other. probably Jonah next to me also. the Ices together obviously and next to Cogs. Gears#and 23 next to each other. other Gears probably near Mim. would Potluck want to be in this? hm#maybe i should sketch out some possible placements….#rambling#oh wait Kain could go near Michael also and like. Gerry would want to be near Kain i’m sure#Ashes probably in the centre? since they’re in charge around here. probably Jonny next to them. Raph and Sasha next to each other?#would Peter be in it? probably not. would Toy and Toy Soldier?? i’d have to ask#i want to put Tiimm and Alto next to each other…. hm…
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i’m confused because is that not literally how she’s written in the show- her storylines do revolve her love life 99% of the time
like as shitty as that is, it is canon & surely you can’t blame fans for how crap the shows writing is and how characters are depicted?
#i feel like the character they’re talking about is not one i’ve seen#i would get it if they said fanon but they’re talking about canon nancy here#fandom wank#like#is that not literally her in canon#blame the duffers blame the writers#not saying it’s good#but that’s how her story’s written#such a cop out to blame fans rather than the people who made her that way#pull the duffers and writers on it why do they get away with shitty storytelling why does it always get blamed on fans#also like#playing it a little too fast and loose with ‘complex’ i fear#oh wait my bad#they ‘empowered’ her#by [checks hand] giving her guns and [checks other hand] .. yeah i got nothing#idk why can no one ever hold the people in charge responsible for their own show#not to be controversial on this fine evening but#yeah#the duffers get off way too easy
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had a lil flash of inspiration whilst cooking about like. water symbolism cassian. rock/earth symbolism jyn?
#if eye was in charge of the starry wars there'd be a trilogy in here and air symbolism bodhi would be here too#i was just kind of prodding at an idea that hit me earlier and then jyn becoming a geologist who takes up her mother's work in a way#that was Important To Me and i was like. wait
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#reblogging my own posts#free to use#everyone should check out the notes on this post yall have great ideas#silmarillion#elves#valinor#bonus points: no one ever officially cancelled the decree making Formenos and its surroundings the lands of Feanor and his kin#Caranthir ir Amrod or whoever is now the liege lord of several thousand people he never met#they mostly think it's cool - a real Ancient Kinslayer in the ruined city! how Authentic (tm)!#they don't really listen to his orders but will help clean out a house for him and pay some taxes/admittance fees to the theme park#and sure he can represent them in council in Tirion if he wants; they've all been ignoring the city and will continue to do so
Elves born in the Second and Third Ages are used to having the ruins of earlier eras scattered around the landscape being Aesthetic, and are disappointed that there aren’t any in Valinor.
So they deliberately build cities, attack them with siege weaponry, and abandon them. It only takes around two hundred years to get that Haunted Vibe!
#ok but LISTEN i have an idea#the idea is: it's amrod who's in charge#specifically toasty amrod#in my view of a toasty amrod verse he's definitely reborn first by a LOT#and after spending some time with his mom decides to go do his own thing#he finds out early on (so maybe a thousand years or so into the Second Age) that while Formenos has been a Destination for a while#it's only now actually starting to get known#he heads out there and finds that the people who've been sorta managing the thing a) weren't ever at Formenos before it was destroyed#b) are in over their heads now that more than a handful of people are showing up and c) have always had an irrational fear#in the back of their heads that some day an angry son of feanor would show up and something between yell at and kinslay them for this#instead amrod shows up and he's DELIGHTED#immediately joins the team of managers#gives them a 'private archaeological tour' (aka he walks around saying things like WAIT THIS PILE OF SLAG USED TO BE THE KITCHEN???#and they follow him with a notebook writing it down)#then someone mentions 'hey imagine how much hype we'd get with a genuine son of feanor as liege lord'#and amrod's face lights up#thousands of years later his next brother gets released#realistically this would not be maedhros but i imagined this interaction with maedhros so now it's him#as in the post above he hikes up to formenos to discover it's become 'The Formenos Archaeological Site and End-YT Noldor Museum'#everyone thinks he's a reenactor from the wrong era for about a minute#but i hc he was released with one hand and all his scars but minus his chronic pain#and like. i doubt anyone there at the time knew him personally but this guy in bewildered shock is Clearly Maedhros#he manages to recover his composure enough to ask one of the tourists who's in charge#the tourist goes 'uhhh the brochure says that the liege lord is a son of feanor i think?' 'WHAT'#a more knowledgeable tourist points him to the manager's building#tourists think he's a reenactor for about 10 seconds this time before they recognize him as Someone To Run Away From Really Fast#then amrod walks out and goes 'what's all this then?'#for a split second maedhros thinks it's amras since he never saw amrod grown up before#and then he chokes out 'tevlo?'#'what are you doing here?' 'what are YOU doing here?'
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ugh i wanna talk about ocs but i dont even know where to start
#so my one story called starquakes right. im just gonna do a lore dump here#so it starts with the kingdom of the cosmos- a fantasy kingdom of elves who harness magical powers. its mostly just practical magic and-#doesnt rlly add much to the story but WHATEVERRR#two powerful individuals- teachers in the kingdom's largest college- atrophy and zenith are the most well known magic users. despite..#being more introverted atrophy takes on the responsibility of private lessons with a young man named carrion.#carrion is a very power and knowledge hungry person and he takes advantage of atrophy's tutoring of him by pushing the limits of her advice#her being his mentor gives him special access to older textbooks. personal journals from past sages. ect ect .#carrion falls down the rabbit hole. enraptured by scrolls and texts and information. this information leads him to an ancient series of-#tunnels below the kingdom. these tunnels lead under the heart of the city in a giant cavern. here lies the darkness.#the darkness is a semi-sentient parasite that takes control of any living thing it can get into contact with if it doesnt just eat it and -#add it to its mass first. carrion is ground zero. he is the first infected. its only goal is to spread and now carrion is in charge of that#now introducing the royal family. a long line of violent colonial power turned academics and peacemakers. the borealis family.#this (for now) consists of the two parents (who dont have names lol) and their two sons: miranda and brutus. brutus is three years younger-#than his brother. this is who carrion has his eyes on.#in an effort to fuel his own desire for power along with the darkness's goal of infecting others carrion kidnaps brutus when hes 11.#he takes brutus to the heart of the darkness and intends to use him as a sacrifice. but he survives. the darkness grabs him by the arm and-#infects him. carrion believes that this is a sign from the darkness that brutus is chosen to be the next heir to the darkness.#after keeping brutus there for around a year to assimilate him to the darkness. and then he goes back to his family#for years the darkness brews and corrupts his mind. it spreads through the nervous system and breaks down his family relationships-#as brutus only gets angrier and angrier.#when brutus is 20 his parents are killed. this is his fault. he staged an “accident” which places miranda on the throne.#the accident was supposed to infect his parents but he couldnt go through with it.#miranda found out soon after his coronation but couldnt bring himself to hurt his brother. so brutus is banished.#he leaves into the forests and caverns and swamps and waits. and waits. and waits.
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pro tip should you ever come to find yourself living next door to a small animal veterinary practice: don't bully the vet tech's mother-in-law into handing over said vet tech's private phone number to call about a pet problem at 7 AM on a Sunday and maybe also don't ask the same vet tech as they're bringing out the trash five minutes before closing time on a Friday night if we've 'got nothing to do' and 'by the way, my friend's dog here has this weird spot on her belly, can we have it checked out real quick?'
#that dog undoubtedly needed some treatment#but i hate looking at my co-workers who want me to make a decision#since i'm the vet and in charge of making treatment calls#when we're all way overworked and tired and just want to go home somewhat on time for once#and then go 'well i guess since they're now here and everyone else had enough sense to be closed already...'#just because some people have no concept of boundaries#and it's not like things like this don't happen constantly#'oh yeah i called once at 8 AM this morning you didn't answer now i'm here'#'what do you mean you open at 10 and there's appointments until 6 PM?'#'what do you mean i might have to WAIT'#and then they get really pissed if you tell them that it could take two hours or more.#or that they either have to turn to another vet or come back another day#or that it's still up to us to decide what's an emergency that needs immediate treatment#and what can still wait for another hour or two#just. exhausting week.#personal
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