#yes i will be nitpicky about this

[machinerot]

[scientistuchuu]

[IMAGE: A screenshot of an article on some tabloid site. The title says: “DRL’s Head of Extradimensional Biology Professor Lila Uchuu seen colluding with Aether Foundation’s Branch Chief and Acting President Wicke! Ultra Beasts to be unleashed on Populace!”. Below the title is a blurry photo taken through a window of Lila and Wicke’s silhouettes shaking hands.]

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Sigh. Another day, another theory.

I mentioned the “unsavory rumors” people kept spreading about me when I first joined here and, well, this is one of them. Apparently, I’m in charge of a plot to release Ultra Beasts on to Alola in order to destabilize and take it over or something.

People must’ve taken my distate of the limelight to be a sign of maliciousness. Perhaps my presence here will mitigate this?

[pinkcori]

I love the Percy Jackson show so much. It legitimately brings so much joy into my life each week.

It feels like a GOOD adaptation. Obviously it was never gonna be 1:1 to the books but it has still managed to emulate the story I loved as a smol Cori so well that I feel nostalgic and get so genuinely happy whenever I watch a new episode. Legitimately there hasn’t been a change to the story that doesn’t pay off in some way. It always gives us MORE which is so so nice.

Everyone in this show is amazing and I’m so heckin grateful for each and every one of them for helping to bring this story to life. 😭

(Also it’s really fucking funny to watch new people get into the show. I feel like an old villain watching people simp over you know who, who’s gonna do you know what. BUT ITS HILARIOUS)

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[nerdyfangirlingbooks]

Rereading the lunar chronicles but I'm an engineer now and I'm being nitpicky

It took Cinder's scanner 2.6 seconds to recognise Kai?? That feels slow, given how much their technology has progressed? Especially because the system presumably has a LOT of data about him?

It should be able to pick up the points of his face pretty quickly, his disguise was a hoodie (so face not covered at all) and decent current tech can do this in a practically negligible time

And then it just needs to go through the database and I guess it depends how it's doing it. If it's doing a manual searching algorithm then 2.6 seconds is probably actually pretty quick but I assume it would use AI so it should be able to recognise so someone that famous very very quickly

[utilitycaster]

You could've explained this without the holier than thou attitude

I could have, but I didn't want to! Hope this helps.

[coockie8]

why are so many of your ocs super overpowered though??

Ever since I was a really little kid, I've been very frustrated with the fact we invented all these super awesome powers and concepts for story telling purposes, but then, somewhere down the line, decided we actually aren't allowed to use like any of them because it's "bad story telling", or some other such nonsense.

Like, no, if I wanna write an impervious, God-like character with a cheeky personality and barely addressed flaws that everyone loves, then I damn well will, and if you have a problem with that, then clearly you are not the target audience.

Not everything is for everyone, and some of you people seriously need to learn to make your peace with that.

[barnbridges]

On Denomination Semantics, Church Authority, Bunny, Marion and Julian

I'll say that much, the Greek class is predominantly Catholic, with it being noted that Richard is a non-denominational Christian and Bunny being an Episcopalian.

"Bunny’s family was Episcopalian, and my parents, as far as I knew, had no religious affiliation at all; but Henry and Francis and the twins had been reared as Catholics;"

This established dynamic is a setup to a later conversation in the book, where Julian questions Richard on the changes in Bunny's behavior, attributing them to a possible conversion of either Bunny or Marion, wherein we learn she is a Presbyterian. All fun and good, we just learn that Bunny is so panicked Julian thinks he's having a mental breakdown, right? This is just foreshadowing to Bunny writing the confessional letter to Julian, right?

Upon closer inspection... why would we need to know, in particular, the specific denomination that Bunny holds, when his social status as a Protestant has already been established, and even less so Marion, who Richard doesn't even know?

Well, that is because the confessions are a metaphor for the structure in their lives.

The Roman Catholic Church is one of the three major divisions of Christianity in the Western World. It has a known structure, and it bases its belief both on the Christian Bible and the Papacy, with the structure of the Church as important as the religious text itself. It is a very rigid structure, and it is indeed, as Julian says, "a worthy and powerful foe".

Episcopalians on the other hand, are seen as a "halfway" point between the structure of the Catholics and the relative interpretative freedom of other Protestants. While the Episcopal Church is a Protestant denomination, meaning it does not hold the Pope as any authority, it has structures of authority (mainly, bishops and cardinals) and holds different views on sin as opposed to Catholics (as Francis ironically points out in the Epilogue).

The motto of the Episcopal Church is "Protestant, yet Catholic!", I kid you not. EDIT: The phrase "Protestant, yet Catholic" has been associated with the Episcopal Church and their beliefs.

Not relevant to the theological discussion, but the Episcopal Church also was founded in the US and is a very American phenomenon, being one of the most common denominations for American Presidents and wannabe DC political larpers as well.

A noteworthy detail is also that... the central book of Episcopalians is The Book of Common Prayer... Which Charles desecrated at Bunny's funeral service by using it to kill a wasp. This shows both the particular lack of respect the other characters have for non-Catholic tradition, but also their lack of connection to the gravity of such an act. Charles desecrated a religious text in a church, and it was a comedic moment. They are very in touch with reality /s.

"Charles had killed it with a resounding thwack from The Book of Common Prayer."

Presbyterianism is not a church, but rather a set of beliefs and principles. It is one of the most reformist of Protestant beliefs, and does not at all recognize the need for any religious authority or church to practice. Presbyterians believe in a personal relationship with God rather than a need for a house of worship or sin to practice. Presbyterians are also stereotyped as low class, again as our judgemental professor puts it "

"He had a habit of attributing all of Bunny’s faults indirectly to her—his laziness, his bad humors, his lapses of taste."

What this primarily means for interpreting our characters and their morals, is that Bunny finds himself at a middle-point between the strict hierarchy of the Greek class and the personal freedom afforded to him by decentralized beliefs. He has all his life existed in a state of "in between" authority and lack thereof, and Julian is questioning if the main force in his life that feeds the "contrary" impulse in Bunny is gone with Marion's hypothetical conversion.

This speaks mostly to that... our Julian was probably reared Catholic himself (calling it The Church... yeah he totally also was Catholic at some point), but has turned his back on the particular beliefs of the faith to where Richard finds him today. This also implies that of his 6 students, ironically enough, Bunny would be the one that has a relationship to religious authority most similar to Julian's own, and that has been since he joined the Greek class. This contempt would only grow larger as Bunny engages with people who care even less about religious authority than he does, which Julian might not like or respect, but certainly affirms Bunny as... uniquely able to challenge authority, and certainly the most "liberal" of his students on matters of authority. Bunny is the only one of them who indeed, has a girlfriend. A girlfriend that has been a problem to the Greek class that they simply do not want to even address her at all, to the point where Francis goes into prayer that she leaves Bunny.

It's also quite a touch ironic that after Bunny's death, the next one to question the hierarchy of the group, Charles, is coincidentally the one most influenced by Marion herself. Symbolically, Marion represents the "normalcy" and "gateway" from the Catholic-like structure of the Greek class, and Richard, Henry, Camilla and Francis' disregard and mockery of her presence is just a sign that they are quite far removed from any notion of leaving the cult of Julian or challenging why the belief in Classicism needs Julian for a God and Henry for a priest.

[tomwambsmilk]

really curious to see how people's finale opinions will develop once we get some distance.... personally I feel like I'm still reeling so hard from the gut-level emotional response that it's difficult to really assess or analyze it esp. within the framework of the whole show and I kind of wonder if others feel the same

[oasisofgalaxies]

Ok stopping the halo for tonight but I’ll finish it tomorrow- so far I’m kind of lost? I mean it’s not as much of a train wreck as I expected it to be but it’s still a little weird. I have a few questions but at the end of the day I’m a simple person. I see big robot thing, I think they’re neat.

[miharuhebinata]

decided to give this article a quick look because i noticed it mentioned fatal twelve but

"there are opportunities for you to explore romantic relationships with multiple female characters" idk why they said this because no there's not lmao

[kerosene-saint]

"You can have sensory issues and still dress however you want!" yes true, some people with sensory issues may not have difficulties with certain fabrics as much as other sensory input which leads to being able to wear most anything they want. but not all people with sensory issue can just wear anything, I have a specific kind of fabric for pants and it has to also be a certain percent since most of the time it comes in mixes and if it isn'tthat or sweat pants i want to cry. I can't wear leggings, I can't wear jeans or just denim in general, I can't wear things that are too stiff or I'll feel like I'm trapped, I can't wear shirts that are too tight cause I'll feel trapped, I can't wear long sleeve shirts because they're often too tight, I can't wear low socks they have to be mid calf or higher, silk feel slimy, and most fabrics are too itchy. but yes uh huh i can still wear anything and this totally does not heavily restrict what I can wear (or at least what I can wear for very long). I can definitely dress in the emo style for a long time and be wear tight skinny jeans and tight shirts and too many belts.

[lenievi]

ah, I realized a glaring inconsistency in Double, Double

at the beginning, because Chapel thanks Kirk for not reporting what happened to Korby, it feels like it should be set shortly after the episode. Because she was still emotional about it, about Korby, and it also makes ZERO sense to wait three years to mention it....

but the book deals with the Romulans and suddenly "we obtained a cloaking device" was mentioned and like that's season 3 stuff

I mean a lot of TOS novels can be timeless, but when you write a sequel to What Are Little Girls Made Of? and make it seem like it's shortly after (not just because of Chapel, but other things too), you shouldn't really involve the Romulans...

people probably don't care but I do :D

[shouldprobablybereading]

I respect fantasy authors dedication to absolutely not using any modern irl terms, and I can take when it when they call things hourglass instead of an hour or nameday instead of birthday. But when you publish a book in a country that only uses the metric system, where the absolute majority of your readers are going to use the metric system: why would you measure stuff in feet?!??

[isekyaaa]

Whenever fics give reasons why the character likes the reader, they're always these like angel-like things. Like baking for fun, buying plants, etc etc etc. The quintessential woman stereotype in a fairy tale perfect relationship. They try to make reader seem like "just some person" but use traits only idealized people have.

[jokes-on-dee]

Sometimes I just can't with yalls dennis fanfiction