WHy does outside quiet is more quiet than inside quiet

today was a difficult day for me creatively (and academically but whatever) because anytime I'd sit down to do something I'd just get distracted by my brain buzzing about RT shutting down and what that means for RWBY.

I just. I'll be devastated if that's how it ends, after everything, after a decade. This show has meant so much to me growing up and I really would like to see it to the end. On the other hand, something else I'm dreading is if it does managed to get sold off and continued by...randos. The last thing I want is a completely new writing and animation team, because then it won't be the show I fell in love with, it'll just be something else with the same coat of paint. And I don't really care what people say about the writing in RWBY, I'd rather that than see it get turned into some shounen schlock where the only things people ever talk about are how hot the girls are and how cool the fights are. That's the worst timeline.

Look, to whoever may end up getting the IP rights and making the decisions on how to carry it on, just. Could you maybe listen to the fans of something about why they've stuck around for so long rather than people who hate the show and the people who bring it to life?

I don't know. I'm disheartened. I'm not sure if I have enough copium left in me to hope for much.

Perfume (book)

God, reading that book just made me question myself. Why did I finish it? I have to say, the misanthropy and disgusting descriptions are very vivid and I can appreciate there is a place for that, but I just... left feeling disgusted. Which I guess is the point, but the feeling of cold despair isn't that attractive to me. It's also somewhat nonsensical to me how the actual physical manifestation of smells is used, there are plenty of people like me who just have a shit sense of smell.

I guess the chemistry of it all was quite nice though, the descriptions of scent distillation and capture are apparently quite accurate, so there's that. I've been taught something about how fats were impregnated with various smells...

Hexcells daily - time 7:35

I forgor my flower logic today (- ~ -)

what they dont tell you about adulthood is that it’s startlingly easy to go long periods of time without having any fun at all not even a little bit. btw this causes ur brain to try to kill you with knives and hammers.

Hexcells daily - time 5:33

*yaaaaaaawn*

Hexcells daily - time 5:37

Niceu

Hexcells daily - time 8:53

Actually difficult today, humans live for the struggle against life I guess. Had to mentally pen in some mines like it was Tametsi, made the logic in the right edge easier to work through.

Daily Hexcells - time unknown because I clicked off too fast :(

Still got a streak going of not having a proper stinker... lots of start threads though.

Poor Things film thoughts (spoilers, duh)

The first 15 mins with monochrome colouring really scared me, I was expecting something pretty pretentious from that but my god did it pick up. This has to be one of my favourites in a long time, the semi-fantastical setting was shockingly well done, and I was not expecting such a hard hitting feminist story.

I went to see this with my dad (at some point I should really start checking for sexual content warnings when I go to the flicks with him '_'), and even he enjoyed it, although I doubt I could have a serious deep conversation with him about the themes and iconography. From the opening I was sort of expecting more of a horror-adjacent story, but thankfully it gave way to the more coming-of-age stuff I generally prefer.

Bella was such a compelling protagonist, I get the whole "women are expected to be adults long before they are ready, and this is represented by having a toddler in a grown woman's body" but the whole immature brain thing was done amazingly. As someone with the 'tism I can very much appreciate the whole thing of blunt observation, although I fear my ability to simply state random things and use people's words against them has been whittled down somewhat. I'm not sure how I feel about Bella's stint as a prostitute, it's shockingly... clean? looking, and as I have never had any conversations with sex workers about sex work but have heard a bunch of conflicting shit off the internet I'll simply withhold judgement for now.

What did really interest me was the lawyer guy Bella went to travel with, I have 0 romantic experience so idk how lifelike the character is, but from what I hear there are too many men who think and act like him, with the lack of basic comprehension of Bella's condition. I aren't expecting him to guess that she's got an infant's brain in her, but I am expecting him to become much more explicit and careful around her.

Then again, the surprise husband at the end was pretty explicit, "a man has to conquer territory, you are my property" (something like that) so idk. That was at a point where Bella didn't need such explicit statements anyway, irony I guess.

Godfrey was an interesting character too, the whole intro set him up to be Frankenstein-like, and then he tells the betrothed guy to recognize her free will and self-determination. I was sort of expecting his brain to be transplanted to the evil husband at the end, but the story as a whole has a surprising respect for the end of life and one's right to oblivion. Theoretically, transplanting his brain would be a horrible idea as unlike an infants' he would have problems communicating with the body.

Everything was so surreal though, the strange chimeras in the beginning and the off-kilter CG backgrounds really gave it a visual identity. The extra-saturated colours of the sky really drew me in, and the weird mix of technologies and locations. What really stuck out to me was the cable cars in Alexandria, especially with the zoom out when they left showing how tiny the island resort thing was.

Overall, very surreal but poignant and beautiful.

Daily Hexcells

Time - 4:27

Pretty aight, it has some uncommon flower logic which I do appreciate

Hexcells daily - time 7:59

Only 1 sticking point today, the bottom part. Wish it wouldn't generate hex rings with only a small island on the centre, you need at least 7 cells for interesting interactions

Hexcells daily - time 4:01

Nice and easy, the parallelogram types are like that I guess.

moving to oxford from us soon any suggestions

I really missed writing Junko/Mikan centric fics, so here I am with one set to last all of 2024! Happy New Year everyone. My gift to you is soft Junkan sweetness.