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It's kind of tragic, in a sense, that iterators were made with so much of their creators logic and desires and yet they were left with none of the resources to satisfy such things.
Do you think they crave touch? Family? Do you think they have to have any hope of connection stomped out of them lest they rebel against what they were made for?
Were they ever afraid to feel, or to be outside of what they were supposed to be? If they ever dared to desire, would they have to hide it?
Do you think they saw their creators sometimes as family, and did the abuse hurt just that much more because of it?
Were they like children, when they were born? Did they process the world through the lens of uncertainty and naivete and was that taken advantage of to mold them into the desired product?
Or were they conscious and self aware in full, was is overwhelming, being alive for the first time?
Or were did they process things entirely as machines, did they only learn to be people after seeing it happen around them, and then did they ever regret becoming more alive than they ever needed to be? That they ever became enough to feel hurt and to hurt others?
If they were just machines at birth, with only the capability of consciousness, were the desired traits injected into them with thoughts and ideas and interactions in their formative early years and was anything else just a byproduct of trying to build a person from scratch? Did their creators even want them to feel, to be conscious and alive, or was that just a necessity to create the desired machine?
Did they even care that their creations were alive?
Did any of them grieve, when they left the children of their labor behind? Were they grieved for in turn when they were gone? Do their echoes ever try to reach out, to let them know they aren't alone, to find comfort in connection that before was so condemned?
If they tried hard enough, could they reach?
Could they find each other?
Would it be comforting to iterators that the remnants of their creators could find them, or would it bring more feelings of rage, of sorrow, of painful memories and grief and hurt from the years they were used and the years more they were abandoned?
Did they ever truly mean anything to each other?
#had a vague thought and my mind spiraled into a number of ideas#a few of these are probably answered in the games canon! I cannot be bothered to check.#It is not an appropriate hour of the morning to be awake right now#I need to go to bed#I hope someone can glean a scrap of interest from my scrambled ramblings <3#roadkill rambles#rain world#rain world iterator#rw iterator#rain world ancients#rw ancients
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it's always kinda depressing when I make a post about real people and their actions in real life only for the post to collect a bunch of tags from people relating it to their OCs or other fictional characters. like you guys have gotta make some real life personal connections and learn about actual irl experiences rather than picking this stuff up through a lens of fiction.
#this is why i cant get into fanfiction and even a lot of published novels#it is soooo painfully obvious and hard to read when someone writes about something they have never experienced or even bothered to research#like their only knowledge on the subject is what they've gleaned from movies or anime or video games#please you have gotta experience bilingual people irl to write a bilingual person or your dialog can get so cringe so fast#not a dig at kids though i know they were only born recently and their world aint big cause their legs are still small
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wish i knew the forgotten realms lore better...how am i meant to make my little ocs in this state of ignorance
#i'm so interested in how people relate to the gods in this world which is sort of hard to glean from the wiki#thinking abt those notes in the ilmater temple - 'even bhaal has things to teach us 😔🙏' otoh but the absolute cult is 'heresy'#like who decides that? what does heresy /mean/ in this polytheistic setup where each god's cult seems to p much do their own thing#& it seems like even among the good-aligned gods ppl tend to pick one to hitch their wagon to in a pretty committed way#what does polytheism mean to the average joe in this world#i need to know#i need to make a little guy about it#wrapped up shadowheart's quest and....idk man!#just going off the lore as presented in bg3 so far it's set up distrust for deities pretty much across the board#like babe is your new cult better? bc they've got angel imagery? i guess so#the whole problem of evil thing - the dead three shar et al being so extant & active in the world makes the (apparently?) more distant#benevolence of good gods pretty limp by comparison#so much of what draws lay people to them seems to be protection from the very real material threat posed by the evil ones?#& at least SH is in a better place to choose than say. the goblins#vast swathes of people just born under a bad sign in this world#i heard somewhere that if you don't get a god to claim your soul for their afterlife it just kind of withers away in limbo for eternity?#kinda fucked up#some protection racket shit dude#being a mortal in FR like you're just a little guy in a precarious cosmological situation aren't u#to be clear none of this is a criticism i think it's very fun & chewy#rife with cosmic horror potential#bg3#bg3 spoilers#edit: i mean it's a little bit of a criticism in that i don't think the game sells SH's conversion super well#if the intention is just to be like. yay white-hat god good ^_^#but i don't hate the worldbuilding implications if we take the iffiness as read
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girl hold me, leftists are being wrong about signalis because of its east german aesthetics online again (and being INCREDIBLY racist about germans whilst at it) 😭
#and im fucking GREEK do you know how racist you gotta be to get a greek to tell you to cut it out about being mean to GERMANS?!#(and hell it's not even ''being mean'' they outright label any german as nazi-adjacent cus of their history like FUCK ME what the fuck)#anygay signalis is not about communism or anti-communism it's about the tragedy of conformity and the beauty of love even if it's fleeting#we can glean a lot about its world and its powers vying for control and how fucked everything is - but it ultimately doesnt matter#what matters is the humanity we find amidst ourselves and with our loved ones. that's it that's the message#the same EXACT message disco elysium has which i saw it compared to as the EVIL disco lmfao god fucking damn
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All of you are probably aware that I am a man who loves to think about the Ancients’ daily lives, but most of all I am a man who loves to think about them being happy.
The lives not spent in perpetual meditation and self-sacrifice, those spent truly living for something other than the hope to properly die.
Moon speaks of big festivals, of classical paintings so adored that people forged family portraits in their style – family portraits – they cared for their families enough to get them painted together!
She reads a fragment of a poem, from an ancient farmer. Their name is Pel, nowhere near as vivid as those of the others. In the mists of memory, your image dances, like the motes of dust, in a ray of sunlight that pierces a dark room. It is a love poem, it seems; to whom, no one knows. Nonetheless, it is a work of love, and nothing else.
She reads a dark pink pearl. In it are over six hundred memories of one person, who lived near the end of their civilization. They were married with children. They spoke in debate contests, and were apparently incredibly stylish. They preserved the memories of a tasty meal from their childhood, a triumphant victory in a debate, and a peaceful moment in their older years. They were left here to be cherished by those who remained. None do, except you.
But still, you are here. You remember what they were.
And they were alive.
#ramblings#rain world#ancients rain world#im. having feelings over them#gonna write the spades and bell fics tomorrow maybe#i gotta sleep now#but aaaaaaaa#they weren’t all miserable!! they got to live and be happy and love each other!!#at least for most of history the natural urges weren’t really sins. they were just part of being alive#ascension (supposedly) needed them gone but before then it was okay from what i’ve gleaned#im putting the ancients in a centrifuge and spinning them until all the lore comes out
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Digging through pre-2021 Mandalorian posts is hurting deep—so, so very deep
#the mandalorian#ah remember when we were all screaming about the loss of the razor crest? like. remember when that was the worst thing they had ever done?#I’m enjoying the nostalgia though#and it sure is helping me glean what story elements and character points that have been left dangling#*sees wasted potential in a show that went off the rails* it’s free real estate#and so many people wrote so many in depth analyses about din and mandalorians and grogu and the post empire world#I just want to live in those posts
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Two of my favorite little moments from the Six of Crows book are when Kaz tells Inej and Jesper to go fetch him clothes.
Both scenes are just so fun to picture happening
Like-- Inej simply wanting him to ask nicely for once and he just HAS to do the Most "Please, my darling Inej, treasure of my heart, won't you do me the honor of acquiring me a new hat?" and Inej side-eyeing his cane and telling to have a long trip before she slides easily down the bannister made it even better
and then with Jesper, all he can be bothered to do is casually throw out a threat, 'Man with a knife, remember?' and when that doesn't work he just flips him off as he walks away knowing he'll do what he asked anyways.
Would love to see it in some iteration at some point though it's unlikely.
#six of crows#kaz brekker#also not kaz calling inej 'treasure of my heart' sarcastically even though that's actually 100% the truth because if anyone was going#to catch kaz brekker's heart it'd have to be someone that he gleaned to be worth all the money in the world and we KNOW that's#how he feels about her ; you aren't fooling anyone but yourself brekkeR#also he just has to say it over his shoulder in both instances because he is committed to his dramatic exits#they should let kaz's actor get to throw around more fun lines from the book ; like he could so do it and it'd be so funny sjsjsj#let him show off kaz's teenage dramatics pleaSe#though I feel like it's too far now for them to actually incorporate these scenes ... granted they have no rhyme or reason to what canon#moments they pull to throw randomly in the show timeline so who knows pfft-
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the trozei beamer poses absolutely insane implications if it's canon to the rest of the series (which i want it to be). like what do you MEAN if you have multiple of the same species of pokemon nearby a total stranger can mass transfer them using private satellite. right out of their POKEBALLS????? Like is that ALLOWED???? Ma'am you are UNREGISTERED
#guess what i'm playing for the first time.#though i guess my fun little lady might be a registered trainer...she has an aipom....#looking forward to gleaning more information about the world as i play. whos this prof hastings knockoff what even is our organization#pkmn trozei#are we rangers? are we kind of like rangers? what's going on where am i
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genuine life hack - if you are researching something or trying to learn/understand something, look for teaching resources and/or curriculum for that topic. Teacher resources, guides, and curriculums are meant to be explicit with all explanations on the back (teacher) end and easy to understand on the front (student) end, which means they are the easiest things to learn from
trust me
#jackshit#maybe its a skill issue and only teachers can get a shit load of information from curriculum guides because its a skill you kinda pick up#buT its not one youre taught lmfao you're just trapped in a room with feral children and these books to teach yourself the content to teach#to them#and like#it really is so easy to glean the information from them#because its a for dummies guide built to be consumed and taught in a field with an extremely high turnover rate#and there are SO many free resources out there built for teachers that you don't need to prove you're a teacher to get#like so many places will just have a little 'educators' or 'teacher resources' tab and bam#there you have the strong foundation to understand that thing#ive never found a text book useful and that's because it's missing the back end of it XD once you have that the world CHANGES besties
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'Where did you learn such tales, if all the land is empty and forgetful?' asked Peregrin. 'The birds and beasts do not tell tales of that sort.'
'The heirs of Elendil do not forget all things past,' said Strider; 'and many more things than I can tell are remembered in Rivendell.'
'Have you often been to Rivendell?' said Frodo.
'I have,' said Strider. 'I dwelt there once, and still I return when I may. There my heart is; but it is not my fate to sit in peace, even in the fair house of Elrond.'
With this and the elf-stone, we learned some more about Strider today 👀
#lotr newsletter#writers take note#this is one great way to get to know a character#it's me I'm writers#you can glean a lot about someone from what they know#especially if your world doesn't have google :p#lotrn1013
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i genuinely believe that i've been rewarded for my perseverance
#i am genuinely happy with life at the moment#the things i've been through are tough but they've taught me a whole lot about myself and the world#i feel better equipped for whatever happens next *because* of what i've survived#i never want to do that again. obviously.#but i choose to glean as much positivity from it as i possibly can#i am stronger and more confident now
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I love the attention to detail in NEO, especially with the character expressions. Early on, Shoka knows she’s fucked up. Her family is responsible for trapping her best friend in a game with no known escape and she at the very least feels complicit in that :[
#TWEWY#NEOTWEWY#NTWEWY#NEO: The World Ends With You#neo twewy spoilers#Shoka Sakurane#Rindo Kanade#Tosai Furesawa#bravadoting#honest to god wish people leaned into her POV during the game#there's so much you can glean about her during these little moments#I'll be sure to share more examples later
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please have you seen the movie yet i'm going insane and keep going back but also helpppp. if you've talked about it on another blog of yours i'll take that but i'm losing my mind reading reviews of people who don't seem to know even a spec of wonka lore
oh, my dear comrade... for you... i will endure it. i'll try to go see it christmas weekend.
#it looks Awful. based off aesthetics alone (gleaned from the trailer) i hate how they've let the whimsy of wonka himself leak out into the#atmosphere like a hole in an astronaut's suit.#like dressing every character (even the background ones) in fancy colorful slightly eccentric clothes#with no purpose beyond 'doesn't this look fun'.#the trailer and world feels so ungrounded. i love how the 71' characters--while exaggerated caricatures of certain attributes--appear and#feel real and lived in.#everything in this wonka movie looks like it was wrapped in new vibrant clothes like cheap presents or veneers.#i don't want veneers! i want braces! the charm of utility!#it looks so much like it's trying to replicate the feel of the show a series of unfortunate events.#but that is not the point or ambiance of wonka and his movie at all.#it's like they watched asout and then mary poppins and thought 'i can do that'#but don't get me wrong--i WILL have fun watching it. for better or worse.
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I went into my english class at the start of the semester and my professor was like "you guys dont discuss hard questions, like philosophy or politics, or analyze literature very much outside of academia, right? In some other cultures this is normal, but we don't do this very much here" and I was internally like lady I don't know how to say this but talking about those things in my personal life is all I fucking do it feels like
#it's that way irl it's that way online#i can't have a conversation longer than 15 minutes with any of my irl friends without it devolving into politics or philosophy somehow#i say devolving because it feels like it never ends. that there's some new weird bullshit that's happened in the world#we live in interesting times. it's ALL we talk about#even in the singular fandom i'm semi-involved in most of what i end up doing#is talking about how we can use the text to glean information about the authors' beliefs and how that manifests as its many flaws#mostly the completely unexamined misogyny
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Today has been a real win for daytime game show queers, and a crushing defeat for the poetry queers.
#so much of my gender is just bits of charles nelson reilly gleaned from match game reruns#wayne brady coming out (not merely making campy references) and being the host (rather than just a day player) of a daytime game show?#the cultural significance#so beautiful#my game show fixation has passed but this is huge for the daytime television audience#which includes adults and children in institutional settings#there's a pansexual black man in the dayroom now and that makes a world of difference
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