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people underestimate the degree to which I do NOT know what is going on. E.g. I found out what the Unabomber was YESTERDAY.
#Like. i'd heard the term#Knew it was something American.#A bomber#Probably#And a guy. Perhaps. Perhaps I knew it was a guy.#Anyway I read his Wikipedia page yesterday. My conclusion: Weird guy#I have another stupider opinion but I shan't say it here#I was just. Never curious enough to look it up#Turns out that's information u can 100% live without#Post inspired by seeing someone say “skill issue ”#Realising that i had seen the phrase many times but didn't know its origins.#only sort of knew its meaning#And that I was not going to look it up#Me Fein#Anyway. Remember: don't trust confident charismatic or articulate ppl#None of those things are the same as knowing stuff
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The surprising thing while reading The strange case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, is that the book doesn't show Jekyll is Hyde even when he dies. And then the truth is revealed through others' narrative when the story is almost finished
Anyway, the book is good. It's a nice gothic horror mystery novel to read
#dr jekyll and mr hyde#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde#reading the book due to uni lecture#and i'm really enjoying it#i have one chapter left currently#really this is fun#personally it's better than what i heard of the musical's plot#i'd like to talk about more after final term exam
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Me? Having a 5 day Anki streak and starting to build a habit of adding new vocab to my decks? It's more likely than you think.
#i can read and figure things out from context v well but a minor reason i struggle with speaking is that my active vocab is awful#i really need to go through my notes from last semester and input loads of words but that's a longer term goal#you never realise how many specific words there are for things until you need them#like today i learned the verbs for to chew and to swallow#i could recognise mâcher for chew but i'd never heard of avaler for swallow#interesting stuff#yikes i really need to fill in my independent study log - i've done a surprising amount this week and it needs to be recorded#shockingly enough when you make studying fun eg start playing pokemon in french it becomes fun#ellis exclaims
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the romance/relationship system in bg3 is genuinely some of the worst designed shit i've ever seen in any game with that feature but at least the memes we get out of it are funny. once saw someone comment something along the lines of 'patch note: waving at gale will no longer cause him to buy a house for the two of you to retire in' and i've never recovered since
#i love gale he doesn't deserve (most of) the incel slander#but it's painfully such a good riff because it really really does feel like that#the player choices being a b/w alternation between 'hey there' and 'YOU SHOULD KILL YOURSELF... NOW!' normally is already comical as is#the fact that it carries over into interactions with the party members who you're presumably trying to be close with is... something else#and what makes it worse is it ISN'T jokey hyperbole. anyone remember 'send a mental image of you kissing him or HIS HEAD ON A PIKE.' c'mon#trying to chat and vibe at the refugee camp celebration and the sum of conversation i get is one (1) line asking how they're doing#because going any further than that elicits marking you down for the path of boning take it or leave it#it's genuinely so hard to get to feel like you can deepen a relationship with the characters in ways that aren't trying to pursue them#yes! halsin! i really want to know you better! i just don't want the ass!! why is trying to hit the only option other than up and leaving!!#99% of the time i expect nothing from media creators in terms of writing interactive relationships#larian are beyond parody in that they've somehow managed to do worse than the already suboptimal majority#we're just going to impose the roadblock of do you want to fuck y/n right off the bat. good luck finding a way to talk around that if not#the obscuration surrounding where exactly the checks are really does not help at all either#when the shit's got even the allos complaining about it you know it's BAD#shame because i was excited for character scenes given that's a lot of what's hyped up about the game#but no it's all just the romances. 'what if i'd like to breathe in someone's general direction-' well now have you heard of our romances?#fish fear them party members fear them and tav is going to have to walk alone on this sinful earth#conservative bigoted relative at the family reunion withers era was a fucking time before they tweaked that line speaking of#just so crazy they can get away with this shit#baldur's gate 3#bg3 liveblog
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having a moment about my gender rn and i'm just like ugggggh @ my brain do we have to. like can we just not
#i need to go to bed soon bc i have a 10am class tomorrow but shoutout to the identity crisis i've been having since at least feb 6th#idk if identity crisis is even the right word. bc like one thing about me is that i have a very solid sense of self#like i know who i am and what i want and how i move through the world and what it feels like to be me#but in terms of how i label and explain that to others? that's where the identity crisis comes in#but no one else gets to experience me in first person POV so the descriptors i use and they ways i present myself are reality to them#and tbh? as i think about how some of the descriptors i use for myself don't accurately describe me some people are getting mad???#which is so fucking bizarre bc like. what the fuck it's my gender why are YOU being offended???#but it's also making me low key be like ''wait am i a bad person now????''#even tho i don't believe morality works like that. idk it's just been an exhausting month and a half#if anyone wants to hear more in depth thoughts on all this i would love to vent about it#(but not rn bc i will be going to bed as soon as i get this all out)#but like what i will say now is even tho this past month and a half has been ROUGH (for several reasons especially gender)#and people might expect that me spending so much time with scott in february made it more exhausting#which is understandable we love scott but touring in general is tiring and also i am the most opinionated person i've ever met but so is he#and also like. if you've heard scott talk about gender it's very obvious we disagree on a lot of things and he doesn't shy away from that#but the thing is. i'd actually say spending so much time with scott (even when we talk about gender. even when we *argue* about gender)#was actually such a good thing for me throughout all of this bc even when we disagree on semantics of labels#scott actually sees me beyond that rather than reducing my identity to what i call myself#which is how a lot of well-meaning allys tend to treat me. like i'm just one thing.#so when i'm with scott i never really have to think about my gender#bc he doesn't treat me like i'm (insert whatever gender people treat me like). he just treats me like i'm jessamine#and i'm tired of having to explain myself into smaller pieces so people can pretend to get it#but i feel like there's no way not to do that in our society rn especially at my ''progressive'' liberal arts college
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one of the funniest parts of the new sohm al duty support is seeing estinien yell “KNOW YOUR FOLLY!!!” at a teeny tiny gaelicat before dive-bombing it with his lance. absolutely zero chill that guy
#the fact ysayle doesn't get to comment on how cute they are is outrageous#they didn't give anyone much dialogue in there either#i was a little sad#especially since she only got to be in one of the hw supports#i mean that probably makes sense in terms of the story but i don't remember well enough#still sad though#ffxiv#ffxivmp#mp#estinien wyrmblood#i'm leveling drg right now and starting to suspect that rdm are not actually the most extra job ever#also being complete idiot drg buddies with estinien has made his hw persona a little less obnoxious#love shb and ew estinien for the comedy but wanted hw estinien to get punched in the face#once zenos yeeted him though I was like you know what I'm satisfied with this let's see where he goes from here with a blank slate#sometimes you just wanna see someone get punched and then it's like okay mission accomplished moving on#I purposely replayed that one scion visits you cs to see his since I'd heard about it#and it was comedy gold#it reminds me of the b99 bit where rosa tried climb out a window because her bf was talking about his feelings
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pinterest tag game + 7 comfort films
first character, real person, quote + outfit when you open pinterest is your vibe.
Tagged by @oatflatwhite thank u dearest!!
Disclaimer: I don't have a pinterest account so I used my aesthetic & about tags on here instead 😅
Playing it fast & loose w the definition of "character" bc it turns out I don't put any in the aforementioned tags
To the comfort film list!
Porco Rosso 🐷
Back to the Future 🏫
The Castle of Cagliostro 🍝
Indiana Jones (they count as one. yes all of them are my comfort films. yes the Temple of Doom, yes the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, yes the Dial of Destiny. bite me) 📜
Sherlock Holmes 🎩
Arrival 🛸
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 🤖
~ Honourable mentions ~
The Linguini Incident should be on this list but apparently one of the key criteria of comfort films is a history of rewatching, which I sadly do not have with this silly shitty heist film bc I cannot find it anywhere :C Also for the same reason (low rewatches) are Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) & Knives Out!!
Tagging @swamp--girl @clareguilty @frigidboy @maverick-ornithography @fire-in-the-goat & whoever else wants a go!!
#about#in which I was tagged#all the angels#oatflatwhite#thank u bestie these are always so fun 🥂#films#my taste sure is something#that moodboard is wild though it's like the 4 humours of my personality#sanguine = colourful chic 1960s#phlegmatic = puzzle-solving gentleman professor of archaeology from London#melancholic = agonising over extraterrestrial life. outer space. whatever those 2 FBI agents had going on#choleric = KNIGHTS#believe it or not I did not know what a comfort film was before today#I'd heard the terms obvs but was never satisfied that I 100% knew what they were#like do they have to be comforting to everyone (devoid of horror & violence)?#or comforting solely to u (potentially unheard of by many)?#also what's the difference between yr fave films & yr comfort films? is there one?#I genuinely did research to answer this bdgskfgskfj#never let it be said that I don't take my tag memes seriously
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Slamming my head on my desk trying to finish this translation and feeling oddly guilty when I just wing it and put a total guess in for a line (that kinda makes sense) and trying to remind myself that I can't be as bad as machine translation... But easier said than done 😭
#i wanna release this for my birthday because I'm like that lmao#i have 8 more lines... some i can't really hear what they're saying and some I'm just like... what does that MEAN#did find out that one of the ones that stumped me was a billards term i'd never heard of so there's that at least#I'll take a quick break and go back to it hopefully i wont get too caught up in crocheting LMAO#becca babbles
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he is not amused.....
#barry steakfries#jetpack joyride#sketch#barry after you call him barreth for the 50th time and he's past the point of embarrassment and is now just grumpy about it#i'm in love with the fact his name's comically long and ridiculous#fuckin barreth mcsteakington friesenhausen.#one of the characters in AOZ has a ridiculous name as well (miss rubenstein sexypants) so i'm happy they kept that going in the vlog#i feel like he dreads going to family gatherings specifically because of that name because it's embarrassing#and he just has to put up with it for a night and a half#also i like to think craig would lightly tease him about it if he found out what his whole name is#he'd think it's actually kind of a cute name but also make fun of barry for it because it's funny seeing him get embarrassed#also speaking of that episode of the vlog: as an queenslander barry's mum is incredibly accurate to how quite a few people here are like#like her story about her friend getting hit by a bus after using the internet feels like something i'd hear a weird aunt or neighbour say#i think most of halfbrick's fans aren't australian so i find it really funny when people call barry british or get confused at certain term#and i have seen some people call barry british before and i feel this mixture of amusement and confusion about it#because 1. that's just really funny that people tend to immediately assume that pronouncing stuff like tomato as “tomahhto” = british#but also 2. have you even heard a british person. i assure you they often don't sound like us australians#especially with the many different variations in their accents depending on what area they come from#anyway.... barry grumpy :3#i like how i always end up going on long tangents in the tags about random loosely related shit#it's the autism brain going off
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Oh hey on a lighter note. Learned coconut crabs exist today.
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water runners
#i saw a job advertised for a leafcutter today#and i'd never heard the term before#googled it and it just came up with the leafcutter ants#anyway i read the job PD and its literally a job to go and gather leaves for wildlife in the care of rspca??#like finding the 'good leaves' and bringing them back for all the lil koalas and shit to eat#what a time to be alive#harold#budgie#moby#henry#dogs
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u know in hindsight i probably should've tried learning an easier-for-english-speakers language on my own before getting into japanese (if only to practice language learning with smth a little more similar to english) but unfortunately my weebbrain is Way Too Interested in japanese media
#spanish of course would've made the most sense#in terms of Where I Live and the likelihood of finding People To Talk To#but anime go brrrr i guess#practicality vs fun#pangorambles#anyway at this point it would feel weird to stop and learn something else#maybe when the hyperfocus period fades i can take a break and learn some spanish instead#tho i've heard learning multiple languages at the same time can fuck u over#idk!!!!!!!!#i learned some spanish in high school#like... for 4 years#but that's all gone now. goodbye spanish#tbh i'd pretty much Forgotten All Of It like a year later#i can still ask where the bathroom is tho so i have that going for me
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Okay I think I actually love the Brazilian dub of toh (<- I do not speak Portuguese)
#ramblings of a lunatic#the owl house#i can't comment on how well things are translated BUT i do know that i love the voice acting for it#the only one I'd say is so-so so far is hunter (I'm just attached to Zeno. tho i do love his latin american VA patricio lago!)#but also i haven't heard much of him yet#BUT WILLOW LUZ AND GUS ARE ALL ON POINT??? not in terms of voice matching but in terms of character energy#lowkey appreciated them not going for as much of a generic high pitched mean girl voice for boscha#as much as i like eden reigel in the og version this version feels like a girl who is good at sports and bullies you abt it#haven't seen Darius' tho (I'm watch asias and switched dubs part way through)#watching in different dubs is fun though!!! it's not as fun as the spanish dub where I can actually catch every other word or two#but it's also more fun bc it makes the episode feel fresher for me. which is nice since I've seen this show like. 4 times lol#anyway! ya learn something new everyday#i think i might watch king's tide in the Japanese dub someday tho bc belos va reminds me of the fuckin. badguy in pretty cure#and that's so funny to me. that's so funny
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i really want to start making a table collecting statistics on the audience demographics i'll perform my aubrey material for (like what generation most of the audience is, whether i'm performing in a predominantly queer space, etc.) and how well the jokes land bc like. i need to collect more data points before i can properly present my findings but the results so far have been fascinating
#again i do not have enough performance experiences to make any definitive claims about who ''aubery's audience'' is#but i find it funny that any time i show my aubrey material one-on-one to a queer gen z person#they're always like ''i love it but straight people will definitely hate it or not get it''#and i get the inclination to be like. ''i like this thing so people like me will like this thing''#and cishet society seems so polarized w/r/t queer topics it's like. the assumption makes sense#however. whenever i've done an aubrey performance in front of an audience that's predominantly queer and gen z#i've actually received a primarily negative response!! and somehow straight people have never given me shit for my aubrey material#(''well straight allys don't count'' i told some of my aubrey jokes to a joe rogan dudebro and he enjoyed them)#(which yeah maybe could be a mark against my comedy but i like to think i opened his mind a bit at the very least)#i really want to test my aubrey monologues in front of a primarily gen x/boomer audience#bc so far i only have actual performance experience in front of gen z or millennials#and the older people i've told jokes to individually or shown videos of my stuff have really liked it#luckily paul has said a goal for when i'm in town this summer is to get me to perform my aubrey stuff in as many different places as possib#for both queer audiences and non-queer audiences so i can gauge reactions since i don't want to be confined to one demographic#so i'll get a lot of data points this summer#@ paul get me a performing slot at senior citizen pride lmao these are my people#(shoutout to paul going ''jess stop collecting the old homos!'' last time i was in town)#(and when i imitated him and was like ''old gay men are not your pokemon!'' bellini was like ''ok but they may be your audience'')#also one data point i really want to see the variation on is how my one specific joke plays in these different demographics#bc i have a joke that like. it's literally not even about AIDS and doesn't punch down at all#i literally say ''if you're gay and over the age of 50 you could violate the geneva convention and i'd still be like support our troops''#like obviously being like ''you have been through hell so i will let you get away with literal war crimes you deserve ultimate immunity''#BUT. in the line right before the quote i use the phrase ''AIDS generation'' not as a derogatory term but being like.#this horrible thing impacted the entire generation y'know? and bellini and scott and their friends call themselves that it's just the term#but when i said the phrase ''AIDS generation'' in front of my gen z audience i heard gasps and felt like they all hated me#and when i did the same line in front of millennials it wasn't quite as striking but their eyes did widen#like i was suddenly an ''edgy comedian''. but like this is a part of our history and it does inform the story i'm telling#the story i'm telling is comedic but it's grounded in this real world context#and i'm like. @ the audience who was offended: when was the last time any of y'all spoke to a gay man over the age of 50#bc bellini loves that section of the monologue and was offended that people would even take offense to that phrase
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one of the most least-important, yet favorite things about the witcher for me is that i initially felt the usage of latin to add emphasize in the characters' dialogue was, if you'll forgive me, pretentious, in a word, and strange outside of the mouths of characters who were intellectuals and scholars.
until i began to read interviews with sapkowski, and a little bit of his other writing, during which i realized, no, he just talks like that, peppering in aphorisms, sayings, and phrases in latin and other languages. and then the habit became less pretentious to me and, instead, endearing, as it made me realize that the characters, in fact speaking in the altered voice of their author, haven't been altered, but rather are the result of a natural flow of thought and storywriting...
#what's the annoying quirk you have in your speech that leeches into your characters? reblog and write it in the tags :D#he'd despise me saying 'characters speaking in the voices of their author' but i dont mean very literally as in this is the author's intent#just as in one's inner monologue and voice (for those who have one) meld with their imagination and storytelling#txt#andrzej sapkowski#the witcher is 'recreational casual easy reading' but that doesn't mean i haven't learned some new things from it#for example the pommel of a horse saddle i learned from baptism of fire ch 2. honestly i didnt know a lot of horse-related terms before.#i also learned 'anserine' which is of pertaining to geese; it's used in baptism of fire ch 4 - following bovine and porcine#and of course minor history lessons here and there about institutions and professions like troubadours and barber-surgeons :')#but also objects and ways of life. like trenchers - wooden plates with a dip to catch runoff oils. dandelion and yennefer eat from them.#i'd heard of these colors before like vermillion (philippa's dress) and mauve (fringilla's dress) but confirmed what they are bc of reading#i've also learned more about birds oddly enough. because tawny owl / sparrowhawk / nightingale etc... and nightjars are often referenced#as for the sayings#i learned 'traduttore traditore' and 'cherchez la femme' from interviews#i learned 'ipso facto' 'cui bono' 'cura te ipsum' from the writing#and 'omnia mea mecum porto' and 'primo secundo tertio' i didn't know when i first read it but then they popped up in my classes a year l8r
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napping for at least an hour or so at some point today would probably also be a good idea tho... like, just so i’m not too tired to do ANYTHING later this afternoon, and so i don’t have too much rest to catch up on when my sleep schedule is fixed :o <3
#bc i think i've heard that missing just 1 night of sleep takes MULTIPLE GOOD NIGHTS OF SLEEP to remedy so aahhhh...#i would like to minimize that potential damahje just a bit </3#but again knowing me that only ever affects me in the very short term#like literally im a person who could feel insanely sleepy and ready to go to bed one moment#but then experience smthn somewhat exciting/interesting that either makes me so not very sleepy anymore right away#orrrrr that makes me push past it just to stay up for a little longer doing Whatever It Is I'd Like To Do and then oops sleepiness GONE#the secondwind is crazy how do us adhders even live#like when i say GONE i mean fr just GONE-GONE like it just evaporates??? kshdgs or goes from 80% sleepy to 10% sleepy like BRUH#anyway im sure you can easily imagine how i Got in this predicament of super atrocious sleep schedules to begin with#asahabhbvsdhbs
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