#Sorry I have covid again and am very bored
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I really, really like this moment from King’s Tide between Hunter and Alador. These two don’t really know each other, they don’t really trust each other. They are cooperating with each other for the sake of their loved ones. But in this moment they both feel their sigils glow and they both know what that means. And they just look at each other in understanding.
I really like each facial expression here. Hunter looks vulnerable in a way we haven’t really seen him look before. We’ve seen him shocked, we’ve seen him traumatized, but we haven’t really seen him with this kind of child-like vulnerability. This is one of the few times Hunter actually looks like a kid, he’s looking up at the adult in the situation for some sort of reassurance.
Alador, inspire of knowing Hunter for a couple of hours tops, looks at Hunter’s sigil before he looks at his own. Obviously, he’s worried about himself. He doesn’t want to die. He doesn’t want his kids to be orphaned. But still he’s looking at Hunter with sympathy and confirmation. He knows that if they fail, which they are honestly very likely to do, this boy who is no older than his own son, is going to die.
Yet neither one of them says a word, because they don’t want the younger kids to worry. Both of them will suffer in silence for as long as they can manage. This brief moment is the only moment they have to allow themselves to show their mutual fear.
#the owl house#toh#toh hunter#toh alador#toh analysis#sadie has covid#Sorry I have covid again and am very bored
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Hi! Love your TikTok translations, they help me learn so much. Sorry if you've answered this before already, but as a language student myself, I was just curious about how you got so good at Chinese - is it a native language for you, or what's your background in using/studying it? Thank you!
I think I answered this a long time ago (like 2021 maybe) so I will just tell it again. It's kind of a longwinded boring post that's very self-centric (😬) and also probably not going to have any helpful advice to the average language learner, so I'm going to put it under a read more!
Background
My family is Chinese so it's my heritage language. I did learn it before English as a baby but then forgot a lot of it. My parents speak Chinese at home but I always replied in English growing up. Part of this is because I have a twin sibling and because we spoke English at school, we also started speaking English to each other at home.
We went to Chinese school on Sundays growing up (this is like a community/cultural school; it included other courses like math, Chinese dance, art, pre-SATs (lol), etc, depending on who in the community was available to teach), but I didn't really pay attention so my Chinese was pretty shit for a long time—like broken conversational level shitty, although I have always had a strong comprehension ability. My dad's side is from Sichuan so I grew up understanding a bit of Sichuanese.
The beginning of my "studying"
I don't actually have much of a background studying Chinese in a formal setting. I took Chinese 101-103 in college as part of a language requirement (specifically chose to start with 101 so I could relearn basics, even though my teachers kept offering to place me in higher levels). I really credit my Chinese 101 prof who was also the college's calligraphy teacher for making us focus on brush stroke order and recognising characters and understanding semantic components, which is something other profs did not emphasise (they were more focused on building conversational skills).
Anyway, that was only my freshman year of college because I ended up changing majors and not having a language requirement anymore (boo). I continued studying a bit of Chinese in the intervening years, but I am not a very disciplined person when it comes to self-study, so much of it was just translating song lyrics for my own amusement. During this time, I also started watching some cdramas, but mostly just Chinese web shows, which maybe helped? (I don't think I was watching enough for it to really make a difference).
Fast forward a couple years to 2020 and I started watching more cdramas during lockdowns, including watching 成化十四年 (The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty), which I was super invested in for about two years (this used to be a fandom blog lol). Basically, hyperfixation led me to rapidly improve my Chinese; I started translating a few behind-the-scenes videos for fandom friends. In order to keep up with Chinese fans and gain access to more material about the show, I started venturing onto Chinese sites such as weibo, bilibili, and eventually, douyin, which I downloaded around October of 2020 (so this was 6 months into my increased interest into Chinese things). At first, I translated a couple of douyins to share with fandom friends as I had done with behind-the-scenes materials, but for whatever reason I felt like some of the videos I wanted to translate would just be annoying to spam into the chat... I couldn't figure out a way to connect them to the blorbos, but I still wanted to translate them, so I started posting them here on tumblr. That's how my douyin translations started out. This was the height of covid-19 related sinophobia, too, so at some point I started realising how important it was to continue translating douyins, and that motivated me to continue even beyond it just being a fun thing to do. On that topic, it was through this blog that I realised how poorly understood China and Chinese people are, specifically on this site. I feel like that has changed a lot, or maybe that's just a comment on insular online spaces, but I have to think not; since I started translating douyins, I've seen a noticeable decrease in sinophobic comments and messages (not that I don't still get them, but it's lessened), and I think that's also thanks in great part to other blogs on here that were posting/have started to post more content from China to help increase exposure to tumblr users.
Improving
In any case, in the beginning, I did a lot of translations mostly by ear rather than reading captions because my Chinese reading wasn't that good.
It's kind of slowly improved with time and repetitive reading, and over the last three years now, I've also gone through periods of taking notes and actively seeking out some vocab lists or grammar explanations... but it usually comes in the process of trying to translate something. My motivations in "studying" (it's more like "figuring out") Chinese is largely based on the simple desire to know what people are talking about... what they're joking about... what they're ranting about and roasting. Related: I also started reading fanfics in Chinese about a year ago. Some fics have been easier to read than others, but some of the best ones I've read were also the ones that challenged me the most, and which I had to take a lot of notes on while reading. I'll admit! There have been times where I just took a fic and dumped that sucker in google translate and have it read the Chinese to me, so I could just listen to it like a podfic. But even so, I would take notes, because I think my improvements in Chinese are heavily connected to my Chinese literacy.
Reading douyin comments and forums on douban or comment sections on bilibili has been one of the main ways that I've picked up on common phrases and characters. I often write things down but I do so more as a muscle memory practice, because I have never really been the sort of person who reads back notes (this was also how I studied in school, iirc). Branching out and translating things that are written in formal or non-colloquial styles is also a way I challenge myself from time to time, and I do like to look up the etymology of Chinese characters from time to time because it helps me pick up patterns of semantics and phonetic hints when I'm reading (this makes it easier to guess what a character might mean or sound like, even if you've never seen it before). Overall, translation has been the great learning tool for me. I think maybe it comes down to learning styles? I have always learned better from trying to teach others, and I feel like translation works a similar muscle in the mind; translation is about figuring out ways to efficiently communicate a message, and in order to do so, you must be able to grasp the essence of what it is you're relaying.
All this said... And to try and return to your original ask after all my usual Wawa rambling... I actually don't think my Chinese is that good, lol. In fact, there's probably people who follow this blog who are studying Chinese in a more conventional and methodical manner whose Chinese is objectively much better than mine 🤷🏻♂️ I mean, if you crunch the numbers, I have really only be self-"studying" for three years. Three years of what is really just vibe-based learning. There's a lot of vocab I still don't know (I mean my English vocab is pretty limited too, sooo.... 😭), a lot of areas that I can still improve on, and am improving on, and try to improve on... when the mood strikes. Again, I am not a very disciplined self-study type.
Maybe this will give any other Chinese diaspora hope, though. I feel like it's never too late for us to start learning. There is probably a seed or language foundation within you already which will make it easier for you to start, and then after that, I think it sort of comes down to finding what interests you and will keep you motivated.
Most of the stuff I talk about on here when it comes to culture or folk art or what have you, I did not know even five years ago! I learned about it because I was interested to find out more. (That's another reason I have to laugh when I get some of the asks I do in my inbox... The stuff I don't answer is dumbfounding at times. You translate a couple of funny videos and people think you're some kind of Tripadvisor cultural ambassador guy! I swear...)
The "study" resources I use regularly are the following:
Pleco
Zh-En browser extension
Yellowbridge (usually to check brush stroke order, since I have Pleco)
Baidu etymology pages / Chinese etymology dictionaries such as hanziyuan
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The Great Covid Beatles Binge, Day 2: Give My Regards to Broad Street
Hoo boy, here we go!
OK so we open with a stern/bored looking Paul stuck in traffic in the rain and it looks like he's spacing out... hey, Paul, are you starting to daydream? Paul? Is this whole movie about to be a dream, Paul? Oh god
This silly little car! The computer, the carpet, the pool ball gear shift. It's giving the 80's car version of the Beatles house in Help! It's also giving hyper-masculine in a way that is, I'm sorry, not convincing.
This plot is already deeply inscrutable. Something about some missing tapes, a reformed criminal that Paul knows somehow and trusts for some reason, and some ominous business men. Something bad will happen at midnight if the tapes aren't found. OK!
Ringo looks so cool and hot! That vest over that sick as hell dragon shirt. Yes. This scene is genuinely funny, too -- Ringo spends the entirety of "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Yesterday" searching through his mountains of drum equipment looking for brushes, only to find them too late. Apparently, the reason for this scene is that Ringo just didn't want to re-record old Beatles songs!
And now we have Paul, Ringo, George Martin and Geoff Emerick all together in a scene! Makes me think about how George Harrison apparently was a little miffed Paul didn't just call him to ask for filmmaking advice since it was something he had experience with. What could have been!
“Wanderlust” is such a great song, actually, damn.
“I’m not a bad boy, really. I’m just — er, manipulated” John??
Now this is more like it! Surprise Linda in drag, hell yes!
I don't know why this scene is happening? It's a rehearsal for... something? But I'll take it. I love "Ballroom Dancing" and I love vaudeville Paul.
I'm starting to feel like Paul's grandpa in AHDN, "so far, I've been in a train and a room, and a car and a room, and a room and a room." Did Paul's experience on that set define what a movie is to him? "Ah yes, a movie must include lots of transportation from one location to another and then some musical scenes." But dear, it worked because there were jokes! And all four of you to play off each other.
I.......... what
This is Silly Love Songs, of all things!
Again, I don't know why this scene is happening in the context of the movie. Is it another rehearsal for something? A music video? Television special? Who knows, Yoko! But OK here we go, I sure am having fun! Linda is extremely into it. That slap bass kills. There's a Michael Jackson impersonator for some reason? Sure! It makes no sense but I love this man and his bizarre beautiful mind.
So now we're doing band rehearsal in some kind of barn? Or abandoned warehouse? Or something? All of the plot of this movie seems to happen in dialog in cars en route to some ambiguous musical engagement.
“Do you think we can get some heat in here or are we practicing to be Canadians?” God bless you, Ringo.
“Should we try Not Such a Bad Boy” “Do we have to?” “Yeah” Bossy Paul bosses around a Beatle, we love to see it.
Is this song about him or John?
The French horn player coming in late to record "For No One," inexplicably in a bright red motorcycle helmet, so late that he’s preparing up until right before the solo starts. Reminds me of that story of Ringo recording Hey Jude. But it also feels very symbolic of something. There are so many odd inscrutable details in this movie, it could almost be Lynchian in someone else's hands.
“We’re running, and running out of time too” It feels meaningful but I don't know how.
Hello Mr. Darcy! Wow, can I have an entire movie that’s just this Victorian dream sequence? Can we go back in time and do a Beatles movie period piece, please??
The strings in this which are inspired by but are not quite "Eleanor Rigby" are lovely. Apparently this whole sequence is called "Eleanor's Dream," which implies that Paul is Eleanor. Make of that what you will, I suppose.
I like that Linda is a pants-wearing photographer in this period scene. Linda's gotta Linda.
This strikes me as very Evil Beatles. Again, make of that what you will.
Barbara and Linda are acting the HELL out of this going over the waterfall scene damn.
I don't know, I could screen grab this entire segment, it's amazing, it's insane.
But I can't gloss over Paul being horny for Ghost Horse Girl Linda. Incredible.
"That’s it you’re finished. What are you gonna do now?" Well ok at least this one is pretty obviously a reference to the critical reception of his career after the Beatles and again after John.
"Uncle Jim" Ok so I guess this is supposed to be his dad, but what is the point of this scene? And why the monkey? The further I get into this film the more I feel like I am looking deep into this man's psyche but through the murkiest of windows. I'm here for the weird dream symbolism, Paul, but if you're gonna go that route, again go full Lynch and get even weirder.
Just the straight up original recording of "Band on the Run" feels out of place with all these re-records. I wonder why that choice.
His car license plate is "PM 1" That's right, baby, you're number 1.
Another little cute but inconsequential day dream (presumably within the dream that is this entire movie). He looks like Roy Orbison here.
Oh ok Harry was just locked in a cupboard this whole time. So the whole "plot" was pointless. Cool cool cool.
Paul and Harry being giddy and laughing together is cute though, and it makes me wish that that relationship was fleshed out more. Who are they to each other, exactly??
Yup it was all a dream. Love it, love that for us. Thanks, Paul.
OK so this was definitely barely a movie. There could have been something here, but I'll go back to what I said above -- I wish he'd gone weirder with the whole thing! And I wish Paul himself had been weirder. The character Paul is kind of a dud, just plodding along from place to place and only coming alive when he performs. It's like that Hawaiian shirt is supposed to be a stand in for characterization. But worth it for the music video scenes and for getting a tiny glimpse into Paul's psyche.
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reply roundup!
I guess vaguely once a month is just how these things work now, I do try to read everyone's tags and replies and stuff but a lot of them I just don't really have anything to reply with sorry! as always I appreciate the supportive words and well wishes and stuff <3
I also love the trifurcation of responses to [go to bed]: one group of people is like "yeah u right I sleep now thanks", one is like "sorry but I can't", and one is just like "no! I refuse!!!" lol
I did get two different "posts that have 10k to me" tags though, on [one] that actually passed 10k and [another] that is still barely triple digits and will probably stay there XD
anyway [chess kirb] was on the radar which is neat
also my birthday is this weekend :)
oh yeah and reminder that I also have a craft blog @sleepy-princess-craftery
on [the last roundup] @sacrasm said: oh the clonk'd is just my queued post tag! thr other one is self explanatory he is little he is pink and i affectionately call things freak sometimes (in combination with other words)
ohhhh that makes sense lol it was the clonk'd that I was baffled by thank you for explaining -u-
on [drowsy] @ceylonsilvergirl said: being laid up sick or injured is terrible, but I think we also need to acknowledge that it’s also boring as hell. can’t do anything fun. boring boring boring
it is!!! it's so boring!!! especially since I'm already baseline sick all the time so I have less options to start with, so to do even less than that is literally nothing!
anonymous asked: Gwah being sick sucks. I wish immune system upon you!
thank you! (I think I actually need less immune system? on account of the immune disorder. but either way I do not have an active infection anymore 👍)
on [tumble] @chefwhatnot said: get chucked idiot
where's that post like "'get (blank)ed idiot' is the funniest joke" cuz they're right
on [mask] @macro-microcosm said: glad you're feeling better! i agree that we should all still be masking up, it bothers me soooo much to see that so many people have stopped
like honestly, scientifically speaking it is way more effective and more accessible than just leaning on vaccines, and it protects people from all kinds of stuff not just covid! but nobody wants to wear masks and even people who think they're being cautious just want to lean on vaccine requirements, which is doubly inaccessible for me personally and probably millions of other people :( stresses me out too.
anonymous asked: Magicking you up some new containers
thanks! they didn't have what I wanted at target but we got some usable stuff from daiso, so at least it's not all still shoved in a ziploc bag.
@thewizardgnome asked: But what if I say bye
I mean yeah you can do that too if you want I guess lol
on [paper] @breathelifeintothatsoul said: Cool! I've always wanted to try and make my own (recycled) paper one time
it's fun! there's a lot of extra steps you can add in if you want to, but the absolute basics of it is just dump a bunch of paper strips into a bin, fill it with water, wait until it breaks up enough for your liking, then dunk some kind of stiff screen into it (horizontally) so you can pull out even layers of pulp to dry somewhere.
on [paper] @hermitfox said: oooo making your own paper is do much fun, I have fond memories from kindergarten doing that. ... actually what stops me from doing that as an adult. I should make paper again
do recommend, making things is fun and also good for you :) also the paper pulp is very Texture (affectionate) (to me) (I'm sure to others it can be very Texture (derogatory) but I like it)
on [yarn] @ceylonsilvergirl said: I am very envy of people who can follow a pattern, I can’t do that. I can do a friend being like “Oh this next one is two one two one’’, i can’t translate abbreviations into an idea in my mind. give me a diagram instead
I'm the opposite tbh, I find the abbreviations really easy to follow but looking at a diagram for knitting and crochet just turns into like, visual noise if it's more complex than like, a single fan stitch or whatever.
@my-life-is-a-bad-sitcom asked: You’re Kirby’s are so cool and I love your art style. Honestly awesome. Giving you a standing ovation. 👍
thank you! I love to draw a little guy
anonymous asked: I saw you on tumblr radar just now!! congrats!! -@secondbeatsongs
woah thanks sbs!
@darkchaogarden-blog asked: Tumblr's doing that dumb thing it's been doing lately where I can't reblog anything, so I'll just write to you personally that your art is excellent! Have a good day!
that sounds like such an irritating bug but thank you! I hope you had a good day too whenever this was :)
on [chess] @shiinteractsif said: dudes at the search thingy image. congrats
oh cool I wondered where the radar posts showed up on mobile!
on [chair] @mads-is-tired said: i’ve never played a kirby game but i desperately want to BECAUSE LOOK AT HIM
honestly so valid, he's basically a character brand to me (like hello kitty or rilakkuma). I'm probably biased, but I feel like the best games to start with are either forgotten land (the one that came out on switch last year) or crystal shards (originally for the n64, also available through the nintendo online vc). I think they're the most visually appealing (aside from epic yarn which is not a mainline game) and while they reward exploration they're not as complex as some of the handheld titles to fully explore, nor are they as hand-holdy as some of the other console titles. a good middle ground of feeling like you did the thing, without being frustrating.
on [soup] @give-soup-please said: ME #soupblogging #fucking same
how delightful that this post managed to find you :) these tags make me happy whenever I think of them
on [soup] @lord-chiopet said: me too bud. you too op hope the weather approved
good news, the weather has improved :) now it is overcast and drizzly, my favorite!
on [chess] @wealmostaneckbeard said: Neither of them know how to play so they made up some rules...
what a cute idea! I hope they are having fun with their new game.
on [baseball] @hutbug said: the teal color is called northwest green and we still wear it all the time!! its beautiful u did an amazing job
thank you for the info! before this season I hadn't really had access to baseball for the past like 8 years or something and a lot has changed lol so I didn't really trust my memory
on [blue] @ceylonsilvergirl [added] "I CAN TRY AGAIN TOMORROW! Or next week! or next month..."
that really is the vibe lately huh.
anonymous asked: Your kirbys bring me daily serotonin
aww good!
#reply roundup#asks answered#text#title text#long post#readmore#coronavirus#swearing#sacrasm#ceylonsilvergirl#anonymous#chefwhatnot#macro-microcosm#thewizardgnome#breathelifeintothatsoul#hermitfox#my-life-is-a-bad-sitcom#secondbeatsongs#darkchaogarden-blog#shiinteractsif#mads-is-tired#give-soup-please#lord-chiopet#wealmostaneckbeard#hutbug
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thank u for the tag @semperama 😌 any opportunity to talk about my favourite thing! books! 😌
An estimate of how many physical books I own: where i live currently i have 132 physical books, but i also have some in storage and some in my parents house, so i would guess maybe about 220-250 maybeeee
Favorite author: i really don't have a stand out author...authors who have published my favouriteeee ever books have then produced really lackluster other works in my opinion....i feel like someone who never lets me down is ottessa moshfegh because u get what u get with her but i don't think i'd claim her as an outright favourite??
A popular book I've never read and never intend to read: truly anything by colleen hoover i am all for big popular books that get a large specific audience reading again, but we can do better by young girls and get them reading something sliiiightttllyyyy better (not shitting on anyone who enjoys colleen hoover, again they cater to a specific market and i think thats great, just not my cup of tea, but from what i've heard she's got a couple of questionable opinions)
A popular book I thought was just meh: normal people! :)) god it bored me sooooooooo much which is a shame cause the tv show slaps
Longest book I own: a suitable boy by vikram seth, 1474 pages!!!!!!!! and i read it in two weeks during the height of covid lockdown and it was EXCELLENT
Longest series I own all the books to: probably game of thrones....never been a massive series gal so yeah thats the only one i can think of off the top of my head?
Prettiest book I own: i have a really beautiful collection of charles dickens' books even though i'm not his biggest fan at all (loved david copperfield, enjoy a christmas carol, have read great expectations) but they were a gift and they do look really pretty on my shelves at my parents house!
A book or series I wish more people knew about: urmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm okay not to like talk about it again.............but at swim two boys............it was highly applauded when it was first published and was very popular but feel like it's popularity waned but its got two boys trying to resist falling in love and choosing to spend time together by learning to swim in the cold dublin sea.......the tumblr girlies would eat that up nowadays......also bewilderment by richard powers i think everyone should read that book 😌
Book I'm reading now: briefly, a delicious life by nell stevens....only about 50 pages in so far but good fun, a sapphic ghost love story from what i can tell so far so intriguing....
Book that's been on my TBR list for a while but I still haven't got around to it: the fifth season by n.k. jemisin.....tried reading it but wasn't in a sci-fi mood so only got one chapter in and then it has just.....sat there......for like.....two years......
Do you have any books in a language other than English: no and i am ashamed.....
Paperback, hardcover, or ebook?: paperback anyyyyyyyyyyy day of the week let me BREAK that spine let me make you look worn and loved and read let me chuck you into my bag and u barely add any weight!!! i dont hate a hardback but avoid buying them unless it is a book i am DESPERATE to read asap or it's at a good price but yeah i am a paperback girlie <3 don't own an e-reader apart from having the kindle app on my ipad so v rarely venture into e-books and i am sorry but nothing beats the feel of a book in ur hands like i need to feeeeel the pages
tagging @gokartkid @monagasque @lilyrizzy & @karlmarxverstappen if u would like xx
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Ep 44 Pt 2: Name Hunt
We start this half of the episode at the card game that is currently just kinda stalled. It’s more like a D+D session at this point, where everyone is separated, random enemies are appearing in random rooms, and their biggest issue is that they were balanced to work as a team, and as a solo fight they’re gonna freakin die.
Or Bjork will come back in the time it takes for the team to reassemble.
Sorry his name isn’t Bjork, it’s Korn. Or...well it’s something from the 90′s. Zork. It was Zork. But with a c. Bjorc Necrophades.
So as Yami dumps on Bakura about how boring this game is for him, Bakura reminds him that because Pharaoh shoved his memory in a puzzle piece, Pharaoh is dumb as a sack of bricks. Which like, relatable.
I STILL don’t quite get it.
I know that Seto kills Yami in the OG timeline, they have been saying that for 4 seasons. But if Yami had to put himself in that puzzle to put back Zorc...does this imply that the fight with Seto was to resurrect Zorc? that Seto was a pawn of Bakura even in the original timeline?
Wait is that it?
(read more under the cut)
Have I finally figured out the paradox that’s been bothering me all season, where before it looked like Yami died 2 separate ways in two separate timelines? I mean, while I am much better (not fully, hence the slow update schedule but am getting much better) Long covid for like an entire year removed so much of my memory, that I was able to play Undertale again like it was the first time. Which is incredible because it’s the most memed game and y’all, I forgot nearly every line that Sans said. Which I’m not gonna lie, kind of rocks. But also kind of difficult when I’m trying to remember the plot of this show.
Bro did offer to write the blog in my stead, but when he attempted to use Photoshop he could not figure out how to leave the text editor. Making these caps will one hundred percent crash my computer if he’s doing the driving. Photoshop crashes my computer about 4 times on a normal day, if you don’t know what you’re doing, Photoshop will seal you in a demon dimension before crashing your computer, and yet, still charge you 12 dollars a month. You cannot turn your back on photoshop, just like Zorc.
Anyway, back to the show:
I mean that’s my personal gamble. I will always gamble Tristan on who’s gonna die. And him being Bakura right now is just...ooo ripe to die this season, yeah?
Bakura took a moment to try and remind Yami that this is all a simulation and all of these pieces on the board were in fact not real people, to which Yami reminded Bakura that he himself is a ghost in a box and is only loosely defined as a “real person” himself.
👁👄👁
And then Karim, who’s name I had completely forgotten, so I’m glad the show reminded me, was like “Oh no! I’m dying!” PS he’s been “dying” for like 3 episodes, so I was very surprised he actually fully died.
Like Egypt Grandpa is going to outlast this stack of bricks down there, and that’s like a lot to take in. Modern Grandpa breaks his butt like constantly but Egyptian Grandpa is built like a truck.
Isis was very upset by this, and like I don’t blame her, look at the FEATURES on that man. True tragedy right there to lose that block of cheese right there and just be left with freakin Shada. Who, in case you forgot, has a motorcycle tattoo on his entire forehead. I too would be crying my eyes out, Isis, this is looking grim for you.
It only just now as I was writing this cap realized that when Bakura was like “who would you bet is going to die first?” he wasn’t talking about Yami’s high school friends, but was in fact foreshadowing the truly tragic death of Karim, who I totally remembered the name of.
Anyway, it’s still gonna be Tristan because for real, Karim doesn’t count.
Bit of a baby manger vibe to this shot, not gonna lie. Nice nativity we got going there. Baby jesus, Mary and Joseph, a shepherd, a wise man, and uh...Shadi. Shadi could be an Angel I guess, he isn’t technically alive. There. Print this out and put it above your grandma’s Christmas tree, instant nativity.
Speaking of the kids, Joey was really testing my gamble by walking headfirst into a trap that spits daggers into your feet.
Inside of this maze is step by step the same as the story of the tomb we saw with the hot version of grandpa that opened this arc.
Including this room, where Grandpa got betrayed by a very silly slingshot.
This was the show spoon feeding us Yugi’s character growth, since he was just a barrel of nerves and sinew when we first met this boy. He is braver this season, I will give him that, but it feels like it’s more that he’s the only person who’s fully aware that none of this is real. Yugi is inside of his own mind puzzle. It’s literally the only place he’s got full control (ish).
At the end of this little walk across the fear pit that literally no one here had any problems with (like Tea walked across this narrow fear pit in 5 inch heels!) The little box that carried Pharaoh’s puzzle isn’t here, instead it’s a bunch of Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Reminder that even Season Zero Yugi, who is the most pile of nerves Yugi, would have kicked your ass even without the puzzle. Like this is mostly my own interpretation, but without the puzzle......Yugi would have straight up stabbed that guy, right? Like straight up? Yugi is a menace to society. Sure, he was nervous about having to defend himself, but Yami wasn’t a Pharaoh yet, he was Yugi’s dark side, who was backed into corners so hard by people with literal whips and people with yoyo’s with spikes on the end, he pretty much always had to choose violence in order to survive Freshman year.
Like yes he walked across a bridge without fear. Makes sense, the bridge doesn’t have spike yoyo’s, fire shooting out, a guy holding your girlfriend hostage with a gun at a burger restaurant, and whatever capitalist nightmare Seto has come up with that month. But we can still call this bridge character development, as a treat.
After Joey tricked the switch that opened the garage door to Yami’s secret name, the episode ended.
can’t wait to see Tristan hold up some fingers and have the show convince me it’s a gun.
Anyway, here’s a link to read these from the start, which I keep giving you although I need to reread my own blog myself, haha.
https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono
#Yugioh#Yu-Gi-Oh#YGO#Analysis#screencap#watchwithme#Episode recap#Yugi Muto#Joey Wheeler#Tristan Taylor#Yami Muto#Bakura#Theif King Bakura#Tea Gardner#S5#Ep 44
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ive been getting into 127 recently again (was only into dream for a while then rediscovered my love for doyoung) and so have been catching up on their content from 2020-2021 until now and... am I crazy to notice that taeyong gets left out a lot by the members? he used to be my bias, and I remember he would get a lot of attention. Even when he was quiet/not really talked to you could still tell he was important to the group ~vibe~ going on and others would bring him into conversation, compliment him, etc. But with the stickers, 2 baddies, nct whole group content I've been watching, it seems like he gets ignored a lot. There's a cut after every sentence he says, seems likely because of lack of any reaction from 127. Even 95 line, whose friendship I liked the most in the group, seem fragmented w Johndo and yumark. Yuta is a bit of a lone wolf, but he gets a lot of attention/reaction in a way taeyong doesn't. and Doyoung sometimes, well, blabbers (love him for it), but gets a reaction and screen time because someone will tease him, and with TY its silence...! he only rlly seems to be apart of the group content when hes tom-and-jerry-ing with doyoung, and I wonder if that's why he brings him up constantly as a bridge to the rest of the group? he can always rely on doyoung for a reaction, meanwhile every other member is looking the other way. Did something happen that I missed? I'm really not a hater, the reason I noticed this is because he was my ultbias for a while, and I was mostly fixating on him when I re-entered their content.
I act similar with things I like and fandoms. I think at different periods in life one is attracted to different sources of entertainment, personalities and stories. And, of course, even the best things get boring with time as they stop being a source of new information/excitement, so a change is needed from time to time.
My memory fades as years pass, therefore I won't be able to answer you very well, I'm sorry. It's been awhile since I watched anything from that time except for the MVs.
There was a period of time when Taeyong distanced himself from the members. Let me check tags... I asked a similar question as you in May, 2020, so the period matches, OK.
The opinions of other fans I got. My follow up.
2020-2021 is also the covid time. There was the start of JohnDo issue, end of MarkDo issue, the end of TaeJae issue, some MarkHyuk troubles, TaeWoo was still rather distant. Some members moved out from the dorms. In general it was a transitional period, after which the unit came out finally united and strong.
In NCT 127 24hr relay cam from 2019, neos mentioned how they didn't have time to get to know each other very well because they had been running non-stop all those years. Mark was surprised that Johnny has a serious side to him, Mark and Yuta had a meal, only two of them, the first time. I think the reason members appeared much more cozy with each other in the previous years is because back then their main goal was to succeed, and they were young. Jaehyun is a good example of the change from very friendly to independantly stand offish. The 95 line is similar in that regard.
Taeyong is respected, there is gratitude towards him, but he is not super close to most members. There is a difference between having a friendship/comrade bond, knowing you will always support each other and root for each other, and clicking so well as to want to spend every free time hour together. Like, Johnny will take care of him, bring him cakes, or Tae will invite him to share the food Do cooked, but to see them doing anything together, just the two of them, is rare. Despite Tae basically hanging off of Johnny like a monkey during lives or in the van from time to time. JohnMark did something creatively in the past, for example, recorded a track and silly mini-movies, JohnHyuk go to the gym together sometimes. Tae collaborated with Seulgi, nags Doyoung to feature, but nothing with DJ Johnny Bee.
Yuta is closest to Jaehyun and now Mark. I think both Yuta and Tae have too many mental problems to be of help to each other.
Side note: I think this situation is perfectly normal, members of a group are randomply selected by a 3d party, not everyone among the chosen people would befriend each other without applied pressure of circumstances. With a group of introverts it is simply more evident. A group of extraverts hides this fact by being overtly very friendly and loud.
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How I Met Your Father - Review
Seasons 1 & 2
First, know that I was there in the beginning. I watched How I Met Your Mother starting in season 3 and watched it as it aired until the very bitter end. Everyone has a show that disappointed them and let them down. But I honestly think that nothing compares to the horror of the last episode of HIMYM, because it made everything that came before it worse. Mayyybbee some LOST fans get it. But at least that finale wasn’t a character assassination in the name of one last smug trick. It was a rumination on love and humanity that allowed the characters a moment of grace in a world that denied it. HIMYM’s trashed seasons of character work for Barney and Robin and its own success in actually finding someone to play the Mother who was worth 11 seasons of waiting. But sure, wasn’t it clever they had footage of the kids before they grew too big saying the story was always about Ted loving Robin. Of course nothing that was filmed after season 3 really mattered.
I’m sorry to begin this way, but as Robin Scherbatsky and Barney Stinson appear in HIMYF, clearly in the between times, post divorce but before the titular mother’s horrible death, we have to talk about it.
I hadn’t meant to watch this show. Poor Chris Lowell will forever be Piz. The Veronica Mars trauma is another thing all together and others have written about that better. But as a lifelong Hilary Duff fan, I was curious to see her do a traditional adult sitcom.
In 2021, the pilot didn’t convince me. I agreed with reviews that said none of the characters acted or spoke like millennials. The side stepping of covid felt weird as well. Where HIMYM had a really eerie knack of conjuring NYC from LA, the reboot felt more soundstagey. I chalked it off as another mercenary move to mine IP and play on nostalgia.
But I guess this is why we live on Tumblr! Because the right gifset on your dash at the right time can make you reassess. And the right persons face can make you pause and go, I guess this is happening now.
In 2023, watching a comedy that was in fact pure shenanigans suddenly felt like a gift. As everyone reassess the changes in the US television industry, I hope distributors see the value in greenlighting shows like this again. I love my prestige comedies that want to incite anxiety attacks. But I also love seeing friends living in a city run around having madcap adventures. And I love a show that unabashedly wants me to ship characters and care about romance! Particularly the slow kind that works off dozens of episodes to establish.
And luckily for me, HIMYF has the very dreamy Sid, played by Suraj Sharma. I mean, who doesn’t at some point fantasize about a hot bar owner smart enough to go to [insert highly demanding profession here] but chose instead a cozy place where all their friends can hang. (See also New Girl). I need at least 3 more seasons, 20 episodes each, because I’m invested in the potential between he and Hillary Duff’s Sophie. Its nascent and yet so much more intriguing than Sophie’s other more obvious, but boring options. (Apologies to Chris Lowell’s Piz Jessie). Sophie and Sid have the easy charm to power a friends to lovers for the ages. And with his marriage on the rocks, and her dating his best friend, the melodrama is there too! The stupid concite of the show has its hooks in me again and I am definitely scared. You would be too if you saw the pathos and rawness Cobie Smuthers brings to her cameo. I’ve been kicked in the teeth before by this world. Neither of us are over it.
Fine, a brief word on Barney’s cameo. Awful. He talked about how he learned to respect women thanks to a special girl in his life. It was his fucking daughter and not Robin. I knew this and it still hurts. The electroshock pants weren’t funny. But I did like that he wouldn’t charge a nice girl for smashing his car if she had a fun enough story. That was the character I liked.
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Life Update of the Clouds’ Quill
Hi!! Hi hi hi!! Yes I am indeed still alive!! No I’ve not been active on here at all!! SORRY ABOUT THAT. Here’s part of the explanation for that, though! There’s been some major changes in Quill’s non-virtual life, and that’s been taking a lot of time from their chances for virtual stuff.
After high school, I went to university and eventually decided on pursuing further learning in the Earth Sciences, aka geology but with a bunch of other nature things, like water and weather and soil and plants. Then stuff happened. Let’s call it burnout, but Quill was in... a bad state. They returned home and put university on pause, the COVID lockdown began, and after a few years of popping around through various jobs and a few months of a free carpentry college program and an apprenticeship that was utterly horrendous, we’re here.
Almost a month ago, I was hired by a global, well-respected engineering firm as a GEOTECHNICAL FIELD TECHNICIAN.
My wage skyrocketed.
I get my love of working in the field, but ALSO I get to work in an awesome lab and office, science and math and hands-on work combined.
The people I work with are amazing and brilliant and it makes SUCH a difference when your colleagues actually enjoy their work.
This is the kind of job I would’ve been lucky to have been offered after finishing an earth sciences degree, and I have it NOW.
I’ve been GUARANTEED A JOB for next year here if I want it, and this seasonal term aligns perfectly with me having the option of going back and finishing part of my degree this winter term.
This company takes safety really really seriously!! They care that I care!! They don’t get annoyed when I request safety measures!!
These people... actually appreciate me and my knowledge. My coworkers love my questions, they love learning the weird facts I know, they see that I’m able to help them if they inform me how, and they’re wonderful teachers. 🥰
Also I get to wear a white hard hat so. Failed apprentice → supervisor/safety monitor. Eheheee.
Some people might say this job is dirty, tiring, too much work, and boring. I can understand their point of view, but also: I’m that weird kid who loves collecting pebbles, catching frogs and fish in mucky bogs, and finds walking in the rain fun. Being paid to sieve sand, incinerate asphalt, arrange gravel by size and shape, smooth perfect concrete cylinders and then proceed to CRUSH THEM UNDER A HYDRAULIC PRESS, test soil compaction with RADIOACTIVITY harnessing machines, and all while learning the intricate details about all this stuff and using utmost safety, is just a flippin’ DREAM. Plus, it’s very satisfying. c:
Anyways, all that is to say: Hi! Quill is still here! They really love the writeblr community, but their real life work is taking a lot of their time and energy right now.
I’d love to pop on every once in a while to interact with you folks again, but we’ll have to see how often I can do that. In the meantime, I see so many writeblr friends are reaching such fantastic milestones!! CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU ALL, QUILL IS SO SO PROUD 💖💕💗
(And though Anchored Souls had been put on hold temporarily, I’m back at it! I’m working on it again!! YAY!)
#Quill's announcements#Quill's updates#life update#announcement#writeblr community#love you all so so much seriously <3
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BEANIE legally I have to tell you about my dream from last night because it was octopath
So in the first half of the dream, ot3 had been released so I was playing that. For some reason it was called "octopath battle" right. The continent was like Osterra but in the top left corner of the continent, there were multiple ruins from a previous octopath game (not a real game btw) that had been fixed. Some were portals to an evil dimension. Also this thing with eerie ruins existing in the north west part of a map is for some reason a recurring theme in my dreams. ANYWAY.
I was playing ot3 on the tv and my siblings were watching and we were all just chatting while I played and I was thoroughly unimpressed by the game bc the stories sucked and for the warrior and hunter they straight up just reused Olberic and H'aanit.
Later then for some reason my family and I are now in the game and we're in this bug cave hanging out with the mcs. Olberic then says thay another part of the cave is warmer so we go there and find out it's because there's a huge dragon warming it. It says that it wants to destroy everything so everyone else starts preparing and I get sent out to find people to help fight it.
When I come back then my dad is preparing "covid 19 onions" (????) for us to eat for dinner. Then I have a mental breakdown in the bathroom and a girl I met at summer camp brings some medical book for me to look at and I woke up.
It's also worth mentioning that ot3 had floating islands, took place on Osterra some hundred years after ot1 and the geography was a lot more exaggerated. The characters sucked a lot and were boring but the mobs (all octopus themed btw) were all very cool looking. Sometimes the game also played like totk???
I am EXTRAORDINARILY jealous… wish I had octopath dreams…
love how in your dream world square enix couldn’t think of a new hunter and warrior so they. just used olberic and h’aanit again. olberic’s story this time is just him trying to find what to give to erhardt for their anniversary
AND. Covid-19 onions????? that your dad was making?????? what??????
also I’m sorry but spooky northwestern ruins being a mainstay of your dreams is hilarious. there’s just always a cursed little area everywhere you go
also glad dream square enix got their stuff together and realized we all wanted more octopuffs and decided to make every single enemy some kind of octopus
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I was looking at Hunter’s bedroom the other day and made some observations
One of the things TOH excels in is subtle background story telling, I mean, this is the show that gave us then entire backstory of Caleb and Philip in half obscured paintings. So every time a character’s bedroom is shown, I make sure to really look at it to see what it says about the character, and Hunter’s honestly surprises me a lot because it says a lot about him, but not necessarily things I expected.
First lets look at the things I did expect: a pile of books, newspaper clippings on the wall, the Emperor’s Coven diploma prominently displayed above the bed. This reinforces things we’ve already learned about Hunter at this point: he is bookish, well educated, and very proud of his position as Golden Guard. This all makes perfect sense to be in his room.
The general clutter is a bit surprising because I would have expected a more militaristically tidy room, but instead we have overstuffed drawers and things just thrown about, an unmade made bed, what appears to be a first-aid kit left open, which is a nice indicator that Hunter is not as well put together as he appears to be.
But then we have the first unexpected find, several toys including a Belos doll/action figure. Now in fairness this could be an idol seeing that Hunter more or less worships Belos at this point, and it is placed highest on the shelf, indicating a place of great honor, but given that it is in such close proximity to the giraffe doll and Big City Greens reference, it kind of implies that they all serve a similar purpose.
We don’t know exactly what age Hunter was created at, but given Belos makes a comment about thinking he would “last longer than the others” I’m guessing he’s already reached what is around the typical life span for a Golden Guard.
Now we don’t exactly how long each Golden Guard lasts but we can figure out an average.
Given that one of the ingredients is Bone of Ortet, and there are 206 bones in the adult human body, that means Belos could make a max of 206 grimwalkers if he used every single bone. All that appears to be left of Caleb’s body is part of his ribcage and a section of spine, it looks like 8 ribs and maybe 12 vertebrae. That makes 20 remaining bones, plus the one unfinished grimwalker makes it 21. 206-21=185 possible Grimwalkers including Hunter. Lets say Belos has consistently been making Golden Guards for the past 360 or so years, that means on average, each Grimwalker lasted about 2 years. (Holy shit, that’s brutal.) No wonder he stopped giving them individual names and just started calling them all Hunter.
Now I’m sure there were some who lasted longer, and some who lasted shorter, but given what we know about our Hunter, 2 years seems to be a good guess for his age. That means he was “born” at 14, the same age Luz is at the start of the series.
At some point during his very brief childhood, (because yes, fourteen-year-olds, y'all are still children) Hunter actually was given a chance to play with, (or at the very least collect a handful of) toys. That is not something I would have expected, but it is kind of nice. Also, along with the action figures he has a Sprig plushie under his pillow. I know out of Canon that plushie was put there because they had to fill their Amphibia reference quota for this season, but in Canon this means Hunter sleeps with a stuffed animal. And the location of it right under his pillow implies that it is really important to him, I'm willing to bet this is a comfort stuffy and before Flapjack, it was probably the only source of comfort he had. Personally, I’m glad that poor boy had SOMETHING to cuddle up with, titan, he deserves that much at least.
Then we have the pillow itself, like a lot of other things in this room (including the occupant) this pillow is beaten up and ragged. Particularly, compared to the Sprig plush which was probably only owned by our Hunter, given the fact we know he is the youngest Golden Guard (Belos probably gradually started making them younger and younger in the hopes of making them easier to manipulate). The rest of the bed looks like it was probably used for decades. So Hunter sleeps on the same lumpy, tattered pillow that all of his murdered predecessors slept on. And given the fact we know Hunter and Darius (who was mentored by the last Golden Guard) value sewing as an important life skill, y'all know these poor boys are repairing it themselves. #give hunter a new pillow 2023
Finally we have the darkest fucking twist: Hunter is in possession of Philip's Caleb Killing Knife. That is nearly as dark as having Hunter track down the ingredients for his own replacement. Belos at one point made the active decision to give this child-clone of his dead brother the knife he used to kill the original. There is absolutely no reason to do that other than as a twisted inside joke. Belos, you are one sick fuck.
#Sorry I have covid again and am very bored#the owl house#toh#hunter the golden guard#hunter#toh hunter#hunter’s bedroom#observations
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Hello, congrats on 1000 followers, that is huge! This is my submission to the match-up event. I’ll number the answers to each question.
1. I’m transmasc (we could get into the weeds of it all, non-binary, genderfluid, yada yada but that’s the gist of it), use he/they pronouns and I’m bisexual.
2. I’d like to be matched up with a Papa preferably, although a Ghoul would also be cool if you decide it’s my best fit.
3. I’m 5’4, I’ve lost a bit of weight recently so I’m pretty slim but not skinny, my thighs and arms are pretty big still. I’ve also got a bit of muscle showing, but again, not a bunch (I am working on it though). Most of my life I’ve been the chubby one in the friend group so this is new to me. Besides that, I have an hourglass figure (that I hide under baggy clothes) and, unfortunately for me, a very large chest that a binder does little to conceal. I have brown hair that’s wavy (2C), short on the sides and back and longer on top (comes down to my top lip if I stretch it out in front of my face), parted on the side. I also have brown eyes, I’m white (fairly pale), have freckles on my cheeks, nose and arms and a decent amount of moles all over my body. I wear glasses, I have three earlobe piercings in one ear and one in the other that I’m stretching. I dress in a sort of skater-y style, big pants, vans, oversized band T-shirts, hoodies, jean jackets, funky button-ups if I’m being fancy.
4. I think I’m a friendly person but generally pretty shy and I don’t get out much. Right now I’m writing my BA thesis (studying English) after extending my studies which means I finished all of my classes already, so I really spend way too much time at home. I could probably use someone who would help me to go out more but also respect when I have to stay in and recharge since I lean towards introversion (but only slightly). I’m also kind of a perfectionist which causes me to either put way too much effort into something or, paradoxically, way too little because then I can detach myself from it, telling myself that I didn’t try at all so I don’t feel like it matters.
5. I am very on-again off-again with video games (I could spend a year not playing any but then the next few months playing for hours every day) and I prefer narrative-led games. I watch board game playthroughs a lot and over the last year I bought quite a few board games. I like to watch horror movies but I’ve only been to the movie theater a few times since COVID started. I mostly listen to metal lately but there’s very few genres of music that I wouldn’t listen to, only one coming to mind is EDM. I like to sing a lot. I work out almost every day (ideally 6 times a week but it sometimes ends up being 4 or 5), it’s calisthenics and flexibility because I can do it with only a few cheap pieces of equipment alone at home and the gym scares me + it’s expensive. I also write fanfiction which this fandom inspired me to do and I’m very new to it but enjoy it a lot.
6. I’m 23, I live alone, I have two cats that are brother and sister. I was an only child until my dad had another kid in his second marriage but that happened when I was 16 so I don’t really count it since I didn’t grow up with siblings (my brother feels more like a nephew to me). I don’t think I want to be monogamous, because I don’t think I belong to anyone or anyone belongs to me, it’s just too restrictive and boring to me (although if someone I really cared about wanted to be 100% monogamous, I would probably agree to it). My favorite season is spring. I love most animals, especially reptiles, I used to be scared of spiders (I think from the stigma against them) but now I love to see them in my home and let them stay. But I’m absolutely terrified of the ocean and the creatures that live in it.
I am so sorry that this is so long but I tend to ramble and overshare when talking about myself. If this is too long, feel free to ignore.
This post is part of the 1000 followers match up event. Entries for the event are now closed.
Your match is…Papa Emeritus III
He loves stealing… I mean borrowing your clothes . As much as he enjoys his fancy outfits he adores putting on one of your hoodies and curling up on the couch. Preferably with you in his arms. It helps him unwind after a hard day at work.
He will come and keep you comapny while you exercise, he wants to support you and he often joins in. There will also be quite a lot of flirtatious glances from him.
One time he says "I can think of a much better way for us to work out together caro. hmm? You would like that no?" you cannot miss the sultry tone of his voice and the look he gives you as he draws you to him.
He is really supportive/understanding of your perfectionsim. Despite his playful front he does understand a need to do things to a high standard. He gets like that over his music. So he tries to help you balance it out.
If you are working on your thesis, he sometimes needs telling to just let you work. He loves being there for moral support and he is surpirsingly helpful and knowledgeable. But he gets a little distracted sometimes and just kinda goes off on one. So when you do say that you just need some peace and quiet to think he just pouts at you. Then after a moment he'll nod in understanding, give you a kiss and leave you to it. He will also bring you plenty of your favourite drink to keep you going.
He will definitely encourage you to go out more. He loves going out with you and you both always have a lot of fun. He can also spot when you need to recharge and he plans a cozy night in with a film or something.
He is chill about not being monogamous. It works well for him too and he has similar views to you. He values very highly the emotional connection you two share and he only has that with you. It means the world to him.
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Written by Nyx
#causticjuice#match up#match up event#ghost band#ghost bc#ghost#ghost band x reader#ghost bc x reader#ghost x reader#papa emeritus iii x reader#papa ememritus iii#terzo#terzo x reader#terzo emeritus
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I LOVE SomeMoreNews. In high school in 2016-2018 I was very right wing/libertarian and I used to listen to Jordan Peterson, Dave Rubin, Blaire White, Paul Joseph Watson etc and idk I had an exacerbation of my mental health, I dated an incel and broke up with him (it’s a very long story I won’t bore you with), and then covid happened and I went to nursing school and I started questioning everything that I was told those few years. I mean I was young and impressionable and suppressing my sexuality and trying so hard to be a pick-me-girl which led me to be very angry and that’s how I think I ended up in that sphere of things. ANYWAY SomeMoreNews is very much to thank to bringing me to the left. During quarantine I watched EVERYTHING they put out and idk it really helped me realize where I was wrong. Plus it’s fucking funny and Cody’s delivery is amazing. Idk I just really love them.
Jordan Peterson for me was the one that was very hard to let go of because his self help stuff is… adequate, as Cody says, like it’s generic psychology stuff and like you should expect him to be adequate to even good at psychology since he has a PhD in the topic. It helped me during high school and I really took the book and his lectures to heart but I remember watching that clip that they put in the video where Jordan was hesitant to express support for gay marriage and idk… as a 16 year old girl questioning her sexuality who already didn’t have supportive parents it was so hard to hear from someone I looked up to but I swallowed it down and kept watching him and supporting him. Idk. It was very hard and painful during that time and as a leftist now I just feel healthier because I don’t have to constantly compromise my identity and I’m not as angry at myself for things I can’t control. Anyway. SomeMoreNews is amazing and the episode on jordan was 100/10. I recommend it to everybody now.
i am very very glad to hear that you feel healthier now. like thats the most important thing to me in this whole ask, that youre doing better. im glad some more news was a boon to you. im also glad you got something out of petersons self help, but im sorry you fell down the rabbithole of the rest of petersons whole deal, and im sorry you had to experience his weird conditional homophobia. ultimately, im happy youre healthier and happier now!
also smn is genuinely very funny. i love codys delivery of virtually everything, like hes so expressive in the dryest possible way. love to see what new and exciting ways cody k johnston says "Fair and Balanced™©®" i really liked the jordan peterson episode as evidenced by me finding the time to watch it twice in two days. then again maybe thats just my weirdo ritual of watching some more news episodes over and over ad infinitum. theyre very good at deconstructing the rhetorical tricks different grifters use, which is really helpful for learning how to combat them just generally. theyre not the only ones who do this but i like the way they go about doing so. its just easier for my brain to grab onto after a couple watches. after watching their jordan peterson video and hearing them dissect how dr lobster tries to sell himself as a man without ideology i felt like i had enough context to rewatch abby thorne of philosophy tubes video on jorbson b porbsons ideology. it helps that smn plays clips of what theyre talking about and then breaks them down i think?
obviously a throughline in a lot of right wing grifters rhetoric is that they start with their feeling and justify it with cherry picked 'facts', which helps me understand that conservatism is an ideology based on pathos, and that that is the front you should probably argue on if you want to change minds. seeing it deconstructed over and over again in different examples really makes it easier to identify. it really goes to show you that the best way to change someones mind isnt by playing their game but arguing on a completely different front.
i will say something i noticed is that they do a fair bit of "im inside your walls and can see you" type humor so if thats triggering for you id be mindful. its normally throwaway jokes so that may be better or worse for you.
#dils declares#i noticed because i like that humor but also it can definitely be triggering for me#its not usually. but i gotta watch out.#i should watch the candace owens vid again.#just to reacquaint myself with her whole deal
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RL's been sort of overwhelming lately, and I stupidly put myself in the position of supporting other people when let's just say that my own oxygen mask does not fit very well.
Kind of tumbled down the black hole of all that this weekend.
There's a lot that's not awesome, but what's most overwhelming right now is the widespread insistence that the pandemic is over and simple, easy precautions (wearing masks indoors in public, working from home if possible, social distancing, not going out if you literally have COVID) are too much to expect.
Maybe you think you can have a little COVID (as a treat) and be OK, but (apart from the fact that there's substantial evidence of it being fairly likely to disable you for life) I can't.
I'm still not 'recovered' from April 2020. I know if I catch it again there's a good chance I won't be able to work anymore.
And it's just me. There's no back up.
The small number of RL friends who form my support network couldn't afford to help.
My family won't. That's why I had a GoFundMe 9 years ago when I couldn't work before.
I'm a long way from the dire straights I was in back then, but I'm actually sicker. The only thing that's enabling me to earn a fairly decent salary is working from home and Not Catching COVID again.
And I am increasingly under pressure - even from other disabled people, if their disability doesn't make them medically vulnerable - to give up the protections that enable me to do this. People are *actively angry* that I'm doing what I need to do to live.
And guttingly, I had more freedom when there was some form of lockdown.
Because most of you won't wear masks or social distance, I'm vulnerable when I go to the store even in good quality a mask. Because the government stopped telling you, you don't know just how infectious the new variants are.
Because the government stopped telling you how many people were dying, you don't think they are. And when someone DOES tell you, you dismiss figures you'd have found extremely alarming two years ago.
I don't know how people who spend so much time criticising the government are so happy to accept that the fact that the government is LETTING you walk about without protection means the number of deaths is in some sense acceptable.
Because you got bored of masks and decided three years was enough, you're happy to let me die.
You force me to become ever more isolated, because you won't take precautions that protect you and cost you NOTHING, and then mock me for 'over reacting'.
I'm really not. A colleague with my condition got COVID for a second time and went off long term sick - just like I did before. But she never came back. In the recent layoffs, they let her go.
She has a family to support her. I don't.
But she deserved to be able to live her life without being struck down like that in the first place.
GOD, this was not gonna be a long post.
It was gonna be 'Life got to me a bit this weekend, sorry if I've been grumpy, maybe send cats?' And then trying to work out a non-self-pitying way to say how sometimes the only thing that lifts my spirits is comments on my fic and it bums me out when I don't get them - only there's no good way to say that. It is self-pitying.
I've got no real conclusion except to beg you to actually wear a mask.
And advocate for your disabled friends and the absolutely vital need to protect working from home and not pressuring people back into the office. If you have a boss (or anyone) who thinks this is good for mental health, they DO NOT CARE about the mental health of disabled people.
It's absolutely gutting right now, and we're having to do all the advocacy ourselves, which doesn't work. Because if healthy people heard a single thing we said things would not be in the terrifying state that they are.
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I think my daily chronic illness is cancelling out covid except for the coughing and the throat and the horrible tight chest, which is fun. While grimly attempting to ignore that, I caught up with Wolianger Week with probably my worst swing at the prompt list......... yet :)
Sorry, Galvin smilie as per my fc's rules for when I'm logged in as him.
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Journey/Carrot
The knock resonated through the door to the Pendants chamber on the other side, and instantly set Galvin’s heart into a frantic patter, regret swirling up. He really didn’t know why he was doing this, he should go, he should –
Urianger opened the door, and didn’t look at all startled to see him.
“Was this foretold?” Galvin grumbled, off-kilter that Urianger wasn’t suffering like he was for this encounter.
“Thy footsteps are uncommonly distinct.”
Galvin looked down at his metal claw-toed shoes, the better for climbing trees and other such activities the Huntresses of Fanow had teased him mercilessly for not doing. It had been very much like being home having his sisters fuss over him, and his face still itched faintly from the tattoo they’d give him after the slaying of the Lightwarden. It was strange to think that only a few days had passed since then, that something as normal as this healing might be taking its usual pace in the background of the final steps of his long journey to save the First.
“Do not linger in the hallway – I bid thee enter.” Urianger stepped back, and Galvin felt drawn in almost magnetically as he followed him.
“So you’re rested up after that long swim,” he said, settling on the same sofa that Urianger did, knees almost touching.
Urianger rolled his eyes and deigned not to comment – even Alphinaud had teased him on the way back to the Crystarium, to Galvin’s delight and Urianger’s horror. “Full glad am I that all trace of white has gone from thy hair,” he said instead, quiet and serious and watching Galvin so earnestly. His hands were folded in his lap, knuckles tensed as if he were holding tight to something. When Galvin started to reach for his hands, he found his own engulfed in a flash, clutched tight. “Mine apologies resoundeth flatly to the magnitude of–”
“Oh, shush,” Galvin said quickly, fed up of hearing it once again, knowing it was eating away at Urianger far more than the adventurer who had already signed up enthusiastically for any reckless mission of salvation. He tipped his head flirtatiously, distractingly. “Do you like the new brown? It must remind you of our mutual friend.” Already he had a few pink hairs returning at the tips of his ears as his aether rebalanced and his hair returned to normal, but for now he carried a strong reminder of Ardbert with him.
“I like thee whatever colour thy hair may be… Though its lightening as you bore such vast aether… I admit to being quite frightened.” He lifted one hand to brush a strand of hair from Galvin’s face, and brought his hand back to stroke once more along his cheek, around the outline of his goatee on one side, along his jawline… “I know you came not here to seek another apology, and yet –”
If shushing him was not going to work, it had to be the carrot and not the stick. Galvin leaned in and kissed him to cease this line of thought. And sure enough Urianger’s lips moved from speech to kissing back with remarkable alacrity. In a moment Galvin had been pulled close, kneeling on the sofa to meet the height of the elezen sitting beside him, as they tangled hands in hair and sought the taste of each other’s lips.
When he pulled back for air, Galvin stroked thoughtless traced lines around the archon mark on Urianger’s cheek, down into the soft hair of his beard and back up, smiling blissfully down at him as he consumed the sight of his face at such close quarters. “It’s all over now. We may spend this night as we please, and all I wish for is you.”
Words seemed a distant concept to Urianger, who only breathed “Oh…” before pulling Galvin fully to kneel across his lap, and dragged him in for another kiss.
#woliangerweek#ffxiv#i wrote this#my stuff#I'm not sorry that my whole blog is Galvin this week when I barely mentioned him before#despite his rich and storied history in getting screamed at for saying weird things in fc chat
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Hi, as s suporter of Ukrain and a metamoro fan, I'd like to know what happened that made you so angry at them? You mentioned fab 24th? I don't understand Italian and haven't been following them closely lately, so I'm a bit out of data.
Hi! My rant wasn't clear actually, so I'll explain you. Sorry if I'll be long btw.
First of all I was disappointed by both Meta and Moro's musical and generally professional choices in the last 2 years, especially Fab cause the last Ermal thing I liked was No Satisfaction, after which I stopped following him.
As for Fab I told myself that it was my personal taste, since I am a fan of rock and not of very melodic voice+guitar only songs, so I disliked his love songs album but told myself it made sense for him to release again songs the public didn't pay attention to when he was less famous, after all I'd do the same with my fanfictions lol. I also disliked his acoustic tour because after covid there were a lot of protests from concert workers who were left out by economic help from the state, and making an acoustic tour meant not employing many workers, which imo sounded stingy, which, for an artist who so far had respected work so much, was disappointing. I didn't like his Sanremo song very much either, but I was ok with it cause he was hot and I could connect it to my fanfictions/headcanons lol (not to anything real, let's specify this just in case) and I was disappointed by his 'album' cause the songs were average, boring and even the rock ones felt weak, like technically the production was not as powerful as in the past. I didn't particularly care for his movie Ghiaccio because I don't watch realistic movies, so I decided to not pay attention to the fact that the producer was the daughter of one of Berlusconi's collaborators and Salvini's girlfriend (idk if you know anything about Italian politics but Fab used to speak against Berlusconi, a bad guy, and Salvini is a bad guy too), telling myself that he wanted his movie to exist so he accepted the compromise to have it done because maybe the leftist producers who usually promote movies weren't interested in him.
But all this was until February 23rd.
On February 24th ruzzia invaded Ukraine, this changed my whole perspective on everything. I informed myself about it, I followed Ukrainian channels/accounts, I listened to what my girlfriend, who knows more about ruzzia because she's from a post-soviet union country too, and I learned how badly ruzzia propaganda worked in Italy since forever, how my perception of it was affected, because since school we are taught that soviet union was a good thing where magically neighbouring country just joined (not like they were conquered by force and their ppl were killed, deported and so on), as opposing to the USA that just creates wars in random countries.
It was and it is a painful process to unlearn what I took as a fact, and it's painful when I see that my country keeps spreading ruzzian propaganda in different ways because those bastards promote different versions for different kinds of ppl, so we have only a few group that actively supports ruzzia and putin, but we have many who blame NATO saying that ruzzia was provoked by it and the USA, and many who are 'pacifists' and want the war to end in an abstract way, never blaming ruzzia but instead indirectly saying that Ukraine should surrender and give them their territories.
Sorry for digressing, I really am very opinionated about Ukraine cause I suffer very much because of the injustice and pain that it's happening to those people who imo they are being betrayed twice, also by these wrong bullshit opinions.
So when the war started I started also looking for the opinion of celebrities I cared about and I was disappointed by the lack of strong reactions. A few Italian artists did some charity concert or some initiative to help refugees, one female I liked mentioned 'a dictator' doing bad things, but like what dictator? where? It's not like there is only one, and why tf you don't say his name? Others were generally sorry for refugees but never saying what horror they were escaping from.
Ermal wrote a vague post about how bad it is that in 2022 in Europe there is a war...like. he didn't mention who invaded who, he didn't say who was the aggressor and who the victim, and this is very bad. It makes 'the war' look like something both countries wanted, it makes it abstract especially not mentioning the names of the countries. It makes ruzzia less responsible for its terrorist actions.
Fab didn't say anything. He was invited as a guest to Mara Venier's show I think in March or smth, and he sang NOn Mi Avete Fatto Niente and on the screen behind him there were images of a child refugee singing, the presenter (Mara) was moved and he was kinda moved too but he didn't say a single word about it, let alone mentioning who was the enemy. And he posted an instagram story with an image of the world map, particularly of ruzzia and USA territories between the Bering Strait...I saw that image reposted by others, the meaning was that ruzzia and the USA should fight in their own territories, there, instead of involving a third country. Imo this means he believes the war was provoked by NATO...which is fake and also it dehumanizes Ukrainians protecting their country and fighting for their freedom, and for me someone who sang about 'libero', about freedom, someone who used to fight for human rights, should be 100% supporting Ukraine.
In June there was a Metamoro reunion and it was very beautiful, their interaction was cute and I kinda put all my negative feelings aside because I'm a fan, after all, and we had new content after ages. They sang NMAFN again, and wow it would have been the perfect time to say some f*cking words of support for Ukraine. At least. Because they could have done some fundraising. Or told ppl to donate, not necessarily to the Ukrainian Army but to help refugees, children, animals even. There is so much to do for help...but nothing. And every time something horrible happens I open their accounts to see if they said something about it...still nothing.
And it's not like their song was about love or whatever. It was against terrorism...and what ruzzia is doing in Ukraine every single day is terrorism. For me it's offensive that they didn't say anything. It's offensive that artists who sang in Eurovision a song against terrorist, moving the whole Europe, are silent about the horrors happening in Ukraine. It's shameful actually, for me, an Italian.
Because not saying anything means not helping Ukraine and helping ruzzia indirectly. ("In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends" Martin Luther King)
Also, they donated the copyright of their song to Emergency, the NGO, because back then they wanted to help ppl in need, I remember an interview where Ermal said that Fab was so passionate about it that he wanted to do something much earlier than in September 2018 when they had the concert in Trento and did this donation. So wow, what changed now that Ukraine is so unimportant? Is it connected to the fact that Emergency itself, like Red Cross and Amnesty International, is supporting indirectly ruzzia instead of Ukraine?
(Emergency asked Italy to stop sending weapons to Ukraine 'to achieve peace'...not considering that if Ukraine stops fighting Ukraine will stop existing. It's ruzzia that, if it stops fighting, will make peace possible. Or considering this, and manipulating public opinion in ruzzian propaganda style)
I am not a fan of Maneskin but they were clear on where they stand. They said Fuck putin more times, they made a song (Gasoline) against him and gave the money to Ukraine. And I wish Fab did the same. Also because we have a very big Ukrainian community in Italy. They are our neighbours, our coworkers, our classmates. They are fans of Metamoro, or Ermal, of Fab. They are part of our country so if they suffer we should suffer for them. I do. And I thought a sensitive person like Fab would have too.I thought he (and Ermal) maybe does help Ukraine privately with donations like we do, but you know how it works with celebrities, they donate and move fans to donate too. It's like after they donated the NMAFN copyright to Emergency in Trento a group of Metamoro fans donated money to them the same day. It's good example.
A lot of US singers did the same. Metallica, Dropkick Murphys, Gogol Bordello (they're Ukrainian-Americans like the actress Mila Kunis but ok)...so I felt bad because why some musicians know what is the right side and some don't? And I felt ashamed because it's musicians from my same country, musicians I thought were clever, sensitive, not just like meta and moro but also like Max Gazzé, Daniele Silvestri...all ppl who are openly leftists, and not leftists from the current party (which supports Ukraine) but leftists from 80s and 90s communist party, which was heavily influenced by ruzzian propaganda. The same propaganda I was fed in school. And I vote left parties ofc, because ofc, but I am careful of who I vote, especially these elections, I was careful to not vote parties which were against sending weapons to Ukraine. I also convinced my mother, a leftist from old times communist party, that this NATO bullshit is bullshit, I didn't stop until she was convinced, because we must fight against ruzzian propaganda and make ppl understand the truth. Our grandparents fought in the Resistance against german occupiers, we should support Ukraine whoich is doing the same.
So now in december there will be a Fab concert in Rome and I wanted to go, with my girlfriend, whom I met in the metamoro fandom and with whom we went to Fab's concert in 2019...it would have been a kind of anniversary celebration. BUT I can't. I can't give my money to someone whose ethical choices I disagree with.
So you know what I'll do with the 35 euros of the ticket I would have bought? I'll use them for Ukraine. It's not much but still. I can donate them to the Ukrainian Army or humanitarian aid (same link) in case I feel against weapons (spoiler: I am not when it's for defending the country). I can donate them to buy an army of drones to counter iran shitty drones that are destroying civilian buildings and targeting ppl in the streets. I can donate them to uanimals.org, they save and feed Ukrainian animals, because animals are silent victims of war too.
Or with basically the same money I can look into this wishlist where I can buy, among other things, thermal intimate clothes for Ukrainian soldiers, because winter is coming and it's going to be very cold for them.
And if I have to decide who is more important between #1an Italian singer who sings about freedom and human rights and good things but but who for some reason is being silent on a GENOCIDE that is happening right now by the bloody hands of ruzzia, and #2a random soldier who's fighting to protect his freedom and his people's from an evil imperialistic country, I choose #2. Always.
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(on a different note, I keep on posting some photos I might like of Fab. And I keep on revising my fanfictions and sharing headcanons with my girlfriend about metamoro. Because that's not about the real them! It's all related to my headcanons. Now I can proudly say it, it's FANON! I don't care about their real lives because we don't share the same ethics! lol this fanon thing finally becomes useful to me)
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