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Guilty Gear has consumed my life.
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"It must be a blessed relief having a TIMELORD after you. Well they DO only like to watch"
I think I learned more about Timelords just now than I ever expected to in my life
#doctor who#big finish#Gallifrey#Leela#Context: Leela is undercover as an “exotic dancer”#Square One
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"Is there anybody out there, who is lost and hurt and lonely, too? Are they bleeding all your colours into one? And if you come undone, as if you'd been run through some catapult, it fired you, you wonder if your chance'll ever come, well, if you're stuck in square one."
Credits to the artist: Kirokaze // DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/kirokaze
#pixel art#cozy aesthetic#cyberpunk#2d animation#2d art#cyber aesthetic#kirokaze#square one#coldplay#coffee#lonelly#pixel aesthetic#pixel animation
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#caribbean#caribbean woman#caribbean culture#black#beautiful#wine#black woman#fete#square one#alison hinds#iron bazodee#soca#classic#throwback#SoundCloud
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S q u a r e O n e
#square one#band#Alison Hinds#Anderson Armstrong#Cecil O’shaka Riley#Paul Slater#George Jones#Winston Beckles#Terry Arthur#Keanne Walters#Janelle Waithe
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I've been listless for too long, wasting my life by following the path of least resistance, but I've decided to take initiative and go back to school to get a degree that isn't worth less than the cardstock it's printed on.
Math was my passion growing up. It was fun and exciting to me, like solving a puzzle, and I wanted to be an unspecified brand of Scientist™ someday; my mom wanted me to be a mechanical engineer like my grampa. She decided my natural aptitude for math wasn't fast enough for her liking, so she skipped me ahead from algebra straight to AP calculus without geometry or trigonometry. I was completely out of my element, miles behind every other student, so she made me take two year-long homeschool courses in one month to help me catch up before I flunked out. It didn't help, it just made my existing course load even harder. I was burned out and I barely coasted by with a C- and a newfound hatred of math.
I never managed to grok calculus, and promptly forgot everything about it the second I graduated. When I learned that the major my mom wanted me to take in college would require more calculus and physics, I said fuck that and settled for something easy. I bounced around for my first two years, got my AA, and finally chose to pursue English (the greatest mistake of my life) because I had vague ideas of becoming an author, but my university had a shitty English department that didn't teach me anything. All they offered were glorified high school courses, "read a book, write an essay, take a multiple choice test, repeat. Congratulations you're an English major." I never learned grammar or style, I still don't know how to punctuate certain clauses, I completely wasted my final two years taking the most bare bones credits I needed to get a degree with no real goal after graduating. I went to college because it was expected of me, but my plan evaporated in high school because my mom pushed me too hard and even though I passed all my classes I feel like I failed miserably.
I want to go back. I want to retake the high school math I missed in my own time then reapply to my alma mater for another bachelor's program. I want to go into astronomy/astrophysics because all the science classes I took as electives in school were as fun and exciting as I'd hoped they would be, and I remembered that I loved to learn. I want to go back and try again with a real goal this time, to major in astrophysics so I could get a job, a career, doing what I'm good at and enjoy. It's not going to be easy, but I've been taking it easy my entire adult life and I'm trapped in my home town working as a cashier at a side-of-the-highway tourist trap motel at 26. I need to apply myself. I need to live up to the potential I had in high school. I need to go to the moon in this d'cade and do the otha things, not because they are easy, but because they are hahd!
Astronomy and earth/space science were my favorite classes in college, but I never took any beyond the 1000 level, and the suggested semester plan for a BS in astrophysics requires advanced 3000 and 4000 level calc, physics, mechanics, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, optics, stats, and differential equations to name a few, so I have my work cut out for me. I need to buy some textbooks this summer and relearn prerequisite math before I can even hope to jump into this field. I'm not gonna enjoy it, it's not gonna be fun and exciting all the way, I'm gonna wanna give up, but I need to prove that I'm capable. I need to push myself to do what I don't want to do. I don't need to be a savant, I just need to pass. Cs get degrees. My little sisters are in college now, and both of them are taking a relaxed schedule, part time credits, only a couple classes per semester, however long it takes. The full astrophysics major requires 120 credits, but only 62 are critical, the other 58 are gen ed, and I already have my BA so I can skip those. 62 credits is 2 years of full time work (year and a half if I take a summer semester, though that's four months of work in half the time, so I'd once again risk burnout), but I could bang it out as a part-timer in 3 or 4 years. Hell, if I went back full time I could take a bunch of fun gen ed classes for a minor, or even a double major, but I'm getting WAY ahead of myself.
Start small.
I need to brush up on
Algebra 1
Geometry
Algebra 2
Trigonometry/Pre-Calc
Calculus
It's too late to apply for fall semester this year, and I wouldn't want to anyway because 5 high school math classes are a lot to get through in 3 months. They don't allow spring applications either, so the earliest I could start is fall 2024, 10 years after I started college in the first place. That gives me over a year to master the maths I missed. That's plenty of time! I'm fairly competent in algebra and geometry, so I'd only need to relearn trig and calc.
This is doable.
It's never too late to start over.
#math#science#astronomy#astrophysics#college#university#my plan#my life#goals#my goals#calculus#maths#square one
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SQUARE ONE IS NOW NAMED 'HERE WE ARE' AND IT'S GOING TO BE PERFORMED HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT HOLY
#musical theatre#musical#musical theater#musicals#theater#theatre#sondheim#stephen sondheim#here we are#SQUARE ONE#HOLY FUCKING SHIT
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Square One TV (Videos, 1987-1992)
The legendary educational kids show about math. Includes Dirk Niblick (from the creator, voice actor and narrator of Roger Ramjet), Mathnet (the episodic mystery series), and in episode 401, the one and only Weird Al Yankovic. You can watch episodes here and here, and even more on YouTube here and here.
#internet archive#video#videos#vhs#vhs tapes#square one#kids tv#kids show#kid's show#childrens tv#children's tv#children's television#math#maths#mathematics#cartoon#cartoons#animation#weird al#weird al yankovic#educational videos#kids videos#1987#1988#1989#1990#1991#1992#80s#90s
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Square One
Time for a reset
Who will push the button first
Can't know what's next
Just trust the Universe
Close your eyes
Open your heart
Freedom commencing
At the restart.
~I.S.~
#Square One#poetry#micro poem#poem#Intsa original#poetic#reset#restart#heart#heart open#short poem#lha#1introvertedsage#Intsa Allegories#Universe#original poem#new poem
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aggie doodles!
full canvas: (x)
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NARVIN: (Angrily) My thanks, Madam President.
ROMANA: (Falsely sweet) You’re very welcome.
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#pinocchio#netflix#Disney#square one#steel rising#lies of p#digimon adventure#digimon#puppetmon#pinocchimon#bandai namco#Toei Animation
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#m-flo#2ne1#she's so#outta control#square one#6th album#2012#jpop#dance pop#edm#s: upbeat#m: exuberant#songs#music#audio
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Watch "The REC ROOM - Game Room ( Square One ) REVIEW" on YouTube
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Gallifrey Re-Listens
I continue with my thoughts on the Gallifrey audios
Story: Square One
Lead characters: Romana II, Leela
Recurring: Cardinal Braxietel, Co-ordinator Narvin
Story Summary:
Gallifrey and its various potential rivals/allies/frenemies are holding a political summit. Co-ordinator Narvin, who last we saw him, was instigating official enquiries against Romana’s actions in the first Gallifrey audio, is there as a delegate. He’s accompanied by Leela who is ostensibly there as entertainment but is actually there to watch for shenanigans on Romana’s behalf. And naturally, shenanigans occur. Shenanigans of the groundhog day variety. Also a little murder.
(From here on there be spoilers).
Favourite story character: As this story takes place on a sparsely populated space station there aren’t a lot of particularly striking one-off characters (except for one who is striking for the wrong reasons, more on that directly), so Narvin wins this time because he’s able to be an entertaining jerk.
Least favourite character: Delegate Flinkstab of the Neckestani. As stated, striking for the wrong reasons. Openly misogynist alien diplomat who murders dancers. One-note, with a repellent voice dripping with spittle. Honestly, it’s the repeated mentions of his fatness by other characters that annoys me the most.
Given that this is an audio, you call direct attention to a physical characteristic if you want the audience to make an association with it. It’s clear from the narrative that his fatness is just one more repellent quality we’re supposed to dislike. He is quite literally a greedy slug.
Note to all writers: Fat people exist. Fat people listen to audios. Fat people’s bodies are not indications of their morals or their general state of health. I know this is a shock, but you can in fact be fat and perfectly healthy.
Sigh.
Anyways, moving on.
General Thoughts (in no particular order)
The Antagonists
Flinkstab, we’ve already covered and his nastiness is more of a red herring as Leela naturally initially suspects him of causing the groundhog day on account of the whole ‘murdering dancers’ aspect of his personality.
Hossak – The Time Lord organiser of the conference and the person actually behind the Groundhog Day effect because people keep rudely disrupting her very importance conference with a bit of murder.
Her introduction paints her a diplomat who is different from other Time Lords in her ability to empathise with other species and her skills have garnered her a reputation as a peace maker. However, it’s just a front and it becomes clear that when Hossak is speaking to people she deems unworthy of diplomacy that her determination in peace making is only to increase her own glory.
In private she is even worse than Narvin is and in a particularly nasty way. Her diplomatic front disappears and she uses quite vulgar language. When she thinks Leela has murdered one of the entertainers, a dancer called Lexi, (Leela having, as standard for a DW universe protagonist, been found standing over the body) she goes on at length how annoyed she is, because she was hoping to use Leela as an example of how progressive the Time Lords now are in their ability to accept ‘lesser species’.
She also repeatedly refers to the dancers (whom, yes, it is implied also do a bit of sex work) as prostitutes and sluts and on one occasion upon realising that Romana has foiled her plans, calls the President of her planet a bitch. I found this a little jarring tbh, on account of I don’t like swearing in general and I really hate when media tends to use it interchangeably with mature. It works here more or less, because it does show the gulf between Hossak’s polite façade and her actual personality.
Our last antagonist is delegate Vrell of the Monan Host. Vrell and an accomplice among the dancers try to murder another delegate and pin it on Narvin in order to disgrace Gallifrey. Unfortunately for Vrell he didn’t reckon with Hossak reversing time repeatedly.
Right. Personal Rant incoming.
Vrell is pissed that Gallifrey (our pal Narvin it turns out, in his CIA Co-ordinator role) while assisting with reconstruction efforts, has installed what amounts to a self-destruct button in his planet 'just in case'. He is therefore understandably sympathetic to the Free Time movement and working with them to curtail Gallifrey’s power and influence.
Vrell is somehow, the bad guy.
Free Time are now straightforwardly referred to as terrorists - just a reminder, based on the last story (the only one so far), if you took out the time travel aspect, they would be a plain allegory for refugees. Only the time travel aspect of the story and of course their willingness to use violence against their oppressors seems to prove them terrorists at all.
And this is the point where I as a person from a country that had to resort to a war of independence to get rid of the British Empire (only partially successful), find my shoulders starting to go up around my ears.
Like, I do get that in-story, Free Time are supposed to be dangerous extremists. But the vibe I can’t ignore is that they are terrorists as defined by a British person for a british audience i.e. People who resorted to violence and are therefore irredeemable, conveniently ignoring the fact that they were driven to that violence because British soldiers turned up one day, burned down their house, stole their land and declared that speaking their own language was illegal and then wouldn't piss off without being physically made to.
And those people resorting to violence is bad because Britain is good and the empire only murdered the bad natives, no the British museum isn't giving back all the stuff they stole, shut up.
Yeahh.
Basically, I'm not finding Gallifrey and the other temporal powers in any way sympathetic here and the real problem is I very much get the vibe that's not what the writer intended. There was a brief bit of ‘oh Gryben’s pretty shit and we’re trying to improve things, but yes Free Time kind of has a point’ in the previous audio, but that’s gone now. Free Time are now just ‘terrorists.’ They are bad, and anyone who sides with them (despite, reminder, Narvin installing a self-destruct button in their planet) – is bad.
Interesting details in this audio:
LOL Romana ruined the various antagonists’ plans almost before the story started.
I kind of love that when Romana was travelling with the doctor he would use earth references and slang and she would respond with the dignified Time Lady version of ‘say what?’ and she is now the one throwing out 20th/21st century references and everyone else is going ‘eh?’
Being our good politician, Romana lets the Monans know about Narvin’s secret self-destruct button and is able to make some deals which result in Flinkstab and Vrell being punished unofficially. Narvin gets a slap on the wrist and goes away muttering about the upcoming political inquiry. Yay I guess. Leela at least is less than satisfied with this.
It’s all very ‘no one is good, everyone is slightly dodgy, because politics’. Still it’s hard to complain too much about this, because the Gallifrey Series is basically Space Politics: The Series. I knew what I was getting into. And despite the various issues, I was pretty entertained.
Thoughts on re-listening specifically: I wonder if current Narvin (him of 'dear sweet Leela' and 'you have the most devasting smile' looks back on this occassionally and feels the urge to beat his head against a wall.
#big finish#Gallifrey Audios#romana ii#Leela#Square One#this is not an exhaustive review it is just my thoughts
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