To quote binging with Babish “at the holidays our need for meat and cheese gets dangerously high”  so every good charcuterie board usually has olives on it out of the couples in the leda House verse who eats the olives and who doesn’t like olives?  Also, I can never remember what all he is allergic to so can izzy eat olives or cheese?

Excellent quote pull! Do love some Babish now and again. As a quick refresh Izzy is allergic to (in order of severity): peanuts, soy, eggs and stone fruit. While olives can be considered in the family of stone fruits, they wouldn't trigger his allergies most likely. And he loves salt and vinegar (Lucius would argue that's also most of his personality) so I'd say he'd be all over them.

Olive eaters: Izzy, Lucius, Pete, John, Roach, Stede, the Swede, Anne, Alma, Charlie, Doug

Olive avoiders: Eddy, Jim, Oluwande, Read, Frenchie, Felix, Mary

I imagine Stede has brought a charcuterie board or two to the Revenge and he definitely loads it with grapes, nuts, very expensive meats and also very cheap ones because some of the staff just really love supermarket pepperoni, a wide range of cheeses, and at least three kinds of crackers. No matter how bit it is, it's always decimated by the end of the night which he takes as a very high compliment as it's the closest he gets to cooking.

20 YEARS OF MEAN GIRLS Released on April 30th, 2004

I jokingly thought before that reading Junie B. Jones as a kid turned me into a feminist, but unironically, it kind of did.

I honestly think it comes down to the fact that Junie B. was not only allowed to be "weird," but her character arc never concluded like other girl characters would. In other media featuring "weird girls," the girl always ended her arc tamed - by force or convince, she would be prettied up, she would smile and be polite, and she would never speak out of turn. She would be perfect then, and would shed her veneer of individuality with the freedom that is conformity. As a kid, I noticed that girls weren't permitted to be "weird" like boys were. So when I read Junie B. Jones, I loved that she was frankly just fucking weird. She said things out of turn, she was rambunctious and imaginative and she was a realistic portrayal of a little girl. I loved reading those books because the narrative taught her lessons without punishing her for being weird, if that makes sense. So often, narratives punished weird girls for the crime of being a socially unacceptable girl, not for any true wrongdoing like lying.

Anyway, I just think it's interesting, because I watched and read a ton of books and shows and movies featuring girls and women, but none of them truly empathized with (or even tried to empathize with) weird girls on their own merits and capabilities and terms, or embraced the idea of a "socially inept/unacceptable" girl without punishing her in some way for her supposed ineptitude.

this is like. all fully speculation. but i was rewatching some of jaiden’s nuzlocke videos, and them combined with a recent clip of hers i saw talking about how she’s not even sure why quackity chose her for the qsmp made me connect why he might’ve picked her. because like. i think nearly everyone was a bit shocked, if not confused, to see her on the lineup. despite having been in the scene for a while—her first public animations were for ihascupquake, after all—jaiden isn’t your first thought when you think of minecraft youtubers. as far as i’m aware, she was on one smp before the qsmp—epicsmp, and we all know how that ended.

no, jaiden isn’t who you’d think of when you think minecraft youtuber. but she is who you’d think of when you think storyteller. which, yeah, is kind of obvious. there’s a whole subcategory of youtube for animated storytellers, and jaiden’s been one of the front runners for years now. but the thing about jaiden specifically is that she doesn’t just tell stories. she shapes them. you can really see that the most with her animated nuzlockes. she’s given scenarios and events that are largely random and arbitrary, fully just game coding and out of her control, and she turns them into her story. her platinum nuzlocke specifically highlights this with the giratina, two jaidens storyline she creates to explain her resetting the run and attempting the elite four again.

live mcrp HEAVILY relies on having to go with the flow of the game, and learning to work around in-game mechanics and limitations to create a storyline out of. things that are story-important, like pets or npcs, are fragile and can be taken away at any moment, be it by a mob, glitch, or player error. you have to be able to think on your feet to not only work around it, but create a narrative to explain that decision fitting into the canon and story instead of just taking it at face-value. and that’s exactly what jaiden’s been doing for years now with a lot of her gaming-based content. quackity would need people accustomed versatile storytelling as much as he’d need people accustomed to survival minecraft itself, and jaiden is nothing short of an expert at her craft

less gentle nurturing protective goddess c!kristin more amoral fickle petty divine being c!kristin who cares little for the affairs of mortals aside from her chosen favorites. more c!kristin who destroys lives with a flick of the wrist without sparing a thought, not out of malice but pure carelessness, as gods are wont to do

Y E S i live for sad bily facts

Okay so! Hiding them in the tags cuz I’m on mobile enter at your own risk

the chapter songs in Alan Wake 2,, flawless

ntn spoilers ahead

Question!

I appreciate that you champion Harrow's schizophrenia, and I had a thought that I'd like to run by you. It's intended with full respect for anyone with the disorder, and is also related to the neuro-bio-psych elements.

When Nona, Cam, and Crown are visiting the Captain, Nona hears Varun speak through the Captain. Afterward, she references the incident and realizes that neither Cam nor Crown had heard this happen. I was confused *how* Nona-lecto had that sort of experience, but...

If Nona-lecto is in Harrow's body, is it possible that she's experiencing schizophrenia symptoms? I'm not wanting to imply that it's a full hallucination, though perhaps since Harrow's 'meat' is schizophrenic meat, there are effects. Would mental health/illness be tied to the soul? Personality certainly seems to be, and some forms of memory.

Just rolling this around in my head a bit, and have no thoughts more advanced than this. Thank you for all your theorizing and writings about the books 💀 - heedee

I've been wondering how or if Harrow's schizophrenia effected Nona since the cover first dropped, and literally speaking, the way you're wondering about? I'm still not really sure. Brain stuff is complicated, even before souls are part of the equation, and everything about Nona is already so goddamn weird. I do think Nona is thematically schizophrenic, the same way she's thematically intellectually disabled.

Like the scene you're talking about here:

I think you're absolutely onto something, seeing this as related to psychosis. Reading this scene with that framing in mind, Nona's experience is so clearly about hallucinations. She was just trying to change the subject, and fuck. Turns out no one else heard that! Camilla and Crown's reactions, too.

But to your point about neurobiology, and the relationship between soul and body, it doesn't really tell us much. Nona wasn't hallucinating, because it turned out Judith wasn't just screaming. Varun was speaking to Nona through Judith in the language of a murdered planet, a language that sounds like screaming to human ears. Like Nona's uncanny knack for human languages, that's a product of her soul, not her brain.

We get proof of that later when Nona is pretending to be Harrow, and faking being effected by the blue light. She imitates the way Judith screamed, makes her mouth make the same shapes Judith's did, and her words come out in italics; just like Judith's words that Camilla and Crown heard as screams. She calls for help, in the screaming language she'd heard from Judith, with Judith in the room to hear her, and Varun answers by attacking the planet.

To your question about whether schizophrenia would be connected to the soul or to the body in setting, I don't think there's a dichotomy there. Body and soul aren't separate things, even when they're separated.

Lyctorhood, for example. You'd think muscle memory would be a clear cut case of living in the body. It's muscles. But when Ianthe chowed down on Naberius' soul, she got his reflexes with it. His swordsmanship, his stance, his training. The soul brought the body with it. And when Harrow literally cut Gideon out of her brain, it removed Gideon from her memory even when her soul was elsewhere. She spent half that book in the River, but didn't remember Gideon until her skull construct failed and her brain began to heal. So I would say that, just like memory, it's both. Harrow's schizophrenia is tied to both her soul and body, and there's not really much point in trying to separate the two.

trying to keep all my clemviminnie thoughts contained until i get to episode 3 but

its hard

Floatzel jester and Rampardos King

I honestly get a little annoyed that people will act like Penelope wouldn't be in the Fields of Punishment alongside Odysseus :P

Because she'd either go with him or literally be there because of her own things. I mean...She's not that nice either. They're literally "likeminded", all the war crimes he would tell her, she'd be thinking "Oh!!! Good thinking!!!" The only thing is, she just didn't GET to do those war crimes because she wasn't in the war. She would scold him for the stupid things he did acting like she's never done the same or wouldn't do the same.

Also as if she wouldn't also tell Polyphemus her name? Maybe not exactly, but she'd do something JUST as prideful/dumb eventually. BECAUSE THEY'RE SIMILAR. SAME MIND!!!

as a transfem Dark Cacao enthusiast I'm PUMPED for the new Mystic Flour update. Bc obvs one of DC's themes is not going back on decisions or even when they're like legitimately harmful or whatever. AND how she frequently puts aside her own feelings for the "good" of others I don't think she accepts that she's y'know. A she. Nor does she believe she can transition even if she does accept it.

However, even in spite of her doubts, Dark Cacao still held out a small hope that one day she'd be able to live as herself. Unfortunately, she discovers the truth of her soul jam and more specifically... Mystic Flour.

Dark Cacao doubts everything, chastising herself for being foolish, trying even harder to hide her secret, believing that she's begun falling to darkness. I think she'd lean even further into that whole repression thing, and I think an interesting like conversation could stem from that? Y'know is Dark Cacao being more resolute in her determination to be something she's not or is she being more apathetic in her complete disregard of her true feelings?

sorry if that's incomprehensible I just love thinking abt my fave <3

caseys time with nell is interesting bcuz shes kind of at her absolute worst like its hard to gauge things about her pre and post meeting nell because for one, shes not happy at all about not having a job and if she lived with anyone else that wasnt nell who probably wouldnt enable her so much she'd be back to seriously job hunting asap but because nell pays for her lifestyle and shes also bummed out abt the whole failed murder attempt thing shes really listless and lazy which is something she usually isnt. nell bringing out the worst in her, is their love cooked?FOREVER?

daily whistlepaw until ah becomes PoV day 1167

I think I finally understand how people feel when around a crush, can't say I enjoy it

Look, I'm not saying anyone has to write it, I'm just saying I feel like it would be a missed opportunity if no one wrote a story where Rooster is a massive dog dad.

And let's say that the squad, after frequently commenting on him not being on any socials, discover he's actually running an Instagram account for his dog. A doggo which has more followers than all of them combined.

is it bad that i find it a lot harder to empathize with my cishet friends then my queer ones? because i feel kinda bad about it :(