I'm very intrigued by the bonus round, it's so funny to see the ratios! After it, how are you showing the results? Like listing out the the sweeps from greatest to least?? Just saying the top 3?? I'm curiouss

i'll list them from greatest to least with vote percentages :) but for more detailed info you can check the spreadsheet! here are the current standings. i'll update these either every day OR whenever i feel like it lol

very interested in their actual moving process considering this is just dan selling everything and phil yelling “keep!!!” over him

2024 reads / storygraph

The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

set in a cyberpunk Calcutta-inspired city, loosely inspired by Aladdin

chaotic monkey bot who wants to fight in underground mecha/bot tournaments and leave to become a space hero

his human sister, the daughter of failed revolutionaries who has been working her whole life to free their city from oppression and inequality, especially with the recent rumors that their planet is scheduled for destruction

and an old unearthed bot whose function is to observe & record the story of a client who meets the siblings and quickly becomes involved in their lives

and a treasure hunt to find an old and powerful piece of alien tech that has the power to radically change their city

i've been doing weight pull with the dogs multiple times per week followed by an obedience session in the yard and i've noticed, interestingly, that they are more engaged with me all the time now? now i do use treats while training for weight pull because i only use it as a conditioning tool, but i think the combined reward of treat + getting to pull has been really beneficial in building this super high engagement (especially from sigurd, who is notoriously my worst recaller, but has been turning on a dime and checking in without blowing me off once ever...).

training for dryland and sled work i know my dogs find pulling really rewarding, if not more rewarding than treats, but i don't think i was really combining that high reward into obedience work until now. like no treat means more than getting to pull, but the combination of pulling + treat, even when pulling is not 100% involved = highly increased reward.

i remember right after the first ep came out, a lot of people in my non-tumblr circles saying of aemma’s death “why did they do that that wasn’t in the books how dare they ugh ugh ugh gross”

and yes

but also that why did they do that is something that’s sitting with me because i think we were all so used to the bar on got being so low that things like that were done to shock the viewer and nothing else.  and that’s not hotd’s play.

aemma’s death was setting the stage for eighteen different things—the explicit horror of it was intentional.  it echoes through the following episodes, the seed for what we’re seeing with alicent’s marital rape, with viserys never being able to understand that his “love” for the women in his life (aemma, rhaenyra, alicent) and his “i’m just trying to be a good guy” attitude is nothing more than a velvet glove over a punch that still hits just very hard: he treats the women in his life as pawns.  not just because king, but because that is who he is even in his most private and “human” moments with them.  he waffles and prevaricates and tells different truths to different people he cares about because he himself can’t face his own truths.

and all that is before we get to what’s yet to come, with rhaenyra’s own marriages and childbirths which will absolutely have important echoes of aemma’s death.

this show is highlighting in the most brutal possible way the misogyny of martin’s world. aemma’s death was more than just a plot point, more than just something to make us hide our faces and go “here’s this world again, back at it to horrify us and make us hurt”—it is echoing and reverberating.  it is the thesis statement of the whole show.  it wasn’t meaningless.  it was the point.

you just KNOW hei xiazi has the biggest grudge against the simplified chinese writing system. man writes/texts in traditional on principle, and if you can't read it then that's on you. also if he can't use voice dictation then he solely texts with the handwriting keyboard (i don't believe heihua movie showing him using pinyin) because how many ways of romanization has this man witnessed throughout his lifetime. does he have time to keep up with however sounds are being translated this decade? no. fuck you. he's an old man when it comes to this and proud of it

thinking about them again ❤️

Nico was really planning to head to Tartarus with nothing but his jacket and sword meanwhile Will packed multiple sweaters, healing supplies, food, a night light, multiple pairs of clothing and whatever the fuck else is in that backpack plus extra storage in his cargo shorts but said eh who needs a weapon?

on a wonka note: willy wonka is autistic. literally no arguments to be made. i don't need to prove it. he is the proof.

INSANE for stores to have condoms in a locked case. i will simply have a baby then

People on social media will get mad as hell and call you problematic if you enjoy a villain for being, well, a villain.

dubious frog +1

The New Republic would have survived if their uniforms were appealing on any level at all.