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journey-to-the-attic · 6 months

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YK ITS NO LONGER HALLOWEEN BUT!! ddvd luci, zhao, ik doing matching costumes like…think abt it. zhao and ik together can convince lucifer 100%. vampire family?! it works out until ik keeps gnawing on lucifer’s hand,, but yk i think ddvd luci would be very sad and sulky at ik growing up…js a bit when ik dosent need him as much anymore

“do you want to go get icecream? with the three flavors?”

“oh maybe later”

“o h okay”

5 minutes later

“luci it’s fine, she’s just a bit older now”

“IS IT??” as he looks like a sad old peacock man

it doesn't have to be halloween to think about matching costumes!!! love them being a vampire family... ik would be a little baby bat and zhao would hold her high up in the air so she can pretend she's flying and then lucifer would take them all for an ACTUAL flight (alternatively: they all go as dragons and lucifer almost burns down the hol because ik was so excited about him pretending to breathe fire with a spell)

i feel like they'd have a night-time routine that always involves little ik getting a story read to her, and the first night she says she doesn't want it lucifer stays awake for like four hours, staring at the ceiling silently until zhao distracts him with some of mammon's shenanigans

he is so so sad when ik first decides she doesn't want to get carried around anymore... he'll very subtly follow her as she goes about her Very Serious Kid Business, hoping she'll change her mind again - whenever she tires herself out enough to reach for him again, he's absolutely over the MOON and will be in a good mood for the rest of the week

(if anyone other than zhao points out that he's definitely sulking he'll glare at them and/or threaten to ground them. when zhao asks about it lucifer just looks at him with his equivalent of 🥺, which is basically just a frown, but different in a very subtle way that only zhao knows how to decipher)

#answering asks #anon asks #barbatos would make ik her little bat costume and he would nearly cry when ik goes 'thank you uncle!!'#dad in the devildom #zhaolu #first lucifer learns the joys of fatherhood and then he gets hit with the Melancholy #past a certain point he'd stop even pretending otherwise #everyone in the house is equally devastated that humans grow up so fast #it's not FAIR they're supposed to stay LITTLE and easy to rock to sleep #zhao has to be the one to keep everyone afloat #he too feels the Melancholy but he's also juggling stepdad duties so he has less time to brood about it #also of everyone ik's least likely to reject him even once she hits her precocious years #when she's still very little she has a habit of just clambering up into satan's lap while he's reading and taking a nap with him #one day satan realises she hasn't done it in several weeks and he's like 'oh. :('

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sokkagatekeeper · 3 years

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do you have an analysis on sokka's repression?

basically my entire blog. akkakasja i have rbed this post and made these two however the ones that are mine are way too short for my taste so! here’s a bunch of mainly subtextual proof that sokka self-represses like a fun little kendoll in a box made of masculinity and eldest sibling disease:

sokka won’t talk about his emotional distress whether it’s anger, sadness, grief, anything willingly, (except when it comes to identity issues and self-worth) and if someone explicitly asks he will give a vague answer and talk around the actual issue. mostly when talking about grief and claiming sokka actively supressed his grief over his mother’s death, we must take yue’s death as a reference.

sokka’s reaction to yue’s passing is the direct textual representation of the manner in which sokka grieves. it is shown this way for a reason; this is how he grieved kya. it’s merely making a reading the subtext when realizing sokka doesn’t talk about yue’s death even when he “think(s) about her all the time” as he expresses so during the swamp, for example. it’s safe to assume this is a practiced copying mechanism. he does not talk about yue directly to anyone unless he’s under pressure (as seen thru suki during the journey to ba sing se) and even then the information he gives is incredibly vague. he wouldn’t talk about her mother at all if it wasn’t in order to help katara. (and claiming katara’s grief towards kya was bigger or more real than sokka is incredibly disingenuous and kinda dehumanizing to both of their characters By The Way). sokka feels incredibly guilty as the vision of yue in the swamp calls him out on it, particularly using the term “protect” (coming back to this fun little word later). sokka could not protect yue, so yue had to die. he sees this tragedy as his absolute and entire fault — once again comparing it to katara, who not once blames herself for the murder of her mother, the same way sokka never blames anyone, not zhao, not zuko, no one but himself for yue’s passing.

sokka doesn’t believe it’s his place to rely on other people. rather he must be the one everyone can rely on. sokka was raised as a protector of his sister as the last living bastion of their culture, he was left as the only warrior (man) in his village at thirteen, who was apparently expected to hunt and fight the fire nation soldiers and protect the rest of the village. he internalized this role of the protector and provider and the so-called “man” and while incredibly sexist, it did put a certain pressure on his shoulders that doesn’t allow him to express his emotions because he internalized he needed to be strong, and even though he gets over his fundamental sexism by the fourth episode there’s this unconsious belief in him that emotions (girls womanhood etc etc) are weak, and sokka cannot afford to be weak.

this is visible as through the many many times “protect” is a key word in certified sokka character & arc defining moments. sokka’s idea of masculinity is the idea of the warrior and the protector and part of the source of his insecurities that manifest more clearly during “sokka’s master” is (apart from feeling unspecial) that he feels unworthy because of his supposed lack of utility in certain specific matters that only benders like the three radioactive preteens he’s trying to keep alive can handle. in his head the way he can protect equals his utility in the group and therefore his duty being fulfilled.

for this, sokka has things to do, people to keep safe and focused, a man to become, and he cannot afford an emotional crisis like katara or zuko can go on a revenge murder mission or curse the universe at the top of a mountain weekly. he only stops and actually thinks about how miserable he is when he feels he’s slowing the group down at times when he’s in the middle of an identity crisis (which is also caused by his wretched self-image of the man protector etc etc it's an old story). when it comes to grief and loss he never demands justice, he never asserts his grief even though he does suffer for it, even though he is absolutely not indifferent.

now, sokka being miserable as he is can easily be seen whenever he’s alone, or without aang or katara or toph to keep a light atmosphere even though they are constantly on the verge of dying, by yelling at incompetent adults or making conversation with the universe, or simply making self-depreciating comments. most of his jokes are merely a copying mechanism for when he feels emotionally distressed and a method of distraction and therefore protection towards aang, toph, and katara, or a self-aware joke at his own expanse for his own personal amusement. his jokes ground the situation, acknowledge the ridiculousness of it and make it more manageable and palatable for everyone involved. instead of panicking or losing his mind, he makes plans, he makes jokes. he tries his absolute best to keep the situation afloat, like a good leader should.

sokka complains about trivial, petty shit more than any other character in the show, but when it comes down to it, sokka never actually copes with stuff. when he is genuinely torn up about a situation, when something truly moves something in him, it doesn’t get much verbal acknowledgement from anyone. let's make a list: when yue dies, sokka never truly opens up about it until suki zuko comes around and even then it’s kinda vague. sokka forgets how his mother looked like but paranoically remembers the details of the flag that invaded his home the day she died. when sokka remembers the day his father left, he doesn’t bring it up at all, and he quietly reflects on it by the campfire instead. there’s plenty of signs that his nonbender status is something that makes him insecure long before he ever actually comes out and says it in sokka’s master. showing this in visual media can be a complicated thing, but honestly to god believing sokka plain doesn’t have much emotional depth or worse, thinking he “doesn’t care” is such a shallow and lazy analysis to make. so in conclusion # sokka antis dni

#sokka #analysis #asks #anon #3h #n #this is kinda all over the place lol but. i think it makes sense #the protector complex #sokka apologism #< sort of #there's also the entire ordeal of katara being a lil bit coddled & how sokka thinks of himself as unimportant by comparison #but i didn't find a place to put that part of the argument in this post 😣 sorry #grief like the fog

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trulyinspiringmovies · 2 years

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Nomadland

“Nomadland” is a bittersweet journey about a widow who leaves behind everything except the one thing she has to let go of.

Fern lives in her RV as a nomad. She travels all around the southwest in search of jobs to keep her afloat. She rejects any helping hand that tries to ‘save’ her from her lifestyle. Through her lifestyle, she meets people from all different walks of life. Fern might meet wildly different people in her life, but the one constant is that they don’t stay for long. Their paths cross briefly so that they may see each other again down the road.

There are a lot of criticisms about how this movie is slow and uneventful. I can agree with that, but this movie never lost my attention. A combination of this movie’s cinematography and Frances McDormand’s somber, yet powerful performance kept me interested, engaged, and emotionally invested. To me, this movie is brilliant for several reasons. The first is how it was shot. Zhao’s approach to this film was to have herself and her crewmates live out of vans over the course of production. This film also used real nomads who play themselves as characters in this film. All these efforts helped build the raw authenticity that was required for this movie’s powerful message. The second reason why I thought this movie was brilliant was because of its sound design and score. This movie isn’t afraid of being quiet throughout most of its runtime. It’s introspective, just like how a person who lives alone with their own thoughts would be. It’s never pressured into filling the silence with unnecessary noise. I feel like this is something Fern would feel the same way about due to her own thoughts of society. Finally, this movie is brilliant because of how it chooses to explore the themes of isolation, solitude, and grief. The movie lets its themes simmer in the thoughts of the audience just as they simmer in Fern’s head. She leads this nomadic lifestyle because she didn’t need anything but her husband to be happy. This film asks the question “What happens after even your husband dies? What do you have left? What do you live for?”. The answers it provides are complex and emotional. It’s the type of answer that can only be answered when all the excess of life is stripped away and you’re left with nothing but the tragic truth. I understand that this movie isn’t for everyone and that’s okay. I just wanted to watch it because Chloé Zhao is directing the new “Eternals” movie that I’m watching tomorrow. I wanted to get a sense of her voice as a director. I can see now what she’s capable of, but I don’t know if it’ll be the best match for a mainstream Marvel movie.

★★★★★

Watched on November 11th, 2021

#Nomadland #February #2021 #Drama #Western #Indie #R #Chloé Zhao #November 2021 #5 stars

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cryptowavesxyz · 4 years

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Coronavirus ‘Didn’t Cause’ Crash, BTC Recovery ‘Will Take Months’: Hodler’s Digest, Mar. 16–22

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.

Top Stories This Week

Bitcoin price did not crash 60% due to coronavirus, Binance CEO says

It’s fashionable to think that Black Thursday’s bloodbath on the crypto markets was caused by the coronavirus. But Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of Binance, disagrees. He believes the pandemic certainly triggered the current global meltdown — but added the mass sell-offs over recent weeks have proved that the world’s economy is far too weak. Many investors are hoarding cash as the uncertainty continues, but Zhao believes they will begin to broaden their portfolios in time. “Have people bought more Bitcoin yet? No, in most cases. Many of them are still panicking over toilet paper,” he said. BTC has come a long way over the past seven days — and, at the time of writing, it’s up by 12%, sitting pretty at about $6,000. This is some way off the highs of $6,900 that were achieved earlier in the week.

Is Bitcoin correlated with the U.S. stock market?

The debate now is about how closely Bitcoin’s performance is tied to the U.S. stock market. According to research by Santiment, the correlation between BTC and the S&P 500 has now reached a two-year high — a bearish sign for the crypto markets. Historical data shows that such a high correlation is often accompanied by major downturns in BTC’s value. Santiment said: “With this pandemic, we are obviously seeing very similar movements in tandem as the coronavirus justifiably has investors in virtually every sector in a similar state of cautiousness.” Not everyone agrees with this analysis, though. Since the March 13 lows of $3,775, BTC has rallied by about 77%. Compare that with the S&P 500, which has fallen by 7.4%, and the Dow Jones, which is off by about 10% over the same period.

Congress proposal to give everyone $2,000/month “strengthens case for Bitcoin”

Countries around the world are now trying to figure out how to support those who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus — and how to keep their economies afloat. In the U.S., one Democratic representative in Congress has proposed giving $2,000 a month to every adult — and $1,000 to every child. Other nations are similarly exploring radical measures, with the U.K. recently announcing plans to pay 80% of the wages of workers on furlough. Some in the crypto community have been taken aback by these ideas. Mati Greenspan, founder of Quantum Economics, told Cointelegraph that the American proposal would cause massive inflation — and would even benefit Bitcoin in the long run if the Democrats won the White House in November.

MakerDAO governance approves USDC stablecoin as collateral

We’ve got a little bit of time to switch gears and cover some different news in this week’s Hodler’s Digest. MakerDAO has added the USDC stablecoin as a third type of collateral, following an emergency vote this week. The move is designed to urgently increase Dai’s liquidity after how last week’s ETH flash crash created bad debt worth millions of dollars. A major downside with this decision is how it undercuts Dai’s selling point of exclusively being backed with decentralized assets. USDC is pegged to the U.S. dollar and was created by Coinbase and Circle.

Bakkt announces new direct payment integration with Starbucks

Bakkt — a platform best known for offering crypto derivatives — is diversifying into retail applications for digital assets. The company’s new app, Bakkt Cash, has now been added as a payment method to the Starbucks app on a trial basis. The ability to buy a caramel latte with an extra espresso shot using crypto is sure to cause plenty of excitement. Also this week, Bakkt managed to raise $300 million in a Series C funding round that was backed by Microsoft’s venture capital arm and the Intercontinental Exchange. The company is developing an app where cash, cryptocurrencies and loyalty points can be stored in one place and used to make purchases. Unfortunately, it’s unclear how much this new Bakkt feature will be used by Starbucks customers, with the coffee chain closing its locations to eat-in customers because of the coronavirus.

Winners and Losers

At the end of the week, Bitcoin is at $6,093.87, Ether at $128.94 and XRP at $0.15. The total market cap is at $170,237,547,952.

Among the biggest 100 cryptocurrencies, the top three altcoin gainers of the week are Swipe, Numeraire and MCO. The top three altcoin losers of the week are Hedera Hashgraph, Komodo and Terra.

For more info on crypto prices, make sure to read Cointelegraph’s market analysis.

Most Memorable Quotations

“In 2008, there wasn’t a pandemic pausing global economy. But I believe the coronavirus is just a trigger, not the root cause. Our economy should be stronger, at least strong enough to survive some shocks.”

Changpeng Zhao, Binance CEO

“We are stepping into the next generation. The next generation is happening right now with national bank-issued stablecoins, I believe. I would say it will grow the cryptocurrency user base like 10 times or more.”

Lennix Lai, director of financial markets, OKEx

“The technology makes sense. The reason why it hasn’t become widely accepted is that Corporate America has a ‘walled garden’ approach to data — they need to start sharing data, a huge paradigm shift.”

Lisa Butters, Honeywell International Inc.

Prediction of the Week

Bitcoin’s price recovery may take months, Fundstrat analyst warns

We’ve seen some green shoots in Bitcoin’s price this week, but one technical analyst at Fundstrat Global Advisors warns that it might be some time before it stages a full recovery. Rob Sluymer said that “lower highs and lower lows are in place for Bitcoin” after investors practically fled every asset class — and this leaves it in a “compromised, potentially vulnerable long-term profile.” Looking ahead, he added: “Bitcoin will likely need months of consolidation to repair the technical damage now in place.” Another prediction this week came from eToro analyst Simon Peters, who predicted that the coronavirus crisis could strengthen Bitcoin.

FUD of the Week

Woman arrested for stealing $480,000 from crypto exchange she co-founded

A woman has been arrested for stealing 63.5 BTC from the cryptocurrency exchange she had previously co-founded. Ayushi Jain used to work for Bitcipher Labs and was arrested in the Indian city of Bengaluru. The 26-year-old was accused of stealing the cryptocurrency — worth about $480,000 — in two unauthorized transactions on Jan. 11 and March 11. Ayushi has since confessed to the theft, and the stolen funds have been recovered by detectives. A senior police officer said: “We seized a laptop which contained the history, showing how Ayushi used the passphrase and stole money in installments between January and March.”

Less than 1% of Australians used crypto to pay for services in 2019

A study by the Reserve Bank of Australia suggests that cryptocurrencies aren’t as popular as previously thought. The survey revealed that less than 1% of Australians used digital assets like Bitcoin to make a consumer payment in 2019. This is despite the fact that electronic transactions are becoming increasingly popular, and over 80% of those polled had heard about cryptocurrencies. In terms of the most-used alternative payment methods, crypto was third behind “buy now, pay later” services and “tap and go” mobile payments.

Bitfinex to delist 87 crypto trading pairs aiming to improve liquidity

Bitfinex has announced that it is removing 87 crypto trading pairs due to low liquidity levels. The major cryptocurrency exchange hopes the measure will improve liquidity elsewhere and help it move toward a more streamlined and optimized trading experience. In a statement provided to Cointelegraph, Bitfinex said: “The decision was taken after monitoring [the pairs] for six weeks and finding a consistent low level of liquidity. We take this type of action to concentrate trading in fewer pairs.”

Best Cointelegraph Features

Does Bitcoin have intrinsic value or is it based on thin air?

Bitcoin was dealt a blow after the newly appointed Bank of England governor said that Bitcoin has no extrinsic value — echoing similar remarks by billionaires including Mark Cuban and Warren Buffett. Are they right? Joseph Young finds out.

Flying hot off the shelves — virtual land based on blockchain

Virtual land worth hundreds of thousands of dollars has been sold on platforms such as Decentraland — and one deal was worth a whopping $215,000. Elena Perez takes a look at what’s driving demand.

China’s digital yuan is an economic cyberweapon, and the U.S. is disarming

As Beijing races to develop its central bank digital currency, the U.S. Federal Reserve sees no need for a dollar parallel. Jonathan Rosenoer has written about the implications for Cointelegraph Magazine.

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