#Collision between

[anghraine]

So, in the post about Elizabeth accepting Wickham's tale, I mentioned Elizabeth's remarkable degree of confidence in her judgment of others.

Elizabeth will listen to Charlotte outline her entire unsentimental philosophy of marriage and say, "You know it is not sound, and that you would never act in this way yourself."

Or she'll listen to Bingley talking about how he's not planning on leaving Netherfield, but if he did, it would be very sudden because he makes all his decisions suddenly. They haven't known each other long at that point, but she responds, "That is exactly what I should have supposed of you" and adds, "I understand you perfectly."

Several weeks later, Charlotte has carried out her philosophy in her engagement to Mr Collins, and Bingley has abruptly left Netherfield.

Elizabeth:

But! Elizabeth and Darcy both say and think these kinds of overconfident things with zero self-consciousness.

Like, here's Darcy:

"But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule." "Such as vanity and pride." "Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride—where there is a real superiority of mind—pride will be always under good regulation."

Uh huh.

That I was desirous of believing her [Jane] indifferent is certain; but I will venture to say that my investigations and decisions are not usually influenced by my hopes or fears. I did not believe her to be indifferent because I wished it; I believed it on impartial conviction

Sure, Jan.

There are plenty more examples on both sides, but honestly, I find it deeply endearing as well as funny. There are ways in which they're right to be sure of themselves, and I respect them for those and for being rooted in their convictions there, but sometimes it's just ... aww, you're so very wrong and so sure you are right. <3

#anghraine babbles #deep blogging #austen blogging #pride and prejudice #jane austen #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #i thought about putting this under the critical tags bc i guess it is #but i think it's genuinely very cute #and i love that there's an inevitable collision between the oblivious overconfidence on each side #that doesn't result in a total humbling but just in pulling back a bit #like you still get elizabeth's total confidence that she's reading darcy correctly at the inn while being completely wrong #or darcy's perfect assurance that his judgment of jane is still totally impartial independent judgment #i love them! #otp of otps #long post

[wolfgirlfloof]

Something I appreciate about Hortus de Escapismo is how it portrays the Laterans and non-Laterans, especially in contrast to each other. Guide Ahead already gave us the angel ethnostate vs multi-racial heretics, which made for a pretty effective if blatant commentary on Laterano. And while it might seem Hortus is kind of repeating the same formula, I think it's got something subtler going on with interesting implications.

On one side we have the abbey's inhabitants: sankta, sarkaz and all other races--hell, even a seaborn for a moment. Are there cracks here and there? Of course, that's a whole plot point. But it can't be denied there is genuine camaraderie and self-sacrifice going on between these people who are simply trying to survive together (which is what makes those cracks all the more volatile).

Contrast this with the Laterans, who are dysfunctional as hell. Lemuen, Oren, Richele, and Spuria; I can't say I fully parsed everything happening between them on a moment-to-moment basis, but it was overall apparent that none of these people trust each other. Even though they're friends and classmates and colleagues, even though they're working for the good of the same state, even though they're sankta who can literally read each other's minds. There's just this constant mess of cahoots and conspiracy and treachery and bitter friction, and it takes the threat of an Innsmouth-Jonestown crossover event to get them to finally work together.

I thought it was a nice way to show more of Laterano's flaws. It's one of their core themes that they aren't as great as they say they are, but you'd think they would, at the least, have blessed harmony thanks to their literal hivemind. But evidently that isn't true either. And again, these are agents at the highest levels of the government. If they're this dysfunctional, what does that say for Laterano as a whole?

Which leads me into thinking about what the future of Laterano might have in store. I've seen some folks point out how these events have these greatly compelling premises that don't actually resolve any of the issues they bring up. Laterano only remains Laterano. And this is true! But I think it's intentional, setting up a slow burn of a regional conflict. The Lateran state is holding together, the status quo remains unchanged, the Law is content. But for how much longer? Guiding Ahead introduced us to the divide in Laterano on a broad level, the state vs heretics. Hortus de Escapismo shows the cracks within the state, narrowing in on individuals who nominally should be on the same side but aren't. The next logical narrative step would be seeing the state finally cracking apart from whatever looming danger the Law sainted Federico to deal with.

Some sort of schism, perhaps; that seems like the sort of existential threat that would directly threaten the Law's directive of preserving the Sankta. Law's awareness of it would also imply it's an internal threat, something festering in the hearts and minds of Sankta and thus one It's able to sense (at least that's what makes sense to me. We don't actually know how the Law works, so it could very well just have random magic prophetic abilities). And especially with the constant background pressure of trying to legitimize their Summit of Nations, what better way to drive that issue to the forefront by throwing Laterano into utter political chaos?

#arknights #a genuine schism would probably result in. so many fallen huh. would be interesting seeing laterano's community struggle with that #maybe the threat has something to do with the iberian church and seaborn? considering those were elements that appeared in hortus #and they were discussing a potential reconciliation between laterano and iberia too. reads like setup to me. #reaching out to iberia would be ripe for a widescale collision of ideologies that could lead to another schism #and for iberia it'd also be thematically relevant given their other estranged relationship w another glorious near mythical country #also i want to see the sankta face the seaborn. they're not so different if you think about it. #precursor tech hiveminds dedicated to the group's survival. one is hyperadaptive and ever spreading the other is conservative and insular. #so the ideological threat of a schism and the physical threat of the seaborn #...or maybe also the ideological threat of seaborn? they have their own church too after all #PAPAL SCHISM ARKNIGHTS EDITION. 3 POPES 3 POPES. LATERANO IBERIA WE MANY #oh uh and again a schism would result in so many fallen which could tie in the whole. yknow. thousand year race war w the sarkaz. #that's kinda super duper really important for laterano's themes #sorry i'm just writing a whole other post in these tags :P

[fallout-lou-begas]

every week i cry and scream and complain about the disrespect and bad booking the AEW women's division gets but it's BECAUSE the talent in the division is genuinely so palpable and diverse and capable and willing to have incredible matches and do insane crazy shit and cut great promos and work together (can we PLEASE get women's tag belts) that there's so much to love, and this crying and screaming and complaining comes from a place of that love, even if it is very frustrating and infuriating to have that love returned with maybe 6 minutes a night (with half of it in picture-in-picture or even a hard commercial cut) and almost exclusively involving only the same small fraction of the locker room every week. this post is brought to you by the glimpse into a better world that was kris/willow vs mercedes/diamante.

#all this being said the difference in women's booking between dynamite and collision feels like night and day #anyway please end the outcasts storyline immediately. and i don't want to see britt baker for 3 years #liveblog #wrstlng

[theminecraftbee]

obsessed with the pirate au. grians old crew is angsting over having to mutiny and being like actual serious pirates and grian is actually out here getting pulled into the most wacky adventures they’ve ever seen

pearl or mumbo, very seriously: i hope wherever he is, he’s okay

*cut to grian running with the crew from some horrifying monster brought on by a combination of jimmy’s curse and some wacky scam scar thought up* (they are all fine but he gets a cartoon bump with little birds flying around his head)

YEAH EXACTLY. that’s exactly this au. we have the confluence of some actual serious drama and tragedy with the fact that it is basically impossible for jimmy’s crew to do anything that isn’t complete nonsense. it’s great

#answered #unlucky seas au #i like to think that sometimes the collisions between these two worlds are the most ridiculous of all

[whysamwhy123]

Re-watching the one time Ricky and Christian teamed and lamenting about What Could Have Been.

#*wails* WE COULD HAVE HAD IT ALLLLLLLLLL #And remember like a month ago now when it seemed like they were gonna team up again? #Because Ricky came out during the opening promo to side with Christian (the time where Edge was an asshole to him) #And then later in the night he helped Christian retain #Which made it seem like there was gonna be a more longer term alliance there #Between one half of tag champs/one of the biggest stars on Collision and essentially the top heel champ in the company #Which would have made for a potential interesting storyline #But then nothing happened? They never followed up on it and the two of them haven't interacted at all since then? #So Christian got sectioned off in his own storyline with Edge #While Ricky (and Bill) are relegated to being background players in the tag division despite being the champs #Because they have fuck all to do with the faction warfare story going on between FTR/BCC/HoB/LFI #And are probably going to lose their belts at Full Gear making their whole title reign a huge waste of time #Ricky (and Bill) REALLY could have benefitted from a team-up/storyline with Christian #But nope! TK stopped giving a shit about that potentially interesting story the second Bryan Danielson got injured #Because Tony is apparently incapable of caring about a storyline that doesn't revolve around Bryan Danielson or Adam Cole #But hey at least we've got Ric Flair now! 😀 #Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh #I know I'm being a huge bitch here like WAAAAH why didn't the person I like get a fun storyline?? #But...I'm just struggling to find much to like in AEW right now and it's such a drag #I was hyped for Ricky/Christian but I guess I was one of the only ones in that regard #Just my luck LOL The life of a rarepair shipper is pain and suffering

[keeps-ache]

it's actually very mean that i can't have emojis of my ocs just on my computer. i just think it would be much more convenient for when i have to say the Guys are in my brain but i also have no words..

#just me hi #i'm thinkin #and i mean like standard emoji. mostly bc artstreet dms don't let you put up actual images so i have to resort to detailing actual thoughts #Hfbshfv #//anywho so whenever i'm outside by myself i always get the Strongest urge to just start walking and not stop forever hfvhs #i will just Go #no objective no location. but i will be Moving #i Would do that but in order to get a satisfying amount of distance between me and People i have to walk down the road and mm i am nervous #abt doin that fvhsbh #like country roads... i may not come home.... south virginiaaaa hfbvsfhbsv #plus everyone drives crazy out here. when we moved out here we almost got sideswiped by a funkin fedex truck over a little hill #and of Course it was a fedex truck man. we've Never had a near-accident with Any usps trucks hfbvshvs #oh and also the local mailman drives like a maniac too <3 almost had a head-on collision once which was. neat lmao #like maybe 20 feet from slamming into each other which Is Not Much when you're in a car bfh #/Also people just let their dogs run out wild n crazy and :( i don't think they're properly trained to be letting them do that Aha #rode my bike out once with my brother + two of the neighbor's dogs tried ta jump us it sucked #now we don't go past their driveway so we don't ride out very far #//also hey our driveway is Ridiculous ??? ik we've been living here for like 2 years i'm still not over it lmaoohvf #it's like a 40-45 degree angle this is just silly #and listen i'm barely figuring out how my legs even work again. do you think i'm having a good time up that hill because i'm nOT #though you know what it's fine ! not many people come up our drive bc geez why Would you lmao #except for that one lady that asked for directions and then miiight have gotten lost again immediately after leaving HH #//okay. yea anyway the p1nk space is really in my brain rn hbfhvs #really i don't think i've ever been so interested in a project before this is so cool lol :D #marveling at the fact that anything was able to keep my interest for longer than 5 months Hbsh #//anywhoodle do i'm gonna skedaddle #prolly gonna rerun a couple things in a seccy but ye :33

[thisautistic]

My man Pete is a good fighter, a great bodyguard,

a pretty decent actor,

but has the subtlety and immediate observational skills of a baby elephant.

#like kinn just ask someone else please #mans is on a collision course with destiny #pete kinnporsche #vegaspete #kinnporsche series #everyone shut the fuck up it's pete! #im totally normal about how much i love relationships between scene partners

[girlmythlegend]

Also what is happening on this lovely Saturday 🤨

#it feels so random #like really random that it happened like an hour between each other #cody rhodes #jey uso #ricky starks #aew collision #wwe fastlane

[emeritusterzo]

cannot believe zack sabre jr and daniel garcia are about to have gay sex with shibata and orange cassidy on my screen

#this is what wrestling is all about #who’s doing it for me like them #joe should get his bf zack on collision btw I’m just saying #sorry to whatever match is going on rn between punk and max vs tanahashi and the bottom union I’m not. well . #only didn’t turn it off cuz what if we get punk news

[jackforshort]

the spots in this match are fucking insane

#quell time in between but max and dax parts have been crazy good #aew collision #jack is talking

[potatoesandsunshine]

thinking about them again (the interchangeable discworld emmas)

#those women. ALL had adolescent crushes on lady sybil and you CANNOT tell me differently. #they're literally like 'these characters exist peripherally as a joke' but not to me. #i like the idea of some kind of deeply involved interpersonal drama happening down at the dragon sanctuary that vimes is just blissfully #unaware of. i just think it would be funny honestly. #the blend of 'everyone here must be aristocracy' AND 'they all work together to shovel dragon shit' just is so good to me #if i could manifest any story into existence it would be the collision of the emmas and the stamp counter girls from going postal #the diagram of exes and crushes between those two is INSANE just TRUST ME

[enjoymorestuff]

According to reddit, Four-Sided Dive is bad because it's corporate and also because it's too loose and random. So...business as usual, I guess.

#critical role #four-sided dive #I enjoy the collision between over-scheduled segments and under-informed participants

[wizardlyghost]

the reverend parents specifically did calculations to make sure they nutted at the same moment two hundred kids were being murdered :|

#the emotion i am feeling upon pondering this implication is indescribable :| #implication what am i saying it's outright stated #catastrophic collision between hilarity and concern. two trains. one track. no survivors. #locked tomb

[doedipus]

I think I was massively underestimating how strong manual transmission is in 5za because without being especially good at it I took a car I usually have issues using in multiplayer into this week's The Trial and got first place twice. this never happens.

#it's a mustang I left in RWD #RWD usually eats shit at the starting line because of a lack of grip #and then handles collisions poorly because of the lack of stability #you can sneak in some extra engine power because RWD transmission saves on PI points #but because of the lack of grip/stability it becomes much more execution heavy #and all of that together makes it harder to do well with RWD cars online #but when you run manual transmission you can jump to 2nd gear at the starting line quicker and waste less time trying to get a grip in 1st #and I guess there's also incidental time saves in awkward spots between corners where auto transmission might shift up and down quickly

[phantomrose96]

Extremely generic, typical isekai anime where the main character is a high school boy who's so good at video games in his day-to-day life, but people don't respect gamers :( so he's a loser :( ...until he ends up isekai'd into a fantasy world that RUNS on video game logic.

Except this main character is a speed runner.

World record holding speed runner.

Elf-woman in the introductory episode shares the long, sad history of her realm at odds with the Demon Lord and his reign. She looks up just as she's about to describe the moment the Demon Lord killed her husband, and main character is... gone.

Several many fields away.

Naked as the day god made him because equipping the intro clothes takes 3 seconds between menu opening and character re-rendering.

The Wall of the Unfathomable, which has sealed these villagers within their own walls for generations unknown, sees its first breach in a millennium as Main Character scales it ass-backwards clipping and ragdolling up its scaffolding by abusing the collision detection logic and its impact on speed reversal.

NPCs launch into speeches which bewilder and confuse even them because they should NOT be saying anything about the deep sacred mana that can defeat the Dark Demon Lord but the fucker standing in front of him in tighty-whiteys with a level 99 helmet and the Hero Sceptor (which he should NOT have yet but) is compelling the NPC for reasons they cannot begin to comprehend.

The Demon Lord is alerted by holographic message from his most trusted underling that some disturbance has just rippled through from Elf Realm and that some portal may have just opened from the human world, which warrants some caution as the prophesied hero is said to--cut off by the MC catapulting past all 18 floors of Demon Tower security using the infinite speed jump glitch and one-shotting the Demon Lord with a single rag-doll spastic thrust through his heart which launches the Demon Lord along with MC into a 500mph spiral into the stratosphere... And somewhere, the end credits play.

#chrissy speaks

[no-passaran]

Genocide experts warn that India is about to genocide the Shompen people

Who are the Shompen?

The Shompen are an indigenous culture that lives in the Great Nicobar Island, which is nowadays owned by India. The Shompen and their ancestors are believed to have been living in this island for around 10,000 years. Like other tribes in the nearby islands, the Shompen are isolated from the rest of the world, as they chose to be left alone, with the exception of a few members who occasionally take part in exchanges with foreigners and go on quarantine before returning to their tribe. There are between 100 and 400 Shompen people, who are hunter-gatherers and nomadic agricultors and rely on their island's rainforest for survival.

Why is there risk of genocide?

India has announced a huge construction mega-project that will completely change the Great Nicobar Island to turn it into "the Hong Kong of India".

Nowadays, the island has 8,500 inhabitants, and over 95% of its surface is made up of national parks, protected forests and tribal reserve areas. Much of the island is covered by the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve, described by UNESCO as covering “unique and threatened tropical evergreen forest ecosystems. It is home to very rich ecosystems, including 650 species of angiosperms, ferns, gymnosperms, and bryophytes, among others. In terms of fauna, there are over 1800 species, some of which are endemic to this area. It has one of the best-preserved tropical rain forests in the world.”

The Indian project aims to destroy this natural environment to create an international shipping terminal with the capacity to handle 14.2 million TEUs (unit of cargo capacity), an international airport that will handle a peak hour traffic of 4,000 passengers and that will be used as a joint civilian-military airport under the control of the Indian Navy, a gas and solar power plant, a military base, an industrial park, and townships aimed at bringing in tourism, including commercial, industrial and residential zones as well as other tourism-related activities.

This project means the destruction of the island's pristine rainforests, as it involves cutting down over 852,000 trees and endangers the local fauna such as leatherback turtles, saltwater crocodiles, Nicobar crab-eating macaque and migratory birds. The erosion resulting from deforestation will be huge in this highly-seismic area. Experts also warn about the effects that this project will have on local flora and fauna as a result of pollution from the terminal project, coastal surface runoff, ballasts from ships, physical collisions with ships, coastal construction, oil spills, etc.

The indigenous people are not only affected because their environment and food source will be destroyed. On top of this, the demographic change will be a catastrophe for them. After the creation of this project, the Great Nicobar Island -which now has 8,500 inhabitants- will receive a population of 650,000 settlers. Remember that the Shompen and Nicobarese people who live on this island are isolated, which means they do not have an immune system that can resist outsider illnesses. Academics believe they could die of disease if they come in contact with outsiders (think of the arrival of Europeans to the Americas after Christopher Columbus and the way that common European illnesses were lethal for indigenous Americans with no immunization against them).

And on top of all of this, the project might destroy the environment and the indigenous people just to turn out to be useless and sooner or later be abandoned. The naturalist Uday Mondal explains that “after all the destruction, the financial viability of the project remains questionable as all the construction material will have to be shipped to this remote island and it will have to compete with already well-established ports.” However, this project is important to India because they want to use the island as a military and commercial post to stop China's expansion in the region, since the Nicobar islands are located on one of the world's busiest sea routes.

Last year, 70 former government officials and ambassadors wrote to the Indian president saying the project would “virtually destroy the unique ecology of this island and the habitat of vulnerable tribal groups”. India's response has been to say that the indigenous tribes will be relocated "if needed", but that doesn't solve the problem. As a spokesperson for human rights group Survival International said: “The Shompen are nomadic and have clearly defined territories. Four of their semi-permanent settlements are set to be directly devastated by the project, along with their southern hunting and foraging territories. The Shompen will undoubtedly try to move away from the area destroyed, but there will be little space for them to go. To avoid a genocide, this deadly mega-project must be scrapped.”

On 7 February 2024, 39 scholars from 13 countries published an open letter to the Indian president warning that “If the project goes ahead, even in a limited form, we believe it will be a death sentence for the Shompen, tantamount to the international crime of genocide.”

How to help

The NGO Survival International has launched this campaign:

From this site, you just need to add your name and email and you will send an email to India's Tribal Affairs Minister and to the companies currently vying to build the first stage of the project.

Share it with your friends and acquittances and on social media.

Sources:

India’s plan for untouched Nicobar isles will be ‘death sentence’ for isolated tribe, 7 Feb 2024. The Guardian.

‘It will destroy them’: Indian mega-development could cause ‘genocide’ and ‘ecocide’, says charity, 8 Feb 2024. Geographical.

Genocide experts call on India's government to scrap the Great Nicobar mega-project, Feb 2024. Survival International.

The container terminal that could sink the Great Nicobar Island, 20 July 2022. Mongabay.

[Maps] Environmental path cleared for Great Nicobar mega project, 10 Oct 2022. Mongabay.

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