#One Stop Systems

[precariouswizardry]

#if i have a specific flask for ONE POTION and the apprentice ignores the system its on them #stop talking down to alchemists like we're dumb #go ahead and wave your sticks at each other while i bottle pure imagination and turn it into a bomb #shadow wizard money gang #wizard posting #wizardcore #pondering orb #potions #shadow wizard grindset #casting spells

[halorvic]

"Do not let anyone convince you that you need to get sick to be healthy."

#kristen panthagani #immunology #sars cov 2 #long post #i s2g if i see one more bullshit article/comment about IMmUNiTY deBT........................ #for the millionth billionth fucking time: IMMUNITY DEBT ISN'T REAL. there is NO SUCH THING as immunity debt caused by avoiding illness #and ANY dr/immunologist worth their salt in the year 2023 will tell you that #“but you have to train your immune system for it to get stronger!” nope doesn't work like that. the immune system is not a muscle #you might as well tell everyone that the reason they don't have skin like armoured steel is that they haven't been stabbed enough #tell all those drs treating tuberculosis patients that they're weakening their immunity by wearing respirators and NOT catching tb #let's all stop filtering the water while we're at it. have everyone get cholera - that'll fortify ppl's immune systems for sure #this world is a joke. #ppl buy into this shit and then wonder why the anti-vaxx/anti-science movement keeps growing

[tiredbitchposts]

I often feel like people forget that both Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu got fucked over in the transmitgation with Shen Yuan dying and being forced to live as someone to fix that person's mistakes and Shen Jiu being forced out of his body so someone could live his life better than he did. Both of them got the shit end of the deal, that's the whole point of it, Shen Yuan may have gotten his happy ending but he'll never be his own person and he's at the mercy of the system for the rest of his life and Shen Jiu never got a happy ending but now he'll never get tortured in the most cruel ways possible and live knowing he indirectly caused the death of the person he loved the most

#shen qingqiu #shen yuan #shen jiu #svsss #scum villain #scum villans self saving system #i've never seen a more useless discourse #Shen Yuan wanted to be Shen Qingqiu as much as Shen Jiu wanted to be forced out of his body #oh but he started using his name immediately #he's a nerd with little to no sense of self #he also wouldn't have many feelings abt Shen Qingqiu in the start when all he knew him as was a one-dimensional villain character #y'all are so addicted to making woobies out of character y'all don't stop to think #anyways #shen yuan and shen jiu shoudl fuck it wouldn't fix either of them but it'd be enrichment for the soul

[pippuns]

pre-transmigration cumplanes because they are the most divorced guys who never met

#svsss #scum villains self saving system #cumplane #cucumberplane #shen yuan #shang qinghua #shen qingqiu #pippart #these guys are so funny. i love sy's one sided parasocial hate relationship with sqh #i think sqh should start writing after transmigration again #and that sy should independently find his shitty writing and scathingly critique it anonymously #i need them to complain to each other about each other without realizing it's the other they're talking about #i think that's what sqq should be doing during the three years binghe got eebie deebied #when sqq dies and sqh stops getting correspondence from his new number 1 hater he's like #“oh boy im so happy i finally wrote something that guy likes. or maybe mbj killed him now that im complaining to him and not sqq about him” #and then sqq revives five years later and the second he has a chance he immediately starts catching up on five years of hate writing

[thatswhatsushesaid]

psa that the day there are no jgy stans left on tumblr dot com is the day i am dead

but rest assured i'll go to my grave exactly as i lived: obnoxiously proclaiming to everyone within earshot how great lianfang-zun is. narratively, metaphorically, spiritually. sexually, too, like why limit myself. i like to keep my options open

#the spirit of su minshan possessed me for a minute there but like. i'm fine with it #jin guangyao #he did crimes??? good for him 😌 #editing this post to add that while the tone here is clearly joking #i really am fundamentally still engaged with this fandom #and with this book #almost exlcusively because of my enjoyment of jgy #even xiyao is secondary for me like i love it and i'm ride or die for it obvs #but jgy as a character is the main draw for me. and he would have me by the throat even if there was no zewu-jun #(tho i think jgy's life would be more depressing for his absence obviously) #but he is just. /clenches my fists!!! #THE most compelling character in the story and i cannot stop thinking about him!! cannot will not!! #who else in this book has his range? who else can be the doe-eyed idealist AND the spy with blood on his hands who ends a war? #who else is two different greek tragedies and at least two separate shakespearean tragedies rolled into one antagonist #an antagonist who but for the POV of the novel could very easily have been the protagonist #whose moral event horizon is so deeply entwined with his own trauma and abuse that there is no way to meaningfully separate #the violence he does to others from the systemic violence that was done to him for his whole life? #who else in this book manages to get five separate sect leaders utterly obsessed with him no matter how you choose #to interpret that obsession? #no one!!! that's who!! #ain't no one else in the jianghu doing it like lianfang-zun and that's just a goddamn fact

[yrsonpurpose]

When you hold me, it holds me together.

#rwrb #rwrbedit #red white and royal blue #firstprince #alex x henry #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #userninz #userveronika #usersteen #usernuria #chrissiewatts #userclara #usermaloune #mine* #been thinking about this line for like a solid three days now #and i had to get it out my system #this kiss really changed the trajectory of alex's life #brings me back to that one line where its like 'he kisses him like he never has to stop / which he remembers / he doesn't' #bc yeah...............its forever

[regina-del-cielo]

Maybe it's a 'study finds water is wet' type of thought, but

considering it's an action movie whose overall plot is "immortal warriors Fuck Shit Up™️", I think it's significant that in The Old Guard the thing that makes Copley pull red strings through his Murder Conspiracy Board and say "[Merrick] doesn't care what [Andy]'s done with [her immortality]" is the people they save, not the ones they kill

Most of the Conspiracy Board is him circling random newspaper headlines and faces on old photographs to (more or less realistically) follow the immortals' treck through the world and big historical events. Which is, in-canon, not much different than putting portraits from different centuries next to a picture of Keanu Reeves and saying "they look the same, clearly Reeves is an immortal!"

But then there are the connections. A little girl holding Joe's hand in WW1 becoming the youngest (and first) woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine (suck it, Kozak). Or the grandchild of a family that Andy saved from [something] helping people escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

They are warriors. They have fought and been in the midst of countless wars, major or minor, throughout history. They must have killed as many people as they saved... and yet.

It's not them taking out a random warlord or dictator or rabidly hateful politician that has tangible repercussions in history. It's the children and families they get out of war zones, save from accidents, protect from natural disasters. People to whom they give a second chance at life, and grow to change the world (or even just their own world), like a mysterious stranger once changed theirs just by holding out a hand or patching a wound.

I don't know I just think it's particularly neat

#my ponderings #the old guard #I know we all love to play the 'if you could go back in time and kill One Person who would it be' game #but I think a movie that makes it EXTREMELY SATISFYING to see the Bad Guys die - #- having 'actually the best and greatest changes happen when people help each other' as its underlying message... #it means something #I also think it connects to Andy feeling like nothing she does changes anything at the start of the movie #for 80% of her life you could Solve A Problem by Taking Out The Guy Causing The Problem #especially in battle! you kill the general and you win. if you win the Problem Is Solved #but then everything becomes More Complex. the Problems™️ are globalized and/or systemic. #and Winning a Battle means just killing people. it doesn't Stop The Problem (nor really end a war) #so it feels useless #and even when they save people... they can’t stay in people's lives for long because immortality #which means they can never know what happens to the people they save #they don't (and can't) have the full picture

[moonpaw]

#huehghhhuheugh i was hesitant to post this one #dont think im gonna tag it though #but man. im getting kinda tired of seeing the same argument over and over in the tag #and its like! ok! thats a valid reason! you're fine not to watch it! no one is forcing you!! #please stop putting it in the tag and on my posts!! ive seen it 1000 times!! #honestly this goes for nearly any series btw #dont put your anti-series post in the MAIN TAG #people go into the tag to look for content not to see people going ohhh im never gonna watch this because of XYZ #whats the point of it? who wins out of this? #of course its your blog and your tagging system but i am asking nicely not to flood tags unwanted #ok ok ok rant over sorry i just needed to get it out of my system for a bit

[lgbtlunaverse]

"Nie Mingjue would still have died young even if Jin Guangyao hadn't killed him" Not as in "So it's fine to kill him because people who won't live for much longer have obviously already forfeit their lives" (what) But as in "If you don't get that Nie Mingjue has had an inevitable young and violent death hanging over him since he was a young teenager and has embraced it you can't fully understand his character"

#mdzs #nie mingjue #i do not wish to be misconstrued on this #because the first interpretation might genuinely be my least favorite nmj take #because it has so much baggage in regards to the actual real life murder of disabled people. most often by their caretakers!! #and the reaction to it from public the media and the justice system is overwhelmingly 'oh well that wasn't a life worth living anyway' #'plus they were SO hard to take care of rlly if you think about it the murderer is the victim here that must've been so hard for them' #and these characters aren't real. nmj isn't actually dead he was never alive. but i really hope that take is no one's actual view on life #but from a purely story-perspective i also hate the 'everything would've been fine if not for jiggy' takes #STOP MAKING THE BLORBO UNINTERESTING BY OUTSOURCING ALL HIS ISSUES!! THOSE ARE /HIS/ LET HIM KEEP THEM

[six-of-cringe]

Something that is sad but also that I hugely appreciate about CK is that by the end, most of the systems that harmed the crows are still in place, but their relationships with themselves have grown and changed. I find this particularly interesting in the cases of Jesper and Wylan (shocking I know). Their identities still put them in danger of being exploited or harmed - Grisha indentures are still the norm in Kerch, and the auction scene made it very clear that if the Council knew Wylan's illiteracy was true, they would treat him much the same as his father did due to the culture surrounding productivity and ability. This might seem disheartening, but the hope lies in the shift in how these characters see themselves and their role in the world. By the end of the book, Jesper and Wylan are beginning to put away their internalized shame surrounding their identities. They may still have to hide who they are from the world to survive, but they're no longer hiding it from themselves - their true selves are no longer this crushing burden they have to turn away from to function. A general theme of the series is how, in accepting who they are and what has happened to them on a personal level, the crows place themselves in positions to make change on a systemic level - Inej and her ship, Nina and her mission, Kaz and his Barrel empire, Wylan and Jesper with their political, high-society empire. None of them are all the way there yet by the end - they're still healing, and both the loss of Matthias and the weight of those oppressive systems are going to weigh on them for a long time - but we get to see the very beginnings of that process. I'm going to bite someone.

#that being said. they need so much therapy. that sort of deeply internalized shame doesn't go away after a heist or two #it is kinda heartening u know bc i get real down about how immovable systems seem #and even after something good happens in that regard on an individual level it doesn't seem to get any better #it's ok. what is change but a bunch of people doing better together #this is why i dont want soc3. this is a great stopping point thematically and in that respect i dont need or want to see more #let them exist in this place in my mind. on the brink of things getting better #anyway jan van eck die one million billion times #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #inej ghafa #nina zenik #kaz brekker #matthias helvar #six of crows #soc #tgt #soc meta #OUGHAHGAHGOUAGH

[imgoingtocrash]

How many do you think made it? How many of us made it out alive?

Not enough.

Andor 1x11, "Daughter of Ferrix"

#starwarsedit #andoredit #rogueoneedit #andor spoilers #star wars #andor #rogue one #swedit #filmedit #cassian andor #ruescott melshi #jyn erso #baze malbus #bodhi rook #chirrut imwe #i could not stop thinking about this...that their escape didn't stop the imperial prison system but rogue one stopped the death star #one of us has to make it...and when melshi didn't cassian did #this is either going to make sense or it's not but i worked half of the day on it 🥺 #mine #mine: star wars

[sharkylass]

6. Fears.

I WAS REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS ONE- THE SHOW ISN’T GONNA GIVE US AN EXPLANATION? FUCK IT, I’LL MAKE IT MYSELF-

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#Yes he got lost and fell in a pile of mud and that's why he put mud on his face in the episode #Yes that's my headcanon #Yes it took them a while to find him #Yes he gets the most antsy when he's alone in the sewers in particular #Yes the family probably ended up mapping the entire sewer system so that this never happens again #AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME #rottmnt #rottmnttober #rottmntober #rise of the tmnt #Rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt raph #tmnt #tmnttober #tmntober

[buckttommy]

also feeling infinitely tender over oliver captioning his post "finding my light" like. yeah. yeah u did, bby.

#anyways. i'll cry again #i officially need to go the fuck to bed #i have. so much medicine in my system truly at this rate i'll be sleeping until 11am but i just #i have so much love and fondness for this cast and. for buck yes. but also just. for oliver #i hope he feels seen and valued and understood and LOVED OKAY STOP STOP I'LL CRY #[she says as if she is not the one actively making herself cry] #jack.txt #tv: 911 #oliver stark #i love u u funky little british dude

[asterion-out-of-the-maze]

MIKIIIiiiii 😖

I will never financially recover

#murderbot #Secunit has shoulders for DAYS #i have decided #ART likes its shoulders #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #character art #digital art #trans artist #rogue protocol #all systems red #murderbot fanart #illustration #asterion #trans art #no one can stop me #artists on tumblr #Miki #Don Abene #GrayCris #Mensah #sci fi aesthetic #sci fi art #poster #secunit #ART #perihelion #combat unit

[literallymechanical]

I’m trying to write a “quick” reference doc of in-universe common knowledge for the players in my ttrpg campaign but every time I sit down to edit, it expands by another 200 words. The section on orbital dynamics is now almost a full page. There should not be a section on orbital dynamics. Why do I have chronic terminal writer brain. H e l p

#the planet is in a much more elliptical orbit than earth so the seasons are driven as much by that as axial tilt #you get uneven season lengths #and the temperature variation between seasons is much more dramatic in one hemisphere than the other #there are a whole bunch of calendar systems #I explain the calendars in detail and give specific numbers #but the moon is small and orbits quickly so lunar calendars are uncommon #also the planet is closer to the sun than earth #just barely on the edge of the habitable zone #it’s toasty #the oceans are fucked #the only inhabited land is on polar continents #it’s bigger than earth too and dominated by oceans #I need to be stopped #ttrpg

[aroaceleovaldez]

so in HoO we get a totally unaddressed thing about the Hephaestus cabin apparently have an underground tunnel system beneath their cabin that they’ve been excavating for almost a century and haven’t found the end to yet. We never hear about this again. But when Jake Mason is explaining it, he jokes to Will Solace that “You Apollo guys can’t have all the fun,” which implies the Apollo cabin also has secrets.

Anyways I think we should just start headcanoning random wild secret areas of each cabin just for fun.

#pjo #hoo #heroes of olympus #riordanverse #why did we just move on from the massive underground tunnel system under cabin 9 apparently unrelated to the maze. what. hello. #like no no no. go back. tell me more. #IS it related to the maze? #were there two entrances to the maze in chb? one in cabin 9 and one in the woods? #anyways my hc is that cabin 7 has a secret DDR machine #the other cabins know OF it but theyve never been able to confirm or deny if it's real (it is) #nor been able to find it #i also hc that cabin 10 has multiple bathrooms and they just dont tell anybody #every other cabin has like maybe one bathroom and then the shared outdoor ones #except for cabin 13 which when Nico renovated he totally went ''fuck it. 3 bathrooms. who's gonna stop me'' #cause i firmly believe nico renovated cabin 13 to be a decently sized cabin but also just A Normal House #so both him and hazel get their own bathrooms and then theres a guest one #i have too many very specific headcanons about the layouts of each cabin