Tumgik
#TM COMPONENTS
unproduciblesmackdown · 10 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
amnesia: the bunker release obviously turning my thoughts to cherished fun guy of a baker's dozen years, amnesiac daniel of mayfair. cherished game of as many years; meanwhile he Has the ranges: tormentor/tormented, good/evil, noble/petty, scaredscaredscared/bold as brass tacks. not to mention ofc his Some Guy ft. a very dramatic nature, a lot of introspection, but not much to show for it. i do love him & he's a great choice for [i want to do fun sketches] which i also did with call on me on loop which happened to be a song i associated permanently w/him, as well as the reason my art tag is corned beef
#clapping cheering etc He Horney#amnesia#atdd#corned beef#daniel of mayfair#just watching someone's playthrough of a:tb so i dunno All the lore yet. hope there'll be more revelations abt things like Dan's Enthusiasm#further context abt the game if you weren't familiar already which: check it out!!! watch a playthrough. or play it yourself#i actually played through a third? half? the game. got stuck on a puzzle in one run then trapped in the water section later lmao....#it's a game from an indie developer & made a big splash & had Lasting Reverberations: survival horror game shift impact; namely#you have No Weapons in amnesia (though you Can kill the kaernk w/a precisely aimed barrel (or box?) or two (this isn't at all obvious))#and Daniel Gets Scared is a big component of the game. an Enemy shows up & blurred tunnel vision + the [DANGER] audio goes off#v fond memory: once yrs ago i was moving a small grandfather clock & hit smack w/like. What *Sounds* Threatening Here....#then realized the reverberation of the chimes was akin to the kind of low ringing of [daniel's Low Sanitymeter] effects#which! the game Tells You to watch your levels therein b/c enemies will find you more easily when your sanity(tm)'s low or nil#turns out this is completely untrue though lol. the player may be impeded b/c daniel's vision is crap & his mobility will cut out as well#but just as it says; enemies Aren't drawn to you any more than they ever are; they just tell you that Knowing the player will feel it lol#and it works perfectly...as well as ofc daniel having like nightmare visions / ambiguous hallucinations if he's feeling too bad lol#gotta solve a puzz son .or turn on the lights; daniel also being afraid of the dark. even though it's like yeah man in general i'd be scare#meanwhile i always forget frictional had already made penumbra games & the penumbheads would be like...scoff. amnesia easy mode#b/c penumbra doesn't give you any light? you do have a flashlight i believe. at least sometimes. but that's more ltd than a lantern#couldn't be danny w/his tinderboxes; candles; torches; etc. laudanum. blowing shit up. daniel is sososo fun to me#and it all comes back around w/pentiment like ''mithraeum....i heard of em'' fr fr lol alchemy....weird science ooo#the universe HATES him: unless it doesn't (daniel & the shadow) local locals HATE him: baron discovers one weird interdimensional trick#for real for real check out some playthrough of amnesia: the dark descent if you haven't ever seen / heard of it. or play it#we'll have a movie night of it....#corned beeeeeeeeeeeef........i'm the same boy i used to be
9 notes · View notes
wachi-delectrico · 1 year
Text
How can we reconcile the idea that sexuality and sexual orientation do not correspond to a specific set of behaviours and actions and that sexuality and sexual orientation aren't just about sex with the fact people will insist a straight man having sex with another man makes him gay
#rambling#By ''straight man'' i mean a man who calls himself straight of course. Who fully believes himself to be straight#in the same way i believe myself to be gay and you (reader) believe yourself to be whatever gender or sexuality#I feel it's not the best way to formulate this question lol#But in my many Gay Community Incursions (tm) I've looked to the sector of straight men who have sex with guys in fascination#Some take on very Platonic ideas (as in the philosopher not like friendship love lol) of sexuality#Where them getting a bj from a guy is a testament to their masculinity or something#There's also the married men who love their wives but cheat on them with men with the explanation that#Sex with men is free and carnal and raunchy but has no other motivations behind it#while sex with their wives is intimate and personal; soft and loving - sex with men to them (in my interpretation) is#more about getting off and doing whatever while sex with women needs a degree of delicacy and dedication to it#Of course we could say that no matter what they say they are at the very least bisexual - but i do not like this approach#I think it implies exactly what i say in the post: that specific actions and behaviour are linked to specific sexualities as if there's a#an axiomatic or bioessentialist component to human sexuality#My only conclusion to this is we should work on unlinking behaviours and sexuality as it's something we're carrying from heteronormativity#And we have to accept that ''labels are just names not boxes'' also has to accommodate for this or else we're just strengthening the boxes#Maybe a weird post to make but i haven't stopped trying to figure this out since i found those specific sectors in#the gay community & read their convos and stories and such
5 notes · View notes
Text
Controversy Time: Proposed house rules that sound good but are actually Very Bad Ideas (tm)
I'll start with an idea I saw online that I think about a lot: you can only use magic with native spell components (e.g. if you learnt magic at a place with no native bats, you can't learn fireball).
Does it make some sense in universe? Yes. Does it add flavor to different region's magic? Absolutely.
Is it going to render wizards needlessly complex and absolutely useless? Oh yeah.
Your turn!
477 notes · View notes
blankd · 11 months
Text
The Common Language(TM)
Saw a post trying to explain how Common (a... common language) exists in fantasy settings and (I assume) DnD. I personally disagreed with OP's interpretations as they funneled explanations into two camps:
-Humans are so imperialist they made everyone else speak it (a travesty to act like humans are the center of the universe again)
-All languages form Common out of trade necessity, BUT the words contributed retreat into fantasy stereotypes (orcs are warriors, elves are artisan waifs, etc.). Which, IDK guys, at best it comes across as over-explaining US English with extra steps and baggage.
Now personally, I treat languages in my own campaign as mostly geological*- because I'm running a campaign, not writing a book/wiki/conlang.
*A few languages are bound to their speakers simply because they don't have humanoid mouths, eg: Primordial is spoken by Elementals, AKA sentient elements, etc.
Naturally, this led to wondering how the existence of Common could be a larger feature that could be interacted with. While conlangs can be fun, they are often treated as fossils when players probably prefer to walk among dinosaurs.
Note: This is written through the lens of DnD/a fantasy TTRPG, but it could probably function elsewhere with mindful tweaks., build according to your preferences.
In this scenario, all cultural languages exist, but a reverse tower of babel situation occurred. So now the world has a large magical tower that gifts all sentient humanoids (PCs/NPCs) with Common.
For World Flavor:
The immediate obvious possibility is that several nations/peoples agreed to collaborate on this, it's up to you if any individuals are named. But since it was so long ago, that might be lost to time. Or maybe it was recently completed! Regardless, is the tower a Wonder that is communally protected or does this responsibility fall on a certain group?
Or is the Tower Divine? A gift from a god of language, a god of peace or something else entirely (a god of venom who wanted to afford all mortals the ability to hurt each other with words, etc.)? If it is divine, what is the story that explains it? Is there a faith that worships the Tower (and its god)? How do people who may dislike this god reconcile the benefits of the Tower with their distaste for the deity?
Or is it an (inter)national archaeological mystery that is currently being studied? What has been hindering progress? Is it people (who has right over this) or something more otherworldly (supernatural defenses)?
Or maybe it really is just a funny little quirk of the world- a team of wizards bestowed the world with a lingua franca for an easier conference since they don't have time to learn other languages, back to other stuff!
For Conflicts/Hooks:
Is it housed in the current world's seat of power (or was a superpower built around it)? Is this fact used as a Divine Right to be an Authority over others?
Are new words added? Does this affect magic with Verbal Components? Is this how the world's spells are created? Are expeditions sent into the Tower to attempt to add more spells? Have magical words (spells) been lost (or removed)? Does this mean the Tower is ALSO the world's seat of magic?
Can Mundane words be lost? Does this somehow erase *all* instances of this written word? Or does it remove their inherent meaning and Essence (eg: if the word Sweet was lost, would all things cease to be sweet or would sweetness slowly bleed out of the world as sweet and its synonyms are eroded? How would the remaining languages try to preserve this concept in reaction to the Tower?
Was this word loss an accident or intentional?
Is this aspect abused? Is/has it been used as a political weapon/threat? How does exterior damage to the tower, if it can suffer any, affect the language it actively imbues in people? Or does it merely impact how effective its power is?
Or is the Tower decaying and there is a lingual epidemic where communication is collapsing in places that have become overly reliant on the Common provided by the Tower? What do attempts to fix the Tower look like? If the Tower is Divine in origin, how do the pious interpret this development (a test, malice from another god, etc)?
Is a lack of Common in a person used as a pretense to do harm to them? Is it used as 'evidence' to strip them of rights/dignit? Or is speaking Common a litmus for adulthood (eg: babies babble, adults converse, etc.)? How does this belief affect Mute or Deaf people?
Are there people that believe in the superiority of a Cultural Language (since they equate effort to value and Common requires 'no effort')? Are there people that consider Common to be a mark of a lack of intelligence?
Is there an effective range to the Tower? Is there a material or other phenomena that interferes with the Tower's effect on people? How would the PCs react to suddenly being unable to speak Common within their own party for a scenario?
How would anyone react if mundane livestock suddenly spoke? What if fields of plants started screaming?
Would anyone seek a way to sever the tower's influence from themselves (or others)? If the Tower can magically/divinely influence people with the ability to use Common, what else can it do? Would someone ever seek to alter this aspect of the Tower? Could they use it to continuously, universally emit healing? What about silence? (Is the Tower simply automatically converting all words to Common, effectively robbing all the intricacies of natural cultural languages?)
Would there be a reason to destroy this tower? Who would benefit from it (culturally/politically/etc.)? How would the world be changed if it was suddenly destroyed? Who would attempt to fix it? Could it even be fixed?
For Mechanics:
Some challenge uses have already been suggested above with Common Language and/or Verbal Magic dead zones.
But more cut and dry mechanics could tie to how Silence, Comprehend Languages and other linguistically-tied spells tap into/invoke the Tower and even require a nonstandard component.
Additionally, maybe this is where the Power Words (Kill, Heal, Stun, etc.) originated from and can only be found there- and what if there are more?
If you wanted to get cheeky you could probably attribute other word/language spells (Healing Word, etc.) to the Tower, but every table is different.
Hopefully this inspires some fun at the table. Or if you're already running a campaign, you can downsize this effect to a dungeon/wizard's tower/town.
This idea is of course free for use, and if you do use it, please share your story of how it played out! Have fun o/
233 notes · View notes
somecunttookmyurl · 8 months
Text
also while i'm thinking about it today my Haute Take(tm) is that "creativity" as some kind of like nebulous thing. this innate concept. this personality trait. does not really exist
if you learn skills and practice techniques you develop knowledge about how things are formed. when you have knowledge about how things are formed, your brain links things together which grants you the magical ability to look at components and re-arrange them. this is creativity.
you know how the age old advice for drawing stylised people is to learn real anatomy and biomechanics first? once you understand how the body looks and moves and develop the technique and skill to render it you can take all those components and make new things with them.
the same applies to physical crafts. and with most physical crafts there is significant transferrable skill. when you learn how to do Thing A, you're 25% of the way to learning Thing B and then you can combine A and B to make C. People who can't do A or B then attribute the making of C to some kind of innate creative genius.
Creativity is a muscle and you can train it like any other. Of course nobody ever likes this answer to "how are you so creative?"
141 notes · View notes
Note
TPOFATGIF: Per the last ask, what dietary issues does the rest of the crew have? Anyone allergic to peanuts and complain loudly about the price of epipens?
Tristan is allergic to celery, which is actually one of the most common allergies in the world by population, but it's localized almost entirely to people of Swiss, Austrian and Polish descent. He's only reactive to some of the compounds so far hasn't had a severe reaction but he knows he's on thin ice and that it could get worse at any point, and then he's in real trouble- Despite it being a common allergy, it's not legally required for companies to list it in allergen information, and celery oil or celery seed is in a TON of things like potato chips and food seasoning.
Yugi is borderline lactose-intolerant and can do cheese and yogurt but not milk, but this does not stop him.
Bakura has got a literal curse that prevents him from eating "The flesh of any plant or animal" without getting seriously ill or maybe even dying, but what counts as "Flesh", "Plant" or "Animal" is determined by the ever-shifting law of the Fairy Courts so his "safe" foods can change on him at random without warning, but so far "Mushrooms and other Fungi", "This foodstuff has been so heavily processed it's more like plastic than any of it's original organic components" and "Blend it until it's too liquid to be 'flesh'" have been working for him so far. Boy lives on a Mushroom, twinkie and horrorterror smoothie diet, which is a large contributing factor to why hes Like That (TM).
Odion can't stand the taste or smell of bananas. One of his baby brother's staple foods. The man suffers.
187 notes · View notes
kittenintheden · 28 days
Text
Not Your Sweetheart Ch 30 - Jumper
Not Your Sweetheart Chapter 30 - Jumper
The one where I absolutely delight in reminding everyone that Astarion has a dead average 10 charisma and an 18 CHA Tav gives him a run for his goddamn money in all the best and most angsty ways.
AKA "gets away with it bc hottie w/a body" meets "wins every social interaction and is also troubled and hot."
AKA the seducer gets seduced and he's mad about it, until he isn't.
But also it's a whole campaign? You know. Do not enter unless you're expecting true-to-life D&D -- everyone hot as hell but stupid as fuck. Get your top-shelf found family and hotties battling for flirt dominance tropes here. 
---
It's goth girl final exam time (Gauntlet of Shar finale). Gale is snarky. Astarion gets spicy with Ori and Realizes Things About Himself (TM). Read on AO3.
Tumblr media
Commissioned piece of the dorks by the fantastically talented @hamrikaa (see the full thing in Ch 10).
---
Ori gets to Gale and reaches for his belt. He jerks and asks what in the hells she’s doing, but before he can get his staff between them, Ori holds up a pouch.
“Hey, that’s a spell component, give that back.” Gale attempts to snatch it and Ori holds it out of reach.
“Settle down, I’m not keeping it,” she says. She approaches Shadowheart and says, “The thing is, it is my concern, because I actually care about whether you live or die. See, I prefer live.”
Ori walks close to the edge, reaches into the component pouch and tosses a handful of sand out into the air. It scatters on top of the invisible surface. Then she turns, hands the pouch to Shadowheart, and returns to the others. Behind Shadowheart’s back, she throws up a rude gesture into the air at the general idea of Shar.
Astarion wraps around her from behind, laughing quietly into her ear.
Beside them, Gale grumbles, “There goes my Sleep spell. You’re going to replace that.”
“I think I’ll be able to find you a new bag of sand somewhere,” Ori says. “But I apologize for taking it without permission. I’ll use my own sand on the next invisible bridge.”
“I detect your sarcasm and I choose to ignore it,” Gale says.
20 notes · View notes
raviollies · 2 months
Note
Have you ever talked about Blythe's hexblood crown? Do its components have any Significance(tm)? What about Theta's?
I'm not sure! But the flowers and plants DO have significance - I am organizing a lot of the little symbology I use into a handy dandy carrd so it's all in one place and easier to draw upon but here we go!
*Please note that these aren't the ONLY symbols that can be drawn for these flowers but rather the ones I chose to focus on for the purposes of story telling. I know pretty much every flower can be interpreted as 'beauty' or 'innocence' or 'love'.
BLYTHE: Her living crown is made of Pine and Ivy. Pine symbolizes rebirth, renewal, and a immortality. Ivy symbolizes everlasting life, devotion, fidelity and loyalty. There is a pretty significant overlap of symbolism meant to drive home the underlying significant of REBIRTH, IMMORTALITY, AND DEVOTION - things that almost conceptualize Blythe's identity as a Hexblood. Reborn from her mortal self, into something unbound by time into something everlasting...with the inseverable connection to Theta, a devotion and fidelity not bound by blood.
Ivy is also known to encroach onto the surrounding environment, and entangle everything in it's brambles - like how Blythe's identity is slowly being consumed by that of her new one as a Fae.
THETA: Although her flowers are purposely stylized to appear to be from the Faewild, hence they aren't 1:1 to their real life counterparts, they also are picked purposely. Red Anemones are symbols of death and forsaken love [ much how her love for Blythe is consistently being rejected ] , Chamomile are symbols of renewal and rebirth [Chamomile mythologically is also described as being a 'divine gift' - nod to Theta granting Blythe a 'gift' of Fae-hood ] and Lungwort are devotion, protection, 'You are my life'. Overall, her crown is meant to conceptualize DEVOTION, LOVE, AND DEATH-NEW BEGINNING CYCLE, similar to Blythe but from a different perspective.
Fun tidbit: Ponderosa pine, English Ivy, Anemones, Lungwort, and Mayweed (also known as stinking Chamomile) are all toxic. Furthermore ; Blythe's crown lacks flowers, but Theta's is fully bloomed.
20 notes · View notes
iztea · 4 months
Note
Maybe you have some drawing tips for beginners?
Your style is incredibly beautiful and it just inspires this thing inside me to grab my iPad and start drawing but unfortunately I have no idea where to even begin
Or maybe you have some recs where to look to learn how to draw stuff?
But I understand completely that it’s your thing and artists should never feel pressured to share all their techniques and secrets, you worked hard on it!
I just really really love your art to the point where I just look at it for 30 minutes straight with this big feeling in my chest
<3
ah it was never about being secretive, i'm pretty open about my drawing process since gatekeeping knowledge is a big pet peeve of mine. It was more like,, laziness because writing a cohesive and helpful drawing tutorial is pretty difficult and i wouldn't even know where to start; i'm afraid i'll get maybe too technical and what have you.
As for tips for beginners, i've shared plenty on my couriouscat so you can scroll through the answers there, i also have some drawing timelapses on my twitter account as well (albeit you'll have to scroll a little)
I'm very flattered you feel that way about my art, it really means a lot to me and i'm glad to have inspired you to draw as well that's awesome and i wish you best of luck!
I actually don't know how different drawing on an iPad is compared to a graphic tablet+desktop, so I am actually pretty clueless in that regard. I think Procreate is the most used digital art app for iPad so you can start by getting it and familiarizing yourself with the UI. I think this step is often overlooked. The brushes and the chosen program can make or break the drawing experience. If you simply find yourself not enjoying Procreate, experiment with other apps or maybe try switching to a graphic tablet, maybe that feels better and is more suited to your tastes.
To be completely honest, one "bad" piece of advice that i should probably keep to myself is to draw something you actually enjoy: fanart, Pretty Girl Portrait(tm), your cat, landscapes etc even if it's above your skill level (becoming obsessed/ fixated on some character from a piece of media also works wonders i'm just gonna throw that out there). The main point is to actually care about your chosen subject in order to get inspired and to have that inner desire of "doing them justice" aka drawing them well. The traditional art learning route probably involves studying the fundamentals, shading spheres and cones and simple 3D forms blablbablah which. Yeah ! sure that's probably better advice but i'm telling you what will make you want to keep going and not get discouraged after a few failed attempts.
As for the drawing subject, I highly recommend having photo references to guide you.. you always need refs it's a recurring thing. My fastest artworks are the ones where I have the right references. the less references the more difficult it is to draw something
As a beginner it is also a good practice to draw OVER your photo reference to get the proportions right ( i'm not talking about literally tracing the contour of a face or limb ( just an example ), but moreso identifying the Main shape which makes up that body part and observe how long is it in respect to the other components, how does it connect to the other parts etc - big difference. Tracing won't help you in the long run).
Another thing you can do is to study your favourite artists and see how They tackle whatever it is that you like in their work. how do they simplify facial features? what about anatomy? color/ light etc and kinda reverse engineer your way through their process. ( but i highly recommend to just keep these practice sketches to yourself, and to not share them on social media- unless you get the artist's permission)
This is how i got into drawing and what i did back then, again, for more technical hands-on information i did answer similar CCs before so with a little bit of stalking you'll find them in no time
I wanna finish this with some resources that helped me:
>youtube guys - sinix, ahmed aldoori, marco bucci, and also just speedpaints in general i highly recommend watching those
>for simplified anatomy i found @/ taco1704 's ref sheets to be very helpful but ........... I'm pretty dry here i just look up refs on Pinterest tbvh
speaking of, here's my pinterest i have a bunch of art related boards board cool stuff overall maybe they can help guide you towards some direction or inspire you in some way idk
ok i kinda suck in the resource department listeN. im starving too just.................. watch youtube speedpaints ok
SORRY IT'S SO LONGGGBGGG i hope it was at least a bit helpful? this was all over the place... I'll try to come up with a tutorial as well but i really gotta be careful with how i go about it. I'll leave you with this for the time being. Again, thank you a lot for the kind words, I really am very grateful and touched esp by that last part about staring with the big feeling stuff eeeeeeeeeeeeee really wow T T that's so lovely and a big compliment thanks ty ly
35 notes · View notes
murfeelee · 3 months
Text
@themaresnest-dumblr replied to your post “It's Finally Winter Break! I'm FREE!”:
Okay, the first question is tell us all about the computer, the second is what sodding processor does it use that will allow you to play Sims 3? Like the graphic btw, it looks like a They Might Be Giants video.
​I actually haven't been able to install/play TS3 at ALL! I've never had a problem running TS3 before, so this sucks!
At first I thought it was the EA App effing up--I had it install the base game and all the EPs at once, but that didn't work, so I figured OK, let me uninstall everything and ONLY install the base game. That FINALLY got the TS3 Folder to appear in Documents, and the Launcher finally loaded. But every time I click Play, it instantly crashes back to the EA App. I have zero mods or Store CC installed or anything. And the "Repair" button on the EA App appears to do EFF ALL, so.... *whimpers*
I never had a laptop with Nvidia and different V-RAM/GPU components, so I'm a fish out of water as far as specs go with this new PC, since my dinosaurs ran TS3 just fine, LOL. Before this I was on a Win10 8GB Dell laptop (2017-2023), and before that I was on a 4GB Vista HP laptop (2009-2017).
This new laptop is a Win11 Asus--it runs Baldur's Gate 3 (barely, LOL, even my Steam Deck is crying), so I have no clue why it can't run TS3:
Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 2600 Mhz, 14 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s). Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU.
I made an Error Report that I sent to EA, so hopefully they tell me something, otherwise I'm screwed.
30 notes · View notes
headspace-hotel · 2 years
Note
Okay I was planning on staying out of it but this is painful to watch.
To be clear, OP was being very weird and didnt at all need to say that. But it seems like hald the people since then have just been trying to explain what OP mewnt and doing it horribly, because I do in fact get ehat thry were saying.
Theres been a bug movement with online fascists thats like "modern society is too urban (see: diverse). Weve gotten too far from how we traditionally lived, and were so out of touch with nature. Kids spend all their time inside or in the suburbs and never get to see real nature." And its all a recruitment tactic.
The Start of that pipeline is often just "huh modern scoiety is extremely out of touch with nature. Kids grow up without the experiences I had as a kid running around in creeks and stuff. Kids cant recognize plants." And most of that is true and it Is bad, but they then often make a very quick leap to "this is a problem with Society." And from there to fascist talking points.
And like, if you squint, you can very easily draw similarities between the very start of that pipeline and your recent posting.
Again, this is Obviously incredibly stupid and anyone who actually reads anything you post can see that. But like, I can at least see how, if someone is primed to always look only for fascist dog whistles, and one of your recent posts crossed their dash, if theyre not smart, they could arrive at that anxiety.
Everyone since then has just been dumb about it.
...Okay I'm thinking the "cottagecore" discourse has just rotted people's brains out here. I didn't realize it until now but "posting pictures of a basket of freshly picked strawberries is a fascist dogwhistle" really was a Thing on here a while back. Okay. That makes sense now.
I know about the "trad"/fascist-adjacent 'homesteading'/off-the-grid doomsday prepper attitudes. Where I live, being a 'homesteader' often goes along with stockpiling guns.
But these people's attitudes are individualistic, it's all about personally escaping the "Modern" world and living in The Wilderness(tm) somewhere and being "self-sufficient" (lmao). Kind of a manifest-destiny adjacent fantasy (gross)
This is where the "cottagecore" discourse brain worms did immense damage—no one wanted to explain why the individualistic, intrepid settler homesteader fantasy was a problem, so all the well meaning people on the margins of the discourse went "oh, okay, wanting to reconnect with your natural world and consciously participate in your local ecosystems is a fascist/colonialist thing."
I have multiple posts buried deep in my drafts about this somewhere that I was afraid to post, because I was met with the "google is free" stuff when I tried to figure out what was going on, and Google was entirely empty of any material explaining the (alleged?) fascist and colonialist roots of cottagecore.
It makes my brain hurt because yes, actually, I *see* how "homesteading" is sometimes related to white supremacist and colonialist shit, and the fascist and "cottagecore" communities do have an overlap that is not purely coincidental. That's real. It's not made up. But. A lot of people on the internet have learned to recognize fascist "dogwhistles" instead of learning to recognize fascist ideas.
A lot of the work of recognizing fascist-adjacent stuff in the wild does rely on developing a sensitivity to such "red flags." I've talked about things that I consider to be red flags, and I sometimes respond strongly to them. But—it's crucial that you understand that the red flags themselves are not what fascism is. You have to be able to see and recognize the actual harmful components of an ideology instead of deciding that any similarity, no matter how superficial, Is Fascism.
A lot of colonialist and fascist systems of thought have "relationships with nature and growing plants is good" somewhere in there, but the actual poison here comes in a few forms:
unquestioned romanticization of settling/colonizing an Untouched Wilderness
deciding that some kind of stable, inherent 'natural' state of human existence is always good, and 'unnatural' things are bad
modern society is decaying and degenerate, "traditional" values and lifestyles are better (enter romanticizing the past as a paradise of moral and racial purity)
Yes, there were statements in my post that looked superficially similar to some of these. No, those statements were not even remotely close to communicating the same things.
And "dogwhistles" are not about superficial similarity. If you learn about 'homesteading' as a white supremacist fantasy being a thing, and you jump onto a post talking about growing native species like "Oh look I've found a fascist dogwhistle!" You've misunderstood the assignment.
350 notes · View notes
newtsnaturethings · 1 month
Text
Okay so I’m taking an environmental ethics and policy class and the most recent module was about Natural Asset Companies (NACs) as a means of environmental conservation and it’s giving me some Thoughts TM.
ecology flavored rant incoming:
The idea of assigning a monetary or capital value to “ecosystem services” feels viscerally wrong to me. It goes against the very nature of ecology and ecosystems. The science of ecology is about the connection of all these moving parts at various temporal and spatial scales. Trying to add capitalism to that sets up this…hierarchy of what “services” are the “most useful”. This makes zero sense in an ecocentric context. How do you assign what “service” is more important? Is it based on how much money it makes? The cultural significance? And who or what is making the final decision on how to rank these services in order of importance? This is a very capitalist mindset to apply to something that exists WAY outside that narrow framework. A piece of an ecosystem doesn’t have to “earn its keep” for the right to exist. It simply does. And that in itself is worthy of respect. Ecosystems don’t function based on the way one species wants them too, and trying to exert that level of control over them does not work. Humans are just as much a part of the ecosystem as the rest of the planet. We are participants along for the ride; we don’t call the shots.
And that doesn’t even begin to cover the societal implications in all this! NACs will be motivated by interest groups with the most financial influence and power. So…do marginalized groups like POC and Indigenous People get a say in this? Even though they’ve been historically left out of or outright screwed over in a lot of “going green” initiatives? How intersectional will this component of the conservation movement really be if it’s motivated almost exclusively by profit and benefitting those who are able to invest heavily from the get go? If the conservation movement is leaving groups of people behind, then it’s to start over and build it up again with everyone at the table for input.
And yes I’m aware that “this is how society works etc etc” it doesn’t have to. It really doesn’t have to. And hey, maybe financially motivated entities like NACs have their part to play in the conservation movement, but they sure as heck should NOT be the most powerful or influential ones leading the charge.
17 notes · View notes
badstargateimagines · 6 months
Text
Vala Deserved Better and This is My Proposal For How I Would Give Her Better
Here are all the things that I think Vala and I would do if they ever let her breach fucking containment. Jesus H. Christ let the woman LIVE!!! Shout out to @judgeverse and all the other fine folks in the discord for giving me this powerful vision
Go to the club 
Obvious but apparently too much for the writers to handle 
We would go with like 40 dollars between us and we would find a man to buy us drinks for the night and then give him a fake snap/number at the end of the night 
She would finally experience the experience of the bathroom at a club and I think she would find it extremely healing 
We would close that bitch and then go and get kebab before we called an uber to get us home 
Pre Drinks 
This would happen before the club obv but I think pre is a VITAL component to the experience while also being nearly entirely separate 
All the SGC girlies chilling doing their makeup 
We are all chilling on the floor of a living room using what using whatever mirrors we have close to us sharing big pile of makeup  
Our brushes are filthy and Janet is low-key lecturing us about the dangers of sharing eye shadow and having dirty makeup brushes 
Her's are also dirty 
We have a Spotify jam going that absolutely shreds 
We started out w a playlist but then we all wanted to show Vala some tracks so we needed to collaborate. 
I show her Meghan Thee Stallion so when she comes on at the club she knows what to do 
Janet shows her all the Y2K bangers 
Sam just goes fucking crazy on the queue and puts everything from midwest emo to sea shanties on there 
Shots obvs 
Cam and Daniel keep texting the gc to ask when we're leaving for the club and we keep saying we're leaving soon 
We brief Vala on club/bar safety so she doesn't go missing or perish or something 
Watching movies but specifically the Barbie movie 
I think she would find it very healing 
She starts calling men Kens 
A week later I find her watching TikTok edits under the 'close your eyes and feel' sound and we watch them together and cry 
I gather mine and my mom's old Barbies and we play with them because there is no age-limit on Barbie!!! 
I get distracted and go over the bonkers plotlines I used to give my Barbies back in the day. 
I also show her other movies that altered my brain chemistry 
The Breakfast Club 
Mean Girls 
Legally Blonde 
Pretty in Pink 
Ferris Bueller's Day Off 
Freaky Friday (2003) 
Hairspray (2007) 
Going for drives in a total shitbox while blasting music 
She needs to experience driving around aimlessly for an hour and then ending up having a life-changing conversation in a random parking lot 
Girlhood (TM) 
Going to the mall  
Sometimes you need to show aliens capitalism in action 
I have to physically drag her out of bath and body works before she gets swindled into paying full price for a candle like a rube 
I explain to her that she just has to wait a couple weeks for candles to go on a like 6 for the price of 2 sale or something and that I will tell her when it's happening 
She is baffled by this revelation but listens to me because of my credentials (used to work at a mall and have a spending addiction) 
We also buy a new outfit and then go to Sephora to get our makeup done to go w the new fit and also so I can show her my roots 
She will also experience The Mall Pretzel  
Sleepovers!!!!! 
I would do my best to create the ultimate sleepover vibes 
I'm talking we buy brand new fuzzy PJs, I string up christmas lights, every snack we could ever want, the entire living room is transformed into a comfy cozy area with everything we could ever need close to us 
Trashy reality show playing on autoplay on the TV at a low volume so we can still talk and listen to music but also hear Kris Jenner saying out of pocket shit to her children 
I would also give the experience of playing Nintendogs with your bestie 
Maybe even a powerpoint night??  
Putting tinder on the big screen and roasting men together 
Playing the Sims and collaborating on the most ridiculous sims and houses to ever exist 
Go Karting 
Let this woman at the wheel immediately!!! 
We could kick ass and then get a lifetime ban from the track 
These 10-year-olds aren't ready for us!!! 
Lighting section at Home Depot 
Self-explanatory 
IKEA 
We would spend so many hours there just pretending we were furnishing a mansion with unlimited money 
Saying: "Omg this should be in the Sims" to each other 
The IKEA cafeteria my beloved 
The only thing we buy is a Djungelskog each 
Racing the carts in the warehouse part 
A crucial yet forbidden part of the experience 
Karaoke 
She would love karaoke 
No further points your honour 
32 notes · View notes
jibunbosh · 7 months
Text
Tumblr media
okay, let's try to identify all of the new gear in anon's brand-new-spanking signal chain, and see how much her total comes out to. values will be in both USD and JPY - not via direct currency conversion, but by prices I find online at american and japanese retailers respectively. (note that american retailers do not include tax in prices, but japanese retailers do. prices may also differ due to import/export costs.)
also thanks to @absolute-total-nonsense for helping me ID a bunch of these
Tumblr media
the gray pedal at the top right is very clearly a tuner, displaying note information and pitch accuracy. it very clearly resembles the peterson line of StroboStomp pedal tuners, but is closest to the Peterson StroboStomp HD Pedal Tuner (MSRP $149.00 USD / ¥28,444 JPY).
Tumblr media
the black pedal with green text, is, thankfully, clearly labeled. it is a Seymour Duncan Andromeda Dynamic Digital Delay pedal. there's a lot going on here! it clocks in at MSRP $299.99 USD / ¥44,000 JPY.
Tumblr media
the next pedal to the right is similarly labeled with a distinct design, and is a Boot-Leg HZM 2.0 Quattro Valvole Distortion Pedal. it's our first Japanese-manufactured pedal in the signal chain, and doesn't have an official USD MSRP, but can be found for $135.00 USD, and is sold domestically for ¥21,120 JPY.
Tumblr media
the next pedal was a bit hard for me to make out until I got a higher-quality screencap of the pedalboard and could actually read the label, but it's a Electro-Harmonix Soul Food Distortion/Overdrive Pedal. in the states, it clocks in at $101.60 USD. I couldn't find an exact MSRP for the pedal in JPY (perhaps due to it not being formally exported, speculatively), but I found it online for ¥16,088 JPY.
Tumblr media
the text is a bit hard to read in the screencap for the next pedal, but the tricolor design and the seymour duncan logo is plain as day. it's the Seymour Duncan Forza (tm) Overdrive. it clocks in at MSRP $179.00 USD / ¥28,600 JPY.
the next few components that tie the signal chain are all Free The Tone products.
Tumblr media
the large box is a Free the Tone ARC-3 Audio Routing Controller. it seems to be discontinued, but had a MSRP of approximately $599.00 USD / ¥63,800 JPY.
Tumblr media
the input to the pedalboard is a Free the Tone Signal Junction Box JB-41S, priced at $159.09 USD / ¥18,000 JPY.
Tumblr media
finally, the power supply is a Free the Tone Power Supply PT-5D, priced at MSRP ¥30,800 JPY, and seems to be resold for $309.99 USD.
so, not including any instrument cables, ac adapters, or the physical case for the pedalboard itself, anon's brand-new pedalboard is priced at a budget of a whopping $1932.67 USD + tax, or ¥250,852 JPY! damn, girl! do you really need that many different overdrive/distortion pedals!
BONUS:
Tumblr media Tumblr media
anon's mini practice amp appears to closely resemble a Danelectro Honeytone N-10 Guitar Mini Amp, though the Honeytone text is ommitted and I don't believe it's ever been manufactured in pink. it's priced at $24.99 USD / ¥5,720 JPY.
45 notes · View notes
potabo · 6 months
Text
Deltarune's Ending
So as we have basically all of Deltarune released, it obviously seems reasonable - as many have done- to speculate on the ending of the game.
Now I can't- with a straight face- argue that I have any idea on how deltarune will actually end. What I can do is share a few observations that I haven't seen made elsewhere.
Now evidently the first place to look for any theory of this nature is, of course, the the first thing you see when booting up the game. Not the very nice one with our three protagonists standing very impressively before a dark fountain, but the one that looks like a DOS menu with spooky text. what I'm talking about is, of course,
1. The Title Screen
Tumblr media
Now, as many have no doubt seen and/or heard, there are a number of unique quirks exclusive to this screen that fuel the theory community, but theres always been one thing about this screen in particular that always seemed.... More Important.
As you may know, for a variety of reasons, this screen is frequently taken to be narrated by the G man himself, Goofy nosurname.
Tumblr media
What makes this relevant is that this, in conjunction with:
A. The Twitter announcement for Deltarune
Tumblr media
B. The Game Over Screen
Tumblr media
And of course C. The gonermaker segment at the start of a new run:
Tumblr media
We can reasonably* assume that this character has some amount of influence over the game, if not straight up responsible for its existence.
All of which is to say, of course, that anything that we can glean from this character has the potential to be massively important to the rest of the game- which brings us to the prompter for this particular theory:
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
(What's interesting to note here is that, you don't actually need to have 3 identical files for this particular gaster text to appear, you simply need to overwrite any that are different)
2. The Evidence
Now what does this actually tell us about the ending of deltarune? Let's gather what else we know about the ending of deltarune:
Tumblr media Tumblr media
the ever present, ever looming promise (threat) of a single ending, of an inexorable ending to the events of deltarune.
And if that was all, then it would be open and shut, case closed- however there is also... ambiguity as to the finality of these statements:
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Note the question mark and the statement of a "new" future.
There's one final piece of the puzzle we need to make this into a proper, regular, unhinged deltarune theory tm: a bit of a insiders look at the development process.
Specifically:
Tumblr media
deltarune, going forward, needs the capability to act as multiple separate games
3. The Actual Theory Finally
Now we have all the components, so here's the theory:
Deltarune will, in fact, have One ending- but it is the ending we choose. If anything I'm saying here is remotely right, we will need to choose the savefile that we want to be the real ending: hence the somewhat ominous "PREPARATIONS ARE COMPLETE" upon converting all of your savefiles to be the same.
We know there are slight differences between the save files:
File 1
Tumblr media
File 2
Tumblr media
File 3
Tumblr media
And we additionally know that theres some overlap between save files (I'm on to you seem the cat)
Tumblr media
so deciding the One Ending is the decision you make to choose where your file goes. if that makes any sense
In other words, you have to play a different game (or rather the game again) to see a different outcome. This, in my mind, is the ultimate reconciliation of these two contradictory statements: the inevitability of the one ending and the potential to change the future.
Extra bonus mini theory
The second most interesting observation I've had while making this post (beyond the "preparations" what prompted this) is the multiple game instances for deltarune. If I'm anywhere near the realm of correct at this point, it could be that these other instances wouldn't strictly be, you know, deltarune, instead being... I don't know... gastertale and tobyworld or something
21 notes · View notes
angel-of-viscera · 5 months
Text
Another look at Mikoto's door - Follow-up to this.
Tumblr media
Originally I thought I had been wrong about Mikoto's dual expression, but after thinking for a while I may be right after all. Host Mikoto and Orekoto are represented as being two sides of the same person here, since they were one and the same not long ago - part of Host Mikoto split off to become Orekoto (according to my current theory).
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
Not to stretch the metaphor or anything, but the earring on his left ear is separated into white and black. The earrings worn in MeMe are silver, i.e. grey. His earrings, as seen in MILGRAM, are one black one white, grey separated into its component parts. In this image, Host Mikoto and Orekoto are being represented as being two halves of the same person, so, the visible earring here reflects that.
Mikoto's Second Trial album cover is the only one that features the title of his First Trial song. I think the reason for this is because his story is told in reverse compared to the others - instead of showing his big secret(TM) in his second or third MV, it's straight up shown in MeMe (though in a rather cryptic way): "The truth will come to reveal itself". I'm guessing Double will be expanding on the motives and circumstances of his murder(s), which aren't exactly clear from MeMe, though it's fairly clear in the case of the other prisoners.
The reinforced iron-plated door that leads Mikoto onwards, I think, is based off a subway train door, as indicated by the LED sign above them (could also be an office door). It's swinging open instead of sliding, but all the doors are like that.
Host Mikoto is missing some of his memories, so it's possible that he did ride the train at one point, even if that's not the way he remembers commuting. The train shows up in MeMe in the scene where he's about to kill the blond-haired person. In that scene he appears to be dissociating, with the video's POV being from an outside perspective (as indicated by the eye corners), so imagining himself from the perspective of a witness on the train instead of himself is also a possibility - especially since the video's POV also takes that of the victim's.
Some other things to note:
Orekoto's fury is directed towards the viewer. Not inwards like the last chorus of MeMe suggested (well of course he's angry at Es. We saw that in John Doe) which makes me wonder what he's going to do.
Mikoto has noticable canines (Kotoko has them too). Orekoto's canine/werewolf associations are pretty strong, baring his fangs at Es and is also the one who's presumably been chewing and ripping the uniform apart.
Mikoto's stance is unsteady and uncentred, as though Host Mikoto wants to pull away while Orekoto wants to stand firm.
The door is more visibly bloody and the glass is more broken on Mikoto's side - he's the one MILGRAM is treating as the murderer, after all.
The katakana of Double is the largest and the most prominent, since it's the one that carries the specific extra meaning of "Double You".
18 notes · View notes