#and it's more relevant than ever

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

#you can say all you want about this movie and the book #and you would be absolutely right #but this scene #this scene was everything #and it's more relevant than ever #memoirs of a geisha #Youtube

[anonymousdandelion]

A general tip for students who are sending those dreaded Religious Absence Emails to your professors: Rather than asking permission to take the day(s) off, politely let them know that you will be taking the day(s) off.

In other words, consider not saying this:

"May I miss class on [date] so I can observe [holiday]?"

It's not that there's anything wrong with the above, per se. But because it's phrased as a request, it risks coming across as optional — a favor you hope to be granted. Problem is, favors are not owed, and so unfortunately asking permission opens the door for the professor to respond "Thanks for asking. No, you may not. :)"

Instead, try something along the lines of:

"I will need to miss class on [date] because I will be observing [holiday]. I wanted to let you know of this conflict now, and to ask your assistance in making arrangements for making up whatever material I may miss as a result of this absence."

This is pretty formal language (naturally, you can and should tweak it to sound more like your voice). But the important piece is that, while still being respectful, it shifts the focus of the discussion so that the question becomes not "Is it okay for me to observe my religion?", but rather, "How can we best accommodate my observance?"

Because the first question should not be up for debate: freedom of religion is a right, not a favor. And the second question is the subject you need to discuss.

(Ideally, do this after you've looked up your school's policy on religious absences, so you know what you're working within and that religious discrimination is illegal. Just in case your professor forgot.)

#this strategy got me through all of college #and some professors were a lot more supportive than others but no one ever told me no #because i didn't give them the chance #jumblr #judaism #religious absences #relevant to other minority religions as well #as well as non-religious accommodations #and non-school settings #dandelion says #jewish dandelion #note: the policy/legality details will vary depending on where you live and go to school #when i talk about religious discrimination laws this is based on public universities in the us

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

All of us after hearing that Rhys Darby is sad about losing the role he's said he was born to play

#ofmd #our flag means death #made this meme on cancelation day and it's more relevant now than ever

[tamsinbeybey-she-no-porcupine]

okay just because I'm losing my mind over Major Anthony Havers and the very horrible, bad, not good day:

I'm still kinda glad that he was there witnessing Cap's death. And not solely for the Captain's sake.

I mean Cap was not really subtle about his affection and yet when he said "I say, Havers!" my boy almost gave himself whiplash (I made a long as post about what follows before but let me just summarise). Havers looks at him expectantly and when Cap doesn't bring up the courage to tell him how he feels (two times in a row at that), Havers looks dissapointed and crestfallen but manages to keep a stiff upper lip.

In short he suspected and reciprocated but from what we have seen he never really got a real confirmation about Cap's feelings for him.

(Tbh I still think he would have been so so tempted to stay if Cap had said anything)

So now skip forward a few years. The war is over, Havers got wounded at the front line, he has to attend an event and then he sees Cap.

The man who corrected his "I shall miss you, Havers" , who tried to confess something but didn't, Mr. 17 points on the agenda, his stickler for rules and authorities Captain broke into an event, stole some medals and is clearly there looking for and trying to talk to Havers. Years after they have last seen each other.

And I think in that moment Havers got the confirmation he wanted. So when Cap tries to finally vocalise it, he stops him because 1.) The man should really not waste breath right now 2.) They are in danger because of where they are and whom they surrounded by and 3.) He doesn't need to say it. Havers finally knows what he kinda knew all along. What Cap just did to get to him speaks louder than words and it's finally a clear confirmation on how Cap feels.

And then to go even further Cap adresses him by his first name. Not his rank, or his last name. He adresses the man behind the uniform as an equal. And Havers does the same. No Captain, no Sir, just the name of the man he loves who is now dying in front of him.

And it's heartwrenching and horrible to think about but we all said that at least Cap died knowing that he was loved.

And that's why I'm a bit glad about it happening that way because now Havers has some closure as well. He can now live his life after all the horrors at least knowing that yes he was loved through all of it.

#Im sorry I say gnawing on drywall #I have so many emotions about them #Though me going Mad about Havers really isn't something new #My soft boy and my creaky boy #Caphavers #Capvers #bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts spoilers #BBC Ghosts series 5 spoilers #Redlever #Tis I your local Havers lunatic #<-bringing this Tag Back because it's more relevant than ever #Sorry If the Post isn't coherent or Well explained

[jestroer]

Mx @theminecraftbee I cant help it im back at this Giant Bird grind

Inspired by This is about a Stuffed Bird by @/theminecraftbee which is SO great if you still didnt read it you really should i think

#i simply love him a lot #Look at them #Just look at them i love them #The second one is like months after finding Grian they are good they are chilling okay #Oh how i love to draw this bird #now that i started i cannot stop #This is about a stuffed bird #Stuffed bird #stuffed bird spoilers #grian is just one big spoiler i guess #idk how relevant is spoiler tag like more than half a year after the thing ended but you know #i will not stop thinking about this thing ever i think #grian #mumbo jumbo #evil xisuma #evil x #court jester's art #court jester's fanfiction appreciation moment #scopohobia tw #eyes tw #tw body horror

[anarchopuppy]

I need at least another $25 to pay my phone bill in a couple days (and that'd leave me no money left for food, let alone rent next month). I'm still unemployed and paralyzed by one of the worst mental health spirals of my life. Anything helps, if you can spare it

This is my ko-fi. Venmo and paypal available by private request. Love y'all

#i know the blog has been sporadic recently #i'm trying my best to keep it updated because i really do believe it's important #or at least more important than whatever else i'd be doing with my time most days #i'm so burnt out at this point i'm genuinely considering ways to leave capitalist society altogether rather than get another job ever again #squats intentional communities etc #tbh i've read a lot about those things but have had very little interaction with them personally #if anyone has personal experience and could give advice relevant to someone who can barely get out of bed i'd appreciate it #this is the most publicly vulnerable i've been in years i think...

[front-facing-pokemon]

#meloetta #okay. let's all be honest with ourselves. first of all‚ pirouette form that i didn't even know existed is under the cut #second of all. do any of us REALLY know anything about meloetta's lore? they show up in the gti postgame i THINK but i don't #even remember why they did that. something about helping you with the town building mechanics (which i still think is insanely cool) #and i don't think this “pirouette form” ever happens. in there. i think they're barely relevant even in gti #the hell is this thing? like. an event pokémon that was somehow even less relevant than genesect and keldeo? #if anyone knows what this thing is or what its lore significance is. then. i'd be surprised. lemme google it actually. bulbapedia time #okay…… plays music…… sings or whatever……… pirouette form is. normal/fighting? ok #bulbapedia dropping a whole-ass ♩ which i didn't even know was a unicode character #ok. it sings. why #yeah only ever released via event. sad? sad #it would be more sad if i knew anything about this bitch other than that they sing and that is it #why do they need to be mythical. what is the point

[totem-but-shark]

this comment had me thinking more about qfoolishs fobo retirement arc and an end to his character and that in relation to the possible end of qsmp and it made me wonder that maybe, in universe, qfoolish knew it was all coming to an end. He's an immortal and totem of undying, he's far more in touch with life and death than most others and so perhaps even after just the reset he knew this world was dying. Even a god would have a hard time keeping together a shattered planet let alone the federation holding reality together with glue and tape. Nothing can truly be reset, no slate can be fully wiped clean. Life leaves its marks as does death.

It would be quite the distraction from building hearing it on the wind, feeling it in the earth, tasting it in the water. Their world is dying, and maybe he couldn't find anything within himself beyond the will to sit back and wait for whatever comes next.

#qsmp #qsmp foolish #foolish gamers #qsmp thoughts #qsmp analysis #doozer doozys #i meant to post this like two months ago whooops #but i guess it's more relevant than ever

[anomalocariscanadensis]

i think the usage of "AI" as a synonym for ML models is deeply misleading because it lends itself to thinking about those models as if they were almost-people which do things themselves, rather than tools which people use to do things

this is a consequence of the broader fact that AI is a theatrical term with no technical meaning, but it's especially prominent wrt neural networks because their PR has focused heavily on playing up purported similarities with human minds ("neural network", "machine learning", etc)

up until the last couple years, you could say a piece of art was "made with AI" and mean "genetic algorithm plus perlin noise and particles", or your phone's predictive text, or a Tracery generative text grammar. having a wide variety of technical methods in mind when you say "AI" makes it easier to see through the hype on any one method, and gives more basis to think through what's actually going on in the theatrical performance of AI. even then the illusion is powerful

#anyway theres a shitload of good writing out there on generative art thats more recent than 1935 #not to disparage benjamin's continued relevance but he's the only one people ever seem to cite #furthermore ai is a theatrical term with no technical meaning

[cluescorner]

Arlecchino's whole deal is unbelievable

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder what's causing my weird powers? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta become King and then kill my "Mother".

*Kills Clervie and "Mother"*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I was able to defeat a Fatui Harbinger when I'm like 17 or so? I can't really worry about that right now tho, I've gotta be in jail and become a Harbinger.

*Is in jail for a while and becomes a Harbinger*

Arlecchino: Huh I wonder why I am-

Pierro: Hey what's up hello, anyways you're descended from the Crimson Moon Dynasty of Khaenri'ah. I'm sure that this is a lot for you to take in so-

Arlecchino: Ok.

Pierro: ...You're just cool with that?

Arlecchino: IDK maybe? I can't really worry about that at the moment, I'm a father now. This orphanage full of children I love (who also are child soldiers and are not allowed to leave or else I'll execute them except maybe now I'm just gonna wipe their memories IDK I'm morally complex) isn't gonna run itself.

*Runs the orphanage/spy recruitment initiative*

Me, the fucking player: WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU ARE KHAENRI'AN? WHY WASN'T THIS BROUGHT UP IN YOUR FUCKING QUEST?? OR ANYTHING ELSE????

Arlecchino, talking to me through my phone: I honestly don't know why you care, I'm too busy to give a shit. Anyways, I'm gonna go fight fate itself I guess. I'm sure that I don't share any thematic parallels with any other Khaenri'an characters (particularly as it relates to acting and family angst) and that I haven't made the idea of 'curses' on Khaenri'ans and what they entail even more complicated than they already were. See ya.

#arlecchino #genshin impact #pierro #WHY IS THE GAME FUCKING GLOSSING OVER THE FACT THAT SHE IS KHAENRI'AN?! #Not only that but she is the first Khaenri'an we've met (that we know of) who's from the Crimson Moon Dynasty #I'm so fucking confused #Did Celestia place a DIFFERENT curse on members of the Crimson Moon Dynasty?? Or is this stuff all of them can do??? #HELP #She also seems almost...uninterested in the fact that she's descended from Khaenri'ah. Which honestly I think is interesting. #I don't know if I like it yet but when every other Khaenri'ah character has one of their major traits being that they super fucking #care that they are Khaenri'an (whether that be Kaeya with his paranoia/destiny/duty or Dain with his guilt over his failure/desire to #prevent our sibling from fucking with anything too much or whatever the fuck is going on with Pierro) #having a character who is Khaenri'an but doesn't seem to particularly be invested in that part of themself is different #she cares more about the curse and its effects on her then she ever really cares about the Crimson Moon Dynasty or the cataclysm #IDK I think it's neat from a character writing angle. or at least it has the potential to be if the writers do a good job. #But from a 'I like maybe 3 things in this game and one of them is Khaenri'ah' perspective it SUCKSSSSS #That part of the plot is already suffering from chronic live-service storytelling disease where people just straight up don't tell you #shit that they logically SHOULD BE TELLING YOU because the game needs to save plot points to build hype around #so for one of like 4-ish (depending on how much we count Albedo) Khaenri'an major characters to give us literally 1 and 1/2 voicelines #kinda sucks ngl. but again it's also interesting and realistic for Arlecchino and from that angle I like it #she doesn't care about what fate says her place in the world is. she's gonna carve her own and being Khaenri'an isn't relevant to #the life and identity she has built for herself. she isn't the type to look for answers she doesn't need. she's practical and efficient. #at the very least it's better than when Albedo 'I want to find all the world's truths' Kreideprinz doesn't let the audience in on his stuff

[uncanny-tranny]

I've been pushing myself to be more open about being trans and the positive and negative of it, not to prove that I am a person, but to show other trans people that they aren't alone. I owe my life, I think, to the trans people who have done this - gone into the nitty-gritty - and if I could do that even at a fraction of the effect, then my job is done. I don't exist to prove I am a human person and neither do you - you are already enough of a person.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #watching kat blaque's side channel video about lived experience and it's WEIRD because i was just thinking about that #like my last post about youth lib... i brought up a loved experience because i think it's relevant to what i was saying #it isn't about 'cis people should recognize trans people's personhood because of lived experience!' for me that isn't the point #when i share my transness i do it for other trans people first and foremost. i invite cis people to the table and i want them to join me #but i don't really expect it. i recognize that sharing my trans life doesn't interest random cis people and if they don't see... #...trans persons as people first then it would take a lot more than my own lived experience to change that #anyway. yeah. just reflecting on my hashtag online presence and being trans #this blog is perhaps the most open i have ever been (and will probably ever be) open about transness #i am a severely private person and the ONLY reason i am open is precisely for the reason i laid out in this post for *other* trans people

[mortiscausa]

first few pages from a long abandoned comic project

#wip #comic art #personal project #adrestia project #if i ever return to this project i probably wouldn't start with this bit because it's become less and less relevant to the story #how aurele lechance and the ballantynes first met #so this would get cut regardless of whether i pick this up again #god you can see the way i draw hands has changed so much since drew this #there was actually more dialogue on these pages lol #i just never got around to doing more than that one sb haha

[razberrypuck]

rotating henry emily in my mind

#clarifying now that this is abt the games #the fandom at large is missing out on henrys character i think and its such a shame #bc he + his dynamic with william are sososo interesting #like this isnt abt anyone specific but it seems like most people portray him as just another parent that lost a kid (but Plot Relevant) #but the thing is. he was completely complicit in the missing childrens incident. he wasnt actively helping william or anything #but he KNEW it was him From The Beginning. he KNEW william was a threat. but the only time he ever said anything was To William Directly. #we dont talk enough abt the candy cadet story about the boy and the snake. or the “bear of vengeance” cutscenes. #that is will and henry. that is Very Directly What Happened in 1985. #in a lot of theories (coughgametheorycough) its stated that henry kicked william out. except william left on his own. #henry was upset with him yes he tried to confront him yes but he could NEVER kick him out. #the boy could not bear to get rid of the snake #and all of that is. so much more compelling than henry being demoted to the sidelines. #rrghfgrgrrh anyway. ask me about. fnaf. #fnaf #five nights at freddy's #henry emily

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

i'll be honest its a little mean but i find it kind of funny theres people legitimately melting down over the fact tamamo aria doesnt seem to have been chosen to be one of the collab servants for fsr

#'why did they pick yui over her' oh yui? the character who's present through the entire story? who has actual plot relevance? #vs the character who uhhhh fucking shows up 3 times to be cute and then fucks off again that you can't even play as in game?? #like ok i get wanting another tammy but acting like picking someone who IS an actual historical figure is a weird/bad choice over 'meme fox #is like. ok. chill out a little maybe #fsr spoilers #i mean idk yui tells you their name in the first 5 minutes of the game thats not really a spoiler #they ARE way more relevant than aria ever is though like. cmon guys dont be a dip #my post

[tomwambsgans]

tomshiv presents the notion of love being "giving someone the power to hurt you" while tomgreg allows the more complete version of this idea: "and also, having been given this power, choosing not to use it"

#tomgreg #i had this in my drafts before this ep aired and i think it's more relevant than ever #with scorpion and the frog tomshiv now being textual #mine #meta

[front-facing-pokemon]

#volcanion #what's that? you forgot this thing existed? don't worry‚ dear reader. i did too #i only ever remember this thing when i'm thinking about the fact that this is the only fire/water-type i think #because that's inherently kinda a fucked up and cool typing. but i wish we could've gotten it on something more relevant than this #it hardly even looks like a pokémon to me‚ honestly. it looks like some cartoon superhero