#function comparison

[chevaliermalfets]

My Fair Lady (1964) // 30 Rock (2006)

#my fair lady #30 rock #eliza doolittle #henry higgins #liz lemon #jack donaghy #audrey hepburn #rex harrison #tina fey #alec baldwin #i have a LOT to say about this but it's past my bedtime so just have this #i could make a bajillion more comparisons between them btw there's so much that this gifset doesn't even touch on #specifically when the mentor is like 'psssh I can get on fine without her' and then is on the verge of tears five minutes later #going 'WHERE'S MY LITTLE BUDDY' #'i need her here doing her dumb but endearing things in order for me to function as a human being' #musicals #ray.gif #parallels #another addition to the gifsets designed specifically for me collection

[pencilofawesomeness]

when you’re a genius but cursed older brother and you have terrible grief coping skills regarding the death of your little brother, but to wildly different outcomes

(meanwhile Natsu and Ortho are in the back, trying to figure out whether or not Natsu can eat lasers. he cannot)

#fairy tail #twisted wonderland #fairy tail x twisted wonderland #yes I am still on my bs #zeref dragneel #idia shroud #if I had a nickel for everytime this happened.... #though I do find the comparison hilarious #like two cursed dudes who effectively run or can run the shadow government #and one of them is a really good older brother #and the other decided let the curse take its course and then chucked his brother at a dragon and cut all contact #obviously zeref's curse is worse but #seeing mavis function hits home how bad zeref was at managing lmao #also I am vetoing idia's jacket it is a nightmare to draw

[ask-thearchivists]

So did you guys, Charmer specifically, murder the baby Titans? You remind me of the villain from that one game I used to play. The guy disguised himself (or maybe in your case, had people disguise themselves to do your bidding) as someone trustworthy and approachable then led the kids to a room where he brutally killed them. Did you do something similar, Charmer? Or had "followers" do it for you?

The Charmer: I think you're glossing over the part where you played a game where you played a person who would kill children? Willingly?? What would the purpose of this as a game even be? Is there some functional benefit to brutally murdering children in this game, that cannot be achieved by any other means? You also aren't being clear about whether real children died to play this game.

#ask blog #ask the archivists #asks are open #toh the archivists #the owl house #toh #toh oc #the archivists #id in alt text #the fact I woke up this fucking morning to someone comparing him to WILLIAM AFTON #the way I screamed #unfortunately she's a bit too cool toned to be some sort of purple guy #her answer does give insight to why he did it though #he believed there was a functional benefit to doing so that couldn't be achieved any other way #also she KNOWS better than to admit to doing any of that #but I absolutely had to answer this so everyone who follows me is forced to see this comparison #video games are not guaranteed to exist on every planet so he might not immediately think of one when you say 'game'

[aroaceleovaldez]

i need to know everything about your pjo voltron au

okay so basic plot premise: Thalia, Luke, Jason, Percy, Maria di Angelo, and Bianca all work at the Garrison and get sent on 3 separate missions (Thalia & Luke, Jason & ??? or maybe he's just by himself, then Percy & Maria & Bianca) which are all "lost" and they're declared dead by the Garrison.

Of course they were actually all abducted by aliens. Maria probably dies pretty early on in that whole situation. Thalia gets separated from Luke and ends up escaping and becoming a rebel. Luke, Jason, and Percy & Bianca all separately (except for Percy & Bianca) end up gladiators. Luke becomes The Champion and basically ends up a Kuron/Sendak-type character situation. Is he being mind-controlled? Unclear. He has a giant alien scythe-sword though. Bianca probably dies buying Percy time in the arena. At some point Percy and Jason find each other and decide to try and stick together.

Hazel is a human raised by her galra dad in space with the Blade of Marmora. She knows she has a half-brother through her dad out there somewhere but not anything else about him. She ends up running into Jason and Percy on a mission and helps them escape cause they're humans too.

Back on Earth, Piper, Leo, and Annabeth are all Garrison students. Or Annabeth is possibly in a Keith-type situation where she used to be a student but got Kinda Pissed Off about all her loved ones disappearing into space and ended up getting kicked out. Nico is in a Pidge-type situation where he snuck in as a student under a false name to figure out what happened to his family's mission. Percy and Jason crash on earth, the gang finds them, they find the Blue Lion, and Percy pilots it to the Altean castleship where they meet Reyna and Frank. Reyna is the Altean Princess, because her sister Hylla was queen. Frank is the son of a high-ranking general or something and he and Reyna are a duo.

Rest going under a cut cause this got long -

Lion adventures happen - Annabeth pilots the Green Lion, Jason pilots the Black Lion. Nico finds the Red Lion and meets Hazel when he does and brings her back to the castle. Hazel pilots the Yellow Lion. Nico very quickly realizes he's half-Galra and Hazel's brother and joins the Blade of Marmora. Percy swaps from Blue to the Red Lion. Piper starts piloting the Blue Lion. Leo, Frank, Reyna, and Nico end up the home-base support team. Percy probably keeps the blue paladin armor and Piper gets the spare pink armor for color association reasons and also cause that's usually the format for every iteration of Voltron anyways. It works out nicely. Everybody has extra lion compatibilities too/every Lion has a back-up basically cause I'm still mad vld canon dropped the lion lore/sentience plotlines and we never got cool dynamic lion swapping instead of just the usual single switch. We're having fun here.

Then everything else I don't have much for other than Annabeth and Nico basically swap Keith and Pidge roles once they join Voltron so Nico goes and has his galra identity crisis adventures and Annabeth reunites with Thalia at some point, who is basically in a Matt-type role. And Luke functions as the Sendak-level antagonist who Annabeth probably gets to fight with a swap back to Keith's role in a whole Keith & Kuron emotional situation. Kronos and Gaea are probably analogous to Zarkon and Haggar/Honerva here but not necessarily in that order, and obviously it's more of an either "Emperor and his advisor mom" or "Empress and her prince son" but in either one somebody's doing magic and people are probably getting possessed. Hades, Persephone, Iaepatus/Bob, and Damasen are all with the BoM. The Titans/Giants are probably all Empire generals. Who's Lotor? Octavian? Calypso? I don't know. Who are all the gods? I dunno. We'll workshop it.

#pjo #riordanverse #ask #dreamyzworldlove #vld pjo au #long post // #i think a normal about about the BoM and galra lore okay #i am a simple being. i like worldbuilding. show me funky fluffy purple aliens and i will be invested #i made a whole translation of their alphabet so i could write with it #as for the rest - #Annabeth & Luke with the "You're like a brother to me - I love you'' probably constitutes as psychological violence on a meta level #it maps hilariously well though in terms of both narrative function in the au canon #AND meta level comparisons of fandom reactions re: Luke's death / the Kuron fight and relevant quotes in both. the bloodshed... #anyways its too perfect though and im amused by the parallels of meta baggage there so it stays #i am also now rapidly rotating all lotor options in my brain #also Nico joing the BoM is essentially analogous to him running away in TTC #except he's not 10 here so he probably does it with a bit more grace #he probably finds out about his mom and sister. gets real sad. then meets Hazel #and finds out she's his sister and their dad is around and he goes ''...okay. im okay now.''

[pipcoded]

belos being obsessed with creating a perfect version of his older brother that he killed is actually the most interesting part of toh, like my brain discarded all of the other characters and plot after that reveal

#belosposting #im not rly even a toh fan im just a belos fan #he’s such an insane little freak it makes all of the characters presented as ‘weirdos’ pale in comparison #freud would have a field day with that mf and i want to watch #there isn’t rly even an explanation for the function of grimwalkers in his life outside of being playthings like??? wtf is going on there??

[topnotchquark]

Behind F1's Velvet Curtain

This article by Kate Wagner on her INEOS sponsored trip to the Austin GP at COTA last year was commissioned by Road and Track magazine and then taken down. Presumably because Kate has was pretty staunch in her opinions about what was essentially a paid trip.

It is exactly the kind of thing I have wanted to read about the felt experience of the money business of F1. It doesn't get into technicalities and does not produce any spreadsheets for reference. It's just, her experience of the presence of wealth in the sport.

She starts off by talking about how she has been covering cycling and NASCAR for a while now and both of those, in comparison, are scrappier sports with smaller sponsors and cheaper tickets.

What I also especially loved was how fascinated she was with the cars themselves, and how they seem like a true marvel of human engineering. She almost described the cars like these alien beasts that came into this dimension out of nowhere and were being constantly monitored and dueled with to furnish wins and glory (and shareholder value for sponsors).

I think I always had an understanding of the weird myth making surrounding F1 and the kind of media attention it attracts, but someone like Kate (who I have loved reading for a while now) putting it into perspective really made it click for me. This sport thrives off of the kind of cocoon it has built around it and understands exactly the certain exclusiveness it needs to maintain to keep the story alive.

Anyway, give it a read, especially because Road and Track is trying to bury it to not piss off sponsors.

#I think matt oxley was talking about how motogp has been struggling with money and hence dorna is trying to woo the American market #and the american tech sponsors #but bikes don't require as much data driven performance engineering as f1 cars do #Ducati is probably leading the operation in this regard because they have audi behind them #anyway I knew motogp does not produce the same level of wealth but I still decided to check numbers #Marc's net worth is $25Mn and he is arguably the best driver of his generation with enough sponsors behind him #Max's net worth in comparison is $165Mn easily over 6 times that of Marc #Vale's net worth is $200Mn but he is still somewhat of an outlier because his popularity far outweighs that of motogp itself #Lewis is still around $300Mn and he hasn't even retired yet #Schumacher was around $800Mn #I know net worth is a very stupid number to consider but driver net worth is an easy way to translate impact ig #the current Max to Mercedes rumours caused Merc valuation to rise by $11Bn #Billion! 11 of them! #honestly I frequently get desensitized to money just purely as a number because I am exposed to businesses with large valuations but #I still wanted a moment to reconsider how much money rides on this sport #and how that ties to how rich people function #just made me remember that Ocon is the last driver from a working class background #Fernando and Lewis are the only other with working class beginnings and both of them are over 35 and ridiculously talented #its not a sport for regular people to break into #Vale also started with karts and had to shift to bikes #anyway I love Kate Wagner please read this #and talk to me about money and F1 #Kate wagner #f1 #formula 1 #road and track magazine #lewis hamiton #mercedes amg petronas f1 team #Mercedes #INEOS

[generic-sonic-fan]

Consider:

Should Omega find himself in such a scenario where he can destroy Eggman, though the only method of doing so involves his own destruction, does he hesitate at all? He has his own self-perception as the Strongest Robot; does victory at the cost of his existence fit that image he has? Is he truly the Strongest if he doesn't outlast his shitty Dad?

Don't get me wrong, the question isn't whether he'd go through with it. I know he would, just wonder if there's a momentary hiccup in his CPU due to his ultimate objective clashing with how he sees himself.

If you asked Omega if he'd sacrifice himself to kill Eggman, he's answer "yes" without hesitation.

Now, if you actually put him into a situation where that was the case, I don't think he'd go through with it.

Omega is a robot who Lies, and he is a robot with one hell of an ego. He'll say damn near anything to keep up the reputation he's established for himself. In this case, that's the reputation for being ruthless, tough as nails, and persistent beyond the capability of an organic organism.

Another thing to consider is the fact that Eggman has gotten away from him at least a dozen times at this point. Either through Eggman's own ingenuity and survival instinct, or through the intervention of Sonic and related friends, Omega's never managed to get the killing shot off yet. Although he'd kill you if you referred to such instances as "failures", he's no stranger to setbacks. He might get impatient about it, sure, but he knows that as long as he stays online he can always try again.

He does have a problem with charging into bad situations to try and get the perfect shot, but I don't think he ever goes into a fight with the assumption that he's not going to come out alive. He does an initial assessment, charges in when things look winnable, but often times forgets to reevaluate when more enemies arrive or variables change. You could say that he gets carried away by his passion and that gets him in trouble. But he never picks a fight that he knows he can't win. He wouldn't be the Ultimate Robot if he did.

Moreover, I think you're right about that self-perception part. I don't think Omega would consider it a victory if Eggman's death came at the price of his own (or at the price of his friends', but shhhh, don't tell anyone that!). He's better than that. Of course he can destroy Eggman without such a major cost, he's the Ultimate Robot!

So if you put him in a split-second decision of whether or not to self-destruct to destroy Eggman, I think that he'd hesitate, and hesitate long enough to miss the opportunity entirely.

(Oh, and he'll be pissed at himself for this, of course.)

#e-123 omega #e123 omega #about that last point- Omega's quite fond of living but he can't forgive any perceived dereliction of his function. #that tends to be a complex that every Badnik has engrained in their processors. nature plus nurture and all that #and whoops I've made yet another comparison to Metal look at that #Bruce I love you. thank you for picking my brain about this character. I will always have boatloads of shit to say about him

[darkwood-sleddog]

There is a weird kind of ick to me when dog button people allude to the fact that a dog can be “taught” to communicate. As if they don’t communicate already? As if westernized Americanized human English is the be all end all of communication? Like fuck off.

#dogblr #I will only be communicating in screeching from now on #if you actually studied my body langaue you’d know what I wanted #but instead you’ll teach me to push buttons! #as allude to my ‘child like’ brain function #being serious now I hate comparisons of animal cognition to human ones #I get it’s helpful for some people to understand #but no dogs do not communicate like toddlers #they communicate like dogs actually #and there human brain is very capable of learning multiple forms of communication #whereas canines struggle to contextualize the way we do #it’s much more fair and balanced for US to learn how dogs communicate vs the other way around #also kinda weird that dog button people promote buttons like ‘disabled people use them’ #but use a dog to study how buttons can be ‘helpful’ like hmmmmmmmmmmmm

[radiantaerynsvn]

my silly little brain is currently connecting farscape and the x files, as in farscape season 4 ended with john and aeryn in a row boat and the x files i want to believe ended with mulder and scully in a row boat and now i'm feeling a little crazy

#if i go further with the connecting it would be aeryn being pregnant in the scene and gillian being pregnant in real life in the scene #farscape #the x files #txf #johnaeryn #msr #aeryn sun #john crichton #dana scully #fox mulder #rewatching bad timing and my brain suddenly went wait !! #its always nice when my brain actually feels like it functions somewhat #i'm sorry if this comparison has been made before i couldn't find anything but it must've been idk #also the stark difference in how johnaeryn were allowed to kiss (and have a family) whereas msr ... well chris carter happened #seeing as for a while s4 was the end for farscape and iwtb the end for txf except both got the peacekeeper wars and s10&11 respectively #though obviously msr weren't crystallised #anyway!

[kyouka-supremacy]

Does anyone know where I can find the good quality version of this image? It's so frustrating because when cross searching on google it'll tell me the original quality is 850x478, but I can't find a way to download it in that quality. This is another version of the image (I'm guessing it's Mayoi promo art):

But I liked the clean white background one...

#It's cute... #It's got Akutagawa stealing glances at Atsushi #Thought asking was worth a try ;;;;;; #Google cross image search has changed and as someone who used it as I use breathing it's been absolutely heartbreaking. #It makes cross searching images so much harder it's awful #Because before when you looked up an image it suggested you the best quality avaible of that image. #And the search got worse every year but it was still functional you know?? #But now there's not that anymore. There's no “large” “medium” “small” and instead it only gives you “find image source” #Dude I don't want to find the image source. I've downloaded the image I KNOW the source. What I want is ANOTHER SOURCE with better quality #And I used to get it when I was 10 and I used to get it when I was 15 and I sued to get it when I was 20 #And now I don't have it anymore?? It stripes away one of the most powerful search tools on the internet from the public???? #It drives me insane. Like why does internet get worse every year that's not how humanity is supposed to work #Sorry. I needed to rant. This makes every quality-freak media archivist (like me) job harder beyond comparison #Btw if you're looking for an alternative Yandex images still does the work... It's not as powerful search engine as google #and it's often going to miss the particular hidden media (y'know- super niche Akutagawa merch from 2018 and stuff) #But for the rest it does a pretty good job. If anything there's still the best quality avaible option #But seriously looking up stuff for aktgw-daily has gotten so much harder ever since this fucked up change to google lens #and it makes me hate the world. I haven't been able to find a way to reverse it but if anyone more tech savy than me who has any idea- #what I'm talking about can help me. Please please hmu I'll be grateful forever #Sorry for the rant I have a lot of pent up rage over this. Stop making broke people's lives harder challenge #random rambles

[sysig]

They’re too cute, I can’t stop (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Jocasta #Questionably SFW #I mean it's technically nudity but it's possibly the most censored and chaste nudity considering the intent lol #Flirting time! Reverse fluster! Heck yeah #Jocasta being bold in flirting is so cute ah - it's also cute to see her fumble when she's literally so pretty gosh heck but like #I think it's the success of the flirt hitting its mark that just delights me haha #It's not as evident here since there's just the one but I was drawing all kisses all the time for a bit there and they got swept up in it #I remember immediately after I was like ''Wait. How tall are they in comparison to each other'' lol #Let's just say Jocasta is intentionally leaning on her let's go with that I totally didn't accidentally make her shorter pfft #That was actually really fun to draw hehe ♪ Full body kiss! Big hug! Very cute #And leaves Sarah completely unable to function haha #Hey the nudity-but-actually-it's-fine! Lol #Actually now that I think of it I made the same joke with Pop and Soda.... Let's call it a reference and leave it at that lol #Ah frick /and/ Soda's a mermaid! It's really the same joke! Dang lol #And finally capping off with some alternate eye colours to represent hypnosis #Blue is usually pretty good for ''Not in one's right mind'' colour I think - although that might just be the TGWDLM talking lol #And I mean Syreen are mostly blue! Could totally be a Syreen-affected colour! #Although when I think about it green is more common for Under Another's Influence isn't it? :0 Or is that just the Evil X talking?? Lol #Syreen do also have green glowing eyes specifically so there's that - it would make sense #I'll have to do some comparisons #Usually I'm not really much into hypnosis or mind control or the like but on top of enjoying these two I was watching some MEPs and well #There was a femslash set to Hypnotic and the rest is history lol #The entire time I was just like ''Wow these are great ideas! I should do something with them! Hang on'' lol

[high-voltage-rat]

Vyvanse is such a silly little drug. I get up at 11, take it at noon, what's a normal sleep phase I don't know her.

The first hour passes and I'm like "dude nothings happening except me getting sweaty and my heart's going a bit faster" and then I blink and it's another 2 hours later and I've just blitzed doing every chore available to me, organized all my shit for the day, read through 500 tumblr posts, watched some random-ass YouTube clips, and made myself food I don't want to eat because my appetite is suppressed but I know food consumption is a task. It's like all of my ADHD bullshit for the entire day happens at light speed over a few hours.

Then I sit down and can do The Big Task of the day for 5 hours or more and, unlike with a hyperfocus, can remain focused on it even after taking breaks to go do other stuff.

Then the end of the day hits and I'm tired and need to go to sleep but I still feel the Productivity Need so for some reason I watch 50 more "Educational" YouTube videos until it subsides and then finally fall asleep at 2am.

Like. Does it cure my ADHD? Absolutely not. Does it make me less chaotic? No. But does it allow me to consistently channel my ADHD energy productively? Oh, yeah. I'm not 100% sure that's what my doctors were going for when they prescribed it, but I gotta be honest I kinda love it.

#not video games #late nights with ali #nd blogging #actuallyADHD #I'm pretty sure my docs were intending for a bit more... how you say... stability? #but a lot of my ADHD traits don't go away. just the most important one- activation-based executive dysfunction #And honestly without that I think I like the way I function with the rest? usually anyway #If I'm in control of it. I love my hyperfocus. I love my bouncing around chaotically. I love being impulsively spontaneous #don't get me wrong. there are days where I do hate my adhd. when the emotional regulation problems kick in it's hell. #rejection sensitive dysphoria is a bitch. I can forget self care in lieu of 'more important' things. my working memory can fuck me over. #but in comparison to how I lived before medication? it's amazing. and I've learned to be fond of aspects of my disorder #and to live with the ones that are inconvenient. it's so nice honestly #I could do without the sweating and appetite suppression. but it is SO worth it to like my own mind again. #before I was diagnosed I knew I had it. so my only options were self medicating with caffiene and developing an anxiety disorder. #the thing that bypasses the dopamine-based activation is adrenaline-based activation #so I literally just. got so anxious about stuff I needed to do that it would trigger the adrenaline activation where dopamine failed me #I don't think I actually 100% KNEW that's what I was doing per se. but I do think some of my anxiety came from intentional doom spiralling #anyway moral of the story. Vyvanse helps with ADHD is some truly strange ways but at the end of the day it's a fucking miracle #New River Pharmaceuticals developers of lisdexamfetamine I am kissing you on the mouth

[anastacialy]

on that last rb's note: some of these boycotts are not easy. a majority of my already-few safe foods are on the list. grocery shopping has been hard — it's already hard for me on a normal day — and it's only gotten worse as the boycott list grows. but i am still doing it. and you should still be doing it. you should still be trying, even when it's hard. free palestine.

#i just wanted to clarify my stance because yeah for some people a starbucks boycott IS hard #now that all big brand sodas are off limits im struggling to find alternatives #i know its pathetic and unhealthy blah blah blah i get it but i live off of mtn dew bc its one of the few fruity-rather-than-cola-y #caffeinated beverages out there. im absolute trash at drinking water. and if i dont have caffeine i am barely functional #but that pales in comparison to anything happening in palestine so i have to figure my shit out. not easy =/= not worthwhile #hope this is clear that its aimed at ppl who are struggling w boycotting but encouraging them to keep it up (or start again if they caved) #used to get mcdonalds frequently but i stopped w the boycott and you can too! i believe in you #txtly #also. if you're reading this and you start to get mad at me for whatever reason #before replying or sending me an anon i ask you to read the post at least twice more ok? ok thank you bye

[r0semultiverse]

These organizations supporting KOSA going through while claiming they want to help marginalized kids are actually so disgusting to me. The posts they make about Nex is just virtue signaling & words when their actions say let’s make things worse for these children.

I’m gonna be 100% honest, they should keep that kid’s name out of their damn mouths so long as they support KOSA. Like actually fuck you & eat shit. Actions speak louder than words, traitorous scumbags. You don’t care, you care about your stakeholders more.

Your organization can only thrive & exist so long as there’s a problem to donate towards solving. Of course you would support KOSA, you need a problem to keep existing in order to look like the good guys & solve it. Just go mask off & call us slurs & your “customers” at this point, it would be less disgusting than covering it up behind kind words.

#this goes out to the Trevor project & PFLAG as well as GLAAD & GLSEN #all of you should keep Nex’s name out your mouth when you have every intention to make things worse for trans kids #I can’t imagine going to work for one of these charity organizations & just seeing your bosses make things worse for the people you are #trying to help #I cannot imagine how frustrating & upsetting that is & then the higher ups are just like okayyyy our organization can keep existing... #so now y’all lower rank workers go help these kids whose lives we just made worse! #these charity orgs function like retail stores I stg; they need customers to keep giving them money meanwhile the higher ups make things #worse for said customers while the cashiers & others just try to help the best they can #you’re doing damage control for your incompetent & terrible upper management; it’s just like every other American workplace #you can also compare supporting a bill that would hurt the people they claim to help as a war economy comparison #they need to keep the class war going by supporting this bill in order to keep having money to keep existing as an organization #they’re playing both sides while on the surface saying we are here to help! #no you aren’t! your workers are; but you as higher ups are prioritizing stakeholders over humanity & for that you’ve lost all my respect #I haven’t looked up evidence about the human rights campaign supporting KOSA but they’ve been bad in the past so I believe it tbh #I mean the recent Zionism from HRC is enough for me to be like yeahhh no they absolutely would be in support of the Kosa bill #mine #op #the trevor project #pflag #glaad #GLSEN

[isfjmel-phleg]

First ever Ateva and Josiah one-on-one scene written. I'm still figuring out their precise dynamic, but I am very certain that with her he reverts to Younger Sibling mode in a way he doesn't with anyone else.

#The Blackberry Bushes #Josiah despite being the third of four children is functionally an only child #due to the age gaps between him and the others #but he was technically The Baby for the first seven years of his life #and on some level he's never gotten over it #also: this scene exists partially as a comparison with Marela's talk with Viori at the beginning

[thecrownofflames]

Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel / Sansa Stark

#i know this has been made before #but i wanted to rb it with the vertical comparison and i could NOT find it anywhere #why can't the seach function on this website ever work? #comparatives #sansa stark #Alexandre Cabanel #fallen angel