#instruction begins

[vipurrs]

A beautiful sunny, lazy afternoon is such a cute thing to strip away from a cute, oh so breakable, little fuck toy 💖 She knows her time is mine and her purpose to serve me. For a fresh-faced, innocent, bimbo-fied new lamb training is on-going. It, and I, wait for no one and brook no tardiness. Shaking your ass and presenting yourself IS encouraged, but ultimately ineffective 🖤

#ownership #surrender #service kink #training #fem domme #high protocol #on demand #female dominance #domme mommy #femme4femme #gentle domination #dominated love slave #dom/sub #trans woman #instruction begins #you wouldnt want to disappoint thus face would you? #lgbtq #lesbian #dom lesbian

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 1:7 (ESV) - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

#Proverbs 1:7 #fear #LORD #beginning #knowledge #fools #despise #wisdom #instruction

[questioningdragons]

Also, can we talk about how it took years for Hama to invent bloodbending, but Katara figured it out in a single evening, just by becoming aware it was possible and seeing a brief demonstration?

#Avatar #Atla #I know these kids are all scary strong benders for the drama #But I wonder how that would be justifiable in universe #There's obviously different levels of bending (see Azula and her blue flame and lightning) #Is Aang a particularly strong Airbender? Or just a really quick learner for an Avatar? #Considering Roku took 12 years to master the other three elements and Aang had a few months he's obviously the latter #And then Toph is obviously a very strong earthbender #I don't know that any other benders could use it as an extra sense #(Ooh but now I headcanon that a sufficiently strong Airbender could) #So yes different levels of bending #But does the show ever explain why that is? #It seems to be more than study and instruction method #Zuko and Azula were presumably trained the same #(At least in the beginning) #And as far as I can tell Zuko is an average firebender #So is it just innate talent? #Also I think we need to talk about the fact that of the three scary strong bending girls only Azula actually had formal training #(Or rather Toph learned the basics from a master but had to teach herself the rest and Katara's skills were only refined by Paku) #(That is not spelled right...) #What would Toph and Katara have been like if they'd had actual training? #What would Azula have been like if she'd been as isolated as they were?

[ramblebrambleamble]

Your name is Jin Ling and today your crazy uncle has decided to be mad in Exciting New Directions and there is nothing that you can do to stop him because he has the power of God and anime Hanguang-jun on his side.

#mdzs #watched cql and now watching the animated version straight after #instructions for the caring of Jin Ling 1. #never let him go anywhere without uncle supervision #that kid is soooo lucky to have the yiling patriarch as his one of his many uncles #he has no idea #everywhere he goes his uncle the yiling patriarch is saving him #Hanguang-jun is there #he is beginning to have the sneaking suspicion that Hanguang-jun is also his uncle now but he is too afraid to ask #technically mo xuanyu goes sane (is now wei wuxian who can be a bit of a dick but is more or less mentally sound) #while literally all of jin ling's other uncle's start having mental breakdowns #your name is jin ling and you are being force-fed the most horrible porridge

[mishkakagehishka]

Whatever. My english prof corrected my hw in pink glitter pen and told me my translation was "excellent" so actually life is going great

#going from ''YOU'RE NOT READING MY INSTRUCTIONS PROPERLY HOW DARE YOU SHOW UP TO CLASS NOT FULLY PREPARED'' to this prof #is definitely. a process to get used to. but it's fun! she's lowkey hysterical and slow as a snail but really fun. :) #the only mistakes i had in that entire translation BTW was forgetting hyphens in fifteen-year-old bc i second-guessed myself #and putting ''slowly but surely'' at the end of the sentence (bc i forgot if the comma should go after it when it's in the beginning)

[prompt-of-the-day]

Dialogue: #009

"After the oven is done pre-heating at which temperature should we bake the cake?"

"Hmmm.... It doesn't say."

"And for how long are we supposed to bake it?"

"Well.... It doesn't say....."

"Then WHAT does it say?! Just where in the world did you find that kind of vague recipe?! Next time I'm bringing one of my own."

#daily prompt #writing prompts #dialogue prompt #Sadly based on real life #Never trust anyone else with finding the right instructions #Always double check #gender neutral mc #Bad recipe saga begins

[emiliosandozsequence]

we need to start telling people how to things instead of just what to do because expecting everyone to just be able to figure it out and telling them they don't really care to if they don't just isn't realistic nor actually working.

#stop telling people they need to do x for y reasons and start telling them How to do it #bc i guarantee there are plenty of people that don't know how to even begin doing those things even tho they very much want to #like so many of us are already autistic; why isn't instructions for everything the norm on this website???? #and i'm guilty of it too!! i don't explain well enough either!!! but we collectively definitely need to change that #emilio.txt

[wordborne]

someone called me teacher at the workshop for subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing i gave today :3

#someone also called me muchacha lmao #but wait let me tell you the tea #im looking at the questionnaire responses and these dudes don't know how to read 😭😭😭😭😭 #and they almost graduate!!!! #how can you not follow instructions 😭😭😭😭 #i had to explain things like 5 times after the presentation and i was going slow #i even asked them to please lmk if i was going too fast #also 99% of the responses towards the content were positive #except for someone who was like: i guess it was ok she didn’t explain thing that i clearly explained at the beginning 😭😭😭😭😭 #like bro you could've asked me too😭😭😭 #i was doing rounds asking if everything was alright and answering questions about the subs and the sub protocols even to those who were lat #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #you can tell they didn’t have grace as their teacher #she would've beat our asses over stuff like this

[supercantaloupe]

fucking student decided to re-sign up for the tour event on friday instead of RESPONDING TO THE EMAIL I ALREADY SENT HIM ABOUT ATTENDING. motherfucker

#clearly he reads he emails bc that's where he GOT the sign up link the second time around to begin with #but just. ignored the email i fucking sent him already about a spot being available to him #we're low on attendance already but i kind of want to decline him anyway out of spite.\ #why can't you fucking follow instructions. i hate it here #(i'm just in a pissyy mood this morning.) #i wanna talk about me #i even said 'no need to resubmit you're already on the list'. AND YET

[insteading]

“There's to be a fuel and food drop in the Manor grounds, as the place most easily visible from the air in this snow. And Miss Greythorne is asking if everyone in the village would not like to move into the Manor, for the emergency. It will be crowded, of course, but warm. And comforting, perhaps. And Dr Armstrong will be there—he is already on his way, I believe.” “That's ambitious,” Mr Stanton said reflectively. “Almost feudal, you might say.” Merriman's eyes narrowed slightly. “But with no such intention.”

--Chapter 9, "The Coming of the Cold"

Mr Stanton values self-containment, self-reliance. He admires the decision to make space at the manor for “the people from the cottages,” but insists that the Stanton family home is sufficient to them: “I don't see any good reason for our trooping off to partake of the bounty of the Lady of the Manor.” (Will eventually forces the issue by manipulating the Walker into such an emotional state that he needs a doctor.)

“Cottages” here probably refers to small housing near the manor, often quite old and maybe not fully modernized, that were rented from the landowner. Renters might be manor staff who weren't required to stay in servants' quarters in the manor itself overnight. Or they might be raising livestock or farming land adjacent to the manor, supplying much of what they farmed to the manor itself and some measure of food for their own household. Especially if the housing was supplied as a benefit of the manor-serving job, there was a level of precarity in being a cottager that a householder would not experience: a householder could change jobs without risking the roof over their head.

Mr Stanton's wariness about accepting the invitation to the manor makes sense: the relationship between manor and cottagers was exploitive. At the same time, our beloved “huddling for warmth” trope has so much mileage because humans really do need other humans in times of stress and scarcity. Whatever the virtues of self-reliance, some problems are too big to weather on our own. The first thing we learn to do as babies, before we can walk or talk or feed ourselves, is to cry for help. Because it's fundamentally human to need help sometimes, even if it goes against what we've learned to value.

#my favorite version of 'huddling for warmth' is 'village / town / city collectively seizes the largest available building & weathers crisis' #it happens in dorothy sayers' 'nine tailors' and is a nontrivial part of what i love about that book #and it happened to some extent on the local cooperative listserve near the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic: #not just people sharing instructions for providing mutual aid to undocumented restaurant workers #but sorting out who had masks left from the last fire season to donate to health care workers / who had extra produce & TP #and- i shit you not- who could drive a train if the supply chain broke down #never have i been as grateful to anarchists who'd already spent years living as if govt was failing #knowing your neighbors and their needs- and them knowing yours- is metaphorical huddling for warmth / and makes the world better #susan cooper #the dark is rising #the dark is reading #readathon

[marcusrobertobaq]

I wonder if common androids in DBH really need external inputs for everything, like, u gotta keep giving 'em orders, they don't just detect tasks in the enviroment and start working on it (i won't consider specific paths - the android will/should choose what to do first and how) Like, for example:

The house is a mess or there's a bunch of shit to do in a certain place and i don't order the android for nothing. Will the android organize everything for me w/o a direct input or will stay still waiting?

If they need constant direct orders for everything means they're just STUPID and that's why is so fucking easy to break 'em ass in this universe. You do something out of place and 'em CPU is already BRR with doubt instructions and stress.

Idk, man. All this investment in lookin' so human-like both external (to the point u can't make difference without the LED or the clothes or beating the shit outta 'em) and internal just for being a dummy with a super basic presentation dialog and u gotta keep tellin what to do and the way to do everytime? Just make a standard robot, bro. All this complexity and then when they finally start acting natural and loose - programming themselves with no need for external inputs anymore (really human-like) mfs go mad.

RK models are really something else, good lord! xD

#idk if it's real it's just the impression the game gives me #i guess everything is resolved with first general/vague instructions - like Todd do with Kara in the beginning #but still....I~~ WANNA DANCE WITH SOMEBODY #dbh #just my fucking confessions #connor rk800 #markus rk200 #kara ax400 #dbh my ideas

[aria0fgold]

Yaknow what, I'm just gonna treat Yume Nikki as a type of game I can only play for a short time everyday to enjoy everything in it.

#ariaplays #ariaplays: Yume Nikki #so i attempted to play it again #and it really is a terrible match for me #like i can see its a great game! really love the visuals and the sounds of it #but im just the type of person that needs instructions and objectives and a map and i just need a bit of handholding #being dropped into a game with a tutorial at the beginning and no other info threw me off so bad #i love wandering around in a game rlly but mygods... the area loops? it looks so big? where am i? what do i have to do? #wheres the door to a different area? wheres the thingy for the effects? what are the effects for? what do they do? #what am i supposed to do? wHY IS THE MAP SO BIG? WHY DONT I(big emphasis) HAVE A MAP? why cant i sprint? #let me sprint pls let me cover more ground in this confusing world i dont know what tO DO #needless to say i pulled up a guide for it cuz im just soo... confused... and strangely overwhelmed by how big the areas are #tho i didnt get to use it this time which is pretty neat cuz i get to explore on my own! #i got 3 new effects (snow woman. faceless ghost. flute) and like. im satisfied with that progress for the day time to go #tho i will need to use that guide when navigating the other doors esp the ones with a lot of eyestraining visuals. #as nice as it is to travel those places on my own. my eyes will suffer instead

[theladyspanishes]

Sometimes I'll accidentally watch The Phantom (1996) starring Billy Zane on free-to-air tv, and every time it comes *this close* to being my next hyperfixation

#It is delightful and fascinating to me every time #Like... what is Zeta Jones DOING in that movie? What are these acting choices? #Xander Drax begins and ends with an X is an iconic villain #Due South style ghost dad #And don't get me started on Billy Zane #He had like a 3-5 episode run as a love interest on Charmed #which led to me mourning forever that there wasn't a late 90s early 00s movie with he and Brendan Frasier as brothers pulling off a heist #It was a very specific vision i was gifted and cursed with #One time I went to laser tag and the sci fi mission premise instructional video was delivered by billy zane #I will never know joy like that again #Anyway apart from the colonialism I think it's a really great exmaple of a superhero film #Still don't have a personal tag

[finntheehumaneater]

I was watching a math video this morning, and mid-lesson the man went “okay. How are you feeling? Get up, Stretch, Slap yourself, Slap someone else, go and drink some chocolate milk. Then come back to me.”

…okay.

#I did go and wack my brother on the head (gently) #Because I was told to follow all of his instructions at the beginning of each lesson #So..

[thestarrywisdom]

how does one even begin to look into these kinds of things?

i'm not sure which part you mean, but am going to attempt answers anyway because I'm avoiding taking notes on malware identification

magic & Weird Shit as a whole? without knowing what you mean i can't recommend reading in specific but try some stuff that sounds cool, see what happens, don't worry too much about what you're Supposed To Do in terms of propriety, all of this is outside normalcy anyway. if you're not comfortable making things up, try a wide variety of things to see what clicks, just don't step places that aren't yours or otherwise be a dick.

my whole Thing(tm) here in specific is harder because it's mine, it grew with me & this is like trying to describe how you got a specific art style

First, figure out that magic & gods & spirits & the like are an excellent hyperfixation for reasons lost to bullshit adhd memory, eventually find that everything you are drawn to how the usual books say to look for is the stuff you're Not Supposed To Be, for reasons of edgelord fakeness or cogitohazard or both. lose your shit a little trying to get out of a shitty relationship and do the thing anyway because Fuck It. develop a huge crush on several whatevers that reach back to say hi.

Spend the next ~15 years alternately courting Them, arguing with yourself about it because of the previously mentioned Reasons, quitting in disgust and then trying again when the urge to Weird doesn't go away, until you eventually reach a way healthier Fuck It and try rolling with it? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

#replies #there's a core here #instructions are fine #trying things out is great #there are smarter and more active people around #for the how to usefully magic #and i cannot even begin to cover things like ethics #or appropriation #there are also smarter #more well read ppl around for that #i am just a weird shit gnosis antenna at this point

[paulinedorchester]

Published on the opinion page of the weekly B'nai B'rith Messenger (Los Angeles) on December 17th, 1943. In 1943 Hanukkah began on the evening of December 21st, a Tuesday. This shows the eighth night, of course.

I very much like the design of this hanukkiah, with the shamash brought forward. (And here's your friendly annual reminder that every hanukkiah is a menorah, but not every menorah is a hanukkiah!) The shamash is lit first and used to light the other candles, and is then put back in its place. In the typical design the shamash is between the fourth and fifth lights, sitting slightly higher than the other candles; when the fifth night rolls around, suddenly you're trying to insert a lit candle between two other lit candles. No, thanks.

The following article appeared directly below the illustration, and it remains painfully relevant today:

#world war ii #u.s. home front #hanukkah 5704 #the past instructs the present #hanukkah 5783 #begins at sundown