#questions of significance

[helshades]

According to recent polls, 53% of the French are currently afraid of participating in a demonstration against Macron's pension system counter-reform for fear of police violence.

You'll tell me, this is precisely why the police are allowed to do practically anything at this hour in total impunity—ranging from sexually assaulting female protesters to throwing riot grenades onto balconies to punching press in the face to driving a motorbike on a protester's leg to shooting people in the face with rubber bullets to—but it does bear repeating.

You have no idea how much I despise the 'ACAB' phrase, by the way. This is the sort of brainless cry that completely misses point of police violence as it only individualises that violence, reduces it to a mere matter of people versus people who enjoy smalltime power and to hit others, but police violence is not it; rather, it's about the nature of a regime and the way it would weaponise public force to protect antidemocratic interests against this of the People.

I want the Police to be funded properly, to hire good people who will investigate crimes and find missing children and protect, as per its initial mission. I don't want less of it, I want it to be different; to serve the City. True responsibility for the abominable situation at present, actual guilt, is not 'the police', in the end: it is, evidently, the government's. The State's. You can infer many things about a regime by looking at the way its police is found to treat its citizens.

#questions of significance #une question d'importance #police violence #french politics #riots in france #emmanuel macron

[sluttylittlewaste]

It's wild how many people took Kristen's line of questioning as her saying Tracker isn't taking her religion seriously instead of what I heard her asking which was:

How many of these people would be here if it wasn't religious Coachella?

#also #some of y'all don't seem to realize that Brennan is referencing some very serious real world questions #of what happens when legitimate religious movements get turned into social clubs #and how that transformation often deteriorates the messaging and purpose of said movement #jesus and judas had the same conversation #it's a significant part of why protestantism even exists #did y'all not watch the Hillsong doc? #have y'all never been to an evangelical megachurch #when the church start using free shit and cushy rewards to get people to join? it's a dog whistle for them losing the plot #which Kristen 100% knows #which is WHY SHE ASKED #she's asking how many of these people give a real fuck about Galicaea #IT'S A VALID QUESTION #and it's important that Kristen #(who understands just how deeply Tracker cares) #can pull her back to the reality of what she came to Fallinel to do #let me die #if i die #d20 fhjy #fhjy #dimension 20 #kristen applebees #rant #tracker o'shaughnessey #trackerbees

[suncaptor]

Self-monitoring test (not to be taken as any sort of serious assessment) for if you’re a high or low self-monitor. Is your reaction to situations often dependent on social cues you can then alter your presentation towards, or guided by your inner sense of self and not changed in a given social setting?

#incoherents #self monitoring #i made this before polls were out and was sooooo much lower than everyone everyone else #and i think its significant to my personality and means of being perceived and understood #curious what a poll would look lole. #obviously some of these questions are dumb and this is not a great qui #quiz but just curious

[incognitopolls]

Birth order meaning whether you're the oldest, middle, youngest, or an only child.

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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.

#polls #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #tumblr users #questions #polls about relationships #submitted nov 15 #dating #relationships #significant other

[myrkulitescourge]

imo karlach’s soul coin usage seems like it should have been a little more significant than it was.

she only ever really stops to consider the magnitude of burning through a person’s soul for power during an origin playthrough—otherwise she rationalizes to the player that they’re doomed anyway, and if using them gives her an edge in combat, why not use them for good instead of leaving them to be used by evil? the dialogue with lann tarv in act 2, where he tells the story of each soul he's handing over to her, tries to humanize each soul coin, and still she doesn’t really budge and disapproves pretty heavily if she's told no in regards to using them.

it just seems like something that could have caused some kind of conflict between her and wyll, given he sold his soul to a devil in dire circumstances and takes issue with the player for sleeping with mizora, because she 1) is mizora, and 2) similarly expends tormented souls during her romance scene, even if for a different purpose. but it just... never really comes up?

i love karlach. but that seems like it should have gone Somewhere, from a writing standpoint? karlach values wyll as a person but is willing to use currency forged from souls like his for the sake of a temporary power up. she knows the soul is consumed when she uses them. that whole exchange with lann tarv is there to emphasize that every soul coin she destroys was a person once. but it all kind of loses narrative purpose if this combination of factors doesn't mean anything? karlach doesn't change at all in her willingness to use soul coins, no matter what the player says or how much she cares for wyll.

idk. missed opportunity that wyll doesn't have any dialogue about this, of all things.

#destroying souls is otherwise unambiguously portrayed as A Pretty Bad Thing To Do in bg3. so it just seems weird to go #yeah using this destroys a soul but it makes me stronger and it feels GREAT! #and stick to that no matter what without really questioning it much #ethel's vicious mockery line about her selling every soul but her own just doesn't hit right if it flat out doesn't. matter at all. #plus. idk. something something soul coins apparently are difficult for non-evil characters to even have in their possession #so using them and fully destroying the souls within seems kind of. idk. significant from a character standpoint #disclaimer: not character hate obvi. i love karlach and her relationship with wyll is very good. #but idk. conflict is interesting! and that seems like somewhere it should have happened if you have both in the party #karlach sans wyll might never question using soul coins but karlach with wyll probably should have? #in the same way wyll's character changes somewhat whether he chooses to kill karlach or spare her #as it stands this is like how using the tadpoles makes a grand total of one roll in the game harder. there's no bite. no consequence. idk #not every character has to change to be good but idk. idk! #it all seems set up to make her reconsider at SOME point #and that she just doesn’t is in itself a pretty significant moral compromise on her part #that is just not. recognized or discussed basically ever #karlach #karlach cliffgate #bg3 #baldur’s gate 3

[sableeira]

holy shit if there is no way to detach Fyodor from the body he has taken over, Bram is the first character named after an author who played a significant role to die in the bsd main manga

#also the first big death since Karma? if I remember correctly #I’m sorry I’m not really counting yokomizo because we only learned stuff about him in flashbacks #we never got to know him while he was alive although I really like yokomizo #still I won’t count him #there is also James from the guild. and Lucy calls him Joyce I think… which leads to the question if he is James Joyce #but also why would James Joyce be with with the guild? also James wasn’t that significant #bungou stray dogs #bsd #bsd spoilers #bsd 114.5 #bsd bram

[greensaplinggrace]

the darkling says “fine, make me your villain” because he is. what’s not clicking

#shadow and bone #grishaverse #sab #aleksander morozova #the darkling #pro darkling #sab meta #‘he acts like he isn’t the villain’ like yeah I guess if you want to examine it without any deeper analysis #when the statement itself is actually fascinating to put into a narrative context and analyze the means by which certain steadfast roles #are enacted throughout the books #and the larger implications of character want/desire and leading goal vs world state and perceived morality #largely due to prejudice and war time sentiments #as well as the individual harm caused and the way it’s significance becomes questionable when placed in stark contrast #to the broader political and socioeconomic climate #which doesn’t even take into consideration individual character roles and the doylist analysis of their relative functions as ideas #instead of entire personalities with depth #when you give an idealistic character a goal larger than life with a tactical relevance over a moral one #within a story that also centers around a broader goal of ‘saving the world’ as well as personal trauma #and attempt to liken both to the same moral equivalence and significance #then try to pit them against each other #especially when your narratively condemned villain desires more than anything to protect the masses and be loved for it #showing a fascinating level of genre unawareness. yet displaying a relative awareness to the role he has been unwillingly cast as #because he is both at odds with the genre but not with the general moral tone of the story and it's discordant messages #that rely on the pov of a character that fundamentally cannot understand him #because of his place in the story #and cannot understand the world state #because of her place in the story #you are going to get statements like this #sure yes. he ‘says it like he isn’t the villain’ #but come on. we can do better

[aritany]

i can’t understand what possesses people to be publicly mean about other people’s writing.

this isn’t a “stop it, you’re hurting my feelings :(” post due to recent events, either—i don’t care. say what you want, opinions are opinions and i’m not trying to stifle anyone.

i just genuinely don’t get the purpose of trashing anybody’s writing. is it to warn people off of spending money on a book they didn’t like? that’s the ONLY thing i can think of that has a real constructive purpose, otherwise it just makes me squint. are you just mean? is that all it is?

#i keep reading through this and it sounds whiny I DONT MEAN IT LIKE THAT #this is like genuine academic curiosity #i’m transgender and my parents don’t like me a stranger’s opinion cannot register on any significant level #anyway. maybe this is a rhetorical question maybe it isn’t #alex talks

[hdra77]

(pfp anon again hi sorry you're just so much fun to bother)

Ehehe more questions: some people depict NSH with antennae, is there any reason yours doesn't have any? Is there any AU where you'd give him some? Is he Sad because No Antennae or is he Perfectly Content?

hello again!! i'd say hes just built different like that or he did something so remotely stupid that he lost them. i could honestly see him doing something like that actually LMAO tinkering and messing around with his antennae out of pure boredom and he decided to just, keep it

he is pretty chill with it though, like he just accepted it and thought 'oh hey this isn't so bad at all!! i look good!'

now as for the AUs!! theres usually 4 of them but voided au shares the same design as this sig

so far theres just one whose got an antennae LMAO also,, disarray au sig design sneak peak 👀

have a little doodle of him with a pair of antennae !!

#asks #rain world #rain world art #rainworld au #rw au #rw nsh #rw no significant harassment #rain world no significant harassment #rw iterator #also ignore the fact that i kept spelling antenna instead of antennae #i love these questions #please keep bothering me with them #disarray au

[pratchettquotes]

"And that's why I don't like magic, Captain, 'cos it's magic. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!"

"That's the significant factor, sir, there's no doubt about it," said Carrot.

Terry Pratchett, Thud!

#samuel vimes #sam vimes #carrot ironfoundersson #thud! #discworld #terry pratchett #skeptical #magic #magic trick #explanations #questions #significant factor #why sam vimes does not like magic

[regallibellbright]

Headcanon: Literally all Keyblade Wielders, and frankly possibly all magic users in the Kingdom Hearts universe, have a baseline magic level SO STUPID HIGH that it makes the entire rest of the Extended Final Fantasy Canon look at them and go “yeah, no, let’s not touch that.”

Evidence: You know how hard it’s supposed to be to cast Flare, as a baseline? Much less higher-level Flares? You know how we all laugh about Donald Duck being the strongest Red Mage in the entire canon because he uses a prefix that has literally only ever otherwise been seen by an endboss in Bravely Default who was explicitly on significant powerups? With laser-precision?

Yeah, I remind you that up until Chi, the only version of Flare we see anyone use (except Duck Flare, which is just fireworks,) is the Mega one. You know, the version BAHAMUT uses.

Sora learns it starting in Chain of Memories. All of the Wayfinders can use it. DATA-SORA can use it.

I’m not even sure it always takes up extra slots in a command deck.

In conclusion: Keyblade magic is ridiculous and scary, and if you transplant any random magic user from Kingdom Hearts in the rest of the Final Fantasy extended canon, all the other magic users will either ask them to teach them or run away screaming, depending on their self-preservation instincts. It’s not just Donald, or that Minnie Mouse is a top-tier white mage, or that Mickey Mouse and Xehanort both use the strongest Stop spell we see ANYWHERE in the canon, they’re all Just Like That.

#Kingdom Hearts #the significant powerups in question were 'empowered by her evil god' #and 'the destruction and domination of a minimum of seven iterations of their universe with unknown maximum' #Donald just... uses it! #and sure he faints but it's the Heartless that actually kill him #magic users from other corners of canon drop in on the Kingdom Hearts universe #and get a sudden power boost that is either a massive ego trip or pants-shittingly terrifying with no middle ground

[hephaestuscrew]

I go back and forth on whether I think Securité was the first time Minkowski and Eiffel hugged. Because on the one hand, I think that by the end of season 2 Minkowski and Eiffel are friends who are deeply important to each other, and that Eiffel is a physically affectionate person, and that Minkowski gives really good tight hugs when she wants to. And if Minkowski and Eiffel didn't hug before Securité, then it seems probable that neither of them would have hugged anyone at all in 864 days. 

But on the other hand, there are still emotional barriers between them by the end of Season 2. Eiffel isn't expecting Minkowski to hug him in Securité and he doesn't initiate a hug himself. And if you don't expect to hug your friend after you've been presumed dead in deep space for over 200 days, then when would you expect to hug them? 

Minkowski apologises after hugging Eiffel in Securité. And it's not completely clear if that is just for the tightness of the hug and the lack of warning, or if she's apologising for hugging him at all. Eiffel says "it's all right. Don't apologize for hugging", and that could mean it isn't a big deal because they've hugged before, or it could be giving her permission for a new way of interacting. He could be telling her that it's all right, they can be people who hug each other.

We don't know whether Minkowski and Eiffel ever hugged before Securité, but we do know that she carried him to the lab during his Decima attack in Do No Harm. We know that as he convulsed after collapsing, she told him "It's okay, I've got you", which I think implies she was holding him. And going all the way back to Cataracts and Hurricanoes, we know that when he nearly drowned in his spacesuit, she brought him inside. There's just something so emotional to me about the idea that before Securité, Minkowski might have only ever touched Eiffel in a gentle or affectionate way when he was unconscious and at risk of dying. And then, after he gets stranded on the shuttle, for a while she thinks he is dead, or as good as. He's lost in deep space where none of them can reach him. And when he returns, this time she grabs hold of him and she doesn't want to let go.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Renée Minkowski #Doug Eiffel #Renee Minkowski #Important that I continue to find new ways to talk endlessly about that hug #I'm holding up my 'this is platonic' sign as ever btw #This is one of these questions where both possibilities make me super emotional #And there's all of this on top of the fact that the other person Eiffel is closest to on the Hephaestus #is physically unable to hug him 😭 #Also I said 864 days without hugs because that's how many days into the Hephaestus mission Securité is #but I'm actually not convinced that Eiffel got a hug before the Hephaestus left #The evidence suggests he was a very isolated man #He's so touch starved #Let them hug!! #I definitely believe that Minkowski and Eiffel hugged a significant number of times #in between Securité and The Watchtower btw #There's something so natural about the way he says 'C'mere #give us a hug!' in The Watchtower #that implies hugging did become something more commonplace for them #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #the empty man posteth #Eiffel & Minkowski

[heartslobbf]

i dont knowww there’s just something about how both nanami and touga’s warnings to utena about entering the duel called revolution are essentially ‘you can’t trust end of the world or anthy’. and theyre both genuinely well intentioned about that because they do both care about utena’s wellbeing, even if someone (touga) is too misogynistic to go about that in a Normal way. but then you have juri, and all juri does when talking to utena about whether or not she’ll enter the final duel is ask ‘what are you going to do with anthy?’ and ‘you love her, don’t you?’ like. none of the stuco ever really recognise anthy’s personhood, none of them care about her, they dislike her. but juri sees how much utena feels for anthy and she says actually, maybe the way that you feel about her is important. and she tells her to do something about that (also!! anthy and shiori parallels, huge significance for juri’s character post-ruka etc etc). what im saying here is that juri is the only character other than utena to understand, or attempt to understand, what anthy means to utena, and why that relationship is important. there is no someday together without juri and that just makes me absolutely bonkers

#and you know (guy who only ever thinks about the kiryuu siblings) it’s hugely significant that nanami and touga can’t recognise #that anthy is a victim too. but whatever that’s another topic entirely #juri is just. sososososso incredibly important bc she makes utena question what her feelings are what they mean why they matter #and without that idk if someday together we’ll shine would happen. is all. and it makes me weepy :’) #lesbians i love you lesbians. GOD!!!!!!! #rgu #shut up daisy

[tekatonic]

Had to put the boys together ! Good luck reading the literal instruction manual I made for Shadow's equipment, haha.

And then there's Mighty and Ray ! Pretty proud of them still. You might notice the different in amount of content... I had a lot more ideas for Mighty at the time, Ray's just a lil goober.

( animation of Mighty doing a magnetic javelin throw : here )

#shadow the hedgehog #silver the hedgehog #ray the flying squirrel #mighty the armadillo #sonic au #sonic emerald guardians au #some notes : #after drawing the shadow sheet I thought of giving him a jacket to cover his scars and avoid people asking questions #silver also looks a bit unclothed... maybe a poncho ? #ray's eyes are naturally brownish because of a film that keeps his eyes protected when he flies #mighty's hyper form is quite significant but i won't say why #i have an idea for ray's too but i haven't drawn it yet i don't think #shoes are so hard did you know #teka art #teka backlog

[mantisgodsdomain]

Scrolling through OC ask memes is very funny sometimes because a good handful of them have questions that... we don't think apply terribly well.

Yeah, they're a bug, tattoos are a bit complicated. They can't swim because they're an insect. Their ancestry is Cricket and their blood type is green. They don't know what a car is.

#we speak #its extra funny when a significant number of questions are dedicated to dating. your guess is as good as ours we arent keeping track #bau could be dating half the explorers association for all we know #we Have Not kept track #we're looking at a romance and relationships meme right now and its like. we do not think of these things for our ocs 99% of the time #we dont think they would know what monogamy is #we also don't know how to quantify gender in a species that only has One gender (dune cricket) #we are out of the norm but ALSO we swear this is like “youre trans if you identify as a different gender than you were assigned at birth” #like my man. we realize we're out of the norm but we CANNOT give you a solid answer to that question. nothing is binary enough for that #we cant define what sexuality this character would be in human terms we can't even define if a pairing with them is gay or not

[pan-perkozeq]

Can sig also be given a weapon?

[ Better not XD ]

Guy's a bit too crazy with weapons

#katana #rw iterators #autisic pebbles au #rw no significant harassment #rw nsh #rain world nsh #nsh #no significant harassment #rw au #ask me questions #ask me things #ask me anything #ask doodles #rw downpour #rw dp #rain world downpour #rain world #rw iterator #the silliness