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beatrix-quinn · 4 months

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hi @blongus64! thank you for your question. and no apologies necessary; Very Long Posts are kind of my specialty. :B

i really appreciated the comparison you drew between making visual art and making music, and i want to bring your attention first to that piece, because you gave some very interesting examples:

"i want a harsh… almost parasitic implication, so i'll use lurid, sickly colors and haphazard lines." "i'll use soft, dull blues, because that's what winter looks like."

the question i want you to ask yourself is this: "where did i learn the idea that This emotion looks That way?"

your art comparison reminded me of a conversation i recently had with someone dear to me who illustrates. they brought up an idea they've picked up from various art instructors over the years, which i'll paraphrase to the best of my recollection:

when you try to draw an apple, you're not just thinking about the object that's right in front of you. you're thinking about the idea of An Apple. that idea is shaped by every apple you've ever seen or eaten—the places and people and feelings attached to those experiences. so when you're drawing from a reference, you have to set all those associations aside and learn how to look at what's in front of you so you can recreate it accurately.

as you mention drawing still life in your ask, no doubt you've practiced this skill already. but what about when you draw a scene from your imagination, or paint something wholly abstract? when it comes to representing certain ideas in your art, the reality is that how you depict them is a choice formed by association. you choose soft, dull blues for a melancholy winter, because those are the colors you see when you look with your mind's eye.

but for me, i associate melancholy winter most with dark greys, and rusty pinks from light pollution in the night sky. someone else might picture the dizzying white reflection of sunlight on snow. these can all be "correct" ways of evoking this feeling you've given as an example, so long as it's true to the artist's subjective experience.

my point is this: just as you can choose to represent one idea visually in a myriad of ways depending on how you look, you can choose to represent an emotion through music in a myriad of ways as well. and that means this:

if representing an image requires learning how to look, then representing a sound requires learning how to listen.

the simplest and most immediate way you can start doing this is to critically listen to the music that evokes the feelings you are trying to capture.

say you have a favorite song that really captures the feeling of melancholy for you. listen to it very carefully. what choices does it make musically? consider this an incomplete list of questions you might explore while listening:

what are the tempo and rhythm like? how do they contribute to the song's feel?

is the arrangement sparse or layered, bombastic or subtle?

what kinds of instruments are being played, and when? which ones take the lead and which ones stay in the background?

how would you describe the music's texture and atmosphere? dark, bright? spacious, intimate? electric, acoustic, synthetic? what elements contribute to that?

how does this song relate back to music history and tradition? can you identify any of its musical and cultural influences? does it fit firmly into a genre, or does it blend different genre elements? does it attempt to defy convention altogether? (does it succeed?)

what is notably absent? how does excluding certain elements serve the song's intended feeling? (after all, landslide would be a very different song if it had drums and bass.)

you might notice these questions are generally not rooted in music theory. make no mistake: music theory analysis is useful, and if you wish to build your musical vocabulary, it's worth practicing it when you can. but that kind of practice only gives you colors for your palette. it will not teach you how to paint what you feel.

if you want to learn how to use those colors, first you must really think about the music that embodies the feeling you want your music to embody. what about This song makes you feel That emotion? think about the sounds around you in everyday life. what sounds make you smile? what sounds evoke boredom, fear, anger, sorrow?

idiophones sound tender to me, so i might reach for a kalimba or music box when scoring an emotionally intimate scene. a I major chord followed by a bVII dominant is dripping with wistfulness to me, so i like using it for bittersweet moments. jagged synths and metallic noises make me uneasy, so i employ them liberally when i want to elicit dread or panic.

these are just a few colors from my own palette. just like my idea of An Apple, they are informed by my experiences, my culture, and all the music i've ever heard. these are the associations that the body forms over a lifetime; you've lived a different life, so you may have different associations for these sounds. and that's okay! what matters is that you pay attention to what sounds make you feel, and stay true in your attempts to represent those feelings.

i should also mention that i didn't figure out how to use my palette overnight. i rarely get it right on the first try. music, like any creative endeavor, is equal parts work and play, and it's the lessons learned from play that serve the work later on. with exploration and practice, you will get better.

so listen carefully. figure out which sounds correspond to different emotional responses for you. this will become your palette. as you experiment, you will learn which sounds are your melancholy blues and which are your haphazard lines. it simply takes mindfulness, a careful ear, and time.

i realize this is only a first step, but i hope you find it helpful. if it isn't, let me know, and maybe i'll do better next time. i'm still learning too. :)

with care, bee 🐦

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yuurei20 · 4 months

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Hi there! Quick question, How does Idia feel about Leona?? to me, they have such weird dynamic. They don't like each other but they don't outright hate each other either, but sometimes it feels like they're totally fine with each other?? Is this just a respect thing??

Hello hello!! This gets into character analysis which is definitely not my strength, so I reached out to one of the most knowledgeable Idia-analyzers I’ve ever seen ( @frost__tw ) who was so kind as to collaborate with me on this response, and I am forever grateful ♡

Also: agreed! Their dynamic is particularly fascinating because they are both complete opposites and extremely similar, simultaneously:

Both are housewardens, near the same height, canonically attractive, unusually intelligent, very sarcastic, enjoy chess, are from important families, keep others at a distance, often complain about having to go out of their way to do things they are uninterested in, have brother issues and won’t put effort into things they have predetermined to be impossible, which ties directly into how they are trapped in situations they can’t do anything about due to the circumstances of their birth.

And we also have their recently introduced titles (on JP server): “Ambitious King” and “King of the Underworld.”

It is difficult to pinpoint exactly how Idia feels about Leona, possibly because he doesn’t know very much about him (which is possibly because Leona doesn’t want him to).

During Book 6 he assumes that Leona isn’t suited to a leadership role, for example, despite how people who actually spend time with Leona say otherwise.

The two overlap in Idia’s second birthday vignette, where Leona gifts him with an artisanal chess set and the two pause the interview to play together.

They seem to mutually agree not to mention who won the game, and it may have been a draw.

We see Idia categorize people and generalize them into character tropes (from anime/manga/games) throughout the game, and based upon Leona’s appearance/outward behavior, Idia may labeling him as the scary top boss of the Savanaclaw hooligans (re: their Halloween vignette together) in his mind.

But he is able to overcome his initial flight response in this birthday vignette once Leona procures the chess set (one of Idia’s personal interests).

(This is part of the reason why Idia’s stutter is such an important part of the character: he stutters when he panics, but then speaks smoothly when he becomes passionate, which the characters even comment on in the game (Ortho calls it his "go off switch" on EN, and his "heat up switch" on JP).)

(Recreation of this trait varies by scene on EN.)

Leona is difficult to read because he will insult the people he likes and respects just as readily as he does those he does not (something that we see Jamil come to understand in real time during Book 6), so trying to work out his true opinion about anything can get into conjecture.

They also do not overlap particularly often, which gives us less to work with, but his teasing of Idia in the birthday vignette is not dissimilar to his teasing of characters like Jamil and Vil. Whereas they understand Leona’s humor, however, Idia may not.

What we know for a fact is that Leona has canonically complimented Idia for being both intelligent and powerful during Spectral Soiree, and this may have been a parallel to Terror is Trending when, extremely impressed by Savanaclaw’s Halloween set, Idia asks, “Did Leona use his magic for it?”

Idia also comments on Leona’s power during his evaluations at STYX, saying, “I already knew Leona was tough and could handle whatever danger comes at him…”

I think you are correct, and it is a respect thing!

They are both aware of the other’s familial situations and strengths and, in any other circumstances, they might get along well. But their personalities are just too different, they frustrate each other in every conversation they have, and whatever positives the other person has might just not be enough to outweigh how obnoxious they find the other to be.

We learn from Vil that the rule at NRC is “the weak obey the strong,” and the Housewardens at NRC seem to take this literally, with Idia, Leona and Vil all being constantly torn between sincere annoyance and grudging respect. The three referring to others as “spudlings,” “normies” and “herbivores” is another interesting overlap that they share.

(Despite being even more different than Leona and Idia, Leona and Vil repeatedly find common ground in allying against Idia.)

(In a parallel to this, Leona and Idia find common ground on the subject of Malleus, with Leona saying, “It’s a pain when the majority forces their opinion on you,” which is an opinion Idia seems to share.)

Thank you so much for this question, it was wonderful to dive into!

Overall, Leona and Idia seem to share a mutual undertone of “I know you’re the best at what you do, but I can’t stand you. I acknowledge that you’re intelligent, capable and talented, but please go be that somewhere else,” which ties directly into a comment from Yana’s 2023 interview:

“Since the characters in the story are villains they do not admit defeat, but they will admit, ‘Hey, you did pretty good.’ Even if they don’t like each other, they will recognize each other’s abilities.”

(And thank you again to @frost__tw for all the amazing insight! ♡)

#twstask #Leona Kingscholar #Idia Shroud

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feminist-space · 1 year

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"Do’s and Don’ts of communication and dementia

You can’t control memory loss – only your reaction to it.

For people with dementia, their disability is memory loss. Asking them to remember is like asking a blind person to see. (Common questions like “Did you take your pills?” or “What did you do today?” are the equivalent of asking them to remember something.) A loss of this magnitude reduces the capacity to reason. Expecting them to be reasonable or to accept your conclusion is unrealistic. Don’t correct, contradict, blame or insist. Reminders are rarely kind. They tell a person how disabled they are – over and over again.

People living with dementia say and do normal things for someone with memory impairment. If they were deliberately trying to exasperate you, they would have a different diagnosis. Forgive them…always. For example, your wife isn’t purposely hiding your favorite pair of shoes. She thinks she’s protecting them by putting them in a safe place…and then forgets.

Here are some basic Do’s when it comes to communication with someone with dementia:

-Give short, one sentence explanations.

-Allow plenty of time for comprehension, and then triple it.

-Repeat instructions or sentences exactly the same way.

-Avoid insistence. Try again later.

-Agree with them or distract them to a different subject or activity.

-Accept the blame when something’s wrong (even if it’s fantasy).

-Leave the room, if necessary, to avoid confrontations.

-Respond to the feelings rather than the words.

-Be patient and cheerful and reassuring. Do go with the flow.

-Practice 100% forgiveness. Memory loss progresses daily.

Here are some Don’ts:

-Don’t reason.

-Don’t argue.

-Don’t confront.

-Don’t remind them they forget.

-Don’t question recent memory.

-Don’t take it personally.

We’ve put together some specific examples of good and bad communication below, keeping these do’s and don’ts in mind.

“What doctor’s appointment? There’s nothing wrong with me.”

Don’t: (reason) “You’ve been seeing the doctor every three months for the last two years. It’s written on the calendar and I told you about it yesterday and this morning.”

DO: (short explanation) “It’s just a regular checkup.”

(accept blame) “I’m sorry if I forgot to tell you.”

“I didn’t write this check for $500. Someone at the bank is forging my signature.”

Don’t: (argue) “What? Don’t be silly! The bank wouldn’t be forging your signature.”

DO: (respond to feelings) “That’s a scary thought.”

(reassure) “I’ll make sure they don’t do that.”

(distract) “Would you help me fold the towels?”

“Nobody’s going to make decisions for me. You can go now…and don’t come back!”

Don’t: (confront) “I’m not going anywhere and you can’t remember enough to make your own decisions.”

DO: (accept blame or respond to feelings) “I’m sorry this is a tough time.”

(reassure) “I love you and we’re going to get through this together.”

(distract) “You know what? Don has a new job. He’s really excited about it.”

“Joe hasn’t called for a long time. I hope he’s okay.”

Don’t: (remind) “Joe called yesterday and you talked with him for 15 minutes.”

DO: (reassure) “You really like talking with him don’t you?”

(distract) “Let’s call him when we get back from our walk.”

“Hello, Mary. I see you’ve brought a friend with you.”

Don’t: (question memory) “Hi Mom. You remember Eric, don’t you? What did you do today?”

DO: (short explanation) “Hi Mom. You look wonderful! This is Eric. We work together.”

“Who are you? Where’s my husband?”

Don’t: (take it personally) “What do you mean – who’s your husband?” I am!”

DO: (go with the flow, reassure) “He’ll be here for dinner.”

(distract) “How about some milk and cookies?… Would you like chocolate chip or oatmeal?”

“I’m going to the store for a newspaper.”

Don’t: (repeat differently) “Please put your shoes on.”…You’ll need to put your shoes on.”

DO: (repeat exactly) “Please put your shoes on.”… “Please put your shoes on.”

“I don’t want to eat this! I hate chicken.”

Don’t: (respond negatively) “You just told me you wanted chicken. I’m not making you anything else, so you better eat it!”

Do: (accept blame) “I’m so sorry, I forgot. I was in such a rush that it slipped my mind.

(respond positively) Let me see what else we have available.” Leave the room and try again.

Need support? We’re here to help! Speak with one of our dementia experts by calling 858.492.4400 or emailing [email protected]."

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waitmyturtles · 8 months

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Turtles Catches Up With Old GMMTV: A Tale of Thousand Stars Loving Rewatch Edition

[What’s going on here? After joining Tumblr and discovering Thai BLs through KinnPorsche in 2022, I began watching GMMTV’s new offerings -- and realized that I had a lot of history to catch up on, to appreciate the more recent works that I was delving into. From tropes to BL frameworks, what we’re watching now hails from somewhere, and I’m learning about Thai BL's history through what I’m calling the Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC). Starting with recommendations from @absolutebl on their post regarding how GMMTV is correcting for its mistakes with its shows today, I’ve made an expansive list to get me through a condensed history of essential/classic/significant Thai BLs produced by GMMTV and many other BL studios. My watchlist, pasted below, lists what I’ve watched and what’s upcoming, along with the reviews I’ve written so far. Today, I write about my LOVING rewatch of one of the best BLs out there, ever, in A Tale of Thousand Stars.]

While I’ve been in the midst of a plethora of awesome new shows (Only Friends, Dangerous Romance), I’ve also been treating myself with some oldies. I just wrapped up a rewatch of Until We Meet Again, to prep for New Siwaj’s Absolute Zero that’s coming out this fall. And one of the joys that I set for myself in the course of structuring the Old GMMTV Challenge was to allow myself some loving rewatches of shows that I originally first consumed out of any chronological order, and/or out of total curiosity for the amount of space they generally take up on a daily basis on Tumblr, and/or for the amount of times that I had seen these particular shows listed as top examples of genre-defining or genre-transcending BLs. Those shows include Bad Buddy (of course), and A Tale of Thousand Stars.

Way, WAY back in the day -- November 2022, to be exact -- just a couple months into my joining Tumblr and actively blogging, I realized that this show called Moonlight Chicken was being bandied about excitedly, mostly in part because EarthMix and FirstKhao were going to be in it. I was intrigued, excited to participate in my first active Tumblr fandom from beginning to end, and I asked the Tumblr gods -- oh hey, should I watch A Tale of Thousand Stars first, to get to know Earth Pirapat and Mix Sahaphap first? And the answer was YES, so I did, and I totally loved it.

And of course, I look back at that review from almost a year ago, and I giggle, because while I picked up on a lot of the raw elements that make ATOTS great, I didn't have ANY context for why the show was transcendent vis à vis pre-existing BL tropes in the Thai BL genre, what it meant to be watching a classic Backaof Noppharnach show, what it meant for the show to be set in Northern Thailand, etc. I even wrote -- oh wow, I see why some of the elders on Tumblr are saying that there are shows way better than KinnPorsche out there (LOL, oh, hindsight). I didn't have any of that context.

Now, I do. And during my recent ATOTS rewatch, I just ATE, ATE, ATE, oh my god, I just sat and fucking ENJOYED this FABULOUS drama. I was yelling and gesturing to the screen -- oh god, WHY are you SO GOOD, YOU SHOW, YOU?! Man, oh man. It was a shit-ton of fun to start rewatching dramas that I already have nostalgia for, even if I only saw them for the first time last year.

Besides rewatching some of these important dramas back in chronological order through the OGMMTVC, I also have a mission in mind: to properly rewatch ATOTS and Bad Buddy before rewatching Our Skyy 2, which I've been wanting to do for a while. That rewatch will take place after I rewatch Bad Buddy in a couple of weeks. And I'm glad I waited until I could consume Aof's entire oeuvre, because I think his whole slate of shows -- not just ATOTS and BBS -- give us clues as to what was happening by way of Pat and Pran's relationship in OS2 before their physical separation in BBS that further explain the ATOTS and BBS universes. But more on this in a few weeks, when I get to my BBS and OS2 reviews.

Back to ATOTS. As I rewatched it -- in the context of the OGMMTVC, and what I've learned about the Thai television BL genre NOW, what were the elements of this show that stood out the most for me?

1) The striking use of flashbacks to tell a story. I know NOW shows that haven't used flashbacks as well to tell a compelling narrative -- for me, most recently, the biggest example is Double Savage (and maybe even KinnPorsche goes up there, too). Before ATOTS premiered, I think the BL that used flashbacks the BEST in its narrative was Until We Meet Again, which *needed* flashbacks to tell the entire scope of its intricate story, from past to present.

Something that I forgot about ATOTS until my rewatch was how very PACED the show was. I think I had it in my head that it was a slow-ish story, because -- again, it bucked a lot of BL trends and tropes, just like He's Coming To Me also did. No side couples. No university setting. No warring faculties and uniforms. When I first wrote about ATOTS in December 2022 -- after having watched The Eclipse as my first GMMTV BL -- I marveled at the singular storyline of Tian's life change and journey. There was a LOT we needed to know about Tian to GET where he was going, and where he wanted to go. What I didn't appreciate back then was how Aof TOLD the story.

Sure -- it could have frustrated some folks that we didn't get the truth of who was driving the car until much later in the series. But that would be missing the point of that piece of truth. Tian had blamed himself for Torfun's death the second he learned about it. It didn't *quite* matter who was driving the car -- what mattered was the self-blame he assigned himself to, and the journey he thought he needed to take to absolve himself of the guilt that he carried.

The structure was beyond sharp, and just INCREDIBLY compelling. Between UWMA and ATOTS, we have two tremendous dramas that flirted with VERY risky past-to-future infrastructures, and both succeeded exceedingly well.

2) Phupha and Tian's TERRIBLE communication. I'm serious! Oh my god, y'all. Did we appreciate back then how AWFUL they are at communicating? HA! Our Skyy 2 obviously emphasized this even more -- Tian himself accuses Phupha of not being open enough to tell Tian why Phupha won't meet Tian's parents.

But, holy shit, these two guys are such drama bastards. By episode 9, I had to write in my notes, in all caps: THESE ASSHOLES ARE SUCH AWFUL COMMUNICATORS. If one person wasn't angry at the other, and avoiding the other person, then something was off in their world. Tian's titchyness, Phupha's avoidance, played against each other like opposing magnets.

And yet: of course, we know WHY they are bad communicators. We know that Phupha grew up in a traditional, rural household -- one that likely wasn't welcoming to his inner truth as a queer man.

Tian grew up in a privileged and patriarchal household that disguised itself as a matriarchal household. Now THAT shit's confusing. What Tian was to do with his life, as assigned by his parents, supposedly came from his mom -- but it was his dad that enforced those rules. Who could Tian go to to talk about his own growing inner truth as well? Not to either of his parents, who both had designs on who *exactly* Tian should be by way of their own demands and outward-facing lives.

So these two men -- both of whom barely had any practice in expressing their inner truths, their raw feelings about themselves, their life situations, and each other -- are figuring out their emotional shit vis à vis each other, for the first time in their lives. And what we get, gloriously, is a whole bunch of damn hilarious drama that left me shaking my head and laughing a bunch. They were SO passive-aggressive with each other, I had to applaud EarthMix.

And through their bad communication came so many resolutions to each storyline -- the illegal merchants, the revelation of Torfun's death and the story behind it -- that what we ultimately got to see were life-defining moments for both Tian and Phupha of utter growth. The trade-off between those dramatic anguishes and the TRUE drama of the show itself -- was well worth it, and brilliantly done.

3) The metaphor of freedom. We know, now, that Bad Buddy was existing in the same world as ATOTS.

God, I LOVE what Aof pulled in Our Skyy 2 by way of the Nong Nao eye mask (Tian even wears the Nong Nao eye mask!) -- because in rewatching ATOTS, I would have NEVER clocked that Tian was talking about his own freedom through his OWN eye mask.

We know now that Tian and Pran, in their respective shows, were on their own paths to freedom -- both from demanding families that demanded that each of them comport to absolute idealistic images of what perfect sons DID in those family structures. Both Tian and Pran have overbearing mothers with complicit fathers who demand exacting obedience. And both Tian and Pran ultimately sought freedom from that pressure.

In episode 9, I clocked a message on Tian's tote bag -- I can't get a clear-enough screenshot of it (it's in the 3/4 segment), but the tote bag says, "what is the meaning of free?" All of ATOTS is based on Tian's journey to emotional freedom -- freedom from his parents' expectations, freedom from the guilt he carries from Torfun's death.

An interesting comparison to UWMA happens in episode 5, when Tian asks about his growing feelings towards Phupha: "I don't know if these feelings are mine or Torfun's." And, of course -- combine that with what Tian needs to reckon with at the cliff in episode 9, when Tian is struggling with figuring how who's life he's truly living. As Tian separates himself from his parents -- as Tian understands his needs vs. Torfun's needs -- what Tian's struggle ultimately comes down to is, who is he really living his life for? Torfun saved him, his parents bought him the transplant -- but what does that actually mean for the meaning that Tian brings to his own life, and to the lives of others, including Phupha?

What Tian ultimately realizes is that needs freedom from the influence of everyone and everything around him to gain clarity as to who HE truly is. That, to me, is the ultimate core message of ATOTS -- it is Tian's defining journey towards the freedom that only he himself can find, vis à vis Torfun, Phupha, and Pha Pun Dao.

But because Aof is so good at wrenching our hearts with every last bit of energy he’s got: he showed us that Tian was able to come to this conclusion, ultimately, through Phupha, and Phupha's love for Tian.

ATOTS is a wonderful coming-of-age story, but without the typical cheesiness that that structure can often bring. It's a story of individual and internal change that we know gets echoed, expanded, and transformed in Bad Buddy through Pran. I see now that ATOTS and Bad Buddy are Aof's deep studies of internal maturing, both told through queer revelations, through empathic love with a rock-solid partner, and through fights against oppressive societal and familial resistances to living one's full truth.

Way, way back when -- and thank goodness for the OGMMTVC for allowing me to dive into this -- Aof depicted queer men living their very robust truths in Gay OK Bangkok. As I wrote in my GOKB review, what happened after the premiere of GOKB is that Aof went to the BL genre to begin slowly changing it, to make the genre a true home for real queer revelation and introspection. Did he ever nail it in ATOTS. Did he ever expand it in BBS. Watching ATOTS felt like coming home, because once again (as in HCTM) -- Aof defied typical expectations of the genre to get honest about what an internal reality of being queer could really be like. And to do that in Thai television BL, with all the tropes and expectations the genre had created by the time of ATOTS's airing in 2021, was remarkable.

Hearing the theme song, seeing Pha Pun Dao and the villagers (AND THE CHILDREN! I LOVE THOSE CHILDREN!), seeing the schoolhouse, seeing Earth in his forest ranger uniform, hearing the original source of the forest ranger t-shirt joke, seeing Rang and Yod again -- man, was it ever nostalgic to rewatch ATOTS, even after having seen the guys in Our Skyy 2. This show is SUCH a classic, SUCH a must-watch of the very highest order, and the fact that it does NOT shy away from a very real and difficult emotional journey is only just a part of what makes it one of the enduring diamonds of Thai BL.

[We'll return to Pha Pun Dao in a couple weeks once I get through my Bad Buddy and Our Skyy 2 rewatches -- stay tuned!

In the meantime, my review of Lovely Writer is on deck for next week. By far this is my favorite Tee Bundit drama. For the sake of my fellow drama clowns, I am giving I Feel You Linger in the Air a shot, but the editing choices are giving me slight Step By Step-PTSD. I'm gonna keep a close eye on this one.

But Lovely Writer is Tee's anomaly, and what a fabulously genius anomaly it is. I can't wait to get into it, and if you loved it, too, and you have NOT watched the Lovely Writer special episode, PLEASE watch the special ep, as I'll be referring to it -- it has a super important conclusion that wraps up the entire series beautifully.

A heads-up that I may need to take a week's break or so in early September.... hopefully I won't, but I am moving, so while I'm ahead on a few dramas, getting pen to paper has proven difficult by way of time. Hopefully this project won't be delayed too much -- but send me your best big ups nonetheless as I move domiciles!

In the meantime, here's the list -- as always, I welcome your feedback! (Tumblr's new web editor is jacking with the list below and not allowing me to strikethrough the shows I've watched. For the very latest updated list, please click here!)

1) The Love of Siam (2007) (movie) (review here) 2) My Bromance (2014) (movie) (review here) 3) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 4) Gay OK Bangkok Season 1 (2016) (a non-BL queer series directed by Jojo Tichakorn and written by Aof Noppharnach) (review here) 5) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 6) SOTUS (2016-2017) (review here) 7) Gay OK Bangkok Season 2 (2017) (a non-BL queer series directed by Jojo Tichakorn and written by Aof Noppharnach) (review here) 8) Make It Right 2 (2017) (review here) 9) Together With Me (2017) (review here) 10) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (review here) 11) Love By Chance (2018) (review here) 12) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) (no review) 13) He’s Coming To Me (2019) (review here) 14) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) and Our Skyy x Kiss Me Again (2018) (review here) 15) TharnType (2019-2020) (review here) 16) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (OffGun BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (no review) 17) Theory of Love (2019) (review here) 18) 3 Will Be Free (2019) (a non-BL and an important harbinger of things to come in 2019 and beyond re: Jojo Tichakorn pushing queer content in non-BLs) (review here) 19) Dew the Movie (2019) (review here) 20) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020) (review here) 21) 2gether (2020) and Still 2gether (2020) (review here) 22) I Told Sunset About You (2020) (review here) 23) YYY (2020, out of chronological order) (review here) 24) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (not a true BL, but a MaxTul queer/gay romance set within a genre-based show that likely influenced Not Me and KinnPorsche) (review here) 25) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 26) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake Of Rewatching Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS 27) Lovely Writer (2021) (review coming) 28) Last Twilight in Phuket (2021) (the mini-special before IPYTM) (review coming) 29) I Promised You the Moon (2021) (review coming) 30) Not Me (2021-2022) (watching) 31) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 32) 55:15 Never Too Late (2021-2022) (not a BL, but a GMMTV drama that features a macro BL storyline about shipper culture and the BL industry) 33) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) and Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS (2023) OGMMTVC Rewatch 34) Secret Crush On You (2022) [watching for Cheewin’s trajectory of studying queer joy from Make It Right (high school), to SCOY (college), to Bed Friend (working adults)] 35) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here) 36) KinnPorsche (2022) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake of Re-Analyzing the KP Cultural Zeitgeist 37) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 38) GAP (2022-2023) (Thailand’s first GL) 39) My School President (2022-2023) and Our Skyy 2 x My School President (2023) 40) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here) 41) Bed Friend (2023) (tag here) (Cheewin’s latest show, depicting a queer joy journey among working adults) 42) Be My Favorite (2023) (tag here) (I’m including this for BMF’s sophisticated commentary on Krist’s career past as a BL icon) 43) Only Friends (2023)]

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princeescaluswords · 3 months

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I always find there's such a stark difference between tgt fans and soc fans, and this is could possibly be because of the way the fandom interprets the texts. Six of crows is a heist novel, about people who aren't chosen ones and just live in Kerch. You don't have to be special to be worthy of getting your story told. Soc fans get that. But Darkling fans? Well, it just *can't* be that Alina chooses to be ordinary over being the Darkling's queen, so she apparently *must* end up with her abuser, even though she does not share his morals; even though she is the antithesis of everything he is because she will never see others' lives as expendable for a greater cause. Alina is compassionate and revels in being the 99%, and Darkling fans seem to hate that. Alina was never meant to be a power fantasy, but for Darkling fans, the idea of being normal was never an option - because to them, why would you not choose to be part of the 1%; why would you not turn this into a power fantasy, even when when the author always intended for tgt to be the opposite?

Unfortunately, I have only seen the Netflix adaptation of the Grishaverse. I don't know what "tgt" stands for. However, I can talk about the unpleasant intersection I find between power, status, and ethics that occurs in fandoms. When I refer back to Alina, the Darkling, and the other characters in the Grishaverse, you should bear in mind that it is constrained by my limited knowledge, and I welcome any correction of what you feel is a misinterpretation.

When it comes to many people in our culture, they may claim to want a good story, but they tend to be quite simplistic in their value systems when they think they're not going to be judged for it. Which means they want power fantasies, instead. The problem, of course, is that power fantasies don't make satisfying stories. It's like trying to survive on a diet consisting solely of cheeseburgers.

Let me give a concrete example. In my primary fandom, Teen Wolf, I recently came across an unlabeled post-season 2 story where Jackson Whittemore -- who, for those who don't know, is white, rich, good-looking, entitled and captain of both the lacrosse and the swim team -- is talking about Scott McCall (the lead protagonist in the show but not this story) in very negative terms, complaining about Scott's lack of decency in not telling Allison Argent that her mother was bitten by Derek Hale, an alpha werewolf, while Mrs. Argent was trying to kill Scott. The bite caused Mrs. Argent to kill herself, and, for a time, Allison blamed Derek for her mother's death.

Now, they set aside the fact that the show made it clear that Scott didn't tell Allison because, by the time he figured out what had happened (he was unconscious when Derek bit Allison's mother), it was already too late to change anything, so Scott decided not to tell Allison so that wouldn't be the last memory she had of her beloved mother. You would think that people would view this as an effort to be kind, right? Wrong!

Fandom sees this as an utter betrayal, because it is Derek Hale's feelings, as a white, rich, god-looking, entitled Alpha Werewolf, that should take precedence over Scott's girlfriend's feelings. It doesn't matter that while Derek did come to Scott's rescue, he had beat, manipulated, lied to, betrayed, and tried to murder innocents under Scott's protection for almost all of the first two seasons.

Also relevant is that this is the same Jackson Whittemore, who witnessed his next-door neighbor "kicking the crap" out of his son, Isaac Lahey, and said nothing about it to anyone. This is the same Jackson Whittemore, who when he got the Bite, dumped his girlfriend and told a homeless man to go die in another parking lot, before turning into a murder lizard slave. This is the same Jackson Whittemore for whom the only solution that Derek Hale managed to come up with when this happened was straight-up murder. This is the same Jackson Whittemore whom Scott fought to save from Derek. There is no hint in this fandom story that Jackson is being a hypocrite or being ungrateful or even aware of the contradiction.

The author chose this. Jackson's signature callousness and selfishness simply vanishes just long enough for him to condemn the person who tried to save him for not wanting to hurt his girlfriend's feelings. Why? Jackson is privileged, and he has that in common with Derek, so it is obvious that Jackson will take Derek's perspective in the matter.

Which brings us back to your example. Alina is the Sun Summoner, a living saint, and incredibly powerful. Of course she's supposed to take the side of the Darkling, who is also incredibly powerful. His creation of a slave caste for his kind, his manipulation and murder of countless others, and his creation of the Shadow Fold poisons her nation. This is irrelevant to power fantasy, where power should make her perspective identical to his.

In the modern day, our culture certainly talks about the dangers of the elite, but fandom gives its participants the way to celebrate a freedom from the ethical consideration when it comes to personal power. To them, since fiction =/= reality, they can indulge in their lust for power and status regardless of the consequences. To them, there is no reason for Scott McCall to value Derek Hale's feelings above Allison Argent's; Derek is more powerful, richer, and better looking (and a guy!) so Scott should choose Derek's side. To them, there is no reason that the Sun Summoner will choose a course in life that will prevent her power from corrupting her; if she allowed herself to be corrupted, she'd have all the status of the Darkling.

The problem they have is that the artists behind both the Grishaverse and Teen Wolf, which you are free to consider trivial, still examined the world around them and came to the conclusion that power doesn't supersede the necessity for ethical thought. In other words, the artists realized that power fantasies might give momentary pleasure, but in the end, they don't produce meaningful stories.

Some people have a problem with that.

#scott mccall #alina starkov #darkling #grishaverse #derek hale #jackson whittemore #fandom problems #fandom racism

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Sometimes seeing the way that people react to your posts about character development and what they tend to say in response makes me think that many times you and the other person are in agreement, but inadvertently approaching from two different conversational sides.

I’ve noticed that usually when you run into confusion, you’ve been using character development as a way of saying they have improved their character - they’ve recognized their flaws and they’ve met them and they’ve put in the work to overcome them and become better people. They’ve developed their character through deliberate hard work to grow and become better than they were yesterday. From that stance, you are correct in none of the mxtx protagonists needing to overcome it possibly barring Shen Qingqiu. None of their journey involved them having to improve and overcome their flaws in order to become better people by the end of the novel.

However not everyone is reading it that way, I think, cause frequently the responses you get make me think that they’re using character development to say that they have grown from the person they started as in any way, which is still true for the mxtx protagonists. They mature, they wisen, they gain a broader understanding of the world they’re in and sometimes they make different choices based on that. The first example that comes to mind is the difference between Wei Wuxian choosing Jiang Cheng in the past when they met up after he was thrown into the Burial Mounds as opposed to choosing Lan Wangji in the present, now that he has a deeper understanding of both of them and is no longer still in a space of recent trauma from what’s happened to him since Lotus Pier fell. It is a type of character development in that his growth and maturity does lead him to make a different choice than he did in the past, but it was not a flaw back then that he sided with Jiang Cheng and it was not a mistake he needed to examine in himself to overcome to grow.

Sometimes you do genuinely have people who just don’t read what you say at all or disagree because they are not arguing in good faith, and that’s a different conversation again. But I think sometimes it’s just genuinely you saying a thing and meaning it one way and people reading it and hearing it a different way, neither of whom are wrong.

I could be wrong, but it really does seem to me sometimes that the miscommunication really is just that simple. When I look at the confusion you and your responders have sometimes, I think this might be why.

No, I think you’re pretty spot on with that assessment. This is the same issue I’ve had with convos about grey morality and paralleling/foiling. I am using these terms as literary critique and analysis not as the general phrases they’ve since been relegated to outside of the classroom. (And this is a me thing, I am a teacher at heart and adhere to a very strict definition for these things.) I don’t think the mxtx MCs had “character development” under that definition, but I would never say that they are wholly unchanging and unchanged, as one of the things I love about them is the ability to adapt to continuously developing situations. But in that original post, I tried to mitigate that by narrowing the scope of the “change” I was talking about to just their morality, because that was the subject I was seeing talked about at the time.

People wanting to discuss how the MCs may change in relationships or as they age had nothing to with the my original point. I tend to address them anyways because I think they’re wrong and don’t like them being added to my original point. For example, saying that the MCs “changed” by “learning to accept love,” which is false because “accepting love” is not a struggle any of them had. That is just popular fanon. Unless the disagreement is over the morality of the MCs or the intentions behind their actions, I don’t really want addendums bringing up unrelated stuff on that post, specifically.

#anon #people are reacting to the ‘never changed’ part #and missing *what* i said never changed #if i made a post about the relationships with this same claim #then I’d be open to debating it #particularly about if it counts as character development or not

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Okay so I have a question and I really hope I word it properly so if this is written incomprehensibly, let me know and I’ll try to write it better.

In regards to the recent reblog chain about titling your dogs related to their working ability and not just their conformation titles, I was curious if there are titles you would not expect certain dog breeds to have, and if they did title well in certain things would it seem like the dog is against breed standard?

For example, based on your extensive sharing of knowledge on Doberman temperament and breed ideals, would it actually be wrong for them, and other protection breeds, to have a CGC/CGCA/CGCU? Another example- would it be kind of a fault for a Doberman to achieve a high title in herding based on the actual purpose of the breed? Or is it just a testament to good training and partnership between handler and dog?

Let me know if this makes sense! It was just a curiousity that came up in my mind for the opposite end of the spectrum. Thanks for your thoughts!

This is a really interesting ask, and I wanted to give a detailed answer and not just something short I fired off while on my phone, so I wanted to wait until I had a moment on my computer with a proper keyboard to answer.

Your example- dobermans and the CGCs- is sort of complicated. I've discussed before how breed uses have changed over the years and with the current world how some things we had to let go of and focus on something else, and dobes aren't immune from that. The original temperament of the doberman was a very sharp, very aggressive dog that would bite any stranger that touched it and was not particularly safe for other people to be around, that bonded closely with their owner and refused another master, that was so good at being that type of dog they were called "devil dogs" and people went out of their way to avoid them. The AKC came up with a set of rules regarding vicious and biting dogs in the ring largely due to dobermans biting the shit out of judges during exams, and biting their handlers for being held back from biting the shit out of judges. There is a reason that until the late 90s, one of the generic "vicious aggressive dog" looks was usually a doberman. The breed reputation is very well deserved.

Let me be perfectly clear when I say: I do not think there is space in this world for this type of dog anymore. Clearly, neither did people in the 70s, and there were a lot of breeding decisions that took place to try and adjust breed temperament to what we expect of dog behavior today. Being able to allow strangers to touch them is something every dog now needs to know, because we like veterinarians and don't want our dogs removing their hands, because fully sedating a dog or drugging them into oblivion just to get a shot and a wellness is incredibly hard on their body, so we as a breed community kind of changed track.

So... do I think dobermans getting their CGCs means they don't quite have correct temperament for the breed? Really depends what you're considering correct temperament. The original temperament of the breed certainly I would say that dog could not get a CGC due to needing to accept a stranger coming up and touching them/their owner without biting, which is completely against the entire point of the breed created to bite strangers that touch them or their owners. At the same time, I think in current society a CGC proves that the doberman in question isn't a total loose cannon, which is more relevant to today's world and the priorities of today's dog laws and ethics.

Herding on the other hand some people do with their dobermans. Personally I think it's stupid but not due to being against breed temperament, more that dobermans often have a lot of terrier in them and are just as likely to bloody the sheep as they are to attempt to herd. It is true that herding breeds were used to create dobes along with mastiffs and terriers and the occasional sighthound, but herding was never the point and I think risking someone's stock due to a barely-there ancestral connection to herding is, um, not super ethical. I feel more strongly about this than I used to, just because of learning more about herding through the use of my swissy and her breeder's sheep. GSMD and dobes both branch off the butcher dog, which became rottweilers, but in very different directions, and so the more I learn about how dogs move stock the less happy I am about the few people that put their dobes on sheep.

I don't think herding titles are any proof of breeding quality because, again, the doberman was never intended to herd in the first place. Similar to how I don't think dock diving, agility, or barn hunt titles are proof of breeding quality in dobes either, because jumping into water, maneuvering around obstacles at high speeds, and killing rodents on a farm also aren't doberman-specific jobs. I would find more value in dock diving for water rescue breeds, barn hunt for terriers and other vermin-killing breeds, and agility for breeds intended to work closely with their owners in difficult terrain and high stakes/high speed settings. Again I do not think they are necessarily against correct breed temperament, in fact I think a good doberman should be able to do any of those without too much issue because they like to work with their owners in training, but I do not think they objectively show me anything about the worth of breeding that dog either.

Don't get me wrong, I also think that bitesports are also an incomplete picture- the doberman was a personal protection dog, not a sport dog. IGP, which used to be IPO, which used to be Schutzhund, is a sport developed from a breed worthiness testing program specifically for the German Shepherd during a time when Nazis took over Germany. It has very little to do with the doberman outside of being a German bitey dog thing developed during the lead-in to WWII. That is why dobes are considered an off breed in IGP, they were never actually developed to pass those standards. There are less than 50 living IGP3 dobermans in the country currently.

Ringsport, similarly, was developed primarily with malinois and dutch shepherds in mind. There are currently two MR3 dobermans in the country and the same person owns both of them- historically I believe there have been 5 and that person also owned one of the remaining 3. You'd think PSA would be more in line with what dobermans were meant for, being advertised as most similar to real personal protection street work, until you learn that there has never been a PSA3 doberman and the PSA2 doberman club is extremely limited (I believe to-date only 3 dogs have managed it, two males and one female). American Schutzhund was also developed by and for GSD people and is too new to have dobes scoring very highly yet. And this new combo PSA-dock-diving hybrid thing called Shark Bite I believe was created by malinois people.

In other words, the breed-worthiness titling system we do have was never created with the doberman in mind, being the only breed developed specifically for personal protection. I have met plenty of IGP3/IPO3 dobermans who I think have bad breed temperament. I have also met plenty that could not pass even the IGP1 that I think are more correct. BUT, I will say, it is very easy to claim your dogs are not passing because they are REAL WORKING DOGS when in reality it's because your dogs are shitters or because your training is bad, and in fact it is a crutch I see a lot of unscrupulous people in the breed rely on when asked how they can be breeding TRU WERKIN DAWGZ when they haven't titled a single one of them.

There are people who are of the opinion that high scores in these sports actually means that the dog is not quite to-standard temperament-wise, as the correct doberman is a highly defensive, sharp dog that in theory should actually struggle a bit on some of the exercises. I am not experienced enough to know if I'd go that far, but I think it is important to keep in mind that even judges will say this- I have heard judges say "technically this doberman scored higher on this exercise, however that other doberman while scoring lower had more correct temperament when considering this sport was not made for the breed's drives" in their critiques. So if what sports we do have are not quite the full picture, we cannot rely on titles or scores to tell us the full story on whether the dog is necessarily correct.

HOWEVER all of that to say, I still believe that even a low level relevant working title should be required of the breed- and all working breeds- because far too many people as said have used this as an excuse not to do it at all, and thus breed dogs who can't even pass a basic temperament test let alone put in real work. Far too many people have felt comfortable saying "well, I'm not interested in this" or "it's too hard/expensive/time consuming" or "what we have isn't currently adequate so I won't do it at all" and now breed dobermans who run at the first sight of conflict instead of, you know, showing any amount of GUARD in a GUARDIAN breed.

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star-vessel1237 · 1 year

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Baal!Yuu Miscellaneous

Just some Random stuff involving Baal!Yuu

Baal!Yuu wears the standard NRC Uniform with their head-wrappings and their cloak

They have argued with Crewel multiple times about keeping them

Crewel agreed they can keep their head-wrappings, but must take off their cloak for Alchemy and PE

They mostly hide away their right arm using charms to make it invisible or just having it behind their cloak only having their left arm exposed

They do very well in school, even going out of their way to study subjects above their year

This is mostly because of their obsessive need to gain more knowledge, which sky rocketed after coming to Twisted Wonderland

They practically spend almost all of their time in the library if they aren’t getting dragged into shenanigans with Ace and Deuce

This is also because they try to do their own studying since Crowley is doing NOTHING to help them get home

Don’t get them wrong, Baal!Yuu likes it here. But they have some ‘unfinished business’ to settle back in their home dimension

They also may or may not have started an online business selling study guide pdfs online for money before Chapter 3 (Helps that they got all of the subject courses memorized)

For this interpretation of Yuu, they mostly come off as serious and aloof towards others, spending most of their time alone in a library or in their dorm. But they eventually spend more time with some of the friends they made in NRC after warming up to them, showing them a more generous and good meaning nature

Also, while they’re the most mature out of the first years, this is often contradicted because they have a petty side to them, often using their abilities to their advantage to mess with others

Example:

Ace: Hey Prefect, you here?

Baal!Yuu: Hello Ace, Deuce, to what do I owe pleasure?

Deuce: Grim asked us to help find his tuna stash.

Baal!Yuu: And this concerns me because?

Deuce: He said he “forgot” about where it is. He also said you wouldn’t tell him where it was unless he answered one of your questions.

Baal!Yuu: Again, how am I involved?

Ace: Yuu, be honest. Did you use your weird magic to make Grim forget where he put his damn tuna?

Baal!Yuu: ...

Baal!Yuu: Grim threw out the chili sauce I bought from Sam’s, I’m not giving back his memory until he apologizes or he gets my question correct.

Ace: Geez, and you say we’re immature.

Baal!Yuu restrains themselves from using their full strength when fighting the overbloted students, they know that their own power can brutally harm them if they're not careful

The same cannot be said for the huge blot monsters that are dealt the most of Baal!Yuu’s attacks

I also like to think that when they defeated Riddle their curiosity got the better of them and they used a weaker form of [Leak Information] to partially see what’s going through their mind (i.e. the flashback scenes we see in game)

When they realize this will be a common occurrence across overblots, Baal!Yuu decides to find a therapist that's cheap and can take calls over the phone

They still give some advice from what they have learned over the years to the overbloted so that (hopefully) they can change for the better and not suffer through this, again

Rook’s calls them “Roi du savior” (Translation: King of Knowledge)

Rook started calling them this after Baal!Yuu told them some information about their species(?) of digimon and how some have the title of “Sublime Lord” or in one recent case from their world, “God of Knowledge”

Floyd’s nickname for them is Giant Squid, mostly because he saw them in their regular outfit, combined that with their height and intelligence (Baal!Yuu doesn’t mind)

Malleus and Baal!Yuu didn’t share their names at first when they met, Malleus called them “Baal”, and of course Baal!Yuu called him “Tsunotaro”

Reason: Malleus is a fae (or fairy) and Baal!Yuu is technically considered a demon (digital variety but close enough), both creatures that are known for keeping their true names secret so I thought it would fit for both of them to call each other by nicknames until Chapter 6

There’s more I want to write about this AU, maybe make this an actual TWST x Digimon AU, give the main boys digimon partner and write some scenarios where digimon end up in Twisted Wonderland with Baal!Yuu being the first with more following after, the first incident of this happening post Chapter 1. However, this is all I’m writing for now. Hope you enjoy.

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nikithagonch81 · 3 months

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Sunset Shimmer is one of the central characters in My little pony: Equestria girls, getting a redemption arc in the second movie (and at the end of the first when she was forgiven).

I like the character for her design (it just screams her cutiemark), her story, and her personality.

It's a story about a human (or should I say pony) who earned her trust through honest labor. And, as is usually the case in children's cartoons (not a rebuke, I'm just stating the fact that this is usually the case in children's cartoons), such characters are quickly forgiven and treated better already. But! As many people saw in the second EG movie, Shimmer was prejudiced in school. Even the main six, although they accepted the fact that the girl corrected herself, still did not really communicate with her, even joked at her sometimes. And they turned to her for help only when they couldn't cope themselves (google The Dazzling - welcome to the show and see for yourself).

Sunset's motivations in the first movie are quite clear, which is good for a cartoon. Shimmer was Celestia's apprentice long before Sparkle (Twilight) showed up, studying quite diligently until the girl got the thing she wanted. Eventually, Shimmer decided to find her own way and fled through a portal to the human world. There she began to literally "rule" the school. All the students feared and shunned her, and Sunset enjoyed her power. And the plot of the first movie began with her act: she stole Sparkle's crown in order to rule the entire human world. But, after she realized she knew nothing about friendship, Sparkle and her friends in the EG universe forgave her. Since then, she becomes a central character in the following movies and Sparkle's apprentice.

In all the other movies, Sunset learned friendship and then started teaching friendship to Sparkle from EG.

Sunset is pretty honest to her friends, tolerant and loyal. Often comes up with interesting ideas that work.

Sunset is quite smart, but not smarter than Sparkle (logically, both were apprentices of Princess Celestia).

Sunset Shimmer is a very important character because she teaches us that if you lose trust once, it can be earned again, but the hard way. She teaches us that it's okay to make mistakes. Sunset shows us by example that even if a person has corrected themselves, they will still be prejudiced against them (because people already know that they have done bad things before and are likely to continue to do them). Sunset teaches us that trust is the kind of thing that is hard to earn but easy to lose.

And some interesting facts about this character:

1) Sunset Shimmer is one of a kind, she has no counterpart in EG, her cutiemark literally means that she is native to both the pony world and the human world.

2) Based her design on the third generation pony, Sun Shimmer.

3) Flash's ex-girlfriend Sentry. In the recent EG movies/series they start their relationship again (already as friends).

4) Very good friends with Twilight from EG.

5) Sunset Shimmer and Mighty Trixie have one thing in common: the two had the same sidekicks, Snips and Snale.

6) Although it was said in the movies and in the show that Sunset Shimmer often visits Equestria, you won't see her in the MLP: FIM series itself, only in the final episode of season 9.

7) Sunset Shimmer and Starlight Glimmer are pupils of Sparkle, as well as reformed antagonists (by the way, they will meet each other in one of the series).

8) Sunset Shimmer's design was already known in 2013 because of the dolls' release.

9) Sunset Shimmer has her own element of harmony in the human world, "forgiveness".

10) In the fourth movie, Sunset gains the ability to read people's minds and their pasts (with the help of an artifact - a bracelet representing her element).

11) Sunset has the same problem as Rainbow - they both had no pets and their friends helped them find them (Rainbow eventually got a turtle as a pet and Sunset got a salamander).

12) Sunset Shimmer and Princess Celestia make up after a long fight.

13) Sunset Shimmer is one of the most well-described characters in EG.

14) In the Forgotten Friendship series, she regains the trust of her friends.

15) Many people dislike her.

Now, my opinion on the character.

I like Sunset a lot. I consider her on par with Twilight as the most well-described of the mlp characters. Not only does she have a deep meaning in the series (she was literally born to live in the world of EG and the ponies), but she teaches us, the viewers, a lot. She has her downsides, especially in the first movie, but she makes up for it in the end. Like Sparkle, she learns from her mistakes. And, most importantly, she's fun to follow, which is the most important thing.

P.S. Sorry for any mistakes, my native language is not English.

#sunset shimmer #mlp #mlp fim #my little pony #my litte pony friendship is magic #mlp eqg #my little pony equestria girls #my opinion

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feedingtheflockministry · 11 months

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The Problem of the Rainbow Flag

Recently another online ministry / tv show we love to watch and promote was caught having a gay pride flag hanging from one of their filming cameras. When the director was confronted about this issue by his supporters and fans he gave several excuses, but did not correct the issue and allowed it to stay. Due to his unrepentant stance, supporters and fans are disassociating themselves from his ministry / tv show as the scriptures prescribe for such matters.

For it is written in Matthew 18:15-17, “If your brother sins, go and show him his fault in private; if he listens to you, you have won your brother. But if he does not listen to you, take one or two more with you, so that BY THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES EVERY FACT MAY BE CONFIRMED. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church (a larger gathering of believers); and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.”

Why do followers of Christ have a problem with the pride flag? It is because it is a rainbow. The rainbow is a symbol of a covenant that God made with mankind that states He will never again destroy the earth with a great flood. Today, however, this symbol of God’s promise has been overtaken by those who walk in sexual sin. They have taken what was meant for good and defiled it.

When Christians allow the gay pride flag to be on their property, place of worship, or among any of their ministry efforts they are silently showing their support for that sin and therefore defile their ministry or evangelical efforts. In these situations our support becomes a stumbling block to others who might be wrestling with these desires. We must remember what Jesus said about those who cause others to stumble. He said, “Woe to the world because of its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man through whom the stumbling block comes!”

Once darkness has been allowed in it only spreads throughout the ministry, project, or media outlet. Many other ungodly things will be tolerated as time progresses in these situations. We see this in so many ministries throughout the church age, and it is not only sexual sin that runs rampant. For greed, pride, arrogance, desires for control and power, and so much more are found at the center of ministry collapse.

In Revelation 2:20-23 Jesus was addressing the church at Thyatira. He had this to say:

“But I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, and she teaches and leads My bond-servants astray so that they commit acts of immorality (unlawful sex) and eat things sacrificed to idols. I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality. Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds. And I will kill her children with pestilence, and all the churches will know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts; and I will give to each one of you according to your deeds.”

Jesus started by pointing out they were tolerating this false prophet, then He addressed their practices. We can not tolerate or support immorality among us. For it is not good to do so.

Stop and consider this for a moment. If a group of bank robbers robbed a bank and had a get away driver waiting for them outside, would the driver be guilty of being part of that crime as well? Of course they would! Even though the driver did not commit the crime, they still supported it by driving them away.

Consider another example. If a person is given an envelope with poisonous powder in it and they know what it contains but still deliver it anyway, are they innocent or guilty of spreading poisonous powder? They would be found guilty in a court of law.

So how would it be any different for a Christian to allow a gay pride flag to be seen among their ministry, or on the set of a show about Jesus Christ? If they allow it to continue by tolerating it, then they are misrepresenting The Way of Christ and the biblical message as a whole. They once again defile the image of Christ by mixing darkness with light, good with evil, and wickedness with righteousness.

#scriptures #bible #jesus christ #bible teaching #christianity #jesussaves #biblescripture

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everlastiingiimmortals · 9 months

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18. What makes for a great roleplay partner in your opinion?

19. Have you received anon hate? If so, how do you deal with it?

Questions for the mun! Accepting!

18. What makes for a great roleplay partner in your opinion?

Ok this is something I've been exploding about (positively) recently but. the people who take your headcanons and incorporate them into their replies? Oh my god I'd kiss them on the mouth platonically

It's the best feeling, genuinely, when someone takes your headcanons and weaves them into the observations/introspection of their own muse.

I'd like to shoutout two people who did this recently with me! @grislyintentions who made me lose my mind I went insane with this part of their response in a thread of ours:

Amusing. How quick he always is to sacrifice all that he is. It does compel the curious question: Does such a man possess any capacity, even in moments of weakness, to be selfish?

Like. holy shit. This blew me away I loved it so much. And Kafka's use of the phrase "self-punishing," which I'd never once explicitly mentioned to A was a flaw of Jing Yuan's at all at that moment, but they knew. And they were very correct! And I just HIFUDHFJDJFJ HOUGH!!

The second person is @celestial-narwhal who I've been writing with for a long time, about four years now! She's always always incredible when it comes to call-and-response in terms of headcanons and indulgences, as well as knowing which buttons to press and the limits of what her muses would know and/or observe. One of my favorite examples of this is her nod to my ideas regarding Jing Yuan's divine nature and responding with Luocha's own, and it's just. Hough. That's the good shit dude that's the good shit right there.

TLDR: read! your partners'! headcanons! and utilize them!!! they are there for a reason and that's the biggest way to show you're an attentive RPer. Also like your partners' headcanons to show you read them that's super important

19. Have you received anon hate? If so, how do you deal with it?

If I did, I don't remember!

Real answer is no, I haven't. Everyone has been really nice and kind to me for the most part throughout my RP experience. I have dealt with someone trying to whiteknight for me though. That was unpleasant. You've heard that story!

#//immortal; (OOC)#//an answer sought; (ASK)#bishopinblue #((kissies to Arachnid and Starry i love them they write so good))

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faesystem · 1 year

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When there is an area that lacks scientific research, it is important to be cautious how we approach it. It lacking scientific research does not mean that it is not true, but it also means that it is important to be mindful about claiming something to be correct.

I see this rather often in syscourse.

An example I saw recently is the claim that, "Autistic CDD systems are more likely to be introject heavy than allistic systems." (Note, I may say system from this point forth instead of CDD system. I mean CDD system.)

Which, as far as I know, does not have any scientific backing. The reason people say this is because, in their experiences interacting with other systems, most systems they know who are autistic have a lot of introjects. Most introject heavy systems they know are autistic. Most allistic systems they know have less introjects.

The thing about this claim in particular that tends to spread misinformation is how people phrase it. People tend to say, "Autism causes systems to be fictive heavy."

In particular with the use of the word fictive, people forget what that actually is. This means that the scientific explanation behind why systems have introjects may be a bit lost in translation. It creates this fault idea that autism is what causes the brain to split fictional characters.

Which, no. Not quite. Crudely I suppose technically, but it is a rather misinformed look on the topic.

Introjection, for those who are unaware, is the process of internalising an external stimulus into a part of yourself. Everyone does it to an extend, even singlets. When it comes to CDD systems, a very intense form of introjection can occur where an external stimulus gets introjected to literally be a part of yourself. An alter's sense of self will be based on this external stimulus in some manner. There are a variety of ways this can present, but typically it includes things like personality traits, names, psudomemories, so on and so forth.

But as I stated, introjection is something that happens to everyone, and different things can inpact introjection. While I have not looked hard enough to see if there is a study that specifically focuses on autism having more intense introjection than allistics, my brief look sound many studies claiming off-handedly that that is the case.

Not to mention, there are links between autism and escapism. Like mentioned here.

I have a several reasons to suspect that escapism causes a higher level of introjection. This a very interesting look discussing the very same conclusion I have drawn, a possible overlap in DID and maladaptive daydreaming/escapism. The article does in fact mention how introjection happens in both experiences. My personal reasons behind why I suspect this are listed below.

- Every single introject heavy system I know personally has a long-standing history of escapism. Typically, the introjects in their system are based on what media they escape to, both with long-standing alters tending to be from long-standing media escapes, and active alters tending to be from the current media escape.

- The way our brain introjects personally tends to function in a very similar process to our escapism. It is a, "Wow. This situation fucking sucks. Let us project/introject one character who is holding this pain and have the rest of the cast provide support to help them. They help keep them safe from harm, care for them when they cannot care for themself, provide emotional comfort and unconditional love, things like this that would be very useful given the current situation."

- Often times our escapism and our DID overlaps in very intense ways. We will spend hours escaping into our psudomemories, fleshing them out in real time and carrying them with us going forward. Entire very complex networks of memories are continuously updated between alters and provide the connection between us.

- We are not the only system with those sort of experiences and find it very common in those systems we mentioned before that we know.

- Within Gen Z there has been a rise in escapism as a coping mechanism. I have also heard it said, and I have not looked up any sources on this so take it with a grain if salt, that introjects (especially fictional ones) appear to be more common in younger systems than older ones.

Essentially, disorders are never fully seperate. When you have multiple, they will interact with each other. I personally believe that it is in fact likely that the way autistic people introject differently from allistics likely infulences the experiences of many autistic systems with their introjects. And these sorts of things are increidbly important to explore as it can help provide us with better understandings of ourselves. However, it is important to not put full faith into things like "autism causes fictives" because correlation may not be causation. There are a lot of factors at play.

#syscourse #discourse #I may become a research psychologist at some point specifically due to the fact that I adore this so much.#educational #long post

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ok well, i tend to do some divination with them every day (although we are switching this to a couple days a week and at specific times) and provide an offering every day. i am aiming to visit the genius locurum (i hope that’s correct) of a small lake and a tree at least once a week and likely twice a week. would it be reasonable to befriend something like 2 more spirits at this point as a beginner or might i burn out? i also do full time university although this semester is coming to an end in two weeks.

In reference to this other ask about how many spirits is 'too many' for a beginner to establish within a month.

Imagine I meet you and I call, text, and send you memes every day. I also buy you lunch every day.

You must be thinking, 'dang, this Chicken person must really like me a lot! I think there's a ton of potential here!'

Now, let's say in 6 weeks or a couple months, I suddenly stop talking to you. Maybe I only buy you lunch once a week, or once a month. Maybe I only text you every few days. Maybe I fully cut contact and ghost you.

I think that would really hurt your feelings. I think you'd be questioning why I don't like you any more. If I suddenly contacted you again, you might be just excited to chill, but you also might reasonably want to know why I did what I did.

So what if I kind of hurt your feelings by dropping you like a hot potato, and my explanation is, "well, I met tons of other friends and I wanted to give them as much attention as I gave you, and then I just got burned out so I stopped talking to you. But now I'm ready again so I'm re-entering your life :)"

I think that would suck. So I think it's important to keep in mind that your needs and you burning out is only half of the equation. I think it's important for you to ask yourself if it is fair to rapidly develop spirit relationships knowing you have a chance to burn out and leave them hanging.

I think there is a strong chance that you are already going overboard with daily contact and daily offerings for spirits you very recently met. For most people, this is not sustainable in the long term, especially if you want to expand daily contact to multiple spirits and have additional travel obligations.

Having spirits in your life isn't just having conversations and making offerings. Having spirits around you can change your space, your spiritual awareness, your magical abilities, and your personal needs.

Crowding your space with too many spirits at once can also lead to mixed signals and crossed wires. If you have a special dream that you know is spirit-given, how exactly are you going to figure out which spirit gave it?

One of the best ways (IMO) to develop spiritual discernment is to feel out the subtle changes in your life that are created when you invite a new spirit into your sphere. These changes become manifest over weeks, months, and years - not days.

This includes wanted and unwanted effects. If you are new to spirit work and magic, it seems likely that you may not have the magical or psychic skills to always know when spirits are being honest with you, how to constrain them to follow the rules of your home, and how to interact with them to avoid getting yourself into hot water.

For example, if you make two new friends tomorrow and three weeks from now you start experiencing adverse spiritual effects, you haven't spent enough time with any of these four spirits to know which one might be causing the problem (or, if the problem is symptoms of burnout).

I think there's not much wrong with wanting to hang out with spirits and spending time with them as much as you feel like. But I think trying to ply spirits into becoming your friends ASAP is different, and has a lot more pitfalls.

I think there is a very good chance that because you are a beginner at spirit work, there is a lot to spirit relationships as a whole that you may not even be aware of. And it feels wise to learn about being a spirit-worker and how to maintain long-term relationships before trying to enter into many of them.

#answered #spirits

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hullbreachgame · 9 months

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First Update!

Hello! I'm Duncan, and this is where I'm going to be posting updates for my personal, hopefully-to-be-completed-one-day game project!

The quick sales pitch: Heat Signature with a dash of Hardspace: Shipbreaker.

The less-quick sales pitch: A game where you play a highly disposable (and incredibly indebted) fixer who solves a big problem that a lot of individuals and companies have in the time of FTL travel; sometimes you would very much like something, but unfortunately it is on someone else's ship. In fact, it is often not just on someone else's ship, but in fact behind large amounts of personnel who may hold some strong objections to removing it from their ship. Or, they may in fact be the asset that needs retrieving and may not be particularly interested in coming quietly. Your goal? Completing the objectives set forth in your contract, employing whichever methods suit your particular tastes as well as the contract's stipulations-- some might want you to use a more delicate touch, while others want to send a message. Do what you can to earn as much as you can and maybe even pay off your debt-- or just try and enjoy the relative impunity you operate under.

Things are very much in the planning and testing phase right now. So, without further ado, let's get into one of the big things being worked on right now: Destruction.

------------------------CLANG - what was that?!-------------------------

The game is being developed in Godot 4, which is a fantastic engine for people who are a bit less experienced in the development space. It does have a few major downsides though, and one of the huge ones is a lack of assets and libraries. This makes it a little bit harder to get things moving and also means that there is the need to kind of develop quite a few things completely from scratch.

One thing that people who have messed with things like Godot and Unity in the past would probably understand is that you really want your collision objects to be convex. Basically, nice and solid, no holes or dips. You can stick a line in anywhere and it will only ever exit in one spot. In fact, you cannot even have rigidbodies with concave collisions in Godot. This is because it's really hard to calculate concave collisions, and really expensive on a computational level. This translates to: please have mercy on my framerate.

This generally isn't a huge problem, and there's plenty of ways to get around this, like just using static bodies, manipulating collision masks (which I actually will be using for a few neat things!), or you make sure that your concave objects, like a tunnel, or a doorway, are composed of convex polygons. A square room, for example, isn't just one big cube typically, it's six squares representing each face, 6 distinct collision objects.

It might be useful, then, to have some ways to break a concave shape into convex ones. And you'd be right! In fact, you'd be so right, that you'd assume it was a problem we've completely solved. And you would not be correct unfortunately! It's a topic that has a truly gargantuan amount of research poured into it. Google "Convex Decomposition" if you want to learn more about the subject-- it is genuinely very interesting-- there are people far more qualified than me to talk about it.

I have some plans in mind to solve the problem in a way that is performant for my needs, and I will also be (hopefully, providing it doesn't end up being utterly impractical) releasing these tools on their own within Godot so that other people can use them for free as well!

Actually writing out the code for it is... interesting, to say the least, as I am not gifted in the ways of geometry, and did not know too much about mesh generation until recently. However, I am currently working at implementing a very quick-and-dirty 'hole cutting' method right now.

Here is a gif that shows off the basic process for how it works:

Here's an explanation of how the general process will work:

Figure out your hole shape-- in this case, it's a square hole made by the rod punching through the prism. Get the points along the corners as well as your direction. In this case, we've got the 4 points on the face closest to the camera and pointed towards the left face.

Make a plane that is flush with the first 2 points and in the direction of the cut. Everything to one side gets snipped off of the first mesh and moved into another one (we don't actually separate them, but it is separated for easier visualization). Additionally, make a note of the first point in the hole and its intersection point-- in this case, bottom left point of the hole and about 3/4 of the way along the bottom of the prism.

Now-- repeat this step until you get to the last point of the hole; create a plane flush with the side, snip off everything on one side, and move to the next side. Connect everything up. Additionally, if this is the last repeat of this step, make a note of if you have intersected the two points from step 2. If so, you can drop the intersection point from step 2.

For the last points, just connect the previous point, the first point, and the intersection point from the previous point and the first intersection if it wasn't dropped.

After you've gotten all those pieces, you can just replace the original mesh with the 4 new ones. Tada! You have what looks like a hole through a mesh, but in reality it's 4 segments. If you're so inclined, you can also make the surface of the cut its own material-- maybe you want the 'inside' of a wall to look different.

Now, this solution isn't perfect. It cannot be multi-threaded in this fashion, since the sequential cuts depend on the prior cut to happen. I have a few other methods that could actually be done simultaneously, but this one is pretty easy to visualize and for the purposes of the game it should be completely functional. The astute among you may also realize that this will not work for concave holes without a few changes-- this is actually not the hardest fix, but it won't be relevant for the purposes of this type of destruction. It might be included in the library, though!

My next goal is to actually get this method implemented in Godot so that I can show it in action! This will also get me a bit more comfortable with mesh manipulation.

After that, we will be able to get to some really exciting stuff as well with some more... dynamic destruction. Cutting holes is all fine and dandy, but what about smashing them? Hopefully you'll see some more on that in the future!

#godot #godot engine #video games #gamedev #blender #space

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alexdelray1 · 7 months

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Miguel x F Reader.

I'm Reader O'hara. I am 33 years old and have been married for 7 years and I have a 5-year-old daughter, Marina. The year is 2105 and I have an unusual job. I am a universal mediator. My job is to spend time on another planet and make sure there is peace between our planets. There are several universal mediators. It's not like I'm going to another universe. NO. I stay in my solar system. I'm just going to another planet. And will you think how it works in practice? I spend 6 months on my planet, earth, and 6 months on Pandora. Until I change my job or the end of my life. 1 month here 2 there 3 here and so on. It makes me look 22 years old. Due to the climate, you age terribly slowly. My husband also does something similar. He's Spider-man and he saves other universes. Well, hard work. Often Miguel will simply take Marina to his office and leave her with his subordinates.

-Mom! Where have you been for so long? You're 15 minutes late! - said Marina and fell into my arms.

-I had something important on my mind.- I replied and took Marine to the car.

-As always. Remember. Every time you are on earth you must take care of me. Dad gets really overworked when you're on Pandora (yeah, shit. I recently watched Avatar).- Marina said as I fastened her seat belt.

-Don't worry, sunshine-- I couldn't finish.

-Pandora.- Marina corrected me.

-Pandora. Dad and I always get rewards when I come back.- I said and closed the car door next to her seat. I opened the driver's door and got into the seat. I closed the door and adjusted the mirror.

-And what prizes!? I want one too! - Marina raised her voice excitedly.

-These are secret rewards. You'll get something else. - I said and started the car.

-Wait, and when you arrived almost a month ago, did you also get awards? - Marina asked and I started driving the car towards the house.

-Well, yes.- I said.

-So where's my reward? - Marina asked.

-And which one do you want?- I answered the question with a question.

-I want you to bring me something from Pandora in a month.- Said Marina.

-Okay, but it won't be anything alive. Their air is different. Their air can kill us and our air can kill them. - I explained while looking at the road.

-So, mom, how are you breathing there? - Marina asked.

-I have a special mask that automatically changes the air in it to normal air.- I replied.

-Do you even know anyone there or is it just a big nothing?- asked Marina, scratching her seat belt.

-Oh, honey. There are so many things there. This is a beautiful place. There is nature and animals everywhere. I know a lot of people there. Wait. These are not people. They are called Na'vi.- I said.

-Do they look like us?- asked Marina.

-Not at all. One of them is 272 centimeters and, for example, his son is 243 cm. They are almost navy blue.- I said. I parked in front of the house.

-They are tall! Do you have any idea what you will take from this planet for me? - Marina asked and unbuckled her seatbelt.

-Not yet. Most of the things there are alive, even if they look like plants. - I said and got out of the car. I pulled Marine out of it.

-Mom? Will you ever take me there? - Marina asked.

-Your dad won't let me do that. Maybe I'll take you when you're 18. And that's enough time for me to look about 35 years old. - I told Marina.

-You're not fun, mom!- Marina raised her voice.

-Don't worry. I'll get you something from there and it'll be okay.- I said. We entered the house and took off our shoes.

-Papa!- she ran to Miguel in the kitchen and I sighed.

-What happened, honey? -Miguel asked and hugged her.

-Mom doesn't want to take me to another planet.- said Marina.

-Reader, I told you not to get her excited about this.- Miguel said to me.

-I didn't excite her. I just told her about it. - I defended myself and Miguel sighed.

-Chica, say goodbye to your mom, okay? And you'll wait a little longer to travel to Pandora, okay? - Miguel asked her and Marina waved her head yes and ran to me.

-Bye, mommy.- Marina said and hugged me.

-Bye, Marina, I love you. - I said and hugged her too. Marina ran to her room after the hug.

-So we won't see each other for another month. It'll take a while.- Miguel grumbled.

-Don't worry. The month will pass quickly. And after that you will get another reward. - I said and kissed him on the cheek.

-And maybe you'll get a bonus if you give me a kiss now.- he replied and I kissed him on the lips.

-I'll wait for penetration this month. Bye Bye.-

Not checked. Good night.

#spider verse #x reader #fem reader #spiderman #across the spiderverse #miguel o'hara #miguel o hara x reader

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