#the quote image quality- it's all 10/10

[consanguinitatum]

Update: new info about David Tennant's elusive 1996 short film Quality Control!

I've got a few new updates to add to this post I did a while back about a short film David Tennant did in 1996 called Quality Control. If you haven't yet read my first post about this short film, you can read it at the link I posted above. And then come on back!

Firstly, Quality Control was broadcast many more times than I thought it was! I thought it was only broadcast four times between 1996 and 1998, so imagine my surprise when I did some digging and found it had actually broadcast eleven times between 1996 and 1999. Oops!

But by far the biggest update I have on this short is that recently I've discovered why it was made...and by whom!

But first, the updated broadcast list:

BROADCAST DATES:

1996:

4 Jan 1996 - 1:55pm - Channel 4

10 Jun 1996 - 1:55pm - Channel 4

9 Dec 1996 - 2pm - Channel 4

10 Dec 1996 - 1:30pm - Regional S4C

1997:

18 Jun 1997 - 10:45am - Regional S4C

25 Jun 1997 - 10:45am - Channel 4 & Regional S4C

1998:

8 Feb 1998 - 3:30pm - Channel 4

26 Oct 1998 - 1:30pm - Channel 4

6 Nov 1998 - 1:30pm - Regional S4C

1999:

18 Jun 1999 - 1:30pm - Channel 4

29 Jun 1999 - 1:30p - Regional S4C

Of course now that I've found these, I'm aware there may be other broadcast dates I have yet missed. If so, I didn't find any past 2000. But I reserve the right to be mistaken, ha!

Now here's the bigger update: the why, and the who!

Published 23 June 1995 in The Scotsman, here's the article that broke it wide open for me, and its relevant quote:

"Simplicity and technical finesse marked this year's graduation films at the Edinburgh College of Art degree show. While Hannah Lewis's Quality Control makes excellent use of a superior comic performance by David Tennant as a youth trainee on his first day in a Leith sweatshop…"

WOW, right?

But this new information leads to all sorts of other questions. If this short was initially part of a degree course, how did it make the leap to broadcast? Was it in one of the short film UK production schemes happening at the time which were helping new film creatives launch their ideas: i.e., First Reels, Tartan Shorts, New Found Land?

I'm not sure. At first blush, Quality Control doesn't seem to have been included in a larger broadcast of shorts like Bite and Spaces had been (Bite was shown on the program Don't Look Down on STV, and Spaces was shown on STV as a part of First Reels.) In its broadcast listings, Quality Control is always listed on its own.

The description the article gives on the short is also very interesting. The article says David played a youth trainee on his first day in a Leith sweatshop. But reviews and blurbs of the short's plot in newspapers say he was a job trainee who becomes a quality controller/inspector at a skateboard factory. It seems to me that a sweatshop and a skateboard factory are two very different places, but are they? Was that changed somehow between its showing at the College of Art degree show, or was it just the article writer's bad description?

Blurbs about Quality Control from various newspapers

And just who is Hannah Lewis, its creator? Well my money's on producer Hannah Lewis, who's worked with Morag McKinnon and Colin McLaren. They all met at the Edinburgh College of Art, and had made three shorts together by 1999 (one of which, 'Home', won a BAFTA!) But if she is the right Hannah Lewis, Quality Control isn't listed anywhere on her IMDb. So while I can't be sure she's the short's creator, the time is right, and the place is right. A lot of the dots sure do line up!

Now we know why it was done - and who did it - can we find it? Is it archived somewhere? I haven't found it so far if it is - at least it's not archived at the Moving Image Archive in Glasgow, or at the British Film Institute. But I've yet to check to see if the Edinburgh College of Art may have it.

As far as all the other questions this raises - like how did David get involved with the project (since he was living in London at the time) and if he knew someone who knew someone who...ya know? Pfffft. Your guess is as good as mine! It's one more "I dunno" to add to the pile.

In conclusion, we may be as close as we've ever been to finding out more about David's elusive 1996 short, Quality Control.

I'll keep on searching!

#DavidTennant #ObscureDavidTennantPerformances #DavidTennantShortFilms #QualityControl

[yukipri]

I joined Threads! Unfortunately my reach on Insta is still the most limited of all of my socials, and that’s the account Threads is directly attached to.

If you’re on either Insta or Threads, would love if you could stop by🙏

Direct linking to Threads doesn't seem to work...so here's

my Instagram

through which you can find my Threads account!

Edit: You actually can link to Threads, ironically through the icon at the top of individual Instagram account pages on desktop. Though Desktop viewing is currently limited to individual pages, and you can't necessarily scroll the feed. So here's my Threads page!

~~

Next, some initial thoughts on the platform for those who are kinda curious what this new thing is. Not at all an expert, just some info I've gathered myself, that I'd personally have liked to know before joining:

On Threads

・It launched July 5~6, 2023. Rollout varies by country.

・Twitter's already upset about it, apparently there's a lawsuit. So I guess it considers Threads a possible threat.

・It's run by Meta, same folks as Insta and Fb.

・The accounts are directly linked to Instagram, which has its pros and cons. You need an Insta account to make a Threads account, but if you already have an Insta account, it's very easy to make a connected Threads account. However, once linked, they're linked; you can't disable your Threads account without also disabling your Insta account. You can also automatically follow all the accounts you're already following on Insta, to be activated as they make Threads accounts. You can also share Threads posts to your Insta stories.

・Currently only on mobile app, hoping the'll make it desktop accessible soon

・The current audience mostly seems to be folks who have come direct from Instagram. This means yes, a lot of official/influencer accounts, but also a lot of artists/small creators too.

Functionality

・Right now, the "feed/dashboard" is a hot mess. It's just one massive algorithmic spew, no way to curate it, no way to see just the posts by the folks you're following, not even chronological. These are things that i personally require in a social media, so yeah it sucks rn. HOWEVER, they did state that they're working on a "followers only" feed, much like the one on Instagram. If they implement a Followers Only feed like Insta, it'll at least be much better than Twitter's current "Following" feed. There has been no timeline provided on when this may launch.

・It functions much the same as Twitter, with options to create new posts, and like, retweet, quote retweet, and reply to posts made by others. (There's still a lot of floundering about the exact terminology to use, since it's not twitter so you can't "retweet" etc)

・500 Character word limit per post, which is much more than Twitter, ey!

・Up to 10 images per post, doesn't seem to cause image quality reduction either. Rather than being able to arrange the images like on Tumblr though, they're all automatically in a carousel that you can see by swiping.

・Your bio can be the exact same as what's on your insta, but currently only shows followers. In order to see who you follow, you tap "followers" and then when the menu opens, swipe to "following." Then, you can tap on the individual accounts to view their pages. This is currently the only way to ensure you see the posts from certain accounts, because there's no guarantee they'll show up on your feed, and it's a huge pain. But again, they're hopefully working on a fix for this.

My understanding is that the app rushed to launch now, since Twitter is a dumpster fire and people are fleeing. (why is it a dumpster fire? Well, Musk implemented a randomly fluctuating tweet view limitation, which is dumb af, but means it's essentially become unusable to folks who use the platform a lot)

I'm hoping that there'll be improvements to Threads and it'll become a viable Twitter alternative, but until then...yeah we'll keep an eye on it.

Now that I've probably completely turned you off from downloading the app, if you do, a nudge that again I'd appreciate if you stopped by my account, YukiPri_Art on Instagram, and/or YukiPri_Art on Threads!

#YukiPri rambles #Threads #social media #longpost #long post #Sigh yes another Twitter alternative #but unlike Bluesky I was actually able to make an account so that's one mark in its favor #plus Twitter is literally a hot mess rn I am getting like zero views on anything but RTs of popular accounts sigh #To be clear I'm not leaving Tumblr bc it's my home and i've always been here #but Tumblr and Twitter serve very different functions for me

[popopretty]

(im curious about all quotes but tried to include a larger version of some)

hi hello! if you have the time i'm really curious as to what these little quotes say on this keychain series from i thiiink 2019? google translate gets very easily confused bc of colors and formatting but i'm debating on collecting them if i like them ❤️ (ALSO SORRY IF THE IMAGE QUALITY IS BAD this is the original release tweet i think). thank u for ur time and work and i hope u have a lovely day!! :)

Hi, sorry it took me forever to get back to you. A lot of things happened and I couldn't get myself together to do st properly for a while.

I know this series of keychains! I even owned a few haha I love everything that has bsd quotes on.

So here is a list of quotes written on each of these keychains (together with the characters' names and organizations - some characters have more than one). Most of them comes from the Cannibalism and Fifteen arc, cuz these keychains are released when season 3 was on air.

BTW, I don't have the official translation for the manga so I'm using fan translations or my own translation instead.

Nakajima Atsushi - ADA: "A straight tunnel? If so, I can catch up with him with my tiger's speed." (Manga Chapter 47)

Dazai Osamu - ADA: "It's true that humans are sinfully stupid, but what's wrong with that?" (Manga Chapter 46)

Edogawa Ranpo - ADA: "And as for any vital intel, I will read through it all." (Manga Chapter 47)

Kunikida Doppo - ADA: "If only he'd return to the agency, it would certainly make things a tad easier." (Manga Chapter 41)

Izumi Kyouka - ADA: "If Demon Snow were human, I could serve its third cervical plexus and subdue it for life." (Manga Chapter 43)

Fukuzawa Yukichi - ADA: "It has been 10 years, after all, since we fought together." (Anime Season 3 Episode 10 - I think he didn't say it in the manga)

Katai Tayama - ADA: "Life outside my futon is living hell, all beauty is above the clouds, all delights under the ocean waves." (Manga Chapter 41)

Akutagawa Ryunosuke - PM: "Once, there was a man who bore the same eyes as you." (Manga Chapter 49)

Nakahara Chuuya - PM: "Sorry, Detective Agency, but today isn't the day for personal grudges." (Manga Chapter 47)

Mori Ougai - PM: "And now, this very place will be the site of your death." (Manga Chapter 50)

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Rats in the House of the Dead: "Joy to the world, and blessings to all its children." (Manga Chapter 47)

Dazai Osamu - Fifteen: "Remember our promise? The loser has to obey one order from the winner, like a dog." (Anime Season 3 Episode 2)

Nakahara Chuuya - The Sheep: "Shut up! You scheming bastard!" (Anime Season 3 Episode 3)

#bungo stray dogs #bsd #ask #finding all of them is harder than i thought lol

[zealfruity]

Clones as Incorrect Quotes 2/2 Master Post (Domino Squad Lives AU and Fives+332nd Live AU version)

Unholy mixture of random generators, unsolved/ghost files banter, and things my friends have said

Mostly just headcanons following below

A few notes for these: Tup is NB he/they. Hardcase is genderfluid. Vaughn is agender they/them. Nax is a she/her. Jesse has no idea how any of this works, someone help him. Domino Squad Lives AU has the main blue boys interact with the 212th on a more personal level, so some of these involve a mix of the two groups. Every single character is having an existential crisis in the other AU. NO CLONESHIPPING HERE!

(Domino Squad Lives Fix-It AU):

Echo: Do you take constructive criticism?

Cutup: No, only cash or credit.

Waxer: The best part of an oreo is the cookie part, not the frosting. Deal with it.

Echo: Darkness without light is an abyss. Light without darkness is blinding. You cannot have a coin with one side.

Boil: YO SOCRATES! IT'S A FUCKING COOKIE!

*Everyone is playing a board game together*

Cutup: I will put 'A' down to make 'A'.

Droidbait: I will add onto your 'A' to make 'AT'.

Hevy: I will add onto your 'AT' to make 'RAT'

Echo: I will add onto your 'RAT' to make

'BIOSTRATAGRAPHIC’.

Hevy: *flips the board*

Cutup: *standing on a balcony and sneezes*

Fives: *standing on the roof* Bless you.

Cutup: God?!

Cutup: Get in loser, we're going shopping.

Droidbait: This is a McDonald's drive thru.

Nax: Arson? Oh, you mean "crime brûlée".

Wooley: I need life advice.

Cutup, sipping Gatorade and eating cookie dough: You came to the right person.

Fives: *coughs blood*

Droidbait: Don't die, Fives!

Fives: Don't tell me what to do!

Cutup: I'm not mean. Name one mean thing I've ever done.

Droidbait: When we were younger, you convinced me eggs weren't real.

Cutup: They're not.

Droidbait: Haha, very funny.

Cutup: I'm serious. Didn't you hear?

Droidbait: No... what happened?

Cutup: …Why would you fall for this again-

Shapeshifter: *transforms to look like Cutup*

Cutup: Okay, are you like BLIND? You look nothing like me. First off, I'm way taller. Secondly, I DO NOT look so sleep deprived and lastly, if you could drag comb through that hair you're like a 7 on a good day and I've been told I'm a constant 10.

Droidbait: Quitting! It's like trying, but easier.

Hevy: I like to play this game called nap roulette. I take a nap and don't set an alarm. Will it be 20 min or 4 hours? Nobody knows. It's risky and I like it.

Cutup: Hello friends!

His Squad:

Cutup: You might be wondering why I'm stuck to the ceiling

Cutup: You're mean!

Droidbait: You're meaner!

Cutup: Yeah, well, you're ugly too!

Droidbait: You're uglier!

Cutup: You're a dumbass!

Droidbait: You're a dumberass!

Cutup: You think "dumberass" is a good insult!

*Cutup and Hevy are planning to break in somewhere*

Cutup: We need to distract the guards.

Hevy: Right.

Cutup: What are we gonna do?

Hevy: I'm gonna break their elbows while you poke their eyes.

Cutup:

Hevy:

Cutup: Deal.

Nax: Hey, DB! Did you know you’re my BFFLWYLION?

Droidbait: What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Nax: Best Friend For Life Whether You Like It Or Not.

Droidbait:

Droidbait: That’s one way to say it, I guess…

Wooley: I am strong! I beat Droidbait at arm wrestling!

Hevy: Anyone can beat Droidbait at arm wrestling!

Droidbait: Hey-

*Cutup sends more than 5 messages in a row*

Hevy: I ain’t reading all that.

Hevy: I’m happy for you tho.

Hevy: Or sorry that happened.

Cutup, to Wooley: You know, Hevy can be really aggressive, so it's important to take all the necessary precautions when approaching.

Cutup: *blows airhorn at Hevy* GET FUCKED!

Hevy: *Posts a super low-quality image to the group chat*

Cutup: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image, I’d have 15 cents.

Hevy: If I had a dollar for every ounce of rage I felt in my body after I read this text, I would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you.

Jesse: Actually I did the math, Cutup would have $225, not $0.15.

Cutup: Fam I’m right here....

Wooley: If I had a dollar I would buy a can of soda :)

Tup: while you’re there could you buy me an apply juice please?

Wooley: Sorry I only have a dollar.

Tup: :(

Jesse: Hey I just realized my friend is right, Echo would have $22,500 because it's a dollar for every pixel, not a cent.

Wooley: If I had $22,500 I would buy a can of soda and an apply juice.

Jesse: You can buy anything you want with $22,500.

Fives: Yeah and he wants soda and apply juice.

Echo: Apply juice to what.

Fives: Directly to the forehead.

Rex: Great chat everyone.

Droidbait, opening a Capri Sun: Guess I'll drink my sorrows away.

Echo: Time for plan G.

Wooley: Don’t you mean plan B?

Echo: No, we tried plan B a long time ago. I had to skip over plan C due to technical difficulties.

Droidbait: What about plan D?

Echo: Plan D was that desperate disguise attempt half an hour ago.

Tup: What about plan E?

Echo: I’m hoping not to use it. Cutup dies in plan E.

Boil: I like plan E.

Oddball: Are we really going to let Hevy keep Beam?

Cody: We kept Cutup.

Kix: Someone’s trying to break in. Call the cops!

Droidbait: *loads shotgun* I got this.

Kix: Last week you fell up the stairs, what do you mean-

The poor Jedi that got Cutup assigned to them after the war: I assume you realize that this kind of idiocy will not be tolerated in this Order.

Cutup: Is there any kind of idiocy you would be more comfortable with?

*At the police station*

Denal: Hi, I’m here for Domino Squad.

Corrie guard: Who’s Domino Squad?

Denal: Ah, you must be new.

Fox: What has the galaxy ever done for you?! Why would you wanna save it?!

Jesse: Cause I’m one of the idiots who lives in it!

Hevy: How does that even work?

Droidbait, mocking him: hOw dO yOu UsE a cOmPUteR aNd KnOw wHaTS GoiNg oN iT DoEsNt mAke SeNSe?!

Hevy: Your face doesn't make sense.

Cody, to Trapper: If you see Cutup, give him this message *makes a neutral face*

Cody: He’ll know what it means.

*later*

Trapper: oh, and Cody said to give you a message.

Trapper: *makes a neutral face*

Cutup: Oh no. The neutral face of displeasure.

Hairdresser: How would you like your hair cut?

Fives: Preferably with scissors, but a sword could be badass.

Longshot: If you don't stop talking, I'm going to jump out of that window.

Cutup: ...We're on the ground floor.

Longshot: I know but I want a dramatic exit.

Hevy: I have no respect for Santa. Don’t sneak in through the chimney and undermine my authority by bringing my family presents. Walk in through the front door and fight me like a man.

Denal: What do you call disobeying the law?

Domino Squad: A hobby.

Denal: *crosses his arms*

Domino Squad: That we do not engage in.

Droidbait to Tup: First rule of battle, vod’ika... don’t ever let them know where you are.

Hardcase, shooting out of frame: WHOO-HOO! I’M RIGHT HERE! I’M RIGHT HERE! YOU WANT SOME O’ ME?! YEAH YOU DO! COME ON! COME ON! AAAAAH! Whoo-hoo!

Droidbait: 'Course, there’re other schools of thought.

Hevy: Really love that airports have to specify that you're NOT allowed grenades. Like damn there go my traveling plans

Droidbait: Ideally we get down there and Cutup’s just dead. And then we can end the mission, and I can go home. Obviously very sad, thoughts and prayers, but... I don't have to go down there, then. So... *weighs options between his hands* Lose brother, don't have to go in the tunnel. I think it comes out to be a wash, to be honest, so…

Hevy, about possibly getting too beefy for the armor: Regulations won’t look as good as my thighs will so they aren't valid.

Fives+332nd Live AU (possible official titles include Bones In The Ocean AU and Resistance Leaders AU, I’m workshopping it rn)

*The squad has just arrived in a new city. Fives looks around at the wanted posters to see if he’s on any of them.*

Omega: Fives, are you a criminal?

Fives: Not here, I'm not!

Rex: Uuh, watcha got there?

Fives, with a lightsaber: A smoothie.

Fives: Damn, Tech, are you secretly cool?

Tech: Well, poker is just math, so I guess it depends on if you consider the mathematician, Carl Friedrich Gauss, cool.

Fives: I do not.

Ahsoka, texting CF99: Want to help me murder someone?

Echo: Sure who we hitting?

Ahsoka: someone who looks evil

Some guy: What am I supposed to do?

Bounty Hunter Fives: If I were you? I’d try and make peace with whatever deity, pantheon, or Divine Other you believe in.

Some guy: I’m an atheist.

Fives: Then just get ready to die I guess.

Fives: So, are you two friends?

Omega: Yes.

Crosshair: No.

Fives: Hello Crosshair, made anyone cry today?

Crosshair: Sadly, no. But it’s only 4:30.

Fives: If you put a milkshake in one yard and crack open a cold one in another yard, which yard would the boys go to?

Echo: Schrödinger's boys.

Crosshair: FUCK!

Wrecker: What about cracking open a cold milkshake?

Tech: As we all know, the milkshake brings the boys to the yard. The presence of the boys is a prerequisite for the cracking open of a cold one, but cold ones do not have any inherent boy-attracting abilities. Milkshakes, however, do.

Tech: All else being equal, the boys would proceed to the milkshake yard. While it is possible to announce the presence of cold ones in the hope of attracting some boys, the pull of the milkshake is much more powerful by comparison.

Fives: ...

Echo: ...

Crosshair: ...

Wrecker: ...

Tech: Mind you, all of this nonsense hinges on whether or not the boys are back in town.

Fives: It’s impossible to make a sentence without using the letter a.

Tech: Despite your thinking, it is quite possible, yet difficult, to form one without the specific letter. Here’s one more to further disprove your theory.

Fives: Fuck you.

The self-taught medic with no license in the lower levels: Fives’ a 10 but that's all we know about him.

Kix: Bottling up negative emotions is bad for your health, so you shouldn't do it.

Ahsoka: I know, that's why I bottle up all my emotions, both positive and negative, so it cancels out.

Kix: Th-that's not how that works-

Fives, to the BB: The real secret to immortality? Not dying. You want to be immortal? Okay, that’s easy. Just don’t die. That’s it. Refuse to die. There you go.

Tech: But how-

Fives, ignoring him: “But how”, you may ask. Well, easy. Just don’t do it. Refuse to. Say “no thanks”.

Echo: *nods sagely*

All of them: If I can't cause tiny bits of chaos every day, I think my body will shut down.

Fives: FIGHT ME, YOU NERD ASS SLUT!

Tech: At least try to sound slightly more sophisticated when you threaten someone.

Fives: Oh, I'm sorry. I should ask; dost thou want to engage in a duel, my good bitch?

Tech: Somehow that's worse.

Rex: Think you can answer some questions without the usual level of sarcasm?

Crosshair: If you can ask the questions without the usual level of stupid.

Hunter: Didn't you die?

Fives: That was months ago, dude. Things change.

Omega: A mosquito tried to bite me and I slapped it and killed it.

Omega: And I started thinking.

Omega: Like, it was just trying to get food.

Omega: What if I went to the fridge and it just slammed the door shut and snapped my neck?

Hunter: Are you ok?

Jesse 5 months into Resistance work: You know I think my life has value.

Wrecker: Who are you and what have you done with Jesse?!

Fives: I'm so sad woa woa womp womp.

Echo: I am tired of fighting my own demons, give me physical ones.

Fives, months into being on the run: I’d kill to go absolutely ham on a dexter-grade hamburgussy.

Echo: Nothing wrong with a little government overthrowing in the sake of friendship.

Wrecker: Aw you little reg guy.

Dogma: Shut up do not call me that.

Omega: Gentleman ori’vod.

Dogma: Stop I am a STRANGER who is RUDE!

Echo after Fives tells him that he tried to assassinate Palpatine: Yeah I think fighting the Chancellor’s a pretty good way to get labeled a traitor.

#incorrect quotes #silly #tcw #au #tcw aus #clone wars #star wars #tbb #bad batch #tbb au

[pretensesoup]

Queer books, day 7/30

Okay, I have a big weakness for Space Opera, even though once you try to think economically about it, you can see that a giant space empire will never work. Like there will never be one planet that is dedicated to growing tea and has no other exports and requires to be hooked into some giant trade network in order to survive. But if there were such an empire, this book.

Ironically, this book is perilously close to my MA work, and also I think Arkady Martine's PhD work, from looking at her biography. It's really about what happens when you are trying to translate, and how impossible that can be. Not just translating words from one language to another, but translating culture. Mahit is sent as ambassador from a small independent station to the heart of the local giant empire, Teixcalaan. To function as an ambassador means you have to make your culture understandable (and palatable) to another group in order to curry favor and push your political agenda. So how does someone who grew up in a place where space is at a premium, births monitored because of population controls, food is vegan because of the problems of raising animals, etc., explain all of that to someone who's always lived not just on a planet but in the wealthiest part of the wealthiest planet? If you live in Londinium, how do you explain your life to someone who lives in Rome? Or if you're living in Manhattan right now, how can you understand the life of someone in rural China? It's difficult. Not saying the words but actually producing the understanding.

This book does a lot of things really well: political intrigue that is actually interesting, poems that are actually pretty good (as a poet, I often have feelings about poems written by novelists in novels), queerness (Mahit's predecessor, Yskandr, who still exists as an implant inside her head, was bi, and Mahit herself is interested in women). The images are gorgeous, the writing is terrific. My one critique is that, when one character mentions that the child she and Mahit are discussing was her own child "of her own body," Mahit is privately horrified--apparently women on her station aren't allowed to actually carry pregnancies, because they could ruin their bodies that way. My feelings about this as a person who has been pregnant aside, I do not for a moment buy that a culture that indulges in recreational brain surgery can't fix someone's pelvic floor. I feel like this is a relatively petty quibble, though.

Key quote:

The coffee was shockingly, blisteringly good: hot but not hot enough to scald, the paper cup warm in Mahit's palms. It had a rich, earthy taste that wasn't anything like the instant coffee on Lsel, and in some better moment Mahit thought she'd really like to drink it slowly enough to think about all the different qualities of the flavor-

‹There are varieties,> Yskandr said, ‹and they all taste different. It's fantastic. But the important part is the caffeine.>

He was right. Even in the few minutes Mahit had been drinking the coffee, she felt more present, more acute, conscious of a faint thrumming in her skin.

I took a class with Maria Headley (I am an acolyte) where she talked about rejecting mid-century minimalism and writing beautiful, maximalist novels. This is an excellent example of that. Write a novel and put everything in. Every fucking thing. Make it beautiful. More. More.

10/10. Go read them.

#pride #lgbtq fiction #lgbtq books #arkady martine #a memory called empire #a desolation called peace #teixcalaan #book review #queer books #thirty days of books

[ixelx]

INCORRECT QUOTES

I was messing around with an incorrect quote generator. Most of them are Hellsing x Male reader.

The rest are my ocs, and my Uglydolls x child reader book on Wattpad.

Hellsing Ultimate:

M/n: *Posts a super low-quality image to the group chat*

Integra: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image, I’d have 15 cents

M/n: If I had a dollar for every ounce of rage I felt in my body after I read this text, I would have enough money to buy a cannon to fire at you

Seras: Actually I did the math, Integra would have $225, not $0.15.

Integra: Fam I’m right here....

Alucard: If I had a dollar I would buy a can of soda :)

M/n: while you’re there could you buy me an apply juice please?

Alucard: Sorry I only have a dollar

M/n: :(

Seras: Hey I just realized my friend is right, Integra would have $22,500 because it's a dollar for every pixel, not a cent

Alucard: If I had $22,500 I would buy a can of soda and an apply juice

Seras: You can buy anything you want with $22,500

Pip: Yeah and they want soda and apply juice

Seras: Apply juice to what

Walter: Directly to the forehead

Integra: Great chat everyone

Male name]: Good responses for being stabbed with a knife?

Integra: Rude.

Seras: That’s fair.

Alucard: Not again.

Anderson: Are you going to want this back?

[Male name]: Poison is a magic transmutation potion that turns people into corpses.

Integra: This knife is actually a magic wand.

Seras: Meet me in the Denny’s parking lot for a wizard duel.

Alucard: *cocks gun* Magic missile.

Anderson: What the fuck is wrong with you people.

[Male name]: Bye Integra! Bye Seras! Bye Alucard! Bye Anderson! Bye Integra!

Seras: You said ‘bye Integra’ twice.

[Male name]: I like Integra.

[Male name]: I’ve done a lot of dumb stuff.

Integra: I witnessed the dumb stuff.

Seras: I recorded the dumb stuff.

Alucard: I joined in on the dumb stuff.

Anderson: I TRIED TO STOP YOU FROM DOING THE DUMB STUFF!!!

Ocs:

Astoria , about Clemontine: Apparently we're getting someone new in the group.

Morizane : Are we stealing them?

Nanako: New or used?

Astoria : Wonderful responses, both of you.

Uglydolls x child reader:

[Name]: Who the fuck added me to a fucking group chat?

Lou: >: O language

Kitty: Yeah watch your fucking language

Lydia: OKAY WHO TAUGHT PERSON C THE FUCK WORD?

Tuesday : 'The fuck word'.

Mandy: Are you stupid? You guys use the f word all the time

Kitty: Oh my god they censored it

Tuesday : Say fuck, Mandy.

Kitty: Do it, Mandy.Say fuck.

*Everyone is standing around the broken coffee maker*

[Name]: So.Who broke it? I'm not mad, I just wanna know.

Everyone:

Lou: ...I did.I broke it.

[Name]: No.No you didn't. Kitty?

Kitty: Don't look at me. Look at Lydia.

Lydia: What ? !I didn't break it.

Kitty: Huh, that's weird. How'd you even know it was broken?

Lydia: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Kitty: Suspicious.

Lydia: No, it's not!

Mandy: If it matters, probably not, but Tuesday was the last one to use it.

Tuesday : Liar! I don't even drink that crap!

Mandy: Oh really? Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Tuesday : I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles.Everyone knows that, Mandy!

Lou: Okay let's not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, [Name].

[Name]: No! Who broke it!?

Everyone:

Mandy: [Name]...Kitty's been awfully quiet.

Kitty: REALLY?!

*Everyone starts arguing*

[Name], being interviewed: I broke it.I burned my hand so I punched it.

[Name]: I predict 10 minutes from now they'll be at each other's throats with warpaint on their faces and a pig head on a stick.

[Name]:

[Name]: Good. It was getting a little chummy around here.

That's it. Also...

Please read this. It's literally the only one there (for now)

#uglydolls x reader #hellsing ultimate #incorrect quotes #original characters #hellsing x reader #uglydolls

[zerogate]

A far more extensive report, and the one that influenced Freud most powerfully, was that of the Italian neurologist Paolo Mantegazza, who practised as a doctor in Argentina and Paraguay in the 1850s and self-experimented with the local plant stimulants, guarana and coca. Unlike von Bibra, Mantegazza appreciated coca’s stimulant effects immediately and pursued them vigorously. ‘As soon as one chews one or two drachms’, he wrote in his 1859 monograph ‘On the Hygienic and Medical Values of Coca’,

the nervous excitement is always followed by movements that are exaggerated or violent, and always irregular; there is a general confusion of thoughts and muscular activity, while in the inebriety produced by coca it seems that the new strength gradually drenches one’s organism in every sense, as a sponge soaks itself with water. Thus the delight of the period consists almost completely in an increased consciousness of being alive.

Mantegazza found in coca not a productive stimulant for the sober self, but a radically altered state of consciousness. Unlike caffeine, higher doses brought not overstimulation but ever more pleasurable and remarkable effects. By chewing 8 drachms in a day and a further 10 the same evening, about the most he could physically manage, he attained what he called ‘the delirium of coca intoxication, and I must confess that I found this pleasure by far superior to all other physical sensations previously known to me’.

He recorded his pulse before the evening dose at 83 per minute; half an hour later it had risen to 120. He felt supremely happy, and on closing his eyes was presented with ‘the most splendid and unexpected phantasmagoria’, kaleidoscopic images succeeding each other too fast to record, or even to communicate by announcing them in rapid fire to the colleague beside him. He attempted to transcribe them, missing ten for every one he managed to capture:

A cave of lace through the entrance to which can be seen, toward the back, a golden tortoise seated on a throne made of soap . . . A battalion of steel pens fighting against an army of corkscrews . . . Lightning, consisting of glass threads, piercing a whole Parmesan cheese crowned with ivy and berries . . . A saffron inkwell from which is born an emerald mushroom studded with rose fruits . . . A ladder made of blotting paper lined with rattlesnakes from which several red rabbits with green ears come jumping down . . .

Mantegazza embraced coca’s euphoric and visionary properties, which convinced him that ‘all this will be great science in the near future’. The desire and capacity for ecstasy was a constant throughout human history, but he believed that its limits were still unexplored. On his return to Italy he became a medical professor in Pavia, founded the Italian Anthropological Society and began work on a massive survey of inebriation and human nature, which ran to 1,200 pages when it was eventually published in 1871.

But cocaine had yet another quality: as well as an anti-depressant and an energy booster, it was a powerful euphoriant. Freud quoted Mantegazza’s claim that it produced a ‘state of greatly increased happiness’: during the peak of his coca intoxication he had scribbled, ‘God is unjust because he made man incapable of sustaining the effects of coca all life long. I would rather have a lifespan of ten years with coca than one of 1000000000 centuries without!’

-- Mike Jay, Psychonauts

#quotes

[serinemolecule]

It turns out the 36 questions to love were originally 40 questions and the questions were slightly different. Quoting the Twitter thread, "study results make a lot more sense now".

They were posted to Twitter as images, so here I am OCRing them to text:

Appendix G:

Ouestions/Tasks for Getting Close

(These were each printed on a separate 3x5 card)

Instructions: Read the first card out loud and do what it asks. Then read the second card, etc. Please don't skip any cards - do each in order. If it asks you a question, share your answer with your partner. Then let him or her share their answer to the same question with you. If it is a task, do it first, then let your partner do it. Alternate who goes first with the reading of each new card. You will probably not finish all the cards in each section with the time allotted.

1. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.

2. Tell your partner something that you like about them already.

3. Share with your partner an embarrassing moment in your life.

4. If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you told them yet?

5. If you were going to have a personal relationship with your partner, please share what would be important for him or her to know

6. What would constitute a "perfect" evening for you?

REMINDER TO FOLLOW SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: [Insert card for control group, yes only group, no only group, or yes and no group].

Control Group

At the beginning of today's experiment you and your partner were both given specific instructions. This is a brief reminder for you to keep sharing with your partner and to let them keep sharing with you.

Yes Only Group

At the beginning of today's experiment you and your partner were both given specific instructions.

This is a brief reminder that the best way to get very close to your partner is by saying yes to sharing yourself fully and letting them say yes to sharing with you.

No Only Group

At the beginning of today's experiment you and your partner were both given specific instructions. This is a brief reminder that the best way to not get too close to your partner is by saying no to the degree to which you share with each other.

Yes and No Group

At the beginning of today's experiment you and your partner were given specific instructions. This is a brief reminder that the best way for you to get close to your partner is for you to say yes to fully sharing and that the for the best way for you to not get too close is for you to say no to the degree of sharing that you do.

7. Alternate sharing something you find attractive in your partner; include the way he or she looks, dress and his or her personality. Share a total of 10 items each.

8. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?

9. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one ability or quality, what would it be?

10. How close and warm is your family? Do you feel your childhood was happier than most other people's?

11. What is your most treasured memory?

12. What is your most terrible memory?

13. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or the body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?

14. What is the greatest accomplishment of your life?

HALF-HOUR BREAK; CHANGE TO NEXT SET OF CARDS

15. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?

16. Is there something that you've dreamed of doing for a long time? Why haven't you done it?

REMINDER TO FOLLOW SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: At the beginning of today's experiment you and your partner were both given specific instructions to follow. This is just a brief reminder to keep following those instructions. Thank you!

17. If a crystal ball could tell you the truth about yourself, your life, the future, or anything else, what would you want to know?

18. Share a personal problem and ask your partner's advice on how he or she might handle it. Also, ask your partner to reflect back to you how you seem to be feeling about the problem you have chosen to share.

19. Name 3 things you and your partner appear to have in common.

20. Would you like to be famous? In what way?

21. If you knew that in one year you would die suddenly, would you change anything about the way you are now living? Why?

22. Of all the people in your family, whose death would you find most disturbing? Why?

23. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? Why?

24. Your house, containing everything you own, catches fire; after saving your loved ones and pets, you have time to safely make a final dash to save any one item. What would it be? Why?

25. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want as your dinner guest?

HOUR BREAK; CHANGE TO NEXT SET OF CARDS

26. Make 3 true "we" statements each. For instance, "We are both in this room feeling …"

REMINDER TO FOLLOW SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS: At the beginning of today's experiment you and vour partner were both given specific instructions to follow. This is just a brief reminder to keep following those instructions. Thank you!

27. Tell your partner what you like about them; be very honest this time saying things that you might not usually say to someone you've just met.

28. What do you value most in a relationship?

29. If you wanted to look very sexy, how would you dress?

30. What roles do love and affection play in your life?

31. Role play with your partner how you would ask them out for a date. Have your partner reflect back to you how it makes them feel to be asked.

32. Complete the sentence: "I wish I had someone with whom I could share …"

33. Pretend you are in a play with your partner. In this particular scene the director has asked you to tell your partner that you are interested in having more than a casual relationship with them; that you are beginning to fall in love with them Your partner will also be pretending with you in this play and they are to tell you how it feels to be asked to move into a more meaningful relationship.

34. Spend three minutes in complete silence with your partner, making only eye contact.

35. When did you last cry in front of another person? By yourself?

36. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?

37. How do you feel about your relationship with your mother?

38. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?

39. What does love mean to you?

40. What, if anything is too serious to be joked about?

[splendentmoon]

Incorrect Quotes /3/

Third part!!!

YAY!!

Enjoy!✨

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-Reactions of the team when they say 'I love you'-

MK: Thank you family!

Spindrax: oh no

Yin: Feels fake but okay

Jin: -A nervous mess-

Red Son: Can I get a refund?

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Jin: Plan G time.

Spindrax: You don't mean plan B?

Jin: No, we tried plan B a long time ago. I had to skip plan C due to technical problems.

Yin: What about plan D?

Jin: Plan D was that desperate attempt to disguise himself half an hour ago.

MK: What about plan E?

Jin: Red Son dies in plan E.

Red Son: what?!

Spindrax: I like plan E.

Red Son: excuse me, WHAT?!

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-Everyone is standing around the broken coffee pot-

Yin: So. Who broke it? I'm not mad, I just want to know.

Everybody:

MK: ...I did. I broke it.

Yin: No. No, you didn't. Jin?

Jin: Don't look at me. Look at Red.

Red Son: What?! I didn't break it.

Jin: Hey, that's weird. How did you know it was broken?

Red Son: Because it's sitting right in front of us and it's broken.

Jin: Suspicious.

Red Son: No, it's not!

Jin: I don't know if it matters, probably not, but Spindrax was the last to use it.

Spindrax: Liar! I don't even drink that shit!

Jin: seriously? So what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?

Spindrax: I use the wooden stirrers to push back my cuticles. Everybody knows it, Red Son!

MK: Okay, let's not fight. I broke it. Let me pay for it, Yin.

Yin: No! Who broke it?

Everybody:

Red Son: Yin... Jin has been blaming everyone, it's obvious who it was.

Jin: SERIOUSLY?!

-everyone starts arguing-

MK, being interviewed: I tore it up. I burned my hand, so I punched him.

MK: I predict that within 10 minutes they'll be at each other's throats with war paint on their faces and a pig's head on a stick.

MK: .........the good thing is that they are not going to blame me......on the other hand..........they will destroy the house.....

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DBK, entering his house: Hello, people who do not live here.

MK: Hello.

Yin: Hello.

Jin: Hello.

Spindrax: Hello.

Red Son: I gave them the key to my house just for emergencies!

Spindrax: We're out of candy.

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Red Son: *Posts a very low quality image in the group chat*

Spindrax: If I had a dollar for every pixel in this image, I would have 15 cents.

Red Son: If I had a dollar for every ounce of anger I felt in my body after reading this, I would have enough money to buy a cannon to shoot you

Yin: Actually I did the math, Spindrax would have $225, not $0.15.

Spindrax: oh

Jin: If I had a dollar, I would buy a can of soda :)

MK: while you're there, could you buy me an orange juice please?

Jin: sorry, I only have one dollar

MK: :(

Yin: Hey, I just realized my friend is right, Spindrax would have $22,500 because it's a dollar per pixel, not a penny

Jin: If I had $22,500 I would buy a can of soda and a juice

Yin: You can buy anything you want with $22,500

Red Son: Yes, and they want soda and juice

Yin: Apply juice to what

Red Son: Directly in the forehead

Spindrax : Great talk everyone.

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MK: The dumbest scar stories, come on!

Spindrax: I burned my tongue once drinking tea.

Yin: I once dropped a hair dryer on my leg and burned it.

Jin: I have a piece of graphite in my leg from accidentally stabbing myself with a pencil in first grade.

Red Son: I was getting a cup of noodles out of the microwave and my hand fell off and I got burned really bad.

MK: ....

MK: I have so many scars both physical and emotional...

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MK: We have to distract these guys.

Spindrax: Leave it to me.

Spindrax: Centaurs have six limbs and are therefore insects. discuss!

Yin, Jin and Red Son: -Immediately start arguing-

MK, looking in horror: Oh, this. I don't like this I don't like this at all.

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-The squad is at Red Son's house-

Spindrax: Ohhhh, everyone has their own oven?

Red Son: ...N-No...

Red Son (laughing): How many ovens do you think I have?

Spindrax (pointing to his kitchen): Three, I thought!

Yin: I see a-

Red Son (pointing at a device): This is a microwave.

Spindrax: Oh, well, I-

Red Son: Hey, wait, wait, actually- wait- -plays with the microwave buttons-

Red Son (Amazed): It Has a Bake Setting!

Jin: Ohoho, you learn something new every day!

MK: Shall we do "rock, paper, scissors" to see who picks first?

Red Son: Now I just found out I have more ovens than I thought, we don't have to "rock, paper, scissors" anything!

Red Son: I'm someone who has four ovens...

Red Son (stronger and too happy): I'm someone... who has FOUR OVENS...

Red Son: I didn't know it was so rich in ovens...

Jin (pointing to another appliance): Also the toaster oven!

Red Son:

Spindrax: Ohhh, toasty boy! Four-Five ovens!

Red Son:

Red Son (fucking ECSTASY): I'M SOMEONE WHO HAS FIVE OVENS

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Yin: Red Son can't see well without wearing his glasses!

Red Son: Yin, look, I wore the glasses for many years. My eyes are much better now. Look.

Red Son: *points to MK* MK.

Red Son: *points to Jin* Jin.

Red Son: *points to Spindrax* Sasquatch.

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Red Son: I swear to god I'm the only one here with a brain cell.

Yin, MK, Spindrax and Jin: ALL HAIL to the guardian of the sacred brain cell!

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-the squad is at a dinner in a restaurant, but someone has been murdered-

Red Son: You're acting pretty nonchalant about someone whose life is on the line. Who's to say you're not the killer?

Spindrax: It's a murder, not a tax audit. I'll be fine.

Yin: What about MK? Nobody ever suspects MK!

MK: Well, what about Jin? They have a weapon!

Jin: Red Son has a knife.

Red Son: Yeah, for fun, not for murder! -stabs Yin in the arm-

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Yin: Who the hell broke the toaster?

Spindrax: It was Red Son.

MK: It was Red Son.

Jin: Red Son broke it.

Red Son:

Red Son: ... SONS OF- PROMISED IT

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-When MK disappears for an hour-

MK: Did you forget that I only went to buy juice? Did they really drop everything and come here for me? How did they get here so fast?

Jin: Various traffic violations.

Yin: Three counts of resisting arrest.

Red Son: Approximately thirteen cans of energy drinks.

Spindrax: Also, that's not our car.

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#lego monkie kid #princesmonkieau #lmk mk #mk #lmk au #jin lmk #lmk qi xiaotian #lmk red son #lmk spindrax #lmk yin

[magnusbae]

I do (ironically) love it when people make posts about how little fucks they give about tumblr changes, and making a point to ridicule the people who were, in fact, upset by those changes. Very cool. :)

And now seriously?

UI change is not the worst thing on earth, and often can actually improve the quality of life and make the place better.

While yes, the tumblr user base does not typically receives change happily (unless it's good, polls, am i right?) to say that this is all about the users being 'bitchy' or 'silly' is a gross understatement of what upsets people in reality and is pretty damn rude.

I will not go down to every single point of why it's bad, but I'll bring forth a few points nevertheless.

Releasing a massive UI change while there's still active and major bugs and issues in the main functionality of your platform is not only bad towards a loyal user base that is used to a certain way of things, it's also unprofessional, incompetent, and quote frankly—stupid.

Here is an example of main tumblr functionality, the post editor on web. As a website that is heavily reliant on text posts, and the ability of users to be able to write quality posts, the fact that as of today, the text editor is heavily bugged, is truly a thing to be astonished by.

Especially considering the fact that some users (namely me) made a point of sending them a proper documentation of the bug, along with full descriptions and even a screen recording for an easy recreation of the issue on their side.

Following image was submitted with my feedback months ago:

In case you were wondering what response did I get—well— TL:TR they say that there's an issue, and IF they find the issue, they will fix it :)

So now with this in mind, and many other bugs like this still present, since April they could not have fixed the post editor— but they could add numerous and absolutely pointless UI changes, right?

Now taking it a step further, let's address the UI changes, why not?

The changes they're rolling out are clearly unpolished, unfinished and untested. The audacity to force hardly-working versions onto people without any sort of consent as is customary in such an unpolished version of a product is something that I have no other words for other than absolutely shameless.

Even look at the Chat UI change, the text is smaller, the windows cover other parts of the dashboard, the Chat visually changes from section to section of the website (for instance it's new on main, it's old on support page) and again, endless amount of other bugs.

What's worse? And I will not go into depth about this particular topic as not so many people are from 10+ years ago still here, but just in short: The loss of identity that tumblr had prided itself for so long with. We are not like other social media, right? Or well, so we thought. As it seems like tumblr is adamant to change and curate for new users that will, frankly, leave the moment their social media gets fixed. Some will stay, and they are warmly welcome to, however most will leave just as they did last time twitter had a crisis.

P.S You have to appreciate the irony of tumblr making money out of making fun of twitter, and the user base supporting it because that's the sort of UI changes we do enjoy— only for tumblr to copy paste twitter some months after :)

But yes, why not, call everyone a crybaby, since siding with a staff that simply does not listen to its user base or cares about fixing current and relevant bugs—is the way to go!

P.S2 it's absolutely fine if you're unbothered by the change or simply don't care. Ain't nothing wrong with having some good proportion on things. However please don't embarrass yourself by making fun of the people who actively care and worry about how this place operates and what sort of platform we'll be engaging in the future.

#I try very very very hard to not get aggressive ever in my posts #I much rather explain and rationalize things to people #as understanding it the best way to come to an agreement #And franky I was not even going to speak of this topic in this manner #HOWEVER SOME LITTLE :) DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT HOW STUPID EVERYONE IS AND PISSED ME OFF :)))) #siding with the uppers against your own fellow people is SO wow. :))))))))) #tumblr #tumblr issues #much longer than i had ever intended #but this is my stance and it's where i'll stand. #it's just how it is. #again. no issues whatsoever with anyone who simply doesn't care. #but come on-- what do you gain from making fun of literally your fellow fans. what on earth do you get out of it. #does it make you feel good? #this is such a bad attitude. #I relaxed a bit and placed it under readmore since it's too long

[keirainaustenland]

I found this image in an article titled, “16 Things Jane Austen Taught Us About Finding the Right Man,” under number 10, labeled “ Decency is one of the most underrated, but vital qualities in a man.” Under the image the author wrote, “A man who can put aside his own pride for the greater good is a keeper.” The meme itself is a series of four pictures praising Colonel Brandon for his actions throughout the novel. Even though Marianne constantly doesn’t give him attention Brandon still cares about her wellbeing and is very kind to her. During her illness he offers to help whenever he can and is so distraught that he admits his love for her to Mrs. Jennings. He also has a past history of raising the child of the woman he loved, even though she married his brother. Then, when Edward is denied his inheritance Colonel Brandon offers him a living even though he barely knows him. Lastly, the creator cites that, in fact, he has the wonderful quality of not being the sneaky and shady Mr. Willoughby. 

This meme reminded me of the quote by Elinor stating that, “‘Colonel Brandon's character,’ … ‘as an excellent man, is well established.’” The Colonel’s behavior is always honorable and good, and his steadfast love for Marianne finally pays off when Marrianne agrees to marry him. 

However,  I wonder if it is merely Austen’s belief that “opposites attract” that causes her to put Marianne and the Colonel together in the end. Conversely, is it simply her rush to tie up the ends of a story quickly and neatly?

Brandon has been a steadfast friend to Elinor Dashwood, and as her opinion of him flourishes, in my opinion it would have been a better conclusion for the two of them to end up together. In chapter 11 Elinor states, “In Colonel Brandon alone, of all her new acquaintance, did Elinor find a person who could in any degree claim the respect of abilities, excite the interest of friendship, or give pleasure as a companion . . . Colonel Brandon, unfortunately for himself, had no such encouragement to think only of Marianne, and in conversing with Elinor he found the greatest consolation for the total indifference of her sister.” 

Marianne spends the whole novel dismissing the Colonel while Elinor, with all of her sense, recognizes that he is a wonderful catch. Upon further investigation, at the time of the novel’s publishing, the general consensus also agreed that the ending was unsatisfactory, or “ends stupidly”. One reader, Lady Bessborough writing to Lord Glanville Leveson Gower, is quoted saying:

“Have you read Sense and Sensibility?  It is a clever novel.  They were full of it at Althorpe, and tho’ it ends stupidly, I was much amused by it.

Maybe Austen wants the reader to learn to balance sense and sensibility, by showing that each sister could learn from the other to find happiness. Elinor follows her passion and opens up to Edward, and Marianne becomes more sensible and ends up with Brandon. It may not have the flourish of her time with Willoughby, but to find real happiness Marianne needed steadfastness, loyalty, and respect.

[gadgetsboy]

TCL's NXTPAPER Technology Makes its Way to More Tablets

As far as mobile displays are concerned, TCL's NXTPAPER technology is one of the more unique innovations out there, and the company claims that its latest NXTPAPER 3.0 display hardware improves on the foundations that its predecessors introduced to the market. Recently, TCL announced that NXTPAPER 3.0 will be available to its upcoming line of 50-series smartphones, as well as a couple of new tablet devices. Commenting on the upcoming product releases, TCL Communication CEO Aaron Zhang quotes: "As we step into 2024, we make a significant leap in our journey, humanizing technology and expanding it across our most comprehensive range of smart devices to date... Our innovation is about reshaping the integration of technology into everyday life, making it more organic and accessible. With the introduction of the pioneering TCL NXTPAPER 3.0 technology, the considerable advancements in our TCL 50 Series, and our strides in democratizing 5G vision, we are actively narrowing the divide between technology and its accessibility. At TCL, we stand firm in our mission to inspire greatness by creating technology that empowers and connects everyone, everywhere."  What's NXTPAPER? For those unfamiliar with the term, TCL's NXTPAPER display tech specializes in giving users comfortable reading and browsing experiences, without sacrificing or compromising on display quality - this means that images remain sharp, colours are still vibrant, and elements such as contrast are handled nicely. NXTPAPER 3.0 works in tandem with Circularly Polarized Light (CPL) screens, which TCL says work to create a visual experience somewhat akin to reading books in natural light, in addition to DC Dimming technology that the company says reduces eyestrain thanks to a flicker-free visual experience. For software, NXTPAPER 3.0 includes an eye-care assistant that can gently send notifications to users to encourage breaks in screen time or change poor lighting conditions, in accordance with expert recommendations for digital device usage. With all that being said, TCL also introduced a couple of new tablets that come with NXTPAPER 3.0. TCL NXTPAPER 14 Pro Up first is the TCL NXTPAPER 14 Pro, which the company says has been developed for performance without ditching eye comfort. The 14 Pro features the upgraded 3-in-1 VersaView user interface, which focuses on giving users the comfort of reading on paper and the classic aesthetic of a black and white UI, mimicking e-Readers and other similar hardware. As for its tech specifications, the 14 Pro tablet comes with a large 14-inch display with a 2.8K resolution, which is wrapped in a slim and easy-to-carry chassis. Powering the tablet is MediaTek's rather-capable Dimensity 8020 chipset, alongside 12GB of RAM which should be more than enough for moderate to most intensive tasks (at least as far as tablets are concerned). Other details include 256GB of internal storage, and a large 12,000 mAh battery that supports 33W fast-charging speeds. TCL TAB 10 NXTPAPER 5G Also equipped with NXTPAPER display hardware, the Tab 10 5G comes with access to - you guessed it - 5G connection speeds, in a slightly smaller package compared to its larger sibling. The Tab 10 comes with a 10.4-inch screen with a 2K resolution, and launches pre-loaded with the latest Android 14 software onboard. TCL touts the Tab 10 as a more entertainment-focused device, with 5G connectivity making it ideal for streaming purposes. Be sure to stay tuned for more upcoming information regarding release timelines, as well as regional pricing. Read the full article

[murderoushagthesequel]

my cover for teach them how to dream by @im-still-tryin-to-find-it is done!

the full image is here, and below the ~keep reading~ will be the front cover, spine, and back cover individually in better quality with explanations (this will include minor spoilers, mainly references to specific scenes i think are cute)

for those of you that haven’t read tthtd and don’t want spoilers, read it! you won’t regret it. if the color and joy i tried to convey on this cover is any sign, it’s every bit as cute and bright as i’ve drawn it.

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front cover (click for better quality):

so the front cover obviously has the most easter eggs, but i’ll explain them all here for all y’all who are interested:

the stars above the blackboard are meant to resemble the glow-in-the-dark stars that are referenced a few times throughout the story

i really hope some of you get this but i added those white/blackboard borders teachers would always put up with fun patterns on them, i picked the alphabet

the chalkboard drawings!

a stack of chocolate chip pancakes because harry is obsessed with them

a whisk from james and regulus' halloween costumes

a text convo because the texting is pretty important in this fic

the framed poem!!

forget-me-nots because they just remind me of jegulus

snowflakes and hearts because of james’ love confession on christmas

butterflies flying in the shape of a heart: one is red for james and one is green for regulus

and finally a sunrise/sunset because james texting reg sunrise/sunset pictures!

ofc regulus likes reading in general but i drew the books specifically thinking about when regulus goes to lily’s bookstore and they first become friends

a pen cup both because it’s a classroom and because i wanted a way to represent regulus and james’ love of writing (thinking about the scene where regulus just looks at james' empty google doc and starts writing)

a rotten apple to reference one of my favorite scenes, chapter 6: the apple orchard, when regulus and james are talking about the kids finding rotten apples and then james has to eat one because harry asks him to

the desk, idk why i just picture regulus having this needlessly fancy wooden desk

and finally the sun streaming through the windows, i’ll explain a bit more when i get to the back cover

spine (click for better quality):

not much to go over here but

used the ao3 logo as a publisher mark

same writing of the title as the front cover but in solid writing instead of chalk

paint splatters for the background!

back cover (click for better quality):

starting with the background, again we got paint splatters

most books have a review on the back so i included an excerpt of my own review at the top

then one of my favorite quotes which is just so cute shut up don’t talk to me (this quote is part of the reason i included the sun streaming through the windows on the front cover)

and the official description by gabby from ao3

i used hearts as a separator between the words just because love!

and there are little doodles around both to fill space and also for the vibes

copied the cover art credit format from some books but without the publisher cuz there is none

and then the barcode! believe it or not there’s a lot here:

first of all the price, books in the us usually have prices written like that but the second one is canada- i changed it to international because it's the internet! and the marauders fandom is international!

the barcode itself is made up i just drew it

but the numbers are code for a series of letters (the alphabet where every 10 letters is assigned to the numbers 0-9) it spells “caught the moon” which is a reference to regulus and sirius’ memory of sneaking out to go capture the moon

and the qr code is a real qr code that leads you to the first chapter of tthtd!

ok that took forever to type out lol

i had a bit of trouble trying to balance out the kindergarten-y aspect with the actual plot and love story but i'm pretty happy with how it turned out anyway

if you haven’t read teach them how to dream yet PLEASE do, making this cover and going back through all my favorite parts of the story was such a joy and i really hope you appreciate it! i could only include so many references on this cover, there's so much more in the story.

going to go take a break and not move my hands for 5 hours because i just typed this all out on my ipad.

#fic: teach them how to dream #teach them how to dream #regulus black #james potter #jegulus

[butchsophiewalten]

are you able to post screenshots for the new findjackwalten? im on mobile and the website haaaaates it

So i was WAY too tired to to this last night, so to make up for it now I'm going to give a little walkthrough of everything that changed

Obviously the main page is entirely different. It's extremely distorted on desktop and actually looks way nicer on mobile, because this entire website is designed specifically for mobile viewing.

(Desktop View)

(Mobile View)

(This page used to also be redirected to through findjackwalten/the-future-of-technology, but it seems that redirect is now findjackwalten/cyberfuntech82)

On mobile, the correctly-aligned text reads as follows: '"THE BON'S BURGERS PROJECT" written by: Kant Tenessee Since the 1960s, Businessmen Felix A. Kranken and Jack Walten have been setting up an all-new entertaintment center in Brighton, MI. "The Most Advanced Animated Show in Livingston County" is what CyberFun Tech, head company of manufacturing Bon's Burgers' magical entertaintment, said to define this brand new place. Bon's Burgers is set to open on June 1st, promising quality service and custom shows for families and birthdays. "It is a miracle in the making" said Susan Woodings, Cyberfu"

This last paragraph is overlaid partially by upside-down text that reads: ""A SMALL SETBACK IN AN OTHERWISE BRILLIANT PROJECT" BON'S BURGERS OPENING DELAYED OVER UNKNOWN INCONVENIENCE. written by: allison gunn The now "famous" Bon's Burgers restaurant, set to open in June 1st, has been now set to open it's doors on June 28th. Public is confused. It was a disappointing scene of June 1st, when a big crowd stayed hours awaiting the opening of "Livingston County's most advanced entertaintment center". It was about 6 PM on June 1st where Felix A. Kranken, co-founder, said the following words: "It is a shame to announce that the long-awaited opening of the restaurant will have to be delayed, due to multiple inconveniences in the process of getting everything ready for this event. Many unfortunate news have caused work to be in hiatus and delayed. We're looking foward to open this place on a few weeks from now: July 28th, 10 AM. We apologize for the inconvenience and for wasting people's time, however, we believe this is just a minor setback in an otherwise brilliant project, stay tuned for more ne"

which itself its overlaid by several variations of the phrase "A minor setback?" which repeat down the length of the page. This text is copy/pasted directly from the site, so any grammatical errors (ie; "entertaintment", or "foward" instead of 'forward') are authentic to the text of the website. It also might be worth noting that at the beginning of the second article the delayed opening date is listed as "June 28th", which we know to be accurate, but is later written as "July 28th" when quoted from Felix. I'm not sure if that's a genuine typo or if there's any kind of information to be gleaned from that mistake.

Next is /jackwalten . which is just EXTREMELY COOL

This is just so genuinely chilling to me i love this one. It is so thoroughly unsettling, this imagery is incredible.

Worth noting that the image of the mounted buck's head appears to have a title? Which is notable on account of most other images on the site being Untitled (or "Sin Título", Literally meaning "No Title", this is the default file name if your system's default/native language is Spanish. I have seen some people be confused by this.)

It looks like it reads "s-l300", but I can't actually copy/paste the original text to see if what looks like a lowercase L is actually a capital I because of the way Wix, which this site is built with, stores images.

A cursory google search tells me a Motorola SL300 is a two-way radio/walkie talkie, which seems relevant? But i'm not sure if it's too recent of a model to be congruent timeline-wise. S-I300 (capital I) gives me... a caulking gun? which seems less relevant.

Maybe worth noting that the "l300" text reads a little like the word "BOO" which, if nothing else, is very cute.

/rosemarywalten is entirely empty except for this text

To me this reads like wedding vows, it seems to connect to the "I can love" text on Jack's page?

/sophiewalten has the same image of Edd & Molly it's had the entire time it's existed, as well as this text.

Important thing with this text, highlighting it shows you this!

"Do I know what I'm getting myself into?" I've already seen it theorized that the text on this page is Sophie like, chewing out Felix? In what's meant to be an empowering moment for her? Which I cannot agree with, especially considering the hidden word

It introduces uncertainty, stands back and says "No, she doesn't know what she's getting herself into," and in that completely defangs it. It cannot be empowering for her under that context.

/poker appears to be the only Anthony page to have changed. Here's the old text vs the new text, since they form a continuous thought.

/anticlimactic is the last page to receive a significant update. If you remember, the old page had hidden text you could only see by highlighting, much like the /sophiewalten page does now.

On the new /anticlimactic, we have new text:

And if you highlight:

Every other known findjackwalten page has either remained identical or has become a blank webpage.

#ask #aughhh god. i think that's everything? #let me know if i forgot something or if you notice something else change

[crazybutgood]

Announcement: Author Appreciation Project — Part 2

Hello! Hope you all are having a good August so far. This is an announcement that the second part of the fanfic writer appreciation project I organised will start posting tomorrow, 11 August!

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Image description: A top view of the 10 origami books arranged in a circle with the spines inward and pages outward.

The origami artworks for the 5 ko-fi slots are all up already! You can check out the masterlist for them here. In the next 10 days, from 11-20 August, I will be posting the other part of this project, in which I have worked with 10 people to customise and fold an origami book for a giftee each. The books include an origami bookmark inside, and quotes from the giftees’ fics, chosen by gifters and handwritten by me. There are also some messages and/or fic recs from the gifters.

I’m planning to post each gift at around 2100 hrs SGT (i.e. GMT+8) each day, and do a reblog at around 0800 hrs SGT the next morning.

Thank you to all the gifters (who will be revealed day by day!) for participating ❤️ I would like to give shoutouts to the lovely @getawayfox and @phoebe-delia for helping me with admin stuff and being great cheerleaders. I really appreciate it 💕

Look out for the first gift posting tomorrow! Let’s spread some love for the lovely fanfic writers out there 🥳

#q #author appreciation project #part 2 #2022 #august #origami book slots #announcement post #cbg folds #origami #mine #fandom #harry potter #fanfic writers

[youmighthatemebutihateyoumore]

Are Lover Boys in Music Rated?

Recently, Saint Levant released his single "Very Few Friends" which now has millions of streams on Spotify and over 10 million views on TikTok. Like others, I instantly became obsessed with this man's music after he came up on my For You Page, for the variety of languages he could rap/sing in and his versatility in musical genres. However, I've seen many videos of women saying that Marwan is raising the standard for men and how boys of our generation are changing the level of respect they have towards women. And as far as I know Saint Levant seems like a really nice guy. But in no way does that mean that we as women have to claim that what Marwan Abdelhamid is doing is exceeding our expectations; if anything, he is doing the bare minimum. Furthermore, accepting ideas of being "spoiled" and "enjoyed" can be quite problematic. Marwan is suggesting that he can splash out on a woman and that his money is a tool to her happiness. I believe that Saint Levant wrote this with the intention of building his Lover Boy image, however, the lyricism hasn't had enough thought.

Nevertheless, what Saint Levant is doing is changing the music scene and we should appreciate his art as well as all his other attributes, not just his level of respect towards women and his charming attitude; as a young, trilingual Palestinian he is speaking out for his people and usually creates recurring ideas of freedom for Palestinians, suggested by the idea of '2048' and his past songs like "Haifa in a Tesla" or the "Jerusalem Freestyle" that evidently express themes of the apartheid in Jerusalem. His artistry could continue these themes in future songs as well as the Lover Boy trope he likes to pursue. Perhaps the Lover Boy image is also a marketing technique, to vary his listeners and appeal to women as well as men.

Marwan is not the only artist that does this however. In fact, Lover Boy music has been around for a while. I am an RnB girl and love the 2000s RnB Lover Boys, from Mario to Joe. Artists like Mario and Joe have always been praised for their attractive lyricism that describes respecting women and treating your woman right; this should be the bare minimum for all men, respect is the most basic attribute a man could have towards a woman. For example in Mario's "Let Me Love You" he proposes that women who aren't being treated right by their current partner could do better and be with him; to "Let me(Mario) love you".

I also believe Lover Boys make their songs quite sexual suggesting that a relationship is about sex and how a Lover Boy wants to physically enjoy his partner. For example "Every night, doin' you right" is a direct quote from 'Let Me Love You', where Mario expresses his sexual potential and abilities that he claims to be better than the current partner of the woman in this scenario. Joe also, like many other Lover Boy artists, create multiple sexual images within his art. I want to clarify that there is absolutely nothing wrong with sexual imagery in music, however, I think it paints an artist in a toxic light, if a relationship is solely based on sexual contact. What many male artists aren't doing is respecting all types of women- they aren't being inclusive enough- and they aren't praising the personality or attributes of a woman unless it is sexual. For example, Saint Levant sings "I want the neighbors to hear you yell /Told me she's a CEO, I can tell" where he is exalting a woman for her sexual abilities and not qualities she could have like intelligence or wit. However he does commend her being a business woman and boss bitch: "Self-made, now you're self-paid with your own plans". Although the Lover Boy is meant to fulfill the sexual fantasises of a woman, being in a relationship whether its serious or not should be built on respect for each other, not based on sexual desires; such a relationship is just infatuation.

Of course, Saint Levant, Joe and Mario aren't the only artists that make Lover Boy music. They also don't express violence and toxicity towards women, something that a lot of other male artists do. In fact, this piece is appreciating Saint Levant for his musicality and unique artistry; I have never seen other artists create pieces like his. Additionally Levant's amalgamation of his multi-lingual abilities, cultural pride and Western styles should be applauded. I love Saint Levant's passion for Palestine and how his music is representing a ethnic minority that are often misunderstood by the Western world. I just want this article to communicate my feelings of Lover Boy music and how respecting a woman is a modicum of the level of admiration you should have for the person you are in a relationship with. Finally, women shouldn't alter their standards for a man doing the bare minimum or expect any less than respect from their partner; you deserve the very best.

Therefore, do we rate Lover Boys? Or are they just doing what all men should be expected to do?

#lover boy #lover boys #saint levant #marwan #abdelhamid #palestine #joe #mario #rnb #hiphop #drill #men #women #western #west #respect