#thesis adventures

[tchaikovskym]

my faculty actually made a rule against pie charts in degree projects. a win for data visualization today folks. death for pie chart.

#thesis adventures

[ellebells]

Thinking a lot about how Simon himself is, in essence, a walking ship of Theseus. At what point between Simon and Ice King did he become a different person? The crown changed him, sure, but it mostly just scrambled what was already there in his brain. And we know that even after becoming “himself” again, he’s been fundamentally altered by the experience. Ice King is still with him, even if the crown isn’t.

#anyways you don’t spend 1000 years in a psychosis where you lose all your memories and walk away with a Normal Functioning Identity #and of course winter king is a sort of uncanny valley between the two #but even he is arguably both Simon and Not Simon #Fiona and cake #adventure time #simon petrikov #him making this reference feels more significant than a one off joke tbh #not to mention the whole him missing a heart thing #can’t remember if he gets it back but yeah #being IK physically changed him too #Ice King #winter king #yes this will be my next fics thesis. I have too many feelings abt this sad sack old man to NOT write smth

[can-of-slorgs]

caw 🦅

#neopets #neotag #neoart #eyrie #mutant #vin doods #I can't beat the allegations that i doodle dnd creatures on a daily with this one huh #god i love mutants eyries so much i'm sorry i gavehim more draconic features but uGH; #what great colours lmao #I also gave inverted knees to the hooves cause i aint doing whatever neos doing #can you tell i have a thing for dnd and dragons in general im so sorry JAKLSDF #also in topic i've been so wanting to make a neo player's manual for so stupidly long its insane #might actually do it at one point #i had species and proficiencies and everything at one point i think its all gone lol #also for a fact that i'd be a me-thing for the most part #like i'd be the only one wanting it or playing according to it #my other friends none like neopets so yeah #god do i want to dm a neopian adventure i have tons planned lmao #but oh well #i'm super greatful for all positive commenta ad every like and reblog you guys ave given meeeee #i sound like a broken record but i swear i try to not leave this blog for long but i always read your tags and crack up to them sajhas #i know i've left a couple of you on read that actually wanted to know about my characters BUT IM SO SORRYYYY #my master's taking so long and everytime there's something new and have to rewrite and replan everthing everyday i hate it here #but i will do it #i know i will #both the lore writting and my thesis HASJKHASJS #anyways if you're still reading dont be afraid to shoot up a couple of messages! It might make this blog less dead

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

the doctor isnt neurodivergent or autistic or adhd or nonbinary or genderqueer or asexual. what the doctor is, is Not From Here

#which necessarily of course says something abt their (non)whiteness #(i had all these words in quotation marks first so mentally add those to whiteness too) #but we've them be black for all of 1.5 episode now so #lets see how that develops you know #also i dont think i understand the politics of that part well enough to say much abt it #not that i probably understand the politics of these parts better but #im annoyed enough abt this Thing happening these years. in these 20s i guess. the 'representation' thing #to complain abt it anyway #the dsm isnt real and it isnt gonna fuck you buddy #maybe i'll read some books and then one day i'll write an essay driven by spite and pettiness #i wonder if i can make the thesis statement about the tension between their status of main character #in a 60 year running family adventure show vs this therapy thing we're doing now #like. you cant do that. in terms of like. what story is and does. what a character is and does. it strains #in an interesting way. like im not saying they Shouldnt have done it. im just observing. that you cant do that really. i think #or maybe you can! but i'll find that out #i also dont know shit abt narratology or whatever so. need to read books first. sigh #always have to pause my thoughts to read myself in first its so annoying. esp bc i rarely really do #bc then new thoughts new things to do you cant do EVERYTHING. you can do almost nothing. bane of my existence really #but like you might even be able to say smth interesting here about whether you can call them traumatised at all #remember that article i saw around on tumblr a few years ago i think that was abt like. some scholar in the middle east maybe #saying that ptsd is a western thing bc it necessitates a Post #all of this is western. psychiatry is western. its all stories. how you conceptualise trauma is a story #whos Other is story #where youre from is a story what you stand for is a story who you are is a story #ah. checked the article. dr samah jabr. palestinian. i'll start with her book maybe

[whos-hotter-jjba]

Preliminary Match - Pick your Favorite Kujo Jotaro

#i've been mean enough to snake pants jotaro and original flavor jotaro #all i'll say this time is #my boy is a sad fucked up grad student and it suits him #he's procrastinating his schoolwork by cacthing a serial killer like that's so relatable #if i had a serial killer to catch i would also never write a thesis #kujo jotaro #jotaro kujo #stardust crusaders #diamond is unbreakable #stone ocean #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo's bizarre adventure #jjba #who's hotter jjba #rematch #hottest jjba character bracket #preliminary match #jjba minor

[sickgraymeat]

growth or something

#adventure time #bubbline #marceline the vampire queen #princess bubblegum #marceline abadeer #bonnibel bubblegum #once again glass kingdom was a sucker punch straight to the childhood trauma for BOTH of them #fanart #fan comic #my hands hurt so bad #this is so bad but bonnie is made of gum and marcy shapeshifts so theyre like exempt from anatomy?????????? #I know there’s kind of a retcon implication that the blacklisting thing happened while they were still together but #I’m sure it was a lot worse afterward lmao #mine #this is my Thesis

[ffcrazy15]

Headcanon: Boimler is significantly better with a phaser rifle than a phaser pistol.

So. Two things about growing up in farm country mean that most people there learn how to shoot at a relatively young age. The first reason is that coyotes (and sometimes mountain lions) will absolutely try to fuck up your shit if you're a farmer. They will try to steal your pets and/or smaller livestock, and if there's a mountain lion in the area you really don't want to go walking around in a field without protection.

The second and more important reason is that hunting is big in farming communities because the state Game and Fish department relies on licensed hunters to keep the local wildlife populations healthy. Too many deer this season means not enough food, which means a lot of sick and dying deer next season. Hunters help to keep the wildlife population in check in places where humans have driven off their natural predators (since they're also unfortunately our natural predators).

The thing is, though, generally you don't use handguns for hunting (whether for protection or food); you use a rifle or a shotgun. So I think the majority of Boimler's pre-Starfleet experience with firearms would probably have been with whatever the 2300s version of a hunting rifle would be. This would explain why he seems to prefer them and knows about how to clean and take care of them, as we see in the beginning of Where Pleasant Fountains Lie.

EDITED TO ADD: A helpful person in the comments has given more relevant information/correction on the matter; I encourage y'all to check it out! Thank you @mutualweirdcalledlove!!

#obviously my “Boimler is a farm boy who wanted adventure” thesis continues #no I'm not projecting you're projecting #I wasn't a farm kid myself but I grew up in a place much like Modesto—medium-sized city surrounded by farmland—and I knew farming families #no shade to anyone who likes living in places like that but to me it was crazy boring I can see why he bailed #it's also why he's so diligent about getting his work done on the ship #the guy definitely had to wake up at 5:00 to get the chores done before school #lower decks #star trek lower decks #brad boimler #tw guns

[kataa-floko]

I am now at the part of writing where I rewarch "old" survival guide videos. Pixlriffs my beloved. He has such a calm voice

#sarah rambling #pixlriffs #adventures in ba thesis writing

[blue-boots-super-glue]

Check out my short film Penpals! It’s a four minute long sci-fi comedy about penpals from different planets.

#don’t look at the tags it’s a million things #animation #senior thesis film #capstone film #Animated short #Sci-fi #pizza delivery #blimps #interdimensional #gay #lesbian #sapphic #rookie magazine #adventure time #chowder #broad city #joe pera #vewn #jonni phillips #gobelins #steven universe #hitchhikers guide #the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy #hgttg #voltron #depaul #chicago #Penpals #retro futurism #welding

[nevesmose]

I've been doing a bit of folklore/urban legend research for another Night Lords lore post since people seemed to like the first one, and apparently I stopped watching Adventure Time just before this particular episode.

Go and be a teacher on Nostramo, they said. Help to bring the light of the Imperial Truth to the kids. It'll be fun, they said.

0845 - 0900 Registration (of the previous night's deaths)

0900 - 1100 We Love the Night Haunter

1100 - 1115 Interval (gang violence to be kept to an appropriate minimum)

1115 - 1245 Nostraman Poetry

1245 - 1345 Lunch (pupils are sent into the underhive to hunt rats and/or each other)

1345 - 1400 Evidence Disposal (pupils who didn't survive lunch are fed to the school crows)

1400 - 1500 We Still Love the Night Haunter

1500 - 1530 Basic Human Anatomy

1530 - 1600 Criminal Accountancy (including Principles of Tax Evasion)

1600 - 1615 Colours (pupils attempt to imagine colours other than black and grey)

1615 - 1645 Beefs (the day's gang feuds are resolved)

1645 - 1700 Expulsions (underperforming pupils without sufficient underworld connections are sent to serve the VIII Legion)

1700 - 2000 Minecraft (in the adamantium mines)

#it's s7e19 “blank eyed girl” btw #my thesis is that Nostramans would be so instinctually offputting to normies that it'd be low level uncanny valley #even ignoring their “delightful” culture and personalities #i like to imagine the second gif is First Claw as kids tbh #that's Uzas rolling in on the lower left #a rubik's cube would blow their minds like in spider verse #wh40k #warhammer 40000 #warhammer 40k #night lords #adventure time #nightlordposting

[essektheylyss]

I have been thinking for weeks while we've been with one half of the Bells Hells (plus friends) about the structure of the campaign, and the "anything goes" framing that the cast has been emphasizing since before the campaign even began, and this episode really turned up the dial on the questions I've had in that regard.

Obviously we are looking to find the other half of the party; we have a divine confirmation that they can be reconnected with in Jrusar, presumably to give the other party an excuse to say, "We should go to Jrusar and hope they also come to that conclusion." But it's also not impossible that the other parties' arc during these weeks in-game has been filming at the same rate as this one, and that answer was borne of that timeline already existing separately. Even if that is not the case, we will presumably see the other party's journey back to Jrusar, with whatever guests or allies they happen to come across.

This is interesting to me because it does involve returning to the moment of the scattering, with the information that we have now, and it means there is probably separate information on the perpetual Solstice and the current conflict to learn, potentially involving some of the planar research and interests that we haven't touched on—we know now that Ludinus had vested interests in other planes beyond those related to the functioning of the Malleus Key, and both Ashton and Orym have backstory related to the subject of the planes that could be explored depending on where they ended up. But structurally, this return to the relative past is a major shift in the format of the show thus far—we're currently at seven episodes and almost two weeks in-game.

We also know that we're going to have Deanna and FRIDA around for some time still—what with FRIDA's determination that this is where they want to be, and Deanna's divine imperative, they are in this fight as well, now. We can imagine that Keyleth, who had not yet even been knocked out by the time the blast happened, has been rallying her people elsewhere with whatever resources she has; we can imagine that Caleb and Beau are doing the same. There was an indication in how the Dawnfather communicated with Deanna that all of the gods have given similar orders to their other followers, so there are a good number of past PCs who would suddenly be very busy, retired or not.

Even with those past PCs remaining in the DM's hands, the table could get very full, very quickly—but that's only true in the case that the format doesn't shift or change at all. I don't really have any speculation on how it might change, since the options are limited only by the creativity of the production team (and are guided by how they may want to proceed), but I do want to remark that they could, since, as we've been told over and over again, anything goes.

#I did not reference a comment brennan made on trw adventuring party yesterday and I'm being so brave about it #also the other reason I'm not speculating is cuz I would have to post a whole ass thesis on the unique flow of time in actual play #and I cannot do that lol. #but also it's cuz it wouldn't really be speculation it'd just be 'interesting things that I personally would love to explore' #which is very different lol #critical role #cr spoilers #cr meta

[tchaikovskym]

Me: oh yeah!!! I will definitely extend these parts of the discussion as my thesis advisor advised !!!

Me when I actually had to do it: *wrote 3 sentences extra and called it a day*

#listen im afraid i have no idea what metabolism peaks 90-120min after lipid rich meal #the only thing i founs is that when about half of the meal is in the small intestine and half still hanging around in the stomach #why it increases metabolism? well of course i can speculate BUT NO ONE IN THIS CENTURY DECIDED TO WRITE ABOUT IT #if you have a decent article about postprandial metabolism after lipid rich meal and which has a peak around 2 hours #id appreciate if you shared #but the chances are. you dont lol. #thesis adventures #uni thinking process

[trzpiotka]

“The government and the roads are bad in Poland, so are the bridges too. There is plenty of bad people who roam around without getting a beating“ true since 1746 i guess

#german #ba thesis adventure #im like “im writing a thesis in German philology and it's your problem too” #it's literally “there is plenty of bad people for whom there is no corporal punishment” btw

[maple-keenes]

people hear "jojo is for the queers" and think it's because of the outfits and the queer undertones (and overtones, i refuse to believe it's all unintentional, abbacchio and bucciarati i'm looking at you two specifically) but it's actually because the "stand users attract other stand users" thing is a really good metaphor for how queer friend groups form and the idea of only certain people being able to see a part of yourself speaks to the queer experience like crazy

#this is my thesis thank you SO much #jjba #remi rambles #jojo no kimyou na bouken #jojo's bizarre adventure #it's about. i didn't feel like anyone could really see me until i met them #“you're still upset about that” YES I'M STILL UPSET ABOUT THAT #am i projecting meaning that doesn't exist onto this? yes i fucking am that's what media is for #if the only way to experience something was the way the creator intended everything would be lame as hell #interpretation is how media thrives #granted it's ALSO because of the outfits and the queer under/overtones but like it's the other thing too

[angelsdean]

ᴅᴇᴀɴ ʟᴏꜱᴇꜱ ʜɪꜱ ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴏɴ ᴀ ᴅᴀʏ ɪɴ ᴇᴀʀʟʏ ɴᴏᴠᴇᴍʙᴇʀ. ᴛᴡɪᴄᴇ.

Fire and void consume the one place his heart has ever known peace. 

This is the end.

His mother burns in the bedroom upstairs. Cas is consumed in the dungeon underground. And Dean is left cold, alone, looking up.

He remembers his father telling him to go and don’t look back. But he looks. He can’t help but look. He doesn’t stop looking for a long time. Becomes a pillar for it, unmoving. Holding up that last image because someone has to remember. The past won’t fade if eyes still watch.  

— excerpt from, I’ve got you. 

#adventures in photoshop. i need to post this or else i'll play around w it forever #anyways. cas and mary death parallels. home. the act of looking back. this is my photo thesis on the topic #i've been in a big parallels mood on the blog lately as many of you know #and this little experiment has been rolling around in my brain. i layered SO many images and did weird things. look closely see what u find #myedits #myfics #parallels #spn 1x01 #spn 15x18 #spn 13x01

[moth-yea]

Headcanon that Foo in the alternate/new universe is a planktonkin alterhuman

#my face when i mix a part of me with my special interest #putting this on my thesis rn #jjba #jojos bizarre adventure #jojo no kimyou na bouken #stone ocean #f.f jjba #foo fighters jjba #foo fighters jojo #foo fighters #alterhuman #therian #nonhuman #headcanon #jojo headcanons #jjba headcanons