dude i fucking love how this server has communication as its premise and built into its fucking core. i fucking love that. bc it's one thing to be like 'this server is about multilingual communication and cultural exchange!!' bc that could present in any NUMBER of ways but like. with the federation and the eggs and a common shared goal they all decided WE ARE A TEAM. and like, ok,
when baghera was sus of jaiden because of the thing when pomme died and jaiden had been the reason baghera left her side for the only time that day, i wasn't even worried. i wasn't worried bc i was like "we just wait. because i know they will TALK TO EACH OTHER." and I WAS RIGHT. TWO DAYS LATER IT WAS ALL CLEARED UP AND BAGHERA WAS HELPING HER OUT WITH CUCURUCHO
and the ordo theoritas is functionally a secret organization. it would be SO EASY to gatekeep the lore, on grounds of "the federation is always watching and anyone could be a spy" and yet the ordo theoritas says that, like bad SAYS THAT, says OUT LOUD, "anyone could be a traitor" and then turns around and goes "hey person i've had a few days' worth of conversations with, here's a detailed rundown of everything we've learned about the island's mysteries, and the secret location of the ordo base". SOFIA was supposed to be secret from everyone, and for a little bit she was. but now like, the ordo theoritas is showing her to everyone. it would be SO EASY to hide things and to gatekeep things but they just. don't do it. here's the supercomputer!!!! don't forget to grab her waystone so you can come back anytime!!!
bad learns something. "i need to tell forever/cellbit/baghera". forever figures out a new way to protect the eggs, and he gets it to everyone within days. cucurucho tries to have a secret conversation and the entire server knows about it almost instantly and there are three people buried in the walls reading the subtitles and giving each other meaningful glances
i love it. i love it. miscommunication plotlines drive me up the fucking wall and the fact that i wasn't even SCARED when jaiden and baghera could easily have angled into an angsty tangled web of that and instead just MET WITH EACH OTHER AND EXPLAINED EVERYTHING AND CLEARED THE AIR ALMOST IMMEDIATELY was so fucking breathtaking. and this is a multilingual server. this is a MULTILINGUAL SERVER. i love it. i love it so much i want to cry. it's a server for communication and people Communicate, it would have been SO EASY to slip into monolingual factions and stick to the familiar but they DIDN'T. they DIDN'T. WE GET TO HAVE A THEORY TABLE WITH SO MANY LANGUAGES SITTING AROUND IT. we get to have conspiracy walls in every language!!!! idk sometimes i forget how fucking CRAZY all this is, like the scale of what they've accomplished
so yea thank you to quackity and the qsmp admins for this, and thank you to the streamers for hearing 'this is about connections' and taking it ENTIRELY to heart, and also thank you to whoever the fuck decided to give quackity's school class the job to look after a fucking egg to learn about parenting. bc holy shit. holy shit.
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Canonically Bad Thrawn
Why are some people so obsessed with whether Thrawn is "good" or "bad"? This isn't middle school, where everything must be either/or, black or white, yes or no. These are false dichotomies. Not every work of literature exists to teach readers a "moral lesson." Good fiction rarely deals in moral absolutes. Nor, in fact, does real life. Readers are interested in morally dubious characters for a host of reasons, most of which have little or nothing to do with their real-life beliefs or actions. Hate to break it to you, but a hot, blue, *fictional* alien isn't the one responsible for the resurgence of real-life fascism. Thrawn isn't going to turn your impressionable teenager into a fascist or neo-Nazi. Most people who like Thrawn aren't fascists or neo-Nazis. Nor, I suspect, is Timothy Zahn a member of some secret fascist cult, promulgating conspiracy theories while he awaits the Apocalypse in his fortified bunker.
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STUFF I DIDN'T KNOW WHEN I WAS STILL ABLED...
You end up inventing a language.
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Words and phrases I used before just do not cover these new chronic illness and disability sensations.
Explaining to doctors aside, because they need specifics and concrete examples and I end up talking to them in exhausting paragraphs and lists, I still want to have casual conversations with people who know and care about me. Who ask how I'm doing.
I need shorthand for recurring weirdness. So I burble something and if it sticks? Woo hoo! ¡Vocabulario!
I tell friends, "The bottom fell out," when my body has pulled the energy plug on my brain and I am powering down right now. Probably gonna sleep? Right here. Wherever that is.
I use "skittles everywhere," as a quick summary of 'yes, I had my thoughts together and it was a pretty good day, but I got confused about something suddenly--maybe it was an emotional hit? maybe a stress situation?'--and my thoughts scattered like I dropped a whole bowl of candies and no, I cannot do anything useful about it; I am gonna stand here and blink at this debris field for a bit cause I have completely forgotten what I was doing.' It's kinda like "the bottom fell out" but more about thoughts and not so much about energy.
There's words I picked up online in disability spaces like "spoons," "flares," "scrombled," and "potsie." (More about the legit joys of online community later.)
And then there's using words that everyone uses, but not how everyone uses. My energy is fragile today. My thoughts are just a crust, so I don't trust them to last. Oops, yeah. Fell through. Now ham-brain.
And it's communicating, but quick and kinda surface level.
Like, we all know "pins and needles" if, say, your foot falls asleep. But there's no cultural touchstone for, "my circulation is very poor today, so the weight of my blood is pooling in my lower limbs and I can literally feel myself getting dumber the longer I stand up because my brain is not getting enough oxygenated blood right now and it is kinda like drowning, yet there's no sense of breathing urgency or air hunger just now, but that part will be happening shortly because my heart rate is climbing and I'm starting to prickle with sweat."
So I just tell my loved ones, "Feelin' potsie," and they cut me some slack. And find me a chair. And that's good enough for now.
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Being able to communicate with other people keeps me from despair, honestly. I recommend building your own language without shame.
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Seems like something we should all know.
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Disability happens to people without our control or consent. Every single disabled person has strong feelings about their own situation and I would not presume to talk about anyone’s thoughts but my own. But none of us chose to do life on hardmode, so if the world could listen this month, there’s a lot to say.
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I just wanted to apologize to my classic whotuals for all the dead boy detectives spamming, but it's also important to me that you guys know two things:
a) I've become aware that a lot of what appeals to me about dead boy detectives is, on a kind of conceptual/thematic level, the same stuff that I love about my favorite eras of dr who, and 6b in particular
And I tell you this not as an advertising tactic but as a genuine PSA for anyone following me because:
b) Being me & having realized this, I know I'm definitely gonna wind up posting some unnecessarily long-winded analysis/comparison, pop it in the main tags for the sake of organization on my own blog, and subsequently confuse a hell of a lot of people there who either have no idea what I'm talking about or simply don't view either piece of media in the same light as I do to begin with
So I just wanted to reassure everyone that at least you're not suffering alone, as I will soon be inflicting the reverse bait-and-switch upon others!
That's all! continue w ur scrolling <3
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The Skateboard Incident
Johnny, turning the apartment inside out: Where is it? Where’s my skateboard? Has anyone seen it??
Nooshy: It’s in the living room. I was using it as a footrest earlier.
Johnny:
Nooshy, shrugging: It’s pretty comfortable actually.
Johnny, deathly calm: ... I'm going to kill you. I'm actually going to kill you.
Nooshy, bolting for the stairs: ... Dad!
Marcus, from the garage: You are grown adults, solve your own problems for once, please!
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What do you think the Wizards of the Black Circle did after the trial? Just because there’s almost a day between when they escape and when we see them again; what were they doing? Did they mourn Duman? Were they on Omega that whole time? (Also, whose bright idea was it to go hide out on a prison planet when they’re wanted criminals? If it was Ogron, feels like he kinda dropped the ball).
I'm gonna be so honest rn, I have no idea what's going on in the last couple episodes. The moment Nabu closes the casual hell void the Black Circle opened up and the wizards just kinda?? Leave?? So did I, apparently. Mentally.
It took me so long to realize they even went to Omega, like child me straight up assumed that was attached to Morgana's castle. Staircase in her basement straight to it idk- Because with WHAT energy did they locate themselves to a whole other planet outside of their dimension?? From Earth to Magix took them like a whole ass portal, which maybe we just didn't see them do this time, but again, with what energy did they do that. Whores. Don't even get me started on why, I'm gonna pop something important in my eyes.
But speaking of child me!! Idk why, but I VIVIDLY remembered the wizards mentioning Duman's death in Omega and was so confused when I rewatched and that didn't happen. I fully gaslit my slightly older self into thinking the wizards were more interesting than they were, if that wasn't a sign of things to come, I don't know what is.
Even as I'm typing this rn, I can physically FEEL the "Am I sure it didn't happen??" thoughts return, I need professional intervention (yeah I could just watch the episodes again but I don't wanna)
So what do I think they did? Talk about Duman. In Omega. Apparently. No, but the way I usually imagine it, it's pretty quick? In a "We don't have time for this now." sort of way- Let's add a little bit of denial and extra stress so it doesn't feel like they (Ogron specifically) don't care. I might write it out fully at some point. Maybe it'll stop tormenting me.
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