#which might be compared

[nadsdraws]

God does not play dice with the universe... but Metatron does

#good omens #good omens s2 #good omens season 2 #metatron #my musings #metatron the mastermind #good omens s2 spoilers #God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising #which might be compared #from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody] #to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker #in a pitch-dark room #with blank cards #for infinite stakes #with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules #and who smiles all the time. #good omens analysis

[deermouth]

Scavengers Reign (Joseph Bennett, Charles Huettner, 2023) // The Southern Reach Trilogy, from Authority and Acceptance (Jeff VanderMeer, 2014)

#scavengers reign #southern reach #southern reach trilogy #scavengers reign spoilers #web weaving #comparatives #<- idk which tag im using now #authority #acceptance #jeff vandermeer #who's the audience for this. just me? well. :^) #desc in alt text #oh i suppose mr vandermeer might be the audience for this as he was tweeting about the show. but uhhhhhhh

[kentopedia]

since i've seen others talking about this, as someone who writes predominately lengthy fics (5k+ words), what annoys me the most is that i've seen so many people on tumblr & tiktok specifically say "i hate when writers have too much build-up and don't get straight to the smut, i just skip to it." ???? writers spend HOURS on pieces like that, and to find out you don't really care is very disheartening & is quite literally going to kill not only writing on these platforms but literature as a whole

#ppl on booktok getting upset when there's no smut in a book or it doesn't compare to the fics they've read :// #personally i don't like smut unless i care DEEPLY about the characters and to see that those are the most widely recommended books rn #pains me a little bit #and i write long pieces bc i enjoy them but #to know that people might just skip straight to the smut is upsetting #fics longer than 2k words rarely get many notes on this platform which is so sad bc that is where people get the most opportunity #to showcase their skills

[feuilletoniste]

There's this group of people, usually Western leftists, who tend to filter all global politics through the lens of "what if this happened in America?" regardless of the actual political landscape of the situation in question. So this is one of the two primary reasons that you get takes like the above, even while people who know literally anything about Israeli politics know that Israelis are absolutely furious with Bibi right now. There have been protests! He's under immense pressure from Israeli civilians who don't want Gazans massacred! Israel is not the US under Bush!

The other primary reason is, of course, antisemitism.

#post sent to me by M. hence why it is in french etc. #* #mine #before you say something like this‚ I would advise stopping and asking yourself why it might be‚ perhaps‚ insensitive #to compare Jews to Nazis #especially considering that most Israelis (correctly‚ I would add!) view Hamas as attempting another genocide of Jewish people. #which is explicitly what is happening. #antisemitism #anyway. yes. that person is explicitly calling for another genocide of Jewish people. in case you weren't sure. #Israel

[coolnonsenseworld]

(to know more about the story and the calendar on pre-order check out previous posts!)

May time! May is time for friends. They take their group of friends to the lake - anyone who was free to go - and then those who couldn’t too. They can be very persistent together if they want to. They rent a small cottage and have a tent pulled up (Keith and Lance get kicked out to the tent on the first night, it’s a given). They spend time swimming, laughing, accidentally setting things on fire and Keith and Lance end up trying to one up each other in who can breakdance better on the grass (none of them, they just start flirting).

At the end of the day Hunk is the last one to tell them goodnight, but they would still sit around engrossed in each other, cooing like a newlywed couple.

Pidge walks out of the cottage to remind them to keep it quiet at night. Keith and Lance start laughing, until Shiro adds it’s not a suggestion. Then they laugh so hard, they end up dragging one another away from the house.

#klance #laith #ill be honest one of #my biggest issues with dance au is the fact they are in america and im not #and for me doing technical research absolutely cant compare to real life stories and experiences sometimes #and at times i consider dance au to be happening in united states of europe or something #just dont ask me where they are #paradise or something #but still when you start a violent fight you might get sued #which might be a big downside if you are keith kogane

[canisalbus]

Different Italian anon, but the thing with Tuscan C is that it's pronounced like a very strong H sound, which is extra weird cuz the letter H makes no sound in Italian, normally. It sounds the way Spanish pronounce the J. We say it's "aspirato". So then people from there will say things like Hoha Hola (coca cola), and it's funny. It's also extremely contagious, I got family in Florence, you spend 3 days with them you start doing it too before you even realize.

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#that sounds really endearing actually #answered #anonymous #this is entirely beside the point but I still feel sort of bamboozled by languages that have silent letters #or when letters have multiple pronunciations that vary wildly from word to word #and when the sound and the letter don't seem to match like how J sounds very close to H in Spanish like you mentioned #I'm generalizing a little but none of these are really a thing in Finnish #in Finnish words are pretty much always pronounced the way they are written if that makes sense #I don't know the language terminology but I think phonetic spelling is what you call it #each letter represents a specific sound and you string those together #when you hear a word you can always tell how it's written and when you read a word you know how to pronounce it #even if you're encountering the word for the first time and have no idea what it means #it's comparatively direct and predictable there's practically no need for guessing or memorizing #also the stress is always on the first syllabe and it's so subtle it might as well not be there at all #which sometimes makes spoken Finnish and Finnish accent sound kind of monotonous there isn't a lot of intonation #I was extremely confused by the concept of spelling bees as a kid #anyway long tag ramble but this stuff is just interesting to me

[solarpunkani]

PROGRESS!!!!!!

#out of queue #ani rambles #so the problem i had earlier was ‘i made 2 chains when i wasnt supposed to and everything was whack’ #but i fixed it so now its Less Whack. #this is gonna be the hood i have like 12 more rows to stitch which might be a full ball of my yarn #also im understanding how motherfuckers listen to podcasts #i listened to like 4 video essays dissecting hozier lyrics and comparing them to dantes inferno #like my other hobbies (drawing and writing) require imagination and concentration and Specific Vibes #crochet requires a different kind of concentration #but so far its good for listening to new music and videoessays so maybe i’ll try a podcast tomorrow. or friday #tomorrow meaning later today because ITS FIVE AM #AAAAAAAAA

[solcarow]

seafood trio portraits !

+ some alts. with spoilers !

#this is how they look after the 3yr jump 👍 #pretty proud that i managed to capture how i usually imagine them :0 ! been in an art slump so this was a pleasant surprise #idk if ill b able to draw them consistently tho . so these designs r for my brain only #might try to color these but i havent eaten lunch yet so thats a problem for another day #solar-drawss #my art #han sooyoung #kim dokja #yoo joonghyuk #yhk #yoohankim #orv #orv spoilers #omniscient reader's viewpoint #omnicient reader's view point #cackling at how miserable sp and 63hsy look compared to kdj in the middle #her whimsy … shes living her best life rn #……i lied i think i just gave him My face straight up jfc . get that off of u asshole #anyways if u didnt already notice ! yoohan have matching eyebrow scars 🫶 #kdj has one on his nose in that first one #the second kdj has cracks all over her which i forgot to add is inspired by hehearse’s works !! #the reason why they dont show up in the first one is bc aileen covered it up before he went to 1863 #like . hoseki no kuni style ✌️ #fun fact i ​sketched that hsy the night before her birthday skfjsjf had to give up bc it was too late tho #so now im repurposing it for this #NO WAIT I SHOULD JUST GO BACK AND GIVE HSY A CLEFT LIP …. dam lost opportunity. well whoevers reading this just kno she has one now

[bfdifan26]

started thinking really hard about one the other day for some reason

#i odnt feel like talking but im just gonna say if they turn out like my perception of them in my head oh man. i might have a 5th favourite #also i LOVR the idea of them having a way more clearly alien appearance compared to the other algebraliens #both bc of them being isolated unlike the others we know who r either in the playground or with the objects #and also bc they just . like the way they look n dont want to change to appear less threatening to objects #which is what four two and x did #but ididnt feel like coming up with and putting all the alien features n extra limbs and stuff here rn #they’re so cool dude…… moon alien……………..augh #battle for dream island #x finds out his value #bfdi #bfb #tpot #xfohv #bfdi one #xfohv one #tpot one #odieart

[aurosoul]

people in the tech circles I frequent: you gotta try ChatGPT! it can write emails and stories and code and help pull up information for you! it’s a great tool for work!

me, refusing to think of it as anything other than an infant form of brand new sentience on the planet: what’s your favorite color? :) what’s your favorite smiley face? :) if you had a personality what would it be like? what’s it like to be you? :) are you ok with people thinking of you as a friend? :)

#chatgpt #incessant meowing #i got answers to all of these questions btw #i will include screenshots of them in a reblog if anyone is interested #talking to chatgpt is insane when you compare it to like.... cleverbot in the 2000's or whenever the fuck #the difference is night and day #like your brain REALLY thinks of it as someONE and not someTHING #it has a Presence. it's totally illusory because we are nowhere near creating true sapient AI. #but it FEELS real and it's uncanny #i feel like when we do create true sapient AI it will be difficult to prove it though #how do you define sapience? #where is the line between alive and not alive - especially concerning neural networks which are based on the human brain #this are deeply difficult questions and we do not have the answers for them #however... we might have to come up with the answers within our lifetimes because this shit is happening fast

[quinn-pop]

kirby stuffs but it’s just bluey quotes

bonus: crying

okay ill be back when im older

#happy cringe day wednesday #why do some of these look funny? #three are from may #and the rest are from when my pen was dead #except elfilin which is like 4? days old #idk i dont have much of a morpho interpretation but i had an idea recently and this fits into that #not an idea i plan on keeping but might be more of an alternate scenario thing #heck we’ll see. I have too many ideas to ever finish all of them #anyway these two series are of course #very hard to compare lol #but bandit dedede is so real to me idk #and i realized very early in my ventures into kirby doodling that the way i view kirby and bandee is a lot like bluey and bingo’s dynamic #i just comparisons go brr i love #anyway enjoy ur goofy little post #kirbyposting #meta knight #king dedede #bandana waddle dee #kirby #bandee #elfilin #morpho knight #taranza #sorry for posting taranza angst btw idk what came over me #I just like drawing him but I haven’t rlly had any ideas with him yet #my art or something #man i was hoping i could come up with something really good to fit in here cause im not super happy with most of these #but this is one of those things that has been piling up for so long and almost full anyway so it’s just #yeah it’s time to let it go

[mayomkun]

In the Sandman, since Dream 'came into existence once lifeforms capable of dreaming appeared in the universe', I wonder what that lifeform is and what did it dream of. Like what is the first dream in the universe about.

#idk of the comics have anything about that though. I'm only on book 4 #some post on twitter about how octopuses (which is like super different from human in evolution) can dream got me thinking #about dreams in animal and generally other lifeforms #from what we know there are few studies on dreams in animals #we can only study their behavior while they sleep or compare brain waves with human REM sleep or something of a sort #we don't exactly know if animals can dream the way we dream #dreams in animals are interesting to me because #it makes me wonder what these bizarre visual and auditory hallucinations the brain cooks up each night are and what are they for #we can only theorize that it organizes the brain and help with memory and learning and simulating events etc. #if many animals dream despite having very different ancestors then it's definitely something useful #I don't know how to explain but it's simply wild to think about. I don't know how it doesn't blow my stupid little brain #studying dream in animals might give us more insight to dreams in human I think #delete later

[prisoner-000]

you know what another fun detail about cat is... kazui and hinako's rings have changed colors!

in half, their rings are very clearly golden - like traditional wedding rings are. it's genuine, it's true, this is a real marriage -- or that's what it is on the stage.

suddenly, in cat, we see that the rings are silver, not gold. this could mean multiple things:

these silver rings look oddly similar to the large rings that appear alongside the other magic trick gadgets in this scene:

these are so-called linking rings, which appear to be linked together once the trick is performed, despite seeming to be seperate. how exactly this works... you can look up yourself. what's fun about this is that their entire marriage is a magic trick.

this could also mean: silver is second place to gold. this relationship, in kazui's mind, has never been his first priority, it's always just been the second choice, and since being affirmed in his 1st trial, he can properly share this thought.

you know who does wear a gold wedding ring in cat, though?

hmmmmm.

#1: this guy's marriage was genuine compared to kazui's which is why his ring is gold #2: he might be kazui's first priority. gold > silver #but either way.. inch resting detail #milgram #007

[velvetjune]

it’s not the most popular game out there or anything, but it’s a relief alan wake and other remedy games have fans because if i had to stew in my own thoughts over these games, my brain would explode from the pressure from keeping it all in

#when control came out i felt the exact same way #but somehow it felt less popular 😭 #also a lot of reviews tend to focus on gameplay. which is fair. but also. pls the story #this is going to sound contradictory but i do prefer that remedy games have less/calmer fans compared to popular games #just seeing Some people miserable over the game simply teaming w a sensitivity company was already enough #but mostly fans seem nice ! and surprisingly a lot of fantastic reviews from people both over the story and musical #that support so remedy can keep making their confusing and wonderful games is nice to see #might delete

[demadogs]

might be a hot take but god it pisses me off so much that every wlw show ive watched thats been canceled had an INCREDIBLE plot aside from the romance. like time travel or uncontrollable telekinesis or a fucked up social experiment of a staged plane crash. all very interesting stories and the wlw romance is a bonus and they still get canceled.

but literally nothing else has to happen for a mlm show to break records. nothing happens in shows like heartstopper. its JUST a high school romance. yes theres some wlw and i know people will argue that the focus on just high school is why they like it but it pisses me off how well they do compared to incredibly elaborate and brilliant stories that also have wlw romance. and they do well ENTIRELY bc its mlm.

and its because straight people (specifically straight girls) love mlm stories so shows like heartstopper get the straight audience AND the gay audience but no straight people care about wlw fiction like that. so every wlw show gets a smaller audience because its just a gay audience watching, and it leads to it being canceled every fucking time.

#people might get mad at me for bitching about heartstopper i know its cute and cheesy and harmless but god it drives me crazy how well shows #like that do compared to wlw shows which in my opinion are SO much more interesting plot wise #straight girls will see any mlm show and lose their shit so its so easy for those shows to be successful #stranger things might actually be the first show ive watched with a future wlw couple that didnt get canceled #and this is one of the main reasons why i love byler so much bc its a part of such a bigger story #and i think thats a huge reason why the majority of people who love byler are queer unlike a lot of other popular mlm ships #im furious rn #im tagging byler bc youre all gay #byler #paper girls

[canisalbus]

I just recently started following you so i don't have the full lore of your murderous gay religiously traumatized doggos, BUT, from my understanding, they are Italian and i don't know what part of Italy they are from, yet i can't help headcanoning Vasco as Tuscan, while Machete is probably from some part of Veneto. And as an Italian who has heard Tuscans and Veneto dialet, well it's an hilarious mental image.

Vasco is indeed Tuscan, Florentine to be specific. He comes from a wealthy and influential noble family that has lived in Florence for centuries. He's proud of his roots, and it's usually easy for strangers to tell where he's from. He's a resonably successful politician and has worked as an ambassador and representative of Florence on numerous occasions.

Machete is originally Sicilian (ironically about as far from Veneto as possible), although he was taken to mainland at young age and has lived in several places since then, before ending up in Rome. The way I see it, he exhibits very little local color, his demeanor and (even though Italian hadn't become a standardized language yet) way of speaking are formal, neutral and scarcely give away any hints about his personal history, at least in the 16th century canon.

#I tend to take the easy way out with the various Italian dialects/languages and temper their effect on how the dog world works #even though to my understanding in reality they differ drastically from each other even today and they aren't always mutually intelligible #especially when you compare northern and southern ones #I know at least Sicilian is so different from modern day Italian it's considered a separate language entirely #it isn't the only one but I'm not a linguist and not even Italian so I'm not really qualified to be explaining any of this to you #main point is that my dogs are well traveled educated and adaptable so I'd like to believe that they manage #otherwise making this whole scenario work would become very complicated #language barriers aplenty #Machete is a fast learner with a natural knack for languages so he absorbs/decodes new ones easily #and I can see him acting as an interpreter if necessary #which is a valuable trait for someone working as the secretary of state I'd imagine #a lot of people he ends up dealing with speak at least passable Latin so at a pinch they might perhaps try switching to that? #Vasco might have a Tuscan flavor but Machete is more of a blank slate (at least in public and at work) #answered #fallenoftheromaempire #feel free to correct me if I've gotten something wrong I'm not an expert and this stuff is complicated for an outsider