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vitariesocks

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

vitariesocks

2 pics. no caption

#cats

derinthescarletpescatarian

So this might seem odd but do we just... not do home brand cocoa powder any more? I checked Woollies, Coles and Aldi and the cocoa powder is all fancy branded shit, like Cadbury and Darryl Lea brand cocoa powder. What the fuck is going on. There's no "we are out of cocoa powder" notices or empty homebrand shelves or anything, the home brand stuff is just gone and everything arranged as if it was never there. I feel like I'm being gaslit about cocoa powder. Is it coming back or are we just pretending it never existed. It DID exist. I have always bought home brand cocoa powder.

internutter

Woolies says they have it:

https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/311782/woolworths-cocoa-powder

Same with Coles:

Might have to ask our friendly and helpful staff.

derinthescarletpescatarian

Oh good, it turns out I'm just terrible at using the website. It wouldn't show up for me for some reason even though it usually does.

I see it's currently unavailable, but that tends to be true of a lot of stock these days.

#!!!#i was looking for cocoa recently and was so confused too #my coles only had cadbury #like fancy expensive cocoa and it was baffling #(i think another brand or two as well but it was to the point cadbury was cheapest)#and i am not rural #nor inner-inner city where all the stores are tiny #my coles is huge so i was baffled

wheup

Also! I have said it before but it frustrates me so badly that it deserves its own post.

Stratt would have sent Grace if he had a wife and kids. Stratt would have forced him onto the mission if he had a beautiful family and a dog that loved him and parents he visited every weekend. At the end of the day it was always, always going to be the sacrifice of the few for the good of the many, and it would have made functionally very little difference if it was one man or a whole household. That line was not for her, or the crew, or any of the gaurds that she would eventually send after him. That line was for Grace, not to try to convince him that his life had no meaning, but to force him to confront that he had nothing to hide behind, to strip away his selfless defences before he could fall back on them, to lay out the problem as she saw it; him versus the world, him versus humanity. The reason that him 'pretending this is about the children' upsets her is because she has already tried to dismiss that, she has already hit that point, and the fact that he's returning to it with semantics tells her everything she needs to know.

#project hail mary

jovaline

I’ve been meaning to draw a companion piece to my Fire Nation train print for AGES, and this year was the perfect year to revisit the Gaang! ☺️ Debuting at my SDCC artist alley table HH-24!

jovaline

Had to come back to post the side-by-side because I’m obsessed. (I did that first one in 2019! The fulfillment of a seven year prophecy. 😱)

#atla #fanart #gorgeous

icemav86

what is your minimum criteria for considering something canon?

when it appears on screen

when it’s filmed, even if it doesn’t air

when it’s in the script, even if it’s not filmed

when it’s documented in an official show bible

when the show runner shares the backstory / details

when an actor/writer shares the backstory / details

other (in tags/comments)

Voting ended onJul 24

beatrice-otter

Look. Star Trek is my oldest canon. There are so many Star Trek shows and movies out there, with so many contradictions, that there's stuff that was shown on screen that I don't consider canon, because it contradicts another thing shown on screen that I like better. They can't both be canon, so.

#it needs to be on screen #sometimes if i like what an actor said i'll add it to my pilr of headcanons but still not quite canon

im-mender

It's important to note that Chekhov's Gun was not originally about foreshadowing, but a piece of advice to playwrights about how every element in a play should have narrative relevance. The corollary to Chekhov's Gun is that if a gun mounted on the wall in act 1 is never used at all in the entirety of the play, then it should be omitted from the play entirely.

im-mender

also very true

anarchautistic

Very funny example of writing advice that is very specific to its medium getting overapplied outside its scope. Can you imagine how awful set design would be if people tried to apply this to movies. 60 minute post credits scene in the Matrix where Neo has to fire every gun that appears in the "lots of guns" scene

#writing

tarragonthedragon

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

#tumblr stories

glitchedgirly

See the thing about Stratt putting all media ever in the Hail Mary is that it isn’t just for lolz or to keep the crew entertained, it always struck me as something deeply sad. Because even if all the crew survived, there was no way they could consume all possible media ever, language barriers alone would present a problem. And even then, they had a job to do and focus on first (which could have theoretically taken decades of work to figure out) so they wouldn’t have much use for The Great Gatsby or a week’s worth of poorly written amateur Guatemalan experimental opera. Let us remember that Stratt is practical and true utilitarian Instead, I think it was another part of the Hail Mary. If the scientists failed, if the Earth died, then what? Everything would have been completely lost. Art, music, film, history. Destroyed. Without a single living soul to remember it by. It would be as if all of humanity had never existed.

But if it survived? If other alien civilizations discovered traces of humanity? Then the memory of mankind could live on and be remembered. What better way to do that than to send everything (literally everything, the art, the music, the science, the history) out as far as humanly possible so that it might connect with someone else in the universe? It would be a long shot, a Hail Mary, but it was the best chance that humanity had to be remembered

#project hail mary #honestly yeah #i understand making sure the astronauts had media #something to distract them from everything going on #and yeah stratt probably was also a little like 'okay every vaguely scientific info needs to be there so they can research'#in case this 20 year old paper about a specific tree had an essential bit of info #but every scrap of media humanity has ever created?#the idea it was a backup sounds pretty likely?

whumpster-fire

Just reread Fugitive Telemetry and upon a reread I think Murderbot is a tiny bit misinterpreting Senior Officer Indah's behavior towards it. Murderbot thinks it's because it's a SecUnit, which is obviously not wrong, but I think there's another facet of this which isn't on Murderbot's radar: once Indah starts thinking of it as a person, she's probably thinking of it as This Arrogant Asshole From the Corporation Rim who thinks Preservation Security are a bunch of incompetent hippies, tells them how to do their jobs and keeps complaining about them not having the dystopian levels of mass surveillance that it's come to expect from working in the CR, and is upset that they said no to giving it access to a bunch of data that violates privacy laws.

I can see how, from the perspective of a cop who has grown up in Preservation culture, this must be incredibly annoying, and means even setting aside any prejudices over a SecUnit being a deadly weapon, it kind of comes across to Indah as someone who she can't trust to follow basic standards of professional ethics if it thinks it knows better.

And Murderbot doesn't really consider this as a possibility because it's not used to being seen as a person at all, let alone seen as one by the Corporation Rim, so the idea that someone else would see it as a Corporate Person just never crosses its mind.

jezunya

Yessss, this is especially clear in this exchange:

[ID: two photos of a passage from Fugitive Telemetry that read:

"Yes, I've had experience with investigating suspicious fatalities in controlled circumstances."

Indah's gaze wasn't exactly skeptical. "What controlled circumstances?"

I said, "Isolated work installations."

Her expression turned even more grim. "Corporate slave labor camps."

I said, "Yes, but if we call them that, Marketing and Branding gets angry and we get a power surge through our brains that fries little pieces of our neural tissue."

Indah winced. Mensah folded her arms, her expression a combo of "are you satisfied now" and "get on with it."

End ID]

Indah absolutely is looking at MB as a snobby Corporate Person, with the way she sneers out 'corporate slave labor camps,' like MB was intentionally sugar-coating the reality of CR slave labor camps, as if it and any other SecUnits were the ones making the decision to enslave the human workers on their contracts. She clearly forgot (or never fully understood before) that MB was a slave from the moment it came online, and one that was routinely tortured for literal thought crimes. A slave with no end of indenture to work towards or any amount of pay to slowly try to save up to buy its freedom, no future except an endless expanse of violence and pain. If MB uses a softer term like 'isolated work installation' it is because it learned the hard way not to tell it like it is, and when called out on that, it throws the true horror of its existence within the CR into Indah's face (much like it did with the memories of governor module punishments when it first met ART and ART also initially treated it like it was some inherently evil corporate actor).

I think you're right that in the intervening weeks (months?) since it arrived at the end of Exit Strategy, Indah had learned from her first mistake of treating MB like Not A Person (the deadly weapon comment early on for which Pin-Lee was going to get her removed from her position of authority). But she still doesn't trust MB, and unless you get that very direct reminder of how horribly the CR actually treats constructs, I think it can be all too easy to see that SecUnits are physically powerful and then mentally equate that to them having any kind of actual power in those slave labor camps they're forced to guard.

Indah's change in attitude throughout FT is one of my favorite secondary character arcs, and I have to think this specific conversation, in addition to just working through the murder case with MB, was a big turning point for her. She went from 'this isn't even a person, it's a weapon'/'fine it's a person, but it's a bad corporate person who uses its gun arms to enslave poor innocent human workers' to 'oh you really are a person who just wants to help, and you get shot in the back by bigots even when you do help, and I will help you press charges if you want' over the course of basically one criminal investigation. And Martha Wells is able to show us that progression even though MB itself doesn't seem to be fully aware of it!! Gosh I just love this book <3

#murderbot

taciturn-nerd

All the "Austen novels explained badly" Tabloid Covers

Most of the original text is from this post by @redwooding

Re-did the Pride & Prejudice one to look more tabloid-y and changed John Thorpe's caption to the funny version. Note: gigs during the regency period was a type of carriage.

#english major tag #jane austen

bramblepatch

Grace explaining sheepishly to Eridian linguists that the reason he uses different pronouns for Rocky than for the rest of the population is that he reflexively defaulted to assigning Rocky the same grammatical and social gender that he himself uses, in a way that has historical precedent but in modern English is considered somewhat chauvinistic and backward, and he's not proud of it but also the habit is pretty deeply ingrained now and unless Rocky objects it's probably easier to just keep on as he has been...

and immediately being informed lol. lmao. do not even worry about it. you have no idea what kind of buck wild grammatical constructs Rocky has invented for you. everyone else addresses you as foreigner/scholar. they're somehow managing to refer to you as their sibling, ward, and semidivine culture hero at the same time every time they talk about you.

#project hail mary

arthistorycq

I normally try to keep this blog strictly about the glory that is art history, but I can’t avoid sharing a good architecture pun!

(Yes, I love puns)