on day 48 of blue prince. i nearly drafted a corner of the true image of god but it cost 4 gems and i dont got that kinda money so i landed a bathroom and the run ended
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Hoi!
By expropriating your lunch money I am working towards UN Sustainable Development Goals 1: No poverty (I have money), 2: Zero Hunger (I am going to buy myself lunch with it), 5: Gender Equality (I am a girl), 10: Reduced Inequalities (You had lunch money and I didn't), 12: Responsible production and consumption (I am going to eat the lunch I buy with it), 15: Life on land (I am alive on land), 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (I didn't hit you because you gave me your lunch money) and 17: Partnerships for the Goals (We worked together to make this happen)
Jul 23
Can't let British people have air conditioning because first they'd call it something twee like "the climate fixer" and then in 20 years they'll call it "the climb" or "the climmy"
French kids would call it "le climot", frustrating language officials who would prefer they call it "machine pour le contrôle du climat froide à l'interieure de l'édifice"
Last year, I befriended a Catholic seminarian. We've gotten to be pretty decent friends. Seeing as he was staying in town for the summer and I wasn't, I entrusted him with caring for my plant.
He did a wonderful job, but as he was returning my plant to my custody, he explained "I watered her every other day, I gave her new dirt, moved her into the sunshine, prayed the rosary-"
"What?"
He looked at me, confused. "Isn't she a plant you pray with?"
"No," I said slowly. "She's a prayer plant. That's the... colloquial name of the plant."
Upon seeing his stricken face, I realized something went wrong. Turns out, this entire time, he's been including my plant in on his prayers and leaving her near icons.
Listen, totally cool. My plant becoming Catholic is a great deal for her not dying over the summer. But now I must navigate this interfaith household. Keep me in your thoughts.
Jul 23
really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram
Jul 23
hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"
like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause
Jul 23
I think the way to write really common tropes in a way so they don't feel tired is to treat them as a fan fiction AU. Yes, it's a coffee shop, everyone knows the coffee shop, but how does The Character operate in the coffee shop.
Let's take the common Person Falls, Is Caught in Arms, They Look at Each Other trope. The most memorable take I've seen on this one is Character A was carrying a musical instrument and Character B caught the instrument and let A fall (A's easier to repair). Is Character B too slow or weak to catch the other person (do they hate that about themselves)? Do they even care; do they watch them fall, bemused? Do they catch with reflexes, see the other person and then purposefully drop them? Then Character A, did they slip out of clumsiness, manipulation or because of a trap? Are they embarrassed to be in a vulnerable position? Do they act pitiful for more sympathy? What is the contrast? Would A catch a possible Character C differently?
So because I'm an Austen blog, for example!
Anne Elliot of Persuasion stumbles because she's tired from the long walk, Captain Wentworth catches her because even when he's pretending not to pay attention, he's really focused on her. He catches her, for one moment they are in the past again, and it's alright to hold her in his arms, but then he comes back to the present. His expression goes cold. He sets her upright and walks away without looking at her again. Anne is left there, feeling that though he still doesn't want her to be hurt, the past can never return.
Edward Ferrars of Sense & Sensibility catches Lucy Steele, but of course she fell into him on purpose. She smiles shyly at him while in his arms. He blushes. He helps her stand and then notices her clothes are askew, but clenches his hands awkwardly. It's not proper to touch her again. He can't figure out what to say. Then she tries to walk and cries out in pain. He quickly offers her his arm. She smiles slyly at the camera...
Caroline Bingley of Pride & Prejudice wants to be viewed as graceful, so no, the slip wasn't on purpose, but when it happened she tried to make the most of it. Unfortunately Darcy was surgical in his precision, he caught her and set her upright, no chance for gazing lovingly into each other's eyes. What a shame! When Elizabeth, flustered to be found at Pemberley and struggling to find a safe subject of conversation, tripped on a tree root, he somehow couldn't help himself from stealing a moment with her in his arms...
Henry Tilney of Northanger Abbey would catch Catherine Moreland, be sure she wasn't sneaky enough to do it on purpose, and then make a quip about how cliche they were being. Catherine would be in awe.
I'm convinced that people don't actually hate tropes, what they hate is when the trope doesn't feel like The Character. When it feels like a trope was just thrown in because This is a RomanceTM, or whatever, instead of carefully considering how The Character would react. When used correctly, a trope can give a ton of characterization in a single moment. When used incorrectly, when The Character doesn't do it in their own unique way, it feels forced and tired.
Jul 23
i feel like "feminist" anti-kink sentiment is very tail-wagging-the-dog. like male doms playing out bdsm scenes of abuse are not oppressing their female subs that's acting. you're mad at acting. you're those aliens from galaxy quest. same with fearmongering about "booktok". however an eroticized version of patriarchal dynamics being a popular kink DOES speak to the pervasiveness of sexism, bc eroticizing the oppression is a way of coping with living under it. it's women creating a fantasy world where men being menacing to them is sexy and not scary like it is irl, or where it is still scary but in the fun way like a horror movie bc you can tap out at any time by using a safe word or putting the book down. acting like this sort of kink is oppressing women is like if you assumed the thermometer controlled the weather outside. it might be depressing to look at the thermometer and see the impact of climate change, but it's not the thermometer's fault
Jul 23
shronks
Jul 23
Quand il faut expliquer la pâtisserie à un Américain: imaginez un hamburger
this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks
The “Thunk” will always kill me.
14/10 doing his best
Jul 22
whenever i look into a historical monarch who doesn’t get talked about much and is just kind of a blank spot in my understanding of the historical narrative, 95% of the time what i find is pure white hot blistering capability. a pencil pusher for the ages. a 39 year reign with no more than three hours of sleep a night. there aren’t any good stories from his reign because he systematically caught and stopped all catastrophic good stories before they could start. you shrimply must respect it
Jul 22
Dearest Gentle Reader, I find myself suddenly at a loss for words.
Everybody's masc until MIKA comes on
Jul 22
my controversial opinion is I don’t think Zuko was confused by “my first girlfriend turned into the moon”
he was there during siege of the North. he infiltrated the spirit oasis. he has an uncle who studies spirits and the spirit world. he watched the sky go dark then the moon suddenly reappear like everyone else in the entire world did. and most importantly he watched zhao get eaten by a giant godzilla fish spirit.
his entire life since he saw that beam of blue-white light in the south pole has been ‘this day has already been so goddamn weird’
The only really new information was that that was Sokka’s girlfriend
Important opinion in the tags that I need to have be part of the post:
Also, Iroh was there? He literally watched Sokka make out with the moon spirit. And you want to tell me that a romantic sap like him would not have immediately told Zuko about this romantic tragedy? Please, Zuko has known about this for ages, he just knows that this is not an acceptable situation in which to say “yeah, I know.”
Sokka: “My girlfriend turned into the moon.”
Zuko: “I know.” “Yes.” “She sure did.” “Uh huh.” “Tell me something new.” “Are we still talking about that?” “That’s rough, buddy.”
[image: tags by samwisethebold: #it’s not that he doesn’t get what sokka means #it’s that how on earth do you respond to that]
When you put it like that, this is actually a legendary display of tact on Zuko’s part
Jul 21
Jasmine Vine, lead programmer of Hollow Knight & Silksong just transitioned!! I'm so happy for her!❤️🏳️⚧️
