[hiveswap]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

[hiveswap]

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

[hiveswap]

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

[bog-priestess]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH MOOT🪻🪻

I shall keep writing gay posts. As always

[lvmimis]

tbh i love hear me outs but i also love the opposite of hear me outs where it’s like nearly everyone thinks they’re fuckable except you

[vintxgemiseries]

count me outs

[tallochar]

Adopting that immediately.

[itsalwaysdark]

you have to be careful reading too many things that are good/smart/well-written bc then you encounter something that isnt and you get confused like ? why didnt they just make this good ? were they stupid

[andmaybegayer]

Stories like this are funny, sure, but the correct lesson to take from the "our {junior developer, dog, LLM, senior developer, disgruntled accountant, rube goldberg machine} deleted our entire production database" is not that you shouldn't have had that {junior developer, dog, etc.} but that it should not have been possible for that to happen in the first place, your system architects were so incompetent they didn't set up access control.

Ideally you should use something like an Object Capability model, but even basic rules like "you require the Special Key that we only deploy on production systems to even access the production database" and "our git repository doesn't allow anyone to push anything that deletes history on main unless they have the CTO's ssh key" go a very long way towards preventing this from happening by accident.

If you are currently at a company where you could delete the production database without at least having to do something that involves typing "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired" you should find out who you can yell at about it.

(if your daily work requires typing "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired", this is the same problem. If you're writing scripts that inject "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired" into an automated process, maybe just look for a new job)

[emptyjunior]

Enough random notes that have a written story on them as environmental storytelling, explore the space, get crazier with it.

You move into a house and aw cute, it has the kids height on the walls but you notice there's a three foot difference in height between measurements, you check the date, they're a month apart. The final measurement is on the ceiling. It's dated two days ago.

You're part of a recovery team that have finally found a stranded ship, they were found too late and have all passed a long time ago. They all died of starvation. You enter their storeroom, it's filled with food. In the dining hall you find the tables laden with perfectly fine looking breads, cakes, cured meats, jams, candies. Your medic says all the people sitting at the table didn't eat a Thing.

You wake up in an apocalypse. You can't find anyone at all as you wander the streets but you do hear faint music playing from somewhere. You stumble into a supermarket, to see all the aisles still full, except for the shelf that was full of ear plugs, which look to be the only thing that was looted.

Like there's light, sound, props. Having a street where every house is decimated except for One. Landing on a planet known for having No Water and a plant is growing and you don't know where it could have possibly gotten moisture from but you can't find the citizens Anywhere.

I'm sorry, I'm just kinda over the "graffiti on the wall to show the bad guy is around". That's not environmental storytelling that's just normal story. Show me I'm in the villains territory by the rain suddenly cutting out above me as I'm driving, even though it's meant to be raining all night. I park the car and step out, and realise the constellations are Wrong, until I see they're Not constellations, they're the blinking lights of a massive ship-

I Will stop now because everytime I go to write a sentence it devolves into another prompt but I'm just saying we have a Lot of senses, engage them, show me the Environment in environmental storytelling.

[luna-azzurra]

Most writers don't have a writing problem. they have a finishing problem. and finishing is its own completely different skill that has almost nothing to do with talent. finishing requires you to be okay with the thing being real, being done, existing in the world where people can have opinions about it.

And a lot of people would rather keep it unfinished and perfect in their head than done and flawed and out there. an unfinished draft can still be anything. once you finish it, it becomes one specific thing with specific failures that specific people can point to. so you keep tweaking. you keep saying it's not ready. you go back to the beginning again.

And the years pass and you are a person who is always working on something and never the person who made something. and those are two completely different people with two completely different relationships to this thing they claim to love.

[autumnslance]

OK enough negativity. What are your favorite thing(s) about Final Fantasy XIV? What keeps you playing, interacting with the fandom, making things from art to fanfic to crafts?

[voidsentprinces]

[i-effed-it-all-up-deactivated20]

no, i don’t watch that show, but i do follow its developments extensively via tumblr

[best-of-inspirobot]

[tearlessrain]

this is in perfect iambic meter and sounds like the first line of a weird poem

[tearlessrain]

Rule #2

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you see one on the street,

For decorum is essential when a lobster you must greet.

You may comment on the weather, compliment his choice of hat,

But crustaceans like their space if one should stop them for a chat.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you’re strolling down the coast,

Simply nod and give a greeting, or a handshake at the most,

For a lobster’s first priority is formal social graces,

And one seemes over-familiar if a lobster one embraces.

Don’t ever hug a lobster when you meet one in the sea,

For a lobster’s spines and chitin make it difficult, you see,

And he might become self-conscious if you bring that fact to light,

So don’t ever hug a lobster, simply put, it’s impolite.

[cuppydogshane]

My Name is 8 PM. and I am always arriving when you atrent Looking

[the-disemvoweler]

M Nm s 8 PM. nd m lws rrvng whn y trnt Lkng

[consonant-remover]

8.y

I o a a i's ooa eo

[cuppydogshane]

if you two had a baby it would be a regular sentence. or perhaps silence.

[unyieldingsilence]

‎

[cuppydogshane]

Right.

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

[dogpuppy]

[bog-priestess]

truly the game of all time

[bog-priestess]

[thetangledsheet]

Anyway I think more video game quests should make you uncomfortable and guilty and mislead you and corner you between a rock and a hard place and offer hollow victories. There's nothing more annoying than quest writing that scrambles to assure you that you're niceys and good and nothing you put your hand on can ever have negative consequences. "You cannot save everyone" and I cheer and whoop etc.

[thatlocallittlegremlin]

A Thought I Had Rewatching Mononoke

I was rewatching Mononoke 2007 and a thought came to me, specifically about The Medicine Seller (of Ri)'s personality. !! Spoilers for episodes 9, 10, and 11 of Ayakashi; Samurai Horror Tales and TW for mentions of non-con!! My dad had already seen both the movies (I made my parents watch them for my birthday), so I was showing specific arcs of the show to my dad since he agreed to watch it with me (ty Dad ^w^). Because he didn't want to watch the OG and get stuck reading subtitles for most of the episodes and missing visual details, I put it onto the Dub. Now, personally, I am not a Dub girly, but I did find myself enjoying it just because I was realizing that there was certain jokes I wasn't getting due to me not being a native Japanese speaker. All of that got me thinking about The Medicine Seller's actions and words choices, specifically his attitude towards humans.

In the show, The Medicine Seller really seems to have this, almost disdain for the living humans that are connected to the Mononoke, with the exception of a few humans he seems to like; for example, Kayo. That being said, unless you are someone like Kayo (someone who really doesn't have much to do with the creation of the Mononoke and was unfortunately caught in the crossfire), he really seems to have this barely contained dislike of humans. It's never really explained or expanded upon, but neither really is anything else about him and it's consistent enough throughout all of his appearances that it could very easily just be a personality trait of his, but I'm not 100% sure. Since I was rewatching the 2007 Mononoke show, I figured why not revisit the place where The Medicine Seller of Ri is first introduced; the final arc of Ayakashi; Samurai Horror Tales, and it was there that I really got this thought from. I actually think that this original Bakeneko arc was what caused Ri to have such a disdain for humans. !! There will be spoilers beyond this point !! In this arc, the Sakai family are being haunted by a Bakeneko resulting from the grudge of a woman one of the men of the family kidnapped and kept hostage. By the end of the episodes, we learn that the woman (named Tamaki) was caged, abused, and s3xually used by multiple men in the family. While captive, Tamaki managed to find a kitten, which she nurtured secretly until she eventually starved to death and her grudge then passed to her kitten, which then became the Bakeneko. Throughout these episodes, The Medicine Seller is quite a bit more expressive than in the 2007 show; he's more animated, he actively voices his anger and disapproval when the humans say/do/attempt to do something stupid, he reassures Kayo when she is scared, and he makes a lot more dry jokes. We watch him get hurt, we watch him mess up, we watch him get knocked out and temporarily lose. I think the biggest difference between his Ayakashi depiction and his 2007 depiction, however, is probably his face. He grins, he scowls, he expresses visible shock and pain, his nose wrinkles in distaste, etc, etc; all these things that he doesn't really do in the 2007 show. The part where that changes, however, is after finding out the Makoto and Kotowari; the Truth and Reason. After he learns about what actually happened, why the Bakeneko came into being, that previous expressiveness kind of shuts down. We watch Kayo sink to the floor in tears and Odajima (another character who didn't actually have anything to do with Tamaki's abuse) cover his eyes as if he was going to be sick. But The Medicine Seller? He just stands there. If you watch through the credits, there's a bit at the end where they wrap up the arc, Kayo saying she's going to go back to her parents house, Odajima not knowing where he's gonna go after, yada yada, and there's a part where The Medicine Seller has to talk with the main abuser post slaying of the Bakeneko. The Medicine Seller looks so, disgusted by the man, he really just looks like he wants out of there ASAP. His behavior then mirrors his 2007 counterpart for the rest of the final episode, a lot more unreadable and flat. And this is where I tie back to my original thought; I think that this specific mission might be the reason he holds such a disdain for humans, specifically human men (there are very few women he dislikes or shows outward animosity to in the show). He's clearly much younger during the Ayakashi Bakeneko arc than he is in the main show, his powers aren't as refined, and he makes a few incorrect guesses and mistakes, which can absolutely explain why he's so much more expressive. That being said, The Medicine Seller of Kon is also expressive, but his powers are very strong and refined, so I think the main reason why the Medicine Seller of Ri is the way he is is because he'd seen the ugliness of humans at a much younger age than Kon; it's why he's so much less likely to deal with people's bullshit than Kon would be. Anyways, that's it! Just a thought I had.

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal