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嵐・Anime・C-Dramas・Video games [Current Book: Strange Houses] [Current Game: SoS: Grand Bazaar/FE3H]

[shiruba-tsuki]

Where did this guy come from? I detected no bloodlust or presence. They didn't even make a single sound.

[chibimui]

Can the c-drama gods please let Hou Minghao escape Hengdian so he can do a modern drama where Wang Yilun/Riley Wang also ends up being his bestie?

I need to see these two do a third drama together where they are properly besties, and not fighting over the same girl. I think it'd be really fun! Kind of like the dynamic between Shangguang He and Nan Heng in A Dream Within a Dream. And I want it to be a modern drama because even tho I tend to not care about modern c-dramas, I really liked him as Wang Ye in I Am Nobody. I find his comedic timing really good, and think he'd be great as the ML in a silly/fluffy romantic comedy.

[anonpolls]

If you had so much money that you never had to work again (but were physically able to etc.), would you choose to work? (If you’re already in this situation, choose what you actually did.)

Yes, I’d do the same job I have now.

Yes, but I’d switch to a lower-paying but more fulfilling job.

Yes, but I’d choose to pursue a creative career.

Yes, but I’d start my own business.

Sort of. I’d volunteer or otherwise work without pay.

I wouldn’t work per se, but would devote a lot of time to a hobby.

I’d just relax, have fun, do whatever.

I’m not sure/Other

Remaining time: 5 days 6 hours

Thanks, Anon!

-submit your poll!-

[hunter-rodrigez]

Accessibility tip:

If you want to automate your home a bit, but you don't want any "smart" tech, you can just buy remote controlled power sockets instead

They are a lot cheaper and easier to set up and use than some home automation smart tech nonsense

They don't need an app (but some models come with optional apps and there are apps that are compatible with most of these)

Many of them use the 433mhz frequency to communicate, which makes most models compatible with each other, even if they are from different manufacturers

The tech has been around for a long time and will be around for a long time to come

You don't have to put any fucking corporate listening devices like an amazon echo in your home

Models for outdoors exist as well

[bisexualbaker]

[Image: Five electrical outlet enhancers accompanied by two remotes; each of the remotes has ten buttons: Two for each outlet (one on, one off).]

[ofwordsandwaltzes]

Cannot express enough my love for these. My entire apartment is on five circuits, controlled by two duplicate remotes. I can turn off the living room lights from my bed, if I forget, without getting up. And no apps needing so nothing to hack or spy on you.

[robinminustherichard]

This year is my 15th AO3 Anniversary! How long have you been on AO3? (hint: the day you joined is in your Profile)

1-2 years

3-4 years

5-6 years

7-8 years

9-10 years

11-12 years

13-14

15+ Years

Voting ended onJul 21

[naorende]

[chibimui]

The Kingdom Hearts: Missing Link cutscene leak didn't have to go so hard considering the game got cancelled in order to make KH4.

Like. Keyblade wielding space marines??? Scala ad Caelum in it's full 3D glory? THE OST???? AND ALL THIS FOR A MOBILE GAME THAT GOT CANCELLED?!!?

[ha-youwish]

the thing about bbs 0.2 is that the entire runtime was of a depressed woman monologuing somberly about where it all went wrong as she wanders through disney hell and is tortured by physical visions of her mistakes and her loved ones. and thats so fucking awesome we usually only get games like that about men who angst over their dead wives

[tobiasdrake]

Can you imagine being Gandalf? Getting shit from other wizards because you have a thing for hobbits and you're just like, okay. Okay, maybe I'll temper my fascination with hobbits.

This Ring quest will have two hobbits. Maximum.

Then they all get to Rivendell and have somehow multiplied into four hobbits. And it's like. Okay. Maybe the others are right.

Maybe this is too many hobbits.

We have as many hobbits as we have not-hobbits.

But damn it, you just don't want to get rid of any of these hobbits. Screw it! Everyone can deal. Four hobbits. This is a four hobbits problem.

So away you go.

And things go bad in the worst possible way.

Over and over.

You've lost your hobbits. You've lost yourself. The fellowship has been separated.

It takes everything in your power to help the humans defend themselves, bringing them together to save Rohan. Finally, as things begin to look upright, you're ready to face the war with everything the Rohirrim have left.

You're ready to face him. This may be the hardest battle you've ever fought. But you ride.

Then you get there and two of your fucking hobbits are sitting there like "Yeah, while you were gone, we raised a tree army and beat Saruman's ass. Wanna help us loot his tower?"

....

There were not, in fact, too many hobbits.

This was a four hobbits problem.

[elodieunderglass]

A wizard neither underestimates nor overestimates the number of hobbits needed for an equation. He, er, always has precisely as many as he needs to.

[apolladay]

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

* I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

*The King in Yellow

* The Lottery

* The Masque of the Red Death

* The Monkey’s Paw

* The Most Dangerous Game

* The Nameless City

* The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

* There Will Come Soft Rains

*The Yellow Wallpaper

* The Veldt

* “you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Which notorious English class short story fucked you up the most?

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

The King in Yellow

The Lottery

The Masque of the Red Death

The Monkey’s Paw

The Most Dangerous Game

The Nameless City

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

There Will Come Soft Rains

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Veldt

“you think those were fucked up? What about [X]!”

Voting ended onApr 30

[it-grrl]

Okay I have things I should be seeing to but I couldn't help myself. In case you, like me, have not read all of these stories and would like to be amongst the lucky 10,000 today:

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison

The King in Yellow by Robert W Chambers*

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson**

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard O'Connell

The Nameless City by HP Lovecraft

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas by Ursula K LeGuin

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Veldt by Ray Bradbury

Honorable Mention from the comments/reblogs:

All Summer in a Day by Ray Bradbury

*note: this is actually a collection of short stories and clocks in at about 72k words

**Originally published in the New Yorker in 1948; interestingly, the New Yorker still has this story archived on their website BEHIND A PAYWALL. CAN YOU IMAGINE.

[lost-tanuki]

Thank you so much for the links! That's awesome

[saltedweather]

If anyone's interested, The Screwfly Solution seems to fit with this list and it Fucked. Me. Up.

[and-fishing-equipment]

sorry but someone assuming you have "left a fandom" when you don't post about it a lot anymore feels like bilbo coming home to the sackville bagginses having him presumed dead and selling all his stuff. girl i was just on a little quest????

[ishipallthings]

[plaguedocboi]

So every year, my aquarium does a captive lobster hatchery project (hence all the loblings). The reason we’re doing it is because in the wild, loblings only have a 1 in 25,000 chance of surviving their larval phase. They’re plankton as babies and everything eats them. Additionally, as the Gulf of Maine warms, they are having even lower survival rates because the blooms of copepods they feed on as babies are happening earlier in the year, and they’re missing it.

Obviously, the goal of this experiment is to grow the lobsters until they’re big enough to settle to the seabed and then release them, because they have a much higher likelihood of surviving to adulthood when they’re able to hide. Ideally, captive lobster hatcheries can boost the wild population and keep things stable, so we don’t have a major crash in a decade or two.

The first year we tried this was pretty bad. We had a lot of eggs, but very few babies. It turned out that the CO2 levels in the building spiked as more guests visited throughout the summer, and that settled into the water and threw off the pH and caused a chemical reaction that prevented a lot of the eggs from hatching. I think we ended up releasing three baby lobsters (which is still better than their wild survival rate but not great).

The second year was a little better. We added a de-gasser to the aquarium and got a ton of larval lobsters, but right as they were settling to the bottom we had a disease outbreak that killed most of them. We ended up releasing four babies at the end of the season.

But this year? Oh boy. We have so many lobsters that we had to release the first round early (usually we wait till September or October so guests can see them). We just released a total of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE baby lobsters, and we still have over a hundred who haven’t settled to the bottom yet. I genuinely don’t even have words to explain how cool this is. OVER FIVE HUNDRED. We just added hundreds of lobsters to the wild population that wouldn’t have been there otherwise.

Conservation is so fucken sick

[shiruba-tsuki]

[dangermousie]

Ai Mi’s casting really doomed this drama.

I don’t mean from any moral police standpoint but from the point of it being good to watch.

This drama has the usual thin idol story and that’s fine. But it’s a costume idol romance with a thin story so it has to convey longing and yearning and desire even if it doesn’t convey lust the way eg Love in the Clouds did (LITC was paper thin but the insane sexual charge between the OTP carried the day hard.)

No, you can do it without kissing and make outs tho it’s harder (see One and Only or such dangai as The Untamed) but even there, where you have adult actors with adult life experience, you can convey emotional hot house of longing and an adult relationship.

Ai Mi is a literal child with a literal child lack of experience. And so it’s not just that they can’t have kissing and make-outs, they can’t and don’t convey any longing, yearning, desire, charge, passion or even enduring love.

And how can they? She’s at the age where you doodle names of your crush in a notebook. There may well be some actresses who can convey that sort of thing at 17 (there are plenty of teen moms around the world and stuff) but it’s not Ai Mi. She looks like a high schooler and comes across as a high schooler, because she is. She cannot convey anything but a high school crush and she’s not doing even that here.

And it’s exacerbated by the fact that HMH, beautiful as he is, is very much a man, he does not look in the least boyish (compare him to eg Win Win who to me looks like a kid and has that vibe.) And also, he cannot yearn at her, not the way a man yearns for a woman, whether because he’s uncomfortable or because he is smart enough to know the pitfall that would be.

So it just falls flat in vibe. They don’t have romantic moments when they should and when they try, it’s shudder inducing.

I mean:

Yeah, you are. You are looking at a literal child. I am getting the creeps.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You wake up as the protagonist of This Anime. How fucked are you? https://wheelofnames.com/qef-dsg

You have become the protagonist of this anime!

How fucked are you?

this is amazing actually!

This is good!

Eh it's okay

BAD.

SO BAD IM SO FUCKED.

I'm not the one who's getting fucked ;)

Results/other

Remaining time: 1 day 3 hours

[the-zenith-calls]

My favorite scenes in the LotR books are the ones where Legolas has vital information and just decides it's not important to share.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

Legolas please gain a sense of urgency

[knives-in-the-dishwater]

It's because legolas hasn't spent enough time with non-elves to remember that they don't know what he knows.

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

"I wonder what aragorn is listening for? must be hard to hear, what with all of the horses. How many horses are there, actually? 1... 2... 3..."

[taavicleric]

"What do your elvish eyes see?" is Aragorn saying, as politely as possible, "Because the REST OF US are at a significant disadvantage, Prince Dipshit."

[thetursithan]

In the 2000s, phones had quirks and class....

[alexaloraetheris]

In the ye olde days, when technology allowed phones to become small but there was no general concensus on what a phone should/ought to look like, it was like the wild west of phone design. The crazier it was, the higher the prestige. Phones back then did two things and they did them with flamboyance.

And then Steve Jobs ruined everything.