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EUINI in Witch Hat Atelier | 1.12: The Shadow of Romonon
Guys I'm serious who doomed my son? Who gave him the saddest, most pathetic little backstory and a stupid bowl cut and locked him in a room with a ticking bomb? Run Euini! The narrative is coming for you!!
Am I not immune to getting so into a character that it's slowly sliding away from the source material and becoming Something Else. Perhaps... but surely I'm doing it in an avant garde way that's chic and thought provoking
I'm doing things to bucky barnes that people who still engage with marvel media couldn't imagine. Not in a fanon way I'm a free thinker. After a certain level of rotating him in my mind a process occurred, like a centrifuge
You cannot talk me into watching thunderbolts I don't care. I have my Mind Bucky. It's like a mind cigarette situation. I quit marvel movies by watching my "mind movies"
The Guel Cycle
truly some people have no genre savviness whatsoever. A girl came back from the dead the other day and fresh out of the grave she laughed and laughed and lay down on the grass nearby to watch the sky, dirt still under her nails. I asked her if she’s sad about anything and she asked me why she should be. I asked her if she’s perhaps worried she’s a shadow of who she used to be and she said that if she is a shadow she is a joyous one, and anyway whoever she was she is her, now, and that’s enough. I inquired about revenge, about unfinished business, about what had filled her with the incessant need to claw her way out from beneath but she just said she’s here to live. I told her about ghosts, about zombies, tried to explain to her how her options lie between horror and tragedy but she just said if those are the stories meant for her then she’ll make another one. I said “isn’t it terribly lonely how in your triumph over death nobody was here to greet you?” and she just looked at me funny and said “what do you mean? The whole world was here, waiting”. Some people, I tell you.
Steve Rogers is Not a Himbo
I always find it odd when people refer to Steve as a “himbo” or make jokes about him being a “dumb jock” or whatever. I just… don’t know where that comes from?
In canon, Steve is really smart. It’s not just that he’s a “tactical genius”, we see over and over that he has great deductive skills, he’s observant, thoughtful, and knowledgeable, and he’s excellent at quickly assessing situations/people and figuring out a course of action based on that. Just a few examples off the top of my head:
CATFA:
manages to infiltrate a HYDRA stronghold, take it down, and save several hundred prisoners, BY HIMSELF
leads an elite team of five people to successfully take out more HYDRA bases
after the ice, he wakes up in a strange place and immediately figures out that it’s not New York and that the woman there is lying to him
The Avengers:
figures out Loki’s plan to use Stark Tower at the same time as Tony
finds SHIELD’s stash of HYDRA weapons (before Tony is able to find out what SHIELD is hiding)
makes pretty much all the leadership decisions during the Battle of New York, including the timing of when to close the portal
CATWS:
realizes that something hinky is going on with SHIELD, and connects it to the helicarrier project (which Fury hadn’t done)
is able to successfully figure out who can be trusted and who can’t (when even Fury put his trust in the wrong people)
realizes that the ambush in the elevator is going to happen before it does
figures out where the secret HYDRA bunker is at Camp Lehigh
comes up with the (ultimately successful) plan to take down the helicarriers
CACW
is the only person we see actually READ THE ACCORDS and make his decision based on that
figures out how to dismantle the Iron Man suit enough that Tony won’t be able to keep fighting
rescues his friends from the Raft, one of the most secure prisons in the world
I think maybe people confuse Steve’s rashness with stupidity, but… Tony Stark is arguably more rash than Steve, and no one argues that he’s not a genius. Steve doesn’t have a strong sense of self-preservation, and he tends to take risks– but his risks generally pay off, and when he does make a mistake, it’s usually because he’s in the grip of strong emotion (like when Rumlow mentions Bucky in CACW,). I think perhaps it’s easy to overlook Steve’s intelligence because it’s less flashy than some of the other characters’, and perhaps because he’s not an inventor or a scientist. But he is, in fact, extremely intelligent, and I think that deserves to be acknowledged a bit more often.
Caught Up On My Stories BTW. Handling It
How to get a visa-free permit to Wakanda
The way I’ve figured out how to frame my urbanist arguments to people irl who are scared of being forced to give up their cars or something is talking about the lack of choice.
The way that a lot of car centric cities are designed leaves no freedom of choice for how to get around. Isn’t that unfair?
In mostly pedestrian or transit centric cities like New York or Tokyo or something there are still people who own cars. It’s perfectly possible to get around with a car.
In fucking Houston or whatever though there isn’t much of a choice. If you don’t want to get around without a car you suffer. The environment is actively hostile and dangerous for you.
Shouldn’t people have choice in how they live their lives? Right now where I live public transit is something for the desperate. Not an everyday form of transit. Isn’t that bad? Isn’t that an injustice?
Should you be forced to take on the expensive burden of a car to exist in this city? Shouldn’t the disabled and the young and the poor also have an easy way of getting around?
Okay maybe you personally will never give up your car no matter what. Even if it becomes inconvenient. But what about everyone else? Isn’t it stupid that they have no choice? Shouldn’t there be options? Isn’t it infuriating that there’s a way to give people more freedom of choice in how they live their lives in this city and nobody is trying to improve on that?
anime is good actually
May 5 is Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women's Day. A reminder that 84.3 percent of native women have experienced violence. 56.1 percent of native women have experienced sexual violence. And the 3rd leading cause of death for native women is murder.
And they haven't even gathered significant information on native women living in URBAN areas. It could be much higher.
Dwell on this. Wear red.
as someone that works in science (biochemistry), but also participates in and deeply cherishes many forms of art, witch hat atelier is so so important to me. i strongly believe that all arts and sciences are inseparable mediums (in that science is a type of art, and art is a type of science, and neither is more important or impactful than the other) and wha is the perfect representation of that concept
to create magic in witch hat atelier takes immense dedication, creativity, and imagination, but the ink that powers their sigils is extracted through the practice of exceptionally thorough and precise chemistry. to spellcast is artisanal and dramatic, almost like a performance, but it also commands a sharp sense of philosophy and critical thought. to draw spells involves considerable artistic skill, but it also requires the specific and symmetric balancing of magical equations, not unlike stoichiometry. to be a witch is to understand the conservation of mass, chemical dynamics, and the innate physical processes, but it is also to know composition, aesthetic theory, and artistry much the same
there’s such a stigma around the codependency of art and science on one another (some stem students like to diminish those who work in the arts on the notion of intellectual superiority, and some art students similarly believe their work to be more significant than scientific disciplines entirely) that it’s incredibly refreshing and almost kind of poetic to get into a fantasy series whose magic system is centric on the combination of those fields. there’s a reason scientists and logicians who take pride in their crafts activate the same neural pathways as artists do while appreciating music and visual media. we wouldn’t subsist as a society without one another, and it’s nice to find a reminder of that in such a whimsical and compelling series like wha
hate it when a show is over like bro i was watching that
they're saying spending 2 hours in the word doc changing words slightly to be more specific and evocative and moving endless commas around is one of the most noble and respected things that you can do
Im listening to a podcast ep about AI usage and the guest is saying he completely understands why people refuse to use it out of fear because he shares the same fears, and it's just so weird to me that it's never ever acknowledged that some people don't use it not because they're afraid but because it just holds no appeal. There are things I'm sure learning models are very useful for but none of them have anything to do with me. Yes I'm a bit of a ludite but I completely failed to resist the lure of the phone, or social media, I've never used chatgpt because I have just never wanted to. I feel like the entire debate is instantly reframed once you acknowledge that it's not a necessary service that people either work to resist or avoid out of fear. For most people it's just an online tool, and for me and I know for lots of others too it's just not that important.
It's not that interesting or useful to me, it's holds no appeal, I am resisting nothing. I could already do everything I wanted I don't need a new tool. It really is that simple and I would feel this way even if it wasn't worrying and evil in various ways. We HAVE to resist this narrative that AI is everywhere because people want it, because it's necessary, because it's an improvement, because people can't live without it. AI is everywhere because tech CEOs and investors want to make something from their massive investments. It is incredibly resistable to me. Just don't have an interest in it. This needs to be part of the AI conversation if we have any hope of saving ourselves from the data mining clutches of big tech (AI specifics aside)
They’re the Avengers, they know what they’re doing.
