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[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[wordfather]

i am not immune to a well choreographed fight scene with a fun song in the background

[mephistopheles]

being single sucks [remembers that romantic love isnt the gleaming beacon of salvation that will fix the chasm within me] #mychasm #isupportmychasm [remembers not to trivialize my emotions] but it is painful to never have been deemed worthy of that kind of lasting love [remembers how many incels there are] but honestly you should be totally self-sufficient and never want anything ever [remembers that im evil] im evil

[boringkate]

When I was a kid watching tv was idiot coded and nerds read books, but now scrolling shortform videos is considered braindead behavior and watching tv means you're some kinda intellectual. You might think this shifting assessment of media's consumers might make readers into absolute super geniuses, but no. Only perverts read now.

[taibhsearachd]

To everyone who is feeling a little sad right now... close your eyes. Hold out your hands.

I am gently offering you Ring with Cat and Kittens, 1295–664 BCE.

[taibhsearachd]

If everyone who reblogged this post emailed the Met to complain about it I bet we could change that….

[maemaybe]

I don't know who my intended audience is here, so whoever needs to hear this, I am begging you to learn to participate in conversations that are about things you aren't interested in.

Part of socializing and having friends is being a good listener even when you don't actually give a shit about the subject.

Your are hurting other people's feelings when you bluntly respond with "Anyway..." and then change the topic.

It can not always be about your preferred topic.

You are being rude. Yes, even if you are neurodivergent. You can be both autistic and rude.

[takemeapartputmebacktogether]

Hey! Hi! Howdy!

Autistic mom of two autistic kiddos here. I do something with my kids called playing the good friend game. I have them ask me a question like “what did you do this weekend” and then I respond with something they don’t like ie: “I ate some sushi for dinner on Saturday! It was delicious!” Their job is to not make a gross face and not to yuck my yum. They have to ask me a follow up question! Minimum one about what I liked about the sushi or who I went with or what I ordered etc. and they have to be kind. I change up what I answer with for the initial question and for all follow ups. It’s incredible!

You can learn how to chit chat about things because you care about the people around you. Small talk is banal and boring but the people in your life are real and lovely and nuanced. Get to know them. You can do it. You’ll build relationships that last. Don’t do it for the sake of small talk. Do it because you’re deeply invested in learning how to see the people around you as whole pictures.

To be seen is to be know. And to be known is to be loved. Love the people around you and that love with come back to you.

[phantomrose96]

It just really gets to me that 10 year old Mob walked into Reigen’s office looking for anyone who could give him advice about his powers that are scaring him. And Reigen looked at him and went “This baby child is absolutely delusional, but he looks like he needs someone to say something important to him right now.” And Reigen spun up some bullshit on the spot that became the guiding compass of Mob’s life.

And it’s very important to clarify that Reigen did not -accidentally- give Mob good advice. Because one of Reigen’s most distinct traits is his ability to come up with genuine advice and tell people what they need to be told. But he’ll do this on the spot. He’ll do it wrapped in bullshit. He’ll camp it alongside some conman string. He’ll go along with anything. He’ll pretend anything is true. The grift is, in fact, integral of it.

And I love this dichotomy in him because he’s so precariously set up at all moments to topple. For anyone to call him on his bullshit and use that to dismantle everything he’s said. He was lying. He was scamming you. He was using you.

And yes, he was. But it wasn’t really for service of the con. It was for service of the customer, who needed to hear something important.

A terrified 10 year old walked in because his powers had just hurt his little brother and he was feeling so alone in the world and so dangerous and so scared. And Reigen saved him the way Reigen does best.

[lurkmastery]

Reigen is a special guy nobody does it like him. What's he doing, you ask? Nobody knows. Including Reigen. but heck if he's not putting his heart and soul into it.

There's a line he gives Mob right after the LOL arc that sticks with me, it comes on the tail of him confirming that Mob is catastrophically inept at reading the room and hearing him out about the "damage" he caused by spoiling the mood of a happy cult.

“Today you saved some people that only you could have saved.”

Pointing out that the weird and inconvenient and frustrating parts of himself are what allowed him to be a hero to people who couldn't be saved by normal means. His inability to match the energy of the cultists led to Dimple showing his true nature, and ultimately to his downfall. It wasn't just Mob's psychic powers that made rescuing them possible, it was his social incompetence.

Reigen on the other hand, is socially overcompetent. Every interaction, no matter how absurd and outlandish and unbelievable and hysterical and stupid, gets his full attention and is treated with the same level of seriousness and gravitas as buying a used car. He makes people feel heard, because he is, in fact, listening with the utmost care. So he can sell them the top-of-the-line century-old jalopy of their dreams for a ridiculously reasonable price. Which will bring them peace and happiness because it's exactly what they need.

Reigen's ability to bullshit just what people need to hear is what allowed him to help Mob in his time of crisis. He thought this little kid was utterly bananas, but he recognized that the distress was very real, and cooked up a rudimentary life lesson on the spot to comfort him that was specifically, perfectly crafted to fit his imaginary psychic situation.

And when the situation ended up being entirely real, the fake advice Reigen cobbled together on a whim is what stopped Mob from spiraling. Nobody else could have done this, because nobody else would have treated his "absurd" fears seriously.

He was in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills to save someone that only he could save.

Reigen is a special guy.

[lesblackwidow]

reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.

take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.

a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.

GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!

[theprofessional-amateur]

Many libraries also have passes (sometimes called Culture Passes) for museums, zoos, and other such places you can check out for free with your library card. Ask your local library!

[ladyofthehouse]

Museum worker here:

We genuinely LOVE first time museum goers and will pretty much bend over backwards to make sure you feel welcome, and like you're part of art and history. If you let someone know it's your first time at a museum, chances are their eyes will light up, and you'll get "These are my favorites" or "Oh, here's a little secret" and most likely a "thank you for choosing US!"

Genuinely, part of the job is to make visitors aware that museums are for everyone, and we're all part of this human story.

[delgrosso]

Back in my museum days, I rarely got to talk to patrons because I was an archivist and therefore not in the patron-facing part of the institution. Some of my archival colleagues dreaded having to talk to visitors, but I actually loved it. When I would walk through the public areas of the museum, I'd often carry an artifact with me at random, just to invite conversation. I'd stop and look at something on a gallery wall and a patron would say, "oh what's that you're holding?" and I got to say "oh, this? This is a reel of the original Technicolor negative of The Wizard of Oz," and they would go ooooh and then I got to spend ten minutes excitedly explaining the Three-strip Technicolor process to someone who didn't ask, which made me happy, and made them feel like they'd gotten some secret behind-the-scenes knowledge that no one else got.

tl;dr museums of any kind are not ivory towers – go enjoy exhibits, but also talk to anyone and everyone working there! No one will stick their nose in the air because they know more than you; they work there because they are amazing and very approachable nerds who will spend their entire day info-dumping to you and it's wonderful.

[areweperfectlywhelmedyet]

@delgrosso YOU GOT TO CARRY AROUND AN ORIGINAL TECHNICOLOR REEL OF THE WIZARD OF OZ?????

Please explain the three-strip technicolor process!

For me this is like finding out someone had the holy grail in their care.

[delgrosso]

Ok, I forgot to add a photo to my reblog, but to be fair I was talking more about the museum experience and used the Technicolor reel as an example. But here is one reel:

The three strip technicolor process (and here I am massively oversimplifying because I could write about this for hours and also don’t @ me because I do know what I’m talking about) required a custom camera, which was GIANT and FUCK-ALL HEAVY. The camera processed three strips of standard black and white (monochrome) film when exposing, with a beam-splitter sending the light through a prism and filters to each strip simultaneously.

This, obviously, required a shit-ton of light on the sets in order to get the right exposure for each strip. One strip would go through a green filter, so that only the green part of the spectrum was exposed on the film. The other two reels were sandwiched together and filtered only for red and blue (but not just with filters; there was a chemical process used to treat the raw film for each color in order to make it sensitive to certain parts of the spectrum).

In the printing process, the reels had to be specially processed by imbibition (a suuuuper complicated chemical dye-transfer process) in order to put the three color channels together and make one master color print for duplication.

If you’re at all interested in mechanical engineering or chemistry or just film in general, it’s an absolutely fascinating process to learn about.

[spaghettiwoman46]

Ugh they are always doing this

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

Little freaks

[mikkeneko]

I've seen a few posts speculating on what might have happened in Shen Yuan had transmigrated into Mu Qingfang instead of Shen Qingqiu. Many fun ideas, but it got me thinking about how I would do this scenario.

The first thing that would happen would be that SY would declare that since MQF is not doomed by the plot/is only an NPC, he therefore doesn't have to make any changes and indeed shouldn't get involved with matters of import at all since he's only a minor background character. He can just kick back and relax in his new xianxia life, and get a front row seat to Luo Binghe's rise to power and conquest.

That would last approximately two days.

If we're still assuming that SY was a NEET or (even worse) a business major in his first life, then he would have no relevant medical expertise whatsoever. While I do think having a vague understanding of human anatomy and modern sanitary practices would help him, in the same way having a vague understanding of modern education helped him as SQQ, that is really not a substitute for the level of expertise Mu Qingfang is supposed to have. The first time he gets confronted with a severely wounded patient he doesn't know how to save, he goes into a panic and has to beg the System for a skill patch/easy mode/universal cheat elixir to pull them through.

After this, he starts to take his position as Medical Peak Lord more seriously and goes into a major skill grind/level up montage. He emerges from it with enough of an understanding of the applicable medical theory, plus whatever he knows from the modern world, plus what he remembers about flora and fauna and bullshit magical elixirs from the novel, plus his own problem solving skills, that he can at least get by as Mu Qingfang without putting patients in danger.

(Honestly he probably could stop there, but will he? No! Mu Qingfang is not just a decent doctor, he is the best doctor! Never mind that MQF was only brought up in the book in order to show himself useless against the power of Luo Binghe's miracle blood slash healing D. No, he absolutely must be The Best Doctor In The World or else he will not get a good grade in transmigrating, a thing both possible to achieve and normal to want.)

At any rate, SY eventually emerges from a study-fueled haze after a period of months or years to realize that Oh Shit, He's Invested Now. How is he supposed to live up to his self-assigned achievement not letting any of his patients die if Luo Binghe razes the mountain?! He's got to intervene now.

Fortunately, SY knows exactly what he needs to do. He's gotten to know Cang Qiong enough to know that it's pretty decent, actually, it's really not the corrupt institution that justified burning it down in the book, it's full of ordinary people just doing their best. There's really just one little tweak that needs to be made, one little alteration, one minor edit is all that stands in the way of Luo Binghe having a happy life and career as a Cang Qiong cultivator.

He just needs to kill Shen Qingqiu.

(cont...)

[desinteresse]

Men who talk shit about gold diggers underestimate the grit it takes to put up with an insufferable man, even when money is involved. We should be thanking them for their service like they are veterans.

[little-trash-ghost]

Can't leave this in the tags..

[pangur-and-grim]

I won't publish the ask (they asked me not to), but I thought I'd still answer it publicly!

no, royalties are not a significant source of income for most authors. if you wrote something like Project Hail Mary, then absolutely, the royalties would be substantial! but that's like winning the lottery. Ryan Gosling is not starring in the movie adaption of most books.

when you sell a book to a publisher, you get what's called 'an advance against royalties'. it's usually split into multiple parts, so you might get one third for the initial sale, one third for the final revised manuscript, and one third on the publishing date.

an advance against royalties is the publisher saying "we believe you will eventually make X amount in royalties, so here it is ahead of time." and then you don't actually see any money from royalties until the advance is paid off. most books do not make enough in royalties to pay off the advance (I have two children's books and one fiction book, and have yet to see royalties for any of them).

advances are still great, but you need to make them stretch! for instance, last year my net income was about 30k Canadian (21k USD), which is fantastic when you consider that I mostly made it through writing. but I'm definitely not a millionaire. I can live off my writing (not trying to undersell that!) but I'll probably remain in a low income bracket for the foreseeable future.

this isn't meant to discourage anyone from seeking out writing as a career! however, there is a reason that many authors have alternate jobs with writing on the side. or, you know, rich spouses.

[pangur-and-grim]

this isn't me making a fuss about pirating (I've pirated way too many shows to run my mouth on that lmao), but there IS actually a financial incentive to having people buy your books!

buying books shows the publisher that they can make money off you, which means they're more likely to give you advances for future books. and advances are what authors live off (if they don't have a side job). that's why I always push pre-orders so hard! you have to be a racehorse worth betting on, or else they send you to the glue factory....

if I can offer one alternative to pirating: asking your library to stock the book also helps authors, and doesn't cost anything. the only downside is the patience required.

[pangur-and-grim]

OOPS yes, @stjohnstarling makes a good point! everything I'm saying is from the perspective of traditional publishing, but it's a very different game if you're a self-published author

[gollancz]

I will also add that this is why pre-orders can make a HUGE difference to authors - because if there's enough hype, publishers can pull more levers to build that momentum and reach more readers to help authors earn out their advance faster.

[damnhotpocket]

Gema.piano on instagram

Why are all music teachers like this 😭😭😭

[communeist]

THEY ARE

[crematedequally]

when i was 8 i had a very intimidating russian woman as a music teacher- she was both my opera instructor and piano teacher. about a month into piano, she sat me down and said to my mother and i "this child- very beautiful voice, good for singing. i will not allow this child to continue piano. god did not want this child to play an instrument. he told me this in dreams. that is all."

my mom had it written down on a slip so we could remember the exact words because it was so funny. i HATED playing piano and i was definitely not good at it (i did end up having a good 5 years of opera training and ended up being a pretty accomplished choir singer though) and the idea of god sending my incredibly severe and serious russian piano teacher a dream begging her to stop teaching me piano was probably the funniest way it could have gone.

[papayafromtv]

after Jason reveals his identity as the Red Hood i like to think about the kids begging for Jason to hang out with them and rejoin the family and that but Jason’s being a little bitch about it so when Dick asks for his phone number he just throws an ouija board at him and says ‘i’ll sense it’

issue is that while slightly drunk and sad that his brother hates him, Dick decided to try it out, and Damian watching him through a crack in the door thought it would be funny to text Jason (because he actually does have his league bro’s number) about it so that Jason could maybe mention it the next time they see each other on patrol to freak Dick out, except Jason was working not too far from the manor at the time and he thought it would be even funnier to swing by, slam up against the window and scream through the glass ‘STOP FUCKING DRUNK TEXTING ME’ and absolutely scares the shit out of Dick. so now Dick thinks that ouija boards actually work on Jason because he’s still part ghost and Jason and Damian are scrambling to try and keep up the ruse because of how funny it is.

[ozzyfromscotland]

dick: "jason can you come over i miss you :("

jason: climbs through window, moves the planchette to 'no', climbs back out the window

dick: "no fucking way"

[scienceviewscreen]

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 6/?

Bonus:

[amazoogle]

it's Tuesday all day today and there's no known way to prevent this

[puppetmaster55]

suddenly thinking about the courtroom scene, of Stratt being accused of pirating literally everything, and Grace later having everything in the various computers aboard his ship that he gave a copy to Rocky without issue, and the beetles having such a massive memory capacity and...

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Just.... she pirated everything, and put it all on the Hail Mary.