When you see a Prep in hottopic
“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”
why are people reblogging this again
this post is like 11 years old
WHY AREYALL DOING THIS
We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be
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When you see a Prep in hottopic
“This Prep is ready for war bring it you emo fuck”
why are people reblogging this again
this post is like 11 years old
WHY AREYALL DOING THIS
We’re all having a midlife crisis leave us be
hey
fuck you LOL
I could say more if I did a proper character analysis here but, for now, I’m just musing on how John Gaius absolutely captures a very specific kind of It’s Never My Fault guy.
And John is SMART and he’s good at talking and so he weaves it in so smoothly and like. His uninterrupted monologues in NtN absolutely make you want to be frustrated for him! That dude got put through the wringer!
And these parts are so Good to me because like, if you pay just a little bit of extra attention the patterns emerge. Everyone external to him and his group is an idiot, and can only be cast as such. And they’re stupid and scared and they Wrongly demonize John when he was only trying to help and wait John what was that part in the middle. Repeat that part in the middle. You did WHAT to the cops exactly.
HE never wants to be the Guy Who Says It. He wants to be liked too much. So he relies on people like P— and G— and A— and M— to say it for him. Negotiating for a nuclear warhead but HE John didn’t really wanna be a jerk about it you know? That was everyone else. The cows the cops the people who die on his compound are all brushed over or mocked. His sleepless mad actions, his raising of the dead, his setting off the nuke these are all just, actions. Unfortunate. Necessary. Of a guy who’s been having a REALLY hard time and has been victimized by EVERYONE and he really just wants to save the world, guys, if you’ll just LISTEN.
He’s gotta be the Funny Guy. Everything’s gotta be a Joke because, oh, was that bad? No, I was just joking, you’re taking it too seriously man chill out. He needs to be Liked he needs everyone to Like him and the biggest injustices he faces, in light of nuclear warfare and the eradication of humanity, is that people are being so mean to him.
And the closest he gets to letting flashes of his wrongdoing through are when it challenges his ego to deny it otherwise. Because he’s Smart and he’s Competent and you need to know and recognize and worship this. He didn’t kill all those cops by accident. “Come on, love. Guys as careful as me don’t have accidents.”
He’s just! He’s so! He’s entirely This Guy and he’s GOD. He’s bisexual he’s depressed he’s an obsessive Funnyman he’s blinded by his own ego he’s immortal he’s never to blame he’s more tormented than Jesus if you ask him and don’t ask the people he’s victimized in ways so much worse and he’s. LITERALLY. MADE HIMSELF GOD. I’m obsessed with him.
Something I keep thinking about is how a lot of people consider it a good thing that children cannot by themselves consent (or refuse consent) to medical treatments. Some people do kinda get it that maybe it might be a problem with stuff like kids not being able to access trans healthcare, or kids being refused vaccination by antivaxx parents. But in general I see that most people are actually okay with this idea for the most part.
And like... you do get that that is kinda insane, right?
Because this is something that so often leads to suffering. And I am saying this as someone disabled, who had so many issues due to this in his childhood.
Just three examples: when I was 7, I was supposed to get checked for autism. My mother did not want an autistic child. Since she just could have a "neurotypical" child by refusing diagnosis, she did just that.
When I was 12, my mother had decided I needed a certain plastic surgery (one that had a minor health benefit, but still was largely a beauty thing). I did not want it. I really, really did not want it. We still went through almost the entire process until thankfully there was a doctor who went: "Wait, this is elective. I am refusing to do this on a child that does not want it."
And when I was 14 my mother refused to get me to the hospital when I had severe food poisoning. She refused me hospital treatment for almost two weeks. By the time I got actually taken to the hospital I was almost dead.
And here is the thing: all of this should just not happen. The doctor when I was 12 was cool, but... he refused to do the surgery because he had the right to make a conscience call. Legally my mother was in the right to force me into that elective surgery. And that just should not be the case.
A lot of children die and suffer due to their legal inability to consent - or refuse consent - to medical treatments. And I wish y'all would understand that.
Whenever this is brought up, people will go: "Oh, but parents will decide what is best for the child." And here is the thing: No, they are not. There is so much stuff out there showing that indeed, a lot of parents suck at this. Some out of malice, some because they are religious nuts, and some because they literally treat their kids like some sort of doll or some shit.
There is a flip side to this, and I absolutely do not say this as a "gotcha," but rather as "there is no easy solution to this and we need to figure out a balance."
Consider: a parent takes a child in for a flu shot. The child is afraid it will hurt, so they refuse it. The child is now unprotected. If enough children refuse vaccination, we now have pandemics on our hands.
A child doesn't like the taste of their medicine (valid) and so refuses to take it, at all. Their illness gets worse.
A child has an accident that's not actually that bad from an adult standpoint but is horribly traumatic from a child's standpoint--let's say a broken arm. Touching the arm hurts horribly, but it can't be set or put in a cast without touching it. The child is still in hysterics because this is the worst thing that has ever happened to them, and injures themselves worse before calming down enough to consent to treatment.
Like yes, bodily autonomy is important. But a five-year-old has no frame of reference for how bad a lot of PCIs are, or what "antibiotic-resistant bacteria" means. A lot of kids that age have never encountered death. So how do you balance autonomy with "sometimes the kid doesn't know best either"?
I mean the antivax movement is spearheaded by adults. and plenty of adults outside of that also make arguably poor medical decisions due to ignorance or fear. but no one argues that their autonomy should be taken from them (well unless they're disabled then people love taking autonomy from adults). but because people think children are uniquely incapable of thought it's totally fine to say they shouldn't have final say over what happens to their own body. like sure children might not have the same frame of reference that an adult would have that just means you need to frame the pros of the medical procedure in a way they do have reference for. like I'm pretty sure most 5 year olds have had a bad cold at least once, so if you want them to get the flu shot but they're too scared, you explain that the flu is WAy worse than even their worse cold and the shot will take just a second and will protect them from getting the flu. will that work on 100% of kids? probably not but there are plenty of adults who also don't get flu shots even tho they medically can. because children are still people and can be reasoned with just the same as an adult can be, source, me I am a person who from the age of I think 5 or 6 developed a strong fear of needles, and hated having to get vaccinated, but my parents were very much in favour of their kids bodily autonomy so wouldn't have forced me to get vaccinated if I insisted after getting the explanation on why they were important. but the explanation worked, and even tho I hated (and still hate) needles I still got every vaccination I needed growing up even when I was single digits years old. (I know not every kid is me and this is purely anecdotal. but I still think it's worth bringing it up)
You're not wrong. I should note that I have a very specific frame of reference here: I needed sinus surgery when I was four. I didn't know what a sinus was. I didn't know what a surgery was. I'm not sure I would have been able to understand the concept, and the way surgery was performed at the time would have sounded like a big NOPE no matter how much you tried to make it accessible to me (today the same procedure uses lasers; at the time they had to put metal rods in your face). Not having it would very literally have killed me. I wouldn't have understood that concept, either.
So...what do we do in situations like that? This is why I say there's no easy answer. Does a four-year-old have a right to choose death when they don't even know what that means? Is allowing them to make that choice cruel or kind? Would they make the same choice if they had a better frame of reference? You see the problem.
I do see the problem yeah. I wonder if a good compromise is if the child refusing due to not understanding the concepts of what the risks are, would lead to their death if the final say should then be given to the parents. till the kid is a bit older, like maybe 6 or 7? tho that still feels wrong to me I do very much understand that both forcing a medical decision on a child, and letting them die just because they don't fully understand what death is so can't make a truly informed decision, is unfair to the child. yeah this is a complex difficult problem
this is where i always get stuck, myself. i have a neurodivergent kid. there are times we need to do things that they cannot stand, that overwhelms their senses, that to them is the worst thing on earth to ever happen to a child, and i physically cannot explain to them why it matters in a way that'll get them to do the thing with any degree of willingness at all (examples: dentist visits, vaccinations, occasionally rinsing off the top layer of filth)
i am all for reasoning with one's kid, and treating them like people, and respecting them. we do the best we can with kiddo, providing reasoning, explanations, context, to the best of our abilities. all of which fails when kiddo is firmly in "no" camp and yet they still have to go to the blasted dentist because they have a massive cavity
i find forcing kids to get elective surgeries appalling; i find "children should have perfect bodily autonomy" to be unrealistic to the point of absurdity
Something I keep thinking about is how a lot of people consider it a good thing that children cannot by themselves consent (or refuse consent) to medical treatments. Some people do kinda get it that maybe it might be a problem with stuff like kids not being able to access trans healthcare, or kids being refused vaccination by antivaxx parents. But in general I see that most people are actually okay with this idea for the most part.
And like... you do get that that is kinda insane, right?
Because this is something that so often leads to suffering. And I am saying this as someone disabled, who had so many issues due to this in his childhood.
Just three examples: when I was 7, I was supposed to get checked for autism. My mother did not want an autistic child. Since she just could have a "neurotypical" child by refusing diagnosis, she did just that.
When I was 12, my mother had decided I needed a certain plastic surgery (one that had a minor health benefit, but still was largely a beauty thing). I did not want it. I really, really did not want it. We still went through almost the entire process until thankfully there was a doctor who went: "Wait, this is elective. I am refusing to do this on a child that does not want it."
And when I was 14 my mother refused to get me to the hospital when I had severe food poisoning. She refused me hospital treatment for almost two weeks. By the time I got actually taken to the hospital I was almost dead.
And here is the thing: all of this should just not happen. The doctor when I was 12 was cool, but... he refused to do the surgery because he had the right to make a conscience call. Legally my mother was in the right to force me into that elective surgery. And that just should not be the case.
A lot of children die and suffer due to their legal inability to consent - or refuse consent - to medical treatments. And I wish y'all would understand that.
Whenever this is brought up, people will go: "Oh, but parents will decide what is best for the child." And here is the thing: No, they are not. There is so much stuff out there showing that indeed, a lot of parents suck at this. Some out of malice, some because they are religious nuts, and some because they literally treat their kids like some sort of doll or some shit.
There is a flip side to this, and I absolutely do not say this as a "gotcha," but rather as "there is no easy solution to this and we need to figure out a balance."
Consider: a parent takes a child in for a flu shot. The child is afraid it will hurt, so they refuse it. The child is now unprotected. If enough children refuse vaccination, we now have pandemics on our hands.
A child doesn't like the taste of their medicine (valid) and so refuses to take it, at all. Their illness gets worse.
A child has an accident that's not actually that bad from an adult standpoint but is horribly traumatic from a child's standpoint--let's say a broken arm. Touching the arm hurts horribly, but it can't be set or put in a cast without touching it. The child is still in hysterics because this is the worst thing that has ever happened to them, and injures themselves worse before calming down enough to consent to treatment.
Like yes, bodily autonomy is important. But a five-year-old has no frame of reference for how bad a lot of PCIs are, or what "antibiotic-resistant bacteria" means. A lot of kids that age have never encountered death. So how do you balance autonomy with "sometimes the kid doesn't know best either"?
I mean the antivax movement is spearheaded by adults. and plenty of adults outside of that also make arguably poor medical decisions due to ignorance or fear. but no one argues that their autonomy should be taken from them (well unless they're disabled then people love taking autonomy from adults). but because people think children are uniquely incapable of thought it's totally fine to say they shouldn't have final say over what happens to their own body. like sure children might not have the same frame of reference that an adult would have that just means you need to frame the pros of the medical procedure in a way they do have reference for. like I'm pretty sure most 5 year olds have had a bad cold at least once, so if you want them to get the flu shot but they're too scared, you explain that the flu is WAy worse than even their worse cold and the shot will take just a second and will protect them from getting the flu. will that work on 100% of kids? probably not but there are plenty of adults who also don't get flu shots even tho they medically can. because children are still people and can be reasoned with just the same as an adult can be, source, me I am a person who from the age of I think 5 or 6 developed a strong fear of needles, and hated having to get vaccinated, but my parents were very much in favour of their kids bodily autonomy so wouldn't have forced me to get vaccinated if I insisted after getting the explanation on why they were important. but the explanation worked, and even tho I hated (and still hate) needles I still got every vaccination I needed growing up even when I was single digits years old. (I know not every kid is me and this is purely anecdotal. but I still think it's worth bringing it up)
You're not wrong. I should note that I have a very specific frame of reference here: I needed sinus surgery when I was four. I didn't know what a sinus was. I didn't know what a surgery was. I'm not sure I would have been able to understand the concept, and the way surgery was performed at the time would have sounded like a big NOPE no matter how much you tried to make it accessible to me (today the same procedure uses lasers; at the time they had to put metal rods in your face). Not having it would very literally have killed me. I wouldn't have understood that concept, either.
So...what do we do in situations like that? This is why I say there's no easy answer. Does a four-year-old have a right to choose death when they don't even know what that means? Is allowing them to make that choice cruel or kind? Would they make the same choice if they had a better frame of reference? You see the problem.
I do see the problem yeah. I wonder if a good compromise is if the child refusing due to not understanding the concepts of what the risks are, would lead to their death if the final say should then be given to the parents. till the kid is a bit older, like maybe 6 or 7? tho that still feels wrong to me I do very much understand that both forcing a medical decision on a child, and letting them die just because they don't fully understand what death is so can't make a truly informed decision, is unfair to the child. yeah this is a complex difficult problem
Sudden brain blast over morning coffee:
John Gaius, necrolord whatever, cringiest man alive, refuses to let the earth die. And not just in the literal sense of locking the earth’s soul in a barbie on ice, in subtler ways too.
The most obvious is the memes, John constantly references memes that are dated even to us, but are in universe from a culture that died ten thousand years ago!
Slightly more subtle is the years. Why does everyone in the Houses measure in earth years? It’s been ten THOUSAND years since anyone lived on the earth! But John keeps them as a unit of measurement.
Even more subtle is the language. In sci-fi and fantasy we’re all used to the idea of the translation for the reader, people don’t speak english in lord of the rings, or dune, but the dialogue is in english for us, the readers. Not in The Locked Tomb. In this series, they ARE speaking english. Modern, bog standard english, to the point where two people born thousands of years apart speak similar enough dialects that one can pose as the other (dulcie/cytheria).
Now, this could possibly fall under that standard sci-fi trope, EXCEPT!!!! In Nona The Ninth, we see the non-house humans! And they speak dozens of languages, like you’d expect after TEN THOUSAND YEARS of linguistic drift!
John is trying SO HARD to keep the earth alive that he’s forced a language to stagnate for, say it with me now, Ten Thousand Years, to the point where even completely new things with no equivalent in our world don’t even have new words, just repurposed old ones (flimsy, sonic).
John Gaius, the first necromancer, could resurrect the planet itself, and millions of people, but he couldn’t resurrect the culture. So, John, cryogenics researcher, tried to put the culture on ice, to keep it as close to the one he remembers as possible. And he still failed.
I miss when ads were a single click and then they’re gone. Now every ad has a minimum of three phases where you watch a video, exit the still frame of fake gameplay, and then exit the app download. That doesn’t even touch on the ones that forcibly take you to another app after opening a tab in safari without you ever touching the screen.
I hate advertising. I hate that you can’t do anything without companies jumping down your throat with mostly bullshit ads. I hate that billboards exist. I hate that every company unanimously decided to make their ads longer and longer. I hate that ad blockers try to charge you money and there are in app purchases to remove ads. I hate that my attention has become commodified. I hate that there’s nothing I can do about it.
I saw a post saying that Boromir looked too scruffy in FotR for a Captain of Gondor, and I tried to move on, but I’m hyperfixating. Has anyone ever solo backpacked? I have. By the end, not only did I look like shit, but by day two I was talking to myself. On another occasion I did fourteen days’ backcountry as the lone woman in a group of twelve men, no showers, no deodorant, and brother, by the end of that we were all EXTREMELY feral. You think we looked like heirs to the throne of anywhere? We were thirteen wolverines in ripstop.
My boy Boromir? Spent FOUR MONTHS in the wilderness! Alone! No roads! High floods! His horse died! I’m amazed he showed up to Imladris wearing clothes, let alone with a decent haircut. I’m fully convinced that he left Gondor looking like Richard Sharpe being presented to the Prince Regent in 1813
*electric guitar riff*
And then rocked up to Imladris a hundred ten days later like
Some people have been wondering about the raccoon. Listen. Listennn. Don't ask about the raccoon.
But does the racoon survive the Uruk-Hai? Does he curl up on Aragorn's head, or does he go straight to Faramir? Does he bite Denethor?
My friend. My colleague. My brother my captain my king. I too have been pondering this question, and in my mind there can be only one ultimate outcome.
A few months later
All hail the High Warden of Gondor.
Epilogue: It ADORES Faramir.
the locked tomb is one of my favorite series ever in recent history and the horrific, agonizing grief and loneliness that permeates every scene is deepened for me when you realize the humans that still exist worship john gaius only because he is their only context for humankind.
all culture, language, style, religion, dance, music, food, philosophy, art, and music are gone, save for what is filtered through his experience. most if not all of the main cast are māori but they have no thread connecting them to their cultural experience except for john gaius.
the narrative is haunted by the entire world and i can confidently say i have not experienced many pieces of fiction even in apocalyptic future settings that communicate that so effectively.
It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.
#i don’t think this is what pterry meant by ‘a man’s not dead while his name is still spoken’
I absolutely think it is
I read Jingo for the first time when I was 13.
I’m 33 now, and I still discover a new joke every time I reread it.
Terry was a comedic genius
#shoutout to the one in Soul Music about the leopard that got thrown out of the circus because it couldn't hear the ringmaster#it was several months after my second or third time reading the book that I clocked it was a Deaf Leopard (via @morkaischosen)
god DAMMIT
When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.
...are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.
*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*
get out here Terry I just wanna talk
Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.
In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u.
The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.
OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW
I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.
guys it's fucking close to water
Latinclass ca. 9th grade: the text we had to translate contained the words trans means "on the other side of" or in german it can be translated to "über/ hinüber". Also silvas; silvanis means "the forest" or in german "der Wald".
Trans silvas very simply translated into german would be über den Wald
Trans silvas -> Transsilvanien -> Überwald
My latin teacher gave me a very weird look as I suddenly facepalmed myself and groaned quietly.
The Venturi and Selachii feud is what killed me when I got it.
The Venturi Effect is a scientific term referring to the acceleration of a liquid through a narrow tube (like a jet).
Selachii is a classification of sharks. (I discovered this when my stepson got really into sharks)
... fucking HELL Terry.
In Carpe Jugulum, Count Magpyr boasts of having helped write the Malleus Maleficarum, along with the Torquus Simiae Maleficarum, the Auriga Clavium Maleficarum, and in fact the entire Arca Instrumentorum.
The Malleus Maleficarum is a very real, very nasty and absolutely batshit insane book from late 15th-century Germany, basically laying out the procedure for catching, torturing, and executing witches. Its title translates to The Hammer of Witches. The other titles are Pratchett's inventions.
Malleus = "hammer" Torquus Simiae = "monkey wrench" Auriga Clavium = "bucket of nails" Arca Instrumentorum = "box of tools"
I was today years old...
Genuinely evil and dark-sided to put the periods between the letters in "milf" and "dilf." Like what is M.I.L.F. that is a supervillain organization composed entirely of cougars. Whoa that's a great idea actually post canceled hold on
DONT ask why corvid isnt wearing a shirt bc the answer is embarrassing. (i forgor to draw it)
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/#fnref:3
Guys, we've talked about this.
You need to give your domesticated wading ghosts larger death pools. I understand if you can't find a real Well, but you need an enclosure at least 5 times the size of the spirit itself.
Thank you for the PSA, and it’s certainly good advice! I am happy to report that in this particular photoset we’re looking at a temporary holding tank, possibly being used to keep a lab employee safe during a routine water test. There is a strict no-shared-space policy for outside contractors at reputable spirit preserves, both to keep the ghost from becoming frustrated at its inability to approach what it perceives as prey, and to ensure the safety of outside parties. Training sessions focusing heavily on positive reinforcement are used to get the ghost accustomed to the holding tank as well as short trips between the pond and an appropriate secured location. Many health checks and enrichment activities can be conducted directly at the water source, but sometimes a more controlled environment is required. Please be assured that the ghost in the photographs is doing ‘well’. ☆⌒( ^ ▽ ゜)
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“I often wonder if I should’ve been born in another time.”
#okay i need a minute here #i LOVED this scene #because at first i thought all it was was a cheeky nod to canon #oh har har what if he’d lived 200 years ago isn’t that funny #but it’s not JUST that #this is something that seems to have genuinely kept him up at night #something he almost seems to long for; something he wishes he could know for certain #and it’s something deeply personal. he doesn’t just brush it off as bullshit like he did his anders reveal in 1x03 #(that we later learned was partially the truth in 2x04) #listen to how upset he gets when he says he never would’ve spoken up if he knew the meeting had been compromised by mycroft #this is such a difference from sherlock using his NA meetings to practice going into a trance state #such a difference from regaling everyone with the story of the blue carbuncle rather than talking about his addiction #and you know what broke my heart the most? #200 years ago? … he was still the same addict he is here.
Those copy pasted tags are SO correct. This is part of why I love Elementary. They cared so much about the characters, their thoughts and actions, it made them so much deeper.