something at work in my soul

cadence / Sammy, any. I post about fantasy novels, Pokemon, Splatoon, and Hermitcraft/Life series (yes all at once, sorry not sorry) and I'm really trying my hardest to achieve some ideal of goodness, however impossible it may be.

[onawhimsicot]

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I'm cadence / Sammy (any pronouns) The most important thing people should know about me is that I reserve the right to be a silly goofy little guy. Currently in the work + library grad school torment nexus so not super active atm ✌️

Ao3

Reading/Book liveblog tag: #reading log

[r00ib0s]

that's how i see them

[zoejayw]

Controlled burn

[shitpostingkats]

Olruggio was having a normal day three hours ago. He was coming home after a long day at work looking forward to seeing his husband best friend and eating a warm dinner. Pat the kids on the head and then go lie down. NO Qifrey says I have obtained another child she's a part of an active criminal investigation and a sign that I am dipping back into my worst destructive behaviors that you thought I'd set down years ago you have to be okay with this right now or else I'll lobotomize myself. Also there's a rat in the living room.

[spring-spite]

i love olruggio witchhat so much. he’s a sun-coded black cat. he’s a lethally chronic procrastinator. he’s a girl dad. he lies to the police. his magic is warm. his kids bully him and they’re right. he’s in a decade-long magically induced situationship, but he doesn’t know it’s cursed and he’s in it for love of the game. he’s lowkey a celebrity but chooses to live in a cottage on the countryside with said situationship and their four children. he sleeps on the couch. he was a crazy child. he’s a bit of a picky eater. he has chronic anemia and is two minutes away from passing out at all times. he hates hurting things so much that he struggles to kill a disgusting giant leech. he’s a burnt out gifted kid. he is begrudgingly excellent at one of his jobs and on-purposely atrocious at the other one. he has a baby face and is nearly unrecognizable without his beard. he carries an enormous, inexplicable guilt. he’s the sky’s kindest, most radiant star. he’s the perfect man

[neosatsuma]

[wolfythewitch]

Chords by the amazing devil

[meruz]

(5 years late, covered in sweat) GUYS.... I JUST PLAYED OUTER WILDS

[onawhimsicot]

me watching the pokemon NAIC stream today: "hm i would probably switch out into scovillain here to get some value out of spicy spray before it goes down" (*watches top level player do exactly that*) IM SO FUCKING SMART AND GOOD AT THIS GAME?? IM A GENIUS??

also me, actually playing the game a mere few hours later:

[agentrouka-blog]

One thing I really like about movie!Stratt is her leadership style. Which, I think, is pretty distinct from her book counterpart.

Because, basically, I'm not sure I find it realistic that a woman (or man) appointed to this role would last long if she was terribly abrasive or confrontational. It would be counterproductive and distracting for everyone involved. (It serves a purpose in the book, but I prefer how the movie did it.)

Movie!Stratt creates the appearance of being very consensus-oriented. She doesn't even acknowledge the concept of power games or sexism for that matter. Authority doesn't live in confrontation or visible status markers but in the visible support and deference of everyone around her, because she made sure they are all pulling in the same direction to begin with.

She's absolutely has a lot of power but she's keeping it understated. Nothing flashy. Business casual, always moving, flat shoes, calm voice, always questions, honest answers. She's consulting the room (while leading the conversation), she is to the point but reasonably polite, she works in tandem with others, creates a sense of shared experience. "Applause!" Carl knows exactly when to jump into the conversation while deferring to her authority, "Talk to her", "Just answer the question", "I would take the three". He clearly really knows her and can pick up his end of that game. The "We don't know" chorus. The "What's the alternative" centrifuge discussion. "Thank you so much" to the underling with the coffees. Seemingly flat hierarchies.

She lets people talk and then gleans what she needs. She gives credit.

Her job is to make the decisions and take responsibility, to keep the momentum going. People are unsurprisingly okay with handing it off. She points, they march.

No one considers opposing her because they all trust her. Because they feel involved in the process. It's not hard to ask, after all, when everyone knows what it's for.

Even in the end, she has the entire team on her side when confronting Grace with his choice. Because none of it is about power or ego. Only about the mission.

The lack of future international cooperation gets her most emotional utterance out of the entire film. "Which they won't."

At every point she is pulling for a team effort. And it works. (Except one time.)

I just thought that was really well done.

[onawhimsicot]

went to the library in order to Lock in and do homework to clear up my weekend, but immediately clickbaited because the NAIC livestream had wolfe on the thumbnail

[yuukei-yikes]

average highschool day for this quartet and their teacher dad

[yuukei-yikes]

kidomomo... or setomomo? it's kidomomo!

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[tall-grass-dweller]

the more things change...

... the more they stay the same.

[onawhimsicot]

i just watched wolfey's season 1 draft league video last night bc i wanted to put something on while playing pokopia, thought "That looks like so much fun to watch live, i hope he does that again sometime" and woke up to him livestreaming season 2 I WINNN

[sevserez]

Soldier, Poet, King

They’re on their way to Jade’s house btw.

[sevserez]

jade is also the one singing the song youre welcome

"there will come my bffs, o lei o lai o lord"

ps full animatic will be up on youtube/sevserez when its done