ACE System

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[sysid-ace]

Are you, whoever runs this account, "TME" or "TMA"?

🌑 Well in the near future we intend to get a tattoo of

XY

🌑 on our body, and I leave the rest up to your vast deductive reasoning skills.

[discoursedrome]

knee-deep in a relatively staid online forum debate and someone quoted Legend of the Galactic Heroes to emphasize a point in the same way you'd quote, like, Tacitus. forced to conclude that yes, okay, fine, this is a thing that can happen now. LotGH is the Tacitus of anime

[artbyblastweave]

In the lead up to Superior Spider-Man I recall that there was this brief dolphin-dive into deconstruction in that the inciting incident is that Doctor Octopus is suffering terminal complications from the dozens of times he’s been punched in the face by incredibly strong men over the course of his supervillain career. And this to me runs into one of the pitfalls of trying to do deconstructive beats in a shared, ongoing setting where you don’t have total authorial fiat over how severe consequences are setting-wide. Because, you know, an enormous number of other guys in the supervillain industry have also gotten punched in the face a bunch of times by Spider-Man and company, and you know, for the most part they aren’t dying about it. Unless you’re implying that they are, and have been, retroactively implicating Spider-Man as written by everyone else this entire time as an unacknowledged mass-murderer- which obviously isn’t gonna stick. So in light of the “realistic” consequences manifesting so selectively I guess we’re forced to conclude that Otto just has a uniquely thin and pathetic skull, it’s just a him problem. Skill issue

[sysid-ace]

🌂 as ever, talking about Visual Novels online

the fandom views that second reading order as worse, but that conclusion is sorta groupthink-y, it totally has merits

[argumate]

[aorish]

so i looked it up lmao, apparently in #nolanodyssey the trojan horse caused the bronze age collapse

[sysid-ace]

🌑 What I'm coming to understand is that there's no way this movie can be wholly bad.

[aorish]

stop hating on crossdressing boys, we're all just crossdressing boys

[sysid-ace]

🌂 due to the mental state i am in this morning i cannot recall which sex all fetuses temporarily "are" before half of them then become the other in pop science canon

🌂 i'm sure you know which factoid i'm talking about

🌂 anyway, imagine i built on this post with a joke about that, whichever way round it is

[nem23]

[beefcliff]

a little comic(?) about holding back & being trans online

[thedogeveryonehates]

new fav video just dropped

[dragon-in-a-fez]

personally I'm annoyed by the socioeconomic conditions that made words like "unalive" necessary but simultaneously impressed by the linguistic adaptations young people have made to continue talking about important things while subject to those conditions and I think if you can't hold both of those thoughts in your head you might just be old man yelling at cloud

[a-wild-embubble]

Two of my niblings (10 and 7) self-censor like this in real life during actual conversations. I tried briefly to explain to the 10-year-old that they didn't have to do that in real life after they said "unalive" out loud in casual conversation, and they just said they preferred to. On the one hand, I'm sad to see them unconsciously and fully without awareness succumbing to the panopticon. On the other... this post.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

it's not unprecedented in the evolution of languages to see euphemisms adopted as synonyms or even supplanting earlier terms. lots of people say "passed away" even in situations where there would be no particular social cost to saying "died".

for a particularly strong version of this kind of replacement: the word "bear" comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "brown one" because there was a taboo against saying the animal's actual name. the taboo is gone but it was so strong in the past that we have no record of what the proto-Germanic word for "bear" even was.

maybe in 300 years the word "die" will be archaic and kids will dig it out of an etymology textbook and start using it because "unalive" is getting censored.

[luggifer4]

die has actually already undergone this process. die originally meant "flow" (i guess it's like you're flowing out of life or something? or maybe your life is flowing out of you idk). it was (probably) loaned from old norse to displace the now obsolete "swelt". and yes, that is the root word of "sweltering"

[dragon-in-a-fez]

[disquiet-dream]

Glitch: A Story of the Not

[sysid-ace]

🌂 come watch Russian Holmes with meeeeeeeee!!!

(link)

[sysid-ace]

🌂 i was told to be more chuuni on my blog by someone whose opinion I generally respect

🌂 unfortunately due to circumstances outside my control my baseline psychosis has been much higher this last week and will likely continue to be for another week, maybe two

🌂 and i think "posting chuuni on your tumblr blog" is something a medical professional would call "indulging delusions in excess" under these conditions

🌂 so,

[sysid-ace]

🌂​ grmbl​grmbl​FIGHT​button​grmbl​grmbl

[sysid-ace]

🌂 this is absolutely a stolen meme, but the person i'm stealing it from typo-ed it as "Asexuals people" so I think that makes it fair

[shuttershocky-deactivated202512]

Western passport holders will never understand. To go anywhere with a third worlder passport like a Filipino one, you need your tax returns, certificate of employment, bank statements, marriage certificates, sometimes a recommendation from a citizen of the country you want to travel to, everything possible to prove that you have a job and a family at home and you're not planning to be an illegal immigrant, JUST to get hit with a rejection because the embassy didn't believe you had enough proof.

Did you have travel plans? Already booked the plane tickets and hotels? Fuck you, better hope they issue refunds (they don't).

[bloodmech]

Americans and Western Europeans will never understand how insanely hard and bothersome it's to travel anywhere with a weak passport, let alone immigrate.

You want to study abroad? Show us proof that there is a quadrillion dollars in your bank account. Oh, an average monthly salary in your country is $400 and you plan to work when you arrive? You can't do that, silly, a student visa only allows you to work 2 hours every third Wednesday, and if we find out that you're working a second more we will deport you.

You want to work abroad? Better be a programmer, then of course you are welcome. Doctor, scientist, white-collar or, god forbid, blue-collar worker? You can fuck right off, your visa application goes straght into trash.

But if you marry one of our first-world citizens, then fine, you can come. Because we can't upset them, after all, they are a real person, unlike you.

[xantissa]

EU Advice to people who have friends in places with weak passports- go to your department of foreigners and ask for something that called Formal Letter of Invitation or something similar. It usually is called something similar and costs a few euro/whatever currency you have. It will not be more than a fancy coffee at Starbucks or such place.

You will have to prove that you can afford a guest, have some income and also usually take responsibility for possible deportation cost.

But if you really are inviting a friend over, they will give you a formal document you can send to your friend. Then the friend applies for a visa while attaching the Very Official document with it. They will get the Schengen visa and most probably will get it expedited too.

It's some effort, but if it's for a friend it's worth it. And it's way less costly than the ridiculous loops the friend is being forced to go through and pay for multiple 3rd party services just to get a freaking visa for a month.

[sysid-ace]

🌂 come watch Russian Holmes with meeeeeeeee!!!

(link)