#cognitiveinequality

[mystery-moose]

cognitiveinequality replied to your post: I don’t talk much on here about my school or my...

That really sounds super fun, though! I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

eponymous-rose replied to your post “I don’t talk much on here about my school or my personal life (both...”

Okay, that sounds AMAZING.

servantofclio replied to your post “I don’t talk much on here about my school or my personal life (both...”

That sounds really awesome!

Yeah! It’s pretty darn cool! Maybe I’ll post pictures of my finished projects at some point. I’ll have to get permission,though -- two of them feature content that isn’t mine, and I don’t wanna spread people’s real human names around. I’m pretty proud of them, as crude as they are!

fistfulofgammarays replied to your post “I don’t talk much on here about my school or my personal life (both...”

I'm obviously biased, but your book arts courses seem rad as hell.

You super duper are biased, yes. ;D

But it helps that the professor is one of the most personable, interesting people I’ve met. He’s not gonna let you get away with murder, but he’s not a hardass either. He leaves the studio open for people in “the scene,” even when they’re not taking book arts that semester, but he expects you to clean up after yourself. He doesn’t dictate the form or function of your work, except when it’s required to learn an example. And he has a ton of real cool stories. A really disarming guy, and a big reason why I took the course to begin with!

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@cognitiveinequality replied to your post: What’s this??? I’m trying to actually respond to...

OH MY GOD Persuasion is the best… once you finish I HIGHLY recommend you seek out the 1995 filmed version with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds, because it is literally perfect THAT IS RIGHT I SAID PERFECT (disclaimer: i have not watched the 2007 film) :)

OH I KNOW I LOVE IT

I’ve read it several times. I have terrible insomnia, so my husband reads to me before bed (apparently his dulcet tones act as a soporific ;D). He usually reads me books I’m already familiar with (he has read me Pride and Prejudice SO MANY TIMES) because if I already know the text I’m more liable to fall asleep and not stay awake to see what happens. We learned that the hard way.

I love the ‘95 film. I quite liked the 2007 film, too, though it didn’t make as much of an impression. 

[mordinette]

cognitiveinequality replied to your photo “Peace, Life, and Recovery The war is over, but Shepard’s recovery is...”

Love these two, thank you for sharing! <3

Thank you! :)

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[cognitiveinequality replied to your post “Full offense but maybe if Christian America had more holidays to...”

This isn't even a far stretch — Europeans (and even Canadians) have quite a few more statutory holidays than USians, and there's virtually none of that Gender Reveal nonsense in those countries. I work with people from the US and there's like four fucking national long weekends a year, vs practically one a month other places. Bonkers, man.

this is really neat and now i’m looking up holidays that are celebrated in other countries but not the US :)

children’s day is looking good rn but it’s not gonna be enough!  if you can’t tell what month it is based off of the decorations in stores/friends’ homes then you don’t have enough holidays imo.  and i can’t figure out how to decorate for children’s day :/

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cognitiveinequality replied to your post “Peace, Life, and Recovery The war is over, but Shepard’s recovery is...”

I'm really enjoying this :)

Thank you! I’m so glad you like it! <3

[mystery-moose]

cognitiveinequality replied to your post: As soon as I finish this longfic I’ve been working...

this makes me so happy to hear

No promises! I want to make that clear! Absolutely no guarantees of anything!

But I was listening to the soundtrack from the suicide mission again and feeling some kinda way.

[servantofclio]

cognitiveinequality replied to your post “Could you do a friendship prompt between Garrus and Joker either...”

Man, I shouldn't read super short fic because all it does is leave me drooling for more :(

Ha, sorry! I do tend to use prompts as short warm-ups, partly so they don’t get completely out of control -- I have seen people write lengthy, loving, lavishly developed fics from prompts, and I have sometimes done that myself, but I also want to mix the fun of prompts with other ongoing writing, so I try to keep them a little bit leashed.

That said, though... there’s definitely more to explore with the particular characters of Garrus and Joker, whose friendship is potentially complicated.

If you check in with Joker early in ME2, after Garrus is recruited, he’s sarcastic about Garrus in a way which suggests they were not the best of friends in ME1. And there’s no reason they would be -- their areas of interest and expertise are fairly different, after all, and since Joker isn’t on the ground team, he’s not professionally required to work in close proximity to Garrus.

And yet, in ME2, there they both are: both former crew members who arguably did not deal with Shepard’s death terribly well, and/or had difficulties fitting into their work environment, and so they’ve both ended up on the SR-2. Changed, a bit worse for the wear in Garrus’s case, at least.

But even if they weren’t exactly friends before, it must be a bit of a relief to see the other person now, right? Someone who’s a bit of a known quantity in this new environment, someone who can be trusted to side with Shepard.

They might not exactly become best friends. Joker also seems to find Garrus a little alarmingly intense during ME2, and will probably always think that Shepard’s entire ground crew is nuts for their willingness to throw themselves into personal danger. But they clearly get to a point where they can stand around trading jokes about themselves, and each other (in ME3), in what appears to be totally friendly camaraderie. It seems to me that their experiences in ME2 must lead them to that place.

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What do you hate about driving?

I don’t have a drivers license so I only hate one thing about driving: ALL THE OTHER DRIVERS ON THE ROAD