#dude1818

[clonerightsagenda]

dude1818 I figure seeing ghosts was a genetic thing the toudens have

Given the way their father behaves I'm now imagining that he also sees ghosts but just decided not to mention it the way Laios ignored it for like 6 episodes

[zenosanalytic]

Reply-Reply to dude1818: Numbers Game

dude1818

If someone writes out all the zeroes in million or billion, it's basically guaranteed to be propaganda

XD I never thought of it like that, but that’s actl a pretty good tip, so thank you for it :p :p

[mathprofessorquotes]

You all remember the egg, yes?

Classical mechanics professor

[magicjudge]

Does the M20 card Mystic Forge work with morph? Or does it check the color of the card as it exists in your library, before you put it on the stack face down?

Yes, you can do this.

The morph (or megamorph) ability of the card allows you to cast it face down as a colorless card and Mystic Forge allows you to cast colorless cards from the top of your library, so the two abilities in tandem allow you to cast that morph card face down from the top of your library, no matter what its printed colors might be! Cool!

[hunterinabrowncoat]

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“I think a huge part of the ignorance about aromanticism is that people...”

This description of a QPR 100% applies to romantic relationships though. In what way is it different?

I’m assuming that you’re asking in good faith, so I’ll give as thorough answer as I can.

The term ‘QPR’ was coined to describe a relationship that isn’t romantic in nature, but exists beyond the boundaries of what most people would define as typical friendships. They’re different to romantic relationships, because the people in them don’t have romantic feelings for each other, or a desire for romance. The term was coined because describing somebody as a ‘friend’ just because you’re not romantically involved with one another, doesn’t really accurately portray the kind of relationships some ace and aro people have.

And also because many behaviours that would be considered perfectly normal if you define you’re in love with each other, but be considered bizarre, even unhealthy, if you’re not. For example, friends are expected to have independent lives, while it’s considered normal for romantic partners to share almost every aspect of their lives - their living space, their bank account, their bed, their bodies, their time etc. Similarly, if I said my wife has just got a job in Europe, so we’re selling the house and moving in a few months, nobody would see it as strange. But if I told people that my friend has just got a job in Europe, so naturally I’m selling my house and giving up my whole life here and moving country just so that I can continue our friendship without being long-distance, people would consider it strange, probably even toxic to be so dependent on another person and our relationship. “You can’t have sex with someone else or another romantic partner while we’re together” is a pretty normal statement, agreed upon by pretty much every monogamous individual. But “you can’t have other friends who you’re as close to as you are with me” is considered unhealthy, manipulative, even abusive.

By and large, romantic relationships differ from friendships not just in the feelings that people have for one another, but also in the intimacy, the priority, and the exclusivity they have. Here’s a list of typical traits commonly found in romantic relationships (though by no means does every romantic relationships have to fulfil all of these, nor does the presence of any of these things mean a friendships automatically becomes romantic, these are just typical traits):

Exclusivity

Priority

A level of physical intimacy that isn’t often found in typical friendships (like sharing a bed regularly, sitting on one another’s lap, lack of personal space etc.)

A sexual element to the relationship

Sharing on a level that isn’t often found in typical friendships (such as sharing finances, property etc.)

Having and raising children together

Co-dependence

Usually, especially when a relationship is serious, romantic partners’ lives become so intertwined they might almost seem inseparable. I mean that’s one of the main points in marriage vows - ‘what’s mine is yours’.

But it’s possible to want some or even all of those traits in your relationship with another person, without having any romantic feelings for the other person. You can want to share your life with somebody else (in a way that isn’t typical of friendships) without being in love with them.

There is an intimacy, a trust, a kind of partnership and reliability that we expect from romantic relationships - desires or needs which aren’t fulfilled by friendships. And aromantic and asexual people can desire some of those traits, can desire the things that you get out of those relationships, without having any desire for a romance or sex.

You can have somebody in your life that you want to put first above all others, you want that relationship to take priority, you want to live with them and you like being physically intimate with them like sharing a bed. You can want all that without being in love with them, and without necessarily wanting all of the other traits commonly found in romantic relationships. Closeness doesn’t necessarily equal romantic inclinations.

QPRs are relationships that exist somewhere between the common boundaries of typical friendships or romantic relationships. They exist in the grey area. Because those two words just aren’t enough to encapsulate the diversity of our experiences. And they come in many forms - for some people their partnership might have almost all the traits of a typical romantic relationship, they just don’t have any romantic feelings for one another. For another person, their QPR might be that they are housemates, and they share a bank account and are raising children together.

[elfstuck]

Audio posts may be easier for you to make, but it also ruins the accessibility of your blog. I don't personally *require* text posts, but audio posts are an order of magnitude more difficult to consume as an audience. (But also, yay you're back!)

I’m very aware of accessibility issues with audio posts. I’d want to find a transcription program - I remember running across one a few years ago but have lost it now (gah) that would attempt to auto-transcribe, and then I could add sentence breaks & other punctuation as needed.

I’d love to find auto-transcription software for other reasons; recently, all I find when I go looking is “how to set captions on Youtube” (I don’t want to upload to Youtube) and “transcription programs with start/stop features” so you can type out the text. Very little that will take sounds and convert to text and then let you edit.

Aside from “being accessible to a wide audience,” I rarely listen to audio online and would drop anything I was subscribed to that switched to sound only, so I’m not likely to do that.

Sound + auto transcription + formatting would be easier for me than typing the posts from scratch; I’m quick with formatting, and it uses a different part of my concentration.

[markrosewater]

What are some of the most *unusual* cards you've been asked to sign?

Playing cards.

[nora-reads-homestuck]

I think Hussie was going for a time dilation thing with the 3 years to cross the yellow yard, but in reverse. Traveling at 99% light speed, time slows down by 86%. Light takes 3.05 ns to cross a yard; Hussiebot sees them take 3.08 ns; they should only experience 0.43 ns. He just picked 3 years to match it back up with the audience's time.

That’s fair enough, it’s just… man. Why not make the distance 3 lightyears somehow, rather than literally reverse physics? Or lampshade the inconsistency, and turn it into a lol?