bluefall

nerd, intersectional feminist, too old for this shit

[fakelawyerbug]

Okay so more thoughts on the Jinu-sized elephant at the end of the movie;

(And like I get that tonally, the movie as is can't really support addressing the hundreds/thousands of dead people but like... *why did you have your main love interest kill hundreds/thousands of people if you weren't actually going to do anything with it*)

And like, the movie explicitly states that missing persons have doubled or tripled during the time the Saja Boys were active.

And that's before an entire train of people "go missing"

And those people are still going to be missing after the movie.

And I can't imagine that Rumi's feelings towards Jinu are going to be any kind of simple once she's removed from the immediate emergency of imminent demon invasion and has to see grieving families on the news and on social media and the vigils for the victims and the inevitable conspiracy theories about the government/foreigners trafficking people

One part of her wanting Jinu back and another part, seeing a mother passing out flyers about her missing children (they were on the subway heading to school, please, her son had a Huntr/x hoodie), wondering if he deserves another shot at life

(Everyone else got one life, why did he deserve more?)

[zoloteh-volossya]

There's also the fact that during the climax, Rumi interrupts him in the middle of feeding tens of thousands of people, including Mira and Zoey, to Gwi Ma. If she'd arrived even two minutes later, everybody in that stadium (including her partners) would have died. He sacrifices himself for her, but she was only ever in danger because he summoned Gwi Ma to the surface in the first place.

It's like, he threw himself on a grenade for her. But he was the one who disassembled the anti-grenade shield (after she asked him for help reinforcing it), pulled the pin, and threw it at a crowd of people he knew it was her duty to protect.

Rumi told Jinu that hope is a choice. The corollary is therefore also true - abandoning hope is a choice, and that's the choice Jinu made after Gwi Ma threatened him. How much does him choosing hope again at the very literal last second make up for that?

(There was good in him, but that good did not drive him to act as he watched thousands die from his actions - he only considered doing something after she asked. It did not stop him from hurting her, publicly, in the worst way he could. It did not stop him from leading tens of thousands to their deaths - but it did drive him to act once she joined that number.)

(He was the first person to make her feel accepted, but he could not accept himself, and his self-hatred had a body count of people Rumi had a duty to protect.)

[the-fallen-blue]

The missing accountability starts with Rumi tbh, you don't even need to get as far as Jinu.

Eg I've seen exactly one fic that attempts to tackle the train specifically, but I had to bail out when it posited that, actually, Huntr/x valued each other's lives more than the Honmoon or their duty or any number of strangers' lives, so if they failed that duty in the course of protecting themselves that was okay, it was human and fair and what the other two would want, and the narrative seemed to think this was reasonable and cathartic for a team of actual superheroes, and not a sign that either Celine or the Honmoon has incredibly stupid and irresponsible taste in champions.

(Honestly that Us First vibe is an extremely common take in general, in my experience - that "if gold might hurt Rumi we quit right now, we choose her over the world immediately and without hesitation or guilt" sort of True Love declaration.

Which, in the actual canon, Celine arguably did. Zoemira demonstrably did not.)

Which I guess makes some sense, because those people on the train died because Rumi was more worried about herself than her duty, so if you want to say that it was okay, by the end of the fic, the only option is to agree that that priority is okay. But I would love to see an examination that actually grapples with the reality that it was not, actually, okay, and they all do just have to find a way to live with that ugly fact.

[zoloteh-volossya]

Honestly, I think saying that "those people on the train died because Rumi was more worried about herself than her duty" is a bit harsh. I view it more like, those people on the train died because Rumi was off her game due to a personal crisis, which is still an abject failure but doesn't carry the implication that it was a choice she made.

That said, Rumi does go straight from the train scene to singing Free with Jinu, which is all about herself and him. She's doing it because she thinks it'll get him to help turn the Honmoon gold and once its gold there will be no more demon incursions and no more train incidents but if you step back and look at the context of the tragedy that just happened, it comes across as really callous.

And yeah, people in fandom have a really strong bias towards protagonists / main characters and generally do not give duty or the lives of the general populace much weight or importance. See in this fandom how many people concluded that Rumi went to Celine because she was already suicidal all along rather than her looking at how she was damaging the Honmoon and deciding that her life was an acceptable loss if it meant saving the shield keeping everyone else safe. (See also Fire Emblem Three Houses, where a character starts a bloody revolution in order to overthrow a violent feudal system in favor of a more egalitarian society and two thirds of the fandom decided she was Evil Incarnate because in the course of this she kills nobles with names and faces.)

[the-fallen-blue]

Well, it's a little less harsh in the context of the fic in question, which (being polytrix rather than rujinu and not giving any consideration to the idea that Hunters might be heroic people) also posits that Rumi's interest in Jinu was primarily about her own fear that the Golden Honmoon might hurt her, rather than care/attraction for him as a person or believing he could help the mission or a genuine desire to help a person who was suffering.

But, for what it's worth, while I agree it's way too harsh, I don't actually think it's especially inaccurate; she didn't choose to fuck up on the train, but the fuckup on the train is a direct result of her choices.

ie, Hunters know they need harmony to do their jobs, and Rumi is continually sabotaging Takedown, acting weird about the Saja boys, sneaking off, and refusing to explain any of it. All conscious decisions on her part that are guaranteed to cause conflict, that she can see are already causing conflict. But admitting to Zoemira that she's talking to Jinu (and trying to turn him and that it's making her question what they know about demons) comes with the risk of losing the selfish comfort she's getting from her meetings with him.

(How selfish depends on what ratio you think her motivation is, between altruistic compassion/belief that turning him is genuinely their best chance/desire to be understood/pure horny on main, but the selfish reasons are there in some amount.)

Which is a good thing, IMO, tbh. It means that Rumi letting her shame and fear do the driving, instead of her principles or her common sense, has caused real harm to the people around her, not just her, which is the whole dang point of the movie! If the worst pain she's in any way accountable for in the entire story is lying to Zoemira, if we're only being asked to show her compassion and forgiveness for being a perfect victim who was only ever scared and hurt, I think it undercuts the message.

[tlirsgender]

They don't tell you this but besides the Beloved Mutual there's also the Longterm Follower who you don't follow back but they're always in your notes and you're kind of watching them. Checking on the longterm follower's bio every so often like turning over a log. She's trans now good for her

[tlirsgender]

Longterm followers I am putting fresh leaves and hrt in your enclosure

[tlirsgender]

Realizing I'm somebody's longterm follower who they don't follow back but check in on every so often. This is what's happening when you see the [Following] in your notes

[bedupolker]

Friends in different Time Zones

[bedupolker]

did you know its national moth week? Happy national moth week!

[the-fallen-blue]

it has now been several weeks since moth week, but it is never the wrong time for moths.

[ardellian]

there is only you

[shamebats]

The (European) sun is a deadly laser, stay safe everyone

[unfuckablebogtroll]

☝️🤓 it’s because the further you move toward the earth’s poles, the lower the angle of the sun is at the hottest parts of the day, meaning the radiation hits your whole body, causing it to feel 10-20 degrees warmer than the thermometer reading will tell you. People from tropical climes, aka close to the equator, are used to the sun’s radiation hitting a much smaller target- their head and shoulders.

Also the further you move toward the poles the more pronounced the difference between the length of day and night is. Worst part of a far-north (or south) heatwave is it doesn’t get dark long enough for meaningful cooling.

It’s not the heat. It very literally is the sun.

[guardian-of-fun-times]

[invisible-goats]

The Kids just aren't being taught how to write a cv or cover letter huh

I've seen ones today including photos, dates of birth, place of birth even!

And also several formatted like they were writing a message to a friend! Full of exclamation marks! This is a formal document!

[invisible-goats]

this one is formatted like a powerpoint presentation. to be clear I'm not in charge of any descision making I'm just going through redacting identifying/potentially biasing info but like...some of these formatting decisions are also potentially biasing

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Yeah, I remember getting some wild ones when I was hiring manager

So many women feel the need to mention their young children in their cover letters and CVs. Some young people slip in that they can't drive, a sort of pre-emptive "but it's okay I have a bus pass". So many people go and shove their mental health issues with anxiety and depression in there.

I remember one girl had clearly been told that she needed to explain any gaps in employment in the cover letter (terrible blanket advice), and so had described how she had developed depression after a traumatic miscarriage and spent a year in a terrible spiral getting worse and worse before getting on a new medication that, and I quote, "seemed to be finally starting to work." There are ways she could have written that information if she was desperately wanting to include it (I cannot stress enough that she should not have included a word of it), but the way it was written was almost literally a description of how she would be a horrendously unreliable employee who could dip out at a moment's notice and would never be seen again, while also demonstrating that she cannot determine appropriate professional communication.

(And for the record, the latter is the actual issue. I have no problems at all hiring employees with mental health issues, and did several times hire people in recovery to help them get back on their feet. Only once did that not work out; all others were amazing, and two became some of our best employees - one is now a manager there, in fact. But if an employee can't be trusted not to over share personal information with customers or colleagues, particularly triggering topics... That's a different issue. She did herself no favours at all there, and nor did whoever told her employers will always need employment gaps explaining in a cover letter).

Another guy once wrote in his cover letter "I want this job because after years of messing about I now have a little girl, so I need to sort my life out for her, and if I can't do it even for her then more fool me." Which, like, I admire the drive and passion. But again. Why are you telling an employer that you're a flight risk. Why are you telling us this.

One 18 year old volunteered, unforced, that he was gay. Just right in the cover letter. That he sent to a future employer.

And then, of course, the thousands that send in CVs and cover letters that are horrendously mis-spelled. Again, as an employer, I care dick-all if you're dyslexic or what have you; but I do care that you didn't think it was important to get someone to proofread a professional document for you before submission. That tells me quite a big thing about the level of professionalism I can expect from you in the role. It wasn't massively relevant for the job I was hiring for (escape room game master), but if we'd had slightly different job duties (e.g. writing official soc med posts), that would be the difference between getting an interview or not.

Honestly, half of my role as a hiring manager was just... having to explain to the other hiring manager that she was being biased based on information neither of us should have had in the first place. And she wasn't a bad person, but bias gets you even if you don't want it to. Give yourself the best chance. Don't fuck it by sending in a dumbass cover letter.

[ace-of-bass]

Linking @bitchesgetriches great advice on cover letter writing here...

How To Write a Cover Letter Like You Actually Want the Job • Bitches Get Riches

Welcome back to another episode of The Bitches Teach You How to Get Your Ass Hired! Last time we reviewed some cardinal rules of resume writ

[myth-blossom]

Fanfic Writer Ask Game

These are always fun so I wanted to make one! Reblog this and let others send you an ask based on any of these emojis/questions:

❤️ What is your favorite line that you’ve written in a fic?

💥 What is one canon thing that you wish you could change?

✨️ Out of the comments you’ve received on your fics, what are two or three of your favorites?

👻 What is your wildest headcanon?

✍️ What’s your ideal writing setup?

🚀 Do you like to outline your fic first or create as you go?

🎁 Have a piece of a WIP you want to share?

🏷 Is there a tag you like to search for when looking for fanfics to read?

⏰️ Do you like to post fics on a schedule or at random?

👓 What helps you focus when you write?

💕 What is your favorite fic that you’ve written?

🐇 Do you write for yourself, for others, or both?

🥳 Why did you start writing fanfic?

🦋 Which character is your favorite to write?

🦈 Which character is the toughest to write?

🍬 Do you write for multiple fandoms? If yes, what is your favorite fic of yours for each fandom?

🌻 How often do you read your own fics?

📗 Do you want to write something outside of fanfiction? If so, what about?

🎬 If a movie or show were based on your fic, which fic would you choose and who would you fancast?

💭 What inspires you and your writing?

🧪 Do you research for your fics?

😎 What fics do you prefer on a scale of canon compliant to wildly original?

💎 Do you often write about a relationship or focus on an individual?

🔥 Have you included any sexy scenes in your fics? If yes, do you find them easy or difficult to write?

💘 Is it easier to write angst or fluff?

🚦What sort of endings do you prefer to write: ambiguous, bad, happily ever after, etc.?

💡How many WIPs do you currently have?

🔎 Does anyone beta read or edit your fics?

📚 Is there a fanfic or fanfic writer you recommend?

🤩 What led to your interest in the fandom?

🤖 Are non-fandom friends aware that you write fanfic?

💛 What is the most impactful lesson you’ve learned about writing?

👑 Do you like writing short fics or long fics?

🎯 Do you have a writing milestone you’re working towards?

🔮 Any advice for writers working through burnout or writer’s block?

🤔 Would you ever want to write something canon if you got the opportunity?

💌 Is there a favorite trope you like to write?

🎨 If someone were to make fanart of your work, what fic or scene would you hope to see?

[fallout-lou-begas]

so in the 2003 Aquaman series they introduce a new backstory for archvillain Black Manta in which the entire reason for his (hyper)fixation on destroying Aquaman's life was severely maltreated autism, which Aquaman then cures him of with his magic water hand to completely redeem him. and this is obviously insanely stupid and ill-conceived and genuinely hateful, but given all of that, this is still one of the funniest speech balloons i've ever read in a comic. me @ myself when i remember how i acted in high school or whatever

[fallout-lou-begas]

i'm so sorry but also delighted to report that after black manta betrays aquaman it gets even funnier

[the-fallen-blue]

Side note to that last post but goddamn, fandom at large REALLY flipped the Celine-Zoemira script, didn't they?

Like "Celine wanted the golden Honmoon even though it would hurt Rumi but Zoemira would never take that chance" Celine threw Rumi's sword away while the Honmoon tore to shreds around her and Zoemira drew on her when she tore it locally once

"Zoemira would never have hurt Rumi if Celine hadn't taught them to hate patterns mindlessly" Zoemira gave demon!Rumi multiple unchallenged sentences, asked her what was going on, let her say she was working with Jinu without reacting violently, trying to understand the whole time, and drew on her only when she proved she was an active, imminent danger, there was nothing remotely mindless or instinctive about summoning their weapons in a response to Rumi's actions not her looks

"Celine would never accept Jinu or the redeemed Saja Boys but Zoemira would date and forgive them super quick and be like siblings to Jinu when they saw how important he was to Rumi" Celine gave up her entire life to raise Miyeong's demon baby because she had such a profound optimism that she could be healed and Mira ripped Abby's stomach open in absolute rage that he was able to evoke a single feeling in her other than disgust

[uququ]

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

[life-of-jauxro]

[anachronic-cobra]

This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright

[hapalopus]

If you find this interesting, look into extended mind/body theory :)

Author: Rachel Bourbaki Category: Philosophy of Mind and Language Word Count: 1000 Can your mind be outside of your body? Typically we think

[thatfandomhoe73]

I think there’s a teaboot(?) post about this with a huge security cam system

[teaboot]

Yeah I get twitchy when I don't have my eyes

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge, hand mobility! 🙌

X

[ruffboi-mags]

1) do this even if you're under 40. seriously. I definitely should have been doing something like this for years and I only turned 40 a month and a half ago

2) if you're like me just now trying this going "oh god i've only done 15 and i think my hands are cramping" start lower than 30 and increase by 5 once whatever number you're doing no longer makes your hand cramp up. I can manage about 15 per exercise at the moment.

[creations-by-chaosfay]

If you're hypermobile, be especially gentle.

[ashesinthewest]

😳

Add in wrist exercises and 6+ hours of crochet time are back on the table.

[bayneofmyexistence-blog]

Put fandom for the first fic you posted online and the year your posted it in the tags.

[fakelawyerbug]

Okay so more thoughts on the Jinu-sized elephant at the end of the movie;

(And like I get that tonally, the movie as is can't really support addressing the hundreds/thousands of dead people but like... *why did you have your main love interest kill hundreds/thousands of people if you weren't actually going to do anything with it*)

And like, the movie explicitly states that missing persons have doubled or tripled during the time the Saja Boys were active.

And that's before an entire train of people "go missing"

And those people are still going to be missing after the movie.

And I can't imagine that Rumi's feelings towards Jinu are going to be any kind of simple once she's removed from the immediate emergency of imminent demon invasion and has to see grieving families on the news and on social media and the vigils for the victims and the inevitable conspiracy theories about the government/foreigners trafficking people

One part of her wanting Jinu back and another part, seeing a mother passing out flyers about her missing children (they were on the subway heading to school, please, her son had a Huntr/x hoodie), wondering if he deserves another shot at life

(Everyone else got one life, why did he deserve more?)

[zoloteh-volossya]

There's also the fact that during the climax, Rumi interrupts him in the middle of feeding tens of thousands of people, including Mira and Zoey, to Gwi Ma. If she'd arrived even two minutes later, everybody in that stadium (including her partners) would have died. He sacrifices himself for her, but she was only ever in danger because he summoned Gwi Ma to the surface in the first place.

It's like, he threw himself on a grenade for her. But he was the one who disassembled the anti-grenade shield (after she asked him for help reinforcing it), pulled the pin, and threw it at a crowd of people he knew it was her duty to protect.

Rumi told Jinu that hope is a choice. The corollary is therefore also true - abandoning hope is a choice, and that's the choice Jinu made after Gwi Ma threatened him. How much does him choosing hope again at the very literal last second make up for that?

(There was good in him, but that good did not drive him to act as he watched thousands die from his actions - he only considered doing something after she asked. It did not stop him from hurting her, publicly, in the worst way he could. It did not stop him from leading tens of thousands to their deaths - but it did drive him to act once she joined that number.)

(He was the first person to make her feel accepted, but he could not accept himself, and his self-hatred had a body count of people Rumi had a duty to protect.)

[the-fallen-blue]

The missing accountability starts with Rumi tbh, you don't even need to get as far as Jinu.

Eg I've seen exactly one fic that attempts to tackle the train specifically, but I had to bail out when it posited that, actually, Huntr/x valued each other's lives more than the Honmoon or their duty or any number of strangers' lives, so if they failed that duty in the course of protecting themselves that was okay, it was human and fair and what the other two would want, and the narrative seemed to think this was reasonable and cathartic for a team of actual superheroes, and not a sign that either Celine or the Honmoon has incredibly stupid and irresponsible taste in champions.

(Honestly that Us First vibe is an extremely common take in general, in my experience - that "if gold might hurt Rumi we quit right now, we choose her over the world immediately and without hesitation or guilt" sort of True Love declaration.

Which, in the actual canon, Celine arguably did. Zoemira demonstrably did not.)

Which I guess makes some sense, because those people on the train died because Rumi was more worried about herself than her duty, so if you want to say that it was okay, by the end of the fic, the only option is to agree that that priority is okay. But I would love to see an examination that actually grapples with the reality that it was not, actually, okay, and they all do just have to find a way to live with that ugly fact.

[secondtolastrow]

If you need something to tide you over while the main thread is percolating, give me your best blood cult AU omake moment. Something that happened during a timeskip or while the viewpoint characters weren't looking.

…Rumi learning about modern menstrual products. See: Celine’s crack about “not wanting” to be a mom and how she’d better not have to teach Rumi about tampons

Specifically Rumi is getting this talk from Minji while Celine stands there in the background falling deep deep in love with her (as Celine herself is, while watching, realizing from Minji’s completely chill attitude that honestly she was kind of making it weird and she admires how much Minji is not doing so at all)

And meanwhile Rumi’s just like whoa… we know so much shit know that’s fucking sick. While also feeling a little weird about casually discussing something “private” lol. And then someone introduces her to chocolate

It’s been a couple weeks someone has to have gotten their period by now

[the-fallen-blue]

Aw, casually competent nurse Minji and our big dumb lovergirl Celine being stupid for it <3

This seems like the moment when Rumi properly learns about America, also, when introducing her to chocolate spirals into a long argument about candy and sweets and ice cream and Zoey going back to her bewildered outrage that she couldn't find Mira any applesauce. Rumi, who has a dim sort of concept of how far away Europe is, loses her mind slightly when they show her a globe and cheerfully explain that Zoey's flight from LA was roughly 11 hours.

[phantomrose96]

You know I gotta learn shitpost brevity. Most of my successful posts are like 3 paragraph essays, minimum. Fucking dissertations. Terrible note-to-word ratio. Inefficient. In this economy? In this economy? Unsustainable. Everyone else posting "blowing my balls up at the bomb factory" and getting 50,000 notes. Amazing ROI. They're the future and I'm on dial-up. The market's gonna out-compete me.

[lemonlegs4]

[the-fallen-blue]

☕️ + Star Wars!

Oh how I wish I only had one opinion about Star Wars 😭

Here's something I'm not sure I've fully articulated before, though: Disney Star Wars has severe Marvelitis and it's going to choke the franchise the same way it choked the MCU.

To be clear, I'm not knocking the shared universe, I love the shared universe. Most of the fiction that has gone past "fun" and into "rewrote my brain chemistry" over the years has been shared universe fiction. There's something incredibly powerful about picking up a story and reading a passing reference to That One Thing and knowing that That One Thing is real, you could go find it and learn all the details if you want. There's something incredibly powerful about knowing that the main characters you're reading about are only the main characters of this story, they are not the main characters of their whole world, things will happen outside of them that affect them that they can do nothing about, that just like the actual real world, more has happened and will happen than any human could track. Star Wars is fucking fantastic for this, it has multiple eras, it has novels and comics and video games, it is fundamentally impossible for any but the most obsessed fans to have experienced even a fraction of it. It makes the setting feel wide and strange and lifelike in a way that most auteur fiction cannot accomplish (this is probably a major contributor to my Tolkien obsession, because he's the rare freak that kinda could).

But such a huge part of why that works is that those stories are happening separately. The first Crisis Crossover is cool. The tenth is fucking annoying and you just want to see your hero finish their own goddamn current character arc without getting buried in cameos or sidetracked by some universe-ending bullshit. Mando was a fun, interesting show until it turned from "a space Western on the fringe of civilization" into "simultaneous new season of every other Star Wars property Filoni has ever touched," y'know? The refusal to go new places without making a huge incestuous knot of old things to overshadow them makes the universe smaller instead of bigger and I wish they'd quit.

Thanks for the ask, it was kind of cathartic to get that off my chest :D