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The bad news: Alecto is not finished. It will hopefully come out "soon" and will likely be fast tracked with few ARCs when it's finished.

The news you may take differently depending on your preferences: It is not being split.

The good news: It is not all written in Ye Olde Alecto speak (it sounds like Harrow's POV will be fairly major, but there will apparently be several narrators).

A slightly random selection of things I frantically scribbled down:

The protagonists of TLT would make an "absolutely shit" D&D party ("Palamedes and Camilla would be fine")

We could have had horse plinko and begone thot, but for the anti-meme ministrations of her editor. She would love an edition that puts all of the memes back in.

On Catholic imagery and lesbianism: "you ain't seen nothing yet"

"Harrow is now a believer without a church"

She said that while John and Alecto's relationship is not meant to be a 1:1 analogue to Humbert Humbert and Lolita, there is the idea of a man fashioning (something he thinks is) a girl into a perfect partner (the question of whether that is a sexual partner apparently may be relevant to ATN)

She does not have a favourite House and would just be a regular person in the world of TLT (though she would last about 0.5 seconds)

The tension between the Houses' ostensible gender equality and the misogyny that still persists is apparently also relevant to ATN. "John has set out to make a society on values he holds dear and cherishes and in some ways he has done really well... And in some way he has fucked it up beyond comprehension" (Maybe not an exact quote. My auditory processing is questionable.)

The backstory in NTN was planned right from the beginning

Lyctors "are not truly human any more. They've crystallised themselves" and "They have lost themselves and the only thing they've been able to hold on to is what other people make of them". She said she would have liked to make the Lyctors more alien but had to balance that with them being relatable narratively.

green? the rarest and not one ive seen personally but it can happen

blue? classics of sky

indigo? violet? twilight babyyy

pink? also shows up at sunrise/sets

black? night. get goth with it

Robby and Garcia and Shamsi and even Trinity look at Javadi and see the prodigy and they don't question how strange it is for her to be there. We see that in their reactions to Javadi making a mistake which is on par with or even smaller than the mistakes made by her peers. They treat her like in every situation, she should already know exactly what to do. It's not treated like a teaching moment like it is for other med students and interns. She fucked up and should have known better.

But McKay from day one sees Javadi and acknowledges how strange it is for her to be so young and where she is. She behaves almost maternally to her because I think Cassie puts in her a category more akin to Harrison than to her peers. She doesnt expect a level of emotional maturity from her that really doesn't make sense from someone that young. Instead, she talks to her. She actually teaches her instead of just assuming she's a prodigy with all the answers and berating her when she doesn't have them.

"I feel dead inside all the time and nothing helps!" - character who does like, regular introspective thinking and is aware of the concept of mental health.

"Leave me the fuck alone I'll be fine once I get over my stupid shit." - repressed character.

I used to enjoy Pokemon games a lot, but lately some of the newer entries have been kinda controversial due a variety of issues.

But instead of focusing on that, i'm here to bring you back to the past to the Nintendo DS era of Pokemon, where many (myself included) would say that the quality and care of the series was at it's peak!

Games included in this collection:

EVERYONE IS HERE!! Every single Pokemon game released for the Nintendo DS is featured in this pack. Two emulators are included in the set, just download and play

Download here!! (1.25 GB): https://www.4shared.com/rar/8b6dtnJ3ge/Pogeymon_DS_Collection.html?

Mirror download: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7kedgj4dmfqscry913n6a/Pogeymon-DS-Collection.rar?rlkey=exdei8jyugeqq8qo12xutq2m2&st=7jkyk0pa&dl=0

First, download the melonDS app. This is actually the same emulator that comes bundled with the above package, but that version is a .exe that you won't feasibly be able to run on your phone.

Then go and download WinRAR's app, which we will need for extracting some files shortly.

Next, download the DS and DSi BIOS files from the internet archive here (DS), and here (DSi). For simplicity's sake, just download the .zip files specifically, they contain everything you need. You actually only need the DS BIOS files, but we'll set up both.

If you haven't already, go ahead and download the pkmn ROMs op has provided above (I had to use the mirror link), or whatever other DS ROMs you're looking to play.

Now, open your Files app and do a few things:

Navigate to "Internal Storage"

Create a new Folder called ROMs, and if you'd like, a new folder for BIOS files. This is just for organization, the actual name of these folders doesn't matter.

Navigate to your Downloads folder

Move the .zip with the ROM game files to the ROMs folder you just created. Move the BIOS .zips to "Internal Storage" or to the new folder(s) fit to hold them if you created any.

Now, open RAR and extract/unzip all of the .zip files we just downloaded and moved. Ideally, the ROMs should all be unzipped directly to the root ROMs folder (as opposed to subfolders contained therein). You can always use your Files app to move them here if needed if you accidentally extracted them to a different location. Individual ROM .zips will have to be extracted one by one to the root ROM folder.

If you downloaded the DSi BIOS files, open your Files app again, locate them, and remove the "dsi-bios_" prefix at the start of them. This is important, since the emulator is looking for exact filenames.

Now, open the melonDS app.

The app will ask you to set the location for ROM files. Locate and select the ROM folder we created earlier. If your games were extracted properly, they should appear in your list of games in the in-app menu. For example, the copy of Pokémon Heartgold I want to play:

Note the .nds file type. If my .zip file was still located in this folder, it would appear in this menu as well, but I wouldn't be able to play it!

From this same menu in melonDS, click the three dots in the top right screen and select Settings > System > Custom BIOS and firmware OR DSiWare Manager > Setup. Doesn't matter in practice which one you pick.

The current menu should look like this

From here, click "DS BIOS directory" and locate the folder that you extracted the DS BIOS files to earlier. Repeat this process for the DSi BIOS directory.

Finally, return to the menu with your games, select the gear icon beside whichever game you want to play, the set the boot system to DS or DSi. I've had some trouble getting things to load beyond the title screen using the DSi bios, so I'd recommend just using the DS one!

Press play and... you're all set! The game may take a second or two to load.

As a final note, the button layout is customizable within melonDS, but beyond the scope of this tutorial. Also tumblr decreased the image quality here, the game actually looks great on my phone!

And what she hears is: I didn't lose anything. I didn't get divorced. I didn't lose custody of my kids. I got my job back. I abused the system and I tried to throw you under the bus for it and none of the consequences are tangible. The only thing that happened is people were mad at me, but now they aren't.

And we know Santos has felt like people were mad at her, the whole time, and still does. So: in her mind, the consequences are over for Langdon, but they are still ongoing for her. Which is just another case of a man abusing his authority and getting away on the grounds of "he's really sorry"/"think of his kids"/"you don't want to ruin his life over this" etc. Some of which Santos has probably heard before.

But it's not like Langdon is wrong--he has absolutely experienced consequences, and the social ones are not over and never will be (see: Robby.) And it's not like Santos is wrong either; we mostly see her interacting with the other Pittlings (who didn't really know Langdon) and Robby (who knows exactly what happened.) Which does suggest strain there, though how real or imagined it is is up to interpretation because Santos is also an asshole. We don't know how well she gets along with Mohan and McKay at this point. (Although: Princess, Perlah, Javadi, Whittaker and Mel all seemed kind of taken aback at how cranky she's been today, which implies that usually she's not so bad. Probably because usually she isn't given a case specifically designed to trigger her before being threatened with repeating a year and also Langdon is back.)