Green Leaf & Star Bright

See in 1862  Hugo was like “ hey here’s a book about how capitalism doesn’t work and authoritarianism sucks , by the 20th century this will all be irrelevant because the world will have embraced socialism and equality”  and welp 

he was a trifle optimistic on that last bit so unfortunately the book still Resonates with a lot of people 

1. dumbass who genuinely didn't realize how important it was to Will to get some kind of justice for Abigail. even though in reality that was pretty much the only thing keeping Will from throwing in the towel on the FBI side of the plot, and Will just about said as much when he countered Hannibal's offer of forgiveness with a reminder that the FBI side was about seeking justice. in this case, Hannibal didn't know Will nearly as well as either of them thought, and seriously failed to read him.

2. dumbass who was just THAT attached to the big flourish at the end of his plan and THAT determined to keep his little present from being opened before Christmas. in this case, Bedelia fucking nailed it when she said whimsy would be his downfall.

3. asshole who reeeaaally wanted Will to run away with him, but not enough to give up the final string attached to his plans: Will thinking he'd killed Abigail and willingly going with him anyway. in this case, it really is THAT important to him that not even the completely unexplained & unexcused murder of their surrogate daughter would be a dealbreaker - accepting Abigail's disposability is the price, not only of getting her back, but of having an ongoing relationship with Hannibal in the first place.

no matter which way you slice it, it's not a good look. to the point where, if i had to pick a good divergence point for a Mizumono fix-it, it wouldn't be Will finally confessing to the ruse out of guilt at how much of a mean ol' meaniepants he was being to Hannibal - it would be either Hannibal admitting, or Will accidentally discovering, that Abigail had been alive the whole time.

4. abuser uses available tools to manipulate target

Concealing Abigail’s survival gives him control. So does dangling the dilemma of whether to run away with him in front of Will. Hannibal doesn’t necessarily have to have a plan with coherent next steps, if the goal is ultimately to have control of a situation and power over the people in it. Hannibal used the information he had in Mizumono to orchestrate a situation which caused the maximum possible harm to those in his orbit. Abigail is carrot, and she is stick.

I have asked this myself in the past and never gotten an answer.

It became pretty standard jargon, as I understand, to disambiguate when writing to other humans. First phys!Steve vs the Steve right next to you, just like you were taking to the machine, then getting looser (as jargon does) to reference, say, bearded!Steve vs bald!Steve.

So you want to download an entire playlist off youtube and the subtitles too

Maybe just the subtitles? Maybe just in one language? Maybe don’t want to pay for Youtube Red but want the download option

It’s actually really easy.

You need the youtube-dl tool. It’s command line, works for unix/windows/mac etc, and it’s not scary at all. I’m going to lay out how to do this in windows, but once you have that command window open the instructions are basically the same.

Step 1: Download youtube-dl (the exe version, for windows)

Step 2: Put it in an empty directory (you don’t have to. You can run it right out of downloads, but it’s just less messy this way.)

Step 3: go to the directory where you’ve put your youtube-dl.exe file, hold down the SHIFT key, right click anywhere empty, and choose “Open PowerShell window here”.

Step 4: Now, here’s the easy part. Just copy and paste these commands in and press enter. I’ll give you a few examples, just replace the replace_this_with_your_playlist_url with the playlist url:

1. Download every video in the playlist with English subtitles

./youtube-dl –write-sub –sub-lang en,en-GB –ignore-errors -o ’%(title)s.%(ext)s’ replace_this_with_your_playlist_url

2. Download all the English subtitles in the playlist without the videos

./youtube-dl –write-sub –sub-lang en,en-GB –skip-download –ignore-errors -o ’%(title)s.%(ext)s’ replace_this_with_your_playlist_url

3. Download all the videos in the playlist, no subtitles

./youtube-dl –ignore-errors -o ’%(title)s.%(ext)s’ replace_this_with_your_playlist_urlThe files will end up right in that empty folder you threw the exe in. The basic format of the subtitles are .vtt files, which VLC has no problem picking up and using. They’ll be named title.language_of_sub.vtt, and the videos will just be the title.mp4. (Whatever extension it was uploaded in, I think) Youtube-dl will download at the highest quality by default.

Here’s a few notes and extra parameters to change:

the –ignore-errors parameter is there to prevent the script from stopping when you hit a private video or a video that you can’t view in your region

if you take out -o ’%(title)s.%(ext)s’, the filenames will be title_videoID.mp4

instead of en,en-GB you can use any of these iso codes for other languages

replace –sub-lang en,en-GB with –all-subs and it’ll download all the subs

replace –write-sub with –write-auto-sub and you get automatically generated subtitles. You follow this with the same choosing language parameter. I use this to translate simplified Chinese to traditional.

you can put in a single video link instead of a playlist url and it’ll run the command for just one vid.

the ./ is at the front of the command line because we’re using windows powershell, and that’s how you tell it to “use this directory”. I don’t know what that should be in other operating systems.

They have pretty good documentation if you want to dig in for more options.

It pulled 265 subs for me in less than 10 minutes.

Heres the current results for the multiple choice questions on the survey! I’ll try to do a decent summary of what the ‘other’ options for the questions that had it are. Also I tried to keep my math correct for the remaining percentages are and had someone review it but please be kind if there are any errors </3.

This is out of 505 responses total, i put commentary or notes where i saw necessary but i can answer any questions (send an ask or an RB, not in replies pls). I mostly just used phrasing and words from the answers themselves and didnt add my own opinion, this is simply what the people said.

Results under the cut!

What these findings suggest to me is like, hmmm - either everybody is lying about their own behavior, or, the survey just hasn’t reached the right tumblrs yet so the stats don’t reflect the true population.

or: the nastiness is being done by a very small fraction of fandom, but they’re so nasty that they have an over-sized impact for how few of them there are. Because about 50% of people (regardless of their discourse stance) report they’ve been sent hate, but barely any people report that they’ve done the sending, or they support actions which would lead to it.

hi!!!! welcome to the fandom - i haven’t been active mainly because there hasn’t been much content and therefore the hyperfixation has Faded Somewhat but i am most certainly alive and kicking and ready to talk about weird time rocks & metals literally whenever.