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I made an Untamed vid! Hold On, I’m Coming
Lan Wangji has regrets.

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what if orpheus was butch and she unclipped her carabiner and held it out behind her and then eurydice clipped it onto her belt loop and then orpheus didnt have to look back because she could hear eurydice jingle jangling behind her. follow me for more dyke solutions to famous tragic literature

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I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.
My wife’s idea of decompressing after the busy holiday was to rearrange every piece of furniture in our home is this an ADHD thing or just a her thing
I’m not complaining the way she’s done it is much better than it was it’s just like how is this your idea of a relaxing weekend
Listen I don't get to decide when the drunk elf that is my executive actually does the functioning but when he does we have a SMALL WINDOW OF TIME before he finds the schnapps again and we're done
yes this exactly
So to me, there are spoons (general energy cost) and carnival tickets (specific energy cost).
Spoons can be used pretty much anywhere.
Carnival tickets are only good for the carnival, and it’s only in town for a limited amount of time.
So like, if I get “kitchen cleaning” carnival tickets, I can’t use that to clean my bedroom, that’s not where the carnival is.
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What if Buffy's mom hadn't found out about slaying at the end of season 2 and Buffy had to convince Spike to stay in town and pretend to be in a band with her because that was the cover story they'd told Joyce
And then eventually end up accidentally actually starting a band because it’s easier than maintaining the lie
Joyce says they can use the garage to rehearse and she always makes them snacks. Buffy starts to worry she'll never get Spike to leave
Buffy insists on calling the band Slayer and Spike keeps failing to convince her that there’s already a band with that name
Low key I feel like Buffy would just see it as a cover and it’s a ‘fake band’ but Spike gets like way into it and it’s a Real Band™️ to him and he’s a little annoyed Buffy doesn’t take it as seriously. He’s always like “you missed practice this Tuesday what the hell’s up with that. We have a gig next week btw”
#he starts trailing after her on patrol to bitch about missing practice or how she's sloppy on her chords #starts pitching in on the slayage because vampires keep interrupting his tirades #''EXCUSE ME we are having a ROW'' *stakes fledgling* #no chip necessary spike is literally the guy in the band with zero chill about the band #he undeads the band. he unbreathes the band. he spends all his time not sleeping... on the band. #(willow is their manager xander is the merch guy) #(giles was secretly plotting to lure spike into a trap until he notices spike is... actually better at corralling buffy on patrol than he is #because spike doesn't want her injuring her hands or doing anything that fucks with her breath control) #(giles is also weak to the nostalgia of it all and tunes their instruments when he thinks they're not looking) #(when faith arrives mid-S3 she's quickly recruited to sing backup) (via @entirelytookeen)
@worldsokayestdragon :
#spike after learning Oz plays guitar: why İsn't he in the band? #buffy: he's already in his own band. which is actually a real band unlike our fake band that you keep forgetting is just a cover story #spike: we're never going to make it in the music industry if you don't stop calling our band fake
Spike (with reluctant but knowledgeable backup from Giles) finally convinces her that "Slayer" risks bringing copyright lawyers down upon their heads, a fate worse than vampires
Buffy turns around and re-names their band "Fake"
Ok I Don’t go here but this whole thing is very. very. very funny.
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the reason why jack abbot is so competent, hot, charming, thoughtful, determined, resourceful, dependable and flirty in the pitt is because we see everything from robby's perspective.
Episode four fucks me up for a lot of reasons but that opening montage especially is peak cinema. Two and a half years playing out in five minutes but for once we actually get to see the passage of time occur. The clear illustration of their different social lives. Ilya going out at every opportunity, picking up women, drinking, staying detached, staying numb. Shane jogging with Hayden and staying in, reading, taking every sponsorship, never letting loose. The intercut workout scenes, the playful texting, the barely concealed longing. Checking the schedules, eagerly anticipating their next chance to meet up. That. Fucking. Smash cut. Ilya slamming him into the boards then slamming into him on the couch. Shane's back-to-back wins, Ilya's earnest pride, his played up frustration. That champagne scene. Shane being more interested in sending a cheeky text than celebrating with his teammates. Their summers spent apart, texting, their winters spent on the ice, meeting up. Them barely being able to break apart from each other long enough to actually take their clothes off or get to the bedroom. Their phones constantly kept close, constantly being checked, neither one wanting to reach out without reason but always hoping the other one has. The stark contrast between their family lives, Shane being managed by his mom, chatting with his dad, Ilya taking care of his rapidly deteriorating father. Ilya growing disinterested in finding other available partners. Svetlana clocking the change in him. My Moon My Man playing throughout all of it. Honestly, poetry in motion.
tumblr is such a different animal than other social media platforms for so many reasons obviously but one thing i really find funny about it is how on other sites if i see something that doesn't interest me i don't follow or don't like the post. but on here if someone i follow starts posting exclusively about something really niche that i have no interest in my reaction is never to unfollow. its just part of the natural environment. like oh mutual is now really into pro wrestling? ok i guess ill be seeing these guys around now
I love when a meme gets so many steps away from its source material that it would be completely incomprehensible if I didn't know what today's date was
Question. Why are y'all doing this in March
To make sure we get the meme jn the fridge to dethaw in time.

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One thing I love about Murderbot that I don’t see talked about much is how it literally translates everything it hears. I think it’s easiest to notice with swears. This is most obvious in Fugitive Telemetry with the crew of the Lalow. They say things like “that picker” and “penis move” and “pussing corporates,” some of which confuse even the Preservation humans. But it does it all the time.
In System Collapse, Tarik says “motherless” (as opposed to something like motherfucking) and the BE corporates say things like “lame-skulled” and while you could think those are just futuristic insults as a result of linguistic drift (which they could also be), I think they’re just literal translations. It becomes more noticeable when you see how religious terms are rendered: “oh high one! Oh deity!” Which is like…sure. They could literally be saying that. But imo it makes more sense if MB is translating something they’re saying in another language.*
I think the most notable case of this is when Thiago calls Amena “my daughter.” On first read I literally thought it was just a Preservation thing but then I realized it made a lot more sense to me (a 21st century American) if he was saying something like mija but MB was just literally translating it into its archive bc that’s how it processes language.
This is also the reason for Amena’s use of Second Mom and Third Mom. It sounds kind of clunky in English but Chinese does a similar thing which sounds perfectly natural in that language (e.g. da-ge, er-ge, san-ge for first/oldest brother, second (oldest) brother, and third (oldest) brother).
Anyway! It’s a fun little detail I really enjoy about MB. There are definitely way more examples but I didn’t have time to track them all down.
*Don’t ask me which languages. Linguistic drift ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The one that most obviously struck me as signposting this convention is Murderbot's constant use of the set phrase "humans and augmented humans". That's clunky as hell at face value, but it makes a lot of sense if interpreted as a diegetic translation artifact, with "augmented humans" being a literal translation of some word in whatever language Murderbot is "really" speaking which has no snappy English equivalent.
That's a valid interpretation of MB's use of the term, but there's another confounding factor to its use. Consider that no other character ever makes the distinction between human and augmented human- there's no real evidence that there's a coherent legal or social line anywhere else in the world (Rami or Maro calls it "spliced" in AC, and there's evidence that suggests MB's idea of augmentation is idiosyncratic)- rather, the term exists in its clunky as hell glory because Murderbot, specifically, really cares about the distinction: augmented humans are much more likely to catch on to unusual feed activity from a rogue SecUnit, so it has had to care about augmented humans as a distinct class from humans in general as a matter of survival. (Not my idea, for the record- I could take it or leave it, but Martha Wells asserts this in multiple interviews- I gather that's her own rationale for the "humans and augmented humans" term as a writing decision.)
Honestly, Murderbot doesn't just "translate" language, I would say it tends to genericize terms, and this is part of a broader motif around Murderbot's relationship with language. Aside from in translation, Murderbot also just uses generic terms to control its story and express its viewpoint better- there's "oh deity" and "Starchy Foods!!!!" as obvious places where this had to be translated in some way from something, but notice how it doesn't get translated into anything in particular in Murderbot's presumed Standard Whatever Dialect lexicon. Why? Because while details about food and religion are of critical importance to human culture, they're not important to our rogue machine intelligence protag. (Amena's "fried vegetable crunchy things" are another classic example.) You see this in action throughout the series: it never describes an animal by specific name ("avians," "fauna"), it barely describes the weapons it gets into fights with ("energy weapon," "armor piercing projectile weapon"- notice it never calls anything a shotgun or grenade let alone specific gun nerd terms), and it especially never uses a brand name or even a genericized brand name to describe an item or product if the most generic term will do ("feed interface," "transient rest tube" but not any term resembling iPhone or capsule hotel). And of course, it never names the company that owned it, explicitly replacing the name even in Bharadwaj's dialogue when she asks about it. Obviously, choosing to avoid the use of corporate names allows it to take back a little control over its own language from the likes of its former owners. Meanwhile, it'll name the systems it interfaces with to a high degree of specificity or panache: "HubSystem," "AdaColSys, "Asshole Research Transport," "hotelEnvironmentAccessAndMobilitySystem (MobSys for short)", etc.
We know from the company name conversation with Bharadwaj that MB, as writer of its diaries, does just change around the terms that other characters use in their dialogue if it suits it. Which details it chooses to express and which details it chooses to genericize are functions of its attention, interest, and agenda. As @grison-in-space says in another reblog, Murderbot's not just translating other languages into its own, but also translating the world it's experiencing into its own idiolect—taking back control of its own story through the words it chooses to tell it.
You know, if it's thinking in a machine language, it's also probably naming all its variables as it goes except the ones that are required to interface with other systems as name-connections (like, say, HubSys). After all, when I'm coding, I name my shit whatever the hell I want, because the structural meaning of the language is almost entirely about the syntax and the libraries I'm working with rather than the actual meaning of my variables. Consider the opportunity for self expression inherent there in being a creature that is fluent in code and absolutely barred from personal self expression in any other way.
I really think that murderbot's first and most comfortable language is a machine language, and that a lot of its idiolectical language choices stem from that. Which means that to be understandable in English, it's translating its own thought processes and internal dialogue to English as well as the human languages that are actually being spoken around it.
Thiago would have a field day.
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