lambda complex? i actually find it quite simple

tagged by @anomalouscorvid! (thank you! (please ignore that i already posted and deleted this without any of the actual tag game included lol))

🍬last song: i actually don't know because the last music i listened to was a jam? the last song i liked was from that jam - generator by the holloways (which my dad used to play alllll the time when i was little)

🍬currently watching: game changer i guess? i'm watching the new episodes as they come out. the last thing i watched though was the martian, while on a thirteen hour flight with all the swears shoddily ADR'd out lol

🍬current obsession: i'm having one of my MtG phases rn i think (though the current spoilers aren't giving me too much to work with lol)

🍬currently reading: mort, by terry pratchet! i've been slowly working through the discworld novels, since i've never read them before. pretty great!!

🍬currently working on: i have the long term project of my custom blaseball: wild cards decks. i've designed the mints, the fridays, the spies and the flowers, and i'll probably get them printed once i've finished playtesting them

🍬last google search: "printingstudio" – looking up alternative ways to print my cards. i'll probably stick with MPC though

🍬currently wearing: nice green patterned short-sleeves shirt (as is my wont), brown linens (because it's warm) and variably my breath mints cap

🍬favourite flower: i actually don't know? i've never really thought about it too much. maybe snowdrops? they're super cute.

🐛last song: It has been the Hollow Knight soundtrack on repeat, Hornet in particular because it's a lovely track that really captures her spirit. So bright and skilled and true...

🐛currently watching: the last thing I watched was Witch Hat Atelier which was good but the season's finished now...

🐛current obsession: IT'S BUGWORLD although the heatwave made the ragweed which had been attracting legions of wondrous little things stop flowering and go to seed... the lawn wildflower meadow looks pretty brown and finished... I'm waiting for a rainy day to sow all the seeds I've collected so next year is less ragweed dominated

🐛currently reading: Inheritor by C.J Cherryh which I need to finish! so I can get on to the rest of the 22 book series... it's good it's really good peak 90s sci-fi. I also have Italo Calvino's Marcovaldo on the go which I am 2 or 3 chapters off from finishing. Also a couple of webcomics I'm keeping tabs on, like 3rd Voice

🐛currently working on: ignoring my sewing pile and putting off finishing Hollow Knight... I'm having fun I don't want it to end but I only have 2 grubs behind crusher puzzles the annoying final lifeblood charm and the Hollow Knight left...

🐛last internet search: "roller skating [location redacted]" surely there's more than the once monthly event 45 minutes of motorway driving away...

🐛currently wearing: well pajamas but I have been very into my linen culottes recently as well as my linen shirts... it's hot

🐛favourite flower: oh I don't knowwwww I have thought about it but their charms are unique and variable it's hard to compare... I'm eternally fond of red deadnettle, which is one of the first things to flower after winter around here. My most recent "flower that I have learned the name of and then realised is everywhere"s are rosebay willowherb and hollyhocks, the former of which I have some seeds from and the latter of which I really want to grow

👽last song: woman in chains by tears for fears + oleta adams. i was listening to their 1989 album the seeds of love last night

👽currently watching: currently on my 3rd rewatch of she-ra and the princesses of power. my girlfriend got me into it years ago. its our show. dont tell anyone itll absolutely ruin my reputation

👽current obsession: worm, unfortunately

👽currently reading: the silmarillion (blame my gf for this one also)

👽currently working on: finding a job, allegedly. also a series of portraits of twin peaks characters ive been working on for a couple months on and off (im currently doing audrey horne)

👽last internet search: cant remember exactly but it was something baseball related. fuck you nyt connections for making me look up baseball things

👽currently wearing: graphic tee and jorts, my summer uniform

👽favourite flower: lavender (smells nice)

extremely generic: hero, marquis, trickster, gallant

extremely literal: biter, shielder, lung, clairvoyant

tempting fate: vikare (icarus)

is that your cape name or real name?: grace, victor, jack (slash), dinah alcott, august prince, felix swoop, gregor (the snail)

dorky: glory girl, kid win, mouse protector, strapping lad

seriously?: hatchet face, chubster, wanton, leet

clearly wanted to be a fantasy protagonist: shatterbird, sundancer, crane the harmonius

same but for sci-fi: laserdream, raymancer, lightstar, professor haywire

embarrassing mixup waiting to happen: nix and nyx, othala and othello

the what-now?: grue, parian, rime, sere

puns: clockblocker, damsel of distress, assault (and battery), agnes court

unpronounceable: glastick uwenei glaistaig uaoinye the faerie queen

Thinker: Core of her upset during the standoff is the fact she’s been picking on a notorious supervillain for the past year and a half, tried to tear her down with utmost confidence just an hour prior, failed miserably, and is just now finding out why she failed miserably; and if there’s a reason she hasn’t previously been bugged to death, or a reason she isn’t now going to be bugged to death, she can’t see one. If the shoe hasn’t dropped yet, if Skitter isn’t buying into the same framework of strength she does, if she just sat there and took everything when she was this powerful, she doesn’t know why.

Shaker. You’ve got this drama playing out in front of the whole student body. Superheroes who’ve cornered a supervillain, and now that supervillian is calmly articulating how this is pretty clearly an underhanded trick meant to goad the supervillain into taking hostages, i.e, you, i.e the person she has excellent reason to want to hurt either way. You’re surrounded by people with a mix of opinions on Skitter, you don’t know what any given person is going to do if she calls for backup or makes a play, you don’t know when all hell is going to break loose or what form it’ll break loose in.

Striker. Skitter does take one petty jab, running a centipede over Emma’s arm to spook her at a pivotal moment in her speech. The first real expression of the fact she’s any kind of consideration in the whole mess, but maybe not the principle factor….

The standard rule for powers is that they could solve the immediate problem while reinforcing the trauma so suppose Emma triggers with the ability to detect and syphon powers, weakening a cape and imbuing a copy of those powers on to someone else.

It could also have a cousin of Teacher’s power, making anyone she gives powers to less willing/able to target or harm her and more inclined to listen to her while they have the powers, scaling up the more she gives them. So the most effective strategy for her is to strongly empower people who would want to hurt her, just as she unwittingly did with Taylor,

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.