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the reason it takes me as long as it does to do my transportation homework, is at least half of the time I spend it doing shit like this instead of the actual write-up....

#James liveblogs grad school #ODOT shaming tag #I think pelican mouth meme should be an acceptable format for documents submitted to city governments yes?#pelican mouth

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reallyreallyreallytrying

no fucking way

#BEAUTIFUL.#spiders georg

mortuary9

wip:]

#he's so pretty <33 #Critical Role #Essek Thelyss #artwork

started playing Hollow Knight recently and have been doing a bunch of that the last couple weeks. and well, so far:

I've opened up some public transit stations <3

I accepted a quest from a sad lady to deliver a flower to an area I don't have the abilities necessary to access yet. the flower is apparently so delicate it will shatter if you take it on the public transit. (this one I've put aside for later for obvious reasons.)

I went wandering around through a large and fancy transit station with some absolutely jacked security all over the place trying to stop fare jumpers even in undeath I guess???

went wandering past the large and fancy station, started following a sign with what I think is like, the royal crest? and it led me into some kind of abandoned murder basement ;_____; I don't like this why do you have this under your city (and it looks like attached to yet more [defunct] public transit??) ;_____;

also. do you know where is a place I frankly find it disturbing and unsettling to find our cheery-as-always cartographer friend in? THE CREEPY FUCKING TUNNELS CONNECTED TO THE MURDER BASEMENT.

in other news people keep calling me a "ghost" and possibly other similar things, and well. you can't fool me, game. I am well-primed to hear things like that and jot them down as potentially Very Very Literal and also a key part of the emerging lore! ....which is, once again shall we say, Concerning.

oh, and I almost forgot: RUDE and UNNECESSARY af for this setting's mimics to try and look like FRIEND BABY CATERPIES IN JARS. the baby caterpies are adorable and pure of heart and do not deserve to be sullied by instruments of mistrust and suspicion ;___;

FURTHER EDIT: I can't believe I almost forgot about the utter silly joy of "cheese the patrolling city guards and anything else I can find by jumping and stabbing them through the floor"! 10/10 game mechanics, absolutely no notes XD

#James liveblogs video games #fwiw I actually know almost nothing in terms of spoilers for this game and I prefer to keep it that way #so that I can have experiences like. y'know. wandering down unaware into the creepy murder basement.#(unfortunately I was prevented from following that sign all the way to its destination yet :( I think by an area that needs a double jump?)#(so. just you wait creepy murder basement palace. I'll be back.)#Hollow Knight

yutaan

A papercraft memorial portrait of Cinder, a wonderfully sweet cat. Her most beloved pose was loafing with her legs tucked up underneath her, so that was the requested pose for the piece. I hope I did her cuteness justice!

#oh my goodness. baby. sweet baby.#may her memory be a blessing <3 #pet death cw #cats #papercraft #artwork

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force-walker

jedi knight simultaneously the sacrificial lamb and the scapegoat of the Jedi order 😔🙏 playing a slightly DS jedi knight after chapter 2 onwards is insane because everyone is talking about destiny and the will of the force and how you have to be the one to face the emperor and ever since you arrived on Tython people have been molding you into a weapon and Satele really gambles it all on you. if you defeat the emperor and hold to the light side then she was right all along and everything you went through was worth it and if you do it but you fall then she was still right and you were the one who wasn’t strong enough despite the fact you got 0 guidance and support about how much fighting and killing you were asked to do despite the fact she was the one who told you that the living force affects the one who does the killing . like she couldn’t get too involved because she had to trust the will of the force but even if the jedi knight freaks and insists they need help or they can’t do this they’re only given platitudes and not teaching. not at all helped by the Sith who joins their crew and reinforces the same lessons but in a different way . me when I do everything asked of me and more up to and including the Sith emperor and an publicly humiliated on live holotv and denied the rank of master and given the pity title of commander/general by the REPUBLIC SENATE and not the jedi order because I couldn’t keep my head above water the way they wanted me to

#SWTOR #Jedi Knight class story you are such a wonderful deconstruction of hero narratives when read in the right light <333

berryinnit

t-shirt with the words “high-functioning corpse” printed on it

#t'would be an excellent addition to my reduce/reuse/reanimate one!#necromancy

another thing I was thinking about the other day is how, with Kahadi/Orcish taking the functional place of ~Common~ in the campaign context, the implication does appear to be that the Sundered Houses (and anyone else moving to the nice new barrowdell) all ended up having to learn and speak Kahadi in any regular context outside their own inherently limited social circle.

and then we also have houses like Einfasen and presumably Royce regularly speaking heritage-specific languages amongst themselves - Helvarian which we've clearly seen, and Sylvan - which has me also quite curious about whether the younger generations especially would know/speak any Obridimian at all at this point.

(tbqh I think it could've been really cool to have the Sundered Houses meeting narrated as being conducted in Obridimian. but then on the gameplay logistics side, that would essentially mandate Wick and probably Tyranny have that language on their character sheets, which would have other ongoing implications in the campaign.)

#it would've be a funny-to-me-personally (if unreasonable as a DM) choice to have multiple PCs rock up to the meeting #and then not understand anything anyone's saying/getting minimal intel from the whole thing bc like #“welp we had Occtis doing something else and not available to translate! :(”#obvious reasons why that would be a no-go for gameplay and story but like.#“love what you're doing here with the standard D&D languages!! now what about if we extended the realism more until it became a Problem >:)#Critical Role #CR campaign 4

corrya

It's not lost on me that Dol-makjar is a historically orcish city and yet has a governing body consisting entirely of humans. How the hallowed round, the very site of so much orcish suffering, is mearly on a lease to Hal from the sundered houses, trying to corrupt and shape the stories they share there.

#the Hallowed Round being on lease from House Halovar is one of those things that's truly bonkers and outrageous if you think about it at all #and also speaks - whether intentionally or not - to the US history & present of property rights construction as a tool of colonialism #(Aabria & Brennan you want to tell me about historical & evolving orcish understandings of property Sooooo badly <3)#Critical Role #CR4 #meta

deoxoid

his wife has filled THEIR house with ANTIQUES. to AVOID DAMAGING HER VALUABLES i fuck him on the floor

#fascinated by the evolution of this - meme I guess?#(meme in the same sense as like. the entire Goncharov thing)#anyway. porn as a site of rich social commentary and analysis etc. etc.#(tbc I think there are Many lenses of meaning and critique in all of these and it's not that One Alone is Correct. if that needs said)

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scribefindegil

like it's genuinely absurd how every post by an aro person going "Hey, it's kind of fucked up that marriage is the only way to access certain rights and privileges" gets people coming out of the woodwork to say "You idiot! Don't you know that marriage is important?! It's the only way to access certain rights and privileges!"

like . . . yeah. they do know that. that is in fact the problem.

#I just don't think 'if these legal protections are Actually important to you then you should be Purely 100% Uncaring And Pragmatic -#- about the substantial current & historical baggage surrounding the legal and sociocultural institutions of marriage and just Do It Anyway #is a particularly charming or empathetic or compassionate stance to have.#so yes. perhaps it is a frivolous luxury to be in a position where the pragmatic concerns don't outweigh your personal ick factor.#and/but society should fucking ALLOW people frivolous luxuries like good gotdamn.#and also. the point is that MAYBE IT SHOULDN'T BE ONE IN THE FIRST PLACE.#society providing space for people to have emotional reasons for not/wanting to do something is Kind Of Important Y'know.#amatonormativity #marriage #aromantic #(-adjacent at least)

kerosene-in-a-blender

In light of the most recent episode showing us exactly what it looks like when Primus loses his shit, and Alex very deliberately and on purpose having Occtis react very viscerally to that (as a victim of Primus' abuse, as Alex has been pretty clearly playing him since day one), I've been thinking about the fact that Brennan has also made it very clear that the abuse wasn't limited to Occtis, despite his very limited screentime it's incredibly apparent that Ethrand was also abused. Brennan was most clear about this in the most recent episode, having Primus screaming at Ethrand while jabbing a finger in his face, but the signs were there as early as episode 4. Ethrand was gleefully asserting himself in the Palazzo, reveling in the murder of his brother and the soon-to-be-murder of the Lady Royce, until Primus showed up, at which point Ethrand was immediately cowed and diminished himself. The way Brennan portrayed that moment made it clear Ethrand is afraid of Primus, which is not the reaction of a man whose father treated him well.

What's also interesting is the contrasting ways this abuse effected Occtis and Ethrand's behaviour. One of the very first phrases Alex uses to describe Occtis is that he is "small in presence", and that's be been borne out by how he plays him. Occtis is constantly trying to be as unobtrusively and inoffensive as possible in order to stay out of any potential lines of fire from other people, and indeed growing frustrated with doing this is part of why he blew up at Julien the way he did. One notable example of Occtis avoiding potential conflict with others is when Amadah and Ingrid arrive at Castle Torch and Occtis declines going out to meet them despite Thaisha insisting that druids are cool with him now; he's unsure and avoids a potential confrontation by avoiding the interaction entirely. While Ethrand also displays this behaviour when around Primus, see again the aforementioned scene in episode 4 as well as his quiet guilt in the Sundered Houses meeting where he did not say a single word, when around people he has some power over he completely turns this around, and revels in making people feel as small as his father makes him. We've only seen this directly in interactions he's had with Occtis (throwing rocks at his head when they were children; taunting him while murdering him), but I wouldn't doubt he's also like this around the peasantry and anyone else deemed "lesser", taking the hurt that has been inflicted on him and turning it on others.

Not that any of this absolves Ethrand of the choices he has made. He still murdered his brother and told him there had always been something wrong with him as he did so. Him being made into what he is by his father's abuse explains this, it does not excuse it (and I strongly suspect that this will be a generational pattern with House Tachonis, once we come to learn more about Nullus and his relationship with his own children). But it does tap into one of the overarching themes of the campaign: becoming something more than what you were shaped to be by those that made you. While I suspect we won't see Ethrand become anything other than what he is, by virtue of being a PC, Occtis has a chance to.

#Critical Role #cr spoilers #yeah to the point about it being a generational thing - that's absolutely my read too #Nullus's very first introduction before we know literally anything else about him is ''Primus you fool; what have you done?!''#more speculatively - I suspect some of the fear Brennan narrates for Primus at the meeting is about more than *just* the Sundered Houses #anticipating consequences of failing a larger-than-life authority figure in this vein would make a lot of sense of that reaction #(and for that matter would be another iteration of what's discussed here with Ethrand)#...ah and now I'm also thinking about this wrt Occtis's wish to find someone else among his siblings 'on his team' as it were #any subtle disagreement as a potential indicator they didn't want him dead #shared mistreatment as reason for alliance #CR campaign 4 #meta #Occtis Tachonis

trochaic-mutant-ninja-tetrameter

🎶Happy Ides of March, y'all! Et tu, Brute?🎵

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

rainyydoves

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

bigbigtruck

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old

#1. the average person doesn't know WHAT?? D: [insert xkcd comic]#2. 'are you really bad at fromsoft games or is your frame of reference semi-professional youtube challenge- & speed-runners'#'are you really bad at critical thinking & research or are you in grad school'#......anyway

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subtweeting the FUCK out of a major newspaper article that pissed you off several months ago, in a paper you're writing and submitting to a class for a grade. send post. 😎

paradife-loft

is the paper turned in on time? nope. is it the correct length? also nope (too long).

however!☝️ I made sure the powerpoint presentation was cute.

#cute in the way that a groan-worthy pun is cute. to be clear. for my own entertainment #James liveblogs grad school

subtweeting the FUCK out of a major newspaper article that pissed you off several months ago, in a paper you're writing and submitting to a class for a grade. send post. 😎

#.....tbf I'm not *entirely* sure it counts as subtweeting when you're also citing said article in proper Chicago style notes+bibliography?#however. I'm not calling it out directly in the text and the citation is a footnote. so.#good enough #James liveblogs grad school #this thing is supposed to be a 3 page summary... it is not a 3 page summary #and I'm like. already doing what feels like an inexcusably bare minimum of thoroughness relative to my feelings on the topic OTL #@city council if you ever feel like paying someone to be the municipal Unhinged Parking Policy Reform Researcher/Infodumper.... call me <3 #(I have So much experience guyz. I parked a car at least three times when I was 15 years old. waow :O)

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