A Sentient Printer

Doing a final project in my stats class, we have to pick a subject and collect data on it. We need at least 100 data points, and I figured this blog is big enough that a poll on here could get to that pretty easily!

Doing my project on if it’s more likely to be born in certain months :]

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

But it was along the lines of "instead of asking whether something is out of character, ask 'what would it take for this character to do this'"

Which I think fits really nicely with this advice of making the actual action itself also feel in character

Edit: Here's the post I'm referencing!

Thank you to @amindamazed for the correction!

back then i made a bunch of these but by now i lost the pic and dont know how to find the original post anymore

so anyway here is the diagram for anyone else who is interested!!

this requires pretty big carboard pieces, if you have a really big box or something you can make it from one piece, but if you don't, you can also just make each of the pieces individually and then tape them together

and then in the end you put it together like this!!

and then when you make a bunch you can put them all next to each other and stack your books like crazy

between friends has become a

cultural icon.

So may I present my own casting choice for Odysseus:

I will also say that I think the problems with the movie's casting, costuming, and color grading are all related. Like, Nolan went with the Hollywood Viking aesthetic because he thought Odysseus would look silly in a slutty little bedsheet. And it's like, no, you don't understand: Matt Damon would look silly in a slutty little bedsheet. 40ish Jason Mantzoukas in a thigh-length, rust-colored chiton, olive limbs shining in the Mediterranean sun, would send male-attracted folks everywhere into the stratosphere.

hearing an old man saying something

Captain’s an asshole

Captain’s awesome (same captain)

first mate sucks

whiskey

the girls out here

the girls back home

ship is terrible

ship is great

Cape Horn

seriously why are we always running around Cape Horn this place sucks ass

want to go home

did NOT want to go home, somehow ended up there anyway

Sally and various sex acts we can do with her

beach party

rolling, heaving, hauling

where we’re bound

sea beasties threatening us and/or assisting us

stormy weather but we’re together

setting out to sea

coming in to harbor/taking shore leave

too much whiskey

punishing naughty crewmen

Let Me Tell You About This Guy

Goodbye!

Hello!

let us bother this fellow

oh man I should marry that one girl if I ever get back home

befriended an animal, call my parents if you don’t believe me!

you ever been to Place?

I have been grievously misled

sailors gotta sail

let’s get this bread, boys

don’t forget your old shipmate

hearing an old man saying something - John Kanaka, One More Day, Homeward Bound, Leave Her Johnny

Captain’s an asshole - Liverpool Judies

Captain’s awesome (same captain) - same

first mate sucks - same

whiskey - Whiskey Johnny

the girls out here - Running Down to Cuba, Rio Grande, Down to Old Maui, Spanish Ladies, Cape Cod Girls, Good Morning Ladies All, New York Girls

the girls back home - Liverpool Judies

ship is terrible - The Worst Old Ship

ship is great - Roll and Go, Sailboat Malarkey (but the ship is also a woman and I am fucking the ship)

Cape Horn - Randy Dandy O, Go Down Ye Blood Red Roses

seriously why are we always running around Cape Horn this place sucks ass

want to go home - One More Day, Homeward Bound

did NOT want to go home, somehow ended up there anyway - Liverpool Judies (it’s a busy song)

Sally and various sex acts we can do with her - Roll Boys Roll (Sally Brown), Round the Corner Sally, Bully in the Alley (or acts you CAN’T do with Sally)

beach party - Rio Grande

rolling, heaving, hauling - Cape Cod Girls, Heave Away, Hauley Hauley Ho, Roll Boys Roll, Liverpool Judies, Randy Dandy O, about eighty other things

where we’re bound - Old Maui, Running Down to Cuba, Rio Grande, Coast of High Barbary

sea beasties threatening us and/or assisting us - Fish in the Sea

stormy weather but we’re together - Fish in the Sea, Windy Old Weather

setting out to sea - Good Morning Ladies All

coming in to harbor/taking shore leave - One More Day, Leave Her Johnny

too much whiskey - Whiskey Johnny, So Early in the Morning

punishing naughty crewmen - Drunken Sailor

Let Me Tell You About This Guy - Johnny Boker, Billy Riley, Stormalong John

Goodbye! - Spanish Ladies, Padstow Farewell, Bold Riley Oh

Hello! - Good Morning Ladies All

let us bother this fellow - Dead Horse

oh man I should marry that one girl if I ever get back home - Bully in the Alley

befriended an animal, call my parents if you don’t believe me! - Derby Ram

you ever been to Place? - Bonnie Hieland Lassie, Rio Grande, Old Maui, Donkey Riding

I have been grievously misled - The Last of Barrett’s Privateers

sailors gotta sail - Off to Sea Once More, Where’m I to Go Me Johnnies?

let’s get this bread, boys - Paddy Lay Back, Handy Me Boys, Leave Her Johnny, Worst Old Ship

don’t forget your old shipmate - Don’t Forget Your Old Shipmate

faldee raldee raldee raldee rye-eye-doe - Randy Dandy O, Roller Bowler