#significant decision

[rhythmicreverie]

In the land of shadows, where secrets lie, A hero rises, with heart that won't die. With quests grand and epic, unlikely heroes unite, Their hearts ablaze, as fate they fight. Magical artifacts glimmer in the night, Guiding them onward, through the endless light. A decision looms, with consequences dire, Yet in this realm, only courage can inspire.

#writing #storytelling #internet #engaging content #short stories #blog posts #magical artifacts #epic quests #unlikely heroes #significant decision #courage #shadows

[prosegalaxy]

In the realm of dreams, a choice was made, By mortal hands unseen, a fate was laid. A quest began, with heroes brave and bold, To find a relic lost, in shadows cold. Through forests dark, and mountains high, They ventured forth, with hearts that cry. An unlikely hero rose, from humble birth, With a heart of fire, and courage worth. A magical artifact, in the depths of night, Found by the hero's might. The choice was made, as darkness fell, A decision that would change all, and bind all well. In under 100 words, a tale of rich text, Of epic quests and unlikely heroes, we bequeath.

#fantasy #short story #literature #magical artifacts #epic quests #unlikely heroes #significant decision

[hamartia-grander]

Wyll calling his lover his 'star'. Astarion's spawn ending being him adventuring and performing heroics of his own choice. Wyll naming his adopted daughter Lily. The flower Astarion's lover puts on his grave being a lily. Monster hunter turned monster and monster turned hunter. Can nobody hear me

#Clawing at the walls who was in the writer's room making all these decisions #Technically every relationship both exists and doesn't exist simultaneously (schrodinger's relationships) depending on how you play #But the narrative significance of wyllstarion being canon will always drive me crazy #Don't even get me started on shadowzel too my GOODNESS #wyllstarion #bloodpact #Wyll Ravengard #astarion ancunin #Astarion #Bg3 Wyll #bg3 astarion #Bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #baldur's gate 3

[cologona]

Bruce didn’t mean to slice Jason’s throat and if he did mean it, it was only to disable , it wasn’t lethal and the wound would’ve been treated, and though that didn’t happen it wasn’t Bruce who sealed Jason’s fate but Joker who set off the explosion, and anyways Jason didn’t actually die he comes back in other comics.

Except none of that matters. It matters for the validity of UTRH as a Batman story that Bruce has deniability sure, but does it absolve him? UTRH says No. At the end of the day Bruce would rather attack his son than let his murderer die. Bruce thought he was refusing the choice but the lesson of this tragedy is that refusing to pick one over the other boils down to choosing the other.

#I don’t care if Jason didn’t technically canonically die it doesn’t absolve Bruce one bit #we saw him bleed out onto the floor and then we saw the building debris his body would’ve been trapped under #narratively his arc was over he might as well have died a second time #Bruce doesn’t get point for DC deciding Jason was popular enough to keep alive he doesn’t get points for comic book bullshit miracles #‘Jason got revived a second time’ is as reasonable as ‘he walked it off idk fuck you don’t think about it’ #the thing is UTRH is the most sympathetic Bruce has ever been wrt Jason IMO #but the split second decision he makes is so… significant #there’s a reason that the ultimatum scene of the movie version of UTRH gets made fun of #jason todd #batsalt #anti bruce wayne #put a pin on it

[utilitycaster]

I firmly believe that pre-taping has been, overall, good, and that anyone who claims the stream is different than when it was live is fucking making that shit up because it's indistinguishable, with the singular exception of Sam posting The Full Chetney on Twitter 2 minutes after the end of the stream with an admission that he couldn't figure out Reddit.

#cr spoilers #more generally i have a lot of thoughts re some of the entitlement this past week/early chat like playing backseat producer is NOT cute. #like ok 23 year old with poorly managed depression your ass CANNOT make informed production decisions. #or like. wow. tlovm is not coming out as soon as past seasons? almost like a significant character's VA died and also there was a strike. #but that was also a problem with early lockdown [remember the unironic masque of the red death suggestions] #unfortunately when you have a good show the entitled pricks will arrive to see it #(should add: i have been the 23 yo w/poorly managed depression this is why i'm judging that mindset.)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jingles a little bell in front of you to convince you to do tasks.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #jin ling #wei wuxian #lan jingyi #lan sizhui #A-qing #Not tagging XXC its too mean #Season 2 is underway! This episode has so much going on but it's a great season start #I adore how the juniors bicker in the opening scene....especially jin ling #I know there's more to him wanting to help out than just the jingle jangle of the clarity bell but also #from the outside it really does look like wwx jingled a little bell in front of him and made him go from 'not helping' to 'fine I'll help' #I also have failed to capitalize on the fact little jin ling has a bell on him. It has meaning and emotional weight. However. #JC really said: 'this little boy keeps getting underfoot and lost in crowds. I'll put a bell on him'. #Its stated that *all* the yunmeng jiang disciples had a clarity bell. Which is 1) funny to think they all wander off at times 2) owwww #Also extra 'Owww' the audio drama adds with this scene is the weight on how wwx never got to give baby JL the bell he carved as a gift #That little bell can hold so much significance to so many aspects of these character's lives. #'Clarity' as an adjective here is also pulling some fun weight. JL slowly coming to truly see myx/wwx as someone more than the rumours #have made him out to be. Teen discovers that you should make your own decisions about someone! Good for him! #JL is a great character and I like him more than my silly little comic design implies.

[tanadrin]

Do you think that people who invent things with very destructive consequences are blinded to the downsides of it more by money or more by scientific curiosity?

I think the downsides are not always immediately obvious. Coal-fired electricity looks a lot more attractive in 1882 when there's literally only one such power plant and the global population is like 18% its present value. TNT was invented as a yellow dye, and it's so stable its usefulness as an explosive wasn't discovered until thirty years later.

We have this collective mental image, promoted by simplifications of historical narratives, that the inventor is a lone genius who through his labor produces an artifact and all its consequences in a single moment in time, and without which the thing would never be invented. Pretty much every point in that narrative is wrong. New technologies are the culmination of many different discoveries; there are enough very smart people working at the cutting edge of these fields that if one of them did not discover the principles behind these inventions, another almost certainly would sooner or later; and the exact applications of new technologies, nevermind how they will change society when those applications are utilized, often take years or decades to discover.

Now, I think there is an extent to which, as a working scientists, you can reasonably be held to account for the work you do. If you work at the Acme National Horrible Death By Chemical Weapons Laboratory, and invent a new, horrible chemical weapon, you do not get to go "oh no!" in shock when somebody dies to your horrible chemical weapon. And sometimes scientists do have a pretty good idea of how their technology will be used--the Haber Process was originally invented to manufacture fertilizers, but its application to the manufacturing of explosives was pretty clear to Fritz Haber, and he joined the German effort to develop deadlier chemical weapons pretty enthusiastically.

Men like Haber seem historically to be motivated not by intrinsic greed, but by the things which motivate us all: the desire to provide for their loved ones, the approval of their peers and the respect of their colleagues, and their status in society. The problem with respect to scientists who know damn well what they're doing isn't that everybody working at the Acme National Horrible Death By Chemical Weapons Laboratory is greedy and the job pays too much; the problem is that society, by and large, respects you and looks up to you and fetes you at public events and talks about what a patriot and a community leader you are if you do really well at inventing new, horrible chemical weapons.

#i knew a guy in university who said he would have no problem working for weapons r&d #because it's not the designers of the weapons who decide how they're used #and there was a valid point there: #shaking your finger at fritz haber only absolves the german general staff of the decision to use the weapon #or the kaiser of the decision to wage war #of all the people involved in the chain of events leading to chlorine gas in the trenches of the western front #fritz haber was probably the most generic #in the sense that if you went back in time and killed him in 1915 probably nothing significant would change #i think it's a little too pat to say the person designing the horrible chemical weapon has *no* responsibility #i certainly would find the idea of trying to figure out new ways to kill people extremely morally unpleasant #but without the military and political will to use those weapons #they just sit on shelves until they stop working

[mezucore]

next stop on my bookbinding journey is the couple down the street by @godlizzza which was one of my greatest most fun reads ever. i wish it could have gone on forever

#some fics are what i call fandom defining. meaning i think they had a significant and lasting impact on the fandom they were written for #this fic. that's fandom defining #here are the boring details: #it's a massive A5 sized book #the pages total nears 400 because i have included a section after the epilogue with all of the related prompts from Imagine Me & You #it feels sturdier than my first book and i changed my sewing thread so it's also easier to read ! #i did the whole cover using the geometric lasso tool in csp bc i didn't feel like drawing with the tablet and i think it was a good decision #if only i could get better at gluing the covers on straight #i spent the whole night working on it and watched the entirety of reanimator & bride LOLL #also my printer was going through it. i had to change the ink midway through and redo it all over again #lastly #I love love LOVE this fic #book-binding #my art #re-animator #danbert

[pechebeche]

i can't believe im seeing bad tlou marlene opinions in 2023. ladies can we PLEASE let black women be morally complex and make difficult choices you might not agree with without turning it into "this MORON doesn't believe our BELOVED MAN and she isn't actually trying to save people anyway!!" can we please give the benefit of the doubt to "woman tries to perform trolley problem" as "guy who picks other answer when trolley problem involves loved one." please

#you can forgive joel for TORTURE but when marlene makes the hardest decision of her life and dies for it THATS unforgivable??? #tlou #as a heads up i played the game years ago if theres significant differences in the show then sure whatever #but like. WHAT am i seeing on my dash #SHES TRYING TO SAVE LITERALLY ALL OF HUMANITY

[eosofspades]

okay i meant to make this post forever ago but my personal opinion on why so many people were so dissatisfied with lightfalll (disclaimer: i am not one of these people, i love lightfall SO much), is that lightfall was kind of subjected to a really aggressive marketing campaign.

like, stick with me here, i feel like almost all the lightfall release content (the trailers especially) were so focused on battling the witness, how this battle has been centuries in the making and this is the Second Collapse Finally Finding Us, only for there to be,,, no real resolution. the end was left on such a severe cliffhanger, but not only that, there was NO battle with the witness. the witness didn't even seem to be having a hard time at all with what we WERE throwing at it.

and for narrative reasons *i* am obsessed with this ending; in terms of storytelling i adore practically every creative decision that was made in lightfall, but i think the reason that so many people were so upset about it is because lightfall had such intense marketing and was rooted in the implication that this was the End of Days, only for us to get almost no closure, and instead so many more questions.

(there's also something to be said, i think, about the fact that the people who ARE most upset about this are like, the youtube gamer dudebros who's content is very very often rooted in the aggressive, violence-and-warfare, pvp-centric, no-interest-in-lore approach to destiny, and that the people i've seen primarily ENJOYING the narrative decisions (or at least being understanding about it) are the artists and writers and loremasters of the fandom, but i'm not quite sure,,, how to expand on that point.)

#like. something something yt dudebros who are like 'uhhh destiny is about violence and war and the lore is only for people who suck at pvp #and destiny is a shitty evil game i hate it sooooo much hashtag 26871435 hours recorded gameplay' asshats #being the ones complaining MOST about the narrative in. a narrative driven game. and refusing to engage with ANY lore in a LORE HEAVY GAME #vs. the community on here thats full of artists and writers and people who actually like to analyze the story and characters #and engage with the lore and have any emotional attachment at all to the characters and world and themes #being the ones who are like. appreciative of the narrative decisions made and looking forward to where the story will take us and #looking at the game with LOVE instead of hatred and malice #and even if you didn't like lightfall!!! people in the latter category are still the people who i keep seeing be like #'yeah even if i didn't personally like it i can understand the significance of this narrative decision.' #'i acknowledge that bungie put so much time and effort and passion into making this even if it wasnt satisfying to me personally.' #'i have the critical thinking skills to understand that bungie is not a sentient malicious entity trying to ruin my life; me; specifically' #like. do you get what im saying. gamer dudebros who think the world revolves around them vs the fandom members who actually understand art #bc. thats what destiny is. its art. the whole thing is a massive art project made by a group of people that are very passionate about it. #do you hear what im saying at ALL its like two separate fandoms for the same piece of media the difference is so stark #mine #destiny 2 #lightfall #destiny 2 lightfall #eos destiny essays

[hephaestuscrew]

Thoughts on the patterns of who speaks the episode title phrases in Wolf 359

This analysis is based on the data I gathered in this spreadsheet and summarised with graphs in this post. Basically I've been looking at which character first says the episode title phrase (i.e. the exact words which form the name of that particular episode) in every episode of Wolf 359. Go and look at the spreadsheet if you want more context.

I think we can view the episode title phrases as often expressing the key problem or question of that episode. (I might talk about this in relation to individual examples another time.) Through this lens, the consideration of who speaks the title phrase is about which character gets to frame the key issue of the episode for the listener. This doesn't necessarily mean we are meant to share that character's view of the issue, but it's why I think there is some potentially significant analysis to be done on this topic. (See below the cut...)

The proportion of title phrases said by Eiffel reduces with each season. 69.2% of the Season 1 title phrases are (first) spoken by Eiffel, compared to 46.6% in Season 2, 22.2% in Season 3, and 20% in Season 4.

This is perhaps unsurprising. Eiffel is very much the main perspective character and the primary narrative voice at the start of the series. And, as someone with unusual speech patterns, he is excellent at coining a good memorable title phrase. However, while I'd argue that he never stops being the main protagonist, over the course of the series, the narrative focus broadens away from a singular emphasis on Eiffel's perspective. This perspective shift is reflected in episode titles being spoken by a greater range of characters.

I think the decreasing proportion of Eiffel title phrases also reflects the podcast's shift towards a generally more dramatic rather than comedic tone. While Eiffel is capable of being serious at times, I'd argue that his mode of speech is particularly well suited to generating amusing unusual turns of phrase that work well within a more comedic context (e.g. Succulent Rat-Killing Tar, What's Up Doc?, Bach to the Future). As the stakes become higher and the tone becomes less humorous, characters other than Eiffel, who are more often inclined to take things very seriously, are more likely to speak the title phrases.

There's also just the fact that as we get more characters involved in the action on the Hephaestus, the opportunity to speak the title phrase is spread between more characters.

Although Eiffel is by far and away the most common speaker of title phrases in Season 1, in the first three episodes of the whole show, we get all the characters of that season represented in the title phrases. Minkowski speaks the title phrase in the second episode and Hera does in the third episode - but probably quoting a phrase from Hilbert. This gives us a good early indication that, while Eiffel may be the focal point particularly in this season, this is going to be an ensemble show and all of these characters are going to be significant.

Hilbert's only title phrase is in Ep12 Deep Breaths, in the first stage of his mutiny, arguably the only point in the show where he appears to clearly have the upper hand while acting alone.

After the SI-5 are introduced at the beginning of Season 3, we get five Kepler or Jacobi title phrases in a row, which solidifies the SI-5's presence in the show. It also highlights the fact that the SI-5 have taken over the Hephaestus and are now (at least ostensibly) the ones determining the aims of the Hephaestus mission.

In addition, these patterns might be seen to reflect the shift in the show towards a more conflict-focused tone (related but not identical to the movement away from comedy). While Wolf 359 has always been a show full of conflict, the balance of this conflict shifts with the arrival of the SI-5. For the first team, our protagonists are facing a unified team of antagonists. The potential for violence feels higher, as do the stakes. This might explain why, while we only had one antagonist-spoken title phrase across Seasons 1 and 2 (Hilbert in Ep12 - Lovelace doesn't get a title phrase while she's serving as an antagonist), 44.4% of our Season 3 title phrases are first spoken by antagonists.

The only title phrase spoken by Maxwell is spoken by her in a recording that we hear after her death. This isn't even the only posthumous title phrase spoken from the past in Season 4 - we've got one from Commander Zhang of the Tiamat as well. It's an interesting kind of legacy, an interesting way to emphasize the questions characters leave behind after death, recalling similar themes to those explored in Ep46 Boléro.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #There's probably more to say but I'll leave it there #Sorry to end it kind of abruptly #I haven't got an overall conclusion #I don't necessarily think these patterns are conscious decisions by the writers btw #but I think they can be significant anyway #I know I said I was going to put these thoughts in a reblog to the original post #but this is too long for that #and I want to be able to put it in the tag again #Please feel free to add on your thoughts on the spreadsheet or anything #The moment when the episode title phrase is said could be thought of as the 'roll credits' moment #Idk if the significance feels different because they don't say the episode title in introducing the episode #but generally you have to see it when pressing play on the episode so most listeners will probably be vaguely aware of the episode title #the empty man posteth #I'm worried that there might be mistakes in my maths but not enough to check it

[prosegalaxy]

In the shadowed halls of time, A decision weighs upon my soul. Once past, now present, future bound, I stand at life's eternal pond. Must choose, to leap or cling to shore, and face a fate unknown evermore. This moment, fragile as a spider's web, Entwines the threads of time we weave. A choice made, the tapestry shifts, As past, present, future intertwist.

#Gothic poetry #time #tales #significant decision #serious consequences #tapestry of life

[koreandragon]

why the fuck did i go on twitter....

#i'm... baffled #like yeah sure he acted rashly because of his emotions but can you imagine what kind of HURT he must have went through to make this decision #like sorry if my significant other just started throwing out our dead baby's stuff acting like it was nothing #refusing to confide in me about it #I'd get fucking mad too i literally got chills down my spine during this scene because of how cold she was acting #i'm of course not blaming her but why is it suddenly his fault?? #queen of tears

[bluemoonrabbit]

I decided to read the Animorphs because hey, I love body horror and complicated endings, and they're all free online!

Mistake!!! There are 50-something of these fuckers and I cannot stop reading a thing til it's done! I'm fucked!

#🙃 #the body horror is top notch though #people were not exaggerating #lots of 'i watched as my friend's face exploded into horrific wiggling appendages and felt my organs melting within me #i wanted to scream but I no longer had a tongue' #cool and good #the writing itself *is* very middle-grade and simple #but the plots are fun/horrifying #In this episode: ​The team willingly subjects themselves to ego death! #will they lose themselves to the overpowering urge to Become Insect? Or just escape with significant mental trauma? #stay tuned to find out! #animorphs #also ngl #Cassie half-jokingly asking Jake if he will take the tough decision off her hands #and Jake simply and willingly going 'I will if you really want me to' #got me good #love this exploration of the burden of leadership #through the lens of of a gentle and serious boy

[alasroundrock]

Okay soooooo

First statement from the 18th century? Oh I wonder who else was born in that century and why it wasn't Chester or Norris reading this

Very Posh Voice (someone who could have believably been an old man from a different century)

'But I was young and frightened, and simply watched in quiet awe.' ?? that's what I thought you'd say you dumb fucking horse

A tale with themes of hubris and a man sacrificing both parts of himself and the lives of others to place himself above his fellow men???

Where else have I seen someone bleeding for their own goals (ehm gouging own eyes out ehm) and feeding their entity via the life and fear of others. I know the second part is a common feature of avatars (assuming they even exist in this universe) but I want to hope it's him ok

With all the deaths and the terror it was all still worth it to the violinist because of the music??? Remembering Simon's talk about how being an avatar is like hearing the most beautiful music in your dreams. Thinking about Elias admitting the exhilaration of knowing you would be willing to sacrifice the entire world in the name of your own freedom. Thinking about 'Nothing's wrong with him. He's the pupil of the Eye. He's won.'

In conclusion: Jimmy Magma enjoy your vacation inside the computer

#I hope someone tries to update him only to be confronted by The Horrors^(TM) #the magnus protocol #magpod #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #also I really don't think it's leitner #leitner first of all had less relevance to the major plot after season 2 when brutal pipe murder occurs #and if these statements are purposefully linked to the narrators then the only thing in common with leitner is the giant ego and arrongance #insert jurgen leitner rant #leitner had no talent of his own just the money and the means to have other people pay the price of his decisions for him #it is instead pretty significant that jonah does get his hands dirty so to speak #it's a pretty relevant part of the series I'd say #jonah magnus decided to fuck around and find out

[erikkarlsson]

not watching the nhl until they finally take mark stone to the big farm upstate like the sick elderly dog he apparently is

#what a joke #this has happened the past 4 seasons? really just remarkable consistency #maybe someone should conduct a study on how all these players on playoff teams always sustain long-term (read: 6 week) injuries #right before the trade deadline its really a crazy coincidence i would stake my life on there being statistical significance actually #cant imagine how this could be happening 🤔 eichel…stone…kucherov…every year! in the same window! #maybe its the earth’s orbit or perhaps a fluctuation in the magnetic field we really wont know until we investigate #what a joke of a league no wonder its still lagging behind 3 other leagues in america #we should really just kill gary bettman atp its a business decision