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cranesofibycus · 2 years

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Edit: Please don’t send me spoilers for later episodes. This includes “you are right/wrong about xyz interpretation”. Thank you!

Episode 17 has so many incredible, heartbreaking, heartwarming, hilarious and frustrating moments; it’s one of my favorite episodes thus far for sure. A friend of mine told me that he fell in love with the Bells Hells in this episode and I’m inclined to agree.

Between episode 14 and 17 I feel like the rest of them have really come together and have had the opportunity to show some of their softer, less silly sides. I love the silly, but sometimes it can get in the way of genuine character moments and those episodes are full of both, which is great.

Here’s a little roundup of my impressions of the characters so far:

Ashton: This guy is so dumb. Like, can’t get any dumber. They are so preoccupied with being the unattached one, that every of their actions just screams “I don’t deserve to be loved and I will show you why!” - I love his short temper, I love his reluctant admiration of the others and I particularly love that Taliesin gets to play someone who is queer as fuck, yet determined to be disagreeable. That is just peak Taliesin PC design and I think he is having a blast with Ashton so far.

Fearne: This fawn is so smart. And I mean that genuinely. Fearne knows exactly how she can utilize her charm and her assumed innocence to get away with the most outrageous lies and actions. I’m sort of glad that Little Mister has faded into the background a little. I feel like Fearne needs nobody to help her shine. And it’s fascinating to me that it had never before occurred to me that Ashley would be perfect at playing a fey, since Ashley exudes heaps of fey energy even when she is just being herself. I’m curious how she will handle more dramatic scenes in the future. Fearne has shown that she can genuinely care about others, but there is a clear sense that she - as any fey creature - struggles with the dark grey morals of her heritage.

F.C.G.: Sam is a menace. It is known. But I wonder how much of a menace he is being with F.C.G. I think there is a very good chance that Sam knows very little of their backstory, or how much of it is true. The memories Imogen saw in him could’ve been placed there or altered. I adore that Sam chose a race/class/subclass combination that doesn’t cater to his usual dry sarcasm as Nott’s and Scanlan’s builds did. Instead he gets to experiment with humor that stems from F.C.G.’s genuine concern and their unawareness of certain social cues. I’m sure the other Riegel shoe will drop soon enough, but until then I’m just happy to receive puzzle piece after puzzle piece of this robit’s tragic past.

Imogen: Until recently I really thought Laura had built a sweet, soft horse-girl sorceress. Oh what a fool I was! Not that she isn’t all of those things, but Imogen is so much more multi-facetted than I had originally understood. She is driven and curious. She is intrigued by power and convinced of her own abilities. She apologizes to people for invading their minds, but she also enjoys learning other people’s secrets. She is confident! She knows her worth! She understands how to get people to do what you want (not in a strictly manipulative way, but she has definitely learned that showing compassion is a way to get people to talk). I’m super intrigued by her and thus afraid to delve too deep into fandom interpretations of Imogen, because Laura’s track record is 1. build intricate, layered character, 2. fandom builds one-dimensional fanon version of said character, 3. fandom gets mad when Laura dares to stick to her original design for said character (one of the reasons why I’m not massively into glasses!Imogen - it just triggers a fight or flight response in my brain).

Laudna: What a ballsy character design! What a choice of a backstory and a patron! I love that she came up with this and Matt said “yes, and” to all of it. I agree with Orym that Laudna is fascinating not because of her backstory, but rather because she is who she is despite of her backstory. I’m a big believer that great tragedy functions like a fork in the road of your capacity for compassion. Either you become the least or the most compassionate version of yourself, and I adore that Marisha went with the latter. And for some reason I keep thinking of Laudna’s connection to Vox Machina and that she feels like the rebirth of Kerrek’s line in his letter to Keyleth: “Did you know that there are some seeds that cannot sprout unless they are first burned?“ I wish Laudna could’ve had the life she deserved, but I think her capacity to love and feel deeply is informed by the tragedy of her past.

Chetney: Detective!Travis and comic-relief!Travis are two of my favorite Travises, so of course I adore Chetney. I’m so glad he finally gets to live his lycanthropy dreams! I’m curious about Chetney’s backstory and how much of it will activate the other kind of Travis I love, which is the what-makes-a-good-man!Travis. I love when he gets to explore the themes of masculinity, bravery and worthiness and I feel like Chetney might give him the opportunity to examine them from a very different perspective. Or maybe the wolf will die in three sessions, which is also entirely possible. Travis doesn’t trust Sam and I don’t trust Travis. C’est la vie!

Orym: This little guy! What a wee man! In ExU I was not super into Orym because I felt like he faded into the background next to so much color and character, but it is always the quiet ones who worm their way into my heart in the end. In one way or another Liam’s characters always carry an unspeakable amount of grief with them and that grief usually is for a future that was stolen from them. Vax, Caleb and Orym all had to come to terms with the loss of a version of themselves/their lives that they didn’t get to see or live. But with Orym there is a new kind of twist to this baseline of grief: There seems to be an immense amount of hope stored in this tiny dude; a hope for a life that’s worth living or a future that’s worth fighting for or a revenge that is worth pursuing. There is not a lot of Orym (physically), but every inch of this small man is full of love and hope and a deep sense that there are things worth fighting for.

I thought about listing my favorite relationship dynamics so far, but the truth is that it is... all of them. I genuinely enjoy all of their interactions and how the characters mesh with each other. Eleven more episodes until I’m caught up and can laugh about my naïve impressions of them as of episode 17.

#cranes catches up #critical role #long post

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janani1594-blog · 7 years

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Find Yourself..!!!

WHEN A GUY LIKES YOU..JUST NOT ENOUGH..!!! When a guy likes you its obvious...As in clear as today's sky there is no room for errors no signs to interpret or messages to uncover. You know what,even I have asked this question many times myself, it is a miserable feeling to invest your time & emotions into someone when you are not sure where they actually stand.Through time and experience I have learned that when you have to question how he feels..you are already have your answer..."He like's you juz not enough". The problem in so many of us,get caught in this trap trying to figure out why he? We can't understand how he can say so many things, how he can be so open when with us & of course how everything can feel so right when we are with him. May be he has valid reasons. May be he is under a lot of pressure at his job or workplace, may be his parents are not in a good terms which make him to stop believing in monogamy. May be his ex girl friend who cheated on him really did destroy his ability to trust, may be he is terrified of commitment...there could be n-number of reasons.The reasons don't matter and if a guy says he doesn't want to be in a relationship with you - then 'He means it'.He probably does care about you, he does enjoy spending time with you, he does like you..."He doesn't like you enough", may be it's because he's incapable of liking someone past a certain point(a point that would lead to a relationship) or may be he just doesn't see himself with someone like you for reasons beyond your control. it doesn't matter.If he isn't giving you the commitment you want..he likes you , he just doesn't like you enough. If he likes spending time with you and hanging out but doesn't want to be official..he likes you but just doesn't like you enough.If you run each other here and there to talk for hours and maybe even hook up but doesn't hear from him after...he likes you, he just doesn't like you enough. If you have been seeing each other for a while and he refuses to be exclusive or doesn't want to put a label on it..my dear girl trust me..."He likes you,he just doesn't like you enough".Sadly most girls see his lack of liking as a reflection on them,they make it as their problem. They think if only they did more for him,if ony they were prettier,if only they could help him learn to trust again,if only they didn't say this and instead said that..everything would be different-it wouldn't. If that's how he feels nothing you will say or do will change it. His issues are his problems. You pave the way for a lot of unnecessary hurt when you make them as your problem.Trust me, I know how hard it is to extricate yourself from this kind of situation.You have invested so much time and energy into the situation and you refuse to accept things as they are. You pay attention to the things you want to hear and disread all the red flags because you want his relationship to mean something and you just can't accept that he never reciprocated his feelings. You cling to the hope that things would have be different if only XYZ was no longer an issue.When things are good, they are good .When its bad you cling to the memories of the good,rationalizing reasons to stay and you do.You stay until he goes and then you're left crushed. and then the pain comes flooding in. You may think that the reason it hurts so much is because he was the guy for you and you let him get away. But that's not it. I think the reasons it hurts so much when these situations end is because you are left trying to undestand how it is that a smart,intuitive women such as yourself could ignore so many blatant red flags and stay with a guy who didn't treat her right.You feel like you have sold yourself short,like you have compromised your values and gone against what you know to be true and it is a miserable feeling.You feel like he took something from you and now there is a void you need to fill and he did.He took advantage of you he allowed you to keep investing even though he was never on the same page.He made it safe for you to be with him and when someone exploits the gift (you),it can be unbearble. uhh..Better we will correlate these things with our day to day life.. Well you are standing in a cities crowded place. And a weird, crazy looking guy comes up to you and asks for directions. You are a nice person so you oblige, but then later notice that your wallet is missing. You are not surprised in the least, you kind of knew that would happen. Then the things will be like - "Oh well, guess it's time to cancel the credit cards and order a new driving license etc.." Now let's say a handsome,charming guy approaches you in the same place and asking for directions. You oblige and are taken by his charming accent and dreamy eyes. You chat for a while, you gave him a list of nicest places to visit around there,then he leaves you and you reach your wallet... and it's gone. You are devasted . How could I been so stupid? you wonder. I cant believ I fell for that.There must be something wrong with me.,am I really that naive?I thought he was intersted in me, what a fool I am..!! or may be he was just hitting on me and maybe I dropped my wallet some point. I don't think I need to spell out the difference between these two scenarios, it is pretty clear. When we feel like we have compromised our values and better judgement it hurts. We dont want to beleive we could have been so foolish,so we try to find another reason,another explanation,one that removes some culpability.These all things are all about identifying a problem than solving it. I wish there were quick fixes but unfortunately it will take time to get back to your own world.Getting into a new relationship isn't that answer. Take time to figure out who you are actually and what worth's in you..!!Taking the time to reflect on you and works on yourself. After a situation like this, ask yoursef what thoughts/behaviours led you into this rationalizing. What did you bring to the relationship that was good and that you could use in your next relationship? What did you bring was negative and blinded you from seeing what was in front of you? Some people like to meditate for clariy..my choice is journaling about yourself..either way it is important to spend some time looking within yourself so you can come out of the situation even stronger than you were before. Be happy on you own...!!!

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anecdotaltruthbomb · 7 years

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natural hygiene is a rational practice of experimenting with real life

as opposed to experimenting with in vitro reductionism and learning things that are often only meaningful in this isolated context.

it must not be an old school of dogma, not a glorification of dead men's thoughts!

my body is how i know that i am frugivore. it is the device that i use to measure the quality of food and of behavioral habits. this is rational experiment. nothing in my body simply knows that it is frugivore, without prior experimentation. for instance i obviously crave starches and sodium. of course, both are contained in bananas and greens. but they are also contained in cooked food of civilization, in toxic sodium-chloride. my body is stupid, it does not know, that it will poison itself with cooked salty food. only my rational mind can acknowledge the poisoning and grow smart about it.

honestly. common sense does not exist. your whole worldview was taught to you by your random culture (its not common, globally), because your language limits how you can interpret your personal experience and your brain has a highly limited ability to connect with perception directly and to analyze it abstractly, visually, free from constraints of language - few personality types are good at analyzing perception and even they are quite limited and must learn from many painful mistakes - nobody's brain just looks at the world, for example at other people eating fruit and being healthy - and understands, why things are so, or how they are connected. rather we look at things and think nothing of it. and then we believe most that we are told about it, if it seems halfway "plausible", which would mainly imply, that we have no previous believes contradicting it, not that the idea is truly functional, coherent with everything else, visually and intuitively. some, like tony wright (author), believe that we are so detached from true perception because human evolution was held back by being removed from a driving factor, raw fruit, involved hormones, others, like ken wilber, suggest that we have simply not come around yet, to evolve a deeper comprehension, but it is what it is, human nature is quite stupid and violent, because we are by default tool makers, manipulators, not "understanders". we start with a motive and notice only what feedback resists it or fulfills it. only the fool who insists on his own creative folly, by experimenting with many mistakes, becomes wise.

either you are fruitarian, because of having experimented with all kinds of other diets (who hasn't? young people mainly) and thus you know in detail, how those affect the body negatively or you just don’t know for a fact that fruit, even if it works for you, is really the best diet and you believe it just on account of dogma, some kind of narrative you identify with, like naturalism, worst case an instinctual appeal to the authority of some preaching alpha monkey.

also if you have no long term experience, you don’t know, if fruit is good enough. just because it does not poison us, does not mean it causes no tricky deficiencies - i just say this in defense of the scientific method (experimenting # sharing experience) that might inform you about the damage ahead of time, not to bash fruits.

you are totally at the mercy of the produce industry, that has cultured a random selection of fruits and crops for you for all kinds of reasons other than those foods being healthy - only decent taste and good yield matter to them. nothing at all suggests that the nutrient ratio of those foods is ideal for our bodies. wild monkeys do not eat this human selection of produce! which is not to say their selection is any better. it might even be worse. but their evolution played a part in producing this selection. if they were thriving on a fruit, they spread more seeds of that plant.

this is not in defense of manipulating tool makers selling you supplements with made up narratives. its just true.

growing up, i have had all kinds of deficiencies, because i was virtually never eating raw food and very little vegetables. at the time i did not acknowledge a connection between my diet and my developmental issues. all i recall thinking is that i have no severe obvious pathology, like scurvy, so i felt that "nutrients are overrated". especially vitamins and anti-oxidants and minerals, i thought. and my protein was covered anyways.

now i feel really good about a fruitarian diet because it is a hundred times more nutrient rich, then what i used to have and due to some aging, i have become extremely aware of the relevance of anti-oxidants and vitamins and i have become weary of cooked protein.

and i don't know too much about specific possible deficiencies. i will not allow random conmen to talk me into feeling deficient in product xyz, that they are selling. but if there is repeated science, i will consider it. it is, for instance, likely that i belong to the half of humanity that has a higher need for folate. the consequence of getting too little would be anemia, faster aging, less detoxing metabolism. sounds like me. and my bit of iceberg lettuce does not contain much folate, so i intend to eat more spinach .... (there is the idea that folate can not even be replaced by folic-acid supplements. I haven’t investigated that yet) my current experimentation also suggests i need more than the measly 20g of protein that i am sometimes getting on fruit only days, to be satiated with little enough calories, to loose weight or even not regain my weight. my appetite will usually cause me to eat 40g of protein, which may involve overeating or bad foods. its a bit early to tell how much is ideal ... so fruitarianism or natural hygiene is not the end of wisdom. exactly like being a monkey is not the end of evolution. its something to be integrated. absolutely not be abandoned as has been done in civilization so far. the reintegration of RAW living is the beginning of a better future. a future without dementia and other gross diseases of aging. but to make humanity brighter and saner, more tweaking will be required. those brains and genes of ours will continue to evolve as soon as our circumstance become even more beneficial, than they already are or ever were before. science will cultivate fruits and vegetables, that have perfect nutrient profiles and they will grow it in perfect soils, in vertical farms that work without pesticides and the produce will be local and fresh. we are not going back to the roots! we just integrate them. regressing (paleo, etc) is not an option.

#thoughts

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