#The Sum of Its Parts

[trustintheharper]

01x16  "The Sum of Its Parts" Part 2

#Seamus Harper #andromeda #gene roddenberry's andromeda #The Sum of Its Parts #Season 1

[brookheimer]

phenomenal episode overall. kendall demanding clouds because he saw them in berlin and trying not to cry when the stagehands cannot in fact build berlin in a day. matsson walking barefoot across a tarmac. shiv and tom biting deep into each other's forearms to see who can withstand the pain the longest in public at a fancy business event. roman firing a random woman because she didn't seem to think he lived up to his dad. roman firing gerri because she doesn't think he lives up to his dad. roman regretting firing gerri immediately and asking ken to undo it but ken is overjoyed and says it's what dad would do so roman smiles and says okay. kendall floating faceup in a body of water that he dove into of his own accord. shiv booking an empty conference room to cry in when no one's around. gerri saying fuck. karl serving cunt. roman genuinely feeling bad about not including shiv, apologizing to her, and asking if they could all hug. kendall announcing a bizarre dystopian real estate project that's framed as 'like a cruise but on land and forever and by forever we mean forever we're talking cryogenics.' tomshiv playing straight chicken all episode. roman listening to an edit of his father insulting him over and over on the ride home. everything i ever could've wanted

#EXCEPT FOR TABITHA. WHERE THE FUCK WAS SHE #in the trailer rome had on the shirt he wore in this ep when he kissed her hand sooo.... whered she go. #so many thoughts overall. like so much to say about so many specific moments #like idk. not an all timer ep for me like TMB or obviously connor's wedding -- it's the sum of its parts more than anything else but GOD #if those aren't some fantastic hilarious sickening fucking parts #little bit of a buildup episode i think tho. next ep they're gonna Get Into It and the episode after that... welll. we r fucked #succession #succession spoilers #100 #500 #1000

[omegalomania]

i think what i admire most about this record after sitting with it for a full day is the marriage of its musicality and its lyricism.

lyrically..."nihilistic" is a really good way of putting it. i was honestly kind of floored by how goddamn bleak so much of the lyricism on this record is. there's so much desolation, so much hopelessness, so much struggling to find meaning in meaninglessness. lyrically, i think this might be some of pete's darkest but also some of his best work. there's so much grappling with the feeling that maybe it's all pointless. maybe none of it fucking gets better. maybe you're always going to be fighting to figure out some kind of sense and feeling displaced and the further you look toward the horizon, the more the inevitability of the end scares the living shit out of you.

so much (for) stardust is utterly desolate lyrically. even little granules of hope feel tongue-in-cheek or in denial. so...what? does anything ever get better? are we all just flailing around, trying to make our stupid lives make sense? but at the same time, fall out boy are the happiest they've ever been as a band. they waited five years so they could savor making this record and they were genuinely excited to share it with all of us. pete is wearing skirts and letting his hair down and they're playing songs that once got them booed off stage with fearless love in their eyes and they're looking after each others' mental health and supporting one another through it all. what does it mean for a band to release something this somber at this point in time for them?

the "reality bites" pink seashell speech sums it all up kind of perfectly. so maybe life is inherently meaningless, but at the same time...there's good food. there's beautiful weather. there are still good movies, and the sound of rain on the windows, and hope, and friendship, and joy. maybe there's no point. but that doesn't change that there's still laughter. there's still love.

and that's what's in the sound of this record. the big, cinematic swell of an orchestra. the upbeat chirps of a synth. the screeching of a guitar and some bouncy, catchy goddamn riffs that'll live under your skin for days. this is a record you dance to and cry to. (cry a little, cry a lot, but don't stop dancing, don't dare stop.) sonically, this is a record laden with grit and delight and a powerful sense of purpose, from catchy pop hooks to roaring, cinematic anthems. it sits in delicious contrast to the words but it doesn't undermine them. it complements them. happy music for sad people.

of course there's pain, and there's frustration, and the world is full of tragedy and hopelessness and maybe the worst part of it is that it doesn't go away once you grow up. as you get older, you don't ever magically learn how everything clicks together. you just have to fumble through it and hope for the best, even if it feels like it never gets any easier.

it's a hard lesson to learn. but you aren't alone in it. so what fates do we share? we're all stardust. we all share the same end. we are not alone in our fears and uncertainties and we will not be alone at the end either, not really. we came from stardust and to stardust we will return.

i think if there is a hope i can take away from this record it's like...this feeling that it doesn't get better, really. but you do get better at living with it, and to someone like me, that's vital. years ago i had to come to terms with the valuable, painful lesson that i will not, mentally, neurologically, ever get "better." there will never be a point where i am "cured" of all that i must live with. but i've grown better at living with it. and there are things out there that i'm living for anyway - good food, better friends, and maybe a long-anticipated record you need to put on replay for a good long while as you soak it in.

maybe none of this matters, in the end. but if it doesn't, then this is what matters. this.

"if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do."

#fall out boy #so much (for) stardust #*making poasts #*meta #expanding on some thoughts i was going on abt in the gc earlier #this is pretty freeform and it doesnt sum it all up for me but i tried my best #im allowed a little bit of sincerity from time to time #that parting quote is from angel the series. which is a show i have mixed feelings on but its an important quote to me so

[mojoflower]

Tumblr v. Twitter

I was laughing to Mr. Mojo about the whole Goncharov thing we've collectively been manifesting this weekend, and he pointed out what is possibly the most meaningful and fundamental difference between Tumblr and Twitter.

He said, On Twitter, no one says 'we'.

Tumblr is a mutable organism that is greater than the sum of its parts.  We are a ‘we’.

#tumblr #tumblr is a community #we are a 'we' #twitter #tumblr vs twitter #twitter refugees #gotta learn this fundamental change in perspective #tumblr community #goncharov #twitter is not a collective #twitter is a bunch of individuals #whereas tumblr is an organism #that is greater than the sum of its parts

[starcurtain]

Listen, the greatest appeal of Diluven is how desperately chained Diluc is to his past, to his personal losses, to the expectations of his father's legacy, because Venti is the god of liberation, of hope, the breaker of chains, the capricious breeze that ever uplifts--it's about letting yourself be set free, listen--

#genshin impact #diluven #diluc #venti voice: I could fix him #do you see the design? #my favorite trope is 'single emotional disaster seeking equally disastrous partner' #because the sum is always more than its parts! #'I'll be yours and you'll be free' #and the best part is it goes both waysss #Venti has burdens he needs to be set free from too!! #it's sooo good my dudes

[chamerionwrites]

"An ancient English law made it a crime to witness a murder or discover a corpse and not raise a 'hue and cry.' But we live in a world of corpses, and only about some of them is there a hue and cry."

--Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

#reading tag #history #imperialism #cultures of dissociation #my posts #it is v hard to isolate quotes from this book because like all good writing the whole is greater than the sum of its parts #(also bc much of it is quite grim) #but ultimately my casementblogging is just an elaborate book rec #for a book which is only tangentially about him anyway. correctly so because the story is much bigger than that.

[skunkes]

might sound weird to say as a person with a couple ocs who have Big Horrible Event(s) in their backstories or as a person who has like 3 ocs total bc he sucks at writing and as a person who hopes their ocs arent too Boring with [the thing im about to mention] but the thing about writing [characters] and [people] is that like.

any little thing a person experiences can take up their whole existence... its actually something "fun" to experience as i meet new ppl and do more things. My friend had something happen that she'll be talking about forever. I had several things happen last year that ill never stop talking about, some of which other ppl think werent that bad actually. In the same way I'll forever remember about the way my sister accidentally insulted me almost 10 years ago, it's really interesting and Fun to find and assign smaller things like that to characters...its really Real. some people's dealbreakers are other people's solvable problems etc etc

#(as well as the opposite: Big Event that maybe shocks everyone around em but they genuinely werent shaken by) #though this one is more common and leads to those ''ohh i didnt know that was normal oops'' moments #talkys #inspired by recent me and friend events #and also recent events where i told sum ppl more stuff about Thing and they responded as if it wasnt a big deal. but it was to me. #and also how i thought a part of al's childhood backstory was kind of maybe dumb and not realistically as impactful as id expect #but i saw someone on reddit almost word for word write that as their experience and how its shaped em as a person #and thats it like... the small things are boring and hard to keep track of sometimes #its not like you'll include every single little event your oc was shaped by in their bio #but idk. its like Fun to piece together for fun. to mold a human being #ykwim? wld be silly to tell everyone ''oh my oc struggles with self image due to many instances like... when their sister called em ugly'' #or write it anywhere but it is fun to Know and have in your head. and its real ! #just like if a friend told you about something that happened to em #long post #delete later #sorry i keep saying stupid obvious shit lately ive always been bad at oc making AND socializing so im learning everything late #but anyway yes. idk even as i keep making ocs that are ''similar'' its like. every person so different #people can react to anything in any way for any reason. i love people #this is why i struggle a bit with keeping ocs to archetypes i guess bc like. what is ooc for an oc. people contain contradictions all the #time. you can change yourself at any time. #ok nobody will read this far so ill go to the real insane rambling #part of this has been a part of my chats with talon while trying to get him to share more info #like. yeah ok you're 400+ years old the things that happened to you were such a comparatively small part of your life #but humans dont live as long and think about small things until they die. i dont think time would heal all wounds actually. not all of em #some thoughts just always come to gnaw at your brain. its ok to not be over things. i feel ill never be over some things #and also complainerism can be fun but thats something else entirely wee hee ^_^

[bahoreal]

yeah im rewatching cause i need to experience this again with the full knowledge of all the character journeys (to appreciate the Build) and i noticed this the first time around but needed to fact check myself

jamie said his tattoo means "arm" in chinese?

this is 日落 which means sunset. there's a 成语(idiom) 日落风生 which means "a gentle breeze comes with the sunset". its very gentle and poetic. what im trying to say is that jamie was a gentle boy with a sunset tattooed on his arm from the very start

#the first time i saw it i went DOESNT THAT MEAN SUNSET but i wasnt confident enough to make a post ufhsudhe language learner issues #ted lasso #jamie tartt #also 成语 doesnt translate directly to idiom but its difficult to translate. its a four character phrase #with a specific meaning. that can be deeper than the sum of its parts #im not familiar with this idiom so idk how to read into it #also im appreciating the many themes like shots of teds hands when he's nervous

[zagreus]

shrek 2 is kind of mid actually

#it's got some great sequences but it's very much less than the sum of its parts

[anxiously-sidequesting]

Since we're talking about Grandfather Spider can we Girls please just take one single moment of the day to remember and think about his, "I am beyond angry with you, but I could never hate you." quote to Grandmother Raven please. Please. Please can we do that? I will become sick as fuck if someone doesn't acknowledge this with me

#that was one of the most powerful fucking things ive ever personally read #can we please applaud the emotional maturity and intelligence on spider's part here please. to be able to tell and admit the difference- #-between feelings of anger and resentment and flat out hate #there's like not even really a word spider could find that could sum up all his negative feelings other than 'anger'. its not just anger- #-its so much more than that. but its not hate. he doesn't hate her and never has hated her #also the acknowledgement that things (at that point in time) between them are still Not Okay #like. they're not fighting any longer. they recognized their harmful actions but those feelings still havent gone away theyre still hurt #i think the ending to their arc was very decent because it still gave them room to grow in peace #they're not okay RIGHT NOW but with enough work maybe they will be. it will take years and years and years but maybe it will be okay. #“hey look im not all that comfortable with you yet but i recognize your regret and willingness to work on us so i can do the same for you”- #-hey what if i died right now. what if i died from that right fucking now. #wizard101 #wiz101 #w101 #text posts #grandfather spider

[trustintheharper]

01x16  "The Sum of Its Parts" Part 3

#Seamus Harper #andromeda #gene roddenberry's andromeda #The Sum of Its Parts #Season 1

[39oa]

jake oettinger x disparate youth — SO LET THEM SAY WE CAN'T DO BETTER

#jake oettinger #dallas stars #stars #*m #sorry i can't video edit for shit but this wouldn't leave my head... #it's about growth and a team only being as good as the sum of its parts and always chasing the dream even when it doesn't love you back #and maybe belief not being enough sometimes but that doesn't mean you should stop having it #fanvid

[thaliasthunder]

no bc the way i perceive pjo!nico, hoo!nico and toa!nico as completely different persons? like having distinct personalities? and i dont mean it as "growth" or "development" but just straight up character inconsistency by rick 💀. idk i feel like pjo (specifically nico in tlo) & toa nico are basically the same which is great, but hoo nico was...... something else. and no it's not bc of his trauma, for me it feels more like rick couldnt manage completely well nico's facets and changes, the way everyone saw him and the way he saw himself, and dont come at me saying that its bc wHen hE's nOt iN DangEr hE's SillY because you can see tlo!nico AND toa!nico making jokes even when in mid dangerous situations, so that wasnt the reason why. the changes in characterization in nico going from pjo to hoo then toa feel not gradual but kind of rushed, piled up

#maybe part of it its bc nico was not one of the protagonists so #rick couldnt really take that much of time specifying every detail of nico's changes and the reason why of them #but it feeks kinda rushed to me #almost drastical #hoo is supposed to be like a bridge between nico's development #going from the beginning of his trauma (pjo) to the overcoming of it (toa) #but nico in hoo practically hit rock bottom and then #somehow ??? then he's magically shown all happy and humorous and all that in toa #AND IT FEELS RUSHED UP #summed up: hoo is the problem <3 #rr crit #is that how yall tag these kind of posts? #rick riordan #riordanverse #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #toa #pjo/hoo #percy jackson #jason grace #piper mclean #leo valdez #hazel levesque #frank zhang #will solace

[sailorpants]

from my Sharpe’s Sword livetexts to @chiropteracupola

or - "getting my top surgery done at the peninsular wars"

#the sharpe madness #it is my duty to Post Nonsense about this show it seems. #& all y’all on the gay and trans website seem to enjoy the Nonsense #anyway I don’t like Sharpe’s sword it made me really frustrated at the handling of Basically Nameless Girl #a couple parts of the ep are interesting but as a whole sword is less than the sum of its parts

[unproduciblesmackdown]

immediately obsessed with this pic posted by summer stock ensemble member hannah balagot, "Sunday grills with Will"

#will roland #summer stock #every last little detail here & the [greater than the sum of its parts] overall effect....instant hall of fame portrait #that it's night. the about 3/4 view from behind documentarian angle. that the grilling is in this tiny strip of grass by a parking lot. #the one partly visible adjacent audience member. the tiny only just not legsless grill and will with the pro squat crouch to tackle that. #the apron over hoodie over shorts. the headlamp & its spotlighting the grilling but also making his glasses aglow. the 9 items grilling wit #view of lit charcoals & smoke; the supplies sides & accessories off to the sides. both tongs & spatula in hand & a burger mid flip. #the motion blur. this is iconic #& if you go back in the summer stogging you'll find that pre opening [will is again grilling. tall grill in the daytime though] fun pic #how much grilling did he do? sunday grills huh sounds good; end of the performance week too #sure the hell On It as he is in this picture.

[goldensunset]

if my roommate wasn’t here i would put goldfish into my leftover ramen broth

#i’m hongry but i gotta act normal #it is my right to make goldfish soup… greater than the sum of its parts #peach rambles #i’m eating healthy i’m happy i’m thriving i have a lot of money left definitely-