#between the spheres

[muffingnf]

Like genuinely. He was putting his hand on her waist after an hour of reciprocated cuddling. He should have asked for explicit consent but instead read her non verbal cues wrong. Ok that’s on him!! But when she explicitly showed disinterest towards doing anything with him he walked away no bother.

Idk this whole thing has been blown up far too much. Sexual predator, rapist, pedophile … come on to fuck this is so unnecessary 😭 his initial statement was bad which yeah he deserves some lashings for but not doxxing, death threats and reporting him to immigration, losing longterm friends like what the fuck are we doing here. Do these people realise people like Adin Ross and Mizkif are happily raking it in streaming every day?

agree with you 100% anon. his biggest mistake is not getting verbal consent. yes non-verbal consent exists and that’s probably what he was going off of but verbal consent is a must with people you barely know or it ends up like this. though again, he was drunk. and it’s interesting to me how being drunk only seems to matter to people when its her and not him, they were both drunk. two adults who were drunk.

the most important thing to me is that when she showed very clear disinterest by not going with him to his room, he backed off. it makes me feel less crazy to think if she had said she was uncomfortable (if he had freaking asked) he would’ve stopped.

#like hes not a mind reader he didnt know she was uncomfortable which is why he shouldve asked #but again #drunk #so #like this is one big misunderstanding between two people who were drink #*drunk #he didnt grope her in public or take her back to his room or whatever #idk theres way worse people in the cc sphere #nova.ask

[elbiotipo]

The reality of English becoming the world's lingua franca will mean that people who are not native English speakers will also have a say on how the language is spoken.

From Wikipedia in "World Englishes"

When the number of bilingual English speakers, as it will likely be the case in this century, equals or outnumbers the ones in the "homelands" of English like the UK and the USA, they will soon start adapting the English language to their own worldviews and uses, and in fact they are already doing so, but they will do it with full confidence. For sure, speakers of "proper English" will complain, but what are they gonna do about it?

We will see some interesting developments in our lifetime.

#cosas mias #in fact if you read about it there is a possiblity that there will be a language divergence between international english or global english #and english from the 'inner sphere' such as the USA and the UK #that is of course assuming the whole thing doesn't just collapse and it is replaced by another language which is not impossible

[thegirl20]

A time bending book you say?

I've been thinking about this time-travelling book and its implications ever since Istredd mentioned it.

Anyone fancy writing Yen using it to [Cher voice 🎶] turn back time for ~reasons?

#i would but honestly i can't words right now #i know it's more about moving between spheres or whatever #but i don't care #he explicitly said time travel #yennaia #the witcher #the witcher spoilers

[seyaryminamoto]

hello happy day of the black sun thank you goodbye

Hello thank you happy day of the black sun to you too goodbye

... don't you just love how we Sokkla fans have an unofficial happy day every time there's a solar eclipse?? 🤣 like, yes, we're rarer than a holiday, this doesn't happen every year or so, but we got THIS and it is GOOD!

I wish I could've seen it, couldn't from where I'm living right now, but damn is it great whenever there's a solar eclipse and the Sokkla energies suuuuuurge

#vanilladrizzlequeen #eclipse day is always sokkla day #this is law #we cheer for the conjunction of the spheres #and the tactical battles between two stubborn dorks #who belong together whether they know it or not I don't make the rules (okay sometimes I do)

[wordswhisperinthedark]

MEDALIST I AM HOLDING YOU SO TIGHTLY

#MEDALIST #メダリスト #MEDALIST (manga) #I BINGED THIS SO HARD IT'S SO GOOD #the way it focuses on the relationships between skaters and coaches #the amount of thinking and planning that is required #the emphasis of ambition desire dedication and responsibility needing to be in sync #the way innate skills are shaped by your attitude and your environment #exploring the concept of age limits in sports (or even skills in general) #and just all the cast are really fun and engaging #BUT #THE BOND BETWEEN TSUKASA AND INORI HAS ME ON THE FLOOR #IT IS SO GOOD I LOVE IT SO MUCH #THEY REALLY SAID YOU /CAN/ FORGE YOUR OWN DREAM #JUN AND HIKARU AS FOILS IS REALLY INTERESTING #because I still don't fully understand the motives behind their relationship but I HAVE IDEAS #ALSO #I love that Tsukasa and Inori's core skating philosophy is like Yuzuru Hanyu's #like. that monologue about how figure skating's core is the beauty of the figures carved into the ice by the skater???? #Tsurumaikada-sensei truly said 'fuck the current over emphasis on jumps in the skating sphere' 😌 #PEOPLE GO READ THIS PLEASE BEFORE THE ANIME AAAAHHH #my post

[quaranmine]

I tried to leave this as a comment on that last post, but it got too long:

Of course Grian isn't going to say what the story is about. There's nothing to grieve. Mumbo’s not dead. He's going to find him. He believes this with every facet of his being before mid ch10. The fact that Grian doesn't say the word makes the theme even more impactful.

The first stage of grief is denial, and that's pretty firmly where Grian is for 80% of the fic. And when someone challenges him on that? Well, the second stage is anger, so he lashes out at Jimmy, Pearl, and Scar.

But once he finds Mumbo? Or rather, what once was Mumbo, it's I should hove died with him. I should have been there. Bargaining.

This forest, this wilderness he’s spent half a summer living in, isn’t visible. Instead the total darkness of night wipes it into a blank slate of inky blackness, punctuated only by the Nitwit Fire in the distance. No other lights. 

No other lights in the forest. No other lights in his heart. Depression.

We're not at Acceptance yet. So of course Grian isn't going to say what the story is about. Not yet.

Because it's like what I said in our previous talks. By the last line of ch12, Grian’s journey will have only just begun.

Ooh I love how you broke this down! You're right that Grian would never describe himself as grieving because he believes Mumbo is alive. He knows he's a wreck about it, but he wouldn't consider it grief because he thinks it's going to be temporary. He really thinks that he'll be completely fine once this all gets resolved, which is also one reason why he consistently disregards himself. (Side note--I 100% would use the word grief for people/things/concepts that are not dead, but he wouldn't lmao.)

And he is pretty angry throughout the fic as a result of that grief. I didn't want him to just be like...generically sad and mopey, I wanted him to be genuinely a little difficult to deal with. Over and over in the story he lashes out at people who say what he doesn't want to hear. Or he fails to take their feelings into account to begin with. But that's the truth! That's how it happens. People who are hurting do not often have "easy" emotions. cough @ my dad i know you are still grieving your father's death and are emotionally stunted but please be a Little nicer to us

I would also argue that his insistence on trying to find some secret conspiracy to explain everything is also a form of bargaining. I've said before that Grian is often so logical in this story that it loops back around into being illogical. That is, he's convinced he can find a Reason for something that....doesn't have a reason. He kind of thinks he can solve life. He wants to make it make sense even though it doesn't. So he constantly is trying to find ways to bargain around this in the story.

And as for depression/acceptance....yeah, he's in that zone. He needed that closure to begin to process things properly. It's going to take a chunk of time for that to process. I have also said on here before that this story isn't about resolving Grian's trauma, since that will take much longer than the time we have, but delivering him to the first step. It's a story about the first step. By the end of chapter 12 he has a little glimmer of acceptance. But it's just that, a single thread. It's more that he makes the decision to try and start weaving with that thread (however long that actually takes off-screen)

I really enjoy discussing the fic with you, thank you for the ask <3

#quara asks #hc_firewatch_au #bit more of a spoilery ask but i think the odds are most people paying attention have either read it now or werent going to lol #also there is a big chunk of off screen depression time as necessitated by the time skip between 11 and 12 #and the time skip was required mostly for...pacing/cohesion and setting reasons #to exclude parts of the story that had to happen Outside of the sphere of influence (national forest/fire lookout) i established for this

[notbeetle]

it's interesting how the vast majority of the people on this website just don't actually know anything about like the broader internet politics sphere. Like... you see liberal bloggers reblogging articles from The Grayzone about the Israeli genocide in Palestine and then two posts later reblogging something from like. prismatic-bell about how you should vote for 99% hitler or whatever.

#it's genuinely surreal #that or I'm just some weird terminally online guy for thinking you should probably actually know who the people you're getting claims from #like. are #hawk.txt #honestly the way israel's genocide of palestinians has impacted the western left is... quite something in general #as you see the split between the more consciously imperialist sects and the ...well #both the normie healthcare-liker and the more radical anarchists and marxists and such #in this policy - “brandon” and his more institutional supporters going full-throated openly pro-genocide #while normal young progressives + the aforementioned radicals are varying degrees of pro-Palestine #but the “progressives” have at least on large parts of like the twitblr sphere not actually realized this intractable difference #leading to the incredible experience of like - posts about how if you don't vote for biden you're a russian bot #underneath a Catilyn Johnson article

[jacksprostate]

Explanations for each creature from that poll (Part 1):

Firstly, about half knew one creature (I'm curious which!) and a quarter only one. A few knew most, and one knew them all. Very interesting!

Organism #1: Brachiopoda

In the post I said this isn't a bivalve(clams, mussels, oysters, a group which is relatively close relatives with snails and octopi), and that's correct! But essentially, it's an example of convergent evolution. Learn to filter feed really well, become hard and immobile. It's a strategy that pops up a lot. It has something called a lophophore. Thats essentially like a curtain of tentacles around its mouth. What's WEIRD about it is this lophophore is an extension of the coelom. Aka, the internal body cavity. As opposed to a dedicated organ; it's like if the space where your guts are processed stuff instead of your guts.

Beyond that, brachiopods are extremely common in the fossil record. They were very badly affected by the Permian-Triassic extinction event (P-T event, also known as The Great Dying, aka the worst extinction event so far because the entire ocean acidified), but have since recovered — albeit slower than their convergently evolved distant cousins, the bivalves.

How to tell the difference between a brachiopod and a bivalve?

The correct way is to say Brachipods have dorsal and ventral valves (shells), while bivalves have left and right valves. Which is kind of useless unless you're a huge nerd. I mean, you can still see it in the lines of symmetry a bit, but. Firstly, some brachiopods don't have closely connected valves at all (called inarticulate), so you know those are brachiopods. For the articulate brachiopods, they often have a gap or hole in the hinge for their stalk. Between that and the general shape, I find that easiest.

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Organism #2: Platyhelminthes

Specifically, this is a hammerhead flatworm! Remember the coelom I just mentioned? The body cavity? Yeah they don't have that. They have no circulatory or respiratory organs... No blood vessels, no heart, no lungs. Everything has to work through diffusion! This is why the hammerhead flatworm is so amazing, because not only is it very large (which is hard to do when you're relying on diffusion) it also lives on land (which is hard to do when you're relying on diffusion). Unlike cnidarians (jellyfish, corals, and friends), they DO have specialized digestive and excretory systems. Since they rely on diffusion, large flatworms have branched guts that go all throughout their body so what they digest can get to all their cells! They use something called protonephridia to manage the toxins in their body — these are essentially proto-kidney cells.

Despite being very similar to another group called Acoelomorpha, who are sort of the base for all other bilateral animals, newer research thinks they're from later in the evolutionary tree and just retroactively lost a lot of what had been developed (such as a coelom and most organs. Wild)!

Free-living flatworms are often very small and cute, though there's larger ones like the hammerhead and the spanish dancer. Unfotunatelt, flatworms are very medically relevant: flukes and tapeworms are both specialized types of flatworms.

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Organism #3: Siphonophores

Siphonophores are really cool! They're a type of cnidarian (jellyfish, hydrozoans, corals, sea anenomes, gorgonians). You know cnidarians as "those assholes in the ocean that sting me" mostly. Well siphonophores are notably really good at that.

In Cnidaria, you have the coral and sea anenome-like things (Anthozoa) and the jellyfish-like things (Medusozoa). Anthozoans don't really have a mobile stage in their life, while medusozoans do! Medusozoans go in between an asexual, sessile (immobile) polyp form, and a sexual, mobile medusa form (imagine what you normally think of when you imagine a jellyfish).

Within Medusozoa, there's (roughly) two groups. The ones who decided to emphasize the medusa form are called Scyphozoa, and are your true jellyfish. They still have that polyp form, but spend a lot of time in the medusa stage of their life and invested in it evolutionarily.

The ones who invested heavily in the asexual polyp stage are called Hydrozoa. They still have a medusa stage, but it's often extremely reduced, to basically a freefloating gamete. Here's some usual hydrozoans/hydroids:

Small, mostly an asexual clump of polyps. They're usually colonial — a bunch of clones, but connected through the gut. Fire coral is actually a hydroid which developed a calcium skeleton, and not a true coral!

What's really interesting is siphonophores are actually hydrozoans — they're very very unusual. They're those asexual polyps, they're a colony — but instead of the clones being identical, they specialize!

These are called zooids. They're akin to how we have specialized organs, like lungs, our livers, etc. Except. Each zooid is an entire clone of the original organism. They're all identical. But as part of the colony, they restrict and focus their development in certain ways. It's like if you were attached to another person, but they developed to just be a liver.

Most siphonophores are repeating sequences of certain zooids, mostly propulsion and digesting zooids. That's how they get so long. They have a very nasty sting, and thankfully most float down below where people normally go. However, there's a few that don't — notably, siphonophore's own atypical specimen, the Portuguese Man 'O War! Also known as a Blue Bottle. Pictured below.

It looks a lot like a normal jellyfish medusa, like from scyphozoa! But you can see, it doesn't have that very round shape. The big sail is actually one zooid, the tentacles are other zooids, it's all zooids! It's an entire colonial animal, as opposed to a true jelly, which is just one.

Since the siphonophore is made up of clones, do we call it a group of animals? Generally, no. Due to the specialization involved with zooids, we treat the entire creature as one animal. Many individuals, one organism. Admittedly, it's still very strange. Colonialism is actually very common within cnidaria, as it serves to help cope with the lack of specialization opportunities due to not having an internal body cavity (and thus stuff like mesoderm). That said, even some animals with mesoderm and body cavities have evolved colonality, though I can't think off the top of my head of an example with such a degree of specialization of each zooid like siphonophores have.

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Ending the post here for now, and I'll add the other organisms in subsequent reblogs. I hope this inspires interest in biology and evolution for you and lets you know about things you would've never even realized as possible!

#marine biology #invertebrates #longass!!! I'm going to post this half then just add the rest of the organisms as I do them. bit off more than i can chew etc #Feel free to ask questions! This is pretty advanced stuff outside of certain spheres #It's also meant to serve as a jumping off point for your own research if you'd like. don't know a word? look it up! #if you're still confused I can try to help #did my best to keep it broadly accurate but I'm running the line between simplification and specificity

[turndecassette2]

what are you gonna do with wolrd heist after october

let it marinate in its own juices for a few months (lots of stuff going on) then tidy it up, maybe add a few pages next spring/summer to make it something physically publishable

#an ask #rn it's in an awkward spot between 'single issue' and 'short graphic novel' #I think silver sprocket had some books that size maybe I can push it on them #or have it be a side thing for garden of spheres #idk

[waterparksdrama]

they submitted a for your consideration to the grammy's for SONG AND RECORD OF THE YEAR??? absolute insanity. i doubt they'll even get nominated for best rock performance

the grammys to that consideration before they throw it in the trash

-iz

#deeply unserious #i assume the fbr team (bc they're under the same umbrella as roadrunner records) is taking the turnstile approach to the grammys with parx #the thing is despite turnstile having slightly less monthly listeners than parx they are actually a bigger band #they've literally headlined the same festivals parx has gotten smaller slots at and they had a better chance at nominations #bc they rode the line between rock and metal technically and metal is a pretty niche thing to have a chance at #a hardcore scene fanbase can go a lot deeper than something akin to a pop twitter stan sphere of things #either way grammys do not matter and are voted by a bunch of people who don't even listen to this shit

[frau-line]

I don’t feel like drawing

(Reference)

#me when I’m lazy: Minerva doesn’t have her diadem because she casted off her royal status in the afterlife #unlike Saturninus who clings onto it etc etc #also given the gap between Saturninus and A Sphere #being ‘his descendant’ kind of means nothing #because that bloodline is so diluted and thin #many other spheres can also claim lineage #not to mention they’re a republic now #it’s like when people brag about being related to genghis khan

[zehecatl]

listening to a video about some random tumblr famous girlie is so funny, because if you weren't in that sphere, you will not know anything

like, apparently she was super big?? but girl, i was there, i have not ever heard about you in my entire life. and that's the appeal of tumblr!! that's the fun thing!! you can just mind your own business and have fun in your little corner and there will not be overlap, like i am living in an entirely different neighbour and i ain't listening to your yelling at two am i am peacefully snoring away

#ze.txt #there is no overlap between the two spheres of tumblr we are not touching there is a wide chasm between our two lands and thank god

[nicastamatis]

just clicked to me seeing morgana call lavenza 'lady lavenza' do you think the reason he latches onto ann is that she's got light blonde hair and he subconsciously thinks she's a velvet room attendant

#between the release of p5d and last month i have not been in the persona sphere if this is common knowledge forgive me #hes juste a little kitty cat. he doesnt know what a crush is supposed to be. #his only reference point is whatever tf akira (genuine freak) has going on #persona 5

[akatusk]

what were the "big three" of falmeri culture... passes you the microphone

#someone pointed out how weird those random triquetras are and now it's bothering me #I THINK it's bc of infinity and the birth/life/death cycle but an ouroboros or pentacle would've fit better - #- so like.... why's that there. It must have a reason from a cultural point if not game design. Family crest??? Stages of enlightenment? #Teachings? Paradigms? Three points following the points of a triangle and thus symbolizing strength??? What is UP here. #AND THE CIRCLE. Strength in unity?? Does the pantheon have 3 main gods? 3 spheres of influence? #And like. Triquetras are so often associated w celtic knotwork and ik TES takes things at surface level weirdly often so. #that also begs the question why did they establish a link between falmeri and celtic cultures. Does this have anything to do with the Other #- inexplicably celtic & indigenous culture?? Falmer n reachmen has been a thing but? #I don't know.

[fellhellion]

tbh, i honestly think that for all she's facinated by the past and held a measure of suspicion for what alchemax was covering up in that regard, i think as young adults xina, much like miguel (if to a lesser degree), was subsumed into the kind of idealogy that's entrenched into the world of 2099. while they were dating, we don't ever see them fight about the fact he would've been an alchemax employee (to my memory) or even the fact that the apartment he gets is company housing. so i don't personally get the impression this was an overt idealogical conflict between them at this point in their lives, even though Xina’s memorabilia seems to hint at Marxist leanings?

xina holds no loyalty to alchemax certainly (as a young adult or when we're reintroduced to her) and i don't think she'd work as an individual contractor or with people like angela if she didn't have reservations and critiques about these kinds of corporate monopolies and the effect they had upon shaping the future, but i also personally read part of her obsession with twencen stuff as about it being a niche that's secluded from just. how inescapable the influence of corporations is in the world of 2099.

it's not that she idealises the past, but moreso that by virtue of the sheer passage of time it has become removed from the reality of the present, and i think alongside the insights it offers about a reality alchemax would keep hidden, the past is a reprieve.

#theres something very interesting to me in xina being willing to engage in subversive acts like helping angela out and being associated w #her. while she also seems like of. isolated? imo? partly due to 90s writing just not offering a wider insight into what relationships #are a big influence on xina outside of miguel but i also like to read xina's isolation as symptomatic of the fact by the time we see her #again she's kind of partially removed herself when she can afford to from spheres of influence alchemax has a monopoly in #like employment. #i honestly wonder if breaking up with miguel and this removing herself from the particular sphere he operated in was something that affecte #her in this space #i think part of what ends up influencing this reading is the fact 2099 really only has the o'haras and occassionally kasey as reoccuring #characters that move between the borders of uptown and downtown and consider #the implications of the fact uptown stands atop the ruins and poverty of downtown #and i think it would be really interesting to see what xina's insight into these kinds of structural issues would be #tunes talks 2099

[drewsaturday]

obviously different people say different things and you can support something existing while still complaining about things not being to your taste as long as you don't comment it on actual creationssss

but sometimes it does get mentally chaotic seeing posts saying you should be allowed to write whatever you want and bad art is okay etc etc and then i scroll down a little more to see people having incredibly high expectations for things that people make for fun and for free in fandom spaces and it's like...

i think there is a gap between seeing our tumblr peers tm as people and creatives having fun, but ourselves as consumers expecting perfect content. you are demanding perfection from those same people you claim to want to support.

???

#txt #i really wish fanfic dot net weren't dying because lowkey. #although the etiquette over there is abysmal i kinda feel like the expectations for fics posted to ao3 is weirdly high #obviously i have my own personal standards but it really does get on my nerves sometimes #to see such a clash between 'uwu two cakes theory!!!' posting and then 'god this trope in fic/this art style/this vidding style #etc etc is sooooo annoying/tired/overdone/bad/ETC' #again it's not always from the same people and we do contain multitudes or whatever i am sure im hypocritical too and #there are things that do deserve discussion and you can have your own preferences as long as you don't make it a creator's problem #and to be okay posting the things you make publicly anywhere you need to understand there #will be people coming at it from both angles i am just #mostly confused about how prevalent those clashy mindsets are within the same spheres i guess #support creators and reblog things etc but only if they're not being cringe haha #and what is cringe changes depending on the month instead of being grateful people are making things at all #as usual i need to remove myself from caring and start creating things #rather than scrolling through so much of these discussions i forget that oh right making things #is supposed to be fun actually and that's what outweighs those negatives #but alas i am here #making nothing and wishing fandom felt more like a community the way it used to for me #instead of finding ways to cultivate that myself lmao #at least having minimal free time excludes me from the content mill grind for now : )