#if i'm understanding correctly

[lunar-waterlilies]

#illustration #shrimp #mad scientist #human artist #tank fish (original) #i hate glaze but nightshade won't install correctly on my device for. whatever reason. and i'm too dumb to understand !

[sskk-manifesto]

And what has it been of my boy Akutagawa :(

#If I'm understanding correctly both in the anime and the manga the dialogue is exactly the same and it's #丁稚の芥川は騙せても 俺は騙せねえ #So apparently 丁稚 means “apprentice; shop boy” #“a boy who was indentured to craftsmen‚ merchants‚ and etc during the Edo period” #At this point I'm starting to think the manga one was simply a translation error / liberty at best #The fun part is that the second result when looking for the meaning of 丁稚 was a person asking for clarification... #To translate what is blatantly a panel from a Beast doujinshi. #Can I get the doujinshi link please #chūya nakahara #ryūnosuke akutagawa #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd s1 #bsdrewatch2023 #This turned into a ramble real quick

[ecoamerica]

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[theguiltinessisyours]

me (being neither British nor American) starting Malevolent:

Okay so he's British. Are they in England? Why does everyone sound weird? Are they in America? No wait that wouldn't make any sense whatsoever? Ooooh Arkham is fictional - so are they in America? Why is there a Scottish accent are they in the UK? No they aren't he just bought a gun?? How are you taxiing everywhere ooooh it's the 1930s that explains the lack of cellphones WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE DICE ROLLING SOUNDS does Arthur actually talk out loud when he speaks to John that doesn't seem right he hears him in his head right? no wait he does talk out loud because he's stammering man why don't you get yourself some sunglasses and a stick to appear blind does having control over your hand/foot mean you can actually move it or not because you have to use your muscles in the shoulder to move the entire arm-

#yeah boys I'm really lost on the mechanics here 🤠 #10 eps in and I have so many questions #the England/America thing bugs me out so much because I try to visualize the scenes as much as possible #it's a shift #malevolent #but I'm enjoying it very much!! #and the vibe changes entirely depending on the location #to be fair if I understand correctly then he does talk out loud? #because he needs to shut up in dangerous situations and it's then solely John talking #I guess it's just the whiplash of coming from tma #where the mayority of the episodes is written out very detailed #whereas this is very atmospheric and relies on your attention to auditory clues #malevolent podcast #arthur lester

[ryuvnosuke]

no i can't go i need to think about akutagawa being a protector. yes its going to take me all day

#i need to reread a specific scene from 55 minutes. and a part of the manga #and refresh my memory from dark era. but guys. #i need you to understand that we have more examples of akutagawa being protective #not only as a kid and in the fight against fukuchi. it's smaller—the other instances mostly didn't include /dying/ for it—but its everywhere #if i'm remembering correctly of course. which i'm not sure. hence why i need to refresh my memory #ela.txt

[tiredshifter]

little gremlin

FLUFFY BOYS

my special baby

#moomins #doodle #moominvalley #moomin #moomin joxter #snufkin #snusmumriken #the joxter #joxter #doodlies #moomintroll #moomin fanart #silly #I don't understand how to draw moomins correctly #furry snufkin #I'm a mumrik myself

[chamerionwrites]

As a small-time Stellan Skarsgard's Acting enjoyer and big-time Morally Compromised Old Man enjoyer I was inevitably going to fall down a Luthen Rael rabbit hole at least once so forgive me for being fully on my bullshit. But I can't explain my read on this guy without talking about That Speech, and I can't talk about that speech without dumping a bunch of thoughts about dialogue.

Because in my own writing the thing I get most obsessive about is character voice, and the thing about character voice is that not everyone is a poet. Sometimes the craft of writing is about euphony pure and simple. But sometimes (revealing my biases) I think the craft of writing is being able to ask yourself - sure it's good, but is it true? Can you find the poetry in the everyday? Can you express something sharp and compelling and resonant and stay faithful to the perspective of a character who isn't consciously honing their words in that way? All fictional dialogue is constructed. But there does come a point on the spectrum of naturalistic to constructed dialogue - it's partly a matter of taste - where you see more of the writer patting themselves on the back for writing a banger of a line than you see of the character, and personally I often find this off-putting.

Which doesn't mean you never get to let the poetry off the leash (God, that would be joyless). It just means there's a time and a place.

Andor's writers are dropping a lot of bangers and they absolutely know it but largely it works for me, because they're smart about the time and place. Cassian gets to be a guy who's resourceful with his words when the chips are down - that's a big part of his characterization. Maarva and Nemik get to break out the poetry when giving a speech or writing a political manifesto; those words are crafted in-universe as well as out. And Luthen - a performer, a salesman, a man with constructed identities - he gets to use a lot of constructed speech even when he isn't in full-throttle soliloquy mode. I've said before that a lot of stories about espionage are also stories about storytelling: people who create characters, fictions, who tell lies in an attempt to get at truths. In this story Luthen is that guy. Wouldn't you rather give it all at once to something real than carve off useless pieces till there's nothing left - it doesn't matter how constructed that sounds if it's a sales pitch he's rehearsed. It doesn't matter if you see a little bit of the author or the actor peek through when he says things like I know the outside; I imagine the rest, because it functions as characterization when in some sense he is both those things.

All of which is to say That Speech works for me because it tells you something about Luthen beyond the face value of what he says. It tells you this is something he's THOUGHT about, at length. If he hasn't delivered those lines to a mirror, he has absolutely worked through some version of them in his head more than once. And that tells you something just slightly to the left of who Luthen objectively is - it tells you how he constructs and sees himself. I fully believe that Luthen believes what he's saying there.

I also fully believe that this is a man who self-admittedly has an ego and a desire for recognition, who says he's given that up but evidently hasn't let go of some measure of resentment about it. That here's a guy who put on a billowing black cloak, pulled out all the spy theatrics for the express purpose of unsettling his informant, and then gave his best space King Lear audition. That here's a guy with a soliloquy about his sacrifices locked and loaded. On some level Luthen is a little bit into being a martyr for the cause. He's a little bit into the dark glamor of being a lone wolf operator pulling morally tarnished strings. He's a little bit into frightening and manipulating his informant! For all the cynicism of what he's saying, he's a little bit enamored with his own self-image as the sort of man who says it, in a way that suggests an inner romantic more than an inner pragmatist. He says he's damned for what he does but there's more furious pride underlying it than self-loathing; in the same breath he's admitting that a tiny piece of him wants a parade.

Which is fascinating and a little unflattering and way more interesting than just a badass character delivering a badass monologue. The characterization here is partly that Luthen is the kind of guy who monologues.

And to give him his due - I also fully believe that he's a very driven and committed man who has sacrificed a lot. Seen in that light, in fact, I think some of his character flaws come into focus in highly sympathetic ways. Ultimately this is a guy with a deep sense of urgency - "terrified the Empire's power will grow beyond the point where we can do anything to stop it," as he says. And sometimes there can be a lot of ego in urgency. It is a special kind of crazy-making to feel you are taking a problem far more seriously than almost everyone around you. It is a weight of responsibility to believe it's on you to fix that problem before it becomes too big to solve. Under those circumstances it's very understandable that Luthen has big responsible student leading the group project energy and a touch of main character syndrome (which is interesting and sort funny, contrasted with Cassian spending much of the story desperately trying to avoid becoming a main character). It takes a certain kind of drive and audacity-verging-on-arrogance to accomplish what Luthen has accomplished. But character flaws are often the flip side of character strengths, and I think a lot of his are tied up here. Sometimes he's a little enamored with his own isolation (he could choose to be more open with fellow rebel leaders like Saw imo). Sometimes he's awfully comfortable instrumentalizing others while insulating himself. He says Imperial arrogance is remarkable, but sometimes he's blind in similar ways - Luthen is almost as surprised as the Imperials by the funeral riot in the final episode. He's spent so much time stage-managing his would-be rebellion from Coruscant that an organic uprising startles him. In his self-appointed position as the lonely string-puller at the top, he maybe has a bit too much fondness for control and not quite enough regard for community (imo it's also kind of telling that there are no actual Aldhanis involved in the heist on Aldhani). As Clem says - sometimes people don't look down the way they should.

All of which are very interesting and human flaws for him to have! And which I do think the show subtly gestures at in the sort of contemplative way he reacts to that riot, and which I'd love to see come into focus more in S2.

#at one point I said luthen is one of the only people in this story who both knows and likes that he's in a genre film #cassian may be doomed by the narrative but luthen is AWARE of the narrative #he soliloquizes! he prophesies! (he may or may not have a line to the force?) #and he has enough chutzpah to decide that if he can't be the narrative's lead actor he'll settle for being its author #what a guy. i wanna put him under a microscope and study him. #luthen rael #andor #star wars #my posts #anyway it took me ages to solidify my read on this dude bc he's written kind of deliberately opaque #but this is where i'm planting my flag. he is a self-appointed amateur general with a general's ego #who (correctly and admirably) takes the empire deadly seriously #and (somewhat less admirably) has a deeply stressed highly understandable but kinda self-important group project manager complex about it #solidarity community grassroots bottom-up organizing etc etc

[deepspaceclawstation]

Saw the confounding take 'Garak never held Julian's hand or said soft words to him'. We are speaking about GARAK. That’s the issue you have with him??

Edit: Everyone keeps reblogging the version without the addition so I'm turning off reblogs (which I should have done already). I wish there was a way to only allow for reblogs with unreal/romance's addition but there isn't so we'll have to make do

#Garashir #They are not wrong exactly I understand what they mean #They feel that Garak doesn't demonstrate his feelings explicitly in face of Julian's very public brand of affection #and that would create some insecurity for Julian #I don't agree with them on this but it's a valid point to make I think #But god framing it like he doesn't hold his hand or speak soft words to him sounds so shallow #Do you only know of one way to show affection #Oh apparently it was more about he doesn't provide emotional support. still don't agree but if I'm vagueing I'll vague correctly

[jewishgir]

someone explain to me why Astarion is such a big fan of Drizzt Do'Urden despite having a strong sense of resentment for heroes and heroics in general.

#and if i'm understanding the dates correctly astarion is older than him #i'm not throwing shade at neil newbon for this bit im genuinely trying to think of a creative way this could fit into his characterization #i'm sure there are many things you could come up with #astarion ancunin #bg3 #shadows of athkatla #shiv.txt

[crescentfool]

with the year coming to a close, i hope that anyone who's reflecting about how the year went remembers to be kind and fair to themselves with how you evaluate the year as a whole.

i think there are definitely times when life throws things that are... Not So Great at you. whether if it's some external circumstance that surprised you, or maybe your mentality wasn't at it's best. i wish for anyone who's encountered those kinds of challenges to be able to triumph over them and be able to say that they got through it.

heck, it might still be a work in progress even though you've kept chipping away at it, and that's ok! the results will show themselves eventually as you work through it! and i hope that we can all remember to be patient with ourselves as we go through these processes (learning, healing, etc.), because damn, it can be frustrating when you feel like you're "not there yet."

knowing that life can be rough at times, i think it's unfair to yourself (and others) to discount and downplay any progress you've made this year- whether if it's something that you did for the first time, or maybe you came to a new understanding and insight that you didn't have in the previous year.

it's not to say that you should undermine the validity of your experience with hardship, but to take the time to remind yourself what makes life worth living. to recall what moments were the most satisfying to you- and use it to strengthen your resolve for the next year and beyond. no amount of hardship will ever take away from the fact that you deserve to have hope that things will get better.

i hope that looking back on the year, you don't leave out the things you cherish. that you can remember the good that came this year. whether if the small victories are things like meeting someone new, trying something out for the first time, or making some strides in a long-term project/obligation...!

i wish everyone a happy new year! may it be prosperous, and that your life can move in a direction that's close to what you want out of life. you're all going to do great! remember to congratulate yourself for what you did well! despite everything, you're still here, and that's wonderful. never forget that!

#lizzy speaks #hello everyone. i know that there are *checks calendar* still 20 days left of december and 2023 #but i've had a lot of strong emotions and feelings i've had to sort through as i've been thinking about how 2023 went for me #so a lot of what i've written here comes from the perspective of someone in their early 20s #it's like... a crash and burn from when you were a teenager thinking that you know everything #and realizing how big the world is and how many responsibilities there are #all while a feeling of overwhelm looms over as you try to sift your way through the world and adjust your understanding of it #for me i've definitely had an underlying thought that 'you should have your shit together by now why aren't you there yet' #and it's! not motivating! at all! to think that way. and it's made me more than ever want to be a friend to myself. to extend a patient- #kind voice to myself that reminds me that others are also trying to navigate these feelings and to accept that i'm not going to have an- #instantaneous understanding of how one goes about adulthood. and neither will they. even if they look 'put together.' #like... these people have also undergone similar stresses and along the way figured out how to navigate through that space #and personally i've found peace in knowing that there are people who are older than me. trusting that they've dealt with these things too i #some shape or form and that them living... being here.. is proof that we shall be fine in the end and that we will move past what plagues- #our mind. there's definitely been some... anger i've had this year that. school didnt teach me these things or skills!! i was so mad lol #but hey if we are little guys who are living on planet earth for the first time we shouldn't condemn ourselves to an unrealistic standard- #of going through life and being able to instantly do everything 'correctly' and know how everything works #i'm still working on improving that patience... and also trying to put in the work to understand these things. #in the midst of a very tough week for me i was tempted to say that 'nothing happened this year it was not productive' #but then i was like. that's. objectively not true if you just look at other things. also theres worth in life outside of 'productivity' #...i think i passed 20 tags at this point. but like. my favorite thing about 2023 was meeting so many cool awesome people! #who would've known that funny lil squid game could bring so many connections and friendships i cherish! #thank you so much! for being a part of my life and changing me for the better! for giving me many fond memories! #and i'm very grateful to anyone who supported me and my art this year... for sticking around even though i wished i could do more #it means the world to me knowing that there's proof that i exist and have touched someone's life in a positive way! thank you! truly! #ANYWAY. happy early new year. i hope everyone can nourish a friend in their head that extends acceptance and patience to themselves #as we try and make sense of the world together. there will be things that we don't understand yet! but one day we will! and it'll be like #wow! look how far i came! i'm okay! i'm alive! yipee! thank you for reading this post i made to get my feelings out! have a nice day!

[sysig]

I wasn’t using that heart anyway it’s fine (Patreon)

#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Catch me crying in the Institute I'm Fine I Feel Fine #So far in reading I have cried twice - once for sads and once for happies #This one being the sads of course haha #The happies...doesn't really make sense in Or out of context but mmh maybe I'll get to it at some point lol #For now the devastation! Weh!! #I actually prefer the original phrasing better - ''If I become lost you will find me'' like gods hang on hold on gimme me a moment ❤️💕💖 #I just forgot to look at it properly before writing it down lol #I transcribed it correctly in my notes! Heck #I would've been moved by this regardless but with Defeated hanging out in the back of my head for what's to come #He /does/ become lost! And it's from losing the Captain! His anchor his bright spot in this and any other galaxy 💔 #All he has left is Dexter! Who won't ''indulge'' him or try to understand him and never /can/ in the way the Captain does #The foreshadowing!! The pain!! Ah ♥ #Not to mention Zelnick's hesitance but still willingness to help I jfdkslafdf #Extremely good <3 <3

[monstermoviedean]

hahaha my boss' incompetence screwed me out of 2k and she's acting like it was my fault ha Ha HA

#took a second job that was going to pay a stipend #cleared it with her. cleared it with her boss. #sent her the payment agreement as soon as i had it #and now she's saying oh no you definitely can't do that #i can do it as part of my job but i don't get paid anything extra for it #and she's claiming she knew this was a problem all along but didn't tell me because i didn't explain it to her correctly #she didn't say that but that was the implication #she did say if i'd known this was the situation i would have told you #well! you did! and you didn't tell me! #she really wants me to tell her it's fine and i forgive her #but what she still isn't understanding is that that money would make a huge difference to me #she kept saying she's in the same boat but! she's not! she's making a manager salary in a dual income household! #i'm not!!!!!!!!! #anyway i knew this was going to happen but it doesn't make it suck any less #and i'm really fucking mad. and now i have to listen to her talk for two hours.

[hexjulia]

i love the idea of the universe as an egg of nearly infinite size on the inside but a very small one on the outside and then the outside is the soil we stand on. genuinely insane image to contemplate. it makes no sense but i do love it. cosmic egg but we're inside it. when will god make an omelet.

#not even sure if i'm understanding the conspiracy theory correctly due to aforementioned hardly any sleep <3 #i just like thinking about images

[astrito]

ily Colette 💖

#Colette #I'm just starting to get the hang of drawing her <- no idea if i wrote that correctly but ya understand me #i'll remake her ref in a month probably #need to make the backside too...

[another-clive-blog]

Me, introducing my friends to Professor Layton : So there are 6 main games. As for the chronological order... surely you are familiar with a franchise called Star Wars...?

#They aren't stupid they can absolutely understand it. But I can't explain it correctly lol #Anyway this is OLD now half of them have finished Curious Village while I'm on chapter 2 ;^; #Professor layton #My stuff

[hephaestuscrew]

Hi! im relistening to Wolf359 again and upon listening to Pan-Pan(ep29) ive come to notice a bit of a parallel (?) to Need to Know (ep35). Minkowshi not telling the crew about the cracks on the fixtures and how in less than 100 DAYS that the whole station could go down no matter how many repairs they make due to not wanting to add more weight and hopelessness to an already high stressed situation vs Kepler not telling anyone shit bc he doesn't see that as none of their business (I may be overlooking something tho, i have to relisten to that ep once i get off work)

I'm trying to see if there's an actual connection there or am i on my tin foil hat biases again.

Thanks for the ask! I ended up writing far more than I expected about this, so I'll put my response below a cut.

TLDR: Minkowski and Kepler make a similar choice to withhold information, but for very different reasons. Minkowski is motivated by her responsibility to protect her crew. Kepler is motivated by his desire to maintain his own power. This relates to their different ideas about leadership.

I think there's an interesting comparison to the extent that these are both cases in which people in authority positions have to make decisions about who to share critical information with. Minkowski and Kepler both withhold information from their respective crews that is very relevant to their future survival. They both use the phrase "need to know" in their justification for doing this. When Hilbert asks why Minkowski hasn't told them about the cracks, Minkowski's first response is "Because… you didn't need to know." Kepler talks about the idea of 'need to know' quite a bit, but perhaps the most notable instance for this comparison is when he tells Jacobi "That mission parameter [about the potential for alien duplicates] was marked for black archive clearance. Need to know. And you didn't need to know."

But I think the similarities between Minkowski and Kepler's approaches to withholding information pretty much end there. I believe that Minkowski is telling the truth when she says she didn't tell Hilbert and Lovelace about the cracks because they'd "suffered enough". She doesn't tell them because she doesn't want them to lose hope. She doesn't tell them even though, as Hera says, doing so might make wrangling them easier.

For Minkowski, knowing something that she doesn't tell the rest of the crew is something that weighs on her. I think you can hear it in her voice when she tells Hera that she won't tell Hilbert and Lovelace about the cracks "not today". I think you can hear it when she breaks down towards the end of Pan-pan ("Just like the cracks, and the station just keeps falling apart. And there's nothing I can do, and I am sorry.")

In contrast, I don't think we are given any reason to believe that Kepler feels a sense of regret or conflict about the knowledge he doesn't share with the rest of the crew. Of course, he regrets the consequences of losing Jacobi's loyalty and his control of the station. But Kepler's reaction to Jacobi challenging him on his secrecy is focused on standing by his decision and justifying it. Unlike Minkowski, Kepler refers to Goddard rules when defending his decision not to share information. He didn't tell his crew that Lovelace was probably an alien duplicate because he believed that doing so wouldn't have supported his objectives. That's sufficient reason for him.

I think this is actually a good illustration of a key difference between Minkowski and Kepler's attitudes towards leadership. For Minkowski, leadership is first and foremost about responsibility - the responsibility to be a good Commander and keep her crew safe. (Other leadership priorities are more prominent for her early on, but by season 2 I believe that's her primary motivation and I think it's always been a key part of her concept of leadership.) In contrast, for Kepler, leadership is first and foremost about power - the power to push mission progress forward, the power to order and manipulate and threaten in service of the bigger picture. And information is power, so why would he share it if he doesn't have to?

Those contrasting ideas of leadership underlie their choices when they withhold information from their crews. Minkowski doesn't tell her crew everything because she wants to protect them from losing hope. Kepler doesn't tell his crew everything because he wants to be the one holding all the cards - he'll only reveal information to others when doing so supports his aims.

To come back to your original question, I think there's a connection here, but it's less that the writers are deliberately encouraging these comparisons, and more that Minkowski and Kepler are both people in leadership positions in a life-threatening environment, and that inevitably necessitates decisions about who to share information with. And very different leadership priorities can motivate similar choices in not telling people things they would want to know.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #thanks again for the ask #I'm not completely sure I interpreted your question correctly but this was interesting to talk about! #I find the exploration of leadership in w359 so interesting... #I have less of an understanding of Kepler than of Minkowski #because I'm less interested in him #but I stand by this even if some Kepler fans may disagree #Renée Minkowski #Warren Kepler #Renee Minkowski #wolf 359 spoilers #w359 spoilers #the empty man posteth

[excarow]

You know what? I am now going to believe that the reason Wild (the man who was a Royal Knight, and hinted at to be one of the best) has no concept of dangerous actions and consequences is because his 100 year nap just blanked them.

Like usually amnesiacs still remember common sense, even if they don't know WHY that's common sense (something about different parts of the brain and memory?) But Wild just got a full on hard reset. His body knows what to do, but his brain simply does not.

This would explain why he has no hesitation in climbing the towers or fighting lynels or hinoxes but mainly I think it would be funny to imagine the rest of the Chain having to explain just how things are just incredibly dangerous please for fucks sake don't do that Wild

And for his response to be

"idk get good??? Don't get hurt??? I'm not really seeing the issue here"

#linked universe #lu #lu headcanons #lu wild #I'm aure this has been said a thousand times #but imahine wild having the action and consequences understanding of a fove year old #but the abilty to do the actions correctly #and hes just good at being reckless #idk i think it'd be funny if he stressed out even the reckless ones of the chain