#just mercy review

[liesmyth]

More proto Lyctors: I don’t think the original purpose of assembling everyone at Canaan House was discovering Lyctorhood. I think the purpose, originally, was just to figure out how necromancy works. Because John didn’t know.

Everything he did early on was trial and error, and after absorbing Alecto he became so powerful he could brute force anything. The necromantic theorems everyone in the Houses uses were developed later, John never needed any of that. He had no frame of reference for how ‘normal’ adepts users could channel the power he unlashed, because he’s way beyond normal.

Thinking of this bit. In NtN, John tried for a hot second to approach his new death powers like he was going to write a peer-review paper. They do corpse experiment. He tries to make it sound like a legit science. Of course it goes nowhere because the world is ending, but also because you can’t apply scientific principles to something that can’t be reproduced by others. Post Resurrection, though? Sure. Basically, he was putting the gang back together, out of affection but also because he really needed lab buddies to help him nail down the framework of something that for him was as intuitive as breathing.

A corollary to that, IMO, is that I don’t think John was sitting on a well of information that he refused to share. I think even by canon era he doesn’t have the sophisticated grasp of nercomancy-as-a-science that the Lyctors do, and I really don’t think he was sitting on the secret to perfect Lyctorhood the whole time. He watched everyone misunderstand the process because he didn’t reveal the full truth about what Alecto was, but I also very much doubt he knew what the “human” version of absorbing another soul would be until the others figured it out. I doubt he even knows an alternative is viable instead of just theoretically possible; I predict John will be very surprised to learn something like Paul exists.

#I think the simple fact that in Htn Mercy & Augustine call Alecto 'John's cavalier' shows they had absolutely no idea of who Alecto was #because he very much killed her and ate her soul. It's just that she got better #anyway just. the idea of pre apocalypse John trying to submit his paper on phthinergy for peer review.... insane #tlt #tlt thoughts #og lyctors #ejg

[fictionadventurer]

The worst part about reading in a genre where you have low expectations (in this case, Christian historical fiction) is that when a book impresses you, you have no idea if it's actually good or if you're just overly impressed because it was a fraction of a degree better than the usual garbage.

#basically lately anytime i read a christian fiction book that isn't romance-based i find myself surprised by the quality #i do think that some christian publishers are getting better #and trying to tell stories that dig deeper into real faith and messy issues #instead of making only vapid squeaky clean prayer-filled tropefests #but i'm not sure *how much* better #because anything above the low bar feels like great literature #the most recent is 'in a far-off land' by stephanie landsem #and let me tell you setting the prodigal son in 1930s hollywood is a genius concept #i have some issues with the history and the mystery #but the characters! #it has been a long time since i cried this hard over a book #several chapters of solid waterworks #(and i also have the issue of figuring out if it's actually that moving or if i'm just hormonal/sleep-deprived) #i keep thinking about this book but also i worry about recommending because what if it's actually terrible by normal book standards? #(also the author DOES NOT understand the seal of confession and i was SHOCKED to find that she's actually catholic) #but also looking at the reviews makes it clear that if most of christian fiction is vapid garbage it's these reviewers' fault #here you have something that's digging into sin and darkness and justice and mercy and these people are just #'how can it call itself christian fiction if it only mentions god at the end?' #are we reading the same book this WHOLE THING is about god! and humanity and our fallen nature and how this breaks relationships! #your pearl-clutching anytime someone tries to get even a tiny bit realistic is destroying this genre #i'm gonna run out of tags so i'll stop now

[linterteatime]

smol gijinka of masamunya because idk ✌

#nyanpire #the Gothic world of nyanpire #nyanpire the animation #gijinka #masamunya dokuganryu #gay ass cat #my art #fanart #i was looking for the manga of this but it's near impossible to find #i got something but its on Japanese and idk how to read #then i looked at the reviews on other languages because why not and now i got a big question #is this manga for kids or nah? #the anime is for kidz but like idk the manga #it is but it is not? it is lowkey advertised for kids but at the same time some of the reviews say it has a bit of a mature uhhh language? #mature jokes? topics? #but like it's still for kids? #i think? #idk idk man #im gonna just wait till some merciful soul translates it in 100 years or i learn japanese #one is easier than the other and im very lazy

[ynhart]

Just finished reading Brideshead Revisited..... it was beautiful....

#the last chapters truly moved me.... #I definitely recommend it to my fellow catholics it's a beautiful story... God's grace and mercy always moves... #my confessor recommended it to me hehe i'm so grateful #I absolutely recommend it to non believers as well but I've read some reviews from them and unfortunately they just don't the the point.. #but i guess its expected #anyways #it breaks your heart into pieces #i have feelings i cannot describe rn #don't get me wrong when I say beautiful.... i don't mean it in a sunshinr and rainbows way

[mercyluvsyouuu]

I finally watched Interstellar. What a movie

#interstellar #mercy talks #jdfuwkduej go watch it if you havent het #def my fav movie at the moment. the reviews didnt lie #also TARS was cute #but maybe thats just me

[justforbooks]

For most of us, violent racial conflict in 20th century America probably conjures up images of the Deep South. Yet as Dennis Lehane’s new novel makes horrifyingly clear, the problem was far more widespread than that. 

Small Mercies is set in working-class Irish Boston in 1974: the year the city finally decided to desegregate the education system by busing some white kids to traditionally all-black schools and vice versa.

In theory, this might sound like a progressive move. But for the community that Lehane writes about so immersively (he grew up in it himself), it’s a tyrannical imposition by middle-class liberals whose own children won’t suddenly be plunged into an environment where they’re unlikely to receive a warm welcome. There’s also the fact that the Irish regard black people with a level of hostility which Lehane never remotely plays down.

The book begins with main character Mary Pat Fennessey agreeing to help publicise an anti-busing rally. The single mother of a teenage daughter, Mary Pat is fully aware of how constricted life is in this part of town, where Irish mobsters rule. The trouble is that she can’t see any way out of it. Things then take a turn for the substantially worse when her daughter disappears at the same time as a young black man is found murdered nearby. So are the two events linked? And if they are, what can a 42-year-old woman do about it? The answer, it transpires is quite a lot and not enough.

Lehane is now well established as one of America’s finest crime writers, who superbly blends uncompromising social history with uncompromising tales of what people driven to the limit will do. But perhaps best of all is his creation of character. As ever, Small Mercies is densely populated with a wide-ranging collection of unforgettable people—none more so than Mary Pat, whose often alarming behaviour somehow doesn’t stop us rooting for her. 

Oh yes, and Lehane’s classic tough-guy prose is still in great shape too. One baddie, for example, dies when he “drops to the ground, his body nothing but a bag for non-functioning organs, his soul already halfway to hell”.

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#just for books #Small Mercies #Dennis Lehane #book review

[st4rstudent]

Questioni, whoms art thou? (What does your toon look like?)

👀

Orb Giblets (Imagine I'm looking off to the sky)

If you're talking about ingame, here's what he looks like!

I usually go with the right one bc I think it looks better, but the yellow hypno glasses were apart of the fit for so long (++ they help bring out the yellow) that sometimes I still wear them for fun

Art wise, here's a quick sketch-that-got-out-of-hand of him

I have an older post of the first time I drew him so the styles a bit.. outdated but its colored.

I'll write more about him in the tags as to not make this post longer than needed

#orb giblets #clemart #not putting this in the ttcc tag #nevermind it went in the tag anyways im embarassed #anyways the first time i drew him i didnt really draw his snout bc i didnt understand how to. #the theme with him is graduation bc of the hat so the gown he's wearing is supposed to be a sort of graduation gown. this was mainly just t #match with the hat but also bc i started to pick back up ttcc a lot more when i was closer to graduating hs #he has a little mouse tail as a reminiscence of his old self (used to be a mouse) and also bc i like drawing long tails but have found out #loathe linearting them #ongoing bit that after he graduated he runs a berry review channel on yt but theyre all rotten. all the berries in his basket are rotten an #smell really bad and also he loves to burrow and dig so the gown is torn and dirty at the bottoms and hes not helpful at all to the #resistance. no one invited him . he sees a cog and starts burrowing #also his fingers are claws but i decided to be merciful and give him cartoon physics so he can move them now #also clem funfact the star on the top part of the gown is not a button its just a design with the shirt bc ever since i was young #ive had this weird discomfort of (the texture of) buttons which is also why if you've noticed. i dont draw suits or anything with buttons #felt the need to share just for clarity . scratches my head you probably didnt need to know that #anyways i hope this answered your question ! smile #i might color that drawing in later i kindof like it #clemask

[the-acid-pear]

Actually i just realized how effective was even the whole "whipping memory whole" thing for Harry if he still has fucking PTSD from the war? Like sure he'd have told his whole life and shit but to have such a strong reaction like that one review implies he had would require him actually remembering more than he should.

#luly talks #bro can't remember his mother's face but he sure can remember racist slurs huh ........................................ #im joking im a harryhead to the grave i just find it funny still #bc like even w his name its like. it just FEELS right you know. which isnt the same as remembering much #dsaf #dsaf harry #also admittedly that one review 2 me is the darkest joke in the game like not a word is said in that whole bit that doesnt make me upset #kudos to that MGHJNDJUYHBGH #btw im saying this bc i was thinking of how honeshtly maybe having gotten his memory whipped was a cruel mercy or sorts #bc if you think of it his life is filled to the brim with loss. #imagine having to see your 5 coworkers and i suppose closests friends die twice on top of that #bc he was the last phoney so #this man is just so fucking tragic in general it makes me so sad

[solvicrafts]

So, uh... I may have out-Lolth'd even the likes of Matron Malice in my Skyrim playthrough the other day.

Dunno how I feel about it.

#I normally play more neutral or good aligned characters #but I'm doing a reeeeeeeally long redemption arc for my current character #mainly because I wanted to give a DB mod a try and maybe given a in-depth review of it #anyway she started out being actually pretty merciful despite being an assassin #but then just completely flipped her shit after the Penitus Oculatus raided the Falkreath sanctuary and killed her friends #well mostly Festus she didn't really care about most of them otherwise #I got some creatively horrible and evil revenge on Captain Maro that's still left me feeling... weird #let's just say it was inspired by zin-carla #and while I'm at it the Emperor got to have some revenge on the dude who had the contract out on him... from beyond the grave #Conjuration is broken

[allaganexarch]

extremely funny that both bad profs i’ve had so far have been the ones who were like GUYS WHY HAVENT YOU SENT ME REVIEW QUESTIONS YET like bold of you to assume any of us knows what’s going on at this point

#i'm so happy i don't have this prof for conlaw 2 i would have had to beg the registrar for mercy #i'm not much of a review question asker bc usually i just get clarification from you know #actually looking at my notes lol but #civ pro prof was like this too like class wasn't even over and she was like WHERE are the QUESTIONS #like ma'am the entire course is one big question mark at this juncture take it easy lol #personal #grad school nonsense

[besnouted]

mturk is completely hellish with a huge learning curve and tons of outside programs you need to download to make it even remotely usable BUT. you can also bully requesters who put out underpaid garbage and the userbase actually has influence

#like theres a huge network for reviewing requesters and requesters do have incentive to keep a good standing in the community #vs prolific you are just at their mercy #or at least it Feels that way

[maddie-grove]

Little Book Review: Just Mercy

Author: Bryan Stevenson.

Publication Date: 2014.

Genre: Nonfiction (memoir).

Premise: Stevenson, an attorney and activist since the mid-1980s, shares his experiences representing incarcerated clients, mainly doing post-conviction work. The main through-line is his work with Walter McMillian, an Alabaman man convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in a gross miscarriage of justice. Stevenson also takes several detours into other serious issues with the American criminal justice system--the incarceration of youth, the prevalence of solitary confinement, and the criminalization of miscarriages, among others--as well as his own experience as a black, first-generation law student and then attorney.

Thoughts: I'd been meaning to read Just Mercy for a while--it's relevant to my work, and both book and author were extremely well-regarded at my law school--but I'd put it off, mostly because I saw the movie in 2020 and felt like I'd gotten the general idea. I had not gotten the general idea. The movie is a solid courtroom drama with some good performances; the book is an absolutely stellar work of nonfiction, on par with the ecological horror story And the Waters Turned to Blood.

I understand why the book was streamlined for a film adaptation, but you really lose a lot when you take out all the tangents and most of Stevenson's background. These aspects both enrich the book as a whole (because you're seeing the problems with the system from several different angles, illustrated by one or two individuals' stories) and add tension to the main story. Because Stevenson is a lawyer, most of his conflicts involve filing motions and diplomatically negotiating bullshit from other lawyers. This may not sound like it'd have you on the edge of your seat, but I was there.

Hot Goodreads Take: One reviewer accuses Stevenson of having "complicit bias." Don't we all! My hot take is that I'm glad I finally figured out that it was Just (as in fair) Mercy, not Just (as in only) Mercy.

#little book review #just mercy #bryan stevenson

[captain-penguin2]

#just mercy #film review #Instagram

[sweet-endings]

Don't go taking my hart (;

Title: The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

Author: Megan Bannen

Pages: 439

Rating: 5 stars

Spoiler free thoughts: This is such a weird little book that feels like it was made just for me. I don’t know how else to describe it. “You’ve Got Mail” But make it fantasy western romance with a backdrop of zombies is just incredible to start with but it follows through on every aspect and doesn’t pull back from the weirdness it presents. The writing was so good, and the banter perfect and hilarious.

Spoiler thoughts: Hart and Mercy are both so well written and also their letters felt believable and well written. Humor is extremely subjective so I was afraid this wasn’t going to work for me, but it absolutely did. I was cackling out loud at parts of this book, especially the scene with Penn and the sheep shearers. It also made me cry. When Hart died and his last letter was really his confession it took me OUT like I could not handle it I was a huge fucking puddle. This book rocked me to my core, took a peek inside of me and said “That’ll do nicely” and made a home there. I can’t wait to reread it sometime in the future.

#book review #Undertaking of hart and mercy #reading #just finished

[swanhookheart]

If you ever need a laugh, just go look through the one-star reviews for Good Omens

"Story seemed interesting, but I couldn't understand the British accents"

"Not very like Doctor Who at all!"

"How do I play this on my TV?"

"Blasphemous content. May the Lord have mercy on you."

"Makes a mockery of Christianity"

"MARXISM!" - just this, absolutely nothing else

"David Tennant's hip wiggle makes me uncomfortable"

#good omens

[feyd-meowtha]

Everytime I see some interview or review about how amazingly 'terrifying' Austin Butler was as Feyd-Rautha I die a bit inside. Like how could they miss the point so entirely?

The baron is terrifying, Rabban is terrifying, Piter is terrifying but Feyd? Yeah sure he'll kill without remorse, he'll plot, he's sneaky and will even enjoy inflicting pain if it strokes his ego or ambition but in the context of his house....... He's the most reasonable one! The charismatic one, the one that the people can love. He's the Harkonnens' best face, their ticket to leading the universe, not by pure violence but by marriage and politics. He's even born of a father who tried to run away from them entirely.

The way that Feyd is supposed to take power is by being MORE MERCIFUL AND MORE REASONABLE than the harkonnens who came before. Even if he's motivated by ambition rather than kindness (so is Paul, in many ways), he's supposed to swoop in and RESCUE the people of Arrakis from the hands of his brute brother. JUST LIKE PAUL HE IS SUPPOSED TO BE SEEN AS A BETTER ALTERNATIVE, if not an outright saviour.

Yes he's cruel and yes he is scheming but the savagely they keep ascribing to him in the movie belongs to Rabban and the true psychopathic sadism to Piter, and then finally obviously the Baron is the worst evil schemer there is. I do not understand why they've given him a bunch of traits that are better exemplified in the other members of his house and gotten rid of the things that made him a unique Harkonnen enemy and an effective mirror to Paul.

Hell in the book he even LOOKS like Paul (curly dark hair) and it's implied that the baron is attracted to both of them, implying he has a certain type.

Sigh.

It just feels so lazy and uninventive, but most of all it's just a shame because it's so much less interesting than it could have been. Compared to that, having him do a batman voice and feed people to his cannibal harem for fun is just so.... lame.

#dune meta #dune part 2 #dune #feyd rautha #paul atreides #feyd/paul #austin butler #timothée chalamet