#just research project things

[coloneljamesmoriarty]

okay but adaine learning that aelwyn is an expert on curses and then immediately turning around and deciding her final paper will be about curses???? the sisters are everything to me

#d20 #dimension 20 #fhjy spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #as a sibling who also did a research project on a thing my sister loved #trying to bond with your sister when you dont have that much in common #im just. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[atissi]

forgot to post my actual artfight ocs. these two are from a project i lovingly dubbed "furry period piece yuri" because i wanted to write about gender androgyny in animals and muesli for sheep. on the left is ewenice (she/her) and on the right is calliope (she/he)

#its less yuri and more t4t but it's a little less funny to say that in my brain #80% of the work ive done for this project is just thinking about meet cute scenarios. 10% on researching late 1800s fashion. #then 10% on researching late 1800s swiss food #perfectly balanced as all things should be #my ocs #my art #art fight

[skitskatdacat63]

Fernando Alonso & His Relationship With Cards

I'm sure we're all familar with the cards on the back of Fernando's Vegas GP helmet by now, but did you know his relationship with cards goes a lot deeper?

I. Magic Tricks

You've probably seen or heard someone at least mention Fernando's propensity for card tricks. As far as I can tell he was doing them(publically) as far back as 2003 all the way to as recently as 2018. Even once performing a card trick, with a condom and a teddy bear(!??!?!??!!), in front of Valentino Rossi who said "How was that possible?"(x)

But how did this start? According to James Allen, "Fernando admits to having been heavily influenced by his grandfather, a mercurial figure, who taught him magic and card tricks, still one of his passions away from the race track."(x) And I'm not sure the validity of this one, because I couldn't find an actual source, but apparently he once said: "My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit."

In several interviews he described it as his hobby off track, and that he loved learning new tricks and surprising others in the garage with them! So clearly cards are pretty important to him both as a hobby but also to who he is as a person since they've been with him just as long as racing has.

II. Card Symbolism in His Helmets

This is the reason I originally made this post, but I thought I should also explain the origins of his card fascination first. As I said, we probably all remember the cards on the back of his helmet in Vegas, but did you know that wasn't the first time he had cards on the back of his helmet?

From 2008-2013, he used to have a pair of cards on the back of his helmets. The symbolisms of the cards themselves as well as the evolution of their design is really fascinating to me! Even more so with the recent development of the card choice in 2023.

Fernando said he wanted to reference his two titles in some way on the back of his helmet and after his friend sent him several ideas, he decided on having two cards(an ace of clubs and an ace of hearts, sometimes pictured with 05 and 06 on them as well), saying: "I picked the cloverleaf [the ace of clubs - Ed] to give me luck, but the only pity is that it doesn't have four leaves!"(X)

2008.

Here's the very first appearance of the cards! They're displayed flat, with the 05 and 06 clearly visible

2009.

Very similar to 2008, but with a slightly different design, and they're maybe a bit more straight with less shadow?

2010.

This is the first major change! I was sad they didn't have the years on them anymore, but then I realized they're sparkly to match with his signature lightning bolts on the top of the helmet!!

2011.

Honestly I'm still somewhat unsure if this is the actual 2011 helmet? It's pretty difficult to find clear photos of the back of helmets from older seasons. It's easiest to find them on replica sites or auction sites so I'm not 100%? But anyways, I like that this has the championship years on the underside of the cards

2012.

This is when I started getting weirdly emotional about the helmets. Do you see how they've progressed from being a centerpoint to being curled up and sad at the bottom of the helmet? Not listing the year anymore??

2013.

Same thoughts as 2012. And after this season, they cease to exist (just like his ferrari chair in the garage, WOAH CALLBACK), until cards make a reeappearance in his Vegas helmet, albeit in a different form

2013 Monaco(Honorable Mention):

For some reason 2013 helmets were easier to find proper pictures of, so I happened to witness this absolute beauty. The creativity of this helmet genuinely blows me away??? Wanting to keep the card motif, but making sure to incorporate it into the rest of the puzzle piece design?? Mwah! There was another special 2013 helmet but they didn't change the cards at all so I really applaud this one

2023 Las Vegas(The Return of The King):

The magnificent return! But look! The cards are different cards! Instead of being two aces, it's now an ace of hearts, a four of hearts(his driver number of course!) and, the, now iconic, representation of himself as a Joker. I literally could not believe my eyes when this helmet was released and I saw the Joker card, what a fucking silly old man....I really wonder if he felt nostalgic having cards on his helmet again or if he didn't think about it all and was just like, "ah cards because Vegas!!!"

III. Why Does This Matter?

*The rest of the post was factual, this is moreso my personal thoughts on the symbolism of the cards/designs

This post spawned from me recently watching the 2010 Bahrain gp and noticing "hey wait a minute...are those CARDS ON THE BACK OF HIS HELMET!?" It's a really tiny detail that's unfortunately covered up by the HANS device pretty much whenever he's wearing the helmet, so it's really difficult to spot! But I became fascinated with the fact that he had cards on his helmet before that recent helmet, and now here we are!

There's something to me about how the design of the cards evolves over the course of six seasons from the cards being front and center to being smaller, more folded up and closer to the bottom of the helmet. As I said, the 2012-2013 ones genuinely made me depressed because it feels, symbolically, like his hopes for getting another Ace are becoming more and more unlikely and falling away until they eventually fall falt and fade away entirely after 2013 and disappear for basically a decade.

But when they return? They're not the same cards! Instead of representing Fernando's championships, they now represent him as a person, displaying his driver number and his persona of being a Joker!! Though I do think it's interesting he happened to keep the Ace of Hearts, even though he talked more about the Ace of Clubs before. I'm not sure it's actually this deep in reality, but I like to think that it's him not letting his championships(and the lack thereof) define him, but rather letting who he is as a person shine and be the centerpoint instead! But on a sadder note, as @suzuki-ecstar said to me, maybe the Aces aren't there anymore because he's lost all hope for a chance at a third Ace entirely :(

#yes its finals week and im up to my eyes in coursework but instead decided to spend like 5 hours researching and writing this post #nah bcs i actually genuinely put more work into this then I think I have all semester dsfjdskjg #that thing about him using a condom and teddy bear in a magic trick genuinely had me crying with laugher. actual tears rolling down my face #<- HOW!?!? WHAT WAS THE TRICK?? its literally inconceivable to me what he did. oh if only there were pics UGH #anyways!! this post was a lot of fun to make!! i really really love the symbolism and design of helmets so this was a rly fun project #and i also went down a lot of rabbitholes while make this and saw many very weird articles from yore #i feel like i make an equal amnt of deranged posts abt seb and nando but i dont know why nando is gifted w all my well researched projects #<- i.e. chair post. that was the same level of research as this one but at least this one i could find actual sources about.... #idk theres smth about the extremely long history of nando's history that evokes research posts like this KLAJSLSKDJ #theres just so much that i dont think I ever really see people discussing! so i must create. #haha what was that joke tag i wanted to make abt my researched posts? I think: #normal posts that catie normally makes in a normal fashion #<- one day ill go back and actually tag posts w that. bcs the amtn of research compared to my actual schoolwork is so unwell #fernando alonso #fa14 #f1 #formula 1 #catie.rambling.txt #we do a little bit of f1

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

#neutral is like. shrug. if you have nothing better to do / would put it on as background noise. or plain dont care either way! #but yeah im... poking streaming with a stick rn #im doing some research... based on the results of this poll ill make another wondering about preferred platforms #cause ive done streaming before. Technically #when i was active on instagram and they rolled out the live option id sometimes do a lil art stream #on my phone and a tripod #But! this time around id actually go get a mic and use a legit platform #probably either twitch or picarto... maybe youtube... but who knows! #who knows if i'll follow through with this at all! id like to! i remember enjoying streams! #it sounds like fun! #and i think it would be cool to show the Process - as slapdash as it is #absolutely unprompted #there are a lot of different things i could do on streams i think #could do streams were i focus on one project. request streams. commish streams. just chill draw session streams #streams where we all try something new Together... working on skills! #something to consider!

[northern-passage]

i've been thinking a lot about the word "representation" and what it means and how it's changed over the last few years, particularly when it comes to the writing/publishing landscape but also in movies and tv shows… and i really don't like it anymore. to be clear, of course i think it's important to have diversity in your work, i'm not saying i hate the concept of representation. but i do really dislike the way it's used now, and i really just hate the word itself

in a broader sense it's just become a marketing tool. i'm not impressed by any publisher or author who just describes their book by listing all of the minorities/identities the characters represent as if that should be enough. it feels very gross, very exploitative and disingenuous. it also really bothers me because it's always marginalized identities- which i understand Why, but it feels very othering to me (and again. Very exploitative as an advertisement). you would never list out "cishet able-bodied white man" as a character description to pat yourself on the back over. so why do it to everyone else? why insinuate that one is the "default" and the other one is "special"? (and when i say this i'm mainly talking about advertisements/marketing. i understand why people would specify about characters in descriptions with the plot, but i don't like to see an ad that's just "this book has gay people!" with nothing else)

which then leads me to my other point, which is that a lot of people treat "representation" as if it's "too hard." like "oh i don't know enough to write about that, i don't have that experience, etc" which is a fair way to feel! however… it's weird that people only say this about writing trans characters or characters of color. i'm writing a story right now with a character who is really into motorcycles. i personally do not know that much about motorcycles, so i researched what parts are what & what different kinds of models there are & what basic bike care looks like. i guarantee Most people will have to google something at some point in their writing process. so what's the problem? it also, again, feels very othering when authors treat certain groups of people as "impossible" to write, "too hard" to understand. they are just.. people. you write them as a person. and then you figure out the rest later.

and i think part of the refusal or fear to write something outside of your experience is because of the way representation is treated as So Special. these characters are So Special that they aren't allowed to be anything other than "representation." they're Not allowed to be characters with complex emotions and interesting motivations, they have to just be Trans or Gay or Disabled or whatever. they're not allowed to be people. which means, at the end of the day, we loop right back around to where we were at the start….

there is bad representation. there are depictions of certain marginalized people that are harmful and that are damaging, i'm not trying to minimize that or argue against it at all, in fact we should all be mindful of that while writing and reading. but i also think it's possible to swing too far in the opposite direction as well and put certain groups of people on a pedestal and not allow them to do anything at all but be Perfect Representation, if that makes sense.

#anyways. is this anything #sorry i dont have anything insightful to say at the end here i just wanted to ramble #especially abt the way ppl market books now it like. genuinely disgusts me #cannot imagine marketing tnp in that way. my characters are many things AND they are trans. and their transness #is not just a flashy feature for attracting attention #also i do understand the fear of 'getting it wrong' but that's why you have beta readers or even actual sensitivity readers #that's why you ask for feedback. especially in this space like... people will give it #that's what makes sharing your process and early draft in this community so rewarding #and there's also just the reality that no matter what you do some people will Not like it 🤷 #and ime a lot of ppl look at representation very individualistically #as in it's only good representation if it represents Me #which sucks. and you're never going to please those people #ANYWAYS also to be clear this is not a vague or meant to be targeted at any one person please don't be fucking weird #this is just some thots i've had recently esp since ive seen the representation conversation pop up quite a few times #and since i've been doing research for characters in my other project #personal

[honorthysalad]

“Matsuura-san’s parent died… Hikaru’s parent also died… having your parent die… is bad.”

Thank god we’ve got Yoshiki here, modern philosopher of our time, to drop this wisdom upon us. Surely this grand conclusion, which required a whole flashback to come to, will have an impact on how Yoshiki views death going forward- oh wait, lol what am I saying? Of course it’s not!

#It took so much to come to the coldest take I’ve ever seen #Like Yoshiki pulled this straight out of the fridge ‘hikaru’ put Matsuura in #And he somehow got less empathetic after this point #At the point that /‘Hikaru’/ is the one going ‘should we care about this person dying?’ #And Yoshiki is going ‘nah. We’ve got a research project to do’ #Smth has definitely changed #I hope this obsession with the research project is like- an actual thing #Maybe like Yoshiki is experiencing that same emptiness ‘hikaru’ feels on a daily basis but he doesn’t know what would fill it #So he’s just seeking out and taking in as much information as he can because learning has always been an escape for Yoshiki #Like being smart is Yoshiki’s way out of the village. Every time Tokyo is brought up it’s almost always in reference to his intelligence #So learning more has always been Yoshiki’s solution to things. ALSO Yoshiki is actually obsessed w/ this research project #He thinks about it while he’s in class- while he’s studying outside of class- while his friends are all talking- #You can probably count on two hands the amount of times Yoshiki talks about smth other than the research project post volume 3 #It’s actually concerning #hikaru ga shinda natsu #the summer hikaru died #hgsn #hgsn spoilers #my hgsn shit #It doesn’t have to be because he’s becoming more like ‘hikaru’ #I’d just like for that plot point to come up again and be like a driving force for why Yoshiki acts the way he does #The actual reason will be nothing at all #And instead Yoshiki will revert back to normal when Maki eventually dies #Because Yoshiki is only capable of caring about people he knows the name of

[muffinlance]

Re-read of Little Zuko Book One: complete

In-Jokes: re-uploaded to my brain

Book Two Outline: (very) rough draft complete

Am I Using This To Procrastinate On My Other Writing Projects: absolutely

#to be fair the next chapter of Fox's Tongue just needs an edit read so that's just a weekend dedicated-writing-time thing #other project is my Blind Zuko one #won a beta from the awesome blindbeta during a charity auction so that is a huge motivation to actually get that outlined #the fandom needs more Zuko and Toph Being Blind Buddies content #I do enjoy the content already existing but it is #A) slim pickings #and B) mostly focused on Zuko rapidly learning to see again via firebending #when the content I crave is Actual Blind Buddies #what crimes will they commit #and who will believe that cabbage merchant when he testifies against them #avatar the last airbender #atla #Zuko #Toph #(also the more I research on blind tropes the more the current blind Zuko fics are a bingo card of Tropes Sighted People Like) #(hence working with an actual sensitivity reader on this one)

[essektheylyss]

annoyed that I signed up for the 7pm yoga class tonight instead of the 5:45 one cuz I now can't drink and bang out a research paper and be done with it, but it does mean my paper will probably be better than it would've been if I had written the whole thing tonight while tipsy, so

#megs vs mlis #arguably the first post that REALLY applies to that tag #WHO SETS A FINAL PROJECT DUE DATE 11 DAYS BEFORE THE END OF THE QUARTER??? #I'm so mad #not least cuz she was just basically like 'yeah the due date's today but turn it in anytime before Monday' #which drives me NUTS actually like NO the only good part of adhd is that if I have to panic-hit a deadline the thing is then over #anyway. I got a bunch of research so whatever. I'll write it tomorrow or something.

[astriiformes]

Finally managed to talk to another professor about serving as my faculty mentor for an undergraduate research project, which means that now I have less than a week for formulate my actual proposal if I want to get it funded for the fall

Cue just a little bit of internal screaming

#it isn't really anyone's fault -- the first professor i asked is going to be on leave next semester #and it was a while before we could meet to discuss alternatives #so even though i got the ball rolling on this at the start of the month it's really down to the wire now #which is fine! this is fine! #just. this is why you start things early #that said. i'm excited about my project idea -- i want to research the social perception and treatment of melancholy in the renaissance #and i'm also crossing my fingers i get this because it'll look good on grad school applications + maybe also serve as my writing sample

[if-mirrormine]

for the past few hours ive been feeling the urge to write something other than mm or wtsr so i was looking through my wips and it got me thinking which would be the more interesting one for viewers so i bring to thee another poll!!

#i always get so excited when i find a reason to use this feature lol #like yes!!! share your opinion on this very specific topic #allow me communicate with the people #also this isnt me jumping the gun or anything #im not gonna suddenly launch into a new project #i do work on these occasionally #but they're not my main focus #im just tryna get a feel for things #call it industry research lmao #tldr: dont expect to see either of these released any time soon #alli talks

[klkirbles]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games) Relationship: Astarion/Gale (Baldur's Gate) Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Vampires, Gale's scholarly interest in Astarion Language: English Summary:

Astarion was a vampire. Yet somehow, no one else seemed to notice.

#just a fun thing to chip away at #need more fics where gale sees astarion as a research project LOL #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #astarion #astarion ancunin #bloodweave #my writing

[getvalentined]

Thinking about finally throwing all my FF7 meta analysis and lore deep dive stuff onto a sideblog. It'd be reblogged from here, but I'd be able to organize it a little better, have a directory so people could find things more easily, and maybe it'd stop people from regurgitating things I say word-for-word for brownie points when they can just find and reblog the fucking original post(s).

#fandom vent #this happens WAY more often than I talk about #like constantly #not daily #but if I put up a ramble #there will always be 2-3 people on the twits or here #who immediately start saying the same thing #in the same words #acting like they're the ones that did the analysis #and it's really frustrating #y'all know I actually do research on this shit? #I check my sources #I review the source material #I get alternate translations to be sure #I read real-life research journals for scientific stuff #I research dates and real-world events and natural phenomena and religious history etc etc etc #it's not just 'nashi writes 2k words of bullshit and hits POST' #I do actual research for my analyses and my deep dives #I cite my sources whenever possible #I don't LINK all the time because that can kick a post from the tags #but I don't just make shit up #so people grabbing it and running with it as if they were the ones that did the work to figure it out #is super disheartening #my current big research project is figuring out if Reeve's surname #is actually rooted in Gaelic #because it's such a weird name #and it's possible that it's not spelled right #because it may be Gaelic #this is a theory that has not panned out yet #but I've been researching it on and off for weeks

[glennmillerorchestra]

nothing like a beautiful ethnomusicology 20-page mini thesis to end the semester with

#i LOVE this project don’t get me wrong i just wish it was the only thing i had to do. man if you guys knew what i’ve been up to lately in #the research world :) and everything else i’m juggling alongside it :/

[clefadrylcorner]

I think the real reason everyone wrote about their superpowered ocs in some kind of experiment facility when they were younger was that A: It was cool and edgy as hell to everyone writing them, but also B: It gave those writers the space to explore the unique powers and abilities they gave their ocs in a literal confined space. Writing about werewolves and aliens and superheros is all fun and delightful, but what if you could flesh them out with how they work and operate under specific conditions. Couple that with a suffocating setting with a built-in plot trajectory (escape), and you have an easy shortcut into giving your ocs a story to pair with their characters. This works with all ocs too. Demons/Angels? Yes. Mermaids? Yep! Faeries? Go right ahead. Vampires? Right for the picking. Any human with 1 weird thing about them? Go for it! Writers have always loved poking their characters with sticks and seeing how they react. It's no wonder that an entire plot structure of evil scientists and research assistants doing the exact same thing would be so unintentionally popular among young writers.

#clefadrylcorner talks a lot #i had an epiphany while thinking about some old old ocs of mine and realized a lot of my friends did similar things #sometimes research facility would be replaced with cool action team with in depth documents about their backstories and powers but same goal #plus everyone wanted to be cool when they were young #and this was the coolest thing to us at the time so we latched on #there's also the thing about feeling different as a kid and projecting that onto your characters who can be just as weird as you

[meat-wentz]

okay but what i will say is that i do see a faction of the mcr fanbase that do not engage at all with fob except to make petekey jokes, and like yeah i get it, it’s just a fun piece of fan lore that’s been passed around and if you don’t engage with fob at all, you wouldn’t see the harm in reducing their discography down to “haha it’s about mikey.” however i do implore you to at least read up and about their body of work, even if the music isn’t for you, as they deal with extremely complex, complicated and difficult subject matter, most of which is specific to pete’s experiences with racism, mental illness, exploitation, etc. his lyricism is something that cannot be removed from these experiences. his influence on the scene is so so fucking immense. he is a huge reason we saw so much genre crossover and exchange in the late 2000s, and i really need you to know how important it was that he consistently found ways to expose a majority white audience to black musicians, black lyricism, and black genres. you’re crashing but you’re no wave is about the trial of fred hampton jr. novocaine is about trayvon martin. he consistently references his own mental illness. he consistently references his own suicide attempt. he consistently discusses and points to the exploitation of women in our culture. he is an extremely influential figure and sometimes it’s a real shame to see him reduced down to a fan in-joke.

#a petekey joke is fun!! don’t get me wrong #but like i really do want some of you to just do a little research on fob and understand why they were such a ginormous band and cont. to be #if i see a singular white-passing comment i’m gonna block you i’m just not playin today #also i just implore mcr fans to like interrogate the way they feel about gerard and frank’s solo projects reduced to a ship #vs all the complicated things they voice and discuss #sorry don’t mean to bring down the mood of the dash but #i have feelings #pete wentz #fob #fall out boy #text

[rad-roche]

longer term project: at some point i'd like to write a karras fic because he's the most interesting guy in the setting bar maybe garrett. pros: he's my scrimblo and i love him. cons: fuck me, he speaks early modern english

#text post #thief the metal age #thief the dark project #very very funny to have a faction that just does that but my EME experience is little to none #i know 'do' isn't much of a thing in it and you have to hit declarative statements very hard #but i'd have to do a lot of research to make sure it's right #'radroche just don't do the r' i can't it will kill me inside #i consulted a real pathologist for my sad robot fanfiction do not think i will not pester an academic