#puzzle cover

[i-only-ever-asked-questions]

Three pieces so far! The clue for the next one references Discworld, but I can't find it. Maybe it hasn't been posted yet!

#good omens #good omens graphic novel #graphic novel cover #puzzle cover #neil gaiman #terry pratchett #colleen doran

[bioethicists]

i genuinely have no animosity towards ppl who get upset abt not being able to read academic texts + i do think we need to expand the pathways/methods of being exposed to critical concepts so that "sit + read for 2 hours" is not the only option.

however, as someone dx with adhd + incapable of sitting still for even a minute (actually right at this moment i am writing this instead of reading the book sitting open in front of me), i do feel like a lot of ppl do not realize that not all readings are designed to be read like a novel.

as in, it's ok + normal + good to need to reread a paragraph several times, to only read part of a book, to have to research or reference words or concepts in order to grasp the reading, to skip over large chunks of text which are not relevant to your expertise, to continue reading despite not understanding a concept. this is something 'neurotypical' academics do frequently + many of these texts, especially contemporary ones, were designed with this in mind.

there are many ppl with accessibility needs that are not being met by academic texts at this time! many texts (in my humble opinion) are unnecessarily complex in order to show off or hide the fact that they have no idea what they're talking about.

i still feel like many of the kneejerk reactions on this site are based on the assumption that their experience reading academic texts should be similar to their experiences reading a nyt bestseller, rather than a process of thinking, analyzing, researching, processing, returning. some of u are telling yourself that any challenges u face while reading are a result of some internal fault u have + not an expected + precious part of the experience.

#like if u hate reading feel free not to #but if u wish u could read theory #but you're convinced it's impossible bcuz it's confusing or difficult or u could never possibly read a whole book? #i encourage u to step away from this idea of reading cover to cover in one run #+ start engaging with theory like a puzzle which u can fiddle with as much or as little as u feel able to

[teenytinyapprentice]

LBMR week: day 1 - stationery

The Vice President has an affinity for some unique stationery...

#lbmr;week #professor layton #layton brothers mystery room #Layton Brothers Mystery Room: Perfect Crime Puzzles #louis cunningham #alfendi layton #lucy baker #layton brother mystery room spoilers #mystery room spoilers #perfect crime puzzles spoilers #layton brother mystery room: perfect crime puzzles spoilers #teenytinyart #srry for all the tags just covering my bases haha #not sure how many ppl have had the chance to read the manga!

[coro-sg]

A PL AU -

Puzzle Branch: The House of Cards

A story set during / after the events of NWOS

About the AU: During the professor’s departure to America, a new mystery begins to arise in London that’s keeping everyone on edge. Flora L. Reinhold, Professor Layton’s protégé and daughter, feels confident enough to take this case on, on her own. Along with old and new friends, the purpose of the mystery will go deeper than they imagine.

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This is a story au made just for fun! I’ll be posting a bunch of doodles I made for it along with some lore behind the characters I have.

Will it lead to some sort of other story? Probably!

Asks are also open for the story along with asks that characters can answer :D

#puzzle branch: the house of cards #professor layton #professor layton au #puzzle branch au #flora reinhold #desmond sycamore #jean descole #pl oc #story cover #flora gets her spotlight real

[timespanner]

#John Finnemore #The Researcher's First Murder #Cain's Jawbone #murder mystery puzzle #cover by Tom Gauld #Youtube

[six-of-cringe]

I think that one of the reasons why people misinterpret Wylan's character and arc, among others, is because they misinterpret the relationship between him and Kaz. This post has kind of mitosised off from the BFWP (Big Fucking Wylan Post) I'm writing because it's a bit of a different focus and constitutes its own post.

A lot of people talk about Wylan's character and development as though it's meant to match Kaz's - starting out as a nice kid who the city forces to become amoral, indifferent to violence, and well-versed in crime. These qualities are usually talked about with a weird reverence as an irrefutable symbol of "badassery", as though it's always a positive development for any character regardless of the story's narrative, which annoys me but is not the topic of this post. That's part of the BFWP's job.

Following Kaz's exact development is not the point of Wylan's character. The point is that Kaz and Wylan narrative foils - very similar in many ways, but with a fundamental difference that creates the "broken mirror" effect/shows how they could have turned out if they'd chosen differently. I think that difference is how they respond when they climb out of the harbor after their respective betrayals. Narratively, Ketterdam represents a very harsh system that presents the people struggling there with very few options. You can either choose to ditch decency, play by the Barrel's rules, and live, or you can hold on to decency and die.

When Kaz returns to the streets after Jordie's death, he chooses the first option. He copes with what happened through ideas of revenge, and to survive long enough to see it he quickly turns to thievery and violence. He thinks to himself after he robs a kid for money and food that it was much easier to survive when you've left decency behind. He survived through violence, creating the Dirtyhands persona around himself for protection.

When Wylan has to fend for himself, he choses the second option. He finds "honest work" at the tannery, where they exploit workers and expose them to toxins. He wonders if he'll live long enough to use his savings to leave the city, or if the chemicals would kill him first. He was smart enough to steal and survive, but he chose decency, and with it, he chose death. There are a number of reasons why he chose differently than Kaz despite their similarities - his older age and thus more developed moral code, having no one to avenge but himself when he believed himself worthless, his more privileged upbringing, and his relatively low drive to live. Alone, he would have died.

Then Kaz steps in. Kaz's role in all the crow's lives is that, intentionally or not, his ruthless rule of the Barrel creates a sort of haven that allows them to survive where they would have died had they stayed alone. Wylan is a really clear example of this, and though Kaz's intentions were at least partly self-serving, his involvement both kept Wylan from dying of exposure or street violence as well as prevented him from needing to do the more terrible things that it takes to survive in the Barrel. Throughout the books, we see Kaz kind of taking the brunt of enacting violence in Wylan's place - traumatizing Smeet's daughter, killing the clerk on the lighthouse. Wylan could get by making explosives in the workshop rather than having to shoot or stab or beat the life out of people. And at the end of the series, Kaz sees to it that he never will have to. Of course Wylan did bad stuff to survive when working with the Dregs, it's the Barrel. But the extent is greatly lessened because of Kaz's involvement.

Wylan's arc was never about becoming comfortable with violence, or becoming just like Kaz - the way people characterize him as some sort of ruthless murder mastermind is inaccurate and redundant with Kaz's character. He isn't nonchalant or celebratory about crime or death or violence by the end of the book. He doesn't HAVE to become like Kaz, because Kaz himself gave him the space to continue being decent, intentionally or otherwise. Understanding that dynamic is important to understanding what Wylan is like as a character and as a person. If you assume Wylan's trajectory is to become "Kaz 2.0", then you're going to mischaracterize him. I've seen posts about how Kaz was the Jordie that he didn't have to Wylan, and I think that makes a lot more sense. Because Kaz is willing to do the horrible things in his stead, Wylan has the third option otherwise impossible in the Barrel - maintaining his decency and surviving.

#Kaz really do expose ppl to the horrors of the world but simultaneously protect ppl from losing themselves to it #sorry guys. wylan likes math and puzzles and his friends he does not like crime. crime is an unfortunate byproduct of surviving #'we could wake them up' Mark my words you stupid quote i'm coming for YOU this week #does this make sense. does this post Sense??? #wylan nearly blows his cover just thinking about a terrible guy kaz killed in front of him. THIS is your ruthless killer?? lol #one thing about me. i like characters with Hope and Gumption. thank you wylan sixofcrows #wylan is a bitch but only when standing up for what he thinks is right. especially against kaz. GUMPTION. the GALL. #glad you didn't bite it in the cancer factory you funky little genius #this pairs nicely with my jesper analysis. he enacted violence but unlike wylan he Refuses to Think About It #wylan van eck #kaz brekker #six of crows #soc #tgt #soc meta #soc analysis #bfwp #crooked kingdom spoilers

[folkloresreputation]

1989 Taylor's Version back covers

#I LOVE THE FIRST 9 BACL COVER #taylor swift #swifties #the eras tour #taylor swift eras #taylors version #from the vault #1989 vault puzzle #vault tracks #1989 #1989tv #1989 tv #1989 taylor's version #taylor swift 1989 #1989 era

[sfnet]

#sf9 #sf9 puzzle #e:the piece #music #will change album cover tomorrow

[garadinervi]

George Maciunas with George Brecht, Games & Puzzles/Name Kit, (plastic, paper, dice, rock, rubber), Designed by George Maciunas, ca. 1965-1967 [Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. © George Maciunas, George Brecht]

#art #fluxus #typography #game #puzzle #box #cover #george maciunas #george brecht #walker art center #1960s

[margueritegracq]

Not me reading old comic books only to find an ad for asoue in it 👀

#that the title #cover and excerpt of tpp was announced early only after doing a long series of puzzles on a now discontinued website... #blah #asoue

[woosh-floosh]

"Which is worse? This mediocre pop song or that mediocre pop song?" BOTH WRONG its the versus theme from Sonic Eraser

#sth #music #Tee Lopes did a cover of this song and while his cover is much easier on the ears it's still not very good #I just don't think this song is salvageable at it's core #it's also only 40 secs long and you can easily tell when it loops... which is not good at all for an endless puzzle game #fun fact about this game: while we know this game was released in 1991 we don't know what month! It could've come out before Sonic 1! #making it the first Sonic game! Isn't that scary? #sorry to vague post I was just very disappointed to just hear some mediocre pop music and not music that makes me want to scratch at my ear #Youtube

[parksoeun]

PARK SOEUN ✧ 28 REASONS ✧ QUEENDOM PUZZLE EP.2

#weeekly #soeun #park soeun #queendom puzzle #ultkpop #kgoddesses #femadolsedit #femaleidolsedit #iri.gifs #flashing tw #forpaulita #dearestmillie #useroro #my WIFE #these look so bad i got carried away colouring dlkssdkl 20 fucking adjustment lighting bc of how magenta this was #anyways she ate i wish mnet showed more of her performance i love soeun covering seulgi so much #she did well in charismatic too i hope she gets some more screentime my all rounder loml wifey

[seasaltmemories]

I was wondering why I tend to more enjoy shoujo that predate the 2000s than contemporary stuff and at first thought it was history leaving the stronger works of past decades easier to find, but turns out there could be more than bias at play

Turns out there has been a censorship law since 2006 specifically targeting shoujo manga around sexuality. And suddenly the fact that shounen can get away with some much more content-wise than shoujo suddenly makes sense

#seasalt talks #seriously it clicked together so many puzzle pieces for me and just made me see red #like shounen can have panty shot and tiddies galore but it is shoujo that goes too far??? #like I am personally strongly anti-censorship but even if you dislike the idea of 'young girls' reading about sex #but like iconic shoujo works like Dear Brother or Nana or Mars are known for covering these topics #or like fucking Utena though I'm mostly familiar with the anime #but I noticed that the original manga was published in shoujo while the anniversary one was published in a josei manga #granted this could be to follow the audience who grew up with the original that's fairly normal #but still i can only imagine what sort of chilling effect this could have had on shoujo creators

[whartonists]

One of the several things that are very frustrating about how the Maud storyline played out this season is that, from Maud's perspective, the con she plays makes little sense; Oscar isn't an important enough or wealthy enough target for this to be her last great con before she disappears off into the ether, but without that motivation she fact that she burns the bridge behind her by disappearing means that she won't be able to play New York society again.

Perhaps her plan is to play multiple cities, far enough apart (in distance as well as the timing of the cons) that word hopefully won't spread; perhaps there was a reason she wanted to cash out as it were as soon as possible and latched on to Oscar because he happened to be nearby and wealthy enough. But we get no indication of her motivations, and that is what is so irritating and unfulfilling about this plotline; there is no attention paid to her as a character, rather than a hollow mover of plot, at all.

And this, in turn, makes that whole plot feel rudderless and absurd. The necessity of it is indisputable; it has to happen to precipitate the Ada-Agnes role-reversal at the end of the season, and so I'm not saying Oscar shouldn't have lost the money or even that Maud shouldn't have taken it (though there were plenty of more interesting and historically informed ways that plot could've played out). But the fact of creating a character, especially a female character, who is so transparently a plot device rather than a person the writers spent any time thinking about, is deeply frustrating--especially on this show, which otherwise so reliably treats its female characters like human beings.

#she makes no sense!! that is what is so frustrating. #why would she ever blow her cover why would she not just keep siphoning cash off oscar as long as she could #and then move onto the next man in a way that seemed like romantic intrigue rather than a con #unless understandably she wanted to live on her own terms without being beholden to a man; but they set her up as so talented and #experienced at what she's doing that it seems improbable that she couldn't have figured out a way to con herself some serious money without #pretending to flirt with oscar van rhijn for several months #we get so few puzzle pieces about her to put together and then they do not even fit with each other and it is. frustrating. #maud beaton #the gilded age

[misforgotten2]

Connect the Dot? Don’t you need at least two dots to connect?

1941

#cover art #book cover #connect the dots #1941 #puzzles #children's books #vintage illustration #1940s #1940's #ephemera #funny #humor #humour

[cringywhitedragon]

For everyone who’s been waiting patiently (with teeth clenched on news from Level 5 on Layton and Fantasy Life.) Boi I have some good news

Level 5 will be at the Tokyo game show and showing off their upcoming titles September 21-24.

It very likely that they will be dropping release dates during this time so please be sure to check it out (You may have to delve on the Japanese side of the internet since Level 5 is a little slow about info coming to the west but believe me. These games are coming.)

#reshi rambles #Level 5 #tokyo game show 2023 #professor layton #Gaming News #fantasy life #fantasy life i #professor Layton and the new world of steam #Deccapolice #This time around it’s not me covering Crypton Future Media dropping a new switch game #Since we won’t get a trailer over here until it literally drops #Anyways #oh well #We do have some new stuff tho #Other then Funny puzzle galar man going to steampunk Unova #Fantasy life has introduced the Farmer Life #And it seems like the other’s gonna be a sailor