#the three-minute initiative

[annabtg]

The first bloke Lily meets at the speed dating event is too cold and distant; the second one lacks enthusiasm; the third one doesn’t look like the type to take initiative. The fourth bloke is when she stops counting.

Written for the @jilymicrofics 2024 Gift Exchange and gifted to @ohmygodshesinsane!

Using @jilytoberfest 2023 prompt 5: Speed dating chaos.

Read on AO3 Completed, 1.9k words.

#jily #jple #jily* #james potter #lily evans #jily fic #speed dating #romcom #jily gift exchange #my fics #the three-minute initiative

[wafflesrisa]

The return of General Obi-Wan Kenobi: an action choreography breakdown

The action choreography for Obi-Wan’s lightsaber scenes in the Obi-Wan Kenobi series episode 4 is SO GOOD. Every one of Obi-Wan’s movements had intentional narrative impact. Every. Movement.

He starts off by striking from the darkness, still rusty and lacking in confidence. He wields his lightsaber like a vibroblade, two-handed, heavy, overextended. It takes four strikes to bring each stormtrooper down.

They run together. In the corridor, the seeker droid starts firing blaster bolts. Obi-Wan instinctively takes up a shoulder-wide stance, lightsaber aloft by his right shoulder. Form IV: Ataru. The lightsaber form of his childhood, his apprenticeship.

He deflects a blaster bolt away from Leia. Then another. Stormtroopers flood in from behind him. He tries to deflect a bolt at the Stormtroopers, but it misses, because he’s out of practice. His body is catching up with his muscle memory. But he parries again, and again, and the next shot downs a trooper. He’s stumbling through Ataru stances like half forgotten memory but each step is smoother and more fluid and then the droid is down. The last trooper is still shooting and by then he can act on instinct - and now the trooper goes down in one hit.

Obi-Wan spins his lightsaber afterwards. He doesn’t know why he does it, it’s just years of instinct, written into his bones.

In the next corridor every single deflected bolt is another trooper down. But Obi-Wan and Leia are pinned on both sides, and he finally shifts his weight and moves into a rapid series of flowing movements, a deadly whirl of light. This is the lightsaber style of ultimate defense, the style that proved in the Clone Wars to be devastatingly effective against blaster crossfire: Form III, Soresu. This is the the style Obi-Wan used in his prime.

This is lightsaber style of General Obi-Wan Kenobi.

This is how you use an action scene to show narrative progression. Obi-Wan walked into the torture chamber as a rusty, determined hermit. Five minutes later, he stood in the corridor as General Obi-Wan Kenobi.

#star wars #obi wan kenobi #kenobi #kenobi series #kenobi series spoilers #i could write a whole essay about the stances he used in those three scenes #the physical acting was so incredibly well done #it looked like ​ewan mcgregor was intentionally taught to stumble and overextend initially #and then halfway through his bodyweight naturally shifted central and BAM he’s back #you could literally track his choreography from Episode I - Episode III and clone wars over a five minute action scene #SOMEONE SCREAM ABOUT THIS WITH ME

[thevalleyisjolly]

Coolcoolcoolcoolcool, let’s just cut off Tomas while he’s literally in the middle of a conversation with Pib about the nature of their story and Pib’s unique role as a character within that story (:

#the valley is posting #neverafter spoilers #a mountain of pure sodium #for no good reason! how long would that conversation have taken; maybe two or three minutes at most? #are you really in such a hurry that you cannot spare five whole minutes for pib to have a conversation with an npc from his backstory? #and then laughing it off 'oh i feel like that was rude'- well what else is pib gonna say? 'yeah that was rude; i wanted to talk to him'? #it's getting real frustrating how little respect there is for pib's story this season #that even when an important npc to his backstory initiates a conversation. creates that space. they get cut off and literally silenced. #for what? what was the reason behind putting tomas in the book when he hadn't said yes yet and wanted to talk with pib first?

[axelaxolotl09]

hi guys. at the time of writing this i have forty (40) mutuals, and yet, each time im added to a tag game, i tag the same five people. 3 of which do not want to be tagged most likely. guys pls lmk if i can add u to tag games PLS 😭🫶

#IM STRUGGLING #just spent ~20 minutes going through my followers to see what mutuals didnt have themed blogs so i could tag them for the tag game… #i ended up at a dead end. #also MUTUALS PLS TTM I LOVE YOU GUYS TALK TO ME IM SCARED TO INITIATE CONVERSATION #BUT ID LOVE TO BE FRIENDS WITH YALL #reminding everyone that my asks are always open (WIDE OPEN !! SEND ME ASKS) and i LOVE getting DMs #if u dont mind me tagging u just like like this post 👍 #i have like three people who i know dont wanna be added so to those ppl dw !! i remember u !! #but yeah #PLEASE help #this is a predicament #and to bugzzx(i forgot how many zs there are) I WILL ADD TO THE TAG GAME! TRUST ME #YOU JUST KINDA TAGGED HALF MY LIST SOOO #FINDING NEW PPL #SOON THO #hoping this reaches my mutuals thx #there should be a button that lets me notify my mutuals of a specific post i make #like not all of them but this one fs #+ i sincerely apologize to my mutuals who have notifs on for my posts. may ur inbox rest in peace 🙏🕊️

[exopelagic]

okay facing consequences of my actions

#I thought I’d gotten away with it this time #okay it’s 3am and I may have discovered something that completely ruins me #everyone is asleep so I can’t tell if this is me being sleep deprived or not! #so I need to sleep now but I haven’t cleaned my code up or written my answers #I do Not have time #if I don’t sleep now I’m gonna be having a bad time tomorrow morning and I am significantly less productive rn than I could be #with other people around I kinda need that y #so I should go to bed. but also. this code needs cleaning. but also. even if I fall asleep now I’m only getting like 5 hours MAX #I need a good few hours tomorrow morning to have a shot at doing this properly #so it would be more useful to sleep now and wake up as early as possible than keep going tonight bc I’m not going to finish tonight #okay. fuck. I hate this #if I could think straight I’d be able to fix this easy which is probably a good reason to sleep #it’s just an annoying logical problem that I gotta follow through bc currently I’m stuck between three possibilities and there might be more #I have these two rasters and I gotta calculate the area overlap #the first method counts the number of presence points in each (probably) and then counts the number in overlap raster w manually set values #the second counts total predicted points and points where they’re predicted to be alone and does a calculation with that for each species #that one with all points from both species + pseudoabsence. vs method 3 which does that with just individual species coordinates #method 1&2 are now homologous now I JUST caught the logical error but method 3 is what he gave us #but actually he might have fucked up in not including pseudoabsence #i don’t know if method 3 works for two different species either honestly #it gives me results I like much more (my overlap is 100% for one of the species and that shoooouldnt rlly happen even if it’s possible) but #I think it might actually just be wrong because it can’t account for #wait so the line is taking the prediction for all coordinates for each species for each species’ initial coordinates. and not pseudoabsence #and that set of predictions for each species coordinate set is then taken and yeah it’s no longer comparable you can’t count each alone #not with two different species bc you need an overlapping dataset to do that OKAY I have solved that logical problem my initial method works #which is annoying bc the result sucks but whatever I checked the rasters and it’s actually identical so #okay now I’ve figured that out. twenty minutes later. sleep I think it’ll help most #luke.txt

[automatonknight]

what did they put in that indie survival horror game that it has such a grasp on me

#this is the third month i'll be into d//nt st//rve exclusively like -__- #i'm usually into things for like a month maybe two max #and as i said i'm going on three here and i'm still super into it i'm invested in it i wanna keep drawing for it etc etc #and also about the characters. like i usually have a favorite or two and here i'll be like oh let me check something about this character #real quick and then 3 minutes later i'm looking through their quotes and thinking of drawing ideas #seriously what did they put in this game #and also the game's world like. i'm usually not that into lore either just because it's hard for me to understand and find content for it #usually but here i'm genuinely curious and want to find out more about the world #even though i initially wanted to only. draw a few characters and then fuck off #lol sorry about the tags i'm normal about this game ok #AND also god. i thought i wouldn't be a d//nt st//rve fan bc i didn't get into it last year and was i wrong #i seriously watched that rework short like welp! this will have no effect on me ^__^ #also i swore i wouldn't buy this game both last year and like two months ago when i was only starting to get into it #but i bought it and it's so fun #50 zł very well spent #GAH!! sorry i love this game i love this series i'm going to explode #I'M SO GLAD i got into it i'm having so much fun genuinely :3

[vinkumakkara]

i think the Leaders of Progression were probably gonna be a faction who were more focused on resisting Ultor than anything actually related to the gang wars, so if Boss took them down for whatever reason - maybe they were being manipulated by Vogel, or even just straight up paid by Ultor - that’d let the company sink its teeth into Stilwater even deeper. the Sons have control over Shivington in the final game and that is what Ultor was planning on taking over next, i’m sure that was originally the Leaders’ turf. assuming the LoP era script had the same basic idea as the final does, you can see the logic there - the faction could’ve been trying to protect something they knew Ultor would try to claim. the idea’s really interesting even though i definitely prefer taking on actual gangs, i think the Leaders would’ve functioned great if they got somehow interwoven into each arc though

#i think the way Ultor's handled as the game's big bad isn't really V's best. it just screams last minute changes #the three arcs don't really build up to it in a satisfying way was my impression during my latest playthrough #Vogel's just kinda there sticking his nose into things occasionally. or Maero sticks it through a window #maybe the Leaders were the missing piece there idk. i've really grown to like em i wasn't super big into the idea initially

[pigeonfancier]

Heart updates! Finally got the heart monitor off a week or so ago, which was great, because first set of adhesives were melting my fucking skin. The company were sweethearts and sent me new adhesives, which.. were fine for the first week, and then started doing the same, because adhesives are just fucking hell. Thankfully, it’s all healed over well, haha, and it was kind of worth it.

I am perpetually in a state of mild suspicion towards my own experiences, because - am I genuinely uncomfortable, or am I just easily bothered? Am I in pain, or am I just wallowing? But now I have ~*official results*~, and validation that my heart does not like filling up properly, that does hurt like hell, and the wiring is kind of fucked for reasons that I’m going to have to do more tests for. And the wiring is fucked in a way that does not, remarkably~!, resolve itself by “growing out of it” (at 30, somehow). Validation of the issue.. and validation that a lot of doctors are fucking assholesss.

Also, confirmation that I probably do nooot have any of the “you will drop dead” issues from this gene, so woo (knock on wood). It’s progressive, so I have to keep coming in for fucking ever, I guess, but like a lot of things, it’s just a case of monitoring, and slapping on some duct tape as soon as problems present. So that’s nice.

But: more tests! Once my insurance approves them, anyway, because they’re generally fairly great, but they’ve got a bee up their ass over wanting the tests done in a specific order. This wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, if it weren’t for the fact my cardio wants it all done at a specific hospital, and the waitlist for that.. already has the most accessible test scheduled for the end of April. And it wouldn’t be a problem if they didn’t decide they only wanted tests in a specific order twenty four hours before I went in for a test.

I was kind of banking on the idea I’d have all of these tests done by July, and either have a pacemaker or medication to knock out this issue, whichever fucking one, but. I refuse to be stressed over this, haha. It’ll get resolved, they’ll fix this up, and then I guess.. they’ll test me for POTS, because my view of that remains “this is irrelevant to the greater issue and idgaf”, but they really want to. So at this point, I will roll with what-the-fuck-ever they want if they can fix the overall issue, tbhhh.

In related news:  my mother remains batshit, which I generally expect, but I am still a little mystified by. Cutting this section, because She Is A Lot.

She’s spent my entire life arguing that I do not have any cardiac problems! Several family members and myself remember that I went to a cardiologist as a kid, but it’s about 25/75 on if she’ll actually admit that, and her stories do not stay consistent. When I got the genetic test saying, hey, heart issue!, she was dismissive of it, and the past year or so has been her consistently trying to pick fights with people who mentioned it, arguing that everyone has heart issues and I should get over mine because it was getting very inconvenient, and occasionally inpromptu informing me that, actually, this is all caused by a lack of exercise, or some other spontaneous decision she pulled out of her ass. Or from not eating enough, because I have chronic pancreatitis.. but perhaps I don’t actually have that, and I’m just food-averse?

Ignore the hundreds of dollars of cooking supplies and huge chunks of time just fucking around and experimenting with recipes, I suppose.

It’s been whatever! I am long, long past the point where her opinions hold weight for me, beyond occasional fits of outrage. But once my sister got confirmed as having the same heart issue on a different scale, and once tests started coming in for me, she has switched tracks.. to saying that she has a heart issue, too, and it’s like mine, but with higher spikes! And she just never noticed it, because it just happens, and it’s really quite easy to ignore, but she guesses she’ll go to a cardiologist, just to see --

We inherited the problem gene from her, and her entire family does have severe heart issues - and she herself has aneurysm issues - but I’m unimpressed. Between that and her flipflopping from “you don’t have allergies!” to “well, if you have allergies, then I probably have allergies, so I should ALSO start telling people I should avoid your allergens (of the food that I do not like, do not eat, and do not have any desire to eat)” this year, I’m just lifting my hands from that entire topic. When she brings it up, I’ve been just telling her to go talk to her doctor, get tests, and then disengaging from the topic, because.. man, haha. There’s a lot going on there, and I do not have the psychiatric degree nor the inclination to really dig into this beyond the side-long “huh, these problems really are only relevant when they can impact her, huh?”.

My dad is a little better, at least! He had a panic attack when I told him about all of this, haha, which was.. something, but now he’s taken up just consistently texting me reminders on everything. Have I eaten recently? Have I gotten electrolytes? I should go drink some Gatoraid. Have I taken my meds? GO TAKE MY MEDS. Remember if I’m going out to drink some electrolytes!

He’s kind of a pain in a different sort of way about all of this health shit, but I do appreciate the fact I don’t have to really second-guess him much - when he’s being an asshole, it’s pretty on the nose. And he’s being genuinely helpful, because I do forget shit a lot on bad days, so. #okay!

#the mysterious fainting waif disease #the last-minute insurance shit was so fucking tedious yesterday #at one point I was on the phone with two different people from the same hospital trying to get it sorted #then insurance called and I had to get three calls from three different fucking departments all saying 'WE'RE SO SORRY DON'T COME IN.' #but you know what #my customer service voice is GREAT and everyone was very sweet #and I am always mildly amused by my ability to switch mental tracks #start of the call: internal shrieking because I'm stressed the fuck out at this point #thirty seconds into the call: oh no! this OTHER person is stressed out! #initiate soothing protocols! remind them that all issues are transient and don't worry we will figure this out as a TEAM #and there is NO NEED to be STRESSED 💖 because we are all ~DOING OUR BEST~ #five minutes after the call: external shrieking because I'm stressed the fuck out #thankfully my soothing protocols also work on me. mostly. BUT WHAT A DAY.

[dmclemblems]

what he said:

who he said it to:

#Three Hopes #Balthus #Yuri #HEY WHO IS THIS IS HE FROM THE KINGDOM JFKGJHG yes balthus he's from the kingdom... slow claps #it took him a solid minute or two to actually initiate his conversation with Yuri #it might've been bc there was dialogue backlog if I was killing bosses and stuff too fast but #it's still so funny to me how instead of his conv with Yuri popping up first he gets an impersonal dialogue no matter who it is #i guess balthus did a double take and was like oh shit it do be yuri #also yes yuri is on a horse im sorry yuri. let's just pretend he has medication

[jeoseungsaja]

S.EX VALUES / HYUK

tagged by: myself lmao, I remembered I did this for Yeo and thought ‘how about doing this one for Hyuk?’ tagging: pls feel free to steal it if you’d like! 

#♔ || about (verse three). #just me here exposing my son IWHDEIWUEDH #His drive being 'medium' is accurate #It's been...A WHILE (TM) since he's done it but also he's not?? So avidly interested #Not that he wouldn't enjoy it if it happens with the right person he just...y'know / has no rush with it or anything #THE AFFECTION AXIS THO LMAOOOOOOOOOOO #100% is anyone surprised -- let's act surprised IUIEHDIUWEHD #I guess IN GENERAL this is pretty accurate #THEN AGAIN who knows (especially on the deviance aspect) because I haven't really thought about this topic in-depth or anything #Y'know how you initially think one thing about your muse and then they get exposed to the topic and you go 'wAIT A MINUTE--' #ANYWAY THIS WAS INSIGHTFUL PLS STEAL IT IF YOU'D LIKE TO DO IT UwU!! #♔ || queue.

[verystressedcollegestudent]

if there's one thing i hate more than slackers in group projects its goddamn hypocrites

#this guy did jack shit for two full weeks when we're building the damn prototype #but STILL brought up the fact that most of our team blew off a report till the last minute in the beginning of march #*prototypes don't work* “sEe tHis iS wHy wE nEedEd tO hAvE a cOnvErsaTioN aBouT MS3” #like hon you lost the rights to the “y'all need to contribute more” argument the moment you left me hanging for 2-3 FUCKING WEEKS #like excuuuuuse me you been prioritizing extra curriculars all week get off your high horse stop lecturing everyone else about contribution #he made maybe 3 contributions? maybe? #first he 3D modeled an adapter and sent it to someone else to print (couldn't even do THAT himself smh) #then he sent the gc a sketch of an idea i roughly proposed literally the NIGHT BEFORE as his own contribution (that I ENDED UP BUILDING #then he...screwed on a few pipe fittings and called it a project :) #would be a LOT less pissed if he didn't show up to One Thing outside weekly team meetings/class #then apologize for slacking off BUT then launch into a FUCKING SPEECH ABOUT HOW HIM BEING HERE PROVES HIS COMMITTMENT #all because he DOESN'T LIKE GETTING UP EARLY. like sir. sir i am rIGHT FUCKING HERE. i was up till 4-5am working on this stfu #we've been building for three weeks and he's come into work on stuff wo me there ONCE for an HOUR #for context id spent about fifteen hours in the shop alone working on the fucking thing that WEEK #like im trying to be understanding ik tech week is hell #but i took “stepping back” as “i only have a few hours here and there to be in the shop and will do the writeups” #NOT “won't show up outside meetings AND we're splitting slides and writeups 80/20” #like id been in the lab all fuckin day and notice we have an assignment due (missed a SINGLE meeting due to exam) #and i ask him if theres anything i can do (and im thinking like look it over maybe add a spec or two) #and this fucker has the AUDACITY to ask me to write the full four paragraph summary cause he #*checks notes* copy-pasted some specs from milestone 3 so of COURSE its only fair that despite the fact I've been in the lab ALL DAY #that i write the four fuckin paragraphs too #course we're troubleshooting and he's like “did you clean the pump? did you disassemble it and rinse it?” like yes??? #i did EVERYTHING i could think of before i even bothered texting you cause i know you're fucking useless #and then he raises fifteen different concerns which while valid would have been NICE TO HEAR WHEN I SENT YOU MY INITIAL DESIGNS #y'know BEFORE i spent over fifteen hours of my free time building this damn thing #with slackers i just pick up the work and move on with my life this idiot is trying to gaslight me into thinking that he contributed fairly #when i heard “i need to step back due to play stuff” i thought we'd be splitting it like 65:35 NOT FUCKING 95:5 #and now hes probably going to give ME a poor peer review because I've been passive aggressive with him in the few meetings he showed up to #like i got shit going on too? how the fuck does he expect me to respond to being abandoned to do this shit myself

[wafflestheasianyenbear]

Since they gave me the script to One Piece Film Red as part of the promo, I'm incorporating it into the Japanese notes. Prepare to learn a lot of random kanji and sentence structure as we take it one short section at a time

#japanese #notes update #just the initial three lines of the narration took me like 45 minutes to translate #but I added like 10 new vocab words from it and three new grammar structures

[dhampir-dyke]

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#MUSHROOMS GOT HANDS #i tried HALF of one of my dried APEs. literally less than a gram. that shit hit me like a frieght train #LAST NIGHT BTW im fine now. i just got extremely nauseated and a little unsettled/restless #if youve never tripped on shrooms your emotional state is very extremely sensitive. happy feelings are euphoric and comforting #but anxiety turns into your general “oh god oh fuck im gonna be high forever” and paranoia that a lot of people feel? #ALSO i think the reason people get wigged out by their reflections when theyre high is bc your pupils get ENORMOUS #and it does look kinda freaky #and when youre on shrooms i can see how that initial 'oh fuck spooky' can mess with you if youre not prepared enough #the passage of time is also kinda anxiety inducing if you start having a bad time (like i did for about 2 hours). i can definitely see how #people can be high for like an hour and say it feels like days #bc i remember holding back the nausea and feeling like it had been over an hour checked my phone- 20 minutes had passed #all in all it wasnt a BAD trip- i just wasnt prepared for it to BE a real trip #i can eat like three of my GTs and not get visuals- but HALF of one APE and i got shot into the stratosphere #anyways sorry for rambling i just like getting my thoughts down after stuff like that

[hellacoolprion]

i feel in trouble

#and like people are sick of me #which i know is irrational but i'm like this and it's all fun and games having showie around until i get left alone for three minutes and #start shaking like a wet hamster #now you see. is the reason amy initially 'wrote me' this way a manifestation of the anxiety coming from living with her stepmother? #walking on eggshells because even getting water could set her the fuck off? even getting some sweet tea? even going to the bathroom? #am i doing it wrong? is she going to yell? am i doing it wrong? am i doing it wrong? am i doing it wrong? #whatever im fine. ignore all this.

[peppermint-toads]

you were so sick and tired of being pregnant. you were always so hot, tired, sore.

your due date was three days ago. you were moping and miserable. your ob didn’t want to induce for whatever fucking reason. you begged her to tell you what you could do to get this fucking baby out of you already.

her suggestion took really surprised you.

simon made sure to always be at all of your appointments, even if you assured him that some of them were complete wastes of time.

you were just so, so glad he couldn’t make it to this one because your ob had essentially suggested you go home and get boned.

you never had to expressly ask simon to fuck you. never. he just knew or he was the one to initiate it.

your face was already red as you walked into your apartment. simon was in the kitchen starting dinner (bless him).

“thought i’d make something spicy. get things moving along, you know.”

you would’ve smiled at the thought of him researching foods that induced labor if you weren’t so worked up.

you set your keys and purse down.

“how was the appointment, love? sorry i couldn’t make it this go ‘round.”

again, your heart melted at how soft of a person simon managed to become.

“um, actually, simon—”

he halted immediately, rounding the kitchen island to place a hand on your stomach.

“what? is everything okay?”

god you can do this. deep breath.

“my ob said that, to help the baby, we should uhm. y’know.”

your gaze subconsciously drifted down towards the bulge in his pants that was there even though he was soft.

you looked back up at him and could see that it hadn’t clicked. you sighed again.

“she said if we fuck the baby might come sooner.”

it was simon’s turn to nearly choke. he nodded, slightly shocked by your bluntness. he’d be lying if he said he didn’t like seeing you squirm as you forced yourself to blurt it out.

“okay,” he said decidedly. easy peasy. “if she suggested it, that means it’s safe, right?”

you nodded.

and that was that. he had you naked and rolling your hips on top of him within ten minutes. he helped you grind on his length just right, not worried about his pleasure at all.

your cheeks were all rosy and one of simon’s hands stayed firmly planted on your soft bump.

he made damn sure you came at least three times around him.

“that’s it, mama, such a good girl for me. you’re gonna have my baby, yeah? want me to get you pregnant all over again?”

you felt so loose and warm as he corralled you into the shower, making sure you were nice and clean before he wrapped you in your fuzzy robe and plopped you on the couch.

“curry will be done soon. hope you’re hungry.”

you went into labor the next morning.

#simon riley smut #simon riley x reader #simon ghost riley smut #simon ghost riley x reader

[mandrellaeffect]

it's not true that you're easy-going and down for whatever other people want to do, it's that you don't want to state a preference and potentially inconvenience other people and ultimately will inconvenience and irritate yourself

#i am so irritated that i didn't claim first shower #when sharing one shower with three strangers you need to be assertive #otherwise you end up literally stewing in your own sweat waiting for the other person to go #like you said that you were going to shower right away after our walk #it is 20 minutes later i could have been done #this is what happens when i don't speak up #the person who initially told me she prefers morning showers but really wanted to shower tonight is going to be back soon #get. the. shower. train. rolling. goddamn.