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birlwrites · 2 years
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Okay so more questions fjsbsjsjsj: Who is your favorite OC in ttdl and why? Ramble to us about themmmmm
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alright i have to say i've been obsessed with priam lately - i think my favorite OC is likely to change a lot depending on who i'm thinking about at any given time, because there was also a period in which i was obsessed with heather. geoff always deserves better and megan is always fun. but i haven't talked about priam much so i'm gonna do that here!
priam is one of the people who would have been contenders to take over the dark arts study group after horatio nott if regulus hadn't jumped in and seized it. he's not bothered by this because he is pretty chill for a slytherin - if regulus wants to run the study group and be liable for everything that happens there, so be it, priam is fine with that
BUT. he was not always so chill. actually he was always pretty chill with regard to dark arts. but he was a huge neurotic mess for uh. let's call it a year or so. because of his embarrassingly massive crush on heather. it was disastrous. she knew about it for months he's lucky she found it endearing
but by the time that ttdl starts they've been dating for a while (a couple of years which is ETERNAL for teenagers) so he's considerably more relaxed around her
okay now on to my favorite thing about priam which is his absolutely shit eyesight!!! i'm joking but also i'm not. i can feel my vision getting worse so i really relate to him afjslghskfjslskjf
my actual favorite thing about priam is actually more about his family magic. he's a parkinson, which means he deals with enchanted/cursed objects. he has this super cool workshop at home that definitely has all sorts of magical gizmos and cool shit - also the wood for his wand came from a grove of trees on the grounds of the parkinson estate
ON TO HIS GLASSES WHICH ARE THE ACTUAL POINT OF THIS
so priam actually has 3 pairs of glasses, but to anyone who isn't a parkinson, he appears to only have 1. they are completely identical... unless you can see the enchantments on them. which most parkinsons can!
the reason priam needs enchanted glasses is specifically *because* he can see magic. (he also needs glasses in general but like, this is why they're enchanted.) it's not like the blacks, who can feel the presence/absence of magic (more on that in a few chapters) - parkinsons can see *acts* of magic. so, spells, enchantments, runes, wandwork, potions (yes potions tend to be visible to all, but parkinsons can tell what they do)
different parkinsons have different strengths when it comes to this - some find certain types of magic easier than others to identify. they can train their eyesight - to develop a particular skill, switch around between types of magic more easily, or just get more dextrous with it in general. they are working on figuring out a way to train their eyesight to be Less Fucking Nearsighted (the eye strain struggles are REAL, and also it's a side effect of the parkinsons choosing, magically speaking, to focus on the fine details)
so, priam's glasses. as i said, he needs them because he is nearsighted. the reason he has 3 pairs with varying levels of enchantment is so he can have varying levels of blocking out magic, because he lives at magic school surrounded by magic students who constantly do magic when they're not supposed to and that's not even taking into consideration the enchanted portraits and all the spellwork they do in class and--anyway priam needs enchanted glasses so he's not super overstimulated all the time
(like - enchanted portrait? priam sees the magic. moving photos in the newspaper? he sees the magic. schoolwork? cosmetic charms? basically every single book? enchanted quills and candy? how is he not constantly in the middle of a meltdown? special glasses.)
so he has his Work Glasses (just plain regular unenchanted ones, for when he needs to see everything), his Everyday Glasses (dim the magic halfway - he can see it, but it's subtle), and his I'm So Tired Of This Shit Please Make It Stop Glasses (block the magic out entirely, which feels weird to priam because he's used to just. *seeing* way more, so that's why he uses the halfway ones as his day-to-day glasses - some of his family members block out the magic entirely by default because they don't want to deal with that shit).
priam pretty much always wears the third pair in classes where there's a lot of magic flying around, but it's not dangerous enough for him to want to keep an eye on it - charms is a good example
the glasses are identical to non-parkinson eyes/without a magical examination, but priam can tell them apart super easily just by looking at the vibes (when he's not wearing his complete-blocker ones). he only has one glasses case, but it uses an undetectable expansion charm and some other magic and stuff so it can store all his glasses while making it look like he only has one pair - like, you know how on a ferris wheel, there are multiple cars/carriages/whatever, but only one of them is on the bottom at a time and they rotate? that's what the glasses case is like, except you can't see the glasses that aren't in the front position, and the glasses in the front position look like they're the only ones in the case. SO priam can carry around all his glasses at once in case he needs to switch, which he usually does under the guise of needing to clean them, as he has 3 actually identical cleaning cloths in his glasses case
AND at home in his funky workshop he also has... you guessed it.... EVEN MORE GLASSES!!!!! and just more eyewear in general, like there are goggles and such. they all do different things - emphasize certain types of magic and deemphasize others, magnify vision and such. and they also have corrective lenses because, again, he's nearsighted as shit
ADDITIONALLY another fun thing priam and his family can do is 'zoom in' on their vision and do things on that scale. this is either a skill they can practice or a handy-dandy set of goggles they can use to help, made by them. you know how when you zoom in on a digital drawing, you can make changes on a much smaller scale than when you're at 100%? that's how it works. for a parkinson, magnifying their vision allows them to navigate the world on that level. like suddenly, priam can draw polka dots on an ant
it doesn't really work the other way around - like, if you 'zoom out' your vision, suddenly everything looks super distorted as your eyes and brain try to fill in new stuff, and it's just super disorienting, so not a skill they try to cultivate
also, you remember miles mckinnon, marlene's cousin in third year who is now in regulus's study group? he's decided priam is now his role model for all things magic, and where miles goes, his pack of slightly hazardous loud friends follows. priam is trying to prevent this from becoming a problem because he takes lab safety responsible magical experimentation very seriously
final priam thoughts: the greatest tragedy about him as a character is that due to his milieu he has no idea what a rube goldberg machine and thus does not realize he could make the most LEGENDARY ones ever. i am saddened
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krakrac · 1 year
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sorry if the background is too all over the place but i honestly highkey love the blackish chaos clashing with whiteish character and text over it all
i must say i start to really dig b&w/mostly monochrome drawings with text all over them?? its so liberating to not try to push colors which i can never really get right
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ratcandy · 11 days
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i was mostly talking about girls . HOT--
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aro-culture-is · 11 months
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quick note - this blog is gonna be sparse again for at least this week. trying new medications and tbh initial side effects are not super pleasant + actual effects build up. as a result: currently as if unmedicated for mental health, with anxiety+ side effect, extra fatigue, dizziness, and fatigue. it's uh, sure something.
totally recognize that most of y'all know we're absent at times due to health things, just wanted to give a heads up that this one is at least anticipated.
#fun fact sometimes condensing meds just means poorer treatment of some conditions#this is a re-expansion + new thing#so that instead of poorly treating my mental health and using an unusually high dose SNRI for another (physical) condition#i will hopefully both be in less pain AND not depressed af AND also have an appetite again#i doubt i will be lucky and not have a fucked stomach due to meds but one can hope that an appetite will allow me to eat foods that upset#my stomach a lot less#my health is forever a massive balancing act#every time a medical thing is like 'so what meds do u take' i'm like here i wrote it down for u#and they're like 'oh. ooookay. let me just...' *five minutes of typing and clicking later*#'so! what did you come in for again? uhuh. you said you experience pain daily? with your chronic pain thing? hm. have you tried yoga?'#/gen#like. straight up every time i say 'i am in pain all the time due to fibromyalgia' they are like 'ooh studies say regular exercise helps'#and like. theoretically yes! but also. i would be lying if i said the fibromyalgia studies i've skimmed don't set off general 'bad science'#alarm bells in my brain#like... cool you performed a fibromyalgia study with... all male lab rats? mhmm? so are you aware fibromyalgia appears to occur#overwhelmingly in women? like. data seems to suggest between 70-85%?#(not that the data can't still indicate things but it certainly makes male rats a poor choice of model for tests on it)#also just... idk i've looked at some metaanalysis and been like 'okay cool theory and for all i know about human bio or bio in general that#sounds more or less correct BUT. you never discussed that one study on this subject that did NOT support your conclusion.#and that's 1) interesting when it was the most diverse group of subjects and the exceptions often teach just as much as the 'rule'#2) just shitty science. tell me how your theory is still credible when some evidence doesn't fit the model.#like... 'given that all other studies were primarily conducted on white american women in their 30s to 40s it is possible that this model#only explains (the early effects of fibro since that's a typical onset period) / (a possible genetic link primarily found in white women) /#(a possible sign of bias in diagnosis that demonstrates the possibility that there are different causes) / combinations of all of those#like... idk a paper that just throws out things that don't support it is a pretty big red flag#it doesn't mean the conclusion is entirely incorrect but it is often important to understand the context in which it applies#like... it's very easy to jump to an incorrect conclusion if you used something in the wrong context#ie: thumbs up is a good job / positive thing in a lot of western civilizations. teenage kee once went to china and discovered it to be#neutral to offensive in many areas outside of major tourist locations that were used to it#anyways i gotta sleep
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aauroralightss · 27 days
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i love reading peoples' opinions on trigun but sometimes i will see an opinion that is so like. bewilderingly wrong it actually makes me doubt my own interpretation of the source material
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ironunderstands · 1 month
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As an “I love Genshin’s characters, themes and references but could not give less of a shit about the lore” person, how do y’all get into and navigate it. Because like, I want to, I really do, but I think I would rather do 5 math tests in a row than do the Ordo quest line or read obscure note made by Billy from ancient civilization before the end times. Please help because I want to know what the fuck you guys are talking about and who you are referencing. Like who is Phanes, why are there three moon sisters and what did they do, what the fuck is going on with Oribashi and Can We Please Stop With The Whales. Thanks in advance because I have no clue where to even begin 😭
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i can't believe i come back momentarily from the dead and it's with more cancerous memes. Two versions bc god had other plans, none which included not having both of these.
#hand jumper#juni chang#ishaan cha#where my juni enjoyers at#did i ever mention i was the qpr ishjun guy i probably should've hung that up in a sign as a warning in advance#i don't f around with these bros they're my little guys they're the scunkledoodles#they're everything and i'll actually fight you on them if i see something egregious or slanderous of them#they're my children they're my little DSM-5 case studies they're my little sillies i keep in the petri dish#whether they beat each other up or talk crap is up to sleepacross tho they my only hope#the fp got me acting up i'm on the delulu cocaina i need to be shot#shot down or shot dead pick one just PLEASE end my suffering#WHO IS THE CELL 3 MENTOR JUST END MY SUFFERING INSTEAD OF HOLDING CELL 3 CRUMBS OVER MY HEAD#AND IF ONLY JUNI IS OVERSEEING THEM OR THEY'RE GOING IN UNSUPERVISED I'LL EXPLODE#STRAIGHT UP.#SHOOT ME DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN#AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHH#sighs#i could've been simping over that one panel of sayeon like everyone else#not the mirror one or the sayjin flirting kismesis ass vacillating btw#you guys should fp just try it i swear you won't regret it#use the magical powers.....#share the burden.........#i as your personal demon that makes rounds around your head approve of this please#consider throwing some coins or 28 for even more brainrot i'm like dying in a corner and WILL die in a corner waiting for tuesday#also i have testing next week too i think hj is just cursed like that#we love to see it though
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falldogbombsthemoon · 14 days
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Yall haha, my dad made it so I have wifi access for one hour a day. which I can use from like 14 to 21 german time. So once my mobile data is dead, I will not be active that much ig. So please dont think I'm abandoning yall.
#vent following#its fucking ridiculous. im not a fucking child. neither is my brother#no idea what my dad wants to achieve through that. “so you can relaxe more” yeah no. being on the internet is my fucking coping mechanism.#there is nothing about relaxation there. also he did that so we'll to go sleep earlier. if it really was about that.#he would need to force me to sleep. you cant just change my sleep schedule by that#anyway its fucking ridiculous as i was on a good way of getting to sleep more early but if imma do that now he will think like#“wow. im such a good dad. i fixed all the problems my child could possibly have.” which is absolutely not the case#yk. ive always fucking struggled with feeling like people cant trust me.#and him not trusting my abilities to be responsible for myself is not helping#and then boom. im feeling shitty but wait haha my coping mechanism is currently set offline.#and like also im in extra stress atm bc school is fucking with me#not only are like a bunch of tests on the way but my fucking anxiety in school is getting so bad.#i cant sit in that facility without feeling like imma have a panic attack any minute#i am in need of fucking professional mental help. and at least one diagnosis. i dont want to do shit to myself.#but in this house hold. emotions are not talked about. feelings are suppressed and mental health is an illusion#i NEED to see a fucking psychiatrist. but i dont feel like i can to my parents about that. and technically i could go without them knowing#but someone needs to educate them. and i mentally cant be that someone#and guess whos sitting in their room crying and writing about that rn. not studying for their tests tomorrow and the day after.#i bet if my parents wouldnt have done that shit with my wifi i would be studying rn#quinns daily yapping post#rather#quinns personal hell
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sysig · 1 year
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Uh oh he’s also cute (Patreon)
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torchickentacos · 7 months
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I think one of the worst feelings is when you have a special interest in something you're decidedly not intelligent enough to fully understand, so you just sort of emptily rotate it in your head for a bit without actually GOING anywhere with it
#tw snakes. i go on a whole thing in the tags about snakes jghdkfj#this is about methodology and how studies can easily falsify data#like okay how did we get to this conclusion#how did we choose our study groups here? is data based on observation or self reporting?#can you really and truly account for every single variable???#did that 'health study' take baseline vitals before trying to prove a point???? looking at you. specific documentary.#OKAY RANDOM AND UNIMPORTANT EXAMPLE BUT ONE I HAVE THOUGHTS ON#I HAVE A RANT ABOUT THIS#OKAY#LOOK AT A 'TOP TEN MOST DEADLY SNAKES' LIST. RIGHT.#AND THEN ASK YOURSELF.#HOW ARE WE QUANTIFYING THE WORD DEADLY HERE#most deaths? sounds straightforward enough#but then you need to think about how a less potently venomous snake could be ranked as deadlier because it has a higher cohabitance with#humans. that can skew it. the snake per person ratio is really important when looking at and interpreting numbers#or are we weighing venomous as devoid of pure death counts and rather by potency of venom???#because then you need to consider that snake venoms function differently#some are hemotoxins. some are neurotoxins#can you test them based on the same parameters if they function on different mechanisms???#how can we account for dry bites in this?#IT GETS SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING IF YOU ZOOM OUT TO INCLUDE SNAKE INDUCED INJURIES#because some people are going to have aprticularly bad reactions to venom#and you need to account for preexisting conditions in the people being bitten#OOOOOOH AND YOU NEED TO CONSIDER MEDICAL ACCESS IN THE SNAKE'S RANGE#MORE PEOPLE WILL DIE OF SNAKEBITES IN IMPOVERISHED COMMUNITIES WHICH CAN SKEW RESULTS!!!!#oughhhhh there's so many variables and questions AND THESE LISTS NEVER TELL ME HOW THEY GOT THEIR CONCLUSIONS#TELL! ME! HOW! WE! GOT! HERE! AND! WHAT! WE! DID! TO! ENSURE! AN! ACCURATE! CONCLUSION!
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talentforlying · 8 months
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i'm building a treatise on the magic system of hellblazer because frankly, i'm a little obsessed with it. emphasizing that you get out of magic what you put into it, that your intentions matter just as much as getting the spell word-perfect. i think constantine says at one point that everyone thinks it's all about the rituals and spells, but that's just the gift wrapping for the real thing: it's like a personal amplifier, not a pet to be tamed. and, of course, the price you pay is always too high.
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axelotyls · 28 days
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no one prepares u for the sleepy u get when it's exam season
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pepprs · 11 months
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hi i haven’t been on here for a bit bc things are crazy but… i got my learners permit today 🤓
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adore-gregor · 1 month
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study smart not hard (altough both is best actually) this saying is so true
#my advice#but this saying is sooo true#i know some people at uni who study for exam so long and hard but then fail or just barely make it :(#like what are you doing? i don't mean this in a mean way but it doesn't have to be this difficult#i don't understand how some people can study for an exam for 2 weeks or even a month and still fail and i don't think they're stupid#or i don't see myself as particulary smart#but i guess they just waste their time a lot and i realized studying effective is so important#now everyone is a bit different and has to find what works best for them but there are certain techniques which are proven to work well#there is so much information on the internet on this look it up seriously#it made my life sm easier i never struggled in uni like i did in school and i get good grades#and if i ever struggled a bit it was because i started so late it was almost impossible to pass 😂#which is why to do both is still best 😂#but i actually always made it and i never failed an exam at uni (which i studied for)#(two i was fooled into to just try without studying bc it's easy lol)#i mean i shouldn't speak too soon but i already made it through some of the most difficult of my studies#ofc it depends on what you study how well this works but i'm speaking for myself#i once passed an exam with a B studying only 2 days as one of the best students while others studied 2 weeks#and got worse grades or failed#still studying only 2 days is stupidity don't do it 😅#so the techniques i find very helpful are ofc exam questions probably the best one#if there are none make your own#then blurting for which there are different ways but i like to just go over a topic and then write down everything i remember#then fill the gaps#quizlet is also great it's an app which allows you to create cards and then tests you in creative ways#videos can be helpful as well for summaries and using summaries in general is normally enough it saves you sm time#normally you don't actually need to know everything but you should be careful it's not a bad summary leaving out too much 😅#and i also like mindmaps bc i'm a very visual person#but all those tipps are mostly for remembering information so it doesn't work so well for other fields of study#well i hope this is somewhat helpful idk 🙈#oh and reading texts over and over again is the most useless in my opinion i don't remember much at all and it takes sm time
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marklikely · 7 months
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i feel like im never going to be fully satisfied by any saw sequel (or the fanbase for that matter) bc i dont think the majority of ppl involved read jigsaw the same way i did.
#all these attempts to like humanize and flesh him out just end up totaly misrepresenting him and his goals#no he is not actually trying to improve the world hes a sadistic little man whos angry about dying and coping with it badly#he gets a front row seat to all his games and cuts trophies off his dead victims. bc he likes the violence#he puts people who absolutely DID NOT DESERVE IT (in saw 1 at least) in these elaborate death traps that they overwhelmingly fail to escape#sometimes he puts a completely innocent person in the crossfire (like seriously who is that guy who amanda had to kill to get her key)#hell they explicitly say that guy in the chair trap did nothing wrong he was just dying 'for a greater purpose' to test the trap.#but nobody ever acknowledges all this its just like 'what if we give him depth by saying serial killing isn't so bad'#and it never works and usually ends up with him being unbelievably self impressed and annoying#id honestly rather they explore his 'depth' by just. expanding on him as in denial and wanting revenge#which tbf i thought X was doing a decent job at until the last half hour when they threw the character study away entirely#like just give me a jigsaw who is angry at dying and takes it out on the Living because he has no other outlet. ill accept that.#him killing people who need to go can be like. gory tasteless fun in the sequels but it makes it like.#idk. less satisfying to me? or it just puts this wall up that makes the movies not come together the way the first one does.#avpost#movie diary
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hella1975 · 1 year
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i love when you make your environment absolutely perfect to Get Shit Done like i had a nap i ate food and made coffee i put the big light on i got in comfy clothes i made sure i was warm enough i got all my stuff out. and then executive dysfunction goes 'watch this!' and you get nothing done forever and ever
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