#trying to make sense of the time skip

[drdemonprince]

your post about only communicating the minimum needed reminded me of the gricean maxims (concept in linguistics describing how people communicate)! your advice was very similar to the maxim of quantity :)

From the UPenn School of Arts & Sciences site:

Grice's Maxims

The maxim of quantity, where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more.

The maxim of quality, where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.

The maxim of relation, where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion.

The maxim of manner, when one tries to be as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where one avoids obscurity and ambiguity.

#yeah suffice to say many autistics would be rated by others as not adhering to these #quantity is subjective #and relation is something that we tend to think of in a different way than non autistics #speaking very broadly #we think people want to understand all the working parts surrounding a thing #whereas many non autistic people want to know just what will affect them personally #or what will make sense from their position and viewpoint #i want to see the whole forest and all the trees in it and it does help me make better decisions than most non autistics #but when i try to tell THEM about that entire system to help improve their decision making it's a lot to take in and it's not intuitive #for them to follow and they feel that a good enough decision is good enough most of the time #they dont want a perfect one because its just not efficient to live that way #which fair #but it is frustrating when im trying to help someone save a ton of money skipping an unnecessary purchase or make their life at work easier #etc #but they just dont wanna hear it #but in time one must learn boundaries and not trying to save other people or rule their lives after all

[ectonurites]

SUPER DARK TIMES (2017) DIR KEVIN PHILLIPS

#tragically had to skip the 'are you afraid of me' exchange i love at the start bc. this scene is Long #super dark times #josh templeton #zach taylor #sam edits #btw i'm firmly in the 'Josh didn't kill John' camp. bc to me THIS scene is the point that... makes the most sense as Josh's breaking point/ #'villain turn' if that's what you'd want to call it. because this is really when Josh... sort of 'officially' loses Zach. from early on in #the movie it becomes clear how much Zach is like... an anchor for him—the way Josh is just fucking *chanting* his name in distress during #the Daryl accident. The way Josh begs Zach to believe him that it was an accident. The way Josh turns to Zach for answers/clarity/direction #Like even if we want to take a cynical approach and think of it as Josh just latching onto Zach in the Daryl situation because he was There #rather than that being an established thing w/ them... in the aftermath of that same incident Josh is still looking to/depending on him! #Josh self isolates at first... but after they talk & Zach tells him they shouldn't act weird Josh goes back to school. (yes #he lashes out there because He's Dealing With The Crushing Guilt but *all* of 'em are acting off then—Charlie specifically calls attention #to the idea they all probably are) Josh goes to the party just like Zach said they should and is *visibly confused* when Zach seems mad to #see him there. He goes to Zach's house to talk and you can SEE how caught off guard he is by what Zach says. Even though the script version #of this scene is VERY different from the final version I do think this one bit of description from it is... insightful: 'Josh seems sincere #almost vulnerable. But Zach is too focused to see it.' LIKE in this scene Zach is already convinced Josh has lost it! He's trying to act #more neutral about it (claiming they could just 'draw a line') but we saw his phone call with Charlie. Because of his own guilt-fueled #paranoia—something shown pretty clearly through the assorted dream sequences and like tht scene of him walking in the hall hearing people #gossip about Daryl—it seems like everything lines up too well! that '*of course* it's Josh and what if it's *been* Josh all along and well #then the role *I* played in the situation really isn't *my* fault because it was all *Josh* and...' etc. even if that's more subconscious #But like... this scene is really when it hits Josh! from the moment he asks if Zach's afraid of him now like... there's a shift. although #Zach says he isn't... i mean he fucking stumbles on the word 'afraid' (like... he hangs on the 'f' sound a moment too long to sound natural #its very subtle but like Noticeable). But Josh sees right through him. Zach doesn't trust him anymore. Zach thinks he's the bad guy. the #monster. Josh feeling like he lost the last person he had in his corner feels like the most realistic thing to... push him over the #edge. like that's a compelling tragedy to me—the idea that these two poorly coping with the Daryl situation in these separated ways where #they *aren't* talking/communicating ends up CREATING the feedback loop that makes everything get worse and worse. #But for that to be the case... it wouldn't make sense for Josh to have just randomly killed John before this scene. I think it's a more #interesting story if certain things really ARE just coincidences but it's that Zach's paranoia won't let him see that 🤷

[moonlite-sunshine]

So I’m rewatching and catching up on Doctor Who for the first time in like 6ish years so I can watch the new specials and like my favorite will always be Tennant, he was My Doctor blah blah but you know what, this rewatch reminded me how much I love 12, mainly his season with Bill.

Capaldi is such a great Doctor. He’s not always nice but he’s always kind and he loves so hard. He’s so funny and I love how he loves playing guitar and he has sonic sunglasses bc he’s just trying to have a good time, he may not be a kooky bow tie guy anymore but he’s still silly. Him and Bill are like best buds and I wish we’d had another season with them and even Nardole bc their relationship was just fun, there was no pre-destined or weird importance placed on her, she was just a normal person who loved learning and was kind and had good vibes. The best of humanity, the kind of person the Doctor takes along bc they remind him that people are important. Bill brought out the best in him and also GAY🦭 anyways his last words are so beautiful and I miss him

#also rip Clara I don’t have anything against her and but I truly think they brought out the ‘worst’ in each other #not like actually the worst but like it wasn’t great #that said I did cry at the last episode when we find out HE forgot her :( him and his guitar playing the song just gets me #and at the end of his run when he remembers who she is 🥺 #see actually the second 12&clara season wasn’t too bad but the first one was just 🫠 #like it just seemed so toxic?? and for what?? #I did like the season finale with the cybermen and Danny protecting Clara but like their actual relationship was also toxic?? so much lying #that 2nd season is better w their relationship but that hybrid shit? didn’t make any sense?? it was just made to seem important #but it literally wasn’t at all 😭 #I do wish 12 had gotten a few more episodes with river so it wouldn’t have been such a sudden return? #meh idk #anyway capaldi you’re literally a rockstar doctor <3 #this is my first time seeing 13’s run too #I had to skip arachnids cause phobia but I just started the demons episode #I’m still trying to decide how I feel ab her but I love Ryan he’s so funny #I feel like she’s missing that rage that’s literally just below the surface of all the doctors #but I’ll keep watching to see if we get that later

[kazz-brekker]

i know was kind of inevitable because of the span of time the show takes place over and also all the actors are of course doing great but the more i watch of hotd the funnier the age discrepancies caused by the time skips get. criston cole has been in his twenties for 20 years. alicent hightower’s eldest son is now played by an actor 1 year younger than olivia cooke. the makeup department spent 8 episodes skillfully aging viserys so with every passage of time he looked closer and closer to the grave but the only changes in his younger brother are his hairstyles. aemond targaryen aged something like 10+ years during a 6 year time skip but his nemesis is still in middle school.

#i can only assume that criston cole is kept young by his hatred #i guess with alicent is does sort of thematically make sense since she was waaaaay too young when she had her kids #for the record i did try to google how old aemond's adult actor is #only to discover he is a man of mystery who releases 0 info about himself to the public which is energy i have to respect #allegedly he is 20 but i REFUSE to believe that there is no way that actor is a full year younger than me #anyway! it's one of those things that's a bit inevitable unless you want to recast every single actor during the time skips but still #pie says stuff #pie watches hotd #hotd #house of the dragon #alicent hightower #criston cole #viserys targaryen #aemond targaryen

[squuote]

I made a post bout the skip button ending a while back and I deleted it a while ago but I desperately wanna redo it cause I’m interested in what others think but man I cannot find the words for it at all lmaoo

#delete later #LMAO I JUST REMEMBERED IT #I rlly should have saved a reblog to drafts before deleting it #but basically it was along the lines of #a person who feels trapped in a situation may see a solution and just go for it- #-before trying to find other solutions. and most of the time that solution might not be an actually good one #I still feel like I’m wording that wrong though #the concept of stanley seeing the skip button as the only means to escape this ending #and not directly as a way to truly hurt the narrator #because stanley is the one trapped in that room/in the parable #and in times of feeling trapped you may reach for an option that feels like your only hope #or a solution that gives you back some sort of control #so I think the portrayal of the skip button and the zending kinda speak to this idea in an odd way #the feeling of being trapped and seeing a way out and going for that without thinking #though in the end this is me very heavily projecting my own stuff onto these endings #because I’ve been in that position before a few times and I know what it’s like #it doesn’t mean your bad for doing it but I think some people don’t understand it well #it is essentially just me explaining rash decisions in serious situations #yeah stanley should have waited with the narrator but in moments of uncertainty- #-people react in their own ways. idk shrugs I still don’t know if I’m making sense or not #maybe I’ll just keep it here in the tags lol

[cryptidjeepers]

In my humble opinion, the coffee theory and body swap theories literally ruin any kind of emotional value in the finale. They ignore the mistakes aziraphale and crowley make and wont do anything for their character development in season 3. Besides there being zero evidence, this isnt a show where things happen sneakily. Even with season one's body swap, we're shown the prophecy beforehand. Theories are theories, but i just think these ones kinda ....suck the life out of the story

#it also undercuts david and micheals acting imo like theyre giving their all playing emotionally devasted characters #and yall arw just ignoring it in favour ofna crack theory 😭😭😭 #sorry i just saw a post talking about the clock time skips and remembered how dumb these theories are #i promise you there was no switcheroo just plain old devastation #good omens #there i said it #aziraphale is smiling weirdly because hes fucking going through it trying to convince himself that he made the right choice #also if these were true it makes their finake scene make NO SENSE 😭😭😭😭😭

[carrieway]

i just think ghosting someone should be illegal

#esp if the person has bpd . no this isnt about me (it is) #it's just bad boss #ive slowly gotten better at trying not to think about the person but alas . they're appearing in my nightmares . #not much i can do about that besides feeling awful n just trying not to sleep after #idk ! idk i tried . i tried to not be like a previous friend i had who was rlly gross n manipulative to me #whilst Also being much older (i was seventeen n they were twenty four or twenty six i dont remember) #idk. ethan says i wasnt bad but its still gripping onto my brain yknow #also it just sucks being ghosted sucks this is the second time it's happened from someone i trusted #[united states of whatever voice] whatever #(it's more like . Wuhtevr .) #nothing i can do but cope with random f/n/af videos #im watching a person i like try to be sister l/o/cation blindfolded :] they're doing well even with how hard it is #i cant even beat night four Seeing things (well barely seeing things bc its so dark i genuinely cant see) #so it's rlly neat . also i know how to skip the night now bc of a joke he made >:D #also to anyone reading this i am not trying to come across as like Woe Is Me Feel Bad For Me bc like ew #NDNDNDN my tone is very just flat n matter of fact rather than trying to garner sympathy #but also i dont necessarily think it's bad to want sympathy however i dislike it when people go about it in such a way #where it's like . being down on themselves to such an amount that you Know they're playing it up . does that make sense #idk . im saying nothing <3 n im very tired n doing bad so im not making much sense my apologies #does a ditty before kickflipping my way back to f/n/af video world #blabs

[fourteenthz]

Every time I open my shakarian playlist I get more ill but also I need.... need more old sad songs... i need to collect them all.... where are they

#yeah my playlist is filled with Out of touch + Two of us + Mayonata no door + and stuff that sounds like that (night we met for exemp) #and i have to both have this feeling and make it made sense with shakarian which is hard bc they are not toxic just difficult. hard times. #which is kinda good bc old songs normally have that feel but like 90% of mitsik songs feel off for me in that sense #BUT I NEED THEM FOR THE VIBE... GOD.... can u tell I take playlists seriously? and they aren't even public??? #i saw that when I have like 3 mitski songs there but I try. also I REALLY don't line Lana but man if summertime sadness isn't about them. #“i think ill love you forever” part is GENUINELY SO THEM and no one else. i swear. #like 10% of the songs on that playlist are from artists i like and usually listen to but that mostly bc im not a moody sad old songs kinda #of girl and i just caN NOT choose anything else for shakarian. like i swear I can picture shepard showing that kind of songs for garrus #and garrus listening to most of these on thr 2 years gap even before they get together..... bc he heard her listening once #in the normandy and it stuck with him bc... u know... reminds him of her... im gonna throw up #“smoking gun's hot to thr touch” from out of touch reminds him of their meeting like the night we met entire song #but it doesnt gets him more than “none of you” from the chorus. and by the time me3 comes they are sooo Local Natives coded #When am I gonna loose you + I saw you close your eyes ESPECIALLY #its also insane how I can go into akiangel playlists and get songs from there tbh... i never watches csm and NEVER WILL bc really not my #thing. but man akiangel stans know how to do playlist and they are the exactly same feeling i get with shakarian #sorry for the akiangel playlist makers who I have liked the playlist and listened to it on repeat. i was thinking abt shakarian while doing #sorry for the SUDDEN txt post about my spotify playlist.... i spent the morning doing university work and I accidentally #changed from my xiv playlist to the shakarian one and it went downhill from there........ anyway miss my babies..... enough rambling now #ALSO theres this thing were skip The night we met bc its my go to ardbert song LOL but THAT'S LIKE... ANOTHER SUBJECT ANYWAY #kelly says #dl #i forgot to mention For the first time by mac de marco which i like... ultimate shakrian song with Out of touch..... ANYWAY ANYWYAYA

[flythesail]

No I have not started writing the George/Tristan fic

Yes I am still outlining

#i *think* this version works #just for a stretch i thought about making it multi pov #and that's still intriguing #but it also makes it harder to plot #because tristan obviously knows he's the sin eater so the foreshadowing from george's pov doesn't hit the same #a lot of outlining this is trying to figure out the difference between the ideas i have #and what actually fits to create an arc that makes sense #especially strugglin with 4x11-4x12 because those are important in canon #yet i need a balance between following the s4 plot and deviating from that #it doesn't work to just rewrite because nancy obviously has the lead role in canon #and also it's just not right to do a direct rewrite lol i want this to be my own thing #anywayyyyy #i just need to start because by the time i get that far into the season i will have a better idea of the pacing and what makes sense #but like ughh it would be cool to get scenes with tristan and his parents #but then it makes everything more complicated to manage #particularly keeping it even between the two unless i gave them both a pov in each chapter #but again!!! so complicated #it's easier to just do one #and i'm skipping a lot of s4 plot points #trying to convince myself it's possible to convey tristan's perspective and arc through another's pov #and it is #flythepost

[twomystdunstans]

dear lord how am i having a harder time following this than fucking. kane and feels

#KANE AND FEELS SOMEHOW MAKES SENSE TO ME. #IM VERY LOST RN. HELP? #looking around frantically #im assuming theres some time skipping and cutting back and forth but I think I missed that bit and now I'm just confused 💀 #red valley #this happens everytime i try and listen to it GAH #IM REALLY ENJOYING IT ITS SPOOKY AND INTERESTING AND THE VOICE ACTING IS AWESOME. #BUT WHATS GOING ON #GWJDGDJDHDKDJ

[koipalm]

im really glad i have not read the original trigun because i would probably have a lot of nostalgia for it.... but right now i am just enjoying the hell out of whatever trigun stampede is showing me

#MAJOR TRIGUN STAMPEDE SPOILERS IN THESE TAGS. BTW. i finally got to watch it all yesterday #it helps that everything is new #i think the only thing to me is that it feels they skip out on some of the worldbuilding #because it is so popular but as a new watcher guys i have no idea #i think i will read trigun though when i have time #trigun stampede spoilers #<- only for the tags i am about to put #I FUCKING CALLED IT I FUCKING KNEW KNIVES DID IT ALL FOR VASH #I JUST. I HAD A FEELING #he was talking about how he made sure the plants would be fine.... #and considering they are both plants AND that vash seemed to be the weaker one #it just. it makes sense #fucked up sibling relationships will always be interesting to me #because they have so much potential #augh this new episode.... so interesting but so confusing #hoping meryl gets more agency in her character after this #i hope that if we get a season 2 milly will show up #she looks like a freak i like her #also. i feel like the episodes are too short for what they are trying to tackle.... #but to be honest it might just be a constraint that they have to work with so :'[ #i also hope we get more religious imagery keep it going keep it going #vash is like an angel to me.... DOESNT HE HAVE WINGS IN THE MANGA TOO. SHOW ME HIS WINGS #the plants being like angels to me is so interesting too #i feel like it goes off that idea that angels are an alien species #AUGH even better that theyre a higher dimensional species.... sooo fucking cool #txt #BT THE FUCKING WAY. BY THE FUCKING WAY. #i was hoping that trigun stampede would have a magical girl level of universe changing at the end of it.... #like madoka magica or sailor moon #WITH THIS NEW LOOK AT VASHS POWERS. I THINK WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN

[sodalite-lite]

It really sucks that I like actually cannot talk

#sodalite speaks #like ! long posts are every once in a blue moon but whenever i read them back it's like 'BROS SAYING NOTHING 🔥🔥' #some of the time it's due to me trying to explain an idea i don't have too well-thought-out but sometimes it happened during editing #most of the time it's just. something happens while trying to conceptualize thoughts to words #like saelor's info post !!! i put quite a bit of thought to it but i still have to read it in skips or else it doesn't make sense! #it's frustrating to write something and then read it back and go 'i did not mean this at ALL' #i wish i could communicate by like walking up to you and brushing my face against you. like a cat

[hippo-pot]

i'm being so normal about OMitB. Mabel as the hearing counterpart to the Deaf character is not pissing me off. because i am normal

#i can't even quite explain it #understand that i skipped seasons 1 & 2 #am only watching season 3 because someone from my high school is in it #so i don't know the background #presumably mabel and what's his name have some kind of history #but she just... halfheartedly attempts signing and gives up #occasionally admits she doesn't understand half of what he's saying but doesn't seem bothered about it #makes him read her lips half the time (if he even can) #(seems like he's understanding her but maybe the not understanding just goes both ways) #you know what it is? #it doesn't make sense that she'd put in that much effort to learning sign... #(cuz yeah she kinda sucks but it takes a lot of effort to kinda suck!!!!!!!) #just to GIVE up. like to not practice every chance she gets #they're acting like it's nbd or whatever #how did you even learn that if you're not practicing every chance you get. unrealistic and honestly insulting #absolutely unhinged to act that lackadaisical about it #take Wild Prairie Rose. that lady got probably abt as good at ASL as Mabel. but she acted properly stressed #because she was trying! to communicate! that's a thing you have to care about! #who just goes 'oh whatever at least we're understanding a little bit' #?!?!?!?!?!?! #like what? you assume he has nothing to say that would be important for you to know? #is that why you don't care? #& you don't care about whether he knows what you're trying to communicate either? #why is he even hanging out with you

[arthur-r]

actual footage of the smallest dance imaginable. a hundred people bought tickets which is. not a lot for an entire seven cities worth of students in a school. and then there was maybe fifty people total in the building at the most filled up time cause so many people just used the tickets as donating to charity and didn’t even want to go

#was excited to come home and laugh at the dance and then it just got a little much toward the end #but i still think it was pretty funny. also there were so many songs that literally no one there knew?? #my friends begged the dj (social studies teacher) to skip songs no one was dancing to and they wouldn’t #the entire night was really funny before i started falling apart about everything it just became a little much #kind of this whole week combined. monday i tried to take the bus to school showed up ten minutes early waited half an hour it never showed #(first time trying to take the bus from the apartment. school said there’s a stop here but apparently no) #tuesday i tried to take the bus after school and it never stopped within a mile of the apartment. got dropped off at a trailer park #that was not mine. had to have my mom pick me up. and then go to work after like regular #then wednesday was a little bit normal i think. pretty much regular. but did have trouble getting home again!! just not as exciting #anyway then thursday was probably maybe normal?? except my sister came in to school to visit her old favorite teacher. who is my teacher #in economics. and knows me trans and i had to have a conversation with my sister. so maybe not that normal #and then on friday. my older sister had my key card and i couldn’t get into the apartment building. waited outside for my little sister for #twenty minutes in the cold and then we went in the lobby and had to wait for a stranger to get close enough to ask for help. bad experience #so anyway there’s been a lot leading up to today. and it makes sense that i fell apart eventually. but no longer crying so call that a win #hope you all are well. i’ll go to sleep eventually. just a lot to get off my chest. in conclusion wasn’t this dance stupid #we hadn’t had a charity gala since pre-covid so i think just nobody knew what it would be like. i’m the only grade who’s been before #if it wasn’t for the charity gala i wouldn’t know i was trans. somebody complimented my transition there and i was like sorry i can do that? #(had cut my hair short and was wearing a suit. considered myself a stag bisexual and hadn’t heard of transmasculinity /gen) #so i had maybe high expectations. anyway i’m probably running out of tags soon just. yeah. idk. today was a lot #friends only #delete later

[kazz-brekker]

legion fx is an excellent watching experience because every time i start an episode i’m like “now what the FUCK is happening here” and by the end i’m like “ohhhh i see this is genius actually”

#this is specifically about the first 10 minutes or so of season 2 episode 1 which make absolutely NO sense #but once it's explained the time skip and what happened during it you realize it's snippets of what happened in the last year #anyway i love this show it makes me brain feel like it's melting #pie says stuff #pie watches legion #legion fx #yes i took a year long hiatus from watching but i am trying to finish it this summer #i am something like 4 years late to the game but it's really good

[wooahaes]

in case ur wondering how im doing:

not great

#wooahaes.txt #literally i have read over this shit like three times #it does not make sense. it doesnt. what the fuck is this even trying to say. #i read my classmates responses and its still greek to me #like????? what the hell. maybe ill just skip this one because ive been trying to do this for days now