#Limited Edition 38

[anotherpapercut]

do you guys think Karl Marx would've liked Thrift Shop by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis because it promotes waste reduction and the subversion of both capitalism generally and brand commodification¹ specifically through second hand buying or do you think he would not like it because it still promotes consumption as an activity especially of items one does not actually need.² or do you think he'd like it cause it's a banger³

References

¹ Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. (2012). Thrift shop. s.n. [2:38]: ""They be like, "Oh, that Gucci? That's hella tight", I'm like, "Yo, that's fifty dollars for a T-shirt", Limited edition, let's do some simple addition, Fifty dollars for a T-shirt, that's just some ignorant bitch shit, I call that getting-swindled-and-pimped shit, I call that getting tricked by business, That shirt's hella dope, And having the same one as six other people in this club is a hella don't"

² Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. (2012). Thrift shop. s.n. [1:29]: "They had a broken keyboard, I bought a broken keyboard, I bought a skeet blanket, then I bought a knee board"

³ trust

[hillbillyoracle]

Now is the Time to Start Masking Again

If you stopped paying attention to COVID with the release of vaccines, you've missed a lot.

COVID is airborne.

Long COVID impacts 10% of people infected by COVID (though this is beginning to look like a low estimate). Risk of Long COVID goes up with each reinfection. Long COVID is worse than initially reported.

Bisexual and trans people are more likely to develop Long COVID.

Black and Hispanic folks are more likely than White folks experience more symptoms and health problems from Long COVID.

***COVID and Long COVID has much more in common with HIV and AIDS than the flu (28:19 - 38:30 of linked video)***

The Basics

[WEBSITE] You Have to Live Your Life

[ZINE] What's Up With COVID and How to Protect Yourself - 2024 Edition

[FAQ] r/ZeroCOVIDCommunity's FAQ and Resource List

"This is great and all but it's overwhelming. TL;DR?"

COVID is airborne. Long COVID is much more common (and serious/debilitating) than previously thought.

Mask with an N95 or better in all indoor spaces and outside when close to others. Improve your indoor air quality by opening windows and using fans/air filters.

Rapid tests are prone to false negatives so make sure to retest in 48 hours after exposure and/or when you develop symptoms. Isolate in the meantime. Consider upgrading to a NAAT (PlusLife, Metrix) or PCR (Lucira) if you have the money.

Things for you to do today:

buy some N95s or request some from a local mask bloc

open a window more often and/or buy an air purifier

buy the best COVID tests you can afford

Basics in Video Form

If you have limited time, watch the videos with * first. They will cover the basics in about 20 minutes.

*VIDEO: COVID is Airborne [2:53]

*VIDEO: What the latest research tells us about long COVID's most common symptoms [5:58]

*VIDEO: FDA warns of false negatives with at home COVID Tests [2:19]

*VIDEO: How to Stay Safe(r) at Home [10:35]

--

VIDEO: The Astounding Physics of N95 Mask [6:08]

VIDEO: Mask Fit 101: Seal [4:07]

VIDEO: Mask Fit 101: Qualitative [3:49]

VIDEO: Mask Fit 102: Quantitative [5:04]

VIDEO: How to get [and give] FREE Masks [6:07]

VIDEO: Try this DIY indoor air purifier for cleaner air [4:22]

VIDEO: Why is EVERYONE more SICK [54:55]

Want to Get Involved?

Join your local Mask Bloc

No local Mask Bloc? Consider starting one

Talk to the people in your life about COVID

Print quality zines and spread them in your communities

Push for COVID Conscious changes in your spaces.

[sang-i-fetge]

List of Jason Todd/Red Hood's weapons/gadgets/touys

Note: This is mostly from comics written by Winick, as I refuse to acknowledge most of n52. Feel free to add more, though!

Note2: This post was originally formatted in a different way, as I foolishly forgot about the image limit.

Blades

1— His iconic dagger!

Can cut through stone, and most of Batman's gear. It's been heavily debated what kind of knife it is; wether a kris, a parrying dagger, or a third secret thing.

2— The blades he gives Mia to defend herself!

I'm not sure what kind of blade they are, they vaguely look like wakizashis? Their size varies from panel to panel so idk😔

3— The katana for the 'duel' with Oliver!

4— And to link with the next section, the exploding katana!

Yes, it's a katana that explodes. Jason baits Oliver into holding it.

Explosives

— First of all, he blows up many many things and it's not specified what exactly he uses. So the unspecified explosives that only appear as a cool fireball panel get a bullet point.

5— The jumble of explosives in the Final Confrontation™️, we can see some dynamite, C4...

6— Bomb in a crate

7— Small bomb. Not lethal!

8— Bigger bomb. Yes lethal.

9— Continuing with this absolute icon: the bomb under the Batmobile (should I capitalize that?)

10— Small Rocket, used against Brick

11— Grenade?

12— Small, cylinder-shaped explosives. Detonated upon impact?

13— Small explosive that attaches to flat surfaces, used against Mr Freeze

14— Grenade.

15— Molotov Cocktail

16— Enough C4 to destroy a whole building, modded so it explodes if its temperature reaches one point, countering Batman's method of freezing bombs.

17— My absolute favorite, the exploding helmet!

Even if it's listed under 'explosives', it's also an important piece of technology in the Red Hood's arsenal.

Firearms

18, 19— The guns in the wall from Annual #25, there's surely more.

20— Machine guns hidden in crates!

21— Machine guns hidden in cars!

22— Rocket launcher, used against Black Mask

23— Even more hidden machine guns! This time in an electricity pole.

24— Machine gun (also hidden, but surprisingly not attached to anything)

25— Handgun👍

26— AK-47, you know the panel from where it's from

27— Submachine guns, I think 🙂

28— When out of ammo he uses his guns as blunt weapons, which I wanted to note

Tasers

29— The nazi-killing taser

30— The reason for the creation of this post! The grapple line taser! Attach it to a grapple line and it will shock whoever is connected to it. Noticed it in a reread of utrh and needed people to see it

31— Bonus: the bat-symbol taser. Iconic enough to be here.

Tech & Surveillance

32— Monitor and microphone?

33, 34— cameras :)

35— thing to see the feed of the cameras

36, 37— phones :)

38— his little tech den in #650

39, 40— computers :)

41— whatever this thing is

42— The surveillance device that looks like he taped a canon camera to his face

43— Wiretaps!

44— Bugs!

He also has his evil lair in B&R2009 bugged.

Miscellaneous

45— Does his crowbar count

46— smoke bomb!!

47— Injectable adrenaline. He just has that in his utility belt.

48— His batmobile-evade suit.

49— Is saying his belt buckle mean

50— Unspecified poison! Goodbye Egon

51— This thing that attaches to its target and launches them off

Not pictured:

The fancy wound dressing he gives onyx to patch up the shoulder wound he inflicted (I forgot to screenshot 💔)

Also, he has this whole hq-ish thing in Annual #25

(Edit: That rectangle in the gun wall kinda looks like an anti-drone gun now that I think abt it)

It has a murder board, which I think is cute.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Aston Martin Valiant, 2024. A new limited edition, track focused but road legal model from Q by Aston Martin. It's powered by a 745PS 5.2 litre Twin-Turbo V12 engine driving through a bespoke 6-speed manual transmission. Production will be limited to 38 cars

[detailtilted]

New Enhanced Edition - Fangoria 2008 with Jared

Direct link to video. Link to YouTube channel. (23 videos available.)

My latest video is up. This was at Fangoria in Austin, TX in January 2008.

Footage Found/Recovered

My video is a little over 42 minutes long. There's uninterrupted coverage from the beginning of the panel up until 39.5 minutes in. After that, there are two gaps of unknown length that I couldn't fill.

Jewels667 on YouTube had 38 minutes' worth of great coverage for this event, but the videos had become private. (In 2021, YouTube automatically changed unlisted videos to private, so that might be what happened here.) I was able to make contact and they kindly made the videos public again, and granted me permission to use them for this project. I used 20.5 minutes' worth of their video and 31.5 minutes' worth of their audio. They had 3 minutes and 46 seconds of coverage that none of the other videos had and some of the better-quality audio. The videos have thousands of views, so a lot of you may have seen them before, but they were new to me and I was very excited about them.

@j2spntranscripts, who has incredible video-finding skills, also found two videos with 21 minutes' worth of coverage on DailyMotion that I hadn't run across myself. I didn't use a lot of content from them, but I did use a few minutes and it was very helpful to have another audio source to listen to when refining my subtitles. You can find the links on the aforementioned blog, or in the credits on my video description.

Audio

Jared called on fans in the audience to ask questions, and they didn't have mics, so they're usually very hard to hear. I determined which video source picked up the fan question the most clearly and included that in the audio. If it wasn't clearly audible in its original form, I increased the volume drastically and added some background noise suppression tools to try to make it as clear as possible. It helps a little, but there are still some fans who are nearly impossible to make out. You'll notice more audio fluctuations in this video than usual (mostly just when the fans are speaking) due to my sometimes-drastic audio manipulations to try to hear the fans.

What's Next?

I'm moving on to the Los Angeles convention from March 2008 next! While searching for more videos from this convention, I learned through an old post on LiveJournal that a fan going by the name of Candygramme had recorded some great videos from this event that aren't on YouTube. I was able to make contact and she generously sent me everything she had, so I'm excited to share them. The biggest treasure is the full video of the main J2 panel. She also caught about half of Jensen's solo panel and 4.5 minutes of the Breakfast. Her video quality was much better than the other videos I've found from this con.

For the parts of the panels not covered by her videos, the video quality will be very low and I expect there to be some large and frustrating gaps in Jared's solo panel. But the existing YouTube coverage of this con is limited and pretty difficult to watch, so I'm excited to put together something more coherent than what we have today, and I'm especially excited about the footage from Candygramme that newer fans have likely not seen.

Before/After Comparison Photos

The Fangoria videos didn't upscale, and the original colors weren't too bad, so you won't see a big improvement in video quality on this one.

A recap for anyone not familiar with this project…

In December 2023, I started a project to enhance old convention videos. The project is mostly focused on Jared and Jensen, but there will occasionally be videos with other actors. I'm upscaling the videos and making other visual improvements, adding extra content to clarify various references, and adding human-generated, color-coded subtitles so you can better understand the sometimes-chaotic audio. The subtitles can be auto-translated to other languages via YouTube.

My goal is to publish the best, most complete, and most watchable versions of these older convention panels yet seen, but this is only possible thanks to the fans who captured the footage in the first place and were generous enough to share it with other fans. My video descriptions on YouTube will always credit my sources.

If you have any old convention videos you'd be willing to contribute to this project, please message me! I can also be reached at DetailTilted@gmail.com. If I can get them to upscale (I can't always), I'd happily send the upscaled files back to you for your own collection whether I use them or not.

[httpsserene]

httpsserene’s table of contents | page one

key: fluff ♡ | angst ♢ | crack ♧ | smut ♤ | suggestive ✢ | male!reader ♔ | series ➜ | author's fave ✦ | driver lineup (who i write for) | REQUESTS OPEN.

special editions

✦➜♤ f1 kinktober 2023 [oneshots] | httpsserene's first kinktober event (10 separate kinks with f1 drivers).

✦➜♤ 1k special — track limits [fanfic] | max and charles don’t mind receiving a five-second penalty for slipping past your boundaries. seeing a black and white flag doesn’t scare them in the slightest; not when you're performing so well under their guidance.

♤ 2k special — the daniel ricciardo edition [oneshots] | it's his one-man show. you ask for danny ric, and he will always over-deliver.

♡♤ 3k vday celebration — routine maintenance [mixed] | 3k followers prompt list & nsfw alphabet requests.

the driver line up A -> P

#23 ALBON, ALEX.

➜♡ seal you later [smau] | alex makes the worst first impression. you try to stay mad at him, no matter how badly he tries to make it up to you.

#14 ALONSO, FERNANDO.

♡ hobby hopper [smau] | nobody can keep up with your growing list of hobbies, except fernando.

#12 ANTONELLI, KIMI.

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ ·˚ these books are still being printed !

#38 BEARMAN, OLLIE.

ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ ·˚ these books are still being printed !

#10 GASLY, PIERRE.

✦➜♤ f1 kinktober 2023 [oneshot] | witchcraft & aphrodisiac kink.

#44 HAMILTON, LEWIS.

➜♤ f1 kinktober 2023 [oneshot] | tender sex & cockwarming kink.

#16 LECLERC, CHARLES.

♤ you got me touching [oneshot] | there’s no reason for charles to be jealous of men who are stupid enough to think they have a chance with you.

♡ bed head [drabble] | your daughter is her father’s twin.

♡ cuddles [drabble] | morning cuddles (with #1 verstappen, max).

✦➜♤ f1 kinktober 2023 [oneshot] | corruption & orgasm denial kinks (with #1 verstappen, max).

✦➜♤ 1k special — track limits [fanfic] | max and charles don’t mind receiving a five-second penalty for slipping past your boundaries. seeing a black and white flag doesn’t scare them in the slightest; not when you're performing so well under their guidance (with #1 verstappen, max).

♡ 1-800-HELP-ME-PARK [smau] | fans notice that charles’ cars are suddenly being parked perfectly. come to find out, his (secret) girlfriend has been parking his ferrari like butter.

➜♡ (flower) arrangements [smau] | you are a florist in the heart of monaco, solely focused on operating your flower shop without any distractions. your friends are adamant about you needing a break to breathe air that isn’t floral scented. kika, in particular, thinks you need to add some spice to your life—you are unaware that "spice" is scuderia ferrari formula one driver, charles leclerc.

#4 NORRIS, LANDO.

♡ singing in the shower [oneshot] | lando’s usually well spent sunday off with his girlfriend is different this time around. you put off your everything shower and wash-day causing some edits to the usual routine. how the night ends, however, is 100% lando’s fault.

♔♢ emotional affair [oneshot] | lando has many regrets, the most painful one being the fact that he encouraged you to date oscar.

♡ snoring [drabble] | lando snores.

♡ grip [blurbs] | he loves the way you feel under his hands.

♡ groceries [drabble] | you know a thing or two about baking, because you’ve baked a thing or two (with #81 piastri, oscar).

♡ it's us against the world [drabble] | surviving a power outage with your boyfriends. (with #81 piastri, oscar).

✦➜♤ f1 kinktober 2023 [oneshot] | pu$$y worship kink.

➜♡♤ sip of sunshine [fanfic] | as a cart girl, you’ve never been intrigued by any of the men you serve on the green. by complete chance, you meet carlos and lando—they monopolize your summers for the unforeseeable future (with #55 sainz jr, carlos).

✦♧ let's go golfing [smau] | maybe you shouldn’t be late to any event you go to, or bare minimum don’t make any bets you know you’re not going to win. having no hand-eye coordination is not great when you’re being forced to play golf.

✦♡ posh spice [smau] | a few years ago, everybody was saying you were too pretty for lando, but now they’re drooling over him? you will not be letting this slide. 

✦♡♧ mama y papa [smau] | you and lando are blessed with a beautiful baby boy (with #81 piastri, oscar).

$81 PIASTRI, OSCAR.

♡♢ best i ever had [mixed media] | oscar really just wants to hear you laugh again.

♡ uptown [drabble] | part two of best i ever had.

♡ groceries [drabble] | you know a thing or two about baking, because you’ve baked a thing or two (with #4 norris, lando).

♡ it's us against the world [drabble] | the power goes out during your livestream (with #4 norris, lando).

✦➜♤ f1 kinktober 2023 [oneshot] | car sex & squirting kink.

✦♧ who told him to get jacked [smau] | oscar’s girlfriend is feral on main.

✦♧✢ hot and ready [smau] | you accidentally leak a private song you made as a birthday gift for your boyfriend.

next | 𝐩𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐨 (𝐑 -> 𝐙)

© httpsserene - photos used from pinterest. do not reupload.

[delawaredetroit]

So Nighteye spent less time with All Might than I remembered. Out of All Might's around 38 year long pro hero career, Sir Nighteye was only All Might's sidekick for five years (All Might had One for All 40 years minus his three years at UA but add the half a year he kept going with the embers of One for All after transferring it).

How short his working relationship was with Sir Nighteye has a few interesting implications for the timeline:

41 years ago - All Might receives One for All

39 years ago - Shimura dies

Around 35 years ago - assuming the cover story for going to America was college, he at most spent four years there with Dave before returning to Japan

11 years ago - Sir Nighteye became All Might's sidekick

6 years ago - All Might's injury and Sir Nighteye quit as his sidekick

Less than 6 years ago - All Might befriends Tsukauchi

1.5 years ago - All Might met Izuku

So that leaves an approximately 24 year period in All Might's hero career as the Symbol of Peace where All Might was completely isolated where he and All for One lived for hunting each other. Also, credit given to Sir Nighteye's tenacity. He was the only person to get close to All Might after he settled into his role as Symbol of Peace but before his injury. All of All Might's other notable connections are either from before becoming the symbol (Shimura Nana, Gran Torino, and Dave) or after his injury (Tsukauchi and Izuku).

They seemed like they had been working together forever, but there is a good chance that scene where Izuku and Bakugou got their limited edition All Might cards chronologically happened before Sir Nighteye even started his sidekick gig.

[sulemio-week-official]

Tumblr President Sulemio is back🍅✨🍅✨🍅✨

We're doing a 100 themes of sulemio challenge! Tag the account and/or use the tag #sulemio100 so we can reblog your work! Check the link for more info🍅

You can make any content (edits, amvs, fanfiction, art, cosplay etc). 🍅

If your work is nsfw please tag it appropriately for us to retweet.

There is no time limit to this event, we will keep retweeting as long as you use #sulemio100 and or tag the account🫧

If you're posting on ao3 you can add it to the collection archiveofourown.org/collections/100_themes_of_sulemio_challenge

You can interpret these prompts however you want!✨

This event will happen parallel on twitter so be sure to check it out🌈

You do not need to do all the prompts.👍🏼

Have fun!

The link will have FAQs🎈

If you have any questions give us an ask or a message✨

Prompts:

1- Prologue 2- Angel 3- Gaming 4- Syzygy 5- Ocean 6- Gurgle 7- Childhood 8- Supplication 9- Picnic 10- Desert 11- Cereal 12- Hot Chocolate 13- Trespassing 14- Princess 15- Harpy 16- Summer 17- Forest 18- Crepes 19- Birthday 20- Interpreter 21- Cooking 22- Boat 23- Ikea 24- Lifetime 25- Yuri 26- Vibraphone 27- Date 28- Mountain 29- Popcorn 30- Goldfish 31- Collar 32- Hound 33- Cuddles 34- Hiccups 35- Thunderstorms 36- Mercenary 37- Enamel 38- Donuts 39- Psychopomp 40- Debauchery 41- Gunpla 42- Shapeshifter 43- Fatherhood 44- Kaiju 45- Couch 46- Sex 47- Prohibition 48- Lies 49- Hobby 50- Wallpaper 51- Video Game 52- Sky 53- Skiing 54- Hotdog 55- Rome 56- Alcohol 57- Gamer 58- Stockings 59- Kiss 60- Christmas 61- Tattoo 62- Ruins 63- Flowers 64- Nature 65- Codependence 66- Kamasutra 67- Azure 68- Poof 69- Snowball 70- Magic 71- Break 72- Nostalgia 73- Doomed 74- Cozy 75- Heaven 76- Family 77- Virtual 78- Desperation 79- Mental 80- Misanthropic 81- Musical 82- Trainspotting 83- Gardening 84- Stupid 85- Oblivious 86- Thief 87- Jealousy 88- Forearms 89- Eri 90- Forever 91- Yearning 92- Surfing 93- Neck 94- Pining 95- Headpats 96- Cassowary 97- Forgiveness 98- Metanarrative 99- Overstimulation 100- Epilogue

[iridessins]

I realised that I should post more on here- So you all can have my latest non-OC related Hetalia piece (recent meaning December oops-) that I HOPE doesn’t get its quality ruined because I didn’t torture myself with a 38 layer limit for nothing (thanks Procreate).

Anyways, a Romania design for my “if-Rome-had-survived” AU, you all can finally meet my lovely boy Dragomir <3 You’ll be seeing a LOT of him on here (the normal universe one, not this one LMAO). He may look like canon Romania on the outside, but on the inside? He is a COMPLETELY different man, besties, I can assure you.

Also yes, Caius is Rome :)

And yes, I know the prince/princess title wasn't really a thing in Ancient Rome, but for this AU I do like to imagine that eventually the idea and title spread since this is set after Augustus' reign.

I should really make an art dump post giving you guys my older art over the course of the last two years of my main three brainrot victims (Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia)… stay tuned for that.

! Do NOT in any way use, edit or repost my art anywhere. I claim its full ownership and I will take action if my conditions are not respected. I’m watching you, Pinterest reposters and AI feeders. Back off.

[multifamdomfan]

Webby: Louie ! I thought you were dead!

Louie : No, just in deep cover.

Webby: ...But it was an open casket.

Louie : It was very deep.

Dewey : I’m quick at math.

Huey : Ok, what’s 38 times 76?

Dewey: 24.

Huey : That wasn’t even close.

Dewey: But it was quick.

Jack: Something tells me Lena 's going to be a bit more unhinged today...

Lena , holding a lit match and a bag of cheetos: Leave me be, Webby isn't home to stop me, I'm going feral.

Huey: It’s impossible to make a sentence without using the letter A.

Lena : Despite your thinking, it is quite possible, yet difficult, to form one without the specific letter. Here’s one more to further disprove your theory.

Mila: F--- you.

Lena : Astrology is fun because I can pretend that all of my behaviors are just a result of being a Gemini and not symptoms of mental illness.

Jack: Being a Gemini is a mental illness. That’s not hate it’s just a fact.

Duke of Making a Mess: When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Duke lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the person who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

Jack: HEY HEY HEY! DON’T TOUCH THOSE!

Dewey , touching a figurine: Why? What’s wrong with touching a doll?

Jack: THAT IS NOT A DOLL! This is a figurine, thank you very much.

Mila, from afar: IT’S JUST A STIFF DOLL!

Dewey : FIGURINE MY A--! IT’S JUST A STIFF DOLL— as Mila said!

Jack: I hate all of you. That is a limited edition figurine I got from a conventio—

Dewey : *Drops figurine on the ground*

Jack: —n. It was $100; all my money just went down the f---ing drain.

Huey: That’s a crazy idea. Insane. It doesn’t make sense.

Mila: You’ll do it?

Huey: Of course.

Lena : Good morning.

Huey: Good morning.

Mila: Good morning.

Jack: You all sound like robots, try spicing it up a bit.

Dewey : MORNING MOTHERF---ERS!

Mila: Act natural.

Huey: For this kind of situation, the most natural thing would be to panic, so technically I can panic.

Mila: NO, that’s not what I meant! Act like it’s a normal day!

Huey: My ‘normal’ days of late, consist of a lot of panic.

Mila: Will you just cooperate?

Huey: When a person is panicking, they are not apt to cooperate very well!

Lena : Which way did Mila go?

Jack: Well, based on the direction of the wind, the broken sticks in the corner, and the slight disturbance in the dirt, I'd guess they went left.

Lena : You could really figure it out from that?

Jack: No, you idiot, Mila sent me a text. See?

Jack: *watching the squad's shenanigans with concern* Do you feel like this has gotten out of hand?

Lena : I don't know. Feels normal enough for a group that's on 911's blocked callers list.

Mila: I wish I could control wasps and bees to sting my enemies.

Webby: You’re too young to have enemies.

Mila: You don’t even know.

Louie : Dewey is taking credit for Huey's work, getting them to deal with everything, and making fun of them! You know what they sounds like?

Jack: You?

Louie : No, I meant... You know Huey. In spite of being clever and sarcastic they’re also... fragile and weird and they have trouble fitting in. And Dewey is taking advantage of their weakness! You know what that’s called?

Jack: A Louie ?

Louie : ...Yeah, but I’m the only one who should be allowed to do that, okay?!

[raijin-tribe]

Monthly FT Magazine Vol. 7 - Part 4 A TEAM DEVOTED TO LAXUS: THE RAIJINSHUU

And here they are!! Laxus' personal bodyguards and closest friends, the Raijinshuu!!

Honestly, this page spread was the main reason I bought this magazine in the first place... and the reason I ended up buying all the other magazines as well! (I mean... what's a collection if I don't collect the whole set?)

I'm actually surprised at how thorough this is! Information about the Raijinshuu is already pretty limited, but the magazine does a great job of covering what IS known. Even something small like Bickslow wanting to own a puppet theater is included, which the only other time I've seen mentioned was in the Vol. 16 special edition booklet; Sorcerer Weekly No. 38.

Source: Monthly FT Magazine Vol. 7 Raws Translated Using: DeepL (Disclaimer)

[garfunclegaming]

GW doing another price hike, and pushing their luck with nonsense like selling a limited edition Guard command squad for 80 usd. In contrast, a Real Grade RX 78 Gundam kit, totally push fit, injection color plastic and engineered to perfection costs 56 usd. A box of 5 pre assembled Battletech mechs was on sale for 38 usd from a US flgs I randomly found in less than 2 minutes.

You would think after the mass interest generated from SM2 GW would try to entice new hobbyists and collectors. Not gouge the existing customers with FOMO and utterly insane pricing for 32mm minis. The reason 3D printing is so massive, either from people printing their own or buying printed alternatives is the price. Especially crazy with the economic uncertainty that is global.

[zylphiacrowley]

Hello! So first off I want to say that I am a very sentimental and sappy person.

That being said, I am so very grateful to everyone who has shown an interest in my funny little wolship! Just a few short months ago I was mortified by the thought of posting anything about my WoL, much less posting anything about my wolship but one day I seemed to have been hit by a remarkable spark of bravery and decided "fuck it, we ball". Ever since then I have met so many wonderful people in the community and it is not an exaggeration to say that I have very nearly been brought to tears over the kindness and support people have shown while I make my silly little (sometimes overly dramatic lmao) stories and gposes and I just wanted to say sincerely and from the bottom of my heart; Thank you.

My weepy little forward aside I wanted to mention that I have recently gone back and done a decent amount of housekeeping with some of my Erenvahl posts (including but not limited to: fixing some clunky dialogue, re-editing some of the shots, rearranging and folding in some sets that were previously stand-alone, and on one occasion completely retaking the entire set). And since I recently wrapped up their pre-Dawntrail narrative I figured I'd make a nice little consolidated post of them, partially for my own organizational purposes (and to link back to X'vahl's pinned dossier), but also if anyone wanted to go back and read it from the beginning now is the perfect time to do so! ♥

Endwalker: [0] || [1] || [2] || [3] || [4] || [5] || [6] || [7] || [8] || [9] || [10] || [11] || [12] || [13] || [14] (18+) || [15] || [16] || [17] || [18] || [19] || [20] || [21] || [22] || [23] || [24]

Dawntrail: [25] || [26] || [27] || [28] || [29] || [30] || [31] || [32] || [33] || [34] || [35] (18+) || [36] || [37] || [38] || [39] || [40] || [41] || [42] || [43] || [44] || [45] || [46] || [47] || [48] || [49] || [50] || [51] || [52] || [53]

extras:

Endwalker: [1] || [2] || [3] || [4] || [5] || [6] || [7] || [8] || [9] || [10] || [11] || [12] || [13] || [14] || [15] (mild 18+) || [16] (18+) || [17] (18+) || [18] || [19]

Dawntrail: [1] || [2] (18+) || [3] || [4] || [5] (18+) || [6] || [7] || [8] (18+ish) || [9] || [10] ||[11] || [12] (18+) || [13] || [14] || [15] || [16] || [17] (18+) || [18] || [19] || [20]

Erenwol Week: 2024: [1] || [2] || [3] || [4] || [5] || [6] || [7]

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Hello! Here is data on point of view distribution across characters in The Dreamer Trilogy (which I will abbreviate as TD3) as a follow up to my TRC data from last year (viewable here). A rather long-winded discussion of the data, methods notes, and some supplemental figures and tables are under the cut. As it was not possible to include all values and stats in this post (nor in the alt text for image IDs), my spreadsheet can be viewed by clicking here,

This project quantifies and visualizes the distribution of chapters and pages in the books of TD3 across characters from whose POVs the story is told. I didn’t have much of a hypothesis going into data collection/analysis, especially not like I did for the TRC data, but I did expect to see Ronan’s POV having the most chapters and pages for the entire series, given the fact that he is the most central of the protagonists. I don’t think page time is the be-all-end-all for a character’s importance, of course, but it is still interesting to consider how spending more time from certain perspectives affects the perceived narrative. I won’t get much into that aspect of analysis in this post, but if anybody would actually like to discuss that, I’d love to!

Results (and Interpretation):

TD3 consists of 173 chapters and 1184 pages (using the U.S. hardcover editions), making the average chapter 6.84 pages. The longest chapter is 16 pages, and the shortest is 1 page.

Figure 1A: The average chapter in Mister Impossible (MI) is considerably longer (9.26 pages) than the average chapter in Call Down the Hawk (CDTH) (6.00 pages) and in Greywaren (GW) (6.40 pages), which makes sense as MI has just 38 chapters while CDTH has 80 and GW has 55 (see Fig. 2). To me, the effect of the longer chapters (and therefore extended time with the current POV character) makes the various POVs feel more temporally distant from one another- not in a narratively incoherent way, but in a way that echoes the sense of isolation experienced by dreamers and weaponized by Bryde as he tries to convince Ronan and Hennessy to abandon their loved ones.

Figure 1B: Chapter length is fairly consistent amongst POVs across the series. Matthew has the longest average chapter length (8.40 page) over a small set of chapters (5 total)- his character development (as told from his own POV) is limited to a small number of instances, which may have stretched his chapters a bit longer. The 'Other' category has the shortest average chapter length (5.13 pages) (Fig. 1B); it includes the typically short chapters from witnesses of Visionary explosions/aftermath (Mags, Dabney) as well as Nathan's manifesto excerpts. (As a side note, I've described the chapters depicting memories from the Barns as 'Mór and Niall.' These chapters do not collectively portray an equal balance of their POVs, but this was the simplest way to categorize them.)

Figure 2A-B: These graphs are representations of chapter distribution across POVs in TD3 in terms of chapter count (2A) and proportion of total chapters (2B). Some observed trends include Declan's proportion of total chapters remaining quite constant throughout the series, Ronan's decreasing, Hennessy's proportion of chapters nearly doubling from CDTH to MI (and staying at a similar proportion to MI in GW), and Jordan's proportion following an opposite trend (consistent proportion in CDTH and MI, followed by a more than 50% drop in GW). Carmen's proportion of chapters also declines after CDTH.

Figure 2C: This graph compares total chapters per character POV over the entire series. We can see that the largest proportion of the series is told from Ronan's POV (53 chapters, or 0.306 of all chapters). To put that in perspective, Hennessy has the next highest number of chapters (26, or 0.150 of all chapters), which is just under half the number of Ronan's. If all characters had an equal number of chapters from their POV (including the miscellaneous POVs as one category labeled Other), they would each have 21.6 chapters, represented by the horizontal dashed line; Declan, Jordan, Carmen, and Hennessy all have chapter counts relatively close to this number.

Figure 2D-E: These are representations of page distribution across POVs in TD3 in terms of page count (2D) and proportion of total pages (2E). Trends are similar to those depicted in 2A-B, but 2E does make Declan's increased proportion of page time in GW salient.

Figure 2F: This graph compares total pages per character POV over the entire series. The dashed line shows that if each character (plus the Other category) had equal page time in the series, readers would spend 148 pages with each POV. Again, page data is similar to chapter data, but comparing graphs 2C and 2F gives a clear visual indicator that Jordan's chapters (on average, 8.11 pages) are longer than Carmen's (on average, 6.08 pages), since Carmen has visibly more chapters in 2C yet nearly the same number of pages as Jordan in 2F.

Figure 3: Figure 3 shows distribution of chapters (3A-B) and pages (3C-D) in CDTH, as well as average chapter length for each character POV (3E). An equal distribution of chapters would have been 13.3 per character, and an equal distribution of pages would have been 80.0 per character. The 'Other' category included chapters from the perspectives of Lock, Breck Myrtle, Shawna Wells, Jason Morgenthaler (and Lin Draper, briefly, in the same chapter), Mags Harmonhouse, and Dabney Pitts. Carmen's average chapter length in CDTH (4.67 pages) is the lowest single-book average for character POVs appearing throughout the entire series. (Nathan's average chapter length is just 1.00 [Supplemental Figure 2], yet his POV only appears in GW via his manifesto excerpts, and while I have attributed these chapters to his POV, I interpret the POV as actually ambiguous. As with Kavinsky's text in TDT, it's not absolutely certain if we are reading from the writer or the reader's perspective [although in TDT, due to the lack of Kavinsky POV elsewhere, it's probably the latter]).

Figure 4: Figure 4 shows distribution of chapters (4A-B) and pages (4C-D) in MI, as well as average chapter length for each character POV (4E). An equal distribution of chapters would have been 5.43 per character, and an equal distribution of pages would have been 50.3 per character. The 'Other' category included two chapters, both with what I deemed omniscient narration. Declan had the shortest chapters in MI (8.20 pages), and Jordan had the longest (11.4 pages, the longest average for a character for a single book in this series).

Figure 5: Figure 5 shows distribution of chapters (4A-B) and pages (4C-D) in GW, as well as average chapter length for each character POV (4E). An equal distribution of chapters would have been 6.88 per character, and an equal distribution of pages would have been 44.0 per character. The 'Other' category included Nathan's manifesto excerpts (3 chapters), 1 chapter from Liliana's POV, and 3 other chapters with omniscient narration. While Ronan never has the longest chapters, his chapters are shorter relative to other POVs in Greywaren, perhaps as a result of the way his chapters are written during his time asleep/in the sweetmetal sea. I have not yet investigated whether chapters tend to be longer while characters are awake vs asleep or dreaming, but that's something that could be measured from the existing data in the spreadsheet! There is also a dramatic drop in Jordan's POV time in GW compared to the previous two books, perhaps because of her increased divergence from Hennessy and desire to establish a life that follows her own narrative.

Other findings: A major difference I noted between TRC and TD3 was the lack of split chapters in TD3. In TRC, the data analysis was made slightly complicated by having to account for the fact that a non-negligible number of chapters would make a distinct and discrete switch between POVs partway through. While I did not observe this in TD3, I did encounter more ambiguous/nebulous POVs as I previously mentioned. The increased presence of omniscience in the trilogy, for me, contributed to the increased sense of scale and stakes compared to TRC. This increased continuity amongst POV (not amongst core/recurring POV characters, but amongst groups of characters/communities depicted in the omnisciently narrated chapters) also contributed to a sense of dissolution of barriers and identities, perhaps thematically in line with Ronan's character development and increasingly holistic perspective of both his humanity and otherworldliness (although Ronan is not necessarily featured in these 'boundary-breaking' chapters). I also briefly looked at occurrences of back-to-back chapters from the same POV; this happens most frequently for Ronan in all three books, mainly in CDTH, and sometimes featuring a dreaming chapter directly before an awake chapter (or vice versa) in immediate succession. Declan (MI), Carmen (CDTH), and Jordan (CDTH) all have a pair of back-to-back chapters at some point in the series; Hennessy has 2 (MI, GW).

Conclusions: In all honesty, despite this project being quite fun and fulfilling and of course, worth doing, I do not think I have any particularly insightful conclusions about the data beyond what I've already discussed. Ronan took up the largest share of the chapters and pages as expected, although I am not sure I expected this to be true by such a large margin. I also was surprised that Declan did not have more chapter/page time, but it is possible that his notable inclusion in chapters from other characters' POVs increases his prominence in the series (and I suppose this is probably true for all characters who frequently appear in chapters outside their perspective). As with TRC, the number of POVs expands as the series develops, often with the effect of increasing the scope of the story's implications, and perhaps, more importantly, showing the story from additional angles that contextualize and/or distort narrative established by other characters' perspectives. I hope you've enjoyed exploring the data as I have, and those interested in my methodology may continue reading below!

Methods:

Data collection was straightforward in the sense that I simply counted the pages in each chapter and then assigned each chapter to a character based on the POV represented. The POV character assignment was more difficult than it was for TRC, as TD3 has more omnisciently narrated chapters, which in itself is easy to categorize, but they often zoom in on or are 'biased' towards the experience of a particular character, so I had to make some decisions as to what, for me, constituted sufficient focus on a character’s internal narration and expression vs. omniscience. In the spreadsheet, I took notes on these more subjectively driven decisions. Again, you can view it here! It also contains data on whether the chapter is from an awake or dreaming POV, and has the first lines of each chapter, among which are some fun repeating patterns. 

For bar graphs with dots, each dot represents a single chapter. You may also notice that the graphs are missing p-values from statistical tests this time around! This is because, since completing the TRC data, I’ve realized that such measures of uncertainty re: significant differences are not appropriate for my dataset, which is not a sample representing a population, but rather a complete group of chapters (so parametric tests are not necessarily helpful or valid). However, I still like to run the tests for my own amusement and to see what the results would be if this were a dataset for which ANOVA and contingency tests were appropriate, so I have standard deviation bars on the graphs where calculable (but no standard deviations in the text of the results section for legibility) as well as the p-values in tables at the end of this post for anyone also curious. I did still calculate the numbers of chapters and pages that would represent an equal distribution across POV characters, which are represented by the dashed lines on the relevant figures. I think this is helpful to visually gauge 'over-representation' and 'under-representation' of character POVs.

Below are the supplemental figures showing all character POVs rather than lumping some together in an 'other' category. The MI data in figure 4 is not expanded below because the chapters designated as 'other' were omniscient and thus would have remained in the same category.

And finally, here are the omitted p-values, if you'd like to pretend along with me that all the chapters in TD3 are not a complete set but rather a representative sample of a greater population of chapters that's out there in the universe. :) When I give a p-value below the 0.05 threshold but still write 'no significant differences amongst any combination of characters, I mean that the p-values generated for the comparisons between each possible pair of characters were all above 0.05, which are distinct from the overall p-value generated from the ANOVA.

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thirty eight weeks and thirty eight drawings of album covers finally finished!!!!!!! it's def gonna be one of the worse projects, some of my classmates r out here curing world hunger or whatever, but i'm still excited to present it at school on wednesday. heres the first and last cuz i fr did improve its kinda crazy and some i really liked!!

#1 not like us lmao

#38 in love and death

babyface by sorry mom

collide w/ the sky

dookie

cork tree limited tour edition

heartless by yameii online

reject all american by bikini kill

stomachaches that turned out weirdly good for how hard it looks to draw

tragic kingdom by no doubt

(in some of these the human figures r removed cuz the point of the project was to improve on drawing landscapes, some of them i kept the human figure(s) though like if it was important to the album cover or something like that. also some of them have some colors. they were all supposed to be black and white but similarly to the human figure thing if something being colored was important to the album cover then i kept it)

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