#Strategic Learning

[thefinemen]

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[ifindtaxpro]

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[forlorngarden]

i will have one thousand hobbies and never die

[xenophur]

🪞🔍 Reflective Detective is my excuse to give Glisten a hug from someone because he NEEDS one so bad

(reading the notes inside his room made me feel so sad bro)

[arttsuka]

Request: Jed and octavius dancing on/playing the piano like in that scene from the movie Big.

(Your art is amazing)

Like this? 🎹🎵🎶

Maybe they can have an iPad too

[casualavocados]

You've never done that when I got close to you before. Why? None of your business. Tell me, or you can't leave.

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 10

[globaljusticefanfic]

Okay hot take I guess, but I don't think the last stand invalidated any of the hard work The Bad Kids put into school work junior year.

Brennan said the reason they had those two "free passes" on exam questions was because Gorgug earned it through his studying. Mechanically yes, they work as free passes, but storyline-wise Brennan said they represent "academic resources," which The Bad Kids wouldn't have access to unless they had studied so hard.

[shinelikethunder]

it's so cute that 6x05 had soulless Sam standing there salivating over Dean getting force-fed vampire blood in a barely-metaphorical back-alley rape scene, then went "it was a strategic-value boner. he was hard enough to pound nails for entirely calculating reasons. what reason could Sam possibly have for not being normal about Dean 'panic room detox' Winchester getting corrupted into monsterdom by some sexually predatory creep dripping blood into his mouth?"

("hahaha what subtextual implications about soullessness as a response to trauma and moral injury. a wizard did it and now Sam can't feel feelings, and if we filmed it like he was standing there jerking it then no we didn't." oh season 6, your sickodom is iconic and your deniability is barely even plausible anymore and i love that for you. keep doing hot girl shit forever.)

[chthonic-cassandra]

Thinking about the thing that kept happening to me back around my early twenties when I would try to tell people factual details about my experience of traumatic bonding/conditioning/being shaped by [x] and they assumed I was exaggerating self-deprecatingly and went out of their way to reassure me that I was more than my abuse or whatever.

[submasbrainrot]

Oof. Everything's spinning.

After that last battle, Emmet is going to verrrry seriously consider banning the move Poison Gas. The ventilation in here can only do so much.

...Why not use Toxic instead, anyway?

Kudaugust Day 8: Poisonous

[theladyofshalott1989]

[cerusee]

You know what’s great. What’s really great. Characters lying by saying true stuff but in a misleading way. It’s sooooooo fun. Anyway idk if this will make it through the notes process intact but I scribbled this down to illustrate an angle for an as yet unwritten scene.

There was a sound, distant, but unmistakable, of swords on swords, in some room or hallway not too far from theirs. Lan Wangji glanced between Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao sharply, and then moved to position himself by the door, Bichen drawn from its sheath and at the ready. The trust in the gesture did something funny to Jiang Cheng’s heart, even as he faced this absolute fucking viper of a man.

But Jiang Cheng could lie, too. “Jin-zongzhu,” Jiang Cheng said. “We both know I’ve been in similar straits, when my own sect was unstable. You’re A-Ling’s uncle, and it’s been your job, too, all these years, to be my sister’s protector in Carp Tower, ever since your brother was killed. Shouldn’t that make you my family? Whatever is happening here today, you can trust me to look out for my family.”

[sanctus-ingenium]

How does blood magic work exactly? Is it only for healing or are their other ways it can be used? If so, how? And has it changed at all from how it was used/preformed back in Renzo’s time?

"blood magic" means something different in Inver than it does to the church of Suzette. In Inver it's just another type of witchcraft - one with a bit of stigma attached, sure, but it's more or less like any other magical practice. Bearing in mind that each witch has an entirely unique way to do magic borne of a unique relationship with their patron or educator. So blood magic has no strict boundaries or rules as a class of magic, it's just magic that uses blood to achieve an end. For Islin that end appears to be healing(?)

To the church of Suzette, blood magic is any form of heretical practice which requires a human sacrifice. Islin's... abilities... do require that sacrifice. Importantly here, whether or not the practitioner is only sacrificing their OWN blood/other body part etc is not relevant, though there's an undoubtedly greater punishment if you do sacrifice others. Even limited to your own blood you are still "desecrating a human body (your own) by supernatural means".

The reason they come down HARD on blood magic - more than people native to Inver do - is because otherworld magic is somewhat limited to the region around the Road. Renzo, who founded the church, comes from the italian peninsula, far from the Ruad. The wars waged during the foundation of his state as well as the surrounding states were violent and bloody, and the magic used - their esoterica - was not in any way related to the faeries of Inver. It was magic of a different source, used in such a way that it left permanent marks on the region's cultural perception of death and blood magic. It is deeply unacceptable there. In Renzo's time, any corpse could be conscripted, and bands of soldiers would slaughter whole villages just to conscript their unwilling bodies into the war.

The termination of that war resulted in a unilateral blanket ban on the practice.

[fromtheseventhhell]

A lord would have gold for a certainty, they all did; perhaps he would pay some of Lord Tywin's own sellswords to take her to Riverrun. Father had always said that most sellswords would betray anyone for enough gold. (Arya VII, ACOK)

One thing about Arya, her chapters are going to be casually littered with little lessons and tidbits of information that have proven relevant to characters with leadership positions

[goldensunset]

I <3 COMPETITIVE POKEMON!!! YAY VGC!!

stealing this image from my good friend @moonlit-ripples