#make it metaphor

[dags-over-caravans]

A Word with Friends

Avarice - excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness, cupidity

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Thank you @woundedsoul12 and @chaosherald for the tag ins 💕 and if I find the original post that got me thinking about how Rook can’t identify the scent in the Crossroads, I will tag them in, too.

Inspired by the Scent of Home banter in game, this is a Rook who grew up with Lucanis in Treviso and has been pining since day one. She’s certain that her feelings are unrequited - these two have spent the last 15 years estranged - and so what she smells at Elvhenan’s Haven in the Crossroads doesn’t give her the same warm and fuzzies as the rest of the squad.

The scene (and the sentiment) fits within my Purple Haze (Rookanis) slow burn, immediately after You tell yourself it’s raining … 😉

Cupidity

The rest are in full agreement: the bewitching aroma of Elvhenan’s Haven evokes for each of them the feeling of home — but Rook (privately) disagrees.

To Rook, the effusive, heady scent that bulldozes her is instead the scent of her own avarice.

Because Emmrich and Davrin and Lucanis all smell the incense of their youths — the camphor and the campfire and the coffee (respectively) of their best-loved places. And Harding smells her mother’s love, and Neve the city she mothers, washed clean.

But Rook?

Rook smells the dust of the long-forgotten attic; she smells old books and polished marble and crisp, moon-heavy Trevisan midnights. She smells cioccolata and coffee, vetiver and cedar, leather and steel and the ozone tang of the lightning strike.

And these are not the smells of Villa de Riva.

No. These are all Lucanis.

And so, she pretends to the others that she can’t-quite-place the scent that has her yearning, that wields her shame; she worries her flush deepens every time she smells it.

Because what is greed? — what is cupidity? — if not the selfish act of making a home where one is unwanted, where one doesn’t belong.

[tawnysoup]

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[spurgie-cousin]

This is such a good, succinct way of describing the illusion of choice many fundamentalist women and men have when it comes to life paths.

[toodrunktofindaurl]

"Death's child"

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[amid-fandoms]

no youtubers have ever aged this well ever

[tomboxed]

knight to k6

[ahhlehlehlehleh]

"You're as beautiful as the day I lost you."

personal headcanon: Orion fell in love with D-16 and had planned on confessing to him but lost the opportunity do so through the events of the movie BUT even as Optimus and Megatron he still held feelings for him.

[chalkrub]

dinosaur in a lab coat - would you trust her with operating the centrifuge

[crabhousecrafting]

absolutely hate being into mcyt why am i scrolling on my phone smiling at pictures of a bald middle aged man with a tortilla on his head like a swooning teenage girl

[egophiliac]

About ob mal's alt, I feel like we'll get the prince outfit with the broken horn. Every ob guy got a new look during book 7 so even tho their dressup would be different (except Azul he just takes off some accessories lol) I think it'd kinda fit? What do you think

I want it to be this, just because I want Malleus' little Meleanor-cosplay to be attainable in some way. 🙏 I need to see everybody in Briar Valley royal outfits immediately. hometown event WHEN

(and of course, this is all besides how much I need the world's littlest punk rocker on my home screen)

[chloesimaginationthings]

Vanny’s story in FNAF help wanted summed up

[neitherofusideal]

[ginsays]

LEON STROHL DA HALIAETUS!!! The last of his name, the last of his bloodline, and in the name of his people, he'll strike you down where you stand!!!

[mehrfh]

An Unwavering Feeling of Uncertainty

There is something cute yet sad about the way Mao² doesn't avert her gaze from Jinshi even after getting interrupted in this scene. She has suffered and the previous scene with Shisui broke her, so to have someone so familiar, so comforting, someone you did not even think would be there must be heavy. My poor girl suffered a lot which is evident by this slight disbelief in her unwavering gaze. Honestly, Shisui gently closing the door on MaoMao in her exit and Jinshi breaking down the same door to re-enter her life is poetry for those who seek.

This subtlety is what LN readers are looking for, especially given the way they both suffered.

Shi clan arc was the threshold for both of them to unravel, go past the hesitancy and insecurity of what they believe about themselves. Afterwards what we see is the growth of their characters.

[10001gecs]

one 100 word email written with ai costs roughly one bottle of water to produce. the discussion of whether or not using ai for work is lazy becomes a non issue when you understand there is no ethical way to use it regardless of your intentions or your personal capabilities for the task at hand

with all due respect, this isnt true. *training* generative ai takes a ton of power, but actually using it takes about as much energy as a google search (with image generation being slightly more expensive). we can talk about resource costs when averaged over the amount of work that any model does, but its unhelpful to put a smokescreen over that fact. when you approach it like an issue of scale (i.e. "training ai is bad for the environment, we should think better about where we deploy it/boycott it/otherwise organize abt this) it has power as a movement. but otherwise it becomes a personal choice, moralizing "you personally are harming the environment by using chatgpt" which is not really effective messaging. and that in turn drives the sort of "you are stupid/evil for using ai" rhetoric that i hate. my point is not whether or not using ai is immoral (i mean, i dont think it is, but beyond that). its that the most common arguments against it from ostensible progressives end up just being reactionary

i like this quote a little more- its perfectly fine to have reservations about the current state of gen ai, but its not just going to go away.

[myapothecarydiary]

Maomao–finally accepts/puts together Jinshi's true identity then proceeds to (continue to) wear his hair stick for the rest of the episode