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Yanno what, I like high fantasy just fine, but the older I get and the more I read, the more I'm starting to think I like high fantasy better when it's in-universe fantasy fiction for a different story instead of like. Me, directly reading/watching/etc it.
#i like LOTR as a series and I like the peter jackson movies#but i almost like it better through the lens of a fictional character who loves it#(also real-life friends who love it but that's not what this post is about.)#i get sooooo bored so easily of constructed-world/secondary-world stories that don't have any connection back to my own#give me a doorstopper about an entirely alien species on another planet thick with worldbuilding and I will politely decline#BUT. give me a modern-no-magic-setting fictional nerd obsessed with that doorstopper? it's go time babey#fucking loved the shannara series as a youf because it was all the tolkeinesque high fantasy constructed world stuff#BUT it was set in a POST-APOCALYPTIC FUTURE of OUR WORLD#only it had been so long that almost nobody remembered!#so you'd have characters fighting these giant monsters in these abandoned wastelands of unnaturally even rock#(parking garages)#over magical artifacts whose power would kill anyone who wasn't Chosen#(radioactive material that certain families had been mutated by and developed a resistance to over generations)#fucking love that shit. that's so much fun.#but give me the same series and take out the post-apocalyptic future part and I'd never make it through two books
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RVB RPG Ideas
Random RvB RPG stuff I thought of several years ago.
Classes and Roles:
Grif - Warrior, uses hand to hand and axes. His strength is pretty high and can tank some heavy hits while dealing as much damage back.
Simmons - Mage, can use all sorts of magic. Physically nothing special but his magic is something to be feared. Rambles about said magic all the time because he's a nerd.
Donut - Spoony Bard because he is the spooniest of bards, can revive and buff his allies while debuffing enemies. Most of his âworksâ are innuendos.Â
Lopez - Blacksmith/Enchanted suit of armor built by Sarge. Accidentally given a rune that makes him talk in some ancient language. (Spanish)
Sarge - Soldier, can use a variety of weapons including swords, axes and crossbows. Somehow also learned to make a magic shotgun. Somehow.
Tucker - Knight, uses swords. Flirts with the ladies with super corny chivalry lines. Found a mysterious egg down the line that he got by killing some freaky beast. Egg hatches into Junior, who imprints on him.
Church - Mage, uses magic and can summon as well. Blessed/cursed to auto-revive every time he dies.Â
Caboose - Healer but he has the strength of a barbarian. Often healing his teammates from injuries he caused them. Has team killed Church the most.Â
Tex - Mercenary, can use axes and swords. Essentially âperfectâ in all fields of combat aside from magic.Â
Carolina - Battle Monk, martial arts and magic. Church gave her a magically created avatar of himself to aid her when sheâs away from the group.Â
Washington - Rogue, uses knives and relies mostly on stealth and speed. Knows how to kill a man barehanded alone in seven different ways.Â
Locus - Also a rogue, though he prefers to use crossbows and regular bows to snipe his enemies. Knows how to apply various poisons to his arrows.
Felix - (Somehow) A paladin, though definitely uses the magic for evil, though he uses his paladin status to gain trust of others.
First concept: Video Game Simulation Gone Wrong.
One idea is that the Reds and Blues are just super bored one day and then somehow meet this video game producer who offers to let them all play test his newest game, which basically goes the Sword Art Online route where they basically enter inside the game. Having nothing better to do, and Grif realizing that playing a video for a 'job' was basically the best thing ever, they agree to do so.
They enter the game but they're all separated and we mostly focus on just Grif or Tucker at the beginning of the game since theyâre programmed to be the protagonists, and their quest to find their missing friends. The game they're in is a literal RPG, fantasy elements included aside from a few exceptions. Everything's pretty cool so far, going along just like a regular RPG, they meet up with each other, slay a dark lord, etc. However things begin to act up, the world glitches a little, and the creator tells them that the game was suddenly hacked by a virus, and not only can they no longer quit the game, the virus is going around infecting/corrupting the 'living players' for some reason or another (basically it's a way to make the others fight each other for cool ass rpg boss fights)Â
It's all resolved in the end but I just think about it a lot and there's a lot of funny shenanigans involved like the reds and blues snarking about 4th wall jokes, Sarge somehow bringing his shotgun along even tho it's a literal FANTASY game, Caboose finding more ways to glitch the game (for better or worse) Tucker trying to get the creator to install some sort of harem system for the NPCS, Grif trying to bail out on adventuring even though he's the labeled 'hero/protag' for the game, etc.
Shenanigans that can happen:
-NUMEROUS 4th wall breaking jokes.
-Grif being the laziest protagonist and having to be dragged to fulfill quests and missions.
-Tucker being the other protagonist but heâs too busy trying to flirt with every female NPC in sight. Also pesters the creator to add in dating sim elements.
-Church still getting killed a lot in game. Has to be revived every other campaign.
-Sarge somehow goes against the law of video games and having his shotgun even in the fantasy world.
-Caboose bugging the shit out of the game, both hindering and helping his friends while doing so. So far heâs no clipped into the floor a total of 100 times.Â
-Donut abusing his bard status by singing dirty songs or songs from musicals to rejuvenate his allies.
-Carolina initially being a princess who has to be ârescuedâ but bails herself out because fuck the damsel in distress shit.
-Simmonsâ knowledge of DnD often saves the group, much to everyoneâs chagrin.Â
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Second concept: Actual RPG/Fantasy AU
The second idea is more of a traditional RPG idea where it's more or less a fantasy AU just with the Reds and Blues and Freelancers. Still a major WIP.Â
-The Director was a kind hearted king who ruled over his country with a firm but caring fist. However his wife Allison was one day assassinated while visiting another country, causing the Director great grief. However, as heartbroken and angry as he was, he couldn't bring himself to declare war on the other country, despite wanting to. As a result, he performs this ritual which separates his humanity, emotions, and even memories from his logical mind, which in turn creates Alpha Church, who is cast off far from the kingdom. The Director then declares war with multiple countries, all while having his holy knights (freelancers) on his side.
-Church is found by Caboose and Tucker, and has no memory of who he is/was and is taken in by the two because Caboose was ecstatic at the idea of having a new friend. Having nothing better to do, Church decides to begrudgingly become a knight himself, mainly because Caboose begged him.
-Later on during the plot he begins to regain his memories, basically making him into Epsilon Church, and that's when he decides to find the Director and put an end to his war stemmed from grief.
-Meanwhile, with the Reds, Sarge is the captain of his own mini squadron of knights, all of which who are so unskilled, and flat out hopeless in being actual knights, are sent out of the kingdom for some âsecret missionâ issued by the king himself (not Church/Director)
-The Blues are more or less in the same boat as above, being such failures as knights theyâre sent away to basically never come back fdsjhgfsgdh.
-A potential plot twist is that Allison was not killed during the assassination attempt, but too lost her memory and was found by somebody and rescued. She becomes a mercenary to make money and try to figure out her past, and is later on ironically recruited to become a member of the holy knights working under the Director. Even when meeting him, she doesn't recall who he is due to his complete 180 in personality, and since he cast away his 'human self' he doesn't remember her either, only the grief and pain of having lost her.
-Carolina is the princess of the kingdom, and originally not allowed to fight under her father, but after his emotions are casted off, and she persists in the matter, he makes her the captain of the holy guard.
-Washington is the latest holy guard recruit, and while he used to dream of being a knight, working under the Directorâs murderous hand makes him feel conflicted about whether or not heâs doing the right thing. Eventually betrays the knights and is exiled.
-Felix and Locus are mercenaries doing their own thing, but often pretend to be assisting various countries but in reality are sparking conflicts to make more gold.Â
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Shitty intro bc I'm bored



About me: Bisexual, 19 yo, pisces, bilingual (Spanish-English), futch, switch, silly, horny, certified freak, Shauna Shipman defender, nerd.
Likes: Retro games, sexting, pokemon, Yellowjackets, roleplay, gym stuff.






Music: (Pop) Justin Bieber, Madonna, Ricky Martin, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor swift (Country) Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, (Rap/Reggaeton) Cartel de Santa, Dharius, Eminem, Calle 13, (mixed) Cuarteto de Nos, Ezra Furman, wallows.
Favorite games: Mother 3, Earthbound 2, Life is strange, Chrono Trigger, Pokemon Heartgold, Anno 1701, fantasy life, the legend of Zelda minish cap, TWD, Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations.
Facts about me: I'm quite obsessive, picky eater, my skin is very sensitive so I only use products with mild smells, dog person, Shauna Shipman is my biggest crush.
I'm always open to making new friends, sexting, roleplaying, or just talking about fandom stuff, If you text me and I'm bored I'll probably do anything idc
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the yellowjacketsâ favorite books hcs bc i saw one of these and disagreed with all of them đ
jackie: okay iâm so sorry but this girl only reads trashy romance novels she found on booktok. it drives shauna BONKERS because sheâs incapable of getting jackie to read anything she likes.
natalie: i donât think sheâs a reader but if she was she would be a comic girlie. dc > marvel and she gets into fights with van over it regularly.
laura lee: she genuinely really likes theology books and she FOR SURE grew up on american girl and still loves them. she will pick up anything if she hears itâs gay or christian but she has really high standards and sheâll dnf any book that doesnât meet them.
lottie: sheâs an astrology girlie for SURE so i think she reads a lot of books on that to compile as much knowledge as she can (so she can psychoanalyze her friends). i also feel like she was a greek mythology kid so i think sheâs read a lot of the original myths and likes a few select retellings (but theyâre not the popular ones. she, like laura lee, has really high standards).
van: okay SHE is like definitely a comic girlie for sure. marvel > dc. sheâs also just into those classic middle grade books every queer person read as a kid like harry potter and percy jackson and still has a lot of nostalgia for them. oh she was also a warrior cats kid for SURE. lmao.
misty: WARRIOR CATS KID AND IT SCREWED HER UP FOR LIFE. big into harry potter & lord of the rings and also just random niche fantasy series. reads a LOT and sheâs active in a lot of fandom circles and she tries to get everyone she talks to into the books she reads.
taissa: def a nonfiction girlie. books on law, books on feminism, books on queer history⊠van thinks everything she reads is boring as fuck and she thinks everything van reads is stupid. true love đ«¶
travis: ough okay i think travis is ALSO a comic girlie. but i think sheâs more niche with it. i think she likes likeâŠ.. umbrella academy type shit idk. and i think as a kid she was into stuff that was âfor girlsâ until her dad bullied it out of her and now she gets really upset when she sees those series / hears someone talk about how they read them.
shauna: CLASSICS. brontĂ« sisters, jane austen, edgar allan poe, emily dickinsonâŠâŠ yeah. sheâs SO pretentious about it too she has two copies of each book so she can have a pretty one on her shelf and then a torn up copy that she can write notes in and sheâs always carrying books around and reading them in public to show people sheâs smartâŠâŠ. yeahhhh.
mari: mari doesnât read thatâs for fucking nerds. (she was a warrior cats kid and sheâs obsessed with harry potter, percy jackson, and the lord of the rings. tell anyone and sheâll hurt you badly.)
akilah: rainbow fairies kid!!!!!! doesnât read as much as she used to; if she does pick up a book itâs gotta be something that really speaks to and connects with her.
#yellowjackets#yellowjackets headcanons#jackie taylor#natalie scatorccio#laura lee yellowjackets#lottie matthews#van palmer#misty quigley#taissa turner#travis martinez#shauna shipman#mari yellowjackets#akilah yellowjackets
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đ„Reincarnation Stories
Male targeted reincarnation (transmigration in general) stories have no interest in playing with the narrative and I don't get why. The fun thing about girlsekai is that it relies on the fundamentals, the staples you already know, and builds on that. It's not just mindless, shallow subversions, you know, "oh what if I was in this story but instead of being evil, I was cute and nice." Those stories exist of course, but they're not why this subgenre is so prolific. The fun is in taking the core narrative - a normal person reincarnating into the body of someone in a quasi European historicalish fantasy media that may have originally ended in their death - and digging into a small, well-known element you might take for granted.
You reincarnate the body of a villainess guillotined at the end of the story, so you decide to be really nice to everyone instead until everyone falls in love with you and you live happily ever after.
You reincarnate into the body of a villainess guillotined at the end of the story, so you decide to be really nice to everyone instead. Except no matter what you do, everyone interprets your actions as malicious. The clock is ticking.
You reincarnate into the body of a villainess guillotined at the end of the story. Everybody hates you. Might as well make a show of it and have some fun, don't you think?
You reincarnate into the body of a villainess slaughtered in the story, so you think about being really nice instead. Unfortunately you don't live in a world of kindness - if you survive long enough to reach the original story point, your brain will have every ounce of normality wrung out.
You were already a villainess, and your life reset to a point before you were guillotined. The only thing on your mind is vengeance on everyone who pushed you down this path.
You weren't really a villainess, but you thought you must be, what with you dying and resetting over and over again. The problem has to be you. You just need to find your flaws and fix them and then you will finally become lovable. Surely.
You reincarnate into the body of a villainess, but as long as you keep your head down, no one will notice. But the narrative does. And the narrative has a way of making the story happen against your wishes.
You reincarnate into the body of a villainess, so you try to keep your head down and hope nobody notices you are not that person. But they do. Nobody says anything - how could they - but what parent wouldn't recognize that the thing wearing their daughter's skin is not their child? The gestures, the vocal inflections, the little facial quirks your child didn't know they made - all of it gone overnight, replaced by a shallow imitation of her. You both know you are not her. You both stay silent.
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In contrast, boysekai has almost no interest in doing stuff like this and that's why it's boring. It just wants to tell you the same story of a nerd or secret badass speedrunning riches and babes. Or cooking. What a terrible niche.
#otome isekai#the scorpion and the frog#one day i will write the princess version of the scorpion and the frog. one day.
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Gamer Ranking
(Modern au / any au where theyâre given access to video game consoles really)
Abella: A hardcore nostalgia gamer. Only plays on PC (built it herself). Bethesda hater and still wonât let it go. Has a picture of Todd Howard in her desk drawer with his eyes cut out. Her favorite series is fallout and has a solid year worth of time spent on New Vegas alone. Well known in the TF2 community. Used to have a competitive record in Tetris, but lost her touch from spending too much time at work. Favorite games are factorio, subnautica and terraria.
August: Calls every console a âNintendoâ. Calls on Abella for help with his computer frequently. Itâs still on windows 7. Favorite game is solitaire.
Daan: Wouldnât call himself a âgamerâ, but has a steam account which he opens once in a while. Prefers narrative based horror games or puzzle games. Never spends more than 7 dollars on a game. Favorite games are bioshock, disco elysium, signalis and pathologic.
Henryk: Likes to dip his toes into a little bit of everything, but never able to get into the gamer scene. Owns a perfectly good PS4 that sits neglected and unused. Likes to talk about the nostalgia of his favorite games when he was younger and how modern games arenât as fun. He also just has no taste. Favorite games are detroit: become human, fallout 4, borderlands, until dawn, bully and minecraft (the type of guy who always wants to make a big group world, and then when itâs made he never uses it). Abella trashes his collection.
Karin: Runs every game on her shitty company work laptop. Likes roguelikes, or any game that has a satisfying âtactileâ feeling game loop. A big resident evil fan, but they make her computer âmake weird noisesâ. Favorite games are: Ultrakill, pizza tower, project zomboid, and multiplayer games like phasmophobia and lethal company. Currently has an obsession with Balatro that has gotten her in trouble with her boss. Has been known to play Fortnite regularly. Note: sheâs BAD.
Levi: Definitely prefers 3D horror games. Nothing actually scares him though. Favorite games are amnesia: the bunker, alien isolation and the forest. Fromsoft fan, favorite game was bloodborne. He owns a decent gaming laptop and a PS2 where he plays tony hawk pro skater. Also likes half life, silent hill and the shin megami tensei series.
Marcoh: He owns a crunchy ass Nintendo DSi where he plays some pokemon like, once in a blue moon. He already finished the game 7 years ago but will never delete the file. If you look into it youâll see that his starter is like level 100 and everything else is level 8. Never learned how to play, probably never will. Not a gamer.
Marina: Marina is a visual novel supremacist who downloaded the entire Fate series off a shady backdoor website that probably did something horrible to her computer. She loves horror, but is also not opposed to lighter fantasy stuff. Doesnât like games that have no story. Favorites are the WTC series (Umineko supremacist), tsukihime, melty blood and rance. General classic nerd stuff.
Olivia: She runs a custom steam deck with a really cute pastel purple layout. Sheâs pirated the sims with every single dlc + a disgusting amount of mods (including That mod đ) and it took up so much space she had to put in a 2 TB sd card to hold it. She likes all kinds of games, but has a preference for games with heavy writing/plot. Favorite games are SOMA, Mouthwashing, Stay out of the house (Really any games by kittyhorrorshow, puppet combo or yames) and Whoâs Lila. Similar taste to Daan, but likes her games more gory.
Osaa: Probably the worst gamer of all time. Even mobile games are confusing to him. Always complains that the screen is too bright, even at the darkest setting. All games bore him. Horror games are juvenile. Story games are predictable. Action games are a waste of time. Donât bother.
âŠFavorite game: Papaâs Burgeria or Bloons Tower Defense.
Pav: Favorite game series is metal gear solid. Owns a PS3. Another ânostalgia gamerâ who wonât touch modern games. Likes the typical PlayStation stuff like GTA, Assassinâs Creed, and New Vegas. Yes, heâs the type of person to play COD. Doesnât have time to play games much anymore due to work (thank god).
Samarie: The same kind of visual novels as Marina, but worse. Big into denpa horror. Yes, she plays eroge. Has no one to talk about her niche vns with. Favorite games are cross channel, saya no uta (of course), chaos head and gore screaming show. She also read homestuck (which is technically classified as a denpa on the visual novel database, soâŠ.)
Tanaka: The number 1 mobile gamer in the world. Clicks on every single weird ad he gets with no hesitation. Like a cocomelon baby. Top of the worldwide charts in candy crush for 3 weeks straight. Plays these apps in public with the sound on. No shame.
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I Bite, Pretty Boy
Chapter 1: Nerdy Obsessions
Word Count: 2.4k
A/N: Hope you guys like it, personally I am super excited for this story.
Han Jisung isnât just your typical everyday nerd. Sure, he gets top marks in all of his classes. And really heâs ahead in all of them; above all of the other students academically. He has never felt the loving touch of a woman that wasnât his mother, never known how it feels to have a girl even LOOK in his direction for more than a few seconds without it being a rather judgmental acknowledgment. Because well, Jisung isnât JUST a nerd. Heâs a weird and obsessive nerd.
You see, Jisung doesnât even particularly care about his studies. Itâs not as if doing statistics or biology are fun for him in any meaningful sense. He does it because he has to and itâs pretty easy anyway. He is a genius after all. However itâs not simply a matter of intellect that makes Jisung a nerdy recluse, no. Itâs the fact that he is unreasonably, unapologetically, and honestly rather concerningly obsessed with the supernatural. Itâs to an alarming degree really, how much it occupies his mind.
Han Jisung really only has 3 hobbies; Hacking, Delving into supernatural lore and stories, and making up little scenarios in his head of the supernatural concepts he so loves. If you think about it, Jisung is just a typical everyday student. Except for the fact that the idea of living in a world where werewolves, fairies, and witches reside appeals to him in a way it does no other. He longs to be a part of a fantasy world that everyone knows does not exist. That is what fantasy is after all, made up imaginary stories. âNothing more than delusionsâ; his bullies, friends, and even his own mother would say.
He just canât accept this reality, however. Perhaps it is too boring and dull for dear Jisung; who craves a life with more flare, more meaning than your typical human life. Or perhaps he wants to play the hero; save a pretty damsel and be loved by all or die in a selfless act of righteous glory. No matter the reasoning, Jisung craves that level of dreamy fantasy that you only read about in novels. To the extent that he canât much be bothered with most other things. No interest in forming new relationships; platonic, sexual, or romantic.
Even if there were a girl on campus that took an interest in the weird boy with little potion and wand pendants hanging down from his beige bag with a large dragon printed in the center and pretty little fairies surrounding it, he wouldnât even notice nor care because heâs too busy daydreaming about his little fantasy lands.
Contrary to popular belief, the strange boy does actually have friends. His roommate Seungmin was the one to introduce them to him. Seungmin is a bit of a nerd himself, but even more than that heâs a bit of a drifter. Heâs a pitcher on the baseball team, one of the best students at the school, heâs a photographer for the yearbook club and he works at the school library.
Working at the library is where Seungmin met Han, he eventually striked up a conversation after seeing him obsessively check out the maximum number of books (all of varying fantasy concepts) every single week. His interest was immediately piqued, especially because although itâs not his life passion, Seungmin also likes fantasy stuff. Although Unlike Han he doesnât actually believe any of it, he just thinks itâs fun.
With Seungmin becoming his friend it was only a matter of time before his two best friends also became Jisungâs. Jisungâs not even really sure where Seungmin met the other two, but in their second year of college Seungmin had offered to become roommates with Han. A nice roomy little house theyâd split the rent for. Apparently the librarian hated living in the dorms just as much as he did and well⊠Jisung wasnât going to refuse such a wonderful opportunity. It didnât take long after moving in together for Seungminâs friends to adopt the weird kid into their friend group. It would have been hard not to with how much time they spent taking over their space. And like in any friend group they each have their own roles and personalities within the group.
Changbin is the responsible one, he wants Jisung to stop with his obsession because he thinks it to be pointless and unhealthy. He doesnât understand why he likes those kinds of things in the first place but there is no malice behind it. He just doesnât see it the way Han or Seungmin do. He thinks Han is wasting his intelligence and potential and that he should put that energy into something like producing like him.
Seungmin is the smart sarcastic one who makes fun of Han most but also worries over him most. He also happens to be the one who indulges Hanâs passion most frequently, since he actually finds his hobby fascinating. He still thinks Jisung takes it a little too far but he doesnât think his hobby is dumb. He often gets in fights with Changbin about it because he believes his hobby is fine and that they should let him be passionate about it, he thinks Jisung should avoid taking it to any dangerous lengths like hacking but he strongly disagrees with Changbinâs desires to have Han completely give up on the âridiculousâ interest and thinks he should continue to read his books and do his research and stuff. He loves listening to him rant for hours and hours about it too but heâll probably never admit that out loud.
And then we have Hyunjin. The goofy scaredy cat friend, he finds Jisungâs hobby terrifying and it usually gives him the chills. He has a hard time listening to him talk about it because of that but generally is indifferent on whether or not he keeps the hobby. Heâs kind of in the middle of Changbin and Seungmin. He doesnât particularly care either way as long as he stays uninvolved but does wish he would be more careful and take care of himself.
With meeting them Jisung went from being a complete nobody with no one to rely on to having three whole best friends that he feels like heâs known his whole life. While they are quick to make fun of him for his interests and bizarre behavior, the second anyone else does they become his biggest defenders. After all, no one else is allowed to make fun of their nerd. Of course people think itâs bizarre; a friend group of three relatively popular guys and one mega geek. None of them seem to care much; hanging out during lunch, walking together to and from classes, and even having fun sleepovers at the Seungsung house.
The house is a comfortable home, filled with plants and cute little framed photos of the besties neatly placed through the main room of the house. However when you get to Hanâs areas itâs like a whole new world. Dark rooms with fantasy paintings and cool trinkets he has impulsively boughten because he absolutely HAD to have them. He has a cool office room with action figures and posters lining the walls. Thereâs bookshelfs with enough fantasy books to nearly put the library Seungmin works at to shame. On his desk sits a high tech computer he uses for his research and hacking. Oh and well, his programming job, of course.
He also has an extensive amount of folders and documents, both on his PC and in paper form neatly organized in a locked filing cabinet. They contain files and articles of all of the evidence and proof he has ever found to suggest supernatural beings and phenomena exist. Including confidential government records and documents heâs hacked into that could get him in some serious trouble if anyone ever found out about them.
His friends donât know about these files of course. If they did theyâd probably have him enrolled in the nearest psych ward. Theyâve joked about it before, saying he is much too similar to a mad scientist obsessed with research to the point of it being a large safety concern. Despite knowing they were only kidding, merely poking fun at his baffling behavior, he would rather not risk it. Not like they would understand anyway.
He canât really blame them for not understanding either. First of all, it is pretty crazy to want to live in a world with creatures and scenarios that a normal person would find terrifying, not to mention actually believing in such a far-fetched concept. Secondly, itâs not like he understands their hype of sports, photography, or fashion either. A bunch of sweaty guys running around and wrestling over balls? Standing there trying to find some perfect angle of some very basic uninteresting everyday object? Trying on a bunch of bizarrely styled clothes because itâs âso in right nowâ? Yeah, No thanks. Jisung usually zones out and goes into his (much more entertaining if you ask him) daydreams when they start talking about that kinda thing or somehow force him to attend one of their silly little events.
Which is exactly what is occurring right now. Walking a step behind his friends as they discuss a big baseball game coming up this week, perhaps a tournament of some kind. Jisung wouldnât know, heâd tuned them out a good ten minutes ago now. Mindlessly fidgeting with the little pendants on his bag as the group of four made their way to the library to have a bit of a study sesh.
âHey, JisungâŠâ
At the beginning of the term they had decided they would have little study dates at least twice a week. Hyunjin had had a tough semester at the end of the year, facing mental challenges and a rather difficult breakup of a two year relationship that had left him spiraling. This severely impacted his motivation and made it hard for him to stay on top of his coursework, thus his grades suffered severely. After failing two classes and barely passing the other two, his academic advisor had contacted him and warned him that if he did not do better this year and improve his grade point average he may be at risk of losing his art scholarship and perhaps even be remover from the art club or even his program all together.
He had come to his friends sobbing, completely heartbroken and disappointed with himself. He felt stupid and worthless and was fully convinced he was doomed, destined to fail and never amount to anything past being nice to look at. However Seungmin was having none of it, he insisted that it was only a bad semester. Hyunjin is not stupid, heâs not exactly Seungmin or Jisung level smart but heâs got the work ethic and creativity to make up for it and just because he struggled one semester due to some personal circumstances doesnât mean heâs a complete failure and he canât fix it. Therefore, Seungmin suggested that they all meet up two days of the week to just study. That way they can help each other out when someone is stuck on something and they can hold each other accountable for getting their work done.
And it was an excellent plan, really. Three months in and Hyunjin was already seeing significant progress in getting better grades and understanding the material. That paired with the extra time with his friends seems to have greatly improved the art majorâs mental health too.
â..Are you even listening to me?â
Quite frankly, Jisung canât really complain about it either. As much as heâd probably rather be buried in some fantasy books, he still enjoys spending time with his friends and itâs a good opportunity to get all his homework out of the way so he has more time for more important things like pretty mermaids.
âHan Jisung!â With a loud yell into his ear and a hefty smack upon the top of his head Jisung is broken out of his thoughts and he turns his head to the right to be met with aggravation filled dark brown eyes already trained on him.
âOw! What the fuck?! What?â He stares at his tallest friend with a look of absolute offense and bewilderment.
âWeâve been trying to get your attention for the last 5 minutes!â He huffs annoyed and ruffles his hair while he watches Hyunjin shake his head and push open the door to the library.
âWe should just leave him out next time.â His roommate chimes in unhelpfully, casting a mischievous smile Jisungâs way as he attempts to close the door in his face while he walks through. Jisung canât stop his eyes from rolling in response.
He pushes the door back open and sticks his tongue out at the younger male. âLeave me out of what, exactly?â He tosses his bag on the floor and plops down lazily in a chair at their usual spot. Hidden from most of the rest of the library in a little cubby they have rented out for every Monday and Friday for the entire semester, curtesy of Kim Seungmin and his librarian privileges. The library is homey, quiet and itâs filled with plants, dark blue chairs and couches that are actually surprisingly comfortable.
âOh we were just planning a hang out for this Saturday, your place obviously. Weâre gonna have snacks and drinks and play some games.â
Jisung snaps his head towards Changbin in excitement. âWait really?! Iâve been dying to do a smash bros tournament again!â
âThat game sucks..â Seungmin groans, slouching in his seat.
âYou only think that cause youâre shit at it.â Hyunjinâs giggle rings out through the small enclosed space as he jabs at the sulky younger male. âKing of spamming random buttons and hoping for the best.â
âOh shut up, you refuse to play as anyone but Peach Zelda or Kirby and throw a fit when anyone else plays as them. I donât even wanna hear it out of you.â Jisung stiffles a laugh at their bickering and watches in amusement as Hyunjin gasps dramatically and lifts a hand to his mouth in offense while Seungmin rolls his eyes and groans for the second time. âWhatever this is stupid, does that mean youâre in or what?â
âYou bet I am! Iâm gonna beat all you losers!â He puffs his chest out in pride, a giddy smile creeping onto his face.
Changbin laughs, looking over at his friends with an expression softened in fondness. âThose two arenât gonna be much of a challenge for you. But just know, Iâve been practicing.â
âOh yeah? You know I love a challenge!â The nerd returns his fond smile with one of his own as they finally take out their books and laptops to begin their day of studying.
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Rate the mane six, both pony and human form, like a top 12 :)
Wow what an awesome and unique question no one has asked anyone before, I bet whoever thought of it is very clever and really hot ;;3
Anyways to answer your question:
1. Rainbow Dash (Pony)
I feel like out of all of the mane 6 she would be the only one that would actually be rough with someone, as well as probably being very dominant and a narcissist, like she would so make me worship her horsegirlcock yknow, also she could probs thrust really fast, and I feel like bratting would be very effective on her since she has a massive sense of pride and challenging it would so result in her proving me wrong
2. Rainbow Dash (Human)
Same reasons as pony Rainbow Dash but not horse so she's lower
3. Rarity (Pony)
Being a bit of a neat freak and a hypochondriac as well as basically royalty, she would be so judgy and degrading the whole time, it would be amazing for a masochist like me, also with her being a tailor she could so make me wear some humili8ing slutty outfits, perhaps even a chastity cage if she finds me especially appalling, although I'mn't really sure how much like sex you could even accomplish, although the telekinesis (which I think is the like only kind of magic she has) offers some very interesting possibilities
4. Pinkie Pie (Pony)
She'd be fun and also into some like reeaaally weird stuff, as well as like very energetic and enthusiastic the whole time, like you could be lying down like a plank the whole time and I think she'd still go down on you like crazy, also with like the toon force 4th wall stuff she pulls I think it'd probs be the craziest sex ever, only reason she'sn't higher is cuz I think it'd be really risky, like yeah it could be the best sex you ever had but also god knows what incomprehensible kinks she has
5. Twilight Sparkle (Pony)
Right so she's a nerd which is definitely an upside but it pales in comparison to the major upside and the major downside she has; The magic she's able to cast is fucking insane and would be fucking amazing for sex, like actually fucking next level shit, all your weirdest kinks and fantasies realized, butttt; she's so fucking boring, she'dn't do anything except the most basic of sex I feel like, you'd suggest like "hey lets do some light BDSM" or like "could you spank me" and she'd be like "Oh my Celestia no, that sounds dangerous!! You could get hurt!" so like while you could do some crazy stuff it would all be in like a completely safe and friendly environment, still I'd say it'd be worth it, especially since solid chance something goes wrong and the situ8ion gets out of control which despite the whole consent and safeword tradeoff involved I consider to very much be an upside
6. Rarity (Human)
Like her pony counterpart but like a bit toned down in every aspect and with no magic, I'mn't sure but I think she's still a tailor, that and her personality is basically what puts her here
7. Pinkie Pie (Human)
Like the pony one but like a lot toned down, I dont think she gets her usual toon force 4th wall stuff, still seems like she'd be fun tho
8. Applejack (Pony)
She's hot, like she does farmwork all day; the sweat, the musk, the muscle, the sweat, did I mention the musk? Also I feel like I could get her to be rough with me, especially since she probably doesnt know her full strength, like it would definitely take a bit of convincing and like a few too many questions about my consent but like we'd get there
9. Applejack (Human)
Same reasons as for the pony one, although without the horsecock
10. Fluttershy (Pony)
While I do feel like she would be a monsterfucker and into some very kinky stuff, she would be a bottom and not even the fun kind where you can toy with them I think she might start crying if you did that, still a horsecock tho, and we'd probs find some common ground
11. Fluttershy (Human)
Like the pony one but without the upsides, like she would not be as kinky I feel, saved from last place cuz I do think she'd probs still be pretty chill to like snuggle with and stuff
12. Twilight Sparkle (Human)
She's like the pony one but with the major upside removed and the major downside made worse, what can I say, still cool that she's a nerd tho
And thats all of them I think! Hope that answers your incredibly clever question in enough detail! Looking at it now I really feel like I should've made the list go from 12 to 1 but oh boy not a chance Im retyping all a that! Thanks for the ask!!!
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can you tell i'm bored-

please answer those. i also drew a ghost for you. because i'm bored. i'm gonna answer my asks too lmao HAVE FUN!
Lmao ok but I actually love this. The you wrote it out AND the ghost! Tis the season!! đ»đ Now let's begin!
11: best friend?
My best friend is awesome! His name is Ben and we've been friends since we met at college for our first degrees (we'd both end up going back for nursing later. He ended up following me on that front). But we really started to get closer after we both graduated and especially after I moved back to New Orleans after moving home after graduation for a year and a half. He's just a really cool and chill guy who has always been there for me and been super supportive. We've both helped each other through some really rough times in our lives and really supported each other. He's pretty introverted, tho if you met him you might not realize that at first. It's a hilarious contrast to my extreme extroversion. I also owe meeting my wife to him. He pushed me to finally get on the dating apps and I met my wife on hinge. He also encouraged me when she and I started talking and dating seriously. He also knows how to deal with my anxiety very well and respectfully, tho my anxiety has gotten immensely better than it used to be. Still, worth mentioning. He's also said on multiple occasions how much he appreciates and like how I am just unapologetically me and an unapologetic nerd. To quote him, "genuine folks are hard to find." So that was also really cool to hear from him and just reaffirmed that being myself is the right move. When he lived in the city with me, we'd hang out at least once a week. But we text daily for the most part and still try to see each other as much as we can even tho he's 2.5hrs away now. He was my best man and gave an amazing and touching best man speech. Now, almost a year later, people still talk about it and quote him, "IDK how else to describe him other than he's aggressively friendly." it's accurate and everyone who has heard that agrees lol. Anyway, he's great and I'm blessed to have him in my life. Here's a pic of us at my bachelor trip and before my wedding. As you can see, and as I've mentioned before in various other posts, the dude is built like a Greek god lol


15: favorite movie
This is actually a hard one lol. I enjoy a lot of movies, but have a hard time narrowing down a fave. Hmm. Deadpool and Wolverine is certainly up there for very obvious reasons, but a movie that has always stuck with me since I was younger is The Prestige. It's a well done film whose twist really got me at the end. It's rare for me not to figure out a movie twist before the end and this one I did not see coming.
18: most traumatic experienceÂ
You're gonna get 2 for the price of 1 lol. 1 childhood trauma and 1 adulthood trauma. Both cover a span of time instead of one specific incident.
First is childhood. From pretty much 1st - 4th grade, I was bullied pretty often. I was a very big and fat kid who was also nice and didn't exactly fight back, so I suppose in retrospect that made me an easy target. But beyond that, I was often made the butts of my peers' jokes or would be asked to do something silly or embarrass or the like and they'd say stuff like "of course we're you're friend!" and "if you do it, we'll be your friend." so this went as well as you can expect. It got so bad and took so much of a toll on me that my mom literally pulled me out of school to homeschool me from 5th-8th grade. This would eventually become repressed as the mind often does only to rear its ugly head later in adulthood when my friends wanted to institute a "punishment" for whoever placed last in our fantasy football league. I had always opposed this idea, but they we were really pushing for it that year. Didn't help I was dead last, but I was having such a visceral reaction and didn't know why. But I was literally about to drop out of the league because of it. Then all of a sudden the memories came flooding back and I finally understood the why. I explained it to 3 of my friends in the league, including the guy in charge, and they abandoned the punishment idea. They said they hoped they knew that this was very different and that no ill will was meant. I did, but it didn't stop how I felt. So the punishment idea was dropped.
Now for adulthood. That would be working through COVID as a nurse. This was traumatizing in many ways, but in particular there were 3 key points. The first was watching patients deteriorate and die so rapidly. Like I would leave in the morning and come back to find out my patient coded and died 3 hours after I left. They were fine before then. We also called so many rapid and codes because people would deteriorate so much and so rapidly. Despite everything I knew and docs and nurses way more experienced than me knew, we couldn't save them all or stop the rapid spiral.
Secondly, every time a code blue or rapid response is called overhead, it's preceeded by a beep on the intercom. I would hear that so many times during that time that I found myself to physically flinch and tense and my heart would race whenever I'd hear it. Even a year later when it was just happening to make an announcement. Didn't realize it was legitimately a PTSD response until I was talking to an army buddy who was like "Yeah dude that's what happens to me when my PTSD gets triggered." I overcome that by becoming the code and rapid nurse for my icu when I moved. So I just threw myself headlong into it and overcame it by exposure and desensitization.
Lastly, there was the whiplash of being called a hero and having my knowledge and insight respected only to be called a liar months later. By my own family even. I still remember making a lengthy thoughtful post about the importance of making and explaining why surgical works for day to day vs the n95 masks needed in hospital and the same day my mom made a post about how covid is a lie and masking is just the government trying to control us. My family has on multiple occasions told me my experiences weren't real and I was exaggerating, especially because I'm liberal. After many fights, we all finally agreed to just never talk about it around each other. An uneasy peace, but better.
So there you have it. My two biggest traumatic experiences lol.
21: what I love most about myself
My kindness and willingness to help people
28: a description of the person I dislike the most
Hmm I don't really dislike people. But I suppose this one older lady at work. Kind of short, white, fading blonde hair that's always short. She's always unhappy lol. Mostly dislike her bc she gatekeeps certain patients and has full control over the schedule despite not being the manager.
42: last thing I ate
Greek yogurt and pumpkin seed granola
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Well! Second DMing session ended with the guy who made me do it, who was going to "help" me, hanging up on me mid-session and texting

So much for "I don't care if you don't know how to do it, I'll walk you through it," I guess.
I was very clear from the outset that I think most ttrpgs, and ALL DnD rules, are arbitrary math nonsense that you need a college course to understand, specifically created by terrible people to force everyone else to put up with their infantile, unintuitive view of the universe. I told him I hate this crap. He manipulated me into trying it anyway. Guess who hasn't changed his mind, and guess who is now throwing a temper-tantrum about it? I TOLD YOU this was a bad idea.
I read the book. The 8 books. It doesn't matter. They're math textbooks written by bad writers and my eyes kept glazing over. I don't understand why any of these rules exist. I'm just forced to memorize formulas. That I don't respect.
There is no space for reputation, or politics, or combat scenario realities, or random accidents and diseases, or genuine surprises, or living in an apathetic, living, breathing world that doesn't give a fuck about your Chosen One status. It is wizards casting fire balls, because the guy doing that hates his mom, and made up a rule set where he can play his weird stupid power fantasies. His weird, stupid, RACIST power fantasies, if this last group's predilections is any indication.
I don't have patience for this. It's arcane and unrealistic and sucks the joy out of everything and it ISN'T FUN.
If you love it, great. I'll get out of your way. But it runs counter to how my brain works and I fucking hate it. I love the idea of using dice to RP events and see what happens. But at some point of complexity you are just obeying someones precious little rule-book so obnoxious math nerds who memorized it can be smug about exploiting loopholes.
Go play a video game for that. That's not a healthy social interaction. That's yet another version of a group of fucked-up people being whiney and dogmatic about random shit they made up, specifically so they can be cool in a world they specifically designed for that purpose. And what the fuck is that? I hate them, and I hate that.
My old mantra was "nerds with math ruin everything." I was always half-joking, but only half. I have zero respect for everything this is, and what people are apparently looking for from it. It is frustrating and boring and limiting and stupid to me. I don't enjoy it. And I don't even want to ever play it again, because I dread being doomed to waste my brain power sorting out weird meta game math shit that doesn't seem to take into account any defensible simulation of actual reality.
I have spent 120+ hours over the last 5 months trying to get into this. Trying to get a handle on why people like it, to figure out the secret I am missing. I have spent stupid amounts of money on stuff, to that end.
And I either lack the 3000 IQ space brain to get it, or I absolutely get it, and I just absolutely hate it. Either way, I've had enough.
I want to do a D6 system that is just "roll against opponent, bigger number wins, DM RPs what that means." That's loose and interesting and feels like real life. The rest can go jump in the river.
"YEAH BUT THAT'S UNFAIR TO PLAYERS!"
The world is unfair to life. You're not 12 anymore. I don't get anything out of playing around in a baby world made for babies. You're just mad because it isn't going to work in your favor the way I'm proposing it.
It's like Tim Cain said about programming RNG. You give them real RNG, everyone gets mad because "it's not fair." Because RNG isn't fair. They don't want RNG, they want to be autocrats of reality, then soothe themselves that they're not in fact cheating assholes by claiming "the numbers worked out in my favor."
When the reality is that the system was specifically designed over 50+ years to give them an advantage. And that isn't RNG. That isn't playing a role. That isn't being a real hero by self-sacrificing and being randomly lucky and muddling through. It's just egotistical self-delusional nothingness.
Like, maybe these kinds of games are STILL niche things for a reason? Maybe the only really popular and profitable entries are video game and movie versions where you don't see the math, BECAUSE you don't see the math? Like I don't think I'm alone in not giving a shit about this byzantine, nerfed crap.
That doesn't make me better. Do whatever you want. But if THAT'S what you're doing, count me the fuck out.
I did my time, and I'm sick of this shit.
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i can never truly be a nerd because i look at artstyles/designs like this and i don't g o "WHOA SO COOL" i just actively hate it, like it is so boring to me. it's like an assault on my senses how unimaginitive it is. there is nothing to look at, like they just recolored a fuckin human for the 50,000,000,000th time. why not have cool designs why must every fantasy game be so borign, god it's so boring
GOD IT'S SO BORING, AND THEN WHEN THEY HAVE AN ANIMAL CHARACTER THEY STILL SOMEHOW MAKE IT BORING 90% OF THE TIME. they just take a human face and add an animal nose and give it a fur texture and plop it onto a human body woo woo so amazing how wonderous
fantasy is so fucking boring, a bunch of old gits trying to show off their british accents to each other and then they make some stuff glow with dramatic music and i'm supposed to be awed by how they made another object float.
they're always in ruins with peasants and then it's like "oh please brave warrior McRib please use your oversized sword that doesn't work with your animations and save our little town from the bald guy with pale skin and glowy eyes"
"we have no technology except for the absurdly gigantic and complex mechanisms that we need to open doors because simplicity isn't fun enough for our overworked designers"
"here's a character who's been alive for hundreds thousands millenia eternity TWELVE ETERNITIES, so you KNOW he's going to talk in riddles and be super stone faced, we're so cool"
"all our lands are desolate wide open spaces with absolutely nothing going on because it's too expensive to actually put people here"
fantasy is dumb, sometimes it can be cool but the cool ones never get popular, only boring nerds, bor ing boring nerds.
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I'm a huge fan of Star Wars. The first movie (no, not Episode 1) came out when I was young, so I grew up thinking about the Millennium Falcon and lightsabers. Perhaps it sparked my interest in scienceâeven if it's not exactly science fiction. Oh, there's a nice way to start a nerd fight: Is Star Wars âscience fictionâ or is it âspace fantasyâ?
Either way, you have to admit there are things in there that look like science. I mean, anytime you deal with stuff in space, itâs an opportunity to talk about science. That's exactly what I'm going to do, since today is Star Wars Day. May the 4th be with you!
What scientific things in Star Wars are just not scientific? I'm going to go over some of the more interesting ideas, but donât get me wrong. I'm using these errors as a way to talk about science, but I don't think they need to be fixed. A more realistic Star Wars would probably be boring. Read on, youâll see what I mean.
Sound in Space
The opening scene in Star Wars shows a massive Star Destroyer pursuing a smaller rebel ship. You hear the rumble of the engines, and it gives you the impression of a powerful vessel. Unfortunately, itâs just not possible.
Let's think about sound for a moment. Suppose you tap a coffee mug on the side with a spoon. You hear a nice little plink. Thatâs because the tap caused the ceramic material to oscillate back and forth, which pushes on the air around it, compressing it. This compressed air then pushes on other nearby air as it expands. The whole process produces a pressure wave, and this pressure wave is what we call sound.
Is it possible to have a sound wave without air? Sure. You don't need air, but you need something for the pressure wave to travel through. This could be a solid or water or really anything that lets a higher pressure push on parts with lower pressure. Sound waves need some kind of medium to âwaveâ in. In space there's ⊠nothing.
Well, that isnât totally true. There are charged particles like protons and electrons moving through spaceâremnants of solar wind or debris from exploding stars. In a solar system there's also some dust. Still, the density of this âgasâ would be so tiny, you could hardly measure it. Much too low to transmit sound.
So why do moviemakers put sound out there in the void? Well, most of us have never been in space, and when things collide silently it just seems wrong. The sound of that massive Star Destroyer reminds us of a big ocean vessel passing close byâsomething we can relate to.
How Do You Steer This Thing?
One of the big ideas in physics is that forces change the motion of an object. If you apply a constant, continuous force to an objectâand there is no counterforce like wind dragâthat object will speed up and continue to speed up forever.
We call this Newton's second law, and it works for multiple forces on an object by replacing them with a single force called the net force, as shown below. Here m is the mass of the starship and a is its acceleration.
So if a starship is running its engines, it wonât travel at a constant speed. The only way you could do that is by turning the engines off. Instead, youâre rushing faster and faster toward what appears to be a moon ⊠Wait, thatâs no moon! Too late.
There's another problem with the motion of starships: How do you turn? There are two things to think about here. First, both the acceleration and the velocity of the ship are represented by vectors (the symbols with the arrow on top). That means direction matters. Moving to the left is different than moving to the right.
The second thing to consider is the definition of acceleration. It's the rate of change for velocity, and we can write it as the following:
Since velocity is a vector, changing direction means itâs accelerating, even if the speed is constant. But wait, we just saw that Newton's second law says you canât accelerate without a force. So in order to turn your cool starfighter, you need a force that pushes perpendicular to the direction of travelâa sideways force.
Take a look at the X-wing fighter. Does it have any thrusters on its side to help it turn? Nope. Instead, it turns to the left by rolling a little to the left and performing a banked turn. This is exactly how an airplane on Earth flies.
But what does an airplane have that an X-wing doesnât? Right, the answer once again is air. For an airplane, there is this external force due to the interaction between the air and the wing, which we call lift. If a plane tilts to the side a little bit, this lift force can be used as a sideways force to make it change direction. That's how things fly down here.
So, there's your problem. The X-wing and other spacecraft use this same banking move to turn in space, even though there's no lift on the wings. If you watch the battle over the Death Star, those TIE fighters and X-wings are zipping around like itâs a WW II dogfight. Again, itâs wrong, but Iâm fine with it.
You Canât See a Laser Shot
Star Wars isn't very explicit about what is shot out of a handheld blaster or from the cannons on an X-wing. They sure look like laser beams, and I think thatâs what most people imagine. But they canât be lasers. Why not? Two reasons.
First, a laser beam is light, and we know the speed of light: 3 x 108 meters per second. If an X-wing shot a laser at a TIE fighter that was 1 kilometer away, it would take just 3 millionths of a second to hit the target. If you have a film (like the real movie) that plays at 30 frames per second, each frame lasts 0.03 seconds. That means the laser would be so fast you wouldn't see it. It would be like itâs instantaneous. That's not good for movies. You want to see the shot.
Second, even if it was slower, the beam would be invisible in space. Remember, we see things when light enters our eye. That means there are two kinds of things you can see: things that produce light, like your phone screen, and things that reflect light. Your hand doesnât give off visible light, but the sunlight bounces off your hand and hits your retina.
Now, a laser produces âcollimatedâ light that all goes in the same direction. So the only way you can see it is if thereâs something in the path of the beam that reflects light into your eye. On Earth there is something: air. And not just air, but dust and stuff. I took this picture below, and I amped it up even more by spraying fake fog into the beam.
But you know what you don't have in space? Yep, air. So the only way you could see a laser beam is if it hits you right in the eye. That would be bad. Bottom line: Laser beams are invisible in space.
Faster-Than-Light Communication
When you call a friend, your phone transmits electromagnetic waves to the nearest cell tower. That tower sends a signal (through a wire) to another tower, which then sends an EM wave to your friend's phone. None of these signals can move faster than the speed of light, so if youâre calling from New York to London, your words would take 0.02 seconds to get there. No big deal, they can wait two-hundredths of a second.
Now imagine you want to communicate with another friend on the surface of Mars. Well, Mars is much farther away, so information traveling at the speed of light can take up to 20 minutes to arrive, depending on the positions of the planets. It's still not a big issue, but it is annoying.
OK, one more example. You have just one more friend, and they recently took a new job near the star Alpha Centauriâone of the closest stars to Earth. How long would it take to send a phone call to that star? The answer is 4.4 YEARS. No one has time for that.
You see the problem. In Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Obi-wan sends a transmission from the planet Geonosis to Coruscant. If these planets are in different star systems, the signal could easily take 10 years to arrive. That really makes for a complicated plot. It's much simpler to just make communications instantaneous.
But really, maybe Star Wars isn't even wrong here. I mean, it is in a whole different galaxy, and they have special powers like The Force. Perhaps they figured out a way to send information faster than the speed of light. One thing is certain: Ignoring the science makes for great entertainment. But understanding the science sure makes you appreciate our home on Earth. Go outside right now and listen to all the sounds!
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but shen yuan is lazy and there is nothing wrong with it
he has only become a teacher because he was put into a body that already is a teacher. and we only see him teach one disciple at one occasion, that being binghe. so we have no textual evidence that he actually taught anyone that much and didn't just leave it to the hallmasters. meaning we don't know if he actually loves it or if he just did it because it was the job he got assigned to. but he for sure never chose the job, it just came with the body
however we do have evidence that binghe did basically all of his peak lord work, as shen yuan is unable to even tell ming fan were to put stuff as binghe always did everything for him including his paperwork. example when binghe made the participation list for the iac when that was very much the job of the shizun and not the youngest disciple
also if he isn't lazy why was he a neet in his former life? he was a healthy young man who got a degree at a good university. but because he didn't have to work, as his wealthy family paid for all of his living expenses, he did not work or go out by his own account but was just wasting the days away. because that can not be an unreliable narration on his part, as he can't misinterpret basic things he is physically doing or not doing
and him complaining that he can't go outside can be purely because he is bored from being from modern times, where he had spend all of his time on the computer for entertainment which made him "spoiled" for the lack of a better word. however he is in ancient china where he has no access to any of the quick entertainment he usually consumed to keep boredom away. while however the world outside is a fantasy nerd's wet dream. i'm a huge introverted couch potato and only go out when i have to, but even i would refuse to stay indoors if i were in magical fantasy world full of cool monsters and magic
although i do agree that is not a huge introvert, as he does seem to enjoy spending time with people. but he is a lazy person and again that is nothing bad
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#svsss#scumbag self saving system#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#scum villian self saving system#scum villain
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a skeleton and a goat went to pick up some books for her kid, but they ended up getting a bit distracted.
a bit 'fifteen-minute-trip' turning into 'spending three hours in the science and history sections' distracted.
what nerds.
arriving at the old goat's house, the skeleton told her all about his previous town's "librarby".
"Librar..by?"
"yup. said it right there, on the sign."
"it was a quaint little building. located right next to our house. i went pretty often."
"there was this news club that hung out in there. pretty few in members, but still writing interesting stories n whatnot."
"...well, i guess that was supposed to be their job, but it was more of a puzzle club than any news stuff."
"six short bookcases held all of the library's book inventory, organized by colour."
"books about the makeup and nature of souls, monster history, long-lost diaries..."
"read 'em all, front to back. maybe even back to front, once."
he could have probably recited each one by memory, at one point.
"the repetition might have gotten a bit boring, but it was better than nothing."
"Today was like paradise for us both, then."
he flipped through the pages of a fantasy-dungeon book, finding a drawing of a man-goat-hybrid monster.
"hey, this one kinda looks like you."
the old goat began also flipping through the pages of the book, eventually pointing at a drawing of the most grotesque creature she could find.
"And this one looks quite like you, does it not?"
"wow."
"...it's like looking in a mirror."
He pointed at the title of the image.
"it's even called 'the lonely', it really is me."
"Are you still đŁđ°đŻđŠđđș even with me around? I guess I will just have to bug you more often then!"
"..As long as you can promise you're not gonna get too wrapped up in all your nice, cool new books to meet with me."
"only if you can promise the same."
"they really were 'nice' and 'cool' today," thought the skeleton.
and he thought the books were neat too, i guess.
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đđBullet Train incorrect quotes ft. my oc pt. 2:
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Part 2 with Ladybug this time lets goooo
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Tangerine: How did none of you hear what I just said?!
Lemon: I've been zoned out for the past two and a half hours.
Ladybug: I got distracted halfway through.
Felix: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.
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Tangerine: This food is too hot... I cant eat it.
Felix: Youâre very hot, and I still eat you.
Everyone at the table: *silence*
Ladybug: YOU GUYS ARE DISGUSTING!
Lemon: One dinner... I just want ONE DINNER!
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Ladybug: I spy with my little eye something that begins with the letter âsâ.
Lemon: *looks over at Tangerine and Felix* Lemon: Is it âsexual tensionâ?
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Felix: Subs are so fun to play with. All you have to do is hint at what you might do, back them into a corner with a look, or grab their wrist in a certain way and they're a wide-eyed mess.
Lemon: What the fuck kind of Subway are you going to?
Ladybug: Substitute teachers deal with so much shit.
Tangerine: Guys.
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Felix: Tangerine! I can't do this stupid math!
Tangerine: Whatâs the math problem?
Felix: Well, we have to add the bed, subtract the clothes divide the legs, and hope we donât multiply.
Lemon, covering Ladybug's ears, while Tangerine smacks Felix upside the head: Not going to lie that was hella smooth.
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Tangerine: That's ridiculous, Felix doesn't have a crush on me.
Ladybug: Yes they do.
Lemon: Yes they do.
Felix: Yes I do.
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Lemon: Who would you kill out of the four of us, Tangerine?
Tangerine: Ladybug, easily.
Ladybug, laughing: What the fuck, man.
Tangerine: Well, Felix would be too easy. Theyâd probably be into it.
Felix, now standing in the doorway: What the fuck, man!?
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Lemon: Ladybug, you'll be working with Tangerine and Felix.
Ladybug: Alright! My fantasy threesome!
Everyone else: *blank stares*
Ladybug: ...Of people on a team.
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*after the Squad's plan goes horribly wrong*
Lemon: Now it seems we're back at square one-- finding the Son.
Felix: For the record, I already found him.
Ladybug: And you let him get away before we could have a meaningful conversation.
Felix: He stabbed me!
Tangerine: I'm surprised he waited this long, Felix. We've all had the urge.
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Lemon: I sleep with a gun under my pillow.
Ladybug: I sleep with a knife.
Felix: Both of you are pathetic.
Lemon: Oh yeah? What do you sleep with?
Felix: Tangerine.
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Ladybug: Wait, if baby oil dissolves condoms, what does it do to babies?
Tangerine: Believe it or not, babies and condoms are made of different materials.
Lemon: Itâs like rock paper scissors. Baby oil defeats condom, baby defeats baby oil, condom defeats baby.
Felix: Rock also defeats baby.
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Ladybug: Shh, here comes Tangerine!
Felix: Quick, Lemon, start talking about boring nerd stuff!
Lemon: You know, nerd culture is mainstream now, so when you use the word ânerdâ derogatorily, it means youâre the one thatâs out of the zeitgeist.
Felix: Yes, thatâs perfect. Just like that.
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Felix: Hi could I ask how exactly does one accidentally set a lemon on fire?
Ladybug: Microwave for 40 minutes.
Lemon: WHY WERE YOU MICROWAVING A LEMON?!
Ladybug: I read boiling lemons helps cover up bad smells and I wanted to cover up the scent of burnt oranges, but I didnât own any potsâŠ
Tangerine: Did you burn an orange too? HOW?!
Ladybug: Microwave for 40 minutes.
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Felix: You're smiling. What happened?
Tangerine: What? Can't I smile just because I feel like it?
Lemon: Ladybug tripped and fell down the stairs today.
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Lemon: Why are your tongues purple?
Felix: We had slushies. I had a blue one.
Tangerine: I had a red one.
Lemon: oh.
Lemon:
Lemon: OH.
Ladybug:
Ladybug: You drank eachothers slushies?
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Lemon: Is stabbing someone immoral?
Tangerine: Not if they consent to it.
Felix: Depends on who your stabbing.
Ladybug: YES??!!?
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Lemon: Made you all playlists!
Lemon: Tangerine, yours has only heavy metal, and is dark like your soul.
Lemon: Ladybug, yours has sad songs and blues to pair with your crippling depression.
Lemon: And Felix has the ABBA Gold album.
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Tangerine: I love you.
Felix: I love you too. I've waited so long to hear you say that.
*Tangerine and Felix kiss passionately*
Lemon, to Ladybug: You owe me 20 dollars.
#bullet train#tangerine#tangerine bullet train#lemon and tangerine#ladybug bullet train#oc#tangerine x oc
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so⊠remember when I said I wanted to create the most 2015 out of character most cringe fanfic about durgetash and I had that pole asking if I should actually write it (as well as some actual serious durgetash which I will.) wellâŠ. I did it. Any bad use of grammar/ spelling are 100% on purpose, this is not a serious fic aka please donât think this is how I actually write.
enjoy 984 words of pure torture.
Hey my name is The Dark Urge but everyone calls me Durge for short. Iâm really poggers and epic because I was born from the blood of Bhaal, yeah Bhaals my dad, suck on that posers. I have ivory-white scales and eyes the color of blood being splashed on the deepest of rubies. And Iâm a storm sorcerer, studying to do magic is for losers! Plus I have this super cool slayer form that literally makes me so badass. As the true spawn of Bhaal you could say I have it all, I have a whole cult at my beck and call, all the different corpses I can eat⊠but thereâs one thing I donât have yet. Thereâs this one guyâŠ.. The chosen of Bane, we made like this pact thing that says I canât harm him but it never said I couldnât fuck him. And by the gods I will. I want him to be my shmoopie snuggluffagus cutie pookie patootie pudding muffin, but my dad is like a total buzz kill so I have to apologize for even thinking about putting a ring on that. Anyways his names Enver Gortash but he prefers for me to call him Enver because weâre close like that and Iâm special and all that fun stuff. Plus Iâm so much better that the depressed pile of dust and bones we also have to work with, ugh heâs such a boomer.
So here I am walking into Moonrise Towers so we can start discussing our super foolproof evil plans for how to take over the world. My super platform docs stomp against the stone steps to enter the tower, I glare at a few of the various subjects of other cults, idk which ones though, all I know is theyâre not as cool as I am. Their probably posers and preps for all I know. But again, I donât care. I make my grand entrance into the throne like room, doves flying behind me as light shines behind me, Iâm just that important to like the world and stuff. I whip off my super cool angular anime sunglasses and I look around the room I see my pookie schmookie goth fantasy man boo-boo bear sugar goober standing off to the side and I see the old decaying grandpa corpse sitting on the big chair at the end of the room. Ugh, heâs the worst, and not even in a fun way, he wonât shut up about how his daughter doesnât want to talk to him anymore and how heâs literally only here because of her, like how boring can a backstory get? He begins to speak. âAh how nice of you to finally join us, youâre over an hour late.â He grumbles out, I swear theres like a moth living where his brain should be doesnât he know that you have to be fashionably late? âUmm yeah.â I say, âthatâs the point, what kind of nerd actually shows up on time.â I say rolling my perfect blood red eyes, making sure I show my sharp teeth as I scoff at him for extra effect. âWhatever, letâs just start the meeting already.â The reanimated corpse groans out, bones cracking as he repositions himself in his high chair. I cross my arms over my chest because Iâm mysterious and awesome as the guy begins to speak, I donât pay attention my sister is probably around here somewhere Iâll just ask her for the spark notes version. Gods I want to kill someone. Like I donât have to, but Iâm bored and itâs something I enjoy doing. Then I notice something in the corner of the room, while the old man goes on and on I go and investigate, the something I noticed was a cultist, not one of mine of course, they knew better. Upon further inspection, they donât even seem to be a cultist, their robes look homemade with no reference to what theyâre even supposed to be wearing. And they seem to be snooping around too, ugh itâs probably some Harper spy or something. Well, might as well get my kill count up while Iâm here I guess⊠I approach them and before they could even begin to utter an excuse I shove my dagger in their mouth, dragging it against the roof of their mouth and tongue and pushing it down their throat. I watch with glee as the fear in their eyes gets worse as they start to choke on their own blood. I wiggle my blade, making the gashes in their mouth wider as I do so. I could stop there, but whereâs the fun in that? I pull my dagger out to watch them cough and sputter out their own blood, uselessly clawing at their throat. Ugh, what a poser, I bet that even before I did that they wouldnât be able to name 3 MCR songs.. I shove the spy onto the ground as they look up at me almost pleading with their eyes. Ugh itâs disgusting. So I take my dagger and I begin to hit them, itâs at this point I notice that the boring guy stopped speaking and the room was silent except for the occasional blood gurgle. I pull out the persons intestines and thatâs when Gorts and my eyes meet across the room. Itâs like so romantic like I swear someone casted like stop time or something⊠him and his pepsi dark eyes⊠I tuck some of the blood around my tympanum, gods heâs like so hot. Like the hottest Iâve seen in my 40 years of dreadful existence. Then he walks over to me and my heart goes doki doki he knees beside me on the other side of the now corpse and we start making out. No lips no tongue, all teeth. And then we took control of the netherbrain and got married.
The end.
#durgetash#durge x gortash#I donât want this on my ao3 account so Iâm only posting it here#A tumblr exclusive if you will.#It was just as painful to write as it is to read.#I had to make it 2 paragraphs bc tumblr yelled at me.
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