#selected loops

[manchestereyes]

real true requited love which is the best feeling in the world <3

[yapfactory]

Cowardice is the killer of opportunity. Entertainment won't last you forever. Not everyone can be saved.

Inspired by @mousjoy's Failed Awakening AU.

[canisalbus]

so a few weeks ago i went to a local scandinavian fair/market (i live in the northeastern part of the usa, so not a Huge population of scandinavian immigrants/ancestry. a pretty small but really nice gathering!), and there was someone there selling imported Finnish candy. i thought of you talking about salmiakki and asked if she was selling any, which apparently she was, but sold out pretty fast! i still bought a bag of assorted Finnish candies that she had put together herself, and i really liked them! however... one day i will try salmiakki, I've got it in my mind now.

Ooo that's so cool! It feels really strange to think of Finnish candy being sold as rare imported goods on the other side of the world, but that's how it goes, of course. Where I come from, some common American brands are still exotic and rarely stocked by stores, I remember coming across Reese's cups in person for the first time just a couple of years ago and going "OH I've heard of those!!"

Salmiakki is a powerful and unique flavor, and as a finn it genuinely brings me such glee that you remembered me mentioning it once and were curious enough to try to give it a taste! Sorry they were sold out. I hope you'll get your hands on some sooner or later. (I personally like the hard candy varieties like turkinpippuri, oukki doukki, patruuna and dracula piller the best, but I'd say those can be on the more aggressive end so, like, brace yourself a little if that happens to be your introduction point).

[poorlydrawninstarsandtime]

for the peanut butter issue bring a cup of water and some *animal safe* soap!

if that doesn't work uuuuuuummmmmm natural selection

do you know how hard it is to safely bathe something with a ball of gas and fire for a head? do you? do you????

[id in alt]

[raiseupyourbat]

Wrote a bunch for the start of the isa loops au yesterday, here's a segment from it. Accidentally turned into over 1k words of saapfrin suffering and it's gonna continue like this for a bit I think. This was just supposed to be a tiny section that set up the fic and hinted at what went different but it just keeps growing woops-

[seafoam-taide]

on my second playthrough of in stars and time that i just started. i swore i saw something during the loop >> tutorial. and it was nagging at me that i wasnt sure if i actually saw it or not. so. i started ANOTHER save file jjust for the sake of recording that interaction and.

SIGH. AUGH. AUGH. AUGH. THANKS. IM DYING

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Virtual Casino (Sega Saturn) - PECUNIA ]

[souridealist]

my wife and I went on an extensive spiral about Young Justice (tv) characters and their music opinions

SEASON ONE TEAM:

Kaldur is fucking hilarious because the music he found as a teenager is heavily Atlantean and surface music with a similar vibe to Atlantean, so a lot of new age Enya-type stuff... but his nostalgia music, the stuff he grew up with, is his dad's classic West Coast rap. He is fucking banned from the aux unless he swears off Shuffle All because otherwise you will cut from Orinoco Flow to Machine Gun Funk.

M'gann could not possibly be more obviously a Swiftie (not the kind who starts weird shit on Twitter, though, she has superheroics to do). In later seasons she starts picking up a lot of critical-darling pop too, huge Carly Rae Jepsen fan. Every few months she has, like, three days of blasting Riot Grrl.

Artemis's favorite artist is Kesha but it really takes the Kesha revival for her to admit this about herself. (One time she walked in on Wally singing along to Tik Tok full-throated and word-perfect and she had to go scream into a pillow about how much she hated that she liked everything happening there.) Other than that she's very into the Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers type sad art pop.

Also both Artemis and Jade grew up listening to Sportsmaster's dad rock, with Sportsmaster very much being the "why are you even talking about how some of these guys were creeps and assholes. this is not a nuanced separate-art-from-artist position, why do you CARE, who CARES" type. Artemis finds out that Bruce Springsteen has in fact been a real one since the 70s and it feels like the entire universe flipping her dad the double bird.

Wally listens to white boy rap. You know it to be true. This man has too much Eminem. He is less embarrassed than Artemis about liking Kesha but still kinda embarrassed about how much he likes Kesha; they kinda go on that journey together. He's not so into Artemis's artsy stuff but he picks up some of their cheerier/more fun numbers, like he likes "Bad Guy.'

Connor honestly just listens to whatever's on. Like, he likes having music but he genuinely truly does not care what it is, he just likes filling up the silence. Results in him mostly sharing M'gann's taste just because that's what he gets the most exposure to; after he and Superman are on better turns he starts picking up Pa Kent's outlaw country too.

Dick is always going to be a performer at heart; at the end of the day his priority is that he wants something you can move to. His iPod tends toward the kind of thing that has 37 genre labels stuck on it at once but one of the labels is usually R&B or neo-soul or something like that. Likes energetic or dreamy stuff; music isn't where he goes for emotional catharsis, his angst soundtrack is silence.

Zatanna likes all the bands that were doing steampunk burlesque aesthetic music videos in the early 2010s, although they do lose points with her if they take themselves too seriously. Never, ever, ever going to outgrow her love for A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.

Rocket I have to admit I do not have a great read on; we're not done with s4 so I'm hoping she gets enough screen time for me to get a better sense of her? I am however quite sure that she grabs M'gann by both hands and is like M'gann. Honey. Sweetheart. Let me give you Beyonce 101. You need to know.

Roy-later-Will Harper is the exact kind of guy who talks enormous amounts of shit about Linkin Park because at some deeply repressed level of his soul he knows that he is exactly one different turn in his life away from being really, really into Linkin Park.

This is confirmed when original Roy | Arsenal comes back and gets really, really into Linkin Park. (In fairness to him, he's having fun with it.)

[boardwalk-absurdist]

in retrospect while it took me way too long to finally watch gravity falls i'm glad i did it now bc 2014!me would have been all over the human bill tumblr sexyman thing but now i can appreciate the twin smokeshows that are the stans

[the-lonelybarricade]

We all know amd love you as LB but what does your username actually mean?

It’s a reference to Les Miserables!

(It means that, tragically, I’m a nerdy theatre kid)

[quaranmine]

firewatch au is an interesting story because mumbo is such an omnipresent non-character. it doesn't matter if i characterize him correctly or not, because his character isn't ever present to exert change in the story. the only thing that does matter is grian's rosy, absence-defined ideals about who his best friend was. every single thing we learn about mumbo is filtered through like 12 different layers of love and grief and denial until he's on a pedestal so high nobody can see the truth. his character is almost solely defined by what someone else says about him.

in doing this, grian also inadvertantly strips away all the little mistakes and mishaps that are part of mumbo's agency and part of him being a real person until he's perfect. and all this idolization ends up making it worse for grian in the end, because he actively avoids engaging in any theories that suggest mumbo might have made a mistake or gone astray. there's clear dissonance between reality—grian knows mumbo got lost and is searching for him—and the way grian lashes out at anyone who suggests something that clashes with the perfect ideal of mumbo in his head, including getting lost. mumbo should be a character in his own story, but grian won't let him be.

instead he wraps his desire to find mumbo into a weird sort of side quest where he's just as interested in finding someone else to blame as he is finding mumbo. he spends the same amount of time trying to figure out exactly where it all went wrong during the search as he does actually searching for mumbo—even after he knows the general area mumbo was last in! it's a puzzle and he can't put anything to rest until he solves it. he's trying to force logic into everything so he can cope with it. because if he doesn't find someone or something to blame, then he has to face the reality that sometimes things just don't make sense. if it makes sense, he can solve it and fix it. if it doesn't make sense...then he just has to live with it, and he doesn't think he can.

[oldbutchdanielcraig]

good television will have you laid up like "let me see what other cinematic offerings await my viewing pleasures on underdog streaming service amc plus...."

[orcelito]

Started working on my C lab. Remembered how good of a position I left myself in after last week, so yay!! It won't take too much effort to finish.

I'm not gonna finish before lab tho, both bc I dont really have time (whoops I dragged my feet with starting it this morning) but also I realized. Well the sort functions are self-explanatory. Randomly generate an array and then sort it, timing how long each sort takes to do it. But then the search functions... *what* are we supposed to be searching???? That's. Not stated in the document. So I'm gonna ask the TA about that.

[posthumanwanderings]

[ Gungage (PS1) - Character Select ]

[chericheribaby]

pls pls pls

hi!!!

m-> Mykonos by Fleet Foxes

a-> Afterglow by Bob Moses & Kasablanca

j-> Jungle by Tash Sultana

a-> Around My Neck by FINNEAS

Send me your name and I'll make a mini playlist with the letters in your name