#so i can correct it of course

[jonyxtion]

Job Application for @inkandlaces-if

-> Opening the attached file

Romance: Fernando

Sooo, this is something a lil different, but i decided to go for it and create a sort of application process(the e-mail part at least). It has been fun at least tho.

[egophiliac]

ANNIVERSARY GROOVY BOYBAND! THEY ALL LOOK SO GOOD, I also love the hades reference with idia! Ik ur probably really swamped with the book 7 brain rot but I wanted to know ur thoughts. I also wanted to mention that I am so card deprived I feel like I need a replacement event to take tsumderlands place

AUGH NO I LOVE THEM. 😭 UGH now I really have to think about if I want to try pulling for Grim again. dangit. heck. I already got his little pedestal to add my guest room shrine, but...now I kinda need the boss himself...

also, the implications of it not being an OB thing, Idia can just. Do That? apparently? do you think he ever just sometimes does it by accident? what am I saying, he absolutely sometimes does it by accident.

gosh though. this event has been SO cute in general! I was wondering who'd get the focus for year 5; I could not be happier that the answer is apparently EVERYBODY. :D all the dorms get their own special songs! so many cute little scenes!!! the lowest of stakes bringing out the highest of pettiness in everyone!!!!!! it's excellent.

(also, because I will make literally anything about my diaboys...I know these events are typically sorta, let's say chronologically unmoored with regards to story. but the further implications that this takes place pre-episode 7/Malleus' Big Existential Crisis, and yet...some of these lines?)

[vaguely-concerned]

I really really like that lucanis reaches the 'there must be some way through this' realization 'off camera', so to speak, while presumably looking at rook explaining the situation to spite. it just. hits right. he gets that moment to himself after 'this place is a nightmare, why would I want to stay here' to come back into focus, to gather himself and think it through in peace, outside of the demands of anyone’s gaze (including the player’s!), while rook takes care of spite’s confusion and urgency and distress as he can’t himself in this shattered state. they're inside his soul, but he still gets that moment of privacy, with rook and spite there and supporting but not intruding. idk there's just something so good and right-feeling about it. rook's presence in lucanis' mind at its most vulnerable and frozen could have felt SO invasive if the quest wasn't written as skillfully as it is, and I get skeeved out by that kind of thing incredibly easily so it's a testament to how well it's done that it always feels safe and supportive. lucanis has had both his bodily and psychological (slash spiritual/existential) integrity and autonomy violated so brutally and repeatedly, and having even the way the camera perceives him here grant him the dignity and respect and privacy of soul he hasn’t experienced in a long time… it’s a whole thing huh. No wonder it’s taken me a while to put it into words lol 

(also what a contrast to what solas and rook have got going on, and what a sly way to slide the point of comparison in there to build to the thematic whole. the solas version of this IS of course wildly invasive and skeeves me out but in the intended delighted horror movie way. solas, too, was let into someone’s soul through the cracks in the wake of a traumatic event, and he IMMEDIATELY sought to turn it to his own benefit and use that trauma as a weapon against them fhdsja I’m sorry but it’s just such a character-revealing instinct for him to act on without hesitation and I love how terrible he is, it’s all so unforgivably premeditated and consistent.

rook acting out of the desire to make sure lucanis is ok vs. solas going ‘well. When life gives you oops killed my friend, make dead friend poisoned lemonade and make his loved ones drink it. this sunk cost fallacy isn’t going to perpetuate itself’ is such a neat contrast and it’s not in your face about it but it’s still there, deep and solid down in the thematic narrative. rook doesn’t do anything to or in lucanis’ mind, really — they negotiate their way through the layers of defense and are let through, and they help him make the whole thing more explicable, but they never exert any force or go rooting around for anything that doesn’t present itself to them first. solas goes about gathering ammo for when he's going to nothing personel kid this person from like the first moment fhdskh doesn't waste a second before he's on that gaslight gatekeep girlboss grind. the fact that the game goes out of its way to show there IS a respectful, non-selfish and kind version of this process makes what solas is doing even more deliciously awful (glee) and rook and lucanis’ relationship (platonic, romantic, whatever it might be in any given playthrough) all the more moving to me)

[blumoontf2]

It makes me so irrationally irritated when people frame Spy as sympathetic in regards to his abandonment of Scout as a Father.

His lack of responsibility as a Father is PATHETIC like genuinely his reasoning is pathetic. In the comics he admits to being ‘scared’ to commit to the role as a Father, and whether this fear came from a deep-rooted, theoretical trauma or not is nooooot an excuse but would be a wonderful REASON to why he abandoned Scout in the first place. A reason I DONT SEE PEOPLE EXPLORING.

I need people to stop dumbing it down to being ‘Spy abandoned his family for the greater good’ because a) it lacks so much depth and b) it sanitises Spy’s character.

I’m not trying to be ‘elitist’ as I believe it’s impossible to have one conscious interpretation of any of the characters in TF2, so in any manner, all characterisation is in some form ‘canon’ to their characters BUT IT LITERALLY MAKES ME BREAK OUT IN HIVES.

Spy SHOULD be flawed, and you SHOULD allow him to make negatively charged decisions. I’m not saying he doesn’t REGRET abandoning his child and I’m not saying Spy is all-encompassing bad but I just wish people didn’t try to make his reasoning so ‘self-sacrificing’ and ‘heroic’ as a way to try and make his character seem more appealing and angelic.

The appeal from his character should come from his genuine desire to CHANGE. To be present for Scout, to be better, and in some way be ‘available’ in a way he didn’t manage to be in Scout’s childhood.

Maybe it’s projection (absent Father core) but Spy was selfish in his decision and you should allow yourself to frame it as so. This doesn’t make his character BAD, it makes him REALISTIC.

[brightletsky]

not taking criticism or notes at this time

[b-blushes]

seven silly shirts to make me smile every day of the week!!!

[itsbebebrainrotting]

Okay but i dont read this as a "we've gone through all your shit" threat and heres why.

The keeper is specifically said "you learn so much from them". That isnt to say the high keeper learnt anything from whichever one of lukeys many books hes talking about. But lukey learnt from these books

I think this is a threat on Lukeys memory again, rather than anything material. "Next time" isnt necessarily as in 'Next time we meet' its next time we torture you so hard you forget everything, keep your notes close to hand (because the keepers OBVIOUSLY knew about lucas' notes first time around) so you can regain all your memories faster. So you dont lose all this precious research you are waving over our heads because we know you need it just as much as we do.

But who cares Lukeys paranoia about what the high keepers may or may not know is fun anyway :)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Los Chicos Peleandoooooo

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[mayasaura]

where do you think “griddle” as a nickname came from?

I have thought about this! I think it initially came from Harrow being two years old and not quite having gotten the hang of enunciation or compound vowels.

It stuck around mostly because Gideon hated it—that's not her name!!—and even as toddlers, Harrow's favorite game was getting under her skin.

[the-labyrinth-of-me]

Wait did both Alice and Zane record Alan when he was at his lowest point? Didn't Alice make her exhibition to show the world what she sees? To show Alan the truth about himself? That it never was Scratch visiting and terrorizing her, but Alan himself? Did she depict his "self" and Zane depicted his "persona"? The two sides of him that he wishes he can eliminate bc they brought him into trouble (Scratch representing anger and the fallouts with paparazzi and stuff, Zane representing his self-destructive behavior with alcohol and drugs and the party nights)? The both sides that caused his marriage to start falling apart? Was that the reason Zane made that video of Alan when they were on that booze and drug-fueled bender while working on the Return manuscript? Is this party video the companion piece?? Alan's downward spiral, same as Alice's photos? Do they fucking work together aasdffjfjfkfk

[c-kiddo]

at one point i didn't like caduceus' epilogue, that he just stayed home for a long time and eventually travelled again and eventually calliope joined him too. but i think actually i love it. something so gentle about him returning home to a temple that was once empty and lonely but is now healing and full of family who he loves so much. and to not have anything particularly asked of him apart from tending the garden and his small routines. especially thinking about how tired and sad he is by the end of the campaign, compared to the beginning when hes so giddy to just be interacting with people and seeing things he's never seen before and to have guidance from the wildmother. and then later, after aeor and so many more horrible things have happened, he admits to calliope that its too much and the outside world is scary and big and he's so so tired and he keeps saying how tired he is. so basically ideal ending that he gets to go home and get better and heal enough to be excited when he heads out into the world again

[vinelark]

tim rejecting kon as robin because he believes kon already rejected tim and so would be disappointed once he finds out....this is the worst ending yet...i love it....

(this scenario) listen, tim is so smart and strategic and logical and also (especially post-breakup/misunderstanding) would plan for every single outcome except the one where he is actually wanted

[wammbam]

a list of fundraisers that i have had contact with:

w/ their tumblr accounts, gofundme links, and how close they are to meeting their fundraising goal (as of 10/24/24)

Red- no donations since i last updated (normally a week) EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT YOU CONSIDER DONATING AND SHARING THEIR CAMPAIGNS

Green- no donations in 24hrs or relatively slow donation rates

Blue- Half, or over half, way to their goal

White/Black- Under half way to their goal

@noorabd1992 - Nour and his family: $38,214/45,000 (euro)

@abedallhferwanagaza - Ola: $11,984/35,000 (euro)

@waseem4gaza - Waseem Abusafi: $3,400/15,000 (euro)

@ehabayyad23 / @motazmohammed - Ehab Ayyad: $3,901/50,000 (euro)

@yasermohammad / @yasergaza2005 - Mohammed: $27,437/35,000 (euro)

@karamrafeek - Karam: $1,678/20,000 (euro) (karam closed his last campaign and now has a new link, he is essentially starting over. please consider donating to help him and his family)

@olagaza1 - Ola: $59,297/85,000 (Ola raised her campaign goal)

@samarsh97 - Samar and Hasham: $13,466/45,000 (euro)

@safaayassersposts - Safaa: $2,315/50,000 (euro)

@mahmodje/@mahmodsy1 - Mahmoud Jehad: $7,362/25,000

@motaaz37 / @motaz345 - Mohamed/Motaz: kr104,719/250,000

@save-family - Mohamed Hijazi: $37,126/40,000 (euro)

@mahmoud91abed - Mahmoud Hilles: $242/50,000 (euro)

@emzain - Sadea Masoud: $3,148/10,000 (AUD)

@tameraldeeb - Tamer: $25,124/40,000 (euro) (over half, but donations have gotten a lot slower)

(i cant find their account on my blog, if you know their @ that would be great!) - Ahmed and Dina Alanqar: $67,394/75,000 (euro)

@islamgazaaccount2 - Islam Al-Najjar: $3,177/30,000 (euro)

@yazan-familyy / @yazan-joud2 - Mohammad Taysir: $16,855/50,000 (euro)

@ahmed4palestine - Ahmed Altaban: $21,136/30,000 (they have raised their goal)

@moamenmajed99 (tumblr wont let me properly tag them or click on their blog :/)- Moamen Majed: $8,273/30,000 (their campaign was closed, if you have information about moamen and their family, please reach out)

@stupendouswolfearthquake - Adam Ayyad: kr12,399/750,000 (INCREDIBLY SLOW DONATION RATES. last donation was 16 days ago)

@wafaaresh6 - Wafaa: $57,375/85,000 (they have raised their donation goal)

@ashraf-family2 (similar problem as Moamen's account) - Ashraf Alanqar: $26,120/20,000 (euro)

@asmaayyad - Asmaa Ayyad: $26,275/45,000 (euro)

@abdelmutei - Abdel Muti: $14,746/50,000 (euro) (raised their goal)

@heba-baker - Heba Al-Anqar: $6,010/60,000 (euro)

@save-salem-family2 / @savemohammedsa - Mohammed Salem: $7,475/10,000 (euro)

@fedao - Doaa: $12,752/65,000

@hayanahed - Haya: $94,161/100,000 (euro)

@adham89sblog - Mohammed Shurrab: $4,868/100,000 (euro)

@atalah-mohammed - Muhammed Atalla: $21,292/82,000 (euro)

@osamathaers-blog - Osama Thaer: $1,882/50,000 (euro)

@mohammed-665 - Mohammed: $4,065/45,000 (euro) (Mohammeds blog has been deleted? and the campaign has stopped accepting donations. if anyone has any information about Mohammed and his family, that would be wonderful to hear!!!)

@alihelles2 - Ali: $2,799/100,000 (euro)

@d-imtthal - Imtithal: $7,035/50,000 (euro)

@shamfarhat1 - Dr. Farhat: $10,785/29,500 (euro)

@falestine-yousef / @yousef-falestinef - Falestine: $33,615/40,000

@basel1995s - Basel: CHF8,694/60,000 (euro)

@majedgaza1 - Majed: $7,300/70,000

@alaa-syam - Alaa: $661/30,000 (CAD)

@ahmedomer9 / @ahmedomar3 - Ahmed and his family: $6,813/50,000 (euro)

@rewaa04 - Rewaa: $7,447/50,000

@haytham-b - Haitham: $6,672/60,000 (euro) (Haitham's blog has been deactivated and they haven't had a donation in a month if ANYONE has updates on this family, please reach out!)

@asmaameqdad - Asmaa: $4,459/80,000 (euro)

@shaimaasblog - Shaima: $3,850/50,000 (euro)

@mohammedswierh2 - Mohammed: $32,795/40,000 (euro)

@mahmoudayyad - Mahmoud: $7,567/55,000 (euro)

@yousefjehad3 - Youssef: $9,691/15,000 (euro)

@eman-kha - Eman Kha: $4,325/40,000 (euro)

@hazemsuhail / @hazem-suhail - Hazem Suhail: $16,113/50,000 (euro)

@rakan2010 - Rakan Zaqout: $35,695/80,000 (CAD)

@dodoomar12345 - Doaa and her son: kr272,875/300,000

@ahmedhellis22 - Ahmed: $798/30,000

@karamalmadhoun0d/@emanalmadhoun1- Karam: $18,947/20,000

@maria-gaza1 - Maria: $12,418/30,000 (CAD)

@khaledgazacity - Khaled Smeer: $1,893/60,000 (AUD)

@zainsami - Sami: $1,085/35,000 (euro)

@fidaa-family2 - Fidaa: $66,533/75,000

@hudameq6 - Huda and family: $4,459/80,000 (euro)

@nohaayyad19 - Noha: $69,623/85,000

@aboodalqedra-2 - Aboud: $3,776/25,000 (euro)

@ibrahimmo - the Hijazi family: $725/100,000 (euro) (haven't received a donation in almost A MONTH)

@hanan-gaza23 - Hanan: $8,623/100,000

@mohammednasers-blog / @mohammednasser - Mohammed Ayyad: $6,671/38,000 (euro)

@mohmoud-j - Jumana's extended family: $21,768/60,000

@familyetaf1234567 - Etaf: $4,685/50,000 (euro)

@save-mohamed-family - Mohammed: $48,245/50,000

@gehadfamily - Gehad Family: $619/30,000 (euro)

@gaza-love100 - Abdallah: $268/49,200 (euro) (no donations in 22 DAYS)

@mohammedaldeeb - Dr. Mohammed Aldeeb: $44,119/55,000 (euro)

@ahmaad860 - Ahmed: $9,902/50,000

@osama-family - Osama Family: $5,333/50,000 (pound)

@asala-almashni - Asala Al-Mashni: $3,793/30,000 (euro)

@shadowyavenuetaco - Bilal: $9,533/35,000 (euro)

@tahseenkhazen - Tahseen: $15,503/$25,000

@aiamaher - Aya: $4,016/55,000 (euro)

@emanshaaban - Iman: $500/50,000 (CAD)

@eyadalanqar - Eyad: $2,858/40,000 (euro)

@ahmedmoneerfamily - Ahmed and his family: $1,295/30,000 (euro)

@lamahourani7 - Lama and Mohammed: $7,225/10,000 (euro)

@amalgheelan99 / @mhmd-gaza2 - Amal: $8,914/5,000 (euro)

@hadiah1111 - Hadiah: $8,160/50,000 (euro)

@ahmadkhalid9725 - Ahmad: $1,372/25,000 (no donations in 16 DAYS)

@ahmadallouhahmad - Muhammad & Ahmed: $7,661/50,000 (euro)

@shadi90 - Shadi: kr4,622/200,000

@ahmed-al-saidi-11 - Ahmed AlSaidi: $2,177/30,000 (euro)

@alaa-gaza - Alaa: $9,976/15,000

@rasmi-gaza - Rasmi and Eslam: $18,052/50,000

@shamraed - Mounir and family: $1,954/35,000 (euro)

@moatasemmoatasem - Moatasem: $4,685/100,000 (euro)

@sfaamq10 - Safaa: $26,543/75,000

@ahmedalnabeh - Ahmed: $1,820/15,000 (fundraiser is no longer taking donations, if you have information, please reach out)

@ahlam910 - Ahlam: $1,198/50,000

@asyafamily2 - Asya: kr3,632/600,000 (no donations in 21 DAYS)

@amiranimer - Amira: $31,465/39,000 (euro)

@kenzish - Kenzi: $16,138/50,000 (euro)

@salman-1990 - Salman: $4,745/50,000 (euro)

[thelaurenshippen]

open ai made a little post about how they chose their chatbot voices and two things stood out to me:

a) I am genuinely pleased and surprised that the voices come from specific real people that they hired and paid, rather than being built off of all of the data open ai has scraped. the voice for siri did one job for one company 20 years ago and now she is literally everywhere without ever being compensated by apple or even acknowledged as the voice. there's simply no way she was paid enough in that original job. whereas, open ai says "each actor receives compensation above top-of-market rates, and this will continue for as long as their voices are used in our products." this could mean literally anything (what market rate are we going above? does continue mean they get residuals or get paid for doing more sessions?) but, christ, at least the actors are doing it with full knowledge of what their voices are being used for and can decide for themselves if the compensation is enough

b) the post talks about working with "award-winning casting directors" to get the voices. first of all, yay for paying casting directors! we love to see it. but they also say the CDs received over 400 submissions in a week and they state that like a big number and it's just...not at all. and look, without knowing the intricacies of the casting process, it's hard to know what approach the CDs took - it's very possible they were selective from the jump and 400 is a lot from the pool they were tapping. 400 would be a lot if you were going to the agencies directly and asking for names, but there's just no way in hell open ai went after big stars for this. so it would've been a pool of unknowns. in which case, 400 is laughably small. even if you're not using the big casting sites like actorsaccess, I've worked on projects with CDs and their own internal systems where we've gotten over 100 submissions for a single role. I've posted roles on casting sites and received literally thousands of submissions in just a few days

look, I have a very limited perspective on this - I am not a casting director (imo, one of the most important and undervalued jobs in hollywood) and I, in fact, hate the process of casting with a passion. but 400 just seemed like such a tiny pool to pull from and, idk, it heartens me! it's heartening to think that there's very little interest from actors and agents to be doing this kind of stuff. and absolutely no shade to the actors who did--I want actors to get their bag however they want as long as it's, like, safe sane and consensual, you know? but there's something encouraging about thinking that open ai hired some big casting agency to get their foot into the voice acting door and people didn't come running

[carlyraejepsans]

for real WHERE does the idea that [utdr humans] are nongendered so that "you can project on them" come from. their literal character arcs are about NOT being a blank slate to be filled in by the audience

i think i understand the assumption on some level for undertale, because there is a very intentional effort to make you identify with the "player character" in order to make your choices feel like your own (the beating heart of undertale's metanarrative lies in giving you an alternative path to violence against its enemies after all, and whether you're still willing to persue it for your own selfish reasons. YOUR agency is crucial).

of course, the cardinal plot twist of the main ending sweeps the rug from under your feet on that in every way, and frisk's individuality becomes, in turn, a tool to further UT's OTHER main theme: completionism as a form of diegetic violence within the story. replaying the game would steal frisk's life and happy ending from them for our own perverse sentimentality, emotionally forcing our hand away from the reset button.

i think their neutrality absolutely aids in that immersion. but also, there's this weird attitude by (mostly) cis fans where it being functional within the story makes it... somehow "editable" and "up to the player" as well? which is gross and shows their ass on how they approach gender neutrality in general lol.

but also like. there's plenty of neutral, non PCharacters in undertale and deltarune. even when undertale was just an earthbound fangame and the player immersion metanarrative was completely absent, toby still described frisk as a "young, androgynous person". sometimes characters are just neutral by design. it's not that hard to understand lol.

anyone who makes this argument for kris deltarune is braindead. nothing else to say about it.

[asgardian--angels]

things I wish I could relive for the first time again:

that magical window where you finish a new piece of media, having watched/read it all by yourself with no fandom contact whatsoever, and you are just so happy about it, and full of interesting theories and takeaways, and just in love with it as a gorgeous piece of art.

because I swear to god as soon as you join the fandom for anything, you're bombarded with how you're supposed to view characters and their arcs, how you're supposed to morally and ethically judge the plot and the ways it apparently failed to present the right message, and if you don't you'll either be shunned for not sharing the popular headcanons or you'll be harassed for not criticizing the source material enough.

like how is it that the fans of a piece of media are also the ones being the most negative about it? If I like a show or a movie or a book, well, I liked it. That's kind of the point. I'm actually not here to tear it apart and talk about how it didn't live up to standards other people had! I enjoyed it for what it was, and forcing myself to find negative things to say about it doesn't actually bring me more enjoyment of it or reap any benefit to me. Fandom's a double-edged sword; you want to join a community to share your love for a piece of art, and the price you pay for a modicum of joy is a mountain of negativity. that's one main reason that I never engage with fandom until I'm completely done with a show, because if I was plugged into all of that commentary and discourse during the process, I'd be completely colored by how I'm expected to interpret everything this piece of art is presenting to me without being able to even form my own opinions.