#source: no reservations

[specialagentartemis]

I’m sorry you’re having to read so many computer generated essays - is it hard to grade them, I’m not even sure how you’d go about grading an essay you just know was mostly AI generated

At this point, there's not much to do besides grade them as-is, according to the rubric (did they address the prompt? Did they use relevant examples from class? Is the paper formatted in paragraphs and free of obvious errors?) and then add a comment that goes "Wow! Your writing style changed a lot between the rough draft and the final! I hope that this project and this process of revision was informative and insightful for you.  I like assignments like this because we don't assign papers just because we want to read a paper - the goal is for you to get this practice articulating and refining your thoughts and your arguments, to be able to express what YOU think and what YOU have come to understand about the topic.  I hope this process of first draft and revisions was useful and insightful for this, and that you continue to get these opportunities to hone your thoughts."

I hope that if they did the work it reads as sympathetic - I know you don't like this, but it's for a reason, I promise. And if they didn't, I hope they feel a little bit guilty.

[evilminji]

while i will not argue that luo binghe is absolutely unfilial as hell, i will partially defend him for not freeing tianlang-jun in pidw. because consider; he probably only learned aboutt his parents from the old palace master.

there is no doubt in my mind that the old palace master told him he was the product of rape because that cretin is absolutely scum enough to do such a thing. and i doubt luo binghe knows anything about how pregnancy works for female cultivators to actually think about it and question the old palace master's story.

regardless of his own hypocrisy, i don't think luo binghe would free tianlang-jun if he believed him a rapist.

that's the only part i'm defending though. bro is unfilial as hell.

probably thought tianlang-jun a threat to his reign as emperor. bro took any remaining filial piety he had left and buried it with his washerwoman mother.

You make a good argument. (¬`‸´¬) and I am gonna sulk about that. Cause I still wanna bite him.

Why must all awful things in Tianlang-jun's life come back to this One(1) fucker? What? Did he piss in the guys congee in a past life?! A POX upon the Palace Fucker! *seethes*

Probably didn't help that Xin Mo was playing cheese grater with his reasoning. Or he would have at LEAST gone to double check and/or stabbed him about that. But PIDM was not exactly the most stable of tables, as it were.

I still? Reserve the right to dramatically throw myself into your arms to curse out our UNFILIAL child, Anon. How COULD he! Our poor, sweet, DEFINITELY never done ANYTHING wrong in his WHOLE life, Tianlang-jun! *melodramatic sobbing as I cling dramatically*

[brucespencer]

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[flow2024]

An early review I’m assuming has now been deleted since I can’t find it anywhere mentioned that there could’ve been a better use of Nile and Quynh, the spectre of the big bad immortal undermined the premise of the immortality itself and the main relationships of the first movie. Which doesn’t sound promising. But it also said there were some strong threads of connection so idk. Holding out hope whilst expecting the worst I guess?

i typed out most of this and then tumblr ate it so i'm typing it again and may skim over some stuff BUT: in essence: while i was watching tog earlier what jumped out to me was the fact that despite being a netflix action movie, with all that entails, and kind of generic in places (said with all the love in my heart) tog does have a very strong thematic undercurrent. both in the conclusion the film comes to, which is we're not meant to be alone, and in the way it treats killing with a certain weight that this kind of movie doesn't always do. immortality is an integral part but also not really, in that i think rucka at one point made a comment about it originally being kind of an experiment in being able to kill off characters in various looney toons ways and still have them survive but became a story more widely about life and death and the way death gives life meaning. etc etc. which is clear in the first film, i think, especially with andy's loss of immortality and nile having a bigger role. it definitely fumbles sometimes but overall it's strong and, fundamentally, it Has A Point.

tog 2, however. first off when it comes to nile and quynh: noriko's arc in the comics is difficult to apply to tog 2, namely because it is in active conflict with andy's rediscovery of her purpose which has already happened, and because quynh is too complicated of a character to tie up easily in 100 mins. she's not a villain you can drop 17 storeys and call it a day. her anger is fully understandable. akasha is an easy big bad to have because she will be disposable at the end of the day and therefore leave a neater conclusion. plus andy has already had her purpose arc so introducing akasha means introducing new information (it seems?) which will shift things and allow for the we help humans vs humans suck conflict. etc

i wouldn't be super surprised if they just didn't know what to do with nile. she's a foil to andy in the first movie and helps that arc by setting up a mentor + mentee, ex immortal + new immortal, old + young kind of thing but that arc again is over. so like. beyond her settling into immortality and becoming more integral to the group i don't know how much she's going to get to do, especially in competition with a lot more information and characters in 100 minutes. which sucks because I Want To See My Girl and i think elements of her plot line from force multiplied, i.e. the other side of depends on the century, learning that they have made bad choices and needing to reconcile that with herself could be interesting. i haven't seen any of the clips by the way and if that's where they seem to be going don't tell me i want to go in blind! but yeah. i hope she's there more but if not ill be very annoyed. the being half cropped out of the thumbnail ain't boding well

generally i fear tog 2 is going to suffer from a bad case of missing the point. its general plot seems to revolve around Immortality Information We Don't Know Yet, but again, the immortality isn't and has never been the point. it's a storytelling device. it's used to explore purpose, whether what we do matters, etc. it's Not The Point Of The Story. but from the trailer alone (which may well be misleading, they often are) i fear it's not going to have that same strength in its themes that made the first film stand out and instead become a generic superhero action thing. as a recorded skeptic. i'll be having fun regardless and my expectations are on the ground so if it is good i'll be pleasantly surprised but i also haven't actually processed that the movie is going to be real and on my screen so who knows maybe it'll be awesome. at the end of the day, it will feature The Character on my screen which is really all that matters

[lesbianralzarek]

roommate and i saw a man in full wizard gear (plural staves on back!) yesterday so now our household celebrates sorcery saturday because we're adults and we get to decide what that means for us 🙂‍↕️

[vague-in-vegas]

Kelvin: Wear a good hat and a good pair of boots. Good hat helps hide what you're doing from the Lord above. And good boots? They help you outrun the Devil.

[incorrectafcrichmond]

Sam: Does that mean Bumbercatch is going to be Captain?

Moe: No, though I will out rank Isaac, who will be right below O'Brien and just above Jamie.

Jan: You rank us?

Jamie: And I'm below Tom?

Tom O'Brien: That's crazy, I'm the worst.

Moe: It's that kind of self-awareness that keeps you a notch above Jamie.

[nyaskitten]

hmmm... Beatrix and Jordana are scarily similar, no? Both are the weaker, pathetic counterparts to a stronger and powerful individual whom they hold a one-sided grudge with, seeking to be number one. They both have extreme anger issues as well, getting very, VERY mad when things don't go their way (not as bad as Ras' anger issues though).

Both are then offered a proposition from Lord Ras, who seeks to achieve his master's goal, and well... seeing how Beatrix was just a pawn, and nearly destroyed the whole world well, I'm scared about Jordana and what she could do, to say the least...

[pluraltits]

”Fictive”

sooo like we’ve noticed in a lot of plural spaces, there’s a habit/trend of putting your introjection status under roles of some sort.

which I personally don’t get, being Blorbo is not my job (speaking very loosely here)… it’s just my brain seeing Blorbo and going “Ohhhggggfh… the fuckimg symbolism is divine. We can SO put trauma in these exomems instead of thinking about it..” OR “fuuuck I need a Template bad. What’s the girl from the shows?”

like… it’s coincidence for us. is Blorbo a role/job for others??

I don’t understand how your introjection status.. does anything? I’ll see people list out members like this:

Name 1 - Host

Name 2 - Protector

Hey Look It’s Blorbo - Fictive

Name 3 - Caretaker

Like ??? In general all of this already tells me nothing*, but it tells me even less. (*With general roles, you can assume how a member tends to act. But this is all assuming so you push it to the side when you meet them.)

maybe it’s just me being critical or something, but I genuinely don’t get this. if anyone has an answer then feel free

[levil0vesyou]

Uh oh

[sarenderpity]

I NEED people to understand that LITTER (the stray trash we see pile up in populated areas) and LITTERING (the act of just throwing trash willfully on the ground) are often largely unrelated. Very little litter was just abandoned on purpose. Most of it makes it's way out of uncovered trash recepticals, open car doors, imperfect delivery of trash from point A to point B, and in some areas, storm water and wind carrying trash from it's landfill destination to another unintentional location.

"Who would ever litter?" Bro YOU. Any time you've used an uncovered park trashcan on a windy day.

[cyb3rtron]

i know why i prefer zayne over rafayel and xavier, it’s bc he reminds me of nanami 😭😭

[machabre]

idk where it is but I remember I wrote a hc about Bryan's skin growing back over his cybernetics, and now I'm thinking about it again thanks to this Wesker art and that's exactly how I think it'd work, in fewest words; unsightly

[voluptuarian]

As landback efforts here become more successful I can't help but wonder how long it will take for indigenous reclamation to be described as the predations of settler colonists

[incorrectafcrichmond]

O'Brien: I just don't see what the big deal is.

O'Brien: Those girls have it great. they get to eat wings and wear shorts.

O'Brien: I would give Paul a lap dance in a second if I got that gig.

Reynolds:

[fleelangston]

FLEELANGSTON : a 21+ college roleplay set in the dual locations of bath and cotswolds in england, following the students of langston college in their study abroad program in bath at the distinguished palladian school of art & design and their residency in cotswolds after an incident dubbed “moldgate” had occurred in their home base in langston college in new york. equally, we follow palladian students adjusting to the sudden and heaping intrusion for the next three months of the spring semester in an opportunity to develop both long lasting and temporary muses in this roleplay.

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