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What would the FFXIV OST would look like if you mapped it out and drew lines between the songs that share motifs?

Take a peek and find out. 🎶

Some numbers:

There are 471 songs and 477 individual motifs in this chart at time of publishing

There are 567 instances of motifs appearing in other songs (so far)

22 motifs are established in 1.0, 43 in ARR, 19 in HW, 16 in StB, 13 in ShB, and 20 in EW

There are only four degrees of separation between "A Sailor Never Sleeps", the Limsa Lominsa night theme, and "The Final Day", which plays during the final 6.0 trial???

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chapter 76

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Hell's Canyon petrified wood, bark of Snakebark tree, Silver Birch bark, wood texture

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Gulmp.

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Wenhao Xu, Faraz A. Burni, and Srinivasa R. Raghavan. Reversibly Sticking Metals and Graphite to Hydrogels and Tissues. ACS Central Science, https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.3c01593

Submitter comment: This paper is wonderful, and a pretty accessible read. The premise sounds like a half-assed science fair project: what happens when you stick electrodes on food in your kitchen and run a DC current through it? Turns out you get an unexpectedly strong and often reversible adhesion between the soft food and the hard electrode that even works underwater. Even the authors are like “how the hell was this not discovered two centuries ago”

Also, in the materials section:

All the meat, fruits, and vegetables were purchased from Whole Foods.

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When people get a little too gung-ho about-

wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?

ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.

That’s…wild. What was I talking about?

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we still get immediately shoved out of our immersion in tv shows or films when The Girl find a dead body and immediately shrieks - we just don't find it realistic because we're pretty confident most people would gasp rather than shriek (i.e. sharp inhale rather than sharp exhale) and it also feels unnecessarily (and predictably) misogynistic too, as men encountering corpses almost never do the same on screen

also of course please do tell us if you've actually encountered a corpse unexpectedly, because tumblr is absolutely a place where some people have done this thing and we love a good anecdote

suddenly imagining "burst into song" as a potential response

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Happy Thistle Thursday! I tried to draw @diskoteek's beautiful post-canon Thistle design. Check out their original post here!

Thank you for granting permission for me to do this :]

My own thoughts under cut

I agree very much with everything that was said in the original post, and it all resonated with me very strongly.

I feel like, because he spent so long putting others before himself and repressing his own desires to be more likeable, the only things he wanted when the Winged Lion attacked him were to find Delgal, to keep the kingdom safe, and to have the royal family eat together with him again (why he has all the plates set up, and can still taste the nightmare shellfish). If that's the case, desires he had for himself may not have even been present for the Winged Lion to eat. Instead, once those desperate wishes were gone, the things Thistle wanted for himself might begin to resurface... I thought something like that might be possible because he was smiling instead of numb like Mithrun had once been, and his memories of Delgal returned even though the Winged Lion took away his desire to see him again.

I also have OCD, and relate a lot to how desperate and agitated Thistle is all the time. I think it would be nice if what he lost were his compulsions and feelings of obligation rather than his sense of self, because I don't want freedom from compulsions to only be possible in death. I want to believe he can breathe deeply and feel the sunlight again, and I had also thought it would be nice for him to live by the sea. But that's all just my selfish headcanon

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The FTC just announced a new rule banning noncompete agreements. A noncompete agreement is a rule set by an employer stating that employees cannot get a new job (or start a new business) within a certain industry and/or geographical area for a certain timeframe after leaving.

Originally, the idea was to encourage employers to invest in their employees by providing more training and developing useful skills, confidant in the knowledge that those employees wouldn't take that valuable training and quit to work for a competitor. But noncompete agreements have become increasingly common for all sorts of jobs. They trap workers in crappy jobs with low wages by limiting their options for leaving.

For example, Jimmy John's used to have a noncompete agreement that prohibited employees from working anywhere that sold sandwiches within three miles of any Jimmy John's establishment, during and for two years after employment. They have since rescinded the agreement and settled a related lawsuit out of court in 2016, but hopefully this illustrates how ridiculous these things can get.

My favorite quote from the article:

"The Commission also finds that instead of using noncompetes to lock in workers, employers that wish to retain employees can compete on the merits for the worker’s labor services by improving wages and working conditions."

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no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

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Arboreal Salamander (Aneides lugubris) bite a finger!!!, family Plethodontidae, found in California and Baja California

Arboreal, these salamanders have prehensile tails, and will use their limbs to glide or "parachute" from trees, if they need to.

They can deliver a nasty bite.

photographs by Val Johnson

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Made the worst brownies ever created just now

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Malaria cells have plastids homologous to chloroplasts

"We now recognize that this large group of parasites had a photosynthetic ancestry and were converted into parasitism early in the evolution of animals."

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Inner Senshi: You need to eat three well-rounded meals per day! Fried foods are fine, you'll just also need a salad or veggies for the rest of your nutrients!

Inner Chilchuck: Don't overwork yourself, do what they're paying you to do. A job is a job. Also, don't get involved in office politics or romances, they're more trouble than they're worth! And don't risk your health for some job!

Inner Laios: Yes, the stray doggie is cute, but it may not be used to being around people, and can absolutely still bite you! Call animal control so the dog can be taken to a shelter, fed, vaccinated, and hopefully adopted!

Inner Marcille: Tradition and rules exist for a reason, but it may not be a good one. You should know why the rules are what they are instead of following them blindly. A lot of times, rules and traditions exist to reinforce power structures!

Inner Falin: Even ugly things deserve love and respect! The people around you are suffering too, so always try kindness first!

Inner Izutsumi: Izutsumi.