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everyone's doomed by the narrative bitch let's get you some fruit

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Random fantasy/worldbuilding thing:

Everyone from a different culture seems strangely poetic and profoundly deep in their observations, but only because they speak whatever the common tongue is as a second language, and whatever they are saying is actually mostly just clumsily translated common sayings/figures of speech that flow much better in their own tongue, and make perfect sense to the people who understand the cultural context.

Someone who comes from a place where geodes are common will describe another person: "He is like a stone that seems to hold a treasure inside of it - you learn to know such stones by their shape and their weight - but once you split it open, there is no quartz, no amethyst, no sparkling and brilliant crystal you expected. Just solid rock, through and through. He is like one of those rocks." Which vaguely makes sense, but they're clearly frustrated about not being quite able to express what they're trying to say.

The thing is, in their own first language, there's a specific word for this kind of rock - one that outwardly seems to be a geode but it isn't one after all. This word is also commonly used as an insult, to describe a person who is charismatic, convincing and outwardly seems brilliantly smart, but is actually dumb as shit.

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downside: going to have to include a picture of the Giza pyramids in the slides for the lecture upside: i get to give people a crash course in why perspective matters in two frames, because

followed by

is such a funny sequence

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He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

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He sits on my lap while I spin, he does the little jiggle

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Ozai is so pathetic, like that “take his bending away haha he’s harmless now” trick would never have worked on Zuko, if you took his bending away he’d just grab his swords and come at you twice as hard, Azula doesn’t have swords or anything but she’s pretty good at hand to hand and amazing at talking her way out of problems, Iroh bust himself out of prison with no bending at all, meanwhile Ozai? Gets his bending taken away and then just collapses, doesn’t even try anymore, then just sits in prison and tries to get into Zuko’s head some more, he could have trained up and tried to break out too! But no! Bet he can’t break steel bars with his bare hands. Bet he can’t kick a steel lever in two. Bet he can’t even do a flip.

Also we never really see him do any really impressive firebending apart from when he has magic comet power, I guesss he shoots some lightning at Zuko, but that’s it and Azula is still better at the lightning thing. Azula has blue flames. Zuko can do firebreakdancing and bend with his swords. Does Ozai, who is not 14 years old, have blue flames? No he doesn’t.

He didn’t even do his coup himself, Ursa had to kill Azulon for him! Could have just challenged Iroh to an Agni Kai for the throne but he didn’t bc he knew he’d lose.

And then he only ruled for like 6 years! He lost a war that had been going on for 100 years bc of a bunch of kids.

Loserlord indeed

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Random writing tips that my history professor just told during class that are actually helpful

Download all your sources or print them so you can turn off your wifi

Give your phone to someone

Just. WRITE. Writing is analysing, you’ll get more ideas as you write. It doesn’t need to be perfect, for now you can just blurt out words and ideas randomly. You can fix it later.

Create a skeleton/structure before writing.

Stop before you get exhausted. It’s best to stop writing when you still have some energy and inspiration left, this will also motivate you to get started again next time.

Make a to do list

Work in bite sizes. Even if it’s not much, as long as you put some ideas on paper or do some editing.

Simple language =/= boring language, simple language = clear language.

Own your words. If they are not your words, state this clearly in the text, not just in the footnotes.

STOP BEFORE YOU GET EXHAUSTED. Listing it again because it’s easily one of the best tips a teacher has ever given me.

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got myself another frame on the every frame collab cos im a glutton for punishment (wip)

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love shakespeare. did a hamlet run tonight, looked someone dead in the eye to say “am i a coward?” during a speech and the fucker shrugged and nodded

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Alastor's relationship with Lilith

Ok, here's a theory about Alastor. I think he and Husk are in the same situation. Like, I think that Alastor sold his soul to Lilith to save himself seven years ago or maybe even when he first arrived in Hell. Who knows.

But I think that Lilith made him help Charlie and he actually HAS to do whatever Charlie wants to help the hotel.

In episode 1, he makes a whole commercial by himself for the hotel when he has stated multiple times he HATES video, why? If he's really just doing this for fun, why does he bother, he could just refuse or leave it to Charlie and Vaggie to figure out. (also he looked actually annoyed that they didn't like it? Why? Because he actually worked hard on it? Because it meant he would have to do it again??)

Then, near the end of the episode, when Vaggie is struggling he makes a deal with her. Not for her soul, but an agreement that he will help so long as she promises never to ask him to deal with cameras and making videos again.

But why?

Why go through all the effort of first making a commercial then extracting that promise then making a new commercial? Unless, maybe, he knows he can't actually disobey a direct order from them, and getting this promise gets him out of making any more videos indefinitely??

Then we get to episode 2, just a small note that I thought was interesting. When Alastor leaves to get his coat fixed, Vaggie tells him he needs to help with the hotel and Angel comments that he has to fix the wall. Which he does immediately. I just think its interesting, since everything we've seen of Alastor so far has pointed to the fact that he's chaotic, does what he likes, when he likes and seems to like people being scared of him.

Then why does he allow Vaggie and Angel to essentially order him to fix the wall when he has to fix his coat (something that is clearly important to him by his response when Sir Pentious ripped it)? I have a feeling he wasn't actually worried what 'the papers' would say.

In episode 3, all I can say are: The EggBois. He clearly seemed excited to kill them in the beginning, until Vaggie told him he couldn't. Then he took them out with him to his meeting. Where they were CLEARLY annoying him. And he still didn't kill them?? Not even maim them?? Why?

I just think its so strange, because on one hand we know Alastor to be a character that is chaotic, mysterious, enjoys violence , making people fear him, and hates all things to do with TV. And yet he has done so many things that go against that, with only the excuse that he wouldn't want people saying his 'project' was a failure so soon and that the hotel is only a source of 'entertainment'. It just doesn't seem like enough of a reason for him to do these things.

I could be totally wrong, but......

I'm watching you Alastor.

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I need to see Shoto eating shampoo

👍 got you

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I find it funny how hard Lupin III tries to convince you that these guys are the most dangerous people in the world when they look like this:

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Bakugo: I just wanna know, do you know what Russian Roulette is?

Izuku: Yeah! It’s when you put bullets in five of the chambers and kept one open!

Bakugo:

Bakugo: You’re not right, but somehow made the game ten times more terrifying.

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shouto speedrunning orphanage like

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(guy experiencing the consequences of his actions) yeah i don’t know why these things keep happening to me i must be cursed or something

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I love my OC!

*puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the horrors* *puts him through the hor

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