#Basic Components

[upaboveroofing]

A scaffolding structure provides strong, formidable support to the workers in a construction project. The entire structure plays a major role in providing easy access to greater heights. As a result, constructing buildings becomes much more efficient and takes less time.

[imnotditzy]

Imagine if Billy didn’t know Shazam died?

(This is actually apart of my AU lol)

But what if Billy didn’t know Shazam, the Wizard, was actually dead? Like maybe he did see Shazam get crushed by rocks but he just thinks a Wizard could survive that, Or he doesn’t remember meeting Shazam for whatever reason. (Like he knows it happened because his pantheon told him so, and he remembers like a tiny bit of being at the RoE, but maybe he doesn’t remember Shazam dying)

This would be kinda funny to think about, especially if the pantheon’s trying desperately not to let Billy know Shazam died. But they occasionally slip up, and each time they do Billy gets slightly more suspicious. Also, in my AU since Billy and Marvel and separate entities, I think it would be funny aswell if Marvel didn’t know either. (—which I do have an AU explanation to make it work, but I fear I may be getting too off track already.)

—

Heracles: Shazam was a good wizard.

Marvel: Was?

Heracles: IS, is. I simply misspoke—Shazam is a good wizard.

Marvel: Oh… 🧐

Billy: 🤨

—

Imagine if literally every other magic being knows Shazam’s dead, but Captain’s just none the wiser and tries to talk to them about the Wizard.

—

Zatanna: So…how’d you get your powers?

Billy (as Cap): Oh, by this Wizard, his name’s, uh…

grabs a piece of paper and scribbles the name down

Zatanna: Shazam?

Billy: Yup! Gave me my powers, have you heard of him? I think he’s very well known. I haven’t seen him in a while. Hope he’s still doing alright.

Zatanna (Going pale at the mention of a very much dead Wizard being referred to in present tense): Mhm….yeah…

—

(the league in the cafeteria, listening to one of the rare times they got Captain to talk about themself. —Billy’s just procrastinating going outside in the midwestern November cold.)

Billy: So I got my powers from this Wizard, his names…um. I think I told Zatanna? Captain looks over at her.

Zatanna (going pale): Really. I don’t remember.

Billy: Oh, okay, that’s fine! Here.

Grabs a piece of paper and scribbles down the name.

Superman: Shazam?

Every magic user in the cafeteria freezes.

Billy: Yeah! He’s the wizard who gave me my powers. I haven’t seen him since I became Captain Marvel, though. I should really go talk to him, maybe I’ll do that later.

****

Achilles: But what if we didn’t…

Hercules: How about we don’t…

Solomon: That wouldn’t be a good choice, Billy.

Zeus: I agree, you’d be just of a fool as Atlas to go.

Atlas (offended): Wow.

****

Zatanna (uncomfortable): I don’t think you should…

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of the nice things about PJO is that it's easy to cosplay.

the downside to this is any time you wear literally anything with a CHB or camp jupiter shirt you feel like you're cosplaying

[transmasccofee]

honestly one of my fav things that isn’t ever talked about with Kusuo is that he is honestly when you actually examine him, a pretty normal teenager. He’s insecure, he cares a lot about his mom and is scared of making her mad, he gets invested in other peoples drama, he dislikes PE, he hates being spoiled for things, he has an embarrassing crush that his friends judge him for, he has an awkward relationship with his dad and fights with his brother, he wants to be protected.

Like underneath all the unfamiliar stuff, he is honestly Just Some Guy.

[fidgetspringer]

Quick tip to anyone who is going through the horrors of learning to draw human bodies.

Don't look at the thousands of overly complicated anatomy tutorials, at least not to begin with.

Look instead to urban sketchers. Trust me on this. Urban sketchers have to get those shapes and proportions down on paper quickly and correctly.

Build shape memory before you start to look at where that one muscle goes when the arm is in that one specific position. Come back to that later.

Oh and I hate to say it but keep those urban sketcher tricks in the back of your mind and then draw figure studies every single day. It sucks at first but three of those every day for a week or two and you'll be able to draw human bodies. Pinky promise.

[unwastelandunbaby]

the movie didn’t explore the memory issues involved in the expendable process which is a shame. I think

[vendimeyers]

I actually really liked them giving Conrad some redemption now I hope they do the same thing for Kid the Hellion

[communistkenobi]

I don’t like when people ask how many books you plan to read/have read this year one because I think that’s a weird relationship to have to books and two because I think even reading a chapter or a portion of something is valuable. this is especially true with non-fiction but even with fiction I think any amount you read, even if you don’t read the entire thing, is not a failure or ‘incomplete’

[ohmywyll]

I don't know what's worse when Wyll is included in fan content and he's mischaracterized or he isn't included at all.

[neonhellscape]

The towering creature comprised primarily of metal spikes looks at you with its nine optics.

[whetstonefires]

You know, I've been thinking about it, and it is absolutely essential to the narrative that Jiang Cheng is a dick and a trash fire. (Affectionate.)

Like, first of all, if he was a sainted little angel of a shidi the way Jiang Yanli is a shijie, Wei Wuxian's choices would become obvious, sort of impersonal, and boring.

Sure, lots of people wouldn't tear themselves apart for such a person in such a scenario, but they're not the protagonists of novels, are they; in a book you have to justify not doing that. So white lotus Jiang Cheng is off the table.

Jiang Cheng who isn't fragile-and-insecure but also stubborn-as-hell and violently reactive also won't wash.

If he wasn't the kind of person who sincerely tries to die under these circumstances, Wei Wuxian would have had the option of loyally supporting him in a less self-destructive way; if he was someone who could be trusted to handle the revelation without suffering a ruinous fracture of identity, Wei Wuxian wouldn't have been forced to distance himself after the war, because he could have come clean.

If Jiang Cheng wasn't the kind of person who centers on his own pride and hurt feelings and lashes out about it, it would be very hard to set up the lategame scenario where they're 'enemies' in a real, meaningful way, despite still loving each other and Wei Wuxian never wishing Jiang Cheng any ill. Even with Jiang Yanli's death.

And I mean, you could get most of the plot without doing this interesting thematic examination of the classic 'bond between martial brothers severed by one going to the dark side' trope, but I'd argue you'd lose an enormous chunk of the story.

And without Jiang Cheng's weaknesses, Wei Wuxian's motives don't cohere. His weaknesses form the foundation of at least two of the backstory's major turning points.

There's the tantalizing possibility that Wei Wuxian wouldn't have done it, if Jiang Cheng hadn't strangled him while blaming him for everything.

Probably he would have, all else being equal! But neither we nor Jiang Cheng can be sure.

Jiang Cheng sucking a lot, and knowing his own flaws perfectly well without that granting him the ability to do much about them, is heavily load-bearing. Which gives him such a fantastic implied point of view!

[rigelmejo]

I've been looking into the 'cold reading method' for learning how to read chinese hanzi and. Honestly I need to look into it more, because I don't think I clearly understand what it is. It appears to me, that it's learning to associate a known word-sound to a hanzi, in small chunks with repetition. Before learning the radical components. I've also seen it mentioned at more advanced levels as "read chinese once looking nothing up, and only the second read-through look up what is unknown." Which is all fine. I hope there's more to it, I don't quite get it yet. It's a fine strategy.

I just... if you're a beginner, it's useful to be aware a lot of hanzi have sound components. As in, you look at the hanzi, and one component that makes it up will indicate roughly the pronunciation. For example: 妈 马 骂 are all pronounced ma (tones may differ in rough-similar pronunciations of hanzi components, or the initial may vary slightly like q-ing and j-ing). So if you already know these words from learning them through listening, then knowing oh if I see 马 in a hanzi it MIGHT be the 'ma' word I already know? Useful.

Once I learned a certain amount of hanzi, I became able to guess the pinyin to type in for looking up new hanzi I'd see in books or shows. Because I could guess the pinyin based on the components of the radical. If I didn't know 妈 , I could guess and type "nv" or "ma" and see if the right hanzi showed up on my keyboard/in Pleco app etc. If I see 清, 静, I'm going to guess and type in qing or jing, because one of the radicals is often qing/jing pronunciation. Being aware that you can kind of sound out/guess new hanzi's pinyin (except tone) can be useful. It means more looking up words with pinyin quickly instead of needing to handwrite a new hanzi into your phone, it means sounding out hanzi words roughly when reading to figure out if you Already know the spoken version of a word. And then the extended benefit, it means you see some hanzi like 清 and can guess 'well if qing/jing is the pronunciation component, then the water radical on the left may hint at the hanzi's meaning' the meaning is 'clear' and depending on your own mind you might find some mental connection between water and clear.

So yeah just... be aware there's often sound components in hanzi.

[citrusinicake]

prayge i actually decide to work on this

Nobody doesnt know its actual name cause its alchemist got killed by a rival alchemist before he could name it (it was made in a panic hence its imperfection lines). the rival wanted to take Nobody and was about to name it but it panicked and ran away before she could do so

its recommended to create homunulli in a neutral state so as not to influence their souls in creation, but unfortunately since Nobody was made in a panic it now lives in a perpetual state of fear and paranoia. on the flipside Victor was really excited to make Aphrodite so now it's the happiest and most excitable creature on earth

[thewitchoftheweed]

I’m convinced that the internet’s habit of reducing all creative works down to “content” has rotted a certain subsection of folks’ brains re: storytelling.

“It’s super CONVENIENT that Character Y sucks so that we’ll sympathize with Character Z!!! LAZY writing!!!”

It’s also “convenient” that Cinderella has an abusive stepmother and stepsisters so we’ll sympathize with her and cheer for her to leave with the Prince. It’s “convenient” that the evil Empire happens to kill Luke’s aunt and uncle right as he’s beginning his journey as a rebel Jedi.

Almost like…they’re the protagonist and we’re meant to sympathize with them??? Do you know where you are. How many fingers am I holding up.

[apostaterevolutionary]

Actually I will say the one thing about veilguard posts that is just so insane to me is I've seen a lot of people say ‘omg the combat is finally fun for the first time ever in a dragon age game’ and like. What do you mean you played probably a minimum 200+ hours of games and you didn’t like one of the main parts of them… what were you doing, why did you spend so much time on something you didn’t like when you could've just... not done that 💀

[akkivee]

i am very entertained by all these ghost/evil spirits events that would be very easily solved if kuukou was there to banish the ghost lmao (and equally entertained by the singular event where kuukou did need to banish a ghost and yet failed to)