#Find-Module

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

hope you feel better soon!

I am riddled with ailments, but I stay silly!

[son-of-avraham]

We have reached the judaism module of my ancient civilization class

The Pro:

I feel like I better understand ancient mesopotamia and the context behind how we arrived at some of the laws we see within judaism (comparing the code of hammurabi with many passages we see in the torah today, for instance)

The Con:

We still have the torah - why are we using the king james bible

[thepoisonroom]

someone should study how gender performance gets surveilled and disciplined in gay dating btw

[iamfuckingsorry]

"Do you know where we are going next?" I asked ART.

Y'know what, I think maybe I don't need any more Murderbot books. I think maybe ending things here is fucking perfect and as much as I love Wells's writing I'm genuinely not sure it can get better for me.

Like, so much of the books are about MB learning how to be a person, about becoming okay with being a complete individual with everything it entails. The first thing it does once it's actually allowed to decide on its own is it runs away from it all (admittedly to go on a mission to confirm some things about its past, because it genuinely just wants to be *good*). It shoves all its emotions away as much as it's able to. Then shit happens, and it makes its first friends, makes decisions based on these friendships, goes through a lot of emotionally intense situations...

And we get to this point here. MB having zero doubts about going with ART says a lot about its relationship with ART, but it also says a lot about its relationship with its humans - it knows that wherever it goes, when it comes back, the humans will still be there. Its humans actively acknowledge its struggles with being a now-free SecUnit and MB is willing to entertain the discussions to an extent and share information about its deeply personal experiences. Hell, System Collapse ends with MB admitting it might be somewhat broken, but that's okay as long as it can keep doing its job, and agreeing to basically do counselling - this is the guy what would rewatch its favourite TV show again and again in order to avoid acknowledging it even had Emotions a couple books back.

Reading this, I know that MB will be okay. It has hopes and goals and genuinely believes in itself and it has an amazing support system that its willing to lean on for the first time in its life. I'm convinced it'll go on to do great things with ART. And that's really the only thing I need to know.

[akkivee]

i’ve been learning about cybersecurity as part of on the job training and i think we should petition to change rei’s occupation from con man to this lol

[mikkolas]

WHY NOT US? also known as ALL OVER AGAIN? also known as FUCK ME, DUDE, SERIOUSLY? also known as—(GUNSHOTS). | quote from the crooked moon

[paxbe]

eeeeh idk how i feel about the murderbot tv adaptation guys, it's just not hitting right for me.

i will continue to give it the benefit of the doubt and see where they take the rest of the season but i feel like the showrunners have made a weird choice to make the whole vibe more silly and low stakes and as a result every character, including murderbot, comes across like incredibly incompetent and kind of pathetic?

i've seen some discussion about whether you think the show's versions of the characters are 'cringe' as being some kind of litmus test. but to me i think the way the show itself frames its characterisations of the characters is what's adding the cringe factor.

instead of having a bunch of great characters who have different perspectives and backgrounds and motivations etc. that audience can see parts of themselves in but also that drive the plot forward and tell us more about the world they're in, it feels like the show has stripped all the characters down to caricatures or quirks and then makes them seem almost apologetic about it? like all the time? kind of like the characters themselves are embarrassed and the point is that we're supposed to laugh at them for being weird. which i guess there is some element of that in the book, but it was usually always at murderbot's expense and instead in the show it feels weirdly mean spirited.

idk i feel like somehow i'm being made fun of as someone who loved the books and liked that the characters are all really different and sometimes that was beneficial and sometimes that's a challenge but all the time that's just how they are and the narrative didn't apologise for it and that's the whole point, y'know?

[epersonae]

Today's doggies and dungeons session: defeating the necromancer with the power of grief counseling!

(including a dash of Lucius's "what if life just begins again")

[invye]

This feeling when you look through your notes and find a hilarious snippet you wrote that is missing:

- context

- beginning

- ending

but you just know you were having the silliest idea when you wrote it...

I have since remembered the context ( @jumpermoon remember the pan homerun?) and there is a singular half sentence note that implies the ending, but I can't finish it into a proper one-shot if I don't know how I start into it...

[gaydexvocaloid]

idk if you've answered this already, can your yuma listen to music through his tail?

NOBODY HAS ASKED ME THIS YET!!!!!! BUT YES!!! he can!! it’ll basically block out EVERYTHING and he’d only be able to hear whatever music is playing on what he plugged it into!! think of like REALLY good soundproofing headphones LOL that’s the effect it’d basically have just minus the actual physical headphones

[luna-the-cretar]

It’s funny, I don’t even know how the Crooked Moon is theoretically supposed to end, and yet here I am already coming up with a certain ending and how to get it

[tsunochizu]

Part 1 of iterator puppet biology headcanons

Current focus: main body

This is a significantly more detailed version of my previous iterator anatomy post, some things got altered, and some stay the same

Part two and three (head and limbs) will come later, and then I will make another post with everything in one place

Feel free to ask me any questions about it, and it is free to use as reference if you enjoy this and want to use it in stories/art!

[finitevoid]

oh also @lockandkeyblade here

[carnivallsarchive]

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See the thing is. I know I'm good at writing. Like I have my weak areas or things I need to improve in, but it's not a skill I otherwise spend a lot of time feeling insecure about because a) if I don't believe in my writing literally who will b) if I want to publish my writing I ought to at least feel a resting level of good about it because editors and agents likely will not be cradling my face like a prize cat and telling me how talented I am while asking for their edits c) I've always had an audience for my writing even at its worst– I started sharing my original works online when I was around 16 & that really helped sell to me the idea of 'there will always be someone out there who likes what you do' d) untalented men never think this hard about the quality of their works and they always end up published anyway and e) I don't have many other thoroughly developed skills so why not have one I feel good about. Having said this. Awkward feeling to realize you're one of the authorial weak links in your postgraduate creative writing degree's social circle

[girlwonderers]

so on friday we had our regular kingmaker session. spent the first part of it doing kingdom management (how did we get TWO CULT INFILTRATIONS IN A ROW), claiming hexes, etc. then we took a break from playing Mathfinder to actually play Pathfinder and went back into exploration/adventure mode.

one of our villagers came to me (as the general/head of the armed militia), asking me to investigate a pair of murders that had happened—two dead, apparently mauled and partially eaten by an animal, two nights in a row.

i (as both player and character) keep obsessive track of the moon cycles in-game, because my character is a werewolf. the murders had happened on the two nights before the full moon.

me: it's another FUCKING WEREWOLF, isn't it! gm: well, you can do some investigating— me: but i don't need to because i already know it's another FUCKING WEREWOLF.

spoiler alert! it was, in fact, another FUCKING WEREWOLF.

(in-character at least two of my party members suspected i had lost control and done it, which, ouch. fair but ouch.)

anyway we caught up with the other werewolf on the night of the full moon and had an incredible werewolf v werewolf smackdown, and general nordylva asserted her territorial boundaries with incredible violence!

[fearowkenya]

oh shit it's wip wsunday

wow aerith you sure feel strongly about the chad module. thats what this is about right aerith