#Intelligent Decisions

[elexuscal]

Here's the thing about Murderbot, and its network of relationships.

ART is probably its best friend, the person it can be most itself around, or be the most fully perceived around. MB doesn't have to hold its punches around it at all and that's important. #MutualAdministrativeAssistants

Dr. Mensah is its favourite human, yes. It is fully 110% ride-or-die for her. And yes that includes a degree of comfort and emotional intimacy, e.g. it will put its feet up on her office couch and trust her not to hug it unless very necessary. but it's very knight-to-liege-lord at the same time.

Pin-Lee is like. On equal standing. A valuable warrior in her own right, just in a different arena. Murderbot respects her professionally, and also the two of them can be little bitches together, it's good for their mutual mental health.

Bharadwaj is Murderbot's therapist. I mean its art friend too, i think it learned SO much about documentary filmmaking from her that came in Real Clutch. but she has tricked it into therapy and i think it's noticed that and it's just pretending it hasn't. that would be awkward. so.

Gurathin is in a unique position as the #worstie. he's the first person Murderbto could be mean to and that's become the core of their dynamic. snark central.

but Ratthi? ratthi is just a sweet little guy.

their relationship is like the most normal friendship that Murderbot has, and that, in of itself, is what makes it deeply weird.

[heliianth]

idk how exactly to talk about this bc theres a lot to be said but its always very surprising to me how many people think that part in 217 where gon talks about going on dates with older women on whale island is like a genuine indication of sexual abuse or predation. like i mean considering he prefaces it with "well mostly [ive been on dates with] aunt mito" i figure part of the reason why this scene (and much of the subplot) is framed humorously is bc its meant to be ironic. like part of the intended humor comes from the idea that gon has a very loose understanding of what a "date" is and killua doesnt pick up on it at all bc hes too busy doomspiralling. again theres a lot to be said about that subplot regardless, its just always puzzled me why people take that comment 100% at face value

[meanderingstream]

The Gaothmai flesh dreadnoughts are so horrific and I love it. Abomination-type creatures, but which are also troop carriers containing sorcerers and soldiers and other flesh-craft creatures inside them, who can come out to attack you from the orifice in the middle of the tentacles extending from the dreadnought’s otherwise featureless face.

Like just a sublimely terrifying exploration of what horrors can we extrapolate from the existence of flesh-craft sorcerers and their participation in a forever-war fueled arms-race with wizards. Troop carriers made of conjured flesh the size of skyscrapers whose only facial features are the uncountable 50-foot tentacles surrounding an orifice from whence more flesh abominations emerge.

[ofswordsandpens]

ever since I heard that RR was like "we decided that since Annabeth was so smart and 6 steps ahead of everyone, it wouldn't make sense for her to do x, y, or z like she did in the book" I've been physically ill, it haunts me

[yupekosi]

ohhhhhh Sandra-Lynn Faeth my beloved. she's everything. she's a high school dropout. she's a messy bitch. she's a MILF. she's divorced. she's in a polyamorous situationship. she shagged an archdevil. she went from a single mother of one to the semi-legal guardian of a 9 teenagers, one adult, 15 cats and a gryphon. she's had multiple affairs. she lives in a haunted house. she tells Fig not to smoke and immediately takes a drag off her cloves. her taste in partners is absolutely inscrutable. she's even bisexual. truly who is doing it like her

[garvalhaminho]

why does every tsc male main character act like a divorced father of three w bills to pay at 17. who gave them the right.

[willosword]

☹️

[hollypunkers]

Wizard of Oz is so iconic (no wonder we queers have loved it for over a century) because there is truly no funnier combination of found-family characters going on a quest than:

lots of heart, lots of bravery, a very flammable man all of 2 days old

lots of bravery, lots of intelligence, a living emotional rollercoaster with A+ Trauma

lots of intelligence, lots of heart, an apex predator with soul-crippling anxiety

an ordinary, barking, tiny dog in a world where all other animals talk

and their leader, a 12 year old girl from another world who doesn’t know where she is

[waitineedaname]

genuinely I have so many questions about the previous Qing Jing Peak Lord. Qing Jing Peak is known for being for pretentious privileged scholars, and yet the previous Peak Lord looked at Shen Jiu, whose list of traits included:

joined the sect way later than his peers

shady as fuck background that he refuses to talk about

extremely unpleasant personality, does not get along with any of his martial siblings

absolutely fucked cultivation base that makes him prone to qi deviations

was not literate until he was like fourteen

and the previous Peak Lord went "that one. I want him to be my successor"

[theoryofwhatnow]

it’s always gonna haunt me that Like Minds did the

*character says something really unimpressive using a vocabulary description that could perhaps be simplified into a different term*

secondary character: “english, please”

thing, but i’ll always worship greg for making the decision to delete that convo.

[calciumcarbo-bot]

Thoughts on Tomi and Senku?

[RESPONSE: UNIT S.E.N-KU_v1.03]

Inquiry received: “Thoughts on Tomi and Senku?”

Assessment:

Tomi Okube: Function: Creative engineer, suboptimal impulse control, primary contributor to inefficient but occasionally inspired design deviations. Notable behaviors: Habitual nonverbal communication, selective mutism overridden under emotional duress, tendency to weaponize silence more effectively than most humans weaponize speech. Emotional variable: High-intensity loyalty; poorly masked.

Senku Ishigami: Function: Primary Scientist of post-petrification civilization reboot. Original consciousness source for this unit. Rational to a fault, emotionally reckless under controlled circumstances, resistant to expressing attachment except when cornered by probability collapse.

Relational Dynamics: Observed interaction patterns between Tomi and Senku show statistically significant anomalies in behavioral regulation:

Increased tolerance for inefficiency (Senku ➔ Tomi)

Reduced emotional latency response time (Tomi ➔ Senku)

Mutual verbal sparring rate: 148% above baseline compared to interactions with others.

Instances of avoidant answers regarding Tomi’s feeling toward Senku: Documented. Multiplied.

Summary:

Scientific categorization: Unstable high-energy chemical reaction. Human categorization: Mutual hazard. Forecast: Inevitable entanglement unless actively suppressed. (0.2% likelihood of suppression.)

[END TRANSMISSION]

[travelingtwentysomething]

What if society formed long ago to put women in the role of homemaker and housewife and mother and that was the only job, men were supposed to take care of them and they didn't have to go out into the workforce, because that was MORE THAN ENOUGH WORK TO CONTRIBUTE TO SOCIETY AND NOT TO MENTION ALL THE COMMUNITY BUILDING WOMEN DO? But somewhere along the way men got the wrong idea, and lost respect, and started seeing women as weak and ignored the fact that they do the work of several professionals just to keep a home running. Can we just go back to that but legally men have to go into the workforce to provide for their family but the women are the only ones allowed to have bank accounts and get loans and make financial decisions and decide how many babies the family will have and also make political decisions about the community and the country? Like women run the world, men just do the heavy lifting and bring home the bacon because they're clearly too emotional and unstable to be in positions of power.

[susieandhobbes]

Justice for Dr. Mensah's Characterization!!!

[fromtheseventhhell]

I ignore about 95% of the conversations surrounding Arya having killed people because, outside of Arya stans, people refuse to include the context of the very violent circumstances she experiences + her trauma which influences her actions. She wasn't destined to be a killer and her being forced on the run, having to survive during a war (at times on her own), having to witness countless people being tortured and murdered, being enslaved as a prisoner of war, having to witness the deaths of her family, etc. are all hugely important factors. Not to mention the times when her life is literally on the line and she has to make tough decisions to ensure her survival. The only time her trauma is acknowledged is when people are using it to prove she's "too far gone", otherwise it's essays on how she hasn't suffered that much. It's so boring how people ignore well-developed characters just to reduce them to one or two aspects of their story. And this treatment is only for certain characters; let someone mention Sansa being part of the plot to poison Sweetrobin and all of a sudden, people can understand being forced to make questionable decisions under difficult circumstances.

[quotelr]

When you find your path in life and are in sync with your primary missions in this lifetime, everything else just falls into place.

Paul O'Brien, Great Decisions, Perfect Timing: Cultivating Intuitive Intelligence

[requiemforthestars]

I'm a NATLA defender now, tbh. I think more people will grow to appreciate its good parts more as time goes on. I'm of course waiting to see how they wrap everything up and I'm not immune to its flaws, but I think people are so blinded by everything not being The Exact Same as the original cartoon than they're not appreciating its good parts. It's an adaptation, a companion, it's not a replacement to the original.