#Patterns everywhere

[youdontlookautistic]

Late diagnosed autistic and waking up:

When I first found out I was autistic last year, I saw the funny mentions and tiktoks about 'wow patterns everywhere.'

Patterns! All over!

I laughed. I got it, but thought it was sort of a light hearted joke. Just an autie joke yeah?

Nah.

No. My dudes.

There are patterns everywhere. In everything. And I feel like my entire life purpose is to find the why of the pattern. THERE ARE PATTERNS IN FUCKING EVERYTHING AND MY BRAIN IS WIRED TO SEEK THEM OUT.

The more I lean into myself, the louder they get. I sorta love it.

[nirivenova]

Humans will always revert back to the attitudes and mannerisms of those they claim to despise. It is one of the many reasons they are ultimately a disappointment.

[jakei95]

Having depression is not a choice, every person dealing with this will find a lot of factors around them debilitating. Saying things like "you're always focusing on the negative", only adds to the problem. If you can't empathize, then keep your judgments to yourself.

[diabolichare]

Is this courtship?

Danny is going to Gotham for his scholarship.

Good news! There's another halfa in the city, and he seems to be a good guy. Bad news: the nearest path to his university is through that halfta's haunt. He could take the long way around, but the costs would be more than his budget can handle, and he'd like to avoid dealing with a pissed-off Red Hood.

Hopefully the offerings will be enough to sate his annoyance (and help maybe, god that man has the most malnourished core he's ever seen).

Meanwhile, Jason is getting incredibly confused over the strange gift baskets that keep appearing on his patrol routes.

[brighhton]

PACIFIC RIM (2013) | dir. Guillermo Del Toro

Coming to DVD on October 15, 2013!!

disclaimer: this is clearly not a real advertisement but instead the amulet hit me with a vision to make this. i dont normally post my edits here but today i feel whimsical. so enjoy....

[portable-document-format]

i cant tell things apart ! i dont know where they start !

[foreverunraveling]

Is it just me, or does Young Royals really love to scare us, lull us into a false sense of security, and then pull the rug out from underneath us (in a way that's much worse than the original threat)?

For example, you see August clocking Wille leaving the movie before Simon in episode 2.

You (if you weren't too distracted by the scene itself) might have worried that he might show up when they were having their first kiss there. But he didn't. The show consciously created that tension and then relieved it as a foreshadowing of the much worse version of that to come later.

That tension is recreated at the end of episode 4 when August is shown outside a window at Forest Ridge.

There's a brief moment of relief--he's at Alex's window, not Wille's. While you know deep down where this has to be going, you still have a kernel of hope. And then even when he does make it to Wille's room, you can't tell it's a boy (let alone Simon) for five full seconds. Hope tries to stay alive. We all know how it ends, though--that tension snaps right back into our faces when August spots Wille and Simon moments later.

This happens on a different scale with Wille and Simon's planned weekend together in episode 3. When Wilhelm tells Simon that August will be staying at Forest Ridge, that introduces a tension of "will they get their weekend together?"

That tension of "will they get their weekend together" is relieved when Wille asks if he can come to Simon's in Bjarstad, only to AGAIN snap right back into our faces when a much bigger problem surfaces--Erik dies. So, they don't get their weekend anyways.

Hell, there's even a hint of this in episode 2 when August walks in on Wilhelm looking at Simon's Instagram before rowing practice. He doesn't actually see what Wille was doing, though--so it's okay--and he ends up taking a call from Erik.

In another way, this happens with Wilhelm and Felice's relationship from season 1 to season 2. She initially kisses him in episode 3, and we worry that he might just go with it. He doesn't, though. What a relief. In the next episode, though, once he's crown prince, Wilhelm is publicly flirting with Felice (despite her relationship with August) over how "cute" she looks in a video. But our worries about this fade with the release of the video and Felice's support into season 2...

Until they actually almost hook up in the third episode, that is.

And it's definitely not limited to Simon and Wille and their relationships. It comes up with Sara and August too. When he initially kisses her in episode 4 of season 1, you might worry that maybe Sara will respond in a less-than-healthy manner, or that she'll keep what happened to herself instead of telling Felice. Sara rebuffs him, though, and tells Felice about what happened in the stables later that episode.

Tension introduced and relieved, so we move on. But then in the final episode of season 1, Sara goes to August's room to confront him about the video. And she ends up kissing him. In season 2, they end up being in AN ENTIRE SECRET RELATIONSHIP that Sara keeps from Felice. The original fear that you might have had about August twisting his way into Sara's heart was well-founded, it seems.

There are also smaller examples. Like when you see Erik driving incredibly fast in episode 1, or when you see Wilhelm riding on the scooters with Simon, Rosh, and Ayub in episode 2, some people worried there might be some kind of accident. (He was going hands-free, for fuck's sake.)

Well, in both of those instances, everything turned out okay, while Erik's actual offscreen accident in episode 3 obviously did not.

The anxiety about Marcus catching Wilhelm and Simon kissing at the Valentine's party is momentarily alleviated when it looks like him and Simon are going inside, but then Marcus turns around and sees Wille (not to mention he sees Simon eyeing Wille throughout the entire song and during the applause).

Let's not even get started on the drugs. We thought that storyline was resolved, gone, done away with after Alexander was seemingly expelled during season 1.

But then he's back in season 2, and the question of whether anyone will tell Alex that Wilhelm was the one to pin the blame on him arises. It seems a minor issue--given that Alexander wasn't actually expelled, and he seems to like Wille, we don't necessarily expect it to matter all too much. In episode 6, though, the "drug thing" is back at the top of our list of problems. We thought that this had been dealt with! That we'd gotten past it!

But it's worse than before--there's a pill bottle with Simon's father's name on it, and August has it! August has a potential witness behind him (Alex) and is threatening to tell not just the school, but the cops!

Don't worry, though, the tension is relieved when Simon tells Wille he's not going to report August to the police... for approximately six seconds until we see that Sara is reporting August instead.

Anyways, following this pattern, you can draw some really interesting potential conclusions about season 3 based on some of the big tension reliefs that have occurred over the past two seasons. Not saying that any of these will happen, but I'm preparing myself for anything:

Wilhelm has some sort of drug OD—like Simon (and some of the audience, probably) worried on the night of the Society party. This is one I'm really hoping doesn't come up.

Wilhelm actually kills August—when Wilhelm puts that gun down, it's a massive relief for most of us (also the characters present). This would just be... wild. And would explain Omar's tweets about how crazy the season is, I guess.

Sara outs Stella's crush on Fredricka, like she was threatening to do when Felice was moving out of their room at the Manor House. Istg if she does this I might lose it.

Wilhelm's mother dies. This was definitely one idea on some people's minds when Wilhelm takes that call that turns out to be about Erik in episode 3.

Wilhelm actually abdicates. This is definitely a threat made in season 2 that was later assuaged. I'm pulling for Wilhelm taking the throne only to abolish the monarchy. That might be a bit too optimistic on my part, though.

ALTERNATIVELY, August gets the throne. They teased us with this when Wilhelm almost didn't give the speech. August was literally walking up to the podium when Wille leapt up to take his place and momentarily rescued us from the notion that August was going to be ascending the throne.

Wilhelm and/or Simon and/or Sara get pulled from Hillerska. After the video, both Simon and Sara were potentially not going to return to the school. Simon was even late for the first day back, when he missed the choir performance. And Wille was almost physically removed from the school in episode 2 of season 2. Given the statement in the trailer about the school potentially shutting down... this one doesn't seem like too much of a long shot.

It's hard to say what any of this could mean for Simon/Wilhelm's relationship—I mean, in season 1, we had about six instances where we thought we'd get Simon and Wilhelm together and originally didn't (the first music room scene, the conversation after Erik's memorial, the second music room scene/drug situation, the video leak, Wilhelm LYING about the video leak).... the reasons kept getting worse and worse, until there's a release of tension when Wille says he won't deny the video—only for it to be far more crushing when he does deny it having promised otherwise. It seems like there's a new, bigger problem every time they turn around. So far, they've overcome all of the obstacles they've faced (honestly, I don't know how)... but I can't imagine that they're about to be facing an easy course based on that trailer.

Anyways, these are my meandering thoughts about some ways that we can try to guess at what we might have coming based on the show's patterns and its use of foreshadowing. Like I said, I'm just trying to mentally prepare myself for some of the wild-ass shit that might go down. So these are some crazy scenarios based on a few fake-outs that we've had so far. I'm still hoping that they don't take the smallest, most hopeful bits of seasons 1 and 2 and crush them in season 3....

[maxyvert]

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[psikonauti]

I saw SO MANY butterflies of different species on these lavender plants! :))

*it’s Mentha longifolia, not lavender ♥

[chewyhanniebug]

staring wistfully at 240531 photos knowing we're going to be getting the matching suits again tonight

[blackrevell]

If I witness 4k textures on yet another 10 pixel big clothing mod, I'm gonna scream at a frequency that shatters glass globally

[moonchild-in-blue]

Wait, you can use a "fixed" solfege instead of letters for notes? (Did I say that right? Is that even a term?) The concept is new to me lol. Because over here, we learned in such a way that which note gets what syllable depends on the key. Like in C major, G would be "so/sol," but in G major, G would be "do." But if C="do" no matter what, then yeah, G would be "sol!"

I'm fascinated by the differences in how these things are taught now!

(Sorry for the ramble lol)

!!!!!

I'm not sure what you mean, but probably because that's a wildly different concept??

Like. If you're doing a solfege (yes correct!), you'll always read/say the notes as do / re / mi etc etc (obvi with any accidentals), as they are written in the staff. So taking a C as example:

In the treble staff, this will always be a Do/C, right? Imagine you're doing scales on the piano.

You'll always begin a Cmaj scale with a Do, and do the octave (so, Do Re Mi / C D E etc etc).

If the key happens to be Gmaj, you'll begin in G/Sol, and go through the octave like that (Sol La Si / G A B etc).

But just as the notes on the staff don't "change" position regardless of key (so G is always on 2 line, etc), the notes also don't change in the solfege. It'd be like hearing/playing a B but calling it an F, if that makes sense?

I don't know if this is making sense, or if I'm reading your question wrong, but that's how it is!

[distardre]

im never shutting up about the butterfly shaped collars 🦋

[mitskiluvr]

on the topic of the proof of justice ova... need to really bring attention to the opening song for it (dark sun)

somehow you fed.. my hunger for a life not ruled by your night.. ok.. smells lgbtq to me...

[dostoyevsky-official]

one of the most despondent results is the local loss of democrat iwen chu in ny state senate seat 17 to republican stephen chan. chu lost primarily because of concerns about a crime wave that empirically does not exist, and opposition to a homeless shelter over fears it would increase crime (they don't; a homeless shelter would in fact decrease crime and aggressive interactions)

[eaterofdust]

My light fury redesign!