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GUYS LOOK WHAT I FUCKING FOUND ON CEEOL. SCHOLAR ARTICLES ABOUT DISCO ELYSIUM

they're in here. baltic screen media review year 2021 issue no. 9 I owe you my whole heart 🥰🥰🥰

[thoodleoo]

she let me hit because of my academic swag and my institutional access

[incorrect-koh-posts]

Regarding the character of the Hospitaller - did you come across any historical characters in your reaserch that he could have been based on? Not that I'm considering writing a fanfic and need a name, no no no no...

Ahh I wish I had an answer for you! You've probably come across Ridley Scott's comment that the Hospitaller is supposed to be an angel, a thing we in the fandom seem to have accepted as canon. But other than that, there's no historical figure that would fit 100%. If you absolutely needed one, I suppose you could say that he might be Roger de Moulins, the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller - although that would kind of contradict the "just one knight among many" vibes that they gave him in the film.

That said, if it's just a question of naming, please do go hog-wild - there are so many weird medieval first names out there, you're almost guaranteed to find something cool. I'd recommend in particular looking at lists of medieval French, Occitan, and German names; they're a lot of fun, both semantically and phonetically.

Also not to be biased or anything, but I'd love to read a fanfic about the Hospitaller - he's such a fascinating yet totally underrated character!

[hamletthedane]

*meets my plug on a street corner and he furtively glances around before passing me a baggie full of USBs, on which are dozens of paywalled research papers he downloaded using his university student research database access*

[shadelesssocket]

Robert Salmon

Boston Harbor from Constitution Wharf, 1833

[pawbeanies]

using my absolutely cracked excel skills to create a spreadsheet of all my kinks. im making horny databases in access

[finrays]

Also, I was checking out the cosplay guides for Horizon, and this caught my attention;

And honestly? I was lowkey giddy about it. Give the costume designers a RAISE.

Why is the fact that a Quen Marine’s uniform is made of wool important? Well… it’s one of the BEST things a sailor can wear, actually! It’s the reason you always see grizzly sailor dudes in wooly hats and sweaters in ye olde pictures of them.

Wool maintains a steady temperature, even when fully saturated with water (which is also harder to do, since the lanolin and structure of the outer layers of the wool have some natural water resistance). And I dunno how much they emphasize this outside of marine science, but…

The ocean is cold as balls. One of the reasons whales are so fuck-off huge? Yeah. Maintaining the right surface area to volume ratio to retain heat in the frigid-ass waters of the open ocean.

By making their fleet’s uniforms out of wool, the Quen are ensuring that their sailors are at least somewhat protected if they go overboard; cold water exposure is super dangerous, and any sort of protection helps. Wool being able to keep you insulated for that extra small amount of time until someone can rescue you? That’s good planning.

In addition? Wool is wicking, and blocks UV rays, so it’s pretty darn good for working in the hot sun, too. Sailors have worn wool for a LONG-ASS time, basically, and it’s so cool to see these video game sailors following the tradition and reaping the benefit of the material.

I don’t know what the benefit of a fishtail-shaped cape is, though, other than making me want one for myself.

[kujakumai]

The problem with writing for ygo is that no matter how may articles you read you eventually come to a point where you're like "Dammit, what I really need is to speak with an Egyptologist." and you're just not going to get that.

[headcanonthings]

Bruce: I once quoted a vine in front of Hal.

Bruce: No one will ever believe him and now he lives in fear of my supposed knowledge of the internet.

Bruce: It’s delightful.

[party-pixie]

hey, thanks for the kind words. i'll admit that i kinda forgot for a while that daily demon spotlight was meant to be a blog for fun above all, and i got too obsessed with my perfectionism to where even the slightest criticism would make me panic and overcorrect everything

i really do appreciate what you said as it kinda just grounded me again and made me realize that i'm not some giant public figure, i'm just some teenage trans girl who likes to write, so thank you so much even if you didn't intend it to be that deep lmao 🙏

well im glad i could help 🥰 i've gotten the perfectionism bug with my own writing so i know how much it really sucks. i think it's also scary on the internet where people are increasingly becoming mean to people they don't know over even small things, so it prob feels like you're risking getting huge backlash over something that isn't all that difficult to fix. like, the demon spotlight is just a hobby blog covering figures that appear in a game series that in itself has questionable information and unclear sources, it's not an official compendium blog run by atlus yknow??? i get not wanting to spread misinformation or see it get spread ab mythological figures but for a hobby blog where it's not difficult to add to posts, i don't think it needs to be all that deep. don't be afraid to add an addendum to old posts if you ever come across new information or a correction, i think that kind of thing could be beneficial even if the original post had a lot of incorrect stuff in it

plus, with so many different retellings and translations of mythological stories i think people will consider different ones to be their "canon" to them. i mean like, i read ab two or three different takes just on ganesha's birth in a little section ab parvati in a book discussing a ton of different goddesses. and with language barriers and such, you're bound to run into inaccuracies tbh

i think it's a good preface for everyone involved to come into this understanding that it's easy to unknowingly run into wrong information ab figures, smt is full of inaccuracies in itself, the demon spotlight is just a hobby and isn't gonna get thesis-level work put into it, and the goal isn't to spread misinformation

as long as you keep doing your best in research and handling things as respectfully as you can, i don't think mistakes should be a huge deal. like, yea okay you fucked up a post cus you had bad sources, it's not the end of the world and i don't think you should feel like it's the end of the world or someone else should make you feel that way. just don't argue with people if they give you a correction. i mean, if someone's a total asshole about it that's not really something you can help, the best you can do is apologize and correct the original post. but there's no need to wallow in sorrow cus you got something wrong, it's really not the end of the world🥰👍

[theiloveyousong]

they should get rid of all paywalls forever i think

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[so-3i3]

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO OPEN A JSON FILE IN JAVASCRIPT ‼

[qqueenofhades]

I have academic database access again 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

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[other-peoples-coats]

EOFY or: dear boss, I see you have budget. I think actually I should have that budget, because of reasons, and also, please.

cheers, coats.