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iridiss · 3 days

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just noticed a plot hole in my mcd rewrite fic, cycles of love

gonna have to go back through all the chapters to rewrite whatever snippets have it

#aphmau #no but mcd is so hard to rewrite. mainly because of something I don’t think jess gets enough credit for with her writing #the plot of mcd is composed like a stack of dominos. where every little thing #even the nonsensical and fillery and crazy things that you think don’t matter or think can be easily cropped out for sanity sake #they build on top of one another and directly lead into future plot points that hinge on the tiniest details #like. for example. when levin is born #originally I thought that was a detail that didn’t really matter so I just changed it so that Matilda gives birth to levin AFTER Vylad #saves her and puts her in Scaleswind yeah?#yeah turns out Aphmau traveling to Scaleswind to meet Matilda in the first place depends on Gene/zenix/sasha knowing what levin looks like #in order to perfectly describe him for the missing child report that Aphmau follows to Scaleswind #yknow. the fake missing child report. because Vylad is hiding Matilda and levin from them and they’re trying to find levin #which MEANS they need to know what levin looks like in order to perfectly describe him #which only would have been possible if levin had been born BEFORE Vylad rescues her and brings her to Scaleswind #so. fuck me i guess LMAO #that is to say you’ll be getting a new scene in chapter one where Garroth and Zenix meet the new baby #when I’m done fixing the chapters #wish me luckkkkk (I want to tear my hair out)

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quaranmine · 6 months

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can people be nicer about the solar eclipse because i've had people irl laugh at me when i express disappointment over the bad weather forecast and online i see tons of people being rude about it too? like where is your whimsy and sense of awe at the universe and how dare you insinuate that i'm being frivolous to be sad about potentially missing what is, for my area, a once in a lifetime event?

#like everybody is like oh well that's a good thing because if it’s cloudy everyone will STAY HOME!!!!#and im like???? yeah the highways are gonna be insane but??#why laugh at the misfortune of us potentially missing something INSANELY COOL?#be nice to our guests who traveled to see it. be nice to those of us who live here who are thrilled about it.#idk man i think traffic being bad for a day or two is a trade-off for something that i will literally have no shot at seeing ever again #unless i specifically travel in upcoming years to another location #it's cool! this is cool! space is cool! i feel annoyed that yall are acting like you're Too Cool to appreciate astronomy!#idk some people seem to have made it a personality trait to not care about it. as if it's frivolous

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lightineventide · 2 months

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GUYS, GUYS, LOOK WHAT I SAW TODAY

I didn't plan to post anything from my week of vacation. However, I also never saw it coming that I would see mountain goats chamois in the wild TODAY for the first time in my life. And that I will have a camera on me and be able to actually take a picture. 🤯

I mean, just look at these dummies, curiously looking at the group of weird bipeds on the other side of the small valley... 🤩 They're so cute!

#not me almost missing the whole thing because I was at the front of the group and at first couldn't see those two #they were on the other side of some bushes #like 7-8 meters from the next person in the group #they suddenly ran off and once on the other side stopped for around half a minute just looking at us #then joined another two on the top of the cliffs #just wow #my photos #nature photography #photography #my pics #wild animals #travel 2024 #chamois

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lotrmusical · 1 month

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My high school did a yearly poetry recitation contest (Poetry Out Loud), so Oh Boy do I know some poems. My favorites are Ozymandias and "the world is about to end and my grandparents are in love," by Kara Jackson. Also in 8th grade we had a Poe unit and had a class contest to make the best music video of the Raven, so I still know a good chunk of that.

i hadn't heard of the kara jackson one! just read through it and enjoyed it, particularly these lines > 'grandma returns to her love like a hymn, marks it with a color. // when the world ends will it suck the earth of all its love? /will i go taking somebody’s hand, / my skin becoming their skin?'

#taking this as a challenge to see how much of ozymandias and the raven i can remember. no i'm not bored at work what gives you that idea #i bet ive got most of ozymandias. the raven may be a lost cause #i met a traveller from an antique land / who said: two vast and trunkless legs of stone / stand in the desert. near them on the sand /#half-sunk a shatter'd visage lies whose frown / and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command / tell that its sculptor well those passions read #...something or other i do not recall / the heart that mocked them and the heart that fed / and on the pedestal these words appear /#my name is ozymandias king of kings / look on my works ye mighty and despair /#nothing beside remains. round the decay / of that colossal wreck . something or other #the lone and level sands stretch far away #decay of that colossal wreck indeed (my memory for this poem)#oh well.#once upon a midnight dreary as i pondered weak and weary / over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore /#while i nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a rapping / as of someone gently tapping tapping at my chamber door /#tis some visitor i muttered tapping at my chamber door / only this and nothing more #?? (it's downhill from here)#ah distinctly i remember it was in the bleak december / and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor /#something?ly i sought the morrow / vainly had i sought to borrow / from my books surcease of sorrow / sorrow for the lost lenore /#for the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels .name lenore / lost to me forevermore #(then there is another stanza; bird-infested word bonanza / which i used to know at some point but do not know anymore /)#something something something door. darkness there and nothing more #oh it's the 'silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain / thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never known before' bit #anyway. deep into that darkness peering something stood i hoping fearing / doubting?? dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before #but the silence was unbroken and the stillness gave no token / and the only word there spoken was the whispered word lenore #(more missing chunks)#oh i remember 'surely said i surely that is / something at my window lattice' because it's such a stupid rhyme #bird time bust time idk #ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore / tell me what thy lordly name is on the night's plutonian shore /#a billion more stanzas i dont remember. except for 'prophet!' said i 'thing of evil! prophet still if bird or devil!#whether tempter sent or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore /' etc. wait you can only add 30 tags to posts now?? i had more raven chunks #ask #anon

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vaugarde · 1 year

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seen both episodes of horizons now and holy fuck

#i was so used to being bored w jn tbh but this series already has me really hooked???#liko is a really well realized character and no scene feels wasted everything feels carefully set up #the tone is also so good like liko and am’s silent conversation when he finds her hiding on the ship???????#it was SO good and i like what theyre setting up with the new pokemon and i love the airship setting #i was nervous when eve told me it was another ‘’travel the world hub’’ deal but unlike jn #theres like an even spread of pokemon from other regions #and not only that but pokemon that havent gotten too much love in general like alolan muk snorunt and carkoal #speaking of which THIS WAS CARKOALS FIRST APPEARANCE???#its also still being good w all of the starters too like so far fuecoco’s been the latest to show up #and it still has adequate screentime and personality to it #literally the only thing im hmmm abt is more charizard favoritism but like. i can forgive it with how even everything is #and i love that pikachu is their boss AND IT HAS VOLT TACKLE. BABYGIRL I MISSED YOU #what i was also worried abt was that theyd try to make it as close to ash and pikachus journey as possible #like same dynamic same setup same pikachu character (not really but same personality)#but no!! its all totally shaken up and the stuff that DOES evoke the original is still clever #and stands on its own!! like oh my god i cannot say enough how pleasantly surprised i am with horizons #i wasn’t pessimistic but i was like ‘’ill like it bc its pokemon regardless but wont be going crazy over it’’#but im like. SO anxious for the next episode now bc SPRIG :(#but like oh my god it all stands out. the character design the characters themselves the pokemon the animation the artstyle the music #the story the tone the setup like EVERYTHING is so good here #echoed voice

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thedeviousdevilxx · 1 year

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If GnR was going to Calgary or Edmonton, I would so go in a heartbeat, but alas they’re only going places that are to far and expensive lol fuck.

#also I could take time off like a Friday-Sunday but flying all the way to either Vancouver or Quebec is pricy or even Toronto or NB same #people forgot how massive Canada is #flying here is not cheap #even for my vacation this summer I went with a higher fare simply because it means I can cancel and get $$ back due to the fact flights #here have been so erratic with cancellations and major delays #another thing I miss about NZ it was smaller and oh so easier to travel on a whim

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thegreatbeyondmp3 · 9 months

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bro it sucks so much to have to go to work when you're sick

#i dont wanna go but literally if i miss another day they could fire me 😬#i don't have covid at least according to the home tests but like. i still have a cold or something #and i can't call out because our time is so restricted #and its not even the worst attendance policy i know of but it still sucks to have to work around #esp coming from my last job where i could take off literally as much time as i needed to basically whenever i needed/wanted to #added on top of the fact that i just don't want to fuckin be there anyway #and that im scared im gonna pick up covid bc my immune system is currently weakened #ugh. i have to get through tomorrow and the next day #and then im off again #and then im on one more day before im back off again #so i will have a rest day again pretty soon at least #after being off the last three days #(the first was my legit day off but it was very busy and few days before that were the roughest of a tough couple of weeks -#the second i took off bc i had to babysit and. being completely honest. i watched all of fellow travelers thr night before. and esp after #how bad a time id been personally having lately. all the suffering and the loneliness and the romance just hit me so hard #tbh i just felt like i deserved a break and i could do some work at home to balance things out -#third day i woke up feeling sick and coughing pretty hard and just feeling generally miserable. which continued for most of the day.#but with less coughing until now bc im laying down)#i just wish i could take an extra day or two to actually kick this 😭#sorry this is so long i can get locquacious when im tired

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van-goghs-smoking-skull · 1 year

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#gypsy punk #music #Gogol Bordello #Wonderlust King #another thing I miss - travelling #*looking at the map in the background* been there and there and there...#(not rich - I just used being able to chat with and hang out with locals to my educational advantage #very much a 'new history of time' - so much for the idiot narrative that anyone in the military is just a bloodthirsty murderer #idk hanging out seems so much more fun to me so...#and Gypsies or Roma - depending on what the specific group preferred to be called - are easy to get along with #as long as you treat them like people and not shit - funny how my laundry came back fine but other's laundry had extra holes)#(don't be a dick to other cultures challenge right?)

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disdaidal · 1 year

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Okay, so, now my school might be arranging a 2-week on-the-job-learning trip to Portugal in November-December, for those interested in / lack of experience from foreign countries... but I don't know if I can even apply there now because there's a possibility that my schedule could be filled with other kind of stuff that we're supposed to be doing for this degree at the same time, so. 🙃 I'm kinda mad ngl.

#personal #like do i even want to bring this up to my training instructor/supervisor now that we just went through my schedule for the next period #today. a few hours ago in fact. planning all this stuff #so i'd have time to complete some parts that this training requires. qualification-wise i mean. while also having time for myself #because my first period has been kind of tough and it's sucked the juices out of me #because there's a lot of shit there described in the program and we're not even 100% sure what all of them mean. or if i can even #complete them all in the high school where i'm currently training. like jfc #but i've wanted to try this exchange student kind of thing since my teens. but i've never had money or then something else always #came up. but apparently this trip is funded by one international program so i wouldn't necessarily even have to pay for it #at least not a lot. and it's two freaking weeks and we'd be working there too but in a different environment / culture #so not exactly vacation but it's something different. and i'd get to travel and live in another country for a few days and i've kinda misse #so. i kind of really want to apply there #but i don't know... sighs... i don't know

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arklay · 2 years

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🖊🖊🖊🖊 for diana ofc

a fun little fact about diana is that she wears her watch with the face on the inside of her wrist

while working for umbrella (well, undercover for the rival company, that is), diana's employment was never common knowledge to the public – because why would a pharmaceutical company need a herpetologist? instead, she simply held a position as a researcher at raccoon university, and would occasionally do lectures, but for the most part she would just take the cable car underground to the nest

when diana collaborated with the connections through h.c.f. in the early 2000s, they named one of the d-type bioweapons after her

diana saw a lot of her younger self in sherry when they first met due to the similarities in their situations with their parents, and the way she behaved around both herself and albert. despite her dislike of children, she couldn't help but feel for her and even came to enjoy when she would stay over on occasion (i'd love if my brain would let me finish the rewrite of their first meeting because i touch on all of this in there and diana's thought process ough)

#asks.#denerims #oc: diana #thank youuu emily!! ilysm 💖💖#i think for the diana asks some things are going to be like things i have probably mentioned before but just like a lil more in depth...#you know how i am. or like things i've deleted since posting them. it's fine. i'm normal about her!! but many lil tidbits in my brain i can #share about her too. just not sure if i have enough rn for the couple of asks i got with lots of pens lmaooo head empty and i've talked #about her SO much that there's not much that's not around here somewhere on my blog in previous ask games oopsies or on her page #also ngl i'm forever mad that in the 3 remake they made nest 2. because the university lab was where the vaccine research for the #t-virus was done when things went to shit and they named that daylight. and then for the creating weapons to combat the b.o.w.s and also #test the bioweapons against one another was done at the r&d centre... i'm fine i'm okay it's okay. capcom can i pleaseeee have an outbreak #remake!!! i miss her!!!! but yeah that's weird cause nest 2 didn't exist originally and the nest was a lot bigger?? it's fine.#anyways she just did her typical like Legal research with herpetology and virology there as a front but then she'd take the cable car #underground to the nest because my rules. if travel to the nest was available by cable cars from the waste facility / treatment plant /#arklay labs / rpd sewers & training facility then i can add another one beneath the university :) ALSO in outbreak they travelled to the #actual nest from the hospital and not nest 2 :) so yes. underground system for employees to access all facilities basically 💅🏼#i originally had her work at the chemical plant as her front but then i went no that would make no sense for her background and like both #of the birkins were already there so it would just be too much going on there and needed to split them up #OH also. sorry omg i talk so much but you know me <3 the part about her working at the university. i literally had this mentioned in that #fic where she went over to the s.t.a.r.s. office and um things happened but i cut that off early cause i liked it ending where it did

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koalas-koalas-everywhere · 2 years

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Something that confuses me (and alarms me a bit ngl) is the assumption I see everywhere that, once Mike moved to Seattle, he just stopped talking to Harvey. I wasn’t saying anything because there had been no confirmation either way (although why Mike would do something like that, or why Harvey would keep calling if he had, I wouldn’t know, so I just assumed he didn’t), but now I’ve watched If The Shoe Fits and there’s confirmation that they were still talking (with what had sadly become Suits-typical disregard for canon -in this case, Mike being confused about the Paula thing when he was actually in NY for it- notwithstanding. We could always assume Harvey didn’t tell him all that went down back then and now he did), so...?