qiqi-media · 1 year ago
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I was rewatching D2 and saw that Evie had said none of the C4 was too popular on the Isle and it just leads to more confusion on how they even ended up becoming the saviors of the Isle in D3. I would've loved to see how the OG Isle that hated them for turning their backs on evil would've reacted to them being okay at the end of D3 (right before the engagement party) with Mal closing the barrier forever and really only seemed mad because she had lied to them about it.
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justmewondering56 · 1 year ago
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delicious-friend · 1 year ago
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90s rts game that has Saddam as a hero unit
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radley-writes · 5 months ago
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This is the anti-marketing website, etc. etc. etc., but I've seen a couple of these posts do okay and it's Pride month so... Here goes?
Do ya wanna support a queer disabled author who is still slightly baffled that they broke into tradpub?
Do ya like stories about working class uprisings, set against a backdrop of corporate corruption and Superheroes Behaving Badly?
Do ya yearn for a plucky lesbian underdog of a hero, who becomes a supervillain sidekick while navigating her voracious horniness for both her grumpy butch coworker and her straight best friend (oddly specific, I know)?
Do ya want a murder mystery where we know the victim and the killer, but have to untangle the motive?
Do the descriptions "Laughed my butt off", "Me lesbeeb" and "Books that made me want to burn down the government" make you reach for your wallet?
If so, look no further than my debut, Strictly No Heroics!
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[ID: cover of a book showing a figure in a gasmask, hoodie and gloves, leant on an old TV. A rainbow pride pin is pinned to their jacket. Text reads ‘STRICTLY NO HEROICS’ in neon pink and green, and ‘B. L. Radley’ in white.]
Have an actual blurb too, while you're reading!
If you're a powerless normie in a world run by superheroes, you need three rules to survive:
1: Keep your head down
2: Don’t make enemies
3: STRICTLY NO HEROICS
When a hero gropes her best friend, Riley Jones breaks all of them.
​Her attempt at serving justice gets her fired from her summer job. Luckily, Sunnylake City’s biggest business is booming (literally, when there's C4 involved).
​Every villain wants henchmen: masked cronies who take their coffee orders, vacuum their secret lairs, and posture in the background while they fight. The HENCH agency provides a steady stream of drop-outs and losers who are willing to get beaten up for minimum wage.
​Riley might just be the perfect candidate.
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Reblogs are greatly appreciated, and kisses to everyone who's already got their hands on a copy!
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sang-i-fetge · 18 days ago
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List of Jason Todd/Red Hood's weapons/gadgets/touys
Note: This is mostly from comics written by Winick, as I refuse to acknowledge most of n52. Feel free to add more, though!
Note2: This post was originally formatted in a different way, as I foolishly forgot about the image limit.
Blades
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1— His iconic dagger!
Can cut through stone, and most of Batman's gear. It's been heavily debated what kind of knife it is; wether a kris, a parrying dagger, or a third secret thing.
2— The blades he gives Mia to defend herself!
I'm not sure what kind of blade they are, they vaguely look like wakizashis? Their size varies from panel to panel so idk😔
3— The katana for the 'duel' with Oliver!
4— And to link with the next section, the exploding katana!
Yes, it's a katana that explodes. Jason baits Oliver into holding it.
Explosives
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— First of all, he blows up many many things and it's not specified what exactly he uses. So the unspecified explosives that only appear as a cool fireball panel get a bullet point.
5— The jumble of explosives in the Final Confrontation™️, we can see some dynamite, C4...
6— Bomb in a crate
7— Small bomb. Not lethal!
8— Bigger bomb. Yes lethal.
9— Continuing with this absolute icon: the bomb under the Batmobile (should I capitalize that?)
10— Small Rocket, used against Brick
11— Grenade?
12— Small, cylinder-shaped explosives. Detonated upon impact?
13— Small explosive that attaches to flat surfaces, used against Dr Freeze
14— Grenade.
15— Molotov Cocktail
16— Enough C4 to destroy a whole building, modded so it explodes if its temperature reaches one point, countering Batman's method of freezing bombs.
17— My absolute favorite, the exploding helmet!
Even if it's listed under 'explosives', it's also an important piece of technology in the Red Hood's arsenal.
Firearms
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18, 19— The guns in the wall from Annual #25, there's surely more.
20— Machine guns hidden in crates!
21— Machine guns hidden in cars!
22— Rocket launcher, used against Black Mask
23— Even more hidden machine guns! This time in an electricity pole.
24— Machine gun (also hidden, but surprisingly not attached to anything)
25— Handgun👍
26— AK-47, you know the panel from where it's from
27— Submachine guns, I think 🙂
28— When out of ammo he uses his guns as blunt weapons, which I wanted to note
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29— The nazi-killing taser
30— The reason for the creation of this post! The grapple line taser! Attach it to a grapple line and it will shock whoever is connected to it. Noticed it in a reread of utrh and needed people to see it
31— Bonus: the bat-symbol taser. Iconic enough to be here.
Tech & Surveillance
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32— Monitor and microphone?
33, 34— cameras :)
35— thing to see the feed of the cameras
36, 37— phones :)
38— his little tech den in #650
39, 40— computers :)
41— whatever this thing is
42— The surveillance device that looks like he taped a canon camera to his face
43— Wiretaps!
44— Bugs!
He also has his evil lair in B&R2009 bugged.
Miscellaneous
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45— Does his crowbar count
46— smoke bomb!!
47— Injectable adrenaline. He just has that in his utility belt.
48— His batmobile-evade suit.
49— Is saying his belt buckle mean
50— Unspecified poison! Goodbye Egon
51— This thing that attaches to its target and launches them off
Not pictured:
The fancy weapon dressing he gives onyx to patch up the shoulder wound he inflicted (I forgot to screenshot 💔)
Also, he has this whole hq-ish thing in Annual #25
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(Edit: That rectangle in the gun wall kinda looks like an anti-drone gun now that I think abt it)
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It has a murder board, which I think is cute.
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brucewaynehater101 · 3 months ago
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The delegates of the empire, the imperial chef and doctor and so forth who came to earth to take care of their sweet baby emperor and his consorts, manage to get some general info about Gotham and some more classified info about Ra's Al Ghul. The delegates report the information back to their superiors back in the empire.
Now Tim has a lot of checks and balances put in place in the empire but it's not a perfect system. He can't check on everything all the time no matter how much he might want to sometimes because he wants all of his people to be in a position where they are safe, healthy, fed, sheltered, and able to pursue happiness. Even with C4 help, some things slip through the cracks. He has a system in place to try to prevent anything from slipping through and that system results in a lot of the planets having a fair amount of self governance. That self governance may have a few spots where Tim, being a teenager, may not have thought things completely through or may not have had the knowledge or experience to fill in some gaps. He'll get better with more practice but for the moment the ones the delegates report to have decided to take advantage of these gaps.
Specifically they're going to take advantage of the gaps to start sending space mercenaries and assassins after Ra's Al Ghul for being so creepy about their emperor. He's theirs! Ra's can keep his creepy hands off for good!
They also have space mercs and assassins waiting for the absolute instant the Joker steps one singular toe outside of the bounds of Gotham. They'll respect Gotham boundaries because they respect their emperor and understand that their emperor doesn't want an escalation of tensions within his earth based territory. However, the instant Joker isn't in their emperor's direct territory? He's going to be crushed into paste, burned, and then whatever remains will be yeeted into some random star that has no life orbiting it.
Fuck. I know Tim is anti-murder, but now I'm thinking about the possibility of him having space armies/assassins.
Fuck. Imagine him having to go to war and having to make decisions regarding that (such as whether to kill the enemies soldiers, their rulers, etc. in order to prevent the death of his people). Tim will try everything before resorting to that, but now I'm imagining him having mental breakdowns over having to make said decisions. He's a leader. He will do absolutely everything in his power before resorting to death, and he'd rather die than send his people onto the frontline for him.
Tim and YJ will 90% of the time be able to come up with a non-fatal solution, but what about when they can't? What if there isn't any other option?
Anyways, you're correct that even though Tim has some experience with leading (especially if this is post RR comic run), an empire is different. He's bound to make mistakes and not catch everything.
I'm also vibing with the empire sending assassins after Ra's. I'm super curious what Ra's thinks about it, what he finds out, and how successful the timpire is.
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tinsyfairy · 2 months ago
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anti b¡ng-ng tips ♡
ongoing list <3
1. understand WHY you binge : if it's from a low intake you should try higher intake / if it's from being stressed try to find ways to relieve stress)
2. MINDSET CHANGE : understand that if you go a little over your c4-l limit its not the end of the world and that being mindful now and stopping is so much better than giving into your urges
3. STOP F@ST¡NG : i know for some people they like to f4st after a binge and well it works for me and reducing my appetite it doesnt work for others. usually it's an endless cycle this tip has helped me so much I only do om–d after a binge (then f4st) or I just restrict again like it never happened!!
4. stay hydrated : ~2L daily
5. enough sleep : if you have enough sleep you'll have more energy! also im pretty sure that if you're not well rested it triggers more hunger hormones
my personal tips :
– meal plan / meal prep (knowing what you're going to eat is so much better because if you go into the kitchen and you're sooo hungry/have b¡nge urges it's easier to just have one of those "fvck my 3d" moments)
– find low c4l foods/drinks that you like as replacements
– if you're in a b-nge p-rg3 cycle you'll have to stop pvrg-ng (yes and that includes l4x, ex3rc¡se, or f4st-ng)
– stay distracted and always have something to do
while doing it :
– understand that a 1k c4l b¡ng3 is better than a 2k one (so on and so forth)
– film yourself
– fill up with drinks
– destroy your food (soap, salt, etc.)
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matchestopetrol · 8 months ago
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Ok so just listened to tmagp episode 6 and 7 and oh boy.
First love needles, what a cringefail avatar of horror. Also I thought episode 6 was hilarious and was laughing maybe a little too much.
Episode 7, oh boy lots to scream about, fucking hilltop, Celia, Collin going feral, an email from my favourite anti-Christ, Gwen getting “in”.
But the thing I want to focus on is the end of the episode or the statement.
In tma we had rogue fighters against the fears, they weren’t organized they weren’t funded and they used more…unconventional means to combat the horrors.
In tmapg we appear to have a highly organized, funded and possibly government sanctioned group that is responsible for dealing with the fears and their monsters. I absolutely think that the people who set fire to the shop and killed the ‘volunteers’ were the previously mentioned Starkwell pmc from episode 4.
Im not sure if Starkwell also uses more than esoteric means to fight the fears, but for now it’s seems that Gertrude Robinson was on the right track with her enthusiasm for C4.
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Is there any company that you find sus? (One that isn't owned by Lex Luthor.)
Black Rock's potential for financial destruction is shocking, 9 trillion dollars of barely constrained capitalism. Whilst we're talking private equity, Apollo bought hospitals and nursing homes, rapidly decreased quality of care whilst secretly purchasing life insurance on the patients they were actively neglecting and killing.
Bayer is really living up to its origin as IG Farben. Monsato is one of their subsidiaries just to give you a nice taster on what they do. The apple barely rolled out of the tree.
Never use a Huawei phone. They sell the most phones of any company in the world and their cyber security is deliberately waffle shaped.
Swarovski Crystals started making rifle scopes for exactly who you think - willingly - and historians aren't allowed to release their findings. Love that. They're still making those gun parts by the way.
Kodak (who previously made key components for C4, triggers, fuses, detonators and hand grenades all through WWII using forced labor, selling to both sides through Switzerland) still have weapons grade uranium. For some reason. Don't ask. Nothing to do with their previous work on the Manhattan Project.
You probably know about Nestlé killing babies and targeting water ownership in drought-stricken regions of both the US and abroad. This didn't look so good, so they sold it to private equity firm... BlueTriton... formerly Nestlé.
I personally find it a bit suspicious that the Libyan-Chad war is also called the Toyota War. Seems like the anti-paramilitary regulations didn't really work, huh.
Purdue Pharma... the US Government... Sodexo... Exxon, Chiquita...
But for legal reasons, this is a joke :)
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snickerdoodlles · 1 year ago
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pulling out a section from this post (a very basic breakdown of generative AI) for easier reading;
AO3 and Generative AI
There are unfortunately some massive misunderstandings in regards to AO3 being included in LLM training datasets. This post was semi-prompted by the ‘Knot in my name’ AO3 tag (for those of you who haven’t heard of it, it’s supposed to be a fandom anti-AI event where AO3 writers help “further pollute” AI with Omegaverse), so let’s take a moment to address AO3 in conjunction with AI. We’ll start with the biggest misconception:
1. AO3 wasn’t used to train generative AI.
Or at least not anymore than any other internet website. AO3 was not deliberately scraped to be used as LLM training data.
The AO3 moderators found traces of the Common Crawl web worm in their servers. The Common Crawl is an open data repository of raw web page data, metadata extracts and text extracts collected from 10+ years of web crawling. Its collective data is measured in petabytes. (As a note, it also only features samples of the available pages on a given domain in its datasets, because its data is freely released under fair use and this is part of how they navigate copyright.) LLM developers use it and similar web crawls like Google’s C4 to bulk up the overall amount of pre-training data.
AO3 is big to an individual user, but it’s actually a small website when it comes to the amount of data used to pre-train LLMs. It’s also just a bad candidate for training data. As a comparison example, Wikipedia is often used as high quality training data because it’s a knowledge corpus and its moderators put a lot of work into maintaining a consistent quality across its web pages. AO3 is just a repository for all fanfic -- it doesn’t have any of that quality maintenance nor any knowledge density. Just in terms of practicality, even if people could get around the copyright issues, the sheer amount of work that would go into curating and labeling AO3’s data (or even a part of it) to make it useful for the fine-tuning stages most likely outstrips any potential usage.
Speaking of copyright, AO3 is a terrible candidate for training data just based on that. Even if people (incorrectly) think fanfic doesn’t hold copyright, there are plenty of books and texts that are public domain that can be found in online libraries that make for much better training data (or rather, there is a higher consistency in quality for them that would make them more appealing than fic for people specifically targeting written story data). And for any scrapers who don’t care about legalities or copyright, they’re going to target published works instead. Meta is in fact currently getting sued for including published books from a shadow library in its training data (note, this case is not in regards to any copyrighted material that might’ve been caught in the Common Crawl data, its regarding a book repository of published books that was scraped specifically to bring in some higher quality data for the first training stage). In a similar case, there’s an anonymous group suing Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI for training their LLMs on open source code.
Getting back to my point, AO3 is just not desirable training data. It’s not big enough to be worth scraping for pre-training data, it’s not curated enough to be considered for high quality data, and its data comes with copyright issues to boot. If LLM creators are saying there was no active pursuit in using AO3 to train generative AI, then there was (99% likelihood) no active pursuit in using AO3 to train generative AI.
AO3 has some preventative measures against being included in future Common Crawl datasets, which may or may not work, but there’s no way to remove any previously scraped data from that data corpus. And as a note for anyone locking their AO3 fics: that might potentially help against future AO3 scrapes, but it is rather moot if you post the same fic in full to other platforms like ffn, twitter, tumblr, etc. that have zero preventative measures against data scraping.
2. A/B/O is not polluting generative AI
…I’m going to be real, I have no idea what people expected to prove by asking AI to write Omegaverse fic. At the very least, people know A/B/O fics are not exclusive to AO3, right? The genre isn’t even exclusive to fandom -- it started in fandom, sure, but it expanded to general erotica years ago. It’s all over social media. It has multiple Wikipedia pages.
More to the point though, omegaverse would only be “polluting” AI if LLMs were spewing omegaverse concepts unprompted or like…associated knots with dicks more than rope or something. But people asking AI to write omegaverse and AI then writing omegaverse for them is just AI giving people exactly what they asked for. And…I hate to point this out, but LLMs writing for a niche the LLM trainers didn’t deliberately train the LLMs on is generally considered to be a good thing to the people who develop LLMs. The capability to fill niches developers didn’t even know existed increases LLMs’ marketability. If I were a betting man, what fandom probably saw as a GOTCHA moment, AI people probably saw as a good sign of LLMs’ future potential.
3. Individuals cannot affect LLM training datasets.
So back to the fandom event, with the stated goal of sabotaging AI scrapers via omegaverse fic.
…It’s not going to do anything.
Let’s add some numbers to this to help put things into perspective:
LLaMA’s 65 billion parameter model was trained on 1.4 trillion tokens. Of that 1.4 trillion tokens, about 67% of the training data was from the Common Crawl (roughly ~3 terabytes of data).
3 terabytes is 3,000,000,000 kilobytes.
That’s 3 billion kilobytes.
According to a news article I saw, there has been ~450k words total published for this campaign (*this was while it was going on, that number has probably changed, but you’re about to see why that still doesn’t matter). So, roughly speaking, ~450k of text is ~1012 KB (I’m going off the document size of a plain text doc for a fic whose word count is ~440k).
So 1,012 out of 3,000,000,000.
Aka 0.000034%.
And that 0.000034% of 3 billion kilobytes is only 2/3s of the data for the first stage of training.
And not to beat a dead horse, but 0.000034% is still grossly overestimating the potential impact of posting A/B/O fic. Remember, only parts of AO3 would get scraped for Common Crawl datasets. Which are also huge! The October 2022 Common Crawl dataset is 380 tebibytes. The April 2021 dataset is 320 tebibytes. The 3 terabytes of Common Crawl data used to train LLaMA was randomly selected data that totaled to less than 1% of one full dataset. Not to mention, LLaMA’s training dataset is currently on the (much) larger size as compared to most LLM training datasets.
I also feel the need to point out again that AO3 is trying to prevent any Common Crawl scraping in the future, which would include protection for these new stories (several of which are also locked!).
Omegaverse just isn’t going to do anything to AI. Individual fics are going to do even less. Even if all of AO3 suddenly became omegaverse, it’s just not prominent enough to influence anything in regards to LLMs. You cannot affect training datasets in any meaningful way doing this. And while this might seem really disappointing, this is actually a good thing.
Remember that anything an individual can do to LLMs, the person you hate most can do the same. If it were possible for fandom to corrupt AI with omegaverse, fascists, bigots, and just straight up internet trolls could pollute it with hate speech and worse. AI already carries a lot of biases even while developers are actively trying to flatten that out, it’s good that organized groups can’t corrupt that deliberately.
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workingclasshistory · 2 years ago
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On this day, 17 March 1942, Yugoslav communist and anti-fascist militant Nada Dimić was executed in the Stara Gradiška concentration camp. Born of Serbian parents, she was a member of the first Yugoslav partisan unit in Croatia, and participated in sabotage raids on railroads. She was arrested by pro-Nazi Ustasha agents in 1941 and brutally tortured, but admitted nothing and soon escaped. On 3 December 1941, Dimić was confronted by Ustasha police while trying to help people escape fascists into partisan areas. When asked to identify herself, Dimić grabbed a revolver from her handbag and shot one of the officers. She was then arrested, imprisoned, tortured again and executed by firing squad. In 1951 she was declared a national hero of Yugoslavia. More information, sources and map: https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8908/nada-dimi%C4%87-executed https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2232341273617677/?type=3
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Another question: what's the whole point of VK Day and why is Mal and co deciding who should be coming to Auradon or not instead of Ben, the 'king' himself? It's like giving applications to SA victims to seek refuge.
Also, I see where you're coming from with Lonnie. The poor girl was written so poorly that they, the writers don't even bother to include her in the disastrous 'wedding'. I think she and Audrey were never close, so maybe she wasn't so quick to defend Audrey, but still she could have done something. In addition, I was reading a response to a ask I sent in terms how the writers treated Lonnie and this person says Lonnie was this 'token Asian' that was forced in descendants.
As for Audrey, I believe she was suffering from a lot of trauma and genuinely needed help. She was neglected by her parents, her grandmother emotional manipulate and abuse her, Ben openly cheats on her with Mal...it's too much for her to bear. Agree?
I'm pretty sure the point of VK Day was because nobody wanted to go, the movie contrasted from the books in this regard. In the books they make a dumb system 'to be fair' to the kids who wanted to come to Auradon that they have to apply. (This is dumb because the C4 who were the worst ones on the Isle got hand picked and ended up living the best lives in Auradon while the kids they terrorized watched.) They didn't want special treatment given to particular kids (Which happened anyway because Dizzy, the one Evie wanted off got picked ) but when they realized nobody was really applying VK day was created to like hype up the kids to apply. But there's other dumb things involved like, they had to say something about their favorite C4 member....You mean the Isle bullies(Mal really but you know the C4 was a gang altogether) , you're asking kids applying for freedom which of their former tormenters were their favorite? Then I believe there was something about parent's permission which in a normal situation that's like duh of course but it was canon that most villain parents were abusive until D3. So why would actively abusive parents let them get away from them?? Whole thing was stupid and they should've just left Ben in charge because at least when he was the only one running it was no apply for freedom bs.
As for why the C4 were even in charge that my friend I have no idea why because there's literally no reason to. It would make sense for Evie out of the four to be involved because she wanted to get involved after D2 but the other 3 especially Mal who showed a complete lack of care to anybody on the Isle, no idea why they decided to get involved. Not only get involved but to completely become the face of the program. In D3 streets were named after them, kids were shouting for them and for what?? Literally cannot figure out why, it would make sense for kids to hate them seeing as how if Auradon was ruled by someone not as kind, they would've ruined the chances of them even being freed multiple times. They also had no actual political power in Auradon, Mal got what she had because she was Ben's girlfriend and the other three were her best friends so they got special treatment. Why are they now having heavy involvement in the freeing of the others kids who again they terrorized when they were in a gang on the Isle. So why all of a sudden kids love them and are cheering them for 'paving the way' is just fan service at this point. I heard no one shouting their love for King Ben the person who they actually would be freed by and started the whole program, not one peep.
Not sure about the books, but in Audrey's diary she regards Jane and Lonnie as her closet friends who she would eat with frequently. To me it's more about her relationship with Ben, like okay let's say she wasn't as close with Audrey, she definitely wasn't too close with Mal at this point either so maybe she was being happy for Ben. But no next time it happens she takes Mal's side and pretty much shows no regard for Ben in that scene. Even with her sub-plot it was very generic, there's just very inconsistent writing going on with Lonnie so I can see why people say she's the token Asian because she really wasn't given much to do or say at all she was just there.
Audrey was failed by everyone in Auradon really. That's why I've always believed firmly the adults should've held themselves responsible in D3. I don't even think it's the cheating that really broke her, it hurt her a lot for sure. I hate that people act like they were just a high school relationship, he was. along with the other Aks was her life partner and was dropped and betrayed just like that with no reason.(From her POV until she found out he was drugged) But I really think it was the isolation, and berating that she got afterwards that really contributed to it. Her own grandmother even after seeing her react to the engagement instead of comforting her, berated her like it was her fault. So I definitely agree, even at the even of D3 Audrey's story doesn't feel over. Like how is she supposed to just live in peace with all of them after that? That's why in my mind she always ends up leaving Auradon and creating a new life, because how would she be friends again with people who treated her so poorly?
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miscellaneousjay · 1 month ago
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DESCENDANTS RANT!!!!
In other news, after exploring the Anti Bal and Bevie hashtags on here and revisiting how Mal was pre-D1 (“Isle of The Lost” book), I am now a Bevie shipper and I feel like Evie should’ve been leader of the Core Four…or Terrific Three if Mal decided to stay on the Isle indefinitely and opted out of accountability and therapy.
Whoever said that Mal should’ve just traveled for a little bit, I agree: Mal should’ve pulled an Uma in the middle of D2 and went on a journey of self-discovery. She could’ve dropped the pressure, the lies, the mistrust, and the fear that she built all of her relationships on, essentially did her own version of therapy, freed herself from the mental, emotional, and psychological influence of Maleficent, and really got right with herself in order to get right with everyone around her and take righting her wrongs seriously as the first step of EARNING the trust of the people she cares about. Like, let’s not get it twisted: Maleficent II was top dog BULLY of the Isle! Having read the first book in the series, I do remember that it is canon that she emotionally and physically abused Carlos and Evie, she got Evie and Grimhilde banished for 10 years, and I’m pretty sure Jay was only her friend out of fear that Mal could and would sic Maleficent on him and Jafar the same way she did Evie and EQ. He ain’t have time for that! He was really only her friend out of self preservation. That being said, if either of the Core 4 VK girlies had to end up with Prince Ben, it should’ve been Evie.
Unlike Mal, Evie was actually raised by EQ to not only be a villain, but to also be a princess and later on a queen. I dare say her upbringing was similar to Audrey’s. The difference between the two is, that Evie was humbled early in life by growing up destitute on a crime-ridden island where no one cared who you were and what your title is. Everyone is broke, hungry, and fighting for resources. Audrey grew up having, wanting for nothing, spoiled. She’s used to things going her way. Irdk how attentive and straightforward Book!Ben is because, while I haven’t read past the first book yet, I have seen all of the movies and he didn’t seem to realize how rude Audrey really was to people. However, Book!Ben did let us know that he wasn’t feeling her like that and Movie!Ben used Mal spelling him as a way to break up with her…instead of just telling her to her face how he really felt. This would’ve given them the clean break up that they both deserved. They might’ve remained friends after that or stopped being friends totally until she got her attitude in check (the way she made Jane feel even more insecure about herself was foul (Lmk in the comments if she made up for it in the books or not. I may finish reading the series iot find out and gain more insight)). In contrast, after goodness classes (therapy) and unlearning certain Isle social behaviors either the easy way or the hard way, Evie made genuine connections with people and the bond between her and the other C4 members grew stronger because she was kind to and respected everyone. So much so, that she worked her way up to being Ben’s Royal Advisor and opened her own boutique: where everyone was going for outfits! Like, she literally and effortlessly became everything that they wanted Mal to evolve into, but she really couldn’t rise to the challenge because everything was always about HER and what SHE wanted.
Lastly, Evie is just as much witch as Mal or even Uma! I would’ve loved to see her do some major mirror sorcery (portals, beauty, etc.).
P.S. Evie, Uma, and Audrey def would’ve gotten along off the strength of them all being Mal’s victims at one point in time.👑
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sinni-ok-sessi · 6 months ago
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Five ships in five fandoms
with thanks to @tallangrycockatiel for the tag
Well, there's the Enterprise, obviously, the Surprise, the Terror, the Indefatigable...
OK no, I will do this properly
1. Lin Chen/Mei Changsu/Xiao Jingyan (Nirvana in Fire)
Coming in first and surprising absolutely nobody! I am so very onboard with any and all permutations of the Greater Liang Polycule, but I have a special fondness for Guy Who Is Very Invested In Mei Changsu and Guy Who Is Very Invested In Lin Shu becoming jointly Guys Who Are Very Invested In Keeping This Idiot Alive In Spite Of Himself. Also I love angst and this ship offers the incredible buy one get one free deal of grief that your best friend now has someone else who knows more of his secrets and grief that your best friend is burning his life up in service of someone else, all turning on the fulcrum of a man who would probably just die on the spot if he let himself feel one tenth of the things he's been repressing for the last decade. Also, I love characters who won't say what they mean, so. You know.
2. Charley Pollard/Eighth Doctor (Doctor Who Big Finish Audios)
God, they're so weird about each other. It's not romantic but it's not not-romantic and also at one point they eat each other's corpse in an anti-time universe (I think? It's been a while since I listened to Scherzo) and I remember experiencing a lot of confusing and proto-aromantic feelings over them when I was seventeen, so they deserve a mention
3. Francis Crozier/James Fitzjames (The Terror)
YES I FEEL WEIRD ABOUT IT OK. Constantly I am playing this game with my brain where a fic can neither be too historically inaccurate nor too obviously Just Straight-Up RPF and let me tell you, this narrows my options considerably. BUT. Hhhh. The fact that they're doomed from the start. The way both of them, through sheer effort of will, put aside the selves they've been playing and better, truer people, in circumstances that really would have justified the opposite. They're doomed and they keep trying anyway. I'm going to go stare at a wall now and maybe bite something.
4. Kirk/Spock (Star Trek TOS)
I know, I know, I'm basic, but look, I didn't get an E in C4 maths because I was too busy writing k/s fic to revise to deny this truth of my heart now. What can I say, I love a man who is repressing a planet's worth of emotions at any given time. I love gentle bickering, I love putting your life in someone else's hands with absolute trust, I love this simple feeling. Ok, gonna go stare at a different wall for a bit now
5. Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)
This one's dedicated to last summer, when I spent three months losing my goddamn mind, having been a casual Good Omens enjoyer for years at that point. I love all the permutations of these characters, but I do especially love watching Michael Sheen and David Tennant's faces do things. I think I mentioned before my love of characters who won't say what they mean, and I especially enjoy SIX THOUSAND YEARS OF IT AND COUNTING. Also, as someone who didn't so much break with the church as saunter vaguely away, GO fic sure does tap some long-buried part of my psyche.
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I have all the object permanence of a concussed goldfish, so I'm almost certainly forgetting some personality-defining ship, but! I have done my best and no one should criticise me!
tagging @betweencrossedblades @trans-cuchulainn (you can count each tain recension as a separate fandom if you like), @cendiar , @bitterflames and anyone else who'd like to do it
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supersolidstatedrive · 5 months ago
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my guys! these are my core four- the ones that actually have a Little Bit Of Lore and aren't like. self-inserts lol
i wanna make proper drawn reference sheets for them with their stratagem and weapon loadouts sometime, but for now this'll have to do. :>
(Left to right, top to bottom)
[F1] "Fish"
Fish is the unofficial leader of the group, and the ship's Democracy Officer. Standoffish and logical, Fish's skillset revolves around stealth, marksmanship, and strategy. He dislikes technology, and often brings only an anti-materiel rifle as his sole stratagem. He's very open about his connection to the Ministry of Truth.
[R2] "Rascal"
Where Fish is intelligent, Rascal is practical. A proud multi-generational E-710 farmer, he shows exceptionally little fear of Terminids, even going so far as to commandeer Chargers as steeds in the field, or mount Bile Spewers to better shove live explosives into them. Rascal is a very patriotic, likeable, and kind-hearted individual.
[D3] "DJ"
DJ is a rather mysterious and odd individual who mostly keeps to himself. A communications and Automaton technology specialist, DJ is happiest when the logistical parts of an operation are running smoothly. He's notorious across quite a few ships for his methods of dealing with dissident broadcasts- replacing them with his "fire mixtape" of Ministry of Truth-approved music.
[C4] "C1"
C1 is a reserved and fearful person who tends to shadow the other three Helldivers in his squad. He's often confused, and struggles with his memory. It's not uncommon for him to freeze during combat, and perhaps is one of the reasons High Command forbids him from diving alone. C1 is extremely fearful of Fish, and will avoid being left alone with him at nigh-any cost.
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trivialbob · 11 months ago
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This is the birdhouse on a post outside my front windows. Squirrels use its roof as a launch pad to reach the hanging bird feeder. With a rodent on the roof of the feeder, it rocks violently, wearing out the thin cable that suspends it. The old feeder's cable broke, followed 0.375 seconds later by the feeder itself smashing apart on the ground.
I got some anti-bird/anti-squirrels spikes. It seemed awful to mount those on a birdhouse. Seek shelter here, little chickadees. Just don't poke out your eyes!
The birds don't mind the spikes. I'm proud of those little guys. But the asshole squirrels easily climb under or over the spikes. The metal spikes are not aesthetically pleasing either.
Plan #2. Put spikes on the edges of the bird feeder roof. Again, I felt a little funny doing that, like I was putting a fence around a water fountain in a park on a a hot day to keep away ducks and to hell with the people wanting to hydrate during a walk or run.
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I didn't get a picture, but the birds have not been affected by the spikes you see here. That's good.
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Squirrels don't give up easily. This guy leaped and landed between the two rows of spikes on the feeder roof. He just can't reach over the side to the tray of seeds. There are bars of suet on the ends that he nibbled on though he doesn't seem super happy with that food.
I may take the spikes from the green birdhouse and use them to double up the spikes on the feeder's red roof.
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Sheila has been watching my mission against the squirrels. She said it reminds her of Carl versus the gopher in Caddyshack. Now if I could just get my hands on some C4...
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