#bourchard

[lemonhemlock]

i am way too late for any of this, but i felt like ranting a little (a lot) over tma, so here it goes.

i actually really, really liked the dreamlike quality of the S5 statements. i think they're some of jonny's best work. so evocative and just beautifully written, the feeling of horror so prevalent, so delicate, so entrapping. i would listen to them absolutely enthralled. what a submersive experience. so on that front, 100% would recommend.

the problems i have are mainly with the meta-plot. certainly, personal preferences and biases come into play here, bc i despise jonmartin with the fire of a thousand suns and would have loved a jonelias corruption narrative, but, i feel that, in his quest to appease the j-mart shippers, jonny sacrificed a lot of his story's integrity. also, i have no way of verifying this, but it also felt like he inserted his own biases in a way that wasn't necessarily productive.

ultimately, i feel like he disrespected his main antagonists and that essentially translated into a sort of irreverence towards his own story. elias was easily his most dramatic and interesting villain (regardless of what he originally intended for him, it's how he developed throughout the story & i think there is a certain honesty in a writer acknowledging and respecting that), stole every scene he was in, yet after his great villain reveal in S4, he is absolutely absent throughout his entire apocalypse. it creates a lack of catharsis that i find bothersome. his death is way too easy. yet when he finally appears in MAG 193, it is glorious. he is terrifyingly in the throws of religious ecstasy as the eye's pupil. such an interesting idea! so little it was developed though bc jonny for some reason doesn't like elias.

there's this entire commentary about how elias is really just there to be eye's pupil until jon takes over from him, bc it's jon the eye truly desires. as if after faithfully serving the beholding for two centuries and bringing about his ritual, the eye would just disregard elias and actually be interested in the one person who is unwilling to play ball. please be serious. not saying that jon can't be the eye's "special little boy" or whatever, but the nerfing of elias/jonah borderlines on petulant. ofc, jonny is the author and you cannot begrudge a man for writing whatever he wants, but, as a listener, i have to say it feels very unsatisfying whenever authorial biases directly affect the storyline. very deus-ex-machina. very unearned.

i also have a problem with how the eye was ultimately handled and, once again, nerfed. the introduction of this element in relation to the beholding, that it sees but does not understand, felt very trite to me. it was added as a way to de-power the eye and elevate the web. but how could it even be true in the context of the entity conceptualization? the reason scopophobia is a thing is because people fear someone is behind the watching. what they fear is judgment or someone keeping tabs on them and using that information to harm them in some way. that requires intelligence, a capacity to distinguish between the harmless and the incriminatory, a propensity for casting moral judgment, of holding people accountable, of assigning blame, of discovering people's deepest, darkest secrets, of weaponizing shame. no one is afraid of a crow or a cat staring back at them, because, while those are also living beings, they lack the higher intelligence that creates the context necessary for scopophobia. so how can the eye not possess intelligence? apparently it doesn't, because jonny decided he didn't like the eye and the spider was oh-so-cooler instead.

but that only lead to the spider being way too overpowered than it should have been. as the so-called brain of the operation, the web really manifests a lot of faults that could have been exploited, yet the character never do, because the web needs to be true It Girl for some reason. this all feels very childish. the web's motivations do not work in-universe. we are often told it doesn't have a ritual because it is content with playing its games of manipulation within the world as it currently is. and that honestly seemed a rather fair assessment to make, but later proved to be a red herring, because it was the web that was actually behind the eye's own ritual.

i have several gripes with this. 1. if the spider is so smart, why doesn't it/can't it have its own ritual and re-shape the world according to its own preferences? why does it have to piggyback on the eye's grind? 2. the spider's big plan seems to be bringing about the eyepocalypse just to convince the characters to let the fears out into the metaverse so it can start again. because, as it turns out, the eyepocalypse isn't really it's preferred state of being? it was the status-quo after all? the web DID prefer the world as it was, because it allowed it to thrive off manipulation and puppeteering, things it can't really engage in as much as it would like, since now everyone is trapped inside various fear domains. so, why-oh-why, not just leave the world as is? why even bring about an apocalypse in the first place if your intention is to always inhabit a apocalypse-less place?

i felt like this was such a plot-hole of an explanation the way it was presented. the web's greatest flaw was that it loved intricate plots so much there was a real danger of over-complicating its own plans and failing to see the forest from the trees, so to speak. the eye could have been used not to boggle down on meaningless details and ramifications, but to get a better sense of the bigger picture, something the web could very well lose sight of (pun intended). so the web's "plan" could have been ultimately rendered meaningless, because instead of choosing the simplistic, straightforward, occam's razor solution (no apocalypse, just thrive off the world as it is), it chose the overly complicated path that placed it in a situation it didn't thrive in (eyepocalypse) and made it even more complicated to get out of in the first place. it basically surrendered its destiny into the hands of people who had zero reasons to act sympathetic and could have very well chosen to destroy the entire world, fears included. and yet i am supposed to be in awe of the web's great intelligence and buy into the whole dumb eye propaganda?

many things have already been said about the moral dilemma at the end of S5 and my take on that is that jon was right. it was the merciful and just solution to prevent other people from other universes from suffering at the hands of fear entities. but i will be indulgent and account that it is a difficult choice to make for anyone, since human beings are so survivalist in nature and the choice to just make the fears someone else's problem in the hopes of their plans maybe getting foiled more effectively by others is tantalizing. who knows what any of us would have chosen had we been in their situation? perpetuating the horrors on someone else just so you could get reprieve is so cravenly but it's human and i get it. however, by no means is this a happy ending the way it was framed by the narrative. what melanie, georgie, basira and martin did was horrible and evil, but it is never acknowledged in that way. the least jonny could have done is have jon resist martin's selfish decision and have martin genuinely kill him. but, no, martin gets his romantic send-off together with jon, with the open possibility that they get transported to another world where they could start over. melanie, georgie and basira get to start a new life in the entity-less world, after contributing almost nothing. the worst characters get to live & they're validated in their awful behaviour.

however. i do feel like there were other ways to resolve the eyepocalypse without resorting to a horrible sophie's choice in the first place, but that would require a more extensive endgame re-write.

[cinematitlecards]

"The Bob's Burgers Movie" (2022) Directed by Loren Bouchard & Bernard Derriman (Animated/Comedy/Musical)

[mtbobo]

Got the idea when I realized that the dynamic of Little Dog and Big Dog from #2stupiddogs is just like that of Mark Bourchard and Mike Shank from #americanmovie

[emptyglossing]

Character thoughts

Just because I want to record my hits and misses:

Sam - something's up with them. I read their interest in the Magnus Institute as suspicious. Same with their concern about Collin. I think they know more than they're letting on.

Alice - I read her as being pretty sinister. Wouldn't be surprised if she's the actual villain. Or at the very least has an agenda that is fundamentally cross-purposed with Sam.

Collin - I think he's going to die soon.

Gwen - I'm most positive towards her. I assume the Bourchard stuff is a distraction and she's going to be mostly heroic.

Lena - She's definitely a villain. She definitely knows what's going on.

[princess-unipeg]

Know these books? Ever read them?

[opheliavilla]

sim remake tag!

I was tagged by @squishybuttercup - thank you! ☺️

neither of these sims are my very first sim. actually westleigh caldwell (who was originally named margot) is my first sim ever made and the legacy you see on my blog might be my 4th remake of her and her family? 4th or 5th. but I remade yuna (top) because she’s my first save in my gallery plus I’ve never posted any sim I’ve played before making this blog! I made her and her husband when the toddler update came out! & eliza (bottom) is one of my very first “story” gameplay on this blog, and my first time ever playing/remaking townies and I loved her so much when I first made her so she had to get a little makeover too. 

-rant over-

tagging: @jupiteroseindigo @mellindi @artsymcrafty @cantseemtohide @sagapixels @saurussims @pupsim @heartmeadows @adoringflames @simlian @ditzyfloral @honeycuts @shimmerpearl @hazelminesims @softpine @frequenciii @frenchpixel @justasaltyllama @ommsims @cowplant-pizza & whoever else wants to participate! please do it I wanna see your sims! If you did it already tag me! ☺️

[twobitzz]

people who think cameron ellis from tanis is hot also think elias bourchard from magnus is hot

[ao3feed-themagnusarchives]

Worth believing

by David_Kesil (DaveJean)

There was softness inside Peter Lukas’ eyes, and Elias Bouchard often thought he was the only one allowed to see it.

 Elias Bourchard reflects on his relationship with Peter Lukas, the Institute, and his ambitions. Inspired by Griftersbone's fanart (https://twitter.com/griftersbone/status/1223712503177392128?s=20)

Words: 715, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Elias Bouchard, Peter Lukas, Gertrude Rorbinson, Jonah Magnus, Jonathan Sims

Relationships: Elias Bouchard/Peter Lukas, Elias Bouchard & Peter Lukas

Additional Tags: this is gonna lean to the angsty side, old gay men being angsty, Elias has feelings, he still a prick, big peter, big peter is the best peter not sorry, divorce(s), wedding(s)

source http://archiveofourown.org/works/22534084

[lindaisrael]

Digital Masterboard Freebies

The following Digital Masterboard Freebies are a result of a YouTube Live video session. With the Help of Norella Bourchard of Calico Collage, these are digitally enhanced .jpg files ready for you to print and use in your projects.

Each file is a full-color .jpg file that will print as an 8.5 x 11-inch image.

You may use these images to sell items. You may not sell the digital images or any…

[topsolarpanels]

Tesla Just Softly Killed Off One Of Its Newest Product

Tesla has retooled its strategy for selling people with solar panel on batteries to store excess energy before the company even sold its first units.

The electric automaker unveiled a new suite of batteries last May, called Powerwalls, for homes and business. However, it quietly dropped its 10 kilowatt-hour device, the larger of its two residential batteries. Originally marketed as a backup power supply in case of grid-wide blackout, the $3,500 unit wasn’t as affordable as two alternatives, especially given that solar panels are sold separately.

Instead, the company said it plans to focus on its 7 kilowatt-hour Powerwall, meant for storing excess solar energy generated throughout the day for utilize at night or when the sunlight isn’t shining.

“We have watched enormous interest in the Daily Powerwall worldwide, ” Tesla wrote in a statement emailed to The Huffington Post on Thursday. “The Daily Powerwall supports daily use applications like solar self-consumption plus backup power applications, and can offer backup simply by modifying the way it is installed in a home. Due to the interest, we have decided to focus entirely on house and deploying the 7 kWh Daily Powerwall at this time.”

The 7 kilowatt-hour Powerwall has yet to be released in the United States, though Tesla told HuffPost some have been installed in countries such as Australia.

The company never rendered 10 kWh batteries. It didn’t seem like they would ever become economical.

GreenTech Media’s Julia Pyper, who first has broken the news of the 10 kilowatt-hour Powerwall’s being discontinued, wrote:

Even at Tesla’s low wholesale price, a 500 -cycle battery simply doesn’t pencil out against the alternatives, especially once the inverter and other system costs are included. State-of-the-art backup generators from companies like Generac and Cummins sell for $5,000 or less. These companies also offer financing, which removes any advantage Tesla might claim with that tactic, as GTM’s Jeff St. John pointed out last spring.

“Even some of the deep cycling lead acid batteries offer 1,000 cycles and cost less than half of the $3,500 price tag for Tesla Powerwall, ” told Ravi Manghani, senior energy storage analyst at GTM Research. “For pure backup applications only 500 cycles, lead acid batteries or gensets are way more economical.”

The bigger challenge, however, will be changing the current energy rate structure in the United States. Here, energy is more expensive during the day, when solar panels produce energy, and cheaper at night. Utility companies will buy consumers’ excess solar generated during peak hours and recirculate it into the electricity grid, then sell it back at a cheaper night rate, when solar panels aren’t producing energy.

Therefore, there’s little incentive for people to use solar-storage batteries that hang onto energy during the day if they could be selling it at peak prices to the utility companies and buying it back later on the cheap.

“It only constructs sense for storage if it’s more expensive to buy electricity at night and sell it back during the day, ” Brian Warshay, an analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Finance, told HuffPost last May. “But most people aren’t on those types of rates.”

Even so, this year is expected to be a big year for energy storage as the electrical capacity of renewable energy sources in the U.S. reaches new heights.

“Emerging technologies, cost reductions and supportive policies will make 2016 a breakout year for energy storage, ” Philippe Bourchard, vice president of business development at the New York-based startup Eos Energy Storage, wrote in a recent blog post. “The industry will see major proclamations from utilities and developers considering major contracts and execution of large-scale projects, transforming the electricity grid as we know it.”

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[medioeasy]

Nódulos de Heberden y Bouchard-- OSTEOARTROSIS

Destaca la presencia de unos engrosamientos óseos típicos llamados nódulos de Heberden, en las articulaciones interfalángicas distales, y nódulos de Bouchard, en las articulaciones interfalángicas proximales.

[opheliavilla]

-ELIZA FOREVER-

another shot I took from my sim remake tag. still love her. 

[opheliavilla]

Bob & Eliza

Eliza’s new look! 

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[opheliavilla]

Bob & Eliza

“Hi pretty girl. Mommy loves you.”

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[opheliavilla]

Bob & Eliza

Annie is a cute lil toddler now!

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[opheliavilla]

Bob & Eliza

Annie Pancakes Bourchard

Bob & Eliza’s love child born 5:20 am on Love Day!

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