#dr ration

[fortunatelyenchantingtaco]

2.1 spoilers!!!!

Honestly adore the way we got given a glimpse of the fact that Aventurine is anxious. He is worried everything will fall apart. He’s spiraling thinking that Ratio betrayed him, even though Ratio’s dialogue was VERY CLEARLY implying he complied with Aventurine’s plan even if he didnt know it. Like his voicelines after the betrayal? He fucking knew that was his plan. But Aventurine still spiraled

And Ratio, in his oerfect autistic roundabout way made sure so that in the most important moment Aventurine still knows Ratio is obviously on his side.

This fucking game. Ratio really went “i am NOT leaving this to interpretation. This suicidal twink better come back”

[stationstuff]

[itssofuckingover]

it gets me that the master was already wearing eyeliner when he pulled off the razor disguise because this means he either put the disguise on every morning and also the eyeliner (before Bill wakes up) (Every Morning For A Decade) just because he felt like it… orrrrr he saw the doctor was on his way and did that to look pretty for him.

[racecarcat]

WE R SO BACKKKK

[il3x]

so Bradshaw definitely drew some conclusions right

[moonlightandpalmtrees]

v curious as to what everyone's interpretation is for their personal headcanon

[mobblespsycho100]

kabru as a pwnpd headcanon is genuinely so iconic that man rlly is odysseus' hubristic tendencies made manifest tbh . . .

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Ngl with my watching the show fic I have spent every other moment for the last several months wishing I had added some classic who companions to the chaos lol.

Especially Tegan, Nyssa, and Ace.

And now especially given what I'm doing after The Giggle.

Might throw them in there after The Giggle concludes right in time for the interlude, unless y'all think that's a shite idea.

[essaysandopinions]

I didn't really notice it at first, but over the last like, three months? I've been watching a few shows that are being released weekly and the difference it makes to how engaged I am with the shows is insane.

Like I know we've all been saying this but I genuinely am enjoying things so much more when they're not thrown in my face in one big block of twelve episodes.

I have also been back on Tumblr for all of this which has made it even more obvious how much fans generally will engage in so much more depth if given a bit of time.

Idk either that or I'm getting old

[everlastiingiimmortals]

I was thinking again about Ratio's speech to Screwllum and how incensed he became, the sheer emotion in his voice when he speaks of the tumbles and triumphs of human life, and something about that clicked to me. And I think it's something I mentioned before, but it just never hit me so hard.

Ratio finds the human existence so beautiful.

He is so passionate about life, about the belief that it is because the human life is so small and fleeting that people should push and push and strive to their absolute limit, because that is what it means to be human, to be alive.

"Even a life marked by failure is a life worth living."

These are his words directly from the 1.6 ending cutscene. Would someone who only hated stupid, ignorant, factually incorrect people say that? I don't think so. And it is here that I realized: what Ratio hates isn't ignorance in the sense of not knowing something. Ignorance isn't the root cause of his dread.

It's a symptom.

It is a symptom of an attitude of complacency, of stagnation. Because it is as Screwllum says: everyone is ignorant of one thing or another; nobody knows everything, not even Nous. What Ratio is trying to pinpoint and change is that attitude, that quality of being ignorant as a trait, not a state. He's trying to kindle the drive for self-improvement, because to embrace oneself, complete with one's flaws and acknowledging them but striving to improve on them, that is so fucking beautiful. That is the meaning of life.

And I wonder if, really, he uses the word "ignorance" on purpose because it's just... an easier goal to communicate to others, especially with his methods of sparking change. I wonder if he sets himself up to be this "boss" to be challenged, and his classes the battle, because he takes such an antagonistic approach to every aspect of a person that can be criticized that people are compelled to challenge him. In this sense, he's similar to a certain Otto Apocalypse (and possibly his alts as well).

We even see in the space station that he's not specifically attacking ignorance with the phase flame incident, but rather the researchers' complacency and dependence on Herta. What he does is label it under "ignorance" because it is a more inflammatory word, and for those who walk the Path of Erudition, it is an insult. Ignorance is the antonym to erudition. And I guess that his decision to use this approach is because all his life he's been the scholarly type, been surrounded by scholarly types, and it is because of professors that challenged him and wanted to see him push his limits that got him this far. How much of his life might have been wasted if Professor Rond hadn't advocated for him in his youth? If he were to say he wanted to challenge complacency and preach self-sufficiency directly, he'd be a therapist. He would rather die; he could not stand being a therapist, his own sanity would not be able to handle it. What better way to spark change than through the profession he is most familiar with, the one that encouraged him, the one that he knows best? What better way than to use his passion for philosophy and the sciences to spark others'?

Call him a narcissist all you want, it's true, but also nobody would work this hard if they did not believe that their end goal wasn't absolutely worth it. No one would care so much if they didn't find the object of their care precious enough to cultivate. Nobody would make so many fucking statues if they didn't love and celebrate the human body because sculpting requires so much goddamn effort, especially with masonry.

What Ratio pursues is not necessarily the eradication of ignorance, but rather the advocacy of self-improvement, because the human existence is only its most beautiful when passion has a direction and the momentum to propel itself to its limit regardless of whatever stands in its way. That is his self-evident, unchanging truth.

[not-poignant]

Just out of curiosity, how WOULD temsen react to being told about the whole androlphogen pheromone flood fiasco Gary and efnisien went through?

I imagine he'd probably be very concerned but also intruiged from a medical science research type standpoint lol

Oooo yeah I don't think Temsen would react well, honestly. The reason Gary didn't tell Temsen about it (and also the reason that Efnisien didn't) is that they both didn't want him negatively interfering with their relationship and/or separating them.

I think Gary recognised he probably should have told Temsen and at least given Efnisien that option, but Efnisien later recognised he had that option anyway. It's hard to explain but at that point they closed ranks because they knew Temsen would be furious, and that the anger would be understandable, but also that their relationship is complicated and they were already dealing with enough re: the Cella aftermath to add Temsen into it too.

Especially because Temsen isn't exactly emotionally stable right now.

Tbh Temsen doesn't want to study peak alphas. I don't think he'd find it intriguing from a scientific standpoint, I think he'd be angry at Gary and angry at Efnisien, and frustrated with both of them. A kind of 'why would you both do that, I can't deal with this, I'm honestly thinking about quitting. I'm going to travel to Switzerland and be a doctor at a new ORF that's following the Hillview model.'

And then we see how stressed he is a few days later and it's like yeah...that's why they didn't tell him, lmao.

Temsen mostly finds omega stuff fascinating scientifically. He's a bit 'alphas actually really annoy me' the rest of the time dfslkfja

[fortunatelyenchantingtaco]

I know its kind of unlikely to happen but GOD do i just hope that Ratio and Aventurine would be appearing in all events later down the line. Just another festival or some fun thing and theyre visiting, together because bullshit reasons “they judt happened to meet”

Like honestly they have such great dynamic ill take that

[hereissomething]

saw the first saw with orgy and my fave part is when u see dr gordon dragging his dad tummy across the floor on his way out of the bathroom

[short-wooloo]

I think it would be really funny if Hayden Christensen played Dr. Doom in that new Fantastic Four movie

[birchbow]

I don’t know if this was asked before but how are the rooms of the trolls on the fleet? Would the rooms vary based on rank, status and ship? Do the trolls have something like a small kitchen in their rooms to cook up stuff when need be like with drone season since they are unable to move around freely.

I would've absolutely sworn I did type up something about variation in rooming situations on the various ships, but I can't find it--the summary is that the general setup is going to be one troll per living quarters with very utilitarian attached bathroom+shower+at least one small mirror for paint.

On the flagship, a little more generous; on the Penitent, very austere, on the Sinner more tendency toward people just finding a room when they're done partying and posting up for the night, whether or not somebody was already living there. On the Freakshow, because people aren't going to stop fighting each other on there and there's no point making them try, most people just get barracks accommodations in one big room with communal amenities, but can kill their way into one of the private blocks if they're able.

I don't think they have private kitchens even on the flagship; Kurloz has the most luxurious hivesuite on the ship and I've never made any mention of him having one, just the big cafeteria--quite possibly there are one or two smaller kitchens for like, whole sections of the ship, maybe one per deck, but for drone season I think most people just hoard some food and water and wait for it to blow over haha.

[dr-milfi]

POV me whenever anyone mentions the Sopranos.