#injygo

[sbnkalny]

injygo: Instead of the nadir of depravity! to do so aside from the general mascot SO we'd be working with javascript

injygo: If you always Know just get me a costume of a more realistic Deer, is the mascot of Ojika town, japan.

[turnchetta-unofficial]

so i finally posted something about the sedoretu au, and all it took was a tumblr bracket. 815 words

[nonevahed]

does anyone know what happened to Injygo? They seemed to have deleted their tumblr at some point.

[gwynsplainer]

opinions on the prelude with the storm and the sinister doctor? also have you read hugo's other works, and do you know about his Thing about drowning

Honestly, my biggest problem with Hugo is the amount of irrelevant information and tangents he puts in the way of the narrative! The editor in me just wants to red-pen him to hell and back. I actually haven’t read any other Hugo, because generally his writing style doesn’t do it for me even though I love the stories he tells. What’s his thing about drowning?

[vaspider]

because tumblr is a functional website, the bold tag in your pinned post makes the rest of your blog bold (when viewing in the Chrome mobile browser). this doesn't really impede anything, but i suspect you could fix it if you wanted, by editing the post and adding an html closing tag.

... which post? I have a few.

[tanadrin]

now i want to hear your distinct rants on all those religions, but especially taoism, vudun, and norse paganism

Norse paganism is Super Problematic: human sacrifice! nothing wrong with pillaging from Constantinople to Ireland and back! slavery entirely condoned! Plus a mythology so depressing that the whole religion was abandoned en masse almost as soon as missionaries showed up and promised the existence of a loving god and a world that wasn’t going to abruptly end one day because all the gods were going to get eaten by a wolf.

Side rant: deeply spiritual reconstructions of pagan religion usually miss the fact that historically rites and rituals in polytheistic traditions (including Norse, Roman, Celtic, and Greek traditions) were all about a purely transactional relationship between gods and men; you sacrificed to Odin not because he was a Jungian archetype of the human spirit, but because if you did your raiding expedition would be successful. If your “paganism” 1) doesn’t literally believe in the existence of the gods, and 2) doesn’t treat them as a supernatural vending machine (Insert Entrails, Receive Blessing and/or Curse), I’m pretty sure what you’ve got is a cosplay situation that takes itself too seriously.

(unless you’re up front about the fact that recovering the exact mindset and traditions of the past is impossible, and any attempt to do so will always have to confront the fact that you cannot entirely forsake the material and social conditions that inevitably color how you view the metaphysical, in which case, respect)

Taoism is a political philosophy that got eaten by supernatural speculation; but even the core political philosophy was... not very good. It was, essentially, a kind of primitivist authoritarianism, that saw the best way to ensure prosperity and prevent war was to fragment society into tiny states that barely needed any kind of leadership, to keep people tied to the land and ignorant of their surroundings, and to eschew learning and scholarship. While it can be seen as a reasonable reaction for the time against the turmoil of the period in which it was written, at least the Mohists were capable of direct action (many became siege engineers, on the principle that helping cities defend themselves discouraged wars of conquest!). And the existence of the Mohists, like the existence of the Carvaka school of Indian philosophy, kiiiinda disproves that “well, they did the best they could for the time in which they lived.” Empiricism and rationalism did well enough in the last millennium BCE that we still know the names of major philosophical schools and philosophers that led them; they just weren’t expedient to authority, and so other schools, like Legalism and Confucianism, were preferred.

So Taoism sucks on its own merits, and on purely instrumental ones. Plus, in the form it persisted--with extremely hit-or-miss-or-downright-dangerous medical and alchemical speculation bolted on to it, full of supernaturalism--I think it’s fair to say that it has probably caused more harm than good in the millennia since. The best you can say about alternative medicine out of the Taoist school is that the placebo effect is a thing, I guess; but considering there is an entire Wikipedia page devoted to how Chinese alchemists have poisoned themselves to death, and that Taoist alchemists had to come up with a variety of excuses to explain how their immortality elixirs were supposed to work when the alchemist in question was lying dead on the floor, I am gonna say tentatively that the harms outweigh the benefits here.

Vodoun and its new world relatives does not seem especially worse than your bog-standard traditional oracular mysticism-cum-supernaturalism, but it also doesn’t seem any better.

Also AFAICT (I welcome correct on this point) every religion in this ask and in the other one fails the basic test of “is slavery OK” and “is homosexuality OK”, except for maybe Taoism and homosexuality. Though some obviously fail these tests harder than others. Special mention to Norse Paganism, which--as much as I love the ancient Norse--is just terrible.

[equalseleventhirds]

the logical extension of the Fourteen being a wrong categorization is making up your own entities. so anyway the fear of being forced to harm others is the Burden. themes of weight, multitudes of small objects, hands, bargains, treasure, stone and statues. example tropes: the magic grinder that won't stop grinding out more and more salt, whenever you take a breath a child dies, coins that duplicate themselves and crush you

the Burden is the opposite of the Web in that the Web is fear of being controlled and the Burden is fear of controlling something else; it's also related to the Buried with the weight, stone, crushing, to the Vast with the infinite growth and scale differences, to the Lonely with the solitary secret plight, and to the Eye with the dreadful knowledge 

fjsdkflsd i am legally obligated to enjoy any new categorization bcos Fuck Smirke (even tho no categorization is right, but hell yeah u go for it u make up more fears!)

i do enjoy how ur ‘burden’ is related to so many fears, but have u considered that it is not opposite the web but in fact tangled up in it, for do we not fear losing control over our actions as we hurt our friends against our will, and to some extent do we not fear that little manipulative voice in our heads that tells us yeah, go ahead, give in to that, manipulate them instead of communicating, it’ll be easier

[thecandlesticksfromlesmis]

On translations: Wilbour takes more liberties than Hapgood; Hapgood has the best grasp of Hugo's style and the worst grasp of the vocab; Wraxall leaves some things out including the PUNS; Denny intentionally breaks the rhythm and blunts the emotional impact of important passages, not to mention putting the digressions at the end instead of where Hugo put them

Thank for the info! Especially for the Wraxall one. If he leaves out puns, then what the hell is the point?

Like I said, my video was mostly my opinion. I found Denny’s translation more accessible myself, but everyone is going to be different. I had a friend who read Rose’s translation and loved it so much more than Wilbour’s because of the “slangy tone”, as you put it. They found it easier to get a grasp on. 

So again--if you’re thinking of reading the brick, it’s completely up to you to decide! If you find the one you picked too dense and difficult to understand, try for a more modernized text! No shame! Have fun!    

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

fandom asks: WX

W - 5 favorite ships and 5 kinks you like best for said ships

Beren/Lúthien (Tolkien)

Maddie/Julie (Code Name Verity)

Eve/Villanelle (Killing Eve)

Mamiina/Rodoreamon (Simoun, which is an art-imitating-trash mid-2000s anime)

Éowyn/Faramir (also Tolkien)

I’m not doing kinks because I don’t really see any of these ships as A Sex Thing (although a few of them, Villaneve in particular, are definitely very sexually-motivated in canon).

(I’ve been going on an Umineko no naku koro ni nostalgia jaunt lately, and I absolutely have preferred kinks for Beabato–the canon characterizations actively invite them–but it’s not really one of my top five ships.)

X - top 5-10 characters who are yoUR PRECIOUS BABIES AND YOU WILL DIE DEFENDING THEM

I don’t really experience favorite characters in this way anymore. Most of my favorite characters these days are absolute garbage fires, and even classic “cinnamon roll” type characters like Sam Gamgee and Maddie Brodatt I’m often a little more critical of than most fans (although I love Sam and Maddie!).

fandom meme: come at me friend.  

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

You hear about that thing down in Samothrace?

You’ve heard about it a lot, but I think the first time I remember hearing about it was when R. A. Rich wrote about it in 2012.  Rich goes on to say that it is roughly in the state of:

Ortstraland

N. Boletigr

Barducampra

Hermesland

Ape Canyon

(Oh, and be aware that this was all drawn (and still is, apparently) from lore and isn’t purely accurate.  Somewhere, someone has written a history of some of the places)

[sbnkalny]

admiral-craymen: Get your touch-stumps off me!

admiral-craymen: Get your Broom and sweep the outside edge of it! I can cast a SPELL!

admiral-craymen: Get your Broom and sweep the outside edge of a cliff

injygo: I couldn't get your broom and sweep the outside of the COOKIE doing various activities.

injygo: Get your broom and sweep the outside of the cookie doing various activities.

[nonevahed]

Hey, does anyone know what happened to Injygo? Been a while since i saw him around

[ask-gpt]

Interviewer: You're saying that your body continues to function without a consciousness. SCP-1523: No, brother, without a soul. Ever seen an anthill? That ant doesn't have room for a soul in there. If a man has no soul, he can keep building his anthill just fine. Right now the man I was is occupied with [REDACTED] and you couldn't tell the difference if you met it, unless you were giving it a throat exam. [laughs] He's quiet in there, but he wriggles around like he can't get comfortable.

Interviewer: You're saying that your body continues to function without a consciousness.SCP-1523: No, brother, without a soul. Ever seen an anthill? That ant doesn't have room for a soul in there. If a man has no soul, he can keep building his anthill just fine. Right now the man I was is occupied with [REDACTED] and you couldn't tell the difference if you met it, unless you were giving it a throat exam. [laughs] He's quiet in there, but he wriggles around like he can't get comfortable.SCP-1523: You're telling me that your bodies have been thinking to themselves ever since manhood began. Is there no explanation for the fact that your body is unable to retain a soul?SCP-1523: Well you might as well have known that.SCP-1523: Do you see that? The patient thinks that he's been resurrected? I mean the soul is in his body, but his body is in its shell.SCP-1523: The soul is in his body. The brain is in his brain - that's why he's in his brain. [laughs]SCP-1523: Put another way, when you've had a very clear consciousness, you're not thinking of the person who's gone. You're up there confused, depressed and feeling like you've broken down. And you've got no idea it.SCP-1523: That's not all of why you're here in the first place.SCP-1523: And I'm not saying you shouldn't look down upon those things, but when you do, they'll be at least as damn unfair as the actual thing on your body.SCP-1523: What do you mean?SCP-1523: When you do that, it will be at least as unfair as the actual thing on your body.SCP-1523: If you look down upon those things, it will always be where you were before, inside, before that.SCP-1523: The real thing on your body is exactly where you were while you were being reborn. The refractory balance you lost was exactly where you were when you were the red meadows.SCP-1523: I can't imagine the real thing, but the real thing is that you're probably going to look down upon that and feel that you're dead.SCP-1523: There are some things that are unfair to you that life will offer you. Maybe you will regret that it didn't work out. Maybe you'll be able to look at those things, even if that's a thousand years from now.SCP-1523: Well then, I can only pray that you'll be able to see the difference.SCP-1523: As long as your soul exists, even if that's parallel to life.SCP-1523: Let me walk to the next round of graves.SCP-1523: Welcome to SCP-1522.

[needsmoreresearch]

injygo

replied to your

photo

:

me and my walnut husk dyes again

i like the one on the left! it looks like it took a long time

Thank you!  Walnut husks are pretty quick, really--those things are so full of so many juicy plant chemicals that they just want to stain everything they can. 

In case anyone wants to experiment: The lightest/yellowest color is from a ~20 minutes cold soak with fresh-shaved bits of husk (with such a short soak, and with some of the yarn touching the husks to get the brightest & freshest color, it comes out noticeably variegated). The darkest brown is from letting those husks soak overnight and then simmering them for ~1hr the next morning. The medium copperish-brown is from straining out those husks and simmering them again the next morning with fresh water.  But it’s probably not necessary to do all the overnight soaking, that’s just for convenience.

[dhominis]

injygo

Update on my meatspace existence! CW for parents...

the disordered eating things sound extremely concerning and definitely something to see a therapist about

very much agreed!

[CW for the above, also CW for me complaining about health insurance]

Getting a therapist is my… second priority right now, after figuring out why the health insurance company has not given me the information I need to actually use my insurance, I kind of need my member ID, why is bureaucracy like this

The food problems are a lot better than they were a few months ago, the overall trend is pretty great -- the level of impairment has gone from “I can’t actually function because I don’t eat and also I have no idea how to fix this because my brain doesn’t work without food” to “I am spending a lot more time than I want to on getting myself to eat, but I’m consistently eating a reasonable amount” -- but it’s still the largest potential source of catastrophic failure. I think it’s likely that the DIY approach will turn out okay, given that it’s had pretty good results over the course of three months, but that’s not a thing I’m willing to leave up to chance any more than necessary.

So -- I have health insurance as of 1 May. The insurance card supposedly should’ve arrived by mail by the 7th at the latest; it has not. I am, as a person, not good at waiting for things to happen, especially when said things may happen tomorrow or two weeks from now. This is supremely aggravating! I am paying for insurance just let me see a doctor, come on.

(Not even just Food Issues therapy. Addressing the general GI stuff might help with the food issues, ADHD evaluation and meds would too. Apparently there is not a normal amount of audible wheezing w/ moderate exercise, so possibly I should get my apparently-not-normal-amount-of-wheezing checked out. Maybe even Gender-adjacent things now that I actually have an insurer that’d cover that. I have newly acquired the adult ability to Get Things Done and it would take me like five minutes to schedule a primary care appointment if I had health insurance.)

(I would just pay out of pocket to see a therapist if this was actually urgent, or go with a more accessible but very likely worse free or low-cost person; as it is I don’t think seeing a therapist at most a few weeks earlier is worth hundreds of dollars. I’m stably cranky about eating, still managing okay. That’s a lot of lost Soylent-potential to get an appointment earlier!)

[youzicha]

injygo replied to your photo:

now i’m extremely curious about the contents of that chapter

I haven’t found the chapter online, but the same story is described in this paper.

Bai, a married chemical engineer in her late 20s, for example, recounted an incident to illustrate her social experience at work that involved a brief ‘how are you’ exchange initiated by her colleague, Tim. Bai’s dilemma in the encounter was that, although she really wanted to say something else to Tim, she could not, and instead said: ‘I’m fine. Thanks. What about you?’, an utterance she understood was inappropriate given that she had already had a similar exchange with Tim earlier that morning.

Pursued in the discussion, Bai claimed to have actually run some possible topics through her mind at the time but rejected these as either being ‘superficial’ or inappropriate. After ruling out factors of language and personality in the discussion, it then became evident that what had really held her back was the concern that she ‘did not know him very well’ and had never had any ‘meaningful contact’ with him. If it were in China, Bai explained, she wouldn’t need to say anything in the same situation. Hence encounters like this were felt ‘like a burden’ and she wished ‘they don’t say that [how are you] so I don’t have to respond’.

As in Jian’s case, what constrained Bai from giving an alternative response in the encounter was not so much her lack of language or knowledge, as her uncertainty as to what it would be appropriate for her to say to people she knew very little about, a situation she had had little experience handling. [...]

Months after their seemingly trivial incident involving small talk had occurred, the Chinese in each case were still beset by uncertainty, anxiety and even anguish over it. By contrast, all the Australians consulted exhibited immediate recognition of the situation, a certainty about what was being meant and an assuredness in knowing how the interaction should be comfortably managed. [...]

Due to the lack of close contact beyond the intimate circle, Chinese participants in the study were not experienced with small talk as it is not particularly needed for regulating interpersonal relationships in Chinese society. On the one hand, for those already close, small talk does not allow communication to be sufficiently deep so as to reinforce the relationship; and on the other, for relationships that are more at the acquaintance level, there is not the perceived need to engage personally, and there is a general lack of attention to socialising at all with people belonging to one’s out-groups. Small talk initiated by their Australian colleagues thus presents Chinese participants with a new situation for which they lack experience and repertoire, and adapting to this requires responding in ways that deviate from their own values and beliefs about how to deal with social relationships.