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[sciolists-libellum]

Haleth || 22 || tries to handle the tech side of things but Asra is better at it. I do the organising and handling of the admin.

BA || LLB || Undergrad. Send help

If you wanna partake in the shenanigans you can find me @rangerofthesouth

Areas of Interest:

- Right now, a severe obsession with Greek Mythology because of the PJO series and I'm also reading the Iliad after reading Song of Achilles (no, i cannot under any circumstances be normal about him and Patroclus.)

- Classic literature and poetry : I wanna read as many classics as I can because why not and also school didn't allow me to read so I'm making up for lost time. (I'm still trying to finish Pride and Prejudice, but my adhd keeps saying noooo)

- Film : I watch a lot of films, movies and series, sometimes I watch mainstream stuff. Not just to space out, but because i enjoy complex storylines and excellent directing.

(currently watching Gossip Girl and... I have my reservations but..it's actually pretty interesting). I'm a fan of period dramas, fantasy and anything that has to do with magic, sci-fi and psychological thrillers.

- The Old Guard and books by Neil Gaiman : recently graphic novels have become something I'm completely obsessed with... I can't explain how much i love graphic novels and comics right now!!!! Just *high pitched scream*

- Also non-western literature:

I'm a firm believer in knowing where you came from in order to know where you're going.

gimme poetry about the indentured Indians, gimme stories about the poc who have had to fight to be seen, gimme gimme oral tales from ethic tribes, let me see the diaspora of your people around the globe

i wanna hear about everyone's history. Where you came from, why they chose to step onto the ship, whether they had a choice. Tell me about your aunty's recipe for a certain dish, i bet you there's a story behind it.

- I'm really into fashion rn after spending my entire adolescence wearing the same tshirt and jeans. will i be normal about it? Absolutely not.

- queer theory and history and law even if i don't wanna admit that out loud. But wow, is the law actually interesting...

What else am i interested in??

- Food. Especially Asian foods and the absolute wonderful variety every culture has to offer. So far I've had a good intro to Korean foods such as gimpap and baobuns, I've tried Chinese oudon noodles which i would happily die for oh and i tried ramen too.. But i needa know more so please gimmmmme gimme your favourite Asian dishes, especially if they're spicy.

- Music : i play the guitar and piano and cannot be normal about jazz, blues or classics. Yes, Asra is right, Pop music is my area of expertise until you ask me about relevant songs. ( BUT classical music is Asra's area of utter and complete expertise. Seriously any questions on classical music and composition send it to Asra)

-Art: i freaking love art ( Van Gogh my love, Fauvism my detested, animation because of Abu (a friend not the monkey from Aladdin.) my painting skills are something to be worked on but i can draw!

- I'm very normal about Cate Blanchett in any of her films.

- i enjoy reading and listening to explanations on different beliefs, cultures and psychology, i really like understanding how the world works.

-physics even though I failed math and never did physics but wooow do i love applying it to Formula One.

- Oh yeah, formula one 🏎️

- i love animals, i will befriend your pets.

-Travel : honestly i wanna see every inch of the world and eat alllll kinds of foods and leave a footprint in a German forest. The ocean beckons, the sky will carry me gently, the mountains sing for me to join them.

My areas of Interest will change as i grow and my brain decides what my next hyperfixation will be. There's a good chance imma inflict it upon everyone here😗

beautiful paragraph dividers are the works of @saradika

[yanabortniks]

basics.

full name: Yana Mikhailovna Bortnik

nickname: Yana is already a nickname technically. She was named after her grandma Dayana, but her extended family on her dad's side calls her by a variety of Russian diminutives such as Yanka, Yanusya, Yaya, etc. Yana doesn't expect her friends to use any of them, but Dev's allowed to use "Yaya" ♡

faceclaim: Fivel Stewart

age: 22

gender: cis woman

pronouns: she/her

sexuality: unlabeled

hometown: Marquette, Michigan

birthday: December 23, 1999

zodiac: Capricorn sun, Aries moon, Pisces rising

traits: responsible, patient, ambitious, extreeeemely independent, resourceful, loyal, organized, self-disciplined, cautious, methodical, suspicious, sensitive, know-it-all, often expects the worst, nosey, cheap, rarely satisfied

major: Psychology

more info.

Yana’s parents are both semi-functioning alcoholics and her relationship with them is very… strained. She goes to weird and sometimes extreme lengths to appease them in a way that seems sincerely useless because they either don’t care or don’t notice. And some people who don’t understand the situation might often feel that Yana is making it seem worse in her head via her projections and insecurities, but on the flipside Yana’s like okay but you don’t get it actually!

Last year her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and is doing fine now, but between thinking about grad school and her future and just her constant, CONSTANT worries about her parents’ health due to their substance abuse issues, she fully spiraled out. Went MIA. No one heard from her for a couple weeks. (Romy intervened ♡)

She’s currently waiting to hear back from PhD programs to become a clinical psychologist and will go literally anywhere that takes her and gives her good money. What motivates Yana is not perfection but success, and it does have the habit of driving her up the wall sometimes but that is just the kind of sacrifice she has to make in order to fulfill a goal. 

Personality-wise, Yana is very much an extroverted introvert. She looooves being with her friends and she can spread herself out pretty thin sometimes, but she also needs to recharge on her own. She’s also very sincere and tries to push people toward vulnerability (tried to make the whole friend group watch the Brene Brown vulnerability TedTalk) and talk their issues out and always wants to take temp readings on how everyone’s doing.  (Real picture of her: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/4a/1a/4c/4a1a4cf5baeb1172e6e29b6fff5fe714.jpg).

Again, she’s often Doing The Most, which can be helpful but also very aggravating for those around her sometimes, about stuff like, spending literal hours in a Saver’s and making you suffer under those fluorescents and writing long handwritten letters to communicate her feelings. But she is also often hands-off irt other people’s drama. Like, you come to her for deets that could maybe clear up a situation and sometimes she’s like…. “I don’t think it’s my place to say anything, you should talk to that person about it” and suddenly you’re wringing her neck. Xoxo.

UMMM other than that, she’s a loyal friend who wants to establish a FT schedule, keeps all her bad grades stuffed in a binder that she keeps in her room, has a lifelong obsession with Cher, will sometimes sincerely fall to the ground from laughing so hard at your jokes, is the jumpiest bitch in the biz, likes goofy humor and when her friends playfully make fun of her (to an extent eeek), doesn't drink alcohol or smoke weed (though she may indulge in a teeny tiny edible), NEEDS concrete plans, rocking her light blue crocs half the time, passionately adheres to the 5-second rule of dropped food (kinda gross), semi-estranged from her older brother, thinks she’s the worst daughter to ever exist and she should be met with chants of “shame shame shame!”, likes cheap Pinterst crafts, HATES when people pay for her to the point where it has caused actual tension, she's Buddhist, likes to meditate, is constantly trying new things to "heal" her (different teas and crystals and apple cider vinegar shots), has a tattoo that references Vienna by Billy Joel, etc. OH, and she’s an RA!

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[polygon-streams]

April 23, 2019 - Mortal Kombat 11 Story Time

Pat played Mortal Kombat 11 on his channel, major content warnings for blood, gore, graphic violence.

Link to VOD, starts at 00:09:45.

He’s got cyberpunk lighting, oh shit he’s HACKED IN [Watch Clip]

Thanks his new subs at the beginning of the stream (including Faith)

Has not played game beforehand, runs tutorial at beginning

One beverage of the night is a watermelon ale

“One small step for scorpion, giant leap for gamer-kind”

Pat says it’s the third game in mortal Kombat series, starts w #9; everyone was in a fighting ring and it went so bad someone time traveled and reset it

He got 1000 coin $$

Has played Mortal kombat X (second one); says game is relatively similar

He brutally stabbed a guy in the tutorial and said “oops”

He says that thick blood is “thick jelly” for the game

Plays multiple rounds in the tutorial to be more familiar with the game

Got more coins after his second round $$$. Capital Pat $

Fiddles w the setting before going back into gameplay

Says game requires people to memorize combo functions to play and if they don’t get it right, they can get punished (like Dragon Ball Z)

Gets hit with a massive combo and goes “mmMM IM FINE”

“This is some Looney Tunes shit”

Chooses to stay in tutorial; hears about “fatal blow”– which the cpu gave him last round

Requires more timing for fatal blows than previous mortal kombat; used to be able to hold down a button and give a fatality, apparently

“It was an accident; it was fucking cool tho”

Pat uses a character whose main weapon is a chain they can use to grapple on the enemy; is still figuring out the mechanics of the character

He referred to his stream as the pizza party

He entered the customize menu babey

Every menu option MUST start w a K instead of a C in the spirit of the game

Chat feels good about input controls

Chat plays caught and compromised when the boss of the game is revealed [Watch Clip]

Piss clip interrupts dramatic intro scene

Content warning: “everything in the game is NASTY”

BIG kw on this one (stands for “kontent warning”)

Military girl gets promoted to commander bc nepotism, but still needs to duel person promoting her: “I need to kick YOUR ass ma'am”

“My mom kicked my ass”

Looks up special moves bc he can’t beat his mom (also the mom is Sonya, which I think is a char from a previous MK game??)

Mom continues to kick his ass

“RIP mommy” (i detest this man)

“Damn, mom with the MIX UPS”

Finally beats the mom after three or so tries

Kung Lao can do hat decapitations

Pat wants to direct mortal kombat

An intense laser went off in the story and someone played the piss clip at the same time [Watch Clip]

Gives more shoutouts

Thinks the notion of guns in mortal kombat is funny bc guns are never used in the fights

Pat says memeshart should run the streams

*Pat, mocking the storyline* “The BONE temple”

Faith is responsible for many of the piss button presses in this stream

Wants to play as Jackie in the game; doesn’t want to play as Cassie (probably bc she’s not in previous games?)

Hour mark goes by, chat presses h to hydrate

Character says “fuck you!” after a long battle; Pat agrees

Mom is buried by some rocks, Pat: “she could get out if she were a little boulder” (chat proceeds to yell at Pat)

LincolnCarpenter used all of their piss bucks 😔

After the dad realized his wife had died, someone in the chat played the Donkey Kong has Died music; Pat erupts in laughter, “I’m sweaty” [Watch Clip]

Prisoner has a colosseum fight. Pat: “this is so fuckin stupid”

Characters (and Pat) react to time travel element of the plot. Pat remembers some, but not all of the characters. Chat (and Pat) makes memes about characters seeing different versions of themselves

Some of the gore freaked out Pat

Gets new fighting avatar, checks out moves, butchers one of them: “huEHhe”

“I’m just gonna mash the buttons”

Roleplays as his new avatar to himself

I think this game calculates points in decimal?? Why

An assassin appeared out of a cloud of blood from a previously killed enemy. Pat called her his “blood wife,” then sipped on some ale

He has a brief cowboy noise discussion; “they all sound like McCree” (character from Overwatch)

Calls the blood of his enemies “gamer fuel” while still fighting the cowboy

Calls a character “our anti-imperialist bae” (eat the rich)

(sing-song voice) “Gamer fuuuueeeeeeel in my mouth”

“D’vorah” apparently means “da fuq” in mortal kombat (to Pat, during his entrance)

Questioned how Raiden is pronounced (Raid-en in MK, Ry-den in Metal Gear)

Game: “There are two eras” Pat: “Aaaah yes that’s how time works”

Doubts the game’s explanation of how immortals don’t have duplicates, but mortals do. Laughs at plot holes

Tfw you accidentally call your general mom, “General Mommy” [Watch Clip]

Pat has to fight a baby scorpion (the character)

A character the chat calls Hat Man invented dabbing (bc game takes place 20 yrs before dabbing was a thing)

Plays as the Hat Man during a fight, spends first couple seconds figuring out how to throw the hat

“I’m dead. He’s gonna rip my spine out of my ass”

He did a cool combo and said “Good.” with so much authority

Poses question to the chat: “if you and your best friend are on a mystical quest and run into evil, double versions of yourself, do you fight your evil double, or your friend’s evil double?”

Chat is making Christmas Carol memes bc the time travel discussion

Hat Man runs into his evil double “Same hat”

Characters made decision to fight their own evil doubles

Pat remembers cyber machines

Pat smiles in a :D way and does a little dance [Watch Clip]

Sub-Zero is introduced, “Hey Boy” soundbit plays

Pat mocks robot death bc no feelings “my dreeeeams” [Watch Clip]

Characters walk by heads floating in tanks, dismembered body pieces, “NASTY, this game is gross”

character gets sawed in half; pat makes a loud, grossed-out noise

“God damn you Cipher!” sound bit plays while an evil ice lady is revealing plans

Pat fights a character named “Noob Saibot” (chat reacts as you’d expect)

“Caught and compromised” soundbit plays again

Stream wraps up, Pat is sleeby and does a Big Yawn, thanks the mods

Raids Thomas “Strawbiery” Biery