#inventive principles

[awesomebutunpractical]

I do not read the fighting manga for the fighting. I read it for the random lines the characters spout during the fighting that makes me immediately tear up, close the manga reading app, and walk into the ocean.

[rhaenin-time]

If you reread the Dance portion of Fire and Blood after spending near any amount of time reading about how Empress Matilda was written about — not about Matilda herself, not the history, but specifically the historiography about how chroniclers and historians constructed narratives around Matilda — the story, Rhaenyra's story, becomes a lot less "ambiguous."

GRRM doesn't just know history, he knows historiography. He knew what he was doing. And it's a shame, and a little troubling, that so many people — including the writers of HotD — don't see it.

[yourdailyjormy]

send help i can't stop making knitting patterns

(no idea how these will knit up, but if you want to try any of them you're very welcome, i have motif modules in another excel sheet which I can share. pattern width ranges from 6 rows for the red mushrooms, to 16 rows for the trees/flowers one. Most of them are 8 rows.)

[chicago-geniza]

Just remembered that Armand met Lestat around the time Kant's Groundwork came out and had the incredibly cursed thought "what if instead of discovering the theater, grimy obsessive scrupulosity-brainworms Armand discovered the categorical imperative"

[eontrekker]

having an existential crisis about water blast type moves. where the fuck does all this water come from. I am a small mammal and that's like sixty gallons of high-pressure water WHERE does it COME FROM

[blood-orange-juice]

This, among other things, explains our boy's weird monologues in Labyrinth Warriors.

He recites the ideals of his martial tradition, beliefs he learned and decided to follow, not something he came up with himself.

Also what he says sounds incredibly similar to the Korean version of the trope, and I wonder if trope savvy players were supposed to recognise that.

[hasdrubal-gisco]

eating nutritious gray gruel all week to wean my body off color texture and flavor, in preparation for the weekend. the weekend: cold veal brisket with truffle mayo and vegetables pickled in raspberry vinegar; gazpacho with cod croquettes; boeuf tartare; tarte aux pommes normande

[gravitasmalfunction]

Craft club delivered yet another clanger of an overheard conversation in the form of two older ladies discussing how they've learned to express themselves more clearly about what they want, to lean in to prioritising things they themselves like and find interesting instead of putting themselves second by default, and breaking the habit of not spending money on themselves. And I was so proud and happy for them until one said, "You just have to tell them what you want, they [men] are hardwired to provide and protect!" and what little was left of my soul departed my body for good.

[tyrannuspitch]

concept that was literally keeping me awake at 3am last night: what if asgard had a writing system that was structured similarly to circular gallifreyan but visually resembled mediaeval knot art

[unnonexistence]

sometimes i have trouble coming up with secondary characters when i'm writing, but i think i figured out a trick: put your main character in Situations and see who they interact with. who are they calling to help them move? which coworker are they sharing a look with when something annoying happens? who do they spend time with on holidays?

[edenfalling]

Halloween after-action report

This year's trick-or-treater tally: 500+ kids, a handful of parents collecting on behalf of a sick kid at home, and a tired and harried reporter for the local TV station who frankly deserved some candy.

Don't move to a destination trick-or-treating neighborhood. Just, don't.

(I mean, you do get to see a lot of creative costumes! But the financial outlay for candy is such a damn pain in the neck, and if you want to make sure it will last to a reasonable hour you do need to supervise in person. This year I made it to 8:10pm, after which I went inside to warm up my icicle fingers and toes and left the dregs on a table with a "Take Two (2) Pieces" sign. The bowl was empty by 8:25.)

[craptainkirk]

House just peter levine'd that man. When he did the mirror magic thing and had that guy with the missing hand unclench his fist after decades of his nervous system still clenching it. House just literally had him somatic experience it away when the writers im assuming had no knowledge about it. They just reinvented it. On accident

[yearofthesnvke]

POV: you're hijacking years of scrupulous honesty for your own profit.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗕𝗜𝗥𝗧𝗛𝗗𝗔𝗬, 𝗛𝗨𝗬𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗦! 🔭

On this day in 1629, Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens was born in The Hague, Netherlands.

He is known for pioneering the wave theory of light and discovering the true structure of Saturn’s rings and one of its moons.

Huygens improved telescopes, invented the pendulum clock and advanced the study of dynamics, especially in rotating bodies and pendulum motion.

He also joined the French Academy of Sciences and exchanged ideas with Pascal, Leibniz, and Newton.

Huygens favored mechanical explanations and challenged Newton’s theory of gravity.

Although many overlooked his work during his lifetime, scientists later recognized his principle of secondary wave fronts as a key contribution to modern optics and physics.

His legacy continues to influence science today.

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Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, FRS (14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

[archersgoon]

i dont like to be rude but sometimes you see people who are just so impressively stupid. post about the reduction of maternity services at my local hospital. comment paraphrased 'this government keeps trying to kill medicare etc. hopefully this new guy will come in and fix it'. he is not going to do that. please be serious

[nova-moon13]