#lateral problem solving

[mx-lamour]

I had to take drastic measures to make sure I would actually recognize my notes... I love when apps become less convenient.

[peopleareaproblem]

Colourblind Fiyero

I'm sure I'm not the first person to have this idea but I thought of this literally half-asleep at 1 AM and bolted up to note it down.

Anyway what if movie!Fiyero is red/green colourblind and when he and Feldspar almost run over Elphaba, he doesn't see the Elphaba on the left, but the one on the right? reblog if u think the girl on the left is j-

And the reason he looks like this when he sees her face:

... is not because he is realising it's too late to stop himself from saying the words "blended in with the foliage" to the green girl, but because he has two eyes and a heart and just saw Cynthia Erivo in the woods. (And Feldspar sure as shit doesn't notice anything either because horses cannot see red and he is used to people looking kinda green.)

Fiyero arrives at Shiz well after everyone sings a song about how green and annyoing Elphaba is, and the day after he arrives Galinda has taken her under her wing and made her popular, causing people to stop talking shit. So, what if Fiyero just does not find out Elphaba is green until like 2/3rds through the movie? He just straight up misses it, does not know she is an outcast, and just thinks she isn't into him for some bizarre reason. And only when he finds out she has green skin does he realise that he said the foliage thing, which she would definitely have taken as a jab, and actually he was incredibly rude to her. ... Oh no.

LOOK. Obviously I love that Fiyero just is not Fantasy Racist™ and doesn't think there's anything wrong with Elphaba being green. HOWEVER, wouldn't it be funny if-

[linddzz]

nothing viktor did was more peak engineer behavior than when he so confidently explained evolution wrong except for him confidently explaining evolution wrong while disagreeing with the guy who explained it correctly

[oreo-cookies-fan]

Forever obsessed with the fact that future historians will say that hero Jayce Talis sacrificed his life to defeat the dreadful villain who wanted to turn all humans into robots, while in reality he CHOSE to die with the said villain, who was also his soulmate in literally every universe, because he was in love with him and didn't want him to die alone

[karmicpunishment]

atsushi starts taking some college classes and meets some friends and one turns out to be one of kunikidas former students

[doctorsiren]

thinking about ???%…but…but with adult mob :(

[gayofthefae]

You know of course depression plays a part in it but people say with Mike his inability to say it was what was causing her to think that besides that but I'd like to remind us all of the saying "If he loved you, you'd know"

We need to come back to the fact that yes, Mike couldn't say that he was in love with El. But there are other ways to convey to someone that you're in love with them.

Actions speak louder than words and, really, it was never about lacking the words. It was about how lacking the words pointed out clearer than ever that the actions weren't there in the first place.

Having the words can shield the fact that he doesn't seem like he's in love with either. You assume that both are there. But if one goes away and there's nothing left...you can't really unlearn that. She knows that he loves her now. I wonder what she knows of him being in love with her.

Because she didn't confront him on the word itself until prompted. Their original fight was about his actions. "The way you looked at me," for example. It wasn't he was in love with her but just couldn't say the word.

It was that not being able to say the word meant that there were no bells and whistles to distract

from things like this

Because that argument looks different with no supporting evidence of him not loving her outside of the words. But the words are her supporting evidence. To her initial point: his actions. The words weren't even part of her original argument. She hadn't even felt the need to reach for them as proof.

That argument was not just based on his words. So how can the solution be? He was acting like he wasn't in love with her. She caught it. And at that point, probably started noticing he never said it. Because I doubt she started counting days from when he first said or even when she left if she assumed as she seemed to for a while that she did. It didn't seem like she's was counting every day for eight months. It seemed like she started to notice and checked her facts to find they were right. Something prompted that. Maybe a couple letters in a row were a little dry. Maybe she needed it more one day, then noticed that week after week it didn't come and checked back.

But her observation of him not saying it was prompted by his actions. It's why she didn't even bring up his words herself. Only when he argued her. They were her trump card, not her argument.

The fight was about Mike's actions. His words were just an example. He still hasn't solved his actions. Remember, by her account:

This was him not convincing her too.

He has not fixed this. He has stalled it. At best, he put it back to where it was before she noticed, not before it was true.

[greenfiend]

El is a Gatekeeper

We cannot deny how in the most literal sense, El is a gatekeeper.

A gatekeeper: A person whose job it is to open and close a gate and controls access to it.

The gate being the access point to the Upside Down. Many people (myself included) believe that the Upside Down is Will's mindscape. An unpleasant realm of a traumatized child's mind whose life literally and symbolically turned "upside down" due to what had happened to him.

If El is the gatekeeper of Will's mind, she is the protector of it. She chooses who to let in. This also would likely mean that she is highly connected with Will's mind. Perhaps even an aspect of it.

As I'm sure many of you already know, our minds cope in various ways in response to trauma. In extreme cases, our minds dissociate and "split" into other personalities/identities in order to cope. An alter personality appears and takes over to protect the host/other alters from traumatic experiences. Alters are like superheroes. This condition is called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Each alter has different roles to protect the system. One common role is referred to as "The Gatekeeper Alter".

The gatekeeper alter controls access to the internal world of the shared mind. They also control who "fronts" (something I believe El has been doing for most of the show so Will can "hide"), and they have access to memories that the host/other alters may not remember.

El also so happens to be one of the only characters who has frequent flashbacks. She also had an entire story line last season about traumatic memories and dissociation.

This, along with many other reasons, makes me strongly believe that El has Will's memories. Her memories are altered versions of what Will had experienced.

She guards Will's truth and the secrets of his past.

[anghraine]

You know, this is not the Star Wars x Star Trek comparison I would have thought I'd make in a million years until I watched TOS and discovered just how skewed the pop culture osmosis version of TOS is, but...

"Operation: Annihilate":

MCCOY [looking at Sam Kirk's corpse]: Is this your brother, Jim? KIRK: Sam. It is my brother. Was my brother. MCCOY: I'm sorry, Jim. The boy's unconscious, but he's still alive. KIRK: Peter? MCCOY: I'd better get the boy and his mother back to the ship. I can't do much for them down here. KIRK: Get ready to beam up. MCCOY: McCoy to Enterprise. Prepare to beam up party of four. SPOCK: Captain, I understand how you must— KIRK: Yes. Yes, Mr. Spock. You heard my sister-in-law say something about they being here. Your guess?

A New Hope:

WILLARD: When we heard about Alderaan, we feared the worst. LEIA: We have no time for sorrows, Commander. You must use the information in this R2 unit to help plan the attack.

[scalproie]

Actually after thinking about it I take back what I said in a hateful haze at 2am:

The problem isnt inherently about there being an entire population of peaceful demons who have no desire to drink human blood in hell, because yeah, at the end of the day, its devil may cry: demons have the capability for love, compassion and grief (Sparda, Trish, Lucia in a way...) while on the opposite, humans have the capability for great evil (Arkham, Arius, Sanctus, Agnus and the order of the sword), Yin and Yang and all that. While I think this is kind of unnessecary and shouldnt be an important plot point, it can be an interesting concept to explore.

But the excecution.

If they wanted to add depth and "nuance" to the population of hell to make a parallel to how our real human-world is "nuanced", why is it so damn simple? There are only two groups, the oppressors and the oppressed (three if you count the third group, the Wild Beasts™️), is there a demon middle-class or something? Do the majority of demons not know about the human realm, just the elite all evil few?

The oppressors demons look cartoonishly montrous and evil as you'd expect for dmc enemies, tho they are all kind of the same flavor of bland and unoriginal, we're pretty far from the diversity of the games, too much humanoids for my tastes. The most original and visually interesting demons are obv the ones from the games (tho the most original features of agni and rudra (head swords with headless bodies) are erased). But all that can be excusable enough.

The oppressed demons are all humanoids, they wear clothes, some of them have human eyes, they eat homemade meals with food from hell, they care for their children the same way humans do, they make toys for them the same way humans do, they have funerals... they're humans with fur or green scales.

And like? Where's the human equivalent of that? Our "evil" humans still look human. If the point was to show us that "Not All Demons Are Bad", why do those "good" demons look and behave so differently and humanly? Make me sympathize with a freaky empusa then.

And what about Nevan? She looks human enough, is she less "evil" than, idk, Cerberus?

Also the plot point of "hell is too toxic for weak demons but conveniently not for strong demons, and the weak have no other options than to leave hell for earth", ok so how many demons crossed the portals to breathe, how many crossed the portals just for the love of the game and eat people, and how many crossed the portals to breathe AND eat people? (And Im not talking about the white rabbit's portals, if there has been enough demons that have crossed over to warrant the creation of a state-approved demon hunting team, those portals open often.)

And how can you even find a satisfying solution to this problem? Either you pull the same bullshit explanation to get rid of the toxic air the same way you introduced it, aka magic quantum science cleaned it up so weak demons can live in hell again yippie! Even tho then you literally ruin your attempt to make a point. Or you go the "humanity accepts and cohabit with terrifying-looking demons (to them) who promise not to eat anyone" route, which is frankly naive, especially when you do all that to try and introduce nuance in both human and demon population in the first place.

(Tho honestly it wouldnt surprise me that white people would be more accepting toward literal demons from hell with whom they share no history than people of color)

Anyway this entire good faith argument is pointless because why would you take a franchise like devil may cry to make a critique of America and the Bush era.

[duckydrawsart]

xoxo 💕

[hardlocke]

I've been very quiet on here. I don't think that will change soon because I have a lot going on at the moment and also I feel a slight disconnect from math lately (which makes me a bit sad). So I don't have the energy to come up with many original posts.

I have a question, though. My partner has ADHD and while there are resources for adults with ADHD and for parents who have kids with ADHD, I have not found much for people who are in a relationship with someone who has ADHD. Does anyone have any resources for that? Or would anyone be willing to share experiences with me (either as someone who has AdHD or as someone who is in a relationship with a person who has AdHD) or discuss some questions I've been having? Please message me any time! It would be nice to have someone to talk to about this

[itsflorasdiary]

yall i miss gillion tidestrider

[hana-bobo-finch]

me for literal years: eeeeeyikes! I sure wish I could “””make a comic”””, but unfortunately I struggle to come up with original characters! I much prefer to take preexisting characters and twist them beyond recognition, but they are still not technically original, so I cannot do that!

the humble pumpkin father:

[rafyki]

I was thinking about this scene in the first episode

And of course it's meant to foreshadow everything that happens with Rosé, right? He's just joking here, of course, and in fact he backtracks right away after saying it

I think it's so funny that just a few days after he has this conversation with Ama, Jack meets his potential rich girlfriend and doesn't bother to even look at her twice.

But anyway, yes of course this foreshadows what happens later with Boss forcing him to marry Rosé, but at the same time, if you think about it.

The same day he meets Rosé, Jack also meets Joke - so, he also meets a potential rich boyfriend.

And yes, i know, when they meet again five years later and get together, Joke isn't actually rich anymore, but!! That's not the point! The point is that Joke is still a rich boy who helped Jack!! And, also, now that Joke is on good terms again with his family, we can assume they'll also help him financially, so!!

Anyway, yes. Jack got to have his rich boyfriend (soon to be husband!) in the end, and I'm very happy for him

[ladybugkisses]

i didn’t wanna shove this into the tags of the last post i reblogged because it felt like too much But,

my sona trying to give rocky money or paying stuff for him like new clothes and him refusing is something that lives in my head rent free- more specifically a scenario where she wants to pay him for running some errands for her while she’s sick and he’s Not Having It

so she just sleight of hands the money into his pockets :^)