#minor explanation thing

[fumifooms]

Helki compilation

Helki is a prisoner-turned-servant. He’s a criminal canary and was implicitly one of Milsiril’s charges, and now that she’s retired he’s become her servant.

He must have gotten into Milsiril’s good graces, wether through attachment or convenience, which is a feat considering Milsiril’s a socially anxious recluse. Interesting since it’s not like he seems like the agreeable type, shifty upbeat delinquent style… We really don’t know much about him, not even what crimes he did, so there’s a lot of space for speculation on all grounds.

Edit: Shanghai QnA with Kui gave us a new juicy morsel of info!

Interesting… The original answer in japanese is: パッタドルと同じような杖を使っていました。今も同じものを支給されているのですが、すぐになくすのでもはや携帯していないようです。 That it’s written in japanese seems to say that there isn’t the same double translation issue there was last QnA, so if someone wants to look at the original phrasing and word choices it can be done. Perhaps Helki-Milsiril has a more protégé dynamic undertone than previously thought… "For various reasons", meaning circumstances that made it so the squad had to choose between saving him and saving their own skin, or like, "man this guy’s personality sucks we don’t really like him"? Likely to be a mix of several things, since ‘for various reasons’ implies the situation was either complex or they had multiple reasonings. In either case, the phrasing is very much that Milsiril couldn’t abandon him herself, and so a relationship sprung out of that. Another instance of outcasts seeking out and sticking with other outcasts in Dungeon Meshi. This could mean that it’s a bit less out of personal attachment and more out of a sense of duty on Milsiril’s side as well though.

Still edit: So then maybe him staying with Rin in that comic isn’t that much because of work ethics or that he cares for kids (or maybe he does because he feels kinship to them, alone and mistreated), but because he didn’t want to join the other canaries in that room chatting and laughing… Maybe the isolation was exacerbated because he became Milsiril’s favorite, teacher’s pet style, but I’d also be careful about assuming the others disproportionately dislike him, it could be that they just don’t really care for him. Why? Could be because of his personality, because he’s seen as shifty or unreliable or annoying, if an event, who knows who knows, but I like to think because of the Rin comic that he generally just tends to be a loner, that he’s "weird" in a neurodivergent vibe, he doesn’t conform to proper social behavior which in elven society seems especially alienating. He’s the only one with Rin to think of her sake, not only worth observing/caring for but also asks her to eat, but he does this with an offputting stare, not really emoting, and then well, the infamous alone with her staring munching covered in blood panel. He stands out. I’m a fan of the theory that it was a "Helki? Not that I dislike the guy but I’m not risking my skin for him" situation… Ok end edit back to older observations.

He seemed to be acting out of his own initiative in the Rin comic, he doesn’t look thrilled to be there in many post-canary comics but he also seems content enough. He restrains Milsiril in the Mithrun cleaning comic which is interesting to think of for their relationship.

It’s fun to notice how he’s the only one that didn’t get bored of looking after Rin, and then reports back about her condition… I’d say he was getting used to taking care of kids which would come with the job of serving Milsiril, but then, not enough for him to clean the blood off himself hah. In this way it’s interesting to think about his relationship to the idea of parenthood, he’s probably the closest thing to a father figure/male role model Kabru had growing up, without mentioning the other kids. I feel like he’d consider himself an older brother, cousin or uncle figure sooo much sooner than a father, but even then I do think it’s just his job and he’s not really invested or forming real relationships with any of them much.

It’s curious to note that he’s dressed in canary uniform presumably after having been pardoned and living with Milsiril? Which you can tell by the armor bits (the yellow strips of spider silk). In the Kabru training montage and the Rin comic specifically. It seems very implausible for him to have still been a canary while being a retired Milsiril’s servant and being with her all the time, and the cleaning with Mithrun comic (where he’s not in uniform) happens after Utaya so it could happen after Kabru was taken in but around the time of the Rin comic. So why uniform? It could be one of the best outfits he has, so it’d make sense to wear it around especially if you’re sparring or getting… Blood on you? Could just be because that's how Milsiril wants him to dress. But yeah we don't know when exactly Helki becoming Milsiril’s servant happened. We do see Mithrun’s charge Cithis be tasked with taking care of him, so a charge being given a servant-caretaker role doesn’t seem all that out of the ordinary, sometimes even prior to retiring.

Imo, if he doesn't work for Milsiril he goes back to jail/the canaries/has to try and get a job instead of just tending to her, so Helki is staying with Milsiril because she's the best option for him. He’s her milsiril's personal servant and does mostly dull tasks involved in that. He’s not particularly suited to the role but they’ve gotten used to each other to him so she took him with her, and he does prefer it to canary work so it works out decent for him. I think he’s used to reading her and managing her moods and he’s one of the rare social connection she has.

Under spoiler is stage 2 interpretation stuff, bigger speculation, in a reblog I’ll make soon I’ll go over my thoughts for stage 3 interpretation lol. Helsiril I’m coming for you

Translation of the canary hierachy chart used is by Thatsmimi, here

[lord-squiggletits]

As much as I'm a Pharma apologist he is genuinely an asshole who acts completely unrepentant so something I think about for an eventual Pharma redemption fic is like. How do you write a redemption for a severely traumatized guy whose coping mechanism is to act like he doesn't care and the people who need to accept him don't like/care about him enough to go "hey it's okay everyone gets a second chance" and/or "wow Pharma is so radically different what caused that change."

But also like it's really hard to help someone who has no desire to/refuses to be helped and makes himself deliberately unpleasant to be around so like idk

[orestes-hungry-and-pylades-sober]

Marsh was an incredibly skilled Seeker even before he became an Inquisitor. He’s had well over three hundred years to practice, he has the power boosted by a spike for bronze, and he can burn duralumin.

Consider: he can sense not only allomancy, but whenever a feruchemist is filling or tapping a metalmind. He can sense whenever a new hemalurgic spike is made or put into someone. He travels so much and has such a powerful range that he can, given enough time, track down the usage of investiture nearly anywhere on Scadrial.

But he can also sense surgebinding, or soulstamping, or any other use of foreign magics. If it’s on Scadrial, he knows about it.

And sure, there are the Ghostbloods, but they have their rules and structure and Kelsier’s insufferably large ego, and besides, they protect the planet from the big grand threats like the Set or other shards.

Marsh, though. He works on his own, and is powerful and efficient. He confronts worldhoppers on arrival if he thinks they’re a threat, and watches them carefully even if they’re not. He investigates anything new or strange. You can’t hide investiture on Scadrial from him.

And so, the rumors spread. Tales of Ironeyes, the supernatural, superpowerful watcher. Of course rumors of him have been heard of him on other planets, like Khriss says in the LM Ars Arcanum, because how could they not?

Just, Marsh as the guardian of Scadrial.

[regallibellbright]

I have long believed that there has never been a career, in any fictional universe, as inherently thankless, fruitless, and utterly hopeless as that of the Hylian Archeologist.

This only reinforces that to me. I unironically love this explanation. I love that it comes alongside Zelda being a Hylian archeologist alongside multiple supporting characters.

“Sometimes the things you study abruptly disappear. It just happens. You try intensely to understand what they are before that happens, because no matter how much you understand any given subject there will always be far, far more mysteries than you can even comprehend. This probably wasn’t the first time and it won’t be the last. How many ancient civilizations came before this that likewise disappeared without a trace, long before you or anyone you know was ever born? You don’t know. You will never know. Those records probably disappeared too.”

[mcrredacted]

ok who's been putting progesterone into franks breakfast cereal

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[freohrweohnatakausta]

Backrooms

The Backrooms became super popular a while back and just became discount SCP with “unimaginable horrors” lurking there chasing all who ventured in.

but that’s not the true horror of the backrooms. There’s no demon lurking in the shadows, no mysterious grime leaking from the ceiling, no, the true horror of the backrooms are the backrooms themselves.

The Backrooms are an immense, infinite maze of rooms; each one comprised of occasionally flickering fluorescent lights, off-white wallpaper of differing- but uniform- designs, and slightly soggy off-white carpeting.

The Backrooms are seemingly abandoned, almost as if the people who once lived or worked there vanished or left, leaving only the lights on. Sometimes, the carpet is packed down in such a way it looks like a heavy desk or shelf once stood there. 

The Backrooms are quiet. Quiet in such a way that what background noise there is makes it even quieter. The sounds of air rushing through the vents, of fans spinning forever in place, of air conditioners turning on and off, of hidden pipes rattling with unseen contents, of fluorescent lights humming and flickering.

The Backrooms never end, each new room, each wall passed, always different from the last. Never the same, not even going backwards would the rooms stay the same. Minor differences, the wallpaper changing, the carpet a different shade of off-white, the ceiling tiles in different patterns, all look the same, they blend together, as if they were all one room.

The true horror of The Backrooms isn’t what’s there, it’s what isn’t there. It’s the things long forgotten and unremembered, the things that tickle memory, the things that give pause, the things that make eyes wander, that make ears perk, the things that make the heart stop. The things that make you want to explore, that make you fear.

There are no monsters in The Backrooms.

[bayofalgecirascranes]

The Muse has barreled back into my head with a scene from an AU where Kuzon of Shijuichi ends up with Zuko on the Wanyi and during the scene where Zhao is like "I'm placing your troops under my command" Kuzon is like "I'm afraid that won't be possible, Admiral." And Zhao does his patented Leer and says "And what could you possibly mean by that?" and Kuzon does his patented Rock Spike Through The Throat and says "I imagine you'll find it quite difficult to take command of his Highness' crew once there's no longer a 'you' who can take command".

[bassiter2]

i'm realizing through this book i'm reading (same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the pacific northwest) that like... yknow the conflation between homosexuality and pedophilia. well i've realized why that is, and that it's more than just all "sexual perversions" getting lumped together by homophobes. but also insanely enough more mundane

it's literally that for many decades, the only concept most people were able to have of gay men were through the lens of it being a crime. aka arrest records and the newspapers telling you who got put in jail last night. obviously gay men who were only having consensual sex with other gay adult men did get caught sometimes, but you could only catch them if they were doing it in public, if you were sneaking around in their private home, or if someone involved ratted them out. and if you ratted someone out, whatever motivation you might have, you were also ratting yourself out, so why would you do that? but if you were underage, especially if it was non-consensual, you wouldn't be in trouble at all. so of course the majority of the "immoral acts" charges are going to be between an adult and a minor.

not only that but apparently "youth" in referring to a young person used to literally mean anyone under the age of 21. and the vast majority of charges that read "engaged in immoral acts with a youth" it's referring to like a 17 y/o or even 18 or 19. so then ppl in later decades read that and misinterpreted it too.

and that's literally it lol..... it feels obvious in hindsight but i never would have thought about it. crazy what bias confirmation does.

[vacantgodling]

every day writeblr invents discourse about things that are not that deep

[anchorandrope]

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[tickles-28]

k seriously, the fuck is up with the amount of minors interacting with my posts lately? FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF! 🙃 Y'all preaching about safety amongst the community, and then in the same breath you continuously interact with NSFW blogs that specifically ask minors to NOT INTERACT WITH THEIR BLOGS, and then get bitchy when a NSFW blog interacts with you. Someone explain this ridiculousness to me 🙃🫠🤦🏻���♀️

[buckthefutcher]

it's literally taken me 4 days to realise that my therapist was 100% diagnosing me with PTSD in her head in our last session lol and now im sad

also edit lol: potentially even cptsd which is lol. me going around like omg i am one of those special bpd people with no identifiable trauma, wonder what caused it!!!

[majormeilani]

So

Do you have any headcanons about what kind of movie won Grooves the award of 42

i am not sure what the movie that canonically won him the award was like

but i do like to think that he had some 'outside help' in having it be created

i know my personal take away is that empress was the one who helped him to create his movie. but that's cuz i have a whole au i made up dedicated to how things end up that way and what happens. (that au being my one called "once in a blue moon")

i know vaguely what the movie is like in my mind is that basically it takes place at a masquerade party. so everyone has costumes that have masks and very fancy outfits ect. it's obviously very musical kind of movie but it's also a bit grim and dark, bc empress suggested to him that all his prior movies were too light-hearted and needed some intensity to them. so there's kinda some dark elements and mystery going on where people start getting unexplainably injured and maybe even dying and stuff in general keeps going wrong at the party. grooves is the protagonist and host of the party in the movie and has to uncover what is causing the issue. empress in the movie is the antagonist and she is the one causing problems. i think she's either a ghost woman who died at a party she wasn't invited to years prior and she wants in the party. i didn't really nail down the details quite yet? i haven't developed this au in a while lolll

but the way to resolve the conflict is essentially to invite her to the party but everyone keeps throwing her out and stuff which makes things worse and worse until protagonist grooves confronts her and asks her why she is doing this.

and like it goes into detail and stuff about the reasons she did what she did and her backstory

and grooves takes pity on her and invites her into the party and there's some dancing and stuff and they become friends in the movie

and then some magic stuff happens and yay everything bad that happens is undone in the movie and the ghost fades into the afterlife, thanking him for being kind to her. yaaay

and like that's the end of that movie and because of it he won the award. that's my personal take away at least because i thought it would be a fun idea

and also i have worked out a reason for why even though it's his first success he doesn't gloat about it the same way conductor might his successes (but that's explained in the au)

[bahoreal]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 三体 | Three-Body (China TV) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Shi Qiang/Wang Miao (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy) Characters: Shi Qiang (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy), Wang Miao (Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy) Additional Tags: alternate universe - no eto, i have no idea how to tag this. everything is the same but the plot is missing, cop shi qiang, nanomaterial scientist wang miao, sort of mutual pining, mutual horny annoyance at first sight, gratuitous explanations of how clean rooms work, wang miao is powered by spite, there is a plot. it doesnt really go anywhere Summary:

Wang Miao presses a single finger into his forehead, directly where the headache is building.

“So, you’re saying that they only stole one thing.”

“Yes.” Wang Miao says.

 a.k.a. the au where everything is (nearly) the same, Shi Qiang is a cop, Wang Miao is a nanomaterial research scientist, but they meet due to a theft at Wang Miao's lab

[z0n1x]

I need a chew toy or I’m gonna break my pillow or my hand one day

[leandrocrossard]

something really cool happened today that i wanted to share:

my nephew is 9 years old, and a stereotypical little boy. he likes dinosaurs, minecraft, and ninjas.

today i walked in on him excitedly watching Nimona with my dad. (minor spoiler warning!)

i had never heard of it, but i sat down and watched some of it, just to see why he was so happy.

he started narrating it, anticipating parts of it, almost as if he’d seen it before. he had.

we didn’t get to finish it, but i watched it on my own, because it looked fun and i wanted to see how it ended.

and i loved it. it was a fun, exciting, fantastical adventure about the importance of acceptance people who are different to us.

and it had a very clear queer subplot.

one that my nephew hadn’t mentioned at all in his explanation of the film. his summary was “it’s about a monster who helps a knight that was framed for killing the queen”.

and honestly yeah, that is what the film was about.

before sharing it with us, he had watched it all, engrossed himself in the story, took it in entirely, and the part he cared about most was whether Nimona got her acceptance. he wasn’t indoctrinated, or confused, or questioning anything about himself.

he didn’t bat an eyelid over a gay love confession. he just enjoyed the film, raved about it, made my 60 year old dad watch the movie about the monster who didn’t fit in.

he’s still the same little boy who’s been asking us how to get a girlfriend.

the only thing a movie centred around queer and queer-coded characters taught my nephew was that those who are different to him are not monsters. that’s it.

and that dragons are really cool.