#non-defining

[trolledu]

Relative Clauses (defining and non-defining)

Defining Clauses give additional information about something mentioned earlier. There are two kinds of relative clauses, 1. Defining and 2. Non-Defining:

1. Defining Relative Clauses (where the relative pronoun can be omitted)

Defining relative clauses provide essential information about the noun they modify. If you remove them, the sentence may lose its specific meaning.

Examples:

This is the book (that) I was telling you about. (“That” can be omitted)

The car (which) she drives is very fast. (“Which” can be omitted)

The person (who) you met yesterday is my cousin. (“Who” can be omitted)

2. Non-Defining Relative Clauses (where the relative pronoun cannot be omitted)

Non-defining relative clauses provide extra information that is not essential to identify the noun. If you remove them, the sentence will still make sense.

Examples:

My brother, who lives in New York, is coming to visit. (“Who” cannot be omitted)

The Eiffel Tower, which is in Paris, is a famous landmark. (“Which” cannot be omitted)

She gave me the keys, which I had lost earlier. (“Which” cannot be omitted)

[crabsnpersimmons]

inspired by my friends and their gacha adventures

bonus end, because the road of gacha gaming is riddled with the salt:

some process sketches and lines under the cut if anyone's interested

the first little doodle that started everything:

i was originally just going to make this one drawing, with a short little dialogue thing, but i decided to draw it all out into a little comic:

fun fact: you can tell how anxious i am about drawing something traditionally by how many process photos i take. cuz if the worse comes to worst, i can always finish or fix it digitally IF my motivation battery hasn't completely drained, which... it usually is 😅

but i'm very happy with how this turned out! need to draw more silly ideas

[mesetacadre]

yeah im actually an evil abolitionist. my political position is that bad things should not exist. so I guess you could say I'm a bit of a far-leftist 😎

[shivroy]

kendalling in oil

[mangio-formaggio]

Buffy loosing her virginity in Surprise > Spike revealed to be paralyzed from the waist down this very episode

Spike being physically invincible in The Harsh Light of A Day > Buffy's bad luck with consequences of physical pleasure and her emotional distress

Buffy finally being able to have long term sexual partner in Riley and fucking him at some point for hours > Spike's chip being a metaphor for an impotency, Dru and Harm leaving him for a while

Dru turning Spike is a deeply sexual act that gives him confidence in his body > Buffy being stabed with her own stake, betrayed by her body the very same episode

Spike being desperate for connection both physical and emotional, creating Buffybot, getting only physical satisfaction from this and then his body is brutally tortured > Buffy being afraid she can't love anymore and taking spiritual journey in solitude

Spike being so beaten up he can't tell bot from a real human right away > Buffy kissing him as a recognition of his worth and capability for humanity

Buffy being comatose after losing Dawn to Glory > Spike being the one who has a clear mind in Ben/Glory situation and is an active forse while Buffy is out of the game

Resurrected Buffy is physically and emotionally can't cope > Spike being capable to tone down his obsession with her, being gentle and suppress lust

Buffy kissing Spike to feel something > Spike after that kiss is slowly starting to lose his new found restrain that made him feel like a man over a monster and overwhelmed with feelings once again

Spike finding out that chip is not working on Buffy and immediately initiating date/the fight, accepting that violent physical touch is the only way they ever freely connected before > Buffy releasing her desire for him and getting physical satisfaction of her life but simultaneously killing all genuine emotional connection they started to develop before

Buffy believing that she killed Katrina because of her supernaturally strength, having a breakdown because of it, hopeless and sure that smth is wrong with her > Spike starting episode with a hope to rebuild their ability to have a normal conversation and ending it being an object for Buffy to fuck or hurt cause he the only one who can bare her strength

Spike's dream sequences always being about then fighting as equals > Buffy's dream spliting into two opposite scenarios: her killing Spike while he defenseless and her being comforted and held gently by him in a intimacy of her own bed

Buffy being physically incapable to fight full forse in the bathroom > Spike being at the lowest emotionally

Buffy in finale getting some relief by laughing her troubles off with Giles and having a catharsis by reconnecting with Dawn > Spike getting his soul back not by an act of moral sacrifice and nobility but by physically intense trials and then suffering for months

Buffy in Lessons allowing Spike to touch her senselessly > Spike being out of his mind

Spike in Beneath You performing sanity > Buffy not being able to bare his touch without a trauma flashbacks cause he seems his old self again

Buffy having a crazy lust outburst under the spell in Him > Spike being so mentally troubled by soul his body tense and he is repressing his natural physicality patterns

Spike's plot in CWDP being framed as a hook up but ending up as a mind control slaughter > Buffy's plot being a therapy about her affair with Spike among other things but ending up with a revelation that kills all progress she made in coping with her feelings

Buffy not having sexual intimacy throughout season 7, her date with Robin is crushed by Spike > Spike not having sexual intimacy throughout season 7, his flirtatious-ish conversation with Faith is crushed by Buffy

Spike getting his coat back and finally allowing his demon side to show up through the way he carries himself and fights > Buffy losing people, until she accepted her inner darkness and became a tough leader who no longer need guidance

Buffy just wanting to be held in Touched and ending up getting much needed inspiration > Spike just wanting to cheer up the hero inside her and getting affection he was dreaming about since the start of their affair

Both of them admitting that that night meant so much more > The hungry loudness of the space between them at the kitchen and later at the basement before the final battle

[stupidjewishwhiteboy]

While I’m here, I’ve long thought that while many antizionists have demonstrated antisemitic beliefs, I’ve resisted the idea that antizionism is inherently antisemitic. But recently my thoughts have changed, because (excluding the antizionism of various religiously-motivated Jews) antizionism seems to almost always involve non-Jews dictating what a Jew is and should be, and that is fundamentally antisemitic.

[m0on-boys]

I don't ship any of the x-men they just all fuck

[jedi-enthusiasm-blog]

The Heart of a Jedi

It is a common belief in the galaxy that the Jedi are not permitted to love. Silently, some people mourn the children given to the Jedi, believing they will be brainwashed to hide their emotions and be unable to love. Disdainfully, some parents who don't wish to give their children to the Order claim that their children will never know love if they are taken in by the Order.

But love is a word with many connotations. How can a Jedi affirm or deny such accusations when they may be working with widely different definitions of the same word? When beings can mean any number of disparate emotions, many compatible with their way or life and many others contradictions of their code, values and vows?

The Jedi do not claim love is forbidden to them. How could they, with what love means to them? Saying love is allowed is misleading, and saying it's encouraged severely understates how important love is to them.

Love is essential, central to a Jedi's life. One cannot be a Jedi if they are devoid of love.

The Jedi do not claim that love is forbidden to them, as they share an ideal of kindness and compassion for all forms of life.

How could they strive towards this without love, as they understand it? Not affection, necessarily, for a Jedi must be compassionate even towards those they dislike. Rather, a deep respect for life, an attempt to understand it and its connections, and an endless drive to reduce suffering where they can.

That, to a Jedi, is love.

A Jedi must love everybody. They love the starving, the abused and the slaves of the galaxy, because they need their help. They love pirates, slavers, and corrupt politicians, when they dislike and want to stop them.

They even love the Sith.

But for many beings in the galaxy, that is not enough. For many beings in the galaxy, that is not love. And as long as the Jedi reject the cruel thing the galaxy calls love, that grasps and steals and demands to own, long as the Jedi accept the inevitability of death, the futility of holding on to what is not meant to be held, there will be those that call the Jedi loveless.

How sad, a Jedi would say, to be unable to conceive love without cruelty.

[windcarvedlyre]

I've been following @druidposting's DR2 playthrough on discord and we just had a really good discussion about DR's Closing Arguments. Specifically the way the murderer is depicted as grey and featureless, which until now I found a bit annoying.

In Danganronpa it's repeatedly the case that we don't have the full picture until the talking actually stops- which always goes beyond the end of the trial. We generally vote first and come to understand what the murderer's actual motive was, sometimes filling in important pieces of the timeline in the process, afterwards.

But none of that matters for the killing game because characters' emotions aren't directly relevant to who was the 'blackened'- the only thing that matters to Monokuma- so it comes out afterwards and does nothing to change their execution. It doesn't matter how sympathetic they are (basically everyone) or whether other people share responsibility for the situation (eg. Hanamura, Pekoyama, Momota) or whether they intended to murder at all (Nanami). They objectively pulled the trigger and nothing else matters. Nothing about them as a person matters.

The Closing Argument mechanic might illustrate that problem- literally. They're a dramatic, conclusive summary of the entire case... constructed before the vote even happens, before we know if we're actually right, and they're missing something really important:

The actual perpetrator.

We quite literally don't even begin to see the real person behind the crime, any real exploration of their mental state, anything besides the cold, hard facts of the murder that are necessary to convict them, until the comic finishes and the protagonist makes their final accusation- replacing the grey figure with their real appearance in a shot that's often intensely emotional.

And these comics lack crucial parts of the case's timeline and sometimes important parts of the very scenes they depict that we only find out about afterwards. And those are what we know; characters may die with some pieces of the truth and prevent us from ever learning them. These aren't objective depictions of the murder, they're the protagonist's subjective attempt to connect the facts they have. A join-the-dots portrait of someone with missing dots and no colour.

Even characters' expressions may not match how they truly feel, with the grey placeholder potentially looking way more confident and sinister than they were in reality. Pasting Falter's commentary here since they put it well.

For obvious reasons this could especially be a problem for characters that die before the trial- the ones we never get a post-vote testimony from. DR1 chapter 4 really highlighted that in the way Asahina's huge misinterpretation of Oogami's feelings took up a lot of the post-trial discussion, only for Monokuma to reveal Oogami's real suicide note and recontextualise everything.

It might really be a problem for how Komaeda's depicted in DR2 chapter 5. While he isn't greyed out, we get panel after panel where he's either level-headed or maniacally evil, and even the depictions of his self-torture and death don't humanise him:

But we know that his real feelings were more complicated than that. We have his actual corpse to compare the last page to.

He died afraid.

If we approach the comic as Hinata's mental image of him instead of reality, he died without anyone truly understanding him. He was alarming, very hard to relate to, actively fought against people doing so, ensured even the killer didn't watch him die, and the survivors couldn't begin to understand his motive until a chapter later. The Closing Argument reflects that.

Early in DR1 Togami calls out the rest of his class for judging others by their own standards. However, he, too, is doing this, maybe more so than many other characters; his inability to view other people through anything but the cold, brutal logic of the killing game bites him in the ass in chapter 4. In DR2 chapter 2 voting without a good understanding of Pekoyama's motive or Kuzuryuu's involvement nearly got everyone killed. Komaeda's a walking embodiment of the problems with flattening people into caricatures and not empathising with them, suffered from people doing that back to him, and his case- the Closing Argument for which turned everyone else into grey placeholders- was impossible to solve with objective facts. It was only survivable because the survivors cooperated and one person tried to analyse things the way he would.

The games have always been a critique of the justice system and Japanese society and push us to care about others as individuals, not reduce them to- and judge their right to exist by- something they've done or their net impact on society. There are always consequences when someone neglects to do that, and the above might be yet another way the games explore that theme.

[marshals-2]

Been getting into my little pony lately and I have to say I really don't like the idea of cutie marks

[pfffsfic]

the layout sketches for the upcoming part 2 of pROBaBILLity ImpROBaBILL Improvements (new title)! the dialogue won't be added until the final versions (with the exception of a few notes to remind me of stuff), but I added it to the final few panels as proof of the presence of jokes.

EDIT: I finished this! here it is, with dialogue and finished art!

part 1 (finished)

edit: crap I forgot the first N in continued

[fromtheseventhhell]

Okay but? Arya's training is going to make it so fascinating to see how she comes across in other POVs. She knows how to rule her face so she doesn't give away her emotions, how to tell and detect lies, and now has the added experience of her apprenticeship with mummers. Everything about her interactions with others will be incredibly intentional on her part and I need to see what that looks like to other characters.

[read-write-thrive]

platonic and romantic are not some sort of binary that relationships have to be divided into. they’re not even two ends of a linear spectrum. they’re fully just abstract concepts made up of culturally-dependant social behaviour and expectations that are continually forced upon people to reinforce religious, legal, and broader societal/cultural norms, often and repeatedly to the detriment of non-normative groups including, but not limited to, the queer community. and I am sick and tired of those norms being replicated in fucking fandom discourse, of all places

[aalghul]

to me, tim and duke occupy a similar position in the batfamily where they're clearly not (or previously weren't, in tim's case) bruce's sons but also clearly have a connection to bruce's children that separates them from barb, steph, helena, jean paul, etc. none of the latter three are dick's siblings, but tim nearly always has been, and then he's cass' too. even if he hadn't been adopted, this would be true. duke is jason's brother, and is implied to have a sibling relationship with cass and damian, and has even shown up in tim's picture of his brothers. this is not changed by the fact that duke should never be adopted.

[mmelolabelle]

I cannot believe people were so pissy about Assad’s casting as Armand, look at him —

The man looks like every homo-repressed renaissance painter’s wet dream - like 10/10 would paint him as Jesus or several angels into as many frescoes as possible.

[aroaceleovaldez]

they girlbossed Sally Jackson