#objective correlatives

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Random question from my sleepy morning brain: If a Yeerk, but not it's human host, is nervous, does the host's heart beat faster? Without the Yeerk doing it on purpose, I mean. (Specifying human because who knows how aliens react to being nervous even when they aren't Controlled).

I think the answer is "yes," that a yeerk's nervousness would make the host's heart speed up, mostly based on things Jake describes Tom's body doing at various points in the series:

He was making no effort to pretend to actually be Tom... His fists were clenched at his side, his jaw seemed to tighten so that the words could barely force their way past bared teeth. I'd seen Tom this way once, just once, when he'd been wrongly accused of cheating on a test. — #53

"What?" Tom's eyes bulged in shock. "Tuesday? Dad, no way! Four days? I can't stay away for four days!" "You can and you will," my father said, losing his patience. "We're going as a family and that's final." Tom's throat worked. — #31

I heard a sound that was strange because it was so normal. It was laughter. Human laughter. The humans... the Human-Controllers — because that's what they were — were laughing, like they were at some kind of a show [Elfangor's death]. For a moment it seemed to me that one of those laughing voices was familiar... —#1

[Temrash 114 implies that if Jake joins the Sharing, then he'll get out of having to do homework. Jake points out that that makes no sense.] Tom considered for a moment. He blinked and kind of looked away, almost like he was embarrassed. "No. I don't want you thinking that," he admitted. "Tell you what, though, come to the meeting and I'll help you do the homework when we get home." — MM4

So that's not absolute proof of the autonomic nervous system responding to the yeerk, but I'd say there's evidence that Tom's body shows automatic responses that are clearly yeerk-origin. Like, that has to be the yeerk flinching in MM4 because Jake called out his mistake in pretending to be human — Tom has no reason to flinch like that. And it has to be the yeerk being visibly shocked and afraid at the idea of a four-day vacation in #31 — again, there's no reason for Tom to feel that way, and there's no reason to fake that reaction because it makes no sense for Tom to be scared of four days away from civilization.

[schroedingerscryptid]

yk as your local golden ratio enjoyer, i thought most of my brainrot from this event would be from the re-use of the daring wager consumable, or the fact that there's two decorations for ratio and aventurine

but i think i wanna bring something else to light

this ducky. it showed up next to dr ratio's notebook, so obviously there's a double confirmation that the ducky is related to him too.

we know that dr ratio loves baths because they clear his mind of clutter and filth...but does that cleaning and peace of mind make it all too quiet for him? does the quiet remind him of how quiet his surroundings are? does the crushing pain of not fitting in eat at him? does the reminder that no one truly understands him hurt that bad? does he regret the distance between him and the world?

[inkyantace7]

Why is the Henry Stickmin to Object Shows/Object Shows to Henry Stickmin pipeline real actually

[rorydrawsandwrites]

Heyy, just wanted to inform you date everything isn't free and the pre-orders are already out! There's a pre-purchase promo with an early bird dlc. Anyway I followed you for tadc so I got a bit jumpscared when you started posting about my newest obsession omg

HAHAH as a formerly selfshipping aroace, of course a game about dating all the objects around your house (with amazing designs and voices) would catch my attention

Plus two selfshippers I follow were already posting about it

But that's quite alright. There is TONS of stuff in this game and it seems like it'll be top quality too, so I totally understand

[infinitesofnought]

"['Leaving the City'] has the rhyme at the end of each line and the internal rhymes that follow one meter, and a secondary set of internal rhymes that sort of quietly annunciate a contrary meter that's overlaid on the first meter." She also said she "overlaid a contrary musical meter" on top of all that, and that I had to be "conscious of the sublimated contrary meter in order to trace the rhyme." The rhyme scheme for that song was so complicated that she had to create a chart to trace it: "I had a little key," she said. "So there was like a crescent moon and a square and a heart and a diamond representing the different considerations. The heart represents this one particular consideration of rhyme, the diamond represents a different consideration of rhythm, and here's the secondary rhyme and here's the tertiary rhyme. Sometimes they would overlap, and that was a fun little puzzle. I'd have to go back and change what led up to it for all the different imperatives to agree." ...I asked Newsom why she goes to the trouble of constructing such elaborate musical structures. "The thing is, I don't know why," she said. "But... I do have a real belief that the exact right word—in terms of conveying meaning as efficiently and correctly and concisely as possible—will also be the word that agrees in terms of rhyme, musical weight, syllabic weight, beauty, and elegance. I think that words are magical. All of that effort is all about uncovering the word that is just sitting there waiting for you, and when you find it, it's like the equivalent of watching your team get a touchdown. It's just like WHOA. And you run in circles and say, 'Fuck yeah!'"

– Rich Smith, from "The Deeper You Dive, the More There Is to Joanna Newsom's Music" (x)

[max1461]

Similarities between Japanese and Persian:

SOV word order

closed class of true verbs + heavy use of light verbs

-o as an accusative marker

lots of phonetic [ʃt] or [ɕt]

[hawkmothsss]

The new Final destination is kinda like miraculous if you think about it

[lastweeksshirttonight]

How am I always dealing with severe chronic illness when John comes back to The Bugle

[idl3dr3ams]

was tidying up some old stuff in my room and found the decorative ballet shoes that I used to hang by my door

Immediately made me think of Val 🥺

[learningtogirl]

Okay, weekend of moping is over, time to begin the week of self improvement!

[pantasticjae]

Objectober 2024 Day 13 - "Headcanon"

The most non-cannon post of objectober, because it's basically how I came up with Koi Fish. Because of this today's is just a doodle.

When you're the creator you control everything, except for the control you give to others.

<< Day 1 + Info < Day 12 | Day 14 >

[pozaba]

1. Catherine of Sien - Book of the teachings of God

(early 15th century)

2. Skylabs - NANOboc onboard computer (2020)

[teatitty]

Aizawa canonically getting so blackout drunk that he doesn't even remember drinking when he wakes up the next day, and has thus convinced himself that he just Never Gets Drunk Ever is by far the funniest thing the light novels ever gave us by the way because it implies his friends have either never bothered to tell him what he's like when he's drunk or that they have tried to tell him and Aizawa just refuses to listen/believe them

[4lbon]

thinking abt how uh. i've struggled to feel like i fit in sapphic spaces my whole life and i always thought it was bc i'm aro. always v defensive that men can be attracted to women without romantic desires w/o it being evil.........interesting call coming from inside the house there

[doggogills]

another curiosity poll

[galacticfluffle]

so chat does this mean people making fanfics abt p3do interactions and other downright atrocious crimes known to humanity is just… acceptable bc it’s “not what you’d do irl” how the fk did this get on my timeline bro. wtv just read the tags

I really think everyone needs to truly internalize this:

Fictional characters are objects.

They are not people. You cannot "objectify" them, because they have no personhood to be deprived of. They have no humanity to be erased. You cannot "disrespect" them, because they are not real.