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[deepspaceivy]

my hunter's association card —ivory reid

[dying-suffering-french-stalkers]

EDIT: PRETEND THAT ONE OPTION SAYS 100-124 I GOOFED IT

[thekneethief]

kleya and luthen conversation transcripts: season 2 [arc 1-2]

typed these up for me and @agentsofquack to have on hand and thought people might also appreciate having them for quick reference needs! [S1] [S2 Pt.2] (speaker alternates on line breaks and brackets indicate an action)

Season 2, Episode 1: One Year Later | 18:14-18:50

"Cassian?"

"The team at Sienar confirmed he got away clean."

"That's it?"

"It was a pulse code. Not a conversation."

"We should've heard from him by now."

"I can't transmit from here, Luthen. I told you when we landed. That's off the table. There's already a crowd at the docking platform. We're naked here. There's nowhere to hide a signal."

"Keep listening."

~

Season 2, Episode 1: One Year Later | 39:30-39:55

"Cassian? Nothing from Porko?"

"[sigh] I've been down there scrubbing frequencies all day."

"We know Cassian got off Sienar. We know Porko was waiting. What are we looking at?"

"I'm looking for a drink. The monitor's on. Hope for the best. [walks away]

~

Season 2, Episode 2: Sagrona Teema | 7:34-8:38

"It's still in one piece?"

"Good luck getting it out of here."

"Now what? We sit all day?"

"Well, we'll site it. We'll light it. Sculdun will change his mind and we'll move it. Then he'll reconsider. Clean it up and we'll make it lovely and- Gently there! Then we'll sit all day."

"Nothing. Radio silence. Nobody's checked in. I know I said we shouldn't broadcast from here, but I tried to reach out to Bix. I never got through. Mina-Rau's been shut down. 'Temporary reception outage for Imperial inspection.'"

"What kind of inspection?"

"Wouldn't that be nice to know. I need to be at the gallery. I can't help anyone from here. I need serious comms."

"I can't leave. You'd have to get a ride."

"I've found one."

~

Season 2, Episode 5: I Have Friends Everywhere | 37:56-38:36

"The Tinian Codex in Sculdun's office collection.."

"What about it? What have you heard? I need some good news."

"[huffs] You'll have to wait on that. There's another piece. The Coryio Chalice. Apparently, it's a forgery. They're going to examine everything in the collection. They'll find our microphone."

"You heard this on the bug?"

"They're taking everything out the day after the party."

~

Season 2, Episode 5: I Have Friends Everywhere | 39:36-40:40

"Let's keep making avoidable mistakes."

"[scoffs] Let's keep overreacting."

"I wouldn't be so upset if I hadn't predicted it!"

"This solves nothing."

"And for what? What have ever heard?

"Are you done?"

"'Let's put a bug in Davo Sculdun's office that leads directly back to us.'"

"It didn't seem to bother you when we caught Yularen lying!"

"Oh, seriously."

"The Holo-News buyout! Sculdun courting the Grand Vizier!"

"Bits and pieces. That's all we ever got. Two years of bits and pieces!"

"You agreed to it!"

"I let you talk me into it!"

"You're becoming insufferable!"

"I can't keep track anymore! All these lines we've laid. All this information. The-the-th-the radios, the frequencies, the messages flying around! We're drowning. And you keep pretending it's all under control."

"ARE YOU DONE? We have to take it out at the party."

"And if we can't?"

"We should be prepared."

~

Season 2, Episode 6: What a Festive Evening | 46:45-47:06

"What fun."

"You're welcome."

"My face hurts from smiling."

"Complain all you like, it worked."

"We should have killed Krennic while we were up there."

"That's the spirit."

[not-poignant]

Potentially an odd question, but is there a specific site or method you use for research for your writings? Researching medical/legal/similar procedures is the bane of my existence because I can never seem to find an explanation I understand well enough to then write about.

I recently caught up to Stain, and while reading it struck me how you put a lot of detail into a wide variety of topics (the medical part of Alex’s injury at the start, therapy, Alex’s eye examination, Sebastian talking about his boss trying to underpay him, among other topics) (HUGE kudos about that by the way, it adds another layer of realism) and it feels like there’s no way one person can have firsthand experience/knowledge in ALL these things unless you’ve lived an extremely varied life.

I was just hoping you might have some pointers about how to go about researching basically anything because I feel like I’ve GOT to be missing something.

No worries if you can’t/don’t want to/don’t have an answer, I just thought shooting an ask your way is worth a shot haha.

Hi anon,

Researching is its own skillset, like writing or editing, there's no one specific site to go to, to make it easier, it's more like...taking the time to learn the constellation of ever-changing sites, books, and more in order to best learn how to learn. Because that's really what it is about: Learning how to learn.

On learning how to learn (I should say, I'm not very good at teaching, so some of this stuff might not be helpful to you, please ignore it if it isn't!):

But I do have some things that I do which might help. And some that might not.

The first thing that won't really help is I have led a varied life in a way that is convenient for the content I write, lol. The medical part of Alex's injury - I've been badly injured. The eye examination - I have astigmatism and was diagnosed late and blamed for my own eyesight issues which I didn't realise were eyesight issues. I've seen over 19 therapists in over 25 years. I've talked to bosses about pay and I've had lots of friends that have too.

Tbh the things I've had to research the most in Stardew Valley have been:

The intersection of astigmatism/myopia/dyslexia treatment and the best order in which these things should happen.

Stardew Valley - literally the calendar, the schedule, liked gifts, disliked gifts, favourite meals etc. Some I know off by heart, others I don't really remember at all.

The best way to clean a house (though my mother was a professional cleaner for most of my childhood, I just wanted to revise and see if anything had changed since then)

Cleaning standards for home laboratories

The colours that sweetpea flowers come in etc.

It's always random stuff. And to be honest, a lot of this doesn't happen in much detail in the story. The colour of sweetpea flowers was for the bouquet, and I think it was one line. The best way to clean a house has accounted for very little actual writing.

Now for actual helpful stuff:

Wikipedia is your friend. My browser search bar goes straight to Wikipedia, not google. It's amazing how much Wikipedia will explain a ton of different things these days. It's true some concepts might be hard to understand, you might need to spend more time Wiki-ing / googling / using a dictionary to start understanding those concepts.

When it comes to writing trauma, for example, I've read upwards of 20+ academic books (i.e. the kind psychologists study at university or after university in postgrad) about trauma. I wouldn't expect other people to go that deep, but other folks aren't writing trauma like I am in every single story, and it's a special interest of mine. But it kind oh illustrates that I'm not going to a single site about something.

But you could get a deeper understanding by just looking at the PTSD and C-PTSD and trauma articles on Wikipedia, and slowly reading them.

The second is that medical sites can also be your friend.

The third is that Reddit is amazing for lived experiences, with a grain of salt that some people are lying for clout. But 'what treatments helped best with your dyslexia reddit' as a search phrase is going to be way more helpful than whatever AI bullshit the google search line will give you otherwise. Deep diving into reddit threads can be super helpful for stuff that I used to find out previously on personal blogs (it's amazing how much 'what's life on an oil rig like blog' used to turn up a ton of lived experiences from firsthand encounters for example). I don't use my Reddit account for anything other than research, lmao. It's a hidden gem for lived experience and human interpretation of complex issues. It can be especially helpful for legal / economic matters, but honestly, I mostly just handwave legal stuff with caveats/disclaimers. You can do an undergraduate degree in law, and a lawyer is still going to painstakingly point out all the ways you're wrong about something. It's just better to tell the lawyers in advance that you know you can't compete with their knowledge base lmao.

(Though it can be worth looking up regional differences, because if I see another Australian writing Australian legal procedures into US law (or vice versa) I will scream - like no, Aussies, we do not have BOLOs here, we have KL04, LOTBKF and BOLF depending on your state).

A good way to start learning how to learn is to actually start outside of your stories and start with things you already love. Plug your favourite movie into Wikipedia and learn about how it was made, or what the production was like. And when you find something mildly interesting, say, about film lighting, open up those Wiki articles or plug 'film lighting process for (insert movie here)' on google, and have a look at some of the results. Learn how to learn, how to go deeper, what seems to be helpful, and what isn't. Consider making a list of articles you really enjoy - I love a website that aggregates all the different odours and flavours in the world and their chemical compounds which has been incredibly helpful for Palmarosa. The website is a bit hard to navigate, but if you plug something like 'spearmint' into the search, it'll help.

If you don't already have it, put Wikipedia on your phone. It's free / ad-free. I have my own personal server on Discord that I use to house a lot of resources (for everything, from my business, to health records, to writing resources). If you use Discord already, I highly recommend the 'private server' as a great way to aggregate everything together.

If the article formatting of online articles doesn't feel good, you can do text-to-speech, or use the little 'reader' symbol to make it more reader-friendly.

Books are also not to be underestimated for how helpful they can be (I find too many people are website focused these days, but actually, not everything can be found on websites, a lot of the best niche knowledge is still in books when it's not in lived experience tellings). Find out about your local and online libraries. A lot of people (especially younger folks) don't realise just how much information they can get access to, for free. Librarians themselves are gifts from god, who will literally help you find the books you need for whatever subject you want to learn more about, and if they don't know, they will often personally take it upon themselves to look further for you. 'I want to learn more about German composers' is - for many librarians - a very exciting question that they will want to help you with.

Outside of that, niche websites (like the odours one I mentioned), sometimes just finding sites where asking research questions gets answered. For example the free blogging site (with no ads), Dreamwidth, has a community called little_details where you can ask your niche question and people will answer and say what their expertise is in that subject. It's incredible and active enough to be super helpful. In some cases it's completely changed the course of a story.

Over time you'll also learn what's less helpful. Some articles are clearly ChatGPT written or written for ads and not accurate - so if you can get the same information corroborated at multiple sources, that will help.

And don't forget the value of just listening to people online and irl regarding their experiences. As a writer, I feel like an 'experience collector.' I like asking friends, strangers, family, etc. all kinds of questions because I think a part of my brain is always aware that something they're sharing could be a vitally grounding element in a story and it's also just interesting and people like sharing about their lives. Whether I'm asking my roommate about the process of getting a government evaluation approved, my architect friend about drug use in Australian architecture, or a friend from Bali what sort of foods he grew up with and what his comfort meal was when he felt sick, etc. Writers collect experiences, not just their own, but those of others. The greatest tools a writer can have in their toolbelt are knowing how to listen, learning how to learn (and how to love learning), and knowing what the right questions are.

None of those things can be gained with one or two websites. But they can be gained with time and curiosity, and well, that helps with your whole entire life, and not just writing. :D

[emoscot]

I think Jacob Frye is very autistic coded

[blubbed]

u can tell a lot abt people by their google searches. not even like what they're searching about but how they search for it. like "horse lifespan" vs "how long horse live" vs "how long does a horse live?" or whatever

[fisheito]

let him speak

[scampdoodle]

Living in the us rn is just *doomscrolling about how your country is rapidly devolving into a dictatorship doomscrolling about how your country is rapidly devolving into a dictatorship doomscrolling about how your country is rapidly devolving into a dictatorship*

[hergrandplan]

i should get a wholeass euro anytime someone tells me that they asked chatgpt or whatever other AI. and they should pay me that euro personally

[blueopinions49]

Controversial Opinion

What’s the obsession with enneagram 4? I genuinely don’t get why there are so many people so obsessed with this type.

I get that there are some people that just romanticizes some of the mental illness aspects of them HOWEVER mental illness isnt an inherent E4 thing and neither is personal struggle I can see why they correlate that to 4s (maybe cuz of the pseudo depression naranjo described on his work however thats just a false image they portray so?) , which mostly stems from terrible understanding of the type. However the increase in mistypes? The obsession with the SX4 subtype? The obsession with the toxic aspects of E4? Idk I just don’t get it.

I’m asking from a place of genuine wonder cuz this has been going on for a long time. And I want some clarity as to why it happens.

[travisnprophet]

Succession x Yellowjackets: MBTI Personalities According to PDB

Kendall x Shauna - ISFJ

Roman x Van - ENTP

Shiv x Taissa - ENTJ 

Tom x Jackie - ESFJ 

Connor x Akilah - INFP

Willa x Natalie - ISFP

Marcia x Lottie - INFJ 

Gil x Misty - ENFJ 

Naomi x Mari - ESFP 

Lukas x Travis - ISTP

[thefandomexpert]

i am starting to see what lexicanum’s missing, btw. if this was the silmarillion, guilliman’s little blue meditation room would be noted on the Macragge’s Honor wiki with dimensions and a map

[sisaloofafump]

** could be a different word of a similar theme.

Ignore canon. What do you think should happen?

[touchmycoat]

on one hand, I can recognize that not everyone loves methodically logging changes on 100+ pages into a spreadsheet, and failure to document is a human condition so fundamental that calling it a failure feels kind of weird, 'cause I certainly can't begrudge anyone for it on a personal level

on the other hand, I fucking told y'all future steps are contingent on logging these changes and I've already minimized the entries you needed to log why didn't you log the fucking changes aaaaaaaarrrggghhhhh

[kaylarcreates]

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