#pi says things

[shadowbends]

Looking through your Ao3 bookmarks and seeing that little “This has been deleted, sorry!” is like finding a gravestone, but the writing’s too worn down to read what it was standing for anymore.

What were you, Bookmark #336... What stories did you tell? Which words were it that once left a mark on my soul?  *touches my laptop screen like it’s text from an ancient ruin*

Cowabummer. 

[dumpsterf11re]

happy pi day everyone

[mintypsii]

watched usopp's little arc with defeating sugar and wow it took A LOT for him to turn back after running away to fight them again. but then later he finds out that she's awake and thinks about how he'll lose his memories of Luffy if he doesn't take care of her again, and IMMEDIATELY makes up his mind to shoot her from SO FAR AWAY?

[stop-breaking-my-heart-telltale]

What can I say? They're my favorite.

[hephaestuscrew]

Thinking about the protective way Clara tells Fleet not to go into DeVries' dangerous-looking training set-up, and about how when Septimus mentions Fleet's friend Fleet's immediate assumption is that he must mean Clara, and about "This is Miss Clara Entwhistle, my partner - in business, my business partner." / "I'm also his friend, but he doesn't like to say it.", and about how Fleet rarely smiles but he smiles to himself at Clara having a good idea (and Clara notices the change in his expression), and about how Clara is trying to work out Fleet's birthday through a process of elimination, and about how Fleet tries twice to shut down the conversation with Frances Byrne that's making Clara uncomfortable, and about how panicked and angry he sounds after realising she's been poisoned...

[clownsuu]

What was PI up to on national PI day?

Just makin pies- any type of pie he can think of from flavor to shape-

[total-drama-brainrot]

Ohhh I have to hear your opinion on brick x jo!

Pretty much canon. They were practically built up as narrative foils to each other. Yin and Yang, if you will.

Jo's perpetual need to be the leader of the group despite not being very good at organising her team, paired with Brick's "need to be dominated" (thanks, Dawn) oftentimes outweighing his own natural leadership skills; Jo's fiercely independent and self-servient mindset contrasting with Brick's "leave no man behind" mentality; Jo's hypermasculinity 'disguising' her hidden wishes to be more feminine, compared to Brick's near constant emasculation and traditionally feminine interests. The list goes on.

Then they had their whole rivalry with the initial team swap, which gave Brick a chance to shine as A Leader instead of Jo's peon, proving himself as at least somewhat equal to her in terms of proficiency and ability. Plus, Brick seems to be one of the few campers Jo actually has some respect for!

Their dynamic was fun when it was allowed to play out, and it was nice to see a tomboy/non-feminine girl be treated with actual decency by the show; I love Eva to pieces, but she's only ever been done dirty by the show. I'd like to say that Brick was also treated well as an 'effeminate' guy, but. Well. He wasn't exactly treated kindly by the writers- I don't think I need to elaborate.

I'm surprised that the show itself didn't even hint at anything romantic between the two (I say 'hint', but Total Drama is never subtle enough for their 'hints' to be anything less than a banner on the screen that says "these two are into each other"), but I guess the narrative was too focused on the inferior Zoke plotline to squeeze in any Jo x Brick crumbs. And also, the show would never have let two GNC characters have a relationship, at least not pre-reboot.

I'd have to re-watch the series to give you a definitive answer but I think that just about sums up my thoughts.

[talesfromthenorsesmouth]

more young Vicki and Edward. Vicki is preparing to go out and do some investigative journalism and Edward is shocked and hurt that she hasn't confided in him about something, while pretending he isn't being the Riddler on his lunch hour or whatever he's up to at the moment. Or maybe he's genuinely worried about her, it can be hard to tell- particularly if you're Edward

[spookierz]

happy pi day!!! 🥧

.. but we all know what the real holiday is

happy ides of march eve!!

[antifataylorswift]

Begging people who are obsessed with "physical copies" of things to consider simply storing backups on a hard drives that they physically own.

Storage is incredibly cheap these days. I picked up a 14TB external drive for $200 a year ago, relentlessly pirate everything, and have still only filled it 60%. You can get a 2TB drive for $60 right now.

It takes up less than a shoebox worth of space. It's encrypted at rest. It's significantly more durable than CDs, DVDs, Vinyl, and paper. It's significantly easier for me to make and keep backup copies of everything which makes it even less likely for me to lose access to them.

I've got the equivalent of probably 600 DVDs, 1000 CDs, and 2000 books on there — none of which required any additional manufacturing, packaging, or transport (beyond the electricity required to transmit the files to my computer) and all of which would probably take up at least one dedicated room to store if I'd had physical copies of them.

I promise you don't want physical, tangible copies — you just want to own things.

[thebuttsmcgee]

Ive seen some people get mixed up (also sorry if this comes off pompous I swear I'm not I just really fuckin enjoy these movies ghggb) so I'd like to clarify that the Big Bad Wolf is an already established character in the Shrek world.

And he's just some guy. He also might transform into a human woman with a strong accent when there's a full moon according to a halloween special but ya know.

The wolf that chases Puss in Last Wish tho is, Death, straight up, as he said.

Some promotional media did advertise him as the double b wolf but that was just to not spoil the surprise. (Apparently some promos would also just call him The Wolf so yeup.)

However, it's also not unreasonable to mix up the 2 since in Shrek's ogreverse (ogre universe I NEED to coin the phrase c'mon now) there's been a few number of soft rebooted characters from a lot of Shrek media.

But to go off strictly from the movies, the 2 most obvious examples are Rumpelstiltskin and the 3 bears.

The left depictions are really just one-off jokes/background characters that rarely appeared in more than 5 scenes from previous movies (Shrek 3 and 1 respectively), while the right depictions are the later focused antagonists that got plenty of screen time (Shrek 4ever after and Puss in Boots 2 the Last Wish respectively).

The difference tho is that the original depictions are really Just one-off jokes. Nothing more than just something in the background. The Big Bad Wolf however is an already established part of Shrek's friend group alongside the 3 little pigs, Pinocchio and Gingy.

Basically, not someone they could just easily make a soft reboot about like with the aforementioned 2 examples.

It is incredibly likely tho that DreamWorks did base Death a bit off of the real life folklore of the Big Bad Wolf. Considering how much they love old tales, and how much old stories had him as the main antagonist. (Plus c'mon. Wolf from Bad Guys literally says he's the big bad in every story, they're definitely self aware at this point.)

Having the penultimate depiction of the end of life itself in their fairytale inspired long-running world be loosely based on the most popular antagonist from old folklore stories is most likely on purpose, and I gotta say, based.

It's also likely that Death can take whatever form he chooses. But I'm cool with gnarly wolf form. 👍

[shadowbends]

On don't pay my ransom's title...

I keep coming back to this comment, because I'm just pleased as punch that someone worked out the title's meaning. (light spoilers for Chapter 7 if you've not read yet)

Now that the fic is complete, it'd be fun to offer little behind the scenes looks at it. I'm not sure there's interest for it, but if anyone has questions about the fic, I'd be happy to ramble! Just hit up my asks.

[thingspeoplesayintoontown]

[dirtbra1n]

it’s always when I have things to be doing that this happens but it’s like. I don’t know I’ve gone so far into weird love territory and I’ve been here so long that when I go back and really look at canon it’s like it’s new to me. because like do you ever think about how hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club. like it wasn’t a recommendation or anything that decision was made. and absolutely if tashiro genuinely GENUINELY didn’t want to do it nothing bad would have really happened, someone else could have done it, sure. you know? but at the end of the day tashiro, in the midst of his running away, had that thought, like. not in a thought bubble but in a b Hold on

in the narration box. like it’s not a fleeting in-the-moment thought like the whole poor shmuck thing. I’m not explaining this well. it’s just you get the impression that tashiro thinks about things a lot and also tangentially kind of thinks about his hanzawa senpai a lot and that realization of burden is so significant to tashiro that he takes on the position of captain

and he doesn’t look him in the face when he does it, and I love it. I love when things are indirect and subtle and sort of reluctant because it’s human and speaks to sincerity and tashiro’s grounded…ness that he isn’t unflinchingly happy to do it. he still doesn’t really want to do it. but he will. and he’ll do it WELL. because and this so matters hanzawa masato just sort of DECIDED that tashiro would be the next captain of the ping pong club because he knows tashiro and has been watching tashiro as a fun kouhai who he likes a lot and who makes him laugh like literally no one else in the world, and he knows that he would be a good president because he is, amongst other relevant things, a good person. the right kind of good person! he wouldn’t have forced tashiro to do it because frankly he couldn’t REALLY force tashiro to do it, tashiro has a way of getting around things (pudding head….) but he decided tashiro would be captain, because he knows tashiro, and tashiro decided to take that on, because he sees hanzawa. he decided that tashiro would be captain, and tashiro decided to accept that decision because hanzawa decided correctly.

and tashiro cares, and encourages his senpai to rest, and we get the FUCKING.

that just speaks VOLUMES. hanzawa masato who notoriously stays busy for at least one of two known reasons that sound a little contradictory but aren’t actually is resting right now. hanzawa masato who is so weird and so unknowable to his juniors is wearing a small smile that, unlike so many of his other ones (ominous as they are, usually), shows for only contentment. he’s resting right now. like the tashiro gonzaburou hanzawa masato dynamic IS so weird I’m not delusional for that. but my favorite thing that I think I do a really bad job of showing is that their exchanges go back and forth and are so much fun for the both of them, and it’s exactly like PING PONG. well matched and silly and hanzawa masato knows tashiro gonzaburou and if tashiro gonzaburou doesn’t know hanzawa masato he sure as hell sees him, and wants to know him, just a little at least, and it’s all so much. I’m resting right now. fuck. anyway

[cringywhitedragon]

Idk why but for some reason when “Lies of P” came out, I thought it was “Lies of Pi” and a sequel to that one movie with the guy and the tiger on a boat

I just wanted to share this but these two pieces of media are wayyyy different but the naming convention made me do a double take

[i-am-l-ananas]

So the takeaway here is that bread dough needs to be wetter than you think it should be. And cake batters way wetter than that! Baked goods all start out as wet goop, to varying degrees of goopyness