#practice systems

[marzipanandminutiae]

"hey why are all the barrier garments like linen shirts or chemises or combinations going away?"

"oh we have more washable fabrics now! you don't need to worry about sweat reaching your outer clothing when you can just chuck it in the washing machine!"

"cool!"

[100 years later]

"so uh all of those new washable fabrics are leaching microplastics into our water, and the constant machine-washing wears garments out faster. they're also not really sturdy enough to be mended, so we keep having to throw them out and now the planet is covered in plastic fabric waste that will never break down. also it turns out that the new washable fabrics hold odor-causing bacteria VERY well. so could we get those barrier garments back please?"

"sorry babe linen now costs $100000/yard and since it's been so long without them, nobody knows how to adapt barrier garments to the current styles anyway"

"..."

"maybe try this new $50 undershirt made of Special Sweat-Wicking Plastic Fabric! :) :) :)"

[taraxippos]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[quibbs126]

Oh yeah, so I finished it

I mean maybe I’ll make it look prettier but it’s fine as is. Serves its purpose

This has now been simplified in my head as “Transformers One: good ending”

[practicestaff12]

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[quakeandquiver]

What I told you before, about how I hacked my governor module but didn’t become a mass murderer? That was only sort of true.

[themanlylobster]

I swear i have read the series, i promise i can depict the characters properly...

[kav3h]

tried 2 come up w a reasonable cumplane situationship scenario and this happened

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

The thing about the time lords is yeah they’re a super powerful species, it wouldn’t be all that inaccurate to call them gods of time, but you get yourself a time lord and like 70% of the time it’s like oh this is a guy I could kick in the shins really hard and get away with it unscathed

[starry-bi-sky]

bruce and danny being fuckign nerds together,,,, they are being the BIGGEST nerds. geeks. if you will

these losers are color-coding the most inane bullshit. they are making diagrams for things you've never even thought of. they are having the time of their lives

"what are you two doing?"

Danny, sitting criss-cross on a table, hunched over a spread of papers and a bunch of different jello cups, his back is gonna hurt SO much: color-coding jello

Bruce, sitting in a nearby chair, also criss-cross, scribbling on a graph paper: hm [agreeing]

Alfred, already exasperated and SO fond: may i ask why? and on what parameters?

Danny: we're basing it off which flavors are the most mentally stimulating and for which subjects :}

Alfred, SO fond: ah. i see.

Danny, snapping his head over to Bruce and leaning over: wh- no-- no. Buzz, I told you: lemon-flavored jello stays strictly in the 'smelling salts' category--

Bruce, still writing on the graph paper: mn. no.

Danny, nearly sprawled across his back, faux-outraged: strawberry is NOT good for math-- you fucken HEATHEN--! Give me that pen!

Bruce, did that solely to rile up Danny, now trying not to smile: hnm.

[caelumoriginals]

[canisalbus]

For your gay little dogs

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[s-guacamolearts]

WORSHIP THE [Hyperlink blocked]

[sunderwight]

I think Airplane accidentally made the Heavenly Demons incestuous.

I think it was an accident not in the sense that Airplane wouldn't potentially do it on purpose, but that he just didn't think too hard about the elements he was smashing together in this aspect of the backstory, and it'd probably occur to him if he did think about it a bit more, but he didn't get there before he lost his notes. And then after that point he was selling out so even if he subsequently thought too hard about it, he wouldn't have brought it up because much like the thing with demons eating human flesh, Heavenly Demons being hugely inbred would probably not go over well with his majority readership.

But like. Bro created this bloodline of demons whose powers tend to breed true, and yet despite the fact that they've ostensibly lived among demonkind and even ruled them for generations, they've basically died out? Also despite being incredibly powerful? There are like three total left in the world, one of whom seems to be purely Heavenly Demon in terms of ancestry, the other two being 50/50 hybrids?

The only other Heavenly Demon we hear about is Zhuzhi Lang's mom, with an implication that her and Tianlang Jun's parents just had the two kids -- one boy and one girl. No info on where those parents came from either. No other Heavenly Demon branches or notable bloodlines that seem to exist or have recently died out.

Like I'm not saying there's DEFINITELY a Targaryen situation going on with the Heavenly Demons, but... there was definitely a Targaryen situation going on with the Heavenly Demons.

But again I do think this was accidental. It's the sort of thing that happens in people's fantasy world-building all the time. Airplane wasn't thinking about the implications, he was thinking about things like giving the protagonist a cool secret bloodline, making that bloodline both rare and powerful, and so on. Which wouldn't have mattered except that then this became part of an actual world, where things have to function and make sense as well as matching the token descriptions offered.

Mostly I don't think this would have much impact on the wider story except to let Tianlang Jun offer some inappropriate commentary on the whole shizunfucker situation. Like someone eventually makes a comment about it being kind of incestuous that Luo Binghe is with Shen Qingqiu and TLJ is just like, yeah funny thing about that actually.

Also this adds an interesting layer to TLJ and his sister's backstory. They were supposed to marry each other. Instead she ran off with a snake (literally) and he eventually hooked up with a human. Both of them tried to get so far away from the arranged incestuous sibling marriage that they developed a thing for interspecies romance instead.

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[iwatcheditbegin]

I know i’ve said it before. But this discourse about the ethics regarding taylor swift being a billionaire are so disingenuous. She doesn’t have a makeup line, clothing line, brand endorsements.

The bulk of her income is entirely from her own talent as a musician. She has not exploited anyone. She’s also not even close to being a cash billionaire when you look at the numbers it’s like half of that ( bc it’s hard to become a billionaire without shady shit) . Taylor is known to pay her employees well. By percentage what she gives away to charity and compensates her team with is unheard of. She gave 10% of her net worth away in bonuses to everyone who worked on her tour. That’s just what we know of.

I’m not even saying this as a fan, but you cannot look at someone like her and how she moves and compare that to other billionaires and oligarchs.

I’m all for wealthy people paying their fair share. I hate capitalism and the current system but I do think she’s a good example of doing the best to be ethical within the current system

[starkayezer]

wolfstar chaperoning prom every year and not being as strict with the rules 🫶

because they know that things are going to happen anyway, and they would rather have them be done safely with supervision than have their students who they care for try to sneak around

Sirius wears a dress btw. That's not exactly relevant but I needed you to know.