#rationalisms

[persianflaw]

16 for the ask game!

HI ALMA, i'm going to pretend i didn't wait over a week before answering these

16. what is a skill or talent you’ve completely lost or overlooked? why did that happen?

i've lost more or less all of my french, which to be fair was fairly minimal in the first place. i started learning it when i was sixteen or seventeen as part of a graduation requirement and took one semester in college as part of another requirement, and learning it late definitely intensified the usual "use it or lose it" thing with language. i didn't use it, and i lost it! i wish i'd started younger and really kept at it, whether with french or another language. i'm doing latin duolingo now, but it's not the same, yk

[blueiight]

🔥 + food i wanna know the real important stuff

fooood ok im a picky eater but i love spicy things so much spice is the beginning of life<3

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[cthulhubert]

A news site called WindowsCentral just posted a headline: "57% of all content on the web is AI-generated."

They're misquoting a Forbes article that said, "57% of all text-based content on the web is AI-generated."

Which itself was also a misquote of a study saying "57% of all text translations on the web are machine generated."

Figured I should give everyone a heads up

for all the "OMG dead Internet theory is real!" posting coming up.

[nikoisme]

fucking hate how cats think they can mrrp their way out of anything because yeah, they fucking can.

[pandabibble]

[aimasup]

silly scribbles

he had to think a while on that one

[broh3m3]

We got a real jam going down

[bixels]

Scary Sunset.

I'm concepting things way outta order in this story, but I'm sure you can piece things together. Context is for a storybeat where, after defeating and capturing Adagio (thus having all three sirens in her possession), Sunset enacts her revenge plot to release the sirens on Canterlot as Thea discovers she's been manipulated. In a confrontation, the two scuffle and fight over the siren orbs while Sunset struggles with her conflicting wants and emotions.

[snawleyy]

[bluef00t]

The Shawn & Gus dynamic in Psych is so subtly yet beautifully shaped by the fact that they cast a naturally deadpan introvert to play the world's most hyperactive attention-seeking detective, then cast a chronic theater kid to play his supposedly boring, reasonable best friend

[persianflaw]

prime numbers for mass effect for the ask game :o)

BOY was this formatting a pain in the butt. i feel like i don't have that many controversial mass effect opinions anymore, or at least none that i care about being controversial. i just hang out and enjoy my faves at this point

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

legitimately can’t think of one. i pretty universally view my faves as switches.

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

not going to name and shame because a) it’s been a while and b) i actually had a very nice conversation with the person who initially posted this, but there was a headcanon post that listed joker as asexual (in a positive light) because having vrolik’s syndrome made sex too risky. the casual ableism of that really bothered me. joker is interested in sex in the game and it bothers him that his disability makes it hard to engage in physical intimacy. there’s a pervasive idea that people with certain kinds of physical disabilities can’t or just wouldn’t want to have sex (“how would that even work?? lol”), and while there are obviously disabled people who are asexual, or who abstain from sex in part or in full because the logistics are difficult or painful, it’s frustrating to see that as a default mindset in a lot of able-bodied people.

5. worst discord server and why

no opinions for this one because i’m not in any mass effect servers!

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because of how the fandom acts about them?

for a while i got sick of liara because her hardcore fans treated her like the default romance

11. number of fandom-related words you’ve filtered

none for mass effect actually, lol. everyone i follow who reblogs mass effect has good taste so it isn’t necessary for me

13. worst blorboficiation

i honestly couldn’t think of one! but i’ll go with a similar hater spirit and say that i hate cute innocent waifu tali characterization. this is NOTHING.

17. there should be more of this type of fic/art

horny geth content. shoutout to the fic with kaidan and the geth hopper that lives in my heart

19. you’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like…

i like the synthesis ending, okay!! i’m not even especially ashamed of it!! i think it’s better than killing all of the geth

23. ship you’ve unwillingly come around to

shenko. i’ve gone back and forth on them a LOT, both because of fandom and because kaidan’s behavior in the third game if you move on in me2 bugged me the first time around, but i do like him.

[blueiight]

jade and mahogany :^)

thank uuu🥺

[itstimetodrew]

I love seeing characters make the wrong choice. Like logically, morally, whatever. It should be so easy, so obvious, to do something right for once! But they don’t see it or they don’t care. Their instincts always lead them to choose poorly. Bad for them but great for me because it’s so interesting and I like to watch the suffering. ^_^

[blondie-drawings]

Good lord this tomb is full of shitposts 😳😳 pt 1/pt 2

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Why are you running?

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