#tehanulilac

[aturinfortheworse]

Hey, I've been *trying* to pay no attention to Caesar, but my current book is about those times again, and very military. I don't really get to pick and choose. But could you please please prod my memory and throw an English term at me?When ships reach their destination and you can get off, what is it? To make land, to make shore? Apparently neither, but doesn't something similar exist? Help? (raspberries today)

"make land" and "make port" are both familiar to me.

I had a terrible moment googling make port thinking "wait is that not a phrase?" but merriam webster to the rescue.

I don't have a strong sense of whether make land or make port is more common, so I went to google ngram

That's in the English Fiction corpus, 1800-2019. make land is the most common result in every other corpus, but I'm wondering if that might be because it's more likely to show up as "make (verb) land (noun)" in nonfiction, rather than "make land (verb)."

Either way, I'd think you're good to use either.

(On the subject of Caesar, I think you should be fine as long as you don't render anything unto him or ask what's going on.)

[veliseraptor]

Dear Veliseraptor, how do you pronounce "Lise"?

oooh I have something for this now

[schnaf]

Sing me a song you're the music meme.

@jorzuela tagged me, thank you ♥

Rules: shuffle your “on repeat” playlist from Spotify or the music service of your choice and post the first 10 tracks 

lunatic - xdinary heroes

this is the time (ballast) - nothing more

daechwita - agust d

sucker punch - xdinary heroes

volcano - han

don't go - bring me the horizon

hair cut - xdinary heroes

interstellar - hans zimmer

gaddaar - bloddywood

mic drop - bts

i'm tagging @tehanulilac, @stardatewow, @iloveyoudreitausend, @setsailtomorrow, @loveyouhomex, @blueside-hobi, @eurydike, @sevensforasecret, @soulminyg and @sinistergooseberries ♥

[besanii]

So is wwx in paper thin so meek because he is, I don't know, broken, given up? Is that what he looks like when he has nothing left?

He's not really "meek". He's being demure and/or modest, the way women/concubines/consorts/people in the palace are expected to behave.

At first, it's largely due to the grief of losing LWJ and also guilt that his actions had caused such a big problem for Yunmeng. He knows if he steps out of line and gives people yet another reason to condemn him, things will get worse. So he reins himself in and behaves.

Another facet is he feels he owes it to LXC, who pretty much took him and all his issues on and risked falling out with his most powerful ministers and subjects to protect him, to behave himself. Because now his actions not only affect himself and Yunmeng, they also reflect on LXC, and WWX is not the kind of person who would repay a debt with ingratitude.

And remember, this is just what LXC and the others see on the surface, the role WWX has chosen to play.

[viterbofangirllovestheuntamed]

Love your jc tags on that post with ozz in the midlle

(the post in question)

He is SUCH a freaking mess! Looming like Batman hovering over a baby at the playground with a somehow-still-prideful kicked puppy expression. Thousand-yard-stare focused six feet in front of him without so much as a single BLINK.

[nothorses]

Re your "people not learning queer history" post. What did "trans" use to mean? Why has that changed? Thank you!

Mia Mulder talks about the original meaning of the term “transsexual”, which is also one of the things “trans” originally meant. It’s been a hot minute since I watched the video, but iirc, the very first definition boiled down to a now very outdated version of “someone who identifies as a different gender from the one they were assigned at birth”.

The reliance on gender dysphoria to define the term has existed almost as long as the term itself, as an alternative interpretation and often as the more common one, but it was never the original definition.

The term “transgender”, though, has a very different history. In hir book Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinburg talks about how “transgender” covers every person who defies gender norms in any kind of way. That includes, in roughly hir words, everyone from “transsexuals”, to nonbinary people, to drag queens and kings, to gender non-conforming people, to butches and femmes, to intersex people... the list is long. 

It wasn’t until recently (I think the last decade, more or less) that people started to define “trans” more specifically. Now, the way we use “trans” generally covers anyone who identifies with a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth. We have a clearer distinction between “cis” and “trans”, which imo, is definitely more practical than the broader definition(s) we had before.

But the reason we used to include so many folks under that label is not because we were mistaken about who’s trans and who’s cis; we just had a different word for that distinction, and a broader umbrella for the grey area. The reason we included all of those folks is because their experiences align with ours in a lot of ways.

Gender non-conformity in any capacity is punished by the cispatriarchy. A cis GNC person won’t experience that the same way that a trans person does, and an intersex person is going to have a different experience from both groups. I’m grateful we have the language to talk about that. But a lot of modern-day discourse around transphobia is pretty broken because we fail to acknowledge this venn diagram of experiences.

[faustandfurious]

Hey, that one properly tagged incest PWP fic has a fantastic ratio, how did it do that? :)

I don’t know, I was just pulling numbers out of my ass that seemed probable based on my own fics on AO3, because I didn’t actually feel like looking up incest PWP fics to make a rhetorical point lol

[liu-anhuaming]

Hi. Could you recommend a free news site in traditional Chinese? Preferably with news from Taiwan and from a Taiwan perspective? Bonus points if it's made easy specifically for learners or foreigners, but I'm looking for actual news stories, so that's not a must. Thanks a lot.

oh my god this has been languishing in my inbox for so long. so sorry about that!

so, i don’t really read the news in chinese all too often, so other people might have better suggestions. after doing some quick searching, i might have found a couple good places to start:

台灣英文新聞：you can toggle the website between english and chinese, but it doesn’t seem like you can find the exact same articles in both languages

台北時報 Taibei Times：it seems like this one is mostly english, but there is a tab called “bilingual pages” which features articles written in both chinese and english

sorry i couldn’t be more help. if anyone else has some suggestions please reply to this post to let me know!

[honorarycassowary]

Hi. How does it work when the base of your number system is not natural, or even rational? You can't have phi different digits?

Hey, thanks for asking about mysymbiote number system headcanon! 

The full (or full-ish) answer for how phinary took me a while tofigure out how to explain. I tried to write this as clearly and succinctly aspossible, so please tell me if anything is still confusing. I usedphinary through out this to refer to base phi/the golden ratio base,because I also talk about base pi a bit, and I wanted to minimizeconfusion. Also, phinary is just catchier-sounding than “base phi.”

The first part is relatively simple: phinary uses 0and 1 as its digits, same as binary (base 2), but with onespecial restriction: you can’t have multiple 1s in a row, like in“11″ or “111″. (More on this later.) In the original post,that’s why I suggested using both binary and phinary, since you canrepresent them with the same set of characters.

As it turns out, all number systems with non-integer basesuse “integerdigits up to (but not including) the base”. Therefore, sincephi is roughly 1.618, we can use 0 and 1 in phinary. In base e, wecan use 0, 1, and 2. In base pi, we can use 0, 1, 2 and 3. I amnot a mathematician, and I cannot give the deets on why it works likethis, but I can tell you that it does. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This can make representing integers difficult. For example, inbase pi, “10″ represents the value 3.14159…. But how do yourepresent the value 4? Because pi is irrational, writing the value of4 in base pi requiresinfinite digits! Obviously, this is impractical.

However, in phinary, we can sidestep this using a funproperty of the golden ratio: every integer can be written in termsof sums of powers of phi! For example:

phi ≈ 1.618, and phi^-1 ≈ 0.618, so phi - phi^-1 = 1

(1 can also be written as phi^0, since any number to the zeroth power equals 1.)

phi^-2 ≈ 0.382, so phi + phi^-2 = 2

phi^2 ≈ 2.618, so phi^2 + phi^-2 = 3

phi^2 + phi^0 + phi^-2 = 4

…andso on and so forth.

In base ten, we write the powers of ten like so:

ten^-2 = 0.01

ten^-1 = 0.1

ten^0 = 1

ten^1 = 10

ten^2 = 100

Becausewe’re using phinary, we know that the powers ofphi will follow the same pattern:

phi^-2 = 0.01

phi^-1 = 0.1

phi^0 = 1

phi^1 = 10

phi^2 = 100

Thenby combining this with the list we just made, we can see that 4 inphinary would be written like this:

phi^2 + phi^0 + phi^-2 = 100+ 1 + 0.01= 101.01. 

So unlike base pi, in phinary we canuse a finite number of digits to write 4. (The golden ratiobase/phinary is actually the only irrational base where it’spossible to write out every integer using a finite number ofcharacters.)

Thenumbers from 1 – 10 are written out in phinaryin theexamples section of Wikipedia page for the golden ratio base, soI won’t calculate them all here. But hopefully that makes itclearer how they’re getting there.

Now, you may notice that there’s multiple ways to sum up powersof phi to get a given integer. For example, you could represent 5 as:

phi^2+ phi^0 + phi^0 + phi^-2 = 100 + 1 + 1 + 0.01 = 110.01. 

But the correct (or “standardform”) way to write 5 is as:

phi^3 + phi^-1 + phi^-4 = 1000 + 0.1 +0.0001 = 1000.101. 

So there’s two ways to write one number? Whatgives?

Well, yeah. There are. That’s why the restriction on consecutive1s comes into play. It turns out, numbers written in phinary are onlydefinitely finite and unique if they’re written without consecutiveones. This is called standard form.

(Yes, this is weird.)

But writing all the numbers without “11” is easy, if you useanother fun property of phi: 

phi^0 + phi = phi^2. 

The actualmath is simple: 

1 + 1.618 = 2.618.

But we already know that in phinary, we write phi^0 as 1, phi as10 and phi ^2 as 100. So we can rewrite phi^0 + phi as 1 + 10, and see that in phinary …11 = 100.

(Yes, this is DEEPLY WEIRD.)

So for larger numbers in phinary, you actually have to shiftnumbers around a bit to get a number that works. Fortunately, a fewkind souls have built decimal-to-phinarynumber converters, including one that can do rangesof numbers so I will never ever have to do this math.

As for what practical applications phinary has? …The only thing I was able to find was some research into image enhancement/decomposition methods. But the golden ratio famously appears in a bunch of place in nature, so there might be cool stuff you can do with phinary that we just do a different way because it’s hard to think about. I mean, with symbiotes, they’re already so comic-book-sciencey I’m perfectly fine with making up any explanation I need to make the real science concepts I think are cool work. :P But the recent association of symbiotes with spirals is definitely fun fuel for this headcanon!

I genuinely enjoyed reading through all the math pages to be ableto explain this. Please reblog or comment with any additionalquestions you have if I didn’t explain something clearly enough. :D

[aturinfortheworse]

In Poland her semi-official title (as in the names of churches) is usually "the holiest maiden Mary". And from a translation I did recently I sort of knw that in Eastern Christianity (several varieties) she is often called, also in English, Theotokos, "god-birther". Colloquial Polish for her, including among people who don't particularly care, is literally "divine mother", with the adjective acting like a possessive, so it means "god's mother". (1/2)

That “divine mother” expression acts as a common swearword (like “jesus”), one that creeps into the language of complete atheists and other non-Christians, and there are some variations on it, including humorous de-Christianizing ones. For example sme older people mildly swear “materdeum” instead, usually without knowing it’s plural “gods” in there and actually sort of refers to Magna Mater / Cybele. And (2/3 actuall, sorry)

(3/3) Another mild swearword is “o mother and daughter”. I think it’s completely secular and not intended to consciously refer to any goddesses, only to “disarm” the “o divine mother” one, just like people will say “O forest” for “O God”, because in the vocative they are homophones.

Neat!!

One I was thinking of was “Mary mother of god” which is i guess the same as any other but is absolutely 100% a swear word in my lexicon. maybe that’s because it’s used in Pirates of the Carribean. but also something about the rosary? “Holy Mary, mother of God” is part of the Hail Mary so i guess idk it feels like it has a different function to other names.

My father, being the enigma that he is, answered “The Madonna” to this and I all but told him he’s wrong. I know that’s not a secular answer but it feels so much a part of like, Art History, that i’m not convinced he understood the question.

Edit : I’m super distracted right now but I was also very interested the defanged christian swears! “O forest” is cute as heck!

[fuckyeahisawthat]

Re Venom as exaggerated impulses. Do you think that it takes the form of a basso speaking bodybuilder, exaggeratedly male, almost caricaturally so, when anchored in Eddie, but a very different look when with Anne, because it is sort of based on (or, working off) their subconscious images of what an alpha specimen looks like?

I can kinda see this for Eddie. (We’re talking about movie!Eddie here; I know his characterization in the comics is a bit different.) I think he’s the kind of person whose arrogance and look-how-cool-I-am posturing masks a lot of insecurities. And while, at his worst, he can be smug, egotistical and a bit selfish, the one thing he’s definitely not is macho. His feelings are all right there on the surface and he’s not afraid of talking about them. He admits when he’s afraid and asks for help when he needs it. Over the course of the movie he spends a lot of time being scared and vulnerable and humiliated in various ways. So the idea that the ridiculously overbuilt male form Venom takes with Eddie is a projection of some deep-seated idea about what Eddie thinks he should be, or should want to be, but isn’t in his regular human life, makes a lot of sense to me.

With Anne...ok, I guess this is my opportunity to say that I kinda hate the super slinky tits-and-ass-emphasizing design of She-Venom that seems to be the way the character is mostly depicted. And I think movie!Anne Weying would hate it too. I think she’d be annoyed that Eddie-Venom gets to be nine feet tall and super muscly and she gets to be a Sexy Venom Halloween costume, basically.

The character’s only in one scene in the movie, and you can see that they’ve put some effort into trying to make her proportions look a bit more alien and scary within the confines of a Marvel character brief that they probably have to adhere to. But it still feels like they’re beholden to a character design that feels dated and sexist, and doesn’t feel to me like anything movie!Anne would imagine as an ideal of femininity.

(Although, now I’m imagining a scene in which Eddie describes to Anne what she looked like as She-Venom and she’s like...seriously?? And is either really annoyed at the symbiote for choosing that form or really annoyed at herself for on some level internalizing an ideal of femininity that’s strong but still improbably proportioned and sexualized in a very specific conventional way.)

[besanii]

I somehow missed the last two installments of Paper Thin and only caught up now. Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank. Just please know that every part of this has given me energy and motivation to keep trying to do decent things.

Ah thank you!! You're so sweet <333

I am....working on Part 9 (or 8 part2 >_>) right now but also working on about a billion other things on the side so I can't guarantee when I'll update, but !!!!!!! it will update!!!!!!!!

[theblueescapist]

tehanulilac replied to your video “bears-official: gigi-tastic: typhoidmeri: ...”

And so weirdly close to speech!

And so soft-looking when not angry or scared!! <3

[screambirdscreaming]

Re your lamb's quarters / quinoa post. Since we have a cousin of this thing (chenopodium album) growing in central Europe as a weed and apparently most parts are edible, at least of younger plants, but it doesn't seem to be grown commercially as a crop here at all or harvested in the wild a lot (bot anymore that is)-- do the seeds of lamb's quarters need to be somehow shelled or processed before cooking?

Chenopodium album is one of the several species commonly known as lamb’s quarter! Probably the one most commonly called that name. The seeds do need processing before they can be eaten, they are coated in saponins, which are toxic to humans and need to be removed. This is also true of quinoa, and realistically, probably a reason why quinoa is usually grown commercially and not as a backyard crop. I’m not entirely sure what this processing entails, but I’m sure that information is out there! You might get good answers on how to process smaller-than-commercial batches by looking into traditional native american food systems, since lamb’s quarter was an important food source for a number of tribes.If you check the reblogs of the original post, I reblogged a version with a lot more information and some links you might find helpful.

[anotherwellkeptsecret]

I adore your Mycroft (and no other Mycroft).

That makes me really happy!! He’s so sassy, I love him.