#the-swapped-central

[utilitycaster]

re the anti-resurrection poison though like. what the fuck was up with that. Like, I can, as a mediocre DM myself and an avid listener to NADDPod D&D Court understand where it came from: you needed a reason why Will and Derrig were still dead despite Keyleth being there, because that was Orym's backstory, which in turn dated back to Liam's concept for a backup character for Vax, ie, someone who had also lost a partner and would be sent to help Keyleth in the wake of a similar loss. So you come up with the anti-resurrection poison. And this also happens to work out nicely for the climactic solstice battle, because it explains why Keyleth can't just rally after Vax intervenes. It also makes sense as a thing the Ruby Vanguard would have, because of the anti-divine magic and the way that the Weave Mind have similar anti-healing powers.

The problem is, of course, that you've introduced this concept - which is, again, actually very good and elegant and fits in seamlessly - but it's out there and you have to either use it or come up with an excuse not to use it. And you can, I think, legitimately make a case for it not being in play in the Seat of Disdain fight because that came up very suddenly. But then it gets pretty weird that when Bells Hells become a consistent thorn in the Vanguard's side, and Otohan moves from "I need to keep the Ruidusborn alive but fuck everyone else" to "I'm just going to kill them all" and clearly knows they have considerable resurrection resources and access to the rare antidote given Keyleth's return to the stage that she doesn't just coat all weapons with it and nerf all healing to drain their resources.

And anyway this is a consistent problem, of like, there actually was the full setup for the story C3 intended to tell in C1 and C2 and early C3, but to make these entirely unrelated characters actually fit into a pretty specific narrative, you had to add in a bunch of complicated additions. And while some of those were a mess, some were actually really well done, like the initial introduction of the anti-resurrection poison and the gray assassins, and then none of it mattered because they were always just additions to make the core plot fit and there were too many balls in the air so they got dropped without exploration, and anyone paying attention was like "hey you dropped this" and it's like you could have juggled 3 or even 4 or 5 balls adequately, but you had to add in 4 extra balls and ultimately some of them landed on the ground and so the act of barely keeping 3 in the air in the end is undercut by the number you dropped.

[narfin-frood]

planet yonder!

[graff-aganda]

C4 2025!! 💥💚

[melchinafan]

SKILL UNLOCKED, KNITTING ABILITY LEVELED UP

So I've been knitting a fair bit as of late, all sorts of shenanigans and funky little things and a thousand fancy plans. Only some stuff finished thus far, but a fair bit of learning new building blocks going on.

And in a fit of pique while trying to get some ridiculously tiny dense pointy picots out of a purlwise cable cast on base, being mad that my normal purling (wrapping the yarn counter-clockwise) made the yarn have to cross SO FAR to get back up to the needle, I just...crossed the yarn up clockwise instead, and it was so much better. Distracted from the picot situation by how well it worked, I wondered why it's not the norm, did a quick search, and...

Found I had accidentally stumbled upon combination knitting? Which (for flat stockinette and the like) involves purling clockwise, and then knitting through the back loop to untwist those stitches. And it has FIXED my purl tension! The left side of my flat stockinette no longer gains a giant, sad loop! (Hell, I think that selvedge might even be neater than the right side now.) And I still don't necessarily like knitting ribbing, or how it looks vs. other, funkier options. But a quick test of normal vs. combination ribs side-by-side? Hot damn, that combo rib looks GOOD.

...Now, to get back to seeing if I can wrangle those picots to do what I want, without resorting to smaller needles...

[slyandthefamilybook]

my question is how did Kh'ymm get the coordinates so wrong that they arrive at a different planet, but not so wrong that they end up in the middle of nowhere?

[charmac]

Identity doesn't have to factor into absolutely every decision you make.

[chaanv]

Girl what do u mean its a mahabharat au? (Genuinely curious)

lmaooo I better not be killed, but this is a story featuring:

Loving, extremely powerful, chaotic, deeply mysterious fluteboi

His quiet, highly skilled, dressed-in-white, internally conflicted soulmate

His smart, badass fire-queen bestie (who is very important to the plot)

His “so done” brother (… the snake! symbolism)

His soulmate’s peaceful older brother who just wants a break

His intellectual, manipulative rival

His copycat, chaotic evil rival

His temperamental but cute nephew

An initial power-hungry dictator; he’s overthrown halfway through… but his sons/allies cause fluteboi grief first

Two villainous besties who take over after the overthrowing,, first one has major daddy issues and second very much loathes the soulmate

Fire-queen’s brother who is fluteboi’s General

Highly respected warrior whose dead body plays an equal role

A regretful former female clan leader

Societal critiques

The suffering of women

Moral grey areas

Which story is it?

Of course I have simplified, of course I’m forgetting things.

BUT I can’t be the only one who sees it?

[enbysiriusblack]

"oh, i knew you were from 'x' town, you have that accent"

WDYM???? WDYM???

[llycaons]

like basically. if a female character's arc is informed by her position in society as a woman and she responds to social forces on her as a woman I don't think that's necessarily misogynistic writing. I like exploring misogyny...it can get exhausting so I get why ppl like gender-blind characters tho

[expatesque]

Incredibly excited for your Italy trip, as someone who studied in Rome I would like to politely request photos from your time there 💛 in exchange I can tell you that the Gelateria Regusto in Trastevere is the best gelato shop, and that a little hike up Janiculum Hill at sunrise is truly unforgettable

Lovely recommendations, thank you! I promise photos will be coming!

[cantsayidont]

MY NAME (2021): Pulpy, violent, derivative Korean crime drama about a young woman named Yoon Ji-woo (Han So-hee) who sets out to avenge the murder of her gangster father by joining the gang of which he was a member and then, at the behest of the organization's crafty boss, Choi Mu-jin (Park Hee-soon), infiltrating the Inchang Metropolitan Police under an assumed name to find her father's supposed killer, a senior narcotics cop (the avuncular Kim Sang-ho).

The plot (whose major beats you'll likely anticipate just based on the preceding synopsis) is kind of a gender-swapped riff on the Hong Kong film INFERNAL AFFAIRS (remade in the U.S. as THE DEPARTED), with some echoes of John Woo's Hong Kong classics (in particular HARD-BOILED), albeit executed with far less thematic unity. There are some stylish moments, but MY NAME never finds a consistent groove, and it only occasionally goes hard enough to compensate for its awkward pacing, clunky structure, and numerous lapses in plausibility and plot logic. Only in the finale does the show serve up the emotional grandiosity needed to give the bloodshed some real juice, and it's still let down somewhat by a weak coda.

Park's cool charisma is a major load-bearing element throughout, but Han, curiously, is more convincing in the action scenes than the quieter moments, perhaps because the scripts struggle to give Ji-woo (or any of the show's very few female characters) any meaningful interiority. An ill-advised early time-skip also undermines the clarity of her motivations and priorities, which too often leaves her seeming like a supporting character in her own story. CONTAINS LESBIANS? There are barely any women other than Ji-woo. VERDICT: Moderately diverting if you can stomach the brutal violence, but even its strongest moments feel recycled from earlier, better examples of this genre. CWs apply for attempted sexual violence in the first two episodes, and episodes six and seven include some scenes of graphic self-harm.

[brokenhardies]

Foolsuke AU - The Hamburgulars

made in this dollmaker

Yusuke Kitagawa - The Fool

Makoto Niijima - The Chariot

Futaba Isshiki - The Lovers

Akira Kurusu - The Emperor

Goro Yoshida - The High Priestess

Ryuji Ohya - The Hermit

Ann Takamaki - The Empress

Haru Okumura - The Justice

Satoru Yoshizawa - The Faith

(not featured; Violet - The Magician)

@latenitewaffles, @inkwell1013, @mushroomfusion245 @rollthedice-playthecards @thehedgehogat221b @sterling-writes @wonderguards

[gaysheep]

oh yea i made this awhile ago lemme know if you have any fun overlaps

[publicdomainbooksdevotee]

People who only hear about ComicCon for TV and movie reasons:

"No writers? No actors? There is NOTHING LEFT. ComicCon is DEAD."

Locals who don't even have tickets and go downtown for the Vibe:

[newstech24]

Central banks are starting to stress about greenback swap strains

Unlock the Editor’s Digest free of charge Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favorite tales on this weekly e-newsletter. Again in 1857, the Financial institution of Austria loaded 10mn ounces of silver on to a practice and dispatched it to Hamburg. The rationale? Town’s banks have been about to break down, having run out of reserves. So Austria despatched that “silver practice” to offer…

[johnnyloueydelightsus]

Some of the most popular Central Florida Flea Markets

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