#this became a bit of a rant

[sevensoulmates]

i don't see eddie getting his own queer arc i think for one it'd be repetitive. i think for eddie it's simply gonna be the realization that he's in love with his best friend. buck will be the experienced one of the two so it's not bling leading the blind.

I respectfully disagree. Personally, I don't think it'll be repetitive if Eddie gets his own queer realization arc, because both of them have two different experiences with queerness.

Technically diving into my own headcanon here, so fair warning but I personally (IN MY PERSONAL INDIVIDUAL SINGUALR OPINION (I hate to use disclaimers here but I'm not trying to get accused of biphobia here)) view Eddie as a repressed gay man. I don't believe he is truly attracted to women (at least romantically, sexually is another story but then I'd have to dive more into demisexuality which I don't plan to do here). Anyway.

Buck's experience with coming out would be as a man who has always been happily attracted to women and will find out that he is attracted to men IN ADDITION.

For Eddie, if he were to get a queer realization arc, I think it would be vastly different from Buck's because he wouldn't be realizing he likes men as well as women, he'd be finding out that not only does he like men, but he hasn't actually been in love/attracted to any of the women he was with in the past (and that includes Shannon, and NO I will NOT be elaborating on that). I think that this will end up triggering a whole huge overhaul of Eddie's view of himself, his entire life, his family, and his marriage, and I think it will bring him a lot of guilt. Eddie's not the kind of person just to be like oh guess that's why I never was into sex with Ana or Marisol whoopsies and move on. Man is gonna feel GUILTY. That's what he's programmed to feel in response to everything.

I was telling a friend that I bet you ANYTHING Eddie is gonna resist something with Buck out of some backward loyalty to Shannon. Like "No, I can't be gay. Because that means I was using Shannon." No honey you were not. You were just deeply deeply repressed and traumatized.

For me, an Eddie queer realization arc would be an entire deconstruction of every single thing he's ever believed himself to be. Which would be vastly different from Buck realizing he's bi. Buck's bisexual arc will likely come with its own bisexual-specific issues.

I also want to say that even if Eddie did come out as bisexual like Buck (and I would be 100% okay with that happening in the show) I think it's quite diminishing to say Buck AND Eddie both getting queer realization arcs would be "repetitive" because the fact of the matter is that every queer person has a different experience.

More than likely, if Eddie figures this out later than Buck, then yes, Buck will likely be the one most experienced. And I do agree that it's unlikely they'll have Eddie realize he's queer in the exact same way Buck does (ie jealousy over a 3rd guy, etc) but I do think there's a strong possibility of Eddie having his own queer arc. Maybe in season 7 in tandem with Buck, or maybe later in season 8.

Either way, I need people to get off this whole "stop rehashing past stories", "I hate characters making the same old mistakes" or "get off the hamster wheel" train. What I like about 911 is that despite the somewhat unrealistic disasters and calls, and somewhat over-the-top drama at times, the actual character journeys they tell are true to real things people go through. And in real life, people exist in cycles, and that's not always a bad thing.

[tarudce22]

once again glad my twin works the same place as me cause innovatory was today

meat did good but produce....... WHERE DID ALL THOSE BANANAS GO?!?

people out here really stealing over 1,000lbs of bananas

[itscherryterry-again]

yea

[theshadowrealmitself]

Reading enemies-to-lovers fics really drives home how romantic love is prioritized over platonic love, like you’re really leaving all your friends behind for your new lover??

(Or like when Will runs away with Hannibal and leaves his dogs behind. what the fuck. or he only takes Winston, like the dogs he’s had for longer aren’t as important?? If him and Hannibal aren’t smuggling a shit ton of dogs across borders while on the run from authorities I don’t want it.)

[greencheekconure27]

"They like to gather in big mobs, the members of which are only barely capable of independent thought and have the average knowledge and maturity levels of a particularly poorly educated 15yo.

* I would like to apologize to sheep here. Good USEFUL animals, unlike tankies.

** also my apologies to parrots, who are both much smarter and more independent."

Might as well apologize to Tara Westover and everyone in her position too then. Who as a teenager deliberately denied an education by an abusive fundie family, still had more brains, moral values, heart, decency, and common sense than these adult tankies ever will.

People who lack education/have it denied to them aren't just an insult for bad people. But are a very real group who get harmed, and then mocked and used as an easy scapegoat by the world for having been harmed.

Ok, anon hindsight I agree that that has been somewhat in poor taste on my part, and for that, I sincerely apologize. Lack of education in itself is not an insult, and neither is being young.(I admit I have no idea who Tara Westover is but am willing to apologize to her as well). I am sorry.

That said, please allow me to explain myself for a sec, for clarity's sake.

I am not saying that they ARE poorly educated teenagers. Frankly if they were this post would never have been made.I am saying that these grown-ass adults, with full access to the internet and various other sources of information(and often in possession of college degrees), somehow manage to achieve fantastic levels of willful ignorance.

Now, ignorance in and by itself is not a moral failing either.WILLFUL ignorance however is, especially when they claim to be experts on the subject. As is harassing and insulting people who tell them they're wrong.On top of that, their responses are incredibly childish. Imagine correcting someone on basic facts and their response is 50 comments that just say "faggot".Would you be surprised to find out that it was a 30yo and not just some teen being edgy? Because I was.So excuse me for going "What are you, a child?!?" here for a moment.

These are, as far as I can tell from their bios, not disadvantaged children who have been indoctrinated and denied a normal education, so I see no excuse for this combination of immaturity, viciousness, and lack of basic research.

I am just very, very tired.

[aria0fgold]

My headcanons for the named trio in The Cursing of Chateau Castle series:

Josephandre is a big bear. It just fits for him I think! He gets he/him pronouns, and as a way to make him a liiiil more relatable for Mira, he'd have two craft types (Rock type being his main one and paper craft for the other). Battle style wise, I think it fits him to be more of a self-sustaining tank. He buffs defense, heals, and puts up shields. For his weapon, he'd use his fists like Isabeau. He'll be the second fastest in the trio.

Lady Irene-Janine-Kanine looks like an elegant noblewoman on the outside but she has vibes similar to Euphrasie! She gets she/her pronouns. Her craft type is Paper. Battle style wise, she's more on the offensive side, a main dps kind of thing. Most of her skills focus on buffing attack and speed, she'd have an item that helps regen her hp a lil bit and her chosen weapon is an umbrella. The tip is a sharp blade so it's used like a spear that has a hidden sword in its handle. Open it, and it becomes a shield! That'd be one of her skills too, although it's only applicable to her. She's the fastest one of the trio.

Pierre-Jacques-Erneste looks like a nobleman and carries himself as such! He gets he/they pronouns. Their craft type is Scissors. Battle style wise, he's more of a debuffer, skills focusing on weakening the enemies, slowing them down, poisoning them. Their weapon is a sword dagger, though he doesn't seem to be able to handle it well, how clumsy! But he Is a nobleman so it makes sense! Oh but... why doesn't he have a title? They're the slowest one of the trio, how strange, he seemed to be faster than Lady Irene-Janine-Karine that one time though.

[pnuk-r0ck]

I often think abt this mutual I used 2 have and o the thing in The Office where they stare @ the camera

[englishmagic]

In other news, today my boomer mother suggested I look into getting an autism diagnosis. The one person I was most sure would go on about ‘oh these silly young people, everyone wants a diagnosis for everything these days’.

I guess that’s… a sign that I might not just be overestimating the significance of relatable memes to figuring out what’s “wrong” with me

In more annoying news, she told me my sister had said she hoped I’d shave my face for her birthday. Why do these people care so much about MY appearance, like. I don’t give a shit what they look like. Whatever makes them happy, you know? I’d appreciate the same courtesy in return. Then again, my sister didn’t literally tell me to shave; she mentioned it to my mother, and I don’t know if that is better or worse. But it certainly rubs me the wrong way that my mother felt the need to tell me about it.

Thinking about it, these women are always surprised or even offended if I don’t comment when they get a new haircut. So they literally make their aesthetic choices hoping to get comments. Whereas I would ideally not have people commenting on my appearance altogether. I guess I enjoy the odd compliment, like on my badass tattoo or my rocking outfit. But if someone comments that “oh, you cut your hair!” I almost kind of panic and want to bark back, “and what of it?!?” Like I’m expecting a criticism. I don’t make my appearance choices expecting people to like them and comment on them, I make them mostly despite what I expect those closest to me will think. It’s about expressing me and feeling comfortable in myself. If I comment on their appearance, it’s either because I especially like their look that day or because they’ve made a visible effort which, while not being my cup of tea, deserves some commendation.

(Well. I will occasionally say something akin to “hey I notice you’ve lost a lot of weight over a short period of time, is everything okay” but that’s because I know my mother has a history of disordered eating. And I don’t really do that anymore because she takes it as a compliment because skinny=good in her mind and that’s not. What I mean.)

And guess what, beyond those comments, I don’t actually think about or notice their appearance that much. Is that rude of me? I’m always lowkey worried about being rude because there’s stuff I don’t notice which I’m supposed to comment on. But I don’t really pay attention to people’s appearances; it’s their business. And if I don’t feel compelled to say anything about them TO THEM, why the fuck would I want to say something about them to other people?!? It’s so weird! When I say something about someone else’s appearance to others, it’s always positive! I think? Maybe I say mean stuff and I forget about it? That can be the case; I wouldn’t put it past my memory to overwrite bad stuff I do and say to make myself look good to myself. But like. The rare bad comment I have to make about someone. I will definitely not utter. Especially not to someone who knows the person.

All this to say that I would hate to upset my sister so I will probably shave my face before going to her birthday. I am trying to work on my confidence in my facial hair, because I sometimes like it and sometimes don’t, but importantly it’s the only thing about my appearance that makes anyone I’ve met question whether or not I am a woman. Which I am not. And obviously that’s kind of important to me, to have people view me as not-a-woman.

(And yes, I do fully suspect that that’s why they don’t like my facial hair - it’s too unusual, to unwomanly, and they’d prefer it if I were nonbinary in private and presented female to the world so as not to embarrass them by association.)

[spitblaze]

what if my Void and @doktorpeace's Erato had spiderverse counterparts....and they were both spidermen.......and they kissed.........

[seulgikisser]

the kpoppies will hate this take bc it doesn't fit the i hate the fimmies for no reason agenda but tiger man did do the easy challenge well, however, as a dancer, i think he put way too much energy into it. he didn't "outdance" them, his style is very energetic, and in my opinion, he didn't grasp the actual concept of the choreo. it's supposed to look easy, look relaxed, and "groovy" not like you're in a dance battle. that's what the song's concept and message is. he just went a little harder than necessary, but he didn't "outdance" them, so pls stfu

[gurorori]

i say this with utmost seriousness i wish i was employed

[sharkfinx]

That why I hate taking breaks, the feeling of going back to writing and everything feels like puking and garbage

[no-light-left-on]

where are the Knights of the Nine in the 4th era, I wonder? did they survive the two hundred years between the oblivion crisis and the events of Skyrim? are they still an active order in Cyrodiil? did they take part in the wars that happened between the Empire and the Dominion? were they allowed to remain despite their order being dedicated to the Nine? with his parting words, Sir Amiel promises that the Order will be the sword and the shield of the Nine on Tamriel in her darkest times. where are they now?

[mixmioart]

You have the only correct opinions and interpretations about vampires.

Thank you for your service

Fgjsjd thank you anon!!!!

( tho, side tangent: imo the interesting thing about vampires as folklore/story trope is how many different takes there are! And how it reflects on the people that enjoy that particular story (like!! Huge difference between hot mysterious people like in twilight and the awkward dorks in wwdits!! If I was more smart I'd analyse that)

Apart from wwdits, my fave is probably the movie Only Lovers Left Alive bc it really nails the ancient, unbothered being vibe:D

[moyurukoda]

If I see a morally grey, self destructive, pathetic middle aged man I will put him in my brain and make him my entire personality. Every goddamn time

[evilsexy]

hello, i hope that you're well. if it's not too much trouble, i'd really like it if you shared some advice about learning / pursuing a programming language like q or ocaml (you mentioned a bit about it relatively recently). i'm really interested and think that any knowledge you have to offer in regards to both learning and practical applications would be useful. thank you so much regardless. wishing you a pleasant day.

hm this is a really good question! disclaimer that this is going to be biased towards (big) data science applications since that’s what i know the most. i also learned these languages after i already finished a math/cs undergrad degree so if you are from a different background you may have a different learning experience

to get it out of the way: you need 1-2 semesters of college statistics/probability to really get juice out of these languages. their best use cases are basically using statistical methods to process, transform, and understand truly vast amounts of data. you really also need linear algebra basics to understand functional programming (everything is a matrix operation)

in a nutshell functional programming is best used for large, dense, well-structured datasets because it allows you to do transforms very quickly and efficiently

in practical use these languages are good because for example i will be working with a 2 terabyte dataset of millions of millions of entries and i need to find the average of X value every hour over the past Y years. or i want to find the top 5 users from a specific region who clicked X button the most amount of times each day and what they have in common. or when we have a new user, how many times do i think they will click the button based on data from 100,000 other users? or i want to visualize what happens before and after X event in a time series under 20 different conditions for the past decade. or i want to fit a high dimensional regression. and i can get that all in a few seconds and with just 1 line of code

i was raised in python land and i have used pandas extensively and it does not even hold a candle to the power of ocaml or q when you’re working with larger amounts of data. python can’t keep up. i do use it for creating the graphs/figures i use in reports though

now. for learning—

cmu has a principles of functional programming class that my coworker swears by that has the lecture slides available along with some other resources http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15150/lect.html

cs3110 from cornell is a good course for ocaml and their book is free https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/cover.html which also has video lectures

q is harder because it’s not taught in universities as much and has a smaller community, i mostly learned it by reading the tutorial on the website (Q for Mortals) which is available for free https://code.kx.com/q4m3/ . I also personally found that the book Q Tips https://libgen.is/search.php?req=q+tips was really good. I read Machine Learning and Big Data for kdb/q and the first few chapters were helpful starting out as well