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technically rn yuji has sukuna beat for "number of fetuses officially eaten"

YUJI ITADORI ON TOP

I'm not looking pass the fact that 257 confirms that Yuji ate Death Paintings 4 - 9, his other siblings to gain Blood Manipulation (I know he said he'll eat anything but damn) and it's same chapter that confirms that Sukuna ate his twin in the womb to survive.

Oh, y'all family for real. Eating your siblings... when they're, like, fetuses...

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I saw that one awful trans masc + trans fem goals post circulating on twitter and made this improved version of it, I know it was a while back now but Draedon is cool.

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>looking for a new sunken city

>ask the sunken city guard if their sunken city is atlantis or r'lyeh

>she doesnt understand

>pull out illustrated diagram explaing what is atlantis and what is r'lyeh

>she laughs and says “it’s a good sunken city sir

>buy a membership

>its r'lyeh

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Puki will you leave tumblr because everyone’s acting like it’s dead now :(

oh yeah its SO dead.

1000 notes this post. Now

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girl help the philosophical messages in this meme are getting longer

you may notice i use the phrase "my beloved" frequently. this is because i am in love with the world and everything in it. hope this clears things up <3

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This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation

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Hey so I's was rooting through my old stuff and found this gif of me explaining the Calamity Mod lore visually based on a Youtube comment I found somewhere.

I think it holds up.

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not to be dramatic but . one piece makes me feel like i love being alive actually.

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my favourite gear 5 frame

vague shape of luffy

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What are you smiling about? Nothing. - Jujutsu Kaisen 2nd Season - Episode 5

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why am i crying in the club rn

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I mean, given that Sukuna knew how to turn himself into cursed objects, it's likely that he understands the shape of the soul and how it works in regards to segmentation and form-fitting the body. I mean, he concentrates 15 fingers into one then transfers it directly into Megumi, so who's to say he can't retract his soul from the point of contact, or never have his soul spread out amongst the body?

Plus we still have five more, which I'm confident Kenjaku now has.

okay but could yuuji not cut off one of sukuna's fingers and eat it to transfer vessels again? since the mfer has pretty much suppressed megumi's soul entirely and claimed his body as his own

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Thank you! If I may:

1. Yes, I'm never good with specific terminology, especially when it comes to something less professional, like what I did there.

2. Yeah. I was going to look for a good way of expressing it in LaTeX after I finished the proof but never got around to it.

3. That was rushed on my part. Idk how that one slipped me.

4. Yep, caught that after posting. Painfully.

Thank you for the advice!

Hey, anyone who might be interested in googology, I wrote a proof for the precise expression of f3(k) in the fast-growing hierarchy.

I wrote it bc i need to practice in LaTeX for my degree course, and so to practice properly I'm making a detailed explanation of the FGH.

I think the lower bound of f3(k) is way too generous. f3(4) has at least 10^10^20.55 digits, it's lower bound is 65536.

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Hey, anyone who might be interested in googology, I wrote a proof for the precise expression of f3(k) in the fast-growing hierarchy.

I wrote it bc i need to practice in LaTeX for my degree course, and so to practice properly I'm making a detailed explanation of the FGH.

I think the lower bound of f3(k) is way too generous. f3(4) has at least 10^10^20.55 digits, it's lower bound is 65536.

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Isagi playing soccer: i know everyones every move, i see things no one else does, i can predict the impossible, i know these people better then they know themselves

Isagi not playing soccer:

Bachira: i love you

Isagi: as friends right?

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thinking again about TvTropes and how it’s genuinely such an amazing resource for learning the mechanics of storytelling, honestly more so than a lot of formally taught literature classes

reasons for this:

basically TvTropes breaks down stories mechanically, using a perspective that’s not…ABOUT mechanics. Another way I like to put it, is that it’s an inductive, instead of deductive, approach to analyzing storytelling.

like in a literature or writing class you’re learning the elements that are part of the basic functioning of a story, so, character, plot, setting, et cetera. You’re learning the things that make a story a story, and why. Like, you learn what setting is, what defines it, and work from there to what makes it effective, and the range of ways it can be effective.

here’s the thing, though: everyone has some intuitive understanding of how stories work. if we didn’t, we couldn’t…understand stories.

TvTropes’s approach is bottom-up instead of top-down: instead of trying to exhaustively explore the broad, general elements of story, it identifies very small, specific elements, and explores the absolute shit out of how they fit, what they do, where they go, how they work.

Every TvTropes article is basically, “Here is a piece of a story that is part of many different stories. You have probably seen it before, but if not, here is a list of stories that use it, where it is, and what it’s doing in those stories. Here are some things it does. Here is why it is functionally different than other, similar story pieces. Here is some background on its origins and how audiences respond to it.”

all of this is BRILLIANT for a lot of reasons. one of the major ones is that the site has long lists of media that utilizes any given trope, ranging from classic literature to cartoons to video games to advertisements. the Iliad and Adventure Time ARE different things, but they are MADE OF the same stuff. And being able to study dozens of examples of a trope in action teaches you to see the common thread in what the trope does and why its specific characteristics let it do that

I love TvTropes because a great, renowned work of literature and a shitty, derivative YA novel will appear on the same list, because they’re Made Of The Same Stuff. And breaking down that mental barrier between them is good on its own for developing a mechanical understanding of storytelling.

But also? I think one of the biggest blessings of TvTropes’s commitment to cataloguing examples of tropes regardless of their “merit” or literary value or whatever…is that we get to see the full range of effectiveness or ineffectiveness of storytelling tools. Like, this is how you see what makes one book good and another book crappy. Tropes are Tools, and when you observe how a master craftsman uses a tool vs. a novice, you can break down not only what the tool is most effective for but how it is best used.

In fact? There are trope pages devoted to what happens when storytelling tools just unilaterally fail. e.g. Narm is when creators intend something to be frightening, but audiences find it hilarious instead.

On that note, TvTropes is also great in that its analysis of stories is very grounded in authors, audiences, and culture; it’s not solely focused on in-story elements. A lot of the trope pages are categories for audience responses to tropes, or for real-world occurrences that affected the storytelling, or just the human failings that creep into storytelling and affect it, like Early Installment Weirdness. There are categories for censorship-driven storytelling decisions. There are “lineages” of tropes that show how storytelling has changed over time, and how audience responses change as culture changes. Tropes like Draco in Leather Pants or Narm are catalogued because the audience reaction to a story is as much a part of that story—the story of that story?—as the “canon.”

like, storytelling is inextricable from context. it’s inextricable from how big the writers’ budget was, and how accepting of homophobia the audience was, and what was acceptable to be shown on film at the time. Tropes beget other tropes, one trope is exchanged for another, they are all linked. A Dead Horse Trope becomes an Undead Horse Trope, and sometimes it was a Dead Unicorn Trope all along. What was this work responding to? And all works are responding to something, whether they know it or not