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#imma be real I do not remember who nessa is#i went with luthien#because a) she’s dancing b) the flowers c) she’s gorgeous and d) dark hair#it would be an unusual color scheme for luthien tho#silmarillion#tolkien#polls
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Bottling a snake....
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Please enjoy some Silm brainrot memes the discord has generated
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on august and the end of all things
all things end, Hozier / @/nobodysflower / dancing fairies, August Malmström / Zoë Lianne / quote from Georgia O'Keefe / mine / four withered sunflowers, Vincent Van Gogh / Ophelia, Friedrich Heyser / Sylvia Plath / unknown / @/diarygirls / lyric from ARIZONA by young friend / Francesca, Hozier
#AAAAUUUGUFBMAOFNERICJAMD#I am. feeling this right now.#how dare you make me experience emotions s#hm. hng.#beautiful#😭#poetry#web weave#augh
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me at any given time: can we just buckle down and focus on the task at hand please???
my brain:
my brain: ……….ranibow sprimkle……………
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So I’ve started doing these little animal doodles at work to give out to kids and I had an epiphany

He lives on my apron now :)
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Okay this post sparked a long and entertaining debate with my sister and now I am back to present our conclusions:
Narratives delivered by characters within the story's world (e.g. stories told through letters or journal entries, written stories by a character, etc) have inherently unreliable narrators. Examples: Sherlock Holmes, Wuthering Heights.
First person or close third person narratives that give you reason to suspect the PoV character is not giving the audience the full story have unreliable narrators. Examples: The Trials of Apollo, The Murderbot Diaries.
First person or close third person narratives in which the PoV character is wrong about the events that took place due to circumstances outside their control (e.g. hallucination) have unreliable narrators. Example: Mulholland Drive (this one's a movie).
Stories in which the PoV character is revealed to have misunderstood events in the story may or may not have unreliable narrators -- possibly a grey area. Example: mutual pining fanfiction.
Omniscient third person stories very rarely have unreliable narrators (because the narrator is presumed to exist outside the story and therefore be unbiased / accurate). Examples: Various Jane Austen novels, The Lord of the Rings.
Our hypothesis: unreliable narrators exist when you have reason to suspect that the story you are being told is not the true story in the way it was really experienced by the characters. This can be because there's enough narrative distance from the character's thoughts to make it possible for them to misrepresent things, because the narrative suggests that the character is lying, because multiple contradicting versions of the same events are shown, etc.
Basically if you have reason to suspect that what the narrator's telling you is not accurate to their experience of the events, and/or you have reason to believe that the events depicted did not really happen as depicted, that's an unreliable narrator.
...but there's a lot of subtleties and I've been thinking about this for way too long now, so I'm gonna leave this here without coming up with a concise definition lol.
A: it means the narrator is lying to us at all times.
B: it means the entire narrative is fabricated
C: it means the narrator's own narrativisation of events contradicts information about in-world events that the person watching/reading receives over the course of the drama, whether because of their innocence, their personality, or their bias
D: A narrator whose subjectivity colours the framing of events in a story in a way that is deliberately employed by the author
E: A narrator whose narration is differentiated from that of the omniscient creator who is constructing the text, establishing a meaningful difference, therefore, between an objective reality and a subjective one in the storyworld
I'm aware that some of these definitions are not entirely as differentiated as they could be & there probably could be better simplified definitions available, but I'm curious about how people think intuitively abt the term unreliable narrator.
#wren talks#feel free to debate this#i'm still not certain about this#anyway.#polls#writing#literature#unreliable narrators
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A: it means the narrator is lying to us at all times.
B: it means the entire narrative is fabricated
C: it means the narrator's own narrativisation of events contradicts information about in-world events that the person watching/reading receives over the course of the drama, whether because of their innocence, their personality, or their bias
D: A narrator whose subjectivity colours the framing of events in a story in a way that is deliberately employed by the author
E: A narrator whose narration is differentiated from that of the omniscient creator who is constructing the text, establishing a meaningful difference, therefore, between an objective reality and a subjective one in the storyworld
I'm aware that some of these definitions are not entirely as differentiated as they could be & there probably could be better simplified definitions available, but I'm curious about how people think intuitively abt the term unreliable narrator.
#d!!!!#an unreliable narrator does not mean an incorrect narrator. it means a biased or potentially biased narrator.#an excellent example of this is wuthering heights#the story is told to the person writing it down (who's a character in the book) by other people#some parts are repeated second- or thirdhand#so while nothing in the narrative contradicts what they're saying#it's entirely possible that the story we're told is not the actual events that took place in world#leaving the reader a bunch of delicious possibilities to explore#in other stories it may be more obvious/important that the way the narrator reports things is not necessarily accurate#so c isn't wrong#and e could be true in some cases#but i think d is the real definition#like. all things in definition c are unreliable narrators. but not all unreliable narrators fit definition c.#so d is the better one#writing#literature#polls#apparently i have Opinions about this lol#i took those lit classes for a reason!!!!!#ok tag rant over now lol
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Elizabeth Dulau in Andor S02E12
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distressing things to say to your friends
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Pippin-centric doodles from Book 2 of Fellowship during my recent reread
(comms open!)
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REELING from the new murderbot short story. Instead of poor helpless Secunit (with big shoujo anime eyes) getting wallpinned by the big mean transport it was your respectable smart straight-A transport daughter getting hopelessly smitten with a gun-toting, intelligence-drone-using, leather deflection-jacket-wearing Bad Boy rogue Secunit. called Murderbot
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Geologists claim it's because the earlier Cenozoic used to be called the Tertiary, but that's just a ruse to hide the secret third geologic period, between the Neogene and the Quaternary, that they won't tell us about.
Geologic Periods [Explained]
Transcript Under the Cut
[A three-column table denoting "period", "my favorite part", and "my biggest complaint", respectively.]
Precambrian; Life develops; Snowball Earth episodes. Cambrian; Trilobites!; Evolution could stand to calm down a little. Ordovician; Earth might have had rings; Scary volcanic eruption in North America. Silurian; First land animals; Earth's newfound mold problem. Devonian; Big mountains in Boston; Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was armor. Carboniferous; Cool forests; Bugs too big. Permian; Pangea; Google "The Great Dying". Triassic; Tanystropheus; [Accompanied by a drawing of a long-necked dinosaur.]; Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan. Jurassic; Birds; Parasitoid wasps. Cretaceous; Raptors; Raptors. Paleogene; Pretty horseys!!!; Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum. Neogene; Forests of Dracaena dragonblood trees; Zanclean flood. Quaternary; Burrito invented; Whoever picked the name for the third period of the Cenozoic.
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After System Collapse and Rapport, I can't help thinking about how completely and utterly insane ART and Murderbot's first meeting was from ART's perspective.
UplandGatewayOne, the station where they met, is ART's home station. In Mihira and New Tideland's system. Which is deeply anti-corporate. SecUnit even notes at the time that there aren't any security or bond companies there, so nobody should be looking for escaping SecUnits. Iris and Matteo, for all the anti-corporate missions they've been on, have never even seen one, which means Perihelion most likely hasn't either. They're not deployed on transit rings except in GrayCris-paying-to-murder-people situations, and when they are, it's a big deal accompanied by a lot of alarms and screaming and panic.
And one just kind of strolls across the private docks without setting off the weapons scanners. Wholly unnoticed.
So there was already no legitimate explanation for a SecUnit being here. That's point one. Which means it has to have an illegitimate reason.
And ART's paranoia is easily on par with Tarik's, generally speaking. Even though it's never encountered a SecUnit before it has to be aware that this could be an attack by a corporate. Except the SecUnit's got no drones, no additional weaponry, no armor, and it's wearing cargo pants and a hoodie. Which would seem to suggest that it's supposed to be mistaken for a human -- okay, maybe that explains how it got across the transit station a tiny bit? Not really. But at least it accounts for the lack of screaming.
But there's no point in it trying to pretend it's a human now, if this is the prelude to some kind of attack. It's not like ART is a passenger transport, and these are the private non-commercial docks. It can't get on board without trying to hack the lock, and it can't get too far from its handler without frying itself, so it has to do whatever it's doing before ART leaves the transit ring. Whatever attack is coming, it has to be soon. Like, right now, soon.
And it just pings ART directly.
Not even... trying to hide its presence as a potential hostile MI a little.
That is... possibly the most stupid prelude to a code attack it could have made? And if it had been trying to pretend it was human to persuade ART's crew (who aren't even here anyway) to give it access to the ship, it just blew its cover. What the hell is its human handler thinking? They're really bad at this.
And then it asks for a ride--which, again, is hilarious if it thinks it can gain entry that easily--wait. What the fuck? It's offering several hundred hours of entertainment media as a trade.
There is no human handler.
ART doesn't even have to check the governor module at that point. No human would imagine that transports watch television. Possibly, no other bots besides transports would know that they do, because transports are famously not-communicative. Nobody could have instructed it to say that. The only way the SecUnit itself could have gotten the idea that this approach might work is if it tried it before and it was successful.
Okay, so what we know for sure is: This SecUnit is a rogue, and it talks to transports.
And apparently it's hitchhiking?
This raises so many more questions than it answers.
Where the hell did it come from? How did it get across the station without setting off any alerts? Why was it chatting up transports before now? How did it even get several hundred hours of entertainment media downloads? And why the hell would any sentient being, let alone a rogue SecUnit, want to hitchhike to RaviHyral? A crummy little moon which has nothing on it except for mines.
ART's explanation of, "I was curious about you," for letting Murderbot on board is the understatement of the millennium.
This is the equivalent of a frigging walrus ringing your doorbell.
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tumblr mutual to discord friend pipeline is one of the most beautiful things out there
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