31-year-old engineer on his own in a new town getting used to a new life.
Nerdy as fuck. Always willing to make new friends, even if I'm not the best at keeping in touch. Feel free to shoot me a message or an ask, Ill get to it soon as I can! (By the way, I have a NSFW sideblog, send me a message if you're interested)
Jun 30 2023
I still can’t believe that after everyone said they hated Eventide Isle in Breath of the Wild, they went and gave us so much more of that in Tears of the Kingdom. There are so many shrines that take away your equipment! Even a side quest at a stable near Death Mountain! We spend all game collecting equipment, then you take it all away and say “Here’s a stick, fight a bunch of robots in your underwear.” Why do this??? Who thinks this is a fun mechanic???
I’m going to keep this brief because no one needs a lecture.
It was claimed that “polyamorous people voted” and this was “the word of the community” and yet no one seemed to know this vote existed or was taking place?
In the argument of “well this one is better on the eyes” there have already been designs keeping the original themes that solve that issue.
It removes some of the history attached to the original flag, history that no one seems to care about anymore. Even if you think that the pi symbol is stupid, there have been versions made with the infinity heart, a universally recognized symbol of polyamory.
The flag is very hard to recreate in many designs. As someone who makes pride bracelets, it’s very easy to recognize the blue, red, and black. This flag is harder to recreate.
It’s been said that the colors are easily mixed up with the bisexual flag or the androgynous flag, and removes that iconic individuality that the polyam flag colors have.
This isn’t me saying it’s ugly or that criticisms of the original flag aren’t valid. I’m not here to point fingers and say that it’s “problematic” and that “we need to stop using it”. I’m not even here to cry about how annoying it is that everyone calls the original flag ugly when someone of us actually like it and how tiring that negativity gets to be to hear a piece of art you like trashed. I’m simply here to say that this is NOT the new universal flag, and according to a poll *I* put out on tumblr, 60% of people reject the new flag. What you have is two camps of people, one camp that voted this new flag into existence as the majority of people in some mysterious poll and those who support this decision, and another group that has worked to keep the original flag in tact and/or has an issue with the unconventional design of the new one. At least here on tumblr you’ll find a lot of the big polyamory blogs like @polyamorouscultureis@polyamoryfacts@polyamorousmood@polyshipprompts@polyamory4life@polyamory-ponderings@polyamory-place@polyamory-imagines and so many more still using some version of the original flag. It’s not going anywhere, and I wish people would stop acting like we all threw it in the garbage.
I for one will still be using the red black & blue with the gold infinity heart. Not only are all of the reasons in the post true, but I have a personal reason as well. Imagine how I must have felt when I first discovered I was polyamorous, to also discover that the flag is comprised of my four favorite colors! It felt like fate!
I think I’ve spent this entire week so far incurably exhausted. I am really, really looking forward to this 4-day weekend. Like sure, yeah, there’s gonna be fireworks for the 4th, but I get to sleep in for 4 days in a row! And the weekend after that is MFRF, followed by my birthday! I have things to look forward to!
After yesterday, it was nice to have a normal evening, but I have to say it was a shot of adrenaline when I heard thunder outside. I love thunderstorms as long as I’m inside, but very much do not want another power outage so soon… which of course didn’t happen. Rather appropriate that the thunder first struck around the time I landed on the Lightning Dragon Farosh in TotK, though!
Jun 27 2023
I’ll be online soon as I can with more Tears of the Kingdom! Not gonna get cut off today!
The storm today caused such bad traffic on the way home that I had to drive over a curb to get around a guy who was blocking my way to my exit as the rest of the road was at a standstill. I got home notably later than usual to find a huge group of workers in hi-vis raincoats all over the entrance to my complex. After I realized the power was out, I actually went out and found one to talk to; apparently there was a frayed wire they were trying to fix, underground, and with all the digging in this horrid weather they didn’t expect to be done for hours. After wishing them the best I went searching for a package that was delivered to the wrong door before returning to my surprisingly no longer dark apartment. They may have gotten our power back, but they were far from done as it went out again a few hours later, in the middle of my stream. It’s back now, but my evening has been stressful to say the least.
It’s not a Discworld joke unless you read it, don’t parse it as a joke, and then carry on with your life for ten years until someone stops you to say something like “It’s a pavlovian response because the dog ate a pavlova” and you scream Terry’s name with enough indignant rage you hope it rattles the pillars of the multiverse so wherever his soul is he’ll hear it.
When I was informed that “Vetinari” is a pun on “Medici”. That pun was so painful I couldn’t even see it.
…are you FUCKING KIDDING ME.
*starts thunderously knocking on the doors of heaven*
get out here Terry I just wanna talk
Twurp’s Peerage made me throw a book (gently) at a wall.
In the UK, the book of the peerage is called Burke’s Peerage. Burke sounds like berk, which means a silly/annoying person. So Terry took ‘twerp’, another word for a silly or annoying person, and replaced the e with u.
The Book of Silly and Annoying People, based on the real thing with a pun on the name thrown in for good measure.
OMG I FUCKING *KNEW* VETINARI WAS A JOKE ON FUCKONG SOMETHING I JUST COULDNT GRASP IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS A REFERENCE TO WIND SOMEHOW
I am not a talented punster so I was today old when I realised about Vetinari.
…And you could be sitting talking to him and something like the above would come out of his mouth, absolutely deadpan—and the conversation would continue just as it’d been going until suddenly the joke would land on/in your previously unsuspecting head. And you’d look at him and go “…?!!” —and his eyes (which you then realized had been glinting a little as he waited for you to get it) would crinkle and he’d just keep going.
The king of comic timing. Absolutely without peer. And to do it on the page as well? Genius.
Fun fact! Having a job every day is actually a fairly new thing.
In olden times, people had daily chores and other things to do but their workload/ daily working hours was actually much lower than it is today. Even in farming communities.
The concept of working super hard every day actually comes from capitalism, which in turn comes from Puritanical ideology.
The Puritans believed in salvation through work and in no play.
Early capitalists adopted this ideology because it meant higher productivity and therefore more money if their factories were running near constantly.
The idea of needing to be continuously productive in order to be useful/ allowed things like food and shelter, is actually quite an insidious ideal that is deeply rooted in the American culture.
4 day work weeks have actually proven to be more productive than the 5 day week. But corporations won’t adopt it willingly because it means less of a stranglehold on their workers.
