As I suspected even from episode 1, it was by far my favorite of the three. I’m not even a Loki fan, and what’s more, this series’ Loki starts out from the point at which I like him least. And yet.
if you cut a perfectly human-shaped hole in an unlocked door do you think more people would open the door or try to squeeze through it
I would open the door as I’m not average human height.
That’s okay—although it is not your hole and it was not made for you, assume for the purposes of the question that it’s of a size and shape roughly comparable to your own, and that this is not notable to the point of being unsettling.
Further clarification:
It is not a sinister hole. There is nothing weird about it, other than being kind of quirky. It is located in a place that is mundane but where “fun” interior design choices are to be expected, like a dentist’s office or a zoo or an art museum.
The question is not whether or not you could fit through the hole, but whether or not you would try for the novelty of it. If you are very tall or fat or use a mobility device, the hole appears to be roughly the right size to accommodate you; it might take more effort than opening the door, but not so much that you would worry about getting stuck or tripping. It’s just a human-shaped hole that would probably fit you if you tried, just not in a supernatural or unsettling or suspicious way.
Ship the more you add to this post the more it sounds like fae propaganda.
It is definitely a normal human-shaped hole in a normal door and there is nothing about it to be afraid of.
Na-ah. Nope. I’ve read enigma of amigara fault. You’re not gonna trick me 🔪
It’s NOT your hole and it was NOT made for you. It doesn’t lead anywhere except into the room immediately in front of you. The door is a normal thickness for doors, so like, an inch probably. The hole is not interesting or compelling in any way except that it’s made to look like somebody smashed through it like in a cartoon.
it looks like the answer to your question is that ANY human shaped hole in a door causes a lot of people intrinsic unease and they definitely would not go through it. Doorways are by definition liminal spaces and thus this distrust is likely to crop up in various places and times and cultures, but particularly in anyone who’s familiar traditional Irish and British folklore.
The distrust is probably made worse for those not average human sized/requiring a mobility aid but yet the hole could accommodate, because that’s going to feel more personalized no matter how many times you insist the hole is not made for them particularly. Those of us who aren’t average are too used to to things not accommodating us to trust random holes that do.
however, a library I frequently has two arched entrances to it’s kids’ room, both through a brief “tunnel” and one is tall enough for most adults and the other is clearly meant for children and I absolutely always hunch and go through the kid one, so if you could convince me that a random person shaped hole in a door was safe, which you cannot, available evidence suggests I would probably try to fit through it.
no the distrust comes from people playing too much D&D and reading too much manga
in the real world people are not inherently suspicious about the mystical powers of whimsical zoo doorways
The distrust comes from the observer effect + glumshoe’s reputation
THIS IS THE ONE TIME I’M NOT TRYING TO LURE ANYONE INTO A TRAP
I was Going to go through the hole, but then you kept talking and it immediately became safer to not do that lmao
Me, grabbing my cat and running for the door: My, my, what a perfectly ordinary door *wink* *wink* no one could possibly get kidnapped by fae by stepping through that. Just a regular door I see.
Speaking as a non-average sized person who was raised with lots of folklore and fairytales and an Irish folksinger father, I am well aware that this perfectly reasonable hole is definitely fae propaganda, and I am FUCKING GOING THROUGH IT. If I am lucky, this liminal space will finally bring me home.
I was also the child who walked between the bars of the speed limit sign near my house, hoping to be transported to fairyland.
Oh yeah
Yeah this post immediately reminded me of alertly walking under a lot of signs on purpose as a kid
A small fat bird, like the above, is the hieroglyph used in Ancient Egyptian to mean “wicked” or evil”.
The phrase above him (the inscription should be read from the top down) is “Nb s3″ or “Lord of the son of”. Genitive is usually implied in this sort of phrase without a connecting word, meaning:
This birb has literally created the sentence and declared himself “ Lord of the Son of Evil”
God dammit, I realised I made a mistake doing this from memory- the first sign is “k” for “your”, not “nb” for “lord”. So this birb has declared himself “your evil son”, not “the lord of the son of evil”. Which is not quite as dramatic, but still very menacing. You go bird.
I’m gonna throw a refrigerator out a window. I’m gonna toss a mid-sized volkswagon off the golden gate bridge. I am SEETHING.
I have had sleep issues my entire life and I just found out it takes a normal, healthy person 5 to 20 MINUTES to fall asleep at night. TWENTY goddamn minutes. what the complete, fully catalogued FUCK
on a good day, it takes me a half-hour to fall asleep. on average, more like an hour. on bad nights, two or three hours, sometimes more.
The worst part about writing fantasy is being keenly aware that you’re writing fantasy, which means that you always have to straddle a thin three-way line between anachronism, cliche, and clunk.
Take money, for example. You can’t just have people in a fictional fantasy world walk around using Euros. You consider something generic, like ‘silver coins,’ but before you know it your world starts sounding like a shitty ren faire.
So you think about the world you’ve built and its needs and its history to come up with some unique and relevant terms. But if your terms are too unique and relevant you wind up writing “yarr, you’ll be ransomed for a hundred Trade League Silver Gyrblonks” and realize your worldbuilding is now getting in the way of basic readability.
The Lesson Of The Day is that all the names are already claimed by IRL, and all the almost-good-names that you could invent to get around that were used by some SFF author in the seventies e.g. I bet you can’t do Suns and Moons for your gold/silver coins, I bet some author did that already.
My fantasy nation uses solid gold coins marked by the dental impressions of the reigning king, as a sign of their purity and authenticity.
They’re called Bitcoins.
oh you can go the fuck to jail that’s what you can do, where you’ll be shackled to a chain gang hitting the blockchain with a pickaxe
It is better for my female character to fight with a bow or with a sword?
If I’m being completely honest, I don’t have any particular preference. It’s your character, so, you need to be the judge of what’s an appropriate armament.
Having said that, both is a viable option, if that’s the route you want to go. It’s entirely reasonable for an archer to carry a sidearm, and the sword was a sidearm. Depending on the setting, it may not be the most appropriate weapon, but depending on the setting, a bow may not be a good choice either.
Normally, the sword is a badge of nobility or heroism in fiction. Historically, it was more of the nobility side, though later on it’s use would expand dramatically. This may not apply for your setting, especially if you have a fantasy land loaded with sword wielding adventurers.
The bow’s a similar situation. If your character is a hunter or military archer, then it would make perfect sense for her to carry a bow. While it has less historical validity, it’s also possible your character is a fantasy sniper, or assassin who makes use of a bow.
With that in mind, all of the examples I just listed for archers would also benefit from carrying a sidearm and dagger or knife. Now, if your character is a hunter, with no noble background, and no other reason to carry one, it might make more sense for them to carry a handaxe (and skinning knife.) It’s a natural tool for them to have with them in the wild, as it would help them start fires, and still be effective as a weapon if they found themselves in melee combat. Though, they could carry the axe in addition to a sword. (It depends on how they’re carrying the weapons, and which ones are quickly available in a struggle.)
Ultimately, it’s up to you. She’s your character, not mine. I know what weapons my characters carry, and I know why. But, I don’t know the first thing about your world, I don’t know your character, and I’m in no position to judge how they should arm themselves, just offer suggestions. If she can reasonably carry multiple weapons (which, she should be able to), then having more options is better than less, and there’s no reason one person could not use both a bow and sword.
My beloved Blake-Thales vampire legacy never even made it into gen 4. They got too rich too quickly and playing them stopped being fun. I still adore the concept of a vampire godparent in the Sims, though, so I created a sort of remix of Iris Blake and Veronica Thales in this alternate universe pair: Dominic Woods and Guy Costa.
Dominic is marginally less goth than Iris. Guy is similarly happy-go-lucky to Veronica, but instead of raising a child as a single parent, he married a game-generated sim named Cali Holmes. Their first child is named Sunflower, and their traits and habits are calculated to spend as much income as they generate, instead of hoarding. Hopefully, this will prevent the family from becoming boringly rich in the space of two generations.
I also changed the way I developed Dominic’s vampire powers, compared to Iris, in hopes of making him less overbearingly OP.
Top row images: Dominic using his vampire powers at the music festival event, and Guy on the way to work at the family-friendly business career.
Middle row: Dominic, a true friend, met and befriended Cali while waiting for Guy to get home from work so he could meet her, too.
Bottom row: the proposal and then the wedding, with Dominic in the background of the latter.
me in the middle of a breakdown, still crying: ooh i should redesign this oc of mine
It’s really annoying to get bored of your emotional breakdown while your having an emotional breakdown
Me, impatient as a trauma is actually happening, “Oh, fuck, I’m going to have to wade through the five stages over this, AGAIN. Can’t I just, you know, skip it?”
must I experience another emotion? I experienced one the day before yesterday.
I really want to reblog all the alternative disability pride flag ideas people are coming up with, but that would also mean reblogging the original post again (source), and seen as how the original flag design has caused some people to have seizures (!!) I’m really hesitant to do so.
Would creating a separate post help? (With credit to the creators, obviously.)
Are there specific tags we should use? I know it’s bad to tag epilepsy triggers as just #epilepsy. It’s like when someone tags flashing gifs as #migraine and suddenly you’ve got a migraine because it’s popped up in your tracked tag.
I also know it’s unlikely we’ll find a single design that works for everyone with visual triggers. Some of the suggested designs were fine for me at first, but during my migraine attack were too painful to look at. But that’s the nature of disability. One size fits no one. Which is why I feel it’s important to have multiple alternative versions. Disability Pride is supposed to include everyone. Adaptability is how we thrive. And having a flag that endangers members of the disabled community or worsens visual disturbances is something that needs rectifying.
I don’t know how or where to even begin. But I’d be willing to help facilitate a dialogue over it. Might as well do something useful with the infamy of that one post that shall not be named :P
Looking at some of the suggested designs showed (for me at least) the the narrowness of the stripes, the little gaps in between them, and the intensity of the colours we big factors to the eye issues.
I love the lightning, both because of its symbolism, and because it sets the flag apart from pride flags. Speaking of which, there are a lot of those around in lots of different colours and palettes – perhaps hearing from folks about which of those are the least likely to cause issues/are easiest to look at could be a good start?
Yeah, when I was in the worst of my migraine, the colors felt like they were searing my retinas off. The narrowness also made my eyes jump around a lot, too, which I imagine is way worse if you suffer from seizures or vertigo.
I did like @vampire-crimson’s suggestion to lower the contrast by using an off-black background. Along with the many other suggestions to make the stripes of the lightning bolt wider and less saturated. While I love the meaning ascribed to the colors, the shades of red, blue, green, white and yellow are really vibrant. Which I suspect would work well on a material flag with less issue, but online where everything is back lit by blue light it’s a bit of a sensory nightmare.
A less vibrant version of the flag from the original creator can be found here:
Yes, as I said in this recent post about the flag – I’ll quote, so people won’t have to click through and have to navigate past the problematic design at the top:
I originally designed it with bright colors in mind, so that it would
be visible from a distance in the physical world (on a flagpole, or
picket sign in a parade/march), and designed it with straight lines so
that it’s easier to make and sew.
But none of those
conditions need to come into play when it’s displayed on a computer
screen. In terms of symbolism, the important elements are the zigzag (to
represent navigating barriers), the five stripes running parallel
(diversity/solidarity), and the lighter stripe in the middle (invisible disability).
I think (hope) that as long as those things are
consistent, this design can be altered and adapted to be used
comfortably by as many people as possible.
I also tried to follow good flag design principles so that the flag would be recognizable without any color at all. Even the width and shape of zigzags are flexible. Would rounded corners, instead of sharp ones (an S-like shape, rather than a Z-like one), be better?
A flag with many different “official” versions may be unusual, but then again, the Disability Community is unusual.
While I love the zig zag and it’s symbolism, I don’t think it’s worth keeping as is, especially if it causes problems for photosensitive people. I do not know what specificly can cause these problems from this design, so correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t the pattern itself be straining when for example simply scrolling can make the image appear to move like a wiggle?
I’d like to suggest a little alternative here:
Vertical stripes
I desaturated and darkened the colors to lessen the eye-strain, put an off-black for the background for lesser contrast and changed the stripes.
Why vertical stripes? The meaning behind the zig zag was navigating barriers, most pride related flags use horizontal stripes so I think the usage of vertical ones shows that difference in paths disabled people traverse on (while also reducing the risk for photosensitive folks).
I’m not part of this community by any means so I’m sorry if this comes of wrong, but I’d like to leave this suggestion here for all of you to take it further or leave it be.
Reblogging this because I’m curious to see others’ opinions on the straight line design, and this is the easiest way (only way?) Tumblr provides for tracking a particular thread in a conversation.
Reblogging so more folks can see it.
I’m not one of the people affected by seizures, but I am in the middle of a full-on migraine atm, and the vertical stripes are a lot easier to look at, as are the colors. It’s also not doing the fake flashing thing the zigzag one was doing this time last week when I started to get a visual aura, so hopefully, the same is true for others.
I like the soft, desaturated “laundered t-shirt” color scheme a lot. It definitely hurts my eyes less.
