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In response to this post, flurglhinge said:

In my experience, the problem with self-plagiarism is that you’ll then have to pay me several hundred of your yanqui dollars to rewrite your article for you, so I’m all in favour

I replied:

ok

[ETA 10/24/2023: I re-read this a couple of times to try and figure out if their reply was as much the weird unprovoked aggression that it seemed at the time, and it does honestly still seem like it? I don't even get where it was coming from.]

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I fiiiinally finished the 12 training modules they suddenly added for our TAships and … idek why it hit the perfectionist part of my brain so hard (I am very apathetic about a lot of things). It only required 80% on the quizzes to pass! But I took pages of notes and agonized over missing one question out of 58, and … argh. At least it’s over.

BG3: Guidance!

I accidentally turned the camera while clicking on the cleric cantrip "Guidance" and the animation is kind of ridiculously cool-looking?

Not to under-sell Guidance, which is very handy, but it looks like you're going into the D&D Avatar State and not just adding 1d4 to ability checks.



Impressive for a cantrip!

(It was not purposeful, but ngl, it seems very apropos that it was Gale who happened to stay in the Mystra divine guidance magic circle.)

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I reblogged a photoset of Wan/the Avatar + Raava, with the words "and I would choose you, in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I would find you, and I would choose you" superimposed over the images, and then the whole subtitled with the canon line "we'll be together for all of your lifetimes."

I tagged it:

#look #LISTEN #i know beginnings is problematic #and retcons a lot #and that raava is a giant kite spirit thing #but have u considered ...... i ship them

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Twitter fandom is kind of terrible for a lot of reasons, most of them much more important than this, but there’s this weird sort of leeching off of Tumblr fandom. I’m sure that people deserting Tumblr for Twitter is part of it, but almost everything seems like this concentrated, even more depersonalized version of Tumblr culture of ~five years ago. Eh.

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I reblogged an Austen meme! Here's the first ask/response:

elperian said:

I shan't ask ones I think I know the answer to ;) so: 17, 18, 19, and 20!

Haha, let’s see:

17) Moment that made you sad/cry while reading

Hmm, I don’t really go to Austen for tears. I do feel really sorry for Darcy and Elizabeth after the first proposal and the letter, though. And for Anne, generally, though a particular moment…?

18) Moment that made you smile/happy while reading

Ahhh, it’s always going to be Elizabeth’s realization that she’s proud of Darcy.

19) Moment that made you laugh while reading

Oh, there are a lot, of course. Hmm … it’s cheating to call it a moment, but I get a huge kick out of the History of England.

20) Moment that made you mad while reading

Wickham saying “it pains me to speak ill of a Darcy” as he trashes Georgiana. D:

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For the Austen meme, brambleberrycottage asked:

5, 17, and 19 for Austen asks?

I replied:

I answered 17 and 19 here!

5) Favorite moment in the books

Probably Darcy’s letter/Elizabeth’s epiphany, though their engagement is also pretty high up there.

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For the Austen meme, an anon asked:

6, 12, 15 and 29 for the Austen asks

Thanks, anon!

6) Favorite movie adaptation

Clueless!

12) Least favorite Austen heroine

Hmm. It’s the easy answer, but Marianne Dashwood. She’s … fine for what she is, I just find her grating and her arc super uncomfortable.

15) Favorite love confession from the films

Hmmmm.

I honestly don’t know. I tend to find them all a bit ‘eh,’ tbh. Maybe Clueless as well, honestly.

29) Character you most relate to

Haha, an easy one! Fitzwilliam Darcy by a mile.

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Hills I will die on:

Fíriel’s claim to the throne of Gondor and Arvedui’s claim to the throne of Gondor are not the same!

Arvedui tries to claim the throne for himself through Fíriel, under the pretense argument that that’s how it worked in Númenor. But in Númenor, Fíriel would be Ruling Queen, and Arvedui her consort, not the other way around. The only men who claimed to be king through their wives’ birthrights were usurpers. And Fíriel never claimed the Gondorian throne in her own right.

Arvedui also claims the throne as heir of Isildur (sort of—iirc his father was actually alive at the time?). This is the sole claim that Arvedui and Fíriel’s descendant Aragorn makes later, which perhaps suggests that he sees it as more legitimate or at least more persuasive. Regardless, it’s a separate matter from Fíriel’s rights, and I think the lines between the two distinct claims that Arvedui makes get blurred a lot.

Tagged:

#'fíriel should have been ruling queen' is fair (i wrote fic about it in my youth!) but also never under discussion in the story #and aragorn himself gives no indication of thinking he should be king as /fíriel's/ heir—only isildur's #and we know vanishingly little about fíriel's life much less her opinions #my headcanon is that she went back to minas anor with her daughters and lived in state as a princess of gondor #but #we don't know what she felt or did or anything #so it's always kind of weird when people defend arvedui's false representation of númenórean law bc fíriel got treated unfairly #jka;dfad it's not exactly everything that makes me defensive on aldarion's behalf #but like #arvedui: my wife being daughter of the king means i should be king actually #aldarion and ancalimë: *spinning in their watery graves* #yes i've talked about this before and yes i will talk about it forever

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In response to the Austen meme, an anon asked:

2, 4, and 8?

I replied:

:)

2) Favorite Austen man

Darcy, predictably!

4) Favorite quote from the books?

Oh, there are so many! I’m really fond of “Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery,” though.

8) Least favorite couple?

As far as the main couples go, Marianne and Brandon. They barely interact and the language of the end is pretty distasteful to me.

Least favorite couple overall is … well, there are worse characters than either, but it is really hard to outclass Mr and Mrs Bennet for mutual awfulness.