Fanciful Musings

google docs babygirl you are so fucking stupid

may I add:

plaaastic

Some atrocities from the notes

here's one I got that really confuses me

My personal favorite suggestion gdocs has given me:

This literally just happened to me while writing a script for a potential upcoming video

It wants to change "but it's still got plenty of alternate pathways" to "but it still plenty of alternate pathways"

When this happens I have taken to yelling at Google through their feedback form that I should be able to turn this off (which you used to be able to do) and have it permanently stay turned off (which is currently impossible)

This is largely because a while back they switched to a learning model, and I guess that model assumes that if lots of people use something often, it must be correct, and not.. y'know, a common error. It learned from everyone, no matter how old they are, not matter how good a writer they are, and it probably fucks up language detection often enough to poison the dataset, too. Taken together, this change is actively making google's spellcheck worse and worse and worse.

Changing ass o'clock in the morning to noon is pretty funny, though.

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'filled with people who believe it is more important to do nothing wrong than it is to do something right' is going to live in my head for a while now huh

looking for fellow vanilla ffxiv enjoyers just because i feel lame about my preference to not mod the game at all. i know this applies to console players by default, but i more specifically mean you're on pc and could, but have zero interest. you're just cool with how the game is by default.

BG3. Wyll.

I love him so much. On a fannish level, I think he's my favorite.

It's really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.

No seriously it's REALLY fucked up when you treat characters as if they were real live people while you treat people like they're just characters.

I'm gonna go ahead and repeat: it is super, duper, extra scooper fucked up when you treat a character as if it were a living person while treating other human beings who are interacting with you like they are merely characters who can be written out of your personal story if you just find a remark mean enough.

You. You get it.

ETA wait why does this have 18k notes

Pictured: Gale rolling a nat 1 on his insight check

so important to me that Y’shtola is a rude little beast who grew up in a cave. she just happens to look like a beautiful socialite but she did grow up with one old woman in a cave learning mildly illegal magic

This key fact about her is so important to me- esp that this old woman is still alive and ruder than her. Like Y’stola comes into the cave bratty and feral (good for her) and this old woman takes it in full stride, doesn’t look up bitches back harder.

Matoya mentions multiple times Y’stola was a spitfire that hissed and spat at everything. Which is so important to me bc she holds herself up like she is a queen (again good for her but it is just funny to know Y’stola is and always will be a brat)

She is beauty, she is grace, she grew up in a bog cave surrounded by frogs and is the avatar of destruction.

THIS THIS

and also the first time seeing Y'shtola in her natural habitat, Matoyas cave, was SUCH a fun experience to me. Especially since most of the game Y'shtola is such a mystery and you wonder what sort of upbringing she had, you would think she basically grew up in an academia setting...in a library (which is somewhat true but who would guess its the old hags forbidden library in a cave???)

And then you see her meet Matoya and you see her being rude and Matoya teasing her and telling you childhood secrets about her. And then you realise "oh this is where she grew up, this is the person she looks up to and disrespects both". And I love it so very much...

Also one other glimpse of her childhood is when she had to summon that lil water sprite thing in endwalker and did a little magical girl sequence for it. Makes me wonder if little Y'shtola was yearning for a princess-y like life maybe. Or if Matoya told her doing this is necessary so she can prank her a little bit but also make Y'shtola enjoy a little bit of her childhood properly. Idk but imagining little baby Y'shtola learning to summon a familiar with this cute lil dance while Matoya is giggling about it in the background just puts a smile on my face.

I just shddghd i just rly love these two so much can you tell...

I'm gonna say it.

It's unhinged to assume that someone's taste in fiction equates to what they believe is moral or good, or is something they want to see or experience in real life.

That is a bonkers assumption to make.

I'm tired of humoring people with long arguments about it when the simple fact is it is a totally fucking absurd reach to accuse someone who enjoys something in fiction of being in favor of it in real life.

I'm tired of pretending like this is a legitimate position to hold-- that they should be afraid of fiction's dire influence on a reader's moral decay or that it's a sign of what the author secretly wants for realsies in real life.

post-post clarity when you're looking at your post on the dash like who gives a fuck. delete

The ship dynamic of "I love you but I will always choose the world over you. I love you but my conscience binds me to the greater good in a way I can never escape. I love you but I would sacrifice you to save the world if I had to, even though it would kill me and I would never forgive myself. I love you and a part of me wishes that I could be the kind of person who would sacrifice everything for you. But I'm not, and I never will be, and if you're going to love me I need you to understand that."

Y'shtola got herself in TROUBLE

illustration commission I've been working on, finally completed!! client wanted a fantasia: sorcerer's apprentice vibe, complete with a massive flood

I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".

Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"

I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"

Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"

One of my favorite details about Warrior of Light is how side character will see us fight a Primal and be both awe struck and terrified of us. Like they can't tell which one of us is the real monster out there on the battlefield. The Warrior of Light keeps Lolorito up at night, the Holy See would rather open its gate to the exiled Scions than to spurn the Warrior of Light, better to keep them clearly in direct line of vision and then send them out on a suicide mission to parley with Dragons than let them stay cooped up in Ishgard and constantly a threat, Ysayle is genuinely at lost for words after we fight Ravana saying she hasn't seen us fight like that since she and her fought and despite just being defeated by Ravana, she seems more afraid of us than she is of still being in ambush distance of the One Mind, Elidibus doesn't truly comprehend our power and after we activate the Crystal of Azem, he genuinely falters and asks who we are, Thordan sees us as a terror beyond terrors, his death not being a peaceful one as we are warped from his perspective, Fandaniel chooses Zenos and us to antagonize genuinely because we are literally the only thing on Eitheirys that could guarantee that Zodiark was vanquished and the Final Days unleashed, Ryne is drawn to us for a reason beyond any sense she knows at first much like her she can sense the powerful light like that of Warden and needs to know more of it, and the only ones who outgambit us (Ilberd, Fandaniel, Emet-Selch and Zenos) are not in their right mind to begin with in dealing with us. And then again, all they can really do is STALL us as we are a single person siege engine cutting through waves of soldiers, the Garleans despise us and yet also respect us for what we did in the Praetorium, Zenos is truly in awe of us and calls us Champion of the Savages in reverence. Very few who meet us at first are gladened by our arrival, some are genuinely nervous and unsure when they meet us for the first time. If they do not hear tales of our gentler side from those who know us best.

The Warrior of Light is a beacon of hope but also a power not to be trifled with lightly and its kind of amazing how they write us.

100% accurate tag

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I hope this helps :)

I like how this went from me feeling like “hm why is this attacking me 🤨” at first, but feeling grateful seeing an added guide on a genuine expansion on a “ how to” work out the brain. This genuinely helps a bunch. People find solace in doing activities that get them through life by doing said activities of phone/tv or if that’s all they’ve ever known in their life to get them through things + etc tho. However, this was very impt to point out. Slowly beginning incorporating things to work the brain in ones own time.

"redemption arcs are toxic, you shouldn't try to fix someone!"

actually it is so important to me that being in community and experiencing human connection can save people. thanks

💖 You don't have to justify the types of romantic relationships that you write or enjoy in fiction.

💖 To restate the above-- you do not have to justify your 'ships'.

💖 The types of romantic relationships you write or enjoy in fiction do not indicate your real life preferences.

💖 It's typical and valid to write or enjoy romances in fiction that contain more turmoil, darkness, drama and taboo than you would actually want in your real life.

💖 Fictional relationships do not erode your sense of morality or what's desirable in a real relationship.

💖 It's normal to imagine dark and unpleasant ideas in fiction that you would never want to happen in real life.

💖 Romanticizing the darkness, turmoil and taboo in relationships in fiction has been done for eons and it hasn't destroyed civilization or humanity's moral fiber yet.

💖 If you tell people that dark romantic fiction will erode their morals or is indicative or personal moral weakness it makes you sound like a Victorian era misogynist worrying over girls reading novels.

💖 You don't have to justify the types of romantic relationships that you write or enjoy in fiction.