the thing is i love living under a rock #myrock. people will ask you howwww can you not know about this?? it's because of my rock next question
This young lady is turning 18 years old! 😾 This makes Naia the oldest living black-footed cat in the U.S. population, and possibly the oldest in the world! She is, however, shy of being the oldest recorded BFC by 6 months. So here is to good health Naia!
I am not immune to horseyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!! horseyyyy!!! do you see the horsey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't need the chatgpt random algorithm to write emails for me because I already have a custom and 100% flawless algorithm called "writing the exact same three emails with the names changed"
#1: "hi [landlord], hope you're doing well! [apartment thing] is [broken/a problem]. we need it [fixed/replaced/handled] by [date]. let us know when you'll send someone over so we can be here to let them in. thanks so much, [op]"
#2: "hi [professor], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, I'm [sick/stuck at work/dead] and won't be able to submit [assignment] by [due date]. could I please have an extension? if not, is there anything else I could do to make up this credit? thanks so much, [op]"
#3: "hi [customer service person], hope you're doing well! unfortunately, [product] [didn't arrive/is broken/wrong color/gave me a rash/poisoned my crops] and I'd like to receive a [refund/replacement]. here is the documentation of the order and photos of [broken thing/wrong thing/my rash/dead crops]. thanks so much, [op]"
"but op I work in an office I have to write way more emails than you" well that's your fault for working in an office i got nothing to do with that
Thinking about memory as a form of control in HtN. Because obviously Cristabel and Alfred and Loveday don't appear in the story, they survive only in the memories of the people who ate them. And remembering a dead person is an act of control, because memories are not objective. Someone's perception or memory of another person will never be entirely accurate, it will instead be their own version of the person. Even if someone loves you - perhaps especially if they love you - their idea of you will be influenced by how they want you to be, and there will be things about you that they have never seen or noticed.
If you are dead you no longer exist as an individual person with agency and an internal world; so the image that living people have of you will be superimposed over the person you actually were. You are no longer yourself, you have been made into what other people think you were or want you to have been.
And of course this is particularly relevant when it comes to the cavs. Someone consumes and destroys you, and then they commit a final act of violence and control by replacing you with the idealised or demonised picture that they have of you in their head. The narrative itself participates in this violence by erasing you and prioritising your consumer - they appear in the story as a character, whereas the readers know you only through their descriptions and memories.
We also see the memory-as-control thing pretty explicitly with Nonius. He shows up speaking differently than he did in life because that fits with Ortus's image of him as an idealised epic hero. It's not clear how much of his ghost is actually him as he was, versus the version of him created by Ortus and the Ninth after his death.
I think it's significant that in order to preserve Gideon's actual existence, Harrow has to remove her own ability to remember or perceive Gideon. Harrow stopping herself from being able to create her own image of Gideon also stops her from consuming Gideon and entirely destroying the person Gideon was. The lobotomy protects Gideon from the violence of being made into a memory, and so it protects Gideon from the violence of Lyctorhood.
I think you're exactly right here. And in a sense the "saints" of lyctorhood are the cavaliers. Because the necros can't or won't remember any flaw in their cavalier. They're frozen as pseudo-selves in their memories, incorruptible.
If they had been alive these past ten thousand years they would have committed sins, but in the state of a remembered person, they can only act in retrospect and they always choose the right option. Always there, always judging.
Harrow can't make Gideon a memory, or she will consume her and complete the process. And so she can't even conceive of her existence. The lobotomy worked.
I'm interested in how Gideon prime did it. Pyrrha was partially consumed, she says as much. She's not whole, he took a chunk of her. But not all of her. How did that happen? And how did no one notice for ten thousand years?
On a re-read I can tell when it's Pyrrha and when it's Gideon. These are supposed to be their best friends and God.. they couldn't tell?
once you learn about pseudoscience you're forever doomed to get angry when people talk about like. love languages or stockholm syndrome. but forced to stay quiet lest your lose your mind trying to correct millions of people
BMI IS FAKE. BMI MEANS JACK SHIT. I AM GRABBING Y'ALL BY THE SHOULDERS THIS METRIC IS COMPLETELY USELESS AND IT WAS MADE BY AN EUGENICIST
#Caturday 🐱:
ALTDahlov Ipcar (USA, 1917-2017)
Encounter, 1967
Oil on canvas, 23 1/2" x 19 1/2"
