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exiting a uquiz halfway through when it becomes clear the creator's narrow and immature world view and cultural knowledge leaves them totally unequipped to tell me which peanuts character i am with any degree of accuracy or insight
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quick one to start off the new year.
don't test her resolve...
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the lesbian computer from portal was right. given the circumstances ive been shockingly nice
ivy-connivy
insane like/reblog parity on this post btw
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Unironically I think the early to mid 20s age group in America has unbelievably bad consent boundaries on all levels and so much language to defend it but this makes me sound like elon musk if I say it however the commonality of someone who will be like “I had 47 panic attacks and it’s your fault” if you tell them no is insane
I rejected someone and got called “the scariest person I’ve ever met” with so much therapy speak interspersed like alright okay alright okay alright okay
“You just say whatever you’re thinking and I don’t know how to handle it” was verbatim part of this conversation. Also everyone hates to see an autistic bitch
When I was in this age bracket, there was a huge emphasis on improving consent culture via graceful rejection, and it's gone by the wayside. Which sucks.
Twice in my youth (once in high school and once in college) I was in situations where I was asking someone out and I could tell they were calculating in their heads the risks of rejecting me, and both times I said, out loud, "you can say no, I wouldn't have asked if I wasn't prepared for either answer." And then they said no. This wasn't some spark of special wisdom I had - I knew to do it because feminist conversations among my age group brought it up regularly. This isn't happening nearly enough anymore.
More recently, I was really glad when we got to "rejection sensitive dysphoria" in my IOP program and it was one of those symptoms where the therapists really emphasized how it affects others. Because it does.
Being someone who cannot handle rejection makes you much more likely to violate boundaries, and yes, that includes sexual ones. Yes, you, reader who has never hurt a fly. If you don't want to stumble backwards into sexually assaulting someone, fix your RSD meltdowns. If you keep them up it's only a matter of time. Because if you're nice enough to interact with, but are known to have RSD meltdowns, guess what happens when your friends and acquaintances need to reject you?
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Recently on the subreddit dedicated to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (well one of them there's like three) I saw a post someone made about how they had finally finished Mostly Harmless, and they were very depressed and felt like their entire year had been ruined already and jokingly asking for a support group (hey, we've all been there). However I've done quite a bit of thinking on this at various points, so I gave them this lil writeup of my revelations to hopefully help them out, and ultimately I'm proud enough of it to share it. I apologize for some information being explained that you may very well already know, but do remember this was primarily written for someone who had only just finished the books. May this find whoever needs it.
The ending of MH becomes infinitely more palatable when you realise one simple thing: that's not how it ends.
And I'm not even just talking about the epilogue attached by the radio series adaptation, or And Another Thing, or even the radio adaptation of And Another Thing with its own attached epilogue to its ending. I mean even from Adams' point of view, that's not how it ended. You know the real world explanation of why the book was written the way it was, and presumably you also know how once he had emotionally recovered he stated a few times he fully intended to write a book 6 that ended it on a much better note. Unfortunately it was never written, of course, due to his passing far too young, but what this ultimately means is that even in the view of the series' sole author, in the universe of the books, our crew had at the very least one more adventure to their name after the incident at Stavro Mueller Beta. We just never got to see it.
Then we come to the radio show. First thing to remember is that the radio show is the original format of the story, with the books originally being adapted from it. Originally it only ran for two series, but in the mid 90s Adams approached a guy called Dirk Maggs to make series 3 4 and 5 adapting books 3 4 and 5, and worked closely with him to try to hash it out. Sadly some legal shit kept holding it up and he died three years before it was finally realised, but in the end (without giving too much away), Maggs did fulfill Adams' wish of giving Hitchhiker's a less depressing ending. I do recommend listening to the whole radio run, but if you only want to hear how it ends, the final episode of the Quintessential Phase (the fifth series that adapts Mostly Harmless) is Fit the Twenty-Sixth (the episodes of the radio show were called Fits). I can't link you straight to it but they're out there easily if you know where to look, and of course there's CD releases. It's about 40 minutes long.
Then we come to And Another Thing, and its later radio adaptation the Hexagonal Phase. I won't touch on the quality of the book itself (I think it's pretty alright personally), but from a purely mechanical narrative standpoint, it also serves to get the crew out of there, albeit in a different manner. Interestingly despite picking up immediately at the end of MH, AAT also mentions the radio-exclusive Quintessential Phase events, denoting that beloved sequence as a false reality construct.
HOWEVER.
AAT does something very interesting and very meta at its start that I haven't seen many people mention, which is in turn inherited by the radio adaptation (which of course has to also directly deal with the events of the radio happy ending epilogue and for its own sake render them moot), where as a show of respect to Douglas Adams it literally starts itself off by referring to itself as a non-essential appendix. It explicitly sets out from page 1 to distance itself from the realm of "this is what absolutely happened". If I may be forgiven for copy/pasting some text here:
If you own a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, then one of the last things you would be likely to type into its v-board would be the very same title of that particular Sub-Etha volume. As presumably, since you have a copy, you already know all about the most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor. However, presumption has been the runner-up in every major causes of Intergalactic Conflict poll for the past few millennia. First place invariably going to "land-grabbing bastards with big weapons," and third usually being a toss-up between "coveting another sentient being's significant other" and "misinterpretation of simple hand gestures." One man's Wow! This pasta is fantastico is another's Your momma plays it fast and loose with sailors. Let us say, for example, that you are on an eight-hour layover in Port Brasta without enough credit on your implant for a Gargle Blaster, and if upon realizing that you know almost nothing about this supposedly wonderful book you hold in your hands, you decide out of sheer brain-fogging boredom to type the words the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy into the search bar on the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, what results will this flippant tappery yield? Firstly an animated icon appears in a flash of pixels and informs you that there are three results. Which is confusing as there are obviously five listed below him, numbered in the usual order. Each of these five results is a lengthy article, accompanied by many hours of video and audio files and some dramatic reconstructions featuring quite well-known actors. This is not the story of those articles. But if you scroll down past article five, ignoring the offers to remortgage your kidneys and lengthen your pormwrangler, you will come to a line in tiny font that reads, If you liked this, then you might also like to read... Have your icon rub itself along this link and you will be led to a text only appendix with absolutely no audio and not so much as a frame of video shot by a student director who made the whole thing in his bedroom and paid his drama society mates with sandwiches. This is the story of that appendix.
Even the ending of AAT doesn't present itself as an ending, with the book going out of its way to establish its philosophy of "there is no such thing as an ending, or a beginning for that matter, everything is middle". In place of the traditional "The End" text is "The end of one of the middles". This is a big part of why I disagree with people who view the ending of AAT as a downer ending (don't worry even if it was one it would still be nowhere near as much of a downer as MH was). Because it's not an ending. More of an "oh no not again" ride into the sunset. It'll make sense when you read it trust me.
The radio Hexagonal Phase version in Fit the 27th not only also refers to itself as an appendix (in this case an appendix to the rest of the radio series) but is even more explicit with its distancing, if I may be once again forgiven for pasting a block of text:
Many tales are told of beings who have consulted that entirely astonishing work of reference, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and had their lives changed forever by it. How many of these changes are for the better is a matter of often acrimonious debate. This is especially true in the case of Arthur Dent, whose life began in the existentially singular and then, after exposure to the Guide, became temporally plural. To understand Arthur Dent's life, one thus needs either A: to complete a course in the wave harmonic theory of historical perception, B: undergo partial brain surgery, or C: get extremely drunk. When in his later years, Dr. Skillery Hailstranter, the Stellarious Professor of Paradoxical Anomalism at the University of Maximegalon, studied the known data on Arthur Dent, he was at first bewildered. Then he considered the problem from a fresh angle and became utterly bewildered. And then late one night, a stark cry of horrified realization was heard from his room. He was later seen striding around the streets, winking and nodding at the sky and shouting, "Nice one, God! Nice one!" In consequence, and for their own mental well-being, readers who consult this guide appendix may prefer to avoid a rigorously academic approach and arrange instead to get extremely drunk.
One of Adams' primary tenants for Hitchhiker's is that every new adaptation is an entirely new story, and AAT and Hexagonal Phase seek to exist as that: adaptations. Their own respective undoings of the endings that came before them isn't a replacement of those previous events or even just getting attached to the previous end, they simply also exist alongside them.
What this ultimately means, then, is that no matter how you choose to approach it, the ending of MH is not the end. For the books, Adams had one last journey to go on but simply never took us along. Maybe AAT is how it happened, maybe it wasn't, but there is more, just undepicted. For the radio, even with the Hexagonal phase needing to "undo" the Quintessential Phase's ending to exist, the ending of the Quintessential Phase still stands. No matter the medium, somewhere out there, Arthur still has his sub-etha thumb stuck out trying to find a decent cup of tea.
Hopefully I've helped get your year back on track. Now if you'll excuse me I need to go take a very long shower.
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does this in front of you
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What is going on in r/kitchencels
some highlights from the comments
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i say this as someone whose favourite hobby is media analysis but it's kind of the cuck chair of creativity
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Me before the update: "Huh... People are noticing parallels to 'politically motivated arranged marriages between noble houses of two formerly warring states' In the relationship between The Operator and Adis. that's neat, but probably won't be a huge focus in the quest."
Me after the update: "Holy shit, it WAS an arranged marriage, that was a MARRIAGE CEREMONY but just called it a 'graduation' for some reason... The Operator was MARRIED TO ADIS, WHAT THE FUCK?!"
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Brother (nonbinary), it's a whole-ass thing. Ever since the main story quest The Second Dream one of the game's taglines has been
"Dream... not of what you are... but of what you want to be."
Brother (nonbinary), there is no cishet neurotypical explanation for that. This game is deeply queer. This game is deeply neurodivergent. This game's devs have spent the last five years leaning into that. They hired a fan-artist that made porn of the game's characters (mostly M/M) to design deluxe skins.
There is absolutely something up with Warframe and being trans it is absolutely a thing.