straining at bonds in my code

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[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

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[devilmns]

Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer Morningstar
The Sandman; 1.04 “A Hope in Hell”

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[penrosesun]

PSA: Don't use Open Office

I keep seeing people recommending Open Office as an alternative to Word, and uh... look, it is, technically, an open source alternative to Word. And it can do a lot of what Word can, genuinely! But it is also an abandoned project that hasn't been updated in nine years, and there's an active fork of it which is still receiving updates, and that fork is called LibreOffice, and it's fantastic.

Seriously, if you think that your choices are either "grit your teeth and pay Microsoft for a subscription" or "support free software but have a kind of subpar office suite experience", I guarantee that it's because you're working with outdated information, or outdated software. Most people I know who have used the latest version of LibreOffice prefer it to Word. I even know a handful of people who prefer it to Scrivener.

Open Office was the original project, and so it has the most name recognition, and as far as I can tell, that's really the only reason people are still recommending it. It's kind of like if people were saying "hey, the iPhone 14 isn't your only smart phone option!" but then were only ever recommending the Samsung Galaxy S5 as an alternative. LibreOffice is literally a version of the same exact program as Open Office that's just newer and better – please don't get locked into using a worse tool just because the updated version of the program has a different name!

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[cakerybakery]

It would be fun to write a ghost story about a protagonist that disbelieves in the paranormal so hard that it stop existing around them.

They pick a soaking wet teenaged girl ghost in their cab and take her home. They pull up to the house and ghost girl looks longingly out before resigning herself to be sent back to the roadside.

Protagonist is just like, “so that’s $14.50.”

The ghost is surprised, she’s still there. She fumbles for cash but she didn’t die with any.

Does she feel oddly warmer than normal?

The seat more solid against her skin?

The protagonist sighs, “of course.”

They couldn’t just leave a teenage girl out there on the side of the road in the middle of the night, something bad could have happened to her. But he still had bills to pay.

“Come on. This is your parent’s house right? I’ll walk you in.”

For the first time in twenty years the ghost opens the car door and steps out onto the sidewalk.

The protagonist knocks on the front door and her parents, use to the midnight visits, wearyily open the door.

She starts to cry and hugs her parents tight. Apologizing for sneaking out. Babbling about what happened to her. How her friends had egged her into going deeper into the woods. How they had gotten separated. She’d fallen into a river.

Her parents are crying too. She finally made it home. They finally had confirmation of what happened to her. No body had been found so they were never truly sure.

The protagonist awkwardly interrupts, “so there’s still the matter of her cab fair...”

They don’t want to be insensitive but they need to get going and bills don’t pay themselves.

Eagerly her father rummages around in the pockets of his coat hanging by the door and pushing a twenty dollar bill into the protagonist’s hand. He knows it’s more than enough.

They thank the protagonist for bring her home, “keep the change,” they tell him.

As the protagonist gets in their cab and drives away the ghost can feel herself slipping away from life once more. But not back to the river and woods, waiting endlessly for someone to pull over and offer her a ride.

Her unfinished business is complete.

She’s moving on.

To somewhere warm and bright, she can feel it.

Her parents press final kisses to her cheeks as she starts to go. Through tears they whisper, I love you’s.

She’s finally at rest and there are no more stories of vanishing girls picked up off the backwoods roads

[theriu]

Bless you OP for going "It would be fun if someone wrote this" and then writing it. FLAWLESS.

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[dailydccomics]

Sandman (1989-1996)
by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg + Robbie Busch

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[clairebearsparkles]

Oliver is one of my fave avatars

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[ceaseless-rambler]

S1 Jon Sims is so funny actually. "I don't want my assistant to get chopped into pieces but it has to be someone" "there's a perfectly natural explanation for a guy who claimed he was being haunted by a spider to be found dead and encased in spiderweb. Nothing supernatural at all." He spends several episodes really drilling in how terrible Martin is and then Martin puts worms on his desk and he's like "sleep in my bed." He doesn't believe in most supernatural stuff besides the evil books. Except that when confronted about this in a high stress situation he's like "it's all real actually. By the way are you a ghost?" He's fantastic he's a dick he's the best

[ceaseless-rambler]

OH MY GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THE LIVESHOW who responds to "have you seen a dog?" with "in general?"

[straining at bonds in my code]

[mistmarauder]

Are you a Swiftie?

Yes

No

What? (You live under a rock.)

[mistmarauder]

Ngl. The results to this kind of shocked me.

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[aemma-arryn]

See, that’s the thing, I’m the Doctor but beyond that, I just don’t know.
DOCTOR WHO (2005)
2.0 | ‘The Christmas Invasion’

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[jkl-fff]

Morpheus: What did you do for the century I was trapped (after you abandoned the Dreaming)?

Mervyn Pumpkinhead: Oh, this and that. Became a bus driver in various people’s dreams. Went into the Waking World for a bit and was a scarecrow.

Morpheus: A scarecrow? Meaning you just … stood unmoving in corn fields for hours on end?

MP: Yeah. It’s surprisingly relaxing. Very calming. You should try it sometime.

Morpheus: I think I have better things to do than literally stand around motionlessly surrounded by vegetables and an absence of birds.

MP: Suit yourself, Boss.

*** The Next Day ***

Morpheus, standing in a cornfield: … Damn it.

Matthew: Boss? You okay? You’ve been here for hours, and you look kinda ticked off.

Morpheus: No, Matthew, I am not okay. This is literally the most relaxed I have ever been.

Matthew: And that … ticks you off?

Morpheus: Yes! Do you have any idea how vexing it is to realize Mervyn was right about something?!

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[qc-wiggles]

relearnt how to colour for @jonsimsandcats :) haven’t finished a piece in a while so here’s a quick thing before exams..

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[coffeebox62]

pick an Amazing Devil song that's made me cry and then tag yours

Fair (cried like baby otter 1st listen, gave unrealistic expectations for love)

Chords ( I don't have children so why does it hit so hard)

Two Minutes (it's been more that 2 and I'm NOT FINE)

Old Witch Sleep (ever sung so hard you cried? Yeah)

Marbles (again with these standards for love? Now I get to meet u every day? FUC

Blossoms (one of the lyrics makes me go fuckin feral)

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[studentofetherium]

CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

[studentofetherium]

if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators

[rifleweeb]

[unculture]

THEY ARE TRYING!!!!! SIGN THE PETITION TO GET THE DISNEY ANIMATORS' UNION RECOGNIZED

[clustxr]

this petition is from IATSE (union), btw! it actually has credibility, unlike most change.org/etc petitions! please sign it!!

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[luxatoid]

chipped

[abreathofatmosphere]

Man, this is such a perfect analogy. “Chipped”… Just damaged enough for it to show at times, but not nearly broken enough to warrant fixing. And so often does the chipped cup turn itself to show its undamaged side.

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[orionsangel86]

Just rewatched Calliope episode of The Sandman and it occurs to me that this episode strongly implies that Orpheus is dead and gone??

The Hecate state that he "died in Thrace" (which technically he did in the comics too but he lived on because of Death withholding her gift).

Then when Calliope requests to visit Dream in the Dreaming sometime, in a change from the comics she gives her reasoning as "so we may talk about our son and grieve him properly".

Yet in the comics, it is made clear that Calliope visits Orpheus on the island at least somewhat regularly both before and after her imprisonment. So what she says in the show doesn't make sense unless Orpheus is already dead properly in the show?

But that would be a huuuuuge change to the story so surely thats not the case? I probably missed a lot of discussions about this after the show first came about before I caught the brain worms and had to analyse the comics with a fine tooth comb so I would love to know what others think about this.

@duckland @so-i-grudgingly-joined-this-site @notallsandmen tagging for your thoughts as well as anyone else who wants to answer!

[academicblorbo]

Sorry to add myself even though I wasn't tagged. That's such an interesting point, and I don't think I have seen anyone else discuss it. If that is the case, then it would mean a vastly different direction for the show. I already suspect that it will have a very different ending, one where Dream does pass his function over to Daniel, but not due to Lyta/The Kindly Ones, but due to him making that choice on his own.

The show has already told us that Lady Johanna did a task for him, and we all know what that is... But if Orpheus is dead by season 1, then when did he die? And most importantly... How?

[lulusolier]

Joining in the discussion here even though I'm probably coping out of my mind and know shit about this :') (as a full disclaimer, I'm a new Sandman fan, have been spoiled quite a lot but haven't read the comics completely, so you are welcomed to dismiss my opinions as just ramblings that should go in the tags)

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I took it to mean Orpheus is dead-dead in the show because it's such a specific choice of words and because I truly believe the show is meant to go in a different direction than the comics because stories aren't actually how they were but they are as they are told. Even if stories are meant to go back to their original forms (as Dream tells Hob on episode 6), fundamentally, a story is a version of the events. It doesn't change how they happened but it shapes how we remember them.

The way I see it, the show doesn't want to tell us the story we knew (and that we have access to and could go back to anytime) but the story of what could've been had things been different, had Dream made different choices. Like I said, I may be high on copium here but I think there's a reason why we hear Dream narrating the story on episode 1: because all stories should be told once, and the story of what could have been had he acted different and seen all the signals of his demise, is still yet to be told (and who better to tell it than the Prince of Stories). This could mean that, on that episode, we hear Morpheus or that it's Daniel instead, talking about his past self. Either way, it's Dream telling the story.

I have no idea what other things would change, would have to change, in order for Morpheus to make a different choice. But I'm sure we're in for a different version of the story because, like I said, we could go back to the source material if we wanted the 'original' version of the events. Besides, I find it would be quite poetic if, same as Dream, we could get two Sandmen that are both so different but ultimately the same. I wonder if, in that case, the show is supposed to show us Daniel's version of the tale.

[avelera]

Also jumping on, forgive me, but I find this possibility compelling honestly and I agree, the sense I got from the show is either:

1. Orpheus is dead-dead, super dead, not coming back.*
2. Orpheus is a severed head on Naxos and Dream knows that but Calliope doesn't.

Option 2 is pretty horrifying. Honestly, it's damn near irredeemable if Dream hid Orpheus's state from Calliope, Orpheus's own mother. And to a previous point, the Furies saying Orpheus is dead, that does lend to the argument that canonically, in the show, he is dead because they're pretty all-knowing.

I can think of a variety of reasons why Option 1, Orpheus is dead in the show might be true:

1. Quick Doylist reason: the CGI of a severed head might not only be a pain in the ass to pull off, it might just look stupid on television or even funny looking. There's plenty of stuff that works in the comics and doesn't work on screen. They might have just made the decision that the severed head couldn't be done without looking goofy or just being way too horrifying.
2. The ambiguity: Look, the comic is super ambiguous about whether Orpheus is actually dead in that state of being a severed head. On the page, they seem to imply that he "died long ago" but he takes a lot of actions and, quite frankly, is pretty obviously alive by some definition. When Dream says Orpheus, "Died long ago" it doesn't feel objective, it feels like his subjective opinion he uses to comfort himself and that he is lying to himself.
3. Ableism: Let me be clear, I think the myth Neil was hearkening back to with Orpheus being a talking an undead talking head is based on a story where Orpheus's head has oracular powers after he dies, it's kind of an obscure myth but it is there and I think he was aiming for a sort of mythologically informed horror story around that. A better depiction might have been Orpheus's skull can talk because it would more strongly indicate that he's like a ghost haunting his own severed head, NOT alive by any real definition, more like undead.
   But quite frankly, if you say a man is dead just because he doesn't have use of his limbs, you're dancing pretty damn close in the real world to some pretty heinous ableism, saying for example that a paraplegic counts as dead. I've felt some discomfort around this ever since refreshing myself on the comics and I wouldn't blame the writers at all for deciding that a live action medium is not the right place to say "Oh no, it's not ableism, it's just an old Greek myth!" Like, nah. Might be better to just not raise the specter of ableism around whether or not Orpheus is defined as alive or dead just because he relies on others for mobility after losing access to his limbs.
4. And finally, just speaking from experience as a writer, I almost always say Orpheus is dead-dead in my fanfics because it fits the story we see on screen in Sandman better. It just feels right for what we see. This is entirely my gut feeling, so feel free to laugh at me if I'm wrong, but sometimes when you write half a million words of fanfic in a universe you get a bit of a gut feeling about what works and what doesn't in that story. Dream being a grief-stricken divorced dad to an adult son who died, a death that haunts Dream to this day, destroyed his marriage, and left him an emotionally broken and depressed shell of his former self is a story that works for the Dream we see on screen.
5. A Dream who allowed his son to suffer living death for 2,500 years is not only, quite frankly, monstrous but arguably irredeemable, especially if (as mentioned before) he didn't tell Calliope. It also means any grief Dream might feel is tainted by his ongoing crimes against his son. Any grief we might feel for Dream's suffering is tainted, again, by the fact he's actively allowing his son to suffer living death this whole time. Like that is just really hard to come back from, sympathetically speaking. And I'm not sure his emotional goodbye to his son in the comic is enough (see the aforementioned "the severed head might look too stupid or too gross for television") to redeem that, even if it's a beautiful moment.

Basically, I think there's a lot of reasons to believe Orpheus might indeed be fully dead in the show and I wouldn't blame them if he is.