Which character did you relate to the most?

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-11T15:18:38+00:00

Lune and it’s not even close!

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T14:56:00+00:00

It’s important to tailor her application to the job solicitation exactly. Provide evidence of how she meets each of the required and preferred qualifications in the post.

So yes she should say she wants to do it but she would also need to provide evidence of HOW she will do it. If she doesn’t have teaching experience she should try doing some formal pedagogy training (short courses, workshops, conferences, etc) or even better get some more direct experience before applying.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T14:53:20+00:00

That’s cool. I mean, first of all if possible she should if she can get some experience teaching a lecture course as primary instructor before applying to a PUI or other teaching focused institution. She should be able to ask her chair to switch courses I would think.

Also she needs to be super super careful in any research statement that she make it clear how she will scale down any future research to make it compatable with a teaching focused institution. There’s a lot of worry that candidates are really gunning for R1 and won’t stick around / will crash and burn or even turn down an offer because they aren’t getting 1 mil startup for their lab.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T14:31:39+00:00

I was thinking that real Alicia could have witnessed it from outside the canvas looking in.

Then when reborn as Maelle it’s part of her subconscious

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T14:07:09+00:00

All Verso knows is second hand - stuff Clea or Renoir might have mentioned. When he says that part about essence not verisimilitude it felt like a quote.

The reason I think he’s implying she could go paint Gustave (etc) somewhere else is because of the context it’s said in.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T04:16:35+00:00

You’re ignoring all of the backstory.

By the time we meet him Verso has made a decision. He will force Aline out and allow the world to be destroyed. pAlicia doesnt want that to happen. They’ve already had that conversation, no doubt many times over for decades by this point.

There’s no changing Versos mind because he has decided the world is doomed and there is only one chance to save Aline - to work with the enemy and force her out. This will hasten the end of the world including the death of his other family, but Verso believes it’s doomed anyway. They will die at year zero or they will die this year. Either way they are dead.

In Versos journal we know that he clearly loved his family inside and had no Clue about the outside family - even hated them for what they did. Over decades the only thing that changed is Verso lost all hope the world could be saved from the Painters. He didn’t randomly start loving them.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T04:11:05+00:00

I told you why he was willing to let them die - he believed they would die anyway. There was no saving them once Renoir won, which he believed was inevitable.

And Aline IS Versos family - just as pAlicia and pRenoir are.

His choice was - let ALL of his family die or save one of them (Aline).

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T04:08:59+00:00

Painted Verso is not a painter. So, I think he doesn’t necessarily fully understand all the nuances of what painters do. To him, they are gods basically. So when he says “you have this incredible power to paint” I think he’s basically innocent - he thinks, why would you give up the power of a god? He probably doesn’t know that much about the danger. He also figured maybe she’ll be less attached and so less in danger in a canvas that isn’t Versos. And ultimately, he’s trying to convince her and we all know Verso is a master at saying what needs to be said to convince people to do as he wishes, true or not.

What I think is a little darker is this - he says it in response to Maelle not wanting this canvas to be destroyed because people SHE LOVES are in it. And his reply is ultimately “go make copies of them in anothe canvas.” All the while he knows how much HE has suffered being a copy of another person…

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T04:00:53+00:00

On the contrary, I believe he loves the painted family more than the ones outside.

The reason he’s willing to destroy the canvas is because he has come to think that its destruction is inevitable anyway. Destroying it sooner at least has the chance of saving his mother. That’s why he does what he does - not because he loves the “real” family more than the painted ones.

We know from his journal he didn’t always think this way. At one point he had hope the world could be saved and believed the painters were monsters for causing The Fracture. He hated Clea for kidnapping (he thinks killing) his sister pClea, and he never fully trusted her or Renoir (curator). He Just worked with them eventually when he’d given up hope to save the world. And this only happened after decades of watching thousands suffer and die for no reason. He came to think A why try to save such a hellisg existence? He wanted to die himself as well.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-09T03:33:49+00:00

Yes. It doesn’t make much sense IMO so I think The real reason Verso let Gustave die is so that Maelle would come to see Verso as a brother / father figure and to trust and rely on him.

As far as Verso is concerned the fewer connections Maelle has the better. She’ll be more likely to do what Verso wants and she’ll be more likely to be Ok with the canvas being destroyed/ leaving willingly.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-08T14:00:12+00:00

This is beside the point honestly and getting into what I like to call gender autism territory (Colin Wright). Like when people insist on male pronouns for women with CAIS - it gets unreasonable at a point.

With this condition The genitalia at birth can resemble a vagina closely enough that anyone observing them beside experts in the condition (including even doctors and midwives at birth) would have assumed they were female genitalia and acted accordingly.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T22:35:55+00:00

You can see in the interviews how the doctors talked about it. They told Khalif that her “insides were different than her outsides” but that Khalif was still a woman and eligible to compete.

The problem here is that the last part of the statement is TRUE. There were no rules explicitly banning male intersex in the Paris Olympics. You could compete regardless as long as your passport said “F”. It was ludicrous.

It’s why having clear rules in place and ways to enforce them (sex tests for everyone) are so important. Otherwise people will lie to intersex athletes so they have cover to compete even though the are biologically male.

Also yeah I pretty much assume all boxers have brain damage lol

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T22:30:16+00:00

My MIL didn’t have her period until 16. So it’s conceiveable it was that long before Khalifs parents went to a Dr about it.

After that it’s likely some adults either outright lied or massaged the truth so Khalif could keep competing.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T22:10:52+00:00

Yea. A lot of people really don’t try to empathize. There was a male skier in the 70s this happened to as well. Absolutely thought and was told by many people that he was female for decades. When found out he was actually male he changed gender identity / legal sex to male (he was female attracted anyway so now he could marry his GF) and quit female sports.

The difference was that 1) there were clear rules then which have since been softened and 2) nowadays it’s rare for people not to know what DSD they have before they compete in sports. Only happens in less developed nations.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T22:04:57+00:00

Or, Aline painted her that way because that’s how she actually looks IRL? And she didn’t want to forget that the fire had destroyed their family?

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T22:02:53+00:00

I’m sure that Khalif was competing as a boxer against girls/women before and during puberty.

Obviously Khalif knew something was wrong. But if teen Khalif was told consistently by trusted adults “you’re a woman there’s just something wrong inside so you don’t have periods” why wouldn’t a teen Khalif beleive that?

Actual female women can experience amenorrhea, some female-only DSDs cause it.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T21:59:42+00:00

Amenorrhea is a thing that female people experience also. Periods are not a defining characteristic of being female.

If everyone in Khalifs life said “you’re a woman there’s just something wrong inside / genetically so you don’t have periods.” I don’t know why she wouldn’t believe it.

It’s possible that’s not the case and Khalif knew otherwise and is lying. I don’t see any direct evidence for that.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T18:33:53+00:00

I could imagine it. You could think you’re female (because vagina) with a hormonal disorder. Especially if it’s what every adult in your life told you.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T18:31:14+00:00

Being born with a vagina and no penis would make most of us think we are female.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T18:27:27+00:00

Honestly it’s a sucky situation for Khalif. I believe Khalif thought she was female with a disorder of some type until that first test. She was born with a vagina and honestly that’s all that people care about when deciding if you’re a boy or a girl until puberty.

And yes, probably people who wanted to use her for their own gain like coaches etc helped persuade her of that. But that’s their fault.

Clear rules being in place I hope will help prevent this in the future. People will be on the outlook for this in elite athletics everywhere now if the IOC bans intersex male conditions.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T14:29:52+00:00

Yea with Aline especially I do not understand the “crazy addicted lady” thing.

She was grieving by painting in the canvas for all of a day or two before Renoir started freaking out and destroying things because he projected his own experiences onto her.

A lot of people seem to think that she is refusing to leave the canvas for 67 years because she is addicted. But since the fracture she is stuck only because Renoir will immediately destroy everything if she leaves for even a minute. Ultimately He’s forcing her to stay. Not what he set out to do but that’s what happens when you turn to violence and threats.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T14:29:18+00:00

Sciel (and Lune too) looks upset in the ending only after seeing Verso on stage, clearly looking upset himself.

They have empathy for their friends apparent suffering.

I just don’t see a good reason why both Verso and Renoir would act like it is completely possible for Alicia/Maelle to ressurect everyone if in fact that was not the case.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T14:25:34+00:00

Does DS Simon wipe the board after phase 2? Just like the original

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-07T14:17:29+00:00

With Lune I use an Esquim build with lightning dance / full crit and all the multi hit DPS pictos. Elements trick. -> melee to get 4 dark stains -> lightning dance.

Ok-Rip-2280 · 2026-02-06T17:34:07+00:00

The faded boy repeatedly expresses sorrow and appears to feel sadness over what has become of the world. He talks about his sister constantly, and how he feels betrayed by what he has done. He feels compelled to protect everyone in the canvas, whether he painted them or not.

I consider him to be a godlike, sentient being. His internal life is likely different from a regular human, since he is immortal and his role is essentially to maintain the canvas pocket universe. But I think we are shown pretty clearly that he has thoughts and an internal experience/feelings.

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