M. Rosenbloom

@mlrosenbloom

Clinical Instructor, Cyberlaw Clinic at BKC / Harvard Law. Mix of politics, tech law, and cute art RTs / hobby stuff! Opinions are mine only. Sometimes still on the other website @ml_rosenbloom pfp: @lyra0730.bsky background: @opal0058.bsky

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M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 2d

What is perseverance?

Perseverance is about being willing to bend, but not to break. It's the push to keep moving forward even when the destination seems unreachable; and it's about accepting all the pain that comes along with doing so.

The most famous example of Perseverance is that of The Tortoise and the Hare: while the latter overestimated its talent and rested on its laurels, the former didn't let the overwhelming disadvantage discourage it. In the end, it's the one who persevered that won.

The shadow of one's soul

An unhealthy Perseverance is usually unwilling to let things end. It can be close-minded and insistent, often hurting everyone involved in the process: the Persevering are the most susceptible to the sunk cost fallacy.

It can also build up a quiet resentment toward those it's been enduring for, as an unhealthy Perseverance often doesn't say things until it's too late.

Often confused with determination

DETERMINATION and PERSEVERANCE are often confused for one another, but the difference lies in where the energy points.
While DETERMINATION refuses every ending except the one it chose, PERSEVERANCE will look for different ways to achieve at least one of the results it was aiming for.

Of course, that doesn't mean one can't take from the other. Being so similar in behavior, the Determined and the Persevering often find each other to be fascinating: the former admires the endurance and planning skills of the latter, who in turn admires the Determined's desire for success.

Your secondary virtue

Your second-strongest virtue is KINDNESS, at 69%.

Thanks to KINDNESS' drive to help those in need, the kind Persevering will make sure to see any task taken on for the sake of someone else through to the end.

While this may be admirable, the tendency to do it for other people more than for themselves may prove negative for the kind Persevering in the long term.

Your lowest virtue is bravery (26%). Of course, no one can be perfect at everything.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 2d

Soul Trait Extractor

Perseverance
Purple Soul

Despite the odds being stacked against me, I still moved forward.

Perseverance 77%
Kindness 69%
Integrity 65%
Patience 65%
Determination 41%
Justice 26%
Bravery 26%

undertale.jadenthejaded.uk

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 11d

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 (2008) It redoes a bunch of stuff from S1 but worse, the 'A' plot screws around for the middle 10 episodes, and the tech leap makes the mech battles lose weight. But still some real Death Note-esque hijinks, and the ending is one for the record books.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 12d

The Backrooms (2026) I'm very bad with horror so this was incredibly stressful, but it was REALLY good. A real movie-movie to sit with.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 12d

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion (Season 1, 2006, Rewatch) Propulsive and absurd, putting school hijinks in this is one of the best ideas they had. Clear that they had a different sense of the underlying stuff than what they eventually did in R2 (R2 I think is generally a lot worse).

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 13d

I'm REALLY glad i caught this fish now, cause uhhhhh then next time is up is literally THREE MONTHS AWAY #FFXIV

You land a Purse of Riches measuring 26.4 ilms!
Data on the Purse of Riches is added to your fish guide.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 17d

Fate/Zero (2011) On rewatch, you see all the things done to get to F/SN that don’t quite work. And the way women in this show get treated is uh… not great. Definitely an Urobuchi show that aged worse than Madoka. I won’t recommend it to others, but even so, I still enjoyed it. Amazing Kajiura OST.

Fate/Zero poster. Characters pose in various action stances. Saber is at the front, wielding her sword.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· 19d

End of Evangelion (1997). Hey, you know what the perfect thing to do when you get home from a trip is, even before unpacking? Watch this. It all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling doooowwwn. Heart rending and life affirming, in all its forms. A perfect triumph of film.

THE END OF EVANGELION
EPISODE 25’

Love is destructive.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Jun 22

BLAME! (1997-2003) After many years of seeing gorgeously stark, out-of-context spreads of megastructures from this manga, I finally get my mind together to blaze through it. Astounding aesthetics and atmosphere; I'll remember this imagery for a long time.

Two-page spread from the manga BLAME!

A dark figure with long, abstract, line-like wings bears a thin, skeletal figure in one arm. The other arm ends in a long cylinder where the hand should be. One leg of the winged figure is missing. The background is stark white, with a few black flecks.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Jun 7

Good haul tonight, even one caught on first cast! #FFXIV Madam Butterfly, Armorer, Thousand Fin, Lily of the Veil, Flarefish

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Jun 3

Tonight's haul! Scaleripper, Dimorphodon, Endoceras #FFXIV

Scaleripper, Dimorphodon, Endoceras Big Fish FFXIV

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 29

another three fish down! Glarramundi Cirrostratus Ceti #FFXIV

Glarramundi, Cirrostratus, Ceti. Big Fish FFXIV.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 26

three more for a short fishing evening is good enough for me: Bloody Red Bonytongue Bokuden Argonautica #FFXIV

Bloody Red Bonytongue, Bokuden, Argonautica FFXIV Fish

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 25

A good haul today!! #FFXIV

FFXIV Big Fish: Aetherlouse, Wootz Knifefish Zenith, Hraesvelgr's Tear, The Archbishop, Hagoromo Koi, Downstream Loach, Vidofnir, Inkfish

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 24

Two tonight! And went after Paikiller but instead got SIX of the other !!! fish at the same hole. #FFXIV

Bat-o'-Nine-Tails and Starbright FFXIV Fish.

Also there's six Catkiller hanging out too.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 22

I had changed into a new fishing glam but was having no luck catching any fish, so I changed back into my usual and caught 4 of the next 5 big fish I went after, so uh I guess I'm back to that one LMAOOOO #FFXIV

FFXIV Fish

Mud Pilgrim, Coelacanthus, Anomalocaris, Marrow Sucker

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 21

no Drepanaspis but at least the fish that triggers the intuition window.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 21

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· May 20

I decided on a whim that I wanted to see if I could get the Big Fish achievement in FFXIV before Evercold releases. This thread will serve as a tracker for that!

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Apr 25

Realized I had a picture of Xau with a similar angle to Meteor’s in the new teaser trailer lmao #ffxiv

Meteor from Final Fantasy XIV poses as a Reaper for the camera in the new teaser trailer for Evercold.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Apr 18

Girls und Panzer: Der Film (2015) (rewatch) Still amazing that this is up there with Fury Road in terms of percentage of a movie that's pure action. You Will Believe That Tanks Can Fly.

Poster for Girls und Panzer der Film

All the tankers of Ooarai pose, with the main characters' tank in front.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Apr 3

Post a picture from the device you're using with no explanation!

Let this magic mineral, ASBESTOS, protect the buildings on your farm!

Asbestos! The magic mineral of the Middle Ages. Today, still a "magic" mineral; fireproof, rot-proof, and practically indestructible. When combined with portland cement it is manufactured into products which are especially important on the farm, because they provide permanent protection against fire, weather, and wear. Read this folder. Learn how to put this magic mineral to work on your farm.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Mar 24

Chainsaw Man (2018-2026) Uh, yeah, I guess it's over now! I think the abrupt ending will age very well. I wish that Asa got more interiority. But I am glad that Fujimoto is free to write other things, and that Denji and Asa are free of the curse of being the protagonists of a Shonen manga.

Chainsaw Man, Volume 12 Cover. Story & Art by Tatsuki Fujimoto.

Yoru, a girl with dark hair, piercing eyes, and a series of scars on her face, looks directly at the viewer. Behind her, modern buildings rise into the sky, as if the viewer was lying on their back looking up.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Mar 16

Gatchaman Crowds & Insight (2013, 2015) Incredibly ambitious shows - dropped S2 when it aired because it felt too depressing, but 10 years of the digital world being predicted by S2 has made it seem extremely apropos. Wish Rui got more focus in S2 and that Rizumu was a very different character.

Gatchaman Crowds Insight Poster.

The main characters pose in an urban landscape near a pedestrian bridge. In the background, strange beings, striped in red/white/blue, and with open smiling mouths and lolling tongues, cavort.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Feb 6

Cosmic Princess Kaguya! (2026) I FINALLY get to watch it and yeah okay this one is going right up there to the top. Even being spoiled on the twists diminished none of its terrifying powers! Guess that's how good things can be. Could feel the world shifting under me as I watched it.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Jan 27

lmao www.idrlabs.com/dungeons-dra...

D&D Class Test

80% Wizard, 75% Paladin, 60% Cleric, 55% Druid & Sorcerer, everything else 50% or lower. Lowest is Monk at 30%

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Jan 16

Look, if you say that your affiliated people aren’t just right wingers and your primary counterexample is Larry Summers, you are fooling nobody but yourself.

Kanelos identified 32 people as trustees, faculty members and advisers to the new university including Jonathan Haidt, the NYU professor whose work Kanelos evoked in proclaiming that UATX would produce an “antifragile” cohort with the capacity to think “fearlessly, nimbly, and inventively”; Summers; Pinker; the playwright David Mamet; Glenn Loury, an economist at Brown University; computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman; authors Andrew Sullivan and Rob Henderson; the journalists Caitlin Flanagan, Sohrab Ahmari and Jonathan Rauch; Stacy Hock, an investor and philanthropist; and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a conservative, Dutch politician-turned-writer known for criticizing Islam’s treatment of women, and who is married to Ferguson.
The list leaned right, to be sure. Loury, who is Black, zealously opposes affirmative action. Mamet had called Trump “the best president since Abraham Lincoln.” Hock served as chairwoman of an organization called Texas GOP 2020 Victory. Several of the academics had experienced backlash for taking conservative positions. These included Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist who’d had a planned lecture at MIT on extraterrestrial life canceled over his views on DEI [cut for length, read linked article]

But Summers had served in Bill Clinton’s Cabinet and as Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor. Others were unconventional, independent thinkers, and several, including Haidt and Strossen, had made advocating for free inquiry and open dialogue a major part of their life’s work. It was possible to believe that the group had just enough viewpoint diversity, and a depth of commitment to civil libertarian principles, that it might transcend the virtue signaling, intellectual hegemony and inclination to cancel that had stalled many American colleges and universities.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Jan 3

should post this new shot from ffxiv REALLY happy with unlocked glam options

FFXIV screenshot. A bust shot of a gray-skinned au ra with yellow eyes glancing to her left at the viewer. She is wearing a wide-brimmed red hat and a sharp red and white outfit.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Dec 14

Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997) FINALLY watched this, and of course it's absolutely perfect. Gut-wrenching, metaphorical, and as ahead-of-its-time today as it was when it released. And also an incredibly funny and well put-together series in its own right! This one is going right up there.

Revolutionary Girl Utena. Utena and Anthy reaching for each other.

Nanami and her Trio. Nanami's face is pressed up against the window glass.

M. Rosenbloom@mlrosenbloom· Nov 27

R1999/FFXIV Spoilers: Both are people who care deeply about others in a way that aggrieves them, don't fit into the ideals of their respective greek-themed collectivist societies, and turn 'villain' after learning disturbing hidden truths about themselves and the nature of the world.