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ROT TO GO

Champagne Super Bone-a

what if she was called chappell bone and instead of a singer she was a necromancer who raised strong as fuck skeleton warriors

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Manhood is Skyrim, the game about dragons, and my favorite way to play is “Oblivion 2,” where I never talk to the Jarl of Whiterun so dragons never spawn and my character never learns the dragon language

“gender is a game and i’m winning”

“gender is a game and i’m using cheat codes”

gender is a game and i’m ignoring the main objectives to decorate my base and romance npcs

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Posted for the beauty and eloquence of this comment:

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There’s a new Haaretz article about the first Indo-Europeans so of course they brought on David Anthony to spout some racist horseshit

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Gnashing my fucking teeth

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The way White Californian liberals talk about California is the same way liberal Zionists talk about Israel and the reality is, without exaggeration, exactly the same: a progressive coat of paint and historical revisionism over ongoing apartheid and other fascist business-as-usual. The only difference is that Jews have a right to be there (short of an ethnostate, etc.).

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Man if I have to have bipolar at least I have The One That Sucks

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xenonorph

I’m gonna be honest I never caught that until this ask, a real Berenstain moment

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I posted this reblog back in October and it suddenly picked up earlier this month right as people started to leave TikTok or at least like, try out other websites again and I was gonna say it was rent lowering gunshots

But then I realized they aren’t “rent lowering gunshots” if that’s just the kind of neighborhood you live in

started to type “ppl will call themselves monsterfuckers just bc they’re into pyramidhead 🙄” and i think maybe i should logout and use facebook for a few days to recalibrate my perspective on society at large

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Jesus fucking Christ

https://x.com/StrangerJosh11/status/1856410822983201030

It’s dire out here

Huston we have a problem

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Hi, sorry, I didn’t know this story and thank you for sharing, but the tyrant of Syracuse was named Dionysius, with an -i-, which means “Dionysian.” This is a common way to make Greek names, like Apollonius, Athenaeus, Demetrius, Hecataeus, etc.

Also, “tyrant” in this case doesn’t necessarily mean “tyrannical,” although he was that too, famously. A tyrant was, at its most neutral, a king who ruled either without a constitution or contrary to an established dynasty, as in Sophocles’ play Oidipous Tyrannos, Oedipus the King, because Oedipus accidentally usurped the throne of Thebes (but of course he was in fact the heir, hence his modern reputation). As a final note, we generally only think of the bogus Freudian complex when we think of Oedipus, but he gave us another word, “oedipism,” which is gouging out one’s own eyes. It’s what he did when he found out his wife Jocasta was in fact his mother and, to me, it is reminiscent of a Near Eastern euphemism for sex, “seeing one’s nakedness,” which is not uncommon in the Bible. Oedipus’ oedipism, then, is a symbolic castration. The same symbolism can be found in Matthew 5, when Jesus says in the Sermon on the Mount “if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out,” because he also says “be thou perfect.” That is a reference to Gd’s covenant with Abraham, where “perfect” in Hebrew means “unblemished” and the blemish in question is being uncircumcised, so: plucking out one’s lustful eye can be read as castrating oneself. Not for nothing, he implies that the rich (in Greek plousios, from ploutos, “wealth,” as Pluto—another name for Hades, and one which the Romans preferred—was the god of wealth, because precious metals are found underground) are so “blemished” that what’s left of them after such an excision could fit through the eye of a needle.

I want to talk about the Greek Myth of Damon and Pythias and how I think it could tie into Project: Eden’s Garden. For those unfamiliar, the story of Damon and Pythias basically goes like this:

A man named Pythias is to be given the death penalty for his crimes of protesting tyrannical authority against a man named Dionysus (not the God, just named after him). However, Damon volunteers to take his place so Pythias can tend to his affairs (basically say final goodbyes). If Pythias does not return by a certain time, Damon shall be executed in his place. Pythias arrives in time and neither character dies, and Dionysus praises the two for their friendship and loyalty, and even asks to join the two in their friendship but is rejected.

It’s important to look at the framework of the story rather than the details. If we do that, I think there’s a lot to work with.

The story ties very neatly into the idea that Tozu’s Killing Game “continues until there’s only two people”, those two people in this context being Damon and Pythias, especially considering Tozu has the ongoing theme of lying! The Killing Game would end, but then maybe only one person gets to leave, and then begins the free-for-all seen in the Prologue. But then if Damon is Damon, who is Pythias supposed to be? Who is Damon willing to go against his entire ideology for with the belief they won’t kill each other? Honestly it’s too early to say. But that’s not all we can take from the story.

I think Tozu is our Dionysus. Dionysus is a tyrannical ruler named after, but not actually, a God, which is interesting in terms of a power complex. His role in the story is to pit Damon and Pythias against each other, making them doubt and question their trust for each other. The key difference is obviously Tozu will be relying on them to kill each other- however, should the story follow beat-by-beat, they won’t kill each other, and Tozu will be so impressed, he may let the two of them go. Frankly, I have another theory pertaining to Tozu that I haven’t created it into a proper post yet, but I think Tozu may try to bring them into his organization, and the two reject.

It’s an interesting story that makes for a fascinating theory. Considering how often the myth comes up in the origin of the name Damon, I imagine it has to have some form of relevancy. Not to mention the story is just a little bit too perfect of a character arc for Damon and a kick in the nuts for Tozu.

Brief aside: thanks to @panomiels-box for inspiring this analysis! They reminded me my “Damon and Pythias” draft exists and did their own analysis on Damon and Pythias. Our theories are pretty different which is why I’m not reblogging off their post, I’d hate to take away from their theory. Make sure to read theirs too, they make a lot of interesting points!

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Gamera

Dragon but with a pair of biological rocket thrusters on its back instead of wings. Instead of breathing fire from its mouth, it turns its thruster-wings forward and blasts flaming jet exhaust, repurposing its thrusters as dual flamethrowers.

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The limits of the genetic model of language is that it is an extension of the genetic model of a single species, so language “families” cannot even be said to have the variation of a subspecies, because humans to not have subspecies (anymore). I don’t know enough about the genetic history of life to defend the analogy against criticism, but the only parallel I can think of is the hypothesized “RNA World,” when all or most of life was not differentiated but was rather a soup of recombining genetic material… if I understand the idea correctly. It is not helpful, in my opinion, to too closely adhere to the essentialist idea of language families that ranks sedimentary layers (strata) according to the position of the arbitrarily defining layer that determines the language’s family. It almost feels chauvinistic, like trying to apply the concept of patrilineal descent to language in order to describe a dubiously homogenous nation out of diversity. We will call words with origins outside of the defining branch or family as “borrowings,” but if those borrowings are old enough and closely related enough it is as if they are naturalized. Instead of acknowledging the reality of internal linguistic diversity in which each language is a family unto itself, we will have entire vocabulary subsets made up of borrowings that are perpetually foreign because of cultural distinctions that are not linguistically real. Idk man, I just feel that modern linguistics and ethnography are still suffering from their fraught relationship with racial science and we have failed to communicate some basic anthropological realities to public thought, so you get Americans who don’t understand that White and Black are social and not racial (because race is social), or cannot tell the difference between Gaelic and Brythonic or Anglo-Saxon, or confuse the terms Hispanic and Latino, or arbitrarily deny the already fraught designation of Native American to Mexicans. It is a field that should especially sour you to the profound, politically motivated ignorance of the American public, which continually manifests in social malignancy at a global scale.

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Wait but the actual linguistics explanation is that English is a Germanic language with a Latinate vocabulary via French and Celtic languages are yet a third separate branch of the Indo-European family, whose differences were compounded by Insular Europe (which I refuse to call the “British” Isles) being a frequently dangerous sea away from the three largest Continental Indo-European languages: Germanic, Romance, and Slavic. This is all to say nothing of the influence of various Old European substrates. If Old European is linguistically polyphyletic, that is, being constituted of multiple, unrelated families, that would only further compound such linguistic diversity. The foreignness of Celtic languages to English speakers is also magnified by centuries of deliberate language suppression which limited the natural process of syncretism. They have every right to be far more related and familiar than they are, if the British hadn’t been the inventors of, for example, modern racism, nationalism, and industrialism. More goes into this than it simply being another language!

It's always sooooo funny when English people or Americans are like "Why are Irish names so hard to pronounce?? Why are these Welsh words so insane???" that's because it is a different language that you do not speak hope this helps ❤️