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[treethymes]

Monster (2023, dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda)

[30000songs]

#887 - Meaningless - Jon Brion

Brion is a great sous chef, but as the main course I'm afraid he's not at his best. Still, we'll always have the great production and score work.

53/100

[nocreativityfornames]

Barbatos and Solomon's first meeting and a theory of mine, aka: what if Solomon summoned Barbatos to save his friend?

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SWD S3 AND NB S1 AHEAD

Okay, so we've had pieces of info about their first meeting for a while now, but after collecting everything I could on these two to make my recent posts I was able to put them together and here it is.

First, there are the two times the story was briefly told in Obey Me! SWD, this one being from lesson 53-16 when Asmo discusses his first meeting with Solomon and then asks Barbatos about his:

And this next one being from lesson 49-A when Asmo asks about it for the first time and Solomon doesn't want to tell him:

And we learn what happened in the aftermath from Thirteen when she tells us about it in Obey Me! NB lesson 11-10:

So Solomon risked his life to summon Barbatos using an incantation and was left on the brink of death because of it, all because he "desperately needed his powers to control time", and after their interaction and whatever happened there, Barbatos took him to the Fountain of Knowledge and declared him the new protector of it.

By the way, they didn't make a pact during their first meeting but later on instead, or at least that's what I got from Barbatos saying:

I'm saying this because "eventually" is vague enough to be open to interpretation and could mean that they did make a pact during their first meeting and that it only took some bargaining for Barbatos to agree. But the way I saw it was that the pact was made later on.

So, the questions left unanswered from this are:

1 ) What made Solomon want to control time badly enough for him to seriously risk his life for it?

2 ) Did Barbatos help Solomon by using his powers to control time like he wanted him to?

Because it never says that Barbatos agreed to Solomon's "desperate need", and it doesn't say why Solomon was so desperate for it in the first place, only telling us that there was something he wanted enough to risk death for it.

But it does answer WHY later.

At first I thought we didn't have more info on their first meeting, but then I remembered this little moment from Obey Me! NB ( that I added to my post afterward and here's the screenshot from the post because I was too lazy to open the game and go to the lesson again ):

So Solomon almost died summoning Barbatos because he desperately needed his powers to control time after causing serious destruction to the Human World with his...?

Well, maybe, the passage does say that Barbatos appeared before him and not that he was purposely summoned by him, but it could be that the book is just depicting what people at the time thought happened, since it makes it sound like that was their first meeting when Barbatos himself said that Solomon summoning him was how they first met.

Anyway, let's assume I'm right and that's what happened and the reason why Solomon needed Barbatos was to fix the damage he did to the Human World unintentionally.

THE MAIN THEORY: Solomon summoned Barbatos to save his childhood friend's life, who was affected by Solomon's powers going out of control.

This is something that Solomon tells us in Obey Me! NB lesson 14-16, that he had a friend while he was locked up in the basement as a kid. He tells us the story of how they met and says that from then on the friend started visiting him regularly and that they would chat through the bars of the window basement and that's how their interactions went for however long. But then while telling us about them he suddenly stops:

And thus this became my current theory.

Solomon's powers, which have always vastly surpassed your usual human's, start getting out of control and becomes a threat to the world, endangering one of his loved ones ( much like MC's in S2 with Lucifer ). And desperate to save their life and out of what to do, he summons a demon he knows can control time to help him.

Judging by how Solomon struggles to tell the story to MC though, we can assume that it didn't end well.

Maybe Barbatos refused to save his friend/had no way to do it ( he can only travel through timelines and not actually go back and change the one where he is ) and Solomon had to accept the fact that they were dying and say goodbye and this was the moment when he made this promise to them to become a good sorcerer, learn how to control his powers and protect humanity.

Or maybe Barbatos did try to save them/told Solomon how to do it but it ended badly somehow and that's what brings Solomon pain when he tries to talk about it.

[kaijukebox]

Michael x gerry x martin x jon 4 way hug?? If not is kay ^^

Your mind 👀 thank you for the request!!

I also think they should all be allowed to hang out 👉👈

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Today’s Reference

[rubberduckyrye]

You ever see a post that you agree with and you wanna add on your own two cents but your brain is like "Hmmmm.... nah. I wanna watch House MD clips instead."

[dailyzawa]

WAWA MOBS MONKEY SHIRT

feb 22

[rebel-sqrrl]

Sometimes Ward reminds me how good Wildbow is at writing "heroes" who are absolute scumbags, and then makes me wonder why the hell he made them the main characters.

Anyway, Rain is the fucking worst. Leaving a traumatized, abused, brain-damaged child in a secret bunker prison — potentially for years — where she's not allowed to talk to her family and no one respects basic human rights, just because he can't manage to scrounge up a shred of empathy... yeah, Love Lost was right about him.

#JusticeForColt

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

RIP Medical Debt update:

[mochademic]

100 Days of Productivity [Day: 53] || 100 Jours de Productivité [Jour: 53]

hot apple cider & bookbinding after deep cleaning the house. the perfect way [for me] to spend my evening post-exams. I did it; a whole semester of french classes that at one point I would never have believed I could complete. There was a time I had told everyone in my life that I would never go back to school after finishing my degree - & while this exam season served as a reminder to why I said that, I can also say I'm happy I gave it a shot.

Even though the semester is over, my work still isn't done. My first holiday market is coming up & I've still got a lot to catch up on. At least this work is a little more familiar.

currently listening // Easier by Mansionair

Cidre de pomme chaud et reliure après un grand nettoyage de la maison. la façon parfaite [pour moi] de passer ma soirée après les examens. Je l'ai fait ; un semestre entier de cours de français que je n'aurais jamais cru pouvoir terminer à un moment donné. Il fut un temps où je disais à tout le monde que je ne retournerais jamais à l'école après avoir terminé mon diplôme - et bien que cette période d'examens m'ait rappelé pourquoi j'avais dit cela, je peux aussi dire que je suis heureuse d'avoir tenté ma chance.

Même si le semestre est terminé, mon travail n'est pas encore achevé. Mon premier marché de vacances approche et j'ai encore beaucoup de choses à rattraper. Au moins, ce travail est un peu plus familier.

chanson // Easier par Mansionair

[benjithefox]

ep 53 not really spoilers x]

i thought this was part of the episode was really funny x]]]

[bmpmp3]

when people complain about getting like, a 98% grade on something because it was "so close to perfect" its like. i understand what you're saying on a technical level. but that is a line of thought so far away from my experiences and ways of thinking that i do feel like im from another planet. 100% isnt even a real number to me

[nomsthecat]

Thank you! Thank you all So much!

ok so im gunna be sappy... for like a minute or two but Thank you all for nearly 100 followers. Halfway there! To those 53 people that followed me, you all are so cool<33! I may not be a big artist or writer or anything, but I really do appreciate you following my silly little blog<3 I never expected to actually do something like this, and much less be perceived for it! So I promise, Promise I'll make a poll when I'm closer to 100 followers on what to do for achieving that milestone, that way all you cool people can have something to look forward to! And again, Thank you. Thank you So much. alright sappy time done back to writing aha

[30000songs]

#884 - The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu

This album would be 50% better if the songs were 10% less abrasive.

53/100

[aardappel-van-mijn-oog]

Hello there Botany Tumblr I have a normal and sane question about foxgloves

So, say I wanted to extract around 100-120 nanomoles of digoxin from some standard run-of-the-mill digitalis purpurea (aka common foxglove)

No reason! :3

Does anyone know off the top of their head how much foxglove you'd actually need? Also supplementary question which part is the most concentrated? I thought it would be the flowers but idk maybe the stems are where it's truly at

Thamks :>

[whywishesarehorses]

Short ride after a really weird week - she was a saint

[acheronist]

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