#Inundated

[tenth-sentence]

Why, he asks, if time travel is possible, haven't we been inundated with visitors from the future?

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The sagacious animal went on doing this till gallons of water had been squirted over him, and water was running out of the skirts of his frock-coat as if he had been for a bath with all his clothes on.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" - C. S. Lewis

[earthleave]

Exploring the hidden beauty beneath the city streets. 🚧🌃

[idontmindifuforgetme]

Nobody gives a fuck about Biden very ambiguously “negotiating” with Israel, all while he continues funding the weapons it’s using to genocide Palestinians. Yesterday the IOF abducted 16 people during dawn prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque, and there are still no reports of aid being allowed through the “opened” Beit Hanoun crossing. I say opened in quotation marks because no aid trucks entered Gaza despite Israel’s claims that they would permit “temporary aid.” It’s all smoke and mirrors—and it’s pure evil.

[celebrimborium]

rings of power + central relationships*

*by gesture and touch

[sunderwight]

MDZS AU where Wei Wuxian gets a System, but the only thing it notifies him of is when Lan Wangji has unlocked a new kink.

[comicaurora]

A quick and general reminder!

I don't answer all my asks, or frankly even most of my asks, and if your ask hasn't been answered that in no way indicates that it was bad or anything, it just means I didn't have a good answer. I usually only post asks I think I have an interesting response to, so a lack of reply says a lot more about me than about anyone sending the asks.

However, if you send an ask that is aggressively cryptic, incomprehensible and/or deeply parasocially overfamiliar, it's also not getting answered specifically because of those reasons.

[coulsons-band]

pedro pascal doesn’t owe you shit.

it is absolutely fine to be disappointed by his absence at cannes. i am too. but he does not have to be there.

for whatever reason he’s pulling away from the attention. the esquire article talked about how guarded he is and his socials have really slowed down. maybe he’s unprepared or overwhelmed by all the tlou hype. i mean his follower count went up by the tens of thousands the day after the premiere. that’s insane.

but some of you have lost the plot. the ones wearing d*ddy’s little girl shirts in fucking public and yelling d*ddy at him at events and trying to convince everyone whether he’s queer or not and complaining there isn’t an explicit scene of him fucking in the strange way of life. it’s not a gay porn made for your fetish. ‘oh but narcos!!’ that’s called characterization. read literally any article from almodovar and understand why sex isn’t the point.

interacting with paparazzi content and making cute little edits - jfc. that’s creating demand and supply and paparazzi know no fucking boundaries. man’s got anxiety and no doubt the paps and fans watching his every move are probably making that worse.

let him make movies and rotate through his four shirts in peace. pedro pascal doesn’t owe anyone shit.

[greensaplinggrace]

the thing about characters like arthur morgan and harry du bois is that people will bend over backwards to argue that their worst choices are out of character. that being low honor or doing terrible things is simply for gameplay reasons and nothing more, but that couldn't be further from the case. truth is, they have the capacity to do all of those things because they're capable of doing them, and it's just as in character for them to indulge their worst traits as it is for them to be better.

[canisalbus]

I have a feeling that sooner or later you are going to silly-post your way into giving them a canon child on the modern au. Just watch

*gestures vaguely*

[sctumsempra]

i love when people bring up h*rry p*tter and i have to sit there and pretend like Severus Snape hasn’t rotted my brain since i read the books and isn’t one (1) of three (3) things that has gotten me through this year and that i don’t have a deep intrinsic personal soul to soul autistic bond with a fictional character that a huge chunk of people hate.

like ‘hahaha yeah i get sorted into slytherin almost instantly every time but ravenclaw is always a close second dw trelawney is an underrated fave i also really like luna lovegood there are no words to describe how i feel about severus snape it is that serious oh yeah i think potions class looks fun but divination is cool too’ etc etc etc

and if i do get the guts to be like giggling and kicking my feet and metaphorically drawing sevs name in glitter gel pen in different fonts while going ‘yeah i consider the whole lot to be the severus snape cinematic universe and nothing else’ then the explaining why? it just goes downhill. like yeah he’s me no i will not elaborate if you know you know. soz. and then the person just stands there like 🧍🏻 i regret asking So Much

[cheruib]

i love being in love im glowing from within:)⭐️🦋

[qiu-yan]

Serious Bitch Opinion: lan wangji...would be a terrible chief cultivator. yes, he is righteous and honorable and has a stalwart moral backbone. however, when you are given the responsibility of leading others, the impeccability of your own moral character must come second to what tangible results you can actually achieve for your people. and if you want to actually achieve any tangible results, instead of getting deadlocked forever or getting done in by your political enemies, you have to learn to compromise on some of your ideals. instead of freezing out the people you find morally despicable, you must learn to cooperate with them; otherwise, you will not achieve anything. and in order to achieve your goals, you must learn that not all of your goals are achievable--that, in order to get the more important of your desired measures passed, you must give up on some others.

now, this is almost the polar opposite of what MDZS as a text champions. arguably one of the central thematic thrusts of MDZS is the importance of not compromising on your ideals, even when it would be far more pragmatic to do so. thus, if lan wangji wanted to become a leader who could actually achieve things, he would have to directly contradict one of the most important messages of the very text that valorizes him.

the moral framework employed by MDZS to evaluate its characters and convey its themes is much more focused on ideals than on results. what matters to MDZS as a narrative is ultimately not the results of one's actions, whether one's righteousness led to joy or to ruin, but rather that one attempted to be righteous even in the face of almost inevitable failure. attempt the impossible, after all. the text of MDZS does not follow utilitarian ideas; it does not condemn wei wuxian for ultimately failing to save almost anyone. rather, wei wuxian's stalwart moral character is celebrated in spite of his failures because he, unlike everyone else, tried.

unfortunately--while someone who is only responsible for their own life can attempt the impossible, someone who is responsible for the lives of millions must instead achieve the achievable.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

"contentment in singleness" doesn't require you to stop desiring marriage & family. it doesn't require you to stop pursuing marriage & family.

Christians are called to be content in any situation--that doesn't mean we abandon all our good desires and concrete goals.

contentment is to trust/rest in God's promises to love you, provide for you, and make you holy.

you can do all of those things, and earnestly want and seek a husband.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the Lord. Proverbs 18:22

"Favor from the Lord" meaning, of course, blessing as the result of a life molded by wisdom.

Now, how can one find a good wife without seeking? Seek without wanting? And how can wisdom and contentment be mutually exclusive?

[sainz100]

❤️💦