#What does it mean what does it represent?

[daughterofthemuse]

THIS! THANK YOU!

Idk how "when interacting with ancient texts, it is important to understand the cultural norms and practices at the time, while still being able to interrogate the ways in which these perpetuate a system of violence and oppression, or the ways in which it gives you a glimpse of what they believed during that time period and how it's affected their stories and narratives. Context is important but not justification. Interest is not endorsement." is such a hot take

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Mark Zuckerberg announces mind-control ray (again)

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Mark Zuckerberg has told investors how he plans to make back the tens of billions he's spending on AI: he's going to use it to make advertisements that can bypass our critical faculties and convince anyone to buy anything. In other words, Meta will make an AI mind-control ray and rent it out to grateful advertisers.

Here, Zuck is fulfilling the fundamental duty of every CEO of every high-growth tech company: explaining how his company will continue to grow. These growth stories are key, because growth stocks trade at a huge premium relative to the stocks of "mature" companies. Every dollar Meta brings in boosts their share price to a much greater degree than the dollars earned by companies with similar rates of profit, but slower rates of growth. This premium represents a bet by investors that Meta will continue to grow, which means that the instant Meta stops growing, the value of its shares will plummet, to reflect the fact that it is a "mature" company, not a "growth" company.

So Zuck needs to do everything he can to keep investors believing that Meta will continue to grow. After all, Zuck's key employees and top managers all take much (or even most!) of their compensation in Meta stock, which means that the instant the company stops growing, those workers' pay will plummet and they will seek employment elsewhere, depriving Meta of the workers it needs to successfully create or conquer a new market and once again become a growth stock.

This is why Zuck keeps telling stories. The most important story Zuck tells is about himself, the boy genius who converted a tool for nonconsensually rating the fuckability of Harvard undergrads into a social media monopoly with four billion users. Zuck's cult of personality isn't the product of mere narcissism – it's a tool for creating the material conditions for ongoing investor confidence:

https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-shirt-latin-what-does-it-say-explained-words-2024-9

If Zuck is a boy genius, then Zuck's pronouncements take on the character of prophesy. When Zuck announced the "pivot to video," investors poured tens of billions into Facebook stock and into video-first online news production, despite the fact that Zuck was obviously lying:

https://slate.com/technology/2018/10/facebook-online-video-pivot-metrics-false.html

The "boy genius" story is an example of Silicon Valley's storied "reality distortion field," pioneered by Steve Jobs. Like Jobs, Zuck is a Texas marksman, who fires a shotgun into the side of a barn and then draws a target around the holes. Jobs is remembered for his successes, and forgiven his (many, many) flops, and so is Zuck. The fact that pivot to video was well understood to have been a catastrophic scam didn't stop people from believing Zuck when he announced "metaverse."

Zuck lost more than $70b on metaverse, but, being a boy genius Texas marksman, he is still able to inspire confidence from credulous investors. Zuck's AI initiatives generated huge interest in Meta's stock, with investors betting that Zuck would find ways to keep Meta's growth going, despite the fact that AI has the worst unit economics of any tech venture in living memory. AI is a business that gets more expensive as time goes on, and where the market's willingness to pay goes down over time. This makes the old dotcom economics of "losing money on every sale, but making it up in volume" look positively rosy:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/reality-check/

Now, Zuck has finally described how he's going to turn AI's terrible economics around: he's going to ask AI to design his advertisers' campaigns, and these will be so devastatingly effective that advertisers will pay a huge premium to advertise on Meta:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-ai-revolution-is-an-advertising-revolution-morning-brief-100001467.html

This narrative is especially galling because it's literally the same story Zuck has been telling for decades: "Facebook has built a mind-control out of Big Data, and we can sell anything to anyone":

https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/30/dont-believe-the-criti-hype/#ordinary-mediocrities

This is a facially absurd proposition. After all, everyone who's ever claimed to have perfected mind-control – Rasputin, Mesmer, MK-ULTRA, neurolinguistic programming grifters and pathetic "pick up artists" – was a liar. Either they were lying to themselves, or to everyone else. Or both.

But many of tech's critics helped sell this narrative (and thus helped Meta sell ads). Many critics have fallen prey to the sin of "criti-hype," Lee Vinsel's term for critiquing the claims of your adversary without bothering to ask whether they are true:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/02/euthanize-rentiers/#dont-believe-the-hype

The project of convincing investors that tech's "dopamine hackers" had perfected mind-control with warmed over, non-replicable Skinnerian behavior-mod techniques and mass surveillance sold a hell of a lot of ads. After all, if there's one kind of person the advertising sector has always been able to sell to, it's advertising executives, who are the easiest of marks for a story about how easy it is to trick the public into buying whatever you're selling:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

Every ad-tech sales-bro who takes a meeting with an advertising executive finds himself pushing on an open door. Advertisers desperately wants to believe in mind-control rays. Think of the department store magnate John Wannamaker, who said, "half my advertising spending is wasted – I just don't know which half." Imagine: some advertising exec convinced John Wannamaker that he was only wasting half of his advertising spending!

I've long maintained that the threat from AI to workers isn't that AI can do your job – it's that an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asbestos-in-the-walls/#government-by-spicy-autocomplete

The corollary here is that it doesn't matter if AI can design ads that work, not so long as an AI ad salesman can sell this proposition to an advertisers, and not so long as a tech CEO can sell it to investors.

AI keeps passing the worst kinds of Turing tests – for example, it's great at helping people who are prone to life-destroying hallucinations that they are talking to God:

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/

Zuck kept up his growth story with this mind control narrative for more than a decade, got caught committing a string of spectacular frauds, and then lured investors back into his stock offerings by telling the same story. This isn't just an indictment of Zuck, it's a stinging rebuke to the whole idea that markets are a kind of infallible computer for assessing and operationalizing information. The market's "thought process" demonstrably lacks the object permanence that most babies acquire by the time they are a year old. You can tell when your child has acquired object permanence by the fact that they cease to enjoy "peek-a-boo" (object permanence means they understand where you have gone when your face is hidden).

In claiming that AI will give him an infinite growth mind-control ray, Mark Zuckerberg is challenging the market to a game of peek-a-boo – and he's winning.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/07/rah-rah-rasputin/#credulous-dolts

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[thydungeongal]

Anyway this is relatively minor in the greater context of transmisogyny but sort of a demonstration of the fact that having good and inclusive policies only means so much when put up against all the rest of society being nakedly transmisogynistic.

I have been working out at a gym lately because it helps with my physical and mental health both. At this point in my transition I pretty much exclusively boymode in public and thus far the whole dressing room issue has not been an issue for me. But I recognize that at some point it is going to be both a comfort and a safety issue for me, so I've been looking for information about you know. What the policies of various service providers here in the metropolitan region of Finland are.

And the thing is, that information just isn't anywhere to be found. Like, that information does exist, but it simply isn't posted anywhere publicly. I know that the city of Helsinki has extremely inclusive and affirming policies when it comes to the use of gendered spaces in their sports and recreation services. Because I asked them through private channels (thus technically also outing myself to the person who answered my email, which just adds another layer of messed-up-ness to it). But because that information isn't posted anywhere it just doesn't actually do anything, right?

Like, I've been reading lots of literature about how trans folks, especially trans women, often don't feel comfortable in sports and recreation services for various reasons, and like I can't help but think of the fact that so much public discourse circles around how we're seen as invaders in gendered spaces, how other customers will target us with abuse and how service providers will often do very little to help us in the face of that abuse (and will often actively side with the person who finds out existence to be a threat). That is the ambient background noise we constantly live under, so we're inclined to believe that most service providers would, if a conflict should arise, take the side of a cis person who found our presence objectionable. This has actual measurable effects on trans people's health outcomes and we know a lot of the obstacles are not due to direct discrimination but due to structural and cultural obstacles.

So when some place actually does have an extremely inclusive and accommodating policy and their internal policies make it clear that their support for trans people is unequivocal and uncompromising and you know that their actual policy has got your back. It still doesn't help when that policy is nowhere to be seen.

It's always good to be critical of performative allyship. If a gym says that they welcome everyone and puts up pride flags for one month every year and then still asks a trans woman to leave the women's dressing room because a cis woman got scared, that's performative allyship. This is the opposite. These people have a clearly articulated policy that confirms that they will have your back if you're caught Exercising While Trans, but that information is nowhere to be found. I do think part of it is caution: they can't advertise that trannies are not shot on sight at their gyms because that would draw the ire of the right wing hate mob.

Anyway I'm glad the city of Helsinki is Woke and I have also relayed this information to some of the other dolls in the area, and apparently it's found its way to other queer groups here. But I have also told the lovely city employee I was in contact with that they should really have this information available somewhere, because not having it out there does represent an obstacle.

[subtextdecoder]

TBHX: What do the doves represent? Or any of it, really?

I was rewatching TBHX and omg I saw things I hadn't seen or considered before. There are just so many details that it's hard not to miss things.

The click came to me while I was watching the scene where Nice kills himself. Notice the white doves flying around and then X's image on the screen facing them right at the moment Nice jumps. It made me think: 'So does X really have power over the other heroes, or is he just observing them... or neither?'

But then I remembered both the OP and ED being heavy on the dove metaphor.

Let's start with the OP:

First, we see X throwing each of the heroes' cards.

2. Then, they all turn into pigeons and fly toward him.

3. Finally, we see X in a breach, looking like he's above and below everything at the same time. Then red strings appear, with him at the center.

There are 9 red strings in the scene, with him in the middle, making 10. Of course, that's not a coincidence. It made me think: maybe the strings represent all the heroes' fates being intertwined and tied to X. The strings being red could symbolize not just the 'red string of fate,' but also blood ties—or maybe that they can only be broken by death.

There’s a lot more going on in the OP, but let’s go back to the doves.

They appear again, and even more, in the ED:

First, there’s a black-and-white scene with all the heroes sitting on the throne. The last one shown is X, who gets up and walks toward us—maybe tired of watching all this?

2. As X gets closer to the camera, a dove takes flight. More doves join it, flying above the city.

3. We see them looking at the heroes from above—9 doves total.

4. When X takes his hands out of his pockets, the doves seem startled, like a breach in the system happens. They take flight, X snaps his fingers, and they all start falling through (maybe the breach from the OP?), surrounded by feathers. The sequence switches to color.

Note that here we have an aspect ratio change, the colorful scenes are closer.

5. We see the same places as before, but now: no posters of Loli, her name is gone from the wall, the city looks empty, screens are off, no ads. An ocean of feathers keeps falling.

6. A feather lands on the palm of a hand that looks dead or unconscious. The trust count on the wrist starts twitching and eventually disappears. The hand moves and grabs the feather. So, did they regain consciousness after being freed from the trust's shackles?

7. It ends with a feather landing on the empty throne—now in color—and the light goes out.

We can’t be sure what it all means just yet, but I think the OP, the episodes, and the ED are beautifully connected. Everything feels intentional. For example, in the ED, the aspect ratio changes when the transition from black and white to color happens. It's a clever cinematic device that makes us feel drawn into the new 'world' they've just entered.

I think the meaning of the doves changes throughout. Sometimes they represent those controlling everything, other times the heroes, and sometimes (through the feathers) maybe even every person in the world.

X could be so many things—maybe the first person to awaken as a hero, or the one chosen to lead... or maybe not even a real person at all, but an entity. Though we do see him working in an office and doing daily things. Is he observing them all the time? If so, why?

There are also lots of gambling references—cards, coins, roulette—which I think inspired the black-and-red color scheme in the logo. Is X the one gambling with reality? Or against it? Or against whoever’s really in control?

X’s ability, the breach, and the red strings make me think of a ton of scenarios: death as the only way back to reality... which would imply multiple realities. Maybe he can access parallel universes? The three main art styles might reflect three different timelines. And when X snaps his fingers, can he choose who goes where? If not, and if the feathers represent people, maybe everyone was teleported—along with the heroes. This metaphor makes perfect sense considering how the feathers fall and one reaches a hand, bringing it 'back to life.' Interpreting it as a phoenix metaphor, people are reawakened by the feather — which represents themselves — meaning they didn’t die, but were teleported and are now waking up in a new timeline. It’s as if the feather symbolizes their consciousness traveling through the breach that connects different timelines. The fact that the hand originally seemed to belong to an unresponsive body, combined with the colored scenes showing an empty city while feathers fall from the sky, could suggest that everyone is put 'to sleep' — their bodies remain, but their minds shift to a parallel reality. Or perhaps, the parallel reality isn’t a physical world at all, but their dreams while dormant. While writing this, I also started thinking it's kind of interesting that there are three distinct main art styles. If each one does represent a different 'universe,' then the name Treeman, aside from the logo being an actual tree, could be a wordplay—Three Man—with each version belonging to one of those universes. That leads to yet more questions: is their consciousness compartmentalized into three separate blocks, making it impossible for the person to realize they’re switching realities? or is it not split at all and that's why it appears to happen seamlessly? Some red strings in the OP intersect, others don’t. That might reflect which heroes influence each other—like E-Soul being a fan of Lucky Cyan, or X saving Ahu. But none of the strings connect to X directly; he stands alone in the center. Maybe that’s because all of them are tied to him whether they know it or not. It's also a nice way to show us that X could be the one pulling the strings, in a literal sense. The cards he throws in the OP remind me a lot of Tarot Cards, which could also imply handling with fate somehow.

There are also a lot of references to a stage. So maybe when the light goes out at the end of the ED, it means the play is over. They’re no longer heroes��they’re just ordinary people again.

Maybe everything was in their heads. Maybe they were never heroes—just ordinary people daydreaming about being more. The story videos only show a few characters in the 3D style. Maybe some don’t have a 3D version. If 3D represents reality, were they never real? Or maybe the 3D characters were never supposed to become heroes—but did anyway—starting a revolution that will break the system?

It could be that X’s power — or X himself — is a manifestation of people’s desire for change, to become something more, even to the point of altering reality entirely. You know that theory that says, 'for every choice we make, a new timeline is created'? X might be the means through which people can travel across these alternate realities they’ve shaped.

Thank you @steelenspots for opening my eyes to yet another meaning for the doves: "I'm also thinking about how X strongly has a magician aesthetic, and how doves tie into that — magicians 'free' doves in their performances. Nice gains freedom through death, and so far we've seen Lin Ling gain the freedom to be himself. We know X is the only one who can’t be controlled by the Commission, so maybe he’s observing and helping the heroes find their own freedom. If not freedom, then perhaps the doves symbolize peace in a more traditional sense — each character finding their own inner peace."

Well, it's al too crazy and I’ve got so much on my mind, I’m sure I forgot something here and there. But this is just me writing as I think, sharing my questions with y’all. I’ll post more when it comes to me. Edit: Part 2, but no longer about doves! It's really just me writing what comes to mind.

[jaffacake6]

Okay, breaking down what these mean and how to interpret them. Long post and I break down what each average is, the calculation of it, and what the other averages show for that comic.

Not using a readmore because it can fuck with accessibility, but hit "j" on desktop to skip this.

My stats background is only basic, so please correct me if any of the below is wrong. Happy to try and answer questions.

Comic 1 is about the mean average, the one you're likely most familiar with: Sum up all the values and divide by the number.

There are 7 lots of $30k and one lot of $430k so the sum is (7*30) + 430 = 210 + 430 = 640. And we then divide that by 8 lots to get $80k as the mean.

The mean provides an average, but can be easily skewed by outliers as we can see, and may not represent the distribution well!

The median here would be $30k, the mode would be $30k, and the range would be $400k. Mode is a sensible average here because you care about the most common case - that's probably the bucket you'd fall into and it's robust against outliers. The range is also useful since it'll tell you about how much disparity there is.

Comic 2 is about the Median average which means you order all of the values and take the middle one (or, if there's an even number of values and thus no middle, the mean of the two middle values).

If we order these values, we get something like six "-40"s followed by seven "8"s. So 13 values, the 7th one is the middle one. And the seventh is... an 8! So 8 is the median.

The median can be robust against outliers (if we have a value of -10k instead of -40 in there, no change), but doesn't tell you about the actual distribution as such.

The mean here would be -14%, the mode would be 8%, and the range would be 48%. The range is useful here to show you how swingy it can be, and the mean is useful for telling you the average over all the values but can still be misleading (since there can be positives).

Comic 3 is about the mode - the mode says "Whatever value is the most common is the average".

So since we have the most tests in the "70-80" bucket, even though that's a very small proportion of the total (2 / 9 = 22% roughly), it's the most common bucket so we say the average is 70-80.

The mean would be (giving each bucket its min value) 340 / 7 = 48.6, the median would be the fourth value so the 50-60 bucket, and the range would be (considering both bounds of each bucket) 79-20 = 59. This tells us that the grades are highly variable, and the distribution is largely flat.

Comic 4 is about the range. The range is the difference between the highest and lowest values - min subtracted from max. If we assume each bar is an increment of $1000 and they start at $1000, then they go from $1000 to $10k and the range is 10-1 = 9k.

The mean would be somewhere on the high end (because that's where the values are clustered), as would the median and the mode. The range is misleading here because it doesn't consider frequency or distribution beyond "min" and "max", and is thus very sensitive to outliers. All of these other measures correctly tell us that most of the students are high-income.

Comic 5 is about the correlation coefficient, which tells us "How correlated are these two variables?"

Correlation means that as one increases, the other will increase or decrease too - there's a relationship there.

Hot days and ice cream sales tend to be positively correlated, for instance, because as the average temperature goes up more people want ice cream. Hot days and hot chocolate sales are negatively correlated for much the same reason.

Since the correlation is simply a straight trend line that tries to fit the datapoints. If we draw a line like that here, it'll go from roughly the bottom left corner to the top-right corner through the middle of the cloud, right? That's how to best fit the points.

And because that means that as one increases, so does the other (at every point on the line where X is low, Y is low too and same for being high), it's positively correlated.

The mean athletic performance and amount consumed would both be potentially skewed by the outliers (we can't say without data values), the median would be very low for both, the mode would be very low for both, and the range would be very high.

The mode and range are both good identifiers here that the study is flawed: Most of the subjects do not fit the conclusion they're trying to push.

It's also worth noting that "highly correlated" doesn't mean positive or negative, just a strong correlation in one of those directions! You could say the same thing honestly (and misleadingly) if you flipped the graph vertically such that drinking it screwed up your performance.

The thing with statistics - via

[iceey07]

So a handful of people were asking for lore based on this so here's a quick lore

Yes it is Prowl Jazz or Jazzprowl (idk which one it is) and its doomed yaoi

They love eachother but that fact is a threat to themselves. Theyre respected autobots. The right and left hand of Optimus prime.

Jazz loves Prowl, he can feel a deep respect that Prowl rarely gives to anyone else and had supported him. Assisting him on missions or giving out good word in his favor for Jazz. But he always felt more than just respect or a strange friendship

Jazz is like mysterious extrovert. He is a team A leader and the glue to any fall out of a team but he is rarely open. Many bots dont realize how little they know about him because he makes itmore about everyone else than himself.

But why do tney contradict each other to a point where they are both enemies and lovers and hate the fact that They love each other?

Prowl is all control, logic, order. He strategizes three steps ahead, and his world has to make sense. He's the type to suppress emotion until it eats him from the inside, all for the mission. He Values efficiency, hierarchy, rules- and he needs to believe that following them leads to victory.

Jazz, on the other hand, thrives in chaos. He's improvisational, intuitive, people-first. He leads by heart and gut, not protocol. His adaptability is his strength, and he finds meaning the moment, not necessarily in the plan.

So when they love each other, it's a threat. Not because of the love itself, but because what it represents:

For Prowl: Jazz's very existence is a constant reminder that you can win people over, lead effectively, and find meaning without control. That terrifies Prowl, because if Jazz is right, then Prow|'s entire worldview-his way of coping with war, trauma, and identity- starts to crack.

For Jazz: Prowl is the kind of person who eminds him of the cold, distant command structures that cost lives and relationships. But Prowl isn't heartless--he's just guarded. And that makes Jazz care. Deeply. Which he hates, because caring about someone so rigid, so by-the-book, means opening up to something he can't control either.

They hate that they love each other ecause it means vulnerability.

Loving Prowl means Jazz has to admit he wants structure sometimes. Sometimes he wishes he could be seen not just as the fun-loving, reliable guy but as something deeper--and Prowl does see that.

Loving Jazz means Prowl has to admit that he wants to feel. To be spontaneous. That he's tired of being the calculating machine. And Jazz is the only one who can reach that part of him- and it terrifies him.

So what happens?????

It was a terrible moment when Prowl decided to change the spec ops' plans when infiltrating the decepticon base during a plan of attack.

As a result he knew it would cost a few lives. He told nimself that its for the greater good even though it would upset Jazz. He trusted Jazz's abilities and knew he would get out alive with the cost of his bots but he also knew he would be enraged.

He knew he couldnt argue Jazz into the plan so he did it behind his back last minute. It almost killed Jazz but he survived. The reason why Jazz looks away in the video first is because Jazz is the one who rejects him.

Jazz rejected Prow| first. The one bot he trusted betrayed him and got his soldiers killed for the sake of results.

So in the end Jazz tells himself that love was a luxury anyway

THATS ALL I HAVE FOR NOW. probably revise cus im still not satisfied. FEEL FREE TO SUGGEST THINGS IN THE ASK BOX THINGY

[last-words-ofashootingstar]

wet and messy: mommy!hwa hard thoughts

❥yandere park seonghwa x fem reader

➯a/n: siiiiiiiiiiigh this is a judgement free zone, right ? RIGHT ? i don't judge yall so yall don't judge me, let me just kglrbc(!1dbw— mommy!hwa in bed. i need to get some of this out of my brain until i can finish writing the full chapter or i will go INSANE

Baby Series !

✫彡wordcount: .... 1.4k ... ("wow, i'm fully medicated!")

ಠ_ಠwarning/content: dubcon(stockholm syndrome), pet names, cunnilingus, darcyphilia, overstim, drooling, rough sex, slight exhibitionism(through sound only), embarrassment, praise+dirty talk, squirting, creampie, ...piss kink

➯disclaimer: this is a work of fiction and does NOT represent a healthy relationship of any kind. ➯disclaimer2: as i've said before it is VERY important to always keep age regression and age play SEPARATE, and ive also said that seonghwa never touches baby while she's in little space MANY times. baby is not "baby mode" when they are being intimate, and i will never write that. baby is ALWAYS going to be in "adult space" (kkkk i can't think of a better word) when sexual things are happening, even if she acts cutesy and stuff

MINORS DO NOT TOUCH MY BLOG

seonghwa never touches you when you're in little space, he knows better than that. so when you come to him, fully aware of what youre asking for and fully able to consent (as much as you can in your situation) and say you miss his tongue — not even the FBI could pry this man off of you.

he worships the ground you walk on, if you tell him something would please you; he is immediately on it. he was born to please you, to take care of you. and he can't lie — he loves your pussy. he loves it just as much as he loves the rest of you... which is, to say, a crazy amount. an obsessive amount.

he doesn't even realize that he's rock fucking hard and leaking so much pre-cum that it's soaked through his pants. his entire being is focused on making you cum for the first time in months. and then, again. and then, again. until you're crying and yanking at his hair and there's a puddle underneath you of arousal and spit.

seonghwa is a messy eater. he usually likes things nice and tidy, but when it comes to being intimate with you — he likes it as messy as possible. he loves making a filthy, lewd, mess of his precious angel. he's the only one in the world who gets to see you like this, and the thought of that almost makes him cum untouched. he's the only one who gets to clean you up nice and softly, and he loves doing that. cleaning up the mess he made of you ? he's a fucking goner.

after the first time you come to him (and cum on him), you're way less hesitant to do it again because you can't lie to yourself and say he didn't take very good care of you. it's not a rare occurrence by any means, but it isn't everyday either. it's almost always you coming to him, but if he notices that you aren't feeling little; he won't hesitate either.

the way he treats you in bed couldn't be more different than how he treats you day to day. in the practice room, a soft kiss on your cheek. in bed, a breathless kiss to your jaw while he's hammering into you. in the morning time, a soft pat to your head after he does your hair. at night, his hands cupping your drooling, heated face and forcing you to look at him. moving around outside the room, he's carrying you like a precious doll. inside the room, behind the locked door — his fingers are digging into you like if he lets go, you'll disappear.

even when he's gentle with you, he isn't satisfied until he's made you cry from the overwhelming pleasure. he'll grind into you softly and kiss all over your face until he sees those gorgeous tears start welling up, his hips jolting, wanting more; wanting to pound them out of you. but his baby comes first, if you said you wanted gentle then that's what you'll get that day. but gentle doesn't mean he can't still ruin you. he'll do anything he can to delicately coax out all of your messy, adorable juices. drool, tears, cum, pee — he will get it.

more often than not though, he's not just messy. he's rough. he takes it slow at first; just floating at the feeling of your walls gripping him as he thrusts a few times. but after he gives you a kiss and a devilishly innocent smile — he's trying to pound the soul out of your body and take it for himself.

he doesn't give one single flying fuck that the others in the apartment can undoubtedly hear the bed wailing in tandem with you, the slapping of your skin together. why should he ? if you think he would be jealous of them hearing your beautiful cries of pleasure; think again ! you're his, he's yours, and the noises you make just prove how good he's making you feel. they prove that he was made to take care of you in every way that there is. sometimes he's merciful and lets you bury your face in the pillows or bite down on a stuffed animal to try and save yourself some embarrassment when you have to face them later.

other times, though, he'll shove everything away from you and hold your hands so you have no choice but to voice your pleasure loudly. and if he's notices you biting your lip a little too much, trying to muffle yourself — he pouts down at you and slows his thrusts, pulling out slooooow and asking "what's the matter, baby ?" when you open your mouth to answer, he's fully sheathed back inside of you and making you scream. it's no use trying to hide your pretty noises from your mommy, he'll get them out of you.

the first time seonghwa made you squirt, he almost fainted. he loves making a mess with you, of you, inside of you — you just unlocked a whole new world. he always makes sure you're hydrated, so it's not really a surprise that when he's fucking you silly; some of it would come out with one of your many, many orgasms. he aims a little more precisely as time goes on after that; giving you one or two before he starts all but assaulting your g-spot to make you squirt.

the first time you peed yourself — it was totally accidental, at least... on your part, that is. the angle was just so good, the way he had your legs pressed together so tight; his cock was pressing into you so hard from behind that you could feel it poke through your belly and press your skin to the messy blankets. you had warned him. through a loud, embarrassed gasp, "mommy, st-op ! m'gonna pee myself !" and holy good damn did that turn him the fuck on.

he didn't even respond with words. he couldn't form any. the only noise he could manage was a deep, feral, bone vibrating moan that only made your situation worse because he was right in your ear with his carnal sounds. he wrapped his arms around your shoulders tighter and fucked into you harder until you did just that.

that final, defeated, little squeak you let out before the first spurt came out made his ears burn, he wanted it on a loop. you were trying so hard to hold it in, tightening around him like a damn vice but it wasn't enough. spurting with every rough, unashamed thrust he gave until you finally had no choice but to let go. and the relief was like nothing else, especially when your orgasm hit you full force right after.

you were so, so, beyond embarrassed that seonghwa (after cumming his brains out and filling you up) couldn't help but coo and fuss over you even more than usual; giving you all the praise in the world as he slowly rocked his hips into you, the mess of fluids squelching and plastering a smirk onto his blushing face. something about the fact that he could make you feel so good that you lose control of your bladder makes him beyond ecstatic. making you so vulnerable. the warmth of it. so filthy and taboo and it's all for him.

even while seonghwa is giving you earth shattering orgasms and trying to mold your heat to the shape of his cock so that you can never possibly forget him — his words never once stray from sweet and adoring and obsessive.

"that's it's, baby," he'd coo as he slides deeeeeep inside you, "you can take it, there you go~ let mommy fill you up"

"c'mon, pretty girl, you've got one more for me — oh, thereeee you go, baby, there you go," talking you through a parade of mind numbing orgasms all the while he's watching your every move, drinking the sight in

"let me hear you," he'll pout as he laces your fingers together and holds your hands against the mattress so you can't cover your mouth, so you can hide the noise you're making while he fucks you near ruthlessly, "let me hear all those cute nosies"

"look at you, my little star," he'd smile in a way so drastically sweet compared to the way he knocks the air from your lungs with every thrust, "you take mommy's cock so well, i'm so proud~"

and by far his favorite: as he's slowly rubbing your sides and bringing you back down from the clouds, as his eyes are tracing every inch of your body; covered in a sheen of sweat and a mix of fluids between your legs, tearful eyes closed blissfully, his cum leaking from you —

"my pretty baby is so messy, let mommy clean you up"

so wet and messy: all for him, because of him. you're his perfect baby.

[earthsparked]

Drift’s spectralist beliefs would be so fascinating to some humans. It’s me I’m some humans

Introducing Drift to humanity’s cultural expressions surrounding the meaning of colors, and exploring things like finger painting, the Hindu celebration of Holi, color runs, sidewalk chalk, dyeing your hair. Using that as a way to connect with him and his culture. Asking him to teach you to meditate and learning about auras because even if you don’t believe in his belief system, it’s a beautiful way of seeing the world, and you want to know more about it. About him. Because it matters to him. And he is THRILLED because the other mechs always shut him down when he tries to talk about it!

Eventually, you shyly asking Drift if he would let you put some temporary paint designs on him as a demonstration of how much you care for him and out of respect for the person you know he is trying to become. Maybe you aren’t some fantastic artist but it doesn’t matter, your efforts and closeness to him, tiny hands trailing soft brushes along his armor, the adorable way you focus on him, not even aware of how he’s studying you more than what you’re painting on him - that’s what makes this an experience he will always remember.

But THEN, Drift taking one look when you’re done, and being absolutely shocked because you really see him as something beautiful whereas he tends to see the terrible things he’s done. But you’ve painted him in your favorite colors and he can’t even speak for a minute. Even the imperfect smudges and drips of paint are special, because it came from your hands, your organic spark, imperfect but unique in its imperfections. You only meant it to be a kind gesture for him, but he wears your design for as long as he can, carrying with him a work of art that shows as much about the beauty within you as it does your thoughts of him. A declaration in color that he’s both humbled by, and takes hope in seeing every day.

…Then, you asking Drift if he would put some temporary paint designs on YOU to represent the colors he sees in your aura. And you getting overwhelmed in return because he takes such incredible care and puts so much thought into it all; planning it out in detail before bringing you to a quiet place lined with pillows and soft lighting to paint you. The designs representing your friendship that means so much to him, as he smiles softly and turns paints into an outward expression of how beautiful he sees you as being, how lucky he is to have met you. A little solar flare of light and life, burning bright and brief, warming him and the other old mechs who feel so tired sometimes, but never when you’re around.

You can’t help but shed a few tears when you see yourself, because even in the alien designs and meanings you don’t quite grasp, it’s written big and bold for all to see that you are loved.

[michanvalentine]

Apologies if I’m being pedantic or repetitive, but today I found myself reflecting again on the importance of that gesture—on the strength of the message, the beauty it carries within. Tav/Durge says to Astarion, just before they reach the site of the ritual: “Show them the kindness no one ever showed you.”

It’s an act of immense power. Becoming what no one has ever been for you—a guide, a refuge, a savior, a gentle voice—means breaking a chain. In this case, a generational one, since Cazador represents a twisted father figure. It’s an act of rebellion against the pain endured, but also one of deep healing. Astarion isn’t just rewriting his own story: he’s becoming living proof that the harm he suffered didn’t get the final word.

It’s the transformation of absence into gift, of pain into strength. And that’s exactly what Astarion does when he kills Cazador and frees all of his victims: he chooses not to perpetuate the pain, not to let it pass through him to wound someone else. And in doing so, his gesture becomes symbolically even more powerful—because it’s no longer just rebellion, but responsibility. He becomes what Cazador never was: someone who uses power to save, to protect. Just as Tav/Durge had declared back in Act 1: those who have power have a responsibility to protect the weak. And in that moment, Astarion is the one who says, “I’m not the one in the dirt.” He is, quite literally, the one holding the knife by the handle.

And I know that many people either appreciate Astarion’s alternate path or just see him as a complete piece of shit with no character development who should be staked the moment he shows up—but I can’t help lingering instead on the heartbreaking, poetic beauty of this moment, so full of hope.

I actually think it’s the most crushing, most definitive victory a survivor can achieve. The harm that was done to us—fuck it—doesn’t win. I am above it. I am so much more, greater, better than you and everything you did to me. I can move on, somewhere else. Far away. Or, to put it in Astarion’s own words: “I’m still here. Fuck you and everything you did to me.”

[davvekat]

Also the chap 2 sneak peek type thing someone found is intersting af

Idk if anyone else talked Abt this so I'm posting it

[astrolook]

🌌💫Jupiter As Darakaraka - Part Lover, Part Life Coach 💍🌀

Read Mars as Darakaraka!

Note: These are just my personal observations and recurring patterns I've noticed over the years from married clients, relatives and friends. Take what resonates with you and leave the rest. Feel free to share in the comments if any of this hits home. This post is based on Vedic astrology.

Jupiter as Darakaraka - Your lucky charm

When Jupiter is your Darakaraka (planet with the lowest degree in your chart, representing your spouse), you're likely to attract a partner who is loyal, spiritual, principled, and often status-driven. You value their intelligence, worldview, and integrity more than looks or surface charm. With Jupiter in this role, substance always beats style.

Let’s clear up something for you: Jupiter as DK does not mean you’ll marry multiple times or have children with different partners. That’s misinformation. Just look at celebrity charts, many have complex relationship histories or multiple marriages, children with different fathers/ mothers, regardless of their DK is Jupiter or not. The average person with Jupiter as DK is not doomed to serial marriages or chaotic love lives.

Instead, this placement often indicates:

A significant age gap, where your spouse may be at least 10 years younger

Late marriage, commonly in your late 30s or even 40s

A partner who is mature beyond their years, honest, and wise

A relationship that brings luck, wealth, and connections

Expansion through shared travel, education, or cultural experience

Your life may noticeably level up after marriage, think “Wheel of Fortune” energy.

With Saturn: Marriage may be delayed. You might be the last in your friend group to tie the knot. Your spouse could be inexperienced in love but younger by 15+ years. They might be traditional, serious, or conservative.

With Rahu (North Node): The spouse is unconventional or your relationship dynamic is. Something about the marriage doesn’t fit societal norms, but it works for you. You might even elope with your spouse.

With Mercury: Your partner may speak more than one language, be highly opinionated, or talk over others at times. If Mercury is retrograde, they may frequently shift their views on politics, religion, or spirituality and only open up about those topics once trust is built. Usually, they have moderate beliefs and prefer to keep opinions to themselves.

With the Sun: Expect strong personalities. Both of you may clash in decision-making. The spouse may have a “preachy” or self-assured vibe but is well-educated and inspires confidence in you.

With the Moon: Beautiful for emotional bonding. Mutual care and emotional support last well into old age. This can also suggest a large family.

With Mars: Your spouse is ambitious and may travel frequently for work. Travel and adventure become central themes in your relationship. Starting a business together is a possibility and it could be lucrative.

With Venus: This placement often brings luxury and abundance after marriage. You might move into a larger home or build a bigger family through this union.

House Placements and More Clues

Jupiter in the 7th, 9th, 11th, or 12th houses: Strong potential for a foreign spouse or a partner who lives far from you.

If your 7th lord is Jupiter, the same theme applies, your spouse could live far away due to work (think military, diplomats, expats).

Jupiter in the 6th house: Both partners may be working professionals. There's a possibility of weight gain (especially in the lower body) and health concerns like blood pressure or diabetes. Managing health proactively benefits you both. If this house also contains Mars or the North Node, being active in social causes such as LGBTQIA+ rights, disaster relief, or international aid can offset some of the harsher effects of the 6th house Jupiter.

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[whatifsandspheres]

I seriously scrolled like two pumps, which is probably more than...

What were you named after? What's your names meaning?

I checked out your pinned post. How does it explain your trolling and self-important attention whoring? It seems to be about anarchy? Congrats. Since when is that a free pass for slurs and insults?

I don't see my blog representing this hate scrolling you talk about.

Are you lonely? Try yoga. Or music or something. Experience some ego death. Find God if that's how you need to gain some perspective. If.

Sourced from "The Jakarta Method" by Vincent Bevins

[goosegooserevolution]

got some tf designs done!! more about their designs and lore below the cut

Arcee:

For her lore, she started out as a school teacher before becoming a front line soldier. Her character is meant to represent civilians and how the war affected/changed them. Once she joins the front lines, she realizes she's quite good at killing and adopts some identity issues because of it. When she was a teacher she never felt like she knew who she was, but now she feels like she was always supposed to be a soldier. Her own violence terrifies her and makes her question if she's even a person. As the war drags on, she secretly wishes it never ends. She doesn't see how someone as violent as her would fit into a peaceful Cybertron, so she hopes she'll never see that day. Eventually she does overcome her identity issues but that isn't until much later, for now she's going to quietly suffer. For her design, I wanted to make her arms and legs exaggeratedly big so it looks like she stole some warrior's limbs and slapped it onto her own frame. It's supposed to symbolize the harsh transition from civilian to warrior, and visibly show her identity issues with how unbalanced her frame is. Her paintjob is pink to symbolize energon, which she tends to be painted in regardless of her original color (sort of a deadpool situation). When she was a teacher she started out a light blue, then when the war started she changed to pink, and after the war she's a dark blue with pink highlights (similar to her canon tfp design). The dark blue symbolizes her finding peace and serenity once the war is over, and the pink accents show that the scars of war never truly go away. Finally, her alt-mode is a bike, which might be unassuming on the battle-field but not only is she agile she's one hell of a heavy hitter! It gives her an advantage in combat, and between her kind eyes and unsuspecting alt-mode, mechs tend to underestimate her. Elita:

For her lore, Elita starts out as a dock worker with her buddies Orion Pax and Ironhide. She's a simple mech, she likes to go out drinking, hates her supervisor, and enjoys spending time with friends. Once the war starts her peaceful but sometimes difficult life is shattered, and her only goal is to return to what she had. She doesn't care for politics, she doesn't care for leading, all she wants is the life she spent so long building to come back to her. She's second in command to the new prime: Optimus, who just happens to be her incompetent friend Orion Pax. Optimus is a great leader when he isn't constantly doubting himself, so mechs tend to look towards her for a stable figure. Elita only stays so stable because she's so motivated by getting her old life back, its a simple desire but that makes her all the more relatable to the mechs under her. She's generally pretty grounded and easy to get along with, but don't try to be vulnerable with her it just becomes awkward. For her design, I decided to make her a tow truck since I always imagine her lifting and pulling all her friends up, figuratively and literally. Whether its pulling her drunk friends up off the floor, dragging Orion into an alleyway to avoid enforcers, or giving a peptalk to Arcee, she's a very supportive figure and the Autobots would be lost without her. Before Orion ascends to Primacy, Elita is the tallest out of their truck trio (Orion, Ironhide, and her). Truck alt-modes are some of the tallest Cybertronians, only rivaled by miners, shuttles, and Primes themselves. Her pink paintjob is a bit dingy and rusted to show she's a laborer, and her pink color is also meant to symbolize energon, but doesn't take on the violent meaning that Arcee's does. Elita's pink color represents home and the very concept of life, because she is fueled by that desire to return home. Shockwave: I don't have much on Shockwave as I'm still fleshing out his character, but generally speaking he's a lot more expressive and emotive than canon Shockwaves. He starts out as a gladiator in the pits with Megatron. His unusual appearance is because of what he views as most "logical", AKA what are the cheapest/most practical parts to replace his old broken ones. Once you get your face smashed in so many times you stop going through the effort of getting a whole new faceplate. Once the war starts he retreats to the lab and makes whatever Megatron asks for. He stays away from combat, as a result he keeps his gladiator frame, since it's never damaged so it would be "illogical" to replace it with something more akin to a scientist's frame. His alt-mode is a weaponized space-craft rover.

[carylmeanslove]

Nicola's Yellow Tulip & Luke's message sent through song.

Here you go Frannie

We have a very lovely picture of Nicola with a yellow Tulip. It looks pale yellow from the lighting, but yellow tulips mean the same. It's short & sweet.

I also find it quite interesting & beautiful that she was given this particular flower & color of flower by the photographer that you have mentioned in a previous post is the same photographer that took the below picture of Luke with another yellow flower, his being a yellow rose, which most likely made him think of Penelope's old color & so also of course made him think of his Nic.

I have always loved this picture. It was featured in one of the stories/videos if I recall correctly by the photographer or if not, it was someone on his team & it had a song that was quite telling for the photoshoot video music. The song choice was Lunch by Billie Eilish 😏

The TT below was a fan reacting to the song choice. I just now noticed the✌️pose. Sigh So it was definitely meant to be a message sent to us. Especially since the photoshoot was before the June 11th. So, after Galway & before the London Premiere, He was newly engaged to Nicola. He wanted us to know in a lowkey way that Nicola was the one for him. Doing this before he had to fall on the sword for his little family.

(9)ABS (@abbygrimz1) | TikTok (based on her acct she kinda believes in the PR fakery)

God those lyrics still get to me. Yes, Nicola is the one for you, Lukey. We know, don't you worry. Those that understood your message are still here.

😏 It certainly does look like he wants to eat Nicola for lunch, he is always devouring her with his eyes. We've seen it throughout the WT. He loves & wants her so much. I also find his punching pose his way of showing/representing him fighting for his & Nicola's future with what he had to do for the summer & since. He is & always fighting for & looking out for his Nic & their future together. I truly believe that & feel that in my gut.

ETA: It was posted on Luke's IG on his tags. The photographer posted it & tagged him. It was probably the song he chose for the Photographer to play while she shot his pictures. The background music.

[daisukoth]

alright so FRIEND's sprite was literally changed to be MORE magenta. and its SUSIE'S MAGENTA.

Can we FINALLY talk about these guys sharing Susie and Noelle's Magenta and Yellow coloring?

What the fuck does this mean?

The ONLY guess that I have is that this is meant to be some kind of parody of the Yin and Yang, but switching the black and white with yellow and magenta

(image representative only)

Magenta represents hedonism and Yellow represents virtue???

[aventurineswife]

I really love how you write each individual characters and how well you characterise them!! No idea how you manage to write so much that you could put them on schedules for months in advance and I wish I had your motivation when I study LOL, take breaks when you need! :]

Can I have some HC's on pet names? What kind of pet names (honey, darling, or something more specific and creative like little sparrow?) would the characters use for their SO? (aven, sunday, robin, topaz..)

Sweet Names, Sweeter Love

Synopsis: What nicknames do they call their S/O?

Tags: Aventurine x Reader, Sunday x Reader, Robin x Reader, Topaz x Reader, Character Development, Headcanons, Pet Names, Affectionate Relationships, Fluff, Playful Romance, Emotional Depth.

Warnings: Light Emotional Themes.

A/N: Thank you so much! That honestly means a lot. 🤭💖 I think the key is getting really immersed in each character’s personality and just letting their traits guide how I write about them—it makes it feel more natural, like I’m just observing their behavior and quirks (does that make sense? I'm not sure lol). As for the motivation... honestly, I can totally relate to the struggle of staying focused on studying! 😭🙏 We’re all just figuring it out as we go, right? Hopefully, you find that same kind of flow when you’re working. And don't worry, I definitely take breaks lol!! 💖

Aventurine would use pet names that reflect his playful, teasing nature while masking deeper affection. His choices would often allude to games of chance or strategy, mirroring his obsession with risks and calculated moves.

Lucky Charm: Playing off his love for luck and risk, Aventurine might call his partner this to show they’re a source of fortune for him, balancing his reckless tendencies. It’s a sweet term, but with a layer of subtle manipulation, as if he’s still controlling the narrative.

Sunshine: Aventurine uses this name to show a softer side, calling his partner “Sunshine” to reflect how they brighten his world. Though he often hides behind playful teasing, this term reveals his genuine affection, showing how much their warmth and light mean to him.

Clever Fox: For a partner who matches his cunning and wit, this name implies an equal in strategy. It’s not just about admiration—he views them as someone to play the game of life with, and he appreciates their intellect.

Sapphire: Drawing inspiration from his own gemstone-related name (Aventurine), this would be an affectionate pet name that shows both admiration and a touch of glamor. It's a nod to something rare and precious, but with a polished, cool edge.

Despite his flamboyance, these pet names are ultimately a way for him to feel like he's keeping things under control while also forging intimacy through his carefully chosen terms.

Given Sunday’s introspective and empathetic nature, his pet names would be deep, celestial, and meaningful. His choices evoke a sense of tranquility, harmony, and a shared emotional connection with his partner.

Starflower: Reflecting both his celestial theme (with his golden halo and wings) and his partner’s delicate beauty, a Starflower symbolizes something rare and precious in an endless universe. It reflects both admiration and a deep sense of care.

Beloved: A softer, more timeless name, this carries the weight of his affection. When he uses this pet name, it’s sincere and heartfelt, reserved for someone he deeply cherishes.

Moonlight: Sunday would likely call his partner “Moonlight” to express their calming influence on his life, much like the moon softens the night sky. It symbolizes peace in a chaotic world.

Charmony: Rooted in Sunday’s role in organizing the Charmony Festival, this pet name represents a deep emotional connection. It ties directly to his belief in peace and balance—his version of finding harmony in a universe of conflict.

Sunday’s pet names reveal his desire for connection and peace, evoking his philosophical and idealistic beliefs while expressing affection in the most serene, intimate way possible.

Robin’s pet names would be graceful and lyrical, reflecting the elegance and poetic beauty of her character. They would often carry a musical or celestial theme, mirroring her deep emotional resonance.

Melody: A soft, musical pet name, “Melody” would echo Robin's connection to her voice, which is her greatest gift. It evokes harmony and beauty, and also hints at how their relationship is a sweet, harmonious song.

Starlight: Given her Penacony heritage, this pet name reflects someone who is a source of awe and inspiration. Just as stars light up the night sky, her partner would be the light in her life, full of wonder.

Lullaby: This term would reflect Robin’s soothing presence and the comfort her voice brings. It’s a way to say that her partner finds solace in her, just like the soothing melody of a lullaby at night.

My Muse: For someone who inspires her in every way, Robin might use this name to convey how much their presence fuels her creativity. Her partner serves as her muse, influencing her music and life deeply.

Robin's pet names are calm and poetic, symbolizing the peaceful, emotional depth of her personality, as well as her devotion to her craft and her partner.

Topaz’s pet names are precise, practical, and a bit bold, reflecting her highly skilled, efficient, and no-nonsense personality. Yet, there’s a softness in how she expresses her care, revealing her tenderness when she’s truly close to someone.

Gem: Simple yet precious, this straightforward pet name reflects her practical side while still acknowledging how much her partner means to her. It's a little utilitarian, but warm and genuine.

Partner in Crime: Reflecting her strategic nature and love for efficiency, this pet name suggests someone she can rely on for collaboration. It implies a mutual bond, where both partners work as a team, whether in business or life.

Bastion: A slightly more serious, protective term of endearment. Topaz would use this for someone she feels brings stability and strength to her life, someone she can rely on during challenging times.

Spice: A playful and affectionate name, “Spice” reflects how her partner adds excitement and flavor to her life. It’s a nod to how she finds joy and warmth in their presence, which adds dimension to her otherwise pragmatic world.

Topaz’s pet names strike a balance between practicality and affection, reflecting both her no-nonsense nature and her more tender side.