#absolutely fucking mindboggling.

[dilfsona]

god you are so boring. do you have anything better to do with your day, or do you just have nothing but free time to make fake problems.

⚠️THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT⚠️

You can’t headcanon an adult character as a minor just so you can ship them with a minor. That’s proshipping and proshipping is fucking disgusting. It’s like headcanoning a lesbian character as straight but 10 times worse.

If i see one more person on this app make an adult character underage for shipping reasons I will loose my shit and report them as a bot.

Proshippers are not welcome here or anywhere on this app.

Have a great day💕

[nordfjording]

now theres a considerable block of the quote-unqote woke internet that spends more time counting degrees of separation between themselves and whatever they find objectionable (and pointing angrily at whoever they think is underperforming) than supporting their own cause and i dont think ive ever seen it more clearly than on the outskirts of israel/palestine discussion and frankly its embarrassing to watch.

[interstellarvacuumcleaner]

and on top of all things, sims 4 has updated

[bane-of-technology]

This fucking thread about JK Rowling’s shit world building.

[remyfire]

Now I'm just thinking about Potter and how neatly they showed us exactly what they wanted us to expect from this man. Dude walks into a MASH unit with all his regular Army trappings and, like, of course he's going to act exactly like he's been taught to as a superior officer. Everyone here went through basic. They all know the rules. Obviously they're all going to follow them.

I feel like somewhere in the middle of reading Hawkeye's file specifically is where the shift happens. This man is absolutely ridiculous. It's mindboggling, everything that he got away with to the present day. In fact, it's impressive. Sherm got into the Army at age 15, for Christ's sake. I feel like he can remember exactly what it felt like to be a child joking around and pulling pranks with his friends in between moments of carnage. He reads over some of the shit Hawk's done and probably wishes he'd been able to do it himself in his younger days.

That's where the switch finally gets flipped. What the hell is he doing, trying to treat this like a regular Army camp? He can't hold rigid expectations over them. It would be absurd. All he can really hope for is to request that maybe they not fuck around so bombastically that they all end up in hot water because of it. But he's not gonna sit down and have a quiet, reflective moment about it—that's not his style. He muses on things while continuing to move forward through his day, stoic, solid, prepared for any emergency that might occur. It's why the shift feels so sudden to the audience. He made his decision to treat this camp like human beings ripped away from their homes and coping the best they can far before he admitted longingly how much he could use a belt. He simply learned to play his cards as close to the chest as possible long, long ago.

[txttletale]

did you really mean to reblog that post equating “trans people should be sucking and fucking instead of infighting” with getting catcalled? the last poster reblogged it again explaining that they were referencing gross, sexually charged anons which is a totally different thing. equating “you have more in common than you do different” with “hey sexy come suck my dick” is NOT a good look

the amount of motte-and-bailey equivocation being done between 'have more in common' and 'should be sucking and fucking' here is absolutely mindboggling. if the posts going around said the former thing we would absolutely not be having the same conversation!!! i'm not fucking stupid, you can't tell me those are the same thing, come on now.

[dootznbootz]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMkyc3svp/

I CANNOT KEEP HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.

ODYSSEUS. WAS. FUCKING. RAPED. AND. COERCED.

THE. TELEGONY. ISN'T. CANON. TO. THE ODYSSEY.

WHEN. ARE. PEOPLE. GOING. TO. ACKNOWLEDGE. MALE. VICTIMS. AND. WHEN. ARE. TIKTOKERS. GOING. TO. STOP. BITCHING. ABOUT. THE. SOCIAL. POSITION. OF. A. GENDER. IN. AN. OUTDATED. AND. ANCIENT. SOCIETY.

I'm going to delete tiktok istg

I didn't even go further after the "You have no idea how much Ancient Greece hated women" :')

Thank fuck I don't have the clock app or I'd be causing problems. I'm really tired.

I'm sorry but in general, I'm really tired of this "They absolutely hated women" when like, y'all, that may have been the case with certain men and societal structures (The way Hesoid writes about women scares me tbh.) but like... people are so mindboggled by the fact that there are men that care about women??

Especially when the Minoan/Mycenaean society was structured quite differently compared to other eras.

I genuinely wish people just like, looked at history with a neutral lens. and then just saw how things like, are and how they were viewed at the time.

Idk I think some folks just have their heads so far up their asses that they refuse to see otherwise, which is a real shame :/

like I didn't even wanna listen to the rest of the clip because I just know it was a lot of hogwash

idk, Woe, Circe essay be upon ye.

[macknshift]

y'all?? i think i might've shifted again last night?? the reality i went to was absolutely fucking terrifying, not scripted AT ALL and so violent i'm just a bit freaked out, but at one point i literally told myself "i've shifted, huh." and the singular bit of food i did have while i was there i could taste. (the food was gross but it's not the point)

anyways. i'm counting it. i really would just like to be in a reality i've scripted bc both times i've shifted have been so weird and mindboggling and terrifying like woah.

[zorosroronoas]

romy fans who call rogue a 'whore' & other misogynistic shit, i wish you all a very go fuck yourself.

it's absolutely mindboggling to me that remy can be in other relationships & be shipped with everyone & their mother & no one bats an eyelash, but rogue has to be there for remy & remy only. makes me fucking sick.

[twopoppies]

Hiya, just read this about Lorde & cancelling tours. Seems like it’s more common than I thought?

https://www.nme.com/news/music/lorde-addresses-economic-realities-of-touring-things-are-at-an-almost-unprecedented-level-of-difficulty-3347062

Oh, that’s such an interesting article. Thank you so much for sending it. It does a really good job of laying out the myriad complication involved in staging a tour these days.

“Basically, for artists, promoters and crews, things are at an almost unprecedented level of difficulty,” Lorde wrote in her letter, citing factors like “three years’ worth of shows” occurring simultaneously, global economic downturn, and concertgoers’ “totally understandable wariness” around health risks.

She went on to acknowledge logistical factors such as widespread crew shortages, linking to an article from New Zealand news outlet Stuff about the issue. “Extremely overbooked trucks and tour buses and venues, inflated flight and accommodation costs, ongoing general COVID costs, and truly mindboggling freight costs” were also listed as factors.

“To freight a stage set across the world can cost up to three times the pre-pandemic price right now. I don’t know shit about money, but I know enough to understand that no industry has a profit margin that high,” Lorde continued.

“Ticket prices would have to increase to start accommodating even a little of this, but absolutely no one wants to charge their harried and extremely-compassionate-and-flexible audience any more fucking money.

“Nearly every tour has been besieged with cancellations and postponements and promises and letdowns, and audiences have shown such understanding and such faith, that between that and the post-COVID wariness about getting out there at all, scaring people away by charging the true cost ain’t an option. All we want to do is play for you.”

Lorde went on to say that she’s lucky because profits being down across the board doesn’t pose an issue for an artist of her stature, but touring has become a “demented struggle to break even or face debt” for artists selling less tickets than her – which in some cases, can make touring prohibitive altogether.

[…]

She continued: “I wanted to put all of this in your minds to illustrate that nothing’s simple when it comes to touring at the moment, and if your faves are confusing you with their erratic moves, some of this could be playing a part.”

Full article here

[nekropsii]

thanks for sticking up for us transfems <3 sorry anons are incapable of being normal

Absolutely no problem. <3

I'll say in advance that nothing's gonna get me to back down, no worries about that at all, it's just exhausting getting hit with this shit so much. I'm lucky in the sense that I could just give up and this would likely all stop. I refuse to give up because others don't have that luxury, because their mere existence is the thing getting politicized. It's so depressing that it's coming from all angles, too - the people who were trying to "reeducate" me, the people being the most outwardly misogynistic to me, the ones who immediately decided based on nothing that I am a woman and should be spoken to as such... They identified themselves as fellow trans people, specifically all as trans men/transmasc. It's really, really deeply sad.

I'm gonna get a nice drink and some Ibuprofen, this shit's giving me an actual real headache. And I'm gonna play some Bugsnax about it.

Transfems everywhere, I love you, and I'm sorry about the world. This shit is frankly fucking ridiculous, and the fact that any vocal alliance towards y'all, and any enjoyment derived from any inclusion of you in spaces leads to such outright hostility is mindboggling. Y'all don't deserve this shit. It's fucking dire. You all deserve the world. Stay strong!! You're all better than any bigot, no matter how sweet they present themselves, no matter how delicate their concern-trolling is!! PEACE AND LOVE FOREVER!! Let's all hit people with cars!!!!

[darkpoisonouslove]

Hc (and something I wish would've actually happen): During that scene in 3x23 where Griffin, Saladin and Faragonda fight eachother Griffin realized at some point that something's was off bc she just knew that Valtors powers felt diffrent in that moment. Like she still recognized his powers but she knew in a real fight with him it would be diffrent. So she stopped attacking and instead just defended herself bc she knew how he works and there could be the chance that all of this is a twisted illusion and that Saladin and Faragonda still could be there.

That's always bugged me! Forget knowing Valtor's magic! The idea that Griffin, Saladin and Faragonda wouldn't recognize each other's magic is absolutely mindboggling! They've known each other for literal decades and have fought a war together!!! There's no way they wouldn't realize they're fighting each other! But once again, plot is prioritized over having character situations that make sense (because otherwise the Winx wouldn't have gotten to fight Valtor with the Water Stars and had the shocking revelation that Valtor has trapped Bloom's parents in his body that's... debunked by the end of the next episode... by the Ancestral Witches... who are beings of pure evil and have zero reason to tell the truth to the daughter of their sworn enemies... I give up; the writing for this show is atrocious!!!!)

Anyway, my idea (haha, RIP my rewrite that was supposed to include this) was that Valtor sends the Trix in his place to fight Griffin, Saladin and Faragonda after he gives them some magic to help emulate his own and because they used to have the Dragon Fire, small sparks of which have remained inside them since it can never be extinguished. So Griffin ends up fighting Darcy and she still figures out the deception! Because YES, she fucking knows him and his magic! That is to say, I completely agree with your headcanon! (And seriously, he should have used the Trix! This is a perfect three-on-three battle opportunity and could have brought us back to the time when the Trix were an actual threat!)

[sol-flo]

episode 8 final thoughts: hate the visions of lestat. hate molloy's know it all attitude. could we please let the story breathe. because the actual plot of their little eurotour was nice. this series is simply bloated as hell jesus christ

hold up iwtv s2 is airing since last week? and no one told me? can't count on anyone smh

[sleeptokenpuppy]

Shout out to II for being able to play that incredible solo in The Summoning while having an absolutely mindboggling lightshow going on all around him. Holy fuck. Never ceases to amaze me.

[beesmygod]

do the forbidden woods have any connection to the beasts or great ones, aside from being geographically adjacent to byrgenwerth? Are the snake infested fellows just "normal" as far as yharnam is concerned? Like before yharnam got all bloodborney, was the Yharnam Cartographer's Guild map of the woods still just a big circle with SNAKES written?

this is a really good question because, as a lore psycho, i think the understated lore implications of the woods are genuinely fascinating. i think there's a lot to unpeel, even if we take into account that it was one of the places in the game that was chopped up at the 11th hour and scrambled before release.

as always for these lore posts, important nouns are bolded and speculation is in italics. we are going to discuss the woods in three parts: from the gatekeeper to the windmill is "the village". from the windmill to byrgenwerth is "the woods". the subterranean cave shortcut back to yharnam will just be called "shortcut." i'll expand on this shit GREATLY when we reach this part in "you hunted" (I HAVENT STOPPED WORKING ON IT I PROMISE IM JUST SWAMPED) so considered this a light overview. feel free to ask for more details on things and ill do my best to fill in the blanks.

THE VILLAGE:

-from the jump, the village gatekeeper is a fucking weird little blip in bloodborne's narrative. i haven't thought about him enough to figure out if he's more than just a spooky, unexplained element but he has some cut dialog that sheds some mindboggling information about yharnam: he seems very confused about WHEN it is and will cite the last time he had a visitor as anything from a year to a century.

-the lamps in this area lighting the way to the village are little burning fetal beasts of some sort.

i'm starting to understand more and more about how fire operates in the world of bloodborne, since most of the time it appears in the game, it's seemingly impossible. the thing that confused me the most was how old yharnam was still burning if it happened a long time ago. i think it's time to start thinking of the old blood as impossibly combustible and a great source of light/fire. this isn't the first in-universe example of creatures being used as fuel: the lamps in the fishing village are slugs (also infants? they strongly resemble the hunter's appearance as a baby great one in the "childhood's beginning" ending). this is a whole fucking like, thing. it's its own post.

next, the huntsmen enemies here are dressed funny. you probably noticed it but couldn't pin down how. they're dressed in white church clothes! the first model here is used only in the forbidden woods. the two on the left are from central yharnam. note the gloves on the first two; these are church doctors!

(this post goes on like this for some time)

the white church doctors are the ones that were doing "experimentally backed blood ministration". the butcher's garb further defines it as "forbidden research". these white church doctors are the citizens of this "village". in the clustered buildings where the majority of the huntsmen are, you can find blue elixir and beast blood pellets in abundance. both of these items can only be purchased from the store after obtaining the choir's badge, drawing a firm connection between the white church doctor's research and the goals of the choir.

although, this probably isn't too much of a surprise; it's almost certain that this is where fauxsekfa came from. she took the same shortcut we did, right? i'm not really sure i understand the shortcut too much. but let's talk about it.

THE SHORTCUT:

although not explicitly stated, i am strongly convinced that this cave is the entrance to the hintertomb. at the very least, it is absolutely an entrance to the labyrinth. the presence of tomb mold, blood gems, parasite larva, and pthumerian giants/corpses makes this very clear. the root chalice for the hintertomb describes it as "a cesspool of noxious snakes and insects"; i think it's likely that the snakes came from the hintertomb given they can be found in the swamps there.

the giant graves here and further into the woods are referred to as "tombstone[s] of a great one".

the hunter's mark i think would suggest these are pthumerian made. its possible that the hintertomb is spilling out into the world above but frankly all of the graves here are baffling. grave placement and appearance needs more research. the graves in the woods only are developing a strange sort of honeycomb rot pattern not unlike the head of an amygdala. this pattern shows up enough that it warrants more investigation.

the slow poison-inducing "water" here has similar properties to the slow poison pool in the research hall. they are different colors, but have similar origins: the poison pool in the research hall is from the decomposing bodies of the patients, who were exposed to bizarre blood ministration and parasitism. the pool here is likely from decomposing great ones. with this in mind, perhaps the silvery liquid is mercury.

the ladder leading out of this area is fucking insane and i have a hard time understanding what occurred there. like what in the hell is up with that grave you exit into in yharnam. who popped it open. why is it so cavernous. what happened to the contents.

anyway, let's just go back to the woods.

THE VILLAGE (again)

there's really only two more things to mention here before we move on: first, beast roar can be picked up here. it's the undead, still twitching hand of a darkbeast. nothing touched by the old blood can truly die, and these severed limbs are no exception.

second are the butchers. these are the people who collect specimens, hack them apart, and present them to the church doctors for research. they show up in three different ways: the surviving madaras twin wears the butcher's set (the hunter picks up the set from the other twin's corpse), the "executioner" enemies (REMINDER: a better translation would have been "butchers" [or, literally, "dismantling men"], i have no idea why they went with "executioner" outside of their superficial appearance) wear the cape with the popped collar, and there are huntmen enemies skulking the streets below the grand cathedral hunting for victims dressed in the garb. they literally only appear there.

ah, one more thing. this is the place where you can find the suspicious beggar and interrupt him while he's in the middle of chowing down on one of the biggest families i've ever seen in my life. at first i thought the devs hysterically fucked up the sizes of the corpses, but they're dressed like the citizens of yahar'gul. while not outright stated, evidence strongly suggests that the beggar is irreverent izzy or one of his followers such as the close proximity of one of izzy's inventions and the beggar's clothing reflecting his past as both a veteran tomb prospector gone mad and former church agent. there's a lot of meat on that bone, but for another time.

OKAY. LAST PART NOW.

THE WOODS:

this is the part you probably remember the most bc it's snake hell. the first thing we absolutely need to keep in mind is that the snake-infested guys you meet are a reference to doobie from jojo. the snakes are parasites to people, but the snakes themselves are also being parasitized? they are covered in ticks, those are the huge bloated blobs all over them. given that the augurs of the great ones are invertebrates...what does that imply about the inclusion of the ticks narratively?

there's something absolutely fascinating happening to the flora and fauna in this section of the woods but it's hard to know what it all means. some notes:

-when enemies in bloodborne die, the game handles their corpse in different ways. some of this is lore related, some of it is to reduce hardware strain. some corpses turn into ragdolls, some explode into blood, some explode into white particles (sometimes with blood but not always). snakes explode into white particles. i got way too into the fucking weeds with this, but (outside of the slime scholars....kind of) all of these enemies either appear or were intended to appear in the chalice dungeons, the nightmare frontier, or the nightmare of mensis (the lecture hall containing the scholars connects the waking world to the nightmare). all of these locations are, arguably, the nightmare.

-there are statues of amygdala and a presumed evolution of the celestial child sprouting out of the ground. i am almost certain these are original versions of the statues in the grand cathedral and yahar'gul, respectively.

-remember that strange pond with the fireflies? the only place in the game where there's fireflies? what the hell is up with that lol. i kind of have an answer:

most concrete is this: back when the original boss of the woods was snakeball, you would have faced a rematch in this pond.

insane theory crafting moment: look, this is stupid complicated and a reach so if i have to get into really defending it it, ill do it in another post. but in bloodborne people can be teleported around via "communion". communion is the means of entering the chalice dungeons and requires three things: ritual blood (or perhaps just liquid, if rom's arena is anything to go by), something to hold the blood (typically a chalice, but sometimes the "chalice" is a skull), and light (this is almost always achieved with candles). this pond is probably full of blood, if the rotten bodies nearby are any indication, and the fireflies offer light. but, look, this shit was cut so don't think too hard about it.

-its in the art book but also in the game (but hard to see): the wall separating byrgenwerth from the rest of the world is melted.

wait wtf there's dudes in it. lol. what da hell!

oh my. the name for this asset is "wall of divine tomb". cool. every day i lean some new insane shit about this game, for real.

anyway the only other point of interest is whatever the fuck valtr and the league are doing. too deep of a topic for now. anyway, those were the points of interest in the forbidden woods. i hope this was....whatever counts for informative when it comes to video game trivia

[spidersins]

⚌ Who inspires you? ♦ How has roleplaying on Tumblr improved since you started out? ☀ What’s the best thing about roleplaying?

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⚌ Who inspires you?

oh....quite honestly SO many people in this rpc i can't tag them all but i'll tag as many as i can - @heiilari - vixen is just??? she embodies everything i adore about writing in a community. not only is she the most friendly person, but she will help with every little thing you mention and not expect anything in return. looking for commissions? she sends you profiles of artists she uses. thinking about faceclaims?? she has resources for the characters and sends them all your way. outside of this?? my god, i am a slut for her talent at lore building. she has constructed so many interesting and unique characters, some of which weave into one another and each headcanon and lore post she drops i obsess over for a good few minutes. just....an absolute inspiration @toxitrosia - i mean...shock horror, starlette has to be tagged for this one too. between the aesthetics, the style of writing and her portrayal of valentino i am constantly in awe. they have managed to take the concept of valentino apart, and reconstruct them entirely as their own, in a way i feel delves into darker, more complex themes that i don't believe the show would have time to ever linger upon. between the shift in valentino's demonology and the change of valentino's abilities and rise to power, i am forever inspired & always looking forward to what i'll see next @gamblins - my darling autumn!!! honestly they have been my biggest inspiration, between the wobbly days where i fear my portrayal isn't strong, or i feel as though i'm not active enough they are always there to reassure me and have my back! between our sharing of headcanons, artwork and daily chats they are always inspiring me and reigniting my muse! @blitzbuckz - lizzy??? nah you ain't fooling anyone, thats fucking blitz behind that screen. truly, it's rare that i have a blog where i see each post and just go...yep, that's them. the skill in which they write blitz is mindboggling, and the only reason i KNOW that they're not ACTUALLY blitz is because their drawings are fucking incredible. quite honestly just gazing in pure admiration and inspiration whenever they bring our fave imp to the dash

♦ How has roleplaying on Tumblr improved since you started out?

oof - i mean...it's changed, a lot. not necessarily in the best ways at points? with callout & cancel culture, anon hate and general drama....but i feel as though the way in which everyone writes is better - no shade to paragraph writers or one liners, i'm talking 2010 when we wrote actions with asterisks and used painfully huge gifs that weren't even in context for the writing & i feel like communicating ooc has changed drastically with the addition of tools like dm's i'm showing my age and discord

☀ What’s the best thing about roleplaying?

the connections ♡ i'll say it every damn time, but through roleplaying i've found two of my best friends, one of which i was a bridesmaid for, and another i'll be a bridesmaid for next year *coughs* @cherribxmbs *coughs*- i couldn't ask for a better thing than genuine friendships building outside of actually writing - and already since making this blog i've found so many wonderful people i'm touched to call my friends