#all im sayin is that i think we are limiting ourselves here

[flufflecat]

i think stan should collect more cartoon old people as exes. stan and the woodsman shared a passionate night together in 1976.

[rewrentless]

Taz Balance Quotes

I have no idea how long ive been working on this, between 2 and 7 months but finally ive made a list of memorable quotes /quotes that made me chuckle

-Any you driads down to clown

-That was my grandfathers haunch

-Everyone needs a barry bluejeans!

-You shouldnt had your dog jump up my ass! I dont think my dog could fit in an ass! You havent seen this ass

-Eat me barry

-If you were making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and you dropped some jelly on the counter are you gonna take a knife and just start cutting at it you dumb son of a bitch??

-she thinks my tractors sexy and i think im no longer welcome here

-hello hello welcome to my caev

-abraca fuck you

-hey you calm the fuck down sir theres no yelling at fantasy Costco!

-its like a bag of holding but for ass

-merle i can see 3/4 to 4/5 of your entire butt

-the railsplitter passes through the tree like a baseball bat passing through a ghost

-youve solved my shrek puzzle

-a witch kissed me and cursed me so that anytime anybody yells a secret word i have to attend to their every need and that word is my fucking name jenkins

-infinite bean!!!

-i got a murder wall in my brain!

-time-pon! The time travelling tampon!

-lord steven q fletcher esquire the goldfish the third

-'yeah he really beat me in a test of wits and wagers' and winks at taako over and over just winking

- hey baby i love your tendrils

-i got here a few minutes ago and i can not take my eyes off you i looked at you across the square 60 feet away and i said do not be chopping on this baby

-you and the box both drink poison and you survive but the box has died. With that the box pops open

-does everyone get that i have an elevator fetish at this point?

-griffen we gotta fight some weeds at floor 20!

-my names not jerry its ... jerrieeeeee

-but listen guys now i gotta take a poop, you know like a poop like a real emergent poop

-'your name ... of course ... is... taako. Sike thats just mine say my name!' i cast magic missile

-so youre sayin we eat him

-youre all beautiful butterflake snowflies

-im actually a mongoose meow

-and inside the envelopes there is  200 gold pieces  ‘thanks for these shitty jangly envelopes’

-i hand her a coupon for one free backrub

-magnus this is the nightmare scenario

-hot diggity shit that is a baller cookie

-i made you guys chairs for your new digs and if you lift up the cushion it doubles as an indoor toilet

-davenport read the room!

-mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm davenport

-i start to very subtly and very easily cry

-last time i was in an elevator vines tried to eat my dick

-the late merle highchurch rolled a 5

-’youre a god!’ I definately am

-youre not stupid youre beautiful

-its kinda ridiculous how many pies we got our toes in

-your mother would swaddle you young taako baby taako and just sing to you oh shit sweet flip oh dip sweet flip my little nugget

-god liiiieed to me

-magnus can kiss my kenny chesney tattoo

-you found her?!

-hey thug whats your name im about to tentacle your dick?

-if travis cant move his legs then i shall create his legs!

-im just an elevator climb on in ma belly!

-press ma buttons from inside a me

-if you wanted to lure me in there you shoulda stayed handsome ma fella

-'i tap it with the gluttons fork and i swallow it' 'what the f uck'

-ive got to switch between different accents to trick my prey

-when that day comes little man oh when that day comes i will summon whatever powers i still have at my disposal that you have not sipphoned away from me and i will take all of my canny and all of my cunning and all arcanas still within my reach and i will use it to strike you down little man

-dungeons and dragons and daddies

-fantasy shorts fantasy shorts fantasy shorts fantasy shorts!

-i cast zone of truth!

-junebug

-this chair smells like grandmas

-this scene is memorable to you now but in the moment you werent thinking im going to remember everything about this moment

-inifate bag of boys

-if it had flesh then it would be a bag of skin full of fucking goo

-"how do you not have a six it comes with every board game?" "My daughter..." "eats them for power??"

-because in wonderland... there is no healing (shit eating grin)

-liches get stitches

-son of a lich

-you built the fucking door out of wood shit wood

-bad luck

-ill be having my body back you undead fuck

-sturdy. denim. and blue

-i have updated my list of people i trust and things i believe to no one and nothing

-those are the arms that have held my wife

-i cant fight i cant protect i cant do anything in this body

- i saw seven birds

-the twins, the lover, the protecter, the lonely journal keeper, the peacemaker and the wordless one

-i dont know but i feel like i trust you

-dont let them erase me magnus

-how could you forget lup

-nerd alert!

-greg grimaldis you owe me $15 and i aim to collect

-i have to believe that im gonna get those $15 back from greg fucking grimaldis

-the one thing we do have is the thing that people in love rarely ever have enough of and its time

-I dont know about in love its only been... 21 years

-are you my friend?

-what brings me joy is... life. I think you can find joy anywhere in life i thibk its a concious choice i think you choose joy in life and no matter how bad things are no matter how crummy no matter how dark no matter how many times some guy named john kills your ass you find joy. I’ve found joy, honest to God, getting to know you. I’ve found joy playing chess with you. I have enjoyed - i haven’ t enjoyed you know, getting my ass killed, but i find joy in whatever I do. I don’t always do things right, and I don’t always do things smart, and I don’t always do a character voice, but whatever i do, i find joy in it. Because at the end of the day, that’s all you got. It’s looking back on the joy you had, and the joy you found, and the joy you gave other people 

-soon you will call us ascendent

-kiss my ass you sanctimonious bastard

-huh. I feel sad

-its not perfect but its the best i can do

-our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives and with each moment we spend with those people but too often we neglect that part of ourselves in favour of others and by the time we realize just how importnat it is we find ourselves with fewer folks around to practice with but the seven of you have something that nobody else ever had time all the time in the world time enough to grow indescribely close time enough to learn how to care for each other how to allow yourselves to be caref for and in the case of barry and lup time enough to fall deeply and truely in love

-there was romance in every measure and longing in every note

-have we not earned a little wrath?

-i made it

-you are my heart you know that right?

-sometimes there arent right decisions sometimes theres just decisions

-when someone leaves your life those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying others are abrupt and unfair but most are just unremarkable, unintentional clumsy

-back soon

-who?

-taako kill me

-you fucking took everything from me

-understand this, i have nothing and i don’t give a shit. The world is ending and i don’t care

-phantasmal and resplendent

-youre dating the grim reaper?!

-ill take one taco with extra destiny

-i tell the trees when to shed their leaves and i make every piece of fruit taste the way that it tastes and i taught every blade of grass in the ground where to grow did you really think i had forgotten about you?

-im not your pan but you will always be my merle

-i run over and im already kissing him this is ridiculous

-I want to warm up my face i dont want it to be cold and weird

-whats up ghostrider

-i met god no big deal

-lets save the world and 420 blaze it

-hear that babe? We’re legends

-youre going to have to fight and… youre gonna win!

-you hear it now too dont you? The song is now yours, just as the story has always been yours and with this final piece your understanding of these impossible events is complete. Like i said before, youre ready now, darkness surrounds you but be not afraid, after all youre going to win, we know that much but that is the limit of my knowledge. Youre all caught up now, whatever happens next, well, we’ll just have to find out together

-you boys know the best of the fantasy costo? Free samples

-we won

-youre going to be amazing

-it takes time as all difficult and important things do, for the world to recover from what was done to it that day. But it does recover, and not just that, it thrives. 

-im about to smooch your fucking brains out babe 

-one small criticism, i think you may have forgotten to make it taste good

-‘youre kinda full of dog shit sometimes’ thats what it was i forgot i did include dog shit

-i should mention my boyfriend is death

-if you will all excuse me i have… to shit

-i tried to make you proud

-we see you one last time as magnus rushes in

-even happier days were to come, because that was the world that you made, that was the ending you earned

[grumpyangeladvice]

am i the only one who gets bothered when people are like “all your feelings are valid! all your memories are valid! no one is wrong! OwO🌸” bc like.............. it is extremely likely that some of the people who claim to be angels and have memories are just using that as a coping mechanism and convincing themselves that they have memories when they don’t, and that is ok i guess but like im just sayin

On the one hand, I understand that it’s good to let people know that their experiences and feelings are valid. There are a lot of people who legitimately need that kind of encouragement, and it’s good that they’re able to get it. On the other hand, I know exactly where you’re coming from, though I’ve got a bit different view on the situation.

(Due to the excessive length of this ramble, I’ve decided to put the bulk of it under the cut. Warning: Wall of text.)

From what I’ve been able to gather (admittedly, it’s not much, but it’s what I have to work with), the biggest reason someone in this community would want to fake having memories is the need to fit in. Let’s be honest, a lot of this community puts way too much stock into having memories and discussing them. If you don’t have any memories to share, it’s easy to feel disconnected from things, and like you don’t really belong. Faking (or forcing) memories is a fairly direct way of being able to engage with that part of the community, and as a result, feel like you’re a part of things.

With that said, I have a lot of issues with people faking (or trying to force) memories, especially because by repeating those false memories, a person can convince themselves they’re true. That makes it harder to dig up actual memories, and helps encourage the misinformation problem this community has going on. (See the string of posts starting with [this] for how I feel about the misinformation part specifically.) It also adds to the problem of people feeling isolated because they don’t have memories to share, and thus encourages more faked memories.

There’s also the point you bring up about the idea that “no one is wrong” when it comes to memories and such. If I had to guess, that whole idea stems from two (largely unrelated) things. The first is the desire to avoid offending anyone, or hurting anyone’s feelings. If no one’s memories are wrong, everyone gets to be equally valid, and no one has to feel bad about things. There’s some problems with that whole arrangement that I’ll get into in a bit here.

The second issue is one that reflects an ongoing problem in the metaphysical community as a whole: a blatant misunderstanding of theoretical physics. In this case, it’s specifically the Many Worlds theory of quantum mechanics. (Why is it always quantum mechanics?) The version that gets thrown around says that there’s infinitely many parallel universes where anything can be possible, because something something infinity, or some nonsense like that. The actual theory is more complex than that, but I’m gonna try providing an explanation as best I understand it. (Note that I have no formal education in physics, including quantum mechanics. I’ve just read a lot and seen some well done television programs on these subjects.)

Many Worlds theory basically says that for every event that can go multiple ways, each of those outcomes occurs simultaneously, with each one branching off into a “parallel universe” (using the term fairly loosely here) where that outcome is the one that “actually” happened. Our limited perception of the universe means that we can only follow one of those paths, however, and as a result we only experience one of those universes. There’s plenty more to it, and there’s a lot of math involved (this is physics, after all), but that covers the part we need to touch on for this ramble.

Now, Many Worlds isn’t widely accepted. There’s actually a lot of debate about it, and evidence in both directions. The important part to take away from this, however, is that Many Worlds does not cover wildly different versions of reality, at least not in reasonable proximity. Sure, there might be a universe where earth developed an atmosphere with a different composition that resulted in a purple sky instead of a blue one, but there’s billions of years between now and then, and the branches are going to be separated by countless other branches along the way.

Combine that with Occam’s Razor, and the simple result is this: If two people have contradictory memories of something from the High Angelic Period, one of them is probably wrong. It might be their mis-remembering something (because memory is rarely perfect), they might be mistaken about something, they might be just making things up to fit in... Whatever the case may be, one of those two people is probably wrong, and this community has some major issues accepting they can be wrong.

Which brings me back to the problem with trying to please everyone. When you’re dealing with metaphysics of any kind, you need to be willing to question just about everything. (This is also good advice for life, but that’s a separate rant.) If someone tells you that the only way to talk to “God” is through them, you question why they’re the only way to do it. If someone tells you that it’s dangerous and/or irresponsible to channel large quantities of energy without invoking a higher power, you question why you need a higher power to do your work for you. (Protip: You generally don’t, if you actually learn to do the work properly to begin with.) Question everything. Ask why things work the way they do. Ask why you feel like doing things a particular way is best. Ask if your memories of past lives are real, or if they’re a figment of your imagination. Because sometimes, what you thought was Absolute Truth turns out to be wrong.

By trying to please everyone, you remove the ability for people to encourage that questioning. Sometimes, you need someone from outside of your worldview to say, “That doesn’t make any goddamn sense. The hell are you thinking?” It forces you to examine your beliefs and figure out if they’re actually right. A lot of the time, you’ll find that your beliefs are right (for you, at least), and that reaffirms your faith. Sometimes, though, you take that hard look at things and realize you need to reassess things. Maybe you realize you can just ring up God on your own, without someone else to pass the message along. Maybe you realize you don’t need higher powers to get things done. Maybe you realize Michael wasn’t a soft smol bean, and was an obedient soldier fulfilling the will of a jealous and angry bastard with a desperate need to assert dominance. (Yes, I am bitter. I am very bitter.)

Sometimes, you need to look someone dead in the eye (metaphorically, in the case of online interaction) and tell them, “I think you’re wrong.” And when that happens, the response shouldn’t be, “Everyone’s valid, no one is wrong, uwu.” It should be more along the lines of either, “I’ve reassessed my beliefs, and I know I am not wrong,” or, “You’re right. I might be wrong about things, and I’m going to work on figuring that out.” I know that it sucks to be wrong about things, but the only way to learn is to accept when you don’t actually know something.

I hate to put it like this, but I can’t think of a better way to phrase this: In a lot of very important ways, this community needs to grow up. I know there are a lot of kids in the community, but I’m damn sure there’s a fair number of adults around who aren’t helping things any. I know there are a lot of people who don’t take us seriously, and a big part of that is that we don’t take ourselves seriously. Start questioning things, both your own shit and other’s. Break up echo chambers and start letting conflicting opinions cross your view. Accept that sometimes, those conflicting opinions are right.

Sure, everyone is valid, but that’s because they’re human beings who deserve respect and kindness, just like everyone else. Not all memories are valid. Some are tainted by pop culture (rants on that are [here] and [here]). Some are faked to try to fit in. Some are just plain wrong. The sooner we start accepting that, the sooner we can start getting a clear image of what actually happened, and start growing as a community.