#anyway Food For Thought

[what-aboutno]

I really wanna know more about the outsiders world. But mainly the maze. Like yes it's a massive place with an insanely high budget but how realistic is the place that no one noticed something was off for so long.

The sky is fake, the watchers can control the time. But how does rain work? Are there sprinklers on top that no one can see? How advanced is their technology that they can do that?

If cOwen can shoot at the ceiling with no damage how strong is it? You could argue that as he shoots it, it loses power and force but the arrows get stuck in the ceiling. So it definitely lands and hits it with no visible damage.

How does the farming work? Why is it that crops can grow in seconds and do no damage to the land. Is this something they've developed just for the maze? Do they use this outside the maze to solve a world hunger issue? I need answers STARR

[characteroulette]

It is Momo talks about game mechanics time ft. Psychonauts 2

I find it fascinating that Double Fine's decision to cap the Levitation bubble inadvertantly points to Raz having less bouyant happy thoughts after the events of the first game. Their decision to have a tighter but easier to replenish aggression / ammo for Psi-Blasts, too, points to a change in Raz's psyche. Raz has less bouyant happy thoughts to lift him up, but can't hold onto as much aggression as before. His dad doesn't actually want to kill him. He's entering an adult world that still sees him as a child. Food for thought.

Also funny is they capped Levitation and yet it's still broken as shit. Raz became a master at surfing the Levitation ball we stan a speedrun king

[lovethatmakingcoffee]

vivziepop: Alastor is ace

Everyone: cool, cool, we respect your decision

5 minutes later

Everyone: ok, vivzie, I know you said he's ace, but hear me out. What if... we eat out his pussy like it's the most delicious thing in hell?

[divinekangaroo]

I read an interesting article I can't find again which was about how vampires are kind of an extrapolated infant extended to horror. They need to constantly drink from another human being. They are totally dependent on another human being's bodily fluids. Because humans replace their bodily fluids, they *could* satisfy their own needs without harming the other human, but instead they have no self control and the need is everything and they drain the human.

It was specifically about how in Japan there's a strong fetish trend towards these canine 'fang' teeth on delicate girls, and there's this intersection of vampire fetish and infantilisation fetish happening Right There

[clouvu]

Cooking up an older Clervie outfit design so I don't have to keep drawing her looking like her child self but Long

[hailsatanacab]

A Persuasive Argument - dpxdc

"Great!" Danny says, clapping his hands together to get everyone's attention. The dinner table falls silent as everyone looks towards him. It's a full house today and, honestly, Danny's a little nervous. "I'm sure you're all wondering why I gathered you here today."

"It's dinnertime. In our house." Duke mutters, while doing a very bad job of concealing his yawn. He holds his fork poised over the braised beef, but, just like everyone else, still looks towards Danny before tucking in. It's intriguing enough to wait.

"Yeah, no one misses Alfie's dinner." Dick says, with a brilliant smile that Danny can't help but return.

"Precisely! What better time to talk to you all than when you're all actually here!"

"Wait, I thought you came round to work on our English essays?" Tim asks, blinking owlishly.

"I'm afraid I've lured you here under false pretences, Tim."

"This is where I live."

"I would still really appreciate help on that essay though, I mean, what the hell is Hamlet even about? I just don't get that old time-y language, like 'Hark! A ghost hath killed me!' - absolute rubbish, what does that even mean?"

"The ghost never kills anyone in Hamlet, he's there to tell Hamlet that he was murdered. Have you actually read it?"

"No, but it sounds like you have. Tim, I want this guy to help me with my essay instead. I know for a fact that you haven't read Hamlet, either."

"So? We don't need Jason, I've read the Sparknotes."

"Hi Jason, I'm Danny, pleasure to meet you, summarise Hamlet in three sentences or less."

"Am I auditioning to help you write your essays? I can't believe you’ve gone through your whole school life without reading it, it’s good!"

"Hamlet, along with a number of other classics, was banned in our house because it portrayed ghosts as intelligent and sympathetic beings rather than evil, animalistic beasts. I didn’t even get to see The Muppet's Christmas Carol until last year with Tim! It was surprisingly good, and I hate Christmas because everyone always argued and it sucked. But we're getting off topic. I—"

"No, no, please go back to that, because what the fu—"

"Boys, please." Bruce interrupts, looking to the world as if he wants to hang his head in his hands. "Danny, you were about to say something?"

"Oh, yeah, Mr. Wayne! Thanks!"

"Please, call me Bruce."

"Well, that very succinctly brings me to my point, because I'd actually really like to call you dad."

Nobody says a word. Nobody even blinks, all as shocked as the other, watching open-mouthed as Danny pulls his laptop out from beside his chair. Bruce can definitely feel a headache coming on.

"Before you say anything, I've prepared a 69 slide PowerPoint presentation on why you, Bruce Wayne, should adopt me, Danny Last-Name-Pending. Please save your questions, comments, and verdict until the end, thank you."

[panthermouthh]

“When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness. But it is even so; the fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

[kobrafangs]

something something jaya something forget me nots

[yukiire]

it's time to give the 4th but also newest bro a big hug 💖

[alexxuun]

Vash’s scars exploration, both stampede ver and manga ver.

I found it quite interesting that Stampede Vash have more technological cover up and his “burned” skin seems to reveal his muscular layer, which is actually just bark. On the other hand, Maximum scars is more human, surgical scars, stiches, burn and wound scars. There is something to be said about choosing to make Stampede more Plant/ less human than Maximum…

[heph]

Food - More than Sustenance

[patrickztump]

i think if fall out boy made a music video for the kintsugi kid and it was just a montage of band moments and highlights from 2013 to 2023 i would vomit blood because it’d hurt so bad. it’d feel like being stabbed in the stomach.

[curapicas]

This is dungeon meshi. "I don't want the meal you're offering" might be the cruelest thing a character gets to hear.

Well. Maybe second most cruel...

"I won't offer you food again" might be worse

[pierog]

tiny comic about eating toast with friends

[absolutechaosss]

Something I've been thinking about a lot lately is how elves are shown to handle grief and trauma and how that relates to Mithruns character.

The Canaries care for Mithrun is mostly well intentioned. They legitimately like him! But it is also kind of terrible at times? Most of their care is focused on the Bare Minimum that keeps him alive and his care and comfort isn't really considered because well...to them, he's not capable of understanding it anymore.

We know this because Kabru is assigned as his care taker and Lycion comments that his hair is shinier. This means even in the stressful survival situation of the dungeon with Kabrus terrible cooking and scavenged meals, he is physically healthier than he was with the canaries.

I think it's relevant Kabru was the one to care for Mithrun this way and the one eventually realize he can be capable of new desire because Kabru is intimately familiar with how elves treat trauma. Not only was he a traumatized child but I think the most important parallel here is actually Rin.

If you haven't read her section in the Adventurers Bible, Rin is also a sole survivor of a tragic event and was taken into elven custody. She is catatonic and deeply deeply traumatized. And the elves handle it *terribly*. She's treated as goods or as an animal and she's shown to be unresponsive and not able to speak. Her recovery is directly linked to her meeting Kabru when he's brought in to help her.

Rin and Mithrun are opposites in elven society. Rin is barely a person, Mithrun isn't only an elf, but a prestigious and wealthy one. But both are survivors of horrific circumstances that hurt their ability to care for themselves and perform daily activities. And for both, it's pretty clear that it was assumed that this would become their fixed state, one where care and gentleness was pointless, because they had lost the faculties to process it.

Anyway I guess I wonder if years later when Kabru hears Mithruns story and how his condition is incurable and thus denies him personhood he thought of his. I wonder how much more quickly Mithrun may have been able to adapt to his circumstances if he wasn't told he was "broken". To me at least, Mithrun was always able to react to new things and adapt, but if everyone in the world is acting like you're basically dead and unable to ever do anything than be a weapon again yeah why wouldn't you assume that. No, I don't think Mithrun will ever be back to his former self and have all his desires back but he is able to carve out space for himself so quickly with Kabru, compared to his extensive and leas effective initial recovery with the elves. Perhaps this too is an area where their lifespans hinder them as they assume 20 years is a totally normal recovery period so why would they need to try more.

[lotus-pear]

i think you guys are onto smth..

i unironically got invested in this HELP