#baby let's play god

[spilladabalia]

BIG BOYS Austin TX punk, 'Funk Off' / 'Baby, Let's Play God'

[puppetmaster13u]

Who wants a prompt entirely in memes.

[demaparbat-hp]

Zuko looked up and locked eyes with his cousin, who was struck speechless. Then, ever so slowly, Lu Ten's lips twitched upwards. And then he smiled. And then he beamed. And then he nodded proudly once, just once, and vanished.

Lu Ten comes back in For the Spirits Chapter VII: Take Me South, only to leave Zuko with more questions than answers. Just how much is he truly aware of? When will he return? What is Zuko going to do now?

(What will the South bring?)

[abyssruler]

husband and our three children

[ikram1909]

Gavi, Ale and Ansu went out to dinner together tonight ❤️❤️

[melit0n]

Give me five whole minutes.

Credits: Me

[spaciebabie]

i try to get away from the sims 4 but shes like a toxic ex who i yearn to make love to one last time

[softpine]

well it clearly won't be ready for christmas BUT the frozen pines sims are being lovingly packaged right now and will soon be delivered to you 🎁

happy holidays everyone. i love you always

[vaguely-concerned]

returnal did not cure my depression but it did give me a strangely healing new perspective that makes it all a bit easier to bear. that perspective being 'I may be having a rough time right now, but at least I'm not inside the head of returnal protagonist selene vassos'

[everysongineverykey]

i love how unfatherly crowley and aziraphale both are when it comes down to it. sure aziraphale is more than willing to give the young people in his life help and advice and be their friend but he and crowley spent six years (eleven in the book) practically raising a kid (you just know his parents weren't around that often) and by the end they didn't even like him. crowley even suggested they just fucking kill him. he turned three kids into lizards for annoying him right after he destroyed their house. like it was that or kill them obviously but he did NOT hesitate with the newts. that's so funny to me. they're just inherently disinclined to parenthood. we need more characters like them actually

[bloodbatty]

Cats are essentially furry toddlers in the way that you take something dangerous away from them and they get MAD at YOU

[captainsparklefingers]

Actually, I got more thoughts re: the mortalification of the Exandrian pantheon (some of which have already been said), because while I think the way we got to this point was INCREDIBLY rushed and stupid and poorly executed, and I think there SHOULD be major world changing consequences that just...don't seem to be happening in canon...I DO think the idea is interesting, at least on paper.

Putting it below a cut because I'm not capable of shutting up, apparently.

Like, how would this work? Are the gods going to all be reborn as mortals at the same time or is it going to be a staggered process like it appears to have been during Downfall? Are they born with that immediate awareness of what they were, or, like with consecution, do those memories and knowledge come back as they grow up?

Would these mortal forms have powers greater than the average Exandrian due to, you know, gods, or have they really nerfed their abilities as part of the mortal experience?

And what happens at the end of these mortal lives? The fact that a Luxon Beacon had to be used as part of this ritual made it seem (at least to me) that this could be a cycle of death, divinity, and rebirth back into mortality that repeats over and over, because if this is just for one lifetime, what's to stop Predathos from coming back when the food returns?

Obviously there's the social and societal structural implications that come with the gods just suddenly being gone, and there SHOULD be consequences on divine magic... there aren't, but I wonder if one way this could be handled is that things are running on residual divine magic that's still hanging around, but it's a finite resource that's going to inevitably dry up. At least that's what I'd do if I went this route and didn't want an immediate impact on how paladins and clerics worked.

And what would this means for the gods as individuals? We know, for example, that Asmodeus HATES mortals, and now he's among them. The first time around nothing seems to have changed his perspective during his time as Father Milo; would things be different this time? Like. You're a normal person being raised by other normal people, you have friends and family and you love and are loved...and suddenly you start to remember this other life and this hatred you have. Would ANY of that be compromised by the lived experience?

And could that go both ways? Could, say, Pelor grow up as somebody who hates people or is not a good person only to remember all of this past stuff?

Would the experience of all of this be different for Vecna and the Matron, being former mortals who are now mortals again?

And then of course you have aspects that others have talked about, like 20 people pretending to be Pelor, cults of personality, the power vacuum left behind and how badly that could go, the demigods and pseudogods, what this means for the champions of the gods...

And what if they have families and children down the road? Tris's kids were demigods who had powers that kicked in and saved them and were implied to have important destinies. Do the children of these mortal avatars have unique abilities or are uncommonly strong themselves?

And the cults! Tiamat's cult, the Cult of the Caustic Heart, they still exist, Calli hasn't taken them out completely yet as far as I'm aware. They wanted Tiamat free and GUESS WHAT she's basically free now, just mortal! The Cult of the Whispered One! Other Betrayer cults! I can't see those going away any time soon and in fact I could see them getting WORSE because they know their god is out there somewhere and they might be able to directly get them involved in shit.

And what about fanatics? That village that was way into the Dawnfather and was using force to suppress the nature cults, what does this mean for them? Do they feel more empowered and get worse and more oppressive or extreme? Do they just kinda fade off and die out?

I do think it's an interesting idea. I like the concept on paper and some of the possibilities it could bring in terms of world altering. I don't like how last minute it felt, how easy it seemed to be to convince all the gods to go along with this, and the fact that everyone and everything seems to basically be the same after this happens.

And I don't like that there's so many ways this COULD go but it's not clear what, if any of them, will happen. Right now this was basically a decision that's changed nothing, which is disappointing because it could mean SO many different things or cause so many changes.

[rosykims]

finishing rogue trader today probably. hope i explode

[pinkmirth]

i don’t think I’ll ever recover from seeing this angle of reiner…

[orcelito]

Tally still isn't quite back to 100% yet, but she's recovered a lot in general. Every time she does one of her normal habits that she'd stopped doing while she was sick, my heart just squeezes with gratefulness. Stuff like her yowling like I died after I go to bed, her climbing onto my lap while I'm sitting on the toilet and/or watching me from on top of her litter box, her jumping onto furniture, her getting up in my face and sniffing my breath as I slowly blow air at her, her trying to eat the plants, her PLAYING.... and of course, her eating.

I also discovered the coat rack toppled over onto the couch after getting out of bed today - surely her doing. Didn't break anything so im just glad she's back to being at least some semblance of a chaos demon, even if she's not totally recovered yet.

It's the little things, sometimes. All her little habits, some harmless and some annoying, that make up who she is and her presence in my life. When all of these stop, so she's just a lump on the couch, barely eating and barely getting up... it was unsettling. And worrisome.

But I've got my baby back. She's still not super high energy, but she's got enough to feel like herself again. And I'm so, so grateful.

[maburito]

Noooo my baby!! Come back!! I love you even if you're big now and you almost killed me!