#beginning of wisdom

[tom4jc]

April 27, 2024 Verse Of The Day

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Clark has an issue.

A very very tiny little issue that causes so problem at all- OW.

“Superman, a word?” Batman rumbled from the other side of the table

Clark sighs, following Bruce off to the commons of the Watch Tower and rubs absently at his jaw.

Bruce comes to a sudden stop once they are alone. “What’s the matter with you.”

Ah, Clark never misses the bluntness that comes free with his friend. “Nothing.” Bruce’s bat-ears go back on his head, reminding Clark a lot of a cat going ‘airplane’. “My jaw hurts.”

Humming, Bruce takes a mini x-ray out of his tool-belt. Clark decides not to ask as to why he just has one. Bruce places the x-ray along Clark’s right side of his face, takes a picture, and repeats on the other.

Bruce looks down at the results and hums again. “Your wisdom teeth need to be removed… interesting.”

“What? Whats interesting?”

“I’m guess Kryptonians used to have 40 teeth before they, similarly to humans, lost use for the back 8.”

“I have extra teeth?”

“Clark, you have fangs as canines. Having an extra 4 to the normal extra 4 to humans isn’t a big deal. I can set up a day for you get them removed in the cave. I just have to make some low-leveled krypton anesthesia compared to what we have in the Tower and some kryptonite utensils to actually get them out.”

Bruce pockets his x-ray and pulls out an ice pack. “Put this on. It should help a bit until the surgery.”

Taking the pack, Clark pulls Bruce into a hug. “Thank you.”

Bryce steps away after a moment, face red. “Shut up.”

[prankprincess123]

HC that post EoW Link thinks that they have a slowburn trauma-bond to friends to lovers arc as they finish growing up, meanwhile Zelda has already decided that they're going to get married as soon as they're old enough and probably started planning their wedding less than two days into her quest to save him

[autisticslp]

It’s shocking Kelsier blends in so well in his mistcloak considering it’s made up of nothing but red flags

[spiritualseeker777]

[deadbaguette]

AM I GOING INSANE OR IS THAT WOLFY’S ODYSSEUS DESIGN AND ZAGREUS FROM HADES 😭 (edit: it’s not Zagreus it’s just a guy with laurels lmao apparently I might just love him too much)

The god introductions was SO peak, incredibly well made by Wolfy

LIKW HELLO WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

LOOK?.??!??

Also wanna take the time to appreciate the spectators in general, shoutout to the unicorn and Argus for showing up

[aspirant1598]

[thepersonalwords]

No one is too old to begin again.

Debasish Mridha

[idylls-of-the-divine-romance]

"The Hellenistic influence on John" this and "the Hellenistic influence on John" that. What about the Jewish influence on the Gospel of John??? What about the fact that John 1 describes Jesus with references to Lady Wisdom? What about the same chapter describing Jesus as both the Tabernacle and the Light that fills it? What about Jesus as a "Greater than Moses" who turns water into wine instead of blood? What about Jesus entering into the temple on Hanukkah and declaring himself to be the light of the world, as well as claiming to be God made maniphest? What about the constant harkening back to Jesus being Yahweh, the God of the Jews?

We cannot erase/be ignorant of the Jewish influence of the Scriptures and then be shocked when people complain of antisemitism

[onomatapeanut]

Linktober Day 4 - Dark

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WOW IM SUPER LATE FOR THIS POST ─⁠=⁠≡⁠Σ⁠(⁠╯⁠°⁠□⁠°⁠)⁠╯⁠︵⁠┻⁠┻

So much for sticking to the linktober daily prompts (⁠・⁠–⁠・⁠;⁠)⁠ゞ

[backjustforberena]

Rhaenys Targaryen being perceptive as HECK:

Devotion has never sat well with him. Where he goes, he wishes to be his own master. [...] Not as such (will he challenge her). But neither can he allow her to command him.

"Neither can he allow her to command him." - We never see Rhaenyra actually order Daemon's flight to Harrenhal. Not directly. It was his choice to go when he did, it was his plan to being with, at the start of the whole thing - to create a toehold in the Riverlands. It was Daemon's instincts and feelings. He follows his own path.

Again, Jaehaerys's murder was done without Rhaenyra's sanction, he chafed against staying on Dragonstone whilst she searched for Luke's remains, and he took charge of the war council and drew his sword against Otto without waiting for her leave to escalate. He addresses Otto's terms before she does. Whilst he shows loyalty and believes his motives to be selfless and his allegiance as true, it's not true deference. He seeks power/independence where he can.

Devotion and love don't sit well with him, though he has great capacity for it - we see him struggle with those feelings and the warring sides of his nature during Harrnehal: his brother, his niece, his second wife. His ignorance of his daughters. There is a corruption to his love. An acidity.

"Where he goes, he wishes to be his own master" = he goes to Harrenhal, and wishes to be his own master, and even King.

He doesn't not challenge her "as such" = he never raises banners against her, never pushes for his own claim other than in private conversations. Still, his behaviour causes Rhaenyra to have doubts in herself as Queen and others to have doubts in her as well.

It absolutely challenges outside perceptions of her rule - his lack of communication creates fractures in her council, leading, amongst other things, Alfred to question her suitability. It also makes her strategy wayward as they cannot be sure of ground support for any campaign. She's doing things she shouldn't have to do because of his behaviour.

His behaviour also challenges her because the things that he does impacts how her cause is received. Her name is cursed in King's Landing because of what he enacted, leading to the death of Jaehaerys. They blame her for what he did in her name.

Otto Hightower would never have allowed this. Hotter blood has prevailed, I think. The young men have taken the bit in their teeth. They wish to punish, to avenge. Soon they will not even remember what it was that began the war in the first place.

Otto Hightower did, indeed, not allow or know anything about sending Arryk to assassinate Rhaenyra, leading to the death of both twins. In fact, Otto was appalled by the scheme.

It was, as Rhaenys surmises done on the orders of the "young men" (Aegon, and the less young Cole) - as punishment and revenge for the death of Jaehaerys.

Aegon has "declared" war following the death of his son and has seized on offence. He did this whilst his blood ran hot: a scene where he is smashing up Viserys's model.

We teeter now at the point where none of it will matter. And the desire to kill and burn takes hold and reason is forgotten.

The deaths of the children (Luke & Jaehaerys) in the scene with Alicent and Rhaenyra, ultimately don't affect the idea of peace or war. Alicent does not change her behaviour due to the loss of a grandson, and Rhaenyra does not for the loss of her son, either to make war or peace more or less likely. The road is already set. They reach a point where it doesn't matter.

Rook's Rest represents a point of no return. They pass the point.

Rhaenys sees "the desire to kill and burn" take hold over reason in close quarters - she sees Aemond burn his own brother. That is the kind of savagery: the unforgivable. The bloody war between dragons and the hateful act of kin against kin. It's chaos.

Rhaenyra’s council is wayward. She has a hard task. I must hope she will rise to it, but I fear she’ll need you by her side sooner than late.

After Rhaenys dies, Rhaenyra has one council session, where each of the men around her have individual ideas - they argue amongst each other but none of them have no true plan to offer her. There is no progress.

Nor does she rise to command them: they continue to ignore her, shoot her down, not work with her, leaving her isolated. As Rhaenys fears, she needs Corlys. Rhaenyra soon offers Corlys the role of Hand.

[trinalwilliams]

"Autonomously, I followed the notes, watching all the instruments dancing around me. The experience was so hypnotizing that it freed my ego, which melted through my skin, shedding like a warm snake."

Tlw

[you-oughta-see-the-odyssey]

I’ve seen some people say that people unfamiliar with The Odyssey were confused at the beginning of the Wisdom Saga, thinking that Telemachus was young Odysseus if they were just listening to the songs instead of watching animatics. That Telemachus should’ve had a moment that established his name.

And while yes, I do think that’s valid, I also remember another character who didn’t have his name established for awhile: *Odysseus.* Our protagonist’s name wasn’t spoken until the end of the Cyclops Saga, when he declared it to Polyphemus in a fit of grief and rage.

I believe Telemachus will also have a moment like that, just like his father. Either boldly declaring his name to Antinous, or perhaps being named when he reunites with Odysseus (Odysseus singing the familiar “Telemachus…” as he holds his son in his arms). I think the lack of establishing his name early on was intentional, just like Osysseus’, to make the moment when he is named more impactful.

[logicallyblind]

my favourite thing about odysseus’ story is that it’s so easy to go “he should have just killed the cyclops and none of this would have happened, he was too prideful in his existence!”

but it’s also so easy to forget, at least while listening to the musical, that he just went through ten years of a brutal and bloody war.

it’s easy to forget in the face of all he went through during his journey, that even at the beginning of his story as we see it, he was already a heavily traumatised general who just participated in one of the most bloody wars of their history and he just, wanted to stop using his hands to cause pain. he wanted to stop killing, to stop hurting others, to just even begin to merge back into the man he was when he left Penelope.

and he was punished so heavily for that, that it hurts my soul

yes he was also had an ego problem amongst other things but shhh rn

[spiritualseeker777]

[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'