#but this is eternally relevant

[handbellanon]

AND DON'T WAIT UNTIL AFTER YOU CUT ME OFF TO DO IT

we’re a social species. use your goddamn turn signal.

[quixoticanarchy]

"Questionnaire" - Wendell Berry

1. How much poison are you willing to eat for the success of the free market and global trade? Please name your preferred poisons. 2. For the sake of goodness, how much evil are you willing to do? Fill in the following blanks with the names of your favorite evils and acts of hatred. 3. What sacrifices are you prepared to make for culture and civilization? Please list the monuments, shrines, and works of art you would most willingly destroy. 4. In the name of patriotism and the flag, how much of our beloved land are you willing to desecrate? List in the following spaces the mountains, rivers, towns, farms you could most readily do without. 5. State briefly the ideas, ideals, or hopes, the energy sources, the kinds of security, for which you would kill a child. Name, please, the children whom you would be willing to kill.

[spark-circuit]

sequel to that one post @ratlesshonret made about Kuro Heathcliff

[bogkeep]

tbh my thesis on the astronomical clock in prague might just become a redo of a tenth grade thesis i did about the history of clocks. like the question i want to answer is "why does this clock fascinate us so much" and i think the surface level answer is that it looks cool as hell and is in a touristy part of a touristy town - but on the deeper level it's like. well it's one of the oldest mechanical clocks in the world that's still ticking, and it barely looks like the clocks we have now. it's like pshaw of course i can read a clock, you just look at the dial and the hands, right? and then this clock is like. unreadable because the upper dial shows no less than four kinds of time: babylonian time (twelve hours of day + twelve hours of night, but the length of the hours varies depending on the place and time of year), bohemian or italian time (24 hours that start at sunset, good for seeing how many hours of daylight there's left), old germanic time i think it was called (that's just like what we use now except it doesn't account for daylight savings!), and sidereal time (uhhh is this the zodiac circle thing?????? i should know this)

because the thing about how we count time is, WHY do we count time the way we do? why Twelve hours specifically. what matters more, exact measurements of time units, or following the ebb and flow of daylight? has the way the shaped clocks shaped our lives?? MUCH TO THINK ABOUT. or at least i think about it when i see a clock like the orloj.

[druidposting]

'Cause everywhere that I go Something pulls me to the shadows And I'm trying not to get too close But it's always there Saying my name, calling to me - Queen of Nothing, The Crane Wives

[himegyaruo]

i dont really like beast x ancient generally but like . no this is insane actually

[shokano19]

[kiitkattie]

still haven't finished ep 9 but i had a realization that sugarfly cookie is most likely based on psyche, the goddess of the soul and wife of eros whose symbol is a butterfly :)

[the-nation-of-today]

Alright thanks Lonny, check's in the mail buddy

[ramenbagel]

[seacookiess]

sugar as a falin-like chimera cuz.. hollyberry.. pitaya.. dragons..

[thisonelikesaliens]

for those of you interested in VBL's heng ji universe, Ms Tsai Fei Qiao did a live earlier today with the uncle (Wei Heng) and dropped some more random bits:

what we know from the shows re: primary function of the robots:

ever 2: sex

ever 4: combat

ever 5: secretary

ever 9: caregiver

additional lore dropped:

ever 1: protector

ever 5: female-presenting (i hope this isn't the only female bot)

ever 7: trained completely by AI (primary function unclear)

ever 8: architect/construction

(they also chatted about the beef between Wei Heng and Zhou Tian Guang but idk if anyone's interested)

[dreamlightgallery]

As I was saying (the power went out while I was typing this post hours ago), this title screen makes it seem like we're in for a very gay acid trip.

[funeralprocessor]

I personally think the Nox aren't naturally grey. Overexposure to colloidal silver makes you bluish grey

And the Nox of the eternal cities make heavy use of silver tears. I don't think it's unreasonable to think it's turned them grey

The ancestral followers are *also* grey, which to me seems to point to it being an environmental factor, and if it is the silver tears (or whatever process produces them) I can only assume it's not a contamination limited to the cities themselves.

[doodlingleluke]

Reboot system….loading new program: BACK_TO_SCHOOL

[claitea]

thinking abt that kyurem post actually. its honestly weird that pokemon didnt start becoming Characters in the mainline until sun/moon. like you had your plot important box legendary that played a part in the story but it was always just "bad guy makes it fight you and then you win and catch it and the day is saved".

in sun/moon Finally nebby finally feels like a little more than a plot device. thats lillie's friend who you need to help protect, and it returns the favor once it evolves. then there's ogerpon who is also an active participant in the plot, where her own choices (picking you over kieran) affect how things play out

point is i need the eventual bw remakes to have some kind of sidequest where you deal with kyurem's trauma. maybe reveal to the lacunosa town people that its not an evil monster.