#chat do we agree?

[wateruamelon]

my big bad hc is that, when she was little, uzi dramatically ran away every thursday for different reasons and khan would always stop work to come get her

[rqnotfound]

s0me surface subl!m!nal users are s0 funny t0 me.

yeah we can use subs t0 change 0ur apperance, fam!ly, mem0r!es 0f 0thers, gender/sex, race, l!b!d0 - we can even g0 t0 0ther real!t!es!

0h but, uh...y0u cant use subs t0 be aut!st!c. thats not how !t w0rks, actually. n0 yeah y0u can man!fest anyth!ng !nt0 ex!stence except that

l!ke we can use subs t0 change 0ur fucking gen!tals n0 surgery regardless 0f age but we cant use them to...maybe get anx!ety? l!ke make up y0ur mind lmfa0

[astarionsknife]

My wife and I have been discussing Ascended Astarion and how the fandom seems to view him (since she recently ascended him in her durge run) and here are some main points:

He's pretty cringe and edgy

He seems to have lost braincells along with his soul

He's different than a true vampire, so we can't fully base all his actions on that lore

Outside of bg3 there seems to be no records on what an ascended vampire is in DND lore (from what we've found)

Even so, for true vampires it says that their love turns into obsession (debatable to us if this is a good or bad thing. We love obsession)

He does turn you into a vampire and we're confused as to how people seem to think he doesn't (he bites you and let's you drink his blood)

People are allowed to love AA

[gingermintpepper]

Recently read a really fantastic fic on Ao3 by the very talented @hellokittysasuke (Link can be found here - do check it out if you're interested in an exploration of Apollo and his many griefs) and one of the things they mentioned in their wonderful reply to my extremely long comment has been rolling around in my head a bit.

Specifically, it was about readings of the Iliad where people view Apollo's directing of Paris' arrow as an act of mercy - that it was a rare act of compassion from a god that had been otherwise adversarial to Achilles because he, more than any god or mortal, understood the pain of continuing to live after one's soul has already died. I find this interesting for a myriad of reasons - the fact that Achilles' death is not actually portrayed in the text of the Iliad notwithstanding - but chiefly because, well, put plainly, Apollo despises Achilles. And, even more relevantly, in the context of this fic which deals primarily with Apollo writing a letter to Hyacinthus, I felt like it highlights even more intensely what Apollo despised about Achilles.

In Book 24, when Apollo makes a stand against Achilles' prolonged desecration of Hector's corpse and rights as a warrior, he says:

"But murderous Achilles... that man without a shred of decency in his heart... his temper can never bend and change--/Achilles has lost all pity!... No doubt some mortal has suffered a dearer loss than this, a brother born in the same womb, or even a son... " "The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure."

Because grief affords lenience - just as wrath, or passion or any other myriad of intense, afflicting emotion but Achilles had lost his humanity in his anger, had lost every human decency and thus had to be hunted like a beast and slain with the arrow instead of the sword. And I think the contrast between Achilles' grieving and the other examples that are presented in the fic - Prometheus' anguish as he's eaten alive, primordial man when they were severed down the middle and left yearning, Apollo who must love and lose in perpetuity - are that they are examples of that human quality of endurance. That yes, things hurt - they might even hurt for thousands of years, but eventually, eventually they will stop hurting. The pain that was endured will be alleviated, it will be a memory, it will be a kindness and it must be accepted just as joy and peace and love are accepted.

Anyway, go read hellokittysasuke's fic, it's really good and I cannot stop thinking about it.

[supurman]

[liesmyth]

If you’re still doing the ship rating- Camilla/Palamedes because I’m sorry but fusing into one being in a Catholic inspired text is just not a platonic thing to do and “yes, my whole life, yes; always and forever, yes” is not a platonic thing to say before said fusing

I MEAN... I have no idea what "platonic" or "shippy" means in the context of Camilla and Palamedes, because they are the apex of codependency. In a series that's all about codependent relationships, they raise the bar to new unparalleled heights. They are obsessed with each other. Quite literally two halves of a whole (Paul. Just Paul)

I'm struggling a bit to articulate this but, basically: I get why other people may not read them as romantic or sexual, but ultimately I think it doesn't even matter because they're so much MORE than that. They are such a disaster gordian knot of fucked up and devotion and overwhelming feels that reducing it to whether or not they're fucking seems ??? kinda pointless to me??? because they're each other's whole world. They lived in each other's pockets for years and they shared a body for months. They are each other's whole universe and decided to fuse their souls forever rather than letting one of them live on while the other died. They have SO MUCH going on; what does "platonic" even mean in this context?

tl;dr: I personally do read them as shippy. But also that's not even in my top 3 most noteworthy things about Camilla and Pal, because every facet of their relationship is so rich. I don't even see it as a question of "shippy", I just see it as "it's impossible to disentangle them from one another." They're just. THE MOST complete package. Absolutely completely life partners. Deeply fucked up and they wouldn't have it any other way

(On that note, when I see posts about how the Sixth House have therapy, I think... they absolutely do not. Just because Camilla knows how to do breathing exercises it doesn't mean they are in any way well-adjusted. When Pyrrha Dvue tells you to dial it back, you know you have an issue!

Anyway. Nobody is well-adjusted in this series. Love that for them)

[jefferythejelly]

"foolish i feel like you would have an easy pregnancy"

[moss-sprout]

tbh I was so excited by my conspiracy theory class but its not as fun as I hoped it would be. I was hoping that we would be analyzing these theories objectively from both sides so that we could have fun class discussions and everyone in the class could form their own opinions and ideas about what happened.

Instead, the teacher only makes claims and forms her opinions as facts based off what happened (which is basically "conspiracy theories are stupid and heres every piece of skepticism I could dig up to support that and now make the class agree with me because I didn't form any substantial claims from the other side").

Honestly I kinda wanna bring this up with her but I'm nervous she's gonna shut me down or something.

[sugah--bee]

okay so this is wildly like, impulse

but I really really really wanna do something with october and I am still posses by the spirit of crafting and not the spirit of art

so instead of trying to draw every day for a kind of inktober, I'm going to work on my wips every day for at least 20 minutes with pics of progress

rules

-have to work for 20 minutes a day and upload pictures with my progress and how much time I spent

-that's it thats all the rules. im not doing anything about finishing a project a day, or even finishing any of them, and if the time ends up being completely me weaving in ends or something that's fine, the goal is make progress not bust out 31 sweaters

literally it's just finish it february, but in October because I usually draw so this seems like the right month to do challenges like that

and I'm making a hashtag so I have some organization, and so people can block it if they don't want to see like, 10 pics of 'the same sweater but it's totally different because there's been an inch added' lol

[alex-just-vibing]

i need him in a way that is concerning to feminism

[neoninglitchen]

My big Phighting headcanon is that Hyperlaser got a face transplant, trust

[recent-rose]

ppl are slowly waking up to the joshua x dion agenda. god BLESS

[risingsunresistance]

guys im not gonna lie, i'm usually able to see value in just about anything the admins put out. AT LEAST see a bit of fun and chaos in it

but this alpha update is kinda shit 😭

[nectardaddy]

honee said I am violently mattsun coded

[centi-pedve]

is it just us or is this kind of hjot and gender

he's so silly

[orcelito]

Ykno the suckiest thing about being broken up with for someone else is that like. Well I'm doing generally fine, all things considered, but I Am kinda sad thinking about the things I've lost and all the casual affection that I can't have now.

But she's out there having all the affection she wants from her coworker, and it's just like. Damn this feels so skewed and SO unfair.