#conceptually speaking

[tenshiharmonia]

Okay, I know there are much wilder things happening right now, but am I the only one who'd really like to see Razor Rex' "seven fearsome Corpse Cardinals" ?

[bonyfish]

When I was in the operating theater for my top surgery and my surgeon was doing his little last minute adjustments to the arcane sigils that had been drawn on my chest, I made a comment about how it was like he was putting darts in, and he was like, "yeah, I'll go ahead and add some ruching while I'm at it" and I was so delighted and I still think of that little joke when I'm applying my various healing balms

[meteorstricken]

A little something about why Ultima is...fascinating...to me.

I consider myself spiritual-leaning agnostic, and am a long-time "Exvangelical". (2020 crushed any remaining vestiges of dogmatic faith I had left. It was painful.)

But now that I'm detached from any obligation to affirm any dogma, my mind has been left to peruse possibilities...and I have to say that there is no system or theory of belief or unbelief that does not disturb or upset me. I refuse nihilism, but the notion of having meaning imposed upon me from without is despair-making. I hold my autonomy precious. Yet at the same time, I am but one small person. To concoct my own meaning feels impotent and masturbatory.

And then there is the issue of divinity. If the divine exists, what are the qualifications for calling it so? What, if anything, differentiates a powerful hyperdimensional alien from what man would traditionally refer to as a 'god'? Are they simply one and the same?

At last, we arrive at the subject of intent. If the divine does exist, the power differential between them and man leaves no room for reasonable, open-eyed trust. What do we know of eternity? We can barely conceive of it. Why should we trust anything it has to say or any of its promises?

Perhaps there might be eons of paradise as some traditions suggest, and the faith of many seemingly rewarded...but then, the carpet is pulled. Annihilation. Destruction. Torment. All souls, totally and utterly consumed. That which belongs to the divine, theirs to destroy.

Truth is more important than anything; than any comfort we might derive, but it's so out of reach. And even where we might think we have it, there's an untold risk of being dangerously, cosmically wrong.

FFXVI's Ultima touches upon all these themes of existential existential terror and uncertainty, and I simply cannot look away.

[candont]

Ai Weiwei: Fountain of Light (2007)

[wuntrum]

plasma ball vibrator...its called the orb

[aliettali]

look at this glorious ass vase. i feel like I’ve been possessed

[moonshynecybin]

texts vale sends immediately post rosquez proposal

[leafatlaw]

This series felt more of an accidental metaphor for capitalism than anything else. But the thing that’s going to be keeping me up at night for a while is how even when given the power to remake the world in whatever way he wanted to, Evbo was still not able to imagine a world without parkour.

This world was all he’s ever known and even when trying to make it better he doesn’t think such a thing as solid ground can exist.

[yarrowleef]

hey, hold up, hang on

I was doing some random wiki research about Midnight, and I came across this???? apparently there were bonus info videos released with The Last Hope's ebook?

look, this is decade old info, and maybe everyone already knows and stopped caring years ago but like??? I don't think I knew this?? this is news to me!!!

time stamp 1:00 - 2:10

Midnight was supposed to be the twist villain for OotS?? are u kidding me so much of why I remember the last Hope being anticlimactic is because nothing interesting happened, the bad ghosts had been saying "we're going to do a big attack" for books and books, and then they just did that big attack exactly as we had been told and it was the same as any other Big Battle scene and there wasn't really any more interest to the plot. This kind of plot twist might have actually added something interesting to that book!

And Vicky makes it sound like she had this plan for a long time? it was even going to tie back to Midnight secretly having a hand in the badger attack in arc 2?

THIS!? This is why she told Sol that info about the eclipse?? and then never explained why??? Like!!!! is this why Sol was Like That!?? a guy set up to be a big mysterious deal, but then he didn't really do anything and just fizzled out of existence??? because he was conceived of for an idea that was scrapped before going anywhere, but he was already sort of part of a (presumably already started) plot mid PoT so it was too late to cut him 'cause they still needed SOME minor antagonist there to fill pages, right? .... but he had no where to go and no (good) reason to do anything, no ending, since HIS BOSS, his Motive, suddenly stopped existing as a concept??? bro??? no wonder his random tie to SkyClan felt so unfitting as a reasoning for this kind of villain

Erica!! Erica wtf!! I don't care if it felt absurd, absurd is better then underwhelming! so what if Midnight was nice and helpful to some cats, maybe she has complex feelings about certain clan cats despite still secretly wishing to unleash chaos on the society as a whole for personal reasons, heaven forbid there be a complicated villain :'(

anyway I am going to be thinking about this lost timeline forever.

[unlimitedbutchworks]

i will never understand the “I can’t do [xyz transition related change] even though I want to because it’d make me less hot” cuz like dude do you like being hot like this? no? it makes you dysphoric? then how does this serve you?? why not look how you actually want to look??

[hickeygender]

my old star wars mutuals are like siblings-in-arms to me. if you've been around since the beginning of my blog back when mando was good and we still posted about it during s2? we've been forever bonded by our shared service in the discourse trenches. if you remember the ENDLESS cult discourse, the frog egg discourse, the birth of dincobb, the recanonization of jaste(r mereel), the helmet discourse 1.0, the finale marking the decline of the show as a whole, the helmet discourse 2.0 post finale, and the birth of dinluke?? man. i would do ANYTHING for you. you get me on a visceral level. our mutualship has been forged in fire and flame.

[bumblingbabooshka]

It's impossible to write a TOS x Any other Series crossover [for me] without having to think about whose lens it's going to primarily be from because the vibe of TOS is so distinct and I think quite different from all series that follow it. The way the characters speak and are presented is so theatrical and of course steeped in the past that I find myself considering if this is, say, Janeway meeting Kirk (through a VOY perspective) or if I should write Janeway as she would appear if she stepped through a portal and was in TOS' universe.

[dirtytransmasc]

[TW implied/referenced rape/forced consent]

did Alicent call for her mother? did she ask her, a woman she thought was so wise and all knowing, why? why it happened to her? why her father betrayed her so? why this man who was so much older than her, looked at her with such empty lustful eyes? did she silently pray for her mother when Viserys raped her, night after night, begging for her to save her? did she imagine her mother walking next to her as she made her way to Viserys's chambers, knowing what was to happen, unable to change her fate? did she scream for her during labor, begging for her to be by her side, to hold her hand, to make the pain stop? did she cry for her mother when she was raising a child, while still a child herself, another on the way, clueless as to what to do? did she ask her for advice? did she beg for forgiveness cause she was failing her children? did she kneel at the Sept till it hurt more than she could bear, trying to feel her mother's arms around her? did she take Aegon? Helaena? Aemond? Daeron? did she take them with her to pray, to get to know her mother? did she have to hold them still and remind them to be quiet in such a place? did she hold them close as she told them stories of her?

did she ever think of Aemma? she must have, she must have when Viserys forced her into the late queen's robes, she must have when he frequently called her by the wrong name, when he sought her hand in marriage before his mourning period had even ended. did she beg for Aemma's forgiveness? was she sorry for what Viserys was doing to her? did she blame herself? did she feel guilty for having a healthy son on the first try, for having 4 healthy babes? did she tell her kids of her? did she share her memories of Aemma with them? did she question how she managed to be with Viserys for so long? how she lost so much cause of that man yet pain and anger never once flashed in her eyes? did she think of the last conversation she heard from her, about the child bed and royal wombs, often?

[neosatsuma]

just had the idle thought, "wow Sophie and Diana will be even more related once they're married to Jack and Stephen, they'll be in-laws," and then I remembered that Jack and Stephen literally aren't . brothers. in any way. 💀 I forgor??

[invidiatechdemo]

think people should draw more dramatic art of kairi with the damn master xehanort 'some pronounce it kye'' thing especially since like.

"Death... A letter that spells endings." when kairi's game chronologically is the last game in the 'dark seeker saga'. in the world of kingdom hearts her name is literally x-ri basically, and she capstones the series with her presence.

[pollenallergie]

“do the hardest task first”

no. just… no.

hot take: this doesn’t work for people with adhd (in my experience/from what i’ve heard from other people with adhd in my life). i recommend doing the easy/moderately difficult stuff first, that way you can convince yourself that it’s all going to be this easy and undemanding. then hyper-focus will kick in because your brain is like, “yeah, we can do this, we’ve got this.” then, before you know it, you’ve completed both the easy tasks and the hard tasks while hyperfocusing.

like, on a serious note, it’s always been easier for me to convince myself to get the most difficult tasks done when i’m already working/in the working frame of mind, not when i’m laying in bed or sitting on the couch, mindlessly scrolling through stuff on my phone, and struggling to start at all.

if the choice comes down to you not starting at all or starting with the easiest task first (which, for me, it often does), always, always pick starting with the easiest task first. sometimes you need a small victory, a little bit of an accomplishment, to give you the courage to take on bigger challenges.