#cube of truth

[angstemperor]

Agricultural Activism

Disclaimer: this post is intended to inform, not convince/persuade

Was reading a post from @wobblydev and saw this specific panel.

I don't know if many of my current friends know, but something my f*ther and I used to passionately be a part of was Anonymous For The Voiceless. Though now, I'm too disabled to be out on the streets with the Cube of Truth and I'm too aware of psychology to agree with the in-your-face approach to their activism, that doesn't mean there aren't important things I've learned from being a part of it.

Mass farming of anything is bad and there are empathic, health-based, and environmental reasons that factory farming is awful, and so many more. These are just a few points I'd like to share to get things started.

I'm gonna break this up into multiple posts because there's just so much information

Hyperlinks to posts

Bonus post about emissions and population statistics

Environmental Impact

Relationship between Humans and Agriculture

Healthcare and Sanitation

Ethics/The Morality Argument (aka the reason why most everyone hates vegan activists cause they never stop preaching this [Trust me, I'm tired of it too. There are so many other ways to have this conversation].)

[animalsoutloud]

[briansfancies]

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These people are open to changing. Turning pre-vegans into vegans isn't possible by staying home. Please join us during International Cube Day on November 5, 2022 to give a voice to the voiceless.

https://youtu.be/LOdc95AkahU

[raayllum]

In season seven we trust

[lizziealsworld]

I will never get over Rusty Lake

Paradox is by far my fav

(art not mine)

[cometrose]

"Silk Flowers grow in pairs on small red bushes"

Other archon having twins

Zhobgli is suspicious

(Plus the god of eternity saying his story is not yet over)

“~twin where have you been~”

it’s still pretty interesting that Zhongli doesn’t have a ‘twin’

it is very clear one of the main themes of genshin is family especially between that of siblings (twins)

the traveler is the twin and all of the archons -the main characters of their respective regions have “twins”.

Venti has the nameless bard, Ei and Makoto, Nahida and Rukkhadevata, Furina and Focalors. These are characters that look identical but live very different lives.

A core part of each archon is their relationship with their respective twin. Ei struggled to move on after Makoto died, Rukkha was everything Nahida dreamed of being, Focalors made Furina play a part for 500 years. I am unsure of the dynamic of Venti and his bard but it’s pretty easy to assume he gave his life great meaning and considering he looks just like him he never could move or wanted to forget what he looked like.

So the fact Zhongli doesn’t have anybody with that kind of connection is really odd lol. I've complained so many times like “Zhongli!! where is your silly clone!” and he refuses to answer my calls. Rex Lapis is represented by silk flowers but they grow in pairs but where is Rex Lapis’ pair? Where is the moon to his beautiful sun???

Some people argue a more metaphorical twin for Zhongli is Rex Lapis/the Exuvia. The point of the Liyue archon quest was Zhongli stepping down from a role he has had for thousands of years and considering the way he talks about Rex Lapis/geo archon (he always refers to him in third person) I believe Zhongli sees him as a separate person entirely. So losing Rex Lapis was like losing his twin. Casting his exuvia aka body double on a crowd of people and burying Rex Lapis was Zhongli’s conclusion with his “twin”. He ended his reign and made peace with his life.

But at the same time I feel that interpretation is so ehhhh. Like all of the twins we’ve seen were their own person with their own thoughts and feelings. Like yeah furina and focalors were once the same person but that was no longer the case when focalors brought out the scissors and said act woman.

Let’s get venti and zhongli out of the way cause they are a little weird from the rest of the seven but we’ve never met “Rex Lapis” and then he doesn’t have a human form like the rest of them. We have talked or at least heard the voices of the “other twin” . We met rukkha, we heard makoto and neuvi let us see focalors.

A big part of the archons is their relationship with their other half but Zhongli’s stories most always focus on someone else-a different god a different entity there is just so little of what we know about him comes from his own mouth.

Besides when you look at the visual symbolism then all the archons are represented by the moon and shadows. They live in the shadows of the "twin" if almost haunted by them. They cannot live up to their glory or they are forced to be someone they are not. These 'twins' are the reason for our archon's (hell even the traveler's) existence and journey, it is why they continue forward until they eventually find new meaning in life.

However Morax is always represented by the sun and light, and you could argue that Zhongli is the moon to Rex Lapis’ sun but if you look as his symbols -his golden eyes, the golden light he uses to save xiao and his interactions with the people of Liyue he still holds that warmth.

Next the big revelation for Zhongli was his relationship with Liyue itself, not himself. We could argue that the existence of "Rex Lapis, The Geo Archon" was intertwined with that relationship but Zhongli's narrative is stepping down and taking his hands off Liyue not any personal struggle. If Liyue had failed his test he would've remained the geo archon for the foreseeable future.

That means, Liyue itself is more of his twin, it is something that plays a huge role in his identity and leaving it behind and moving forward is the core of his arc. It is Liyue that made Zhongli play the part of the geo archon, it is Liyue that made him turn on friend or foe if they were are threat, Liyue and its people are the motivation for everything Rex Lapis did. Morax’s love for his people defined every action that he did as the geo archon.

Long story short ehh if push comes to shove I can accept Zhongli's dragon clone as his twin but I would also argue against it because it doesn’t hold thematic weight that the other twins do!

In the end, we can still safely assume that zhongli’s twin has gone awol but then who are they!!! Each archon has a pair that is meant to parallel the relationship between our travelers Aether and Lumine but where is such a twin???

I've talked so much about Zhongli about everything but Ei mentions in her voice lines that she believes his story isn't anywhere finished. She even talks about him in Zhongli's teaser way back in 2020, "in his long life he has met countless people and shall meet countless more still. As they say: waters change course but mountains move not". Its kind of neat the god of eternity says your story isn't over

I may be a delusional zhongli stan but I don't think it is farfetched to say he is veryyy suspicious. We don't know his true form, we don't know the truth of his contracts, we don't know if he's hiding a twin, and the goddess of eternity herself believes his journey will continue forward.

Could he be missing a twin because he's not from Teyvat? What if he lost his counterpart a long time ago? What if we have simply not met Zhongli's twin and the two of them are separated from each other much like the traveler? I always believed Zhongli kind of crashed into Teyvat like a meteor or shooting star and that's why he's kind of weird but it could be possible that Zhongli's counterpart is just not here either long dead or with a different destiny.

Fun fact to add to Zhongli’s weirdness; Did you know Zhongli and Neuvillette are the only playable characters whose constellations are different from their character quest? Zhongli's constellation is Lapis Dei but his story quest is Historia Antiqua, much like Neuvillette's constellation is Leviathan Judicator but his story quest is called Diluvies. Which is weird cause Venti has the same constellation as Zhongli (Carmen Dei) but Venti's quests line up. Like is it a dragon thing but why?

Then most of the original archons croaked during the cataclysm and Venti went into a coma. How did Zhongli get out of the damn thing unscathed? Why didn't he lose his twin or die and shit?

I know in my soul Zhongli is hiding the secrets of the world in that pretty little head of his. He's just a bum and refuses to share it with the crowd.

[kokujin114]

HIP HOP IS FOREVER 🙌🏽

[ovaruling]

i wish there were 10 of me so i could get done all of the volunteering AND protesting that i want to get done this month 😔

[tattoorue]

[worstloki]

Could you explain tesseroki to me? I thought it was a joke at first, but im beginning to think you are serious, so like, what is the appeal here?

the appeal is that none of the canon characters get along well enough with Loki or even treat him decently (completely fair given the goings-on of canon) while the Tesseract for some reason has ended up with Loki like 3 times and lets him use the space abilities raw when he's halfway across the universe for funsies

[secretmellowblog]

i've never heard anything about valjean's beard being anachronistic, can you elaborate please?? :0

I’ll elaborate! I’m not completely sure about this, and anyone who knows more about fashion history can feel free to correct me! : D

Basically: I’ve heard that in the 1820s-1830s it was generally fashionable for French men to either be clean shaven OR to have facial hair on anywhere but their chin. Clean shaven faces were good, sideburns and muttonchops were good, moustaches were good— but beards/unshaven chins were out of fashion.

So having an unshaven chin marked you as someone out of touch with fashion/too poor and busy to care…or as an eccentric artistic type, part of the Romanticism movement. Thenardier even references this later on when he refers to his beard as “a Romantic beard.” I believe one of Les Amis sees Thenardier at some point and comments that he looks like a poet, probably partially because of the “romantic beard.”

Valjean is bearded after he leaves prison. This is meant to stress how much of an outcast he is, how he’s shaggy and unkempt and someone who hasn’t seen any barbers except the ones in prison who did the bare minimum.

But “Madeleine” is Valjean pretending to be a perfect completely normal unsuspicious member of the bourgeoise. Something like a Romantic Beard would draw attention and be eccentric, but Valjean is trying not to make himself stand out so it might not make a lot of sense.

Most early iconic illustrations/adaptations of Les mis depict Valjean beardless.

IIRC the reason bearded Valjean is so common now is because of the musical and especially Colm Wilkinson. Colm didn’t want to shave his beard for the part, which iirc became a point of contention, with the directors insisting Valjean is not usually iconically depicted with a beard. Colm was only able to keep the beard after he managed to dig up a few old illustrations that depicted Valjean with one. And from there….Colm was so memorable in the role that it had a massive impact on the way the musical was cast going forward. Most later stagings of the musical also give Valjean a beard, in large part because giving a character a beard is a good short hand for “old wise dude.” I’ve heard the 2012 movie is technically more historically accurate because it depicts him clean-shaven.

But again, I’d have to dig around to find actual sources for all this, and I’d take everything in this post with a grain of salt.

EITHER WAY

my argument is that I think Valjean can have a beard solely for the Symbolism. Lots of heavy parallels are constantly drawn between Valjean and St Nicholas of Myra— and St Nicholas is almost universally always depicted with a beard. So I think it’s okay to let Valjean be a bit eccentric/unfashionable for the sake of Symbolism… like? you can’t draw a beardless Santa Claus, it just isn’t right.

[kpopmultifan]

NU’EST alum Hwang Minhyun has released the choreography video for “CUBE,” a track from his solo debut mini-album “Truth or Lie.”

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[raayllum]

I love you 6x05 and 6x06 I love you so much (meta here)

[thebluestbluewords]

I love how organically weird conversations can get sometimes. Walked in on my husband writing an email to his dad where he was listing out the optimal size to cut potatoes, and then ranking them by how often we cut each size (mashed is apparently a cutting method here)

[rosalette-roxburgh]

1 and 3 for the ask game? :3

Ty for the ask 😊💕

the character everyone gets wrong

Void archives. Sorry. Everyone either makes the mistake or making him too normal or too weird, and yet its always for the purpose of shipping him with welt. I’ll add that this is mostly the fault of hsr-onlys hearing that welt traveled with a blond guy and yaoi sensors going off at the mention of two men In proximity which, same, but it certainly doesnt help keep void archives consistent as a character

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

On TUMBLR? I can list off a few bad takes ive seen on twitter or tiktok but i can only recall the recent discourse about that recently passed scaraseele blog. And i really only disagree with scaraseele because they have bad taste in ships. In my humble opinion. All other bad takes are either going to be otto aligned or elysia aligned