#enlightnment

[str8upspam]

Holy shit

[valmeme]

light

[missjessefantastico]

i would like to vivisect warren while he's still alive no anesthesia

[thatswhatilikebruh]

So yall telling me... that the queerbating in the 911 fandom actually IS NOT QUEERBQTING ANYMORE? THIS BLONDIE DUDE IS ACTUALLY BI??? ( has never watched one episode of this police or fireman show )

[bosskickss]

linc's fbi visit was on ep 2?!!!!!!!?????

[the-acid-pear]

Deltarune Theory: Spamton, The Player & Freedom

As some of you might know by my occassional ramblings and the fact that i post 10 pics of the guy per day bc of my 100+ queue I've been a little unwell about Spamton and Deltarune as a whole lately, and recently while trying to ramble about a different topic I realized something:

I think we, the player, the soul, are a bigger part of this game that we are giving credit for.

After all, what are some of the main themes of Deltarune? Lack of freedom, lack of control, how your choices don't matter... And if we look on a smaller scale, if we look at characters like Kris and Spamton you can also add to the mix a certain level of disconnect with your own body, but maybe i'm going too off topic there... (maybe?)

This is to say, don't you think these things apply quite well to the soul, to us, too? Sure, we control Kris, but Kris is free of ripping us out temporarily and often adds their own input to the things we ask them to say (and even says things on their own), not to mention how they get around to avoid doing what we asked or avoid revealing certain information to us.

On top of that, there's our vessel. The body we were meant to have and freely use, that was, in theory, discarded. And i think this is very imporant because many pick up on Kris being trapped with us, but not as much on us being trapped with KRIS. What we have is an uneassy alliance, a sort of symbiotic relationship, we need one another to exist. But we still aren't free.

And this is where Spamton comes in, our EV3RY BUDDY 'S FAVORITE [[Number 1 Rated Salesman1997]] and number 1 freedom yearning puppet, who offers us the highly valued [Hyperlink Blocked] which he believes will carry one to freedom and such.

And it is true that freedom is something Kris might want, but don't forget Kris isn't the only one in control of their body. We too are the ones going straight back to that salesman and doing his little quest.

And this is even more true in the Weird Route, the route where we strip all control from Kris AND Noelle to the point she can only hear us talking, and it's the route where Spamton says at the end "IT’S YOU AND THAT [Hochi Mama]! YOU’VE BEEN [making], HAVEN’T YOU! YOU’VE BEEN MAKING [Hyperlink Blocked]!".

And if you, like me, believe the meaning of [Hyperlink Blocked] is LOVE, then this would make a lot of sense, after all, what were some of the biggest complaints people had about chapter 1 when it released?

Lack of multiple routes, namely a genocide one, and lack of control.

And Toby Fox, being the monkey paw ass guy he is, obligued to the fans request. You want control? You want murder? Okay, there you go.

Not only that, but the weird route is the only one where Spamton never learns Kris' name, only called them kid, making the fact that Kris has nothing to do with our insane rampage even more explicit.

And on top of everything, Spamton was right. We did in fact gain control and a certain level of freedom thanks to this, our choices, the player choices, now REALLY mattered. And the consequences were devastating, hell, even Spamton died here.

So, with all this said, I think my point has become clear. I think our role in the story is very significant, and it even perfectly ties with the themes and the existing characters.

Very excited to see this develop further as more chapters come out 😁

[horrorsequel]

everyone keeps getting so up in arms abt stuff related to the barbie movie as if the whole thing wasnt just bad. the thing abt barbie is that it wasnt a toy commercial. ppl always say that and that was a byproduct of it but that wasnt actually what it was doing. it was a lifestyle commercial. it was not trying to sell barbies to kids. kids r already buying barbies. it was trying to sell the Barbie brand to adults. the barbie brand rn as far as toys is trying to be very inclusive and encourage boys to play with barbies as well. adult men dont need a barbie commercial cos like, gay men already huy barbies. the ppl that needed to be won back to the barbie brand was milennial women. thats why the movie said the things it said. it brought up the spesific points it did because those are the problems milennial women always cite with barbie. the reason Barbie herself was connected with a Mom, the reason her annoyed teenage daughter went on the journey and not like, a child? Because the barbie brand wants YOU. and it worked. all the brand collabs went off so well. people r still talking abt it. the writing of the movie itself wasnt even good at waht it was trying to do but it worked because they hot all the right talking and plot points no matter how shallow and ham fisted.

like this is all part of a much bigger societal problem which boils down to giving corporations and rich people way too much fucking credit for doing the bsre minimum. and YEAH the people who run awards shows are missing the point. but at the same time. the movie itself didnt give any of the barbies a huge musical number. just ken. the movie itself is part of the problem youre just being selective as hell with what you got out of it.

[momo-de-avis]

Well now I'm sad (about the paintings). Were they destroyed on purpose during battles and such, or was it normal decay?

two things, technically three

Eathrquakes being number one. I use the plural here because it wasn't just the 1755 one. That one was the strongest, but not the only one. In 1630, for example, Lisbon suffered a terrible earthquake that caused enough destruction. I believe that one was an estimated 7 or something on Richter scale

The second reason was Napoleonic invasions. And here is where ti divides into two reasons, because both the french and the english stole a lot of shit. I vividly remember asking my prof which did he think caused more destruction/disappearance of artoworks overall, the earthquake or the invasions, and he considered it for a while and came to the conclusion that it was both. We know for a fact that the french stole a lot of works from monasteries mostly. But the english did so to. They vandalised a lot of stuff, and a lot of paintings disappeared. We had Van Der Weydens in the country that vanished, and we know they existed because we have every documentation (sometimes even drawing reproductions) except the painting.

It would also justify why Portugal seemingly has no paintings of its kings and queens before John I, and even after that, until Manuel I it's like paintings of kings and quees are a rarity. Which does not make sense. Leonor, wife of John II, would have a court painting sent to her cousin Maximillian, emperor of the holy roman empire or whatever it was called. But we have exactly two depictions left of her, both as a widow, one in a painting and one on a mural. Before her, only Isabella of Portugal, Duchess of burgundy, and Philippa of Lancaster have paintings, though the latter is in illuminated manuscripts mostly. Also Infanta Santa Joana. And as for kings, we have of John I, King Duarte (ARGUABLY BUT I'M NOT GETTING INTO IT), Afonso V and some other infantas. Many of them illuminated manuscripts too.

To quote my professor, who was honestly one of the best profs I had, "I bet my ass there's a painting of an unknown lady somewhere in the Louvre's reservoirs that is Queen Leonor"

[randomnameless]

I've been wondering this for a while, but has anyone been able to come up with an in-universe reason as to why the Crest of Flames disappears at the end of CF, or even how Byleth can survive without it when it was basically a replacement heart for them?

My best guess for the first question is that Rhea dying is what caused it to break, but that's blatantly contradicted by other routes where the exact same thing can happen but the crest is unnafected, and i genuinely have no answer for the second one, which is a shame; i really like what that moment means on a thematic and symbolic level, but the logic of it all is very flimsy, even more so if Byleth S-supports Sothis.

Pff

Trying to find continuity? In Tru Piss Fodlan games?

Some people theorised it's Sothis basically telling Billy to fuck themselves and how she leaves the world after the events of Tru Piss - but given how she can have brainsex afterwards with her host it's not really plausible.

Half-joking wise, it's because Tru Piss is Supreme Leader's fanfiction, so Billy loses all of their visible icky subhuman, I mean, Nabatean traits and returns to the state of being a super normal human, without Nabatean parts, and it just works because fix-it AU powers.

More seriously, I don't even know.

Maybe it's the first option (S Support ignored because it's just player pandering) with the twist that Sothis gives up on Fodlan, makes a last "present" to Billy because true to her words they chose their own path, so she "fixes" them with magic but won't stay around, and makes them lose enlightment and her powers because clearly they're not wanted anymore, and she sure doesn't want to support/witness whatever is going to happen next -

even if it totes contradicts the Sothis we have on Nopes, who's all "I'll be back and when I do I'll erase you all" as her death quote, but w/c.

The only thing I can be sure of is, as you pointed out, it's not tied to Rhea's death, since she can kick the bucket in 2 of the 3 other routes and nothing similar happens, so it should be something Sothis herself willed or did...

but player pandering and uwu pandering means Billy has to survive because they have to marry Supreme Leader or Sothis.

Now, a Tru Piss where the crest stone vanishes after a heartfelt (lel) moment with Sothis in her consciousness as she tells Billy she cannot support them anymore, especially after this - aka where Billy dies at the end of Tru Piss, both because they betrayed Sothis but also to fit with the "World for Humanity" and add more sacwifices for Supreme Leader's ideal and a lot of sad uwus resulting might have made more sense, but what is even the point of FE16 if you can't uwu?

Unbelievable!

[2-late-2-the-party]

I posted 3,716 times in 2022

That's 3,104 more posts than 2021!

46 posts created (1%)

3,670 posts reblogged (99%)

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I tagged 1,274 of my posts in 2022

#toh - 302 posts

#the owl house - 246 posts

#httyd books - 163 posts

#toh spoilers - 149 posts

#fav character tag - 92 posts

#amphibia - 69 posts

#for future reference - 64 posts

#httyd - 49 posts

#sk8 the infinity - 35 posts

#the wittebane brothers - 23 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#i’m pretty sure whoever was doing the cc for this episode hadn’t watched the full show and didn’t understand the signi of the name ‘caleb’

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Feelin ‘do they feel the same about me 🥺’ but not in a crush way, in a ‘does this internet friend think of time the same way or am I just a friendly acquaintance to them?’ Or ‘do they consider me a friend at all or just a mutual? am I allowed to keep replying to their posts and insta stories or would that be annoying?’

305 notes - Posted March 14, 2022

#4

Guys, I just realized the main difference between the httyd books and movies!

“The fucking plot?”

NO! Well, yes, but I the thing I must point out is that while the books have Big Ace Vibes, the movies are a lot more bisexual.

327 notes - Posted August 9, 2022

#3

Ok but the tone shift and progression of Vinland Saga will never not be hilarious to me.

Because it’s like,

Arc 1: TRAUMA!!!! WAR!!! BLOOD!!! ⚔️🩸🔥MEDEIVAL POLITICS!!! 💢 SOME CRAZED TEEN HELLBENT ON KILLING THIS ONE GUY AND THAT’S HIS WHOLE CHARACTER!!!! 💢

Arc 2: Forgiveness, 🌱redemption, ✨ recovering from trauma and learning to atone for the sins of one’s past 😔, just two bros planting a farm and forming a deep emotional bond 🥰💞

Arc 3: Found Family!!! 💕💕 Women’s rights!!! ✊✊ Just a funky li’l gang of funky little norse folk on a boat with a mission! ⛵️ Also they adopt a baby!

This is top tier writing and you can’t convince me otherwise

365 notes - Posted August 20, 2022

#2

I think we as a fandom need to talk more about how Hunter is a huge nerd.

Literally any time anyone brings up so much as a semi-obscure topic he’s just like ‘oh yeah I’ve read a ton about this!’ The boy does nothing in his (minimal) free time other than just read about a bunch of random topics.

What a mood. What an autistic/adhd icon.

444 notes - Posted June 9, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

The worst thing Dreamworks did to httyd was tone down the names of kid’s parents. Movie fans don’t know what it’s like to cry for the loss of a man named Baggybum the Beerbelly. You haven’t lived until you get to know Valhallarama of the White Arms and Chunky Thighs. I pity you. /lh

455 notes - Posted July 8, 2022

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[catgirlsupremacist]

When it comes to atheism and it's political impact is that people seem to act like the United States is France or even the United kingdom when it comes to atheism's popularity or controversy.

[meditation-music]

Use Awareness to Become Free of Everything | Be Released into Infinite ...

[bytheletterc]

This reminded me so much of this xkcd comic/meme that i had to haha

They really went there huh.

[katyspersonal]

What is a piece of soulsborne lore that just utterly drives you mad?

Not going to lie, it is a hard question.. I just like or at least accept everything in these games? There ARE some "would have been more fun/deep/interesting" moments on my end, but canon decision is never BAD in my eyes! But my mind is legit blank in terms of "getting mad"! (Unless you meant mad as in, madness and not as in, anger?)

The closest to being angry I've gotten was the thing about Radahn as Miquella's consort! And, no, it is not about hassle of some Malenia-hating Redditors "getting validated 😥" or #shouldhavebeengodwyn thing! The story is NOT concerned by petty fandom infighting and its perception should not be dependent on it! And Godwyn was ALREADY in love with Fortissax! When he wasn't, he was getting so gay with his Knights that they straight up rebranded into Death Knights instead of complaining about something-something against the order! He was TAKEN!!! Cope and SEATH! xD /hs

It is... hard to explain, but it felt like a wasted concept! I realized that I'd prefer Miquella of all characters to not have a pair in canon. The God that wants to embrace everyone and love everyone should not pick a favourite. He is not ALLOWED to pick a favourite! Conceptually! It appears that Greater Will set up a standard for anyone who wants to shape the laws of nature to have a pair, right? Placidusax was a partner of previous Elden Ring's owner, Marika had two consorts and Two Fingers sent you to be the third... Looks like the rule is unbreakable, right? Except for one character...

Ranni was set on walking her "dark path" to Godhood alone, and we had to do a bit of insisting to join her! So, all in all, Miquella needed a consort because he wanted a consort! Divinity is scary, and it must be even scarier in solitude, so, I understand! Like, I sure can't even tell the guy to "grow up" for AT LEAST two reasons hfhfjdjg

But, I think he should have forsaken the biases. To love everyone or no one, to be omnipresent... Heck, keep the whole plot about a vow and clinging to Radahn, just with the plot twist of him getting "enlightnment" that he should not embrace one above everyone else! I know that he discarded his love, not his promise. Well? Discard it NOW, then? He should not at least because Radahn would be his weapon? But he wants a world WITHOUT war and battles! I don't know, I just feel a strange type of jealousy I can't explain well... Having a fav doesn't fit his concept of divinity for me. In fact, it strains the vibe of being "embraced" by him because there is always this Third Guy just standing there (menacingly). What, he will force everyone to not just be friends, but also polyamorous now? I mean he might as welllol hfhggvfj Argh. Him not being able to overcome some weakness, fear, clinginess and bias in spite of all is not a BAD story, but it could have been better? Yet I still wonder whether I am right or my preferred idea is a boring cliché and I misunderstood Miyazaki's genius of subverting it! Nor I know why what I am feeling is def a type of jealousy. Oh nooo, has he charmed ME? LITTLE PRICK!!!

Here are a few other things that I am not as happy with, but nothing critical:

Fanart sabotage: Like not making it clear enough that the guy from Scholar of the First Sin cover that holds the crown is Aldia, not Vendrick! He misses Vendrick's trademark braids (that were present even in his youth, mind you!) and has wizardy aesthetic instead of Vendrick's warrior one! Or making the idea of the statue behind Memory Altar in Bloodborne being Caryll easily skippable because this asset is also used literally everywhere in Chalice Dungeons! Or not placing Gold Pendant on the bearded guy's statue in Research Hall, so one has to admit Laurence had a beautiful beard gfhhfj Little things like this, that guaranteed absence of some cool fanart rooted in the source material! Not lore but Fromsoft's way to present things, but still!

Skipping what Demigods Vyke and Bernahl fought: I love, love, LOVE the way Miyazaki deliberately removes some pieces of the puzzle from the story that IS full in his head, to imitate his childhood experience of reading foreign books but not knowing many words! It is an interesting approach, allowing people to fill the gaps with their own imagination! But in THIS case particularly, I didn't like it. 🤔 This is a bit TOO important to miss out on. Like, bro... there were 4 deceased Shardbearers nothing and no one ever mentioned! The whole lore acts as if they never existed! They erased this part of lore so hard it ripped a HOLE in the page!

Creighton reappearing in DS3: I do not dislike what the writers ended up doing to him, but.. at the DS2 time, there was a room to speculate that Creighton was not the unhinged murderer he appeared as! But instead, a trope of a guy who just has negative charisma and SPEAKS like a serial killer! And that maybe Pate actually framed him or something like that! Creighton's lore was kind of vague in DS2! Creighton doesn't even have Mirrah accent, ffs! You know who does though? Pate! Buuuuuut, in DS3, they just straight up confirmed that yeah, he just likes killing. There is no mystery or complexity to him now, he is JUST like that. Sure, why not, but also why? ;-;

Gnarrl being patched out: Keeping the concept of Dragonic Sentinel to a unique character was a way cooler idea! Even if they just could not come up with a better boss to gatekeep Leyendell/Death, at least keep his name as someone who started the trend and others followed!

Put him back. NOW.

Characters disappearing: Again, not really a lore thing, but a presentation thing! But I am talking things like, missing out that the "female archer" in the woods in Dark Souls 1 IS Pharis herself, or that there is a stated female character Knight Amerix amongst the Forest covenant! Why people need to look through Japanese guide to know this info? Or missing the fact that Queen of Lothric is not Gwynevere? (Granted, this is a fault of English localization...) I'll dig out every single obscure gremlin from under the ground!!! Don't fuck with me!!!!!

Priscilla being discarded at birth: I can't criticize this idea at all, it works for the story and as a perfect reflection of how society of Light worked! But I can FEEL mad about it! Gwyn spared a baby dragon (Midir) on condition of having them be of help, Gwyndolin is here, Yorshka is here despite also being half-dragon and also having connection with Lifehunt ability, so tell me why-

Tell me why ONE baby of Seath just straight up got abandoned? Based on what feature others never got? This is needlessly cruel! Like, yes, it works for what it does, but I still will strangle all of the characters involved in this decision! Granted, I gave it a bandaid of saying Seath and Caitha had Yorshka after Gwyn's death now that they were left together in grief, but it doesn't exempt Seath from Priscilla being ditched! Shira I think is also his daughter ("daughter of the duke", also has white hair in concept art and Sam hair as Yorshka in game) but she is doing fine! So, he just dislikes children who remind him of his mortality? What about Yorshka, then? Is she here because she formed as a dragon "differently"? Full disrespect to this cringe looser 🤦‍♂️

Hilde being dead: They've ruined perfect Moonrithyll x Hilde yuri is what they did. Literally the only Fire Knight to be dead and it had to be her. Why could not we have just fought her as a unique mob? :pensive:

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Okaaaay I think this should be it! If you wanted me to finally say something besides devout praise to Soulsborne, I hope that was enough? xD

[furythemadman]

Deltafell lightners designs!! They are actually called the Enlightners here, but that's lore