#foundational even

[mmorpg-escapism]

I got stuck thinking about the differences and parallels between early ARR and the start of Dawntrail while on my weekend errands this morning...

Learning about the people around this new place and how to help them Make Everyone The Same vs learning about the Differences That Make Us Worth Loving and how to embrace them respectfully.

Both have us entering a new place and having to find our footing with the guidance of an experienced local.

Handling the inevitable trouble it with people we barely know vs handling it with people we've taken with us to the end of the universe and back.

Solving conflict with violence first vs trying to talk it out before we smack each other with sharp/magic/etc weapons.

Both embracing this new place that needs our help, just the help is "you have the raw power to safeguard us" vs "you have the wisdom and experience to guide us to save ourselves" and that's such a cool transition to make.

[elucubrare]

i firmly hold that it's my duty as a reader to believe it when an author tells me at the beginning of the series that the dragons are gone forever and never coming back. but god it's a struggle sometimes.

[communistkenobi]

whenever right wing people talk about “parental rights” they are talking about property rights. they are arguing for further political and legal enshrinement of their children as their literal actual property

[platoapproved]

Wherever your miserable life takes you, whoever you find to endure time with, whatever pale proxy of me... I'll be with him. Just wanted you to know that.

[cordycepspog]

Love love LOVE the focus on Joel’s boots during his rampage in the hospital. Because it’s not in a fit of rage, or desperation. Joel’s face is blank. He’s not thinking about consequences of his actions. He’s thinking “you took away my daughter and now I’m getting her back.” It’s a skill he picked up from Tess. He knows what’s coming. There’s no need to get emotional about it. It’s the simplest thing in the world to him: “You don’t get to take her away from me. Not again.” Hell, he doesn’t even look at the doctor when he shoots him! He’s looking right at Ellie, his entire focus and purpose laying in front of him! Mans is straight up on autopilot!

Joel is a unstoppable force in his grief. And Ellie is the immovable object that keeps him from walking straight over the ledge.

[nothorses]

I think the other thing about it is that sometimes what you get out of art says a lot more about you than it does the artist. and what you see in people says more about you than it does them.

the people who looked at Gaiman's work and saw beauty and love for humanity and a life worth living may have been looking at the mask of a monster, and they may have been seeing a bit of something real in an otherwise abusive person, but what they were definitely seeing was a reflection of something already inside themselves.

your relationship with art isn't just about the art, and it isn't just about the artist. it's about you. you are a lens the art shines through, and you are a part of the conversation the art is having, and you are reflecting and being reflected through and by the art, and you are echoing and interpreting pieces of yourself alongside pieces of the art.

it's not foolish to see good things in art made by shitty people. it's not foolish to see good in people who are lying. it's not foolish to trust, believe, hope, or love. I think you might just have hope, love, and joy in your heart, and you might just be finding it in all of those places because you carried it there with you in the first place.

[isjasz]

[Day 166]

Keep at arm's (sword's) length

[sublimerences]

Sticking them into Pokémon as a design exercise… the teams are solely vibes and not based on any knowledge of proper team building or meta (of which I have no knowledge of!)

[despazito]

The Cruffa FB page is so frustrating bc you'll have people sharing stories of losing their dogs to horrible illness from negligent breeding or discussing a monstrous new Frenchie phenotype then the next post will be someone going LOOK AT THIS CRUELTY and it's. a shih tzu in full show coat.

[childofthestone]

"we need a team solas doesnt know about to defeat him" are you thick. solas is quite literally the most powerful mage on the planet right now with agents in every corner of thedas you think he doesnt know everything about everybody. using the inquisitor would have been the only right move because it would have been full scale emotional warfare

[copperiiii]

😭😭😭😭

[mollysunder]

One of the best examples of Piltover’s lack of genuine self-reflection is when Jayce decided to make hextech weapons for Caitlyn. I understand that he nay have been rattled by Renni's attack during the memorial, but the only reason Renni even had the place stormed was because Jayce killed her son... with a hextech weapon! Renni literally told Jayce to his face this isn't some random act of violence, this is about revenge for her child that he shot and left to die on a cold factory floor.

And instead of internalizing the series of events that caused this specific situation, which was an act of retaliation against Jayce's own aggression. Instead he just made more weapons for Caitlyn and her team, as if that wasn't the reason things escalated in the first place. Jayce may have been remorseful for killing that kid, but any feelings he had about it were largely irrelevant to how it informed his actions later on.

[ptieuca]

I want to help her. I want to become someone.

[thesunnys1deup]

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[littlemut]

if you haven’t watched Utena- NO. you have to 🌹