#it was a perfect candidate

[tooquirkytolose]

Dark Magicks

[sariphantom]

Rise April 2024 Days 1, 2, and 3: Trick, Fashion, and Crossover

Technically... Usagi counts as crossover, considering he's from a different show.

[ceilidhtransing]

If you hear Republicans speak to other Republicans, you'll hear a lot of them say that they really don't like Trump for whatever reason (many of them aren't fans of the felony convictions, his personal manner, his business dealings, his family life, or whatever else) but that they'll still be voting for him because he'll get them closer to what they ultimately want. They're pragmatic; they don't demand purity in their candidate. They recognise him as their strategic choice so they'll set aside the issues they have with him and vote as a bloc. That's what makes them effective at getting their way. That's how they win elections.

And boy I wish we had more of that attitude on the left. Imagine what we could get done.

[iinryer]

putting eddie diaz in silent hill. he needs to work through some stuff that i think might be better accomplished if externalized in a horrifying and heavy-handed way while pathetically sopping wet

[littleeyesofpallas]

So, there's some neat context to this, albeit it some of this is also just my weird connecting dots between other subjects, but hear me out...

Tsukumogami[付喪神]: "Tool Gods." (keeping in mind that the Japanese concept of "kami" really isn't specifically analogous to ""Gods"" in the Western sense, so much as they're just the broad concept of "spirts" in which the most powerful kami are the equivalents of gods.) are a fun staple of Japanese folklore that fall under a fairly broad umbrella of what constitutes Shinto belief/ and cosmology. They are spirits manifested in discarded tools, or just generally manmade objects: umbrellas, paper doors, lanterns, hair combs, hand mirrors, broken plates, etc… In some cases it's supposed to be when an object that reaches 100 years old that it develops a spirit, but in others it's specific to objects that have strong emotion attached to/invested in them; in a sense, being "well loved."

On the one hand this falls very neatly into the understood category of "fetish objects" in the actual anthropologic sense (and not as a shorthand for a "sexual fetish") as it describes a specific object assigned spiritual significance and power; that has its own system of understanding and both spiritual and meta psychosocial functionality. But I actually find it more pertinent to relate it back to the psychological idea of Object Attachment, which explores the idea of creating a "relationship" between a person and an object, how it happens, why it happens, and the ways in which is parallels relationships between people, among other things…

An example that I always turn to is in the event that a kid loses or breaks something like a toy, or a balloon, and you tell them "it's okay we'll get you a new one" to which they are very likely to reply "but I don't want a new one, I want mine." That distinction between a personal possession vs a functionally identical substitute. We sort of handwave it as a kid thing, but no doubt we all have those things of sentimental value that we can't easily part with, as if we're afraid it would upset the thing, or as if it would be a betrayal.

So, naturally, in a society not predisposed to dismiss superstition or to seek explicitly scientific explanations, the feeling like you've lost a friend when you throw away the hair brush your mother gave you? The most readily available explanation is that, it feels like losing a friend because it is losing a friend; it has a spirit, it feels and gives love and loyalty like anything else, plain and simple. And certainly not every man made object has a spirit, but through constant use, reliance, investment and indeed a kind of "love" any object can obtain one.

(And in this same broader category of Shinto beliefs, some youkai or mononoke are things like grudges or "vengeful ghosts," which are not always ""ghosts"" in the Christian sense of a person's immortal soul and thus self left lingering after death, but the resentment itself divided from the person by their death. That is to say, when a person dies cursing someone, and that someone still feels uneasy and threatened by that person despite the logical understanding that they are dead and can't hurt htem, the rationalization of that sense of impending doom is to accept that the person is dead, but acknowledge that their grudge lives on, granted autonomy and a spirit of its own by virtue of it persistence --them being dead and them still wishing you ill are not mutually exclusive facts. So, just as love persists in an object that has outlived its uses, hate can persist in a grudge that outlives the person it came from)

So when they talk about Fullbring, even though it's left kind of vague and broad enough to encompass natural spirits like with Ginjo's walking on water example, there's a noticeable focus on the man made: clothes and accessories, toys and games, a book mark, a weapon, and even the general examples like asphalt and whiskey. So even if Ginjo's personality doesn't seem to gel with the idea of him ""loving"" his tools, he does rely on them in a working relationship; he trusts the road under his feet to take him where he needs to go, he is intimately familiar with the weapon he wields, and he appreciates a good malt of whiskey.

I think that perspective might help frame the idea of "love" as it relates to Fullbring. Or maybe I just come across like a gibbering madman, i can never really tell...

A small coda here pushing back on Riruka’s “love” theory…after all, when Ginjo was describing the Fullbring he said nothing about “love”, just that it was something “compatible” and that he’d learned to master.

So to take it back to the metaphor we’re establishing, it may not be attachment in the sense of “love” here, necessarily, but attachment in the sense of “identity”. What do you have that defines who you are? Or, is at least, symbolic of that?

[tvobsessivefanatic]

DP X DC Prompt : Dan's Rage Room

Dan Phantom is a ghost who could represent Rage, heck, he destroyed his whole Dimension because of it. So according to Clockwork, He needed a Rage room. So he found one, and... Let's say he got a little bit attached and too invested into the said Rage Room.

Follow Dan through his adventures inside a new dimension, a dimension he could and is allowed to mess with to his own satisfaction, and also a dimension where he could start anew and learn about or maybe just chill around. Which one would he choose?

Who am I kidding? Of course it's not the latter, Dan was given a dimension all to himself, of course he was going to use it as his rage room. And plus, teaching these heroes a lesson is just a bonus, Dan himself is a retired teenage hero who has been through hell, and these heroes were still lacking in many aspects, so he concluded that they needed to be thought a lesson or two.

Don't mind him, it's his method of dealing with his unresolved trauma! Plus, it's not like he was planning to be some big shot or anything, he's just gonna be your typical Rogue gallery! Robbing Banks, stealing important schtick, having big bad plans, taking hostage, and so on.

Well, that is what he was planning before doing his research about the Dimension and finding out about Bruce Wayne, this Dimension's version of Danny Fenton, his younger self, which made himself curious and search for this Dimension's version of Vladimir Plasmius, and it was clears that it is none other than Ra's Al-Ghul.

To them, Dan would look incredibly identical to Bruce Wayne and Ra's Al-Ghul in the same time, and that fact alone would be incredibly useful. Clones in this dimension has happened before, and Dan happened to look terrifyingly identical to two individuals who are against eachother, which would give an interesting reaction for once he reveals his face.

As for his Villain costume? He's going for a classic all black super suit with a mask, only revealing his eyes, one who knows Bruce Wayne would recognize the cold gaze, but would be reminded of the same Lazarus green present on Ra's Al-Ghul eyes.

With this new setting, Dan figured it would be more interesting if he laid low, forcefully showing himself once in a while and only going into silent mischief at night, he even went around as a Civilian a few more times.

He wanted drama, misunderstanding, shock, and quite a lot of chaos.

[I feel like I've seen a fanfic/prompt that's similar to this, so I'm sorry if this seems like I copied it]

[mynameismysecret]

Did you enjoy the American elections? Wishing for a sequel? Well look no further than the second and final round of romanian presidential elections! In which players will have to choose between two equally terrifying candidates: a far-right, pro-russian, anti-eu extremist who nobody expected to see in the finals AND (drumroll) a woman!