#its a hoot

[sonntam]

Autobiography of Jung in 1910:

I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, "My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark." He said that to me with some emotion, in the tone of a father saying, "And promise me one thing, my dear son: that you will go to the church every Sunday." In some astonishment I asked him, "A bulwark - against what?" To which the replied, "Against the black tide of mud" - and he hesitated for a moment, then added - "of occultism" ... What Freud seemed to mean by "occultism" was virtually everything that philosophy and religion, including the rising of contemporary science of parapsychology, had learned about the psyche.

Is this not amazing? The complete inability to imagine a religion that would not be obliterated by sexuality. The earnest plea to make sexual theory into Everything. Probably understandable if you consider how no one talked about sexuality beforehand and if it faded into obsurity it would suck balls.

Still hollering over how funny this is. But that's not all! Let's see what Jung has to say in the year 1907:

Wherever in a person or in a work of art, an expression of spirituality (in the intellectual, not the supernatural sense) came to light, he suspected it, and insinuated it was repressed sexuality. Anything that could not be directly interpreted as sexuality he referred to as "psychosexuality." I protested that this hypothesis, carried to its logical conclusion, would lead to an annihilating judgement upon culture. Culture would then appear as a mere farce, the morbid consequence of repressed sexuality. "Yes," he assented, "so it is, and that is just a curse of fate against which we are powerless to contend."

Where to start. Freud being the fucking insufferable friend who keeps searching for sex everywhere (and keeps fucking finding it). The implication that sex devalues the spirit and culture itself. Freud fucking AGREEING WITH IT. It's too funny.

Us: Everything is about sex! (joyful)

Freud: Everything is about sex. (haunted)

[toboldlymuppet]

spider punk!!!!!!!!!!

[opal-owl-flight]

IM LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND THE STUPID NINTENDO ALARMO ON SPLATOON MODE HAS YOU WAKING UP TO FUCKING GUNSHOTS AND WHEN YOU GET OUT OF BED IT CELEBRATES WITH THE SOUND OF AN INKLING EXPLODING. WHAT?

[hootyhoowoo]

A little 15 min doodle but first post of the year has to be Bingqiu!

[welivefast-dieyoung]

Some of y'all trying to encourage empathy for these unethically wealthy people, who agreed to be bolted in to a metal tube, that was unapproved, unsafe and was controlled by a fucking off brand playstation controller from 2011 just for a cute lil death tourism trip is why we as a society will never be free.

They went to a part of the ocean that is so deep, more people have been to space than that far down. With a man who said safety shouldn't be a concern. Oceangate literally fired someone for saying that the window wasn't going to be able to withstand those depths. They'd lost another vessel before for 5 hours. Like plllsss the self preservation left the room. This whole situation is absurd.

Even this man's own stepson doesn't give a FUCK and you want me to? Nuh uh you have the wrong one I'm afraid😭😭

[mewvore]

drew myself pregnant, for fun

[lollygaggingloser]

Varian has a thing for people who wear glasses (think megane). To him, a person's attractiveness goes up when they wear glasses because it helps frame people's faces so well. Sadly, when he tries wearing glasses himself, he just looks dorky, so he's low key jealous of people who pull them off so nicely. Instead, he wears goggles for their more practical use until maybe one day when eye glasses won't look so off on him.

He would rather die than admit this to Hugo.

[mrhotelmanager]

[huntersrequiem-if]

Demo drop

(well, not really, I'll do something more fancy when I have the whole thing written) Alright, I have decided. You can play HERE. It has 5k+ words after clearing up the incomplete branches.

What you can do:

Save some mortals.

Talk or antagonize their leader.

Meet Moon (briefly)

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Okay, so I'm not a Poppy Playtime fan by any means, I only know what is presented in the games, I don't know any of the hidden lore stuff or whtv. I thought the last two chapters were cool but severely lacking but man, Chapter 3 went legitimately hard. Particularly in the topic of today's discussion:

The Hour of Joy

It was pretty clear in the previous chapters that all the coworkers were dead but this one finally shows it and oh man was I hyped.

Throughout the chapter we get teasers to what happened, and I just tossed it all out cause I thought it was just generic horror stuff. Like the hallucination bit with the screaming in the lobby. I didn't bat an eye and just forgot about it till the end. But after watching another playthrough I was like "oh shit" and actually physically sat up in interest.

And then there's the VHS. Everything about that presentation was so cool to me. Firstly, we have the footage itself, which presents a terrifying tale. These random workers just going about another day at the factory. Standing around, talking with one another, all near what they presume to merely be a statue. And the unimaginable occurs. This statue, the same one they've walked past a thousand times pounces on one of the workers, tearing him apart in an instant before setting its sight on the rest. And he had it lucky.

Everybody begins to flee, screaming, begging, questioning. "What was that?" "What's happening?" And then long pink arms dart from the ceiling and pluck them from the ground. More toys converge on them, on workers deeper in the facility who don't even know what is happening. One particular man is converged upon by dozens of the teachers to meet god-knows-what fate.

And then we have Poppy's story. How she heard it all from the case. Could hear them scream, plead, and die. Her voice shaking, on the verge of tears even describing it. "It went on for so long. So, so horribly long." And the name in it of itself. "The Hour of Joy". A chilling title that really lets you know the toys' thoughts on the event.

TL;DR: Mob Entertainment, you did good on this one.

[hootshooch]

I will always think it's funny that some people are actually upset that Gortash isn't the "young handsome man" they thought he was gonna be based on the description of him in Act 1. Imagine getting catfished by a washed up Criss Angel wannabe and not seeing the beauty in it. That's peak comedy

[thegreatyin]

honestly at this point i think my dream ES is just a story that does for mr iron what adornment and cricket did for mr stones and mr wines (respectively). give me another bat backstory flashback in the middle of my perfectly good seemingly unrelated misadventure (that is, of course, Actually Extremely Related to the bat at hand)

[opal-owl-flight]

MY PARENTS HAVE RETURNED FROM JAPAN AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN HAPPIER TO FINALLY DROWN IN THE MERCH OF MY CURRENT FAV SERIES

Nintendo store even threw this lil extra and it makes me happy too :] wish I was there. Id have taken so many pictures with the statues wjndjaijsj

[missescalientee]

Love this guy's design, he's very fluffy, and his hair is super fun to draw

Les belongs to @zivazivc

[soracities]

Theodore Roethke, "The Kitty-Cat Bird", The Complete Poems of Theodore Roethke [ID'd]

[throesofincreasingwonder]

He's just so full of anger, is the thing. He's so full of rage over what the BCC did to Bryan but he doesn't feel like he can take it out on them—maybe because his feelings are still conflicted, or he's trying to take the high road, or because Bryan told him to stay out of it, we don't know—so he just bottles it up inside. He focuses on his grief and his defiance and he tells himself that this is enough because he needs to be a professional and he can't let it take over.

Except that it doesn't work. He bottles all of that rage up until it's overflowing, and then every match he's had since the betrayal we've seen someone shake him just the wrong way until the bottle cap comes flying off and that rage fizzes over everywhere.

And it is because of Bryan. He's using the cattle mutilation because he's showing his allegiance to Bryan and tying himself to that instead of to the remaining BCC, but when it all comes out in the moment that really doesn't even matter. He gets blinded by rage, he gets violent with his opponents, he hangs onto that submission too long until his unwillingness to let go of Bryan Danielson becomes an unwillingness to let go of his opponent.

Until this move he's using in defiance of the BCC ends up helping them. He thinks that wrestling more like Bryan, choosing to be his legacy instead of Moxley's or Claudio's, will keep him in opposition of the BCC. Only it doesn't work because the anger it's fueled by is exactly what they want, and because having a mini version of Bryan that they can keep on the end of their leash and set against their enemies is a perfectly agreeable end-goal for them.

Personally, and I'm happy with this either way, but personally I think the only way he can truly be free of this is if he lets go of what they did to Bryan. He has to let go of that anger and that need for vengeance and get out of the cycle of violence that is the BCC, or he's gonna get a very pretty heel makeover real quick here.