#jordan talks about stuff

[savethedots]

their sibling energy is everything [dna 1423]

(video credit: labyrithwar on twitter)

(translation credit: flouxious on twitter)

[cyclone-rachel]

me watching the first episode of Hazbin Hotel:

[tremendouskoalachild]

Wait a sec is that recent collider article actually using she/they for Amandla Stenberg? or maybe it's just my wishful thinking

[kiwibirdlafayette]

I think Tom (and all his alts) strive for freedom…

OH ABSOLUTELY

I totally agree!! I think just like- the nature of Tom and his alts (who ofc meta wise were all written after him) is that they’re all dependent people of some kind, usually as the result of their circumstance of existence

Whether that be like in Tom's case because Dianite (or Mianite in Godswap, albiet different dynamic) is the one to grant him reanimated life, making him sort of indebted to him- or Cassell who isn't necessarily bound to his god moreso that he's bound to his creators (Flash and Ianite). Mot also sort of has that tether element to him because Dianite technically also saved his life from the creeper spore infection iirc but I think it makes the principle of freedom a little different to him esp. because it turned into like a business partners to unrequited crush to sorta lovers kinda thing depending on your post canon

All of this translates to me into their kind of devotion as champions, and again how that's like different from Ianitee flavored devotion (based on the guidance of Ianite and trusting in her judgement to lead them the right way so she can keep them safe), or Mianitee flavored devotion (Like knights to a king, similar to Ianitees follow orders for order, kind of follow his principles rather than specific instructions from him). Dianite being Dianite and the elements of chaos being how it is, Dianitee devotion is like being an extension of him, not via principles or guidance but by intent like being mercenaries in service of him while still being tethered in fear of punishment if its not done right. And maybe yknow they don't mind the implications that come with that title (Mot's case, for example) I think that's where that desire for freedom comes for- a want to have an existence that isn't tethered to their god

side note this could not apply as much to Dianite and Cass in Aitheaca because Dianite takes the Ianite role in terms of swapped god positions (and Cass runs off Dianite's guidance in the same way as Jordan would to Ianite) as Flash and Ianite are more similar to Tom and S1 Dia but bear with me xD

So kind of like extrapolating from that- their more specific desires for freedom are all sort of tied to Tom's need for spiritual freedom- I want to like refer to the whole thing of the Thauminomicon-y traits Marsh had mentioned before, and how Tom has 'fabrico', which stands for craft/repair. It connects in the sense of yeah he's a zombie he's stiched back together but. ok hear me out. Who would have stitched him back together? It was implied in an episode of Isles that c!Tom doesn't remember the Minecraft Project- (because they're memories he can't return to, just big empty void in his head), or when he was alive/ill from zombification, but he hadn't died yet. The person that arrives on Mianite with Tucker is that Tom, he is all that chaotic goofy Tom is, but at the same time he's partially someone else's creation, sewn together in intricate ways to be the bringer of chaos for the god he serves- but beyond that? His humanity. At his core, he's human, not someone who'll just take orders blindly and him striving for his freedom from that tether is refusing to deny the things that makes him alive. And I think the other alts like ya said follow suit, in Mot maintaining his humanity regardless of his ailment through choosing to care for Alyssa rather than being just a ruthless chaotic killing machine when Rux!Dia dies or in Aitheaca the way I want to write Cassell as someone who was born as a weapon for Ianite but loves collecting vintage human things and views his innermost self through music. The visual I kind of go to is the idea of Tom literally crafting and repairing the parts of himself that make him feel trapped by breaking them apart, burning it, adding new things when he takes the hands of friends and yeah!! And I think this sort of aspect could also tie into him becoming Mecha Dianite as well in finding freedom by choosing the person he is, and owning it

[jessiethelion]

I love running side blogs more popular than me it makes me feel like loser Batman

[giganticism]

From Trevor Zegras Q&A: Talking ‘that goal,’ John Tortorella, Jack Hughes, Patrick Kane … and burritos

[aahsoka]

brain making me feel like i was so fuckin rude and uhhh pretentious for telling my prof that the thing underneath marie antionettes skirt in a painting was called a pannier

[apollos-boyfriend]

the funniest part is that like. some modern undeniably mcyt creators aren’t. even by definition “mcyt” bc they’re twitch streamers, not YouTubers. like. it’s just clear to me that it’s not a strict and defined label one way or another but rather a catch all for a certain subsection of content creators who either started in or have had major participation in minecraft related Things at some point (or are very heavily tied with people who did) yknow.

yeah!!! it’s actually a really interesting like, phenomenon. for the lack of a better term. just how much the label has expanded and changed to fit modern-day content creation. bc there’s this divide, kind of, between people who are a part of the community and those that aren’t. fans of mcyt will kind of label most ccs that even interact with mcyt as a mcyt themselves (crumb, for example) even if said creator hasn’t personally posted minecraft videos to youtube, or rarely stream it (if at all). and then you have people outside the fanbase that hold mcyt with a negative connotation that fight tooth and nail to argue that a specific cc isn’t an mcyt because they don’t want them to be, despite said cc fitting into the category perfectly, and being okay with the label. kind of an offshoot of lovejoy fans who don’t know that wilbur does minecraft content, but more extreme. idk fandom behaviour and the sociology of it?? for lack of a better term?? is always so interesting to me. there’s a lot of Very Specific Circumstances that led to modern mcyt and its development, popularity, and stigma, and i would dig deeply into all of it if i could

[aahsoka]

I was curious and someone in the notes provided a link to the museum page on the tablet:

Basically, its a ledger lol.

[kiwibirdlafayette]

the majority of the sparklypants fandom has moved on to other ships but meanwhile i am actively avoiding stoneblock/ragna/VH shipping stuff more or less bc my brain wont let me be interested in anything besides mianite/isles and syndisparklezs HELP. doesnt matter if i think about it as different jordans in the multiverse. brain said no multishipping for you this time dipshit

[7yearsofdele]

Trish conversation with Jordan 😮😮😮😮he is talking shit she's right to say

I just feel bad for Henry. He’s the only one I care about, because you can see all over his face how he feels when he sees Matty and Jordan talking.

[tysonfurybattlepass]

uh oh, here’s where i need to correct myself. “hesperocyonids” is not a valid class of animals. i should have referred to these animals as hesperocyonines!

like all living dogs, hesperocyonines were canids!

nowadays, every living species of dog, wolf, fox, coyote, and jackal all belong to the family canidae, meaning they are considered “true dogs”. but more importantly, they’re all part of the same subfamily, caninae. that means that as of right now, there are no canids alive that are not canines as well. but that didn’t used to be the case!

long ago, there were three subfamilies of true dogs: the borophaginae, the caninae, and the hesperocyoninae! they were all canids, in the family canidae, so they all count as true dogs.

in my original post, i used the suffix -idae (“hesperocyonids”- NOT a real thing) which means family, when i should have used the suffix -inae (“hesperocyonines”- real thing), for subfamily. sorry :(

canines, the newest ones, are the ones we still have today: the swift, cross-country runners that today occupy the pursuit predator (wolf, african wild dog, dhole) and generalist scavenger (jackal, coyote, fox) niches.

borophagines evolved into giant, bearlike creatures with powerful jaws that could crush and eat bone, similar to the way hyenas eat today. on my recent trip to the LA natural history museum, i got to see a specimen of the genus epicyon, a bone-crushing dog that lived in the miocene and could have grown as large as a grizzly bear!

hesperocyonines were mostly small, weasel-like generalists that made a living off of the forest floor. they were the first ever true dogs to branch away from the original carnivoran lineage! this means that they retained some very basal ancestral traits of being a carnivoran, like a small body size and fully retractable claws! (that’s right, ALL carnivoran mammals descended from ancestors that had retractable claws. cats didn’t evolve them separately; they just kept them while everyone else lost them over time!)

similar to how we have “big cats” (pantherinae) and “little cats” (felinae) alive today, we could draw an analog and call the borophagines the extinct “big dogs” and the hesperocyonines the extinct “little dogs” to our current surviving “medium dogs”.

PBS Eons has a wonderful video about the dog subfamilies, though it does focus mainly on the bone-crushers:

the moral of the the story is that dogs used to be much, much more diverse than they are now! they used to occupy many niches that are nowadays taken up by cats, bears, and mustelids like weasels and badgers. though we have no living members of those two earlier dog dynasties, we can still remember them when we take a look at our pet dogs and neighborhood coyotes, who ultimately outcompeted them all to come out as top dog :)

pumas are like if little cats were big cats. like just decided one day to switch teams. clouded leopards are the opposite, big cats who decided to be little cats. also hyenas are if cats decided one day to be dogs. foxes are if dogs decided one day to be cats. hesperocyonids are like if dogs decided to be weasels. barbourofelids are like if cats decided to be bears. bears are like if dogs decided to be lazier. linsangs and genets are like if cats decided to be weasels. nimravids were like if things that were not cats decided to be cats but like not really. borophagines were like if dogs decided to be hyenas. i love carnivorans i love niche partitioning i love adaptive radiation i love non-linear evolution

[hannahchronism]

i saw. an edit on tiktok (yeah i know) of someone who had compiled a bunch of pictures they took when they started to feel like the thing they were doing wasn't real and that sort of. boxed me into acknowledging that that should probably be. the minority feeling. if it happens at all.

[aahsoka]

i am getting paid very little to sub but i very much do care about whats going on with these kids and i wanna leave them all with something good

[freewayshark]

What is leather horror?

Leather horror is mostly just me being goofy lol. It’s what I call a very small group of movies that came out in the early 00’s ish that are basically just action horror with an emphasis on everyone wearing leather for some reason. Blade, Underworld, Van Helsing, Dracula 2000, BloodRayne. Resident Evil, kind of, although now that I think about it most of the leather showed up in the latter half of the series in the early 2010’s. Huh, interesting.

[slasherscream]

okay, got my lil encouragement, so the 411 on this concept is this-

YOU have been hollywood's darling since you were a kid. you're not a pop princess. you're the pop princess. you showed up on the scene and you devoured it and you haven't stopped since.

but you're a supe, too. and people forget that, because they're so caught up in the music, and showboating. you love music. but you have powers. you've got great powers, and you want to be a superhero. you want to really help people.

you've always been a hard worker. you didn't get where you are because of nepotism, or connections. you did that on pure talent. and it makes you sick knowing that with just a snap of your little fingers, if you told vought you wanted to become one of their superheroes they'd give you anything you asked for (as long as you'd switch to their record label like they've been begging you to all these years). you like to earn things, especially when they mean something to you. you like proving you're the best, at everything you do.

it's really lucky for you that you've always had such elaborate stage makeup and costuming, and gone strictly by a stage name (your parents were very protective of your safety). no one even recognizes you outside of costume. your real name isn't known by anyone.

so you enroll at god-u, ready to work for what you want the old-fashioned way, without a leg up. and you run into professor brink's TA, who is an asshole, and hates the special interest brink is taking in you because of your potential (even though you're some nobody loser.)

but as these things go you guys get close. and you want so badly to open up to jordan, and let them in completely and make them your boyfriend/girlfriend/incredibly significant annoyance. but you keep holding back because... god, jordan seems so focused on the fame. on the ranks. sometimes you think it's all they care about.

sure, right now they love/hate you for YOU, but what if all that changes when they find out who you really are?

can i tell you guys abt my one (1) way too convoluted to actually write jordan li x reader fic