#keeping god's silence

[hunxi-after-hours]

"If rest becomes a form of recovery from work, as is the case today, it loses its specific ontological value. It no longer represents an independent, higher form of existence and degenerates into a derivative of work. Today's compulsion of production perpetuates work and thus eliminates that sacred silence. Life becomes entirely profane, desecrated."

—Han Byung-Chul, The Disappearance of Rituals (trans. Daniel Steuer)

[penwrythe]

What's stopping the possibility of a ceasefire is pretty simple. Hamas is holding 239 Israeli civilians hostage including children and the elderly. What's happening in Palestine is a travesty and horrendous. But Israel can't initiate a ceasefire from the position they're in, so we need to be agitating for Hamas to release the hostages and call for a ceasefire instead.

NO GENOCIDE IS JUSTIFIABLE

HOW DOES THE KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE ON THIS EXTREME LEVEL FORCE HAMAS TO RETURN HOSTAGES??

ISRAEL'S BOMBARDMENT AND INDISCRIMINATE SHOOTING IN GAZA THREATEN EVERYONE THERE INCLUDING DOCTORS JOURNALISTS CHILDREN ENTIRE FAMILIES AND THE HOSTAGES

EVERYONE IS TARGETED

YOU HAVE HOSPITALS BOMBED HOW ANY OF THIS IS JUSTIFIED

@sarroora @fairuzfan @palipunk @wearenotjustnumbers2

You know more about this than I do.

[somegrumpynerd]

Before I forgetttttt

So color thinks Killer is brainwashed, BUT, what if one time when Killer's soul is normal and he can feel and think for himself again, what if they are chilling at Color's place and then Killer gets up and says something like "I have to go home, don't want to worry dad"

What would Color think ? Would he rethink everything because "wait, why did you call him dad ???" Or would he think that damn, this brain washing is even worse than he thought because apparently Nightmare makes them call him dad ?? Which is weird even for Nightmare that could be a manipulation method ??

Okay that's it byyyeee

OH I LOVE THINKING ABOUT THESE GUYS OKAY SO!!!!!

(I'm still new to Color so if I'm wicked super wrong let me know!)

I feel like no matter what Killer said about Nightmare, Color wouldn't believe it. If somebody's been held captive so long they no longer think they want to leave, of course they're going to say they like living there. No matter how much Color cares about him, I think he has to consider Killer an unreliable narrator as far as his own situation is concerned.

But! Color's main concern is giving Killer his autonomy back and helping him learn to make his own choices. This unfortunately means if Killer keeps choosing to go back to Nightmare, Color has to respect it.

I feel like the only way he would begin to slowly unwind and trust that Nightmare had good intentions would be to see it for himself repeatedly. It's going to take more than a few good turns to prove that he isn't just putting on an act when Color is watching and then turning the whip on them again when nobody's looking. That's going to be hard to set up though since neither of them want to be around the other very much lol

I do think a good start for it would be Nightmare giving Killer the choice though. Like, not that they don't get to choose things regularly, but Killer isn't really one to think much about what he wants or come forward with it so Nightmare kind of assumes he's content and doesn't really think to check in with him. So if he actually made a point of asking Killer what he wanted and he said he wanted to spend a day with Color, I think that would be a good start. Obviously Color's not gonna jump to trusting him after one day, but hearing that Nightmare is also giving Killer his own choices and actually respecting them might give him a bit more reason to trust him.

That said, the image of Color's face as he asks "he makes you call him dad??" is sending me lol

[tinta--branca--art]

i dont think im gonna finish this one so here,, be free my sons

[iamnmbr3]

Alphard: It’s Tom Riddle on my doorstep in the middle of the night. Maybe he’s finally been overcome by his attraction for me. Maybe he's realized that he doesn't need to work in that stupid shop and that with his beauty and intelligence and my wealth we could-

Tom: So apparently if you kill someone with a modified experimental form of the Transmogrifian Torture even if you transfigure the body afterwards whatever you’ve turned them into just keeps screaming-

Alphard: Please tell me you know this based on hypothetical theoretical conjecture.

Tom: Obviously. On a separate topic, would you like a screaming rock?

[possamble]

i feel like i need a transfem sensitivity reader at this point but i have nothing to offer as compensation lmfao

[god-syndicate-if]

secret romance? 👀

🤫 I'll tell you about them later.

[flowercrowngods]

i don't know how to be merely acquaintances when we used to be friends. or i think we used to be. i don't know how to yearn for a simple hello when you've been heaping your affection on me months ago, and i don't know how to talk to you when you won't say anything. when suddenly it's all about me. you know i have nothing to say, you know my brain is void of everything but horribleness and i cannot tell you about my day because i don't even know about my day. i cannot tell you about my day when i know you won't listen, when i know you'll apply your philosophy to my world and don't believe me when i say that everything is terrible. i don't know how to be the person you seem to think i am, or the person you want in your life. i don't know if you want anyone else in your life now that you're in love and sappy, found another recipient for your affections, leaving me empty and wounded and yearning.

you said you missed me. said it many times, while i was gone. now i'm back, have been back, and i wonder how you missed me, why you missed me, when you won't talk to me. i think you mistook missing for worrying. i think you mistook caring for a feeling of obligation. i think you like missing me more than talking to me.

and i think i can't breathe with how much that hurts

[antihibikase-archive]

Admittedly, I don't want to interact with that "white people should feel miserable" post- because, while I agree with its message, it didn't really give any ways for these guilty folks to help.

Maybe a few people got the message and did start posting more after seeing that- but honestly, it seems performative, especially if you weren't posting about it before.

Don't just dedicate a day or a week or a month of silence. Integrate it into your life. Post about those issues in the midst of posting about things unrelated to it.

It feels more natural and genuine when you post about social issues every now and then in the middle of blogging about your usual thing instead of dedicating a certain timeframe to it.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Your Rowlf looks a bit like Barnaby lmao

[I mean Barnaby already looks like Rowlf quite a bit anyways-]

I KNOWWWWW I KNOW I KNOW i redrew him like three times to try and fix it and each just got worse... why do dog puppets look so similar smh

[kc5rings]

After the bar fight scene, I believe Saria and Ho'olheyak should fuck so, so nasty.

Saria is a woman of making mistakes, what’s one more?

Scholar, top of her field, high capacity for being ruthless, it hits all of Saria’s established types

[origami-butterfly]

Ok but sometimes the most infuriating political stance a person can have is point blank refusing to discuss social issues with you when you bring it up because they "don't want to get political". Don't open the tags unless you want to read a rant

[streets-in-paradise]

I just read that apparently Hector hits Andromache in The Silence of the Girls and there goes away my tiny bit of interest in reading it.

The idea of a dark Achilles more accurate to the myths behaving like a realistic slave owner is understandable, but making Hector a wife beater?

Shame on you, Pat Barker.

[pyrosomatic-metamorphosis]

every day bbh gets on the server shatters every heart and never dies. how does he keep gettign away with this

[orangechickenpillow]

Misplaced a cricket in my room again, hoping this one doesn't feel the need to screech all night or I might actually scream and cry

[forcedhesitation]

watching astarion's horde of undead summons follow us around is the funniest thing to me. just another day in baldur's gate, citizens, nothing to worry about here! carry on and don't mind the smell of rotting flesh!