#lmk thought experiment

[ping-ski]

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[puppyeared]

RETURN TO MONKE (PUBERTY EDITION)

MK’s monkey form doesn’t feel right to me so i wanted to break up his transformation into stages. Maybe as he learns to accept that side of himself it becomes part of him, instead of changing between human and monkey randomly (which is probably painful). Love yourself, NOW!!!

@zymstarz im tagging you for FULL MONKE

[casadefreewill]

Ok like just for starters off the top of my head (will probably add more later when I’m not actively falling asleep)

- Red Boy is reformed -> now Shancai, not going to be going around cooking up “evil” schemes. Could possibly miss his parents (derive angst from this/different angle on the desperate to impress his father thing idk)

- Princess Iron Fan has gone off to practice self-cultivation -> could maybe see her son again by the time, also not going to be going around trying to expand the Bull Demon empire or whatever.

- Bull Demon King is carted off to face the Buddha, could still wind up under a mountain as punishment (there’s precedence eg. Sun Wukong, Yang Chan, etc.)

- LBD - very very dead

- LEMH - very very dead (could maybe derive angst as having ever been an internal aspect of swk but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

- Spider Queen - part of the spider sisters? If so then squished to death aka very dead > if maybe another sister, a younger eighth sister that escaped being killed by not being part of the group to take Tang Sanzang, could possibly still be around to do her stuff

- Golden Peng -> with the Buddha

- Yellow Tooth Elephant -> with Bodhisattva Viśabhadra

- Azure Lion -> with Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī

— not in any way SWK’s sworn brothers but it’s possible they could technically escape again if we want them to cause trouble <-actually I need to double check if Mañjuśrī’s lion didn’t also escape in an earlier chapter yeah wait back in chapter 39

"Bodhisattva," said Pilgrim, "so this is the green-haired lion who serves as your beast of burden. How was it that he had been turned loose so that he could become a spirit here? Aren't you going to make him submit to you?" "Wukong." said the Bodhisattva, "he was not turned loose. He had been sent by the decree of Buddha to come here." Pilgrim said, "You mean that this beast's becoming a spirit to usurp the throne of a king was a decree of Buddha? If that's the case, old Monkey, who is accompanying the Tang Monk through all his trials, should have been given several imperial documents!"

Ok so not escaped but whatever multiple instances of interaction

- SWK is a buddha -> probably more of a lotus lantern deal with Xiaotian’s training /// gotta figure out what Xiaotian’s whole situation is

- Zhu Bajie, Sha Wujing, Ao Lie, and Tang Sanzang all would still be alive (aside from extended lifespans from the ginseng fruit a bunch of other people who are the same age or older are still kicking in the lmk timeline) -> I mean they possibly could have drifted apart? Or something. Actually this makes me think, there is a non 0 chance that their deaths (and subsequent reincarnation) were forced by unnatural means

Sometimes I lie in bed and contemplate what if lmk but jttw actually happened?

[spoilersbutinaccurate]

❗️Case file❗️

Known as: 汗青 (Han Qing)

Title: 尚經御史 Censor of the High Scriptures (Abolished)

Age: /

Gender: /

Current status: Inactive. Confined Staying in the underworld

Notable tools: Cosmic chains, Scroll of memory (Prototype. Was destroyed)

Notable domain: Memory & Writing

Description: The old censor who acted as an impartial observer to the three realms. Originally a wandering immortal, no one knows why they eventually worked with the Celestial Court, though the main idea was to ‘keep a handle on them’.

They are credited to being the inventor of the memory scroll, but all prototypes have been corrupted. An altered version of it is put into use for the underworld.

Prior to their incarceration dissappearance, the Censor was reported to never show anything other than a polite smile.

Remarks:

Will continue to monitor

"I wonder how they’re doing now…"

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Human designs below!

[wintvies]

where are my mutuals that are as unfiltered as me when i need them!!! 😔😔

[liesmyth]

my locked tomb hot take of the day is that the way Harrow’s symptoms are presented in HtN line up much more closely with religious OCD with poor insight and psychotic features than schizophrenia. She shows almost no signs of paranoia or delusions (G1deon really was trying to kill her! It’s absolutely true that the other houses would swoop in like vultures if they knew her house’s true position! Her sword and psyche were both actually haunted, to the point that Alecto could hitch a ride in her body. She is never shown in the text to hold a belief that is inconsistent with reality, IMO) and her only true psychotic symptom that we see is hallucinations, and she seems to most of the time have some idea that they aren’t real, which indicates a level of self awareness incompatible with schizophrenia. She also doesn’t seem to display many cognitive symptoms like thought block or disorganized speech and thinking. The rest of her behavior is highly obsessive (compulsive praying, wearing face paint even when nobody is around, obsessive studying, needing her food to be arranged on her plate a certain way) and is very in line with someone suffering from religious scrupulosity. As someone who has experienced both OCD and psychosis, and knows how the symptoms can overlap, this is is the hill I will die on.

I don't feel like I can contribute in any meaningful way to your points, so I'll just put this out into the world and say that I appreciate your insights!

Speaking from a #meta perspective: I know that around the time HtN came out, Tamsyn gave interviews talking about her own experiences being hospitalised for mental health reasons and implied that was what she was partly drawing on when writing HtN. I can't remember if she called Harrow schizophrenic or stated that it was her intention to write her as such, and the author is dead anyway. Plus, obviously, the fact that someone's writing was informed by irl experiences doesn't have to mean that said writing is a 1:1 parallel for those experiences, expecially in a sff setting where ghosts exists and in fact there's something that Harrow can see and nobody else can.

TO ME, the fact that people who experience psychotic episodes can recognise themselves in Harrow's internal monologue and experiences is more meaningful than whether Harrow “really” has a given specific disorder or she's just seeing ghosts. The point is that SHE feels a disconnect from reality and that she's delusional and cannot trust anything she remembers or reads. Nobody in-universe is ever going to diagnose her, you know? The series itself doesn't claim to be straight-up representation for any specific named issues — things like Cytherea's cancer or Harrow's mental state are left ambiguous and partly influenced by magic. I think the fact that readers can relate to some symptoms some characters experience is more meaningful than whether these symptoms all point to something that can be diagnosed unambiguously.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts with me!

[drawfee-quot3s]

• why do i need to see holes so bad????

• it's really gOod

• ... julia have you seen holes?

• nope

• 's why we're married

- jacob, karina, + julia

[eddiemelrose]

so my hathazur lore was created when Maddy and Clay were digitising guardian records and found Janine's so now I'm literally creating my own version of the document in my head so I can see it. Literally creating Janine's employment history fr.

[karamazovanon]

Do you have any thoughts about Alyosha's momentary crisis of faith? Because I understood why he had one, but not so much why he was immediately ready to drink and go see Grushenka. Interested to see if you've any opinions on the matter, either regarding Grushenka or just in general.

OOOOOO this is an interesting question and my answer is going to get kinda long, warning you now LOL

i think alcohol & drinking in general is often a big part of "the karamazovian nature"—fyodor pavlovich and mitya are open alcoholics & hedonists, and ivan's heavily implied to be an alcoholic as well by his delirium tremens at the end—and more generally as one of the wordly temptations that human nature as a whole is susceptible to (tangent, but this is also really interesting when you keep in mind ivan's cup analogy!! drinking & cups are tied to living & life so often; mitya chooses to "fill" his cup/life with alcohol, ivan drinks in secret until he throws the cup/life to the ground at 30 in rebellion, and alyosha instead chooses to fill his cup/life with god. one of the schiller verses mitya quotes in the ardent confession chapter even says "To the soul of God’s creation / Joy eternal brings her draught, / In strong secret fermentation / Flames the cup of life aloft")

and the common denominator is that they don't believe enough to overcome the natural urge to indulge. mitya does believe, but he can't stop himself and reproaches himself for it; ivan doesn't believe despite wanting to and that contributes too imo. but alyosha doesn't drink and is an ascetic for the most part bc everything for him is based off of his unwavering faith—and so when his entire worldview and moral system is shaken by both ivan and father zosima, he questions EVERYTHING and begins feeling detached from reality when it doesn't match up. without his bulletproof faith intact, he no longer has the external ruleset to dictate his behavior, and the karamazovian desire to ease pain with alcohol wins for a moment without being able to trust his prior moral compass

(on rereading for this post, i don't have a formulated thought on it but it's interesting that he agrees to rakitin's initial offer of vodka even though they end up having champagne instead—there's probably some connection there between vodka and worldly/russian baseness vs champagne, which while not communion wine is still wine LMAO)

this quote from the onion chapter is what stands out the most to me, bold mine:

"Alyosha cried out with a wail in his voice. ‘I speak to you not as a judge, but as the least of the judged. What am I before her? I came here in order to be destroyed, saying: “Go on, go on!” – and that was because of my cowardice, while she, after five years of suffering, no sooner did someone come and say a sincere word to her, forgave everything, forgot everything and cried! The assailant of her honour has returned, is summoning her, and yet she forgives him everything and hurries to him in joy and she will not take the knife, she will not take it! Oh, I am not like that! I do not know whether you are like that, Misha, but I am not like that! Today, the moment I received this lesson, I … She loves in a way that is loftier than yours or mine … Have you heard her say this earlier, what she said just now? No, you have not; if you had, you would have understood everything long ago … And let the other woman, whom she offended the other day, let her, too, forgive her! And she will forgive her, if she learns of this … and she shall learn of it … This soul has not yet been reconciled, we must spare it … This soul may contain a treasure …" (tr. mcduff)

when he loses his infallible external/divine guidance, he has to turn inward/to the world around him instead, where he finds guilt and the human urge to self-destroy (as well as the influence of rakitin & his schadenfreude) and as a karamazov, it naturally comes first in the form of alcohol (women, too, but alyosha never really shows any desire on that front) when he sees grushenka's kindness and forgiveness, he snaps out of it and his faith is reinforced (while he believes he's a sinner and unworthy, he sees in her christlike forgiveness and is reminded that although he has these karamazovian urges, giving in to them entirely isn't the answer etc etc im not a theologian and have been writing too long anyway)

this has been such a long ramble with so little structure but this is SUCH an interesting plot point, thank you for asking my thoughts on it!! :D

[therighthandofvengeance]

To the minbari, it’s a prophecy about The One Who Was, The One Who Is, and The One Who Will Be.

To me, it’s about the broken, the beaten, and the damned.

[nguyenfinity]

In 2018, I made Fight Kiddo as a way to vent frustration with some stuff, but I didn't know what to name her 'cause I didn't really wanna call her Fight Kiddo the entire time. I ended up naming her after my grandma, an incredibly kind and loving lady who would not put up with people's bs.

She passed away year ago today (or. a year and a day ago today because tumblr formatting decided to be difficult, sorry) and like. When I say my 2022 sucked I mean like I caught covid the day before she passed away so for me it was just. Yeah it sure was a summer. It was a rough time to say the least but kept the fight goin huh?

I wanted to bring Fight Kiddo back to honor her namesake in a way, and though I can't do much else now besides draw this for her, I do thank you so much for reading along <3

Con vẽ cái này cho bà ngoại, con nhớ ngoại nhiều mà con mong ngoại thích nhe.

[dogin8]

Post where I explain what Non Binary means to "It's just the third gender" people by using maths notation

our sets:

B (for Binary)

NB (for Non-Binary)

B = {0,1} which means, the set B is made up of the numbers 1 and 0

now some people think NB = {0.5} or NB = {2} but neither of these are wholly true

NB = {C U R\B} which means, the set NB is made up of every Complex number And every Real number (these two together means basically: every possible value in maths) EXCEPT for numbers in set B

So that means, NB includes EVERYTHING other than 1 and 0. which means 0.5 is included, and 2 is included, but so is 0.9 and 500000 and -π and 12i and e. Non-Binary doesn't refer to one specific gender, it refers to Everything outside of and between the binary which is literally infinite values.

If you wanted to be REAL thorough as well you could say

NB = {C U R/B, (C U R, C U R), (C U R, C U R, C U R), (C U R, C U R, C U R, C U R) (then continue filling brackets with an increasing number of C U R to infinit)}

which means that NB is everything outside the binary AND any pair of two numbers, any group of three numbers, any group of four numbers etc to infinity. This is the best way I could think to display people who identify with multiple genders at once through math notation.

But, my favourite thing about all this is that if you want to be a real math nerd about stuff, you could start just saying "\B" cause that's the most basic form of notation for "Not in set B" "Not in Binary" "Non-binary"

[i-am-a-fucking-nerd]

Actually I’m still thinking abt it like how do I describe to a woman in her 80s, whos been a woman her whole life and never felt out of place with it, the experience of being completely and utterly alien to urself? The way u have to unbecome in order to be. The way I fought against it for so long that it made me so sick I thought I was going to die and even then while a part of me was begging to please let us live another part of me thought it would kill us to acknowledge it. And how the part of me hesitating out of fear was sort of right? Transformation is a sort of death. A caterpillar kinda dies for a butterfly, it’s not a butterfly in and of itself. It’s so excruciating but so natural. So necessary. And that’s only one facet of being trans! And damn like! It’s not even like being trans is completely different from any other human experience! It’s not like there aren’t parallels or comparisons. But now I also have to reckon with how well I know my grandma and her internal experience. Cuz I don’t. I don’t know what well of knowledge she draws from. What else in her life I could compare it to? I have no clue what, if anything, I say will resonate with her or how. We’re rly just all out here fumbling in the grass trying to find a bridge to each other aren’t we.

[the-terrible-theys]

@rickymaximum

personally i am of the opinion that since 2d chris and martin are clearly fictional, separate versions from their real-life counterparts (though the animated kratt bros are indisputably tied to the real ones), shipping them with other characters in the show isn't weird AS LONG AS those other characters are in no way tied to real people themselves. shipping pairings between even fictional versions of two real people is where things can get a little weird/messy, since that has a potential to impact those real people and their relationships. if zach or whatever other character were the self-insert of a real person my opinions on shipping that character with one of the bros would be way different, but since only chris and martin are self-insert-type characters, i see no issues with shipping them with their friends or the villains

i kinda view shipping as just One Of Those Fandom Things that happens to fictional characters, on par with things like making headcanons or redesigns. like, if someone started making headcanons about a real person, or were to redesign that real person to have, say, piercings or different hair or an altered personality, it gets a little weird. if someone does those things with fictional characters, though, it's no big deal. same thing with shipping. the animated kratt brothers are, again, fictional, and i think it's okay to treat them as such as long as the real kratt brothers are being respected

of course, if the real brothers ever were to express discontent with any sort of shipping, that's another matter. while 2d chris and martin are fictional characters, them being tied to real people means that if those real people don't want something done to their character, shipping or headcanons or redesigns or whatever, those wishes should be respected. i wouldn't doubt that chris and martin are at least somewhat aware of people shipping characters (i mean even a lot of younger fans end up thinking of chris and aviva, for example, as a pairing, and that's been going on since 2011), and my guess is that they don't care. no one is shipping these characters with the real kratt brothers (i'd hope) and so i highly doubt any of that would affect them

tl;dr as long as people aren't being weird or disrespectful in any way about shipping, i think it's chill. these characters are fictional and can be treated as such as long as the real-life kratt brothers are being respected

[silasona]

Tcaf day 2 went a lot better. Didnt even have a panic attack this time. Heres my haul :) if anyone wants the socials/info abt anything i picked up lmk and ill tell u more.

[bulletproofbandits]

Bulletproof.

ref pic (suggested by the lovely @arnold-layne ) under the cut