#maintaining integrity

[thinkingonscripture]

Be Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves

Jesus told His disciples, “I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matt 10:16). There are times when Christians will find themselves in the midst of a pack of wolves, which is a dangerous situation. When this happens, they should maintain purity in their intentions while being shrewd in their conduct to avoid unwarranted harm.[1] Doves are…

[qaanngi]

When you and your fellow birb are the only close range fighters at the start of your contract and haven’t had another person to spar with in a while

[everestmasala]

one of my favourite ot3 dynamics is like these two people who are entangled by fate and revenge and honour and the guy who got caught up in it because of unceasing, unflinching devotion to one of them

[ty-bayonet-betteridge]

forever thinking about how the long quiet embracing their full divinity involves The Voices coming back. like yeah being plural is basically the same thing as being a godi'll cosign that

[meamiki]

vtuber loop !!!

[reverse entry au? the reverse isekai part of it? tangentially related to this post here, and also the last part of this post too]

[boughclan-clangen]

snow????, child of hollystar.

swift????, child of ????????.

[marlinspirkhall]

I assumed the reason Logorhythms was trying to make sure Caspian's life mirrored Stephen's as closely as possible was because they wanted to download Holstrom's UI into him & didn't want his brain to reject it, but their actual plan was much stupider.

[youmakethelight]

Can I go to the alternate reality where the caryl spin-off is done the way it's supposed to, please

[megamindsupremacy]

Idk if this is a niche headcanon or fanon or straight up confirmed but I love the idea that Annabeth’s half-siblings Matthew and Bobby are Egyptian magicians. Like they have the blood of the pharaohs on their mom’s side. Annabeth’s entire family tree is just various members of random pantheons and they’re all unaware of this until she starts digging. She thinks she hit her limit when she learned Magnus is a Norse demigod but NOPE her literal half siblings are fucking magicians. Matthew and Bobby didn’t think to tell her (they didn’t know she was a Greek demigod!) until she was visiting Brooklyn House and they all do the Spider-Man pointing meme at each other

[lullabyes22-blog]

You are very much correct about that PSA from a while back regarding show writers/VAs/et al and basic human decency. Fans should spend way less time pestering a given series' creatives for Codified Lore or 'Official' Headcanons in any case, and Arcane crew in particular are already under the thumb of freakin' Riot. Nobody in such a position needs 24/7 tweet demands from viewers added to their pile.

Codified Lore is such a good way to put it.

The overreliance lately on having to check back for every little thing with the creators, in order to have the most 'correct' (re: morally upright) interpretation, rather than appreciating a work of art through one's own interpretation, and the way it inspires you to create your own worlds based on the essence of the work, is a depressing trend.

And god forbid if the show creators aren't clear enough about something canonical, or have their own viewpoint, or themselves admit that it wasn't all that relevant to the plot as a whole.

I wish folks would remember that creators under contract to big companies have obligations to end projects in certain ways, in certain narrative directions, with factors like budget, collaborative constraints and artistic fatigue to keep in mind. After which point, it's up to us as fans of the work to keep the dialogue and spirit going through how we carry the work's message forward, and keep it alive on the interwebs </3

[wriokitty]

I change my vision depending on the selfship tbh

[junk-culture]

well i know exactly what's going to happen tomorrow at 8am 27.08.24. paul weller is finally going to break noel gallagher's legs

[namespara]

Unpopular opinion: Pausing in a fromsoftware game is a bad idea but not because of the difficulty

I've been a fromsoft fan for a while and i've seen the discourse for just as long and i just wanna say that besides the challenge debate, more importantly, pausing would take away from the games atmosphere and severity. Game mechanics have been part of the whole experience since forever, the fact that dying is permanent and there's no way to undo that or reload. This applies to the pause. Fromsoft games are about the atmosphere and immersion of being in a death ridden existence with no escape, a truly adrenaline pumping experience where you have to find a grace/bonfire/etc to feel truly safe. Its immersion is aided by the fact that there is no escape. It's a beautiful use of a (lack of) game mechanic to underline its story.

Elden ring or any fromsoft game would be lesser for it if you added a pause, imo.

[danlous]

I like Luke but a part of me doesn't forgive him for being an 'Armand is Alice' truther. I know he's a devil's minion ethusiast but you better not try to erase Daniel's wives on my watch!

[jamesscarstairs]

on the edge of my seat every time ross and elizabeth interact because they’re still serving parted lovers who continue to pine for one another and i’m not here for it. at all.

[boimgfrog]

All my professors are super cool except the one that gave all his non-black students the n-word pass cos it's an African American Lit class and he respects historical integrity. Respectfully sir I'm not saying that. Respectfully.