#metaphor soup

[knotty-et-al]

Progression of the shifting shapes - pipe slices

[2024/11/10] [mixed media: ballpoint pens and collage]

[art-of-mathematics]

Behold! I had spare paper and stickers/sticky labels and wanted to use them wisely (and I also wanted to exert my silly word fiddlings on paper as well.)

So, i made a tiny album of weird neologisms I regularly use for describing everyday life items.

As it is in German, and I suppose many don't understand German, I would gladly like to offer some translations below:

The cover says:

[GE] Neologismensalat - eine kleine und feine Slektion diverser verbroteter Begrifflichkeiten aus Knottys extravagantem Vokabular - serviert in Text-und Bildform (coloriert)

[EN] Neologism salad - a tiny and fine selection of diverse breadified words from Knotty's extravagant vocabulary - served in textual and pictural form (colorized)

Now the words:

[Miniaturbrot alias Brötchen] (depicted is a bun) [Miniature loaf = bun]

[Teiglappen alias Crepe] (depicted is a crepe laying on a pipe) [Dough rag alias crepe]

[Knotbrot alias Bre(t)zel] (depicted is a Pretzel) [Knot bread alias pretzel]

[Brotstock alias Baguette] (depicted is a baguette) [Breadstick or "Stick of bread" alias baguette]

[Krummes Krüstchen alias Crossaint] (depicted is a crossaint) [Crooked Crust(y) alias crossaint]

^ Depicted above is the "birth of the crossaint"

[bonefall]

This AU is basically the Dungeon Meshi of Warrior Cats. This is a high compliment.

It's so funny, I get that a lot and I totally see it + appreciate it, but BB actually predates me being a fan of Dungeon Meshi! I've been getting that compliment since even before the anime dropped.

It makes perfect sense though. Dungeon Meshi uses food as a metaphor for communication across individuals, class, and most relevantly culture. It's something that brings people together, even when that's being addressed as a sinister thing when.......

Ah. No spoilers. You should go and read the manga to find out what I'm teasing ;)

I do something with a lot of overlap in BB. Food is an extension of the culture of the five Clans. I use it to characterize individuals too and as a metaphor for things at times (like Darkstripe's growth or cultural friction in Heartstar's Rise), but most of all, I try to emphasize the food as the product of the society that makes it. The biome, the diet, the behaviors of its chefs... so Dungeon Meshi and BB are naturally going to draw some interesting similarities.

Plus, Dungeon Meshi's a good ass series man, it's downright awe-inspiring. I hope I can make a narrative as satisfying as Ryoko Kui can, lmao. I love how much that girlie loves food

[scuderiakarts]

rotating this picture in my head like a rotisserie chicken

[pizzabox-box]

Fake Peppino and his clones part II

First part! You should read it if you haven't!

Alright so, fully fledged Peppi-no clones..oh boy.Let's dive into it. First off Peppi-no will actively avoid making a copy of himself. If one is going to show up it's going to be some sort of a freak accident.

So, what do we already know about Fake Peppino clones? They have poorer emotional control,their thought proccess is less coherent, act impulsively, they say things as they think them, and most importantly: they reflect whatever is going on in Fake's head and subconscious mind. This is Peppi-no's case is a serious issue.

These clones are basically a physical manifestation of all the guilt, all the trauma, all the..self hate, all the regret Peppi-no experiences. Combine that with the confusing set of two memories and you get a huge mess, drenched in fear, anger and existential dread.

They start off looking like Peppino but very quickly destabilize under all the stress from the internal turmoil. If Peppi-no is screaming internaly, his clones will scream externally.

They remember how they pled to not be killed. And how their pleas were mercilessly silenced. They don't realize that it's not actually them who died. They want to destroy this monster that hurt them. They are aggressive towards Peppi-no.

So imagine this you've got this..person... screaming bloody murder, trying to kill you, while also pleading you to not hurt it. It's scared, it's angry, it's confused it doesn't want to die. What do you do with it??? You can't just let it run off into the wild...and you don't want to kill it either...I seriously hope that Peppi-no won't have to deal with this situation. (oh who am i kidding, i'm probably drawing this situation right now, sorry)

(you're not sorry.)

(oh, look who's back!) Also a drawing.

In short, Peppi-no clones are completely broken. While Peppi-no himself is somewhat able to handle all the burden his clones snap like a twig under the pressure and go bananas the second they come to their senses.

Similiar thing applies to low tier clones (pizzas, droplets) except these things don't have any higher thinking, they just blindly mutter about Peppi-no's sins. Not ideal but better than fully formed clones.

Well, I wrote everything I wanted to. Hopefully I didn't forget anything important.

Unreleated but you know what is strange? I think about a spooky ghost and suddenly I get a question about a spooky ghost. I'm drawing Peppi-no getting sprayed by lemon juice and I get a question about how he would react to lemons. And just yesterday I was thinking "huh, Peppi-no clones are such an interisting concept. Strange that nobody asked about them yet" and BAM two questions about them the next morning. Are you guys watching me? Are you in my walls? I'm just kidding. Im glad you all are invested in this AU. It's just an interisting coincidence :D

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.

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[schizosupport]

i recently started back on all my meds. as happy as i am to get back on them, i noticed how. quiet? everything is? i dont know if what i have is schizophrenia or psychosis, if there's a difference, but im on antipsychs for it. im just confused as to why i feel my mind as quiet now, esp because ive never had auditory hallucinations. im wondering if anyone else feels the same and if its good or not?

Hi there!

Your experience isn't uncommon at all. Antipsychotics, broadly speaking, makes it harder for certain kinds of signals to get sent in the brain. The result is that some of the things that would previously reach consciousness no longer will on antipsychotics.

If you think of your brain as a soup full of processes, then your consciousness is the clear top of the soup. At the bottom of the soup there's all kinds of ingredients and that's the subconscious processes, like when your mind is mulling over a problem, and suddenly you get the answer without having actively thought about - that comes from the depths of the soup.

Really it's not so mysterious. The brain has to do a lot of things and keep track of a lot of things, and if we had to be conscious about all lf them, it would be exhausting (and impossible). So most of it stays submerged.

The clear top part of the soup then is the things you're conscious of. It's the thoughts and feelings that you have direct access to/that make up your experience.

When you take antipsychotics, it makes the soup less see-through. So things that would previously have been visible in the clear top part of the soup now aren't visible anymore. This can be quite helpful if your consciousness has become very messy, and ideas and experiences that don't really make sense (like delusions and hallucinations) are taking up too much attention in your consciousness. But it also means that when you take antipsychotics it takes more effort for any type of thought or emotion to rise far enough up in the soup for you to perceive it.

People on high dose antipsychotics have described it as "I have to actively make myself think, to think". They have to stir the soup pot and stare intently into it.

So long winded soup metaphor apart, the point I'm getting at is that antipsychotics absolutely can and do make your mind "quieter". That can be a good thing if your mind is very cluttered and loud, but it can also feel empty.

Only you get to decide whether it's a good thing for you or not.

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Still kinda bummed that Xenoblade dropped its fantasy name for humans, that was one of my favorite worldbuilding things from 1.

I wish they could've kept it at least to differentiate between normal humans from Bionis and normal humans from Alrest in Xenoblade 3

[doingherbestbutnot]

I just realized that… episode 11??

Yeah it’s not Vash soup… it’s a fucking baptism. Remaking Vash?? KNIVES IS BAPTIZING HIS BROTHER and I

[thatfrenchacademic]

Told a friend I did not have a "roman empire".

They looked at me straight in the eyes and reminded me that I once argued for almost 45 minutes that the lack of proper, agreed upon conceptualization and operationalization of "soup" was pretty much the root of all global issues.

[knotty-et-al]

Today I got some lingo soup for ya: (with a slightly philosophical garnish and some [almost punny] metaphor noodles)

[Beware of surreal imagery and loosen your associations, we will associate freely now: ]

"The disheveled common thread... ...returns as colorful web"

In German, the idiom "common thread" is literally translated as "RED thread" ("roter Faden").

That is why I kept spinning that metaphor noodle soup even further, and came up with the idea of the "colorful web" that emerges from the disheveled fibers of that "red/common thread".

What does it mean?

It just means that I could connect the dots about my biography and the life circumstances that we were/are in - and that now I can clean up that mess. It just means coming to terms with what happened - and yeah, it was shit. I'm happy it's over now. And although cleaning up the mess our past has left behind is extremely exhausting, I look forward to the life I have still ahead of me.

I am the colorful web of the disheveled fibers that never formed a functional thread. That's neither tragedy nor anything unique, it is just as it is, an adaption to circumstances, an adaption to feed the intrinsic will to live: Nothing more, nothing less.

[2024/03/11]

[art-of-mathematics]

[Behold! Another incohernt (non-)sense post is coming!]

In German, the idiomatic expression "Der rote Faden" (literally translates to "the red thread" - The English equivalent of that idiomatic expression is "common thread".) refers to a recurring characteristic or theme (as to quote wiktionary)

- or a coherent "line" in the train of thought

- or a coherent alignment of plots in a multitude of intertwined events - as I would put it.

However, some "red threads" /"common threads" can be a bit "disheveled" in some constellations of events one could regard as "wicked problems":

... and that is where my brain.exe stopped working at knowing what I actually wanted to write here... I forgot the "red thread", as I cannot remember the final statment I actually wanted to deliver in the first place.

Yet, you see, this textpost I just wrote has like "fragments of a red thread". You see my train of thought might be full of gaps, but in the end you might still have gathered some sort of insight (Of course I refer to you having gained insight into the working mechanism of my "nonsense facility" - aka my brain /nonserious)

you see: Its a bit nonsensical, but yet, you might came to grasp what I started to attempt here... And if you have read this far: Congrats for using that much time for reading my brain dump.

Here is the quick drawing I made that inspired me to write this nonsense post:

Frontside + Backside + Light shining through = this fancy lil piece of paper:

[iceman-soup]

the work song by hozier lyrics "no grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her" trend but with Ghost and his mother

[bug-game-blogging]

Hornet gijinka drawing I made while listening to hunter by paris paloma

[cinnasalmon]

Uggg the,

“You look lonely…. I can fix that…”

To Zevlor and the person saying it is a goddess!!! Someone please write it! I would but I have no time!

FUCKKKKKKK well I'm definitely under qualified to write that, I think 2nd graders write better than me lmfao

But yoooo like playing on religion....... Zevlor was a religious man (scratched out patron deity on his sword) and he has since given up on the gods after their lack of intervention regarding Avernus so he's skeptical, but the temptation of humoring her words sounds a lot better than the alternative (his shit reality). Even if it was a trap, he's got nothing left to lose. LET THE OLD MAN FUCK

[blindmagdalena]

Had an angsty little thought earlier👹.

Homelander finds out he has a mom or at the very least a woman that genetically contributed to his creation and he’s lowkey excited to meet her and finally have a mom, a real loving and doting mom, to tell him how proud she is of him and how much she loves him.

He’s got it in his head that she is going to be more than willing to play the part that he wants her to play. She’s his mom after all, that’s what he thinks moms do. She won’t be like Soldier Boy. There’s no way because In Homelander’s mind that could happen.

He goes to find her, his emotions are high. He opts to leave Ryan at home because there’s still the small part of him that is worried she will be another Soldier Boy. He gets to the house. It’s everything he would’ve loved as a kid. There’s a baseball field near by and some woods he would’ve loved to explore behind the house.

He finally meets her but she doesn’t want anything to do with him. She already has another son. “A better son” is what she tells him. A son that happens to dig into everyone of Homelander’s insecurities.

I can’t imagine this would turn out well for anyone. Anyway sorry for the long post. Just wanted to share with then class.

i have just been sitting here staring at this like. how DARE you.

now i need to write a happy mamalander fic just to SELF SOOTHE.

because knowing his luck, yeah, this is probably how it would go. if his biological mother/dna donor had any idea he's related to her, she either didn't want to know him or she couldn't due to whatever legal BS Vought cooked up. more than likely though i think all that stuff would have been done anonymously. she probably had no idea, same way solider boy didn't know what his dna was being used for.

i imagine Vought would have been primarily interested in cooking him up using exclusively soup supe ingredients, so i'd think she was a supe too? but maybe it didn't matter if they were like, marinating the eggs themselves in compound v solution.

i'm off topic. you're right, this DOES sound like a worst case scenario for everyone involved. 😭