#now that just got philosophical

[cursed-elo-images]

Hi I’m sad so I decided to make this super elegant edit…

[fearforthestorm]

okay so. plates.

there's a post floating around on here somewhere about a ceramics class where half the students were instructed to make as many pots as possible no matter the quality, and the other half were instructed to make only one high-quality pot. by the end of the class, the students who had made lots of pots were making better pots than the ones who were supposed to make one perfect pot, and the lesson there was that you get better at things by making more things and letting yourself be bad at it, rather than trying to make one perfect thing.

you have to make shitty things because you have to make things, because making things at all is more important than making good things, because making shitty things is how you make better things.

a friend made the joke that "maybe not THAT shitty though, like that's not even a shitty pot anymore that's just a plate," and while i kind of agree (that's a whole different post), i also immediately went another layer deep with the metaphor: even if it's not a pot, a plate will still teach you things. a plate has its own purpose, independent of a pot - it's job isn't to be a pot, it's not going to teach you the same things that a pot would, but it has a purpose too. just because it's not what you wanted to make or meant to make doesn't mean it's not useful! nothing made is ever wasted.

[dazais-guardian-angel]

I just wanna say that. there’s something incredibly morbid and gross about the fact that bones took away literally the only thing Sigma had to his name before the casino: his past. And not only his past itself, but his right to narrate his own past. Instead, the TWO lines they do keep about it (about him naming himself Sigma, and finally finding his one place to call home, the casino).... are given to Fyodor to say. Fyodor, his most recent manipulator in a long, long line of manipulators.

And not even just his past, but by extension so many of his strong, strong emotions about himself and what he’s been through and how they’ve made him into the person he is now: his fear, his sorrow, his desperation, his determination, his righteous indignation. His pain. The majority of that is all gone from the anime.

Sigma barely has a story of his own; his past, his suffering, and his emotions are the only things he has claim to, that make him who he is. And bones took even those away from him. Flattening him into an empty piece of paper, ironically, just like he was born from and as.

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

bad wolf soda <3

[solivagantingrebel]

Holy shit, where the FUCK did that come from.

[ihaveonlymydreams]

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[sp1resong]

now that i'm done having an identity crisis i've gotta say i'm kind of amused by how many times it just entirely lost the plot. like. i went from 'okay but like what is my personality. who am i just as a person' to 'genuinely how would i know if i'm plural i dont think i am but How Would I Know' to 'WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL NATURE OF THE (alter)HUMAN SOUL. &WHAT IS MINE'. like. girl

[jamsofdeath0]

I think having Danny keep being a superhero especially in crossovers, which have been popping off lately, is such a waste of comedic potential.

First of all Danny doesn't really want to be a hero. He just kind of does it cuz he's got to and he feels a moral obligation stemming from the guilt of turning on the portal.

Second of all he is overpowered as fuck. Bro could like fight the moon and win.

Add those together and it's way funnier and more interesting to make him a 23-year-old working a cash register who's strong enough to fight the moon but just chooses not to then it is to make him some Superman-esc hero.

Not enough characters work inverse to Spiderman's whole "great power; great responsibility" thing. Just bc you CAN fight doesn't mean you HAVE to. Like sure if you can stop something terrible from happening right in front of you you should step in. But no one is obligated to go out of their way to help people especially if it would come detriment to themselves. And as said Danny doesn't really want to do the whole superhero thing. Especially not long term. It's just he's FOURTEEN. Which makes him both a terrible decision maker, and incapable of truly seeing a long-term. Eventually it's gonna hit him he's either fighting forever or quitting. Whether quitting comes to an alternate solutions for the ghosts or not well ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. If he can FIND one. Whether that be OTHER heros or stopping ghosts from coming over at all Danny would jump at the chance.

[paradife-loft]

ah yes. the morally correct torture. the torture that goes right up to the line but doesn't cross it. that torture.

[fma03envy]

The plot thickens...

The thing here is, I'm almost certain that wasn't what Alphonse was going to say (I assume he wanted to say something about how trying to bring back Trisha wasn't comparable to this at all... I'm reminded of 12-year-old Ed with Tucker)

But a not unfair point is being made in the context of the military/Ed and Al's involvement with it. Thus far, the Elric brothers haven't liked the military, but as such have seemed to feel that their being tied to it (and appropriately disliked) for each other's sakes is a necessary sacrifice/a mature choice (as I've said before, they seem to view maturity/kindness as equivalent to ignoring your own wants or needs for someone else).

But I think when Lust equates sacrificing the prisoners with Ed being a state alchemist (and Al having wanted to be one), it puts things in a bit more perspective for Ed? Because Ed + Al are far from the only people at risk here... It's not just about their lives, it's about the people who the military is actually targeting-in this specific instance, these prisoners

So Ed refusing to follow orders with this in mind (even when Al was on the line) was probably the primary reason why Scar chose to help him escape (though ofc Scar seeing himself and his brother in Ed and Al was also part of it)

[thinkingnot]

if laughing was a sport i just ran a marathon binging half of gekkan shojo nozaki kun

[yioh]

what are your favourite genres for books/manga?

[deliciousmicroplastics]

food acquired! food... please go down okay

[umilily]

been in my hometown for the first time in ages today and i can't even put my finger on why, but it was surreal.

[giantkillerjack]

Oh I have consumed too much Christian discourse I need to have gay sex immediately

[astrxealis]

i think it's interesting you can tell how people are like deep down by small things they do