#possible disk horse

[sunshine-is-a-gaslight]

Watching people who don't get allegories for addiction try to understand allegories for addiction is kind of funny but also infuriating because half this website doesn't actually understand his songs

WILLIAM TAPEWORM FEAR

6up 5oh - hunt

skeleton appreciation - flesh

front street - slaughter + corruption???

aikido! - lonely + web

white knuckle - web

a little bit mine - desolation + lonely

thermodynamic - corruption

red moon - dark

lysergide daydream - spiral

the first step - web

jimmy - end + vast bc ocean?????

chemical - spiral + desolation

everything is a lot - end

destroy to enjoy - extinction

self - stranger

2012 - extinction

cotard’s solution - spiral + end + stranger

five names - spiral + stranger + buried

hand me my shovel - buried

dr sunshine - dark

ish - end

[bananonbinary]

i shared this spicy hot take in private but actually i'm kinda mad so i'm gonna say it here: i'll believe your moral objection to AI art is plagiarism and not "the thing is bad and taboo so all applications must be Evil" when ACTUAL blatant reposts and cropped off artist signatures get even one tenth the pushback that random ai shitposts with zero resemblance to real human art do.

[dante-winning-archive]

seeing posts like "DMC fandom is back!" what do you mean back lol we've been SSStyling this whole time

(I havent been around for *new stuff* because I arrived after DMC5 hype died down so I'm pretty excited to experience the anime with everyone else 🥺)

[edwardshundredyearoldspunk]

coming out as a get him back! disliker. I just don't like it lyrically and controversial but I like imgonnagetyouback more in all possible ways. I think the comparisons were inevitable because, I mean they have the same basic premise, but taylor is once again proving to me that no one will ever do it like her

[cannibalspicnic]

Thinking about how "A child needs her mother," is THE MOST ROMANTIC thing Joan Ferguson could have said to Vera in that last moment, and I will die on this hill.

Sure, it's referring to Joan's own traumatic past involving her mother, and maybe Joan genuinely believes that, but it's way more.

After obsessing over, stalking, and tormenting Vera for years, there was almost nothing that she could say, even after saving her, that wouldn't seem threatening. I remember some people wanted some kind of verbal love confession or something, and amongst other things, Joan literally just had the revelation, "I'd rather not kill Vera," a couple episodes ago, so I'm not sure she's at the full emotional maturity level of verbalizing, "I love you."

BUT mostly, I think she knows it would be the WRONG THING TO SAY.

That is not the face of a woman who needs to hear, "I love you," from the woman whom she just found out had tried to kidnap her baby.

The thing is, I don't think the answer is necessarily what she says. I think it's what she does.

THAT'S the answer. Joan reaching for Vera's hand IS the "I love you," but in a way, so is what she says next. Again, Vera just almost broke her streak of being the only person not trying to kill Joan Ferguson because she found out Joan was trying to KIDNAP HER BABY (who I don't think Joan *really* cares that much about aside from her value to Vera and some hilariously sick claim in her mind having created the circumstances for her conception).

Again, NOT the face of someone who is going to be receptive to "I love you."

So Joan does possibly the only completely unselfish thing she's ever done regarding Vera. She lets her go. And instead of unburdening herself in this moment, which might be what she needs, she instead gives Vera what SHE needs. An assurance that Vera and Grace are safe from her.

And that's when Vera understands.

And Joan's gift is that Vera's allowed to let go as well and is at peace with Joan disappearing into the woods to begin her life as a gay cryptid among the already terrifying Australian wildlife. ROMANTIC AF.

[fierceawakening]

Listening to an interview with Cornell West (who to be clear I don’t think is very impressive in general) and the interviewer asked “would you pull out of the race and support Harris if you thought it would be likely that votes that would otherwise go to you would put her over the top” and he said “no, I don’t think I could ever support candidates that support a genocide as both Biden and Harris do”

And to be clear I think that’s a crap stance. But in light of so many people not even touching my mention of the Nakba in That Conversation, like, even to dispute that it happened, I found myself thinking. What do or would those people, who seem to think bringing up the Palestinians at all is derailing and not talk about them, think of the solidarity I see so often between the Black community here and the Palestinians? I notice it very strongly very often, and I keep thinking of that leftist thing about “listen to oppressed groups you’re not in”and wondering… do they write that off too?

It’s been seeing so many groups talk about the Palestinians as kindred that jostled me out of “Israel has to Defend Itself” into “hey wait, that’s… that’s not defensive. At all. Shit.”

I dunno. It’s just so strange to me. It’s like… the fact that we’re all watching a government try to annihilate a people, in the name of Defending Israel, is some kind of weird afterthought. “I told you I wasn’t a Kahanist, so leave me alone.”

I mean, I’m not going to not leave someone alone if asked but no one’s quite gotten me to think *that isn’t weird* yet.

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

how do people who hate every single popular thing just because it’s popular live like that. like genuinely. it must be so miserable n exhausting

[hopeworth]

everyday i learn new words and abbreviations while reading dni lists

[viewmonster-deactivated20230122]

disclaimer that i do think tumblr staff are shit people before i begin this post

after all this time im still endlessly annoyed at how people have decided the biggest moral failing you can have on this website is having a badge next to your url or whatever. like as much as you think you're right "why did you spend your money on (thing) when you could've used that money on something more morally good like donating to a poor person" is not the hot take you think it is and in actual fact this statement could send someone spiraling down into a moral OCD pit or something of the like

disclaimer that i do think tumblr staff are shit people before i end this post

[mysterycitrus]

realistically speaking all the disk horse about bruce or clark being the more accepting parent/mentor is frankly blown out of the water by diana (princess of scissor island) and oliver queen (who probably has every possible variation of ‘proud dad of a [sexuality and/or gender] superstar’ and ‘i love my emotionally regulated [sexuality and/or gender] kid’ shirts on rotation in his closet)

[certifiedsexed]

Hi! Is it true that your hymen will break/rip with like, the simpliest form of penetration? I know your can rip (i dont know if thats the right word sorry) it only by doing exercices and things like horse riding, and i know that i for some people their hymen doesn't change after penetration, but... im still curious, and don't know anyone besides you to answer that for me hahahha

Its because, like, i really want to buy a menstrual disc or a cup instead of having to buy pads every month. I'm a minor and unfurtunatelly kind of freak out my hymen will break and when i go see an ob-gyn that would be clear and my mom would somehow know? Omg now that im typing this thought its starting to sound so dumb lmao

And it isn't even like my mom would get mad at me? Is just that im ace and extremelly uncomfortable to have this tipe of talk with my parents. Having all of my sex ed being searched and studied by me and myself only. They don't talk about it :p

But yeaaah, how does it work? Please enlighten me qwq also if something i wrote sounded weird im sorry im not fluent hahah

Hi!

No. The hymen is literally just part of your vagina-It usually partially covers the opening of your vagina [though some people are born with it covering the entire opening of their vagina] and it can wear down with age but it does not "break" and it rarely tears at the simplest penetration.

It can tear, which usually causes no pain, and little blood. But it also stretches, like the rest of your vagina. There's a possibility it could tear but it's unlikely unless you're shoving something inside your vagina super hard.

Hymens can survive giving birth. As long as you're not violently inserting your menstrual cup/disk, you should be fine.

Let me be clear: if your hymen breaks enough to show and your OB/GYN sees it and tells your mom, your OB/GYN is a misogynist and a creep. It's their job to know that 1. hymen breakage can just happen sometimes and B. your hypothetical sex life is not your mother's business.

But this isn't me saying it can't happen. It's not a huge possibility but it's a possibility all the same. Hymens thin and can wear down over time, which can vary wildly from person to person. That can lead to tearing but you can hugely reduce that risk by being gentle and taking your time.

Having to tell your parents/your mom that you're using a menstrual cup/disc can definitely suck but you don't have to discuss anything sex related, Anon!

I'd say that trying out a menstrual disc/cup and seeing if it's more comfortable for you would probably be worth that.

This isn't stupid at all, btw. It's an understandable worry! And your english sounds fine! I hope this helps. Let me know if you have anymore questions. <3

[bucksaiga]

Sorry to be in disk horse again but I saw a tweet where someone predicted Eddie possibly getting injured next season and leaving Tommy behind to run to Eddie’s side and conveniently not giving a fuck about Tommy anymore.

Not stating the obvious. We know Tommy is Eddie’s friend so he would care about Eddie too. But also.

Why do people insist that Buck’s heart is so small that he will toss one person to the side to prioritize another. The entire series has shown how he is capable of loving everyone in his life with his whole heart and never easily making the decision to let people go. Buck wants the same thing from everyone in his life. He wants everyone to stay.

Buck has such a big heart. He doesn’t just throw people away like old toys. He loves and he loves and he loves.

[scoobydoodean]

not trying to start disk horse, just wanted to mention something, i think there is a specific take about soulless sam (that i think might interest you) which is like "dean could've just asked death to take sam's soul to heaven, instead of essentially killing soulless sam." but soulless sam was a threat and i do think dean making the call to kill sam's soul without his permission might actually be unnecessarily cruel. maybe he could've asked sam but. idk if that would've been possible.

..."Killing soulless sam"? Nobody killed soulless Sam (except Sam himself, metaphorically in 6.22). Soulless Sam (or the base desires he represented) remained inside of Sam's body when Sam's soul was reinstalled. What happened to him was that he lost control. He was essentially Sam's id, and the superego and ego came back with Sam's soul and Sam's ego took control of Sam's body. Soulless Sam was still there as the id, as we explicitly see in 6.22.

Some samgirls have a bizarre attachment to the notion that soulless Sam was a victim. He was not a victim. He has never been a victim. He never will be a victim. He's a piece of shit who was enthusiastic about victimizing others whenever it served his own self-interest. He killed multiple people for being inconvenient/in his way when he was hunting (6.08, 6.13, 6.22). He watched his brother be turned by a rapist and set him up to be further sexually molested by the rapist so he could get information for a case. He smiled while watching his brother be sexually molested a few feet away from him (6.05, 6.10). He did not feel bad about any of this and would do all of it again. Soulless Sam's vibes were so fucking foul that Dean was terrified to sleep in the same motel room as him for fear of what he might do to Dean (6.06). And contrary to the other nonsense that corner tries to spread around, soulless Sam is the one who wanted Dean around and guilted Dean into leaving his life in 6.02 and coming with him, for his own selfish purposes. While at a certain point, he was able to dispassionately recognize that he was dangerous because he had no conscience (6.01, 6.08), his response to that knowledge was ultimately that he didn't actually care and he would continue to hurt and use and lie to people whenever it was "practical", and that actually all the other people with consciences were the problem because they couldn't act purely "rationally" like him. He would say he was messed up and needed Dean to serve as his conscience (6.01, 6.08) and tell Dean he needed him to be his full time care taker for the rest of time and then in the next scene he'd want Dean to fall in line behind him and agree with his every "practical" action and accept being lied to and used (explicitly including sexually) because soulless Sam knows best. In other words, there was never any reasoning with him—he only pretended there was as a strategy to keep Dean around as a useful tool. At no point was he victimized by Dean. He victimized Dean. After a certain point, it became quite clear that Dean's options were to get the real Sam back into his body or put a bullet in soulless Sam's head because he had and would continue to hunt and kill innocent people whenever it was convenient and had and would continue to lie to and use Dean. Putting Sam's soul in heaven would do absolutely nothing as far as dealing with the danger that soulless Sam posed to others.

Even under the bizarre assumption that soulless Sam's feelings about anything actually matter and that he deserved to have control of Sam's body and parade around in it doing things Sam is explicitly horrified by (6.12, 6.13, 6.20, 6.22), for all but the final episode in which he is in control, soulless Sam insists to Dean that he wants his soul back. He begins to question if he actually wants it back only at the very end of 6.10. In the episode where his soul is put back (6.11), his last real conversation with Dean is him telling Dean he trusts him and that he will allow his soul to be put back. It is only after Dean leaves that it's revealed that soulless Sam was lying to Dean (again), and that he simply preferred murdering Bobby to having an honest conversation. And this only reinforced that he was a disgusting, dangerous pyscho who would lie and murder and use people whenever convenient for him because he does not give a shit about anyone and ultimately sees every single person around him as an object or tool for his amusement. He was a sick, dangerous creep, and Sam explicitly chooses of his own free will not to let him have control of his body again in 6.22. Sam instead kills him and accepts his memories of hell.

[white-dragon-girl]

I was very interested in what Seto and Mokuba's biological parents must have looked like. Unfortunately, you don't see any of them in the manga. But the family must have been very wealthy. Otherwise, relatives of the Kaiba brothers would not be interested in their inheritance. The mother died shortly after Mokuba's birth and the father died later in a car accident. Seto Kaiba and Priest Seto look quite similar. The difference is the hair length, the skin color and the high cheekbones that seem to be typical of Egyptians. The same goes for Ishizu.So we can possibly assume that the parents of Seto's Egyptian counterpart were also his parents. But Aknadin is already quite old and his wife's hair was covered by a cloth. We know that Seto has brown hair and blue eyes. Mokuba, on the other hand, has black hair and violet eyes. If you look at the young Aknadin, his beard is a darker gray. In the manga he is even colored completely black. So I'm assuming his hair was originally black. This would also make sense because his brother Aknamkanon had the same beard color. And Atemu has mostly black hair. So his father must have had black hair too. However, in the picture I depicted Seto's father with the dark brown beard. Mokuba has violet eyes, just like Atemu. so it's likely that Aknadin and Aknamkanon also have violet eyes. So I give the father Mokuba's eye color. Aknadin has very long, parted hair. Since it's not common to wear hair that long in the modern world, I simply shortened it. Since I consider the family to be quite wealthy, the father was given a white suit. For the mother, the only hair color left was brown and the eye color blue. I based her hair a lot on Seto, because her father had a hairstyle that didn't really resemble Seto. Since I was thinking about their appearance, I wanted to think of appropriate names. Because Seto and Mokuba mean "seahorse" and "wooden horse", I thought of using a last name that also includes the word horse. I chose Umamoto, i.e. "horse origin". Aknadin is a derivative of Akhenaten. This was an Egyptian pharaoh. Its name means "Effective for Aton" and Aton means solar disk. So I looked for Japanese names that meant sun and decided on Hinata, meaning sunny place. The mother has no name. That's why I chose Himiko. Himiko was the name of an ancient Japanese queen. The name also means “sun daughter” and “shame queen”. This name is a reference to the name of Aknadin.

So the parents are called Hinata and Himiko Umamoto. And this is what they would look like if they were both still alive.

[hpmort]

I am now revealing that someone called them lesbians and my own stupid fragility is defensive of not using she/her or “lesbian” for people who use boku or ore

because only Alexandrite uses atashi

(I generally use they/them for the Gems when not actively contrasting them with the Steven Universe Gems, where I use he/him. Human AUs I have a general pattern for pronoun usage but it’s not always consistent who gets what)

(anyways this principle derives from my annoyance at people referring to femboys as trans girls- at one point I even saw someone say that Nagisa Shiota should have been transfem, when he was an active transmasc allegory who I think had the thing where he appeared topless either mandated by the editors or to stop people from misgendering him or something, as the entirety of his arc makes much more sense if he was trans- or even if it was just set somewhere other than modern Japan, which is a nation with ID and birth certificates and other things like that)

who cares

The exact context was someone calling them [option] on YouTube. Further context is secret but I guess I’ll probably reveal it once the voting closes?

[itsbenedict]

From the beginning | Previously | Coin standings | 8/18 | 22/23

(The results of this poll show us the players' priorities- but they've also been hard at work coming up with some specifics. HYENAS RETREATED summarizes some of the points discussed:)

Walter recalls a rumor- Ferninit University's medical department has been developing a soul-engineered healing plant, in a place known as... the TRENDED PENTAGRAM, if he recalls correctly. If the plant exists as a raw datasoul, they might be able to find it in there, and rely on it for food and healing.

It's on the way, too- they'll need to head back to the university to access its network and find more information on their condition. It's starting to sound like a plan- so you get moving, flying away from the ghost ship and back to the mainland, towards the overgrown ruins.

The WIFI ACCESS POINT is still installed, and the two remaining files can still be accessed.

ITCHY? AHA! RE-STAB REAR OF DRYER THE RAID ARRAY OF CYBERHEARTS is enlightening. The datasoul of the world, it seems, is stored on multiple redundant disks, used for error correction when parts of the world get damaged. When a datasoul is damaged and becomes a bug... unlike a normal RAID disk, where fresh data is overwritten on top of the damaged data, Cyberhearts seems to swap the damaged and fresh data, via a process called TENDERER REFORM. Something called the Infinity Server Unit supposedly spans all these disks, and dispatches data validators to clean up bugs and ensure the backup disks stay in accord.

...but there's a few obvious problems. Some are brought up by the file's author, one BASIC RESEARCH, who notes that information about the Infinity Server Unit is heavily restricted by the government. It's ostensibly a physical machine hidden somewhere in the city, but there's no civilian research access to it, and it's unclear who it was constructed by or why. Or, for that matter, how the world worked before the machine was built- or how it determines what a "bug" is for the purposes of swapping it out. The author has determined that there's a thing called YEP, INTENDED INTENT that's exempt from this swapping process, and human beings fall inside that category.

But moreover... if these data validators are supposed to be cleaning up bugs... well, this place is crawling with them, and the only one you've seen this whole time only went after Walter when he damaged the environment. Whatever cleanup is supposed to be taking place... clearly isn't. And furthermore- if the two of you are YEP, INTENDED INTENTs, how did you end up here? You're... not bugs, right?

Reading IF TEMPERATE, REPORT BOZOISM PROPERTIES OF ZOMBIE MATTER doesn't help clear up matters. This paper, by TROJAN HORSE, describes TOM, TIME ZEBRA- a form of matter that has no datasoul. It doesn't seem to occur in nature, but rather is produced by a YEP, INTENDED INTENT to paper over discrepancies between their datasoul and the IMAGERY DUELER DEMIURGE LAYER, the collective hallucination that we perceive as "reality". Someone whose datasoul is a snake may occasionally "step on" objects as if they had feet.

TOM, TIME ZEBRA, however, can't be observed being produced by the body. It seems to materialize independent of a bodily process, as if it were already there in the world- and then vanish as soon as it's no longer needed. It can be harvested, isolated, and stabilized- as well as created in a lab via a process known as A PLEDGE MOVEMENT. It's possible to create physical objects out of the zebra which cannot be perceived without the DEMIURGE LAYER.

(TROJAN HORSE theorizes that the world as we understand it is an expression of the world-soul through the medium of TOM, TIME ZEBRA, but that the same world-soul could express itself differently through differently-arranged matter. There's loads of equations that kind of go over both of your heads.)

...whoof! That's a lot of technobabble! You have no idea how to use any of that, really.

You decide to go looking for that healing tree, and proceed to the TRENDED PENTAGRAM. You're not sure why, or if, it's called that- but it's kind of dicey down here. The bugs are out in force- Adea's taken that sword Walter found in the holy tower, and is handily fending off dust storms of discarded chalk. Living roots from the ceiling keep grabbing at you, and darts and bats fly through the air wildly. It's irritating, but Adea's capable with a blade.

[ed: Also these are, like, chapter 1 enemies, so it's not like they were going to really pose that big of a threat, let's be real. Well... except maybe the big one.]

You duck into various classrooms and laboratories, having very little luck- until you finally find a room with a giant tree, branches laden with heart-shaped apples. This is probably what you're looking for! Maybe you can finally get it all sorted out, health-wise.

...But it's guarded by RR. An R, and an R. Two giant letter Rs, with sharp fangs, which haven't noticed you yet, but definitely will if you try to raid the tree. That, and... some other beasties.

Some sort of DIRECTION DISC, like an evil frisbee, is homing in on you to try to slice you in half with its razor-sharp edge and razor-sharp sense of direction!

The ghost of someone's target practice- a SKEET PHANTASM- rises up to take its bloody revenge by turning you into target practice! Watch out!

That illness babies sometimes get that makes them cry too much? It's prepared for combat. How can you fend off such a seasoned BATTLE COLIC?

Watch out- there's MONK TEETH AHEAD! This martial artist has realized that chompers, not fists or feet, are the deadliest weapon of all- and is determined to prove it by biting the hell out of you.

You might think that a mouse isn't that dangerous, but you would be wrong- A RODENT IS CAUSTIC! If it catches you, its bite will probably deal a ton of acid damage. Or Wash damage.

Continued | 8/18 | 19/20