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dreamy-conceit · 1 year

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As the Bacchae knew, we always tear our gods to bits, and eat the bits we like.

— Adam Gopnik, 'What Did Jesus Do?', The New Yorker, 24 May 2010

#ancient greek theater #theology #god is dead #literal and non-literal cannibalism #jesus of nazareth #evolution #cultural appropriation #friedrich nietzsche #heresy #goya's saturn devouring his son but the opposite #quotes about human nature

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paint-it-dead · 9 months

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-"Start Here" by Caitlyn Siehl

#berserk #griffith #guts #griffguts #berserk manga #words #my posts #i have soooo many quotes that remind me of them that haunt me im going insane #i post more of them eventually #for now this is all the display of mental illness yall get #idk how to tag lol #guts berserk #griffith berserk #this very obviously is refering to how guts percieves griffith and the immediate change in his stance when he saw him again as the human #that he loved and cared for very deeply to the point that he forgot that this was actually “the monster” he had sought to kill all that time #im not at all implying anything abt griffith's nature changing #just about hoe you can never truly see someone as simply “monstruous” if you love them hard enough #how***#SPELLING MISTAKES MY MORTAL ENEMY

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gabriestat · 7 months

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true detective: the long bright dark / disco elysium: jamais vu (derealization)

#in my true elysium slash disco detective universe forever #i have talked about this already but its funny that this quote was marty's breaking point. who has not felt about their hometown like this?#rust does not know this city well however which makes the feeling different but somehow still universal to the experience of growing up #in places that have to change to survive (be it bc of its economy or bc its simply outdated)#but the town in TT s1 appears to be decaying. at least to rust #imo one of the best shots and most defining of the show is that of the church abandoned and left to rot in nature with the factories #in the background. past and progress shown in one shot you know #but with the eps passing i would say that it is the people and their humanity that is decaying instead of the town #after all the town seems quite alright in terms of infrastructures #but the description of it as a jungle really does fit very well #both with the landscapes shown and the animals (men) lurking where you least expect them #true detective #rust cohle #marty hart #mine

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serenpedac · 2 months

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“We belong to the Earth and the sea, you belong to the stars.”

— Zhang Beihai (The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu)

#quote #three body problem #the dark forest spoilers #i initially wrote down this quote because of how beautiful it is #at the time it only seemed like an observation of how much humanity has changed over time #but now i can't help but think about what he does later on...#saying he is a defeatist or escapist doesn't feel like it captures his motivations #he realised they changed and knows they will have to change even more #his motivation is not simply catastrophising or fleeing but rather *developing*#if that makes sense?#to him going into space was the only logical next step for humanity to survive #making this quote as much an observation as it is a prediction #which is beautifully done #also thinking about his thought later on of how instead of finding a habitable planet they might be travelling in space forever #but that this generation wasn't ready yet to consider that #of course his ship had to be called Natural Selection lol not very subtle there #also:#the phrasing 'we' against 'you' makes me think that he knew he wouldn't be a part of this in the end #for someone who thinks things through as much as he does #some part of him must have realised there would be no place for him in this new version of humanity #ah i'm having many feels over here #(still not a fan of someone acting all by themselves and justifying all their actions with 'duty'#but i find him a lot more interesting than expected and also like him a lot more)#...this may have worked better as an actual text post rather than this mess of tags but here we are #zhang beihai #the dark forest

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lgbtiwtv · 2 years

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one of my favorite hobbies is in fact making fun of lestat because let’s be honest he does deserve it 99% of the time but then i start rereading tvl and suddenly I’m like….man he really went through so much, huh? he was really traumatized and taken advantage of over and over by both strangers and people he loved….like man he really was stalked, kidnapped, and forcefully made into a vampire against his will….he faced years of abuse from his father and brothers…..he witnessed the death of his only lover and before that his resentment and eventual madness….he really cries every other page and has 10 existential crises before he even becomes a vampire but he wants to be good he wants to be happy he tried to run away to the church he tried to run away with the theatre troupe he just wanted to act and love and be loved and at every turn he was done wrong and hurt and abandoned and nobody ever really helped him and I—

#like. not to be a lestat apologist on main but oh my god the horrors he experienced…..all alone……#I just kept thinking about the scene where he’s turned and he’s so scared and alone and he still chooses to say no and die human #he didn’t want this!!! and then he’s left all alone again and he’s dying and he’s in pain and #literally screaming and crying and then he has to see a pile of bodies that all look like him and then what????#he’s supposed to be the same person after all that?? like of course he’s got ptsd of course he’s got terrible coping mechanisms of cours #he acts the way he does because like how do you live with all that unless you turn it into something meaningful in any way you can #and for him that manifests as a god complex and controlling nature and enjoying all of life’s pleasures to mask #his crippling self loathing and fear of abandonment and intense intense trauma.#um. ….anyway…..sorry for lestat posting like this do you guys still think I’m cool #obvs not excusing the bad things he’s done but like……..it still hurts…….#to quote that one post I’ll always taking louis’ side in the divorce but….sometimes I stop and really thing about everything lestat has #been thru and like….I care him…..😔#iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv spoilers #lestat de lioncourt #the vampire chronicles #the vampire lestat #m watches iwtv

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boy-in-a-flower-crown · 5 months

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queerness is the most natural state of being

#queer #quotes #flower boy text post #queerness #trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bisexual #this is about Acting queer #this is about the behaviours that make you go #is he. yknow.#because these behaviours are so natural #they are so human #and they need to be normalized #queerness is humanness #queerness is humanity

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dye-it-rouge-et-noir · 28 days

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"For particularly important things, it's always more reassuring to write them down like this." - Zhang Beihai

[ID in alt text]

#my art #three body problem #3 body problem #zhang beihai #三体 #章北海 #i've been meaning to draw three body problem characters and actually post them on my blog for quite some time!#so if anybody wants me to draw any specific character from the series feel free to reply here or send an ask as a request!#beihai is my top favorite and he resonated with me more than i expected! i rather liked bits of consequentialist philosophical ideas in him #anyways incoming ramble/infodump in the tags about various subjects pertaining to him #all you need to know about me is that i often lurk in chinese language fandom spaces and you might see commonalities in designs #if you see fanartists draw him with the broken eyebrow and mole then that's due to the 我的三体 (my three-body) donghua adaptation!#admittedly i was introduced to the series through that adaptation years ago because it seemed rather absurd (minecraft haha) but oddly good #at least check out the third season (haven't seen the fourth one yet but that's ongoing actually) or listen to 夜航星 (night voyager)#i'm rather curious how fanartists on tumblr might tackle character designs since i mostly see the two live action adaptations here #i want to diverge my designs from any particular adaptation but my beihai design takes a lot from 我的三体!#now about beihai- i really enjoyed his characterization and i'd like to bring up a maybe unintentional parallel and foil with the eto #hopefully that's something new to add to the discussion about zhang beihai and here's what adaptations don't get about mike evans #in the book he's a character you mostly only hear about from others and he's known to be a private person #he conceals a lot of his thoughts from even people like ye wenjie + he taught the trisolarans about deceit #then his strategy to kill luo ji was to keep it low and make it seem like an accident which those obfuscations of thought parallels beihai #then evans says: “but… it's obvious now that everywhere is the same” which is similar to beihai's “it doesn't matter. it's all the same”#the contexts differ but i think they're good foils about human nature “being the same” with evans's quote being about futility #then beihai's was about how regardless of if he survived or not- someone else would be able to carry on with his work #i have many other thoughts about beihai like how chu yan's (captain of blue space) group approach with the voting contrasts beihai #while beihai tried to bear the weight of attacking the other ships in solitude- chu yan made vengeance against trisolaris a group effort #(which that action goes against how the swordholder was a solitary role instead of a group one which is neat to me!)#i'd discuss more but i think that's enough to show that i really love zhang beihai (feel free to discuss the books with me though)

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jangmo-othewarrior · 1 year

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Demonic Colds

--- DMC 3 ---

Lady: *sneezes*

Dante: You good?

Lady: Yeah, just as cold.

Dante: Oh, okay.

Also DT!Dante: Oh shit, she's going to spontaneously combust.

--- DMC 4 ---

Teen Credo: Sorry Nero, Kylie couldn't come play today. She's sick.

Tiny Nero: WHAT!!

Teen Credo: oh geez!..

Tiny Nero: SHE'S GOING TO DIIIIEEEE!!!

--- DMC 5 ---

Dante: ~Devil May Cry~

Kyrie: Mr. Dante! Thank goodness you picked up.

Dante: Kyrie? What's-

Kyrie's Phone Background: SCCRRRREEEECCHH

Dante: What in HELL was that?

Kyrie: Nero.

Dante: Nero?

Kyrie: Juilo just threw up and-

Dante: Oh shit, VERGE! GET THE YAMATO AND OPEN UP A PORTAL TO FORTUNA RIGHT FUCKIN NOW!-*phone drops*

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schizowitchic · 4 days

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also like i partially found out i might be intersex because i was looking at trans stuff and there was like "(however many) months on t and finally seeing some bottom growth" and like pictures of t-dicks and i was like.... um.... that's kind of just what my clit looks like anyways. so i was like "hey google give me a quick rundown on this" and learned what clitoromegaly was and then i was like. hm. intersex resources. and it's like a sign? symptom? side-effect? of certain intersex conditions

#i mean like pcos runs in the mums side of my family but i dont have all the symptoms of that #i do also have like. more hair?? than the average afab person #like dark hair on my stomach and chest and back #and my face. whats disappointing about the face hair is that it isnt enough to be able to grow a beard #so i cant even fuck with gender that way #tagging as nsft just because of like genital mention #genital mention #nsft #shoutout to transmascs on t who show their t-dicks on the internet it was really helpful #also i dont know how to describe it but like. my natural face shape is kind of masculine??#like it would be plausible for a cis amab perisex man to have my face without looking feminine #if you get what im saying??#if it sounds like im reinforcing sex or gender essentialism please say i am struggling to find words #unshoutout to the boys in primary school who made fun of me for having hair under my arms and starting a whole decade of insecurity-#-about having hair on my body lmao #for the record i dont think certain face shapes are indicative of gender and all im just going by like. patterns?? in afab vs. amab faces #also not that i think afab vs. amab is the entire categorisation of human sex characteristics but um. working with what vocab i have here #i think what also really kicked it off. was relating to a fair few experiences intersex people have socially #particularly intersex ppl who were afab and faced a lot of pressure to make their bodies conform to feminine beauty standards #and it was like.... oh lol.... my mum did that to me!!#it comes from her own internalised shit bc she has pcos (idk if she identifies as intersex even tho she could if she wanted) but still.#dont project that onto a 10 yr old lmao. she keeps buying me hair removal products #ALSO floored by an experience i have. in which apparently half my friends dont feel pressure to shave their legs #because the hair on their legs is like. light and thin and barely visible and i was like?? huh??#what do you MEAN your legs don't look like your brothers/fathers if you dont shave??#im starting to think they dont shave their arms. their arms might just naturally not have a load of hair #i dont shave my arms though. cannot be bothered with that and also like. why would i do that #also you know that like. happy trail i think its called?? on “men's” stomachs??#yeah i have that naturally yeah thats right im naturally sexy #if you cant tell i am putting “girls” “mens” “boys” “womens” etc. in quotes to indicate that is just the normal society way of saying it

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thoughtartistry · 18 days

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《《◇◇◇ Fear ◇◇◇》》

#wise words #positive quotes #fear #anxiety #mental health #tumblr #for you #thoughts #feelings #think about it #you matter #human nature #food for thought

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alexandramalbb · 1 year

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" She was running in nature, searching for the silence and peace. She loved to feel the touch of the grass under his bare feet, to feel the breeze of the wind through her hair.

She loved how the sun's rays crept through the branches of the tree and warmed her body. She was happy, she felt full of life, she was finally at home for the first time in a long time. "

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arson-09 · 2 months

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The Vibes of my fanfic through songs

An ongoing mini series of lyrics from songs that relate to the fanfic im currently writing. The fic is still unpublished but i am working on it :)

From Eden by Hozier

Babe There's something wretched about this. Something so precious about this. Where to begin? Babe There's something broken about this. But I might be hoping about this. Oh, what a sin

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on his sword Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me, I should know

I slithered here from Eden just to hide outside your door

It seems to me that every relationship (platonic or romantic) that Tamlin finds himself in starts because he’s curious about them, drawn to them. Rhysand, Lucien, Feyre. Maybe it will end well this time

#arson yaps #a court of bones and dust #i LOVE hozier euueueueueuue #i think about the music video for from eden a lot #acobad #my fanfic #pro tamlin #We dont know much about how Lucien and Tamlin became friends but i feel assumptions can be made #Rhysand says he sought Tamlin out. doesn’t that sound like curiosity and the thrill of the forbidden?#Feyres human and wild nature intrigued Tamlin so much. He became curious to why she became who she was. what pushed to to this point #Anyway #This fic is not romance centric. Its 99% platonic but the parasites have been influencing me to maybe write some romance #I mean. theres an illyrian throuple who will be making an appearance. one of the side ocs is very romantic #but the parasites are calling for romance between catrin (oc) and Tamlin and like maybe #it may turn out slowburn strangers to friends to lovers #dont quote me on that tho im just yapping in the tags per usual

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gotta-bail-my-quails · 5 months

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im not sure if it is meta or deeply ironic that a person would use AI for an assignment in a Critical AI course...

#i was like. this sounds pretty good but also basic #and then they fucking used 'rich tapestry' which if you didnt know is now a meme #since the use of it in college students' essays is a big red flag for AI usage #ofc that fucks over everyone who just naturally has a big vocabulary but...#several AI checkers I used on the assignment said yeah that shits AI #a few actually said it was human and I'm inclined to think because the post actually makes sense it might at least have some oversight #ofc they could've just like. put the whole article the assignment is about into chat gpt and ask it to make a summary post #another thing that tipped me off is that they didnt mention any other articles or used other quotes #but did use a very particular word in a particular context that the article did which they couldve easily quoted instead #anti ai

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therighthandofvengeance · 1 year

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does Lorien bringing Sheridan back to life count as artificial selection or natural selection?

#who are queue? what do queue want?#for once it’s not an incorrect quote #babylon 5 #lorien #first ones #john sheridan #natural selection #artificial selection #this is really bothering me now #because artificial selection is chosen by humans #so would the language itself have adapted (pun intended) to include aliens too?#and therefore first ones?#what about Delenn’s role in his resurrection?

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mantisgodsdomain · 9 months

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Sometimes we will write something and it becomes immediately apparent within a few paragraphs that we are the kind of person who reads philosophy textbooks for fun

#we speak #and we dont. know how to edit it out #because in hindsight it is also obvious that we have also based our magic system on esoteric philosophical concepts #anyways if we write something and we've completely lost you within a handful of paragraphs #then it may be bc we spend our spare time reading about a bunch of guys argue about the nature of humanity #and then we're boiling down like half a dozen different conflicting philosophical concepts and making it into a magic system #every time we do this it also makes us significantly harder to talk to if you are an actual person who hasnt been Doing This #and then we have to reread things if we want to quote them because our memory is holey and shared between us and at least one Beast

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inkshine · 8 months

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*The aftermath of the storm in "Princess Andy"* Crewmate One: Did you ever think it would end like this? Crewmate Two: The mad sorcerer with an army of sharks doing his bidding is a surprise.

#source: the road to el dorado #(that movie has some problematic elements that need to be discussed but this is not the time and place and besides its just a good quote)#ANYWAY #I'm gonna lightly go off in tags because Princess Andy has a whole cinematic universe in my head atp #“Why are they calling him a sorcerer?” Because what *else* would they call him?#This man may have been born human (for all we know) but he gains some distinctly *in*human qualities and strongly implied supernatural #abilities #specifically #abilities that are tied to the natural world-sharks #in a lot of cultures that would automatically gain one some kind of new title that is either reverent or feared #Sorcerer. Faerie. Witch. Demon.#Hell even in the song they say “In fear and awe they called him devil they called him god.”#AND #the whole song's title is about *his* new title: Princess Andy #anyway yeah #the blasting company #princess andy #the petrojvic blasting company #princess andy the blasting company #the blasting company princess andy #ramblings

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