#same with metaphysics

[aridiculouslylongreceipt]

i've been reflecting on honor systems a lot for some research im doing and it has me reflecting on our relationships to people (places..things - nouns people). for me specifically, i find myself smoking with people even if i don't really vibe with them. it made me think - enough to make me conscious of free will for a moment - about how many times i say (at least to myself) that i value (or honor) weed more than what so-and-so did, thinks, or believes.

my brother came up to me a bit later and was talking to me about his friend group their current fallout drama. they decided they "needed a break" as a friend group because two of the four were (my brother included) a bit extra annoying this week. how were they so annoying, i hear you definitely asking yourself. they talked about a single topic too much.

but also like. i am no contact with my mother - most of my family honestly. what was my breaking point where i decided i was worth more than just putting up with it instead of changing something? at what point did it become a need? when did i decide i was finally worth at least the attempt to make things change?

what a blessing to be in an environment where you have so many options to spend your time doing. what a blessing to be able to pick between options. what a blessing for the butterfly effect to actually and truly be real.

maybe i've spent too much time playing Until Dawn and What Remains of Edith Finch while rewatching Bandersnatch (Netflixs best cash grab) as a 16 year old than the average person. howeverrrr i am correct. sources: so many but i am not here to talk science right now.

onward to more philosophical chatter

i certainly didn't decide to not smoke today, but how much of my "need" or "desire" to smoke is simply reflex? we know how neural pathways work now, we also know breaking a habit or pattern changes in difficulty based on so many factors like frequency, environment, the amount of senses used, and more than i care to look up right now.

after overthinking a bit and eating the worlds biggest bowl of rice, i also find myself wondering how these knee-jerk reactions are a part of our cultures, habits, preferences. our own strange, self made, pavlovs. i personally can't listen to Everyday by ASAP Rocky without thinking about 2022 and craving a drink. don't ask - its a whole thing.

with Christmas and Hanukah coming up so soon - what traditions do we keep up with regardless of our personal identity (a topic for another time) calls us to? what values or honor system are we upholding with others? with ourselves?

is this not what class solidarity is? everything that's happened with Luigi Mangione. people from the all over the political spectrum agreeing that insurance companies shouldn't be able to deny you care and coverage. most people joking online they wouldn't turn him in. AND it's a hot, educated, gay guy?? notice how no one blinked an eye? their value system tells us that they clearly care more about one thing than the other.

so anyways all this to say. on this shitty exposure-therapy-trauma-healing-praying-things-get-better journey we have reached new highs. hope u enjoyed my high rant i'm gonna go watch youtube now

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9.16.24 / 9.17.24 - september supermoon

[thebookworm0001]

thinking about how anaris turns elves into demons

it’s not a possession

they become demons

that’s fucking insane

[cluster-b-culture-is]

cluster B system culture is getting so annoyed at all the anti endos in the community. we're not even endo, but we make a habit of blocking anti endos in support of our endo and adjacent friends. it's so isolating to sometimes feel like the only system on cluster b tumblr that hasn't been exploited by anti endos

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[dharmafox]

I think the "second Medicine Seller is a younger version of the first Medicine Seller" theory could actually hold true under the hexagram metaphor. Since the Heaven and Earth Trigrams are the source of change (and we know that the second Medicine Seller contains at least one, Kun, Earth) while the Fire and Water Trigrams carry out the process (and we know that the first Medicine Seller contains at least one, Ri, Fire), this puts the second Medicine Seller closer to the origin point of life - that is to say, closer to "birth." In fact, if reading the hexagrams as an evolutionary progression (there seem to be multiple methods, but let's assume Nakamura-san chose this one), and accepting my theory that the first Medicine Seller is the final hexagram, #64, this would make him much, much older. So compared to him, the second Medicine Seller really is a kid. 😄

[eri-pl]

@edennill and others, asking for your help, because I just realized I don't really have any human fave (actual human, not a half-elf) I mean I do like Amandil, but I'm not that interested in him, and I do have a ton of elf faves and that's kinda biased.

I don't think it's healthy to have faves only in the most powerful groups, I need some balance.

Recommend me some Men, with an explanation why they're cool? (Preferably from Slim, may be LotR, but Aragorn is too mainstream 🤣 and Faramir idk, I know they're both awesome but they're not my jam)

Thank you.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Currently feeling a bit feral over the fact that Natalia means Christmas Day - as in the birth of Jesus Christ and Bucks story is so heavily leaning into the birth death and resurrection of Christ - the saviour - as a central part of his narrative arc. Her presence is literally about the birth of buck - as in processing his grief about why he was born - as a saviour baby.

[willnotacceptalifeundeserved]

New video (this film is a masterpiece no video can do it justice):

[ef-1]

girlhood

[thegreateyeofsauron]

it really says something that the most popular video game adaption of d&d ever left out the alignment system entirely and nobody even noticed

(it says that alignment is shit)

[marietheran]

It's so odd though, being in Warsaw and seeing the innumerable plaques on every street that say "X number people were shot here on Date (Somewhere between 1939-1945)" and know that soon enough everyone who remembers will be gone and those plaques will be all that is left.

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

was thinking abt that thing from a lil while ago where arceus cuts ingo's heart out, to spare him having to be sad about his former life. and then also got to thinking abt that thing i briefly mentioned a WHILE ago which is the idea that the reason ingo has no apparent language barrier w/ hisui is that uxie hotswapped his language from unova's to hisui's rq while he was falling as like a "sorry about your memories" consolation prize. and abt how, despite the very silly way i phrased that, that is actually like a supremely fucked up thing to do to a person and i would also consider it metaphysical violence on some level.

so anyway like. alt version where instead of it being arceus, it gets the whole lake trio in on it. mesprit takes out his heart, uxie takes out his tongue

[year2000electronics]

attempt number three of trying to get through THE FIRST VIDEO of this stupid gnome run is not going well. i hate that little auto generated voice so fucking much i miss. human beings

[imjustaf444keriguess]

also i think people's opinions on what they're comfortable being called or would prefer being called can differ from what they find as acceptable as an umbrella term to describe the experience itself, so saying "would you be comfortable if someone called you specifically a certain label" is MUCH different than "would you be comfortable if someone labeled the experience that you also have as a certain label"

for some, the answers would be the same. for others, they might understand why the umbrella term(s) might differ from their comfort term(s)

[sysig]

But would you tho (Patreon)

[dingodad]

commentary basically explicitly states that the ghost horses inside the plot point were the new team's idea but given those horses seem to originate around hussie's mansion i do have to wonder if "hussiespace" could just be another bubble reality contained within the singularity of a black hole. like, it can be the "real earth" but still a separate earth to what the other human characters live on, yknow