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Welcome to my pseudo intellectual ramble.
I love how Ship of Theseus Boothill is and how it has made me think a bit more about it. I haven’t finished the story of Penacony yet but I’m just gonna ramble from what I know from his backstory and what else I’ve seen.
Below are spoilers about Boothill’s backstory. Bless you if you’ve managed to avoid them so far. Can’t be me, that shit was everywhere.
Boothill from neck down is robot which got me thinking about the thought experiment of the Ship of Theseus.
For those who don’t know about the thought experiment allow me to explain; say a museum has found Theseus’ ship. Then the ships parts slowly start to rot and every piece has to be replaced until there are no longer any original parts of the ship. Then the question is posed; is it the same ship?
You can see where I’m heading with this. I have seen this question also posed the same way when it comes to science fiction and replacing body parts. I have also discussed this topic with my friends. I have my stance and answer to this question but when it relates to Boothill allow me to elaborate.
Now, how this relates to Boothill. Boothill, neck down, is all robot from what we’ve seen. Even his voice has a very slight robotic sound and he has vocal synthesisers that can be tampered with so, dare I say, from chin down he’s robotic, even his eyes are cybernetic. When it comes to his body he sure as hell went full force replacing every plank of wood.
My answer to this thought experiment is; as long as it still has the spirit and meaning of the ship I think it still is Theseus’ ship. With Boothill though, it’s a bit more of a complex answer.
Boothill’s mentality is no longer of the happy go lucky boy running around on the farm, daughter in his arms, and song on his lips. Theseus’ ship was nuked and wants revenge. Boothill is no longer who he was and is steadfast in ripping up the planks. It is not a gradual decline of rot but an active tearing up and destroying.
Is Boothill the same man despite his cybernetic enhancements? My answer: No, no he’s not. And he probably never will be. There is no rebuilding this ship.
#boothill#honkai star rail#hsr#thought experiment#idk if this makes sense#boothill hsr#talking out my ass#boothill spoilers#hsr spoilers#honkai boothill
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Fight Club ‘Drop Dead Fred’ AU where the narrator still begins to hallucinate Tyler but either Marla or his father become aware of it sooner and take him for a psychological analysis where they give him the pills (that they give Elizabeth in the movie) so that Tyler slowly starts to become weaker and tells the narrator to stop taking them.
Telling him that he needs him and he’s really hurting himself and giving up on trying to hit bottom. The narrator keeps taking the pills, trying to ignore him, until Tyler is a shell of his former self. When he takes the last pill, he is stood over Tyler and Tyler finally drops his excuses and tells the narrator that he loves him and doesn’t want to leave him. They need each other.
Against his better judgement and feeling guilt ridden about all of the lives that he and Tyler have affected with Project Mayhem (especially Marla), he takes the pill and watches Tyler fade away. Dropping to his knees and realising what he has just done, he begins to sob, feeling like a part of him has died
#1 am fight club thoughts#might delete this in the morning#blah blah i haven’t figured out all of the details#like Elizabeth’s relationship with her mother might parallel the narrators relationship with his father???#idk honestly#talking out my ass#drop dead fred is such a good movie 10/10#fight club#soapshipping
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teslas look like something that’s not a car trying to be a car
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I have the urge to draw Sartaq now. If only to contribute to the 3 fanarts there are of him currently 😔
#Sartaq aka the OG Cassian#yeah.. i said what i said#do you guys ever think about the similarities between Nestaq and Nessian?#talking out my ass
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i really pulled this out of my arse but:
show ab a grumpy immortal who wants to die and the fancy herb/ crystal blablabla that's a million miles away and COULD kill them goes on journey, meets friends, warm soft pleasing colours and semi detailed artstyle with cute vibes of different places around the world, and when they get to the herb, one of two things happen...
they look at the herb, have it in their hand...blablabla and they crush it and decide to live (friendship is magic :>)
they do take the herb, die peacefully...and the friends make them the most beautiful grave in the world. like a non religious pilgrimage, they leave a small monument in places of significance from their journey, before they make the grave where the herb was, and where they died. and it's beautiful, massive and flowery and peaceful and cared for.
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thinking abt the concept of opening sequences before a TV show starts. kinda neat. I wonder if the practice started in theaters where the orchestras would play an overture before a play began? Kind of a call to the audience to get to their seats. I remember being wee and my siblings and I would always zoom around while the Enterprise flew by during the TNG opening sequences and then we'd settle in to watch the episode. Shows are barely on TV these days and you can start them whenever you please but we still have these lil opening sequences. neato
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Finally got around to watching the second season of Yellowjackets. I'm still processing it but I do hope in the end there's not really a supernatural element to it: there doesn't have to be for the story to end satisfyingly.
Shauna's line seems like the throw-away of the very next victim of a standard supernatural horror film (the Darkness being them; that it's inside them because they're fucked up people who did fucked up things) but it'd be nice, I think, for that to be the overall truth and the seeming supernatural stuff actually having mundane explanations that wouldn't be seen (or knowable) to kids still in high school strung out on starvation. It's like how religion started (probably): a series of coincidences that proved useful to survival getting meaning imparted upon them
I would love for the "symbol" to just be some mundane cave marker or whatever that the girls gave a higher meaning to. Weird shit happens all the time, but that doesn't mean it has to be supernatural in origin.
These girls all have horrifying levels of PTSD (and mental illness apparently). If people can return from war all fucked up from their experiences, why can't the (why did no real town in New Jersey volunteer to be associated with this show) Wiyasocki Yellowjackets girls' soccer team also be that.
I don't know. It would just feel like a cop-out to make it have actual supernatural elements instead of just implied ones which, under more rational circumstances, would naturally be interpreted more mundanely
I think of Tolkien complaining in one of his letters about a BBC broadcast mischaracterizing his work, referring to Willowman as an ally of Mordor. His exact quote being, "Cannot people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil!"
Alright, I'm done talking out my ass now
#Yellowjackets#Yellowjackets season 2#talking out my ass#opinions no one asked for#written but not proofread#I feel like season 2 was about reminding us viewers that none of these survivors are actually good people
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sometimes i block people just so they can't block me first
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I think there's a point at which we do need to recognize that some calls for "diversity" are being made in bad faith. Not all, by any means, but this kinda thing tends to happen most often with media that's already aimed at progressive, inclusive audiences, and/or (though usually 'and') by creators who are themselves members of one or more marginalized communities. This isn't a new observation, of course, but this type of media tends to get more scrutiny by its audience as a default, and thus more push back for any genuine or perceived "mistakes" (even when said 'mistakes' are actually just a non-majority opinion from inside the group... though that's a slightly different topic.)
Take, for example, what inspired this rant: Ruffles brought to my attention that CritRol is still getting heavy amounts of criticism, to this day, for their "lack of diversity," despite the entire production putting in tons of effort to address the genuine issues they had in the past. It is literally a queer game made by and for queer people which, yes, has a majority white cast but has taken efforts to diversify their rotating cast members and bring on board creators of varying backgrounds to their other shows.
But they're not "diverse" enough, still. And after looking at a lot of this criticism, the only thing I can conclude is that most of the people who are still screaming about this are just screaming to scream. After all, the only other thing that could possibly be done at this point is to either replace the core cast entirely, or to cancel the show outright.
Which just... isn't something that could be suggested in good faith, right?
(And to be clear, I have not actually seen anyone call for this to happen, this is just me logic-ing out what the next step would have to be given the steps that have already been taking.)
#listen i'm just talking to talk#these thoughts have to go somewhere though you know#eh i'll probably delete this#talking out my ass
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@strangeravatar made a great point
i was gonna focus on the spike-hotboxing-celestia aspect but i got distracted somewhere along the way and i think i forgot what joke i was trying to make
but dont you think its interesting how many guards of the exact same color/body type she's managed to accrue?? i do
ooohh you want to go look at our stickers so bad
#conclusion: if one of them smokes weed they BOTH get high#but it's a baby's metabolism vs a sun god's so if CELESTIA is zooted spike is DEAD#i also like to imagine rainbow dash becomes quite the philosopher while under the influence#and yes their bong IS zecoras potion bottle from season 4 episode 1/2 thanks for asking#anyways#this is a long ass comic with. minimal payoff. but we're POSTING IT ANYWAY BABES#i couldnt decide if it would be funnier to have zephyr breeze at the end or one of those regular white blue-haired blue-eyed stock guards#i left it as zephyr. the real ones get it#i guess the real ones are everybody who saw season 9 episode 4#but cmon why ELSE do you think celestia would hire that guy#it's cause she's a freak and im calling her out on my tumblr dot com#mlp#mlp fim#mlp friendship is magic#mlp g4#mlp fanart#princess celestia#princess luna#rainbow dash#fluttershy#spike the dragon#zephyr breeze#horse comic#me art#also that font is one i made based off my own handwriting!! im so happy about it#though it does look. exactly like comic sans#idk how to feel about that tbh#wow you can just talk to yourself in the tags forever and no one will even know huh
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Lord Dunsany and the broken telephone of "fantasy"
So for my weekly post that nobody will care for, I'll again squeeze out some shit related to a topic I researched for the iceberg, but that doesnt really have anything to do with Soul Eater:
Lord Dunsany is often quted in some "deeplore" "well akshually" stuff to be the father of "modern fantasy", but did all the people who read him miss the point?
So I'll start by saying I wasnt ever into fantasy, it allways seemed kinda corny, only stuff I cared was LoTR cause I kinda grew up and around people were obssesed with it and DQ, cause of the DBZ bleed over and because I just like the slimes lol.
That may makes me disqualified about commenting, but eh, I dunno, I think my point will still stand, cause I will bring it back to Tolkien now:
Some people say he was inspired by Dunsanys "word building" to make his own overly convoluted mythology, but here lies my objection:
The two books I read of Dunsany about "the gods of Pegana" seem not really care about the "lore"
They seem to be written in the style as if they were some holy book, yet the names seem deliberately random and often the storys are either contradictory or mix up the details to make a point and to reflect that feeling of myths that arent organized by some obsessive nerd wiki for logical consistency.
Because in the end the books arent about "fantasy" (atleast the ones I have read), but as kinda didactic laments about the authors perceived nihilism and meaninglessnes/cruelty of the world.
Ok that may be reductive, cause there are many vivid and even beautiful or fascinating things described, but in the end you feel that tone of "Oh that is like fanfiction from the Bible book about how everythings is just meaningles vapor" tone.
Like in "the gods and time" there is a great short story about a prophet who sees the "true gods" and abondons the old ones for them with his followers, only to repeatedly then see even greater gods, only to lose more and more of his acolytes with each subsequent trip and in the end arive back at the old gods he rejected at the star - basically a commentary at the foly for the strive of knowledge or about how things are more simple at the end of it all than one trys to think.
But the important thing is that the "gods" of this short story dont really matter more than for the point they make in it - I would be surprised that for example the "mocking gods" have some specific lore, events and super powers etc like shit in Tolkiens stuff has, or in modern generic fantasy, where everyone is some world or warcraft charachter shooting magical auras.
Still, maybe Im ignorant, and in all the other storys there actually is that feeling of a shared mythology and "wordbuilding" besides the tone of "life's a bitch and then you die"
Anyways, what was the point of this all? I guess to say that it is kinda sad that an innovatitive form of literature gets reduced into the current state of "top ten word building tips!" videos on youtube.
Ok maybe thats to harsh, even I know how fun it is to come up with a setting and its own intrincitys, but still, I think one shouldnt limit oneself to that - its like watching DBZ for the power levels - when the point is that they dont matter.
But in the end, maybe this post just shows my own ignorance - maybe most fantasy does that already. Yet when I allways hear everybody praise some Brandon Sanderson guy, who seems to only care about "magic systems being consistent" and literally color codes his creatures to match emotions or some shit idk😂
And also, I wonder if Tolkien had actually finished more books if he hadnt noodled around with his silly lore matching, especially when it in the end still is contradictory😂🤷♂️
Anyways, sorry this kinda sounds more spitful than I wanted, guess its cause I saw some video where they talked about these books as if they were all about just creating some wacky fantasy world, which seemed strange to me after having read even just a small part of his whole work.
So: Yeah...Sorry
#lord dunsany#the gods of pegana#wordbuilding#fantasy#critique#misconceptions#genre fiction#sucks#broken telephone#idk#talking out my ass#research#yeah..sorry#extra credits#kinda suck tbh#or was it extra history#low information reader#Im talking bout myself here lol
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2024 in numerology is an 8 year. Number 8 is ruled by Saturn. It relates to things like hard work, delays, restrictions, depression. But with hard work, you also get rewarded at the end. So I'm expecting this year we may have to work hard - but, there will be rewards in the end. 2015 and 2006 were also 8 years (the digits add up to 8), so think back to those years, there will be a similar vibe this year.
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“There is no platonic explanation for thi-“ Sprays u with water. Sprays u
#let platonic relationships be just as intimate if not more so than romantic ones#does the power of friendship mean NOTHING to you#Star talks#my demiromantic ass is out here struggling#if you default straight to romance if two characters show affection for each other then guess what buddy#you are weak and will not survive the winter#we have such wonderful sights to show you *shoves my webcomic into ur face*
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People keep on asking for more Baby Robin and Papadile so here is more Baby Robin and Papadile. Now never ask anything from me ever again
#My art#One Piece#Long post#Sir Crocodile#Nico Robin#Alternatively panel 5 would've been a close up of Crocodile's face from Robin's POV where he looks like he's giving her a death glare#Not intentionally he's just a big scary bastard with a Resting Murder Face and Robin is a small traumatized child#But I wanted to focus on the silliness of the moment so you get the goofy version instead#IDK man there's just something very funny to me about the idea of Robin just randomly info-dumping about a subject she's read about#And Crocodile being like ''?????????????????????? The fuck you talking about??''#Robin leaves the ship's kitchen and Crocodile just stares at the tomato like ''...It's a fruit? Forreal?''#(Meanwhile Robin is sweating bullets like ''I called his favorite vegetable a FRUIT right in his FACE he's going to KILL ME'')#Robin grew extra feet from the bottom of her feet to reach the counter and that actually isn't me trying to explain bad art away#In the original Papadile comic there was a panel of Robin doing the dishes with extra feet to reach the sink but I cut it out#(It was a stress relief comic I did not feel like drawing a complicated background in detail) (BUT YES I THOUGHT OF IT)#Nico Robin Age 11 is *more* than capable of cooking Crocodile just does not trust her with his food. At least not yet#She did start doing the dishes unprompted and continues to do so (mostly out of fear). Croc told her she didn't have to but allows it#IDK a lot of people seem to headcanon Crocodile as incapable of cooking and like. Surely Mr ''I don't trust people'' knows how to cook#Like he doesn't have to be a master chef or anything but and maybe he enjoys not HAVING to cook (pain in the ass with one hand + knife/hook#But surely he can cook decent enough. SURELY#Botanists don't @ me I know the ''tomato is a fruit'' thing isn't fully accurate this is just a silly little haha comic
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obsessed w these boneheads as of late :]
#griddlehark#tlt#the locked tomb#gideon nav#harrowhark nonagesimus#gtn#when u and the situationship livin it up in a haunted palace... FO FREE!!!!!#i wanted 2 do a background 4 this but college and work have been kicking my ASS so#figured i should just post it and move on i got other sketches and wips#anyways hello tlt fans do not expect me 2 draw anything the same twice. love u <3#in this kitchen we fuck it And we ball. no artistic sameness and we like it that way. i also serve food once a month#stay at your own risk#i've been going insane over tlt by myself on my side acc and the longer i have no one 2 talk abt nona grief with#the more art i will pop out. but also pls i need 2 talk abt this shit w someone i'm coughing and dying out here
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balor 🥰
#fields of mistria#fom#balor#fanart#art#sir...im so in love w you...#if anyone else like me loved the fuck out of stardew but was disappointed in the romance options...please play this game#the characters/interactions/dialouge is top notch#i knew nothing about this game i found out about it 2 days before release#i thought i was gonna go for march#and immedately met this guy and just#his first line is like (im a traveling merchant) and i went (oh no)#i have such a THING for merchant characters#i can finally live out my dream of romancing volo pkmn#sort of#except not evil#i think#love that the romance options in this game are like... adults with jobs/dreams/aspirations#unlike stardew where everyone is supposedly an adult but is like a teenager??#but in this game everyone is a contributing member of society#love that <3333#the dialouge for real is amazing#anyway. it still in uhh...early access? so you cant do everything youll be able to do one day#but thats good for me bc i tend to blast through these games and do 90% of things within a week#fanart???? from my ass???#only because i love this game and him#im so fucked up for him#not me tracking his ass down everyday to talk to him#also what i love about this game is being able to talk to everyone multiple times a day#like every hour or something
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