#the lack of inhibitions

[jonathanarcher]

Mulder and Scully would kill it in a santa clarita diet situation. Literally. Mulder would not hesitate to start killing people for food if Scully became a zombie.

[choilacanth]

how many more must die?

[033h]

The met doesn’t call these 供石/scholars rocks, they only say that they are supposed to look like mountains, which they are. But they don’t mention that they are not carved but found in nature, and are intended to stimulate contemplation through observing the natural contours of the stone! Sitting in front of this giant horse also gave me a great sense of peace!

[muninnhuginn]

just generally musing to myself what makes thematic and plot sense for the link clink ending after reading some other people's takes the past few days. no real conclusions here, just some thoughts tied together with a string.

I've seen arguments that what needs to happen is that Lu Guang needs to accept Cheng Xiaoshi's fate and move on without regrets. This idea that the past has to remain as-is and you have to move on is a thread that the show has played with quite a few times. It's written into the very rules underlying the dives. The most obvious instance being the earthquake arc, where Cheng Xiaoshi was unable to save Chen Xiao's mum, but he *was* able to deliver the messages and thereby help CX gain closure. It's laid out by Lu Guang that it *was* worth it to deliver the words, and Cheng Xiaoshi takes this conclusion with him when he confronts Emma. (Of course, the fact this lesson was given by *Lu Guang* casts a different shade over the whole affair. I don't think it can be entirely discarded, given LG even admits he's going against his own rules, but it reads more like something he's trying and failing to convince himself of.)

So, the past has to stay as it is. We see a few different approaches to this idea in s2 - of people refusing to move on and trying to change the past. Qian Jin wants to force his wife "not to cheat"; he wants to alter her behaviour because she didn't act as he wanted. Li Tianchen wanted to change how *he* acted back then, even if indirectly, because he sees himself as his mother's killer, and thinks this is the point at which his tragedy was locked into place. They both thought their 'tragedies' were down to a single event. It's not that simple.

Lu Guang wants to personally protect Cheng Xiaoshi by controlling all scenarios. Not exactly taking his will, but limiting his choices. There's probably a whole post to be made on how QJ/LTC/LG each approach the agency of the ones they want to protect, but that's not for now.

Anyway, Li Tianchen as the foil to Lu Guang. At the end of s2, he has in theory let go of Li Tianxi but in practice he's just burying himself deeper by following Liu Xiao. Trying to entirely shun the past so he can believe that he still has some element of control. Both LTC and LG are at the extreme ends of clinging on vs letting go and that means the correct answer has to lie somewhere in the middle. Not shunning the past, but accepting it, and using that resolve to move forward.

So, Liu Xiao. We don't have much on him but what we do have is his belief that uncertainties should become certainties. He's deterministic and set explicitly as the counter to Lu Guang, whose own aim is to change events rather than lock them into place. They both want to *control* all aspects, but for differing reasons. In fate vs free will, it makes sense that our protagonist is on the side of free will, but it's interesting that he's presented himself so much as the opposite previously. He and CXS haven't exactly switched places, but to the audience, they've definitely taken on traits of the other.

Liu Xiao's whole spiel about how all options will eventually lead to the same outcomes, with him set *against* Lu Guang, very much seems like it's a setup for a "defeat fate" type plotline though. It's hammered in that there is no escape, no other option. Are we expected to accept this? It doesn't seem so. It's something I'm struggling to reconcile somewhat with the earlier messages about accepting the past, but maybe that's not quite it. Maybe it's about control vs freedom?

Trust fall. Every dive with LG and CXS is an act of mutual trust where they need to act in tandem. Dives go astray when one party acts without the other. For CXS, this is about him acting against LG's instructions (texting Emma's parents, staying in the earthquake dive). For LG, this is about him withholding info because he doesn't trust how CXS will react.

Lu Guang needs to put his trust in CXS before his withholding of information creates an unresolvable rift. He needs to stop trying to control CXS in order to keep him safe. We saw how that spun out for Li Tianchen and Li Tianxi. LG needs to put the choice into Cheng Xiaoshi's hands and let him decide his own fate. It reminds me of how Cheng Xiaoshi laid everything out for Emma and let her decide whether to live. It was only outside interference that prevented her, but she did make the choice to survive. And she did it by remembering those small moments. By accepting that tragedy happens but there are still people that make it worth it.

For LG and CXS, they need to mutually trust each other and that's how they'll find their way through.

[angstics]

so. there’s another video of frank losing it over vampire money in glasgow (the first)

[sugarandice3]

Okay, so when I get my own place and I can afford it, I'm getting one of these bad boys to use as a bed frame.

The one I found is like $400, which may be a little pricey (I'm sure I could find something cheaper), but this thing has so many pros. 1) Easy to put put together and take apart. I don't have to worry about fitting it through a doorway or carrying a heavy box upstairs. 2) It's sturdy. I can take it apart and put it back together and know that it's going to have the same structural integrity as it did when I first got it. I also hate how most bed frames wibble and wobble. I like solid, unsqueaky furniture, thank you. It'll also last me a long time. 3) Storage!! I'm all about saving space, and elevated beds are the way to go if that's what you want. This is literally shelving. I could store store so much stuff!! 4) It's just cool. That's it. Idk why, but I think it's neat. The time for me to get my own place is growing closer, and I'm just excited at the prospect of having a space all to myself.

[esspurrr]

does anyone on ssris ever experience like feeling obligated to be horny but it feels like you and your horniness is separated by one of those walls of thick ass translucent glass

[essektheylyss]

starting another duolingo course like "this one will fix me"

[whatudottu]

Honestly the whole deal with Blukic and Driba as well as some of the terrible decisions Azmuth has made throughout the franchise has led me to headcanon that the Galvan species as a whole tends to be very high intelligence and low wisdom. Even the dumbest Galvan is more intelligent than the smartest human and the species tends to have good intentions for the most part, but they have little to no common sense and tend to be more preoccupied with whether or not they can do something rather than whether or not they should.

Haha, it's probably WHY Blukic and Driba are the dumbasses of Omniverse, not because they're unintelligent but because they aren't overcompensating for their lack of wisdom it comes across more obviously that there may be a few uh... galvan standards and stereotypes surrounding that 'good judgement' wisdom is better described as; intelligence may give you the ability and know how solve shit but wisdom is the 'okay what does this situation actually call for' pre-step to doing.

I mean, Azmuth is a smart guy and he makes high level technology, but he fucks off to Xenon without telling anyone and disappears into the void for no one to find or contact him after (canonically, whether or not I decide to ignore it) going through relationship troubles post-'making a literal sword' Incurcean homeworld destruction? Like, not the most thought out plan I've heard-

[petewentzisblack1312]

im grumpy bc my cat is at the vet until friday and i miss him and i think im in the clinically insane part of the month as in im one of the lucky people who gets like severe debilitating and dangerous mood swings as part of the combo of my menstrual cycle and schizoaffective bipolar disorder. so please be nice to me.

also this

this is a gift from a friend of mine that has been directed to, i think, the phillipines. which would be the second time this has happened to me. so yeah please be nice to me.

[kissing-by-the-sea]

i resent those who see me as wild and free, love me for it, yet yearn to stick me in a cage. i will not sing for you unless i am in the trees.

[werebutch]

I do miss drawing but to be honest the reason I haven’t drawn much in the past year is bc I’m so involved in other art projects (scripts, collage, other forms of writing like character journal + poetry..) that are way more fun. I’ve drawn a few pretty decent pieces but for me it needs to be extremely accurate to my ocs and I’m not that skilled lol

[crisischild92]

I wait with breathless anticipation to what sartorial splendour Hiromu comes up with for Wrestle Kingdom but this… this is… magnificent? 🤣

[pohlepen]

it's all fun and games until i start talking about frankie's RAD and then it's not fun for me anymore 🤧

[shoechoe]

i don't talk about this a lot but zim from invader zim is one of my other favorite characters like in general

[constantlyquestioningg]

the day i find the right stuff so i can have underboob it's all over for the rest of you