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"Humans are totally depraved" "Humans are totally good" What if humans are inherently moral? It would explain why people are obsessed with this question. What do we truly desire if not to know and possess The Good? To have the definition of "good" and "bad".
What if this desire leads to us defining it on our own terms? What if my definition of "good" and "bad" is different from your definition of "good" and "bad"? What if there is no "good" or "bad"? What if we are horrifyingly free - abandoned by god - to define "good" and "bad"?
What if this redefining of good and evil on our own terms is the origin of all human failure?
#something to meditate on#christian theology#theology#theory of the forms#philosophy#psychology#meaning#life#morality#existentialism#plato#christianity#bible#keep the faith#jesus christ#bible scripture#faith in jesus#faith#christian#jesus#jean paul sarte#progressive christian#progressive christianity#christblr
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"even if no one else accepts you, I'll live with you"
#jjk#jjk spoilers#jujutsu kaisen spoilers#jujutsu kaisen#jjk 268#ryomen sukuna#itadori yuuji#my art#artists on tumblr#so i chose to draw them as kids#cause yuji was talking about how he grew up with his grandfather while sukuna didn't#and something something childhood is a formative time#anyway delusional but sukuna and yuji twin theory real
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YOU MANIFESTED THE TWEEL CARDS CONGRATS
YOU'RE WELCOME EVERYBODY!
seriously though I was probably like. 60-80% thinking we'd get at least one tweel for chapter 10. but I was NOT expecting it so soon! both of 'em! in August! a shame we're not getting a Coral Sea event after all...but I guess I can be resigned to that and ALSO excited for getting shiny sparkly glowing(!!!!) mertwins along with Azul fighting his inner demons and going right for the eyes! AHHHH I CAN'T WAIT
(also heeeey I recognize that rowboat... 👀)
#art#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 10 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 10 spoilers#omg they're real#hey twst as long as you're pandering directly to me#che'nya card for riddle's chapter??????#it's not going to happen. but. WHAT IF#anyway i suppose they could get this one out a bit faster since the tweel sprites already exist#let's hope for a non-ob octozul cameo too! 🤞#as much as i want to see him though i do think it would be extremely funny if his dream were just#everything's the same in the coral sea except he's in human form the entire time#no real reason he just feels like it#chapter 10 though! the hype!#floyd is one of the characters i can't even begin to imagine what his dream might be#(the other one is ace) (i got a couple theories for him but floyd i just have NO idea)#i know it might just be for the diptych but i am VERY intrigued by the implication that the twins might be having the same dream#they're both dreaming about the time they teamed up to ruin some couple's cute rowboat date#and you know what. i believe it.
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How long have they've been sleeping?
#twst theory#spoilers#riddle when it's your turn to wake up please dont freak out but malleus has kinda been messing with space time#rip idia's tablet#he cant DREAM FORM CHANGE!!! out of this one#twisted wonderland#riddle rosehearts#mari draws stuff#artists on tumblr#AGAIN THANK YOU JEN FOR THE IDEA THIS WAS SO FUN TO DRAW AUGHHHH
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Bernard: My fetish is saying some incredibly stupid shit and watching Tim speedrun the five stages of grief as he realizes with horror that he still wants to fuck me.
#bernard comes up with increasingly more insane conspiracy theories just to watch how tim reacts#its one of his favorite forms of entertainment#incorrect quotes#incorrect dcu quotes#incorrect batman quotes#dcu#batman#bernard dowd#tim drake#red robin dc
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Sisters :]
#og post#my art#Ace Attorney#AA#The Great Ace Attorney#TGAA#susato mikotoba#iris wilson#iris watson#dgs#dai gyakuten saiban#look away spout#slapped a grayscale down and played around with gradient maps and then fine tuned it definitely the weirdest method of coloring ive done#then i threw on halftones for funsies#a really funny thing happened in my playthrough of dgs with my friends. they formed a. conspiracy theory. wherein.#mikotoba fathered both iris and susato.#we just finished blooming attorney theres no reason for them to think this they just went omg mikotoba and wilson knew each other#to be clear they think mikotoba gave birth#and jigoku is susato's other father#i just started sobbing. like how. did they get so close. to an actual twist. by throwing darts in the dark#they have no idea#highlight reel#1k
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sua's such an under analyzed character but her mentality and presentation is really interesting!! to others (besides mizi), she appears reserved (very demure. very mindful) / cold but she's genuinely going through constant inner turmoil.
growing up, she was literally used as a commodity by her guardian. she's bullied by her sisters for being the guardian nigeh's favorite, but it's really only because she makes the most money. even after death, her guardian doesn't care that sua's gone, they're more concerned with the popularity and revenue that her fandom brings.
to the segyein, sua's essentially a doll and an ideal pet human. she's a top student at anakt, aka she sticks to a routine and acts easily brainwashed. when asked about her study habits, she just says "it's not really that hard... you just have to memorize what they teach you."
her objectification by others strips her of her identity and livelihood. it definitely plagues her perception of self worth/value, and manifests in her behavior (being quiet/not taking up much space, jealousy, apologizing often, being defensive - more on that later)
^ i think this whisper sums up her situation pretty well. her circumstances and the way she presents herself affects her relationships in anakt a ton if that makes sense ?
when sua meets mizi, such a vibrant, lively, and loving person, her focus and dare i say will to live completely shifts to mizi. in mizi's eyes, sua is seen as mizi's soulmate, someone she'll be with forever. someone who's always there for her. synergyyyy
although sua's feelings are mutual, she carries a level of self doubt and anxiety with her. sua believed her love for mizi would harm her in the end. she's stated before (EXPLICITLY) that she would die for mizi, and she does end up doing this in the form of sacrifice in round 1.
it's almost as if sua feels guilty for loving mizi. she knows they're doomed, and with their limited time, why should she be focused on? is it selfish of her to not tell mizi of their inevitable fate to live in their dream a little longer?
^ the lyrics of sweet dream can also serve as her mentality and point of view leading up to alien stage. she knows the idyllic world she's in is temporary, knowing her end is imminent yet praying to be saved.
although mizi views sua in a tinted lens, the other characters do not. at least, not in the affectionate sense. to till, sua's demeanor is offputting and uncomfortable
to ivan, he sees straight through to suas actions and (maybe unintentionally but i doubt it) exacerbates her doubts. he has his own events going on and genuinely does seem to want to be close to sua (graduation message + human relationship rating) but interacts in a way that makes her feel threatened. (in addition "he keeps crossing the line" in the relationship chart)
to the outside viewer its interesting to note sua often pulls mizi away from people. she pulls mizi away from ivan, and pulls mizi's attention from till to her in a short act of jealousy.
#oh#i tried to act more formal so now my sentence phrasing is all clunky. i think ill go back to. these types of non sentences.#all subjective !!! take it with a grain of salt#its been a while since ive done a long form post so bear with meee#alnst#alien stage#alnst sua#alien stage sua#plips rambles#plips theories#plips essays#i know theres probably a massive dtail im missing#gah
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Acts 2:23: "This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge [...]"
The Arcane is waking up.
#arcane#jayce talis#jayce arcane#viktor arcane#jayvik#doomed yaoi fr omg#everything could happen i don't have a fixed interpretation or theory#but#butterfly -> chrysalis...#what if#they were both meant to give birth to the final form of the arcane just like judas' betrayal was an important step in the divine plan#what if it was meant to be; what if it was always written that way i'm sick#arcane spoilers#arcane season 2#my edits#gif
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wanna preface this by saying that i am. So normal. anyway i just spent the last week redrawing scenes from mystery skulls animated but as that hermitcraft au i posted about a couple times. you guys should watch msa it is. so so good.
#my art#hermitcraft#mystery skulls animated#geminitay#geminitay fanart#ethoslab#ethoslab fanart#falsesymmetry#falsesymmetry fanart#ignore the fact that etho's hair changes literally every drawing#poses + expressions are traced a bit; and backgrounds aren't mine(well; except for the second one; which you can prolly tell;; sksnsks)#and also (with the help of sap bc i'm bad at color theory) edited the truck bg colors a bit#but even so;; i am!! very very happy with how these turned out#mystery skulls animated spoilers#<- honestly that's mainly for the murder mystery one#granted anyone who hasn't seen the future at this point prolly won't have that tag filtered#etho's murder mystery form(no i don't have a name for it)'s collar tag is a mix between a mable leaf and a vex!#cuz reverb is cub in this au#hence all the blue and stuff;; skdhkdnkd#you'd think that last pic would have been the hardest for me to draw; with how complicated etho's design is#but surprisingly; it doesn't even place top three in terms of how long it took to draw#no; instead it was that Fucking. Truck.#WHY did that take me eight and a half hours#the second longest was only five!!!#the others barely even top 4!#also#WHY are the deadbeats(which are mini tillies here) so deceptively hard to draw#every time i struggle with them orz#anyway. images 3; 6; 7; and 8 are my favs <3#if false and/or pearl see this. o/ hoi
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it's so amusing that when you're an author who is like any minority, you have this caveat where if your book gets banned, you kinda have to mentally acknowledge whether it was banned by Bruce, the one really bigoted guy who wastes everyone's time in florida. idk how bruce is doing. you don't need to learn who he is really which is why im not using his surname. but if you have a book out commercially, bruce has probably written "damaged souls" on a form about you. so there's a street cred element to all this like did people really have a vendetta against your work...? or was it just bruce again
#i am mildly certain i have received two different bruce attacks towards different florida counties#but i can only find one of his beautiful forms where he writes that the book has critical race theory even though it's about skeletons#he also made a really amusing video where he reads lines of my book out loud derisively and i would just love to post it but#alas i don't want to give him the satisfaction..#not all of my bans were bruce there were issues in virginia and idaho and kentucky but still#also please let this serve as a reminder that many horrible things are caused by evil people just being really loud and determined
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weaponry in the locked tomb is so interesting because when you break it down it's like:
guns exist in-universe but are used by the freedom fighter terrorist organization almost exclusively
swords are (were?) commonplace enough that gideon was able to find and train with a decently well-balanced two-hander on the ninth, despite the fact that the ninth has no military force or even interplanetary traffic. gideon's sword is at least 20 years old, probably older
swords are definitely still in use within the empire, at least by cavaliers, but likely within the cohort as a whole. to my memory there are no mentions of cohort members carrying military-issue guns
even though they're trained in a variety of weapons and techniques, cavaliers (are supposed to) carry exclusively rapiers. gideon prefers her two-hander and cam carries twin shortswords, but these seem to be rare and shocking exceptions to the standard.
rapiers are used by cavaliers explicitly for the purpose of lyctorhood. they're light enough that a scrawny necromancer without swordfighting experience can pick it up and rely on their cav's training without needing to build the muscle to wield the sword effectively
because of the secretive nature of the megatheorem, and lyctorhood as a whole, most people just follow the rapier rule because it's tradition. it is what is done. harrow makes this pretty clear at the beginning of gtn
cavaliers can carry a variety of offhand weapons. it seems like the full spectrum of middle age weaponry is possible - but still, no guns. not even secretly, as with cam's dual blades. some cavs choose to carry material for their necromancers as their offhand - ortus carries a bowl of bones for harrow, and i can only assume "the powder" mentioned as harrow's choice for gideon's offhand towards the beginning of gtn is some kind of bone dust
from a doylist perspective, all of this creates a aesthetic that starts very analog and gothic and gradually grows into a more standard sci-fi space opera through the series. by ntn, we've hit most of the established genre weaponry tropes that we've come to expect from older futuristic space media like star wars and alien. blasters and guns are standard fare, and it makes sense to hold off on introducing them until the scope of the story gets broader and more interplanetary
from a watsonian perspective, it's a little more difficult to draw concrete conclusions without the context that atn will inevitably provide. but if i had to hedge a guess, i'd say that, as with most things, It's All John Gaius's Fault. when he resurrected the galaxy i'd assume that he wanted to keep the aesthetics of medieval imperialism, and given his 21st century liberalism probably didn't want guns to be part of the equation. but they were anyways - we know this because wake carries a big one - and instead of standardizing firearms within his military and for his lyctors, he clings to the aesthetics of swordplay. please correct me if i'm remembering it wrong, but to my knowledge every gun shown in the series is either directly linked to boe or implied to be sourced from them. jod dooms his own lyctors and military by refusing to update their weaponry.
all of this poses a lot of questions about atn: who will carry a gun, and why? where did the gun come from? why DON'T the lyctors just use firearms? and most importantly: will they be fighting zombies with swords???
#long post#SORRY#if this theory seems half-baked that's because it is#i see all of the stars but i struggle to form a constellation from them#the locked tomb#tlt#gtn#gideon the ninth#htn#harrow the ninth#ntn#nona the ninth#alecto the ninth#atn#tlt spoilers#alecto theories#alectopause#tlt meta#nat og
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My personal take on the Abundance Yanqing theory.
#honkai star rail#hsr#hsr fanart#abundance!yanqing theory#my art#yanqing#yanqing hsr#yaoshi hsr#yes yaoshi is a deadbeat#inspo was the tartary lamb just ignore the stalk protruding from the back instead of the belly#i was struggling#in my head he's sort of like a fruit of the arbor thats taken on a human form#mb yaoshi created him personally im not sure#also no ones pointed out yet that theres flocks of golden swallows in the roots of the arbor? right before fighting phantylia?#is it just me thats noticed that? cause it seems like quite the mighty big coincidence just saying#yanqing and luocha being the only xianzhou characters with blonde hair has me in a chokehold as well#like it has to mean smth right??#also jing yuan knows and hasnt told anyone#because his love for his son outweighs his duties as a general#thats my based take of the day#thank you
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The One You Shouldn't Have Killed
I love the idea of Michael being the vengeful spirit. I'm unsure about it being canon but I wish it were.
EDIT: there's now an image description in alt
also wanted to put one of my tags here since I know they can be lost;
I imagine he sees ucn as punishment for himself as well which is why he's in foxybro form, as a reminder to his biggest mistake.
#i imagine he sees ucn as punishment for himself as well which is why he's in foxybro form. as a reminder to his biggest mistake#honestly i could argue that mike could be both old man consequences and the vengeful spirit#i could talk about how much i love the theory for ages#even if i don't really expect it to be canon#fnaf#michael afton#five nights at freddy's#the vengeful spirit#ultimate custom night#fnaf fanart#my art#cw gore#cw blood
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A few days ago I woke up bleary eyed, sat down at my computer, and spat this out.
Mostly just a bit of goofy sketching but here's magical boy (magical man?) submas
I'm not gonna flesh this out a whole bunch since there's not much I can really do with it, but some rough notes:
Both of them have two soul stones, one in the hat and one in the staff. In their base uniform, the staff's stone is on the back of their gloves, separating when activated
They're only able to activate their abilities when they're with each other. Though they can both separately fight and return to normal, they need each other to begin the reaction and use their powers. Should one of them go missing, the other will not be able to use their abilities
The stone can be removed from the staff, returning to the hand if it is. The purpose of doing this is to replace it with a pokeball, allowing the staff to channel the pokemon's moves along with its standard attacks (electricity for Emmet, fire for Ingo)
Ingo and Emmet can trade (or steal) clothes mid transformation, switching pieces or entire uniforms. Emmet will typically borrow Ingo's darker gloves and boots if he expects to get particularly violent in battle, while Ingo usually takes Emmet's white accessories since he finds them more classy than his full black uniform
They are able to float in their magical forms, mostly using the levitation to run loops around their opponents and pressure them from all sides
The only opponent is literally Team Plasma, this power is reserved solely for beating grunts, sages, or Ghetsis should they ever cross paths (technically the code is to defend the world from evil but for any other issue they'll either settle it normally or with pokemon battling)
This was mostly for shits and giggles but I hope you enjoy 👍
#submas#submas au#au#ingo#subway master ingo#ingo pokemon#nobori#emmet#subway master emmet#emmet pokemon#kudari#magical boy#mahou shounen#just between you and me‚ after a certain amount of time/stress‚ the stones will eventually lose sense of the other set and operate alone#in theory Warden Ingo could reactivate them by accident traversing the wilds of Hisui#and Emmet could reactivate them when Team Plasma resurfaces#By that point it's likely that their forms would've warped and shifted‚ no longer a set but two separate entities trying to operate alone#Perhaps I'll sketch that idea‚ it'd be funny to see Emmet's grief and rage turn his uniform into something foul#while Ingo's faint memories and new experiences leave him with a clean slate and a fresh uniform
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In reference to the theory I’ve seen going around that Ruby is secretly part of The Pantheon
The Toymaker= the living personification of games
The Maestro= the living personification of music
Both of them have the ability to warp reality specifically they often warp it to fit the rules of their respective concepts. The Toymaker makes the world run on the rules of a game, The Maestro makes the world run like a musical. And reality continues to warp around Ruby BUT it does so in very specific ways…
The space station adheres to the rules of a children’s story, the rules of time travel change to incorporate the butterfly effect based on stories she knows and coincidences or connections continue to pop up around her and the plot of a story is often built on connections, often coincidences that turn out to be anything but. So…
Ruby Sunday= the living personification of stories
What do we think, tumblr?
#also there’s a pattern forming here#they’re all goods of childish things#???#who would create a pantheon of childish things#very interested to see where they came from#doctor who#dr who#dw#dw spoilers#dw theory#dw headcanon#whovian#ruby sunday#the toymaker#the maestro#the pantheon
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the thing about padme’s deleted “mother of the rebellion” rots scenes is this is a once-14yo girl who said “i was not elected to watch my people suffer and die while you discuss this invasion in a committee” now a 27yo woman who grew into one of those helpless senators, spending her final days trying to stop a war via committee before watching her husband cause untold suffering and death. like id lose the will to live too damn
#i don’t talk about padme’s politics a lot considering i am user padmestrilogy#idk im muddy on her pacifist/defeatist/demsoc ways#i think it’s more useful to talk about how tightly controlled her life is when looking at her political choices then try and#form a coherant padme political theory book#similar to how anakin has the wierd politics he does bc he of his surrogate father figure in palps#not bc he woke up one day thinking ‘fascism rox’. yk?….#(considering how muddy lucas’ own ideology was i think this is the sane approach )#padme amidala#star wars
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