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#the five-in-snuff are SUCH an interesting bunch of one-off gods#bc of rev toes and chainsaw woman obviously but also bc of how they sooooo blatantly reflect some of tsv's core themes#they refuse to cover up the true source of power in tsv – the suffering of sacrifices – in words or depth or meaning#no. they worship the raw reality of pain. they worship not the altar but the flesh and the blade that pierces it#and that is why they are banned!!! they strip back the carefully-woven wool that has been laid across the great many worshippers' eyes#they reveal the reality of the thing. they very very nearly understand#and also. they are govt officials! they are the upper class!#of COURSE they make a sport of sacrifice. of COURSE this is a summer retreat to them.#how many of these officials offer up sacrifices to other gods but praise the five-in-snuff in secret.#how many of tsv's executioners find satisfaction in the act rather than in their prize#it makes sense. it all makes sense. it all wraps together. don't you see#the raw unfiltered sadism is what connects all these people in power. is it such a surprise that the powerful worship sadism itself?#tsv#the silt verses
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For as long as he was able, Ubuyashiki Kagaya was visiting ailing Corp members.
There he is visiting comatose Tanjirou, though Kagaya himself was very recently busy doing stuff like this:
He presumably also visited comatose Inosuke, who only woke up seven days before Tanjirou did.
According to the Gotou and Sumi report, Zenitsu woke up the day after the battle, and returned to going on missions two days before Tanjirou woke up.
Ergo, it stands to reason that Zenitsu got a chance to meet Kagaya and wakefully enjoy the soothing sound of Kagaya's voice, and that Kagaya in all likelihood praised him for his accomplishments.
#ubuyashiki kagaya#agatsuma zenitsu#i can imagine it going exactly like after Zenitsu protected Nezuko's box and Tanjirou was thanking him but then said he was strong#Zenitsu being all happy like#'well yyyyeahhhh I did stand up to an Upper Moon (what? she wasn't?) but I had to because a girl was crying'#'defeated an Upper Moon? nope wrong guy'#but since it's Kagaya he might play along like#'oh was it some other guy who can do Godspeed? maybe somebody named Shoichi?'#and then coax him into facing the reality that he's probably known deep down inside all along#which maybe leads Zenitsu on a path of character development we didn't get to see
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all the yt film snobs were kinda right about saltburn being a tumblr movie since apparently everyone on all other platforms thinks it's an "eat the rich" movie?? like girl did we watch the same movie
#“upper middle class eating the upper class” is not a satisfying movie premise why would you think that's what it is#like it's not perfect but the imperfections are gonna be blinding when you try to see it as something it so clearly isn't#how the fuck did so many people miss the point so hard like the message isn't even that hidden#(just for clarification- i believe one of the messages/themes of the movie is about sore losers who invent a new narrative that portrays#themselves as the winner. that makes it seem like they're some sort of mastermind when in reality they're a sad freak who are willing to do#everything to become one with the elite- to achieve the unachievable)#someone on here posted once that in the UK the gap between the upper class and the middle class is even bigger and harder to close which de#adds to the longing to be a part of the Cattons#saltburn#saltburn 2023
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fleshing out my Relativity Au some more, i fujking love these guys, they're so-
part 1/ part 2
#v's art#gravity falls#relativity falls#dipper pines#older dipper pines#mabel pines#older mabel pines#gravity falls fanart#they're in their upper 40's#we'll say they have an older sibling who gave birth to the stan's mother#bc twin genetics are passed down through the women :)#source: my family + my twin uncles on my mom's side of the family#dipper wasn't necessarily acting on as much hubris as ford#more genuine curiosity#and his reaction to getting reality shifted was “damn that's crazy”#“let me go get an adult to handle this”#cue the montage of him studying interdimensional law bc he has to represent himself in space/time court#smashcut with a montage of mabel commiting every conceivable OSHA violation possible while setting up the shack#she leans into the medium side of the business#copying what Caryn did on the phone when they were younger#but falls in love with the theatrics of it all#its not really a secret that its all fake#but her enthusiasm really sells it#its a different vibe from the stan twins bc dipper is just clever not genius level (and mabel is also smart just differently)#they're not competing as much bc gender difference (its more jealousy)((they swap later))#and theyre both fundamentally devious little shits who love a good scheme#so when dip gets home and he sees his sister for the first time running a scam wearing his name he goes “bet” and steals her's right back#there's no “leave these kids alone” its “oh thank goodness tag you're it bitch”#they fall back into step like they never left each other
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if we assume that each of the three pillars comes exactly three times for a total of nine times, and we know that the 7th time it was the 40-year guardian, and if we assume that was her final visit and the last two visits will be split between the 30-year guardian and the 8-year guardian, we can calculate how long ago the miharu family made that deal: (40x3)+(30x2)+(8x2)=196 years. 196 years ago it was 1828, but i think this is supposed to be set in the 1980s or 90s, so call it the late 1700s. that's the kind of thing matoba as the head of the matoba clan has to concern himself with - deals with youkai made by people 200 years ago from families that don't even exist anymore. it's an interesting contrast to the thing he says to natsume at the end of this arc, about the 9th visit, which is 30 years away, being someone else's problem. he's embroiled in the past but doesn't even think he'll get to have a future.
#however i don't think we can assume either 1) that each of the 3 pillars comes exactly 3 times#or 2) that the 7th visit was the 40-year guardian's final visit#based on the end of the arc when natsume asks who will come for the final visit and specifically asks if it will be#the 40-year guardian again. and matoba is just like idk not my problem#if they each come 3x then he should be able to predict which it will be for the 9th visit by process of elimination#(unless the miharu records are missing or something)#and if the 40-year guardian has already done all her tours then matoba should at least be able to say it won't be her. and he doesn't#but i still think 196 is a reasonable ballpark just because we know there have been 7 out of 9 visits#and they're splitting it between them in some way even if not perfectly equally#natsume's book of friends#natsume yuujinchou#matoba seiji#natsuyuu meta#miharu loquats arc#my posts#i think the only assumption we can safely make is that it's never the same guardian two times in a row#i guess the lower bound would be if the 8-year guardian and the 30-year guardian took turns for the first 6 visits#that would be (8x3)+(30x3)+40=154 years#and the upper bound would be if the 40-year guardian started and then switched off with the 30-year guardian up to visit 7#that would be (40x4)+(30x3)=250 years#both of which seem highly unlikely. so the reality has to be between those two extremes and 196 seems pretty reasonable#and in any case even if it was only 154 years ago...that's still a really long time ago
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finally got around making a proper outfit reference sheet for nathan! he likes wearing dark clothes which really emphasizes just how pale he is. he was a STEM developer at MOBIUS for nine years what did you expect </3 click for higher resolution and to get a closer look at all the details! outfits from left to right: his gear for the evil within 2, 1am convenience store trip, his mobius gear, and an improvised outfit for my own fictional the evil within 3 =^)
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#tew#art#art:nathan#nuclearocs#nuclearart#the mobius gear killed me dead on the ground because the official concept art has a ridiculous collar / shoulder pads situation going on#i love his tew2 outfit so much he's had it for so many years now. it basically matches sebastian's outfit since they're going in together#he's got white hair patches all over his body btw!! you can see it in the underwear version it's in his happy trail too heehee#the burn scar on his upper arm / shoulder is from the fight with the harbinger in tew2 and the slash on his waist from the guardian#he basically saved sebastian's life but got mowed down by the giant buzzsaw arm in the process and then he's very dramatic about it#my tew3 is very difficult to explain in tags but it's basically about ruvik coming back and they need to hook the two old devices up#to like a single system to gain access to the STEM environment he's powered back on with himself as core#which means that the two separate environments from the games get mixed together in a very twisted and fragmented environment#i'm trying to write out the story for myself now in video game style so it would actually be fun to play as hypothetical third installment#it'd feature a lot of old enemies but kind of mixed and twisted in the same way as the environment... giving them new abilities etc#it would dive deeper into the sublevels aspect of STEM as they need to travel through different sublevels so there would be#a bunch of new environments to explore as well :^) someone give me access to a bunch of game devs and a budget i'll make it reality
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the most true to life element of hotd is that fact that it’s taking being tormented by a local witch for an overly privileged man to even begin to consider that he may have been the problem all along
#‘viserys was afraid of me!’ no my guy viserys knew you had the restraint of a poorly trained chihuahua on uppers#and the viciousness of one too#and he acted accordingly#the riverlords giving daemon a reality check was 💯💯💯#daemon targaryen#alys rivers#house of the dragon#hotd spoilers
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I could see myself serving him on bended knees, the tea tray wobbling in my hands, and I could see him reaching for the whip. Now the servants were talking about him. He was a man like a woman. He knew he was beautiful and behaved accordingly; he would change his coquettish attire four or five times a day, like a vain courtesan. In Paris he had appeared first in women's garb, and the men had stormed him with love letters. An Italian singer, famour equally for both his art and his passion, invaded the Greek's apartment, knelt down, and threatened to take his own life is his plea was not granted. 'I am sorry,' the Greek had responded with a smile. 'It would be my pleasure to fulfill your request, but you have no other choice than to carry out your death sentence, for I am—a man.'
from Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
#venus in furs#leopold von sacher masoch#literature#quotes#severin's gay awakening does make me week in the knees every single time#adding Venus in Furs to my queer literature recommendation list#and the upper class fantasies of servitude completely divorced from the mundane reality of servants... really makes you think and whatnot
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hirokawa's homicidal human-hating tendencies isn't because he's mentally ill or crazy, it's because he was born rich and died rich
#if not actually rich then definitely upper middle class enough that he's barely attached to average people reality#I mean he is mentally ill but that's beside the point#the only thing that kept him in check was the fact he loved nature#sadly he doesn't love nature more than he hates humans lol
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My favourite thing about Arthur's terriers is this. Arthur is a manly man. He's tall, he's handsome, he's upper-class, he looks like Thor. You might expect him to be associated with gundogs, foxhounds or springer spaniels: hunting dogs suitable for a nobleman's hobbies.
But Arthur's dogs are not particularly large or noble. Instead, they're cute, yappy little terriers. And they help to save the day.
#dracula daily#in reality the british upper-classes have been associated with a wide variety of dogs#many of them small and yappy#but you know if this story was being written by Richard Marsh then Arthur would have a mastiff or an Alsatian or something
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Atonement AU? Are you trying to kill us? Please tell me more!
Yes I’m taking you all with me!
Ok it only exists as an outline and it’s definitely a loose AU. But I’m imagining something very sweeping and historical and angsty. Paul as the wealthy Kiera Knightly character and John as the servent. And Mike (younger in this AU) sees something in the library and misinterprets it. The set up would be similar but from there it would be pretty different, with Paul eventually joining the army to try to find John. I’m also leaning toward a happy ending with lots of angst in between. Thinking of setting it in WW1 instead of 2 but not sure.
#it’s basically my chance to indulge#all my need for angsty historical queer romance#and class differences#I know in reality john was the more upper class of the two#but the vibes feel right for this set up#thanks for the ask!#wip title game
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the character who i have a commander au of is pretty solidly a he/him transmasc but i love the notion of him as the commander just being kind of Whatever gender. NPCs all use they/them for the comm and there's now i guess the element of the commander/wayfinder having different titles and nouns in different situations, so i love the idea of the comm pulling a page from jormag's book and just being like "my gender/title/pronouns are whatever You feel is most convenient or funniest at the moment". it helps keep them more anonymous anyway so its kind of a win/win
#my stuff#also after youve died and almost died numerous times and sort of spiritually-magically been bound to a psuedo eldritch entity#does it matter ?#i like viewing JW commander as being kind of like. hitting an upper limit of how detached from reality they are#yeah sure ill attend your meeting and i dont care what (pro)nouns you use for me and ill drink stagnant water and uh find some bears#its whatever its literally whatever at this point. anything may as well happen to the commander
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I think I wanna go around and find the prettiest jumps that i can for my next compilation
#i have a ton of very hard jumps that i've collected since the year started but the problem with them is that they're not#very visually interesting#also there are some jumps that are extremely difficult and im proud of myself for doing them#but the reason WHY they're difficult is because they're extremely precise or you have to go extremely high#but you wouldn't know if they're cool or not unless you have knowledge of the jump already#to the untrained eye its just 'ah yes a simple wallshot' when in reality its breaching the upper limits of whats physically possible#my recent sync compilation was full of stuff i worked really hard on but again its like 'oh its just a triple-'#same with stuff like texture bug and power bounces like do people even know whats goin on?? it looks like i just jumped off the floor#so instead i think imma go find some ooh pretty shiny hooplah and show some appreciation for maps that went above and beyond visually#I feel like people will appreciate that more anyways#also a lot of high t6 stuff is like dev textures lmao
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i just know because of the shitty middle aged woman demographic Amanda Abbington is going to do well on strictly come dancing, but i really hope however well she does Layton Williams does better so young LGBTQ+ people can see that they’re allowed to turn up, to take up space to be present and seen. We’re allowed to win because fuck hate
#strictly come dancing#i don’t even watch the show#i’m just pissed that a terf is getting airtime on prime time television#Layton Williams#amanda abbington#fuck terfs#fuck amanda abbington#lgbtq rights#be seen#be proud#trans rights are human rights#i hope a gay black man wins#and all the upper class white women fucking hate it#bbc strictly come dancing#british tv#british reality tv#fuck hate#i will not stop going on about this until she’s out of the competition#stop giving hateful people airtime
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#reality#capitalism#capitalist#anti capitalism#socioeconomic conditions#socioeconomic#economy#economics#economic stability#charity#non profit#falsehood#real shit#true shit#in reality#top 1%#wealthy#wealth#support#america#united states#USA#united states of america#lower class#middle class#upper class#rich#eat the rich#in real life#no but seriously
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I am still angry with people who defend Maruki, because if a world known psychiatrist tweets about "Racism is bad, but minority should conform" or "The cure to male loneliness is finding them good girl", people would clown the shit out if him.
Like, did you know that Maruki fix "pick up artists" by giving them 100 women who is somehow suddenly willing to date weird sexist pricks? Phantom thieves would beat them up and tell them to not be jackass to women, but no, Maruki needs to "turn" women into obedient sex slaves for incels.
Like even if they consent, the pick up artists turn into a better boyfriend because of maruki's magic shenaningans, and there is no risk to this at all. It is still a horrifying shit to see.
If persona 5 is brave enough to have non jokey gay npc who struggles with his parents, I will assume the Maruki's way is to make his parents more accepting, but make him act "less gay more normal".
And Maruki's defender is still insisting that his reality is good and not horrifying! It still is even if well they are happy and willing. Especially when the reality is giving Andrew Tate wannabes 100 women who wants to date them
#persona 5#anti maruki#still angry at anyone who defend him#btw I find maruki's hot I don't hate his character but people need to learn that this man is middle upper class cishet men of ethnic majorit#he is like pro immigrant in a weirdly racist way (which is also canon)#like the fix of your manager being racist is not making their immigrant workers to conform to japanese standard#phanto thieves fix would be just beating up the manager to reform and stop being racist#also without the maruki is acshually problematic guys with his mediocre views in society#maruki's reality is supposed to be immortal in heaven is actually horrifying aesop
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