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[huntingrays]

what pokemon i think the lost trio would have (except i’m right)

leo:

- flareon. i love thinking about lost trio where they all had eevees when they were younger and so now they all have like bestie eeveelutions that match who they are

- gengar. mischievous boy w mischievous ghost

- genesect. this just makes sense yknow? inventor with invented/altered pokemon

- trapinch. i just know that if leo saw this pokemon, he would instantly love it. like its dumb but in a cute way. also later becomes big dragonfly dragon

- charmander. fire dragon. he’ll eventually have a charizard, they just aren’t there yet. his fire dragon is still just a little guy

- rotom. this just makes sense

piper:

- sylveon. lost trio owning eeveelutions agenda

- jigglypuff. it can put ppl to sleep w its voice, she can charm ppl with her voice

- ralts. charm speak girl with her psychic friend

- espurr. idk this just makes sense to me. i just feel like she would love this strange looking cat. a girl needs her weird ass cat

- munna. idk i feel like, after the dreams she’s had, she wouldn’t mind not having them anymore. ik she wouldn’t have these if she was a trainer in the pokemon world… but still

- alolan raichu. was lost with picking the last one. however, i think she deserves another cute pokemon as her final one

jason:

- jolteon. lost trio owing eeveelutions agenda

- arcanine. wolf boy w big doggo

- honedge. sword

- pidgeot. i feel like he has to have a bird bc yknow his dad and eagles. it makes sense. also he needs a flying type

- lucario. dog that fights

- mimikyu. if you don’t understand why jason (who feels like he isn’t perfect being who he is, that he has to be this perfect hero) would have a mimikyu (pokemon that pretends to be another one) then we can’t be friends. him and his mimikyu are besties

[ctrlzxoo]

ROUND 7: amongst a sea of green, is a glimpse of snow

Bonus: happy end(?)

[girderednerve]

this post is old but i saw it going around again & it's driving me nuts. this is an extremely bad historical summary? parts of it are outright wrong & the framing is nonsensical, multiple people have chimed in to add "more" information but no one seems to have taken issue with the content of the original post. anyway it's somewhat strange to say that the church 'began forbidding' christians from participating in moneylending (pawnshops are also moneylenders; banking didn't really exist in europe until the latter middle ages), because the text of the bible itself treats loans as a form of charity which should not bear interest between community members. there are a bunch of patristic commentaries to this effect, but there are also a bunch of rabbinic commentaries to this effect! because it was a moral rule for both groups of people, and indeed for muslims! however, to lend money at any sort of scale, you need to charge interest to cover for the risk that you won't be paid back, so there's friction between practical exigency & ethical doctrine. it turns out that there was a centuries-long moral crisis about the expansion of a market economy & the development of finance, which cannot be usefully boiled down to the idea that money was 'unclean' (extremely vague term; also, if the church simply thought that, why were there so many lavish churches & well-heeled priests?). it is broadly true that medieval european jews were excluded, often violently, from fully participating in christian society & that several engaged in moneylending, using the out-group loophole to lend at interest to gentiles. however, a bunch of christians just lent money anyway; actually, most moneylenders in medieval christendom were christians, and most jews did other work. the idea that jews were substantially engaged in early finance was first an antisemitic myth, propagated by christians who were trying to resolve the moral & practical conflict of moneylending by displacing it; then it was a philosemitic myth, recuperated by late nineteenth century scholars who saw in jewish moneylenders evidence of a unique jewish contribution to the development of europe. but it never reflected the daily lives of most medieval jews & we can do better than this, guys, come on

[jula483]

chicago, raleigh, washington DC, philadelphia

2024 was pretty fun I guess 🥺💖

[a-cha0tic-intr0v3rt]

GUYS I HAVE A THEORY

ok nvm so i saw this new twst character (base off of jack skellington from nightmare before christmas) and a few people have compared him to gojo from jjk so-

also ngl the new twst character is kinda hot 😳

apologies for the lack of activity— school has bren kicking my ass lately— i hate school so much yall

luckily i do have a week off in october so—

[trenchgardens-ooc-ooc-ooc-ooc]

your mommas lyin'... what's she tryin' to do...

[dooxliss]

Gari Gari, my good friend Gari. Can I please please get an H3 Mr. L? 👀

(send a mario character and an expression!)

hate this guy /j

[almostvermin]

here's my overly complicated shinonomes/hanasatos/tonos/hayakawas headcanons. btw.

[deus-ex-mona]

such is the tale of a ✨chronically online hypocrite✨

[kyorusns]

sometimes you just have to pretend it's 2013. tbh

[orange-coloredsky-archive]

hi im still here and freaking out about. far harbor. here's my weird 10-going-on-21 year old autistic synth extraordinaire being a catalyst for me infodumping faraday headcanons

tw for a mention of suicide & just. general institute dehumanizing bullshit

"No way you're that old." Shaun laughed halfheartedly, tried to keep his demeanor light. He bit his tongue to prevent himself from completing his thought -- Synths like you don't last that long. Records of decommissions and suicides took up more disk space in the Institute's archive of first-batch synths than anything else. Piles of evidence showing the mass production of self-aware beings was far from sustainable. But after years of hardware review and cognitive recalibration software tests, the gain-to-loss ratio evened out. Shaun recalled the single designation-B synth that was always pacing up and down the hall across from his and Father's dormitory. She was a good worker, Father had said. A sweet girl of fifty-four. Residence maintenance, the best of her crew. Her occasional bouts of hysterics were well worth her steady hands with the plumbing.

The breathy chuckle that came from Faraday was equally grim. "Not the first-first-batch, no. I was a couple years down the line. Maybe early '30s? I don't remember." He tapped a pen on his chin in thought.

"Designation K. Robotics handled me. I tended to work with gen-ones and twos -- stuck fixing busted hydraulics, usually. If I was really lucky, one would come in with a unique software error for me to pick apart." "Some of the human scientists liked to watch me work. You know, back then, we were novelties. But others probably wished I would just mop the floors or something instead."

Electricity thrummed in the background. Terminal upon terminal filled with Institute-proprietary materials: memory and horribly simplified emotional data from a machine older than any being on the whole island, barring Shaun's own mother. The makeshift archive was puny by Institute standards, but a goddamn miracle to anyone else in a 500-mile radius. Acadia's knack for technological innovation started to make sense. "They let you touch software? That was unheard of by my time. I'd get my ass handed to me any time I touched a computer."

"Well, there wasn't much choice back then. The Institute wasn't particularly well staffed. All of the founders were long dead, as were most of their children. Their grandchildren were running out of... options, when it came to reproducing a replacement workforce."

Shaun listened raptly as Faraday spoke, pleasantly surprised by how easily this information was given. His parents had made it sound like all Acadians were some unsolvable enigma -- as guarded against outsiders as their neighbors at the Harbor. Yet here he sat in the private room of one of the colony's three figureheads; and the man was perfectly content to reminisce to a stranger.

To a child. Shaun saw his appearance in the faint reflection the observatory window offered. He took this opportunity to push further while he still could.

"So then you left. Why?"

A despondent exhale. "Why did any of us leave?"

[myrxellabaratheon]

Because of reasons (plot reasons, plot reasons being Griffith *), I’m watching Berserk for the first time — anime number 2 for me after Death Note and extremely likely last one I’ll ever watch — and I’m flabbergasted by the music choices. Like I don’t know if it’s a thing of the Italian dubbing (they used to also change musics back in the day and sadly prime video doesn’t have it in English) BUT how comes that every time Griffith and Guts share the screen there’s a romantic background music?! I KNOW HOW IT ENDS, I REALLY DON’T NEED TO SHIP THEM AND THEREFORE HAVE ANOTHER REASON TO SUFFER!

* don’t worry, I know how it ends for him, still I consider him *plot* and nothing he’ll do will convince me otherwise

** when i say that i know how it ends I mean the flashback parts of the story not the entire thing, of course

[justablah56]

currently thinking abt Glenn singing Stolas' lullaby to Nick,.,.. no I am not okay, nor will I ever be ok abt Glenn close ,.,.,.

[chemos-factories]

I personally don’t really consider primarch/primarch incest (I think of it as a combination of Would You Fuck Your Clone + Greek Mythology Bullshit) but even if I did, who cares. Ferrus blew up a planet. I think blowing his brother’s back out is small potatoes in comparison

[godblooded]

the first thing people always notice about alana is her eyes.

[sourcetalkrambles]

Consuming a newer piece of canon source material that you don't relate to at ALL is so funny like. just that visceral reaction of That Is Not Correct