#well. but maybe not. maybe even then they wouldnt be

[weirdmageddon]

the original post i want everyone to see is way out of my hands now, so i’ll repost this again here as new but separate post. it touches on things i want to go into more depth about.

@wasabikitcat gets this idea. this reply—thank you so much for not just understanding what i was going for, but putting my exact thoughts into cleaner words on the bad reading comprehension site.

i can't believe how misunderstood my point was about “spirituality” (i didn’t know it was that much of a loaded phrase!), but thank you for putting what i meant into more nuanced terms.

it's something that can be hard for me to put into words, and maybe i gave people the wrong impression by using the word "spirituality", since words mean different things to different people. i just haven't seen people discussing it so i wasn't sure how to really put it. but regardless of terminology, this reply is exactly what i'm getting at. and this is coming from someone who has a very scientific mind. i wouldnt even consider myself a traditionally “spiritual” person in the normal connotation of the word.

edit: this one as well!

i see this as a cultural/political factor that we shouldn’t ignore, because this sense of meaning has driven people's motivations since the beginning of human civilization.

there's a primal aspect that hasn't really left us but there seems to be no room for it in our modern culture because half of these “guides” seem to be driven by “i cant wait for civilization to collapse so MY ideology can rise from the ashes" and the other half of it seems to be driven by greed. and often they are hand in hand.

i would really like to see actual enlightening ideas stemming from buddhist thought, analytical psychology, collective unconscious, and archetypes to take off in the public consciousness. (completely divorced from jordan peterson. just the original jungian stuff)

i am especially supportive towards getting people interested in carl jung's works. his idea was to get people to understand, "what myth am i living?" based on the same archetypes and symbols that recur time and time again throughout human history that we can all collectively recognize regardless of culture. so it's a sense of meaning based in the self. i don't want people being sent down reactionary paths when looking for meaning in their lives.

i think it would benefit people to who feel lost especially in uncertain/unprecedented times like, with those “there's got to be more to this, something deeper,” insinct. i see that people are looking for this but get taken advantage of or manipulated.

but on this deeper sense of meaning in life thing, the Left isn't doing a great job at providing an option for “lost” people looking for meaning that the Right seems to be having no trouble with. i wonder if this is why we've seen so many of these lost young men flock to reactionary commentators?

this reminds me of an excellent point contrapoints made in her video about jordan peterson, saying,

“The last thing I like is that you talk about deep shit. I was watching a video where you and a couple of zany goons were talking about Plato and Aristotle and the meaning of life. And I thought, ‘Huh… on the Left, we don’t really talk about that kind of thing. All we talk about is how society oppresses people.’ And that might not be enough. Because people need to have a positive purpose in life. I mean, personally, I don’t give a shit. I’m pretty happy to sit here watching the same three seasons of Strangers with Candy until I die. But other people, like Dostoevsky, Camus, other white guys who talk about lobsters…they have this need to have purpose in the face of suffering, and like, not just complain about patriarchy. I guess it’s easier to not complain about patriarchy when patriarchy isn’t the thing that’s making you suffer. But I do think that an education that only teaches people about oppression is inadequate. We spend four years teaching undergraduates why capitalism is bad, and then we say, ‘Well, you’re educated now. Good luck getting a job under capitalism, bye!’ …And that really kind of sucks! But you know, I think that’s a point that can probably be made without comparing transgender activism to Stalin.”

speaking of her, this is a related post i wrote earlier on young men being radicalized and how to approach communication

and by the way, if you are interested in learning jungian psychology and want to see what it’s about, here are some resources to get you started:

i think the jung subreddit has a great collection of resources on its about page.

i highly recommend Demystifying Jungian Psychology to start. it’s meant for beginners. it is available in english and spanish. you can currently find the book in the comments section here. since sometimes these links lead to a 404, i don’t want to link directly to the google drive page. i want you to have a link to the original thread in case it gets broken.

[aroninshonour]

With the addition of drs2pt2 out now I wanna add to this, or change it up a little (slight spoilers for drs2pt2 ahead btw)

We all know that Ras basically kicked his ass out after losing and what not, so, I wonder.

I wouldn't imagine he go back to the administration, probably wouldnt end well anyways

So maybe rather than him being forced to go with the ninja due to a mission with the agency, maybe he just. Maybe he goes willingly.

Hear me out.

Yes. He knows that these are the people who he had to fight in the tournament, the ones who told him that they knew him.

And now here they are, in the middle of no where, and they are asking, no practically begging him, to go with them.

"Please Jay. I know you don't know us but you're wandering around in the middle of no where. Limited recourses. So please. Come with us."

And he sits and weighs his options.

"...Okay."

Im sure it wouldn't actually be that easy, and a lot would probably happen before it even gets to this point. Maybe a fight? Who knows.

But I imagine he'd feel...some kind of connection with them. something alluring him in. Something that's telling him, "Its okay. You're safe here. They won't hurt you."

Of course, he'd still start in distrust. After everything, it's gonna take a bit for him to trust anyone.

But eventually, he'd warm up into it. Probably fall in love with Nya all over again while he's at it

That's abt all I got lmao

He'd still have found his family again, just in a different way than what I was initially saying :)

...

Maybe I should write this -

Was talking abt this on discord and wanted to share here as well

I genuinely don't want Jay to get his memories back.

I want him to slowly rebuild his trust with the others, rekindle relationships, rekindle what he had with Nya, hear the stories of the past battles and wars and stupid nights he can't recall even a little bit, I want him to feel as if he's discovering everything again for the first time and in a way he would be.

And most importantly I want him to feel like he's found home, family, and friends...just one more time.

Forgetting about the battle no one actually remembers anymore that did such a number on him yet he can still feel the things it left behind, he can feel it in the scars that coexist on his body. He wonders where they came from...but at the same time, to him at least, it doesn't matter.

Because he found his family again. He's home.

But before he can feel any of that he absolutely HAS to start with distrust. His misplaced trust in his former allies. And the ONLY reason he had gone with them was for the sake of his mission as an agent, because if he didn't then he wouldn't be able to complete it. I want him to not have a choice in going with them and I want him to do his best to keep distance but in the end fails and realizes he wasn't meant for the administration, he never was. He was meant to be here. At the monestery. On the bounty. With his family.

[the-s1lly-corner]

Are requests open? If they are can I please request Slenderman, Ticci Toby, and Laughing Jack x reader who has powers like shinichi from parasyte? They don't have a parasite but they just have similar powers you know?

Slenderman, Toby, and LJ x reader who has shinichis powers

God I need to rewatch parasyte I remember eating that shit up

Notes: reader is gn, they have shinichis (parasyte) powers but they don't have a parasite, short post

CWs: canon typical violence and gore, death, body horror

SLENDERMAN

hes doesnt seem all that phased about your abilities- hes not very horrified... he is a little curious to see how far you can take it though, and how it works exactly. you seem to move around wildly when you work your powers but in reality each move is heavily calculated down to every motion

there isnt much need for you to fight back against any threats as long as youre around, but being able to slice someone open in the blink of an eye while being at least a few yards away makes things a lot easier

youre also... incredibly strong and fast... generally you interest him because- well who wouldnt be?

your limbs and his tendrils sometimes tangle around each other when you embrace one another

TICCI TOBY

he thinks its gnarly, but like. in a cool way, he thinks you look cool when you split yourself apart to slice someone up- on top of that youre lightning fast, which is even cooler in his opinion!

its not as messy as one would expect when you kill someone, of course theres still blood but usually youre able to strike them down before they can put up much of a fight... it makes things very handy and it gives the two of you some extra time together!

sometimes takes your face in his hands to get a closer look at the gore inside.... is it really gore if youre not bleeding, though? i mean it doesnt look right- its raw red, but...

genuine fascination here!

LAUGHING JACK

similar to toby he thinks its gnarly, but he also thinks its funny. not that youre funny, no, he thinks seeing the horror on others faces when you split your body apart and make a move for them is really funny- its a little fucked up but hes always been... a little fucked up, at least for as long as youve known them

you sometimes flash your blades at him, maybe even cracking your head open to try to freak him out but he only laughs at the attempt... can you do that again? how do you do that? he wants to know!

you both utilize your abilities to stretch your limbs to reach for the other to bring the other towards you- you both have to be careful though. hes got claws and youve got giant blades popping out of.. everywhere...

[venomgender]

i think instead of having to deal with an apocalypse timeloop they should just raise a child together

[boygirlctommy]

i love the bit from oct 17 2020 when tommy and quackity trapped wilbur in a cobblestone box to keep him from pressing the button... wilbur punching through the blocks with his bare hand to try to get to the button... tommy frantically replacing the block in front of him yelling for quackity to do something... the moment when tommy stops, blocks the exit, and tells wilbur to do it. press the button. but then theyd die with him. quackitys like "wait, wait-" but tommy holds his ground and wilbur. ohh wilbur. "why'd you have to make it so hard?"

[slow-reader-reads-books]

I find the most interesting difference between Shen Jiu and Shen Yuan isn't "malice" and "kindness" but rather Shen Jiu being a desperate-to-survive sore loser and Shen Yuan being an uncompetitive good sport, and it's interesting to see how their differences kind of flow from those two opposing traits

Both are desperate to survive in their own ways, however I guess you could argue Shen Jiu did everything to secure the life he wanted, meanwhile Shen Yuan idled and idled until fire was put under his ass and he finally had to do something to secure better living standards for himself

You could argue Shen Jiu has a stronger will to survive, but even being alive he didn't seem to enjoy it and be happy all that much. Meanwhile Shen Yuan strives for very little but generally is happy with the bare necessities and choosing to just loudly inflate his complaints about little things instead, which probably endears him to the people around him

[robotsafari]

i had a dream where something was off with riku’s shadow…

(this art is so sucks i made this when i was tired and less experienced which ended up making riku look so much skinnier than how i normally draw him post-kh2 can you stop engaging it with pretty pweeease)

[socksandbuttons]

I learned that Dark Sun isn’t a part of the Bean Eclipse Au…..but that made me wonder how the others would’ve reacted when Eclipse got broken by Dark Sun?

Like the weird malfunction chip thing. (I don’t know how to explain it sorry. :[)

Well consisdering this au was WAYYY before eclipse v3/4 came by. (I know what you meant by the chip thing) I dont know how we'd get there. But heres to thinking of the hypothetical scenerio

Solar Flare would notice first. And by notice first I mean, after Eclipse is deliberately hiding it. (He still struggles to let people know when somethings wrong.) Confronted I do think Eclipse would let Solar Flare help find what it is. Without much luck- Eclipse getting more sluggish and struggling to move about gets more obvious. KC having to find out that way instead of being told (Something Solar Flare told Eclipse NOT to do-), pisses him off but that's not something he wants to focus on. Just asking Eclipse what happened- And hearing about a Dark Sun? KC's furious on Eclipse messing with the portal but determined to get Moon AND Monty to check his systems. They don't find anything at first. Considering they don't know what it is they're suppose to look for (what's out of place- But as we see in the episode it might not be what's added thats off but whats transmitting instead)

The slower and more ragged he gets, all the coughing is just distressing everyone. All except Bloodmoon. Who hasn't let up on his own bullying. Lunar even tries to ignore it but its hard to ignore that when you see him all the time. Opting to get between Bloodmoon and Eclipse more. KC being a stressed parent with a sick kid, is trying to find this Dark Sun, is lashing out or trying not to. Almost fruitless- Moon and Sun are on edge really, they may have mixed emotions on Eclipse however they're trying to help, Sun opting to hold Eclipse more (which makes eclipse mad but mans tired). Hell even moons proximity isn't getting Moon swiped at by Eclipse. Bloodmoon doesn't change his behavior, still kicking when Eclipse is down. Obviously this leads to everyone getting frustrated at him. Bloodmoon backs down for now but like- clearly isnt regretting it. Its only until KC snaps at Bloodmoon that its clear Bloodmoon backs off. Very quietly too. KC just has to sit with that for a moment. (he goes crush somethings, meditate for a while-) Lets see here, if this is resolved and the source found- Or maybe even just stops. Eclipse is alleviated. Everyone breaths a sigh of relief. They're still checking Eclipses' systems that they realize they overlooked something. Its only when its gone they realize what it couldve been but since its stopped they cant trace it. Bloodmoon does come back, he doesnt apologize to Eclipse, KC however takes bloodmoon away to properly talk. It doesnt go so well-

Eclipse isn't liking the fact Bloodmoon was just acting as himself but not surprised hell not even expected much else. Lunar... lunar did expect better. He's disappointed but- hey thigns are fine now. They can handle this KC can handle this- Solar Flare meanwhile finds Bloodmoon scratching at walls- and at himself. KC comes back, asked how Bloodmoon is. KC doesnt respond on that. Asks Eclipse how hes feeling. And what that Dark Sun had said. Solar Flare comes back arm torn off, asking what had happened to bloodmoon. This is getting rather long actually hmn. Anyway to the point, Eclipse gets chipped- handles it badly, Bloodmoon's own shenanigans lands him in hot water not just with KC but with Dark Sun. Which would get mostly everyone involved, Eclipse would get mad at Bloodmoon for even going near that guy but Dark Sun wouldve approached Bloodmoon. Which still would set off Eclipse cause thats Red Flags AND SOMEONE WASNT THINKIGN ABOUT THAT. Uh I dont know how this ends, Dark Sun's pretty smart enough but with the Bean AU its a bit more hmn, no one has died- uh again? For him to get Moon spiraling. He would use Bloodmoon given Bloodmoons more prone to just instigating stuff. He was probably hoping for Bloodmoon to kill someone by now actually. However KC;s convo with Bloodmoon, Eclipse in general and Solar Flare would be the ones to keep from everyone completely disowning Bloodmoon from attacking Solar Flare and general disregard to Eclipses health.

[lunarharp]

warming back up..with silliness.. watching shrek 2 again & Dreams . cause i have a lot of dreams that are weird

[cubbihue]

AGONIZING AGONIZING AGONIZINGGGGGGGGG

[pcktknife]

you know what maybe if i got out the house and talked to people my age i would not feel so bad and lonely all the time

[skunkes]

the bad: i have been raised without much warmth from my parents in childhood, but also pressured to conform to familial authority, doubt myself always, and value familial connections above all else (<- failed at this, and feel guilt about it.)

but also in experiencing this i have been so isolated from the entire rest of the world and others, that it will be nearly impossible to create my own "family" -> find safety and comfort in anybody else once my family is Gone. despite dis i find it really difficult to break away from the familiar, disobey and disappoint, because, well, why are my wishes more important than anybody else's. why would I cause upset and distress in anybody, and exert so much effort into my doubt filled half decisions, for my meaningless little Wishes. being away would also mean less time with these people who I'll never see again once they're gone. being raised this way is definitely paying off for those who did so.

the good: yaaaay adjacent inspiration for writing talon lore

[bonetrousledbones]

i think. i want to focus on the idea of roaring knight papyrus where he knows exactly what the roaring entails

[sesamenom]

some ideas from an au where maglor just keeps living in britain (/himring?)

especially in the earlier eras he had to put a lot more effort into styling/dyeing his hair to cover his ears & the blueness/Elf Sparkle. he also wore glasses for a while to dim the Treelight Eyes (because even as badly faded as he is, it's still really obvious with how old he is).

[v7n5]

Just realized that my feeling towards Lalo Salamanca has always been gender envy. This is so humiliating.

Like i can't believe this man is real. He looks like he should be in gone with the wind or something. Handsome bastard.

[seriouslagamorph]

can the funnybunny enjoyers of the tadc fandom and the funnybunny enjoyers specifically stop making jax and pomni so painfully heterosexual for five seconds. looking at you ao3.