#what’s going on in there

[bestworstcase]

half a thought. the cat, "i need to know why my maker has left me here"—singular. "only to leave and make all of [you]." either:

light carved and animated the cat alone

light took all the credit and dark let him

this is soft confirmation dark ascended

jabber is the prototypal human; the brothers made him together, to "finish what the cat started." but he came out "brutal" (uncontrollable) so light decided to unmake him. dark refused. the brothers fought. jabber remained in the end—either dark won that argument or jabber returned on his own, like humans would after him.

in brother-cult doctrine, the god of darkness "forgot" the grimm after he and his brother made humans together. we know from the lost fable that this is not true, that darkness lived among his grimm, and even in the myth he refuses to destroy them and it hurts his feelings when light disdains them as creatures of pure malice. however,

that is precisely what the god of light did to his first creation: the cat figures in the blacksmith’s tale only as the inspiration for the brothers’ creation of jabber. the cat has no relevance or presence in the story after jabber is made. the god of light forgot them.

likewise the motivation ascribed to the grimm by brother-cult doctrine, that they hate humankind out of jealousy because their creator forgot about them in his fascination with humans, is the cat’s motivation exactly.

the cat is the prototypal grimm

light controlled the narrative back in the day, and the story he told about the grimm was a projection of his own failings in regard to the cat

hm. hmm. the cat–

hm. the cat "finds the broken parts of the ever after." in other words, they’re drawn to negativity. empathy. they seek out pain and offer comfort—but, but. jabber was meant to "finish what the cat started" and although he came out more "brutal" than the brothers anticipated, he was "effective" for this purpose. the cat was to find the broken parts and jabber was to act as the reaper, sending them back to the tree for ascension.

and that’s why jabber turned out wrong. the cat became a healer and the brothers created an executioner to "finish what they started," because they didn’t understand what the cat was really doing.

snaps fingers. pattern theory. the cat is untethered from the tree until they’re killed, and then they wind up in the blacksmith’s workshop. the god of light feared they had disrupted the balance and tried to destroy jabber, but darkness remade him, and jabber remained—not a monster but a creature desperate to "fix" his home.

for it is in passing we achieve immortality. fuck. we all got it backwards: ascension didn’t exist—couldn’t exist—until the brothers created HEALING and DEATH. true balance finds its own equilibrium. what was the ever after like in the very beginning? "[the brothers] were given creativity, to imagine what—and who—could replace the wilderness… the brothers built homes for them and gave them roles to play." that isn’t how ascension works! that isn’t how the ever after is anymore! the brothers were children playing with dolls until they disrupted the balance. ascension coagulated in the wake of that disruption.

oh. OH—ambrosius. destruction to clear the wilderness and creativity to replace it. that’s how light thinks it should work because that’s how it DID work before he and his brother changed things. every time they made something new they began by destroying what had been.

so– so the grimm—

hm.

like the cat, grimm are empathetic beings drawn to painful emotions. like both the cat and jabber, they’re predators. like ambrosius’ creations, they crumble into ash and smoke when they die. "you may bask in the powers of creation, but you do not own them" and "this force of pure destruction could not destroy […] so it created." their true purpose cannot be to kill humans, because they were created first; the mythical conceit that they envied humans because darkness forgot them is contradicted by the reality that he didn’t.

they are "manifestations of anonymity."

if i’m right on the origin of ascension and how the ever after worked before, then the rules the brothers set regarding life and death in their new world mimicked the original conditions of the ever after—but only imperfectly, else there would be no afterlife.

the planet’s core is liquid grimm.

the faunus came into being when salem combined the waters of life and grimm into one being and remade herself into something new. the god of darkness made the grimm to find the broken parts of this world, like the cat had done in the ever after, and then…

…either destroy or create.

the pool of grimm creates salem. or else she used it to recreate herself. either way the grimm have the capacity for it.

darkness refused to punish jabber for being what they made him. and then, in the new world he and his brother created together, he… made a new iteration of the cat with jabber’s destructive nature woven into the design and also gave humans a powerful weapon in the form of magic, protecting them from his other creations.

which sounds like a purposeful attempt to recreate the conditions that shifted the balance in the ever after, without being too obvious about it. and that tracks with what we know about him—his contributions outlined in the myth suggest that he set out to make their world into an ecosystem that could exist without them—but hm. still cooking.

[princeofwinterfell]

I know that people are afraid of Harrenhal getting repetitive if Aemond goes through the same kind of psychological nightmare thing Daemon just did

But are you really telling me you don’t want to see Aemond go through exactly that kind of thing?

[mevil]

you will be alone

[guccigarantine]

the maintenance people cut into the ceiling above my shower and now there’s just a big hole there

[masculinepeacock]

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[maudiemoods]

If life is a never ending loop of dirty dishes and laundry then that means life is a never ending loop of home cooked meals and comfy clean clothes

[itsscaredycat]

so ok yeah fine i watched gravity falls again and read the book of bill

[blabberoo]

Idk what au im cooking.. but Im cooking..

[foolfortune]

[inbabylontheywept]

so once me and my wife were watching a documentary where a snake ate like a million eggs. that snake just went to fucking town on eggs. and the snake made the eggs look so good that i kept thinking about it, and thinking about it, and thinking about it, and eventually it was 11pm and i ran out of willpower and decided to eat one (1) singular raw egg just to prove to myself that the snake was surely a liar.

the snake was not a liar. texture is like, super important to me and raw eggs are very Texture so i had another one, and then another one, and then another one, and eventually i ran out of eggs.

i had like, fifteen raw eggs.

i didnt really know how to explain this momentary madness to my wife, so my Plan was to put all the eggshells into a grocey bag, and then throw that grocery bag in the dumpster, and if she never noticed that would be Excellent and if she noticed immediately i could lie and say that the eggs went bad.

except i cant lie very good, and of course with murphys law being such, i got salmonella.

so i threw up a lot and my wife asked me what poisoned me so and i tried very hard to dodge the question but i was oozing shame like oil from a room temperature cheese and eventaully i gave in and told her everything and to her enormous credit she was more flabbergasted than actually upset. she did make me promise to not eat any more raw eggs, which i have stuck to, and she gives me weird looks during nature documentaries now as if desire was the only thing keeping me from eating thousands of pounds of krill anyway i made a joke earlier about being able to eat my age in eggs and my sister in law in law made a drawing to comemorate the moment and also because it was my birthday. she's excellent. thank you 10000000% @cintailed. you should all visit her page and admire her work.

[bookwyrminspiration]

I can behave normally around books

[holographings]

someone on twitter said Imagine what s2 jayce would give to talk to s1 viktor just one more time. and someone had a time travel alternate dimension fic ready to go. and i read it. and now my face is being eaten by 3750 feral dogs i think

[pusserdestroyer]

Clean version of a comic I drew in history class

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[x0401x]

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?