#y'know the funny thing is

[theconfusedartist]

maybe this is weird (and I do promise I’m dropping the rest of the lore in a hour or so) but

in the rewrite, i always write Altaïr as seeing Desmond as:

Altaïr: this is my little brother, my son, my best friend, and annoying twin that makes all the reckless mistakes i already learned from. i love my boy, but damn if he doesn’t be doing some wild shit

wereas Desmond is like

Desmond: i love Altaïr! he’s my brother, my best friend, one of the few people who I’d happily consider my father, my face twin, and (did I already mention?) best friend! he makes a lot of mistakes, and we disagree about lots of stuff, but i’m so happy he’s in my life

Altaïr in permutation 17: this sucks. Des isn’t even here right now (hist time) and he can’t even hear me when I’m trying to talk to him (in modern time)

Desmond in permutation 17: this sucks. Altaïr isn’t even here right now (modern time) and I’m so fucking lonely !! !! !! now I’ve gotta die to turn on the eye and then what?! no one is coming back for me!! I don’t even know where Alex is, I’m just praying that I’ll survive after dying to get Elijah and keep him safe, but this shit sucks!

[ministarfruit]

time to head backstage!

[sysig]

my 2nd request !! The skeleton brothers wearing matching pajamas :D

Day 13 - The Friendship Brothers

[daily-odile]

odile with a gun perhaps

gun

[tiredspacedragon]

I love how BS01 describes the roles of the members of the Voya Nui resistance

There's Garan, the leader. Balta, the second-in-command and a skilled tinkerer. Dalu, the team's best fighter. Velika, a Great Being in disguise and the team's inventor, even more skilled than Balta. Piruk, the spy, their eyes inside the Piraka stronghold.

And then there's Kazi. He's a realist. His job is to stand there and remind everyone how utterly boned they are.

They could have made him anything, he could have been a medic, or a hunter, or a scout, but no. His title is "realist." Not even an allusion to him being the secretive one who knows about Axonn before everyone else, no, Kazi is defined by how he makes sure the people around him remember their circumstances and don't have too good a time. Icon, honestly.

[smile-files]

if clover did survive ii17 via her luck she'd definitely kill herself

[somegrumpynerd]

Actually it turns out I had more thoughts about that post that I forgot about lol

Would Nightmare actually give up his boys? Yes and no

If it was just a black and white situation of they're miserable, they don't wanna be here, they have somewhere better to be, then yes. He would leave them out to wherever they needed to be despite his own feelings and very quickly realise afterwards just how much he'd gotten used to the noise and company. I think he would get a little clingy with Dream about it, which I'm sure Dream would find very weird after everything but not unwelcome, he did miss his brother after all.

(If he couldn't attach himself to Dream's side for whatever reason, I think he might just sit in his castle and go insane. Or maybe he'd just spend all day at Ccino's trying really hard to project that he just likes the atmosphere and isn't lonely as hell)

But the thing is, most of them don't have somewhere better to be. Horror has his au, and Nightmare would keep up the supply of food even if Horror said he wanted to quit at this point, so he would understandably let him return home. Killer, Dust and Cross effectively don't have aus anymore though, and they tend to get into self-destructive habits when they're left to their own devices. (Obviously bringing Color and Epic into the mix to make sure Killer and Cross are taken care of eases matters, but Dust doesn't really have any friends outside their group he could go stay with - that Nightmare knows about at least).

The flipside of this is that his boys may not necessarily want to be given up. I think if Nightmare got really in his head about this he could easily end up convinced this is the right thing to do without ever asking them if it's what they want, with potentially terrible results. He's established such a pattern of always returning to find Killer when they get seperated, that if he never showed up Killer might just keep sitting there and waiting for him greyfriar's bobby style, refusing to leave because he's certain his boss is coming back.

[batsplat]

[indecisiveavocado]

Dear Goyim Who Think Judaism and Israel Aren't Connected,

They absolutely are. The holy land of Judaism is Israel, and no amount of fiddling will get around that inconvenient fact.

Even throughout our exile, Jews clung to the idea of Israel, the holy land. Even after the Romans slaughtered us, sold us slaves, expelled us, and tried to erase our connection to the land (a propaganda that you seem to have swallowed), even after their successors tried to keep us from coming back (not that all of us left; some stayed, stayed through persecution and massacre and more), we clung to it.

Israel is the holy land. And, in the words of Jefferson, "To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world."

The central prayer in Judaism, Shema Yisrael, uses "Israel" as a synonym for the Jewish people.

We pray facing Jerusalem.

In old texts, it is incredibly common to see Israel used as a synonym of Jews. Thus in Nathan Ausubel's 1948 Treasury of Jewish Folklore we see rabbis referred to as the "Sages of Israel" (in a discussion of why Jerusalem was destroyed, no less!), and the saying "Am Yisrael Chai" literally translates as "the People of Israel live!"

At the end of the Passover seder, we say, "L'shana haba'a b'Yerushalayim" (Next year in Jerusalem).

Psalm 137: "על נהרות  בבל שם ישבנו גם־בכינו בזכרנו את־ציון". Or, "Al naharot bavel sham yashavnu gam-bakhinu bezakhernu el-tzion" (Tzion, Zion, being another name for the land). "By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept as we thought of Zion." It continues, "How can we sing God's song in a foreign land? / If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."

There are many rules that only apply when in Israel.

Observant Jews say, "ברוך אתה יי בונה ירושלים" (Barukh atah Adonai boneh Yerushalayim), or "Blessed are you, God, builder of Jerusalem" three times daily.

My very short Haftarah portion, which is assigned based on when you were born and thus not something I had control over, mentions Israel ("vegoaleikh kedosh Yisrael elohei khol-haaretz yikarei" - my brain can't stop singing it, Isaiah 54:5), in the context of God being the "Holy One of Israel". The prayer before the Haftarah reading includes the line "uvyisrael amo" (for Your [God's] people Israel). Again, my Haftarah portion was not in any way special; it was five verses. The translation of the part I read is all of 153 words. And yet it still mentions Israel. (The Hebrew, by the way, is 71 words.)

In short: by denying Jewish claims to Israel as the holy land (kedushat ha-aretz), you are erasing an indigenous people's history and implicitly accepting the narrative of settler-colonialist genociders who sought to make it as though the people whose land they were taking and who they were selling as slaves were not tied to the land and did not have any ancestral connection. Your claims are entirely false.

Sincerely,

Your Neighborhood (Non-Israeli, But Y'all Are Making Me Want To Consider Aliyah) Jew

*Extended footnote on the terminology used: There are two major (and definitely non-dialectical) indigenous languages in the region that still survive to some extent: Hebrew and Aramaic. (Other languages existed in the region - Phonecian and Ugaritic, for instance. But they didn't survive.)

The indigenous name for the region in Aramaic and Hebrew is ישראל, pronounced, roughly, "Yisrael". Via the process of translation, that became "Israel". The other common name for the region, Palestine, derives from the Roman Palestina, a relic of their campaign to destroy Jewish connection to the region by renaming it after a small Greek group who were long since gone, the Philistines. I am using the name the indigenous people of the region used, rather than the name of a colonial occupier trying to pretend like the indigenous people were unconnected to the land.

[deeva-arud]

Last Cater-related post, I swear (at least for today, I'll never shut up about him-). It's just that I have Some Thoughts.

A couple of days ago I dreamt about his dream, and before I dozed off again I managed to write a very silly and ominous line that, literally translated, says "everything is born from hate". In my dream he was someone that didn't like nor cared for anyone (some students even feared him a little) because, after all, if you dislike everyone, you wouldn't even try to approach them, and thus when the time to say goodbye comes, it wouldn't hurt you, right? So my question then was... what if Cater isn't as chill as he seems in that card?

Today I've been zooming in and staring at his card for some time, and one of the things that caught my attention first were these Heartslabyul students here:

Aren't they lined up too perfectly in front of a leader that's supposedly much less strict than Riddle? Also that one student being judged looks a bit too nervous to me... Another thing is the fact that everyone seems so far and unimportant. Like, sure, it's because it is his card, but most of them are standing in the shadow and the ones that we can see more clearly don't even have any facial features. Cater's seat is also super high, which could not only indicate his position of power, but also how he's purposely distancing himself from the rest. In contrast, we see how the things he likes (skateboard, spicy food, phone/Magicam and gavel [symbolising him being dorm leader]) are close to him.

Are we about to see a Cater that does whatever he wants and only cares about himself a little bit too much?? Idk but the similarities between the vibes of the background and my dream are making me insane--

[sysig]

Don’t be silly! Okay, be a little silly (Patreon)

[somegrumpynerd]

A lil doodle of the boys as rats from @thebad-lydrawn-sanses

[uncanny-tranny]

I went to a local yarn store for the first time, and while I was there, somebody was talking about getting a beginner's knitting kit, and she inquired about when lessons were, and when she was told that they'd be happy to sit down with her and teach her, she was so delighted. She talked about how excited she was and how much she wanted to learn to knit, and it just... it made me fall in love with humanity. It was this pure, unadulterated happiness coming from somebody and it was so genuine and kind, and I couldn't help but smile.

I guess all of this is to say... every moment, there are tiny little joys like this all over the world, and it makes this life worth living. I hope you witness and feel joy this simple, this pure.

[yeetus-feetus]

warning: mature

Kon, over the phone: hey Tim, can you come home please?

Tim: yeah babe, I just have a few more errands to run at W.E. Why are you calling from Bear's phone?

Kon: that's why we need you to come home, we got a slight problem...

Tim: Kon. What happened? Is Bernard okay?

Kon: yeah he's alright we're just a little... stuck.

Tim: stuck? Where are you stuck?

Kon: um. Bernard's tongue piercing... is caught on my dick piercing...

Tim: ...what?

Kon: pleasecomehome! we can't get unstuck and it pulls too much when we try and-

Tim: okay, okay, I'm coming home. Calm down, I'll be there in 20.

Kon: you're not gonna let us live this down, are you?

Tim: definitely not.

[batsplat]

random throwback to fabio's response to casey saying he should've been black flagged for the whole open leathers situation

[qcoded]

I haven't seen enough people talking about the fact that Nine was completely willing to leave everything behind, just to go live with some guy he just met 😭

I LOVE SONIC AS MUCH AS THE NEXT GUY but if I'm not getting the timeline of Sonic Prime messed up, I'm pretty sure he only knew Sonic for like, a few days at max? Before the dude got sucked into the prism shard, and came back weeks later.

Apparently that was enough time for Nine to make up his mind on Sonic, because even if he was slowly warming up to him before Sonic left, he suddenly came back and Nine immediately went "let's build a new home together in the grim!!"

AGAIN, I'm not sure if I'm remembering stuff wrong so forgive me but 😭 As much as I understand Nine latching onto the first person that was genuinely kind to him, it was sorta funny how quickly it happened with Sonic to the point he wanted to include him in his new home. He even tried to make it more comfortable to Sonic by replicating elements from his old one.

Almost makes me wonder if Sonic would've stayed with Nine if he wasn't so sure that he could get everything back to normal :(