#yeah im a philosophy bitch

[this-user-has-been-erased]

actually for real ever since i read le mythe de sispyhe my whole life has been changed. i feel actually happy right now. like really genuinely happy. it might be because i'm a little tipsy but. look i'm not making any spelling mistakes. nothing means anything in this life at all. this is all there is in the world. and i love it so much

[butterscotchdean]

people who answer ancient philosophical dilemmas with the confidence of a six year old who just learnt their alphabet and know what letter falls after A are incredibly thick-headed and i hope you get better.

[miranalvjy]

Introduction/What to expect from this blog!

First of all HEYYYYY!!! <3

I'm Mira/Mirana, depends on what you want to call me but I listen to anything fr-

I'll try and make this intro post a WAY better one then what I had before, cause uhh yeah no- if you saw that one... no you didn't :3

So, if you wanna know everything about me read down below:

First and foremost what's important:

I'm Hungarian, I speak english fluently but it's NOT my native language, blame me all you want I will have mistakes here and there (but if I do notice one I'll definitely correct it instantly cause it bugs me)

My pronouns are she/her, but I don't really care, you can prefer to be as a sewer rat and I'll be happy about it :3

I have ADHD, OCD and some 'tism so my dearest dear mind works differently, yes, bear with me

I'm bisexual and polyamor, single and ready to mingle with a pringle (that was shitty but funny, pls laugh)

I live in Mexico, so I do understand Spanish but I don't really prefer it, I'd much rather speak in english (I actually prefer english over hungarian-)

The shortest shortie mother fucker you'll ever find, me and my 152cms against the whole world (4'11 to everyone else who uses this)

I block freely, and if you piss me off or if you're being the wrong type of freak I'll block without a damn thought :3

My asks are always open, if you have anything you wanted to ask me, annoy me with HEL YEAH hit me up :3

I'm an atheist, but I respect everyone who is something else

I'm very openminded

Okay That's the most important part there, now let me just yapp about myself a bit and what I like to do and what I like in general:

Music:

I'm going to list some bands/singers in no particular order that I love and could yapp about for hours, what I will most likely reblog/yapp about :3

Black Veil Brides, Ashnikko, Baby Bugs, Bring Me The Horizon, Måneskin, DeathbyRomy, Death Spells, Delilah Bon, Mad About Marilyn (IM BEGGING YOU GO LISTEN TO THEM), Depeche Mode, Falling In Reverse (sue me- the music is good), Fall Out Boy, Frank Iero (solo projects), Gerard Way (solo projects), Get Scared, Green Day, TX2, Palaye Royale, Jann, Leathermouth, Letter For The Oddities, Lovejoy (again, just sue me), L.S. Dunes, Luke Black, MANDRAGORA UK, Mileo, Mindless Self Indulgence (just give in the papers), Mother Mother, Motionless In White, My Chemical Romance, Negative 25, Nirvana, Panic! At The Disco, Pencey Prep, Pierce The Veil, The Relentless, Sable, Sleeping With Sirens, Sleep Token, The Smashing Pumpkins, Twenty One Pilots, Vana, The Warning, Yungblud, Ayesha Erotica, Jiinzo,

Hobbies:

I have so many of these bitches I might as well make a list :3

Reading (HEAVY on it), Writing, Gaming, Diamond Painting, Crocheting, Journaling, Other small handy crafts, Yapping

Other Topics:

Anything else I might yapp on here about, or something I'd love to yapp about with you :3

Philosophy, Religion, Horror movies, Paranormal, Clothes and Styles, Theories, Random stuff

Games:

The video games I play, hyperfixated on :3

Stardew Valley, Five Nights At Freddie's, Dave The Diver, Slime Rancher, Don't Starve, Cult of the lamb, Minecraft, Potion Craft, R.E.P.O., Pony Island, Undertale, Subnautica, Little Inferno, Dorfromantic, Oxygen Not Included, Bear And Breakfast, Forager, Life Is Strange, Detroit: Become Human, The Forest, The Long Dark

My other blogs:

@miranareads My blog to yapp about books and reading, everything associated with books and reading goes there :3

@ghost-of-the-once-loved-child My sideblog for poems... I haven't had a lot of time to really write a lot, but when I do I post it here (from my older poems, please spare me, those typos kill me but I don't have the fucking urge to correct them anymore)

And a secret third one for fanfiction :3

@miranascreams I literally just did this blog, uhh- freak blog, sexual content and very much explicit, mostly about celebrities or just horny thoughts in general :3

Me:

Since I am indeed pretty comfy with showing my face, here I am, in all my glory :3

I also have more pics but I'm lazy, and you'll probably get bored of my ass real fast anyways :3

My Friends, Moots whom I adore:

@im-literally-so-dun - My wife and my one and only BBQ grilled chicken <3

@hexxyyxoxo - IRL pookie who got on tumblr because of me but she does not know how to use it so we only have an interaction on here every once in a year or so

@daffodilrambles - My unhinged diva twin sister <3

@m1lkywaymikey - Writer pookie who I love to annoy <3 also newer additions is that I simp over this hoe, so uhh yeah have fun reading my insane amount of horniness over this lad

@lobot0mmy - Tag game bruv, we only interact in tag games most of the times but shhhh :3

@sebbywebster - Gaming pookie, go to yapper, literal sweetheart <3

@yourinnerhealthplus - Should interact more, but this bitch lives far away so we don't :( GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE POOKIE

THAT'S ALL- OR AT LEAST I THINK SO... IF NOT I'LL UPDATE IT <3

BYEEE LOVE YOU MWUAH

[azureblooet]

Ok bitches its fucking time:

LAMB HEADCANNON TIME:

(I separated these into rough catagories cause I have a lot for them and some require me to explain my lore headcannons)

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General stuff:

Enby obviously (they/them)

Very much a people person

i mean they do run a cult so yeah

Didn't ever do the cannibalism thing (i mean mechanically it doesn't really do anything helpful)

Still needs to eat, but feeds more on the actual devotion rather than normal food.

Like the crown isn’t just bottomless power it still needs to eat devotion

This makes more sense with context of the magic system i have for my headcanons

though giving their body actual fuel to keep itself running means they don't have to sustain it with magic so they still eat

Actually snacks a lot due to both previous food insecurity and to keep their energy up

Also the leader having food preferences is like a point of connection for the cult (more info in the cult section)

They do a little happy single clap thing, like sort of resembling prayer but still fiddles with stuff

Cult:

Tries to make their followers pretty self-sufficient due to their absense during crusades, so they have actual leaders they’ve appointed, they also do sermons while The Lamb is gone.

Notably is praised for being a “god who knows mortal fear and hunger”

Generally has the message of “yo the bishops suck and we all got screwed over by the gods, I’m a god who is also a mortal so I’m different”

Before The Lamb dethroned Narinder him also being screwed over by the gods was a big part of his thing in the theology

Narinder thought this was stupid back at the gateway but the people actually liking The Lamb instead of fearing them makes their devotion a lot stronger

It also FEELS better for The Lamb who has felt a LOT of fear for the gods to be critical of the gods

This also means The Lamb getting sick or something isn’t a big sign of weakness and is more of a “I’m in this with you” type thing.

Nari’s whole “god of death” thing was him being like “the inevitable end of all” and everyone being his in the end whereas The Lamb is more of a “transience is an inevitable part of the world and that makes our lives beautiful” kind of thing

Like the whole “may mortal strife drive us to grow and reach new heights” “take solace as our death unites us all”

This is partially influenced by the beliefs the lambs had with the philosophy of “everything is connected” but also makes people less afraid of death so y’know

The cult’s beliefs and culture is heavily influenced by the lambs for festivals and decoration and iconography (talk a bit more about that in the lambs’s section)

Called “The Lamb” or just “Lamb” by people closer to them but is normally referred to as “Leader”

The Lamb couldn't read at first and had to have followers teach them

Thankfully one of the first followers was a nice librarian lady who is highkey their mom/grandma. Brought her back a few times before getting her gold skulls

She’s a deer, she sort of has fannon shamura vibes? Like that high insight and ability to read people’s emotions

She also highkey parents Narinder too but he’d never admit that

Kinda like dst Wickerbottom? (If you know you know)

Im working on the name, but she’s “Selene” in my notes

Regardless, The Lamb learned to read from her, and teaching literacy is basically her job at the cult

cause of the whole cults thing someone being illiterate is actually pretty common so it's not just kids getting lessons.

The cult grows a lot of cotton cause of The Lamb

Both as a symbol and because of clothes fabric and yarn being important objects of worship

The Lamb is difficult to *scare* but pretty easy to startle as long as you’re quiet.

The lambs/sheep:

Note: I don’t capitalize the word lamb when it isn’t a name for The Lamb

The lambs lived a bit outside of bishops’ real territory so they largely had their own culture and religion

They believed in “strings of fate” and a sort of “everything is tied together and part of a bigger thing”

Yeah like wool and fabric.

Theres more to it than that but that's a factor

Wool yarn and clothes were a big export for them but they were working with other plant fibers too so all types of string were everywhere.

Because of how much string and fabric they’d end up having and how good the textile trade was they had the resources to have a lot of festivals. Be it for seasons, shearing times obvi, cool space/astronomy stuff, whatever.

They didn't really have a church per-say but they had little shrines for like paying respects to nature and the “strings” of fate which tie everyone together.

Complicated braided lanyard type things are sort of “holy” symbols.

Sort of like a rosary?

they didn't have a reigning crown and had just an actual normal-ass town for the most part

Regardless the spiritual and religious stuff was more to justify making things and having festivals.

They’d tie different colored strings and little banners to stuff for festivals and stuff

Dangly bits and tiny puffy ornaments galore.

They did some magic, but it wasn’t much of a priority, it normally was things like little woven charms, protection spells, and maybe the odd glowy ribbon or fireproof coat.

Like they had some thaumaturges and witch doctors to deal with curses and magic injuries but they didn’t have a big faction of magic users

Reguardless! All of this matters because The Lamb makes little fabric dolls and swears about threads and ties and junk.

“ties above!” “ohhhh my fucking strings give me patience…” “oh thank ties”

(i mean in-world the words they’re using for ties/threads/strings is probably in another language, but I’m a monolingual dumbass so whatever)

Though the lambs had less gendered shit which in a world with actual hecking magic goes without saying ig, but their un-gendered parent word is “baba” because duh

(Ill be so fr I didn’t even realize the sheep pun until I had written over 2,000 words but it is very amusing nonetheless)

They had marriage earrings and horn jewelry instead of rings

Not all that important but rings are boring

But yeah the lambs had less ridged gender roles and stuff so The Lamb being enby wasn’t like a big thing or anything

Something about how all genders tie back to the same net of fate or something

Unlike basically every other version of The Lamb I’ve seen, The Lamb remembers a LOT about their home town and their traditions.

They are different than The Land of The Old Faith though so there’s a lot of different cultural values.

Like the lambs ate a lot less meat than The Old Faith people

(Sidebar: do we have a shorter name for this fucking place cause oh my god it’s a mouthful)

Particularly I bring this up cause The Lamb is VERY much not on the cannibalism wagon.

The lambs also had actual methods of water purification and bathing to like keep their wool clean, since they would use it for crafting

Because of that, the lambs were culturally pretty germaphobic and had a reputation for being way too focused on cleanliness

I mean cats are also in that boat but still

The fact that The Lamb knew how water purification works and being more sanitary was also a big part of the cult actually surviving.

I want to imagine that while The Lamb knew about and wanted soap they had no idea how to make it and spent a long ass time trying to figure it out.

They got someone in the cult who knew eventually but it was a whole ordeal

Like someone pulled up and talked about making a bathhouse and The Lamb was like “YES. YES. YES. YES. YE—”

Magic:

Their magic is strong due to the crown supplying a lot of raw power, but their actual form in using magic is sort of sloppy

(To be fair, most gods are like that but The Lamb is exceptionally bad)

Despite the how casually it's portrayed, reading minds is kind of hard and doesn't work on some people

As in: people think differently so unless someone has a really pronounced inner monologue they can’t really read the person’s mind easily.

Like what are you gonna read if the person doesn't think in words?

Feel the vibes learn the vague concept language? You can’t be staring at this mf for that long!

You can indeed be too neurodivergent to mind-read.

Also a few people in the cult can tell when The Lamb is reading minds and most of them responded pretty negatively to it so The Lamb tries not to read minds too often

(yknow cause like consent and privacy and all that?)

(one of those people promptly pulled a knife on them because I mean- its kinda violating for someone to poke around in your head) (The Lamb didn't kill them cause that’s like a fair response but it did scare the shit out of them)

The Lamb is really bad at detecting auras and concealing their own.

Most gods don’t really conceal themselves because their bombastic presence is like part of the gig

Most people can low-key feel auras subconsciously anyways so The Lamb isn’t incapable of it, but they aren’t good at it.

(As to how people feel auras; It’s sort of like how you can low-key feel vibrations even when you can’t hear but since you can normally hear you don’t consciously notice it?)

[calebwittebane]

i had a dream id gotten conned into becoming a god and proceeded to try and design a world without suffering or pain. i really really struggled with this one. no matter what i did, it seemed like bouncing between endless suffering and highly sheltered sensory deprivation state with all functions for every person reduced to a minimum. eventually the author--it turned out i was in a fictional work, and the author was a sneering cynical asshole who enjoyed seeing me suffer--started mocking me, saying that a real demiurge really in control of things through unlimited possibilities wouldve figured that out, but i'm just a loser who spent a long time being human and therefore my mind has very human limitations. i started arguing with the author, saying that theyd written me this way and have no right to mock me, that despite this attitude they have this clearly is some form of venting theyre doing through art, and they need to take something seriously for once. my limitations are simply a reflection of theirs, and their mockery is their pained wailing in disguise. they were like well i dont like your attitude so because youve decided to be a little bitch about it i will now punish you by making you experience every death that ever happened to anyone and WILL have happened to anyone. so i did. it was awful. the prophetic visions of what sort of carnage famine disease and freak accidents the future has in store for humanity, they were almost as bad as the historical part. reminder: i feel pain in my dreams. anyway once that was done, and it did in fact feel to me like actual centuries were passing, actual centuries of nothing but agony, i told the author they were a vindictive bitch, incapable of comprehending the suffering theyre inflicting. if they ever felt even a fraction of what they dish out without much thought, they would curl up and cry and never do anything again. they told me i just objected to the way i'd sculpted my own consciousness. that to be a human, advanced and philosophy oriented as we are with our proportionally large complex brains, is to reject all inevitability as barbaric. i said that was stupid--humans are still, despite our unique traits, simply part of the animal kingdom, and more broadly made of the same matter as the rest of the universe, a continuous lattice of reactions among many other, a sustained chain that hasn't stopped since the very first instance of reproduction occurred between two organisms. the author just favors the human perspective because theyre biased and write what they know.

then the author felt like doing something petty once more so they decided to put me in a situation where im trying to buy art supplies but my dad is also there undermining everything i say. i said: this wont get to me--author, it seems you dont know me all that well, for buying art supplies was indeed one of the only type of occasion where my dad Would just let me do what i needed to do and would more or less trust i knew what i was doing. the author laughed and said, and yet you were able to summon a version of events where he does act poorly in this context. how cruel and unfair of you, to imagine something so uncharitable. how can you be sure of anything you remember? and i was going to give a reply but things around me started glitching out. people got spaghettified and turned into like. ok imagine a coral reef but its people.

i think i mustve argued with the author about some technical accuracy in their depictions of trains? i got to experience some train crashes as punishment

so yeah im awake now and i dont feel like ive gotten a lot of rest considering i just escaped time prison

[greenplantlizard]

wizard 44-51 (END???)!!!

WARNING: SPOILERS ABOUND

Also quite a long post, probably

aw look at him trying to put the pieces together,,,, adorable

wuh oh, koyomi's hand's started cracking, that can only mean the end of series countdown has begun!!!

nitou getting beaten up so much has started to get to him,,, it's like he's noticed his constant worf effect-ing

wiseman has the philosopher's stone, therefore he can do philosophy

looks like we can't please please our way out of this one lads

MAYU IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

world's loudest microwave ping, obscures sound of man getting his shit kicked in

haruto morally grey moments

finally, shunpei does something!!! yay shunpei!!!

apologies everyone else i am here for mayu's arc and mayu's arc alone

nerf infinity guard pls

at last, the villain infighting begins...

sora's definitely less insufferable when he's plot relevant

beast's truly absurd win/loss ratio lately, he must be starving

white wizard returns to pay child support? we can only hope

mayu can have a little infinity ring, as a treat

medusa blows up this man's wife with a fucking dragon ball attack????????? what the fuck???????

more women should be allowed beam attacks

rip medusa

FUCKING REVEAL OF THE CENTURY

I mean I kind of suspected but also WHOA

kamen rider wiseman's hole

the plot is here at last and OH BOY is it

uh oh!!! the kid is a main character but blue!!!

what colour will our final mage be?

really starting to see what people say about dads in kamen rider rn

damn shits getting INTERESTING

i will say, most of this show hasn't been doing it for me personally, but this right at the end? this is the shit

haruto nooo you can't give yourself up and doom all of tokyo, you're so sexy aha

i love the "shabadoobie touchi henshin" breaking the mood at all times

imagine being a weirdly well-informed citizen living in the rider universe, and you hear about the original sabbat happening, and you're like, "ok, im placing my bets, THIS is the thing that's going to nearly end the world this summer", imagine the vindication of being finally right

i just like to imagine people are gradually getting wise to it and have started to take bets on what's going to happen when in what year

the world is saved with the power of a Fucking Good Lunch

i love a good rider battle

the angsttttttttttt

you ever kick a guy so hard you start rotating

get fucking GOT bitch, the real final antagonist is the green goblin!!!

i mean the mad hatter- i mean gremlin- i mean-

WELP

you're living in the JOKER'S WORLD NOW

HELL YEAH MAYU, REAL MAIN CHARACTER

holy shit... it finally happened...

wizard threw a PUNCH!!!!!!!

and thus ends a series that was flawed, yes, but pulled everything together in the end

except... we're not quite done, are we...

wizard 52-53 (END)!!!!

that's right, just when you sighed with relief that you'd finished reading my bullshit for the day, there was a whole SECOND round of bullshit :DDD

haruto finds a rock on the beach

great opening no notes

hiiiiiiiiiiii doubleeeeeeeeee, hiiiiiiiiii fourzeeeeeeeeeee

i can already tell we're here for fun over plot, i can certainly vibe with that :D

i can forgive obvious legacy gimmicks if they're for some good fun

hang on,,,, is that guy cosplaying shiro???

sup decade!!! i dearly hope you're here to make this more confusing, that'd be so funny

space and time do frequently cease to make sense when a crossover happens, so that checks out

so our villain is the general tsuu of kamen rider, am i getting that right?

nearly thought they were going to break the fourth wall there

damn this crossover even has themes!!! wonderful!!! :DDD

sup there den-o!!! hope the oversaturation ain't treating you too bad :)

oop damn everyone is showing up ok!!!

my goodness who could this handsome fruit ninja looking guy possibly be

oh goodbye lol

my guy why did you have to warn me that the onigashima warship exists

hey ain't that the dam from the zx special? if it is then its kinda appropriate that its here

tsukasa rocking those shades

aw man, super douji specifically? have you no taste??

YOOOOOOO DAMNNNN THE THING ABOUT KAMEN RIDERS (ALMOST) ALWAYS USING POWERS DERIVED FROM THE VILLAINS? COOOOOLL

lmao hi alternative

why is the arch orphonoch always there

now THIS is a kamen rider crossover

HE SAID THE THINGGGGG

once again the arch orphonoch was not one of this guy's most powerful soldiers

here's how ryuki can still win

HI T-REX DOPANT

wuh-oh, he's absorbing the toy gimmicks through the ultimate evil that created them: bandai.

wasn't expecting a metaphor for breaking the cycle of abuse in my silly kamen rider tv special

of course, gaim hasnt aired yet, so it doesn't have a completed toyline to absorb!!! it all makes sense!!!

rip in piss, amadum

and thus truly ends kamen rider wizard, and the third goddamn time haruto went to an alternate universe where no-one knew who he was :)

[biggie-chcese]

ship ask game. points at you ominously. My Wawa

THE WAWA!!! beloved... of course my liege

(spoilers for halara's DLC and chapter 4)

Yuma - 12/10 and you may be wondering "wait this ranking is different from the yuma post" my rankings are relative and dynamic. keeps you on your toes. this is hands down my favorite halara ship they are among my favorite dynamics in the game hands down. i am just super enamored with the sides of themselves they draw out in their gumshoe gabs

Yakou - 5/10 this is one i like more platonically but like im down for it. i really love the their interactions in the DLC and halara saving yakou was really epic

Desuhiko - 6/10 i just think this one is funny. i dont see them being serious but desuhiko is definitely their side bitch

Fubuki - 8/10 this one's cute. i don't think about it much but the DLC definitely sold me on it. halara placing trust in fubuki's abilities is a pretty big thing and it's really nice to see how fubuki kinda brings out halara's softer side

Vivia - 4/10 there is something that can be said about their conflicting work ethics and philosophies as detectives, especially from the group confrontation in chapter 4, but it still doesn't personally compel me enough to brainrot over this one

Shinigami - 4/10 i like the fact that shinigami canonically said she was pretty okay with the idea of having a threesome with halara but other than that im not that interested

Zilch (Real) - 9/10 yeah these two should bond over their love of animals and i follow the "zilch's ears are organically attached to him also he has a tail" headcanon which i think halara would love. that's halara's pet freak

Swank - 6/10 picture this: halara visits the biggest casino in kanai ward and gets into a win streak in poker. they're attracting a crowd. swank is there gambling his blood money and goes to check the commotion to see halara at the center of it. their eyes meet, and there's this spark of competition. they play a long and tense game of poker- one in which halara comes out on top. swank is seething at his loss, but he also cannot deny the heat in his loins after spending all evening closely observing every detail of halara's face. halara sends him a wink, and the scene insta-cuts to them making out nasty style in a luxury suite. later that night, they both indulge in expensive gourmet foods and aged wine, bonding over the people they've swindled money out of. when the sun begins to peek over the horizon to mark a new day, halara dismisses themselves and returns to the NDA with brand new peacekeeper insider information. all according to keikaku

[discountlittlebro]

BOY IM BACK and i yhink i git the flu from this bitch in my philosophy class :(

yeah well FUCKK THAT BJTCH THEN MAN

But fr feel better <3

[starredfishing]

epic the musical review: troy saga

horse and the infant:

i like the underlying beat at the start. bassline? it fucks

but now we'll be the ones who SLAYYYYY ✨💅🏳️‍🌈

'diomedes will lead the charge' yay nepotism

'neo avenge your father kill the brothers of hector' i forgot pyrrhus was here,,, get their asses ig. anyway i like that he shouts out almost every major player just for a fun cameo

setting up some very strong leitmotifs (?) at the start w the penelopeee line

thats not an eagle bitch!!!! dont fucking give me a hawk!!!

i respect jorge's songwriting i rlly do but sometimes lines don't hit and i dont think "i know that im ready/i dont think youre ready" just didnt hit idk

the music box lullaby when he sees the infant bc its a baby :((

troys very own prince Hec Tor . the beat hit on that one

just a man

im gonna be so real this song solos almost the entire rest of the musical its so good ALSKJFJDF not a single off or odd line in the whole song. first song i heard from this before i knew what epic was. i have nothing but positive things to say abt it sorry SLDKFSDJF i like that it sounds like a lullaby. i like the way it swells. i like how hard jorge's fucking EATING w the vocals

full speed ahead

it is kinda jarring how we jump right from the war to full speed ahead but also like whatever full speed ahead

great strings <3 ily strings

SIX HUNDRED MEN.

the chorus has a good blend of voices

that for meeeEEeee was so beautiful thanks jorge

great introduction to eurylochus and polites' opposing philosophies in terms of strategy and also his crew

open arms

polites has suuuuch a beautiful voice this song (specifically the chorus) gets stuck in my head all the time

the opening claps make me wanna start singing where is your rider by the oh hellos

jorge was so fucking funny for this choice. like narratively it makes sense for how he decided the theme was ruthlessness is mercy enough that he was like polites is important and the lotus eaters are just lil guys. justified choice but funny nonetheless LDSKFSDJF

'welcome :]' theyre so cute slfkjdsfj

whenever im having a rough one i just hear polites 'you can relax my friend' and im like fuck so true i CAN relax

warrior of the mind

again its so interesting that jorge's thesis for this musical was sometimes its ok to be harsh/murder is okay but this is abt greek mythology so yeah go off ig

i didnt realize there was a flashback in here at first listen so the clock noises just confused me

actually the first bit of epic i heard was YOU ARE ATHENAA (ATHENA) BADASS IN THE ARENA

overall thoughts:

pretty lighthearted intro to the entire musical, the songs sound like they're made by the same person/for the same show while still retaining unique qualities. just a man is, again, my personal fav of this saga and the only one i tend to re-listen to i think bc it has the most traditional musical qualities as opposed to some of the (sometimes) halting speak-singing and tripping beats. but im getting more endeared to the show the more i listen to it but ngl my first listen thru i was kindof a hater

[tanadrin]

@msexcelfractal

Would you consider global colonialism and climate destruction to be huge qol improvements? Industrial humanity has knowledge without wisdom and it’s going to destroy us - the ttc remains a relevant warning

i think this is a great example of not being able to even begin to take a long historical view on anything. obviously the philosophers of the warring states era of chinese history whose work was compiled into the tao te ching had not even the foggiest notion of "colonialism" as the concept is used in modern political discourse or of climate change! how could a work of axial age political philosophy, when the global population was measured in the low hundreds of millions, have anything thoughtful or interesting to say about climate change, a consequence of technological and social processes that wouldn't begin for another ~2,000 years?

the only way the tao te ching can have any relevance to the present day is if we renegotiate the text--this is something dan mcclellan talks about a lot in the context of religion; it's basically an automatic process. we have texts that are culturally significant to us, which remain important for reasons of identity, and which we thus must find ways to keep relevant, bc we're unwilling to abandon them; thus, even as the politicial/social/technological/cultural/etc. context around those texts changes, even changes very radically, we must find new ways of reading those texts in order to keep them relevant, so that we don't have to abandon them.

not only is it historically baseless, i think it indicates a profound lack of imagination and a profound inability to do the kind of thoughtful, sympathetic reasoning necessary to really appreciate texts from other cultural contexts to look at something like the tao te ching and only be able to read into it modern concerns. to, in other words, draft every ancient text you read as a soldier in modern arguments. the concerns of the author(s) of the tao te ching were completely different from yours! like, maybe if you're a committed taoist interested primarily in devotional readings of the tao te ching there's something there you can work with, but even then i think that's kind of fraught--like, i don't think Christian readings of Isaiah are on much better footing even if they admit, sure, yeah, Isaiah really has nothing to do with Christian notions of the messiah. I think you're still doing something silly there, and even if you acknowledge you're bending the text out of shape on purpose it's more interesting in its original sitz im leben.

and really--what lessons could we drag out of the tao te ching even if we dragooned it into a modern context? break the world up into sovereign states so small that the people of one state can hear dogs barking in the next state over, but will grow old and die without having had any dealings with them? how can we operationalize the dictum that governing a state is like boiling a small fish? the tao te ching is a fascinating and thoughtful book, and totally worth taking seriously--but it's not a modern work of economics or political science! and the work necessary to turn it into one would constitute constructing a whole new political philosophy that has nothing to do with the actual text and everything to do with the preexisting beliefs of the person doing the constructing. you, presumably, would build some kind of generic leftist philosophy out of it. someone else might discover it's really a tract about right-libertarianism. somebody else might decide, well, really it's about RETVRNing to some kind of ultra-authoritarian hyper-patriarchal micro-feudalism.

like, not to be a huge bitch or anything, but... be serious. think outside the extremely narrow context of contemporary political horizons for five freaking minutes.

[goldenstorm0]

day 3 - least favorite character

okay so I fail spectacularly at this, because I just love characters and seeing an creators interpretations of them and what their roles in a narrative are. And I love myself some bitchy ass toxic people. So im just going to talk about the city hall girls because I've seen a few people name them as their least favorite but I still love them. Spoilers ahead btws

Their entire role within the story is to act as different foils to Yor, and they all do that spectacularly, especially Camilla.

Sharon so far we know the least about, just that she is a mother and so far is a lot colder than the others. I hope we get to see her family eventually, I want to know what her dynamic with them is like. Does she warm up, goof around with her kids like Yor does with Anya, or is she aloof like how she is with her coworkers? What they have some sort of play date with the kiddos, and we can see that dynamic in more detail? And then we can see how maybe if Sharin and Yor sees each other's parent philosophies and maybe how they can both improve? Idk I want to know more about this lady.

Millie is just fascinating to me. She is arguably as naive as Yor can be. I'm pretty sure she is the youngest, probably by a couple of years, and seems to simply go along with the people around her. You can see it sorta with Camilla and Sharon, joining in the gossip and bullying, but it absolutely shines when she met Franky and almost immediately goes along with his inventions. Hot take but I low-lowkey ship the two, I want them to date for a little bit and have it absolutely blow up in their faces.

But by God when she confronts the Lady Patriots. I fell in love. It was a moment when the truest parts of her personality came through and she was angry and hurt, and I want to know more about it. And to see that being contrasted by not only Yor but especially Melinda. I want to see more of it and goddammit I want to see Melinda hang out with all three of them.

And then Camilla. I love her. She is probably the perfect contrast to Yor. She's engaged to Dominic and for all intents and purposes, he is a painfully normal guy. She's bitchy and rude and seems to be the one who lead the initial bullying against Yor (or at least drunk her definitely did). And she's jealous and spiteful. She's someone I would Not Like initially if I met her in real life. But the more we learn about the more I love. Helping out Yor and teaching her to cook, how kind Dominic is in comparison and how the fuck did these two get together. She would be someone I wouldn't like but soon learn to love in real life, in a weird, let's be mean about someone who is actually awful. I want someone to come into Camilla's and Yor's life who they can bitch about together, someone truly reprehensible. Yor's default reaction to problematic people is to murder, whether the person is trying to murder her or if their personalities clash. I think Camilla can help teach her... less overtly violent ways to react to people she doesn't like. Ways to react to let off steam and frustrations without directly hurting someone, and maybe even how to react when that person is actually trying hurt her professionally or emotionally without resorting to violence. I think it would be good for both of them.

So yeah there's the not answer to least favorite characters. I guess I can say who I fund least interesting and that would probably be Yuri's lieutenant, mostly because I can't think of anything fun to do with him rn.

[neutrallyobsessed]

EPISODE 5!!!!!!!!!! JOANFUCIUS TIME!!!!

WHAT THE FUCK BROOO

ajajajaaa but srsly the guy really stomped all over my joanpher but its aight, im a very talented artist, canon CANNOT stop me uwu~

OH SHIT IT IS FAKE DATING! I KNEW IT! I was right! Like I am! All the Time! Now, Joan you gotta kiss Topher on the lips and with tong-

oh so it was actually the valentines dance..... well, they could still go to space, thatd be neat i love space!

ok that was an excellent reference!

OH THERE SHE IS! AND I AM SO SCARED!!! :DDDD

honestly, this is the best subversion of this trope i've ever seen~~

Oh and there, she, is~~ cunty skunky poo~~ teehee :3c

TRY AND CATCH ME BITCH!

~L o v e r s~

oh shit they're just fucking at school with great animation and all, but ey i love me some massive yet realistic fantastical frozen time traveler age gap romance so good for them

hmm so i guess that beach coast is the new docks of thinking, right? GOOD because I FUCKING LOVE THE BEACH I LOOOOVE BEACHES!! BEACH>>>>>ANY OTHER DESTINATION Speaking of loving thing, where the fUCK is my beloved?? its been like 15 mins and he hasnt appeared yet... im getting uneasy tbhhhh

omg flipflop x america's funniest videos ship! thats so beautiful!!!

see?? SEE???? I WROTE THAT! I WROTE ABOUT JOAN WANTING TO BE HER INDIE LONELY GOTH GIRL SELF AGAIN and you know exactly which guy you should be with when you wanna be yourself like that again so wheRE THE FUCK IS-

OH NO THE CONTRACT!!

hmmm seems like Harriet and Malcom arent as compatible as they thought~~ also loving Harriet's new hairstyle♥!!

YOU SOUND LIKE A CUCK BRO there's a lot of cucking in this show in general lol, what is this? Naoki Urasawa's Monster? ahhaha speaking of, Inspector Lunge didn't appear much despite being this sort of protag/antag but when he did I got so happy!!! so um WHERE IS HE :)))))))))

oh so it FINE when you kill an old lady but when JOAN-

goddamn, why does JFK's counciousness bleed? WHY do they BLEED? Nevermind, Devil!JFK is the only survivor eh? eheheheheh OHOHOHOHOHOHHH

Awww that was pretty lovely ngl ^^

OHHHHH THE GIG IS UP, but what will happend next~~? And yeah, that's my neutral philosophy in a nutshell Things arent either good or bad, they just are~~

OH NEVERMIND THE GIG IS UP CAUSE NOW IT'S REAL!!!!!

RATING: 0/10 LIKE THE AMOUNT OF SCREETIME TOPHER GOT IN THIS EPISODE WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[m0ther-of-p3arl]

hey hey you. yeah you. im pointing at your face.

i have a podcast :3c me and my friend elsi put it together so go give it a listen maybe???? mayhaaaaaps?? we're gonna talk about philosophy and stuff. it's a bit..... chaos....... but yk. we move.

[asksuccubussides]

(Hi, me again. I’ve got a bunch of different ones so feel free to pick yours favourites and ignore the rest. Obviously platonic asks for everyone but Remy and Emile.)

Janus+Virgil - 6, 8, 10, 14, 23

Roman+Remus - 7, 12, 20, 30, 41

Emile+Remy - 3, 11, 17, 24, 31

Sketch

(Yay i was hoping someone would pick 3 for Remile C: also sorry this took so long, been busy with some personal stuff. not proofread)

Janus & Virgil

8. What do they love most about the other? Why?

"I don't like this question" Virgil replied instantly as he blushed just a little. Though he was so pale even the tiniest bit of blush made his cheeks look red "This question sucks"

"We can skip ahead to the next question I suppose"

10. Do they share any hobbies or interests? How do these things bring them together?

Janus looked over to Virgil "What don't we share? We both enjoy arson, debauchery and most of all tax evasion. just to name a few"

"Not true! Especially the second one! I like all things supernatural, occult, frieghtening and generally scary" Virgil's voice constantly sounded hoarse and just a bit darker than it was naturally supposed to be "And unlike the slimey snake I have awesome music taste"

"Oh pleassse-"

"I can take the smooth jazz and the blues but my line is drawn at showtunes dude"

"Come ON Virge! The black parade is basically two box steps away from being a full on musical. You can not look me in the eyes and tell me your little dressed up boys aren't just as theatrical as mine"

Virgil just rolled his eyes while moving his hands like it was a mouth non stop blabbing.

"I have a theory that the interests you share with your childhood best friend sticks with you like a mold for the rest of life which is the only reason why I do enjoy less sophisticated things like ghost hunting videos and cryptids" Janus explained to which Virgil butted in with.

"I'm the mold"

"Though most of the time I tend to focus on philosophy, psychology and general hatred for the way society is today. Very healthy enjoyable activites all around"

"We hate society...Together!"

Janus and Virgil both nodded dramatically while high fiving over that.

14. Do they enjoy PDA, or are they more private with affection?

"If someone tries to touch me I will gnaw their arm of....Or more realistically just run away" Virgil said "Janus can touch me sparingly because he's not a person, he's a snake"

"Obviously"

"Yeah obviously. Especially not in public. I don't even want to be visible in public or exists there! Much less all" He grimaced while waving his hand around "That"

"I for one definitely would neeevveer enjoy any sort of public affection because I am obviously very much against those sorts of theatrics" Janus snarked out.

23. What are the defining characteristics of their relationship?

"I'm a dramatic bitch and Virgil is 60% pure anxiety and therefore far too compassionate to me for his own good" "We grew up together so we're kinda stuck together now" They both said at the same time.

They looked at each other before continuing.

"He's a genuinly good person where as im not" "Seeing him rot makes me so fucking anxious I gotta do something bout it. He keeps me down to earth..Literally...I mean he- you help me with the brain spiders"

They were sitting on the floor of their shared dormroom doing a puzzle precisely because Virgil had seen Janus laying in bed all day and had dragged him up to do anything even if it was just walking around the room a few times before doing a puzzle. Jan went along only becuase he knew it calmed Virgil down.

"I'm not lazing around it's called philosophing" Janus argued "If we were living in ancient times I would be the next Socrates"

"We're living in 2023 and everything is a fucKING NIGHTMAREEE" Virgil took a deep breathe "Screaming helps sometimes"

"Did you get it all out? Want to scream together?"

"YES!"

They sat on the floor next to each other and screamed while continuing with the puzzle.

Roman & Remus

7. How often do they say “I love you”?

"UuuuuuuUUuuuuUUuuuhhhh...Neva? Never!" Remus replied before smiling. "I think I show it well enough nonverbally! Like this"

Remus dove to bite his brother directly in the skin of his knee to which Roman tried to swat him away. Instead Remus started to bite the ends of Roman's hair.

"Stop eating me!!"

"I'm so lovegiving" Remus said with a mouthfull of hair.

With the same wrath in her eyes as a kitty cat about to strike Roman lifted her hand and absolutely smacked her brother down into the floor.

"I for one am muuucchhhh" She sang that last word "better at showing love than you! That is to people deserving of it!! But yes I do say it sometimes...even to...that thing"

"I dont remember you saying mucky ucku lovey stuff to me"

"Yeah! because you're always off your ass when I do and never remember! Maybe if you stopped acting like a sack of poatoes every few weeks you would remember more!!"

"Or you could just say it more" Remus mocked while waging his tail back and forth.

Roman just rolled his eyes.

12. Do they have a difficult time when separated from each other, or are they fairly independent?

"Bitchfuck you spend like all your time on earth obviously we're independent. I spend more time with the dustrats under my bed than I do with you!" Remus exclaimed, waving his arms around like always.

"If anything it's a relief to be away from you" Roman turned his head up while fixing with his hair "A prince such as myself has no reason to be around a blegh like you 24/7"

"And I don't have any reason to hang around a boring non creative little assshit! Except to leave totally awesome bugs in your clothes!"

41. What would they do if they lost the other?

Neither of them answered at first. A quiet gasp left Roman's slightly pursed lips while his ahnds stayed frozen mid air on their way to cover his mouth. Remus insticly moved his tail to wrap around his brother.

"I....I don't like thinking about that..." Roman murmured out "....I already think about it often as it is.....Every time....I am so afraid dukey is going to break the rules in a horrible way some day and I wont be there to.....I don't want to think about it...."

She moved her arms around herself while looking down at the floor. Remus looked to her but she didn't even glance back.

"Well I would hunt them down to the ends of the earths and kill them obviously! And then I would find a way to resurect people so I could kill them again!!"

"...I have to go....I have...something...i have an art show to see" Roman lied while standing up. Remus tried to reach for him with his tail but he quickly left the room.

Through the thin wall Remus could hear Roman take a deep shaky breathe before beginning to quietly mumble to himself "Strong prince. A strong prince doesn't break at something small. Strong brave prince" He began to hymn to the tune of one of his favorite disney songs while walking away.

Emile & Remy

3. What was their first impression of each other?

As soon as the two of them heard the questions they both started to smile silly little smiles. The type of smile reserved to passing to notes to each other during class and holding hands for the first time.

'Alright so girl it was-' Remy began to sign.

"-We met at one of those live dissections they used to have at universities back in the day!!" Emile exclaimed "Of a corpse of course!! I don't support murder!"

'I was there 'cause like I had nothing to do and I was like a demon in the late 1800s what was a bitch to do? I love concerts and like if you think about it a live disesction is a sort of concert! And I' Remy ran their finger mindleesly down their cheek to their lip and spoke the rest of the sentence "I just remember like looking back and seeing you a few seats behind and you were just like....shining...it was blinding and I was like girrrl what the fuck is someone as sweet looking as you doing here"

Emile moved his arm around his lover and nudged his head against theirs "A....supernatural like me wasn't supposed to be in a place like that but I was simply so fascinated by the brain and the body and the beautiful biology of it all. As soon as I saw you I got so nervous you would see me and-" he laughed "I don't even know how you would get me in trouble for it I just thought somehow y'know sweetie?"

"I know babe"

"But gosh once the dissection began I forgot all about my worries I was so intrigued"

"Girrl I could not have cared less bout that diessction. I couldn't stop like eyeing Emile"

"And then at the end you when everyone was leaving you, my sweet little honeybun, talked to me"

Remy moved their tail around his back and pressed a kiss to his temple.

Emile let up into a snort "You asked me why the hell I was there-"

"Which is like toootally the worst first line I coulda said. I know! I should have like asked if you'd sat in sugar 'cause your ass is so sweet"

When Emile laughed again Remy laid their hand against his chest and let the feeling of their laughter reverbete into their hand.

"I love your laugh babe"

24. How do their personalities affect their relationship? Do their characteristics compliment each other, or clash often?

'Bitches like always assume our personalities gonna clash 'cause I'm a rude loudmouth and my sweetie here is a sweetie but eh I think we go together good' Remy signed.

'We've leveled each other out I think. I tell you when you're being too rude and you tell me when I forget personal boundaries and become rude by therapising-"

'You can be a bit naive sometimes' Remy teased with a smile.

Emile poked at their cheek 'And you're too quick to assumptions. But for the most part we're like a puzzle with no pieces missing'

'Nice metaphor'

'That was a parabel but thank you. The best part is that I'm less social than my honeybun but they enjoy sleeping which I don't so I have all of my peaceful alone time and watch all of my cartoon reruns while they're asleep. Cozy cuddles!!'

31. Do they often go out on dates? What are these like?

'How love we been together now babe?'

"Uuuuuhhh we're coming up on 127 years I think. I remember because we look around 27!"

'Yeah were like in our old couple phase sooo like we dont go on dates as often as like we used to do cause now were tots more chill but like maybe once a month right`?'

'Something like that yes' Emile moved his arms around their upper arm and squeezed tight 'I cant go to earth without my honeybun. Im physically unable to open a door to earth. So we like to go on dates on earth'

'I like going to concerts and like testing different beds to sleep in' They bumped their head against their lovers 'Both meanings of sleep in' to which Emile chuckled.

'My favorite part is just walking around in nature and people watching which is good because as long as my sweetie has a coffee we can just sit and stare at people for hours'

'Oh i LOVE bitching bout peoples clothes'

'Gosh when I say it out loud our dates sound so boring'

'When you get over a 100 I think people like get why. Like what else can we do at this point. Look at the fucking mona lisa again!? Cmon now. I know that bitch in and out at this point. I can piss on Freuds grave again'

'We can stay at the hello kitty hotel again'

'That place Was sweet as hell. Good point'

[metrodisco]

im a lazy goth. yeah i got the music style and the philosophy but am i going to put on trad goth makeup in fortaleza ceará brazil? no bitch sometimes i want to wear cute pink things. or short and chinelos

[losver07]

not a vent but talking about my life lol

so im thinking of talking to my psych teacher tomorrow? cause last year i had my philosophy teacher to (try to) help me with my stuff but i changed schools and my tutor is a bitch & most of my teachers are ethically very questionable to the point where i feel sorry for their kids. anyway we do have like "therapists" available but i tried to go last year & it was somehow worse than if i hadn't gone? (you can tell those people hate their jobs) & also they called my parents which is not fucking cool because their reaction was shit

so yeah i was thinking of asking if he knows of someone who could help or at least care because i have my a-levels (or the spanish equivalent) on may and 1. im not even totally sure ill make it to may and 2. how tf am i going to pass a test like that when every time i have to do something i disassociate & start thinking of stuff not related to the subject (and i mean i try & i study until i know everything & then go the exam & lose half of my time looking at the wall remembering the swing set in which i played in primary school & then i think about the bad part of primary school & then i just enter an spiral and psychologically torture myself somehow, all of this with a blank paper in front of me) so idk ive been postponing it for years but i seriously need an evaluation from a professional BUT i dont want my parents to find out so idk what the fuck to do because the teacher might or might not call my mum after i talk to him

idk but part of it is also that i need to get it off my chest because once again my best friend is too busy doing nothing to listen to this sort of stuff so im bottling it up again and im scared that im going to explode any minute because it has happened before and i dont like it

sorry i just know that i dont have the guts to ask for help so idk i hope this serves as a record that at least i thought of it (ill say something tomorrow if i do talk to him ig)