#Detestable Things

[sadclowncentral]

shoutout to the guy who after unsuccessfully hitting on my sister and being politely declined asked her "is it okay if i ask your brother instead" and when she said yes gave me a long and searching look before sighing and going "no. i am not drunk enough to go for a dude. but you look like an angel" happy bisexual pride to this man and this man only. hope you figure it out soon king

[lordgodjehovahsway]

Deuteronomy 12: Moses Tells The Israelites To Worship God In One Holy Place

1 These are the decrees and laws you must be careful to follow in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess—as long as you live in the land. 

2 Destroy completely all the places on the high mountains, on the hills and under every spreading tree, where the nations you are dispossessing worship their gods. 

3 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and burn their Asherah poles in the fire; cut down the idols of their gods and wipe out their names from those places.

4 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way. 

5 But you are to seek the place the Lord your God will choose from among all your tribes to put his Name there for his dwelling. To that place you must go; 

6 there bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, what you have vowed to give and your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 

7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your families shall eat and shall rejoice in everything you have put your hand to, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

8 You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit, 

9 since you have not yet reached the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you. 

10 But you will cross the Jordan and settle in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and he will give you rest from all your enemies around you so that you will live in safety. 

11 Then to the place the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his Name—there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice possessions you have vowed to the Lord. 

12 And there rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns who have no allotment or inheritance of their own. 

13 Be careful not to sacrifice your burnt offerings anywhere you please. 

14 Offer them only at the place the Lord will choose in one of your tribes, and there observe everything I command you.

15 Nevertheless, you may slaughter your animals in any of your towns and eat as much of the meat as you want, as if it were gazelle or deer, according to the blessing the Lord your God gives you. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it. 

16 But you must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. 

17 You must not eat in your own towns the tithe of your grain and new wine and olive oil, or the firstborn of your herds and flocks, or whatever you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. 

18 Instead, you are to eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites from your towns—and you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to. 

19 Be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

20 When the Lord your God has enlarged your territory as he promised you, and you crave meat and say, “I would like some meat,” then you may eat as much of it as you want. 

21 If the place where the Lord your God chooses to put his Name is too far away from you, you may slaughter animals from the herds and flocks the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and in your own towns you may eat as much of them as you want. 

22 Eat them as you would gazelle or deer. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat. 

23 But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat. 

24 You must not eat the blood; pour it out on the ground like water. 

25 Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

26 But take your consecrated things and whatever you have vowed to give, and go to the place the Lord will choose. 

27 Present your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God, both the meat and the blood. The blood of your sacrifices must be poured beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat. 

28 Be careful to obey all these regulations I am giving you, so that it may always go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

29 The Lord your God will cut off before you the nations you are about to invade and dispossess. But when you have driven them out and settled in their land, 

30 and after they have been destroyed before you, be careful not to be ensnared by inquiring about their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? We will do the same.” 

31 You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

32 See that you do all I command you; do not add to it or take away from it.

[letsplaythermalnuclearwar]

Homer!Odysseus and Epic!Odysseus would try to kill each other if they ever met

[heartorbit]

catch us if you can! ☆

[43501]

Hotly debated perennial subject in DN fandom is whether or not L had any sort of direct contact (or even personal relationships) with the Wammy kids.

For the record: I'm firmly in the camp that Death Note was originally written as though L had contact with the orphans and the "oh, he only spoke to them through a screen exactly once" thing was decided by Ohba/Obata later. It comes up first in the C-Kira Story (released 2008, after anime finished and long after the original manga run) and again in the anime movie/re-write released around the same time. They're adamant about this detail, but it's also clearly an afterthought. Like... based on Near's finger puppet and mask of L... he clearly knew what L looked like. But we've all been over that: the thing that's been driving me crazy was that I could've sworn someone referenced talking to L directly and I finally figured out what gave me that impression.

Exclusively in the English dub Mello's line here is "he promised me he'd find kira and execute him". In the manga text and the Japanese audio, Mello's line here is a more general "(L) (said/proclaimed/etc) he'd find kira and execute him". My Japanese level isn't enough to determine whether the original JP text/audio implies in some way that this was a personal conversation.

[quixot1sm]

ghetsis back when he tried to become the modern day hero of truth but the light stone thought his aura was rancid and flashbanged him instead

[avalencias]

happy sg server creative exchange @lordhavemercer !! I had the pleasure of trying my hand at your prompts and went for ashton and fearne cuddling with gloamglut in 108 (coincidentally either the last episode i’ve actually seen or very close to it………it’s been trying times lol)

here’s them with gloamglut and a zoomed in crop. in all honesty the art block has been incredibly real these past couple months (bc the horrors) but this was delightful. thank you for the prompt and hope you enjoy!

[i-ate-all-of-my-toes]

She dearly till I'm detested

The fact I couldn't do the whole song because I frequently lose motivation

Anyways I hope this was somewhat good yaysyaydgyay

@springlucked (is that something I can do)

[gif-fany]

Lil comic for Dave's birthday.. and included some refs.. try to catch them

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY FAVORITE EGGPLANT IN THE WHOLE MULTIVERSE

[crystallizsch]

"we're dancing 'round the kitchen in the refrigerator light"

[utilitycaster]

I know this has been said before but man I wish people stopped acting like it's a profound shock when they are not personally notified about Critical Role's schedule. There is a website. There is a newsletter. There is a Twitter. Matthew Mercer is not going to show up on your doorstep and gently type in the URL, his hands over yours like Patrick Swayze in Ghost. The power rests within you.

[knockknockitsnickels]

March & Ryis thinking

Making this it's own post instead of hiding it in the tags on a shitpost: Part of why March seems to dislike us is because we're "new in town" & stealing his thunder - he has some lines implying that he thinks we're going to cut & run when things get too difficult, but other lines which imply that he's also jealous how much attention we get from the townspeople.

However, he also seems to be close friends with Ryis, who IIRC is also stated to be relatively new in town. I'm curious if the developers have a story in mind there, or if there's already something in the game suggesting why they get along so well. Did something happen between them? Does Ryis just pass his vibe check? I'm curious to hear if anyone else has any speculation/headcanons. Also please correct me if I'm off on any details, I haven't been able to play for a few months & also every time I try to read March's dialogue my vision clouds with red and rage overwhelms my soul

[nenoname]

Why do you think Stan had to impersonate a dentist?

we know that he's willing to fake a war/being a veteran just for a discount but i wonder what immediate perks there are to appearing to be a dentist...... was he stealing equipment or oh god don't tell me he had bags of human teeth or something--

personally i'm curious what crime required killing a llama witness

[loonarmuunar]

“Erm hehe well actually all gods are fake religion isn’t real… if you believe in a god then erm you’re just naive” you are literally no better than a Christian detesting all other religions. Your message is not more noble just because you don’t have belief behind it.

[etrosgate]

everyone knows the ideal way to play kingdom hearts is just in release order. i agree with this, with one exception:

i think people should watch dark road before playing kh3.

as a narrative, khdr doesn't depend on any reveals from kh3*, and in fact feels like crucial lead-up to the game, doing a fantastic job setting up for that game in a thematic sense, successfully bridging khux's fairly disconnected narrative to the main xehanort saga, and Most importantly: setting up xehanort's conclusion in kh3 (which feels extremely anti-climactic and out of nowhere w/out dark road's context. source: me in 2019)

*there's like ONE moment from khdr that references a big spoiler from kh3's ending, but when viewed in khdr->kh3 order, that reference just changes from a reveal to good foreshadowing, so i don't think it ruins either moment.

less importantly, the two games have some shared scenes (im talking identical), so when viewed in this order, the ones in kh3 become something exciting like "omg i get to see this scene in proper hd cutscene format with voice acting!!!" instead of the second viewing just being a presentation downgrade.

also it feels weird that the xehanort saga was supposed to end w/kh3, but you have to watch a follow-up prequel that explains his motivations in retrospect lol

tldr: dark road fits better into the overall narrative flow when viewed before kh3, its context actively improves your kh3 experience, and basically nothing is lost by viewing it in this order. literally win/win scenario

[cordyceph]

went to bed and woke up in a cold sweat realizing that claudia's play, the birdie one, is both a direct analogy for her story and also foreshadowing of her death WHILE ALSO nodding to pauls death

claudia'a single minded, desperate drive for freedom eventually lead her directly to her death. she was "nailed down" by lestat (by LOUIS, actually- lestat only kept her for him.), and tore herself free at the loss of her 'foot,' being a stand in for the personal pain she suffered for freedom

no matter what she or anyone did, she was going to die painfully, because she was so desperate to be free that everything was suffocating. lestat, louis, romania, the coven. the only thing that didnt rot in her mind was madeline, because... there simply wasnt time. madeline was fresh and new and, given time, would have probably suffered the same heel-turn claudia gave to everything.

of course thats because she shared louis' hopeful outlook. being free of her parents? would fix everything. when it didn't? maybe if she had louis, it would be worth it. but its not, lestats still here, louis is still in love with him... killing lestat, thatll fix it, and she and louis will be happy in romania, right, the homeland for vampirekind? not quite, so better try paris, the city of love. that doesnt work. the coven, though, will give her what she wants, right? she'll be happy with other vampires?

the only person who makes her happy is? a modern version of lestat? a weird white woman she met on happenstance, who has little to no care for societal norms or faux pas. a blunt, kind of funny, kind of sad woman who lost her family but has a capacity for enduring because what else is she going to do? die? no, she cant do that. she had no friends because she was weird and offputting and had dangerous rumors, no hangups on loving claudia, no hangups on dying or being a killer.

that's... just lestat. without the immortality and the specific traumas, of course, but like. claudia's most beloved person was a funhouse mirror of her most hated. which really speaks volumes for what they could have had, because it wasnt just a clash of personalities. it was lestats bpd clashing with hers and both of their attachment to louis clashing. if lestat had been better at sharing, if louis had been better at loving both of them, if claudia had been less angry at the world for nothing but existing? maybe they could have been a good family. a happy one forever, just like they all wanted, but were unable to give each other