#HES THE GOD OF CREATION I HAD A POINT OK

[lotus--pond]

my funniest fable confession is before we knew Isla was Icarus's mom, I fully believed Fable just. Mitosis-ed Icarus.

that or I had a vivid vision of fable holding a yellow and purple spawn egg and placing it and out came baby Icarus.

I don't know what was wrong with me

[eizneckam]

You said not to, but I'm doing it anyway. Tell us how Steven Spielberg fucked up Jurassic Park. I know a lot of it but I love it when other people complain

So like, the original Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is a horror novel. Full stop, the end. Scary book about the dangers of overzealous science and evil monsters the book is calling "dinosaurs".

Let's be clear. The fact that Jurassic Park screwed up the public perception of dromaeosaurs forever is not Steven Spielberg's fault. That is an entirely different issue that I won't get into. This is all about how Steven Spielberg is literally that guy from the "wow, cool robots!" meme except saying "he's literally me!"

In the book, Hammond is not a good person. He made the park to make easy money. One of his plans is to sell the dinosaurs as pets, and then make sure they can only eat InGen food that people will have to buy from him. He doesn't really care about his grandkids; he literally only invites them to emotionally blackmail Gennaro (the lawyer) by going "see, look how much kids love the place! you can't threaten to shut down my barely functional and extremely dangerous park." It's clear in the book, and kind of skimmed over in the movie, that the park is not functional. There are poisonous plants (and poisonous to dinosaurs as well!) growing everywhere because Hammond thought they looked cool. Tons of dinosaurs get sick, there are hundreds of glitches in the system, parts of the park don't even work at all. In the movie, it's a concern that dinosaurs might escape the island; in the book, it's already happened by the time the book starts. Security is awful and the entire system is maintained by a harried college grad working overtime on no pay. Malcolm's argument against the park is not really just "Man shouldn't create life" but rather "Holy shit everything that can go wrong will go wrong and it already has."

Apparently, though, Steven Spielberg saw himself in Hammond. How, I don't know. Maybe he connected with the idea of being a "visionary". So instead, movie Hammond is a friendly grandpa who loves his kids and at worst, just doesn't fully grasp the ramifications of his achievement rather than a greedy old man who doesn't care about the harm his creations might cause. And, probably not coincidentally, causes the villainization and strawman-ization of every character who was opposed to Hammond in the book. Nedry was an unpleasant person in the book, but he's barely 25, and Hammond got him to the island promising that he would only have to fix a couple things, and now he's got him (as mentioned earlier) working overtime on the system for no pay. You can at least understand why he says "screw it, I'm out of here"; compared to the movie version, who's just a sick, gross bastard. Muldoon is a competent hunter in the book who rightly ascertains that the dinosaurs are going to need to be put down; the ambush that kills him in the movie? He sees it ahead of time (he was hired to deal with the raptors, for God's sake!) and doesn't go into the obvious trap, surviving the book in the process. Malcolm is likable in the movie still, but his arguments against Hammond's seemingly-OK park are watered down in strength to moral appeals rather than the piercingly accurate scientific criticisms they are in the novel. And Gennaro - don't even get me started on Gennaro, in the book he goes toe-to-toe with a Velociraptor to save the two kids! And wins! Plus, like Malcolm, his criticisms of Hammond are not just some pushy lawyer's, but a serious and true critique - it's made clear he had no idea just how bad the park was before he arrived, and he's furious with Hammond for putting his own grandchildren into such obvious danger.

And then, back to the original point, there's the subject of death. In Jurassic Park, the movie, death is funny. Look, the scummy lawyer gets eaten on a toilet! Haha, the fat bastard got what he deserved! In Jurassic Park, the book, death is horrifying, brutal, and vicious, as it should be. Nedry's death in the book is one of the scariest scenes I've ever read. When Ed Regis (a publicist who was combined with Gennaro in the movie, taking the role of the guy who abandoned the kids and got eaten by a T. rex) runs, it's not treated as evil. Malcolm and Grant run too! (To be fair, they can't see what's happening in the other car, so it's not a conscious decision to abandon the kids.) When they witness Regis getting eaten, it's treated as absolutely horrific. So the man had a moment of weakness. Does that really mean he deserves to become lizard chow while he's alive and screaming? When Dr Wu gets attacked by the 'raptors, the narration notes that he's trying to push them away without realizing they've already torn him open. It's nauseating and horrific. Nothing about it is funny at all.

But go listen to the movie's main theme. That's not a horror theme. That's a fun adventure movie for the kids! Dah-da-dah, dah dahhhh. What a brutally tonally inappropriate main theme that perfectly encapsulates how badly the movie fails to get literally everything the book was saying.

TLDR; Jurassic Park the novel isn't perfect, but at least it knows what it is. Jurassic Park the movie is quite literally one of the most glaring examples of "wow, cool dinosaurs!" ever to make it to cinema screens.

[madaboutmunson]

I Suggest a New Strategy....

For the @strangerthingswritersguild daily prompt "Cosplay" ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Steve waved his hands over the costumes on the bed, “NO! No way, babe.” Eddie smiled as sweetly as possible at Steve, “Now, maybe just think about the fact I’ve taken your requests into consideration here, Sweetheart.”

“Oh, come on!” Steve scoffed, throwing his hands up in the air.

Wagging his finger and circling Steve, Eddie reminded him gently, “It's Dustin’s birthday, and if I recall correctly, it was you who said you would do whatever he wanted this year. You said that, after you skipped out on him to date, uh, Belinda, was it? “Brenda,” Steve corrected guiltily. “Oh yeah, that's right, Brenda…The emergency straight date you pulled after kissing me in your pool and making googly eyes at me the whole party the night before.” “Give me a break, ok. I didn’t know I was into guys,” Steve whined, knowing he was fighting a losing battle. Eddie tilted his head with a knowing grin, and Steve bit his lips together and looked to the heavens for help in realisation, as Eddie barked out a laugh,  “I knew it! I knew I was your bisexual awakening!” “Ok. Alright. Shut up!” Steve frowned and shook his head. “Can I at least wear the other one?” “No baby, I custom-made these, your sweet peach will put those pants under pressure. Besides, you are the one that said,” Eddie put on his best Steve voice, “‘I wouldn’t be seen dead at one of those nerdy ass, freak fests.’ And I, as your very galant, thoughtful and sexy boyfriend, made you something that worked as a couple's costume, and so that you wouldn’t be seen.”

Steve rolled his eyes and sighed, “Fine, but I’m drinking, you’re the driver. I’m gonna need it to get through this.” “Yesssss! Of course, sweetheart, whatever you say.” Eddie punched the air with glee. An hour later, they find themselves at the sci-fi convention, Eddie happily holding Steve’s hand publicly because no one knows who’s in there but him. “EDDIE!” A voice screeches out, and a blonde wigged, jedi-robed Dustin barrels towards them, “Oh my god, you look fantastic! How’d you get all your hair like that? You make a great Han Solo!” “Thanks, kid,” Eddie said, ruffling Dustin’s wig, who had turned to observe the seven and a half foot creation next to him, mouth wide open. “Is he really in there?” Dustin whispers in surprise to Eddie. “Would you keep it down? Eddie is holding my hand right now, you’ll get him in trouble!” Steve complained in a pointed whisper “Oh my god…IT IS!” Dustin grinned with delight, and Eddie wiggled his eyebrows.

“Ok, guide me to the bar, please. This place might already be my personal hell. Oh wait, is that one of those little bears on a key chain?” “Bar?” Dustin laughed, “There are some vending machines in the hall, but this is just a local convention. They don’t serve alcohol here.” The hall suddenly turned to see a full-scale Chewbacca fall to his knees and emit a desperate Wookie growl.

[hussyknee]

THE LEFTIST THIRD PARTY HAS WON SRI LANKA'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

WE HAVE A PRO-LGBT, PRO-UNION, ANTI-ETHNOFASCIST, ANTI-IMPERIALIST PRESIDENT. MY ANTHROPOLOGY PROFESSOR IS GOING TO BE PRIME MINISTER. A COMPETENT ACADEMIC WHO HAS WORKED ON FEMINIST INITIATIVES AND RESEARCH ALL HER CAREER.

please please please please god don't let them fuck this up don't let them turn into a bunch of cunts to retain their new voter base don't let them fuck up the economy don't let them let the minorities down please please please they won't ever get another chance if they ruin this one we'll be stuck with more idiot corrupt nepo babies till we die please please please PLEASE LET THIS BE THE END OF THE EXECUTIVE PRESIDENCY AND PREVENTION OF TERRORISM ACT AND PERSECUTING THE NORTH please please please let them decriminalize being gay and not bury LGBT rights please please please let there be a god I can't take anymore of this shitshow please please please don't let hope be something that keeps pissing in our faces please please please please please please please

ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE WILL BE THE NINTH PRESIDENT OF SRI LANKA. TAKE THAT YOU TWO PARTY VOTING MOTHERFUCKERS.

Edit:

WHAT DO YOU MEAN FUCKING COLOMBO WENT TO THE IDIOT NEPO BABY???

AKD HAD 52%!!!!! HE WAS ALL BUT SWORN IN?????

THEY HAVE TO COUNT THE SECOND PREFERENTIAL VOTE FOR ONLY THE SECOND TIME IN HISTORY??

There is a very real chance that nobody will get over 50% of the vote. That would be really, really bad.

Fuck.

I HATE YOU MOTHERFUCKING URBAN MIDDLE CLASS LIBERAL CUNTS SO MUCH. PLAGUE ON THE WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY. FUCK YOU.

Edit 2:

Ok so first counting gets AKD 42% and SP 32%. It's very likely the preferentional vote will put him over the 50% line.

It's so poetic that Ranil's greed for power ended up handing the country to the very Marxists that his uncle hunted like animals. You love to see it. 🥰

Edit 3:

So the preferential vote didn't give anyone a 50% majority and we're still at AKD 42% and SP 32%. But apparently that's enough to declare AKD President as per the Constitution. I don't think that's ever happened before. He was sworn in an hour ago.

Point of clarification: The NPP are not Marxists. Foreign news is just uncritically regurgitating the pro-government Red Scare propaganda. AKD and his JVP party used to be Marxists back in the '80s and '90s. They're now more very pro-union socialist. The NPP is their coalition, which is even more mildly social democrat and just happens to be a little more left than the other two. Calling them a Marxist is like how MAGA thinks the Dems are commies. 😂

I truly don't have great hopes that much will change, but there's a chance one or two important things might. Which is more than we've been able to hope for in decades.

See this post for a run down of the what's really been happening.

Edit 4:

I retract the "openly bisexual" part with many apologies. I completely misremembered. It wasn't AKD but JVP senior K. D. Lalkantha, who said in a 2018 interview is that he has also had same sex encounters with his friends as a boy and young man, and that he knows others who have had as well. And he specifically said he doesn't see the need to maintain a label for his sexuality. Still, the fact that his party allowed this in a country that still criminalises homosexuality, to a Sinhalese magazine, speaks to a commitment to LGBT rights. He also explicitly stated his support for women's rights, trans rights, polyamory, open relationships, explicit sexuality in media. It's impressively progressive for this country. The interview is in Sinhala and you can read it here.

Here's an excellent write-up of AKD's career, political outlook and creation of NPP in The Hindu by correspondent Meena Srinivasan, a journalist whose reporting I've always liked.

[the-crustation-sensation]

How i think arcane s2 fumbled Viktor. Coming from a disabled person

Not proofread we die like all my favorite characters

As previously mentioned, I struggle with chronic pain. I have POTs and probably EDS now that I think about it, and I use a cane on bad days since at times walking long distances is very painful

I started watching arcane shortly after discovering my own disability and I was SO happy to see a well represented disabled character, guess who my favorite character is (hard mode)

Anytime there’s someone with a physical disability represented in modern media, they’re never allowed to just… be disabled, casually. Yes disability massively affects and changes one’s live immensely, but it’s not the only all-encompassing trait of their personality. A lot of the time when I see a disabled character, they’re just there to be disabled. They don’t get a character arc outside of their disability… or much of a personality either (9 times out of 10 their usually always paralyzed in a wheelchair too, but that’s a different conversation)

And sometimes having a characters arc revolve around a disability is acceptable, but it’s not ok to have a token disabled character and do nothing else with their plot line. Disability is allowed to be a part of their story, but it doesn’t have to be the whole story. Make your disabled characters people with a disability, not a blank slate token character.

And that’s why I was so pleased with Viktor in season one. He exists With his disability, not despite it. It was very refreshing to a character have a very defined personality and purpose outside being a token disabled character. Yes of course his disability is a huge part of his story, but it’s not the entire story.

Now how did s2 fumble?

In s1 I think viktors descent into illness was well written, I was kind of expecting his disability to be a big part of his overall character arc in the first place (as it so often is) but in s2 I feels like the writers almost forgot that Viktor was dying of cancer … not trying to perfect himself

I was so excited to see what s2 did with his character arc, and I just ended up.. disappointed. On surface level i loved Jesus!viktor just as much as the next fan, but when you dig deeper into his story it felt so icky

Whenever a disabled person is represented, not only does their character arc revolve around disability, it has to revolve around “fixing” said disability. And a big pattern I see is many character arcs having an undertone of radical acceptance. I.e “you where never broken, you just needed to accept yourself” “you just need to love your disability as a part of you”

No… you don’t have to love the part of you that’s actively causing you pain and lowering your quality of life, or actively killing you like Viktors terminal illness.

Self acceptance with disability is all fine and dandy, but it is SO overplayed and overwritten. You’re allowed to be frustrated with your disability, and learn to move past it.

The big point is Viktor was never trying to “perfect” himself in s1, he was trying to live.

In s2 they took the idea of Viktor working to cure his terminal illness and ran with it. They blew his arc so wildly out of proportion until he literally became a god obsessed with “perfecting” all of humanity.

And that just felt.. icky. It didn’t feel like Viktor. The Viktor in s1 had a dream of helping his people, of using his creations to uplift everyone! He never would have wanted to force all of humanity into “evolving” without their consent. And do not even get me STARTED on how he completely lost his autonomy to the hexcore, and in turn took it from so many people. That deserves a post on its own

I was so excited for the arcane writers to do something creative with his character arc, but no. Once again a disabled character fell victim to their entire arc being about fixing their disability, only to end with radical self love and acceptance

And the thing is I could get behind an arc of Viktor healing! He deserves to heal and live his life happy and healthy, but to me and him all of a sudden obsessed with “perfection” felt completely out of left field

I think my biggest problem with season 2 overall is that it lost sight of the entire theme of the show. Season one was a beautiful statement about classism, segregation, and how differently it affects people. It was representing real world problems on a scale we could understand. And the best part about s1 was that everyone on the main cast was relatively morally grey, they were humans who had realistic flaws, and made mistakes.

Nobody was shoved into a traditional “good guy/bad guy” box, and that made the show feel so much more real.

S2 was rushed, and for some reason the writers said “actually never mind, we’re going to bend everyone’s morals out of proportion so we can have a big bad villian we all fight at the end”

It had an overwhelming undertone of “forgive your oppressors so we can come together against a common enemy” which felt like a massive slap in the face to everyone who’s actually experience the classism and poverty that arcane represented in s1

I think so many of the problems with s2 could have been fixed or at least explained in detail if we got a s3. I understand as a writer myself that would have been a long, and expensive process that the arcane producers weren’t willing to go through. But I can’t help but mourn the story we could have had if the writers were just allowed to spend more time on it.

Overall, I could write an essay picking apart every tiny detail of arcane in general, so I’ll stop here. I just needed to get this rant out in writing and out of my head, I’m so insanely disappointed and mildly insulted with how the arcane writers treated Viktor, who had such potential

Feel free to share your opinions or completely disagree with me in the comments, please be kind as this is just my humble analysis and opinion.

[honnelander]

I CAME AS SOON AS I SAW THE POST

can we get a little snippet of go fish!reader maybe reading Pride and Prejudice aloud to Zoro after he had been struck down by Mihawk, like how Nami did, and Sanji over hearing and just staying by the door to listen to her read or something? i think a little blurb like that would be so cute

AHHH CUUUUTE!! i modified this a bit to have it fit into the overall story's timeline. instead of Zoro being struck down by Mihawk, he's sick and bedridden. thank you for this :))

here's go fish!Sanji listening to you reading:

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"Ohhh Zoro," you quietly squealed, trying your best to keep your voice down from disturbing a very ill and bedridden Zoro from waking. "Are you ready for this? Oh my god, this is another one of my favorite parts," you gushed, sighing dreamily as you put your very loved and well-worn copy of Pride and Prejudice on your lap before hurriedly picking it up again to continue reading aloud to your friend in his room.

"I'm in love with you, most ardently," you read, voice quiet enough and full of wistfulness.

As you continued to read the story, your voice going up and down in excitement as you read the scene aloud, Sanji could hear your quiet gushing from the hallway. He was carrying a small tray of food, two bowls of his special homemade chicken soup sitting right in the middle, one for Zoro and another for you since he knew you'd spent all afternoon reading to the sick swordsman and figured you must be hungry by this point as well.

With careful steps, he silently stood right behind the doorway as he listened to your soothing voice bring the words that were printed on the page of your favorite book to life with a small smile on his face. The blonde cook closed his eyes for a minute, letting the sound of your voice wash over him as he admired you without you ever knowing.

He leaned his shoulder on the doorframe right outside of Zoro's room, gently resting the side of his head against it as well, as his mind wandered for a second, getting lost in the story.

Apparently, it was the part in the story where Mr. Darcy was confessing his love to Elizabeth, but as he listened further, he realized that it wasn't the end of the story where they both confessed their feelings mutually, it was more in the beginning where Mr. Darcy's sentiments were one-sided and Sanji couldn't help but feel a sort of kinship with the fictional man.

While the situation he was in with you wasn't as dramatic as Jane Austen's creation (if there even was a 'situation', he thought dejectedly), the feelings he had for you were certainly real and very complicated.

Was he in love with you? He wasn't entirely sure, but he did like you, much more than a friend should. He had feelings that he only had for you, and no one else. Sure, he's come to love the rest of the crew and Nami too, but none of them could make him feel the things that he only seemed to experience with you.

Suddenly, he wondered how he would confess these sentiments to you one day. Would he pull a Mr. Darcy and just walk into your room one night, spilling out his heart's desires for you in a single breath because if he didn't, he might not have the courage to tell you otherwise? Telling you the thoughts that consistently plagued his mind, trying to sort them out aloud in front of you because they were driving him mad like poor Mr. Darcy? Or would he plan something out and take his time? Wait until he understood what he felt because he 'wanted to get it right'?

Sanji didn't know, it was too soon to tell... but what he did know was that if he stood out there loitering any longer, the soup would get cold and the chef in him would rather die than serve you something like that.

Coincidently, it seemed like the chapter had just ended, you letting out a lighthearted sigh as you softly commented to Zoro, "Ok Zoro, now wasn't that chapter just... extraordinary?"

"It certainly was, Missus," Sanji commented cheekily, suppressing a smile as best he could as he walked into the room.

"Oh! Sanji!" you gasped as your hand quickly covered your racing heart. "Jeez, you scared me." You watched as Sanji placed the tray of soups onto the nightstand. "Sorry. I, uh, didn't realize I was reading so loudly I attracted an audience," you said, your cheeks heating up slightly at the thought that Sanji had been listening to you for who knows how long.

"'Sorry'?" Sanji repeated, a slight frown on his face momentarily as looked down at the tray, glancing at you over his shoulder. "There's nothing to be sorry for, my love." Once the tray was secured on the nightstand, he fully turned to face you, his hands in his pockets as he put on his most charming smile. "Now," he started smoothly, "I'm starting to think that maybe I should get sick so you can come and read to me in bed all day."

Sanji's smile only grew as he watched your face become even more flushed at his words.

You laughed slightly, eyes darting away from his as you asked, "Don't you mean when you're bedridden?"

There was a long pause, the silence becoming deafening at your question. You could feel the tension in the room become thicker the longer that Sanji stayed quiet. Your hands started to feel slightly clammy as your heart rate picked up.

You swallowed. "You know, instead of 'in bed'... since you'd be sick and everything?" you asked finally, as you mustered up the courage to look back up at Sanji from your chair.

At his expression, your heart skipped a beat. Sanji was still looking at you, his eyes twinkling with mischief (and sincerity?) and another emotion you didn't understand, a soft smile on his face. You couldn't help but feel like Sanji knew what he said and that he had said it on purpose.

His crooked smile only deepened. "Sure," he agreed simply. "When I'm sick and ill, and completely bedridden." He blinked, inhaling a small breath as he looked down at his shoes for a moment before looking back up at you, a small questioning look in his eyes as he quietly asked, "And you'd do that? Come and read to me all day?"

"Of course," you answered without hesitation, frowning slightly at Sanji believing that you wouldn't do for even a moment. "I would do anything to help you feel better, Sanji."

Now, between the two of you, it was pretty obvious that Sanji was the smooth-talking flirt, with you never really outrightly flirting with him in the conventional sense, but wow, you might as well be labeled the biggest flirt in his mind because your kind, thoughtful words and gestures never failed to make his heart flutter and knees go weak.

And the way you would look at him, time and time again, whenever you would gently reassure him that yes, you did indeed care about him and that you never truly forgot him... it was enough for him to feel his heart nearly explode.

There it was again, your kind, thoughtful, and beautiful expression on full display for him as you looked up at him through your lashes.

And just like that, Sanji's fears were completely washed away.

He let out a slight laugh, turning his face to the side, his blonde bangs facing you to try and hide the very faint blush on his cheeks. "Aw, you're too kind to me, Missus." He looked back at you, his rosy glow fading slightly, however, his smile was still bright. "Thank you."

At seeing Sanji happy, you were happy. You returned his smile and with a slight teasing tone you said, "But I'll only read to you if you promise to read to me when I'm in bed, sick and completely bedridden."

The blonde chef laughed lightly again, partly because of your now little inside joke, but because the thought that you even had to ask him if he 'would ever do that for you' was completely absurd. Of course he would. He would've been reading to you from the moment you were awake and not feeling well, all the way until you were sleeping, and even then he would continue to recite the pages of the book you loved aloud while you slept, so your dreams and subconscious mind were filled with the sound of his voice well into the night.

Sanji would do anything for you. And you never even needed to ask.

But he didn't tell you all that, not wanting to freak you out with his intense train of thought, so he simply said, with a small smile and twinkle in his eye, "Consider it done."

From Sanji's right, the sound of bedsheets rustling caught both of your attention.

Zoro groaned, gingerly opening his eyes as he pulled his blanket closer to himself. "Ugh... waiter? What are you doing here?"

Sanji looked down at him, a hint of concern on his pretty features as he replied, "Ah, Mosshead, you're awake. I, uh, thought I'd do a little room service and bring some soup for you and y/n."

At hearing your name, Zoro opened his eyes again. "Y/n?" He slowly turned his head towards you. "What are you-" he started to ask but when he saw the book on your lap he groaned and covered his eyes with the crook of his elbow. "Oh don't tell me- you've been reading that garbage to me while I was sleeping this whole time?"

But you weren't offended by his question. Instead, you laughed. "If you mean masterpiece then, yes. You're right. I had just gotten to the good part too!"

Zoro shifted in his bunk, getting comfortable. "Well, by all means, keep going," he deadpanned. In a more sincere tone he said, "I haven't slept this good in a while." But then, with a ghost of a smile, he added, "Your book is so boring it puts me right to sleep."

"Hey, a win is a win," you laughed joyfully. You looked up at Sanji for a second, wanting to share your little moment of happiness of Zoro wanting to continue reading with him.

But Sanji was already looking at you, eyebrows raised in surprise and a disbelieving closed-lipped smile on his face. His smile only grew at seeing the happiness you radiated, his eyes scanning over your face. "Well, in that case," he started as he made his way towards the door. "Let me excuse myself then. I wouldn't want to get in the way of your storytime, Mr. Mosshead."

As Sanji left the room and stepped out into the hall, he could hear you giggle at his 'Mr. Darcy' joke while Zoro grumbled, a sweet sense of satisfaction coming over him.

But before he went back to the kitchen to start on tonight's dinner prep, he loitered outside of Zoro's room again, leaning against the doorframe like he did moments earlier, out of view, so could listen to you read once more for a bit, a small, wistful smile on his face.

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[bogos-bint3d]

random thought bc i was making alphyne sims LOL, do you think undyne would ever want to have children? how do you think she’d be as a parent?

While I personally don't quite have a "definite yes" or "definite no" answer for this I personally think that, yeah, possibly! I think it's a question with a lot of layers to it, "is it something the character would want?" "Is it something the character should do?" "How much thought would the character put into it all beforehand?" "How long would the character wait before making that choice?" And first of all I think I should talk about fandom culture's view on kids in general. Why? Because I'm obsessed with validating my opinions like this

It's been said many times by many people now how there are a lot of times where fans end up writing completely out of character for the purpose of placing characters into positions of stereotypical familial structures- ESPECIALLY forcing women into the roles of motherhood where it doesnt fit or make sense for them to the point where I don't think I can really add anything substantial or important to the topic. The pros have very much said what needs to be said.

HOWEVER. I ALSO LIKE TO HAVE FUN WITH FUCKING CHARACTERS. I LIKE TO EXPLORE DIFFERENT TOPICS AND SITUATIONS WITH THEM. I WANT PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO SHAMELESSLY ENJOY THEIR RIGHT TO INTERPRET CHARACTERS WHERE THEY THINK NESCECARY. WHERE THEY THINK FUCKING FUN!!!

So with that said, while demeaning female characters to singular sad and one dimensionsional traits of "Mother" is very clearly to me Not A Good Thing, people should stop acting like it's a fucking sin to imagine the possibility of a character having a child while still retaining all their accurate attributes, because it is a very possible thing that can be and IS done!!!!!

What are my thoughts on Undyne with all this?

Hehhaahehehaa....... strap in.

Where do I BEGIN. How about the inspirations behind the character of undyne herself.

Ok so see this wonderful lass here. That's a sculpture by Chauncey Ives of the mythical water spirit, Undine. Thinking about it, you all probably know this anyway because I do fairly often reblog Undine themed stuff too. Because I'm just like this. But how about the interesting stuff?

The original myth, created by Paracelsus, an alchemist and philosopher born in the 1400s, I believe comes from his work "A Book on Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies, and Salamanders, And Kindered Spirits". I think that's what it was called. I'm too tired to talk fully about it specifically and we need to get to the point so have a video of some guy reading it here

Yay :]

It's pretty much what it says. Paracelsus essentially believed that elemental beings (whom he had adapted and reimagined from ancient or traditional at the time sources) were simply part of the strangeness of God's natural creation and should be studied, as part of appreciation of the Bible etc. And we know ALL ABOUTTTTT utdr and its biblical links/imagery. But back to undine :]

Paracelsus named his takes on the classic concept of elementals: gnomes for earth (YES HE INVENTED THE WORD GNOME!!!!!), sylphs for air (yeah he also invented the word sylph), salamanders for fire (he didn't invent that :[), and of COURSE! UNDINES FOR WATER! He believed undines to be fairly similar to humans, a significant difference being the lack of a soul. Which surely means nothing when talking about Souls Are Important the Video Game. And anyways according to him they were apparently fairly capable of getting a soul through love. Wikipedia also says that Paracelsus says that a child from this love will too have a soul which is nice

Blablabla Wikipedia says undines are like fucking desperate to get a husband or whatever but dudeeeee she can do whatever she fucking wantssssss. I think she can and should be enjoying her life with alphys rather than it being a thing just for a living soul or whatever. They're just happy, no mythology attached

Onto the most iconic interpretation of the myth, 1811s Undine by Friedrich De La Motte Fouque. When you think of the tale of Undine it's almost always that it's this specific story you pull from. Apart from another one I'll briefly touch on later (please hope it's brief). In it, Undine is a woman adopted by a fisherman, who was taken in by the fisherman after his own child died. Hmmmmm wow hmm sort of like how asgore took in undyne after his children died HM BACK ON TOPIC. Personality-wise, Undine is described by Wikipedia (because I don't have the book) as "erratic", and "capricious", which Google dictionary describes as "given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behaviour", which again sounds quite similar to the Undyne we all know and love.

It mentions that when married to Huldbrand (the main guy in the book he's not important tho) she is "kind and gentle" and yeah imo the writing with this IS kinda shit HOWEVER I think if were simply using this as inspiration for undyne I can definitely imagine her *eventually* becoming a calmer and more thoughtful person with A: the presence of someone like alphys to mutually love and understand her for her and B: the absence of having to worry about a war to fight and always sort of being on edge and just being. Like that. And again this would all be a *progressive experience*, rather than in the book where undine literally switches up over night. I do like to consider character and stuff

There's this line from the Wikipedia summary which jumpscared me

I 0% believe this has any significance to deltarune whatsoever however it was so funny out of context I had to add it

Another completely unrelated thing here but there's a fucking guy called "Kuhleborn" and I just. Can homestuck leave me alone. FOR FIVE MINUTES.

Sorry back to cherry picking the story to fit undyne.

Ok so truthfully I don't find anything else from that specific story that I find particularly helpful to undyne, the rest of it's kinda just useless to my point. Re-establishing the fact here that I skipped over a most of the actual significant parts of the story because I specificly want to talk about how I see it parallel to undyne. But that's it really. I just especially wanted to mention this adaptation of the story as it is pretty much the most iconic interpretation of the myth.

That is, interpretations that specifically refer to its source by name. Because by far the most well known media to draw influence from the myth of undine is the iconic Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, "The Little Mermaid". I don't have much to say on how the little mermaid does take much inspiration from undine, other than the way andersen himself interpreted the story. Simply, the fact that Hans Christian Andersen, a man who based this story off of his own feelings at the inability for another man to reciprocate feelings of romance for him, and resonated with the story of undine so much that it was a source of inspiration for the little mermaid itself is so crazy to me. Like. Here is a queer man who read the tale of Undine and understood it so much he wrote his own story inspired by it and made it tie in with his own experiences of homosexuality! Like that's so crazy to me! Because it just makes the undertale character of undyne being sapphic so much better to me! It took the sad story of gay tragedy and took it and made it a story of gay joy!!!!!!! We are all so happys forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok ummmm. I got carried away because we are steering very far away from what this post was originally about. Umm. Point is. Original story was of queer sadness but undertale is now of queer joy + the story of queer joy being based on story where being with this person who you really love and being truly and properly bonded in an undeniable and magical way is enough to give you a soul that will live forever. I think that's somewhere near the point I'm trying to make but at the same time it's not quite the point I was trying to make. And this is absolutely just one interpretation of one relationship and this is by no means in any way supposed to be the end all be all of what ANY relationship should be. I really don't think this is what the definition of love is. However for these characters I feel it can be a huge aspect of it for them

NOW FINALLY MOVING ON TO THE ACTUAL CHARACTER FROM UNDERTALE THANK FUCKING GOODNESS!!!!!

Oh undyne. With some of the implications in game that she lost her family, I very much imagine her being cautious with this sort of situation. Would she be able to handle is for example? Would she know what to do. Given its something she might not even have real first hand experience of, is it something she would even want to risk forcing upon another person? I think she struggles so much with responsibility as it is. She wants nothing more than to protect people and cheesus if she had a kid of her own you know she would be doing every single thing in her power to make sure that kid never has to face what she did. Undyne says at one point in game (if you kill her in neutral i believe) she never told alphys the way she felt because if/when she died in battle, she wouldn't want alphys to deal with that. And again, she really would not want to have a kid if she worries that one day that kid would have to worry about someone they truly care about not being with them anymore

So *would* she want them? I don't really think it would be an overwhelming innate desire or anything like that, but really not against it. Sged need a lot of time beforehand first. Some time to live her life to the fullest, time to make sure it's something she can handle without guilt, time to make sure it's something that does bring her joy. And then yeah, 6 or 7 years minimum I can see it happening. And I think it would be nice

"Now let's talk about susie, can we talk about susie? Please stun (and other readers) I've been dying to talk with you about susie all post, okay?" /ref

I don't really have anything to add I just think alphyne should adopt susie. In every timeline. Undertale deltarune I just think ok. Because she doesn't have a good home life to the point where she's like just Not Safe and hm young couple with no children in her area? Undyne would want to help her soooo bad because she understands just what it feels like to be young and alone not really cared for and she would NEED to fix it. That's defo how it is for undertale at LEAST. Idk entirely with dr if it'd be exactly like that cause we don't know what undynes got going down in dr yet.. but even so that's nothing to stop them

Anways yeah I think you mightve been waiting just a wee bit long for the answer to this ask I uhh.....m.....mmmm. yeah man I... yeah. I really do genuinely hope you enjoyed his tho cause uts currently quarter to 2 in the morning and I'm going on a train & to the aquarium tmrw so my ass CANNOT be waking up at 11 am again. Shits fucked. But when I tell you when I'm locked in on an undyne topic I AM LOCKED IN. IT TOOK A WHILE BUT I FINALLY DID IT. MORE THAN HALF OF THIS WAS WRITTEN WITH NO BREAKS OF CHECKS BUT THATS THE BEAUTY!!!!!! FLY MY SCARAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[toastedclownery]

Beebs as Xipe Totec

WARNING! Before we get into this one I have to mention that this is a god with no skin who wears the skin of the people that were sacrificed to him. I will be using pictures of statues of him and they may be a little unsettling at first

Xipe Totec, “Our Lord the Flayed” is the god of agriculture, spring, and new vegetation. Although he has other attributes such as skin and eye diseases, goldsmithing and warfare. In the legend of the five suns he’s the eldest of the four creation brothers, the red Tezcatlipoca (sometimes called Camaxtle) 

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Ok so. The other three have subtle Tezcatlipoca traits in their designs. Beebs is a walking Xipe statue. I'm gonna go from top to bottom on possible iconographic elements I found. I'm gonna be using these three codex illustrations of Xipe and a bunch of statues of him.

(Number 5 will surprise you! 🤡)

1. The spikes of his ponytail, matching with Shrike’s, would be a reference to a headdress of quetzal feathers. A lot of gods are illustrated with these long green feathers (quetzalli), including Xipe.

2. Xipe wears the skin of his sacrificial victims, including the face. One of the most important details in statues of Xipe Totec and his impersonators is that he has sunken eye holes and two sets of mouths: the victim’s and his own underneath. You can see his droopy lips or the two layers of his face in codex illustrations too. Beebs, being a Walrinian, has a wide and stretchy mouth and a big lower lip, which could be a reference to the outstretched outer mouth from the statues.

3. As the patron god of goldsmiths, statues of Xipe would wear ear spools made from gold. Although this gold is missing now, he still has the holes in his ears in some of them. I thought his headphones could be a reference to those since they have similar shapes.

4. The sacrificial victim’s heart was taken out before the flaying. And so, the statues all have a horizontal cut or stitching on their chest, where their heart would be. That’s what the “BEARD” print on his shirt is.

5. Xipe’s name translates to “our lord the flayed” because he had given his own skin to give food to humanity, so he then wears the skin of others. Beebs’ prosthetic arm is designed to look like arm muscles, like a flayed arm. This is easier to appreciate in his pilot design.

His legs are supposed to be the same thing. In fact the combination of his shorts and his prosthetic legs is the same as how Xipe’s skin usually ends at the knees.

6. I’m not entirely sure about this point but I thought the bi-colored glove could be a way to sneak in the double hands of Xipe. The fastest way to recognize Xipe in codices is the secondary pair of hands, the dead person’s hands, dangling limply from his wrists. The statues have them too. Beebs has big hands and the two colors of his glove kind of look like two hands, one layered on top of the other.

Still, if that’s not a reference to that, I’ve noticed that Beebs has a pattern of using the characters around him to match this iconography. Especially Shrike but not exclusively.

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As for additional traits, he's the god of spring and the seasons. The process of flaying and wearing live skin on him represented the annual regenerative cycle of vegetation.

Because he's a god of agriculture, he is also known for carrying a rattlestaff (chicahuaztli). This was a musical instrument that was mainly used for rituals to fertilize the earth. He's not the only one that is seen carrying it, others have them, like Mictlantecuhtli and Chalchiuhtlicue (<- we'll get to those when we get to them)

Now I'm gonna quote Mexicolore here, a website specialized in writing about the precolumbian cultures in Mexico. They've taken a snippet from a study on Xipe and his rattlestaff (Neumann, end of the 5th paragraph)

"It was an instrument by means of which one is enabled to make contact with the spiritual world"

And like:

Beebs uses his guitar to communicate with Us' phantom

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And finally for thematic similarities, Xipe is the oldest of the four creation brothers. It's been shown throughout the show that Beebs and Shrike act like brothers, Zeurel and Tito also call them that, and they've implied that they have a "brotherly connection"

Beebs acts like an older brother to Shrike because... He is his older brother! And he is expected to act the same way towards Lariat and Triangle, his two other younger brothers, when it's their time to come into the picture.

There's also something that he and Shrike as Huitzi share that the other two don't have: they're both war deities! Huitzi is mainly the god of war, and Xipe is also associated with warfare since he is credited for inventing war. Maybe that's why Shrike and Beebs decided to start a mercenary company together?

List

[balkanradfem]

Ok I'm sorry, I'm sure nobody wants to hear about this but I can't let it go. That God x Joseph yaoi ship implicated at pride is living rent free in my mind because can you see the fanfic possibilities? Can you see the Vision?

Why is God messing around with Joseph in the first place, how did it come to be? Did god have him in mind from the start and out of jeaously he impregnated his wife (misogynistically Mary is again just a tool and an afterthought to male centered stories) so Joseph would realize he is not a part of creating his own offspring, and became insecure about it? He has nothing to do with his firstborn and his role has been taken. Maybe he asked god why is he here then, if he's not doing anything useful, and then god said 'oh there's something useful you could be doing for me rn' and so it started.

God takes on a human form in order to interact with Joseph, and they have secret meetings in the forests, at the spring, by the river; Joseph is enamored by him. So at this point of writing you have to consider whether god is a top or bottom and according to all fanfiction rules you have to make him a bottom. Making the most narcissistic misogynistic and masculine m*n is the whole point of everything. Not because there's anything wrong with being a bottom, but because we know in the minds of misgynistic narcissistic toxic males, there's something wrong with that. So making god a bottom achieves two things: it pisses god off and it eandears him to us. Because we love bottoms and the stereotypes we created around it.

So why is god so enchanted by Joseph, why did he want him? Because he too fell victim to his own creation. We already know he's incredibly needy and insecure from the 'psychoanalysis of god' lecture, so it is extremely likely that he too looked down at the earth, and started desiring.. male validation. He wanted to know he too was desired in a very ungodly, very human way. And maybe he felt ashamed of it, maybe he didn't want to look it in the eye; maybe he struggled and schemed and tried to fight it, but after looking at Joseph he couldn't suppress it anymore, and he continued on a dark path of making everyone's lives a mess so he could get what he wants.

How did god feel about breaking the sanctity of marriage, being a homewrecker after he established those rules, was he plagued by guilt and shame for breaking his own morals, his own rules for existence? Did he cry in shame every time after meeting Joseph and breaking his own system a little more?  Did he call himself a 'sl*t' into the mirror after indulging once again into something he himself claimed was forbidden? How did he deal with that? Did he try to make up for it by making good deeds, to convince himself that he still was what he once was, a good god, or did he cope by creating even worse atrocities, lashing out at anyone and everyone to block out his conscience completely. Maybe both. Complex and flawed character. Relatable.

And what when Mary finds out? Can she say anything without being deemed deeply godbleist (ableist against god)? He literally has abandonment issues and feeds bread to people so they don't leave him. How can you blame him for having sex with your husband. She's cancelled for homophobia and bigotry but still has to raise however many children god decides she should have, If this story had a feminist twist she would go on a quest to kill god and her husband, and I would support her if she does.

Joseph is getting torn by living the double life of dating god and cheating on his wife, more so because god is now throwing tantrums at him too; he is unable to face what he has became. Because how can he judge people now, when he himself is doing the very thing he's cast others to hell for? What has Joseph done to him, he would not have become this if not for Joseph; and god can't kill him like he did so many before, because he loves him too much, he can't go on without him. Joseph is too scared to break it up, torn by shame in front of his wife, getting jaded by god's constant whining and considers suicide. God realizes he's brought his lover into despair and finally acknowledges, that he failed at love. He failed at being a benevolent and kind god, that he longed for love in such a deeply flawed, jealous and human way that he can no longer call himself god. He steps down a deity and turns himself human, so he too could experience consequences like he deserves to, in a human way. And what about the humanity? There's easily a saint among humans who can take his place; it's Mary. She ascend to godness.

Years later when Joseph left him and he's just a shell of his former self rotting in a cave or something, god still sees his son kiss Judas and he's shocked at first but then he goes 'I get it' and finally he accepts that this is what all humans are; unable to be subjected to judgment for doing gay stuff.

Bam. I killed god and homophobia with fanfiction logic. This should all have been in the bible btw. Someone write this fanfic for me.

[hotwaterandmilk]

I'm seeing "Wedding Peach was unsuccessful" trotted out on Twitter again and it's honestly kind of funny to me. You can dislike the series, but you're rewriting history if you suggest it was a massive commercial flop/astronomical failure — it simply wasn't.

The Wedding Peach TV series maintained viewership throughout its run which is why it aired an entire year's worth of episodes (the full length it was intended to run) and didn't get cancelled like Nurse Angel Ririka SOS, for example.

I'm not going to pretend it did Sailor Moon numbers, dear god, it absolutely didn't get close hence why it wrapped as it did. I would suggest looking back now, that it was the definition of a mid-performing title for the time period. It sold toys decently but not outrageously, it got viewers but not an outstanding number, and it garnered a small but dedicated fanbase of male otaku. All of which is par for the course when it comes to a mid title in 1995.

Wedding Peach DX was produced because the TV series LD sales were decent enough to warrant it. Children were not buying LD box sets at this time, adult fans were and it was this interest that justified the creation of the four DX episodes as direct-to-video releases. If a series doesn't sell well they don't make more episodes, let alone higher quality deluxe episodes specifically for the home video market (and thus for older audiences with spending power).

It is very important to point out that Wedding Peach DX had NO INVOLVEMENT from the original creative team. Tomita Sukehiro and Yazawa Nao did not contribute to its creation, Tadano Kazuko didn't provide designs. Yuyama Kunihiko was the driving force behind the production of the DX episodes and he served as both director and writer for all four episodes (bringing on Wedding Peach animator and soon-to-be frequent Pokémon collaborator, Ichiishi Sayuri to serve as character designer).

What inspired these to be fanservice dreck to the level they ended up being is honestly beyond me. I mean the otaku market definitely wanted more episodes featuring the characters (and more songs featuring the seiyuu, if you want to see how keen otaku were for FURIL please see this post) but part of what they liked about the characters at the time was their (barfbarfbarf) perceived purity and innocence. The DX including panty shots and swimsuits kind of threw them for a loop. Even now, if you look at discussions about the DX among otaku there's a bit of a divide in opinion.

The DX episode sales were (as far as I can tell based on magazines from the time) also mid, but enough to cover four episodes. Three and four don't seem to have sold as well as one and two, but again the stats from the time aren't comprehensive. I think the fact that there weren't any after episode four says it all, honestly. OVA episodes are expensive to produce and it was extremely common for them to stop immediately if the sales weren't there. DX didn't justify its existence beyond those four episodes and Yuyama moved onto a far more successful project in Pokémon.

On that topic, I think it's important to note that Wedding Peach was OLM's first television series (albeit a coproduction with KSS). If it and the studio's adaptation of Mojacko hadn't made some level of profit it would have been quite difficult for them to adapt Pokémon. Neither Mojacko nor Wedding Peach set records with their viewership or sales numbers, but they both did "OK". It was in Pokémon however, that that OLM truly found a successful property with the series still running today. Sometimes you've got to have a few runs at producing things before you find success. Wedding Peach was one of these early runs, a project where a lot of people cut their teeth but one that didn't justify its own continuation beyond a certain point. Just a very standard media mix from the mid-90s, in other words.

Wedding Peach is a problematic title with indifference through to outright objection to representing love outside of heterosexual romance. Looking back now it feels like an absolute dinosaur on so many levels. Between the anime's fatphobic episode and Momoko dropping some gender essentialism, I'm not surprised people want to relegate it to the dustbin of history.

However, I think it is very telling that Tomita Sukehiro, when presented with the opportunity to tell a similar story in the modern day, chose to represent not just queer love, but platonic and familial love in Wedding Apple. While he can't undo the regressive and cringy elements of the original series, as a creator he has progressed and I'd like to think we can all continue to improve our outlooks and output as we grow.

Disliking Wedding Peach in the modern day is completely understandable. I'm not going to pretend anyone should watch it in 2024 without knowing that it is a camp, cheaply made relic of a time when heterosexuality was considered magic. However, just because it pandered to all the worst things trending at the time doesn't mean it didn't sell enough products or hold enough viewers to justify its production. It did, it just wasn't a strong enough property to go beyond that and that's representative of mediocrity rather than mind blowing commercial failure imho.

[starlitskyaboveme]

OK, this will be kinda hard for me... But I'd really like to talk about Hal. Some time ago I found myself realising that there are a lot of similar things in me and that character.

It was terrible thought. I was scared because I don't really like this guy's personality (duh). Ironically I found out then that my mbti IS ALSO SIMILAR to his (ESFP) 🤡

On this basis I had struggled a lot with the body dysphoria because my inner voice told me every time I was looking at the mirror, that I do look like Hal.

You see, I have some extra weight, living the most time of my life with fatphobic parents. And moreover, some time ago I dyed my hair in ginger color.

And it is some kind of evil miracle that we have so many similarities in the appearance.

And, apparently, all this turned over time into such a huge lump of complexes and pain that my psyche simply could not stand it anymore.

I'm afraid to imagine what would have happened to me now, if not for the help of my psychologist, with whom I was finally able to talk honestly, without fear of being perceived as a strange overgrown child in an adult's body (actually, that's how I perceived Hal). And after some time of these sessions, I suddenly found out that... Yes, it's true. I really am like Hal, who became Titan in "Megamind". And I hated this character primarily because he reminded me of myself. He reflects all my negative traits: impudent, lazy, sometimes slow-witted, who can't see beyond his own nose. And also someone who believes that in life you will always be guided, and that there is a certain scheme according to which it can only be this way, and no other. We also went through the same thing at one time.

By the way, it was this realization that helped me look at the world from a different perspective, without the idea of ​​purpose and some kind of fate. And basically without meaning. This is, in essence, the beauty of the world: there is no meaning in anything, so a person himself gives meaning to what he loves or hates. All cultures, plots, gods, languages, cities and countries, architecture, painting, writing - all this, in essence, is absolutely random bullshit that was invented by people, the same as us, who are here now. We are all, like every creation, one big accident with consequences in the form of a butterfly effect. Beautiful or terrible - everyone decides for themselves.

But I got distracted.

Actually, yes. I really do look partly like Hal... Or, at least, I feel myself to be somewhat alike him. But I realized that this doesn't mean that I am bad. Or wrong. Or not worthy of basic respect and love from myself.

The fact that I am like someone does not mean that I am obliged to repeat their mistakes or fate (the second, as I have already mentioned, I have a hard time believing). It only means that through the prism of this or that person I give myself the opportunity to get to know myself a little better. To become a little closer to myself. To take another step towards accepting myself as I am. Not perfect. But nothing in the world is perfect. Otherwise, it would simply freeze in place, like life itself.

No one is perfect. None of us. But that's what makes us beautiful. Our flaws are what make us us. They are as beautiful as our virtues. It's just that many of us find it very difficult to accept them in ourselves.

Now I understand that Hal is not such a "bad guy" at all. He is just led and doesn't value or love himself at all. And it's... Really sad, to be honest.

In fact, he even reminds me of Soos from Gravity Falls. Another thing is that Soos is much more responsible and compassionate, that's how his personality has developed (by the way, he is one of my favorite characters. I even once took part in the creation of a fan novel, where I got to draw his model 💘).

In another version of the turn of events, Hal could have remained the same cozy and funny geek. Maybe at one point he would have decided to find his place. Or move somewhere. In any case, each option is good in its own way. Perhaps, again, under different circumstances, he could even have become a more or less good hero, but these are just guesses. Or desires. In general, it doesn't really matter.

Now I understand that it is quite possible that I could have become friends with him and spent hours discussing various computer games, cartoons and all sorts of events like festivals and starcons.

We are, first of all, not those whose stereotype we fall under. We are those who we ourselves choose to be. And there is always a choice.

This text is very personal and important to me. And I am posting it here to tell myself: here is the group. Here is my audience. Those who do not like this and my content can safely leave. I will continue to post what I like, what is comfortable for me. What makes me happy. Be it comics about me and Megamind, which help to process certain internal traumas, or something else.

Thank everyone of you for reading this to the end. Those who didn't read to the end - thank you too, you just probably will not see this x)

[clownfishbites]

Ok it’s time for the St Augustine Joker meta. Sorry if it got a bit long I just have a lot of thoughts.

I find it so interesting that he would bring up St Augustine in that moment. I wasn’t a huge fan of the run in general but I thought it had its merits and this bit was one of them because I’m a sucker for batjokes that is also religious fanaticism.

For St Augustine, ‘grace’ in this sense is not something that needs to be found or earned, the Catholic doctrine states that it is given freely, a gift from God to mankind.

Batman gives Joker grace when nobody in the entire world will, I mentioned it a bit in my last meta but think Batman: Cacophony, Batman: It's Joker time, Batman: Devil's Advocate and literally every time he doesn't kill him, or protects him from harm when nobody else would. He is giving him grace that does not have to be earned, it's a benevolent gift from the divine. Or at least that's how Joker is seeing it, a rationalisation for why Batman spares him when nobody else would.

St Augustine tells God that "it is only by Your grace and mercy that You have melted away the ice of my evil". St Augustine needs God in the same way Joker needs Batman, to act in opposition to his 'evil', to be worshipped with the intention of being the gravity that keeps him on Earth, or in his own words, the compass pointing true north.

I'm not going to get too carried away but I think it's a pretty interesting comparison that's existing here between St Augustine and God, and Joker and Batman.

"head towards God and remember, everything else is chaos"

If Batman is the entity that is salvation, the thing to be drawn to- he isn't just the opposite force, but the only other thing in existence, because Joker defines himself as chaos. There is Divinity and Chaos and that is all. It's a nice lens on Joker's perspective that every other living thing is a prop in his pursuit of Batman's love and attention.

Religion is a choice, but how could Joker pick any other divinity, when he freely acknowledges that Batman is his creator. One of St Augustine's concepts surrounding human creation is that of original sin- that being that everybody is born with sin, born tainted ever since Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden of Eden.

But if everyone is born tainted, lives tainted and there is no real assurance of redemption, what actually is the point in trying to be good, to be a virtuous person, if someone like the Joker can just come into the church and take your life. Or from the pov of the Joker what is the point in any of it if we are born ruined.

We return to the idea that Joker sees himself as beyond salvation in the traditional sense, he's in a sunk cost fallacy but with being evil. But just to push this to it's limit, his very existence shakes faith in a creator that is all good,

Where is the grace of God in a world that allowed him to exist?

In the absence of divine light and a creator that loves him, he desperately seeks the opposite, divine darkness and a creator that hates him. But Joker loves him no less for it because Batman is all that exists in his world.

"head towards love and everything else is chaos"

Here he's changed the words of St Augustine, altering it from following God to following love, and he says this while heading towards Batman which is...basically the entire point of this, Batman is his love, Batman is his divinity.

But even Batman has to devote himself to an idea bigger than himself, and he can only stand in opposition, his crusade would be over if he truly cleansed Gotham of all evil- OR, as Joker suggests in this comic, if he became happy. If he didn't have to exist in opposition, if the misery that fuelled his crusade was taken away

Joker can only stand in opposition too- we know this because we see how completely he crumbles apart when his opposition is removed.

Batman functionally exists as half of a whole, in his own way Joker's speech is confronting this reality, albeit in a much more roundabout way than he explains it to Selina.

And this is why neither of them can ever truly escape this cycle, their aspect of devotion would die the moment the other was removed from the equation, and with it divinity and chaos would cease to exist, and so would the world.

I love cosmic batjokes.

[sup3riorsese]

Long Way Back to the Barn: Chapter 1 Rewrite

When she said she didn’t want to go after Brooklyn, she expected backlash. She and Kenji had already discussed the reactions of the other three members and knew they wouldn’t agree. Kenji already suffered so much with his family, he was rightfully done. Sammy was… just so tired. Tired of being scared and hungry. She had just gotten to a point where the world wasn’t mind-numbing, only to get thrown back into danger. All because Brooklyn wanted to be a hero for some lab experiments. Lab experiments that changed their life to the point they won’t ever be normal. 

She wanted to go home. She missed her farm, she missed her cow. She didn’t even know if Bessie and her calf were okay. She’d luckily thought ahead and trained Bessie to get out of the barn and get food and water in case she wasn’t there. She had left so fast that she couldn’t tell if the raptors got to them. She needed to go home.

But of course, of course, things couldn’t be nice.

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Sammy hated the coverlet under her. It felt too thin and light, and it felt like it was made out of fake material. The pillow she clutched was even worse, gummy and flat. She didn’t know how anyone slept with a bed like this. The room was both too cold and too hot. Anywhere near the walls radiated off the snow and ice from the outside, while the middle of the room was somehow stuffy and humid. At least in Texas, it’s either hot or cold, stormy or clear. She hated Italy, hated that she was forced to be there because of the most stupid circumstances. 

Brooklyn wanted to play hero or vigilante to some madman’s creations, deciding that all other life is forfeit. Did it not matter that her friends, family were being hunted for her actions? Was her mission just so important that them nearly dying to the creatures she was out trying to save didn’t matter? She knew who mattered. Darius, the sweet boy who grew to be an even sweeter man, mattered. Ben, who went from a germaphobe to a wild child, mattered. Kenji, the egotistical kid who truthfully was so caring and kind, mattered. Yaz, the girl who turned into a social butterfly, the girl she loved, mattered. She didn’t understand how that was so hard for Brooklyn to see, she didn’t know why it was so hard for Yaz to comprehend.

Now, she’s in a mixed temperature room, on an uncomfortable bed, far from home, arguing with her girlfriend because apparently she was acting out of character.

“I feel like you ignored me when I asked you to hand over the phone.”

Sammy knew what she was doing. Using that stupid therapist talk like she used when Sammy got upset about the thumbs up emoji or whenever they had a problem. Sammy wondered if Yaz thought she was doing good at communicating right now.

Sammy took a breath to calm her thumping heart. She knew where this would lead, no matter how much she tried to stop it. 

Breathe. 

Therapist talk it is. “I hear you, but I feel like you should be mad at Brooklyn, not me.” Sammy clutched the pillow tighter to her chest, hoping the shakiness in her voice wasn’t noticeable.

“Why you soundin’ like that? Speak up.”

Sammy shuddered, “Right, but I feel like if you-” Stop. “-moved more quickly, I could have gotten to her.”

Breathe. 

“Ok, well, it doesn’t matter anymore. Brooklyn chose, alright?” Her eyes were burning a hole in the floor at this point. This didn’t matter. None of this mattered. She was tired, exhausted. She hasn’t been able to sleep, she’s gone hungry far too many nights, and she’s off her pills. All she wanted was her cow. God, if something happened to Bessie, Sammy wouldn’t survi-

Yaz broke Sammy’s spiralling thoughts, “Wha- of course it matters,” she felt the bed shift behind her as Yaz shifted, “Sammy, babe, I think this runs deeper than just Brooklyn.”

Is she trying to insinuate something? Sammy felt her temper flare for the briefest of moments. No. Yaz wouldn’t bring that up. She knew how she felt about that. Sure, maybe she didn’t give her girlfriend the full story, but she had told her enough to get the point across. Yaz wouldn’t, especially not in an argument. Right?

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Then you’re not being honest with yourself.”

“Excuse me?”

Sammy finally turned to her girlfriend, allowing the pillow she had previously clutched to fall to her lap. Yaz looked frustrated, exasperated even. How would she know if her was being honest when she hadn’t been around for over a year? How dare she assume anything about her after over a year.

Sammy needed to leave. To breathe air that wasn’t stifled, to exist in a space without being judged. She was tired of being judged. She hadn’t done anything wrong.

“You ain’t mine.”

Sammy shuddered as she tried to push the voice back to the depths of her mind. She didn’t need this right now. It wasn’t important. It didn’t matter. She was past it. She had to be.

Yaz's brows furrowed as she saw Sammy’s face, “You were so much happier around the Mballos than I've seen you be in a long time. I think that's because they were such a tight family.” 

Breathe.

“What does that have to do with anythin’?” Sammy was getting anxious, she felt it. Her heart was racing, her breath was short, and her hands shook. She didn’t want to talk about family. She didn’t want to talk about him. 

She prayed, begged, that Yaz wouldn’t bring them up. Yaz knew her, she had to. Had it been so long? Did Yaz forget, or simply didn’t care? She wouldn’t be surprised if no one cared. Her “father” didn’t-

“Babe, you're still mad at your family for how they treated you.” 

The flood of emotions that rushed through Sammy almost gave her whiplash. She turned away from the other woman, trying to conceal her growing anger and tears. She forced herself not to shake. Why is she surprised Yaz wasn’t listening? Why did she expect anyone to?

“And I agree. They should have listened to you about how they run their business. But what I never understood was that you cut them out of your life completely!”

“-cut them out of your life-”

“-you cut them-”

He was five at the time. He was in excruciating pain after a cow had bitten his finger. Blood dripped onto the floor as he clutched his hand. “Daddy-” He cried as he came out of the barn, tears running down his face. “Daddy!” His Daddy was nowhere to be seen. He walked ten minutes back to his house, blood sliding down his arm by the time he reached the steps. His Abuela had rushed to his aid as she saw his trembling, bloodied state, snapping at her son for leaving her grandson alone. Turns out, his Daddy had come back home without him, all because his younger sister was throwing a tantrum.

She could feel herself struggling to breathe. She wrapped her arms around herself in some effort to make it stop.

He was ten. He was sitting in the front office of his school after a fight. His nose was bleeding, and his lip was sore. The office attendant called home, and his Momma answered. He heard yelling over the phone as the poor little lady at the front desk tried to calm his Momma down. After about five minutes, the office attendant put the phone down and looked at him with sympathy. “I’m sorry, sweetie. Your mom’s not coming.” He had simply nodded and asked for some tissues for his nose. When he was picked up late after school, his Momma yelled at him for waking his sister up when she was sick, all because he got into a fight. He hadn’t told her that the other boys were talking about her.

She felt sick. It wasn’t fair. Why her? Why did it have to be her?

She was fourteen. She had just stepped onto the dock when she was pulled into a tight hug. She realized suddenly that her Daddy had thrown himself at her, holding her as if he feared she’d disappear. She couldn’t help but cry. Her Daddy was here now. She was gonna be fine as long as he took care of her, she was sure. It was only later that she realized that was the first time he ever hugged her.

Breat-

“Sammy? Sammy, look at me.”

She couldn’t breathe. The room was blurry, too bright, and too dark all at once. Her clothes felt like they burned. She put her face in her hands, gasping for air. She wanted to go home. She wanted to go home.

She shrank from the hand that tried to touch her shoulder. “Hey. Hey, it’s okay. Breathe. It’s okay, Sammy.” Yaz’s hand hovered from her shoulder to her knee as she crouched in front of her. She gently tried to take her hands away from her face, but she refused. Sammy pulled away from her, still crying. “Sammy. Look at me. Please,” Yaz begged softly. She didn’t want to. She didn’t want to see the false care, the stifling pity, the lackluster concern. She just had to breathe, then she’d be fine. It’ll pass like all the other times.

She tensed as she felt a hand on her leg. “Sam, I need you to slow down. In and out. Don’t worry about anything else, just in and out.” 

Despite her earlier refusal, the weight on her leg helped. She didn’t know how long it took, but she focused on the slight thumb movements on her thigh, and eventually, the heaviness on her chest began to lift. When it felt like she could breathe without gasping, she wiped her eyes. She hated it when this happened. She always felt so exposed and vulnerable. 

The hand on her thigh lifted as Yaz, ever so gently, moved her hands to cradle her face. Her girlfriend softly wiped the tears on her cheeks and gave her a small, worried smile.

“Hey, baby.”

So simple, so soft. It nearly made Sammy cry more. She’s wanted this for so long, needed it, missed it. 

Yaz ran her thumb over her cheek with one hand while the other held her chin. “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought it up. I understand that it probably-”

“No, you don’t! You don’t! No you- you weren’t here! Haven’t been here! You can’t- don’t sit here and try and say you do!”

Sammy’s outburst startled Yaz. She’d seen Sammy in bad times, hell, an island of dinosaurs, but she’d never reacted like this. She had seen her angry, sad, scared, all sorts of emotions, but this was different. 

Yaz let out a breath as Sammy hiccupped and tried to swallow down her sobs. She’s never had to comfort her like this. She can’t help but feel a mix of guilt and helplessness. She should know what to do during something like this. 

“Sammy, listen, I get it. I’m sorry for the Brooklyn thing. You have every rig-”

“This ain’t about Brooklyn! This is about me and you! Not Brooklyn, or Ben, or Darius, or Kenji, or those stupid fuckin’ dinosaurs! Me and you!”

Yaz had to stumble back as Sammy abruptly stood and started pacing. She hugged herself as she went on a rant that didn’t even fully seem like she was talking to Yaz anymore.

She didn't know how to respond. She’s never dealt with Sammy, with anyone, like this. She’d gone to therapy, sure, but she wasn’t one for emotional outburst often. She wasn’t taught how to handle them. Yaz stopped for a moment, realizing suddenly that maybe she needed to stop listening to her mind’s therapist for a moment. Sammy wasn’t her. Of course she wouldn’t respond the same way she did. As Sammy paced, Yaz quickly thought of things that always comforted her girlfriend. Touch, reassurance, trust. She understood now. Sammy didn’t trust her. How could she? She hadn’t been around and present in so long, could she expect different?

Yaz refocused as Sammy seemingly grew more frantic, “-And those stupid emojis you always use! Y- you know I hate them and you-” 

Yaz grabbed her by the elbows and forced her to stay still. “Ok. I’m gonna listen to you, ok? But I need you to just take a minute and breathe. After that, you can yell at me all you need to, just take a moment.” Sammy stared at her for a bit before shakily nodding. She, which Yaz assumed was subconsciously, leaned towards her. The shorter woman pulled her closer by her elbows, allowing her girlfriend to hiccup into her shoulder. She raised her hand to stroke the back of her head as Sammy continued to hug herself.

Yaz kissed her girlfriend’s temple before she spoke, “I am sorry. For not being around. For getting distant. I swear, it wasn’t you.”

“But you said-”

“I know, I know but- you were only trying to help and- well you couldn’t fix it if I didn’t tell you. That’s on me, ok?” She mumbled into Sammy’s hair, smelling Gia’s shampoo she let them use. She didn’t hate it, but it definitely wasn’t Sammy’s scent. 

“Listen, how- how about we go for a walk? Talk?”

Sammy simply nodded in response.

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Sorry this took so long, for some reason I've been struggling to create even though I have the passion.

Just some context: When Sammy refers to her pills, she's referring to antidepressants. In this au (?), Sammy was diagnosed with depression, specifically agitated depression, which causes restlessness (Her need to always be doing something), temperamental outbursts (She has, though later in the series, but signs of sudden irritation do show), and other smaller things such as fidgeting. Being off her pills (All symptoms mentioned in this chapter) would cause insomnia, anxiety, sensory disturbances, mood changes, and hunger/loss of appetite. Some of these are caused by other issues, such as insomnia coming from her fear of something going wrong and her hunger from not having any vegetarian food options.

In conclusion, Sammy's going through it, needs therapy, and hopefully, Yaz gets her some.

Tell me how you guys feel about it in the comments :)

[differentnerddiplomatopera]

Opinions and Interpretation ( Epic Spoilers)

Author's Note (As long as it’s not hurting/attacking anyone mentally, physically, or emotionally, people are entitled to their own opinions, own beliefs, own ideas, and nobody is allowed to make you feel bad for your thoughts/ideas.)

Okkkkkkk, I had a long day, and this was bothering me so I wanted to make a post about this so humor me. I have problems with an issue in and outside the Epic community, so that is something I will speak on. Also an inappropriate situation happened earlier this week that caused someone to become extremely uncomfortable so I am going to discuss that as well. And imma teach this up, so sit down and let’s talk. (This issue is a separate post)

Opinion: a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

As long as an opinion is not hurting anyone emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically,  you are free to speak your mind in the proper time and place. Your opinions on things, with the things above in mind, should be respected because you are entitled to your opinion. It’s yours and it is precious, cause you are precious. 🥰

Same way switched. You certainly don’t call the opposite party’s opinions “cringe” or  “weird” just because you don’t like them. Are you allowed to discuss why you don’t like it? As long as you are being respectful, go ahead. Do what you do but certainly don’t diminish anyone’s ideas. They are precious. 

Now, the jet pack animation in the Vengeance Saga. Was it unexpected? Hell yeah. Would you like to have seen Jorge choose a different orchestration on how Odysseus got out of water? Maybe. But do we call his idea “cringe?” 

Class: No

Absolutely not! He has stated before how video games have affected the creation of Epic and how he wants to demonstrate it in the animatic. So why are we saying it was “stupid” or ”weird?” Is it inaccurate? Unless Homer has a trashcan of scrapped jetpack scenes we have no idea about, yeah it is. But it is fun. And I think that is what we missed. We are allowed to have fun, as long as we are not posing it as accurate information.

Correct me if I am wrong, but Jorge never said this was a “on the mark” musical of the Odyssey. He is gonna take liberties, and unless a Greek Mythology Association sues him for not following the story to the letter, is it hurting anyone? Do the people who like an accurate retelling of Odyssey have to like Epic? No, absolutely not. Well, I mean unless someone has a gun to your head.

I have mutuals who don’t like Epic, and that is absolutely ok! They aren’t doing anything illegal, and neither are we. UNLESS we are telling and or arguing with Greek Religion Experts, mythographists and the like, that Epic is God's honest truth. In that case, we need to read The Odyssey together and apologize to them.

However, if you are gonna listen to it and just shit talk about it, bullying the creator and the fandom for creating/liking it, scrutinizing the road they chose, and just being a Debbie downer about it, do it by yourself. 

You know what is great too? Sparkle* The Power of Animation *Sparkle. Animators don’t like it, you do it. And that is not an taunting attack like, “oh if you think you can do better, then do it” blah blah nonsense. This is the glory of your talents. You are allowed to let your mind travel in the way that it does, I encourage it.  When I saw the prosthetic Poseidon, I didn’t say in the comments, “actually Poseidon didn’t have a prosthetic, this is cringe and inaccurate.” I didn’t say anything in the comments cus I was screaming and shrieking like a little bitch cus of how much I loved it. I apologize to my neighbors, I was losing my crap, like OMFG, HOW ARE SO TALENTED AND WHAT IS IN YOUR MIND I WANNA SEE IT AND-sorry I’m trying to get to a point.

(Also go check out Neal Illustrators Etsy shop, the pins are up and scrumptious)

All are talented artists/animators. I’m pretty sure when he watches your stuff, he gets so  giddy and excited. No one idea is steady law. We all are allowed to shine and share. I wanna see your talent and ability. 

So please, please.  Epic fans, if you don’t like Jorge’s ideas, look towards the animators. If you don’t like the animator's ideas, do your own. And if you can’t, imagine your own. 

But please, do not send hate or nasty messages toward Jorge and his team or to people in/within the community. Jorge is allowed to have fun, I am allowed to have fun, you are allowed to have fun. We are all allowed to have safe, healthy fun. Don’t spend all your time being a hater. Respect, we all deserve respect. Opinions, we all deserve to have our healthy and good-mannered opinion’s. 

Ok? Ok. Yay!

[pezpenser205]

Hey do you know any other forsaken characters that have like. connections to each other. We know about C00lkid and 7n7007 (god we hope that's right) but what about the others?

YES!!!

007n7 + c00lkidd = father + son. c00lkidd went missing at one point and 007, being someone who basically uprooted his entire life as an exploiter to take care of him, having nobody that actually cared about him, ended it. and then got put into the limbo torment nexus because he cant get a break

007n7 + noli = nobody really knows wtf their deal was actually. they were exploiting partners. partners in crime if you will. the rest of their everything is murky and stupid. a lot of people think they had something weird going on and i think it would be funny and super fucked if they did. imagine you kys because your son has been missing and theres basically no hope of finding him and everyone else fucking hates you and then you get dropped into eternal torment limbo being killed over and over by a mutilated version of your son whos been brainwashed to think hes just playing. and then as if that wasnt bad enough your ex shows up and beats the shit out of you too and uses your sons voice taunting you as you die. like bro he already killed himself can we. chill. maybe

007n7 + c00lkidd + elliot = 007n7 and c00lkidd both completely decimated elliots workplace by being little hacker freaks and getting too silly at completely separate points in time. elliot Does Not really like 007 for somewhat understandable reasons

shedletsky + 1x = creator + creation. 1x fucking hates that guy and wants him dead ten billion times over. no idea what happened to cause her to hate her creator in particular but like it couldnt have been good considering she looked. not fucked up before.

shedletsky + dusekkar = presumably coworkers. shed is the only character in the entire game to call dusekkar "matt." so. do with that what you will.

shedletsky + builderman = presumably besties that go way back. people like making them gay because its fun.

builderman + taph = taph works under builderman and is super parasocial about him. builderman is just like. ok with taph. just another employee ig. taph sees themselves as his right hand however. fun fact taph also believes in santa. very strange creature

guest 666 + noob = were friends but then some fucked up shit happened to guest and they became a beast. i dont really keep up with them

chance + itrapped = ok they make me fucjing sick. ill. itrapped basically befriended chance to gain access to money and power while being slowly corrupted by a sword on the side. chance saw itrapped as their Closest Anything. this was extremely one sided and he proceeded to get stabbed to death by who he thought was his closest most trusted friend and sent into eternal torment limbo (forsaken).

two time + azure = two time murdered azure in some kind of sacrificial ritual. they were lovers beforehand and presumably part of the same cult afaik

I ABSOLUTELY probably forgot some and got some details wrong. there may be more this is just all i can remember off the top of my head

[undertale-fic-librarby]

do you have anything thats ink sans centric mayhaps? 🥺 just nothing with the fgod au please

Howdy, thanks for asking! Here are some fics that might fit what you're looking for!

Arts and Crafts | Errorink / Errink by Yumikokun (General Audiences, Incomplete)

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The Demon from Above and the Angel from Below by App1eS0uce (Teen And Up, Complete)

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Apples Are Always Sweeter When Cared For by ButterflyWritter (Teen And Up, Incomplete)

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