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[probablybadrpgideas]

The Monster Manual but it's blatantly written by the monsters

[pomrania]

Tags by @eregyrn-falls:

#YES. #we know from Alex that one of the rules he had for the show was “Mabel and Dipper always love each other” #that there wouldn't really be humor based on ha ha we hate each other; #and that they'd always have each other's backs and you'd end the ep feeling secure that they loved each other #but clearly there was an unspoken (that we know of) rule about Stan and Ford's attitude towards the kids as well #because this point here is SO true #so many stories would do this #*especially* to characterize a “grumpy” older character #(granted: even without this we had a whole subplot where Dipper thought Stan “hated” him #and there's been other good meta about how Stan's relationship with Dipper is unfortunately influenced #by Stan's upbringing with a toxic father and steeped in a culture of toxic masculinity #so like: not perfect! #but despite that Stan and Ford both manage to avoid some of the pitfalls of toxic masculinity #and for two older guys who both need therapy and haven't had any - they do pretty well

i think its really really important to remember how EASILY stan couldve dropped a "now i have to deal with you BRATS for the summer.." or ford to slip a "dont let these snotty little children near my lab again, stan." but instead they never do that like. idk.

i like how the show makes it a very important and clear point that at least hear, the twins are Loved and Cherished and Wanted. so very wanted.

stan ADORES THEM. in his bones. hes trying to give them freedom but he is so so worried.

ford goes from growling to MELTING on sight "shermie had kids?" they are his babies.

its a very good and nice point like. these children are Loved and Wanted and their guardians are trying so hard and that is the bare minimum. and Not loving your kids is a bad fucked up thing to do with bad consequences.

[h3artw0rms]

So the gift Powder received from Ekko was a necklace with a blue peony.

And you know me from my Vi and Caitlyn post so of course I'll look up what the flower language of that means and it's the following:

And if you look closely, you can see the profile faces of Ekko and Powder in between the petals

In this reality, the two can't be together, as he wasn't HER Ekko. But Powder still means the world to him.

[postsforposting]

Cackling. The X-Men comics are "written in Greek". The X-Men are Greek gods like in the mythology. That's why they're always fighting, it's why almost nobody stays dead unless they're a normie. Death isn't death for them, it's reincarnation.

The Greek theory of medicine was the four humours: yellow/black bile, blood, and phlegm. These were associated with the seasons, gender, emotions, the four elements, and lots of other things. Blood was considered to have all four humours in it, which was why it caused both life and death. A healthy body produced all four humours in balanced measure. Your humours determined your health, and they would vary with things like your mood, your location, the environment. People were prescribed things like bloodletting and vacations at the seaside in order to add or remove humours to reach the proper balance. This ties into the concept of the physical/material/human as the body and metaphysical/spiritual/divine as the blood.

Greeks believed in astrology, things like Limbo, the Elysian Fields, and the underworld where most people ended up. The world was created backwards, in that the "golden age" utopia came first, where people lived like gods free of toil and sorrow, and aged backwards. Like, say, the first Marvel publications which have been called the "golden age" of comics. Four other ages followed, each worse than the last, ending with all people being considered evil. Complimentary creation myths are Pandora's box and Prometheus's theft of fire.

Humans were originally created as doubles, but they were "too powerful" and so were split in half, male/female, doomed to wander looking for their other half. Everyone has an "other half", and finding it "makes you whole" and balanced: women and men each had two of the humors necessary for perfection. Alchemy was concerned with finding the elixir of life, which was a pure RE-union of separated elements in order to gain perfection in the form of health, divinity, and mortality. It was a RE-union because, at creation, the elements and people were split up so as not to threaten the power of the gods. They wanted to turn lead into gold because those represented the sun/moon, earth/sky, the mystical hidden/the overt visible, the two halves of divinity that ruled creation and life. Turning the hidden power of the moon into the overt power of the sun was a purification that manifested perfection in both.

Divine perfection--a complete soul--is thus the "missing element", the hidden element people must find in order to live the best kind of life. It was called the elixir, ambrosia, the golden apples, the food of the gods.

Astrologically, it was believed that attraction and opposition--love and strife--were the two forces of creation, represented by things like gold, the sun, the planets, the elements, etc. The idea of humoural elements combined with astrology to form 12 "signs", wherein the four elements + four humours resulted in 12 different types of person, with four others always being hidden. Astrology was used as divination, an oracle of all time--a way to reach the divine, a way to see the meaning of life, a way to commune with the powers that be.

If you combine these ideas, you end up with one person actually being 16 other people: twelve visible elements with four always missing, six "good" and six "evil". But if love and strife are equally complimentary and opposing parts of perfection, then they are not "good" or "evil".

In a backward world, love/hate and good/evil aren't distinguishable. Looking in a mirror shows you your "other side", your missing half, whom you equally hate and love because they are but also are not "you". In a world of cycles and equal opposites, what is considered wrong or right depends on how you look at it, on context: things like mood, environment...the humour and tragedy of it.

Combine this with the idea that there is a missing element, that gender--sex--plays a role in achieving health and perfection, and recall that even now censorship refuses to allow the depiction of sex or even love between characters because of who they are.....you end up with a world where those who have reached perfection--divinity, power--are reincarnated, a world of cycles where things must get worse before they get better, and where death isn't death but becoming a better person in your next life. Yanno, like the Christian concept of being forgiven, cleansed, and saved in death, by the blood of a god, and thereby becoming a new person. A different person, who is and isn't you.

A different person, because you can become someone else. Take on the appearance of another person. Sharing of yourself with someone else.

Where a little death, a little bit of tasting the divine and reaching a higher plane, is too powerful a thing to leave lying around, a thing that makes you a better person and makes you akin to god....and is the "missing element" of love, of sex, that was censored--removed--hidden--for its power to.....both destroy and save.

Killing and saving, apocalypse and creation, harm and help, like the echo of reincarnation that today is widely known in the religious concepts of eternal life after death. To be anointed by the blood of Christ--of a god--is to be saved. He himself is represented by a cross, which is the Greek letter chi, an X that's...kinda askew. A funhouse mirror, if you would.

Their world is a mirror of our own. It is our other half, something both desired and hated, because what is seen in a mirror is yourself. You see what you want to see and call it divinity. Is killing another person good or bad? Both, it depends on what you're looking for, what you think is the true answer.

Looking for the X, the treasure of the gods, the meaning of life....the meaning of the author's text, the author who is both creator and destroyer, alpha and omega. Divine meaning which isn't understood by mere mortals, and is considered the meaningless ravings of a mad fool. Incomprehensible, might as well be Greek to you.

Like the way people say nothing in a story has any meaning, that the author is an idiot and didn't think anything through, don't keep track of what their own characters look like, and retcon or forget their own canon.

Numerologically, X is the 22nd letter of the alphabet, but in tarot--a way to reach divinity, an oracle as in the mouth of the gods, the missing element and goal of life--the 22nd card is the Fool, numbered as both 0 and 22, alpha and omega....depending on what you want to see, what you want it to mean, where we are in the divine cycle of life.

The mouth of the gods, a fool, a raving idiot who isn't understood....like Gambit in the Deadpool&Wolverine movie, like Deadpool himself in the comics who appears to be hated by everyone.

Is Gambit understood or not? Does everyone love or hate Deadpool?

It depends on what you want to see, on the environment, on....which cycle of reincarnation you're looking at.

Do the non-mutants hate the mutants, or do they love them? Are the mutants cis/straight or queer? Did the people born with power create the world and thus deny that power to everyone else when they separated humans, or did they earn power by becoming better people--superior--to everyone else? Do the Xmen censor and damn the world by insisting on peace and love without spilling blood, or is it saving the world by sharing how to reach divine power like themselves?

Do they or do they not partake in the food of the gods, the ambrosia and elixir of life, the missing/denied/censored element of violence/sex? Do they deny it to everyone else or are they sharing it with everyone else?

Do the colors of things and what characters say matter, or is it meaningless jokes with no thought behind it? Is it "just" fiction, unreal, or is it a different version of our own world? Which one makes you a fool, an idiot, in need of instruction from someone who knows better than you?

Ceci n'est pas une pipe. This is not a pipe. The treachery of images, what is and isn't on the literal page.

The point is that insisting upon one and denying the other makes you a fool, because it's not just both but four, five, twelve, and sixteen different things: opposition and attraction, love and strife, and no difference between them in the funhouse mirror.

That's why they're constantly hooking up with everyone, why they're also constantly fighting with everyone, why they're always getting together and then breaking up. Why characters can look different than they used to, why canon was "retconed", why characters act differently at different times.

Because they're different people. Literally shapeshifting, sharing bodies via the divine power of god the author. Is separation an indication of hate and denial like the gods splitting apart humanity, or is it an indication of love, or is it both in that they're whole and happy unto themselves? Enemies to lovers, love thine enemy, round and round.

Cloning, AUs, "mirror" versions, masks and uniforms that change how you act, are repetitive plot devices because whom could you love/hate more than another version of yourself, a part of you that was missing?

Are the authors being bigoted by not putting "love" on the page, not allowing it to flourish, or are they getting around censorship by explicitly making it the element that's both necessary to and missing from life? Is it an unexplained poorly conceived virus that makes people hate mutants, or is it the nature of their world? Is it the inherent design of the world, or is it something they choose?

It's a metaphor about superiority and how power is used, about being denied the power to choose for yourself by people who are supposedly better than you, that what you need and what someone else needs can be so wildly different it's destructively oppositional.

It's about trusting in other people, trusting that there is good even when all you can see is red, about bothering to find out the truth and the effort involved in deciphering what that is. Because our world isn't theirs: the difference between love and hate matters, and we should care to get it right even if tons of variables make it hard to tell.

Heaven, hell, good or evil? Are people stupid for going to hell or are they seeking their own heaven because you're wrong about the world? Idk, let's ask Lil Nas X and Huck Finn.

It's so fucking clever, I'm obsessed. You're telling me there's more story in my story????

The punchline: salvation and sin, like Cassandra the oracle, is found in the mouth of your other half, through.....what you spit and swallow. Which is an....oral activity, be it communal blood, or censored things. And if pleasure is sin, and superhero uniforms change what you can do, then can you be both strife to those who need it and heaven to those who don't? Like an asshole with a golden heart and the personification of a sinful pleasure. Both male and female, giving people whatever they need as a service to help them.

Like Xavier who preaches peace but also controls a black ops team. Where there's no violence in the mansion but putting on a uniform lets you do it in a way that saves people. Changing what you look like and how you act to attract or warn off certain people, giving them the choice. Like a mating dance or threat display. Being....both sides of the coin, wanting it all, calling that a superpower because you're down to clown, fool around and fuck with anyone who's interested.

[o-craven-canto]

These could be extremely powerful weapons in Posting

[jackie-monochrome]

bro 😭😭😭😭

[gffa]

The sheer amount of love in Bail Organa's heart when he thinks about his wife, when he thinks about his daughter, when he thinks about the galaxy, when he thinks about Obi-Wan and Padme, is one of the greatest joys of this book. I deeply enjoyed the diving into the political aspects of Mon and Bail and Saw beginning to fight back against the Empire, I appreciated how much prescience there was in the book to our own time, I appreciated how much connective tissue the book managed that felt seamlessly sewn together with other content (this is especially true of Mon, I feel like between Andor and this book, we're getting such a clear picture of her), but also fundamentally this book is woven through with love. That even through the grief and anger, this book never forgets that it stems from love. Bail's thoughts about how he wishes he could do more, the way he misses the friends who were so dear to him, it's so good. And I would pay Disney CASH MONEY to animate a scene with the three of them discussing the troubles problems of the galaxy. Everyone should read Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear because I honestly think it's one of the best additions to the story, adding both depth to the characters and depth to the tragedy around them, while still holding onto hope and light. (Star Wars: Reign of the Empire: The Mask of Fear | Alexander Freed)

[rqbossman]

Hi! I noticed there wasn't a draft number listed in the script of the most recent Magnus Protocol episode. Is this just an unfortunate error, or the beginning of a new disturbing pattern? Inquiring minds need to know.

Huh. I'll be honest, the publicly visible scripts shouldn't really have draft numbers attached as standard so the fact they have done previously is more of a fun bonus you have had up-to-date rather than something intended.

[saltytearsofjoy]

THERE IS NO “if only tomura were saved as a child before he was too far gone….” HE COULDNT HAVE BEEN RESCUED THEN EITHER!!!!! AFO is way too powerful and absolutely could’ve interfered with any random citizen or hero trying to save tenko…there is no way tenko ever had a chance of physically escaping a supervillain plotting to kidnap him.

The only time tenko could’ve been saved WAS WHEN HE WAS AN ADULT WHO COULD OVERPOWER AFO. There was no “missed opportunity”…..there was no “well the time for rescue has passed and we need to kill this guy now”……tenko in PLW++ was at the only time in his life where he had the power to PHYSICALLY get away from AFO while also being at the point where AFO’s abuse of his autonomy was at its worse.

Like there’s a lot of focus on the mental aspects of saving tomura, the idea that he’s “too far gone” is about him wanting to destroy hero society. This idea can get really bleak considering tomura is a grooming victim and the “all I can do is destroy im an evil evil villain” mindset was forced into him since childhood…..also it’s very much ignored that Tomura’s destruction is for the sake of others

(which is the biggest sign that Tomura never fully lost himself 😭😭 it’s a HEROIC act…he wants to help people like him…but it’s still treated as a villainous trait beyond redemption) (also we literally see Tomura’s inner child asking to be saved and expressing frustration when he sees others being saved so cmon. beyond saving my ass)

And all that IS very important, mha has always said that heroes need to save The Heart. But……..Tomura’s situation is so horrible and unique and those circumstances shouldn’t just be ignored. In the finale, joki joki boy (did he ever get a name?? remember when we all convinced ourselves he was tenko…) is saved by the granny who didn’t reach out to tenko when he needed help, and it’s treated as this hopeful moment cause society is changing and tomura’s situation has been prevented🥺🥺!! But joki joki boy’s situation cannot be compared to Tomura’s???? If the granny actually did reach out to tomura last time, AFO would’ve just showed up at her doorstep and crafted some scenario to put tenko back in his hands. The metaphor just falls flat…..yes in the comparison tenko would be at a more hopeful place in his life and it would be nice if society were okay enough to even think of reaching out, but he inevitably would’ve fallen through the cracks anyway.

Tomura is the “Heroism: Final Boss” because saving him isn’t easy. It couldn’t have been done at a point where one person reaching out would fix everything; it could only be done after he became a “bad victim”, after he’d cause irreversible damage to himself and others as a result of his trauma. The granny and joki joki boy thing makes it seem like only “good victims” are worth saving, only people who are easy to save are worth saving. Which is literally the opposite of what had been saying the entire story right??? It’s so anticlimactic to have the main character face off against the “FINAL BOSS OF HEROSIM!!” and then just say he was a lost cause. It’s all bad. idec about mha idgaf idgaf idgaf…..😭…

[artbyblastweave]

Honestly I feel like the most glaringly obvious pitch for a deconstruction of Spider-Man as a character is "would you trust any 15 year old you know to be a level-headed impartial arbiter of who deserves to be on the receiving end of massive superhuman vigilante violence"

[sisterskaoi]

I just (2 minutes ago) finished reading Careless People.

None of what happened within Facebook and its leadership is shocking, but all of it is disgusting. Sarah tried, to the point of detriment to her health, to the point of nearly dying on the job multiple times. At no point did any of the important people in Facebook leadership give a single fuck.

I'm not surprised that they don't want her promoting her book. They're probably furious that they couldn't stop her publishing it. It is absolutely worth reading.

Meta doesn't want you to know about Sarah Wynn-Williams book Careless People. So much so they got the courts involved so she can't promote herself. Would be a shame if a bunch of people not tied up in court promoted it for her…

[transfemme-shelterdog]

Okay, ignoring all the threats and shit talk I got from this recent (stupid) drama around whether or not fictional incest causes actual harm, I'm gonna make something clear.

Gonna only say this once:

If you have more of an issue with a trans man putting a reference to a fictional video game, with fictional characters, committing fictional immoral acts, than you would an actual real life trans man getting predator jacketed and being subjected to transandrophobic harassment, I don't want to talk to you.

If you place your feelings over harm in a fictional, yucky video game, over the feelings of a trans man being subjected to real world harm, that shows you're not really an ally to trans men and transmascs. It shows that your support and love of your brothers and siblings relies on that person not being "problematic" by setting their discord icon to a reference to a video game. Not even real actual incest, just an image referencing something that has incest in it.

Trans men and transmascs matter. And if you see no issue with predatorjacketing them, you can fuck off.

[magaia96]

That's how I am with fantasy

Usually it NEVER starts with the main character.

Usually it starts with random people doing random slice of life stuff and I start to like them and ship them.

But then the main character appears and I tend to like them LESS than I did the first few characters that happened, like "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY BLORBOS!" and then stuff I don't want start happening... like there's a lot of battles and deaths and dramatic stuff but NO I WANT THE SLICE OF LIFE WITH THE BLORBOS THAT ONLY APPEAR IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE FIRST CHAPTER!

(Like Mel and Sarissa and Lu from Cronache del Mondo Emerso!) (it's funny bc Sarissa and Lu's ship name would also be Lussa I guess?!?)

[edsrosetattoo]

This is the best idea in the history of film.

[memehex]

Now more than ever we need to make Tumblr unmarketable, do NOT invite the government into this space.