#i need this theory to function

[ganondoodle]

(idk if anyone wants to keep hearing my opinions on totk book stuff but-)

apparently it says that rauru DID have kids, multiple even, which yeah... is kinda necessary for zelda to even be connected to them so much so that sonia can SENSE a blood connection (which, even with all the excuses with magic, is just a little too far for me to suspend my disbelief bc its over, OVER, ten thousand years worth of generations that seperate her from them that one lil touch of the hand can sense that (feels more like an attempt to make you care about them or .. see them as zeldas "better" parents just bc they exchange a few nice words, i never got the feeling they were 'better' parents and its also kinda disrespectful to her actual parents, like sure rhoam wasnt the best but i wouldnt call rauru better just bc he was polite)- i could see maybe the light power of hylia or sth but since its the coolest dude that ever lived rauru now that had it which still doesnt make sense and makes me unreasonably annoyed and she can sense BOTH of their powers in her? nah) the fact theres NOTHING about them in the game itself is just so ... no way they planned any of this

i dont think theres anything they can do or say that wont make be believe they either

are making it up alla 'fix it in post' mentality trying to hastily explain stuff the game never bothers to do to try and appease fans or let it appear as if they thought about it at all

something went really REALLY wrong during development, which kinda seems likely given how the game turned out (im sorry i cannot let go, its not just the writing, the game design too and how little was changed in the map while being so damn expensive, i dont know how people dont feel scammed q_q)

given that they (allegedly) spent the last entire year of development on polish (where??? where????? huh??? like it would make it more understandable (EXCEPT for the price) if there was alot of trouble, which was also bc it got delayed and ... turned out like this, but they dont want to say it, especially given their reputation, with that quote i have heard way too many times 'a delayed game blah blah') i just??

are they just gonna go and do it like they did with kashiwa (kass)? "they uuuh where flying around the whole time ony cool sonau tech maschines, you just dont see or hear from them ooooorrr they were uuuuh out of the country at the time" (sending invitations to other continents to join their glorious kingdom ;) )

(bet they are also gonna say they did all the stuff like ... moving the shrines around (lol?) and lifting the islands up into the sky- which is still weird bc ... didnt they also say they were living in the sky before coming to the surface?? so where?? did they park all their islands on the surface and the mystery kids had the keys so they had to repark them back into the sky after they returned off camera?? xD also why are the islands so different as an environment if they where from the surface? like even the STONE up there is different- and if they were first in the sky then on the surface and the nback in the sky .. why is there not a single yellow tree or grass in the past- you cant really argue that it changed bc they were up there so long bc .. nothing else changed, the suddendly and totally always there sonau buildings are largely in prime condition, only some slightly moldy, and what we see of the glorious past looks barely any different from the present, aside from like ... some standard trees shuffled, no castle yet and that glowy uwu filter DESPITE that stupidly long time frame between it)

[iteratorsex]

Also to be noted: The fact that gravity never turns off in LTTM's GSB/Neural Terminus, even though it fluctuates everywhere else, implies that the GSB has special properties possibly pertaining to gravity disruptors or collapse events, which wouldn't surprising considering how honestly important the puppet seems to functioning

[anthurak]

So here's a minor Rosebird Parents-related thought I've been mulling over for a bit that I've also been asked about a couple time:

Even outside of the general 'Unreliable Narrator' nature of himself and Tai that I have already discussed, Qrow not telling Ruby (or Yang) about Raven being her dad/other-mom makes a lot more sense then you might think.

Simply because it is actually entirely possible that Qrow wouldn't actually KNOW that Raven is Ruby's other mom. At least, he wouldn't know for sure.

Qrow would have his suspicions certainly. He could even be PRETTY SURE that Ruby is actually Raven's and Summer's kid. But if Summer was being tight-lipped on the matter, there really wouldn't be anything Qrow could do to confirm it.

And after Summer's disappearance, there's only two people left who could confirm Ruby's true parentage to Qrow, and neither of them would be easily pressed for information.

I've got a lengthy theory-post on Qrow's and Tai's relationship in the works (the REAL foil to bumbleby on Team STRQ XD) that goes into detail on this, but given what we've seen of them together I imagine that Qrow has basically been 'walking on eggshells' around Tai ever since Summer's 'death'. Out of fear of destroying his relationship with the one teammate he has left (and also because he's still pining for Tai, but more on that in a later post). So Qrow would never just up and ask Tai "hey, so is Ruby ACTUALLY your kid?"

And of course, Raven being ENTIRELY unforthcoming with information would likewise absolutely be in-character for her.

So with all that said, even putting aside the general tendency of adults in RWBY to hide VERY IMPORTANT information from their children/students/charges, I think it actually is entirely in-character for Qrow to have not mentioned this possibility to Ruby. And I would even call it an actually GOOD mentoring/parenting decision on his part.

I mean would it really have been a good thing for Qrow to one day pull a pre-teen Ruby aside and go 'Hey, so I think your parents were lying to you and your dad isn't actually your dad and your real dad is my sister and also your sister's mom who's been gone for your entire life. I mean I don't know for sure, but I've got a pretty good hunch about it.'?

[slabmaxxing]

Hear me out. Parrots director is Spoke, Spokes director is Wembu and Wembus director is Parrot

hearing you out anon. a three way exchange is an interesting idea... let me think. im curious if you mean the directors are the ccs directing each others characters/personas or if its literally a single layer circle where each Character is a director. or something in between (alternate universe/smp/timeline version of character) Eh. eeehhhh. who knows

1 welcome back havoc! who cheered! millions of havoc fans found dead. really brings you back to lss4 and also the greatest secret ep. this one is fun and rooted in spokes manipulationisms but also a bit trite. 2&3 squints. hm. (takes a puff off the wrong end of my cigarette and collapses and dies)

regretfully im not sure if this is a director theory i subscribe to but there is food for thought and i do hope they get funny about it like this. double mobius reacharound ass. i guess its that in unstable uutrios paths dont intersect all that often and idk if hteir character themes are connected like so. . . sorry its 3am. hi. idk how serious you are about this. sorry if you were serious about this theory. or sorry if you werent serious about this theory

[chaos-doodles-shit]

Do all Cursed Realm ghosts have titles?

Listen, hear me out here.

‘Soul Archer’ cannot be that mans actual name, it’s obviously a title used to hint at his talents.

Do they all have those?

Soul is apparently the oldest of the group, so are they used as a sign of respect?

The other ghosts in S5 had to be reminded on multiple occasions that Morro was in charge. He doesn’t use their titles because they’re beneath him in rank, and they don’t use his as a kind of ‘you’re not my dad’ situation, maybe? And they all use Soul Archer’s title rather than his actual name because he’s older and he’s respected. The titles are formal/respectful (like using General Sasha or Mx Sasha instead of Richard Sasha) and actual names can either be informal/friendly or a dig at the person in question (like calling your teacher by their actual name).

I imagine they’d be given these titles by the Preiminent once they enter the Realm as a simple skill identification, as she likely doesn’t care enough to learn their actual names. But obviously the Preiminent is very respected, and because she uses the titles, the other ghosts take it as ‘We use the titles as a way of saying we are speaking formally to you, like she does with us.’

Title examples could be something like ‘Storm Bringer’ for Morro or ‘Wail Wielder’ for Bansha.

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

you ever look at yourself in a mirror until youre Real. scary shit

[jerejerejere]

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I need a pause button on the obsession, i don't get anything done all my brain wants ot to be fed käärijä-shaped sugar 😭

[stick-by-me]

Metallic super chicks!

[hpandthegobletofsass]

one of the few scenes i've written for the jegulus fic i've been working on, regulus getting his dark mark. wrote this back in january and haven't looked at it since until today and am deeply unwell about it, so posting this snippet to hopefully get motivation to write more than just the three scenes and fuck ton of notes i have (it's like 550 some words, so putting it under a read more, but you should read it and then ask me questions bc i have so many thoughts for this fic :3)

The next meeting is just after Christmas. There seems to be a slightly different cast of characters at each one, probably why these are so frequent, to keep anyone who couldn’t make the previous meeting up to date.

He isn’t there until the third meeting though. Just before Regulus is due to go back to Hogwarts. The vibes are different immediately, a chill in the air, everyone speaking in more hushed reverent tones with less idle chit chat.

He addresses Regulus specifically towards the end of the meeting. “Black, I’ve heard promising things about you,” he gives a small nod, “How have you been finding our meetings, intriguing I hope?”

This is the moment, the pivotal spot where everything shifts, “Yes, sir, they’ve given me much to think about, and already I have learned so much more than I ever could’ve hoped. I’ve been given access to resources on the dark arts I could never dream of finding at Hogwarts, it has been a great privilege.”

Bella looks like she’s about to start vibrating from excitement, that the Dark Lord is paying specific attention to the Black family is a dream come true to her.

“Hm yes, we can offer much that Hogwarts cannot. However, Hogwarts is where the youth of today exists, and it’s always good to have an insider, to convince those who might be unsure, what the best side to be on is." He pauses for a moment, "So perhaps, we have ourselves a new recruit tonight? Your cousin Bellatrix has already proven herself more than loyal, and I can’t imagine she would bring someone along who wouldn’t already be loyal to us as well.”

Regulus panics, Fuck does he know? he can’t know. It’s probably just because I’m 16 and he can’t have full control over me at Hogwarts. Verbally he says, “I’d be honored, My Lord,” with a small reverent bow.

He seemed pleased with this, “Brothers, tonight we celebrate adding another to our ranks! Welcome, young Regulus Black.”

Bella screeches beside me, clinging to my arm, Regulus offers a smile to the rest of the room, hoping he seems excited and not on the verge of tears. The meeting has now extended to include his induction.

Regulus has no clue what to expect, he knows Bella has the Dark Mark tattoo, and can only assume he's in for the same.

Regulus can tell there’s some sort of strong magic woven into the ink being painted on his forearm. It’s cold and feels almost alive, sort of snake like. Then came the pain. After Nott finished painting the design, he grabbed Regulus' wrist, barely touching his wand to the skin, and the mark sunk in. Regulus felt it eating away at his flesh, more like a brand than a tattoo, it was the most excruciating pain he had ever experienced. But he knew this was part of it, they were testing him, to see if he was weak, how he reacted to this pain was another part of whether or not they’d let him live.

Regulus allowed himself a grimace and nothing more, he refused to make any sort of sound as the ink burned through him like poison. Then it was done. The others congratulated him, told him he did well, that they were excited to have him on board, promised to send him books and such.

[dayurno]

i just saw a post about andrew and his meds and how he was probably misdiagnosed for depression but he’s actually bipolar which made him manic all the time bc of his meds and!!!! yes to me andrew has always been bipolar. anyways i just had to share this with someone what are you thoughts on bipolar andrew? i know this isn’t kevin related and for that i’m sorry

"i know this isn’t kevin related and for that i’m sorry" HRGJLDHFGDFJG KDFJG FUNNY....!!!! i do answer non-kevin related asks sometimes but the flesh and the spirit must be willing... i'd say it's occasional like an expert briefly commenting on another expert's field

i thought bipolar andrew was canon? isn't it? i've never really had any extensive thoughts about it; to me it was just a fact of the world like the foxes are orange and kevin is beautiful..... well. regardless. i think it's a good hc if that's what it is :) i'm not all that interested in diagnosing aftg characters with personality disorders and i think a diagnosis of something is not always a concrete reality of life and more so a guideline to follow to deal with a specific cluster of symptoms, but as far as they go, andrew being bipolar makes a lot of sense!

i have a friend who went through the foster system when they were younger and a few years ago i do remember we were talking about andrew and they said a lot of how he was written was taken textbook from a 'how to foster troubled children' manual, which i think is most of what i think about re: andrew's mental health. to me it is more interesting (fiction wise!) to think about the material conditions that caused him to develop the symptoms he did, and less so about the ultimate conclusion of them. does this make sense?

tl;dr: i thought andrew being bipolar was already canon, if it's a hc then it's cool :=)

[thormanick]

Crazy thought,

are humans with visions supposed to be “batteries” for gods/divine thrones/whoever issues the actual vision?

/lots of thoughts in the tags/

[aeide-thea]

like i guess re pronouns i think also like. many of us (trans/gnc/~gender-diverse~ people) are going to feel differently from one another and that diversity of thought is both inevitable and important

but there is a way in which, as with the question of whether you can group nonbinary people into 'people functionally includable in lesbian attraction' and 'people functionally includable in gay male attraction,' there's this process where like. there's an attempt to expand beyond the traditional framing and create more space for people, and then when that attempt runs up against cissexism and gets gummed up in some of the ways that article describes, you get people going, 'you know what, actually the really queer thing is to stop trying to expand mainstream culture into something that can accommodate queerness and just exist in a totally unspoken way,' and like. it's not that i don't get where that reaction is coming from, or that i totally disagree with it—as my one transfem ex said, the best days are the ones where you don't have to actively make a case for, or even really think about, your own gender!—but like. funny how that approach in certain ways ends up looking (and more to the point feeling) pretty indistinguishable from just. subsiding right back into the underbelly of the cistem…

[elainemorisi]

like, the only true whopper in lo these two seasons has been Armand's credit-claiming for the (onstage) lifesaving, right. which was allowed to persist for not even the duration of a full episode. I don't think I'm forgetting anything here, right?

anyway, would be nice if more theorizing noticed that lol

[relicsongmel]

Being a music-based synesthete with absolute pitch is wonderful but so frustrating because the vast majority of people have no context for the way I experience music and thus whenever I try to explain it it makes no sense to them. What do you mean you can't tell what color this song is. What do you mean you don't hear a Bb minor chord and feel your body react to it before your brain does. What do you mean you can't feel the warm sunbeams of D major dancing across your face. My world is filled with musical color but even if people think it's cool they will never really see it and it makes me sad

[unopenablebox]

Holy God This Is All So Boring

i am taking microscope images of the cells i'm studying. the cells were grown on a glass plate before i fixed them (killed & chemically preserved), so by default a microscope image of them is taken from a camera below them, looking up through the glass. they're stained with fluorescent dyes for four different proteins, so every single picture has to be repeated four times with a different laser light illuminating the cells (imagine taking a photo with a red filter, a blue filter, and a green filter, and then composing them all together to get the full picture. it's actually almost exactly the opposite of that, but that's close enough).

i care mostly about how the cells are shaped in three dimensions, and i'm using a laser which is specially shaped so it can collect only a very thin slice of the cells in the Z-direction, without interference from the parts of the cells just above or just below what i'm taking pictures of. as a result, i need to take lots of pictures at different depths in the cells, so i can get slices that i can stack on top of each other and get back a 3D shape. also, because i am using a tiny concentrated beam of light to achieve the above effects, it has to scan across the image to collect each picture, like a scanner; it can't just be collected in a single snapshot like a photo.

the distance between one slice and the next is less than a quarter of a micrometer. i'm using a 63x magnified magnifying lens to magnify the image, and the light detector that picks up the light is specially made to allow the images to be processed even further, so i can resolve structures that are less than 200 nanometers, which is the Abbé limit and is the technical resolution limit of light microscopy (don't worry about this). i care about things that are the size of, like, three proteins stuck together, and therefore maybe 10nm wide, so this is important to me.

all of this is, you know, scientifically great, very useful to me, i'm getting some very interesting results that i am genuinely looking forward to thinking about more, except the upshot of all of this is that just getting a single picture of two cells from the bottom to top of the cells involves 80-100 slices and takes like 27 minutes per image to collect, and i need at least six pictures tonight, and certain bastards in certain other labs habitually pre-book the microscope so i can't use it except at 5-9pm on a friday. no one else is here in the lab and my mother is busy with elder care and my girlfriend is busy with like, groceries, so i can't call either of them even if i weren't too irritable to be good company, and oh my god, i am so bored, i am so so bored, i am bored enough even to type out this whole explanation even though none of you could possibly care because it took most of my current round of waiting for 27 minutes to do

[darlingeames]

i'm sorry to repeat something crowley has said but how can someone as brilliant as aziraphale be so stupid about the things that matter