#it's clearly not the same test

[dont-open-dead-inside-net]

mom asked me to elaborate on my test scores from today so i looked up the max score online and it says it's 300. i got 976. okay then

[windvexer]

This is in response to an anonymous ask. Anon has been able to sense what we might call Oversoul or Big animals for a while, but since a significant magical awakening Anon has lost the clarity of their Sight.

Anon has advised that after trying connection techniques that used to work, this problem has not resolved.

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Anon, I disagree with your hypothesis that this may be an active choice by your spirits, either to test you or to encourage you to do something.

When I went through my 'awakening' I encountered an intense shift in the kind of work I had been able to do, and I had to re-learn old skills I was already confident in. It's happened to me more than once. It blows.

This isn't because I was being tested, but rather because my circuitry was being converted from DC to AC and the 12 volt systems weren't compatible with my hardware any more.

I believe it's normal for practitioners to lose and have to re-learn or adapt around old skills. It sucks, but it happens. It would rarely be my first assumption that these things are spirits wanting distance, or putting us through shit tests, or something.

Here are my suggestions:

Tell them you do not like the distance and it's scary. Invite them back and ask them to stay close.

Put old techniques up on the shelf and try something completely new. Like if before you were attempting grounded visualization, this time try water scrying. Or, shapeshifting during astral travel.

Ask them to send clear, direct messages about how to resume old levels of clarity and contact.

Redirect your focus away from spirit working and towards psychism: perform experiments to see if there are any other changes to your Sensing and try to troubleshoot

Engage the help of an ally known to assist with matters of Sensing and clarity, perhaps including gods, plants, or mineral spirits; or smaller spirits (especially the Dead) who can give you information to improve your Sensing and solve this problem.

Redirect focus towards matters of magical hygiene; regular cleansing, unblocking, and ward maintenance can have material effects on Sensing.

Review all ongoing sorcery and ensure no wards, spells, or any projects could be impacting the ability of spirits to easily arrive to you.

Review many recent actions and ensure you have not accidentally caused offense or accidentally did something to send the spirits away; resolve offenses, known or unknown, through general offering rituals asking to bury the hatchet and resume a positive relationship

[mishy-mashy]

The Resistance squatted in abandoned buildings. They were squatters.

Before I show the panels that show they used abandoned buildings, I just want to be logical about this for a moment.

It doesn't make much sense to assume these guys - looking around jump-into-university age (18-26) - could afford to make underground bunkers and metal-plated halls all across Japan, for their base. They wouldn't have the time, resources, or even support from others to make these places.

Where do they find the metal to hammer in? The posts? The knowledge of actually building tunnels or buildings from scratch without them falling apart?

Other than that, having a single stationary base (above-ground, for example), is not going to survive. All For One's supporters fight anyone who opposes him without him needing to say anything.

AFO rules Japan right now. Everyone is wary of each other. Look at how Bruce describes it as "the harshest era";

As All For One's supporters attack his opposers of their own will, and supporters don't even realize they're on his side, the Resistance has to constantly be on the move. They can't really trust anyone.

They can't have stationary bases, nor can they afford ANYTHING to make them. They would've been caught immediately trying to do a big project like that, especially if they needed supplies to do so from someone who likely works for AFO, even without knowing.

Japan was in economic and social turmoil. They can't trust the market to keep going and grocery stores to be open. Look at how Japan is with All For One and Tomura; people band together and stores are looted.

Money is obsolete. Society is divided between humans and "monsters" (Ability-users). You can't trust anyone because anyone could be his pawn. Time is running up as his control spreads everyday. Resources are being looted left and right. It's too dangerous to go outside alone. Even if you have a stun gun, what does that mean against Ability-users?

So what do they do with their limited resources? Trying to hide from the big guy? What "bases" do they have?

They hunker down in abandoned places that already exist and, again, are abandoned. No one's going to come looking for them in places that people have run from and left behind. Because these places are literally just that: places no one wants anymore.

You hide a tree in a forest. You don't make a big, special base somewhere that says "I am here!", and they don't have the resources or time to burrow underground or build that.

Hide in an abandoned building among many others. There's not many people in abandoned places, if they happen to be there at all. The Resistance isn't going to be found in the deserted buildings, but they still have to keep moving, because someone might be trailing them.

When they take Yoichi from the vault,

They're in a house. The couch is ripped, the mug is cracked, and so is the wall, with a questionable stain in the background. There are signs of fighting and abandonment, but it works.

Houses have food. Houses have clothes. Houses have beds. It's enough to sit in for a bit and heat up some water.

Not everyone packed their things and run. Some people just had to RUN. And when some places are full-on abandoned from an exodus, the Resistance is definitely gonna find some stuff there in the new "safe area".

Look below at where Kudo and Bruce hole up after Yoichi's death. No one's outside, there's a destroyed car, and there's some smoke further up the road.

The hospital/clinic room Bruce uses is ripped apart and unsanitary, but it's still the best they can do. I think that houses and a hospital would be their best bet for survival/using as a base; resources, lodging, and some sort of safety exist there. Especially in a hospital, which would have backup generators, a camera system, and even a PA system. Hospitals have to accommodate for lots of people (food, space, lodging), and have a lot of medical equipment they can use.

Basically what I'm saying is: the Resistance likely doesn't have a permanent base. They don't have the resources or enough safety to make their own. They squat in abandoned places and move constantly, because nowhere is safe, but they can't just waltz in public and declare where they are; they have to hide in plain sight while they bide their time. In the meantime, the places they use would have to be resourceful, or they're using what they have on their backs. The manga already shows them using a house and a hospital room.

[itspileofgoodthings]

I am 99% sure I said this somewhere but I can’t find it in my posts anymore so may I just say AGAIN how absolutely hilarious to me it is that Catherine Morland is NOT boy crazy but she IS book crazy!!! And I know I’m just describing the basic premise of the story but it’s never hit me before that that is what she cares about at first to the exclusion of all else. Like. The friendship with Isabella is so funny (“friendship”) because Isabella’s like “books boys important secrets dances dresses self-importance” and Catherine is like “yes yes all of these” but she goes home and can ONLy think of her book and she likes being admired by the men calling her pretty but also really she’s like “but my story is so absorbing” and then even when she meets and likes Henry and is so delighted in his presence there is a part of her brain, a very big part, that is not thinking about romance at all!!!! She’s not thinking about marriage or whether or not he likes her it’s not absorbing her to the exclusion of all else the way you would expect?? That is NOT the immaturity to which she is susceptible—she goes to the abbey and even though at that point she likes Henry even more and is in pretty deep she can’t even deal with it until the spell with her fascination with fiction over reality is broken and her testing of whether or not fiction IS reality. And then once she learns that lesson and lets it go she can love him more completely but it’s just endlessly endearing to me that books are her first first love and she’s in their spell!!!

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

Ngl it's weird finishing the Knuckles tv show and going to tumblr about it only for people (even who I consider bigger name fans) who also watched the entire show to claim that it "confirmed Knuckles Wachowski"

Like

I'm sorry

Did you somehow miss the part in the last episode where Knuckles had a whole montage of hanging with the Whipple family and Wade and saying "home" or something?

[mask131]

In the spirit of fairness, I will talk about one of the bad points of Helluva Boss. Because yes, Helluva Boss does have flaws and problems (not that I complain a lot about them because IT'S A FRIGGIN FREE SHOW - and for someone who is crushed by the economical inflation the concept of "free" is very important), and because, while I do consider that the hater-community of Helluva Boss has started a slippage into "let's cut ourselves from reality" that might end up one day in another Silent Hill Circumcision incident ; I also do consider that among the fans of Helluva Boss there are clearly people who are too immature for the show. Not immature as in "Haha, poop joke", I am speaking of immature as in emotion-wise immature, and also can't split reality from fiction.

... Now that I say this, the problem of confusing reality and fiction IS actually the flaw of both extremes and the reasons things go bad. Anyway.

Today I want to speak about the "Octavia is a cockblocker" moment. Now if you don't know, a LOT of fans got pissed off at Brandon Rogers in a recent interview because he explained his profound disdain of the character of Octavia. He told the interviewer in all honesty that he had told Vivienne Medranno about how he believed the show would have been better with Octavia removed - but the point that really set in flame some of the immature fans is when he described Octavia as simply being a "cock-blocker" when looking at her from the point of view of Blitzo's story. (Because that's another thing people seem to forget, but to be fair the show itself seems to forget it sometimes - this show is(was) meant Blitzo's story. It is called "Helluva Boss" and Blitzo is the Helluva Boss, and on the very first thumbnail it was just Blitzo's face and nobdoy else)

But enough digression. Many people got VERY angry at Brandon Rogers for saying this and called him many things including a "disgusting man" or "garbage" for "calling a 17 years old a cockblocker".

... Already if you are a sane and logical person you notice the first big red flag. Octavia is not a real person. To say that Octavia being called a cock-blocker is a disgusting move because "she is 17" is treating her as if she was a real person. And we have already enough problems with people NOT defending actual real-life minors of flesh and blood, without having delusional people starting to defend fictional characters which are just bits of pixel moving on a screen. Mind you, I do understand where this feeling comes from - because we all remember the DISASTER of the Instagram accounts, and the very reason why they were closed, so of course there is this specific trauma that can be triggered...

But it doesn't remove important facts. Such as how Octavia is a fictional character, or how Brandon Rogers isn't just a voice actor for Helluva Boss, but also one of its writers, and thus he literaly can have the opinion he wants on the characters he works on. I can write a five-year old character in one of my story and still call him, when asked about it, a "little fucker" because I hate him. The real question isn't hether or not I can call him that - it is about whether or not it is justified to call him that. This is a VERY important nuance that a lot of people do not seem to get: creators and writers have the right to call and treat their character however their want, but what is important is what their judgement of said character reveals.

And so let's return to Octavia. Is she a cock-blocker?

Now the question isn't really that either. The thing a lot of people do not get with Brandon Rogers' interviews, mostly because a huge part of the audience of Helluva Boss is NOT aware or familiar with mister Rogers' long, long, LOOONNGG history of Youtube creation (he was doing videos long before some of the HB fans were even BORN) is that he is literaly the "offensive, crude, not for children" Youtube man, who made it a style, persona and trademark of ending a sketch by drinking a cup of cum or shouting swear words in the middle of supermarkets. That, plus as he explains very clearly in the interview, he identifies a lot with Blitzo's character and it does influence his judgement as he considers the story from the point of view of the character he is writing about and for.

All of that being said, "cock-blocker" does mean more than just "cock-blocker": what is being told here is that Octavia only "serves" as a character in relation to Stolas and Blitzo's relationship, and Rogers did very clearly say that all Octavia was doing all the time was "crying for her daddy". Putting aside the poetic words used - it did made me think about Octavia as a character, and... when you think of Octavia from a creator's point of view, she is right.

Putting aside the choice of ~ poetic ~ words, Octavia does indeed suffer from a specific character-writing problem. In fact I myself didn't like very much Octavia ever since her introduction, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why as she seemed like a complete character who didn't do anything specific to annoy me - but Rogers' comment on her role in the show being just a "crying cock-block" made me realize the truth. The reason I dislike Octavia, and what Brandon Rogers was actually conveying through his words, is that she is a "lamp-character".

Octavia only exists as an extension of Stolas' plotline and in relationship to him. She is only important and impactful for Stolas' subplots and little world within the Helluva Boss universe, and she doesn't really impact others around her. Sure, she does have a deeper interaction with Loona... But notice how it is more about Loona interacting with Octavia and influencing her than Octavia actually influencing Loona in any way. The only two episodes Octavia was in, are all about depicting her in light of her relationship with Stolas, and she only ever impacts or interacts with him. Sure, IMPS is dragged along - but more as a secondary consequence, and always by Stolas not so much Octavia herself. Stella doesn't suffer from this problem because, unlike Octavia, she DOES interact and impact the Helluva Boss universe outside of Stolas' character bubble - by being the boss of Striker, thus having her involved in a whole other side of the world.

However Octavia is so walled in and isolated into Stolas' subplot that she fails badly at the "lamp-test". I don't recall the exact name of this test, but it is simply about "Can this character be replaced by a lamp, and will it change anything?" It was originally designed specifically for the writing of female characters - which makes it even more fitting because Helluva Boss does have a problem with female characters.

LooLoo Land: Octavia can be replaced by a lamp and the plot won't change. Stolas has to bring his lamp to the park for whatever reason (maybe he wants to repair it), but in the process he uses this trip as an excuse to have the IMPS, and at the end he almost loses his lamp and someones tries to steal it away from him, but he gets it back and all is fine.

Sure there are emotional scenes and some character interactions - but plot wise, Octavia herself is not important, as she is a narrative tool and plot excuse.

Same thing with the Hollywood episode. Replace the plot with "Stolas loses his lamp, that gets sent to the human world, and he must get it back" - and the episode STILL WORKS.

While some might be offended by Brandon Rogers' comment of Octavia being just a living cock-blocker for the Stolas-Blito relationship that should be removed to make the show better ; he is actually conveyed in his usual offensive way a truth. Octavia only exists as an extension of Stolas' character, feelings and dilema. All she does is cry about missing her father, and so far the two episodes she was in literaly repeat the same plot and dynamic of "Sad girl, gets away, father returns, they bond again". She does not impact the plot in such a meaningful way that she is NEEDED, she can literaly be replaced by a lamp and the narrative wouldn't move, she does not interact meaningfully with any character outside of her father (and yes, the show not exploring Stella's relationship with her daughter is another big hole caused by the unbalance and poor thoughts put into Octavia's character)... Octavia literaly only exists to cry and make Stolas feel bad, and that's it.

Mind you, this post might age badly when the show returns post-October, because we have been teased (and spoiled by the cursed leakers, damned be their souls) of Octavia actually FINALLY having an impactful role that will change the narrative in future episode, so thanks the devils for that! But until then... so far Octavia literaly is a lamp-character that has no real use outside of starting a plot that is not about her, and making Stolas more depressed. Stella is a much more interested, needed and well-written character than Octavia - and yet Stella is far less complex or compelling, and much more superficial than Octavia's character is.

And it is quite a flaw when your one-sided, flat-character of a villain is more essential to your plot than the character you want an audience to feel involved with.

[ibuprofinator]

what if i just kill alistair in ilya's canon

[randomimagesofspongebobgames]

Clash of Triton 2011 PC/Mac

[hauntingblue]

NAMI NEEDS TO GO UP THERE AND FIGHT BIG MOM I AM SO SERIOUS!!! THIS IS A BATTLE FOR THE ROMANCE DOWN TRIO!! SANJI DO NOT DARE TAKE HER SPOT!!!

[fallow-grove]

snorkmaiden running in saying her brothers about to jump off a cliff and moominpapa saying "didnt think he was the type" 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[reitziluz]

this september has been absolutely cursed so far. back to back misfortunes and setbacks.

the funniest one (or well, the one i can't help but laugh about) is how my new doc at the health center was gravely worried over my hemoglobin count. surely it is a sign my hrt dose is too high and all my organs are going to melt!

i have just recently graduated from the trans hrt specialty clinic after a long time of monitoring my hemoglobin and figuring out a dose that actually keeps me just above the lower threshold of the clinical range i'm aiming for. they figured my blood is just Like That as a genetic thing. the only time in my life i've had a hemoglobin count within the reference ranges is the few years when i ate mostly vegan and donated blood regularly. i was told by a school nurse at fifteen that i should donate blood when i turn 18 because my blood is so thick.

like it's p likely i was a bit dehydrated during that latest blood draw too. the doc needs to chill. there were much more worrying things in the results than the hemoglobin. stuff that's the actual reason i went to get the tests done.

but my blood being thick and rich like a luxurious vampire delicacy never fails to make me laugh

[fake-ascension]

i finally went back and looked thru all the replies i got ty guys for sending me all the good vibes <3 im not feeling great mentally bc. no sleep but my nervous have calmed down quite a bit because i know now what was causing the severe symptoms. I've got referrals set up to take a better look at my actual stomach problems so fingers crossed

[vvelegrin]

you know, it's an interesting feeling to experience sudden and new joint pain that is impacting my ability to, among other things, hold a pen for an extended period of time and the only thing that my (now former) doctor has done is repeatedly test me for lupus (it's not lupus. it's still not lupus.) and tell me he was going to prescribe me claritin for it and then not actually put in the prescription.

[green-mountain-goose]

whatever happens i cant fail is an *abysmal* strategy for living life. and yet rn....

[gallifreanpotterhead]

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[ames-art]

Whew ! this one took me quite a lot of efforts :o

Based off a joke with a friend about dating one of Fontaine means likely having Arlecchino being the scary in-law