#maximum knowledge

[ohitslen]

Kiss gun!

Based on this tweet!

[alexxuun]

Some sort of creature… (ID in alt text)

[monoidal-monoidoidoid]

once again there is a deep-seated desire growing within me to do an extra bonus math bachelor, for enrichment...

would cost 1-2k extra and I could do it in two years with the knowledge I already have

I did the maximum amount of math my bsc in compsci let me do and it feels like it wasnt nearly enough to be satisfying :(

[mitchmotch]

i was commissioned by @achinga to draw vash and milly! they're so silly :)

[junpeijackflash]

The near-final act plot twist of Echoes that recontextualizes all prior events and makes the protagonist (Alm) suddenly a great deal more important and chosen by a higher power than the audience is led to believe is, understandably, a bit othering and bothersome to some players. However I’ve never felt this way because what happens and what directly follows is almost exactly what happens in James Patterson’s infamous YA series Maximum Ride.

[bogkeep]

WHY IS POURING BEER SO DIFFICULT #boyfailure

[skylight-family]

Rigel, the Vault Guardian! 🌌

(timelapse under the cut! CONTAINS MUSIC: volume warning!)

[nepentheisms]

Volume 13 - Elendira's number, let's gooooo!

So I was pondering the significance of Livio's big throwdown fight being against Elendira, and it hit me once I looked at it in terms of their abilities: Elendira's weapon is nails; Livio's power is regeneration. This is the Crucifixion battling against the Resurrection - a very Christian metaphor being used to illustrate the conflict of ideas between Knives and Vash. Elendira acts to help carry out Knives' condemnation of humanity; she brings death and visions of death in the wake of Knives' crusade to punish those he sees as sinners. Livio, in contrast, is aligned with Vash's mission to save humanity; he's an agent for Vash's message of redemption and life persevering.

To delve into Christian soteriology for a bit, the significance of the crucifixion in the New Testament is that it is the act of Jesus taking on the punishment for all of humanity's sins. "The wages of sin is death," as Romans 6:23 says, so Jesus dies, but then Jesus rises again to complete the path to humanity's reconciliation with God. The idea is that in becoming followers of Christ, Christians spiritually share in the experience of crucifixion, death, and resurrection with Jesus. To love Jesus is to be changed as though one were raised from the dead. The passage below from Paul's letter to the Romans is an example of that perspective.

Romans 6:4-6 (NRSV):

(4) Therefore we were buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. (5) For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. (6) We know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be destroyed, so we might no longer be enslaved to sin.

It's very appropriate that Paul's words get brought up here, because I think Livio can be seen as something of a Paul figure. He's a powerful member of a religious order that opposes the followers of the Christ figure, he plays a big role in the death of a "disciple," and he undergoes an intense experience that changes him into one of the most devoted followers of the Christ figure. And the stuff Paul wrote about being crucified with Christ? Livio sure went through a crucifixion alright.

With all that said, when we bring Razlo into the equation, things get really interesting and a bit subversive when viewed through the lens of Paul's teachings in the Christian Bible. In stories that are more straightforwardly Christian in their messaging, a character like Razlo - a personality who acts as someone's darker half- would typically be treated as a force of evil to be overcome. This represents how the pre-salvation self is supposed to die so that a more Christ-like nature can take its place.

In Livio's case, however, Razlo is not extinguished after Livio chooses to live by Wolfwood's and Vash's example. Instead of being framed as the more sinful aspect of Livio that needed to be purified out of him, Razlo is portrayed as a powerful asset in preserving Livio's life, and that's something that really resonated with me - the way that Livio didn't need to erase his darker half but instead learned to work in harmony with it. In doing so, he found wholeness.

[sugiliteshadow]

So I had this realization and I can't get it out of my head.

So in Stampede at least (I don't remember much of the OG and haven't had the time to read the manga) Knives hatred of the human race starts after reading a book from Earth.

What book you may ask? From what we saw in the anime it's the bible.

The Christian bible.

Now, maybe he read other scriptures as well, but as far as we are shown/told he has only read the christian bible.

The majority of what he bases humanity off of is one (1) religious text that even the people of said religion most likely haven't read themselves.

No wonder he wants to destroy humanity.

Knives I know that the human race is a burning heap of garbage but PLEASE read other materials besides the fucking bible.

[revenantghost]

This is a fun meta video if not much new or exciting (FINALLY I found some decent FOOD), but the most interesting bit to me:

NIGHTOW WAS IN REAL ESTATE BEFORE BECOMING A MANGA-KA AND DROPPING A NUCLEAR BOMB OF EMOTIONS ON HIS READERS??? HE WAS SO NORMAL?????? BRO WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU?????????

[yeonban]

Just saw Blu's hc post about Lucian & Tobias from Lucian's POV and HIGHKEY... I adore how Tobias gives off the vibe that he'll understand you. Which, he will - sometimes even more than you yourself do, but the fact that people see him going about life and immediately get the urge to hover around him in search for someone who #understands them is so peak to me. If I had a dollar for every time this happened I'd already be able to afford a meal,

[theresamouseinmyhouse]

i was thinking again (unfortunately for everyone else) more abt the tim oyl era and his post rr09 era. Did bruce ever know about tim's cloning attempts? Like, does anybody know about that besides cassie and kon? Because that could possibly have SO much potential

[swoopyswish]

one downside of writing my thesis on religious trauma and the queer community is that every incredible source addition to my paper also slices me open with a knife

[tea-with-eleni]

Okay I think I like raspberry pi. I think I like micro bit powered robots. It’s so much easier to learn how to make computers do bullshit things when I have a goal for an adorable tiny computer who is trying his best.

Also it’s really easy to win over staff on a technology when it is objectively adorable.

[siriex]

I would like to thank Zloyxp and Lyarrah for creating an image that I fully intend to sneak into my wedding if I ever get married.

[yj-98]

ok on the kryptonian biology thing again but. they bleed red right. like their blood is oxygenated? i remember when some folks (cam... someone else too...) replied to my post asking about it there was like. mixed canon information on breathing being needed and all that. but also that they might have multi chambered lungs or hearts or something i would need to find that post again my memory is so bad.

and to ME ... idk i feel like if they dont have the need to breathe then it brings up other ways their blood becomes oxygenated. or even maybe other things their body needs it might carry. and how that would change the color of their blood right. bc blood is red because of the oxygen reaction with iron. ergo no oxygen no red blood..........

and if they do have the extra lung capacity and their blood is More oxygenated... girl idk we're playing with faux biology. anyone with biochem background here.

yes this has to do with the silly vampire au 💔