#so i created this theory

[i-dare-say]

I have a theory about Airplane's original outline, the one he lost which was supposed to be mature and deal with more complicated themes than what PIDW actually became. Some posts on here made me curious about what other people would think of it.

What if Shen Yuan didn't transmigrate into a copy of PIDW, but the actual original outline?

We know Airplane lost the file when his computer randomly died and that he had plans for Tianlang-jun to be the final boss and for Shen Jiu to be a direct parallel to Luo Binghe.

We're not told when he lost the file.

What part of PIDW was he writing at that moment? Was it when Luo Binghe was 14? But he lost the file, discarded the original outline and went for the stallion novel.

While a new universe was born, as Airplane decided to satisfy his readers more than follow his own ideas, the original universe was left unfinished, lost without an ending.

The system has worked in other universes before, so it knows how to deal with this. It takes a soul from another world to finish the story and bring it to its original ending instead of the one in PIDW.

Who better than the author? Airplane, who had to discard his art to make money for a living. He'd be the perfect one for the job.

But, as we know, Airplane doesn't actually change much. The role of Shang Qinghua proves to be too removed from Luo Binghe, and he's not given enough incentive or instructions to do it.

The system learns from this first mistake: next it takes someone who hates the ending of the PIDW universe, and puts them right where the original outline stops, in a role deeply tied to Luo Binghe, giving them clear objectives and punishments if they don't follow the instructions.

It works.

Shen Yuan is dropped into the original outline and actually manages to deliver on all its promises. That's why Shen Jiu's past is revealed, why we get to know the truth of Tianlang-jun's relationship with Su Xiyan and all that the Palace Master did, all plot points that never existed in PIDW.

(Why the characters are much smarter, why the female characters have a personality other than being their archetypes)

You could argue that they do exist in PIDW, hidden under all the monster fighting and maiden fucking. But PIDW is a stallion novel, with tropes and a narrative that follow a certain structure. I can't imagine the events of svsss ever happening in a story like that.

The original outline though? Yeah, 100%. It already had the potential of being complicated, with all those secrets and mysteries, so it's not that hard for it to add the relationship that is born between Luo Binghe and Shen Qingqiu to the mix.

And, this is the reason why we only got to meet Bingge but not his original outline counterpart.

Let's be honest: if a third universe existed other than svsss and PIDW, with a lonely Luo Binghe that never finds love, you bet your ass he would eventually find his way to svsss like Bingge did. But it never happened.

Because Bingmei is him.

[fierysakura]

Aite let’s do this. Here’s my thoughts on the Jedi’s Attachment rule and why it exists:

Attachment and love/affection are two very different things. You can be loving and affectionate without being attached to someone.

The same way, letting go doesn’t mean forgetting. It’s accepting the way things are and that death and loss are a natural part of life. You can’t fight what’s natural. It also doesn’t mean to sit back and just accept things as they are, or why would Jedi fight to protect? To change things and save people?

Love is knowing to put the many over the few. If someone you love is in danger, but there’s also a boatload of civilians, it’s going for the civilians, even if you hate them, despite wanting to save the other. ie. Letting go of your feelings. Not being attached.

So why this rule is such a big deal.

For a Jedi, being *attached* poses a much bigger problem than for the average person (looking at you Anakin Skywalker.) If a normal person can go to extremes either as a result of losing someone or wanting to protect them, think of what a Jedi, who feels things more deeply because of the Force, could do if they can’t let go.

The important thing is Jedi don’t say ‘don’t love.’ They don’t say ‘feel nothing.’ In fact you often hear Obi-wan and others say to trust feelings, instincts and refer to each other affectionately.

Anakin: You’re like a father to me.

Obi-Wan: Then why don’t you *listen.*

(Episode II. Not a reprimand for calling him father-like but asking if that’s how he feels, why doesn’t Anakin listen like a son should.)

What they *do* say is don’t get carried away in positive or negative feelings, as both can lead to impulsive actions with long term consequences. It’s a concept that follows the lines of mindfulness and just being *aware* that they have so much power, they can’t afford to be reckless. Because the damage *will* be long lasting.

They say don’t love someone so much that you’ll do anything for them. They say don’t be *possessive.* Because that’s a *very* dangerous place to go for a normal person, let alone a super powerful being who could leave *chaos* behind. Attachment is refusing to let go. Stopping someone from doing what they love because you’re scared. Love is trusting and accepting things can’t/will change even if you don’t like it, and accepting that when there’s nothing you can do without breaking your moral code.

Jedi grieve. They feel loss. They get angry. They *love.* They just don’t let those feelings overwhelm them to the point of irrationality, accepting, understanding, and releasing them because they’ll do no good in the long run. If emotion overwhelms the brain, the logical part shuts down, and we’ve all seen what force fuelled temper/grief can do.

‘Kanan and Ezra don’t follow the rule.’

On the contrary.

You see Kanan learn to let go of his grief and *attachment* which has been holding him back all this time. In doing so he becomes a Knight and Master. He loves Hera, yes, but he loves unconditionally. Not possessively. He’s fine with Hera going on dangerous missions and accepts that there will be times she’s hurt. That there’s always a possibility she might not come back and he’s gonna have to live with that. He doesn’t try to stop her. He doesn’t fall into a rage if she gets hurt. He accepts it, pain, rage, grief and all, but lets it go so he doesn’t become fearful to the point he won’t let *her* go. He accepts Hera loves the Rebellion and compromises even if he doesn’t like it. Love. Nothing wrong with that in the Jedi Order.

In contrast you have Anakin. When Padmé is in danger he will drop *everything* to go to her, including putting his men and padawan in unnecessary danger to do so. You see his jealousy when Clovis is around. His lack of faith in Padmé despite her assurances. How he won’t back down even if it scares or disturbs her. You see how he *refuses* to take any chances at all with her health to the point of breaking his moral code. This isn’t love anymore. This is attachment, possession. This is what the Jedi forbid.

You see Ezra struggle with letting Sabine go on a dangerous mission and Kanan teaching him that he has to accept the danger, that she might not come back. and how to do it. Telling him to respect her abilities, what she wants to do, and not loving her to the point of stifling her. This is what letting go is. This is what the Jedi teach.

Ezra has to learn to let go of his own grief and accept Kanan’s death. This is what love without attachment means. This is what the rule is. Feeling it. Accepting it. Then letting the emotions go so they don’t control your actions more than your mind does.

Also, anyone can leave the Jedi Order. If they don’t agree, there’s nothing forcing them to stay. Being a Jedi is a religion, a way of life. You can discuss and debate the details, but you don’t get to pick and choose what parts to follow.

You can be a force wielder without being a Jedi. The privileges the Jedi received were because of their belief and the respect that earned.

But more importantly, you can happily leave the order, and the Jedi will still welcome you to come hang out. To chill with your friends and walk about the Temple, train with others and catch up. It’s a community. You don’t suddenly lose all of that because you decided following the Jedi way wasn’t for you.

[bixels]

As cameras becomes more normalized (Sarah Bernhardt encouraging it, grifters on the rise, young artists using it), I wanna express how I will never turn to it because it fundamentally bores me to my core. There is no reason for me to want to use cameras because I will never want to give up my autonomy in creating art. I never want to become reliant on an inhuman object for expression, least of all if that object is created and controlled by manufacturing companies. I paint not because I want a painting but because I love the process of painting. So even in a future where everyone’s accepted it, I’m never gonna sway on this.

if i have to explain to you that using a camera to take a picture is not the same as using generative ai to generate an image then you are a fucking moron.

[frankensteinposm0]

"You better not have drawn Stan and Kyle without hats with a pink color palette and with lyrics from a Weezer song"

me:

[eshithepetty]

So. Others have noted that 'aiming for the boss's gut" could mean 'filling the boss's gut', and "putting that dead meat in its place" could mean just like. Cooking steak or something. And that perhaps ENA is just misunderstanding this and thinking she'll have to kill the boss because of her prior history with violence, and that Froggy only worded it that way because that kind of wording is more familiar to her and he was imitating her ('as you say in that wacky language of yours')

So, from this, we can deduce that ENA Dream BBQ is possibly just a story about a woman experiencing microagressions and PTSD while trying to deliver a doordash order. And that's just insanely funny to me lol

[eddiesgayjuice]

I looked into the Tardis, and the Tardis looked into me. I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words, I scatter them in time and space. A message to lead myself here. I want you safe. My Doctor. Protected from the false god.

ROSE TYLER: 'Bad Wolf' -> 'The Reality War'

[blackhholes]

Monstrosity in Teen Wolf

Hybridity Is the New Metamorphosis by Harvey L. Hix / Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Judith Halberstam / Monstrosity: The Human Monster in Visual Culture by Alexa Wright

Written for @teenwolf-meta‘s Meta May Monday theme: beast

Monstrosity and what, precisely, makes a monster is a topic that is discussed both within the text and the larger narrative of Teen Wolf. The most direct mention of monsters vs monstrosity is in *Monstrous* when Lydia tells Meredith “Not all monsters do monstrous things” referring here to Scott, which Meredith then flips back onto Lydia herself. It’s obvious to see here that the show makes a clear differentiation between what it means to be a monster and what it means to be monstrous. To be a monster means to be something unnatural it’s particularly about the outward facing part of a person, this is mainly seen with the shapeshifters who undergo a physical transformation which marks them as something different than humans, but Meredith referring to Lydia as a monster means that it’s not only the physical attributes which makes someone a monster. Being a monster is less about what you are and more about what you aren’t. Once you’re no longer able to be comfortably placed within the category of human you are a monster. This form of monster isn’t a negative attribute though, it’s a neutral one. It simply describes that the person is not a human. 

Acting monstrous is a negative attribute within the show, humans and monsters alike can act monstrous. Monstrosity is therefore not a description of person but instead a description of character. One of the most potent examples of this is in *Fury* where the viewer sees three different factions of characters. Matt is a human so he is per definition not a monster but he is a monstrous human, he stalks Allison and has spent the season carrying out his revenge plan by taking away Jackson’s autonomy and forcing him to kill people. The werewolves on the other hand are monsters who aren’t monstrous, at least to the viewer, they, particularly Scott, are trying to find a way to catch Matt without having to kill him or Jackson. It’s interesting to consider that the Argents, hunters who have always equated monster to monstrosity, have become even more radical after the death of Victoria, despite Matt’s actions he isn’t their primary target when they enter the police station, Derek is. Because, to them Derek killed Victoria by biting her and turning her into a monster just as he is. Matt is an afterthought, he’s the loose end they will deal with afterwards. The Argents therefore has the opposite understanding of the situation than the viewer does.

Humanity is also an important topic within the show, humanity is something fallible. In *Lies of Omission* the scene at the end with Scott and Stiles in the rain serves as an important look into the characters’ and particularly Stiles’ understanding of what it means to be human. When he says to Scott “Some of us are human” it’s a vocalization of the idea that to be human is to make mistakes and that humanity makes a person incapable of always doing right. As opposed to the in-humanity that comes from being incapable of erring. It is preceded by Stiles saying “Not all of us can be true alphas”, throughout this conversation, and even the entire season, Stiles has started categorizing Scott as something other than human capable of humanity, it’s not the monstrous monster previously mentioned either, it’s a third category of non-human. The true alpha isn’t monstrous but he isn’t human either. To Stiles Scott has become a sort of mythologized character who always does the right thing instead of being a real person who’s standing in front of him. 

[catofoldstones]

i don’t get it, why is the general fandom so irritated w jonsas “overthinking things” and/or “jumping to conclusions”? isn’t that the whole point of reading these books? to find meaning in dirt? like how is it my fault that jon shares the same anti parallels w joffrey that he does with the og lannister suitor of the ashford tourney

[vvvvvvvvvvv17]

respite; miss missing you

refs

https://x.com/vnnrae/status/1927070960110223697

[2acetaminophen]

Not to be really annoying and go ‘well actually’ to the joke about how silcos a twink who probably didn’t do shit in the mines and that miners all look like vander and are these big buff burly dudes is very much some propaganda in ur brain and not the reality of what conditions are like for miners from impoverished communities. You know they use children in mines bc they’re small right. If you’ve consumed any footage showing messed up mining communities that exists irl, like people who work in cobalt mines in Congo, they’re muscular, but at a glance, they’re not jacked and look pretty average. I think a lot of people are surprised seeing that they tend to be small and lanky for people doing hard manual labor all day, but that comes from not being able to afford enough quality food. You have to eat a ton of calories to get built, and that isn’t something many people who work in mines have.

[mouse-of-mischief]

I just had a not-so-fun thought. Since Sherlock & Co. is aware that it's a podcast and occasionally references real word events that are currently happening or have recently happened...Do you think the creators will stop releasing episodes of the podcast for two or three years after the Reichenbach Fall to create a consistent and realistic timeline of Sherlock's faked death and John and Mariana mourning? Or do you think they'll shorten the time of Sherlock's absence to merely a few months of playing dead for the audience if they go down this route? Maybe after Sherlock "dies" we'll just get a few sad episodes of John venting to us about missing Sherlock. Whatever happens, I'm both looking forward to and fearing how they will handle this part of the story!

[karalovesallthegirls]

My wife has convinced me that I should create a cohesive archive of all the little ficlets and blurbs I write on here, so I have made Maybe Someday, a collection of stories I may or may not expand on someday. I am slowly adding stories to it as I find them. I have only somewhat recently started tagging my posts so it’ll take some digging to find some of the older ones but I feel like it’s what I should do!

So that’ll update periodically if u even care

[vertekel]

I always found Miraak's "rebellion" against Hermaeus Mora to be amusing, not in the sense his efforts are meaningless because they are who would want to leave such a beautiful husband smh but because of how Miraak acts like his situation is not his own doing.

He has walked himself up into the dragon's tower to play princess, sat his pretty ass down and said "Hello handsome I do hope you do not mind the new residence." And when Hermaeus actually kept him there he acted like suddenly it's Herma-Mora that's the problem. A lot of messy yapping ahead btw

In all seriousness though I do find his behavior to be inconsistent in a way that makes me question Miraak's mental state and sense of self. Miraak was so wholly dedicated and devoted to Hermaeus Mora and sought him for nearly everything. For power, for freedom, for what was likely even companionship. Being so wholly devoted to him he has a statue of Hermaeus placed behind where his own coffin would have been along with what would have been his most prized treasures. This can be seen as the way Miraak perceived Hermaeus, as someone guarding over him as nordic tombs usually have such imagery as a "tomb guard." As well as being the fate Miraak wished to find himself with even in death, of which he ended up receiving in the end. It can also be perceived as foreshadowing as well as mockery to vahlok and the cult, or a message that Hermaeus is the one who helped him cheat death.

For Miraak to even trust Hermaeus at his most dire hour of need says so much about how he felt for him, how his trust was in him to such a degree he placed his life entirely in his grasp. Such complete devotion is something commonplace with Herma-Mora worshippers that Hermaeus actually keeps, of which he kept Miraak for hundreds upon hundreds of years. In all those hundreds of years, Miraak never once left the realm. This is what made me think about what if Miraak's state in Skyrim is one contradicted entirely from his original self. Apocrypha is one of the easier daedric realms to leave, Hermaeus tells people how to leave, his servants tell people lost how to leave, there are several points set up that are constantly active portals to leave the realm. Apocrypha is referenced to be planemelded to Nirn in the Arcanist skill descriptions and people even end up there on accident all the time. So it is one of the easiest realms to leave if you know what you are looking for of which, no doubt, Miraak knew.

So why did he not leave? I doubt Hermaeus actually kept him there by force considering his more passive approach to things. He could have left at any time but chose not to, until for what I believe, Miraak became a part of the realm and a part of Hermaeus by the same means Durnehviir became bound to the soul carin. Spending so much time there that his own essence became a part of the place, so that if he were to leave, he would just rebound to the realm over time as if he was an atronarch or summoned daedra. This to me, implies that he never had any desire to leave at all. That he was at his core, content to be there. That it is what he chose, what he wanted. His fate was one he chose with the daedric prince of knowledge.

Hermaeus has no real control over fate as seen with the necrom and gold road dlcs, he merely scribes it and goes to great lengths to manipulate it. So Miraak entirely chose to stay within the realm, to be within Hermaeus Mora's service for eternity and to never leave. He did so for such a long time he became a very part of his prince and was still held onto tightly and closely by said prince. Even when Miraak says he is a "fickle master" he knows that Hermaeus is reliable and predictable at his core. That as long as you are entirely devoted to him, he will be to you in return. This will never change for all of eternity. His final words are not to us, but to Hermaeus. Speaking to the prince about his devotion and servitude to him even to his death, which was likely his promise to the prince to begin with. I see his words as a clarity before his own death, reality setting in that shattered and stripped his mind entirely of every delusion and every distraction until it was solely about the being he pledged his entirety to.

That Miraak's acts of rebellion or desires to be a "master of his own fate" truly is "restlessness" as described by Hermaeus Mora. That it is a result of the realm itself eroding Miraak's mind and identity, and his memories. I mentioned in another post how Apocrypha is incredibly acidic and similar to a stomach, that it erodes and breaks down everything within itself over time. Miraak would have been extraordinarily resistant to this due to his dragon blood and soul, but not immune. If his state in Skyrim is erosion, and his behavior within the 3rd era for what seemed to have been briefly is due to psychological erosion it would entirely make sense. Someone so wholly devoted to something suddenly feeling trapped or forced into something he does not want, as if looped in memory to his servitude to the dragon cult. To feel a complete lack of control once felt under the cult within the very place where he essentially has near complete control over, and even chose to be, seems suspicious.

His behavior is inconsistent, he acts as if he has never met you or heard of you before despite his cultists being sent to kill you, as if he himself does not remember his own orders or thoughts. This breaking down of memories and desires is described perfectly by the conditions of the Hushed. People who have been eroded by Apocrypha. To me, Miraak is going between shattered memories of his servitude to the dragon cult of which was entirely against his will. Something he wished to escape desperately, and in such a broken mental state, he turns that association to Hermaeus, the very being that helped free him, the very thing he chose as his own path. The mind is known to mix traumatic things together with our present, with things that we even cherish. Abuse victims can become afraid of the people close to them even if they have done nothing to hurt them out of fear of repetition. Miraak becoming obsessed with his identity as Dragonborn feels separated from what was his original desires, which was to be free of the ties of his blood and soul. That he did not want to be the hero others pushed him to be, he did not want to play as a pawn in the game of a god he felt was indifferent to him. He wished to be more than the means that made him. For him to later become so wholly obsessed with it as his identity makes me again think his mind has eroded and broken under the intense pressure of Apocrypha.

I am sure Miraak saw his soul and blood as a means of power but not his entire identity in the way he does in Skyrim. If his behavior in Skyrim, his ambition, truly is delusion and the result of shattered memories and emotions, it explains why Hermaeus did not rid of him the first time he acted this way in the third era. Recognizing it as a result of erosion and not betrayal and disloyalty. Holding onto Miraak the way one holds onto an old toy until it is tattered and worn, until it is in pieces and nearly unrecognizable but it's fabrics and making is still all the same. Keeping it for that reason. Holding onto the possibility that Miraak never will truly betray him and will never cross his devotion despite his eroded state, which ended up being true in the very end.

Hermaeus began to believe his closest and most cherished follower was becoming truly lost to him now, so such a fear of loss made him hold tighter and tighter onto Miraak until he did not let Miraak leave both out of fear for his safety, and fear of losing him in the way one wishes not to lose a prized treasure. That Miraak's instability psychologically was perceived to be so bad that Hermaeus took away his ability to come to and from the realm, which no doubt did terrible things to Miraak's mental state. Hermaeus also seems to have been entirely against the idea that Miraak's fate would be in anyone else's grasp but his own. He robs you of the right to kill him even though you bested him in battle, he denies you it. That it if his champion is to fall, it is to be by no other but himself.

Even in that interaction, this is what really has me sold on this whole perspective, is that when Hermaeus snarls and yells at Miraak as he impales and displays him to his own gaze, he speaks of Miraak's perceived betrayal, how he wanted to leave, that he will never leave. He will never hide anything from him, another sign he perceived betrayal from Miraak. Paranoias of the worst coming true and what results is frustration and anger. And likely, hurt feelings but a daedric prince would never say he got his feelings hurt. But I'm sure Miraak saw right through everything he was saying as his words to Hermaeus are so precise and they contradict everything he was yelling about. He speaks of his service to him, his loyalty to him, and how he sees Hermaeus trying to replace him knowing that your character will never truly replace him. It's funny in the sense of "Oh. You believe I betray you? Well the final words I say will be of how utterly devoted I am to you." Very clever and very sassy on Miraak's part. But also... It does make me think as I mentioned earlier, it was his moment of clarity. Regaining of his self and even that he felt content in his final moments. Content of his death, of how he lived.

Do I read their relationship as really romantic yes I do, o7

Miraak is also likely still trapped in apocrypha and he'll be back eventually as dragon souls are easily rebound to their bodies and I know damn well Hermaeus isn't giving him up EVER.

Basically; Miraak in Skyrim is entirely mentally eroded from who he was and Hermaeus is really bad at communicating his emotions

[doubletroubletag]

i got almost all the next month's updates sketched! i'm not doing the last one simply because i am feeling the burn out of composing these pages. (each have at least 6 pages, a good amount have the max 12!)

that said, these are all just sketched. i want to do it in this order: backgrounds -> lineart -> transcript. i got other projects i need to work on (winning hat and NightFell) so I can't really guarantee when Tag will start to update again.

[eshithepetty]

"Haha Dream BBQ is so random and incomprehensible" "did they take drugs to make this lol" "you're actually not meant to understand anything in this series it's ok" "Joel G just makes up stuff on the spot based on what would be funny" "it's just random for random's sake" "is this AI" "stop theorising, it's not that deep" SHUT UPPPPPPPPPP

[jae-in-a-trenchcoat]

Art vs Artist 2024! This is my first time doing one of these. Chaos Theory took up most of my time in the art department this year and I’m happy with what I’ve created for this amazing show. Thank you to everyone who has been here I appreciate it so much :)