#very valid theory there

[egophiliac]

I'm trying to avoid getting spoiled so I haven't looked up what's happening in the Jp server's main story, but for my own sanity I need to ask; is the story at a point where we know whether Lilia will get better/survive his almost-empty magic reserves..? Was it a true death flag from the start or only a plot device for malleus' overblot....?

not yet! I do think they're going to get back to it eventually, but -- keeping it as low spoilers as possible -- there's been...let's just say a LOT going on in the meantime.

enjoy 7-6!!! :)

[prismaticpichu]

Sephiroth not only possessed a photo of his mom, but has now embraced an illusionary version of her in which he could see her full body head-to-toe.

And yet he still believed a blue-skinned tangle of tentacles was his mumsy in the end.

This man’s mind was so fucking shattered 😭

(Bringing this meme back LOL)

(Some possible objections in tags!)

[slyandthefamilybook]

...And here we come upon a problem as basic as the nature of knowledge itself: all of our prodigious cognitive and computational abilities are inadequate to a full comprehension of our complex world. As humans, we remain heavily dependent on certain tools of perception and conception that our cultural and biological heritages have taught us are useful. These tools–such as language, causal logic, religion, mathematics–are indeed powerful, but they are powerful precisely because they reduce complexity to intelligibility by projecting our mental concepts onto the world. One consequence of this is that our recognition of significance is always what some philosophers call "theory laden," meaning that it is shaped by what our theoretical framework and cognitive tools encourage us to recognize as meaningful. Anti-Judaism, as I have argued throughout this book, is precisely this: a powerful theoretical framework for making sense of the world.

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After all, no matter how overrepresented the Jews may have been among the European "bourgeoisie," they remained a tiny minority of that class. How could that tiny minority convincingly come to represent for so many the evolving evils of the capitalist world order? More broadly, how could untold millions of Europeans (and not only Germans) come to believe–or act as if they believed–the claims of the Nazis (and not only the Nazis) that Jews and their conspiracies so threatened the security of the world that they needed to be excluded, expelled, or exterminated? According to Horkheimer and Adorno, the liquidation of the Jews of Europe was not grounded in "reality." It took place in the vast gap between and explanatory framework ("anti-Semitism") that made satisfying sense of the world to a significant portion of its citizens, and the complexity of the world itself.

They set out to explore that gap in a philosophical history of modern thought they drafted in 1944 and later published as Dialectics of Enlightenment. Their final chapter, "Elements of Anti-Semitism: Limits of Enlightenment," suggested that what gave anti-Semitic ideas their power was not so much their relation to reality, but rather their exemption from reality checks–that is, from the critical testing to which so many other concepts were subjected. "What is pathological about anti-Semitism is not projective behavior as such, but the absence of reflection in it." In their terms, the problem is a heightened resistance to reflection about the gap between our ideas about Jews, Judaism, or Jewishness, and the complexity of the world. From their point of view, anti-Semitism provides adherents with a cognitive comfort: the fantasy that the gap between our understanding of the cosmos and its fearful complexity does not exist.

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...[A]cross several thousand years, myriad lands, and many different spheres of human activity, people have used ideas about Jews and Judaism to fashion the tools with which they construct the reality of their world. The goal of my project, like Horkeheimer and Adorno's, is to encourage reflection about our "projective behavior," that is, about the ways in which our deployment of concepts into and onto the world might generate "pathological" fantasies of Judaism. And my choice of method owes something to Auerbach's conviction that the study of a given moment, problem, or even a single word in the distant past can teach us something about a much longer history, extending even to our own.

Selected excerpts from Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (2013 Nirenberg, David)

[onesnoopyaday]

It's Charles M. Schulz's 102nd Birthday Today!

Snoopy #56

26/11/2024

Reference image under the cut :)

(source)

Also here is an interview snippet which I thought was interesting. I've never thought much about what his creative process might have been like. Also, I didn't realise that the panels he drew on were so much larger than what ended up in print. I mean, it makes sense, but I guess I always just assumed he drew up the squares exactly the way they looked in the end.

[shiggybardust]

me explaining how shigaraki might survive

[kieraelieson]

I have a cool idea for a canon verse sanders sides longfic. Now all I need to do is rewatch sanders sides, at least since selfishness v selfless, so I make sure I not only characterize them all well, but also make sure that I characterize their relationships from the correct starting point. And it could be fun.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

The latest MatPat theory being focused around Vanessa 👁️👁️ Me when I get the giddy hyperfixation tingles whenever anyone brings up my blorbo.

While I don’t think the actual movie version of Vanessa will be revealed to be a robot (solely cause I feel like that’d be too controversial and require too much suspension of disbelief of a choice for the film franchise to make, since it is trying to appeal to a more general audience), I can see that being a possible route that allows the movies to do both Vanessa and Vanny without feeling like doing a 180 of Vanessa’s established character. This version of Vanessa doesn’t listen -> replace her with a new version of Vanessa (Vanny) who will, yknow?

[shepscapades]

I realized that we don't know when the events of the song sequence occur in the story. It could be Xisuma, either because of his helmet or he got a scar because his helmet broke. Or it could be someone else who got a scar later on. Hmmm.

. (thoughts in tags!)

[lord-squiggletits]

Also I'm just gonna say that even if it were true that Rodimus was a """""true Prime"""" and Optimus wasn't, that isn't as much of an L for Optimus as people seemingly want it to be.

Like so you're telling me Optimus was never a chosen hero and the burden of the Matrix/leadership pained him morally, emotionally, and physically, yet he still survived 4 million years of war?

You're telling me he wasn't God's Designated Special Boy but he still tried his best to live up to that impossible ideal to the point of developing serious depression and suicidal ideation as a result of so much goddamn loneliness and self-doubt?

Optimus wasn't a "true Prime" and yet he still believed in ideals of reconciliation and ending the cycle of violence? He wasn't a true Prime but he still stayed on Cybertron trying to fix a broken, broken society while also trying to stop Earth from being invaded for a second time? He didn't even need to do that he could've just stayed in exile which he was originally supposed to do all along, and which he would've personally preferred?? You're telling me that Optimus wasn't Primus' Specialest Boy And Chosen Leader and yet he stepped into leadership anyways bc he perceived that there was injustice to be fixed??

Wow yeah I guess Optimus is just such an inferior leader, clearly his actual actions/moral character as person don't matter and his "worthiness" should be judged solely on whether the Magic Cybertronian 8 Ball liked him or not.

[luvevee]

Ok so I get the theory that Kieran is being influenced by the toxic chain after a certain point of the story and yeah there's something with it going on but it's ok to pair that + him just being an emotionally unstable kid with neurodivergent coding. Like there's no need to pick either one, both can go in hand 🤷‍♀️

[jon-sedai]

Jon becoming KiTN in Winds (specifically) would actually be bad as far as themes go

[skayafair]

Left Brain, Right Brain

I'm sorry but this is literally Arthur and John situation???

Right brain:

Can't speak

Controls the left side (arm for example)

Has its own opinion on different topics compared to the left one

Recognizes faces

Basically assists the left brain

Left brain:

Is in charge of speaking

Controls the right side

Doesn't recognize faces

Is probably the "leading" one in the personality perception, like "the host"

Makes up it's own explanation for stuff only the right brain knows but it still influenes the left one's actions

Now, I just watched the video and jumped right here to share it because WOW human bodies are SOMETHING aren't they, and how conveniently fitting this all is!

BUT I didn't do any further research so I have no idea how scientific the info actually is. Feel free to add to it!

[urlocalwreck]

Thinking abt the use of sigils in the world of funger, do u think anyone has ever used a sigil of gro-goroth to get an abortion or would that like not work bc we all know he's Sylvian's bitch

[dxxtruction]

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[ghostscrown]

My interpretation of Mono and Thin Man's POV at the end of Little Nightmares 2 – or a lot of ramble about how I personally see it

I'm never getting over the fact that the scene where Mono meets Six in the Hunter's house, and the scene where he finds her in the Transmission are basically the same. He follows a nice music – the same music both times – in a scary place and finds a door. He breaks the door with an axe that was nearby. Behind the door is this little girl – tall monster girl the second time but still a child inside – playing with a music box. The girl gets scared by him breaking the door and hides in the left corner. He calls her gently, and she walks toward him all curled up in the same position, both times, looking just like a scared animal or something. Finally, she ends up freaking out and running around the place – but only the second time, she really is dangerous. Only the second time, Mono needs to break this door again and again to reach her and save her, by destroying this same. Music box. That made the little girl feel safe in this scary room where she was trapped.

You know all of the interpretations and theories for all that happens at the end of this game – what the Thin Man wanted (if he even wanted anything at all), what his level of consciousness were at this point – are so interesting and I love them all, because the whole point of this game I think is that everyone is gonna see what they want, make the connections that make them feel the most emotions. I personally chose to focus on these parallels, so my interpretation is this one :

At the end of everything, to me all of this led to one thing for Mono. He couldn't bring himself to want his friend dead, but he could think of one thing. "What if I had never met her. Never saved her. What if I had left her in this room where she was. I should've left her." And so the Thin Man made her a monster and locked her in this exact. Same. Situation. Maybe at this point he didn't have consciousness left except the confused feelings that made him what he was, but he did that. And from Mono's POV the first time he saw this room... It was just like saving Six a second time. Both times were about saving someone – when he met her, then when he rescued her. Saving a potential ally the first time, and a friend the second.

But then she betrayed him – for whatever reasons she had, a lot of interpretations are interesting to me but it's not the point here – and from Mono's point of view, he couldn't understand why. From his point of view, he never wronged her. He always helped her. He saved her so many times. Put himself in danger for her so many times. The scared little thing he found in the Hunter's house became his friend. He trusted her. Why would it be different the second time ? Why would she betray him the second time ? Why ? He did everything RIGHT. And at the end, for Mono only this feeling stayed, the only thing that was left of him after the sadness and anger drove him mad and he became a monster ; deprived of any consciousness, deprived of everything he was except this unsufferable guilt and regret that would later determine his actions, even if after a while he couldn't remember why exactly nor think rationally :

"What if I had never met her. Never saved her. What if I had left her in this room where she was. I should've left her."

And so he goes and tries to fix that. Maybe at the beginning he really had a plan, when he was still fully conscious – using his past self to prevent him from meeting Six. Sending him messages through the TVs. Using the power he had to FIX THIS. Fix the mistake he made to save Six, or at least warn his past self before it's too late. To me he didn't want revenge – he wanted to FIX things. But as he became a monster he lost consciousness. We talk a lot about how he potentially felt, slowly seeing himself becoming the Thin Man... but maybe he never even truly had the time to realize it, as he was spiraling into madness. And all that was left at the end was really just this feeling of a twisted logic. "I should've left her where she was. I can fix this by putting her back where she was."

[sp4ceboo]

ai rant in tags bc im so fucking tired