This arena got everything: birth records, baptismal records, records of death, my own birth, absolute birth, a shining place in the absolute darkness, a gold plated Shangri-la, day and night, paradise lost, Sodom, endless darkness. The Apocalypse.
i miss when someone would post an image and then another person would reblog from them with seemingly the same image but there was a lucky luciano hidden in there somewhere. and you spent 5 minutes looking for it. do you remember how we used to play
I became immensely more sympathetic to shonen anime and progression fantasy as genres once I realized that "getting stronger and stronger in evenly spaced intervals and using that strength to defeat harder and harder tasks, Forever" is the basic plot of formal schooling itself, as presented basically from kindergarten through at least undergraduate levels (and arguably a lot of graduate schooling as well) ... I still don't necessarily LIKE all of the genre works but "fantasy where the emotional processes of education make you a cool fantasy hero instead of a depressed, under-employed 20 something" is like, sure, I getcha. also the fantasy that skill itself actually DOES increase in an ongoing, incremental, easy to understand way ... I have a much more emotionally complicated relationship with that as a disabled insane person but it's not like I don't get the appeal
"when they dig up your skelton they'll be able to tell you were born male!!1!" if they dig up my skelton they're gonna be too busy dodging energy blasts & strikes from my bone scimitar
Dreamt of a woman in a Saw trap, but she was just ... chilling. Others were there trying to convince her to try and free herself but she was just like "Yeah, yeah, I'll get around to it eventually."