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what if she wore her hair like this

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LMAO THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE

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Super Mario Bros Morrowind has just been remade.

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Party cock is in the mouth tonight

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leave him alone, he's animation-cancelling just for you.

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seen one too many dungeon meshi fanarts of marcille with big boobs. she would not fucking have those. if you cannot make marcille donato sexy without giving her big naturals you are weak and will not survive the winter

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write like the ghost of your teenage self is watching and wants you to make them proud

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Curious sable

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HUGE fan of the fact that her immediate thought was a cosplayer girlfriend in particular

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I’m a big fan of that post-laundry feeling when you’ve got all your A-list clothes back in the game.

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smiles at you with a once-familiar soft maternal compassion that now has grown icy and uncomfortable as i have grown distant from my own humanity

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One legitimately weird thing about Tumblr is that we literally can’t code for shit, many people quit working at Tumblr due to a hostile work environment, and we can’t seem to program a simple blogging website to not flood your RAM.

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what is it about gnoticism that seems to grab people in the modern day, as opposed to any other number of heresies/cults/theologies of the era?

I've just revisited Gnosticism and I've been having that thought as well. There's basically two prongs to it, mythological and structural:

On the mythological end, think of how nuts people go for star wars. Imagine if for the last couple thousand years, people were generally aware that there was a lost beta version of star wars that was different. But the only way we knew about these beta cuts was one interview with George Lucas about how much they sucked.

And then, in like 1940, people actually discovered a bunch of the beta tapes, and not only are they evocative, they completely recontextualize a lot of star wars tropes. Maybe in one version, Leia is a very different character who is both a scathing commentary on the Clinton administration, and portrayed as a secretive puppet master who has been subtly manipulating things to her own ends. In another beta tape, shes actually some kind of goddess disguised in human form.

Like, the changes aren't just small differences in the timeline or characterization. They are changes that beg several radical new interpretations of the text. Its literary and evocative! I found it enticing and I wasn't even raised religious. I can't imagine what it would be like to have say, grown up in catholic school only to discover the Apocryphon of John later in life.

On the structural end, it "expands the mythos" so to speak. Yk how even American protestants will sometimes reference the book of Enoch because it has all the fun mystical shit? Gnostic literature is like that cranked up to eleven. It is theology for theology perverts. Its full of complex hierarchies of divine beings and explanations of their relationships to each other, all while reframing several A-list biblical characters as teachers of secret ineffable wisdom that YOU, dear reader, get to learn. It's practically catnip for the occult-curious.

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Italian Nirvana