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Argument: A duality should be encompassed in a symmetry: some things the same, some things exactly opposite. The more properties that are not either directly opposite or directly the same, the less of a duality it is. Case study: A dog and a cat are more of a duality than a dog and a worm. The reason is that the cat, like the dog, is a four legged mammal commonly used as a pet. It's opposite properties are more pronounced (emotional perception of cats vs dogs is more divided than worms vs dogs).

Theory applied: Sun/Moon: For: both celestial bodies, both revered for cultural reasons, day/night time difference. Against: one is a giant flaming ball of plasma around which the solar system rotates, the other is a large lump of ejected core that runs circles around the earth pulling at the tides like a child pulling on their parents' skirts. Red/Blue: For: both primary colours Against: too many alternate candidates for 'opposites': Red/Green, Red/Magenta e.t.c Light/Dark: For: one is used to see, one prevents sight. Against: the absence of light forms darkness, when one is an absence of another, is it a true opposite? Fire/Ice: For: Hot vs cold. Fire is incandescent plasma caused by heating gas. Ice is translucent solid caused by cooling liquid. Against: There are no direct similarities between these two concepts. Where is the symmetry? Angel/Devil: For: good vs evil, beings of religious and supernatural nature Against: a subset of good vs evil, and complicated by the existence of demons and the heirarchical nature of angels and the whole 'Lucifer' situation. Life/Death For: One is unknowable in its compexity, the other is unknowable in its simplicity. Movement vs stillness. Against: Death cannot exist without life, but life can exist without death. Chicken and egg situation foiled by the primordial soup and some storm clouds. Fear/Love For: emotions, Machiavelli would be proud Against: the existence of a fearful love (religious) and the problems of emotional turmoil mean that they are not always a duality. Also hate/love likes to muscle in on occasion to steal the duality crown. Good/Evil For: moral concepts, strictly defined as each others opposites. Against: moral concepts, no strict definitions Heart/Mind For: emotional vs rational decision making Against: not always in opposition, sometimes the rational choice is the emotional choice too. A Secret Other Thing For: What is duality but a platonic ideal? Nothing is truly symmetrical outside the imagined planes of idealised math, where messy entropy cannot interfere with the reflections of each other? This means what duality is to you is unique, exquisite, and profound. Against: Can there be only one duality? If not, what disqualifies the above choices truly? We must take the options presented and raise them high, deliberate and choose what speaks truest to our selves. Conclusion:

It is late, I haven't eaten enough and I am procrastinating. Have fun!

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It’s all well posting all these memes now, but hindsight is 2020.

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Don't you just hate it when you board the sleeper train to the mountains of Hokkaido with your posh friend and his eccentric collection of family members and their friends and you're up late in the dining car and a small elderly gentleman with a handlebar moustache and a strong Belgian accent enters to have a small gin before bed and then another Belgian with a youthful face and a small snowy white dog come in to feed and water his dog and then as you're heading to the sleeper car you bump into a British gentleman with a large pipe and a deerstalker and then as you reach your cabin a Japanese man in a blue suit with an attorney's badge asks if you've got any spare soap and you lie awake all night unable to sleep because someone is going to die?

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I’d argue that the religious connotations of Redwall Abbey are, like a large amount of the abbeys of north western medieval Christianity, primarily focused on two things: historical/theological records and the remembrance of saintly figures.

Several key figures in the Redwall Chronology are remembered down the ages and the abbey records both their lives and the historical events that occur. Most of the research that is done by protagonists references the journals of the past recorded by the abbey.

As for the saintly figures, aside from riddles, rulers and strategic locations a lot of the plots revolve around what I would classify as reliquaries: items of significance principally for their relationship to their owners (frequently admired for specific traits or feats) that often have some nebulous spiritual benefit to those who are worthy/in need of them.

Additionally, their ghosts/spirits have been observed to come back in visions and occasionally physical appearances, which corresponds to a large number of miracles documented by monks.

It may not be a perfect fit, but it means that Christianity itself can be removed from the picture. There is, of course, the story of Saint Ninian’s, which I submit as supporting evidence.

does the existence of redwall abbey imply that there is a mouse pope? more at 11

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@bonmod, over here!

canon……blood colors…

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@bonmod, here’s an explanation

Homestuck’s Troll Romances:

Hearts: Romantic, usually sexual relationship between two individuals

Diamonds: Platonic relationship between two individuals the same intensity as the hearts relationship

Spades: Intense rivalry and usually sexual relationship between two individuals, commonly confused for hatred

Clubs: Three individuals in a platonic relationship, usually one mediator helping two conflicted reach a steady, begrudging friendship.

So according to the graph:

Marinette/Ladybug is romantically attracted to Adrien and Adrien/Chat Noir is attracted to Ladybug. That’s the hearts quadrants.

Marinette/Ladybug feel that Chat Noir is their other half platonically. They trust them unequivocably. That’s the diamonds quadrant.

Adrien/Chat Noir feels that Chloe and Marinette are both really good for him and for each other if only he can open their eyes. He is the mediator in the clubs quadrant.

And according to the comic:

Marinette and Chloe are extremely heated in their rivalry, enough that they could get attracted to each other because of this.

As a final note, in Homestuck Trolls culturally look to fill all four quadrants once and only once, similar to the cultural practice of monogamy for humans. If the cast of Miraculous Ladybug were trolls, viewers would likely be anticipating the reveal not only for the dramatic reveal, but also for the relationship drama of which quadrant the two protagonists would settle into.

Hope that helped, and that you weren’t being sarcastic!

okay listen up im gonna say this once

MULTI QUADRANT LOVE SQUARE.

this is an old au that ive been thinking more about because @ladyblargh made THIS post and ive been talking to @kulekrizpy and now @sphenodontia has made THIS post and now you all have to see my own quadrant headcanons.

what can i say the time is ripe

I don’t have time to go as in depth as i want to but heres the one I feel like I have to convince you of:

i gotta go but I’m right and ill die for CHLOE ♠ MARINETTE ♣ ADRIEN

anyways this makes for the messiest, stupidest reveal

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There is an alternative explanation. Seeing this post, I tested it out, and indeed, I didn’t get anything before the number ‘10′. However, a thought occurred to me and I sent myself the numbers 11 to 19 (hitting my limit on ask count for the hour). I got all of them.

My hypothesis is that any ask sent with less than two characters is automatically eliminated.

In order to provide suitable data, feel free to reblog with any of the 49 symbols and state whether you recieved a self-ask with that character. Any such ask that does get through will disprove my hypothesis.

how to know if tumblr has been eating your asks: send yourself anywhere between 5-10 asks, ( anon or not ) but have each ask be nothing but an order in which you sent them.

i.e: the first ask says ‘1′, the second says ‘2′, etc etc.

i sent myself ten of these, both on anon and not. This was all i received back:

Tumblr is now eating asks along with notifications. We must be more interactive than ever if we want keep this form of entertainment we call the rpc. Go ahead and warn your friends or test this for yourselves.. This post is reblogable.

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Three witches told me I would not be killed by anyone of woman born, but it seems I am significantly less safe than I thought...

“were you born a boy or a girl”

bold of you to assume I was born at all

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water, noun: a drink other than a beverage

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Deep within a bunker, a selection of grizzled veterans looked uniformly unimpressed by the video they had rewatched for the third time in the last hour.

“Beauty,” one of the women muttered under her breath, tugging at her eyepatch in distaste. “I took classics. I can recognize a Discordian apple when I see one.”

“Yeah,” muttered a man with three medals and a pegleg. “And they’re letting us be Aphrodite, Hera, Athena, Paris, and the entire Trojan war.”

“Well that’s what we’re all here for, so if we could get back on task?” The woman at the head of the table rapped her knuckles against the table to regain their attention. “Frankly, we’re the best rallying point for the war effort. Not only does each and every one of us have an established and illustrious campaigning history, we’ve each lost something in that fight. We know what’s important, and it’s time to remind those masses out there.”

As one, they turned their heads to the infographics being managed by several social scientists in the next room over. Separated by a two-way mirror, they had little idea what was being said, but they could easily interpret the rising graphical representations of beauty parlour attendence, online channel content and, most disturbingly, number of armed mobs attacking those in the fashion industry, either to steal their products or to deface their idols in hair-brained revenge schemes.

“Alright, so to recap: the UN has locked down all transport unimportant to keeping the societal machinery going and the war footing going. Global military movements are mostly keeping the peace and preparing for any attempted abductions. Star wars projects are being launched as we speak. Every astrological facility from Jodrell Bank to the Very Large Array is preparing to act as targetting. We need to put together the counter to their propaganda warfare, and we have twenty four hours to begin.”

“-and we will be there on the front lines! We will fight for our right to exist, and so help us humanity will be right there with us. Beauty, brains or brawn, we aren’t going to let anyone steal what is rightfully ours to covet and protect!”

The hatchlings cheered as the video finished. L’gofster scrambled to his feet and rushed over to his caretaker, tugging at her sleeve.

“They’re so beautiful! Sarah, they’re so beautiful! Humans... wow!”

The human smiled down at her charge and looked up as the historical documentary continued, discussing the success stories of the infamous and controversial first contact test.

“We sure are, kiddo. So are Saxians, Refw’ks... and Tir’was like you. Now, I think it’s time for bed.”

As the hatchling ran back to his littermates to escape the dreaded bedtime, Sarah stared up at the frozen image onscreen of the grizzled veterans who stared out of the screen, briefly smiling at her ancestors, before turning to follow.

Aliens are threatening to destroy Earth, but first they want to take 500 of the finest human specimens back to their home planet. People rush to beauty parlors and line up for botox surgery. Everyone hopes that they are beautiful enough to be selected. However, when the aliens finally come to choose, it becomes clear that they have a very different idea of beauty

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OK, form a line people. X-COM Commander here, ready to co-ordinate some kicking of genocidal alien posterior.

I played Bastion I think I’m okay :y

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Observations on RWBY

The villains have a plan. This plan involves causing chaos. After striking at Yang using Emerald’s semblance, they now have the opportunity to strike at both Ruby and Pyrrha.

It would be impossible for Emerald to be in the crowd, assuming that it is public knowledge that the team ‘returned to Haven’. Consequently, it is logical to assume Emerald influences Ruby to see her in the stadium. Going by this logic, it is not Mercury she sees in the maintenance tunnels, but one of Emerald’s influences causing Ruby to hallucinate.

Going off of Cinder’s previous modus operandi, the intent is to cause Ruby to be discredited or otherwise dis-empowered socially. Either Ruby ends up attacking some poor maintenance worker in hand-to-hand, or more likely she makes a public scene about how Yang has been framed and that Penny and Pyrrha shouldn't fight. Either is a win for the bad side.

Similarly, the fight between Pyrrha and Penny has no bad outcome for Cinder. If Penny wins, Cinder can activate her override to force a situation: if Pyrrha wins, Cinder can do the same to force Pyrrha into a situation where she ends up ‘killing’ another huntress-in-training through over application of her semblance.

Overall, there are a lot of layers to Cinder’s plan. Previously we have seen Emerald and Mercury observing students to identify their strengths and weaknesses. In addition, Emerald has an apparently undetectable semblance ideal for making others into scapegoats and straw men. However, we know of one character who has not been taken into account.

Velvet has not used her weapon’s function in combat this year (as we know from Coco’s statement during the Grimm invasion) and consequently has not stood out from the crowd for Cinder to take notice of. Her weapon is likely a camera, and a common speculation is that the pictures taken are stored for use later, either by replicating semblances or weapons (which can’t be taken from Grimm given their lack of both).

Both of these functions are providers of proof to alert our protagonists of who is responsible and how, not by seeing through a situation (Neo can fool cameras and Emerald can fool minds) but by replicating the ‘undetectable’ semblances or weapons. If a pair of robotic legs from Mercury, or either semblance from the illusion pair, is replicated by Velvet, the alarm bells should start ringing for the people this proof is presented to.

How far the situation will develop, and how deep the (no pun intended) rabbit hole goes is yet to be seen.

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Sorry to disappoint past self, but you still haven’t gotten round to rebooting your artwork practice. On the flipside, you have opened a text blog for some psychonauts headcanon, so it’s not like you’re doing nothing.

A bit about myself

I am at uni at the time of writing,studying to be a chemical engineer. Obviously this takes up quite a bit of my time, but I like to keep myself entertained.

This includes reading, looking at art, watching videos and so on. I also like to turn my mind to imaginative pursuits such as several online rps of various scopes and a few dead end personal projects. Some of these are less dead end than others, including my story blog, Multiversal Mysterious Box Factory. I’ve been meaning to get back to it for a while, but I got postponed for several reasons, the most recent being a computer failure. Despite that, I intend to resurrect the blog: if you’re reading this in the future, tell me how I got on!

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A bit about myself

I am at uni at the time of writing,studying to be a chemical engineer. Obviously this takes up quite a bit of my time, but I like to keep myself entertained.

This includes reading, looking at art, watching videos and so on. I also like to turn my mind to imaginative pursuits such as several online rps of various scopes and a few dead end personal projects. Some of these are less dead end than others, including my story blog, Multiversal Mysterious Box Factory. I've been meaning to get back to it for a while, but I got postponed for several reasons, the most recent being a computer failure. Despite that, I intend to resurrect the blog: if you're reading this in the future, tell me how I got on!

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Establishing the blog

This blog is the mod blog of:

http://mysteriousboxfactoryhq.tumblr.com/

And will be referred to as 'customer service' by the cast of the main blog.