#Additional tag thoughts

[mirellapryce]

Today's thoughts involve Edwin trying to date other men while Charles is a) with Crystal and b) figuring the rest out. Edwin is having the worst time of it, but not for any reason he expected. All of his dates are mean or rude to Charles for no reason. It would be one thing if he started dating someone and then they became rude to Charles once they realised how gone Edwin is for him, but no. These men are rude before they even get to know how delightful Charles is. Even if he wasn't in love with Charles, Edwin doesn't think he could date these men who are so casually rude to his best friend.

[lucabyte]

even dogs pass the mirror test

[vulturevanity]

A Father's Purpose

Someone asks Martin if he actually cares about his daughters. He laughs at the joke he thinks they made.

Alternative version and thoughts under the Read More (please read the content warnings in the tags before clicking through!)

Epithet: ☆Dumb☆

Martin Blyndeff is a carefree man.

Despite his uncomplicated character, I have plenty of thoughts on Worst Dad and his impact on his daughters -- particularly Lorelai, but she isn't the focus on this piece and I'll talk about her another day.

I think what gets me about Martin and Molly is how efficient he is at shutting her down. Whether or not he's aware of what he's doing (it doesn't matter), it's really telling how smoothly he's able to do it. In the Museum Arc, he unloads another night shift onto her, rapid-fires excuses for why she has to take the night shift, takes credit for the school worksheet which she filled out, then changes subjects so she'll drop it. And he does it often enough that Lorelai has caught on to it, to the point that the first thing she does in the book is use his name to shut Molly down too. No matter what, if it's up to Martin, then Molly will have to shut up and deal.

I wonder how much of this DARVO-adjacent behaviour is a result of losing Calliope, if at all. I mean, I really, REALLY can't see how someone like Calliope would've fallen for Martin as he is today; we know he's always been the personification of the word "carefree" and Callie was an anxious workaholic mess, but honestly the Martin we see would probably just constantly stress her out even more (which he did sometimes). He was already rather senseless back then, but I can't help but think having Calliope to take on every burden for him for over 15 years and then losing her so suddenly must have exarcebated the learned helplessness. And since Molly was the one who took over, he just went "well I guess it's her job now", dusted off and went right back to his little world of toys and blissful obliviousness.

And speaking of Molly. She was suffering so much in that house, and yes, there have been plenty of walls of text about the verbal and emotional abuse she suffered from Lorelai, but I feel like we don't talk enough about Martin's complete dismissal of her feelings, thoughts and protests, and how deeply that affected her. He was the one who taught her no one would listen to her. He was he reference point Lorelai used to take advantage of her. He parentified Molly and made her bear the brunt of their financial troubles. And he did it all with a genuine smile across his face.

Martin Blyndeff sucks and I think we should talk about him more.

[clownkiwi]

i feel the need to remind everyone that yes, even coming from a sonic fan, we better let sonic 3 bomb & boycott any advertising or marketing of the film. remember that paramount (makers of the sonic movie franchise) still stands with the genocidal state of israel and that we should absolutely make sure no advertising comes across your dashboard. you all failed us with deadpool, you can do better when sonic comes around

[darkdragon768]

Various doodles of the Dorito Twins.

I just like to play with them like dolls and put them into situations.

[tumatawa]

Was thinking about this earlier and IMO I don't think common binders would be best suited for adventurers during dangerous long hauls

[jellybracelet]

Pawgasm! Can we bring this back?

[beannoss]

Bonus in Volume 13 of the Manga

In volume 13, there’s a “bonus confidential file” which is really sort of a mini mission, but which wasn’t released online (to my knowledge!) The whole thing is a delight, mostly centred on some cute shenanigans for Yor, her City Hall colleagues and Franky. But really it's the first three pages that got me bouncing.

The bonus takes place after Mission 91, which the bonus summarizes so I won’t — 91 is one of my absolute favourite Yor chapters, telling us so much about how Yor thinks and her moral centre and how she’s grown, and it's also one of the first times she’s spoken about her experiences as a child in her own words, while still at something of a distance.

As someone who loves the relationship between Yor and Twilight, I always thought it was something of a shame that Twilight didn’t get to witness that moment, that Yor’s sentiment would have been meaningful to him and touching, in some ways akin to his words to her in their first chapter.

And.

Well.

It turns out.

HE DID.

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

support your local lantern!

another blatantly self indulgent western au lmao

[meamiki]

Happy Anniversary In Stars and Time!! Have some Friend Quest based drawings :D

(These have specific quote picks related to them! And there's also a long ramble on why I like those specific quotes below if interested)

(And by long, I mean roughly 2k+ words of proper ramble total, so be warned before clicking keep reading this link right here to the rb!!)

[sunnysidezblog]

I thought I'd put my biodiversity class and biology major to use and talk about the logistics of Isu and human crossbreeding for a second because from a biological standpoint, it makes no sense if they're a different species.

I was taught that what makes one species different from the next, very similar species, is the means of reproduction. Specifically, who can reproduce with who.

For example a dog cannot crossbreed with a cat, so they are two different species. A germn shepherd can reproduce with a great dane so they are the same species.

However a lion and a tiger, who are considered to be two different species, can crossbreed and have healthy offspring. So why are they not considered the same species of animal? It's grandchildren. The key to identifying a species is if the offspring of those two different animals can produce viable offspring, thus bringing grandchildren into the world.

In the case of a lion and a tiger, they might be able to produce a healthy Liger, but that liger will never produce viable offspring that are capable of survival. The same thing with Donkeys and Horses making a Mule. Mules are completely infertile.

With this explanation out of the way, I think I've set the stage for my argument. The isu and humans are the same species.

Hear me out:

Desmond miles, Clay Kaczmarek, William Miles, Ezio, Altair, Conner, and all sages are said to have isu DNA in them. This means that an Isu would have had to of crossbred with a human at some point in their genetic history.

And the fact that the isu and the human were able to make a viable child, and then that child was able to produce viable offspring, it insinuates from a biological standpoint that the Isu and Human races are the SAME species!!

So by extension, this means that this superhuman race of people were using a "less evolved" version of themselves as a labor force and thought themselves above them.

The isu felt a false sense of superiority, and this is something they would have known considering they're smart enough to calculate millions of events and set up dominos to elicit a single outcome over thousands and thousands of years.

So, it makes no sense why they say they're a different species of beings than that of a human from a biological standpoint, considering they were able to reproduce with human beings from the very beginning. Their sense of superiority is completely unearned, and Juno is just a megolomaniac racist lmao

[queenlucythevaliant]

Just to clarify my thoughts (since I've had a number of people ask me about it) re: Job and cursing God. There's a big difference between cursing God as used in Scripture and how we generally would think of cursing at God today.

Cursing someone, in the Bible, has a lot of depth to it. It's not just saying "screw you " in anger, it's got a sense of forsakenness to it. It's the opposite of a blessing, a removal of blessing. If the blessing is presence, your face shining on the person you're blessing, then a curse is absence. In some translations, Job's wife tells him to "renounce God and die," which I honestly think makes a lot more sense to modern ears.

Job says a lot of unpleasant things to and about God in his anger and grief. So do the Psalmists. A number of the Prophets. So can we. God can take it if we come to him with honest expressions of our emotion, including those not-so-nice ones directed at him. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting mad at God and saying, "How dare you, you bastard" when you suffer unjustly. You can say much worse, I think, without sinning, though I don't feel particularly inclined to give examples. But as long as it's an honest expression of your heart, I think you're doing exactly what prayer is for. You're presenting him your heart with an open hand. He can use that. Opposite of love is not hate but indifference, etc.

Job doesn't renounce God. Neither should we. But I think when you're truly suffering, you're gonna have those feelings toward God either way. He'd rather you address them with him directly than try to avoid them. Cursing at God in the modern sense is actually a great way to keep the relationship strong and not end up cursing/renouncing him in the Biblical sense.

[starflungwaddledee]

been thinking about how people headcanon the heroes of yore for a long while, and figured i could try running a poll!!

i might run another poll later about whether folks think they are predominantly OCs vs predominantly canon characters, but for now; what species are they, to you?

[fattylime]

haven't posted sketches in awhile

[gotchibam]

I'm sorry for posting this 2 weeks late but here it is!! This is the full canvas from the magma session hosted last 10/12!

Full pic: https://magma.com/shared/WaFnHaUsnz3LBsdsVv6RDS

Thanks so much to @doodlejoltik, @opossumonashelf, @kitsuroid, @sonikkuruzu, @protagpigeon, @owlmond, @plantollante (plus others I may have missed - lemme know so I can tag you!) for participating!! ;w; <3

[zishuge]

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