#I am perplexed

[doomed-sorceress]

??? who is this man. second guy is the king of sweden,,, who is this bathing gentleman

[eterniravioli]

how much did lawrence stroll pay the f1 gods over the summer where did this aston martin performance suddenly come from

[ruotsalainen-kettu]

Langblr!! This popped up on r/AITA and I'm confused so I gotta ask

Context is that a teacher used the Spanish versions of their (American? Wasn't specified but read like it) students names and wouldn't respect that she didn't want to be called anything but her actual name. People made it out to be common that language classes give you a new name which I've never experienced.

[nightmaremybeloved]

what so like. "all HIS friends are lying but all my friends are telling the truth" then why is YOUR side the one that keeps changing the story

[solargeist]

Can you do a backflip?

in a pool but fronts are easier What Brought This On

[random-dragon-exe]

OK so a super minor thing that bugs me about Wreck it Ralph is that apparently the Nicelanders are capable of lifting Ralph up.

You know the same Ralph who's 643 pounds.

Let that sink in, 643 lbs!

The same weight that Turbo/King Candy could carry with ease and toss around like a rag doll when turned into a cybug.

A cybug that's massive from his 9 feet tall stature.

Which is also the same amount of sheer weight that's supposed to have been the key to destroying the Diet Cola Mountain to get it to erupt.

No offense to these little guys, but HOW!?

They're supposed to be the ones that need protection from him in the form of Fix if Felix. If anything, they should be getting absolutely squished underneath him.

I get it, it's such a minor detail to get hung up on, but I'm still perplexed by this.

Like is it a superhuman strength that kicks in at the end when he's beaten? Do they secretly take steroids or something? A power up?

What the heck is going on here?

Again I know this is super minor, but still, I am confused, as it's not explained.

[lurkingshan]

PSA: Blue Canvas of Youthful Days has a happy ending… but not one that actually makes sense.

[kawoala]

how are there ppl writing over 2k words for ONE WORK. like i just saw a work with TWENTY THOUSAND (20,000) WORDS?????

[demiclar]

Light Projections in the Red War

So I've been doing a bit of a deep-dive into the Red War Campaign for a fic over the last few months (ah how I miss her) and something occurred to me when I considered the Light and the Darkness and how they've both been portrayed and defined in the last few years. Now, D2 the Red War came out in like 2017, so maybe this is a case of a lack of planning and forethought, but if Bungie has shown us anything in the past few years of story content, it's that they really plan ahead, so I don't feel like that's it.

As a part of the initial D2 content, there was a series of missions for players to unlock their extra subclasses, for Warlocks you could do missions for Voidwalker and Stormcaller, for Titans it was Striker and Sunbreaker, for Hunters Gunslinger and Nightstalker (maybe they haven't gotten rid of these, it's been a long time since I've unlocked a subclass). On all of these quests, you'd go through the EDZ and towards the Shard of the Traveler and along the way you'd encounter a set of what Ghost called "Light projections," figures of either Guardians that used (or still do/at the time still did) wield the subclass you're trying to get, or are enemies that were defeated by Guardians that wield the subclass you're getting. They tell stories about themselves, or sometimes others tell you stories about Guardians that used the subclass you're getting, but they each are supposed to have some kind of lesson in them.

What gets me about this, though, is that these projections seem to go against everything we know about Light and Darkness from content like The Witch Queen. The Light is not a physical entity, that's fine, these projections seem to be manifestations of Light, we might be able to hear them, but they don't seem to exist per se or have any tangible mass. But, what's off about them is the fact that they're there at all. The Light, as we know it, makes a point to forget things. When Guardians are revived, they can't remember their past lives, their strength seems to come raw power, and maybe a few guns that get passed down, but nothing like this.

The Darkness, on the other hand, is grounded in memory, and things tangible. In Witch Queen we remade and restored objects using the Darkness, manipulating time itself. In Lightfall, we found the strings that tie the universe together and manipulated those. These projections then, feel a lot like the Darkness from Witch Queen, memories of Guardians past.

One theory could be that all of this takes place in a spot called the Dark Forest, emphasis on Dark. You move through the space, to the shard of the Traveler through a series of Taken portals, which seem to be pretty linked with Hive Darkness. Since the shard of the traveler is calling you to it, a question then arises, is the Shard making the portals appear? Does it have power over this Darkness? If that's the case, then maybe it's using Darkness to manifest these projections, but how does that work, because how can Light control Darkness? Not to mention, these projections, at least visually, seem to be built out of Light, not Darkness, aesthetically linked with all the depictions of Light we've seen at least in this campaign.

So, I don't get it. Maybe because this place is a meeting point of Light and Darkness it's just weird, but I'm having a very hard time making sense of these projections considering the context we've gotten over the past few years. I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on it!

[lookninjas]

Okay. Today is a day off (good!), but there are many tasks (bad!). We will get through them all and it will be less bad than last week when we were moving. But that's about all I can say.

List time:

Coffee and breakfast and then another cup of coffee, probably

Stretch

Get dressed and wash face

Final coffee and muffin. Please pack a Clif bar as well.

Long, long drive back down to where the good stores are (living a tumblr poll here, but without the big house)

5 Below first, probably, just for window shopping unless there's something really cheap and cute for decorating

Walmart second. Liners for the cabinets, a plastic thing for your silverware to go in, Brita pitcher with filters, dish drying rack. Maybe ramen, but the Walmart near work has the better selection, so.

Sally's. Hair dye and maybe a nice restorative mask?

Meijer. Gas first. Then groceries. You have the list on your phone already.

Long, long drive back home.

Unpack and put away groceries.

Eat some damn lunch please.

Start sorting/splitting laundry.

Start first load if no one has anything in the washer. No idea how long the machine takes -- give it half an hour? Keep loads small.

Wash dishes while laundry is running. I know, I know. You don't have to do everything, but the two main frying pans, the big pot, and the dutch oven are going to be clutch.

Just keep doing laundry and washing dishes as you can.

At some point dinner. At some point shower and hair wash. If you are not up to dying your hair again tonight, that's fine, but at least put some kind of mask on it for the dry.

Feed cat, write poem, work on novel.

Bed.

The longest and worst part is going to be shopping. Try to get enough of what you'll need (sans produce/meat) that you don't have to head back that fast.

Okay. Second cup of coffee.

[frick6101719]

Almost finished SotR and I need to know what people are thinking about the EXTREMELY short timeline of these Games. Is there a general consensus that the Games got longer as the years went on? I mean I am shocked and actually disappointed at how short this Quell was, like six days (or something like that)??? The 74th ended the morning of the 18th day, according to the chart I made years ago. Is this supposed to show Snow rushing the Quell to its conclusion to salvage the shit show as much as possible, or is this more about showing that even though this is 50 years in there is still a lot of growth/polishing up that the Games will undergo?

[queenofthearchipelago]

Okay but I genuinely don't understand why the caterpillar is their child. Like why did Aaravos do that BEFORE VIREN died??? What was the original purpose of the caterpillar other than to help them communicate? Or was this always the plan? That no matter when Viren died, Aaravos was just gonna give him a child to kill so he can live longer? Be immortal or something? Is that how Aaravos is as old as he is? Does he specifically WANT Viren to do the ultimate dark magic possible? Trade one life for another, like Viren proposed to Harrow in episode 1 of this whole blasted unhinged show?

[treasure-goblin]

What the fuuuuuuuuuuck?

[trashworldblog]

steven seeing that winson made two courses

[sebsxphia]

just watched saltburn, i need— i— cock? i don’t know

[localbabygirl]

a group of teenage boys just walked down the street outside my apartment talking loudly. and blasting "hit the road jack" for some reason. like not even a remix just. hit the road jack.