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flogisto · 1 month ago

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big fan of stories that, while undoubtedly being about the power of friendship, acknowledge that the power of incredible violence is just as important

the love was there. the love changed everything. the crowbar helped also

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icewindandboringhorror · 3 months ago

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(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

#polls #tumblr polls #For me I think the top ones would be the House. The Money. or the Friend Group. But I ultimately might would go for the house #JUST becuase it would be my Dream House which means it would already meet mostly all of my specifications #and what I might be looking for. which would save a lot of time searching or customizing/rennovating.#Also because I could use that as a way to leave the US lol.. like .. if I get to choose my dream location.. couldnt I just choose some othe #country?? But I wonder how that works. Can you legally 100% have full ownership of a property in a country yet not be a citizen of that #country?? Would you show up and be like 'erm.. i own this house.. so i shall now live in it' and theyd be like 'uh no. you cant live here #despite owning the house. leave.' ??#So I think the initial process of 1. scraping together funds to actually MOVE myself and my most valuable belongings physically #TO another country. and 2. figuring out how to STAY in that country . might end up being difficult.. BUT. if I could just work that #part of things out then.. dream house?? security for once in my life?? stability?? :0 #Though the $1mil is enticing it's also like.. I feel .. with the way housing prices are now... that's not much???#it's a lot I guess if you plan on like.. investing half the money and staying in an apartment for 5 years while you grow your wealth #or something. but if you're a 'I Need Stability NOW' ready to settle down person who would be most interested in owning a property rather #than nice clothes or a car or whatever other investments you could make then.. eh..?? It seems like unless you're okay with living in #a small town or kind of far away from the city - even some SMALL houses in majorly populated areas in the US will be like #$600.000 - $900.000 or something. like that would be MOST of my money. Which I know you could just pay partially and make #payments on it but idk.. in the option of just outright owning the house it seems like it'd end up being cheaper.#Plus I would want to own it fully asap because I'd be afraid of losing it somehow otherwise. like it being taken for medical bills or #something. which I thought was supposed to be - not IMPOSSIBLE - slightly more complicated legally if you actually have #paid off the house in full. I guess the issue then would be utilities and property tax and such. But I feel like thats overcome-able??#Like I could just stipulate that my Dream House has a little furnished addition or something and then find someone #with money and be like 'Look you can live in this extremely nice area with amazing ameneties and updated everything and ALL you have #to do is give me money to cover the utilities and property tax.'' or something like that. Like the little furnished addition is nicer #than the actual house. they have their own pool and spa and movie room or something and Ill also cook all their meals for them #or whatever (how luxurious it would be depeneds on how high the property tax actually is/how much I would need to entice them into #why it's a good deal for them to pay it for me lol). idk... something like that.. ANYWAY #I asked a few people I know though and one of them answered they'd rather have a romantic partner. the other one said they'd like #to be able to choose someone to die lol.. So I'm curious what people value the most

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crumb-crumblet-s-crumbington · 3 months ago

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you mean nothing to me

#transformers #transformers one #megatron wins custody au #megatron #bumblebee #b 127 #maccadam #ough they make me so sad #i have soo many thoughts about them...#my AU is not happy at all sorry #bee isnt a decipticon hes basically factionless at the moment he just wants to be with megatron #megatron just hates him so much #bee reminds him of everything that he hated so much about himself #hed think about bee down there in sub level 50 for so long and he would just get so angry #his eyes that r still blue and remind him of the autobots of the miners of elita of orion #why wont they change color #why are they still blue #is he going to leave to join the autobots...?#his stupid son that he hates so much but he actually really does 😭#he just has so many mixed feelings on him #and bee is always trying to be a voice of reason and it just frustrates him even more #bee by no means has any decipticon values...#he doesnt agree with megatron he just didnt want him to be alone #i have so many brain worms that i want to share with all of u...

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samualcheese · 4 months ago

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some slop from since the short came out

havent drawn anything too major yet sorry...

#xfohv #bfdi #osc #battle for dream island #x finds out his value #art #xfohv zero #xfohv fifteen #xfohv twenty four #do they have a tag #tpot two #xfohv eight #fixated on this shit so badly i get out of breath #i hope zro dies #di die die die #my girl i mean they #cw d slur

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emilinqa · 8 months ago

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big into taking that 60s retrofuturism utopian future that’s also got an inevitably dated sensibility that’s presented in tos and running with it. like sure we can cure nearly any physical ailment with ease and without any cost to the patient but we still call ptsd symptoms shell shock. we’re all free love but we’ve got a space navy so people can make up weird complexes about homosexuality for themselves. it’s the juice that tos remakes are missing i think. that and all the chunky buttons and beeping booping sounds

#star trek #txt #my thoughts. i like to take some of it at face value i think it’s fun to use the 60s viewpoint as a means for world building #like starfleets weird about fraternizing rules. or the enterprise has a smoking lounge like an airport. it’s good stuff to me

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hinamie · 8 months ago

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sidelong

#my art #jujutsu kaisen #jjk fanart #jujutsu kaisen fanart #jjk art #yuji itadori #fushiguro megumi #itafushi #fushiita #itadori yuuji #megumi fushiguro #i havent drawn a dedicated itfs piece in so long im a fraud dont look at me......................#i offer u pining!yuuji content. as Penance.#i feel like its usually fushiguro emotionally repressed megumi who ppl draw/make content of looking Longingly @ yuuji #and like. for good reason i mean look at him #but i feel like hopelessly-in-love-w-his-best-friend yuuji is a comparatively slept on concept #or maybe im not looking in the right places idk man #fleeting glances and longing stares and I Should Tell Him I Can't Tell Him.....OUgh #anyway i like how the pendulum seems to have hard swung back in2 me using a bunch of red #i feel like my values r so much better now tho n like. god help me im having fun painting again what has happened #it never lasts long but for rn this is probably one of my favourite things ive drawn in a minute!!!#i love u contrast i love u random bits of red i love u harsh shadows and dramatic light sources #and it didnt even take me a week this time !!!!

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loosethreadsofyoursoul · 7 months ago

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the degree to which magic in bbc merlin is an allegory for queerness is insane. what do you mean people with magic hide in fear for their lives because it’s illegal. what do you mean merlin’s mother sent him away to the big city bc she was afraid of what would happen if their small town found out he had magic. what do you mean merlin is taken in by an unmarried old man who used to practice magic but can’t anymore. what do you mean morgana was morally on uther’s side until she realized who she was and that he was wrong for wanting people like her dead. what do you mean anti-magical propaganda spreads misinformation that all magic is evil and everyone who practices it is also evil and should be killed. what do you mean there’s a recurring underlying theme of magical being solidarity

#what do you mean everyone merlin tells about his magic is a hot man and/or a twink #what do you mean merlin flirts with every (male) sorcerer he comes across #what do you mean morgause shows up acting like a whole lesbian #what do you mean the druids are forced to live outside society and are seen as lesser than and to be avoided at all costs #what do you mean magical beings are hoping for a better life once arthur becomes king bc he doesn��t share the #same anti-magic values as his father #i’m only on season 3 so i’m probably missing a bunch but even atp im flabbergasted #but damn this is hitting hard #i’m sure this has all been beaten to death but i’m new here sorry #bbc merlin #merlin #merlin emrys #uther pendragon #morgana pendragon #gaius merlin #em saying things

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 9 months ago

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All he knows is flirt with men and lie.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #su she #jin guangyao #Jin Guangyao smelt the 'no one appreciates me' wafting off this guy and said 'is anyone else going to manipulate that to their benefit?'#Su minshan fans...I get it. He's so deep into his role as a pawn he thinks he might have a chance of being someone bigger in this game.#He does play a key role but he's never actually out of anyone's shadow! That's brutal!#JGY's manipulation games are always so fun to see in action. His words are his weapon!#He's getting verbally kicked around only to have someone acknowledge his achievements! Just like how NMJ did for JGY.#He is a master of honeyed words and gentle appreciations. His instrument is *your* heartstrings.#He might see himself in Su She; They both feel under valued and hungry for more importance -#-but it's also a means for JGY to know how to pull his strings.#(IN THIS MOMENT. I very much realize he does come to care for him later on.)#It is also funny how much his powerplays involve sweet talking men. Where did he learn that from?#(Most likely the brothels he grew up in. It's a kick in the gut once you see that link!)

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lucabyte · 11 months ago

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On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

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#a homestuck walks into an antechamber and asks #hey is anybody going to make this dynamic wholly deterministic and thus dubiously consensual by its very nature #ANYWAY bigger ramble below. scroll down like usual #isat spoilers #isat #isat fanart #isat siffrin #isat loop #sifloop #THATS RIGHT WE'RE STILL SHIP TAGGING IT BABYYYY #in stars and time #in stars and time fanart #lucabyteart #RAMBLE START: anyway i think loop is wrong here. they have it backwards. as-- in my opinion--#the main reason they could be called back into existence postcanon is because *their* wish for help is still not complete #they still need help. siffrin still needs help. neither of them will ever stop needing help.#they will thus uphold the wish until the end of siffrin's natural lifespan.#that said. what does it mean that loop can be so wholly forced to abide by siffrin's wants?#(assuming the dagger cutscene posession is them being forced to uphold the 'help siffrin' wish via harsh universe logic)#[as opposed to something capricious and cruel the change god did. which feels out of character for the change god to me?]#much like how the island wish and duplicate objects are neutered by simply sliding off people's brains...#is loop subtly ushered toward their wish? obviously it's not a full override (see: the bossfight). but is there any interference?#and if so. so what? does it matter? if they don't notice? is it even real if they don't notice?#and even if they do notice. the universe leads we follow. how much do either of them value their free will in a belief system like that?#the whole game is dedicated to siffrin habitually NOT excersizing his free will. doing things the same Every Time.#Loop ESPECIALLY does this. predetermined predetermined predetermined even in the FACE OF CHANGE. REFUSING. ANY CHOICE.#Maybe they'd even be comforted by having a universe-ordained purpose even if it is subservient. even if its to Him.#(though. i can't see siffrin enjoying the idea that someone is subservient TO them... then all their suffering is his fault...)#loop got into this mess via WANTING too much. no more free will. can't be trusted with it. take it away from them.#but yeah. gets my greasy detective pony hands all over this. and everyone please do remember i like to make characters Outright Wrong A Lot

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ffcrazy15 · 10 months ago

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There's this way of doing female-ness in Christianity that I call "pastel flower journal Christianity." I've got nothing against pastel flower journals per se, but for some reason people believe it's the end all and be all of female spirituality, and I think it's a real disservice towards young Christian women.

One of these days I'd like to start a prayer-and-reading group or something for young women, but there would be no floral themes or over-focus on how "God thinks you're beautiful even if the world doesn't" (a true statement, but it's wayyyyy too often the focus in women's spiritual reading). Instead we would be reading:

Seneca's Letters from a Stoic

Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning

Sheed's A Map of Life

Portions of Pieper's book on leisure

Kreeft's Three Philosophies of Life

Guardini's The Lord (or something similar)

Therese's Story of a Soul

and some select portions of the Nicomachean Ethics.

(Also they're all getting the porn talk. I don't know why we give the porn talk to young men but not young women. There's this idea that women don't use porn and they only need the talk about "guarding their heart." Bullshit. There's porn on the YA shelves of Barnes and Nobles and before that there were bodice rippers. Young women need the porn talk too.)

Every young woman needs to be getting a basic grounding in virtue ethics, logic, natural law, scholastic philosophy and Biblical hermeneutics if they're going to get by in today's spiritual landscape. Enough faffery and emotionalism in young women's spiritual education! Give them real food to chew on, not pasty sentimentalism!

#Christian femininity #Christian women #Christian #Christianity #Catholicism #Catholic women #Catholic femininity #Catholic feminism #Catholic #I'm sure there should be something by Stein on this list but I haven't read her stuff yet #Anyway if I could shove one book into the hands of every young woman on this site #it would be either Letters from a Stoic or Man's Search for Meaning.#I think a lot of women on this site could benefit from those two books alone.#Much of the way we treat women's sense of spirituality and ethics is trusting them to just blindly feel their way to the right answer #While we give young men clear-cut instructions and reasoning.#It's bullshit. And it's actively harmful. I would never say feelings are useless #but without a well-formed intellect and conscience they're just not going to carry you as far as you need to go on their own.#I had the value of a good moral and philosophical education because of where I went to school—same as the boys in my class.#And it's spared me so much grief. People put the tools in my hands to make smart decisions and empowered me to seek the good.#All young women deserve the same.

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francesderwent · 11 months ago

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Taylor Swift really wrote an album with the thesis “a man who tells you he loves you and lives together with you in a committed relationship for six years but never ever proposes is essentially the same as a man who tells you he loves you to get you into bed and then ghosts you a couple weeks later”

#and she’s right #no one else would have the courage to say it #and the clarity of sight to MEAN it #like it’s not just a rhetorical device #and it’s not just her protecting joe #it’s that she really sincerely sees that what they did was exactly the same #even if the contemporary world wants to see a clear difference!#wants to be able to sort things out neatly into hookups and situationships and relationships and live-in partnerships #with different value markers assigned to each one #but once and for all Taylor looks at the relationship with the lowest possible value #and the highest one that most people recognize #and says ‘you’re exactly the same’#this is me admitting I need a music tag

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littlenastieswewhispered · 11 months ago

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“buffy ended the show single :)” ok but only because her current love interest just DIED!! (he near quite literally died in her arms! in sacrifice for her!) her last words of the entire series were telling him she loves him and then saying his name in admiration. she isn’t single; she’s a widow.