#Willing Sacrifice

[scotland-wolves]

[holdmehurtme]

Warm, comforting, and now with 50% fewer demons, Amans Daemonia has its own custom tea blend. ☕

Ingredients

Black tea, toasted mate tea, pu-erh dante

Dark chocolate chips, natural caramel flavor, natural chocolate flavor

Cocoa nibs, natural hazelnut flavor, natural vanilla flavor & marigold flowers

Flavor Profile

Nutty, chocolatey, and rich without being heavy.

Strong flavor without having to steep too long; takes oat milk or cream very well.

Sweet, but not cloying. Good with a hint of brown sugar if you like it a little sweeter.

High caffeine; best enjoyed when you need to stay awake.

Overall, if you like a nice strong dessert tea, Willing Sacrifice may be up your alley. If you're interested, you can grab some here!

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know I used to think "tumblr's absolute refusal to actually engage with the Trolley Problem in favor of insisting that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is just a short-sighted idiot is really fucking annoying, but I guess it's not actually doing any harm".

Anyway that was before we asked tumblr at large to decide between "guy aiding a genocide but making progress elsewhere" and "guy who would actively and enthusiastically participate in a genocide and would also make everything else much, much worse for everyone elsewhere" and the response was that there must be a third, morally pure option that doesn't require them to make a hard decision and that anyone who asks them to make a binary choice is a short-sighted idiot.

[godforsakenparadinofnigh]

Potsnpicksweek 2024

Morning coffee and sandwich ☕️🥪☀️

[a-dargon]

[scoobydoomistakes]

As we know, the whole Scooby-Doo series is a documentary.

However, our testing resulted in:

1. No water

2. Total puppy indifference

Subject continued running around with sticks like it was her full-time job, displayed zero interest in water generation. Experiment inconclusive.

–Colin

[bogcreacher]

[wasyago]

squeaky_toy_sound_effect.mp4

[temeyes]

kinda missing cod lately

[bucketsofmonsters]

idk how to hunt and tbh i couldn't bring myself to kill wildlife usually but i would learn for acacius ngl 😩 let me court you back with carcasses idk </3 or mushrooms n forageables though they're probably poisonous bc i have no idea what im doing

Loll kind of obsessed with the idea of you bringing back poisonous mushroom and other weird inedible stuff and him being like,,, please stop ur gonna kill urself. No but tbh he doesn’t mind u being a little bad at that stuff, it makes him feel useful to be able to do it for you. honestly you’d probably get as much of a response bringing him Anything bc he doesn’t understand human courting, just bring him cool rocks and pretty flowers and tell him it’s traditional and he’d swoon over it

[kidovna]

“Don’t ever do that again.” (more)

[puparomi]

whiteboard doodle BLAST

[galedekarios]

Gale: "You give me hope, and I've not had that in some time."

[blue-mood-blue]

I have been thinking about the blackening (as one does)…

…and it’s so interesting to me, the penalty Shen Qingqiu is faced with should he not decide to yeet his disciple into hell.

Account termination. Instant death. Sent directly home to his already-long-dead body, and that’s it for the villain of the piece who outright refuses his villainy. The protagonist needs a blackening for the story to continue, and Shen Qingqiu is going to provide it or get written out of the narrative. Either way, Luo Binghe is going to lose him. Either way, this is a turning point.

I wouldn’t claim that this is the intent of the penalty, but it fascinates me that the System has, potentially, backed the plotline into a corner - because Binghe still stands to be blackened even if Shen Qingqiu took the other choice.

Think about what that would look like, to him. He’s at the Immortal Alliance Conference, and everything is going wrong. He’s been outed as a demon, and not just a demon - the top tier of demon, as bad as it gets from the perspective of a righteous cultivator. His beloved teacher, the person who has been kindest to him and opened his home and heart to him, is standing there with his sword in hand, deciding what he’s going to do about what must look, to him, like a horrific betrayal. Binghe is apologizing. Binghe is begging for his life.

Shen Qingqiu hears him. Maybe it shows on his face, or in his voice, that he already knew; maybe there’s no hint at all, but Shen Qingqiu is suddenly talking quickly with an abrupt sense of urgency that Luo Binghe is having a hard time keeping up with. Telling him he’ll be wonderful - telling him he’s the best. Telling him the world will be his, with emotions cracking through that aloof mask that Binghe has never seen on Shizun’s face before, and it’s terrifying for reasons that Binghe cannot identify.

(He will, later. When he has time to think, he’ll realize it sounded like a goodbye.)

And then Shen Qingqiu is bleeding. And then Shen Qingqiu is on the ground. And then Shen Qingqiu is dead. There’s no countdown for Binghe - there’s no System, there’s no warning, there’s no answers.

Luo Binghe is a heavenly demon in the middle of a conference sabotaged by demons. Luo Binghe is alone. His fellow competing disciples are scattered, some dead or injured. The Peak Lord of Qing Jing Peak, the second in command of Cang Qiong Mountain Sect, maybe the only person he loved and who loved him back, is dead at his feet. No one will believe him if he says it isn’t his fault.

(He can’t believe it isn’t his fault.)

What choice does he have but to run? The last heavenly demon the cultivation world went up against has been sealed under a mountain for years, and one of the people responsible for that is probably looking for Shen Qingqiu already. They’ll be looking for him, too. There isn’t anywhere to hide; there isn’t any time to mourn.

There isn’t even enough time to ask why. Why again.

There is no closure waiting for him, because there is nothing to explain what happened. It just is.

It would be a different kind of blackening, certainly - less intense, probably, less of a warping, desperate thing. But how many times can one person have all the love and safety in their world torn out from under them before it starts to show? Before they just don’t allow things like love and safety to touch them, because that’s the better option?

Interesting to consider that, simply by offering the choices it did, the System rigged the story to guarantee that Luo Binghe would end up in hell (deliberate or not).

Interesting to consider that, even if Shen Qingqiu made what might have seemed like a kinder choice, there was every chance it wouldn’t have been.

[beaulesbian]

Luffy & Zoro + being so normal about each other