#and preserving that mistake

[juniemunie]

more deltarune sansnomaly cuz its feeding the ideas a lot

bonus:

[lightgamble]

DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN | 1.09

You asked me for a favor. I did it.

[gottaread2]

It means so much to me that Ed Nygma once described himself like a butterfly and later on Oswald saw a butterfly encased in ice and decided that was how he was going to deal with Ed.

[namelessprince]

merry fishmas to all

[scoldingdarjeeling]

Throwback Fri-Yay! (featuring a lovely little easter-egg/blooper: two acorns)

[solavelyan]

What gets me about Solas is that he says things that aren't true pretty often, but that he rarely straight-up lies on purpose. I don't think he likes doing it, and he's not great at doing it purposely. He thinks being clever is the same as being correct and views his cleverness as a trait that gives him inherent value. Fitting, given that he seems to consider himself wisdom and pride in equal measure. His value is in being what he is at the core, before all this other complex physical being stuff got in there.

When he thinks he's being more or less honest, he does just outright say things that are questionable or untrue, usually because he's projecting or mirroring and too caught up in himself to realize that he's fucking up. I think if you're too biased toward him, you'll end up with a hostile relationship with the rest of the canon because of the dissonance. He acts the part of the villain because he thinks being that kind of self-aware balances it out, but it really doesn't.

And I do think some of this comes from the fact that his devotion to Mythal is a part of himself that he has to work backwards from. I'm not against a romantic reading of Solas and Mythal, I'm not generally someone who's "jealous" about my ships in that way, but even with the in-character conversation about it, I'm really not that convinced. They don't interact like lovers outside of that one memory. His devotion doesn't read as romantic to me -- but his issues make 100x more sense to me if Mythal occupies this sort of beloved companion/functionally his mother kind of space. There are just ways that only our parents can really fuck us up.

Even in his private memories, Solas not only regrets taking a body, but remembers himself as reluctant. I don't think he had the necessary conviction to take physical form for its own sake. I don't think he could have taken a body and still called himself "Wisdom" (or whatever the Elvhen equivalent is). I simply do not believe he had the force of will for that -- which tracks with other things in canon about Wisdom spirits being rare and kind of delicate and uninterested in permanent manifestation. I think the conviction he needed to get into that body came mostly from his devotion to Mythal; his physical form is literally built on his service to her and the need to keep Elgar'nan from running amok.

He is incapable of being honest about her. His feelings about her are literally part of who he is. It's why I really don't have a problem with needing Mythal's fragments to let him go to get the redemption ending. But living his life in the place that he was living it without wholesale rebelling against Mythal (because he did rebel against her, but only technically; he fully believed she would join his rebellion and was just getting her shit together first) would have required that he make a lot of excuses for her when she wouldn't follow his advice.

I'm sure Mythal was "the best of them". Maybe before they were all Blighted and she was murdered, she really was the smartest, strongest, kindest, or the Most Good. But I think it's more likely that a lot of that was because of Solas's advice that she did listen to (because I think it's likely that did happen quite a lot, she asked him to take a body so that he could advise her), or messes that he cleaned up, or plans that he made work. He made her better, but he enabled her, too. Mythal went down in history as the slayer of the Titans, but Solas made her the knife when she asked for it instead of saying no.

And I think that when you lie to yourself so consistently about the most important thing in your life... you end up lying about everything else in some fashion, too. Because if your sense of reality is clouded, it sure does get harder to be objective about pretty much anything. And like many a genius who gets sucked into a cult because they think they're too smart not to see it coming, I think that Solas's cleverness -- and the fact that having a body seems to have tipped his scale toward Pride much more often, given his name -- only made it that much easier for him to come up with justifications and reasons anytime he might have risked a serious introspection about Mythal. To the point of be absolutely delusional for what seems to be hundreds of years about Mythal's role in the rebellion.

He can't even admit with hindsight that she was allied with Elgar'nan and actively in a war against him for centuries. There's no fucking way he's a reliable source for What Mythal Was Really Like anymore. It's questionable that he ever was. And it's not because he was under compulsion or enslaved or bound by a spell, but because spirits are creatures of emotion first and foremost. You don't need a geas to engender that level of devotion, you just need a deep companionship between creatures made of pure emotion that don't change easily.

[rowanisawriter]

i will save every man from twink death. This is my charter

[eshithepetty]

While I of course dislike generative AI as much as any other person - and I understand the skepticism that people now have to operate under when interacting with art - one of the most disheartening and infuriating things that have cropped up recently still, for me at least, is the rise in accusing of or confusing any and all weird or incomprehensible art with AI. Like, weird art is just not respected... before, there have been assumptions that the person making it is necessarily mentally ill or disordered. Or that they used drugs in the making. Or that they're just pouring thought salad onto the page without any care or intention towards it. And now.... people have found their new label to put on it. The new 'reason' for why it's so weird - that the artist didn't make it at all. Like- to an extend, I can understand it of course- AI is random and makes weird mistakes and generally looks uncanny, so the connection made here I can see. But ... I still feel like it betrays a sense of lack of understanding of how gen AI works and looks, when otherwise perfectly inconspicuous, soulful and personal art gets labeled as 'AI' just because you don't understand it. Like, there's other ways to spot AI. There's certain inconsistencies and patterns and quirks. And the most important thing- it will not be creative. AI art can't be creative. Human art can, and is, especially weird art. So it's just... so, so sad to me, to see that creativity be discarded, and the effort of the artist denied. Just because the art denies conventions.

Idk.

I don't have a solution to this. Beyond just advising people to inform themselves better of the actual tells of AI art, I can't tell people to be less suspicious- that would be foolish. But I just... please. Please, understand. That the things that the human mind is capable of conjuring is infinitely vast and complicated. Please don't forget that in favor of instead hauling the credit off to the machine. And please - if you are already sure that the art isn't actually made with AI - don't comment on people's art on how it looks like AI (unless the artist is intentionally trying to replicate the style). I doubt any artist has ever read that as a compliment.

You don't need to give it that power. You just don't.

[olden-towne]

so Falin needs to die, right? Just like, thematically speaking. Like I don't want her to, but, y'know, themes.

[hexjulia]

not reading ancient historians to learn anything. exclusively reading these books to get more stupider and to remember basic facts about the world incorrectly at critical moments. at some point something bad will happen to me because the last time i read about the topic it was like, pliny the elder.

[egregiousderp]

Came home to find all my things in the cabinet under then bathroom sink in a box in tripping distance in my room.

Love when my family treats me like I should be a transient stranger rather than a participant in the house when I’m set to put how many hours of work in for a celebration of my birthday I’m expected to provide for.

[2oul2ilver]

Got that Pokemon Colosseum brainrot again so here, I'm making you all to listen to this godtier colosseum medley - with high praise from the game's composer himself. Go listen. Do yourself the favor.

[official-hater-posts]

i think iam in loooove with yu

well I’m in HATE with you!m

Thanks for the hate mail! :)

[nocturnal-phantom]

When someone reblogs your post before you fix the typo 💔

[skateboards-wheels]

they're so hot man.

[warrior-of-storms]

me: *writing a scene that could easily be interpreted as timsteph*

also me at the exact same time: *thinking timkon thoughts*