#basic in behavior

[xxzaelxx]

you failed your test

[nekrofilxxx]

[draximurunkown]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

"it's not that deep" not yet but I've got a shovel and fan theories and digging makes great exercise!

[airplanecrashingtowardstheground]

per my hua cheng is not a stalker post

some of yall really don't know what legitimate stalking and stalker behavior is.

hua cheng never once followed xie lian around without his consent, as someone pointed out on my previous post, xie lian actively encourages, seeks out, and enjoys hua chengs company

hua cheng has never threatened xie lian or intentionally made him afraid

hua cheng never purposefully led xie lian into dangerous situations, or purposefully let harm come to him

hua cheng never tried to isolate xie lian and keep him to himself

hua cheng would immediately stop whatever he was doing if xie lian told him no. if xie lian told him to go away forever, hua cheng would.

hua cheng has never given xie lian unwanted or unsettling gifts

hua cheng has never interfered in xie lians life in a way that would harm xie lian, and benefit hua cheng

you know who did?

bai wuxiang

xie lians true stalker who feels entitled to xie lian and obsessed with him to such a degree he wants to mould xie lian in his own image

[cheesenchalk]

i never know how to phrase it but something about the way beatles biographers and people in general view paul's reflexive placating persona and determination to smooth things over as manipulative or duplicitous and john's reflexive barbed persona and habit of lashing out as brave and subversive despite both being equally defensive mechanisms to shield themselves from the world that resulted in them saying things that weren't true says more about how we culturally view kindness or friendliness as inherently untrustworthy or flimsy and anger and carelessness as more believable as someone's true nature than it says about either of them in actuality

[bean-spring]

Am I the only one who doesn't think Mark was a shit husband at all and he just has a very avoidant personality running away from his issues while Gemma clearly wants to face them directly? People can't go through life being happy all the time, you know

[littlefankingdom]

Sometimes people call Bruce "hypocritical" when he is simply a parent that doesn't want his kids to do the same mistakes as him. You know, something every normal parent does.

Like, is he hypocritical when he wants them to finish college when he didn't, or is he just a parent that sacrificed his studies for a cause and wants his kids to enjoy university without the same pressure? Is he hypocritical when he doesn't want his kids to date dangerous people when he has quite the track record, or is he just a parent that wants to protect his kids from the same heartbreaks and dangers he went through? Is he hypocritical when he gets angry his kids got hurt protecting him when he would do the same for them, or is he just a parent and it is his role to protect his kids, and he sees the inverse has a failure from his part, as a child shouldn't protect their parent? Is he hypocritical when he gets annoyed that his kids don't take care of themselves and their injuries when he often doesn't take care of himself, or is he just a parent that wants his kids to be safe and in good health more than he wants himself safe and in good health? Is he hypocritical when he wants them to be less violent when he has been extremely violent in the past, or is he just a parent that knows the error of his ways and wants his kids to be better than him?

He wants his kids to be better than him, which means not making the same mistakes.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed finite system. In biology such behaviour of cells is called Cancer." - Hugh Culliton.

[egophiliac]

I have never been more concerned for a JP update from your art than I am seeing a Cheka knowing the context of Leona’s dream.

My bois ok right?????? My sweet nephews ok right??????

well

uhhhh

I'm sure the real one is fine :)

[syn0vial]

there's something sort of tragicomic about dedra confronting eedy the way she does. she must have listened to syril's account of his mother always putting him down and holding that "favor from uncle harlo" over him, and what does she do? she goes to the ISB and pulls up any incriminating evidence on syril's family, she intentionally dresses in scary imp black for the dinner, and when it comes time to put eedy in her place, she uses the same cold, domineering tone she would in any other interrogation. like, her first reaction to any sort of mundane interpersonal friction (like tension with her potential mother-in-law) is to go full fascist secret police on their ass, bc that's all she's ever known

[itwaslegendary]

Taylor Swift's interview on CBS Sunday Morning; 25/08/2019

[paper-possum-party-pal]

He eats apples like this

This is the original and you cannot tell me this isn’t something Baldi would do

[evilminji]

Okay Ya'll... Genuine Question...

Would a Jedi... make a good Cultivator?

Like?

Let us assume? It's not your average, middling, Jedi. It's a pretty GOOD at Jedi-ing Jedi. One USED to being humanoid, so there isn't any body dismorphia. Let's go with Obi-Wan, cause honestly? He's perfect for this. And life DOES like to kick him in the nuts like that.

It would FUCKIN TRACK. Might as WELL happen, he would think, reincarnated.

Probably not even mad, honestly. Just mildly upset with the Force, as a nebulous concept. Cause he fuckin DID his time. He was enjoying not being organic anymore. Rude™

Cause like? Let's look at what a Jedi is?

Spiritual

Knows how to use a (lazer) sword

VERY non-judgmental of Sentient Beings that do not look like them

Practiced in being kind and emotionally balanced (Anikin. Remember those classes? WE REMEMBER THOSE CLASSES)

Great at meditation and feeling "The Force"

Etc etc! It's damn near a one to one! Except? For the DETAILS. Both? Would fundamentally view the OTHER as "doing it wrong". Jedi? Use violence as a LAST resort. Cultivators? Often the FIRST. Jedi do not KEEP the Force inside them selves. They are PART of it. Cultivators? Build Qi, taken in and built "from themselves", to form a golden core. The base of their IMMORTALITY.

You know... the very thing SITH have been attempting for eons.

And what is this Becoming Gods business? Ascension???! EXCUSE ME?

Talking down to the "mortal world"? Removing yourself from it? It is... it is UNNATURAL. Un-jedi. Yes, they KNOW their are other Force Sects out there. And they are not necessarily DARK... but... this feels? Wrong?

And to Cultivators? What is the Jedi? If not some bizarrely powerful Hippie? All humble robes and sitting in the dirt, laughing with villager children. Getting shown their straw dolls. Passed a baby to hold, by grateful parents they helped.

What is Dignity to a Jedi? What is Face? Reputation and Honor?

They are servants of a higher calling. A humble calling.

One with the Force, which is One With Them.

@legitimatesatanspawn @spidori @mayfay

[foursaints]

also i think harry potter is a more interesting character when you allow james to be extremely morally grey. imo this is more reflective of canon: he was a bully. he was blindly privileged. he harassed lily and treated it like a joke. and no matter what, he's still a man who wanted to marry "the brightest witch of her age" and saw absolutely nothing wrong with making her his jobless prospectless pregnant housewife at 19 years old! that's entitlement!

like in doing this, james technically carried on centuries of misogynist conservative pureblood tradition (marrying women off to be teenaged childbrides) without another thought. this is the environment in which he was raised. and he told himself it was ok and progressive because he, like, wasn't racist to her for being muggleborn and genuinely loved her as a person, or whatever. but that's the bare minimum! and it shows that he had no qualms with participating in pureblood culture & tradition when it suited him, because he literally materially did. a better james potter would never have been comfortable with letting her take on that role.

and the series themes are more resonant when harry's parents aren't both just, like, nebulously ontologically good. it's really poignant when harry spends his entire life being taught to idolize a man who was, in actuality, kind of a piece of shit— and grapples with this as he grows up, ultimately choosing to be different. the lesson is that both good (and cruelty) can come from anyone, regardless of birth circumstances or house placement, because goodness is a choice.

[glfry]

Can we agree that the "Thats two things" line from Mike was autistic as shit