#both! a paradox if you will!

[turojo]

@futurefocused asked:

"...?" Okay he might have an AI of himself once but this felt more like he was looking at another version of himself. So after casually poking him, it was clear his finger poked flesh and blood (and fat).

"...oh. Are you the me that managed to time travel? Wait. Shouldn't this cause a paradox that too many science fiction stories dread?"

" I wouldn't touch. " Said as he imply guided the other's fingers away from him with the tip of his pen. " General Relativity rules. Until we're sure this crossed stream is secure and what mode of time travel is used it's best we refrain from interacting too much. It could collapse the space we're in. "

" I'd say that would be you perhaps. My theory of time travel uses speed on a straight parallel to utilize time dilation, meaning it's quite impossible for me to meet another parallel of myself. I'd be heading in a straight line forward from my point. "

" Science fiction utilizes the impossible 3-D model however, meaning it's quite possible to meet yourself .. should the universe not try to fix the paradox itself. Which in hindsight, it will by force. " Which is why he'll take a nice step back away.

" So really what's happening right now is just that. Fiction. "

[sneckoil]

playing house. when house isn't around. (as overburdened friends do)

[tardis-technician]

The key to enjoying Clara Oswald is to understand there is something so incredibly wrong with her. Like her and twelve are the inverse of ten and donna where they’d do anything for each other but it makes them both infinitely worse instead of better.

[lineffability]

"people shouldn't draw or write crowle-" sounds like a skill issue I love male Crowley I love female Crowley I love femme Crowley I love trans Crowley I love genderqueer genderfuckery genderfluid Crowley I love nonbinary Crowley I love Crowley spindly thin with broad shoulders I love Crowley with curves I love Crowley in a dress I love Crowley in a suit I love crowley with big bazoonga boobs or tiny boobs or no boobs I love Crowley with perky tits and a dick i love crowley with a vagina I love Crowley with a penis i love crowley with a tdick I love Crowley with a boy pussy I love Crowley with snesises I love Crowley with barbie-smooth nothingness I love lesbian Crowley I love gay Crowley I love virgin Crowley I love experienced Crowley I love asexual Crowley I love sexual flirty Crowley I love awkward blushing Crowley I love long haired Crowley I love Crowley with a shorn head I love Crowley with any hairdo at all bc they're all HOT I love Crowley with earrings or black fingernails or pointy teeth or horns or none of these I love Crowley with a snake tattoo on his cheek chest arm or ass I love Crowley no matter in which incarnation at all as long as the hair is FIERY RED but actually I also love blackhaired book crowley idgaf just go wild it's what Crowley would want

[moon-icarus]

one day I'll be enough, I just need to try harder next time

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[eresia-catara]

Sorry this tag is all I've been thinking about today so I couldn't stop myself from making another version

[fishychinen]

Funny how the Japan/Britannian war is what brought Suzaku and Lelouch together and ultimately what tore them apart. They were made for each other and they met through the war but the reason why they met was their inevitable demise.

They are truest form of doomed yaoi, the suzalulu paradox.

[browniefox]

“’ll do what I can, but I’ve made it clear there’s no guarantee. I’ll be doing more research into his problem tonight, and hopefully in the next day or so Fiddleford and I will have a plan of action” Ford explains tensley.

“Great. The second that you realize you can’t help him, you be honest with him, and we’ll be out of your hair,” Stan tells him and Ford can’t help but to blink in surprise. There’s a strange seriousness in Stan’s voice, the kind Ford can only recall hearing form his brother on rare occasions, and never this tense. That was always Stan’s problem his inability to be serious, to take things seriously, to grow up. It should make sense that ten years can force anyone to start to act their age, but the change is still surprising.

“Well, if his time machine is indeed broken beyond repair, it may be worth keeping him around-” Ford begins. That seems to only anger Stan.

“He’s not a science experiment, Ford, he’s a kid!”

“And it’s a good things he’s not, because you probably would’ve killed him by now if he was!”

[dustteller]

Yknow, I think this passage really captures how Ouyang views Esen, especially in contrast with how Baoxiang views Esen. Ouyang geuinely believes the best of Esen, he genuinely belives that Esen is good and pure and kind and that it's himslef that is taining him into being otherwise. And while Ouyang is right in that he's technically responsible for Esen’s current emotional state (he did very much kill Esen’s dad and frame his brother for it, that is very much a thing he just did), for once it isn't his fault for the everything else going on with Esen?

I do think Esen is generally good-natured, and tries to be kind and generous to those he loves, but it's very clear that Ouyang has reduced him to JUST that in his head. He only sees Esen’s best qualities as inherent to him, and all the bad ones are Ouyang's fault somehow. He blames himself for Esen not understanding him (because there's something wrong with him, and even when he's mad at Esen for not caring enough to notice certain things he justifies it in his head by making it about his own unmanliness or whatever and Esen is just to perfect for that), for any failure in battle (yeah you're the general but Esen also approved this hes your boss dude), and generally for any moment where Esen exhibits less than stellar behaviour/capacity/etc. When in reality, we have a lot of moments where Esen is just sort of a dick, many of which are pre-ouyang (courtesy of HWDtW wbx flashbacks, which, granted, are also biased but my point still stands). We see Esen's constant and usually unjustified frustration with wbx and sometimes Ouyang, we see him be dismissive of the things they tell him, in the pre-order reward its pretty much stated that he makes a habit of dumping Ouyang outside brothels for hours while he goes inside to get laid, in one of his first scenes we see how much he enjoys it when Ouyang spends the whole morning tormenting Altan (altho tbf he kinda deserved it, altan suuuccckkss), and in general Esen just kinda treats people like crap sometimes. He's snapish and short-tempered and stubborn and imperious, loves whining about stuff, and is a shitty brother and best friend. He's got a lot of good qualities too, like how he's one of the few people that treats Ouyang with respect and tries to treat him as an equal, how his first reaction when wbx is insulted is to come to his defense (even if wbx usually foils his attempts by immediately clapping back and storming off), how we see him recognize he gets frustrated witj wbx too easily and tries to hold his temper back, how he immediately self-sacrifices to save Ouyang from his dad, how even after thinking wbx killed their dad he does really want to forgive him.

My point is, Esen is trying, but he's a very flawed human being, and Ouyang just can't seem to grasp that. He looks at him with rose-colored glasses. And it's so interesting that amongst all the shitty things Ouyang has done (and this duology really just is Ouyang and WBX fuck up yuan dynasty china to truly Epic proportions), the one he feels worst about is the one that isn't actually his fault (sorta). He may have killed Chaghan and been the catalyst for Esen's emotional blow up, but he isn't responsible for Esen having the capacity to burn WBX's books. That was Esen's decision. He hasn't somehow manipulated Esen into an eviler, crueler version of himself by virtue of existing evil-y and eunuch-y and revengefully im his vicinity. Esen was always capable of this, even if we take out Ouyang's actual manipulations, and I think this whole I-tainted-hin mentality really encapsulates how fucked up their relationship and Ouyang's mental state are in general. After all, Ouyang doesn't feel bad about the murder, or the framing, and he feels guilt about causing Esen pain, but most of all, he feels absolutely terrible that he's shattered what he sees as Esen’s purity, which in reality is mostly just the pedestal he himslef put him on. Man, what a fucked up little guy.

[cat-soda]

i commissioned @part-time-pixie for this BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ARTWORK AAAAAAA it is of aoi and my oc misa, whom i love dearly, and jana’s dreamy art style was so incredibly perfect for depicting the prince and princess’s fairytale romance 🫶

⬆️ me for the last two months since jana sent me the final version

also i wrote a little drabble about them down below, if you wanna check under the cut!!!

softest touch

With the sound of cicadas and summer’s haze in the distance, Misa opened her eyes slowly to her alarm. The shade of the tree they lay under protected them from the sun’s heat, but the day’s warmth still permeated the air around them — a warm blanket that threatened to pull her back into sleep. Head pillowed in her lap, Aoi hadn’t even stirred at the sound. 

Misa hesitated for just a moment, then grazed her finger across Aoi’s cheek, awakening them. “Aoi,” she said, as they blinked sleepy eyes up at her. “Didn’t you mention that you had dance practice today? You’ll be late.”

“Practice can wait for a little longer.” Aoi smiled as she brushed their hair to the side, catching her hand before she could move away and pressing a kiss to the inside of her wrist. Finally, they sat up, still holding her hand. Their thumb rested on her quickening pulse. “Thank you,” they said.

“I haven’t done anything.”

“You permitted me the chance to wake up beside you.” They got to their feet, stretching, and gathered up their school bags as Misa watched, feeling overcome with affection and frozen on the grass with the strength of it. 

Then, as she finally stood, came a small whisper: was she really allowed to be this happy?

“Misa?” Aoi held out her bag, tilting their head. 

She shook her head in response and took the bag from them, careful not to touch their hands with hers; surprised, then, when they held out their hand for her to take. 

When she held it, they twined her fingers together with theirs, eyes crinkled at the corners. “Ready?”

“Yes.” Misa smiled back at them, thinking that maybe it was allowed, (and also thinking thank you, Aoi in the same breath). 

[fierrochase-falafel]

Reasons I love Xie Lian's character

Maybe this is more of a personal post, but I really appreciate Xie Lian's characterisation and his character arc because of his humanity. He's grown up being seen as special and different, and he really was special and different, and yet is shown at his lowest, falling all the way down from his position to rockbottom and he STILL makes it out alive. Not even alive by choice, but he makes it out nonetheless. And everyday he has to make the choice to see the good in humanity, after having been exposed to the worst human responses and knowing the extent of the damage he and others can do under certain circumstances. Even when he seemed perfect, he never was, and when he seemed despicable, he wasn't that either. He's jaded but not inconsiderate, angry but not vengeful or brash, guilty but slowly learning to love himself. He has the potential to be the most fearsome calamity or the most powerful god, but he decides to spend his time in a little shrine he built himself with his ghost king boyfriend. He can be cold, he can be cunning, he can be naive, he can be reckless, he can be clumsy and he can be stubborn. He can have so many flaws that may go under the radar, so many virtues that go unappreciated by the people around him. He can be the kindest or most scary person you would ever meet, and the only thing stopping him from being the latter is his will to choose to be kind. He is complicated, like a walking oxymoron. And he is traumatised, and he is repressed, and he is trying- he is still trying after everything. He is one of the most human characters I have read despite being an immortal, and gives you the hope that in the face of everything in all its complexity, our choices matter and we as people matter too, no matter how awful our position may be. Maybe the compassion of even 1 other person we meet could be the thing that saves us after all, and maybe no matter what, we're never too far gone.

[deadpanwalking]

you actually...use chat GPT?

Are you the anon from a few months ago who was genuinely worried about GPT replacing literature, or the anon who got big mad at me for suggesting that it's better to study the mechanisms of AI and literature (respectively) before deciding what to be afraid of?

[gendertrickster]

i find very cool how you're dating the writer of the comic you were (still are) swooning over

it's literally so fucking funny. you guys cannot even comprehend all the reasons why this is the funniest shit ever

[tardis-technician]

I'm curious! Reblog and add the first place you'd ask to go and/or the first historical figure you'd ask to meet if you were a companion!

[jumpscaregoose]

omg guys I can't believe shaman king flowers predicted cozmez in 2014

[karamazovanon]

another tbk meme i forgot to add to the first post! ivan & the bestie