#elucidation

[doctor-finitevus]

doctor finitevus, I am not well versed in echidna society, be it past or present. I do want to ask, did you hail from the past but had some sort of stasis or time travel, or of you an echidna born and lived of only these past few decades?

That is to say, were you contemporaries of some of the record makers, or are they just as ancient to you as they are to us?

If I had been contemporaneous with the record makers, as you call them, the world would have been cleansed by now, the filth and corruption long burned away.

So much of the study of chaos is archeology, the ancient echindas had power over chaos that our modern society could only dream of.

One thing they didnt have was the ability to travel through time or place themselves in stasis, or else their civilization wouldnt have collapsed so completely

[wanderrealms]

Thank you word of the day, I've been meaning to check what the title of one my favorite songs means

[whats-in-a-sentence]

In all, here is a big piece of global history where we can hope for ongoing elucidation.⁶¹

61. On India, the Arab traveler Ibn Battutah mentioned an epidemic at the time, but it was probably not bubonic plague. Arab and European chroniclers vaguely assert that the pandemic swept through India, but local sources from the Delhi Sultanate do not corroborate these claims.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[sparsilees]

it’s almost the end of 2024. can we drop this absolutely inane fanonical idea that harry james potter is “oblivious” or “unobservant” or “average”?

fuck your fanon harry. fuck that soggy tissue who doesn’t inspire confidence in others. fuck that lummox who cannot string a sentence together. fuck that hothead who’d lash out in anger and throw punches at every provocation. fuck that namby-pamby who can’t read clues or between the lines or come up with a plan of action. fuck that sheep who can’t function without hermione’s direction. fuck that neanderthal who’s a messy eater, messy writer, messy speaker, and has poor manners.

who the bloody hell is that? that’s not harry james potter. why are you twisting and malforming him into a bloody clown?

why are you undermining the main character of his own series? boy has an abysmal self-esteem, stays quiet and lowkey, bottles up his truest feelings and thoughts (that we as readers are privy to, but not the other characters!), and has a calm and composed mien so you think you too can dismiss his character easily and strip him down to a skeleton of his canon self and instead carve out huge character growth, redemption arcs, and love letters for everyone else?

you wish to evoke sympathy for draco by making lucius out to be an abusive father and crafting a pitiful childhood for draco when they have an affectionate parent-child relationship canonically, but downplay harry’s abuse? you realise that tom riddle, sirius black, james potter, and hermione granger are acknowledged to be the brightest of their generation, yet forget harry potter and tom riddle are two sides of the same coin, even sharing a similar appearance, and reduce harry to a silly caricature? you make harry magically powerful but wrest his smarts away to highlight someone else’s big brain?

you make him out to be a short dork with a shorter fuse and no idea what’s going on around him when harry and tom are both described as woe-ridden orphans—with all that entails from constant hunger to cold sleepless nights to hypervigilance to the forced, quick maturity—but treat tom true to canon as tall, cunning, and clever, then do an about-face to conveniently slap the malnourished, oblivious, and slacker labels on harry to make him as lesser than?

when he picked up the impervious spell simply from having seen hermione perform it once, when his closest friends have difficulty gleaning his thoughts, when his anger is cold and sharp like dumbledore (ootp was a study in ptsd, next!), when he’s just as tall as his father, was just as ill-treated as a house elf, and rightfully brilliant as the son of lily and james potter—the two powerful and talented individuals who once had voldemort trying to recruit them to join his cause?

the sheer disrespect on his name. the sheer mockery of his character. the absolutely mind-boggling erasure of his most defining traits.

who do you think sussed out most of the big clues, and stowed away all the little, random bits of information in his memory bank, to ultimately piece the puzzle together at the final showdown every end of the school year? who realised as a mere firstie that quirrel was the man hagrid blabbed to about fluffy and the dragon egg? who noted that ginny was withdrawn and unlike herself? who had an inkling fleur had taken a fancy to bill? who picked up on what was brewing between ron and hermione before their own selves? who noticed that hermione cast a confundus on cormac mclaggen during the match? who caught on instantly to the change in tense used for the diadem’s existence and confidently tracked it down? who cottoned on to luna’s longtime disappearance from her cold, untouched bed and the layer of dust? who did voldemort consider his equal? who actually has an uncanny sense of intuition? who calls the shots when the trio gets into a pickle? who?

mcgonagall? flitwick? draco? hermione? blaise zabini? no!

excuse harry for that one time he did not look deeply into the mental workings of a grieving girl because he’s not equipped to deal with them, and has in the first place never been taught to process his own emotions properly because he didn’t grow up in a healthy environment, prohibited from expressing his feelings, let alone vulnerability, and voicing his thoughts!

let’s bury this annoyingly stupid narrative for good. go read the books and refresh your perspective. stop doing him dirty. you’ve already butchered sirius black’s character into a pathetic sisspot. and now you want to assassinate harry’s too.

[bardockarts]

tfa ratchet tummy appreciation ft. My first attempt at drawing both of these tfa characters

[ahappydnp]

i know that face. that is dan in the midst of a 5 minute dramatic ass pretentious yappy monologue

[sparrowlucero]

i honestly cannot tell if that nk jemisin omelas story is supposed to be like a satire of shitty performative utopia stuff or if its in earnest support of the cops that murder all the people who Like Bad Media

[idontmindifuforgetme]

if I could go back in time my top advice to my younger self would literally be don’t get into fucking situationships

[marypsue]

An incomplete list of fictional women who are doing drag as their assigned gender:

Miss Piggy

Elle Woods

Sharpay Evans

any character played by Leslie Ann Warren (but especially Norma Cassidy)

any character played by Parker Posey (but especially Fiona in Josie and the Pussycats)

that one chick in pink in Zombieland 2 (I didn't actually watch it, it was on mute in the background)

and YMMV, but

Buffy Summers

[to-shards-you-say]

At the contest of champions, Taravangian!Odium tells Dalinar that Rayse!Odium planned to use Moash as his champion, but those plans changed when Taravangian saw he could take Gavinor instead.

So from the moment that became viable, Moash ceased to matter to him.

Cue Moash showing up at Narak to act like a parody of his former self without a real directive — because he doesn't have a real directive. He's been ghosted without explanation by the god-figure to whom he was entirely devoted. And for that devotion, he was rewarded with cold-turkey detox from his emotional numbness, and the chronic agony of two crystal spikes growing straight through his brain.

So Moash play-acts his glory days as Odium's special boy because he wants them back. He's trying to regain Odium's favour by following obsolete orders — because he's not getting new ones. By now, Odium's attention is on grooming Gavinor, with Moash none the wiser. Moash's mind, body and soul were irreparably violated in service of being Odium's champion, and he was abandoned in favour of a Kholin again.

[godspeedmajortom]

I love that Harry can find the purple leopard print leotard and say, "This is the kind of animal I want to be." I love that it takes +8 electrochemistry to do this, that Harry has to be so in touch with what brings pleasure to his physical form to even notice the fabric in the river, to not just dismiss it as another piece of trash amidst the milieu of Martinaise malaise. I love that putting on the bodysuit requires him to reject fear and embrace his queerness (and let it embrace him), and that once he does, he will never let it go. I love that Harry will strip naked in the middle of a sleet storm in front of Kim to don this salty, weathered thing because he has finally, absurdly, found something so perfect for him.

Half Light protests, Physical Instrument mocks, Composure warns, but E-Chem knows. "Don't you *want* to feel different?" Of course. Of course you do, Harry. Of course you want to become someone who you actually want to be.

It's so beautiful that Harry can actually discover a meaning for himself, some small solution for the depressive horror of his pre-bender life. Thank you, leopard-patterned bodysuit. And thank you, Helen Hindpere, for adding this to the game.

(Fayde Reference)

[moreholes]

Who Decides That - Pages 1-4

Next

Gwen does her job and painlessly stops the anomaly before he can become a multiverse-spanning problem. Without any holes to defend himself, the Spot is arrested, and gets sent to a psychiatric hospital to receive the help he clearly desperately needs. Soon after his discharge, Spider-Man visits to try and clear the air...

Content warning for: Psychiatric mistreatment, trauma/mental illness symptoms such as dissociation, paranoia, etc, suicidal ideation, more that I'm forgetting probably... yeah, it might get pretty rough.

[priceysalt]

PATRICIA ANN LUPONE GET MEDIA TRAINING NEOW

[dirtyzucchini]

I rewatched Seeing Is Believing for reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture*, and I noticed something cool I hadn't spotted before!

I think most of us have noticed the fantastic background activity in the flashbacks from Lieutenant Welsh's point of view, where everyone looks like they're Officially In The Mob?

And today I noticed that both Inspector Thatcher and Ray each have their unique backgrounds as well!

For Thatcher, it's couples all the way back. Holding hands, walking with their arms around each other, you name it.

Ray's signature background took me a second to spot, because there's not much to go on at first:

Looks normal, doesn't it? That's because his first flashback is really short. In the second, longer one we get a lot more background activity, and I realized that all the extras are women!

I may have a thought or two on what this says about him, but I have to let them percolate a little.

Anyway, there you have it. This show really is the gift that keeps on giving.

[woubleyou]

Okay. Final freaking post about the Laterano event today. So I noticed in the animation and the pv there's the theme of Sankta children, cradles/nests, and perhaps importantly, mobiles (as in the thing that hangs over a baby's cradle). And then something that I completely glossed over the first time, in the milk guy's Terra Facts talking about Sankta, he says that even before Sankta have their haloes, they're accustomed to bright lights over them, and it shows a disco ball hanging over a cradle. What????? Why are baby Sankta having bright lights shone on them as newborns? At first I thought it was to get them used to the light from their halo, but why can't they just get used to it later when they do get it, and why is it specifically something hanging over their cradles when mobiles are a visual motif at least three different times in the trailers. Maybe it's nothing, but it seems suspicious to me.

Final notes connecting with the cradles/nests, one of the event mechanics involves operators you deploy on certain tiles being asleep until they're woken up, and Exusiai's spoken line in the pv is "I just want to wake up." The baby in the Terra Facts segment seems to be specifically Exusiai as well, with Lemuen picking her up from the cradle.

This could mean multiple things, but I'm guessing that Exusiai is going to have a very unique position among Sankta, maybe due to her unique relation to the empathy, or other factors, but I think she's going to be the one who wants to wake up, in the sense of shaking off everything that the Law has constructed on top of Laterano's people. Fitting with her name being Exusiai the New Covenant.