#its meaningful and human

[luckofthegrayajah]

Not a popular opinion on tumblr I know but I would argue character death is good for stories, actually, and often a death with long narrative consequences is much better use of a character than having them linger with no more important plot beats to hit.

Character death isn’t writers being mean to viewers or something characters don’t “deserve,” it’s an important part of narrative and plotting to give stories stakes and emotional beats. The work making you have an emotion is in fact the point, not something to avoid.

[mizaruwu]

I love your necromancy Hyrule au so much!! It brings me joy and makes my brain think about how and why and all this stuff about it. Do you know how Hyrule ended up going to necromancy? Or if he has any thoughts or doubts, he's doing what he has been running from for a long time in order to keep legend somewhat alive, why? Loneliness? Was it that unbearable knowing that what he had was gone? Sorry I'm ranting...it just makes me think.

It was unbearable. Of experiencing something so sweet and comforting only to lose it– It's cruel even, to form these connections and bonds only for the force (the goddess) that brought them together separated them in the same way.

Perhaps grief is a better word than loneliness, four of the people he considers his family are dead, gone for a long time already, two of them dont exist yet and the other two dont exist at all (in his timeline) The realization hits him after a week of avoiding thinking about the topic.

at first, Hyrule didnt consider necromancy at all– he spent almost a year desparately looking for items with time travelling abilities but none of them worked anymore. He was on the brink of giving up when he stumbled on the book with the revival ritual.

"Maybe I can use this to bring them back instead" He thought as a joke. But that thought got fuled by his desparation and grief– he couldnt stop thinking about it. Why not? Its not a garuntee that he can actually raise the dead right?

Then it did work. Legend is there, looking at him– and who cares about anything else he got his brother back, its one step closer to returning how it was.

Hyrule did have doubts if what's he's doing is right but when Legend woke up and talked to him, that doubt was clouded over by relief, by the first taste of happiness he's felt in a while– he's far too broken to see past his actions now.

[chill4234]

Things that I know.

1. Yaoi is the opposite of yuri

2. According to tumblr, yuri seems to be just about anything, but I have most commonly seen it take the form of two inanimate objects in close proximity to one another. Eg minecraft furnace and crafting table, trains crashing into each other, etc.

Therefore, we can conclude that Yaoi is two inanimate objects that are very far apart from each other. The sun and the earth are yaoi.

[perhapsapremise]

also maybe this is just a vestige from getting really into the expanse at one point but I wish we knew a bit more about the human colonies outside of earth and what they were like.

I think it's kind of implied that b5 itself is actually one of the biggest? and I'm kind of intrigued by the idea that there are a lot of colonies that are like the scifi equivalent of really small towns. like what is it actually like to live/grow up there!! and like are they on planets with livable atmospheres or or is it like mars where everything is indoors? I kind of assume the latter but we really don't know

and we get a bit about mars but its mostly the political situation (though that itself is left pretty vague and I wish we had gotten more details on that too) and I really would like to know more about like the infrastructure and what day to day operation is actually like

but unlike in the expanse nearly all the prominent human characters are from earth iirc sinclair and marcus are the only ones who confirmedly aren't. and Sinclair is from mars but we don't hear anything about his experience growing up/living there. and we learn like nothing about the place marcus is from except that its 'a mining colony'. I would like to know more!!

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts 3 - Monstropolis

[declanscunt]

sometimes, taking a leap forward means…

… leaving a few things behind.

arcane 2.03 (2024) // interstellar (2014) // interstellar // isaac newton, from nasa.gov // arcane 2.07 // interstellar // arcane 2.07 // interstellar // arcane 2.07 // arcane 2.09

[nobodymitskigabriel]

Was thinking how rare non-sexual intimacy must be in Gabriel's life. He watches Netflix wrapped in a blanket with Sam and it reminds him of the times he sat with Loki in front of a campfire. Lying in bed and talking to Sam makes him think of Kali. Being real and being vulnerable means living with ghosts from past lifetimes.

[kaiserouo]

Imagining three angler company robots having the ability to think and they escape the company before it goes down and they are now living like a scavenger harvesting batteries and energy with their battle skills to keep them alive and their entertainment would be finding and reading children's picture book together as some sort of method to learn more about how to think

[aristhought]

yes sports is about ball in net and going fast and running around fields. but sports is also about the human condition. it's about stories and narratives and new beginnings and goodbyes. it's about belief and faith and love. it's about the catharsis of feeling and expressing emotions deeply and unapologetically as a collective. it's a microcosm of society, culture, and the human experience. sports is sports but what sports is is so much more.

[tamagotchikgs]

i know im not good enough to be but sometimes it does feel so . bad. that ill never be anything but last convenient choice . ive never had friends irl ive only had my sibling's friends who'd hang out w me when they werent around. even my first gf we literally got together when she confessed she was into one of our mutual friends but he wasnt back n so she was well. u were my second crush :). LMAO,,,,,, n that serious n it went on for a year. that just Is my life. its every single social experience i have. i know i dont deserve it but i ache 2 escape it. i wish i could figure out how to make myself good enough. i never fit into any group, even when i hav friends online im always on the outside n i just wish i could learn how 2 be a person how to do it right

[metanarrates]

speaking of the concept of universal themes/emotions: there are emotions that a lot of the population will inevitably experience. things like loss, or joy, or loneliness ARE a really common component of being a person! and it can be comforting to know that your experiences are broadly shared. you are not alone, most likely, in both certain types of suffering and certain types of joy. it's nice to experience that connection to other human beings.

but the second you start calling things universal, you start to veer towards prescriptivism. statements such as "all art is about x" and "all humans experience x" frequently has the unspoken sentiment that "I will not contemplate the absence of x." there are people who do not experience love. there is art that is not made, in a general sense, to explore "the human condition," but rather to explore some other idea. and I suppose you could insist that no, it IS in fact about the human condition, or about love, or whatever, but to do so misses out on both what people have to say and what art has to say. you close yourself off from really vital, interesting perspectives of the world by doing that.

people have interesting things to say outside of your current worldview! and of course art does as well. don't do others the disservice of refusing to engage with it! you won't grow at all that way.

[casekt]

As someone who got into spirituality and witchcraft when I was like 13, after I realized I was trans, it didn't bother me as much as it does now how absolutely binarist and gender essentialist the most popular stuff is, I mostly just dismissed the whole "sacred feminine" hetero sex reproduction menstruation thing but now I find it so annoying that the core of so many resources are rooted in those beliefs and doesn't leave any room for anything else, and I've always HATED the ableism against mentally ill people, especially the awful things against people with OCD and psychotic disorders who can't control their thoughts and are told that it's their fault and that bad things are going to happen to them because of it

[skunkes]

I mean this with no disrespect but I think you should get on Tinder or Grindr or smth

im not a hook ups person (+ id probably be banned from grindr due to the Way I Appear. Currently.) and am a firm believer of "if you dont like where you live dont date where you live" unfortunately :(

and I won't go into it but dating apps (if the implication wasn't hooking up) are. So difficult for me ! Very against how I think about connecting wit people... i just don't think any of what i seek is in the cards for me ^_^ which would be fine if not for the Hunger LOL

[kakushusband]

How I sleep understanding my favorite villain's personality and backstory and why they work so well while also throwing key aspects of it away for the benefit of my own indulgences btw ^_^

[a-lonely-tatertot]

Alright thats it if i see one more character who super smart cant understand human emotions or desires made aspec im just gonna start stabbing

[hanzajesthanza]

watching the new season of what we do in the shadows (which also likes to play with tropes) and thinking about how fond i am of the fact that vampires in the witcher are so much less… structured

certainly, they have some tradition, ritual, even some “absolutely unacceptable things, the kind of things no vampire does” — but even these offhanded mentions are presented in the context of being humorous, like:

“i flew under the influence” being a darkly humorous play on “to drive under the influence.” or “my multimembered name is authentic. and in keeping with vampire tradition” … it makes you smirk and raise an eyebrow, like… and what tradition would that be?! and may i also mention that we know nothing of vampire language except for the untranslatable pun of regis’ mule draakul, as a throwaway dracula joke.

meanwhile, the rules and procedures present in what we do in the shadows are what typically drives the drama and conflict in the plot, as opposed to the comedy…. the comedy comes from the characters defying all expectations of their society, not the idea of the society itself.

and i think the things what we do in the shadows plays with are generally accepted as vampire tropes. they have a kind of undead, reverse-society: a strict heirarchy determined by councils, bloodlines, tracking honor and shame and who-bit-who and all of these intensely complex games.

vampires in the witcher, though?

“During my youth I enjoyed… er… the pleasures of good company (…) With humans, however, there exists a system of rules and restrictions: parental authority, guardians, superiors and elders–morals, ultimately. We have nothing like that. Youngsters have complete freedom and exploit it. They create their own patterns of behaviour. Stupid ones, you understand (…)”

they compose an entirely lawless, authorityless society—you could not even call it a society—an asociety. no organization, no heirarchy, no councils, bureaucracy, not even patterns of behavior to follow. no one to look up to, and no one to look down upon.

social approval, rather, comes in the form of peer pressure and the kind of stupid nonsense that can only come from friend groups:

“I didn’t want to spoil the party, and the thought of losing social approval terrified me. So I partied.”

social activities are parties, but not vampire parties as they’re commonly understood. they do not throw lavish balls full of sensual masquerades, garish horror, blood spills from fountains and fills goblets in a parody of aristocracy…

no, the vampires in the witcher? their parties are merely a few guys (and girls) getting wasted in some peasant village:

“Revelries and frolics, shindigs and booze-ups; every full moon we’d fly to a village and drink from anyone we found. The foulest, the worst class of… er… fluid. It made no difference to us whose it was, as long as there was… er… haemoglobin… It can’t be a party without blood, after all! And I was terribly shy with vampire girls, too, until I’d had a drop.”

organize a ball? they couldn’t organize a bingo night!

yes, they are indeed social, but society: the working together to help each other, or even the darker side of one controlling and commanding another, is an entirely alien concept to them. like the men of the golden age, they seem to live carelessly, like the cyclopes, they seem to live lawlessly.

councils, rules, codeces, instruction manuals… what is this? not part of their culture. they have no need for food, they are affected not by cold or heat, and they can fly with every full moon. they have no fight for survival, only petty squabbles and drama. no old, no young. no father, no son. no superiors, no inferiors.

ageless libation, celebration, socializing to no end. an ever-tipsy nothingness.

in short… life in a dream.