#metaphor soup

[art-of-mathematics]

[Behold! Another incohernt (non-)sense post is coming!]

In German, the idiomatic expression "Der rote Faden" (literally translates to "the red thread" - The English equivalent of that idiomatic expression is "common thread".) refers to a recurring characteristic or theme (as to quote wiktionary)

- or a coherent "line" in the train of thought

- or a coherent alignment of plots in a multitude of intertwined events - as I would put it.

However, some "red threads" /"common threads" can be a bit "disheveled" in some constellations of events one could regard as "wicked problems":

... and that is where my brain.exe stopped working at knowing what I actually wanted to write here... I forgot the "red thread", as I cannot remember the final statment I actually wanted to deliver in the first place.

Yet, you see, this textpost I just wrote has like "fragments of a red thread". You see my train of thought might be full of gaps, but in the end you might still have gathered some sort of insight (Of course I refer to you having gained insight into the working mechanism of my "nonsense facility" - aka my brain /nonserious)

you see: Its a bit nonsensical, but yet, you might came to grasp what I started to attempt here... And if you have read this far: Congrats for using that much time for reading my brain dump.

Here is the quick drawing I made that inspired me to write this nonsense post:

Frontside + Backside + Light shining through = this fancy lil piece of paper:

[knotty-et-al]

Today I got some lingo soup for ya: (with a slightly philosophical garnish and some [almost punny] metaphor noodles)

[Beware of surreal imagery and loosen your associations, we will associate freely now: ]

"The disheveled common thread... ...returns as colorful web"

In German, the idiom "common thread" is literally translated as "RED thread" ("roter Faden").

That is why I kept spinning that metaphor noodle soup even further, and came up with the idea of the "colorful web" that emerges from the disheveled fibers of that "red/common thread".

What does it mean?

It just means that I could connect the dots about my biography and the life circumstances that we were/are in - and that now I can clean up that mess. It just means coming to terms with what happened - and yeah, it was shit. I'm happy it's over now. And although cleaning up the mess our past has left behind is extremely exhausting, I look forward to the life I have still ahead of me.

I am the colorful web of the disheveled fibers that never formed a functional thread. That's neither tragedy nor anything unique, it is just as it is, an adaption to circumstances, an adaption to feed the intrinsic will to live: Nothing more, nothing less.

[2024/03/11]

[scuderiakarts]

rotating this picture in my head like a rotisserie chicken

[aro-culture-is]

aro culture is getting so fucking tired of people using the fact that there's a queer romance in something as a reason you should watch it. like haven't allos had enough of romance? queer or otherwise? I'm not saying queer representation is bad, of course, I'm just fed up with asking what a book is about and in response all I get is "oh it has queer people in it" cool! what is it about? having queer representation is not the be all end all of media can we please have ONE thing without romance in it. please.

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[doingherbestbutnot]

I just realized that… episode 11??

Yeah it’s not Vash soup… it’s a fucking baptism. Remaking Vash?? KNIVES IS BAPTIZING HIS BROTHER and I

[iceman-soup]

the work song by hozier lyrics "no grave can hold my body down, I'll crawl home to her" trend but with Ghost and his mother

[blindmagdalena]

Had an angsty little thought earlier👹.

Homelander finds out he has a mom or at the very least a woman that genetically contributed to his creation and he’s lowkey excited to meet her and finally have a mom, a real loving and doting mom, to tell him how proud she is of him and how much she loves him.

He’s got it in his head that she is going to be more than willing to play the part that he wants her to play. She’s his mom after all, that’s what he thinks moms do. She won’t be like Soldier Boy. There’s no way because In Homelander’s mind that could happen.

He goes to find her, his emotions are high. He opts to leave Ryan at home because there’s still the small part of him that is worried she will be another Soldier Boy. He gets to the house. It’s everything he would’ve loved as a kid. There’s a baseball field near by and some woods he would’ve loved to explore behind the house.

He finally meets her but she doesn’t want anything to do with him. She already has another son. “A better son” is what she tells him. A son that happens to dig into everyone of Homelander’s insecurities.

I can’t imagine this would turn out well for anyone. Anyway sorry for the long post. Just wanted to share with then class.

i have just been sitting here staring at this like. how DARE you.

now i need to write a happy mamalander fic just to SELF SOOTHE.

because knowing his luck, yeah, this is probably how it would go. if his biological mother/dna donor had any idea he's related to her, she either didn't want to know him or she couldn't due to whatever legal BS Vought cooked up. more than likely though i think all that stuff would have been done anonymously. she probably had no idea, same way solider boy didn't know what his dna was being used for.

i imagine Vought would have been primarily interested in cooking him up using exclusively soup supe ingredients, so i'd think she was a supe too? but maybe it didn't matter if they were like, marinating the eggs themselves in compound v solution.

i'm off topic. you're right, this DOES sound like a worst case scenario for everyone involved. 😭

[dnangelic]

yeah canonically dark is supposed to disappear after his host’s love becomes mutual but I don’t do that because anybody would miss dark, like I would miss dark and daisuke would miss dark and the other muse would miss dark AND it’s funny to get to see everybody endure the side hand embarrassment gauntlet of being the spotlight focus of an extremely dramatic theater kid’s enamor. I don’t need canon for this and I think dark can get and deserves a little noncanon happiness GET in the weird middle school monster bf polycule

[tennessoui]

You have to have water fic titles because you're drowning in wips, huh?

:0

(On one hand i personally found this very funny and I did do a little huff huff of genuine laughter—)

(On the other hand I did do a little quick calculation, and over the 2 years I’ve been writing in this niche of a fandom, I’ve published 60 fanfictions on ao3 and of that 60, 48 have been completed, which leaves me with 12 work in progress fics on ao3—OUT OF 60!!!!!! 12 fics out of 60 that are works in progress !!!!!

12 !!!!! Out of!!!!! 60!!!!!!!!!!)

[xxbranch-dressingxx]

so are we gonna talk about the fact that when stede found the crew they were eating a raw dead bird. Like animals. The rest of ed's crew is gone and they've run out of food. So how long were they out there? Alone, stranded, their captain mutinied, some people say days but it has to have been at least a couple weeks if they've run out of food and have resorted to the type of hunger necessary to kill and eat a bird RAW a seagull no less. The same as the one they had a funeral at sea for.

[bookshelfdreams]

the soup is a lie

(this isn't a Portal reference)

Soup is so nice. It can be warmth, comfort, trust. Community. All those different things coming together to create something bigger than the sum of its parts. Something beautiful.

But not all communities are made equal. Not all relationships are like that, safe, nourishing, gentle.

Sometimes, it's this.

Ed has it right when he says that it's poison. That's all Hornigold ever had for him. Lies and poison and cruelty. He didn't plant the seed of self-hatred in Ed, that was his father's doing, but he watered it and let it grow until it was big enough to choke him.

How do you make sure smart, talented, capable kids like Ed grow into adults who will do your bidding? Break them down until you're the only stable thing they know. Smother independence as soon as it shows its nose. Loyalty is hard to win, but dependency? That's easier. So you feed them a fucked idea of what it means to be human, make sure they never develop an inherent sense of worth. Make sure the only thing they know is the struggle for power, the danger of weakness.

Framed as getting some nutrients into Ed, making him eat his vegetables: To make it into this world, you have to understand pain. I am the only one who cares about you. This abuse is all the love you'll ever get.

And even after everything Ed has been through, his first instinct is still to reject it. He recognizes the poison for what it is, and has to be forced to swallow it.

The soup is a lie. Hornigold is not capable of care or nourishment.

And Ed knows it's a lie.

[art-of-mathematics]

when the autism(sensory_overload

[CPU overheating]) hits me hard my language_processing_modules work in short circuits.

- - -- --- -----

cere(br)al processing unit [crumbling]

[doggirlviscera]

new fursona shes a wolfgirl who was raised by humans so now shes just trying his hardest to fit in

[justapalspal]

I just love calling it “the soup” because the thing yami b tkb n zorc have going on is SUCH a soup

[send-me-a-puffalope]

i can’t believe i wrote 12 pages of fanfic solely on my phone while on a family vacation where i didn’t have service half the time,,,, boys i have less than 2 chapters of 9 done 💀💀💀

[prolibytherium]

I get sooooooooo fucking bored of flowery prose sometimes, like it has its place but I see so much online writing where it feels like every sentence is a calculated attempt at making it big in a webweaving post.