#questions of significance

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[doctorsiren]

Day 2 of Sirentober / Doctober

Glasses / Retro

Based on a dream I had last night where Athena came down and visited Ford and taught him like she taught Odysseus and she told him to use his BRAIN and not trust Bill Cipher and I woke up realizing that Athena and Ody occupy the same space in my head as Jheselbraum and Ford. Like…big tall goddess mom friend lady…and square man trying to get home…

Available as a print on my Etsy shop

[slayerdurge]

testing a theory. no middle ground options. data is cleaner without them. please consider re-blogging to help me increase my sample size.

[fatedroses]

More than just the Demon.

[fairyhaos]

cruelest thing that kpop has ever done is impose a "you can't eat anything" rule on their idols in the country that says "have you eaten today?" as a way of showing love

[hyohaehyuk]

iwtv_updates: Jacob felt pressure adding lines to the Reunion scene, as Sam told him these would become canon for his Lestat. Rolin approached Jacob with the idea first, knowing Sam would dislike it. Jacob agreed, enjoying the opportunity to wind Sam up.

Video: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE star Jacob Anderson unpacks the gothic horror of Season 2 | TV Insider

[incognitopolls]

Birth order meaning whether you're the oldest, middle, youngest, or an only child.

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[velarisdusk]

Mmmm stalker Rhys sounds so yummy🫶

DOESNT HE LIKE OK HEAR ME OUT (I AM ABOUT TO GET VERY CARRIED AWAY OOPS)

i feel like it wouldn't just be the conventional stalking, but don't get me wrong he'd do that too. flowers sent to your job... notes with very specific compliments left around your apartment... realizing you're missing some underwear.........?

i think what rhys REALLY likes is visiting you in your dreams :) at first he's just in the background. you'll dream of walking through a market, and you don't realize it but he's there. at a stand. not doing anything, just watching. then he'll start bumping into you "on accident" or brushing past you.

eventually he talks to you and those are the ones you wake up a little unsettled from because you're dreaming about talking to your High Lord (who you've never even met Ever so?) and he's acting pretty normal and asking you about yourself and duh of course dream you is gonna be nice to him?

but then it starts getting weirder. like the dreams pick up where they left off. every night. and he remembers things you told him in earlier ones; preferences, fears, your schedule (!?!?!?)

and then he starts touching. not in a gross way... at first. just a hand to your lower back as he guides you through the city. or his fingers brushing yours when you reach for something. one night, you're laughing and he tucks your hair behind your ear and you wake up flushed.

you stop wanting to sleep. you start sleeping more.

and then he kisses you, slow and careful, like he's been waiting years to do it right.

and that's the night you wake up with your lips tingling and your thighs damp and a note on your bedside table that says you taste like starlight.

[thegreatyin]

while on the topic of iron posting. a very small very insignificant thing that i really enjoy is that nobody really harasses it for not speaking. and like. we don't know precisely why it doesn't speak. it could be because it's mute, it could be due to an unseen injury, it could just be a selective choice, it could be that it never bothered to learn human language to begin with, etc etc. but there's never been a scene (at least as far as i can recall) where mr iron is specifically called out or pressured or anything of the sort. not even by its own haters 4 haters coworkers. and yeah this is realistically probably because its an ESPECIALLY deadly space bat that could kill you six ways from sunday if you pissed it off, but also, y'know, sometimes it's really nice just having a mute character that's treated Normally for once

[razzafrazzle]

another character from die as lovers may, my funney vampire story... had this design bouncing around in my brain for years honestly

[image description: a reference image for an original character named dr. pranali guin, a fat, older dark-skinned woman that has black hair with a white streak pulled into an updo. she is wearing a tight white dress with a cropped black jacket and an orange ribbon around her neck. next to her are blurbs stating that she is 55, that her pronouns are she/her, that she is an aroace woman, and the following: "acclaimed sexologist who is rather humorless. incredibly suspicious of rowan, but isn't quite sure why. not as stern as she looks. has really bad eyesight, but refuses to wear glasses out of spite. loves melodramatic soap operas and keeps a journal detailing every plot point in them. probably autistic." end id]

[ckret2]

I had just finished the first chapter of the Axolotl arc in WAIGLZ and reading the second.

Is he technically being a ghost ever going to come up past this arc to the other chapters in WAIGLZ later on?

Like,

"It was not like y o u were the one who viciously murdered me! I am mean technically your gruncles did not even kill a "living" being in the first place, according to s o m e people,

Bill shook his head, fanning away trillion year old resentment

-"you really think it was my first roadio? P l e a s e . So, try not beat yourself up about it kid, ok?"

Mabel looked up and stared at Bill.

"Wha- Huh??" Mabel said dumbfounded.

It would be crazy coolio to see it mentioned in the main fic.

Until I read your fic I never even thought about Bill being a spirit once, and now I feel rather silly wondering how he lived so long outside of his dimension :,)

Please have a truly wonderful day + happy holidays! ^ ^

Toodaloo!

I'm sure eventually it'll be mentioned again (I mean, for one thing, eventually we're gonna see the massacre) but probably not like that.

Like, Bill technically-being-a-ghost isn't some big secret or a major plot twist, and it doesn't fundamentally rewrite the rules around him and what he does. It's just what we see him do throughout canon.

He's a non-physical entity ("a being of pure energy!") that's apparently self-sustaining without needing sleep or food and impervious to injury and illness ("with no weakness!")

He's usually invisible to normal (living) people. He can possess people. He can move inanimate objects even though he can't physically interact with them. He can haunt dreams.

When he has the opportunity to make himself a body, he doesn't turn into something physical; his physical form is separate from him, and he can freely separate from it any time he wants.

This is mind-body dualism. Generally, mind-body dualism is a framework people use to express the idea that the spirit/soul is a separate entity from the body. The thing that's killed in Stan's mind is the spirit; the statue left behind is the body.

Meaning, before he had that body, he was spirit.

When he separates Dipper's spirit from his body in the exact same way Bill separates from his own body, he says, "Without a vessel to possess, you're basically a ghost!"

Bill usually doesn't have a vessel to possess.

Ergo: Bill's basically a ghost and he said so himself.

I haven't listed anything we didn't learn from Sock Opera and Weirdmageddon.

The ONLY question is "well BEFORE he was an energy being, did he have a physical body?" Whether he was born an energy being or became one later is in the realm of headcanon; and I suppose it's a matter of opinion if an energy being counts as a ghost if it's 100% identical to ghosts in every way except that it didn't previously have a physical body. You could argue that his eagerness to get a physical body the second he could implies he used to have one or was meant to have one, but that's speculation.

In every other way, he meets the criteria for a ghost the same way that tomatoes meet the criteria for berries. But when someone tells you "tomatoes are berries," it doesn't teach you anything new about tomatoes. You already knew tomatoes have berry-like traits, you just assumed they were disqualified because they're too big or too unsweet or too vegetably, and now you know they aren't disqualified.

So like—putting that word on him doesn't change anything about Bill. You've learned nothing new. The characters around him would learn nothing new. It's not a plot twist or massive character revelation; it's just a background fact that gets mentioned when it's relevant.

[dichard-grayson]

As a Danny fan who knows almost nothing about Catholicism I thought your comments about the necklace were super interesting, would love to know more if you're still interested in sharing!!

Hi nonie! Thanks for asking, I love info dumping so of course I'll share! I've also included various links in this post with more information/sources on the things I'm talking about if you (the reader) want to do your own research.

I am also going to tag @bipanicknelson and @a-raven-into-tardis who also left questions in the notes.

If you're unaware of what I'm talking about, I made this post where I said that Danny's medallion necklace he wears isn't just a comfort necklace but it's part of Catholic and Latino culture. And since I'm going to be touching on something that could be a bit divisive I would like to put out the disclaimer that I am a cradle Catholic, as in I was raised in the religion since birth, and I'm also Mexican so I'm speaking from experience. I am also not claiming that I know Danny or his religious practices personally, I'm making a guess based on his necklace and the fact that he's Mexican-Colombian, two countries that are largely Catholic (Colombia is reportedly 64% Catholic and Mexico is 78% Catholic) so one can safely assume he was probably raised in the faith and still identifies with it to an extent, though how much, I can't say. I also need to put out the disclaimer that I am basing this on the Mexican experience, since again, I am Mexican, and I'm not claiming I know anything about Colombian Catholic practices though I would think they are similar given that we have the same colonizer but if anyone reading this is Colombian Catholic and wants to give more insight, please go right ahead!

First I wanted to show you the necklace I'm talking about, this is the clearest shot I could find from Danny's instagram in 2021. You can see the medallion is of Jesus Christ with the crown of thorns on his head. The hand next to it I believe is called a hamsa and its meant to protect against the evil eye, this isn't a Catholic belief so I don't know very much about it, but if you know more please fill us in! Though I haven't seen the hamsa on his necklace more recently which could be due to literally anything, but I just wanted to point it out (photo evidence further down).

For starters, what is a medallion? A medallion is a small, usually metal, circle engraved with the image of a saint, the Virgin Mary, or Jesus Christ typically worn around the neck. The Catholic tradition of wearing medallions goes back centuries and they are not only an outward expression of our faith, they are also blessed by priests and are therefore holy objects. We believe that the holy person on our medallions is actively protecting us and guiding us. In Mexican Catholic tradition, medallions are usually given as a present to kids when they complete a sacrament, though it is most typically given by a godparent to their godchild during their first Holy Communion and children, if they continue with the faith, will continue to wear their medallion into adulthood. Usually, in Mexican tradition, boys are given a medallion with the image of Jesus while girls are given medallions with the image of the Virgin Mary, or Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Mexican apparition of the Virgin Mary. While I don't know if there is an explanation why the medallions are gendered this way outside of Mexican machismo, this is the best explanation I have as to why Danny's medallion depicts Jesus as opposed to any other holy figure.

That is the big difference between just a comfort necklace and the medallion. While a comfort necklace can be any necklace that provides the wearer emotional support and can be used as a fidget or sensory stimulation during stressful events, a Catholic medallion has strong religious ties and significance for the wearer. And yes, a medallion can be a comfort necklace, mine is, but just saying that its a comfort necklaces reduces its significance in the Catholic religion.

Now, going back to Danny, here you can see him wearing the medallion in an interview he did with IMDB for Brave New World, though without the hamsa from the 2021 instagram picture. Again, not sure if that means anything about his faith or its just a nothing event (like he lost it and didn't feel the need to replace it), but thought it was something to point out. And you can see it peeking out of his shirt on the red carpet for the newest Mission Impossible movie. So it is very possible that Danny sees his medallion as both a religious object protecting him it is also a comfort necklace for him, but just saying its a comfort necklace takes away the Catholic and Latino culture behind why he is wearing it.

TLDR: Danny's necklace is a medallion depicting Jesus Christ which is a common piece of jewelry worn by Catholics and it has a deeper religious meaning that goes beyond just a comfort necklace.

[matteos]

[transdimensional-void]

let's have some fun with foreshadowing!

in this passage from sansa vii, a storm of swords:

"Pack the snow around a stick, Sansa."

She did not know how long he had been watching her, or when he had returned from the Vale. "A stick?" she asked.

"That will give it strength enough to stand, I'd think," Petyr said. "May I come into your castle, my lady?"

considering that we know that throughout this chapter, the snow is meant to evoke jon, and the fact that the sticks and twigs sansa uses in her snow castle represent the godswood, what do you think this passage might foreshadow? (poll below)

a. bran and the weirwoods being involved in jon's "resurrection" (and probably sansa having some part to play as well).

b. jonsa wedding and bedding before the heart tree, jace/sara style.

c. el dorado "why not both?" meme.

d. i think it's foreshadowing something else, which i will now proceed to tell you about in the comments, tags, a reblog, your inbox, etc.

e. maybe the curtains are just blue/it's not that deep/what's a foreshadowing

[i-dreamed-i-had-a-son]

Broke (2016): BBC Sherlock is a phenomenal piece of media and anything that seems like a flaw just hasn't been fully explored yet

Woke (2020): BBC Sherlock is an incredibly flawed series run by an egotistical writer, it never deserved the hype and is actively bad on so many fronts (especially representation)

Bespoke (2024): BBC Sherlock is flawed and bogged down by increasingly poor writing, which many fans refused to see while it was airing, leading to hugely misplaced expectations (particularly for the final series), AND it has the seeds of some compelling characterizations and portrayals, some genuinely solid performances, and touches--albeit imperfectly--on complexities that are still being discussed today (particularly as it relates to the relationship between Sherlock and John). The huge cultural impact of the show has created a massive pendulum effect in its public perception, leading to most people today remembering a caricature of the show (whether positive or negative) rather than appreciating its nuanced merits and failings...that being said Season 4 sucked

[lookonmyworksyemighty]

Okay friendo, I saw the werewolf Nolan and no teeth. Buuut, what would the puppy man think if Makarov suddenly bit Him?

It’s a full body reaction, Andrei completely freezes, his limbs acting like they’ve turned to stone.

Makarov bit him back? That’s basically marriage in Nolan’s mind, he’s even more clingy than usual.

Begs Vladimir to do it again when the marks start to fade, Vladimir regrets ever doing it in the first place (he doesn’t)