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[nanomooselet]

Guide

Today's smarty-pants literary analysis word: psychopomp.

Think Charon, shinigami, Valkyries, Baron Samedi, or the Archangels Michael, Samael or Azrael. If you're familiar with Discworld, tall bony fellow in black WHO TALKS LIKE THIS; if it's Sandman, eldest sister of the Endless, a pretty young goth woman wearing an Ankh. The term translates from Greek to guide of souls. A liminal figure personifying the transition from life into death, a psychopomp ushers spirits of the dead to... wherever it is they go.

They can be frightening, but they don't have anything to do with the actual moment of death or the destination a spirit reaches. They don't take lives and they don't condemn or save souls. All they do is tidy up the aftermath. Some are reassuring figures, gentle and patient, who delight in life as it flourishes and give what comfort they can to the deceased. For the most part, though, they're implacable and inscrutable - but not cruel.

Vash, I think, knows them well. They've met before, and they'll meet again. He knows to pay the ferryman for safe passage, and how much.

A single coin.

If I ever doubted Vash knew he was headed to his death (or something like it) in July, I think this was the moment those doubts were put to rest.

[sixofclovers]

hecate

[visenyaism]

i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

[amayikes]

So on the 27th DeepSeek R1 dropped (a chinese version of ChatGPT that is open source, free and beats GPT's 200 dollar subscription, using less resources and less money) and the tech market just had a loss of $1,2 Trillion.

Source

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[vivitalks]

found an old reddit AMA with brennan and discovered this gem

[rowanisawriter]

[pkaykim]

Valentines gift for my girlfriend

Please don’t repost on other platforms!

[never-quite-buried]

Nope now it’s at the point that i’m shocked that people off tt don’t know what’s going down. I have no reach but i’ll sum it up anyway.

SCOTUS is hearing on the constitutionality of the ban as tiktok and creators are arguing that it is a violation of our first amendment rights to free speech, freedom of the press and freedom to assemble.

SCOTUS: tiktok bad, big security concern because china bad!

Tiktok lawyers: if china is such a concern why are you singling us out? Why not SHEIN or temu which collect far more information and are less transparent with their users?

SCOTUS (out loud): well you see we don’t like how users are communicating with each other, it’s making them more anti-american and china could disseminate pro china propaganda (get it? They literally said they do not like how we Speak or how we Assemble. Independent journalists reach their audience on tt meaning they have Press they want to suppress)

Tiktok users: this is fucking bullshit i don’t want to lose this community what should we do? We don’t want to go to meta or x because they both lobbied congress to ban tiktok (free market capitalism amirite? Paying off your local congressmen to suppress the competition is totally what the free market is about) but nothing else is like TikTok

A few users: what about xiaohongshu? It’s the Chinese version of tiktok (not quite, douyin is the chinese tiktok but it’s primarily for younger users so xiaohongshu was chosen)

16 hours later:

Tiktok as a community has chosen to collectively migrate TO a chinese owned app that is purely in Chinese out of utter spite and contempt for meta/x and the gov that is backing them.

My fyp is a mix of “i would rather mail memes to my friends than ever return to instagram reels” and “i will xerox my data to xi jinping myself i do not care i share my ss# with 5 other people anyway” and “im just getting ready for my day with my chinese made coffee maker and my Chinese made blowdryer and my chinese made clothing and listening to a podcast on my chinese made phone and get in my car running on chinese manufactured microchips but logging into a chinese social media? Too much for our gov!” etc.

So the government was scared that tiktok was creating a sense of class consciousness and tried to kill it but by doing so they sent us all to xiaohongshu. And now? Oh it’s adorable seeing this gov-manufactured divide be crossed in such a way.

This is adorable and so not what they were expecting. Im sure they were expecting a reluctant return to reels and shorts to fill the void but tiktokers said fuck that, we will forge connections across the world. Who you tell me is my enemy i will make my friend. That’s pretty damn cool.

[give-grian-rights]

gun to my head i would rather die than read this fic. what the fuck are you even doing at this point. whats the fucking point?

[bigskycastle]

the old cistern beneath the flood control system

[nyancrimew]

[penumbraphantasm]

chikorita's my friend. my funny animal. my houseplant with little nails that click on the kitchen tiles.

[kawareo]

"Imagine still posting fanart a whole year after the game came out" brother what are you talking about

[baba-fett]

for me internet friendships are “we don’t talk all the time but I see you’re online and it makes me happy” and I really hope it’s like that for everyone