#the logic of statements

[dat-physics-gal]

That's not how formal logic works.

'Think therefore am' does not imply 'am therefore think'. That's a whole new statement.

(think ==> am) <=> (not am ==> not think) sure, this one is logical

(not think ==> not am) <=> (am ==> think) this is untrue, since stupid people exist

i assume u are

i am

[keferon]

Empurata!Prowl tries to actually communicate for the first time

What if he wants to say something but he can’t. What if he has no voice to speak, no face to emote, no hands to write. What if every attempt to communicate a message is essentially a puzzle of wit and creativity and yet, the first thing he goes through all these troubles for. Is to say “I love you”?

Don’t ask me how did they get in this room. I have no idea. They escaped the battlefield somehow haha

Next->

[beaft]

i don't get involved in transandrophobia discourse because it always seems to devolve into bickering about the implications and definitions of specific words, which is fun if you're a philosophy student and less fun if you're a trans person just trying to peacefully exist online. but last week i did come really close to responding to a post that argued it was Fine for trans women to say "i hate transmascs", but it was Not Fine for transmascs to say "i hate trans women", and i don't know, man. i think maybe neither of those things are Fine. i think maybe it sucks to say that you hate an entire category of trans people no matter what your gender personally is

[groceryreceipts]

beautiful orange dress patterned with fall leaves that Katniss thinks Peeta will love vs. clown suit she wears in the movie for the district 11 stop

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Logically there is very little way 52 ends like this but part of my mind that likes happiness and rainbows wants Arthur and John to get portaled back to Evrard's castle with Alia. they're there long enough that we see Alia alive and awake and Evrard realizes someone got the Blackstone. Another part of my mind that likes happiness and rainbows and boxes of chocolates wants Arthur and John to get portaled to Noel's apartment. Just dropped in his living room. Another part of my mind that likes happiness and rainbows and boxes of chocolates but its dark chocolates with a delicious flavor of angst wants it to be the wrong Noel's apartment.

kayne arrives to get the blackstone/Arthur and John/ stop Lillith along the way, we get that confrontation. maybe Kayne says he's putting Arthur somewhere for a bit while he deals with this or something. I don't know. Portal opens. Arthur and John land somewhere. It's quiet, some car noises and maybe music playing on a radio. John sees Noel, Arthur hears him and there's this moment of relief. they're back! Noel's okay! But something seems just a bit off. Perhaps something Noel says first starts to tip them off, maybe its the lack of a scar on his neck, or maybe they don't realize till the Butcher walks out of the kitchen. Pieces click together and the realization hits fully. They're in the wrong universe. Kayne put them back in the wrong universe. There's so many questions and screams and swears that can come from that realization, but one seems most pressing at the moment. What does a god mean time wise when he says "for a bit?"

[sunlight-shunlight]

gosh. i was looking up cullen analysis posts on tumblr bc i was curious about his Deal, and

were there really SO many people on here doing the "but he was just following orders 🥺 he was a vulnerable 19-30 year old minor 🥺" defense....... help...

[popfizzles]

UH FIVE ISLE ANON HERE- THERE ARE FIVE??

ISLES ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, AND INKWELL HELL. it’s clearly labeled as it’s own Isle?? chat??

i will die on this hill guys

settling this like MEN

[oacest]

Noel once picked a fight with Liam so he could leave his house bc Noel wanted to do coke but didn’t want to share

likely thing for him to do 🙄

from hewitt of course.

BONUS:

[thepersonalwords]

Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

Patty Houser, A Woman's Guide to Knowing What You Believe: How to Love God With Your Heart and Your Mind

[definitelynotshouting]

You know what's insane about the Hunger AU. the fact that Grian is trying to die because he does not want to inflict pain upon his friends, but that's exactly the thing that's tormenting them. he's become so determined to stop himself that he's hurting them anyway, and it only gets worse the harder he tries. he doesn't want to be cruel but leading the Hermits on like this about the potions is cruel. he doesn't want to hurt them but seeing him half dead is hurting them. i am shaking like a dog

hunger au really is all about how suicidal ideation and mental illness can just twist your entire perspective into a knot.... like the objective reality is that he IS hurting his friends with this and he IS going to hurt them 10x more when it comes to the potions!!! but grian is so caught up in his own head and his hurt and his guilt that he cant see that or accept the cognitive dissonance that comes with acknowledging it. Its a genuinely tragic set of circumstances and being able to showcase the rapid spiral down followed by the slow crawl back up through recovery is so so so rewarding for me as a writer-- not least bc of reactions like these >:]

[noandpickles]

I know I've probably said this before but I will always be in awe of the moral fortitude of people who leave religion over bigotry. The strength of character it takes to look at a system that you've been told your whole life is perfect, was (depending on the religion) created by the universe's only law-giver, not to mention it's probably the system every authority in your life adheres to. The strength it takes to look at that and say "No. This isn't right." I adore you.

[thecutesyfishtank]

its actually crazy how much this website hates black people

It has nothing to do with him being black and everything to do he is racist and reblogged porn to his minor audience before. Crazy how much everyone turns it into race, when the person you defend is a racist and lying to you.

Nowhere were delusions mentioned about race until he wanted more sympathy for it.

[elekilokal]

if the art is being scraped for AI training either way, why does it matter that Tumblr starts taking money for it? it changes literally nothing except that the site might survive a bit longer with the additional funding to combat how much money it's still loosing.

Because it’s not a logistical question it’s an ethical one. Partnering with a generative AI company which openly steals art and uses it to put the same people it steals from out of jobs is an ethical issue. “Scraping is going to happen anyways so let tumblr make money off of it!” And tell me why I should stick around for it? Why support a website that does not fight for us, but shakes hands with those who exploit us? Does tumblr, a corporation, need this money more than my mom who hasn’t had illustration work in months? Do they need it more than all of my visdev friends struggling to find jobs? I’m amazed that you’ll shill for tumblr as a company yet come into the ask box of one of many people that actually creates things you like and tell me to roll over and get exploited for their profit. Tell me why you like tumblr. Just for staff posts? Or for the artists and writers who provide endless entertainment for you everyday? I’m sorry for having the barest amount of conviction in taking down/ not posting art here anymore, but mine and my friend’s livelihoods are more important to me than tumblr’s profit margins.

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

Reckless Love is not heretical you people just don't know how to read

[goldenflowers]

i am very glad to hear that there's an interview confirming that the twst anime is apparently being worked on. but we've had zero news for so long that honestly idk if i'll believe it until i see it after what just happened to the yuri on ice movie 😭😭

[enjoyvoidblack]

our big post was getting long and it won't let me message so I thought I'd just come bother you here asldkfjsad I am like. so 1000% certain there is mention in the text that the initial purpose and efforts of Jonah and the Institute were to research the fears and prevent their many catastrophes, and that somewhere along the line he came to the conclusion that this wasn't viable, that the world and the fears simply didn't function in a way that was conducive to meaningfully stopping them from doing anything. which was how he settled into the position of 'well then I am going to use the instruments of power to save ME and build a ladder to free myself personally from their clutches forever' I def don't know when he started to turn from that, but i'll have to go back through the transcripts and find it again.

I do get that the narrative is written with Jon as the focal point, and that doesn't leave a lot of room for Elias to be sympathetic--he certainly doesn't make himself sympathetic TO Jon, or any of the Archives crew (beyond what I find to be an interesting amount of patience, understanding, and restraint he shows for them), but I still think like. Part of the beauty of Jonny's storytelling is that there is a kernel of completely understandable humanity to most everyone that's presented with any depth in the series, even the people we DON'T like. The "people here don't have excuses, they have causes" is again really excellent wording. There isn't really a lot of the usual karmic style reasoning or justice in this series; it isn't about Good People doing Good Things or Bad People doing Bad Things, it's just. People Doing Things, while under the influence of powers that are at once cosmic and beyond us, and inherently OF us.

adsfkjas this is getting long too I'm so sorry you activated a trap card here but idk. He absolutely is both manipulator and victim. He did all that shit, and all the while it's being done TO him, and he's walking this incredibly razor thin line between feeding his god/being empowered by it, and bc of it's nature knowing in intimate detail every nasty thing that awaits him should he fail (and I think being deathly afraid of it). That gif from Knives Out lmfao, compels me.

(apologies this probably isn't hugely coherent but there we are)

Thank you I am chewing on this ask violently. You Get It.

Unfortunate that tumblr killed your paragraph breaks, because I now can't find the section easily, but that thing about Jonny's character work in this series entirely consisting of aspects of "completely understandable humanity" is SO deeply how I feel about it. This is part of why I love horror of this kind so much. The horror being the fact that no one can really do anything to stop it opens up a space where the characters don't need to be presented along clear lines of good and evil, or even helping a cause or hurting it. It's a lot closer to how real people react in a natural disaster, if anything. There is love and selfishness and incredible acts of violence and cruelty and understandable failings and greed and fear, and pretty much all of it has a root that you can see, if you know enough about the people doing it and the circumstances to really feel where their mindset must be. I'd say Elias is functionally the closest thing TMA has to a narrative scapegoat, but that doesn't mean he is one. I almost feel like he's there as a pressure valve for the story, to be a villain if people need one to make sense of what's going on without having to constantly confront head-on the horror of the way the setting traps everyone in it. He can be made that kind of scapegoat, but only really by ignoring the parallels to Jon and the letters sent to him in older statements, and the way both show how the Fears drive the people who learn about them into more and more desperate straits.

It's kind of like that with all the older avatars. Simon Fairchild throws people off of stuff for a joke, because he's had more than 400 years of being steeped in the knowledge that humanity is both insignificant in the span of the universe, as well as utterly incapable of stopping the course of the Fears as they exert whatever influence they will by the force of sheer bulk. Peter Lukas never had a chance - he was born into this, isolation was his family and religion and paradoxically from childhood his only possible road to belonging. Adelard Dekker thought he was helping, as did Gertrude, even as they both fed the things that claimed them alongside those efforts. Nikola Orsinov was so far away from having an identity anymore that she couldn't go back if she wanted to, if she had even had enough left to want. Her world would have just been a home that was more like herself, and who hasn't wanted that? They're easier to vilify because their outlooks are harder to understand until the very end of the series, but looking back it's so clear that they were also just people once, and the writing never really lets you forget that.

If I said I'd tried to make all of these replies short, you probably wouldn't believe me. And Yet. I am not NORMAL about this show and the way Jonny writes people.