#who is more deceived?

[mondoreb]

Who Is More Deceived?

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” –2TIMOTHY 3:13 The reader may FILE this under ‘Short and Sweet.’ ANY and ALL who can see the TRUTH of 2TIMOTHY 3:13 have probably entertained the following question at one time or another. “Who is more deceived: evil men who tell their various stories in order to deceive others OR evil men who LISTEN to the…

[chronurgy]

seeing the new dialogue with gortash missing this back and forth between you and feeling extremely validated in this chili's tonight

[aoitakumi8148]

...𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒮𝒽𝓇𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝒜𝓇𝑒 𝒩𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒞𝑜𝓁𝒹... 𝐼 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒, 𝑅𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇 𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝐹𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒴𝑜𝓊.

[ride-a-dromedary]

Whenever Halsin giggles, or does that little hum of a chuckle, every protective instinct in my brain synapses instantly lights up.

[tricksterlatte]

There's something absolutely ironic and even compelling to me about the domino effect regarding Akechi and Sae's interactions. Akechi had to deceive everyone, including his coworkers. Sae in particular was closely tied to the investigations of the crimes he was committing, so of course appearing as non-threatening or even annoying as possible to her was in his best interests.

However, his petty but arguably feeble masquerade is what led to his cognitive self in Sae's brain presumably being easy for the Phantom Thieves to tie up? He was too good at deception and it led to Sae's perception of him being sopping wet cat, which was easy for the Thieves to subdue, so the threatening, real Akechi wouldn't stumble upon Sae's cognition of him as he went to murder Joker.

I know people usually discuss Shido's cognitive Akechi and the implications regarding Akechi's presentation of himself and his layers of deception, but Sae's is the direct contrast to Shido's, and it's very interesting to look at how being a petty little asshole to your stressed out hot lady coworker about her skincare routine can also contribute to her thinking of you a a nuisance at best (until it was almost too late for everyone involved, but hey, it worked out for the best? I think).

I love the layers of Akechi's deception because he was cunning to a fault. Sometimes I wish we could have seen how the Thieves interacted with Sae's cognition of him, because both Sae and Shido had a very biased perception of him, and it makes me wonder who really knew Akechi at all. I'm rambling here, but it's been on my mind for ages. I would love to see if her cognitive Akechi changed after 11/20, considering he went from annoying junior detective to a dangerous murderer in just one day for her, and she doesn't remember any of third semester or even 12/24 when he was there.

[violetren]

When Inigo Montoya experiences immeasurable loss and mental anguish that propels him to a path of vengeance that he temporarily gets lost on, becoming a worse version of himself, a roving mercenary who even inadvertently ends up furthering the goals of his sworn enemy until he meets an opponent who makes him stop take stock and recognise how lost he has become and how he doesn't have to be in this alone, swiftly followed by him killing the target of his revenge and riding off into the sunset with his new friends everyone is lining up around the block to applaud,

However when the Dragon in Damsel follows the same story beats in a font just different enough to keep from getting sued...

[the-unconquered-queen]

Ngl I feel like the fortune teller's predictions back in ch 8 led me to believe b2 would be more dramatic than it was.

[corvidclub]

while I think the whole Delhi being landlocked thing could easily be dumb factual error on the writer's part (like the gloves thing), I also think it could very well be intentional setup for Armand's character in future season's realizing the story he was told by the captain was untrue. I can see a scene with Daniel being like 'yk Delhi's landlocked how'd you get on a boat' and it triggering Armand's repressed memories and he realizes that he parents didn't sell him

[yeonban]

I have to say my favorite part about Aha's character is how pivotal they are to the story and how subtly they lead the universe to lean into one direction or the other while everyone mainly continues to see them as a hehe xd lol jester cringefail little havoc creating guy intent solely on trolling everyone

[shdwtouch]

not me openly admitting that shade lowkey takes after me. this was not intentional, I swear. uwu; she kinda just... ended up with an extra dose of who I am as a person, whereas most of my original characters receive much less.

I realized this when considering that shade is most likely homo leaning. and I was like, haha she's just like me ! an enby ace lesbian... and then the similarities just kept getting drawn. idk maybe I'm just overly tired.

also like. not gonna apologize ? she really isn't a self-insert. but its also like... creators are allowed to put themselves into what they make ! and I'm proud of shade, I really am. so I won't be made ashamed for traits we might share.

[mondoreb]

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[trying-to-jew]

If I’m being honest, one of the biggest reasons I’m not talking about my conversion on my main blog is that I’m scared I’ll be forced to face friends and mutuals turning on me. I’ve already lost one friend because I tried to tell her that some of the pro-Palestine posts she’d reblogged had dogwhistles, and I’m pretty sure that one blog that very briefly followed me back unfollowed because of a post I reblogged about Jews being frustrated that the left isn’t believing us about the rise of antisemitic violence.

Like- I’ve seen this happen to other Jewish users, and I’m so scared that people who I consider friends and moots will turn on me.

[berryblooo]

Scaramona (as in the Harbinger, Scaramouche, and Mona) will always be the blueprint for the bickering, the clash of beliefs and worldviews, but more and more I come to love and appreciate Wandermona.

As the Wanderer, he���s now had to confront his previously held notions, to challenge his sense of self and his place in the world. He is discovering who he can be in this second chance he’s been given.

Mona’s story is still just beginning. Like Scaramouche, she has a very defined sense of self—genius astrologist, set on surpassing her master. I believe that also like Scaramouche, she will be forced to confront her worldviews when they are thrown back in her face (“The stars, the sky… it’s all a gigantic hoax. A lie.”) and have to redefine herself with this new knowledge.

Where Scaramona was about bickering and clashing ideals, I see Wandermona has an opportunity for discovery, reflection, overcoming. Traveling Teyvat together is one of my favorite headcanons (it’s almost a motif for me at this point) for them, and it suits Wandermona even more than Scaramona.

Mona and the Wanderer, trekking across the seven nations, sleeping under the stars, stopping by every bookstore and library to read, arguing about academics and the nature of fate and self-determination.

[wonder-worker]

"In reality Richard III invented a Woodville scare as a screen for his own conspiracy"

-A.J Pollard, "Richard III and the Princes in the Tower"

[riotrhea]

Was at an event a few night ago that was a one-person show written and performed by a trans woman playwright. The play was mostly what you'd expect as far as the popular, accepted white transfem narrative, and in that to me felt as though it was lacking authenticity. There was obviously stuff she was leaving out.

But the way the audience reacted sticks with me. It was primarily a room of older cis people, and of the trans people that were there, I was one of perhaps three or four trans women in attendance.

During some of the most horrifying parts, audience members would laugh. At the description of conversion therapy and sexual torture, the audience laughed, many of the transmasculine people in the audience included. But to me and the other transfems in the room, as stated after the show, it was very far from a joke and the laugher only served to remind us of our alienation from even the greater transgender community.

After this, and after the passionate climax of the play where the thesis of "Being transgender can be hard but we're lovely and can still live happy lives!" is shouted in full force, multiple transmasculine audience members take a moment in the Q&A to ignore the playwrights direct request for feedback and instead wax poetic about how inspiring her story was for them, how strong she is for still being here, how beautiful she is now.

And I have to wonder whether we'll ever truly be seen as anything other than inspiration porn or a punchline, the pinnacle and the pit. Even in a room full of people, hearing a story that's so similar to my own, I didn't realize how separate I could feel.

[kittykallikat]

Just throwing a thought out there, there's a lot of allusions to fontaine already being sunk which got me thinking its like a giant veluyiram mirage, fontaine is "real" but not really real

Perhaps the indemnitium is collected for something akin to how the end of bottleland event with the shinrou casket

Just like the wishes, the oratrice collected the people's belief in justice over time to be used for something