#its the hubris for me

[oplishin]

le’garde as this... pathetic wannabe christ figure is such an interesting storyline to me. he’s a man who wants to ascend to godhood, he lets himself be tortured horrendously because he sees it as necessary, he sees himself as the bringer of a new era. 

and he just. fails and dies pathetically a lot. 

the ACTUAL christ figure, his daughter, is also meant to be a bringer of hope, but because he just abandons her, she becomes the opposite. her suffering isn’t some noble sacrifice, it’s just the result of apathetic cruelty. she ushers in a new era of fear and hunger (tm)

there’s just something about the fact that he wants godhood to help humans,  but because he’s so caught up in that, he neglects his actual Ascended God daughter who COULD actually accomplish similar goals. And so he fails

he sees himself as godly but he’s just so pathetically human.

#fear and hunger spoilers #important note that my idea of fungers 'canon ending' is that legarde dies and darce brings something back to life that isn't quite him #fear and hunger #le'garde #mmm my interpretation of this storyline may not be entirely correct #but it's interesting to me #this game has so many christ figures #its the hubris for me #jeta posting

[balleater]

you know what i am so glad that exu calamity gave us insight into vespin chloras's reasoning and everything because now i can confidently say that the guy who kicked off the point in exandria's history that killed 2/3 of the population and fundamentally changed the way the gods interact with the world had more understandable reasoning than ludinus da'leth does.

#critical role #vespin chloras #ludinus da'leth #also do not think this is me saying that vespin's plan was Good by any means #it is the perfect example of wizard hubris #its just that ludinus's plans are so insanely bad and fundamentally flawed #that it makes trying to replace a betrayer god and starting a centuries long divine war seem understandable

[wolfythewitch]

Hubris is thr act of one claiming that they are better than a god

Example "I'm so pretty I'm even note beautiful than Lady Aphrodite"

Story of Arachne

Icarus

Original story of Medusa

I don't think what ur describing is hubris but over confidence:]

You haven't seen me sleep deprived and willing to kill god

#wolfy tedtalks #anon #most of the time when i say hubris im joking #just like when i say im going to kill god #god please dont smite me thank you #its funny to say 'doing a little hubris' instead of 'doing a little over confidence'

[strangersteddierthings]

You Left Me Scars Through Memories (Tangled in my DNA) - Prologue

"I love you so much," Stephanie Harrington says, reaching out a hand to tuck some hair behind his ear. It's more an excuse to touch than to clear his face of hair. It's at a length now that will result in the tucked hair falling back into his face with barely a shake of his head.

Steve blinks up at her from where he's sat in her lap, his face far too serious for a toddler just a few hours shy of three years old.

"Your life is going to be so difficult and it's my fault. I'm so sorry," she whispers, sweeping him into a hug. He snuggles into her embrace instantly and it brings tears to her eyes. He should hate her for what she's done. Perhaps he will, once he's older and can understand what she's apologizing for.

"I'm going to tell you a story," she settles back into the chair, a big plush thing that she sits in every night to read a bedtime story to Steve, or tries too anyway. He's at the age where he's wiggly and full of energy until he drops.

"Once upon a time, there was a man and a woman. Husband and wife. And they loved each other very much," she starts, running one hand up and down on her baby's back, soothing, "and they wanted nothing more than to have a child.

"But try as they might, no child would come to them. And soon resentment began to grow. The wife, convinced that having a child would remove the resentment, set off to make a bargain with a witch, said to live deep in the woods.

"She told her husband she was going to visit her family so as not to arouse suspicion. Consorting with witches wasn't something that was done, you see."

This is the longest Steve has sat still in her lap in months. She thinks he might be asleep but continues the story anyway.

"It took her almost three weeks to find the witch, deep in the woods. Upon arrival, the witch had tried to turn away the wife. But the wife was persistent. 'Please,' she begged the witch, 'if we can have a child then my husband will love me again.'

"The witch was not moved by this plea. 'You would bring a child into a loveless marriage?' and the wife argued that once they had a child, their marriage would no longer be loveless. The witch disagreed but the wife would not be deterred.

"'What would you give up to have this child?' the witch asked after being pestered by the wife for almost a week. And the wife had said anything.

"'Anything is dangerous,' the witch said. 'I can give you the means to have a child, but the universe will decide the price.' And so, the wife agreed, and the witch pressed a folded piece of parchment into the wife's hand.

"When she finally returned home, she had been gone for eight long weeks. Distance makes the heart grow fonder, they say, and husband and wife reunited. Still, the wife waited three more months before preforming the ritual the witch had pressed into her palm.

"Soon, they had a child, a daughter. But with her arrival came the universe's price. A life blessing is not an easy thing to give, and the price for life is the highest to pay. Free Will was that price. And when the daughter turned three, she learned her daughter also paid the price. Her daughter, and her daughter's daughter, and her daughter's daughter's son. Forever more. The wife, now mother, was angry to learn this. Why should her child have to suffer for her own sins?

"She told her husband what she had done. She had to, you see, because how else could he be expected to raise a child that would do everything you told her to? Words would need to be picked carefully.

"It was years later before the mother could track the witch down again, to demand the witch undo the curse. 'I made the bargain, why must my child also suffer the consequences?'

"'You said anything,' the witch responded, 'and I told you that was dangerous. It was foolish of you to think your actions would not affect others. All actions do.'

"The mother said, 'can it not be undone?' and the witch said, 'All curses can be broken.' When the mother asked how, the witch just looked at her and said, 'go away, and do not seek me again.' And the mother had no choice but to obey."

Steve still has not stirred on her lap and when she looks down, she can see he is asleep. Even if Steve had stayed awake for the whole story, she knows she'll have to retell it to him when he's older. When he'll remember all of it. Perhaps she should write it down, too, just in case.

"You see, Steve, what was supposed to be a blessing became a curse. One of obedience. People will tell you to do things and you will be compelled to obey. You will become someone you will never truly know, because anyone can make you anything," she says as she stands and places Steve in his bed. "But don't worry. Mommy will teach you how to trick and cheat the curse as much as you can."

#my fic #Ella Enchanted but make it 1980s and angstier #so i guess its more Obedience Curse AU than Ella Enchanted #title is tentative and taken from the Citizen Soldier song Chasing Your Ghost #steddie #eventual steddie actually #but first it would be steve x suffering #it'll be a full fic one day but like... who knows when #i should not be starting a longfic while working on my longfic for the steddie bigbang #the hubris of a fic writer i guess haha let me know if anyone else is long suffering like me #no readmore because i think its short enough to not need one

[cuteiemonster]

MY THIRD PIECE(s) FOR @mcytblraufest !! o7

LETS DO THIS ONE LAST TIME, these are for @allusiontomemes 's fic, [ DREAMS FROM WITHIN THE CAGE ] !! we got horrors beyond comprehension, we got multiple universes, we got accidentally destroying said universes, we got desert duo- come on down and see what else is up with these guys!!

thank you allusion and @riceofthepuffedvariety you made me go insane o7

#hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #mumbojumbo #mcyt au fest #mcytblraufest23 #i had a bigger piece planned but i have been fighting for my life to do things the last 3 days so #i have taken the L and am using the 2 quickies i drew as my big bang pieces for this fic #I WILL FINISH THE BIG ONE......... when i am up for it again vnskdfjvndf #my own hubris was indeed my downfall BUT. BUT!. i still have art for this fic so thats a win for me #also you should read this fic ive been so ill about it i am constantly thinking of aftermath situations #i have put the three of them so gently into my pocket for safe keeping #genuinely putting them in my mouth shaking them around like a dog and its chew toy #and i will be drawing more of this. i am sad that i wasnt able to finish the big piece and draw grian. but i will. i Will #lays down in bed and sleeps for 1000 years

[swordsonnet]

the most annoying thing about me/cfs is that it's more like 10 different illnesses in a trenchcoat. i'll wake up with a new symptom and be like "oh okay, guess that's what we're doing today"

#pretty much anything can be a symptom of me/cfs so you're constantly left wondering if the new bullshit you're going through #is a sign of some other illness or if its just your old pal me/cfs getting creative again #ive been having a really bad whole body itch these past few days and i have no idea where it's coming from or when it's going to go away #but i would like not to feel like theres an electric current running beneath my skin thanks #i think the constant fatigue brain fog and muscle pain is more than enough #maybe it's just a crash or something though idk #(briefly) left the house for the first time in over a month on friday and it was really nice but my body Did Not Like It #so now its punishing me for my hubris #ugh #chronic illness #actually chronically ill #me/cfs #myalgic encephalomyelitis #chronic fatigue syndrome #can someone please come up with a better name for this illness #chronic illness fuckery

[theallstore]

hello hello hello!! my @mcytblrholidayexchange gift for @cohnal !

words are from maize stalk drinking blood by the mountain goats + i have no idea if tumblr will keep the resolution or not so if it doesn’t this should be high res -> https://postimg.cc/wysKZc5j

#ITS FINALLY DONE!! WAHOO #‘yeah i’ll do my first ever comic full stop and i’ll fully render it for a timed gift exchange that’ll go great!!’ #i keep fuckin saying it but godDAMN hubris as ever proves my fatal flaw #anyway #pixlriffs #empires smp #empires smp fanart #empires smp s1 #empires season one #scott and fwhip are technically there too but i’m not tagging them #i am so abnormal about pixlriffs exile era always and forever <3 #anyway time to dissapear off the face of the earth again now there's nothing stopping me from playing baldurs gate 23 hours a day

[ratbastardman]

since we're all going around talking about what we learned from hbomberguy's video (SO FUNNY that's we're doing that like we've been told off by an adult saying we shouldn't eat random shit we find on the floor) i thought i'd say things also. as someone who watched james videos occasionally i often ended up clicking off them because eventually he'd say something weird. it was always worst when i was actually familiar with the subject he was talking about. i would think "he says he's not making enough money to keep the channel going so i guess this script didn't get the care it needed. sucks that he butchered a topic i care about but he must be creatively suffering under so much stress." i gave him the benefit of the doubt. besides the work he stole that made his videos appealing in the first place he said a lot of dumb shit. sometimes the absurdity of his statements would pierce the veil of ignorance but other times who knows what got past me. i unsubscribed to his channel months ago because of the bad takes i noticed but i cant know for sure there weren't bad takes i didn't. the other day i listened to a video essay by a cis ally who was calling out transphobia from a trans creator. it was all fine until they ended up agreeing with the person they were criticizing. they said they could understand how frustrating it is for binary trans people that non binary people get so much attention when they're not the ones really being oppressed. i'm trans and i'm not going to fall for that stupid talking point. but this cis youtuber did fall for it and ended up affirming it to their followers. when we don't understand a subject (especially when the subject is about a marginalized identity that is not our own) we shouldn't be comfortable repeating what just one person says. we shouldn't be comfortable not checking if what they say is true or not. we can do better than that. check what content creators say. they might be wrong, bigoted or plagiarizing someone actually worth listening to. or in the case of james somerton: all of the above. that's what hbomberguy's video was about to me.

ps. dreamsounds is a now inactive channel that ended because the work become too high for pay too low. you know, the thing james lied about struggling with? the creator was a lovely woman who deserved everything james took for granted. justice for dreamsounds.

#hbomberguy #james somerton #trans #its possible i delete this later its 4:24am right now and the exhaustion hubris may not last #im trying out participating in disk horse give me a number out of five score rating on how i did

[blorbologist]

quietly...

I... might have the prologue and first chapter for my next longfic done.

I wouldn't start regularly posting until I have a good buffer, but I'm mighty tempted to post this taste. Just 'cause it's been a while. and i miss it

#only hesitation is that bc this is So AU i need to make sure my prologue and ch1 set up things Properly while also hooking ppl good #yes this is for the age of arcanum au why do you ask #me at all times: hey what if vex and godhood. but what if her brother was that god. what if its both a good and bad thing #me even more: what if percy with the hubris of a wizard and none of the power so like canon. but in a society that encourages his very wors #age of arcanum AU

[mechieonu]

haven't seen HH yet & my only real hope is that charlastor keeps whatever dynamic they had goin on

#their biggest allure for me—other than the song and dance—is the inevitable betrayal arc #charlie's genuinely a sweetheart and her believing in him comes from that AND her naivety #and combining that w their weird power imbalance (i like to think that she's stronger by default as princess but he's got the street smarts #they've got the recipe for something brokenhearted #ESPECIALLY when alastor inevitably submits himself to the mortifying ordeal of love and friendship #girl help! the woman i'm working with is a lovely contradiction to everything i've ever known abt hell and redemption! #essentially: nothing is sexier than ignoring all the warning signs & letting yourself be goaded hook line and sinker #into a terrible decision by the villain/your own hubris #charlastor #hazbin hotel #i hope she makes a deal w him & that its her bestworst decision ever. i hope that al realizes how much he‚ too‚ has been irrevocably changed #why are all my favorite ship dynamics just billford #remember to sail the seven seas; amzn is on the boycott list

[kingjasnah]

Hoid’s into bdsm and has to find the most bizarre workarounds for his Dawnshard curse

look row chapter 99 was bad enough

#its all fun and games until we remember what happened #wait the harsher scene wasnt 99 but 99 was the one that made me lose my mind and collapse in failed hubris #asks

[desertsportshipping]

Wait so if in the hisui au arceus wants Wes dead cause he’s screwing with the timeline does that mean that giratina would have an interest in Wes?

Now I know Wes is a good dude and wouldent side with giratina (unlike volo); but that doesn’t stop giratina from trying to get Wes to do things for him does it? Does volo see potential in Wes?

I need more lore.

And I need to draw fanart asap.

If you drew fan art I think I'd lose my mind forever.

Anyways, because the mission Arceus gave Leon is different than canon, Volo's plan is also different...

#giratina is just fulfilling his purpose #the distortion world is an underworld and giratina is the guardian of it #so if someone is supposed to be dead its giratina's job to deal with it #also the aura around giratina and pokemon that guard the distortion world (eternatus and ultra beasts for example) #is enough to start killing wes just by proximity #anyways thats my lore dump time for tags #also if you draw me fanart please tag me i wanna see itt #hisui au #wes pokemon #trainer wes #leon pokemon #champion leon #volo pokemon #merchant volo #desertsportshipping #pokemon legends arceus #also giratina 100% kills volo #i'm a sucker for villains fucking around with a power beyond their control and then getting whats coming for their hubris #fuck it i'm posting it now #was gonna cue it for tomorrow but i really wanted to post it

[raiswanson]

so I may have decided to work on a short (or...a series of shorts) that serves as backstory/a prequel to another cluster of WIPs, instead of working on the WIPs themselves, and--

-drops a gift- uh merry christmas happy new year idk -sprints away-

Another snippet shared in [this] post!

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“I plead for your protection, honored one. For safety.” I wet my lips, all too aware of how many eyes were watching from the corners of the room. “My family aims to send me away for their own gain, but I wish for happiness. I will not sacrifice myself for them.”

A low chuckle rumbled through the roost. “Are familial ties not precious to mortals? Do you not consider such sacrifice to be your duty?” He asked, amber eyes glowing through the thin curtain.

I stood taller before realizing it could be taken as defiance and tipped my head forward again. “This mortal does not,” I said through gritted teeth. My hands trembled as I reached for my collar—not from fear, from rage—and unbuttoned it to reveal my throat, still ringed in vibrant bruises from choking fingers. “I’ve given enough in the name of family. I desire only freedom.”

Silence answered. Long enough that my gaze slid toward the attending priests, certain I’d been dismissed before I could finish pleading my case. But no, their eyes remained on the curtain. Waiting. Listening. I took a steadying breath and remained on the platform, tapping out the seconds on my knuckles.

“Why have you come here, to me?” He asked finally, and I was surprised to hear what could almost be genuine curiosity in His voice. “My sister by the sea is better known for offering safety to those who plead her favor, and I am certainly not known for the same generosity. Yet you made the long, hard journey to my cliffs instead. You will find little protection here. Seekers come to me for vengeance. Power. I fear you’ve come to the wrong place, mortal.”

#writing #rai writes #Three Hill Bluff #Song of Freedom #''I will work on Silent One'' I said. full of hubris and hope #''But what if we focus on something that happened hundreds of years BEFORE that???'' brain replied. with a sly smile #''oh no'' I whispered hours later with a 4k long doc of notes in front of me #anyway its not what I PLANNED on working at but Im having fun and it IS useful to me so #I guess this is what Im going to be poking for a bit lol

[undefeatablesin]

You know what? Fuck you. *Bloodbornes your Pinnochio again*

#sin scribbles #(hi im back from finishing ng++ on lies of p and now i have nothing left to do so my vacation in krat is over) #(ive since changed my mind. now i have literally every amulet every weapon and a grand total of 420 levels LMAO MAYBE I WILL DO THE DLC!!!) #(when the dlc eventually and inevitably comes out that is) #(but for now i have returned to yharnam and thought itd be funny to do a pino run bc i am simple and easily pleased.) #(watch the joke fully be on me when i get attached to this hunter and he just becomes his own thing tho LMAO) #(ahhhh....bloodborne. i missed ye dearly) #(as much fun as i ended up having with lop once entering ng+ lmao) #(oh yeah my new adhd meds came in today so wish me luck!! i may be finally able to return to my art properly now!!!! AAAAAAA) #(should i livestream the pinnochio run 😂 i feel like that would be fun. i still mean to start streaming i just been...so waylaid) #(so much has happened!!!) #(unironically love this boi already tho tbf) #(he does have his freckles.....) #(as much as i love ruza and aloysha and as much love as i put into their profiles omg they are kitted out 2 the max) #(did you see people modding the bloodborne gear into lop tho lmao genius stuff i love mods i wish i had the pc version tbf) #(ANYWAY HI!!! OMG HOW ARE YOU ALL i feel like its been years since i was actually active here sobs) #(adhd is a hell of a curse for my hubris)

[arty-cakes]

it would be nice to have a separate place for my stupid little comics considering that i never panel or plan anything and so consequently they're just rlly rlly long

#a sideblog maybe. my fear of spamming people triumphs my desire to share art #i still really like dirtmouth and everyone in it and im always drawing stuff for them but ALSO #my art is so out of context #i feel like if you didnt know me itd be like huh and whuh #thats why i dont rlly maintag it #but im always so emotional about dirtmouth ughh its just not fair #you cant even get infected up there and its still a dead town #it had this- weird symbiotic relationship with hallownest and had no choice but to go down with it #like idk what was going on with the townsppl like were they lured down there by a certain moth or was it their hubris god knows #maybe it was dead long before they decided to leave. but its not fair....... elderbug needs friends....... BRETTA NEEDS FRIENDS #i have a save file where all the npcs are there but im still conflicted on whether to keep grimm around or sacrifice him for brumm idkkk #going through it today fellas....

[opens-up-4-nobody]

It's so weird watching fullmetal alchemist in contrast to naruto. Because both are set in fucked up worlds where everyone has committed war crimes, has had war crimes committed upon them, or is a war crime. But I trust that fma fundamentally understands how fucked up everything is, including the sinister qualities of the institutions that allowed this to happen. Naruto understands its fucked up on a surface level, but also glorifies the institution and never changes.

#like the idea is similar at the root bc atrosities have been committed in both worlds on both sides and someone needs to come in #and say. thats enough. enough of this. further violence isnt helping make anything better #and fma does a better job bc it unites all the warring parties agaisnt one monster villian #but i think naruto is more interesting bc the same thing happens but the betrayals feel much more huge and the pain feels more visceral #bc the familial love is so tortured under the shinobi system and all the pain arrises from that system but it never fucking changes #bc the author still feels the need to glorify the village system despite the clear cursed god tree metaphor #idk its just interesting to me where theyre similar and where they differ #in fma the characters r more insane to me bc the fucking ego and hubris is so crazy #idk in naruto it feels more like everyone is so fucked up they think they have to accomplish their goals or die but in fma thry just seem #like they have a right to do the things they do and it unnerves me more #but hey i mostly passively watched fma over 3 days so maybe i missed some stuff lol #naruto ramblings #fma rambling #unrelated #i do think i understand now how naruto never changes. they think: weve been saved. were in a time of peace. everythings good now #and then they never fucking talk abt how fucked up everything was. they just move forward without catharsis #and thats why everything is still fucking awful. they never truely reflect