#and that despite the knowledge

[reginrokkr]

Some late night thoughts before heading to sleep: With Sumeru’s come it’s becoming stranger and stranger to me the fact that Dain isn’t known by literally anyone, or perhaps he is but M.ihoyo conveniently eludes dropping his name despite his big relevance to the story plot. We’ve learned a whole lot about Irminsul, hell, I think that it was even alluded that Khaenri’ah had a certain proximity to Irminsul unless I made that up, my brain is quite mushy with classes. To think that Dain even bears the title of Bough Keeper which most certainly refers to Irminsul and there isn’t a thing about him is just... odd in a way I can't pinpoint out and it does make me consider seriously if Rhukkadevata’s plea “World... forget me” isn’t just some hopeful prayer that she begs that will come true due to the benefits this would most likely bring, but something she knows she can happen but for some reason it doesn’t. By this I mean to say that there might be chances that Dain’s identity is completely concealed with the help of Irminsul and maybe the erasure of his existence from all the Ley Lines for some purpose that might benefit him, I’m not sure.

#◟༺✦༻◞ What lays behind the mantle of faux stars ┊OOC.┊ #this also reminds me #of a conversation I had once with Jace #in which he pointed out #how weird it is #the awful way the Abyss Twin #makes Dain be #when by someone (Halfdan) who knew him too #puts him in such a better light #and that despite the knowledge #of the Abyss Twin's travel in places of Teyvat #500 years ago #only they are mentioned #but Dain never is #there's something strange there #at play #unless once again #this is just all #for convenience's sake #because he's that relevant #that might spoil strong plot points #reminds me of this joke with a couple of friends #in which we say that if Dain #were to be let out of the basement #he alone would finish a 4+ story #in a few months lol

[t00thpasteface]

guy who scrolls through tf2 fanart and silently shakes his head in disapproval every time he sees a drawing of poor gun safety

#i say this as someone who plays it pretty fast and loose in art despite good intentions and actual irl knowledge #shebbz shoutz #tf2 #guns

[trlvsn]

some athena hairstyles (id under cut)

[id: a digital sketch page with five sketches of athena cykes, colored roughly with a light orange. there is a drawing of her looking straight ahead and smiling with short messy hair. in it, she is wearing her white shirt, tie and widget. there is a drawing of her looking sleepy and mischievous while holding a cup of tea with her hair down. in another sketch, her hair is also down, but it's a side profile drawing, in which she is smiling confidently. in one drawing, she is looking down with tears in her eyes and a bob cut. in the last drawing, athena is shown angry and screaming, with her usual hairstyle - a ponytail. there is also a small sketch of two widgets: one happy and one angry. end of id]

#my favorite aa5 character so far... despite the HORRIBLE writing of her psychology knowledge #athena cykes #ace attorney dual destinies #aa dd #aa:dd #gyakuten saiban #gyakuten saiban 5 #ace attorney: dual destinies #dual destinies #aa athena #ace attorney athena #aa #fanart #ace attorney art #ace attorney fanart #ace attorney fan art #ace attorney #raysfanart #digital art

[opera-ghost]

phantom of the opera + twitter

#(in which meg and jammes team up to bully erik off of opera stan twitter) #it's kind of just common knowledge that there's this weird guy that runs a stan account for christine and no one knows who he is #he has like 3 followers and tweets at least 100 times per day #two of the followers are erik's alt accounts he uses for stalking and the one real follower is the daroga #the daroga is verified on twitter for some reason despite no one really knowing who he is either #people wonder why this random verified account follows erik and the daroga literally never tweets so it's just this huge mystery #people make threads on erik all the time like “why @diefordaae is problematic” and he just retweets them #phantom of the opera #poto shitpost #poto #poto twit

[atlasshrugd]

this is your daily reminder that it is a CANON EVENT that josh hutcherson inadvertently inspired jennifer lawrence to pursue an acting career when they were kids long before they ever met. this is some everlark level of soulmatism wtf wtf

#I CANT BELIEVE THIS IS TRUE #IT LITERALLY PARALLELS EVERLARK #HOW PEETA THROUGH KATNISS THE BREAD DESPITE THEM NEVER TALKING BEFORE #HOW THAT ACT HELPED KATNISS AND HER FAMILY SURVIVE #AND NOW WHEN JOSH BECAME AN ACTOR HE INSPIRED JLAW TO BE ONE TOO #DESPITE THE FACT THAT THEY NEVER MET #AND THEN THEY MET TO PLAY SOUMATES IN THG #ITS JUST TOO UNREAL #why isn’t this more common knowledge?? #the hunger games #thg #everlark #joshifer #josh hutcherson #jennifer lawrence #mine

[sekaiikun]

cassandra swift, to me, is a single hot asian mom who looks 10 years younger than she is and sometimes people think that she's taylor's sister

#dndads #dndaddies #dungeons and daddies #taylor swift #taylor swift (dndads) #cassandra swift #not my fave drawing ive done but im leaving soon so i figured id share it #also yeah im just gonna tag taylor and let the swifties be annoyed #despite being asian i dont have an asian mom so my knowledge of them doesnt go beyond what i wrote here lol

[ukulelekatie]

yesterday I put my eclipse glasses on over the top part of my regular glasses so I could look up at the sky through the filters but also look down and still be able to see where I was walking and I said “I’m an anableps anableps!” and no one knew what I was talking about

#just Katie things #eclipse 2024 #fish #this post is a lie I actually said ‘I’m a boops boops’ but I realized later that’s the wrong species I was thinking of #I learned about these guys from the neuro class I dropped in college #it’s wild how much info I learned and retained in that class despite getting a D on the first exam #just goes to show that testing doesn’t necessarily reflect knowledge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #anyway the professor for that class was a jerk and I took 2 other neuro classes after that and got an A+ in both so it all worked out

[yet-another-haven-of-dollya]

Silly things about OC between friends: When my friends' OCs want to taste Ivory's tentacles

I posted my student Ivory's design on fb and Lunariel (Noir Lune's OC, from this post) tried to eat the tentacles

And...

So what do we do? Lyah had to call Lunariel's partner to come and pick him up

Then! Alice, Mero's OC (artist of this blog's avatar) wanted to taste Ivory's tentacle too

Then Lyah had to call Alice's partner too

Then they had to collect their girl/boyfriend and settle their "arousal" at their places. We drew a lot of segg ^p^) But I'm not posting those

Hope this post serves as a warning to all the folk out there who want a taste of Ivory's tentacles UwU)! You know what's gonna happen now you had TWO examples right here.

#*sob* I have such wonderful friends they saw Ivory's design and despite having zero knowledge about this character they immediately CHOMP #they play along with Lyah so well #Ivory Wraith who has no fucking idea who these people are and why they CHOMP #dollya art #just fooling around

[spookberry]

and they were teammates

#monster high #turns out i LOVE getting to use my real life experiences as inspiration for stuff #this was so fun to draw #despite the stress picking the color pallet gave me #i loved getting to use my insider knowledge of how teen girls dress for soccer games to make each of them more individual and themselves in #i didnt realize that make me so happy lol #coming up with headcanons about what kind of shinguards frankie probably prefers #or how Clawdeen would absolutely have those fancy personalized cleats that have the compression around the ankle thing #also including a bit of monster high into their uniforms with the lil added pizzazz to their shorts #clawdeen wolf #lagoona blue #frankie stein #fanart #my art #also a lil bit of lagoonaXclawdeen squeezed in there ya see

[har-har-harvey]

also, since tumblr won’t let you post more than one video unless they’re links or embeds, here’s a link to another clip i posted that adds a bit more context to the scene :)

#fhjy #fhjy spoilers #d20 fhjy #dimension 20 fhjy #dimension 20 #dimension twenty #dimension 20 fantasy high #ally beardsley #brennan lee mulligan #kristen applebees #lydia barkrock #listen she’s THEE cleric #okay #like to me this proves that she isn’t “special” just because helio chose her #even if she had no spells and wasn’t a cleric she would be special #BECAUSE SHE CAREEESSS #despite everything #and despite knowing it won’t end the suffering and fighting lydia will have to to for the rest of her life #she helps her anyways #because even if she can only help someone for six seconds then they deserve those six seconds of help if she can give them #AND ITS EVEN MORE PROVEN BY THE FACT THAT THEY ALL KNEW SHE WOULDNT BE ABLE TO BRING YOLANDA BADGOOD AND LUCY FROSTBLADE BACK #AND YET SHE STILL PRAYED #AND DID ANYTHING SHE COULD TO TRY AND GET THEM HELP #EVEN WHEN SHE KNEW SHE DIDNT HAVE SPELLS AND THEREFORE MIGHT NOT HAVE A CONNECTION TO HER GODDESS!!!! #she just means so much to me #and ally—the fucking rockstar they are—plays her with such knowledge and compassion and care #fantasy high junior year s3:ep6 “Party Politics” #fantasy high s3:ep6 “Party Politics” #s3:ep6 “Party Politics” #queue are... my fire. the one... desire.

[miroana]

“It is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially” (Tartt, 31).

I am absolutely fascinated by the fame and reverence this quote from the Secret History has achieved. It terrifies me. Let me explain.

Who’s line is this? Oh, yes. Professor Julian Morrow. Julian, in his lecture on how death begets beauty, on how Dionysian madness lends immortality. Julian, who isolates the greek class, buries them in the glories of the past and in their privilege, and submerges them beneath illusions until his students can’t tell right from wrong and real from imagined.

These words are satire. This is NOT a lesson any teacher should impart, and should NOT be beloved and relatable. In one sentence, Donna Tartt summarizes the entire cautionary tale of the novel: the selective, warped, and obsessive view on life the greek class held, born from entitlement and cultivated by Julian, led the students to tear themselves to pieces.

What’s more, the way people quote it all the time makes this line all the more haunting. Widespread parroting of Julian’s teachings only reinforces Donna’s themes: human minds are easily manipulatable, it can be hard to think critically about what you are taught and what you read, and that the easy, self-assured conviction belonging to the reader that, “I, personally, would have behaved differently than Henry, Richard, Francis, Camilla, Charles, and Bunny” is nothing but another illusion.

#“rip to the greek class but I’m different” no you’re not #it’s so funny to me how famous this specific quote is bc people love it for one of three reasons (all equally comical): #A. they have not read the novel and thought the words were pretty (so true but honestly still concerning) #B. they read the novel but took julian’s words at face value and think him brilliant #(this category of people would end up helping henry push bunny into a ravine 100%) #or C. they read the novel and understand well the satirical nature of this quote. #despite this knowledge the act of deeply obsessing over narrow ideas is too tempting to not do it anyways (calling myself out) #congrats! by reading this you now belong to category C #henry winter #richard papen #francis abernathy #charles macaulay #camilla macaulay #bunny corcoran #julian morrow #the secret history #tsh #donna tartt

[hattiestgal]

This fox is SO normal about magic!

#my art #my ocs #Phoebe Firebird #i'll give a greater lore dump on em later- but the gist of it all is that phoebe is well... awfully unlucky #despite years and years of effort #they just could never cast any magic #so theyve sorta just taken the time to build up their knowledge of it to show others the joy of what they miss out on #and they WILL infodump at you

[romantichopelessly]

and I’m right.

#before you question me #blue knows what ptsd is but does not have as intimate knowledge with it as she could. she copes with her trauma tho! #Adam very much knows what ptsd is but refuses to put together that He Has It. barely copes. #Gansey does not know what ptsd is. I mean this with my full chest. he does not think he can POSSIBLY have it despite death flashbacks #he is coping when he pretends absolutely nothing has ever been wrong #and Ronan ofc ptsd poster boy. he’s not coping at all. #trc #the raven cycle #gansey #richard gansey #blue sargent #adam parrish #ronan lynch #richard campbell gansey iii

[e-von-dahl]

On one hand joker out are ridiculously attractive, and daydreaming about cutesy shit like stealing their clothes and cuddling with them on the couch is all well and good

On the other hand I know in my heart everything they own smells like fucking cigarettes and so do they half the time

#despite how attractive they make smoking look it doesn’t change the fact that I’d probably vomit due to the second hand smoke #many of my romantic fantasies are ruined by this knowledge #joker out #this post is stupid but I am Down Bad and sometimes I just have to make it everyones problem

[wiezumbeispiel]

Had an idea that was like. Well what if instead of crows glados had 3 baby porygons?? They’re kind of like birds. Kind of. Anyways all you need to know is that she loves them very much

#portal #portal 2 #glados #pokemon #porygon #they’re so cute…digital duckies #you can apparently breed porygon (with a ditto) despite them being genderless which is an oddity for these games #i had more that was going go go with this image but like ??? i don’t feel like spending more time on the idea even if it is cute #so I’ll just describe them to you: #basically atlas and p-body were sent to go find chell out on the surface #the reason being….glados cannot figure out how to hatch these eggs she’s like wtf i tried a heat lamp and everything what’s WRONG with them #chell who somehow has knowledge of pokemon says usually they’re huddled between other monsters to hatch #so she gets assigned the sitting-on-eggs job. because body heat lol #glados is super confused when they hatch she has never seen them before in her life. and her internal database has no informat #chell whips out a pokedex that tells them what a porygon is (how she got one i have no idea) #glados is thrilled about her new babies because they’re even deadlier and more dangerous than a regular burd #also yes the two of them end up taking care of the hatchlings together #also the blue one is named mr. chubbygon (: #2023 #digital

[bumblingbabooshka]

B'Elanna, Neelix, Tuvok and Chakotay needed to star in an episode where they just talked about their different beliefs and approaches to spirituality/religion. Paired off and all together. I need to gain more insight. I need characterization and I need it to be messy.

#B'Elanna's difficulty with Klingon myths and religion (especially due to her internalized racism) #Chakotay's current strong belief in his own spirituality despite his initial complete rejection of it (and how B'Elanna seems to admire #and have talked with Chakotay about it extensively in the past given how many specifics she's aware of) #Neelix's belief in an afterlife being the only thing that comforted him after his entire family was killed - the knowledge that he would be #able to reunite with them again and that knowledge being ripped away from him #Does he still believe? Are there other aspects of his previous spiritual beliefs that are thrown into question? #Just because it isn't 'real' does it make it unimportant? How do we even know whether or not it's 'real'? #He died and doesn't remember reaching that tree and seeing his family - does that mean it didn't happen? #Tuvok's line in 'Innocence' about how he's begun to have doubts about whether or not a katra exists and what happens after someone dies #and his firm ties to Vulcan spirituality and ritual #ALL SO INTERESTING!!!!!!!! #star trek voyager #I don't think it'd be a calm or healthy conversation either - they're not therapists and I don't think anyone but Chakotay #would be particularly careful with his words #and before you say Tuvok's a Vulcan so he would be let me remind you that Tuvok told B'Elanna to her face that he thought Klingons #were basically savages - he is INDELICATE to say the least #Neelix is careful with his words bc he's a people pleaser for survival but also he has a tendency to bother people and be overly pushy #and I think he'd do a lot of research and be the one leading the conversation/the reason they get on the topic and continue on it #B'Elanna wouldn't want to talk about it. She wants to talk about it the least. But she must!!!! Bc the episode demands it!! #st voy