#bc that’s objectively the truth

[dowagersqueen]

the way alicent was like “the king did not wish for the murder of his daughter he loved her i will not have you deny this” and threatened jasper with sending him to the wall for his suggestions while in the black council daemon was like “that whore of a queen murdered my brother and stole his throne and youc ould have killed her for it” and “we can put every green head on a spike” and in ep. 8 before coming to kl rhaenyra was like “those vipers rule in my father’s stead” 

not even otto spoke of rhaenyra the way daemon spoke of alicent....

#alicent hightower #anyway the objective truth is that rhaenyra never cared as much for alicent as people claim to #she straight up did not #we have got to accept that and move on #this was always about the care alicent had for rhaenyra #even thought it should have realistically ended in episode 7 #the narrative wont let her let rhaenyra go bc rhaenyra is so special nothing that she can take away from alicent isnt worth it

[coquelicoq]

actually natori has some kind of tracking talisman on matoba at all times. that's how he knew where to abduct matoba from for Operation: Kitty Cat City. matoba fully knows about it; it's why he wasn't at all surprised to find a paper doll in natsume's hair after the mask youkai debacle (matoba internally as he watched it fly away: classic mother hen shuuichi-san momence 🥰). because this is matoba "boundaries? what are those? can you eat them?" seiji we're talking about, he's not bothered by this "violation" of his "privacy"; rather, he finds it fittingly clingy (it is, after all, only right that natori should be keeping tabs on him obsessively). sometimes the talisman gets confused and sticks to yesterday's outfit, so he always checks to make sure he has it on the way out the door (his pocket patdown is "keys, lighter, wallet, exorcism supplies, shuuichi-san's cute lil tracker he thinks i don't know about <3"). i wouldn't be surprised if he's figured out how to uno reverse it and now uses it to track natori's location as well. this may not technically be canon but it is probably all 100% true in an important way that transcends canon, we just never hear about it because it isn't relevant to natsume's journey 😌

#matoba: a natori talisman. sure wish i had one of those 😇 #<-knows that he has one on him at that very moment and also that natori doesn't know that he knows #convince me that he didn't say this on purpose to make natori sweat. you can't! #in response to him saying that natori side-eyes him and has a dot dot dot speech bubble (my favorite vol. 26 ellipsis btw) #which is exactly how he would react if he had secretly planted a talisman on matoba #and was trying to figure out if matoba knew and was alluding to it!! #check and mate. game set match. QED. i rest my case. #i've connected the dots i've connected them but also i feel like it wasn't that hard. the truth is out there you just have to believe #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #horrible exorcists #matoba seiji #f #homura cats arc #my posts #btw i do not think the head of the matoba clan actually does anything so base as to carry keys on his person #he has people for that. he has a driver. he has servants who open the door when they see him coming. what possible need could he have #for such an object #he also may not need to carry a wallet (or equivalent) for similar reasons #but it was the best shorthand i could think of to make what i meant by 'pocket patdown' readily apparent #especially since 'cell phone' isn't an option either since this is set in the 80s #i figure he must have some kind of lighter or firestarter bc he uses smoke to find the source of the locked-room curse #he also seems to carry a brush & ink and various & sundry tools of the trade that i decided to call 'exorcism supplies' #matoba-san drop the 'what's in my purse' youtube video 👀

[sepulchritude]

Underrated dndads s2 fact is that Lark smokes herbal cigarettes

#of course he would #the oak family traditions got him one way or another #i did a google about herbal cigarettes bc of this and did y’all know that they cause a lot of the same health problems as normal cigarettes? #like they are objectively not much better for your health #they just don’t have the addictive component #did y’all also know that part of the reason why smoking is bad for you is that #when you inhale combusted materials you’re also inhaling carbon monoxide? #anyway isn’t it fun that a throwaway gag that lark smokes fake cigs #accidentally reveals a lot about his self destructive tendencies and his unwilling attachment to his family schtick #and maybe like. idk something something you have a duty to make up for what you’ve done so you can’t just self destruct #bc that would be too easy for what you think you deserve #so you smoke the ‘less dangerous’ version of cigarettes except they’re not actually all that better but the truth is you don’t actually care #like a halfassed attempt at sort of taking care of himself. which is so in line with everything about him #idk what they put in that family but them oak boys sure do got that oak family sadness #dndads #sepulchritudinous

[captainjonnitkessler]

Like remember when the Trump administration was like “we’re not lying, we’re just using alternative facts”? And the general consensus was that a country in which two sides could no longer agree on a shared reality because one side could never be persuaded of objective truth by any type of evidence or facts was really fucking bad and dangerous?

I’m not any more inclined to accept “alternative facts” from a religious person than I was from Trump.

#atheism #now that we've reached 'calling creationism a lie is cultural xtianity bc only xtians believe in the concept of objective truth' #phase of discourse #creationism; astrology; 'aliens built the pyramids' truthers; crystal healing - all things i've seen discourse about #whether it's okay to call them bullshit or not bc they're 'sincerely held beliefs' and therefore shouldn't be challenged #but yes. we can and we should call out bullshit actually

[prisonpodcast]

Why did I see multiple people bring up “earth duo” on twitter today like can we not 😭🤮

#tbh ​I doubt anyone is seriously considering using it again at least I hope not #I don’t even remember the contexts of the posts but like #I say awesamdream even when I mean /p soley bc idk their duo name #it’s just not that deep #also earth duo just sucks as a duo name objectively #it dosent showcase anything about them and dnf is simply too iconic #dnf is that bitch #<- is not even a big dnfer it’s jsut the damn truth #ok that’s your one shipping discourse post of the month just no earth duo kay thanks #let that bitch die #.___.

[naramdil]

your life is truly as romantic and full of luster as you wish to make it. it'll never be in the highly manufactured moments that social media tries so hard to sell to you. you don't have to be in a certain city, party, or space to have glamour & i promise many of the things that appear that way are actually devoid of any enchantment at all. so anyways. the time to take delight in your own life is now

#like i never expected to be a person who was like 'i live in paris' 'im invited to a gallery opening/magazine launch/fashion week party' #and like the truth is these spaces arent even inherently glamorous at all like it's just how you present them to people on the outside #and honestly life is always boring if you yourself are boring #like i go to these things and it's not even fun bc i cant even share it with people i care about ?? so it's just void of any sense of the #kind of romanticism you expect in like 'being booked' and doing things if that makes sense?? #anyways.. i miss my friends.... and i like being a small city girl and doing objectively mundane things #bc life is more valuable when you spend it with people who you value and value you in return

[feedingicetothedog]

i think ppl should temper their expectation irt how much of this first interview gets "debunked" or retread in later seasons bc while the characters in the books are constantly saying someone else lied or was wrong about xyz, that's a really annoying mode of storytelling for a tv show. we as audience members would just constantly be subjected to characters describing scenes we've already seen but from a slightly different angle. it doesn't really allow for the story to move forward and i think so far the show has done a good job at showing discrepancies in real time so as not to do this. i also think it's why they added so much tvl lestat characterization into s1, so the audience isn't jarred when he shows up and is very different. but i think it's best to assume that other than what has been shown to be explicitly false (namely the last bit in ep 7), this interview is for the most part accurate

#we must remember first and foremost that this is a tv show made for the entertainment of it's audience #therefore the way the story is explored must be interesting and engaging above all else #also debunked in quotes bc i think that line of thinking is so fucking stupid. like the need to find the one objective Truth™ #vampterview

[limielle]

idk i feel like so much discourse could be easily minimized if people learned to say "i think" instead of "it is"

#like “i think this is a bad game” is way less abrasive/aggressive than “this is a bad game” #do u know where im going w this like #it's literally 2 extra words and it could avoid like 99% of confrontation #ofc there would still be people who are like “omg how can u hate smth i like ur trash” but idk i feel like so much of this discourse u see #on twt especially #is like ? just people being deliberately aggressive abt stuff they dont like to antagonise others and then going “its just my opinion” #and it's hard to read tone online so it's often hard for me (and im sure for others ?? idk actually) to read whether or not sm1 is being #like. just sharing what they think vs them trying to bait out people who will defend smth they like #idk ive been trying to find ffxiv people to follow bc getting back into the game and finally being confident in my art to draw for it also #has me looking for ppl to follow but i wanna avoid the big livetweet first time experiencers and unfortunately that leaves #a lot of people who are afraid of dawntrail/unhappy with the current patch quests #of which i am neither and i also dont want to log on to the internet every day just to see ppl shitting on things u know ? #and i have seen a LOT of like #'x sucked' and 'fandom lacks critical reading skills' and whatnot #but then u see what theyre talking abt and all theyre doing is shitting on the game itself or going 'x expansion was mid' #like . if u stopped phrasing ur opinions as objective fact i feel like maybe ud avoid half those arguments id k??? #just words #SORRY im talkative today the truth is i worked on a drawing veyr hard and i do not have the strength to colour it but it will not look good #without colour and i feel like i cant move on without it so i went and replayed shadowbringers instead and cried a lot #and now i have lots of icarus feelings again #WOW loiok at me writing an essay out here i overshare so much im sorry

[katsofmeer]

oh the consumption of wuvvy’s love. how it eats her up inside and rue too. wuvvy wants everything to be just so, to be perfectly right for rue, not just in the physical world but internally. wuvvy would rearrange the furniture of rue’s mind if she could, tidy and clean their worries and concerns, dust away their fears. her devotion is huge and isn’t that terrifying, in a way, to stare into that maw. i just love how big her feelings are, and despite how much rue loves her in return they need more than pure devotion - needs a willingness to come to the plate and be vulnerable too, share her mess with them instead of always managing theirs. but in a way her love for them eclipses her ability to give them that because doing so would be acknowledging herself as equal partner, something she can’t bring herself to do. pride for her love, her capacity to love bigger and more giving than anyone, to bleed herself empty without asking - but rue doesn’t want that. they want someone to build something with, not to have everything built for them. gorgeous, truly gorgeous how oscar conceptualized both of these characters twisted up like vines with one another and then he and aabria knocked it out of the park performing the dynamic which is so understated and incredibly complex. when i say aabria & oscar ruewuvvy deep dive when i’m not kidding!!! i’m still in their clutches!!

#release the ruewuvvy notes!!! #i literally need to be doing homework. my acofaf december rewatch is going to be a special little treat so i don’t get distracted yet #here i am lmao #wuvvy #delloso de la rue #ruewuvvy #text post #i see one fanart of rue and start spiraling #i know hob and wuvvy are so cracked and curious inside #but rue is always in my pocket. and oh to be the object of desire and affections and service so vast and so undemanded #to be handed a wet and winging heart #you ever think about how dangerous you are to the people that love you most #you ever love someone but not how they want. but they won’t even let you hold their hand to help them through it bc of course it burns #you ever wish someone would have said something a day earlier because now everything has changed #anyway i think about them a normal amount and that is almost the truth these days #also wuvvy wants to put rue on a throne in a castle in the sky. and rue wants to share tea in a cottage by the river #and wuvvy wants that too actually but can’t figure out how to ask. and rue needs her to be able to ask for herself #because rue just wants to go home

[lavelans]

i really am so amazed at how different your playthroughs can be; as the dark urge, lialeth really has no time to deal with any illithid bullshit when she's too busy trying not to be consumed by her urge, so she never had much trust in the emperor to begin with, and reading all those notes on mind flayer manipulation at his hideout at the elfsong really put into light his manipulation tactics

it's really funny too, how he goes "oh i shared my favorite soup recipe and memories of my dog with you, i have no more secrets to hide, so place all your trust in me" when in fact he doesn't even mention the fact that he just happens to be BALDURAN i mean all of this in hindsight?? i really have to laugh

#that first screencap is her Distrust face #it's so funny bc i really did fall for it in my first playthrough!! #but now knowing what i know and going through his old lair with his pre-picked objects showing some sentimentality in an attempt to connect #with the human part of your player character BUT at the same time the game is presenting you with objective and arguably?? more compelling- #evidence to the contrary- that all mind flayers know how to do is manipulate you to their own ends- #combined with him revealing he really did take control of duke stelmane- all in all paints a clearer picture of the truth #i can't shut up about this bc this is amazing writing and really utilizes the game medium to affect players' experiences and opinions #AMAZING #shut up kat #kat plays bg3 #bg3 #bg3 spoilers

[brookheimer]

just saw one of the most braindead takes of my entire life

#given that TLoU is regarded as the best narrative in all of video game history why isn’t the tv adaptation viewed as the best in tv history #?? #must be because the adaptation wasn’t faithful. if it were then it would be the best tv show ever created bc there’s definitely not steeper #competition for narrative complexity/meaning/success in television than in video games #also how video games objectively surpass all other cinematic mediums and this is proof of that fact & that it’s a universal truth rather #than a situation where a narrative developed for a specific medium works better in its og medium than other ones #…….. #my fault for clicking on a reddit link in the first place honestly #like are u fuckibg insane. video games r a better cinematic medium than idk CINEMA???!?!??! literally the origin of the term?!?! #there r some great video games for sure but dude. shut the fuck up and go watch a goddamn movie or something

[louderfade]

exene talking about the state of the world. the good stuff starts at eight minutes. or you can just read the transcript complete with the usual errors that accompany robot transcribed speech (the irony of which is not lost on me). maybe it's not about transhumanism and living forever (or maybe it is who knows), but there's definitely an agenda of surveillance and control at work which is designed to keep the powerful in power. cash rules everything around me and you will own nothing etc. the future is worse.

#google has helpfully flagged this as a 'conspiracy theory' which let me know it was definitely worth paying attention to #sometimes a conspiracy theory turns out to be flatearth-tier but anything those in control are putting effort into discrediting #concerns me and makes me look deeper. if they're going to the effort to control the discourse there's something there that #threatens them. anything google calls a conspiracy theory is worth a closer look. it often means someone has gotten too close to the truth. #she's brave to be talking about this shit they basically cancelled her and forced her to apologize for talking about how they want #to take our guns and the media is lying to you and stirring up fear so they can get away with passing gun control #like wtf leftists should be all about gun rights. a disarmed population is totally at the mercy of the state's authority #it's not very punk to surrender entirely to regimes in power and let the only people with guns be the police #like c'mon guys we need guns. and it's like drugs. they exist anyway. better they do so in broad daylight than in the shadows #they let adam curits talk about this stuff for some reason and no one calls him a conspiracy theorist idk why but there's a reason #i guess his stuff is not a threat to them bc it's dense and heady and seven hours long so the masses will never absorb it #ex punk rocker yelling about new world order in plain language monologues of digestible length is a much bigger threat #i swear there are secretly fifty people in control of everything and their entire aim is to make sure it stays that way no matter what #but it's really gross how obvious it's getting like the whole system just funnels money straight to the top and they don't even care #about hiding it anymore they're just doing it out in open and denying objective reality with confidence it's too much sometimes #i swear i can feel my grasp on reality deteriorating. it's as if there were a loud buzzing in the out of doors that was getting #louder every day and nobody ever said anything to acknowledge that it was real nobody talked about hearing the buzzing but it just #keeps getting louder and i'm finally like wtf is with this buzzing and everyone gets mad at me for shouting over their netflix show #that they weren't really enjoying in the first place. like no one is happy in the modern world. why can't we talk about why without #turning against each other. that's why doug saying 'maybe we're all the same' is such a big deal to me. anyone who is trying to unite us #is doing important work. that trump supporter is not the enemy. they are the victim just like you.

[silenthillbunni]

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#idk how to even express this or put it into worlds but it is lying right under my skin and itching so i need to try #i dont feel safe in the world. anywhere. i dont wanna leave my home. i dont wanna be outside and interact w ppl #i want to minimize all interactions w ppl bc ppl are DANGEROUS and unsafe #everytime i find myself alone in a room w a man wheteher he's a doctor or physical therapist my entire body wants to flee. nd shut down #even if it's 1 in 1000 that smth will happen just then #and almost every single time it goes fine. im under so much anxiety and fear during that entire session #whenever im out for my late night walks in nature and i hear a sound im on edge the entire way home bc i can imagine a 1000 bad things that #could happen #so on so forth there are countless scenarios like these it'd take me too long to recount all of them #but also.. the knowledge that this is just how it is. this is the ways of the world. everyone knows it. nothing to be done abt it... #it's sould crushing to be aware of that. nothing to be done abt it.... nothing at all. it is what it is #it is ridiculed. enjoyed. fetishized. etc etc etc #it always ends w victims dont matter. not the feelings or trauma or opinions or voices. #all reduced to smth to get off to. merely an objects. and empty shell. that is the ways of the world. nothing to be done abt it #and nowhere is safe. ppl are either perpetrators themselves. or they are defenders of it. or contributers to the surrounding culture #no one at all in the world can be trusted. no one is safe. no one cares. no one will do anything other than #ridicule u. blame u. trigger u. defend the acts of abusers. that is the truth of humanity #the truth of the world. it's all built on this. there is no other reality nor truth #and other people are capable of accepting it so well. like they dont care. bc they dont care abt anything actually #but i just cant accept it. i'd rather die than live in this world. and why should i live when i'll always be alone because #no one. is. safe. no one can be trusted #they're all on the vicious cruel abusive side. they all are. nobody cares abt wrongdoings or abuse or pain inflicted. nobody does #nobody cares at all abt what happened to u. they'll keep upholding the abusive systems in place. #bc u dont matter. u never have and never will #i dont wanna go outside or be around ppl bc no one is safe. theyre all against your safety comfort and wellbeing. they all love suffering #i hate ppl bc they all contribute to abuse and rape and everything bad happening all the time. they do not care. no sympathy or compassion #nothing abt this world or humanity is good or kind. it is all cruel harmful venom.

[daz4i]

it's a little bit funny that i have such high stress levels that it's affecting my physical health in multiple ways to the point doctors keep insisting that i need to remove stress factors from my life but . i have nothing to remove. what do i do now

#no job no school no commitments or responsibilities #I'm just naturally stressed all the time <3 it's my default state #(i am simply stressed about the most basic things required to live like eating and sleeping etc.) #(unironically the only solution to my problems is death. I'm not just saying that. it is literally the only thing that can help me) #(not even saying that in a suicidal way this time it really is just an objective truth) #(life itself causes me stress -> stress gives me health issues -> stress + health issues caused by it make life even harder and so forth) #(it's kind of a cycle i have no way to break out of bc well. how am i supposed to stop being stressed if being alive stresses me out.) #vent #i guess??????

[planet4546b]

2 9 10 samira and 7 for the whole gang

2. What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them?

samira is strange + offputting + has the autism death glare but shes also WICKED charismatic which people wouldnt expect!!!! shes great company for a night on the town!!!! there are multiple scenes of various characters bringing samira home to their family and their family just being completely obsessed with her shes just incredibly charming at the end of the day shes my charmerrrrr <3

9. Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

^ THIS BIT from the heart: the city beneath rulebook. i mean this so for real this is the most samira three paragraphs ive ever read. the labyrinthine <3

10. What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

i actually think modern aus are actually pretty funny.....shes just an avid caver who works like 3 random jobs to pay for her caving hobby...but also like. an au where the mar does work the way that samira believes it does, where it can grant wishes and rewind time and undo death, where it provably functions in that way because even in that universe it wouldnt give her what she wants. she doesnt ever get to bring her sister back from the dead no matter what universe and no matter how hard she tries!!

7. What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

jackie -> MELLOWED. OUT. used to be a little pill of a 20 year old. annoying ass funny guy. now theyre surprisingly sweet + considerate + a shockingly just like. normal person. guy you would see in a kroger

emily -> oldest possible vers of emilys character was really defined a lot by her capacity for anger, which has now sorta flipped into her being forgiving to a fault. she also is not NEARLY as protective as mel as og concept em was

mel -> her relationship with her family has totally flipped with emily. og version mel was the darling child and emily was estranged, now mel is estranged (worse. its worse. its way worse. its worse. its bad) and emily is the one still at home. also WAY more serious than her og version.

samira -> i mean this so genuienly the list of ways that mira has changed since her og verson would probably be 20 pages long. can you believe she used to be the fucking MOM FRIEND????? LIKE FOR REAL?????

#asks #sallytwo #thank you sammyyyyyy these were fun questions!!!! #au one is sorta odd wrt to just how the world itself functions here bc like. theres isnt such thing as objective truth #so anything that could be like 'an au' is just a part of the world and the way it understands itself. yk #its strange. i love it its so fun #signal to noise

[stdread]

saint's original canon ship was gale but i genuinely think it'd be No One, at least not through the events of the game. it'd take a looooot longer for them to even consider a relationship like that-- it takes them forever to even consider someone a friend

#rambles. #my poor shippy heart can't take it but it's the truth #like they can Feel that way but they don't. understand it. and it scares them so they try to push it away #and are meaner to the object of their affectin than they are to anyone else bc theyre TERRIFIED #that someone can make them feel this way #(but they also are more protective of them and will kill for them without hesitation) #anything romantic w him will take awhile and it'll be very rocky to start out #not evne just romantic but Any relationship #and when it comes to their bad ending?? peepo bye relationships! #BUT once they learn they don't have to be scared of you? #learning to be soft and gentle and merciful for you... yeah #saint makes me sick #edit: their 'romance scenes' r just them either being meaner or slightly less mean #he'll tell you you shine brighter than any star and then right after tell you you stink and need to bathe more