#double edged

[refracted-sunspill]

Believing in god imbues everything with extra layers of significance and I live for it. I'm not half as devoted as an acolyte, and I don't have an anthropomorphized totem living in my head. God is just shorthand for rulings beyond my immediate comprehension. Maybe I do assign god a certain animosity, and from that I don't care whether god is malevolent or not. My human morality doesn't factor in, I'm just an awestruck observer. Accepting that gifts me a paranormal element that life is so lackluster without. There is something special about belief in a higher power devoid of any egoistic wish fulfillment, it's the secret sauce to life. Theres no material boon to be had from it, only a pervasive lack of seriousness in striving for worldy things. An immeasurable freedom of a sort.

#god #woo #is #love #life #letters to noone #double edged #sword

[old-movies-stuff]

#the breakfast club #ally sheedy #allison reynolds #double edged #double edged sword #sword #1985 #isn’t it #question #talk

[appealingtonobody]

#graphic design #Title Screen Tuesday #Nitrome #double edged

[kizzer55555]

DP x DC: The Most Dangerous Card Game

Ok so Danny has essentially claimed earth as his. And he is fully aware that there are constant threats to the planet. Now he can’t stop a threat that originates on earth (that’s something he’ll leave to the Justice league) but he can do something about outside threats. Doing some research on ancient spells, rituals, and artifacts, he cast a world wide barrier on the planet to protect it from hostile threats so they cannot enter. This will prevent another Pariah Dark incident. However, barriers like this come at a price. You see, there are two ways to make a barrier. Either make one powered up by your own energy and power (which would be constantly draining) or set up a barrier with rules. The way magic works is that nothing can be absolutely indestructible. It must have a weakness. The most powerful barriers weren’t the ones reinforced with layer after layer of protective charms and buffed up with power. Those could eventually be destroyed either by being overpowered, wearing them down, or by cutting off the original power source. No, the most powerful barriers were the ones with a deliberate weakness. A barrier indestructible except for one spot. A cage that can only be opened from the outside. Or that can only be passed with a key or by solving a riddle. So Danny chooses this type of barrier and does the necessary ritual and pours in enough power to make it. And he adds his condition for anyone to enter. 

Now the Justice league? Find out about the barrier when Trigon attempts to attack, they were preparing after he threatened what he would do once he got to earth. How he would destroy them. The Justice league tried to take the fight to him first but were utterly destroyed, so they retreated home to tend to their injuries, and fortify earth for one. Last. Stand. Only when Trigon makes his big entrance…he’s stopped.

The Justice league watch in awe as this thin see-through barrier with beautiful green swirls and speckled white lights like stars apears blocking Trigon and his army’s advance. The barrier looks so thin and fragile yet no matter how hard the warlord hits, none of his attacks can get through and neither can he damage said barrier. That’s when Constantine and Zatanna recognizes what this barrier is. Something only a powerful entity could create. For a moment, the league is filled with hope that Trigon can’t get through yet Constantine also explains that it’s not impenetrable. And clearly Trigon knows this too for he calls out a challenge. 

And that’s when, in a flash of light, a tiny glowing teenager appears. He looked absolutly minuscule compared to Trigon and yet practically glowed with power (this isn’t a King Danny AU though).

And that is when the conditions for passing the barrier are revealed. And the Justice realize that the only thing stopping Trigon and his army from decimating earth. The only way he can get through….is by beating this glowing teenager in a card game. 

Not just any card game though. The most convoluted game Sam, Danny, and Tucker invented themselves. It’s like the infinite realms version of magic the gathering, combined with Pokémon, and chess. And Danny is the master. So sit down Trigon and let’s play.

(The most intense card game of the Justice league’s life).

After Danny wins, this happens a few more times with outer word beings and possibly even demons attempting to invade earth, yet none have been able to beat the mysterious teenager in a card game. Constantine might even take a crack at it and try to figure out how to play. He’s really bad though. Every time this happens, the Justice league worry that this might be the time the teenager looses. Yet every time, he wins (even if only barely). 

Meanwhile, Danny, Sam, and Tucker have gotten addicted to the game and play it almost daily. Some teachers might seem them playing the game are are like ‘awww how cute’ not realizing this game is literally saving the world. Jazz is just happy they aren’t spending as much time on their screens playing Doomed.

#DPxDC #dcxdp #Danny makes a card game to save the world. #Technically he worded the ritual so that they had to ‘beat’ him as those are the most powerful barriers and most reliable. #keys can just get lost or stolen (like the one to Pariah’s Coffin) #A riddle would be useless once someone figured out the answer. Like how no one takes the sphynx seriously anymore. #(Sorry Tuck. But it’s true). #And there is NO WAY Danny is just leaving a hole open for anyone to pass through. No thank you! #So…beating him. But it’s not like Danny wanted to fight so…he edited the ritual a TINY bit. Card games are good. Much less painful too. #Danny Tucker and Sam made the most complicated card game they could imagine. #It’s based on their strategies for fighting ghosts. Capturing them in thermoses. And MUCH based on a on field battle strategy. #It often requires spontaneous thinking on the spot. So Danny? In his ELEMNT. It doubles as practice for his actual ghost battles too. #They had SO much fun making this. #Sam added an entire series of plant cards that act as traps and healing ointments and duds that just take up the field. #Tucker added legitimate hyroglyphics combined with Latin as well as English and ghost speak. #Yes. You actually have to speak that language to play. With proper pronunciation. (Amity Parker’s think the three are talking gibberish.) #I headcanon Sam and Tucker are fluent in Ghost. #Constantine WILL figure this game out SO HELP HIM! #Some of the cards also have combinations related to constellations either in name or placement on the board. #By the way the board is based on a Hexagonal summoning circle with Rhunes along the edges #And the placement of the cards on the board and on what rhune MATTERS. #Also the cards move disintegrate and have certain abilities. Think of Harry Potter Wizard Chess. #But they are normal when Danny plays at school. This is just for ✨effect✨ Against invaders. #Danny faces multiple opponents. He also halts alien invasions. #While Danny COULD stop crime on earth he’s not sure how to fight a normal human and hold back so he sticks to ghosts. #The Justice league are going crazy trying to figure out who this entity is and after deep research are convinced this is some sort of #Ancient being who has protected earth for millenia. They have paintings on ruins and everything. #Danny is not aware they think this. #Raven starts praying to Danny as if he is a god and wrangles the other Teen Titans into doing so as well. Danny is still unaware of this. #Danny is not a King or an ancient. Just a very VERY strong ghost.

[solarpunkani]

Hot 4am take but I feel like if we want to get people more interested in making their yards a more habitable space for wildlife like insects, we have to acknowledge that ‘Don’t want bugs in your house’ is still a 100% fair and valid point of view. ‘Loves nature’ and ‘doesn’t want roaches spiders and mosquitoes in the house’ aren’t opposites.

And with that in mind, when we propose to people that spraying pesticides around houses is Not A Good Idea, Actually, I feel like we need to give an alternative asides from ‘deal with it.’

#solarpunk #anti pesticides #ani rambles #this is coming from personal opinion at 4am keep that in mind but like #I’m scared of roaches. i’m fine with them outside though #my parents dont like roaches and for good reason. they spray Ortho Home Defense along the veeery edge of the concrete by the doors to #keep roaches and shit from coming in because yknow. Florida. #if I tell them ‘hey actually we shouldn’t spray pesticides inside (ie raid spray) or outside (ie home defense) #theyre gonna ask wtf to do instead to prevent roaches #and if I tell them ‘nothing suck it up buttercup’ they’re gonna laugh and then double down on the sprays #we gotta have an alternative ready and honestly maybe I’m not looking in the right places but I genuinely don’t know of any #like one online friend told me leaving brush piles around the yard decreased the amount of bugs trying to come in but like #thats one person. anecdotal. and I haven’t seen anything online confirming that as a thing (yet) #idk man I’m going to bed. #might delete later #house pest saga

[leveragecentral]

LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION, 1.7 THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD JOB

And the thing is? He's good! He beat Hardison's algorithm, how am I supposed to beat him?

#usermimsi #trueloveistreacherous #singinprincess #femalescharacters #wistfulwatcher #sophiedevreaux #wlwgif #tvedit #leverageedit #wocdaily #leverage #breanna casey #eliot spencer #leverage redemption #redemption 1x07 #the double edged sword job #gifs #*em

[starks-hero]

There was so many heartbreaking things about the final scene but possibly the part that hurts the most is that Aziraphale still believes heaven is good. He knows what they tried to do to him during the body swap, he knows what they did to Gabriel and he knows better than anyone what they've put Crowley through. But he still has so much faith and belief and still clings to the idea that they're the good guys. Now imagine how heart crushing this is from Crowley's perspective. Because not only does Aziraphale choose heaven, (the institution that quite literally sent him to hell) over him but by doing so and insinuating that they're still the hero's in this war, he implies that Crowley was always in the wrong because heaven is good. That it was Crowley's fault that he fell. That despite everything, Crowley is still on the other side.

#good omens spoilers #gos2 spoilers #good omens 2 spoilers #good omens #good omens 2 #the whole thing had me choking on tears #i don't aziraphale could ever understand just how double edged those words were #and just how much they'd wound crowley #anyway I'm off to cry myself into a coma

[yb-cringe]

addendum to my whole alignment conversation; but I think the reason Foolish and Jaiden get along so well is BECAUSE they're both very Neutral or True Neutral aligned.

Long time qJaiden viewers remember that jaiden was like. REALLY okay with anything qroier or bobby would do. Roier tells her that he's got a basement to kill and torture people and she's fine with it! He's got a plot for vengence? Cool! Bobby just killed a villager? That's so funny! (Hell even roier was put off by that one)

She doesn't Care, it's inconsequential not in a purposeful or malicious way but because it literally just does not affect her or cross her mind. Why? because it's not hurting anyone she loves.

which is why we'll see her not bat an eye at things like Roier trying to kill people or cellbit's rancid reputation or foolish arresting tazercraft BUT when cellbit hurts roier's feelings at Festa Junina, she's extremely up in arms and eager to threaten him not once but TWICE and also just as willing to let it go as long as ROIER says it's okay.

if it doesn't bother jaiden's little family or the kids, she could care Less about what someone's done/about to do. She HAS strong morals (something Cellbit has noted before) but they're skewered to things that would affect her or her loved ones.

#qsmp #qsmp liveblogging #qsmp jaiden #this is a double edged sword btw because this is what makes her loyalty so tantalizing and extreme #qaiden doesnt care WHAT qoier does. she's on his side. that kind of loyalty is really strong and hard to break #qsmp meta

[gg-ladybug]

Had a revelation about Adrien’s adverse reaction when Marinette started acting like a Texan in psychomedian, and now I’m inconsolable. Nobody touch me, I think I require sedating

#this is a Colt Fathom hate page #the double edged sword of Felix escaping his treatment by staying with the Agreste’s but Adrien living through it in his place is so cruel— #this has me laying face down emotionally on the ground #I remember everyone blaming GABRIEL for that reaction at the time but the answer was RIGHT THERE in season 3 #miraculous #mlb #miraculous ladybug #gabriel agreste #adrien agreste #ml spoilers #mlb season 5 spoilers #felix #felix graham de vanily #colt fathom #felix fathom #representation spoilers #mlb representation #spoilers #out of context spoilers #psychomedian #content warning #implied child abuse #cw child abuse #miraculous s5 #mlb s5 #mlb season 4 #mlb spoilers #miraculous spoilers #miraculous season 5

[goshyesvintageads]

United States Playing Card Co, 1952

#Congress playing cards #1952 #ad #vintage #mid century #illustration #game night #advertisement #fancy #queen of hearts #king of diamonds #jack of clubs #midcentury #1950s #gold edges #smart tricks #royal welcome #spades #advertising #double packs #celutone finish #mid-century

[chemblrish]

8 November 2023

Sometimes you get an A and still feel stupid and that's just uni

#realizing grades actually mean very little is a double edged sword really #you just can't win you HAVE TO develop a self esteem #grrrr *knocks over a table* #mine #studyblr #chemblr #studyspo #study motivation #chemistry #stemblr #sciblr

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: violence mention / death mention / ]

Will never stop thinking about how Leo, all alone in an endless void and being beaten again and again and again by the only other living thing around, still finds comfort in that space. The situation he was in was completely hopeless, and in any other circumstances he would not have escaped, at least not fast enough to save him from permanent (or even fatal) damage, be it physical or mental.

And yet, despite the bleakness of his situation, despite the agony and helplessness, all he needs is one glance at a crumbled photograph, one glance to remember his family, and that’s enough of a reason for him to smile.

Maybe that’s why his powers center around manipulating space - because no matter how much space is between them, no matter how dire his own situation may be, just the thought of his family, alive and okay, is enough to give Leo hope.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt leo #rise leo #the prison dimension is horrifying on its own #add in a monstrous being that towers over you and has vowed to ensure your suffering? #god I can’t imagine how scary that is #Mikey opening the portal was a miracle because if he hadn’t managed it there #it’s really up in the air what could have become of Leo #personally I subscribe by the theory that you straight up can’t die in the prison dimension #so it’s a prison in all ways #but the thought of a Leo who manages anyway who adapts and continues to have hope despite it all… #Leo saying he’s nothing without his family is a double edged sword really #because the thought of his family alone is all he needs to live. to hope. #to smile #nothing without them…but they’re EVERYTHING to him #and maybe he doesn’t realize it but…the feeling is mutual #one thing too is that hope that comforts Leo so much is not just that #should he think his family needs help - that hope can turn into determination #I’m unwell about this family #actually on my point of their powers - I truly do think the abilities tie in not only to their personalities #but to their relationship to family and love in general #kinda like love languages in a way #Mikey with his chains and time abilities values being around his family the most - he wants them to experience living in the moment togethe #Donnie is someone who is 100% a gift giver to show his love - his constructs are exactly that aren’t they? gifts of his mind #Raph is someone who willingly bears the weight of the shield - he protects his family like the best big brother possible #and Leo - he goes off on his own a lot but his mind is constantly on his family anyway #like a sailor at sea no matter how far he travels the compass always point in one direction - and for him that compass points home #even if he can’t make it back - it’s still there #and that’s enough

[0xeyedaisy]

A talk after death 

#double life smp #monart #This might be rough around the edges #I seem to have less and less patience w/ each new comic I make /hj

[sensitiveheartless]

Perhaps the real soup was the carrots we mangled along the way

#hi guess who is too sleepy to be cooking soup but is doing it anyway #it me #fuck I just realized I forgot the salt #I’m doing souper well at this as you can see #mr soupman make me a soup #the significance of soup is a double edged blade #a blade which luckily I can use to chop vegetables

[comicaurora]

I shudder to think how angsty this section was before you pared down the first draft childhood angstiness

It's a double-edged sword. On the one hand, I'm a much chiller person now, so the baseline angst has been overall reduced. On the other hand, I now also understand things like pacing and subtlety and that most characters will not just up and monologue a comprehensive timeline of their Dark And Brooding Pasts just because it would be convenient for me, which means this entire painful high-pressure scenario that's precision-designed to force Falst to open up about his Tragic Backstory would not have been something I thought of in the original brute-force-angsty approach.

#asks #behind the curtain #it's a double-edged sword and somehow I'm hitting falst with both of them

[kaiwissuess]

Posting this because why not;

Des Yuichi doodles

Guys guys did you know he's revenge motivated :]

I literally wanna do a comic series for this so BADDDD but my art blocks killing mee

#art #double egded sword #double edged sword au #rottmnt #tmnt original iteration #tmnt #artists on tumblr #rise au #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #yuichi #des!au #des yuichi #desau #rottmnt au #samurai rabbit chronicles #samurai rabbit #yuichi usagi #usagi chronicles