#just thinking about it

[skunts-own-truth]

The Tyranid Hive Mind has attempted many alterations to its usual array of bioforms designed for war. Not everything can end up advancing the Tyranid body towards the ideal killing machine, in fact, there are many failed strains of Tyranids that have been unleashed on the Imperium of Man in attempt to gain the upper hand against the resistant human biosource.

The lesser known Hive Fleet Cetus, to name one example, developed a rather interesting quirk in its strain of Tyranid bioforms. All variations of the foul Xenos monstrosities from Cetus had unmistakable, remarkably shaped humanoid lips. Full, kissable… some may even say “juicy,” these Xenos monsters took to the field smacking and puckering those lips together. Inquisitor Tarvus Gnull of the Ordo Orallius theorizes that these devastatingly succulent smackers were designed to lure human prey into a deep, and seemingly loving kiss. Once lip locked, the Xenos would then reveal its more monstrous nature, slaying or devouring the faithless dog who dared abandon their post to smooch a nightmare.

Truly terrible.

By chance, or perhaps by the divine machinations of the God-Emperor, Light of Terra, the world Hive Fleet Cetus invaded happened to be a recruiting world of the enigmatic Emerald Kiss-Hawks chapter of Astartes, known for their ability to kiss with the best of them. The world was saved, and the Hive Mind learned that kissing was not an evolutionary requirement to devouring all of mankind.

#just thinking about it #warhammer #40k #warhammer 40k #wh40k #Tyranids

[ghosts-cyphera]

Undercover ghost x mafia wife DONT DO THIS TO ME LO. DONT PLANT THAT IDEA IN MY HEAD.

Don’t imagine reader was sold off incredibly young to her current husband who’s twice her age as part of a deal. Don’t picture her living life surrounded by greys until her husband new right hand man comes into her life. Don’t imagine ghost forced to listen to you cry as your husband has his way with you.

Don’t imagine Simon trying to get you to flip, to become a snitch, he’ll keep you safe. He can put your husband away, you just have to trust him.

NO BECAUSE KAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WAS THINKING

I might be really messed up but I also kinda want her husband to care so little of her that he’s literally using her as a part of his business deals. sharing her with his clients—including ghost.

it’s supposed to be just for the night to sweeten the deal between your husband and undercover!ghost who is posing as a weapons dealer for the mission, but something about the way ghost looks at you feels different.

he doesn’t make you feel used like the other men do. the way he touches you is caring: the way he talks to you gentle.

it all feels safe, and good. it’s all something you have never known before, so is it really your fault that mister bennett is suddenly all you can think about?

I’M JUST SAYING.

#yes I’ve already chosen an undercover name for ghost lmao #oh no oh man oh god #stop me please #I’m just spitballing here so if I end up actually writing this some details might be different but you know you know #just thinking about it #simon ghost riley x reader #lo answers #kitkatscabinet #mafia au!ghost

[lethalcontracts]

The use of 'false eyes' for the design on the forest keepers is quite interesting and concerning. Seeing as false eyes are an evolutionary pattern to scare of predators, what exactly predates on the forest keepers?

Not only do they have false eyes, but thorns as well. :o

#lethal company #forest keeper #just thinking about it #kinda funky but neat #this could just be an aesthetic standpoint #tonmake them creepier looking #but i like to think they are false eyes

[lizard-queen-izzy]

Thinking about the Anglerfish vs Canary thing again.

Anglerfish lure you in. They hold out a light, an invitation, and wait for you to come closer and take it. They give you the illusion of having a choice. Because yes, you chose this, it was your actions that led to this outcome and no one made you do it. But you were drawn in, given a false sense of security. You chose this, but would you have chosen it without the influence?

Canaries are taken in to mines to warn the humans of when its too dangerous. A canary goes silent when danger is incoming, when conditions are too dangerous. They're an early warning for danger or problems. But more than that, they're taken down there against their will. Pulled in with no choice, just a purpose.

"Canaries should stay above ground." Because they usually don't make it when they don't.

#tma #the magnus archives #tmagp #the magnus protocol #anglerfish #canary #jonathan sims #jon sims #samama khalid #sam khalid #tma/tmagp #jarchivist #savemejarchivist #just Thinking about it #something something #the history book on the shelf is always repeating itself.

[hadesoftheladies]

Greed is Male Culture

This isn't a misandry post (sorry to disappoint). Neither is it an essay (yet). It's a deep reflection on what I think is the beginning of humanity's most evil systems, like the actual beginning. These are just my thoughts based on what I know, and I'm sure other people have said what I am about to. This is not a research paper (yet), but it is based on my readings regarding marxism, feminism, and industrial/colonial history (and some marginal knowledge of animal species). This is an opinion/think-piece, the beginning of some of my broader ideas.

I consider greed to be largely irrational and even (mostly) unnatural. Greed is not like hunger or fear. Greed, right now, is about excess. And I think excess is unnatural, and the desire for it even more so. Sort of like how plastic is from nature, but cannot decompose like organic matter. I think greed is a synthetic desire. Mimicking organic feelings like hunger or fear. In a world of safety, community and fulfilment, the desire for power over another is foreign. Unnatural. There are no threats. There is nothing to inspire the thought or desire of greed (especially coming from a materialist perspective). So how did the quest for power for the sake of power (and not safety, survival, or protection) come to be in human beings?

I posit that it could only (and did) arise from male-to-male peer relations.

In most animal (at least mammalian and some other) species, males do not need to be as populous as females. If you want a robust chance at a second generation of animals, you need only one male for twenty or so females. A handful of males of which females would select the best and breed with. The handful of males would have more than enough chances at partnering, and the females would have no shortage of seed if they so wanted to be pregnant.

But that's not the case. Males and females are 1:1, and sometimes, males are slightly more than females in most sexually dimorphic animal species.

So now we have some complications. Something that had been good in a previous context (males for seed) now became problematic. Now, imagine there are slightly more males than females in society. Up until this point, the value for the human male has been two things: seed and manual labor. This is the basis of his relevance to society and identity. These are the only two avenues for him to find any value as a man (not an individual). But now, he senses that he is in jeopardy. He is exceedingly replaceable! There are many men, so not only are the chances for his seed being chosen reduced, but the amount of seed he could spread is also reduced! He doesn't want to share, and he cannot stomach being replaceable or losing access to females, who are the ones who dictate whether he has a legacy or not. Whether he has offspring or not.

So now the many males have to compete. They have to be more flamboyant, robust, more beautiful than the other males so they can get picked by a female (note, they are not concerned with picking a female because any female will do). But the competition gets steeper and keeps escalating for different reasons (environmental or evolutionary) as time goes on. So now, violence, aggression, and killing have become parts of the competition. Like any sport, the rules and stakes evolve as time goes.

The choice of females is now diminished in this first stage. This is the beginning of the loss of their freedom. It is not that they are simply mating with the "prettiest" male, per se, but that they are also left with the male that survives the battle between males.

And thus the concept of "territory" arrives. Man has come to see other men as his greatest threat. Other men can annihilate him by annihilating his chances at offspring. This is not something women experience because every offspring is theirs, regardless of what seed it came from. Women can never be "erased" on a biological level, because their DNA is the blueprint of all humanity. It started with women and it will end when women end. But this is a big existential fear to men. They can be replaced. They were not the beginning. He (singular) can be erased. There are other men ready and willing to replace him.

So now man needs assurances. He needs to assert himself to other men so that the threat is mitigated. He knows other men are out to get him, because all men are now at war with each other. They evolved strength, not to protect women and children (because females in nearly every species have been the main if not sole providers and protectors), but to protect himself from other men. Really, it couldn't be to protect women and children, because female animals are able to wield similar weapons (claws, spears, stones, beaks) against threats to themselves or their young. No, men need strength to defend themselves from other men, who are out to propagate themselves. Men have become the special targets of other men.

And so, in this struggle, the competition evolves again. The stakes heighten. Man needs to assert himself to other men or he's dead meat, and he finds new ways to do so. At this point, he also realizes that women pose no threat to him in this sense. They do not seek to dominate him. He is not that relevant to her. He is replaceable. So women seize to be as important (in terms of threat) and become relegated to assets. Women do not need to assert themselves, so because they do not, man sees them as different to him. Not the same kind of animal. Not human. Women do not need to establish themselves using violence, and he equates that to women not having agency or ambition. Women now become assets. But he needs them as assurance. Remember, they are the only way he has legacy. So he must find a way to control them. To make them permanently his somehow. He asserts himself using violence, even reproductive violence and it works. Women are now part of the territory. Conquests and wars ensue. Men now view acquiring women and land as the same thing. Now in order to ensure their legacy, men know that it will not just take killing other men, but policing women. Even killing (but mainly stealing and raping) the women of other men since women are now resources and not people. Women cannot assert themselves physically the way men can. They cannot impregnate themselves. This is convenient for him to exploit.

Factions start to form. Kings, chiefs, and dictators rise up as territory and assets expand. Women die in in the crossfire, and policing them becomes more brutal. Their mistreatment from their own offspring and species has now become their biggest threat. Men are now the plunderers and predators of women. Women's resistance is a threat to his precious resources and assurances against other men and his annihilation. The increase of brutality towards women means that more women die, and there are more men than women, making competition even steeper. Now, man moves in packs. He hunts in packs. He covers more ground and acquires more territory, and so long as he is top of the hierarchy, the men beneath him pose no threat. If anything, he makes sure they benefit, for they help him better maintain that hierarchy. More men are required to fight other men and plunder their resources. Armies form. Nations form. Territory.

Now we come to the modern world. After a history of colonialism, capitalism, slavery, genocides, grotesque war. The underpinnings of all these systems are the same. Competition between males. For what? Hierarchy. Why? To assert himself to other males. To what end? His humanity.

Man, the animal, has now come to equate his personhood with supremacy. To men, dominance is a virtue, because to assert yourself, to impose your will, is to be human. Man needs something to be dominant over or he seizes to be relevant. Man needs something to subjugate, or he becomes meat to be devoured by other men. There are more men now than there ever was. The world suffers because ALL these men "need" to assert themselves, to become human to other men.

This is probably part of the reason why women aren't seen as human. Not simply because they are regarded as assets instead of persons, but because to be subjugated is to be inhuman. To be subjugated is how you become an asset. Or at least, dehumanizing you as an asset makes it easier to christen your subjugation as morally right and economically necessary. This idea is especially prevalent in politics since the 18th century. Man sees living things in two castes: dominant and submissive. Because that is how he sees himself in comparison to other men. Cattle, sheep, nature, men who take it from the back, women . . . submissive and thus inhuman. If a man can subject you, you are no longer human to him because you cannot or do not assert yourself in the way he does. You are now an asset that he can use to assert himself to other men. You are not a relevant threat. This is also possibly why pacifism is largely regarded as feminine or "pussification." Even unnatural. Men equate violence to agency since violence is when they start to become their own people.

This becomes even more plain when you look at the underpinings of man's existential thoughts throughout religion, art, and philosophy. What makes a man a man? What makes a man useful? What makes life meaningful to a man? What traits do they worship about god? Omnipotence. Omniscience. Being the owner of all things. The capacity to impose yourself and image on the world and to be able to do so forever via offspring. Ownership and property only became relevant to man when another man competed with him. Excess is useful now because it is a grand way of asserting yourself. Fame and excess are equated to legacy. Now, they are all that is worth striving for. As a boast to other men. A synthetic desire (greed) from an organic feeling (fear of threat).

Man's purpose is now to win the competition, no matter how silly the sport gets. To assert himself and be a threat. And if he is not a threat, he is irrelevant and unspectacular (to humanity). And if he is not relevant, as his ancestors once feared, . . . then what is he? He cannot become a woman who is eternally necessary and relevant to human society and history.

So what else can he be? There are only two options in the male world.

Both these options cannot do anything but ultimately destroy what humanity is left in him.

Greed only makes sense if the satisfaction (mimicking hunger) is found in other people's perception of you. Men need men to perceive them as successful, because that has been how they protected themselves from other men. And now that competition exists in all forms of society, whether economic or social, we all participate on some level with it. It's not that greed is natural to the human heart, but that it has become increasingly relevant to our societies, from how we consume to how we relate. Now, every fraction of society has to have its own model of dominant/submissive, superior/inferior, etc. Because men hate themselves, hate each other, and hate everyone else.

Anyways . . . nighty, night!

PS: This is kind of like conflict theory meets feminist analysis, and it's more of a collection of my ideas than anything else. I find it interesting to look at modern human politics and arts, at least between the 20th century and now, in this lens. If you don't like what I have to say, at least let your criticisms be constructive. I do not mind reasonable disagreement.

#radblr #feminism #history #just thinking about it #capitalism #colonialism

[moro-the-sun]

Imagine

Cucurucho is here, and Tubbo don’t know what to think about. He jokes, as usual, but anxiety is still alive in his brain. Sunny seems kinda exited, and she tells him, that actually Cucurucho saved her and others from the egg island.

Tubbo looks at Cucurucho, and asks him, once again: “do you have a free will?”

And there is no answer.

#qsmp #qsmp tubbo #tubbo #q!tubbo #qsmp cucurucho #just thinking about it #✨

[emjoyy]

Me literally every time I talk to anyone: Black Sails is the greatest tv show ever made. It is the pinnacle of queer representation. It is the ultimate example of storytelling as a narrative theme and medium for the story. It is about queer people with blood on their hands, fighting to destroy the systems of oppression that want them dead. It is about intersectionality. It’s about systems of power. It’s about radical liberation. It’s about gay pirates. It is poetic cinema, it is high art. Flint with blood on his face, Silver’s transformation, Miranda’s everything, Anne’s sexuality, Max’s quest for power, Jack being Jack, Eleanor’s fate, Vane’s indenture, Madi’s speech to Woodes Rogers, MEDITATIONS BY MARCUS AURELIUS/ KNOW NO SHAME -

#black sails #black sails always got me going feral #just thinking about it #it’s the most show ever #this is not up for debate #it just is #captain flint #john silver #it’s been 3 years since I watched it and it still just lives in my brain all the time #this is the hill I will die on #also me always bringing it up within the first two dates with someone #like buckle up

[cairoscene]

i think a hugely important and often overlooked counterpart to "curate your online experience" is that even when you block and mute and filter, you are still going to see things that upset you and make you uncomfortable. you just are. and just because you were upset or felt uncomfortable doesn't mean you should never have seen it; sometimes things just happen that make you upset. the counterpart is that as well as curating your online experience, you have to learn to manage and deal with your emotions. how you feel is your responsibility and no one else's.

#just thinking about it #it feels like more and more people see being made to feel upset as a Moral Thing #i get upset every time a genshin impact post makes it past my filters; does that make genshin impact morally wrong? #anyway. ppl were quote triggered in a queer haircutting video on insta bc the 60 yo dyke in question accidentally misgendered the nb barber #that's an emotion you have got to regulate my love.

[sorrinslays]

Saw someone say that Winter King viewed Simon as the perfect Petrikov because he not only escaped the curse but also didn't die in the process and I haven't stopped thinking about it ever since

#in a way he's correct #simon might not look like the best version of himself but he is if you think about it #why? #he doesn't have the crown #he's warm #he kept his humanity #he kept his Marceline #and most importantly he is human and uncursed #simon petrikov #the winter king #adventure time fionna and cake #fionna and cake #i'm going insane #just thinking about it

[chongoblog]

Remember that your favorite fictional character could never pull off the level and flavor of your swag no matter how hard they try

#not an iggy friday post #just thinking about it #because as cheesy as it is to say 'everyone is special' #its so true #everyone is completely different in ways that cant be fathomed

[ghosts-cyphera]

hi my current inappropriate male crush rn is devlon from acotar. if you've read it you know how in the wrong I am for this but you know what? I am not ashamed. in my head he looks like theo james in this picture and no one can change my mind.

#it's not like 'oh he's so sweet' sort of a crush #it's 'you're awful and I hate you but my god I can not stop thinking about you' sort of a crush #okay but like what if someone you absolutely hate turned out to be your mate though #just thinking about it #lmao bye #lo talks #acotar #devlon #devlon acotar

[woodlaflababab]

Thinking about zukaang.

#thats it. #just thinking about it #well I mean #theres their collective anger issues #theres the symbolism of sacrifise in zuko leaving everything he knows for aang #theres more to be said about “well youre just a teenager” #i also think abt zuko talking to aang in the nwt #and zuko literally fighting katara (aangs canon love interest) for aang #not in a like #kataang is bad #just think its funny that that LITERALLY happens #theres the fact that a year without aang leads to zuko going nuts #theres just so much to be said about the promise #theres aangs comfort with zuko #ugh #thinking about Them #woodlaflababab #zukaang

[cadaverkeys]

Bluey is so good I wish parents were real

#rambles #half joking of course 😏🫰 #i wish i ever had the nuts to vent on my blog without making a whole thing of it #just thinking about it

[just-french-me-up]

Fleabag's black jumpsuit is a whole character in itself and I'm glad we recognise that as astute members of the audience

#fleabag #just. #just thinking about it #the power #the STYLE #ICONIC in every way #i need it

[knight-princess]

There’s something pretty surreal about how if Disney does go ahead and remove Willow then this’ll be a side blog for a show that doesn’t exist anymore. Or I guess one that can’t be watched legally anymore. Regardless, there’ll be hundreds of posts and reblogs and gif sets on this blog about a thing that cannot be found. Say a new person stumbles across the blog, and they wanna watch it bc hey it looks interesting, only to find out they can’t because Disney took it down. Just imagining that hypothetical person scrolling through this blog. There’s something so surreal about that image. So dystopian

I recently watched the Last of Us, but only through reaction videos on YouTube. I didn’t have access to HBO and didn’t want to pay for Now TV or whatever and I have anxiety and didn’t want to search for pirated versions. And it was the weirdest thing, skipping from video to video, seeing which scenes were included, which were left out, only finding out a certain scene even existed on the fifth reaction channel, and knowing all the while how much of each episode was beyond my reach. But that was a choice. I could have just paid to watch it for proper and I didn’t. But what if that was the only way someone like me would have access to Willow? Some queer kid who’s seen people talking about it and thought it was cool and literally cannot get hold of it? Watching multiple different reaction channels looking for one that’s included that scene they’ve seen an analysis of?

I know I’m aimlessly rambling but the whole things pretty surreal. The kind of surreal you expect of the far future looking back at a distant past, not a fan thinking about a show that came out last year

#sorry guys this one’s a kind of aimless ramble #just thinking about it #willow 2022

[elles-home]

still thinking about a tiktok comment i saw from a (possibly recent) one piece watcher that said “I knew they separated for 2 years but I couldn't figure out why they would want to...they didn't 😭😭😭😭” while talking about sabaody and time skip

couldn’t figure out why they would want to… they didn’t

that sentence is gonna haunt me forever i think

#one piece #monkey d luffy #straw hats #luffy #sabaody makes me so ill #just thinking about it #shoutout to @/stinkyyyycheesey for the comment