#keep the mandate

[justana0kguy]

2024 FEBRUARY 01 Thursday

"[As we go] the way of all flesh. Take courage and be a man. Keep the mandate of the LORD, your God, following His ways and observing His statutes, commands, ordinances, and decrees as they are written in the law of Moses, that you may succeed in whatever you do, wherever you turn."

~ 1 Kings 2:2-3

#bible #verse #scripture #first reading #book of Kings #1 Kings #God #Lord #Jesus #Jesus Christ #Christ #David #King David #way of flesh #take courage #be a man #keep the mandate #observe #statutes #commands #ordinances #decrees #law of Moses #succeed #whatever you do #wherever you turn

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I started reading Dungeon Meshi last week, became instantly charmed and captivated, and blitzed through the entire manga in 4 days (and changed my profile picture about it). With that in mind, I would just like to say...

I love your dungeon meshi art so so much

CHILCHUCK!!!!!!!!

Thank you kindly! I love Dungeon Meshi a lot, so I'm happy to see so many people get into it for the first time.

CHILCHUCK!!!

#ask #dungeon meshi #chilchuck tims #I feel like chilchuck was overlooked in the pre-anime fandom a lot (which sucked as an OG chilchuck fan). #So I am thrilled by how much love he has been getting. He is a great character and so much fun to draw. #Great comedic straight man while also having some really hard hitting emotional moments. #I think he needs a union mandated vacation after this dungeon expedition -and a drink with an umbrella in it. #Veering off topic for a moment: #I started drawing this at the same time as the Dragon comic (I had chilchuck brainrot) #and since then two of my dungeon meshi comics have hit over 10k notes. Which is bonkers! #A year ago I was getting hyped over a post reaching past 100 notes...I never thought I'd be here. Thank you for all the love and support. #I may have started as a MDZS blog but drawing for Dungeon Meshi has had a huge impact on me *and* my art. #This Chilled Chuck is thus a mini celebration for a incredible milestone B*) #I'll keep my weekly dungeon meshi posts going until the season ends so please keep looking forwards to it!

[artbyblastweave]

The earlier Grue post has reminded me of an observation I had a while ago but never got around to hammering out- basically no superheroes actually featured in a parahumans story maintain a secret identity in the classic bifurcated sense. There's anonymity, sure, and as seen in the Dauntless interlude there are cover stories that their neighbors hear about their day job, but with the exception of pointed edge cases like Alexandria and Brandish, the professionalization of heroism is near total. None of these people are juggling a day job. Examples of the classic dual identity situation are actually slightly more common among the villains- Purity has a day job as an interior decorator, and Kaiser and Coil are in charge of their respective companies- but of course all of those are kinda "set-your-own-hours" kinds of situations. Kaiser's got people and Coil's literally got a power custom made to grease the wheels on two-timing in that way. The majority are full-time gangsters or mercenaries. Taylor's pre-Leviathan juggling of school and supervillainy is actually the main example of anyone trying to do it and the course that ultimately takes is instructional as to why she's the only one. Taylor mentions that people joke about her iterant teacher Mr. Quinlan secretly being a cape, but a lot of the book is spent quietly putting the torch to the idea that that kind of balance is tenable. Like at a minimum people would notice that you're running off all the time, there's a whole shell-game played with pulling random kids out of class at Arcadia to obfuscate which ones are actually the superheroes.

#I have to imagine that interesting implementations of the double-life trope are floating around in the supplementary materials #and the fact that the main stories are all centered on massive crisis situations would impact the level of commitment of the capes involved #but yeah #spider man would not be able to keep it under wraps indefinitely without the help of the editorial mandate #thoughts #meta #parahumans #worm #wildbow #worm web serial

[starbuck]

Walt’s fucking magpie tendency of collecting little mementos from his victims (continuing to cut the crusts off sandwiches the way Domingo liked it, the Eye from flight 515, Gale’s poetry book, the watch from Jesse) that he insists on keeping close to him is such freak behavior and i am OBSESSED with it.

#breaking bad #Walt is The Worst but he is also undeniably a Character Of All Time… #it’s just such a creepy thing to do!!!!!! #a continuous self-imposed Acknowledgment of the Ghosts #it’s like guilt-mandated trophy collection… but never guilt he feels strongly enough to not Do It Again #HOW MANY TIMES DO [YOU] HAVE TO TEACH [YOURSELF] THIS LESSON OLD MAN?????????? #idk it’s just fascinating to me #it seems entirely opposed to what the ‘normal’ reaction to Ghosts should be #i.e. - to get them as far away from you as possible - as seen with Hank and Tuco’s grill #which is also not a ‘good’ way of dealing with them - but it just seems more natural #to be Aware of the ghosts… insist on keeping them around… AND keep creating more of them?????? #that’s just weird!!!!!!!! #but weird is Interesting - so it has my attention

[son1c]

what's sonic's snowpoint treehouse like? I've been imagining a kid's treehouse decked out in cozy blankets and a pile of boarding kit, but I realized that would still be awfully drafty... is it like an insulated structure?

IT'S LIKE... ok... instead of the typical treehouse that's like, wedged between the trunk and supported by branches, because the trees in snowpoint are all christmas trees, they don't really have those thick and sturdy branches to use as supports. so instead, the trunk of the tree cuts thru the MIDDLE of the treehouse.

it's also not very big? imagining a kid's treehouse is about right. cuz for sonic, the treehouse is just a place for him to sleep and put his stuff. his real "home" is with other people in the town. ykwim???

so yeah, it probably is pretty drafty. but that's what all the blankets are for LOL. he might have a little solar powered heater up there too though. for reallyyy cold nights.

but he's a little animal guy. so i don't think he'd be as bothered by the temperature as, like, a human would be. especially since he'd have gotten used to it at some point.

plus it being cold up there is just an excuse for sonic to share his blanket nest with shadow during a blizzard or smth heh

#borrelia #mandated cuddle time . #to keep sonic from freezing to death and no other reason. obviously #snowpoint sonic

[theartgremlin]

He hold her littol hand so gentle

#Echo absolutely lets her come cuddle up with him for naps #also Echo takes daily naps mandated by Hunter and Tech #you cannot convince me otherwise #this took me five months and 33 hours of work #I am. So proud. #did you guys know alpha lock lets you paint on one patch of paint at a time? #yeah I only figured that out 2/3rds of the way through TOT #also… textured brushes have texture?? #since when??? #keep at it all you learning artists! #it takes a LOT of blood sweat and tears #but you can do it! I believe in you! #the bad batch echo #echo the bad batch #bad batch echo #echo bad batch #tbb echo #echo tbb #clone trooper echo #arc trooper echo #the bad batch omega #omega the bad batch #bad batch omega #omega bad batch #tbb omega #omega tbb #star wars clones #star wars the bad batch #the bad batch #gremlinsketches

[worstloki]

Loki surveilling the skyline of New York from the top of Stark Tower and clocking that his favorite paired set of buildings are gone. sad

#everyone wants thor and loki to have visited earth a bunch of times and obviously they wouldn't be too invested in earth politics #but i think the concept of much time passing between visits should be taken advantage of #like what if one of them missed seeing the statue of liberty on their past 3 visits and now that's 'suddenly' a famous historic landmark #Loki like wow I sure hope that restaurant in the Soviet Union is still around! #and Natasha's head whips around so fast like you mean Russia or one of the surrounding countries that used to be part of the USSR #Loki: uhm. well. what's the difference #Natasha: here is a map of the countries does this help #Loki: it does not help but thank you for trying #Thor: what do you mean Rome is gone???? Rome was HUGE????? #Tony: well it's been a few centuries since then Europe is very different now #Thor: (visibly distressed) so the the sweet effeminate men enjoy the streets no more?? #Tony: ...I don't keep track of foreign border laws about that #Thor shows up after 3 years and there's a new president and he's very confused through the entire meeting #brodinsons being so detached from the political scene but being so used to realm politics they come to correct conclusions about things #even though the timeline and how long things stay the same on midgard still messes with them #Loki: at least Egypt is still around #Thor: China also #Brodinsons visiting New Zealand(Aotearoa)/Australia/various British mandate islands before the British formally showed up #returning 2 centuries later and 'the gene pool has altered drastically' 'must've been a war' #well it's either that or since Asgard seems spared of colorism they treat all humans as the same and don't notice. which might be worse #on the colonisation and liberation side of things

[drink-tang-gang]

In Tiny Toons Looniversity, Lola Bunny was never intended to be the Acme Looniversity chef at first. According to Ben Siemon, the writer of the episode, “Soufflé Girl Hey”, the show initially planned to have Pepé Le Pew as the chef. This was likely during the development phase and Dave Alverez. They gave him a bio where he now has respect towards women and puts his passion and love towards food instead. He said the idea was turned down because “too much baggage” (probably due to WB’s response of his controversy) and Lola Bunny replaced him. Keep in mind that this was written in 2021 around a time when Space Jam: A New Legacy was huge for the company.

Wow!! Can I please have a link to where you found this info? it'd be really useful! Thanks for letting me know. Reading this, as much as I love Pepe, I think it's better Lola's the chef than him if he was gonna be reintroduced with a (imo, tired) disclaimer. Makes me sad though that Lola's once again not being written in deliberation, it reinforces her whole issue of not rly bein a Tune... just kinda put in stuff n not really considering her character in these decisions (bc well.... she doesn't originally have one. At least, not an authentic one. Looney Tune-y one....)

#you sittin there yakkin (talk tag) #Looney Tunes #I think now that we have SJ2 Bunny Builders and Looniversity I can confidently say Lola's central thing is 'Tomboy' #but no comedic Thing. or a tic. #Like Petunia's is trying to save face n keeping a sweet attitude as things get worse either by the environment or her hand #or Penelope's gracefulness juxtaposed by her skittish flighty nature--accident prone like her counterpart #Lola's is.. well she's not funny... but now i can more confidently pin down her personality outside of 'basketball' and 'Bugs' mandated GF #I guess Looniversity n SJ 2 (mayyybe the comics yeah) show she's got a temper and like bugs she's reactionary #but like... that's the thing that's bugs' thing gkfdgjd we can't just get a girl version... #Lola Bunny you vex me so

[ventiswampwater]

ELISHA CUTHBERT AS CARLY JONES IN HOUSE OF WAX (2005)

#she was the legitimately the only thing that made this mtv hell monstrosity watchable jhfdjhfsjhjfs #that and the 0.05 second clips of brian. which I was watching with Interest and Enthusiasm #her voice is very............I like it picasso #👀 as always #elisha cuthbert #carly jones #house of wax #house of wax 2005 #I’m legally mandated to put a shitty gifset in carly’s tag every so often #keeping the tag alive! for its many visitors (me) and frequent flyers (also me) #really catering to the target audience (it’s me again) #carly wip inspo #<-tagging this to bully myself #I need to get off my ass and finish this fic jfc.........literally what am I doing...... #mine

[airoarts]

[Image description: A painting of Rin and Yukio Okumura from Blue Exorcist, from the shoulders up, both with slightly disgruntled expressions. Yukio is on the left with dark black hair and clothes against a white background, and Rin is on the right with white clothes and hair against a black background. The painting is lit dramatically with light coming from the left. End ID.]

black & white

#art #2022 #aoex #blue exorcist #ao no exorcist #yukio okumura #rin okumura #alt title: pokemon black and white for the nintendo ds #1 of my government mandated aoex drawings for the year bc i keep up with it monthly #yukio has black hair. the anime can suck me

[probablygayattorneys]

You locked a woman and a butler in a basement for six months just to manipulate and control her husband and his employer and allow him to let you destroy his town, but go the fuck off I guess

#professor Layton and the Azran legacy #pl6 spoilers #Al spoilers #jean descole #professor sycamore #desmond sycamore #queue takumi defense squad #even though I should have sympathy #because he’s lost a child #and as someone who’s family is missing a piece #I should be a court mandated stan #but I do not keep terms with men who keep women in basements #it was bad enough liking the character from GAAC who had lost a sibling #but dickole over here has taken it too far

[mamawasatesttube]

i feel like ppl push back against geoff's narrative by claiming he was the first to posit kon being actually kryptonian but this is just not true............. sb94 itself and wf3 both heavily imply/outright state that kon is a clone of superman with a small amount of stabilizing dna from paul westfield. this is an internal inconsistency with his established intro in rots and adventures of superman, but it's still like. in text stated. just look at hypertension arc. black zero talks explicitly about all the kons across the timelines being clones of superman who simply haven't grown into their full powers yet. geoff isn't the originator of this idea y'all he just retconned the human dna donor into lex instead of paul.

#also as a matter of personal opinion. #kon being an actual kryptonian clone works more elegantly in the narrative just like. occam's razor-wise #and the major reason he was established as being human emulating kryptonian powers is that there was that major editorial mandate #at the time it was prioritized that clark be the ONLY real kryptonian #this was later relaxed (kara. later versions of kon) but that was the driving force for superman during kon's creation #which imo is important context to consider #anyway. i keep seeing posts pushing back against fanon claiming this but it's just. that's not actually true #there are many real reasons to complain about geoff and about fanon without just making stuff up......... #this is the thing i was vaguely complaining about the other day btw. im still atm too lazy to go get citations #but is2g the power of spite might compel me soon #kon #rimi talks

[theborzoiarebackintown]

Kram also enjoys crate life

#dogblr #petblr #puppy #borzoi puppy #dog #sighthound #borzoi #Krampus #ALTHO his is mandated crate life time #it was insane levels of hot today #like 92 by 10 am #so he came in for the afternoon #BUT georgia is in the tail end of heat #she’s pretty much done #but keeping them seperate for another week #to be safe #so #crate time #it’s also just good for him

[ihamtmus]

i heard so many nice things about myself from my boss and manager today, it feels good ☺️

#my trial period is ending soon and we had a talk about prolonging my contract #i got a pay raise and they want to pay for a chinese course for me #and they talked about how they value me as an employee and how i am very detailed and learn well #and also how they like my personality and how well i work with the team #they said they like the energy i bring and my happy/positive way of seeing things #idk it was all very lovely??? #it's my first employment contract (only had mandate contracts before) and i was stressed that it wouldn't work out #and the first month was really hard because everything was so new and people didn't really talk to me OR each other #so the atmosphere wasn't very relaxing #and i seriously thought about looking for a different job #but now it's so much better #and i hope it'll keep getting better #they even said i could go with them to the canton fair in autumn #so i could go to china for free haha wow #well we'll see but i'm satisfied for now! 😄 #my post #personal

[dayvan]

idk if you know but the person you reblogged "OP believes in gray areas" post from is currently being called out on twitter because they have a website where they allow people to openly talk about their pedophilia in a "safe space". someone reported it to the FBI because it's pretty incriminating. theres minors on the site too so it's a pretty big shitfest.

my god what in the world. thanks for letting me know, that's insane?

#what the fuck do you mean a 'safe space' for something like THAT. keep that shit between you and your state-mandated therapist. jesus

[thebluestbluewords]

More of the body swap fic I’m not writing:

(part one here)

Oh, evil. Mal's in Jay's body, Jay's in Evie's body, Evie's in Carlos's body, which means that Carlos is currently piloting Mal's body. 

"Where did you let Carlos take my body?" 

Evie winces. "Just down to your locker! We just let him pick up your spellbook, which was the right thing to do, and then, um." 

Oh no. 

"What happened." Mal manages, around the rock of dread sitting in her throat. Teachers, explosions, an adverse magical reaction with the spellbook leading to magical explosions…there’s so many things that could have gone wrong in the time she was asleep, and so few ways to fix them while she’s stuck in the wrong body. 

Evie goes to push her hair back, realizes mid-gesture that Carlos’s body doesn’t have long hair, and settles for tugging on her bangs instead. It’s the same gesture that Ben makes when he’s nervous, which is weirdly sweet to think about. It’s sort of neat that they share unconscious gestures with each other when they’re thrown out of their usual sets. 

 "He sort of ran into your boyfriend. I figure that we can’t really make things worse than they already are, what with the lying to him, and the magic, and the fact that you cooked up this plan to try and get us to double for you anyway, so we're just starting the doubling process a little bit early, that's all!"  

No. 

No no no. 

Evie leans forward. "Mal? Babe? What’s wrong?” 

Mal’s stomach drops like a stone. Weird. She usually feels dread in her chest, not her gut. Apparently emotional reactions are stored in the body, not the mind, or whatever they’ve swapped. "It's Friday night. Date night."

"It's fine!” Evie-as-Carlos says quickly, sitting back as her voice squeaks and cracks on the end of her words. Fascinating. Once they’re back in the correct bodies, Mal is going to have to take advantage of that. She didn't have nearly enough fun tormenting Jay while his voice was cracking, and Carlos is too good at hiding things from her to show such a potential weakness. But now that she knows the potential is there, there’s so much fun to be had in finding just the right ways to make him squeak. “Carlos knows how to go on a date, right?"

Oh, gods. 

The last time Mal saw either of their boys on a date, it was with each other, in their correct bodies, and the building they were last spotted in exploded under deeply suspicious circumstances the next morning. Well after they were in the clear, of course, but early enough that Mal couldn’t very well be fucked to wake up and snoop around after them. It’s possible that living in Auradon has changed them for the better, but Mal’s seen the sort of explosives that Carlos thinks are appropriate for flirting, and unless things have changed a lot more than she’s been told, they’ll be lucky if the school is still standing in an hour. 

"As me??" Mal squawks. “Really?” 

Evie considers this for all of three seconds, but it’s a very active sort of consideration. Or possibly it’s just that Evie’s used to being constantly aware of what her face is doing, and any micro-expression she makes looks big on Carlos’s face. Some of them, Mal is realizing, don’t have very many facial expressions. 

"Okay, maybe not,” Evie says slowly. “But they've been out there for… almost an hour at this point, and I haven't received any more texts about imminent danger, so it's probably fine."

“More?” Mal shrieks. It’s lower than expected. More of an enraged howl than a shriek of anger. Fascinating, says the part of her brain that isn’t occupied with the current issue at hand. She’ll have to try shouting more later, see what other stupid noises she can get out of Jay’s body before they swap back.  “More?? And what do you mean, probably? Evie, this isn’t just some random date that you can dip out on at the end of the night and never see again. This is my boyfriend, and our friend, and he knows all of us. He’s going to realize that something isn’t right, and there’s no way he’s going to let it go. He’s been asking me for weeks if I’m ‘okay’ and if I should be ‘talking to someone’ about the ‘stress in my life’, like talking to an adult has ever made somebody less stressed about things.” 

“You aren’t seeing a therapist?” 

“Not you too!” 

Evie goes for an exasperated look this time, which works surprisingly well. They should make a book, like one of the stupid emotional ones that the stupid school therapist had pulled out the one time Mal actually sat through a therapy session. Identifying Emotions on Your Friends, they could call it. It’d be useful, actually. A sort of reference guide for the next time she fucks up and switches their bodies around like the worst ever game of musical chairs. 

“M, I thought you were already going to therapy! You have a block in your calendar every week that literally says therapy, 4pm. I’m going to regret asking this, but what are you doing during that time if you’re not, y’know, going to your court-mandated therapy appointment?” 

Jay’s face is easy to set into a smile, and much harder to get into a workable sulky expression. Mal is persistent though, so she manages. “I’m throwing rocks at children.” 

Don’t tell don’t tell don’t tell, she sends psychically to Jay, just in case there’s a secret body-mind connection still at play here. Don’t tell or I’ll disembowel you. 

“She’s sneaking out to cause mayhem, obviously,” Jay says, letting a little half smile play at the corner of Evie’s mouth. He’s been putting the time they’ve been ignoring him to wicked use, and the expression is much more believable on Evie’s face than the first ones he tried. “C’mon, Eves. I leave therapy to go outside and hit shit all the time, it’s no big deal if Mal’s not going.” 

Evie’s eyes narrow, and she tries to put her hands on her hips. Unfortunately for her, Carlos’s body is about eighty pounds soaking wet, and doesn’t have much hip for her to work with. 

“Do the words court-mandated mean nothing to you?” Evie hisses, quickly crossing her arms instead in a shockingly decent recovery move. “Mal Bertha, once I’m back in my body I am going to drag you down there myself, and if you don’t cooperate I’m going to tie you up and carry you, and I’ll get Jordan to help me, so the ropes are going to be cute and glittery, and you’ll have cat hair on you the whole time.” 

“Do your worst, princess,” Mal coos. It works surprisingly well in a lower register. Performatively flirty is easy in Jay’s body, which really isn’t surprising. “I’d love for you to tie me up and have your wicked way with me.” 

#my fic #hello I promise y’all that I am Not Writing this #it just keeps falling out of my brain #descendants #descendants fic #this doesn’t deserve character tags tbh #but it’s rotten ot4 to be clear #they just go on dates with other people sometimes #Mal’s stalker habits are sort of a compersion thing for her #instead of getting her partner ready for a date with someone else she’s stalking them after to make sure it went well #the feelings are still positive overall never fear #Mal’s court mandated therapy is probably because she set the school on fire a couple of times #and she’s supposed to be learning how to repress her more fire-related emotions #not all of the fires were strictly her fault but she’s a great date and would never kiss and tell ;)