The PC, lying on their back by the campfire and staring up at the stars: Souls existing separately from physical bodies, and people being able to be resurrected or reborn implies that the material body, and other, immaterial substances that make up a person, also exist separately. That would mean that Cartesian dualism is pretty much the accepted truth of our particular plane of existence. But, that sort of leaves me to question whether calling the illithid mind-flayers is correct nomenclature, I mean... they primarily consume brain tissue: that's a part of the material body, rather than strictly the mind, which would be an immaterial substance. Physically ingesting something immaterial, and using it to generate calories that sustain their real, living bodies, that would require for their digestive tracts to generate matter from nothing, which is... a pretty profound violation of the laws of physics. Although that kind of doesn't matter, I guess, since magic also exists on our plane, and that alone already violates the laws of physics. Unless I guess we consider the Weave and the outer planes to be sort of a halfway point between material and immaterial itself, but that's a whole separate thing. Of course, one might argue that illithid also require "psychic energy" to live, but then the question is, just how esoteric is that really? How strictly is it tied to the victims themselves? Because if psychic energy is to be considered another part of the immaterial minds of creatures that exist in the material plane, we run into the problem of the illithid sort of... spontaneously generating material from the immaterial yet again, and that doesn't feel like it should be possible. But, if we approach it as primarily a source of nutrients, it more or less has to be something material, like something relating to the electric conductivity of the brain itself, which then means that it... kind of no longer adds up to being part of the immaterial mind? ... so I guess what I'm getting at is that maybe, it'd be more accurate to call them brain-flayers. Technically. Because it's... it's the brains, that they eat. Mostly.
Gale, visibly vibrating with carnal lust: .... so I was thinking of a spring wedding
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the way the beginning of s10 tries to push dean & sam being equally dark falls so flat with how sam is. literally just doing the same job they’ve always done. and demon!dean is Pathetic and his on-screen kill count is one douchebag and a bunch of demons that normal dean would have killed anyway.
but actually, i think the best way to fix this would have been keeping demon!dean as he is and making it so that sam genuinely does go dark side getting him back. sam sacrificing multiple people to demon deals on purpose. sam torturing and killing not just demons but other hunters who he knows are on dean’s trail. sam trying so hard not to dose himself with demon blood again, but he gets desperate, he takes a drink, and by the time he catches up with dean, he’s powerful enough to trap dean like a mouse before dean even realizes how dangerous sam has become. demon!dean getting loose later and thinking he’s hunting sam through the bunker only for the tables to turn when it’s sam hunting him, sam dragging a knife across his throat and taking his blood while dean struggles and fails to fight him off. sam dragging dean back telekinetically to the dungeon and waiting to cure him until cas is there to heal the fatal wound sam put in him.
if we have to make a big deal about sam being “just as bad” as demon!dean. i think he should have been much, much worse, actually.
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Trying to Romance Wrenn is like playing a Dating Sim set on the highest difficulty. This icon will forever remain to be a rarity.
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I'm an OTW member again!
THANK YOU @petralemaitre !
If y'all want to get a membership scholarship before June 30th so you can register and be able to vote in the next OTW election, get all the deets here:
(the post is worth reading even if you don't want the scholarship; it's about End OTW Racism and it's such an accurate write-up of my own thoughts on why I'm involved too, I was like, "wow sharing a brain with a total stranger is so heckin' weird")
Very much lookin' forward to exercising my right to vote! Let's dooooo this!
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Having adult resposibilities seems so daunting how do any of you do any of it i mean this genuinely as someone who could be considered a baby adult how thw fuck do you do anything without being severly and utterly overwhelmed please tell me how do you adjust to beihn able to do all That in this fucking world how do you even live alone this is a desperate cry for answers on how do you survive out here im doign my best to survive right now and im not even dealing with any hard stuff im just crying at the thought of the hard stuff what. And can i stress, the utter, fuck.
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There's something about Beast Akutagawa that is just. I don't know. He just feels so hard to connect with others and wild and untamed. Like in canon he definitely isn't an extraordinarily social person either, but he can at least handle conversion, and can manage to somehow normally talk with his Port Mafia co-workers. In Beast, on the other hand, it feels like he can't even connect with his fellow ada members, as shown in chapter 2. He's completely unable to engage in small talk– his dead-end replies to Tanizaki, although funny, are really indicative of a person who isn't able of the minimum relating and feeling sympathy towards the next person that is necessary to build a conversation. And it's not only that; he's unable to express his feelings, to reassure Tanizaki he's not angry at him; he's so unreadable past his killer aurea that when he went to help the waitress serving them everyone in the room soon assumed he would have killed her.
I think it's a meaningful difference with his canon self born from all the time Beast Akutagawa spent alone that never took place in canon. Although never being an open person, canon Akutagawa was never alone, having always either his childhood friends, Gin, or the Mafia co-workers by his side. He's used to spend time with other people, independently from whether he likes it or not. On the other hand, I believe the four and a half years Beast Akutagawa spent alone must have effected him throughtfully, making him lose the already small ability to relate and connect with other people. It never occured to Beast Akutagawa that his default expression may appear threatening or frightening, because for years he never had any chance of interaction with other human beings that wasn't conflict. After having spent such along time all on his own, when joining the ada Akutagawa has to learn to communicate all over again.
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is this not a little overdramatic. like this person can speak for themselves, I got a kick out of the weird early neural net stuff and there's AI stuff that I like nowadays too yes even if it wasn't produced by a human being lovingly hand-painting it 🙄 pregnant gollum and gay sex cats have brought me ple ty of joy. and this is really the GREATEST tragedy? not the environmental impact or the misinformation spread or the people who have lost their livelihoods? get over yourself, LAUREN
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COWBOY TIM! COWBOY TIM! COWBOY TIM!!!!!!
Boy deserves more cowboy time and also the battle horse from gem world.
In this AU the bats are identifiable by a signature ring that's engraved with a bat 🦇
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