#the gods are fallible

[strqyr]

idk what it is but salem going "no. you can't leave! you can't leave!! come back!!" to the gods, to which dark replied "still demanding things of your creators" while light tells ozma that if humanity continues to demand their blessings, they will be found irredeemable and the world will be wiped from existence, and then, in her message—to which salem reacts to with a smile!!—ruby tells the world: "i hope amity tower will help bring us together. because in the end, that's how we'll win—", before it cuts short, before tai's "no! no, come back!"

the final story of the fairy tale book being the gift of the moon, a story about humans demanding things from the sun (light's creation), causing it to break, and everyone in the world coming together to fix it, using its spilled light to make a new sun while the old became the broken moon, not only replacing the god of light's creation, but improving upon it through their own ingenuity:

"you can't put the moon back together" is a well-known phrase that usually means something broken cannot be fixed. however, its original meaning, as traced back to this age-old fable, is this: if something cannot be fixed, you should start over.

it's all giving me something.

#rwby #the gods are fallible #they left the world they created behind as a remnant #broken pieces made into something new #magic that is now dust aura and semblances #it is not for the gods to come back and make humanity whole again #it is for everyone on remnant to come together to 'start over' away from the gods #( which they have done already. only the gods' threat that remains must be deal with. )

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I was *not* longing, I swear.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #wen ning #If you have not listened to this scene in the audio drama I am *pleading* for you to #It's so funny. Oh my god the voice actors nail the part. Plus the music cutting out abruptly #Genuinely incredible comedic timing. #WWX voice: 'I was almost caught having an (unidentifiable ) emotion. How embarrassing. It will never happen again.' (lie) #wwx has unlocked: aesthetic attraction. He is now starting to develop emotional attachment. #This is a incompatible program with the current version of WWX. He requires an additional update #Please note that the actual countdown is *eight* seconds before passing out. My memory was fallible when I did my blocking #pd-mdzs lwj gets an extra 2 seconds. One for each bunny ear. #This comic kicked my ass a little. Normally I don't re-do comics unless its pertinent #but I struggled with getting this one 'just right enough'. And I'm happy with it! B*)

[pentacass]

i'm fine just let me cry in this gutter thank u

#bg2 #bg3 #rasaad #jaheira #yzstuff #it's easy to take bg3 jaheira for granted as the Wise Old Woman but she walked that road herself #she'd had her own tragedy and crisis happen #and she had friends who helped her and shaped her into the woman she is 100 years later #much like what the tadfools are going thru #and the best part is SHE IS STILL FALLIBLE. AND SHE RECOGNISES AND ACKNOWLEDGES THIS AND CONTINUES TO GROW. #GOD #i really went 'i should take a break from bg3' #and went to play a game that would stir my brain like soup and toss it back to bg3

[dilf-phoenix-rights]

If y’all can forgive Edgeworth for knowingly participating in a rigged trial because he couldn’t accept ruining his perfect record, than you should be able to forgive Phoenix for presenting forged evidence when he was facing the possibility of execution and the man actually responsible for the murder he was accused of walks free and could go after his daughter if he decided taking vengeance out on Phoenix wasn’t enough.

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #aa4 spoilers #god forbid a generally good character make a morally gray decision when he and his loved one are in danger #some of you are like ‘if a character isn’t presented as fallible from the beginning than he is never allowed to mess up.’ #and it’s just… frustrating. #like please learn to have sympathy for good characters making bad decisions under duress #you can certainly be mad at them but to decide they are a no good horrible selfish person because they had one moment of self preservation #is just ludicrous #and boring

[finnitesimal]

desperately need qphil to see qmissa in fuckingasshole mode. we got a glimpse of it during the lull between maze event things when he caught missa and tubbo sneaking into the off limits areas and tubbo told him it was missa's idea and missa snapped at him. but they got distracted too quickly we didn't get to stew in it. I so badly want missa to be Mean and for phil to realize maybe he Doesn't know his husband well at all. (bc ur so right they have BARELY spent time together they each have these built up ideas in their heads of what the other is like. I would kill and die for them to just spend a day Building together. work on a project and get on each other's nerves. it would be enrichment for the enclosure)

The fact that he and Tubbo both instantly collapse into shocked laughter is. Yeah. Me when I hide aspects of myself to make myself more appealing to people around me

Missa doesn't want Phil knowing about fuckingasshole mode there's a Specific Him he's trying to project forwards it's Sweet Stronger Cooler Better him with great muscles and is even greater at being father to their son. Just this unattainable picture of what he thinks Phil would want vs Phil painting his own picture of who he thinks the guy he spent a couple of weeks with before he dipped and acting accordingly to that little lovely musical guy and Missa who's too coward to say otherwise. Like a funhouse mirror in here guys

Missa absolutely knows Phil's a cunt though it's like his default state he doesn't mind/care

#phil's personalities are bird. bitch. and blonde. btw #it's the vulnerable fallible flirty mostly clueless side he doesn't show missa more of (he really should) #i need that god image of phil shattering to pieces on the floor. your husband is alive and real and right there. you idiot. you fucking fool #augustanswers #pissa

[maevesweirdart]

ok so i just finished reading this gay furry visual novel called Adastra, and i have to say.

it didn’t have the devastating emotional effect that i’ve heard it tends to have on many other readers, but then again i’m pretty sure that’s just because i’m attracted to large buff sword-wielding women and not large buff wolf boys.

and then i realized

thinking about this. thinking

#like. it’s the *themes* #the fuckin. space imperialism and love being manipulated by the gods #and the gods turning out to essentially just be fallible people with incredible amounts of power who also suck #and like fate and the subtextual cosmic horror of being a chosen one manipulated by cosmic forces and shit #tlt is a lot more overt about it but the themes are there in Adastra too!!! #I am so smart. so big brained #video essay coming soon #adastra #adastra vn #vn #echo project #echo vn #tlt #gtn #htn #NtN #the locked tomb #the locked tomb brainrot #the locked tomb series #the locked tomb thoughts #the locked tomb memes #adastra memes

[fruitageoforanges]

saw a post about how rhaegar was the best-placed person to stand up to aerys and how he failed, and now i have brainworms about it.

because he was (short of… well, robert, it turns out), and he did fail. he was too weak when it counted to ultimately save his wife and children. there are no heroes. grand designs always fail at the level of a man. and men are weak and fallible.

(side note: not anti-rhaegar. clown on this post at your peril.)

#asoiaf #asoiaf meta #rhaegar targaryen #hate having to always add a disclaimer #god gives his toughest battles (loving rhaegar AND elia. together or apart) to his strongest soldiers #but i LOVE the idea that plans and justice and whatever people feel *should* happen #crumbles at the level of human fallibility #in some ways i think rhaegar could never have stood up to aerys. not in a way that mattered. #he was his father. when that’s the man who raised you. who controlled your life — #the fic ‘rubicon’ gets this so well #it’s a moment of immense failure #it’s the WRONG DECISION #but was there any alternative? #i mean there was but he never would’ve taken it #anyway now i’ve well and truly kicked the hornet’s nest i guess i’ll scamper off

[rometabss]

girl who has a romencken playlist that consists of 50% religious songs

#idk what it is abt them like #theyre honestly kinda loustat coded #the god/devil image of one of them #and the devotion the other has for them #the inherent terror that comes with thst devotion #like if ur love isnt me and the devil hell and you you want it darker glory kiss me son of god not strong enough big god the killing moon #and ethel cain is it really worth it #smth abt finding religion in one another #or more specifically too finding a god AND devil-like figure in someone and devoting urself to them #its very sexy like what can i say #“to fall in love is to create a religion that has an fallible god” #“love for you is larger than usual romantic love. its like a religion. its terrifying. no one will ever want to sleep with you” #roman roy #jeryd mencken #romencken #roman x mencken #succession

[mayadoesfandomstuff]

I do see that the series takes some of the themes from Ovid's work and as much as I do have a mixed opinion on it since his work wasn't necessarily supposed to be an official roman version of things but political criticism of the government as well as a way to trash the greeks, it does work well with the overall theme and narrative that Percy Jackson has built up with how gods are fallible and in fact had done a lot of wrong and them ignoring their kids is an awful thing and they should be better parents.

Like, yeah, I do have my own gripes with the usage of Ovid's Medusa rather than the original Greek one in the story, but it does work with the larger narrative of the series so it's not that big of a deal for me.

#mayaposts #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #i think my main gripe with the whole thing is mainly how people still sorta push this idea that these WERE the original myths #but that's not really the show's fault or anything and most fans know a lot abt greek and roman mythology so it's not that either #but more like the general audience i think is the main thing? #other than that i dont mind it as much honestly since it's trying to tell a certain narrative akd it makes sense to keep them consistent #and like i typically don't like the trope of ''the god/s was/were the evil ones all along!'' bc i don't find them as engaging and think #they're lazy and unoriginal these days since ppl dont really dissect the trope #i do trust riordan bc i know he could handle complex familial situations well and that includes families with immortality #and as a result he's pretty good at telling a more compelling ''the god/s is/are fallible'' story than most people ive seen #im just rambling now lol

[pisshandkerchief]

guys I'm gonna be honest the way steven moffat writes the doctor is giving me sherlock flashbacks idk if I can take this anymore

#I'm lying I'm hooked and I'm never leaving. but also please god steven be normal #I hate steven moffat's habit of writing characters that don't feel human and fallible. #sherlock didn't feel like a PERSON in the bbc show his entire personality was being clever #and I feel like that's the direction moffat's taken the doctor in as well #and it drives me fucking crazy. russell t. davies just made the doctor feel more human #(and I know that's ironic because they're NOT human but you know what I mean) #the doctor actually had faults and flaws in the davies era and now they're like. fucking perfect and it's annoying #not to say I'm not still hooked. I'm in this for the long haul now

[betweenlands]

hey. remember when Legundo said that a lot of the chaos on this server has been Viking's fault? that they'd only have peace and quiet if they got rid of him for good?

let's go over some major conflicts and put that theory to the test, shall we?

(under a cut. this gets long.)

Fix, Kill The Thief: Legundo is the first person to escalate, demanding he steal something in return for "borrowing" the gold blocks. Fix gives him the painting but can't resist the urge to twist the knife from there. Legundo responds by killing him on-sight the next time they meet, reinforcing Fix's belief that everyone's out to get him. We get the spiral of "if someone hires me i need to still show i have the upper hand" that leads directly into Kill The Thief, and also into Shadow being hired to assassinate Jamie.

Nukeri and the wing-stealing threat: This one was just Shadowmech, I think. (Though Legundo is frequently pretty brusque with Nuke, for what it's worth.) Also Nukeri later ends up unable to fly during S2 as a result of jumping into the Void to find his friends, but that one's also kind of solidly on the Oracle.

Jamie, pre-Void: Legundo suggests Jamie become queen. When her leadership becomes questionable and her behavior becomes erratic, Legundo immediately turns and begins assembling a group to sneak into the stronghold, convincing them that the dragon has to die. Jamie and her court attempt to stop them, first by trying to explain their actual motivations and then by force. When the dragon dies, Jamie ends up being right about something horrible happening, as she literally explodes.

Viking, part 1: The dragon's death results in Viking becoming tangible. He starts off as friendly and seemingly well-adjusted but quickly becomes obsessed with getting the grand prize of a Legundo IOU, ending up having to deal with Taneesha and her hiding her taxes in the process. He steadily loses his hinges after this but remains friendly until people start directly pushing his buttons, with perhaps the sole example to the contrary being pitting Legundo and Fix against each other (telling Legundo to help him steal the diamonds and Fix to stop Legundo from doing Something during the exorcism).

Various forms of tax evasion: A lot of people do this in a lot of different ways, because the diamond tax just kind of sucks. Taneesha tries and fails to frame Fix and gets snitched on by Fix, Legundo attempts to clog the system with unenchanted diamond pickaxes, Viking frames himself to take the fall for Taneesha, Shadow's a hired gun for the queen and is therefore just having a good time.

Jamie, post-Void: So, remember when Jamie exploded because the dragon was killed? Turns out she's evil now! Possessed by the Void, Jamie attempts to start a cult and in general funnel her power as queen towards accomplishing its goals. Good thing Legundo knows an exorcism ritual and has found the diamonds to seal all that chaos energy into!

Fix, ritual diamonds: Yeah, it turns out Fix still has that urge to steal, and -- seemingly unrelated to Viking's request to stop Legundo from messing up the ritual -- steals the diamonds on the ritual platform, releasing a bunch of chaos energy and causing the apocalypse in the process. He didn't exactly know this would happen -- he was told they shouldn't be moved but wasn't told why until after he'd already stolen them. Anyway, the Oracle curses him and he's a genie now.

the Blood Moons: Are a direct result of the released chaos energy. They also may have caused something with Shadowmech to go haywire as he's currently a silent murder machine.

POOPA: Formed by Grady and Mongo. I'm gonna be honest, I don't know their exact reasoning other than potentially to try and sell more of Mongo's beetroot, but either way, Legundo clearly doesn't like them even if he's willing to bribe them. The IOU forms separately as another way to stop them and Legundo is either roped in or asked to join depending on your point of view.

Taneesha's Void stuff: Turns out Tan's still a little bit Void-possessed and/or something with the Blood Moons affected her as well! She's now got urges to kill -- urges that Legundo chooses to test by sending her on a solo mission alongside Joy to see if someone dies. Someone (Joy) does. He continues to observe until she starts trying to blow things up with End Crystals. This is also the point at which Viking gets involved...

Viking, part 2: The reason Viking wanted the ritual diamonds is to do a ritual of his own that would hopefully bring his and Taneesha's memories back -- worth noting, Viking also didn't know that moving the diamonds would cause the apocalypse. Taneesha and Viking are close, and when Tan opens up to him about her urges to murder, Viking does his best to support her -- his idea of "support" is a little skewed, considering he shoots an End Crystal and causes her to explode Legundo, but he definitely had reasoning behind it. Besides -- he doesn't quite trust Legundo.

IOU, part 1: Back up a few steps to POOPA. The gang attempts to find a stronghold to set IOU's base in, and it turns out there's one right under the desert that Fix built for Legundo, near where Joy's parked her van. Viking attempts to get to work on building out a version of the stronghold room that looks like the original room and keeps the portal closed, as Legundo very specifically says to not open the portal. Joy and Taneesha don't get the message, and not only open the portal but also destroy the portal frame blocks, leaving Viking scrambling to try and fix things as they proceed to attempt to gaslight him into thinking it was his fault. This goes... very poorly.

IOU, part 2: Viking attempts to seek out Legundo to explain what happened with the portal before Joy and Tan can flip the script, but Legundo's mad about his stuff going missing (it was in a box a little too far away from the place he died for him to notice) and basically shrugs off Viking every chance he gets. They get to the stronghold, and Tan and Joy appear to have broken the other blocks of the portal -- at which point Viking gets extremely frustrated, attempts to explain the situation to Legundo, and Legundo mutes him. Anyway, turns out that Joy and Tan had built a fake room to try and trick Viking into thinking they'd broken the rest of the portal, and he goes a little ballistic after all this, at which point then Legundo pulls Taneesha aside to ask her for help with putting Viking to rest permanently.

Whoof. That's a lot of summary. So. What have we learned?

Well... there's a person at the center of all the chaos, alright. There's definitely one person that consistently sets things into motion and lets things escalate when he could very easily step in, even escalates things himself in some cases, either intentionally with some justification or just by letting his emotions get the better of him.

Legundo had Fix steal that painting, strongarmed him into being a thief for hire. Legundo nominated Jamie as queen and then tore her down as soon as she posed a threat. Legundo rallied as many people as possible to kill the dragon because he didn't want to listen to Jamie, in the process both releasing Viking and making Jamie become evil. Legundo ignores POOPA until they start getting nosy, then pays them off while still letting them exist, then joins an organization dedicated to destroying them. Legundo sends off Joy on a mission with Taneesha, fully aware the latter has murderous urges and may try to kill her, because he wants to double-check.

And now, Viking's gotten a little too much power from sources outside Legundo's control, and all of a sudden Legundo's not just scared of him anymore, no, Legundo wants him gone.

Hm.

It's almost like someone's trying to create a power vacuum, a series of faulty leaders like dominos, and setting himself up as the person to solve it -- the only person that can bring that peace and quiet to the overworld.

It's almost like someone was sent here to conquer the overworld to begin with, by any means he deems worthy or necessary.

I'm sure that's nothing to worry about. He means well for his people, after all. Follows their ideals. Leads through power.

I'm sure there's no sayings about what absolute power does to a person.

#dominion smp #legundo #yt #txt #dominioners #orig #solar scraps #gods this got LONG anyway hehe theorytime :3c #also brief disclaimer i am sure i missed a LOT of things. i am one person and my memory is fallible #however. the bits about jamie i am absolutely certain of #and this may have been accidental on actor parts but this doesn't make it a less compelling theory to me! #solar scrawls

[natjennie]

loved love and thunder actually. it was great. it's about power. it's about revenge. it's about relationships. it's about gods. it's about a universe that doesn't care and individuals that do. it's about women being successful and independent. it's about men expressing their emotions. it's about children. it's about children with agency. it's about community. it's about regrowth. it's about second chances. it's about justice. it's about trying. it's about knowing when to give up. it's about trust. it's about fathers and daughters. it's about legacy. it's about myth. it's about empathy. it's about the humanity of important objects. it's about people. it's about love. and it's about thunder.

#it's so deeply taika too like #the kids the comedy the fallible gods the love. the thunder. #you get it #it was so stupid and fun and great #all superhero movies should be like that #my one critique is that the cgi is bad #but I know that's the thing with unions. and we should go back to practical effects BTW #but anyway #thor love and thunder #thor lat #love and thunder

[densitywell]

the Changebringer magically empowering FCG's coin and telling them that if they stray from her path they'll end up alone and in the dark, completely reinforcing FCG's unwillingness to confront his own autonomy and desperate need to have someone else tell him what to do...........

#btwn this and the umadara incident working out so well i fear this whole excursion has taught that little robit the wrong lessons #this and the dawnfather being kind of a dick to deanna... the idea that beings that fallible and terrified have so much power over you!!! #gods are real lucky the alternative is obviously worse bc they are doing terrible pr work rn #fresh cut grass #critical role #fcg #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #man this would be such a fun discussion if people could be remotely normal abt it #am very curious where fcg goes from here though when so much of their story so far is abt seeing themselves as a fully realized person #which is not incompatible with dedicated religious belief! but when you're as deeply insecure in yr sense of self as fcg is #a powerful person or group coming to you and promising to give you life and meaning and community if you do exactly what they say is. #well it's ripe for further hurt and manipulation to say the least! at best it is probably not gonna fix things for you long term. #CRposting

[philosophybits]

I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

#philosophy #quotes #Mikhail Bakunin #God and the State #power #authority #reason #liberty #fallibility

[axiolotl]

the fact that i didnt technically "cement" the romance with astarion and yet he tenderly handles my dark urge and ties me up through the night making sure we're both safe and gently talks me through understanding having murderous urges. AND THEN BREAKS UP WITH ME!!!!!!!

#I KNOW IT'S THE FALLIBILITY OF GAME SCENES NOT TRIGGERING BUT OH MY GOD!!!

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

Ozpin Wismen

Race: Human

Nationality: Vale

Ethnicity: Valish

Weapon: The Long Memory

Gender: Man

Sexuality: I'm not telling students

Starting Age: 60

Aura Color: Green

Handedness: Left

Complexion: Light tan

Eye Color: Gold

Semblance: you don't need to know that

Occupation: Beacon Academy headmaster

I've made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet... But fighting against you was never one of them.

Keep telling yourself that, Light-bringer. But you know far better than I do that your fall from grace has been far from elegent.

#rwde #rwby fix it fic #rwby rewrite #so if I made Ozpin's hivemind be the God of Light himself thats been choosing to reincarnate over and over again to fight Salem and #have the original end goal of getting humanity to worship him and his brother again to make things go back to the good old days before that #big mean nasty Salem started telling people that the gods were fallible beings with human like personalities #how mad would you be at me? #ozpin #its not #anti ozpin #but my plans have the end goal of making Ruby & friends turning their backs on Ozpin make more sense #by making him 10x more shady #a lot of my au is just taking character beats and cranking them up to eleven