#the world is built on lies :)

[strqyr]

a grimm growls in the background -> "you will question everything you know." -> "this is impossible." <- based on what emerald knew before, maybe. in reality, clearly it isn't.

"i needed to know more, but with every new discovery i made, the more horrifying the world became." (what is more horrifying than learning what you knew before isn't what it's made to be?) -> "why should we believe any of this?" -> "now you're catching on. so far you've done nothing but accept what others tell you, but you need to question everything."

old man oz has a great and terrible secret. ozpin designed the schools, has followers inside every academy on remnant that are loyal to him and no one else.

"as a metafiction, this tale more than any other in this collection demonstrates the power of stories to create reality and shape our destinies, and the subtle influence storytellers have over their audiences.

this is how propaganda works, of course. arguably, every fable is originally told for a purpose, either overt or hidden. some were designed to communicate a moral lesson or instruct children on how to behave, while others were meant as warnings or to persuade people into believing a certain thing. the girl in the tower shared a version of her story intended to elicit sympathy and motivate people to come to her aid—but in process she also doomed many warriors to die in the attempt. her story did not include the whole truth, and how much of it might have been false? one must always be prepared to think about and question everything they read of hear, especially if they are told that it is absolute truth."

"the truth is that 'truth' is hard to come by. a story of victory to one person is a story of defeat to someone else. by now, your uncle has surely told ruby and her friends plenty of stories." -> "what's your favorite fairy tale?"

the girl in the tower shared a version of her story to elicit sympathy and motivate people to come to her aid, but in process she also doomed many warriors to die in the attempt. -> the wizard in the tower shared a version of his story to elicit sympathy and motivate people to come to his aid—"it's all my fault. i told you once that i made more mistakes than any man, woman, and child on this planet, and i wasn't exaggerating. i'm... cursed. for thousands of years, i've walked the surface of remnant, living, dying, and reincarnating in the body of a like-minded soul. [...] i am the combination of countless men who've spent their lives trying to protect the people of remnant. [...] this curse was bestowed upon me by the gods, because i failed to stop salem in the past. but we must stop her now." <- that's not why he was 'cursed', but okay—, but in process he also doomed many warriors to die in the attempt.

something something propaganda, who controls / controlled the narrative, what is the truth? (and how are the grimm involved in it?)

#something something new world order #the current one is built on lies

[claitea]

spills a bunch of ns on the floor

#pokemon #pokemon bw #pokemon black and white #n harmonia #pokemon n #clai's art #did you know. that i like n. a lot. verrrry much #personal thing: i dont get why reshiram fits n at all? #everyone seems to have a preference about which dragon n should have but i dont get reshiram #n had such drastic motives because he was Lied to his whole life. ghetsis only showed n pokemon that were harmed by humans on purpose #so that n was blind to the fact that the majority of pokemon are fine with humans and like living with them #so while n had the best intentions and honestly believed pokemon were only going to be hurt by humans. and some Are #it wasnt the whole truth. the world n wanted ignored the Real truth that pokemon and humans can coexist with no problems if they try #so zekrom fits him better because it was n's Ideal world not a world built on Truth #protag with reshiram consequently makes more sense because protag shows n the truth. that pokemon can be happy with humans #maybe it is because i played black/black 2 so i'm used to zekrom with n and reshiram with me. but i genuinely dont get it #anyway thats my rambling about which twin dragon n should have #if someone Could explain why reshiram fits n i'd like to hear i'm genuinely curious about other people's reasoning!! #anyway. n my beloved. my first favorite since i played bw for the first time 12 years ago until emmet and ingo knocked him to third lmao

[villainanders]

"true love is possible only in the next world for new people, it is too late for us" and "ten years from now, a hundred years now, someone like me will love someone like you and there will be no templars to tear them apart" quotes that are the same. TO ME!!!!!

#what if i loved you enough that i would drown us both in blood to keep you safe. and it wasn't enough!! #what if i lied and kept secrets and betrayed your trust fundamentally to keep you as safe as i could but ultimately knew i was destroying #you and everything you had built because i thought it had to be done. because it was built in a world where true love wasn't possible and #we owe it to the people who come later to make one were it is. even tho we're still here in the world that comes before the one we're #trying to build. #THEN WE'LL BE FUGITIVES 🤝 WREAK HAVOC ON THE MIDDLE CLASS #if this post makes any sense at all

[ethanhuntfemmefatale]

I got. Some thoughts. About this being the movie where Ethan passes Jim in age. “Good luck, Ethan” is such a nice subtle reference it drove me a little insane

#I’m incoherent #sometime I will be able to talk about this movie in a way that makes sense #for now let me just say #everything Ethan has built over these seven movies has all been about #this almost religious dedication to becoming #the anti-Jim #he’s so much older now. he’s so tired and so disillusioned. but he loves his friends. he trusts his friends. and they love him #they trust him #it’s this like. radical emotional connection as the resounding answer to the ‘sea of lies’ of mi1 #grace doesn’t trust him easily he earns it #painfully #slowly #by showing her the world he’s created. where he will care about her more than his own life the way he does for #EVERYONE #mi7 spoilers #mission impossible #he could have become Jim! #he could have become john lark. #he could have become lane. #he could have become like the entity. #but he didn’t. he didn’t!!!! and he never will!!!!!!!

[jaggededges123]

i need you to know that this is the height difference for the devilbound au. and i also need to go lie down,,

#coffeetomb #devilbound au #i cannot express enough that this world was originally built to satisfy my desire for size difference/size kink #and colum's tall for a devilbound but well within the normal range #*lies down*

[iminthetunnels]

NOT THE SWAT TEAM AND POLICE FORCE BLOCKING OFF MY ROAD ‼️‼️⚠️⚠️⚠️‼️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️‼️⚠️‼️⚠️‼️‼️‼️⚠️

I LOVE AMERICA. RED WHITE AND BLUE LETS GOOOOOO!!!!

#i have ptsd from walking out and seeing a dead body in my neighbors yard from a self inflicted gunshot wound. seeing all these cops and swat #here again immediately reminds me of that day. i also. just walk with my baby all the time outside and play with him outside. now i feel li #like i can’t leave bc the cops are just saying “we are looking for someone” #wtf is happening in the world. i am not built for this ever

[katierosefun]

ough the way i know suits is less than perfect of a show, but something really lovely about how harvey specter’s character arc is all about like. realizing enough is enough. you can struggle and fight for power and you can have all this ambition, but also there’ll come a point where you care more about the people you built your little world with, rather than the world you built itself. y’know?

#caroline talks #suits #EVEN IF THAT WORLD IS BUILT ON FRAUD AND LIES!!!! #listening to viva la Vida and crying again. don’t mind me.

[roobylavender]

rewatched episode seven on the plane last night and god like straight brain worms the entire way through bc of this narrative between gijeong and mijeong as sisters like they are truly soooo alike it’s incredible. gijeong seemingly has a personality equivalent to that of a pitbull but refuses to confess to the people she likes bc she’s utterly terrified by the thought of rejection. mijeong seemingly stews and stews in her anger to the point of isolation but can hardly speak up against the people who mistreat her bc the effort of trying to make a stand for herself is exhausting. it’s fascinating the ways in which both sisters shield themselves from the world and from people despite being so resilient underneath it all and it’s what makes me appreciate that line from gu towards the end even more. you should know. yeom mijeong, you should know who you are. bc it’s never really about gijeong and mijeong or any of the characters in my liberation notes fundamentally changing as people. it’s more about the love that others have for you acting as a sort of lens through which to view all parts of yourself that are true. gijeong and mijeong have always had the capacity to be strong and to stand against the overbearing tides. but it’s when they’re loved by people and start to love themselves that they recognize what exactly it is they’re capable of. because you like me. you can do anything in front of someone who likes you. that’s why you should worship an idiot like me

#my liberation notes #personal essays #the entire show's premise of love is built on mutual recognition. loving someone for what you come to understand lies underneath #only the truest of loves can pierce through skin and bone and see all of the way to the heart #which is why gu and mijeong understand the weaknesses in each other. but they see the strengths too and hold onto them for dear life #love as mutual recognition as worship as ultimately survival #an eternal practice in trust falls. in community building and hope and the belief that people can always be more #bc we won't survive if all we do is think lesser of others. we won't survive if we only ever see the glass as half empty #it's our commitment to each other that builds the foundations of everything good in this world #which is what makes that final monologue between gijeong and taehun so good too. about love and pity and respect #none of it is meaningless all of it is well intentioned and it's what allows them to support each other in earnest #bc they're not fixating over each other's shortcomings or quirks. they welcome them wholeheartedly #and they recognize how they make each other stronger by way of those personality traits #each of them has a sturdiness of personality that both inspires and supports the other it's incredible

[sharlmbracta]

so maybe the point of living is of the one reason to live instead of the other reasons not to

#this is not a suicide post #just thinking stuffs #but like i don't really wanna glorify “living” as in “living is so great life is all beautiful :)” as well #especially when reality is like Right There. war still happening. genocide still happening. all sorts of fucked up oppression misinfo #chronic suffering generational poverty still happening. not even getting started on hate crimes shootings and the government #actively giving Not A Care as people literally die out all around. yet the same faces say “don't kill urself <3” or maybe not. #but the media does and they probably do be like that to save face #them + a lot of people act like they know shit outside their living environment when they Do Not Actually Know Shit #probably myself included #and think that they're Always Somehow Right #+ the inherently wealthier you are the inherently ignorant you are about needs that People Do Actually Fucking Need #and having really no idea how much resources are actually given to the people #because they don't know what it truly means to live just to survive #just because they were luckier to be born in a wealthier/supportive/resourceful environment #which is not a fucking choice you can make but i don't think they ever 'really' understood that #still the media screaming of supporting equity and diverseness even now #so in that sense i guess #the world is built on lies :) #eh #cw rant #cw depression #or something #not really #ok kinda

[bentrollio]

Ayo does anyone have any theories as to why the Formless Mother is also called “The Mother of Truth”? That has to be significant in some way.

#elden ring #my posts #it’s from the blood flame description #the mother of truth craves a wound #I’m honestly not sure how to interpret it. is it saying that the formless mother is an outer god whose domain also includes Truth? #I mean we already have the frenzies flame with Chaos and the greater will with Order #and yet it seems like the mohgwyn dynasty is inherently built on lies and deception and pretending to be more grand than it really is #perhaps it’s meant to be a juxtaposition between Mohg’s mother figures since he’s Mr. Huge Mommy Issues and all #calling the formless mother the mother of truth would then pose Marika as a mother of lies. which given mohgs mindset would make sense #where one mother abandoned him in the sewers and decrees his curse a monstrous abomination the formless mother showed him the ‘truth’ #that his curse really isn’t a curse. or at least not something to despise (which I agree with tbh. the omen did nothing wrong) #so maybe the description is from the Mohgwyn dynasty viewpoint as opposed to a neutral narrator stating facts about the world #either way both are interesting and I’d like to hear other ppls input!!! #I just think the outer gods are neat #also mohg stop messing around with the blood of outer gods have you learned NOTHING from bloodborne???

[kittykatinabag]

See, the problem isn't that I'm having trouble focusing. Its that I do not feel like its necessary to do things that I don't find useful for me.

#this and other lies i tell myself as i reap the consequences of my own actions #i have come to learn in this module that i fucking hate learning about the housing crisis #its so fucking dumb even in another country #literally this entire problem would be solved if governments can stop looking at everything as a commodity #i cannot explain how utterly mind boggling it is to read about the last 25 years of irish housing policy history #at one point they had over half a million EMPTY housing units before 2008 #they were seemingly the only place out building their demand than they just stopped #for practically a decade they barely built anything #and since ireland has a very open immigration policy somehow it never occurred to them that maybe they should ramp up housing construction #until 2016 they just didnt. and now its one of the worst housing crises in the world #anyways i hate group projects #late night ramblings

[mcmansionhell]

we've found it folks: mcmansion heaven

Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps more.

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Come on, Kate, that's a little kooky, but certainly it's not McMansion Heaven. This is very much a house in the earthly realm. Purgatory. McMansion Purgatory." Well, let me now play Beatrice to your Dante, young Pilgrim. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is rare to find a house that has everything. A house that wills itself into Postmodernism yet remains unable to let go of the kookiest moments of the prior zeitgeist, the Bruce Goffs and Earthships, the commune houses built from car windshields, the seventies moments of psychedelic hippie fracture. It is everything. It has everything. It is theme park, it is High Tech. It is Renaissance (in the San Antonio Riverwalk sense of the word.) It is medieval. It is maybe the greatest pastiche to sucker itself to the side of a mountain, perilously overlooking a large body of water. Look at it. Just look.

The inside is white. This makes it dreamlike, almost benevolent. It is bright because this is McMansion Heaven and Gray is for McMansion Hell. There is an overbearing sheen of 80s optimism. In this house, the credit default swap has not yet been invented, but could be.

It takes a lot for me to drop the cocaine word because I think it's a cheap joke. But there's something about this example that makes it plausible, not in a derogatory way, but in a liberatory one, a sensuous one. Someone created this house to have a particular experience, a particular feeling. It possesses an element of true fantasy, the thematic. Its rooms are not meant to be one cohesive composition, but rather a series of scenes, of vastly different spatial moments, compressed, expanded, bright, close.

And then there's this kitchen for some reason. Or so you think. Everything the interior design tries to hide, namely how unceasingly peculiar the house is, it is not entirely able to because the choices made here remain decadent, indulgent, albeit in a more familiar way.

Rare is it to discover an interior wherein one truly must wear sunglasses. The environment created in service to transparency has to somewhat prevent the elements from penetrating too deep while retaining their desirable qualities. I don't think an architect designed this house. An architect would have had access to specifically engineered products for this purpose. Whoever built this house had certain access to architectural catalogues but not those used in the highest end or most structurally complex projects. The customization here lies in the assemblage of materials and in doing so stretches them to the height of their imaginative capacity. To borrow from Charles Jencks, ad-hoc is a perfect description. It is an architecture of availability and of adventure.

A small interlude. We are outside. There is no rear exterior view of this house because it would be impossible to get one from the scrawny lawn that lies at its depths. This space is intended to serve the same purpose, which is to look upon the house itself as much as gaze from the house to the world beyond.

Living in a city, I often think about exhibitionism. Living in a city is inherently exhibitionist. A house is a permeable visible surface; it is entirely possible that someone will catch a glimpse of me they're not supposed to when I rush to the living room in only a t-shirt to turn out the light before bed. But this is a space that is only exhibitionist in the sense that it is an architecture of exposure, and yet this exposure would not be possible without the protection of the site, of the distance from every other pair of eyes. In this respect, a double freedom is secured. The window intimates the potential of seeing. But no one sees.

At the heart of this house lies a strange mix of concepts. Postmodern classicist columns of the Disney World set. The unpolished edge of the vernacular. There is also an organicist bent to the whole thing, something more Goff than Gaudí, and here we see some of the house's most organic forms, the monolith- or shell-like vanity mixed with the luminous artifice of mirrors and white. A backlit cave, primitive and performative at the same time, which is, in essence, the dialectic of the luxury bathroom.

And yet our McMansion Heaven is still a McMansion. It is still an accumulation of deliberate signifiers of wealth, very much a construction with the secondary purpose of invoking envy, a palatial residence designed without much cohesion. The presence of golf, of wood, of masculine and patriarchal symbolism with an undercurrent of luxury drives that point home. The McMansion can aspire to an art form, but there are still many levels to ascend before one gets to where God's sitting.

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[skrunksthatwunk]

not to doomer post. but. american politics is like here's a conservative warmonger who wants to burn you alive personally and here's a different conservative warmonger who definitely wouldn't stop someone from burning you alive BUT who might raise the minimum wage by $0.30/hour for you, but only like eight years from now (so re-elect me please!! >w<). yes one of them has to be president they are the only two options we'll let you have. no neither of them will stop the government from killing you or anyone else, but at least one will say "it's kind of bad to kill people :( someone should really do something about that..." while giving the people-killers $20,000,000,000,000 to keep doing it then saying they can't afford to help you at all, but oh shucks, maybe next cycle, if you vote for me again! and also everyone will pretend as though they are extremely different political entities covering two highly polarized ends of the political spectrum despite nearly identical policy views obscured by their slightly different ways of addressing their target audiences, many of whom are also conservative warmongers. and also if you don't vote or vote third party the other guy will win and you will watch as they burn everyone you love alive in the same way they've burned so many strangers so you kind of feel like you have to vote for the other warmonger because even though they both have blood on their hands you'll take a handshake over an uppercut. even if you can still see the bodies piling up behind them. even if you can only save like five people you know and not the thousands of people who are dying in the other room. because you believe the difference between 30,000 and 30,005 is still worth it even though no one needed to die in the first place and no one seems to agree with you. you have to keep living in this world every day. if anything changes it will take decades and it will never be enough. if this takes a toll on you good fucking luck surviving off the generosity of the warmonger state that claims to serve you. happy voting!!

#like. yeah i'll take the raised minimum wage. i guess. but jesus christ #yes you are doing slightly good things sometimes almost. can you stop killing people though. please. that is a higher priority #like this is my first prezzy election season since i turned voting age right and like. what the fuck am i supposed to do now #what am i supposed to do with this. it took me 5 fucking months to pick a dead cockroach off my floor how am i supposed to fix this. #how am i meant to be a person and go on living while knowing i am doing nothing and cannot do anything and won't do anything #i need to fight i need to get up but i am stuck. im always stuck. i pray yknow. i don't know what else to do #how can people think about buying houses and getting promotions in this world. how are they not feeling likr their chest is caving in every #time they falter in their complex self-distraction. how am i supposed to do anything when all i can think about is helping and my body won't #let me. i cant do anything i cant but i have to but i cant. im supposed to and im a bad person if i dont and i cant live like that. #and if i am too upset about that i am punished for it by the people around me and ignored by those in power if not punished as well. #i love the world. i love people. you motherfuckers are killing everything and im not stopping you and you're getting in the way of me loving #the life i was built to love and i can't understand why you think it's even thinkable to do what you're doing. or what im doing. #i just want to look at clovers and paint and be good to my neighbors but you won't stop fucking murdering people in front of me #and i can't fucking do anything. i cant take care of the people i love i can't carry my own weight i can't take care of myself i can't move #and im supposed to fucking file taxes? to fund mass slaughter? on the off chance it might go to welfare or something. god. #i hate it here i hate it here america is a fucking nightmare it is hell i can't stand it but if i leave im just running and saving myself #whch is selfsh and cruel and so i would never be able to escape the feeling and i would always be in american hell because it' a part of me #but if i stay i cannot do anything because my body is filled with smoke and broken glass and im supposed to fucking get my drivers license #so i can buy groceries or get a job so i can keep myself on life support watching everything get worse and worse around me #and knowing that nothing has ever been good here and ive been lied to forever and im still being lied to #and i am in hell. #and me dying won't fix it and me living won't fix it ans both are too painful to even consider. #i am drowning i am drowning i am drowning i am drowning and my skin is on fire im on fire and i want to have children. but i can't imagine #doing that to someone. oh my god. and to raise them and watch them come to understand what this place ive brought them to is #that ive raised them in a slaughterhouse and to feebly try to show them the clovers and the ducks and the baby shoes and teach them to love #when maybe that love of the world is a distraction. or maybe i use it as one. i think of the blood as an obstacle to love and joy but maybe #i would not love the world so much if i was not so constantly desperately scared and ashamed of living in it #and i am a very lucky person. my life is cushy and i want to rip my skin off because what does that matter when it doesnt let me help people #god help me. but help the rest of them first. but i am helped first anyway and i hate it. i dont. i cant. god. #nyarla dni

[gh0uist]

That gullible post has really done me in cuz it's crazy how people just lie to people who love them just cuz they can. I hate it. I hate it so much.

Im remembering every time it has ever happened to me and I'm gonna vomit about it maybe.

#im aa #if i love you ill believe you even when I don't #unfortunately the only way to shake it is with actual honesty OR #making my vulnerability (believing you) a joke #I prefer the honesty though because i hate retaliating. it's the most painful thing in the world to me #but if you thought it was okay for months or years to reap the benefits of my loyalty #Joking about me being stupid or laughing it up about how annoying i am #then it's okay for me to take every delicate thing we've evey shared and rip it to shreds because YOU made it built on lies #it's not like it was real anyway

[barrymccaulkinem]

what is the polite way to tell someone their pattern of behavior crossed the border from stupid to evil a long time ago (and its time to finally see a therapist)?

#ive been telling my mother she needs to see a therapist but i was focusing on the benefits to herself #now she needs to understand that she needs to stop having a harmful effect on us and the world #and with her continued unquestioning all-consuming white lady fear and paranoia being the biggest issue #I think its important that therapist not be white would you agree? i can imagine a white therapist just reinforcing it (esp white women) #she took my entire childhood away from me bc she bought into that stranger danger bullshit and hasnt grown a nanometer #she wont go outside when its dark bc she thinks theres a black man waiting to rape her around every corner. its time for it to stop #she would deny the race part but... i know. and ive told her she should be more wary of men she works with and her friends' husbands #but she has built her entire life around these lies. and its why we live in this shithouse. worst unit in a mostly white neighborhood

[neonphoenix]

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#today i was talking to a guy and mentioned a story from the Sunday school class i had been teaching #and apropos of nothing he starts talking about how 'religious people will never be able to understand the world because all religion is #inherently built in lies' #then launches into a discussion about Christianity being the stupidest invention because of the number of people killed by christians #not citing anything or talking about specific events or trends #just that line over and over again #and when i said that his argument was pretty fallacious #he just kinda went 'how so?' and stopped engaging #like in what world was any of that ok to say #especially in the context we were in #i have one class with this guy #and immediately upon finding out i was Christian he decided to start slamming it (not sparing other religions) #and acted as if he wasn't the more arrogant one for that #unfortunate because I'd been trying to befriend him and his larger group #unfortunately they have made far too many comments about christians all being idiots and religious people as a whole being stupid #for me to ever feel welcome