#this lives in my brain 24/7

[bestworstcase]

first paragraph of 'the shallow sea':

Long ago, before the fish had scales, before the birds had feathers, and before the turtles had shells, when our god still walked and crawled and slithered the earth, there were only Humans and animals. (And Grimm. There have always been Grimm. There will always be Grimm. But those creatures don’t figure in this story, so just put them out of your mind, if you can.)

last paragraph:

From that moment on, there have been animals, Humans, and Faunus. And the descendants of the Humans who turned away from our god’s great gift have always carried envy in their hearts. To this day, they resent us for reminding them of what they are not and what they never can be.

"only humans and animals (and grimm, but never mind them)" -> two more rhetorical "interruptions" bringing up the grimm specifically to instruct the listener not to think about them -> "now there are animals, humans, and faunus"

omitting the grimm from this paragraph—after the recurring references to them—is. an interesting thing to do given the parallelism of "humans and animals (and grimm)" / "animals and humans and faunus"

and then. "what they are not and what they never can be"

is such specific wording

"what they could never be." "what they never can be." the latter is a statement of pride in having chosen to change mingled with scorn for humans who refused to change and persecute the changed. the former…

"why spend our lives trying to redeem these humans" <- why spend our lives trying to appease the old gods and return things to the way they were before; why spend our lives resisting change.

"when we could replace them with what they could never be" <- salem has always been about overthrowing and replacing the gods, and she is also not human anymore; 'the shallow sea' is an allegory about the faunus but also it is just salem's story, a leap of faith into mystical waters that changed her into something new. and that myth is an ancient oral tradition. and in the lost fable, salem quotes its concluding lines to express her alternative path to the mandate

(which. would be in line with salem's manner of speech generally; as i've discussed before, her big speeches are rehearsed and she struggles to go off script. it makes…sense that she would fall back on quoting from an oral tradition like this in a tense moment, and in many ways 'the shallow sea' does challenge the brothers' perspective on humankind in ways that are cogent for her rejection of their mandate, so it also makes sense that salem would connect the dots)

at a minimum i think "what they never can be" signals that "what they could never be" is also not a statement of genocidal intent because… why would you end this faunus-origin myth with an almost identical phrase to salem's final words in her origin episode if she was proposing genocide, lmfao

especially when:

In the aftermath of the Great War, when Faunus settled on Menagerie, the story of a magical island made just for them has become tinged with bittersweet irony. Consequently, the story has fallen out of favor and I understand it is rarely spoken these days. This, too, influenced my to record it before it is lost to posterity.

Here I will remind you that this story—dare I say every story ever told—may still hold a kernel of truth, even if the plot details are contrived. Whatever the criticisms laid upon “The Shallow Sea,” in my opinion it still holds deep truths about Humans and Faunus that everyone should take the time to consider.

ozpin's annotations on all of these tales contain pretty fucking blatant foreshadowing, and his notes on this one flag that this myth is one of the stories that is "true" for a given value of truth. compare 'the two brothers':

Remnant survived the Great War, but while the four kingdoms now cooperate and coexist, our bond seems tenuous. We have a fragile peace, and in some ways, we are more divided than ever. Even if the gods aren’t real, even if they don’t return to judge us for our deeds, we should act each day as though they are arriving tomorrow. In the end, we will be the arbiters of our fates. We will either create a beautiful, peaceful world and live in harmony together or destroy ourselves and our planet, and the gods will judge what we have chosen.

(<- note that these and 'the hunter's children' are the only stories wherein ozpin mentions the great war; on 'the hunter's children' he "speculates" that the last king of vale based the four-huntsman teams idea on the fairytale, and his reason for invoking the specter of war after 'the two brothers' is obvious, but that leaves 'the shallow sea' as the odd one out… unless you associate the story with salem, and then ozpin's choice to emphasize that this particular story has fallen out of favor and is seldom told anymore is perhaps worth raising an eyebrow at.)

#thinking out loud here but like #this lives in my brain 24/7 #if 'the shallow sea' is salem's story and she's the god of animals-- #how does that recontextualize her words in 'the lost fable' #… the lost fable. 'the shallow sea' is in danger of being lost because of the design ozma imposed upon the world after the great war. hm #throws this one onto the 'ozpin telling on himself' pile

[clouvu]

Offering lil doodles of them bc my eyes have been opened

#genshin impact #furina #clorinde #furinde #furina's character story 5 and her voicelines about clorinde has left me so mentally ill in the head #THE WAY FURINA FELT THAT SHE WAS NO LONGER WANTED AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY CLORINDE POPPED UP TO INVITE HER TO A LIL GATHERING AMONG FRIENDS #NOT TO MENTION THAT CLORINDE IMMEDIATELY OFFERED TO PAY FOR HER TO HAVE BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS #EVEN WHEN DECLINED SHE STILL HELPED FURINA TIDY UP HER NEW APARTMENT BEFORE THEY WENT OUT FOR DRINKS TOGETHER #the way clorinde was no longer bound to any sort of contract but still went to visit furina and help her out of her own volition is so????? #AND the fact that little miss stonefaced 24/7 clorinde actually SMILED at furina???? chewing on aluminum foil #oughhhh they scratch at my brain so nicely #ALSO!! ALSO!! THE LONGING IN FURINA'S VOICE WHEN SHE SAYS HOW MUCH SHE TRUSTS CLORINDE AND MISSES HER IS SO!!!!!!!!! #crawling on the walls and howling as we speak #4.2 had made me already so deranged about furina to the point where she shot up from being just a funky lil guy to straight hyperfixation #I just thinjk;;;;;;; she deserves to be happy for once in her life (and have her lil emotional support bodyguard gf w/ her to smooch)

[hiding-under-the-willow]

A bunch more out of context stuff from the fic I've been working on. I swear I'll actually post it so y'all can understand what any of this means at some point lmao

#atlas.art #artists on tumblr #mcyt #hermitcraft #iskall85 #welsknight #vintagebeef #hypnotizd #likeahouseonfirefic #it feels weird posting all of these without context but also this fic is living rent free in my brain 24/7 #so i am just gonna keep doing it lol #if i don't get the art out of my head i'll die <3

[3na-exe]

fellas is it gay to light your partners cigarette

#THEY LIVE IN MY BRAIN 24/7 #3na-png #the great ace attorney #the great ace attorney fanart #dgs #dgs fanart #dai gyakuten saiban #herlock sholmes #mikotoba yujin #yujin mikotoba #yuujin mikotoba #mikotoba yuujin #homumiko

[tadpole-apocalypse]

Trying something a bit different…🤭

Art by me, words by @withersily

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#baldur’s gate 3 #baldur’s gate #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #astarion x tav #tav oc #bg3: morgan #my art #brat morgan lives in my brain 24/7 #wip #nsft

[robotsandramblings]

getting to see Crosshair in close quarters hand-to-hand combat was such a fucking delicious treat

#it's living in my brain rent free 24/7 since i saw it #crosshair #the bad batch #star wars #spoilers #bad batch spoilers #HOT DAMN

[whaledocboi]

in honor of my reoccuring dishonored obsession, here are some of my all time favourite pieces of art by piotr jablonski (1-4) and sergey kolesov (5-7), thanks to these, i'll never be normal again

#especially the addermire institute one that just lives in my brain 24/7 #i might've said this before but these two are probably my biggest art inspirations ever #genuinely changed the trajectory of my life #not even kidding when i say that #dishonored #art #dishonored posting

[hershelchocolateart]

"I can't tell if the image is frozen or not, but after watching her increasingly erratic behavior, I can't shake the feeling that she's looking at me."

#the mechanisms #the bifrost incident #the mechanisms fanart #the mechanisms the bifrost incident #the mechanisms tbi #loki #the mechanisms loki #odin #the mechanisms odin #thor #the mechanisms thor #sigyn #the mechanisms sigyn #lyfrassir edda #the mechanisms lyfrassir edda #eye strain #just in case #GUYS THIS TOOK SO LONG BUT I LOVE IT SO SO SO SO SO SO MUCH #lyf lives in my brain rent free 24/7 #instagram got this early because my class wanted me to make a reel #so yall get it early too!!!! #monsters lyf

[yourleftpinkytoe-blog]

Taking a moment out of my day to remind everyone that Neil’s jortventure is a thing that exists

#it is one of the things that lives rent free in my brain 24/7 #aftg #all for the game #the foxhole court #andrew minyard #the foxes #neil josten #andreil #all for the gay #exy is sexy #Neil’s jortventure

[snorp-gorp]

I am once again giving you snorpy

#I don’t think I could even count the amount of times I’ve drawn this guy #he lives in my brain 24/7 #bugsnax #snorpy fizzlebean #bugsnax art #bugsnax snorpy #bugsnax fanart #Es’s art

[pixelatedmars]

something lgbt happened here

#fun fact: this is my first piece of art made using procreate!! #i got an ipad + procreate yesterday so ill probably be uploading art more regularly #anyways these guys live in my brain 24/7 #my art #toh #the owl house #toh spoilers #aladarius #alador blight #darius deamonne #they are so fun to draw omg

[abunnsburrow]

As someone who obsesses over Ninjago and looks at it under a magnifying glass, I'm a little disappointed nobody acknowledges how much of a nerd Nya is She's such a dork, you don't understand. Everyone thinks she's so cool. She isn't. You all overestimate her. Yes she's a badass and can commit murder, I fully agree with that

but this girl is so silly. She gets excited over completing a 3 by 3 sliding puzzle(Fire Chapter, Scrolls). She can't come up with names at all(Prime Empire). She apparently talked about redesigning her Samurai X Mech for literal hours (Tales: Samurai X-Treme(on youtube)) and that isn't getting into the REST of that short. She is incredibly petty ALL the time in the best possible way, all the way back to season one. Nya suggested, for a wish, to unleash the Great Devourer. She cannot deliver one liners.

I fully agree with badass murder Nya but we need to ALSO appreciate her silly side that would probably be perfectly willing and happy to listen to Jay talk about trains for 3 hours

#ninjago #ninjago nya #nya smith #nya jiang #bunn chats #ninjago thoughts #listen #she lives in my brain 24/7 #nya obsessor rambles

[realkilljoyhoursnow]

Helium wars. May, 1999. L to R: Tommy Chow Mein, Cherri Cola, Dr. Death Defying.

ID in alt

#danger days #cherri cola #dr death defying #tommy chow mein #tlotfk #im cherri cola lore posting. muahahaha #TCM is about 20. Cherri should be 19. Dr D should be 23 or 24 #this was abt 7 months before Dr D was paralyzed #I HAVE SO MUCH SECRET LORE THAT LIVES IN MY BRAIN FOR THESE GUYS #so much lore. ill post a fanfic soon. but itll be a secret. tee hee #im actually losing my mind #hours has art

[kennedysharper]

the thing is that at the end of the day chris fucking redfield was willing to let the world burn to cinders bc he just wanted to spend 10 more minutes with jill bc she's all that matters to him and they're all that matter to me and this is all that matters to everything

#jay talks #VALENFIELD!! #valenfield #when I say that this scene lives rent free in my mind I am not kidding #like 24/7/365 #just “well yeah but” echoing inside my brain all day

[gtcopter]

fuuuck me dude. I made more doodles.

#ignore how the second one is shot in different lighting #this au lives in my brain 24/7 #i need to write a fic but it'sss scaryyy #borrower nerds au #borrower!pete #borrower!richie #borrower!ruth #peter spankoffski #richie lipschitz #ruth fleming #stephanie lauter #lautski #g/t #giant/tiny #g/t community #borrowers #nerdy prudes must die #npmd #hatchetfield #hatchetverse #team starkid

[tarantula-hawk-wasp]

pov he is going to fuck you up  technically another fall of the castle of lions redraw but mostly me having fun with purple.  allow me to rehash my favorite headcanon from 2016 which is that activating his galra arm is painful bc he always looks extra jaw clenched when he uses it, but in a fight it would just be part of the adrenaline 

#takashi shirogane #shiro #voltron #vld #voltron legedary defender #my art #i love him soooooooooooo much literally it is mental fancams 24/7 in my brain #by favorite headcanon I mean I made one post about it six/seven years ago that got like ten notes BUT it lives rent free in my head