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phantomrose96:

phantomrose96:

Unique tumblr experience is that if you’re here long enough you will inevitably be accused of making a Homestuck reference.

You give your OC a birthday and someone in the tags will be like “#I see you OP #July 12th? Same day as David Karpet’s first time loop death #I see what you did”

You reference blueberry pie in a post and it turns out that’s Vegeta Nupita’s username you spell a word funny and happen to nail Rose Landslide’s typing quirk you make some post that YOU think is incomprehensible like “don’t listen to them bro your muscles are huge and your hamster is GNC as fuck” and someone in the tags will be like “#OP you’re not slick #Homestuck” bro the HAMSTER?????

One time in 2015 I wrote a fanfiction and I needed a random date for the fic to happen on and by luck of the cards I chose 4/13 and I Janskjsjenbd doohhwhyhwsddfffff

The real meta is the half-dozen people in the notes accusing me of being a Homestuck purely on account of having made this post.

I can’t even add to the joke I can’t even add anything this is just 100% nail-on-the-head what I was parodying in the original post just turns out I need to try HARDER with the parody part because I accidentally perfectly distilled reality.

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thoodleoo:

postilionstruckbylightning:

thoodleoo:

you know what? fuck you *replaces all the boards in your ship with different boards until you aren’t sure whether it’s the same ship anymore*

You know what? Fuck you back *builds exact replica of the ship with the discarded original boards*

/straps a jet engine onto both of your ships

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Anonymous asked:

Xicheng

wenofqishan:

it’s similar to nmj where the experience gap presented in cql meant it has never occurred to me to consider them romantically. i’m not against it and i’ve seen some cute things but like i never got what the basis of this was? is there something in the novel that makes this ship so popular or… are we just pairing up the spare brother-in-laws… whats the deal

I’d say the ship is a good 50% pair the spares/Just Wanting Someone To Be Nice to Jiang Cheng, and 50% taking all the WWX&JGY thematic parallels to their logical conclusion in terms of “these two dudes are both supremely fucked up about someone they trusted profoundly who deceived them about extremely important shit leading to a lot of tragedy and became the pariahs of the cultivation world, and they blame themselves for letting it happen, and if anyone can relate to what post-canon LXC is going through, it’s JC.”

Anonymous asked:

Your opinion on 'Lord of the Flies' is Very Good and a relief to read. Would you express your thoughts on the Book of Job some time, if you feel like it?

DO I

BUCKLE UP, FOLKS

To start, disclaimers: I am a lifelong atheist raised by explicitly atheist ex-Catholics. I am neither Jewish nor Christian, and I’m coming at this text from a philosophical and literary angle, not one that is genuinely trying to grapple with the nature of of God. (Although I AM genuinely trying to grapple with the main moral conundrum of the text.) There’s going to be some affectionate flippancy about God in this post, and if you don’t want to see that, go ahead and hit J. Also, while I acknowledge that I’ve been brought up culturally Christian, the fact of the matter is that the Book of Job is a fundamentally Jewish text, and that affects everything about it, and I’ve studied it in that context and I’m going to do my best to represent it that way. 

So. What’s going on in the Book of Job?

First and foremost, it’s a work of Theodicy, which is the entire philosophical slugfest around the question: If God Is All Good and All Powerful, Why The Fuck Is There Suffering??? There have been a ton of popular answers to this question throughout history! Some major contenders include 1) actually God’s just a dick sometimes (some older books of the Tanakh/Old Testament, several versions of gnosticism) 2) actually God’s not all powerful, the Devil Did It (manicheanism, a lot of Christians that don’t think too hard about it) 3) actually there’s no such thing as evil, evil is just an ‘absence’ of good (St Augustine) 4) free will is such a great good thing that it’s morally right for God to permit some evil in order to preserve free will (Milton, some seasons of Supernatural) 5) actually it’s All In God’s Plan, There’s a Reason for Everything, This is the Best of All Possible Worlds (more modern Christians + Leibniz, the inventor of calculus, best known for being parodied by Voltaire in Candide) 6) actually none of the suffering in this world matters because what’s important is the Soul/Eternity/other realms of existence (lots of modern christians again, some forms of Buddhism, sort of) 7) the world is full of suffering because you are WICKED and you DESERVE IT. (Lots of people throughout time, because justice is a comforting idea, but like, Calvinists especially.)

The Book of Job does not quite subscribe to any of these answers, but it’s written specifically to REPUDIATE answer #7. Answer #7, also known as the Just World Fallacy, sucks gigantic donkey balls, so I’m a fan of it getting torn to shreds. And I kind of like the answer it does come up with.

So what even happens in the Book of Job? (all quotes taken from the New Revised Standard Version translation):

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realsophietexas:

god i miss playing minecraft i just wanna eat berries and kill

good news! you can also do that in new jersey for free

i fucking love this unhinged website

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Lord of the Rings:

Originally posted by marta-bee

Vs.

Game of Thrones:

Originally posted by riderj123

“But where’s that light coming from” BITCH IT’S FANTASY WHO CARES

Ok but also from a like, theatrical storytelling perspective, there’s a thing called “willful suspension of disbelief” which is basically the concept that in order to let ourselves be immersed and enjoy a story, we need to turn off our knowledge that it’s all fake anyway.

like yes, we all *know* it’s unrealistically bright for a night time war, but it needs to be so we can SEE the story being told, and the lighting designer used blue light to show it was night time. We KNOW that Sir Ian isn’t actually a wizard but we SUSPEND that DISBELIEF because we want to be entertained.

theres the moon, theres the stars, in this fantasy world the stars might be four times as bright or there might be two moons

or, considering this is a land without electric lights, its assumed that everyones eyes, including those of the viewers, have adjusted enough to the darkness that yes normal ass moon and stars provide sufficient illumination to actually see that the elf king is not wearing sweatpants like youd be able to tell or who the hell was that who just got stabbed thats kind of an important detail in an action scene

Elijah Wood said he brought this up with Andrew Lesnie, cinematographer on LOTR, once and asked him where the light was coming from in a particular scene, and Lesnie just smiled and said “same place as the music”.

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I definitely think that Nie Mingjue did not tell people about Meng Yao’s murdering people (at least in CQL) and the reason is that NMJ is actually aware of reputation.

Meng Yao has killed his captain, NMJ saw him holding the sword and sneering before trying to say it wasn’t him, but then Meng Yao saves his life (possibly, that blow may not have killed him, it certainly didn’t kill MY, but that’s splitting hairs). NMJ has every right as sect leader to kill MY anyway for murder. Doing one good deed doesn’t cancel out another - Hannibal Lecter can’t just point to that time he saved a guy in an ambulance therefore it’s fine if he kills and eats this other guy, right?

But it’s complicated. NMJ trusted MY, he was his deputy, he trusted him with Huaisang, and he does know about MY’s past. He knows MY has been bullied! He’s tried to stop it! He yelled at everyone in that cave and did his best to put the fear of Chifeng-zun into them! How was he to know that MY was that vicious, that vindictive, that murderous and unforgiving? That MY would murder in such a calculating way, using someone else’s sword so it wouldn’t look like him? That’s cold-blooded, man. This is not the man he knew, he has seen behind the mask and realized that the one he trusted was a mere facade.

And yet. MY did step in front of a sword for him. He had done so much good for him. And, barely holding in his tears, NMJ decides to only kick him out. And then he doesn’t tell anyone why, because if people knew that he had bitten the hand that fed him like that, he would really have nowhere to go. Canon is a little confused because in MDZS we only find out about this murder incident via Empathy with NMJ’s head, and it was a Jin captain, not a Nie, but I think the point is still there - NMJ didn’t publicize that murder and it was only later that this was brought up as one of JGY’s crimes.

The thing I’m stuck on is whether or not NMJ told LXC. Because, and I’m sorry to be uncharitable here, I can really see LXC gaslighting the fuck out of NMJ if he did and pushing the sworn brotherhood anyway.

Sadly I think that LXC absolutely would have gaslit NMJ =( Something @fortune-maiden​ mentioned a while back has stuck with me, about how LXC chooses to let JGY play Clarity for NMJ even though JGY has just learned the technique and doesn’t have a background in musical cultivation - or in other words, he prioritizes showing trust in JGY’s skills and “giving him and NMJ the chance to rebuild their brotherhood” over making sure NMJ actually has the most competent help with his life-threatening condition. If he couldn’t do it himself, why not ask LQR, or LWJ? Or some experienced disciple?

So I don’t think it’s especially uncharitable to assume LXC would’ve put “harmony” and JGY’s feelings over NMJ in pretty much any given situation.

But anyway, I think you’re right that NMJ never told anyone the details about MY’s actions re: the captain, and I think that turned into a trap for him later. Because I also doubt he told them much about MY’s treatment of HIM in Nightless City - and while part of that was certainly NMJ feeling like it was weak and unworthy of him to even HAVE feelings about the way he personally was trapped, possibly betrayed, psychologically tortured etc, especially when his loyal disciples were DEAD, I think part of it was fear. Fear that if he started telling the full truth now, LXC and NHS - who both loved MY as much as they loved him, or so NMJ thinks, at least - would think it was HIM being manipulative, that it was a post-construction. That they’d choose MY/JGY over him, and leave NMJ alone with his freshly relived trauma.

Y’all, we already have canon evidence of LXC gaslighting NMJ on MY’s behalf.

The maps.

In almost every canon, LXC expressly refuses to reveal the identity of the informant sending the spy maps to NMJ, who is effectively his commanding officer, even though NMJ asks him more than once. He puts his suspicions that NMJ would not trust the maps if he knew who sent them over the necessity of the chain of command being informed, implying a very large degree of knowledge of just how bad things are between them (and in the novel, this gives MY the opening needed to lead NMJ straight into an ambush). And then in the aftermath of Nightless City, he dares to ask NMJ “did you not know who sent the maps?” to save MY’s life, as if it wasn’t information they specifically withheld from him.

…yeah, there’s that.

Though I still wonder if the knowledge in question involves details of exactly what happened. If anything, this strengthens my suspicion that LXC thought (and preferred to think) that NMJ was being irrationally angry. Unless he was already so deep down the rabbit hole at that point that his reaction to “Meng Yao coldly murdered one of my men and tried to blame it on the prisoner he himself had let go” was “oh I’m sure A-Yao had Good Reasons”, which, you know, it’s not IMPOSSIBLE…

I know this discussion is mostly about the CQL version of things, but I did go and look up the novel version again to see how differently the situation was handled aaaaand:

…yeah, looks like I was dead wrong there! But on the other hand, if that was the reaction NMJ got out of his supposed best friend, I continue to stand by my conviction that he wouldn’t have told anyone else, nor dared open up to Xichen again =(

I mean, look at what Xichen is implying about MINGJUE’S character in trying to hold on to his good opinion of A-Yao’s! “You probably misunderstood what was going on! Or if you didn’t, you’re probably overreacting. I mean I guess he shouldn’t have murdered someone but ethical questions are so complicated, you know. I wish A-Yao was here so I could hear his explanation, because I’m sure he’d make it all make sense, and the fact he tried to lie to you while standing over a fresh corpse doesn’t at all affect my conviction that his version is worth hearing.”

I am now imagining:

WRH leaves the throne room to deal with WWX.

NMJ has more energy than thought - he manages to kill MY. He then manages to do what MY did in canon and kills WRH.

How would LXC react to MY being dead?

“He was our spy, NMJ, how could you?”

“Well, heck, maybe if YOU TOLD ME ABOUT IT!!!”

For the record, I can never think about that scene without seeing that manip someone did comparing it to turning off the wifi…

Also LXC probably WOULD flip. Which kind of makes me feel bad for him when nothing else did because I’m suddenly convinced that LXC, being so out of touch with his own anger, is at the very least in denial of the complexities and gradations of anger. That he’s managed to convince himself that NMJ’s anger at MY is no different from when NMJ threatens to break Huaisang’s legs for the third time in a week after the eighth annoying but ultimately trivial misbehavior of that same week.

That it’s appropriate to apply, that NMJ probably even WANTS him to apply, the same kind of behavior - soothing, deflecting, giving NMJ an excuse to stop being mad, because deep down he doesn’t WANT to be. That it’s a case of “I love you so much but sometimes you get on my last fucking nerve”, and not “you did something I consider morally wrong, and you did it in a way that brought home to me we were never friends in the first place because the person I thought I befriended was just an act you put on to manipulate me”.

And then NMJ… actually kills MY?!

Yeah part of the issue is that in the book it seems much more clear-cut how LXC gaslights him, but in CQL it’s not stated quite so clearly. But we have LXC stopping NMJ from killing him directly, when NMJ has obviously just been tortured (or at least is grievously injured) and he seems very firm that Meng Yao Did What He Had To Do, you know, For The Greater Good. LXC, sect leader of the upstanding Lan Sect, is surprisingly forgiving of this sort of moral ambiguity, while simultaneously just… not listening to NMJ’s concerns?

I’m not a xiyao shipper but it really does seem like he chooses JGY over NMJ, repeatedly, even if when WWX and LWJ come to him with these concerns he acts like he’s taking them seriously. And yet, he’s not at the burial mounds, he’s off with JGY, and at the temple his spiritual energy is sealed but he doesn’t… try do do anything? No wonder there is that moment of Doubt where they wonder if LXC is in on it.

And it just makes me think that NHS had it right - we gotta make sure JGY is dead before LXC can start in on the gaslighting defense of “oh, maybe he just needs seclusion” or “perhaps exile is best.”

If NMJ had killed JGY and then WRH it would have fixed a lot of things, but I think it genuinely might have broken his friendship with LXC permanently. (Even though, yeah, how was HE supposed to know?!)

Anonymous asked:

If you could have a mdzs sibling based on hug rating, who would you choose?

Hands down, if i had to pick a guy, mingjue, a girl, our beloved Yanli!

Those trunk arms would feel SO safe, like my big bro is bigger than me, and its so WARM AND SAFE! Hugging a bigger person does that to me.

Yanli. Our darling angelic shi-jie. Her hugs would be SOOTHING. You could fall asleep in her embrace. Thats why chengcheng was so mad, jiejie cant hug him and sooth him with her huggies ever again.

(I couldn't pick between the two specifically, sorry)

wenofqishan:

absolutely NO hesitation, the best hugger in cql is jiang cheng. apparently our boy made up for never being hugged by his parents by learning to give the best hugs of all time