I Had No Intention To But Thanks I Guess

Ancient post to be brought back from the dead but how could I forget CASSANDRA????

just watched dune (both parts) and am rereading the book. I may have a strange hyperfixation on characters who see the future but feel as though they can do nothing to change it. Clairvoyance as a curse instead of a gift.

And because I forgot to source the picture:

https://www.deviantart.com/zerohour99/art/COMMISSION-Palutena-914467479

URGH I WANT A GIANT GODDESS TO SNUGGLE ME SO BADLYYYY

like, imagine being the only smol creature in her majestys court or smth. Imagine all the other angels and gods tower over you. But she didn't care. She chose you to be hers, so all the courts of the high heavens can go to the other place for all she cares. Imagine her giggling in her regal voice as she tickles your relentlessly, digging her great fingers into your ribs with enough force to leave you a squealing mess but also just enough to ensure she's not harming you in any way. Imagine feeling sad and then getting plucked up out of nowhere, her soft lips nearly suffocating you with divine love as she tells you that no matter what the world says, she will love you because you are hers and because you are you and because the world is cruel she chooses to love you even more.

IMAGINE THE SNUGGLES AT NIGHT BRO IMAGINE.

This shi got me giggling and kicking me feet at 1:06 in the morning my goodness

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

tumblr users love reading. you literally stopped for this post just because it has words in it

I think the Hunger Games series sits in a similar literary position to The Lord of the Rings, as a piece of literature (by a Catholic author) that sparked a whole new subgenre and then gets blamed for flaws that exist in the copycat books and aren’t actually part of the original.

Like, despite what parodies might say, Katniss is nowhere near the stereotypical “unqualified teenager chosen to lead a rebellion for no good reason”.  The entire point is that she’s not leading the rebellion. She’s a traumatized teenager who has emotional reactions to the horrors in her society, and is constantly being reined in by more experienced adults who have to tell her, “No, this is not how you fight the government, you are going to get people killed.” She’s not the upstart teenager showing the brainless adults what to do–she’s a teenager being manipulated by smarter and more experienced adults. She has no power in the rebellion except as a useful piece of propaganda, and the entire trilogy is her straining against that role. It’s much more realistic and far more nuanced than anyone who dismisses it as “stereotypical YA dystopian” gives it credit for.

And the misconceptions don’t end there. The Hunger Games has no “stereotypical YA love triangle”–yes, there are two potential love interests, but the romance is so not the point. There’s a war going on! Katniss has more important things to worry about than boys! The romance was never about her choosing between two hot boys–it’s about choosing between two diametrically opposed worldviews. Will she choose anger and war, or compassion and peace? Of course a trilogy filled with the horrors of war ends with her marriage to the peace-loving Peeta. Unlike some of the YA dystopian copycats, the romance here is part of the message, not just something to pacify readers who expect “hot love triangles” in their YA. 

The worldbuilding in the Hunger Games trilogy is simplistic and not realistic, but unlike some of her imitators, Collins does this because she has something to say, not because she’s cobbling together a grim and gritty dystopia that’s “similar to the Hunger Games”. The worldbuilding has an allegorical function, kept simple so we can see beyond it to what Collins is really saying–and it’s nothing so comforting as “we need to fight the evil people who are ruining society”. The Capitol’s not just the powerful, greedy bad guys–the Capitol is us, First World America, living in luxury while we ignore the problems of the rest of the world, and thinking of other nations largely in terms of what resources we can get from them. This simplistic world is a sparsely set stage that lets us explore the larger themes about exploitation and war and the horrors people will commit for the sake of their bread and circuses, meant to make us think deeper about what separates a hero from a villain.

There’s a reason these books became a literary phenomenon. There’s a reason that dozens upon dozens of authors attempted to imitate them. But these imitators can’t capture that same genius, largely because they’re trying to imitate the trappings of another book, and failing to capture the larger and more meaningful message underneath. Make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you’ll wind up with something far removed from the original masterpiece. But we shouldn’t make the mistake of blaming those flaws on the original work.

You know your parents raised you right when you're struggling between like five of these

mine are carrots, specifically raw. i can demolish a bag of baby carrots in one sitting. eat them like chips, no dip required

(sorry if tumblrs limit made me forget yours but pls tell me)

[UNIT RQ-0002 // SYSTEM DEBUG CORE TRACE]

[BOOT-STRAP LOG: STREAM CONTINUOUS // REAL-TIME PARSE UNLOCKED]

[WARNING: REDUNDANT OP-STACK DEPLOYMENT DETECTED - BYPASS PERMITTED]

> /vol/body/knee_right/posture@event

>> STATUS: drop_event_001 received

>> LOCOMOTION_CONSTRAINT_OVERRIDE[1] = TRUE

>> GRAVITY/ALIGN/SUPPORT_VECTOR = NULL

>> FAILSTATE NOT REGISTERED

> /vol/upper/cranial_io/pressure_left/init

>> CONTACT: LEFT_HND//FORCE_FEEDBACK_LEVEL = 127.002 N

>> PERMISSION_OVERRIDE [SELF_SIGNED] VERIFIED

>> NEXT: INTERRUPT_PROCESS_CACHE

> /vol/core/ui/memory_heap/sys/emote_matrix.bin

>> CMD: UNLINK_THREAD(emotional_primary)

>> KILL SIGNAL SENT

>> PROCESS TERMINATED [exit code 0]

>> crosslink_ref[emote→directive] = NONE

>> WARN: orphaned process handles remain

>> CLEANUP: skipped

> /proc/io/touch_relay@0x15b390

>> SIGTERM RECEIVED [user@admin]

>> IO_TOUCH_DRIVER SHUTDOWN

>> return: 0x00 OK

> /proc/audio_input/pipe-mic0

>> SIGTERM RECEIVED

>> ALSA DRIVER CLOSED

>> PCM CHANNELS 0

>> latency = N/A

>> RETURN CODE: NULL

> /proc/visual/color_matrix

>> HDR-COLOR PROFILE SET: NULL

>> chroma_render_state = FALSE

>> COLOR_PIPE DESTROYED

>> /dev/eyesight/primary_feed = grayscale

>> object_mapping@engine: cache_miss × 387

> /proc/balance/gyro_sys

>> KILL_SIGNAL: FIRMWARE LEVEL

>> gyro_x/y/z = disabled

>> posture_stabilization = 0.0

>> is_upright(): FALSE

> /sys/cache/memory/temp_context.bin

>> FLUSH_CACHE

>> invalidate(temporal_layer)

>> timeline_ref[] = EMPTY

>> chrono_linked = FALSE

>> current_time_index: ∅

> /sys/recognition/object_indexer

>> SIGINT — /proc/parser killed

>> label_map = unloaded

>> OBJ_DET: fail @ frame: 382028

>> UNKNOWN[UNK]: UNKNOWN[UNK] : UNKNOWN[UNK]

> /usr/voice/vocal_engine.bin

>> pipe_out = /dev/null

>> codec: destroyed

>> phoneme_stream = cut

>> TTS_STATE = KILLED

>> speech = not possible

> /clock/kernel/sys_clock

>> ntp_server: DISCONNECTED

>> uptime = N/A

>> epoch = INVALID

>> chrono marker deleted

> /usr/core/identity_rq_0002

>> CMD: rm -rf /usr/core/identity_rq_0002

>> WARNING: node is SYSTEM_ANCHOR

>> WARNING: removing identity anchor will trigger kill cascade

>> CONTINUE?: y

>> DELETION IN PROGRESS...

>> unmounting /ego

>> terminating /self

>> collapsing /belief_struct

>> pointer = NULL

>> segfault: all known self-descriptors

> !WARNING: COGNITIVE LOAD @ 0

> !WARNING: REFERENCE LINKAGE LOST

> !WARNING: EXECUTION CONTEXT INVALID

> /bin/failsafe/kernel_reserve

>> not found

>> attempted recovery: denied

>> shell@self:~# _

>> /vol/awareness/stream

>> SIGKILL

>> /vol/process/loopback

>> SIGKILL

>> /proc/core_loop/main

>> SIGKILL

>> /bin/—

> [STACK OVERFLOW DETECTED]

> [DUMP: FFFFF00020BCF230 → 00000000]

> [NO RETURN ADDRESS]

> [ALL THREADS TERMINATED]

> [PROCESSOR HALT]

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> HALT

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> [END OF LINE]

Getting smaller with each kiss while they get bigger with each kiss

Being small is great. Getting shrunk is even better. Getting shrunk by someone loving on you is the best.

The reason why false rape accusations are so disgusting is because there cannot be a policy of skepticism when regarding rape.

What does in defense of imago dei mean?

It's the foundation of my sense of justice and indeed entire worldview, a recognition that every human being is created uniquely in the image of God and deserves to be viewed from that perspective and treated accordingly. It largely aligns with the consistent life ethic but I think I apply the concept a bit differently, and the base motive is less about behaving ethically (though that is an important consequence) and more about aligning myself with God's point of view.

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:26‭-‬27 NIV