#Determination and Familiars

[familiarstale]

needed to draw the otp comfort ship for pride month the way they have their flags like that it looks like they've just invaded and conquered some place invasion of the queers Cagney's pride flag is bisexual and Flowey's flag/scythe is the pride rainbow, intersex and gender queer Flowey and Cagney Carnation can be interacted with here: @familiarstale

#Flowey #Undertale #Cagney Carnation #Cuphead: dont deal with the devil #Bouquetshipping #Pride Month 2022 #lgbtq #bisexual #intersex #genderqueer #crossover ship #Undertale AU #Determination and Familiars #FamiliarsTale #Crossover #Undertale RP Blog #Undertale Ask Blog #Cuphead Ask Blog #Cuphead RP Blog #art

[mayasaura]

All this talk about Princess Maker 2 Hell had me curious, and I-

Now hang on a second....

No way...

TAMSYN!!!

#cannot BELIEVE THIS SHIT #a war hero is given a saughter of the heavens to raise and how well he raises her determines the future of humanity??? #now why does that sound familiar???? #oh my fucking god #I love this series #I adore this series #did she do this on purpose??? was that ama reference a fucking in joke with herself??? #btw the hell ending is where the daughter slays the demon king and takes his place as ruler of hell #or the one where she marries the devil lmao #the locked tomb #ntn spoilers #nona the ninth #princess maker 2 hell

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

That moment when you realize that Marinette is twirling the measuring tape like her yo-yo in this scene:

#i was watching this scene #and something felt familiar #i know they have quantum masking and everything #but how has adrien not figured out her identity yet?!?! #ml spoilers #ml determination #adrinette #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #ladybug #lovesquare #miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous #mlb

[morallygay]

Bucchigiri honki shrine decipher and translation

Some time ago I made a post about this tablet, to exalt its coolness as a stylistic mix of arabic and japanese scripts. Upon closer look I noticed it was not random for the aesthetic, but actually real japanese sentences, in an arabic-inspired font!

So I decided to decipher it. It was fun but challenging (especially as a non-native japanese speaker!), but I managed to do it.

japanese and translation:

戦で乱れし世に　逃げぬ心で In a world disarrayed by war, with a heart that does not flee

鍛錬を積み頂点を目指せ者共あり。 They are the people who accumulate training and aim for the top.

その名を本気人という。 They are called Honki People.

己が身に幾千の武具すら及ぬ力を宿し Their body possesses power that a thousand armors cannot match.

その拳は火を吹く大筒の如く Their fist is such as a cannon that spits fire

その蹴りは玉鋼の名刀をも砕いた。 Their kick shattered even the famous tamahagane* swords.

正々堂々　一途な(る?)生き— A "fair and square", singleminded (way of) life—

民の心を打つも— They strike even the People's hearts—

*traditional japanese steel made from iron sand and used in swords

BONUS:

This banner from episode 7. Once again japanese, but the katakana part really looks like arabic imo if you didn't know better! very cool

"合同コンバット" (gôdô combatto) Joint combat

A pun on "合同コンパ" (gôdô compa), "joint party / mixer"; what Arajin thought he was getting into.

#bucchigiri #bucchigiri?! #animanga #anime #linguistics tag #moralgayness #god being familiar with the arabic alphabet only complicated it i was automatically reading 'ت' (t) with those 'で' in the first sentence #and that fucking '一' from '一途' in the penultimate sentence that inexplicably has 2 dots above it? #it was hard to decipher '一途' btw but i noticed the line is higher than the rest of the words which helped me determine it could only be 一 #despite the 2 dots.. pretty 😎 of me ngl

[tacit-semantics]

Finally finished prime season two six months after everyone else and I’ve gotta say the choice to have shadow look at nine and IMMEDIATELY experience self recognition through the other (derogatory) (extremely derogatory) is going to change me on a molecular level

#shadow watching this overtly intense and intensely independent kid latch onto a sibling figure and then constructing his entire worldview ( #precariously positive until it Isn’t) around that single point: Hey Wait A Second #not entirely perfectly accurate but like the general idea is there. not to mention that he’s familiar with tails too- knows about that #determination and Problem Solving (tm) if nothing else #anyways nines my favorite character in prime naturally it was never gonna be anyone else but considering how shadow and tails kinda tie for #fav character in the franchise what they’re doin here. God. anyways I’m POSITIVE people were talking about this but I’m waaay too easily #overwhelmed to participate in very active fandom spaces so here I am behind the curve sjjsjs #sth #tacit rambles: sonic

[wildberryjams]

Hello ♡ It's been a while!

It's been over a year I think? I haven't kept track tbqh

I'm not really back, because I want to be noncommittal as possible (since I have a tendency to disappear when my motivation to write does)

But this is me saying that I'm finally working on under the rose again! ♡

I'd all but abandoned it months ago, but yesterday I had a burst of energy and managed to write a couple hundred words. Tonight, the total is 1300. It's not much, but it's a start!

I don't talk about my personal life for many reasons, but this year has been one of the most difficult I've ever experienced. The last thing on my mind has been Will and Azul, as much as I wish they'd kept occupying every inch of it like they used to.

That spark is coming back, I think! ♡ (More in the tags since this is getting long)

#I have lots of plans for this story since what I have published is barely one third of the entire thing #It works in three acts if I'm remembering my outline correctly. I'm still re-familiarizing myself with it #But yes I do intend on trying to get part 2 of ch. 9 out in the coming weeks! #I also wanted to continue the Ruby x Bobby x Stef love triangle in a band au setting but I'm seeing that the app is gone? #I cannot even begin to describe how upset I am that S1-3 are all gone before I was able to replay properly #Not to do a sharp turn but it's been a very taxing year mentally and I want to start the new year off by trying to work on a resolution #Which is finishing a fic! I don't know if I'll finish it in 2024 but I'm determined to write as much as I'm able #Anyway I will still be a fandom recluse but I'm excited to catch up on all the writing I've missed ♡ #Posting this and going promptly to sleep ♡ (Insomnia is a huge part of UTR's conception LOL)

[paralianprince]

Hey its time to create your character as a flight rising dragon !!

ill go first

TAG!!!!!!! : @islandiis @cryingyetcourageous @toberoundistobefree @serenesecession @exmunicipalisvincit @allesistrund @brassandblue @embassytoeverythingelse @fort-no-more @bates--boy @sea-enjoyer @deepfry-enjoyer @tayto-enjoyer @vogelschadel @nokorwat @heroyam @haknam @jerriais @latvianpoet @vonruhmundglanz @frestoniia @teableeds @coffeebleeds

(i put some advice in the tags in case anyone needs it!)

#this may or may not take off but i think this would be a lot of fun! i BADLY want to see everybodys charas as dragons #ADVANCED picrew #if you're not familiar with FR - i recommend first choosing dragon species that suits your character best. gender just changes the pose. #then the genes - this will determine the scale pattern and youll easily narrow down the ones with the right vibes #THEN the colours. its worth the time to check colours adjacent to the one youve got your eye on #some of the genes interact with the colours in fantastic ways! #For example: the scale colour is 'sky' but the gene made it also add in that nice pale yellow

[sysig]

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#Doodles #SCII #Helix #ZEX #Crackship #Teisel #Meme #I am on a roll with these lol #I knew adding Teisel to my list was only a matter of time #I am a weakwilled individual with one fatal flaw #Anyway (lol) #ZEX really has his work cut out for him with Teisel haha - it's very fortunate he's so determined and enjoys a challenge 'cause otherwise! #Teisel is hard to pin down - I mean Other Than That lol - he's an interesting guy :0 #Rough around the edges and a family man ♪ And if I get to draw long hair and big muscles then all the better hehe #And he has a cute nose! He has the bridge of the nose thing that I like so much!! Yes!! #As for the rest of him - hm! I've only had passing thoughts up to this point and getting into his head is...Something lol #It's well done to be certain it definitely Makes Me Feel it's just hard to ascribe a name to that Feeling just yet #Needs a bit more time to tumble smooth I suppose lol #One thing I know I like because it makes me sad - lol - is ZEX projecting some of his feelings about DAX onto Teisel - unexpected! #It's extremely interesting how despite his deep abiding love and fascination with Otherness he's gotten increasingly homesick #Finding things charming about humans that remind him of VUX! You can tell he's a bit desperate for the familiar :'0 #So isolated from even himself ah 💔 Hang in there ZEX! #At least he has some fun distractions hehe ♪ New things to learn and consider! Teisel keeps throwing him curveballs! #Both of them circling each other like ''? Isn't it your turn?'' lol #They both come off as aggressive in their own way and then swing-and-a-miss lol #And then there's how Teisel frames him as far as age goes - or really how everyone does pffft #It is So funny to me every time anyone refer to ZEX as ''old'' now that his age has been more or less established - at least pointed at #The fact that he might not even be in his human-equivalent 50s what is this who this lol he's not old! And Max /definitely/ isn't haha #He is the slightest itty-bittiest willowiest little twink y'ever did see pfft #I have been waiting to use that meme template for someone for ages I am so glad that I finally got the chance ♪

[jacquelinemerritt]

The Philosophy of Undertale

Originally posted December 1st, 2015

Fortuna, Will to Power, and DETERMINATION

So, if you haven’t played Undertale, this is part of the article where I join the hype train and tell you that you should. It’s a fun and relatively short role playing game that’s fantastically written, and it’s also one of the funniest games I’ve ever played. The greatness of Undertale goes beyond humor though; it also serves as a critique of the Machiavellian notion of conquering Fortuna and the Nietzchean Ubermensch.

Spoiler Alert: This article spoils all three of the three possible endings of the game, so if you haven’t played through them yet, you should probably do that first.

Now, before we dive into Undertale, let me refresh your memory on what that philosophical jargon means. In his writing, Machiavelli attempts to dismantle the ancient understanding of Fortuna, or the idea that humankind’s best efforts will always be limited by our circumstances. Machiavelli didn’t believe that Fortuna was something that people had to accept, and so he argued for the conquering of Fortuna through force, with The Prince being a guide for how a ruler is to overcome Fortuna.

At the core of Nietzchean philosophy is the concept of the “Ubermensch,” or the “Overman.” The Ubermensch is a man who exerts his will to power over all those around him, dominating them so that they serve his purposes. Nietzsche came up with the Ubermensch in response to Modernism’s failure to prove the existence of an objective morality, and conceptually, the Ubermensch represents the idea that in the absence of objective morality, all that matters is how much stronger one person’s “will to power” is compared to another’s (or to paraphrase Plato, justice becomes the advantage of the stronger).

Getting back to Undertale, Machiavelli’s concept of Fortuna is represented through the concept of DETERMINATION, which your character is filled with anytime they visit a save point in the game. You discover at the end of the Genocide route that DETERMINATION is what allows you to reset your timeline to your last save, and you have a conversation with Flowey, who used to be able to reset time in this way before your character came along. This ability to reset time is the ultimate method of conquering Fortuna, but the game shows the negative consequences of this ability when it tells us Flowey’s story.

Flowey was a flower injected with DETERMINATION by Alphys, the royal scientist, and it came to life after being injected. This flower contained part of Asriel’s soul, a monster who was the prince of the underground, and he was brought back to life as a sentient flower. Flowey was rejected by his mother and father, Toriel and Asgore, and his isolation led him into a deep depression, causing him to commit suicide.

But as Flowey neared the brink of death, he realized that he didn’t want to die, and then he reappeared back at the beginning of his life as a flower. He then realized that he could reset his own timeline by bringing himself to the brink of death, and after a while, he began to use his ability to manipulate people. His ability to completely conquer Fortuna led him to a state of moral depravity, and he lost the ability to see people as anything but tools for his personal gain.

The Nietzschean Ubermensch is also shown through DETERMINATION, as the ultimate realization of the Overman’s potential. Nietzsche’s Ubermensch was able to overcome most human limitations through his will to power, but even he couldn’t overcome death. DETERMINATION allows your character to persist beyond even death, and when combined with your character’s domination over the lives of the monsters on the Genocide route, your character becomes an Ubermensch beyond what Nietzsche could have believed possible.

Of course, this is not without its costs; at the end of the genocide route, it is revealed that your character has been playing into the schemes of another since the beginning. Their name is Chara, and ever since they died in the underground, they have been plotting their revenge. By going through the underground and killing every single monster, you help realize their scheme, and after destroying the underground, they are released.

Chara then confronts you with a question: do you want to destroy the entire world? Of course, if you tell Chara that you don’t want to destroy the world, they will reveal that you have long since forfeited that option. The only choice Chara leaves for you is the option to reset your timeline, and proceed through the underground once more, as Chara respects the strange sentimentality you hold towards the world. (Interestingly, even Chara, the embodiment of destruction, suggests that you take a different path, as it might be better for you).

DETERMINATION, and its associated will to power beyond death, has other negative effects as well, which are seen in the True Lab along the Pacifist route. In the true lab, you discover that Alphys has been performing experiments with DETERMINATION, injecting it into monsters so that they might persist beyond death as well.

In the lab, you see that DETERMINATION is actively harmful to a monsters being, causing them to physically melt, with some melting together to become Amalgamates. The monsters, who throughout the game are shown to be very kind and nonviolent, cannot exist alongside DETERMINATION, and in this way, Undertale makes its final critique of Nietzschean morality: the will to power is actively destructive towards kindness, generosity, and goodness, and it is impossible for these things to exist within Nietzsche’s amoral framework.

*Flowey/Asriel is able to survive containing DETERMINATION because of Asriel’s soul bonding with the flower that was injected. The flower’s physical form is stronger than a monster’s body, and so DETERMINATION will not destroy it.

#undertale #asriel #chara #frisk #asgore #toriel #nietzche #frederick nietzsche #machiavelli #niccolo machiavelli #ubermensch #will to power #fortuna #determination #you know what #i like this piece better than i expected #it is a bit jargon heavy #and you have to be familiar with machiavelli and nietzsche to follow #but it is a cogent analysis of what undertale is doing philosophically #as it is genuinely engaged in critiques of these ideas

[familiarstale]

I was unhappy because I thought a thing of my fabric paint was stolen when I was in the states a few weeks ago though I did find it later, but to cheer myself up I had a hotdog pizza, because Frisk is stating facts in that first panel also I mean, on the longest day in the year, summer solstice - as they now exist for it - it would probably be some sort of crime to not draw Sunny in some way Frisk can be interacted with here: @familiarstale as they have been for a while and Sunny can be found here too now, same for his brother, Moon

#fnaf security breach #sundrop #fnaf sun #sunnydrop #fnaf sunrise #Daycare Attendant #Frisk #Undertale #Undertale AU #Determination and Familiars #FamilarsTale #Crossover #Undertale RP Blog #Undertale Ask Blog #Cuphead RP Blog #Cuphead Ask Blog #OC RP Blog #art

[mythvoiced]

OPEN STARTER | Baek Eunjae

"Science can explain fuck-all about bees and their fat bodies and their tiny wings, but we're definitely equipped for space-travel, sure, why not, sounds logical."

#;open starter #the social worker;eunjae #the social worker;open #you know i started writing these at around 22:50 or 10:50 PM or somewhere there #and i am very tired and have been for the past however many days #so if these one-liners seem stupid as hell please be kind to me i am just a GOON #this is eunjae energy tho don't worry the folies des hommes piss 'em off leave the moon alone #eunjae is they/them icon a social worker 27 ish somewhere they have a younger brother that #they basically raised and he depends a lot on them and they're very close so good family system #they're also a MIND READER it doesn't pop up a lot in threads because i get so excited about getting to write #their personality i forget all about the mutant aspect KJDFLSFLKFJDGFLKJ #but i'll only throw it in after prior discussion #honestly if you're familiar with apoth*cary diaries eunjae's a LOT like ma*om*ao in terms of #prioritizing and not fucking with others and display of energy #;queue #they're not even talking about whether humanity is equipped to handle space-travel in a technological sense #or even from a scientific point of view-- ATTITUDE!!! it's about ATTITUDE!!!! #humanity is still scratching their head about bees unwilling to admitt nature does whatever the fuck IT wants and not what we determine #it should do what the HELL are we gonna do in SPACE-- #it's also about the bee movie ngl

[mashmouths]

is it an adhd thing to need to reinvent the concept of a study space so you have any chance of actually studying or just a facet of being alive that no one warned me about

#like 2/3 of the battle of successfully being 'productive' is just finding out what will work for me in this moment as opposed to what worked #not even 30 minutes ago let alone yesterday. whether or not i can handle music and the type of music and the volume are all determined by #whims outside of my comprehension and i am. so tired. i can't work in a space that's too familiar unless i can except i can't. i can't work #in a space that's too unfamiliar unless i can except i can't. i can't work in a space with noise or without noise unless i can except i #can't. are we seeing the pattern here :( how has anyone alive ever established a routine ever when trying to parse my stupid needs hour by #hour is like pulling teeth every time. every bit of analysis and like reflection is a Task and i already can't handle tasks very well And i #takes up brain power and like. bits of my attention span that i desperately need to shore up to get anything actually? done? once i'm #settled? but i can't settle if it's not the right set up but i have to minutely tweak the set up until it's right but it so rarely is. #sorry to be like mopey on the dash i have papers and finals due and then actual finals week and i've been waiting on my period for a week : #what if things were. easier. hot take i know. and yes this is (hopefully) the last time i'll have to do finals unmedicated but ohhhhhhhhh m #god is this round determined to make it hurt as much as it possibly can to make up for it. a sigh and a sob etc etc #a post

[possumkingluca]

after having to restart like halfway through to make slightly more sane unit choices, i have finally finished the fell xenolouge and dear god that was awful how do people do that on harder modes than normal what the fuck

anyway at least i have my final team member now that's pretty cool

#i switched to all units that are going to be on my final team (besides one i brought diamant along cause he was being useful) #(and the other ones had different pre determined classes than what i'm using (or did not have love and care put into them) #and i knew it would throw me off if i tried to use them like that) #and i think it really helped actually using units i was familiar with rather than units i had only touched once or twice #and hey i managed to get through it without losing anyone #so that's pretty cool #but also dear god that sucked #and i don't even like the story of the FX i actually hate it a lot #i find the FX story really fucking stupid actually (mainly the ending) #but alas #i needed gregory. #fire emblem #fe #fire emblem engage #fe engage #fe17 #fell xenolouge

[communistkenobi]

the workers in severance seem to frequently situate themselves in reality in reference to numbers - mark tells helly he was asked who he was 19 times when he first woke up in the office, helly says she was made to read out the break room apology 1072 times, dylan is constantly obsessed with being the data refiner for the quarter. their work is literally about sorting numbers. like the logic of quantification structures their lives to such an absurd degree that they come to find meaning in numbers themselves (which is the point of their job). they don’t describe the colour of a room or the clothes they wear when relaying significant events they’ve experienced. sometimes they don’t even talk about how they were feeling. they mostly just talk about numbers

#severance #I’ve read a couple really good papers on calculability and like the modern concept of the state being bound up in numbers #I’m only familiar with the geographic context of it but like the ‘power’ of numbers seems to be such a massive force in modern life #like data being used essentially as a form of currency in the economy #of course its value is tied to dollars but it itself is always viewed as valuable #and the logic of it being that you can use it to make the human experience fungible relative to other similar data points #and in a labour context workers are measured and weighed based on their relationship to numbers #so for a fictional setting where work is literally your entire life that’s like the sole determinant of value #like funnily enough the innies in severance don’t care about income because like why would they #they don’t see that money and they wouldn’t be able to spend it on anything if they did #so then numbers themselves become their primary form of currency #both in an economic and in a social/cultural sense #ANYWAY. very good show

[2-kamikou-1]

this class is going to make me fucking relapse

#staring a slew of numbers that are supposed to determine my health and trying desperately to change them is all too familiar #way too familiar. #the feeling of failure when they go up instead of down #the feeling of joy when they do finally go down #all too much #all too familiar #i feel all to similar to the way i did then #and it's a slippery slope but i can't sacrifice my grade #it's all too fucking much #and the scary part is it's only the logical side of me that makes me anxious #i /want/ to start doing that again #i /want/ to feel that way again #and it's not even entirely logic #part of what's holding me back is really just 'you don't have the self control for that anyway' #but i do #because i did it before #and i usually try to break that spiral of thoughts but i kind of haven't #i just push it onto the back burner because i really cannot seem to kick those thoughts #i feel so sick

[illgiveyouahint]

From someone who didn't really like eggs to someone who's excited about the delicious omelette I just made, I sure am making great strides in my pickiness

#hana's random text posts #also I signed up to this lie cropsharing program #so now I'm getting a lot of seasonal vegetables delivered #which means I have to do something with that vegetable #I'm hoping it will allow me to learn to eat more vegetables and expand my cooking skills again #I'd say I'm almost autistic when it comes to food #textures throw me off #tastes throw me off #anything that's a little bit unfamilliar completely throws me off #but I'm working on it #because as the eggs show #if you familiarize yourself with the food #it stops being such a big and scary and weird thing #and stops tasting strange #and then and only then I can actually properly determine whether I like it or not #actually I wonder how much 'pickiness' in food is just someone being autistic