#discussions from discord

[rose-colored-tarot]

Personally I've never been a fan of the "magic is a beast that needs to be tamed" metaphor. Magic is more like the ocean: powerful, terrifying, capable of unbridled force. But at the same time, it is gentle, warm, the lifeblood of millions of people. The folk who know the ocean know you cannot harness it's force, you must work within or around it, lest it destroy you. Similarly, magic is great and terrible and gentle and kind, all at once. And those who work with it need to work WITH it, not reign over it. Because the primordial forces have no rules about biting the hand that feeds you.

#this has lived rent free in my head since last night's discussion #discord saw it first #made some slight alterations #all of this comes from our grump #talking about a post using that hackneyed metaphor #we are not so important as to be masters of magic #we are simply those who found a way to work with it #witch #witchcraft #magic #witchblr #magic discussion

[thespiritssaidso]

@cupric-solution @starfish-spencer @aba-daba-dooo

#discussions from the psych discord #I had to stop everything I was doing and laugh out loud when I read that #coworkers were concerned about me #timothy omundson #james roday rodriguez #james rodriguez #psych #psych 2006 #psych usa #psychusa #psych tv #psych tv show #psych show #meme #memes #psych meme #psych memes #toast tries to talk

[thebookofbill]

Studio Bad Egg went on a livestream yesterday to talk about their Cipher Cult Kickstarter, and shared concept art for some of the major items

Someone else who had seen the concept art for the Bill and Ford pin earlier described it as “likely to cause ship fuel” and

They weren’t fucking kidding

(This is the final design, which I still love! It was chosen to be more cohesive/consistent with the design of another pin)

#gravity falls #bill cipher #stanford pines #cipher cult collection kickstarter #billford #(kinda) #there was a lot of support and love for pin design c from fans #to the point that the discord admin who ran the interview said he’d discuss it with studio bad egg as a potential stretch goal down the lin #there is no guarantee it will happen. but the kickstarter is doing so well that there will be more stretch goals #the more support the campaign gets the better!

[aroaceleovaldez]

Something something Jason feeling like he doesn't quite fit as "Greek" or "Roman" as a metaphor for bisexuality, particularly the semi-canonical bi-coding in his half of experiences during the Cupid scene and how Favonius and Cupid speak to him in parallel to the scenes confirming Nico is gay.

Something something the camps as metaphors for traditionally acceptable forms of relationships and Nico living as a rogue outside of them, rejecting expectation (ergo in himself representing a metaphor of queer identity and living outside of boxes and defined/usually hetero-allonormative/binary ideas of what love/relationships should look like) versus Jason struggling with the expectation to conform to a label and even discussing with Nico both of them remaining at CHB together.

Something something the inverse of Jason shifting away from the camps after he breaks up with Piper, feeling lost and unable to find a place between the camps as he begins to explore his queer identity properly for the first time versus Nico only remaining at CHB because he has entered a relationship. In this essay I will-

#pjo #riordanverse #jason grace #nico di angelo #analysis #i know ive semi-rambled about this before here #but i was thinking about it on the discord the other day #for those in the discord forgive it being mostly copy/pasted from my rambling lol #i say ''semi-canonical bi-coding'' re: the Cupid Scene because. well. it's in the text! it's pretty overt! #which means it's pretty canon but nobody ever really discusses it and Rick has never acknowledged it #but also he never acknowledged Reyna's aspec-coding until a rare instance of him responding to q's on twitter #(that chain was also specifically sparked by me in that instance - due to him replying to my open letter about aspec coding in the series #- which i still find amusing cause it is SO obvious he didnt read it) #and he only like once acknowledged his mostly unintentional aspec-coding of the Hunt on goodreads #and very frequently goes ''death of the author - whatever i say outside the books is irrelevant and doesnt matter. read it how you want.'' #''if you can get it out of the text then there's your canon.'' which i respect. reject ''word of god'' canon embrace analysis

[leafyduckwebs]

in a genshin lore mood rn so I drew some of my favorite theories/predictions

explanations:

Teyvat is Upside-Down: From what I know, it's basically the idea that the stars are fake because the Abyss is above Teyvat, not the real sky. I've also seen someone say that Celestia is Hell because it's down below if this theory is true, but I'm not sure how many people think that.

Ajax is Partly Unaffected by Irminsul: Due to spending time in the Abyss (outside Teyvat) and being completely changed by it, Childe is probably at least a bit resistant to having his mind altered by the Ley Lines, which affect everyone else in the world entirely. Of course, we see that it did affect him after the 3.3 quest, but Irminsul is likely gonna pop up as a plot point again, so who knows. I'm not sure how widespread this one is because I've only seen it in Chiscara fics/art and one (1) discord thread, but I like it so ehhh

Traveler Dies: Less of a theory and more of an angsty "what if?" scenario. It's silly, obviously the MC themself isn't gonna die. HOWEVER their sibling might.......or they both live in the end, but Traveler gets another major injury or presumed death scene. I personally think that the twin will die fighting either us or Celestia if hyv decides to make them not playable.

Paimon = Istaroth: That one huge theory about Paimon being the Unknown God but its a different lady now. Istaroth is the god of wind and time, and is possibly one of the Primordial One's shades. She used to be worshiped in Mondstadt and Enkanomiya before being eventually forgotten. People made the connection between her and Paimon because:

1. We control time with the Paimon menu,

2. Traveler fished up Paimon near the nameless island, which is Istaroth's temple,

3. In the 3.4 Lantern Rite epilogue, Venti (who's connected to Istaroth) barged in saying "Seeds of story, brought by the wind…", and Paimon finished his sentence, "…and cultivated by time". Venti's part is the name of achievement we got from going to the sundial island, and there's the wind and time theme again. Paimon herself was surprised that she said that without thinking, so it's safe to assume that it was a subconscious response that's been ingrained in her head for a while.

#genshin impact #genshin lore #this is like 50% based off discussions from discord/youtube #and 50% self indulgent copium thoughts #tartaglia #childe #scaramouche #venti #paimon #aether #my art #duckydraws #babys first time using the watercolor brush btw

[quarriawesome]

mods asleep post Christmas Treeku

#riku #kingdom hearts #i made this like 2 years ago and forgot to post it every christmas since #enjoy #i think it was born from a wild discord discussion #its christmas day in nz mmk? #quarri posts

[driedupeyeballs]

*throws these at you*

#twst headcanons #again #this is all from a discussion in a discord server #actually various discussions #the kalim one somehow began a discussion that escalated into American politics #twisted wonderland #Jamil viper #kalim al asim

[2700k-moogie]

Milk ref sheet done yaHOOOOOOOOOOO lookit my big beautiful baby they filled with joy and happiness

#milk #digital #mogimage #the worst part of making this was their fucked up hands #lemurs gotta lemur and grab fruits and branches and small animals and bugs but y'know its fucked up that they have weird hands #at least i was able to euphemistically state how much fun they have with themselves and their girlfriend #robbie just has fuckin. hoof fingers. it don't work like that for her #very sad about that #ANYWAY i learned recently from a discussion on discord about putting tattoos on furries that scars grow white fur sometimes #so i applied that here to make it look less like just fur texture on milk's arms #might tone it down eventually but im not certain #a side story about that is that milk changes the story behind all of their sh scars every time they're asked by someone they don't trust #like “yeah i broke some equipment in a hs chemistry class and stupidly tried to wipe up broken glass with my arms” #“i tried to hug a big cactus when i was younger” #or “i used to work in a kitchen and i was really bad at paying attention when cutting vegetables” #generally they just don't like to think about it so they wear funny arm socks or long sleeves most of the time but sometimes they don't car

[little-the-rat]

The horrors persist but so do I

Also the shitty bloody version

#jorthur #malevolent #malevolent fanart #arthur lester #this was a long time coming #its from the malevolent discord #but i have discussed jeans and malevolent a long time before this

[victoriartdrawings]

Sorry guys I haven't been much active for Snowbaird these past few weeks...forgive me plz with this little sketch???? 😣

Also also, the Snowbaird fic's folder is currently under revision (it's been two month since I haven't udapted it so yeah) @burntblueberrywaffles actually helps me with that (thanks a lot blue,r I'll come more on discord to talk tomorrow sorry haven't been active there either😣)

[dm me or @burntblueberrywaffles for an invite to the Snowbaird and Bread server! ]

#Snowbaird #YES IT'S FROM THAT PICTURE #Fanart #My art #As always using Rachel as face reference I just love drawing her lol #CoryoLucy #I had her dress in mind (from the discord girlie's when we were discussing LG dress if she #Were to live in the Capitol #But alas I will #Draw her in another post #Which AU is it??? #Hmmm I wonder still... #(too many) #VictoriArt #Lucy gray #Lucy gray baird #Coriolanus snow

[jorenilee]

I made a mile long twt thread about okuyasu that I'll just paste here too because I have many thoughts about him <333 anyways heres my messy rambles about this specific line because AUUGH

do u ever think about this one line and how perfectly it encapsulates his entire character and how it fits into diu. Like first Okuyasu is NOT a traditionally kind person, he's no saint, he's quick to violence and anger and frustration, he's close-minded and is very clear about his lack of regard for others.

But coupling that with this line from Keicho (sometimes it's translated as "only when I hit him does he listen to me) and its like damn. Their entire lives have been shaped by violence, the only way they've made ANY progress is through death and hurt.

Keicho's power in the family comes from discipline, violence over his father and violence caused by the arrow. The one thing standing between him and a "normal" life is the literal death of his father. It doesn't matter how many lives he ruins in the process, all that matters is getting that second chance. His life has been on an uncontrollable downward spiral, but with the arrow and his own family at his heel, he has power. He can make decisions. He can unshackle himself from the past 10 years and finally start his life.

And of course Okuyasu would absorb all this, because Keicho was all he had, and his own father always responded to that violence. And if you follow the interpretation that the brothers gained their stands from the arrow, that's another instance of them gaining power through suffering. Becoming "better".

And it's so interesting that keicho treats his father and Okuyasu as deadweights "holding him back" when in reality, it was Keicho that was sinking down into tar, refusing to get out because a happier life could be just on the other side.

Okuyasu wanted to save his father the moment that possibility was established, but Keicho held onto the arrow, his sinking fate, his suffering, until the very end. He believed he crossed his moral event horizon and he was destined on this set path. No matter how much power he could scrounge for himself, death ruled his entire life, whether that of his father or the lives of the arrow's victims.

And all this makes Okuyasu's relationships with Josuke and Koichi so much better because. Okuyasu did NOT care for their safety. He was, at least on the surface, on board with Koichi or even Josuke dying. Maybe not all that passionate, but he's seen death, probably participated in it, and believes that it's the Number 1 Nijimura Way. So then Josuke healing him is completely antithetical to his entire damn life.

He was ready to die, ready to "learn his lesson", ready to be discarded because he failed, just like how all those people died to the arrow because they failed to handle a stand. But Josuke's very lukewarm "i jus dont want ppl dying??" belief is so groundbreaking because death was so necessary for any and all progress.

Okuyasu's own stand is inherently destructive and erases things permanently. Maybe a deep-seated desire to actually make lasting impacts on his surroundings erupting as a power beyond death. To cause total oblivion. I know we all love to think that Keicho didn't want to force Okuyasu to kill his own father, but Keicho wanted a normal death. Because at least a normal death can happen to a normal family. And completely erasing someone's atoms isn't a mortal death.

Then here comes Josuke's healing schtick which WORKS, and Josuke is fully prepared to sacrifice an arm and leg just to save Koichi. In like 15 minutes, one guy completely overwrote the past 15 years of Okuyasus life. He helps Josuke heal koichi (extra layer of fucked because all those arrow victims never HAD to die), gets called a great guy, and starts his character arc of. Making decisions in the absence of violence. Choosing to heal and rebuild instead of destroying and moving onto the next victim. Of continuing the cycle of beating life lessons into people's heads.

And Koichi, dude he choked out with a gate, becomes his close friend too. Koichi who gets repeatedly harassed thru diu but still has it in him to forgive and befriend others. He's far from naive, gets fed up with shit, but he's another opposite to Okuyasu. His stand evolves through pain, maybe, but it's from a desire to protect himself or others. There's a chance Koichi was never supposed to survive, but he did (part 4's theme about fate is a different story oooboy) and his active ability to see the best in people compliments Josuke's more aloof demeanor and Okuyasu's short temper. Koichi is like. The embodiment of growth in that way.

and ik its eoh dialogue but this interaction was always neat to me because of how it highlighted Okuyasu's disinterest in improvement, at least when it comes to character. For him, as long as someone "gets" the lesson at a surface level or is good enough at it, there's no reason to dive deeper. To fully wrap your head around it and Feel it. Its the same utility-first philosophy Keicho held, the same idea that all that matters is the end goal, not the means or the people along the way. + how Okuyasu still bickered and talked back to Keicho, but understood well enough that Keicho was the one in control.

"bare minimum" is how okuyasu lived his entire life; his house, how keicho treated him, his response to Josuke and Koichi's kindness, his entire relationship with his father.

He desperately wants, yeah, but its for more material things. Money and power, things either robbed from him or held over his head. And YEAH he's supposed to be hypocritical here, but like. Why does he lose his morals and sense ESPECIALLY when those two things are involved. Why does he "regress" in character growth back to tunnel-visioned violence and discipline about them.

And rahhhhhh is it lackluster writing or is it interesting that Okuyasu's pretty stagnant for the entirety of diu. It's like he's passively absorbing things about befriending former enemies through kindness, inspiring loyalty through passion not pain.

He calls Mikitaka weird and dismisses him (remnants of Keicho's utility stuff?), gets ghost tricked, acts like a big brother a few times. But it's when he meets Keicho face-to-face that it all crashes down around him. The same way Nijimura father had shackled him, Keicho had also been weighing on Okuyasu.

Its like. Keichos death made Okuyasu rebound onto Josuke and get consumed by vengeance against Otoishi, and Okuyasu didn't know how to properly grieve Shigechi either. His entire life, when someone died, violence was the answer. Hide the body, kill the father, don't ever think about what you've done.

But its Keicho, the one that spearheaded the power-and-suffering-over-all thing, who steps in and requests that Okuyasu thinks it over. The Keicho that said he stopped regarding oku as his brother, was willing to kill him to prove a point, who quite possibly shot the arrow at him. Who taught him that only violence yields the answer. Self-inflicted or not.

He says to just think about it. And Okuyasu thinks long enough for Josuke and Hayato to lose their damn minds and for him to actually understand it, fully wrap his mind around it. The fact that he has a "second" life, the life Keicho pursued for so long and died for. And he has it because of the love and compassion from his friends, how they see past the failures and transgressions of others.

How they just dont want people to die. And Okuyasu doesnt have to either. He doesnt have to stay sinking for his brother, doesnt have to lose everything for a mistake, doesnt have to destroy to make a difference. and so he chooses to live. Really, fully live. For himself.

And he comes back, now able to recognize and separate himself from Keicho's teachings. THERES A REASON STRAY HAS BEEN MY PFP FOR FOREVER BECAUSE Okuyasu comes back and saves Stray. The little creature that literally EXPLODED him.

And it means so much that it wasn't a "this creature is good and I will rescue it" moment, because Okuyasu was never a saviour hero-type. He didn't even mean to "save" the cat. He just removed Stray from Kira's grasp, and THEN realized oh I think it's just a little guy. Alright cool I guess the fucker stays with me.

He's growing his own way, beginning his new life by first and foremost helping others. He brings stray home BEFORE it takes a liking to his father. It's just. The first independent, weighted decision he makes is giving a stressed, unfortunate cat a second chance at life. It was struck by an arrow, revived due to forces outside it's comprehension, and was fuelled by instincts to lash out and attack. And because it was destructive and able to follow orders, it was weaponized. Before finally being removed from the situation and calmed down. Sound familiar?

And now Okuyasu has a semblance of a domestic family. The Nijimura family is all about growth from death and it's so interesting. Nijimura father becoming cruelest after his wife's death, him mutating after DIO's death, Keicho believing his life begins after his father's death, Okuyasu's life actually beginning after Keicho's demise, Stray being reborn as a plant (symbol of growth), and Okuyasu reviving too (also due to Keicho's death).

+ shit about nijimura father unable to die and Okuyasu constantly being pulled from death by Josuke ADDING MORE FUNNY LAYERS TO LOOK AT + the name nijimura literally meaning rainbow village. Both the physical irl place and the idea that rainbows = rebirth and hope and new beginnings + stray being reincarnated under one + Okuyasu reviving after the rain passed. Death doesn't rule them, but is also inescapable??? Idk anyways

ALL THIS IS WHAT I MEAN BY okuyasu is a flawed character surrounded by violence and bad decisions, he's not a pure soul and does fucked shit and is NOT a 2014 tumblr era cinnamon roll PLEASE. He can be an ass and it makes the hopeful buds of his new life that more beautiful cuz like. Morioh is the best place for him to settle and grow, reteach himself everything because it's a community of equally if not more dubious weirdos.

Oku's far far from perfect, he's still got a lot of anger and shortsightedness but he's with people that love him, willing to help him when he makes mistakes, doesn't hold him back. His relationships with Josuke and Koichi and others aren't like. Super poetic or cosmic or "I will find you in every universe"esque and it suits him. He's just a teen guy who went thru everything and missed out on everything. He's suffered, caused suffering, but he's leaving that cycle.

Judging by the book (semi-canon), it's going as messy as expected, but he loves his friends so so much. He's still putting himself in harm's way and being reckless and an asshole, but he has something more to fight for. And he cares a lot. Is willing to go beyond for it, maybe even improve. And that's enough for him (in the best way).

Idk how to end the thread anyways he's my son my baby perfect angel also he sucks bad BUT HE'S PERFECT ‼️‼️ this is how I feel about him every given day it just depends on the celestial alignment of the planets and stars

#jjba #jjba diu #my silly words #ty to the diu discord server i was in #i was rereading nijimura discussions and 3thousand words erupted from my soul just now #I FEEL VERY NORMAL ABOUT OKUYASU #okuyasu #okuyasu nijimura #diu #long #stray cat #keicho nijimura #oh yeah how do we feel about their military motifs akin to a soldier marching to their death #unable to change paths because a higher power seems to force them #to die for a “greater good” #also okus other arc hes gonna hafta go thru of realizing. mm maybe he shouldnt meat shield so much #yknow go and get hurt first and trusting josuke to patch him up #4TH ANOTHER DAY BOOK READERS YKNOW WHAT I MEAN

[thespiritssaidso]

@shawnaise @aba-daba-dooo

#discussions from the psych discord #psych #psych 2006 #psych usa #psychusa #psych tv #psych tv show #psych show #toast tries to talk

[moreroads]

-taps the microphone-

Just because I'm ace, doesnt mean I'm off the menu.

Just because I'm aro, doesn't mean I'm off the menu.

PLEASE!!!! please, don't automatically write me off as "not wanting a relationship" or "not wanting sex" because you have found out that I am ace and aro.

ESPECIALLY, if you did not find out from me.

#ace week #asexual #demisexual #polyamory #aromantic #demiromantic #this is in the demi tags because it is my personal identities #I know that this isn't everyone's opinion or experience #but i am SPECIFICALLY vagueing some discussions I saw in discord servers where some allo people were lamenting about having a crush #on someone they LEARNED was ace or aro (not from the crush). WITHOUT ever talking to the crush. WITHOUT shooting their shot. #and I wonder regularly how many people have done that about me

[ckret2]

Can Bill tell Soos anything about Soos's father just to piss off Abuelita? After all, he likes to piss.

Axolotl, I hope this joke isn't too stupid.

Anon, I am eyeing you with the deepest suspicion.

Anyway—

Bill can tell Soos tons about his father.

Bill would never piss off Abuelita.

After Mabel, Abuelita is the one person in the house Bill least wants to piss off. His first full day in the shack, she tried to poison him with a genial, inscrutable calm; and remained genially inscrutably calm when he called her out on it. That's a stone-cold killer. She wasn't afraid to try to kill Bill Cipher and she wasn't afraid when she was caught trying to kill Bill Cipher. He respects her and slightly fears her. So far, she's the only human who's outright tried to kill him since his reincarnation, and he feels there's very little keeping her from trying again.

If that weren't a concern though, he might occasionally make jabs about Soos's dad to him—and why stop there, his mom is a sore spot too—not to piss off Abuelita but just to bully Soos.

#(explanation: earlier today in one of the servers I'm in—) #(—in the tradition of weird ass 'how did we get here' discord conversations you only get when 3 to 7 pals egg each other into going insane— #(—we had a very thoughtful discussion on whether or not bill cipher has a piss kink) #(so anon—if you AREN'T from that server—then you've sure got some suspicious timing.) #(anyway before anyone asks:) #(my stance is that piss is so foreign to his existence that bill barely recognizes it as distinct from any other Earthly bodily fluid.) #(it neither fascinates nor disgusts him; and therefore isn't interesting enough for him to single it out for eroticization) #(aren't you glad you read the tags) #anonymous #ask #about my writing #bill goldilocks cipher

[acidic-potato-piss-water]

Inspired by a conversation that @divorcingjimmatthews and I were having

#very important discussions happen in our little discord server #from epix #fromblr #from 2022 #from mgm #i could tag all of these characters but. no <3 #i trust that this will find who it needs to find

[boss-the-goofball]

Fanfic Meta: Inko

Alright, a couple days ago some friends and I were discussing trends in character portrayals and backgrounds in fanfiction and the topic of Inko came up.

Please know that this is not an attack on anyone in particular, we all have our own ways of writing characters in our fics.

Fanfiction is purely for fun and I recognize that what I find fascinating may not resonate with others, and that what most people enjoy won’t jive with me. 

However, I can’t stop thinking about how some portrayals of Inko have some very unfortunate implications if you think too hard about it.

I can understand that the people who do this mean well and want to let her and Izuku have good things, and I do agree that they should have good things especially after the suffering and torment some of us put them through in our fics, but there are some aspects of this particular portrayal that my friends and I wound up scratching our heads over.

Basically there are a few fics that like to make Inko into a high-powered character with various connections and/or wealth, but they still have Izuku be bullied to either a similar or worse degree than what we get in canon.

Which then brings up this issue; if she has all of this power and influence, then why hasn’t anything been done about the bullying her son has gone through?

It is known that wealthy and well-connected parents will throw around money and influence to help their kids in whatever is needed, so you would think Inko would do the same to stop her son from being bullied the way he was.

If she does hold that much influence, then she could have complained to Aldera about the bullying and be listened to because of her connections.

And if they refused, she could have pulled Izuku out and sued Aldera for negligence and discrimination.

Which circles us back to this question;

“Well why didn’t she?”

There’s only a couple possible answers to this question, and none of them paint Inko in a good light.

One possible answer is that she didn’t notice anything, which soon becomes very illogical if this is a setting where the bullying gets incredibly physical and flat out negligent.

Though even if the setting is where the bullying is not nearly as physical, she should at least notice that her son no longer has any friends.

Doesn’t mention hanging out with Bakugou.

Never goes to hang out with friends from school, nothing.

Which is a sign that she doesn’t pay attention to her son, still negligence and does not work with the idea that she cares about Izuku.

Another possible answer is that she did notice, but didn’t care.

I think it should be obvious why this is such a major issue and absolutely does not work if the fic is supposed to convince us that she loves her son.

Because surely she would have used her connections to do something to help her son when he’s obviously suffering, right?

It’s unfortunate, but giving Inko all of these connections and wealth doesn’t paint her in a good light when her son is still getting severely bullied.

Sorry, but I just can’t stop thinking about this now after having that discussion with a couple friends.

#quiet boss #meta post #inko meta #not an attack on anyone in particular; this is just me putting way too much thought into something #spawned from a discussion in a discord group dm