#i'm probably reading too deep into this

[hilacopter]

definitely not salty that earth day is trending but passover isn't no not in the slightest

#definitely not upset because i know exactly the reason why passover isn't trending #when any other year the goyim of tumblr would be flocking to wish us a happy passover #it's almost as if tumblr doesn't like jews anymore #i'm just surprised they're not even pulling the “happy passover to all ANTIZIONIST jews” like they did with hanukkah #i'm probably reading too deep into this #maybe it'll be trending later idk #jumblr #lukas rants #hila has spoken

[gayspacemonk]

y'all remember when chainsaw man said "capitalism and abuse makes people so lonely and isolated that they risk their own integrity and well being just to have an normal life and be loved" and now it's saying "to meet someone who understands you and you relate to is disturbing and disgusting and so annoying but now you'll never be alone again and you would give everything to keep them" yea that fucks me up a little

#am I reading too deep into it? #probably but also maybe not #chainsaw man #denasa #denji x asa #yoshiden #bc i want to even tho it's not them I'm talking about #bc i am talking about them too #asaden #denji #asa mitaka #yukoasa #akiangel #can't believe i forgot to tag them this is absolutely about them

[astro-b-o-y-d]

You would think since Gravity Falls has existed for over a decade, it would be easy to find a layout of the shack that doesn't confuse me.

...You would think that, but I keep getting caught up on where this FUCKING CURTAIN LEADS TO

NO LAYOUT I FIND TELLS ME ANYTHING ABOUT THIS AREA AND I KEPT ASSUMING IT WAS THE LIVING ROOM. But no, that's the other 'Employees Only' door. So whadda hell??

#Hayley Speaks #It's probably just some storage closet and I'm reading too deep into it but it BUGS ME #Either that or it's explained in an episode and I just forgot

[curiosityschild]

I did a Deaf Chell Portal playthrough (no sound and no subtitles) and it totally works.

My two questions were 1) would it be plausible for Chell to survive to the end of the game? And 2) would Chell have any idea that GLaDOS even existed at all?

And the answers are 1) Yes and 2) No.

Basically, Portal is a very good game with very well designed puzzles. At no point do you need any verbal instruction from GLaDOS. All the information you need to progress is given by the actual design of the level itself. For instance, the companion cube level. I was initially worried that this level would rely very heavily on GLaDOS's dialogue. I was thinking that it probably wouldn't be obvious to Chell that she had to destroy the cube to move on and that it probably would take her some time to stumble upon the correct course of action while trying whatever she could. But no! The fact that you have to incinerate the companion cube is made very obvious. There's literally a couple of those hazard warnings on the ground in front of the incinerator that tell you to throw the cube in.

IMO it would be pretty apparent to Chell what she needed to do and how to move through the facility. She may not understand WHY but she would know what to do. Even the end of the formal testing part where she is about to be incinerated. I don't know if Chell would know if this part was purposeful or accidental but regardless, she would be able to escape. The long and short of it is at any point in the game Chell's only option is to move forward and there's only ever one way forward.

There is basically no indication of GLaDOS's existence if Chell is Deaf. Here are the clues you get:

-no other humans in the facility

-once or twice the door to a level doesn't open until she's done monologuing at you (Chell of course has no idea she's being monologued at)

-one of the scribbles in Rattmann's hideout says "She's watching you" (Chell would not be too surprised by this. The cameras and observation rooms are obvious)

That's it. That's all you get up until you open the door to GLaDOS's chamber.

And even then! Even then the conclusion she's going to draw won't be more complex than "this computer must be the thing keeping the facility running and it is currently trying to kill me".

Now the GLaDOS fight itself is probably the biggest stretch of plausibility. At first, before the neurotoxin, GLaDOS does nothing that indicates she wants to hurt you. A piece of her falls off. It's pretty obvious that you can pick it up and put it in the incinerator (again, level design) but why? Just to do something? This is the weakest moment in the whole theory. AFTER that though, the continued destruction of GLaDOS makes more sense. Chell sees the countdown timer. She sees the neurotoxin even if she doesn't know what it is and she probably feels it too. There is now one of those eyeball turrets shooting at her. It is reasonable for Chell to draw the conclusion of "this huge robot is controlling the facility" at this point. And if the robot is making things shoot at her it makes sense to destroy the robot.

So she does. And she gets spit up onto the surface with absolutely no idea that GLaDOS had spent the entire time insulting her or even that she was sentient in the first place.

Which is very funny.

#portal #if you're reading this please know I have very little knowledge of portal lore #I just thought this would be fun #wayyyy too long of a post tbh it's really not that deep lmao #I'm kind of curious about Portal 2 but I really don't think it would fare as well #I think you get a LOT more info in that game through dialogue #and I'm really reluctant to play that whole game without sound so...I probably won't #maybe one day #anyway VERY funny #Chell “wtf is even happening rn” vs GLaDOS “nemesis doesn't know she exists”

[emblazonet]

Oh my GOD I would have LOVED Dragonsong as a kid. Why didn't I read it back then???? Why???

Oh my god her hand got infected. POOR THING.

#amber reads pern #dragonriders of pern #oh no I'm probably going to finish it tonight lol #and I don't have the other ones yet #might have to get them online sigh #I've been scrounging a bit but I've been too busy to really hunt #lol this is not a Deep Book but I am having a good time #although Menolly sure isn't

[the-zapped-part-timer]

Ok so, we know Fish Stick on a Stick, right? Some might already know this but last year I came across concept art for multiple things for the show and the original idea for the villains place of work was this:

Slushee Inferno🔥

You know what the Odyssey is a reference to so I have a question.... is this a reference to DANTE INFERNO!?!? I mean why not? Granted I haven't read the whole thing but still! That would be hilarious.

That's all.

#PZPTH #Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero #I finally felt like getting around to question #Is it just me? Am I reading too deep into it?? #Kinda prefer this more #Just seeing them go into a random convenience store but thats probably why it was changed? #Too many people would be going in there (mostly for the bathroom I'm sure)

[novelconcepts]

i don't make resolutions, but if i did

it would be to finish this fic

(and to be kind to myself for however long it takes to actually do so)

#i'm finishing it if it kills me #i know i've been writing this makeout scene for 3 weeks but baby that can't last forever #if we want to get deep and dark and serious for a second i do think a lot of my struggles to write lately have to do with engagement #and how incredibly low engagement has been on the last few things i've written #which like. is what it is. i'm not entitled to anybody's time or comments or kudos. #but when you write stuff you're proud of and it feels like it's barely getting read it's hard to keep momentum. #this isn't intended as a woe is me or whatever it's just kind of like. there. hovering. #happens enough times you start to wonder if it's you. am i just writing for the wrong fandom/ship? #(too bad if so. they're in my bones i'm writing for them and no one can stop me.) #but yeah. if you ever wonder if authors do care or notice about hits. comments. kudos. buddy i am here to tell you #not only do we care and FLOURISH we also notice when those things drop off and readers vanish #and it is a giant bummer. and sometimes makes us wildly paranoid about why that might have happened. #so if you liked a fic today--not even one of mine. just. anybody's. share it. comment on it. #kudos at the VERY least (cuz frankly kudos is there to be an 'i got to the end and this was nice' feature. #so when you get 500 hits and only like 30 kudos? it feels like 470 of those people hated your work) #anyway. that got out of hand. lil' too raw lil' too honest. happens when you let yourself ramble at 11:30 instead of sleeping #to sum: let your local fic writer know if they've made you happy #and as we go into 2024 i am swearing to myself that this fic (and probably several others) are getting finished #come hell. high water. or dishearteningly low engagement numbers. #(and then maybe we...actually work on something original. cuz why not. new year same old me but i'll do my best.)

[franeridan]

okay look I know I've talked about this at length already but I've seen a ton of people talk about how they don't like whiskey peak and how they think it wasn't necessary for zoro and luffy to fight like that or straight up think it was ooc of them, but then the same people will turn around and go "isn't it fascinating how zoro's the only one who can say no to luffy or nearly order him around or that luffy waits for the opinion of before acting for no apparent reason it must be because they are soulmates" and honestly for real I'm the first to subscribe to the zoro and luffy soulmates thought but the reason why zoro can do all that is whiskey peak. that is the moment zoro took a decision that benefited the whole crew without asking luffy first for the first time, and that is the moment luffy unjustly doubted him without implicitly trusting his judgement, and that is the moment luffy learned that actually sometimes zoro sees what's best for the crew before he does and that trusting him to always act with the crew's best interests in mind is something he should do. zoro had never opposed luffy or acted without his consent in any way before whiskey peak and luffy never doubts him and always turns to him ever since, there is direct correlation between the two zoro and luffy didn't learn to trust each other and respect each other through a magical soulbond connection their relationship is actually pretty damn well developed

#like i know in most manga it's useless to analyze every scene this deeply since the mangaka doesn't actually think about it that much #it's not that deep usually and i get it #but op is Definitely not one of those manga imho you can and you should stop and read into every single thing that happens #everything has deeper implications in it it's one of my favourite things in the manga #you're allowed to not like the thought of zoro and luffy fighting or how they just moved on and laughed it off #(even if i do believe given their characters that's the only way a fight between them could have ended but that's just me) #but even without liking it just writing it off as unimportant or non influential is just wrong #that's part of their history it should be counted as such whether you like it or not #i know i always talk about the same thingssss but there's a lot of new readers starting the anime going in from opla #and wonderfully a lot of them are zo lu shippers which is fantastic but it does put a lens on the way they watch it #like same me too everything is zl for me too but #yeah whatever point it I'm seeing the argument brought up again ex novo all over #and I'm probably the n1 whiskey peak defender so im not unbiased lbr #i love that they fought there who am i kidding #........... I lost my point #anyway *waves hands at post* that's my thoughts on that

[queenlucythevaliant]

Do you think Behemoth and Leviathan were actually real and happened to be dinosaurs? Behemoth was a huge and formidable land dinosaur while Leviathan was a pleisiosaur. Technically, plesiosaurs weren't dinosaurs, but you get my idea?

So I've been sitting on this ask for a little bit because I honestly didn't know what tone to take in answering it. I don't know your background, and thus don't know whether to be more blunt or delicate. Ultimately, I settled on blunt, simply because I could not figure out how to answer this question delicately. That said, I hope you take this in the gracious spirit in which I have written it.

SO. That's a hard no from me, friend. Let's discuss!

So typically when you hear people say that Behemoth and Leviathan were dinosaurs (or dinosaur adjacent), it's in the context of arguments in favor of young earth creationism. It's a fairly big talking point with the Answers in Genesis crowd. Basically, they make the argument that Biblical texts referencing creatures that superficially resemble dinosaurs are evidence that humans and dinosaurs could have lived at the same time.

This works out if the earth is only 6,000 years old, but not if we take paleontology, geology, or human evolution at all seriously. The writer of Job would have had no way of knowing that dinosaurs and plesiosaurs existed because they had already been extinct for many millions of years. Even if you want to argue that maybe God is describing creatures with which Job was unfamiliar, it still doesn't track. God's address to Job treats these creatures as something for which he has a point of reference. It also just doesn't make sense why God would choose this moment to reveal the existence of dinosaurs. Talk about a tangent!

I don't know where you fall on the spectrum of Christian beliefs regarding origins and the age of the earth, but I've written at length on this blog about the case for theistic (old earth) evolution, so I won't rehash that here. Check out my all truth is God's truth tag or shoot me an ask if you want more on that. Regarding Behemoth and Leviathan, however, I think some of the same exegetical skills involved in reading (or misreading) Genesis are involved in the relevant chapters of Job.

When God addresses Job out of the whirlwind, he uses poetic language. He's talking about a real thing (his sovereignty over the universe), but it's something that transcends human comprehension on an overwhelming scale. Much like we can't ever hope to wrap our heads around deep time, we're simply not capable of grasping the extent of God's sovereignty.

When God describes storehouses of hail reserved for the day of battle, are we supposed to literally think that there is a giant building in heaven where God keeps all his hail? Or is it a picture of God's might as both creator and judge of the universe? If we know our Bibles, we see that hail is frequently used as a tool of judgement against God's enemies: Egypt, the Canaanites, apostate Israel, and ultimately the rebellious earth. So when God describes his storehouses of hail, we see the reality of his total control over the arc of history, his ultimate justice, his orderliness.

Likewise, Behemoth and Leviathan use the established language and symbolism of Scripture to convey truths for which plain language wouldn't suffice. Behemoth's description isn't that of any real animal, living or extinct. God paints a picture of a creature that no man could ever hope to tame and expresses that he, God, can.

Leviathan is the longer and more interesting image; it's a mighty creature of the deep that breathes fire and cannot be controlled. We know that in Biblical parlance, water is frequently associated with chaos (too many places to enumerate, but Psalms, the Prophets, and Revelation are good starting places). Leviathan is a picture of this chaos: mighty, rearing, deadly, uncontrollable, terrifying. Then God says to Job, "Can you draw this creature out with a fishhook? Can you make a covenant with him? Will he serve you? Can you injure him? Do you have any means at all of controlling the chaos monster? I do." It's poetry used to express a truth that we humans cannot hope to grasp otherwise: We cannot control the chaos of the world around us. We can't even try. But God can, and he does it effortlessly.

So no. Not dinosaurs. And I think that arguing that they are, especially trying to pick through the text and figure out which ones they're supposed to be and using that to argue for literalistic interpretations of Genesis, really misses the point and the power of what God is saying here.

I think Job's words back to God at the end of the book actually give us a remarkably important principle when it comes to Biblical interpretation: "I have uttered what I do not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know." The whole Bible is too wonderful for us. God condescended in order to give us his truth, and he had the magnificent grace to give it to us in ways that we can begin to grasp.

I think a lot of really literalistic reads on Scripture (Job, Genesis, Revelation, and elsewhere) are a kind of grasping at control. There's an assumption in it that God gave the ancients an exact accounting of things that humans just aren't equipped to fully comprehend.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try! But it does mean that when we read Scripture concerning the Big Things: the Sovereignty of God, the creation of the universe, the origin of life, eternity, infinity, even spiritual mysteries like the Trinity and the nature of the Incarnation, we have to approach it as something fundamentally beyond our comprehension which God is showing us the edges of. We can see other, different edges of many of those same things through scientific observation (or philosophy, or whatever other disciplines-- not all of the Big Things are scientific in nature.)

It's like Isaac Newton said: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

#i really really hope that this doesn't read as unkind #i really appreciate the question! and i don't know where you're coming from generally #but this stuff makes my heart sing #or ache sometimes when i see people reading the Bible in certain ways #i love my YEC brothers and sisters which is why I'm so passionate about theistic evolution #it's about panting after truth-- all truth any truth more truth than I can ever have #and yet recognizing that some truths are too lofty for me #i wish like hell that I could cast my mind back and really understand deep time #the eons the clockwork-precision the tides leading to life #i wish that i could understand the mysteries of knowledge the mysteries of God's sovereignty of suffering of grace of the Godhead #i will have so so many questions for God when I see him face to face #and even then i probably will not be given all the answers #i am trying to learn how to be okay with that #side note: there will be scientific research in the new heavens and the new earth i am all but sure of it #all truth is God's truth #ask me hard questions

[goldentigerfestival]

boy does Fluri make me feel things. a lot of things. i love. them.

#GTF Things #sometimes I wanna just write like. this gigantic post abt them. and why their relationship is perfected in context #but with the context of all the side material too? like drama CDs and the movie and the novel #bc plot/story inconsistencies aside it all really adds up in a straight line and creates an amazing story of their relationship #and for the life of me I cannot stop thinking about how all of it adds up into this super deeply realistic relationship #like it's not idealized. it's not perfect. it's not a shiny happy little ship where everything goes perfectly #it has all the bad moments where they still love each other through it but they DO hurt each other without truly meaning to #it's just that sometimes i wanna talk abt the depth of their relationship and how it goes so much deeper than #just what we got in the game but how all of it cumulates into what we have in the game from beginning to end #and how everything in the game (JP bc the dub removed a LOT of important tone between them vocally) #does also have a full progression of their relationship that ends in their favor and probably wouldn't EVER be rocky again after that #like I think by the end of the game they've come out on top of any possibility of ever letting that happen again #the unfortunate part is really just. idk who cares abt reading ship essays or who cares abt Fluri #except like idk five people LMAO. I know I'm kinda new here and don't know many ppl but #I legitimately don't know many ppl who care abt the ship at least particularly deeply as an OTP #but narratively speaking they are literally one of my favorite ships ever bc of how deep the content for them goes

[ofyorkshire]

...oh my stars

i don't know if it was intentional, but repetitively referring to bj as "ziggy stardust" in the red riding novels completely foreshadowed bj's death.

#something something the parallels between bj and ziggy both being referenced as imperfect messiahs #and wanting to bring hope to a hellish world (bj consistently sticking his neck out to help uncover yorkshire's corruption) #but ultimately being dragged into the same hate he wanted to stop and destroying himself / being destroyed by the very people who sent him #ie - bj being threatened to send a message by the police and eventually being killed by the police (albeit *sort of* on his own terms) #also maybe something to be said about bowie retiring ziggy partially bc he got too wrapped up in the persona and questioning his sanity #sort of paralleling bj losing his mind (ironically) in the psych ward and heading off to get his revenge on laws (and ultimately jobson). #but that's probably looking way too deep into it. #this meta has almost 0 meaning in the film universe (which is closer to my canon anyway) but. ow. i have emotions. #talking about rr makes me sound insane i'm aware skdflskf but i swear it makes sense. #if there was a fandom for this series i would be popping off. #(again not encouragement to read the novels. watch the films sure. don't read he novels.) #(not unless you're just that obsessed with understanding what the heck was going on in the films like me. they're deeply disturbing.) #(but i did read them bc i DID want to know and now you guys have to live with my crazy ramblings about bj.) #(which may or may not be accurate bc peace leans *a lot* on experiences in '70s-'80s yorkshire which he was alive for. i obv was not lmao) #out of fairy tales [ooc];

[puff-poff]

I would love hearing your ojiro headcanons!! He is my son I love him sm

so here's the thing

I have...a lot of Ojiro headcanons so I'll just pick a few random ones to talk about for now

Edgeshot is one of Ojiro's favorite pro heroes because of his ability to stay calm and collected during battle (and totally not just because he thinks Edgeshot looks cool)

he's pescatarian but also anxious as hell so he would rather not eat than have to ask for a special meal

during the dorm room competition there's something on Ojiro's desk that I'm now sure is a pencil pouch but when I first saw it I thought it was a glasses case. so yeah he has glasses but wears contacts most of the time

Ojiro is for sure one of those people who get eerily calm and quiet when they're really pissed. like you can tell he's planning your murder and there's nothing you can do about it

his ears stick out a lil bit :)

don't know how to explain it but this:

#son boy #I care him so much yall have no idea #thank you for enabling me with this ask #I legit got so excited reading it adflksdjf #had to physically restrain myself from going too deep into ship headcanons #(both romantic and platonic) #and keep in mind I'm not caught up on the manga/anime yet so these are all pre-paranormal liberation war arc #mha #my hero academia #mha ojiro #ask #kaichi-animations #I didn't realize why I loved ojiro so much until I saw a post calling him a himbo #and I was like #ah #okay everything makes sense now #also this made me realize I've never reblogged anything to do with him that needs to change #gonna add a bunch of ojiro stuff to my queue probably get ready yall

[spikes-got-anger-issues]

I want to do so much more for this blog but I'm so busy with school that I'm limited with time to make stuff for it. I crave creating content for this blog but I barely have any free time and it makes me sad and frustrated

#I absolutely love making memes and all but I have some more serious posts I'd like to work on #I just have so many thoughts about Lab Rats and I'm probably reading way too deep into just a silly Disney XD sitcom but I can't help it #I'm also not used to such a small fandom that's also pretty inactive (not that there's anything wrong with that) #not to mention my current 5+ fics I'm working on holy cow do I want to also work on those so badly #I work on at least one every night for about ten minutes just for some relaxation time before bed #I just wish I had more free time is my main point but I won't be done with school until Spring or Summer of 2025 🥲 #don't mind me rambling I just really really want to be making more posts on here and word vomit my thoughts on the show into the fandom #personal

[hxhhasmysoul]

my “crack fic” now comes with a footnote that spans half a page of the google doc. also i call it crack because i find the setting hilarious but it’s funny to me and only my 2 irl friends who know about it. idk if anyone else reading it would consider it funny. the story is actually sad and kinda grim at times...

#off topic #19 footnotes and counting #for a fic no one apart from my closest friends will read #because it doesn't contain the beloved canon ship that i'm kinda meh about #but a rare pair that is probably upsetting to the fans of the canon ship #and on top of that it's an extremely deep cut insular au #it's probably one of the best things i've ever written or will write #so there's that too

[dandunn]

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#I'm not salty that the lupin fics that seem to get the most views are zeni and loop not me no #it's like. #a good ship and all but probably the one I write the least #n in those fics the other Lupgang get treated like an afterthought #which kinda makes me mad #it just makes too much sense that Lupin getting deep into it with zeni would make his relationships with the gang worse by default #since he's trying to catch them and all #this isn't trying to be a hate post I do read a fair share of zeni loop and like them a lot #they just make me grrr sometimes u kno

[trash-raccoon]

i'm starting to try reading tarot out of curiosity. so far things seems to be ok? generally accurate reading and all that?

but fam... why do i keep getting pentacles cards..........

#tarot #i'm probably reading too deep into this but i'm wondering if my life is too tied to money at this point #i mean yeah cause i want to move and i need the cash. but still.