#metaphor noodles

[knotty-et-al]

Today I got some lingo soup for ya: (with a slightly philosophical garnish and some [almost punny] metaphor noodles)

[Beware of surreal imagery and loosen your associations, we will associate freely now: ]

"The disheveled common thread... ...returns as colorful web"

In German, the idiom "common thread" is literally translated as "RED thread" ("roter Faden").

That is why I kept spinning that metaphor noodle soup even further, and came up with the idea of the "colorful web" that emerges from the disheveled fibers of that "red/common thread".

What does it mean?

It just means that I could connect the dots about my biography and the life circumstances that we were/are in - and that now I can clean up that mess. It just means coming to terms with what happened - and yeah, it was shit. I'm happy it's over now. And although cleaning up the mess our past has left behind is extremely exhausting, I look forward to the life I have still ahead of me.

I am the colorful web of the disheveled fibers that never formed a functional thread. That's neither tragedy nor anything unique, it is just as it is, an adaption to circumstances, an adaption to feed the intrinsic will to live: Nothing more, nothing less.

[2024/03/11]

#knottys art #knotty et al #lingo soup #linguistics #metaphor soup #metaphor noodles #analogies #analogy #metaphor #imagery #surreal #surreal imagery #roter faden #common thread #loose associations #red thread #colorful web #my being is semi-coherent #or such idk #german #german language #language #lingo #languages

[blainke-omens]

Crowley Does Pottery HC anyone ? Because … it has a grip on me. I couldn’t hold back posting this wip any longer — I am so desperate for anyone else to share my vision in this.

#you gotta think about all the METAPHORS #I could go on and on and on about why it fits him so well #and I am. #in my own notes app currently for now #I’ll post the lil fic I’m noodling about on someday #but until then #wip pottery Crowley #good omens #Crowley #good omens fanart #blainkes wips

[ivalyn-rose]

Tasty!

I'm back and I finally moved to another state because of uni, yayyy, kind of tired damn fuck you uni, anyway I'm really loving this ship I think it's so silly and cute!!!

#drawsomething #artists on tumblr #fanart #commisions open #drawdrawdraw #art #art commisions #artist asking for some help? #digital artist #fan art #tw cannibalism #kinda #it looks like noodles #and Metal Sonic ain't alive SO #it's metaphorical #so yeah #metamy #I'm loving this ship #the girlfriends #metal sonic #amy rose fanart #amy rose #sth art #sth fanart #sth metal sonic #amy sth #metal sonic sth #tw blo0d #pls read the tags #metal sonic x amy rose

[local-hellhound-steals-spaghetti]

So proud of these two ❤️ Mikasa is starting to settle in nicely - she still has her little worry moments but she seems to be recovering faster

#Mikasa noodle #Mozart noodle #my sweet houndies #shout out to my friend who talked me off a metaphorical roof when I was freaking out last night

[kaladinpdfs]

i went into ssp3 fully prepared not to love it after i had hyped it up so much but i did love it. im sorry it was cute and fun and had cool lore as if its my fault!!!! girl who stacks rocks and guy who paints nightmares and they are both so so lonely

#also i found it very funny reading what felt like an extended heavy handed metaphor for ai art but the fact that this was written in 2020 #almost makes it funnier lollllll. anyway idk it was good!! hoid was a coatrack. there were noodles. tojin was immediately endeared to me #ssp3 #ssp3 spoilers #yumi and the nightmare painter

[catgirlknighted]

“What’s that about being straight?” Story Time 💜

I had an ex who I gave a major voice kink to and I was already out to when we were together. Over the years we’ve on off had a bit of casual fun even after breaking up mutually. Just some fun little phone sex together, mutual masturbation, body worship, etc. I was always a sort of domme in her life back in the old days. The only cis lady (presumably to this day- PRESUMABLY) I’ve ever fucked.

Now at a point we hadn’t talked for like a good year or two, just life stuff, and she tells me “yeah so I think I’m straight.” I laugh and question it like how? We were going to town on one another over the phone many times! She tells me she hasn’t found a woman she wants to fuck and actually just isn’t sure. Then I get this little idea on my mind. I tell her we should hang out over the phone & catch up. We catch up for a good bit of time and I bring up the comment about being straight. She clarifies again that she’s not sure actually and before she can say anything else, I start doing the voice. I hear her gasp softly and whimper. It’s been literally years since she’s gotten to hear my special voice yet this little cutie was still so receptive to it. She tells me softly that she’s soaked down there as I use the voice a bit more and asks me to stop, but then clarifies to only stop until she gets to her bedroom.

“Awwww you missed my voice, didn’t you little one?” She whimpers as I hear her looking for her vibrator and chokes out a needy “yes.” “Yes who?” I ask sternly. “Yes mommy.” She tells me. “Good girl, I like to hear how needy you are even after all this time you’re still such a good slut.”

I hear her unbutton and quickly take her pants off as I tease her with my voice more & more. At her whimpers I ask her if she wants me to stop as I hear the vibrator turn on. She begs me to keep going like a good little girl. I ask her if she still craves my thick girlcock in her wet little pussy and she says she does and craves any cocks she can get her hands on. She tells me she’s a cock hungry whore openly. I tell her she’s such a good girl for admitting it and she’s mommys good girl for wanting to take all the yummy cocks inside of her. I keep using my special voice to rile he up as she presses and teases the vibrator on her clit. She’s moaning out & making so many great sounds for me and I ask who she belongs to and she says “you mistress!”

She tells me she’s getting so close and the audio I’m picking up would most certainly backup those claims. She starts calling out for me saying mommy & mistress and telling me she’s mine repeatedly like a good girl should and how badly she wants me to fuck her. “Even after all this time, you’re still mommy’s little slut and you aren’t straight at all are you?” I hear her choke out a yes and a couple more yes’s over and over until she lets out a loud moan and gasp, having finally came for me. We chilled out after and laughed about how she absolutely wasn’t straight and just wants to get railed often. More guys than gay gals & nonbinary pals in the local area I guess. She just hasn’t has a good non-guy dick in a long time. To this day she craves my girldick whenever we call. 💜✨

💜 So really no one in this story was straight. 💖

#next time I’ll tell y’all the G!lf story I think who was also cis but unfortunately we never got to go through with it #real spaghetti noodle straight until wet metaphor put into play here lmao #rose.txt #my writing #trans dom #trans domme #trans switch #trans nsft #nsft trans #trans ns/ft #trans ns/fw #nonbinary nsft #nsft enby #enby nsft #voice kink #possession kink #a little bit?

[that-jack-kline-bestie]

so fucking upset. i looked up what's considered concerning weight loss and got a statistic. i looked up the same question but specified teens and i got a bunch of articles about how to lose weight. what the fuck

#tw weight loss #? idk if that tags necessary but better safe than sorry #past this point there is discussion of ARFID and stuff #LMFAO also ive had a medium to mild case of ARFID my entire life and no one noticed past concern for my pickiness #i say medium to mild because ive gotten better recently #i even ate half a bowl of the noodles i dont like the other day. AND they had been touched by shrimp & cabbage juice & soft peanuts #i mean i did drown them in soy sauce first and got nauseous thinking about it the rest of the day. but progress #i mean. im the type of person to skip a meal or barely eat because i dont like the food available or its too loud where i am #my adhd impacts it too like sometimes ill forget to eat or wont be able to make anything that day #but like goddamn. a growing child should be gaining weight. 'we should keep an eye on that' every single time and then no action #you know maybe thats part of why my body hurts sometimes and feels weird and shaky other times #its hard to tell based on how bony i am or whatever because i also naturally am a string bean and im not. like. starving myself #i get the same comments about how i should eat more and how im so skinny when im healthy and when im not #or i used to. people are generally less intrusive now that im older #gosh i need to flex my metaphorical brain muscles more i put way too much thought into the wording of this

[cogaytes]

chews on wolfe/santi like drywall. ive been brainrotting a much softer couple recently and it makes me think about how almost scarred their love is. like its not soft its grizzled its on fire it will burn both of them up if they live long enough. every kiss means something. theres no such thing as lazy intimacy because either of them would rather be taken out back and shot than have the word lazy apply to anything they do. like neither of them know how to be lazy. all they know is work all they know is give 1000% and that is the same philosophy they apply to loving each other. curls up on the ground and dies.

#if it's formatted weirdly that's bc it's straight from maz's dms #shoutout to xer for poking me with a pool noodle (metaphorical) until i posted it #something something “ive never known how to do anything halfway and that includes you” #mine

[missholoska]

Asriel and Papyrus: What do you think about Floweys?

#underswap mh #6th anniversary ask blog event #sage (swap mh asriel) #noodle (swap mh papyrus) #one of UT asriel's lines is 'there are a lot of floweys out there'. swap mh azzy would also say that but completely non-metaphorically #there are Many of them and he Does Not like them #meanwhile papyrus is just like 'oh cool :D flowey lore'

[gxlden-angels]

I need Americans that were never Christian™️ to realize that the average conservative cult christian's thoughts are basically that one episode of Spongebob where he gets elected Hall Monitor and gives a speech with "Crime and Punishment. Punishment and Crime"

#christians see themselves as the hall monitors of the earth essentially #and everyone needs to be punished and have their good noodle stars taken else they'll commit arson #they genuinely believe that as soon as you stop policing people they'll delve into their deepest darkest fantasies and start committing sins #that even Jesus Christ himself didn't think of #they come from the idea that they are the only group capable of keeping things steady until Sky Papa can make his way down and fuck shit up #So when you do something bad it's because you fell into the pull of destruction #But when they do it's the equivalent of stepping on your dog's foot because they almost tripped you #I still think it's funny a bunch of christians are creationist tho lmao skill issue #My grandparents are but my dad isn't #he believes evolution essentially occurred over the same time the earth was being created #and the story of adam being made from dust was a metaphor and literal #he was made from dust made from decomposing animals and plants which he used to create us as a more perfect being #so now we continue to evolve because we're connected to the dust and can continue to try to improve #so my dad believes in evolution and went to college for biology and chemistry at the biggest HBCU in the US #That evolution/creationist tangent was completely unrelated but all twitter is for me rn is ppl freaking out about our rights being taken #I avoid twitter most of the time but like to look at my friends' and fav artists' tweets #and recently I think little joel made a video about the evolution video that was trending so yea #n e ways have a nice day y'all <3 #I've been wanting to make more hehe hahas but everything in my brain rn is Undergraduate Thesis level shit #so I haven't really been reading or writing things I can talk about on Tumblr.Com ya know? #most of it is sociological textbooks memoirs and similar stuff that Id feel talking about on my casual blog #maybe Ill make a blog. like Blog blog for my essays one day #ex christian #religious trauma

[art-of-mathematics]

[Behold! Another incohernt (non-)sense post is coming!]

In German, the idiomatic expression "Der rote Faden" (literally translates to "the red thread" - The English equivalent of that idiomatic expression is "common thread".) refers to a recurring characteristic or theme (as to quote wiktionary)

- or a coherent "line" in the train of thought

- or a coherent alignment of plots in a multitude of intertwined events - as I would put it.

However, some "red threads" /"common threads" can be a bit "disheveled" in some constellations of events one could regard as "wicked problems":

... and that is where my brain.exe stopped working at knowing what I actually wanted to write here... I forgot the "red thread", as I cannot remember the final statment I actually wanted to deliver in the first place.

Yet, you see, this textpost I just wrote has like "fragments of a red thread". You see my train of thought might be full of gaps, but in the end you might still have gathered some sort of insight (Of course I refer to you having gained insight into the working mechanism of my "nonsense facility" - aka my brain /nonserious)

you see: Its a bit nonsensical, but yet, you might came to grasp what I started to attempt here... And if you have read this far: Congrats for using that much time for reading my brain dump.

Here is the quick drawing I made that inspired me to write this nonsense post:

Frontside + Backside + Light shining through = this fancy lil piece of paper:

#art #artsy #nonsense facility #my art #word salad #word gibberish #analogies #analogy #noodle soup #word soup #idioms #idiom #language #lingo soup #metaphor soup #metaphors #lingo nonsense #nonsense

[some-eldritch-bats]

Big shoutout to the mutuals i have never met IRL, who appeared in my blog like surprise-addition carrots to a broth and introduced a new dimension of flavourful perplexity to the friendship soup i am cooking. No idea how y'all found me but I'm glad you did <3

#soup metaphors are the best way to describe friendships #and no i'm not just saying that because i just ate a bowl of 2-minute noodles #but it is definitely a decent chunk of why

[gricean-sphinx]

Thunsheer 18th, Emerald Path

Saffron’s a shimmery ember aglow in the fire & Chicory’s the ashes left over or sugar powder. I miss Noodle and Baxter, though—my sunshine and my silver lining. I hope they’re doing alright.

#gris's journal #some musings on the party's #current set of horses #which gris named saffron & chicory #she didn't tell anyone else in the party that she named them #they are temporary horses #after all #and she's missing our set of horses back home #Noodle & James Baxter #the party know the names of those #brownie points if you can guess the horse coat #by gris's metaphors

[wizardnuke]

the shadowgast pacific rim au that exists in my brain.

#LONG TAGS LORE DUMP FOR A FIC I'M NEVER GONNA WRITE PROBABLY #deirta is pentecost she lost her husband in a battle and piloted the jaeger to shore alone - verin is tendo he could fight but deirta #doesn't want either of her sons in a jaeger ever. verin is okay enough with this. essek is not. #caleb ran a triple arm jaeger with astrid and wulf and lost his mind a little bit when they died. he felt them die. the added stress of #piloting a jaeger to shore on his own put him in the hospital and then a psych ward for three months #before he began helping with wall construction as equipment maintenance. clearly this is still a magic au and tech = magic etc etc #I CANNOT stress enough that jaegers are powered by luxon beacons. #anyway essek is in mako's position and caleb is beckett. the restless assistant and the tired veteran #essek chooses caleb's candidates - the candidate process is a little more complicated because these fantasy jaegers #work off of both magic and manual physical effort - candidates have to be evenly matched in both physical and mental fields #blumendrei only worked because caleb and astrid combined matched wulf in physicality. astrid and wulf matched caleb in casting. #it was. unhealthily competitive between them at times and astrid was the worst about it. he still misses them every single day. #it's like. shit hurts to do when one arm or leg is weaker than the other. it's like that. it has to match #essek and caleb have little noodle arms and truly insane skills w casting. so they're compatable. essek is sure. caleb does the same #'why do you keep making that face' bit like beckett did bc he's tired of essek's attitude and deirta's flat dismissal of him #they metaphorically roll the same exact initiative and the fight ends in caleb casting firebolt/essek casting sapping sting #and the two of them both use their reaction to counterspell. they both move to cast again when deirta is like Okay Stop Fighting I Get It #heehoo. the first time they drift together caleb leans that essek secretly recovered a beacon from a downed jaeger and has been using it to #advance his research while passing himself off as a genius - not that he isn't. he just has another stepping stone as well. #essek gets to live thru caleb's experience of feeling two (2) people die at the same exact moment. yeah verin has to pull that fuckin plug. #other notes. veth and yeza r the scientists. OBVIOUSLY veth drifts with a kaiju brain like are u KIDDING me #other jaeger teams are fjord+jester yasha+beau and the tealeaf triplets.

[tenth-sentence]

Again the blade cut through as if touching only cooked noodles.

"Incarnations of Immortality: Bearing an Hourglass" - Piers Anthony

#book quote #incarnations of immortality #bearing an hourglass #piers anthony #portcullis #metaphor #sword #cooked noodles

[headspace-hotel]

you know how people say "cats domesticated themselves?" I find this statement irksome because as i've been studying plants and particularly weeds, a theory has slowly been forming in my head about domestication that makes a lot more sense than other theories.

Basically, I think everything domesticated itself. Or rather, domestication involves adaptation and active participation on both sides.

Evidence for this is found in studying weed and crop plants—truth be told, most weeds are or were also crops.

Amaranthus, the genus that gives us the most costly USA agricultural weeds? All edible and healthy, and several members of the genus are domesticated. They were staple crops for Mesoamerican empires.

Kudzu, the vine so aggressive in the USA it turns trees into looming kudzu monoliths? It's been bred and cultivated by humans since the Neolithic in its native range, in China it was one of the main sources of fiber for cloth for MILLENNIA to the point that the Zhou dynasty had a whole government office of kudzu affairs. Kudzu roots are edible and they can be as tall as a human and weighing over 200 pounds, you can make them into flour, make noodles out of the flour, you can process them down into a starch and use it just like potato or tapioca starch and make all sorts of sauces and confections and stuff out of it. In Japan it was used for clothes too, if you see pictures of clothes worn by a samurai that's probably kudzu! It has loads of unresearched phytochemicals that probably have medicinal use, it's good for making paper, a researcher even made a biodegradable alternative to plastic out of it

Yellow Nutsedge is a food crop, Purslane is a food crop, at least some species of morning-glories are food crops, crabgrass is a food crop, Nettles are food AND fiber, Milkweed is food and fiber too, Broadleaf Plantain is food and medicinal, Dandelion is food and medicinal AND great companion plant (they used to sell them in seed catalogues around the 1890's or so!) and have y'all ever seen queen-anne's-lace along the side of the road? THATS CARROTS. That's the wild ancestor of carrots! (ofc don't eat anything you aren't 1000% sure you can identify)

Simply put. A weed is a plant that has co-evolved with humans. And most of them are Like That because they co-evolved with us. And honestly I reckon that many plants were domesticated in the first place because they liked to grow in disturbed environments near human settlements and agricultural fields.

Now thinking about this in terms of animals...when our domestic species were first domesticated, there weren't fences, there wasn't "inside" or any controlled environment to bring animals into, and if you tried to overpower or coerce any of those species, they would 100% just kill you. It makes a lot more sense if the humans were just following herds around, and it gradually developed into protecting those herds from predators and tending to them more intentionally until we were kind of just part of the herds ourselves.

a lot of people are familiar with Biblical stories and metaphors about shepherds...it's clear those guys were basically living with sheep 24/7. They were assimilated to the sheep lifestyle.

this theory kinda suggests that we've lost the ability to domesticate new animal species to some extent because domestication has never really involved removing an animal from its natural environment. Feeding wild animals and trying to socialize them to humans isn't in line with the mutualistic nature of domestication because it's trying to change the animal to our whims, and usually decreases the fitness of the animal rather than increases it. And domestication probably takes a long long time to reach the level where an animal can be a "pet" instead of a more distant form of domestication where the association is not as close.

EXCEPT. Animals that adapt to our environment are prime candidates for domestication. This actually checks out because rats and mice are some of the most recently domesticated animals, iirc. Basically, pest animals are the most likely to be domesticated because they've already started evolving into a relationship with us. Just like weeds.

An interesting side note is how both animals and plants can de-domesticate and become "weeds/pests" again. Like "weedy rice" is becoming a problem in some crops where rice has evolved into a weed. And with animals, there's pigeons who were domesticated by us and now their habitat is cities because they co-evolved with us.

#random