#theory tag

[luckycharms1701]

Oh, please, I must know now… Donnie during mating season??? :D I’m loving ur writings about this :)

alright you thirsty purple fans, it’s time!

sidenote: i am. so glad. that people are enjoying these. they’re a lot of fun to write!

double sidenote: i have added a link to my masterpost to all my bayverse mating season headcanons! you can also find them here

sooooo donnie. he's a freak in the sheets, you cannot change my mind. so especially strong spicy warning for this one 🌶️

Donnie is extremely matter of fact about mating season. The first time he brings it up with you, he’s more nervous about your answer than he is shy about explaining what it entails. (You couldn’t hear the words, but you did hear him muttering to himself before he came up to ask you. You suspect it was a pep talk.) He is very thorough when explaining mating season in general and how it affects him in particular. You are grateful and also a little turned on by the time he’s done.

Before you were in the picture, Donnie used to work himself until his system overloaded and he passed out during this time. Now he finds himself working a lot less, because he has you to focus on. He appreciates that you make him spend more time on leisure and don’t let him overwork himself. He also appreciates that you do let him work at least a little when the desire hits. Getting to cuddle with you is a surefire way to get him to rest when he needs it though. As long as you’re nearby, he’s happy to do whatever.

Donnie is a talker in general, but it gets ramped up to 100 when it’s his season. Unless his mouth is busy doing… other things… it’s basically a 24/7 stream of consciousness fest. Mostly it’s about you. How much he loves you, what in particular he loves about you, how exactly he wants to make love to you. His morning star, his starlight, his celestial beauty. Sometimes, though, he’ll interrupt himself to talk about something that just occurred to him about one of his projects. It never fails to pull a laugh out of you and make him rub the back of his neck in (adorable) embarrassment.

He enjoys physical affection and often seeks it out from you, and this holds true during his season. He won’t whine or get grumpy if you don’t want to be touching him all the time (*cough* like his brothers will *cough*), but he does prefer if you’re in contact with him somehow. He enjoys watching movies with your head on his lap and your hand in his. He especially likes it when you're on top of him.

Donnie is used to just taking care of himself whenever necessary, AND he is used to handling delicate things during his season. So there is a lot of gentle manhandling when the time comes. You can't do anything particularly engaging because he will come up and interrupt you whenever to have sex. IF you are wearing clothes at all (not often), you cannot wear underwear or pants, at most a skirt. That way he can just lift it up and enter you whenever the urge hits. He is especially fond of doing this when you're sitting on his lap while he's working (... "daddy's little cockwarmer").

Having you around does not mean that all of his toys go unused, oh no. He is very considerate, and would rather resort to them when you're getting rest. (He got your permission to stare at you while you slept and he used his toys. So considerate.) He also came up with some new toys that the two of you can use together. Having toys custom designed for your pleasure? Well. It really adds to the experience of mating season.

He likes to take his time and study you. He is always coming to you with a new experience he wants to try. He does get a lot of pleasure out of trying new things, but he mostly just wants to know how you'll react. He is intimately familiar with your body and how it reacts, and he wants to see if those reactions hold true when different stimuli are applied. His prodigious brain is always working. He particularly likes when something catches you off guard and a surprised gasp comes out of your mouth.

Donnie is not overtly possessive, even in his season. But there is always one hickey very carefully placed somewhere noticeable that you can't cover easily. He knows just how much force to use to leave an imprint of his hands without hurting you more than you enjoy. And if he catches someone looking at you? You will probably be walking a little funny the next day. When he ties you up (he enjoys tying you up. a lot.), he'll take a minute to sit back and observe you, pleasuring himself to thoughts of how you belong to him the same way he belongs to you.

When his season is over, his favorite thing to do is cuddle with you while the both of you sleep it off. He won't leave the bed, not even to work, until he deems you fully rested. (He will work in bed while you sleep on his plastron though.) His second favorite thing to do is bathe you. He takes his time to make sure every inch of you is clean and cared for. It's a lot like going to a spa, because Donnie did a lot of research into spas so that he could replicate that experience for you. And if you give him a little pampering in return? You'll get to hear him chirp and churr in complete satisfaction.

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head bonks: @yorshie @avery73 @justalotoffanfiction @thejudiciousneurotic

#bayverse donnie #bayverse donnie x reader #tmnt #talking tag #theory tag #mating season #*blows kiss to all the donnie fans out there* #couldn't be me #i definitely haven't spent the past three days thinking about his thighs. and his biceps. and his teeth. his tongue... #ANYWAY #special shoutout to yorshie's 'donnie's working music' playlist for making this a lot easier to write than it would have been otherwise lol #i really hope this was worth the wait i uh struggled a bit to focus on him and keep him in my head. the mikey brainrot is Really Strong #mr. fearless leader angsty boy is next that'll be fun

[mumatsi]

TADC Christianity metaphor theory!!

So, I'm pretty sure everyone already knows the Caine & Abel theory along with the Last supper reference at the end of the pilot, but there are some other stuff nobody mentions.

Firstly, Pomni might be a reference/metaphor for Jesus not only because of "The Last Supper" reference in the pilot but because some official bloopers constantly show crosses and a model of pomni literally getting crucified

Jesus was born into a world where he tried to convince others into disobeying the ones in authority but nobody took him seriously at first. Perhaps Pomni is there to convince the circus members to disobey Caine and keep looking for an exit? Or maybe go into the void and find out what is REALLY out there?

Not to mention Bubble sounds like a wordplay for Abel. Yknow, like Bu-bel?? This one might be a reach but im not quite sure.

This theory, ive never seen anyone make

Kinger is supposedly the one that was there the longest. And he had a wife who's name is canonically Queenie. Queenie is already abstracted so this could be a reference to Adam and Eve. Where Eve eats the apple, or in this case, Queenie abstracts. My theory is that they were both the first two people to come to the digital circus. And if Kinger has been there for that long, seeing everyone he met die it could explain why he is so insane too.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings, remember these arent canon this was just for fun!

#tadc #the amazing digital circus #digital circus #amazing digital circus #tadc theory #theory tadc #theory #theory tag #caine #pomni #christianity #cain and abel #jax #zooble #kinger #queenie #kinger x queener #tadc bubble #bubble tadc

[ratgirlcopia]

the color palettes are like 80% of the reason i think copia is ghost virgin mary and the other 20% just comes from my standard copia-is-a-woman analysis.

like if we're being nitpicky, copia's robes are a bit more teal than they are marian blue/ultramarine, but the point is that mary is usually wearing a blue outer layer, a red inner layer, and various other stuff in gold. and then copia has blue and gold robes and the red tracksuit. and i think about this semi-regularly. the red tracksuit is a bit of stretch, since it's not like copia ever wears blue and red simultaneously, but if it was a mary thing it would make it a slightly less insane color choice, i think.

anyway. it gets more fun when we look at our lady of guadalupe. because she's 1) wearing blue with gold detailing, 2) wearing a more teal-ish shade of blue than some other mary depictions, and 3) she's in the basilica of our lady of guadalupe in mexico city.

and copia's ascension was in mexico city! makes you think.

(photo from revolver mag)

#copiaposting #theory tag #<-i'm being very generous with the word “theory” here.

[1tsjusty0u]

hey so theres been theories abt monster extract being extracted from monsters or malice, but if it was malice then malice had to exist before the calamity because of the recipe book in hyrule castle. instead however i suggest its from these

kilton can be found at skull lake where these flowers grow, the flowers r purple, And the extract bottle has a flower design in gold on it

#theory tag

[cartmanseyes]

Ginger Kids provides some of the strongest evidence in the series that Liane is where Cartman learned all his prejudices. This little tidbit puts a lot of Cartman’s actions in a new context too.

First, the ending of the same episode (included in the clip).

Kyle: “You are such a manipulative asshole.”

Eric: “Yes, but I’m not going to die.”

The obvious interpretation is that Cartman was referring to the movement of ginger supremacists he started killing him with everyone else when they found out he was not ginger, but Liane’s bit adds some additional stakes. It’s entirely plausible that he could also have been referring to his own mother “putting him down” as the doctor suggested. She’s considered it before, as seen in the Cartman’s Mom is a Dirty Slut episode, and while Cartman is not made aware of her trying to legalize “aborting” him there, in this episode she very plainly seems to consider ending his life right before his very eyes.

We could also say that the ginger supremacy movement was an attempt defending himself, not only from the bigotry he started at school then fell victim to, but from his own mother. Securing power with an army of people willing to obey his every command would be effective in preventing a doctor from euthanizing him. Obviously, he’s starting the movement for selfish reasons even without that, but if we assume he internalized that interaction with the doctor, it raises the stakes immensely for him.

The second thing this sheds a new light on is the episode Tsst, where Cartman considers killing his own mother.

Cartman (internal dialogue): “Wait. Maybe I don't have the right to kill my mom.”

Cartman (externally): “No! She's my mom, I can do whatever I want with her! It's more important that I live the way I want!”

Now, in the episode itself, this is played as evidence of Cartman being a twisted little monster. But if we take the times Liane has considered killing her son into account... Well, turnabout is fair play isn’t it? Cartman thinks he’s entitled to kill his mother because he has evidence to believe she thinks the same about him and just hasn’t chosen to do it yet.

#theory tag #random nonsense tag #Liane Cartman #Eric Cartman #Ginger Kids #s9e11 #liane is not innocent #liane is not a victim #she's reaping what she's sown lol #analysis tag

[stabbynunchuckss]

I’m going to sleep but do tell me your fic rules

Oh shit I forgot I said that okay

1. No major character death before 1am (by 1am I think I can handle it)

2. Finish what you're reading before you start something else (I already have like 100 ao3 tabs open I don't need more)

3. If you're reading smut don't do it downstairs (parents and younger brother)

4. No smut before 12am (a slightly more reasonable time, but I don't read much smut anyway. exceptions can be made, such as in science class. it's educational)

5. Do not disclose the amount of omegaverse you read to anyone, not even your closest friends (it's slightly too much to be accidental at this point)

6. Now that you've finally figured out how filtering works, fucking use it (I don't use it enough)

7. READ THE ARCHIVE WARNINGS (I could not tell you how many times I've gotten halfway through a fic only to find out it's tagged with major character death)

8. Don't read anything tagged with 'manga spoilers' and posted in the last year (I haven't read far enough yet. I do not follow this rule)

9. Stop getting sad about the lack of comptwice fics (it's not going to happen)

10. Stop questioning why you enjoyed that one erasermic temporary character death vivisection whump fic so much (it was good okay)

Those got very specific and I apologise

#stabby answers asks #theory tag

[st0rmyseas]

Introducing.. @sougworld for THEORY TIME aka the best time ever. You may know us from the insane Hollyoaks theories we share on Twitter (that makes sense to nobody except us) that everyone totally appreciates!!

Yes, your favourite chaotic theory-making duo is now here to annoy you on Tumblr too! :D

#theory tag #og posts

[elysianymph]

So obviously I’ve been calling you Nai but I am actually curious as to whether that’s your name or just a word in a language I don’t know and, if it’s the latter, what does it mean?

(I have looked it up btw but I can’t seem to find anything definite 😭😭😭)

Ngl I’ll probably still keep calling you it either way because I think it’s pretty cool

Nai is actually just a shortened version of my name. it's not a word or a nickname at all cause it's a bit weird to pronounce (or at least it is to me), but i've never had a real nickname so i just took away the last two letters of my name when i was making an internet persona years ago and it stuck ig??

my full name is Naida!! feel free to use it if you like ☺️

#genuinely the only nickname i've had was when my little brother couldn't pronounce my name properly so he called me nida #and that was after a long battle of fighting him to stop saying dida (which sounds a lot like granpa in my language) #i always ask my parents how they picked my name cause it's pretty uncommon and they never have an answer for me #convinced they just turned to a random page on the name book and blindly picked something at this point #nymph answers #theory tag

[widowshill]

"incest as the meaning of the gothic novel," ruth perry, the eighteenth century, fall 1998, p 277

#theory tag #➤ atmosphere. ┊ welcome to the beginning and the end of the world. #➤ roger collins. ┊ I and my ghosts want a drink.

[cyberspacenine]

current theory regarding the disappearing ships:

since these seem to be high-profile disappearances that nobody is even trying to cover up, this could be an intentional attempt to sow some kind of mistrust between different governments (so far klingon, romulan, orion and so on) and disrupt alliances?

though so far we have not seen any kind of major political unease, maybe from here on out it'll get more serious? my mind keeps going back to section 31 as somehow being involved, or some kind of successor to it, since last season had that scene with boimler's clone at the end.

...either that, or all the evil computers decided to team up and break out of their containment. that could also be it.

#i just keep thinking like where are they going with that section 31 bit #like maybe it's still dead and that was a ruse rly anything is possible with this show #but theorizing is fun? #lower decks #lwd #section 31 #theory tag

[aeterna---amantes]

|| So I started watching season one yesterday and it's chilling me now how the Demogorgon disappeared with Will to the Upside Down in the first 15 minutes. We know the Upside Down is stuck in the moment when Will disappeared. So I think Vecna purposefully had him kidnapped and used him/his memories to make Upside Down look like Hawkins. He wants to reshape the world - he begun it there. When they showed us Vecna arrive in the Upside Down in the last episode, there was literally nothing but canyons and floating rocks, it looked nothing like our world. In season three he said through Billy that they have been building for her. Is he constantly in Will's mind? Does he feel what he feels just as Will senses him? Is he powerful enough not to be noticed, or whenever Will has goosebumps it's a sign Vecna is intruding his mind? To see where they are, what are they doing, how are they reacting? Whenever he had goosebumps in season three - were they found because Will, without knowing, told Vecna his position?

Oh boy. Will really is the centre of it all. He really is the link. Vecna knows all of Will's weaknesses as well as the other's. Through him, Vecna can know anything.

#ooc #stranger things #stranger things spoilers #spoilers #theory tag #|| I'm terrified. #|| Leave Will alone!!!! 😭

[luckycharms1701]

Just read Mikey’s mating season, would write one for Raphael?

of course i will, anything for our boy in red! i will say that bay raph in particular is hard for me to write, so i hope this is decent

again, it's a lil spicyyy 🌶️ reader beware!

The first time it's brought up, Raph absolutely refuses to allow you to spend his season with him. Won't even have the conversation. Not even Mikey can convince him to just talk to you. It takes a literal act of God to force him into it- stranded in your apartment together while a late snowstorm rages, just as his season is starting.

Raph is naturally afraid that he will hurt you. But what he doesn't tell you is that he is afraid of the vulnerability. Raph's season is a highly emotional time for this passionate guy. He knows that he'll be more open- generally the first sign that his season is starting is when he admits something to one of his brothers that he doesn't actually want them to know. So forced into close quarters with you, alone- he's afraid of what he'll say, afraid that the depths of his feelings will drive you off.

He is shocked that when the time comes, his anger doesn't overwhelm him the way it normally does. Instead, it is his love for you that takes over. He finds himself feeling incredibly affectionate. He even chirps for you. (Once it's over he's mortified and you have to swear that you'll never tell anyone ever). The sadness he associates with this time? Again, all gone, because you're here.

The cuddling is real and it is. Frequent. Raph doesn't like to let you go and will often carry you around if you need to move from the bed. But good luck getting him to agree to let you leave the bed. He likes you there and he does not want you to leave. Surely he can go get whatever you need? You belong in his arms, as far as he is concerned.

So, Raph. Once you get him on board, he has rules. These are non-negotiable, because not following them could possibly result in him hurting you and that Will Not Happen. The biggest rule is that you cannot tease him. Teasing riles him up like nothing else and if he loses control and hurts you... no. It Won't Happen. He'll lock himself in a different room and take care of himself before he'll let you break one of his rules.

However, that doesn't mean that it's not a good time for both of you. It's hard at first, because Raph is so afraid to let go, but once he does? Once all that passion is set free and focused on you? It is absolutely some of the most intense lovemaking you've ever experienced in your life. And that's what it is- lovemaking.

All of Raph's affection and tender feelings take over, and he is intense but so gentle at the same time. When it's not mating season, he can be rough sometimes, although never more than you can handle. Not so during mating season. Even when he's pounding into you, driving you wild as you writhe under him, he doesn't hurt you. The only bruises you come out with are in the shape of his hands on your hips.

He is surprisingly quiet when he fucks you. Everything in him is so focused on you that he barely notices his own pleasure. He does chirp a lot, and when it happens the churring practically vibrates the whole bed. He prefers to draw sounds out of you instead. There is a certain dark chuckle he gives that warns you that you are about to get loud. He loves to quiet down so he can catch the nearly silent gasp that comes out of you when his fingers hit that spot deep in you.

He becomes an anxious mother hen when it's over. He hovers. It's a little maddening but he needs you to indulge. He needs to be able to make sure that you're okay, that he didn't hurt you. He is of course worried for no reason, you're fine. But he's still a little cuddly, so you enjoy indulging him.

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head bonks: @yorshie @avery73 @justalotoffanfiction @thejudiciousneurotic

#bayverse raph #bayverse raph x reader #tmnt #talking tag #theory tag #mating season #say it together now: SOFT RAPH SOFT RAPH SOFT RAPH #sorry if you were expecting something a little spicier. that'll come don't you worry #i just can't see raph allowing himself to be rough when he's not in complete control #i'm not 100% happy with this but i never feel completely happy when i write raph #so i hope it's okay

[fesenmoon]

no fucking way

#sketches #comics #the far side #crocodiles #my art #i don’t know how to tag this. #also i should probably say. i tried to look into it further and i haven't seen hard hard evidence that they do this on purpose #personifying animals is tempting but ultimately i think it's just hot speculation atm. crocodilians are famously tough to research too #like the advantages may be a coincidence or just pure curiosity/play. which is also really cute...love those guys #sorry for the misinformation! light theory only afaik #comic

[ratgirlcopia]

[writes 3000 words of copia gender theory] no yeah it's not that big of a deal to me it's whatever.

#copiaposting #theory tag #this is legitimately a 3000-word essay. sorry. i wish it was a rickroll actually. #but i've been thinking about the spillways stuff for a REALLY LONG TIME.

[doctorguilty]

Oh you know what I think I'm ready to stand by that already because this fits exactly into the puzzle piece space I was thinking about. If kris is a piece of gaster, then gaster helping kris is helping himself, also we (the player, the person this card is addressed to) are the one controlling kris, which people who break the game rules are aware of existing as an outside force behind the actions of the protag character (Flowey, Sans, etc) soooo

#seth speaks #theory tag

[gothpretentious]

Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels. "Against Theory." Critical Inquiry 8 (1982): 727-9.

The claim that all meanings are intentional is not, of course, an unfamiliar one in contemporary philosophy of language. John Searle, for example, asserts that "there is no getting away from intentionality," and he and others have advanced arguments to support this claim.1 Our purpose here is not to add another such argument but to show how radically counterintuitive the alternative would be. We can begin to get a sense of this simply by noticing how difficult it is to imagine a case of intentionless meaning.

1: John R. Searle, "Reiterating the Differences: A Reply to Derrida," Glyph 1 (1977): 202.

Suppose that you're walking along a beach and you come upon a curious sequence of squiggles in the sand. You step back a few paces and notice that they spell out the following words:

A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years.2

2: Wordsworth's lyric has been a standard example in theoretical arguments since its adoption by Hirsch; see Validity in Interpretation, pp. 227-30 and 238-30.

This would seem to be a good case of intentionless meaning: you recognize the writing as writing, you understand what the words mean, you may even identify them as constituting a rhymed poetic stanza-- and all this without knowing anything about the author and indeed without needing to connect the words to any notion of an author at all. You can do all these things without thinking of anyone's intention. But now suppose that, as you stand gazing at this pattern in the sand, a wave washes up and recedes, leaving in its wake (written below what you now realize was only the first stanza) the following words:

No motion has she now, no force; She neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.

One might ask whether the question of intention still seems as irrelevant as it did seconds before. You will now, we suspect, feel compelled to explain what you have just seen. Are these marks mere accidents, produced by the mechanical operation of the waves on the sand (through some subtle and unprecedented process of erosion, percolation, etc.)? Or is the sea alive and striving to express its pantheistic faith? Or has Wordsworth, since his death, become a sort of genius of the shore who inhabits the waves and periodically inscribes on the sand his elegiac sentiments? You might go on extending the list of explanations indefinitely, but you would find, we think, that all the explanations fall into two categories. You will either be ascribing these marks to some agent capable of intentions (the living sea, the haunting Wordsworth, etc.), or you will count them as nonintentional effects of mechanical processes (erosion, percolation, etc.). But in the second case-- where the marks now seem to be accidents-- will they still seem to be words?

Clearly not. They will merely seem to resemble words. You will be amazed, perhaps, that such an astonishing coincidence could occur. Of course, you would have been no less amazed had you decided that the sea or the ghost of Wordsworth was responsible. But it's essential to recognize that in the two cases your amazement would have two entirely different sources. In one case, you would be amazed by the identity of the author-- who would have thought that the sea can write poetry? In the other case, however, in which you accept the hypothesis of natural accident, you're amazed to discover that what you thought was poetry turns out not to be poetry at all. It isn't poetry because it isn't language; that's what it means to call it an accident. As long as you thought the marks were poetry, you were assuming their intentional character. You had no idea who the author was, and this may have tricked you into thinking that positing an author was irrelevant to your ability to read the stanza. But in fact you had, without realizing it, already posited an author. It was only with the mysterious arrival of the second stanza that your tacit assumption (e.g., someone writing with a stick) was challenged and you realized that you had made one. Only now, when positing an author seems impossible, do you genuinely imagine the marks as authorless. But to deprive them of an author is to convert them into accidental likenesses of language. They are not, after all, an example of intentionless meaning; as soon as they become intentionless they become meaningless as well.

The arrival of the second stanza made clear that what had seemed to be an example of intentionless language was either not intentionless or not language. The question was whether the marks counted as language; what determined the answer was a decision as to whether or not they were the product of an intentional agent. If our example has seemed farfetched, it is only because there is seldom occasion in our culture to wonder whether the sea is an intentional agent. But there are cases where the question of intentional agency might be an important and difficult one. Can computers speak? Arguments over this question reproduce exactly the terms of our example. Since computers are machines, the issue of whether they can speak seems to hinge on the possibility of intentionless language. But our example shows that there is no such thing as intentionless language; the only real issue is whether computers are capable of intentions. However this issue may be decided-- and our example offers no help in deciding it-- the decision will not rest on a theory of meaning but on a judgment as to whether computers can be intentional agents. This is not to deny that a great deal-- morally, legally, and politically-- might depend on such judgments. But no degree of practical importance will give these judgments theoretical force.

The difference between theoretical principle and practical or empirical judgments can be clarified by one last glance at the case of the wave poem. Suppose, having seen the second stanza wash up on the beach, you have decided that the "poem" is really an accidental effect of erosion, percolation, and so on and therefore not language at all. What would it now take to change your mind? No theoretical argument will make a difference. But suppose you notice, rising out of the sea some distance from the shore, a small submarine, out of which clamber a half dozen figures in white lab coats. One of them trains his binoculars on the beach and shouts triumphantly, "It worked! It worked! Let's go down and try it again." Presumably, you will now once again change your mind, not because you have a new account of language, meaning, or intention but because you now have new evidence of an author. The question of authorship is and always was an empirical question; it has now received a new empirical answer. The theoretical temptation is to imagine that such empirical questions must, or should, have theoretical answers.

#theory tag #<- droll given title