#thereby

[wiirocku]

Job 22:21 (KJV) - Acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.

#Job 22:21 #acquaint #now #thyself #with Him #be at peace #thereby #good #shall come #unto thee

[l0verseyes]

day 7 of asking supergiant games for romanceable eris

#hades 2 #hades game #melinoe #eris #i thereby name them #erinoe #draws #hades 2 spoilers #oops

[lgbtlunaverse]

The thing that really gets me about xiyao. that will never NOT get me about xiyao. Is that they met in circumstances where for just a moment their respective stations in society didn't matter. Not to each other. Their relationship started outside of social conventions. And they spend the next 17 years trying to preserve that time, that relationship outside of society. And society crept in anyway.

#mdzs #lan xichen #meng yao #jin guangyao #xiyao #rs: i wish it could've been you #it's the TRAGEDY of it all #oh god maybe this is why cql xiyao doesn't do it as much for me despite the fact the fact they are just. so gay. #because SO MUCH about xiyao and how they work can be traced back to how they met #like down to xichen's stubborn willingnes to always believe the best in jgy and his 'i believe you had your reasons' mentality #because that? 'sometimes the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing because the situation is desperate' #that's a lesson he had to learn ON THE RUN FROM THE WEN. he had to leave his own people to die. that's a lesson he learned WITH MENG YAO #and that line of thinking thereby becomes irrevocably tied to meng yao #and changing their first meeting and pushing back that little wartime romance changes so much #it's still tasty but it's not THIS

[ronanlynchbf]

#rereading trc while simultaneously falling back into aftg stuff by virtue of reading tsc and thereby transporting myself back to when i #was sixteen but it's fine it's totally fine like it's whatever 😁👍 #r.txt #anyway. me when – me when i – me when i'm trying to tell my best friend that i'm gay but i'm also trying to tell him i can take stuff from #my dreams and i took my now pet raven from my dreams like from my head i'm a dreamer but also that's kind of the same thing but also it's #really not but also it is bc it's an allegory but also that's not the only thing the dreaming is an allegory for and also i'm scared to tel #him like i'm terrified actually and i don't want to tell him but also i need to tell him but also he already knows but i don't know that he #knows and also i was goinggggg to tellllllll himmmmmm arghhhhhhh #this scene is soooooooooo like. like AOUGH. ARGH OUGH AGH AOUGHHHHHH #<- sounds of a guy taking minus xp damage with every word read of this stupid scene. he literally was going to tell gansey 😕......... #trc #ronsey #like i need 2 lay down. he came out there to tell him......the timbre of his voice being described as strange&initially unrecognizable.... #i read this part like. 2 weeks ago idk. smth of the sort. and i'm STILL thinking abt it....you came out for something.....when you'd made u #ur mind to confess but ur mouth betrayed you in the end......associated with secrets and guilt......MAN.....

[madfoxx]

“In japanese culture they have a myth where they believe, that all soulmates are connected by an invisible red string, and those strings are attached to each of their little fingers.”

#*sobs* its all about the triangles guys #but for real #wouldnt it be iconic if the wholesome love wins tv show ended its triangle themed season with a happy poly relationship #thereby subverting the boring old love-triangle trope and turning it into something beautiful and new? #yeah. yeah that would be nice #please god just let them be happy and loved and let them get the ending they deserve #ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #s3 #mom city #ted lasso fanart #ot3 #royjamiekeeley #my stuff #fanart #roy kent #keeley jones #jamie tartt

[hoofpeet]

-might get kicked out for unrelated reasons (HOA) But small look at the landlord situation. Landlord emailed us some legal documents earlier- which included an admission that he's been getting the rent checks (which he was previously claiming we weren't paying and citing as his grounds for eviction) - as well as documentation of two other instances of attempted extortion.... I've lost the plot completely at this point

#like ❓ what are you doing.... that was your entire argument........ #-and again not sure what i can share but. #trying to demand payment on late fees.... #threatening to email dad's employer if he didn't pay said late fees .... #then admitting that we've been paying the rent- not only on time but a few days early every month- #thereby... making the late fees invalid AND attempted extortion... wyd #edit- i mean actually the hoa issues ARE landlord related ig

[kismet-cat]

the second line of text you see in ghost trick, on the first screen of the game, sets up a motif / bit of symbolism that doesn't fully come into its own until the final chapters, where it is used as the key to understanding the main antagonist. that's good ass writing if i've ever seen it.

#ghost trick #ghost trick: phantom detective #get it? ''swimming in darkness". like the darkness is a body of water. like. like the sea #ghost trick spoilers #<- mostly because of the following tag: #it's also funny knowing *who* says this line and thereby sets up the metaphor. something about cats and water. :) #breaking news: ghost trick has stellar foreshadowing. water is wet. #analysis

[saintbleeding]

[ID: A digital greyscale sketch of Alice Dyer and Sam Khalid from The Magnus Protocol. Alice is tall and thin with shoulder-length curly hair, and Sam is shorter and fat with neat, short hair and glasses. They are posing together for a photo, Alice grinning and Sam giving a tight-lipped smile, each with an arm around the other. Text at the bottom reads “Alice & Sam” in all-caps. End ID.]

omg guys she speaks highly of him,,,

#i sure hope these cuties haven’t already faced the horrors and maybe a big fire by the time the story starts thereby dooming them #to The Narratives And Themes!!!!!!!! #tmagp #the magnus protocol #samama khalid #alice dyer #my #saint draws #i didnt wanna put Too Much into this bc it is very likely that my hcs will change but. #what if they got to enjoy uni. what a thought.

[catofoldstones]

Reading agot chapters of the stark sisters and coming to the conclusion that they hate each other in isolation from their parents’ understanding of them and society’s rigid expectations on them is idiotic as fuck. They are both classic products of their environments, both familial and social, and their feelings of each are heavily informed by these two things. Please take your Sansa and Arya hate each other because they’re antagonists, and are going to come head to head thematically in the later books, and dump it in the trash where it belongs.

#ned not understanding sansa thereby unconsciously favouring arya over her #cat not understanding arya and putting her expectations on her #psa: neither of the parents hate either girl #it just happens in a stratified and regressive society like that #sorry #sansa stark #arya stark #a game of thrones #agot #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #stark sisters #san & ar #can you tell I am rereading the books?

[kickbutts-singsongs]

Ugh i woke myself up at 1am for this but here

Calling it rn that once the fight’s over, Izuku’s gonna be standing over Katsuki going “daijobu??” and be holding out his hand

and Katsuki’s gonna grin like an idiot and TAKE IT

#thereby healing all of their childhood misunderstandings #and idk maybe they’ll strike the All Might victory pose together like in heroes rising #i meannnn #katsukis good arm is the one he holds up in that movie #just saying #bnha #mha #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bakugou katsuki #midoriya izuku #bakudeku #bkdk #my thoughts

[kug-the-carrot]

I have lots of thoughts and theories about how we'll jump into the opening of the Murderbot show but perhaps my personal favorite I've thought of is this one

The first like five minutes of the show jumps straight into a dramatic scene playing out. It's a scene of danger and intrigue, there's action and clearly romantic tension between some characters. This is the dramatic Sci fi space thriller the trailers have (presumably) promised

and then an alert flashes on the screen and we're jolted back into the real show as MB stops watching Sanctuary Moon to play back the last several seconds of real life audio and visual bc it definitely wasn't listening just now. We see its POV as it picks up some equipment cases and follows Dr. Volescu and Dr. Bharadwaj out the hopper onto the planets surface, the planetary rings spanning the horizon as it briefly scans the area for threats.

Bharadwaj and Volescu are talking excitedly about the craters and samples they're going to take, lots of boring detail about geology and terrain and we slowly see Murderbot's focus starting to drift when they don't have any other orders to give. We see it start cautiously scrolling through a selection of music, but not playing any, not just yet

#Murderbot #Muderbot show #TMD #KUG babbles #i just thi k it would be hilarious to have a lot of material from the trailers just be straight from a five minute scene of Sanctuary Moon #thereby fooling the audience. then we think oh this is boring go back to the other thing. then BOOM. ASRs story starts in earnest

[mjhartwork]

I made a wraparound record cover for a powermetal album that (unfortunately) doesn't exist!

If you've listened to Maleficus Geminus, you likely know my rage at the death of the robot prince of auchtertool. Well, what if we could rebuild him? The front cover of this album features my (tentative and incomplete (i was on a deadline! sue me)) design of the robot prince of auchtertool, post-battle and mid-resurrection.

#hes on a giant magic tree stump because it looks cool and #since you can graft stuff to trees. i figure you can graft souls to a tree's soul. #a machine's soul might be closer to that of a tree's than a human's so it might just work #thereby keeping his soul on life support #(man idk how robots work. i'm an illustrator who likes biology and pretends to be a wizard) #digital art #adobe photoshop #art school #powermetal #gloryhammer #vinyl records #album art #the robot prince of auchtertool #return to fife #fantasy #artists on tumblr #sci fi

[kindaorangey]

once again screaming crying throwing up about the fact that infinity train was prematurely cancelled despite being contracted for 5 seasons.

#infinity train #like i really really want all 8 seasons. & i really really want present day!amelia and all that would come with that (e.g. hazel and grace) #but i feel like i would be so much more content with the show's cancellation if we had the bow on top of it all that was the amelia season #because she was the villain from s1 #the fallout of her villanry births the antagonists from s2. #she appears again in s3 having moved on slightly and changed her outlook. thereby creating a somewhat optimistic outlook on the end point of #her story #and s4 shows (in parts) her descent into villany. #she's been the main reocurring presence in the whole show and her train motivation (unbearable grief) and villain arc are the most #complex the show would've handled #i truly believe that if they had been allowed to make it it would have served as a perfect ending to the show #because she's been built up for so long and because the writers would've had so much material to work with AND detail to pay attention to #it wouldve been spectacular.... and everything they wanted to explore in later seasons wouldve been so good too #(older tulip and revenge and acceptance of something as complicated as alzheimer's disease) #(and i also think it wouldve been neat for them to show us a glimpse of 40 y/o rymin cuz those boys have major issues still when they get #off the train #and so id like a snapshot of them in the future that shows they worked things out) #yeah. justice 4 infinity train justice 4 amelia hughes. i want to fuck that 60y/o deeply evil woman so badly and i need her back in my life

[coquelicoq]

when you're the only person who keeps living through the time loop, the people around you cease to be people and become mere characters. your treatment of them doesn't matter because they're not real and they won't remember. the only way to give anything meaning is to end the loop; their actions don't affect the loop and therefore are meaningless. you're the only one who has the ability to change the future, so anything you do in service of that goal is justified.

but. kim dojka looks at yoo joonghyuk and says no, actually, these characters are people. whether they remember or not is beside the point because they are real right now. and you don't give your life meaning by achieving some accomplishment that retroactively makes everything that came before worth it - you give your life meaning in the living of it.

#'meaning' isn't a reward you get for clearing a scenario...it's something you actively create every day as you make a life #kim dokja: it's WORTH IT! i know it's worth it because we are making it worth it!!!!! #ohhhhh waoaohhohh getting a transmission to my brain...suddenly feeling the urge to rewatch palm springs (2020) #time loop fiction is sooo fucking potent like ok you can read about this person who alone out of everyone has agency #thereby alienating them from all their fellow creatures...but watch out #orv #time travel #agency #existentialism #kdj #yjh #omniscient reader's viewpoint #my posts #f #also the fact that it's kim dokja - the 'reader' - who's creating meaning...sorry excuse me. there is something in my eye. #and this is coming from the guy who is very much committed to reaching the end of the scenarios! that is very much his goal #and what he's working toward. but the meantime is not something to get through. it's life and he's choosing to live it #he's like maybe this is fiction maybe we're all characters but it doesn't matter because the story is real to the people living it #his whole thing is that he refuses the idea that the story is unchangeable. he refuses the lack of agency #he's like well i will just make my own story. i will make my own meaning #and if there's some author out there that i'm the character of well good luck keeping up with me. mwah

[turtleblogatlast]

Huge missed opportunity to have more teleportation hijinks with Mayhem and Leo tbh

Could have so easily been made into a great April & Leo episode 😭

#rottmnt #rottmnt leo #rottmnt april #rottmnt mayhem #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #and if another of the boys needs to be there as well then I personally would love it to be Mikey but I could see arguments otherwise #I just love the Gumbus dynamic too much lol #anyway yeah god I need more one on one April and Leo interactions rather than the Barely Any we got in the show #and Mayhem deserves more screentime!😤 #if it’s not just an April and Leo bonding ep and one of the other boys is included then- #could easily incorporate Mikey’s mystic abilities briefly overloading and causing a nearby Leo and Mayhem’s teleportation to freak out #thereby teleporting everyone to an alien planet WHOOPS #for Donnie I could see him desperately trying to scientifically explain teleportation as an amused April and Leo proclaim that it’s magic #for Raph I can see him trying so hard the whole ep to pet Mayhem and failing every time #bonus points for all of this if Leo figures out how to more easily straight up teleport rather than just make portals or go between swords

[scintillyyy]

actually. i was thinking, though. what exactly *is* the metric of a tim civilian friend. as in, what exactly makes a character tim's friend vs a kid he goes to school with who he happens to friendly with (because tim is generally friendly with everyone). what's the distinction?

and i think the answer falls on "does tim's civilian life and robin life intersect in a significant way around this character"

because, listen. we all know that tim is a compartmentalizer who tries to keep the ideas of "tim" & "robin" separate. however, we also know that it's not one or the other with tim--he's both. and the closer you're allowed to that narrative intersection of both tim & robin, the more the civilian in question can then be seen to have importance in *tim's* life and a reciprocation of friendship interest by tim.

because you think of the gotham heights high crew--not only does tim use his skills to investigate what's wrong with ives at one point (he got an embarrassing job), he's also used the W&W crew for unknowing assistance against the joker, hudson leads him to a case at one point, & he runs into a case whole hanging out with them to see a play at the park. despite tim's best effort to seperate parts of himself the close interactions of his other life to his friends is not just tim accepting friendship, but tim narratively showing friendship in return--they are narratively allowed to be a part of his life as robin though they'll never know it.

and the brentwood boys are no different. though they're not allowed the secret, their lives are affected and improved by tim as robin. as they give friendship, tim gives friendship in return. and when tim leaves his friendship and reunion with ives is marked by a case, the one with charaxes.

and even later, with zoanne, her life and relationship with tim is complicated by tim's life as robin, but she is allowed that narrative closeness to his life as robin, closeness to the entirety of his life. she even makes a cameo as having spoken to vicki vale about tim, and vicki's story during that era is finding proof of the hidden life of the batfam.

louis grieve is interesting because darla is the friend of the era who meets this metric--her life as a mob daughter is doomed to return tim to his true life. her resurrection as warlock's daughter is what intersects her with whole of tim's life, not just tim. and bernard surprisingly doesn't have any narrative markers that would indicate these kind of particularly close feelings from tim towards him--tim does not help him on a personal level with his personal life, there's, hm. like bernard does bring him the news of steph being robin, but there's really no personal intersection of *tim as robin* with bernard or because of bernard or for bernard. they do interact during the school shooting but it's no more personal than tim and the rest of the kids. in post-crisis, at least, the lack of tim's as robin having any sort of notable personal connection to bernard narratively indicates a fundamental distance between them where tim is not shown to have any significant personal investment in/towards bernard unlike all the other civilian friends. i would say bernard does make in on account of his presence at the school shooting, however when tim's true self is both robin & tim, for him to not have any significant personal narrative connection to the real tim, it does makes him a notable outlier among the civilian cast.

#okay NOW i'm done. #i do think this is intentional btw there absolutely was room to put him + his trauma post the shooting #in a way that tim would have had a chance to intervene as robin and thereby connect bernard to the true tim #but the notable absence of tim having any sort of personal robin connection to him #does narratively indicate a functional disinterest in him on tim's part