#you’re getting closer

[phlurrii]

Last one of the night but just definitively, my Hunches are that when Meau or Noe passes on they need another origin Mew because it is near impossible for The Creation Trio or The Original Mew to truly die, and a Glitch eater is also important despite the trouble they bring…

OR Arceus has had enough of all this tomfoolery and made a replacement Mew.

Qari is fairy type for reasons unknown to me but they're also 11 million years old and 6 at the same time...

their space time continuum with Noe chasing them gives me the feeling that Qari is looking for something in the past, but I'm unsure of what…

Perhaps the timeline could help us pin things down but alas

Despite my sprucing things are still unknown bc who on earth is ????

First off, incredibly impressed by your deduction and the near perfect collecting of all my stupid hints and putting them together.

As… well, yes, there needs to be an Ancient Mew alive in the universe to allow it to function, or at least one with the current AM bloodline. Just like with the creation trio in game cannon, another is created if the player catches it, as their needs to be an acting god. I’m super damn impressed you pieced that together X3

Scratch the “Or” though, you’d be surprised at what can coexist~

As for Qari… you’re right again, he’s looking for something in the past, bloody hell save some for the rest of us X3c

I regrettably cannot make out what you’ve written in on the timeline, so I can’t comment there… but damn, good freaking job XD

#and to the lil lot of you dedicatee folks I adore who read all these #you’re getting closer #I’m gonna have to close my inbox at this rate XD #cant produce the comics fast enough #ask #council of theorists #artsy spectrum

[adulting-sucks]

Okay first: cat tax.

Next: I don’t care what anyone says. Three Doors Down was amazing. I still resonate with these lyrics Don’t come for me 🙈

#you’re getting closer #to pushing me off of life’s little ledge #cause I’m a loser #and sooner or later you know I’ll be dead

[thebennsofdallas]

What we do in the Shadows S4–Nandor

4.01   “Guillermo de la Cruz. Once my familiar, also my bodyguard. Always my friend.”

4.02   “My first thought was I will just wish the djinn to get me a new love. But then I remembered I had already found love.”

4.03   “The djinn tricked me into saying that every time I used my new big dick, I will think of you.”

4.04   “That’s my fucking guy.”

4.05    “So ultimately, I realized that I have been completely ruining my life..”

4.06   “Thank you, Guillermo. You’re my best ….man.”

4.07   “I’ve missed us.”

Keep going, baby boy. You’re almost there.

#nandor the relentless #Nandor the needy #You’re getting closer #WWDITS #WWDITS Season 4

[turtleblogatlast]

Don’t think I ever quite said what my LGBTQ+ headcanons are for the boys, so these are my current thoughts! Always changing of course but this is what I feel most strongly right now.

#rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt headcanons #rise donnie #rise leo #rise mikey #rise raph #donnie and leo’s sexualities being practically swapped was unintentional but it works way too well #same with mikey and raph tbh it was a happy accident #anyway I kinda hc raph as the type who doesn’t care about physical appearance just if you fight lol #Mikey’s more than happy with friends and family #Donnie is a BIG romantic but he needs time to sus a person out fully before he gets the hots for them #leo meanwhile isn’t keen on romance unless it’s with someone he grows to really really REALLY trust #I could go on and probably will later (knowing me) but it is late and I am tired haha #turtle art tag #curious as to what everyone else headcanons #the only one of these I’ll defend forever is Bi (female-leaning) donnie and trans leo #all the others can change over time but I really like where they’re sitting right now #I hope these are the right flags too because it was kinda hard to find them #went looking for transmasc flag in particular but I couldn’t find a solid agreed upon version 😭 #ngl a big part of why I hc mikey as aro is because of a pun #my phone often misspells aromantic as aromatic and- and you get it- because aromatic herbs and- and Mikey is a chef do YOU GET IT #note that while I hc leo as bisexual (male-leaning) I still think he’s prob closer to demi in that as well just not as far into the spectrum #if that makes sense #headcanons are fun and hard to narrow down at the same time alas #I made this in like an hour can you tell djjdjd #I drew them all from memory so if there’s anything wrong…shhh #and if you’re wondering for April and Splinter #Both are Bisexual (female-leaning) but April is also Panromantic #I almost wanna make Splinter demiromantic too so Big Mama’s betrayal hits just a bit harder

[artist-issues]

every now and then I play with the exercise of "what if we're wrong" because sometimes I get bored and also as an actual exercise. I usually apply this to Christianity/religion, matters of the after life, or about other people.

So sometimes I poke at the big question, if Christianity isn't real, what does that mean? And I don't usually go the route of atheism or bad sci fi, just that the religion is proven to be fundamentally inaccurate to reality, so what does that mean?

Anyway it wasn't until I was reading a really good sci fi story, where this one dude explains to some aliens the concept of "Love your enemies, do good to those that hurt you" and of course the aliens are like what? (Because in the sci fi narrative the universe is functioning under a Dark Forest Theory) And the dude explains its from one of earth's greatest teachers. And the aliens are like, if the inhabitants of the universe could believe that, this universe would be a different place entirely.

And it was at that point where I realized bro... even if it's not accurate, practicing Christianity is still worth it, for a human being. Loving your enemies means loving them like humans. The Poor, the Meek, and those who mourn, those are promises and comforts that we shouldn't toss aside even if heaven isn't real.

I don't know, this is just a terribly simplistic because I'm not the best at putting my English thoughts into english out loud, but that crack gave me a touch of useful coping. I asked my dad, if aliens are proven to exist it doesn't automatically mean christians stop practicing and believing, right? And he said obviously not.

I don't know but have you ever engaged in such a question " what if we're wrong?" And if you ever have what answer had you arrived at?

EDIT: As @atwas-meme-ing correctly pointed out in the comments section of this post, who cares whether or not I’ve played this game: God answered the question through Paul in his letter to the Corinthians: “If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.” 1 Corinthians 5:19.

There’s no “good moral teaching” to be found in Christianity if Christ wasn’t God, or if God didn’t exist, or if eternity weren’t real. My rambling logic is below the cut.

I mean, I play that “game” all the time about other things, and sometimes I do it for work. I’ll take two established characters and a setting me and my friends have agreed on, and I’ll “run a scenario.”

But the thing is, once my brain picks out something that doesn’t make sense, or that wouldn’t be in-character for the characters to do, the whole scenario grinds to a halt and I have to start over. I can’t suspend my own disbelief once I notice that something doesn’t line up. Even if I really liked “where the scene was going” before I noticed that thing. Whatever I’m getting stuck on because of it’s out-of-character nature unravels the parts I like, too.

All that to say I can’t even run a scenario in my head where “what if all this isn’t true? What if it fundamentally doesn’t line up with reality?”

I can’t. Once or twice I have tried. But I hit snags immediately. I’ll go, “pretend all of this Christian religion really is just a centuries-old conspiracy humanity’s been patching up the holes in.”

But then that little simulation-checker in my brain goes, “then how do you explain people dying for it? That many martyrs aren’t likely to have allowed themselves to be tortured and murdered for something they knew was a conspiracy.”

And I go, “well, pretend they died because they didn’t know it was a conspiracy, they believed it.”

And the sim-checker goes, “but the original disciples of Jesus, ground-zero of the faith, were all martyred. Not just people who learned from them and came after them and could’ve been hoodwinked: the starting points, themselves. They would’ve had to know it was a conspiracy, if it was a conspiracy, and they still willingly died for it.”

Maybe I’ll pivot and go, “pretend there isn’t objective truth.”

And the sim-checker goes, “there isn’t truth…objectively?”

Maybe I’ll pivot again and try, “pretend that everyone really does just measure morality based on what they’re used to, what their individual society’s trained them to associate with pleasant feelings and reactions.”

And the sim-checker goes, “Okay, where did those societies get the training manual? Where did it come from? Why do so many different societies’ and people groups’ ‘association with pleasant feelings and reactions’ around the world have so many things in common?”

And the answers to all that leads me back to Christianity. Even if I go the longest way round I can think of.

And eventually I quit running those scenarios. Because guess what?

Where’d the ability to run scenarios come from?

How did I get that? How did you?

See, the thing is, we go, “what if all of this isn’t true?” But it’s right there in the question. “Where did you get that desire? The desire for “truth?”” Is it to keep yourself safe, like the natural animals have an instinct toward, or is it to keep yourself sane, because you need some sense in this life to make it through? Sure. Maybe. But why? What’s “sane?” What’s “safe?” Sanity presupposes order. Why do you, and all humans, naturally lean toward wanting things to be “the way they’re supposed to be?” Where’d that come from, that idea of “supposed to be?” And Safety presupposes good being found in avoiding pain and damage and fear. “Good?” Where’d you get that idea?”

The further you dig, even into your own psyche, the less you can run any scenario that has God absent entirely. And no wonder. He designed it.

One more thing.

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.” - C.S. Lewis

I used to lean into the idea you’re saying here. “Even if it’s not true, I’m going to live like it is and believe it just in case. Besides, it makes me better, and makes the world better.” That’s not belief at all. That’s ends-justify-the-means thinking. The teachings that Jesus gave which “make the world a better place” are utterly worthless if they’re coming out of the mouth of a liar. Because why should anyone believe Him? Why should anyone “turn the other cheek,” or “do unto others?” Because it makes us “better?” Who gets to define “better?”

The answer, of course, is Jesus does. The One who taught those sayings. But only if He’s God. Only if He was telling the truth. If He wasn’t God, what right has He, to tell us to give away our possessions to others and let them abuse us and give our lives up? If He was a liar, all of those “good teachings” would be tainted and untrustworthy. Besides, like I just said, they’re all only able to be called “good” teachings if you accept that there is one objective, universal “good.” And we’re right back to “where did Good come from?”

All roads lead back there, to Him. But we humans like to do this thing with God where we pretend there could be any reality outside of Him. It sort of makes sense, how we got that way. After all, when was the last time you noticed oxygen? How often during the day do you consciously inhale and exhale? As often as it happens automatically? How often during the day do you notice oxygen touching your skin or moving your hair or drying your eyeballs? As often as those things happen automatically? No. But it’s ever-present. Without it, you couldn’t live, let alone notice anything. But oxygen has always been around and everything in our lives interacts with or can only exist WITH it. God is much more than that, but that’s as close as I can get to communicating: He’s so good, and He’s so constantly there, everything, all the time, that it’s easy for us to take Him for granted, forget Him entirely, then use our two-pound brain matter to say, “He might not exist.” You might as well say, “imagine a world with no matter.” 🙄 “Ohhhh kay. Then it wouldn’t be a world.”

#This was fun to talk about though #because even when you’re trying to pick apart truth for “fun” you just get…a closer look at how true truth is. #analysis #christianity #apologetics #theology #faith #Jesus Christ #Bible #c.s. Lewis

[marmastry]

Like a slow-acting poison

#claude von riegen #byleth #few3h #fire emblem three hopes #golden wildfire #gw #highkey wanna bite my entire fist because i wanna add more page to make the last part hit better but alas… social media photo limit u__u #anyway enjoy #few3h spoilers #few3h is just a no fix it route #i love it #byleth stays as an ashen demon while Claude is convinced his methods are sensible #like yeah #for a desperate person i guess #but i think that’s the interesting part of it #his manipulation that comes from a kind place #he deserves to be trusted but everyone has the right to doubt it #like the closer u get the more it feels like you’re a pawn moved across the board kinda deal #i wish i could put this thoughts better #but yeah my brain shrunk the moment i finished this comic hahaha #im so tired #i did this late night for 2 weeks on top of 2 deadlines #please be kind skkdjdjdn #fancomics

[orangerosebush]

IMO, Artemis i, ii, and Angeline are codependent in a way that doesn't result in yelling matches per se, but rather codependent in the sense of, “I love you so much I want to put you in a snow globe and look at it for hours in a quiet room”.

On the one hand, Artemis II acts like he's the parent despite being 15-17 — and then on the other hand, Angeline and Artemis I see every awful thing that happens with the People as if it were happening to Artemis circa age 6.

All this is complicated by Artemis being thee baby of the family/the Original Heir***. There’s a tension in Artemis thinking that he needs to puppeteer his parents for the good of The Family, whereas his parents hold that maybe the world did end when Artemis died (TLG) and to pretend otherwise is insane.

***"Thee baby" not in the sense of youngest or most infantilized. Of course, in TEC, Fowl Sr grieves at the sight of the adult-like Artemis in front of him during the hospital visit, as does Angeline in TAI during a phone call.

Rather, I joke about this in the sense that like... Angeline and Artemis I never get to see Artemis grow up. Not to mention, Artemis was born into an era of the Fowls where it would be reasonable to worry that someone would do ill by Artemis to hurt the family due to him being the only heir (at the time). Myles and Beckett are born into a wholly different world than Artemis was. So much of the anguish over Artemis has to do with that context!

#artemis fowl #don’t make me factor in Butler re: the cocktail of parental neuroses Artemis has because it just gets even messier LMAO #like imagine this ^ is the tenor of your old money crime dynasty and you also have a father figure in you’re #employ (!) who doesn’t see you as a son per se but closer to a younger brother and also is torn often between falling on his sword when you #die and having at various points thought about quitting (or even killing you in B1) due to how often you ask him to cross his moral lines #and put his biological sister in danger

[giddlygoat]

i forgot to post the most cursed thing i’ve made this year lol look at my posts boy

#the lorax 2012 #dhmis #don’t hug me i’m scared #red guy #duck dhmis #the onceler #onceler #crossover #engel’s art #every minute you’re not running the dhmis x lorax crossover is only getting closer

[scarawayfromfallingapart]

So Good Right Now and What a Time to Be Alive are sisters in the same way Tiffany Blews and WAMS are sisters. I will not elaborate on this what I speak is fact

#fall out boy #patrick stump #fob #pete wentz #andy hurley #joe trohman #so much for stardust #folie a deux #I love when bands are like ‘wow this is such a good idea for a song let’s write two of them!’ #other honorable mentions by other artists are Lies and Starring Role by MARINA #white horse and you’re not sorry by Taylor swift #the way it was and runaways by the killers (not as close) #pressure machine and the getting by are closer tbh but yeah. #we love it give us the same give us more give me all your songs and your song rejects

[tennessoui]

i know what you mean about anakin as hades’ son but i think he’s also super zeus coded. he loves to fly, lightning gives sith vibes if his dad is meant to be anything like palps (i.e. evil and manipulative) and anakin’s conception is also very zeus-y. like zeus is perfectly capable of turning into air and making shmi think there’s no father. it would also be completely in character for hera to send the sand people after shmi as well if there’s anything like that that happens.

also anakin could totally get his rage from zeus and it also fits the chosen one vibe too. hades might have rage and power but obi-wan would be even more afraid of sleeping with anakin if his dad was the king of the gods who also enacts horrific punishments on anyone who goes against the order of things as he wants them (prometheus, aphrodite, humanity as a whole). go ahead obi-wan catch a flight after fucking anakin that won’t backfire horribly

(In reference to this post)

ah this is excellent meta and a very good argument but this time I really did mean it when I said anakin’s parent was non negotiable in the original post—I’m completely sold and set on hades as being anakin’s godly parent if i fleshed put that Percy Jackson au because I think there’s the creepy dark awkward kid element that hades’ kid would have over zeus’ kid and that’s something I really see with this anakin

also it would be equally as cool if anakin as a kid loved planes and the idea of flying and his mom never let him because he wasn’t zeus’ kid and was hades’. His love of planes and machinery being something inherently just anakin and not from a godly parent and him never being able to enjoy the thing he likes because of the rivalry between them…I like that angst a lot!

#asks #obikin #pjo au #I think Palpatine being Zeus’ kid makes a lot of sense and he could probably get closer to anakin by pushing a cousin angle #like you should trust me I know what you’re going through #and then the lightning makes even more sense

[the-unseelie-court-official]

Arent you that guy that burnt their grilled cheese?

So sad

Next time add some BUTTER to that PAN you FUCKING SAVAGE

Thank you, stranger, for helping me learn more about myself

#getting called guy as a trans woman DOES really suck who woulda thought #also #I’m saying this as nicely as I can since I don’t think you had purposefully bad intentions here #we are not friends and you do not know me #I was like let me laugh at myself real quick about the time I was drunkenly making egg on toast in the pan and I was so worried about the #egg when I flipped the bread it was terribly burnt on that one side #notably only that one side I took a picture of #bc I was hammered and talking to a friend the whole time #and just. chances are when something is every day getting closer to 100k notes I’ve already been dunked on enough no? #like do y’all genuinely think you’re above making notable mistakes like that? #because you’re not #and I really wish people wouldn’t act like I’m some sort of invalid because I had #emphasis on the past tense #the good nature to laugh about #my damn fuckup

[shootingthe-stars]

the repetitiveness of writing the marauders in school is getting to me like how many fucking train rides and quidditch games can i possibly write about. like i’m skipping this please i need to get to the good shit already

#sorry i’m writing the end of 3rd year rn and i just skipped the entire train ride like oh my god go home already #literally groaning out loud as i get closer to having to write more sports #so many sports #or classes. you’re only here for story relevance i don’t really want you around #i think 40% of my fic takes place at night for this reason #marauders #marauders era #jily #wolfstar #james potter #sirius black #remus lupin #lily evans #dorcas meadowes #regulus black #nowhere man

[ssreeder]

my favorite thing to do you ask? reading the updates while completely ignoring the fact that the fic is ending soon 🧍🏾‍♀️

My current mood trying to finish liab:

#I swear every chapter I’m like OK ANOTHER 20k CLOSER TO THE END #But the healing arc is taking FORVER #Because there are so many THINGS that have to happen #So I feel like I’m crawling through this part #But after the battle starts things should progress quickly after that #Yall know how intense those chapters can get #Phew. Gunna be a mess #BUT YOURE RIGHT IT IS GETTING SO CLOSE TO BEING FINISHED!!!! #It is kind of daunting to think about not having to write liab #It’s torturing me right now so im missing some of the sentimental feelings right now #But im sure ill look back and think AWWWWWWW I MISS IT #but right now i wanna slap jet & sokka and grab zuko back the back of the neck and tell him to STAY. #Anywayyyyy…. Next chapter is going great obviously #TWO CONFIDENT THUMBS UP #You’re amazing I miss you #I hope everything goes great!! #Gabbytril4mg #LIAB #leaving it all behind #ask

[turtleinsoup]

Guys did you know that you can prevent panic attacks by formulating an Email about it in your head??

I simply cannot freak out when adressing my situation like,

„Dear Prof so-n-so,

I have come to the realization that my intelligence might be the missing link between humans and apes we‘ve been searching for.“

You get 1) into the specifics of your problem in an detached professional way, or it will 2) sound like the funniest shit ever and help you relax

#And you’re already halfway done with the emails you might write about your problem so it brings you closer to sloving it #Its gonna be fine #You‘re a girllboss problem solver (<- ranting to myself 💪) #somehow I will get there

[frascospecimen]

I’m still mad about aba btw where is she

#arcsys move over it’s my turn to write. you’re not doing it right #what was the point of slayer meeting aba in the drama cd and setting off her being closer to paracelsus which is her whole thing in strive #where she’s trying to be healthier with him and also slayer in the drama cd saying hell check in on her in 10-20 years and then 20 years #later they add him immediately after aba who again was set off on this idea to be closer and healthier with paracelsus BY SLAYER. #it seemed so much like they were setting up for something and they so easily could have followed up on that. I’m so mad #why didn’t we get aba marriage counseling by the guilty gear wife guy. come on #when I get my hands on the strive writers

[iwowzumi]

i love continuing the cycle of abuse by recommending the locked tomb series to others as “lesbian necromancers in space” and nothing else and then watching the fallout. it’s schadenfreude incarnate

#going into tlt not knowing what you’re getting into is a rite of passage #i am giving you the tagline saying this is a normal book series come closer #as was done to me #and it’s what harrow would want! #the locked tomb #tlt #syd text