The Luminous Warrior

Just another person trying to survive day to day life, living life one day at a time.

[anime--irl]

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

[lesser-flamingo]

me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig

me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back

[kdramastuff]

[drst]

A question for the ages.

[brennacedria]

The earlier on Tuesday you reblog this the funnier it is. (5:28am)

[thegrimpler]

Where's that one post where OP gets all defensive because someone (likely rightfully) accuses her of wanting to engage in sex acts that her husband isn't comfortable doing?

[crabs-and-bedbugs]

I haven't seen that post, but I do have this

[seriousfic]

[simon-newman]

*Sighs and points at the Redo of Healer reader demographics stats*

[neilaglet]

[transgwender616]

Flash villains be like

The Sprinter who's a speedster like Flash but fucked up and shit.

Captain Mailman who uses letters as weapons. He's a member of the Rogues.

Monke

[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[maseratus]

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

[mousidy]

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

[mousidy]

[bisthefairy]

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

[maightymai]

[cipheramnesia]

It's like talking to a 2010 Old Spice commercial with you people

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

[lesser-flamingo]

me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig

me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back

[amaraqwolf]

Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.

[willow-wanderings]

It’s recently been found that even hive insects rest. Bees will play with colorful toys. Ants sleep for about 1 minute but they do it so frequently it amounts to a few hours per day. Even trees take breaks.

The only things that work without rest are machines; literally everything that lives requires rest.

EVERYTHING THAT LIVES REQUIRES REST. STOP JUDGING YOURSELF FOR NOT BEING A ROBOT.

[roach-works]

robots require very frequent breaks! welding machines generally have it programmed in that they can’t run so long they melt themselves. ive overseen two different manufacturing robots now and each of them were fragile, finicky idiots that require constant maintenance and repair. they pause in between moves, in between jobs. you’re always keeping an eye on programming errors, on coolant levels, on heat. you’re always pulling bits of scrap out of joints, sweeping up debris, washing off nozzles and untangling hoses. and even then it snaps a chain and takes a whole morning’s vacation.

even robots need downtime.

[shitpostingkats]

Do you people even know about Prompto's photographs

[shitpostingkats]

Do you know that in hit game Final Fantasy 15 (2016) one of your party members is this cute lil' nerd and one of his Things is he's a photgrapher, so he's always taking pictures, there a whole system coded in to just randomly take in-engine screen captures of your party as they go about their day-to-day. And whenever you save you get to go over ten of those pictures and choose if you want to save any to your personal in-game album. This is obviously a feature designed for word of mouth fan promotion, because from your in-game album there's a ton of options for sharing your photos or downloading them to personal storage. Which is fun, games are allowed to do that, but. Ya know. Maybe not worth the effort of making a whole system to automatically do that.

Except it's also very baked into the world. There's a couple photos you have to get as you advance through the story, but mostly they're fun so you bookmark one or two as you progress through the game. And as you explore the world sometimes Prompto will ask to stop at scenic locations or tourist traps or whatnot and bam you've got a few more. And if you do this every time you save, you end up with quite a collection.

Anyways, fast forward to the end of the game, when you, the main character, are about to die. You know this. You are marching stubbornly to your own martyrdom, with no hope of survival. And the main character turns. And asks to see Prompto's photo collection.

YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE!!!!! YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE ONE!!!!! You have to pick, from those maybe dozens of silly goofy funny little screencappable moments, which one the main character is going to physically take with him into the last battle and clutch to his chest as he dies!!!!!! That photo you choose will show up in cutscenes!!!!! They make it your save files lockscreen!!!!!!! Is this thing on????

[mysteriousbean5]

I knew this was a genius mechanic at the time, but reading this makes me remember YES THIS WAS A GENIUS THING

[saintofpride201]

Spoilers for Final Fantasy 15:

So the full context is that you pick a photo. Any photo in the Gallery that Prompto had taken. And then you go to battle against the Big Bad. You fight. You win. And now it's time to die.

With the photo still in your pocket, you sit on your throne, call forth your ancestors and your own father who have long passed, and sacrifice yourself to lift the veil of darkness off the world. You do battle with the Big Bad one final time in the Beyond, a realm that straddles the living world and the afterlife. And then... You go enjoy the afterlife. You are wed to the woman that you were originally ordained to marry but still loved even in death, and you sit on your throne in the afterlife as your wife sits beside the arm of your throne.

And then... You show your wife the photo. You pick it up off the arm-rest of the throne and let her see it. She looks at the very photo you chose. And that photo can be anything. It can be a group photo, one of all of you and the other friends that have made your journey possible. It could just be you and your three best friends, the men you shared many campfires, hotel rooms, and battles with, the men who carried you through this journey. It could be a picture of the cozy camp you and your friends had set up hours prior and are enjoying a meal at. It could be a beautiful shot of the world you had taken on your journey.

Or it could be a shot of you eating shit during a fight with a Cockatrice. It could be you falling flat on your face when a Cactuar or Tonberry staggers you and knocks you down and makes you look like a fucking buffoon. It could be Prompto capturing the exact moment 2 of your party members died while the focus is on one person aura-farming in the fight like his comrades didn't just scream in agony before death. It could be an ill-timed shot where there's almost exactly nothing in the damn picture. Or the back of someone's head. Or it could be Gladio's perfect ass, of which Prompto's camera seems to be extremely attracted to by no small miracle of RNG.

And you show this to your fucking wife. You have the option to bring to the afterlife with you a picture of someone's ass to show your wife. And no matter what photo you bring, there's no variance in her reaction. She smiles softly as if you didn't just show her the ass of another man. You ask your best friend to hand you a photo with significant importance, fight tooth and nail and risk life and limb and the fate of the world just to bring it to the afterlife to show your wife when you inevitably sacrifice yourself to your forefathers to save humanity, and you have the option for that photo to be cakes that most certainly don't belong to your wife.

[swanlakereturns]

here's the thing. [stares into the distance for 30 seconds] snake woman forever.

[luminous-warrior]

@uncle-beanbag-mojave

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

This song has single-handedly taken over my life and it’s only been like a week

[lesser-flamingo]

me the first time i saw this: oh sure that's fun ig

me seeing it again now: fuuuuuuuuck yes the axolotl is back

[supreme-leader-stoat]

This is a vent post, feel free to ignore

[kawareo]

Got reminded again of my old coworker who was a massive misogynist but also trans inclusive. Told me he believed trans women are indeed women because "only women would be stupid enough to want to be women"

I wonder what he's doing now

[kawareo]

He also aggressively corrected himself whenever he accidentally misgendered a trans guy we knew because "there's already more women than men in the world, the more numbers we steal from them, the better." Did that even when the trans guy wasn't around.

[kawareo]

I need to point out that he was completely serious btw. This man had no sense of humor if he tried.

He was a cook at the restaurant/bar I was a bartender at, and almost punched a costumer once because he overheard him talking about how women belong in the kitchen. Told me he thought women should stay out of kitchens, that cooking is a man's job and when I asked him what he thinks women should be doing, he went quiet for a moment, then proceeded to explain to me the following

"I trust a bitch to run a kitchen as much as she can run a country, they should do shit like plumbing. Or electricity. Something you can just learn to do and don't need to lead, you know?"

Apparently women are good at "fixing shit". He claimed that he doesn't trust male plumbers or electricians except if they're gay because "something most be wrong with you if you want to go fix other people's houses, that's that maternal instinct"

[kawareo]

Love that you guys seem to like the stories about my Guy, here's another. (also for context i need to say that english is not the language he spoke, and when i say 'fag', i'm using it for our version of the slur. Our Guy insisted that that's just how you call gay people in our language (it isn't))

We had an openly gay coworker who looked like it (crop tops, dyed hair, make-up) and he was often harassed by the waiters from the football bar next door. The gay dude had the same name as the Guy, who insisted that we would specify the he isn't gay, so they just became "Name" and "Not Gay Name". He was fine with that.

Oh he also once went on a rant about how he respects our gay coworker more than "those other fags" because "at least he has the balls to look like a fag, yknow? None of that sneaky shit where you can't tell if they're trying to fuck you or your girlfriend." When I then told him I was bi, he looked me over and called me some slurs before telling me that I don't need to rub it in that I can get both. Then he asked me if I think he's hot and when I told him no, he informed me I should stick with women because I clearly have shit taste.

[kawareo]

He once accidentally bullied one of our younger waitresses out of an early eating disorder she was developing before working there (she told me about it after)

Boss gave us one meal from the menu a day as a job bonus, and we had this very shy seventeen year old working with us who was already nervous around men, but Our Guy was a 6'3 dude who only stopped yelling and cursing when he was not speaking at all. If he was the one cooking that day, he'd peek out of the kitchen an hour before he'd start closing it up, and would shout at you if you haven't ordered your meal yet because he hated cooking once he already cleaned. The waitress was scared shitless of him, and so whenever he would yell at her to "fucking order already", she'd panic and just pick something.

She didn't eat much but the first time she tried to throw out almost the whole plate, he got so personally insulted that he berated her for not picking something she'd like, and demanded to know what he did wrong. He got really upset about apparently not being able to cook something that this kid would like and I'm pretty sure he started putting in extra effort to make sure she would eat it this time? It lead to him quite literally standing over her like a hawk when she ate to "see her reaction" and demand an immediate review to see what he can improve.

She later told me that it she was so scared and awkward around him back then that it kind of overrode her fear of food, and that she still sometimes pretends she's back there, when she feels a bad episode coming on, so. He did do something good for the world i guess

[kawareo]

Our Guy met a nonbinary person once when my friend came to visit me at work. He was just on a smoke break so I had to introduce them and when I said "They're visiting" he got confused and asked us how many people are there (and then threatened murder if they dare order something while he's on a break). I had to explain this man what a nonbinary person is, he thought about it for a second, called the whole thing "fucking stupid, there ain't that shit in nature" and then proceeded to very mockingly refer to them as (our language equivalent of) "your majesty" and use the pronouns you use for people you're supposed to respect (which is genderless and very formal)

My friend thought he was really funny before I explained to them that I'm pretty sure he thought he was being mean (but hey he it wasn't misgendering so yay)

Then (after his break) they ordered a vegan sandwich and we heard him cussing them out about how "they should pick a fucking struggle". Later I asked him about it and got told that "how much shit can you deny yourself? Cheese, gender, the fuck's next?"

[veal7creative]

"Cheese, gender, what the fuck's next?"

I like how his issue isn't with the "that shit ain't in nature" thing he mentioned, but the idea that being nonbinary is some form of self-deprivation and that they deserve a gender like everyone else.

More notes for The Study

[hussyknee]

This post made it to TikTok.

[elodieunderglass]

What a FASCINATING person

[hussyknee]

Adding OP's final addition so we can get it all in one reblog chain.

[resident-idiot-simp]

[gsirvitor]

Leftists view white people as the only ones with any agency, everyone else on the planet is viewed as less than animals, existing in a state of eternal dependency.

The left is fundamentally confused when you ask why Africans need to be dependent on us for aid, and have no idea why we advocate they fend for themselves, like human beings, rather than the West's failed pet project.

︀︀They believe the duty of the white race is to sacrifice for everyone else, that the West must perpetually be subservient to a global welfare state.

They have no understanding of history beyond the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, the Colonial Era, and World War 2, everything is viewed through the lens of those select events, with nothing being viewed beyond that narrow scope.

[mornington-the-crescent]

"The White Man's Burden", but make it woke.

[sacred-portal]

[mexicain-sans-frontiers-v2]