#(musing

[revenhaunted]

chess getting a huge update i see

[thatjusticegang]

one thing i love about the the justice gang (name pending) is how they give the vibe that they all feel pretty neutrally towards each other, but they don’t dislike each other. they sit together in the foyer of their headquarters, and they’re all doing their own thing but they’re still sitting around together. during fights they’re each kind of doing their own things too, but they still work together and get the job done. they’re such a fun dynamic because the three of them don’t seem like they should work together at all - and they are, like, the corporate superheroes of america - but they’re still a team

[omnipotentley]

— Paul Coelho.

(Without the so)

[st-just]

Always very funny to go from tumblr culture (Harry Potter basically, like, anathemized) to coworkers or relatives just casually bringing it up with zero idea about why the franchise would even be controversial. Unironically one of the bigger bubbles I forget I'm in.

[hedgehogoftime]

Thinking about Paladins...

Thinking about Oath of Devotion Paladins, and how over time they seem less and less like flesh and more and more like stone, as solid as their oaths. How more and more it seems like a light shines from their eyes. How their movement slows as they get older, becoming more and more a thing of stone and light. How they become less a person and more an idea, a promise made flesh. When they die, they become a statue with burning light where their eyes once were. Many take their final rest upon seaside cliffs, acting as an eternal beacon to those in need.

Thinking about Oath of the Ancients Paladins, and how the grass they tread upon might grow a bit greener than it did before. How fruit tastes sweeter when they pluck it. How vegetables and grain grow from the blood and bodies of their slain foes. Life springing from bringers of death. How when they bleed, seeds and pollen might release from their wounds along with the blood. How their skin feels more like bark as they grow older. How their presence feels like peace, like rest. How when they die, the Oak Father takes this warrior into his embrace, and a fruit tree grow over their grave, so they might give once more in death as they did in life.

Thinking about Oath of Vengeance Paladins, and how their mere presence might inspire fear and truth. They barely need to ask questions, one look at those eyes, filled with wrathful calm in equal measure is enough to break almost any who look upon them. How their blood might literally boil when it is spilled, so true is their commitment. How they might weep when they are given the chance to at last be kind. How when they die there is nothing to bury, the fire in their souls fueled by their oath consumes their flesh at last, and then they are nothing but ash.

Thinking about Oathbreakers. How the sun is too bright, and it hurts their eyes. How the night is too dark, and always their vision is off. How their hands always find thorns or sharp edges. How every step they take might be an agony, a reminder of how they committed the truest and most fundamental treason of all. How the very air they breath seems to cut at their lungs as the world itself whispers "wrong thing. wrong thing. traitor" in their ears. Their blood never seeps into the ground, only evaporates. Their body does not even rot. The world itself rejects them.

Thinking about Paladins...

[redclovertea]

oh. irving was willing to face being fired, ending his life, because he felt love for the first time and then had it stripped away form him. dylan was willing to quit, ending his life, for the same reason. and helly, who had been the one so desperate to end her life from the moment she set foot on that severed floor? her love for mark is what keeps her bound to that floor, now. i think that’s what they failed to consider when perfecting their severance process. whether or not love transcends severance, that doesn’t matter. but love in any form, in an existence that is otherwise so limited, that holds so much power

[jewform]

A lot of the time when we try to discuss antisemitism against orthodox jews, the conversation is quickly hijacked by jews who find orthodoxy to be weird or something they personally had a bad experience with. As if that means we cannot discuss how it is a normal way to be jewish and people who participate in orthodox judaism are not all miserable and mind controlled and etc.

How can we ever discuss anything if so many of us are intolerant to the idea of jews different than you? I personally don't agree with a lot of the stuff I see reform jews doing. They say things from a reform perspective and I don't agree personally. A rabbi (she/her) once said as a reform rabbi whenever she's asked a question she looks at what Judaism would have as an answer, then looks for a worldly answer and then answers based on that. I couldn't fathom that, to me there's a reason you're going to a rabbi, for a look into Judaism's verdict? Yet I fully repsect that woman and those who are reform like her. Whenever a reform jew speaks I may not agree but I respect them.

I expect other jews to behave themselves when talking about different ways of being jewish because as a jew myself I do this constantly. I know respect is possible, it is not hard.