#probably bs

[giraffodil]

What if Greg's not sunburned

He is pink because Rose healed him

(I don't know how this would work)

[thegrimllama]

Eve Teschmacher is feeding Lex Luthor information about Kara, and you probably couldn’t convince me otherwise....

[ao3commentoftheday]

Character development doesn't refer to character improvement in a moral or ethical respect. It refers to broadening the audience's understanding of that character, giving the character a deeper background, clearer motivations, a unique voice.

Developing a character is about making them seem more like a real person, and real people are flawed. Real people make mistakes. They repeat mistakes. They do things other people don't agree with. Real people are more than just 'good' or 'bad' and character development is about showing all of those other aspects of them.

Their interests and hobbies. The song that gets stuck in their head. The fact that their vacuum broke 3 months ago and they haven't gotten it fixed yet. All of those details help build out the character and develop them more.

And yes, characters change as stories progress but that doesn't mean they get 'better' in a strict moral sense. It means that their experiences change the way they interact in the world you've written for them. Just like real people do.

[tessticle]

or crow? idk

this is just a test to see if my answered messages tag is working ………..

[i-am-a-fan-of-empty-spaces]

Ni and occultism

i’m reading this book on tarot divination, and it occurs to me that occultism works for Ni (particularly in conjunction with Te/Fi) because Ni ONLY sees what has meaning. a word with numerological significance can be connected to an idea through its number—it doesn’t matter that this connection is contrived. a story about the ancient celts performing human sacrifice can connect their god to a certain image on a tarot card—it doesn’t matter that this didn’t actually happen. Ni Te doesn’t deal with objective meanings. when Ni looks for meanings it only sees whatever is conducive to building the system. in contrast, Ne, i think, has an inherent distrust in any system’s ability to express the full scope of what IS. Ni (Te?) cares for occultism because it cares for a model that works in the moment to explain the thing it’s trying to understand, but Ne cares for comprehensiveness, for a view of the world that includes EVERY possible interpretation, even ones useless to its current circumstances, and all the ways they interact with each other.

i think one crucial idea related to this is the role Ni vs Ne plays. where Ni acts as a center for its supporting functions (Te or Fe) to draw on as they act on the world, Ne doesn’t play the same role. the function that acts as a center for Ne is either Ti or Fi—either a set of logical guidelines for reality or a set of ethical, emotional guidelines. this center is seen as something universal that transcends any circumstantial contradictions that may arise in Ne theorizing, so Ne is free to be irreverent and chaotic.

this also reflects in their attitudes toward the world. Ni takes religion or philosophy seriously because it has to, because its world rests on the models it builds, and the models decide how it should act (with Te or Fe). Ni types wrestle with things like the death of God, or talk about love in religious terms, or in general project the contents of their psyche onto these grand and elaborate narratives to try to tease answers from them. meanwhile Ne is self-contradictory because its models of reality are ultimately inconsequential to its identity, they’re fun adventures it embarks on to further expand its Ti or Fi core.

[tessticle]

Oooooo a swede!

it’s almost as if i’m some extinct animal

[tessticle]

I think there is ghosts in my room!

damn!!!!! Light a ring of fire around you and yell for as long as you can

[tessticle]

Stop with all the fucking reaches

please text me this like twice every day thanks