#yaldaboath

[theotherhappyplace]

My theory is that Long Furby is a manifestation of the Gnostic god of material reality the Demiurge (Yaldabaoth) appearing in the collective unconscious as proposed by Carl Jung. In this essay I will-

[sketchwizard]

hope everyone had a good 4/13!! now that the My Little Zinestuck zine is out, I'd like to officially share my contributions with you all!

my works ranged from sincere, well thought out designs, to silly ones i was forced strongly recommended encouraged to draw by certain anonymous wifely entities.

either way it was SUPER fun and everyone did an incredible job! it was such a thrill to work alongside so many talented artists, i'm forever grateful i got to join!!

[luxaaj]

yaldabaoth is like that weird aunt that only comes to family reunions once every 3 years and the only thing she knows about you is that you like art.

and mekhane is the only extended family member that you actually keep in touch with since they’re the only one who understands technology.

SO REAL HELP

[gingus-doon]

anyways this isn't really an informed opinion as my knowledge on sarkicism and the church of the broken god spans A Couple Of Youtube Videos but it's really frustrating that the sarkics are Clearly Evil while the mekhanites are pretty alright when dealing with such a complex battle as the one between technology and human nature. i think the diseases of both could be steps in the right direction depending on how they're portrayed, but the flesh that hates is WAY more terrifying than 217. what i think would be cool is if scp-217 leaned more into the emotional terror of becoming a machine and logic. i think 610 is good as it is because even though it's horrific and awful, those infected by 610 still show some semblance of human tendencies in the exploration logs, like the gatherings in church, gathering around the table to eat (though they presumably do not need to considering they're just eating more 610 material), and emulating kissing. there's a good foundation here for expanding 610 beyond a disease that brings humanity to an inferior status, an argument for it being an advanced (or perhaps, more primitive) state of humanity in which people would be happier. which at least lends SOME equivalence to the sarkics in how they seem relative to the mekhanites.

in general though, both diseases seem to be quite upsetting to people. im Not Sure about this but i think those infected w 610 seem to be in pain and seizures generally do not mean good things, whereas those afflicted with 217 are stiff, dull, lethargic. i wonder if this would culminated in them becoming a robot, capable of it's own action but lacking in emotional capacities, or a machine, a vessel to be operated by humans or the will of mekhane, or a statue. still. i guess that depends on mekhane's ultimate goal, which seems to differ based on which church sect's interpretation you focus on.

some of this might clear up as i do more research but as my view of it is now i would like for yaldabaoth to not simply be the bad god mekhane defeated. i want there to be good parts to sarkicism, like indulgence in carnal pleasure and emotion, and a harsh contrast to that in the church of the broken god to display the horrors of forsaking one's flesh entirely.

[floaties-for-arsene]

dad.

for @leelreallylikespersona (:

[shujinquotes]

[starfirexuchiha]

Yaldaboath at Shuake: YES!! KILL EACH OTHER!

Maruki at Shuake: YES!! KISS EACH OTHER!

[arkus-rhapsode]

Persona 5 Scramble: My Thoughts on Palaces and Jails

So I finally got around to watching translated play through of Persona 5 Scramble. As I’m in the west and it hasn’t been brought over as of the time I’m writing this. Now there’s something about this game’s story that really stood out to me that was really interesting.

In P5S, rather than having Palaces cause by a person’s distorted desires that simultaneously translated to them breaking from of the prison of regression, the game instead has this concept called Jails. For a brief summary, Jails are a place in the Metaverse that are created by a king, through the assistance of an app called EMMA, who is usually a downtrodden or discredited individual who is abusing the power of the Metaverse to effect the population within an area of their influence. Instead of treasures, they have crowns and the jail is more overlaid over a city than just a single building.

The reason I bring this up is because, I think the Jails are far more interesting of a concept for realms than the Palaces. I’ve made it no secret that I think the concept of Palaces are super flawed. In cases where the shadow self seems like they’re basically their real world equivalent, how most Palace Rulers are so transparently evil anytime they try to add redeeming element to the ruler, and how a lot of the themes of the palace feel like they were made before seeing if the theme would fit the character.

With the only ones that felt that were really good was Kamoshida’s, which felt like a immediate and personal threat that you couldn’t avoid as you went to school everyday and you’d never ignore his influence (as opposed to getting sued by Madarame or in debt to Kaneshiro which could’ve been avoided, but instead resulting in this shoved in ticking clock.) and Futaba’s palace that actually showed distortion that wasn’t just “evil.”

(Then we got Maruki who was similar to Futaba, but that’s a bit of a different discussion.)

However, Jails seem to be a bit more cleaver. Due to the fact they come about through the abuse of the popular EMMA app, it really does sell this idea that anyone could potentially have a Jail. As well as gives the King of the Jail more of an agency in how they become bad. With Palace rulers, it always felt impersonal and them having a Palace was just a side effect of their negative midset. But those Palace’s shapes don’t really seem to reflect their purpose of control over an area. Like, Kamoshida made sense, he saw the school as his own castle with students as slaves and him this glorious guy who could do anything. But then how does Okumura see his HQ like a space station? Does he walk around in the office thinking he has zero gravity turned on? I know the game goes out of its way to justify the palace aesthetics, but it feels forced because the character themselves couldn’t reflect outside of Kamoshida and maybe Shido.

But the idea of Jail King making the jail through their own efforts with the assistance of EMMA, its rather intriguing. What’s also intriguing is using the Metaverse in more creative ways. We primarily saw people’s cognitive selves either be changed to get rid of their desires, made psychotic, or killed which kills them in real life. Jail’s actually used the ability to effect the public cognition I ways that palace rulers didin’t. Alice uses her Jail to find men in stable relationships and make them break up and turning their love towards her, Ango uses his jail to make people adore his book, Hyodo uses her’s to help her get reelected. Oh my god, imagine if Shido or Okumura just used their power to actually just manipulate the public into voting for them!

And due to the massive effect on the real world caused by meddling in the cognitive world, there’s a lot more of an urgency to fix beat the King. To free the people from the prison. There’s also more of a mystery to the story. With this app helping people effect the cognitive world, you want to uncover more about what made the EMMA and how.

In short, I think the Jail system in much more interesting and well put together concept for the Metaverse dungeons and their kings are better villains. Its strange as Atlus helped make the story for P5S. I would’ve loved to see this in P5 and P5R. And I think we can kinda thank P5R for the Jail concept as the idea of altering cognition to effect the real world is explored with Maruki’s Palace.

It makes me wish we got something similar with the antagonists in P5. As well as seeing how it could be integrated with Mementos. Hell, the idea of making an app that’s abused by one person that then acts as the source of how to distort the public would actually tie in with the mob mentality of mentality. One guy with an internet connection can at times set of a chain reaction of public opinion where all involved may suffer except of the person who started it.

Anyway, I hope P5S gets an English release. I wasn’t expecting a hack and slash game variation of P5 to add such a unique concept to the world. And it also makes me hopeful for when we potentially get with Persona 6.