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it's like this: fma 03 is my wife. mangahood is her equally stunning twin sister. but she's not my wife
actually its like this now: fma 03 is my wife. mangahood is her sister I have almost nothing in common with but no particular beef with, so I simply smile at and engage in polite superficial conversation with her at family gatherings
From an ancient homily for Holy Saturday:
The Lord's Descent Into The Underworld (attributed to Saint Epiphanius of Salamis) Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and He has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and Hell trembles with fear. He has gone to search for our first parent, as for a lost sheep. Greatly desiring to visit those who live in darkness and in the shadow of death, He has gone to free from sorrow the captives Adam and Eve, He who is both God and the Son of Eve. The Lord approached them bearing the Cross, the weapon that had won Him the victory. At the sight of Him Adam, the first man He had created, struck his breast in terror and cried out to everyone, “My Lord be with you all.” Christ answered him, “And with your spirit.” He took him by the hand and raised him up, saying, “Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will give you light. “I am your God, who for your sake have become your son. Out of love for you and for your descendants I now by My own authority command all who are held in bondage to come forth, all who are in darkness to be enlightened, all who are sleeping to arise. I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be held a prisoner in Hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the Life of the dead. Rise up, work of My hands, you who were created in My image. Rise, let us leave this place, for you are in Me and I am in you; together we form only one person and we cannot be separated. “For your sake I, your God, became your son; I, the Lord, took the form of a slave; I, whose home is above the heavens, descended to the earth and beneath the earth. For your sake, for the sake of man, I became like a man without help, free among the dead. For the sake of you, who left a garden, I was betrayed to the Jews in a garden, and I was crucified in a garden. “See on my face the spittle I received in order to restore to you the life I once breathed into you. See there the marks of the blows I received in order to refashion your warped nature in My image. On My back see the marks of the scourging I endured to remove the burden of sin that weighs upon your back. See My hands, nailed firmly to a tree, for you who once wickedly stretched out your hand to a tree. “I slept on the Cross and a sword pierced My side for you who slept in Paradise and brought forth Eve from your side. My side has healed the pain in yours. My sleep will rouse you from your sleep in Hell. The sword that pierced Me has sheathed the sword that was turned against you. “Rise, let us leave this place. The enemy led you out of the earthly Paradise. I will not restore you to that Paradise, but I will enthrone you in Heaven. I forbade you the tree that was only a symbol of life, but see, I who am Life itself am now one with you. I appointed cherubim to guard you as slaves are guarded, but now I make them worship you as God. The throne formed by cherubim awaits you, its bearers swift and eager. The Bridal Chamber is adorned, the banquet is ready, the eternal dwelling places are prepared, the treasure houses of all good things lie open. The Kingdom of Heaven has been prepared for you from all eternity."
Someone correct me if I missed it but I don't think the third doctor calls the master by his name for the entirety of his seasons? Of course he identifies him as The Master to other people but he never calls him that directly. I wonder why that is
Yeah, he never does, and in general the Doctor almost never casually calls the Master "Master" to their face, to the point that I find the few occasions where they do (not counting times when the Master prompts them), such as Five in Castrovalva, to be kinda ooc. (I recall a number of Big Finish audios where it happened, and it always bugged me.)
The thing is, calling yourself Master and forcing other people to address you as that is a power play, and I always assumed the Doctor (especially someone like Three) didn't want to validate that.
Today my wife texted me this, and then immediately called me to make sure I got it because it was “an urgent message”.
giving increasingly loud sighs as I wait for my crush to ask "what's wrong?" so I can say I'm in a state of depression unless I can touch someone's boobs with no bra
I stop once I start getting short of breath
[Your crush, on the phone to someone unseen] Yeah I think she needs to be put down, her breathing-- yeah I know it can be a problem for her breed, but it's getting really bad.
I'M NOT A DOG??????
[clearly less interested now] Oh.
Human Pet Guy is actually just a natural extreme in the evolution of a fetish porn author b/c it's a very well know fact that if you write a lot of fetish porn, you will inevitably end up writing a story that is basically "Fetish World: the World where everyone does my Fetish" and that's all fun and games but if you're a huge nerd (likely) you'll probably end up asking yourself how Fetish World could even be possible when obviously it would be impossible in the current sociopolitical order so now you're walking through all the political and economic changes that would be possible to enable Fetish World and before you know it you've spent way more time on worldbuilding than you have on writing the actual porn. Cybersmith simply takes this one step further. He thought through all the steps needed to make Fetish World possible and then decided those steps made enough sense that he would go out of his way to advocate for the creation of Fetish World in real life which is, and I really cannot emphasize this enough, completely fucking insane. It's such a funny concept honestly like imagine if someone read a bunch of Omegaverse fanfic and then went on Shark Tank to pitch them on bioengineering men who can get ass pregnant
I’m sometimes reminded of the fact that the Maria Ross Prison Break Fake Death Incident never happens in ‘03, and so that moment where manga/BH!Ed realizes he actually can trust Mustang never comes to pass (until possibly after he goes AWOL? I haven’t gotten to that part in my rewatch so not sure, but either way it wasn’t as impactful). In ‘03, Mustang never really earns Ed’s trust (because he’s literally so much more of a horrible person!!! lol) and so Hughes (and to a lesser extent Armstrong) is actually the ONLY PERSON IN THE WHOLE MILITARY he can at least halfway trust and who he has some real respect and admiration for. Which makes it so much worse that he DIES on him. It just kills me how Brotherhood is about Ed learning to trust and open up to those around him, while ‘03 is largely about how he’s forced to close himself off from the untrustworthy people around him and isolate himself from everyone except his brother (he even leaves Winry behind after the kidnapping incident, to keep her safe). And then, towards the very end (when he makes the decision to kill Sloth) he finally shuts his brother out, too. And then he wears that incredibly sad wistful/resigned look on his face for the entire rest of the show.
the fact em forster lost his virginity at the age of 37 and then was too busy having gay sex to write…inspiring
like he literally said this
time to get a delicious tea drink from my favorite crone, boba yaga
then I will go to an exercise class led by my favorite instructor, baba yoga
Imagine my surprise to come back from the woods and find that there is heated discourse about eating pussy, or rather, not really about eating pussy (celibacy website) but about fictional characters eating pussy, and about the fact that people On Here have abstracted the act of eating pussy to a moral signifier, turning the gimmick blog poll question of whether a character would eat pussy into a question of whether they think the character is worthy of being liked. There is nothing like an association with virtue to make a pleasure feel like a chore, but aside from that, imagine my surprise after I scrolled a little further, only to find out that the character who started all this discourse is
THIS GUY
Anyway, he would if there was money in it. That’s my answer
There's a pretty strong case to be made that he canonically has a massive femdom kink so yeah, totally
He would, and he'd enjoy it, but he'd spend the entire episode leading up to it whining about it, and then after enjoying the experience his previous attempts to make a show of wriggling out of it would come to fruition and assure that he'd never get to do it again and he's be powerless to admit his mistake.
Meanwhile in the A plot political dissidents have been assassinated.
saw an absolutely hilarious animal crossing theory that i now 100% accept and it’s that in the animal crossing world, humans are going extinct, and so all the animals have locked you in an elaborate zoo enclosure and are trying to give you enrichment. and that’s why they give you infinite pointless tasks, hide money in trees and rocks, invented debt that doesnt matter etc. it’s why they always act so happy to see you even after you raze the entire island, relocate their houses twice, and always act so pleased about your choices no matter what. it’s all to keep their little endangered human healthy and enriched. and thinking of it this way has genuinely improved my experience of the game
Penelope in the Odyssey
The demand for more f/f fic (written by people who aren't turned on by it) has been going on online for decades. In the LiveJournal days, writing and reading f/f was called "eating your vegetables." You weren't supposed to like it, but it was morally suspect if you didn't do it. Like, callout posts would be made for fic writers who had never written f/f.
Obviously, this strategy worked very well to encourage f/f fics, and everyone was happy forever.
That's hilarious actually. Wildly superficial engagement with text, treated as a solemn duty.
The ask wasn't joking?
Also I love the derogatory slang term for this more general phenomenon, "dutyfic"
