(he has no navel and is envious)

coming to the horrible realization that in order to write some of the ex-/anti-/post-christian (zero idea if there's an actual movement(s) or if im a part of it/them) short stories ive been working on im probably gonna have to read the new testament and I so severely do not wanna. what a nasty little book(s). probably will just read luke for my own sanity and also relevance. but idk I mean the new testament im sure is ripe for critical analysis. unfortunately what people call "bible study" is not that. what a waste! but really how bad could it be. it's only luke. im sure that's probably, what, 200 pages? that's some warrior cats shit. no biggie. i eat books like that for breakfast

much shorter and much nastier than expected. dripping with bile and hatred towards jewish people. also, luke is making so much shit up. did some extra reading about john the baptist and it's like, well it's interesting because arguably john and the beliefs of the earliest mandaeans were syncrenitized and bastardized into xtianity, especially luke, with the whole cousin thing. jesus is such a nasty and bitter figure in luke, it's so weird how there's a bit of a liberal xtian movement on tumblr and other places portraying him as super sweet and loving, sheparding, etc. maybe the other gospels are nicer but it's been almost a decade since i've gone to mass and I don't remember nor do I care to

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

i thought I knew yappers before but umberto eco takes it to a new level. dont get me wrong the name of the rose is great so far but I am beginning to see the type of 500 page beast that it is

currently reading confessions of a young novelist and im absolutely loving it so far and also i respect eco so much for his lists honestly. i mean i dont love them as a reader but i love that he loves them

not to swing bats at hornets nests despite that being my favorite thing to do but the algal bloom of incorrect quotes and miis that arent to my taste in the octopath maintag is actually quite nice for keeping me focused on my homework. not very nice for looking in the maintag, but why do i do that anyways, am i stupid?

i need to stop going in the maintag. theres always some new kind of "is this character x" kind of blog. but i saw one themed around "is this character tme or tma" which is like. sure. whatever. personally i want to imagine fantasy worlds where trans women can exist without, i dunno, being affected by transmisogyny, but then again racial markers are also kinda constructed in a weird way, like, "this fictional character is white" when "white" is like, a label signalling power over racialized people so literally whatever i guess. not sure how to feel about it. outside of my general distaste for the "is this character x" genre.

look just gonna be really ndn about it for a moment but no one can claim to know the internal experience of animals. no one can claim to know the internal experience of plants. no one can claim to know the internal experience of the earth. theres a part of my heart that is always the girl telling my philosophy professor that we cant know the flower turning towards the sun is "purely instinct." and if u disagree then thats fine idc its just My Soulful Opinion in afraid

its frustrating doubly to talk abt on here bc not only is everyone gonna laugh me out of the room like they did when i tried to bring up animism in my white philosophy classes but also like. i know people are gonna get mad like "oh so animals can have morals?" etc of like. look i Knowww and i agree that the anthropomorphism of animals by people is harmful absolutely! but this colonial empirical stance of that nothing feels emotion or has desires in this world except for human beings is so sick to me. what a terrible rotten world to live in where plants dont love the sun and love the shade and love the rain. "they dont have the brain synapses firing to-" 1) thats not all that emotion is oh my lord 2) constantly they are coming out with more science that proves that plants communicate with each other in Scientifically Proven ways. your need to have the world fit an aristotelian victorian bullshit diagnostic criteria is sick

tomodachi release and mfa acceptance could the day get any better

maybe the greatest thing to happen to me in my entire life. i get to take an entire class on the canterbury tales and the state of [radio static] has to pay for it

tomodachi life should have a morality slider in character creation. so you can create characters who are jerks, to create more friction and have more interesting interactions. and if they meet the right person, an evil person can have a change of heart, or a good person can be corrupted to the side of evil

whenever there's an evil child character i'm always like well maybe the adults deserve to be killed with hammers have you considered that

not to dwell on "The Game Last Night" but it's fascinating how Jimmy Beast seems to actively and uncritically want to be a diabolical torment nexus operator but is too genuinely incompetent to have any success or intrigue not reliant on the infinite money glitch of ad revenue from an audience of literal children

The most striking conclusion to me still is The Man Of The Beast outright asking actual competent video creators the question of "how do you create fandom". For one because it's an interesting question on its own that I could meander about for a while, analyzing what patterns in a creative work are compelling enough to create that specific means of collaborative engagement. For two because it's just incredibly funny to have it laid so bare that he just. Lacks The Sauce. there's literally Nothing to The Empire Of The Beast other than getting lucky from the infinite money glitch and the most shallow branding possible to stabilize the money glitch's feedback loop enough to somehow put ugly bulging plastic blue tigers on Target shelves because. the channel's pfp is a tiger. I guess.

i see that you media addicted louts have filled your tomodachi life islands with video game and movie characters instead of great leftist thinkers

not to swing bats at hornets nests despite that being my favorite thing to do but the algal bloom of incorrect quotes and miis that arent to my taste in the octopath maintag is actually quite nice for keeping me focused on my homework. not very nice for looking in the maintag, but why do i do that anyways, am i stupid?

ive been a serious mii maker for over fifteen years. i take it very seriously and i have my own methods and guidelines. with that being said my ltd octopath miis will be shown eventually. they're not all in yet. i've been dealing with a category 5 sapphic disaster on that island that's kept me from adding everyone in. i got limited time. im not going to make it. i got spiritual ringworm. im living forever

put alfyn's stupid bisexual ass on the island wanted to introduce him to the other octopathers, dragged him over to therion, immediately falls in love. first thing he does. you cant write this shit. and now both he and gareth have crushes on therion. fuck my entire life its so funny