Raven the Beast B.

I've been hella deep in the Gachiakuta lore lately and I just have to talk about this. idk if anyone’s said it already but walk with me rq...

So it's pretty clear that Canis Surebrec's name is literally Cerberus spelled backwards, right? Cerberus is said to be the underwords guard, preventing souls from escaping. And in the note Canis wrote for his children, he literally said that he couldn't stop the humans and all he could do was bury them:

Yeahhh he ain't beating the Cerberus allegations. So there's also a high chance that Canis is the Watchman himself,in direct referance to cerberus, he makes sure no souls(humans from the ground) escape. (maybe the ppl on the ground are some generation of 'sinners' but that's smt for another ramble sesh)

Annndddd since Cerberus was loyal to Hades, there must be someone that represents him too. And that person's gotta be the final boss or smt bc cmon.

And since the cerberus ties directly into Greek mythology, I've been thinking there might be other characters who also represent gods or figures from Greek myths. And one of them HAS to be Tamsy.

Amo called the masked man (who's Tamsy) an angel with wings, flying towards the Sphere. We know now that Tamsy can wander between the Sphere and the ground, since Rudo had a not so nice confrontation with him on the Sphere, and Amo had one with him on the ground. And who else in Greek mythology has wings and flies across realms? Hermes!

Also just look at Tamsy's and Hermes' personality in comparison. Hermes is clever, also a mischievous fella, aaaaand morally flexible. Tamsy's also all of the above, clever(duhhhh), mischievous bc he's an evil sick fuck, and also morally flexible since he goes to extreme lengths to break rudo.

(I know the wings are supposed to be on his shoes but still… m onto smt aaaa)

Hermes guided souls to the underworld, meaning he had direct contact with figures like Cerberus, which supports my suspicion that Canis and Tamsy might've known each other personally, that being either on a formal or personal level, idkkk.

PLEASE tell me you get the vision

doomscrolling is not activism

doomscrolling is not activism

"don't look away" is a meaningless phrase. who are you benefiting by inundating yourself with misery porn?

DO something about things you care about. Go to a protest for something you believe in, if you can. Donate money to a cause if you have it to spare. Volunteer your time to help people if you have the energy. Write a letter to your political representatives if that's something you can do. These are meaningful ways to try to make change in the world.

And then? don't feel bad about insulating yourself from horrible news. Don't make yourself look at images that make you feel sick. Don't read endless things that depress you. Because frankly it gets harder to actually do the more you doomscroll. Reading constantly about things you can't change because they're happening at a systemic level or on the other side of the world is paralyzing. It makes you less able to help where you can.

I'm not saying be willfully ignorant. I'm not saying pretend horrible things aren't happening. I'm saying don't destroy your mental health going in-depth and cycling through horror after horror on your phone. I'm saying there is no virtue in making yourself experience other people's traumas because mere awareness is not activism. you inflicting suffering on yourself is not activism.

Like… are you kidding me? Em dashes have existed longer than half the people making that complaint have been alive. They’ve been in literature, essays, newspapers, journals, letters, and basically every written medium since punctuation became a thing humans fought about.

And I actually tried to ignore this whole topic for the longest time. I told myself, “Just let people be wrong on the internet. It’s not worth the energy.” But there comes a point where enough is enough, where the ignorance just gets so loud and so confidently stupid that you cannot stay silent anymore.

I’m truly, deeply sorry that I want to articulate my thoughts in a way that actually reflects how a human brain jumps, pivots, interrupts itself, and wanders. There is nothing ‘unnatural’ about that. That is literally how people think and speak.

And if you genuinely believe that em dashes are some proof of ‘inhuman writing,’ then my dear, you have never actually read a single book. Because ninety-nine percent of traditionally published authors use them. Classics. Fantasy authors. Romance authors. Literary authors. Modern authors. Old authors.

And sure, yes, obviously no one should use sixty em dashes in a 200-word paragraph. That looks like a punctuation stampede. But refusing to use them at all? Acting like they are some kind of forbidden, suspicious punctuation mark? Absolutely not.

I love em dashes. And I’m going to keep using them forever.

So stop accusing writers of “fakeness” because of punctuation. Stop pretending your personal punctuation preferences are some moral high ground. Stop acting like you’re the gatekeeper of real writing when you clearly haven’t read widely enough to know how real writing actually looks.

And honestly, EVEN if someone does misuse punctuation, even if they sprinkle em dashes everywhere or barely know how a comma works, it is still NOT your business. Take care of your own stuff instead of policing someone else’s creativity.