Cinderella feels the walls caving in a little more each day. Like she alone is sinking further and further underground and the collective weight of the earth around her attic bedroom is the reason the wood creaks a little more each passing storm.
Be kind, her mother told her.
But what is kindness when she is disintegrating in front of the the people who were supposed to love her? Her face is hollowed from understanding smiles. They love you, they just don’t know how to show it. Just be kind a little longer and then everything will be okay. Be patient—
So she ties her hair up in scraps of cloth leftover from mending the tablecloth and she goes out to face another day. The list of chores she must complete stretches until the sun goes down. She presses her hands into abrasive water and scrubs,scrubs, scrubs. She collects the silverware and polishes it (though it does not need to be polished). She sweeps and mops and prunes the roses.
She dusts the great, creaking carcass of a manor her father left behind and wonders for how much longer she is expected to be its beating heart?
Be patient, your reward will come, maintain your kindness and open your soul, carve out what you can spare —
Cinderella is growing too old for fairytales.
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A redraw of these two, my first ever Tron ocs Fin and Kaiser.
Original under the cut
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March 27, sketches, tired
Made these in class, just remembered to post them for today.
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I had a dream where Rose and Etta looked different, so naturally I had to sketch them. I've been generally too sick to sit up for extended periods of time, but I made time for my girls since I haven't been up to drawing in a few weeks. I plan on finishing this, but i have no idea when I will be well enough to start lining them.
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Costumes(DCMK)(hakukaiweek22)
This one was fun as well, but it the last one. I wasn’t able to finish this whole shipweek. Below is the time-lapse and sketches for the other days. I might eventually do these later on.
The other days, and some silly sketches are below.
please someone write a fic where Kaito and Hakuba do a costume contest.
Day 3-Dreams
Day 4- Confession
Day 5-Birds
day 6- handcuffs(A screenshot redraw)
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Quine's two dogmas of empiricism
P is analytical if it's true in virtue of meaning, not of facts.
Two types of analytical sentences: "No x that is not-P is P" (aka. "no non-married man is married") and "No x that is S is P" (aka. no bachelor is married)
First is true by virtue of pure logic, second is true by the use of synonyms, which can make it into a 'pure logic analytic sentence'
(Carnap tangent, wtv)
Can we get from type 2 to type 1 by saying that P is definitionally S (a bachelor is definitionally an unmarried man)? No, because it is only in the definition because it's used as synonyms.
Another type of definition is definition by explanation. Explanation instructs use of the world. But that too relies on pre-existing synonyms. The defined is simply synonymous with the defining given certain contexts.
(Last type of definition is the only one that doesn't rely on synonyms; the shortcut. A word literally created as a shortcut, as it happens in science, philosophy, maths.)
(2 antagonic forces guide the creation of formal languages: practical usage and minimal, basic concepts. First is economic in size, second in vocabulary. The translation from one language to the other is definition.)
Most cases, though, definition depends on previous synonyms. (Go ahead and try to find the basic vocabulary of all language)
Can we say words (taking them as wholes, not counting their letters or anything) are synonyms if they are permutable, conserving truth? Is that a rigorous enough criterium?
(To say "'bachelor' and 'unmarried man' are synonyms" is to say "'All a nd only men who are unmarried are bachelors' is an analytic statement")
(We just need an explanation of cognitive synonym that does not presuppose analyticity, since that's exactly what we're trynna explain)
"Necessarily all and only bachelors are bachelors" is always and evidently true. Switching: "Necessarily all and only bachelors are unmarried men" - still works! But to say that is to say that "all and only men who are unmarried are bachelors" is an analytic statement.
Did we do it?
No.
This relies on the adverb "necessarily" which, on its own, makes the sentence only true if it is analytical.
There are terms which are permutable salva veritate but which nevertheless are not cognitive synonyms (bachelor and unmarried man), because they are exchangeable in terms of extension (in terms of the objects they refer to). All and only creatures with heart have kidneys. It's necessary that creatures with hearts have hearts, but it's contingent that creatures with heart have kidneys. Didn't work.
Maybe we can't explain analyticity through cognitive synonyms. How else? Semantic rules.
oh no it's 2:49
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Rain absolutely babbles during sex. He doesn’t stop talking or moaning or giving the occasional yell. You wish you’d known this BEFORE making a move in a very public area, but what is life without adventure? And the possibility of getting caught.
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One of the things I love about who rules the world so far is like something will happen and you think ‘oh shit this going to cause a major problem and spur a terrible chain of events’ but somehow it comes up with the most ridiculously plausible not to terrible outcome. It could feel cheap for some but for me instead of doing that it built trust. That yeah this was a shitty thing and realistically it would’ve turned out worse but Bai & Hei’s trust and love for each other didn’t allow it to turn for the worse. This show is built off of love, love(alongside greed) are the biggest themes.
Like Baili being separated from the emperor *bc* of Yige *caused* her to hate Lanxi and try to kill him.
Baili’s love(or lack thereof) for her sons is a catalyst for their characters (Chang’s alcoholism, Ju’s spoiled nature)
Hei stopping his duties at the drop of a hat to save Bai
Hei waking from his murderous haze bc Bai was near death & him not cutting her worry strand bc he will always worry about her
Also: the feng bros relationship is really important as well. But I’m to tired to get into this. I might make a more detailed meta tomorrow but for now I need sleep
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You may be wondering, what the fuck is going on?
Well, you're not alone.
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