#hubris is bad
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you lose sight of it, somehow, when you consort with gods: how fragile mortals are, and how precious.
[gale of waterdeep & my pc, mayhew of nowhere in particular]
#mayhew is a gnome warlock/wizard who makes bad choices#mild act 1 goblin camp spoilers in tags that follow:#the fight was bc Mayhew hubris'd his way into Dror Ragzlin's mind but failed to hubris his way out#for some reason dror and all 99 of his favorite friends got mad about that#Shadowheart got HORRIBLY murdered in the spider pit. Mayhew got ensnared in vines while in an acid pool and taking arrows (lol)#i ran out of healing potions#gale and lae'zel survived to flee with the bodies of their friends#play on tactician guys it makes your games deliciously dramatic#anyway the rituals between mayhew and gale are intricate#mayhew#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#bg3#baldur's gate 3#sky does bg3#my art#referenced a pose from pexels -- they're a great site check em out#galehew
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day 1398
#amphibian#frog#halloween#*authors note: it is in fact early september. the trees are not even turning yellow yet#i saw halloween stuff at the store though sooo#capitalism bad but at least we get halloween themed items as early as they think they can get away with it#this year im on the hunt for some spooky fabrics i wanna make my own creepy buttonups#ive never made a buttonup but how hard could it be? <- hubris
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One of my earlier jobs in life was at a little pizza place. I worked there when it was first starting up. It’s the only job I’ve ever been fired from and it was because a new manager came in and cleaned house. Because my state requires a reason to be fired he said I used too much pepperoni. So now on job applications I get to write that I was fired for “excessive use of pepperoni.” Never fails to get a laugh.
Anyway! For this story to make sense I’ve first got to set the stage. This pizza place started out as the Wild West of management but one of the original investors was super committed to work programs through the prison. We hired a ton of ex convicts and they were all, to a one, super hyped on Christianity. Like born again for the sole purpose of lauding Christ with their every breath.
I hadn’t been working there long but I’d definitely noticed the Jesus bug had gone around, and as I’ve never been religious at all I tried to steer clear of the topic for my own safety.
The day our story takes place, I was folding boxes. Anyone whose ever worked pizza can attest, there’s so much box folding. It’s something that happens at every lull, the pizza machine demands box folding on a grand and epic scale.
On my right folding his stack of boxes was a guy wider than he was tall, made of pure muscle, Corey. He was newer on staff, and due to a stutter he didn’t talk much. All I knew about him was that he got hired through the rehabilitation program and had done time.
On my left folding was a tall middle-aged woman who loved to yell at me, Cindy. She and I rubbed each other the wrong way and had nothing in common, leading to a tense working relationship.
We folded boxes in silence. This was really my best case scenario as a quiet Cindy was a Cindy not riding my ass, and Corey intimidated me.
But the weight of the silence grew too much for Cindy, who finally said, “I really want to go to bible school.”
I folded a box. I had less than no idea what bible school even was and I didn’t want to get sucked into a religious topic.
On my right Corey said, “W-why, Cindy?”
“Well, cause I believe what’s in the Bible, but I just don’t know it all.”
He nodded sagely to this.
Cindy continued, “And every time I sit down to read the Bible I get real sleepy. And I know it’s the devil.”
It’s so hard to convey her tone in written format. It was delivered with the emphasis and exasperation of an inevitable inconvenience. Like, I just know it’s the squirrels eating the bird seed.
I froze in place at this pronouncement. My only exposure to Lucifer was Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics and I was trying to mentally twist into a frame of mind where The Morningstar cared enough about this one middle aged lady expanding her knowledge of the Bible that he followed her around cursing her with sleepiness when she picked it up.
I think I expected Corey to say, “Well that’s silly,” or something to acknowledge what a bizarre thing Cindy had just said.
Instead he said, “Yeah!” In a tone of complete agreement.
I didn’t look up. I tried to keep my face neutral at this development.
But something must have shown. Corey said, “You don’t believe in God?”
I shrugged casually and said, “If I did I wouldn’t talk about it at work.”
“C-cause it’s t-true. If y-you t-ry to r-read the B-bible on unsanctif-fied gr-round the d-devil m-makes you s-sleepy!”
I made a noncommittal sound and fled into the back room.
Over the next week it drove me crazy though. The logic of it wouldn’t leave me alone so finally one day when it was just Corey and I in front, and the restaurant was empty, I said, “Hey man, I have a question.”
He shrugged and listened.
“I really don’t mean this with any disrespect, I just genuinely want to know about the logistics-“
“J-ust ask.”
“Okay, so if Cindy gets tired when she reads any book, is it only the devil making her tired when it’s the Bible?”
His face went purple with fury and he yelled, “F-fuck you!” at my retreating back as I fled once more into the back room.
It will forever remain a mystery.
#ramblies#story#funny#as a caveat I don’t mean this story with any offense if you’re religious#but I think to assume that you’re being targeted specifically by a cosmic entity who rivals god is an insane hubris#the idea of a devil is already wild cause like he punishes bad people in the mythos so it seems like he's committed to people#paying for bad behavior rather than trying to trick them into it? but everyone treats lucifer like a boogey man which is weird to me#ffs foibles
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To terminally-ill disabled people: you aren't going to be forgotten. You deserve a space here in this world no matter how long you'll be here. You deserve every chance to be happy, to be welcomed, to be understood, to be accommodated, and to be taken care of to the fullest extent. You haven't "given up," you are so incredibly important, and it takes so much to be in your shoes. I hope you can find pride in who you are. Your existence is meaningful.
#disability#watched a video about a terminally-ill person and... though he's gone i could tell he's such a bright light im this world#the whole 'dont give up!' mentality is just... disheartening. you haven't given up; you have already done enough#if you cannot stay on this earth for long just know that you aren't bad for it#yes it can be tragic and horrifying but... you aren't terrible and you have tried and i know it#whatever you're feeling is only natural and there is no shame in it#i know this is an outsider looking in but i hope that maybe this could help in some tiny miniscule way? maybe that's hubris huh
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you know what i am so glad that exu calamity gave us insight into vespin chloras's reasoning and everything because now i can confidently say that the guy who kicked off the point in exandria's history that killed 2/3 of the population and fundamentally changed the way the gods interact with the world had more understandable reasoning than ludinus da'leth does.
#critical role#vespin chloras#ludinus da'leth#also do not think this is me saying that vespin's plan was Good by any means#it is the perfect example of wizard hubris#its just that ludinus's plans are so insanely bad and fundamentally flawed#that it makes trying to replace a betrayer god and starting a centuries long divine war seem understandable
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2024 in: annabeth chase stan era
2024 out: OVERLOOKING AND ERASING ANNABETH'S CHILDISHNESS, POOR SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES, LACK OF SELF WORTH, MASK OVER HER EMOTIONS, ETC.
SHE IS NOT AN ADULT SHE IS NOT A COLD ROBOT SHE DOES NOT HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE IN HERSELF ALL THE TIME THAT IS LITERALLY JUST WHAT SHES PROJECTING TO EVERYONE AS A DEFENSE MECHANISM IN REALITY IF YOU READ MARK OF ATHENA IF YOU READ BETWEEN THE LINES IF YOU WATCH LEAHS ACTING SHES JUST A TINY SCARED CHILD THAT DOESNT KNOW IF SHES DOING HER BEST AND IS TERRIFIED OF FAILURE OR LETTING PEOPLE IN AND IT ONLY GETS WORSE AS SHE AGES AND LOSES MORE PEOPLE SHE TRUSTED AND LOVED
#sorry the bad annabeth takes online got to me#yes her fatal flaw is hubris but that does not translate to her being a perfect self confident leader she literally CONSTANTLY think#that shes failing and isnt good enough and is the weakest of the demigods and doesnt have real powers and is disappointing her mom#she'll give up anything and sacrifice anything for the sake of the quest for the sake of PROVING herself and protecting ppl she loves#(her invisisbility cap in the show. herself falling into tartarus in MoA)#stop protecting your Female Character in a Trio tropes onto this complex child with a complex history#this also relates to people misunderstanding percys character but thats a whole OTHER rant#go reread chalice go reread HoO <3 treat yourself#annabeth chase#annabeth#leahbeth#leah sava jeffries#pjo <3#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#heroes of olympus
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fashionable arc-nemesis (tn: ex-boyfriends)
#sacha dhawan#ncuti gatwa#fifteen doctor#dhawan master#doctor who fanart#i was informed by a friend that this is called 'spygatwa'#and first of all i just want to make public my deep displeasure w/ this name DSLKJ#ya'll seriously guys#guys seriously#'whouffaldi' was bad but this#well im not sure it's worse actually SDLKJ but dang it!! fandom can do better#let's just... let's just stick to thoschei i beg ya fdklfdj#(oh brilliant. which in my absolute hubris i forgot to tag first)#(excellent)#dw#meart
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I'd probably have to read the printed version and web version back to back at some point to note all the differences but... ough
#sorry i'm going to be excited about this comic for the next month#nofna#okay having finished this now--#and sorry if this doesn't make sense to anyone who's completely unfamiliar with this comic in advance-#the 'popcorn ending' (printed version) is nice to see but i think the web version hits harder. if that makes sense#so i'm kinda tied on which ending i 'prefer'- i think both are good though#also considering i've read the web version a good 4-5 times and the printed version only once- i probably can't make that judgement yet#easy answer- i do like Nutsedge :] so it's nice to see the ending where nothing bad happens to her#but also- NT suddenly becoming a greenie-esque villain out of nowhere felt a little jarring#as well as SV suddenly turning a corner and becoming a 'good guy' (arguable)- considering the first three books are about#/him being too stubborn to change or accept any outside worldviews . Him suddenly coming to his senses felt out of place#<- probably biased because i like characters being bitter to the end and ultimately destroyed by their own hubris#the web version is probably‚ objectively‚ a bit better#but -#(spoilers- if you're planning to drop ~70 bucks on getting these books)#the conceit of SV actually perfecting his style‚ using it once‚ and then immediately getting tooth-brained- was pretty cool#assuming it's meant to parallel him spending months tormented by trying to perfect it while something's still missing-#and then dying before he can narrate it to the audience‚ so that we never know what he figured out.#hard to articulate these thoughts but tl;dr- popcorn ending also had a lot to think about
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sure i COULD ramble about how ai is one of the multiple things that check all the marks of humanity's seven deadly sins but would that be extreme
^^^ possibly insufficiently educated
#the pride the hubris of believing you can do better than innovation and nature by playing god and not in the fun way#the lust it's being used for in so many awful cases#the sloth the way its encouraging everyone to check original sources less before believing anything. Also to not take time to develop skill#the greed its being used for profit without consideration for ethics or fair labour#gluttony. we always have to be faster. shinier. better. no matter if it ends up being less convenient or wonky#the wrath it sows in between people creating more differences to be frustrated over. more hatred#the envy how it takes and takes. always trying to be as clever as the best humans. as beautiful as a real forest or sunset.#do you think the ai wants itself#if this were a scifi movie would we be the bad guys#but this is not a movie and the ai cannot love us. so we cannot love it. and there's that#my post#personal stuff#thinking aloud just silly yapping n jazz 没啥事做就这样咯~#(￣▽￣)~*#when i was in primary school our textbooks for chinese had short stories and articles to learn about#there was a fictional scifi oneshot about a family in the future going to the zoo#the scifi zoo trip was going great until the zoo's systems went offline for a moment#and it was revealed that all the animals roaming in their enclosures were holograms#the real ones went extinct ages ago#when the computers came back online the holograms returned and there they were#honestly at first I thought it was a bit exaggerating#but I still think about it once in a while
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Fuck it. I love my deer son
#Polly draws#sweet tooth#sweet tooth netflix#gus sweet tooth#sweet tooth spoilers#EVERYONE WATCH THIS SHOW RN#I normally do not enjoy live action series but this one gets it right man#scientific hubris??? genetic experimentation??? found family??? cute but fucked up animal kids???#it is Perfect#I need a season 3 sooooo bad
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dbd gave me a playable knight and i have no choice but to main him. two versions cuz i couldnt decide if i liked the sword or not
#dead by daylight#the knight dbd#tarhos kovács#tarhos kovacs#dbd#the knight#horarty#im so down bad for this man i started doing art again#i find him super fun im ngl#love having a friend group as the killer#also he gave me hubris my pick for the funniest perk
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Sometimes sad cat wizards deserve to get swept off their feet by their narrative foils.
Many, many thanks to both @flappingduster-scribbles and @aboxthecolourofheartache for helping me un-weird the anatomy. Why did I need to un-weird the anatomy? Well, let's look at the reference below the cut...
Leyendecker painted a gorgeous little picture here! But if you look closely, you might notice that the gal in this painting has...no mouth. Also, no nose. She and the dude are just lamprey'd together at the face. It's pleasing and totally works in the reference (which is a crop of a larger painting), but it just looked really, really weird in my painting. So, I had figure out how to give Caleb back half his face, making a lot of stops in the uncanny valley along the way.
Here's the initial sketch! Essek's hair was a fun challenge.
And a bonus: Essek might seem pretty tall in this picture, but if you zoom out...
They make it work.
#shadowgast#my art#i only half tried to get Leyendecker's paint-handling style here bc i got lazy#and this was supposed to just be a warmup for another painting#''it's fine if it's bad!' sky lied to themselves. ''just an hour or two of slapping paint down will be fine. nothing more than a warmup''#there are no warmups in the saturdaysky household. this was hubris talking#anyway a day and a half later... voila#critical role#essek thelyss#caleb widogast
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the most annoying thing about me/cfs is that it's more like 10 different illnesses in a trenchcoat. i'll wake up with a new symptom and be like "oh okay, guess that's what we're doing today"
#pretty much anything can be a symptom of me/cfs so you're constantly left wondering if the new bullshit you're going through#is a sign of some other illness or if its just your old pal me/cfs getting creative again#ive been having a really bad whole body itch these past few days and i have no idea where it's coming from or when it's going to go away#but i would like not to feel like theres an electric current running beneath my skin thanks#i think the constant fatigue brain fog and muscle pain is more than enough#maybe it's just a crash or something though idk#(briefly) left the house for the first time in over a month on friday and it was really nice but my body Did Not Like It#so now its punishing me for my hubris#ugh#chronic illness#actually chronically ill#me/cfs#myalgic encephalomyelitis#chronic fatigue syndrome#can someone please come up with a better name for this illness#chronic illness fuckery
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It's at least a little funny whenever there's a new post on r/OnePiece where people start speculating about Crocodile's past and the comment section in bad faith resort to (transphobic) memes
'Cause I'm just here reading the comments like
#Moon posting#OP Meta#Sir Crocodile#Crocodad#You keep knocking on the devil's door long enough and sooner or later someone's gonna answer you#These fuckers are joking now but you just fucking wait when the man does turn out to be Luffy's other transgender father#The cowards are gonna be so livid#For record speculating about Crocodile's past and mentioning Crocodad is not A Meme Response by default#It's when the fuckers also do the misgendering and clearly saying it as a funny haha joke that. Yeah. Then it's in bad faith#Can't wait for hubris to get these guys#WE'LL SEE WHO'LL LAUGH THEN
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I watched the Saw (2004) for the first time, and this is my main takeaway
#saw#saw movies#jigsaw#john kramer#John Kramer/Jigsaw#walter white#breaking bad#other similarities include but are not limited to taking on an apprentice and dying from his own hubris#Walter white is the Jigsaw of meth cookers#jigsaw is the Walter white of serial killers
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One of the reasons I'm starting to learn how to accept making "bad art" is to have unironically appreciated bad art for myself. Instead of worrying if I make art that is soul-crushing, earth-shattering, and something that Changes the World, what if I just... made art?
It's so freeing see that what is called "bad art" is often just a thinly-veiled criticism of an artist who doesn't conform to what they or their art "should" be. They have embodied their "bad art" so fully that you cannot begin to comprehend just how much it means for them to have crafted it. What good is it to make amazing art with no soul? What good is it to perform the illusion of art rather than create it? It's nothing short of rebellion to make something for you, to not worry at all what people consider "bad."
#art#positivity#i'm getting déjà vu making this post but i just feel so passionately about bad art#i used to think i liked it so that i could be a contrarian...#...but i realize that i like the passionate and the vivid#i'm sure i posted something to this effect but if i had i simply cannot find it (fuck you tumblr search engine)#since i am in equal measures a lover and a hater this post has inspired me to rewatch an eight-hour video trashing on a bad book...#...where i will enjoy the criticisms but deeply admire the author for having the hubris to say the book is the MOST important novem ever
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