DISCLAIMER i have not worked my way through all the eris dialogue yet so if she says something that contradicts all of this uhh. ill explode or something idk

anyway i feel like eris and hypnos actually have the potential to become besties when you think about it! like at a glance it does not seem like they'd vibe (and maybe wouldn't for a while) but i absolutely think they could

they both stand out to me bc (and honestly are both my faves bc) they don't really follow the same adherence to rules and responsibility that p much every other god does, particularly in the nyx family. hypnos constantly slacks off at work in hades 1, and the only reason he starts putting in effort is basically bc he wants approval from than and nyx. eris criticizes mel all the time for being so uptight, as well as nyx and than for being such strict rule-followers. they could both really connect over having someone else who is similarly opposed to that workaholic mindset (worth noting for eris, she refers to than as "brother number i dont even know anymore" and specifically doesnt care about him bc he's uptight like everyone else iirc, so i think she'd really appreciate having someone in the fam who isn't that way)

also, like. yes eris can be pretty cruel to mortals but hypnos is also pretty callous towards them most of the time? like he's pretty comfortable with the topic of death (which does make sense, given his job) but he just doesn't take it very seriously at all, like with natural causes he's just like "wow! sucks to be a mortal lol." plus that whole bit when he just suggests that thanatos just kill everyone all at once so they can hang out more like his ass does not care 😭 so i dont think he'd really care about eris tormenting humans, and in turn i think she might really like someone finally just being chill about it rather than looking down on her basically for being strife. also she'd probably find it funny how nonchalant he can be abt this, and in turn hypnos would enjoy her particular brand of chaos lol

thematically though, part of eris' whole thing is about how she feels ostracized from the rest of the fam bc strife is literally in her nature, while hypnos is shunned bc of his constant sleeping. both are pushed out bc of their very natures. but where they differ is hypnos prioritizes his relationships to the rest of the family and is willing to fight against his nature in order to do his job at the House and thereby impress/appease nyx and than, restoring his relationships to them at the cost of his personal happiness. meanwhile eris believes in being true to herself above all else, and if that means severing ties, then so be it. she mentions at a few different points that she's not going to change her nature for what anyone else wants, and that they shouldn't be surprised at how she acts, given that she's literally strife incarnate (an argument I've seen plenty of people give wrt hypnos sleeping at the job while being sleep incarnate). i think if they interacted more they could actually learn a lot from each other and maybe both move closer to the middle of that spectrum

also hypnos is usually seen as the childish one throughout hades 1 but eris is specifically stated to be one of the youngest in the nyx family so i would love to see some older brother hypnos content 🙏

i feel like. theres designing a character with certain themes and motifs in mind, and then theres making a gijinka for the water bottle on my nightstand

this is also why i stopped using my tracked tag for a while tbh

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Can my dnd character PLEASE stop evading every attempt at me trying to either develop her backstory or just anything

JUST SAYING ONCE I LEARN TO PRONOUNCE MY T'S PROPERLY ITS OVER FOR YOU BUTTNUGGETS

this is gonna sound very wrong but a part of me wants Jinx to die by suicide. Not like a planned one but one that arouse from a situation she found herself in. When Ekko and her were fighting and she put down the bomb she seemed pretty willing to accept her own death and had Silco not found her she probably would have bled out eventually.

Id be pretty difficult writing this without glorifying or downplaying suicide and it would be extremely dark HOWEVER I do think it could be one fitting end for this character

I dont know how to explain why exactly I would like this but something about tragedy and the ultimate price of violence and how Jinx represents both innocence and violence

Maybe it’s a certain way this idea just exists in my head and to anyone else this sounds insane idk.

I think there is a larger conversation every time you include suicide or suicidal ideation about how media can and should portray it because while I dont believe in censorship of topics art is allowed to explore I also do believe that fiction affects reality because believing otherwise is willful ignorance to how reality works. part of why im saying this is that arcane has a pg 14 rating for violence and language but depictions of suicide usually score 18 due to potentially influential content. and this is actually an important consideration for viewership ratings jdnsjsj

the other part of it is that I think choosing suicide as a storytelling device is tricky because there is a small number of narratives where it feels like a purposeful and complete ending rather than a really lazy writing choice. it has its place in tragedy but arcane very purposefully chooses not to be a tragedy - I think one of the creators described it as this whimsical hopepunk grimdark vibe and i think having an ending for a character that is very clearly just tragic doesnt mecessarily fit that. I can see it as an affirmation of agency if the story revolves around that agency being removed but jinx is a character who, while ruled by emotion and circumstamce, is also the literal catalyst for majority of the plot. every choice she makes is distinctly hers and other characters have to scramble in their aftermath. which I guess would make suicide fit into that mold but I'm thinking more about what works for her individual arc djejsj

I do think that suicidal ideation and self injury are an established part of her character but I think arcane just fits the trajectory of moving from that hopelessness more than giving into it

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how tf did me facetiming someone i matched with on tinder turn into them giving me unsolicited advice about giving people your full attention after i already let them know that i recently got diagnosed as adhd and it’s hard for me to focus on just one thing/person and then them telling me that “based on my behavior” they think i’m autistic like ?? didn’t ask, we literally started messaging each other like a day ago, even if i am autistic (which wouldn’t be a bad thing if i am) when has it ever been socially acceptable to tell someone you JUST MET that you think they’ve got some kind of mental disorder/illness/disability/etc.

my friends have mentioned that i might be autistic and that’s fine bc i’ve spent a lot of time with them and they actually know me and i take their perspective of me very seriously because they’re the people who see me 100% unfiltered and have known me whenever i’ve been completely unmedicated. i trust their word.

this person from tinder, however, i have sent like maybe 20-30 messages to where we talked about nanowrimo and i was like omg it’d be so cool to meet someone who also writes, whether it’s as friends or as more, i would love that—only for our facetime call to be less than 20 minutes long and for them to try and diagnose me as autistic just because i, after ALREADY TELLING THEM that i have adhd and after them asking about meds and me telling them that i haven’t taken my adhd meds today because i didn’t have work and also i’ve taken multiple naps today which has made my head even more foggy and made it even harder than usual to focus, found it difficult to focus.

like. i wasn’t unresponsive. i wasn’t ignoring them. i was listening and i was responding, i just also was looking between my phone and my laptop screen.

which okay i understand that maybe i’m just frustrated because of the “based on your behavior” comment because an 18 minute facetime call does not give someone enough interaction time to try and fucking diagnose me as anything, and maybe this is more of a we just didn’t vibe and that’s fine, i don’t think they’re like a bad person or anything and if nothing else i’m glad the mismatched vibes were felt before deciding to meet up or anything, but also.

eighteen minutes. literally eighteen minutes and they fucking “based on your behavior i think you’re autistic” and “here’s some advice, when meeting new people you should give them your full attention”

FUCK that.

Who made the Great Plan?

I maybe just a wee bit crazy, but after rewatching that first scene from s2e1 where Crowley is told about the Great Plan and the scene where Aziraphale debunks the Great Plan and the Ineffable Plan being the same from s1e7, I got to thinking. Even though it was a spur of the moment realization, Aziraphale was right that the Ineffable Plan and the Great Plan are two differnt things. Working off of this conclusion, I dont think it was God who made the Great Plan. While its possible that God changed the plan for the fate of the universe, its highly unlikely that this misinformation would have persisted this long without someone deliberately messing with the understanding of what the Ineffable Plan was. Also we as the audience know that the Ineffable Plan was not the Great Plan becuase after the Great Plan fails, we still get narration from God in that final scene in season 1 of the nightingale which implies that God knew the Great Plan would fail and there would be a future after the supposed 6000 year time limit.

So this begs the question who made sure the Great Plan was the main narrative being spread among the angels? It wasn't a demon since technically there were no demons at the time of that first scene in s2e1 (if i have my mental timeline right). It would have to be a someone with authority among the angles who could ensure that they had constant control of the conversation.

Metatron spread the Great Plan prophecy rumor from s1. My proof:

He is the "voice of God", so everyone would believe anything he says

He would use his authority as the spokesperson for God to spread the Great Plan among the angels who would have no reason to doubt that this wasn't the word of God

In season 1, he was very adamant about not letting Aziraphale talk to God to stop the events of Armageddon

From his conversation with Aziraphale at the end of the infamous s2e6, we can see that he well adapt in manipulation as he knows exactly what to say to Aziraphale to consider and accept the job offer.

I might just be blinded by my current hatred of metatron rn and could be overestimating his abilities, but it made some sense in my mind. The only thing i cannot really pin down is his motivation for doing this. The main two culprits for any other angel would be power or ensuring Heaven's victory. However, I think that from the position that Metatron currently sits at, these two reasons don't really make any sense since he already has a shitton power which he could use to ensure victory. The only real reason i can think of is that he wants to play God, but even then I feel there has to be something else I am missing here to fully complete the picture. I feel like this all has something to do with why God was only there in a flashback and one present day scene, but no narration this season...

but tldr I think it was Metatron manipulative ass.

when i was a kid the idea of like surprise birthday parties was so like. idk i wanted it and it never happened but now its actually like. gonna happen to me but at a really really bad time when i am going to be very stressed and whatever the surprise thing is will probably make it worse so its like. hmm. early birthday gift of being nauseous with anxiety a month in advance

the justice devil running around....... and that horseman (presumably famine) girl........ chainsaw man TWO electric boogaloo........ yoshida fucking off to wherever it is he goes........... questions. questions

while im procrastinating on my homework im just gonna say im gonna be kind of very mad if that mv she's filming is actually for a midnights track lol i like the theory that its for long live though i think that would really fit if the vid is actually about taking back her work

people will be so terminally jealous of you that they’d rather you reexperience your trauma but somehow in a worse way than just let you live your regular happy life as it has been

God i hate it when people think that if something morally wrong happens in a piece of media (especially fan content for some reason???) That the creator believes those or the work is harmful bevause it encourages that behaviour?? First of all if reading pedophilia fanfic keeps someone woth those kinds of thoughts from actually harming real kids, I couldn't give less of a shit. I might not wanna interact with that person but theyre technically not harming anyone amd the author shouldn't be blamed for that either. As for making people think its okay, i can understand that for kids content but like. If your kids get onto the internet completely unsupervised thats not the author's fault either, and we can either as a society try to prepare kids to use critical thinking, keep kids off the internet, or maybe the kid was already in an environment where these things weren't taught as a taboo and so their view is skewed (bad, but a different problem). Other than that, any adult should be capable of understanding the difference between fiction amd reality, and if fiction "convinces someone pedophilia is okay", then that's something they probably already believed and were going to go toward whether or not they consumed the media. The problem is not the content, the problem is how people are raised or treated, as well as problems with accessible mental healthcare. If you dont want to interact with certain content or it makes you uncomfortable, there are ways to avoid it and curate your space. You need to just deal with it.

being an american on here is wild because i keep seeing posts from other americans that describe things they've experienced and say that it is universal among americans and it'll be stuff i've either never heard of or know for a fact isn't true. maybe it's pretty common in your state or the states surrounding you, but there's so much stuff i see that i can not relate to whatsoever, and i've never left the states.