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Arthur Koestler - The Roots of Coincidence - Picador - 1976
#witches#coincidentals#occult#vintage#the roots of coincidence#picador books#arthur koestler#1976#picador#roots#coincidence
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Something something abt how a clown’s whole thing is to make themselves the butt of the joke and take everything thrown at them while a jester’s whole thing is to freely call out & ridicule the king however they choose something something…
#helluva boss#helluva boss spoilers#helluva boss fizzarolli#fizzarolli#random snippets of my day#just saw the new ep HELL YEAH#like even if it is a coincidence#cause they keep referring to mammon as a clown when he’s dressed like a jester#and refer to fizz as a clown and a jester interchangeably#I still think it’s neat#fizz has been playing the clown for mammon for so long#even though he’s a jester#and now he’s gotten to play the historical roots of that role in a way
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Gaslighter? I hardly know her!
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#poorly drawn mdzs#mdzs#wei wuxian#lan wangji#jin guangyao#qin su#The parallels to the mulderskully comic were genuine scripting coincidences that I kept in for the irony.#wwx and mulder both have a strong need to show their beloved (investigation) partner the cool thing they just found.#Much to their chagrin and concern.#For as much of a mess the plot gets in The Untamed...one of the things it does probably the best of all adaptions is setting up JGY.#specifically how we spend time getting to know him as a *Regular Guy* around our deuteragonists' age.#I love how he's present in the cloud recess arc! I was rooting for him as a character! The twist villain reveal felt so heartbreaking!#Here in the audio drama (for as much as it does well) we pretty much get 2 scenes tops with this guy before he's villain monologuing.#before this we know him as 1) the guy NMJ yelled at a lot 2) a suspect 3) leader guy Jin Ling was partially raised by.#The elements are there but but not with any particular depth to make him...interesting (in this version).#Sure we get to learn more after the fact but it just falls so flat in comparison B*/#ohhhh noooo the guy we are pretty sure killed a guy is gaslighting his wife and has a secret torture chamber. And he's a politician.#not much of a mystery to it all innit.#Feel free to disagree or bring up differing points btw; I love media analysis convos and this truly is just my opinion.
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things that do not seem to have helped my covid-19 sore throat:
honey tea
chicken soup
ice cream
numbing lozenges
numbing spray
nyquil
ibuprofen
things that seem to have helped a little:
popsicles
... root beer barrels?????
#original#popsicles okay sure they're cold#but... why root beer barrels#is my throat just feeling better on its own and the candy is a coincidence. what in the goddamn.
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no but listen, rachel has truly embodied herself as persephone because she's constantly trying to "distance herself" from her past as a medical fetish artist but then keeps the name that's affiliated with her medical fetish art-
Like, I can't believe I never noticed it before tbh, but that was the thought that hit me while I was explaining to someone on reddit what the name "used bandaid" meant and why it was weird that Rachel is STILL using it on her print cover books, even now when she just recently set up a new Facebook account with her REAL NAME and not the used_bandaid penname (I feel like this is an attempt to "legitimize" herself in the industry but idk).
But that leads me into talking about how she keeps lying about LO being her first webcomic project and that really pisses me off. And yes, this is related to the used_bandaid thing, just bear with me here.
A lot of my contempt for this is for reasons that go beyond her, I just hate the notion that people should succeed on their "first try" and that's an idea that's often sold by people like Rachel who spin these grandiose stories of how they were just "trying it out" and suddenly wham! Fame and fortune! You can achieve all this and more if you just xyz!
Literally, in every interview I've found over the past couple years, she always heavily implies that LO was her "first attempt", that she had never used Webtoons prior to LO, and that she was just "dipping her toes" into the medium. None of this is true, she's literally been drawing webcomics since the early 2000's (possibly earlier but the earliest documentation we can find is of The Doctor Pepper Show), LO wasn't even her first webcomic on the Webtoons platform (that goes to The Doctor Foxglove Show which she ended up dumping a chapter in to work on LO almost immediately after starting it on Tumblr) and as much as she'll claim she "couldn't pay anyone to look at her work", she had landed a number of gigs that got her work out there, had been printed in anthology collections, and IIRC she had even won some small local NZ awards for her comics prior to LO. Shit, there was a local beer brand that had her art on its labelling.
But it really feels like she's trying her damn hardest to hide all that, never mentioning or implying that she did anything prior to LO, that she was just a "struggling graphic artist working in retail" until LO happened.
So why keep the penname that's directly affiliated with that past identity ??
It boggles my mind, honestly, especially considering she had gone by MULTIPLE usernames back then, some of which were actually pretty sane that she could have used instead (such as Rach Alex, which she uses in her FB groups, and Rachel Royale).
I wouldn't blame her if she was trying to hide her old medical fetish stuff, whether she didn't want it affiliated with her new LO branding or if she's just embarrassed by it, I can totally empathize with that because god knows I wouldn't be all that proud to show off the cringy shit I got up to during my early days on the Internet. But if she IS embarrassed by it, you'd think the last thing she'd want to keep is the name that's directly affiliated with the thing she's embarrassed by. Almost like a certain pink protagonist who goes by the name she earned after doing the thing she doesn't want to talk about.
But if she ISN'T embarrassed by it, then why lie?
Why paint this picture that LO was a one hit wonder, that she lived on "struggle street" until she found fame and fortune on Webtoons?
Oh right. Because it's a better story.
Because it's way more romantic to be some struggling indie darling who "came from nothing" and achieved fame through one big idea. Because it looks good for the platform who's trying to attract people to their app and website on the promise that you, too, can be a success story simply because you followed the exact same perceived steps that you saw another person follow and advertise.
If you can't tell from my tone, I really fucking hate this kind of disingenuous wish fulfillment advertising. It's manipulative, it's cruel, and it sets people up with expectations far beyond their scope of reaching, both due to the luck and "being in the right place at the right time" involved at best (which is a HUGE factor in stories like these that people never talk about), or through joy-killing comparison at worst when you don't achieve worldwide fame on your first try and wonder why everyone else did (spoiler: they didn't, they just want you to think that because it makes for better headlines and it gets you using whatever product they're affiliated with.)
If Rachel doesn't want to be tied down to her past, that's fine. But it's incredibly irresponsible and flat out cruel to lie about that past existing at all because it sets a horrible precedent to those who look up to her and want what she has.
And I say all that because I've seen what happens to the people starting out who admire these creators who painted the picture that they were just successful right off the bat. It's not a fun headspace to be in, it's robbed many creators like myself and others of their joy in creating, and it's really all just a ploy to get you to spend time and money and energy on a stupid corporate phone app that profits off your emotional investment and labor. Don't fall for it. Pretending like the Act of Wrath didn't happen doesn't remove it from history.
Anyways, I was gonna leave it at that, but then I ended up doing another rabbithole deep dive through her Wayback Machine and found album art she had illustrated for NZ band PorcelainToy. Enjoy this piece of her "dark era" art that still exists without needing to use the Wayback Machine.
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#sorry btw if this seems like a sequel to the post i just made i stg they're not related#this post was written at like 4 am after doing another hyperfixated deep dive#so it's literally just an unfortunate but funny coincidence that it came right after me talking about my own roots LOL#i gotta go to bed i'm getting stabbed with ink tomorrow#lore olympus critical#lo critical#antiloreolympus#anti lore olympus#Youtube
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I visted Père Lachaise with @robespapier and in addition to Duplays, we also visited Tallien:
And oh, look! Some deluded weirdo left him a present:
Look at it:
It is a Kinder surprise toy. It's from Paw Patrol movie, and apparently this dog is a garbage man and the only mutt in the cast. How fitting.
Some people just like flops. How embarrassing.
In other news, there seems to be something strange about Tallien's grave. It was lost (?) and then found in early 20th century? I will need to investigate (please let us know if you have more info!)
#it's me i'm the weirdo#the dog should represent tallien's dog minerve#i had no idea the character is a garbage man#but what a perfect coincidence#thanks to robespapier for providing a tricolor ribbon#to remind tallien of his jacobin roots#and to decorate minerve#frev#tallien
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Some art of Tori from @misfitmccoward ‘s Naruto fic Plasticity! Because!! It’s such a good fucking fic…! I had to do fanart for it!! honestly after I first read it I was so fucking hype about it that I was almost like “omg.. I have to do an animatic or something for this. it’s SO GOOD” but. My ability to do animatics has kinda flushed down the drain recently ghghg- But! Still!! I had to at least draw some fanart for it…!
#sorry if I got any details wrong! it’s been a few months since I read the fic!#I mean. I originally drew this right after first reading it. but! I only finished them now so. I might have screwed something up ggh-#but yeah! YEAH! OMG! I FUCKING LOVE THIS FIC!?!?!?!?#ITS SO GOOD!?!?#LIKE. ughghghggh. idk. I read it while still pretty deep in my head about awful life stuff#and just. reading Tori. going thru absolute HELL. was like. cathartic?? like my life. is not even a fraction of the shitshow hers is#but! JUST! STILL! like.. the way she responds to stuff… the delayed reactions. the attempts to just roll w the punches.#the fACT ALL OF HER POSSESSIONS ARE LIKE. MEANINGFUL AND IMPORTANT TO HER.#like that’s! a small detail in the grand scheme of the fic but the fact that sort of thing is commented on at all is like! FUCK.#I GET IT TORI I FUCKING GET IT#AND ITS SO FUN!!! like yeah shit is awful for tori basically ALL THE TIME. but it’s not! a downer to read! its fucking fun as hell to read!#the interactions between all the characters are SO GOOD! and entertaining!! literally EVERYTHING in this fic is a fucking delight!!!#and it’s like! ITS SO GOOD AT GETTING U TO ROOT FOR TORI! like!!!#yea I recognize Tori has slowly crossed all her moral and ethical lines and become. like. pretty fucked up.#but like! seeing that shift. coincide w the slow shift. towards everything in her life becoming NOT completely horrible#it’s just like!!! yes! girl! do what u gotta do! become a monster! get some happiness in ur life!#like it’s like… I love it so much. its such a fucking good fic. it’s sO FUN. I cannot overstate. how fun this fic is.#and Tori’s such an endearing character!! and everyone else is really likeable and well written too!#lIKE. IDK. ITS JUST A GREAT FIC DUDES. ITS GREAT#doodles#plasticity#blood#tori mendoza#also. the song that I was thinking of using for the animatic was gonna be ‘stupid intruders’#cuz I heard it and immediately was just like. OMG. THIS FITS THE VIBES SO WELL. like. it just felt very fitting ghgh#also also! Srry for misspelling ‘obviously’ in the first pic.. spelling is hard ghg-#but!! yeah!! have some art. of Tori! cuz I love her! and I love this fic!!#featuring 2 diff pics of her absolutely covered in blood from the 1st chapter! cuz. that was iconic…#and also I felt I didn’t properly convey the like. drowned rat energy the first time gGHG-#god ok I’m running out of tags now. U SHOULD READ THIS FIC IF U WANT ITS RLLY GOOD. highly recommend! it’s fucking great!
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all of the polls have started to swing the way i want after i reblogged propaganda like tonraq is now beating bolin and bato is gaining on adult sokka and while that's what i wanted i'm also like 😳 did i do that. do i have power here
#fun thing about me is that i have zero idea how i'm perceived by others#like that question of 'how would your friends describe you' i'm always like how the fuck would i know. ask them#what i'm saying is that i have no clue if this was coincidence or if i'm actually influential in some way#i just wanted to root for the dilfs.#nina's personal log
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not the kind of hyperspecific meme i ever expected to make ngl
#getting jumpscared in ep3 of my dear anime like damn. did the creator (hah) see this movie too or is this just a weird coincidence#both are equally likely#also i cant recommend both of these scifis enough. rooting for metallic rouge to keep up the good pace and quality but the movie?? good shi#if you like the mecha yuri definitely check the movie out too. thematically very similar also fucking amazing 👍 underrated movie of 2023#metallic rouge#the creator 2023
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Barn 42, Stall 10 was also where Secretariat was stabled for the Kentucky Derby!
#horse racing#kentucky derby#mage#interesting coincidence indeed!#how cool would that be if he took the triple crown? i’m def rooting for him
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honestly iconic that i dressed up as geralt last night for my office’s halloween party, and the very next day, the VERY next day, the morning i wake up… h*nry cav*ll has quit his job and has stopped being geralt.
obviously, the result of my immense power. and the power of books geralt’s headband and silver spikes
#obviously joking but i think it’s a really funny coincidence LOL#the witcher books#cosplay#c: geralt#personal#sorry in the second pic my lipstick is off :( i wanted to eat food and drink beverages at the party#i kept to the bit though and had root beer ginger beer and a ginger ale. for the nonalcoholic geralt vibe#that ginger beer was so fucking good though im wondering where i can get more#geralt cosplay 2022
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while listening to kas talk to me about their ahri portrayal, they inspired me to elaborate a lil' more on her ritualisms; therein, the manner in which she ornaments her cadavers post-feeding. i've spoken on this meta a million and two times in the past, as it's been an integral part of her character for almost as long as i've written her ━━━━ and a shard of my portrayal that i hold very dear. so, i won't ramble too much about that!
but i did want to touch on the very purposeful reasoning behind ahri performing this act & the variations she has in it.
as a devotee to the all mother, and keeper of her design, the fox finds profound meaning in every blade of dewy grass and whistle of the wind between tree boughs, and the rot of death gently sheathed in blankets of moss and soil. there is symbolism spun like intertwining threads amongst every facet of nature; no matter how small & insignificant or forthright & proud. it all has a purpose, something to speak into the world around it. this is why she guards her domain so fiercely, in protection of what is inherently good and giving without fault.
「 the forest of the one - thousand faced fox is where nature sprawls unto to thrive, and where lost souls go to find beastly penance. 」
this is also why the kkoch-ui janglyesig, or ❛ funeral of flowers ❜ ritual is also a tribute to the soul it's vessel once contained. in respecting the feminine entity that is the forest, ahri must respect the souls that wander beyond the boundaries of her realm ━━━━ that is, if she deems them so fit to guide gently and with honor into the spirit realm. after all, there are many instances of those who taste of ash & rot that challenge the fox in her own arena whom far from deserve a garland of flowers but rather the maw of hungry wolves.
all this is to say that ahri is keenly aware of the meaning bestowed upon particular flora, and takes note of this whilst adorning her prey in moss and flowers. knowing this, ahri makes an effort to impart these meanings onto those who pass in her forest. ( the particular flowers needed are not always readily available, but nonetheless she makes an effort in the name of sanctification ).
although ahri would never harm a child, it is a sorrowful fact in a war-ridden world that she must guide their souls beyond the natural realm and into the spiritual, at times. in this case, ahri delicately blankets them in nature and bestows upon them 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 & 𝐋𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐘.
they represent innocence and purity, as does the soul of a child; deserving only of safe passage into the warmth of the spirits beyond. if their soul should linger, perhaps forlornly shackled to the corporeal plane still, ahri will not consume it but delicately pull it from where it remains and dip it back into the all-encompassing, ethereal ocean of souls where it may find peace. after all, this is as simple a task as drawing her foxes fire from the intangible.
the most frequent of unwelcome visitors are lost travelers and merchants seeking out a lesser walked shortcut on their journey. as if tying the knot of their own fate, ahri then deems them fair hunt for their intrusive presence. these are the souls she will consume with minor remorse ━━━━ though that's not to say it's without none, as ahri has a deep-rooted appreciation for human nature and human emotion, and the short bursts of life they carry. under normal circumstances, the fox does not desecrate her prey without reason.
therefore, once the hunt is over, she will impart on them 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐒 & 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐅𝐋𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐒.
representing invasiveness, they are the most straight-forward form of symbolism when used; it is also most common to find her corpses embedded with this particular brand of flora, and the one she's become most known for in the surrounding areas and towns that have likened her to a dangerous mythos.
now, it's rare for ahri to even consider bestowing those she would tear to ribbons without a second thought with her ritual. but in very rare instances, she might. this is particularly true for souls she may feel are wrong and corrupt, but perhaps simply had a bad draw in life or their hand was forced. this opinion is typically formed post-feeding, as their memories and experiences and emotions crawl through-out the crevices of her mind. ahri is not without complex nuance in these situations; she is capable of benevolence in the face of rotten souls. it is simply ... infrequent.
for these, if ahri should bother looking for them, 𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄 & 𝐁𝐔𝐓𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐋𝐘 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐃 are used. the former, though can be equated to the first blush of spring and rebirth, is also highly toxic despite this. it is a reminder that there can be grim darkness in the once clean human soul. the latter is known to symbolize rejection, or serve as warning to others to stay away; it is without subtlety that ahri uses this in bushels.
of course, an abundance of other flora and foliage is utilized in her rituals as the end purpose is to relinquish their physical forms to the omikayalan⁰¹, but there are consistencies between particular souls. the flowering ritual is something ahri holds dear to her heart and is not only a form of metaphorical prayer but a means of returning what once was to where it came from, preserving the natural circle of life.
#𝐓𝐇𝐄 ⠀⠀(⠀ⅴ.⠀)⠀⠀𝐌𝐄𝐓𝐀:⠀⠀ಇ⠀⠀sit and sing in the darkˏ arched marrow of me.#⁰¹ ━ omikayalan: heart of the world; or 'god-willow'. a sacred landmark of her species & the origins of all nature.#also known as: the all mother & the feminine nature.#remind me to write more meta on omikayalan because. it means so much to me & my portrayal of ahri.#her lore is so heavily heavily rooted in it.#and like off topic from this meta but it simply cannot be a coincidence that the guardian of#the god-willow sapling is also a giant nine-tailed fox! okay!#anyway ahri the cadaver florist making corpses pretty.
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In terms of Yor and how she approaches the idea of “normal” I do very much see it as her wanting to be “normal” first and foremost and then her trying to fit the role of wife and mother is a manifestation of that. As in, rather than her conflict being primarily to fit those roles because she’s always had some deep yearning to have a family or anything.
I read it as her wanting to be “normal” because she feels like it’s something she missed out on being and that it’s something she’s failing at being (and her wondering if parents would have “taught her to be normal” just adds to that) and that whilst there’s obviously a security element there of not wanting to be targeted by the SSS it does come off as something she wants regardless.
Hopefully though, the direction it’s going with her arc, she’ll get to meet people who let her realise that it’s okay for her to not have to fit the mold. Sure, the SSS won’t be vanishing anytime soon, but for her to at least realise for herself that she isn’t lacking for not being completely normal (and that to some extent, everyone deviates from the norm in some way or another) would be a big step for her.
#spy x family#spy x family manga spoilers#legit keep going back and forth on whether yor is intentionally written as autistic or if it's just a coincidence#but I keep seeing people talk of her motivation to be a good mother/wife as though it's her main thing#and yes it is a big part of her motivation but a lot of it is ultimately rooted in her desire to be 'normal'#and once she gets past that idea she'll be able to confront more why she actually wants this family for themselves#tbh she's way ahead of twilight on self reflection so I can see her actually accepting she wants them but I do think she's tied down still#by the idea that she must be normal and the idea that as a stepmum she cannot 'intrude' on anya and just#roles in society she feels she must fulfill which influence all her interactions and which are then further enforced by the sss situation#(also. yor has very much been mocked/bullied by her co-workers for not being 'normal' enough#so it makes sense from that perspective as well that she thinks it'll stop if she fits this or that criteria#but for her coworkers it's not about one aspect or another. they don't like her because she's different#and that's why hopefully meeting more people who do accept her will help her massively)
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Man whenever i go through bouts of sobriety i will watch like 15 dogshit episodes of voyager in a row, and then soon as i buy another pack of gummies ill be zonked out of my mind and sit down to one of the most compelling and also goddamn insane (affectionate) episodes of star trek i have ever seen and also ill be so high i want to start crying
#now is it a coincidence or is it that voyager is so much better not sober....#jk lollll but for real. i cant with episodes with chakotay man. they are too good#robert beltrans acting....fucks sake#just watched the fight lolllll.....#he has always kind of been my favorite from the begining ngl ^--^ before i was struck with tuvok mania#but i am remembering my roots to chakotay now;;;;;; my first girlfriend#i love that robert beltran is from bakersfield#voyager liveblog#sir i protest i am not a merry man
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icon change (finally!) bc i've been wanting to change it for months
sorry lenalee ilu but it's time
#going back to my roots with this one lmao#yusei fudo my beloved#made for me back in like 2010 or 2011 probs; for a youtube studio i was once upon a time a part of :')#at the time i was still going by my online alias 'des'#which was also the acronym for the studio so#that was a cool coincidence lol#we'll see how long this lasts#i need a new blorbo to get obsessed with to change my icon to
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Title spoiler if you're avoiding Root of Nightmare info
Oh my god which nerd at bungie is a horror movie fan? It can't be coincidence that the title is Dream Warrior
That's the 3rd Nightmare on Elm Street movie
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