Orders And Gods And Stuff

orders and gods and stuff

Everything needs order. It might not always work, but it makes people more civilized and more synchronized. It's teamwork that can have people be much more efficient in their duties because of sharing and stuff. Not to mention I guess, while a bunch of deities are cool and all, some people would prefer this one main person whose all important. Or as like, the main face, the.. I can't remember what they're called. Poster boy?

Point is, if people look at Greek mythology but are a newbie, they'll at least know of Zeus, and point out Zeus as a god. So on and so on.

Or people looking at Egyptian mythology from an outsider perspective might think of Ra first, as the big ol' important sun god.

I mean, nearly everyone, even if they don't believe in Christianity, or have even touched a bible know of God. (..and Jesus Christ)

Or Buddhism with the Buddha.

Also the family tree stuff probably made it more.. human? People being related to people. I don't really know, but since back then people would know that they were born via their parents, then it would only be logical to have that explanation be added to the gods as well, it just means that their parents might've been a whole lot more. well. more.

It likely would've made sense in their eyes (they'd literally just be blank slates otherwise, because certain parts of the body are meant for well, childbirth, or well, the chest being to feed, y'know), and not to mention their own thoughts on animals and why they do certain things, likely leading to similar explanations would explain similar supernatural creatures. Certain animals if I recall that right can actually notice certain things, like signs of danger faster then humans. There's that one I think bird that would go down to the mines with people, and I think if it died then it would tell people there was poison early, giving them enough warning to leave. Or like.. animals, like maybe dogs, I can't remember the story but it was something about them noticing like early signs of an earthquake or something and saving their owner.

Or good old coincidences that could make people think of animals as otherworldly, or something.

It just gave order to it, organizing it in a way that made sense, and like a logical thing.

On that line of thinking, I think I understand why people think of gods and all that stuff. There's a game called Detroit: Become Human, where you play as three androids who have the potential to become a deviant, or basically go against their programming. Having feelings, and wanting to be free (there's a lot of dark themes, but it's a game that is defined by your choices. Endings differ vastly.) Getting back on topic, there's this, well, 'god' they worshipped. Or some of the deviants, I mean. RA9. The story is that they were basically this android, their 'savior' that was gonna save them all or something.

Nobody knows who RA9 is, but still that idea flourished, and many deviants shared the same idea (it could be that they shared this idea with others). The first time we even see any mention of RA9 is for like some worshipping thing. As far as I'm aware, there's been no actual explanations as to how it happened.

The point is, it just ended up becoming this point of worship, something that gave them hope. That RA9 will come for them and save them (it's thought that Markus was RA9 because that's the role he can end up playing, but it's genuinely all by chance that he even stumbles on that chance to do such). And while it is just a game, it's a little fascinating, that this idea can spread and be shared, something to be believed even if there might not have actually been any proof of their existence.

I was honestly just watching a 5-year anniversary playthrough, and staring at the idea of RA9 with new eyes, or well new 'lenses', I'm understanding it a lot more (that game won't ever get old to me).

future me here. i genuinely dont remember what the question was, but for summer school the teacher gave you discussion assignments so youd be given a question to answer. i always wrote LONG answers with plenty of paragraphs.

idea: scene with two characters eagerly stripping each other clearly about to bone, but they keep getting interrupted by finding carefully concealed weapons in each other’s clothing, so they keep just unholstering, revealing and unstrapping increasingly ludicrous amounts of hidden guns and knives as the clothes come off, and it’s lowkey killing the mood a little

leaves too high to touch (roots too strong to fall) | TMA Time Travel Fic | Fic Rec

“So...you’re from the future. In the past. Why?” “You want the short answer or the long one?” “Short,” Martin says after a moment’s deliberation. “Until I decide if I trust you.” The other nods, as if he expected that answer—which, well, if he really is Martin from the future, he probably did. “To stop the world from ending.” They have one last chance to fix this - one last chance to prevent the Eyepocalypse, to save the world - to save their world. It all hinges on which is the greater force: greed...or love.

im just at chapter 15. you know why i know this is a good one? because oh my god im over here sobbing and realizing 'OH' and it makes sense and also holy fucking shit

i talk

im just noticing it now but its not just me??? other people confuse grimmauld place with grimmauld palace which i have no idea why, genuinely, but i stumble on it too like a dumbass. and people who watched the movies probably wont feel the same (looking at the pic on the wiki, really not a palace)

although i guess. if you were reading a book and your brain for some reason messed up a word. you maybe wouldnt ever know unless someone said it, you had pictures, or you looked really closely at it.

admittedly, i dont know why, i always imagined it as like some sort of big manor, and as im not a movie watcher (honestly if i can get away with it i hate watching movie adaptations of books. as in, if its a book i care about, fuck the movie adaptation ill probably hate it. i mean i know the adaptation has to have differences or whats the point of doing both, like watching the movie and reading the book, because id imagine a movie would be to promote it in a way and make you interested in reading the books yourself to fully immerse yourself into the world. to probably provide a different take? im just not the biggest fan of that. perfectly fine with it though if its a book ive never read because i am a lazy shit) i never. had any actual proper visuals? i mean i tried watching like the first movie but i. honestly have a hard time watching really old stuff, as in like. stuff thats not the greatest quality as it is compared to now? and i just kind of gave up and never saw the point (fanfiction tells me everything that happens in the movies that are not. i mean i dont think theyre books, but i know like the grindelwald thing and obscurials) so.

man i just feel so validated knowing that other people make the same mistakes i make.

thoughts on the preservations of myths (what are important?)

I believe that any myths could be important, not just one. I mean, there's the thing where I think there's Helios, whose the god of the sun in Greek mythology, but then people forgot about him and claimed Apollo to be the sun. Or well, the one who pulls the sun across the sky, so on and so on. I mean, is it that big of a deal? Not necessarily. But it's all about preservation, and if you're gonna learn about myths and their culture and the like, then I'd prefer you to learn as much as you can.

I mean, I think Disney made like a movie where it was Greek but they called Heracles Hercules. So then it stuck (in which I always find myself automatically correcting it to Heracles because it's become expected, which then sucks when I'm reading about Roman him). I remember watching it once, but most people have watched it too so now it just really sucks when people call him the wrong name because it was set in Greek with Greek characters (there's Zeus and Hera), but the main character being of the Roman kind. That might just be me who has an issue with it, but in general it's just annoying when people get things wrong. I understand what that's like, considering I have a last name that's hard to pronounce.

Anyway, I got side tracked. Well technically not all of them are important, I like the smaller lesser known ones. Like Fabulinus. Just remembered the guy (whoops). Roman god of a child's first words (I learned that from a fanfic, clap clap for fanfiction. He does exist.), or the guy believed to teach them their first words. I mean, isn't it heartwarming? There doesn't have to be gods over the bigger things, there can be ones for the smaller things, and be all soft. ..Although maybe they were a little too god-obsessed by having them over a lot of minor things like that? I wonder if there was any idea that a child's first words were say, prophetic or something. There have been ideas tossed about about children seeing more because of their imagination then adults. Or maybe that's just because I play Genshin, and the Sumeru lore has the Aranara, these little nature spirits that can usually only be seen by children (until brushed off or forgotten when they grow older, and seen as myths by other adults). Who knows. It's just, myths tell a lot about the culture. I mean, if people didn't know of the existence of minor gods, they'd believe that the culture was likely all about the major domains, and being overly one thing then the other, and not necessarily there being an in-between. That they might be extreme, I don't know.

A lot of people or things get disregarded, or thought to be of someone else, so I'd like to think that preservation would be about everything. Not just the general idea, but including anything else, even little itty bitty details. It might be a lot, and it might be a bunch of effort, but otherwise people won't really be able to understand. There'll be stereotypes, and I don't know, I'd rather be able to see as many sides and ideas or perspectives as I can to get a grasp on a culture or society. If we don't get the right idea, then others in the future won't.

For example. Jewish haters still exist. Supposedly, some of them are basing it off of this old book, Protocols of something something. It's plagiarized, blatantly wrong, and horribly biased. ..And some school systems are apparently teaching with it, which sucks. And there's stuff like dog whistles where there tends to be an insulting undertone, like a racial insult that people who get it will understand, but people who don't might not. Like, I mean, propaganda. Today we know what's wrong with it and might feel incredulous about people believing that then, but it's still happening. They just got better, and can be hidden in stuff like memes, and it's just. I mean, I bet you didn't know this. Honestly this could keep going, and it might only get worse and worse, with the idea of 'it's just a joke' so people can't really point it out without either exposing themselves as Jewish or being seen as a 'party pooper', and then we'll be so desensitized to that stuff to where it could be downright cruel and we wouldn't care. It's happened before in history. And then what are people gonna think? They're gonna think whatever it says, and that doing it isn't that big of an issue. It's an issue today, and it will be in the future.

I just don't want biased information where there could've been full information that would've provided a lot of context as to why certain people do certain things, or why some things might be wrong or some things might be right but it's not shown in it.

It's all about beliefs, I guess, and it can hard to prove a reason to like something if they just think something is all about another, and you can't really explain it in a way.

Like 'oh, Roman myths are all wrong, and liking them means you're a bad person because they did really trashy [uh. curse word] things, and they were really strict and militaristic.' But there were soft moments too, not so big moments. Like, again, Fabulinus. Like, it's not all just murder or whatever stereotypes people believe.

I think it can be hard to remember that they were once people too. Like, people believed in it, people lived by it, and it doesn't mean they were a monster for doing so. It was a way of life. It doesn't necessarily mean that some of it isn't wrong, but it's not wrong to find an interest in it either. There is such a thing called dark tourism, after all.

Anyway I went on a lot of tangents.

Point being: Preserve it all. It doesn't matter if it's something that's really insignificant, it's history, it's something, and you just can't paint things in black and white, like what would inevitably happen if all the facts don't end up on the table.

Zero clue if anything I said made sense, I got really really off-topic.

See the Line where the Sky meets the Sea | TMA Fic | Fic Rec

When Jon is a child he looks into the infinite abyss of space. The Vast looks back into him.

I AM IN LOVE. i have a new fixation. kind of, the lonely will always have my heart but ahh the vast. the descriptions are so fucking pretty. PLEASE give it a chance im begging you its basically. technically an 'avatar swap'. kind of? the summary is self-explanatory but if you don't get it. jon becomes an avatar of the vast.

ahhh ive always liked stars.