art that you should never mock:
- beginners and children
art that should always be open to mocking:
- fetish art, animation errors in cartoons, those t shirts at hot topic that are like “what if rick and Morty…… but totaro and doctor who!!!”, erica moen, grown men that get paid hundreds for their work but can still only draw sexy skinny women,
You might know that the design on Ed’s portal of truth is the Tree
of Sephiroth. What you might not know is that it’s actually two
trees. The Sephiroth are the ten virtues of God as described by
Jewish mystics, and eight of them appear twice on Ed’s door. What
about the other two, you ask? Well, the first Sephiroth, Cheter, is only shown once, at the top of the door.
The other Sephiroth* are then placed along the “branches” of the tree
and then again at the roots, branching out from the tenth Sephiroth, Malchuth
The first Sephiroth is missing from these roots, but there are still ten branches. Instead of showing the first one again, the fourth Sephiroth, Chesed, is shown twice on our left side of the door. I say our left because we are looking at it face on, but Edward is usually shown standing in front of it with the multiple Chesed on his right.
Now why does it matter which side the Chesed are on? Because Chesed, which means heavenly kindness or mercy, is symbolized by the right hand.
The right hand which Truth takes in exchange for Al’s soul, which Winry replaces at least twice, which Al sacrifices himself for in order to save Ed’s life, is represented three times on Ed’s door of truth. Ed’s right hand symbolizes the loving kindness shown between himself and his family, for whom he sacrifices his gate, which he claims not to need when he has the love and kindness of the people around him.
And that’s what I love about Ed’s final visit to the portal of Truth. It ties up so many of the messages about human bonding in the manga/brotherhood - that we form communities in order to survive, that our hope and trust in one another is our greatest strength - and especially since it’s shown directly after the Dwarf in the Flask’s final conversation with Truth, we see how different Ed and the father homunculus are. Instead of destroying others to build himself up, Ed sacrifices parts of himself to serve the people he loves. Because when you (to paraphrase Jesus) love your neighbor as yourself, their losses are your losses, and their victories yours. And if every human being made that choice, the things we could achieve together would be limitless.
As an entry-level DnD player can someone explain to me in the simplest possible way how to differentiate wizards, warlocks, and sorcerers from each other?
wizards is imbued with magic, you just need to prepare mentally your spells.
sorcerer studied magic, you need to physically prepare your spells and often need materials.
warlock has magic because of demon, you have access to mainly dark magic as well as eldritch blast as a free unlimited cantrip.
to be honest, play-wise wizards & sorcerers are very similar as they tend to have a lot of shared spells. sorcerers get to specialize in a school of magic more than wizards though. and warlock its pretty much just dark magic.
this, except reverse wizards and sorcerers.
sorcerers innately have their magic (usually because someone fucked a magic being. often a dragon)
wizards studied magic and learned accordingly. they also tend to be older, but not always.
warlocks get their magic from pacts with magic beings (which i don’t think necessarily have to be demons).
I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….
My partner is an immigrant from the UK and still holds his citizenship. At a recent event, an acquaintance talked about how many “immigrants” get jobs over “Canadians” and they shouldn’t allowed to be management (which my partner is). My partner reaches across the table and goes “Hi, immigrant here!” and she goes “Oh I didn’t mean immigrants like you…” And you can so tell they just mean “brown people” or “Asian people” but they pretend it’s about jobs and shit.
That’s the same with my family. We were war immigrants from the soviet union and now live in Germany. Now the syrians are here because they also have war, and people keep asking me why I’m defending them so mercilessly. And when I tell them that my family (that is still alive) has gone through the same bullshit. But they insist that both scenarios are completely different. They’re not different, you’re just racist.
