Originally Posted by FSF 5, Chapter 14: Gold and Lions IThough abandoned, forgotten, and scorned as out-of-date dolls, they continue to carry out their mission, unchanged from the time they were designed.
Machines do not lose their worth when a newer model appears.
Their worth (life) ends when humans can no longer bear that purity.
The problem isnt that you're trying to compare the Root to another setting's stuff. The problem is that your comparison is flawed because the Root and White Hot Room are nothing alike.
i used to think my parents were just being unreasonable when they said that too much comic books and television would rot your brains but now after seeing how marvel fandom acts i’m starting to think maybe they had some points......
The root is the singularity before the Big Bang, Void Shiki is Galactus, true magic is the power cosmic
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let me try to explain this in as fluent a dialect of fucking stupid as I can muster
the virgin Marvel "multiverse" the CHAD Asian Buddhism Cinematic Universe 50 years of worldbuilding in picture books for children, implicit arm of american government propaganda, makes money in periodic orgies of base consumerism effected over a pliant, cow-like public 2500 years of worldbuilding by enlightened monks who grasp the emptiness, pure luminosity, and unconditioned compassion of the eternally radiant dharma-body of the buddha, wellspring of millennia of artistic, poetic, literary tradition, wars have been fought over it
now there are things in the marvel "multiverse" to which TM's " " can compare in a superficial, unexamined way. but there are, on the other hand, things in the Asian Buddhism Cinematic Universe (r) to which it can compare in a much more interesting and productive way. what should one conclude from this?
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty
Ok, the meta answer is literally "we do not know enough about it (see aforementioned ineffability) to positively compare its function and or its form to any other fictional entity/location/state of mind". You can go ahead and call it Fiddler's Green if you want. L i t e r a l l y nobody can gainsay you, unless you're somehow trying to uphold that your interpretation is more valid than everyone else's.
Last edited by Deathhappens; July 18th, 2019 at 11:14 PM.
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
Too flat, not enough swords, 1/10 would not die on
shit BL says
Once and always and nevermore.
It's funny how you completely missed the one entity in Marvel that is the closest comparison to " ": the One-Above-All, creator of the multiverse (which in turn is just a Christian God rip off). " " is the cosmic phenomenon staying above and beyond everything ontop of the fucking multiverse. One-Above-All is pretty much a manifestation of " " in a form one can grasp. The PForce and the WHR are not at the top of the multiverse and all realities, One-Above-All is. " " functions just like that, without being an actual sentient entity. Heck this being switches between male and female states, just like Shiki Ryougi represents the Yin and Yang duality coming from " ".
And when did I not treat it like a fictional construct? But as long as it's based on real world philosophy and religious references, real world reference sources are worth more than anything Marvel could cook up and I prefer to use that. This applies to your Marvel comics as well, if you tell me to find references to its cosmology, I would not use another fictional universe i.e DC, but something IRL like the Bible, Norse mythology, Asian Esoteric Magic and so on. You have your preferences, I have mine. I'm not saying you can't or shouldn't find fictional equivalence, that's why I literally just gave you the most apt equivalence above, straight from Marvel!You're speaking of a work of fiction that you want to treat like a real world philosophy. Seriously? Treat The Root like the comic book construct it is!
Yes. Marvel has quantity but not quality, and 90% of the shits they published (and publishing) are mid, low or straight up trash tier, riddled with retcons, reboots, cancellation due to bad reps and horrible writing...etc. Their golden days are far gone. Heck right now the Marvel comics are losing to DCs due to its wokeness that is starting to spread to the MCU starting with Captain Marvel, and it is disgusting. The amount of gems you find in their 50 years of history aren't even enough for a 10 roll summons in FGO.You are implying TM is somehow superior to Marvel's Multiverse, the result of nearly 50 years of world building that moves far more than pretty much half the Japanese fiction industry!
Last edited by Lily Emilio; July 19th, 2019 at 08:51 AM.
" " is more of a metaphysical state than a place, really
It’s like the universe before it was the universe but since it’s beyond time it still exists even after it became the universe
That’s as simple as I can conceptualize it without adding any philosophy or mysticism
Last edited by aldeayeah; July 19th, 2019 at 06:13 AM.
don't quote me on this
too bad lol
かん汗ぎゅう牛じゅう充とう棟
Expresses the exceeding size of one's library.
Books are extremely many, loaded on an oxcart the ox will sweat.
At home piled to the ridgepole of the house, from this meaning.
Read out as 「Ushi ni ase shi, munagi ni mitsu.」
Source: 柳宗元「其為書,處則充棟宇,出則汗牛馬。」— Tang Dynasty