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the cucumber now vs wild cucumber

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what if hesione agrees with telamon that teucer should be exiled.

telamon exiles him immediately hesione runs out and meets him on his way out of the palace (he isn't even allowed the dignity to stay the night)

and she looks into his eyes and says "i love you. i will always love you, my baby boy, but i never want to see you again. i don't think i'll ever forgive you."

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A smug sphinx. She has a small thagomizer because a sphinx deserves a thagomizer

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have i ever showed yall my helen of sparta design? i lob her

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Made a super quick full body sketch of queen Hera for her ask week

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Bulk post of my weekly illustrations!

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Aftermath...

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PSA: AO3 HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH AI BOT COMMENTS.

Have you seen one of these dipshits? If you post regularly on ao3, chances are YES, but more likely you didn't notice nor suspect it was a bot. Sometimes they start off nice, or even praise you before getting nasty out of nowhere, like so:

But much like Grok, their newest obsession is nazism.

I don't know where they come from, or what purpose this could possibly serve other than suicidebaiting random people in the internet, I guess; but apparently they've started parroting names from real users to send these comments and shifting their general length to go by undetected. Maybe those are scrappers trying to train 'reviewbots' to be sold as part of some scam service promising to give feedback for newbie writers, who the fuck knows.

Here are more examples of the tone and backhanded compliments you can find in these:

If you regularly post on AO3 or interact with writers in it, please pass this along so they don't feel insane receiving bombs in their inbox. This is ridiculous.

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Hathor doodles!

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It won't leave my brain so here

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Request! For LBH being happy with his washerwoman mom!

I had fun drawing tiny smol Binghe,,,, and nothing bad will happen to them <3

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j read 2 chapters and im already in love

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A serene day for them because they deserve it ❤️

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can you draw your hunky bigjax with teucer PLEASE

He can be such a worrywart sometimes 😮‍💨!

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artemis timeeee :3

i tried to make it almost similar to my apollo illustration but i kinda had to much fun with this piece that i made it maybe too blue

but anyways im still very proud of it :>

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Rip hector of troy you would have loved tending to the horses with your son

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Once again thing of this bit, specifically the last line, that G.S. Kirk in his commentary points out is formular and doesn't mean anger (which is why I found a translation that doesn't translate Helen's reaction into anger).

“Come hither, Alexander sends for thee; He now is in his chamber and at rest On his carved couch; in beauty and attire Resplendent, not like one who just returns From combat with a hero, but like one Who goes to mingle in the choral dance, Or, when the dance is ended, takes his seat.”

She spake, and Helen heard her, deeply moved; (trans. William Cullen Bryant)

Aphrodite is just telling Helen this. There's no "and [the god/dess] put such and so feelings into [mortal's] chest" (happens even earlier in Book 3, with Iris-as-Laodike), which would potentially make things more ambiguous. This is just Helen's (unspecified, initially) reaction to Aphrodite describing how sexy Paris looks, along with some gently polite winking glance towards sex, as dancing can have very sexual connotations. Helen then proceeds to cast this enticement in a somewhat sexualized manner, acknowledging what Aphrodite meant to do with what she said.

And well. It worked on her, did it not?

Helen knows very well how beautiful Paris is, and Aphrodite knows that Helen knows and - it works on her. Helen might not want it to, and she does attempt to keep what control she can over herself, but it has already worked.

She is both angry and wanting, desiring and disgusted. And I just love that complicated interplay of emotions. She regrets and yet she wants; can't make herself let go, not even now, not completely.