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chat should i drop lore about the duolingo and grimace shake cult crack fic me and a friend made sometime ago or???

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toxic yuri my beloved

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octavian was such an interesting character, we need to talk more about this wet soppy loser

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on the 2024 election

this is the only post ill talk about this mess in cause i prefer escapism and despise politics.

stay safe y'all. we've still got some time, at least till thursday (if being optimistic).

don't become defeatists. we can survive. four years is a bloody long period, but lets try to get through this okay?

ik it is easy to lose hope here in this situation, to feel powerless and miserable but time will pass through, hopefully.

bake a cake, do some paintings, eat some chocolates, anything. it won't change how messed up this all is but it'll be somewhat comforting.

don't lose hope, buddy.

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"If you look really, really close, you can see there's a dead pixel in the upper right corner. In the back of my mind, it's always there."

saw a really cool cosplay by @/Ceeleecosplay on YouTube and couldn't just not draw it

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damn middle school literature goes pretty hard

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round 7 has officially destroyed me, bye

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this is so hysterical, how do you even do that???

Mutuals changing their icons makes me feel like a child crying when their dad shaves his face bc they don’t know who he is

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mouthwashing was so fun im bawling my eyes out

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hector was the best character, damn you achilles

Finished Book 22 of the Iliad. My heart is a bloody WRECK. HECTOOOOOR!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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this is one of the best things i have read.

"One must imagine Sisyphus happy" no, no you mustn't.

I get what they're going for, finding joy in the mundane, the repetitive. A beautiful metaphor.

But that ain't Sisyphus at ALL.

That punishment was specifically chosen (in my opinion) to take advantage of Sisyphus' flaw. Because Sisyphus and his boulder are a metaphor for the rat race, for sunken cost fallacy, for stubbornness.

Sisyphus rolls the boulder to reach what he thinks he wants, to get out of the Underworld. He keeps on taking that painstakingly pointless journey up the hill not because it makes him happy. But because he thinks he can use it to acquire happiness.

What Sisyphus doesn't realize is that we DOESN'T HAVE TO ROLL THE BOULDER Hades never said he had too, just that if he had it at the top he could leave the underworld.

Sisyphus could actually be "living" a relatively decent "life" in the underworld. His desire for more holds him back from his happiness. It doesn't give it to him.

Sisyphus happy is Sisyphus realizing he doesn't have to roll the boulder.

Stay Friendly

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the savior of the greeks and descendant to their greatest warrior is twelve years old

no because i need a lot more people to talk about neoptolemus.

neoptolemus's identity is shaped by the father's sins. forever, he is the son of achilles. he is bound to the legacy of the actions commited achilles's rage, his grief, his hubris. even his name means 'new warrior'; a testament to his existence being a replacement for his great father who left behind his trail of glory for neoptolemus to follow, his old military shoes too big for a child to fit into. he never even knew his father as achilles. he knew his father as the greatest of all greek warriors, commander of the myrmidons, blessed by the gods, he who slayed mighty hector in front of troy's gates. how would he know, if all he hears is tales of how achilles feuded with agamemnon, how he grasped his spear and drove it through hector, how he dragged the prince's body with his chariot, how he massacred everything out of his grief for beloved patroclus. how could neoptolemus have been good if the one he based himself after is his father at his lowest point? how could he have been remembered as great if he was nothing but the shadow casted by achilles's sun?

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why must you hurt me this way

no because i need a lot more people to talk about neoptolemus.

neoptolemus's identity is shaped by the father's sins. forever, he is the son of achilles. he is bound to the legacy of the actions commited achilles's rage, his grief, his hubris. even his name means 'new warrior'; a testament to his existence being a replacement for his great father who left behind his trail of glory for neoptolemus to follow, his old military shoes too big for a child to fit into. he never even knew his father as achilles. he knew his father as the greatest of all greek warriors, commander of the myrmidons, blessed by the gods, he who slayed mighty hector in front of troy's gates. how would he know, if all he hears is tales of how achilles feuded with agamemnon, how he grasped his spear and drove it through hector, how he dragged the prince's body with his chariot, how he massacred everything out of his grief for beloved patroclus. how could neoptolemus have been good if the one he based himself after is his father at his lowest point? how could he have been remembered as great if he was nothing but the shadow casted by achilles's sun?

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BRO PAL SIS I NEED TO YAP ABOUT THIS.

FIRST WE LOSE IVAN. AND THEN WE GET HIT WITH THIS.

OH MY CLEMATIS I AM IN GREAT MISERY. ANYTHING MIZISUA HURTS PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY TO WATCH ATP.

THE IVANTILL CURE FEELS SO DESPERATE WHILE THIS IS JUST PURE YEARNING BECAUSE MIZI AND SUA WERE ALREADY ESTABHLISHED AS LOVERS BUT IVAN AND TILL NEVER GOT TO THAT POINT AND NEVER WILL.

ALSO TO THINK THIS WAS THEIR LAST KISS, THIS WAS HOW MIZI MUST HAVE REACTED AS SHE FELT BLOOD SPLATTER ACROSS THE FACE OF HER BELOVED AS THEY SING ONE FINAL SONG TOGETHER AND HJCBRCJ CGY WHY-

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no because i need a lot more people to talk about neoptolemus.

neoptolemus's identity is shaped by the father's sins. forever, he is the son of achilles. he is bound to the legacy of the actions commited achilles's rage, his grief, his hubris. even his name means 'new warrior'; a testament to his existence being a replacement for his great father who left behind his trail of glory for neoptolemus to follow, his old military shoes too big for a child to fit into. he never even knew his father as achilles. he knew his father as the greatest of all greek warriors, commander of the myrmidons, blessed by the gods, he who slayed mighty hector in front of troy's gates. how would he know, if all he hears is tales of how achilles feuded with agamemnon, how he grasped his spear and drove it through hector, how he dragged the prince's body with his chariot, how he massacred everything out of his grief for beloved patroclus. how could neoptolemus have been good if the one he based himself after is his father at his lowest point? how could he have been remembered as great if he was nothing but the shadow casted by achilles's sun?

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in the bible there is a story called 'samson and delilah.' delilah was samson's mistress, his guilty passion and his eventual undoing. twice did delilah ask him "how does one vanquish you" and twice he lied. twice then did delilah try to kill him. the first time she laughed. the second time she scorned him as a liar. one would presume samson recognize the threat of danger staring him right in the face, sharing the bed with him, and whispering sweet nothings and gasps into his ears. but after all in this world of gods he stands as but a man: weak, sinful and horridly flawed. in his foolishness, the foolishness of a mortal, he continued this affair with delilah. on the third time, he revealed his weakness. on the third time, delilah cut off his hair. she had him torn, she snatched his throne as the strongest like an eagle swooping to catch its prey and smashed it. she destroyed the strongest man alive, reducing him to prisoner.

this is a particular painting called 'samson' by solomon j solomon which describes this myth to its full extent. it seems to have a similar positioning to the creation of adam. but this time instead of god bestowing the gift of life to man, a mortal woman stands triumphant. she gives this man death. she mocks him, her face curled into a sadistic grin as she brandishes his hair in his ivory wrist. delilah is at a far corner, showing that she is not harmed by his defeat and reigns triumphant, even implying that samson was his own downfall and delilah was simply the one who guided him to it, cementing his fall. and she remains sinless, detached as he gets captured. even in the end, when god gave him his strength back he destroyed himself. samson was his own greatest enemy.

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humanity, in my interpretation, was made to be intelligent. god wouldn't have placed that tree if he wanted us to be mindless slaves, right? he wanted us to create, to make and to enjoy our lives as mortals. for there is no creation without ingenuity and no ingenuity without passion. and the human race is filled with passion. the tree was a test: to see if the human race was doomed to be blinded by faith and stay ignorant or become great and use the potential in us to make something of ourselves. and it does make you wonder, where would humanity be if we hadn't eaten that damn apple? instead of it being the fall of humanity, maybe it was humanity's rise. maybe the tree wasn't just a test, but also an opportunity for us to develop and grow as a species. in a way, eve is the person who brought this world to enlightenment. the mother of knowledge, of decency, of human conscience- the bringer of what differs humanity from animals. eve is the reason humanity became what it is today.