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rivilu · 1 year

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I dont really believe in afterlife as a place, but if one exists im finding the Roman fucker that adapted the Medusa story and pummeling him to death a second time

#today on River's extremely niché literary pet peeves:#greek mythology #sa mention #<-- for as I ramble on #I've an unwavering hatred for the romans as a whole but this one adaptation in particular . THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR #idk man theres just something about changing the story to include medusa getting raped that makes me unbelievably violent #and i understand how a modern audience may want to reclaim that medusa as a symbol and all #but . Danae is right fucking there #you know? Perseus's mother? Who already had to bare a zeus child? which as you can guess she didnt have a choice to deny?#THE SOLE REASON PERSEUS HAS TO SLAY MEDUSA IN THE FIRST PLACE BECAUSE THE KING WANTED TO MARRY HER AGAINST HER WILL #AND THAT WAS THE SUICIDE QUEST HE WAS SENT ON IN EXCHANGE FOR HER RIGHT TO STAY FREE????#I cant express in words how Danae being overlooked in nigh all non greek adaptations of this myth pisses me off but that's a discussion-#for another day #But back to Medusa. I get it. I get the wanting to stick with and support the 'other' ; the outsider etc #but shes a tragic character in /EVERY/ version #even in the ones where shes a generic monster #The roman version only serves to hurt her on a new plane that she SHOULDNT have to be hurt on.#and keep in mind that the person that wrote that probably didnt do it to add to the tragedy; but to make her seem more deserving of death #i dont know where im going with this tldr the medusa myth is super complex and interesting when you take all the characters within -#into account; and the roman version as all things roman is just fucking worse and i hATE IT- sorry the demons #- and the roman version being taken as the true one in a lot of modern circles and adaptations does a huge disservice to all of it #because for medusa to be the Symbol; perseus often has to be the Villain; and for him to be the villain Danae is just forgotten.#Like. Perseus can be grey. Most if not all greek legends are grey in a way or another.

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listen-to-the-inner-walrus · 24 days

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Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

#kai rambles #god i feel old #but im not old #im 24 #but im looking at this list like who are any of you?#why did this get 60k notes

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muttmoxley · 5 months

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sometimes im like "wow holy shit im being really fucking annoying. i should stop talking" and then i pull out my magic 8 ball and it says "youve always been annoying and your friends chose to talk you anyways. youll be fine" and im like wow thanks magic 8 ball. and then the ogre attacks me

#found this beautiful gem in my drafts and couldnt let her go to waste #frog rambles #idk whay this is about. or if its anything. but i think its funny

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goldensunset · 2 months

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they should invent 7 hours between 10pm and midnight

#peach rambles #hall of fame i guess

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unforth · 3 months

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Y'all I know that when so-called AI generates ridiculous results it's hilarious and I find it as funny as the next guy but I NEED y'all to remember that every single time an AI answer is generated it uses 5x as much energy as a conventional websearch and burns through 10 ml of water. FOR EVERY ANSWER. Each big llm is equal to 300,000 kiligrams of carbon dioxide emissions.

LLMs are killing the environment, and when we generate answers for the lolz we're still contributing to it.

Stop using it. Stop using it for a.n.y.t.h.i.n.g. We need to kill it.

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#unforth rambles #fuck ai #llms #sorry but i think this every time I see a reblog with more haha funny answers #how many tries did it take to generate the absurd #how many resources got wasted just to prove what we already know - that these tools are a joke #please stop contributing to this

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sisterdragonwithfeathers · 3 months

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this is your random reminder to CHECK IF YOU'RE STILL HAVING FUN

are you enjoying scrolling tumblr? watching youtube? reading that book? playing that game? drawing that art? doing that activity? if not,

YOU CAN STOP AND DO SOMETHING ELSE

you don't have to stick to something that you are doing for fun if it isn't fun for you anymore. You can come back! If you've loved it before you are likely to love it again! but you can stop!

Don't get stuck in a loop of doing something that you think should be fun when it isn't! You can put it down for a bit! Maybe that's the very thing that will make it fun again later!

#brought to you by someone who isn't actually interested in playing minecraft today #even though I really like minecraft #so I'm going to do something actually fun for me right now #feather rambles

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vasira96 · 1 month

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it's always "immortals always lose the ones they love!" and never "this family has had this incredible, powerful, loving figure present through generations of their lineage, all because they are descended from someone the immortal loved long ago" and i think that's a shame!!

#vasira rambles #if these stories do exist what are they called so that i may watch/read them?

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bonesandthebees · 6 months

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one of the most infuriating things about becoming an adult is when you realize that it actually is 10x easier to solve problems by making a phone call vs literally any other communication method

#I was forced to get over my hatred of making phone calls bc of this #one 15 minute phone call is the equivalent of 5 back and forth emails #also if you don't know exactly what you need help with you can just ask and you can get real help #instead of just desperately clawing at faqs on websites #it's infuriating that it works so well #ramblings

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yiga-hellhole · 10 months

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me when i have like 20 notifications in the span of five minutes and when i go check its just the same guy rapidfire liking and reblogging posts

#madman's rambling #i love you guys #do some of you have notifications on or something?

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candycatfalls · 1 month

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Wait the book of bill appearing to Ford first is fucking HILARIOUS actually. Ford literally killed Bill less than a month ago, and Bill's still banking so hard on him getting him out of therapy that the book shows up in Ford's stuff MULTIPLE TIMES. Girl the situationship has been over for thirty years give it up 💀

#bill is so pathetic i love it sm #gravity falls #stanford pines #ford pines #bill cipher #billford #the book of bill spoilers #the book of bill #cat rambles tag

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tariah23 · 8 months

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Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

#Crunchyroll #piracy #funimation #money hungry ass streaming service #rambling #I’ve never paid for a streaming service in my life thank god #I appreciated using others accounts but I personally cannot see myself paying this much for a service if I had the funds 😭!#get back to pirating kings!!!#anime has always been one of the easiest forms of media to pirate anyway so y’all got this #CR is definitely not worth paying for though #CR is certainly not worth paying this much for even if it’s a yearly one time fee #capitalism #the fact that CR has always had pretty bad quality as a streaming service anyway #it buffers every time you pause or rewind anything

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introvert-slushie · 25 days

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Currently thinking about how much Ford tries to hide his hands a lot when he can…behind his back with this stance. Due to how often he’s been bullied for it.

And also, how Mabel is one of the ones who Ford feels happy about showing his hands to because she thought they were cool looking upon first shaking his hand, instead of him being judged for his six fingers.

[ID: Gravity Falls screenshots. The first three are of Ford with his hands crossed behind his back. The last two are of him shaking hands with Mabel, and letting her paint a turkey on his hand. He's smiling in both. End ID.]

#Ford and Mabel defender for life #This probably isn’t much but idc I LOVE them sm #Ford being insecure about his hands :((#I’m making myself sad too #gravity falls #stanford pines #mabel pines #gravity falls lost legends #If I think about Ford too much I’ll explode #ramblings #Either this or he’s autistic

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goldensunset · 12 days

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'do you think you're superior for not using AI in your work' thank you for asking! yes i do

#about to be really annoying in the discussion forums #they hate me for my ability to produce words inside my own brain #peach rambles #hall of fame i guess #yeah i shouldn’t have said this probably

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jellyjamheadobb · 5 months

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