#*clutches them to my chest*

[hinamie]

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[fancysmudges]

I'm sorry I know most people will wish they kissed or interpret their relationship as romantic (as is fandom nature) but I'm feeling sososo emotional about queerplatonic Jayvik. They're partners, with a shared vision of the world, who's destinies are literally intertwined on a cosmic level. It just makes so much sense.

And aroace Victor also makes so much sense. In season one, we had the classic scene play out where your best friend stops noticing you cause they got involved in a romantic relationship. Not to mention the allusions to being cold and machine like in season two. How can you be human if you don't love like that? But what breaks him out is not a kiss, but rather a declaration that Jayce still wants him, still wants his partner by his side, imperfections and all.

I don't care how people interpret their love, as long no one implies it's somehow less than, cause they didn't kiss :')

[verc0pa]

now let them have matching bandanas

[kitamars]

a mimir

[skitskatdacat63]

How did I never hear this radio until the brawn doc hahahaha

[chronicowboy]

okay pitch for season 8. 911 redux of captain bill hader catching jake and amy making out at work and having a heart attack but gerard walks in on buck and eddie's first ever kiss which inevitably turns into more and just drops fucking dead on the spot.

[dootznbootz]

I don't think Greek Mythology retellings/adaptions/inspired/etc. are necessarily "evil"...but I DO think people REALLY need to understand that there's a huge difference between the actual mythology and certain media.

I feel like people have to basically do a "Fandom ___" to say the different versions. Like "PJO ___", "Hades game ___", "TSOA ___". For it to be understood that these depictions are DIFFERENT. I'm saying this as someone who grew up reading PJO and still has a soft spot for it. But as someone who really loves Greek Mythology as well, I sometimes get really SAD.

I'm going to use the comparison of Howl's Moving Castle with it's Book Vs. Movie. I enjoy both!!! But they are honestly very different. In the movie there is no "sister swap", Markle isn't a young teenager, Sophie doesn't throw weed killer at Howl, and many more moments. But I enjoy both because even though there are changes they still keep components that are ingrained into the characters!

In some Greek Myth retellings/adaptations/stories/etc., characters are...SO different from the source material. That's fine...Choose what you want with your story... But folks should know that the modern adaptations are NOT the source material!!!

It bothers me that a lot of these wonderful myths and stories are twisted up and seen so differently because of a modern version of them. You can have that character be "awful" or a certain way in your story. But I almost feel that as fans, it's not good to generalize them or see it as "This is the truth". People are hating the mythological figure when it's only in that interpretation they are like that.

In PJO, Ares is "Zeus' favorite", isn't a good dad, a misogynist, etc. The actual myths? One of his Epithets is LITERALLY "Feasted by Women", in the Iliad everybody basically bullies him with Zeus literally saying he hates him. He cries when he learns one of his sons is killed in the war. He literally kills someone about to rape his daughter. Ares isn't perfect but it makes me sad with how he's viewed and talked about when it's only in PJO he's like that. Same with Dionysus. Read the Bacchae, you'll love it.

In Lore Olympus, Apollo rapes Persephone (noticing the fact that modern takes on the myths add rapes where there never were hmmmmm) when he never did in any of the myths.

In TSOA, Thetis is cruel when in the Iliad, she is such a loving mother to Achilles. She grieved alongside her son over Patroclus. Also with Agamemnon. In Ipheginia at Aulis, Agamemnon is a MESS. He adored his children.

In Circe, Odysseus is viewed as a selfish man who ONLY hurts others and doesn't care about his family when that is LITERALLY his one consistent character trait. HE is actually the one who is the victim of rape. Circe was never raped.

Medusa is only a victim in Ovid's, a Roman man, works. Not in GREEK mythology. She was just a cool monster. Leave Perseus alone. Poseidon and Medusa actually had a consensual relationship in Greek Mythology!

These adaptations/retellings/inspired by/etc. whatever anybody wants to call them, are not the real myths! They may be similar in some ways but to just generalize them or hate the deity/mythological figure because of something they did in the new media feels fucked up!

You can enjoy these new stories. There's nothing wrong with that!!! But know they're not the real myths. Maybe even label it as "I hate ____'s version of ____". As that makes it clear what version you're talking about.

[olasketches]

the way the special PV they made to announce jjk ending, ends with yuuji smiling at sukuna and saying "let's go sukuna!" is making me... sooooo... goddamn emotional... 😭😭

[harmonicabisexuals]

better than the album version tbh…i think my heart literally stopped beating when he did that first falsetto leap

[jackshiccup]

fishlegs' reaction to hiccup wanting to rescue snotlout in book 11 makes me laugh whenever i think about it the deadpan expression and the fingercounting oh he was tiredddd 😭

[nidstiniens]

WIP Wednesday Whenever

tagged by @lilbittymonster ♥️ tysm

tagging @crystallineconflict, @dogfromfallout, @xiapet, @pavus, and @shiratamako (and anyone else who wants to do it!)

have some cemetery trees that won't get posted for a while since all my fics are on hold in favor of The Manuscript...

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"We never stop remembering," he told her, his words almost breathless as they fell unchecked from his lips. "Believe me, I've tried."

"I-I'm so sorry, I—" She turned her head away from him, pressing a hand into his chest to hold him back just as he began to close the last bit of distance between them. It burned through his clothing, her palm imprinting itself there like a brand. "You must think me utterly ridiculous— A-After everything you've been through—"

"No," Estinien said firmly, leaning in despite her attempts to push him away. "Never."

As she looked back up at him, his body continued to move of its own accord, his hands gently sliding up the sides of her neck to rest at the lines of her jaw. The tips of their noses brushed, and their eyes locked, sending a curious shiver through his heart. How many years had it been since anyone had brought forth his grief, without striking him down with impenetrable rage? How many years since it had ever not been immediately silenced for the sake of his need for vengeance?

And yet there his loneliness stood, staring back at him with tears in her eyes and trepidation in her heart.

"It's not a contest of whose woes are the gravest," he said, a warmth in his voice he wasn't quite used to using. "And if it were, I wouldn't be anything other than grateful that you'd lose."

[witsserviceablesubstitute]

I know Astarion/Gale is popular and I don't hate it. It's fun to imagine Astarion teasing and flustering Gale, bringing his high-mindedness a little closer to earth, and also for Astarion to have a conquest that will not immediately trip at his feet, feed into his worst instincts, or fall for his manipulation.

But I definitely prefer Astarion/Wyll. It's the monster/monster hunter thing, sure, but they're also similarly damaged, achingly romantic, and have rather sweet interactions throughout the game. It's just that Wyll is only 24, inexperienced, and painfully sincere. While Astarion is living with 200yrs of the worst experiences and buried any sincerity he had under a million layers of affectation.

[chimeowrical]

A kissy commishie of Sera and Lavellan for tlacuache!!!

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

sometimes i think about what would have happened if richard had died instead of henry and the rest of the book had been narrated the song of achilles style and it hurts

[mxmoth]

WYATT SICKS on WWR RAW | 8-5-24

[defiledtomb]

ok who woke the bear