#*my ramblings

[theautisticjedi]

It's kinda funny (not haha funny) when I see people (americans) posting doomerism and then reblog their anime boy and then post more terror and then reblog another anime boy. To be clear I don't have a problem with this. It's just funny to me to watch 'WE'RE ALL-oh nice yaoi-GONNA DIE' We all need a distraction right now it's just funny to watch it in action

[littlefankingdom]

~ Batman: Black and White

The little girl smiling and waving at the black creature that his Batman, standing behind her kidnapper, is killing me. I always thought that there must be some weird kids that would see Batman, a blob of darkness, and not be scared at all, just loving him. Monster & Inc. style. Like, he is standing in the shadow, pissed because a child was put in danger, he should scare you. But not this little girl.

And he is using his cape as a blanket in the last panel!

[kalpeavaris]

Ghost!Yeva is V's love guru, the issue being that what worked on Nikolai probably won't work on Lizzy.

Yeva probably showed Nikolai her chokehold and he was like "that's the woman I want to marry"

[littlefankingdom]

People keep reblogging my addition, but I have more to say.

Dick also just lost everything he knew, not only his parents, but his life with the circus. Alfred's cooking, as good as it can be, is different from what he is used to, and this difference must reminds Dick of everything he just lost. He cannot eat it because it's not what he knows, it's not the food that used to make him feel full and happy, it's different. It's a reminder that his parents are never coming back.

Chips, store bought chips, they are the same as before. It's not a reminder that he lost everything, he can close his eyes and imagine that his parents are right here. So chips are the only thing he likes.

And I think Bruce realizes that, how uncomfortable the other foods make Dick, and he is happy to have found something Dick can stomach with his grief. With time, Dick's pain will become more bearable for him to it "real" meal, but for now, the boy needs to eat, and if he can only stomach chips, than chips it is.

Little Dick and his chips in Batman #54

[buriedpentacles]

Last night, at almost 2am, I crept from my room, past my sleeping family.

I haven't been home in a while, I forgot which steps creak and which ones don't.

I step outside in my pajamas, my boyfriend's hoodie sleeves pulled over my hands.

The tree my dad wants to cut down is bare, brown leaves on the floor and large mushrooms sit at its roots.

I lay underneath it, and look to the sky. There are no stars. It is empty and cloudy above me.

I beg for faith. I ask for something - a sign to push to forwards, to give me hope.

But there are no stars in the sky.

I hear footsteps around me but when I look there is nothing there. No life and no stars.

I go back to my bed, feeling pretty hopeless. I wake late the next morning feeling the same.

When I go downstairs, my grandparents are visiting. My grandad remembers that he had something for me - something he found among the gravel.

"A fossilised plant stem, I think." Is what he tells me as he puts it in my hand, it's small and grey.

And it looks like a star.

[iliterallydecepticanteven]

Fellow Americans, remember, it takes time for them to count all the votes. We may not have a solid answer until Thursday. Take a deep breath, stay calm, and don't he afraid to punch your enemies in the throat

[blaiddfailcam]

Idk why I hadn't put it together that Hornsent/Omen wraiths represent miasma, in the classical Greek sense. Through defilement, miasma pursues one and their lineage like a living curse, a plague of violence that seeks to consume society. Only by sacrificing the accursed can it be absolved, yet this paradoxically risks invigorating the curse...

Messmer's crusade incited the wrath of their victims, and Marika bore two Omen children as result (along with many capital citizens). The Hornsent Grandam refers to the Watchful Spirit she gifts you as her "son," and implores you enact revenge upon Marika and the Erdtree...

Of course, we also have the Dung Eater, whose entire goal is to murder and defile in order to spread the curse, ensuring that each victim's soul will be reborn into an Omen body. By ingesting the pox fertilized by this defilement, he intends to unleash the Fell Curse, plunging each child, and their children, and their children's children into a lifetime of despair (not unlike the "pungence of Kos").

Curiously, the Hornsent seemingly shared in this prospect of mutilation, but to them it was a divine act—self-flagellation, more accurately, as evidenced by the Curseblades. Their horns were proof of their hardship, and the wraiths they channeled were never a curse, but friends and family.

And yet to them, one of their most frightful creations was the Lamenter. Like the Dung Eater, this horned beast was imprisoned beneath the surface, having crossed some threshold between pleasure and pain, proving itself a "denizen of paradise..." Does this suggest the Dung Eater's Age of Despair was the pinnacle of Hornsent faith that even the Inquisitors of the tower came to fear? And yet, was this the curse they intended to inflict upon Marika's lot?

But also I think wraiths are a miasma in the smelly sense. Stinky ghost in my house of hell

[kalpeavaris]

Kalpea Varis is made from two finnish words - "kalpea", which means pale and "varis", which means crow 8D

Since my IRL name can be translated into "forest witch" and "corvid bird/jackdaw" I kind of felt like having an online name that represented that. So I landed on "pale crow", since I'm pasty as a motherfucker and love crows (my fursona's even one lol).

Also one reason why most people call me "Krähe" (crow). Funnily enough my partner's online nickname is "Möwe" (seagull).

My other online alias/username I used to use for almost 10 years was "fromo", which is simply just "francœr" (french for 'heart') and "homo" combined LMAO I dont use this one as much anymore but quite a few people from back in the day still know me as fromo.

My wife gave this nickname to me when we first met in 2015/16 and it just picked up from there. Some of my old friends and even their parents just know me by "fromo" and have never heard my government name B))

How did you get your guy's usernames? I'll start

I named my account after Muxus, Goblin Grandee, my favorite MTG card :)

[carmenberzattosgf]

The box of tampons is sending me help?

( im going through “rares” that I have don’t mind me)

[flushwithdarlings]

i have (roughly) de-inked this astarion card and my plan is to ask neil newbon to doodle his finest goosestarion on it when i go to liverpool comic con on saturday

i will return with pictures after o7

[sonicranger1]

I see why people rarely draw human Blinky

[theautisticjedi]

In a perfect world it'd be mandatory to vote. You can vote early or mail it in whenever you'd like. Polling stations would have more workers, more locations. You could even vote online. Election day would be a holiday and we'd know the results by midnight.

You could vote for democrats or republicans or third party or write in your dad. But you'd be voting. Voting on congress or senate or for amendments. Important things outside of the presidency.

But of course that probably won't ever happen as elections would swing blue more often than not.

[littlefankingdom]

~ Batman: Knightfall

He is ruining his back's recovery, that's all he is doing! Somebody stops him!

[kalpeavaris]

I cant keep my love in the tags anymore. I wish to give Echo a smooch on the head. Echo's so unhinged I love it.

I feel like giving it a smooch would be like smooching a violently shaking chihuahua that just waits for a hand in it's reach to bite LMAO echo is truely just a feral animal cloaked in a god complex😭

[gotstabbedbyapen]

So Odysseus had to use Power Of Friendship and Warrior-Of-The-Mind'ed his way to narrowly escape Polyphemus, but some how he can beat up the guy's father Poseidon with only a sword, a wind bag, and RuthlessnessTM.

Sounds legit (¬_¬)

I have very complicated feelings for the Vengeance Saga (after the first listen)

Disclaimer: I will only criticize Epic the Vengeance Saga as a work on its own, not for its inaccuracy or deviation from mythology and The Odyssey. There are more knowledgable people who can point out and analyze the changes in Epic the Musical, but that is not what I'll be tackling here.

To put it bluntly, I'm not being angsty about it as I should. The whole saga just... didn't feel right with me.

Now, first off all, I'm a big fan of Epic and had been following it since the Cyclops saga (first version). I've been in love with many songs and hyperfixed it for months on end. But when the Vengeance saga came along, I didn't feel that same bubbling love rise in me.

Even as a fan, this isn't my first time having peeves with Epic. I didn't jam with the re-release sagas for a while, I'm underwhelmed with the Circe VS Odysseus fight and other issues, very unpopular opinion but "Monster" wasn't too impactful to me, and also the God Games (especially Zeus' attack).

The Vengeance Saga though? Well, they say we gotta do the Bun-Meat-Bun (or whatever the hell its name really is) technique when giving criticism, so I'll start with the good parts.

I love that Odysseus looked so done with Calypso in "Not Sorry For Loving You". They're basically this meme:

Like sorry you're a sad but you're still an abuser 😒

Then Odysseus starts singing the reprise for "Full Speed Ahead" but there's no one to back him up. That one hits me hard. To whoever on Tumblr said that after the Thunder Saga we will never hear the crew's back-up again and Odysseus' singing will be answered with silence, Apollo really blessed you with the red ball.

Hermes and the Winions' part was really cool too! I really like them being mischievous helper! The warning about the wind bag and the changing scene of Odysseus fighting off sea monsters while Hermes just vibing with the beats is 👌👌👌

But after that the hype started to sizzle out for me. You might want to skip this part if you're not comfortable with harsh criticism because I WON'T hold back.

It's really backward but I like the Odysseus VS Charybdis draft more than the final production. Charybdis' roars and music are somehow less intimidating, which is a shame because I thought this would be one of the biggest struggles Odysseus will face. Even with awesome illustrative animatics, the scene wasn't as thrilling as I've expected.

The other songs got massive improvement from its draft version (on top of my mind I can think of "Thunder Bringer", "There Are Other Ways", "Little Wolf"), but I don't get why "Charybdis" didn't get up-graded as much like them. It's like a cake that was throughly baked but half decorated and it just didn't taste as good as I've hoped.

Then we have the Odysseus VS Poseidon part in "Get In The Water" and "Six Hundred Strikes". The first thought I had for GITW is this song sounds like all the draft snippets were mashed together without a smooth transition/connection between them. Jorge and Steven's performance is great, but there's not enough tension for me to dread for Odysseus. When Poseidon first met Odysseus in "Ruthlessness", the whole opening was terrifyingly good! And we didn't even have any illustration animatic back then! (that's not to say the GITW animatics were bad, they just can't salvage much when the song itself was already weak)

I wasn't impressed with Poseidon's Shatter The Ocean move either. It's supposed to be the Strongest AttackTM but it's less scary than when he and the Laestrygonians destroyed Odysseus' eleven ships with probably 1% of their power. It didn't even help when Poseidon looked like he's having a seizure with lights pouring out of his eyes and mouth during the transformation.

Odysseus being literally on the brink of death with the souls of his loved ones pulling him into the abyss is a gem in the rough, but because we've seen Odysseus almost drowning before in the end of the Thunder Saga, it's not as shocking as it should be. Furthermore, Poseidon could have instant-killed Odysseus right then and there but didn't really annoyed me. But I guess he just wanted Odysseus to slowly suffer while dying.

Right when I thought the progress will get better, it... gets down. I can go with Odysseus using wind to escape the water, but him wearing it like a jetpack is so comical it ruined the drastic of the situation. And I'm officially let down when Odysseus FUCKING ATTACKED Poseidon in "Six Hundred Strike".

What? Just... why with that choice?

Look, I'm not gonna fault Epic for making creative liberties from the source material (as said in the disclaimer), but I will criticize if that change contradict itself in the transformative work. And this is one of them.

Poseidon and the gods have been proven time and time again in the musical just how powerful they are. Their ominous and grandiose entrances, them striking fear and inferiority in our hearts just by singing. Even Circe, a low-level goddess, poses a constant threat to the crew and Odysseus had to get help from Hermes just to get a chance to corner her (and Hermes even joked that he can still die!)

Poseidon easily destroyed almost all of Odysseus' fleet. Odysseus was very avoidant of him, opting to go to the literal Underworld to find instruction on how to dodge him and sailing through Scylla's lair + willing to sacrifice six men for safe passage. And when Poseidon said he can drown all of Ithaca, it's not just bluffing, he would and could have done that. Yeah, the King of the Sea is THAT BIG of a treat.

So no, Odysseus isn't cool to attack Poseidon, he's being stupid. I'm not even cheering for him the whole him he fight, just groaning at how ridiculous the whole thing is. If Epic is more believable and sticks to WHAT IT HAD ESTABLISHED BEFORE, having a sudden burst of anger and choosing ruthlessness won't save Odysseus from one swipe of Poseidon's trident. Odysseus stood no chance against a one of the most powerful deity, even if he's the protagonist and love his family.

Not only that, Poseidon didn't even defend himself and was wounded by a mere human! And he just sat there and took all the blows and insults from Odysseus??? And he actually begged Odysseus to stop and agree to quell the storm to let him get home??? I'm not buy that bullshit. I'm more upset that a literal Olympian god was nerfed down than Odysseus having a Gary Stu moment. Give me a break, that try-hard moment to be cool and edgy just show how badly written the scene is.

What's the fucking point of hyping up how dangerous the gods are if a human can take one down? Tell me this isn't some Wattpad-y Greek myth retelling fanfic where the teenage Y/N sass her way to defeat an entire pantheon. Epic really traded its opportunity to be better for some cheap and out-of-the-blue dramas in this saga, dare I say it's even worse than Zeus' OOC attack on Athena. I'm very disappointed with that decision.

On an end note, the saga did have one saving point with the "After everything you've done, how will you sleep at night?" - "Next to my wife" lines. Odysseus knew he could be the most horrendous man ever and Penelope would still choose his side, that just show how powerful their love and faith in each other are.

But not enough to excuse all the terrible cinematic choices.

[clarebear-0925]

we might be doomed to a facist nation but hey at least the QSMP might be announced to be coming back tonight 🥲