#A-Kill-Es = Achilles

[puppetmaster13u]

   “Did you seriously have to choose ‘usernames’ for this?” Billy blinked in utter befuddlement at the words in the corner of his vision, even if he knew it was all in his head. All in his magic or something. It wasn’t like the wizard had exactly explained anything. 

   Several voices responded with far too much smugness or delight, save for Marvel. Actually- “Um, why is the cap’ labeled as moderator?” he knew he shouldn’t have told them about streaming and chats, he knew he shouldn’t have. “Hold up, why is my name showing up in… uh, chat?” 

   Well, at least it wasn’t his full name or something, because he had no idea if other magic users or telepaths could see it. The fact he could both hear and see the gods- even if half of them actually weren’t- was just another thing he’d get used to. 

   He’d gotten used to hearing Solomon after all, even if it took a solid week to stop jumping whenever they piped up. So it couldn’t be much different to get used to the rest and well, the Marvel that was pretty much the amalgamation of all the past users. 

  Oh no did this mean he counted as haunted? Would someone try to exorcize him? Oh no, he didn’t have to avoid everyone for the rest of his life, did he? That would suck, especially seeing as how he needed to get food somehow, even if it was through the trash-

 HeralKeys: I will give you temporary super strength in your mortal form if you punch one of those blue boys you don’t like

   Nevermind, he’d have to be a hermit because of the dead egging him on-

 IAMSPEED: Do it and I’ll give you my speed for the day, no questions :) 

   Billy… was probably going to regret this, but honestly Solomon was the only one protesting. If the marvels thought it was fine, then it’d be okay, right? Besides, what was the worst that could happen, someone catches a street kid using super speed on video?

Also known as where Billy can use the powers he has in Marvel form at different points because the divine twitch chat did the equivalent of a donation. $5? They can't do that, but what about 5 hours of Solomon's wisdom while he tries to figure out magic?

[starberry-cupcake]

SHORT STORY + BONUSES (read it like when gollum says bagginses) INTERMISSION!!! Today we'll take some time to dive into the Harrow bonuses and a couple of short stories, one of which I should have read before, but such is life.

previously, in the tlt universe:

I finished harrowcita del 9

Bonus 1: BoE google doc for the soldiers

differently from the other recaps, I did these while I was reading them, not when I finished reading a whole chapter/story

so maybe the thoughts are more rambly than usual

sorry about that

ANYWAY I have to give it to the BoE folks, they've got a lot to deal with over here

they're like the audience, coming into this blind

and have to try to understand how necromancers operate on the fly

'bullet to the head but don't be too confident on that' seems to be the most useful tidbit

it's like a resident evil gameplay

BoE is in resident evil, gideon is in survivor and harrow is in a gothic pulp novel

the advice for engaging lyctors is "avoid them at all costs"

I keep spelling it BoA instead of BoE because of her

blood of adam? blood of awake me up when september ends? idk

Pronounciation guide (aka I do what I want, but apparently pronounce nonagesimus like the author)

dr reverend emperor john chose the name gaius for himself, it wasn't his real name

gaius sounds like gallo, the spanish name for gallus gallus domesticus, which in english would translate to cock and alludes to the fact that he is a dick

agustine is pronounced like in english and not like in spanish (agustín), I have been pronouncing that one right but I could have called him agustín all this time

cassiopeia was a queen but we already knew that

sixth house, ceramics, cooking, checks every one of my boxes

"CRIS-ta-bell. Rather than “crees”."

what is the difference oh my god is there a difference there

pyrrah is achilles's drag name, which is cool

valancy and cyrus were like this

I'm still gonna call the mithraeum mithrandir whatnot the emperor's bolthole, it's in the sacred text

the nonniad is in dactylic enneameter, which is a ninth version of greek epics (which are hexameters) and it's making me send my ancient greek professor from uni good vibes wherever he is

Glossary

we know more about the beasts now, or have more ordered info, the gist of it is this

so the RBs are only the nine OGs from the nine planets of dominicus that the emperor fucked up

those are the ones that can go from the river to the physical world and viceversa

the other minor beasts can only exist in the river

I still think this is all the emperor's and the lyctors's fault for starting this nonsense and killing planets for power and whatnot

so yeah, Consequences of your Actions, johnny boy

the heralds, as we had established, are kind of like borg, responding to the RBs

necromancers kinda go mad at all this as if they were looking at cthulhu

I wanted to google what the two first verses of wake's name were but the first results that pop up are tlt sources and I'm not looking into that, in case of spoilers

I've already come this far without massive spoilers, I'm not gonna risk that now

what quotes would you like to have as a name if you were one of these folks?

If I could choose three, I'd probably pick: Yo tengo el corazón como la espuma / das Leben Sie nicht vergessen hat, daß es Sie in der Hand hält / Quieto en la tierra y sentir que mis pies tienen raíz

probably un monceau d’idées et un monceau de douleurs would be another contender considered

idk how that'd be shortened though, maybe espie because espuma

house quiz was book 1, boe name assignment is book 2

The Mysterious Study of Doctor [tumblr keeps blocking my post and I'm gonna try to avoid this word to see if this is it]

ANYWAY, SIXTH HOUSE TIME

from the blurb I can tell that:

1) all this time I thought Dr S was like a funny nickname someone had given palmolive for being correspondence-horny lmao

2) is this the magnus institute???

3) "Enter Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect, age thirteen" we're gonna look at some baby picturessss

"Every thirteen-year-old necromancer in the Sixth House is gifted."

"I was born with four kids in my generation eligible to produce children with me. Palamedes had two"

maybe that's why he went for a correspondence gf

camilla describing that's she's the best and me just going

this thing of 'being attractive' as a category would get me demoted at the sixth, though

but working in data, I can do that

I am really liking archivist zeta

there's something that was sealed for a lot of years and now is unsealed and that's very exciting!!!!

lost media!!!!

so many stairs would be a problem for me, but there's lost media at the end of the tunnel

archivist zeta: don't touch anything

palmolive: including the bone hands?

archivist zeta: the what now

apparently the hands are younger than the time the room has been sealed

with the forms being color-coded, I'm starting to think this is less magnus institute and more office of incident assessment and response 

them making references to other houses remind me that other houses socialized, seeing everything from the ninth made me feel like everyone was isolated all the time lol

add to my list of sixth house love the fact that we have murder mysteries now too

gotta love the sixth house

kinda ominous the hand bones now that we know what we know, of camilla carrying palmolive as a tamagotchi in a bone hand after harrow changed the skull

palmolive and camilla age 13 are a whole other book I would have devoured at age 13 myself btw

giving me his dark materials vibes

there was a skeleton in the air vents above the hands

camilla says she's gonna start taking measuring tape with her alongside everything else and I also can relate to going places with 25 million things, just in case

palmolive steals pens, apparently

I've used this meme for palmolive before but it still fits

the skeleton was possessed by the dr himself, he got kinda stuck on his way there after the fifth person tried to call him and got his hands into his study through skeleton shenaningans

palmolive needs to touch something in order to prove the "why" and everyone votes in favor, because he's on a roll

the cool wooden orb that was in the desk was a cool wooden puzzle, like the Karakuri Creation Group ones

man, I love those

the dr solving a puzzle after his death and coming back to prove it is me with some niche puzzles I used to have a sideblog for

don't ask me

there was paper inside and everyone got outside super fast and started congratulating each other (hello????? you did nothing????) and shaking camilla's and palmolive's hands

they don't wanna give palmolive multiple points for solving a several hundread years old mystery, which isn't fair tbh

"Don’t expire in a fit of hubris." oofffffffff

the paper had letters, which palmolive thinks are love letters

with his years of experience on pining letters

the one at the ends says "Tomorrow you will become a Lyctor and finally go where I can’t follow"

is this about cassie??? aka cassiopeia????

loved the camilla and palmolive murder mystery dinner

As Yet Unsent

this is judith's diary and this is how I imagine she looked while writing it and judging people

judith assisted the BoE with her own healing but it's kinda tough when you're also handcuffed and with your eyes covered and whatnot

judith is still in the emperor's side

I don't blame her, she hasn't met the man

yandere twin has met him and still saved him so, I can't judge judith too much

there's a corpse that isn't rotting

promising stuff

there's a commander called We Suffer

they're wearing masks and camilla is being "converted" to their cause

and she didn't even meet the man, but apparently BoE had contact with the sixth house at some point in the past

cassie?????? is this you??????? who knows

sixth house though, earning more points

also, camilla says that palmolive would want to find out what they know and, you know what, fair

I would too

camilla is also good at chess, because she's good at everything

they're playing ceiling chess like in queen's gambit

judith thinks about martita, who will soon do some awesome things next to mati nonnius

judith is also marinating the fact that everyone was fooled by the twinsies and the fact that regina george twin has no necromancy

she also complains about her being too emotional and prone to trust people

every point regina george twin makes about BoE sounds pretty solid to me tbh

the more I see, the more I think the emperor is a dick, like his name implies

judith argues with regina george twin a lot but also notices that her ears go pink when she's impassioned so...why are you noticing that judith????

how did you notice that???? *smirks knowingly*

judith has to deal with the limitations of medical care when you don't have a bunch of people who do body magic stuff

so she's dealing with recovery in a slow way and with machines plugged to her

it's hard for her because she was from the house where necros are also very able to do physical stuff

camilla is giving her strongly worded positive reinforcement

regina george twin and judith have a lot of moments that go from flirty to fighting

I can't keep using smirk reactions images so (¬‿¬)

regina george twin is also being trained to be rambo barbie and I think that suits her

"In a different time I would have found ways to apologise to Palamedes Sextus, whom I at the very least critically misjudged"

palmolive always getting the indirect compliments my goodness

he's so popular

"The princess has by turns tried to charm Camilla, play with Camilla, flirt with Camilla, and cajole Camilla. Camilla is currently unmoved"

nobody's good enough for her, regina george twin, move along

regina george twin is also being kinda aphobic towards judith's response on her being uninterested to romance camilla

I don't think judith is aro at all but that doesn't mean we have to be assholes about it, regina george twin, thank you

judith and regina george twin think BoE is wrong about necros having orgies and I'm here like

so, apparently, judith propositioned martita because she was pretty much obsessed with her

and martita said no

and she thinks camilla is holding onto tamgagotchi palmolive out of some sense of not wanting to let go of him

unaware of the fact that he's in his river loft waiting for his bones to be womanhandled by harrowcita

also, the BoE has an old ship that judith wasn't helpful with, so they don't really have much patience with her

regina george twin and judith keep flirting in that intense tlt way

I'm starting to think regina george twin has a big crush on judith and I'm here for the dynamics of that

"It said, Ugh! Then it said, Eugh!" is this mercygirl??? it sounds like mercygirl to me

and fixing someone's insides as if they were cleaning a sewing machine also sounds very mercygirl

mercygirl is also curious about this body that doesn't rot and I wanna know what it is because I want so bad for it to be gideon-related but I can't let myself hope

also, she gave them the coordinates to find harrow in the cool planet

"And Camilla said, The Warden and I know they can die like anyone else" 👀

"The corpse of the Ninth House cavalier is as pristine as when Camilla Hect convinced them to take it on board"

YESSSSSSS

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

MY HOPES WEREN'T UNWARRANTED

LET'S GOOOOOOOOO

GIDEON ARMS INTACT BABYYYYYYYY

regina george twin proposes necro-cav marriage to judith and judith says no because no relationship here can be straightforward

"Why would I ever knowingly take Coronabeth Tridentarius’s, having desired her already for twelve long, stupid, fruitless years?!"

DRAMAAAAA

AND THAT'S IT!!!! FINALLY!!! This took me a lot longer than I wanted it too but I enjoyed the stories ♥ See you in the next one!!

[xjulixred45x]

Do you know something that honestly bothers me? that when they want to make retellings of Greek stories, they almost always go for the figures that really do not deserve their own story.

I KNOW IT SOUNDS BAD, BUT LISTEN.

Circe, for example, from this woman (who turned out to be quite controversial) Madeline, they try to sell you Circe's story as a "feminist" retelling and normally there would be nothing wrong with that.

The issue is that Circe (in the myths and from what I understand in the book) is not at all feminist.

I mean, she is a morally gray woman, I respect that, but is it really a good idea to use as an example of a "feminist" a woman who 1- killed a man who did not want to be unfaithful to his wife with her, 2- converted an innocent nymph in a MONSTER (Scylla) only for an unrequited love (again) and 3- in Telogony, after Odysseus dies (her supposed "lover" who in some versión she ENCHANTED, at the hands of the son they had together) she marries HIS ANOTHER SON.

Since when did a woman who tramples on men or hurts other women for her own benefit become a "feminist" or "girlboss"??

WITH SO MANY OTHER POSSIBLE SCENARIOS TO MAKE RETELINGS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND THEY DECIDE TO GO FOR CIRCE?

"BUT JUlIx WHAT ANOTHER EXAMPLE DO YOU WANT THEM TO USE?? Circe is SUPER KNOWN, OBVIOUSLY it's easier to go for her"

other examples? let's see:

MEDUSA (old classic, a great allegory that still works today about how SA victims are re-victimized and blamed by the people who should be protecting them/they don't get justice because their attacker is more "relevant" and powerful than them). (Even if it's the Roman versión, You can't Say that a myth that reflects the reality of THOUSANDS of women and give streng to the víctims its not "feminist")

PENTHESILEA(Amazon queen who fought in the Trojan War, which she attended because she was depressed after having accidentally killed her sisters, but she did not leave without killing dozens of Trojans and fighting with Achilles himself. IMAGINE A BOOK ABOUT HER) .

THE AMAZONS IN GENERAL (Tribes of warlike women, daughters of Ares, whom he loved very much, who had a matriarchal system that existed without men, without competition, with a great sense of sisterhood and who participated in many velic encounters in mythology) .

HERMIONE OF SPARTA AND ANDROMACHA (the daughter of Helen of Troy and Menelaus and the wife of Hector of Troy respectively. Both were married against their wills to Neoptolemus, the son of Achilles, who was abusive (quite graphically) and they hated him. Imagine a story where the two become friends and team up to kill Neo, Hermione takes control of Sparta and Andromache is her second in command).

ATALANTA (The only woman of the Argonauts who, when the magical boar of Calidon appeared, was the one who managed to hurt him first and kept the home trophy (but FOR SOME REASON later there are myths that kill her in the stupidest way possible, thanks Aphrodite) )

In conclusion, let's give the spotlight to Greek women who genuinely deserve to be known about them❤️ (without trowing Hate to Circe, she DESERVES TO BE KNOWN, but not as a feminist story).

________

(ESPAÑOL)

¿saben algo que sinceramente me molesta? que cuando se quieren jacer retelings de las historias griegas, casi siempre van por las figuras que realmente no se merecen una historia propia.

SE QUE SUENA MAL, PERO ESCUCHEN.

Circe, por ejemplo, de esta mujer(que resulto ser bastante polemica) Madeline, tratan de venderte la historia de Circe como un reteling "feminista" y eso normalmente no tendria nada de malo.

el tema es que Circe(en los mitos y por lo que tengo entendido en el libro) no tiene nada de feminista.

digo, es una mujer moralmente gris, eso lo respeto, pero ¿realmente es buena idea usar de ejemplo de "feminista" a una mujer que 1- mato a un hombre que no queria serle infiel a su esposa con ella, 2- convirtio a una ninfa inocente en un MONSTRUO(escilla) solo por un amor no correspondido (otra vez) y 3- en Telogony, después de que Odiseo muere(su supuesto "enamorado", a manos del hijo que tuvieron juntos) ella se casa CON SU OTRO HIJO.

¿¿desde cuando una mujer que pisotea a los hombres o hace daño a otras mujeres por beneficio propio paso a ser "feminista" o "girlboss"??

CON TANTOS OTROS POSIBLES ESCENARIOS PARA HACER RETELINGS DE LA MITOLOGÍA GRIEGA Y DECIDEN IR POR CIRCE?

"PeRo jUlIx ¿¿QuE oTrO eJeMpLo QuIeReS qUe UsEn?? Circe Es sUpEr cOnOcIdA, OBVIamente es mas facil ir por ella"

¿otros ejemplos? veamos:

MEDUSA(viejo clasico, una gran alegoria que sigue funcionando hasta hoy sobre como las victimas de SA son re-victimizadas y culpadas por la gente que deberia protegerlas/no obtienen justicia porque su agresor es mas "relevante" y poderoso que ellas).

PENTESILEA (Reina amazona que peleo en la guerra de Troya, a la cual asistio por estar deprimida al haber matado accidentalmente a sus hermanas, pero no se fue sin matar a decenas de troyanos y pelear con el propio Aquiles. IMAGÍNENSE UN LIBRO SOBRE ELLA).

LAS AMAZONAS EN GENERAL (Tribus de mujeres guerraras hijas de Ares, a las cuales el amaba mucho, que tenian un sistema matriarcal que existia sin hombres, sin competencia, con un gran sentido de hermandad y que participaron en muchos encuentros velicos en la mitología).

HERMÍONE DE ESPARTA Y ANDROMACA(la hija de Helena de Troya y Menelao y la esposa ee Hector de troya respectivamente. ambas se casaron en contra de sus voluntades con Neoptolemo, el hijo de Aquiles, que era abusivo(bastante gráficamente) y lo odiaban. imaginense una historia donde ambas se hacen amigas y se alian para matar a Neo, Hermíone toma el control de Esparta y Andromaca es su segunda al mando).

ATALANTA(La unica mujer de los argonautas que cuando aparecio el jabali magico de calidon fue quien logro lastimarlo primero y se quedo con el trofeo de casa(pero POR ALGUNA RAZON después hay mitos que la matan de la forma mas estupida posible, gracias Afrodita))

en conclusión, demosle el reflector a mujeres griegas que genuinamente merecen que se sepa de ellas❤️(sin titarle Hate a Circe, MERECE SER CONOCIDA, pero no como historia feminista).

[kindlythevoid]

Okay, so I was watching the latest episode of Percy Jackson and I was thinking it over when it hit me— Percy Jackson is a Greek Myth.

Now bear with me here, I know how it sounds.

Yes, Percy Jackson is based off Greek Mythology, and the subsequent series(es) are based off their own respective mythos. Yes, the Percy Jackson books follow specific Greek Myths, we all know this. Odyssey, as it was so elegantly pointed out in the newest episode, Theseus in the Labyrinth, etc., etc. Someone else has mentioned this before, so I won’t get into because that… isn’t my point.

My point is that the story of Percy Jackson also functions as a Greek Myth. Tell me your favorite Myth. I’m sure a lot of you will have an overlap. I’m also sure that a lot of you will be telling the story differently. Same story, different details. We all know the fifty different versions of Persephone/Hades, Orpheus/Eurydice, the whole Achilles/Patroclus fiasco… the list really could go on and on. Books have their own takes on it, movies have their own takes, hell, there’s even a few musicals that have thrown their hat in the ring. Even the writers, the orators, whatever you want to call them, back in the day, thousands of years ago, had differing interpretations! And, here’s the kicker, because of its genre as a myth, because it’s about themes over details… at their core, all of them are valid.

Did Persephone wander into the Underworld? Was she wooed by Hades in a pasture? Did the earth swallow her up on Hades’ command? Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. In the end, it snows. Crops die. She’s there for a few months out of the year, every year, and so the seasons change. You can play this game with every myth.

Including Percy.

Now, I must admit that ideas like this have absolutely been floating around; the idea being that the show and the book share the same themes, just updated for a modern audience. I’m just doing my best to expound on that.

Let me try my hand at this, and correct me if I’m wrong.

Percy Jackson is about a boy, a pawn of the gods in a game he doesn’t want to play except not playing means that everyone he loves suffers. His fatal flaw is loyalty, so he plays along.

Annabeth Chase is about a girl who wants permanence. She’s smart, viciously so, but because of how she looks, people demean her. Her fatal flaw is pride, which damns her as much as it helps her survive.

Which one am I talking about? The book or the show? The musical? It shouldn’t matter, they all have the same core theme.

It doesn’t matter whether Hermes is in the Casino or not, it doesn’t matter whether Mrs. Dodds tries to kill Percy in the Museum or right outside of it. The important part is that the Casino delays their trip, and they get a taxi to make it the rest of the way. The important part is that Dodds is Percy’s first vivid experience with the Greek world.

Anyway, I won’t beat a dead horse (anymore). I just think it’s cool that Percy was able to evolve into the exact story he was emulating.

[autisticnightfury]

its called an achilles heel bc a kill es ass

[metalindex-hu]

Annisokay: modern metalcore hármas élén, új dalokkal tér vissza a német csapat

Annisokay: modern metalcore hármas élén, új dalokkal tér vissza a német csapat - https://metalindex.hu/2023/09/18/annisokay-modern-metalcore-harmas-elen-uj-dalokkal-ter-vissza-a-nemet-csapat/ -

A napokban megjelenő új EP-jét mutatja be élőben október 20-án az Annisokay. A német post-hardcore zenekar a Barba Negra Blue Stage-en játszik majd, két másik metalcore csapat, a norvég Fixation és a skót To Kill Achilles mellett.

A német modern metal színtér egyik neves képviselője az Annisokay: erőteljes, dinamikus és mégis érzésekkel teli dalaikat ma már rengetegen ismerik és kedvelik. A 2007-ben alakult csapatra egyaránt jellemző a lehengerlő hangzású ritmusszekció, a súlyos és sodró gitárfutamok, valamint az agresszív betétekkel nyugtalanított dallamos énekek, kórusok. A dalokban egyaránt megjelennek progresszív metal, pop és EDM hatások is, de a (post-)hardcore jelleg ellentmondást nem tűrően dominál.

Lemezein az Annisokay társadalmi problémákat, emberi érzelmeket és a párkapcsolatok nehézségeit dolgozza fel, komor hangulatú megközelítéssel. A tiszta vokálokért az alakulás óta Christoph Wieczorek a felelős, védjegyszerű hangzást és érzelemgazdag előadásmódot biztosítva. Ötödik nagylemezük, a 2021-es Aurora volt az aktuális hörgős-kiabálós énekes, Rudi Schwarzer első közös munkája a csapattal. Az erőteljes és átütő orgánummal bíró Rudi csatlakozása új fejezetet nyitott a zenekar életében: a lemez a német lemezeladási lista 18. helyén nyitott megjelenésekor, 2022-ben pedig nagy sikerű európai turnén mutatták be, Budapesten is.

Idén csatlakozott Peter Leukhardt új basszusgitárosként, és végre új zenével is jelentkezik a zenekar: tavasszal a Human című dalhoz készítettek egy klipet, majd nyáron a Calamity-hez is. Mindkettő szerepel az Abyss Pt I című, 6 tracket tartalmazó EP-n, ami szeptember 22-én jelenik meg az Arising Empire kiadónál. A második dal klipjét itt nézhetjük meg:

"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@id":"https:\/\/www.rockvilag.hu\/hirek\/annisokay-modern-metalcore-harmas-elen-uj-dalokkal-ter-vissza-a-nemet-csapat\/#arve-youtube-vxjth7-exwu6508c861891df734189016","type":"VideoObject","embedURL":"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/vxJTh7-eXWU?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0"

„A Calamity egy különleges, metalcore verziója Leony (egy német popénekes) Remedy című dalának; arról a küzdelemről szól, amikor olyasmitól akarunk szabadulni, ami nem enged el. A dalszöveg bemutatja azt az intenzív, belső rág��dást, amit az ijesztő helyzetből való kitörés érdekében csinálunk végig. Igazán élveztük azt a munkát, amivel az eredetileg lendületes nótából egy komor, súlyos metalcore tételt formáltunk.” – áll a zenekar közleményében.

Az Abyss turnén ott lesz a skót post-hardcore szcéna egyik ismert képviselője, a To Kill Achilles is, akik szintén az Arising Empire-nél adták ki harmadik nagylemezüket augusztusban. „A Recovery albumon a traumákról, tragédiákról és veszteségekről esik szó. Sok szó esett már a negatívumokról, és senki sem élhet örökké ilyen hangulatban, így most fókuszt váltunk, és a gyógyulásra, felépülésre, és az életünk feletti kontroll visszaszerzésére koncentrálunk a lemezen. Köszönjük mindazoknak, akik kitartottak mellettünk az elmúlt években, segítsük egymást az elkövetkező nehéz időkben is, és ünnepeljük együtt a jó dolgokat.” A Cave klipje itt látható:

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Október 20-án elsőnek egy norvég csapat, a 2020 óta működő Fixation mutatkozik be a Barba Negra Blue Stage-en. A csapat még csak idén adta ki More Subtle Than Death című első nagylemezét, de a korábbi kislemezeknek köszönhetően már szolid ismertségnek örvendenek, és nemrég a kontinenst is körbejárták Devin Townsend és az Imminence oldalán. A Flat Earth videóját itt nézhetjük meg:

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A Concerto Music bemutatja: Abyss Tour 2023 2023. október 20., péntek 19 óra Budapest, Barba Negra Blue Stage Annisokay, Fixation, To Kill Achilles koncertek Belépő: elővételben és a koncert napján 6900 Ft. Jegyek kaphatók a https://jegy.rock1.hu oldalon.

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[jedistranger]

[Seeks you out on the battlefield of Troy bc you are a fierce woman warrior killing many Greek soldiers] [slays you] no aha don't die ur so sexy and I'm falling in love with you (:

[luxken]

pa-tro-clus

okay correct me if im wrong, but im pretty sure in tsoa, the only times we see miller enunciate a character’s name is when achilles pronounces patroclus’ name (pa-tro-clus) and when the crowd as the two arrive back in pythia from pelion says achilles’ (ach-ill-es). 

which, I mean, is just the biggest parallel ever, bc the crown chanting achilles’ name saw him as their saviour and their hero. to have achilles say patroclus’ name like that, clearly and with intent, means achilles views him in the exact same way - patroclus is achilles’ hero, he’s the best of him KAJSDHFGHSJASDHJSHD KILL ME

[aspoonofsugar]

Hola, me gustan mucho tus objetivos, son muy interesantes. Especialmente cuando trabajas sobre RWBY. Mi pregunta es: ¿cuáles son sus alusiones y referencias favoritas de cuentos de hadas que RWBY ha usado y desarrollado? En concreto, la forma en la que han trabajado esa ilusión dentro del programa.

Hello!

Thank you for the very nice words and I am so so sorry it took so much time to answer you! You see, I was writing this super long Weiss's meta on her Snowhite allusion and I have a meta (hopefully shorter LOL) on Cinder's allusion planned. In my ideal world I wanted to finish them both before answering, so that I had more material and thoughts to share :''')

However, the Weiss's analysis took A LOT, so I decided to actually answer you before writing the Cinder one!

In short, I love RWBY's allusions! They go right to the heart of the source material and reference it in original and complex ways. The writers usually choose 1 or 2 thematic elements and repeat it multiple times throughout the story. At the same time, this repetition ends up alluding to the original pretty closely both in terms of structure and theme. Add some inversion, some subversion and some deconstruction/reconstruction and you get RWBY allusions :)

I'll share some of my favourites right away, but before that, I would like to quickly highlight how rich RWBY's motifs are.

TEAM ALLUSIONS

Many teams share a specific way their allusions are used. This usually reflects some thematic concept explored by the group of characters.

RWBY are fairy tales, but they are also built on duality. Ruby is both the Red Riding Hood and the Hunter. Weiss is both Snowhite and the Knight. Blake is both the Beauty and the Beast. Yang is both Goldilock and the Baby Bear (hence why she has so much brown in her outfits :P). This shows our heroines' complexity and richness. They embody both the feminine (Little Red Riding Hood, Snowhite, Beauty and Goldilock) and the masculine (the Hunter, the Knight, the Beast and the Baby Bear). Not only that, but their concepts all explore the idea of the shadow or the inner beast. Blake and Yang do so directly since they both have a "beast" inside them (the Beast and the Baby Bear). Ruby and Weiss do so through their allusions. Ruby faces the Big Bad Wolf, while Weiss the Evil Queen.

JNPR are legends, but their allusions also have a genderbender motif. They allude to people of the opposite sex, who all had to genderbend at one point. This fits their arcs, which are all strongly intertwined with the idea of anima (and interestingly all 4 characters are from anima or have family there). Jaune's arc is about aquiring the positive feminine traits Pyrrha embodies. Nora and Ren instead must integrate with each other and their story is focused on their relationship and complementarity.

Ace Ops are Aesops, aka stories with a black and white morality (most of the time) just like the Atlas Ace Operatives, who are unable to think with their own heads once the world is revealed more complex than just "good" and "bad".

WTCH are what ifs... they are bad endings for positive characters.... What if Watson worked for Moriarty (but also what if Watson were jealous of Sherlock)? What if the Scorpion killed the Frog, but survived? What if Hansel lost Gretel? What if Cinderella were not saved? Interestingly, Cinder fits both WTCH and RWBY's motifs, in the sense that the answer to... "what if Cinderella were never saved" is "she would become an evil stepmother as well". Hence Cinder is both Cinderella (victim) and the Stepmother (abuser). Obviously Salem too fits both the "what if" and "duality" rule. What if the princess from fairy tales could not stay with her prince forever? She would turn into an Evil Witch.

SERIES ALLUSIONS

Each character plays multiple parts within RWBY. Many of them have their own allusions, but they also play important characters in others' stories. For example, Jaune is Joanne D'Arc, but he also plays Snowhite's Prince and Achilles's Patroclus. Moreover, there are some allusions that are so important that they kind of permeate the whole story. The Wizard of Oz allusion is exactly this.

Oz and Salem allude to the Wizard of Oz and the Evil Witch of the West. Qrow, Glynda, Lionheart, Ironwood and Theodore all play into this same allusion. That is not all, though. RWBY themselves can be seen as a new generation of Oz's characters.

Ruby is Dorothy with her personal silver slippers ("You have silver eyes")

Weiss is the Tin Man who has secretly more heart than anyone else

Blake is the Cowardly Lion (or the scaredy cat?) who is the bravest of all

Yang is the Scarecrow, who acts himbo-ish, but is really smart and subtle

In general, the whole plot builds on the Wizard of Oz one. The party goes around the world meeting their previous generation version only to finally go back home (probably the finale will be at Beacon). Not only that, but after the Wizard of Oz disappears (Ozpin's death), Ozma and Tip pop up (Oscar and Ozma).

So, meta-narratively, RWBY, Oscar and JNR are moving in an endless version of the Wizard of Oz. This is also why Ruby's character short in volume 4 has her going from wolves (aka Little Red Riding Hood's enemy) to this:

A very intelligent monkey Grimm (Wizard of Oz's allusion) with only one eye (like the Hound... or Cinder) :P If that is not foreshadowing, I don't know what is.

Anyway, this is precisely why the heroes stepping away from the yellow brick road is interesting:

They fall and leave the Wizard of Oz setting to enter Wonderland (Alyx's land). I am expecting next volume to reference the Alice novels and to be meta-narratively different from others.

FAVOURITE ALLUSIONS

So, now we arrive at some of my favourite allusions so far! Obviously this list may change as the character arcs progress, but also as I discover new things through analyses and metas.

Penny as Pinocchio

Pinocchio is the story of a selfish and lazy puppet, who slowly learns to prioritize others and to work earnestly to obtain what he wants. At the end of the book, he is tested by the Blue Fairy, who asks for his help. Pinocchio immediatley gives her 40 pennies he had worked hard to gain. As a reward for his hard work and generosity, he finally becomes a true boy and the 40 pennies come back to him as 40 golden coins.

Penny takes Pinocchio's premise and inverts it by also combining it with some alchemy metal symbolism. She is a true girl since the beginning, but the world around her refuses to aknowledge this. Ironwood, Salem, Cinder and Watts all think of her as someone with no will nor humanity, that can be easily controlled or manipulated. Meanwhile some of her loved ones, like Pietro, tend to be overprotective and to treat her as a child. Penny's arc is then about affirming her own humanity and independence despite the world being hell-bent on getting in her way. Because of this, Penny's own story becomes a complex and beautiful exploration of what being human (and growing up) means. It is about confronting your feelings, thinking with your own head and making your own choices. However, even if you do all of this perfectly, things may still turn out wrong because having feelings means you can experience friendship and love, but also pain and loss.

When it comes to how Penny's allusion is used in the story, the thematic element she is asked to face over and over is that of the Blue Fairy. She meets her 3 times throughout the Atlas Arc. She appears as Fria (1st), Ambrosius (2nd) and Winter (3rd).

Fria and Ambrosius's roles is to aknowledge Penny's humanity through the worldbuilding. Fria can give Penny the Maiden power because she is a true girl. Ambrosius gives Penny a body that mirrors her interiority. She appears as a human because she is human and has been human all along. At the same time, Penny's experiences with Fria and Ambrosius teach her things about humanity itself. Being human in soul means you have to balance duties and wishes. Having a human body means you can feel pain and are left more vulnerable. In other words, being human is awesome because you have friends and wishes and feelings! But it is also painful and heartbreaking... So is humanity worth it? In the final moments of her arc, when she is already dying, Penny answers that yes, it is... So, she herself chooses humanity, creation and love by making Winter the third and final Blue Fairy (just look at the blue fairy dust ice surrounding Winter's Maiden form).

In the end, RWBY's Pinocchio creates the Blue Fairy and completes her arc from creation (passive/child) to creator (active/adult). This crowning (and tragic as hell) moment is highlighted by Penny disappearing into a golden cloud. No idea if there are going to be plot related reasons for this. Still, symbolically this choice hits 2 sweet boxes.

Shedding the green to reveal the gold underneath it conveys that Penny is leaving behind Pietro's aura color to embrace her own. She is not just her father's daughter/creation anymore, but her own person.

Going from green to yellow is symbolic of Penny going from copper to gold, just like Pinocchio's coins in the novel. It is also a nod to alchemy and to the metal motifs shared by many characters. Gold is the most refined of metals, so Penny becoming gold indicates she has reached perfection.

Apart from all of this, Penny's allusion is full of references or easter eggs. She fights with Lampwick (Torchwick), meets the Cat and the Fox (Em and Merc) and is almost eaten by Monstra. Finally, her song directly references Disney Pinocchio's Wishing Upon a Star.

1) Cinder as Cinderella

I am planning a meta on Cinder's allusion, so I won't write much here. That said, I think it is clear why hers is among my favourites. It is a great exploration of Cinderella's story through the what if lens. What if Cinderella were not saved? What if she were not a good victim?

This question leads to a neat exploration of abuse, its consequences and how it is a cycle that perpetuates itself. Fitting to such a thematic core, Cinder's allusion plays on repetition in the sense that she keeps living it over and over again. It starts with Madam and Rhodes playing respectively the Evil Stepmother and the Prince/Fairy Godmother. It goes on with Salem playing both the Fairy Godmother/the Evil Stepmom and Ruby playing the Prince. Similarly, Cinder keeps going through dances, midnights and collecting slippers (the twin swords, the maiden power, Em and Merc). It is a cycle that needs and will be broken. Once this happens, the person Cinder really wants to be will emerge from the ashes and affirm herself.

3) Blake as the Beauty and the Beast

The Beauty and the Beast is at its core a story about love, romantic relationships and the integration between opposites. So, Blake's arc explores these ideas in several ways. It is a reflection on love that starts with toxic love (Adam), goes through one-sided/immature love (Sun) and arrives to mature love (Yang). At the same time, it is also a story about integrating with those different from you (Faunus and Human) and how this co-habitation can be difficult.

Structurally, it works because Blake goes through the basic plot of her fairy tale twice, but in opposite ways. In the first scenario, Adam is the beast and it is an inversion of the original story. In the second scenario, Yang is the beast and the allusion is played straight. As a matter of fact, the Beauty and the Beast is about a young girl separating from the Father and finding a new love and family in the Beast. To be more precise, Beauty leaves her Father to go live in the Beast's castle, but after a while she begs the Beast to let her go visit her dad, who is sick. The Beast lets her, but asks her to be back in a week or he will die. Beauty meets her Father and loses track of time, so when she goes back to meet the Beast, she finds him already dying. By this point, she realizes her love for the Beast, heals him and so they marry and live happily together.

In the inversion storyline, Blake starts as a member of Ghira's group, but leaves it and her parents by choosing to be Adam's partner. After a while, though, Blake chooses to leave the Beast and goes back to Menagerie. Only by reconnecting with Ghira and his ideals, she grows strong enough to go back to Adam and fight him off.

Similarly, Blake leaves both Adam and Menagerie and meets Yang. They grow together, but at one point she chooses to leave her partner, which highly upsets Yang. After reconciling with her family and growing stronger, Blake goes back to Yang and is forgiven by her.

Finally, I find it neat that her allusion makes use of all the members of team RWBY. Ruby is Blake's new Rose that introduces her to Yang and reconnects her with Ghira's ideals. Weiss is Blake's Beauty when it comes to the Faunus plotline. She starts off as prejudiced against Blake and her people, but mellows with time and is now ready to help. Yang is Blake's Beauty when it comes to her romantic plotline. Blake symbolically becomes able to love again and to be herself again through their relationship.

3) Weiss as Snowhite

Snowhite is the story of a child growing up and becoming a different person from their parent. When one is a child, they identify almost completely with their parent. However, once they start growing up, they discover they are their own person. This is what Snowhite appearing in the Evil Queen's mirror represents. In other words:

There's a part of me that's desperate for changes, Tired of being treated like a pawn But there's a part of me that stares back from inside the mirror Part of me that's scared I might be wrong That I can't be strong.

In the original fairy tale, Snowhite is the part who wants to change, while the Evil Queen is the part who refuses to evolve. The fairy tale can be seen as a metaphor for this inner process within an individual. This is also Weiss's story in a nutshell. It is a struggle between the Heiress (The Evil Queen) and the Huntress (Snowhite). They are just 2 sides of Weiss, who go through metaphorical parallel journeys and reconcile in the end.

On the one hand the Heiress has to face herself in the mirror. She has to struggle with her reflection and her undesirable parts until she grows strong enough to destroy the mirror instead of letting herself be controlled by it (so by Jacques).

On the other hand the Huntress has to tame the wild animals through her Glyphs. By doing so, she goes through Snowhite's iconic deaths and resurrections. The Heiress dies, but is reborn as a Knight (Arma Gigas). The Huntress is murdered, but comes back as a Queen (Queen Lancer).

In short, Weiss's journey through the Vale and Mistral arcs has her fo from a Little Spoilt Princess to a Wise Queen. Of course, then there are all the easter eggs and other references. Like The Finest of Them All Schnee Dust Company commercial, Klein as the dwarves and Jacques as the Evil Queen.

5) Ruby as Little Red Riding Hood

I am sure Ruby's allusion will be at the top of my list once it gets more focus and development. As for now, the setup is excellent. Ruby is both the Hood and the Hunter and her journey is bound to be about meeting many Big Bad Wolves. It starts with simple Grimms, it goes on with the Hound and it will probably reach its climax with Summer and Cinder.

In short, Ruby's arc promises to be a story about grief and loss, but also empathy and complexity and I can't wait to have more.

6) Pyrrha as Achilles

Pyrrha's story beautifully re-tells and re-interprets Achilles's journey in the Trojan War. Achilles is asked to choose between eternal glory and a normal life. Similarly, Pyrrha too is asked to decide if she prefers to be a normal girl or a maiden. Her answer is that she is both. She chooses to die a hero not to try and be more than what she is, but because that is who she is. Pyrrha Nikos is a Huntress and Huntresses do the right thing, even if it is hard.

Apart from that, her story is full of little details. Jaune being her Patroclus, but working in reverse, for example. Patroclus's death is what leads Achilles to fight, while in RWBY Pyrrha's death becomes Jaune's main motivation. Then there is the arrow hitting her heel obviously. Finally, the whole fight between Pyrrha and Penny can be seen as a nod to Achilles and Hector's battle. Achilles and Hector were the 2 strongest warriors of easch army, just like Pyrrha and Penny are for respectively Beacon and Atlas. Pyrrha shredding Penny apart can be seen as a reference to Achilles ripping Hector's limbs away, as well.

Honorable mentions

Yang as Goldilock: I have several ideas on Yang's allusion, but somehow I still miss that element which is gonna make it all click together and I wonder if it will be given to us in the next volumes.

In short, Goldilock is the story of a child lacking balance and not being able to fit in. This is the basic idea of Yang's arc. She is unbalanced initially and must learn that asymmetry and uniqueness are not the same as being extreme (hence Tai calling her out on her semblance).

Symbolically, she is initially too hot and needs to cool off (which interestingly she does thanks to Weiss aka the ice to her fire). At the same time, she also tries to be "too big" (hence people asking her both in the yellow trailer and in volume 4 if she isn't too young to drink). I wonder if the too hard/too soft dychotomy will play a part as well. Interestingly, everything seems to be going back to 3 key relationships: Ruby (too hot and too small), Raven (too cold and too big) and Blake (just right, but it would be interesting if they had a final conflict about too soft and too hard, but this is just a headcanon).

At the same time, differently from other allusions, Yang's seems to be cyclical and repeating itself over and over. It starts with her flashback in Burning the Candle, it goes on with the Yellow Trailer and it happens once again in volume 4 when she goes to meet Raven.

Hazel as Hansel: Hazel's arc was simple, but well done and so it's his allusion. Him getting a prisoner to the Witch without Gretchen, but finally being able to burn her up, like her sister does in their fairy tale is cathartic.

The Gods: Sorry, but them alluding to the Grimms Brothers is hilarious and well thought up :''')

Allusions for which I have headcanons I like very very much: Right now, I have theories and thoughts for Jaune, Mercury and Emerald. However, they are not canon as for now.

Allusions I am not sure that are there, but I still love: Emerald and Mercury as the Cat and the Fox, Winter as the Snow Queen (and so Weiss as Gerda), Emerald as Aladdin (I don't think she is meant to be Aladdin, but it is possible the popularity of this theory in the fandom made them consider integrating some bits of this allusion... I mean... only happy if it happens- as for now, it surely leads to some interesting thoughts about who the genies are in Em's arc >>> they are her abusers). I also like the theory of Oscar and the Little Prince, but I need more and tbh... I am fairly sure his allusion to Ozma and Tip too is a great one. It is just I don't know very well the source material tbh. Another one I don't dislike, but there is little evidence is Willow as the Swan Lake.

This is all as for now. I hope this answer brought some interesting thoughts even if it comes late and it is maybe not so well organized!

[littlesparklight]

As deeply annoying as "oh Apollo feels so SAD over Achilles losing Patroklos so he's sympathetic and helps them" or other similar "he likes them because they are tragic and a gay couple" or whatever the hell I've seen around, there's also something deeply funny about the whole thing.

Oh, Apollo feels sad over Achilles' loss?

A loss he helped engineer?

The grief of which he calls too excessive, when he wants the gods to make Achilles give back Hektor's corpse?

A loss he helps compound by later helping in killing Achilles, TOO?

Like, completely aside from the fact that Apollo has lost two sons to Achilles, one of them a child sacrilegiously and brutally murdered and mutilated* and has literally not a single, minuscule reason to feel sorry or sad at all for any grief Achilles feels at his loss, you have the plain fact of his involvement in both Patroklos' and Achilles' deaths.

Again, completely aside from his avenging two slaughtered sons, one an unarmed child, he's defending his city, so why would he feel the least bit sympathetic, or care, in regards to their/Achilles' loss?

Achilles isn't the only mortal who has a male lover, during the Trojan war or any time earlier; Achilles and Patroklos isn't that special just by virtue of being two men involved together, so why should Apollo necessarily feel any sort of sympathetic kinship? He has a city to defend, and two sons to avenge.

Probable he felt pretty damn pleased making Achilles suffer in return for the loss(es) he had to suffer.

*I can understand if a lot of people don't know about either Tenes or Troilus depending on what material they have consumed, since you have to at least read that part of Achilles' Wikipedia page to find out about Troilus if you aren't reading Epic Cycle related material otherwise.

[xjulixred45x]

I have been in a hades bump for a while I just thought up a room boss set up featuring Necro as a boss ( Context she was sentenced to X number of years in the underworld for crimes in the mortal world and Hades as per his word would shave off a chunk of that sentence if she kills Zag when he tries to escape)

Her boss room is rare and usually is found Asphodel. If Zag wins ( Necro adapts and uses a different play style ) if Necro wins, she will still remain in that style.

Just curious what would Zagreus do in your au when it comes to her prison sentence

It sounds a bit like the Erebus room in Hades to me (which you can only access if it is the right temperature), or in any case like the apparitions of Thanatos. Occasional in Asphodel, but not very normal.

Zagreus probably like with certain bosses, may have a certain level of affinity with Necromancer either to have more information about escape routes, gifts in exchange, or stories from the surface (it is probably from Necromancer that Zagreus learns the existence of birds🤣 ).

Similarly to Sisyphus during the game, it is most likely that Necromancer will be freed from her pact with Hades that binds her with chains to Asphodel, but she decides to carry out her sentence so as not to provoke Zeus and, in addition, have more knowledge of the others important figures of Greek medicine (and necromancy).

In Dead Royalty, Zagreus takes advantage of his good relationship with Necromancer to make her part of Consort/reader's personal guard, along with Achilles, Patroclus, etc.

You could say that Necromancer is the one who notices Zagreus' dark aura the most since he killed his father and who acts most cautiously (not in an obvious way) to avoid losing the favor of his now BOSS.

If Zagreus is a yandere to consort/reader, their best bet is probably the Necromancer's help, as she could even give them undead guards to escort them secretly from Zag, but they also has to make sure she doesn't return them in when things get tough. make it difficult

Necromancer is a friend, but she can be your worst enemy. So, be aware.

______

me suena un poco a la sala de Erebus en Hades(que solo puedes acceder a ella si tiene la temperatura correcta), o en todo caso como las aparienciones de Thanatos. ocacionales en Asphodel, pero no muy normales.

Zagreus probablemente igual que con ciertos jefes, puede tener cierto nivel de afinidad con Necromancer ya sea para tener más información sobre rutas de escape, regalos a cambio, o historias de la superficie(probablemente es de Necromancer que Zagreus aprende la existencia de las aves🤣).

de forma similar a Sisifo durante el juego, lo mas probable es aue Necromancer sea liberada de su pacto con Hades que la ata con cadenas a Asphodel, pero decide cumplir su sentencia para no provocar a Zeus y, además, tener mas conocimientos de las otras figuras importantes de la medicina griega(y necromancia).

en Dead Royalty, Zagreus aprovecha su buena relación con Necromancer para que ella sea parte de la guardia personal de Conorte/lector, junto a Aquiles, Patroclo, etc.

podrias decir que Necromancer es quien mas nota la aura oscura de Zagreus desde que mato a su padre y quien actua de forma mas precavida(no de foema obvia) para evitar perder el favor de su ahora JEFE.

si Zagreus es un yandere por consorte/lector, probablemente su mejor apuesta sea la ayuda de Necromancer, ya que ella podria incluso darle guardias no muertos para escoltarla a escondidas de Zag, pero también tiene que asegurarse de que no la entregue cuando las cosas se pongan difíciles.

Necromancer es una amiga, pero puede ser tu peor enemiga. Así que, ten cuidado.

[raedas]

collecting mini playlists from all my mutuals who rb that post like :3 anyway hope my double es dont kill u but eesha !! <3

everyone - mitski

ease my mind - hayley kiyoko

state of grace - taylor swift

happy - mitski

achilles come down - gang of youths

[esperwatchesfilms]

Summer of ‘84 (2018)

Eats: If I find a used condom in there, I’m gonna be so jealous.

Okay. Before I go ahead and give it the 120/100 I think it deserves, I’m going to let everyone know... I almost deducted all 100 points. I liked the movie. I liked the 80s summer adventure with friends, the nostalgia. I liked the actors. I thought it was fun and interesting. For about half the movie. Then I became bored. I got annoyed that this horror movie didn’t have anything horrifying going on. I was annoyed that it appeared to set itself up as “kid and his whacky friends save the day”. 

But then he left the station, and I saw how much movie was still left... so I knew something interesting had to happen at the end.

They, of course, end up killing my favorite character, which I’m upset about, but I can forgive because of what killing this character ended up doing for the ending.

The unexpected ending and what I think will be under a spoiler, in case you’re looking at this and haven’t seen it, along with my ESE score. 

Woody being murdered is the most genius thing this film did. Having Mackey kidnap Woody and Davey is just such a strong move. He makes them play a real-life game of Manhunt, their favorite neighborhood game, where he gives them a minor head-start and then chases them around this island that has only one bridge that leads to the mainland, though they have no clue what side they’re on or where they’re at on the island, and they have to get past him.

Davey tries to draw attention away so Woody can get away, but Mackey takes off after Woody and ultimately kills him. He slices Davey’s achilles tendon and Davey finds his best friend’s body. When Mackey catches up to him, he lets him know that he WANTS to kill him. But he’s not going to. He says that Davey spent that whole summer thinking about Mackey, and he’s not going to let him stop thinking about him. He tells him that he’s going to get him. That he’ll never be able to stop wondering when or how. If it’ll be in months, if it’ll be in years.

Now, a lesser movie would’ve had him found before the movie ended. Escaping in some asinine way that leaves it up to imagination. 

This movie? Gave us the best ending. Mackey disappears into the night, leaving Davey to hobble back toward civilization, losing blood and emotionally distraught all the way.

When he leaves the hospital and gets back to his normal paper route, he has a voiceover that is cool and all, but ultimately has no bearing on how I feel about what happens in the end. On his paper route, he sees his other two friends, Eats and Faraday. Eats and Faraday give him a death glare... a sign that the friendship has ended and that they blame him for Woody’s death and the escape of the murderer.

So, he leave this kid with the everlasting fear that he’s out there and he is going to wait until Davey feels safe, and that’s when he’ll get him. And added to that, is the death glares from his former friends, the girl he likes leaving town, his best friend is dead... All of this? Leads him isolated on top of the constant terror that this dude could be lurking around any corner.

The layers of the psychological horror ending make up for any annoyance that it took so long for me to see anything “horror” about this horror movie. It makes up for killing my favorite character. I loved this ending. BRILLIANT ending.

ESE: 120/100

50 +5 for alien sticker +5 for alien shirt +10 for manhunt making me nostalgic +10 for Judah Lewis +5 for Cory Gruter-Andrew +5 for “peek-a-boobs” -10 for R-slur +5 for Nikki in his bedroom +10 for 80s pop culture references +5 for Nikki talking Davey up to make him look cooler amongst his friends -10 for getting caught +10 for finding the body and saving another kid +20 for such a genius ending

[eden-dum]

Mort: I bet Achilles also dies.

Me: Yeah, he does.

Mort: Yeah, cus he's called A-KILL-es, so he gets killed.

[frayderike]

Books 2021

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His Majesty's Dragon (Tremaire #1)

Throne of Jade (Tremaire #2)

The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles #1)

The Iron Flower (The Black Witch Chronicles #2)

The Shadow Wand (The Black Witch Chronicles #3)

An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes #1)

Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1)

Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2)

Blackout: Morgen ist es zu spät

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) ♥♥♥

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) ♥♥♥

A Deadly Education (The Scholomance #1)

Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #1) ♫

The Inheritance Games (The Inheritance Games #1)

The Library of Fates

Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3)

Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle #1) ♥

In the Middle of the Night

A Torch Against the Night (An Ember in the Ashes #2) ♫

Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #2)

Crown of Feathers (Crown of Feathers #1) ♥

Know My Name ♥♥♥

Ruin and Rising (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy #3)

Sweet Bean Paste

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) ♥♥♥ ∞

When Breath Becomes Air

Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows #2) ♥♥♥ ∞

わんわん探偵団2 🖌

King of Scars (King of Scars #1)

Fable (Fable #1) ♫

The Midnight Library

Exhalation ♥

Namesake (Fable #2) ♫

Die Hölle ist die Abwesenheit Gottes

The House in the Cerulean Sea ♥

The Emrpess of Salt and Fortune (The Singing Hills Cycle #1) ♫

When a Tiger Came Down the Mountain (The Singing Hills Cycle #2) ♫

The Beast Player (The Beast Player #1-2)

Stardust ♫

Love Simon ♫

The Upside of Unrequited ♫

Leah on the Offbeat ♫

They Both Die at the End ♫

Clap When You Land ♫

A Reaper at the Gates (An Ember in the Ashes #3)

My Sister, the Serial Killer

Upright Women Wanted ♥ ♫

The Memory Police

A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4)

Ace of Spades

The Voting Booth ♥

Rule of Wolves (King of Scars #2)

Hood Feminism

The Bad Seed 🖌

The Handmaid's Tale

Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle #1)

The Song of Achilles ♫

Finna (LitenVerse #1)

An Enchantment of Ravens ♫

Number the Stars

Dial A for Aunties

Castle in the Air (Howl's Moving Castle #2)

White Tears/Brown Scars ♥♥♥ ♫

Spoiler Alert

We Hunt the Flame (Sands of Arawiya #1) ♥

To Kill a Kingdom ♫

House of Leaves

Kate in Waiting ♫

The Magic Fish 🖌

The Keeper of Lost Things ♫

Pan's Labyrinth

We Free the Stars (Sands of Arawiya #2) ♥

Scorcery of Thorns ♫

Sky in the Deep ♥ ♫

Hosue of Many Ways (Howl's Moving Castle #3)

The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air #1) ♥

The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2)

The Queen of Nothing (The Folk of the Air #3)

Binti (Binti #1) ♥

A Monster Calls

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses #1)

The Princess Bride ♫

The Historian

Heart of Flames (Crown of Feathers #2)

American Indian Stories

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1)

Tender is the Flesh ♥

The Beautiful Ones ♫

Wings of Shadow (Crown of Feathers #3)

Under the Whispering Door

A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe #0.1)

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex ♥♥♥

Defekt (LitenVerse #2) ♥♥♥

The Night Watchman ♫

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

In meinem Herzen steckt ein Speer: Das Jahr, das alles veränderte

Heart Berries

Crying in H Mart ♫

A Christmas Carol ♫

The Angel of Khan ek-Khalili (Dead Djinn Universe #0.2)

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King (The Guardians #1)

Depart, Depart!

People We Meet on Vacation ♫

May the Best Man Win ♫

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (Dead Djinn Universe #0.3)

The Hidden Oracle (The Trials of Apollo #1) ♫

The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost #1)

The Darkest Part of the Forest ♫

Ninth House (Alex Stern #1) ♥

The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) ♥

Deutscher Humor: Eine Sammlung der besten Beiträge ♥

Winter's Orbit ♥

Krampus

A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot #1)

Certain Dark Things ♫

exit RACISM. rassismuskritisch denken lernen ♫

A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe #1)

Saga Vol. 1 🖌

Saga Vol. 2 🖌

The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy #1) ♫

Dropped / DNFed:

Everything I Never Told You

Atomic Habits

Wuthering Heights

And Then There Were None

A Touch of Darkness

The Wolf and the Woodsman

A Court of Mist and Fury

[caffernnn]

Yeah hi again! More tsoa au snippets anyone?

Now that i think about it, albert could be apollo in tsoa, so imagine him taking a look at makoto climbing the walls of troy, disdainfully raises his nose, spits "puny little mortal" and flicks him off the wall with godly telekinetic powers to be killed by our hector, which is hiyori; i mean albert is already symbolized as a god in canon.

Kinjou could be the dickwad pyrrhus since people refer to pyrrhus as achilles without his patroclus, and kinjou is hinted to have given up personal relationships in order to be a stronger swimmer, and fans theorize him to be creating a rift between haru and mako, so yea...there's that. He could be our proud, arrogant, homophobic lil shit pyrrhus who thinks everybody should be like him- friendless and glory-hungry.

AJHSAKDJSK I WANT TO SEE THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN BRISEIS AND PATROCLUS AS KISUMI AND HARU!!! Imagine haru being mad at kisumi for daring to touch makoto even after his death, when all kisumi wanted to do was clean him since he doesn't deserve to lie in filth, and haru goes apeshit that nobody should touch his makoto and kisumi goes "you're not the only one who ever loved him!!". Kisumi goes on to rant that haru only cares about chasing his honor and that makoto only died to save his reputation, which i got from a prompt under the #kisumako tag where kisumi confronts haru about how makoto chose him instead of kisumi even though he only takes makoto for granted, then jabs haru with "i wish hiyori kills you tomorrow" and haru goes "do you not think i wish the same?" Omg I'm just quoting from the book at this point I'm so sorry 🤭🤭😅😅✌✌✌

I have an idea on how to include the fireworks scen to the scene where patroclus convinces achilles to fight and save the greeks where haru goes "not you too! Do you not see how they don't care for me?!?!" Or like how they are only nice when they need him smth like that and makoto drops the bomb "then let me fight in your stead" and haru goes on an an Achilles-like tantrum "ask me of anything, but not this!!!" Anw that's not the whole dialogue but haru relents in the end.

Imahine hharu arriving in the underworld expecting to find makoto waiting for him only to be unable to find him even after an eternity of searching, so finally breaks, like the fireworks aftermath where he looked like he just got dumped by his bf, and ge curls into himself, realizing he may have lost makoto forever (again)

I just can't stop thinking how the gay panic nao gave makoto is very similar to odysseus' "sharing beds is gay" comment, so imagine makoto, who followed haru everywhere and shared everything with him, suddenly distancing himself and sleeping outside their tent because he feels that he cannot let the entire army they are gay, especially haru, the best of the greeks, so haru confronts him "what's wrong?" And then they resolve by saying "let them think what they want" or "i will not let them hinder us" or "we don't have to change" smth like that and proceeds to do their nightly cuddle, kinda like the dolphin courtship ritual they performed at the pool.

Aaahhh i just want to expand on phoinix's (that would be mikhail???) story about the king who supposedly was forced to choose between his pride or people he rules, and he chose his pride, even with the king's wife (best friend, in this context??? The king in the story would be ryuuji) and did not help his people win the war so his people turned against him. The wife's name sounds like patroclus, and so phoinix was hinting that only makoto could talk haru into fighting. Makoto had to fight, which results to angst, since haru chose his pride, much like the king (pls let this not be what happens in the movie kyoani we beg you)

So that's it. I'll send more when the ideas come. I swear i will try to turn this into a fic if i ever get out of my slump. IF 😫😫😫

Patrochilles AU fans, come get y’all’s juice 💕

It’s always so interesting to see people explore Haru’s relationship with his own pride because it’s definitely multidimensional. There are so many characters who fall victim to their own hubris or struggle with it more externally (the people who appear as antagonists or rivals to Haru both in canon and in different AUs), but it feels more complicated with Haru, at least to me. His pride doesn’t manifest through Haru boasting about his talents or trying to control/lead people, especially early on in his story - the moment(s) his self-esteem shifts into a double-edged pride is when his belief in his current successes and happiness stops him and the people around him from growing and changing. That’s his downfall. My thoughts from my own Free! x Hadestown AU are sporadic at best, but this verse always makes me think about Haru, especially his descent into hopelessness during ES:

Haru falls apart when he clings to his vision of comfort and happiness and forgets the ever-changing life involved in that scene. He holds onto the life he has with Makoto, the life he has with his friends, the life he has swimming however or whenever he wants to… and he blinds himself from the reality that everything evolves and continues to change. His pride comes out in his desperate delusion that he can stop the hands of time through willpower and refusing to watch time go by. He’s definitely not the only one going through this sort of internal battle (I’d argue many of the “antagonist” characters go through similar struggles) but it’s the one we arguably get the most insight on.

ALSO: I love Haru dearly but I also love seeing characters pull himself out of his own head for a bit. That Kisumi interaction to remind Haru that Makoto was loved by a lot of people? Knowing Makoto often holds himself back when it comes to Haru because he’s almost too aware of Haru being watched by the world around them?? There’s so much there to explore I just !!!!

I’m rambling, but thanks for sharing as always!