#ANYWAYS ignore my rambling

[pizzarink]

Bad quality animation wip? Sure why not. I’ve got nothing to post on here anyways.

shrivels up into a raisin just like this blog /hj

[opikiquu]

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[haunted-xander]

I made this AAAAGES ago and forgot to post it and now I'm annoyed by how it's rotting away on my phone so here. Bratty teen Thancred being a menace to Fourchenault (and a bad influence on Urianger lol)

[bonetrousledbones]

also some implications from this one that i honestly just think are very funny

possible takeaways:

papyrus's name isn't actually papyrus, people just call him that because he writes that way, meaning he has a totally separate name or no name at all

he's named after the plant/paper, not the font

he's never heard of the papyrus font before

[lunacias]

(Silence. CARPENTER tries to rally HAYWARD's spirits. She's afraid she's going to lose him.)

"All three of us - we can all go on living, Hayward. Just like you said."

[the-adventures-of-dave]

Around tumblr lately I’ve seen people with the opinion that not only are free roaming cats bad (correct) but also supervised cats in catios or on leashes (????). I assume it must stem from that “ecology of fear” post from a few months ago, but to me the sudden appearance of these kinds of posts just strikes me as odd. I’ve seen multiple posts like the below one in just this week.

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If your cat is contained to your yard/catio/the sidewalk, then it still allows for predator-free safe places in your neighbourhood for wildlife, and creates predictability for them too. That’s one of the reasons why hiking trails ask people to stay on the trail— so you (and your dog, horse, cat, etc) can safely enjoy nature while still giving it space. It is possible to exist outdoors in natural spaces like that while maintaining wildlife comfort. If it wasn’t possible to do that, dog-friendly or (even just hiking trails in general, since humans are predators too) simply wouldn’t exist.

The problem with free roaming cats is that they break boundaries between human area (ie. trail, back porch) and wildlife area (foliage, etc) and there is nowhere the wildlife can go to exist that is safe from predators.

Idk, this is just my opinion but I just think there can be more nuance to the outdoor/free roaming cat issue than “never let your cat step outside under any circumstance”.

[noxious-fennec]

Snapshots of simpler times..

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

"You said you love me exactly the way I am"

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

fish want me, women fear me

[dreamingumbrellas]

I think Five choosing not to have a ‘real’ name is such an underrated and fascinating aspect of his character. Because let’s look at the possible reasons behind it.

(technically applicable only to the comics, I think the show canon is that Five left before he could be given a name, even though that doesn’t make any sense but whatever-)

Potential reasons for Five not wanting a regular name:

1. Five is stubborn (obviously) and refused a name to spite Reggie. The numbers were a method of dehumanizing the kids—they weren’t ‘just children’ they were tools, soldiers. Five took away this power from Reginald by deciding no, Five is my name. It’s just as real a name as anything else and it doesn’t make me less of a person.

2. Solidarity with his siblings. Five’s character (pre character assassination) was centered around his family. He valued his siblings above everything else. He wanted to keep the name ‘Five’ because it reminded him of the family he was a part of. In a way, he never wanted to forget who he really was.

3. He saw himself as something less than human. Five is arguably the best of his siblings at being used as a weapon/soldier. He didn’t form much of an identity out of the the academy and the things he was trained for (even after he ran away, he was used the same way by the commission). He’s expressed regret and self-hatred for the things he does, but it’s clear he feels that this is his identity. Even after being given a shot at a normal life he chose to join the CIA. Five never really thought of himself as human. He was only ever a tool.

[silverware-is-interesting]

i've never really made a comic before, well, i have, but nothing i had intention to show anyone else

[doctorsiren]

thinking about anime child miles 😭

[squiddcakes]

Good evening everyone.

[subsequentibis]

it's actually just hit me that there's like... not really romance plots in dungeon meshi. they don't pair the cast off arbitrarily at the end. basically any character could be read as aroace/aspec really easily. that's honestly super cool!! it's refreshing to have a mainstream piece of media with the kind of approach to character relationships that emphasizes how important everyone's connections to each other are without making them explicitly romantic.

[purpleleafsyt]

Figured I should post these here too! These are pieces for a daily account I'm a part of over on Twitter and all three have finally posted :]

All done in MS Paint, btw