#BC SHE LOVES MYTHOS .

[nyatbinary-81]

Its Odette Time! this is a slightly late submission for the ptutu aspec week prompt ‘Courage’. its a redraw/reframing of one of my FAVORITE shots in the show, the s1 finale pas de deux lift, seen under the cut.

now, you may be wondering, "nyan, who the hell is odette?" and. well. thats on me i havent actually posted her to tumblr yet. partially bc odettes main design is made by my brother, partially bc im not sure the people will like her, shes on my artfight (nyanbinary87) if you have that, but if you dont, the TLDR is that shes mytho AND tutu. like, post-finale, if the "the pendant was a heart shard" was more literal and transgender.

but hold on, this is ASPEC week, not trans week! why is she here? well, its up to the mods if this is okayed as a submission, since odette is primarily a trans headcanon of mine. but, she is Also aspec, and this piece aims to emphasize that aspect of her. see, one of my favorite things about odette is how she completely reframes mytho and tutus relationship from a semi-romantic one to one of self love. theres something so beautiful in your true self putting together your false self because she only wants your happiness, even if it means her disappearance.

to emphasize that, this tutu takes on a form less like duck's tutu form. she borrows elements from my brothers odette design, which is basically siegfrieds design on a dress, as well as dropping elements from duck to favor the actual swan lake odette, particularly in the hair.

[lavellane]

do i make ashara more devoted to mythal post trespasser or do i alienate her from the evanuris entirely. is she immune to propaganda by virtue of how badly solas damaged her ability to believe in anything or is she especially vulnerable to it now bc she still WANTS to believe in anything. is she sporting subtle mythal details in her costume design or is she not

[peculiarbeauty]

starter for : @trueher0

" oh dear .. " admittedly , she is trying to not smile too much over his clumsiness. she picks up a rather extravagant plate that he was using temporarily to shield himself from god knows what. perhaps a lady ? he is quite handsome after all ! " here is your hat back ! " she'd say , extending the item. " perhaps you can share where you received it from , c'est charmant. " she'd compliment.

[happyk44]

Me for the longest while: Hera is super meticulous and organized and is the person gently tapping a portrait until it's perfectly aligned and/or gutting the entire wall to rebuild it because they've realized it's why the pictures keep getting off tilt by less than a degree. She very much is a perfectionist, and likes everything to be spotless and flawless, from her home to her children to the entirety of Olympus, and blessings on anyone who threatens her immaculate tranquility.

Me for the last couple years or so: Zeus is also super organized but in an orderly, autistic, "everything has its place and must be in that right place, and if it is not I will not handle it in a healthy way at all because I have been more or less catered to my entire life and therefore have terrible coping mechanisms" and "gets weird about the right names and uses for things, and will get even weirder, for example, if you use a mug for cold water because it's supposed to be for hot beverages" kind of way

Me:

Me: This is definitely an area they fight and have weird sex about.

[juspeczyk]

every day the temptation to make a peebles tav in bg3 gets stronger. but i have one roadblock. who tf do i make her dream guardian. do i make it jonathan?? that feels like it would be fun for me but there is much greater potential for emotional oomf i think if i do someone else. first thought was tommy but i want him in the party. second thought was duela but i want her in the party. third thought was jason but i want him in th

[lesbiianboyfriend]

feeling Hestia several times today but having an ear infection so I cant hear her sucks. let me talk w my Lady please lord

[eclipsecrowned]

witnessed a probably easily disprovable theory about how people try to figure out if freyja is a mistranslation/another title for frigg that also posits freyr is a creation of later mythology and all that he is, freyja had dominion over instead.

feels all of that ooze out of my brain to instead consider genderfluid freyja.

[books-and-dragons]

been reading up on sigyn in norse mythology, and it’s sent me absolutely wild because apparently, one of the titles often used in reference to loki is “the burden of sigyn’s arms”

and i just??? love this as a shuake parallel???

sigyn is known for her loyalty to loki, enduring all the pain that came before. despite losing her sons to an act of revenge on her husband, she stays by loki’s side the entire duration of his punishment on earth, collecting the poison before it can fall on him, protecting him where she can

it’s just, this trickster god, who by all accounts has hurt many, is now damned to a cruel fate and the only one to stick by his side is sigyn, who refuses to abandon him or leave him to endure his fate, and instead does what she can to protect him from that pain

it just? is so very them?

[noblehcart]

not me speculating on how very educated rook is for the time period/culture and that her family was comfortably wealthy with probs some drops of royalty in their fam. how maybe her family's wealth accumulated due to business in trade and furthered rook's interest in the world and learning more.

[skrunksthatwunk]

really fun letting all of my favorite shows take turns being the "i can't think about it i can't think about it i can't think about it!!" bingewatch during finals season/associated crunch times. they're being inducted into a society

[fandom-hoarder-official]

Cringetober Day 18, Fandom AU

[dollfat]

im still struggling to pay attention to all this world building but once it gets thru i really appreciate it

[natandacat]

@claudia-de-lioncourt No no speak up, you're right and you should say it. Gabrielle de lioncourt is in the room with us right now and she might have some words too lol

@black-market-wd4o ah but dont forget... Marius thinks of himself as "sharing the wealth"! He's just helping civilization and art along by harnessing the talent of wasted youth! Amadeo is once again not very impressed.

@platoapproved You're 100% correct and let us not forget why Marius (cough Anne Rice cough) is so racist towards Armand! Let's see why ukraine keeps being depicted as less european and more backward than the rest of eastern europe throughout the book -Marius tells us right here, dimissing Amadeo's all in all quite reasonable lack of faith in the society that enslaved and abused him:

Ah. The Mongol invasions. Right. Thats when it became a dark and savage land. Gotcha. Hey quickly Marius what are your opinions on Fortress Europe.

Like look at this

"See Amadeo I care about REAL working men... bankers and merchants" bdjwjdkfbfjf

Also the absolute clownery of saying that last line to the boy he bought from a brothel. I don't care that he ends up wanting to send him to university or whatever, he admits himself that amadeo was not supposed to have any options but to be his to mold. No shit Armand feels discouraged.

[edwardslostalchemy]

Watch "EN POINTE EN HIS HEAD?!" on YouTube

TUTU HEADS, LOOK AT THIS. IT'S AMAZING.

[chchchchilisauce]

okay. this is fine . i'm being normal

[ladyloveandjustice]

okay I actually have much deeper thoughts on the parallels between Princess Tutu and Utena after this rewatch and there's gonna probably be a whole long ass post about it I DON'T HAVE TIME TO WRITE.

But both shows say a prince is supposed to be loved by everyone (or every girl in Utena's case) and love everyone and that's ultimately not sustainable and will tear you to shreds. Both show how easily that can lead to the prince being ENTITLED to love (the love of women specifically in both cases actually, bc Raven!Mytho only ever targets girls).

Both take a storybook archetype used to represent the "wrong" kind of femininity that gets contrasted with the pure heroine (the witch in Anthy's case, the black swan in Rue's case, which is really just a subtype of the witch archetype as portrayed in Utena) and says "you know what that's bullshit she deserves love too".

But what are the differences that lead to for example, Princess Tutu's far more sympathetic and hopeful take on the prince? Well, i'll talk about that in my long ass post...this is foreshadowing.