#HOW DID I NOT HEAR HIM EITHER

[diremoone]

I DID NOT KNOW GRASSHOPPERS COULD GET THAT BIG

[pokemonblack3white3]

Nobody has suffered at the hands of pokemon fans more than nice rivals in 3d games. Seriously nobody gave a shit about nice rivals until XY the worst I've heard is that helping Wally catch his ralts takes too long and May/Brendan's starter never fully evolves. They were both nice. Barry, lucas/dawn, Bianca, cheren, N, and Hugh were all nice. Silver and Blue were literally the only really actually mean rivals until Gladion. What about Shauna made people start frothing at the mouth. Everybody needs to apologize to Trace right now he wasn't even a replacement for Blue like Blue was in that game doing his own damn thing. And the audacity of some people to beg for mean rivals back and then treat Carmine the way they do. The nostalgia poisoning in the pokemon fandom is making people hallucinate.

[phonification]

i cant stop thinking of ghost knife possessing balloon whenever hes hanging out with suitcase and goofing around

[swearingcactus]

far cry is a mid ubisoft game but it's less about shooting and grenade launching and fighting for your life with a rebellious group in the middle of nowhere where help will not come for you and more about: "There was a time I would do anything for my sister, I mean the first time I ever killed was for my sister. Not enough for her," and it's also more about "Women can say that they love you in the moment, and really mean it. While men can only love in hindsight, when too much distance has built up." and it's also more about "John was not perfect. Sometimes he was not even good. But he was my brother." and it's also more about "But we would still talk every single night. Until they took his tongue." and how each instance of this type of love that was lost twisted each villain further and further into something unrecognizable and anw ubisoft lost the plot

[worstloki]

AU where Loki doesn’t interfere with Thor’s banishment at all and it takes Thor years to prove himself worthy and when he returns to Asgard everything is just. The same. Nothing seems to have changed at all and everyone greets him like his absence was a minor obstacle that didn’t fundamentally change Thor and the worst part is Loki stepped down from the place as regent without any delay and Thor can’t help but feel there’s something underlaying the way his brother looks at him now and won’t let him touch him and Thor doesn’t know what he could have missed because he doesn’t think he would have found anything wrong with the things around him and how everyone behaves if he hadn’t spent time on Earth reflecting.

[gingermintpepper]

Why did Apollo favor the trojans in the Illiad?

So, dear Anon, I've been thinking about how to answer this question since I got it a couple days ago and I think I kind of want to make something clear before I get into it.

The Iliad by itself as a poem only covers some of the events that occur in the final year of a long protracted conflict that had been brewing for at least two decades and was an active war for ten. Within the space of the Iliad itself, the motivations and affairs of the major players are often referenced but there are many, many parts of the story that are not there because they belong to a different story cycle that has been since lost or was never recorded with words. In the space of the Iliad Apollo's motivations are questioned a lot - his pride is questioned by Poseidon who thinks Apollo should be just as angry at the Trojans as he considering Apollo was treated equally as poorly by Laomedon while they worked together. His honour is questioned by Hera who chastises him for taking the Trojans' side when he'd proclaimed that Achilles would live a long life and prosper at Thetis and Peleus' wedding. His own sister calls him a coward for refusing to fight when Zeus gives permission for the gods to go wild on the battlefield. For all that there's this image of Apollo in the Iliad as some staunch and unwavering protector of the Trojans, believe it or not, I largely think of Apollo as neutral in the war.

Which, I suppose, comes back to the question - why did Apollo favour the Trojans? The truthful answer is that I don't know. The Iliad and all its connected stories isn't something I've done enough research on to have an answer or a reference to an answer off the top of my head. The reasoning I'm aware of is that Apollo was a Patron God of Troy and really a god doesn't need any reason besides that to protect his people but it's not like Apollo abandoned the Greeks either. Calchas is the biggest example of that I can point to - descended directly from a priest of Apollo and one who attributed his mantic power to the god, Calchas was pivotal in ensuring the Greeks even got to Troy in the first place.

From a personal perspective however, I think Apollo was more dedicated to the house of Priam than he was the city of Troy itself. Apollo's affection for that house and all its members ran deep - from his admiration of Hecuba and Hector to his love and attempted courtship of Cassandra to his blessings given to Helenus, Deiphobos, Cassandra, Troilus and even his partnership with Paris - Apollo loved the house of Priam. When you think about the times Apollo lashes out against the Greeks, it's generally because they've done some nonsense to earn his ire. The plague was caused by Agamemnon disrespecting his priest, his aid in the slaughter of Patroclus was because he didn't respect him, his minor grudge against Diomedes too was because he tried to test Apollo's mettle and well, the less said about Achilles the better. Apart from his obvious favouring of Hector in the skirmishes, Apollo doesn't really oppose the Greeks. He has a ton of reasons to by the time the Iliad rolls around, including avenging the death of two of his sons, but he remains mostly satisfied with conducting his father's business and overseeing the war from a somewhat professional perspective. To me, it's always been less about Apollo caring about the fate of Troy as a city itself and more about him just really wanting to protect the people in the city that he's come to love and respect.

Of course, I encourage you to take my words with a big tablespoon of salt - like I said, I don't really know enough about the facts in particular to give a solid, confident answer but I can give you my interpretation of it. Maybe consult someone like @littlesparklight for a more comprehensive and grounded response 🤔

[cubedmango]

「30歳の童貞に片想いすると魔法使いになれるらしい」 (from cherry magic volume 11 special edition) — english translation

[sonknuxadow]

i genuinely dont get how so many people are uncritically excited for The Movie and have no issue with anything going on here i feel like im losing my mind a little bit . the trailers did not look good to me at all is everyone excited about it posting from an alternate dimension or something what are people seeing in this movie that im not .

[multifandom-nerds-blog]

Sakamoto days manga spoilers! Parallels from the early manag VS todays chapter!

Showtime (chpt 8) with the sugarbunny mascot fight and Useful (chpt 198) with the fight in the dark and the piano finish. Both times either Shin or Sakamoto can't see during the fight, so they use Shins abilities to counter it!

Sakamoto is so proud. Also poor Lu. (They left the last panel out in the anime, lmao.)

Sakamoto carrying Shin like he weighs nothing, which to him he probably doesn't. Also Shin immediately copying Sakamoto and jamming on the piano. Love it

"You're actually pretty useful."- ahem. Excuse me. You just adopted him in case you didn't notice.

[rinchdressing]

klapollo week day 7: aa4 sequel

[xxplastic-cubexx]

I saw the hairless cat part and I want to had a fun fact to it.

Hairless cat are really oily because they don’t have fur to collect it, so their oils get everywhere and STAIN a lot- Erik will fully loose his minds with all the oils stain the cat would made.

the cat is ABSOLUTELY to go NOWHERE NEAR his closet alright he can excuse it using the kitchen table as a scratching post but he draws the LINE at his silk robes

[triglycercule]

i think killer sans would listen to frank sinatra no this isnt because im listening to him and i think his love songs are the kinda slow heartfelt romantic messages and vibes in them fit killer and his romanticness,,,,, ok it totally is hehee,,,,,,,

i think it would be cute if dust and horror dont expect it when they ask killer what music he likes. killer doesn't really seem like the type to listen to music at least right?? or at least not something so sappy really!! dust just nods his head and thinks about it (actually it's a pleasant surprise to learn killer likes that genre) and horror just rolls his eye (what a douche liking songs like that,,,,,)

[childrenofthesun77]

Now for all we know touma could have cared very little for akira, but since we got the reveal that touma is mahiru's father I've been wondering if the people that died in accidents (or "accidents") touma had wanted to call out his name are more people than mahiru realizes.

[pathologising]

sorry but I could never look at my own kids and be like "you owe ME" like I think if you do that you're a shitty parent

[yyoon5]

Just finished watching the Japanese movie "Confessions" made back in 2010. I'm not a film enthusiast by any means because movies were major parts of the traumatic periods in my life, but every now and then, a good screenshot of a beautiful scene finds me on Pinterest, and I get intrigued. Mostly Chinese movies, but tonight, something fresh.

The movie is terrifying. Absolutely horrible. It shocked me how I could feel so much for even the villain-protagonists of the story. I cried when Shuya's mother died and I sobbed even harder when Mizuki died, though I knew for both, in a way, they deserved it. You're not supposed to feel for killers and those who support them by all means, but the movie made me understand why they committed such crimes. I'd been warned by a friend going into it that it is like a "fever dream" and I agree. The amount of twists in the plot made the film surreal for sure.

I guess it's surprising because even when I do put on the rare film, it's never a horror movie. I went into this one without watching the trailer and expected a romance movie, because the screenshot I'd found on Pinterest was of the kissing scene between Shuya and the other male classmate. The kissing scene was even better knowing it was more of a weapon than romance. But really, I've never cried four times in a film before, or shook so hard in my life. One of the best films I've ever seen, hands down.

I would read the novel but I'm not fluent in Japanese...instead, I'll utilize the film as inspiration for my own horror works. The film was quite graphic but I enjoyed the visual work, as a photography enthusiast. What surprised me the most overall was that I understood what was happening and who was who in mere minutes. With other films I've watched such as Unknown Pleasures, I tend to be unable to grasp what the film is about or what is going on and why. The movie was quite immersive and I didn't even feel as though an hour had passed.

[the-acid-pear]

To me one of the biggest mysteries in DSaF is why the hell "ay dios mío..." Is said by all FOUR Phoneys we meet. Like I always assumed it was a Rebecca thing that Harry and Roger picked up while they all worked together at the factory but then you have Jake ALSO say it which makes no sense bc as far as we're aware he never really met any of them before UNLESS he somehow spent time with Rebecca at some point?? No idea 👎