#It's not super obvious here

[moob-knight]

"Riddler, what are your pronouns???"

[chanelle-lize]

No fucking way…

I just learned how to air dry my afro with minimal shrinkage…

…from World’s Beyond Number.

What.

That scene in episode 43, where Suvi has a bath and is like “Mm, my hair got wet, I gotta brush it out, or the shrinkage will kill me…”

Ok so… I usually do shampoo, conditioner + detangler brush, rinse, pat dry with an old t-shirt, LCO my damp hair, brush again, and then I just accept that it will shrink as it air dries because I don’t feel like twisting it to stretch it out, and I hate how it feels after it’s blow dried.

Today, I brushed after the leave-in, again after the curl smoothie, and again after massaging oil into my scalp, and my hair? dried?? with minimal shrinkage??? and kept its curl pattern????

It looks so good?????

Aaahhh?????????????????

@quiddie put useful Black hair rep in with the dungeons and the dragons????????

It’s in there with them???????

In the high-fantasy storytimes????????????

Aaaaahhhhh????????

[ultravhasart]

shazam!

[turtlecase]

im so sorry that you have to have a body

[firestorm09890]

do you love the city you live in

[anyplaceisparadise]

So there's been a whole discussion about humiliation and how Geta repeatedly gets embarrassed and disrespected throughout the film and I wanted to add one more moment that I noticed in the party at Thraex's scene.

Macrinus refers to Geta individually as 'your majesty' at Thraex's party, right after Geta has gotten up with everyone's eyes on him, to speak to Lucius. Lucius doesn't answer him, so Macrinus steps in and says that Lucius is from the colonies and his native language is all he knows, "your majesty". (Or whatever the exact words are, you know the line)

He then refers to both Geta and Caracalla as "your majesties" as a set just a short while later in the same scene. We already knew how embarrassing that moment was for Geta but Macrinus was really driving the knife in by referring to them as "your majesty/majesties" because as Mary Beard writes in SPQR:

"For the rest of Roman history, 'king', or rex, was a term of loathing in Roman politics, despite the fact that so many of Rome's defining institutions were supposed to have their origins in the regal period. There were any number of cases in the centuries that followed when the accusation that he was aiming for kingship brought a swift end to a man's political career." (pg. 125)

And then, from Mary Beard's Emperor of Rome:

'King' (or rex), however, was a more complicated matter. In the eastern half of the empire, where far more people spoke Greek than Latin, emperors were regularly called 'kings'. [...] But that was rarely the case at home, where Romans still prided themselves on having got rid of the last of their legendary early kings centuries before.

[...] From the beginning, most emperors were very keen to stress to their local audience that, whatever else they were, they were not kings." (pg. 38-39).

Contrast that with how they are addressed by their own gladiator in the first round of games. He yells "hail Caesars!", which is part of their actual titles:

Geta: Imperator Caesar Publius Septimius Geta Augustus

Caracalla: Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

And from Mary Beard again:

"Future Roman emperors included both 'Caesar' and 'Augustus' among their titles." (Emperor of Rome, pg. 38).

She also writes about how an emperor is addressed through a speech delivered by Pliny the Younger to the emperor Trajan:

"And that is exactly how Pliny addressed the emperor through most of his vote of thanks: not 'Trajan' but 'Caesar' (which he used more than fifty times, compared with 'Trajan' just once). (pg. 34).

So when Macrinus is speaking to Geta as an individual and the twins as a set, he's disrespecting them by using 'your majesty', which is used to address a monarch, and Geta and Caracalla are decidedly not monarchs (imo Geta feels this more strongly than Cara about this but those are thoughts for another post).

Now, I don't think any of us is going to argue that these films are historically accurate because they're obviously not and maybe the use of 'your majesty' was entirely trivial. Maybe it was used by Macrinus because of where his character (yes I know he is a real person, they all are, but again, liberties were taken here) is supposed to be from, but I also think Macrinus is savvy enough to know what to call the emperors, especially when he is speaking to them directly in a room full of people.

tl;dr: Macrinus is cheeky and rude and Geta can't catch a break.

[sincerelyrf]

me: *seeing people yell about how they did Glintshore & Percy's death in the show*

also me: ..................anyway

[codenamethebird]

In my last Hades ramblings, I was discussing in a broader sense how I'm hoping to see fragmenting of Melinoe's allies as Prometheus sways many of the mortals (or mortal adjacent) to his side. I mentioned Icarus very briefly in that mortal group because his dialogue in response to finding out Prometheus is their enemy is him being quite confused by that. Which I mentioned it mostly to highlight the trend of reactions from mortals basically all going "wait our favorite dude is fighting against us... huh", not because I genuinely thought Icarus would turn against Melinoe.

But I've ruminated on Icarus more, as well as got some more dialogue from him and about him in game, and found an interesting trend.

Icarus is a character on borrowed time. It comes up constantly (I recently got Circe's dialogue on it), that he's only allowed to fly freely as he does while the gates of Hades are open. Once they defeat Chronos, and everything goes back to "normal," he will be shoved back in the underworld, never to fly again.

Icarus' whole thing is that he was raised in a prison, was allowed to fly freely for a beautiful moment, before daring to fly a bit too high, and then went tumbling to his death. And then upon his death, he was constrained to a different prison. And in a more metaphorical sense, he's shackled to his shitty dad's legacy too.

Of course Icarus recognizes that if Chronos is defeated he'll be trapped again. That the skies he loves will be once more a faded memory, but chooses to fight for the gods anyway. To fight with Melinoe who he obviously cares a lot about. Which is why I never really considered him "betraying" her.

But hmm, idk. Like I said, I just got Circe's dialogue on him, so it's on the brain. But she basically goes "awww that boys so helpful. Shame he can't fly forever, but it hey, it is what it is, hehe." Just the casual acceptance of it all. And she's just one example of that sentiment. That of course he'll step back into his accepted place when this is all over, that he has to or he will suffer the consequences. Icarus has been fighting endlessly for the gods, but they don't even consider an exception or anything really. Mortals can not fly too close to the sun.

So, while Icarus has expressed otherwise, and I don't think he was lying, I do wonder if down the line, faced with the choice to follow the gods back into a prison this time he will never get to leave or soar once more in the sky he adores... which will he choose?

[hychlorions]

[akiiame-blog]

I really love the idea of making a long running Mario comic, but there are,, a couple of things stopping me

1. I'm not a good writer. Especially when it comes to natural sounding dialogue. A lot of my older small comics really make me cringe because of how badly I wrote the dialogue, how did a few of them get so many likes I don't understand

2. I jump between different ideas for art everyday.. I can't just stick to one idea and commit to it long enough to form a coherent storyline with arcs and everything. That's why I tend to stick to small one-shot comics 💀

3. I'm a perfectionist. I would want my first long comic to have a storyline that I'd be satisfied with. That is,, really difficult for me to do 💀💀

[ind1c0lite]

Who killed Gregory Edgeworth'

(timelapse below!)

[t-u-i-t-c]

"You want to help him, don't you, Sakito?"

[kiwibongos]

guys. guys look at me. its ok. comfort yaoi slap

[cowardlybean]

woe, doodles be upon ye

[liebelesbe]

[blighted-lights]

so i've been thinking about these panels specifically a bit more lately and i actually kind of like this scene a bit more than i did before. megatron is offering ravage an out here. and thinking about it, this is likely the first time in a long, long time that anyone has actually cared what ravage wanted when it comes to the decepticons and his place among them. this isn't to say of course that others simply don't care what ravage thinks, but there is no one in ravage's life who would even think to ask him if he wants to be part of the cause anymore. he is ravage; his devotion to the cause is always assumed to be strong simply because of who he is. or at the very least his devotion to soundwave is always assumed. and of course megatron had to be the one to do it, because megatron is one of the few who has said yes to the very same question he's given to ravage.

the other notable example is, of course, when deadlock decided to leave the decepticons and become drift again. ravage's choice to remain seperate from the decepticons isn't as dramatic or complete as drift's or megatron's, but the fact that he chose to remain with megatron on a ship full of autobots rather than to rejoin soundwave's efforts to rebuild the decepticons on earth with galvatron even when it becomes clear that his mission is over... idk. i think it means something. and im not saying "ravage was considering joining the autbots like drift and megs" because you'd honestly have to kill him before he ever did that and he still clearly sees himself as being seperate from the autobots, but idk. im not as against this scene as i was before now that i'm really thinking about it. we're never given a solid reason why ravage decides to stay and it's never expanded upon in later issues, but him using this as an opportunity to "get out" when he's never really been given the chance before to leave (either due to his own obligation/affection towards soundwave, belief in the cause, inability to leave due to the sheer danger leaving the cons would bring him, ect) is Important to Me™️

and he could always claim he was lingering with the lost light to continue keeping an eye on megatron, even though megatron has said he isn't willing to return to the cons and seems pretty damn convinced of it. i still wish we got to see him talk more about the cons in general because of just how intense his intro is:

buuut ravage using this as an opportunity seperate from the cons while using the excuse that he is still watching megatron is a thought that's been fun to chew on for the past little while, so i thought i'd share it.