#We were so lucky lol

[johnconstantinesdick]

I get the criticism of the Hunters of Artemis from a narrative perspective—it sucks that it essentially boots interesting female characters out of the story—but it always baffles me when people viciously hate Artemis for *checks notes* doing damage control.

Like. Thalia explicitly goes with Artemis to avoid the prophecy, and I definitely think that’s the reason Artemis tried so hard to get her to join—hell, you can view the hunters trying to recruit Annabeth as a way to get Thalia to join. And Bianca? You can’t convince me that Artemis didn’t guess there was something up there and react accordingly.

If Percy or Nico were even a little bit girl-adjacent you bet your ass she would be all over them to join. No one actually wants to risk the Great Prophecy happening, and Artemis is doing a hell of a lot more to stop it than anyone else.

[manitapaleta]

if youre still taking requests.. grant and terry hanging out.. could be teen them or adult them :]

how about drunk college-aged grant and tj lol

also this ask is from last year WOW im terrible at checking my inbox

[spittyfishy]

Marisol Coxi was one of those Monster High dolls I really wanted when I was little but never ended up getting, so I think it would be awesome if she got brought back for G3! Going off that I thought I’d try designing her a G3 look! I actually love how it turned out, I wanted to keep her colour scheme and aspects of her original design (like the hair and the shoes) but also looked up some Peruvian clothes for her since she’s from Monster Pichu!

[mayasdeluca]

[sysig]

Stretch contest, with some very clear and unfair advantages (Patreon)

[kyouka-supremacy]

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[child-of-hurin]

extremely unrelatable Queen's Thief post:

Still and forever a little...surprised??...that the author decided to name Sophos's shitty tutor 'Malatesta'. And he's fake-Italian?? And he loves overwrought romantic poetry and doesn't care for the fake-Iliad?? And he's scamming the royal family of Sounis??? It's too bad that he is apparently so into physical punishment because re: everything else...strong candidate to class hero

[youreyeson1y]

never thought i'd hear chk chk boom be played at our school field on the speakers but we gone done it lol

[imasradiantasthesun]

Ez’s Hunger Games aesthetics, part 8: Victors of the 60s (part 2 of 3)

Cashmere Davenport of District 1, Victor of the 63rd Games

Gloss Davenport of District 1, Victor of the 64th Games

Finnick Odair of District 4, Victor of the 65th Games

Crystal Michaels of District 1, Victor of the 66th Games

[inkskinned]

one of the things about having an unstable parent is that it can so easily ruin your future. you want to get out, but getting out takes having agency. it takes the resume and the grades and the stellar community service history.

but you have to choose your battles. you know if you sign up for an after-school activity, it'll be okay for a while, so long as the activity is parent-approved and god-fearing. over time, like all things, it will become an argument (i can't keep carting your ass to these things) or a weapon (talk to me like that again, see if you get to go to practice). sometimes, if you love the thing, it's worth it. but you also know better than to love something: that's how they get you. if you ever actually want something, it will always be the center of their attention. they will never stop threatening you with it. telling you of course i'm a good parent, i came to all of those stupid events.

you learn to balance yourself perfectly. you can either have a social life or you can have hobbies. both of these things will be under constant scrutiny. you spend too much time with her, you should be at home with family is equally paired with you're acting like this because you're addicted to what's on that goddamn screen. you cannot ever actually win, so everything falls within a barter system that you calculate before entering: do you want to learn how to drive? if so, you'll need to give up asking for a new laptop, even though yours died. maybe you can work on a computer at the library. of course, that would mean you'd be allowed to go to the library, which would mean something else has to bleed. nothing ever actually comes free.

and that bitter, horrible irony: you could be literally following their orders and it still isn't pretty. they tell you to get a job; they hate that your job keeps you late and gives you access to actual money. they tell you to do better in school; they say no child of mine needs a tutor. they want you to stop being so morose, don't you know there are people who are really suffering - but they revile the idea you might actually need therapy.

you didn't survive that fall the way other people would. you've seen other people scramble and get their way out, however they could. maybe you were made too-soft: the answer didn't come to you easily. it wasn't quick. it was brutal and nasty. some people even asked you why didn't you just work hard and escape during school? and you felt your head spinning. why didn't you? (they control your financial aid. they control your loan status. they love having that kind of thing). maybe in another life you got diagnosed sooner and got the meds you needed to actually focus and got attention from the right teachers who helped you clear hurdles to get up out of here - but for now? here?

the effort of trying. the effort of not-dying. that kind of effort was absolutely agonizing.

[andrwgarfields]

hstwt: joe fans are so sensitive, kit doesnt mean it like that, they’re bestfriends kit is not being malicious, dont judge their interactions on a short video

*huge account post abt the drawing challenge*: immediate hate post on joe

[jakeperalta]

can't believe I ended up under a roof for both of my shows 🥲 rip eras tour fireworks I'm sure you were very pretty but I will never know

[rimouskis]

Your dog Cooper was a very cute dog! I am sorry for your loss. I’m sure you guys gave him the best life possible. Sending my love your way ❤️❤️❤️

Copper was SO cute 💚 when he was younger his ears were so ridiculously expressive and perked and flopped and twisted every time he looked at anything. He tilted his head when he heard a strange or high-pitched sound and it was the cutest thing in the world. We used to play together, and I'd rile him up on the carpet outside of my childhood bedroom, him snorting up a riot to tell me he was still interested in playing.

We had him for 17 years, which I know is forever in dog years, but I would have loved 17 more. I posted a little video of him on my Instagram story, sharing the news, and the amount of cousins and aunts and childhood neighbors and childhood friends who reached out to me to share their condolences and their lovely lovely words about him really touched me. People liked him, a lot, even though he was a weird little dude.

He wasn't a good boy truthfully, haha. He was raised around cats as a puppy and sometimes he seemed more cat than dog. He didn't really care too much about people until he got old and started seeking us out for comfort. He had next to no impulse control, it seemed, so though he technically knew what "stay" meant, there wasn't much likelihood of him listening when there was a squirrel or rabbit to chase. My dad always called him strange, but he was my little baby :')

I loved growing up with him, and he was always so happy to see me when I came home from college, and then later when I came to visit from pgh. He loved a good game of fetch, even if you'd sometimes have to "no take, only throw!" with him, haha. He LOVED sniffing around the christmas tree and getting to "open" his presents. I have so many videos of him with his head in a gift bag, ahahaha.

I was lucky to go this long without experiencing pet loss. It sucks, but this was always going to happen, and I'm just glad we got 17 years with that guy. thank you for your kind words 💚

[dailyautophagy]

I can’t imagine being so young I need an audience to feel real

[madeoftwinklingstars]

something i think is really interesting about judaism is that there are movements that simply. do not believe that the torah (the main book of judaism) was written by god. i mean in what other religion would this be widely adopted. why hasn’t similar ideas spread further? what makes judaism different from them? while orthodox claim that jews who believe this are heretical, they are still forced to engage with these arguments that the torah was simply written by people trying to make sense of the world. there are also multiple movements within orthodoxy that force them to engage with this argument as well— like the fact that there are orthodox individuals who believe in science and evolution. if the torah is wrong about adam and eve, what else could it be wrong about? it’s so just so interesting to me.

[everytaylorswiftsongisaboutcats]

YOYOK kids are COSOSOM girlies, who have epiphany traumas, are the tolerate it peeps, with a New Year’s Day kind of terror, while lost in their State of Grace as a dreamer, with a Nothing New sort of realism, after their The Lucky One teenage burnout.