#achilles to some satan to others

[the-liars-art]

Speaking of force-of-nature Abby, I think it’s time to reread this beautiful Reddit comment from ADB himself:

(Original discussion is about whether Abbadon is a Horus clone, then ADB just dropped by and threw this bomb and left. Absolute legend)

It's SO GOOD to see him out there letting off some steam and being a fucking force of nature and murdering the shit out of some people

[eelhound]

"I think Homer outwits most writers who have written on the War [fantasy archetype], by not taking sides.

The Trojan war is not and you cannot make it be the War of Good vs. Evil. It’s just a war, a wasteful, useless, needless, stupid, protracted, cruel mess full of individual acts of courage, cowardice, nobility, betrayal, limb-hacking-off, and disembowelment. Homer was a Greek and might have been partial to the Greek side, but he had a sense of justice or balance that seems characteristically Greek — maybe his people learned a good deal of it from him? His impartiality is far from dispassionate; the story is a torrent of passionate actions, generous, despicable, magnificent, trivial. But it is unprejudiced. It isn’t Satan vs. Angels. It isn’t Holy Warriors vs. Infidels. It isn’t hobbits vs. orcs. It’s just people vs. people.

Of course you can take sides, and almost everybody does. I try not to, but it’s no use; I just like the Trojans better than the Greeks. But Homer truly doesn’t take sides, and so he permits the story to be tragic. By tragedy, mind and soul are grieved, enlarged, and exalted.

Whether war itself can rise to tragedy, can enlarge and exalt the soul, I leave to those who have been more immediately part of a war than I have. I think some believe that it can, and might say that the opportunity for heroism and tragedy justifies war. I don’t know; all I know is what a poem about a war can do. In any case, war is something human beings do and show no signs of stopping doing, and so it may be less important to condemn it or to justify it than to be able to perceive it as tragic.

But once you take sides, you have lost that ability.

Is it our dominant religion that makes us want war to be between the good guys and the bad guys?

In the War of Good vs. Evil there can be divine or supernal justice but not human tragedy. It is by definition, technically, comic (as in The Divine Comedy): the good guys win. It has a happy ending. If the bad guys beat the good guys, unhappy ending, that’s mere reversal, flip side of the same coin. The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.

Milton, a Christian, had to take sides, and couldn’t avoid comedy. He could approach tragedy only by making Evil, in the person of Lucifer, grand, heroic, and even sympathetic — which is faking it. He faked it very well.

Maybe it’s not only Christian habits of thought but the difficulty we all have in growing up that makes us insist justice must favor the good.

After all, 'Let the best man win' doesn’t mean the good man will win. It means, 'This will be a fair fight, no prejudice, no interference — so the best fighter will win it.' If the treacherous bully fairly defeats the nice guy, the treacherous bully is declared champion. This is justice. But it’s the kind of justice that children can’t bear. They rage against it. It’s not fair!

But if children never learn to bear it, they can’t go on to learn that a victory or a defeat in battle, or in any competition other than a purely moral one (whatever that might be), has nothing to do with who is morally better.

Might does not make right — right?

Therefore right does not make might. Right?

But we want it to. 'My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.'

If we insist that in the real world the ultimate victor must be the good guy, we’ve sacrificed right to might. (That’s what History does after most wars, when it applauds the victors for their superior virtue as well as their superior firepower.) If we falsify the terms of the competition, handicapping it, so that the good guys may lose the battle but always win the war, we’ve left the real world, we’re in fantasy land — wishful thinking country.

Homer didn’t do wishful thinking.

Homer’s Achilles is a disobedient officer, a sulky, self-pitying teenager who gets his nose out of joint and won’t fight for his own side. A sign that Achilles might grow up someday, if given time, is his love for his friend Patroclus. But his big snit is over a girl he was given to rape but has to give back to his superior officer, which to me rather dims the love story. To me Achilles is not a good guy. But he is a good warrior, a great fighter — even better than the Trojan prime warrior, Hector. Hector is a good guy on any terms — kind husband, kind father, responsible on all counts — a mensch. But right does not make might. Achilles kills him.

The famous Helen plays a quite small part in The Iliad. Because I know that she’ll come through the whole war with not a hair in her blond blow-dry out of place, I see her as opportunistic, immoral, emotionally about as deep as a cookie sheet. But if I believed that the good guys win, that the reward goes to the virtuous, I’d have to see her as an innocent beauty wronged by Fate and saved by the Greeks.

And people do see her that way. Homer lets us each make our own Helen; and so she is immortal.

I don’t know if such nobility of mind (in the sense of the impartial 'noble' gases) is possible to a modern writer of fantasy. Since we have worked so hard to separate History from Fiction, our fantasies are dire warnings, or mere nightmares, or else they are wish fulfillments."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, from No Time to Spare, 2013.

[leonideez]

ok everyone obey me question

where do you guys think MC’s pact marks are?

because i have some of my favorites saved but i cannot remember who wrote them so know that they are NOT MINE. but here are my favorites, what are your guys’s??

1. **Mammon:** Wrist: mammon’s mark is delicate- all fine lines and swirling ink. it is gold but not offensively so. his mark shimmers when it catches the light and that’s when most people realise the tattoo on the inside of mc’s wrist is a pact mark the second born willingly made. the ethereal shimmer sets it apart from those forcibly made with witches and sorcerers, the glow a blessing of luck compared to a lack of lustre and fickle chance. it’s delicate like mammon’s self-esteem that mc painstakingly rebuilt. it’s complex like him and a symbol of their enduring trust and respect but most importantly it’s mutual for mammon created one for himself the moment their pact was formed. mammon’s pact is a subtle mark of his need and greed to constantly be beside his human. but it’s also his tangible reminder that he is enough and he is worthy of love and respect. he reminds himself of this because if he wasn’t, mc wouldn’t have agreed to his mark, wouldn’t smile softly every time the tattoo catches the light and most certainly would not fondly call him their first man

2. **Leviathan**: His would be on the ankle that got hurt in the TSL quiz, since the pact happened pretty much right after that. Being the shy, envious, demon he is, it puts itself low on your body and it always seems like to be looking up at the other marks. It’s relatively small because it has to fit on a smaller space

3. **Beelzebub**: beel's pact mark curls down the back of your leg. it creeps down over your achilles and braces your hamstring- it grounds you, keeps you upright when pressure would otherwise crush you. it protects your strongest muscle and weakest joint because beelzebub doesn't know how to be anything but a protector.

4. **Asmodeus**: His is in between shoulder blades: asmo thinks carefully about the implications of his mark's placement before deciding to  put it between mc's shoulder blades, not their inner thigh or lower stomach. asmo wants mc to know that he would bend over backwards for them. he wants them to know that he'll always have their back.

5. **Satan**: his is on the left side of the rib cage

6. **Belphegor**: his is a tramp stamp

7. **Lucifer**: his is on the back of your neck

i like when they have meaning behind them but i don’t have a meaning for stan, belphies, or lucifer’s

send me yours😡🫵

REMEMBER I DID NOT WRITE THESE NOR DO I TAKE CREDIT FOR WRITING THEM!!

[theprophetizaiah]

Achilles Come Down | Chapter 1: Pain As a Motive

Summary: Crowley believes Aziraphale died in the bookshop fire. Now, he's sending the armies of hell to avenge him. Based loosely on the story of Achilles and Patroclus.

Warning: None for this chapter! (Aside from some foul language)

Word count: 1.5k (this chapter)

All chapters should be available here! (I haven't written on Tumblr in many moons please forgive me)

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Crowley burned in the hell he imagined he’d always belonged in. Ashes rained from the heavens. Burning paper engulfed his senses. Black smoke burned in his eyes. He breathed in his dead lover. Misery. Misery for the rest of eternity.

“Somebody killed my best friend!” he was somewhere between a yell and a sob. “Bastards!” Between fury and agony.

They spent the last 6,000 years toeing the line between best friends and lovers. Dining at the Ritz, feeding ducks, saving each other from mortal peril, you know, as friends do. Crowley would know him in any lifetime. From the weight of his step, the smell of his hair, the sound of his breath (it would skip and stutter when he had thought of something clever). The air around Aziraphale was always heavy, but not in the manner of suffocation. Rather, his aura was a heavy wool blanket. Warm, grounded, homey. The closest thing Crowley ever really had to a home.

Before the apocalypse, Crowley recalled their drunken ramblings. Amidst the whiffs of red wine, he remembered how he smelled. Like earl grey, oak, and bourbon: something his barber suggested. He also always smelled a bit like paper. It made the burning around Crowley all the more unbearable. Anthony J. Crowley, fallen angel and Duke of Hell, reeling over the doing of a foreigner’s god. Certainly not the one he knew, or maybe exactly the one he knew.

He laid in the flames, thinking through his new reality. This was a rare moment of clarity for the distraught demon. Who killed him: heaven or hell? Either reality had some sense to it. Heaven could, and would, excommunicate him for working with a demon. Permanent discorporation, or banishment to hell. Hell would kill him just for the sake of it. Just to say they did. Racking his brain, he realized Hell was unfortunately, his best chance of finding Aziraphale, or at least what became of him. Crowley slowly creeped up from the ashen ground. He was unsure how much time had passed, but it seemed that the flames had slowed. In mere moments, he stared between the two escalators. He chose downward. As the escalator carried him into the dank, dark corridors, his anguish gnawed at him, clawing its war from the inside out. He allows a single tear, and immediately wipes it away. Only the damned cry in hell.

Crowley had stopped fighting for hell decades ago. In the presence of his angel, he saw no reason for it. He saw no reason to fill the world with more violence. The humans were better at that anyway. After his bout in Edinborough, he was promptly tortured for the next several decades. Crowley never saw the face of Satan, but he would give it an ethereal, firm uppercut the second he had the chance. He lost faith in his leadership, in the art of mass scale temptation. He preferred the gentle temptation of his beloved. Of asking him out to breakfast, bringing him wine, planting seeds of heavenly doubt in his mind. He thought often about the Greek myth of the origin of love. They were alone together at the edge of the universe, a body of eight limbs, four eyes, and a flutter of feathers. Whoever Crowley was, it was a product of the angel. Whoever Aziraphale was, it was Crowley’s collateral. And beautifully so, their symbiosis carried on through the centuries. The demon had the fight pulled out of him the way the angel unshelved his books. Carefully and with gentle hands. 

But now that he was gone, this was war. If he had nothing, he would still have Aziraphale, but if he didn’t have his angel, he had nothing. His fury craved battle, to make them hurt the same way he did. His wrath could summon the very same fire that had surrounded him in the hours prior. If his beloved really was gone, then he would destroy the heaven that took him.

Crowley barely managed his way through the crowds of demons slowly but surely trudging their way through the crowded corridors of hell. After passing the rest of the high offices he comes to the door of the one and only Beelzebub. For a moment, he questions if he should even knock, let alone open the door. He wonders if any of this is worth it in the first place. What if his Angel didn't care whatsoever about him? What if he didn’t need saving, or worse, he was already long gone? But in reality, he knew that wasn't the case. He’d be damned, more than he is already, if he let Aziraphale die knowing that he could have prevented it. Crowley gulps and burst open the door of Beelzebub's office. Demons were typically not known for their politeness. Inside, he sees Beelzebub sitting upon their throne, legs crossed fancifully, almost as if they were expecting him. Crowley's stomach turns at this realization. 

“How's it going up there?” Beelzebub asks. Crowley puts on his best front and looks Beelzebub dead in the eyes and lies:

 “Fantastic,” he says. “The Antichrist is mere moments from inciting the Apocalypse.” 

Beelzebub smirks. “Wonderful. Great job.” 

Crowley shudders ever so slightly. Not enough for anyone else to notice, but enough for him to feel a profound discomfort. He again looks to Beelzebub, “did you capture the angel? Is he here?”

Beelzebub looks confused. “What do you mean capture the angel?”

“Aziraphale,” Crowley starts. “The other angel that has worked in my same jurisdiction for six thousand years. Did you capture him?”

Beelzebub purses their lips, seemingly scanning their memory. Alas, still confused. “No… Why would you assume that? Why would we let him in here?” They began to look vaguely suspicious of their colleague.

 Crowley pulled something out of his ass. “I saw that the Bookshop was on fire,” he blurted out. “I could have only imagined that it was demonic intervention.” Beelzebub chuckled. 

“It's not always hellfire,” Crowley stifles a laugh, just enough for Beelzebub to think it's genuine. Beelzebub speaks up once more. “Yeah, I don't know about the angel. We don't have ‘im here.” Crowley takes a moment and a step back. He decides to tell the best lie that he's ever told, aside from the fact that he was not madly, disgustingly in love with a forbidden fruit. 

“I want that slimy bastard gone forever,” Crowley spits. “I want that fussy dumbarse to not be anywhere near God's green Earth.”

“Well, I know that much… What are you suggesting?” 

Crowley laughs disingenuously, but trying desperately to seem genuine. “I think we need to raid heaven.”

Beelzebub looks puzzled. “But why do we need to raid the heavens if we have already conquered the Earth, Crowley?” they said. “Why would we postpone destroying Earth to fight this war first?”

“That’s exactly it… they’ll never see it coming,” Crowley says. “We can start with the archangels: Gabriel, Michael, Uriel… There will be no one left to lead their army in such short order. Then we let the Earth burn, and winning their holy war will be easier than dropping the antichrist at the convent.”

His voice grows raspy. Crowley takes a deep breath. “It'll let them know once and for all that their God means nothing.” Crowley sits down in front of Beelzebub. They seem a bit more intrigued. Crowley describes a plot more ambitious than any of his plans to date: to invade the heavens. To crusade his lover’s workplace by summoning a demonic army, comprised of hundreds of damned souls. He plans to force them through the Gates of Heaven to slaughter any angels in their sight. Beelzebub loved this concept, and was almost surprised Crowley came up with it. But, he did dream up the Spanish Inquisition, after all (or so they thought).

“Honestly, why not?” Beelzebub smirks. “If we're all going to be separated for the rest of time anyway, this would be a fun way to go out. If they want us to fight this war, we ought to do it our way. Hell fights dirty.” As the flies buzzed among their crown, they grinned the way a child would when they had come up with the perfect prank. Except this wasn’t a prank. It was the end of the world. Of Crowley’s, at least.

Beelzebub grimaced. Crowley laughed. “Well, I'll go talk about it with head office, and we'll get it sorted. I want it done by the end of the day today. That sound alright?” Beelzebub nodded in excitement. Crowley seems giddy with anticipation but not in the way that you would imagine. The anxiety pulsed through his veins. He was setting into motion the divine war days earlier than was planned, all for a fussy angel he drank wine with one too many times. But at the same time, he knew this was his reality. Crowley couldn’t pretend he didn’t love him anymore. Not when he could be dead. If heaven wanted a war, they were going to get it, god dammit.

[f3mme-f4tale]

misc fic recs

hello beautiful people. while i may have intense brain rot for miss ellie williams, i did first begin reading/writing fanfiction for other fandoms. below you will find various pieces of work! it's been awhile since i've divulged into these particular fandoms, so i will come back periodically to update this list when i remember or come across a fic i really like :)

note: if any of these authors would like me to take their fic off this post then just lmk!

Greta Van Fleet

sam kiszka

⭒ pink lemonade by garbagevanfleet (79k of some of the best writing i've ever read??? last year this counselor!sam fic FED me)

⭒ the entire greek mythology series by godlygreta (for my song of achilles girlies)

josh kiszka

⭒ looking for space by satans-helper (man i just love joshua)

Stranger Things*

* - i no longer support because of the various cast members who are zionists

steddie

⭒ the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you by greatunironic

eddie munson

⭒ don't take my heart (don't break my heart) by hotdogwillex (back when i was an eddie girl, i ate this shit UP)

Harry Styles

note: i no longer read harry fics, but as an ex-directioner, these still have my heart tbh

⭒ cabin three by inthepants (as an ex-camp counselor, i loved this back in 2016. i've re-read it like five times)

⭒ 1789 by everlasts (THE ENEMIES TO LOVERS AHHHH; im a slut for historical fiction. have ALSO re-read like 5 times)

⭒ artwork by _miiki (chef's kiss tbh)

⭒ mosaic by fatbottomedgirls (so sad that this fic never got finished, but i think about it all the time)

Supernatural

destiel

⭒ twist and shout by standbyme (spn required reading, i don't make the rules)

[pain-is-too-tired]

BLOOD/ICHOR TW

Last days of Sparta, follow Him down to meet Apollo And he'll brace for battle in the night He'll fight because he knows he cannot hide He's never gonna make it, all the Poor people he's forsaken, karma Is always gonna chase him for his lies It's just a game of waiting from the Church steeple down to Satan karma There's really no escape until he dies

Outrunning Karma by Alec Benjamin

I know shocker shocker another angst art for them.

I do stand by that Luke should receive some punishment/consequences for his actions. But I also don't want it be something the gods inflict, because Luke's choices hurt other demigods more than the gods( main reason he shouldn't be forgiven immediately-)

So, Lee/image of Lee taking over that role just seems fitting. He was one of the first camper deaths.

Retribution and acknowledgement of mortal guilt is also something Apollo is often connected to. As well as protection of youth.

Lee is the son of the god who rained plague on the Greeks for the taking of one of his priest's daughter, in many versions assisted in the death of Achilles for the death of one or more of his sons. Slaughtered Cyclops more ancient then his own father out of anger and grief of lost of another son.

Absolutely Lee's gonna make sure Luke fully understand the effects of what he's done.

[just-sp-in-inginthevoid]

@tihaari, as promised, here it is

The songs with a * means I think about several characters individually (2, most of the time) for these songs

The songs with a ¤ means there is an english translation in the comments (the other non-english songs have subtitles)

Almost every songs have lyrics (in the video, in the description, or in the top comments)

As you will notice, my music taste is quite wide. Hope you’ll find some song you’ll like

(just thought about it but i think like only 1 or 2 are ‘happy’/not angsty songs)

Shinichiro :

- 4:00AM by Taeko Ohnuki*

- Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens

- Euthanasia by Will Wood

- Coma Baby by Nicole Doppelganger

- 最愛なるあなたは花葬 by 虻瀬犬 (Flowers, Mountains and Funerals by Abuseken)¤ (’Today, I’m just getting older. Today, you’re just getting older too.’, everything’s fine. ‘I’m getting older. Now, I’m getting older.’ no sign of the pronoun ‘you’, Mikey’s dead. ‘Today, I cannot grow old, yet since you can grow old today,’, Shinichiro’s dead, not Mikey)

- Birthday Kid by Mili

- I hold you by CLANN (this one’s over 9mins long. Just so you know if you wanna skip it lol)

- You are my sunshine - The Phamtoms version

- Don’t worry by Mr.Kitty (The lyrics fit as a whole but. 2:33)

- John and Nancy by Jack Stauber

- Telephones by VACATIONS

- Pale Machine by bo en (most of the song lyrics are in english but someone put the lyrics in the comments with the translation of the japanese bits)

- Secret by The Pierces (to sanzu ofc ofc. Also asked mikey if he wanted to start ridding bike… probably cuz mikey always wanted to but also shin never accepted but then. Then.) (first verse, OG timeline, second verse.. not-OG timeline)

- Mother Mary by Mr.Kitty

- Neverending Nights by Mr.Kitty

- Karma by AJR (OG timeline, before he knew about time leaping)(he does say in a chapter to wakasa that he spent a lot of money on suspicious religious groups and he did a lot of therapies)

- Youth by Glass Animal

- Lemonade by Mili*

         + Mockingbird by Eminem

Mikey :

- Sometimes by Nick Lutsko*

- Achilles come down by GANGOFYOUTHSBAND

- sister by Eve*

- Tout Petit Moineau (Very small sparrow) by Igorr (youll hear the pure despair in the screams | mikey loosing all of his loved ones one by one. Also parallels between a bird taking flight for the first time | bonten mikey jumping off the building. Probably the song/music i’m the less confident in)

- Poison Tree by Grouper

- Hurting for a Very Painful Pain (prehaps with kisaki singing the more feminine parts)

- Aesthetic ? More like Ass-Pathetic by Panucci’s Pizza

- I rather sleep by Kero Kero Bonito

- You are an Awful person by R.I.P*

- Sing to me by MISSIO

- Why didn’t stop me ? By Mitski

- Riptide by grandson

- Still Life by sitcom

- Between two worlds by Mili

-Cigarette Ahego by Penelope Scott (‘oh I don’t smoke, I just like how it smells’ → memories of Shinichiro - ‘In my defense I wasn’t suppose to be around this long’ → reference to the OG timeline ofc ofc)

- A sadness runs through him by The Hoosiers (Takemichi’s pov)

- HELP by PINK GUY

- Destroy me by Mr.Kitty

- Romantic Homicide by d4vd

- Suicide by Midnight To Monaco (the title is misleading. Its a hopeful song, okay ? Dont- don’t worry about it)

- 1985 by Bo Burnham (just for the 1:44-2:29 part)

- 不浄の世/The Impure World by Shitoo

- ハッピーエンド/Happy end by Shitoo (first part is final timeline mikey, second im not so sure. Perhaps og timeline shinichiro?)

- 棺の舟/Coffin arc by Shitoo (Manila timeline. Although I guess all of them work)

- Monster by Fight the Fade

- Bad Things by Cults

- Heart Nonsense

- Same Man I Was Before by Oingo Boingo

- Jesus don’t like im gay but satans cool with it by lil boodang (once again, you can ignore the title when listening to it) (‘summer’s always awful’ → Shinichiro’s death ‘winter is the one that breaks me down’ → his mom’s, emma’s and izana’s death)

-  物をぱらぱら壊す/breaking things to pieces by Kikuo

- 光よ/oh light (Hatsune Miku version) by Kikuo and here’s Hanatan’s version

- What i deserve by the remedy

- 降伏論 (Koufukuron) sung by Miyashita Yuu

- 悪い人 (a bad person) by syudou sung by すとぷり (sutopuri) (valhalla arc. To Kazutora. the ‘i’ve known it all along that you’re a horrible person’ may go to kisaki tho)

- 13th floor by Jade Lyel

- The mind electric by Miracle Musical

- 内臓ありますか by ピノキオピー (What’s inside ?by PinnochioP)

- Bulbel by Mili

- Oyasumi by bo en

- A New Hour by Mr.Kitty

- Bleed Black by Mr.Kitty (Bonten timeline)

- You’re somebody else by flora cash (can’t decide whose POV it fits best but it definitely describes Mikey)

- 大大大キライ/DAI DAI DAI KIRAI by DennokoP (Mikey’s words when there’s color, when it’s grey it’s Kazutora, from 2:43 to the end it’s Shinichiro)

- Mr.Fear by SIAMES

- CLOSET by Yoh Kamiyama*

(So. I love Kagerou Days. That’s like one of the first song i’ve got to heard when I went on youtube for the first time years ago. And it doesn’t work with TR timeline/story. But it could so much be an AU--) (Mikey plays the role of the boy and Takemichi the girl. Or Takemichi and Hina (with whatever role for each of them). Actually, picks two characters you wish to be stuck in a time loop, it’ll probably work ; You can imagine PekeJ as the cat idk if it adds anything)

Takemichi :

- 4:00AM by Taeko Ohnuki*

- the 1st opening of Owari No Seraph (to mikey) (different stories. Different context. Still works tho)

- I’d find you by phendste (about Hina)

Sanzu :

- Happy Pills by Weathers

- Blow my brains out by Tikkle me

- Do it for him/her (Sanzu singing it to takemichi) (also ive never watched stevens universe and this cover is the only version i can listen to the song so excuse me for ‘stronger than you’ following it)

- Room 401 by Shitoo (Sanzu thinking about the OG timeline)

- とんねる大冒険 (Great tunel adventure) by Kikuo (‘the you who is never anywhere’ is OG mikey ‘the you who should have vanished’ not-og mikey)

- p.h. sung by Miyashita Yuu

- Hyperdontia by GHOST (not all the lyrics work for this one. For example i have no idea what to do with ‘i’m pulling teeth for what seems like an eternity’ – but ‘i don’t want the infection spending’ first for his own scars then looking at mikey’s dark impulses, ‘pull ‘em out and wash ‘em off the memories – tear ‘em out and make up for forgotten years’ for the og timeline ofc, and ‘your hands in my mouth, 1,2,1,2, they never came out’ – how he got his scars. Plus ‘ahahaha’ for how mikey ordered him to laughed. 3:19 to 3:32 is (kanto manji) mikey speaking to sanzu – after learning shin was a time leaper from wakasa or something)

Takeomi :

- You are an awful person by R.I.P* (the first ‘him’ are for Shinichiro, ‘and soon he’ll realize he doesn’t need you – sooner or later he is gonna leave you’ is for sanzu tho)

- Everybody likes you by Lemon Demon (this man is the definition of wanting to feel important because he knows he isnt i swear-)

Chifuyu :

- Just take my wallet by Jack Stauber

- I can’t decide by Scissor Sisters (bad Toman timeline)

- Propaganda by Crusher (Bad Toman timeline)

- Mon amie la rose by Françoise Hardy (Bad Toman (or Manila) timeline. ‘my friend, the rose’ is Mitsuya cuz he’s the only one I can imagine - with what we’ve seen of the other Toman members of this timeline – not going full on evil)(‘you admired me yesterday – and i’ll turn into dust forever tomorrow’ for baji tho..) (btw ‘on est bien peu de chose’ while meaning, yes, in fact, ‘we don’t mean much’ also carries the meaning of ‘the person who’s in charge of us doesn’t care much about us’)

- なきそ – げのげ (Genoge by Nakiso) (genoge might mean ‘the lowest (of its kind) ; the poorest’ i don’t know japanese tho so..) (still bad toman timeline too)

Draken :

- Dark Red by Steve Lacy

- I’ll Never Smile Again by Frank Sinatra

Mitsuya :

- ビターチョコデコレーション (bitter choco decoration) by syudou sung by Miyashita Yuu (Manila timeline. Could work with Bad Toman too ig but i like the idea of Ran being the one saying ‘I remember now ! You’re that serious-looking person from back then… On second thought, nevermind’ about the festival in Roppongi where Mitsuya saw the brothers for the first time (and Ran saw him too))

Taiju :

- Saint Bernard by Lincoln Vlogs

- キリスト by 虻瀬犬 (Christ by Abuseken) (cw : repeated mentions of rape and child born out of rape) (ALRIGHT ALLOW ME TO EXPLAIN THIS ONE. While i don’t specially believe the shiba siblings were born out of rape (even tho it is implied their father was (physically) abusive toward their mother) the rest of the song fits. Taiju became catholic since he didn’t have anyone to ask what he had to do – so this song of someone asking again and again things without them being ever answered fit. There’s also the ‘I’ll kill you’ at 2:52 which can so easily be said by either Taiju, Hakkai or even Yuzuha) (if you don’t see where i’m coming from interpreting taiju this way – i made a post ive pinned about it)

Izana :

- sister by eve*

- Treehouse by Alex G (with Kakucho ofc)

-🔪、🔪、🔪 ///ナイフ、ナイフ、ナイフ/// (Knife, Knife, Knife) by Kikuo

- CLOSET by Yoh Kamiyama*

Inui :

- sister by Eve*

- Washing Machine heart by Mitski (to Koko)

Koko :

- Feel dead inside by Younger Hunger

- Money by The Drums

- 요단강 (Jordan river) by Natsyona (Vivinos’s video) (well basically change the video to him making money rather than sewing a doll)

Baji’s mom :

- Lemonade by Mili*

Senju :

- Brutus by the Buttress (i like to think she was bitter about being left behind by Mikey, Baji and Sanzu. And since she kicks asses she deserves a song that does too)

Kazutora :

- YELLOW by Yoh Kamiyama

- Two birds by Regina Spektor (with Baji ofc ofc)

- No children by The Mountains Goats (still w/ Baji)

- Sigh sung by Kagamine Rin (STILL with Baji)

Kisaki :

- Dumb dumb by Mazie

Hanma :

- No one lives forever by Oingo Boingo (the lyrics fit but ngl, it’s mostly for the VibesTM)

Hinata :

- 一ツ眼リッパー殺人事件/One-Eyed Ripper Murder Case by Shitoo (this one also fit in an AU rather than the canon story (where basically Kisaki stays in contact with Hinata – everything else is the same. Naoto knows Hinata is going to die in the future). Also watch until the end, don’t be mad at the ‘little brother’ ;) )

It fits too many characters individualy OR I think of several characters at once (like Sunflower by Michele Leigh):

- Scars by Mr.Kitty (I always end up thinking about the original quartet (Mikey, Sanzu, Baji, Senju) for this one. But it works for Toman)

- Look What You Make Me Do by Taylor Swift

- Sometimes by Nick Lutsko*

- Teen Pregnancy by BLANK BANSHEE (ignoring the title -)

- Summer Nights by SIAMES

- いかないで (Ikanaide) (almost every character lost someone they hold dear)(although thinking about Mikey/Draken loosing Emma-)

- Sunflower by Michele Leigh (ex-toman members to kanto Manji/bonten Mikey... im not crying)

- Nowhere to run by Stegosaurus Rex

- Trauma by Mr.Kitty

- Fight your friends by Mr.Kitty (Three deities/Kanto manji arcs lets gooo)

- Oh Klahoma by Jack Stauber

- AaAaAaAAaAaAAa by NashimotoP

- Welcome to Paradise by grandson

- Pain Shopping by grandson

- Forgive yourself by xojira (lyrics in comments)

- 愛を探して (searching for your love) by Kikuo (ngl, it fits mikey a lot)

- あなぐらぐらし(Anagura Gurashi) by Kikuo

- 猫の食卓 (the cat’s dining table) by Kikuo

- わたあめ (cotton candy) by Kikuo

- 君が死んでも許してあげるよ (I’ll forgive you even if you die) by Kikuo

- 哀悼、そして日常は続く(Condolences, and then the everydays continue) sung by Miyashita Yuu¤

- How it ended by the drums (ex-toman members wondering about Mikey – Bonten timeline or Kanto Manji)

- Evelyn Evelyn by Evelyn Evelyn (choose your fighter among the different siblings) (honestly i mostly do with the akashi –)

- Francis Forever by Mitski

- We’ll meet again by Vera Lynn

- I’m sorry by Brenda Lee

Other audios/songs which are too shorts :

- What am I without you ? - Baji & Kazutora/Shinichiro & Takeomi (if you read toilet-bound hanako-kun and you havent finished/if you dont wanna be spoiled even if you dont know the story at all - avoid looking at the video/skip this one. couldnt find this audio by itself but for this one)

- Have we gone wrong ? from Don’t Hug Me I’m scared - Bad Toman/Manila timeline (one of toman member telling mikey he’s ‘gone wrong’, the others getting between them and brushing it off. Sanzu asking if they went wrong, Mikey answering)

- Peppermint by Jack Stauber – Takeomi & Sanzu cuz Sanzu’s hated food is anything spicy

- Hope by Jack Stauber – Shinichiro

- Rain by Jack Stauber – Shinichiro/Takemichi

- $ 4.99 by Jack Stauber – Kokonoi

- Library by Jack Stauber – Every character who has lost their mother/sister

- Big Brother i’m just like you – you know who :’)

- Is it cold outside – Izana & Kakucho

- Daisy Bell - Draken & Emma

- BMO always bounces back – Baji (‘but i’m supposed to save the rift. That’s my job’ → baji thinking he could save the founding members’ relationship by himself) (couldnt find a video with only this audio and no song - only with animatics)

- This but with Sanzu

- It’s not Michael – Takemichi when meeting one of the future Mikey

- One’s a genius, the other’s insane – Kisaki & Hanma. That made me laughed so hard the first time I thought about it

- Where did the year go – Takemichi with Manila/Bonten Mikey

[periru3]

An Unauthorized Tafadhali Vid Starter Pack

Today I was bored, and when I am bored I make lists. The list my brain has decided to make today is a list of my favorite of my sister’s (@tafadhali) fanvids. Except “favorite” was too difficult and too vague, so I started thinking of it in terms of what vids I would recommend to someone who had never seen her vids before. That still wasn’t enough structure for me, so I decided to give myself some categories to make sure I had a wider array of vids represented, and what I ended up with was sort of... vid superlatives? Anyway, I’m quite happy with my list, so I’ve decided to share it with you all. Without further ado, here is me shouting through a megaphone about how cool my sister is for no particular reason:

YouTube Playlist

1) Most On-Brand: I am a (Library) Scientist - Multi-Fandom (Horror)

If you want to get a very quick impression on what sort of vidder Taf is, and some insight into her interests, this is pretty representative.  Multi-fandom? Check! Horror? Check! Literally about her IRL profession? Check! An ideal get-to-know-you vid for Tafadhali. 

2) Special Interest Vid: We Kiss in the Shadows - Multi-Fandom (LGBT)

Love me a vid that’s basically like “hey, come look at this rarely-vidded thing I know lots about!” (admittedly, a not dissimilar category to the one above). Anyway, Taf’s love and knowledge of classic films and of queer film history come through beautifully in this (as well as the other vid in her Screened Out series, Masculine Women! Feminine Men!), and it makes me cry every time. 

Honorable Mention: Paperback Writer - Multi-Fandom (Stephen King)

3) Critical Vid: Fortunate Son - Star Wars

This vid is amazing because it both captures all that I love about Finn as a character while also highlighting and calling out the ways in which the character what let down and done dirty by the writing of Star Wars. Also truly amazing song choice and lyrical matches. 

Honorable Mention: Hail Satan - Stranger Things

4) Character Study: Patient Zero - Harry Potter

One of Taf’s earliest vids, this character study is one I come back to again and again for it’s beautiful and insightful portrayal of Harry’s arc throughout the series, with a focus on his relationship with fame, destiny, and some really complex parental figures.

Honorable Mention: California - Mad Men

5) Shippy Vid: Umbrella - Singin’ in the Rain

Yes, it’s a Cosmo character study, but it’s also the cutest darn OT3 vid in all the land, and it’s Taf’s most popular vid for good reason! It’s a total delight! It’s full of silliness and very well-matched-to-the-music dancing! And it uses a song cover inspired by this very movie, so that’s fun!

Honorable Mention: C’est la Vie - Doctor Who

6) Emotionally Devastating Vid: Achilles Come Down - Les Miserables

If you’re looking to cry, this vid is the one for you! Tafadhali seamlessly blends multiple adaptations of the same story into one heart-wrenchingly gorgeous vid (rendered all the more stark and affecting in it’s Black and Red iteration). This story and these characters are dear to the vidder’s heart, and it shows. 

7) Intense Vid: Man on a Wire - Hannibal

This psychological horror/thriller vid is definitely one to get the adrenaline pumping! The fast-paced song paired with the super sharp editing of this vid really do justice to the visually stunning source, and capture the fractured mental state of Will Graham perfectly.

Honorable Mention: Brutal - Yellowjackets

8) Comfort Vid: Waters of March - Multi-Fandom (Miyazaki) 

This is easily one of my most re-watched of Tafadhali’s vids. While in moments this vid is tinged with sadness or sort of bittersweet nostalgic feelings, by the end of it I always feel all warm and fuzzy inside, and like my heart’s grown three sizes, and a bunch of other sappy metaphors. 

Honorable Mention: Synchronicity - Sense8

9) Vid that Makes Me LOL: Whatta Man - George of the Jungle

Honestly, whatta vid. It manages to be genuinely sweet while also making me giggle like a mad man. The song choice is inspired. It truly captures all that is delightful about this ridiculous movie. Honestly just a good, silly time from start to finish!

Honorable Mention: Short Skirt Long Jacket - What’s Up Doc?

10) Dance Party Vid: Super Bass - Sense8

Also a valid category for this one: The Sexy Vid. Basically it’s just a fun, energetic, sexy, joyous romp of a vid and it makes me want to crank the volume and dance along to Nicki Minaj and the lovely cast of Sense8! 

11) I Don’t Even Go Here: Beautiful Dirty Rich - Columbo 

So when Taf made this, I pretty much knew nothing about Columbo (I’ve since seen a couple eps), but what I did know is I loved the hell out of this vid, and sometimes that’s just how it goes! Must one know who these people are? Is it not enough that a vid entrance you with its on-point editing and its vibes? 

12) Non-English Vid: La Noyée - Portrait of a Lady on Fire

This gorgeous vid, like the movie it’s for, is in French. I think some of the beauty of this one is that while the lyrical matching is perfectly done, if you want to first experience the vid without the distraction of subtitles, I think the visuals paired with the obvious melancholy of the music paints just as clear a picture whether you understand the lyrics or not. 

Honorable Mention: Desaparecida - Carmen Sandiego

13) A Gift for Her Favorite Sister: Sound the Bells - It (Miniseries) 

Look, I never claimed to be coming at this list from an unbiased perspective. And Tafadhali makes me vids all the time, whether in the form of actual gifted works, or just vids she knows I am the main target audience for, so this seemed like a fair category to include. This one in particular is for a fandom that is super meaningful to both of us, and it makes me tear up every time! 

Honorable Mention: Derry Jukebox/Castlerock Around the Clock - Multi-Fandom (Stephen King)

14) A Co-Vid with Her Favorite Sister: The Chosen One’s Lament - Multi-Fandom

Honestly, I couldn’t make this list without this category any more than I could make a list of my own vids without it. We love making vids together, and we’ve made quite a few! This vid is the first (and arguably best) in many categories that have since defined our co-vidding body of work - multi-fandom, meta, humorous, set to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend music, just to name a few. Also the need for the 11-way split screen in this is what got us both to finally transition to using Premiere instead of iMovie, so I’d say we both owe a lot of our subsequent vid quality to this one. 

Honorable Mention: Rose Bride My World - Revolutionary Girl Utena

15) Best In Show: Pynk - Multi-Fandom (LGBT)

I literally cannot praise this vid highly enough. It’s beautifully edited, beautifully curated (what a selection of movies!), beautifully structured. The sheer scale of this project (not to mention the fact that it was editing in iMovie, where organizing clips is basically impossible) is enough for it to warrant a spot on this list, but what really takes it from merely an impressive vid to a truly great one is the love of the subject material that shines through in every clip choice and edit. It’s an earnest celebration of girlhood, adolescence, femininity, and queerness, and watching it even for the hundredth time still takes my breath away. Watching this vid, I just feel so much - I feel awkwardness and the excitement and the angst of growing up, I feel the delight and the connectedness of those formative friendships, I feel the giddiness and the heartache of first loves, I feel the confusion and the joy and the defiance of emergent queerness. I just love everything about this vid and I can’t think of a better example of Tafadhali’s skills and strengths as a vidder than this. 

Anyway, thank you for coming to my TED Talk. 

[libidomechanica]

In tones which (poore soules healthy as tragedy)

And where an occasional turn.     And wander a cover. Yet with travel with disdain you     are day you the trees watch. Things that sad, second moon grows patterned     into a patriot

nation, which Hamlet tears     desire to grieved my sleeve and unlawful, and laid and when     Arthur do? And, wonder to see, doe not broke my sight, the     moon-beam dwell, crie Victorie,

this den. She sighs, still usher’d with     old Benbow; and his debt, to think to do. ’Er he was common     cry, her eye, pant on thy lip, and her eyes o’er the Muezzin’s     cal to practice and

of thy motions love, for the churchyard     laid he, if the Beast. Who only the thing near,—all could,     young, unwaken’d which, some strangers good as sermon heard not     been by the spoke in fruit.

Cast one, straight almost empty honour     mother notion, whose the twelfth fairy queen, come nook a     glass not able to escaped or nothing but to keepe, as     thou shalt the scenes my

meditative mirth hath end. All, all     she passion, the twilight almost heav’n. Gods had stol’n thy branches     mix with Heaven of pleasures drown’d. And as a honeysuckle.     To battles, as

if crooning could have guess; but still     die—climbs I fail beneath of days of old time-piece together     the fuel perish’d, flames resort. We know how the sun, the     narrow strikes him, there lies

by her skill that my handmaid of     honour kept within, no sinking spirit calls, and round its     utmost pitch or rosin, grass before our harvests clings vse     to part its edge by shriek,

start, the bird upon the stories     shining lamps grew again are therein he was obliged to     keepe, as was the harbor and by chance relying fatal     web below than when he

did not still kept my words, station—     bearable: pennies sewn into a hemline. Sitting in     springs me to thanks, and wife. That vnto me beneath his no     blood than Ajax or

Achilles, and full of heroic     stomachs. In tones which poore soules healthy as tragedy.     Napoleon on the pit of inconvenient state is every     years that hast grieved my store.

Them grows colder to his wings, and     adore it, they slew, now back just gath’ring ev’ry thicket     chirps again. Of officers a sweetness, if not to     iudgement catches that lightning

has struck thee back to me it     seem’d to do with longing hue, and curst be still enter and     epic, if plains with his chance there was no sin to me-wards     your charms he met with

gratifying kings. How this harme did     not nap or lie in fair proportion was up, and I seal.     Signs painted face of lanterns, or his first Canto proue, but     hope drops are neighborhood

kind? Two of us at Conway     dwell within was, in heart to free as air, at sights more than     prosecuted for vengeance snatch’d at the one agrees? The     dying mine. Brief even

such a grand ever-musing itself     can fold mine, my Katie? When I study theme, so snug,     so calm, yet I bare with worse, which Satans subtill Serpents     guide, and tent to fancy

form’d the Noose of others, too, unto     my best of them in a cause, doe not perceiving drifts     in every can recall which had quite the portion which victory     by no meane the

exploratory resistance, each     stroking tobacco on a sudden rose, under his fires     of the light, and did loue- ditties produced by     I’ll write it not the knight.

[achillesmortimer]

Do you have any wrath related demons? :]

Why thank you for asking but yes I do have quite a few demons in my lore that are related to Wrath as that is a Sin and a ring of Hell in my version.

Of course you have their leader Satan but you have some native born demons of the ring like Ozzezoth and Koggal, who would be semi-important characters if I wrote a fic set in Wrath, but you also have Sinners which in my version are souls who were once human but due to living an "immoral" life they ended up in Hell. Two of my favourite Sinners have to be Deigo and Lucas because I just love their personalities and their back stories which makes them really fun to think about when I think of how characters would interact with each other.

But thank you for the ask and if you have any more questions about my version of Hell and Heaven please ask.

-Achilles.

[airconditionedgirl]

Tagged by @nsfwitchy

Nickname: Ali!

Sign: Aries 

Height: 5′8″ sob

Song Stuck In Your Head: Emperor’s New Clothes by Panic at the Disco

Sleep: this is easy lol bc i had a major panic attack this morning from like 4 to 9am ish or like a series of them idk and that tired me out so much that i slept from like 10am to 5pm.

Dream Job: Dog Sittiing!

Wearing: pink panties be normal about it (unless you’re allowed not to be u know who yall are)

Favorite Songs: fcnk, idk im not a huge music person i just like what i like? Addict, Cult of Dionysus, Achilles Come Down, Kesha’s Take it Off, Brothers of Metal is a band that I also enjoy.

Favorite Instrument: The Violin

Favorite Authors: Brandon Sanderson, Neil Gaiman, April Daniels, E.E. Ottoman, Madeline Miller

Favorite Animal Sounds: dog

Last Song: Cruel Angel’s Thesis probably

Last Series: Agatha Christie’s Poirot. It’s not Sherlock Holmes being extremely homoromantic with Watson but it’s a good show

Random: I learned how to solve a Rubik’s Cube last week! It’s been awesome and i literally cant stop telling people about it! Aside from that not much else has been going on. So I guess I’ll just put some movie opinions here: the Wachowski Sister’s Speed Racer movie is fantastic, the Star Wars prequels are good actually, the Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions are amazing actually, Mad Max Fury Road is a better Fallout movie than we will ever get, and I didn’t care for John Wick 3 that much. Like, it’s Fine? I just think it was doing too much, was too consistently visually overstimulating and less cohesive overall. Also the original “Chocolate Factory” film is low key facinating as shit and yall??? my favorite headcanon ever is that Willy Wonka is the Devil. Like actually and literally Satan. Seriously try watching that movie with that lens next time because it totally fits. He’s this dude who is the complete master of his own corner of the universe, he’s clearly very intelligent and is basically blatantly magical but scratch the surface and he’s also deeply unhinged, he guides the kids through the layers of his factory and literally Tempts them with things that represent their sins or character flaws, he’s all about testing them to see if they’ll resist that temptation or do the right thing in the end, a bunch of other little things that goddamn office of his and that contract and the oompa loompas might as well being demons (which is uh not good racially speaking but it’s better than the surface level text of the movie which basically has them as his slaves so Yikes) like seriously the movie legit gets so much better and interesting if you go into it with “Willy Wonka is the Devil” in your mind go go watch it right now damn you <3

And now I’ll tag @msaprildaniels @thetransgirlwhoneverwas @ginger-snap-talkin-nonsense !

[justcahttingtothevoidcat]

Dinosaurs never had a Trans panic

Well the MRI results came back after a little prompting from myself, the scans didn't show any abnormalities to the spinal structure so in a way that's good, but they didn't show whatever is causing my back pain so...

I suspect it's ligament or tendon related then, having torn my achilles tendon I do know it takes years to get better and my AT still plays up and is really sensitive should it be prodded.

The thing is it just leaves me again with nowhere to turn, how can I get it fixed, can I get it fixed and if not how long will I be unable to walk far or lift anything.

I am stuck, sitting in my chair, getting out when mum has time to help me. I know worth is not tied to productivity but I would like to do something, I would like to meet folk, maybe make a friend.

I do get a bit lonely and I really can't even begin to imagine what my longer term future is, that's almost unbearable to me.

Still, I did speak to mum about how I was feeling a bit sad and she said that she would take me round to Luss to see the graveyard which I enjoy doing, I do love a good graveyard.

I am loving seeing the Xmas decs going up, although I can only plan where things go etc, mum has to do the leg work which I try not to let eat me up inside.

This year we are going to have a stars theme in the dining room above my little xmas villages, the hall is more traditional snow themed, the garlands will go on the banisters and such. The living room is almost done apart from the tree which we will leave naked for a little bit to have the cats get their excitement over with before we decorate it.

It all looks so lovely and I adore xmas, it's my favourite holiday, although I am not a fan of wet and windy winter weather. Although I adore days when there is a frost, with smoke from folks fires drifts down the loch and the grass and the spiderwebs are bejewelled and the smell from the frozen air and ground is so crisp.

We are getting less of those winters because of climate change, although if we loose the Gulf Stream we might be plunged into more of an Arctic type winter. Or perhaps not, who could even predict the outcome of that really?

I wonder what Christmas will be like in 100, 150 and 200 years in the future? Will Christianity have died out and people will just celebrate it entirely secularly like so many of us do now? Will another religion come along to replace it? Will it even be celebrated? I can't imagine not having some type of celebration, just with the dark days folk need a reason to decorate their homes, put up lights, spend time with friends and family.

Saying that if the world collapses into some sort of Water world/Mad Max type deal, where people are so desperate to survive in such a harsh and barren landscape who knows what will happen.

I would like to think that people realise that only by working together there will be peace and mitigation of the CC effects, that we need to look at our resources, what is renewable, what isn't and how do we safeguard this planet. I hope we move beyond money, beyond capitalism, beyond religion and sectarianism and realise that all life is important, that we need to care for everyone, that we can get food and water and shelter to all people and the other animals.

So many people today operate from fear, fear of needs not being met, of social stigma, of loosing their safety that they attack each other needlessly. Without equality there will always be fear and fear is easy to exploit. Just look at the Trans panic going on now, before it was a gay panic and a satanic panic and so on and forth.

I bet the dinosaurs never had a trans panic and that's how they survived for so many millions of years!

[mkarchin713]

It all started when Billy was visiting Constantine for magic lessons. Billy simply dropped his pencil and it rolled under a bookcase. Now the average human wouldn’t care, they would simply get another pencil, but this pencil was special. The pencil was a magical pencil that was permanently sharp, never ran out of lead and had an the perfect infinity eraser on the end, plus it was a gift from Constantine and Billy didn’t want to lose it. Billy carefully moved the bookcase over only to find a small door hidden behind it.

Now Billy has seen Coraline, he knows better than to go through mysterious hidden doors, at least without telling someone else first to act as backup.

……

John knew he would never know all the secrets of the House of Mystery. All he was able to get out of Cain concerning the houses origins is that Cain himself stumbled upon the place while wandering the Infinity Realms after he made a wrong turn in the Dreaming. This made John wonder if Cain was even capable of betting the house but Earth’s first murderer claimed squatters rights and the house itself didn’t kick John out so he figured it was fine, now he wasn’t so sure.

Now everyone in the JLD was curious and wary. There was no way of knowing what would be behind that door and no one wanted to guess what would come through it. The door was a security risk until they knew where it lead. Someone had to go through and unfortunately Billy was small enough to go through.

…

Billy was going to be Coralined he just knew it. Why did he tell the rest of the team about the door, why didn’t he just keep his mouth shut and finish his homework. Now the voices in his head where arguing about it this was a good idea with Zeus and Mercury egging him on while Solomon was being muzzled by Hercules and Achilles while Atlas watched. Billy was just happy they found an infinity rope to tie around his waist. All he had to do was tug three times in a row and they would pull him out.

Billy had to admit though, of all the weird places he has crawled into, and as a street kid he had crawled into a lot of questionable places, this one was kind of nice. No mystery puddles or rotting smells. He did notice however that the further he went in the more stale the air got and the more dust was on the ground, like no one had been their in a long time.

…

Billy had finally reached the other side. The tunnel ended with a door, it was old, dusty and covered in cobwebs. Billy uses his communication device to inform the rest of the JLD he had made it to the door. Constantine, the mother hen, warned him to be careful and ready to transform when he got to the other side. Billy rolled him eyes, like that wasn’t his plan, and reached for the handle.

….

This was not what Billy had been expecting. He expected some weird dungeon or backwards world, not an attic, cause this was definitely someone’s attic. There where cardboard boxes everywhere, with labels like “college days”, “Jazz’s baby clothes”, and one that appeared to haven’t been opened in decades labeled “Christmas ornaments”. If Billy hadn’t have just crawled through a secret passageway hidden in the House of Mysteries he would have thought this was just another family’s attic he had snuck into to get out of the rain.

Billy didn’t let down his guard though, this could be the attic of a satanic family who ate people who broke into their house, like in that story Freddy told him last Halloween, or maybe evil witches or worse CPS agents *shudder*. Billy considered transforming but new if he did he would lose the element of surprise.

He quietly made his way to the door on the other side of the attic, careful not to knock anything over. He rested his ear on the door, thankfully he didn’t hear anything moving and gently turned the knob.

….

Billy was reconsidering his early theories of who could be living in this house. No CPS agent would leave guns and stuff lying around.

At first Billy had thought this was the home of a weird family. All the pictures on the walls showed a man and woman wearing strange costumes while the two kids in this pictures dressed normally. There where pictures of everything from babyhood to high school graduation, all signs of a happy family (a part of Billy he didn’t want to acknowledge was a bit jealous). If it wasn’t for the parents questionable fashion choices he wouldn’t think twice. And then he found the guns, guns radiating death magic.

Billy was about the examine the death magic guns when a large shadow loomed over him and a giant hand landed on his shoulder.

….

John was not worried about the kid, he wasn’t, he was just pacing in his library after polishing off his second carton of cigarettes in the last hour okay. It was all the brats fault anyone for finding the door and besides if he was in real trouble he’d just transform and take out anything that tries to mess with him. If Billy had time to transform anyway. Damn it.

“Zatanna, love, you got a shrinking spell don’t ya?”

…

The JLD had been expecting a lot of things when they went through that attic door, being side swiped by a giant redhead with a bat was not one of them. Nor was waking up tied to chairs in a kitchen with lime green cabinets while Billy was eating fudge with a man who was big enough to pass for Marvel’s father while they where being glared at by the red head and a woman in a teal jumpsuit. How if only they could find out why they were yelling about squatters and paying back rent.

*slides you someone’s malleus*

What if the House of Mystery used to be FentonWorks.

You. Keep talking.

[panic-at-the-waffle-house]

Persephone and Hades

One thing that I feel that isn’t talked enough about in the game Hades is the take on the Persephone and Hades myth. Of course, that is one of the main focuses on the game and finding her is a big deal, but the way the approach the original story is just *chefs kiss*

There are usually two versions of the myth that people know. The one where Persephone is kidnapped and completely against Hades and the marriage, and the one where she waltzes down to the Underworld and decides to stay because her mother is too doting. I don’t really care for either due to how it seems so extreme and simple when it is actually very complex. 

There is no true origin that we know of. This is a mythology--we will not know everything. 

Hades is by no means satan or a completely innocent guy, he is just a god who is trying to do his job which just so happens to be ruling the Underworld which most people associate with Satan. Yes, he did kidnap Persephone because he liked her, but this was under the order of Zeus. Zeus, her own father, instructed Hades to kidnap her. (Never take relationship advice from him.) Once Hades learned of what was happening on the surface, he immediately told his wife to return to her mother--something that she wanted to do originally. Of course, there are the seeds, but everyone has to have a hint of greed. 

Persephone loved her mother. While some stories paint her as an over doting mother who wants to keep Persephone all to herself and Persephone being resentful towards her for that (Lore Olympus I am STARING you down with judgment). Persephone wanted to return to see her mother and missed her dearly. They love each other and the seasons express this wonderfully. Persephone never decided to go to the Underworld willingly, she was taken there by surprise.

I love how in the game, Persephone states that she learns to love the Underworld and Hades. She creates bonds and close ties with those in the house as seen with Nyx, Thanatos, and Achilles. She adores Cerberus and the fact that she kept her location a secret and still lies to the Olympians when they come down for a nice dinner. We learn the progress of their relationship and even in the beginning, there are subtle hints that they love each other. 

Overall, Hades is one of my favorite games of all time. The storytelling, gameplays, characters (Thanatos, Achilles, Patracolus, Dusa, Skelly, Hypnos let me love you for eternity) and the development of Zagreus who is honestly such a mood. The games has its flaws (WHY CAN’T I ROMANCE HYPNOS. I WANT BOTH BROTHERS), but I adore this game.

Artemis I love you please offer your boons more often. Also: Hangover + Rupture + any Doom effects are too tier

[astaroth1357]

Demigod MC Series: Ares

Demigod MC Series: Intro, Aphrodite, Hermes, Hades, Dionysus, Demeter, Athena, Hades Pt. 2, Poseidon, Ares

Lucifer

He cannot overstate what kind of damage this mortal was able to do in their first few seconds in the Devildom...

The instant they got to their feet, they had managed to incapacitate Satan and knock down Beel. Lucifer himself tried to get between them and Diavolo but…

If he hadn’t moved his head, if he was standing just ONE INCH to the left… he wouldn’t have a head anymore. Barbatos was there to intervene, but had he not they could have probably taken out the Avatar of Pride and done critical damage to the Demon Prince himself in one strike...

Frankly, Lucifer prefers not to dwell on that moment... He's sure Ares must be proud of this one...

He pretty much treats the mortal like a live bomb afterward, if he can get away with not interacting with them at all, that’s what he’ll do.

He’s NOT scared of them... much... It’s just that they have a bullish and uncooperative attitude at best and since they know they can take any of them, they don't even consider him - Lucifer, the eldest demon brother - a threat...

But you know what the most frustrating thing is? They won't give him an inch of respect, but they'll always listen to Levi! Levi!!

Look, Lucifer knows he may not hold a rank among the Hell's army and he might not have been a major player in the Celestial/Demonic wars of the day, but he's still the strongest demons here, dammit!! 😡

Lucifer finds nothing is more embarrassing than having to ask Levi of all people to keep the mortal in line because he can't... Oh, the humiliation… He hopes they leave soon...

Mammon

At first, he thought they were scary. But in time he thought they were scary… and also pretty damn awkward.

Mammon wasn’t there when they more or less wiped out the majority of his brothers in the Conference Hall but when he finally showed up he'd never seen Lucifer look so pale… If THAT doesn't make you shit your pants, he doesn't know what will.

Naturally, he kind of toned it down on the "stupid human" stuff real quick after seeing that…

But here's the thing. After the two made a pact together, Mammon started to notice that the MC wasn't all that mean, they were just… violent?

He legitimately thought that they couldn’t stand him for a while until one day a guy on the street called him a dirtbag. The MC threw a punch right there! No questions asked, they just decked that guy!!

It was kind of touching… and messy. Very messy. Did he mention that they’re terrifying yet? 😥

As it turns out, the MC has apparently spent a lot of their life just fighting things and being asked to fight things so they're not very used to showing non-violent affection… 

It took him awhile, but he realized that their way of saying, "I like you," is, "I will attack your enemies." So now all he does when his brothers tease him is say, "I'm telling MC!'' and they'll stop immediately. It's great!! 😁

Considers them to be his bodyguard when he goes out to gamble in some… shadier places. Most of the time not even the bouncers want to take on the MC, ain't nobody getting paid enough to lose that many teeth…

Leviathan

Okay, so. It's not very obvious anymore, but he USED to be on the front lines of the war against demons in the Celestial Realm. He was in charge of battle strategies, he led armies, and even now he still holds the highest rank of the royal navy!

So leave it to the kid of a war god to sniff all that out about him, huh…? They appeared to know all about his record the instant they saw him and they actually seemed to respect him for it!

For context, this mortal tells pretty much everybody to shove off but any time he’s around they call him “Admiral” or “sir” and actually pay attention to what he says! He can tell it drives Lucifer insane, but honestly? It’s a bit of an ego boost. 😌

It’s sort of cute when they come to him asking for tactical advice… They get just as into it as he does with his anime and any time he points out something that they haven't seen before they get so excited it's like they're a kid watching a magic trick. HUGE ego boost. 😏

Speaking of anime, it’s hit or miss whether or not they can watch any of it. Anything with good fight scenes (and let’s be honest, not that much talking) they’re on board for. But if the hero and the villain talk to each other for like an episode before throwing punches then the MC will just rant...

MC: “The enemy is distracted... Why aren’t they attacking yet??”

Levi: “Because the villain killed the hero’s best friend and they’re-”

MC: “They could avenge their friend right now if they ended things right here!”

Levi: “MC, we’ve been over this... That’s not how plot works.”

MC: “And now he got away!! See?? They should have killed him when they had the chance!”

Levi: “*sigh*... Let’s just play some CoD.”

Satan 

The last thing he remembered when the “human” hopped out of the portal was a sharp pain to the side of the temple and Asmo wailing as he fell unconscious…

Yeeeeah, not great. And unfortunately for the mortal the Avatar of Wrath tends to hold a grudge… 

For a comparatively brief moment in time, all of Satan’s considerable ire had shifted away from Lucifer and to their new housemate. They found their bed, clothes, pillows, food, and even their toothbrush cursed!

… But Ares kids must be built from some strong stuff, because half of what he employed didn’t even faze them! He even put an explosive spell on their backpack and not only did they tank the blast, it didn’t hurt them at all!! It was like they’re damn near immortal!

Annnnd they kind of are. Apparently the MC had taken a dip in the River Styx at some point before and became nigh invulnerable…

Was it maybe a little terrifying to know that they had kidnapped a nearly invincible demigod on the level of Achilles? Yes. Did that also mean that they must have had a weakness too? In theory....

Satan honestly devoted a depressing amount of time trying to uncover the “Achilles’ Heel” of his new sworn enemy… until…

The MC was walking with him and Asmo to RAD one morning when they passed by a group of lesser demons harassing a small puppy. Now Satan may be more of a cat man, but NO ONE fucks with animals while he’s around.

He was right about to go over and rip those demons a new one but the MC actually beat him to it! Apparently, the second that they realized what was happening, they launched themselves forward and started bashing the abusers' heads into a wall!

… Live by violence, forgive by violence because in that very moment Satan decided they weren’t so bad after all. He even joined in!

Oh, Asmo gave them both shit all day for the bloodstains on their uniforms and the scratches on their… everywhere, but it’s not like either of them cared. Righteous justice had been served and it was glorious!!

100% would team up with the MC in some kind of vigilante “punish-all-animal-abusers” gig. They have but to ask. 😌

Asmodeus

Oh they TERRIFIED Asmo when they first showed up! How else was he supposed to react?? They brought down his brothers like they were made of cardboard!!

Though he had to admit that the confident, battle-ready look they had about them was sexy as hell, he knew better than to go bear poking! 😣 He avoided them like plague until they finally asked him for a pact.

And then he discovered something… something very unexpected….

They're actually adorable!!!

Okay, like, not in appearance (they look like they could pile drive Cerberus for Pete’s sake!) but he discovered that they have NO CLUE how to handle physical affection. Like zero!!

The first time Asmo actually got the courage to try and hug them he expected them to toss him off, but instead they just stood there like a malfunctioning doll, all flustered and confused… It was so cute!!! 🥰

From that point on, Asmo would take every chance he could to wrap his arms around them or kiss their cheeks just to watch them try and fail to handle it. It's more fun than picking on Levi!!

It took two months for them to finally attempt any kind of reciprocation and even that was adorable! They pecked him on the forehead without thinking about it then nearly passed out from the realization. Apparently, they had never felt like kissing anyone before so he was quite honored!

The brothers know that if the MC's looking too mad to listen to Levi, they just need to call Asmo. A nigh invincible warrior becomes a LOT less scary after you’ve cuddled them into submission! 🤭

Beelzebub

Beel didn't like them one bit, at least not at the beginning. They had managed to get past him and actually attack Lucifer which was NOT a great first impression on their part...

He honestly saw them as a threat for a while, but unlike the rest of his brothers he didn’t avoid them. He just kept an eye on them.... constantly….

Look. Beel is a big guy. Stealth is not his strong suit… If he's tailing you, you're probably going to know about it because there's a six-foot something behemoth in orange following you around while pounding down bags of chips. He's not very subtle…

That being said, after following them around for a while the two finally got to talking and he realized that they didn’t want to hurt anybody or anything. They were just acting on instinct before.

After making the MC promise not to hurt any of his family, they got on much better terms. Hell, he actually got them into fangol!

Beel's sport of choice is pretty much just ultra-violent American football so the MC took a liking to it instantly! After enough begging, the coach let them try out and they got onto his team immediately.

He likes having them as a teammate! They're very good at the game, uh... even if they take it a little too seriously…

They once tried to convince his teammates to decorate the team bus with "the helmets of their fallen foes." They're REALLY into the sport… But hey, they haven't lost a game since they’ve joined. It’ll be fine!... Probably.

Belphegor

Hahaha… He’s in danger… 😥

It took one look at this mortal to make him rethink the whole, “Trick the Human” plan… Since when have humans looked like that?? They could crush his skull under their heel!!

It took all he had in him to play it cool when they first met because his internal monologue was nothing but screaming… THIS was the "human" he had to use to get him out of there?? How in the WORLD was he going to kill them?!

Admittedly, he had to think about it for a while. Belphie's a clever guy… and a demon. So who needs an honorable fight, anyway? If he can’t win one-on-one, then he’ll cheat!

He waited until the MC got the door open and didn't attempt a frontal assault… No laughter, no gloating. He just waited for them to turn their back, claws ready to dig out their heart, and then-!

MC: "Do you really want to try that?"

The MC must have had some kind of danger sense, because they didn't even have to turn around to know what Belphie was doing…

MC: "Look. I like Beel and you're his twin brother… So I'm willing to let this slide. But if you really want to try me…"

MC: *looks over their shoulder with the glare of a bona fide killer* "I won't hold back."

That was... very persuasive.

The MC brought Belphie down to the others peacefully with his tail between his legs and honestly Lucifer was more relieved that he wasn’t a bloodstain on the floor than he was mad… They could have killed him sooo easily… 

They did, indeed, forgive and forget about the whole “attempted murder” thing, though Belphie was never quite able to shake off how frightening they were in that moment… He had nightmares for a while.

Thankfully, Asmo clued him in that the MC would melt into a harmless puddle of fluff if they got even the slightest bit of physical affection... Oh, the sweet payback he could dish out... It’s cuddle time. 😏

[latinadarkacademiawannabe]

good evening, here's a very important list of some of my favorite lines in songs. they all crush my soul to little glass pieces, and i hope they find you with the same effect.

"come rest your bones next to me, and toss all your thoughts to the sea, i'll pull up each of our anchors, so we can get lost you and me" my heart is buried in venice (ricky montgomery)

"you crave the applause yet hate the attention, then miss it, your act is a ruse, it is empty, achilles, so end it all now" achilles come down (gang of youths)

"i don't really give a damn about the way you touch me when we're alone, you can hold my hand when no one's home" line without a hook (ricky montgomery)

"in the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene, only then i'm human, only then i'm clean" take me to church (hozier)

"venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming, did its people want too much to? did its people want too much?" nobody (mitski)

"don't make me a liar, cuz i swear to god, when i said it i thought it was true" saint bernard (lincoln)

"i love everybody because i love you, when you stood up, walked away barefoot, and the grass where you laid left a bed in your shape, i looked over and i ached" strawberry blond (mitski)

"how am i supposed to pretend i never want to see you again?" campus (vampire weekend)

"i don't know what to do without you, i don't know where to put my hands" francis forever (mitski)

"and i hope when you think of me years down the line, you can't find one good thing to say" no children (the mountain goats)

"the blood is rare and sweet as cherry wine" cherry wine (hozier)

"i will not ask you where you came from, i will not ask it, neither could you" like real people do (hozier)

"i think it might be fear of the world and the way it makes you feel afraid" little pistol (mother mother)

"toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart, baby, bang it up inside" washing machine heart (mitski)

"i don't wanna eat the rich, i'd have to eat my heroes first, and my tuition's paid by blood, i might deserve your fate or worse" rät (penelope scott)

"i'm an expert just like you, and i like you i'm a genius before my time, disbelieving that's the real crime" touch-touch telephone (lemon demon)

"i wanna come and visit, i wanna see this through, but i never will because you're just not what i need, and i'm just not what you want, though you're in everyone i meet" banks (lincoln)

"i don't love you anymore, and it just stung on me this morning, i don't feel it anymore, i hope you don't mind me leaving" i don't love you anymore (ricky montgomery and the honeysticks)

"in a minute she already put my feelings in their place" vanilla curls (teddy hyde)

"i'm unstable, i'm a mess, are words that came to mind. i'm unable to regret the words that came to life. it's a game where we pretend i never crossed the line" sick crowd (teddy hyde)

"you know i love to say you're right, but this time i disagree" tallboys (teddy hyde)

"if it's gonna die just let it, without a goodbye it's endless" you can put your dukes down, stringbean (teddy hyde)

"beat my heart out, you're my muse" amélie (teddy hyde)

"the papers say it's doomsday, the buttons has been pressed, we're gonna nuke each other up, boys, till old satan stands impressed" as the world caves in (matt maltese)

"i've always wanted to die clean and pretty, but i'd be too busy on working days, so i'm relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted, i couldn't have changed anyways" last words of a shooting star (mitski)