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[summertimesadnessirl]

Alastor is the song gloomy Sunday? Like??? Duh?

He's literally the song gloomy Sunday. The jazz stuff, the radio stuff, the being really nice and comforting but actually driving you to do what he wants? The constant 1920s references? The media stuff? New media vs old media rivalry with a giant television?

Broadcasting the misery and screams of suffering people and using it to build his evil?

He's gloomy Sunday. Also war of the worlds. But mostly gloomy Sunday.

Even the name is a pun. It's a pun on the work of that writer who we don't talk about anymore who used to write characters with puns that told their secrets. It clearly indicates that he's gloomy Sunday.

Use your brain.

Alastor could have been Native American

Before anyone screams racism, removal of representation, or whatever I redirect you to my post about the Voodoo representation of the show.

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First thing first, Alastor is not a Wendigo but his cannibalism aspect led to fans believing the contrary, a belief that was pushed further with him being a deer. Wendigoes aren’t related to deer at all, they mostly look like men who are visibly starved and all. The deer thing came from pop culture.

Now you’re gonna ask..

“You’re all for representing properly religion and culture why would you want him to be American Indian if he’s not a proper wendigo?”

He could be a skinwalker with small elements of wendigo.

Here’s a small rewrite

It’s not related to Hell’s Safe Haven, I’ll be doing something different, feel free to take the idea for your oc if you want. But remember, Always do research :)

Why a skinwalker? They are shamans who started as healers but broke taboos from the culture which involve using their ability for harm and curses. If you’re smart then you should see where I’m going with this.

Rather than being an “evil voodoo man” Alastor could have been a shaman who transgressed important rules and became a skinwalker, one of these taboos is murdering a close relative to align with darker powers which pretty much fits for Alastor. Obliviously, you don’t villainize the whole culture, you can still show that shamanism, when not perverted by skinwalkers, can do good. Alastor’s mother could have also been a shaman and went to Heaven.

He could still have been a serial killer, stalking and learning the routine of his victims before killing them. Then he could have died in the snow because hunters noticed his activities in the forest, thanks to their dogs smelling the putrid flesh of the bodies he was carrying around, and then he got shot. Or you can have it that he managed to escape but got lost and had to eat part of the corpse he managed to get with him, but he also had to use their skin to not try and protect himself from the cold in vain partially linking him to Wendigoes.

In Hell, he could have looked like a starved disturbing-looking deer, starved because of wendigos and deer because that’s the animals he favored the most to lure people. In terms of powers, he could have the ability to reproduce people's voices through electronics mainly using radios to do so. A cool detail could be that these voices sound slightly disturbing and fake.

He completely took a more charming and refined aesthetic once in Hell to appeal to and manipulate others more easily. Skinwalkers are described as carrying bones I guess that could help for a possible redesign. Since his appearance is quite scary he could wear a hat to hide his face.

The actual critic

This is really a surface-level thing, it's a first draft based on Wikipedia, but you can’t say that it’s not remotely much more cohesive than whatever Viv is doing with Alastor.

This is something that absolutely frustrates me with the Hellaverse, Viv has very surface-level concepts, and she doesn't do enough research to bring them to their potential. It happens with Voodoo, the Goetia, the Seven Deadly Sins, and the whole pantheon of biblical figures.

What she does is she takes these cool ideas and slaps them onto her oc without much thought.

Take an example with Andrealphus, he teaches math and geometry so one of my first thought is to give me space manipulation. This means he can basically change your location in an enclosed space, turn an entire room around, and twist it to his liking. With his knowledge of maths and geometry, he knows what to do specifically to make you land exactly where he wants which makes him extremely hard to fight inside a house, especially if it’s a big place.

He could also completely reshape the laws of geometry and physics, how funny would it be to see that he lives in a small house, not taking much place but then you go outside and discover it’s basically a whole castle? It’s generic but it makes sense and makes places for lots of interesting scenes for fights or just aesthetics.

Vivziepop chose to give him ice power, for some reason. I mean math isn’t really an attractive notion in terms of supernatural abilities but you can still do something interesting with it. Unless his castle is a geometrical wet dream, I don’t see a possible link between the two. It’s a matter of creativity and the willingness to do research to cultivate it, she doesn't have that.

If you just slap very specific labels (like voodoos) on a character without thinking about how it could work for them and affect the world around them (if voodoo works then the Lwas exists), then not only you are not doing your “job” as a writer but you are just doing it for the aesthetic. It’s not wrong to do if it’s mundane things like saying that one character knows how to speak Latin, but in some cases, you gonna have to be careful about what you write in your stories.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

The funny thing about the PJO cabin system is that everyone's always all 'oh the twelve' this and 'the twelve' that but that's absolutely not even remotely accurate. To start, right off the bat it's thirteen, not twelve, because they don't count Hades. But not really because before Percy, there were no big three kids, so we're down to ten active cabins already but it's actually eight because Artemis and Hera don't make demigods.

And of those eight, Mr. D is stuck at camp (thus not really making new demigods all that often) and his only two kids don't even sleep in a cabin, they sleep in the Big House with him.

So, pre-Percy, there are seven active cabins at Camp Half-Blood:

Glee club, the Jocks, the Nerds, the Geeks, the Farmers, the 'Sketchy Kids' and the Popular Kids.

Or, in other words, the Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus, Demeter, Hermes (and the unclaimed kids) and Aphrodite cabins.

What's cool is that you can already see the cabin dynamics in the show. For example, the Athena cabin allies with the Hermes cabin for the numbers. The Hermes kids plus all the unclaimed kids? It's the biggest cabin in the camp by far. It's a battle strategy. Luke and Annabeth's close relationship is just the cherry on top for Annabeth. It'll be really cool to see how the show develops the differences in the cabins during the series.

[transdemon]

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Fanart of my most recent comfort fic diphylleia grayi by stacytrouille on ao3 🥺🥺🥺

This chapter (chapter 21) is one of my favorites so far because gojo is so utterly adorable, I love his baby gay tendencies on their totally-not-a-date hangout session before the plot™️ happens.

10,000,000/10 everyone should read it, it's so very good trust me🙏

[chongoblog]

Thinking about how in the Shadow dub, I kinda tried to turn the idea of a timeloop into a metaphor for depression, but I’m pretty sure that’s just because I was depressed.

[amygdalae]

Goth music obvs has a reputation for being macabre but that glosses over the sheer number of gothic rock songs that are some guy being so desperately horny it sounds like it's causing him physical anguish. So not that different from other genres really

[fatedroses]

zenos, but he's getting spammed by his weirdly tech savvy great-grandfather.

[hungwy]

i remember in college id tell people i wanted to go to grad school for linguistics and theyd be like ohhh interesting what can you do with a masters or phd in linguistics and id have to be like oh computational linguistics is a growing field right now so probably something with natural language processing and they'd be satisfied with that. but little did they know i didnt actually want that at all. the one time i did nlp for a class it was stupid and i hated it. i just wanted to learn advanced linguistic theory in the intensive setting of grad school. i didnt even want to do research or write a language grammar or anything... just theory

im still kind of like that with, like, most things? i hate real life application and use. i wish it would die

[gunstellations]

a little family

[soft--dogs]

i'm looking for song recs, does anyone know any songs that musically sound upbeat or cheery but are very clearly about death/dying/we're fucked kind of vibe. any genres or decade, i'm just trying to make a playlist lmao

[artuurle]

more doodles of this thing that haunts my brain and his boyfriend

More doodles centered around pre-godhood shenanigans under cut to keep post short for the sanity of others lol

tha legally mandated Only 1 bed trope ...

getting the old uniform out!

annnnd the obilgatory sad bonus U u U

[dykealloy]

this man is. embarrassingly transparent

[mentallyillastrophelfreak]

I think regulus is the type of person who has messy handwriting when they're breaking down while writing poetry as a way to cope because he will never tell anyone about his feelings and isolate himself...

[genomesoldier]

these guys make me sick /vpos

this is literally All of The Buildermans including my own interpretation of the build a man whos just the biggest dork known to ROBLOXian kind

[astro-eats]

Yuri crumbs. (I used every drop of motivation I have for this)

[lipt-97]

came back just to post these. okay bye

[wu-does-art]

bad day,

boyfriend comfortable,