#anyway i'm just going to

[bittertomato]

Woops, I still have Lostbelt 6 feels. Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Every other Lostbelt King got to go down after a tough battle against the heroes, but not Morgan. Morgan died the way Oberon said would be the only way to beat her: deception and assassination. And damn did it take so much bullshit falling into place to literally stab her in the back.

But that's not what gets me about Morgan's death. It's that Fujimaru, Mash, and the rest of their party will never know about it. The only ones to witness it and remain in this "future" past the collapse of Faerie Britain are Baobhan Sith (who did NOT need more suffering) and the audience.

It's why Oberon Vortigern's My Room line to Morgan tugs at my heartstrings.

I had to do everything within my power to kill you. Despite all that, I never even got to face you when you died. …So, let me be clear: I didn't hate the picture book you drew.

Oberon can scoff and say that once the story is over it'll be something people just move on from. Not me. Morgan's super fucked up ending will stay with me for the rest of FGO's lifespan. Because it works so well narratively-speaking for a character who has so thoroughly convinced herself that she is a villain—the witch that the heroes must strike down, no matter what version of Morgan this is—to die a wretched death.

Except she wasn't defeated by the heroes. She died under thousands of years of Faerie Britain's sins—including her own—and there isn't even anyone besides the audience who will mourn how massively fucked up this is.

[gojosbf]

[mroddmod]

some recent stuff i've done in magma bc im kind of addicted to using it lol

[egophiliac]

still ruminating over Lost In the Book With Spooky Skeletons Part 1, so here's a selection of some of my favorite little bits! (...some more loosely paraphrased than others) (I just feel like Idia has no room to criticize in general, okay)

anyway, I'm sure we're just going to have a fun time celebrating Halloween and nothing bad is going to happen whatsoever! :)

[gingermintpepper]

I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.

In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.

(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)

Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.

(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)

I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.

[sabertoothwalrus]

does anyone wanna hear my chilshi thoughts

[xshinina]

Guess who's back for blood?

[trickstersaint]

i want to introduce you all to a project that is very close to my heart... or lack of one. anyway. for anyone who has ever wanted to play a poem. i'd like you to meet aromanticism

(link opens itch.io - she'll run on html in your browser! please be nice to her!)

[revvethasmythh]

"I just think about the time we've spent together, and I start to fantasize about the way things could've been, about different choices and every little thing that's come our way, and those thoughts fade into a dream as I slip off to sleep to the sound of your breathing."

+ Sam taking emotional damage

[billpottsismygf]

Doctor Who: The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit / The Legend of Ruby Sunday

[title]

“May I rest my weary head on your shoulder?” (insp.)

In the Mood for Love (2000), Rafiki (2018), Cold War (2018), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), Moonlight (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), And Then We Danced (2019), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Lovesong (2016), God’s Own Country (2017), The Handmaiden (2016), Notorious (1946)

[tippenfunkaport]

You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"

[mroddmod]

chucks this overthought fiddlestan au at u

[egophiliac]

buckle up lads we're going BACK INTO THE BOOK

[sapsolace]

obsessed w these boneheads as of late :]

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals