#apollo gbf

[toestalucia]

this is the greatest event theyve ever written

[yuyuyumefairy]

granblue 2023 fes bingo thoughts (or just predictions that half are delusional) im too lazy to put into a bingo sheet so it's here as a list: TL;DR There's a lot but basically if belial shows up I'll cry

-Belial shows up somehow sometime someway He has to crash the show or be a part of it- it's just tradition at this point -There's another gbvsr reveal i think ? so im hoping for vane or perhaps a six dragons character and i will cry if it's lu woh so soon but tbh i wouldn't be surprised if they threw haase in -ONOYU GISLA REFERENCE -something so insane happens during seiyuu shenanigans that it ends up making the fes hashtag trend -taro please sing on stage for us im begging for a new song here but idc if it's literally just paradise lost or parade's lust again for the umpteenth time ill never tire of it -lmao wouldnt it be funny if we had christmas bubs or belial -this is impossible but lmao lucilius summon or fantasy unit -maybe a silhouette drop of the new divine general but nothing specific -new QoL updates please KMR think about the people -relink advertising goes harder and something semi-big gets revealed to keep the hype going -new class? or hint at a new class -something really gay happens -housing gets an update and it changes EVERYTHING -six dragons virtual concert or grimnir virtual concert -Idol sing-off/dance-off between gran's team vs djeeta's team -please idc how but i need, I NEED BENJAMIN IN THE VIRTUAL CONCERT PLEASE I NEED- -if angels get hinted for anything ever at all anywhere i will dissipate into fine sand

[tigerpriestess]

Some Favorite dialogue from some of my favorite characters.

And re-adding my hubby

[lunarcry]

missing her too.....

[noxtivagus]

it's actually really adorable reading my notes while i was going through heavensward for the first time

[astrxealis]

good afternoon i am wondering who to make a theme for next

[cowbilover]

lo and queer masc/man rep

or therefore the complete lack there of. which is incredibly insulting considering how common and prominent it was in original myth (although not always perfect but what greek myth is regardless of straight or gay). also i will be using queer in place of LGBT+ as an umbrella term so if you're not comfortable with that then sorry.

now rachel has made attempts at including queer rep through hestia and athena as lesbians and morpheus (and maybe chiron? idk) as trans women. which could be a whole separate post on its own with the problems that arise with them, but seeing as i am not a lesbian or trans woman, i will not be speaking on them in this post nor to the same degree if i do ever mention them.

what i am is a queer man, both bisexual and trans. i am also a big enjoyer of greek myth. i am not a big enjoyer of lore olympus nor of rachel's complete lack of representation when it comes to men like myself despite it being again very prominent within the original myths. now seeing how badly she has handled other forms of representation for other groups, i am partially glad she hasn't tried. but while i am a little happy, i am more so overall upset and annoyed at this. it comes off as nothing more than simple erasure.

the closest we've seen of rep for queer men/mascs is aged up storge who is more feminine then other men in the story, but this has not been explicitly confirmed therefore i will not be including this. besides men can be both feminine and still cishet. finally storge is a minor background character with little importance, so even if rachel did decide to make him canon queer we likely would not see much of that.

his brother eros is another annoying case as he is unarguably coded as a gay best friend stereotype. but without being gay. he is fashionable, witty, intelligent, dramatic, and always serves as a shoulder for his straight friend to cry on. but again he is not even fucking gay. he is married to a woman with a child. while i would like to see better representation then the gbf stereotype it is still insulting that rachel while coding eros to act like that couldn't even do the bare minimum of making him bisexual.

now it has been pointed out to me that names of male lovers to gods have been used and slapped on female nymphs. krokos (one of persephone's dead nympth friends) was a male spartan lover of hermes, and ampleus (the name pysche took as a nymph) was a lover of dionysus. now i am not upset that rachel didn't include the original stories since the story is already messy enough. i am upset that she took the names of two queer men from myth and slapped them on two woman. one of which ends up marrying a man, and the other dying. a quick google search could show that these names belonged to male lovers of gods, and so to me it comes off as at best lazy and at worst erasure.

i won't be discussing much of dionysus since he was only recently introudced. nor of apollo since the erasure of his queer identity is only one of many problems that occur with his character and how rachel wrote it, which could constitution a completely separate post.

i will be discussing hermes though. as both a character that we have seen a lot of, and as one that has not been completely villainized by the plot. he had an incredibly early appearance in the webtoon and had a handful of myths where he had male lovers or expressed homosexual love. but not a single mention or even passing comment has ever been made about this. it would be incredibly easy for rachel to just throw in one allusion to any of his male lovers (besides krokos who has been turned into a nymph for some reason) yet this never happens.

zeus is another character we have seen a lot of, especially in regards to his many affairs. all of which have canonically been with women. despite the many affairs he carried out with men. one of the most famous being ganymede and the foundation for the myth behind aquarius and the cup bearer. again it would not be so incredibly difficult for rachel to add any allusion to his male lovers. yet again though, nothing. (i will come back to this post after some fast passes become public and i can discuss his treatment as a pregnant man)

poseidon also had a couple queer lovers but besides the reference to the fact that he has a polygam "pod" we haven't actually seen any of his partners besides his wife.

the way rachel draws men with all perfect six pack bodies is also something that annoys me, and i'll be discussing it briefly here. people always comment on the lack of body diversity for the women in the comic but for the men it is much more severe. hermes, thanatos and eros who were all shown to be more skinny and not completely jacked in the beginning of the story are now all ripped with washboard abs. the men are all built like brick walls and it is just upsetting to see as a trans man who does not fit into that category. it sends the message that to be attractive a man must be perfectly fit. not scrawny or skinny or god forbid even fat.

also again as i said in the beginning many of the myths for queer men were just as fucked and problematic. it’s greek mythology it’s inevitable. but i’m more upset over the fact that if rachel can modernize and (attempt to) make hetero myths less gross, then where is that effort for homo myths

overall despite the overwhelming amount of queer man/masc rep that exists within the source material, rachel utilizes none of it. there has not been mention or allusion to a single queer god, forget any trans god. to me it comes off as purposefully ignorant and as erasure of queer men/mascs. which is fucking annoying considering how many of us see ourselves for once fucking represented in these myths. she has plenty of opportunity to include rep for people like myself but continuously chooses not to, instead adding another hetero-centric plot line for no reason. it is tiring and annoying to see so many gods that were queer in their myths not be represented as such. i will not make assumptions about why rachel chooses not to include this kind of rep, i will simply say to me it comes off as blatant erasure.

i could go on, and probably will come back to this post but for now i have said what i have wanted to say.

[icharchivist]

As for the MCs, Rackam could be a dad. Sure, he's on the road (/ the ship) a lot, but I think he could do a good job. Same with Katalina, assuming she doesn't squish the baby to death because it's so cute. They both have some work to do, but there's potential there and they're already sort of the team parents, especially early in the game. Rosetta sits firmly in the aunt category with me. Most Gbf characters would be better suited to being uncles and aunts tbh

Oh boy right

I do feel like, like you, that they'd probably be all better uncle and aunt than parents, but if we were to say hummm

Rackam could be a dad and while he's always on the road i actually feel like he would want to raise his kid to be on the road with him. Like, he wouldn't leave them behind on an island and come back once in a while, i think he'd prefer to travel with the kid and teach them all he knows, in a sense? I think he'd be a decent dad. I see him too much as "the party's big brother" that i don't really process it, but i'd see him have his own child down the line.

Likewise for Katalina, i think she'd be great. She's very big sister to the crew, but she is extremely caring and responsible and once she's dedicated to someone she's sworn to protect you know nothing will stop her in accommodating the person as much as possible. yeah the only risk would be to squish the baby to death because it's too cute lmao but she'd be fine.

Rosetta is definitely more of the wine aunt type to me yeah. She's good with kids, especially when you see how she takes care of Io, but I feel like she's too weighed down by her past, it keeps holding her back. And in the late main story, while she taught Io a lot, in the end it's mostly Io who had to help Rosetta to work out with her demons in a sense. I feel like as a mother Rosetta would really feel perhaps that she's failing her kids if she's not able to get a grip of herself due to her own struggles. She already feels guilty to have put this emotional burden on Io. And because Io is mature and trying to grow up, she can handle that well enough, but it works because they see each other more like sisters imo, as a parental relationship it would be too much burden.

Io is too young to picture in a future how she would be, but she does have at least a strong sense of taking care of others and making sure everything is right. I'm sure she'd grow up to be good with kids, but for now, let's keep her being a kid.

And Eugen. Well. We kinda know about that don't we. Very good cool uncle figure. Absolutely terrible father. Apollo i'm so sorry.

[gaperitis]

i did a draw 6 characters meme on twitter and just wanted to show the results here!

[phoenyxy]

Eugen be like

[caiabresebun]

9 of them!!! headshots are hard

[toestalucia]

loki having a Motivational Speech(tm) to zwei & zwei then having to give one to him l8r. i miss lokis crew so much man give them back to me

[thessaliah]

Not Christmas Spinnah or Lily but I’ll take this. Thanks free rolls!

[asepride-archive]

(enjoy some mlm ace icons too! :) )

[noxtivagus]

the valentione's event in ffxiv was so fun hehe

[astrxealis]

hi okay i'll get to ... lots of stuff soon T__T but for now hi feel free to send an ask. or just comment idk if you want my hsr uid HAJHGBH i am on Asia Server yes