#beyond the myths

[voluxpa]

-- NOUVELLE MAJ ON BEYOND THE MYTHS!

[soletear]

avatars - Sabrina Carpenter (400x640)

credit : soletear

[beyondthemyths-rpg]

𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫 LUX.

𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄́; billy bowen, ft. tati gabrielle. 29 yo, humain·e/banshee/sirène/, derby chez les marauders.

𝐏𝐀𝐑; alaois murtagh, ft. saoirse ronan. femme, 27yo, sirène, pilleuse chez les marauders.

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[first love, help in mischief, scammers for the best, use for power, left without a word to avoid her pain.]

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coucou toi!!! alaois attend avec impatience billy pour lui péter les dents, tu lui en voudras pas :)))) je te promets plein de trop cool aventures, des mouchoirs et des cœurs brisés, je suis accroc on va pas se mentir mais si tu t'intéresses à bibi, c'est que toi aussi hihi alors je suis sûre qu'on va s'aimer, sur une étoile ou sur un oreiller comme on dit si bien

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (11/05/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[onehundredfallenpetals]

One of many late nights during their journey

[discard-celestia]

lestat de lioncourt - on the deer which runs faster than itself. Hélène Cixous, Stigmata / Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat / Interview with a Vampire (2022) / Catherine Malabou, Ontology of the Accident / Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 / Louis Moe, Allegory / Ovid, Metamorphoses / Ethel Cain, Ptolomea / The Company of Wolves (1984) / Lingua Ignota, I WHO BEND THE TALL GRASSES / Hugh Parry, Ovid's Metamorphoses: Violence in a Pastoral Landscape.

[starry-eyed-psychopomp]

Okay we don’t actually fully have any of them BUT STILL!!!

[arabella-strange]

Ugh Downfall is so so good. I wish we'd had a full four-part arc (like Calamity), but I imagine with this cast -- and Brennan as GM -- the choice was these three sessions or nothing, and I am floored by them to the impossibility of imagining anyone else

[sunforgrace]

sorry I know it’s 2023 the show has Been over but on any other show. your best friend confesses their love for you and dies. the very act of confession is what kills them because its their moment of true happiness - just telling you they love you - so the act of confession, of loving you, becomes happiness for its own sake and sacrificial death all at once.

on any other show. perhaps this would not insignificantly impact the character who was confessed to and would be further addressed in the text of the show. as you do when such fundamental worldview changes are introduced to characters that they now have to reconcile with along with the loss. perhaps this would even be a subplot, an arc to their character development. on any other show.

on the show where - just two seasons ago - said character Did have an entire arc and subplot dedicated to mourning the loss of their best friend who was killed in the context of battle, without any added significance such as. I don’t know. telling the other they’re in love with them which is the very thing that kills them. after the audience is deliberately shown that the character mourns for them in a distinct way compared to other characters, who mourn him as a close friend or paternal figure. which perhaps would beg the question: what is the distinction then. and the answer is: don’t worry about it. You Are Watching Supernatural

[tangents-within-tangents]

I think something that's seriously bothered me about the Gravity Falls fandom is how Ford, which has been depicted as nothing but aro, gets that depiction constantly thrown out the window to ship him with Bill Cipher. The idea that their toxic relationship could only ever be something romantic, and that friendships don't have these kinds of explosive shitty relationships is ludicrous! In my own experience, the worst abusive relationships I've seen had been between friends, not romantic parters. This fandom has been driving me bonkers because everywhere you look people are spreading this misconception that "BILLFORD IS CANON!!!" because they never take off their shipping glasses. Characters do not need romance to make their experiences complex!

Yes like the fandom thing is always "if you don't like it you can just scroll past" or whatever, but there is this point where shipping culture just gets so pervasive and unavoidable!

And it basically inherently devalues/invalidates friendships and any other type of love beside romantic or sexual (which have so much real life and storytelling merit!). Especially when it's treated as if it is the only way to view things, like it's the default, even in cases when there is literally nothing in the text to actually suggest sex/romance!

And like yeah plenty of hc and shipping has nothing to do with what is or isn't in the text. But when aro/ace identities are treated as an empty slate to project whatever on instead of as an identity in itself? When there is so much romance all over the place but you can't let us have our one (like literally one) canon character? When it gets to the point that you can't possibly think of a 'platonic explanation' for things that literally do not have to be romantic in any way? If you can't conceive of a relationship having value and depth, love and complexity without romance/sex? If you can't think of a character/storyline being interesting without it, or of someone's life being meaningful and complete without it? That's just amatonormative (aka aphobic)

And like can you see why maybe that would get frustrating for some of us to constantly see everywhere all the time?

[acediscowlng]

i have a pet headcanon that when Charles says he never finished the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, what he actually means is that he never finished 1989 punk rock film Shredder Orpheus which features, among other things: life and death skateboarding, the underworld being the literal underworld for dead people but also a corporate television channel, and a special magical Jimi Hendrix guitar

he watched it in St. Hilarion's basement on an old CRT TV where half the screen is purple and the speakers are on their last dying breath and he was only half paying attention because he and his friends were passing a joint around and he needed to study for a math exam so he catches the scene where orpheus and Eurydice reunite and thinks "huh job officially jobbed. good for them 👍👍" and completely misses the fact that they reunited because orpheus was dead and that the last ten minutes of the movie involved the logistics of how a group of punk kids ended up with his skull as a symbol of rebellion against The Man(TM)

[voluxpa]

JE VOUS AVOUE QUE CETTE VERSION

ça me fait trop plaisir de la poster parce que j'ai pris grand plaisir à la faire et que ça faisait sincèrement longtemps que j'étais pas aussi contente du résultat, donc VOILÀ

sur btm on met à l'honneur les MARAUDEURS, l'esprit même des pirates 🔥

[soletear]

crackships - Luke Evans & Travis Fimmel

(TW blood, sword, axe)

la castagne. – salazar & rhys

credit : soletear

[beyondthemyths-rpg]

𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫 LUX.

𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐇𝐄́; kay svarog, ft. tom hardy -- homme, face 45yo, soul ??yo, léviathan, ex-capitaine en peine.

𝐏𝐀𝐑; velvet rosen, ft. sharon stone (young) -- femme, face 34yo, soul ??yo, sirène, vendeuse de rêve.

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dogue aux babines maltées; vogue au gré d'un océan exalté. il est blackfangs, le cabot des mers.

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omg bonjour à toi et surtout merci d'avance?? ne serait-ce que de lire ce petit message et de t'imaginer tenter ce personnage, c'est déjà bcp. sache que je l'attends de pieds fermes et que j'ai déjà mille scénarios de rp possibles, une infinité de dramas à te proposer et plein de hype à donner! dont n'attend plus, et fonce ziurehz

[ao3-anonymous]

Fastest Growing Fandoms on AO3 This Week (10/14/2024)

Every week I pull data on how many fics are in each fandom and compare to the previous week, then calculate the percentage increase to determine fastest growing fandoms.  Since this naturally skews towards smaller fandoms, I have included the same data filtered to Over 1k, 5k, & 10k fics.

Overall:

Over 1,000 Fics:

Over 5,000 Fics:

Over 10,000 Fics:

Source: AO3 Fandom Dashboard

[stubbornlightoflife]

Kurt Darling Kahurangi Tuhoro lives

(heavily references Illya Repin's portrait of Chukovsky)