#but for real please don't die

[yoshifan456]

Tom please care for yourself and don't die. I need that next musical of yours asap.

[omokel]

okay but this was so fucking cute :((

[marzghost]

Curse desert duo and their need to be near each other /pos

Scarrrrrr you had one job perma kill Griannnn fgijgvbjjyhhh

Hoping Grian dies next just so I can have the possibility of Skizz joining the bamboozlers (Please please please please I need vally girls+ Lizzie to show up and just bring chaos) and or the tuff guys ( TEAM BEST 2.0 ELECTRIC BOOGALOO)

I just don't want Skizz to die PLEASE UNIVERSE KILL GRIANNNN NEXT don't take my povvvvv

[melit0n]

And so my favourite Ancient Greek site ever; Delphi!!

This place (and, of course, the mythos behind the oracle of Delphi herself) has been a fixation for me for years, so I was buzzing basically the entire time I was there.

While everything I saw was beyond gorgeous, this place took the cake. An absolute trek up a mountain side (with a further trek if you wanted to see the Pythian stadium, which I happily did), but we'll worth it. Massive props to everyone and everyone who traveled from literally anywhere in order to get a prophecy.

Speaking of prophecy (info dump under the cut)...

Okay! So! Delphi, aside from being a temple of Apollo, was considered the centre of the classical Greek world (and just the world in general), for a long time, mainly because it was the seat of the Pythia; the high priestess, aka, the oracle of Delphi. Which, fun fact, in Greek shares the same root word for 'womb'.

Now, the temples (as well as the village, various treasuries, gymnasium and theatre) at Delphi are of varying ages, with the temple of Apollo being built around 7th century BCE, before being burnt down in 548ish BC, and then again in the 4th century BC. The ones which you can see (and are in the photos 😌) are all from the 4th century BC. Two thousand plus years old.

Isn't that insane? Sure, not the oldest thing in the world, but walked by so many people. Awesome, in the truest meaning of the word I fear.

But, onto the Pythia. For a bit of context, the original site of Delphi is believed to have housed a different God, suspected to be Gaia, who's son/daughter (varies depending on what translation of the myth you're reading into), named Python (sometimes called Drakon // Drakaina) resided in a cave. When Apollo took over the site, he killed it, and, when he did, it caused a great chasm to open up in the Earth and spew gas. Henceforth, the oracle was known as the Pythia.

She would've also sat on a tripod over this chasm, of which with inhalation of the gas, the spirit of Apollo could posses her in order to give prophecies.

It's been debated whether this chasm did or didn't exist—it is highly possible for one to have been there; the area is known for earthquakes, and natural gas that causes hallucinations, such as methane, ethane and ethylene is able to come from the ground—but, either way, the priestess was high as balls when giving these prophecies. Either from gas, laurel (known in the modern age as Oleander), or both.

So, imagine, you've been travelling from Athens to Delphi for a week or two, have waited a month to see this oracle, only to step into a dim temple to see a lady probably between 40-60 years old, dressed as a young woman, with visable gas spewing out from underneath her, and she spews what sounds like absolute nonsense, in which, very helpfully, a priest translates into poetry for you to take home, which turns out to be scarily accurate. I'd be damn sure the Olympians existed too.

Her being so accurate is, in fact, what brought Delphi such high prestige.

While the idea of living breathing oracle is very cool, the way Delphi was set up aided her being so precise. As noted before, Delphi was considered a hub (would've had street markets, banks, small villages, religious sects etc.), with almost everyone there to see the oracle—people would be waiting weeks to months for a visit from her—and, during this time, they'd interact and talk with those around them. War plans would be drunkenly shared, marriages would be quietly talked of, and most of these conversations between generals and kings, and their messangers and servants, were all heard and noted down by the various priests in the area, who'd provide information to the oracle, and slip in some more details in their 'translation'.

Interesting, no?

The oracle of Delphi is dates back to about 1400 BC, with her last prophecy being delivered about 390 CE, to a Roman Emperor who began stating various laws to end pagan (classical Hellenistic) activities.

[momentomori24]

I really hope people haven't forgotten that Grace is actually pretty smart and helpful during class trials. Like this woman spent half the time brain dead from getting zapped (a third time) and then woke up to drive the trial forward along with Wolfgang and Damon. She was the one who guided us to the answer of how Cara was killed through the bucket mechanism, and was even the reason we realised there was a mechanism used for the murder at all. She's very much capable of coming up with logical deductions on the spot and actually be correct, as well as remain relatively calm and composed while doing so.

When she immediately latches on to the first person with even a crumb of a chance to be the killer, when she disrupts the investigation by unintentionally hiding potential clues, when she immediately resorts to hostility over being suspected herself and allows that grudge to cloud her judgement later-- that's not her at her A-Game, nor is that her just being stupid. That's her reasoning being shaken by grief. Her erratic behaviour during Chapter 1's trial contradicts her behaviour during Chapter 0's trial, and that's because this time the victim isn't a lifeless doll based on a person she's never met and has no connection to; the victim this time is the man she's grown the closest to, the first person in our group she met and someone she allowed herself to be vulnerable with in a way she wouldn't be with anyone else. The one to give her hope in her moment of paralysis induced by her near death experience and the only one to actually reach out to her in a way she'd actually reach back. The person she thought was vulnerable, unable to leave his bed, and who she had to find dead after walking out the door and leaving him behind despite it all. She's not stupid or incapable of making rational deductions, nor is she bad at making sound arguments or reasonable accusations-- she's literally just guilt-ridden and grieving.

[starscreamingg]

Honestly transformers one deserves a medal for being the first transformers. Thing. In like five years to make me actually like and want to see bumblebee

[greyedian]

MAN I'm seriously so sad about season 2. Bc I wish act 2 had the same emotional impact on me as it appears to have on so many others. But rn I'm just somewhere between unable to care and actively annoyed by some of those writing decisions. Seriously the more I think about it the less I like it.

[artisimpossible]

It's totally fine to hate second chance romance (or any other trope for that matter), but the primary reason people tell me they hate it is "the characters broke up because they had problems and now they're just going to ignore that to get back together" and this to me feels more indicative of the fact that those people are reading *bad* second chance romance than that they actually hate the trope?

*Good* second chance romance is supposed to essentially be the sequel to the "right person, wrong time" trope where two people who were actually great for each other met at a time in their lives when things didn't line up, and now they're getting the chance to do it again at a time when things are poised to work for them.

*Good* second chance romance is things like "we were high school sweethearts but then your parents forced you to move away and cut contact with me, and now we're finding each other again in adulthood" or "we loved each other a lot but our untreated trauma got in the way but now we're both in therapy and ready to better understand each other" or "you were my first love but I wasn't ready to come out of the closet yet, and that put so much strain on our relationship, but now that I'm out and safe, we can try again".

The trope is all about healing, growth, forgiveness, etc. Two characters who broke up because the one cheated and damaged the other's sense of trust or because one was abusive or whatever who decide to get back together because the sex was good isn't the basis of the trope LOL. Like, it technically foots the bill, but all tropes can be written badly, and that's just poorly done character development. Second chance romance doesn't really work if the two characters aren't growing *a lot* from the previous relationship to the new one, so if that's the kind of stuff you hate, I fully agree, but I wouldn't count the trope out because of that. That's really only a small subset of what the trope can look like!

[march32nd]

me when the girl i've been dating for two months tells me that she doesn't find me at all attractive and isn't attracted to me and doesn't know if she ever will be !!!!!

[castielsprostate]

tumblr is literally a dead bloated horse we found on the beach and we're all poking it with sticks and slapping leaves on it. one day it'll blow up in our face and we'll find another dead horse but for now we just keep playing with it

[doctorweebmd]

i don't think i'll ever get over the comedic timing of being prepared to intubate an obtunded patient going into worse and worse shock on three pressors code cart in room pads on having like six people all staring at the vitals anxiously as this person might code at ANY MOMENT, me standing at the head of the bed ready to tube the second we have a safe BP and the nurse from two doors down comes into the room and says, 'hey doc, room x is in asystole' and just. walks away.

i'm just. standing there. peri-coding this patient. and i'm calling after him 'uh.... are they supposed to be?!'

absolutely insane delivery. no context no info just 'hey, btw this person's heart stopped. :) bye ' HELLO!?!

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

sorry for only saying this type of shit lately but i kinda wanna drive a car straight into a brick wall at the highest speed possible

[thechildbesuffering]

au where lbd is not killed at the end of season 3, but instead stripped of her powers and effectively turned human. she'd get to see the world from a mortal's perspective and further understand mk and the others' notions regarding the world's imperfections. i also want her to work at pigsy's in place of mk when he's training or not present. and you can't tell me that she would find a favorite pass time after a while. she'll sound hypocritical insulting people's "sentimentality for mortal pleasures".

[palmtreepalmtree]

I watched the first episode of Designated Survivor last night so I could watch the Capitol Building explode with all three branches of our government inside. Wasn't as satisfying as I hoped.

[kraniumet]

the reason gintoki looks back in that "walking past each other in the street" scene is because he's like "wait that was takasugi". meanwhile takasugi doesn't look back because he intended to walk past gintoki as part of his evil plan (seeing gintoki)

[sammaggs]

oh my god i guess i write gay 90s cop porn now

warnings: they fuck nasty