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ive been obsessed with this one frame for hours
#personal tag#idk what makes it so???/ IDK????? something about vi's eyes about to eat cait alive (ok to be fair she did lol)#JUST THE WAY SHE LOOKS AT HER..........#anywayssssssssssssssss#ALSO HER EYE MAKEUP IS BEAUTIFUL IM OBSESSED#I LOVE THE BABY HAIRS ON CAITS BACK#POOR VI AND THE INJURIES ON HER HANDS FROM PUNCHING THE WALL#BUT ITS SO CUTE THAT SHE RLLY DID TIPTOE TO HUG CAIT AND just *FEEL* her#love love love ITTTTT#caitvi#<- mostly bc ik some ppl dont like them and ive been spamming them and im giving u the opportunity to filter it bc i cant shut up about it
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holy hell i found him y’all. he is indeed in rural Virginia.
#trc#the raven cycle#the raven king#the raven boys#glendower#welsh kings#maggie stiefvater#i wasnt even looking i just happened upon this road lol#honestly a+ street naming#i love virginia man#like its so beautiful#the pics are from glendower rd#yes it was mostly gravel#and a little haunting but definitely a little magical too <3#gansey#blue sargent#richard gansey iii#trc noah#ronan lynch#adam parrish
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I will never ever ever ever get over Diego Velazquez's portrait work
First four are paintings of little people (jesters) of the Spanish court - you can read more about them here.
Last one is a painting of Juan de Pareja, another painter (you can read more about him here, this article and most other sources say he was Diego Velazquez's slave who was later freed, but I saw another one say that that was recently debunked so idk which is correct lol). It's the earliest known portrait of an Afro-Spanish man.
#art#inspiration#mostly posting these to put in my inspiration tag tbh lol#I have a painting planned that I might study these for#I just love how REAL people look in his work#They're so incredibly honest and beautiful#diego velazquez#art history
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oh shid it me. how do normal people know how to emote when lookint at a camera
#me#transfem#selfie#lesbian#bisexual#girls like us#trans is beautiful#trans woman#tummy tuesday#kinda? it is mostly my sternum lol#trans#transgender
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*takes a drag of my cigarette* so there's this movie...you might have heard of it
#boq woodsman#wicked#i drew so much wiz of oz stuff before wicked came out#but theyre mostly doodles of my dear beautiful tinman and his bf the scarecrow#and theres like one token billie burke and margaret hamilton witches LOL#omg pls send me wiz of oz/wicked asks#requests or anything else im just dying to talk about it...i also love the books
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Still trying to finish other things but in the meantime- updated design for my older May! She's an Ace Trainer
#you cant see it form the angle i put it at but she wears her gym badges pinned on her bag! shes proud of them lol#she DID technically win the champion title but the hoenn region saw what happened in kanto#w a child fleeing into the mountains and becoming a hermit. and were like ykno what lets Not do that#so it was kept a secret. shes free to revisit it now that shes older but she doesnt want any champion business anyhow#shes havin fun travelling#she still does contests! her n brendan both#brendan competes in cleverness n toughness contests may in cute and beauty contests... both of them fight in coolness contests#lisia sits back and watches as she clutches out the win yet again cus the stupid teenagers were too focused on winning from EACHOTHER#that they forgot about winning in GENERAL.#good job guys#not totally set on her team?#she has her blaziken. thats also her mega mon#tempted to give her mudkip its just baby forever#she has access to latias? but i dont think shes using it on her team just for flying#ill prolly let her keep her wailord she also uses in game its funny as hell#anyways its mostly all still up in the air#also her n brendan r fighting over custody of cosplay pikachu n theyre both losing#oras#pokemon trainer may#i forgot to actually tag this w the fandom LMAO OOPS#my own rambling makes me forget#hoenn
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I never touched it but I feel like i only ever hear positive things said about song of achilles.. in (rough strokes at least) what makes it dogshit to you?
Okay it's been a while since I actually read it so some of this might not be spot on accurate. Sorry if at any point I say 'the book never does xyz' and it actually does once or twice but I think my underlying criticisms are accurate
-Patroclus is made into like this soft gentle tender quivering little yaoi boy. In the source text, he's shown as compassionate and moved by the suffering of his own men (and apparently having some medical skill, tending to the wounded in the camp), but very much invested n combat and very, very good at it (pages worth of descriptions of the guys he's killing left and right). In this, the arguably more complex character from this 8th century BC text is flattened into Being A Healer, he doesn't want to go to war he just wants to help people, he only goes because Achilles has to but he doesn't want to fight he's a HEALER he's a gentle lover NOT A FIGHTER who just wants to help he just wants to help everyone around him he HEALS while Achilles is a doomed warrior who is so good at fighting and KILLING its a DICHOTOMY GUYS!!!LIKE THE BEAUTIFUL SUN AND MOON DOOMED LOVERS SO SAD patocluse HEALER . (I Think he's specifically characterized as being BAD at fighting but might be misremembering)
-I don't remember much about Achilles' characterization I think it just makes him less of a jackass while not adding anything of interest and levels out into being mad boring.
-Not getting into the literal millenias old debate whether the mythological characters Achilles and Patroclus were being characterized as some type of lover by the original oral sources of the Iliad or its Homeric writers. We will never know. We don't even know what (if any) culturally accepted conventions of male homosexuality existed in bronze age Greece (we know much more about their descendants). But there are some interesting elements of their characterization in this direction, with how unconventional their relationship is WITHIN the text itself- Patroclus is described as cooking for Achilles and his guests (very specifically a woman/wife's job), Achilles chides Patroclus like a father, but there's also scene where Achilles' mourning of him directly echoes a passage of Hector's wife mourning her husband, Patroclus is explicitly stated to Achilles' elder, and is overall treated as his equal or near-equal, closest confidant and most beloved friend (to the point that pederastic classical Greeks would debate over who was erastes (older authority figure lover) and who was eromenos (adolescent 'beloved')- many took it as a given that this text depicted their present-day cultural norms of homosexual behavior but it existed so Outside of these norms that it had to be debated who was who). Their relationship is non-standard both within the text and to the descendants of the civilization that wrote them.
Basically what I'm saying is this book had opportunities to like, explore the unconventionality of the relationship (being presented here as explicitly lovers), explore the dynamics of why Patroclus wants to do 'women's work' (besides being a tenderhearted softboy), the weird dynamics where they take on paternal roles to each other but also roles of wives, how they feel about being this way, and just kind of Doesn't. Which I guess isn't an intrinsic fault (because it omits much of what I just talked about to begin with). it's just like.... Lame. This book takes jsut abandons everything interesting about the source text in favor of flattening it into bland Doomed Yaoi.
-The conflict that sets off the core story of the Iliad is Achilles and Agamemnon fighting over Briseis, an enslaved Trojan woman taken by Achilles as a war-trophy, Achilles spends most of the story moping because he was dishonored by his 'trophy' being taken. Achilles and Patroclus and everyone else are raping their captives, all the women in the story are either captured Trojans (or in the case of the free women within the walls of Troy, soon to be enslaved, and are slave owners themselves). Slavery as an institution and extreme patriarchal conventions are innate to the text and reflective of the context in which it was developed. You cannot avoid it.
But obviously you can't have your soft yaoi boys doing this, so the author has them capturing women to Protect Them from the other men. Their slaves are UNDER THEIR PROTECTION and VERY SAFE (and they might even Like And Befriend Them but I might be misremembering that. Briseis does though). Our heroes have apparently absorbed none of the ideals of the culture they exist in and the author seems to think "they're gay and aren't sexually attracted to their captives" would translate to them being outright benevolent (also as if wartime sexual violence is just about attraction and not part of a wider spectrum of violent acts to dehumanize and brutalize an accepted 'enemy')
In the source text, Briseis mourns Patroclus as being the kindest to her of her captors, who tried to get her a slightly better outcome by getting her married to Achilles (which probably would be the Least Bad of all possible outcomes for a woman in that situation, becoming a legal wife instead of a slave), and wonders what will happen to her now that he's gone. This is a really really sad, horrible, and compelling dynamic which could be fleshed out in very interesting ways but is instead is tossed entirely aside in favor of them being Besties. Like brother and sister.
All of the above pisses me off so much. If you don't want to engage in the icky parts of ancient/bronze age Greece then don't write a retelling of a story taking place in bronze age Greece. I'm not gonna get mad at children's adaptations of Greek myths or silly fun stories loosely based on them for omitting the rape and slavery but it is SO fundamental to the Iliad. If you're not willing to handle it, either fully omit it or better yet set your Iliad inspired yaoi in an invented swords-and-sandals setting where you can have all your heartbreaking tragic doomed lovers plot beats and not have to clumsily write around the women they're brutalizing.
-The author didn't seem to know what to do with Thetis and she made her just like, Achilles bitch mother who spends most of the story trying to separate our Yaoi Boys (iirc her disguising Achilles as a girl and hiding him on Scyros is made to be more about getting him away from Patroclus than trying to save her son from his prophesied doom in the Trojan War) until she sees how much they loooove each other and I think helps Patroclus' spirit get to the afterlife or something in the end?
-This is more of a personal taste gripe but it has that writing style I loathe where the prose feels less like a story and more like an attempt to string together Deep Beautiful Hard Hitting Poetic Lines that will look great as excerpts on booktok (might predate booktok but same vibe). It's all very Pretty and Haunting and Deep but feels devoid of real substance.
I really like The Iliad and The Odyssey in of themselves. They're fascinating historical texts that give a window into how 8th century BC Greeks told their stories, saw their world, interpreted their ancestors, etc. And genuinely I think these texts have 'good' characters, there's a lot of complexity and humanity to it.
WRT the Iliad- all of the main Achaeans are pretty fascinating, the one singular part where Briseis Gets To Talk and laments her situation is great, Achilles fantasizing that all of the Trojans AND the Achaeans die so he and Patroclus alone can have the glory of conquering Troy (wild), Achilles asking to embrace Patroclus' shade and reaching out for him but it's immaterial (and the shade being sucked back underground with a 'squeak' (the squeak kinda gets me it's disturbing and sad)), Hecuba talking about wanting to tear out Achilles' liver and eat it in a (taboo, exceptioally pointed) expression of rage and grief for his mutilation of her son's corpse, just one tiny line where the enslaved women performing ritual wailing for their dead captors are described as using it as an outlet to 'grieve for their own troubles' is heartrending, etc. A lot of grappling with anger and grief and the inevitability of death, a lot of groundwork laid for characters that could be very interesting when expanded upon in the framework of a conventional novel.
And Song Of Achilles really doesn't do much with all that. I know a lot of my gripes here are kind of just "It's different from the Iliad", I would have thought of it as mostly mediocre and forgettable rather than infuriating if it wasn't a retelling (and I DEFINITELY have strong biases here). But I think the ways in which it is different are less just a product of a retelling (of course there's going to be omissions and differences) and more a complete and utter disinterest in vast majority of its own subject matter, to the book's detriment. I think a retelling has a point when it EXPANDS on the source, or provides a NEW ANGLE to the source. This book doesn't Really do either, it just shaves off the complexity of its source material, renders the characters into a really boring archetype of a gay relationship, and gives very little else. Its content boils down to a middling tragic romance that has been inserted into the hollowed out defleshed skeleton of the Iliad.
Bottom line: I definitely would not be as mad about it if I wasn't familiar with the source material but I think it's fair to expect a retelling to Engage with/expand on its source, and I also think it's weak purely on its own merits. This book was set up to disappoint Me specifically.
#Sorry this turned into a 100000 word essay on The Iliad it can't be helped#I read Circe by the same author and thought it was like.. better? Definitely not great just less aggravating and kind of boring#Just rote 'you heard about this villainous woman from a Greek myth... Here's the REAL story' shit#It did have a few things I thought were good I remember it starting kind of strong and then just going limp for the remaining duration#I think part of it is that in that case she's expanding on a figure that Didn't have a whole lot of characterization in the source so#like. She had to actually Expand The Character#Again Silence of the Girls is the only Greek Mythology Retelling I have like....positive?.leaning positive? feelings towards#I've got BIG issues with it too but it does pretty much the exact opposite of everything I'm mad at SOA for and in some very#compelling ways (it's just that the author seems way more interested in Achilles and Patroclus than The Main Character Briseis#to the point of randomly starting to have Achilles POV interjections (which I thought were Good in of themselves but#really really really really really really really didn't need to be there) and then get kind of lampshaded by Briseis narrating 'I guess I#was trapped in Achilles' story the whole time lol!!!!!!')#It undermines the book on both a thematic level and just like. a construction level like it's real sloppy at times.#Also the Briseis POV sometimes has these like really out of place Author Mouthpiece Moments where she's very obviously#Stating The Point to the audience and it's like yeah we get it. We get it.#Wow in the scene were our mostly silent enslaved protagonist removes the gag from the mouth of a dead sacrificed girl as a#small but significant act of defiance and grieving in a book called 'Silence of the Girls' you inserted an ironic repeat of the line#'silence befits a woman'. in italics even. Thanks for that. I could not possibly have grasped the meaning of this scene if you didn't#spell it out for me like that. Thank you.#Actually hang on the only Greek mythology retelling I have unequivocally positive feelings for are the 'Minotaur Forgiving'#songs on 'This One's For The Dancer And This One's For The Dancer's Bouquet'. Fully love it. Like not just as songs I think it#does function well as a narrative and engages with and expands on the source in really beautiful and creative ways
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Finally!!! Some good news! 🤞🤞🤞🤞 Cmon giant asteroid!…
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#apocalypse#giant asteroid#planetary science#planet earth#armageddon#usa#news#the end is near#hope#love#wish#lol#mostly kidding#end it already#traitor trump#election 2024#trump is a threat to democracy#politics#republicans#donald trump#earth#space#outer space#trump crime family#the left#democracy#who cares#why not#global#beautiful planet
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[ID: icons of matoba from natsuyuu s7e6]
my mannnnnnnnnnnnnn
#natsume yuujinchou#this one not as exciting and now as many fun shots from train station lol mostly they just drew him smirking with his umbrella#alas!!!!!!!!! hes beautiful every time#exe
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gravity falls but if it were a top down character driven game ...
#gravity falls#my art#grunkle stan#stan pines#stanley pines#pixel art#fanart#gravity falls fanart#i've never actually made pixel art before#this is my first attempt lol#if i work on this more i might change up some proportions#you can barely notice the bandaid#design was mostly inspired by minish cap#that game has beautiful pixel art
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Rosawatts, from memory (Patreon)
#Doodles#To The Moon#Neil Watts#Eva Rosaline#They ✨#I ended up making the To The Moon series of games my over-breakfast show for a while haha#I got through them all surprisingly fast! It's amazing what a bit of breakfast does for the focus haha#I had ideas for them but then I got distracted! Damn! Another time#Still gonna talk about 'em tho lol <3#Mostly Neil-related honestly haha - a big long silly joke that takes so much context pfft#So that one trope of self-aware anime protagonists - either the type to try to hide the specific thing that makes them The Chosen One#Or changing themselves into The Chosen One by adopting a feature that points to it - think dying hair#Born with weird hair? Protagonist - cover that up and become a normie; and it's inverse!#And then y'know the trope of the white-haired anime boy? The Redshirt of anime? Lol#I just love the idea of Neil being ''born with white hair'' and dying it his normal brown and confessing to Eva#And her countering back with ''Thank goodness you don't have white hair I never would've accepted your confession if The Tragedy''#While Neil is just Sweating lol#It's funnier in images gah I'll get to it someday!#For now I'm just happy to have added them to my list <3 I do love them hehe#I enjoyed Imposter Factory so much! The montage at the end had such beautiful pixel animation#And even seeing a simulacrum of them happy makes me happy <3 Bittersweet like the rest of the series :)#Good lads <3
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SHES FINIAY DONE!!!!!
#adventures in textiles#I think this took me like a year to complete lol#but she’s completed!!!#mostly!!!#I probably should like glue the back or smth but uhhhh#I gotta look that up online cause that wasn’t included in the $5 packet#but who cares!!!! she’s beautiful <3333#cross stitch#cross stitching#deer’s dialouges
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just remembered watchmen
#ohhhh OHHHHHHHHHH#i was so insane abt that comic#when i moved i left the book behind at my grandma's house... i wonder if it's even stored away. probably got thrown out 💔#no biggie i shall buy it again i loved that big book so much i used to bring it to school and re-read it a lot#i liked that it was self contained#how old was i. like. 13. 14 at most. why did they sell that comic to me LMFAO#oooooooo i was obsessed with rorschach too he was my favorite.#i don't think i mention this enough but i had a dc comics phase when i was 12-15 then i gave up it's so hard to keep up or make sense#of the multiple runs and stuff. it is a lot!!! hats off to my beautiful comic mutuals 💖#i used to own a lot of old physical comics. mostly green lantern#lol. lmao. god there are so many things i left behind#i had the first volume of transformers mtmte which is out of print and costs a lot nowadays#that one stings the most WHY DID I LEAVE IT... <- i couldn't bring everything with me 😭😭😭
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got invited to a halloween party last minute so i’m like trying to find a way to put together something resembling a costume and my friend was like studying me really intensely and was like ‘hmmm turn to the side for me— i’ve got it. goddess!!!!!!!!’ like oh ok girl……
#assigned beautiful at side profile i guess. she was being helpful and inspiring for ideas mostly but like#that’s a bombshell of a compliment to drop so casually???????#peach rambles#also is that really an ‘easy’ costume either LOL
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Me? Well, I've... I've mostly been a loner.
#oz hbo#hbo oz#my gifs#miguel alvarez#cathy jo cutler#kirk acevedo#you know the first time i saw this show i was like I can't believe they gave miguel a love interest who's a nazi wife �� that's so darksided#but now i'm like eh i guess i get it.... she does have beautiful hair and face.....#i mean i still think it was darksided but lol whatev#I understand these are not angles the writers think about lol#anyway this answer continues to slay me for multiple reasons#Due to how long it takes miguel to FUCKING ANSWER#yeah he's down.... a ............guy......(succumbs to thought).........overdosed....... close friend? ..........ya know.......#the fic i'm working on rn is very much friendship building so just from that angle i'm like Ahghh#if i was writing the friendship building from His pov i guess it would be like: mostly* (*until recently. but now it's gone again maybe)#also perhaps the distance of saying A guy overdosed makes it less depressing or somethn i means he's already down i suppose why wallow.#mostly been a loner. up until quite recently. but then a guy overdosed. etc. bc if he was your friend that means your friend ODed :\
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:)
#Nothing to say. A good episode. A good season.#I love Oda. I love his voice perhaps even more lol#I should look for an improvement of the video quality... To say it's 1080px mkv :/ But the latest upload on N/yaa is too heavy#The op visuals of the untold origins arc are very good. The songs are good too#Although I suppose I may just be nostalgic ahah#I like fuku/fuku... Especially this young bittersweet flavour#Fuku/fuku have so many “couple who for some reason broke up but who still love each other more than anyone else” in this episode.#What do you mean they keep calling each other.#What do you mean Fukuchi won't hesitate to help Fukuzawa even after he refused to join his group.#Mmmmhhh... One more thing#There's so much emphasis on Christianity in bsd. It makes sense for Atsushi and Dostoyevsky I suppose due to the irl authors‚ but...#Why was Oda handed a Bible in this episode? Why was Ango carrying a Bible with him in the Beast movie?#When you take into account that Christianity only makes for 1.5% of religious believers in Japan‚ it's just curious.#But maybe I'm missing something? Was Oda-author Christian too?#Then again I can really feel this wider underlying pattern which... Exceeds the characters in a way?#It's mostly details so it'd be hard to list them but... Idk.#Why was there a cross behind Kunikida when he witnessed the little child die.#🤔#That would be all. This season is very beautiful and I love Mushitarou but can't WAIT to get back to Atsushi I miss him 🥺🥺🥺#random rambles
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