#cassandra complex

[hauntedbythenarrative]

The darkness said, You die whether you risk anything or not. I emptied ashes from my pockets. I crawled to feel the stones cut my knees, God's foot on my throat. The dream said, Follow me. The angel said, You're here.

Yellowjackets (2021-)//Andrei Tarkovsky//If I Believe You, The 1975//Agamemnon, Aeschylus//“dear thanatos, [it wasn’t a dream…],” come the slumberless to the land of nod, Traci Brimhall

[theking-mustdie]

stiles’ cassandra complex needs to be studied

[thalia-scribbles]

Cassandra of Troy, the cursed prophet

See the snakes and sheep as they snort and sneer, you hear them call you out of your name but pay them no mind, they know not of what they speak, you tried, you tried

[gotankgo]

[girlfauci]

suffered from the cassandra complex too many times…

[eostar-art]

-THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX-

“What is it like to be a prophet? Everywhere Cassandra ran she found she was already there.”

[thearksys]

i must be crazy to fight this war; i must be out of my mind.

[cheeztheclown]

i love myths and folklore

here's an excerpt that i'm lowkey crazy about from a poem i'm working on (it's about cassandra of troy)

*Snakes and sheep, they snort and sneer, you hear them call you out of your name but pay them no mind, they know not of what they speak, you tried, you tried*

[lostvoidling]

Why Wont You Listen [c]

The Cassandra complex is a psychological phenomenon in which an individual's accurate prediction of a crisis is ignored or dismissed. Piece for EricFullswipe!

[palephx]

I try to keep politics out of my SMPs...besides FB, among friends; TwatterX, among enemies. It's not helping to have a sense of decency. This is going to get very bad, and possibly not in the ways you think.

That doesn't mean that I know much better than you, but that it's ALL going to suck. I've actually never bought a gun for myself, but I'm considering it, now.

I have no actual PLANS for it, but I can't run as fast as I used to.

[saturnsblues]

I'm not sure how to get over this idea that I have nothing important to say. Whenever I *do* have something to say, I let myself assume someone else will say it, and better, and more confidently.

[aingeal98]

Ok so you know how back in the 2000s there were a few jokes about Cass's gender likely because male comic book writers thought it was funny she had muscles? I'm taking that and spinning it to villains genuinely being confused about what to refer to Cass as.

Goon 1: Cmon man she's obviously called Batgirl

Goon 2: Well last month I told him he wasn't Batman and all he said was "Try me."

Goon 1: Have you heard them speak?

Goon 2: Yep. Pure gravel. You really swear that's definitely a girl's voice?

Goon 1: Has anyone ever gotten a good luck at her?

Goon 2: At Batman's stealthier, faster shadow? Come on Doug.

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1 week later

Goon 1: Jerry you're not gonna believe this. The little Bat saved me from getting my brains blown out by Penguin.

Goon 2: Oh nice! Glad you're still-

Goon 1: I asked them what their pronouns were.

Goon 2:

Goon 1:... And they said "Bat"

Goon 2: Well that settles that then. Why are you still referring to bat as they? You want bat to beat you up next time bat sees you?

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1 month later

Cass: At first I was confused why villains I save keep complimenting me on my nonbinary swagger. But after Duke explained what that meant... I think I kind of like it. Babs am I... Nonbinary?

Babs, frantically tossing aside her prepared 10 point acceptance speech for when your daughter realises she's a lesbian and scouring her database in search of parenting guides for nonbinary adult children: Honey, you can be whatever you want to be

[canticleofcanticlesforleibowitz]

[jokey05]

I genuinely think that by some paradox DC was WAY more inclusive and "woke" in the '90 than now. Like so many POC characters, the firsts queer relationship in comics, many more disabled characters and representation than today. Not all of them were written well, mind you, but at least they were doing something instead of just showing up during Pride moth and then disappearing in limbo forever after a couple of cheesy lines. And we are not talking enough of all the disabilities erasure in the last years.

[let-me-sleep-or-die]

Listen I’m hoping when we get Cassandra back and Ankarna for the first time that they immediately decide they are Kristen and Figs parents. like: “Ah yes Saint Kristen Applebees-“

“you mean my daughter.” “she brought you back from being a corrupted fey construction of fear and literal nightmares?”

“parenting really changes you<3”

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“Figeroth Faeth Archdevil of Rebellion-“

“and my favorite daughter :)”

“she laid claim to your domain, and played a song so metal she reconstructed your fire horse”

“I know isn’t my kid the best.”

Let the lesbian gods be moms