#dunking on the gods is fun

[fanaticalthings]

the muskification of twitter except it's lex luthor instead of elon lol

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[sforzesco]

DO NOT BE AFRAID

this is combining Ovid's Heroides and the Excidium Troie because I can't stop thinking of Hermes telling him not to be afraid. what the fuck!! Ares is wearing the crown that Paris gave him.

I have. thoughts. about Paris. he's almost got this Troilos parallel in my mind, that the event that defines him in detail exists in a lost narrative that we don't have (the Cypria), but everyone else knew. the event that defines Troilos is his death (murdered, butchered by Achilles, the violence of which haunts everything after. Achilles, child killer, you can't escape that!), and the event that defines Paris is the Judgement. what's a lost text but a kind of grave!!

idk I don't think that Paris before the Judgement would recognize himself after bc when you become god touched, it rearranges your guts. you become transformed in the worst way possible! how could you recognize yourself! but I also think that all the Parises after the Judgement would recognize each other because that event is so locked into the trauma of war and the scar it leaves on the land, it's like a scar on the narrative too. it exists like this forever, over and over again, so you exist like that forever too. Troy collects grief and despairs.

Troy as trauma: Reflections on intergenerational transmission and the locus of trauma, Andromache Karanika

and Paris is like. a miserable little god/corpse-puppet or something, like a match for the gods to throw onto gasoline.

The Excidium Troie + Ovid's Heroides:

Excidium Troie, trans. Muhammad Syarif Fadhlurrahman

Ovid, Heroides 16 (trans. Harold Isbell)

a collection of things regarding Paris that made me go 😬 but under a cut bc this is getting. very long.

The Divine Twins in Early Greek Poetry, Corolla Torontonensis

Iliad 24 and the Judgement of Paris, C.J. Mackie

Elegy and Epic and the Recognition of Paris: Ovid "Heroides" 16, Elizabeth Forbis Mazurek

Ennian Influence in "Heroides" 16 and 17, Howard Jacobson

Paris/Alexandros in the "Iliad", I. J. F. de Jong

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jellyfish Prince 💙

[rainyinautumn]

Martyn "Hand of the King" InTheLittleWood just won Limited Life by turning on his ally.

Martyn "Hallucinated His Dead Friends" InTheLittleWood just won Limited Life by turning on his ally.

Martyn "Desperate to Work Things Out With His Soulmate" InTheLittleWood just won Limited Life by turning on his ally.

THIS IS A BIG DEAL.

Martyn is the first winner to abruptly change strategies at the very end. The other three won by doing what they'd done the whole season. There was no last second change in Grian or Scott or Pearl's games. Martyn, on the other hand, did a full 180 on everything he'd stood for in every game in order to win.

And that's not out of character! It's character development. Martyn consistently outlives the allies he's so loyal to. Ren. The Southlanders. Cleo. They all died before him. Loyalty has never gotten him to the finish line.

Martyn has always reached the last episode of the season. This was the first time, though, that he'd gone to a finale with his sworn ally still standing in his way of the win.

Cleo was no obstacle to him in Double Life. He couldn't have won without her. But Scott? Previous winner Scott? Has been a threat the entire season Scott? For the first time ever, Martyn found himself facing an ally that could easily outlive him and, subsequently, win.

Martyn had never had to choose between loyalty and winning before. It's fascinating that he chose to win.

Honestly, it makes sense. He had no guarantees that Scott wouldn't go for him once the battle royale started. It was kill or be killed, and Martyn decided he'd rather be able to guarantee his win than risk being taken out by the person he'd ensured the survival of. Can you imagine if Scott had taken Martyn out fair and square? What a devastating way to lose. And, sure, it's possible that Impulse could've taken Martyn out instead. Scott could've won without ever hurting him. But Martyn decided that he wanted to win. He got tired of the niceties. He got tired of loyalty. He got tired of losing.

For the first time, Martyn listened to himself instead of someone else. And he won.

[graff-aganda]

No no ikr. The ENT fandom is so quiet around here. And honestly I'm just excited to see art of my favourite dudes, because we rarely get fanart around here, and when we do it's usually Trip or T'Pol solely. Malcolm gets left in the dust quite a lot so I'm happy you drew him as well - and so well done too!

Anyway, ramble over, lol.

OMG... Well I think I can see why a lot of fanart is of Trip and/or T'pol (those two seem like they're doing some heavy lifting for the show/are just a lot of people's faves. I've got a few half baked ideas in mind for them myself.) but the rest of the crew as a whole do deserve more love I think! :]

[gibbearish]

ive been playing a bunch of those merge mobile games lately and am gradually becoming possessed with the urge to make my own so that i can fix all the problems with them

[justafriendofxanders]

discovering a new and fucked up ats -> leverage pipeline

[puppybrainrot]

actually i love shitty poetry i love things that are considered terrible or cliche or pretentious or amateur or unapproachable or any combination of those things i love when people try to express themselves in pretty words or complicated metaphors or even just in very simple terms and most of all i love when people put themselves and their work out there into the world Knowing full well that they have little control over what happens next

[dragonologist-phd]

Thinking again about Larian making plot/characterization changes in their patches and like. How there’s a line between incorporating useful feedback and just having no backbone when it comes to writing decisions.

Like. I don’t agree with every writing choice they’ve made. But I can at least respect when a writer takes a risk with something and stands by their reasons for doing so. Making a narrative choice and then backpedaling when people complain is just the worst of both worlds

[rex101111]

Doctor, looking at Insider:...you look like what wet white bread tastes.

Insider: Well, I-

Doctor: If I hit you with a truck you’ll get transported to a generic fantasy world and gain at least a dozen girls with maybe like 2 personalities between all of you put together.

Insider: Now just wait a min-

Doctor: If you grew your bangs out I MIGHT say you look like a hentai protag, but those guys get laid and I don’t think you could convince a tentacle to have its way with you.

Insider: Did you just bring me here to insult-!

Doctor: YOU LOOK LIKE A GACHA PROTAG FROM MAHOYO WITH NONE OF THE COLOR OR LIFE.

[dykexenomorph]

I'd like to formally apologize for every single mean or unkind thing I said about potential new fallout fans pre-show release. like NOT. that I'd ever insinuate the new surge of popularity was going to be bad or annoying for any reason. I'd never gatekeep. I'm just saying like. if i ever DID talk about my fears regarding the shows potential popularity I wouldn't feel the same now. anyways.

[intertexts]

okay now that you've met about a billion of the silly named one-off background heroes I can tell you why i CANNOT FUCKING TAKE NUMBER MAN SERIOUSLY. because he JUST sounds like some asshole who would be listed along the likes of peelbert and locust man and holo-steve . dodgeboy. number man. who the hell named that guy. number man.

GIGGLED OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NUMBER MAN. number man. yeah dude holy shit. holy shit. actually unbelievably funny to me that out of all of them it is *him* who sounds like the stupid gag hero........ fucking losing it. i'll always take an opportunity to dunk on the number man dude. ohh yeah u can't forget the the. its THE number man. so spooky and mysterious and vague sounding. get rekt numbers boy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[im-smart-i-swear]

got to the ressurecting falin episode!!!!! SO MUCH FLESH AND VISCERA I LOVE FLESH AND VISCERA<333333333333333

marcille ily i hope youll get to do more dark forbidden magic<3 they just sat there............ doing a giant human skeleton sized puzzle... i know in the manga falin becomes a giant bird monster but she was ressurected w dragon flesh sooooo idk???? i dont know my dunmeshi lore:/ well either way i cant wait for her to maim someone!! also. the bathtub scene. god.

[coolcarabiner]

btw anyone praying the litany of the sacred heart over the dodgers today is a clown <3 spend your time helping people like the Sisters do instead of regurgitating tired rhetoric based on poor exegesis <3 you can pray the litany for fun and faith but let’s all calm down about bLaSpHeMy and focus on things that actually matter <3

[starrbar]

Dude, asp3rgers is literally named after Hans Apserger, a Nazi. Just use Google my guy, you're using Nazi terminology, dickhead.

Imagine blaming someone for the name of their PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSIS, my guy.

Like, does it occur to you that this is the most far removed you could ever get from "activism".

What made you wake up in the morning and come to me specifically, by the way? Have you been sending this to everyone else in the world who was told by a fucking doctor that they have a mental disorder called Asperger's that has done been a thing probably their whole lives, and telling them THEY are perpetuating bigotry by going on with their damn life and accepting the word they've been given for their condition?

Whaddaya want? Ya want me to frantically scurry to my Carrd to change the label? Would that make me less of a direct contributor to anti-Semitism?

Ehehehehehehe, here I was bitching about anti-kink fuckers when the internet has people like you misfiring their righteous anger so hard that you're mad at random mentally ill people for being oh... so, so ignorant to the catastrophic harm they're causing for not suspecting that the label they were given might be a Nazi term~!

You are the most self-important asshole I have ever seen, and that's saying a lot considering the shit I've witnessed online. I hope you're as miserable a person as this makes you sound, because my god, this is pathetic.

I did look it up btw, for anyone who is curious. It looks like anon is indeed correct about the origins of the name.

I still don't give a single pebble of my oddly blue shit because I am not fucking responsible for any of this.

Yes, my shit is blue right now because I ate some heavily-dyed cake yesterday. Yes, I loved adding that to my response to this person and their worthless take. Enjoy reading about my bowel status before I cast you into obscurity, as your next messages will be ignored unless you have the balls to come off anon about it.

Go fuck yourself. 💖

For everyone else:

Do I need to explain btw that if someone came to me in GOOD FAITH to inform me of the fact that a label I'm using may bring up terrible feelings for people because of its origins, I'd legit listen and go change it?

I probably will change it anyway because I identify more with "autism" (because I get to say "I have awootism" and that's hilarious—also I can just say "I'm autistic", but there doesn't seem to be a grammatical equivalent for Asperger's).

But this is not how you have a fucking conversation.

This is not how you inform innocent people of a dark history behind something they grew up with.

This person is not AT ALL concerned with me becoming a better person or being more sensitive to others or learning a lesson. This person JUST wants to take their own self-hatred out on some rando online, to make me feel guilty for shit I was unaware of, and to make themself feel superior in whatever desperate way they can.

I see right through this garbage because I witness it daily.

My brother and my closest high school friend were both diagnosed with Asperger's YEARS before I ever was. I grew up with this. I grew up proud to be this, because I recognized that it made me different from my peers in a way that would gain me discrimination and bullying, but that I could also have solidarity with the other kids who understood what it was like.

So.

Genuinely.

I will change the name for MYSELF, because of MY new experiences and information from my doctors.

And I will not rush to do so because I have better things to do with my time than sweat and panic over what some little insect thinks about my Carrd. I have a game to work on, a dog to let out, a job to go to, and a husband to cuddle. Oh, and of course, I gotta finish my replay of BotW so I can jump on TotK when my husband is done playing it! Priorities, hello! xP

[airenyah]

When I saw Dunk's new haircut, I had to meme it:

oh my god that's amazing