#graceful movement

[sassylightcycle]

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[lyrinami]

Frozen in Motion

Tools used:

Checkpoint: Jib Mix Realistic XL-v16.0 Aphrodite EclecticEuphoria Universal SD3_k4 black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev

web-ui:  stable-diffusion-webui (AUTOMATIC1111) stable-diffusion-webui-forge ComfyUI

Other: Photoshop

[daxnorman]

Grace USPS

[johnnyslittleanimalblog]

Flying low by Shelly Lynn Hachey O Via Flickr: Great Gray Owl

[cto10121]

Me: [lying on the therapist couch] So I’ve been thinking about Bella’s clumsiness and how it works and what it means in the greater narrative thematically. If you notice carefully, Bella’s coordination problems seem to be almost exclusively with her legs. Slipping, sliding, falling, bumping into things. Granted, her hand-eye coordination is not great either (see: badminton). But we never see Bella have any problems cooking and cleaning for Charlie, even though these require very dexterous hand skills indeed. By all accounts, her hands should be littered with little cuts and bruises Edward et al. should have immediately seen. There is one fan theory that posits that as Bella was really meant to be a vampire, she was not right in her own human body. But it seems to me that Bella’s clumsiness as a symbol for her lack of agency. She finds it difficult to move physically because her parents and society limit her own movement psychologically and socially. Since childhood, Bella has been circumscribed in her role as her mother’s caretaker, psychologically and even socially (paying her mother’s bills, etc.). Despite this role reversal, Bella is not empowered by this parentification—her mother is still the de facto authority and the one who benefits socially. Bella’s father doesn’t alleviate this burden; in his hands-off approach, he only exacerbates it. Add in the usual societal sexism, and you get a Bella at the beginning of the series uncomfortable in her skin, hindered by her insecurities, barely able to move, period. I don’t know, does that make sense?

Therapist: Now you want to take over my job, is that it?

[chippdhearts]

Carla Gugino as Grace Gordon Greene The Girls on the Bus || 1x03

[themoonplantwrites]

So I want to talk about some of the implied elements of the culture that exists in New Rome and Camp Jupiter for a second.

So one of the things we are introduced to about Camp Jupiter and New Rome pretty quickly in The Son of Neptune is that there is a pretty influential anti-Greek/Hellenic bias. There’s more extreme examples, like Octavian, but then there’s the more, I guess average version too. Like I think we all can agree that Frank is pretty accepting of the Greeks and Camp Half-blood and everything, and yet when he is guiding Percy around Camp Jupiter explaining everything to him, even Frank still refers to the Romans as an “improved” version of the Greeks. Like there is just this kinda vibe of “the Greeks suck, especially when compared to us” that exists in the modern Roman culture of Camp Jupiter and New Rome.

One of the other things we are introduced to pretty quickly is that they only learn Latin at Camp Jupiter. Like there is never any implication that Camp Jupiter teaches the Romans any other language than Latin. Like obviously many of the kids know other languages depending on where they come from before coming to Camp, but they only learn Latin at Camp Jupiter.

And I bring these two things up because a lot of Ancient Roman texts were written in Greek. Because in Ancient Rome, knowing Greek as a sign that you were educated. So some Roman writers wrote in Ancient Greek because they only wanted educated folks to read them. So there’s all these texts written by Ancient Romans in Ancient Greek at are either very culturally important (like Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations) or have mythological importance (I’m going through a lot of mythological fragments written in Greek right now and some of them are from Roman sources). And it is heavily implied that no one at Camp Jupiter and New Rome can read them. At least, they can’t read them unless they are translated.

And that’s like, really messed up. Like this implies that at some point between ancient times and when Percy shows up at Camp Jupiter, the Romans’ anti-Greek/Hellenic bias got so strong that they would rather cut themselves off from their own culture and texts than teach their children Ancient Greek so that they could read them.

Now let’s make this sadder. Jason spent six months at Camp Half-blood. He probably picked up some Greek there. It really wouldn’t surprise me if Chiron gave him a copy of Meditation’s with the original Greek text at some point. Because even if there are parts of Camp Half-blood that Jason likes and that work better for him, he deeply cares about New Rome and Camp Jupiter and wants the best for the people there. They are his people, this is the culture he grew up in and he cares about them.

So I can just see Jason planning on introducing teaching Ancient Greek at Camp Jupiter so that they can have access to their ancient texts in their original form again. And either he never got around to introducing this measure to the Senate because he died before he could or he did introduce it and was further shunned for no longer being Roman enough, and that’s part of why we see him living at a mortal boarding school in Trials of Apollo, because he’s “too Greek” and no longer all that welcomed in Camp Jupiter and New Rome. And either option is just really sad.

[chbsnooze]

Just imagine baby Jason flying around as wolves chase him around try to catch him worried

[zukkaoru]

adding OCs to fics as extras: boring, overdone, ive seen it a million times

adding your mutuals to fics as extras: showstopping, sensational, brilliant, this world is such a beautiful place

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.

- Isadora Duncan

[john-ts-sh-ai]

♫ ♫ ♫

[lupins-hehim-pussy]

Neuvillette's body language in my mind ranges from curious feline, to Long Cryptid that lingers just outside the door when you're falling asleep

[nabaath-areng]

I performed my first ever DIY nail surgery on a broken nail because I refused to shorten it down after I shaped them all so nicely, and I must have done a better job than I thought cause accidentally hitting that nail in ways that SHOULD by all means have tore it off barely made a slight dent in the crack.......

[familiasworn]

@whiteknighthedin

"When we may reclaim our equipment once more...When that time comes...Will you dance with me again?"

[lovecatsys]

this is gay behavior

[swan2swan]

This looks like it was an animation test...