#helen givens

[dailyjustified]

[freekicks]

t-shirts i saw in harlan, kentucky, and the "justified" characters i would buy them for: a list

boyd crowder:

raylan givens (ironically):

ava crowder:

helen givens:

arlo givens:

johnny crowder:

dewey crowe:

mags bennett:

[quixoticprince]

Guys I don't think this kindly stranger is all that nice But yeah, if Medic confessed about stealing their souls in the next pages I don't think anyone would really care

Based on this post thread

[multifandomhoodies]

I'm gonna say something controversial. Helen givens is a milf

[nvskyprospekt]

helen the distortion 🌀

[friszil]

the golden ratio

[menelaiad]

Do you know why people draw Helen, Penelope, and clym with suns painted on their cheeks?

hello!

i can't speak for individual artists ofc, but my best guess would be that it is inspired by the minoan makeup/fashion that was around and that also heavily influenced the mycenaean culture! i believe it's called the 'sun blush'?? or something like that. and ofc with mycenae being the powerhouse it was at that time, a lot of women may have adopted their style! cause obviously penelope, clytemnestra and helen were spartan! tbh it may have just been a bronze age thing in general? and not linked specifically to mycenae.

but there's some stuff to look at regarding this style.

this lady from a minoan fresco on thera

and i believe the most famous example is this lady! a plaster cast that was discovered in a mycenaean citadel.

[littlesparklight]

There's something vaguely funny how, when reading papers touching on Helen and Menelaos' scenes in the Odyssey, the interpretation of the marital relationship can vary so wildly.

It goes from anywhere between "marital bliss" to "obviously tense and questionable reconciliation". So different readings from the same thing!

And like, I can definitely see both ends of these very disparate interpretations.

Helen seems relaxed, she and Menelaos to all appearances amicable as they speak with each other, she walks around the palace/comes down into the hall as she wishes, they sleep together, etc.

And yet, also; she just single-handedly decides to drug both her husband and her guests, no apparent warning or question about it. Her and Menelaos' Trojan tales are distinctly at odds with how Helen and her actions are shown. Menelaos comes after Helen, he chooses a story that immediately questions and problematizes Helen's proclaimed feelings and motives in her story.

And when you put that in conjunction with what seems to have been the mainstream version of the reclamation of Helen, that is, that Menelaos attempted to kill her but Aphrodite had to intervene... Well, I don't think it's impossible or improbable that they actually have truly reconciled and are back at a good spot in their relationship, ten years after the sack and having spent nothing but time together for eight of those years as they travelled.

But still. I could also equally see it the other way, given the very insistent general tradition that Helen left of her own will/desire, and an attempted murder might be hard to forgive. So the ambiguity in the Sparta scenes is really interesting.

[silverfoxstole]

Hattie, Paul and Nicola, from the Big Finish Instagram.

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

Remedy Ladies part 2!

(Also I didn't plan to have this finished today, but I'll take the happy coincidence, so happy international women's day too!!)

[dailyjustified]

[red-moon-at-night]

Nemesis when she's with Helen:

Nemesis when she's with Castor and Pollux:

[coldflasher]

you know, caitlin having a villain arc in her own right outside of the killer frost persona/personality switch would actually have been so fun and interesting and i think they could have got a lot more mileage out of that

but it all ties into the fact that one of the main flaws of s8 is that they like to tell us that cool things happened offscreen...

for example, funeral for a friend starts with the team in shambles bc frost is dead so they are distracted and off their game and as a result, they lose a fight, and the meta of the week escapes. then we never see them again. at the end of the ep they have a conversation like "oh i'm so proud we defeated that meta in the end, go team!" but we never go back and SEE them do that!! it would have taken maybe a minute or two of screentime to show them beating up the dude at the end but nope, they just forgot this is a superhero show i guess. this episode dedicates almost 10 minutes to chester and allegra having a fight about whether hummus is a condiment or a dip but we don't have time to resolve the meta of the week plot, somehow

anyway my point is at one point caitlin is like "yeah i stole this tech." I WANNA SEE HER STEAL THE TECH. as herself and not frost!! show me how she broke into a tech facility without help and with no powers!! i want to see her robbing frost's grave and digging up the corpse!! i want to SEE her doing all this fucked up stuff!! like how did they fumble this so badly. caitlin has always been a character who is kind and empathetic and soft, so it could actually be so compelling to see her going dark like this and going to such extreme lengths to try and bring frost back, and explore that dark side of her. but instead we just get a handful of very brief scenes where she explains her fucked-up plans to various people and messes with equipment but she doesn't DO anything. come on man

[some-pers0n]

Shout out to the defense team for them all being the only mercs with really fleshed-out childhoods and backstories only to be ignored and neglected by Valve. They deserved so much better than what they got

[gingermintpepper]

On that trojan war au thing you're writing. 1. What are the tags for it, cause I'm super interested! And would love to read what you have so far! 2. "And Odysseus is a much grimmer darker man due to his home being one of the places that were first swallowed up by Erebus" - I wanna know more about this. Please tell me more.

Oh , wow, I'm so flattered! I'm very happy it sounds appealing to you <33 This work is a huge passion project of mine so I'm always glad to talk more and more about it, especially since there are many aspects occurring in the background (such as the alternate fates of the main players of the Trojan Conflict) which I cannot properly cover or even explain within the events of the novel itself.

That said: 1) If you mean tags as in ao3 - unfortunately, this work isn't on ao3 my friend :( As I said above, these are elements and concepts in the greek mythology based-fantasy novel I'm currently writing (the concept of which I outlined here in the introductory post of my novel concept!) As for wanting to read whatever writing I currently have available: I currently have three fics available on ao3 that are written in my Pursuing Daybreak verse!

The Prince and Princess series deal with a young Apollo and Artemis and the many consequences they face after Apollo has slain Python. The two works uploaded right now are Exeunt Phoebus Apollo which covers the murder trial of Python and Manent Apanchomene Artemis which covers the intense feelings of helplessness and alienation Artemis experiences after Apollo returns from his banishment and is completely changed. Both of these have themes of family, grief and relationship exploration at their heart.

The third bit of writing I have up is quite outdated but does cover the immediate aftermath of Hyacinthus' death. It's called A Petal Falleth and features Apollo making one of those Big Silly Decisions that have completely unintended but extremely important consequences: namely, instead of the larkspurs being made of Hyacinthus' spilt blood, Apollo anchors the boy's soul to the flowers so Thanatos wouldn't take him. Like the Dawn is also set in this world but because it is nsfw in nature, I wouldn't recommend it as easily as the other three bits of writing. If you don't mind the whole naked men thing though, I'd definitely suggest reading Like the Dawn for a better idea of what my current writing is like (along with eventually getting to see characters like Hector, Andromache and Cassandra/Helenus) Like the Dawn's themes are also different to the other three works with it focusing more on the power dynamics of a god/mortal relationship, exploring masculinity and masculine sexuality and self discovery.

The running theme here, of course, is that all of these bits of writing are centered on Apollo/Artemis or Hyacinth because my novel itself is centered around them. There are, of course, other important characters and figures like Eros, Psyche, Penthesilea and Iaso (one of Asclepius' daughters) but while there is the definite presence of characters from the Trojan War they most certainly aren't at the center of the novel (and the ones that are aren't the Greeks but rather the Trojans i.e Hector, Alexander, Andromache, Cassandra, Helenus, Aeneas, so on and so forth.)

2) The basis of the apocalypse in my work is cosmological! Due to Apollo's err-- untimely departure, there's no longer anyone maintaining the axis of the heavens or the navel of the earth. Because of this, Erebus - whose darkness is usually kept firmly in the spaces between the realms - begins to spill out into both the heavens and the earth. The beasts of Erebus (referring primarily to the Seven Curses - Old Age, Misery, Deceit, Violence etc etc) consume, torment and destroy whatever is inside of Erebus' darkness and Ithaca, as one of the islands on the far edge of the world, was one of the very first places that were devoured in this manner. Odysseus was visiting the Argives at the time for a festival and had left the pregnant Penelope at home since he didn't want her to suffer through the voyage in discomfort. He only finds out about the destruction of Ithaca after it had already been consumed when Athena personally interrupts a feast to warn both him and Diomedes. Needless to say, Odysseus, like everyone else, assumes that everyone on Ithaca has died and thusly is a very, very different man in terms of humour and comport. A part of him still stubbornly clings to the belief that Penelope managed to escape - that she was smart and resourceful enough to see the end approaching and do her best to escape - but that doesn't stop him from being dour for the majority of the time. Diomedes does his best to keep his spirits up in the meantime. Without him around, Odysseus is something of a black hole when it comes to the oppressiveness of his discontent though he does manage to lighten up when in the company of Helen, Clytemnestra and even Menelaus on occasion.