#help pleaseeeee

[guzhufuren]

do we have Century of Love episode files in 4k anywhere? i would love to make very huge very red gifs of the fox seduction scene

[fandom-trash44]

Once again I come to the internet searching for a fic.

Jason Todd comes to bludhaven as red hood without dick knowing who he is. I don’t remember the author or the name but I do know that Nightwing asks the red hood not to kill (because of Slade) and I don’t rember a lot of details but I know that there’s a scene where Jason and dick go through his photos together and Jason gets emotional (tm) and Jason also kill’s someone and deathstroke comes to town looking for him please if anyone knows the name

[lord-of-the-weird]

any bug people? what is this ive never seen it

[worm98]

this little Cyclotrachelus is REALLY DUMB i cannot identify to species for the LIFE OF ME UGHHHHH

[bleed-ing4u]

I saw a video of Norman saying Daryl and jesus almost got together, but it didn't happen because, if I understood right, fans didn't like the idea? I'm genuinely so upset that didn't happen because I would've loved to see that.

BY THE WAY THE FACT NORMAN WAS MORE THEN HAPPY TO PLAY ANOTHER GAY CHARCTER IS SO SJDNDBSBNEEMJEK I LOVE HIM SO MUCH ☹️

(Here's the video, I had to screen record it so forgive me for the quality 😭)

[the1970sdeadgaywizard-regulus]

This is something that I require.

Is there anyone willing to be the James to my Regulus

Platonically

Like

Please?

I need it

I cannot survive without it

I need that strong bond without romance

Preferably another aro

Or just someone who does not want to date yet

Please!

[mirapteo]

I CALL THEM BRAINSTORM >:3

[imgondeletedis]

all i am gonna say is yerin ha is a lucky lucky woman. im forever jealous.

[piggy-ame]

this thought popped into my head after a conversation i had with a friend, i’d love to be a community piggy!!

the idea of being fed and fattened and loved by a community of feeders and encouragers and FAs and even other feedees just sounds like pure utter bliss to me!

getting to live a lazy life being fed, fattened, played with, praised, degraded, humiliated, worshipped and even more by so many people is actually such a beautiful thing in my eyes!!

i hope one day i get to live out this life and really become a fat community pig x333

[irhabiya]

i went to the gym today.....finally

[gingermintpepper]

hi I love your tags so so much! they were so sweet and so interesting and creative and the whole Aphrodite type of beauty thing sounds really interesting do you have any articles and recommendations to read further into it??

-hogoflight

Hello my fine feathered (I am assuming possession of feathers if you are, indeed, capable of flight) @hogoflight! I'm always always happy to hear that people appreciate my frenzied rambling in the tags :D! I have a lot of articles and recommendations :D!! Ancient Greek notions of beauty and representations of it in their art and sculptures is a pretty well studied topic! There isn't any way for us now to know definitively what the beauty standard was (it varied widely from region to region and culture to culture after all) but here are a couple of my favourite reads about Aphrodite and what her representations tell us about idealised beauty!

Probably the most empirically extensive one I can list is Krönström's thesis which compares statues of Aphrodite and literary text referring to both the goddess and mortal women to determine physical ideals for women in five specific eras of Grecian antiquity. Including measurements of the statues there are many descriptions of Aphrodite as 'curvy' with a 'voluptuous figure' and with 'ample buttocks and bosom'.

"When the beauty traits are described in the texts, they are never extreme or anything that could not be found in normal people just that they are more beautiful in every aspect. Furthermore, the sculptures’ physical forms look healthy, they are tall and have distinct curves. Great examples of this are the Knida sculpture and de Milo (the Melian) sculpture."

Of course, these images are still idealised, and there was still a concept such as 'too fat' or 'too skinny' found in written records (and this thesis even includes analysis of pornographic writings and descriptions of the fashion and stylings of pubic hair of women from different regions!!) but from an interpretational standpoint? There is absolutely no reason why these can't refer to a fuller figure. Height was also a very important factor after all and over the course of many eras, it seems like being well proportioned in addition to the length and appearance of one's hair were the most important factors (and, like Apollo, greater beauty was given to those with curlier hair)

Mireille M. Lee's 'Other Ways of Seeing' essay which talks about the forgotten female viewers of Knidian Aphrodite which is also extremely illuminating on how Aphroditic sexuality and sensuality was perceived totally differently from the well documented male voyeuristic gaze (which was overly preoccupied with the statue's nakedness and therefore over-sensationalised the statue's physical appearance) vs women's perspective on the statue which is more centered on the beauty of simplicity in Aphrodite's garment and decoration and in her power and ability to captivate both in her finery and without it. I think it's especially useful in exploring the importance of finery, jewellry and adornment in representations of Aphroditic beauty.

"Some of the small-scale copies are heavily jeweled, especially those from the eastern Mediterranean, for example the Hellenistic gilded terracotta statuette in the Çanakkale Museum (Fig. 5) in which the goddess wears, in addition to the armband on her (right) arm, the following: a necklace with multiple pendants; cross-bands extending over both shoulders and hips, with a cascading pendant in the center; a coiled snake armband on the left arm and another snake on her left thigh, and a twisted anklet on her right leg. (The left leg has been restored, and might also have featured an anklet.)"

"Jewelry is especially associated with Aphrodite in Greek literature. As seen above, in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, the goddess adorns herself with gold jewelry, dress-pins, and earrings in the shape of flowers (162–3)..."

Finally, and to me, the most important one in the argument for an interpretation of Hyacinthus as fat, beautiful and fundamentally Aphroditic comes from Brilmayer's brilliant brilliant thesis done on Aphrodite's work and influence in Archaic Greek Poetry which does away with all of that masculine preoccupation with physical proportion, measurement and bodily ideals for a focus on a Sapphic Aphroditic ideal centered in clothing, ornamentation and, most importantly cunning as symbols of Aphrodite and ultimately a feminine idealised form of beauty. This paper also discusses Pandora and Helen in these terms and it is just kind of a wonderful read tbh.

"Combining Homeric and Hesiodic elements with her own ideas, she [Sappho] alters the way female beauty is viewed. For example, the Homeric war chariot – a symbol of male, military prowess - comes to symbolise the totality of Aphrodite’s power uniting in itself male and female qualities. Having addressed the concept of beauty directly, Sappho then concludes that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. With the help of Helen of Troy and her beloved Anaktoria, Sappho sets out to reinvent the concept of female beauty as a godlike, subjective quality that may be expressed in many ways, yet remains inspired by Aphrodite."

The conclusion to all of this of course is that Aphroditic ideal beauty is much more fluid compared to its stricter Apolline masculine standard. The nuances and understandings of both are of course, constantly being studied, analysed and scrutinised but really, if Dionysus who was both bearded and clean shorn, effeminate, birthed and rebirthed (and twice gestated!) and strongly associated with vegetation can be popularly portrayed as fat and handsome, why can't Hyacinthus?!

[fairyhaos]

for reference:

mingyu fic | jeonghan fic (1) | jeonghan fic (2) | junhui fic

++ pls reblog for greater visibility!

[aalyre]

PLEASE I NEED HELP TO FIND SOMETHING

so there’s this post i saw a while ago and it was someone explaining that in arabic there’s this expression you use when someone says smt is beautiful and it’s basically “it’s your eyes” or smt like that meaning the beauty is in your eyes.

and someone answered to that post saying in portuguese (can’t remember if it was from portugal or brazil) they have the same thing

PLEASEEEEEEE DOES SOMEONE HAVE THIS POST SOMEWHERE

[sis-goleona]

Whenever Charles brings out that damn paddle he looses a fight. Stop bringing out the magic paddle it won’t help you.

[the-real-peterparker]

ok…. where did everyone go???

[soupmanspeaks]

please please please manifesting that since mystic hippo is a future reader, can she also be a past-seer, please please please I need a scene or something where you're in her office (or, her area, idk lol) and she's like "ohhh yes! that bear, that bear! what a nice fellow, he seems! oh! but let us look...underneath the seams...! Memories, memories! They linger and persist, even, after the soul changes!" and then there's a cutscene or something of GlamFred just sitting and pondering, and and and and then it zooms into his eyes or something, and then the camera spins around and and and its the sister location elevator and and and and and and afterwards, that resurgence of that memory is what causes Glamrock Freddy to be repaired and going haywire and and and and