#hint: yes

[accidental-spice]

Am I just gonna have to make a compilation of times Merrick acts human?

[tododeku-or-bust]

In B&R, do you think Peleus and Thetis had ever once loved each other for real? Not being romantic right now does not necessarily mean they hadn't loved each other in the past, so I got curious about this universe!

This is an interesting one, bc I've still been messing around with their backstory. So what i say now might not apply later, but it's not enough of a spoiler situation to really warrant me not talking about it.

I think that they are more of the "take responsibility" couple. So they were sexually interested in one another back in their heyday, they were cool with one another, but it was always more of a "he's the nicest of the jocks and will be self made; shes the popular rich girl, it looks pretty aesthetic if not permanent" thing.

Maybe if they'd had time to develop a better relationship, it could have worked out. However, they (literally) fucked around and found out, and the only way Thetis was ever going to keep that child (bc Peleus deeply wanted the baby upon discovery) was if Peleus took full responsibility. And again, i like to think they're from an era where that sort of social pressure and reputation was On, esp for women. Thus, marriage it was, and marriage is Permanent (older people's mindset).

They're not the worst of couples when it comes to this (like TSoA and Fame!Thetis and Peleus despise one another) but there's more of a "we stuck in this shit together now, might as well be cordial about it". There's resentments, for sure. They've definitely still slept together off and on the whole time (and it is Good, they wont lie), and they do go to one another for advice and such. They argue over Achilles, but they love him dearly. Like I said, it's companionate at best. Jury's out on whether or not they've had affairs 👀 it's messy lol. Achilles definitely wants better for him and Patroclus.

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Just a man and his muse :)

A shameless plug for something I drew last night!

(I think I'll do a separate post for a proper Patreon update, cuz I've gotten so much support, and I've been doing a lot with it this past week and having a really good time!)

[tooquirkytolose]

~The Most Beautiful Woman in The World~

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[wren-kitchens]

im annoyed and a little pedantic so can i just say as a blanket statement

queerbaiting is when the promotion for a FICTIONAL STORY intentionally hints towards two characters having a romantic relationship, without any intention to follow through in the show, in order to get queer people watching without discouraging the homophobic enjoyers of the show

queerbaiting is NOT:

a celebrity who you think is queer because theyre gnc or they have a 'vibe'. that is a real person and they cannot queerbait

two friends of the same gender pretending to flirt with each other for fun. those are real people and they cannot queerbait

a show with two characters of the same gender who are canonically friends that YOU PERSONALLY think would be better in a relationship. that's not bating, that's shipping, and subject to opinion

there are more but those are the main examples of people misunderstanding what queerbaiting is and being mad at something that isn't actually a problem

[nettleparade]

his one-sided love for life

[hooved]

hey don't cry. press and hold the A button while jumping and you'll be able to fly short distances. this is called gliding

[lilybug-02]

Bug Research!

Bug Fact: Roly-Polies (Pill bugs) are not insects! They are terrestrial crustaceans that still breathe through gills!

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[acourtofchaos]

thinking about best friend!theo, who considers marriage a death sentence, losing his mind when he finds out your parents are going to force you to go on dates with potential marriage prospects when you return home. leading to him persuading you to let him steal you away to italy for the summer so he can keep you out of your their clutches and away from the boys on their list who he knows won’t treat you the way you deserve

he's trying to find a way out of the whole thing whilst also showing you around his home and maybe theo should have known it was dangerous to let you into this part of his life he's given no one else access to but god, you're his best friend, practically the other half of his soul, and he can't imagine letting anyone else have this piece of him

besides, it doesn't seem like such a bad idea, not at least until a few weeks pass and there's a new kind of bloom in chest when he looks at you that only grows the harder he tries to fight it and the answer to your problems suddenly lies in a proposal he's too afraid to offer 

[inkskinned]

crows use tools and like to slide down snowy hills. today we saw a goose with a hurt foot who was kept safe by his flock - before taking off, they waited for him to catch up. there are colors only butterflies see. reindeer are matriarchical. cows have best friends and 4 stomachs and like jazz music. i watched a video recently of an octopus making himself a door out of a coconut shell.

i am a little soft, okay. but sometimes i can't talk either. the world is like fractal light to me, and passes through my skin in tendrils. i feel certain small things like a catapult; i skirt around the big things and somehow arrive in crisis without ever realizing i'm in pain.

in 5th grade we read The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, which is about a young autistic boy. it is how they introduced us to empathy about neurotypes, which was well-timed: around 10 years old was when i started having my life fully ruined by symptoms. people started noticing.

i wonder if birds can tell if another bird is odd. like the phrase odd duck. i have to believe that all odd ducks are still very much loved by the other normal ducks. i have to believe that, or i will cry.

i remember my 5th grade teacher holding the curious incident up, dazzled by the language written by someone who is neurotypical. my teacher said: "sometimes i want to cut open their mind to know exactly how autistics are thinking. it's just so different! they must see the world so strangely!" later, at 22, in my education classes, we were taught to say a person with autism or a person on the spectrum or neurodivergent. i actually personally kind of like person-first language - it implies the other person is trying to protect me from myself. i know they had to teach themselves that pattern of speech, is all, and it shows they're at least trying. and i was a person first, even if i wasn't good at it.

plants learn information. they must encode data somehow, but where would they store it? when you cut open a sapling, you cannot find the how they think - if they "think" at all. they learn, but do not think. i want to paint that process - i think it would be mostly purple and blue.

the book was not about me, it was about a young boy. his life was patterned into a different set of categories. he did not cry about the tag on his shirt. i remember reading it and saying to myself: i am wrong, and broken, but it isn't in this way. something else is wrong with me instead. later, in that same person-first education class, my teacher would bring up the curious incident and mention that it is now widely panned as being inaccurate and stereotypical. she frowned and said we might not know how a person with autism thinks, but it is unlikely to be expressed in that way. this book was written with the best intentions by a special-ed teacher, but there's some debate as to if somebody who was on the spectrum would be even able to write something like this.

we might not understand it, but crows and ravens have developed their own language. this is also true of whales, dolphins, and many other species. i do not know how a crow thinks, but we do know they can problem solve. (is "thinking" equal to "problem solving"? or is "thinking" data processing? data management?) i do not know how my dog thinks, either, but we "talk" all the same - i know what he is asking for, even if he only asks once.

i am not a dolphin or reindeer or a dog in the nighttime, but i am an odd duck. in the ugly duckling, she grows up and comes home and is beautiful and finds her soulmate. all that ugliness she experienced lives in downy feathers inside of her, staining everything a muted grey. she is beautiful eventually, though, so she is loved. they do not want to cut her open to see how she thinks.

a while ago i got into an argument with a classmate about that weird sia music video about autism. my classmate said she thought it was good to raise awareness. i told her they should have just hired someone else to do it. she said it's not fair to an autistic person to expect them to be able to handle that kind of a thing.

today i saw a goose, and he was limping. i want to be loved like a flock loves a wounded creature: the phrase taken under a wing. which is to say i have always known i am not normal. desperate, mewling - i want to be loved beyond words.

loved beyond thinking.

[jazzies-stuff]

What a loser (affectionate)

[hajihiko]

I had a dream the other night

[aerequets]

one of my twiyor hcs is that prpr (post reveal pre relationship), loid will braid yor's hair as a form of physical intimacy without actually touching her

[blingusdlingus]

TERIOS, THE BETRAYER

A ruthless warlock who led the Great Emerald War thousands of years ago.

To atone for his atrocities, he was imprisoned for eternity in what is now known as Null Space.

His chains are linked to the Master Emerald, to supress his powers. However, the link has been steadily weakening over time...

Said powers require the use of his Gilded Scepter, the Chaos Dimension's equivalent of the Jeweled Scepter. With it, he can reanimate the dead by rewinding time in a closed space.

He also has intrinsic Chaos powers (Like Chaos Control) without the use of a Chaos Emerald.

His only goal is to escape his prison and attain true godhood with the power of Chaos... all he needs is a way out.

"∞"

[lazylittledragon]

something about found family and pop punk covers

(full version on webtoon)

[gascreates]

seeby s1 dino gaang :)