#homer kinda lied here

[skopsidopsi]

What did Homer mean by Patroclus and Achilles died?

Are they not currently in Phthia happily married with two children? Arent Hector and Patroclus really good friends? Didnt they all survive and now live a happy ever after together?

Im sure they did

[katerinaaqu]

Epic the Musical:

Circe: Oh my! He cannot be transformed by my powers! What do I do?! What do I do?! Think think I need to protect my nymphs! Oh I know! He's a man after all! I'll seduce the hell out of him to get my power over him back! He clearly can defeat my entourage of wolves and lions all by himself! I mean he's damn immune to my magic! I am sure he can do anything with his sword!

Circe: *aggressive flirting*

Odysseus: Oh my gods oh my gods she is hot...what the hell?! Oh I am just a man! Forgive me... No! Wait! J can't! I love My wife way too much! Please let us go home! I miss my wife!

Circe: Awww that is so sweet! Of course darling. I was always a sucker for a good soap opera. Of course I'll help you free of charge and here's some useful tips for your trip! Drive home safely!

The Odyssey:

Circe: Oh my! This man actually had the AUDACITY to come in my home and threaten me! And he took all precautions (a God helped him no doubt). Finally a man I can consider worthy of standing by my side and not bad looking either!

Circe: Come on, darling. Remove your clothes and let's get down on it! Let's see what you've got!

Odysseus: (oh my! Forgive me Penelope that is the only way to save my men! Hermes told me not to refuse her a thing! She is a freaking goddess that commands all these wild beasts! Power over me or not she's a force to be reconed with!) F-Fine but I cannot do what you ask before I ensure my men are safe. Please release them first and then I will (gods gotta buy myself time! Ain't prepared!)

Circe: *does that*

Odysseus: *sighs* I guess we're doing this...

*A year later*

Odysseus: Okay men you had your fun but I can't keep entertaining her forever! We must go home!

Odysseus: Please Circe let me and my people go! We have to go back

Circe: Oh but can't you stay a bit more?

Odysseus: No...I miss my wife and son

Circe: Fine, my dear, if that's what you want... Your happiness is more important than my satisfaction and I love you so I shall let you go. You paid your price fully. Here are some useful tips for you, some provisions and good luck...

[my-name-is-apollo]

Why is Apollo your favorite god? (And why is Hermapollo your favorite ship?)

Two big reasons: 1) he's the god of sun and music, two of my favorite things 2) he's The Pretty Boy of Greek pantheon

The first time Apollo appeared in PJO I loved his cocky personality a lot. And then I started reading more of his myths, glancing into his cults practices and all, and I found him to be really interesting. Like, he has so much more to him than just the cocky fuckboy trope he often gets put in. In a lot of his myths he's awe-inspiring and likeable too. Like he's done a lot of contributions to the mankind, he's a mama's boy, a good father and there are also myths of him being a lovely boyfriend. And one thing I like about him that sets his apart from other Greek gods is the way he repents after committing an extreme act. There are so many myths of his and they range from him being a fear striking deity to him being a blushing mess in front of his crush lol. I also LOVE entities that have stark duality and Apollo is exactly that. A ruthless destroyer to some and a gentle healer to others. You can see this kind of duality to some extent in every Greek god, but Apollo is like the peak of it imo. He has so many domains and a lot of them contradict, it's kinda crazy. He was super popular back then and people loved him and prayed to him for a lot of the things. He's just really very interesting and versatile and i love reading about how he was perceived and worshipped in those days. I'll stop here cause if i continue and get more specific this will be a long answer XD

To answer the other question, Homer made me ship them it's not my fault. The way it's said that Hermes continuosly loves Apollo, and how Apollo promised to never love any god more than Hermes? ❤️ (I also read a paper that delved into the homoerotic subtext of the hymn and that sold me) Also, get this - Apollo's signature symbol, the lyre, was a gift from Hermes. And Hermes' most prized possession, the caduceus, was a gift from Apollo. Their most famous attribute/symbol is a gift they received from the other 🥹 and they're opposite enough to fall in the opposites attract trope (the god who never lies and the god of lies) but they also have enough in common to be in the "rivals to lovers" imo. They do share a special bond and are seen hanging out together in the myths :3 I just think there's a lot you can do with these two! Also most importantly, none of them can die (unlike most other lovers of Apollo :')) and that's why they're my comfort ship.

[shivayagojo]

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helenamonte13: CODE RED!! CODE RED!! I finally convinced Andrea to direct one of my films. The secret: a lot of ice tea.

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user1: THE RUMORS WERE TRUE!!

user2: bestie i luv you, but why on earth are you writing with a typewriter in this century

helenamonte13: julius broke my computer 😤😤

user3: julius is there??!!

andrea_marie: it did not take a lot of convincing. she's just being overdramatic

helenamonte13: that's because i know your secret 😏

andrea_marie: 🙄

helenamonte13: luv ya bestie😘

user4: sorry new here. who's andrea in the pics?

helenamonte13: the shriveled director in pic 2

andrea_marie: my hair is fine!!!

user5: welcome to the club

user6: she's also in the last pic with helena

elise3violet: why no pics of me?

user7: oh my god! elise is there!

helenamonte13: don't worry darling. i got u in the next one.

juliusclaymore

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juliusclaymore: no idea where andrea made me fly to but i kinda dig the aesthetic. oh. i also brought homer with me.

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user8: homer got that dawg in him! literally

user9: probably got more brain cells than julius does 🤣

andrea_marie: you just landed and the first place you head to is IKEA?!!

juliusclaymore: you didn't give me any more instructions than "just get here." how was i supposed to know?

juliusclaymore: besides, look at that shark

andrea_marie: ... i'll let it slide

carlos.diez: bro how come you got there earlier? our planes boarded at the same time.

user10: im freaking out!! carlos is in the project he has to be!

user11: at this point it's confirmed. he never comments unless he's involved

user12: are we just gonna ignore the fact that ANDREA CALLED FOR JULIUS! meaning JULIUS IS WORKING ON THE FILM??!!

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nico_silvus: I've arrived!! Had to take a quick stop at the NY airport - still crazy to see my face on those billboards. Oh also, picnic pics.

P.S: Julius tripped on the grass.

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andrea_marie: missed you so much 💞

nico_silvus: missed you too (dad also said hi)

user14: there are three things guaranteed in life: death, taxes, and andrea marie liking nico's post in 53 seconds.

user15: Mother has arrived

user16: Oscar incoming 💪💪

juliusclaymore: that grass was slippery alright

nico_silvus: the last time it rained was like 3 weeks ago. u legit just tripped on grass.

helenamonte13: at least u can said u've touched grass (unlike evan)

evanbenson: why am i catching strays?

user17: man, why does everyone got something against julius

user18: it's a julius thing

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helenamonte13: photodump of my baby bc y'all think i forgot about her. luv ya elise for making me look good in all my photos.

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user19: when the photographer is the photo 🔥

elis3violet: let me know when you finally move out of LA. you can live in my neighborhood.

user20: girl good luck getting her out of there

helenamonte13: you can take me out of LA, but you can never take the LA out of me.

nico_silvus: RIP Julius

juliusclaymore: i'm not even in these pics. why am i being targeted??

helenamonte13: cause we had to take that third pick like 20 times cause you kept stealing the food!!

juliusclaymore: but it was a good egg sandwich. you should've tried it.

nico_silvus: wait @elise3violet you gave him the sandwich???

elise3violet: ... yeah.

helenamonte13: baby you said I could have it.

carlos.diez: wait you guys are getting food?

user21: sometimes i think these guys forgot dms are a thing

user22: no don't tell them. i need their juicy lore.

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carlos.diez: i got stuck on picture duty so here it is I guess. the food is pretty good, but I also got stuck paying for it, so bleh. but thank you andrea for inviting us out. (pro tip: never invite julius to a field trip).

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user23: poor Carlos. he had to pay AND take pictures.

juliusclaymore: appreciate the pics carlos. that one of me is going in the history books

andrea_marie: who gave you that little scooter in the first place?

helenamonte13: he def stole it from a kid

juliusclaymore: FALSE ACUSSATIONS!

andrea_marie: you're welcome carlos. good to catch up with my old class before we start filming.

ginadawn: my flight gets delayed once and you have all the fun without me 🥲

andrea_marie: dw gina. when u and matthew arrive we're gonna throw another party.

helenamonte13: i know damn well you didn't read a single word of that fat ass book.

carlos.diez: anything for the gram.

user24: lmao not carlos outing himself

nico_silvus: ❤️❤️

carlos.diez: 🫶(pls tell ur new, better dad im sorry for getting a noise complain on your bday party)

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andrea_marie: thank you for all the memories (past and present) and im ready to make a film with all of you once again. even though we kind of ruined the air bnb, won't forget this night.

P.S: Gina and Matthew also arrived - love you guys.

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user25: based on vibes alone this film is gonna win the oscars

user26: incoming andrea marie masterpiece

carlos.diez: i'm so glad i didn't get a noise complaint this thime.

andrea_marie: i would've kicked you of the film if you did.

nico_silvus: i think we learned a lot from this... mostly don't give julius any form of sugar

juliusclaymore: guys i though we moved on from this

helenamonte13: you moved on, we didn't.

elis3violet: my car smells like bleach water, but in a good way.

evanbenson: sorry for the car, but appreciate the ride.

helenamonte13: let's go cook up a masterpiece now.

note: these are characters from my story The Human Art of Film. you are free to use them in a noncommercial way (fanfiction, shitpost, memes, etc). also check out the novel on amazon under the name Shivaya Gojo. hope you enjoyed.

[popculturebuffet]

Since we've tackled one big adult animation network, let's try the other and more prominent one with the FOX adult animation shows. For the first (and arguably most iconic) batch, favorite character from the 1989-2005 era with: The Simpsons, The Critic, King of the Hill, Family Guy, Futurama (which was on several networks between Fox, direct to video, Comedy Central, and Hulu), The PJs, and American Dad (which also got spread between two networks between Fox and TBS)? I know especially in the cases of The Simpsons and Family Guy, the favorite character will vary considering both shows have gone through various rough patches and declines in their long runs so if you wanna have more than one favorite depending on the era of the shows, that's fine.

Fair enough and this is something i'm happy about especialy because, as tends to be the trend, most of these are shows i've watched at least a little and it seems to be consitant for most of fox's shockingly small program pool. The good news is i've tried most of it at one point or another, so there's no gaps this time up to and including the most recent show universal basic guys. So with that let's rip.

The Simpsons: Faviorite character is hard not due to the series sheer length, but to it's sheer cast size. So while it was a hard choice my faviorite is probably grandpa. Which is weird: he has two spotlight episodes I geninely love off the top of my head, yet he earns this spot by just having so many damn good jokes, which is common for any simpsons character but abe just cranks em out from his pants dropping, to "a little of collumn a a little of collumn b" , "I used to be with it", the onion monologue, and so much more. The guy may be on the edge of the show and an awkward fit for spotlight eps at times, but my god does he deliver. And of course he's responsible for my favorite simpsons joke

It's funny enough in it's first scene but that sudden call back. Runner up is easily hans moleman, who is just inherently funny and like Grandpa is funny just by showing up, up to the most recent episode at the time of this ask where he just randomly shows up for homer to make a pun mid song, or the premire of this season where he sees himself on the listings of funerals for the series faux finale and sighs. Third is Chief Wiggum and i'll stop it there but he gets here for a lot of reasons, from sky police to... well everything he does in I Love Lisa. not an exageration. "Have they set a date", "I keep my pants on in this version", the boot on ms hoover's car.

Anyways I could list why simpsons characters are great all day but tha'ts not what this is. Anyone whose seen at least one post on this blog knows how much I love the simpsons

While Frinkiac, an image making website that has a database of the first 17 seasons makes this easy, there's a lot of jokes I just couldn't do if not for them, I'd still be making every refrence i could: The show at it's peak is a non stop barrage of clever jokes, well done character work, and more clever jokes.

The show does have a reputation for decline.. and it's not unwarranted. While I still think at least season 9 is pretty good, the Scully era slowly took the show into mean spirited attempts to match the other shows at the time. There's a reason the term Jerkass Homer came from here.

That said I will combat the narrative that "simpsons just got bad and stayed bad". That it became oops all mike scully. It didn't and that era of edgelord nonsense was fairly short even if it leaked a bit into the Al Jean Era.

The real issue i've noticed visiting the ocasional episode that sounded intresting over the years, and especially after watching youtuber the real jims is that al jeans LONG tenure (As in it only ended with season 34 and he's still apparently in charge of the half assed disney + specials) is kinda bland. There's some good stuff like ned and ednas sadly brief due to real life tragedy marriage, the weird as hell episode where Selma Marries grandpa while Lisa and Bart engage in a lord of the rings style war with UPS over boxes that even includes a dragon and nelson. But a lot just feels bland. It dosen't have to be as good as the golden age, no show can stay that good forever and youtuber and simpsons expert the real jims is what got me out of the "only classic era and season 9 good" mindset I was in. There is good.. it's just a coasting era and I could entirely agree with the arguments simpsons could end.

Emphasis on "Could" as what i've seen of the most recent seasons is fun. Now granted like many I came into what I watched of season 34, the first show ran primarily by longtime writer matt selman but using a unique format where a diffrent writer shoruns each episode and where this new age began, expecting a new golden age. The thing is while it's not that.. it is still solid and the writers are putting in more effort. I still bob and weave out of watching it weekly as some episodes just don't interest me. But the series is far more willing to shake things up or experiment while still keeping the status quo: Bart gets a new teacher woh matches him while being far more resonable and compasionate than any other teacher at the school like Edna was, but without her clear case of burnout, longtime background extra larry died and Moe got engaged.. then the show forgot about it.

More importantly as RealJims pointed out recently in a video, the show is experimenting a lot more each season: you'll get an episode where tow hackers modled after prominent simpssons youtube Lydia from Simpsons Theory and her husband air clips of episodes that never existed poking fun at fans, an episode spoofing primal, a schoolhouse rock parody, and just in this current season alone a faux finale exploring what a simpsons finale shoudlnt' look like, another shorts episode focused entirely on the women of springfield and a second anthology ep focused entirely on ray bradbury. The show may not break status quo, and I wish it would just a tad, but it does break format often and is geninely trying to play with things among more standard episodes. I mean we got the masterpiece that is "A Mid Childhood's Dream' about marge dealing with Bart growing up out of this. Selman and Co really have brought life into the show enough for me to check it out and even the mid episodes are at least intresting. The show may of been in a decades long slump, but it's more than justifying it's existance and likely will keep going till one of the main cast sadly passes on and I for one welcome our new simpsons overlords.

The Critic: Budududdudududud, do do do doot doo ... god that theme song is catchy. Anyways Franklin. I said it in my election special and i'll say it again: Gerrit Grahm owns every scene franlkin sherman is in. Franklin is a living meme in the best way possible and thank god we got him. Duke's a close second for largely the same reasons.

The show itself is excellent. I did keep distance for a bit as it's star, John Lovitz, turned out to be an asshat now sulking around fox news with other comics who wnat the kids to get off their damn lawn. But even if Lovitz Sucks, like Rosanne, a show isn't automatically bad because it's star is a jerk and the critic is a great sister show to the simpsons having the same rapid fire energy. Parts of it haven't aged well as Al Jean and Mike Reiss leaned HEAVILY into refrence humor and while some stands on it's own, others have aged terribly if you weren't there or refrence films I hadn't heard of. Their movie parodies are a coin flip.

Despite this the show powers through the dated bits by nto only being a sharp satire at times, but simply having a stacked cast of characters and voice cast: Every character is memorable in some way, and the bulk have great gags to their name. Lovitz for as much as I resent him now, was at the top of his game as jay and gave the punching bag a sense of energy, with just enough smugness to understand why people might not like him.

The show only got better in season 2: Season 1 still has classics, paticuarlly it's finale (MAKE HIM SQUEAL!), and the debutante ball episode, but season 2 eases up on jay a bit, still dumping on him but giving him a great foil in his girlfriend alice, who he has great chemistry with an der.. also wedging her daughter in there. It keeps what worked but ups the pacing resulting in a lot of the series best. The Critic is free on tubi and it's a stone cold classic of comedy well worth watching.

King of the HIll: Doot doot doo doo doo. It's Dale. Easily. God bless Johnny Hardwick for his monumental performance, the show would not have been the same and i'm greatful he'll be present for some of the revivial.... just.. please don't be into Qanon dale. But Dale is just funny while also having a lot of depth: He loves his wife, is a good father (he still once tries to help his son kill a panda to seem cool, but given dale's many terrible life choices, it's remarkable THAT'S the worst it gets), and while a coward, a good friend when it counts most.. to Hank and Boomhauer. Bill can go stand in the corner. Dale is hilarious fun to watch and memorable every time he does a thing. I mean who else could make chlroforming himself this funny. Or of course this which really sums up the character

The show itself is excellent. Like most fox shows it slid a bit as it went, with the later seasons being meh most of the time, but at it's peak it's a solid down to earth show with great characters, comedic timing and growth. I like some eps more than others even at it's best, but I can't help but adore this show: I watched season 3 a LOT in high school via some dvds I got cheap at walmart, and the show is part of me as a result and even fi it wasn't.. it'd still be dang good, a nice nuanced portrait of a man despreatly struggling with the time he' sin and his own trauma. It also has washington hitler

It's all in the delivery. It's not without faults: I'm not a huge fan of not giving bobby a romantic arc after Connie, Peggy got more insufferable with each season, and as I said the show got blander as it went. But at it's peak this show was great and I can't wait for the sequel.

Family Guy: You know the words. Faviorite character is hard as the bulk have just.. degraded with time, but i'll go with peter as he's the one whose degraded the least.. I mean he's become a bigger asshole but he's not that diffrent.

The show itself was good in it's prime, around the first 5 seasons. There is some edgelord bullshit in there: Transphobic jokes, about half of quagmires joke, and more i'm probably not thinking of but we've got a lot of shows to cover in this ask and the bulk are fairly intensive to talk about as they've been on since the dawn of time.

But my god the show had so many good jokes. I admit I have nosalgia bias: I watched the show a ton on adult swim, was giddy when ti came back and watched it weekly up to road to the north pole when my patience ran out. And seeing Brian vomit for a minute and a half realizing he slept with a trans woman wasn't exactly af ond invitation to go back. When the show was at it's peak, it was hilarious nonsense, having some good character stuff (ToonrifiqTariq in paticular has pointed out the series suprisingly well threaded theme of Peter learning way too much of how he acts from tv and movies), while also just being hilarious. The cutaway gags get shit.. but in thei roriginal form as quick bursts of nonsense and not filler to kill time, they were fucking great. Their a way to pepper up boring expositoin. I mean Meg could just make a quip about Peter being left to his own devices when lois gets a job.. or we could see just what she means by "turned the house into a giant puppet"

It just had a fun nonsense vibe where weird shit like Donny Most rising from some haze happened. It was a solid weird show and I still remember many a cutaway and gag for just being that good. I do wish the show would stop at this point, and I know, given my defense ofr the simpsons to continue that's weird, but it needs to either find something new to do with itself or gracefully end. I tried it again with the halloween specail but it seems.. really not that much diffrent than it was post it's darkest and most stupid period, which unlike simspons seems to have lasted a lot longer and been even more vile. I mean it's where we got "Quagmire's Father", the worst piece of television i've ever seen or reviewed. But the show like simpsons could stand from a bolt of fresh creativity.

Futurama: DUN DUN, DO DO, DUN DUN DO DO DO DO. IT's the show that CANNOT die. It has come back THREE times now, over direct to video movies, a cable revivial and now streaming. And I love it

Faviorite character first: Bender is great, bender bender bender is great. John DiMaggio broke out with this role for good reasons, a hilarious jack of all trades that thanks to Tariuq and his good friend Johnny2Cellos i've also embraced just how easily upset and thin skinned he can be. I hope john gets to play him as long as the role exists and Bender's suprising depth combined with his endless factory for jokes is great. Nixon, as you could probably guess from the electoin specail, is a close second.

The show itself is excellent, a nice blend of simpsons rapid fire pacing at it's peak with some high concept sci fi stuff. It's also aged shockingly well with only Amazon Women in the Mood and Bend Her sticking out as having premises that didn't age well (And in the case of Bend Her it was bad even before it's tranphobia aged like bad milk left in a parking lot). The original run is funny, incredibely well paced and often deeper than it has any reason to be.

Like simpsons Futurama has distinctive eras though rather than be chunked up by showrunners it's chunked up by what network they were on. The films were solid though the premise of beast with a billion backs has aged horribly and was already a tad creepy to start with, while benders game is just.. meh.

The Comedy Central run started and ended strong.. but isn't a lot to write home about. There are fantastic episodes that make me more than happy we got the first revival: Lethal Inspection, The Late Phillip J Fry, The Prisoner of Benda, Law and Oracle, The Bots and the Bee's, Zapp Dingbat, The Six Million Dollar Mon, Stench and Stenchabhility and Meanwhile.. but the bulk are mediocre. You have episodes with outdated and grossly sexist premises (Nutopia and the Butterjunk effect), just plain stupid ones (Fun on a Bun) or episods that are instantly dated (Attack of the Killer App and Decision 3012). The revivial has just enough good and decent to justify existing, but isn't anywhere near where they were and given the gap between there isn't as much excuse for this decline as say the simpsons middle years where 20 some years under the same guy is naturally going to cause some malaise to set in. You had PLENTY of time between seasons, even with everything else going on to come back with something fresher.

Thankfully what i've seen of the Hulu Revivial (The first eason of it and an episode) more than makes up for it. There's still a few clunkers, sure, but the team really found their grove, helped by , unlike a lot of these shows NOT sticking rigidly to the status quo. There are changes that while not changing the series formula, do help create fresh stories; Kif and Amy's kids emerge from the bog (albeit widdled down a bit thanks to the curetly of nature and the bottomless appittie of john zoidberg) and are now active characters, Leela moves into fry and benders place (And Bender takes it exactly as maturely as you'd expect). Their small changes, sure, the show's mostly same as it ever was, but it's a sign of a show willing to try new stuff. There's still some cruft left over from the comedy central era, we REALLY don't need these anthology episodes, but on the whole it feels like what the first revivail shoudl've been: A mixture of fresh talent and the old guard coming in or coming back energized. It honestly reminds me of the current run of simpsons: We didn't NEED more, but it's good there's more good episodes there.

The PJ's: No faviorites here as i'm not really a fan of this one for it's thin characters and mean spirits, though I do respect it a bit more nowadays. If only a little. And I DO like it's stop motion art, something vastly different from most other fox animated shows. I also appricate having less to say as i've had to answer this one over a few sitdowns as most of the shows here had a decades long run, with the PJ's and the Critic being the only two to be short runners. While Fox has a reputation for one or two seasons shows, it's far more spread out than you'd think. So yeah this one isn't for me but I respect people liking it as it was one of the first adult animated cartoons created by black creators and with a nearly all black cast.

American Dad: OH BOY IT'S SWELL TO SAY, GOOD MORNING USA! It's a hard choice between two great side characters, so i'll let them BOTH have the honors. Avery Bullock entirely for being voiced by sir patrick stewart saying the most insane shit the writers can come up with and Principal Avery, who as the show went became the breakout we all deserved

American Dad is a solid show but not one i'm really all that invested in like the last three. I watched it every week for the first season or so then on and off on adult swim, I liked it and I think it's far more solid than it has a right to be. I haven't really touched the TBS era and here it's a pretty sharp decline with few bright spots, which tracks. It did give us Rogu, Roger's Homonculus though so good on it for that blessing to our world. But the show was pretty good I just don't have a ton to say about it either: it has some really good eps, it has patrick stewart singing oingo boingo and it has this joke

Sometimes tha'ts really all you need. Not my faviorite, but not a bad show.

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hey babe one of my resolutions for 2025 is to read more but Im having a hard time finding good books so I thought why not ask the girl that makes poetry in form of a fanfic for recs? HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!

Hello that's a wonderful resolution I'm so excited for you! "Poetry in form of fanfic" is really something, thank you so so much, but unfortunately it's confession time:

I haven't actually read as much in the last 2 years as me from the previous years. In the last few months I've just been looking into some Dostoevsky and I now only really read things about yearning and devotion (usually in short form, like poetry) and folklore/mythology. I used to read a lot of classic literature, crime, thriller, horror, mystery, non-fiction and psychology. I've only read a handful of fantasy and romance. Recs really do depend on what kind of stuff you like to read, so I'll throw in a variety and hopefully you'll like something in here.

Beyond good and evil - Nietzche

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

The symposium - Plato

The silent patient - Alex Michaelides

Legends of Olympus - Alexandru Mitru

Crime and punishment - Dostoevsky

Thus spoke Zarathustra - Dostoevsky

The fall - Albert Camus

What lies in the woods - Kate Alice Marshall

Atomic habits - James clear

A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini

Daisy Darker - Alice Feeney

Thief river falls - Brian Freeman

Circe - Madeline Miller

Inferno - Dante Alighieri (Dante's Inferno)

The divine comedy - Dante Alighieri

The odyssey & the Illiad - Homer

The art of war - Sun Tzu

Six of crows trilogy - Leigh Bardugo

Pride and prejudice - Jane Austin

Persuasion - Jane Austin

Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon

Written in the stars - Alexandria Bellafleur

That's all I can think of right now and they sound kinda serious, but there's also just fun time killers like the hitchhiker's guide series and stuff. Idk depends on the kind of stuff you like but I hope these are useful!

[katerinaaqu]

May I say though that Wilson is incredibly inaccurate? Because the word used in Rhapsody 9 in the original is

πολύμητις

Which means "with much wisdom" "with many strategies" so whatever on earth Wilson says with "lord of lies" is beyond me. The original line goes:

And addressing him answered Odysseus of many wiles

(Translation by me)

The word μήτις stands for "wisdom" or "strategy" or "wile" (again in the essence of planning here). The title "lord of lies" I have no clue where the hell came from. If anything that belongs more to the realm of Aeneiad and Virgil's writing who already writes from the Trojan (aka Roman POV)

As for the reason why Odysseus is praised is very simple; context. Odysseus lies to Polyphemus to save himself and his men not to obtain something or steal from Polyphemus. In fact Odysseus in his story claims that he even resisted the idea of stealing and running from Polyphemus. I also love it how Wilson just uses catchy titles such as "Pirate" in that passage because ironically that doesn't fit there at all. It could fit in Ismarus but not in Polyphemus cave. Odysseus entered the cave to ask hospitality and rejected the idea of stealing and running.

But of course his charisma is unparalleled. Hahaha but ironically he didn't create an alias for himself to the Phaeakes. Instead he hid his identity completely which also plays its part there. He didn’t lie on who he was but refused to elaborate till his emotions broke his mask off. So that being said the context with which the things happened and how it is presented by Odysseus in the story gives indeed the impression of someone who doesn't lie to cheat and destroy but someone who uses the aliases and lies to help a situation or save someone and himself. Which ironically is the majority of the moments in the Odyssey (as opposed to some interpretations of some post-homeric sources and even then his lies seemed to be more or less to save a situation)

What is more Odysseus always reveals both good and bad things about himself (for example he mentions the taking of Ismarus and the hubris to Poseidon but also mentions his wise advices or the way he refuses to steal from Polyphemus) making thus his flaws more sympathetic to his audience thus creating this image outside and I agree kinda here. Sure Odysseus is a sneaky and naughty little bastard and we love him for it but I disagree with the interpretation that he lies pathologically and constantly at least as far as Odyssey is concerned.

His lies were not for personal gain but to protect himself and others. Homer even the moment he tests Laertes seems to mention how his decision to test the waters was prudent and wise (maybe because Laertes needed the emotional shake up in one way so the recognition would be more emotional and both ways)

One of my favourite moments in the Odyssey is how Alcinous reacts after listening to Odysseus’ tales about his journey back from Troy, in Book 11. This is the moment I am talking about:

This is page 291 in my Norton edition of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey

Keep in mind that this is after Odysseus talks about the incidents in the cyclops’ cave (the “nobody” incident, as I like to call it) just two books before, in Book 9. Book 9 also begins with the following lines:

This is page 240

Alcinous’ praise in Book 11 (the first pic) made me audibly go “What?!” when I first read it. I am quite certain that this was the general reaction of the gods on Olympus, who were very probably listening to the conversation all along.

Odysseus’ charisma is unmatched.

[5uptic]

crewfu: fanfic spotlight!

We work together by Anonymous (5up & DK, unrated, gen | 248 words)

Summary: One likes plants and baking, the other loves to create and design video games. They stay up and create monstrosities together, it's their fun, it's their favourite game. Aka a 5up and Dk roommate au!

No matter how life tangles, I’m still here with you. by hungryandsleepy (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 279 words)

Summary: 5up has been working so hard on his new map, and of course, he needs someone to give him a motivation to go to sleep.

objectively pretty by vesque (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 462 words)

Summary: steve is drunk. he's pretty sure 5up is too. that doesn't mean being called pretty is any less momentuous.

you plus me by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 489 words)

Summary: 5up and Steve meet.

he said to me by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 656 words)

Summary: 5up and Steve share a moment.

by the snowmen by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 670 words)

Summary: Steve has a moment when it's all over.

today you got to know me (a little bit too slowly) by runninohhoney (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 675 words)

Summary: Steve lights up a cigarette. 5up doesn't smoke.

what would it take by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 787 words)

Summary: It's Steve's first mission. He hecks up. Or does he?

sorta cute by floweruru (5up/Steve, unrated, m/m | 822 words)

Summary: ‘I wouldn’t do that,’ he said. ‘That’s just disrespectful,’ he said. Yet there was 5up, crushed like a can in Steve’s embrace, feebly kicking at nothing as his feet leave the pavement.

i was gonna kill u, but ur kinda cute?? by Cthulhuer (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 1k words)

Summary: Steve is a mess and 5up is worse.

I hear a Symphony by AwkwardAce (5up/Fundy, unrated, m/m | 1.1k words)

Summary: He exhaled until his lungs ached for air, fingers twitching as he opted to remove the sleek white gloves he wore in a feeble effort to soothe himself. It didn’t work. He wrung his trembling hands together as his eyes raked down the worn leather case taking in the doodles- some etched some drawn- across the faded surface. He snapped the buckles open and his breath hitched, catching in his already tight throat. For a moment the world span, his head throbbed and he wanted nothing more than to run and hide. 5up breathed out slowly, shakily.

staring by lytriis (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.1k words)

Summary: steve asks 5up out. 5up doesn’t know how to respond.

and it's four am, and yet, you're here by vesque (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 1.2k words)

Summary: in which steve shows up at 5up's house, in the middle of the night, completely spontaneously

more than this by mangoedges (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.2k words)

Summary: Steve catches 5up venting.

3:15 by vesque (5up/Steve, general rating, m/m | 1.2k words)

Summary: Steve tries to guess Five's name. It's much more difficult than he anticipated.

things were different by fourpebbles (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.5k words)

Summary: His eyes circled around to his friends, Kimi and Janet engaging in pleasant comversation, sleepy and becoming increasingly more sober. He looked, finally, across him, and caught Dumbdog staring at him. What now bro, what did this guy want. small talk, turns into not small talk, then there's no talk

Once Upon A Dream by SmearedWords (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.5k words)

Summary: 5up looks ethereal, while Steve is struggling to breathe. "You're not real either." Or: Steve has a crush and a nightmare in three parts, 5up is tired, the crew life is hard and Polus sucks.

the ones you love will call you back by homeward_bound (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 1.8k words)

Summary: stevesuptic: dude, is it weird that i miss vegas   DumbDog: No? I do too.   stevesuptic: okay [steve misses vegas and apollo. they talk about it]

cough it out by cj__writes (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 2k words)

Summary: Apollo thinks that Steve must be well and truly gone, at this point, because he giggles, like Apollo’s just told a particularly funny joke. He looks Apollo right in the eye and asks, “Do you trust me?” “Absolutely not.”

ivy by Secular_Czar (5up/Steve, teen rating, gen | 2.1k words)

Summary: It might be a sad day, in general, but Steve isn't about to let it get to him. His friends won't ever let him wallow either.

The Colosseum by WhenTheFogClears (general rating, gen | 2.1k words)

Summary: Five squinted, looking at the colosseum intensely. He thinks Apollo was latched onto the sphinx’s shoulder, fur matted with blood. Janet was slumped against a column, probably out, with Kimi whose bow was snapped in two, her leg twisted at an odd angle. DK was in the corner trying to cast various supporting hexes and charms with a broken arm, whilst Hafu was dragging a heavily bandaged Steve away. or 5up slaughters a cat

Oneshots :) by woofles1990 (5up/Fundy, 5up/Steve, teen rating, multi | 2.5k words, oneshot collection)

Summary: Just a bunch of MCYT/Among Us oneshots, mainly featuring 5up's crew because yes :)

the adventures of 5up and steve staying up late because they're under 30 by 5280ft (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 2.5k words)

Summary: “The night is young!” Steve yells at the ceiling, throwing his hands up in the air. “Take advantage of it! Commit crimes! Fuck hoes!” Five catches his hands in the air and laughs. “You wish you had hoes.”

unreasonably in love by cj__writes (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 2.6k words, chaptered WIP)

Summary: "It was like pieces of a puzzle, everything coming together. And now, here they are, standing in their apartment, which looks more like a hollow shell than a home, filled solely with scattered boxes and the minuscule amount of furniture that they brought with them to Vegas." Or: what happens after Apollo and Steve move in together.

cant be love by fourpebbles (Apollo/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 3.5 words, chaptered WIP)

Summary: He had chuckled to himself, he felt so stupid. Who in their fucking minds names a playlist 'sugr?', he thought, internally cringing. A story where a Steve meets an Apollo, and some things happen.

Somewhere in the darkness, us together for a while by tumtummeke (Apollo & Kimi & Steve, teen rating, gen | 3.6k words)

Summary: Apollo worries about Steve. Steve breaks his vape pen. Kimi plays power washer. Self-indulgent angst, with a generous helping of friendship and cuddles.

odyssey by 5280ft (5up/Steve, teen rating, m/m | 23k words, chaptered WIP)

Summary: "First you will come to the Sirens who enchant all who come near them. If any one unwarily draws in too close and hears the singing of the Sirens...they warble him to death with the sweetness of their song. Therefore pass these Sirens by and stop your men's ears with wax that none of them may hear." -Homer, The Odyssey

Also: SilverSprinklez10‘s yupwaves collection.

Summary: This is a Harry Potter AU based on the characters/personas of the youtubers/streamers.

FAQ:

Wait what is this: pretty straight to the point! i’ll regularly share crewfu-related fanfictions to this blog :)

How regularly is “regularly”?: great question! LOL. it depends on the flow of fanfics that get uploaded, which i do not have any control over, but i’m looking forward to do this twice a month. after all, it’s only me doing this and i often run on a tight schedule.

What’s the format like?:

[title of fic with link] by [author of the fic with link] ([main pairing(s), if there is one/multiple], [fic rating: eg, general rating], [relationship: eg, m/m] | [word count in k] ([added prompt to specify if it’s complete or not)])

Summary: [summary provided by the author. if it doesn’t have a summary, a “No summary” prompt will be put instead]

(What does WIP mean again?): Work In Progress :)

Why are you doing this?: from the beginning, my blog has hosted conversations about RPF (real people fiction) and crewfu pairings. this has evolved into people sending me updates about certain fics in the crewfu tags every now and then, but i wanna take the next step and just do these things myself. after all, i’m already lurking in the tags often to see the fics that get posted. as someone who is both a writer and a reader, i wanna appreciate fanfic writers and help out other people that want to read fanfic and consume more fandom content!

Will it be AO3 only?: well, ao3 has a very helpful tag system that makes finding fics incredibly easy, as well as allowing people with no accounts to like and comment on fics, so that’s the site i will personally look in for fanworks. but if there are any fics you’ve written or liked in any other platforms, such as wattpad, you can always contact me through my inbox (send an ask or a dm!), and i’ll make sure to include for the next fanfic spotlight :)

Does it mean you won’t reply to fic asks anymore?: yeah, i guess. since i’ll be doing the searching myself it seems counterproductive. but if i ever skip a fic or again, it’s in another platform, or you’ve posted/read the fic a while ago and you want to get more traction on it, hit me up and i’ll take it into consideration!

Will you read every single one of the fics on your list?: oh no. again, i run on a tight schedule, and also i have my own taste when it comes to fics. i won’t be reviewing fics or any of the sort, and my intention extends to simply sharing these fics to this page so people will have easier access to them :) that’s where ao3 tagging becomes SUPER useful!!!

So what’s the criteria for the way you’ll sort out the fics in your list?: word count, going from lowest to highest. in case of fics in other platforms, i guess i’ll put them at the top of the list. i’ll also be looking for fairly recent fics, so let me know if you want any old-ish fic to be included.

I see you talking mostly about 5up/Steve and Steve/Apollo. Can I still send/see other crewfu fics?: why yes absolutely! my goal is to push every fic which heavily features regular crewfu characters - 5uptic and supdog just happen to be very popular pairings. so, to give you a list: core 4 (5up, hafu, dk, steve), apollo, aipha, annie, janet, kimi, ellum, koji... you know the drill. it doesn’t have to be centered on a relationship, or about 5up in specific, etc. my only requirement is that any of the previously mentioned members are a central part of the fic or are HEAVILY featured in it (sorry, minecraft fics with 50+ tags who only mention 5up as an afterthought won’t make the cut :/).

Isn’t shipping Bad™?: well, it’s a little more nuanced than that. i will go out of my way to discourage and shame people who often violate CCs’ boundaries by acting like so and so has a crush on this person, or that this and that are Actually Into Each Other or secretly dating. any sort of tinhat bullshit is a big nono (think larries). but i run on the assumption that people who write rpf understand that what they’re doing is simply write a completely fictional story using real life personalities, and understand the boundaries necessary to do it - aka they’re not tinhats, they understand they can’t assume everything about CCs’ thoughts and personalities, they understand that what they’re writing is strictly fiction, they keep these works only in fandom circles, etc. (but again, it’s only one me doing this, so please be kind if i don’t happen to know that this person is Actually a tinhat or whatever).

show fic: NO. (seriously. i don’t feel comfortable putting my ao3 account out there. please respect my privacy on these trying times <3)

I REALLY don’t care about your rpf/fic talk: fair! i’ll be tagging every single one of these posts as “fanfic spotlight”, so just mute the tag using tumblr settings so you’ll never have to look at these! likewise, you can follow the tag if you want to keep up with it, or search it on my blog to look at the other entries you might have missed (but this is the first one! lol).

Hey, my fic is here and I don’t feel comfortable with it being shared over here: no problem! let me know as soon as you can and i’ll take it down <3

[mdverse]

i typed out the entire thing and now my back hurts,,, i blame my posture,,,

ANYWAY idk if you guys have read the iliad or not so i will just sum up the different images Homer described

sun, earth, seas, stars/constellations (he names the Pleiades and Orion among others)

2 cities: the first one has wedding festivities but also a fight between two guys in the marketplace, with the city elders and a crowd watching; the other city is defending against a siege, but the army leaves the walls to fight after 2 herdsmen get killed

a field being ploughed

a king's estate with more farming stuff going on

a vineyard with a kid singing and some more kids singing/dancing along

a herd of cattle, followed by dogs, wherein one of the bulls gets attacked by lions

a meadow for the flocks to graze

a dancing circle(?)

and then the "River's Ocean" around the shield's rim

it's a lot. especially when i remember that this is sth i plan on animating somehow adhskfl im being really ambitious. anyway herein lies the problem. i dont,, actually know how to organize this?

my initial thought was to draw each image separately, then have them transition from one to the next in a loop on the shield. which i think is definitely an option but like... hmmm... idk how to explain my specific vision and sketches would not really help here....

i'm picturing like,,, having each image on a separate layer. but the images are only visible in fragments that kinda merge into each other? idk if that makes any sense maybe i will actually have to make some sketches :(((

the other option i have in mind is doing sth similar to the image below, which i found here (which has actually been turned into a mini sculpted version that u can see on that link too! its wild i am amazed by the amount of detail in both versions!). where each image gets its own section of the shield. and then from there all i would need to do is animate each section individually so they'd each have their own lil loop of "life happening"

i am torn about that tho bc i dont wanna just,, rely on sth someone else has already came up with? and it just feels a bit too busy. there is so much going on (not that my idea is any less busy ssdkjfkdhk its just in a different way i guess)

also i have to keep in mind that i should do more research on what shields looked like at the time askldffgdk i dont wanna stray too far from that once i start drawing

anyway part of the reason i'm trying so hard to explain my thought process here is bc i would actually love some input! i know @born-potty has already offered but if any of you have some thoughts pls let me know! i might try to sketch out the first option i was thinking of somehow if it's not super clear bc ugh ive been thinking about this on and off for the past few days and im still Very stuck.

gonna go to bed soonish (or at least check out from thinking about this for the night) and try some doodles tomorrow. maybe i will just draw some very rough key frames and gif that to see if it helps

[ontowanderlust]

Bet., v.

As much as how nice their boss is, being slaves of the corporal world means that you won't have a life outside your job. This entails to running errands for difficult people, getting shouted at by people who aren't even your boss, negotiating with divas, and doing overtime just to beat the deadline.

Looking at it, employees in Kiseki Entertainment are thankful that at least their boss is nice and empathetic to their plight. Having her as their boss is the one saving grace in this craziness they call job.

And so, it's no wonder that they all look to her as someone who needed to be protected from anything at all cost- this includes the men hovering around her.

Because of this, whenever the boss isn't around, these men had became a hot topic during one of those breakroom talks.

"I'm just saying," Minor's voice ringing through the cacophony of voices in the break room, having gathered for a moment of respite. "That out of those punks, my bro Gavin has the best shot of becoming her boyfriend."

Willow snorted at his claim. "Oh please. Haven't you ever heard of the saying nice guys finish last? Women like boss will go for genius bad boys like Shaw. He's got the smarts, the looks and those fingers...mmh mama!" she fanned herself for more effect while other ladies giggled in agreement.

"If boss is looking for geniuses, she'd definitely go for Professor Lucien!" some dude at the back yelled, earning some laughter from some of them while Minor and Willow glared at him, effectively shutting him up.

"Oh but what about Kiro?" Kiki spoke up, brandishing the donut she was eating. "He and the boss are super duper close! Like two peas in the pod! Plus- out of the rest of them, he and boss are the closest!"

"Being close with each other doesn't mean they're in love." Willow grumbled.

"My bro is close to boss too! In fact he is super close that he even knows boss' preferred color on bras- ow!"

"Aren't they all close with the boss?" Homer asked earning a nod from Liz.  

"Wait hang on," Jade spoke up. "Is there no one who's betting for the CEO?"

"Oh that's Anna," Kiki said with a wave. "But since she's not here so-"

"-I will."

Instantly, the occupants of the break room froze as if someone dumped an ice bucket on them collectively. They could never mistake that low baritone voice and for a moment, it feels as if they all had their lives flash before their eyes.

No one dared to move.

"Shouldn't you all be working on a project that was entrusted to you or is this how the company usually is?"

Willow took a deep breath as she turned to face the imposing figure by the door, overwhelmed by the sinking feeling in her gut- even more when she saw Goldman frantically slashing his throat behind the CEO's back.

"Mr. Li!" she plastered on a fake cheery smile. As a seasoned staff, it fell on her shoulders to diffuse the situation. "Rest assured we're working on the project boss had left for us, it's just that you caught us during break time and..."

Victor's gaze swept their faces before turning to her. "Do make sure you don't make a habit of gossiping about the life of your superior outside work." he said in all seriousness- was it just them or is there a threat lodged in between his words?- before turning around to walk away while Goldman shook his head at them.

"You all realize that you all lost to Anna, right?"

What.

Let it be known that I suck at dialogues. Or am I just overthinking this? Anyway, this one came to me this morning and since my inbox is kinda empty as of the moment, I decided to write it. Kiseki is the name of the company in the anime so I am borrowing that as the default company name for the time being. 

Anyway, woooh. I need to shine some light for these amazing other characters! They are awesome and should be showered with love. 

Send in some prompts!

MLQC Dictionary Prompts

[fictionisfact]

I got this little part from The Schuyler Vidders on YT so credits to them. ❤️

A/N: I had so many ideas for this one so it was kinda tricky picking which one. I hope you enjoy! 💞

Part 1

Here for you | Part 2

Based on S1 Ep. 9

You hated being ignored. But that’s what has been happening ever since that night. The night Ty had decided to kiss you and then run off. He hasn’t texted you back and he definitely hasn’t tried to return your numerous phone calls either.

“And my mom’s letting me look at drama camps for the summer.” Kyle said, knocking you out of your own thoughts. You were currently walking with him and Annie, alongside the baseball field that Ty currently occupied with his teammates.

“Kyle, that sounds amazing! Don’t have too much fun without me.” You responded lightly elbowing his arm. Your frown turned into a smile when he looked over at you and stuck out his tongue.

“Well, I’m thinking about spending the summer with my dad in Atlanta.” Annie spat out before she was interrupted by the one and only CeCe.

“Bottom of the eighth, CeCe Matney is at the plate.” CeCe started with a megaphone as you all three stopped in your tracks to see what was happening, “The crowd’s hushed. The whole game lies on this one pitch. Will ty Townsend go to prom with her?”

Your jaw dropped at the scene unfolding in front of you. Of course she asked him to prom. You guys walked a little closer to the fence.

“She’s funny if she thinks he’s going to say yes.” You stated with venom, more to yourself than anyone else. Annie looked over at you knowing how you felt about Ty ever since the kiss, she frowned upon her inspection seeing that you stared coldly at what was happening.

“And here comes the pitch. Is it a homer or is it a strike? Here comes the swing!” CeCe continued as she walked forward until she was right in front of Ty. She put down the megaphone and waited for his answer. “Well?” She said as she chuckled.

“Yeah. Yeah.” You heard Ty respond. She jumped into his arms and he picked her up and off the ground. When he placed her down, they kissed. You wish you could say it didn’t hurt, but it did. You scoffed and right when Ty looked over to see you looking, you took off with Annie and Kyle hot on your tail.

It was Saturday. The day you and Ty usually hung out together. You tried to put Ty in the back of your mind so your day wouldn’t be completely ruined. You jumped out of bed and headed for your door.

You came out of your room to see Dana Sue and Annie already in the kitchen getting ready to make smoothies. Dana Sue’s phone rang and Annie was first to pick it up.

Annie looked at you with an ‘uh oh’ look. You gave her a questioning face and she showed you the phone. You saw a text from Aunt Helen reading, ‘Can you pour it out right now?’ You covered your mouth in surprise. Annie handed the phone to her mom and she responded with, “Oh dear.”

“You can go. Take care of Helen. We’ll be okay!” You told Dana Sue with a smile. You hoped she would go for Helen’s sake.

“Fine, you girls be safe while I’m gone.” She responded in a hurry to get her bag and keys. She finally shut the front door when she had everything.

“I know you’re feeling down today, but that’s why we’re going to make today amazing!” Annie said as happiness sparkled in her eyes. You gave her a big hug and thanked her. That day was filled with amazing activities and your mind only wandered to Tyler only once.

“And the whole team was standing there chanting as if Ty had just won the World Series instead of agreeing to go to prom. So stupid.” Annie said informing Issac of why you were in a mood.

You had church this morning and of course Ty didn’t even dare to look at you. You were now sulking at Sullivan’s while working with Annie and Issac.

“Very stupid.” You hummed while listening in on what she was saying right next to you.

“Yeah, I didn’t go to my prom. My mom said I’d regret missing it, but I don’t.” Issac said plainly while you were shocked.

“I don’t think my mom went to hers either.” Annie responded causing your jaw to drop. Prom was so special to you.

You tuned out the rest of their conversation thinking about your ideal prom night. What you had been envisioning since you learned what prom was. To go with your best friend, which was off the table completely.

Your thoughts were interrupted by Micah walking in with gifts. Your smile grew as he asked to see the chef. As they reunited you continued to serve tables, finishing up after a long day.

It was finally prom week. You woke up and jumped off the bed and immediately threw on an orange t-shirt with blue ripped jeans. You tied on some white converse and waited for Annie to get done dressing so you could walk together.

As you neared the school, Simon suddenly called out to Annie making her turn around. You knew he was going to ask her to prom cause he texted you about it earlier.

“I’ll see you inside.” You said to Annie lightly touching her arm. You walked away with a big smirk waiting close by. You heard her say yes and you started whooping loudly. You regretted it once she gave you a death glare.

You both walked inside and got to your locker. You took out a few books before you were interrupted by someone calling your name, trying to get your attention.

You turn around to see Jackson with a poster that read, “I might strikeout asking, but will you take a swing at...Prom with me?” He had one of his baseballs in another hand as well. You gave him a smile and turned your head to see Ty looking at him with anger.

“Sure!” You gave him an answer and hugged him. You knew you shouldn’t have, Jackson was his biggest enemy. But you had to get back at Ty somehow for ignoring you. You looked over Jackson’s shoulder to see Ty walking away down the hall.

“You can just wait out here while I go tell Kyle.” Annie told you solemnly. You responded with a nod, waiting outside of the Townsends home. You weren’t waiting long until suddenly, the door opened hastily and revealed Ty.

“Uh, Ty I wasn’t expect-“ you started to talk before he cut you off.

“How could you do this to me?” He asked with sadness and anger mixed in his eyes. Knowing what he was referring to, you rolled your own eyes.

“What do you mean?! You have been ignoring me for days after YOU kissed ME.” You whisper-yelled at him, becoming angry at his attitude.

“That doesn’t mean you can go and get close to my greatest enemy!” He responded angrily. You wiped your face and looked him dead in the eye.

“I’m sorry, but you hurt ME first. You kiss me leaving me wondering if there was a chance you had feelings for me too, but then you go and accept CeCe’s promposal while I watch you kiss her. How is that fair to me?” You said with a single tear rolling down your cheek.

“You like me?” He asked dumbfounded and confused. You both were interrupted by Annie walking out of the front door. She realized what was happening and started feeling awkward.

“Uh, did I inturupt something?” She asked you both with a confused face.

“No.” You answered her before Tyler could. You grab her hand and start walking back home before Ty could say anything else. She knew better than to ask what happened.

You were currently taking prom pictures with Annie, Simon, and Jackson. You were wearing a crimson red dress with black heels to match Jackson’s suit. You put your H/C in cute bun.

Jackson ordered a limo for the 4 of you, as he is the Mayor’s son. Although he protested about going to prom with Annie and Simon, you forced him to due to the fact he has always had a crush on you. But you never took interest in him.

When you arrived Jackson left you to go hang out with the baseball boys. Throughout the whole night, many of your boy friends asked you to dance, causing dismay to Ty and probably to Jackson as well. You had a nice time, as you blatantly ignored Ty, trying not to ruin your night.

A slow song suddenly came on and Jackson asked to dance. You of course said yes. As you danced closely to Jackson, you couldn’t help but look over to see Ty and CeCe dancing as well. You felt yourself roll your eyes and look away once Ty locked eyes with you.

Prom was over but the night was not even close to being done. Your group went to Jackson’s house for the after party and of course Ty came with CeCe.

When you arrived, everyone was forced to put their phones in a bowl. Meanwhile Jackson was tending to his guests. You sat on the couch with Kyle and on of his friends, catching up with him. You looked over the couch to see Ty and CeCe, once again dancing.

You were overwhelmed with anger and jealousy. You interrupted Kyle mid-sentence telling him you were going to get some air on the balcony.

After a few minutes of laying your arms on the railing, you heard the sliding door open.

“Sorry Jackson, I just wante-“ you cut off noticing who it was when you turned around. It was Ty. You immediately tried to push past him to get inside but he held your arm.

“Please. I need to talk to you.” He begged you with his puppy eyes. You couldn’t resist and ended up listening to him. He closed the door and leaned on the railing next to you.

“You probably hate me.” He chuckled dryly. You frowned at his sudden realization. You grab his hand.

“Yes, you have been a total jerk this past week, but you know I could never hate you.” You said with a small smile.

“Y/N, I’m so sorry, for everything. When I kissed you, I got scared, scared that you didn’t feel the same way. I ignored you because I didn’t want to feel rejection. Not with everything going on with my family anyways.” He expressed with an apologetic tone.

“What about CeCe?” You said quietly, almost inaudible, looking away. He smiled at your jealousy and shook his head.

“Honestly, she’s great, but she’s not the one I want. Not talking to you everyday made me realize something. I don’t know if I could live without you. I tried to replace you with CeCe and well...that didn’t work out at all.” He laughed causing you to laugh and smile as well.

“I broke it off with CeCe, so you know.” He stated seriously after you were done laughing. You turned to him with a smirk.

“What are you implying?” You said teasingly. He smiled wide and tilted your head up with his finger.

“This.” He said simply as he leaned down to kiss you. You kissed him back with passion. You never knew how bad you wanted him until this moment. The world faded away and your problems were shoved to the back of your head.

You pulled away slowly not wanting it to end as soon as it started.

“We need to tell Annie.” You smiled softly at him.

“Ugh. Can’t it wait, I want to spend more time with you.” He said selfishly as he hugged you.

“Hmm nope.” You said getting out of his arms and bopping him on the nose. He looked at you with puppy eyes. ‘This is the boy I love,’ you thought to yourself, smiling happily.

A/N: I hope you guys don’t mind it was kinda long...Sorry! I wanted to stick to the episode and had to throw a few different scenes in there. At first I wasn’t happy with this, but I re-read it and I was more confident. Thanks for reading 🥺❤️🥰

[queerchoicesblog]

Your Odyssey (ACOR, Lena x MC)

Another ACOR entry for the @choices-december-challenge by @kinda-iconic . I know that Lena is not and will ever be a LI, but a girl can dream, right? And I ship them already, even if they're non-canon: the AGONY of it all! 😱

Anyway...this is not an extremely romantic fic, romantic affection is actually hinted so you can see it even in a friendly way, I guess. The concept is simple: one night during her training at the scholae, MC (Lucilla) has a nightmare and Lena comfort her. The girl let her kind beautiful heroic domina know about the vow she made of finding her family. Lena tells them the story of a Greek hero that reminds her of the Princess of Gaul.

Prompt: Family

Word Count: 1400

The opening quote is taken from a poetry I love by the Greek poet Konstantinos Kavafis about Odysseus. Here's the link, if you want to read it all.

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"Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for."

It was a midsummer night in Rome. A gentle wind was blowing, caressing the columns of Lena scholae's patium and drying Lucilla's tears. The girl couldn't sleep. She tried but every time she closed her eyes, awful nightmares visited her. Her home set on fire, the Roman guard punching her father in the stomach, chains circling her brother's wrist, her mother silently weeping as soldiers dragged her away from her family. She decided to go catch some fresh air. She tiptoed out of the sleeping quarters (she took extra care not wake Xanthe, her nemesis since day one) and headed to the patium. Once there, she took a seat on the half wall circling the internal garden, hoping to clear her mind.

"Bad dreams, Princess?", a voice asked.

Lucilla immediately turned to see her domina Lena approaching her. The woman walked gracefully towards her, smiling reassuringly. When she reached the wall the Gallic girl was sitting on, she took a seat beside her, leveling her dark eyes with the girl's ones. Lucilla bashfully nodded and looked back into the garden.

"I would be surprised if you didn't have any, poor girl. Almost everyone who comes here is a troubled soul. Bruises, scars, nightmares. The ghosts of the lives they lived before crossing the Roman border haunt these halls. My ancillae hide their tears behind powder, crayon, charming smiles. You wear masks, like actors on the stage. Patrons never notice. They pay tickets for a show and call it reality. They know nothing about us" she said grimly. "But I am no patron, Lucilla, I am on your side. You can talk to me...I was in your place once. What's troubling you?"

Lena tentatively circled her shoulders with her arms. Lucilla stiffened at first, but slowly relaxed, giving in to the reassuring warmth of Lena's arm around her.

"I had a dream about my family".

"Absence turns memories into arrows piercing our heart" Lena nodded. "You will heal, Lucilla. I don't mean you will forget them, you never will, but the pain you're feeling now, that keep you awake at night...it will be more tolerable one day"

Lucilla looked at her, her eyes skeptical but also hopeful.

"I speak from experience" Lena added apologetically. A troubled smile curved her lips but she was quick to hide it.

Lucilla diverted her eyes and gazed off into the distance.

"I made a vow to them when we parted" she said fiercely. "No matter what, I'll go to the ends of the Earth to find them. We will reunite one day, I- I'll make it happen".

"I knew you were just like Odyesseus. I saw it in your eyes when we first met" the older woman smiled to herself.

"Odysseus? Who's him?" Lucilla turned to her.

"Odysseus was s Greek hero. Homer, the blind aedos told us his story and I like to think it was more than just a myth." Lena explained. "Odysseus was the king of Ithaka, a small yet fierce Greek island. He was a valiant and smart soldier, a champion of the Greek Army during the Trojan War. Handsome, wise, a smooth talker...yet none of these qualities saved him from what he faced after the war: the punishment of the Gods. Due to Poseidon's wrath, he couldn't find his way home. Instead, he was doomed to wander all over the Mediterranean Sea without relief: he fought monsters, Cyclops and sorcerers, survived shipwrecks, slaughters and sirens. He never lost hope, though. No matter how many dangers he had to face, he never once forgot about his family: Ithaka always shone brightly in the midst of storms and sorrows".

"I think I like this Odysseus. Did he find his family in the end?" the girl asked expectantly.

"Yes, Lucilla. It took him ten long years to reach the beloved shores of Ithaka, but he embraced his wife and his son again. Poseidon underestimated the power of love. Heroes can't be tamed nor defeated when they follow their heart. I have a feeling that you're no different".

"But I don't know where to start, Lena", the girl frowned.

"Neither did Odysseus, but he found his way home and so will you" Lena smiled encouragingly, as she took the Gallic girl's hand into her. "And you have me. I'll help you".

Lucilla gaped in surprise. "Will you?".

"Of course! You can always come to me for anything" Lena smiled in response.

"So, will you be my...confidante?"

"A confidante, an ally, a friend if you wish, or-" Lena stopped abruptly and retreated her hand, who lingered into Lucilla's hands until that very moment. The Gaul would have sworn she saw a hint of pink coloring her teacher, now confidante's cheeks.

"What I mean is...you're not alone, Lucilla. You can count on me."

The Gallic girl searched her dark eyes for any sign of deception or lie and when she found nothing except empathy and genuine affection, she wrapped her arms around the woman's neck. Lena stiffened a little before cautiously placing her own hands on Lucilla's back.

"Thank you, Lena. I will never forget this"

Lena smiled softly in the crook of the girl's neck and whispered.

"Keep Ithaka always in your mind. Arriving there is what you are destined for. May the Gods smile upon you and be ever in your favor on your Odyssey, sweet Princess."

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reading hamlet for the first time (act 2 scene 2)

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people at my school are saying that the world is supposed to end, like, today, which only confirms my suspicion that this scene is gonna be the beginning of the end

on that uplifting note, let’s begin!

“KING CLAUDIUS: Hamlet’s transformation; so call it,” oh damn. i don’t like that word. ‘transformation.’ i don’t like it one bit

“KING CLAUDIUS: so by your companies To draw him on to pleasures, and to gather, So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus, That, open’d, lies within our remedy.” what is it with powerful men in denmark avoiding communication with the young adults under their care

“QUEEN GERTRUDE: And sure I am two men there are not living, To whom he more adheres.” u rite, there’s only one man and his name is horatio

rosencrantz: just order us you cowards guildenstern: shut the fuck up

king claud: thank you, oh wonderful guilderstern and…  rosencrantz mcidiot

“QUEEN GERTRUDE: Go, some of you, And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.” yeah, where IS hamlet and is he okay

“LORD POLONIUS: Give first admittance to the ambassadors; My news shall be the fruit to that great feast.” fuck you lord pony, you cheap bitch

(thanks, no fear shakespeare for informing me that polack means poland)

“VOLTIMAND:That it might please you to give quiet pass Through your dominions for this enterprise, On such regards of safety and allowance As therein are set down.” that is such a shady fucking request. so shady. “oh yeah lol my rebellious nephew lied to me abt invading poland so he could invade u instead, but then he gave me his WORD he wouldnt so i was so happy i let him actually invade poland but he still needs to go through ur country is that okay lol”

“KING CLAUDIUS: yes nothing could go wrong. excellent. i’ll allow it”

“LORD POLONIUS: brevity is the soul of wit” two things: one, isn’t that the quote AO3 gives you when you leave an empty comment box? two, isn’t wit slang for dick? brevity is the sould of  D I C K

“LORD POLONIUS: I will be brief: your noble son is mad.” yes he’s mad and he’s angry and WHERE IS HE

hey it’s impossible to overstate how fucking sad that letter makes me. it’s going in the currently hypothetical shrine.

“QUEEN GERTRUDE: the poor wretch…” (keysmash)

“LORD POLONIUS: Do you know me, my lord? HAMLET: Excellent well; you are a fishmonger.” (louder keysmash)

you know what im not gonna make those into actual keysmashes. everyone who reads this gets to ‘enjoy’ the notebook experience along with me.

“HAMLET: MAGGOTS ON DEAD DOGS! oh and also here’s a vaguely prophetic warning tone about your daughter having a baby.”

“LORD POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: words you fucking idiot”

HAMLET SAID THE WORD ‘HAMS’ I REPEAT HE SAI–

“LORD POLONIUS: Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET: Into my grave. hamlet h hamlet. hamlet hamlet hamlet, no. hamlet, no.

“HAMLET: You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.” why did he repeat that thrice. words, words, words; except my life, except my life, except my life.

“GUILDENSTERN: My honoured lord! ROSENCRANTZ: My most dear lord!” suckups

HAMLET: Then you live about her waist, or in the middle of her favours? GUILDENSTERN: 'Faith, her privates we. HAMLET: In the secret parts of fortune? why are we talking about fortune’s private parts

the fucking ‘prison of the world’ talk is,,,, it’s definitley got that mystical feeling about it. like he’s only got one foot stood in reality.

“HAMLET: ...were it not that I have bad dreams.” the ‘bad dreams’ part. god. how long has he been like this?

he’s talking like what he’s experienced isn’t possible to be described without metaphor, like english just doesn’t have the words for it.

oh god. hamlet. hamlet hamlet hamlet hamlet. oh god. my guy. hhhhhhhhhh

also. hamlet is confirmed bi. lovely.

js i feel like shakespeare’s @ing someone with this talk of child actors or w/e, i can feel the salt through the script

“HAMLET: I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw.” ONLY when the wind is southerly? i just hope he’s not going birdfeeding any time soon

“HAMLET: ...that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.” HE CALLED LORD PONY A BABY IN DIAPERS <incomprehensible scribbling>

Hamlet is being such a pain in the ass i love it

“LORD POLONIUS: The actors are come hither, my lord. HAMLET: Buz, buz!” lord pony is such a fucking buzz-buzz kill

“HAMLET: O Jephthah, judge of Israel, what a treasure hadst thou!” “NFS: Jephthahunwittingly sacrifices his daughter by making a vow too hastily.” this is pinpoint fucking accuracy

ooooh there’s a PLAY-CEPTION going on!!!

hamlet just reciting this speech from memory reminds me of my latin teacher going on a bit of a rant about how humans kinda forgot how to memorize long texts and how most educated men in rome could just start reciting parts of the aenid or w/e just out of the blue and how nobody memorizes literature anymore (cue me reciting the first part of ts eliot’s the hollow men, causing one of my friends to drag the trashcan near my desk and tell me to get in) and then she ended it by laughing at how old she sounded and mimicking a crochety old guy and saying ‘kids these days just dont recite homer like they used to’ and it became a class meme

“LORD POLONIUS: This is too long. HAMLET: It shall to the barber's, with your beard.” god hamlet just. does not give a shit anymore.

MONOLOGUE!

i’ve been wondering what he’s been thinking

NO mr teacher i will NOT put my phone away im done with my worksheet and im understanding this fucking monologue with only minimal NFS!!

okay so after reading that, a few things...

damn the whole what’s hecuba to him and he to hecuba is pretty powerful of a line, honestly, and its sorta getting to me

god poor hamlet honestly, just. poor hamlet.

also, like, i know that this is even just a preliminary plan but, really hamlet? put on a play and see how king claud reacts? okay. okay.

GOOD JOB HAMLET DONT TRUST KING BOO HE’S TAKING ADVANTAGE OF YOU

god that isnt gonna last tho is it

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hamlet why do u have to do this to me

god. okay. 3rd act up next. im very scared.

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[81scorp]

My thoughts on Wreck-it Ralph 2

(Originally posted on Deviantart June 27, 2018)

I know what you`re thinking. Isn`t it too early to talk about a movie that hasn`t even come out yet and that we`ve only seen two trailers of so far?* Yes, yes it is. But I`m gonna do it anyway. And technically, by internet standard I`m not too early. More than a few people before me have already published editorials or videos or other form of reactions where they`ve picked apart, nitpicked, overreacted or in other ways jumped to conclusions about things they don`t know enough about. By internet standard I`m pretty late to the party. Grin like a moron and giggle like an idiot Not gonna lie, part of... ("part of?" Oh who am I kidding?) The reason I`m writing this is because of the  scene where Vanellope meets the Disney Princesses. Like most of you I read about this online and it became this movie`s "too fun to miss" thing for me. When the first Wreck-it Ralph movie came out I was on the fence about seeing it, but then I saw a pic from the Bad anon meeting and I felt that a movie with a scene where several famous videogame badguys (like M. Bison, Eggman and Bowser) go to a support group seemed too fun to miss. I had a similar thing with Guardians of the Galaxy where the idea of a talking, machinegun-wielding racoon in a Marvel movie was the "too fun to miss" thing. After that the next movie with a "too fun to miss" thing was Moana, because I did not want to miss the chance of seeing Dwayne Johnson in a Disney musical. Not gonna lie, when I first read that the Disney Princesses where gonna show up together in Wreck-it Ralph 2 I grinned like a moron and giggled like an idiot. One comment I`ve heard somewhere about this scene is that what it does is not very new or original since Enchanted did the whole "Disney poking fun at itself" first, years ago. Another comment is that people have been making Disney crossovers in fanfics and fan art for years and that Disney themselves are pretty damn late when it comes to doing it themselves. Yeah, and? First: People seem to think that something has to be new or original to be good. While originality is a good thing it is not always necessary. Something that is not original can be good if you do something interesting and creative with it. Before Toy story there was a tv movie where toys came to life. It also had a protagonist, who was the favorite toy, that had to deal with a newcomer who was a sci-fi action-figure who didn`t know that they, themself were a toy. It`s called The Christmas toy, made by Eric Till and Jim Henson. It came out 1986 and it`s existence does not make Toy story worse. Toy story does more with the "living toys" idea than The Christmas toy did and it was funnier. Second: Yeah, it`s a little late. But better late than never. Press start button for hero`s journey As much as the princess scene is the biggest reason I want to see this movie, my common sense told me that this is only gonna be one scene that most likely will only take two minutes max of the movie`s runtime. And no, I`m not one of those who wonders "Where`s Kida? Where`s Meg? Where`s Eilonwy?" Because I`m reasonable. You can`t put everyone who has two X chromosomes in the Princess lineup. But Moana`s in the room with the other princesses and she`s not in the official lineup. Most likely because animated movies take a long time to make and the filmmakers probably assumed that she would be included in the lineup by the time the first trailer premiered. Personally I don`t mind, because Moana`s awesome. But it would be fun if Kida, Meg and Eilonwy at least got a small cameo, like Chun Li and Cammy got in the first movie. It would be a nice way for the filmmakers to show that they remember the little ones. But this is not a movie about Ralph and Vanellope meeting the princesses, it`s a movie about Ralph and Vanellope travelling the internet and doing so for a reason. If you`ve read the plot synopsis you know that someting in Vanellope`s game breaks down and they can only get a replacement for it somewhere on the internet. I have a few predictions (most of them will probably be wrong) and a few hopes (most of them will probably not happen) about where this film is going. This film may take inspiration from Homer`s The Odyssey and the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Both are stories where the protagonist goes on a challenging journey filled with obstacles and dangers. And, since it is implied in the title that there will be some degree of destruction: National Lampoon`s European Vacation. Maybe the movie will have some commentary about internet culture and how much time we spend online? Maybe. These are the thoughts I had before the release of the second trailer. Here are the thoughts I had after I saw it. When princesses attack or: How I learned to stop worrying too much and be OK with what I saw I have to admit that I like the Disney Princesses scene... But I also have mixed feelings about it. Part of it is the design, I would have preferred it if they had been closer to their original design. I`m not saying that the 2D princesses should have been in 2D but I would have liked if their 3D form had been more directly translated from their original versions. I can however understand why they changed it. The "real life" humans in this world don`t look very close to us in their design, they are slightly stylized and caricatured. To put a fictional character that looks closer to us in their world would make them stand out a little. However, there are only two of the princesses that are made to look as close to real people as possible in the princess lineup: Snowwhite and Cinderella. So maybe you could tweak their design a little while leaving the rest of the 2D princesses the same (just translated to 3D) and leave the 3D princesses untouched. But then again, changing only two characters from their iconic look that the public is used to and leave the rest with their iconic looks unchanged would probably create a feeling of inconsistency. Their classic looks, while not drawn by the same artist and therefor not very consistent in artstyle, are familiar to us and we like familiarity so we overlook the inconsistency. And technically, Disney has kinda built their brand on familiarity. Personally I believe that it could have been funnier if they had looked closer to their original designs while acting like they did in the trailer. It`s similar to David Zucker`s first rule of comedy: deliver a funny line with a serious face. I wouldn`t mind if they had compromised and gone 50/50 between the classical designs and the WiR 2 designs. Another option is to keep the WiR2 designs and only change one thing: Cinderella`s hair. They have kept the most distinguishing features from the old classics in their new designs so that you can recognize them despite the new look, except Cinderella`s hair. In the classic version her hair was more of (for lack of a better word to discribe it) a curve. Here it`s just an ordinary hairbun, not as iconic or recognizable. She can keep her ears but don`t lose the hair curve. *** It`s similar to the Doctor`s Tardis in Dr Who, sure, it`s an old look but it makes it more recognizable and timeless. And While we`re on the subject: yes, they made Merida`s eyes a little too big. And then the jokes. The jokes were fine. I especially found it funny when Punzie and Belle asked Vanellope with great interest if she`d ever been kidnapped or enslaved and Vanellope wondered if she should call the police. About this line from the trailer: Rapunzel: Do people assume all your problems got solved because a big strong man showed up? Vanellope: Yes! What is up with that? It`s technically not bad, it`s just that the feminist commentary in he trailer to The Lego Movie 2 was funnier. Sweet Mayhem: This guy was a fierce warrior? Wyldstyle: Okay, well, technically, *I* did the warrior stuff, but... Sweet Mayhem: So you fought, and master built, and kicked butt, and then the hapless male was the leader. Wyldstyle: He, uh... Well... The commentary in WiR 2 just felt like, exactly that, a commentary. One that was very light on the funny. But what if you don`t compare it to lines from other movies? What if you just focus on how it works in it`s own? Still not as good as Vanellope`s  "Should I call the police?" line. But does it have to be funny? Not necessarily, but things being funny in a comedy is always appreciated. Oh well, at least it`s better than the forced strawfeminist commentary from the Emoji movie. People on the net have brought up complaints like: "It`s just a bunch of product placement!" and "The Disney princesses are out of character!" First: Yes, but the first movie had product placement too. Remember "Nesquiksand"? or "Oreo, Oreeo". Then again: In the first one the product placement was cleverly delivered in joke form. What we`ve seen so far from the trailer, when it comes to product placement, the jokey delivery is very light to pretty much absent. Second: Yes, the princesses are out of character, you know who else is? Ralph. He`s the bad guy in his game but when he`s not on the clock he`s a nice guy. Can`t the princesses be similar? Kind and gentle in their own movies but capable of being mean in the "real world"? They are fictional characters with self awareness after all. Then again: The princess jokes in the trailer felt a bit generalizing and seemed at times almost close to Shrek humor. Mel Brooks once said: "You have to love the thing you parody". Shrek was built on Jeffrey Katzenberg`s hate towards Michael Eisner (The CEO of Disney at the time.) and many of the jokes were meant to be a big middlefinger to Disney. Poking fun at Disney is fine but don`t try to be Shrek. But isn`t all this just nitpicking? Yes, yes it is. But I like nitpicking! I guess I expected it to be something more, something bigger. But why did I do that? Is it because The filmmakers themselves made such a big deal about it on the D23 expo? "Guess what, in our next movie we`re gonna have all the Disney princesses interact with Vanellope! We even have all the original living voice actresses coming back to reprise their roles! Isn`t that awesome?! Let`s have them all come up on stage! Come on! Big applause!" Maybe it is or maybe it`s because I heard about the scene but never saw it and it made me create many possible scenarios in my mind of how it could play out. It`s like that feeling you get when you watch a movie based on a book you like and feel that this is not how you imagined it. Or maybe I`m just spoiled by Kingdom Hearts and Pocket Princesses.** First I wondered if it was such a good idea to show the princess scene in the second trailer but in hindsight I realize that it is. By releasing the scene six months before the movie comes out, all those grumpy people that complain about their design will have had enough time to get used to it by the time it premieres. At least if they are reasonable grumpy people. Lies, damn lies and movie trailers Mark Twain is rumored to be one of the people to have said that there are three kinds of lies: "Lies, damn lies, and statistics". But you can also add "movie trailer" to that list. One of the best ways to give people the wrong idea of what your movie`s gonna be about is to be very selective with what you show in the trailer. One example is Tangled: The trailer made it look passable and filled with nothing but slapstick, but the movie itself turned out to be genuinely good. Another example is X-Men Origins: Wolverine. The trailer made it look cool and badass but the movie as a whole was just uninspired, rushed and disappointing. The phrases "What we`ve seen so far from the trailer" and "The princess jokes in the trailer" are there for me to remind myself (and others) that we don`t know the whole picture yet. The princess jokes we haven`t seen yet could be funnier than those we have seen. (...Or they could be worse.) It`s possible that they`ve shown most of the movie`s product placement in the trailers already. And the product placement that`s left could be delivered in a jokey way or not be very intrusive or important to the plot. I think that the filmmakers (most of the time at least) knew what they were doing, otherwise they would have had Ralph and Vanellope ask a real life search engine, like Google, for directions instead of Knowsmore. Speaking of that scene: Disney is not a stranger to altering scenes in their trailers to fool us. Once again an example from Tangled: the scene from one of the trailers where Eugene sneaks into Rapunzel`s tower and has a fight with her hair was not in the movie. So the scene with Knowsmore could go something like this: A: Vanellope doesn`t ask him to take them to a crazy fun place but instead to a place where they can find the missing piece to her game. B: Vanellope asks him to take them to a crazy fun place and he directs them to Buzztube where they meet Yesss. There are of course more possibilities but those two were the only ones I could think of. I`m cautiously optimistic about this movie. I think that`s all I had to say. Now, if you excuse me, I just finished making one hundred pancakes and I`m gonna feed them all to my pet bunny. Feel free to disagree but try to keep it civil. *At least by the time I`m writing this **Kingdom Hearts because they do more faithful 2D to 3D translations and Pocket princesses because it has better characterbased Disney Princess jokes. 

***After repeated viewings of this scene I saw that they technically did try to preserve as much as possible of her hair curve in the new design. It just looked like an ordinary hair bun in the offical stills. My mistake.     

[kartiavelino]

‘Simpsons’ creator answers show’s biggest mysteries

Within the late 1980s, cartoonist Matt Groening was referred to as into the Fox Community’s “Tracey Ullman Present” for a gathering. The sketch comedy present was utilizing one-minute animated clips between sketches and was sad with its present lot. Groening had been drawing a cartoon referred to as “Life in Hell” since 1977 that was a preferred attract various newspapers. In response to longtime Simpsons author Mike Reiss, Groening was initially instructed it could simply be a “get-acquainted assembly,” so he arrived with nothing ready. However a couple of minutes earlier than it began, one of many attendees instructed him they had been trying ahead to seeing his challenge. So, with simply 5 minutes to spare earlier than a probably career-altering assembly, Groening sketched out a brand new thought, and that’s how the Simpsons — bearing the names of Groening’s mother and father, Homer and Marge, and his sisters, Lisa and Maggie (Bart was his personal thought) — had been born. Reiss’ new e-book, “Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets and techniques, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons,” written with Mathew Klickstein (Dey Road Books), takes us on a hilarious journey by means of Reiss’ profession, which incorporates writing for “The Simpsons” for many of its life. Final month, it turned the longest-running scripted sequence in tv historical past with its 636th episode. Reiss was already a veteran sitcom author, having labored on “Alf” and “It’s Garry Shandling’s Present,” when “The Simpsons” employed its first writers within the run-up to its 1989 debut. On the time, the job was hardly prestigious. “No one wished to work on ‘The Simpsons,’ ” Reiss writes. “There hadn’t been a cartoon in prime time since ‘The Flintstones,’ a era earlier than. Worse but, the present can be on the Fox community, a brand new enterprise that nobody was certain would even final.” Reiss was so embarrassed by the job that he didn’t inform anybody he had taken it. AP “The studio had so little religion in us, they housed us in a trailer,” Reiss writes. “I assumed that if the present failed, they’d slowly again the trailer as much as the Pacific and drown the writers like rats.” The night time earlier than the show’s premiere, Reiss requested the remainder of the workers how lengthy they thought it could final. “Each author had the identical reply. Six weeks,” he writes. “Solely [executive producer] Sam Simon was optimistic. ‘I feel it should final 13 weeks,’ he stated. ‘However don’t fear. Nobody will ever see it. It gained’t damage your profession.’ ” He was half-right. Nobody’s profession was damage, however folks positively noticed it. “The Simpsons” premiered to nice critiques and have become the highest-rated debut within the community’s historical past thus far. Reiss portrays the show’s creation as a largely peaceable course of, though the primary few years noticed one behind-the-scenes rivalry discover its method on-screen. Groening was hailed as a genius, however Reiss writes that Simon, who died of most cancers in 2015, deserved a lot of the credit score for the show’s early success. Simon’s rising bitterness at watching Groening obtain that credit score quickly made Groening a pariah on his personal present and impressed the basic episode “Flaming Moe’s.” “[Sam] pitched a narrative the place Homer, like Sam, creates one thing actually extraordinary . . . and Moe will get all of the credit score for it. Homer turns into twisted with rage and destroys them each. [The episode] is taken into account among the finest ‘Simpsons’ episodes ever.” Within the e-book, Reiss reveals “Simpsons” secrets and techniques and inside jokes galore. He even factors out one joke that has run in each episode of the sequence that sails previous most viewers unnoticed. “When ‘The Simpsons’ title card emerges from the cloud,” he writes, “you see the primary half of the household’s title, ‘The Simps,’ earlier than the remainder of the phrase. So what? Nicely, ‘Simps’ is brief for simpletons — silly folks — like those you’re about to see within the present.” He additionally reveals answers to a number of of the show’s long-running mysteries. Reiss found why Simpsons characters are yellow by chance at an artwork present of a former present animator. (Each Simpsons episode options 24,000 cels hand-drawn by Korean animators.) This lady, whose title he doesn’t reveal, obtained Groening’s unique character drawings and was charged with discovering a colour for them. Bart (left to proper), Lisa, Maggie, Marge and Homer Simpson©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett C She selected yellow as a result of, ­Reiss writes, “Bart, Lisa and Maggie don’t have any hairlines — there’s no line that separates their pores and skin from their hair factors. So the animators selected yellow — it’s kinda pores and skin, kinda hair.” There may be additionally the everlasting query of precisely the place the Simpsons house metropolis of Springfield is positioned. Reiss writes that the city title — “borrowed” from the ’50s hit sitcom “Father Is aware of Greatest” and initially chosen by Groening for its “generic blandness” — has been introduced in so some ways through the years that it might probably’t presumably be positioned in anybody place. “Springfield has an ocean on its east facet and its west facet,” Reiss writes. “We as soon as stated that East Springfield is 3 times the scale of Texas. And in a single episode, we see Homer shoveling snow within the morning and mendacity in a hammock sipping lemonade that afternoon. This raises the query: What planet is Springfield on?” ‘Whereas I’d like to do ‘The Simpsons,’ I’d by no means do something to shame the workplace of the president. Typically they write the jokes for you.’ A e-book about “The Simpsons” can be incomplete with out tales of the various celebrities which have appeared on the present, and Reiss doesn’t disappoint. When Elizabeth Taylor recorded her notorious voice cameo — she gave Maggie Simpson her first phrase, “Daddy,” in 1992 — she needed to do six takes as a result of it stored popping out “too horny.” “We needed to remind her she was a child speaking to her father, not hitting on him,” Reiss writes. “Liz did hit on one man within the crowded room — our animation supervisor, David Silverman. ‘Who’s that?’ she purred.” Reiss reveals that in “Marge vs. the Monorail,” the Conan O’Brien-penned episode regarded by followers as one of many show’s finest, the notorious Leonard Nimoy cameo was really created for one of many actor’s outdated co-stars, who refused. “We requested George Takei from ‘Star Trek’ to play himself — Takei had been on an earlier episode, and he beloved it,” Reiss writes. “However Takei turned us down, saying, ‘I don’t make enjoyable of monorails.’ George Takei (proper) as himself in “The Burns Cage” episode of “The Simpsons”©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Assortment “Seems he’s an impassioned fan of public transit. As an alternative, we went to Leonard Nimoy, who fortunately took the half.” For Michael Jackson’s 1991 look enjoying a 300-pound white psychological affected person who thought he was Jackson, Reiss writes that Jackson had a shocking college for comedy. After studying the episode’s 20-page define, Jackson “supplied some humorous strategies: He pitched the scene the place Bart tells the city that Michael Jackson is coming to go to, creating an uproar, and he added a scene the place ‘Michael’ writes a music with Bart.” Jackson additionally made the writers change a joke that concerned his fiercest leisure rival, Prince, to make the punchline about Elvis Presley as a substitute. Reiss writes that Jackson wasn’t the best actor, however the workers was sure his singing efficiency can be the stuff of legend. They had been proper — even when the voice wasn’t his. After they had been able to file Jackson’s vocals, the singer introduced out “somewhat white man” named Kipp Lennon, whom he launched as his “licensed sound-alike.” It’s Lennon’s voice, not Jackson’s, singing the episode’s songs. When requested why he had Lennon sing the songs as a substitute of doing it himself, Jackson “replied cryptically, ‘It’s a joke on my brothers.’ ” “Let me be the primary to say it,” Reiss deadpans within the e-book. “Michael Jackson was an odd man.” Whereas “The Simpsons” have seemingly had their choose of superstar friends, Reiss reveals the celebrities which have eluded them. Mike ReissWireImage Bruce Springsteen is the show’s nice white whale, turning them down persistently regardless of their trying to bribe him with a Simpsons jacket, and even having his late sax participant Clarence Clemons on the present within the hopes he would inform The Boss “how a lot enjoyable it was.” They’ve additionally by no means had a US president, having been rejected by each POTUS from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama. “The closest we ever got here was Invoice Clinton,” Reiss writes. “After we wrote him a component and despatched him the script, he notified us, ‘Whereas I’d like to do ‘The Simpsons,’ I’d by no means do something to shame the workplace of the president.’ Typically they write the jokes for you.” Tom Cruise was an early fan however finally turned down a component, and each Prince and George Lucas requested if they might seem however modified their minds after studying the components written for them. As Reiss depicts it, the rejections are comprehensible. Lucas would have been subjected to a “Star Wars” rant by Comedian E-book Man, and Prince was requested to play a second iteration of the 300-pound psychological affected person who thought he was Michael Jackson. Some visitor stars stunned the workers with sudden expertise — Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton had “nice comedian timing and an enormous vary of humorous voices” — and baseball Corridor of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. was “offended” about his position within the famed “Homer on the Bat” episode as a result of, Reiss writes, “He didn’t perceive his line, ‘There’s a celebration in my mouth and everybody’s invited.’ Including to the stress, his father, Ken Griffey Sr., was there making an attempt to educate him by means of the road, and it wasn’t serving to.” Whereas Reiss discovered many of the show’s superstar friends a pleasure to work with, “I’ve labored with just one celeb,” he writes, “whom I thought-about a diva. To guard her anonymity, the writer’s authorized division will solely let me offer you her first title: Oprah.” Share this: https://nypost.com/2018/06/13/simpsons-writer-reveals-answers-to-shows-biggest-mysteries/ The post ‘Simpsons’ creator answers show’s biggest mysteries appeared first on My style by Kartia. https://www.kartiavelino.com/2018/06/simpsons-creator-answers-shows-biggest-mysteries.html

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‘Simpsons’ writer reveals answers to show’s biggest mysteries

Within the late 1980s, cartoonist Matt Groening was known as into the Fox Community’s “Tracey Ullman Present” for a gathering. The sketch comedy present was utilizing one-minute animated clips between sketches and have been sad with their present lot. Groening had been drawing a cartoon known as “Life in Hell” since 1977 that was a preferred attract different newspapers. In accordance to longtime Simpsons writer Mike Reiss, Groening was initially informed it might simply be a “get-acquainted assembly,” so he arrived with nothing ready. However a couple of minutes earlier than it began, one of many attendees informed him they have been trying ahead to seeing his mission. So, with simply 5 minutes to spare earlier than a probably career-altering assembly, Groening sketched out a brand new concept, and that’s how the Simpsons — bearing the names of Groening’s mother and father, Homer and Marge, and his sisters, Lisa and Maggie (Bart was his personal concept) — have been born. Reiss’ new e book, “Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets and techniques, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for the Simpsons,” written with Mathew Klickstein (Dey Road Books), takes us on a hilarious journey by Reiss’ profession, which incorporates writing for “The Simpsons” for many of its life. Final month, it grew to become the longest-running scripted collection in tv historical past with its 636th episode. Reiss was already a veteran sitcom writer, having labored on “Alf” and “It’s Garry Shandling’s Present,” when “The Simpsons” employed its first writers within the run-up to its 1989 debut. On the time, the job was hardly prestigious. “No one wished to work on ‘The Simpsons,’ ” Reiss writes. “There hadn’t been a cartoon in prime time since ‘The Flintstones,’ a era earlier than. Worse but, the present could be on the Fox community, a brand new enterprise that nobody was positive would even final.” Reiss was so embarrassed by the job that he didn’t inform anybody he had taken it. AP “The studio had so little religion in us, they housed us in a trailer,” Reiss writes. “I assumed that if the present failed, they’d slowly again the trailer up to the Pacific and drown the writers like rats.” The night time earlier than the show’s premiere, Reiss requested the remainder of the employees how lengthy they thought it might final. “Each writer had the identical reply. Six weeks,” he writes. “Solely [executive producer] Sam Simon was optimistic. ‘I believe it’s going to final 13 weeks,’ he mentioned. ‘However don’t fear. Nobody will ever see it. It gained’t damage your profession.’ ” He was half-right. Nobody’s profession was damage, however folks positively noticed it. “The Simpsons” premiered to nice opinions and have become the highest-rated debut within the community’s historical past to date. Reiss portrays the show’s creation as a principally peaceable course of, though the primary few years noticed one behind-the-scenes rivalry discover its means on-screen. Groening was hailed as a genius, however Reiss writes that Simon, who died of most cancers in 2015, deserved a lot of the credit score for the show’s early success. Simon’s rising bitterness at watching Groening obtain that credit score quickly made Groening a pariah on his personal present and impressed the traditional episode “Flaming Moe’s.” “[Sam] pitched a narrative the place Homer, like Sam, creates one thing really extraordinary . . . and Moe will get all of the credit score for it. Homer turns into twisted with rage and destroys them each. [The episode] is taken into account the most effective ‘Simpsons’ episodes ever.” Within the e book, Reiss reveals “Simpsons’ ” secrets and techniques and inside jokes galore. He even factors out one joke that has run in each episode of the collection that sails previous most viewers unnoticed. “When ‘The Simpsons’ title card emerges from the cloud,” he writes, “you see the primary half of the household’s title, ‘The Simps,’ earlier than the remainder of the phrase. So what? Properly, ‘Simps’ is brief for simpletons — silly folks — like those you’re about to see within the present.” He additionally reveals answers to a number of of the show’s long-running mysteries. Reiss found why Simpsons characters are yellow by chance at an artwork present of a former present animator. (Each Simpsons episode options 24,000 cels hand-drawn by Korean animators.) This lady, whose title he doesn’t reveal, acquired Groening’s unique character drawings and was charged with discovering a shade for them. Bart (left to proper), Lisa, Maggie, Marge, and Homer Simpson©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett C She selected yellow as a result of, ­Reiss writes, “Bart, Lisa and Maggie haven’t any hairlines — there’s no line that separates their pores and skin from their hair factors. So the animators selected yellow — it’s kinda pores and skin, kinda hair.” There may be additionally the everlasting query of precisely the place the Simpsons dwelling metropolis of Springfield is situated. Reiss writes that the city title — “borrowed” from the ’50s hit sitcom “Father Is aware of Finest” and initially chosen by Groening for its “generic blandness” — has been offered in so some ways over time that it could possibly’t probably be situated in anybody place. “Springfield has an ocean on its east facet and its west facet,” Reiss writes. “We as soon as mentioned that East Springfield is thrice the dimensions of Texas. And in a single episode, we see Homer shoveling snow within the morning and mendacity in a hammock sipping lemonade that afternoon. This raises the query: What planet is Springfield on?” ‘Whereas I’d love to do ‘The Simpsons,’ I’d by no means do something to shame the workplace of the president. Generally they write the jokes for you.’ A e book about “The Simpsons” could be incomplete with out tales of the numerous celebrities which have appeared on the present, and Reiss doesn’t disappoint. When Elizabeth Taylor recorded her notorious voice cameo — she gave Maggie Simpson her first phrase, “Daddy,” in 1992 — she had to do six takes as a result of it stored popping out “too horny.” “We had to remind her she was a child speaking to her father, not hitting on him,” Reiss writes. “Liz did hit on one man within the crowded room — our animation supervisor, David Silverman. ‘Who’s that?’ she purred.” Reiss reveals that in “Marge vs. the Monorail,” the Conan O’Brien-penned episode regarded by followers as one of many show’s greatest, the notorious Leonard Nimoy cameo was truly created for one of many actor’s outdated co-stars, who refused. “We requested George Takei from ‘Star Trek’ to play himself — Takei had been on an earlier episode, and he beloved it,” Reiss writes. “However Takei turned us down, saying, ‘I don’t make enjoyable of monorails.’ George Takei (proper) as himself in ‘The Burns Cage’ episode of ‘The Simpsons.’©20thCentFox/Courtesy Everett Assortment Seems he’s an impassioned fan of public transit. As a substitute, we went to Leonard Nimoy, who fortunately took the half.” For Michael Jackson’s 1991 look enjoying a 300-pound white psychological affected person who thought he was Jackson, Reiss writes that Jackson had a stunning school for comedy. After studying the episode’s 20-page define, Jackson “provided some humorous strategies: He pitched the scene the place Bart tells the city that Michael Jackson is coming to go to, creating an uproar, and he added a scene the place ‘Michael’ writes a music with Bart.” Jackson additionally made the writers change a joke that concerned his fiercest leisure rival, Prince, to make the punchline about Elvis Presley as a substitute. Reiss writes that Jackson wasn’t the best actor, however the employees was sure his singing efficiency could be the stuff of legend. They have been proper — even when the voice wasn’t his. After they have been prepared to report Jackson’s vocals, the singer introduced out “just a little white man” named Kipp Lennon, whom he launched as his “licensed sound-alike.” It’s Lennon’s voice, not Jackson’s, singing the episode’s songs. When requested why he had Lennon sing the songs as a substitute of doing it himself, Jackson “replied cryptically, ‘It’s a joke on my brothers.’ ” “Let me be the primary to say it,” Reiss deadpans within the e book. “Michael Jackson was an odd man.” Whereas “The Simpsons” have seemingly had their decide of movie star company, Reiss reveals the celebrities which have eluded them. Mike ReissWireImage Bruce Springsteen is the show’s nice white whale, turning them down constantly regardless of their making an attempt to bribe him with a Simpsons jacket, and even having his late sax participant Clarence Clemons on the present within the hopes he would inform The Boss “how a lot enjoyable it was.” They’ve additionally by no means had a US president, having been rejected by each POTUS from Gerald Ford to Barack Obama. “The closest we ever got here was Invoice Clinton,” Reiss writes. “After we wrote him an element and despatched him the script, he notified us, ‘Whereas I’d love to do ‘The Simpsons,’ I’d by no means do something to shame the workplace of the president.’ Generally they write the jokes for you.” Tom Cruise was an early fan however in the end turned down an element, and each Prince and George Lucas requested if they may seem however modified their minds after studying the elements written for them. As Reiss depicts it, the rejections are comprehensible. Lucas would have been subjected to a ‘Star Wars’ rant by Comedian E-book Man, and Prince was requested to play a second iteration of the 300-pound psychological affected person who thought he was Michael Jackson. Some visitor stars shocked the employees with sudden expertise — Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton had “nice comedian timing and an enormous vary of humorous voices” — and baseball Corridor of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. was “indignant” about his function within the famed “Homer on the Bat” episode as a result of, Reiss writes, “He didn’t perceive his line, ‘There’s a celebration in my mouth and everybody’s invited.’ Including to the stress, his father, Ken Griffey Sr., was there making an attempt to coach him by the road, and it wasn’t serving to.” Whereas Reiss discovered a lot of the show’s movie star company a pleasure to work with, “I’ve labored with just one celeb,” he writes, “whom I thought of a diva. To guard her anonymity, the writer’s authorized division will solely let me provide you with her first title: Oprah.” Share this: https://nypost.com/2018/06/13/simpsons-writer-reveals-answers-to-shows-biggest-mysteries/ The post ‘Simpsons’ writer reveals answers to show’s biggest mysteries appeared first on My style by Kartia. https://www.kartiavelino.com/2018/06/simpsons-writer-reveals-answers-to-shows-biggest-mysteries.html