#i can't read or spell

[multbasa]

Hyrule Warriors Age of Imprisonment???!!!!!

You know what this means????

I will have to make a new timeline comparison between LoZ:TotK and HW:AoI

At least I am ready for the inevitable timeline/universe differences, but do you think that this is BotW Zelda or AoC Zelda???

Personally I would actually like it if they continued this from the Age of Calamity timeline/universe. They could still pull it off by making Ganondorf revive earlier in that story. I think it would be a great opportunity and allow them to pull in their characters from that game like Terako and AoC Impa.

Also...I hope that is the case so people don't mistake the Hyrule Warriors story as canon to TotK like they did for BotW. Check out my timeline comparison pinned to my profile to see what I mean!!

Anyway, I'm so excited and I almost missed this announcement to check on something for work.

Other than that, I am actually flabbergasted by Mario Kart Words!! Free roaming????!! I'm not a huge racing person, so fooling around in a world on a kart or motorcycle sounds absolutely awesome.

[zolo-san]

look I did the thing~

Alternate blue text for Sanji (x)

[disaster-magician]

Sorry your crush is oblivious Qiu, better luck next time!

(Fake screenshots! These are fan made based on incorrect quotes and not in the game)

[cameforstuff]

Alternate for Stan getting his memories back, where he actually thinks he is Stanford. It's almost impossible to convince him otherwise because it makes just enough sense.

Not only are his most recent memories him pretending to be Ford, but he also has the memories of them as children. They were always together, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch. These two sets of memories would be remembered the quickest. (The drifter years are lost for a while without anything to remind him.)

Since he had to learn a lot for the portal, he believes himself to be smart enough to be 'Stanford who has forgotten things.' Imagine they try to convince him by giving a math problem, but he can actually do it.

People in town would not be helpful. To them, he has literally always been Stanford Pines.

To make it worse, he has had self-loathing for most of his life, so imagine him saying something terrible about himself to Ford. Ford has to grapple that this is what Stan thought Ford thought. (And he's a little right)

Oh god, what if he thinks 'his brother Stanley' is actually dead because he remembers being Stanford at the funeral. He cries when he thinks Ford is his 'dead brother.'

[cultivating-wildflowers]

“Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man -- there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us!" or "The ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything "funny" about woman's nature.”

Dorothy L. Sayers, Are Women Human?

[babacontainsmultitudes]

OUGH call me Big Shane Silva the way that episode had me falling over and torn into pieces fuuuuuuuuuck oh the Trudy and Francis heart-to-heart... The group hug... The gunkata... The middle-aged witch yuri... The hole in the stars... MAN.

[kyouka-supremacy]

As a sskk shipper I don't know what it feels like to lose. Always winning

[project-sekai-facts]

According to Journey to Bloom 『SELF』, the username for Ena's selfie account is ENA_0787.

[thehoodedproxy]

Heya there fella,

Wanna share some Zeti/d6 headcanonsss?/nf

This is the first time I got an ask in my inbox in the past six years that I've officially been on this website, and I'm not normally the kind to share headcanons publically. But sure, why not! Sounds fun, honestly!

Warning, this will be long.

●For general Zeti headcanons, partially including as a species, I'll start with dietary. Canonically, Zeti's are omnivores. So they obviously will have varying diets like us. So that means that some of the deadly six will have different dietary preferences.

An example is that I think Zazz would be surprisingly more vegetarian than carnivorous. he likes chicken and fish sometimes, but nothing beats straight vegetables like carrots and cucumber to him.

Zeena and Zik love fruits, but Zeena has a preference for salads with meat. Zeena likes lighter meats in general, but she does have a more carnivorous side.

Zavok and Zor are the most carnivorous, but Zor doesn't find much satisfaction eating as frequently as the others. Zor loves spice and chocolate, though. -Zazz would probably put chocolate on something just to see if Zor would eat it. Zavok loves a good rare steak or just anything meaty. He likes herbs and spices and gourmet food sometimes, but nothing is better than a good rare meat for this one.

Zomom is actually the most balanced diet wise. He may love junk food, but eating things like sandwiches and salads as well as yogurt is something I imagine he does a lot. Mostly because salad is a common thing, thanks to Zik and Zeena. So Zomom is just a bulky guy due to all the bread and junk food, but surprisingly healthy otherwise. Zomom canonically has and will eat other living creatures, though. (Like mobians)

●Hobbies could be an interesting second thing to talk about.

Zavok obviously likes to meditate and train to hone his strength. That's his big thing. (sometimes, he'll meditate with the others when they're quiet enough in order to bond. Like when Zor is writing poetry, Zik is gardening, or Zeena is busy doing her nails.). I feel as though Zavok also likes to read up on history and finds calligraphy relaxing.

Zik is a gardener. He likes to make tea. Writing about his legacy is also a common thing he likes to do. He canonically likes to go clubbing, so I imagine he likes to dance and drink a lot. (He might be a bit of a flirt or something, idk)

Zor is a poet. He likes reading, studying on the forbidden shadows, gardening with Zik, and tending to his roses. (He definitely looks up to Zik, so I imagine he likes doing little things to be able to hang around with him.) When Zor's feeling more lazy, he enjoys napping with Zomom, maybe cooking something to feed Zomom because he's bored. He lets Zeena do his nails, hair, and makeup frequently and just chills with Zazz in general.

Zeena canonically loves nail art and going to the mall and such. She definitely likes doing her makeup and focusing on her hair and fashion. But I have a feeling she has a secret side. She likes writing! It's a bit more fanfiction-like than real books, though. Something silly and possibly almost even sweet at times, but not too sweet because she can be a demon. (Also because, Zeti's aren't really 'sweet' persay) She also enjoys bugging Zazz and Zor in her free time because she has no one else to bug.

Zomom is usually just seen trying to better his abilities or eating. he feels insecure about the way he's perceived by others, specifically like he's a failure. So I imagine he usually tries to make sure he's useful in some way. He doesn't do too much, but he likes to hang around Zor and Zavok sometimes.

Zazz is wild. He likes loud things like music and doing things with action. I imagine he likes a lot of punk rock, metal, and jazz. Zazz likes to train with Zavok a lot. He admires Zavok, so he'll just hang around, even if it hurts his brain sitting still and learning. Fighting is one of his favorite things to do, and he does not mind getting hit (usually, at least.) And he also enjoys just running around and bugging everyone. If they aren't entertaining enough, he'll just run along to the next person.

●I think they all have very interesting opinions on each other. They all respect one another and care like a really weird family.

Zavok looks up to Zik, and they view each other as father and son sort of figures. ▪︎Zavok is confused by Zor's lazy and dramatic antics a lot, but he respects Zor's abilities. ▪︎Zavok is very confused by Zeena, but she's useful and easy to convince into doing her work. ▪︎Zavok canonically states that Zazz and Zomom are viewed like brothers in battle. They may be some of the weaker members, but he respects their loyalty and devotion. He especially respects Zazz's tenacity and determination.

Zik views everyone like students. ▪︎He views Zavok as a son and star pupil. ▪︎He respects Zor's abilities and his studies but thinks Zor could stand to be less lazy. (I believe Zik was the one who brought Zor into the deadly six) ▪︎Zeena is a talented strategic fighter and planner to him, but she should focus more on her studies than her vanity. ▪︎Zomom shows potential, but Zik thinks he needs to hone in on his emotions and abilities more. ▪︎Zazz could work on a lot in Zik's eyes, but he is useful when it comes to learning about the enemy.

Zor is pretty indifferent to everyone, or at least he tries to be. ▪︎he admires Zavok's presence, strength, and leadership, but that's about it usually. ▪︎Zor greatly admires Zik, listens to all his teachings and ramblings. He wants to be like Zik in the future. ▪︎Zor sees Zeena like an annoying, bratty older sister. ▪︎Zomom is Zor's favorite, hands down. Zomom is perfectly fine with letting Zor nap away and be lazy. he doesn't judge and is calm enough to just chill with. (Zomom also eats his portions when Zor is given too much) ▪︎Zazz is chaos. He likes chaos and destruction, and it causes misery. But Zor doesn't always enjoy Zazz's loudness. They are close, though, and Zor respects Zazz's determination and tenacity.

Zeena is annoyed by everyone, but she does care... somewhat. ▪︎Zeena likes Zavok the most, he's hot. I guess. Strong, respectable. She likes that about him. ▪︎Zeena probably thinks Zik is an old sleazy bag, his prime is past him. But she respects his teachings, most of the time. ▪︎Zeena likes mocking Zor and using him as a mannequin for her beauty experiments. But Zor is honestly kind of like a weird little brother. ▪︎Zeena has no big opinion on Zomom. He's big, fat, and eats a lot. She probably doesn't help Zomom's self-esteem issues. ▪︎Zazz is really annoying to her. He's loud, interrupts things, and wrecks her stuff. He's just a really annoying older brother to her.

Zomom is kind of apathetic, really. He cares more about food than others. But he does respect everyone. ▪︎Zavok is a good leader in his eyes, but he is very harsh. He thinks of him as close, though, but he worries about it. ▪︎Zik has the garden. He has the insight. Good teacher, but he sometimes takes a toll on Zomom's self-esteem. ▪︎Zor is interesting, makes him food. Probably one of his favorites in the group. ▪︎Zeena is mean to him a lot of the time. ▪︎Zazz is a bud, a confusing bud.

Zazz likes everyone. ▪︎Zavok is his favorite. He looks up to Zavok greatly and respects him. ▪︎Zik is cool. The old man is fast and wise. Zazz thinks Zik is kind of wild and fun for an old man, really. ▪︎Zor is fun to bug. He's fun to hang out with, too, unless he's doing his cruddy poetry or napping. But those are fun as well. (He thinks it's funny when Zor gets cranky and will never admit he thinks the poetry is sometimes cool) ▪︎Zeena is fun to bug as well, but he doesn't like that she ignores him a lot. ▪︎Zomom is a buddy. big guy. Fun to spar with. He'd try an eating contest with Zom, but Zom would win.

Sorry this was long, but I have even more headcanons that I can't even remember. My sibling has some too that we share as well. This may be a bit messy, but i tried to make it understandable. I'll try to fix it later if there's anything that needs to be.

-Hope this was fine.

[buddietommys]

"Do you think we're soulmates in every universe?"

"Are we even soulmates in this one?"

[dadplagg-mamatikki]

You know what fics I want more of?

Luka knowing Adrien is Chat/Cat Noir. I wanna see it! And the fact he is the only one? (That we know of at the moment.)

(Also like the hc that Juleka also knows for some reason via not Luka.)

[ejudollz]

y'all my teacher can't spell guys pls save me guys i can't take it oh my gosh im losing it i hate this class i hate this class i hate this class

[zolo-san]

look I did the thing for LawLu~

[taraxippos]

I never touched it but I feel like i only ever hear positive things said about song of achilles.. in (rough strokes at least) what makes it dogshit to you?

Okay it's been a while since I actually read it so some of this might not be spot on accurate. Sorry if at any point I say 'the book never does xyz' and it actually does once or twice but I think my underlying criticisms are accurate

-Patroclus is made into like this soft gentle tender quivering little yaoi boy. In the source text, he's shown as compassionate and moved by the suffering of his own men (and apparently having some medical skill, tending to the wounded in the camp), but very much invested n combat and very, very good at it (pages worth of descriptions of the guys he's killing left and right). In this, the arguably more complex character from this 8th century BC text is flattened into Being A Healer, he doesn't want to go to war he just wants to help people, he only goes because Achilles has to but he doesn't want to fight he's a HEALER he's a gentle lover NOT A FIGHTER who just wants to help he just wants to help everyone around him he HEALS while Achilles is a doomed warrior who is so good at fighting and KILLING its a DICHOTOMY GUYS!!!LIKE THE BEAUTIFUL SUN AND MOON DOOMED LOVERS SO SAD patocluse HEALER . (I Think he's specifically characterized as being BAD at fighting but might be misremembering)

-I don't remember much about Achilles' characterization I think it just makes him less of a jackass while not adding anything of interest and levels out into being mad boring.

-Not getting into the literal millenias old debate whether the mythological characters Achilles and Patroclus were being characterized as some type of lover by the original oral sources of the Iliad or its Homeric writers. We will never know. We don't even know what (if any) culturally accepted conventions of male homosexuality existed in bronze age Greece (we know much more about their descendants). But there are some interesting elements of their characterization in this direction, with how unconventional their relationship is WITHIN the text itself- Patroclus is described as cooking for Achilles and his guests (very specifically a woman/wife's job), Achilles chides Patroclus like a father, but there's also scene where Achilles' mourning of him directly echoes a passage of Hector's wife mourning her husband, Patroclus is explicitly stated to Achilles' elder, and is overall treated as his equal or near-equal, closest confidant and most beloved friend (to the point that pederastic classical Greeks would debate over who was erastes (older authority figure lover) and who was eromenos (adolescent 'beloved')- many took it as a given that this text depicted their present-day cultural norms of homosexual behavior but it existed so Outside of these norms that it had to be debated who was who). Their relationship is non-standard both within the text and to the descendants of the civilization that wrote them.

Basically what I'm saying is this book had opportunities to like, explore the unconventionality of the relationship (being presented here as explicitly lovers), explore the dynamics of why Patroclus wants to do 'women's work' (besides being a tenderhearted softboy), the weird dynamics where they take on paternal roles to each other but also roles of wives, how they feel about being this way, and just kind of Doesn't. Which I guess isn't an intrinsic fault (because it omits much of what I just talked about to begin with). it's just like.... Lame. This book takes jsut abandons everything interesting about the source text in favor of flattening it into bland Doomed Yaoi.

-The conflict that sets off the core story of the Iliad is Achilles and Agamemnon fighting over Briseis, an enslaved Trojan woman taken by Achilles as a war-trophy, Achilles spends most of the story moping because he was dishonored by his 'trophy' being taken. Achilles and Patroclus and everyone else are raping their captives, all the women in the story are either captured Trojans (or in the case of the free women within the walls of Troy, soon to be enslaved, and are slave owners themselves). Slavery as an institution and extreme patriarchal conventions are innate to the text and reflective of the context in which it was developed. You cannot avoid it.

But obviously you can't have your soft yaoi boys doing this, so the author has them capturing women to Protect Them from the other men. Their slaves are UNDER THEIR PROTECTION and VERY SAFE (and they might even Like And Befriend Them but I might be misremembering that. Briseis does though). Our heroes have apparently absorbed none of the ideals of the culture they exist in and the author seems to think "they're gay and aren't sexually attracted to their captives" would translate to them being outright benevolent (also as if wartime sexual violence is just about attraction and not part of a wider spectrum of violent acts to dehumanize and brutalize an accepted 'enemy')

In the source text, Briseis mourns Patroclus as being the kindest to her of her captors, who tried to get her a slightly better outcome by getting her married to Achilles (which probably would be the Least Bad of all possible outcomes for a woman in that situation, becoming a legal wife instead of a slave), and wonders what will happen to her now that he's gone. This is a really really sad, horrible, and compelling dynamic which could be fleshed out in very interesting ways but is instead is tossed entirely aside in favor of them being Besties. Like brother and sister.

All of the above pisses me off so much. If you don't want to engage in the icky parts of ancient/bronze age Greece then don't write a retelling of a story taking place in bronze age Greece. I'm not gonna get mad at children's adaptations of Greek myths or silly fun stories loosely based on them for omitting the rape and slavery but it is SO fundamental to the Iliad. If you're not willing to handle it, either fully omit it or better yet set your Iliad inspired yaoi in an invented swords-and-sandals setting where you can have all your heartbreaking tragic doomed lovers plot beats and not have to clumsily write around the women they're brutalizing.

-The author didn't seem to know what to do with Thetis and she made her just like, Achilles bitch mother who spends most of the story trying to separate our Yaoi Boys (iirc her disguising Achilles as a girl and hiding him on Scyros is made to be more about getting him away from Patroclus than trying to save her son from his prophesied doom in the Trojan War) until she sees how much they loooove each other and I think helps Patroclus' spirit get to the afterlife or something in the end?

-This is more of a personal taste gripe but it has that writing style I loathe where the prose feels less like a story and more like an attempt to string together Deep Beautiful Hard Hitting Poetic Lines that will look great as excerpts on booktok (might predate booktok but same vibe). It's all very Pretty and Haunting and Deep but feels devoid of real substance.

I really like The Iliad and The Odyssey in of themselves. They're fascinating historical texts that give a window into how 8th century BC Greeks told their stories, saw their world, interpreted their ancestors, etc. And genuinely I think these texts have 'good' characters, there's a lot of complexity and humanity to it.

WRT the Iliad- all of the main Achaeans are pretty fascinating, the one singular part where Briseis Gets To Talk and laments her situation is great, Achilles fantasizing that all of the Trojans AND the Achaeans die so he and Patroclus alone can have the glory of conquering Troy (wild), Achilles asking to embrace Patroclus' shade and reaching out for him but it's immaterial (and the shade being sucked back underground with a 'squeak' (the squeak kinda gets me it's disturbing and sad)), Hecuba talking about wanting to tear out Achilles' liver and eat it in a (taboo, exceptioally pointed) expression of rage and grief for his mutilation of her son's corpse, just one tiny line where the enslaved women performing ritual wailing for their dead captors are described as using it as an outlet to 'grieve for their own troubles' is heartrending, etc. A lot of grappling with anger and grief and the inevitability of death, a lot of groundwork laid for characters that could be very interesting when expanded upon in the framework of a conventional novel.

And Song Of Achilles really doesn't do much with all that. I know a lot of my gripes here are kind of just "It's different from the Iliad", I would have thought of it as mostly mediocre and forgettable rather than infuriating if it wasn't a retelling (and I DEFINITELY have strong biases here). But I think the ways in which it is different are less just a product of a retelling (of course there's going to be omissions and differences) and more a complete and utter disinterest in vast majority of its own subject matter, to the book's detriment. I think a retelling has a point when it EXPANDS on the source, or provides a NEW ANGLE to the source. This book doesn't Really do either, it just shaves off the complexity of its source material, renders the characters into a really boring archetype of a gay relationship, and gives very little else. Its content boils down to a middling tragic romance that has been inserted into the hollowed out defleshed skeleton of the Iliad.

Bottom line: I definitely would not be as mad about it if I wasn't familiar with the source material but I think it's fair to expect a retelling to Engage with/expand on its source, and I also think it's weak purely on its own merits. This book was set up to disappoint Me specifically.

[sailtomarina]

“Run away with me. You like tea. I like books. Care to open a shop and forget the world exists?”

- Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne

[nabihaiderali]

guy whose biggest trauma is...getting his appendix removed (OC)

he got carried away and disappeared on an indefinite northbound pilgrimage run, only to get nerfed at the most important part. (also yes akbari was a real ship!)