#i have theory/hc about this

[bean-spring]

Hot take and not to be a killjoy or the shipping police but people treating Viktor or Jinx's aroace headcanons as if they were canon is not the revolutionary take people think it is.

Headcanons are always all right but we have to acknowledge that they are somehow damaging when they apply to stereotypes. It might not be the case for everyone but most of the time people unconsciously assume that disability/mental illness=asexuality. These headcanons erase the freedom of attraction from people who are already seen as unable to have sexual/romantic experiences/desires, when it's completely untrue and harmful.

You can headcanon Viktor and Jinx as aroace, but I have seen people changing their minds once Viktor is no longer disabled (s2 with all of his other forms) and Jinx is no longer as mentally ill (alternate universe Powder). And it speaks wonders of how people see these characters.

"I never thought about Jinx being able to feel romantic/sexual attraction until s2!" To believe she's actually only capable of that when she's not "damaged" is incredibly disturbing. Especially since Jinx has always had a bit of a flirty personality too.

"I've always seen Viktor as asexual, I don't know why!" That's fine. You can headcanon him as ace. But I believe there is a reason behind it, most of the time, if for some inexplicable reason the "vibes" of the disabled character are making you think he's ace.

I say all of this being aroaspec myself, by the way. Headcanon all you want but going to people's posts commenting how "it's weird for you that they have romantic/sexual plots when they're clearly aroace" is not a win at all. It's a headcanon, after all, and it should be treated as such, and that's fine. But it also is damaging to spread stereotypes like these.

Of course the disabled character is asexual. Of course the mentally ill character is aromantic. It's not as revolutionary as you might think, tbh.

Fandom is not activism and it's all right to have any headcanons you want BUT some of them are filled with damaging stuff and perhaps we should look into ourselves more before treating these assumptions as something canon.

[buckys-arm-and-rios-dagger]

Marvels After Credit Scene that Didn't Happen but is Canon in My Heart:

So I really want a scene of one of the Flerkittens (white with blue eyes) to be wandering around the street meowing and then we see boots coming up to it and two hands reach out and then you see it.

The metal arm.

It picks up the kitten and walks off, maybe if you're feeling really fancy maybe a few lines of quiet "hey, hey, it's okay Sweetheart" or something like that and then BOOM we have Alpine in the MCU

Then cut to Thunderbolts and Bucky still has no idea that Al is a Flerken until they're in a fight and she gets attacked and Bucky is terrified they're gonna hurt his cat and then Alpine just gobbles them up and then like Yelena is like "JAMES BARNES WHAT THE FUCK"... Cut to Bucky looking equal parts horrified and impressed and just picks up Alpine and goes "uh...good girl?"

[howlonomy]

Can we see more of the characters in Swap Monster!Clover au?

Like Starlo and Marlet?

Marlet has be called 'New Moon' or something like that as acowboy frfr

i actually really really like how these came out AGJDS

[wahhzo]

maybe it was a bad idea to meet, huh?

(full image under the cut)

[setmeatopthepyre]

Family

[@118dailydrabble day 2] [part of my tommy begins snippets]

When the 9-1-1 operator asks him for his location and emergency, Tommy almost gives her his call sign first.

Being back has been... an adjustment.

He catches himself, tells her, “There's been an accident on 6th street bridge. Two cars.” Tries to make out shapes in the dark. “There's- there's a whole family in one.”

Realizes she's asking him something as he pries the driver's side door open. “What?”

Her voice gentles. “Your name?”

“Tommy.”

“Alright, Tommy. I'm Abby. Help is on the way. Were you in the accident?”

“No, I-” Can't begin to explain. “No, I just saw it happen. Abby?”

“Yes?”

“I don't think the driver's breathing.”

“Ok, Tommy. I'm going to talk you through this.”

[ouaw-facts-i-just-made-up]

Aro Gricko hc:

In his 20s he tried really really hard at getting into romantic relationships but things just got frustrating and exhausting for him. I think currently he's still figuring that out.

One moment it seems like he loves the idea of having a girlfriend but the moment he gets the opportunity he nopes out of it.

It's why he can't really settle on any particular label for himself. He knows he's not straight but can't figure out anything besides that. So he just decides he doesn't need a label. And great he's unlabeled but the issue still remains that he doesn't completely understand himself. Which makes talking about his queerness frustrating.

[probablyaparadox]

The funniest part about crocodile isn't actually any of his shenanigans we always forget about from Alabasta (I.E. the vip vs. the pirates signs- god that man is a clown in his heart). No. It's the fact he's SIR Crocodile. Which means one of three things. 1. That's his actual last name 2. Transgender power move, "Actually my full name and title is Sir Crocodile and you will address me as such" 3. We don't actually know his last name and HE GOT KNIGHTED SOMEWHERE- LIKELY ALABASTA AND THEY JUST NEVER TOOK AWAY HIS KNIGHTHOOD AFTER HE TRIED TO TAKE OVER ALABASTA AND GOT THROWN IN JAIL. Personally my favourite is the latter.

[inamagicalhallucination]

did i already share it? well ill share it again ig

dazai after oda's death wandering around yokohama, a mess becuz someone so precious to him died, unable to understand the very human feelings he's feeling, perhaps feeling something so strongly for someone for the first time (at least whilst being aware that he is)

its night time now and he's crumpled up in some alley way not knowing what to do or how to process anything when someone calls out to him

he ignores it

they come near him

he reaches for his gun, angry at being approached by who ever the fuck-

"are you okay?" the voice asks, and dazai's so caught off guard even tho he shouldnt be - there r only two ppl after all - ppl who dont care and ppl who ask if ur okay to pretend that they do

oda was always an exception

he thinks he says fine and that should be the end of it and it is becuz the voice leaves and dazai tries to go back to breathing

except it comes back a while later with the familiar rustle of plastic bags and suddenly someone's in front of him, not touching, but close enough dazai cant ignore him, his hand tightens on his gun

"you look like you havent eaten" and in front of him, in a plastic bag, riceballs, water, and napkins

he stares

"you're well dressed" the voice says "so you probably have somewhere to go to" he doesnt "but you look hurt, covered in blood. if it was one of my students i would want someone to help them"

when dazai looks up the person in front of him doesn't look older than him

he's got long blond hair tied up, glasses, dressed in a black button up, a tan coat, and a stern look on his face

"i dont" dazai says even though he doesnt know why he's telling this strange man anything - but its true he has no where to go (chuuya's? but something stopped him before he could; ango's? that... if ango had been here... maybe oda wouldn't have-)

"dont what" dazai doesn't reply but the man seems to understand - his face falters for a second

"youngins these days, they never plan out anything. why would you spend money on expensive looking clothes and not rent out a place? my first priority was an apartment! i bought non necessary clothes after" the man scolds gesturing to his coat, dazai wants to reach for his gun again "whatever, you can stay with me for the night - i have a spare couch! this is a one time thing though! you better rent out a hotel room tomorrow!"

dazai stares at him in surprise, at his offer, his contradictory tone, voice, and words or simply the fact that someone can show such... kindness - dazai isnt sure

he doesn't remember agreeing - but he must have

must have agreed and followed the man back to his apartment, must have cleaned up the blood (odaodaoda) in his bathroom, must have eaten his food, drank his water and fallen asleep on his couch because thats where he is in the morning

its still dark out when dazai wakes up in an unfamiliar place and remembers the man

he has a feeling that the man will scold him for not immediately finding a place but let him stay for longer, but he cant stand to be here any longer

he needs to leave

go far far away from oda, the mafia, this man who showed him kindness for no reason as if oda was still here watching, making sure - he needs to go

there's only a brief hesitation when he sees the man's coat, so familiar to the one oda wears, hanging by the door, easy to grab and leave

he doesn't feel guilt when he takes it with him

he thinks of the man a few times here and there in the two years he spends wandering, waiting

he meets him again eventually, walking into the ada office with a fake backstory - he's there with the person he was told was the boss

when he looks over his eyes linger on the coat, a touch of something but not recognition

this is fine with dazai who puts on his best happy mask

"hey there! i'm here for a job interview! my name's dazai"

"Ah yes. My name is Fukuzawa, I am the president of the Agency. This is one of my employees, your future coworker if it all works out, Kunikida"

[eri-pl]

Do you have any thoughts about the voices of the other Ainur maybe? Because it's fascinating to hear you describe this stuff

Ooooh thank you for this ask!

How do I answer it in a satisfying way without starting to happily ramble about things even more beyond my rambling ability? I'll try.

Varda has a high voice but not shrieking. Her voice is rich, not hollow like Melkor's. While his would be like a trumpet, her would be something clearer, but still I would say a wind instrument. Piercing, but clear, cold but not icy. I'm bad with instruments. Or maybe a violin. If we could imagine something that sounds like a violin but also a bit woodwindy…. Or if a flute could be really loud. With an intense but controlled emotion underneath, until she would release it. Like a very technically good singer-actress.

Arien would be similar, but with the emotions fully present. Just in contrast to other fire spirits it's not rage. Or at least it's a holy kind of rage? Also, her voice is a bit lower. Still a soprano but less insane in scale.

BTW I forgot to include the "their choices were like instruments" part on the previous ask.

Manwë must sound like a wind instrument, obviously, and I would say a woodwind, because they sound less demanding and more kind. Middle pitch, one of those who disappear easily, though in the Second Theme he was one of the main singers, so… what's the woodwind analogue of a cello? Clarinet? But clarinet sounds as if it had a cold. :( Also, birdlike. So, yes, maybe a clarinet.

I do have a bit of a problem with Manwë, because he is the king, but also he is rather … not passive, but how do I say it? Not very attention-grabbing. It would have to be one of the difficult to compose parts where the melody is belowe part of the accompanyment. It's hard to not let it disappear, but it can be done.

OK, if we just assume that it's him and Varda together, it's much easier.

Eonwë would be probably like a kind of trumpet anyway, or a French horn maybe? Something military-like. Relatively high, a tenor to say it in human terms. Very orderly, no chromatic notes (I don't think Manwë did them either).

Ulmo is the ultimate bass. He is the lowest of the lowest, like the deep sea. Not adding to the melody, not easily noticeable but he is the one that tells us which chord are we doing (except inversions). He…. sets the tone, to say it simply.

Aulë is also rather low, but not as low. And I would say he is always in the bechground (especially because Melkor stole a huge part of his spotlight), he is a supporting instrument. In orchestra terms, I would say a timpani, because all the banging sounds of smithing. And I like timpani. And if not this, anyway he would be like a pitched percussion, something metal, tubular bells? (Also, Mairon is totally a metal... glockenspiel? something like this. Or the glass thing? One of those with very clear, somewhat child-like tone, and very pretty.)

Nienna goes between rather high and middle tone, but she generally joins others, harmonizes to others instead of trying to create her own melody. She adds the chromatic tones, but lessens the conflict between melodic lines. In terms of instruments, probably a viola. Very lyrical.

Yavanna… I don't know, I don't like her too much, she of all the Valar has most of the Elvish "I don't like it whe things end" energy. Relatively loud, high but rich, and not as high as Varda. Less like an instrument and more like a wordless voice. A lot of emotion in the voice, primal, protective, pained sometimes.

Námo. I have no idea. Very few parts, mostly silence, but when he sings it's important. Like a piano that only plays at the cadences or half-cadences at least. And just like a piano he is not extra loud, but he is impossible to not notice. In terms of vocal, very controlled, emotionless, with the frustrating clenched throat thing that tells you "yes, if anyone here knows anything about making music this song will have a reprise because this tension has to go somewhere".

Vaíre. (Does she have the accent even?) By visual association, it should be something with strings. So probably cello. Mostly background, but a more interesting kind of background than Aulë got.

Irmo. I need to learn those accents one day… Something swingy, but less obnoxious than a saxophone. Relatively high voice, but not outstandingly high.

Este. Something quiet, for sure. In terms of human voices, an alto. In terms of instruments, something quiet but with a muffling effect on others? More like brown noise than actual instrument, but no, it needs to be a proper instrument. So something with a "dirty" tone but not ugly or ominous? Again in terms of singing, imagine an alto with a sore throat, this effect, how do you call it? The way it changes your voice.

Oromë is medium pitched, and horn-like. Most of his melody is just trying to block Melkor and his lackeys. That's what he does. He's good at it. I'm not sure what this means exactly in terms of music, probably doubling the important (and most in conflict with Melkor) chord tones.

Vána would have a high but not extra high voice, and very birdlike, playful. In terms of instruments imagine as if those clay birds that you pour water into could do a melody. Her song is laughter-like.

Oh, and the more "primitive" four (Oromë, Vána, Nessa and Tulkas) are, I would say, Singing in a pentatonic scale that is a subset of the general key. In lay terms: they are singing in harmony with the others, but simpler. I would probably ass a tangent about scales at the end.

Tulkas is a bass, of course, but not as low as Ulmo. He is loud and simple, but well harmonized with the others. He does maybe get a tad too loud when trying to sing over Melkor. Maybe.

Nessa is very staccato (a lot of short notes), like halfway between singing, laughter and a xylophone. Medium to high tone.

OK, so now about scales.

First we have the pentatonic scale (For example: C, D, F, G, A). It's simple, has only 5 notes and you can't get a dissonance or anything very "ugly" when playing just it. This also means it can't create much tension, you can't have a lot of emotion, or a satysfying climax to a melody. I imagine the First Theme as pentatonic scale. Not necessarily very literarly in terms of real music (Tolkien would say I cannot), but in terms of the general... vibe? I would approximate its nature by the concept of a pentatonic scale.

Then we have the normal major or minor scale. The white keys, basically. Using those it is possible to mess up, because they do have some dissonances between scale tones (B-F, B-C and E-F especially). And for the very same reason, you can have tension. you can have emotion. And you can have a resolution, because you can have a dissonance and then resolve it (move it into a consonance in a way that is satysfying).

Major scale is the scale that goes from C, it's typically considered happy and more powerful. Minor scale starts from A, and is considered more sad. But it's more complex than that.

Also, chords: again we have minor and major (and others)

major chords are chords like CEG, GBD, and FAC (I am using B in the English sense, what in Polish we would call H). They sound more powerful and more triumphant.

minor chords are chords like ACE, DFA, and EGB. they sound more sad, less powerful I would say.

and then we have power chords. They are just empty inside: just CG, or DA, or EB and so on. With a noisy enough instrument (like a distorted electric guitar), due to physics of sound and resonances, they end up sounding like major chords and tbh they sound cool, but from a music theory point of view they look really stupid. Obviously, they are neither minor or major.

maybe let's not get into stuff like suspended chords and jazzy 6-chords, let's just say that they are verious kinds of chords. And the more chromatic the chord (ie the more complex, the less it is like a power chord or just a blatant banging onto an octave) the wider voicing it needs to sound good. A wide voicing means larde gaps between notes when you look at them on the score they are … the score is tall.

And then we can have other scales, and we can have chromatic tones, which means: tones that are theoretically not in the scale but we use them anyway (it's a sad song but we sing it anyway) (because some jerk tried to make a mess for example). They can create a lot of problems and sound ugly when used wrong, but also they allow for intense emotion (think: Chopin).

And again, with the use of chromatic tones, we can have the more interesting chords. We can get into more jazzy sounds, into chords that can't be properly classified as minor or major (and in contrast to power chords I would say the answer is closer to "both" than to "neither"), that theoretically would have internal tension but surprisingly they don't when they are spread enough and with less classical set of chords there are more toold for interesting resolution of dissonances.

I will not apologize, though maybe I shoud have warned you beforehand that I do have a thing about … I don't even know how to call it exactly. Anyway I like talking about absurd questions like "which scales was Ainulindale in" in the same way Medieval philosophers loved to discuss angels on a pin or stuff like this. It does make sense in my head.

If I had time to get into composing again… Which won't happen in at least a year. Not that I ever got too far with it. But I did got a bit somewhere and I have too many things I don't know how to express otherwise.

[blood-orange-juice]

Back to the "Childe is inspired by Uther Doul" crack theory because it still haunts me.

I'm looking at this item:

Threads of fate, all very sweet. The connection to music is... interesting

Mieville's novel had a thing called perhapsadian, a instrument allowing a musician to navigate between different versions of the world. Playing possibilities into reality, if I may.

If I remember that right, music and musical metaphors were important to Remuria, but what if they weren't exactly metaphors.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a quest about an instrument like that?

I'll leave this to people who, unlike me, have dug into Remuria lore.

(oh, and did I mention that Uther was also hunting a whale. as a means of travel though, not as something he wanted to kill)

[patrochillesvibes]

Het were achilles and patroclus cousins? It's never been said in the illad yet people say that patroclus's grandma is achilles's great grandma , even though the illad never says this??

Maybe.

Here's Achilles' family tree per my Caroline Alexander translation:

I don't have a digital copy of Emily Wilson's translation, but it is relatively similar.

As you can see, Patroclus is not in the family tree.

Homer does mention Patroclus' father, Menoetius, a few times. He also mentions that Menoetius is the son of Aktor (or Actor). No mention of a mother.

Pindar suggest's Menoetius' mother being Aegina. Sound familiar? It should because Aegina had Aeacus who had Peleus.

Weird, right? Wouldn't that make Patroclus a peer of Peleus. Of course Aegina is a nymph and and nymphs are immortal, so a generation could have passed between her having her two sons.

I remain skeptical. I think if Patroclus had such a famous mother she would probably be mentioned by Homer as Thetis was mentioned. BUT THEN AGAIN these people were SUPER sexist so 🤷‍♀️

Here's the infamous Google family tree to explain the possible relation:

Here's a better one.

What is that like first cousins once removed?

So given it's not explicit in Homer and the connection and understanding of other sources is dodgy at best, it's really a matter of how /you/ want to define what is canon.

Is your canon The Iliad? Is it the entire Epic Cycle which we only have parts of? Or is your canon all works of Ancient Greece?

I mentioned this in another post, Greek mythology is fucking frustrating for this very reason. We know of a bunch of ancient authors who wrote about mythology and they each had their own headcanons. And of course no two headcanons are the same, just to fuck with us some more I swear.

For emphasis, here's a summary of the different hcs for Patroclus' mother:

But back to the cousin thing...

At least in various civilizations in Europe, marrying your first cousin was a thing up through the mid-20th century. Just Google search any European royal family. We mainly only now find it "weird" or "creepy" bcs of our modern understanding of genetics.

Google is telling me it was common in some periods and some areas of Ancient Greece. So if they were cousins, it most likely would not have been considered "icky" by their contemporaries through Homer. I mean those ppl in Athens created ritualized pedophilia so I think cousin incest is pretty tame in comparison

Many of the headcanons floating out there by all these dead famous white men are contradictory. For example: there are multiple versions of how Achilles gained his powers, there are multiple versions of Achilles' death. It can't all be true! So pick what you like and move on. Or better yet, make up your own canon for yourself! Don't stress about it.

[ihavea-natural-curiosity]

i have a rant post about potential beading practices and styles in atla prepared in my brain, if anyone would like to read it?

[fabuloustrash05]

Something that has been bothering me is that people (mostly on TikTok shocker) lately have been throwing around a rumor that in TMNT 2012 Raph states that he has ADHD.

This idea comes from the season 2 episode “The Good, The Bad and Casey Jones” when Raph goes up top letting off some steam and ranting to himself because his brothers calm he has anger issues, which Raph is in huge denial about (that’s one of the points of the episode)

When Casey follows him into the sewers, Raph continues his furious rant to himself and some people calm you can hear Raph say faintly in the background:

“I have ADHD and anger issues!”

I hate to break it to you, but that’s not what he said. Why would Raph admit he has anger issues when the whole point of that rant is him stating that he doesn’t. He’s in denial of his anger issues, why would he out of not where admit it then go back to denying it?? What he actually said was:

“I have a PhD in anger issues!”

Cause that whole rant was him believing he is good at controlling his anger issues so much that he could have a PhD in the subject.

It’s okay to have headcanons and I’m certainly NOT trying to hate on or dismiss the possibility that Raph might actually have ADHD (it is still is possible and we can still HC it), but don’t lie and change what actually happens/is said in the show just to fit your narrative.

[saintbleeding]

i think jon jarchivist should get to have some ability on piano as a treat

[thedemonastrophel]

Hermitcraft season 8 was a simulation. The moon becoming big was a glitch in the code, the hermits were somehow transported into that season with their memories wiped of being transported and they had to escape. The moon was what tipped them off to the urgency of the situation.

In boatem a robot ended up becoming the leader in place of Mumbo - a robot which I personally belive to be a form of grumbot - which might've been a manifestation of the hermits having been captured in the simulation.

Maybe grumbot from empires wasn't destroyed entirely, it's consciousness used the last of its energy, combined with the energy of its creator, (Grian) trying desperately to save its life, in order to slip into the rift to recuperate its strength.

Now I'm hearing you say, "but Emporer!Grumbot was made in the season 9 crossover, after season 8" but hear me out: time travel.

The rift already breaks the laws of space so why not time, if a super computer figured out how to harness The Rifts power surely it would be able to scatter different versions of itself through the past.

Maybe the computer was created by the watchers, fragments of their collective consciousness going into it in case of a disaster. That could explain why it was all linked to Grian.

Grumbot knew that Grian would be the ideal person to bring it onto hermitcraft initially, because he had the power of the watchers. And it was right because he ended up being the one strong enough to open the rift, and in the end with his extra energy, save Emporer!Grumbot

He - Grian

It - Grumbot

They - The Watchers

...

So uh, who else enjoyed the permit challenges? :]

[asklesbianonceler]

I have not posted any of my analysis to reddit yet and I think I might just post it and ghost it. I've already spent too much time looking at other people's threads on there to feel any way good about interacting with folks.

I already went in an added the "I know you're going to bring this up let me save you the time" section which is exclusively touching on the frequent topics of:

"well what about the fingerprint nostrum and finger mimics? He is clearly just a crackpot"

And

"it's definitely some weird elaborate sacrifice to Metyr thing"