#i started re reading it today

[cheesymorgue]

Are there any Hooky fans still standing in 2023

[averlym]

miscellany (again),, tags in the last image by @pyrotechnicarus

[thatonegayship]

I loved the cowboy comic so much that I wrote a oneshot for it. https://archiveofourown.org/works/50934235 🥺 your art is BEYOND amazing, ty for the food

INCREDIBLE!!!!!

[im-getting-help]

Dear Saltburn community 🧂🔥

I'm in desperate need for some fic recommendations?? preferably fluffy but i any fic is a good fic, so...

I ship quickstart and cattonquick and i hate Gavey with my entire being 💕

Sooo... pretty please? 🥺

please? would you? just one fic 🙏🏻

[divinemanicstate]

happy birthday to my beautiful wife @jade-lynxx!! she always indulges my autism and obsessions

[its-all-papaya]

just outlined the rest (!!!) of dad lando and A) it's at 15 or 16 chapters (including epilogue) which is funny bc remember when i said six? and B) i realized that it's functionally split into even thirds in terms of like... eras? stages? of landoscar? didn't do that on purpose but welcome back a Play in Three Acts

[babychosen]

to all of the amangela fic authors out there - pls don't mind me commenting on some of your old fics over the next little while. i'm doing what i should have been doing all along <3 (commenting on and giving kudos to the fics that deserve it)

[altfire]

finally finished my first ACTUAL BOOK since high school and it was bury your gays by chuck tingle. it was super good i forgot how much i love to read LMAO

[captain-legarde]

I'm actually so excited to read Revelations, Rocket is so slept on in this fandom and I've been seeing mention that there are some sections involving him and Blue Eyes' journey in the book and I NEED that

[mommalosthermind]

have some out of context Sskk from my main wip because I am physically incapable of writing characters who are not obnoxiously down bad and stupid about it:

“I said we were good for each other, didn’t I? Let me prove it, okay? Tell me what I’m missing.”

“Weretiger,” Akutagawa gasps, flattening himself against the wall. His chin remains high as Atsushi slides his burning fingertip over a wound that nearly stole Akutagawa twice, a wound he held together with his bare hands, skin that should have scarred.

Did the vampirism or the tiger’s power save him from that reminder? Atsushi’s selfish enough to decide it was him, his lifeblood, his power, that saved him from having his death forever engraved in his flesh.

If he thought Akutagawa would allow it, he’d put his mouth there, too. He’s tasted his blood before, cupped his pulse in his hands. Maybe it would settle properly into place, the fact that Akutagaw is alive, if he could just hold that thrumming vein between his teeth.

His hand slaps against wood as Akutagawa moves with inhuman speed, twisting out of Atsushi’s hold. The hair along the back of his neck rises as Akutagawa growls, inhuman and deep.

Atsushi struggles against himself. Claws grow and shrink as he grinds his forehead into the wall where Akutagawa’s spine rested a bare moment ago. He is more than the tiger. He is Atsushi, too.

He can’t pounce, can’t spin on his toe and knock Akutagawa down, pin him in place with claws and teeth and demand answers. Well.

He could. But he won’t.

Yet.

As though his new senses pick up on the direction of Atsushi’s mounting anxiety, Akutagawa speaks.

“I see you, Nakajima.”

Atsushi whirls, gaping, to find a resolute Akutagawa much closer than he’d realized.

“I have honored our promise. I have tried to understand you.” There’s a fire in his eyes, more fire than steel as his chin comes up again, this time in defense. “You have never seen me. This attachment you claim to have developed, it is merely a side effect of your guilt over my death. And I am no longer dead.”

“Oh, I am so going to fucking bite you,” Atsushi seethes past fangs. “You are not this stupid, I know you’re not this stupid.”

Akutagawa sighs, as though Atsushi is somehow the exasperating one. “I’ve never been what you think I am, idiot. I can’t give you what you seek.” He closes his eyes, shoulders tight as he frowns. “I cannot be what you need.”

[kebriones]

The Samos hopscotch nonsense featuring Alcibiades:

-he sends message to athens that he'll bring Persian help if they take down the democracy.

-a portion of the Athenians at Samos (an island where part of the Athenian fleet was stationed) were oligarchs so they went over to Alcibiades to say hey we also wanna help. Alcibiades was like great!

-these guys from samos went back to Samos and caused a coup, using mostly the rich and frustrated citizens.

-the poorer people didn't like this but hopef they would at least get paid

-thete was one guy called Phrynichus, an Athenian general, who didn't like any of the stuff that was happening because he believed (as was the truth, Thucydides says) that Alcibiades couldn't care less about what political system anyone had and only cared about returning to athens.

-phrynichus said that they should just ignore Alcibiades and focus on not having internal issues and keeping their democracy.

-nobody listened to him and he could see that as soon as Alcibiades was recalled, he would try and harm him for having spoken against him.

-so he made a plan. He sent a message to the spartan general warning him that Alcibiades was trying to harm them and return to the Athenians, and told him everything that was going on.

-the spartan general, for whatever reason, went to Tissaphernes and Alcibiades and told them "hey this Athenian general told me so and so, but I think that what Alcibiades is doing will benefit the persians so whatever"

-alcibiades immediately wrote a letter to the rest of the Athenians in samos, telling them the Phrynichus was being all secret-message-y with the spartans and asking them to kill him.

-phrynichus got really scared now because he was in very real danger and sent a letter complaining to astyochus, the spartan general he had been communicating with, that he hadn't keot their little secret. But, he said, he is ready to help the spartans destroy the entire Athenian fleet at samos in order to avoid getting killed.

-astyochus (who probably by that point was sleeping with Alcibiades on the regular and was whipped otherwise i cannot understand what he was thinking-thats my commentary) WENT AND TOLD EVERYTHING TO ALCIBIADES AGAIN.

-phrynichus kinda realized that he would get betrayed again, thought of another plan. He told everyone that the spartans were about to attack samos and that they should fortify it. So they did. Soon after, another message from Alcibiades saying that Phrynichus was betraying the Athenians arrived, but since Phrynichus had already done all that with the fortification, nobody believed Alcibiades.

-alcibiades then continued putting all his energy into being on Tissaphernes' good side.

-meanwhile in Athens, the people were tired and hopeless do after some persuasion they were like "okay ten dudes can go talk to Alcibiades and Tissaphernes and decide what's best." Other guys met up to discuss taking down the democracy.

-so the guys from athens come to Tissaphernes and Alcibiades to have a talk and come to an agreement.

-alcibiades sabotages the negotiations telling the Athenians that he could manipulate Tissaphernes, if only the Athenians would try a little harder to meet the completely crazy demands he was putting on the table in the name of the persian empire. I really do not understand what's happening in these negotiations and what is Alcibiades trying to achieve, but the Athenians get angry at some point and leave.

-Tissaphernes was starting to grow really uncertain and scared.

-Some time later, the oligarchs at samos decide, fuck Alcibiades, we'll do this ourselves

-then,in athens, some androkles and some other who didn't like Alcibiades are murdered because people thought this would please Alcibiades and help his return. Athens was a mess. Phrynichus was there being very zealous about oligarchy because he was still afraid of Alcibiades and for some reason believed that as long as there was oligarchy in athens, Alcibiades wouldn't actually get recalled, so he'll be saved. (Poor Phrynichus waa having Alcibiades nightmares I'm sure)

-after many stuff happening, oligarchy is put in place in athens. Alcibiades is not recalled. The olivarchs start trying to make piece with Sparta but it's all a mess.

-ambassadors are sent to samos to reassure the army there that the oligarchy in athens is for everyone's good. They lied that the oligarchs in power aren't 400, but five thousand.

-about 300 people in Samos were all for the oligarchy and tried staging a coup against the democrats.

-the killed a guy called hyperbolus (guy who had been exiled from athens not because he was dangerous but because he was "bad and brought shame to the city" whatever that means.

-the non-oligarchs in Samos got together and managed to beat the oligarchs, gave everyone amnesty and everything was nice and democratic in samos again

- after a whole lot of things that happened, the people un samos decide to recall Alcibiades. Thrasybulus, an Athenian general (i think he was a general at this point? Idk I'm confused) goes to Tissaphernes and picks up Alcibiades and brings him to samos.

- they have a meeting at samos at which Alcibiades COMPLAINED for the way he has been treated by the athenians and then started CRYING while describing how hard all these exile things were for him.

- after that he spoke in great length about politics and gave everyone "great hopes for the future" (this guy i swear to god)

- he also overstated greatly his influence over Tissaphernes with "unimaginable boastfulness" and that only Alcibiades could make Tissaphernes help the Athenians and bring them the Phoenician fleet and a bunch of other made up nonsense like "Tissaphernes would sell even his own bed to help the Athenians" 💀

- he is immediately elected general.

- everyone has complete trust in him and is very excited and hopeful.

- they were SO excited in fact, that they were ready to get in the ships and go beat the oligarchs at athens right that moment.

- Alcibiades stopped them and said he should first go talk to Tissaphernes.

- he was now in a position where he could use Tissaphernes to threaten the Athenians, and the fact that the Athenians had made him general to threaten Tissaphernes.

- if you care, astyochus the spartan general got sick and died at some point. Rest in piece.

- some new ambassadors of the oligarchs arrive to samos to talk to the army.

- here we get a rare praise from Thucydides towards Alcibiades, that he "benefitted athens more than anyone else"

- he managed to hold back the enraged masses who were ready to sail from samos back to athens. Thucydides says that nobody else would have had the power to manage that. I am cheering and clapping and tearing up.

- he managed to calm everyone down by saying completely sensible and nice things for once in this whole book.

- he was like, if we kill each other there won't be anyone left of athens to save.

- there were some Argives there too who if you remember from back in the Sicilian expedition they were there because they were Alcibiades fanboys. Alcibiades gave them a pat on the head and told them they have been good and that they may go now.

- now we cut back to Tissaphernes who after all this was having a lot of trouble with the spartans so he was like alright I'm going to go bring you guys the Phoenician fleet.

- Alcibiades caught wind of that and immediately sailed after him to go stop him.

- news of Alcibiades' behavior in samos reached athens. The non-oligarchs were rather pleased that Alcibiades was being influential in samos and hoped they would get rid of the oligarchy soon.

- theramenes is also somewhere in the mess in Athens being against the oligarchs! He does some stuff like talk about walls and stuff.

- Phrynichus died i think. Some guy "hit him" idk

- there was "unimaginable confusion" in athens. There's unimaginable confusion in my head trying to understand what's happening and who's on what side.

- everyone in Athens was gathering weapons and they barely managed to avoid completely slaughtering each other

- there was that wall theramenes didn't like so he went with some soldiers and started demolished it. I have completely missed the point where they built yet another wall in athens. Idk how many walls there are at this point.

- after a ton of confusing things, the 400 tyrants are replaced by 5 thousand and the decision to recall Alcibiades to athens is made, so they could get the samos army back.

- we cut back to Alcibiades, who finally returns to samos saying that he has prevented the Phoenician army from joining the spartans and that "Tissaphernes is now more than ever their friend" whatever that means.

And this is where Thucydides stops. He died before finishing the history of the Peloponnesian war.

To continue the story of how Athenians were extremely stupid and Alcibiades extremely annoying but also inexplicably good at several stuff, we must move on to xenophon's "hellenica". Stay tuned.

[talentforlying]

there's a gif of matt ryan covered in blood that i have been staring at for at Least fifteen minutes now and getting very emotional about. legends of tomorrow took the pledge to fuck constantine up so seriously and now i am undone, like i still can't BELIEVE they did a version of his dangerous habits arc in live action. i'll never not feel like a kid at christmas about it.

[ereborne]

Song of the Day: April 15

"Something in the Way She Moves" by James Taylor

[whentherewerebicycles]

crashed around 10:30 last night / woke up at 5:30 still feeling pretty wrung out. but I honestly think it’s just the intense comedown from *gestures vaguely* everything—lots of emotional ups and downs this spring plus extensive travel and trying to engineer a baby or whatever. I think having the signed offer will make me feel a lot better, as I’ll be able to switch fully into excited looking-ahead mode. but oh man… I am so excited. I am sure that, like all jobs, this job has its own issues and frustrations that will reveal themselves in time, but mostly I just feel this immense, immense wave of relief about getting to do values-aligned work that uses my knowledge/creativity/skills. I’m also nervous but excited about moving into a real leadership position for the first time. my bleh current job felt like such a massive step back in terms of responsibilities and agency—largely because of my lead’s micromanagement and refusal to trust me with anything, but also just because I think the role was much more junior than I realized going into it. ahhhhhh I’m just SO EXCITED to get to work with smart people who care about learning on cool projects that help students. I’m even excited to figure out who the difficult eccentric academic personalities are ahaha. god and I hope I make friends!!!!! work friends!!!!! I got really good vibes from the two women I’ll be working with most closely and I am also excited to work with the two profs who were on the committee, who seem to have one of the most delightful odd couple friendships I’ve ever seen. just!!!! ahhh!!!!!!!!! and I’m gonna be people’s BOSS for the first time so that is going to be a whole new fascinating skillset to learn!!!!!! ok I’m rapidly talking myself out of my post-stress haze and into giddy excitement ahaha so I think maybe today I’ll spend some time journaling about the future to gently help ease myself out of the “work is pointless misery” mindset and into the kind of headspace I have been longing to get back to (work is a joy! work is hard but gives me purpose and meaning!!). whooHOOO let’s GO!!!!!!!!!!!

[fractallogic]

I don’t want to go to work, I want to read the library book that just came in from my holds list

I want to go to the bookstore and find every book by T. Kingfisher and buy them all

Maybe I’ll go to the gym, shower, eat dinner, and then see how I feel about nosing around in B&N tonight. Or maybe I’ll just do the first three. Idk! Who knows.

[agentravensong]

considering making a post about how horatio is... used? accounted for? in the productions of r&g are dead that i've watched and listened to cause 3/4 (not counting the movie) have, as almost certainly unintentional consequences of their choices, gotten me thinking about that one post i made and frothing at the mouth a bit, in different ways