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antiloreolympus · 4 years ago

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12 Anti LO Asks

1. its victim blaming of hades to tell minthe its HER fault she "couldnt get over him". like? you lied to her! youre the one who blurred the lines to date her! you were just as toxic to her if not more so by controlling where she lives and her job, all while never defending her to your cruel family! you had all the power over her while she had nothing! you dumped her for a 19 year old and dont care she crippled minthe! i wont excuse minthe's actions, but hades is ultimately the worse of the two IMO

2. you know why fans claimed "Minthe should've reacted better"? since the first episode Rachel has been drilling into their heads Minthe is an irredeemable monster, and her not bending over backwards to H/P means she deserves the absolute worst. Minthe reacting how anyone logically would doesn't matter when LO is designed to coddle H/P, and anyone against them must suffer for it, even if the victim to H/P's actions. they never wanted her to be "redeemed", they want her head on a silver platter.

3. i know this is not what she intended bc the only characterization rachel has of hxp is "the best over everything" but uh, does she know having hades control all the petroleum and gasses and whatever else is actively destroying the planet, right? like hes helping the very thing persephone draws her power from and what she's connected to be destroyed to appease hes need for wealth and power. its kinda gross hes being romanticized while he commits horrible acts like this for his bank account.

4. its not impossible to go opposite in their original myth personalities and still have it work. like in hades game, sisyphus is one of the most likable characters, achilles is gentle and kind, ares is calm and rational, etc, but it makes sense within the context of the story. LO in comparison goes "all these loving mothers are evil because i said so! this beloved god is now evil because i said so! minthe is evil because i said so!" and that's about it in terms of logic to these wild changes.

5. I can kinda get behind anon's theory about the flower nymphs looking like P to help her be undetected, the problem is there are also unrelated women in comic who are bright pink and look just like her, with hades even confusing them for her! if i had to bet the only reason they look like that is because rachel just wanted daphne to look like her to hammer home apollo is "obsessed" with P and to fake them as her "real family" over demeter. also just laziness in designing characters in general.

6. its weird hades and persephone are well aware what they're doing is bad even openly admitting it and yet the narrative is so hellbent on excusing their bad actions?? like hades being the major toxic factor in his relationship to minthe, persephone killing people, or hades wanting to bone an eternal 19 year old? like rachel you know thats not how character growth works, right? you cant show they have horrible flaws and leave them to never grow and learn from it, that's not good writing at all.

7. what i also dont get is the hierarchy makes no sense? like zeus is framed as the top god, but that would mean hades cant be the most important man ever so rachel also made him equal rank with zeus (and i guess poseidon too) so?? how does zeus have all that power over them then if theyre all equal? is it because zeus swallowed metis? also how are the fertility goddess so powerful and rare yet so easily taken down? how are they overpowered and super weak at the same time? i just dont get it.

8. Re reading chapter 144 and other anon is right we do see the pomegranate pin on Hades outfit (so Hades gifts it to her)

But also some things to note

During the makeout session persy begins to disappear in butterfly form and hades is like "no don't leave!" And he grabs her, preventing her from leaving. Which is..kinda Ick considering they were on their way to having (public) sex and he doesn't want her to leave which seems like he's not really respecting her boundaries? (because if she does he'll "be lonely")

The pomegranate pin is Hades' to begin with so technically one of Persephones symbols is not hers (yes I know in the original myth she ate it in the underworld / was forced to eat it but still its supposed to be her symbol)

Hades notes that he "doesn't want to overstep his boundaries as host" because Persephone is a guest (too late for that)

Persephones main concern (after what a week or 2?) after being raped is when Hades wants to stop her reaction is "dont you want me anymore?"

Girl you aren't even dating ...??

Persy's literal one and only concern is that she thinks if she doesnt sleep with Hades right then or when/if he wants to that "she wont be able to give him what hes used to" ... Which is reinforcing that she went to therapy to get "over being blocked" in regards to having sex

Although Hades does mention that she shouldn't feel like she needs to please him and that a kiss can just be a kiss which would be nice

(And yet his thinking of marrying her amd he's known her for 2, 3 weeks? ... And he says "the beginning of a new relationship is exciting and scary" so hes basically indicating thay their dating at this point, I think?)

And later the nymphs in the store are like "do you wanna be the dominatrix of the bedroom?? Buy this lingerie!" And persy does. So??

Meanwhile Demeter is very worried for her daughter who is busy sitting in Hades lap in a pool.

9. Can we talk about how anons are making fucking flow charts for the LO Timeline cause it's so ridiculously jumbled?

10. im not even against rushed relationships, ive known actual couples who met and were married all within the same year and it worked out great, the difference though is these were people who had their own lives and previous relationships. the issue with LO is RS designed it so Persephone can NEVER have relationships or a life outside of Hades, and if they did get married offscreen, it's framing their marriage in a toxic and unbalanced light. That's not a romance, it's a disaster waiting to happen.

11. i feel like there's a difference between drawing an interesting hooked/aquiline nose versus whatever the hell RS puts on Hades' face. It honestly looks like he's in between morphing into a bird half the time since it just looks like a beak over an actual facial feature.

12. are there shareholders or a board of advisors or something at underworld corp? because if there is id say they have more than enough reason to kick hades out and strip him of his titles/shares because of all the shit he's caused by being guided by his broken pp over thinking with his head. liking dating TWO employees? and getting one of them phsyically crippled by the other bc he can't be honest with either of them and she's a walking time bomb? he's a walking HR nightmare.

#anti lo #anti lore olympus #lore olympus critical #lo critical

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constant-instigator · 5 years ago

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In comes a rant. I will not be reading replies.

Ownvoices writing is good. Ownvoices writing is vital, indispensable. Worthy of so much support.

But JESUS CHRIST people need to settle the fuck down about others “writing outside their lane.”

Let me explain.

1) A shit ton of marginalized people- largely creators, have worked our collective asses off helping people write beyond their experience. Claiming that nobody of a particular marginalization wants anyone outside their community to write about them is a massive disservice to people doing the work to make sure that writing is good.

2) For every marginalization, there are those at the border- at the egde. Who see these demands for ownvoices only rep and tailspin into wondering if they are ______ ENOUGH to write from their own life. I have seen these calls for ownvoices-only make people consider either giving up writing, or only writing white, straight, cis, nondisabled, allo characters which honestly we do not need a bunch more of. Creating ranking within our own communities just re-establishes harmful hierarchies within communities that have already been harmed by such hierarchies. And honestly this kind of thinking contributes to so many harmful stereotypes about what people of different marginalizations feel/think/act like. This kind of thinking stops people from finding help. From finding community. Stop hurting marginalized people with gatekeepy bullshit. No more “not trans enough” to deserve transitioning support. No more “not depressed enough” to deserve mental health help. This an incredibly harmful scarcity mindset that helps nobody.

3) NOT EVERYONE WANTS TO TRADITIONALLY PUBLISH. I bring this one up only because there’s a lot of talk about people “taking up space” by writing a particular marginalization. By all means, take publishers to task for their “we already have a black book this year” bullshit. But some people just wanna self publish and we do not need to act like every marginalized community has like 3 book slots per year and wont read more than that. The thirst for books about marginalized folks is VAST. People are hungry to be seen. The market can bear it. And those that self-pub aren’t taking anything away from anyone else.

4) Multi-POV books are a thing? Like honestly why would I write a queer cast if they’re all gonna be white? What unrealistic whitewashy bullshit is that? Why would I bother writing about disability if I’m gonna exclude queer folks, who are disproportionately affected by a number of disabilities due to medical negligence? If you write communities, if you write multiple points of view, you shouldn’t be contributing to the media mass removal of people who don’t fit hollywoods idea of real people.

5) Stop treating people who have different experiences of marginalization as different goddamn species. I’m really seeing people say queer women shouldn’t write queer men and vice versa? So who is my nonbinary ass supposed to write, huh? Just only nonbinary people? Yeah ok, I hate book sales. Lemme just do that. Or maybe we could stop acting like our differences make us incomprehensible to each other- especially when dealing with adjacent communities.

6) If your answer to #5 was “well the more marginalized can write the less marginalized” then you have just bought into the idea that marginalization can be ranked and rated and my dear that is a bullshit idea. Yes, there are some clear cut exampled. Being white is gonna protect you from racism. Granted. But who is “more marginalized” a queer woman or a queer man? An autistic person or someone with bipolar? A Muslim or a Hindu? If you just tried to answer any of these questions stop. Go get a glass of water. Take a few deep breaths, and realize that creating hierarchies is half of how we get into these situations in the first place.

7) Said hierarchies would, under ownvoices-only rule, ensure that those with the greatest barriers, on average, bear all the responsibility, with the LEAST amount of support from publishers. This isn’t a “boo-hoo where will Black people get Black books if white people don’t write them?” It’s “if queer women can only write queer women, and not queer men, then they are relegated to the less profitable section of queer publishing and the patriarchal order is maintained”. I think my community can do better than that. I refuse to invite those models into my community.

8) “Well if you listen to people who are X, they want-” Stop. Stoooop. No. We are not a monolith we are never a monolith. Go read #1 again.

In conclusion, a lot of harmful bullshit books make it out into the world. Those books can and should be called out. But we don’t need to harm marginalized people to do that. We don’t need to water down our communities. We don’t need to uphold hierarchies that the craptacular establishment approves of. We don’t need to ignore the hard work so many people have put into helping there be more good rep in the world.

Ownvoices stories are vital. We must uplift them. By all means, side-eye anyone you see writing what they’re not without uplifting those who educated them.

But #ownvoices is a beacon, not a cudgel.

I will not be reading or responding to any comments on this post, because Tumblr purity bullshit culture may well find this post one day. And a lot of people want to use the concept of “safety” to attack anyone who makes them feel anxious by pointing out that there is no simple, cut and dry way to avoid harm, to avoid messing up, to avoid their ever-encroaching sense of anxiety-riddled guilt. Life is messy. Learn to apologize and do better, because you will never be free of making mistakes.

#writing

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365daysofsasuhina · 6 years ago

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[ 365 Days of SasuHina || Day Two Hundred Seventy-One: Bewildering Experience ] [ Uchiha Sasuke, Hyūga Hinata ] [ SasuHina ] [ Verse: Best Years of Your Life ] [ AO3 Link ]

There’s certain social rules when it comes to high school. Navigating as many of them as you can means getting through those four years a little less scathed. While it’s tedious at best for most, there can still be moments that stand out positively for students. The typical dredgery of classes, homework, tests and exams have the occasional break in the monotony.

For Hinata, this is her final year. A senior at last, whittling at her schedule until graduation next Summer. A rather model student, her college is all picked out, major decided, and all that’s left is to get through this last batch of school days until...well, more schooling. But surely college won’t be nearly the task high school has been, right?

Well...so she hopes.

Hinata has always been a bit of a stereotype. The quiet, nerdy, shy girl...with a crush on the star of the basketball team. Fairly academic, she also branches into some of the more artsy institutions of her high school: choir, theater club, and the occasional art class. She even participates in volleyball and tennis. Her grades are top notch due to her diligence, and...lack of a social life, really. Her quietude means mostly being ignored by her classmates. A few like Sakura, maybe Ino, occasionally drag her along for something. But for the most part, she’s left to her own devices.

The only real talking she does is digitally. She texts, she IMs on Discord, lurks on social media...but she devotes most of her time and energy to her classes, clubs, and sports.

Most of the year passes fairly normally. The typical teenage drama, class difficulties, club activities...and then they enter the last quarter of the year. Hinata’s still in her clubs, and after Winter quarter off from sports, enters her last high school tennis season.

And that’s when things start to get...weird.

For the longest time, Hinata’s crushed on one Naruto Uzumaki: aforementioned basketball player, but also baseball. Alongside him is his best friend, Sasuke Uchiha. Naruto, however, has long crushed on Sakura: a rather jock-like girl who plays sports all year round, ending with softball. The pair seem to be teetering on the edge of finally going out, and...quite obviously, that left Hinata in a bit of a funk.

...but then the unexpected happened.

Sasuke offered to come watch her play. Which, Hinata supposed, wasn’t that unthinkable. They’d been talking about it, Naruto excusing himself due to watching Sakura’s upcoming softball match after Hinata had admitted to planning to watch the boys’ baseball game. She had been rather disappointed until Sasuke spoke up.

...and then he went and confronted her about her dead-end crush once the others had gone.

Hinata was...a bit flabbergasted. But he had a point...Naruto was never going to see her the way she saw him. But it was the subtle hint beneath it that left her a bit bewildered.

...was he…?

A challenging quip resulting in his blush and stutter all but confirmed it: he, in turn, was crushing on her.

...it was completely unexpected. He was one of the most popular guys in their year…! And he...he liked...her…? Why? She’s quiet, uninteresting, unnoticed...not anyone someone like him would care about!

And yet...he did.

Disaster nearly struck when - on her way to the game - she’d gotten a flat tire on her bike. But lo and behold, none other than Sasuke’s mother - also headed to the field - offered to give her a ride. Sitting next to both Mikoto and Kushina, Hinata had watched as they achieved victory, needing only one more win to make it to state.

He’d been surprised to see her there. Made a bit of flustered small talk. And then they’d parted ways rather...awkwardly.

And it only got worse the next time she really got to see him. Nailed by a flyaway baseball bat, he’d been left with a sizeable split in his brow. Hinata, excused from a cancelled practice, offered to take him to the nurse.

Cue more careful dancing around each other, Mikoto even teasing him when he drove home (Hinata accompanying to make sure he was okay to drive).

By then, it wasn’t quite so shocking anymore. Sasuke, quite obviously, despite the breaks in social hierarchy, was very smitten with the class wallflower.

...and after all her considering it, Hinata has decided...maybe she could like him back. He’s a lot sweeter than his typical aloof persona shows. Maybe not quite the brash charm Naruto has that she originally fell for, but...it’s nice. She feels rather at ease talking to him.

So, Hinata decides to break some social rules of her own.

Waiting outside the locker rooms after an afternoon of practice, she ignores the curious looks the other boys give her, clearly suspecting she’s up to something. But Hinata just waits until the proper one emerges.

“Hi!”

Startling, Sasuke looks to her with wide eyes...and then promptly goes pink.

...she’s really starting to like when he does that. It’s just so funny compared to his typical composure. To think, she has that sort of power.

“...uh, hi?”

“I got out a little early, so I thought I’d see how your practice went,” Hinata then offers, still smiling at him.

...it’s his turn to look suspicious. “It was...fine? Why?”

“Just make sure you didn’t take any more b-bats to the face.”

His flustered expression gets all the worse, going from pink to bright red. “No! I’m fine, that was just...a freak accident. Besides, you’d probably find a way to hear about it if I did,” Sasuke then mutters, shoving hands into his pockets.

Hinata’s expression warms. “Sorry, I don’t m-mean to tease you. I really do hope you’re okay. How’s your forehead…?”

“It’s pretty much healed up. Really wasn’t that bad.”

“Good.”

After a moment of just...standing awkwardly, Sasuke tentatively starts walking, seeing her follow. “...so, did you...need anything else?”

“No. Not really.”

“...uh, okay. How, uh...how was your practice?”

“Fine! It was a bit of a light day since we have a game in two days, so...coach doesn’t want us too burnt out. That’s why I was able to catch you!”

“Oh...what team are you playing?”

“Iwa. They’re sort of our rivals in tennis. I’m r-really hoping we beat them. We’re already too low in the rankings to go to state, so...this is really our big push for the end of the year.”

Genuine concern bleeds through Sasuke’s expression. “Oh...sorry to hear that.”

“It’s okay. I’m h-hoping it means I can make it to some of your state games!”

“Oh, well…” Sasuke itches his neck, looking a little sheepish. “We still have one more game against Suna...we’re not there yet.”

“But I bet you will be,” Hinata counters, smiling. “You guys have done r-really well! And it would be so neat if you made it there your last year…”

“Yeah...I hope so. My brother’s soccer team went all four years, and won his junior year. I’d like to at least brush up against that, honestly.”

Hinata glances over at the wistfulness in Sasuke’s tone. “...I see. Will he...will he be able to come watch?”

“Maybe...he’s just out of college and working pretty heavily, so he might not have time. But I think the games are live streamed, so...maybe he can catch it that way.”

“That’s true. But...I hope I can go. I think a group of seniors are planning to skip out and go if you make it to the finals!”

“Really?”

“Mhm! I’d go with them, even if my dad might get mad...I’ve never skipped school before.”

Sasuke considers her for a long moment. “...why do you want to go so bad?”

“Well, it’s been a while since any of our school’s teams made it to state! I want to support them.” Looking up, there’s a small sparkle in her eyes. “...and that means you, too.”

A hint of pink creeps back into his face. “...well, uh...thanks.”

“Sasuke…?”

“Yeah?”

“Can I ask you something?”

“Uh, sure. What’s up?”

“I know you’re awfully busy with baseball and stuff, but um…” She looks to the ground, tucking hair behind her ear as she walks. “But...I was wondering if you’d like to...g-go out with me sometime?”

Sasuke actually freezes in his tracks.

Ending up a few paces forward, Hinata turns back toward him, seeing his wide eyes. “Would...would that be okay?”

“You...you’d wanna…?”

Dropping her coy teasing, Hinata softens, smiling warmly at him. “...I know we started off a bit, um...a bit awkwardly. With the whole...Naruto thing. But...it’s been nice getting to know you a little. You’re a very sweet person, Sasuke. I guess...I never got to see that until recently. I was too busy looking at Naruto, and...well, you seem to like to keep that sort of thing h-hidden.”

Slowly, Sasuke’s posture loses its tense edge.

Hinata glances aside, expression a bit unreadable. “...I’m sorry if you...if you had to keep this to yourself for very long. I know how that feels, and...I’m sorry for never noticing.”

“...well, I wasn’t exactly open about it. I just thought...y’know...you couldn’t really be interested with Naruto around.”

“...well, you were right. He’s never going to see me that way, and...maybe I need to try looking elsewhere.” Shyly, she glances up to him. “...maybe at...someone who already sees me.”

Nerves showing through his expression again, Sasuke dusts pink across the bridge of his nose. “...I’d...I’d like to try that. I know the year’s almost over, and...maybe we’ll end up apart once college starts. But...I really do like you, Hinata,” Sasuke offers in a rare moment of openness. “So...yeah. I’ll let you know when I’ve got some time where we can...do something. Hopefully a day will line up, right?”

She nods, smile back in place. “Okay. Here, I’ll...give you my number. And we can...text about it later? When you’ve got a moment?”

“Yeah, sure.” With digits exchanged, the pair stand in silence for a moment. “...y’know, I...wasn’t expecting you to do that. You really caught me off-guard,” Sasuke admits with a huff of a laugh.

“I f-figured I would,” she agrees with a laugh of her own. “But...well, one of us had to say something, right?”

“Yeah...glad you did.”

“...me too. Anyway, I...better get home. Homework and all that,” Hinata sighs.

“Yeah, same. I’ll text you later.”

“Okay!” Giving a beaming wave, she takes off toward the bike rack as Sasuke makes his way to the parking lot. There’s a happy little flutter in her chest. It was a bit of a bewildering experience on both sides, but...for once, she’s glad she took a leap.

Now to see where it will take her…!

.oOo.

(This is a sequel to days 149, 168, and 183!) More sportsverse! And I'm slowly making up my behind days xD With this I'm just one behind now, though I'm not sure when I'll have time to be 100% caught up. October is gonna be busy both irl and in regards to writing, so...we'll see! Anyway, we have Hinata leading the charge for once! Nervous, blushy Sasuke is best Sasuke. And I like Hinata having her bold moments...especially when it's something like this! We officially have a relationship going, woohoo! Maybe another prompt will let me write a date xD We'll have to see! But yes, for now I've got some irl stuff to get done, but! Thanks, as always, for reading!

#sasuhina #uchiha sasuke #hyūga hinata #best years of your life [ au ]#365daysofsasuhina

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allofusandco · 7 years ago

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not goodbye, just see you soon // wy + wav

with @theycomeuninvited (Waverly)

Wynonna says goodbye to Waverly ahead of hitting the road with Sam. Waverly doesn’t take it well.

“Wav?”

Not in her room. Not a surprise. Why would Waverly be in a bedroom when this place held ten thousand books? Wynonna adjusted her bath robe and headed back to her own room to dress in something a little less low-key (seriously low-key, but she wasn’t sure the world needed to see her in a bath robe).

Dressed in jeans and a sweater that was about three sizes too big, but seriously comfortable, she headed towards the library, poking her head into the various nooks and crannies as she went, anywhere that had a desk or an armchair (seriously, how many people was this thing supposed to house?).

“There she is,” Wynonna said, dropping into an armchair. “Hey, sis.” She leaned across to look at the book. “Is that a spell for eliminating all Revenants on an entire planet with the flick of the eyelashes?”

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Wav:

“God, don’t you wish.”

Waverly grinned, a laugh following her words. That would be too easy, way too easy. But she was working on some things, she’d even gotten Sam’s opinion on some spell work so maybe they’d catch a break…maybe. Wasn’t really their luck but a girl could still hope.

“Just reading up on some demon lore, trying to figure out exactly what rank we’re dealing with. Might make them easier to track. Did you know Hell actually have some sort of hierarchy to it? According to this and to what Sam and Dean have run in to there are knights and princes. Can you believe it? I mean knights of Hell and Princes of Hell.”

Waverly shook her head as she rambled on.

“I don’t think that’s exactly the prince charming most people are looking for.”

She sure as hell wasn’t but then again anything could be better than Champ was. She stifled another laugh and cleared her throat as she let her attentions shift from the book to Wynonna.

“What’s up?”

–––

Wynonna:

Wynonna pressed her hand to her forehead. Demon hierarchies? No thanks. Knights, princes, presidents, whatever, demons were just demons. Wynonna pulled her legs up onto the armchair and made a face.

“How about you be in charge of knowing more stuff, and I be in charge of just shooting them in the face. Sound like a plan to you? Although… now you say that, there’s every chance I slept with a prince of hell or two in my time. I have routinely terrible taste in men.” She shrugged. “Until just lately.” She thought another moment. “Actually, they probably weren’t princes. Bygones, bygones.”

No need to dwell. Also, no need to traumatize Waverly.

“Okay. So. Please remember I have your best interests at heart, here. And also mine, and… generally humans’ interests. I know you’re not going to like this, much.” Wynonna pulled the sleeves of her enormous sweater over her hands.

“Sam and I are hitting the road tomorrow. I need to get back to the job, and he has some ideas about how to find the revenants.” Maybe she’d skip the part about Wy being bait-y.

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Wav:

“Ooookay slow it down there Wynonna you’re talking the crazy talk.”

Waverly’s smile faltered and she shifted her hands to close the book she’d been reading through previously.

Wynonna really was speaking crazy, leaving with Sam was just…ugh this was dumb and leave it to Wynonna to come up with it.

“You’re leaving again, really? That’s your grand idea, leave with Sam to hunt some demons using yourself as bait while I stay here and hit the books. Nice, good plan Wynonna.”

Alright, maybe she was just a little annoyed with the idea but they didn’t even know the Winchester’s that well. How could Wynonna just trust Sam to go out on a hunt with her? Running a hand through her hair she sighed and tucked it behind her ears, leaning forward she dropped her elbows on the table and fixed Wynonna with a look.

“You know I’m not going to approve of this ever right?”

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Wynonna:

“My idea…” Wynonna shook her head. “My idea is to fix this. We can’t have them out there killing people. They got out of the triangle because of me. I’m the only one who can put them in the ground. Sam… is a wall of muscle and handy with the guns, so with a little luck and some… I mean, with a lot of care, and lots of really thorough planning, he can keep me alive. And in the meantime, I need to you figure out how to find the ones who are too dumb to fall for this, or even better, some kind of magic that will just… poof them all away. Sound good?”

She slumped in the chair.

“Oh, Wav. I know. I don’t like it either. But yeah, I trust him. I trust him enough so that I even trust Dean. And I don’t want us to spend our whole lives doing this. I wanna show you the world. Take you to Greece.” Her hand moved automatically to close over the key pendant, and the beads, that she wore around her neck. Like a very quiet prayer to Athena.

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Wav:

It was hard not to roll her eyes at her sister.

Of course Waverly wanted to stop the Revenants too. Who didn’t want to stop them? But rushing out there to take them on without a plan and with no way of tracking them was suicide. Besides, they were dumb but could the Rev’s be dumb enough to actually take bait like that? If she was a Revenant she would run in the opposite direction she heard the heir was in.

“They’ll be stupid to show, this bait isn’t even going to work. They’re not going to run head on in to the hair knowing you can kill them, not when they’ve already got what they want Wynonna, freedom.”

Promises of the world and getting to see it or live in peace weren’t going to ease her nerves on this and it sure as heck wasn’t going to make her agree any faster to letting Wynonna just walk out that door either.

“You know I love you sis, but this is a dumb idea.”

–––

Wynonna:

“Come on, Wav, most revenants are too dumb to walk and chew gum at the same time. Plus Sam knows the king of hell. They’ll all probably want to impress him by coming after me.”

Okay, that was probably not the most reassuring thing to say, but.

“I can’t just sit here and wait for news, Waverley. I want this to be over. I wanna show you the world, and I want you to have a life that’s not just tracking down spooky shit so I can maybe, maybe kill it. I want this curse broken and over. Sam and I can do a lot together. He’s a hell of a fighter, and I’ve got Peacemaker. I need you to stay here and focus on finding something, a spell or something, that can find them more efficiently, but for right now, whether this is a good plan or not, it’s the only one we’ve got.”

She sighed.

“I know. I don’t want to leave you, either. But it’s not like Dean can handle this level of research on his own.”

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Wav:

“It’s fine Wynonna, just go.”

Waverly sighed, giving up. There was never any point or reason to try and convince Wynonna that what she was doing was stupid. She was going to do what she wanted no matter what anyone else thought about it.

Pushing herself to her feet she snapped the book she’d been reading through closed and headed it back to its shelf. If she was honest she would admit she’d done it just for an ounce of breathing room since she was on the verge of saying things she didn’t need to say. It wasn’t going to do them any good to argue, it never did.

Picking up another book from the shelf she headed back to the table she’d been sitting at and set it down.

“I’m telling you though Wynonna, they’re not going to come around looking for you no matter who Sam knows. They may not be the smartest lot in all of Purgatory but you don’t have to be smart to want to survive.”

She looked up at she said it before dropping back down into her seat and lowering her eyes to her newest book so she could get to reading.

–––

Wynonna:

Shit. How was Wynonna supposed to leave with Waverly this mad at her? They’d been apart for so many years, and Wynonna had left her in Purgatory again… and now here she was planning to leave her in Lebanon, with Dean.

But that didn’t change the fact that they had to get rid of the Revenants – before the body count climbed any higher.

Wynonna crossed her arms on the table.

“Okay,” she said. “Okay. I won’t go, if you have a better idea. Talk to me. I don’t want to do this for the rest of our lives. What happens when I die and they come on up out of the ground again – the six? Seriously, Wav, I’m open to ideas, baby girl, but right now, I can’t see any others but this one.”

She shook her head.

“But you were always the smart one. If you’ve got another idea, then I wanna hear about it. I can’t sit here doing nothing. You can’t take an entire library on the road. So what’s option two, Wav?”

–––

Wav:

“I don’t have an idea Wynonna but that’s the problem, you don’t either.”

Waverly looked up at her sister and shook her head trying to reign in her emotions. Getting mad wasn’t going to achieve anything and Wynonna was going to leave regardless. She wanted to be out hunting even if she wasn’t hunting what they should be. That’s just how she was.

“Look just go, go out and hunt whatever you and Sam stumble across…but it’s not going to be a revenant. I can promise that much Wy.”

Turning back to her book she sighed again, her mind drifting to thoughts of caffeine and what tea she might be able to find stashed away here.

–––

Wynonna:

“Yeah, we might find other things, and if we do, we’ll kill them, too. I didn’t think that was something you’d have a problem with. You know the one place we’re guaranteed not to find any revenants, Wav? In here!”

She felt frustration gripping her jaw. Yeah, the plan wasn’t exactly refined, didn’t mean it wasn’t the best one they had.

“Don’t do this. I wanted a proper sister night before I leave, Waverly. Just you and me, hanging out… I don’t think we can start a fire, so roasting marshmallows is out. But something. I don’t want to leave like this. We lost too much time, Wav. I want this over so our life can start. Really start, without monsters hanging over our heads.”

–––

Wav:

But they might find a way to find them…or contain them…or break the curse. It felt like a fight Waverly didn’t even want to have. Wynonna was convinced. Waverly sighed, letting her eyes fall closed for just a moment as frustration curled through her.

Words were on the tip of her tongue, perched and ready to fall off but she bit them back knowing it would do them no good. This life that Wynonna wanted away from, it was inescapable. Waverly knew she wouldn’t ever be able to just walk away from it even with all the revenants dead and the curse broken. She’d seen too much, she knew too much, she even thought she might not be fully human herself so there was that.

Life had already started and the monsters were just a part of that. Waverly doubted Wynonna would ever be able to walk away either, not fully.

“Ok.”

She closed the book she was reading.

“Think Dean’s got any fun flavored whiskey around here?”

–––

Wynonna:

Wynonna knew that face. She hadn’t actually won the argument; Wav was just done arguing. The ornery part of Wynonna wanted to keep going until she’d won, but there were times it just wasn’t worth it, and this was one of them. Better they were able to say a brief farewell for now on good terms. One day, when they were free of all of this, this would be nothing but a mildly unpleasant memory.

(She ignored the way her stomach tightened when she imagined all of this being over.)

“I’m willing to bet he’s got enough booze stashed away in this place that we could throw an actual frat party,” she said, crossing to the sideboard she’d noticed the other day and opening the low door. She grinned, and looked up at Waverley. “Fireball. And bourbon honey liqueur? Weird, that doesn’t exactly sound like Dean to me. Tequila,” she added, pulling the bottles up and putting them on the table.

“Funny, I don’t feel at all bad drinking his hard-earned pool shark and credit card scam dough. By the way, you think we should try that? Either or, doesn’t matter to me. We’re gonna run out of cash, eventually.”

–––

Wav:

“So, no fun flavored things. Noted.”

Waverly grinned and reached for a bottle to pull the cap off of. She didn’t bother waiting for a glass, she wouldn’t have at home either. Lifting it to her lips she took a long sip and passed it to Wynonna as thoughts of credit card scams ran through her mind.

In theory it was a victimless crime, but she still wasn’t sure how easy it would be or how keen she was on the idea of it. But Wynonna was right about the money. With BBD no longer backing her Wynonna was left without a job and the money from Gus gave her selling Shorty’s was only going to last so long. She still had a good chunk left having not spent it on getting the hell out of Purgatory like Gus wanted…but still it wouldn’t last forever.

“I’ll ask them to show me the ropes, surely one of the two will be thrilled to help me break in to a life of crime.”

Following in all the right foot steps she guessed.

–––

Wynonna:

“Give it a couple of months and you’ll be reigning queen,” Wynonna said blithely, taking the bottle, and swigging from the neck. It was disgusting stuff. Dean had to have a cast-iron stomach, possibly more impressive than Wynonna’s own. She couldn’t help but be impressed. She reached for another bottle. Slightly less disgusting. “A hack-off between you and Sam could be entertaining.”

She couldn’t shake the feeling that Waverly was still annoyed, but since it didn’t change the facts of what she had to do, Wynonna chose to let it be.

“Guess you and Dean have a project to do while we’re gone, then. It’s good to have goals.” She wished she had some idea of how long they’d be on the road, when she’d see her sister again, but it was too hard to estimate just then. She took another swig and stretched out, feet up on another chair. “Maybe you could swap languages. I bet he could teach you Klingon. Ask him, and if he says he doesn’t speak it, get him drunk and then ask him again.”

–––

Wav:

“Yeah, guess so.”

Waverly reached for the bottle and took another sip before deciding that that was enough of that. She worked at Shorty’s long enough to be able to handle her liquor well so that wasn’t an issue, just the simple fact that it was gross and tasted like something Doc would try to pass off as drinkable.

“I guess you should get packing though, make sure you have everything you need to go hunting or whatever. You know you don’t have to hang around here, right?”

She didn’t want Wynonna thinking she had to stick around and play a around of comfort the little sister. Especially if the topic was just going to keep coming back around to Wynonna leaving and what she was supposed to be learning while she was gone.

–––

Wynonna:

“Don’t be in such a hurry to get rid of me. We’re not leaving until the morning, and I don’t have much to pack,” Wynonna promised. “It’ll be fine. I’m gonna miss my baby sister, I need to get in a little more girl time before then.” She could see Waverly probably wanted some space. Ironic, since only moments ago she was telling Wynonna she shouldn’t go at all; but she was annoyed, and she needed to breathe, probably. Well, whatever. Wynonna needed to save a little of this up, to keep her sane over the next few weeks.

Thank god or Steve Jobs or whatever for video chat. She’d miss that irritated look, if she had to just imagine it.

“But you’re probably right. I should probably make a start so I don’t miss anything important.”

She pushed out of her chair, and drained the glass.

“But I’m gonna wake you in the morning for a hug, and I expect you to show a little enthusiasm,” she joked. “Night, sis.”

~complete~

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- Hey, everybody, this is graphic designer Roberto Blake of robertoblake.com helping you create something awesome today. So, in today's video, I'm gonna talk about how you become a web designer in 2015, how it's changed since I got started in web design about, what, 17 years ago when I was like 14 years old, and what you need to know today to succeed as a web designer, whether that be as a freelancer or working at an in-house company or working at an ad agency. One of the big questions that always comes up is do you need to learn HTML code to be a web designer? And the short answer is yes and no. And I say that to say this, you can design websites without learning HTML coding, but it's not recommended, and just because you can code doesn't necessarily mean you can design. It requires both things. Part of the process of web design actually still requires some pen and paper because you have to plan these things out. You have to know a lot of things when you wanna get started as a web designer. One of the first things is, what is the website gonna be about. When you're taking on a web design project, just like any other graphic design project, you need to start with a client brief. Too many people, whether it's designers or whether it's more technical people, want to jump into the computer and not deal with human beings first and deal with pen and paper. Pen and paper is still part of the process and there's a reason for that. You need to organize your ideas, you need to have a hierarchy for the website, you need to know how many pages it's going to be, you need to determine do those pages have different layouts and are there templates that need to be developed for specific parts of the website, different types of content that are gonna be on there. What media types are gonna be on the website? Is it gonna have a lot of images? Is it gonna have a lot of video? Is there gonna be an audio component? Is there gonna be a blog? Is this an e-commerce website that needs to move products and if so, what are we doing in terms of, like, taking credit card payments, PayPal? All of these things are important and they need to be decided before you even think about touching a keyboard and mouse. So, people ignore the planning stages of a website and people don't know what to necessarily ask the clients. You needs to ask the clients a lot of specific questions if you're going to be designing websites for clients, and if it's a project team, you gotta make sure you have a brief from your supervisor and you gotta know, well, who's supplying the content? Are you creating the images? Are the clients or your employer going to supply you with the images? As for the copy of the website, the text that's gonna go in each of these web pages, who's supplying that? Are you responsible for the copywriting? Or is the copywriting gonna be provided to you, and if so, I recommend requesting it be in a Word document sent to you in an email as an attachment so that you have the ability to just copy and paste it out of the Word document, you have it to to where you can strip out any formatting, and you have a documented timeline of the fact that it was sent to you. So, those are important things. If there are pictures, you need to know if they're gonna be delivered to you digitally or are you gonna have to scan them? If it's gonna be stock photos, you need to figure out who has the rights to them. So there's things that have nothing to do with coding, nothing to do with visual design, color theory, CSS, PHP, Word Press, any of that stuff that people take for granted as web designers to begin with. They don't know how to plan a website. The other thing is you need to understand how websites work. You need to understand that websites require a domain name. When you go to a dot.com, it's a domain name and you get that from a company like GoDaddy or Bluehost or 1&1, and you don't actually own it. You're more or less leasing it and you have to renew it every year and there's a cost to that. It might be $5.99, it might be $9.99, it might be $14.99, you know, it just depends on what your deal is and what your arrangement with your hosting company is. The other part of that is, the web hosting is where the content and where your website sits. So you think of a web server as a house or an apartment that you're renting, your files are the furniture that fill it up. The files and the content, they belong to you, just like your furniture. But you don't own the web server. You don't own the property, if you will. You're just occupying it. So you have to pay that monthly fee and that's what web hosting is. And again, that might be $2.99, it might be $1.99, it might $5.99, it might be $59.99 if you have a dedicated server. So you need to think about these things and you need to understand what the aspects of a website are, what the technology that backs it is, and you need to have a grasp of those before you even think about touching a computer and trying to code a website or use a program like Adobe Muse or Dreamweaver or WordPress to build one. So, let's talk about the software you need to operate, run, and manage a website. Now, we talked about HTML code. HTML code is how websites are traditionally built. But there are other editors called WYSIWYG editors, or what you see is what you get, and coders and programmers hate these applications, because in their mind, real web designers code. I firmly disagree with that. Coders code. Designers design. And you might be able to code and build a website, but you might not be able to design your way out of a paper bag, because you might be able to make this great, robust, functional website that is ugly as sin, that can't sell your client's product and can't accomplish your employer's goals, so that doesn't make you a designer, that makes you someone who built a website. And that's not a dig at coders. Like I said, I've been coding since I was 14 years old. I coded in Notepad. That's why I know what I'm talking about when I say that. There are people who style themselves as web designers who can't design. Now, there are designers who can design who don't know any technical things and can't code, but at the end of the day, people are more interested in how a website looks and presents and whether it accomplishes getting someone to want to buy the product, and then if it doesn't work, then they get frustrated. But they will never get that far to figure out that the button they're clicking doesn't work if they look at the website, it's ugly as sin, and they leave in under five seconds. And that's kind of the conflict between coders and designers sometimes if they're not someone like me who is both. And I think it's important to be both. Is it difficult? Yes. Does it take more time and energy and training? Yes. But at the end of the day, you need to be able to accomplish well placed, aesthetic, visually appealing design that can sell a product, service, get people engaged, get people interested, and then it actually needs to work under the hood and do what it's supposed to. And then on top of that, you probably are gonna have to learn how to market and promote this thing because if no one sees it, then who cares. But that's another conversation and that goes into search engine optimization, how to rank in Google, which I will cover in other videos. But circling back for a moment to tools. So, the tool that I prefer to use for hand coding and visual coding in split mode is Adobe Dreamweaver. I think Adobe Dreamweaver is great because it helps you organize your files, set up a test server environment, if you know how to do that kind of thing, you can see the code, but you can also see what it's creating in real time, you can get a feel for whether colors and fonts are working well and whether you need to change them, you can do that with a client sitting over your shoulder or a supervisor sitting over your shoulder and make changes in real time without having to upload anything, and I think it's great from that point of view. I also think that the way it visually works with color coding and some of the short cuts are just gonna be better for productivity and speed. I love the CSS editor for doing certain things. And I just think it's faster. It's a lot easier on my eyes than a lot of the applications that hardcore programmers like to use. So, that's what I prefer. Now, that's if you're doing hand coding or a little bit of WYSIWYG. If you wanna do straight up WYSIWYG, what you see is what you get, no coding, you can use something like Adobe Muse, and you can actually visually draw out what a website looks like. And the thing I like about this is, like I said, pen and paper first. So you could sketch the layout of a website, just like you would if you were doing a traditional print advertisement, and then can create that in Adobe Muse, based on what you drew as a sketch. This is great when you're working at an ad agency, because a lot of agency types, creative directors and art directors, a lot of them are a bit older and old school, and they don't want some complicated explanation as to why you can't do something in code. For them, why can't you move it an inch to the left? Why can't it be perfectly centered? Why can't it be this, why can't it-- They want to design websites and they want you to design websites they way that they designed print ads using something like Adobe InDesign. So, Adobe Muse is the perfect for solution for the ad agency world if you're doing a website that's under 20 pages and doesn't require a blog or anything like that. So it's the perfect solution for that. Now, if you're gonna do something more robust and you need a blog and you need e-commerce, then I would suggest something like WordPress, which is a content management system. If you're doing e-commerce, maybe use OpenCart, osCommerce, different things like that. I'll have to do a whole 'nother video on e-commerce platforms and what the best solutions are there, so make sure you subscribe and stay tuned to get that video from me. So, again, those are your three basic types of web building applications. You have HTML, hand coding editors, and hybrid editors that do both, you have WYSIWYG or visual design applications, and then you have content management systems, which function like WordPress and Joomla! and these are pretty simple to use once their installed and updating and adding pages is as simiple as updating a Facebook page. So that's why a lot of people enjoy that platform. For managing and uploading things to a website, you wanna use an FTP program, which is called a file transfer protocol program, and that's just a complicated way of saying that we take if off your computer on your desktop and we put it onto the website. It is literally that simple. If you're using a Mac, then you might be using Fetch or Cyberduck. I prefer to use FileZilla for both Windows and Mac. If you're on Windows, I recommend WinSCP, it's a great tool. There's also browser-based ones you can use like FireFTP. So those are some FTP programs that you should definitely look at using. Working on websites often means working with graphics as well, and some basic programs you can use for graphics for your website, whether that's banner ads and background images and so on, are obviously Photoshop, which I prefer to use, Photoshop Elements if you can't afford that or don't want to go to the subscription model, you could also use Corel Photo Editor, you can use PaintShop Pro, you can use GIMP, which is free, you can use painter.net, there's just a lot of applications that you can use for that, and, again, links to all these things will be in the description below, so make sure you're checking that out. So let's talk about how you can learn to become a web designer today. When I learned how to become a web designer, we didn't have Google, unfortunately, and we didn't have YouTube. We had to use webmonkey.com and learn the basic principles there. I also learned by disassembling existing websites, modifying things in the code, and seeing what happened. And this was, again, something I was having to do in a challenging way using Notepad back in the day. Now we have a lot more applications like I talked about, you have free editors, you have Composer, which is a good free editor for HTML, and, again, you have things like Adobe Dreamweaver and so on to be able to do this, Notepad++. So, again, you don't have to use Notepad like I did way back when. Experimenting, disassembling existing websites, using books and using websites like webmonkey.com were really the only way that someone not going to school for it, and it was still rarely being offered in college at the time, this is back in the late 90's, early 2000's, that was the only way to really learn web design. Today you have things like Codeacademy, Khan Academy, Learning Tree, you have Lynda, Udemy, YouTube, you have blogs like mine, you have all these different ways that you can learn about web design and HTML code, and I think that that's great and I think you should take advantage of that. Yes, you can go to college to learn web design, but, again, the value of that might be a mixed bag of nuts because, again, you're seeing the trouble that people are having with going to college, taking out student loans, the job market being what it is, a degree not being enough to get a job anymore, so if you wanna to avoid some of those things and you wanna get real world skills, you can do it on your own, you just have to be disciplined enough to do it, and remember, there are kids and teenagers doing this every day, and even years ago as a teenager, I was able to do it and within a summer I was at a point to where I was actually starting to get paid for building websites for people locally. So, just keep in mind, this is something you can teach yourself, you don't have to pay for it. But if you do wanna pay, it's cheaper to try to do it through something like lynda.com or Udemy or Skillshare or any number of online learning sites, to try it first at a lower price point than paying hundreds of dollars for a college course, so just try and give that a shot before you go to that traditional model. I'll have some recommended books in description below that you can use to try and learn HTML coding and the principles of web design as well. So, some other things you need to know if you're gonna be a web designer in 2015, aside from the tools that we talked about, learning things like WordPress, as far as content management systems, you might wanna pick up things like jQuery, JavaScript, and a little bit of PHP as well. Having these under your belt will help you as a web designer because you'll have more flexibility, you'll be able to do more complicated tasks, and you won't be restricted by the limitations of just doing front end work, you'll be able to do some more complex and advanced things as well. I also think you should look at learning some visual design skills in terms of typography, so that you can lay out your websites in a way where the text is readable and pays attention to visual hierarchy, I think you should learn the gestalt principles of graphic design, which I'll cover in other videos, and I think you should learn visual editing and photo retouching so that you can make banner ads and make really impressive-looking websites that don't rely on basic colors, shapes, and text alone to be visually interesting so you can draw people in and have an effective website for your customers, your employers, your clients, what have you. It goes without saying today, you wanna learn about SCO search optimization, get people to go to a website, and how to rank in Google. I'll have other videos covering that. If you have questions, you can leave them in the comment section below and I'll try and answer them, but, again, I'll cover that in other videos. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this video on how you become a web designer in 2015. Again, I'll answer any questions you still have in the comment section below. Like this video if like it, don't forget to subscribe. Let me know what other videos on web design you want me to cover. As always, you guys, thanks so much for watching, and don't forget, create something awesome today.

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