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I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.
In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.
(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)
Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.
(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)
I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.
#ginger rambles#ginger chats about greek myths#Sorry for the quality of the quotes but I'm too tired to google a pdf vers of the Odyssey and then edit those so y'all are getting#my crunchy pictures from one of my physical copies of the book lol#it's reiterated multiple times that Poseidon doesn't want Odysseus dead too#he is literally just driving him mad on the ocean because that's what Odysseus condemned Polyphemus to by blinding him#Also there's no good way to mention this but the Odyssey starts#by Zeus lamenting how mortals blame all their troubles and miseries on the gods when that's just not fair#because the gods go out of their way to warn the mortals that will be saddled with the most wretched fates#and they ignore the gods and do whatever they want anyway LMFAO#It's a really smart way to tie in the whole Orestes plot that would have wrapped up in between Odysseus getting stranded on Ogygia#and Odysseus getting off of Ogygia#epic the musical#epic the wisdom saga#zeus#athena#odysseus#poseidon#the odyssey
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Captain Francis Crozier, at Furthest North.
#the terror amc#francis crozier#my art#can't believe it took me 2 rewatches AND getting refs for this to realize it's the hungarian state opera house. girl i was there last month#anyway yeah i was looking at gifsets of the last shot of the show and feeling nauseous with emptiness etc etc when#the thought struck me that it looks an awful lot like the tableau vivants from the ep1 flashbacks in its stillness#i have no idea whether that was an intentional reference (a sort of twisted mockery of how that scrubbed and polished portrayal of history#contrasted with the deeply sad and inglorious reality#or some sort of meta about storytelling itself. i'm not really smart enough to say lol) but i made this anyways. enjoy#pattern recognition go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr#i bent over backwards trying to make this symmetric and harmonious. it isn't but if i don't post it now i never will
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Mikey with baby Donnie is dangerous for the world
Donnie may be a baby, but he still has to hold mikey back, or else he'd go full Karen mode on yo' ass
Also lil head cannon that he and Raph would make lil sweaters for him uvu
#Im loving this au? is it an au?#idk lol but whatever this era is I'm here for it#lil guys <3#rottmnt mikey#rottmnt donnie#rottmnt fanart#rottmnt comic#rottmnt au#pb&j duo#smarts and crafts#<3#asks#tribbletalks#tribbleart#rottmnt
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STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982)
Dir. Nicholas Meyer
#trekedit#startrekedit#tosedit#star trek the wrath of khan#star trek#jim kirk#spock#spirk#tos#mp#twok#my gifs#mine#guess who figured out how to use smart sharpen correctly lmaooo#this one is kinda nasty i'm still figuring stuff out lol#*1k
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same teacher, different lessons
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#sonic the hedgehog#dr. ivo eggman robotnik#miles tails prower#sonic frontiers#SPOILERS. THERE ARE SPOILERS IN THIS COMIC BY THE WAY.#SONIC FRONTIERS SPOILERS#smiles gently I can not believe I let sonic the fuckign hedgehog ruin my life#(I can I totally can)#hi <3 if you follow me because I drew this sonic comic. don't!#don't do it! follow me bc I'm funny and hot and devastatingly smart don't follow me bc I draw sonic stuff. bc it won;t happen again#I mean it. not bc I dont like or want to do sonic stuff. but bc I am literally in the middle of a job rn#one that I want to invest 100% of my time and brain in#this comic is actually an effort to win my brain back so I can do my job lol#because I finished miss penny snapcube's streams of this game and it force fed me emotions#I just! I just thought sonic would come tell eggman abt sage!! idk seems like something he'd do!!!#and also the whole thing abt letting the characters move on and have a future and change and develop#vs Killing My Baby Little Guy Daughter For Like Ten Minutes#thematically interesting! also for some reasons I had. a pretty easy time drawing this#I was mouthbreathing galloping like a horse to finishing this. Because I Need To Work#I didnt expect to have a good time with these designs tho idk why. probably bc I most suck shit at drawing animals#but to be fair yet again sonic and tails are little guys. theyre animal but theyre also like dudes. also sonic's design is kinda perfect#as far as character design goes he's really pretty goo- wait I made a continuity error hol on#okay. okay I fixed it. no problem. no matter 's all good now#okay. I go sleep now. today has been very noisy. but this actually got me through it okay#thank you sonic the hedgehog. that was pretty cool of u#have a good night guys! absolute freedom is probably really really sad#long post
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Cross Guild is so funny to me in a way that I know Doflamingo is gripping the chains so hard in his cell out of exasperation because what do you mean that Crocodile bastard teamed up with the clown and not me.
#one piece#cross guild#please I know doffy would get if it's mihawk and crocodile but he draws the line at buggy lmao#doffy: why would he team up with a clown when I'm known as joker I can make him laugh too#I just know he's the type to be frustrated when he see smart people be idiots lmao#but cross guild is a smart idea#having buggy as the front was a stroke of luck but genius#because crocodile and mihawk won't deal with the publicity lol#donquixote doflamingo#doflamingo#sir crocodile#crocodile#dracule mihawk#mihawk#buggy the clown#buggy
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stuff heavily referenced from clive hicks-jenkins' art cus i've been rly into it lately 🥰
cute idea scribblings for the last drawing..lol
#tes#skyrim#talvas fathryon#neloth#my art#stylized small pupils look good on neloff#and kinda off topic but he would really benefit from wearing robes that aren't tied around the waist LOL it would give him more of a -#- powerful look .. mmrp#i'll never be able 2 do wat clive can do but i think i came pretty close#using the materials dat i have#i like all of these though :) pencil makes me happy#whenever i draw traditionally i always have something smart to say abt art in my head but then i forget everything i wanted to say#i wanted to add text to the last one as well but i'm not well versed in how clive would use text in his artworks yet && tbh it looks -#- better w/o it#if i did add text .... it'd say: “first love” :)#how cute :)#and the last btw#😂#i'm really not sorry for drawing nothign but nelvas rn but i will come back to other stuff once i'm not as packed w/ work#when i'm in stress i just like to draw the things i'm used to for now#these drawings r so big my tumblr is gonna kms over them get over it bitch
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okay i developed 'give everyone fursonas disease' which is mingling with my epic disease. have penelope shes a raven :)
#i didn't wanna just make her another wolf like telemachus and odysseyus#soooo i thought oh ravens r super smart and awesome. AND and they have like a symbiotic relationship with wolves that i need to google more#about because i love information#(and both animals mate for life usually..lol....)#ANYWAY i also have a really solid idea for eurylochus and athena is soooo so so obvious but i'm figuring other people out#i thought i had a good idea for antinous but idk anymore. and i have no clue for polities he's a plot device 2 me. hummingbird maybe#i haven't brainstormed hard enough for circe or calypso yet i need 2 think#a lot of the men r pigs for the bit ofc#art#my art#digital art#furry#sfw furry#epic the musical#epic penelope#epic the musical penelope#penelope epic#artists on tumblr
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The background humbled me as both an artist and a human.
This is an AU where Percy Jackson got to grow up with his Dad and brother, Triton, in a Mortal AU! Inspired by Mercy Upon Ourselves by hedgehodgy! Veeeery good fanfic, can't get enough of it, it's like an addiction at this point.
#percy jackson#pjo#pjo au#poseidon#triton#percy#baby percy#dumb baby percy#that's the dumbest face in the world#he's very smart tho#i refuse to touch this background ever again#*hiss*#pjo fanart#mortal au#i'm so tired and probably have the covid so i pray i make some sort of sense here#lol should I post art when sick and half-asleep?#guess i'll figure that out in the morning#I've had this art as a wip for months now please don't make me go back-
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btw dazai is humanities smart and chuuya is math and physics smart,,, if you even care
#bsd#bungou stray dogs#dazai osamu#soukoku#chuuya nakahara#I'm actually very passionate about this#dazai humanities truther thill the day i die#also chuuya is like canonically physics smart like it's built in his ability lol
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An experiment loosely based off @/fleeting_ember's lava leopard art
Honestly just wanted to try out some more funky lighting and backgrounds :P
#final fantasy#final fantasy xv#ffxv#prompto argentum#prompto#episode prompto#I'm sure you could figure out some kind of symbolism for the glowy swirls but I'm not smart enough for that lol#I just thought they looked pretty#also cropped version cause I like it more#my art#lemplort art
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WELCOME TO ROUND 2 OF THE POETRY SMACKDOWN
Hello again. First I just wanna say how excited I am at the response to this bracket. I was going to consider it a smashing success if like forty people voted, so needless to say it has outperformed my expectations, and I’ve really really enjoyed talking with folks and seeing everyone's responses to these poems! That said, 14/16 of my votes were in the minority, so actually fuck you guys. 🩷
Anyways Round 2! Transcriptions are included this time in alt text—sincere apologies to everyone for whom Round 1 was inaccessible, and many thanks to @army-of-bee-assassins and @accessibleaesthetics for being so generous with their helpful advice and feedback. I'm still going back and forth about whether to include just alt text or to include the image descriptions in the body of the post as well, but I've reformatted it in my drafts like twice already so at this point I'm just hitting publish and opening it up for feedback.
I've also included links to readings by the author for all the poems where one was available, for anyone interested in getting a fresh perspective.
enjoy! -amelia @poetriarchy
ROUND 2: ENDS JULY 26th at 6pm EDT
“The Two-Headed Calf” by Laura Gilpin vs. “Poem” by Langston Hughes
"Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love." by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“someone will remember us” (Fragment 147 from Sappho trans. Anne Carson) vs. “The Quiet World” by Jeffrey McDaniel
“Come. And Be My Baby” by Maya Angelou vs. “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
“The Orange” by Wendy Cope vs. “Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón
“To The Young Who Want to Die” by Gwendolyn Brooks vs. “Meditations in an Emergency” by Cameron Awkward-Rich
“I’m not a religious person but” by Chen Chen vs. “How to Be a Dog” by Andrew Kane
“I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense” by Danez Smith vs. “Having ‘Having a Coke With You’ With You” by Mark Leidner
#round2#poetry smackdown#poetry#poll#don't ask why i'm wasting my time on these stupid graphics lol. just know it's not smart of me#masterpost
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Tsukasa works FOR Sakura
Now this is very likely me just being slow and not connecting the dots until now, but chapter 109 has made me realise that Tsukasa is not the one in charge of the "destroy all yorishiros" plan... It's Sakura.
It's this line here that's made me finally see the light, Tsukasa has to "help Sakura, by destroying the yorishiro." He is not actively desiring the yorishiro to be destroyed, he's just doing his part in the plan. In chapter 106, he wasn't even phased that Nene didn't want to destroy the yorishiro and the only reason he persisted was because it was "his job."
Even way back in chapter 93, Sumire describes Sakura as the one No. 6 serves. Sakura gave him the job of destroying his own yorishiro, not Tsukasa.
Sakura is the one who wants the yorishiros destroyed, she's been trapped inside the school for 100 years and is tired of it. She wants to leave whatever duty is keeping her bound
And she is more than willing to make sacrifices to make her wish come true
Sakura is behind everything, she is the reason that Tsukasa was freed from where he was trapped (very likely Hanako's boundary).
She is also the one altering the rumours.
Tsukasa, as cunning and intelligent as he may be, is probably a bit too impulsive to be the brains behind the entire operation. His intense curiosity for things would likely get in the way, no matter how well he means or how serious he's being.
And again, it's clear Tsukasa is not as invested in destroying the yorishiros as we are initially led to believe. Again, he really doesn't mind that Nene no longer wants to destroy yorishiros anymore
In fact, it's Natsuhiko who worries Nene won't destroy them. Keep in mind Natsuhiko is 100% loyal to Sakura and not necessarily to Tsukasa. If this was Tsukasa's plan, I doubt he would be worrying over whether Nene will keep doing her part as the kannagi
The only reason we even initially thought this was all Tsukasa's doing, was because Sakura painted a picture that she was in a similar situation to Nene.
Sakura gives the impression that she can't go against Tsukasa, that he is her master. But that can't be right, because we know Sakura was the one who appointed the 7 mysteries in the first place. And she was also the one who freed Tsukasa, so how could he be the "master" in this relationship?
I think, Sakura said all this to gain Nene's trust.
Nene, being the modern kannagi, is absolutely vital in the plan to destroy the yorishiros. So having her trust Sakura would help out immensely.
So overall, whether it's the price he's paying for having been freed-- or for some other reason entirely-- it's quite clear to me now that Tsukasa is not the one in charge of the "destroy the 7 mysteries" plan. He's absolutely a major key player, with his cunning and curious mind clearly being an advantage (figured out the fastest and easiest route to stopping time so he could access the clock-keeper's boundary with Nene). But he is doing all of this to help Sakura, it's not for himself.
#tbhk#jshk#toilet bound hanako kun#jibaku shounen hanako kun#tsukasa yugi#sakura nanamine#tbhk theory#it wouldn't surprise me if everyone had already came to this conclusion long before this chapter#I'm just slow sorry lol#Tsukasa is too impulsive and gets distracted too easily to be the mastermind imo#but don't get me wrong he is extremely cunning and smart#only when he's interested tho#plus it really doesnt seem right that Tsukasa is the master of the one who freed him#bit sus there ngl#pls don't roast me too much for being dumb#sorry this post is a bit all over the place
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dumb.......but it appeared in my brain and i had to do it (ノ •_•)ノ
bonus: wip ft. even less hinged kurapika
#if i were smart i would have made this pixel art 540px wide from the start but alas. i must ask you to click for less blurry#...it's a good thing melody is nice because#ability to infer people's psychological state + power that affects your mind and emotions is a bit ಠ_ಠ ;;#this is admittedly not the best example of kurapika mansplaining i just wanted to redraw the panel of him looking unhinged#but for evidence refer to almost any scene where he talks#hunter x hunter#hxh#kurapika#leorio paladiknight#senritsu#melody hxh#(when i say “pixel art” i feel like i need to qualify that by adding#some parts were cleaned up but a lot of this was just me scribbling around like i normally do but with a pixel brush#and i'm not sure that's quite the same thing lol)
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i'm trying to finally finish reading the latest twst update today and i find it so fascinating how ortho points out that kalim is still there stressing jamil out instead of being far far away from him even in his "perfect" happy dream, and that the same thing happened with neige being in vil's dream, and how for jamil that might be because his personality and abilities in the real world were so heavily influenced by kalim that he can't imagine kalim not existing as part of his life. i'd assume it's the same for vil too, with how he needed neige as a rival to really give him that extra drive to succeed, so... i wonder if maybe riddle's dream will be something that's not actually too far off from reality? like, his mother is still around and is still very strict but she lets him eat strawberry tarts every now and then, and when she finds out he was hanging out with trey and chenya instead of studying she doesn't yell at him and instead says she's glad he made a friend and lets him go out with them sometimes. because he can't imagine who he would be, or what life could possibly be like, if he had a normal, happy childhood like everyone else--and on top of that, part of him still loves and respects his mother (unfortunately). so he just dreams that he was rewarded a little more for all of his hard work.
#this post is probably going to be proven COMPLETELY wrong in 8000 years when we finally get to riddle's dream#because i'm not very smart or good at analysis lol 😭#but idk i just know whatever riddle's dream DOES end up being is going to destroy me#twisted wonderland liveblog#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twst book 7 spoilers
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Time for a new toy!
Camera stayed ahead pretty much all week, so tomorrow there will be a camera in the garden!
So now...
("Nothing" option will still attract a cat!)
#UTDR#UTMV#Neko Sansume#Alright one more week of normal kitty options!#This is probably the smart idea actually cause I'll have more time this week to figure out how I want the event to go#I have a couple ideas of how to make it work so this way I can plan ^^#I'm also always so interested to see how the polls go#I never have any idea what's gonna take the lead so it's a real surprise for me lol#Let's see who's showing up next week :D#Also I have all the stuff set out for tomorrow's kitty in the morning ^^#Wondering if I should start changing it on saturday night instead#Like is that better for more people's timezones?#You guys can let me know!!
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