#isingofvioletsandaquill

[thoodleoo]

okay okay what's your take on the Underworld book with 1) aeneas not getting the golden bough on his first try and/or 2) aeneas leaving through the gate of false dreams, every time I reread book six i go nuts about this

ah yes book 6 of the aeneid.....a book that transforms me into a wild animal every time....a book that is innovative, provocative...dare i say sexy.........

i’m gonna start with the gate of false dreams because honestly what can i even SAY like. there’s SO much i wish i could ask vergil about this scene. like of course it’s based off of the conversation that penelope has with odysseus in book 19 but the thing is like. penelope is literally talking about a dream she had and says that she fears her dream was a false on BUT THIS IS NO DREAM! IT’S AENEAS HIMSELF PASSING THROUGH THE GATE! VERGIL WHAT IS THE DREAM!!! is vergil saying the empire that augustus was trying to create is nothing but a false dream? or is the story aeneas coming to italy a dream and augustus’s lineage a falsehood? is this to say that aeneas’s hopes are nothing but useless false dreams? or is the very establishment of rome nothing but a dream? is the rest of the poem a dream? DOES ANYTHING PAST BOOK 6 EVEN HAPPEN OR DOES AENEAS NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD???

okay now that that’s out of my system im gonna talk about the golden bough because HOLY SHIT YALL

i mean the golden bough episode really is effectively just a giant summary of aeneas’s heroic journey. we’re presented at the beginning of the aeneid with a man who is effectively a failure. he’s a failed hero! he can’t be odysseus because odysseus has a home to go back to and aeneas does not. he can’t be achilles because the foes that attacked his home left as victors. he can’t even seem to make it to this crummy new land he’s supposed to and he doesn’t even want to be there! he wants to be dead!

and every single thing that we see aeneas do after this point is met with some sort of failure or disaster. he lands at carthage and is given a warm welcome; he leaves as dido curses his name and all his descendants. he lands at sicily to honor his father and nearly loses his ships to mutiny. he lands at italy and is welcomed as a king only to then face yet another bloody war on top of all of his other hardships.

and i think that’s ultimately why he fails to pull the bough out on the first try, because the bough represents aeneas’s journey and it represents aeneas himself! he both reaches for the destiny he has been burdened with and shies away from the horrors he knows that he must face. he tries and tries and tries and in the end he WILL succeed but it will not come easy and by GOD he’s gonna have to work for it even if he doesn’t want to and he IS the bough!!! aeneas pulls the bough but he also is the bough and he’s fulfilling his fate and resisting it and GOD! IM GONNA HOLLER!!!!!

[setethsbigbaratitties]

dorothea for the meme? or linhardt maybe?

ill be real i dont have anything interesting to say about dorothea but LINHARDT....bi king.....

favorite thing about them: linhardt doesn’t give a shit what anyone thinks ever. absolute icon

least favorite thing about them: i love him dearly but if he were one of my students i would stick his ass in detention so often for falling asleep in class. don’t be rude to your teacher bitch!

favorite line: “Linhardt. Goodbye.” no better introduction to him as a character asdlkjadslja

brOTP: once edelgard kinda figures out what he’s all about i like to see them as really good friends. he’s a helpful advisor because he doesn’t care if what he says is harsh and it’s also nice for her to have someone who cuts past the bullshit of the court

OTP: him n caspar....sucker for that childhood friends to lovers shit!!

nOTP: don’t really care for him n flayn but i also just. don’t like most flayn ships (she’s baby)

random headcanon: he has a list of places in fodlan where he wants to take a nap. one of the things he and caspar do in their paired ending is visit some of those places

unpopular opinion: i do kinda get tired of people sometimes boiling him down to ‘the dude who naps all the time.’ i mean yeah it’s fun but he’s also really intelligent and can even be a lil conniving! let’s explore that more!!

song i associate with them: lullatone- falling asleep with a book on your chest

[sp-acemonkeymafia]

primrose, lion's fairytale, lantana

Aww thanks! <3

Primrose - Y’all should read Gideon the Ninth! You gotta love those lesbian necromancers in space!

Lion’s Fairytale - Probably rather be the forest over the sky and ocean. It’s cozier - slower-shifting and with less open space and a greater density of lots of little things happening slowly.

Lantana - Thinking about Randall Infinitytrain on account of a podcast I’m listening to just mentioned him! Also wanting to be good and cozy and done with school

[grievous777]

@isingofvioletsandaquill @toasterlunatic

forever thinking of the time i just wanted to know how long i could go without sleeping and google autofilled it to “in minecraft” without me realizing. you can imagine my shock and horror until i read the website title

[eve-stirwin]

Ooh hey @bardcharms tagged me in a thing so here goes!

Last song you listened to: Good Riddance from Hades

I'm not sure how it got there since I have never once actually played Hades, but this song popped into my head forcing me at gunpoint to re-listen to it and it has not left since. Truly some impeccable vibes - check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yco-B4BSaj4&ab_channel=SupergiantGames

Last movie you watched: Sonic the Hedgehog

Long story short, I have a friend who asked if folks wanted to go see Sonic the Hedgehog 2, I mentioned I hadn't seen the first one, and they had a DVD! There were,,, multiple gratuitous Olive Garden references - I can confirm that much :P

Last book you read: ???

This is tricky because I got both Sleeping Giants and The Raven Tower from the library a couple months ago and have been meaning to read them and repeatedly renewing them, but never got more than a few pages in and finally had to return them yesterday. So kind of one of those? Or, if you count fanfic, this bad boy! https://archiveofourown.org/chapters/78803398?style=disable (Is 4/13 Homestuck diplomatic immunity still in effect? Either way there's many a delightful fic by this person that I've been reading.)

At any rate @isingofvioletsandaquill @rosiebees @villaingender @sick-with-lisztomania (and whoever else), y'all can do this if you like!

[halcyyan]

first batch of commissions done!

thank you to @unvanquishablejoy, @isingofvioletsandaquill, and @vellicorvidae for your generous donations!!

[grievous777]

@isingofvioletsandaquill

[tenderqueso]

"twinkle lights? more like twink rights!" - @isingofvioletsandaquill

[spelledb-a-r-e]

Pare a Bop Opera

-@isingofvioletsandaquill

[eve-stirwin]

Rule: Tag 15 people you want to get to know better! no pressure btw <3 <3 <3  

@emorygrove @mortz-shorts @shaymatoran @isingofvioletsandaquill @my-name-is-ash-ketchup @shela-gal @theonlysoupman @sunastreo @mareh16 @thedesignatedhealer @canadian-sweater @heroiz @spiria @necromancerwren @gothicc-mommy

1) Relationship status: Quite single

2) Lipstick or chapstick: Never really used lipstick much, but maybe I ought to give it a try some time! Teal could be fun if I color my nails and/or hair like that too.

3) Three favorite foods: Bagel (generally everything or something weird and fancy), pizza (usually pepperoni, sometimes ham and pineapple), buffalo chicken (or maybe burrito, or roast beef sub, or grilled cheese, or borger, or...). To be super specific for a second, the buffalo chicken and sriracha rice bowls at Catalyst at RIT were amazing and I’m still sad they closed it down.

4) Song stuck in your head: Fugue for Brotherhorns! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwoWXkDPo6c

5) Last movie you watched: Incredibles 2

6) Top 3 shows: As far as currently-running stuff goes? I want to say Steven Universe, Doctor Who, and... well, a few things, really, but maybe The Good Place? Or My Hero Academia?

7) Book I am currently reading: I swear to god, I’ve got this Science of Discworld book that I somehow haven’t finished in the past two years. I’ve finished entire other books since I started reading it, but that one remains unfinished, abandoned if not for the fact that I’ll occasionally read a chapter or two of it at a time every several months.

8) Last thing I googled: "golem garden” - looking for those good good overgrown golem jpegs

9) Time: 10:21 AM

10) Dream Trip: Maybe some cool caves? That sounds fun! Honestly, where I go isn’t as important - I’d just like to have some good friends along with me. And visiting folks who live far away could be a fun time too!

11) Anything you want: I want to be napping and/or cuddling in bed with someone. World cold and hard, bed warm and soft

Keep the game going and tag your pals !!

[grievous777]

@isingofvioletsandaquill @toasterlunatic

[grievous777]

Got tagged by @isingofvioletsandaquill so here goes.

Last song you listened to: ODD FUTURE short ver. by UVERworld. The short version’s an absolute banger, the full version not so much, mostly because it sounds literally nothing like the short version for some reason.

Last movie you watched: Fear Street Part Three: 1666. Good ending to a series of campy but enjoyable horror movies.

Last book you read: Idfk it’s been ages since I read a physical book. If you count manga, though, Chainsaw Man. Over the top insanity that nonetheless hooked me enough to binge the entirety of Part 1 in one sitting. Looking forward to the anime adaptation and Part 2 this year.

Tagging @emo-spongebob

[grievous777]

@isingofvioletsandaquill

[isingofvioletsandaquill]

isingofmagicandaquill --> isingofvioletsandaquill

It’s a minor change, but one I’ve been meaning to make for a while now. A bit more sophisticated, and it fits the pattern of the Aeneid reference better, anyways. And now it has a name in it, and it’s purple! So a complete win. Also, violets are gay. So there’s that.

[grievous777]

@isingofvioletsandaquill @toasterlunatic

[grievous777]

@isingofvioletsandaquill @toasterlunatic

you ever listen to a song 47 times in a row and every time you’re like wow what a good song. I’m gonna play it again.