#it would just poetic

[ridiasfangirlings]

I am so glad to see that Anna got a new friend in Tsubaki, who actually synched up with the Red Aura. It didn't last long but I would love to hear more about that and what Tsubaki thought about its power. I also heard about that guy that tried to antagonise Anna and I gotta say how freakin' dare he?!

We haven’t had much about Tsubaki so it’s hard to say for sure with her character but I do like the idea that she wasn’t entirely afraid of the Red power. Since she’s Anna’s friend I could see her being well suited for it, like it just seems natural that Anna would end up gravitating towards someone who has the possible qualifications to be a member of Homra. I imagine when Tsubaki manifested the Red power she was probably scared like everyone else around her, since normal people don’t know about Kings and didn’t know what that kind of power was, but at the same time I imagine her just staring at her glowing hands and thinking that it’s so warm. While other people are using the power to be destructive I like the idea that she just sat there and let the power keep her warm until it faded (also imagine Tsubaki maybe having some small vestiges of it left that she isn’t aware of, telling Anna that she can’t do anything amazing the way Anna can but she can make this tiny Red butterfly, and she doesn’t understand why Anna’s smile looks so sad).

The bullies who picked on her are lucky Anna is a nice person and doesn’t burn people indiscriminately, Mikoto would have left no blood no bone no ash XD I do like how Anna herself showed up to handle them and save Tsubaki, even if the other Homra guys showed up afterward Anna did most of the work. Somehow I imagine after this the same guys who bullied her are probably the type that now show her respect and try to call her ‘boss,’ much to Anna’s bemusement. Yata’s very insistent that guys like them can’t be welcome in Homra, like how dare they try to be respectful now after being mean to Anna, but Anna just smiles quietly and says it’s okay, as long as they’re not doing bad things again she won't worry about those people.

[inamindfarfaraway]

I would find Blondie Lockes very annoying in real life, but I love her in fiction. She's a genuinely good journalist in terms of both skill and ethical integrity, who only occasionally forgets to check the facts because she's fifteen and holds herself accountable when she does. She has incredibly high standards for everything and believes herself to be the ultimate authority on quality. She has magical lockpicking powers because her fairytale is about Goldilocks breaking into a house. She somehow completely ignores the story's moral that Goldilocks was wrong to break into the house, feels entitled to go wherever and help herself to whatever she's able to and cannot comprehend why people dislike this. She's been terrorizing an anthropomorphic bear family with her cheerful disrespect for privacy and is convinced that they love her. She has a non-anthropomorphic pet baby bear. Her motivation is dependence on external approval rooted in deeply internalized classism. She's desperate to be useful and important to those with higher social status and feels the need to lie that her family is technically royalty to fit in with her royal friends, even though they treat commoners like equals all the time. She positions herself as a conduit of true greatness; closer to it than the masses, but never the hero, always reporting on other people and evaluating what they've done. Because what she's done isn't enough to be worthwhile. What she is isn't enough. But this performative lifestyle makes her anxious about being judged as a fraud and an interloper, and ashamed of selfishly transgressing against social norms. Her microphone head looks like an adorable little bear head. That's one hex of a character alright.

[payidaresque]

A bit more than you might think, actually.

[zkoh001]

~ A scrap of cloth. ~

~ Weighed down by sins long past. ~

Inspired by @passivechara post about the poncho being an equippable item.

[3-aem]

“if i am worth anything later, I am worth something now. for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning”

is such a beautiful line from van gogh.

[alicerovai]

we all now joke about Loki being a tree but can we just for a moment appreciate how beautiful is the concept that Loki, the God of Mischief, the silver tongue liar, the antagonist of the good boys, has turned into the God of Stories, the God of Lives, the God sitting on the Throne of Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, the God who looks after everyone’s lives, the God who keeps the branches alive the God who sacrificed their own freedom and need of not being alone to save the people they care about to give everyone a chance CAN WE JUST APPRECIATE IT PLEASE

[mysterycitrus]

i think isolating the bats from their teams and external support systems is like….. functionally bad. like wdym red hood is on dicks speeddial but his actual soulmate donna troy isn’t. why is everyone in gotham. why do these people have no friends

[cloud-hymn]

Being the best mdzs character must be really hard like I can’t imagine the pain of carrying an entire 5 volume book series, a 50 episode live action show, and a 3 season animated show on your back… someone should really go check on Wen Ning and make sure he’s feeling alright

[violent138]

Real fights are messy and I'm sure biting, scratching, scrambling away on your ass are all on the table and encouraged, but sparring matches in the Batcave between the Bats are probably sick as fuck when they try (aka the siblings are not bent on just beating the shit out of each other), because they're using a meld of techniques from about a hundred different martial arts, tapping into their unique strengths, and a near inhuman reading of each other (both from years of working together and experience) and an insane reflex time.

[pencap]

put down the world, soldier mine. your body is strong, i know, but you are not granite. your shoulders were not made to bend so steep. your knees were not made to buckle so low. your bones were not made to hold so much. Atlas was a condemnation, not a guidebook on how to bear the weight of the world.

rest your wings, soldier mine. you were made to fly, i know, but not like this. the sun above is not meant to be your seduction. the ocean below is not meant to be your enemy. the jetstream is not meant to be your companion. Icarus was a warning, not a challenge to see how high you can soar.

lay down your weapons, soldier mine. you fight so well, i know, but not every battle is yours. your fists are not damned to be perpetual weapons. your scars are not damned to mark you in disgrace. your blood is not damned to spill upon a sword. Achilles was a tragedy, not an instruction manual on how to fight to your death.

soldier mine, you are not Atlas nor Icarus nor Achilles.

you are only you, soldier mine, and i am only yours, and we are only this here now.

- by sylvie (j.p.)

[finelythreadedsky]

JSTOR Wrapped: top ten JSTOR articles of 2023

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Finglass, P. J. “A New Fragment of Sophocles’ ‘Tereus.’” Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 200 (2016): 61–85.

Foxhall, Lin. “Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 167–82. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Garrison, Elise P. “Eurydice’s Final Exit to Suicide in the ‘Antigone.’” The Classical World 82, no. 6 (1989): 431–35.

Grethlein, Jonas. “Eine Anthropologie Des Essens: Der Essensstreit in Der ‘Ilias’ Und Die Erntemetapher in Il. 19, 221-224.” Hermes 133, no. 3 (2005): 257–79.

McClure, Laura. “Tokens of Identity: Gender and Recognition in Greek Tragedy.” Illinois Classical Studies 40, no. 2 (2015): 219–36.

Purves, Alex C.  “Wind and Time in Homeric Epic.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 140, no. 2 (2010): 323–50.

Richlin, Amy. “Gender and Rhetoric: Producing Manhood in the Schools.” In Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, 202–20. Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Rood, Naomi. “Four Silences in Sophocles’ ‘Trachiniae.’” Arethusa 43, no. 3 (2010): 345–64.

Zeitlin, Froma I. “The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia.” Arethusa 11, no. 1/2 (1978): 149–84.

[frodopotter7]

I am sad, that all this passion and in all this great times of film making it has come to this. All that we get is reproductions of a reproduction and another merchandise series. If a film maker dares to make something unique and extraordinary, it is taken away too soon immediately. I feel like those big streaming platforms and the average viewer never sees the amount of poor and talented souls who suffer from that.

[leclerc-s]

i genuinely think the funniest thing that could happen was if charles overtook norris in the drivers championship because they’ve been yapping about this “intense” championship battle between norris and max only for charles ‘one-stop wonder’ leclerc to end up p2 in the championship

[sunshinemakesmesleepy]

I love that Murph’s secret mission throughout the final arc of campaign 3, has been to seduce Callie with one of his many npcs, so that she can FINALLY move on from glen, and Callie just REFUSES to take the bait like at all, bc she’s all bout that single girl era, and only into ppl who are slightly toxic for her, but murph as the lawful good paladin he is REFUSES to play into that

So long story short, we have a dm who is DESPERATELY trying to seduce his irl wife of over 10 years’ PC, in an effort to encourage character growth, but the wife is exclusively attracted to city pidgeons and hot ppl who are slightly toxic, so he keeps failing to get her hooked on anybody other than the singular npc he made specifically to be hot, toxic, and slightly pathetic.

And tbh I love it. I need more.

[venice-1987]

An annoying phenomenon I've noticed

Alternatively: Whatever you do, don't go onto the TDP reddit

(Alternatively, let people ship things)

[triglycercule]

instead of nightmare approaching horror to recruit him for the gang i think it would be cooler if he talked to undyne about it. because she would not hesitate TWICE to ship horror off to fuck knows where in the multiverse

like booo booo boring horror would never cooperate and agree to join nightmare without him doing some extra work that he cant be bothered 2 do bc its doesn't benefit him enough 4 the effort put in. AND THAT METHOD DOESN'T EVEN GIVE HIM MORE NEGATIVITY!!!!! nonono the king deserves a show :3 so he goes to undyne who's the craziest of everyone in horrortale and yk yk does some stupid mind manipulation. maybe in exchange for horror he makes up some bullshit lie about how he could save alphys (is she even alive atp) or the rest of the underground and provide them food (like the same deal that nightmare WOULD offer horror) and undynes like 70x more fucked up than horror so of course she's accept in a heartbeat. shes the queen!!!! shes supposed to provide for her subjects (even tho shes kinda. erm. making them all suffer)!!!! and all it would take was a sacrifice of the guy she lowkey doesn't like??? undyne has more reason to accept a deal like that from nm than horror ever would. and it wouldnt be the first time she sacrificed horror anyways lol

idk she sends royal guards out to snatch up horror in the middle of the day (nightmare told her to make it dramatic and tense :3) (all of snowdin would probably follow in concern because OMG WHERE IS SANS GOING????) and then yeah. just like that horrors gone! nightmare probably didn't even give him a chance to say bye to paps. undyne never ends up getting the food nightmare promised because hes a bitchass like that (and papyrus probably ends up taking up the full leader role of food provider for snowdin (if undyne even lets snowdin stay out of her control) good luck for him!)

if horror had a nickel for everytime he got forced to be a sacrifice he'd have 2 nickels. which is actually 2 too much in his eye HES PISSED!!!!!! rightfully so become man ☹️ taken away from his world without even a choice or a reason (to his knowledge) or anything to benefit him??? and now hes STUCK in this disney movie castle with two freaks who look like him (what the FUCK) and then the most annoying THING he's ever had the misfortune of getting kidnapped by. he is in misery. it sucks. he IS infact bitter. if he ever came back to horrortale (which he literally would never get to without dying or losing his stolen eye) he would 500% commit anarchy and finally get rid of undynes annoying ass ‼️‼️