#just give the girl a break

[artz16]

Dunno how I went from just vibing with Sayaka, to froggin loving her

I dunno, just do. She’s just complex and realistic character. It’s honestly sad how hated and taken out of character she is. I really came to appreciate her

Like, if you just don’t vibe with her, that’s fine. But she ain’t some Disney Villian. She’s a scared teen locked with other teens in a place that desires her death and was forced to watch a video that heavily implies the most important people in her life are dead.

She’s like that song. Ya know,”She’s imperfect, but she tries. She is good, but she lies.” That sounds like her. She deserve better

[ghostbredtt]

eughh I'm dead. I just couldn't post for like. three days... I think tumblr hates me tbh

I forgot how to render haii ;D very old Nyas

[codenamethebird]

God I have so much to say about Melinoe's characterization, and the fasinating implications about her future arc/the overarching plot of hades 2. I want to make a larger think piece with pictures but for the moment I'm just going to focus on this one specific thread.

In the wake of the Prometheus reveal, she has a slew of convos about his motivations for siding with Chronos, and the gods basically all go: this is his vengeance for us punishing him a tad cruelly. And Nemesis is like, yeah the gods 100% deserve it. But Meli's responds that he must have more motivation than just vengeance, it can't just be that. But when Prometheus explicitly goes, 'I'm doing this because the gods are horrible to humanity and I love humans,' she basically goes, no he must be lying. That motivation is both too pure, but also humans kind of suck why would you care about them?

Mel's humanity hot takes deserve it's own essay (Ms I think Humans should have never gotten fire and are better when they are dead), and I just want to focus on the former for now. She can not comprehend that Prometheus is fighting the gods for noble reasons. It just does not make sense to her. Mel's world is so black and white. She doesn't understand the nuance of the situation, and the thought that the gods might be actually in the wrong doesn't even get close to crossing her mind.

It's a fascinating (and horrifying) result of her upbringing. Of the constant state of war and the very convenient big bad that is Chronos, the evil monster who stole her family. If she accepts that his side isn't completely evil, that they might even be right in some (even many) respects, she would have to grapple with her whole life. Everything she believes would be thrown into question, the literal thing she was training her whole life for.

She can't have Prometheus fighting for a noble cause, because he fights for Chronos whose the Bad Guy tm. But he also can't be fighting for something as simple as vengeance, because that would also mean she would need to really think about what he's angry about. If the punishment was truly so unnecessary cruel.

When talking to Odysseus about Prometheus, when Ody's saying how much he respected him for stealing the fire despite knowing the consequences, Mel says that it was the price to be paid for breaking Olympus's decree. To her, Olympus's rules are sacred and ultimately good. Unquestionably. Prometheus broke the rules with intent, so to her, why would he be so angry at the consequences? Especially if he knew because of his power they were going to happen.

So he must have another reason, some secret machiavellian plan that drives him. Except as I already said, it brings her right back to him doing it for humanity, which she also can't accept. Because that would be admiting that the gods did something wrong to humans. She twists herself into knots to justify her worldview, and it's fascinating! She's so messy I adore her.

Please Supergiant please the final surface boss has to be a human pleeeaaasse (preferably a living one). Or at least have one (or more) show up in some other capacity. Mel needs to come face to face with the other side and have it utterly destroy her worldview.

And/or have (Pan)Dora betray her for Prometheus, that would also be very fun haha.

[genericpuff]

lore olympus' brand of feminism is like if the credits for Mean Girls immediately rolled credits after the line "and that's how Regina George died"

[spitinsideme]

ragatha SUCKS at fortnite, but shs likes to drive wrecklessly in the cars with pomni (pomni has to carry them the whole time in game)

(bimbo x tomboy)

[payidaresque]

*in narrator's voice* she was, indeed, not having it

[watermel0ns-dumb-cringe]

Oh Anya they could never make me hate you ☹️ughshjj bawls

[triona-tribblescore]

Just wanted to say the recent comic with angel dust & Vox was incredibly well written. it felt like something their characters would ACTUALLY say, super good job

THANK YOU!! :'D AWH!!!!

heres an alternate ending where it is TOTALLY accurate to there character ;>

[tanukiimo]

the depression is real

[kekothe-great]

Okay so I think that Ellie is a soft dom because i honestly think she’d feel so bad if she’d hurt you. And as a reminder that she is just a silly girl with trauma who loves space and dinosaurs :3

[glimblshanks]

Between Boimler jumping at any opportunity for violence and Ma'ah offering to sacrifice himself for the group this was truly the episode of Mariner trying to be So Chill And Normal about her friends trying to get themselves killed

[girlbossagenda]

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You deserve compassion for yourself, to feel loved and appreciated, in case anyone haven't told you this today, you matter, and you deserve to put yourself first.

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[myheartisonthetrain]

how it feels denying myself the right to unhealthy coping mechanisms

[writterings]

anyone else just too old for their friend's romantic troubles. like girl you are 28 stop defending a man you already said you were going to break up with and who literally told you that you couldn't come on a trip with him that the both of you had been planning for months the night before you were about to leave. like. you have a master's degree. you only dated him for a year. stop asking me for tarot readings about what his family thinks about you.

[saturn-garden]

love that this episode was essentially "guys we really need to have a team meeting about the date for the Mysterious And Most Certainly Horrifying Project/Maybe Ritual also the labourers are probably about to unionize" and Gwen fighting for her life for like the 12th time in one week

[butterflysonnets]

yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.