#like please take it face value

[janiedean]

@ eurovision anon 1

if anyone wants to discuss that matter please feel free to get a burner account and we can talk in dms but as I think is obvious atm I am in no way shape or form inviting any form of political discussion on here because I am mentally exhausted and not up for putting on main things that need to be discussed with nuance, thank you

@ eurovision anon 2

thanks for informing me I didn’t know about it and tbf it seems to me like your approach is entirely sensed

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[cloudysfluffs]

REALLY considered not posting this one.......might delete later

ns//fw and/or ki//nk blogs please dni!!!

[averlym]

miscellany (again),, tags in the last image by @pyrotechnicarus

[gingermintpepper]

Hi! I just want to clarify that actually Apollo was a sun god in Greece too... The most ancient author who refered Apollo as a solar deity was Aeschylus lived from 525 BCE - 456 BCE

“The unseen land [i.e. the underworld] where Apollon [here the sun] does not walk, the sunless (analion) land that receives all men.”

- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 858 ff

Apollo being a solar deity was definitely not something Romans invented. Yes, maybe in Roma Era he was syncreticed with Helios and was seeing as the sun itself, even replacing Helios in some myths (like Phaeton and Clytie stories). But he was a sun god in Ancient Greece, maybe not itself, but something more like Horus to the egyptian, a solar deity.

Hi hi!! Thank you so much for the clarification!!

I do have to apologise for my own super casual tone probably giving the wrong idea but if this is referring to the tags on a recent post making a (wonderful!!) case for dark-haired Apollo then I do have to say that I didn't state Apollo wasn't associated with the sun in Greek culture but that he was not primarily associated with the sun!

Like you do very correctly say he was more of a civic god with solar aspects like Egypt's Horus (and even that is a large simplification), mostly from a cosmic standpoint. I like saying that Apollo is the 'light' in 'enlightenment' to the Greeks vs being a physical light to the Romans ♡♡

Thank you so much for double-checking my work though! I'll make sure to be clearer with my tags so these kinds of things don't happen in the future 🥰🙇🏾

[thanks-obillma]

surprise! against all odds, creation continues

[bonebabbles]

Bones... help me. I just read a fanfic where the author said that they find it very weird that so many people villainize Clear Sky. They deadass said "sure he's done a lot of bad things but he's always had good intentions,"

...

I don't think I need to explain why this frustrates me so much.

I could just say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" but that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of how fucked up Clear Sky is. He really doesn't even have those lmao

In spite of how you can make a DOTC drinking game out of him bellowing "Im Just Trying To (insert relevant good thing here)," he only ever does this when someone is challenging him or offending him in some way. He's not doing anything out of benevolence, this character is obsessed with controlling other people.

Remove Gray Wing sniffing his armpit for the entire arc and you can see Clear Sky's "good intentions" for what they are; manipulation tactics. He only says "Im Just Trying" when he's defending his evil, fucked up choices to someone trying to challenge him.

"You exiled your disabled brother, you're a piece of shit!" "I'm just trying to be fair uwu"

"You slaughtered a random woman and want to kill her babies too?!" "I'm just trying to spare them from suffering"

"YOU BEAT A SECOND RANDOM WOMAN TO DEATH?!" "I was just trying to give her a warning, not my fault she was too weak to stay conscious"

"There's big piles of rotting meat in camp and we have a hostage who you promised to treat well" "I'm just trying to not let these dumb moor cats think that they can have more than they deserve"

It wasn't ever "good intentions." He's NOT afraid of anyone starving. It's a justification that he tells to his cats to justify his cruelty, weaponizing his sad backstory. He has an entire inner monologue in Book 3 about how they can always hunt more food, so it's fine they're killing more than they can eat, and that it takes people "months to starve" anyway because he saw it in the mountains.

Can't stand that line. "Sure he's done bad things BUT." The bad things were really fucking bad, and no, they didn't effectively write a character who legitimately tried to do the right thing. Everything he does just ends up being related to a grab at power or control.

They just wrote a child abuser who likes to hit women and start wars and decided Tall Shadow is also at fault here, somehow. lmao.

[seokmattchuus]

Daily reminder that fanfiction is NOT that deep. If you like dark themes and concepts, that's fine but please don't force your friends to support you if they don't. They're allowed to not support that. Grow up and realize that people have different preferences :))

[average-book-enjoyer]

I HAVE SAID IT BEFORE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN. WILLIAM FINN WHEN I CATCH YOUR ASS YOU ARE DONE FOR. THE HARMONIES IN FALSETTOS ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING ME????

i need my music nerd friend to listen to falsettos so bad bc he is the only person who'll start tweakin out about these harmonies the way i do. he would understand me :(

[disguisedcheezed]

FAKE JOHN EGBERT FANS THE LOT OF YOUUUUUU!!!😭😭😭😭😭

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

if you're deconstructing your ideas of binary gender and binary sex— you also have to deconstruct your ideas of binary sexuality and romantic attraction, too, fyi

[girlsdads]

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[deanpinterester]

reading books translated to chinese got me like PLEASE let me be your proofreader PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

[derpinette]

i have a weird relationship with weight because i hated eating more than anything the moment i was ready for solids ( i hate chewing with my entire life always have & will ) which made me underweight for most of my life ( to this day ) & during late primary-middle school this made me actively suicidal because i felt like something was wrong with my sex because i just was not developing whatsoever prompting me to have a years long phase of trying to gain weight in any way i could ( #EPICFAIL by the way ) & i was already insecure but i felt seriously so unforgivably ugly after bullying not just at school but by adults of my entourage. but then i did in my late 15s which prompted the pendulum to swing in the other direction & suddenly i FREAKED OUT & thought well being skinny is pretty much all i have & know myself to be & clearly it is not going to last forever so i Better preserve it i was delusional about how skinny i thought i was actually i look stumpy & weird i have to prove myself. But now i am normal again kind of

[unlimitedgolden]

I'm learning a lot of tumblr users don't actually read the news articles attached to tumblr posts. That post about a "Humongous data breach" came across as fear-mongering to me and I was half right, cus it was entirely accidental. OP themselves has said to stop reblogging the post and reblog this one instead.

[lokisis]

Chat. How many times do I have to deal with ppl taking what I say way too seriously. How many times.