#myth bursting

[sheshapespectrum]

The Science of Women's Bodies : Debunking Common Myths.

[restlesskeychains]

Love this headcannon lmao

[player-1]

Oh boy, I sure can't wait for Intervallo 7.5, where the bus goes on yet another wacky roadtrip while the gang goes to Hong Lu's home district and learn about his extremely complex family dynamic and the many many references to the original novel, it's multiple remakes, and/or the series adaptation.

The next Walpurgis is most likely the Safety Team with Netzach as the next Announcer; and the next LobCorp IDs might connect to Abnormalities of denial, blissful ignorance, or the constricting force of family (Queen of Hatred, Queen Bee, Void Dream).

Even if the Sinners adjust to the fact that one of their members is a Second Kindred Bloodfiend, everyone keeps eyeing Outis just in case she tries to kill Don mentally or physically. She's still salty about the "betrayal" of having a definite threat in their ranks and were possibly waiting to backstab them at any moment (...Did something happen with Eurylochus, Outis?).

And even if she's also adjusting to a modernish life without the fanatic belief in Fixers, Don Sancho Quixote the Second reads them the riot act on their multiple attempts to prove she's a "real vampire" and committing elder abuse: shining light in her eyes or putting her in direct sunlight, putting garlic in her food, Dead Butterfly's coffin and Hundred Sins cross mace in her face cause Christian symbol or possible vamp bed, chasing her with a water bottle or spray bottle, so much water, so much water...

[sapphoismymuse]

only the most serious annotations of my readings for class

[skitskatdacat63]

"Bring on The Dancing Horses"(x) - Echo and The Bunnymen × Ferrari Drivers

[pokimoko]

The House of Astarion - A Baldur's Gate Fic

Written by pokimoko

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: ~12K

Fandom: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Relationships: Astarion & Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Gale (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Astarion & Gale & Karlach & Lae'zel & Shadowheart & Wyll (Baldur's Gate)

Characters: Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Karlach (Baldur's Gate), Gale (Baldur's Gate), Wyll (Baldur's Gate), Shadowheart (Baldur's Gate), Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate), Cazador Szarr

Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, References to Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Inspired by Theseus and the Minotaur (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Alternate Universe - Ancient Greek Religion & Lore Fusion, (but only partially), Location: Faerûn (Dungeons & Dragons), Dungeons & Dragons Game Mechanics, Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Canon-Typical Violence, Vampire Spawn Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Astarion Needs a Hug (Baldur's Gate), Karlach is the Best (Baldur's Gate), Gale as Player Character (Baldur's Gate), POV Astarion (Baldur's Gate), Astarion-centric (Baldur's Gate), Fluff and Angst, During Canon, Labyrinth - Freeform, Astarion & Karlach Friendship (Baldur's Gate), (in which they speedrun becoming besties via a 5v1 battle and a good chat), All the World's A Stage And I'm the Star (or: how to deal with being the monster of the story), Astarion living his best Rogue Subclass Arcane Trickster Life, Epiphets. So many Epiphets, Angst with a Happy Ending, TLDR: hey. so you know how the Minotaur's name is Asterion? yeah...yeah

Summary: Within a secluded valley alongside the River Chionthar, there is a great labyrinth, and within that great labyrinth there is an even greater monster. At least, that is what the stories say, and we all know how those are supposed to go, with heroes always coming to save the day. In stories like that, there is only one ending that exists for monsters.

But this is not that kind of story.

[nep2unee]

A fourteen thousand year old fairy tale

[shugthedug]

and here’s the cracked: I sent the Barthes wrestling essay to my partner to read before we watched all the mission impossibles before mi7 came out so that he would understand the role I think Tom Cruise The Movie Star has as their thematic and emotional centre. The escalation of physical stunts and their prominence in the MI movies and the leaning into the narrative of ‘the audience and me against the world’ is a change in Tom Cruises career that was intentional (if forced) and his method of filmmaking evolved to account for it. It has led to a type of performance that is incredibly self aware and effective (culminating at its most powerful, I think, in top gun maverick) where his presence is the signifier of an entire body of meaning and myth onscreen. His recent films have built themselves around this understanding and the audience is a part of this construction. We trust him to embody the characteristics of the myth we have built with him, the stunts hold emotional weight because we need him to do the impossible: he is the reconciling element of the spectacle as well as being the spectacle itself. At its most simple and reductive: there’s something of wile e. coyote in Ethan Hunt (you cannot believe how complimentary I mean that to be) and the movies work because they know this is implicit in our understanding of them and tom cruise never creates a discord by chafing against it. We access the deepest human experiences through actors because they make them manageable for us, and I think tom cruise performs this in a very classic sense that has been drifted from since the 70s - in that way he is the last true movie star. His recent performances certainly align themselves closer to silent film and the golden age of Hollywood, where constructing a ‘realistic’ character was less important than an audience being able to rely on an actor to fulfil the unspoken code of their presence. I love that he embraces this and works with it, because in doing that he’s building something separate and new, and he might be the only figure who can.

[honkygay]

inner child.

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Older Nico kneeling on one knee to talk to a younger version of himself in a yellow lit forest with tall trees. This is Nico’s inner child.

Older Nico has very curly dark brown hair tied up in a ponytail, Olive dark skin, brown eyes and lots of scars around his face and arms from battles with monsters and the wars. He is wearing a black shirt, black ripped jeans with two chains around the belt loops, a camp necklace with varying shades of black and purple with a red and a yellow bead sticking out. He is wearing three different bracelets on each wrists.

Younger Nico is significantly paler but still has an olive undertone, he has no scars but two purple band aids, one on his jaw and the other on his forearm. He has a large medical dressing on a skinned knee and bandaged wrapped around his ankle, its bloody but old. His hair is shorter and he’s wearing dark blue jean shorts and a black t shirt.

They are both wearing the same worn red converse.

Younger Nico scowls “What are you doing back here anyway? You never visit me.”

Older Nico smiles “Will told me it’d help. He was right. As usual.”

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Does anyone else think about Nico’s moments in the Heroes of Olympus books where he goes from his present self to that 10 year old boy that lost everything? remember when he bursts into tears whenever he yells? yeah. also let me know if the image desc is good enough! i used to do it but i never knew if it was good enough!! ^^

[x-v4mp3y3lin3r-x]

I agree that we should put a stop to Greek Mythology retellings but only because I want the Greek Mythology girlies to shut the fuck up. You're 26 from Utah, no one cares what you think the "real myth" is. We can all tell you had a Percy Jackson phase.

[othellho]

Concannon, C. W. (2014). “Not for an Olive Wreath, but Our Lives”: Gladiators, Athletes, and Early Christian Bodies. Journal of Biblical Literature, 133(1), 193–214. 

[bacon-neko]

Nano 2023 Day 19

The boys start hatching a plan

“Unless I tell Father what you’re planning,” said Hermes, gears turning, a plan forming.

Apollo froze, bright eyes hard and sharp. “You wouldn’t.”

Hermes shrugged. “I might. What’s stopping me?” The archer’s hand flexed and Hermes rolled his eyes, waving him off. “None of that. I’m looking for a deal, not a fight.”

The messenger floated in a circle around him, laid back, arms crossed beneath his head, while Apollo’s eyes trailed after him, appraising him with a thin frown. “What kind of deal?”

“One that gets us both what we want,” Hermes supplied. “Athena was gonna send the boy to Tartaros.”

Apollo’s brows shot up. “What?”

“On Father’s orders but still,” Hermes said. “I wanted to go against it, but Athena reasoned that he’d be bound to notice. I mean, his top general and head messenger trying to hide something he wants very dearly to get rid of? The odds weren’t exactly stacked in our favor.”

The realization dawned across Apollo’s face. “But Ares is different.”

Hermes grinned. “Bingo.”

“Father doesn’t want Ares around on the best of days,” Apollo said, excited now, waving his hands as he spoke. “There’s no way he’d notice he’s gone now. We’d just need to keep Father from noticing while we track the two of them down.”

“And between us, we’d have no trouble,” Hermes finished, delighted to be on the same page.

But then Apollo paused. “Us?”

Hermes clicked his tongue. “Well, that’s where the deal comes in: I want you on Olympus with me.”

“Why?”

“I want you help.”

“Wouldn’t that raise suspicions?” Apollo argued. “God of prophecy and all hanging around, making people wonder why I’m there?”

“More than you roaming across the countryside?” Hermes gestured to his everything. “You’re not exactly subtle.”

“I can be subtle,” he said, a mite defensive, chin upturned.

“You could be a distraction. Look, I can lie through my teeth all day, but Father is.” Hermes sighed and scrubbed his hands down his face. “He snapped at Athena yesterday. We’re on thin ice up there and I don’t wanna see what happens when it cracks. I’d feel better if you were there.”

[kikuism]

just finished jade legacy

[iiblistrigger]

if it ain't the king himself, Ian Jr.!

[anissapierce]

Working at a store that has a whole shelf dedicated to hp candy, as well as other merch in various departments this feels so vindicating generally

[sillimancer]

this character design block I've been dealing with for the past few years is actually so annoying and I wish I could set it on fire