#no one can dispute this

[ndostairlyrium]

Wing-it commission for @idolsgf / @blightbear featuring A BABY <3 been fangirling over Bohean for a while, the fact I could draw him sent me over the moon ;u;

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[oozeandgoo-art]

Stubbornness.

[girlfictions]

something i've unfortunately had to come to terms with and urge you all to keep in mind is that there is often no good faith conversation to be had with a zionist — these people are well aware that thousands of palestinians have been murdered in the past month, that the 1948 nakba was one of the most horrific displacements of a human population in history, that israel is currently carrying out ethnic cleansing with full endorsement from the united states — they simply don't care.

attempting to appeal to their sense of morality will not work when these people don't see palestinians as human beings; they have no moral conscience to speak of.

[astralleywright]

there's nothing orym would ask of the other hells that he wouldn't do himself, which is sort of the problem, really

[gingermintpepper]

I saw it in your tag game post that you're also fond of the Apollo-Heracles conflict 👀 for a myth that appears in only a couple of sources, it sure has a lot of presence in the vase paintings (no seriously, everytime I think I've seen the last of it, I find ten more)

SO do you have any favorites among the paintings that represent this story??

OMG OMG THIS ASK IS A GIFT. IT IS A GIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT THIS

I also think it's extremely interesting that it's a story so popularly portrayed by vase paintings and in such a variety of ways!! It's certainly one of the stories that gets left out of written compilation of Heracles' legend a bit (which is a shame, I think it's a fantastic story) but Apollo had a very peculiar relationship with Heracles in general that I just kind of find amazing (and very, very funny).

Apollo is not a god with any legitimate grudge against Heracles, but he does argue with the mortal a bit like he argues with his favourite brothers 😂Part of why I love the story of Apollo and Heracles fighting over the tripod so much is that it is such a little brother thing for Heracles to be upset with the proclamation his elder brother has given him and so, he throws a great fit, taking up the chair and declaring that he'll just give himself a better prophecy! And Apollo, instead of being a marginally professional big brother, decides to fight him for it until their father has to break up their cat-fight. Like was that not just the plot of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes? Is this not exactly how Apollo treated Hermes when he was a child and now those two are inseparable? 💀

Because of this, my favourite vase paintings tend to be the ones that highlight the personal squabbling between Apollo and Heracles the most. There are some very elaborate ones that have the full host of them - Athena, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, usually a dog and a doe, I've even seen a couple that had birds and plants etched on them, but the simplest ones that show Heracles about to bonk Apollo with his club out of frustration or depict Heracles nyooming away from Apollo while Apollo (presumably) yells curses about how he's going to fling Heracles head first into Tartarus for daring to take his things? Yeah, those are the premium big brother/little brother things I'm looking for.

(Photo. Marie-Lan Ngyuen)

(Photo. Museo Claudio Faina)

Also the one in the Theoi.com archives is a real classic - perfect energy.

[musicalmoritz]

Every time you ship Mitsuba with a girl, Kou punches a wall

[tanoraqui]

I love post-Thangorodrim whump & hurt/comfort as much as, maybe more than the next girl, but sometimes I DO want to physically shake many fanfiction writers—especially modern au writers, for some reason—and remind them that the CANONICAL effect of Maedhros’s captivity and torment upon his psyche was,

…the orcs fled before his face, for since his torment upon Thangorodrim his spirit burned like a white fire within, and he was as one that returns from the dead. Thus the great fortress upon the Hill of Himring could not be taken…

Maedhros isn’t anxious and traumatized, he is FULL OF RESPLENDENT AND VERY EFFECTIVELY VIOLENT WRATH and traumatized

[recorder-dude]

So it’s kinda been a while but I am still suffering at the clutches of this franchise so pls help

Haven’t been drawing a lot these past few months cus School is kicking my ass but here’s ..something

So like, for context:

[molagboop]

High-echelon Mawkin suit modules can be pretty wild, and the Energy conversion module in Raven Beak's suit is no exception.

When exposed to an active current or energy field, the module accounts for the level of charged particles in the local atmosphere and converts the detected matter to power. Most substantial forms of power and radiation are compatible with its function, and it's calibrated to work more efficiently when exposed to substantially powerful forms of plasmic matter.

The conversion module is similar to (but should not be confused with) the thermal charge module, which charges the power suit in extreme heat. That technology is also implemented in the protective exosuits found in Cataris' lava zone. The Mawkin use thermal energy to power a number of their facilities: that they'd implement it in their more mobile works is only natural.

Back to the subject at hand, the conversion module's practicality is twofold: to keep Raven Beak's suit sufficiently charged and to maintain his vigor in battle. His particular biometric modifications are such that his suit, combined with his level of physical fitness, can theoretically keep him fighting without fear of exhaustion in perpetuity.

Raven Beak's juiced up version of lightning armor is the inverse of this module: it absorbs charged particles for the purpose of coalescing into a projected wave. The use of lightning armor in this manner negates the function of the conversion module for restorative purposes. Additionally, lightning armor works best against oncoming projectiles, while the reactive conversion module is at its peak when the suit is exposed to ambient radiation or concentrated, consistent flows of power.

Suffice to say, Raven Beak is probably the only person who could stick a fork in an electrical socket and have it do the exact opposite of killing him.

[nocherryblood]

On Getting An Autism Diagnosis Paper- Sometimes It's Not All Good

I'm sorry but if you said that an autism diagnosis will help me to feel better about myself then why have you written those diagnosis papers making me sound like a cold-blooded psychopath?

The test itself is cruel too. Asking me to define friendship "in my own words" and then claiming I don't know what friendship is because my definition was something like "someone you feel you feel you can rely on and someone you feel good about being around and who you like". Then asking me why people might want to get... married?? And I responded, a tad taken aback, saying "well sometimes you might like someone a lot and want to make a commitment to being with that person and get closer to them. And you want to share your life with them." And... apparently that's weird/wrong too? Then asking me to describe a picture book with no words by making up a story... and then saying in the diagnosis papers that I was too descriptive. BUT I THOUGHT YOU WERE TESTING MY CREATIVITY????

The one that REALLY pisses me off though, is when they asked me how I react to different things and I said that sometimes I nervously laugh or smile at things that might gross me out or when I get anxious, and... that was written down as "finding morbid things or things that others would generally not find funny, amusing and makes them laugh- such as a cyclist getting hurt". Okay, I'm sorry, but WHAT THE FUCK?? Do you even fucking know how much that hurts? How much that can hurt people who are already feeling crap about themselves? Do you know how terrifying it is to see that written down as a "professional, clinical observation" of yourself that you know others, including family, are going to read and probably be alarmed by?

Also stuff like "has no weird or repetitive interests" and then THE NEXT PARAGRAPH DOWN goes on to detail how I am limited by my interests sometimes and that I have obsessions over things like vacuums and washing machines and old broadcasting stuff and TV programming idents and bumpers which I guess are just perfectly normal shit to create hundreds-of-hours long playlists and reading collections and media for. Maybe I'm just #quirky 🤪 then.

Honestly, I'm still so destroyed by those damn diagnosis papers even after years. How can something be so degrading and yet so underestimating (?) that it overreacts to my smallest troubles yet completely ignores my actual issues and support needs. I honestly cried, and still do, whenever I have to read that.

[factorialsotherfandoms]

Mini-event tomorrow as well lol? But early. Guy Fawkes Night the 5th Novemeber! But the event is 3rd!

Remember, remember, the 5th of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

[favroitecrime]

You can watch, live, the ICJ case.

https://www.aljazeera.com/

[nekhcore]

i fucking LOVE being TRANSGENDER!!!

i LOVE being AMERICAN!!

the credit bureaus keep FUCKING UP my name change despite me providing them all documentation

suddenly i NO LONGER have a fucking FICO score!!

i spent an HOUR on the phone yesterday trying to get someone at experian to fix my split credit report

instead of fixing it they REVERTED the NAME on my ACCOUNT back to my DEADNAME!!

and i STILL cannot see my credit score!!!

[brionysea]

me when sokka is the only thing holding team avatar together

[unopenablebox]

every now and then one of my mutuals starts getting into something that one of my other mutuals has had a like self-directed home dissertation level of obsession with for years, and i still don't know anything about it either way but it's very funny learning what a normal trajectory of somebody experiencing it would be like

[variousqueerthings]

*sighs in post mildly broke containment again* there's nothing wrong with reading willow as a lesbian, this is a piece of fiction, and the post I made took on a jokey tone for a reason and is ultimately more about underlying bi-erasure on tv than anything else kaybye ✌