#one word- gross

[ilions-end]

i've noticed just how often achilles' dragging of hector's corpse is framed mostly as an act of extreme disrespect, or only some brutal show of triumph. personally i think that's underselling both achilles' intention and what the trojans must be thinking as they watch it happen.

hector's corpse is divinely protected so it can't be damaged by the greeks after death; all that effectively happens in the iliad is that his body gets dirty. but under normal circumstances (and i'm not gonna impose realism on mythology, but the iliad is famously detailed when it comes to bodily trauma), the physical reality of dragging a corpse along stony ground for miles would be severe disfigurement and dismemberment. first the skin would wear off, then soft tissues, then extremities would start to detach. i think the iliad's original audience would be aware of that as an intended outcome.

achilles (who doesn't yet know that hector's body has been granted divine stasis) doesn't just want to parade his enemy's corpse around, he wants to tear it apart ("i only wish that this fury inside my heart would drive me to carve you to pieces and eat your flesh raw..."), he wants it to not resemble a human anymore. he wants hector's blood and flesh to circle the city of troy. he wants to make it impossible for hector's family to gather the pieces of him to cremate and that way hector's spirit won't find passage into the underworld. that's what the gods are preventing from happening, they're not just keeping the corpse pretty for priam to pick up later.

[turtleblogatlast]

Shockingly underrated thing about Leo is that he’s legitimately charming when he wants to be?

He’s the Faceman! He’s persuasive! That’s not just some random title he gave himself with no backing to it. People will listen to him. Even if they think he’s being annoying or if they’re upset at him, people listen to him anyway! There’s a reason his bros push him out front to talk to people, and when this happens, that talking nearly always works.

Moreover, Leo knows people. He looks at them and takes into account how they act and what they’re like as he makes his way through the conversations. It’s easy to forget this aspect of Leo’s character because he only brings it out when he really needs (read: wants) to, but it really is a notable part of him that always love to see.

And I say charm in particular because he has a knack for not only getting people to pay attention, but for getting people to stay and listen to what he has to say.

[rowanisawriter]

2024 —my year in writing

last year, i wrote more than i ever have like literally in my whole life. this year i beat my record by about 200k words. i am writing A LOT and it’s all because of you.

yes, you, reading this now. anyone who kudos’d or commented or liked or reblogged anything i wrote, and followed me here and on ao3, and ranted in my dms and added me to servers. you, reading the weird things i write, the things i can only write and only i can write, seeing it and liking it and coming back again and again for more. thank you :)

so here’s my 2024 summary:

words written: 358,963

fics published: 74

my favorite fics:

real world (stardew valley) - a story about parenthood and roads not taken. genuinely the most important story to me, a diary entry as much as fanfic

pilgrimage (bg3) - a story about two people without a past as they work toward an even more uncertain future. i also have no past because of a strange upbringing so this story is kinda personal to me even though it’s about a cleric and a vampire

novel (hades) - a story about looking for adventure and finding love and family instead. i had so much fun writing this and posted weekly without pre-writing which was a challenge but it all worked out

patchwork self (datv) - a story about finding pieces of your brother in yourself. i wrote a lot of structured fic this year and i think this one flowed the easiest and was the most precise in how it delivered the message i was trying to get across, also it’s gen which i never write

my most written pairing: thanzag with 11 stories! not surprising since ive spent most of the year humiliating myself over thanatos

my most used tags: romance, introspection, character study

what i learned: i learned above all to trust myself! this year i wrote and completed three multi chapter fics that i didn’t prewrite and posted week by week until it was done. i’ve never been able to do that before but this year i just did it and didn’t overthink it, and i trusted that i could finish the stories and i did lol i can do anything i think i just have to trust myself a little

what i want to write next year: i would like very much to write something original, i have a loose idea so i just need to sit down and write so my goal is really small and simple, hopefully i don’t let myself down

[the-meme-monarch]

i’m about to hit shrimpo with my aromantic beam i think

[watermelinoe]

i think it's kind of offensive to try to make holocaust denial about trans people but idk

[yujeong]

I've made my fascination with filth and how it connects to VP loud and clear at least three times on my blog, but I seriously can't state enough how much it occupies my mind. There's just something really powerful about someone not only being not grossed out by your filth, but, on the contrary, being attracted to it. Pulled into it. Turned on by it. That's what happens to Vegas at the safehouse. Pete is at the worst state he's ever been (debatable, since we don't know much about his past), and yet it's at these moments Vegas starts to become obsessed with him. I love how it's kind of subtle in its presentation. After all, KinnPorsche The Series is a very polished and "clean" show. Everyone is dressed nicely and the fight scenes never get too dirty or too bloody. The sex scenes never get too messy, either. And yet, at the safehouse, Pete is allowed to show parts of his filth to the audience. His hair is greasy, his skin is feverish, his lips are parched, there's black under his eyes, his voice changes, not even mentioning the dirt on him and the blood trickling down his chest. The rest is implied: the bad breath, the yellow teeth, the smell, the digestive problems he 100% has. What's implied is more important, because it's those filthy parts of Pete that Vegas embraces with fervor: he kisses a pill into Pete's unwashed mouth, and he eats Pete's unwashed ass. I love thinking about the juxtaposition of internal vs external filth as well, because to me, the VP arc kind of flips them on their head: Pete's filth is, as I explained above, external. He's filthy in appearance, in body, while Vegas' filth is internal, in his mind, in his heart. By the end of the show, Vegas ends up with external filth (another thing I've posted about that got some mixed reactions lol) that he has to find how to navigate his life with, and this time, it's Pete who embraces it. Don't get me wrong here. Both of these men have internal filth. Pete isn't some innocent, pure angel and he knows it, and Vegas does, too. Self-loathing just doesn't let him remember it most of the time. I'm going to end this post with this screenshot, which is probably one of my favourite VP moments (besides the sex itself), and that's because it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever witnessed on my screen. Look at the pores on their skin, at Vegas' bags under his eyes, at Pete's wet hair above his ear, at the stubble on Pete's chin and Vegas' upper lip. Look at them being filthy and at home. Aren't they gorgeous?

[beatingtheouijaboardallegations]

untamable rage has not quite setltled so sorry for bring other places discourse onto here. but really just want to know how people can just make up lies on spot like this to try to say if someone disagrees with you that because must not really be part of our group. how historical disabled activist who not even alive and set ground for currnet wave nonspeaking activism to exist , is “ bringing down hard work” of your kid.

“ nonspeaking” does not mean polite person who toeing party line of our “allies” who affirm their sense of helping of good person who tells you your theories are right that your power over us is a good thing. and fact people willing to say anyone who past or present criticizing any of this is not reallt part of the “us.” that if youre not integrate in the in group spaces , friends with the in group people , able to access in person community financially and agree with all the beliefs that hold the “community” together, then you are not a real person not one of the us. they do this to me constantly , in less overt ways. knowing they they have also done it to our ancestors is at same time comforting & enfuriating

[mars-ipan]

they're so GROSSSSSS (<- desperately wants what they have)

alt color under the cut:

[athena-xox]

No you guys don’t understand the OBSESSION I have with cook and raven mother daughter relationship

Please someone give me a destiny that cook could have had because I have so many gk x cook hcs for them at eah together

[romeo-the-homeo]

asher when david says he cant eat the fake display fruit at the furniture store

[visenyaism]

I just want rhaenyra and alicent to have one (1) extremely fucked up emotionally fraught sexual encounter during the Queen in Chains era where they bask in the delusion that their life could’ve ended any other way before rhaenyra goes off to get eaten by sunfyre and alicent fully settles into spending the rest of her life in bitter captivity

DELUSIONSHIP SWEEP🙏

[msnihilist]

Screenshots somebody’s DNI and has one herself saying no antis or busybodies. Cool. It’s the internet. Anything goes. That means I can rb your fanfics and save them for editing the way you save art that isn’t incestuous.

I mean, if you want to download my fics and comb through all of that incest and underage smut, that's your prerogative, man. Hope you get a boner out of it, then maybe you'll calm down 💕

[marshmelman]

As someone who practices kink on the side, I’m scared of getting thrown off the site even if I don’t break the rules. Because people just go “well obviously it’s ALL sexual” when they see the way I practice agere. How will you keep your site from mob mentality and becoming like twitter? How will you protect trans femmes and older queer people from getting targeted and attacked/reported? This is such a common issue In the tumblr and twitter agere communities

it's like this: i, and presumably my mods have a lot more urgent things to do than investigate everything every user does on other websites. i get similar questions to this pretty often: "i'm a furry, can i still join? i like xyz thing, can i still join?"

the definitive answer is as follows: my site is for ALL regressors. i personally can't care about the unrelated kinks and hobbies of every user. the rules of my site are (reductively) that you must be a regressor of some kind and that nothing on the site can be nsfw. if you want to know more about what's being defined as nsfw, feel free to check out the section about it on the survey results report! it's not a complete guideline, but it should give you an idea. wearing fursuits and reading weird e-rated fanfic is not on the list.

in summation: as long as you aren't being a jerk or a creep, i'm happy to say i don't care about what unrelated things you do behind closed doors (and not on my site).

also, as someone who hates twitter and the weird cancel culture digital lynchings it birthed: call-out posts on another user, sharing receipts, doxxing, and other attempts to get other users canceled or brigaded falls under my policy on harassment and will get someone banned. if anyone has a legitimate issue with another user, they should use the reporting feature to get in contact with a site mod or admin! :>

[twentyfivemiceinatrenchcoat]

pour one out for my boy carcass

[kidflashimpulse]

a thousand deepest apologies for no updates, here’s a #yjabartcore song rec tho

[polydamnory]

I don’t normally post personal stuff like this on this blog, but this was funny enough to me I figured I might as well.

(TW: fainting)

This is what happened when I was listening to Azmidi’s BA:

IT WAS ONLY ONE WORD!