#oooooh yes that

[rockore]

happy pride month gang

[monstrousproductions]

So, I responded to a post over on my personal blog about people behaving "weird" in public and mentioned that being a bit smelly is not, in fact, a moral failure. And I just looked at the comments and feel deeply moved to reiterate:

Smelling bad in public is not a moral failure.

In fact, I'll go one step further:

There is no moral dimension to cleanliness.

There are all sorts of reasons a person might be dirty in public. They might not have access to the facilities or products they need to stay clean, they might be coming home from a dirty activity, they might have mental or physical conditions that make it hard for them to maintain their personal hygiene, they might be dependent on other people for their hygiene needs and those needs aren't being met.

Also, with smells in particular, "bad" is subjective. I'm personally extremely sensitive to perfumes and aftershaves, and while I can sit quite peacefully in a crowded bus that smells of BO, I often have to leave shops or get off buses because someone's perfume, which they no doubt think makes them smell lovely, is actually making me gag.

You don't have to go and huff great, gusting lungfuls of air around the next smelly person you bump into in the corner shop. By all means, breathe through your mouth, change your seat, open the window, wish the situation were different.

But you do need to let go of this idea that a smelly or dirty person is also a bad person. They're literally just a person - just another human animal living in their animal body, trying to get from one day to the next. Sometimes, people are dirty. Sometimes, they smell bad. If that's not something you can encounter without taking personal offence, you need to seriously reassess your own expectations of being in public.

[scribble-kitti]

i had zero expectation or hopes for Velvette but GUYS SHE IS IN MY BRAINNNNN I LOVVVVEEEEEEEE HER

She is everything also this design is the most gorgeous ever. oh also her voice ESPECIALLY her singing voice ahhhg

[molathesunfish]

guy who wants to be a hater so bad but his conscience keeps beating him up

(links: original cat image & edited cat image)

[codenamethebird]

Ok here's a little (not really) analysis/theory post about Hades 2, because I'm obsessed. Its consumed all my thoughts. And I need to talk about a theme I think will (hopefully) be addressed as the game progresses.

Here's some examples of dialogue that starts to touch on this conflict between mortals and the gods. What exactly do mortals deserve? We also have literal Icarus "flew too close to the sun" here too (and probably Pandora). Chronos was able to sway many to his side with a promise of a golden age without the gods, which is presented by the narrative as a foolish venture. And not saying it isn't, or that Chronos is the secret good guy here, but I believe Chronos is taking advantage of a very real hurt that exists for mortals.

This line from Nemesis really stood out to me, because it implies that while mortals have a concept of evil, the gods don't. Which sounds ridiculous but the more you think about it makes total sense. The gods in Hades (and just greek myth in general), are kind of the worst. They are petty and selfish, they literally attack you if their boon isn't picked first, and most vitally in this context, often utterly disregard mortals.

For example, one of the things that drove me a little crazy in Hades 1, was how chill everyone was with Demeter's never ending winter. Demeter was killing possibly millions upon millions of mortals and everyone else just sort of let it happen. Maybe complained a bit because it was annoying to them, but just stood by. And that's just one example. Mortal's have a very valid reason to hate the gods.

And considering we have more areas of the surface to explore that aren't out yet, I have a feeling Melinoë is going to be meeting some of these discontent mortals. And my hope is they are going to be nuanced characters, that will challenge Melinoë not just in a fight, but her very ideals.

Because Melinoë is very deferential to the gods, waaaaaay more that Zag ever was. Unlike Zag, who was more like a bro to them and was willing to suck up to them for personal gain, Melinoë seems to genuinely mean all the respect she gives them. She praises them, defends them when they are insulted, and just generally very polite to them.

In a smaller scale, she describes Hypnos as having a wisdom about him and can somehow sense her intensions while asleep. Which as Nem implies, the version in Melinoë's head doesn't exactly line up with reality (though sidebar, I am a believer in Chekov's Hypnos and that he's going to somehow save the day and put Chronos in a never ending sleep or something, but that's beside the point haha).

Melinoë's reverence to the gods makes total sense of course. She was denied her family and a happy childhood, and because of that has glorified them all in her head. The Olympians are sending her vital aid on her holy mission for vengeance and to save her family, even as their own home is being attacked, how honorable of them!

And I think part of Melinoë's arc is that perfect picture of them breaking into pieces. Yes, they are the better of the two options between them and Chronos, but that doesn't mean they aren't also kind of the worst. That mortals deserve better than frivolous gods that can decide on a whim their fates for better or worse (love u Moros but I'm still fucked up over you and your sisters giving mortals horrible doom endings when you were bored. At least he feels bad now but still. Perfect example of gods even when not intending to having horrific consequences for mortals). And maybe like how Zag healed relations with his family, Melinoë can start repairing relations between the Gods and Mortals.

[void-bitten-ghost]

"You can be my date"

"BOY YOU CAN BE MY HUSBAND" <- Rook absolutely 1000%

[purplebehittindifferent]

Yeah two years of sharing a body and hearing stuff might make ya a liiiiittle crazy…

masterpost

prev (ch2finale) / next (ch3 pilot)

[nowordsformylove]

this whole episode is just Mike fussing over Davy

[feyd-meowtha]

I wanna shave my head I wanna shave my head I wanna shave my head I wanna shave my head I wanna shave me head ooooooooh my god I wanna shave my head so bad

[eluxurex]

My birthday is near, you know what that means.

Yes, it means I have an excuse to draw one of your OCs >:]

Also, WHEN

[the-ninja-legacy-whip]

how are you gonna handle Echo Zane? i can just imagine all the things that'll happen if its similar to canon (and will he become Mr.E??)

Echo Zane Lore!

Echo Tryna Get Closer to His Brother <3

Poor Boy Just Wanted Some Family

Beyond the Mommy Issues

Mr E. and Tragedy

He Also Considers Changes His Name

Where the Hell Did Austin Come From

[sonicranger1]

Sorta kinda a teensy weensy insane about this scene because why was it so stupidly somber

Just hahahahaha- leans against wall watch me make this about Blinkgar folks bc ooooh

[madaqueue]

unfortunately you guys will never escape the ‘blue curtains’ effect in my writing . i’m giving all this cloth meaning. character angry? red. character scared? yellow. you simply will never be rid of it

[tallahasseemp3]

obviously no one should expect every public space ever to cater to them all the time but equally if you won't ever change your behavior a little to make sure someone who would otherwise be excluded from it can also enjoy it you are a tar pit. sorry. some of you are literally parroting conservative talking points. just because the ideal public space that is accessible to all 8 billion people on the planet doesn't exist doesn't mean that you should feel such glee at the prospect of excluding people

[sapphire-heart-tippy]

Dio's terrible henchmen that he can't afford to fire

They're terrifying villains!! So evil!!! And you will fear them!!

(this is mostly just sketch references for myself 😭😭)

(Bel and Tippy use both he/him and xe/xem pronouns! Vanilla uses he/they!)

[snobgoblin]

just imagining Danny and Nadia planning their wedding and Nadia's making suggestions of all these like, lavish palaces and intricate temples and just generally very impressive buildings meanwhile Danny's feeling sheepish because his suggestion was gonna be "the woods would be nice and if we're feeling fancy we could go on the docks"