#or even cunning

[theshopkeepofremnant]

My mom sent me, age 8, scrambling through a mass of bargain hunters who’d lined up at 4 AM outside of Walmart. I don’t recall there being a directive beyond “find the best deal.”

I teamed up with a mysterious old woman to skip a massive line with no knowledge of where it went.

Left with TV heavier than I was, dragged it back to my mom.

Not once, before or since, has she expressed such pride in me or my accomplishments.

No child of the future will ever experience such glory, and I weep for them every year.

Black Friday is such a joke nowadays. “Don’t miss out on 30% off” don’t piss me the fuck off. People used to hit each other over the head for a microwave that’s how low the prices were. People literally died. We used to be a country

[dootznbootz]

Penelope is also Athena's pet/blorbo/special little mortal/etc. and if you think otherwise you're straight up wrong.

You're also wrong if you think Athena only likes Penelope because of Odysseus and/or Telemachus. As if Athena didn't see a young Penelope pull some shit and immediately think "Oh! Another mind to mold! C'mere you! Let's do some riddles and weaving!". Athena was happy that two of her favorite pets have met and fell in love!

[treeprince]

never let it be said that shen yuan doesnt fight for his man with bloody teeth

he started off already risking being sent back to his dead body to protect baby binghe the best he could on his first meeting and then continued to do so once the ooc shackles came off, made sure he felt loved and safe and at home on cqm, gave him every advantage he could think of (and then wondered why binghe got out of the abyss 2 yrs early, honey...), but bc those scum villain blinders were on so tight, he doesnt accept that he (the man shen yuan inside the character shen qingqiu) can change his own path enough to not be killed, and plans his own death accordingly bc he wont ever fight against binghe again if he can help it, i just...

this man loves binghe so much that he couldnt even conceive of a world in which binghe loves him back - and thats not just the comphet olympics in his brain talking, sy genuinely believes he's unlovable and only maybe sort of likeable by his fellow peak lords, and part of that comes from being forced into a scum villains role and not knowing the bigger picture behind sqq's actions (not even touching on how sy barely saw the entire cast of pidw as people until binghe actually looked hurt to him), but the rest was already preprogrammed before he transmigrated, and i want to know who hurt him so bad - bc all sy could imagine is that the whole world should love binghe, bc thats howmuch sy loves him the story is supposed to go, but all he could imagine for himself was gratitude at best and his demise at worst, until the very moment that it becomes clear that lbh has done everything, fucking EVERYTHING, to get sqq to love him back and i just SCREAMS

i cant imagine that sy would just let binghe go if he should ever decide to love someone else, the possession goes both ways with these two, and sy would fight tooth and nail to keep binghe for himself

[alkalamity]

Hear me out. Ratiorine AU where Aventurine is a mer captured by a group of researchers and Ratio is the scientist brought on board to teach him how to speak and access his intelligence levels.

[bloodlegacies]

I loved the artwork, the colder expression, the scar and the eye patch❤️❤️. An ice queen, literally, and someone who has been through a lot. Eleazar must be proud of the heiress he created, even though the process of changing to be who he wanted cost her, and him, dearly 😔

finally got around to finishing this.

My MC Apricity from @bloodlegacies's game, pretty lady but also her heart is as cold as ice at this point. her mother's death really changed her and I feel like her and her father are probably really scary if you think about it... god she's probably worse than her father.

going from not being able to kill and being so sweet to having no problem with killing and being just as cold as her ice powers. 😔

[xerorao]

Keep your fangs sharp, and your cash hidden 🐺🪙

[treasureplcnet]

assorted bodies doodles (transcript of that messy relationship square under the cut due to my handwriting/incoherency)

TAKE THESE W A GRAIN OF SALT i am like 90% joking:

hillinghead -> hasan, and vice versa: immediate mutual respect

hillinghead -> whiteman: he's incredibly smart, deceptively cunning but very kind. but he is also so annoying oh my god--

hillinghead -> maplewood: "please someone explain science fiction to me"

whiteman -> iris, and vice versa: two friends secretly think of the other as the sidekick

whiteman -> hillinghead: annoying him is quickly becoming a favorite pasttime

whiteman -> hasan: will not admit it but he wants parenting tips from her

hasan -> whiteman: has slipped a parenting book to him

hasan -> maplewood: deja vu about their future weirds her out a little, but she trusts her

iris -> hillinghead: fond of him from the time they spoke in the prison. enjoys fucking with him

iris -> hasan: SHE'S THE GOAT

[wisebeth]

why does the pjo series have to unnecessarily villainize goddesses (hera & athena) or show them as silly ladies (aphrodite & demeter) BUT posiedon and apollo are somehow shown as the coolest/most likeable gods, even though arguably, they're right after zeus on terms of corruption?

ares shown as the worst god after zeus and hera amuses me. last time i checked, he was the patron god of amazons and literally killed a man for attempting to rape his daughter but guess who cursed women for rejection? apollo. guess who raped women when they said no (aside from zeus)? posiedon.

[goldlightsaber]

disney movies used to have stakes and complexity….like remember when elizabeth swann faked out jack sparrow by kissing him and then leaving him to die to save herself and everyone else and he called her “pirate” with admiration and a glazed look in his eye before going to his death…….that was the shit, they don’t do things like this anymore

[praxidikegal]

My District 13 au

Coryo and Lucy Gray fled in this AU and ended up in district 13. Despite being safe and Coryo rose to power eventually in 13, they both hated it there. The place is no way to live a life. They made improvements but a pox outbreak happened and their son nearly dying had her husband later fully joined 13 to the rebellion. Coryo then was "elected" as President of Panem (she knows) and they moved to the Capitol and her last two children were born and grew up in the Capitol. Having raised children in district 13 where everything is surveillanced and under tight control especially before Coryo's presidency, they raised their children to trust family first and never lie to them ("lies can get you killed").

Lucy Gray is not exactly strict to her children aside from the "no lie" rule so her children gets a way with almost everything. Their shenanigans(especially Orpheus Sage's and Thalia Rose's) will never get them disowned or taken out of the will by Coryo because there will be hell to pay if he does.

The Lady of the Underground

The lady of ways, the lady of means

The lady of the upside down

People usually go to Lucy Gray first when they want her husband to approve something. They catch on that if they get Lucy Gray on their side, Coryo is more likely to accept their request or proposals.

In district 13, of course she'll find ways and loop holes to laws and rules to get what she wants (mostly to sing and for pretty things). She'd sew her clothes, make flowers out of the leftover pieces of cloth, scraps and other items she can turn to trinkets. She'd style her dull jump suit, anything really to give life to that man hole of a district

In district 13 she goes by Melanie Ebony Thorne

Here is early 50s Lucy Gray with her feather shawl. You cannot tell me Lucy Gray in the Capitol would not enjoy the over the top make up and fashion.

Lucy Gray here is singing Lady Of the Underground from Hadestown

[falling-star-cygnus]

y'all i was really hoping ZZZero could last at least ONE banner without people leaping to ship the siblings

there are LEGAL, APPEALING ALTERNATIVES right there

can we not?? ship Belle with her brother??please??

[waterdeep-weavemoss]

gale's dialogue to the player is so needlessly flirty

'quite ready for you.'

'your desire?'

'direct me.'

'no rest for the wicked, i see.'

'you have my attention.'

sir. that's enough.

[the-lark-ascending69]

Watching ST1 and surprised by just how much Nancy lies. She lies even when she has no reason to, like when she's hanging out with Steve and his friends and wants to leave, she could have easily said something like "I need to do something" or "I'm tired" but she made up some excuse about her mom. When asking Barb's mom about Barb, she could have easily told her she was worried but she didn't. Girl just lies like it's second nature to her.

[enter-the-phantom]

What she says: “I’m okay”

What she means: “Nebulossa’s ‘Zorra’ is easily one of the most beautiful and heartbreakingly powerful songs ever to come out of Eurovision and possibly one of the greatest and most timely feminist anthems ever written. The juxtaposition between Mery’s soft and stately voice giving life to her pain and the faceless male voices screaming slurs at her throughout the song is haunting. Her voice rising over the chants on the line ‘…soy una Zorra de postal/I’m a picture-perfect bitch’ is cathartically tear-jerking, and the subtle switch from angry male voices to proud female ones near the end is pure poetry. In this essay I will—“

[patrasche-enjoyer]

Subaru is very funny because in comparison to most other isekai MCs he's very weak (if you ignore the immortality) but if you compare all Isekai MCs BEFORE they got isekaid Subaru would be able to rip them all in half

[sarafangirlart]

Since I want to complain about other Greek mythology adaptations that isn’t Kaos: this isn’t Athena, she doesn’t act like Athena, it would make more sense if she was Themis.

Also she would not call cars “iron horses” she’s the goddess of crafts, of technology and innovation similar to Hephaestus she’d call a car by its fucking name.