#pain syrup

[stuckinstardewvalley]

just remembered my mom told me a while ago that as a child (like between 1 - 5 ? Yrs old) I was like addicted to pain med syrup and it got to the point where they'd mix rose syrup with water to trick me so they could wean me off it.

and I thought my fear of addiction was unwarranted.

[syrupsyche]

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this many times all across tumblr and discord, but my heart aches at how in the two lines afforded to describing the rest of the Amis’s deaths, Combeferre is the one to get a line all to himself:

Combeferre transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to cast a glance to heaven when he expired. (5.1.21)

Not only does he go out doing what he always wanted to do (helping, rather than directly harming others), he dies with a final glance up towards the sky, which reminds me of:

[H]e said: "Revolution, but civilization"; and around the mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. (3.4.1)

Much of his 3.4.1 description talks about how much he dislikes bloodshed, that he prefers the peace of the future, and the purity that it will bring once their fight is over; moreover, he believed that:

A conflagration can create an aurora, no doubt, but why not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. (3.4.1)

And so here in his final moments, Hugo gives Combeferre one last comfort: to have the brightness of heaven be his final sight, even in the midst of a bloody, painful death.

[arachnidlily]

The real corporate men they don’t want you to know about

[morethansalad]

Vegan Pain au Chocolat

[just-someone-online]

I think it'd be fun if a non-Cure from one season got a transformation item from another season.

Like, if the HapCharge and GoPri Cures were fighting some new guy near Noble Academy and Yui ends up getting her own PreChange Mirror. Or if Regina (I like Cure Joker but just ignore her for a minute) got a Sky Mirage from Ellee. Or if the Max Heart Cures are helping protect the Healin' Garden and Shiho and Rina get their own Healin' Animal partners. Maybe Syrup could get a PreHeart and be a mailman themed Cure.

And design wise, they could all pull a Cure Echo and mix each season's designs. Yui could have the distinctive vest of the Happiness Charge Cures and everything else would be in line with the Go! Princess designs. Regina could maybe share some design cues from Cure Ace? I'm not completely sure what Hirogaru aspects she would get. But functionally, they would have the powers of whatever season their transformation device comes from.

[rollercoasterofshitposts]

RAMBLE TIME BUCKLE UP

SPOILERS AHEAD FOR TRIALS OF APOLLO AND BASICALLY EVERY PERCY JACKSON BOOK EVER BUT MOSTLY TOA, ESPECIALLY THE BURNING MAZE.

TLDR at the end.

spoilers start now ok bye

Here are some facts that we know for sure:

1. Percy Jackson is named after Perseus, the Greek hero who killed Medusa.

2. Perseus is one of the only, if not THE only Greek hero to not die tragically.

3. Rick Riordan is VERY careful about how he uses names throughout the series, something he addresses from the very beginning when Percy gets to camp. Percy says Zeus’s name (or Kronos’s, can’t remember which and I’m lazy right now) and the sky rumbles, and Chiron warns Percy that names have power and to use them carefully. Later, in Tartarus (if I’m remembering correctly), Percy and Annabeth are wary of using names because of their proximity to monster respawn points.

4. The only other main character named after a Greek hero is Jason Grace.

Here are some things we can assume, based on Rick’s writing style and the details he has given us:

1. A character’s name will tell you something about them. That’s a Riordan near-guarantee.

1a. For example: Piper being a reference to the Pied Piper since she can get anyone to do anything for her, even follow her off a bridge.

1b. Or Magnus and Alex being confirmed from the beginning because Rick mentioned that he stole the name Magnus from Cassandra Clare. (She wrote The Mortal Instruments, which contains a gay couple named Magnus and Alec (Alexander).)

1c. Or Leo being named after the great inventor Leonardo daVinci (not confirmed, but they’re so similar it’s hard to believe otherwise).

1d. A castellan is the governor of a castle who enforces the law around the land. They also have military responsibility. Luke Castellan. nuff said.

2. NAMES HAVE POWER IN THIS UNIVERSE. Sally literally named Percy after a Greek hero to keep his roots close in a subtle way, but she purposefully picked a Greek hero that lives.

2a. HUGE example: Castor and Pollux. In myth, sons of Jupiter. Castor is mortal while Pollux is immortal, and Castor dies. (Slightly irrelevant but Rick loves taking notes from other authors so: In The Hunger Games, part of Katniss’s film team. Castor dies, Pollux lives.) In PJO, sons of Dionysus. Castor dies during Battle of the Labyrinth, while Pollux lives.

The one exception to this rule is Jason Grace. Or so I thought.

If you read the myth pertaining to Jason (Golden Fleece, Argo the First, Medea, etc) you find out that Jason of the Argo dies when he falls asleep on his ship underneath the rotting mast and it falls and kills him. There’s a lot of other stuff that goes down, but for the sake of being succinct, here’s a link to the myth for your perusal:

The only other SUPER MEGA IMPORTANT DETAIL from this myth: Argo Jason, by cheating on Medea, falls out of favor with Hera, while in PJO/HOO, Hera actively names Jason 2.0 and claims him as her champion. (despite him being. Y’know. The proof of her husband being a jackass to her. quality time with the stepmom right there.)

Putting this all together:

1. Sally purposefully named Percy after a Greek hero who lived, indicating fear that he would die if she chose a different name

2. Names have power and Rick puts meaning behind every single name he uses.

3. Jason dies in The Burning Maze.

The real kicker is that they both die in the same way: having lost everything, with so much still to do, dying a completely avoidable death because they weren’t paying attention to what was going on behind them. There’s differences, obviously, because Jason Grace is actually a good person, but those are inconsequential as the big picture is all the same. (We see these similarities happen A LOT with Percy, especially when he kills Medusa.)

We should have known. Rick laid out all the pieces for us from the very beginning, even (possibly) going so far as to straight up tell us that one of the seven would die (again, not confirmed, I saw it in a meme and maybe his twitter? idk im ty ty).

so:

TLDR: Rick Riordan left a gigantic trail of breadcrumbs that should have clued us all in to the fact that Jason was gonna die long before it happened.

And no, I will never shut up about Jason. Justice for my favorite white boy.

[wolfisland]

im gonna be real ive been resisting the temptation to drink my dogs leftover antibiotics for like a week now. and like i realise that makes me sound insane but hear me out: it smells exactly and i mean EXACTLY like my favourite banana flavoured milk to an uncanny degree

[nice-bright-colors]

50 years of the Mellow Mushroom. Sadly, I’ve only known about this place for the last couple of years.

[iamchickenhearmesquawk]

Idk how it works but man raspberry leaf tea is just amazing for my brand of daily pain, it could be a placebo but man it’s a good one.

If you have endo, pcos, bad period cramps or other pelvic pain highly recommend, it doesn’t solve all your problems but it does something.

[six-six-cicada]

a couple more csp doodles

[shopwitchvamp]

Bout to rub the wizard oil on my temples and take a swig of the syrup

See ya'll in like a week

[lowpawly]

my chest huuuuuuuurts >_<

[official-lucifers-child]

i’m so sick rn and i can’t even order cold medicine to be delivered because it’s stupidly expensive because yippee capitalism

[technicallyaminecraftsimp]

Just came across a instagram video of a guy spending 12 hours eating 100 liters of strawberries and my only question is why

[toelessbastard]

make food. food is yummy :]. make tea! tea is...alright. add more sugar. good :]!

tummy ache 1000000x radius blast 9 hurt 11 comatose

[inkyquince]

It's weird how I can go from golum, wheezing and filled with hate and twitching and biting and screaming to a very normal person within an hour