#persued

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Gustave Moreau - Orestes and the Erinyes, c. 1891.

[mokeonn]

"But if college was free, then people would abuse that and get useless degrees" hell yeah I would! If I could go to college without debt I would make it my job to get a degree in every little thing that interested me. I'd get a doctorate in film studies. I'd have a bachelor's degree for every science I like. I'd try to learn at least 5 languages with varying results. I would learn something "useful" like coding and then follow it up with a ""useless"" degree like art history. I'd be the world record speed run holder for getting every degree possible.

But I can't afford college without going into massive debt, so instead I spent the last 5 years trying to figure out what I am passionate enough about to consider going into debt over, because unfortunately being passionate about everything is extremely expensive to pursue.

[solbellaria]

Goodnight

[rotzaprachim]

I don’t think that uh “surnames are indicators of indigeneity” and “having (what I perceive to be) a Europeanized Slavic or Germanic surname is an indicator of having (what I perceive to be) solely European ancestry” is a rabbit hole we really want to go down given that one thing that oppressors do to the oppressed has been taking or rearranging and assimilating their names since basically forever

[damnikindadontcare]

Should’ve taken the hint when he gave you a fake phone number

[alexo-lotl]

doing some research on parapsychology as a field. in short, it's the study of how the supernatural relates to psychology, and is largely regarded as pseudoscience with only a handful of people studying it, and very very few universities will even offer a parapsych program.

so… martin, buddy, did you just google 'what degrees do people get for paranormal research' and go with the first one that popped up? you did didn't you. idiot.

[nicheretrohorrorgame]

things in genshinland crazy right now but what makes it funnier is the promo hsr just put out. Because Natlan is being critiqued for being white man Pharoah themed. Turns out, they saved all the melanin they had stored for the rest of their characters for all time and used it to create one (1) man with a skintone that is dark with slight cool undertones. From now on all hoyoverse characters will be paper white . What a sacrifice

[lhavibid]

FINALLY, i finished making her. Shantelle, my summer child

[orangerosebush]

At once, Artemis sees Butler as a father figure who must acquiesce to all his whims.

Yet, it is true that :

1) Butler doesn't see Artemis as a son per se (eg B1 and B5, Butler thinks of Artemis as akin to a little brother or younger close friend - hard to see yourself in a paternal role for someone over whom you have little power)

and 2) Artemis takes up the space in Butler's life that would be occupied by a child.

Relatedly.

Can you even like. imagine. how much of a nightmare Artemis would be if Butler ever had a child

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Alexandre Cabanel - Orestes, 1846.

[parisoonic]

Commission for @animathemutant of their OC Jenna, chilling with Heavy + Medic after a long day 💤 Pleasure to draw!

[eddienonense]

The fact that Allan didn’t get a boyfriend at the end of Barbie hurts me.

Someone please write fanfiction about him and magic earring Ken. Thank you.

[motorsport-jesus]

Good Time Jesus

Rating: Mature

Categories: Gen, M/M

Relationships: Alain Prost/Ayrton Senna, Ayrton Senna & Viviane Senna, Nicolas Prost & Ayrton Senna, Gerhard Berger & Ayrton Senna

Characters: Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, Viviane Senna, Leonardo Senna da Silva, Bianca Senna, Gerhard Berger, Ron Dennis, Nicolas Prost

Additional Tags: Gay Panic, Drunk Ayrton Is The Funniest Ayrton, Prank War In The Background, Alain is a war story this is comedy film, Ayrton Senna Is A Menace, Pining, Character Study, Slow Burn, written by an impatient person, Catholicism, I tried to focus on it less but Ayrton took over, Extended Metaphors, Unreliable Narrator, i feel like that should be obvious

Summary:

Ayrton Senna’s crush on Alain Prost is more fact of life than something to toil over. That is until he’s moving to another team and no longer is contractually obligated to spend time with Ayrton. Or, Ayrton Senna spends two years pining for Alain Prost and Sundays and everyone has to deal with it.

[gemglyph]

I’ll give you all some advice, but first let’s take a walk together through some of my life.

I have some family that was killed in the Holocaust. I did not learn this until recently, but in retrospect I probably should have known.

What I had learned (when I was “old enough” and it was therefore deemed okay to talk about) was that my ashkenazi family narrowly avoided being slaughtered in the Holocaust by escaping to the US before the US closed its borders to jewish refugees.

I have always known since I was little that some of my family are jews from Sicily. They avoided pogroms (jew hunts) by hiding that they’re jewish. This part of my family immigrated (probably actually fled) to the US prior to WWII (or WWI, my family bickers about this. We don’t have records, I guess).

In both instances, they have to hide who they are to protect themselves.

Life happens, jews persist, I’m born.

Elementary school, I’m told by my family I can’t talk about my home life at school. I’m singled out by my peers and bullied for being different. I move states. Go to an entirely different elementary school. I’m singled out and bullied for being different. Jewish. Kids know this word, I know this word, it’s the 2000s, people use jew as a slur. You know that they mean it that way. Because they say it like it’s wrong.

Middle school, I only fit in with the “weird kids”. I have maybe 5 friends.

One of my friends mom is obsessed with taking me to church if I were to attend a sleepover. When I stop spending time over there because she made me uncomfortable, two of my friends confess they’re only around me because they’re trying to convert me to catholicism.

I have 3 friends.

One of my friends say they can’t be around me because it gets them bullied for associating with a jew.

I have 2 friends.

One of my friends moves away.

I have 1 friend.

It takes me being in high school for two years before I actually make any new friends. Some online, some in person. I find a couple more people I connect with and call my friends. I don’t fit in with the rest of my classmates. I’m aggressively bullied by two different groups of classmates. Jew is still used as a slur. People yell “Heil Hitler” at me in the hallway. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve actually seen the Nazi salute in person.

Because “I look jewish enough, people can just tell. It’s a joke”.

Is it? Is it a joke?

2016. I just graduated highschool and I’m in my first week of my first semester of community college. I’m stalked to my car after night class and basically pinned between my car and a big truck. He grabbed my hair and hit my head against my car. This extremely tall man tells me he should beat me to death right now because I’m a disgusting jew. I believe he will.

I’m saved by a stranger who pulls up and makes the man uncomfortable enough that he leaves. In the large truck that had been parked next to me.

I had nothing on me that is “visibly jewish”. He followed me because I look jewish enough to torment. Because I am.

I hate myself for months because I froze. I start paranoia carrying concealed knives and pray I don’t have to use them. I obsess over learning self defense. I’m disabled and not sure I’d actually be able to protect myself. I learn anyway.

2017. I drop out of community college for a few different reasons. I’m stalked on social media. I delete a lot of my accounts.

I find a job. I’m harassed every shift for six months by a supervisor who said he was happy his family was Nazis in Germany. Among many, many other things. Such as gas chamber “jokes”. My manager tells me it was a joke and to not take it too seriously.

I was working at Starbucks.

2018. I’m told that my grandma dying is a good thing because there’s “one less jew in this world”. My grandma was buried in a grave at a local christian church that she attended most her life because that was the only community she had. We never said anything to anyone (it wasn’t safe). This was supposed to be a family friend. This is my grandma’s funeral.

Later I find out that someone stole the things we left at her grave.

2020. I’m working as a pharmacy technician. My coworkers find out I’m jewish and tell me “not to wear anything that could show that because the area isn’t safe” for me. Because I’m jewish.

I stay at this job for a year before returning to school.

2021. I don’t tell anyone, people guess because I “look jewish” and ask me based on appearance. I have found a more accepting community, but I don’t share much. I’ve learned better.

2022. I make it to University. I don’t talk much to classmates, but I make friends.

2023. I talk about religion with a friend at school, they find out I’m jewish. Some people start avoiding me after October. I have said nothing other than mentioning I’m jewish.

2024. I am told, to my face, by a college student, that jews control the United States government, the media, and Hollywood. Citing a major conspiracy theorist. When prompted to consider his sources, he tells me I’m only saying that because I’m jewish.

This list is not exhaustive, but it is exhausting. I’ve faced this shit my entire life and I’m not alone. My story isn’t unique.

It’s nearing the end of 2024. There has been a huge rise in antisemitism/bigotry over the past year. People are doing the same things they have always done. Tormenting jewish people, calling us slurs, telling us to kill ourselves. The list goes on.

The Nazis came for the jews first. Our neighbors turned on us. Other marginalized people we hoped we could rely on threw us out hoping to save themselves. Only for the Nazis to come for them.

First they came for us jews.

They will come for you.

Do something about it.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

the deep, resentful sigh lena let out when gwen said "she's a LADY." i know that sigh so well. that's the "oh my god she's a tory" sigh. my condolences king.

[just-1-scorpio]

I'm building a time machine. The goal is to get some of Euripides's lost plays.

The goal of the trip would be to get the fallowing playd:

Andromeda

Peliades

Bellerophon

Phaethon

Feel free to add more.

The trip would also include going to Egypt to record some myths, along side going to Sweeden, Norway, and Danmark to record some Norse myths. Other countries and they myths's recording may also ocour if we have time.

If the trip ends well, a second trip could be arranged.

If you are in it. Please help. I orderd the parts, but they didn't send an instuctions how to assemble them. So if you can help with this. So help is defenetly needed.