#rambling is my favourite

[a-drama-addict]

not caring too much about a fandom’s favourite guy is the worst. you’ll think “oh i’ll look into the tag see if anything new and cool’s there” and it’s just that fucking guy again

[toomanyfandomsorkinafs]

Okay, so you have officially given me too much power with allowing me to ramble at you, so here we go, ramble 2.0!

So, I was trying to art today, you know how it is when you have that one fic that has art that needs to be done and you're the only one who can do it, so I was doing that, and, well, art doesn't like me all that much, at least art with 4 characters in it doesn't. I managed to get the pencil outline done, which is one of the hardest parts in my opinion, and it will be posted with the corresponding DF chapter, but wow did it fight.

I was also looking back at the chapters of DF that I have yet to post, and boy are you guys in for it. I give you a healthy dose of fluff beforehand, but oof are we about to hit the angst hard. I have to go back through and add onto the angst because I sort of added something to make it angsty, and then glossed over it, so, ya'know, more angst to give you all!

While I'm rambling, I may as well mention work, because, if I thought my art was giving me a hard time, today has been a rough one at work. We started off quiet, like very quiet, and then things exploded. We had order after order come in, not to mention an important customer also came in (someone who is looking to buy the restaurant from us) so that was fun, almost as fun as tripping over the lip in the kitchen and nearly cracking my head open. Thankfully, I'm fine, but boy did I not need that right then!

Alright, I think that's about it for today's ramble, and I doubt there will be one tomorrow as I am catering at yet another event tomorrow (thankfully that's the last one before the weddings and Thanksgiving). I will be getting a chapter of DF out though before I have to hit the road, so there is that.

Alright, ramble over. Love you <3 /p

HEHEHE MORE RAMBLES FOR ME!! I love hearing people talk to me! You don’t know how much this helps calm me down to know that someone is willing to just talk more then just three lines ❤️

I get that- few weeks ago I tried rating and well- let’s just say that the mushrooms didn’t really mush or room….

Also woah! I can relate to that when like we have multiple guests coming in for like one day or two right after each other then one for like a month(Very stressful when one leaves at 2 and the other comes in at 3:30 or 4!😭)

Thank you for rambling! I love you too<3/p

[chronicowboy]

this post & merthur

[somegrumpynerd]

Thinking about how Nightmare has 4 mortals and 3 of them are so so bad at taking care of themselves

[terrifiedlimechime]

im bored so random headcanon time yet again! on the stan o' war 2, stan rounded out/removed and triangular things in their bedroom out of paranoia, but he didn't want to appear "wimpish" to ford so when he asked about it stan simply said:

"don't want you jerking off to that freak in a shared room!"

they're so stupid I love them

[melit0n]

Some cryptid photos of Vessel (+ ii) that I've collected over the past week. The fact that almost all of them look like they came out of trail cam footage is absolutely sending me

[lazylittledragon]

do you think you'll be drawing more wyll in the future? just wondering because i really like how you drew him in that baby comic! no worries if it's not in your plans, just curious :)

i hope so!!! he’s actually one of my favourites to draw, i think the reason i don’t have a lot of art of him is because i draw mostly tav stuff and i haven’t romanced him yet

also his sticker on the companion sheet is my favourite :3

[squishydem0ns]

So I realised why their dynamic felt so familiar/why I love them so much...

Charlie and Angel 🤝 Luz and Hunter: traumatised but optimistic girls who see the best in everyone, who adopt also-traumatised bad-but-sad-boys as their big brothers, help them heal, see past the edgy facade they've always had to put up to survive and don't judge them for their past mistakes, and act as the family they never had 🥹👍

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Do you like sci-fi and indie animation? Check out Monkey Wrench!

[homkamiro]

DEAR @thetriggeredhappy YOU'VE BEEN GIVEN ME HEART ATTACKS LIKE 5 TIMES A WEEK PLEASE LET ME LIVE

[cheebuss]

Her body is a machine that turns $1.50 Banquet meals and Cup O' Noodles into the most godawful cinephile Letterboxd reviews you've ever seen

[hajihiko]

Picking people for his gang like rotten apples off the ground

[thermodynamic-comedian]

i bring a sort of "sanders sides poses some genuinely interesting questions about identity and how we define and seperate parts of ourselves" vibe to the club that nobody likes.

[raplinenthusiasts]

Bon Voyage 4

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[gingermintpepper]

In my Zeus bag today so I'm just gonna put it out there that exactly none of the great Ancient Greek warrior-heroes stayed loyal and faithful and completely monogamous and yet none of them have their greatness questioned nor do we question why they had the cultural prominence that they did and still do.

Jason, the brilliant leader of the Argo, got cold feet when it came to Medea - already put off by some of her magic and then exiled from his birthland because of her political ploys, he took Creusa to bed and fully intended on marrying her despite not properly dissolving things with Medea.

Theseus was a fierce warrior and an incredibly talented king but he had a horrible temper and was almost fatally weak to women. This is the man who got imprisoned in the Underworld for trying to get a friend laid, the man who started the whole Attic War because he couldn't keep his legs closed.

And we cannot at all forget Heracles for whom a not inconsiderable amount of his joy in life was loving people then losing the people around him that he loved. Wives, children, serving boys, mentors, Heracles had a list of lovers - male and female - long enough to rival some gods and even after completing his labours and coming down to the end of his life, he did not have one wife but three.

And y'know what, just because he's a cultural darling, I'll put Achilles up here too because that man was a Theseus type where he was fantastic at the thing he was born to do (that is, fight whereas Theseus' was to rule) but that was not enough to eclipse his horrid temper and his weakness to young pretty things. This is the man that killed two of Apollo's sons because they wouldn't let him hit - Tenes because he refused to let Achilles have his sister and Troilus who refused Achilles so vehemently that he ran into Apollo's temple to avoid him and still couldn't escape.

All four of these men are still celebrated as great heroes and men. All four of these men are given the dignity of nuance, of having their flaws treated as just that, flaws which enrich their character and can be used to discuss the wider cultural point of what truly makes a hero heroic. All four of these men still have their legacies respected.

Why can that same mindset not be applied to Zeus? Zeus, who was a warrior-king raised in seclusion apart from his family. Zeus who must have learned to embrace the violence of thunder for every time he cried as a babe, the Corybantes would bang their shields to hide the sound. Zeus learned to be great because being good would not see the universe's affairs in its order.

The wonderful thing about sympathy is that we never run out of it. There's no rule stopping us from being sympathetic to multiple plights at once, there's no law that necessitate things always exist on the good-evil binary. Yes, Zeus sentenced Prometheus to sufferation in Tartarus for what (to us) seems like a cruel reason. Prometheus only wanted to help humans! But when you think about Prometheus' actions from a king's perspective, the narrative is completely different: Prometheus stole divine knowledge and gifted it to humans after Zeus explicitly told him not to. And this was after Prometheus cheated all the gods out of a huge portion of wealth by having humans keep the best part of a sacrifice's meat while the gods must delight themselves with bones, fat and skin. Yes, Zeus gave Persephone away to Hades without consulting Demeter but what king consults a woman who is not his wife about the arrangement of his daughter's marriage to another king? Yes, Zeus breaks the marriage vows he set with Hera despite his love of her but what is the Master of Fate if not its staunchest slave?

The nuance is there. Even in his most bizarre actions, the nuance and logic and reason is there. The Ancient Greeks weren't a daft people, they worshipped Zeus as their primary god for a reason and they did not associate him with half the vices modern audiences take issue with. Zeus was a father, a visitor, a protector, a fair judge of character, a guide for the lost, the arbiter of revenge for those that had been wronged, a pillar of strength for those who needed it and a shield to protect those who made their home among the biting snakes. His children were reflections of him, extensions of his will who acted both as his mercy and as his retribution, his brothers and sisters deferred to him because he was wise as well as powerful. Zeus didn't become king by accident and it is a damn shame he does not get more respect.