#she is the bane to my existence

[exanimategrl]

Sometimes you have to kill the version of your mother that you created in your head when you were a young age

[tendafoot]

things i will never forgive the duffers for: denying us the spectacle of robin absolutely READING billy's ass

[shyravenns]

Got a cod x oc (Claire) commission done by the wonderful @/roselump over on twitter, and I am just so overjoyed at how it looks 🥺

Pls go check out their stuff, but do keep in mind that it is a NSFW account!

[trek-tracks]

Silly post now doubly blessed by Trek royalty, creator over the moon, film at 11

[captainhysunstuff]

@deathnotetober Day 2: SPK

Team Kira had better watch out.

[ewwww-what]

Do you think it’s possible that my god is Kristen?

[stuckinapril]

A major annoying thing about being in a male dominated stem field (chemistry for me) is you basically work w guys 99% of the time & they ALL think you have a crush on them if you’re even fleetingly nice. And so far I’ve refused to water down my personality to compensate for it but it’s so annoying knowing I’m inadvertently feeding into someone’s unchecked ego

[royalarchivist]

Jaiden: Oh my goodness– WHOA! Whoa– wait– you can't– who's– Well who's this, Bobby? Who's this??? You can't have other Eggs on– you can't have Eggs in- in your– [Bobby breaks the bed] Oh!

Roier: [Laughs] No Bobby, who is that?

Jaiden: Bobby has a girlfriend already? You can't sleep in the same bed as this other Egg!

Roier: Bobby, is this your girlfriend? [Laughs]

A small misunderstanding during the first day of the QSMP Egg event.

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Roier: A... a bed. No?

Jaiden: Oh, do we? Does– do you want a bed or do you want a little nest, maybe...?

Roier: Do you want a bed, do you want–

[Bobby places a bed down, which has his Egg model in it already]

Roier: [Laughs in surprise] What? WHAT!

Jaiden: Oh my goodness– WHOA! Whoa– wait– you can't– who's– Well who's this, Bobby? Who's this???

Roier: No, who is this?

Jaiden: You can't have other Eggs on– you can't have Eggs in- in your– [Bobby breaks the bed] Oh!

Roier: [Laughs] No Bobby, who is that?

Jaiden: Bobby has a girlfriend already? You can't sleep in the same bed as this other Egg!

Roier: Bobby, is this your girlfriend? [Laughs]

[Bobby wiggles]

Jaiden: Twins? No wait– no twins, not twins! Girlfriend...?

Roier: Bobby, you're not old enough to have a girlfriend, Bobby. You're too little! No! [Chuckles] He can't have a girlfriend, he's too young.

Jaiden: I don't think– [Laughs] I don't think we were ready for– for this already! Already Bobby having girls over...

Roier: No... No Bobby...

Jaiden: Bobby, what– You grow up so fast, Bobby!

[dawnofiight]

Now Presenting: Amanda

The most gyaru wolf ever.

[cindercrows]

My other Baxter shitposts:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

[myreia]

— vi. the last

They stay. They go. Ebbs and flows, as certain as the tide that will take his ship to sea. Their responsibilities take them in different directions. This is the way it has always been, and in truth, they prefer it. Independent to a fault, wanderers in answer to different calls. But the time apart makes the time together all the more sweeter. Goodbye for now does not mean goodbye forever.   Till next we meet.

[mylittleversaille]

Every day I see more and more pop myth takes that make me want to pull my eyelashes out. No, Ares was not a protector of women. No, Aphrodite was not a war goddess (and you know what, being the goddess of sex and lust and beaut is okay!). No, Hera is not an irredeemable villain. No, Zeus is not evil incarnate. No Achilles isn’t without fault or some ‘gay softboi’ icon (he’s literally presented in the Iliad as someone who is proud to a fault. You’re supposed to recognize that he’s selfish and arrogant). No, Demeter was not an overbearing mother nor was Hades some sort of misunderstood, brooding knight in shining armour. Medea is allowed to commit heinous crimes and still be a sympathetic character. Jason… deserves all the hate he gets, respectfully.

Off the top of my head, I think Helen is one of the few people who gets complex, interesting characterization in modern retellings and discourse, ironically enough. She’s allowed to be vain and aware of her own beauty while also often having a great deal of agency. At the same time, she is frequently depicted as both victim and as offender. She’s allowed to want to be in Troy, but also to miss her husband and daughter.

Some days I feel like I could write essays about pop mythology and the way people reduce mythological figures to one dimensional caricatures. And how these retellings are never as progressive as people think, fixing some issues but exacerbating others. I do think retellings end up being an excellent resource for identifying what social issues bother us and how we would like to address them.

For example, we see a lot of feminist retellings that want to show women as capable of the same things as men, and in so doing they reject or deride their own femininity. But a retelling that is ultimately saying that masculinity is more interesting or valuable than femininity isn’t a truly feminist retelling, but it does show us that our society struggles to find femininity compatible with strength or courage.

[queerholmcs]

blood is everything you need to know, zoe, if you understand how to read it. have you worked out how yet? if you ever hope to match me, you'll have to.

iii. the dark compass // bbc dracula (2020)

[theexhaustedqueer]

I knew this would happen

[ritsuuu-0206]

Avatrice in bed!!

[humming-fly]

So a lot of people have been trying to guess what was up with Lust’s bad deal in the immortals!au that I’ve hinted at a few times, and I figured I’ve kept everyone in suspense long enough to share haha - honestly I thought the little hints i dropped in their og title cards would give it away so glad it managed to sneak by most folks :P

big shoutout to @quacksalot​ for kindly tossing some money in my hat and telling me to just have fun with it, i’m happy to take any excuse to make au bullshit!

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