#simply terrible

[idk-i-just-really-like-tsc]

where did magnus go this sucks. james and cordelia and matthew are in a worse situation due to miscommunication than i thought possible!

[delcat177]

No capes, all heroes

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[jolikmc-thoughts]

… really? It is? I had no idea it was my YouTube Channel's birthday, today… I created my channel on March 20th, 2006, then? Well, let's see what my first posted video was!

Mega Man World (ROM hack) - Cutman Stage by Jo Li KMC on YouTube

… disgusting. This is the worst birthday ever. (,:

[laly]

Maedhros: yeah so since angband is pretty close we still get a lot of volcanic activity under and around Himring. Which means, thanks to Morgoth himself, we have some heated rooms and regular warm baths. Pff, and some say the Valar don't care for us, right?

Nobody laughs.

Maedhros thinks he's VERY funny.

[sunshinetrinket]

but i'm glad its not 2022 anymore because now i can be normal and just say something isnt canon because i know better

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

As an owner of an xxy calico Jin rusong as an xxy calico is both so fun to see but so fitting and so sad in context of your warrior cats au

May I offer you a small consolation in the form of a slightly older Jin Rusong kitty?

[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.

[jzargo]

Never has "you praise a male character for the same traits you hate a female character for" been more true than with how fans react to Astarion vs Minthara

[dragon-ducky]

RETURN THEIR DENTURES THIS INSTANT

FRICK YOU

*unteeths your turtles*

[wild0moon]

the lucky one

[cockroachesunite]

[fredmundo]

Joong's professor every day of class forever now

[aaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaa]

[sundayinthcpark]

actual life goal is forcing spirkers to acknowledge bones at all

[quirkle2]

space/saturn imagery ritsu i love you

[hooked-on-elvis]

September or November 1971. Elvis performing "I Got A Woman" and "Proud Mary". He's wearing the Black Fireworks suit with the original belt.

The Black Fireworks is a black jumpsuit with a matching green lined cape. This was the very first jumpsuit that was designed with a matching cape. Source/credits: elvisconcerts.com