#sources are under the cut

[bloomerism]

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“Got any good stories?”

        “Maybe a few good songs.”

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finally making a post for @icaffeinecryptidi​‘s character Rho <3 he’s my bestie, my little meow meow, my favorite rock golem in the whole world

barbarian, path of the ancestral guardian

mary oliver, we shake with joy // the killers, be still // aeschylus, trans. anne carson, an oresteia // fun., i wanna be the one // @heavensghost​ // mary oliver, for tom shaw s.s.j.e. (1945-2014) // rebecca sugar, time adventure // mary oliver, we should be well prepared // sheppard, the best is yet to come // francisco goya, boy staring at an apparition (1824) // joshua hyslop, leavings // richard siken, landscape in a blur of conquerors // the collection, some days i don't want to sing (o' death where is thy sting?) // regina spektor, the call

[megsdoodletag]

the people have spoken so here we go

my idea for pre-mothening morty is a guy who would probably be one of the bigger brothers if he didn't have Shrimp Posture and wasn't also starved to hell. extensive vivisection scars.

Mothman morty can take his respirator off, the filters are actually these weird false eyes over a moth mouth that replace his lower jaw. He can talk fine it just looks funky. There's a permanent indent where the respirator seal usually sits; he doesn't remove it often. He does have moth ears, they're under the hood.

Bonus: Mortarion is the second uncle Juno meets. She gets sniffly and g-man freaks and calls Guy Who Knows About Diseases (it is a Common Cold. Morty is not happy about being woken up for this. he's like call me in four years when she needs her vaccinations and then stomps back home.)

Mortarion has very little interest in her which makes him relatively safe. Juno thinks he's Neat because she is partial to psykers and people related to dad, and he hasn't found a reason to terrify her out of her curiosity yet. Babies are basically like nurglings anyway, right?

@justeverythingnothingelse

[tls123]

ENCYCLOPEDIA - (...) Where were you before? You had to be somewhere. YOU - Up on Marvel Hill. ENCYCLOPEDIA - Why did you say that?

— original quote from disco elysium — dialogue screenshots from fayde (conversation branch) — inspired by this set by @revacholian-girl-utena — and mdzs disco elysium au by @poorly-drawn-mdzs

[littledozerdraws]

tiny devil Lalo is very in love with Nacho 🥰❤️‍🔥 (more under the cut and in source link)

[a-pen-and-a-nightmare]

Malnourished cat

[milflewis]

the thesis of mick schumacher: an abridged version

dedicated to @princemick for their day of birth

Hero’s Death by Athene Marston / Little Women (dir. Greta Gerwig) / Are You Satisfied? by MARINA / The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver / Muslim Girlhood by Leila Chattis / Sáenz by Benjamin Alire

[incorrect-agatha]

Jen: Sometimes I wonder what I’d taste like.

Rio: I can help with that.

Jen: *blushing thinking she means kissing*

Rio: *smirking with violent intent as she meant biting her*

[john-jonathy-jonathan-the-3rd]

Cyn is so

Your honor, it isnt warcrimes if she's wearing the Liam Vickers Smile™

[fireandiceland]

Germany wants YOU 👇🏻

to eat his Bratwurst !

[dekuscalves]

shinsou but. with pale skin, acne + acne scars, normal pupils, and if teeth r showing then a gap in his teeth? totally not for the fic im writing haha nooo

I'm half sure this ask is at least a year old but I got inspired out of nowhere so uh.

here he is I can't remember if he has dyed hair in the fic but I think he does? so I gave him dyed hair. I don't think ur writing it anymore but guys go look at my ex's fics they're really good

[a-dream-seeking-light]

“Huge lightning bolt in Kangiqsujuaq yesterday [on July 4, 2023] photographed by Natasha Irniq, followed by loud thunder! ᐊᖏᔪᖅ ᖃᐅᒻᒪᓚᒃ ᑲᖏᕐᓱᔪᐊᒥ ᐃᑉᐸᓴᖅ ᐊᑦᔨᓕᐊᕕᓂᖅ ᓇᑖᓴ ᐃᕐᓂᒧᑦ, ᑭᖑᓂᐊᒍᑦ ᓂᐸᕆᑦᑐᕕᓂᖅ” --Alec Gordon/CBC Tuttavik

Here are both unedited shots from the photographer’s original FB post: 

Natasha Irniq:  Wow  kallialukainatuq

Also on FB is a link to her video of the event.  

Here’s an interview from CBC Tuttavik aired on July 5, 2023. 

And finally here is a reddit thread in which a theory is discussed that most likely explains this as an optical camera effect caused by its horizontally rolling shutter.   

[zhansww]

© -冬杪-

※re-posted with permission ※please don’t remove the source

[zoekrystall]

Made an okami moodboard for comfort. Such a comfort game since I first stumbled across it. 🌸

Listened to:

番闲 - 仕事してP (Paired wintry wind by Shigotoshite-P)

神のまにまに - rerulili (At god's mercy)

[balladetto]

refs for my recently added primary muses! from left to right, they are:

PATCHES ( A Link Between Worlds, Triforce Heroes )

dyes his hair with irene's help ( natural colour is dark brown )

the earrings are a gift from gulley!

their green tunic is really just their work uniform, so it tends to be paired with their apron when they're on the clock. they rarely wear their blue or red mails and usually leave them at home rather than in their inventory

the brace he's wearing postgame is a ( much less powerful ) replica of the one ravio gifted him that he forged himself

LINH ( Spirit Tracks )

as he's hylian-komo, his ears are smaller than most hylians'

it didn't take long for the novelty of the soldier's getup to give way to the discomfort of being in it, so those were replaced with his engineer's uniform as soon as they could be ( and returned to zelda postgame )

while he gave the spirit flute back to zelda after their journey, she eventually gifted him a pan-flute she personally commissioned for him <3

CORI ( The Minish Cap )

even when he's not actually wearing it, he'll always have ezlo's hat on him somewhere ( usually tied around a wrist, forearm, or bicep )

like patches, his tunic is his work uniform! as it's the most "official" outfit he has, he wears it when patrolling hyrule or otherwise travelling — hanging out with zelda is the only time he really takes it off postgame

looooves roc's cape for how it makes him look minish-like when it fully covers him, but also, when paired with his pegasus boots, running becomes a recreational activity sdlfkjs

[menelaiad]

Agamemnon is explicitly stated to be hot/muscular. It's in the source material. Books 2 and 3 in particular. I highly doubt being compared to the Gods meant being "chubby" or super old. The ancient text obviously wouldn't say "ripped" because that wasn't in their vocabulary. But they refer to him as everything else that such a body would imply.

And Achilles was saying things in anger in Book 1. Everyone forgets how in Book 23, Achilles pretty much retracts everything he said and claims Agamemnon is the best natural warrior which he was.

tldr; im a petty bitch

y'all are SO PRESSED ON THIS LMAOOO I'M CRYING

'ripped' isn't in their vocabulary?? but 'hot' and 'muscular' are? really?

AGAIN about your last point, cause people who are so pressed about this just keep ignoring it: YOU CAN BE A WARRIOR. AND NOT BE CONVENTIONALLY 'RIPPED'. NOTHING ABOUT A HUMAN BEING - A HUMAN MAN HAVING A SLIGHT TUMMY WILL STOP HIM BEING ABLE TO RUN, FIGHT, KILL PEOPLE AND BE A WARRIOR. YOUR WEIGHT IS NOT AN AUTOMATIC INDICATOR OF YOUR FITNESS LEVEL/ABILITIES.

that's y'alls prejudice about larger people coming through. this stupid belief that the ancient world represented 'the peak masculine alpha ideal' no????? this whole 'if man strong and can stab and have sex with woman then man must be muscley and ripped cause that make man sexy' like shut up.

it's baffling to me that you're all so heated on this. the mere thought of a human man having a tummy is sending you all west. you can't cope. a human man who consumed copious amounts of alcohol (because ancient greeks just did???) and probably had a very rich diet. having tummy??? NO. ILLEGAL.

im sorry but im cracking up over here. i couldnt care less whether people think aga has a 16-pack, that he's skinny as a twig, that he's fat, that he's not, that he's somewhere in between - idc. but your adamancy against 'slight tummy' aga. is just ..... fatphobic. and i never thought i'd type that word out being a fucking classics blog lmaooo.

i have shared so many DUMB opinions on this blog. from menelaus' teeth to odyssues' hairy feet and yet the thing that gets the most reaction from people - is agamemnon's weight.

that's what's pissing me off. everything else? whatever have your own opinion, you weird menelaus girl. but the sECOND i say why i think i character might be a lil chubby OOF ouTRAGE. IM A FOOL.

also your point is just so incredible. my issue isn't with you thinking aga was a ripped sex god crafted by aphrodite herself. it's your use of the word 'explicitly' cause aga's size (in regards to his weight) is NEVER explicitly stated ANYWHERE. so we're both just having our own opinions. but mine has got you so pressed????

i own a couple translations of the iliad. lets look at some. and see the descriptions of aga, shall we? cause i know exactly which sections you mean in book 2 and 3. contrary to your apparent belief, i have read the iliad.

we'll do book 2 first to make it all easier to follow:

PETER GREEN

“among them the lord Agamemnōn, in eyes and head like Zeus who delights in the thunderbolt, like Arēs in girth, and with the chest of Poseidōn. As one steer in a herd of cattle stands out, far above them all— the bull, distinguished among the cows assembled round it— such a one on that day Zeus rendered Atreus’s son, preeminent among many, of heroes the foremost.”

... again. nothing really? girthy??? eyes like zeus (nice)??? tall??? nothing about weight here babes.

CAROLINE ALEXANDER

there to go into combat, and with them was lord Agamemnon— his eyes and head like Zeus who hurls the thunderbolt, his girth like Ares, his chest like Poseidon’s. As when an ox stands out from all others in the herd, a bull who is preeminent among the gathered cattle, so did Zeus on that day render the son of Atreus conspicuous amid the multitude, outstanding among warriors.

pretty much the same?? gets called an 'ox' here though. ooooh

ROBERT FAGLES.

and there in the midst strode powerful Agamemnon, eyes and head like Zeus who loves the lightning, great in the girth like Ares, god of battles, broad through the chest like sea Lord Poseidon. Like a bull rising head and shoulders over the herds, a royal bull rearing over his flocks of driven cattle — so imposing was Atreus' son, so Zeus made him that day, towering over fighters, looming over armies.

just more girth stuff. that can mean his shoulders?? his chest?? his ass? bro we don't know. was aga just THICC. his cheeks always alerting the trojans???

ROBERT FITZGERALD.

Agamemnon's lordly mien was like the mien of Zeus whose joy is lightning; oalken-waisted as Ares, god of war, he seemed, and deep-chested as Lord Poseidon, and as a great bull in his majesty towers supreme amid a grazing herd, so on that dav Zeus made the son of Atreus tower over his host, supreme among them.

i like this one tbf. this one has got more meat on it. 'oaken waisted'. nice nice. again. i don't see oak trees are particullarly 'narrow' but hey. interpretation is what makes this field so great.

RICHARD LATTIMORE

“powerful Agamemnon, with eyes and head like Zeus who delights in thunder, like Ares for girth, and with the chest of Poseidon; like some ox of the herd pre-eminent among the others, a bull, who stands conspicuous in the huddling cattle; such was the son of Atreus as Zeus made him that day, conspicuous among men, and foremost among the fighters.”

STANLEY LOMBARDO

To enter battle, and Lord Agamemnon Moved among them like Zeus himself, The look in his eyes, the carriage of his head, With a torso like Ares', or like Poseidon's. Picture a bull that stands out from the herd Head and horns above the milling cattle— Zeus on that day made the son of Atreus A man who stood out from the crowd of heroes.

SEE this one we're not even talking about his LITERAL appearance but how he's holding himself. how he acts. his CONFIDENCE. cool take, stan. i like it.

STEPHEN MITCHELL

“and among them was Agamemnon, his splendid eyes and head like almighty Zeus’s, his thighs like the thighs of Ares, his chest like Poseidon’s. As a bull stands out in a herd above all the others, sovereign among the cows as they graze in a field: just so, on that day, did Lord Zeus make Agamemnon supreme over all the warriors massed before Troy.”

LOVE the thigh mention Mitchell. nice nice.

'The ancient text obviously wouldn't say "ripped" because that wasn't in their vocabulary. But they refer to him as everything else that such a body would imply.'

bro all i'm getting is the word 'girthy'?? if you want me to be a bitch about it, that's not a word i'd put with someone who is 'ripped'. if anything, they're implying he got junk in his trunk. i truly hand on heart. cannot see anything in the book 2 translations that imply or indicate to me that he does not have a tummy. that he is rocking a six pack. WHICH IS FINE. we can play with it and form our own opinions. but you're THIS IMPLIES .... is wrong??? it doesn't imply anything dude????

all we can infer from any of the book two stuff is that he's a man who is larger than the other men around him - literally? metaphorically? we dont know. (which is all horseshit anyway cause priam later goes on to say he's a short arse which is helpful). and that he shares qualities with the gods. again, literally? metaphorically? bit of both? we. don't. know.

TIME FOR BOOK 3. the priam and helen thirst.

PETER GREEN

“and to put a name for me to that huge warrior down there, that Achaian leader, of such stature and so strong: others there may be taller still by a head, and yet so fine a man have I never set eyes on, nor one so majestic in bearing—he looks to be of royal blood.” helen later calls him a 'strong spearman'

CAROLINE ALEXANDER

tell me the name of this gigantic man, who is this Achaean man, good and great? To be sure there are other men even greater in height, but I have never beheld with my eyes a man so handsome, nor so majestic; for he seems a kingly man. helen later calls him a 'powerful spear-warrior'

ROBERT FAGLES

“ tell me the name of that tremendous fighter. Look, who's that Achaean there, so stark and grand? Many others afield are much taller, true, but I have never yet set eyes on one so regal, so majestic . . . That man must be a king!” helen later calls him a 'strong spearman'

ROBERT FITZGERALD

Come, tell me who the big man is out there, who is that powerful figure? Other men are taller, but I never saw a soldier clean-cut as he, as royal in his bearing: he seems a kingly man. helen later calls his a 'formidable warrior'

RICHARD LATTIMORE

“You could tell me the name of this man who is so tremendous; who is this Achaian man of power and stature? Though in truth there are others taller by a head than he is, yet these eyes have never yet looked on a man so splendid nor so lordly as this: such a man might well be royal.” helen later calls him a 'strong spearfighter'

STANLEY LOMBARDO

Now tell me, who is that enormous man Towering over the Greek troops, handsome, Well-built? I've never laid eyes on such A fine figure of a man. He looks like a king. helen later calls him a 'strong warrior'

STEPHEN MITCHELL

“Tell me now, what is the name of that splendid man who is standing down there, so powerful and so tall. To be sure, there are other men who are even taller, but never before have I seen a man so majestic, so splendid in form and bearing. He must be a king.” helen later calls him a 'mighty soldier'

again. in all of these - nothing. all that's consistent is that he's not the tallest man at troy. which means ..... very little ASDFGHJK. there is Nothing concrete here. nothing that points us more one way than it does the other.

ultimately, dude, what we've got is.... nothing. nothing concrete. nothing definitive. i can't say you're wrong and you can't say i'm wrong.

i saw the phrase 'wine sack' and interpreted it my way and you saw it and interpreted it differently. but books 2 and 3 certainly don't back either of us up more definitively.

and in regards to his age. same thing. you can't say i'm wrong and i can't say you're wrong. but i've explained my reasonings for aga's age using sources HERE

idk man. if you're looking for an EXPLICITLY YOUNG CHISELED ABS LEGEND MALE CHARACTER. look elsewhere.

[najeeharris]

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