#straightaway

[fruitpunchnoice]

[red-moon-at-night]

"and when thou sawest him thy fancy straight became thy Cypris; for every sensual act that men commit, they lay upon this goddess, and rightly does her name of Aphrodite begin the word for "senselessness"; so when thou didst catch sight of him in gorgeous foreign garb, ablaze with gold, thy senses utterly forsook thee."

— Euripides, The Trojan Women (translation by E. P. Coleridge)

[lukamodric]

oh he enjoyed this one so much i can tell

[juneknight]

alright i started writing that Nathan Bateman fic that's been itching at my b r a i n

I'm aiming for it to be a oneshot but........i usually aim for things to be oneshots and we all see how that works out

[aurorangen]

Look who's a teen now!

[frodo-baggins]

guys i need ideas for a tolkien-themed name for my first car

[contagious-watermelon]

y'all i don't think it counts as aro representation if they never actually show it in the source material

[whistlingstarlight]

Not to be a vampire apologist but I too would be pretty pissed if a bunch of kids broke into my home, killed my brother whilst he was sleeping and then kidnapped my sister(?) and youngest brother. Might wanna cheeky bit of vengeance y'know?

[lovemadethemdoit]

me writing jake pov: jake is an idiot and if he let himself, he‘d know it

me writing bradley pov: bradley is an idiot and he knows it

[iftitah]

my boyfriend has such a good relationship with her sister it makes me jealous. he teases her, she buys all the clothes he wears, he borrows money from her, they play fight all the time. he says that his sister saved him he almost worships her. i guess thats what i wanted to be for my younger brother; a god, someone he could look up to but i call my mother and playfully tell him he never never talks to me and he says why should he i never listened to him. i didn't know i was so cruel. i was so busy being a teenager i forgot i was an elder sister too. and im not sure we're siblings according to however they define. if i didn't know him, id never have known him. there's nothing we share in common. he tells me he hates almost everything about me but says i guess youre a better sister in comparison to all the sisters of my friends. he's just a stranger in my house living together because we were birthed by the same woman. and i could rip out my heart for him and hed still say i didn't ask you to. i used to hug him all the time forcefully, squeezing him near me but he'd struggle and shout at me to get away but this time when i left home after diwali, he didn't push me away and for the first time ever he hugged me back. and today i hurt someone, so i remembered him because a part of me knows i used to hurt him all the time.

[fruitpunchnoice]

My therapist: "They were pigs? And they ran into the water?"

Me: "Straightaway into the water."

Therapist: "I think they drowned."

Me: "No, they triumphed!"

[john-gosh-darnielle]

let me ride

where the dragonflies glide

[teaandinanity]

Man, the thing about very twisty mountain roads is that sometimes you come around a bend and there's just an Unexpected Object In Your Fuckin' Lane, right there.

This happened to me THREE TIMES coming back from the grocery store.

The bicyclist was insane, speed limit is 55, there's fuckall visibility and apocalyptic grades that HAVE to make your whole entire leg want to fall off, lanes are narrow, there's no shoulder and nowhere to go if a car does decide 'fuck sharing the road'. The guy coming the other way who slowed down so I had to almost come to a stop to wait for him to pass before I could slide halfway into the other lane to go around said cyclist with actual clearance rather than running them over had me like 'sir why have you chosen to make my life harder and worse. FOOT OFF THE BRAKE. MOVE.' Cyclist was on my side of the road going my direction so I'm not sure what his damage was or if he was just choosing violence.

The turkey was cute but also I hope it moved because immediately after I saw it I saw a truck coming the other direction around yet another blind curve.

And then I came around a bend to the mail jeep half in the other lane and a goddamn hauler truck full of logs fully in MY lane coming towards me and I went,

'This is the universe telling me I should drive less and appreciate being alive more, huh.'

[fluentisonus]

never give up on your dreams (putting on breeches and becoming a rake)

[atyourperil]

The thing you all fundamentally need to understand about me is that I come from Chino, so all your threats are empty!

[lovenpeace-pkmn]

It’d be interesting to hear about the differences in iconography etc between Plasma’s Draconism vs more traditional forms of Draconism…

Well, the basic symbols of Draconism are quite common throughout Unova...fire and lightning, the juxtapositions of black and white or orange and cyan. Team Plasma tended more towards lightning imagery than fire, although it is far from the only group to do so so don't go accusing anyone of things based on that alone.

Most of the Plasma-specific symbols were things that Ghetsis introduced from a sense of overblown theatrics, which were then given symbolic significance by Zinzolin (who saw anything vaguely mythological as a kind of game) or by Giallo and the grunts attributing meaning to them over time.

There was, ah...have you noticed Ghetsis' eye motif? Connie believes it had some personal significance to him, but it was popularly seen as symbolizing his wisdom and foresight in bringing together the sages to herald the coming of the king.

The sages all had individual motifs as well, normally based around the colors they were named after but also things such as Zinzolin's association with the Ice type. That actually predated Opelucid.

Concordia and I were associated with Pokémon with folkloric ties to our deific roles--most often togekiss, arboliva, or tranquill for her and luvdisc, woobat, and toucannon for me.

I...have sort of lost track of where I was going with this.