#the anguished one

[emilianatsuki]

Al Saiduq/Alcor route in Devil Survivor 2 is the gayest route possible. You ignore all factions and drama to go "Yeah, sorry guys I'm siding with my alien boyfriend! See you!"

[howtodigatrench]

team seafoam !!!

[chivalry-ramu]

[foundfamilyhq]

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[shirecorn]

Monsters

Bittersweet Dreams || Perspective || Evil || Fighter

[specialagentartemis]

in middle school during my Intense Greek Mythology Phase, Artemis was, as you can likely guess, my best girl. Iphigenia was my OTHER best girl. Yes at the same time.

The story of Iphigenia always gets to me when it's not presented as a story of Artemis being capricious and having arbitrary rules about where you can and can't hunt, but instead, making a point about war.

Artemis was, among other things--patron of hunting, wild places, the moon, singlehood--the protector of young girls. That's a really important aspect she was worshipped as: she protected girls and young women. But she was the one who demanded Agamemnon sacrifice his daughter in order for his fleet to be able to sail on for Troy.

There's no contradiction, though, when it's framed as, Artemis making Agamemnon face what he’s doing to the women and children of Troy. His children are not in danger. His son will not be thrown off the ramparts, his daughters will not be taken captive as sex slaves and dragged off to foreign lands, his wife will not have to watch her husband and brothers and children killed. Yet this is what he’s sailing off to Troy to inevitably do. That’s what happens in war. He’s going to go kill other people’s daughters; can he stand to do that to his own? As long as the answer is no—he can kill other people’s children, but not his own—he can’t sail off to war.

Which casts Artemis is a fascinating light, compared to the other gods of the Trojan War. The Trojan War is really a squabble of pride and insults within the Olympian family; Eris decided to cause problems on purpose, leaving Aphrodite smug and Hera and Athena snubbed, and all of this was kinda Zeus’s fault in the first place for not being able to keep it in his pants. And out of this fight mortal men were their game pieces and mortal cities their prizes in restoring their pride. And if hundreds of people die and hundred more lives are ruined, well, that’s what happens when gods fight. Mortals pay the price for gods’ whims and the gods move on in time and the mortals don’t and that’s how it is.

And women especially—Zeus wanted Leda, so he took her. Paris wanted Helen, so he took her. There’s a reason “the Trojan women” even since ancient times were the emblems of victims of a war they never wanted, never asked for, and never had a say in choosing, but was brought down on their heads anyway.

Artemis, in the way of gods, is still acting through human proxies. But it seems notable to me to cast her as the one god to look at the destruction the war is about to wreak on people, and challenge Agamemnon: are you ready to kill innocents? Kill children? Destroy families, leave grieving wives and mothers? Are you? Prove it.

It reminds me of that idea about nuclear codes, the concept of implanting the key in the heart of one of the Oval Office staffers who holds the briefcase, so the president would have to stab a man with a knife to get the key to launch the nukes. “That’s horrible!,” it’s said the response was. “If he had to do that, he might never press the button!” And it’s interesting to see Artemis offering Agamemnon the same choice. You want to burn Troy? Kill your own daughter first. Show me you understand what it means that you’re about to do.

[hawkinsunderground]

-crack me open and all that's left inside is what's been done to me-

[150en]

People who think it's rare for Etho to make strange sounds like the pathetic wet cat sigh, "asjdkdjshks" verbal keysmash, non-stop giggles, yelling so loud that the mic goes weird, or going like AUUUUGH, please watch one (1) episode of any Team Canada series. You can find it all there.

Pause and Beef can make Etho experience emotions that haven't been invented yet. And vice versa actually. They take turns tormenting each other. It's like a sitcom to me.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: meta

[martyrbat]

well maybe if you look at bernie wrightson's frankenstein art youll calm down!

[emilianatsuki]

I really like Yoko Hiromine character wise but Alcor just feels like a better explored and justifiable version of her character. Also he and Hibiki's bond is established really well across the game. Devil Survivor 2 is amazing.

[worstofantis]

This has got to be the saddest thing I've ever seen. The comments on this TikTok are deplorable. "Well she kind of deserved it" Did she REALLY deserve to be doxxed and threatened for buying a fucking manga??

The manga btw is yarichin bitch club. Which idk shit about but it is not fucking shotacon I'll tell you that. It's like. Idk highschool horny drama? Aka Euphoria is just the damn same so what's the big deal???

[remitro]

a pale imitation of the real thing

more random doodles for funsies ^_^

[araekniarchive]

eve, after the fall (auguste rodin; bronze, 1883)

Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve // Hozier, From Eden // Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber // Frank Bidart, The War of Vaslav Nijinsky // Eagles, The Last Resort // Anne Sexton, Words for Dr. Y

[tomiyeee]

this show has been very good for expression practice which i’ve been kind of lacking in the past few years or so hehe. have some anguish 😊