#the audacity...............my god

[lilislegacy]

i feel like we gloss over the first few pages of SoN FAR too much. i mean, take percy’s name out and i would think it’s all about hercules. the book opens by dropping banger after banger regarding percy’s recent escapades, as if this is some epic greek myth.

like how did rick just casually slip in that percy strangled a sea monster with his bare hands (no biggie) and we as the readers were just like “sounds right, anyway—”

[srue-on-fire]

istg if you dumbasses make oliver and ryan turn into their shells and make everything super private, i'm gonna sic the crows on you. and it won't be anything like chimney's experience.

i don't care if you ship ryliver or buddie or bt or nothing or everything. keep your shipping to the fandom spaces. don't harass real people with your fantasies and bullshit theories.

i'm seriously gonna go feral if this damages oliver and ryan's friendship display online because that's the potential of such mindless actions. we already saw it in one direction, spn and glee fandoms (you know what i'm talking about), don't need more now.

do not destroy this experience for oliver and ryan and their fans.

[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.

[crystal-lillies]

critical role, open up, I just want to talk

[numbuh424]

light's face when near totally ignores him, openly accuses him of making the shinigami lie on his behalf, and then addresses the task force in the room with light saying that if they have any doubts about the Second L to give him a call later. ALL WHILE LIGHT'S THE ONE ON THE MIC. oh, they're killing me.

[guzhufuren]

your live in husband cooks better than restaurant chefs, he cleans, he prepares baths for you, he shares custody of your succulent babies, he is smoking hot, he spies and manipulates for you, he reads your entire law library in a couple of months until he is as good as a law school graduate all just so he can help you with work better, and then he even sits all sweet and obedient beside your bed. and you dare kick him out?? give Haruto to me i dream of a malewife like that i will cherish him as he deserves

[leedongsik]

imagine how crazy you have to be to come at a man who took care of yalls biological children that you didn't want or straight abandoned and then have the audacity to complain about the way he raised them, my man doesn't deserve all this bs

[highlynerdy]

Lost You Forever 2 Trailer!

English subs by me. If there are egregious errors, please let me know. Thanks @dangermousie for sending me the link!

[emblazons]

"If it is within our power to grant it to you, your brother and I will see it done."

Joshua Rosfield & Dion Lesage in Final Fantasy XVI + self-indulgent captions from the GoT AU

[a-loose-collection-of-ants]

Happy pride month, holy shit

[ineed-to-sleep]

Baby found a new sleeping spot

[typicalopposite]

Oh but imagine… if they do get back together… right?

The streaming views on 8x06 and then 8x07 (and really all the episodes that will just be the BT pining era) are going to SKYROCKET! Like, they will be out of this world… out of the galaxy! ABC will be so confused and we will be so happy hurting ourselves with that angst because we will know it has a happy ending!!

[alexalblondo]

unpopular opinions but it’s been nearly 3 years and I’m still mad at AD21 but I am still even madder about the reaction of certain parts of the fanbase calling themselves Lewis fans and then turning around and making this shitty thing he experienced all about them and throwing around terms like trauma

[serendipnpipity]

"Without the internet, we never would have met..."

Introducing... Misty's and my take on "The Internet is Here"!!! Listen w headphones for the full experience. 🎧

@bewareofthenewphannie... nine hours of a time zone difference, a literal ocean & then some apart, yet you're right here singing with me??? The Internet really is great, huh.

Thank you for being my creative partner in crime and dear friend. I've always wanted to sing this duet with somebody; I just never thought I'd find that somebody to sing it with. 🧡

P.S. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, @danielhowell!!! Thank you for being the magic of the Internet that brought us together. (We started talking because Misty created an "Everything's Fine" chord arrangement and I got intrigued... Fast forward over three months later, you could say it kinda snowballed from there.)

Credit to @p-lizzle -> @joonmoon94 for this incredible backing track. (Idk if you can see this! I hope you can, 'cause it saved our butts!!)

[the-jam-to-the-unicorn]

And that's why she's a Queen

[saunne]

Thanks a lot to the reader who sent me a link in a comment to tell me my whole fic got plagiarized.

Just lost a good fifteen minutes writing a report for plagiarism and a seething comment because it was fucking word for word except for the names and some little tweaks from Haikyuu!! (the original fandom I wrote for) to QSMP (the fandom the other person stole my fic for).

I am quite salty, I won't lie.