#the friends of calliope

[sweet-like-cinnamon-5]

A statement from Katherine (Kitty) Kendall, LCMHC (also known as "Claire" in the podcasts):

https://www.kkendallcounselor.com/news/tothefriendsofcalliope

In 2020, Neil Gaiman committed to making a “hefty donation” to OurVOICE, the agency where I received counseling services in 2013. It was later discovered that he had not made the donation he promised.

I am not professionally affiliated with this agency, but believe strongly in its mission: to inspire hope and healing while ending sexual violence and human trafficking through education, counseling and advocacy.

If you choose to dedicate your donation to the victims of Neil Gaiman - those who have come forward, those who will, and those who can’t - please dedicate that donation to the name “Calliope.”

I am so in awe of this beautiful statement and this powerful idea.

If every Sandman fan, or every NG fan (or former fan), makes a small donation in Calliope's name, or shares this message to others, it can add up to something incredible.

I continue to be blown away by the powerful beauty of this statement, and by the strength, courage, and resilience of all the survivors.

Kitty Kendall's full statement: https://www.kkendallcounselor.com/news/tothefriendsofcalliope

OurVOICE donation page: https://www.ourvoicenc.org/donate/

🖤

[zan0tix]

My fav agents of the transsexual empire 🫶😁🏳️‍⚧️

I think personally we should draw them as adults getting to fully indulge in their teen fashion aspirations. (see second image) Callies outfit was inspired by paint splotches and embroidery as if she made her outfit herself :) A true artist!

Third is my updated readings. I say "readings" because i believe theres textual evidence for these and its how i interpreted them from my read throughs. (Only jake has the autism symbol because hes the most explicitly disabled coded in text but all of them to me are neurodivergent)

The gender labels are used loosely bc i think each of them has an incredibly unique journey/relationship with their gender that cant be encapsulated in a small set of words, and i do not think any of them would actually fully use labels either.

I am just using these to simplify down my thoughts into something easily digestible LOL MY THOUGHTS ON THEM AND THEIR PARALLELS + MIRRORS + INVERSIONS ARE SUPER COMPLEX i think about them Genuinely Literally Every Day of my Life. theyd have to be saved for a different time </3 but ya alpha kids trans 4EVER howd hussie cram THIS AMOUNT of queerness into these guys.. will never know

[drawing--dead]

One of the very best relationships in Homestuck. So thematically good and important

alt. caption: Girls just wanna have fun <3

[lembowe]

so webfishing...

[hi-intrepid-heroes]

lying awake at night thinking about emily axford characters and friendship. fig giving gorgug drumsticks to help him deal with his rage. sofia taking a rat into her heart without hesitation. calliope's dedication to calder throughout his absence. 'maybe im not an artist maybe im just a really good friend'. just. the acknowledgement that friendship is central to a person's life. not something that fills up space until romance can truly make you whole but something fundamental to one's existence

[writing-for-life]

A Message from Katherine Kendall (“Claire”)

From the article:

“It is everyone’s individual choice what to do with Gaiman’s product going forward, but if you want to offer additional support, please consider making a donation to your local rape crisis agency*, or consider a donation to OurVOICE, a rape crisis agency in Asheville, NC.

*If you live in the US and are unsure of the name of your local IPV agency, you can find it using this database.

In 2020, Neil Gaiman committed to making a “hefty donation” to OurVOICE, the agency where I received counseling services in 2013. It was later discovered that he had not made the donation he promised.

I am not professionally affiliated with this agency, but believe strongly in its mission: to inspire hope and healing while ending sexual violence and human trafficking through education, counseling and advocacy.

I am also adding some info for people in the UK if you’d like to support Domestic Abuse or Intimate Partner Violence Helplines/Centres more regional to you, or if you need that support yourself (they usually also have contacts to local centres). Maybe others would like to add something in their countries as well?

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: Rape Crisis Scotland, Scotland's Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline or Scottish Women’s Aid (donations and other ways to help here)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: Rape Crisis, Live Fear Free or Refuge (donations and other ways to help here)

🇬🇧 Northern Ireland (sorry, there’s still no separate emoji flag): Rape Crisis Northern Ireland, Domestic and Sexual Abuse Helpline or Nexus (donations and other ways to help via Nexus here)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England and whole of UK: Rape Crisis or Refuge (donations and other ways to help here)

Turn your helplessness and anger into something positive that really makes a difference…

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why are they like this

[vulcanmourns]

Mmmmmmmm calliope

Inspired by @/cherub-bite-mark’s piece (it’s so good)

[2plolohs]

Personally. I clung to every bit of gender-queerness we got in post-canon stuff. I am CLINGING to it

Transfemme June Egbert she/her. Transmasc Roxy Lalonde he/him. Non binary Calliope. They/them

Also I will NOT forget I can not forget abt that sliver of nb Jade we were given in the epilogues she said “you would’ve loved being a “they” in your teenage years” she said that and I ate it right up

[joenhead]

im coming out as a polycule duck team truther!!! those silly three dorks r in love !!!! (do they have a ship name?). as such, i feel as though it is finally time to share my corny self indulgent au where sol and callie r two theater nerds who try out for every show and started dating after their first one together and calder is on the stage crew and its a really corny and silly thing of “can two actors and a stage hand REALLY be in LOVE?”

simply because i think its funny for all three of them to fully be subscribed to the taboos of dating in theater. like it gets REALLY DRAMATIC. calder doesnt entirely get it but everyone else acts like its rlly important so he goes along with it.

[operas-phantom]

They gave me a phone.

So this is Tumblr. Cool. Can people see this? If you’re seeing this, hi, come by my opera house, yes it is mine, I’ve lived there longer than everyone else so it is mine. It honestly got a bit boring listening to Carlotta What’s-Her-Name continue to absolutely murder any type of operatic symphony with her harsh voice, so I’m on here now after extensive Google searching on what I can do on this bad boy.

Uh I’m he/him. My name’s Erik but nobody really calls me that anymore, and the only reason I’m letting people here say it is because I honestly think that like 2 people will see this post anyway, or at least that’s what I originally thought.

𝔄����𝔡 𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔠 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱..

This will be a learning experience for me anyhow, and perhaps I can get new ideas for the things I write on here. The Internet is a crazy place (and so are my adventures; I’ve found out through this that there are many versions of me, including @erikaskblog. I am down to interact with anyone, but no NSFW please— also, I am bisexual. My other friends include Christine, naturally, @eddiekaspbrak-official and his Losers Club from an apparent “other world”, as well as my best friends, @totally-penelope-and-not-a-siren—that’s Calliope, a siren with a sense of humor who keeps me on my toes, and a former would-be love of mine who I sometimes mentor, @maggiemelodies09. Maggie does have a boyfriend now— she bears such a strong resemblance to dear Christine and I will cheer for anyone who supports her kindness, so said boyfriend shall one day be my friend as well. @daydreamingofafairytale is my third best friend— oh, I am so lucky to have even dreamt of this! You’ll like Nour; everyone does. I give out music lessons to a few people now, attempting to make it less romantically exclusive, including Nour. However, we usually use those lessons to make each other laugh— friends bring light to my darkness and I finally feel like a man now, not a monster. Then there is my muse and a non-singing angel who I suppose might be called a “boyfriend”, @aurelio-the-propmaster. I would go on.. but if I risk becoming “obsessive” again, woe to the opera house, and my other friends have warned against it. Know if you see this, Aurelio— your angel loves you dearly. Also my other friend, @an-american-songbird-in-paris who knows Aurelio and who also composes. Him and I should one day collaborate.) No, I will not list all my “frenemies” or enemies, but I have them too. They are not welcome in my opera house.

If people do end up commenting on this, please do not go wild in the comments or bully each other. I’ve had enough of hearing people insult each other and call each other names for one lifetime, unless I have to do what I have to do. However, I have been made aware that some people are shockingly enough fans of me, even after seeing my face— I normally hate people seeing it, I attempt to shun it from my very being after all —and I will likely post pictures of myself on here in order to share the happenings of the opera house with the world. I would place the screen names of all said “phangirls” here, but hope instead they find this nonetheless. I appreciate you all caring for me. PLEASE come to my opera house, you all.

I am now over the fact that I cannot have Christine— the one of her versions that still talks to me, @angeliquedaae who is my dear friend and tutee— still, thanks to her undying kindness to me. Occasionally we (hilariously) reenact scenes from our shared past, and I find it a form of recreation. I endeavor to focus my attention on other loves (not just Aurelio but for my other friends here) instead but cannot help caring for her if only in a strictly platonic yet protective manner— I care too much about my friends, hence why I have placed their usernames here. They are wonderful people.

𝔏𝔢𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔟𝔢𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢..

[b-plot-butch]

OKAY so in the comics whenever dream talks to anyone, they hear it in whatever language they speak or are most comfortable with (in dream's words, "you hear what you need to hear"), and now i'm thinking about how when dream comes to calliope at madoc's place...that's the first time calliope has heard greek spoken to her in more than sixty years.

[starmagnets]

made some new gals. these are calliope and pandora :3

[deathbypufferfish]

Prom! Heartbreak! Break-ups! Friendship! :D

[bugtoast]

Guys caliborn and calliope make me so fucking sad if they got along they would've been such a good duo,,,, they would've been unstoppable,,,, mabel and dipper but on steroids,,,, :[

[arleniansdoodles]

Alrighty, here’s my next Giant painting, this time featuring the sisters Fenja and Menja! I first learned of them from the song Grótti, by SKÁLD (I’ve included one of the verses below the cut, with the English translation and a summary of their story)! I find their tale very interesting, so I brought them into my GoW fic XDD They’re a little bigger than Týr, in their very early twenties, and currently living in Ironwood with the other Giants.

Rest assured that Menja isn’t angry at Calliope here, she’s just arguing with her sister XDD Calliope is an observer of the sisters’ conflict, and she eventually learns about what’s putting them at odds with each other!

In the Gróttasöngr, Fenja and Menja are captured and taken to Sweden by Fróði, a Danish king. There, they grind a magic grindstone (which is in fact their creation) to produce wealth for the king and sing for his household. Fróði forces them to keep grinding without interruption, so they grind an army into existence to defeat him.

In the Prose Edda, the army they grind into existence is led by the sea-king Mysing. After defeating Fróði, Mysing takes Fenja and Menja, along with the grindstone, to grind salt on his ship. They grind so much that the salt sinks the ship -- which is how the sea becomes salty!

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Hélugbarði, Jǫtnar Fenju ok Menju,

Mýsing bað þær mala salt.

Hann bað þær mala lengr.

Hélugbarði, Jǫtnar Fenju ok Menju,

hann bað þær mala lengr, þær mala salt.

“On a ship, to giantesses Fenja and Menja,

“Mysing asked to grind salt.

“He asked them to grind more.

“On a ship, to giantesses Fenja and Menja,

“he asked them to grind more, to grind salt.”

-- Grótti, by SKÁLD