#the mighty dead

[bookymcbookface]

From Adam Nicolson’s “The Mighty Dead: Whe Homer Matters”

[roadtoichor]

Books to Love: The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson 

This year I experienced a small crisis regarding my major because of a newfound obsession with Homer and epic Greek poetry. Homer was the catalyst to my being on the brink of changing my degree to classics, an obsession entirely caused by Adam Nicolson and his brilliant book The Mighty Dead: why Homer matters [2014]. Why does Homer matter? In the twenty-first century, Homer is nearly neglected.…

[sadibaditeddi]

I’m 68 hours into The Mighty Nein and I adore fjord more than people I know in real life

[dungeons-n-draw]

Mollymauk Tealeaf (M9 portraits 8/10)

[shardsofswords]

We finally found out what happens if they're together at the same time

They kill panic! at the disco

[abloodycrow]

[kandyarts]

Some fun little doodles I never did anything with

[dysfunctional-cryptid]

This was meant to be a sketch…it turned out to not be.

Modern!Caduceus

[quill-n]

I think Molly should get a unique instrumental character theme that has a strong and distinct melody when he's introduced in the animated series that turns into a motif that appears in other scene and character tracks and also becomes an incredible reprise at the end of the story. I just think it'd be neat

[themightypuella]

Don’t you forget about dying,

Don’t you forget about your friend Death,

Don’t you forget that you will die 🎶💀🥀

[bonefall]

Stormclan is pretty cool, I’m glad they are a direct result of the clans and not Rouge Group 255674385 that pops up like Minecraft mobs at night

Didn’t ivypool kill beetlewhisker? Will they remember it

The mental image of playing minecraft and Darktail spawns on your roof like a spider, refusing to leave in the daylight and making annoying chittering noises, is magical thank you.

Anyway nah, that was Brokenstar. Ivypool killed Antpelt, not Beetlewhisker. I have doubts they're going to remember that though, and if they do, it'll be one of those "don't worry guys we TOTALLY remember the events in our series!" throwaway lines we've been getting recently. The type that's thought in her head or thrown out in passing, but doesn't significantly contribute to Ivypool's emotional struggle.

I think Ivypool's actually the part of this SE that I'm most apprehensive about, funny enough. StormClan's got me pretty excited, but my hopes kinda started falling when I found out Dovewing was going on the road trip. I do not like the story that the Erins tell between the sisters, and I feel like they keep getting forced together to "reconcile their differences" when it would make a MUCH more effective story for the two of them to not do that.

See, what I like about Ivypool is that she's grudge-holding and spiteful. I LIKE that she tried to leverage her sisterhood with Dovewing in ASC to try and make her manipulate her husband. I find the fact she tried to sabotage SkyClan's chances at the lake back in AVoS to halt Dovewing and Tigerheart's relationship, slighting her apprentice in the process, to be COMPELLING.

I ENJOY reading about Ivypool being nasty. Both a victim of the Dark Forest who was targeted because she felt alienated, and yet, someone who has found a way to use Clan culture's most unfair aspects to her advantage. She'll NEVER see herself as the bully she actually is, because in her eyes, she's permanently the underdog.

so... I just have absolutely no desire to see Dovewing and Ivypool be "close."

Every time it happens on the page, it feels like it's Dovewing desperately wanting her sister to not treat her poorly, or believe in her, or just stop actively sabotaging her life. Then, Ivypool realizes this after a while and displays emotional intelligence that feels unfitting for her character, and apologizes.

It feels forced.

Like it's just happening because the authors know the fans want it, and not actually what these two characters would do. You get me?

I don't want to see them reconnect. I want more bittersweet examples in WC where family members have irreconcilable differences, but now and then, there's that little twinge of love, that old spark that you pray, THIS time, could become a fire... but it doesn't. There's just nothing left to burn.

TL;DR I'm feeling overall meh about Ivypool's Heart but looking forward to seeing what StormClan's all about.

[frwalkwithme]

In honor of this post on my main here's a few of my favorite bits from The Tomb of Ybwen, and the Dungeons and Dragons series;

[Mike the Mighty and Will the Wise]

[Will and Jonathan Byers, the Classic Horror Brothers]

[Scott Clarke, Thingian Badass]

[These compelling frames ft. Henclair best friends crumbs]

[rhodamine]

"Hey, man . . . How's it going?" 

Caduceus Clay - Speak with Dead For the @artists-guild-of-exandria's Spells n' Stuff project.

[dandelion-de-deus]

I’ve been contemplating it and I think we really need to bring back the concept of the holy fool. I’ll go first

[dysfunctional-cryptid]

All I do is draw Taliesin's characters.

I'm loving Caduceus and his dead person tea.

[ruby-red-inky-blue]

watching Liam O'Brien do a spectacular fantasy!German for dozens of episodes has impressed me so much and yet nothing could have possibly prepared me for the man starting to sing, of all the songs, "Laurentia, liebe Laurentia mein"

the immersion! if you reached to the very back of my memory there'd be like ten folk songs there and this one, which we used to have to sing at 7:00 in the morning on choir retreats while doing squats for all the weekdays, would definitely be there. it's a silly ditty you've heard somehow exclusively in childhood, it's a little game song for children. If all else was tainted by your later life that song would probably survive, it's perfect