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borbology · 1 year ago
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mayasaura · 1 month ago
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People keep on saying Gideon has Alecto's eyes, and like yeah, it makes sense. Alecto had them first. Most people in a position to know knew Alecto first. But Harrow didn't. Harrow opened the Tomb after a savage fight with Gideon, believing Gideon wanted her dead and thinking she was right to do so.
I wonder what it meant to her, when the Body appeared to her with Gideon's eyes.
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raggedy-spaceman · 1 year ago
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gingermintpepper · 6 months ago
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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.
#ginger rambles#ginger chats about greek myths#greek mythology#It's Zeus Apologist day actually#For the record Jason is my personal favourite of these guys#The argonauts are extremely underrated for literally no reason#And Jason's wit and sheer ability to adapt along with his piousness are traits that are so far away from what usually gets highlighted#with the typical Greek warrior-hero that I've just never stopped being captivated by him#Conversely I still do not understand what people see in Achilles#I respect him and his legacy I respect the importance of his tale and his cultural importance I promise I do#However I personally can't stand the guy LMAO#How do you get warned twice TWICE both by your mother and by Athena herself that going after Apollo's children is a bad idea#And still have the audacity to be mad and surprised when Apollo is gunning for Specifically You during the war you're bringing to His City#That You Specifically and Exclusively had a choice in avoiding#ACHILLES COULD'VE JUST SAID NO#I know that's not the point however so many other members of the Greek camp were simply casualties of Fate in every conceivable way man#Achilles looked at every terrible choice he could possibly make said “Well I'm gonna die anyway 🤷🏽” and proceeded to make the choice#so hard that he angered god#That's y'all's man right there#I left out Perseus because truthfully I don't actually know much about him#I haven't studied him even a fraction as much as I've studied some of the other big culture heroes and none of this is cited so i don't wan#to talk about stuff I don't know 100%#Anyway justice for Zeus fr#Gimme something give me literally anything other than the nonsense we usually get for him#This goes for Hera too btw#Both the king and queen of the skies are done TERRIBLY by wider greek myth audiences and it's genuinely disheartening to see#If y'all could make excuses for Achilles to forgive his flaws y'all can do it for them#They have a lot more to sympathise with I'll tell you that#(that is a completely biased statement; you are completely free and encouraged to enjoy whichever figures spark joy)#zeus
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susellesie · 5 months ago
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Claudia was my dark child, my love, evil of my evil. Claudia broke my heart.
- The Vampire Lestat
And with his death, the war of ravens and envoys and marriage pacts came to an end, and the war of fire and blood began in earnest.
- Fire and Blood
lyrics from ptolemaea by ethel cain
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hyperionwitch · 9 months ago
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The evening weather FINALLY cooperated for long enough (mostly--it was SO windy, lol) so we ran out to the river and finally did a photoshoot for Princess Serenity! These turned out so dreamy, I love them~
Photos: @tasty-patches (touch ups/effects editing by me)
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asurrogateblog · 5 months ago
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The Syd Poll
the topic of this poll is one that is frequently avoided in the pink floyd fandom, but inevitably one we all consider – our individual views on what we think caused syd's psychological struggles (and by extension, led to his departure from the band). I think that – at least in this neighborhood of tumblr – this is a conversation we are capable of having in a way that is civil, nuanced, and at least minimally disrespectful to syd.
So, to help facilitate this, here are some ground rules:
let's all assume we have a mutual understanding of the complexities of this. syd could never actually be reduced down to a poll, and all of our viewpoints are limited in various ways
the poll options just serve as just a conversation starter, and responses are not necessarily a statement of absolute beliefs
feel free to discuss as much or as little of your own perspective as you feel comfortable sharing.
in the case that debates break out, please try to assume good intent – and also demonstrate it (unless, for instance, someone is being blatantly insulting beyond a misunderstanding that needs correcting)
please do NOT vote if you are not actually a pink floyd fan with at least basic knowledge about what we're talking about here.
The options I've included below are not meant to be exhaustive, they are simply the "theories" that I have seen most commonly circulated. I have also decided not to include combinations. I'm fairly sure we'd all agree multiple factors were involved. Rather than make the poll too complicated, I ask you to instead select the one that you think is the "most" important to your viewpoint, and clarify further in your tags/comments as you wish.
so. here we go.
READ BEFORE VOTING ^^^^
(note of correction: "late-onset schizophrenia" should just be "schizophrenia". the typical timeline for onset of symptoms is late adolescence/early adulthood, so syd would've been well within that period at the time)
#pink floyd#syd barrett#//#I will sacrifice myself and go first with way too much detail. hopefully it will help other people feel more comfortable talking#I chose consensual use of psychedelics. mainly bc I am fairly certain that he suffered from severe hppd#it stands for 'hallucinogen persisting perception disorder' –speaking crudely its 'did too much acid and got stuck like that'#I do NOT expect this kind of oversharing from anyone else but the reason I think that is because -I- definitely have that#its comparatively mild but I notice a lot of the same kind of impacts.#I'm more prone to dissociation and overstimulation. it takes more mental energy to communicate. my perception plays a bit fast and loose.#(again. it's not -that- bad. and NO pity for me this was a completely predictable outcome that I DO think is a little funny) but digressing#I can clearly see how if those symptoms were significantly escalated it would be just like what was described by ppl who knew syd#I think its very unkind to refer to him as a “drug casualty”#but I'm fairly confident anyone who's done acid would say by about hour 8 of the trip “okay. yah. too much of this could do that to someone#in other words –although I'm pretty sure syd was also neurodivergent– I do think its at least possible that the lsd couldve been enough#I'm happy to talk more about any of this in asks/dms if anyone wants. genuinely very cool with discussing it#but anyway. that's my take – obviously based entirely on anecdotal evidence tho so take that with as many grains of salt as you wish
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lysreadsbookssometimes · 5 months ago
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Imagine the emotional rollercoaster Ctimene, Odysseus' sister and Eurylochus' wife, went through during EPIC.
Through all the Trojan War, she fears for both her brothers' and her husband's life. She sits there with her mother Anticlea, and her sister-in-law, Penelope, watching her nephew Telemachus grow up. We can only imagine how she misses him. Maybe she wants to start her own family. Maybe there are suitors after her, too.
They hear that the war is over, and their boys take their sweet time coming back. They finally see the ships on the horizon, only to watch a gigantic storm absolutely demolish the ships.
They have pieces of the ships wash up on shore. Some bodies, too. Fishermen sail out, looking for survivors and finding none. The bodies they find get buried, their families mourn them. And everyone else just sits there, having seen the extent of the storm, the bodies, and come to the conclusion that their loved ones are lost to the sea.
Ctimene sits there with the realization that her husband and her brother are dead. Her mother dies. She lost her entire family. Penelope is convinced Odysseus survived somehow, so Ctimene is pretty much alone in her grief.
Years pass. I imagine Ctimene and Penelope help each other with suitors, raising Telemachus and just ruling Ithaca, but there is always this divide between them.
And then the impossible actually happens. Odysseus is back. He kills Penelopes suitors. He is reunited with his family. Ctimene hears, comes running, her brother has returned. And with him the hope returns that her husband might still be alive.
So she asks him. And Odysseus says no.
And then he starts telling the story. Of Eurylochus, the voice of reason. That he survived the storm, survived Poseidon, resisted Circe, survived the underworld, survived the Sirens. That he survived Scylla.
Ctimene listens to his reasonings for the sacrifices and then chews him out just as Eurylochus had.
Then Odysseus tells her about the Mutiny. And then Zeus.
Neither Penelope nor Telemachus are in the room when he explains what choice Zeus had him make. And while Ctimene rationally knows that she couldn't have chosen between her brother and her husband, she also knows that for his chance to see his loved ones again, 36 families lost that chance. Including her.
Odysseus doesn't explain in detail what happened on Ogygia nor afterwards, and Ctimene only mildly cares. Because her husband died. Because of a decision her brother made. Because her husband tried to protect his fellow crew.
She doesn't talk to Odysseus for a while after that.
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krash-8 · 3 months ago
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just uttered the word 'twinktastic'
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grimdarknokia · 6 months ago
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heh! ngozi and nicole kissing?? is everyone in this show gay now? what next? are they gonna make siobhan snog a woman? siobhan snogs a woman? siobhan snogs a woman?? SIOBHAN?? snogs a woman?? SIOBHAN SNOGS A WOMAN??? WILL SIOBHAN SNOG A WOMAN??? BBC?? BEE BEE CEE?? SIOBHAN WOMANSNOGGER WHEN??? SIOBHAN??
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lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks · 9 months ago
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reasons not to leave food for the neighbourhood feral cats right in front of your downstairs neighbour's front door:
they will start to assume any food delivery left on the doorstep is for them and will chew it out of the bag and drag it across the yard if you don't get it in time (a considerable problem when your food delivery people are allergic to knocking on your door when they drop it off)
(to be clear, I am the downstairs neighbour, I do not feed the cats)
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mortemcatabasis · 1 year ago
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🌈Goobert!! 🤡🐷
7½in/19cm, Sculpey, Wire, Acrylic paint, Linen/Fleece fabric, & Polyester stuffing. Started & finished in roughly 2 days
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which-hospital · 1 month ago
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Teddy and Indie thoughts (somewhat extensive considering they had like 5 scenes).
I love Teddy and Indie so much so far. Indie works best with Teddy IMO because they kind of lean too hard on her being a Young Person when she's with the others who are reasonably older than her, but that's not really an option with Teddy. I also think their dynamic is very distinct as one of Teddy's friendships, there is a very specific energy that feels different to how he was with some of his earlier friendships and I think that's a good thing. Teddy has historically not known how to be friends without some level of romantic tension or just straight up dating and I would really, really hate that for Teddy and Indie (I will keep saying siblings dynamic until it sticks) so I think it's a good sign that things feel so different with them right now. Also, I love Teddy being a little bit bitchy - I definitely have faves where the popular fandom interpretation of them is worse than "he's nice" but I also think it's good for him to be a bit bitchy sometimes to counteract that. And a lot of it is silly and funny and I've missed Teddy getting to be those things as well as tragic.
(A brief interlude to live up to my title of Theodore Gowan's Most Annoying Defender: Teddy is not being too mean to Indie! I've seen some takes that seem to think he should be nothing but lovely and soft spoken and like a primary school teacher and... that would be really weird because they are both adults. She is a nearly fully-qualified paramedic, it isn't that unfair of him to expect her to have most of the skills of a fully-qualified paramedic. Also, conflict is what makes things interesting? Teddy getting annoyed at Indie for not knowing stuff and then Indie getting annoyed at him for being annoyed is such low stakes conflict as well, but it's silly and I appreciate the moments where he checks in on her and they look out for each other even more when they happen in the context of that low stakes conflict. This concludes Mercury getting defensive about Teddy.)
Favourite parts of the episode: "I didn't think you'd get stage fright." "Happens to the best of us." "The best of us? 👀 Yeah, alright..." and "I never passed the cardiac care module." "I could've worked that one out!" and "Let me deal with this and-" "No, I can handle him."
HOWEVER. I MUST NOW COMPLAIN. I wish that scene where Teddy decides to lie to Jan for Indie wasn't about Iain. Not just because, let's be for real, Iain would snitch to Jan IMMEDIATELY. Also because that’s a pretty important moment for both of them and it deserved to be about them and not FUCKING IAIN. For Indie, I think new characters usually have to have a moment where they form a proper connection with an existing main character to drag them properly into the rest of the show and that’s what this moment is - she’s trusting Teddy to not tell Jan and Teddy is trusting her to pass her resit, she is dragged into the drama of being a Casualty character with connections to other Casualty characters. But they were too busy telling us how great Iain, the paramedic she has interacted with the least, is. For Teddy, I think hiding that from Jan is a pretty interesting development for him. It shows that even if his professional and personal growth is slower than Sah’s (for example, because it’s an easy comparison to make), because the professional and personal are so tied up for him and because his aunt is there all the time, he is still growing. I don’t think S37 Teddy would’ve had it in him to hide something like that from Jan, so it shows that his growing professional confidence and his inherent kindness is beginning to override his loyalty to Jan WHICH IS MASSIVE. So much of Teddy’s character has been about idolising Jan and I’m glad to see that might be changing. But it also wasn’t actually about that because it was just Teddy talking about how cool and nice Iain supposedly is.
Only one thing I did like here: Teddy asking “You okay?” after Indie couldn’t place the defibrillator pads kind of paralleled (if you overthink it) by Indie asking “You alright?” about the Iain stuff.
Otherwise, that scene has been replaced in my head by a better, less Iain-centric, one.
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mangle-my-mind · 1 year ago
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Todd Haynes on Mandy Slade
OM: How did you come to cast Toni Collette as Mandy? She doesn't strike me as an obvious choice for the role as it is written; her most famous part was in Muriel's Wedding where she played the podgy, Abba-obsessed ultra-hetero outcast.
TH: Mandy was the hardest part to cast in the film. It's a particularly demanding role due to the range Mandy has to display as she changes from the seventies to the eighties. This type of camp female character has basically vanished from our cultural landscape, as far as I can tell. The closest equivalent today is probably a Parker Posey-type character, but she's still quite different from the Liza Minnelli of Cabaret or the Angela Bowie of the glam era. Mandy has a theatrical, campy party girl persona that can be turned on and off at will, and owes a great deal to the gay male sensibility of the time. I think women around the world were liberated from all kinds of highly codified notions of femininity when people like Patti Smith entered the pop cultural arena. It had such a profound effect on women but girls today have no memory of that kind of camp femininity.
I saw so many strong actresses for Mandy, both in the US and the UK, and it was really tough to find the right one. We came close a few times, but it wasn't until I met Toni that it all clicked. I had no doubt about her acting ability, but the question was how to transform Toni Collette psychically, both for the camera and in her own self-regard into this very different, very confident, overly sexual creature. She really had to go off the cliff; I'm sure it was terrifying. And what you see in the film is such a transformation, such a complete commitment to the role that she almost becomes unrecognizable as Muriel in Muriel's Wedding. After a certain point, nothing was too scary for Toni. What you get with the character is what you get with the actress playing her - this range of changes and the effects of various cultures and various experiences on one extraordinary woman.
OM: Although the script informs you of Mandy being an American bisexual who reinvented herself, you get the sense of invention fully in the scene where she presents Brian with the divorce papers. She breaks down and you see the façade in a seventies context. It's a very moving moment and it's contrasted with Brian's coked-up emptiness. What did you discover in your research about the 'back-stage' women of the glam era?
TH: I guess Mandy's basic expression of real needs is made more vivid by that scene, but the beaten-down, hard-boiled Mandy of the eighties gives you the framework for that. She was definitely one of those people who was feeling and hurting and acting out at the same time. Often the casualties were the women of the male rock world. I really feel the film builds and develops complex sympathies for Mandy that you won't necessarily feel going in. The character is loosely inspired by aspects of Angela Bowie, and it's very easy to make fun of that kind of pop creature after the fact. But in all the books I read there was no argument on how fundamentally essential Angela Bowie was to the invention of Ziggy Stardust and to glam rock in general. She inspired risk-taking and flamboyance to a degree no one else can claim credit for. It wouldn't have happened without her.
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Source - "Superstardust: Talking Glam with Todd Haynes", Oren Moverman.
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Emphases my own :)
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laughhardrunfastbekindsblog · 5 months ago
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I was considering writing a longer post about why I'm still sad about how the CXs were ultimately handled in Bad Batch, and I still might, but really what it comes down to is this:
Those clones were tortured and brainwashed beyond what even the inhibitor chip was able to accomplish, the show really seemed to be building up sympathy for them (and rightly so)... And then we end the series with an abrupt about-face where we're apparently supposed to cheer (or at least be relieved) that they all get killed without any chance whatsoever at being (re)reconditioned and reclaiming their original identities.
If the CXs were intended to be considered evil, they should have been choosing for themselves to follow orders and acting under their own volition.
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stupidvillainousposts · 3 months ago
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They Definitely Would, but Knowing How Possessive and Aggressive the Other Packs Can be to Outsiders, Things Probably Wouldn't Go Too Well
Until they find out who Dipper and Mabel's pack actually is
Dipper: For the record, I blame you for this, Mabel.
Mabel, trying to wriggle out of the rope tied around her and Dipper: Shut up and help me get this thing off!
Dipper: *Rolls His Eyes* Fine! *Starts Wriggling Around Too*
Werewolf 1: You two are certainly tenacious, I'll give you that.
Dipper and Mabel: *Snarl at Their Captor*
Werewolf 1: Aww, puppy teeth. Isn't that cute? Now, how should we punish you for trespassing, hmm?
Mabel: DO YOUR WORST!
Dipper: NO! PLEASE DON'T!
Werewolf 2: *Rushes Up to Their Sibling* Aurora! We can't kill these pups!
Werewolf 1 (Aurora): What? Why?
Werewolf 2: I just got word from Mother and Father. They're part of the Pines pack!
Aurora: Wait, seriously? *Laughs* That's perfect! We'll cut off the Pines bloodline and gain respect from the other packs!
Werewolf 2: Wha- NO!
Aurora: Oh, please Pietro! What could possibly be so wrong? We've killed pups before!
Werewolf 2 (Pietro): That were from weaker packs! The Pines pack is small but dangerous! They could kill all ten of us in seconds!
Aurora: Hmm, true...
Pietro: So, if we kill the pups, then we'll... *Waves His Hand in a Circle*
Aurora: Laugh? *Laughs Sharply*
Pietro: NO, YOU STUPID COW! WE'LL DIE!
Aurora: *Groans* Fine! I'll let them go! *To the Pups* But if you two come back, I'm snapping your necks.
Pietro: *Facepalms*
The pack lets Dipper and Mabel go, who race home and explain what happened to Stan and Fidds with tears and shaky words.
The pups got plenty of cuddles from their Papas (and even a couple hugs from Ford!) before being tucked into bed.
Let's just say Stan was more than eager to go get revenge, and Fidds and Ford were all too ready to let him get it.
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