#this is extremely inconvenient to me

[mybooksandlittlemore]

Stupid winter got me again

[copepods]

mojang did not have to make wardens so cute but they did anyway and i appreciate that but it makes it very hard to play the game in survival. because any time i spawn one on accident and tower away, i can hear it whining and it sounds so SAD and i have to be like im sorry baby......i know you need to kill some prey for enrichment but i do not want to die today......maybe another time

[sassyfever]

Whenever I check the Hange tag I remember why I stopped

[gingermintpepper]

I saw it in your tag game post that you're also fond of the Apollo-Heracles conflict 👀 for a myth that appears in only a couple of sources, it sure has a lot of presence in the vase paintings (no seriously, everytime I think I've seen the last of it, I find ten more)

SO do you have any favorites among the paintings that represent this story??

OMG OMG THIS ASK IS A GIFT. IT IS A GIFT THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME TALK ABOUT THIS

I also think it's extremely interesting that it's a story so popularly portrayed by vase paintings and in such a variety of ways!! It's certainly one of the stories that gets left out of written compilation of Heracles' legend a bit (which is a shame, I think it's a fantastic story) but Apollo had a very peculiar relationship with Heracles in general that I just kind of find amazing (and very, very funny).

Apollo is not a god with any legitimate grudge against Heracles, but he does argue with the mortal a bit like he argues with his favourite brothers 😂Part of why I love the story of Apollo and Heracles fighting over the tripod so much is that it is such a little brother thing for Heracles to be upset with the proclamation his elder brother has given him and so, he throws a great fit, taking up the chair and declaring that he'll just give himself a better prophecy! And Apollo, instead of being a marginally professional big brother, decides to fight him for it until their father has to break up their cat-fight. Like was that not just the plot of the Homeric Hymn to Hermes? Is this not exactly how Apollo treated Hermes when he was a child and now those two are inseparable? 💀

Because of this, my favourite vase paintings tend to be the ones that highlight the personal squabbling between Apollo and Heracles the most. There are some very elaborate ones that have the full host of them - Athena, Heracles, Apollo, Artemis, usually a dog and a doe, I've even seen a couple that had birds and plants etched on them, but the simplest ones that show Heracles about to bonk Apollo with his club out of frustration or depict Heracles nyooming away from Apollo while Apollo (presumably) yells curses about how he's going to fling Heracles head first into Tartarus for daring to take his things? Yeah, those are the premium big brother/little brother things I'm looking for.

(Photo. Marie-Lan Ngyuen)

(Photo. Museo Claudio Faina)

Also the one in the Theoi.com archives is a real classic - perfect energy.

[grumpyoldsnake]

One of these days. One of these days, I will figure out what the hell makes the tipping point beyond which either a) there’s socialization that I feel insulated from and kind of numb about and too tired to pursue, or b) socialization where the very notion of so much as expressing one (1) internal thought or emotion suffuses my whole body with adrenaline and blaring Nope instincts.

[b-blushes]

thursday quest - no physical therapy today - make and eat lunch sooooo early but i can do it!!!!! - get ready for wedding - attend wedding! yay! (: - decompress well when i get home <3

[kaiserkisser]

fuck

well fuck

[sweetenby]

Went to go block a terf. First post on their blog is this

Just. Lucky it didn't have too many notes. But it was all filled with people freaking out about "women's erasure" not a single person going. "Hey an airport is a big place. Maybe the women's restrooms are just somewhere else?"

For some reason I took time out of my day to Google this. And lo and behold. That airport is currently remodeling that women's restroom in that area. Anyway my point just being. God it's wild to me how you can get so caught up in your own little world in online spaces. It's so easy to get shown exactly the type of stuff to model your world view into the type of thought process where you sincerely believe an airport has a place for dogs to shit and not a women's restroom. Like obviously these people are being incredibly transphobic and this is a moment I can easily go, that's so stupid you all are being stupid.

But also it's so fucked up how easy it is for some ppl to fall into a place where they can be enraged by a single photo of restroom signage.

[thorntopieces]

man

[alwri-tes]

Anyone else miss the days when technology was actually easy to use and didn't require 375 different subscriptions for a bunch of simple things and AI wasn't constantly hovering over your shoulder stealing your stuff

[karathespellbinder]

in praise of worldbuilding

Sterling silver foxes. That’s all.

[edoro]

Every time I go anywhere I am pretty much the only person wearing a mask. At the doctor's appointment before last, the nurse actually told me I could take it off if I wanted and I had to be like, "no I'm wearing this on purpose because I don't want to get the plague and die, actually."

So anyway i just want all my followes to know from the bottom of my heart that if you're not still wearing a mask when you leave your house and go to indoor locations where other people also go, and have the physical and financial ability to do so, I personally think you're a dipshit asshole <3

[bangelism]

but like what do i do now. i haven’t had nothing to do in a long time. what.

[daybreakrising]

i have felt like hot garbage all evening but i am now feeling slightly more human so i am going to sit here and hopefully do something in the way of writing. what that will be - who tf knows

[sseishiross]

why is half of armin fanfic really sweet and in the other half he’s literally a murderer

[curiousitycollective]

debating kicking a hornets nest....