#this is the one most on my mind atm

[hyakunana]

Episode 41: The Jet-Black Shogun

[nyan-bynary]

Satoru gojo will see a man, think "is anyone gonna take that" and then start army crawling underneath them

[cunty-rex]

In Defense Of Anakin Skywalker

I came across some "anti anakin" blogs today and the main thing I noticed was how they all failed to mention Palpatine's role in everything. While yes Anakin did some pretty horrible things (like killing an entire tribe of tusken raiders) all his actions as Vader are a result of him being groomed. Does that abstain him from all guilt? No, of course not, but it's quite telling that their argument centers around how Anakin is just "such an awful person" and doesn't deserve his redemption arc when in reality his redemption arc is the only one that works for him. Anakin killed Sidious, the man who'd groomed him and turned him into his puppet and coerced him into doing terrible things. It feels quite intentional how these blogs neglect Sidious while simultaneously putting all the blame onto Anakin when in reality he's merely another pawn in Sidious's grand plan.

There's also the fact that Darth Vader isn't the same man as Anakin Skywalker, a distinction made both by Sidious and Vader himself. Anakin was - and is - the young boy from Tatooine that dreamed of being a Jedi knight someday. Vader is person that Sidious groomed him to be for over ten years. The only time we truly see Anakin during the OT is when he kills Sidious and saves his son, breaking free of the control that Sidious had over him for so many years. Vader dies when Sidious dies, and Anakin goes on to live as a force ghost. There's no better ending than this for Anakin, nothing more fitting.

[caramelmochacrow]

"Beating so fast, seems like it'll burst..."

[incomingalbatross]

Somehow, the release of live-action Avatar resulted in me watching live-action One Piece instead. I have opinions about live-action One Piece now.

[mitamicah]

A serious question for my brain: Why!??

[skrunksthatwunk]

stole this chart from @asubakaa and spent wayyy too much time making my own so. yeah. also i did 6 instead of 5 bc i know no restraint

[daz4i]

i don't post enough abt cannibalism these days. slacking off over here. so sorry guys i'll do better next time

[oceanwithinsblog]

i was minding my own business while listening to this bbm inspired playlist and i accidentally heard the (official?) lyrics to 'the wings' for the first time

* i usually listen to the official soundtrack on spotify, i didn't know there was a version of this song with lyrics lol

well ... i will never recover.

[chasing-chimeras]

🎬 9 favorite films that I watched (for the first time) in 2023 🍿

tagged by @wolfboy88 🖤

tagging: @dinkelmehl @ksbbb @theoceanismyinkwell @outcastpack @de-constructmybones @transdunbar @mmoosen @missing-thiam @rd-eternity @stitchkiss @sequinedmonkey @tak3me2church

[troublcmakcrs]

//the south park fandom needs to wake back up bc i'm feeling annoying ✨️

[coriander-candlesticks]

I've been able to work on the veiling cloth I've been knitting, but I've hit the stage where I'm used enough to the pattern & worked out enough kinks that I'm starting to lose motivation like a flat tire loses air, so I figured I'd share my progress here as a way to keep myself accountable & motivated. This is after about a week of working in several-hour chunks most days. I won't always be able to work on it that much, but if I get a good system down to prevent losing my place I might be able to take it with me to work to knit it on the train or during my lunch break.

I'm trying to make it long enough to drape over the top of a small cube bookshelf in my room and cover the top two cubbies, where I'm planning to set up my altars to Athena and Apollo. That way I can keep them hidden while friends are in my room, since I'm still not sure when I want to start talking to them about my exploration of paganism and I don't want them to ask about the altars or absentmindedly pick something on them up. I have some books I associate with the two gods that I'm either going to place in the back of their altar shelves or on the shelves under them (for easier accessibility): art/worldbuilding books, journals, & books that have inspired me creatively for Apollo's and philosophy & fiber arts books as well as texts related to ancient Greece & Greek mythology for Athena's.

I was going to just use the black speckled yarn, but I'm not sure I have enough, so I'm adding in the pink yarn both so it's not jarring and so it'll be easier to add another color later if need be. The ruffles weren't intentional...I'm using a lace pattern chart from Hitomi Shida's Japanese Knitting Stitch Bible and wrote one of the symbol keys down incorrectly, so I was decreasing every other row for a while when I shouldn't have. And by "for a while" I mean the first 20 or so rows. 🤦 The pattern should come through better in another 10-20 rows; I haven't actually finished a full repeat yet because even after I fixed the decrease problem I lost my place and got frustrated, so I just knit straight across for a row and started the pattern over from the beginning. This took way too long to cast on and knit the first few rows, so I'm not going to fully start over unless I absolutely have to. This is a learning process, after all, which is part of what Athena and Apollo are about anyway. And if I frog (unravel) it all and start over it's just going to be frustrating and feel like a chore, which is absolutely not the mindset I want to be in when making anything, let alone something that's going to be connected to a sacred space.

[devilbrakers]

having tav helena thoughts...

[lanternlightss]

honestly i was half joking when i said my oc’s story was just “the sun god sucks: a story in five parts” but looking at it again it’s not. Wrong….

this got a little rambley so under the cut it is shsjsksk

you have ameria, who wants so desperately to help. to be of use to people. to the point she was willing do anything (to sacrifice anything) so she could lend a hand.

and then. when she receives the power she so wished for.

she is… still put to the side. yes, she can help now, but at what cost? it’s far too dangerous, to have her burn away her life in an attempt to heal, in an attempt to keep her friends and family and loved ones alive.

the power is too much for her, and she sits, and helplessly looks on as the power that flows through her veins threatens to vaporize her entirely. but…. she’ll be able to help them soon! don’t worry! she’s learning how to control it, see? s-she… just give her some time, she’ll be able to fix things. she can help.

you have cass, who wants to live a normal life. yet when their mother swears at the gods for failing to do anything to help, they are doomed to a life of misery and grief.

a cursed placed upon them. of people never believing their words of what’s to come. of a life lived forever seeing countless possibilities, countless timelines, countless what-ifs countless ends and beginnings of the world. not knowing which will truly happen. not being able to turn to anyone in your despair.

(not to mention, the sun god breaks apart their family—as their father wants nothing to do with them after their mother passes shortly after their birth. a cursed child.)

you have grace, who has seen how the sun god’s world works. the injustice of all it. how the god pretends to care, pretends to be the nice and benevolent god the people so praise.

yet the people that cower before the god says otherwise. the people who are banished and forgotten for reasons only the sun god understands—for the slightest bit of disrespect, for the slightest bit of sarcasm, for the slightest bit of anything less than reverence and love.

she has seen how those closest to the sun god turn a blind eye to everything. she has seen the terror in their eyes, in those who only have just joined the god’s little circle of friends, loved ones. she has seen the blankness of those who have been there too long.

she has seen the god sing of hypocrisy—the one they are so vehemently against.

she sees, and watches, and thinks: it is time someone knocks you down from that throne.

[s0dabeach]

me like a month ago: i will not get into chappell roan's music because it's the Really Popular Thing right now

me now: YOU'D HAVE TO STOP THE WORLD JUST TO STOP THE FEELING

[mitamicah]

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