#this specific verse is so

[mossgoblins]

[valtsv]

something i think about a lot and don't see discussed often in the silt verses are the narrative foils and parallels shared by the saint electric and VAL, particularly when it comes to their respective endings. a woman sacrificing her humanity in flames and undergoing apotheosis, elevated not merely to sainthood but ascended to godhood, and losing the entirety of herself in the process, becoming a product to be traded and sold, and a woman who sacrificed her humanity to be made into a commodity, a "valuable" weapon, finally rejecting her attempts to claim that same godhood in favour of reclaiming her personhood in a similarly fiery death. the peninsulan propaganda machine's greatest triumph, and its most damning defeat. the beginning and the ending of the same tragic story.

[technically-human]

Enter the Crow King, merry wanderer of the night.

He's a little charmer, even when your best mate has captured and jailed one of his crows! He wants you to stick around for a bit longer, though...

@i-am-as-normal-as-you-are commissioned this one, of course! You guys have been waiting for Monty for so long that I feel like I would never have gotten around to drawing him without some help lol

(@m0scorner I stole your gloves. They're just perfect)

Bonus dreamling, because you know the Crow King is stealing that aesthetic:

[welcometogrouchland]

♫ I do what I want/Crying in the bleachers and I said it was fun/I don't need anything from anyone ♫

(ID in Alt) you guys ever think about your own posts and get upset?? Anyway Damian Wayne I love you I'm so sorry your life is like that

[wildmoonatic]

they are 14 and unmedicated

[lenoreamidala]

threw out our cloaks and our daggers because it's morning now...

[sunnydayaoe]

for my buddy @westaysilly 's dtiys !!! had fun.. even if I havn't drawn any utmv in like for fucking ever HAHA

alt version that doesn't really fit the dtys challenge criteria under cut VV

[strawberryyyenthusiast]

I personally don’t give a fuck whether Steve or Eddie tops/bottoms/doms/subs bc if the fic is good then I’ll read it‼️

With that being said… vers steddie and they have a designated coin that they flip each night to see which one will take which position. It’s a pink nickel that Steve painted and bedazzled with leftover gems that he found at Robin’s place so they don’t misplace the Coin™️

[hasnomouth]

Nico doodle (my excuse is pride month)

[whaliiwatching]

gay people judging you

[chiropteracupola]

My body is God’s and my bones are for crows / My words are of record, now everyone knows / Many thousands will sail on your cups’ overflow / To come and see a fisherman...

[the fisher king and lancelot, for @mortiscausa's 'march to camelot,' for the prompt 'ruin']

[gingermintpepper]

Okay, let's finally talk about EPIC's Apollo

I feel very compelled to say, first of all, that I do not dislike Epic. In fact, I am very fond of Epic and have been following its production and status very eagerly! I attend all the launch streams, I watch all of Herrans' update videos; I am, at the end of the day, a fan and I want it to be known that my words are spoken out of love and passion as much as they are spoken from a place of critique.

So really, what my problem with Epic's Apollo?

In the briefest possible terms; the choice to have Apollo be defined by his musical aspect in God Games is thematically strange. And not in the 'oh well in the Odyssey, Apollo was important to Odysseus and his family so it's weird that that wasn't kept in Epic' strange, strange in the sense that Odysseus' character arc since My Goodbye has been getting more and more obviously Apollonian and so it is positively bizarre that when we get to meet Apollo, the god seems entirely disinterested in him and his affairs. So much so that he is not even defined by any station that would indicate that he has been watching over and protecting Odysseus and his family.

What do I mean by 'Odysseus has been following an Apollonian arc'? I'm so glad you asked!

Remember Them is the last song in which Odysseus explicitly uses his sword until Mutiny where he must use it to defend himself against Eurylochus' blade. He uses it to help enact the plan to conquer Polyphemus and, due to Polites dying in that battle, Polites who wished for Odysseus to put the blade down entirely and embrace a post-war life, Odysseus also retires his sword. This is an action that symbolically separates him from Athena - and the image of Odysseus as a traditional warrior set for him in Horse and Infant - as much as My Goodbye physically separates him from the goddess and her war-ways - from this point onwards, Odysseus will no longer be leaning on Athena's wisdom or methods to solve his problems. Likewise, he will no longer be able to rely on her protection.

Odysseus thusly solves most of his upcoming problems through diplomacy and avoidance. He approaches Aeolus - a strange and ambiguous god (both in gender and in motivation) and appeals to them for help. Circe too, he approaches not with wishes to conquer or for revenge, but for the safe returning of his men and an alternate way forward. In all of these scenarios, there is some Apollonian element which is subtly interweaved alongside the influence of other gods; it is with a bow and arrows that Polyphemus' sheep is slain (and thus it is this Apollonian element which is at the root of Odysseus' spat with Poseidon), it is a vision of Penelope that warns Odysseus that his men are about to open Aeolus' wind-bag, Circe's peace offering to Odysseus is to refer him to a prophet of Apollo who has since died.

In this way, Apollo is walking alongside Odysseus for all of his journey after Athena departs - even in the Underworld, he is guiding him. It is Tiresias' proclamation that is the last straw for Odysseus, it is by the power of a mouthpiece of Apollo that Odysseus decides to embrace his ruthlessness. It is with the bow and arrow that Odysseus subdues the siren who sought to trick him, likewise, Odysseus does not attempt to undermine or escape the fate of paying Scylla's passage price - he knows of the doom about to befall the six men and quite unlike the rest of the journey until this point, he does not fight against it. This all comes to a head on Thrinacia where it is a blade which sacrifices the sun god's cow and brings destruction upon the crew once more.

My point with all of this is that when I heard the teasers for God Games years ago, it made perfect sense to me that Apollo would be Round One - he is not Odysseus' adversary and has no reason to oppose Athena's wish to free him. From other teasers about what will happen in the climax of Epic, Apollo will still be walking alongside Odysseus - it is Apollo's bow that Penelope will give the suitors to string. Likewise, it is Apollo's bow that will prove Odysseus' legitimacy and identity. That bow will be the power by which Odysseus hunts his adversaries and cleans out his palace - it is Apollo who is the avatar of Odysseus' ruthlessness, not Athena.

So tell me, truly, what was the point of having Apollo raise a non-argument in God Games? Why have him appear unconcerned, aloof and slightly oblivious? Why have him appear in his capacity as the Lord of Music at all?? And if the intention was never to make Apollo an active player in Odysseus' life like he was in the Odyssey, why keep Odysseus as a primary archer?

The answer of course is that Apollo is inextricable from the fabric of the Odyssey - his influence and favour exudes from Odysseus just as much as Athena's. In Athena's ten year sulk, it would have been Apollo who kept Telemachus and Penelope safe. It would have been Apollo protecting Odysseus from Poseidon's gaze as he travelled the seas (according to the Odyssey anyway)

Forgive me for not being excited about something that I thought was being purposefully set up. I was extremely ecstatic about all of the little Apollonian details that litter the sagas because I know where this story ends up (loosely) but all God Games did was reveal that maybe those Apollonian details were not intentional at all, but merely the ghost of the Apollo who persistently haunts those he favours, even if he cannot explicitly come to their aide in an adaptation.

[theskatingarchive]

20 Must Watch Figure Skating Programs

(only competitive programs, only IJS programs, only senior programs)

Shizuka Arakawa: Turandot

Daisuke Takahashi: Phantom Of The Opera

Virtue/Moir: Umbrellas Of Cherbourg

Yuna Kim: Danse Macabre

Yuna Kim: James Bond

Virtue/Moir: Mahler's Symphony No. 5

Patrick Chan: Elegie In E Flat Minor

Carolina Kostner: Boléro

Mao Asada: Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2

Yuna Kim: Adiós Nonino

Volosozhar/Trankov: Masquerade Waltz

Yulia Lipnitskaya: Schindler's List

Shoma Uno: Loco

Yuzuru Hanyu: Hope And Legacy

Virtue/Moir: Moulin Rouge

Papadakis/Cizeron: Moonlight Sonata

Savchenko/Massot: La Terre Vue Du Ciel

Rika Kihira: A Beautiful Storm

Sui/Han: Rain, In Your Black Eyes

Yuzuru Hanyu: Chopin's Ballade No. 1

[meirimerens]

(wip) There Will Be Herb Brides Soon Smiles this one is my fave of the 3 I have to say it… hate to have favorites but sometimes I do… haven’t been able to work on my Pythia-type brides lineup for a minute so I gave her the leather & pearls headband instead. new thing they can have.

to meee because I’m herb-brides-as-shamans-pilled (basically canon tbh they just do it A Specific Way) the leather headband with leather strips/leather strips with pearls I give the brides is inspired by that (often black) (often leather/thread(?)) fringe you see from the hats of some siberian shamans. herb brides don’t have hats so I have to fiddle with ways to make it some other ways. it’s like a diadem.

(using the word “siberian” and not a specific ethnic group because while I think these pics are all from buryat shamans [i keep that mfing thang (amount of reference pictures) on me] I’ve seen that fringe on the shamanic garbs of other ethnic groups such as mongol, oroqen, khakas, evenki, selkup, tuvan etc and I’m using all as inspiration)

[24foxstories]

it's 1.10 am and i havent done media analysis since i graduated a few months back but the aviary and barnaby symbols. oh lord. i am in love. the safety but imprisonment of the aviary representing the women in this level of society. barnaby as a symbol for michaela and/or simone i'm still cooking that one give me time.

[wildstar25]

The 3rd Sun of the 3rd Umbral Moon - or in other terms, June 3rd - marks the day a very special cat entered the world. Happy Birthday Arsay!

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