#tragic origins

[magicalstevengames]

Shout out to Alma Madrigal, who managed to flee from raiders when she was only hours post partum. Like it takes weeks for women to recover but she managed to help lead their town and carry her newborns, then watched her husband die. That day must have been a nightmare.

[humming-fly]

was anyone gonna tell me shadow saved rouge's life in sa2 or was I just supposed to find that out playing the game myself

(this worked out as a rather fitting closer for the Final Day in Year of Shadow haha, hope ya'll have a fun new year! 🎉🎉🎉)

[k1d1c4rus]

thinking about how armand was turned bc he was dying from being stabbed by a scorned grown man who was in love with him. he nearly died from rejecting unwanted advances. its such a key explicit detail of his origin that teaches him yet again that what he wants is utterly unimportant and even deadly in the face of survival. everything about his character is informed by the fact that he adapts entirely to the situation he is forced into because that's the only way he can survive. he adopts the satanic doctrine for 200 years not because he believes in it but because he knows that is the only way he'll survive and as soon as lestat arrives he knows he can abandon it. for half a millenium he believes he can't get what he wants and also survive, he has to choose one or the other. God.

[levemetal]

Someone had to do it.

I hate myself. 150 notes and I’ll make a Mujiu version.

[obsob]

pumpkin kitty!!!!

a redraw of an old piece (below the cut :3 )

[miracu-less]

a little LadyNoir doodle from last year.

[youruinedmylifebynotbeingreal]

[maulfucker]

rewatching tcw is so sad they keep killing the clones :(

[themischievousronster]

“Moth” Cute

[homoquartz]

he is a sweet-talker after all

(ko-fi)

[spirk-trek]

Spock Fanzine | Robert Jan, 1990

[mysteroads]

A lot of Greek Mythology is Fanfiction... but not GOOD Fanfiction 😑

Since I've been obsessed about Epic the Musical, I did some poking around the actual mythology around The Iliad and The Odyssey, and... Ye Gods and Little Fishes 🙄. There doth madness live.

I'm specifically irritated about the "children of Odysseus/Circe/Calypso." Because-- while I'm not a scholar-- none of these kids are mentioned in The Odyssey, sooooo... I'm pretty dang sure that all of Ody's theoretical kids fall under three broad categories:

Someone wanted their city's/civilization's founder to have a famous, easily identified progenitor! (Agrius, Anteias, Ardeas, Rhomos)

Later authors wanted to name-drop Odysseus as the father for their OCs. (Cassiphone,Nausinous, Nausithous, Latinus)

Give Odysseus the King Arthur/Oedipus treatment (why, just why?), since Homer unfortunately left things in Ithaca kind of open-ended and vulnerable to bad fanfiction.

Why does this irritate me so? (Other than messing with my rare 'Greek myth happy endings?!') Because, while ~death of the author~ is a thing, in Book 16, Telemachus tells us that Zeus cursed Odysseus's family to have only one son a generation.

"Zeus made our line a line of only sons. Arcesius had only one son, Laertes, and Laertes had only one son, Odysseus, and I am Odysseus’s only son."1

And, I mean, can you blame Zeus for that? 😅 We only need one Odysseus.

Art by Wolfythewitch

1 Fagles, Robert, and Bernard Knox. The Odyssey. Penguin Publishing Group, 1997.

[ilikemicrowaves]

@bogcreacher Forgive Lemon's behavior: She's a little bit of an over sharer, but she's a lovely dragoness who loves farming :D

[obsob]

im in love!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[non-plutonian-druid]

[ID: Several drawings of Five from the Umbrella Academy being hugged and/or being shown other forms of physical affection, from each of his siblings (plus Lila). They include: Klaus draping himself over Five's head while Five claws at him and scowls. Allison wrapping Five in a tender hug. Luther carrying Five like a football while Five glares but has giving up on fighting. Diego lifting Five up in a hug while Five looks surprised. Five leaning on Viktor, napping, while Viktor reads a book. Lila scrolling her phone with her legs draped across Five, both of them lying on the floor. End ID.]

I have largely restrained myself from giving Five hugs because he does not hug. But now!!! It's fair game and I'm here to make it everyone else's problem

[anstarwar]

35 ABY

Kix decides to join the fight once again as the First Order unleashes its full wrath, plunging the galaxy once more into darkness and war

On a distant rebel base he runs into a familiar “face.” They spend time reminiscing about the past and old friends not forgotten

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