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HO HO HO!🎅 Merry Christmas from The Nightingirls (aka @amyfarrahfowler86 and myself)! Here's a little gift for all the fandom… 🎁 Hope you'll enjoy our first fan video!😇❤️😈
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#good omens#ineffable husbands#aziracrow#aziraphale#crowley#aziraphale and crowley#tori amos#trouble's lament#Youtube
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I think, perhaps one of the funniest things to come from EPIC popularising the Odyssey is that now a ton of people think Poseidon wanted to kill Odysseus.
In the Odyssey, Poseidon has no intention of killing Odysseus. In fact, part of the whole reason Zeus lets Poseidon do whatever he wants even though he thinks Odysseus is rad and should get to kiss his wife is explicitly because Poseidon had no intentions of killing Odysseus. Poseidon wanted to pay back the suffering/inconvenience blinding Polyphemus would have caused. It's a really abstract thing tbh. How do you pay back someone permanently disabling your son? Poseidon's solution was just to amputate Odysseus from his other half; i.e. Penelope. The end game was never murder, it was always an endurance race.
(Od. Book 1: Zeus reassuring Athena that he is not, in fact, a part of Odysseus Hater-Nation. Trans. Robert Fagles)
Also, for those wondering if there's any sort of in text reason for why Poseidon wasn't around in God Games - at the time in the Odyssey when Athena petitions Zeus to let Odysseus leave Calypso's island, Poseidon was -checks notes- on vacation in Ethiopia. Yep. He left to Ethiopia for a festival and thusly was very much absent for Athena's whole "please let Ody go? Please? 🥺" request.
(Od. Book 1: While Odysseus was suffering, Poseidon went to party in the east)
I am begging y'all to read the Odyssey. It's a comedy for everyone except Odysseus and Penelope who are, in fact, suffering 24/7 365.
#ginger rambles#ginger chats about greek myths#Sorry for the quality of the quotes but I'm too tired to google a pdf vers of the Odyssey and then edit those so y'all are getting#my crunchy pictures from one of my physical copies of the book lol#it's reiterated multiple times that Poseidon doesn't want Odysseus dead too#he is literally just driving him mad on the ocean because that's what Odysseus condemned Polyphemus to by blinding him#Also there's no good way to mention this but the Odyssey starts#by Zeus lamenting how mortals blame all their troubles and miseries on the gods when that's just not fair#because the gods go out of their way to warn the mortals that will be saddled with the most wretched fates#and they ignore the gods and do whatever they want anyway LMFAO#It's a really smart way to tie in the whole Orestes plot that would have wrapped up in between Odysseus getting stranded on Ogygia#and Odysseus getting off of Ogygia#epic the musical#epic the wisdom saga#zeus#athena#odysseus#poseidon#the odyssey
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the great tragedy of supernatural is that it has lines it's not allowed to cross. it can't depict textual incest or even too much maladaptive affection; it can't show the reality of prolonged homelessness or food insecurity or the actual dangers of fraud and theft; it can't delve too deep into the lasting effects of abuse and neglect or trauma; it can't talk about political issues in any meaningful way—it can't contain anything too morally objectionable or uncomfortable for viewers. it has to build and maintain a fantasy that lets people ignore what they don't like. and that's a shame because of its roots in horror, so instead of being free to explore the themes and elements that form the show's foundation, a lot of it is left to subtext, to subtle nods, to "if you know you know" moments.
what the show does manage to depict on screen is rich and captivating, but at the end of the day it has an image to maintain that doesn't align with the reality of its own themes. the show is at odds with itself and its executives, and over time it gets progressively scrubbed clean just like the gritty, low saturation, high contrast lighting of early seasons. it departs even further from its horror foundation, relegates more and more of its worldbuilding and characterization to subtext, or even just memories of the past.
i just think it's a shame that despite its (original) genre, it faced so much opposition and so much sanitization that it never really had a chance to go all-in with its world and characters, and that what little it was able to depict was sucked away over time until it became a ghost of the american gothic horror it once was.
#supernatural#rewatching season 1 with a friend has reminded me of what the show used to be. that being completely deranged#like there's so many nods to the actual reality of their lives: food insecurity; isolation; fear; trauma; abuse; legal trouble#etc etc#but even then it's not allowed to explicitly talk about i.e. the stress and trauma of lifelong homelessness#i included incest in this post because incest is a staple of gothic horror and this show being 'the epic love story of sam and dean'#does actually make several nods to the freudian horrors of their maladaptive relationship#this show was built on the back of these horrific themes and tropes and it shows. and then it's watered down and sanitized#and painted with prettier colors for a wider audience to find more palatable#supernatural deserved to be the horror it wanted to be. i'll die on this hill#not that i particularly hate the direction the show went. it's far more complicated than that. but i still lament the loss#you know how it is#.txt#the winchester gospel#spn posting
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I wanted to draw the national Bastard, but I also wanted to draw Joachim for @xemnas178 (surprise!!) :< So I drew both. ❤️ (and because i decided to cover him with the cape you can't tell, but Joachim is sitting on Walter's lap. Not of his own free will of course. :3)
First attempt at drawing Walter, his nose and eyes gave me a hard time lol
#walter being disgusting and gross ❤️#i love he ❤️#can't believe i had more trouble drawing his nose and eyes than his hair and outfit lmao#anyway he loves his little vampire slave ❤️#his little vampire slave don't love him though ❤️#lament of innocence#joachim armster#walter bernhard#akumajou dracula#crow art#fanart#sketch#i always find something wrong with Walter's face so i need to stop drawing before i get trapped in an endless cycle of erasing and redrawing#i'm satisfied with Joachim though 🥰
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I always block the Manipulative Albus tag obviously but I also always want to block the Good Albus tag because I mean… isn’t that a given? That’s like having a Good Harry Potter tag… like, no shit. Fork found in kitchen.
Like yeah he made some tough decisions but his intentions were good. And, imo, if the information, skills and power were placed in anyone else’s hands - whether it be McGonagall or Kingsley or even Harry himself (as Inverse elucidates)- they would have struggled and failed to do better.
Also like… the Grindelwald stuff was literally a century ago when Dumbledore was practically a child. Why are we so generous towards Regulus Black who probably literally butchered muggles and muggleborns but we can’t forgive Albus who was lower-class, had an insanely difficult homelife and likely faced otherization and racism for having a Native American, muggleborn mother. I think if you can forgive anyone for being radicalised against muggles, you can forgive the teenage boy who eventually lost his mother, his father and his sister because of an anti-Wizard/Witch hate crime.
Ugh.
Most people don't bother to look into Albus' deeper history—and by that I mean the stuff we knew even before Pottermore and Fantastic Beasts and the outside interviews. All of the information about Albus' past is in Deathly Hallows, his race and social status and circumstances—all right there for people to read. But that cements Albus's status as a good but complex character so bashers ignore it or downplay it. And I in turn ignore them.
To your point about the 'good Albus' tag, I think you have to consider what you said first about the manipulative Albus tag. It is so ubiquitous. In just the six years or so since I got back into HP fanfic and fandom, the amount of dumb people who think Albus is manipulative/evil/shady has not decreased. It has quadrupled if anything. Even when using the tag that's supposed to be about Albus and Harry's positive relationship, there are at least 80 fics right now on AO3 that have that tag or similar. You have to block it all to stay sane.
But EVEN if you block the manipulative/evil/greater good tags, lots of other people will write fics about Albus with neither a good nor manipulative tag, but then their Albus Dumbledore will still be wrong. He will be manipulative and want to control everyone, will be untrustworthy for "some" reason not ever quite explained to the reader, will still be pining after Grindelwald and worshipping at the altar of the 'Greater Good' even after age 17. So unfortunately no, 'Albus is a good person' is still not a given in this fandom. The incorrect takes have so deeply permeated the meta discussions that it is very easy to find fics without any labels that honestly need the manipulative tag, even though the authors would probably argue you down about how "problematic" Albus is if you engaged them in dialogue.
(Example necessary probably, but just try to find a Harry/Hermione fic where Hermione doesn't randomly bash Dumbledore and act like she, a teenager or twenty-something, knows better than him, even though canon Hermione had the correct takes about Dumbledore the entire series. Check and I guarantee you that a good portion of them won't even tag manipulative Dumbledore, especially if it's a post-war fic and he's not alive. Incorrect takes abound. :'/)
I think the people who use the Good Albus tag know that water is wet just like you and I do. They know Albus is—well, really morally gray in many aspects, but a good person overall. But these authors are saying, "there has to be some counterbalance. People reading my fics should know that I am presenting the character as he is, and not as I presume him to be".
I personally haven't used the Good!Albus tag because my fics are meant to counter those many false-advertising fics out there that don't tag "I think Albus is as evil and/or controlling as Voldemort" but say that anyway when I try to read them.
As for Regulus Black... don't look at me lol. I think he's an intriguing character—or was before the 'marauders fandom' got their hands on him—but he's not moving any mountains in my fanverse just because his elf was threatened and his feelings got hurt. I'll stick to focusing on Albus.
#fireandgoldposts#thanks for the ask!#dumbledore meta#albus dumbledore#not fireandgold#fanfiction#harmony#mentioning them only because I ship them but it's SO FUCKING IMPOSSIBLE to find fics where harry or hermione aren't assholes who hate albus#there's like maybe 3 versus the hundreds of THOUSANDS of harmony and I hate it I hate it so much. not the place to lament it though#but yeah I didn't go into it more but: albus & regulus' pasts are very similar. the fandom should treat their teen years the same. AND YET.#albus honestly could have fucked off to the mountains and let everyone do what they wanted#and some fans STILL would've been like ''why didn't albus come from the mountains and fix everything :/''#dumbledore has a lot of control but he does not LIKE controlling people. he does not PUSH to control them#if he HAD lily and james would still be alive bc instead of offering to do their Fidelius he would've just forced them lol#dumbledore believes in being a life raft for troubled souls that remind him of himself#and yet these fanfics are like ''we don't trust the leader of the organization WE joined but we're still here for some reason!'' lol
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At this point I'm, like. THE real world Omori and Stranger guy. What do you mean I can't come up with anything to write for that prompt?
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The Tale of Yesterday: A Saga in Most of Its Parts.
To start, I don't have the best luck with my vehicles. I tend to break things or just be the common theme among things that break. I have had 4 spark plugs blow, a gas pump die, a leaf spring pop, tread on my tire shred off, been hit by a cop, hit by a plumbing truck, the AC fail in the summer in Texas, among a smattering of other things that were simple to fix or cosmetic. We've been down to one vehicle since before school was out due to a failed starter.
Grandma offered to take a kid on Friday and asked for some eggs. My friend (let's call her A) wanted some eggs. All things I can take care of in one round!
I hauled the kid up, gave Grandma the eggs she wanted, and headed down to my friend's house. I decided to take back roads, thinking it would take me more directly to her house and I could have some much needed down time to myself at the same time. Two birds, one stone.
This particular back road is full of hastily patched pot holes. This particular back road has turns that could rival an A5 race track. I don't know if it was a factor, but I wouldn't be surprised.
I was about a mile from A's house when I heard it. The distinctive clank of something metal bouncing along behind the truck.
Eek! Pull over! What is that??? WHAT IS THAT?? Aw crap... that's not safe.
I get moving, going more gently than before and wincing at every clang. Call Hubs. "Hey, uh yeah, I know you want me home sooner than later, but something fell off the truck and is bouncing along under it. I'm leaving the truck at A's house. I'm sure she will take me home but I need to call her." Call A. "Hey, uh.. I need to leave my truck with you, can you take me home?" And she starts laughing.
She starts laughing for 2 reasons.
1. Her husband (who we will call J) is a mechanic. He does a lot of sidework to help out the family and this sort of thing happens often. He's our go-to mechanic and we are often over at their house. (Like I said, I don't have great luck with vehicles)
2. She had a friend just the night before in a similar situation. Apparently, A went out to book club the day before and her friend bought her home. On the way back, they hear a thud and then metal clanging. Her friend's car dropped its muffler.
So A goes "Did your muffler fall off?" "I think so?" "Is it a long tuby thingy?" "Yeah" "Just park it next to my friend's car, we will have matching pair" I'm trying not to laugh while she's saying this. What are the odds?? Two dropped mufflers within 24 hours! Both on the way to her house?!
I get there, park, take a picture for Hubs, put her eggs on the porch, and she takes me home in a fit of giggles.
I had to then call my mother-in-law and give her the news. "Hey... I need to ask you to do something that you might not like... can you bring the kid home?"
I explained what was going on. We have no vehicle. I, currently, have no way to come get my child. Can you bring him home?
She's not entirely comfortable with the idea. (Understandable) She doesn't have a carseat and hasn't had to drive the kids anywhere before. She might just keep him overnight. We will keep in touch.
Hubs got in touch with our neighbor (the same neighbor who has 2 horses in our pasture) and asked if we could borrow a car just in case. Of course!! Neighbor jumped on it so fast we had a spare car in 5 seconds flat! He's awesome! I was able to go get the kid and get him home. Grandma didn't need to do it, which I could see really made her shoulders relax. She's a good driver, but she was worried.
J decided it was easier to fix the starter in the Jeep than it would be to work on the truck. He came over after dinner and worked on it in our driveway.
Starter works now, but the battery is dead. Neighbor brought over a trickle charger and a jump box to help out. We figured out the battery has a fault and we need to replace it. Neighbor left his car so we could continue to use it. Hubs is supposed to go this morning, but isn't up yet.
On all these parts, I am extremely lucky that everything happened when it did. My child was somewhere safe. I wasn't in a rush to get back to him, and it wasn't necessary that I get him at a certain time. I was very close to my mechanic's place AND his wife was there to take me home. My wonderful neighbor was willing and able to lend a car. Even when I called Hubs to let him know what was going on, I didn't interrupt an important business call. It might not seem like a comedy from the outside, but everything landed so absurdly perfectly that all I could do was laugh the entire day. How odd a day it was.
#very grateful#there are times i lament living in rural nowhere#and there are times i weep with joy at it#the relationships we have cultured here have been so worth it#car trouble#trainwreck of a day#i ramble on#theres more going on but some of it i dont want to talk about
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Grant's memoirs are a weird reading experience. He's a good writer, very likeable, very interested in laying out the facts clearly and clearing up misconceptions. No doubt historians love his precise details. The trouble is that I have no spatial reasoning or knowledge of geography, so I can't follow his descriptions of battle tactics, and military manuevers just aren't that interesting to me. But I can't skip ahead, because in the middle of all these military facts, he will throw in some of the wildest stories you've ever heard, and I don't want to miss any of it.
It'll be like
Grant: Numbers, tactics, place names, battle plans, names of commanders, numbers, place names that are the same as other famous cities in the US so who even knows what state we're in, oh and here are some more numbers.
Me: Zzzzzzzzzz....
Grant: I left my son sleeping in one of the gunboats, and I hoped he'd stay there until we captured Grand Gulf, but when he woke up and found me gone he followed the sound of the guns to the battlefield.
Me: Excuse me, WHAT??
Grant: My twelve-year-old son Frederick came with me to all the battles in the campaign toward Vicksburg.
Me: WHAT???
Grant: He has vivid memories of all the battles because of how young he was.
Me: I'LL BET HE DOES!!!
#history is awesome#presidential talk#i know it's ironic that immediately after lamenting long history books i started into a 1000+ page tome#but the podcast is gonna review it in the grant episode and i kinda wanna see if i can get through it#there's all sorts of interesting stuff scattered among the battle facts#the trouble is you never know when it's gonna show up
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i’m just being paranoid.
just paranoid.
…just paranoid.
just…paranoid….
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I've reached a point in inspiration where I am actually getting paralyzed by it. I'm getting closer to the end in my current fanfiction. I've got several ideas for another, I want to make a late Halloween themed series, I want to participate in Haurchefant week and combine several prompts. It's troubling that now I can't pick up my pencil again.
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all jjk does is stress me out. manga im in an extremely toxic relationship with
#void.speaks#watching the anime and listening to yuuji lament about giving people a proper death and thinking about#the immense moral and emotional toll yuuta is undergoing in order to try and defeat sukuna#and how it is currently extremely likely that everyone except megumi is going to die which is horrible enough but ohhh my god#the execution of other character deaths is so cheapened im like troubled immensely#sorry. anyway the jjk anime is so good and fun to watch yipeeeee
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Absolutely feral that after getting kicked from heaven and falling down for 9 whole days (and then staying burning in agony in a pit of fire down in hell for another 9 days) s.atan and his army of millions of fallen angels just crawl from the shores of hell, decide to make a hugeass palace for themselves and then discuss what the heck are they going to do now, only to come to the conclusion that the way to hurt god the most would be to destroy his newest creation (men) which from then on they can further take on earth and make it their new kingdom (bc during the council, one of the fallen angels argued that even if they made a new kingdom in hell, at the end of the day they are still essentially 'trapped' in a box, so would that even count as a triumph?)
#;ooc#ooc#;about#about#what i find most interesting is that despite the hatred and all; there are a lot of points during the story where#s.atan laments the current situation in a way;#i wish i could list them but that would take ages of revisiting OUGH#like at one point when he arrives at the garden of eden#and sees just how immensely beautiful it is (mind u he and the rest of the fallen angels have met for the first time the concept of agony#and pain when they fell from heaven) he sorts of goes through a crisis about how he laments things#but then he's like;; no no this isnt what i want what i want is POWER and basically goes like#if i cant have this no one can; and just proceeds with his plan of corruption#anyways i think the title of the universe' first sin to adress him is kinda cool title ngl#its like; as a human it makes u sort of sympathize with him but then u realize that all this guilt and stuff#isn't really coming from a greater good in his heart to want the best; it comes from greed; jealousy; hatred; pride; etc etc#or well; i dunno i found it so troubling that we can sort of understand more his logic than the logic of angels & god#there's s o much philosophy and theological debates stacked that i dont think I can properly put words into it#bc again im a baby in all of this#but it really is very interesting#like i dunno; something something about how they WANT retribution; or better said; vengeance against god#they want to inflic this new found pain back#and finding that the best solution to revindicate themselves would be to destroy his creation#that's like feral man i dunno it makes me just -HANDS ON FACE-#bc supposedly god loves his creation with all his heart so its like; to destroy that;; what would that make him feel?#and also;; if god created all angels; why did he create an angel that could feel these emotions?#that quote that went something like 'why did you create me to be flawed' AGH I CANT REMMEBER IT WELL#i know theres something about free will that is discussed a lot in the story but#its so complicated to put into words im just gonna go OUITRTROI
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cookies sad hour whining hour ignore me (<- actually loves attention)
#i'm sad because i wish people would message me first more#i'm always the person who messages first#but when other people send me messages it makes me feel like oh you actually like talking to me and wanted to reach out and talk to me and#are giving me attention without me messaging first#i am a person who needs a lot of attention#and i don't mind asking for it bc i'm the kind of person who says what i want and need#but i get really sad at it sometimes because#when i'm feeling depressed or anxious then i isolate myself and if other people were to reach out to me first more then it would be less#likely to happen#like i even just want people to check in on me every now and then. ask me how i'm feeling if i've mentioned going through a depressive#episode#or whatever mental troubles#idk why i'm feeling so emotional about this suddenly#like i don't mind messaging people first but i guess when it comes to me struggling badly then i WISH people would message me to ask me#how i'm doing#@ all my friends reading this i am not upset at anyone at all btw i'm just lamenting about being a mentally ill extrovert#almost no one messages me first which is whatever cuz i'm chatty and used to initiating conversations but i guess it also makes me sad#i dont ask people to because i'm not about to force people to be doing something that is uncomfortable for them#i do ask people to check in on me though if they know i'm having an episode#idk if it rly happens though#i just sometimes fear that if i stopped pulling my weight in relationships due to a mental health crisis that all of my friendships will di#because i'm the one who initiates everything#again i'm not upset at anyone i'm just lamenting about being a mentally ill extrovert#vent#you can heart this or reply or whatever idc but rbs are off for obvious reasons
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ohhhhhh holy fuck
#gets really heavy in the middle but finishes on a light and hopeful enough note to restore somewhat my will to live#will always be thinking of the other day#when i was lamenting my troubles with food and executive function#and my bf very gently was like#well... have you tried girl dinner?#Youtube
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its like how i have a habit of making my sonas like pastelly pink and cutesy and stuff just bc i like those aesthetics. but thats not me and it NEVER will be. my monstersona used to be a pink pretty candy themed demon but that was NEVER me i just thought it was pretty. like do you get what i mean
#lamenting over how no fursona i could make thats interesting or unique would ever be accurate#it just isnt me. and im having trouble accepting that
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love poor Eomer floundering a little at how to Brother Properly.
Eowyn: I am BoOoOrEd
Eomer: i .... am sorry?
Eothain: have you considered asking your sister if she’s doing alright?
Eomer: I do! she always says she’s fine, so therefore she must be fine.
Eothain: that’s not. that’s not always the case. you know that right?
Eomer: i don’t understand people, i’m just going to hang with the horses and kill some orcs.
#writing#what makes a kynge#grima does the neener neener neener i know more about your sister than youuuu#eomer laments that life is made of trouble#eowyn wishes only to don armour and hunt orc#everyone else can go fuck themselves so far as she is concerned#lotr#lord of the rings#griomer#eventually
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