#vessels of honor

[dwuerch-blog]

Let's Stop Comparing

I saw a sign that said, “Don’t compare your Chapter 1 to someone else’s Chapter 20.” I needed those words. I wanted to be the virtuoso singer who spent countless years training her voice and I was comparing the voice I had in my church’s choir. I wanted to be the exemplary homemaker whose home is perfection everywhere, while I was doing good to get the kitchen’s countertop cleared off and…

[miles-chainsaw]

just remembered that betta fish can’t share a tank bc they’ll kill each other and i’m actually being so good and normal about it

[aquareegia]

Look at him grinning from ear to ear!!!

[fallenrebels]

THEM!!! THEM!! Jumps up and down I LOVE THEM shakes them aggressively SO GLAD I GOT BACK INTO HK THEY'RE MY FAVORITE!!!!! :]

[reeol]

[that-unfortunate-crow]

STAY CALM!

EVERYBODY STAY FUCKIN CALM!!!

[uruhasbubble-tea]

vessel is so adorable he reminds me of a kid that had too much sugar. also, you just witnessed his form of cute aggression, which involved giving iii silly little push

[shipping-all-ships]

Midam AU where Adam makes a joke about the last guy that wanted inside him at least wine-and-dined him first and that's how they had their first date (after Michael asked his horrified siblings what that meant).

[ancientbygone]

ii in a traditional Belarusian outfit, because he's the designated Slav of the group. to me.

ty @tedzyrotten for this post <3

[nihildenial]

🧟🧟‍♀️cuz this is thriller!!!! thriller night!!!!🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️

[atlantic-grave]

Did a thing on twitter

Something something blorbos something Steven meme 👹

Started by @/g4teway31

[cowboylikemorgan]

BREAKING: Geode has arrived at the Met Gala

[thesummerstorms]

I've been dabbling in a project, mostly world building and not actual fic because my brain is a strange creature, but I have decided that in my interpretation of the PJO universe, Athena is ... well a strategist in all things.

Including the creation of her children.

The way I'm envisioning it, creating a child from her own mind isn't really a task she undertakes casually.

Yes, she does it occasionally as a "gift" to a mortal whose mind she admires. There's no romantic or sexual relationship, but it's an intense, consuming relationship all the same.

Children born for that reason (or for just that reason) are rare though. Athena might have many favorites, but she's also proud. Who deserves a child entirely crafted by a Goddess? Only the few.

I think, in a normal decade, the number of Athena campers is actually on the lower end compared to most of the other Olympians.

None of the Campers outside of Athena's own children every really figure it out, and Chiron, who knows, would sooner die than tell them.

But when there are many children of Athena, like there are in Annabeth's childhood, it's a sign that something strange or terrible is coming.

Athena is a strategist, the right hand of Zeus, his favorite child, the one who forsees and attempts to dismantle threats to Olympians' power. She moves the pieces into place without hesitation or sentimentality.

And the easiest pieces to control, of course, would be her own children.

Other demigods have other immortal parents to listen to, no matter how strong their desire for victory or their inherent cunning. Her own children are fragments of her own mind- much more reliable. Much easier to predict.

And if in the years leading up to whatever disturbance she forsees she chooses mortal parents for her children with calculation, with an eye for the skill sets and temperaments she predicts most needing in the dark times ahead...well, the child and their parent should be honored by her forethought.

It isn't even that she has no affection for the parent or child, in so much as she is capable of affection. But Athena is always, always three steps ahead, and her actions always have intent. Her children are no different.

A demigod, ultimately, is a weapon in the hands of the gods. It's best that the ones she chooses are well-crafted.

[aquareegia]

OH MY FUCKING GOD!!! (source)

[haunted-planes]

They swapped colors

[croszukis]

okay sabres PR the best. everybody else give up. they got lily collins on the set of emily in paris to film a congrats video for jeff skinner's 1000th game LFMAO