#wretched rambles

[goblinoid-wretch]

dont ever choose no refraction railway line 4: masquerade as the last pack on a mirror dungeon hard run i just spent the past hour and a half or so fighting a 4500+ hp, super-tanky electric sheep

[gingermintpepper]

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.

[foldingfittedsheets]

Words cannot convey the stress of getting through the airport to go home. There has been so many sudden turns and after a flight cancellation, rental drop off shitstorm, and very long lines, I might make it home before midnight.

[lionofchaeronea]

Dear Microsoft Copilot: No, I do not want you to rewrite the poem on which I have been working for hours, and into which I have poured the utmost of my talent and energy. Also, please go to hell.

[waywardlampcookieturkey]

The one thing I still haven't seen anyone talking about when mentioning Xie Lian's gigantic statue that Hua Cheng carved when he was inside the kiln is that... Well, He Xuan also went into the kiln... years after Hua Cheng came out I'm pretty sure... Do you see where I'm going with this????

[greenbirdtrash]

"These two maniacs are currently 70 years old, currently making our world feel tumultuously apocalyptic, they're dying. They WILL DIE" tobias i love you

[qcomicsy]

I DON'T give a shit, a flying single fuck about how reboots Marvel has for Deadpool, I don't give a flying single damn if his mind is fucked up if memories keep recreating themselves NO origin story for Wade is ever going to hit as harder than losing his mother for cancer and having a militar father, just to him to end up serving the military like his father before him and then right after being expelled he dicovers he has cancer.

Than him being a child that liked "supposedly" girly and feminine things and only feeling comfortable in showing this side of him as a joke.

Do not fucking touch me this is poetic narrative Marvel how the fuck can you fuck something so badly in the name of badly written stories and poorly planed jokes I'm biting your editorial team's emails.

[candycatfalls]

Due to popular demand (at least 5 people) I'm gonna be running a poll to decide what mass hallucinated fandom holiday I announce next! Feel free to send me ideas xoxo

[foldingfittedsheets]

Oh god I just saw and old note in my phone, who wants to hear the most unhinged fact a customer has ever shared with me?

[angelic-salad]

Kirkwall in itself is a story worth thinking about for years. Just the current political landscape and culture and what’s it’s like day to day must be fascinating but then when you consider its history as a MAJOR slave city that was set free only to keep all the iconography, plus how much blood magic was practiced in its hidden halls… that’s a story within a story. And if THAT wasn’t enough to keep Kirkwall rotating like a golden rotisserie chicken in your brain for years, then you get the likelihood that this city is the place wherein mages went to the makers throne and corrupted the Golden City, turning it into the Black City??? Huh??? The parallels that one would naturally make between Kirkwall and the Black City because of it (and ironically between Kirkwall and the Golden City, too)… and then you have the one chantry in the city in Hightown, as if The Maker was too high for poor folk to reach, and Darktown, where everything is dirty and sick and it’s supposed to be every man for himself save a single shining light wherein a cursed apostate, what the chantry tells you to hate and fear, is the only one reaching out to help, and does so without expecting anything in return.

Seriously though, all the damn stairs means that unless you’re able bodied and have hours upon hours to spare (unlikely when you’re desperate for work), you likely can’t make it to the chantry to attend services regularly. I wonder if the people in Lowtown feel as though as surely as he abandoned the Golden City, he abandoned them, too. And THEN you have Kirkwall being turned into what is essentially a police state with Templars, the supposed sword of Andraste, making life worse for a lot of people. Honestly even if Anders never came to Kirkwall, there probably would’ve ended up being a rebellion for something anyways.

The city itself is a living, breathing entity. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered a city as… charactered??? as Kirkwall in any other work of fiction. It’s endlessly fascinating.

Please tell me any headcanons or opinions or observations you have on literally any aspect of Kirkwall. Whether you say it on this post or in tags or in my dms or send me an anon message I don’t care.

[etirabys]

I was totally numb to The Wonders when I was a child; the zoo, old buildings in foreign countries with different architecture, eclipses, museums, dolphins in the water, this weird dangerous swing, all were or would have been wasted on me. I just wanted to be in my room reading, which instantly let me conjure much more interesting wonders in my mind. My parents would point stuff out to me that excited them, and it felt like a huge chore to play along. It was only in my twenties, as my fantasy life faded and shriveled, that these tiny deviations or novelties seemed worth paying attention to.

(Possibly the sole exception is the stars on a clear night sky.)

I won't, uh, deliberately hide the zoo from my kids, since my kids will be sufficiently reshuffled from me that I can't count on this tendency, but I would seriously consider it if I were raising a clone.

[rambunctioustoons]

thinking about the trope horror of assistants in the Daycare just straight up failing or quitting over and over and over again is as funny as it is tragic to me.

of course if you're waltzing on in there, rearranging the furniture and scolding the Robot who Literally Lives There it would cause problems. change is inevitable and always looming but would it not just get tiresome acclimatizing people to this role, just for them to quit anyway.

[thecrowfinder]

if i see even One More pisswater take about my favorite characters i am going to reverse-rapture someone

[st-whalefall]

“What does Oz think?”

The Ozma in Oscar’s head:

[egonkula]

me and my beloved had a job interview today and I hope they know that we are a set and cannot be separated. I physically am incapable of pulling a shot of espresso without her being there… my rock. my anchor. my nitro cold brew with an extra double shot…

[margindoodles2407]

mmm. nnn. pray for me. i just had an instance called "not properly exercising the virtue of self-control and blowing a gasket on my ten-year-old brother"