#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????

[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.

[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.

[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?

[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"

[mister-ancunin]

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[bananafire11]

Very curious about Wretched!Caine,, what's that little freak got going on /pos

Have any of the circus members ever tried to attack him? I'd imagine they can't physically harm him even if they tried but I'm curious abt his ways of keeping them down so he can experiment on them and such,,

evil mad scientist caine has my brain in a chokehold I wanna chuck him out of a helicopter one million feet in the air <3

Hi Bunny!:D

Yeah, they most certainly have lashed out at Caine. Gangle, Jax, and Zooble are the most likely of the cast to do so; Caine can be harmed, but he has no real reaction. He can't feel the pain at all, only a glitchy feeling for him. And then he can snap his fingers and be all fixed up again.

If anyone were to snap at him, even attempt to harm him, he could very easily manhandle them as he can in canon. Think of how he so easily handled Zooble, except in this au he's not so gentle. He'd even clamp their jaws/limbs shut or down depending on the attacker. They'd most likely have some sort of punishment as well.

When it comes to experimentation, he holds them down with straps or chains. Muzzles, mitts, ect. are also used when necessary. Caine prefers to keep them awake when performing any 'updates', but depending on just how hard they fight against him he'd put them to sleep.

I also would like to chuck him out of a helicopter HSHSHR

[st-whalefall]

“What does Oz think?”

The Ozma in Oscar’s head:

[mutelunacy]

(transcript under cut in case my handwriting sucks)

HELLO KOPPOLY NATION. today I present you with in-depth headcanons on how I think their relationship is post canon (but before they start dating, of course.) Tomorrow? Who knows.

a relationship chart captioned "THESE BITCHES ARE MENTALLY UNWELL AND COPING AWFULLY!" Charlie is "in love with" Brittany. Brittany's relationship to Charlie is "she'd rather not talk about it." Alph's relationship to Brittany is "it's REALLY complex." Brittany is "in love with" Alph. Charlie's relationship to Alph is "appreciates his company a lot, cares a lot about him." Alph's relationship to Charlie is "in love with, and in SERIOUS denial about it."

Alph and Brittany's page, captioned "OH MY GOD THESE TWO. I'm so mentally ill." Brittany's notes on Alph are: "Ridiculously affectionate towards him. Just cuddling him every second she can whenever they're alone. It's a sort of coping method for how much stress she's under. She doesn't really care that it's one-sided, she's just happy she gets to spend time with him." Alph's notes on Brittany are: "Entirely accepting of her advances, he just likes closeness and doesn't see it as romantic. He sort of uses their closeness to deny his feelings for Charlie. If they can cuddle platonically, he tells himself that wanting to get close to Charlie has to be platonic too. Ultimately, he just ends up with crushes on both of them."

Alph and Charlie's chart. Alph's notes on Charlie: "He's so far in the closet he's in Narnia. It's less like he's unaware of how he feels and more like he's in heavy denial. He has really bad anxiety and like no relationship experience, so he's both scared that their relationship would be ruined if he told him anything and scared he'd be a bad partner. Both of these are, of course, irrational." Charlie's notes on Alph: "They get a LOT closer after the mission, both in and outside of work. They end up practically living together to give Alph some peace from his family. He appreciates his company a lot and really misses his presence when he isn't around. If the opportunity presented itself, he wouldn't be opposed to a (romantic) relationship. He's just never considered it, and his previous one ending sourly would have him a little cautious of anything serious. (Not enough for it to affect how he feels for Brittany, though.)"

Charlie and Brittany's page. Charlie's notes on Brittany: "He's still very much in love with her, but he's kind of realised she's not really obtainable. He doesn't want to think it's out of the question, but knows she's not up to much right now. Still, he's hopeful. They're still friendly enough to one another whenever they interact, even if she's a bit flaky." Brittany's notes on Charlie: "Oh god, this is awkward. After the mission she sort of realises that she was pretty mean to him. Mostly due to stress, but still pretty mean. She doesn't hate him at all, but she's not close to him either. The whole ordeal is awkward, so she keeps her distance. She hangs around him (only) whenever Alph wants to see them both. She does appreciate how he's not flirting with her anymore..."

[loderlied]

i feel like. this is how i write sometimes.