#Lady has returned!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Happy Halloween and Wei Wuxian day!

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #wei wuxian #lan wangji #digital art #I'm trying to practice digital art more - initially wasn't going to draw anything for today....I simply couldn't rest until I *did*. #I'm starting to get the hang of it ! #I find traditional *much* easier especially with colouring. It still feels very...off to me. #The noise filter helps retain some of the texture I find digital lacks! More experimentation needed though. #Original draft for their costumes was 'Groom of Hanguang-jun' and 'Bride of The Yiling Lazou'. #Y'know; like those 'bride of Frankenstein' and 'Frankenstein's monster' sort of couple costumes. #Their costumes now are 'Well educated lady with land someone wants (and it's the 1600s)' and 'Werebunny'. #Every costume wwx ever puts on has a full backstory and lore to it. Even if its just a hat and fake mustache. #Okay I'm on break NOW. I will return when my long comic is done.

[sultanajasmine]

disney ladies in outfit colors » white.

#disneyedit #animationedit #mickeyandcompany #bigfrozensix #disney #the little mermaid #the hunchback of notre dame #The Princess and the Frog #aladdin: the return of jafar #frozen 2 #thond #tpatf #disney princesses #princesses #mine #outfit colors* #white outfits #ladies #gifs #i know encanto has some as well but i dont have the movie downloaded and i wanna finish this project ugh

[dootznbootz]

"Ithaka by Adele Gaaras" AKA. I got Mindboggled by an Odyssey-inspired novel, get Boggled with me.

THis is just a little vent!! Do not harass this author or people who like this book! I'm not sharing this to necessarily hate on it but just wanted to share because...Mindboggle. (Also please note I have not read the book all the way through. BECAUSE OF SAID MINDBOGGLE. As I don't think it's good to "hate-read")

Also note, that the author says "it's not a version of Homer nor a retelling of the Odyssey, but a novel written under the influence of stories that I first read as a young child and that I've loved ever since."

Found this book in the "discarded" box at the library, probably should've taken that as a sign and since it was for free and no one else had taken it, I thought I'd grab it!

And I got excited because the book is supposed to take place during the years Odysseus is away and it's PENELOPE'S perspective. Penelope raising Telemachus and cute toddler moments? Her, Anticlea, Laertes, (Maybe even Ctimene!) trying to cheer each other up as a family? Her ruling? So many cool things to explore!

But then I started to read and it was okay at first... But it skipped 13 years, which saddened me as, like I said, I wanted "young mother and child bonding together" But I went along with it.

But then there were other moments I didn't really care for. Weird "bad mother-in-law" Anticlea, ENOUGH WITH THAT. It happens to Demeter already! Stop it! Penelope says that she'll be a mean mother-in-law someday as well as "No one will be good enough for Telemachus" (???), Euryclea has a granddaughter who is the "main character", has AGAMEMNON be the one to put Telemachus in front of the plow >:( and a couple other moments that felt off so to see if this was "worth the read", I went ahead and went to the end as I won't lie I really wanted the "Reunion moment" 🥹

And here comes the Mindboggle.

Penelope has an affair.

She has an affair... WITH FUCKING LEODES!!!

THAT'S THE GUY WHO BEGS FOR HIS LIFE BEFORE GETTING BEHEADED BY ODYSSEUS.

Honestly?? Like, I know it's supposed to be a "feminist" story. (says so on the reviews on the back) You never know with those if they're gonna villainize the male characters. I sadly was already expecting the whole "Even though text from the Odyssey states otherwise, Odysseus is clearly a womanizer"😮‍💨BUT AN AFFAIR?! WHAT IS FEMINIST ABOUT AN AFFAIR?! AND WITH LEODES?!?! WHY NOT MAKE A NEW CHARACTER?! A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PERSON? Who's actually cool?

The worst part is? Odysseus is so fucking in love, as he should be. You would expect him to be "bad" to make her affair "okay". Especially as it kind of makes it out like he had "affairs" when it's known to someone with reading comprehension that he was SA'ed.

But he's complimenting her constantly, even as a beggar, and dotes on her and respects her. This novel ALSO makes Odysseus "nicer" and "polite" in an "I don't want to kill all these men but it's what I have to do". Which No! Let that man be PISSED. Get tf away from his wife and child! He can be an asshole and still adore his family!

This is supposed to be her introspecting during the morning after. Not explicit in any way but giving heads up anyways.

[...] she could not prevent herself from thinking of Leodes as Odysseus kissed her mouth and her hair and the soft places behind her ears. "Is this hard for you, wife? Is it strange? There's no hurry...I'll be gentle. I'll wait until..." "No,no...not strange. Kiss me again." "But you're crying..." "I can't help it. My feelings. I can't govern them, Odysseus."

(Page 354)

Like he's incredibly sweet. It makes it sadder because he's crying thinking about how much he missed her. BUT PENELOPE THINKS ABOUT HOW SHE'S CRYING BECAUSE SHE MISSES LEODES!!!

I couldn't stop thinking about Leodes. Remembering how it had been with him. And that made me cry. Odysseus didn't know. I don't think he knew. He thought the tears were for him. Tears of joy. Tears of passion. "Cry, my sweet wife. Let out all the tears that lie within you." "I'm so sorry...you deserve better than a sobbing woman after your journeyings. It will be better, I promise." "Don't say sorry. There's no need. I understand what you are feeling."

(Page 355)

Like you're taking away from Penelope AND Odysseus from something that is so fucking important to their story! HER STORY!!! The fact that they love each other so fucking much!!!

Not only that but the Father/son reunion was very lackluster.

Lots of Argos content though. :'D

LIKE?!?!!? I'm just mindboggled. I don't necessarily "hate" this book. I'm more flabbergasted as I kind of find this whole situation funny. Although I am sad as I wanted moments of her being a young mom, her being with family, her ruling. etc. I just...wanted to VENT!

Again! Don't be mean to the author or people who like this book! I just had to vent about my mind getting boggled for my sanity!

#(ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ #how fucking dare you do that to Penelope?! She's cool af being a sneaky lady who's just as shady as her #husband that she loves so much and loves her as much in return! #I don't know how I feel about this book. It's actually strange. like that expression that Shrek has is probably the best way to describe it #rant #odyssey rant #idk I want to have this tagged for my OWN tags but I don't necessarily want to bog down the other tags with this. #Mad rambles #vent #greek mythology retelling #retelling #shot by odysseus #essay

[winterprince601]

so we all know that the got show wildly underutilised the direwolves and robbed them of all magical significance, which annoys me because the starks finding the direwolves in chapter one of got seems to be a direct counter to the existential threat posed by the others in the prologue. they don't just mark the beginning of political upheaval, but also the return of magic to westeros. like daenerys' dragons, they are the magical counterbalance to the evil power of the others - one of the many incarnations of ice in the prophesised song of ice and fire.

having said that, they also have personal roles for each stark. the nominal determinism of the pups has been well analysed but i think you could read thoroughly into the behaviour of each one - for instance, nymeria connecting arya to westeros and her identity as a stark warg and summer matching bran's weird-girl green-seer energy.

to cut a long-winded post short, however, i think ghost is going to have to die in order for jon to be resurrected. i hate the thought as much as you likely do - ghost has been a close companion of jon and the reader throughout the series but unfortunately, that's what makes the sacrifice so meaningful. i do think jon's resurrection will require a sacrifice: it won't be like the show where jon sits up, is sad for five minutes and then hops off the dissection table to swing a sword about.

one of the many things ghost's name seems to foreshadow is jon's resurrection. not only that, but theon suggests the albino wolf is bound for death, saying he will "die faster than the others". however, when jon retorts "this one belongs to me", he takes responsibility for ghost's life. this is what all the starks do for their pups, but in jon the rescue is especially marked: he turns back to find ghost and whilst he is the runt of the litter, under jon's care he grows to be bigger than his siblings. jon gives ghost life and it makes a lot of symbolic sense for that life to be eventually returned. moreover, ghost with his weirwood colouring represents the old gods of the north - jon even muses that he might be some kind of agent of them. i don't think the lord of light alone can bring jon back: it has to be a rebirth of ice and fire, a spring-like mix of both elements of jon's nature.

jon's resurrection will mark a major change for the direction of his character and is potentially the first step towards realising his targaryen heritage and maaaybe becoming a dragon rider. the death of ghost, of his past as the invisible bastard of winterfell, might be necessary for this. however, i don't believe ghost or his identity as a wolf, as a stark, will truly leave him. if he has warged into ghost and lives on for a period of time in his body, it only makes sense that ghost will live on in him even after he has died. prolonged warging can create slippage between man and beast which we've already seen between living jon and his direwolf. we won't lose ghost entirely and perhaps with the affirmation of robb's will and finally turning home towards winterfell, jon will realise he doesn't need the physical emblem of a direwolf to be a stark - he has the wolfblood of the old gods and the first men within him always.

#this is all the logical expounding on what is primarily a looming fear #i just can't shake the idea that jon's soul has to return to his body SOMEHOW #and grrm has killed a direwolf before to symbolise a major change in a character's life COUGH lady #asoiaf #a song of ice and feels #house stark #jon snow #asoiaf meta #asoiaf theory #winds of winter #ghost #ghost the direwolf #bran stark #arya stark #direwolves #got show slander

[kaidabakugou]

the new girl at one of my favorite bakeries called me pretty this morning and it literally melted all my stress away 🥺

#kai.rambles #i was feeling sad bc my grandma is in the hospital and when i went to visit her they wouldn’t let me pass bc my license is expired #which okay ik that’s my fault but i took my passport with me just in case and the guy straight up told me that it wasn’t a valid form of id #and im like yeah tf it is ITS A PASSPORT and he said no #and while i was waiting for my mom to come down to the lobby an old lady came in and he turned her away for the same thing #and dudeee okay you turn me away fine fuck off but an old ladyyy??? at that age they don’t pay attention to that just let her pass #and then he argued with another woman bc she brought a flower arrangement and it had water so he couldn’t allow it HELLOOO??!? #so i had to leave and went to go get breakfast for my mom at least bc she stayed the night and i was supposed to stay the day #and when i came back to give her the food she told me that the nurse that was with my grandma asked what happened bc she wasn’t expecting #my mom to return and when my mom told her she immediately got so angry bc that same guy #didn’t allow her and a couple other nurses to bring in a cake for one of the residents #who’s birthday is today and they had a full on argument this morning #so it was all in all awful and now my mom has been there for more than 20 hours until later tonight when my aunt goes over :( #anyway this turned into a whole rant im sorry but im so mad bc i know for a FACT that a passport is a valid form of id #and he was just being a fkn dick #but the girl called me pretty and it took some stress off and she really liked my blush #and i liked hers so we had a little makeup 101 exchange and it was so nice at least 🥺 #and i have a couple cute asks to answer that have made my day as well so i’ll get to those in a few 🥰

[visexual-maelstrom]

okay okay okay, we have to talk about the "return alive" part of the deal

cuz laudna isn't technically "alive".....she's undead

nana worded it as "return as they are" but orym insisted on "return alive"

is this orym's way of ensuring he doesn't have to keep his end of the bargain? is this orym's dust of deliciousness moment?

#did he intentionally say return alive knowing about laudna #because he has kept calling her a dead lady this whole campaign #is this the lopphole #did he play the hag or did he doom himself #aaahhhhhhhhh #critical role #cr spoilers

[spritewrites]

bold talk for someone with ticklish ribs

#tk content #sprite speaks #the ler mood has returned ladies and gents

[fluentisonus]

waking up from.a frightening dream at 4am in which a scary book was central which in the dream (could sort of tell I was dreaming on one level) I thoroughly believed was a real book that had been brought up the other day irl & that my dreaming mind was riffing off of bc I had not read yet. but having woken up. I'm not entirely convinced this is the case. and now I'm kind of scared to look it up tbh bc what's worse that it doesn't exist but I've dreamed about it several different nights & it's broken down my dream/reality conscious barrier (& I might dream it again??? this does happen to me) or that it does & I have to live in a world where it exists & I could read it.

#seriously considering just not sleeping any more & just getting up now at 4am now lol. i don't want to go back to sleep #thoughts #tbc in the dream the book was just a horror type deal it wasn't actually like. powerful. beyond the way it warped my 'levels' of reality #which ngl has shaken me bc i can usually tell well enough if I'm dreaming even if I can't act on it #so some sort of scary narrative/reality breakdown here #<- sorry for the distracted rambling I'm still half asleep & twitching at weird sounds. i will feel better shortly though i usually do #the last time this happened i was in high school & having a dream i could tell i was dreaming in & then 'woke up' & rolled over to find a #perfect representation of my room except the lady from my dream was standing in the middle of it facing away from me oddly still. & then #when i woke up for real I couldn't make myself turn over for like an hour i was so distressed abt what I'd see but also more importantly #that i didn't know/couldn't reliably trll if i was dreaming or not. terrifying prospect tbh #also like i DO have dreams with sequrls/repeats/returns sometimes even years later & 'remember' the last one. nightmares included. #which i hate btw

[boombox-fuckboy]

Apologies for the delay in answering the asks you've sent in. Between then and now, moving, trying to get a paper finished, someone taking a brick to my car for literally no reason, and so on, has left me with very little free time or energy.

I will get to them, it just may be another week. Your patience is, as always, appreciated.

#I'm also coming down with something despite my diligent masking ([misc. human I see regularly who does not mask] has given it to me. Horray) #The recent return of The Fair Lady Insomnia might afford me more free time. We'll see. #I'd also appreciate if you could excuse the general complaining. But it's happened whether you do or not I guess.

[zootopiathingz]

Your girl is cooking🔥

#hazbin hotel #cosplay in progress #alastor cosplay #it’s a lil snug unfortunately #I bought the biggest size (and I’m p sure it’s a men’s costume too😭😭😭) #the mf pants were a let down so I resorted to black jeans #sadly I don’t have time to return it and buy a new one cuz I’ve got a con next weekend and it will take forever to ship #sooo a bitch has to just work w/ what she’s got ig #lady luxo cosplays

[akkivee]

despite not quite sharing the same pink-gold-dark palette that otome and ichijiku’s speakers have, i think it’s kiiiiinda crazy kuukou and jyushi’s speakers match theirs in style better than nemu’s lol

#this is vee speaking #not pictured is nemu’s bc while her’s is necessary for comparison i also hated how the photo set looked lol #ah concern over kuukou and jyushi’s pink my old friend LOL #i was revisiting the thought that their pink comes from an important woman figure in their lives #and nothings changed about it lol i just started comparing their speakers with the characters who are heavily influenced by a girl #so that’d be ichiro in a way samatoki ramuda dice hifumi and rei #aaaaaaaand ramuda and dice are the only ones with pink lol tho ichiro’s speaker graffiti has Some pink lol #which is on god actually no cap frfr like goddamn fcking me up LOL #i let myself get lulled into a false sense of security thinking jyushi’s pink was related to his grandma and kuukou’s a lady we don’t know #and it can still hold true esp since dice’s known chuuoku connection is his mom #but posse always keeps you fuggin guessin who knows what else is up with dice #*crying* and who knows what is up with bat other than their vibes #pls let me return to my false sense of security idk if i have any new info i can infer from pls i’m not strong enough for bat fears aGAIN— #c: kuukou👑 #c: jyushi #c: otome #c: ichijiku

[ilynpilled]

what do u think is jaime’s biggest flaw

oh he has a bunch

Biggest one: his fear of truly confronting things. his cowardice (the brave knight is deconstructed)

Arrogance is a given. His obsession with perception and his ego. His destructive dissociative tendencies and forced detachment. His self delusion and cynicism he uses to enable acts that his conscience knows are wrong. He also often falls into the trap of cynicism when he expects quick results and does not get them. When he makes choices to become better and people keep dehumanizing him and expect the worst from him he gets super frustrated and petty (less so atp, just compare his behavior to Brienne’s reaction when he gives her Oathkeeper and she misreads his intensions vs the gate not being opened for him in ADwD) His misogynistic and classist blindspots. Him weighing his values wrong even when his conscience is screaming at him (multiple examples of this, e.g Jeyne Poole: “her eyes were sad and wary”, “then why do you sound so frightened?”: vows from so many vows speech in conflict: obey your father vs protect the innocent. He obviously chooses wrong. George was telling us the way he changed by the end of ASoS is not enough he is not where he needs to be yet) His desperate want to make his “so many vows” compromise instead of making the correct choice and drawing the hard line he already did at 17. His desire to become Goldenhand the Just (just a mess frankly, gold tends to have negative symbolism in his story, his goldenhand also is associated with violence and is his desperate attempt to recreate his old self, his phantom fingers — again, has to be addressed in a dream.) While we are here also his need for his subconscious to literally repeatedly slap sense into him (his dreams addressing things he refuses to consciously address because it would hurt to do so). His tendency to repeat his father’s dogma when he is viscerally aware that that man is the worst man oat (Lannister sibling parallels! uwu!), unwittingly contradicting it in every way, then trying again. His desire to pursue glory as well as honor (and whatever they mean in the subtext) when the symbolism is very clearly established that the two cannot be achieved simultaneously for him, he cannot ride two horses at once. It might be that both get turn down at the end in some form. The honor related to the KG, and the glory related to duty to house Lannister. I think that conflict is getting picked apart right now with the choice he makes in ADwD to abandon his position/hunting down the brotherhood any kind of glory tying to house lannister pursuit etc to follow an injured and suspicious Brienne alone (mind you he was also riding Honor in that chapter, ntm the half moon). I think both honor and glory are very abstract and are rooted in some form in his desire for love as well (honor and glory paid their parts but in the end it was for cersei is something he reflects on) but “the things we do for love” has to be something not destructive and prejudiced. He is disillusioned by both honor and glory, especially after aerys. “What is honor?” A horse. Like deep down he knows. His arc in AFfC-ADwD was about about taking apart and looking at all of these flaws imo, put him in a spot to make his choice in adwd. and all that matters are choices. He is also an asshole.

#ask #jaime lannister #valyrianscrolls #this is another reason i love his arc so much bc changing is really not simple at all #to ​what and why you are changing has to be thoroughly examined #and all your flaws have to be brought to the surface #and also how our self concept plays into our choices and what altruism even means #or what becoming better even means #i also think ppl take vows a bit too literally like they also represent something more abstract in terms of his values #and he does this too like he fixates on it bc its easier to just be like yeah im just keeping this vow nothing else haha #like his self proclaimed ‘’im doing this for the bit’’ is so easy to pick apart #trying to keep that oath to a dead lady like #cat is dead. she couldnt be kicking piles of doodoo at him #like what’s he got to prove? #it is something deep rooted for him and him only #‘’let them see the cripple. i wont show them a golden lie’’ and the return to that ‘’one hand. only one. no golden one’’ #alright then lets keep going anyway #when it comes to analysis of jaime the subtext is so important #the show whitewashed him and kept him stagnant #george explores his flaws and forces him to start addressing them #and constantly presents him with dichotomies #i hope then his trajectory will be now actually confronting his sins directly #the lady stoneheart confrontation will have to be a key pivot point #especially as per her symbolism as the monster that is the product of the lannister regime #and its her family that he caused the most harm to #his biggest sins relate to her

[swordmaid]

What would be your ideal endgame for Hyle Hunt?

listen….. I’m a hyle enthusiast fire and foremost but I think he’s gonna die LOL. i mean his sigil is a hanged stag and where is he now … getting hanged … life imitates art etc. but on the off chance that he ends up surviving like a cockroach I think he’s just gonna be some guy that fought in the big war and survived. maybe he’ll land himself a nice job under a lord so he becomes a guard or somethn instead of a hedge knight. I like the idea that jaime employs him though just to fuck with him but that’s kinda sus 👀🤭 bc why are you as someone who hates him giving him a job so he stays with you? trying to find a way to keep him close? are you guys gonna explore each other’s bodies next??

#but I do think hyle’s presence in bri’s story is the choice for her to refuse the quest and return to the normal world (ala hero’s journey) #like he literally asks her to marry him and go back being a highborn lady in the crossroads when she was literally #at odds on where to go next. like it’s not exactly subtle #but brienne turns down that path and chooses to continue on her quest instead so it’s like he’s done ig … #but I’d love for him to survive for the jb romcom shenanigans and you know what I think he has it in him go king!

[birbfeeder2artisticboogaloo]

quick n dirty portrait of eowyn, MY QUEEN, bc i saw this beautiful gifset. also i realised just now that ive never. actually drawn her for reals??? wtf birb. wtf.

#eowyn #lotr #lord of the rings #i love she #idk how to tag this tho #can't remember which film the gif is from isdosaidh my brain has failed meeee #i feel really dumb rn??? idk why lol #eowyn of rohan #lotr eowyn #the lord of the rings #birb still draws #is this still an art blog? #this was a lot quicker than i thought it would be!!! birb might be improving??!!! #@lady-arryn if it's not cool to link ur gifset pls let me know and i will remove it!! #return of the king #IS THAT THE RIGHT ONE???? ah well ;A;

[ace-trainguys]

Whumptober day 25 - prompt is lost voice.

Imagine how much tougher of a time Ingo would have if he lost his voice in addition to his memories. His main way of expressing himself is through speech - without it, he’s an unapproachable silent, stoic man. Very few in the Pearl Clan would be willing to interact with him.

#whumptober2022 #no.25 #lost voice #submas #art #ingo #qed's art #this would be like soon after he lands in Hisui #as soon as he's well enough to walk around #I'd say he probably would be kicked out of the clan asap except Lady Sneasler took a liking to him #I like to hc that Emmet and Ingo know sign language #in this situation no one in Hisui does #He gets called 'stranger' and 'outsider' until he's able to write his name down #bonus points if you want there to be a difference in writing systems #then he has to learn a whole new writing system before he can even be called by name #I had an idea for a cute bonus to this but I have gotten busy recently and I didn't have the time #perhaps something to return to after whumptober

[bugeyedfreaks]

I love the Mayor, but tbh he's 100% a creepy, perverted old man lol.

It’s… sad but true. I mean, I love him (and I had a bit of a longer reply to this that I scrapped so I’ll cut this next part short) but I hate the weird little quick jokes in the first four seasons of the show that insinuate that he might be having an affair with/is attracted a little tooooo much to Ms. Bellum or that he hates his wife (a TREASURE and a QUEEN who should be WORSHIPPED he is a LOUSE), and then the jokes in the last two seasons where they significantly dumbed him down and treated him basically like a barely functioning baby. Both were not… great… 😕

#the idea of him being a sugar daddy does kind of crack me up BUT ONLY SO MUCH #if only he thought being a sugar daddy was giving nice ladies a little cash and getting jars of pickle in return idk #that would be cute and wholesome BUT OTHERWIIIIIISE #the longer reply was me going through all the jokes and getting irritated but I won’t do that lol why does it matter sigh #and me getting irritated with YOU KNOW WHO for insisting his little show was super progressive even with things like this going on 🙄 #but again w/e there is no point to me being salty it does nothing and neeeeever has apparently lmao 🙃